Minneapolis Proclaims 3/31 as International Transgender Visibility Day

I wonder if you were a half decent person and you lived in Sodom or Gomorrah 4000 years ago, you might look around and say, “this doesn’t feel right.  I think I’m going to take my family and go someplace else.  Someplace that isn’t ruled by and filled with perverts.”  I wonder if those of us living in MN, who are God fearing, might start asking ourselves the same question.  We have the most liberal abortion laws in the world, we are out front of the country on celebrating perversion and now we are planning on being a safe haven for little kids whose want to change their sexual orientation.  So right after a transgender shot dead 6 folks in Nashville, Minneapolis went ahead with proclaiming 3/31 as Transgender Day.  Does anyone smell sulfur?

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Mayor Jacob Frey and City Council President Andrea Jenkins declared March 31 as International Transgender Day of Visibility for the City of Minneapolis. 

The holiday was initially founded in 2009 in response to the lack of LGBTQ+ holidays celebrating transgender people and is an annual holiday celebrated all around the world. Mayor Frey recognized the holiday for the City of Minneapolis on Friday. 

"Our city is only as great as those who call this place home – and we have a beautiful community, including our transgender and gender non-conforming community, who make Minneapolis extraordinary… Today is a day to uplift and celebrate the accomplishments of our transgender and gender non-conforming community," Frey said in a statement. 

Minneapolis has a long history of supporting the transgender community. The city was the first in America to bar gender-identity based-discrimination through amendments to the Civil Rights Ordinance in 1975. Minneapolis created a Transgender Equity Council in 2017 and is also the first city to have two Black transgender council members and a transgender City Council President.

 https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-proclaims-march-31-as-international-transgender-day-of-visibility

Satan in America

Most of us have probably heard someone say, “yeh, I’m going to hell but that’s ok cuz all my party friends will be there!”  And then they laugh.  Pop culture has now made Satan into a fun guy, cuz we all know sin is fun!  The article, appropriately enough, comes from a website called End of The American Dream.

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Should we be surprised?  As our society comes apart at the seams all around us, Satan and Satanism are becoming extremely popular.  Videos featuring Satan are getting millions of views on TikTok and YouTube, millions of Americans are watching shows that feature Satan as a main character on Netflix and other streaming services, and the Satanic Temple has become one of the fastest growing religious organizations that the United States has ever seen.  As you will see below, traditional American values are declining at a very rapid pace, and it was inevitable that something would fill that void.  In fact, it turns out that Satanism’s “values” correspond almost perfectly with the “values” that much of the population has already embraced in this day and age.

 

Once upon a time, most Americans were repulsed by anything that had to do with Satan.

But now Satan is eagerly welcomed into homes and hearts all over the nation.  Today, Satan has become one of the hottest spiritual figures in America, and that is unlikely to change any time soon.  The following comes from a Newsweek article entitled “Satan is Getting Hot as Hell in American Pop Culture”…

 https://endoftheamericandream.com/satan-has-become-one-of-the-hottest-spiritual-figures-in-america/

American Traditional Values Plummeting

Not too long ago most Americans were proud to be an American.  Not too long ago when you met someone you would ask where they go to church, because most Americans were God-fearing and realized we were “one nation, under the God of the Bible”.  According to this recent poll these figures have plummeted.  The forces of evil in the heavenly realms have done a magnificent job in destroying family, patriotism and the fear of the Lord.  The author of this article is correct.  If this doesn’t reverse, the party is over.  If Israel was torn down numerous times why would we expect an unchanging God to treat our contempt for Him any different?  Lord have mercy.

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The poll queried U.S. respondents about the importance of patriotism, religious faith, having children and other traditionally American values in their lives. Only 39% of Americans surveyed said their religious faith is very important to them, and just 38% said patriotism is very important.

The Journal compared those numbers to the results from the first time it ran the poll in 1998… when 62% of Americans said religion was very important to them, and 70% said patriotism was. And that was during the Clinton administration!

So, apparently, a majority of Americans no longer believe either religion or patriotism is important.

