Be Prepared

Common Sense Commentary:

One of my first memories is my mother saying, "Rayburn, we must get things ready for school tomorrow. You must be prepared to learn many new things."  Then when I was a little older, my dad told me to run as fast as I could, every day, around the country mile of dirt roads around where we lived.  He said it was important to prepare my body to endure future hardships.  When I was about eleven, I joined the Boy Scouts and my Scout Master told us boys that the Boy Scout moto is "Be Prepared", and he began teaching us how to survive out in the open by building a shelter, finding water and food, and fire building.  Nearly all my teachers and Pastors, back in the 1930s and 40s, by teaching us the various subjects, were preparing us for a useful and successful future. Most were also concerned with helping us prepare for our spiritual destiny and the preachers, with special emphasis, sought to prepare us to meet God. And then there was the Marine Corps DIs and Master Sergent veterans of WWII who wouldn't give an inch in preparing us to survive the next war and seeing that the enemies of our country did not. 

It is my opinion that the 1950-51 young Marines were the best prepared to fight a new war of any similar military force in history.  The reason?  We were trained and prepared for it just after WWII by the DIs and NCOs who had just fought the many Island battles of the South Pacific... Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, and a dozen more. We were prepared for the ultimate Battle of Chosin against the Chinese Communist veterans, in the mountains of North Korea, at the Chosin Reservoir in 20 to 40 degrees below zero. And though we had to withdraw because of the folding up of other UN units on our flanks, we killed or wounded 34,000 of the enemy, ten times more casualties than we suffered in that one two-week battle.  We were PREPARED!

That was exactly 72 years ago this month.  Now there is another, much more serious, crisis just unfolding upon us.  But this time it is a world-wide calamity and will affect every area of life in every nation. I don't have to tell you about it because it is in all the news and being commented on daily. If you are not prepared, you may still have time to if you don't delay.  So, store up some long-life food, and do it now.  A wise man once said, " It is better to store up and prepare for what does not happen than to neglect to prepare for what does happen."

"And (Jesus) said also unto his disciples, there was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.  And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.   

I have been preparing since I left the Marine Corps in 1952 but such a crisis never happened ... util now.  Two of the main ways I prepared was becoming frugal and saving resources.  Frugality ... and becoming a saver are not an end within themselves.  And they are not just good elements of character.  They, like insurance, are elements of preparation for unexpected ... but certain storms of hard times to come... very difficult times of greater need.  It may just be old age, or serious medical need.  But it may be war, plague, starvation, world financial failure, or fire or flood, but the time of great need will arrive.  And don't miss the fact that frugality and savings and timely, correct investment is simply Scriptural Stewardship.    Pray for our nation and God's people around the world.

My Skys Are Blue

Barbed Wire Fence Commentary: 

No Complaints, Just Scratched Up A Bit

I remember when                            But now I see ....

                                         

My hair was thick                             My teeth are old

My eyes were bright                         I've lost my sight

My feet were quick                           My feet are slow

My teeth were white                         My hair is white

                                         

A way back then                             There's more to tell....

                                         

My back was strong                          My back is bent

My brain was too                              My brain is too

My walks were long                         My knees are spent

My Skys were blue                           But my Skys are blue

                 

                                                          It's No Complaints And 

                                                          Hello Heaven Time

A Black Swan? No ... A Whole Flock Of Them Circling The Earth Hungrily

Looking for feasting places ...

I don't have to give you a long list of the earth-shattering catastrophes suddenly plaguing this world, they cannot be ignored or unknown to any conscious, literate person alive anywhere on earth.

