Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!

Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!

Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

WE'RE SICK OF IT': BUSINESSES REFUSE TO PAY TAXES AFTER POLICE DEFUNDED

'We're sick of it': Businesses refuse to pay taxes after police defunded

Companies urge city: 'Please do your job so we can get back to doing ours'

By Bob Unruh
Published June 9, 2021 at 11:25am

Baltimore at night (Image by Bruce Emmerling from Pixabay)

Business owners in one Baltimore district are staging a "tea party" with their taxes because of the city's recent moves to defund police and refuse to provide basic services such as trash collection.

Dozens of business operators in the city's Fell's Point district have written to Mayor Brandon Scott, council members and others warning that "the chaos and lawlessness that escalated this weekend into another night of tragic, unspeakable gun violence" is unacceptable.

"Our elected leaders have closed their eyes and ears and turned their backs on our community for long enough," they said in their letter.

"We are fed up and frustrated, and we now realize that nothing will change unless we demand action.

"To compel our leaders to do their job and to stand up for neighborhoods all across Baltimore, the undersigned parties are prepared to withhold our city taxes and minor privilege and permit fees and place those funds into an escrow account, which we will not release until and unless basic and essential municipal services are restored."

They list a failure to "pick up the trash."

It piles up and "attracts rodents and fosters disease," among other things, they say. "We're sick of it."

(Image by Bruce Emmerling from Pixabay)

And they want traffic and parking laws enforced, and "open-air alcohol and drug sales" shut down.

Is mass refusal to pay taxes a good way to prompt government to do its job?

"There are individual vendors in Fell's Point illegally selling large volumes of alcohol, marijuana, and a range of other illicit substances directly in front of our establishments with no consequences," they explain.

And finally, "empower police to responsibly do their job."

"On top of everything else, some of our employees are now scared, and we are scared for our employees.

In a city with organized crime and soaring gun violence, we appreciate the extraordinary demands on our police. Our officers cannot and should not use the power of arrest to address every situation.

At the same time, police cannot be directed to ignore manifest lawlessness that happens right before their eyes.

When it comes to prostitution, public urination and defecation, and the illegal sale and consumption of alcohol and illicit drugs on the streets, we know these crimes are not as serious as the carjackings, shootings, and homicides that have become routine.

But, as this past weekend proved, a culture of lawlessness rarely remains confined to petty offenses and invariably leads to the kinds of violence and tragedy we witnessed late Saturday night," they wrote.

Among other issues, three men were shot in the Fell's Point district on just that one night.

The business owners explained, "Frankly, it is pathetic that we have to beg for these basics. But this is where we are."

"Please do your job so we can get back to doing ours," they wrote.

WBAL reported the mayor responded with a statement from his office, expressing that he shares the business owners' "frustrations over the violence across the city. "He said he'd ordered city workers to "address it."

"Call it the Baltimore Tea Party," explained PJ Media.

"The last thing Baltimore needed was to have its police defunded.

But the mayor and city council followed the far-left activist agitators off that cliff in 2020, and homicide in Harm City shot up," the report said.

"City officials are hired by voters to do their jobs.

Businesses pay taxes to fund the city’s provision of services.

But if the city is failing in its most fundamental duties, it doesn’t deserve the taxes.

The business leaders can better spend that money on security and other services they can depend on, or something else.

The city’s failure can’t and won’t go without some reaction," PJ Media reported.

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