It is not luxury, ease, health, and abundance which build

character, faith and endurance.  It is persistent pain,

suffering long, merciless persecution and all manner of 

hardship (tribultion) which builds those elements of 

character, faith, endurance and spiritual stamina. Easy

times build nothing but fat, weakness, laziness and the illusion 

of entitlement.  That is why the Apostle Paul extolled 

"tribulation" as the root of "patient endurance".        

"We glory in tribulations ... knowing that tribulation 

worketh patience". Rom. 5:3.     The Greek word translated 

"tribulation", in the New Testament, is "thilipsis" and means

"affliction".  The Greek word translated "patience" is 

"hupomone" and means "patient endurance".

Jesus forewarned Christians that in the last days, a time of 

Great Tribulation would engulf the people of earth.     "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."  Matt. 24:21.        Leading up to that "great tribulation there will be events and conditions alerting the world of what is coming like thunder clouds warn of a storm. Signs of the times warning Christians to get busy about gathering in the lost to Christ ... with patient endurance.  But Christians will be spared, by the rapture, from the full force of evil in the Great Tribulation.  The prophet Jeremiah calls the Great Tribulation, "Jacob's trouble" in Jer. 30:7.  And that, because those seven years are a completion of God's seventy weeks of years dealing with the Jews after setting them aside at the crucifiction to deal with the Gentiles during the "Church" dispensation of the New Testament.  In the second half of the Tribulation, after the Anti-Christ consolidates his power in the first half, he then revolks his treaty with religions and churchiantity.  At this mid-tribulation point the persecuted Jews will come to realize their error concerning Christ and accept Him as Messiah and Savior.          

"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.         Jesus also warned us that lesser tribulations, presceeding the rapture, will weed unbelievers out of His churches.      "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." Matt. 13:21. 

In the end times, persecution and lesser tribulations will purge true Christian churches of pretenders and unbelievers. That is why the Apostle continually traveled back to the churches he had established ... to "confirm" the legitimacy of their church  membership and to strengthen the true believers.....

"Confirming the souls of the desiples, and  exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."Acts 14:22.      Paul also reminds us that for followers of Christ, tribulation is so certain as to be "appointed" to us by our God. We have an appointment with it.     "That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto." 1 Thess.3:3.

Even so, our Lord, who suffered every kind of abuse and persecution, will be there with us to comfort and strengthen us and use the trials and afflictions of this world to build patience (spiritual endurance) into our character.

"Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." 2 Cor.1:4.
So we now "see through a glass darkly" that it is true that                 "All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose" Rom. 8:28.      Because of Paul's understanding of these deeper truths of God, he was victorious in every trial, persecution and hardship he suffered .... and he rejoiced in them.        "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulations." 2 Cor.7:4

It was so real to Paul that he could clearly see the spiritual growth and benefits which grew out of tribulations... even in the tribulations of his fellow Christians.

"So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure." 2 Thess. 1:4.      

"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." Rom.5:2-5.

Tribulation is absolutely necessary for spiritual growth and endurance.  The true churches of Christ have never been greater than in great times of tribulation such as we are beginning to see in the world today... even in America.  RB

Unintended Consequences Invariably Follow Stupid Gov. Dictates

Equality is not the issue. Reality IS.

This One News Now headline is all of the article I could successfully copy, but you can read it at their site.

Committee vote predicts 

GOP will join Dems to 

draft your daughters 

_________________

My Common Sense Commentary:  

Leftwing progressives have, over 

the last 60-70 years, been laying 

the faulty foundation upon which 

this kind of consequences emerge.  

These Marxists and other idiots call 

their theory "equality", a misnomer 

worthy of Marx, Lenin, 

and Stalin. Demo Elitists may call it "Homogeneity".  

But drafting young girls to do 

the exact jobs as men in combat is 

"Stupid Uniformity" to veterans of 

the gut grinding brutality of the 

fiercest battles they endured. 

One does not know what real war 

is unless they 

were there in it for a solid year. 

However, placed upon the 

balance scales of justice, 

drafting girls fits perfectly with 

pure "consistency" of all the so 

called "equality' legislation they 

have made law in this land.  

Now those laws require girls to 

do the jobs of men. So let them 

pour concrete in 110 degree heat 

... all day 5-6 days a week. Let 

them play pro-football against 

6'6'' 300 lb. guards.  Let them 

fight battles against 10 times 

their number, in -30 below 0 

or 110 degrees, without sleep 

or water or food at times but 

with dysentery and frozen 

fingers and feet. Our laws now 

give them the right .... the duty 

... to be "equal". Because that 

is the unintended consequences 

of their absolute equality. 

