Does Marriage Matter To Society?

Culture Challenge of the Week: Does Marriage Matter to Society?

Rebecca Hagelin | Jul 31, 2014 - Townhall 

If we’re going to fight the toxins that constantly threaten our culture, we have to make certain that we go about it the right way.

It’s going to involve a lot of vigilance and courage on your part. It’s going to mean keeping a sharp eye out for the most pernicious influences and taking stands that may not be very popular, either with your children or even with many other parents.

But there’s something else you have to do first if you’re to succeed in creating a healthier culture and building a grounded, courageous, and fulfilled family. It’s one of the most important things you can do because it provides a steady force, a place of comfort for your children in a harsh world, and more joy for you than you could ever imagine.

Love your spouse.

Sounds a little too simple, doesn’t it? After all, few of us would have married in the first place if we didn’t love that someone, right? Yet virtually all of us have experienced marital problems in some form or another—some much more severe than others. And we don’t need piles of scientific research (although there’s plenty out there) to know the harmful affects that marital problems have on both spouses and on their children.

You are not a bad person because you’ve experienced hardship in your marriage. And neither is your spouse. It’s important to recognize that the two of you are on the same team. And I cannot stress how important it is for you to learn (or relearn) how to function as one.

The strength of a home is determined by the materials from which the structure is built. Build the house from straw, and you’ve got a weaker structure than one made from brick. It’s as simple as the story of “The Three Little Pigs.” The same basic principle applies to a society. But instead of bricks or straw, the building element of every society is the family unit. Change the composition or the strength of the marriage unit, and you also end up changing the look, feel, and strength of the society in which those families live.

A stable family unit is the foundation for a stable society and for raising stable children. Creating sound, stable families is so obviously the answer to saving our society from a litany of social ills and heartbreak that it is often overlooked in a search for more complex - and less effective - "solutions".

Government policy often endorses the broken family through handouts and endless programs and by creating penalty taxes against individuals who contribute to the stability of our society through marriage. Add to that the endless barrage of Hollywood propaganda that idolizes adultery, casual sex and divorce, and it’s no surprise to discover that America has seen a marked decline in the number of marriages that occur each year.

America must promote and encourage the inherent value in strong marriages and families if we are to survive as a nation. If we as a society continue to promote and casually accept rampant divorce and all other kinds of lifestyle decisions that threaten marriages and families, we can expect more poverty, more crime, more emotional problems, and more social chaos.

Clearly, there’s nothing more important to a child’s future than to be raised in a home with both a mom and a dad who are committed to each other. And there’s nothing more important to your own happiness either.

How to Save Your Family: Start with Yourself

Commitment. Love. Integrity. Faithfulness. These are clear virtues upon which we must stand, both as individuals and as a nation. It’s time for us to reach back for the sake of the future and reclaim those timeless values upon which our families and nation will rise or fall. There are right and wrong choices. When individuals make the right choices regarding a commitment to marriage and to their families, they and society are better for it.

You can start today with a fresh approach and firm commitment to your own marriage. If you need a marriage counselor, get a marriage counselor. I’m constantly amazed at how much time and energy people put into sports or hobbies and things that don’t really matter in the end. Yet, they put very little time and effort into the single most important relationship of their lives. It might be tough going for a while to dig through all the emotions that have been buried for so long, but giving your marriage everything you’ve got, and then giving it more, is worth it in the end.

Passionate love is something every human being responds to. It’s what makes men ready to slay the dragon, and women to swoon. Giving sacrificially to your mate—meeting the needs of the other first—is the way to preserve or reignite the passion in your marriage.

No matter where and when you first fell in love with your spouse, you should frequently recall that moment. But don’t forget, mere passion does not a marriage make.

It’s all too easy to get caught up in the busyness of everyday life and forget the work that must go into every marriage. Part of this flows from our media-fed notions of romantic love—the idea that a relationship is wroth preserving only as long as we’re experiencing that pleasant head-over-heels feeling that nearly every couple enjoys when they first start getting to know each other. But those feelings alone wont’ sustain a marriage; it takes commitment. As Stephen Covey notes in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it means recognizing that “love” isn’t just a noun, it’s a verb.

