Barack Obama Loves America, His America
There is nothing new to the reports that Barack Obama dislikes America. For years, conservatives have detailed how Obama has spent his entire political career talking down the United States. The liberal media was just feigning outrage when it reacted to former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani saying, “I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.”
I think the reason why the comment made by Giuliani generated headlines is because the press saw him as someone who would easily buckle under pressure. According to them, he was once “America’s mayor.” But that’s all in doubt now that he has dared to question Obama’s love for our nation.
Reporters at the White House pitched Press Secretary Josh Earnest a softball question so he could provide this bit of gutless drivel, “I can tell you that it’s sad to see when somebody who has attained a certain stature and even admiration tarnishes that legacy so thoroughly.”
Giuliani clearly ruffled feathers at the head nest. The White House PR department created the twitter hashtag #ObamaLovesAmerica. They then sent it out 58,000 times. The hashtag quickly turned out to be a bad idea. Since twitter allows people to post comments, nearly all of them were negative.
I have no doubt that Obama loves America, but the country that he seems to love is one he wishes existed rather than the one that does. His America has the government as the center of morality, the source of prosperity, and the arbiter of all fairness. Anyone who holds to another philosophy is “un-American” by his standards.
No president can be considered a friend of America if he is seeking to undermine the Constitution. Obama has repeatedly violated long standing statutes. He has appointed nominees to various boards without Senate confirmation, defied congressional subpoenas, made every attempt to assault our Second Amendment rights, and he uses the IRS to target conservative, Christian and pro-Israel organizations.
President Obama doesn’t even measure up to his own standards. In 2008, then Senator Obama called President Bush “unpatriotic” for adding trillions to the national debt. Bush added about four trillion dollars to the debt in eight years. By the time Obama leaves offices, he will have created tripled the amount of debt as that of his predecessor.
I find a lot of similarities between Obama and Grigori Rasputin—the demonic-eyed faith healer and trusted friend of the Russian Tsar family. After Rasputin charmed his way into the royal court he made a series of political recommendations that were so destructive that they resulted in the complete downfall of the Russian monarchy. In 2008, Obama was also hailed as a wonder worker who was going to heal the economy, mend racial relations, restore respect for America, and have the most open government, ever.
After six years of Obama we have an economy addicted to Fed money printing, race relations are worse then they been in living memory, our standing in the world has been greatly diminished, and his administration is probably the most secretive in our nation’s history.
The people who are hoping for the American population to wake-up and realize the damage that Obama has inflicted are wasting their time. Our social and economic problems are beyond quick fixes. Once we reach the point of crisis, the citizenry will turn to despots for answers. In the end, Obama may just be remembered as the final snowflake that started the avalanche.
The devil’s fingerprints are all over the decisions being made today and it greatly concerns me what is coming our way. Since Bible prophecy predicts massive persecution for all believers in the Tribulation hour, our proximity to the last of the last days should be a concern to every Christian.
Hardship has always been the best thing that could happen to the church. Under tranquility, Christianity has a natural tendency to become lazy and complacent. If you want to find robust Christianity, you need to go to China, Iran, or North Korea.
The Bible does not provide an absolute guarantee that everything will be sunny for believers right ahead of the Rapture. We are promised to be kept from the Tribulation itself. As this cloud of darkness rolls in our direction, the prayer of every Christian should be, “Even so, come Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10).
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
--Todd
Iran and Nukes at the Brink
Crisis is building while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forewarns of the dangers of a nuclear weapons-possessing Iran. The world of diplomats and geopoliticians--who are proclaimed as earth's smartest people--see Mr. Netanyahu as the instigator of the crisis, not the Iranian Islamist mullahs, ayatollahs, and war planners who have as their stated intention wiping Israel from the map. It is as if complete Chamberlain-like naivete has metastasized in the brains of those who are supposed to know how to best govern --and protect--the rest of us.
