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Symbols of decline

Big cities, once shining pillars of American brilliance, economic prowess, progress, competition and innovation. Now, symbols of decline.

Courtesy: BBC

Look at what’s happening to such storied cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco , Chicago , Portland and Minneapolis. Everywhere you look , it’s carjackings, shootings, and shoplifting, punctuated by homelessness.

Under Democrat rule, cops’ hands are tied by city officials by raising the bar of crimes they can respond or arrest. Consequently these cities are becoming badges of lawlessness and symbols of decline.

Have you ever wondered why our once shining big cities have become symbols of decline? Perhaps the problems are too insurmountable? Maybe it’s good old-fashioned incompetence on the part of city and state officials? Or is it something else? Could it be these “leaders” are just following orders?

Before you dismiss me a crackpot conspiracy theorist, ask yourself,

“Is it a coincidence that all of these areas have liberal mayors and governors who are all in for wokeness, the climate change agenda and the World Economic Forum?” How many times have you heard these leaders talking about such goals as 15- minute cities or becoming carbon neutral (translation eliminating gas powered motor vehicles and stoves in favor of electric) by 2030?

All these leftist executives seem perfectly comfortable turning a deaf ear to regular people who complain about rising crime and homelessness. But as demonstrated by California Governor Gavin Newsom, all of a sudden the homeless problem isn’t so insurmountable when a Communist dictator like Xi Jinpeng comes to town.

Newsom made sure to spare Xi the visuals of homeless people shooting up drugs and defecating in the streets of San Francisco. Reporters called the governor on his hypocrisy for stepping up cleanup efforts for visiting leaders , but not for law-abiding and taxpaying San Franciscans.

How did Newsom reply? He admitted it.

Courtesy: Newsweek

Don’t you love the smug grins of the sycophants behind Newsom. They can’t believe he’s admitting to blatant sanctimony and getting away with it.

Anyway, I keep asking myself why this deterioration of these large cities? Why are the worst cities run by Democrats?

It can’t be a coincidence.

I’ve thought about it and have come to this conclusion: The deterioration of these major cities is to break our spirits and our faith in the American system. Let me explain

The left’s goal is to create the impression in our collective minds the American Dream has become a dystopian nightmare. This, so that we will abandon it for the supposedly more equitable and just system of global rule.

It’s all part of the globalists’ dream to destroy Western Civilization: The bastion of Christian faith, freedom, liberty, innovation and prosperity. The United States is the final battlefield because much of Europe and Canada have been absorbed into the globalist hive.

However,there’s a big problem. America is a sticky situation compared to the aforementioned countries. You see, we got this two pesky documents known as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The Declaration tells us we have inalienable rights–which mean given by God– of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution codifies those protections in the first Ten Amendments, otherwise known as the Bill of Rights.

The First Amendment freedoms of speech, religion,and the right to free assembly and the Second Amendment right to bear arms have protected us from full blown globalist domination. Because of this, informed Americans are able to push back.

With freedom of speech, we are able to expose lies and propaganda through alternative and social media, despite censorship in mainstream outlets. As for the Second Amendment, millions of armed Americans are a deterrent for full-blown tyranny within and any invading force from without.

Given these realities, the left has to resort to psy-ops to demoralize and discourage us, hence the purposeful degradation of major cities. You following me?

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Here’s how it works. The constant desolation of cities , via drive-by shootings, assaults , carjackings, and homelessness is mentioned in the news and even among friends , coworkers, etc. Even though you’re safe where you are, because you constantly hear and see this mantra, you begin to grow anxious, fearful and despairing.

When you are anxious, fearful and despairing, then confidence, joy and peace become fleeting. Your worldview becomes tainted and negativity sets in.

Negativity then opens the door to demoralization, which leads to apathy, which leads to passivity , which leads to hopelessness, which leads to “Why even bother?

Drive through certain areas of LosAngeles and the blocks of tents makes one wonder, “Is America becoming a third-world nation? That’s exactly the reaction leftists want from you. They want you believing the country is falling apart.

Courtesy Fox 11 Los Angeles

But is your area sliding into decline or is still a nice place to live? The temptation is to watch the hoisted symbol in front of you .

Courtesy Kristina Morales.com

Remember when God sent poisonous snakes to punish the Israelites for their grumbling and lack of faith? Moses fashioned a bronze serpent and placed it on a pole, per God’s orders, so the Israelites could look at it and be healed from the bites of the poisonous snakes (Numbers 21:5-7). In the same way we are to look at Jesus on the cross, in faith, for deliverance (John 3:14).

What’s happening now is,through television and the internet ,you are viewing symbols of decline which inspire ugliness, hopelessness and death. Remember, leftists/globalists are gonna gaslight.

Truth is what you see around you , not what the media presents to you. Yes, what you are watching is reality in major cities, but what is the reality of where you are?