All of these globally affecting black swan events which have suddenly fallen upon the entire world, at the same time, seem an obvious collusion of evil forces leading up to the biblical rapture and then the tribulation period.  This flock of world-wide, hyper-crisis, occurrences are too many, too extensive, and too devastating to be a mere happenstance.  They seem to be a unified precursor to the Antichrist's reign over the world which is also preceded by the rapture of Christians and will end after seven years with Christ's return to earth to set up His Millennial Kingdom.  If that is what this is, things will get a lot worse ... but true Christians will not be here.  The correct expectation is this, that Christians should be anticipating the appearance of Christ ... not the Antichrist.  If you think these are the first days of the actual 7-year Tribulation Period, then you must believe that Christ's return "in the clouds", for the Rapture, will occur during the Tribulation and His return to earth to establish His Millennial Kingdom ... soon after in 2029-30.  So, you have set a time for both, and you are looking for the reveling of Antichrist's identity instead of the first phase of Christ's return, to rapture His people, bride, church for its first universal assembly.  If you can know the beginning of the Tribulation, you also will know when Christ will return to rapture, at mid-trib, in 3&1/2 years, if you are a mid-triber.  If that is the case, you are not looking for the Rapture but for the Tribulation, and not for Christ's coming but for the Antichrist's coming. 

Here is what Jesus said about the Last Days, Rapture, Tribulation, and Millennium in Matt.24 (KJV).

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Democracy Is The Worse Form Of Government, Except For The Rest?

Quote Winston Churchill.

The following article by Brian Maher, in the Daily Reckoning, is, though more or less a spoof, very thought provoking, but must be read to the end to get his conclusion.  For my readers, we must remember that, in the Bible, there were no Democracies, but many Monarchies or Autocracies, even among God's people, the Jews, King Solomon, King David, King Jesus etc. RB

Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler made this profound observation: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."  (I think we have arrived at our due date. RB)

The queen of England’s demise has turned our  mind to monarchy — and democracy. English royalty had long been defanged, declawed and  demoted. Today’s monarch is but a totem of sorts, an  ornament on the hood of an automobile or the top of  a Christmas tree. The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy.  It is therefore subject to all the glories, benefits,  advantages, swindles, vanities and preposterous- -nesses that democracy offers. Is democracy superior to monarchy? We have taken  up the question before (see below). Today we take up a related question: Is the profligate  central bank the creation of popular democracy? Writer Paul Rosenberg — author of Production Versus  Plunder: The central issue here is that central banks were  made practical only by the modern version of  democracy. Given that “democracy” is a sacred  dogma these days, that message can be a hard fit. Nonetheless, the fact is that central banking, and  giant banks in general, were impractical until  democracy was instituted. You have captured our interest, sir. Please continue: Prior to democracy, loans were undertaken by  monarchs, who were personally responsible for  their loans… many rulers simply refused to pay  loans they had taken. King Philip II of Spain refused  to pay back his loans at least a dozen times. Because of this, banking was seriously limited.  Bankers developed techniques of dealing with  sovereign defaults, of course, but central banking as  we know it was more or less impossible. The institution of democracies and republics, however,  solved that problem. But how? Under democracy, loans are not debited to an  individual, but to the nation as a whole. This device of “public credit” makes all citizens, and  their children, responsible for repaying the loan. From  the institution of democracy and public credit onward,  loaning money to a government gave the banker a  legal and perpetual claim against the people. That is, democracy “socialized” the banking system.  The citizen stands in back of the loan: The person who signs for the loan ends up bearing  almost no responsibility, and gets to spend all the  money. Millions of people who never approved the debt are  left holding the bag, and passing the obligation to  their children. This is how $30 trillion of debt can be piled up on  top of an otherwise reasonable populace. Under a  monarchy, this couldn’t have happened. Here Mr. Rosenberg cites the poet Percy Shelly: The device of public credit was first systematically  applied as an instrument of government... The most  despotic governments of antiquity were strangers  to this invention, which is a compendious method  of extorting from the people far more than praetorian  guards, and arbitrary tribunals... could ever wring. Neither the Persian monarchy nor the Roman  empire, where the will of one person was acknow- ledged as unappealable law, ever extorted a  twentieth part the proportion now extorted from the  property and labor of the inhabitants of Great Britain. Substitute the inhabitants of Great Britain for the inhabit- ants of the United States — or any other “advanced”  nation — and you have the flavor of it. Why haven’t we citizens seized our pitchforks and run  the central bankers through? Voting. Voting offers us the illusion of control. The  swindle is a self-swindle. Here this Rosenberg fellow cites Mr. John K. Galbraith: When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are,  by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the  government is not theirs. They then accept, in some  measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberra- tions their aberrations, that any revolt will be  against them. Ignorance is bliss, it is often said. There is your proof. Yet as is also said: Ignorance is costly… Below, we republish our reflections on monarchy and  democracy. Which is superior? Read on. Regards, Brian Maher Managing Editor, The Daily Reckonin