If that is the case, Democrats will never be out of power again. They never tire of dissing the country, its founders…and the concept of objective truth, morality…and God. (“Male and female He made them? Screw that, I decide if I am male or female…or any other gender, including ones I make up out of whole cloth!”)

Remarkably, the survey also purported to find that a plurality of Americans believe the U.S. has not gone far enough in promoting equality between men and women, accepting people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual, or in promoting racial and ethnic diversity in business and universities. If we go any further down that road, no one but members of the BIPOC LGBTQ Community will ever again be allowed to head a company or attend college.

The results of this poll, if they are reasonably accurate depictions of Americans’ values, or lack thereof, are disheartening to say the least. If, essentially, 23% of Americans lost their belief in a higher power, and 32% lost their belief in the goodness of their country in just the past 25 years…it is time to turn out the lights, as the party is unquestionably over.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/belief-traditional-american-values-plummeting-wsj-poll

Rabbis Petition to Sacrifice on Temple Mount

As many have said, Israel is God’s timepiece, Jerusalem is the minute hand and the Temple Mount is the second hand.  The push for the Third Temple is happening.  The red heifers are still in play.  Netanyahu has told some that he believes HE may be the one to get the Temple built.  Israel is in serious turmoil right now.  Huge protests are happening over a push to reform the power of the judiciary.  The government is teetering on the edge of a “no confidence” vote.  All the conditions seems right for a dude to show up to offer answers and leadership to Israel.  Jesus told the Jews they rejected him but would accept another messiah figure who would be the false messiah in the very last days.  The Bible would call him the Antichrist.  Interesting times!

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 A group of rabbis sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir, the Minister of National Security, requesting that Jews be permitted to perform the Biblically-mandated Passover ritual on the Temple Mount.

“The Passover sacrifice is one of the most important positive commandments in the Torah and is the first that the nation of Israel performed during the Exodus from Egypt as a sign of the covenant with the Creator,” the petition read. “This covenant is renewed every year in the courtyard of the Temple when all of Israel must participate in the ritual sacrifice.”

The letter goes on to explain that currently we lack the red heifer and are, therefore, in a state of ritual impurity, but that time bound public sacrifices, such as the Passover offering, must be brought even in a state of impurity. 

“While we have the ability to perform this mitzvah and do not, this is relinquishing the responsibility that we took on upon leaving Egypt,” the rabbis wrote.

The letter also emphasized that Halacha (Jewish law) does not require a Temple structure in order to perform the sacrifices. In this case, when a Temple does not exist, an altar of undressed stones is sufficient. 

“We [the Jews] have the merit to be in control of the Temple Mount,” the letter read. “In the case that the state of Israel sees a national interest in the Passover sacrifice, we would be able to perform the sacrifice in its proper time and place despite all the difficulties.”

Among the 15 rabbis who signed the letter were Head of the Temple Institute Rabbi Israel Ariel, Rabbi of Mitzpe Jericho Yehuda Kreuzer, and Rabbi of Amichai Yair Frank. A copy of the letter was also sent to the Office of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem.

Thanks to the efforts of the Temple Institute and other Temple advocacy groups, all of the necessary elements to begin the Temple service stand ready. But Jews may only perform temple rituals at the site the altar stood in the Biblical Temples which is on the Temple Mount. The only obstacle to performing the Passover service is the government’s refusal to permit it to take place at that location.

https://www.israel365news.com/369083/rabbis-petition-government-to-allow-passover-sacrifice-on-temple-mount-arabs-decry-the-attempt/

"$5 Million Isn't Enough to Pay Every Black Person in America! Aim Higher!"

 In the Land of Fruit and Nuts (California), we have recently learned that America's fruit and nuts may literally be wiped out by flooding, the likes of which hasn't been seen in a lifetime.

But in the brains of many Californians, there seems to be no shortage of fruit and nuts.  So much so that when a proposal came out around the city of San Francisco to award $5 million each to all black people there, they didn't balk!  Now today we read that $5 million each simply isn't enough to pay all the black folks whose great, great grandparents suffered so greatly during slavery times.

Activists on Wednesday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the idea of payments of $5 million per person as "nothing" and "too little."

The demands were made at an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law.

The task force is considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion.

