New Year's 2020 Vision: Set Your Finances And Spirit In Order

By closing the distance between you and God.

King David was not perfect; he was human. He had faults and even flaws in his character, and made some serious mistakes, but he was a solid believer in God and God used him to write the Psalms and to be the king of God's people and successfully defend them from their enemies, and govern their nation.  He raised a son who became probably the greatest king in human history, King Solomon. In spite of  David's human failures, his faith and love for God are clearly seen in this verse.

"It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works." Psm.73:28.

King David did not always do good because he wasn't always walking close to God, but he always knew what was "good" for him. His spirit strove to be in God's will but his flesh drew him away. Nobody abides in a close relationship with God all the time. That includes ministers and those in full-time ministries. Staying near to God is your responsibility not God's. All "good" things require two actions, our "good" generous giving God gives, on condition the needy receiver believes and accepts.  David said, "It is good for me to draw near to God". God was already available, willing, and offering His blessings to David, and didn't have to do anything else but offer the good. The rest was up to David. He was already a believer and did not need more salvation, but he did need the "good" that God gives to our lives .... peace, rest, purpose,  effectiveness in witnessing to others, and "all of God's good works". David had a responsibility, a part to do if he expected God to do His part in blessing David with the "good" He wants us to have. So exactly what did David have to do to be closer to God? He needed not wait for God to drag him back into divine fellowship. That will not happen. And God will not force his presence upon us.

Pastor James, Jesus' half brother, tells us how to be closer to God.         "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." James 4:8.    Getting our spiritual lives in order is a matter of confession, repentance, re-commitment and then walking nigh unto God. That is our responsibility, not God's. He has already done all He needs to do. Our walk with God is up to us. "You" is the understood subject of the sentence, "Draw nigh to God".... "You" must take action to draw nigh to God.

That is not only the remedy for getting our spiritual lives in order but is also the remedy for setting our house in order and getting our finances in order. A spiritually sick home, divorce, disfunction, and financial irresponsibility are not physical, or anger or money problems but  spiritual problems.  The key to receiving is giving, but giving must not be done to receive but for spiritual, obedience and love reasons, and does not work well if the heart is not first right... near to God.

Another part you have in getting a full measure of God's good blessings, effective witness, and getting correct attitude about money, is to study His word of truth and all other kinds of truth, for all truth is God's truth, so education in all kinds of trugh is good.

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Tim.2:15.

First, study God's holy scriptures thoroughly so you will have a strong foundation of understanding God's word and all other truth, including all areas of common sense. One of those should be your personal finances since your money represents your life, your talents and your time. You give your time, knowledge, talents and energy to someone for money. The money you earn, for what you give, is a measure of your very life and should be handled with the same care you give to maintain your health and property. Your earned income represents your life; learn to invest it with knowledge and caution ... wisely. 

Here is an important, foundational lesson on Inflation and deflation, things over which you have no control but which you can prepare for and learn the truth about.

In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. Deflation occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0%. Inflation reduces the value of currency over time, but deflation increases it. Deflation allows more goods and services to be bought than before with the same amount of currency. Since government spending is no longer held in check by a gold standard, inflation rises when the government prints or digitizes more money. This reduces the buying power of all of that nation's and its 
people's money.

The word "money" is found 125 times in the bible, referring to coins of gold or silver, not paper currency. 

Father Abraham used money to buy a family burying place ...   
"I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there." Gen.23:13.     
Where did Abraham get money and why did he have it if its bad?     

Jacob's (Israel's) sons bought grain in Egypt, from their brother, Joseph, to prevent starvation of their families, the first Israelites.       "Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way ...." Gen.42:25.         
 Where did these children of Israel get money; why did they save it; and why did Joseph give it back to them? What good use is it if it is bad? 

Moses, in the law of God, commanded God's people on Justice in things of monetary value.      "Sell the live ox, and divide the money of it...." Ex.21:35.        Why divide it? What good was it?  
In the two chapters, 21 & 23, following the Ten Commandments, in Ex.20, Moses gave instructions on the use of money numerous times.  It was an important consideration of God for the "good" of His people.  The opposite of waste is wisdom, in savings and frugality.

Even Jesus taught on the use of money eight times in Matthew, as tax money, miracle money from a fish's mouth, investment money, and the misuse of money.  So money in and of itself is like a tool. A tool is useful, even needful, and often irreplaceable. A person can build great things and do great things with tools ... as with money. God's word teaches the value of tithing, giving and sacrifice of money. Without it we would have no church buildings or missionaries, or Bibles, or full-time Christian workers. So money is not bad. Silver and gold are not bad. Payment for labor or helpful things is not bad.  Scripture does not say "money is the root of all evil". It says,     "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil."     Use it, don't love it. The Apostle Paul, having walked among the rich and powerful, had seen much of the lust for money and its misuse, warned young Timothy to be content with what God provides and not fall into the trap of lust for riches and materialism.     "Having food and raiment let us be therefore content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Tim.8-10.