The Daily Reckoning Presents: Is democracy truly  superior to monarchy?… ****************************** Democracy vs. Monarchy By Brian Maher BRIAN MAHER Today we trample sacred ground…  trumpet a message of heresy… and  offend the pieties. For we challenge  the cherished and soothing assump- tions of democracy. In 2001, academic Hans-Hermann Hoppe scribbled  a book bearing the soaring title Democracy: The God  That Failed. Hoppe’s work is a dart leveled against that  holiest of secular divinities. Hoppe’s primary tort against democracy? It wastes. It exhausts its capital. It forever takes the  short view. Hoppe uses the economic concept of  time preference to nail his point through. A Jill with low time preference delays her gratification  until the future. She is disciplined. She is willing to  have her cake later — only after she has tended to  her duties. But a Jack with high time preference orients toward  present consumption. He wants his cake now — and  the future can go scratching. Democracy, in Hoppe’s regard, “wants it now.” It is a  spendthrift, a profligate, a child at large in a candy  store. As the drunkard cannot see beyond the next drink…  democracy cannot see past the next election. The problem, says Hoppe, is that democratic  leaders do not own the machinery of government.  It is theirs on  temporary loan. Thus the democratic politician is  a mere placeholder. But is that not our system’s cardinal virtue — that  power  is not permanently lodged in a single vessel? A  rotating  roster of rogues is far superior to one alone, you  counter. Otherwise, the American Revolution was a vast  swindle,  and the Fourth of July is a blackguard’s holiday. A Prearranged Raid on the Treasury But because a leader under democracy does not own  the government apparatus, argues Hoppe, he has no  incentive to maximize its value. Instead, he tends to  deplete it. His limited time horizon forces him toward  immediate gratification. That is, he must get while the getting is there to be gotten. Consider the aspiring democratic official who seeks the  franchise of a demanding public. He may feel the tug of fiscal conscience. But should he  fail to gratify the crowd’s clamorings, he knows the other  fellow will. And our democratic aspirant will lose his  election. So he offers up the requisite sweets. If Social Security benefits must increase to sweep him  into office, they will increase. Will it take more Medicare  benefits, more unemployment insurance, more welfare?  Then these you will see. His election represents a prearranged raid upon the  Treasury. If the national purse is thin, if the burden  cannot be met from existing stocks, then let it go upon  the credit card. Is the business sordid? Might it eventually throw the  Republic into bankruptcy? Well, eventually is a long way off, he says. Let it fall  into the next fellow’s lap. Besides, we’ll simply grow  our way out of it. This is the office-seeker under modern democracy. Compare, for a moment, democratic government  with a rented automobile… Who Ever Washed a Rental Car? The renter does not own the auto. He, therefore, has no  regard for its long-term health. So he over-accelerates  the engine. He pummels the brakes. Down its gullet, he  pours the lowest-test gasoline. Would he ever check the  oil? And who, may we inquire, has ever run a rental through  a wash? Here Hoppe applies the theory to democratic govern- ment: It must be regarded as unavoidable that public-govern- ment ownership results in continual capital consump- tion. Instead of maintaining or even enhancing the  value of the government estate, as a king would do,  a president (the government’s temporary caretaker  or trustee) will use up as much of the government  resources as quickly as possible, for what he does  not consume now, he may never be able to consume…  For a president, unlike for a king, moderation offers  only disadvantages. Hoppe speaks of a king. Unlike democracy, Hoppe contends, monarchy takes the  long view. The monarch owns the apparatus of govern- ment. As will his heirs. So he naturally inclines to policies  that increase the value of his property over time. If Social Security, Medicare and the rest begin to deplete  the government’s stocks, the monarch will announce a  halt to them.  (If his subjects ask for his help) RB “It’s welfare you want, subject? I understand the church  runs a charity." “Social Security, you seek? I suggest you begin planning  early for your retirement. And remember to save against  the rainy day". “You say you want health care? I hope you don’t smoke  or drink too much. And let me mention it now — sugar is  a far-from-healthful substance. Besides, there are private  insurers. I can refer you to several if you wish.”

