The Sparkle Creed

 We were told that in the very Last Days that people would have a “form of godliness” but that it wouldn’t have any power.  We were told that a great falling away (apostasy) would also happen.  Churches that used to preach the Gospel 100 years ago with conviction would fade away into preaching whatever tickled the ears of the folks sitting in their pews.  We are there!

As you watch this video below of people in a church reciting the Sparkle Creed, please remember that if you asked them what they were they would likely say, “we are Christians”.

Also ironic is that the people who are most concerned about being misgendered by others using the wrong pronouns, have no problem misgendering God/Jesus and not using His preferred pronouns.🙄

https://youtube.com/shorts/e14fel74_Uc?feature=share

Hat tip to Maren L.

8 Signs the Globalists Are Moving Forward with Their Control Agenda

 As we read this article below, it can be very easy to fall into fear and worry.  But let’s remember that the Holy Spirit is not a Spirit of fear and worry.  It’s a Spirit of confidence!  We know that Jesus already won the battle!  We know that 50 years from now none of us will be in these bodies but will have glorified bodies and be walking with Jesus!  We know that this earth is not our home!  But all these headlines should remind us that to not place our confidence in governments or militaries or currencies or even gold and silver!  Be excited because all these 8 signs show just how close we are to the Great Tribulation and that means that we will be caught up off this earth before those days commence.  Place your faith in this promise from God.  We will not endure the wrath of God that will be poured out during the Great Tribulation.

1 Thess. 5:9  For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The future is here, and if you enjoy being dominated by control freaks you are going to love it.  "Digital identification" is one of the primary areas the globalists are focusing on right now, and as you will see below, the radical changes that are now being proposed are extremely scary.  But most Americans have no idea that any of this is happening.  

Instead, many of them are obsessing over the relatively meaningless dramas that our corporate news outlets are constantly pushing.  Meanwhile, the globalists are achieving their goals at lightning speed, and there is hardly any resistance at all.  The following are 8 signs that the futuristic control freak agenda of the globalists is rapidly moving forward...

#1 Starting in September, the EU will "mandate" that all member states offer a "digital identity wallet" to all of their citizens and businesses...

The European Union will mandate digital identity under eIDAS 2.0, which will go into effect in September 2023 and ensure all Member States offer a digital identity wallet (DIW) to citizens and businesses. According to the European Commission, "At least 80% of citizens should be able to use a digital ID solution to access key public services by 2030."

#2 A system of "digital fingerprints" for Americans has suddenly become Barack Obama's biggest issue...

Former President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview the development of "digital fingerprints" to combat misinformation and distinguish between true and misleading news for consumers.

Obama sat down with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod for a conversation on the latter's podcast, "The Axe Files," on CNN Audio. During the interview, Axelrod noted he's seen "misinformation, disinformation, [and] deepfakes" targeting Obama.

#3 A UN policy brief that you can find right here is proposing a global system of digital identification that is linked to our bank accounts...

Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programmes.

#4 The World Health Organization has adopted "the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification" and plans to transform it into a "global system"...

In June 2023, WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics. 

This is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN) that will develop a wide range of digital products to deliver better health for all.

"Building on the EU's highly successful digital certification network, WHO aims to offer all WHO Member States access to an open-source digital health tool, which is based on the principles of equity, innovation, transparency and data protection and privacy," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "New digital health products in development aim to help people everywhere receive quality health services quickly and more effectively".

#5 Federal agencies in the United States have been purchasing massive amounts of information about U.S. citizens from data brokers, and we are being warned that such information could potentially be used for "blackmail, stalking, harassment and public shaming"...

Federal agencies are secretly accumulating mountains of data that could be used for "blackmail, stalking, harassment and public shaming" of American citizens.

That allegation doesn't come from a pink-haired civil-liberties fanatic -- it's in a new report for the nation's chief spymaster, Avril Haines.

#6 It has been revealed that the Pentagon has been using very creepy online tools in order to "covertly track, locate and identify anyone expressing dissent or even dissatisfaction with the actions of the U.S. military and its leadership"...

In a shocking report published by The Intercept on June 17, details have emerged of a U.S. national security surveillance strategy to covertly track, locate and identify anyone expressing dissent or even dissatisfaction with the actions of the U.S. military and its leadership.

The measures, undertaken by the Army Protective Services Battalion, fall under their remit of safeguarding top generals from "assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment."

#7 As I discussed yesterday, the UN has developed a global fact-checking system known as "iVerify" in conjunction with big tech companies and Soros-funded organizations.  The goal is to be able to police "disinformation" and "hate speech" all over the planet...

