AGE OF DECEPTION III: GOVERNMENTS Part A
Re 13:1 And he took his place on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads unholy names.
2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been given a death-wound; and his death-wound was made well: and all the earth was wondering at the beast.
4 And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him?
5 And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.
6 And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.
7 And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
8 And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
9 If any man has ears, let him give ear.
10 If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.
12 And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.
13 And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men.
14 And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.
15 And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.
16 And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;
17 So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.
(BBE)
2Th 2:1 Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,
2 That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;
3 Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
4 Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
5 Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
6 And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
7 For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
8 And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
9 Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
(BBE)
Matt 24:23 Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;
24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
25 See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
Please keep in mind as we begin this the false Christ of the End Times will come from the political sphere and will be apostate, that is, will have been a declared Christian and then will turn away and deny God, declare himself God and demand worship in the new Temple in Israel.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-president-trump-will-sign-order-1493897653-htmlstory.html
"President Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting politically active churches from losing their tax-free status.
"The official emphasized that the order would not change existing law. The most significant portion of the order would direct the Internal Revenue Service to "exercise maximum enforcement discretion" in enforcing the Johnson amendment, which restricts religious groups from endorsing political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status.
"Trump met with evangelical leaders Wednesday night and with Catholic leaders Thursday morning before signing the order at a public ecumenical ceremony in the Rose Garden.
"'You're now in a position where you can say what you want to say...,' Trump said before signing the order, along with a proclamation. 'We are giving our churches their voices back.'
"Evangelicals supported Trump strongly during his election and had been pressuring the administration to go further in giving businesses discretion to assert morality clauses without running afoul of anti-discrimination laws."
If anyone thinks pastors don't talk to members of their flock when they are not in the pulpit...One should note the important part of this discussion: "Evangelicals supported Trump strongly during his election and had been pressuring the administration..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/01/president-trumps-first-100-days-the-fact-check-tally/?utm_term=.b4438797c3ac
President Trump is the most fact-challenged politician that The Fact Checker has ever encountered. He earned 59 Four-Pinocchio ratings during his campaign as president. Since then, he’s earned 16 more Four-Pinocchio ratings.
"But those numbers obscure the fact that the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up. The president’s speeches and interviews are so chock full of false and misleading claims that The Fact Checker often must resort to roundups that offer a brief summary of the facts that the president has gotten wrong.
"As part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, The Fact Checker team (along with Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of the Post graphics department) produced an interactive graphic that displayed a running list of every false or misleading statement made by the president. We also catalogued the president’s many flip-flops, since those earn Upside-Down Pinocchios if a politician shifts position on an issue without acknowledging he or she did so.
"So here are the numbers for the president’s first 100 days.
"492: The number of false or misleading claims made by the president. That’s an average of 4.9 claims a day.
10: Number of days without a single false claim. (On six of those days, the president golfed at a Trump property.)
5: Number of days with 20 or more false claims. (Feb. 16, Feb. 28, March 20, April 21 and April 29, his 100th day in office.)
"While the president is known to make outrageous claims on Twitter — and that was certainly a major source of his falsehoods — he made most of his false statements in unscripted remarks before reporters. (Interviews were another major source of false claims.) That’s because the president would rely on talking points or assertions that he had made in the past — and continued to make, even though they had been fact-checked as wrong.
"This makes Trump somewhat unique among politicians. Many will drop a false claim after it has been deemed false. But Trump just repeats the same claim over and over.
["There are many ways to measure the first 100 days of President Trump"]
"In particular, the president repeatedly took credit for events or business decisions that happened before he took the oath of office — or had even been elected.
"He gave himself credit for the January jobs report — 216,000 jobs — even though the data was collected the week of Jan. 12, before he became president. (In other words, the gain in jobs took place from Dec. 12 to Jan. 12.)
"Among other deals, Trump took credit for $1 billion investment by Fiat Chrysler (which the company said was due to talks with unions in 2015), $1 billion General Motors investment (also in the works for some time), 10,000 jobs added by Walmart (announced in October), 10,000 jobs created by Intel (announced originally in 2011), 1 million planned jobs by Chinese e-company Alibaba (a plan outlined in 2015), and a $25 billion investment by Charter Communications (in the works since 2015). Trump also touted a big investment by Japanese company SoftBank — which announced its investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory.
"On at least 15 occasions, Trump boasted that he had personally negotiated a cut between $600 million and $725 million off an order for Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. But Lockheed had already planned the cost reductions, saying in December that the next batch of 90 planes would cost six to seven percent less per plane than the previous order. (This was well before any meeting that Trump had with the company’s chief executive.) The Air Force’s budget had already accounted for the cut in price — and the price is expected to keep dropping.