And it’s the most important action word of your marriage. Treat it as such, and you’re well on your way to not only protecting your family but also impacting the culture in a manner that will uplift and inspire all those around you—especially your children.

My comments: It is God Who made Marriage the Foundation of Culture, by DESIGN. This article does not mention Faith or God. Yet God is LOVE. Without God there is no love at all. Scripture teaches husbands to:

"Love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word , and to present her to himself as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way,husbands ought to love their wives as theri own bodies. He who love his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for i, just as Christ does the Church--for we are members of his body. 

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, AND THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH." This is a profound MYSTERY--but I am talking about Christ and the Church. However, each one of you MUST LOVE HIS WIFE as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:25-33) 

In Christ alone is marriage complete or anything else in this natural life. Each one of us, married or not, are only complete IN CHRIST. He designed that way and it cannot be altered. Without Chrsit EVERY CULTURE WILL FAIL. IN CHRIST every Culture will succeed.

           

Nancy Pelosi Calls Hamas A 'Humanitarian Organization'

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the United States must look to Qatar, an ally of the terrorist group Hamas and arch enemy of Israel, for advice in resolving the Gaza-Israeli conflict.

"And we have to confer with the Qataris, who have told me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization," she told CNN's "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley.

As CNSNews.com reported last week, Qatar is a strong supporter and funder of Hamas. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal operates from Qatar, and has so far rejected ceasefire proposals put forward by Egypt and promoted by Secretary of State John Kerry. The U.S government designated Hamas as a “foreign terrorist organization” in 1997. Its founding charter calls for Jews to be killed and says all Muslims are duty-bound to join a jihad to destroy Israel.

President Obama found numerous ways to make the United States less relevant in the last six years, but he came up with a new one in his misbegotten foray into the Gaza war: He’s so wrong that even Israel feels it’s safe to ignore him. 

The decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject Obama’s pressure for a unilateral cease-fire and instead widen the campaign against Hamas reflects a new low in the Obama presidency. More important, it is impossible to argue with Netanyahu’s decision. The terror threat is so grave that Israeli military leaders, bolstered by strong public support, believe they can’t return to business-as-usual. They aim to deliver a knockout punch to the rocket arsenal and the tunnel network to make sure Hamas doesn’t emerge intact and ready for another war.

Source: CNS News

Liberal Media Lies About Hamas

The liberal media won't tell you the truth about Hamas and “terror theater”

From Dr. Mike Evans:
The wars of the 21st century have a new and very powerful element—the media. One of the major sponsors of Hamas and its terrorist activities is Qatar. The oil-rich state is pouring millions of dollars into Hamas's coffers for weapons and equipment. In return, Hamas is furnishing Al Jazeera, a satellite television network owned by the ruling family of Qatar, with videos showing children killed and injured in what they claim are Israeli attacks.

In effect, they are creating “terror theater,” fighting not on the battlefield, but in the broadcast news. Millions of people around the world turn to Al Jazeera for news, and they are being fed a steady diet of pro-Hamas propaganda. Hamas intentionally fires at Israeli forces from schools and hospitals and mosques in hopes that return fire will kill civilians so they can get more footage to show on Al Jazeera. It is a depraved disregard for human life, and it is demonic. We must fight against these evil forces in the spirit realm. And we must help in the physical realm as well.

This is a critical moment for the Jewish people, and they urgently need our help right now. First, they need our prayers. This is a spiritual battle—a struggle between the forces of light and darkness, and we must fight it in the spirit realm. Second, they our need help. The economic disruption and suffering from day after day of constant attacks is huge, and many Jewish people are struggling to get by.

We are running advertisements in Israeli media offering help to Holocaust survivors and the elderly with basic food and medicines that they need. The government is overwhelmed with the needs. We are receiving hundreds of calls for help—and our funds are running low. If you can help today it would be such a precious gift to the Jewish people. Thank you for standing with us and with them in this crucial hour.

UN Aiding And Abetting Hamas

Hamas Using UNWRA Schools to Kill IDF Soldiers

The United Nations is unequivocally guilty of aiding and abetting Hamas and therefore bears significant responsibility for the death innocent Israelis and Gazans. The three IDF soldiers who were killed on Wednesday in Gaza, were killed when explosives detonated within a booby-trapped UN building in Khan Younis, Breitbart reports. An elite IDF tunnel unit was in the process of uncovering an opening to a Hamas tunnel located at an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) health clinic when all of a sudden the explosives detonated, causing the entirety of the building to fall on top of the soldiers.