The United Nations has unveiled an "automated" fact-checking service to counter so-called disinformation and hate speech on the internet in a project partnered with Big-Tech and Soros-funded organisations.

In response to what they brand as "online information pollution", which they claim is a "global challenge", the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched its iVerify platform to counter alleged disinformation and hate speech online.

#8 The IMF is publicly admitting that it is constructing "a global CBDC platform" for all of the national central bank digital currencies that will soon be rolled out...

During a presentation at a conference in Morocco, Kristalina Georgievahe the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that the global body is "working hard on the concept of a global CBDC platform."

Georgieva declared that Central Bank Digital Currencies need to be interoperable between countries, noting "If we are to be successful, CBDCs could not be fragmented national propositions."

"To have transactions more efficient and fairer, we need systems that connect countries," Georgieva continued, adding "In other words, we need interoperability."

The globalists are building a worldwide digital control grid which would potentially give them unprecedented power over the lives of every man, woman and child on the entire planet.

Under such a system, if you insist on being a rebel, your access to the digital system could be revoked completely.

What would you do then?

How would you survive if you could not buy, sell, get a job or open a bank account?

The extremely advanced technology that we possess today has allowed us to do a lot of really good things, but it also has the potential to be used to impose tyranny on a global scale.

We must resist these changes that the globalists are trying to impose on us.

Unfortunately, most Americans are not even talking about these changes, and that is because the mainstream media is telling them to focus on other things.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6173

How is it that so Many Christians Can’t See That Time is Running Out?

For those of us that are daily watching for the return of Christ to snatch His bride away, we can be amazed when we run into other “Christians” who appear to have no clue what is going on.  How can they not see it, we wonder.  I run into some who acknowledge that while things look dark right now that it can only mean that Jesus is getting ready to have another Great Awakening in America.  Scripture does NOT seem to confirm that.  I run into others who say that Jesus can’t come in the rapture because the Gospel hasn’t been preached throughout the entire world.  That’s wrong too because the 144,000 Jewish males will take care of that part AFTER the rapture.  And of course when you run into a Christian who has no clue about Israel and the Jews, you can almost bet that they won’t have any clue about the God’s timetable.  But for those of us who “won’t be surprised” if the trumpet blows any day now, these are exciting times!  Come Lord Jesus!

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Most reading this magazine have seen things in their lifetime that are, quite frankly, astounding:

• The re-birth and prospering of the nation of Israel
• The rise of artificial intelligence
• The preparation of the coming digital currency
• The use of a pandemic to hasten global government
• The rise of Mark of the Beast technology
• The rise of apostasy in the church the last 60 years
• The death of discernment
• Talk of a third temple in Israel
• The scoffing of Bible prophecy
• A cancel culture that cancels Christians
• The exponential rise of evil
• The rise of anti-Semitism

The list could go on with another twenty bullet points!

A headline on the Drudge Report said it all: “Global Economy Struggles Amid Inflation, Pandemic Aftershocks, and War.” The world’s a mess.

All Set for the Antichrist

As Jonathan Brentner states, “Twenty-five years ago, it would have been impossible for the Antichrist to control commerce in the world in the way that we read in Revelation 13:16-18. He would have needed a massive army of devotees to do so.

“Today, with the advances in artificial intelligence, gigantic databases, and 5G technology, it will soon be possible for one person to set the parameters of buying and selling for everyone in the world. By the midpoint of the Tribulation, he will be able to control buying and selling worldwide with the flip of a switch.”

 https://harbingersdaily.com/what-keeps-the-majority-christians-from-acknowledging-the-obvious-time-is-running-out/

America Has Less than a Decade to Turn Itself Around

 I've been warning about massive Gov't debt for over 15 years.  I correctly called the Great Recession of 2007-2009 where we were right on the very edge of the financial abyss.  However, I didn't think it was possible that the financial markets would allow or accept 0% interest rates and massive money printing to bail out the mess...so while I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, the stock market started going up on the wings of a pretty large bull market.  As I recall the DJIA bottomed out at 6300 in March of 2009 and today stands at 33,869.  

However, the Great Recession was a warning to America that it better get its finances in shape or the NEXT TIME we won't be quite so fortunate to allow for 0% interest rates.

Recently Congress just had a big hullaballoo about raising the debt ceiling.  This allows the government to put even more money on it's credit card.  At some point in time, just like every American household, we will borrow so much money that everyone in the world will lose confidence in our ability to pay the interest and principal on that debt.  When that happens, life in America will change very drastically, and we won't like it.

Well, that didn't take long.