The canceled truth is that women 

are not equal to men and men are 

not equal to women. They are uniquely 

different to each other as God intended 

and trying to change that is as hopeless 

as trying to cancel God Himself. 

      

  

Impracticle Death & Destruction Wars Yielding To Financial War

Global framework now being laid

The AntiChrist's "Tribulation War" against indomitable, freewill, freedom thinkers who refuse the Mark of the Beast, will be, at least in part, financial.       "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev.17:16-17        

 

In a world of Neuclear, laser, HiTech, and biological wars, financial war is far more practical, cheaper and avoids mass destruction of resources and death of tax payers.  Cutting off unco-operative rebels from buying or selling in a digital, financial world pin-points the pressure on each individual with no collaterial damage. Take away his buying and selling power in a non-agrarian, HiTech world, and you take away his life.

So who is winning ground in this war?

How Is The Financial War Going ? Update

Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com,

If there ever was a time when you could see a trend solidly in motion, now is it.        https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-terrifying-map-world-heres-what-it-means-you

That the Western, previously civilized world is in decline has been known to anyone with an ounce of curiosity and little analysis of data points.

Before Xi’s ascension to power one could have argued that this trend was worrying, but not terrifying.

What makes it terrifying is that Xi managed to abolish the two-term limit for his presidency with an overwhelming majority (2,959 to 2 and 3 abstaining votes - no prizes for guessing where those 5 guys are now).

He then proceeded to have his name enshrined in the constitution. Seriously.

All Things Work Together For Your Good Christian

All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Rom. 8:28.

Our Lord created all things, owns all things and shares all things with His people through their faith, in their service, in old age and into eternity. He blessed Abraham throughout his imperfect life and into his old age with "all things" necessary in life and He does so also to His people today.  God owns the universe and we are His children and heirs with Christ.

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ...." Rom.8:16-17

The case of Abraham ...

"And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things."  Gen.24;1 

And not only does our Master supply His people with all things necessary in life, but he does it abundantly.

"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee."  1 Chron. 29:14.

All God expects in return is faithfulness and appreciation.

"I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me." Psm.57:2

God has a will and purpose for all things, including His truths of creation, scripture, and true science ... into eternity. All else, outside of God's truths is not only false but hateful and destructive.

"Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way." Psm. 119:128

If God foreknew the wicked would be wicked, why did he allow them to be born? He created man "in his image and likeness", including finite measures of His infinite, attributes, omni knowledge, omni  power, omni presence, and omni volition. These attributes are unlimited in God and limited in man.  He willed these attributes in man's creation and will not revoke or invalidate His own free will in giving man a limited free will. He "lets" man's free will run its course but then man must suffer the consequences of his errors and wickedness, which God has known forever in the past.

"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Pr.16:4.

All things that are allowed, by God, to happen, within men's free will, in some way will "exercise" the physical, mental or spiritual dimension of those affected.

"And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith." Ecc.1:13

The LORD, our Redeemer and Creator "made" all things in the universe with a purpose all His own and knew from the beginning every detail or how it would all turn out in the end, but created it anyway.

"Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" Isa.44:24

Jesus did nothing by accident or in error, but with all knowing purpose and in perfect harmony with His eternal truth.

"And (the people) were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well...." Mark 7:37

We cannot approach the throne of God except through Jesus Christ. 

Our prayers go nowhere except we pray "in Jesus name". That is,  because of what He did on the cross in reconciling us to the Holy Father. 

"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Jn.3:35

All things are under Christ's control and no one will ever "know" God the Father or Jesus Christ, the Son, except that the Spirit of Christ reveal them unto receptive hearts.

"All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him." Lk.10:22

Jesus Christ is the Word of God (read John 1) and when God spoke  the words "Let there be", in Gen.1, it was Christ, the Word, who responded and created "all things".

"All things were made by him (Jesus Christ); and without him was not any thing made that was made." Jn.1:3

If God would give Jesus to crucifixion to save us, would he not also give us anything else we need of the "all things" he possesses 

which we are his heirs to receive anyway?

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"  Rom. 8:32

Is there anything more futile than glorifying fleshly human beings, following faulty men and looking to movie idols, athletic stars, politicians or other aficionados to harness us up to their causes?  We Christians are princes and princesses, heirs of God who created the universe and rules over ot all as our King. Serve Him and Him only.

"Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours." 1Cor.3:21

Following, and worshiping, and serving our Creator and Jesus Christ is a no-brainer. It is the only true way. Jesus declared, "I am the way" and constantly challenged the people to "Follow me". 

