Political Violence Leading to Civil War is No Longer Crazy Talk

 There seems to be more and more chatter about America’s political violence and the talk of it descending into Civil War.  Folks are buying guns like never before. The Right believes the Left is delusional and dangerous.  The Left believes the same of those on the Right.  Those on the Right want nothing to do with the “woke” movement that can no longer define a woman, wants to kill babies up to the moment of delivery and believes that little kids can choose their gender...but yet can’t define how many genders there actually are!  The woke-folks believe that anyone who disagrees with them should be cancelled.  It certainly seems that there is no way for these groups to compromise and meet-in the middle.  All the ingredients seem to be here for violence to break out.

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Dr Garen Wintemute used to laugh off warnings of a civil war coming to America as “crazy talk”. Then the emergency room doctor in California saw the figures for gun sales.

Wintemute, who founded a centre to research firearms violence after years of treating gunshot wounds, had long observed that the rush to buy weapons came in waves, often around a presidential election. Always it fell back again.

January of 2020 gun sales took off. Just an unprecedented surge in purchasing and that surge continued,” he said. “We were aware that, contrary to prior surges, this one wasn’t ending. People are still buying guns like crazy.”

Many were buying a weapon for the first time.

Wintemute wanted answers and they stunned him. A survey for his California Firearm Violence Research Center released last month showed that half of Americans expect a civil war in the United States in the next few years. One in five thought political violence was justified in some circumstances. In addition, while almost everyone said it was important for the US to remain a democracy, about 40% said that having a strong leader was more important.

“Coupled with prior research, these findings suggest a continuing alienation from and mistrust of American democratic society and its institutions. Substantial minorities of the population endorse violence, including lethal violence, to obtain political objectives,” the report concluded.

Suddenly Wintemute didn’t think talk of a violent civil conflict was so crazy any more.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/20/us-political-violence-civil-war

Turkey Has an 80% Inflation Rate

 We have never seen this (yet) in USA.  80% inflation would be a real problem.  And now Turkey just lowered interest rates which is only going to make things worse.

But notice that they enthusiastically welcome Russia investment and trading.  What do nations with dictators do when they are on the cusp of financial collapse?  They usually blame someone else for their problems and then go to war against those people they blame.

Turkey’s central bank shocked markets Thursday with a cut to its benchmark policy rate, despite inflation in the country sitting near 80%.

The lira, Turkey’s currency, slid 0.9% against the dollar, trading at more than 18.1 to the greenback after the news — near a record low.

The country’s main policy rate, which had been at 14% for the last seven months, was cut to 13% in a complete mismatch to what other central banks are doing around the world.

“Another idiotic move,” commented Timothy Ash, a senior emerging markets strategist at BlueBay Asset Management.

“Insane with inflation at 80% and still rising the CBRT cuts rates, against expectations by 100bps to just 13%,” he wrote on Twitter, referring to Turkey’s central bank by its acronym.

“Ridiculous move. Obviously they have got cash in their pockets from Russia and the Gulf and think they can cut rates + hold the Lira.”

Turkey’s government has made a show of diplomatic overtures to several oil-rich Gulf states, mending formerly strained ties to attract much-needed investment, and has remained enthusiastically open to Russian business and trade despite Western sanctions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Surging consumer prices have hit the population of 84 million hard, and few have hopes for improvement anytime soon thanks to the Russia-Ukraine war, high energy and food prices, and a sharply weakened lira.

Turkey’s inflation for the month of July rose by an eye-watering 79.6% year over year, its highest in 24 years, as the country grapples with soaring food and energy costs and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-running unorthodox strategy on monetary policy. This time five years ago the lira traded at 3.5 to the dollar; now it’s more than 18 to 1.

Turkey has enjoyed rapid growth in previous years, but Erdogan for the last few years refused to meaningfully tighten policy to cool the resulting inflation, describing interest rates as the “mother of all evil.”