From the time the US government managed to sign the debt ceiling resolution, it took just thirteen days for the national debt to soar by nearly $600 billion.

At that pace, they added over $500,000 to the national debt every second.

The US national debt has now breached $32 trillion... meaning America's debt-to-GDP ratio is now 121%. Historically, advanced nations tend to get into trouble when debt-to-GDP reaches around 90%. The US is way past that threshold -- but I'll return to that point in a moment.

First, any time there's a discussion about the national debt, invariably some idiot says something stupid like "the debt doesn't matter because we owe it to ourselves."

This is one of these irrational aphorisms (like "silence is violence") that people like to repeat over and over again until they believe it to be true. But it's not true. The debt matters. But let's first examine who owns it:

Foreign governments like China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia hold a combined $7.4 trillion of US debt.

The Federal Reserve owns $5.1 trillion of US debt.

Social Security owns another $2.7 trillion of US debt, which of course is money owed to American retirees. Similarly, the Military Retirement Fund holds about $1.36 trillion.

State and local governments hold about $1.55 trillion combined in US debt.

Mutual funds own another $2.84 trillion.

Banks own trillions worth of the national debt. Banks buy US government bonds with their depositors' money, i.e., YOUR money.

JPMorgan Chase alone owns about $300 billion worth of US government debt. Silicon Valley Bank famously held about $120 billion of US government debt before they went bust.

Even the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is supposed to guarantee bank deposits up to $250,000, owns about $128 billion worth of US government debt.

Then there are countless businesses and individuals around the world who own US government debt, simply because Treasury Bonds are considered "risk free".

Now, when people say that "we owe it to ourselves", they mean that most of the debt is NOT owed to foreigners. And this is true. Foreigners own just under 25% of the debt.

But does that make it OK to default on the other 75%? Is it somehow acceptable to default on banks across America, which bought US Treasuries with their customers' money? Is it OK to default on 50+ million Social Security recipients? Or military retirees?

That's why the "we owe it to ourselves" crowd is completely delusional. They seem to think that it doesn't matter if the government defaults on, say, the Federal Reserve, or Social Security. But doing so would cause disastrous consequences -- global economic meltdown, national social crisis, etc.

So, in order to avoid a major catastrophe, the debt needs to be repaid.

But with the national debt at 121% of GDP, is repaying it even possible anymore?

Technically, yes. And it all comes down to growth.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the US economy grew an average of 3.3% per year after adjusting for inflation; economists call this "real" GDP growth.

But real GDP growth since 2000 has been much lower, averaging just 2%. And it turns out that the 1.3% difference in growth has had an enormous impact.

To give you an example, if real US economic growth had remained at 3.3% for the past 20 years, government tax revenue (which averages ~18% of GDP) would have grown substantially.

Along with some very modest spending restraint, budget deficits would have melted away over the past two decades, and America's debt-to-GDP ratio would today be less than 50%... and falling.

And by 2033, the US national debt would be zero. Social Security would be completely funded. The US would have no financial challenges whatsoever. And the US dollar's dominance would be sacrosanct.

Economic life today would be a completely different reality... if the US economy had only grown more quickly.

It's not like an additional 1.3% growth isn't achievable; again, the US consistently hit this number for decades.

You'd think that politicians would understand something so obvious, and that they'd do everything in their power to maximize growth. They'd embrace capitalism, cut red tape, create incentives for production, support small businesses, make taxes more efficient, etc.

Or at a minimum, they'd simply stay out of the way.

But instead, they do the opposite. They paid people to stay home and not work. They single out critical sectors (like energy companies) and punish them. They constantly threaten businesses, invent new regulatory burdens, stifle innovation, and attempt to systematically destroy capitalism, brick-by-brick.

So, no, based on current trajectory, it looks like the debt problem will keep getting worse... until the catastrophes of default are unavoidable.

The federal government has already acknowledged that Social Security's trust funds will run out of money in about 10 years. This means that, at best, America has less than a decade to turn itself around.

Again, technically this IS possible. But time is running out.

Here;  America Has Less Than A Decade To Turn Itself Around (prophecynewswatch.com)

I bolded it above, the word "delusional".  There is a mass delusion going on in America.  It's as if God is giving over the reprobates to their own stinking-thinking.  A whole bunch of Americans can no longer tell you what a woman is, believe that men can have babies, believe that they can identify as anything they feel like that day, that babies can be ripped apart as long as that baby is unseen by human eyes, think it's fine for full grown men to go into a women's locker room and wag their wieners around all the girls and women.  Not too long ago we called those folks FLASHERS and they were arrested and treated like the perverts that they are.