"Another Trump favorite was claiming — seven times — that the United States had spent $6 trillion on wars in “the Middle East.” He usually utters this figure to note the money would have been better spent in the United States. But Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans’ care for the next three decades.
Full story
“Obamacare is dead, it is gone.”
Repeated on Jan. 25 Feb. 10 Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb. 27 Mar. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 15 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 21 Mar. 25 Apr. 23 Apr. 24 Apr. 28 Apr. 29
Source: Prepared speech
"The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office."
Full list at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.a69ec1160018
In response:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/320512-liberal-lies-about-president-trump
"If the left would use this same exacting precision in analyzing the words of President Trump, not only would they find that Trump is not “lying” but that he lacks the nefarious cover-up motives involved in several of the aforementioned Democratic mistruths.
"For instance, I was at Trump’s Saturday rally in Melbourne, Fla., where he urged his audience to “look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”
"The left used Trump’s vague statement to impart sinister suspicion. “How dare he make up a terrorist attack!?” and “liar!” were but a few of the apoplectic freak-outs. Meanwhile, the person beside me heard it entirely differently. “He’s referring to information he gathered regarding Sweden last night,” this person said.
"Trump’s clarification on Twitter that his “last night” remark indeed referred to a Friday night Fox News segment on crime in Sweden validated the latter interpretation over the former. Nevertheless, the former interpretation was adopted as gospel.
"The left’s “lying” narrative was again on full display when Trump stated that the murder rate was the highest it has been in 47 years. The liberals accused Trump of intentionally planting a false statistic, but they ought to have done a cursory Google search, which would have clarified exactly what Trump was getting at: the U.S. had just seen the biggest increase in murders in 45 years.
"Trump used this statistic several times throughout the campaign, and Politifact rated his statement as “mostly true.” But this time Trump left out one word — increase — and the left lost it, resorting to the “lying” label."
And, trying to be somewhat neutral:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/06/08/james-comey-testimony-conservative-media-239304
CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 08:
By HADAS GOLD 06/08/2017 02:23 PM EDT Updated 06/08/2017 03:27 PM EDT
"Former FBI director Jim Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill either completely vindicated President Donald Trump or further implicated him.
"That depends on which media is reporting the story.
"According to many right-wing outlets, Comey not only cleared Trump by confirming that he was not personally under investigation, he also helped stir up old drama around the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's emails and admitted he orchestrated leaks to the media after his firing.
"Much of the rest of the media, however, focused on Comey saying he took Trump’s statement that he “hopes” the FBI would drop the investigation into Michael Flynn as a directive, that Trump “lied” and “defamed” Comey and the FBI, and that Comey took detailed notes about his meetings with Trump because he was concerned that Trump would later lie about them.
"That mainstream outlets and conservative outlets would focus on different aspects of the testimony isn't entirely surprising, but reflects the extent that conservative media is backing Trump when even some Republican senators are condemning his handling of Comey.
“Comey: Pres did not order me to let Flynn probe go,” read a Fox News chryon while a CNN chryon at the same moment read "Comey: I took Trump's request about Flynn as a directive" (though various Fox anchors and contributors noted that the testimony was damaging for Trump).
"On The Drudge Report, which often sets the agenda for right-leaning media, the focus was on Comey voluntarily saying he asked a friend to release the contents of memos from his conversations with Trump to the media, and that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed him to describe the department’s investigation into Clinton’s email practices as a “matter,” not an “investigation.” (Though Comey noted that while he did end up saying "matter," most of the media called it an investigation anyway.)
"Breitbart, whose former employees now populate the West Wing, set up shop at a local Washington bar that was throwing a watch party for the event. Their coverage mocked the “Washington elites” who were “celebrating” the testimony.
"Comey is in big trouble after this hearing. He admitted he’s a leaker, and has an actual network through which he leaks information to the press. In addition, he withheld from leaking information that would have vindicated President Trump weeks ago,” the site’s liveblog read.
"Townhall also focused on Comey leaking his memos, and that Comey said the president never asked him to stop the FBI’s Russia investigation.
"On the liberal end of the spectrum, the Huffington Post focused on Comey saying he purposely leaked in order to “get a special prosecutor.” TalkingPointsMemo focused on Comey saying he was fired in order to influence the probe into Russia, while Salon’s website declared "Trump’s in big trouble.”