Here;  Turkey shocks markets with rate cut despite inflation near 80% (cnbc.com)

2nd largest military in NATO.  And NATO is supposed to be a coalition that is in place to tamper Russian aggression.  And yet the President of Turkey flies off to Iran to meet with Putin and the Ayatollah to discuss Syria and Israel.

Can you smell something strange brewing?  Can you see the shadows of Ezekiel 38 continuing to lengthen?

The Slippery Slope That America is Sliding On

 I think there are enough good points in Jan Markell's recent newsletter that I will post it in it's entirety.

You can access the article online here;  The Slippery Slope to Tyranny (constantcontact.com)

The world is groaning in every category, and it lacks a leader. Biden, Macron, Trudeau, et al, have all demonstrated behavior that resembles the Keystone Kops. So what’s ahead?

 

I hear from a lot of people! Here are some of the scenarios they see playing out in the near term. They can’t all be right, but here’s a brief run-down of what many suggest is ahead of us. You may disagree with one or all points, but millions of people believe one of the following scenarios will play out.

 

1)   A great awakening is coming. A tremendous revival. The days of Joel 2:28 are coming when God pours out His Spirit upon all people. This will precede the Rapture of the Church.

 

2)   God is long suffering and patient and wants all to be saved, thus we have decades left to share the gospel and rescue the lost. Let’s occupy until He comes and not be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good. We’ve heard about the Lord’s return for decades yet nothing happens.

 

3) In America, the forthcoming elections in 2022 and 2024 are going to turn America around. We can and will make America great again. Prosperity will return. Life will go back to normal. With the right people in office, earthly government works.

 

4)   The church is being perfected and tried by fire. But she will prevail and the church will correct the problems on this planet, fulfilling “On earth as it is in Heaven.” The church will have dominion over the whole earth and then Christ can return. (Kingdom Now/Dominion Theology)

 

World Governments Are Collapsing

Sorry, folks, but points one through four are not what I see outlined in the Bible! World governments are in a predicted state of collapse thanks to the meddling of the globalists. They are causing instability, famine, war, poverty, and obsessing on the fake news called climate change.

 

The capitals of the world are preparing for the Antichrist and are taking directions from the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, Bill Gates, and other globalists who delight in trampling on the people. They are acting as lawless and reckless as is every leftist in Washington, D.C. And the right isn’t pushing back!

 

Living When Truth Does Not Matter

Former White House correspondent Bill Koenig writes in his weekly e-newsletter, “The late conservative journalist and pundit Charles Krauthammer said once, ‘We are living at a time when truth doesn’t matter.’”

Koenig continues, “We see this in the liberal media every week and with many of the Congressional Democrats. They are dishonest and/or incapable of processing the truth, denying truth because the end justifies the means, or they are totally deceived. A spirit of delusion is prevalent in our county today.”

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. (2 Thessalonians 2:11)

Harbingers of Total Tyranny

Journalist Bill Wilson says we are on a slippery slope to tyranny.

He writes, “The FBI raid of Donald Trump’s home should be a wake-up call to all Americans that the Democratic Party leadership is intentional about re-imagining the homeland into a statist nation.

“From David Koresh and Elian Gonzalez during the Clinton years, to IRS treatment of conservative and Christian organizations, to the Russian influence scam, to spying on Trump’s campaign and the news media under Obama, Democrat regimes increasingly have abused government power. "

Wilson concludes, “This week, people should at least consider that the FBI raid on Trump’s home and the passage of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are harbingers to the tyrannical agenda of the extreme left.”

But evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:13)

Curtain About to Rise

The stage is being set daily for a drama that will be the story of the ages. The players are on the stage right behind the curtain. Our Heavenly Father is the writer, director, and producer of what is to come. An angel is holding a trumpet with his hands clasped around it. The Bridegroom has had enough of the foolishness of Godless men and is calling His bride, the Church, Home very soon.

There will, indeed, be a revival, but it will be during the seven-year Tribulation, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. The Four Horsemen may be out of the barn soon. They’ll appear over a ridge once the Church is called to meet her bridegroom.