The Iranian nuclear weapons development has been allowed to continue while the likes of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proudly blusters that he has assured that Iran's nuclear weapons achievement has been postponed for ten years. This, he says, is "guaranteed" through the signatures of Iran's Muslim leaders. These are the same leaders whose "holy" book, the Koran, tells believers in Allah that they may lie, cheat, or do anything that is necessary if it puts forward Mohammed's directive that every person on planet earth must be made to bow the knee to Allah or else die.
According to those in the know, all of this deal-making has been done without the significant input of Israel, who is first in line to receive the terrifying products of the Iranian nuclear program, should it reach fruition. Likewise, it is relatively common knowledge among those possessing the wherewithal to know that verification of the ten-year pact of non-nuclear weapons production has at best a verification process that makes the many broken deals made with Russia and China over the years of the cold war look like unassailable agreements made with the saints of Heaven.
This administration has no comparable philosophy within its strategic planning that I've been able to detect like that of President Ronald Reagan when making deals with those who want to do away with you --"Trust but verify."
Mr. Reagan was reportedly a Bible reader and a believer that Bible prophecy is truth from the Creator of all things. He surely had at the center of his thinking in this regard the following admonitions/exhortations: Mark 3:2: No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Luke 11:21-22: When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a practicing Jew, thus bases his beliefs on Old Testament teachings. However, he is said to conduct Bible studies within his home, and includes thoughts from New Testament teachings. Doubtless, he has perused the above Scripture, which, after all, is based upon Old Testament truth. He knows beyond any doubt that you cannot "trust" unless you "verify," as Ronald Reagan put it. The very fact that Netanyahu came to the U.S. Congress to lay out the critical nature of dealing with Iran now rather than later shows (me at least) that the Israeli government is very close to a devastating, preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear production facilities.
Implicit within his speech March 3, was the intimation that he does not trust Mr. Kerry's version of how to "verify," in the matter of dealing with those who want more than anything to completely destroy every Jew on planet earth.
It is just a matter of time, he forewarned, until not only Israel but all of the west, including the United States, will be in the Iranian nuclear crosshairs. This should be a prognostication that is unnecessary to even verbalize. However, the fact of such a bleak future doesn't seem to register with this administration--even when plainly stated.
The Israeli prime minister came down adamantly against the Obama-Kerry deal with the Iranians. He gave clear, unequivocal reasons why he is so opposed to this "bad" deal, as he put it on several occasions during the speech.
The Obama Administration's intention to lift restrictions after a ludicrous ten-year period of the Iranian's agreeing to hold off on producing nuclear weaponry was met by Netanyahu's following response--each point given tremendous applause by most in the chamber.
Before lifting those restrictions, the world should demand that Iran do three things. First, stop its aggression against its neighbors in the Middle East. Second, stop supporting terrorism around the world. And third, stop threatening to annihilate my country, Israel, the one and only Jewish state.
There is little doubt after this speech--directed at the Islamist hordes more than at those in Congress or President Obama-- hat Israel's security is his all-consuming intent. As Iran, with 119 nuclear centrifuges in action, is on the brink of producing weapons that could indeed accomplish their vicious leaders' goal of destroying the Jewish state, Netanyahu made his own determination unmistakably clear in his warning.
I can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over.
We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.
This is why--this is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand.
Again, we notice with great interest that the prophet Ezekiel foretells that Persia (Iran) will come with the forces of Magog (Russia and others) in an all-out assault on Israel. They do so with conventional forces, not nuclear. They obviously have not nuked Israel by the time they launch this attack. I conclude that somewhere along the line Persia (Iran) has either failed to develop nuclear weapons, or that capability has been neutralized in some way. If they get those weapons they will almost certainly use them, and their first target will almost just as certainly be Israel.
Whether the Israeli Defense Force takes them out--an action that would almost assure Israel would instantly reach Zechariah 12: 1-3 status--or it is an act of God, it appears from Bible prophecy that Iran and their grand plans to use atomic weapons against the Jewish state will never happen.
America is at a crossroad in its dealing with God's chosen nation. There is no such God-guaranteed prophetic protection given any other nation than Israel.
Our Congress--at least a great portion of that body-- responded for the most part with tremendous approval of the things Bibi spoke Tuesday March 3, 2015. I'm encouraged by that response.
--Terry
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