"Many mainstream outlets like the major newspapers and TV networks highlighted Comey's explosive declaration that Trump lied and defamed him and the FBI. They also focused on the leaked memo, though many pointed out that Comey said the leaked memo had a point: To compel a special prosecutor. The New York Times sent a breaking news alert with Comey’s statement that he leaked the memo in order to trigger a special prosecutor, while USA Today took the calmer route, with their main story saying Comey “plays political hardball.”
'CNN’s website focused on the split between Comey and the White House, blaring the headline “Comey: President lied. White House: No, he didn’t,” a sentiment MSNBC’s website also focused on. Fox News’ website also mentioned that Comey accused Trump of lying, but in the same headline added that Comey suggested “Lynch covered for Clinton."
Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.
Okay, We have a pile of stuff. You know, STUFF. All this STUFF that passes itself off as news. Sides defending their sides often by defaming someone else, usually the Clintons or Trump. Truth up for grabs to the highest minded one claiming it or the lowest striking one grasping it with greedy paws. And the truth is a matter of perception. So long as it follows the mythology of left wing or right wing belief, that all things might be environmentally sound or fit the profit margin.
So, if we face the end times, we have to be careful about using news to make any decision without realizing there are inherent prejudices in them, including so-called Christian new media.
What we know for sure is that the Antichrist is out there somewhere and we have to look at the traits of any leaders and their subordinates to see if they have the traits of the AntiChrist seeing the leaders as much as we can without media filters.
For instance, Mr. Trump has exhibited traits that lead me to think of him this way:
Manic Episode Symptoms By Steve Bressert, Ph.D.
The symptoms of mania include: elevated mood, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, difficulty maintaining attention, increase in goal-directed activity, and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities. These manic symptoms significantly impact a person's daily living.
What is a manic episode? A manic episode is not a disorder in and of itself, but rather is diagnosed as a part of a condition called bipolar disorder.
A manic episode is a mood state characterized by period of at least one week where an elevated, expansive or unusually irritable mood exists. A person experiencing a manic episode is usually engaged in significant goal-directed activity beyond their normal activities. People describe a manic mood as feeling very euphoric, “on top of the world,” and being able to do or accomplish anything. The feeling is like extreme optimism — but on steroids.
Sometimes the manic mood is more irritable than it is elevated, especially if the person’s wishes are curtailed or denied altogether. Often a person in the midst of mania will engage in multiple projects at the same time, with little pre-planning or thought going into them, and finishing none of them. They may work on these projects at all hours of the day, with little regard for sleep or rest.
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The manic feelings the person experiences should be severe enough to cause difficulty or impairment in their ability to function at work, with friends or family, at school, or other important areas in their life. Symptoms also cannot be the result of substance use or abuse (e.g., alcohol, drugs, medications) or caused by a general medical condition.
(We have no idea what drugs Trump may be on. Se we temper the conslusion we draw with "ifs" and "maybes."
Specific Symptoms of a Manic Episode
In order for a manic episode to be diagnosed, three (3) or more of the following symptoms must be present:
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
Decreased need for sleep (e.g., one feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
Attention is easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant items
Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school; or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
Inflated self-esteem is typically present, ranging from uncritical self-confidence to marked grandiosity, and may reach delusional proportions. Individuals may give advice on matters about which they have no special knowledge (e.g., how to run the United Nations). Despite lack of any particular experience or talent, the individual may embark on writing a novel or composing a symphony or seek publicity for some impractical invention. Grandiose delusions are common (e.g., having a special relationship to God or to some public figure from the political, religious, or entertainment world).
Almost invariably, there is a decreased need for sleep. The person usually awakens several hours earlier than usual, feeling full of energy. When the sleep disturbance is severe, the person may go for days without sleep and yet not feel tired.
Manic speech is typically pressured, loud, rapid, and difficult to interrupt. Individuals may talk nonstop, sometimes for hours on end, and without regard for others’ wishes to communicate. Speech is sometimes characterized by joking, punning, and amusing irrelevancies. The individual may become theatrical, with dramatic mannerisms and singing. Sounds rather than meaningful conceptual relationships may govern word choice (i.e., clanging). If the person’s mood is more irritable than expansive, speech may be marked by complaints, hostile comments, or angry tirades.
The individual’s thoughts may race, often at a rate faster than can be articulated. Some individuals with Manic Episodes report that this experience resembles watching two or three television programs simultaneously. Frequently there is flight of ideas evidenced by a nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech, with abrupt changes from one topic to another. For example, while talking about a potential business deal to sell computers, a salesperson may shift to discussing in minute detail the history of the computer chip, the industrial revolution, or applied mathematics. When flight of ideas is severe, speech may become disorganized and incoherent.