The Disappearing Act is Next

I believe the scenario I represent does not allow time for “turning things around,” a “great awakening,” “making America great again”, or for the church to crush the evil of our day (Dominion Theology). Instead, the church is going to suddenly disappear and fade off the scene! So, soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.

CommonWealth Games Open with Worshipping Ba'al Bull

 You can watch it here and make up your own minds.  But it's pretty obvious that this big bull was rolled out to be worshipped by all the "opening ceremony" participants.

With each passing day it's becoming more obvious that the world is crashing into full rebellion to God and His Son, Jesus.

Watch;  https://youtu.be/jBYiVnY5IQg

Humans WILL WORSHIP SOMETHING.  So when they reject Jesus they fall into the arms of the other demon-gods they have worshipped throughout history.

Transgender Man Not Invited to ANY Alabama Sororities

 I'm just going to guess that almost all the girly-girls who are in college sororities don't want a man with a penis who pretends to be a woman running around their sorority house.  And it turns out that's true!  I don't blame them!  If they don't have to invite every woman who pledges, then WHY would they want to take a dude with thinks he's a woman?

Of course social media members are outraged.

A transgender college student has received an outpouring of support after she revealed that she was rejected from every sorority she attempted to join during the student recruitment process at the University of Alabama.

Over the last two years, incoming freshmen at the University of Alabama have taken to social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram to document their attempts to join Greek life at the university, with the process known as Alabama Rush Week or Bama Rush. As of Wednesday, the hashtag #BamaRush has accumulated more than 1.6bn views on TikTok.

During the sorority rush period, students interested in joining one of the nearly 20 sorority chapters on the campus often document their outfits of the day, or share other tidbits of information about the recruitment process, with the videos often going viral. The popularity of the social media phenomenon has even sparked the creation of a new HBO and Vice documentary, which Variety confirmed is in the process of being filmed at the Tuscaloosa, Alabama university.

Watch the video and read the article here;  Transgender student reveals she was rejected from every sorority at University of Alabama (msn.com)

Horrifying Drought in USA and Europe

 In the Bible God used droughts to wake people up to the fact that without God providing the rain, life ceases to exist.  God is never changing.  He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  If he used droughts in the past he can certainly use them today.  Scientists are saying the Southwest USA is seeing drought conditions not seen in 1200 years.  If tens of millions of Americans are forced to relocate because their toilets don’t flush and their swimming pools can’t be filled, that could seriously seed unrest in America.  If food prices double and triple from where they are now that could add to the unrest.

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We really are reaching a major crisis point.  Thanks to soaring fertilizer prices, insane weather patterns and the war in Ukraine, global food supplies have been getting tighter and tighter.  So we really needed a banner year for agricultural production in both the United States and Europe in 2022, and that is not going to happen.  In fact, unprecedented drought is absolutely devastating crops all over the northern hemisphere.  A lot of people are complaining about how high food prices are right now, but just wait.  If some sort of a miracle doesn’t happen, agricultural production is going to be way below expectations in both the United States and Europe, and that is going to have very serious implications for 2023.

Let me start by talking about the nightmare that is starting to unfold in Europe.

According to CNN, it is now being projected that farmers in Italy have lost “up to 80% of their harvest” because the drought has become so severe…

In Italy, farmers in some parts of the country have lost up to 80% of their harvest this year due to severe weather anomalies, the Coldretti farming association said Thursday.

How are those farmers going to survive?

Many farmers in France are facing similar losses because they have only been receiving a fraction of the rainfall that they normally get…

In France, where an intense drought has hammered farmers and prompted widespread limits on freshwater use, there was just 9.7 millimetres (0.38 inches) of rain last month, Meteo France said.

