Christ Jesus prayed that all those who would believe in Him would be ONE, just as He and the Father are ONE; that they be brought to complete unity so that the world would know that He was sent by the Father. (John 17:20-23)
(CNSNews.com) - President Biden on Tuesday took credit for the supposed strength of the U.S. economy -- "the strongest economic recovery in the world," he called it. But he also said don't blame him for the "painful" spike in gasoline prices.
Higher gasoline prices are a global problem," Biden said.
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It's time, dear readers, to venture into the forbidden territory of what some people claim is a conspiracy theory and examine the possibility that our government, especially the current administration, is deliberately bringing down America.
To bolster this premise, consider the following articles:
I could list endless more examples, but I'm limited to 1,000 words in this column. Besides, you get the idea.
What is the result of these current and proposed policies? Hyperinflation.
Completely open borders.
Vast numbers of fully qualified people forced out of their jobs and more dependent on government to survive.
Supply-chain shortages. Food shortages. Gas shortages. Energy shortages.
A younger generation so indoctrinated in Marxist philosophy that they're unable to see beyond it.
Parents cowed into submission, too terrified to speak out against the indoctrination.
Horrific race relations.
Conservatives blacklisted and silenced.
A military too weak to defend us and – possibly – that could be used against us.
Now tell me, do these actions seem random or accidental to you? Does the government want to bring down this nation?
Evidently, yes. Talk-show host Dan Bongino said, "Explain to me with a straight face how what I just told you about the economy, inflation and the border, how a sane person would say, yes, this is good for a prosperous county.
You can't. There's not a single soul in this room who can explain to me why that would make sense that this was not deliberate and intentional."
Black conservative commentator Emery McClendon noted, "Why would President Biden want to increase the misery of people already trying to keep up with the inflation he caused?"
Some believe these tactics are part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which "seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse."
Or, as one Twitter poster put it, "I'm not saying they're intentionally trying to shut down small businesses, destroy the middle class, transfer the majority of the world's wealth to the world's largest corporations, and divide us with fear and hatred.
But if they were, what would they be doing differently?"
On the subject of shutting down energy pipelines in the middle of an energy crisis as well as printing trillions of dollars out of thin air, Tucker Carlson notes:
"The most galling part of all of it is none of this is an accident. … Crush the middle class with completely out-of-country energy costs. … [And when trillions of newly printed dollars are dumped into the system], that new money dilutes the value of every existing dollar. … That's called inflation. Can it go on forever? Well, there's a limit to how long any government can do this.
At some point – maybe sooner than you think – the currency collapses. The Build Back Better people will have wrecked the U.S. dollar. And that will be their crowning achievement."
Crowning achievement, indeed. In other words, orchestrated.
Firebrand columnist Wayne Allyn Root points out how the vaccine mandates are part of the Cloward Piven strategy to transform America from a capitalist to a communist nation.
"These COVID-19 vaccine mandates are destroying the country, creating chaos, crisis and division," he writes.
"They are wiping out the ranks of the police, fire, paramedics, nurses, prison guards, border patrol and military.
Our middle class is being ripped to shreds.
These front line heroes and defenders don't want this dangerous, experimental, for-emergency-use-only jab.
There will soon be no one to answer your 911 call.
The police will be defunded – without voters ever getting a vote."
Whether or not you believe this is a deliberate tactic to destroy America, you must admit – America is being destroyed.
"From an economic standpoint," notes Michael Snyder, "this new mandate is going to be absolutely disastrous.
We are already in the midst of the worst worker shortage in all of U.S. history, and we are currently dealing with a supply chain crisis of epic proportions.
Forcing millions of Americans out of their jobs right in the middle of the upcoming winter will take both the worker shortage and the supply chain crisis to entirely new levels. … But Biden is going to do it anyway."
Tucker agrees: "From an ideologue's perspective, destruction is the whole point."
The final questions to ask are these: To what end? If the collapse of America is orchestrated, who wins? What happens next?
And finally, is the current administration orchestrating a collapse of America, or is that just a whack-doodle conspiracy theory? You decide.
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We live in age that could be characterized by one thing – LAWLESSNESS.
Need some examples?
Darrell Brooks is the suspect in the Waukesha Christmas Parade incident. The Milwaukee man has been charged with crimes 10 times since 1999.