Neither the UN nor UNRWA have commented on the incident that resulted in the deaths of three Israeli soldiers, according to Breitbart. The IDF has previously provided video evidence that Hamas fires rockets from inside schools and it is also known that Hamas has also been using UNRWA schools as storage sites for its rockets. For the third time in recent days, such a stockpile was discovered in a UN school Tuesday.

After the first finding of rockets at an UNRWA school, it was reported that rather than destroying the rockets, UNRWA workers called Hamas to come remove them. While it would not comment on the deaths of the three soldiers, UNRWA was quick to place blame on Israel for a rocket strike on one of their schools in Gaza. The UN agency also immediately blamed Israel for a strike on Gaza’s Shifa hospital, resulting in the deaths of over a dozen Gazans.

It was later revealed that in all likelihood, a misfired Hamas Fajr-5 Iranian-made 100kg warhead destined for Israel had struck the hospital. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said Wednesday that UNRWA has continued to hand the missiles back to Hamas, “endangering and jeopardizing Israeli lives.” “Instead of blaming and condemning Israel, UNRWA should make a real effort to stop being manipulated and used by the terrorist organizations,” he said, according to Breitbart.

Source: Arutz Sheva

My comments: Today, it is Israel against the World, the UN being a primary representative of the godless World. Why is this? Because the Whole Godless World is ruled by Satan [John 5:19] and Israel represents a PROMISE from God Almighty that she will REMAIN FOREVER! Islam has a Satanic HATRED of Israel because Israel represents the God of Chrsit Jesus, and this HATRED will not end until Chrsit Jesus returns..

The Lord Is A Jealous And Avenging God

This is a reality of God

That is virtually absent from the hearts and minds

Of most Christians today.

We must understand that God Almighty is the defender of His Holiness;

The Defender of His Creation; the Defender of His People.

Evil and wickedness will not long last on the earth He created.

What is Evil and Wicked?

Everyone and every Nation that Disobeys His Word.

In the End, the Millennium, the Thousand Years of Rest,

ALL Evil and Wickedness are removed from the earth.

The Lord raises up Nations and tears them down

Based on their obedience to Him. (Psa. 29:10; 75:7; Dan. 2:21)

Today, America is in Overt Disobedience to God Almighty,

Because of this her days are numbered.

The Prophet Nahum speaks about the Jealous and Avenging nature of God:

The Lord is Jealous and Avenging God;

The Lord takes Vengeance and is filled with Wrath against His Enemies.

The Lord is slow to anger and Great in Power [His Power is Infinite];

THE LORD WILL NOT LEAVE THE GUILTY UNPUNISHED.

His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,

And the clouds are the dust of His feet.

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry.

Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

The mountains quake before Him and the hills melt away.

The earth trembles at His Presence,

THE WORLD AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT.

Who can withstand His indignation?

Who can endure His fierce anger?

HIS WRATH IS POURED OUT LIKE FIRE;

The rocks are shattered before Him.

THE LORD IS GOOD, a Refuge in times of trouble.

He cares for those who Trust in Him,

But with an OVERWHELMING FLOOD

He will make an END of Nineveh [or any one of His Enemies];

He will purse His Foes into darkness.

WHATEVER THEY PLOT AGAINST THE LORD HE WILL BRING TO AN END;

Trouble will not come a second time.

They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine;

They will be consumed like dry stubble.

From you, O Nineveh [all who stand against the Lord]

Has one come forth who plots Evil against the Lord

[President Obama and the Democrat Party]

And counsels wickedness.

[America with its Abortion Murder--Persecution of Christians--

Its Indoctrination of children and young people into godlessness]

THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS:

'Although they are unscathed and numerous,

They will be cut down and pass away.

Although I have afflicted you, O Judah,

I will afflict you no more.

Now I will break their Yoke from your neck

And tear your shackles away.'

The Lord has given a Command concerning you, Nineveh:

'You will have no descendants to bear your name.