That was 84 percent down on the average levels seen for July between 1991 and 2022, making it the driest month since March 1961, the agency added.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a-horrifying-drought-is-causing-widespread-crop-failures-throughout-the-united-states-and-europe/

Amazon Now Has Pay by Palm

 Let's remember that John didn't have the words for "computer" or "scanner" or "barcode" in his language 2000 years ago when Jesus gave him visions of the future.  Is it possible that he saw someone waving their hand over some type of cash register as they left the store with a bag of groceries and he described it as "someone had some type of mark on their right hand it it allowed them to buy stuff"?

Amazon's palm-reading payment technology will expand to dozens of Whole Foods locations across California. Shoppers will be able to pay for groceries by scanning the palm of their hand at checkout devices instead of using cash or card, as this is more evidence of the emergence of a cashless society.

The Verge reported that 65 Whole Foods stores in California would soon get the new payment technology. This is the most extensive rollout by the e-commerce giant since announcing the payment system in 2020.

"Customers can set up Amazon One by registering their palm print using a kiosk or at a point-of-sale station at participating stores. To register, you need to provide a payment card and phone number, agree to Amazon's terms of service, and share an image of your palms. Once completed, you can take items to checkout and not have to take out your wallet -- or even your phone. A hover of your hand over the device is all that's needed to pay and leave," The Verge said.

Amazon One has been pilot tested at Whole Foods stores in Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, and New York. Amazon said customers had found the new payment system more convenient to checkout, though privacy concerns emerged last year by a group of lawmakers who raised questions about the megacorporation collecting biometric data of its customers.

Amazon has said it hopes to sell the palm-scanning technology to other companies like retailers, stadiums and office buildings. Amazon says it is in "active discussions with several potential customers."

The company says thousands of people have already signed up to use it at Amazon stores.

Amazon One appears to be ushering in a cashless society where a customer's body is becoming a transactional tool.

If Amazon's use of palm prints for identification and payment systems sounds like something you have read in the Book of Revelation you are correct. 

The Book of Revelation warns that during the Tribulation every person will be required to accept a mark in their right hand or forehead which will be necessary for commerce.

"And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark -- the name of the beast or the number of its name. Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is six hundred sixty-six". Revelation 13:16-18

Many Christians are concerned that acceptance of such technology is conditioning people for when the actual 'mark of the beast" is implemented. 

What often starts off as voluntary can just as easily become mandatory and whereas tech itself may be neutral, in the hands of the wrong person it could be extremely dangerous.  Imagine the technology of today in the hands of Hitler.

There are also growing fears that an economic collapse and "reset" could bring about an era of forced digital cash that would be necessary to conduct commerce.  Combine such new technologies as pay by palm for commerce with biometric ID cards and you have a very coercive system that the government and future Antichrist could use to control the masses.

Christians have long debated the meaning of the "mark of the beast".  It still remains to be seen if the mark will be digital tattoos, microchips under the skin or some other form of biometric payment using the hand such as Amazon Pay, but there is no denying it, our generation appears to be the first in history to have the technology and now cultural conditioning to fulfill this prophecy.

Here;  Amazon Expands Pay By Palm - Another Precursor To The Mark Of The Beast? (prophecynewswatch.com)

Yes!  We are the first generation to have this technology capable of fulfilling all the John and Daniel saw!  I think we need to treat that as a pretty big deal and hopefully that fact wakes up lots of luke-warm Christians whose faith consists of going to church a few times per month and putting $10 in the plate as they attempt to live as "pretty good people".

If time is short, what can we and should we be doing about it?  I think we know the answer.  Work while there is still daylight and be bold in our witness.  Most might laugh at you as they did at Noah.  But who cares?  Noah had the last laugh and so will we!

As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be...

Cattle Mutilations Are Topic on Tucker Carlson

 Over 10 years ago I made this blog post in February 2012;

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Cattle Mutilations

This morning, I spoke in adult education and the topic of "aliens" came up.  Of course regular readers know that I believe they are actually demons in disguise and they are doing Satan's work of making strange flesh that will be rolled out en mass during The Tribulation.  But before you say, "that's crazy!"....maybe you should re read the book of Revelation and take note of what kind of creatures are coming out of the Abyss.