I know people who think having more gold than a wedding ring is a sign of immoral character but having equal value in a TV or car or fishing boat, or in the bank or in salary, is OK. Its kind of like, if your bible cover isn't black, you have a spiritual problem. I'm not covetous of money, and I'm not sure where the hex on gold and silver got on the Christian list of evils, but I do know that governments and the Federal Reserve have, for many years glorified paper currency and undermined the possession of gold and silver bullion. The seed of it, at least in part, was sown on Jekyll Island in 1910, with the founding of the Federal Reserve System. The buying value of the dollar has diminished over 90% since that date.

Here is a video to help adjust the skewed mind-set of the desirability of fiat, paper currency or digital "ones and zeros" over gold and silver ... in your hand. But still, do not covet it ... Use it for good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyV0OfU3-FU

An Ancient Message For A New Year...And For U.S. Life And Freedom

We must speak up, and pray down heaven's help, if we are to save the America we inherited.

We Christians have just ten months to give witness to that area of our faith which our forefathers pursued when they risked their lives and families to find freedom on America's shores. And then, their descendents, our U.S. founders, fought off the forces of tyranny to give us that freedom guaranteed by our divinely ordained, national Constitution.  Now, for 244 years, America's patriot heroes have, in their turn, given their hearts, limbs, and lives to defend this land of guaranteed freedom for all its citizens, built upon our glorious constitution.  

Now it is our turn to preserve and revitalize  that Constitution and the freedoms it contains, by speaking up, and praying down help from heaven .... and then voting against those who, like an evil king's knaves, would force us under the bondage of their will .... and out of from God's will.

Three months ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking to the Christians at Hillsdale College, gave today's believers, in Jesus Christ, this challenge:  

As I think of our political culture today, I am reminded of Ronald Reagan's warning that,    "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it on to them .... to do the same."  

Each generation is responsible both to itself and to succeeding generations for preserving and promoting the blessings of liberty. Faith in God, more than anything else, fuels the strength of character and self-discipline needed to discharge ably that responsibility. Justice Clarence Thomas
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So there it is, our assignment, as born again Christians and American Patriots. Let us stand up for truth, speak up against the evil powers of Satan, seek God's will and help from heaven, and 
motivate every reasonable person we know to follow our lead. Fight the good fight, pray for our country, our protectors, our leaders, and that every Christian will vote for the good guys or at least against the bad guys.    

For whom should you vote? The candidates who are pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, pro-law and order, pro-law enforcement, pro-self reliance, pro-work, pro-Christian, and pro-American.  And vote against the Party of liars and haters who are fighting against all those things and for Socialism/Communism. RB

What part of you is "Born Again" body or spirit?

Surely not Your weak, sick, sin inclined, dying flesh 

There are only two possible areas of thought within the human brain, earthly and heavenly, physical and spiritual. Jesus told a seeking sinner....    "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."    The sinner asked,      "How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"      Jesus was speaking of spiritual things but the man could only hear physical things. So Jesus explained,      "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.....If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" John 3:3-12. 
   

There are two births, the first is a physical bodily, and the second birth (born again) is a spiritual, rebirth of our spirit. Everyone has the first birth. The baby lives in a sack of water in the mother. When the mother's "water" breaks the baby is born (first birth). The wet baby's body is 73% to 83% water, and is, as Jesus said, "born of water". The second birth is, as Jesus said, "born of the Spirit". This is called, the New Birth, the Second Birth, Spiritual birth, Born again, and Reborn. Being spiritual, it is not bodily, physical, fleshly, visible or outer but internal and spiritual. It has to do with the spirit of life which God breathed into the body, as recorded in Gen.2:7      "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and  breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."      So every person has a fleshly body and an eternal spirit. We "have" a body and a spirit but we do not "have" a soul. We are a soul. At the origin of humanity God said, in Gen.2:7, that    "man became a living soul".

Then Adam sinned, and his sin nature, with his DNA, was passed on, through Eve, with her DNA and her sin nature, to the entire human race.      "Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed all men, for that all have sinned... " Rom.5:12.      We all have a sin nature by birth and later, at accountability, also by choice. Sin is born into our flesh and our spirit struggles with it the rest of our lives. Even after we are spiritually born again (saved). Our flesh is not born again, and our born again spirit must still deal with, and overcome the temptations of the flesh. This, with the help of God's Spirit who now lives within our spirits within our bodies. Jesus drew a deep line between the Holy Spirit, in our eternal spirit, and our dying flesh, in John 6:63.    "The Spirit gives life: the flesh counts for nothing."  