Understand that nothing is happening in these symbols of decline without a reason. Begin to look at these news reports about failing cites with discernment. Remember , knowledge is power.

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Are you a God-fearing man?

“Are you a God-fearing man?” That’s a question a close Christian brother of mine sometimes asks before witnessing to other men.

When he shared this with me I was immediately struck by the term. It’s old-fashioned , masculine and at the the same time, humble. I thought to myself, I have to write a column about the question, “Are you a God-fearing man?”

So here you go.

First of all, what is a God-fearing man? The obvious answer is in the term, a man who fears God. Makes sense, right?

But digging deeper, we find that “fearing” God is more complex than just living life afraid of God. First, let’s look at what Proverbs says about fear:

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.–Proverbs 9:10

The fear referred to in Proverbs is reverence of the Lord. Before one can gain true wisdom, he must revere the Lord as Creator, Heavenly Father and Provider. To not hold God in awe is foolishness.

However, Jesus speaks of fear in a different context when detailing why we should not fear man, but only the Lord.

“Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”–Matthew 10:27-28

Jesus is, of course, speaking of God as the one who “is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Yet, in the next verse, Jesus speaks of God’s love for us:

“Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.”

So God can banish you to hell , yet love you so much that all the hairs of your head are numbered? The best picture I can think of to describe this is a Godly earthly father: He loves you , yet sometimes has to discipline you.

If that fails to take hold, fathers sometimes have to make the tough decision to let you experience the consequences of disobedience. Sometimes the cost of this is devastating and life-changing.

While not perfect, I hope the previous analogy paints a picture of God allowing people the consequence of hell for a life of unrepentant sin.

Like a loving father constantly warning his children of the dangers of disobedience, so God sends warnings to the world. First the prophets, then Jesus, then the apostles and now Christians. This, so no one has an excuse of not hearing the gospel.

Af the forefront of this evangelism are God-fearing men, answering the Father’s call of using our talents to share the good news of Jesus Christ. God sent His Son to die for our sins so we could be saved from eternal punishment. All we have to do is repent from sin and place our eyes on Jesus as Lord and Savior.

“Uh …hold on,” says the secularist.

“God-fearing men? Oh great, they’ll push their religion onto everyone. What are we talking now, a theocracy for America?”

Here’s a news flash. WE are living smack dab in a religious theocracy!

The problem is it’s a secular-leftist, pseudo- religious theocracy. I’ll prove it.

The sacrament for this secular-leftist theocracy is abortion. Nothing else explains the feverous zeal to protect a women’s right to kill her baby. I’m convinced that abortion is ritualized sacrifice designed to appease the secular-left’s god. Here’s a hint, their god is not the God of the Bible and certainly not the Creator of the heavens and earth.

Everything about this pseudo-religion is a counterfeit of God’s creation. Marriage between a man and a woman? We’ll allow same -sex marriage . The family? Government will tell you how to raise your children. Men as head and protector of the family? Government will take that role for single-parent families. Truth? Truth is whatever the secular-leftist narrative needs it to be.

Want to have a trouble free life? Shut your mouth, pretend not to know things and go along with everything like it’s normal. Want to be diminished, ridiculed , and cancelled? Stand for outdated concepts such as Christianity, the Bible , the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Those are your choices under the Secular-leftist religion: Living under the fear of the state, or choosing to live according to the fear of the Lord. The God-fearing man chooses the latter and rejects the former .

The God-fearing man takes seriously the biblical warning of friendship with the world making one an enemy of God (James 4:4). He believes Jesus’ promise of hatred from the world since the world hated Him first( John 15:18). But the God-fearing man also has faith and believes that in persecution comes blessing and reward in heaven (Matt. 5:10-12).

So if God exacts death for our sin, isn’t that it? If we’re dead, what difference does it make?

The problem is you don’t actually “die.” Everyone of us when our physical bodies die, will receive an eternal body. That is, a body built for eternity.

Got it?

Now here’s the deliniation.

Those who accepted Christ as Lord and Savior will have bodies equipped for eternity living under God’s presence in heaven. Now here’s the bad news:Those who rejected the gift of grace through His death and resurrection, will have bodies equipped for wrath. The “death” is total separation from God.

Jesus spoke of hell more than anyone else in the Bible, describing it as outer darkness, fire, torment and full of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Sin, any sin, is a capital offense per God’s law. He is holy therefore, He cannot, and will not tolerate sin.

Most pastors leave hell out of their sermons, so as not to offend or scare parishioners. This is preaching the “modern” gospel which ignores the truth that the consequence of a choice of unrepentant sin is eternal punishment in hell.

Focus on that description , eternal. That means not one hundred , a thousand or ever a million years living under God’s wrath, but forever.

Fearing God means living a life with the knowledge that everyone is accountable to God. This fear is also accepting that everyone, every man, woman and child has fallen short of the glory of God, due to sin.