When humans report being abducted by aliens, they almost always report that the aliens took their semen and their eggs....and it is always a horrifying experience.

When ranchers report that their cows were mutilated they seem to report that in most cases reproductive organs were taken...and there is no blood around any of the cows, no tracks and no signs of struggle.

Of course anyone that has worked with cattle KNOWS that when you try and put a cow down and even put an ear tag in...there is going to be a really big struggle.

Now watch this recent report from Kansas City about a mutilated cow.  As you watch, notice that the one rancher had a similar thing happen over 30 years ago and the vet who came to do the autopsy started looking for a space ship...because he knew a human couldn't have done that surgery without causing MASSIVE amounts of blood loss.  Also, it appears that in many cases their blood is actually all taken....it's gone.  Remember the Bible tells us, "the life is in the blood."

Here;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3IoTbs_soE

Of course once you finish this video, you can watch dozens more from Missouri, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and more.  Of the thousands of documented cases there has never been one single case that was solved.

Also notice that even the coyotes won't eat the mutilated cows.  It's almost as if the animals know something really nasty was messing with it.

Now ask yourselves...what would Satan be doing with all this reproductive material?  What does he want with cattle vagina's, uterus's, human eggs and human semen?

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Now just yesterday, Tucker Carlson released his story on cattle mutilations for million of people to see.

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Cattle mutilations stump law enforcement, ranchers: 'The greatest unsolved serial crime spree in history'

Fox News has obtained shocking exclusive videos of cattle mutilation scenes from the San Luis valley in southern Colorado.  

"It’s the greatest unsolved crime spree in history," says author Chris O’Brien, who recorded the videos. He wrote about his findings in his book, Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery. 

The videos depict the grizzly nature of more than a dozen cattle mutilations. Mutilations differ from typical livestock deaths because the carcasses are found with body parts removed in an unusual fashion.  

The never-seen-before footage is featured in the latest episode of Tucker Carlson Originals, which is available now on Fox Nation.

The San Luis cases are just a handful of more than 10,000 mutilations that have stumped ranchers and investigators across the United States for decades. 

Just this month, ranchers in Delta Junction, Alaska reportedly found the remains of a cow that was missing its udder, eyes, and reproductive organs.  

In 2019, cowboys at the Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon found five bulls mutilated in a remote stretch of forest.  

"There was no forensic evidence of any kind left at the scene," according to Colby Marshall, vice president of the ranch at the time of the mutilations.  Marshall says the bulls were missing their blood and reproductive organs when they were found.  

"Each one of those bulls would have produced 20 calves a year for probably the next 5 or 6 years. Their overall production value was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars," he said. 

The ranch offered a $25,000 reward for information that would lead to an arrest. They got no credible leads.  

"I would have never thought this would be possible, that you could basically kill five bulls without any evidence," Marshall says. 

At least eight other cattle were reported mutilated in Oregon since the Silvies Valley Ranch cases. No culprit has been identified.  

"The ones I’ve been involved in, we haven’t solved any of them," says Sergeant Tom Roark of the Lake County, Oregon Sheriff’s Department. "There was no evidence, no clues of a suspect." 

Here;  Cattle mutilations stump law enforcement, ranchers: 'The greatest unsolved serial crime spree in history' | Fox News

We haven't watched the Tucker Carlson video yet but clearly you can access it from the above link.  We are guessing that Tucker doesn't believe that it is Satan and his demons responsible for these mutilations, but Bible readers know that it is.  They are taking the blood and reproductive parts from these cattle and, we believe, are using these materials, to make "strange flesh" in their Satanic lab.  As I said 10 years ago there is something related to men and women reporting having their eggs and semen stolen when they are abducted by these demons.

We believe this is one more sign that we are VERY close to the Great Tribulation...when Satan will release something terrifying and awful on the Left Behind inhabitants of planet earth.

Stay tuned!

If you want to watch the Tucker Carlson show you can see it here; https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8d1485

Why Are So Many of Your "Christian" Friends Supporting LGBTQ?