"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." 1Cor. 8:6

All God and Christ did was for your sake and your commitment to Him, to follow Him, give him thanks, and glory in Him.

"For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God."  2 Cor.4:15

If you will overcome the world and all of lies and false religions our there, and truly follow Him, God will do this for you ....

"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work."  2 Cor. 9:8

Eternity with God the Father and Jesus Christ and our Christian loved ones, the Apostles and Prophets, and Christians of all ages with whom we are heirs of God, will be worth it all.

"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev.21:7

A Picture Of Evil Is Worth A Thousand Descriptive Words

Evil Is Sometimes Very Visible

I love this picture of the five House Democrats at the top of my list.... My liars list. But don't misunderstand me, they are not liars because they are ugly, nor to their degree of ugly. Wicked people are not ugly because they are wicked ... nor wicked because they are ugly.  There are many ugly people who are truthful, honest, intelligent and even born again Christians. There are two kinds of ugly. Ug;ly that is only skin deep and ugly to the bone, which includes the heart, mind and soul. These five World Class "liars to the bone", are not just dishonest. That is the characteristic you see and hear from them every day. But the depth of their ugly greed, hate, and demonic power reaches all the way to hell... like putrid roots.

When Jesus said, in Matt.5:44, "Love your enemies", He wasn't speaking of our arch enemy, the devil, nor of demons, the fallen angels. There is no hope of salvation for them.  And there may not be any hope of salvation for some humans ... But we do not know which humans, so we have to love the eternal souls of every human being.  We don't have to love their ugly flesh or thoughts and actions though.  Jesus said that "God so loved the world ...." The Psalmist said to God in his prayer, "Thou hatest all workers of iniquity".  Psm.5:5.  Since we know that David was not contradicting Jesus, he must have meant that though God loves all His creation, including humanity in general, there are many, whom only He knows, who will never repent and be born again.  Heb.1:9 also says that God hates iniquity...." So, it is consistent that God hates sin but loves the soul of the sinner.  So I believe that I can love this picture for the truth it reflects but hate the egregious, double dealing, wicked lies and actions of these five "workers of iniquity".

https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/house%20democrats1.jpg?itok=FIZFzbL_

A Criminal Heart May Excuse Crime, But God Holds The Scales

And renders justice to an equal degree as the crime.

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

When a person refuses to take the blame for what they do, they will soon find themselves taking the blame for much they did not do.  It is within basic human nature to balance the scales of justice. It is this characteristic of law abiding citizens that perplexes criminals who scream their innocence of crime they did not do, but without a tear of guilt for a long list of crimes they did do... but denied. A criminal may get away with a similar crime ten times before he is caught. That is why police, who catch a criminal for a crime, assume he has done similar things ten times before he was finally caught, and he usually has. So even if he gets away with a host of crimes, he will pay a heavy price in fear, guilt, worry, loss of sleep and health before he is caught and jailed.

So in California, where trends begin in the U.S., several cities have ceased to prosicute shop lifting, supplied free drugs to addicts, and are now proposing to pay thugs to not kill anybody ... as if that will work. Why do many judges turn criminals lose and legislators justify crimes  and reward criminals?  Simple!  They, themselves have a criminal heart and relate to and sympathize with the criminal instead of their victims. Letting illegal aliens, drug smugglers and human trafficers flood accross the border is the first step in giving them citizenship and voting rights, which will be mostly for Democrats. You can imagine where this will take our country, morally and politically.  And it all begins in the Criminal hearts of powerful people and their greedy supporters who are paid off with so called "entitlements" (our tax money).  Now they are discussisng using the victims of crime to help their perpetraters who, they claim, "were made criminals by an evil society".

"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." Isaiah 1:4.

Our Next President In The Land Of The Free?

And Home Of The Brave.

This is from Touch Stone Connect  - News the mainline News Networks won't report. Snopes' denial she is a Marxist is so typical of them ... it is a  commendation of the article. She swims in a tub of Communists. RB

Retired USMC MAJOR GENERAL HIGGINBOTHAM reports ON V.P. KAMALA HARRIS’ BACKGROUND.

The History of Kamala Harris

For your knowledge and interest about the Biden VP.  Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins:

Kamala Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley based Afro-American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.

The group’s leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a
student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.

Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown’s political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers.

Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris’ Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris’ political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California’s Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA.

Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.

While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.

Kamala Harris’s sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group.

Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow Communists. Phillips married into the multi billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris’s political campaigns for various California elective offices.

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘Communist China  investment Services’ branch. He was just appointed to Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism. When she was elected to the US Senate,Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.

Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.

The US constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.

If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon’s article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.

Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.

American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)