The Apostle Paul reiterated this holy principle in Romans 8:9.       "You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you."

Paul, in Rom.7, made the vast distinction between our inner, born again spirit, and our outer, dying, temptation plagued body of flesh. There Paul confessed the truth of sin in his flesh, not his born-again spirit.  In Romans 7, he expressed the death struggle his born again spirit had with the dying flesh throughout his life, even as a Christian. Here are the five central verses in Rom.7     "If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh,  dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me .... Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." 
    It is not my eternal, born again spirit which sins, but my faulty, sweaty, sick and dying body of flesh.

The entire "living" process from conception, birth and continuing right up until the born again experience, is physical. If our first parents, Adam and Eve had not sinned, it would have been spiritual and there would be no need of a spiritual, second birth, a rebirth of the spirit not the body or brain. The body and brain remain physical but are responsive (yea or nay) to spiritual training and spiritual growth as they may yield, or not, to the Holy Spirit of God. A new-born Christian is a babe in Christ and has a future full of physical failure, repentance and spiritual growth in their journey to become as "Christlike", God's goal, as is humanly possible.

This is why David said,     "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Psm.51:5.     Our sin nature was there at conception.

Jesus confirmed this ....              

"...There is none good but one, that is, God ...." Matt.19:17.     We are conceived and born with a sin nature. Jesus was not. He was God in a body of flesh.

Apostle Paul declared our sin nature true.           

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God...." Rom.3:23.

That is why Jesus told a seeking sinner, in John 3:7        "Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again."         
The man thought Jesus was saying he had to be physically born again, but Jesus explained he was not speaking about a second fleshly birth but a rebirth of his spirit; a spiritual birth. Every Christian knows their fleshly body is not born again. We all see our fleshly failures, blemishes, and sins, though some Christians cannot bring themselves to confess it. But, as a Christian, your born again, eternal, spirit where God's Spirit dwells, does not and cannot sin because God lives there. It is, as Paul said, your flesh which does the sinning, but your born again spirit crys out against all sin and brings body and brain into conviction about it.

"Whosoever is born of God doeth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." 1 John 3:9.     What does "does not" mean? What does "cannot sin" mean? It does not mean "can, but shouldn't". It means "does not sin because the Spirit of God remains in his spirit and his born again spirit cannot sin". This verse refers not to your body of flesh but to your "born of God" spirit.    

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."    At the rapture, when we see Jesus, "we shall become like him" Christlike.

"Like Him".     No more corruptible flesh, no more temptation, no more sin, no more sickness, no more death, and all of the fleshly, earthly thoughts ...past and gone. Our soul (body and spirit) will then be  whole, born again, and finally, totally glorified. RB

That is what Christmas is all about. Jesus came to live a holy life before us, He was tempted, but without yielding, and without sin, and then gave that holy body as a sacrifice for our sins, that we might be redeemed … bought back to our Creator. RB

"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32.

Pack Of Barking Democrat Dogs That Caught The Car

And are now wearing dog dentures singing Jingle Bells

President Trump has been swamped by Democrat swamp hounds, howling through the night, in pursuit of a Republican fox that led them into a grizzly's den.

This pack of curs, mongrels, mutts, and flee bags have been nipping at the President's heels, to impooch him, for three years, while he was draining their swamp, rebuilding our military, erecting a  border wall, burning red tape, creating jobs, increasing salaries, repairing foreign relations and trade agreements, and cussin out loud. His vicious pursuers barked like wolves, and clung to his trail like police canines tracking a fugitive, serial killer. But when the sun came up they turned out to be hydrophobic Chihuahuas, Pugs and large Rodents fighting over that impoochment bone.

So now the U.S. Attorney General's expert swamp drainers are hunting down these mad, midget mongrels with the Justice Department's top investigators and prosecutors. The animal control people are on the job and some of these impoocher strays are going to be living in a cage down at the Democrat dog pound. 

With that dog whistle, Palosi has chosen not to gnaw on that old meatless bone any longer but to bury it quick and hope nobody is looking. RB

If You Love All Humanity And Obama, And Hate Trump.. You Lie

What the devil has gotten hold of Bush?