Meanwhile, the city of San Francisco is weighing its own reparations proposals at the local level. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed "unanimous" support for a draft plan of more than 100 reparations recommendations for the city, including a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying Black residents. The proposal would cost non-Black families in the city at least $600,000, according to Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

"I believe that 5 million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational Black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries," one speaker said. "I believe that 7.6 million [dollars] is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational Black American communities."

Foundational Black Americans are descendants of Black people who were enslaved in the U.S. According to the speaker, reparations are overdue for all foundational Black Americans both for the suffering they endured and for helping "every culture get on their feet." He also called for various other reparations measures, such as giving 40 acres and a tractor and colleges agreeing not raise tuition prices for foundational Black American families.

"To try to keep holding foundational Black Americans back from what is due for us is just another form of slavery," he concluded. "It is preposterous and totally absurd."

Here;  '$5 million is too little:' Activists tell California reparations committee to aim higher (yahoo.com)

I wonder if we shouldn't be paying every American Indian $5 million?  For sure every Japanese American that America put in internment camps during WWII should get $5 million!  Also every descendant of the Chinese that we underpaid to build our railroads should get $5 million!  

I've said it so many times now....how long are we going to co-exist with such lunacy?  How long can America survive on printed money and borrowed bonds....cuz we would have to print $100 trillion more if we are going to pay everyone $5 million for all the wrongs done to their great grandparents.

Watchman River; “The Rapture is So Close!”

I’ve posted about this guy once before.  He’s not a pastor, he’s not a prophet, he doesn’t refer to himself as “anointed” and he seems pretty humble.  About a year ago he says the Lord just put this strong idea into his head that he was supposed to go down by the river and make video blogs about current events and prophecy because “we are on the very cusp of the rapture.”

If you haven’t listened to him, his theology seems to match up pretty exactly with ours.  He was first brought to my attention by Rapture Ready so take a listen and be encouraged that there are many, many sound folks out there who are excited about the return of Jesus and believe it could happen any day now.

 https://youtu.be/lhIwf7d7U3c

Another School Shooting and Democrats Can Only Blame Guns

The story out of Nashville is hard to watch.  A Christian school attacked by an ex-student who held a grudge.  The student was a transgender man dressed like a woman.  Of course the Democrats don’t ever want to talk about rising crime due to mental illness, fatherlessness, drug abuse and the collapse of the family, hopelessness, depression, suicidal teen girls who believe their only hope is to post half-naked pictures of themselves on Tik Tok.  Nope!  They only want to talk about guns, and most of them don’t know the difference between a rifle and a shotgun.  They also want to say Republicans “don’t care about our children!”, while telling the lie that Democrat policies have nothing to do with rising crime.  If you can stomach it, read the article below from MSNBC which is Democrat red meat.

Satan is destroying our country and there no longer seems to be enough Holy Spirit filled individuals left to restrain the evil that’s breaking out all over.  The fear of the Lord has largely vanished and without it there can be no wisdom, no knowledge and all the thinking done is futile and foolish.

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On Monday, Americans were forced to relive the horrors of another school shooting, this one in Nashville. The cycle of “thoughts and prayers” is laughably insufficient. So, too, is the rhetoric on safe schools and protecting our children. Because the truth is that lawmakers, especially GOP lawmakers, are only concerned about certain crime. They have gerrymandered the boundaries of that concern, excluding aspects that would illuminate our bloody reality. 

There are effectively three main components to school shootings: the guns that are used, the people who use them (and those who are subsequently victimized), and the schools where the shootings occur. Republicans are very protective of their guns — more than they are of the children and educators forced to leave in fear of these weapons. We have considered ideas like bulletproof shelters in classrooms and arming teachers; these are on top of sad but necessary steps like active shooter drills. Even as there will always be an outpouring of empathy for communities that experience tragedy, there can be no question that the proper prescription here is preventative, and yet we refuse to abandon our current reactionary approach. 

We have known ever since Sandy Hook that the double-speak around school shootings in America is engagingly duplicitous. No amount of bloodshed appears capable of moving the needle — at least in the Republican Party, which now controls the House and almost half of the Senate (to say nothing of the legislative bodies in states like Tennessee). These men and women refuse to take meaningful steps to protect our youth.