The driver suspected of plowing through the Waukesha parade Sunday – killing six people and injuring nearly 50 others – had an ongoing domestic violence case and was out of custody after prosecutors recommended an "inappropriately low" bail in the case, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
The six counts of first-degree intentional homicide would carry a penalty of mandatory life in prison.
More of the victims may die of injuries sustained in the mayhem he fomented that day, but the initial victims were Virginia Sorenson, 79, LeAnna Owen, 71, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Kulich, 52, and Wilhelm Hospel, 81. The sixth victim was a child.
Some of the dead were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a group of grandmothers who perform dance routines for parades and festivals.
Sunday's attack was not the first time Brooks has been accused of running a person over with a vehicle. In an early November case, a woman told police that Brooks purposefully ran her "over with his vehicle" while she was walking through a gas station parking lot after he had followed her there after a fight, according to the criminal complaint.
The woman was hospitalized for her injuries, court records show.
Brooks was released from jail by posting only $1,000 bond on Nov. 11. He also was charged in July 2020 with two felony counts of second-degree recklessly endangering the safety of others using a dangerous weapon.
We see horrific acts of lawlessness all around the world. But think about how this manifests itself virtually every day … in America, the land of the free the home of the brave. I don't even recognize our country any more.
Think how Joe Biden ignores the laws he doesn't like as he does when he ignores duly passed immigration laws to defend the borders of the U.S.?
He must be the largest human trafficker in human history by now. Think of how he has mandated vaccinations in violation of the laws of the land.
Think of how he has kept those without charges or misdemeanor accounts in solitary confinement for months because they were led into the Capitol on Jan. 6 by undercover police.
Think of how so many Democrats advocate "defunding the police."
Think of how Biden broke the tradition of not leaving American citizens behind after a conflict, in Afghanistan – and, at the same time, transferred Afghans to the U.S., taking no precautions to determine their qualifications and worthiness.
What is the endgame of those actions?
It's LAWLESSNESS!
And it's not usual in the history of mankind.
For centuries now we have been ignoring the law – both the law established under the men who founded this country and the Commandments established by God for the welfare of mankind.
It couldn't be clearer.
God told us that there were a set of rules, that if followed, would lead to LIFE. Whereas there were some acts that were sure to lead to DEATH.
Deuteronomy 30:15 makes it plain:
"See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;"
Deuteronomy 30:19 underlines it:
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
It's rather simple. And the Commandments – as well as the founding laws based on it – are not grievous.
It's called the Torah, God's law for anyone who would hear it and obey.
But today we have become wise in our own eyes.
Not only do we disobey the laws of land, but the laws of God as well.
In John 5:24, Jesus repeated this simple Commandment so we would not forget – and turn away, or repent, of our sins.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life,"He said.
It's the same message today.
Are we going to follow our Savior, or are we going to follow the counterfeit, the Anti-Christ, the deceiver of men – also known as "the man of LAWLESSNESS"?
We've got a choice – very simple.
We've always had it.
It's still the same.
It's been the same message from the end to the beginning and from the beginning to the end.
It couldn't be clearer.
Choose life and not death – and "work out your salvation with fear and trembling."
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I must confess: It was harder this year than most, but I did find something to be thankful for: God still wants America back. In support of this bold claim, here is a brief summary of the Prodigal Son narrative:
A man has two sons, one older who has helped him faithfully over the years, and one younger, who wants his share of the inheritance now, so he can go it alone. Their father complies. The younger son wastes everything, and returns in shame to his father, asking only that he be treated as a hired hand. His father restores him and treats him like royalty; the older son is angered. (Luke 15:11-32)
I guess when you are as big as God, nations may seem like children, and more often than not, wayward children. Our modern era is much the same as prior modern eras. One can summarize it by the childhood playground words the adult monitor hears just before disaster strikes: "Hey, look at me!"
Given God's size relative to us, why wouldn't He look at nations as wayward children? I know, I know, the bigger nations have satellites, their own space junk and maybe even frozen aliens in unheated cages orbiting the Earth.
"We're not children anymore!" the nations cry out, shaking their weaponized fists in God's face. Indeed, many today are adding, "We're in charge now! The Earth belongs to us!"
Is it just me, or is there an echo in the spiritual realm that sounds a lot like, "Hold my beer!" The world has been here before. The Tower of Babel. Noah and the flood. Israel's Red Sea moment with Egypt. The Assyrian army in Israel's backyard, where 185,000 soldiers were killed overnight by one death angel.