[The unrighteous, the enemies of God, will have no descendants]

I will destroy the carved images and cast idols

That are in the temple of your gods.

[In the End, all of America's Idols will be torn down]

I will prepare your grave, for you are VILE.'

Look, there on the mountains,

The feet of One [Christ] who brings GOOD NEWS,

Who proclaims PEACE!

Celebrate your festivals, O Judah, and fulfill your vows.

NO MORE WILL THE WICKED INVADE YOU;

THEY WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.

[This is God's PROMISE to Israel

That will be put into effect at the return of Christ Jesus]

Christians in America must understand that the Evil and Wickedness

Being Perpetrated by the godless in America today,

WILL NOT LAST.

The Perpetrators ARE DOOMED! As is all godlessness.

God Almighty is Jealous and Avenging God; ALL POWERFUL,

AND HE HATES THAT WHICH IS EVIL AND WICKED,

AND HE WILL BRING IT TO AND END!

Today, the World is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

This World in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!

Jesus, Today's Church, And "Inequality"

Jack Kerwick | Jul 30, 2014 - Townhall

That Jesus commanded His disciples—of which I am one—to love “the poor” is beyond dispute. Equally beyond dispute, however, is that, regardless of what growing legions of left-leaning clerics would have us believe, Jesus never—never ever—addressed the issue of “inequality.”

The head of my church and the most visible religious leader on the world stage today, Pope Francis, is as guilty a culprit as is anyone on this score. The Pope made headlines on more than a few occasions since his tenure began when His Holiness condemned “inequality” generally, and the traditional American economic system in particular, with a bluntness that would have made Barack Hussein Obama blush.

Ours is “an economy of exclusion and inequality,” Pope Francis insisted. Our system of “inequality” both results from and encourages “laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless.” Thus, “masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”

Worse, the Pope informs us, our “capitalist” system with its “inequality” violates the divine injunction against “killing,” for “such an economy kills” (emphasis added).

Pope Francis may be the most well known Christian leader to conflate Jesus’ teachings on the proper treatment of the poor with the issue of income and wealth “inequalities.” But he speaks for countless lesser known representatives of Christianity.

Take Norma Cook Everist, a professor of church and ministry. In an article that she penned for The Lutheran, Everist insists that things haven’t changed a lick since Martin Luther said that “the poor” are routinely “defrauded” by “the rich.”

“Inequality,” Everist remarks, divides the world into “makers” and “takers” while fostering the godless fiction that some people, and even “some children,” are “worth more” than others, and that some, “the poor,” are of “‘of no worth’[.]”

The project of reducing the Gospel to an activist’s manual on addressing “inequality” is fraught with difficulties.

First, as already noted, it is simply dishonest: there is no basis, Biblical or otherwise, for equating an obligation to care for the poor with an obligation to endorse political policies ostensibly aimed at reducing “inequalities” in income and wealth. Decent minded people of all faiths and no faith have long recognized the need to care for those in poverty, and Christians specifically have always been acutely aware of this as a moral imperative.

But it hasn’t been until the emergence of large, centralized governments, immensely affluent, industrialized societies, and the dominance of secular, egalitarian ideologies—i.e. phenomena that don’t appear until relatively late in Christian history—that anyone, much less any Christian cleric, has thought to identify compassion for the poor with the amelioration of “inequalities.”

Second, even the tireless emphasis that pastors place upon Jesus’ relationship with “the poor” is less than fully honest, for it is grounded in a selective reading of the New Testament.

“The poor” is as ambiguous as it is emotionally-charged a term. Most of the people among whom Jesus spent His time were certainly not rich by the standards of their day, and some of them did indeed live in grinding poverty. While it’s true that there was no “middle class,” it’s equally true that just because the tax collectors, farmers, fishermen, carpenters and so forth with whom He appears to have fraternized were not rich, neither were they all impoverished.

That today’s clerics fail to make these discriminations between those to whom Jesus ministered by referring to them all as “the poor” reflects their awareness of the emotional and moral appeal of this moniker. After all, “the poor” are, well, poor: only the heartless could fail to feel for them. And “the poor” also lends those so designated moral authority, for being the victims of their circumstances, “the poor” are always blameless.