The People Tell the King to Get Bent Is such a system undemocratic? Certainly. Callous, perhaps? Well, perhaps it is. But is it fiscally stable? Yes. In brief, monarchy may be better with money than  democracy. It is a superior steward of wealth — at  least by this theory. Once again, Hoppe: While a king is by no means opposed to debt,  he is constrained in this “natural” inclination by  the fact that as  the government’s private owner, he and his heirs  are considered personally liable for the payment  of all  government debts (he can literally go bankrupt,  or be forced by creditors to liquidate government  assets). Consider, as one example: In 1392, England's Richard II was in arrears to the Pope in Rome… and required 1,000 pounds  toward satisfaction of his debt. He did not have it. So old Rich appeared before the citizens of  London with an open hat. Moreover, they refused him. Imagine it! Freeman Tilden, from his neglected 1936  masterwork  A World in Debt: Kings had power enough to contract  debts, but found it much more difficult  to take advantage of that power … The feudal system, with its insecurity  and constant  clash of petty divisions, was not calcu- lated to invite credit. In distinct contrast, Hoppe argues, we find  the democratic president: A presidential government caretaker is not held liable  for debts incurred during his tenure of office. Rather,  his debts are considered “public,” to be repaid by  future (equally nonliable) governments. Perhaps this explains — pandemic aside — why the  national debt of the United States runs to some $31  trillion? It is a capital fact beyond all dispute: Most democratic nations groan beneath bloated  government… extortionate taxation… and  Himalayan levels of debt. Taxes How does this lovely, lovely state compare with the  barbarous age of monarchs, Mr. Hoppe? During the entire monarchical age until the  second half of the 19th century… the tax burden  rarely exceeded 5% of national product. Since  then it has increased constantly. In Western  Europe it stood at 15–20% of national product  after World  War I, and in the meantime it has risen to  around 50%. Government spending ran to roughly 10% of GDP  prior to World War I. It currently nears 50% in  many democratic  countries. Total government spending in this Land of the  Free amounts  to 36% of GDP — nearly 40%. Perhaps in retrospect, the world might have been  made safe for monarchy in 1917. And maybe our Colonial forefathers should have  left old King George alone in 1775. His tax bite  was so light… it failed to  break the skin. Our researches reveal that American Colonial  taxation ran to about 1% of total income — 1%. And between 1764 and 1775, claims political  scientist Alvin Rabushka: The nearly 2 million white Colonists in America paid on  the order of about 1% of the annual taxes levied on the  roughly 8.5 million residents of Britain, or 1/25th, in per  capita terms… As traitorous as it may appear, we are half-tempted to  disinter King George’s innocent bones and throw them  a much overdue parade. But let us entertain no more thoughts of heresy. The Worst System of Government…  Except for the Rest Hoppe’s book is actually no call for monarchy.  As the author himself states at the onset —  “I am not a monarchist and the following is not  a defense of monarchy.” His primary purpose is to diagnose an illness  — not to prescribe a cure. Hoppe’s sins against democracy are nonethe- less of the mortal variety. And mainstream  academics put him under excommunication  for his blasphemies. But to repeat, Hoppe does not call for monarchy.  Nor do we. Beneath our seditious motley beats the heart of  an American patriot… and our blood runs true  under red, white and blue. Besides, a king could be every inch the scoundrel  as an American president. And since he faces no  election, how could we possibly count upon him  to say amusing and idiotic things? Let us, therefore, not discount the comedic value  of democratic government. In addition, monarchy is certainly no guarantee  against bankruptcy — as history records well.  More than a few ne’er-do-well kings have driven  their realms to rack and ruin. Who can dispute it? But it is due more to incompetent kingmanship  than kingmanship itself. A rascally Henry VIII can  inherit a throne as easily as a wise Solomon.  Regardless, it matters little… Hoppe’s monarchic realm will never exist — not  in today’s age of mass democracy. But does it soften his case? Winston Churchill famously quipped that  democracy was the worst form of government  except for the rest. But upon further reflection, perhaps monarchy  is the worst form of government… except for  the rest… Regards, Brian Maher Managing Editor, The Daily Reckoning