 I remember 30 years ago having a conversation with someone at the office about the gay lifestyle.  I had said to this guy that I didn't believe being gay was a "normal" lifestyle.  I also said that I believed men having sex with men was a sin in the eyes of God because it was a perversion from the way God intended sex to be.  And furthermore I quoted Romans 1 that clearly pointed out that gay sex and gay marriage was wrong...in the eyes of God.

His response was that one of his best friends from church has a gay son.  And this gay son was a wonderful person.  And the parents of this gay son had called the pastor at their church and threatened to stop giving money to the church and even leave the church IF the church didn't change their policy to accept the gay lifestyle of their son as "non-sinful".

So over the past 30 years, "Christians" have been hammered with gay characters on TV and movies, gay marriage being legalized and finally their own churches have caved and now even ordain gay ministers to serve the flocks.

According to this article, it turns out that the number one reason people accept the gay lifestyle is because they KNOW someone who is gay.  Entire families might even change their mind and accept the gay lifestyle because the cousin, aunt, nephew, brother, sister, uncle is now gay...and they fear the dividing of family more than they fear dividing from God.

Some of your supposedly Christian friends have recently said they are members of the LGBTQ community. That's becoming increasingly common. However, an even bigger number of your supposedly Christian friends have become LGBTQ allies. 

You already know that. But do you know why?

There are, of course, several reasons why many professing Christians are embracing LGBTQ ideology. Satan has devised many schemes to lead us into apostasy. With that in mind, although all people who support LGBTQ ideology do so for the same reason: sin--people can commit the same sin from different temptations. 

As I've alluded to, one of the reasons why many professing Christians have become allies with LGBTQ people is because many of their friends and family have become members of the LGBTQ community. 

Studies show that this is statistically the biggest reason why people become LGBTQ affirming. For instance, a 2013 study from Pew Research Center shows that 32% of Americans changed their minds on gay marriage because they "know someone who is homosexual."

When a loved one says their sexual sins are an intrinsic part of who they are, they're suggesting that if we do not love their homosexuality or transgenderism--then we do not love them. That is a powerful, manipulative argument that many parents, siblings, and friends do not have courage or integrity to resist.

Many of us love and fear our friends and family more than we love and fear God. We're more afraid of becoming enemies with our loved ones than becoming enemies with God. Therefore for every person who becomes a member of the LGBTQ community, many more of their friends and family will become LGBTQ allies.

In a sense, familiarity breeds acceptance. Our culture knows that.

In a leaked video about Florida's Parental Rights In Education bill, an executive producer at Disney said they had a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda." Since people are more likely to become LGBTQ allies when they know and love others who are members of the LGBTQ community--influential institutions in our culture like Hollywood, mainstream media, social media, and academia have created an agenda to produce favourable LGBTQ representation to make us more accepting of LGBTQ ideology.

Therefore the most popular movies, TV shows, and books today feature characters and storylines designed to normalize LGBTQ sexuality. Knowing this, my wife--Annie Sey--has created a service called Library 4 Littles to help parents protect their children from deceptive books that indoctrinate them.

Still, Hollywood is filled with LGBTQ sexuality. For instance, Disney's Lightyear featured a kiss between a lesbian couple. Marvel's latest film, "Thor: Love and Thunder" is described as "super gay" by its director. And some of the most popular shows for teenagers and young adults today like Euphoria, Sex Education, and Stranger Things have at least two major characters who are LGBTQ.

After all, if your favourite character on TV has a gay best friend, why wouldn't you accept your own friend who's LGBTQ? Hollywood knows that if we support LGBTQ sexuality in our films and TV shows, we're more likely to support LGBTQ sexuality in real life.

Related to this, another major--yet unacknowledged--reason why so many professing Christians have become LGBTQ allies is because of porn. Sexual sins create apathy and support for other sexual sins. Pornography is a sexual sin that normalizes and endorses other kinds of sexual sin like rape, incest, and LGBTQ sexuality.