Third, this exclusive stress on Jesus’ fondness for “the poor,” whether by accident or design, conveys the impression that He was exclusively fond of “the poor,” a respecter of persons by virtue of their socio-economic condition—exactly what the Bible insists God is not.

This notion, in turn, further underscores a sense of moral superiority among “the poor” by fueling it with the fiction that their poverty is a saving grace. “The poor,” in other words, can too easily think that it is they, not “the rich,” that count for more in God’s eyes.

Some observers, like the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, thought that this, in fact, was the whole purpose behind Christianity. In referring to it as a “slave morality,” Nietzsche’s point is that it serves, and was always meant to serve, the psychological and emotional interests of the poor masses, namely their interest in exacting a sort of imaginary vengeance against the wealthy by demonizing them while insisting upon their own “blessedness.”

Admittedly, Nietzsche was an enemy of Christianity. But he became an enemy after having been raised Christian by his Lutheran minister father. In any event, one needn’t accept Nietzsche’s reading of Christianity—I do not—in order to see that those Christian leaders who use their pulpits to blast “inequality” lend it considerable plausibility.

Finally, Jesus excoriated “the rich,” yes; but He was no less hard on “the poor,” including and particularly His closest followers. Conversely, sometimes Jesus lavished praise upon “the rich.”

For 2,000 years, whether rightly or wrongly, Christendom’s worst villain has been, not the rich and famous Herod, Pilate, or Nero, but Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ closest disciples and a “poor” man who relinquished what possessions he may have had in order to follow Him. Moreover, Jesus regularly castigated his “poor” disciples for their lack of faith, and, sometimes, compared them unfavorably with wealthy Gentiles, like the Roman Centurion whose servant Jesus healed.

Moreover, it is worth noting that besides Himself, the greatest example of Christian charity that Jesus extolled is that of the Good Samaritan, a rich man who deployed some of his ample resources to help a stranger in need.

We also shouldn’t forget that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were rich members of the priestly class with whom Jesus must’ve been particularly close, for not only did they attempt to prevail upon their fellow Pharisees to refrain from turning Jesus over to the Romans. Following Jesus’ crucifixion, both prepared His body for burial in the tomb that Joseph secured for Him.

All of this can be found easily enough in the four canonical Gospels which are read in Christian churches throughout the world every Sunday. That these points are neglected by so many ministers is due, I submit, to their obsession with combating, not poverty, but “inequalities” in income and wealth—a topic, this Christian has been at pains to show, having nothing to do with either the whole of the Bible or The New Testament.

My Comments: Heretics are multiplying today, distorting the gospel as the writer of this article amply demonstrates. The Pope is one of these. Satan Masquerades as an angel of light, but that so called "light," may well be a distortion of the Word of God as it is in this case of so called "inequality." Christ's sheep hear His Voice and will not follow the voice of another. (John 10:27-28)  

Obama's Immigration Moves Could Be Unstoppable

Barack Obama's immigration moves could be unstoppable

POLITICO

Even if President Barack Obama tests the bounds of his presidential power with the big, unilateral moves he’s promising on immigration, there may be no way to stop him.

Lawyers are debating the legality of a series of immigration-related executive actions the White House is reportedly considering, but there’s broad agreement suing the president isn’t likely to work

“The court route: I don’t see it,” said Jan Ting, a top immigration official under President George H.W. Bush who opposes Obama’s expected moves.

Legal experts see any challenge to the expected immigration policy changes headed for the same key roadblock facing House Speaker John Boehner’s planned suit over Obamacare implementation delays: finding a way to show the injury needed to press a case in the federal courts.

(Also on POLITICO: Moms winning the Common Core war)

“There isn’t really anyone who would be in a position to complain,” said Hiroshi Motomura, a University of California at Los Angeles law professor who favors several of the options Obama is considering.

The lack of a clear path to challenge the president’s expected moves to give more illegal immigrants work permits and relief from deportation seems certain to fuel howls from Obama critics that he’s as much an imperial president as his predecessor — who was often criticized by Obama and other Democrats for overflexing his presidential muscle.

Responding to inaction in the House on immigration reform, Obama has signaled to immigrants’ rights advocates that he plans to take significant new executive actions next month to overhaul the immigration system. They could range from reordering the priority list of deportation cases to dramatically expanding the “deferred action” program he initiated in 2012, which allows immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children to apply for a two-year deportation reprieve.