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

.... and let them have dominion .... over all the earth...

.... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over .... every living thing that moveth upon the earth."  Gen.1:26-28.

One of the first things a young Seminary student learns is the three "Omni" characteristics of God, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, He is All-Powerful, All-Knowing, and All Present. He did not create the first two members of the human race, in His own image and likeness, without a plan.  This Hebrew word for "image" is "tselem" and is also translated as "form" and "show", and probably refers to God's "appearance".  But "Demuth", translated as "likeness" here, is also translated as "manner" and seems to refer to His internal characteristics.  In other words, we look a bit like the Father and also have micro, finite potential to His Macro Infinite attributes of knowledge, power, and presence.  Ours is,,,, a small potential to know, do and be, likenesses to the Father.  These things are infinite in our Creator but, though finite in us, they are still sometimes marvelous to behold in the vast accomplishments of a so endowed person occupying only 5 or 6 cubic feet of presence, with a  cantaloupe-sized brain for knowledge and a few flimsy muscles of power.  That is because this seed-sized chip of stone off of the universal-sized boulder, is in fact, like the seed, embedded with an eternity of potential for life, and like the chip, is as a precious stone of great value, to God. He has created us in His image and likeness to carry out His original charge to go forth and replenish the race and take dominion over the world.  This dominion is in the likeness of our Creator who has dominion over the universe.  This human, dominion, likeness to God, justifies and demands limited, just, and protective Civil Law and Order among all people.  And since this dominion was not given to the few, but to all, Godly, Biblical, legitimate Law and Order requires a system of equal, unbiased, fairness, agreed upon by those affected, and locked into place, as is our US  Constitution.

If God's "dominion" is another of His Omni qualities,, of which he gave humans abbreviated likenesses, to Himself, its effect would tend to justify our free will, but rein in its abusers.

 

So, should we see our Creator's unrestricted, universal, free will, volition and His universal dominion as a fourth and fifth of His "Omni" attributes, of which He has given minute "likenesses" to us?

What about God's love and grace; are they not also omni qualities of God?  Not if His grace and love ceased for Lucifer when He took away his light and cast him out into darkness, and not unless He still loves those evil sinners whom Jesus condemed, "Depart from me, I never knew you." Matt.7:23.  In eternity, when every soul is either in heaven or hell, God's love and grace is omnigrace and omnilove for His born again saints, the bride of Christ.  In fact, since He is Omniscient, that is already true....now.  RB

Purpose: Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve" Josh.24:15

There are only two ways to go in life, the Jesus way and all other ways.  This choice of the way of life a person chooses, is the primary reason for human life, the Bible, and the birth and death of Jesus  Christ.  The way of Christ is singular and narrow, including width only wide enough for pure truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  But wide enough for you and Jesus to walk together.  All the other ways of life a person may choose are equal in disqualification and lead down the "broad way" to the same eternal destination.  No matter how highly religious or deeply wicked, without Christ, all other ways, though they are many and broad,  lead to the same destruction. 