Michelle O defends friendship with Bush; 

'Humanity and love'...   From The Daily Mail

'Our values are the same': Michelle Obama defends her friendship with George W. Bush, insisting they have the same views about 'humanity, love and compassion' despite disagreeing on Policy  ____________________

My Comment:  So what the devil has gotten hold of Bush?
No, I don't mean his and Michelle's mutual "love and compassion for all of humanity", and for each other. The mystery is .... their mutual, hypocritical, contradictory hatred for another member of humanity, President Trump. Both have expressed their extreme dislike for him (Bush in Vanity Fair) .... and love for each other. Do you smell a rat?

Jesus told His disciples that some people say     "Love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love thine enemies ...."      He didn't continue the correction by adding      "and hate Trump and Conservative patriots".     That Bush/Obama contradiction equals loving the rapist because you dislike the victim, loving Charles Manson and hating Sharon Tate. If you truly "Love all humanity" and have "compassion" for Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin, Obama and Hillary ... don't tell me not to love and have compassion for our President for what the lying left-wing have put him through and especially for what he has accomplished for America in three short years.  And don't tell me its alright for you to hate him ... for no reason but his enormous ego, brash talk or funny hair. Bush and Michelle are counterfeits. They obviously love .... and hate the wrong things. I'll tell you what God, who does love all of humanity, hates ... iniquity. Sin not the sinner.     "Thou (God) hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity...." Heb.1:9.      Righteousness is 'rightness' with God... walking with Him and agreeing with Him.  Iniquity is anything which we think or do that God hates such as lust, lying, and hating rightness. God hates sin but loves sinners.  How much does God love sinners and hate iniquity?  Jesus on the cross for our sins and a real hell for Satan and Christ rejectors.  John 3:16 explains it all.  RB

Humanity Remains The Same; End-Times Knowledge Is Evolving

"...Knowledge shall be increased". Dan.12:4
God told the prophet, Daniel, that his End Of Days prophecies would not be understood until "the time of the end" when people would be "running to and fro" (enhanced transport), on the earth and "knowledge shall be increased" (expanding).  This "evolving" knowledge would not only unlock prophetic meanings, but expand every other type of knowledge, science, skill and proficiency. The fulfilling of this prophecy, in today's world, is all too obvious to all but the resolute naysaying skeptic.

"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Dan.12:4.

Unceasing technological transformation is the only thing on earth truly evolving. The speed of it, in my lifetime, since 1930, has continuously increased from saddles to satellites and beyond. The increase of knowledge, at first, grew slowly by centuries, then by decades, then multiplied annually, and is now compounding from the speed of a running horse to a rocket ship traveling into space at 200,000 miles an hour. But the human form, mind and morality has gained no evolutionary improvement.  The opposite is more nearly true. Devolution seems more likely ... if that were a word.

The unintended consequences of technology is that it has overtaken human capability to absorb knowledge and is rapidly surpassing human, mental potential. Fleshly, human nature's inclining appetite for sin, albeit restricted and lessened in Christians, will continue to be in all human flesh until Jesus comes and glorifies believers.     

"Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doeth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3:2

The following from Industry Tap News

Knowledge Doubling Curve

Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.  According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.
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My Comment:
Does the implementation combining computer with human brain cells generate or degenerate the brain? Is that new creation still human, superhuman or subhuman? It cannot be a humanoid, which is something which looks human but is not, like a robot, for instance.

Would a more descriptive credential be "Beast", since it has all the attributes of an animal but with cybernetic knowledge.

Here is just one example of where superhuman minds, in conjunction with what I believe to be demonic activity, is taking us.  See it here:    https://youtu.be/SI3RWFZQ_RE 

The Seed Of The One World Church Has Been Planned And Planted

Where Antichrist's False Prophet will reign.

The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans this weekend for an interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi that will unite a church, a synagogue and a mosque.

The announcement of the three houses of worship, collectively known as the "Abrahamic Family House," follows Pope Francis' February (2018) (visit to the UAE, the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula. During the visit, Pope Francis and the grand imam of al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed el-Tayeb, signed a declaration to form an interfaith council called The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity.

The Abrahamic Family House, set to be completed on 2022, is the first initiative by the new committee, according to media reports.  _____________________

Yes, Media reports it .... 

But God does not endorse it. RB

"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." 2 Timothy 2:19

"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18

“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” Isaiah 28:15,16 (KJV)

Here are the plans for what they call The Abraham Family House Since the Jews and Muslims do not accept Jesus as their Messiah, and Jews and Christians do not accept Mohammad, I have wondered what they would have in common as a one world church. Now we know. It is Abraham. RB

This Proves Addage "Wait Long Enough And Eveything Will Happen"

The Swamp is flushed and draining ....

And the new Major News Media, World Champion of Truth and Courage is ….

The New York Post

which has now put the pressure on the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, and all the rest of the corrupt Media.

New York Post Headline...