That could mean allowing millions of family members of so-called DREAM-ers to get work permits, or perhaps allowing giving work permits to even broader groups, such as undocumented immigrant parents of U.S. citizens or virtually everyone who’s not considered a high priority to deport.

(Also on POLITICO: The knock-down, drag out fight that led to a VA deal)

“This notion of extending DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] to parents, who were the ones who consciously violated the law, strikes me as ridiculous,” said Ting, now a law professor at Temple University. Obama “has defaulted on his constitutional obligation to faithfully execute the laws.”

However, other experts say most lawyers in the field believe Obama has few restrictions on his ability to decide how and when the U.S. deports immigrants.

“There is, I think, a general consensus that his authority to take executive action is fairly wide as long as it is based on executive branch authority to use prosecutorial discretion to decide how people are treated who are subject to deportation,” said Doris Meissner, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner under President Bill Clinton.

“He’s got a continuum of options from a fairly narrow reworking of deportation priorities all the way to a new program of some kind that would allow more numbers of people to apply for work permits of some kind,” she added.

What Obama has done so far on immigration and what he’s likely to do in the future can be justified on the theory of prosecutorial discretion, the long-standing executive branch power to decide in which cases the law should be enforced, Motomura said.

“We have a system that runs on discretion. There are 11 million people in the country who in theory are not supposed to be here. Congress has funded the capability to deport maybe half a million people a year,” the professor said.

Motomura, author of “Immigration: Outside the Law,” said he sees no legal bar to expanding the deferred action program. “He could expand it to people who are closely related to those people who have been standing in line to be approved,” the professor said.

But Motomura said that doesn’t mean Obama has a completely open path — nor are there indications the president will attempt to break those boundaries.

(Also on POLITICO: Ex-Im official pleads Fifth)

“I think there are real constraints on him,” Motomura said. “He cannot give people a permanent immigration status. He cannot give people green cards. He cannot bypass the process … He cannot give people a path to citizenship.”

Some Republicans feel the president doesn’t have as much leeway as immigrant rights groups suggest.

“If the President may constitutionally permit fifteen per cent of the Nation’s illegal immigrant population to remain in the United States without fear of removal, why may he not do the same for fifty per cent of that population, or for all of it?” George W. Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Robert Delahunty wrote after Obama unveiled DACA in 2012.

“The failure of an agency to perform its ordinary enforcement duties may be so unreasonable that it may be considered unconstitutional, notwithstanding limitations on its resources. The Constitution confers no express or implied power or authority not to enforce the laws.”

Boehner has complained publicly that Obama’s unilateral moves on immigration are part of a pattern of the president disregarding his legal duties. “This is about him faithfully executing the laws of our country,” Boehner said last month as he announced House plans to file a lawsuit against Obama over alleged executive power overreaches.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/barack-obama-immigration-legal-questions-109467.html#ixzz38y4w0z1X

My comments: America now has a DICTATOR, Obama. The will of the people and of the Congress has become IRRELEVANT! This is a TRAVESTY of monumental proportions. America is NO LONGER America as Founded. The Constitution is IRRELEVANT. Obama can do as he pleases. He may well complete his "TRANSFORMATION" of America into a godless, Secular Humanist, Socialist, State.

Children Dig Hamas Tunnels

A Palestinian boy takes part in a military-style summer camp being held by the Islamic Jihad movement during the youth summer school vacation in Rafah town, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2013.

From Dr. Mike Evans:
In a paper called Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel’s Siege, Nicolas Pelham recounts his trip to Gaza in 2011. During his visit, Hamas officials showed him some of the tunnels they had dug—and he was shocked to see children and teenagers being used to dig the tunnels. Pelham reported, “Nothing was done to impede the use of children in the tunnels, where, much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies.” Tragically, according to his report (and this was nearly three years ago) Hamas admitted that at least 160 of these children had died in digging their terror tunnels.

What a heartbreaking, tragic report! Our leaders are pushing Israel to make peace with monsters who willingly sacrifice the lives of their own children so they can kill more Jews. It is an outrage. We must cry out, sounding the trumpet in Zion, urging others to join us in support of Israel. And we must do all that we can to help the Jewish people in these difficult days.