God-fearing men (and women) only become as such, because they understand the eternal consequences of rejecting Jesus. The Christ is our only salvation from hell.

The God- fearing man knows we are literally enemies of Jehovah without Jesus as Lord. This is frightening and ,at the same time, humbling when you understand only God’s grace saves us.

God sent His only Son as the perfect sacrifice for our sin. Jesus willingly faced God’s wrath and eventual death to save us. His resurrection provided the gift freely offered to us.

We live in a world where leaders are God-mockers instead of God-fearing. They are weak, vindictive, deceitful, hateful , spineless, fearful ,dishonorable and arrogant with no moral foundation. Their schemes are anti-God, anti-life and idolatrous.

Can you see why we need God-fearing men in leadership? Only men who understand their accountability to God should be trusted with power.

What say you Christian? Are you a God-fearing man?

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Stop fearing

How do we stop fearing when everyday the enemies of God and America bombard us with alarm, dread and uneasiness? The answer is simple: Seek the Lord with all your heart.

Here is a truth: our enemies are godless. Their father is Satan and they serve him in every capacity from when they rise to when they slumber.

Some gleefully worship the father of lies; those are the ones in power. You can see the evil in their eyes and in their faces.

However, most of the lost do so by default, because they either do not know Jesus or flat-out reject Him . What they fail to understand is if Jesus is not Lord of your life , then the devil is your dictator.

Don’t take my word for it. Look at their bitter fruits.

Most everything about our enemies is corrupt or counterfeit. Since they hate God, they hate beauty and worship ugliness. Their hatred of the Heavenly Father also causes them to equate lust with love and speak lies as truth.

Instead of worshiping God ,they worship goddesses or created things such as the earth. They do not know wisdom , only foolishness. This results in group thinkers who exalt chaos and division while scorning peace and unity.

The godless wallow in lawlessness while turning the law against the law-abiding . They call Christians weak-minded for fearing an invisible God, and not fearing their alarmist predictions of climate change or killer viruses.

Look at how the godless strenuously work to mainstream such perversion as drag queen story hour. All it takes is playing on people’s sense of justice , fairness and guilt. Note also their zeal for cancel culture and censorship of those who rebuke their efforts to normalize aberrant behavior.

Censorship isn’t alien to an ideology that hates the Holy Bible, the Constitution , America as founded , godly marriage, the family, children, masculinity, patriotism and the flag. Cancel culture is also no stranger to the godless.

Cancelling someone is the equivalent of salting the earth after destroying an enemy. One’s character is assassinated with cancel culture, but so are the reputations of friends and associates of the target. As if this isn’t bad enough , the merchants of venom then destroy the ability of the victim to make a living.

Such cold, vindictive evil would shame a God-fearing person, but it’s merely a form of control for the godless. Keep in mind that control is a reaction to fear. (More about this later)

This is why the godless value an all encompassing government versus a limited government, compliance more than freedom, and libertinism over liberty.

Everything , every action, dictate or outrage that comes from the godless comes from a spirit of darkness and fear. God -fearing Christians, especially those who follow politics and engage in the culture war ,scare the godless.

Why is this so? It seems odd since the godless dominate the corporate media , Hollywood academia and globalism. Their rhetoric and arrogance give the impression of the having the upper hand. However, they hate of the light of Jesus reflected by God-fearing Christians, especially those engaged in the culture war.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.John 3:20 (English Standard Version)

Remember Jesus told us as the world hated Him, it will hate us. So how was Jesus sinless despite His enemies twisting His every word and looking for any excuse to kill Him? Even when Jesus drove the moneychangers from the temple , He committed no sin in His righteous anger.

Yes , Jesus was and is the Son of God . However, He walked the earth fully man and was tempted in every transgression. I believe He was able to resist because He constantly sought the Father in prayer.

How did the disciples stop fearing? They constantly sought the Lord in prayer.

We can do the same.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.Psalm 34:4 (ESV)

..(F)ear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.Isaiah 41:10(ESV)

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.–Romans 8:26 (ESV)

So, may we stop fearing the godless? Stop fearing whether or not they will like you or even their threats. Place your fear only in God , which is the beginning of wisdom.

In wisdom we learn we have truth with God. That same insight tells us our enemies are weak because they have neither the Lord or truth.

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What can one Christian do?

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” –Isiah 40:31

What can one Christian do? What difference can you make in the face of widespread infiltration of evil in America?

You see blatant corruption literally sucking the life out of America: a two-tier justice system, a wide-open border , presidential administration beholden to America-hating interests and a federal government persecuting anyone who questions or stands in the way of its agenda.

Some days the gravity of our situation is wearying and some days a feeling of powerlessness dominates. Can I get an amen?

We feel this way because the news is mostly bad. Even on conservative websites, many published articles can leave one sighing in despair over the madness of our situation and the willful destruction of our economy, laws, society and military.