We believe that the delusion that we are seeing is a foreshadowing of the GREAT DELUSION THAT GOD WILL SEND following the rapture.  Great things of God always cast their shadows forward and this is just one more example.

2 Thess. 2:9

9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

China Plans on Having 1500 Nukes and be the 3rd Nuke Superpower

 Pretty interesting article talking about the complexities and chaos that occurs in the universe when you have 3 instead of just 2.  For 70 years it’s been America vs Soviets-Russians in nuclear stalemate.  But now what happens if China has hypersonic missiles capable of delivering Nukes all over the world in seconds?  And what if they side with Russia and one day come up with a plan to rid the world of America?  China is not a healthy nation.  Their population is dying.  They may be very dangerous right now because they realize that they have peaked and if they are going to dominate Asia they better start now with Taiwan.

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Isaac Newton was baffled. He was already famous for discovering how gravity holds the universe together and for using that knowledge to predict the movements of celestial bodies, such as the moon’s path around the Earth. Now, by taking the sun’s gravitational tugs into account, he sought to improve his lunar predictions. Instead, it made them worse.

The setback, Newton’s friend Edmond Halley reported, “made his head ache, and kept him awake so often, that he would think of it no more.” Newton felt his defeat so keenly that he recalled it more than once in his old age.

Today it’s called the three-body problem. Famous in science and science fiction for orbital perturbations and chaotic phenomena, it’s recently become a concern of atomic experts and military planners. As Beijing rapidly expands its nuclear arsenal, they warn that the world of atomic superpowers is about to escalate to three from two. The outcome, they add, compared with the Moscow-Washington standoff, now 70 years old, could represent a dangerous new kind of unthinkable.

The looming era could encourage “states to resort to nuclear weapons in a crisis,” Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, recently warned. He cited the natural instabilities observed by physicists and astronomers as a portent.

“We’re at a stable equality,” said William I. Newman, a professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Los Angeles, who aidsthe University of California’s management of the Los Alamos weapons lab. “Any departure from that will enhance the instability.”

The looming departure is Beijing’s plan to produce 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035, as the Pentagon estimates. If achieved, the rise would represent a fivefold increase from the “minimum deterrent” that Beijing possessed for more than a half-century and would make it a nuclear peer of Moscow and Washington.

Dr. Newman calls the tripolar state “much less resilient” than the bipolar standoff. Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.

For instance, Dr. Krepinevich, in a Foreign Affairs article last year, argued that Moscow could fade into economic and strategic insignificance, leaving a strong Beijing and Washington to “navigate their way to a new bipolar equilibrium.” The armed revolt over the weekend in Russia drives home not only Moscow’s weakness but the threat of new instability in an atomic superpower.

On a different note, Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, argued that Washington should aim to deal with the rival superpowers as separate entities.

“I don’t see Russia and China getting together” on atomic strategies, he said. “I see it as two bipolars.” As the Ukraine war rages and Washington has little interaction with Moscow, Dr. Hecker added, now is a good time “to work with the Chinese” in building a two-body relationship.

The main worry of military planners is that Beijing will not only achieve weapons parity with Washington but also form a military pact with Moscow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/science/3-body-problem-nuclear-china.html

Drought Could Impact America’s Food

 Here in MN we got 1/2 of rain in our cow pastures over the weekend and that was the first time it had rained since April and the snow had just left.  Our cows were out of grass by June 15.  And this is the 3rd summer in a row that we’ve had to feed cattle because the grass was gone.  But just imagine what happens to America if drought sweeps across the entire nation.  Do you think grocery prices are high now?  For the wealthy folks among us $5 gasoline and $5 eggs doesn’t change their life one iota.  But for ten of millions currently getting by, living paycheck to paycheck, inflation will crush them.  And once the nation is divided into 2 classes, upper and lower, conditions will be ripe for revolution.  Also remember to throw gasoline on that fire by reminding everyone about the current lie that racism is at the heart of all of America’s problems.

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Every time I write about this, conditions are even worse.  If you look at the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor, you will see that almost all of America's heartland is now in some state of drought.  

Much of Kansas is dealing with either "severe" or "exceptional" drought, and in previous articles I have written about how this will impact the winter wheat harvest.  But now areas that grow most of our corn and most of our soy are also getting absolutely hammered by drought.  

If this drought in America's breadbasket continues through the summer, we are going to have a very serious problem on our hands.

 

At this point, farmers all over the middle of the country are praying for rain, because right now things are not looking good...