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt.7:13-14.

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."  Prov.14:12.

  

But, then, if Jesus walks with you, you are never alone though He may not be visible to human eyes... He is always there.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."  John 10:1

"Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep."  John 10:9

Common Sense And Wisdom Are Sibling Twins

Who often reside with farmers and truckers

He who has no ear for true common sense,

I fear, my dear, from here to hence,

His epitaph will be "too dead to convince".

Prideful self-will is a barbed-wire fence,

Dust &Snakes pass through but no horse-sense.

So let us climb off of our throne of pretense,

Remove our royal crown of superior nonsense,

And join these heroes in freedom's defense. (RB)

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be  given him." James 1:5

You too can help make history read .....

 "Common Americans with Common Sense preserved freedom and saved their nation from regressive idiots who called themselves Progressive who slept through truth but called themselves Woke."

There will never be another opportunity to save our nation and our freedom.  Right now is the time for action. Don't wait until November or 2024.  

a prideful will, 

What To Do Now? Kneel To God, Stand Up To Evil, Sit With The Righteous

And Endure Till Jesus Comes And Catches Us Up...

The hardest part of that is enduring faithfully through the long testing of pre-tribulation upheaval.  The devil can and will develop ungodly conditions within the souls of men, and the majority of populations.  Even as history records in past, national, environments; Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and dozens of other vile dictatorships.  Situations where the majority of misguided citizens install and support every diabolical wish of their devilish master even before he ascended to the pinnacle of political power.  But the Antichrist will gain global power over nations, their politics, finances, industry, institutions, and even religions.

Christians will be here during the terrible months or years leading up to the tribulation period reign of the Antichrist. The rapture itself will remove the Antichrist's Christian opposition and open the way for his unopposed ascendancy to world domination.  When the Christians, in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, are raptured into heaven, He goes with them and is "taken out of the way"  leaving a void of spiritual presence which had not "let" Antichrist succeed previously.

"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way."   2 Thess.2;7

So as long as Christians are present, and enduring, resisting the devil, influencing others, and praying ... in the Spirit, the Antichrist is outgunned.  After the rapture of believers, he will be quickly accepted as the savior of the world. Until then we must grow in grace and glory, yes glory, in this pre-tribulation turbulence that builds endurance in us to do the work of God amid massive ungodliness.    

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience.' Rom.5:3.      The word  

"patience" here is the Greek hupomone and means endurance.  That is, the kind of patience that derives from enduring hardship.  We are approaching the biblical last days of ultimate tribulation.  And though we Christians, like Noah, will be lifted out, above the flood of  Antichrist's seven-year reign of terror, we will be required to endure the preliminary dissimulation leading up to the rapture and Satan's seven-year rule over the world. The pre-tribulation months or years will not equal the horror of the seven years under his absolute dictatorship. But they will be bad enough, for all of us, even as we now see developing like a bank of heavy black clouds full of lightning and thunder, preceded by high winds, and hail already upon us.

So what can we do, as Christians, during these times of pre-tribulation evil as we await the soon return of Christ to catch us up above the flood of evil destruction?

"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matt..24:37.     

"For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee." Isa.54:9.     

The flood of Noah's day was not for the few righteous of that day but for the almost unanimous wicked. Even so, the seven-year tribulation period is not for Christians but primarily for the Jews who will turn to their Messiah, Jesus, because of the tribulation,  and be saved.

"And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.  For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace... Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it."  Jer.30:4-7        The tribulation is Jacob's trouble .... to bring them to Christ, not Christian's trouble.  The flood was not for Noah. The ark was for Noah.      

"And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn."  Zech.12:10        

When, since the Jews had Jesus crucified, has "the house of David ever looked upon him and mourned over Him as their own?" Never!  This verse will be fulfilled in the last half of the tribulation when Antichrist breaks his compact with religions.

So, until the rapture, what must we do during these last days?  Be Faithful and ENDURE.  God will accomplish His purpose. Let us accomplish ours.

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