Here’s the likely whistleblower — and the questions he should answer

By Post Editorial Board

In the middle of Russia fever, the liberal press took a hectoring tone to any outlet that showed a glimmer of doubt. How dare any journalist not believe that President Trump is an agent of Vladimir Putin! Who would question the upstanding virtues of the FBI?

Of course, we now know that the conspiracy 

theories were wrong. There was no Russian 

collusion with the Trump campaign.

And, moreover, the inspector general report 

proves that the FBI trampled over civil 

liberties and common sense in pursuit of 

the case. While idle conversation during a 

meeting with George Papadopoulos and 

an Australian official may have sparked 

the inquiry, Crossfire Hurricane, it was only 

because of outlandish gossip in a Democrat

-funded opposition report, the Steele dossier, 

that the FBI was able to land a surveillance 

warrant for Trump campaign adviser Carter 

Page. Even as the agency found that Steele’s 

sources did not back up the dossier, that 

facts did not back up the dossier, they 

continued the red scare. When it came out 

that Page was an informant for the CIA, an 

FBI lawyer lied about it.

Every suspicion of FBI agents was leaked 

to the press and printed without skepticism. 

Few questioned their methods.

It is only now that the New York Times 

begrudgingly publishes an “analysis” that, 

oops, maybe this was “A Disturbing Peek at U.S. Surveillance.”

Forgive us, then, for the sense of déjà vu 

when it comes to the impeachment hearings. 

This time, the press is near united in 

arguing 

that you shall not question the narrative of how 

this whole thing got started. Don’t you dare 

name the whistleblower. Don’t ask how Rep. 

Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) might have helped him 

write his complaint. Or even that Schiff is lying 

when he says he doesn’t know who the whistle-

blower is. Or why Schiff is subpoenaing the 

phone records of his colleagues.

This is the same Schiff, by the way, who in 2018 

said that the Department of Justice’s warrants 

for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or 

FISAs, met “the rigor, transparency and 

evidentiary basis needed.”

Schiff had the same information as Inspector 

General Michael Horowitz, who found the exact 

opposite. So we know Schiff is a liar.

Two years from now, will we find out the real 

story? It may not change either side’s view of 

impeachment, but isn’t that what the press 

does — try to find the truth?

The whistleblower is most likely CIA analyst 

Eric Ciaramella.

Journalist Paul Sperry reported his name in 

late October, saying that sources inside the 

closed-door impeachment hearings identified 

him. Ciaramella has put out no statement 

denying these reports. Whistleblower lawyers 

refuse to confirm or deny Ciaramella is their 

man. His identity is apparently the worst-kept 

secret of the Washington press corps. In a 

sign of how farcical this has become, Rep. 

Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said his name as 

part of a series of names during a live hearing 

Wednesday night aired on television. He never 

called him the whistleblower, just said he was 

someone Republicans thought should testify, 

yet Democrats angrily denounced the “outing.” 

If you don’t know the man’s name, how do 

you know the man’s name?

Politico’s Jack Shafer has 

eloquently argued that the 

press should name the 

whistleblower. It is not against the law — 

whistleblower protections are to prevent 

retaliation in the workplace and apply to his  

superiors, not the media. Yet while the press 

eagerly tried to out Deep Throat or the 

anonymous author of “A Warning,” they 

suddenly lack curiosity.

They’ve also been hypocritical. In September, 

the Times reported the whistleblower was a 

male CIA officer who worked at the White 

House and was now back at the CIA. Why? 

Executive editor Dean Baquet said, “We wanted 

to provide information to readers that allows 

them to make their own judgments about 

whether or not he is credible.” A cynic might 

say they were trying to argue that the 

whistleblower was credible.

But if that’s the argument, and if Ciaramella 

is the whistleblower, isn’t it also relevant that 

he, according to Sperry, previously worked 

with CIA Director John Brennan, a fierce 

critic of Trump, and Vice President Joe Biden, 

Trump’s political opponent and the crux of the

impeachment inquiry? That he’s a registered 

Democrat and that he was — again, according 

to Sperry — accused of leaking negative 

information about the Trump administration 

and that’s why he was transferred back to 

Langley?

What, if anything, did he leak? Did he work 

with Biden on Ukraine, apparently 

Ciaramella’s area of expertise? Did he know 

about Burisma and Hunter Biden? Who told 

him about the call, and why did that person 

not complain instead of him? How did 

Schiff’s staff help him tailor the complaint?

This is only the fourth time in our history that a 

president has faced impeachment. Shouldn’t we 

know the answers to these questions now, and 

not in two or three years when the inevitable 

official reports and tell-all books come out? Why 

must we wait for the truth?