God has dealt with it before, and he will deal with it now. That's what He does. He's the final authority, the righteous judge; the One from whom there is no appeal. The One from whose judgments there is no escape.
During this modern era, the bulk of our churches have scaled God down to a personal-assistant level. They teach, if not overtly, that today God only acts on a personal level among his people. An old "Veggie Tales" song went like this, "God is bigger than the boogie man and he's watching out for you and me."
That's true. But it may have caused us to lose sight that with God, there is always a bigger picture. God has also been watching Satan's latest plot to take control of humanity unfold for decades now, perhaps even centuries.
Worldwide encounters with God are rare, which is one reason they fade from humanity's collective memory. Yet the record is clear. All you need do is read the Bible. I mentioned some earlier.
Even our churches seem to have lost the understanding that God can and does intervene in human history. We are about to witness one of the larger ones.
Evil on a scale never even imagined by most of us is going to be revealed across the nations of the Earth. National boundaries are going to be redrawn. Dead churches are going to be buried. The arising church is invisible to the world, but beloved by God.
We must understand this: God knows in intricate detail how the Earth functions, because He created it. He knows how the human mind works, because He created it. God even knows how Satan works, because He created him as an angel of light to administer God's kingdom. Satan became a victim of his own pride and beauty and determined that he would become like God.
Watch now and see how that turns out for the Father of Lies, and those who worship him.
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The fifth determination of God concerning the Jews and Jerusalem is that the vision and prophecy will be sealed.
I take this to mean that until the last days before Jesus returns, these prophecies will not be fully revealed to God's prophets or to His people.
Now that season of revelation is upon us!
We could never have understood the prophecies of Jesus' coming until Israel was established as a nation and Jerusalem became its capital once more after 2,500 years of foreign rule.
With these historic events, we began to receive God's revelation of the vision and prophecies and how they relate to our day.
In Daniel 12:4 (NKJV), he writes,
"But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."
Thus, Daniel does not ever truly explain the vision he received. God commanded him not to do it.
I find it fascinating that the time of the end is linked to the increase of knowledge.
We have seen in our day since 1945 an increase in knowledge that is beyond belief.
With the internet and global communication, education and the access to knowledge has increased almost beyond measure.
The first and foremost prophetic knowledge concerns Israel and Jerusalem.
Until Israel was reborn and Jerusalem reestablished as her capital, how could one understand Israel's role in the end times?
Thus we invented a replacement theology that left Israel out of the prophetic timetable.
Now it is clear, Jesus, a Jew, will come to reign in the nation of Israel over the nations of the earth in Jerusalem as His capital.
We can see that the time of the Gentiles is ending as Jerusalem is no longer trampled by the Gentiles.
We can also connect to this the gospel being preached to all the nations, which is one of the main signs that Jesus is about to return.
This can be connected to the prophecies Jesus gave of global vision.
Jesus talked in terms of global awareness.
This came upon us after World War II ended.
Now we think in terms of world events.
Global economy, global disease, United Nations, global environment and pollution, global terrorism, global signs and wonders ... you get the idea.
Jesus came to take away the sins of the world as the Lamb of God.
He told the apostles to go and make disciples of all nations.
There is only one God over the world.
He is the God of Abraham who sent His only begotten Son for the whole world.
Our eyes have been opened to revelation prophecy and knowledge in dimensions we could never understand before.
Study and pray on the prophecies in the Bible.
You will see the truth of Jesus' return in ways our great-grandfathers never could see.
The question must be asked: Are you being awakened to the truth that we are in the season of His return?
How is that changing the way you live?
No more sleep.
Truth requires action and to act you need to be awake and alert, growing in love with Jesus with a desire and urgency to obey His commands.
Lord, wake us up!
Who Is This Anointed and Most Holy One of God?
Daniel 9:24
The sixth determination and the last one in Daniel 9:24 is, "to anoint the Most Holy."
This is a reference to the Messiah, God's anointed King over Israel and the nations of the earth.
God has determined to set Him apart for His glory to fulfill His promise of salvation to His people.
We see this fulfilled in Luke 3 and 4 when Jesus is baptized by John, then the Holy Spirit comes upon Him like a dove.
Luke 4 says Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit, led by the Spirit, empowered by the Spirit and anointed by the Spirit.
This anointing is described in Luke 4 but taken from Isaiah 61.
It is the job description of the Messiah of what He has come to do: to preach the gospel to the poor;
to heal the brokenhearted;
to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind;
to set at liberty those who are oppressed;
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Jesus fulfilled all these promises in the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
We as His body are to be about doing all of these today and "even greater works" than He did.