We are running advertisements in Israeli media offering help to Holocaust survivors and the elderly with basic food and medicines that they need. The government is overwhelmed with the needs. We are receiving hundreds of calls for help—and our funds are running low. If you can help today it would be such a precious gift to the Jewish people. Thank you for standing with us and with them in this crucial hour.

With the growing level of violence, our support for the Jewish people today is more important than ever—and we need your help to support the work of the Jerusalem Prayer Team and our outreaches to meet the needs of the poor and show the meaning of true Christian love with the Friends of Zion Heritage Center.

SURPRISE: New York State Has Begun Gun Confiscation (video)

SURPRISE: New York State Has Begun Gun Confiscation (video)

CARSON: Rudderless U.S. foreign policy - Washington Times

CARSON: Rudderless U.S. foreign policy - Washington Times

My comments: America is BROKE. A Broke America is a weak America. Our Military depends on continuing financial support. It is God Almighty Who gives grants Prosperity, but only to a nation that honors Him. America is currently in Overt Defiance of God, His Christ Jesus, His word, His Covenant and His Commandments. such a Nation is under the CURSE of Deuteronomy 28, and is defenseless. 

The Power That Raised Christ From the Dead

Dynamo! – by Abby Kelly

"This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 1:20

Sooner or later, you're going to face a day when you just don't think you can make it--everybody does. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by loneliness, stress, anger, hurt or fear. It doesn't matter what it is, it just seems like God has given you too much to handle. Maybe He has. 

First Corinthians 10:13 says, "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." 

The phrase, "so that you are able", is actually one Greek word: dynamo. This word means: to be capable, strong and powerful whether by one's own power or resources. We may not feel strong, capable or powerful and really, we're not. But, we do have the best resources. Ephesians 1:19-20 tells us what these are, "I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms."

The same power that brought Jesus out of the grave is God's power for you and me. Because nothing is impossible with God, we can overcome anything!

The Democrats Are Financial Criminals

The Definition of Criminal from Google:

crim·i·nal

ˈkrimənl/

noun

1. 1.
   a person who has committed a crime.
   "these men are dangerous criminals"

synonyms:

lawbreaker, offender, villain, delinquent, felon, convict, malefactor,wrongdoer, culprit, miscreant; thief, burglar, robber, armed robber, gunman, gangster, terrorist; informalcrook, con, jailbird, hood, yardbird, perp;  malfeasant "a convicted criminal"

How are the Democrats Criminals?

By spending what they do not have to spend, what is not theirs to spend,

Thereby “stealing from subsequent generations.”

Senator John McCain called it “generational theft.”

In doing so they demonstrate that they are disciples of Satan

Who came to Steal, Kill and Destroy. (John 10:10)

They are also Abortion Murderers and Persecutors of Christians,

Persecutors of Christ Jesus Himself.

All of which are attributes of disciples of Satan.

Are the Republicans also responsible for this criminal behavior?

Yes, to the extent that they have gone along with it or supported it.

What will the outcome of this Criminality be?

The DESTRUCTION of America.

America is currently on the WIDE ROAD TO DESTRUCTION.

Understand the the Democrats and all like them; all who support them,

Are godless, Secular Humanists;

They are in overt DEFIANCE of God, His Christ Jesus, His Word,

His Covenant and His Commandments.

What is the Penalty of Defiance of God Almighty?

The CURSES listed in Deuteronomy 28.

Understand the the spirit that motivates these Democrats

And all godless, Secular Humanists is the spirit of Satan

And his bride, Babylon.

What does the Lord Jesus Christ say to His People about Babylon?

'Come out of her, My People, so that you will not share in her SINS,

So that you will not receive any of her Plagues;

For her SINS are PILED UP TO HEAVEN,

And God has remembered her CRIMES.

Give back to her as she has given;

Pay her back double for what has done.

Mix her a double portion form her own cup.

Give her as much torture and grief

As the glory and luxury she gave herself.

In her heart she boasts, 'I sit as Queen;

I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.'

Therefore IN ONE DAY her Plagues will overtake her:

Death, Mourning and Famine.