Below-average rainfall and high winds also exacerbated drought conditions in much of the High Plains region from top spring wheat producer North Dakota to the largest winter wheat state Kansas, the U.S. Drought Monitor report showed.

Concerns about the dry start to the U.S. summer crop season and potential harvest shortfalls have sent corn and soybean prices soaring to multi-month highs, although both crops can still rebound with timely rains.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6177

Emmanuel Macron Suggests International Tax

We watch closely when Emmanuel speaks.  We won’t be around for the revealing of the Antichrist but if the rapture happened today, he would be a prime candidate.  His name means “god with us” and his last name means “mark” in French.  And now he is saying that the world has to come together to fight climate change.  No one government can do it on their own.  So when this dude talks about doing anything to bring the nations of the world under one plan, one tax, one jurisdiction...then his actions and comments become blog worthy.

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 Speaking at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris on Friday, Mr Macron argued that actions from individual governments would be insufficient to deal with the alleged armageddon set to descend upon the world and therefore a new international taxation framework should be established.

“I’m in favour of an international taxation to finance efforts that we have to make to fight poverty and in terms of climate [action],” the French president said in comments reportedby POLITICO.

“It doesn’t work when you do it alone, the [financial] flows go elsewhere,” Macron added, while shutting down calls for France to implement a new wealth tax to fund the green agenda.

“France already has in place two types of taxes that have been suggested: one on plane tickets, another on financial transactions,” he said adding that he was going to “make others follow us and mobilize” around these issues.

“There has been a great deal of discussion on the idea of international taxation, over and above what countries and institutions are doing. Whether it’s on financial transactions, maritime transport or certain other models, it will only work if it’s truly international, and so it presupposes an agreement, as we’ve been able to do on international taxation,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/24/macron-suggests-international-taxation-system-to-subsidise-green-agenda/

Even the Supreme Court is Divided

You can watch a speech from JFK in 1960 and swear he was a Conservative. You can watch a speech from President Clinton in 1995 on illegal immigrants and you would swear he was a conservative.  You can watch a clip from Senator Joe Biden saying how ridiculous it is for the Senate to spend time debating gay marriage because “marriage is between a man and a woman.”  Today conservatives have almost nothing in common with the liberal agenda.  It’s hard to “come together” when the Left and Right are 1000 miles apart.  But the Supreme Court was supposed to be different than the legislative body.  They were supposed to be reasoned and logical and get along with each other no matter what the case.  So when some liberal judge allowed the news of Roe v. Wade being overturned to “leak out” to the liberal press and cause mountains of harassment, promises of violence and death to the conservative supreme judges, now the judges are even divided just like the rest of the governing bodies.  A kingdom divided will not stand.

Roe v.Wade and abortion (baby killing) is all in the news again today because it’s been one year since it’s overturn.

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This year, however, was different. The traditions of the court were under siege. In the wake of the unprecedented disclosure of a draft of the landmark Dobbsdecision overruling abortion rights, the court’s placid work conditions were disrupted by a sweeping investigation. Expressions of distrust among the justices seeped into their public statements. Persistent accusations of ethical improprieties followed.

Over the past 13 months, the court has been hit by a series of challenges, both internal and external, that have rocked the institution itself, undermined relationships on the bench and fundamentally altered the way it is viewed by the public and treated by the media. This account is based on interviews with people inside the court and others with close dealings with the justices, along with statements by the justices themselves, several of which have not been published before.

Even the court’s own historical society, which is supposed to be a charity independent of the court, is under a microscope. Last summer, Rev. Rob Schenck, a former leader of the religious right, came forward to claim that some religious activists had used the historical society as their entry point to curry favor with the justices. Then, this spring, one of the society’s board members, Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, was revealed to have gifted fancy vacations and private-school tuitions, among other favors, to Justice Clarence Thomas, his wife, Ginni, and another relative.

Justice Thomas took part in the last similar gatherings in 2018 in 2019, as did liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. But, at this year’s banquet, Thomas was a no-show. So, too, was Crow, who doesn’t typically turn up for events. The court’s three liberal justices — Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — also stayed away. Only Chief Justice John Roberts and two other conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett, attended this year’s dinner. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined for the reception alone.

There didn’t seem much to celebrate: A long string of polls has shown record-low levels of public trust in the court. And some of the justices themselves have aired concerns about damage to the institution. In the months after Dobbs, both Sotomayor and Kagan broke ranks with public remarks that some observers interpreted as casting doubts on the court’s very legitimacy. The comments drew a sharp and equally public rebuke from Alito, the author of Dobbs, and even a brush back from Roberts.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/25/supreme-court-dobbs-00102730