Gabriel will speak of the Messiah several times in the 70-weeks vision.
Thus, the 70 weeks of the Jews and Jerusalem become centered on the Messiah upon His first coming in the 62-week period and then again in the last week, which connects to His Second Coming.
Jesus is the only One who fulfills these determinations, especially when you look at Isaiah and Jeremiah.
He alone can establish everlasting righteousness, deal with our sins and reconcile us to God.
He is the life giver.
He will bring desolation on those who reject Him and give life to those who receive Him.
He is the blessing of promise given to God's people throughout the ages.
He is our Savior, deliverer and Lord.
He is the most holy King, the Lord of Hosts, the Suffering Servant and the Prince of Peace.
He is the Son of God. He is God, the Word, who became flesh to live amongst us.
He is the Son of Man and the son of righteousness.
He is the Lamb of God and the Lion of Judah, the Alpha and Omega ... and so much more!
I know Him as the lover of my soul.
The one who carries me through the trials of life and sustains me through the storms.
He is my Savior and deliverer, the faithful one who has never deserted me or failed me.
He is the giver of countless blessings and the restorer of my life.
Through the Holy Spirit, He directs my life in how to prepare the way of His coming.
My calling is not to give you an answer to the day or hour of His return because no one knows that except the Father.
The message entrusted to me is to point you to Jesus, to call you to wake up.
Jesus is coming back.
We are in the season of His return.
Be about your Father's business.
Are you living in obedience as He taught in Matthew 24 and 25, as Paul taught in Romans 13:11-14 and in much of his epistles?
If you are, rejoice in the work He has given you to prepare the way.
If not, get into the Word and study to show yourself approved. Get on your face before God and repent of your self-serving life and surrender completely to Him to use your life for His glory.
Ask God to show you what you need to do to fulfill His vision for Jesus' return and for your life.
God has a marvelous plan for you!
The Seventh Determination for the Jews and Jerusalem
Daniel 9:26, 25
The seventh determination in Daniel's vision concerns desolation.
God has determined desolation for the Jews and Jerusalem in judgment for their idolatry and breaking of the covenant.
Yet, out of this desolation will come life, abundant life, and blessings.
First they will be scattered among the nations of the earth. Within these nations they will also suffer desolation in persecution and even death, as we have witnessed through the history of the Jews.
Jerusalem will experience desolation and destruction in judgment as well.
Centuries of oppression and foreign rule as the "Gentiles trample God's sacred city."
But in the times of the end, the Jews and Jerusalem will be restored with life and blessings.
The Jews will return to their nation and their holy city.
They will reign and rule as God prepares for the nation and the world for the coming of the Messiah.
The last determination is the desolation of all those who rejected God and His salvation through the Jews.
Their leader, the Antichrist, will bring desolation against the Jews but this will then consume him and his followers.
In the end, all that they stand for in rebellion against God and in trying to exalt themselves as God will become desolate.
There is no hope apart from God.
There is only death and eternal separation from His life.
Those who love and serve the living God in Jesus will know life everlasting and know the blessings of God in being fruitful and multiplying in His glory.
Daniel makes it clear that the Jews will reign with the Messiah in His kingdom and the Gentiles who follow the Messiah, Jesus, will be one with the Jews.
Read and study Revelation 7 concerning the future of the Jews and Gentiles!
May we awaken to God's plan and put aside our indoctrinations so we can fully love and serve our Savior.
This completes the seven determinations God has ordained for the Jews and Jerusalem.
We can see this as it unfolded through their history and what is happening today in Israel and throughout the world.
These are exciting days to be fully engaged in God's vision and plan for His people!
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Once a professional baseball player with the Chicago Cubs Organization,Blake Lorenzwas called to Asbury Seminary after a radical encounter with Jesus, where he received his master's degree.He has pastored in the Orlando area for 33 years and has been blessed with the opportunity to evangelize globally, visiting five continents and preaching the gospel to tens of thousands. Blake has also helped plant 500 churches. He has been working in Israel for the past 20 years, includes serving on the board of the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in connection with the Knesset. In 2020, blakelorenzministries.comand the Awaken podcastlaunched to teach and challenge others to join him on a journey of anticipating the return of Jesus. He has used the three books he's written in his seminars and conferences. He and his wife, Beverly, share three children and six grandchildren.
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