She will be consumed by Fire.

For Mighty is the Lord God Who judges her. (Revelation 18:4-8)

Understand that the Democrats Criminality,

In this case their spending what is not theirs to spend,

Will place them in the arms of the Antichrist, the son of Satan,

Who will tell them that he has the answer to their problem, his “mark.”

If they will simply receive his “mark” as their CURRENCY

HE WILL WIPE OUT ALL THEIR DEBT.

Such a deal! Hell widens its mouth to receive them. (Isaiah 5:14)

The Democrats and all the godless, Secular Humanists

Will accept this “deal” from the son of Satan, the Antichrist.

They will REFUSE to turn to God in REPENTANCE,

And so this will be the only “deal” available to them.

This is the TRAP the Democrats and all the godless, Secular Humanists

Are setting themselves up for at this time.

They are Criminals, Thieves, and HATE Christ Jesus and all who follow Him.

So they will FALL INTO THE DITCH, THE TRAP Satan has prepared for them.

I pray that those who read this message are among those

Who heed the warning of Christ Jesus, to come out of Babylon--

Out of the heart-set and mind-set of the World ruled by Satan.

Is this a Political matter? No, it is entirely Spiritual.

Today, the World is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

This World in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!

Christianity in Middle East 'Shadow Of Its Former Self'

Report: Christianity in Middle East 'Shadow of Its Former Self'

Monday, 28 Jul 2014 03:48 PM

By Newsmax Wires

More members of religious communities around the world were forced to flee their homes last year than at any time in recent memory, the United States said on Monday, in its annual report on religious freedom.
"In almost every corner of the globe, millions of Christians, Muslims, Hindus and others representing a range of faiths were forced from their homes on account of their religious beliefs," the report said.

The report said that in much of the Middle East, the Christian presence is becoming "a shadow of its former self." Hundreds of thousands of minority Christians have fled Syria after three years of civil war.

"In the city of Homs the number of Christians dwindled to as few as 1,000 from approximately 160,000 prior to the conflict," according to the report.
In the Central African Republic, lawlessness and sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims had reportedly resulted in 700 deaths in December alone and the displacement of more than a million people in 2013.

The report also highlighted anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar that led to up to 100 deaths and 12,000 being forced from their homes in the area of the town of Meiktila in early 2013.
Click here to download the State Dept. International Religious Freedom Report
It said organized hate-speech and harassment of Muslims continued and Buddhist-Muslim rivalry was often exploited for political gain.
The report also pointed to sectarian violence in Pakistan, which had killed more than 400 Shi'ite Muslims and 80 Christians were killed in a church bombing.

In China, seven Christians were sentenced lengthy prison terms for recording and copying sermons. The report also noted China's prosecution of relatives of people who had set themselves on fire in religious protests.

In Egypt, churches and Christian-owned homes and businesses were raided and looted.

"Islamist-led mobs carried out acts of violence, intimidation, compelled expulsions, and punishment against Christians," the report said. 
At least 42 churches, schools, orphanages, and other Christian-affiliated organizations were attacked.

"The violence resulted in the looting and destruction of at least 37 churches and the deaths of at least six Christians who were targeted because of their religious identity," according to the report.

Attacks on religion were not confined to the developing world, the report said, with anti-Semitism throughout Europe evidenced in Internet fora and in soccer stadiums "leading many individuals who are Jewish to conceal their religious identity."

The report focuses on 2013, but attacks against Christians and other religious groups continues in 2014.

The BBC reported this month that Islamist militants have threatened Iraqi Christians with death by "the sword" unless they accept Islam or pay a protection fee.

And in Sudan, a Christian woman was sentenced to death for not recanting her faith. She has since been allowed to leave the country and last week had an audience with Pope Francis.
The report also said that there were instances in which people of different faiths had worked together to protect each other.

An increase in mosque attacks in Britain had led an orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch team to help Muslim leaders protect mosques, the report said.

Other such interfaith solidarity included Muslims helping to protect Christians by forming human chains around churches in Pakistan and similar actions by Muslims in Egypt.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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My comments: All the above, taken together, makes me think Satan is making his move. He is getting ready to introduce the World to his son, the Antichrist the "savior" of the World.