We can respond to the world’s standards or God’s

As Christians we have three responses to our current situation. 1) We can surrender in a foregone conclusion that America is over; 2) we can return evil for evil; or 3) we can reference our Bibles for a Godly response.

The first example implies a serious lack of faith. So does the second; with you now showing that you know better than God. The third action is rooted in God’s word and therefore, faithful.

Faith is the key word. Specifically, where do we place our faith? If you find yourself reading news or commentary more than your Bible, your faith in God may be or is already lukewarm.

I must confess that there have been recent periods where I have done exactly that; studying political commentary more than my Bible. That wearing feeling mentioned earlier, is the barometer of this shift in priorities.

Powerlessness comes from taking our eyes off of Jesus

Powerlessness comes when we’re not trusting in God. Power comes from faith in God.

We must keep our eyes on Christ and not on the current state of our country. That doesn’t mean we ignore what’s going on because we have to live in the world. However, we must also remember that when we accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, like Him, we became no longer of the world.

This means our true home is heaven. This world is not a final destination, but merely a flash on our way to eternity.

This truth is an important concept that we must resolve to remember, no matter how much the culture deteriorates. With that in mind let us look at what God tells us to do in the face of corrupt government officials and a pagan culture.

The Bible commands us to submit to government authorities and pray for those in power. Yeah… submit and pray.

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.–Romans 13:1(New King James Version)

This means we peaceably obey the government by not fomenting rebellion against obeying laws and paying our taxes. Keep in mind, that Paul wrote this during the time of Nero, one of the cruelest Roman rulers.

Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.–Romans 13:2(NKJV)

You think things are bad for Christians now? Nero used to have Christians cast in wax and lit on fire like candles for his amusement. This depraved Caesar would also feed Christians to the hungry lions in the coliseum or have them killed in gladiator spectacles.

Paul wrote Romans during the reign of this madman. Does this mean we obey all government edicts without question? Of course not.

Why do you think those Christians were persecuted by Nero? It was because they did not follow his laws to remain silent and not worship Christ. Those Christians were martyred because they placed God above government.

We choose God over government

This is the only instance in which we are not to follow government. When it comes to obeying the government and worshiping our Lord, we defer to the latter and not the former. Peter explicitly obeyed this principal in Acts 5:29:

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

Government as ordained by God is supposed to protect the righteous while being a terror to the evil doer.This is the explained in Romans 13:3-5

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake.

Our current government has become a terror to good works and not to evildoers. Therefore it is not carrying out its God-given duty to protect the good. It prioritizes abortion, transgenderism , division and paganism. Are we to obey it blindly? No, for it is anti-God and anti-Christ. However, this does not give us license to foment rebellion. We choose not to follow laws that glorify evil and not God,while at the same time praying for elected officials.

Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.–1 Timothy2:2-4.

So if you want peace of mind and joy, do what God commands us to do . It totally goes against the world’s standards and as a result, calls us to faith and obedience; which is really what God is looking for in his children.

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Houck Trial Victory Shows Reality of Government Persecution

by Dex

Jesus cautioned us in John 15:18 that “If the world hates you,you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” Jesus added, “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Pro-life activist Mark Houck’s recent court victory over the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) is a real world example of governmental persecution of a man whose only crime is serving God by glorifying Jesus. This is a story every Bible-believing Christian needs to pay attention to.

What started as a father shoving a male planned parenthood escort to protect his son later turned into a predawn government raid by the FBI. Houck recounts the genesis of his ordeal with Steve Bannon:

A predawn raid by the FBI on a law-abiding citizen as if he were a dangerous criminal. As Mr Houck recounted his actions, I believe it was the Holy Spirit giving him the words to say and controlling his actions . As both Houck and Steve Bannon mentioned, the tensions were such that someone could be shot.

Mark 13:11:

“But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.”

Here is Part 2 of the interview:

Let’s be honest, the whole idea of persecution is not a pleasant subject to think about. It is much easier to to go along to get along as a Christian. After all, what about the shame, embarrassment , possible loss of income and the very real possibility of losing one’s life?

But Jesus told His disciples that in the midst of hatred and injustice comes blessing.

“Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.”–Luke 6:22

The reality of Christianity is that our lives are no longer our own. We were once dead in our sin , but we are alive in Christ. Our primary mission as Christians is to spread the good news of the Gospel so that other lost souls can be rescued from the darkness and brought into the light.

God has blessed each and every believer to carry out this task in his or her own unique way. Our goals are not riches, fame, nor stature; for the world chases after these things. We are not of the world.

May we all throw up prayers of protection for Mark Houck and his family, and may we also ask the Lord for boldness and courage to speak the truth no matter what. I believe when more Christians in America fear the Lord more than man, that’s when we will see revival in this country.