And importantly, we now understand even more clearly that the feigned concern about crime that overtook the nation’s airwaves in the summer of 2022 was just a passing moment for the right. Crime stats are only worth mobilizing around when they fit a specific narrative, namely that Democrats are soft on criminals.

Because mass murder against children is an inevitable cost of doing business.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republican-nashville-shooter-response-crime-stats-rcna77021

California Farmers: "We've Lost Everything!"

 Following years of draught in California, the state is now being hit by floods, the likes of which have never been seen.  This could be a serious problem for all Americans when one realizes how much of our edible foods comes from there.  It's possible that the rising prices of food we have seen in the past year could get much, much worse if these headlines play out as bad as they sound.

Now, with recent historical and unprecedented flooding, many farmers in California are reporting that they have “lost everything.”

And it is not over yet, as the rains continue, and record amounts of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains still need to melt, which will flow into farmlands that are already devastated in California’s Central Valley.

The emphasis today is still on saving people’s lives as the rain and flooding continue, and nobody knows yet what the final damages will be to America’s richest farmlands and how that will impact food security in the United States, and the nation’s already fragile economy. Almost half of California’s agricultural products are exported to other countries.

Tulare County in Central California is the county that is suffering the most, and it is also the second largest county in the U.S. in terms of food production, producing over $8 BILLION annually, with sales of dairy products making up almost one fourth of those sales, followed by citrus and nuts. (Source.)

Kern County, just to the south of Tulare County, is the nation’s #1 county in agricultural production, and Fresno County, just to the north of Tulare County, is the nation’s 3rd largest producer of agriculture, and both of those counties have also seen devastating floods in the Central Valley of California.

Monterey County on the Central Coast of California, is the 4th largest county in the U.S. in terms of agriculture production, and they too have been hit with devastating floods, wiping out most of the vegetable and strawberry farms.

I have put together a video report that is just under 15 minutes. I have friends and family members who live in Tulare County, so I can confirm from first hand experiences that none of this is exaggerated. It is real.

Here;  California Farmers: “We’ve Lost EVERYTHING” – $BILLIONS of Food Lost in Floods in State that Produces Half of America’s Agriculture (healthimpactnews.com)

It does make one wonder if the protective hand of God on this nation is being lifted.  As I read in the book of Judges today, Israel had a long history of turning from God only to have some neighboring nation put them into bondage and slavery.  After some amount of years they would cry out to God and he would send a judge who would acquire super-natural ability to lead the people out of bondage and destroy their oppressors.

Will America cry out to God when things get really bad here?  The Bible says that in the very last days that men will curse God all the louder...so I'm not holding my breath that America is going to turn away from all of the godless practices that have engulfed us in these past decades.

Protests Across Israel

The largest protests in Israel’s history are happening now.  More evidence that the entire world seems to be dividing.  But in Israel, it’s really important to watch because it shows that Israel is being prepared for their false messiah, aka the Antichrist.  Netanyahu survived a “no confidence” vote to fight another day.  It’s being reported that Netanyahu believes it might be his destiny to build the Third Temple...which needs to be there in order for the Antichrist to sit in it and fulfill the prophecies of Daniel.  It really does seem that the age of grace is nearing the end.  Stay busy!

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 The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survived a no-confidence vote in the Knesset, the country’s parliament, amid what is possibly the largest wave of demonstrations in Israel’s history.

Mass protests are rocking Israel, and the country’s largest labor union announced a major strike Monday in opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s months-long attempt to push through widely-derided judicial reforms that opponents say will pull the country toward an autocracy.

“Stop this judicial process before it is too late,” Arnon Bar-David, Israel’s Histadrut union leader, said in a televised speech, addressing Netanyahu directly. Histadrut — which at 800,000 members represents the majority of Israel’s trade unionists — declared a “historic” general strike to “stop this judicial revolution, this craziness,” Bar-David said.

Israeli embassies worldwide have been instructed to join the industrial action, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/27/angry-protests-strikes-paralyse-israel-as-netanyahu-resists-pausing-widely-hated-judicial-reforms.html