Therefore many professing Christians have become LGBTQ allies because many professing Christians watch porn. We've normalized porn--we've normalized sexual sin, so we've normalized LGBTQ sexuality.

Another widely known reason why some of your supposedly Christian friends have become LGBTQ allies is because of unrelenting indoctrination in public schools. This, coupled with failure from parents and pastors to teach Biblical theology and apologetics on sexuality makes many professing Christians unprepared to resist compromise.

Here;  Why Your 'Christian' Friends Have Become LGBTQ Allies (prophecynewswatch.com)

Just remember, we expect the unbelieving world to fornicate, do drugs, get drunk, have gay sex, have casual sex, watch porn and feed their bodies with lust.  BUT when someone who claims to be a "Christian" starts to act or say that they are allies of sinful behavior, that's when we have to ask them HOW that can all line up.

"But Dennis, I don't want to start a fight with my family, so I just stay away from the topic."

I totally understand that.  My own family would be considered totally pro-gay.  But while it isn't your JOB to change their minds it very well MIGHT be your job to stand for truth and to stand up for the Christian lifestyle.  You might remind them what scripture says and if they respond with "I don't give a crap about what scripture says!", then you might dust off your feet and move along because you now know you aren't really discussing something with a  true follower of a Christ, but only with someone who calls themselves a "Christian."

Even a Limited Nuclear War Could Kill 1/3 of Earth's Population

 This is quite a headline to see on Yahoo News this morning.  We all know that using nukes would have cataclysmic consequences but to see the discussion carried out on Yahoo is pretty surreal.

As escalating tensions among the United States, Russia and China revive old fears of nuclear war, some researchers are warning that even a limited-scale exchange between such nations as India and Pakistan could have catastrophic consequences for global food supplies and trigger mass death worldwide.

A nuclear conflict involving less than 3% of the world’s stockpiles could kill a third of the world’s population within two years, according to a new international study led by scientists at Rutgers University. A larger nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States could kill three-fourths of the world’s population in the same timeframe, according to the research published Monday in Nature Food.

“It’s really a cautionary tale that any use of nuclear weapons could be a catastrophe for the world,” said climate scientist and study author Alan Robock, a distinguished professor in Rutgers' Department of Environmental Sciences.

The findings come at a time when — 30 years after the end of the Cold War — the threat of a nuclear holocaust may be greater now than it ever was.

Recently, U.K. National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove argued that the breakdown in dialogue between nations, as well as the loss of safeguards that had been created between nuclear superpowers decades ago, has plunged the world into "a dangerous new age." United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has also warned that "the prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility."

Although Robock and others have previously projected that nuclear war would result in tremendous disruption to the climate and food supplies, the recent study marks the first time that researchers have calculated the potential extent of the famine that would result and how many people would die.

The detonation of even just a small fraction of the world’s nuclear weapons would spark massive firestorms that would rapidly inject sun-blocking soot into the atmosphere, touching off a sudden cooling of the climate, the researchers theorized.

Researchers used climate models to calculate how much smoke would reach the stratosphere — where no precipitation occurs to wash it away — and how this would change temperature, precipitation and sunlight. Then they calculated how these changes would affect the production of various crops, as well as how fish would respond to changes in the ocean.

As a result, they projected that tens of millions of immediate fatalities in the war zone would be followed by hundreds of millions of starvation deaths around the globe.

Here;  Even a limited nuclear war could kill a third of world's population, study shows (yahoo.com)

We continue to hold onto the Word of God that says in the Last Days people will be "eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, planting and building."  All of those activities are done as long as folks believe we have a future and that things are going to stay "pretty much as they always have been".

Of course if there were a nuclear exchange that happened before the rapture and billions of people were starving to death this doesn't seen like a "pretty much normal" scenario.

For this reason we believe an event like this could certainly happen during the Great Tribulation but we will have already been taken "to the place He has prepared for us" before such a calamity would play out.

That IS our blessed hope.