A person in a manic episode may easily lose attention. Distractibility is evidenced by an inability to screen out irrelevant external stimuli (e.g., the interviewer’s tie, background noises or conversations, or furnishings in the room). There may be a reduced ability to differentiate between thoughts that are germane to the topic and thoughts that are only slightly relevant or clearly irrelevant.
The increase in goal-directed activity often involves excessive planning of, and excessive participation in, multiple activities (e.g., sexual, occupational, political, religious). Increased sexual drive, fantasies, and behavior are often present. The person may simultaneously take on multiple new business ventures without regard for the apparent risks or the need to complete each venture satisfactorily. Almost invariably, there is increased sociability (e.g., renewing old acquaintances or calling friends or even strangers at all hours of the day or night), without regard to the intrusive, domineering, and demanding nature of these interactions. Individuals may also display psychomotor agitation or restlessness by pacing or by holding multiple conversations simultaneously (e.g., by telephone and in person at the same time). Some individuals write a torrent of letters on many different topics to friends, public figures, or the media.
Expansiveness, unwarranted optimism, grandiosity, and poor judgment often lead to an imprudent involvement in pleasurable activities such as buying sprees, reckless driving, foolish business investments, and sexual behavior unusual for the person, even though these activities are likely to have painful consequences. The individual may purchase many unneeded items (e.g., 20 pairs of shoes, expensive antiques) without the money to pay for them. Unusual sexual behavior may include infidelity or indiscriminate sexual encounters with strangers.
People who experience a manic episode are often diagnosed with a type of bipolar disorder.
I am far from an expert on psychology, but I have spent time with manics and Trump seems dangerously close to that behavior. Everything about his actions, the late night tweets, the inability to concentrate on one subject, the wandering from topic to something off topic during a question period, the need by some aides to put his name in documents so he will pay attention for a reasonable period of time, the rambling speeches roaming from one topic to the next scream manic behavior. His determination to continue doomed construction projects mentioned in the previous post. His optimism that things will always go his way. His continuing to say things are the way he said they were even when faced with the facts they are not that way. His statement that he is "the only one" who could save the country.
Such a thing is not without precedent. Manic DEPRESSIVES (which I am not saying he is) often make successful business leaders despite suffering from the trait. Ted Turner and the late Rene Rivkin are prominent examples. Some have even denied themselves treatment because the manic phase of bipolar makes them feel so good. Artists and performers seem to be particularly. The late Robin Williams stands out in my mind. Van Gogh often gets diagnosed posthumously.
In politics, President Abraham Lincoln exhibited tell tale signs. As did Napoleon and Winston Churchill.
Trump held all three of those occupations. That does NOT mean he has a mental illness. It merely points out that people with the illness have succeeded in those occupations.
And it is not just me seeing this:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mood-swings/201610/trumps-temperament-not-narcissistic-not-normal
"My analysis is: Donald Trump likely isn’t psychologically normal, in the sense of having hyperthymic temperament, which paradoxically could benefit him in some ways as a leader, though not the kind many of us would want. Hyperthymia also would explain many of his personal foibles.
"Consider: He sleeps 4 hours per night, about half the biological norm. Yet he’s very energetic, creative, talkative. He talks about having not just high physical, but also sexual, energy. The question of his sexual behavior has become central to the campaign in recent weeks. If we take him at his word, and if these reports are true, all these symptoms reflect being sped up, above the usually normal range, in one’s feelings, thinking, and movement. That’s the definition of “manic” symptoms. (This doesn’t mean being delusional and thinking you’re Jesus Christ, just like “depressive” doesn’t mean you want to shoot yourself).
(Agreeing with me above. Will.)
"Based on his own claims, Mr. Trump’s self-description can be translated psychologically into mild manic symptoms, which in technical terms, is called “hyperthymia.” This is NOT a psychiatric diagnosis; you won’t find it in the psychiatric diagnostic manual. It is instead a personality state, related biologically to manic-depressive illness. And it isn’t normal.
"Now, at one level, this is like saying he is tall, or that someone else might be thin. These are normal physical and psychological traits, and some of us are at the upper or lower ends. Mr. Trump is at the upper end of energy, creativity, extraversion, and what psychologists call “openness to experience”. These all occur with hyperthymia.
"Severe manic symptoms occur in manic-depressive illness, which I am not saying he possesses. But some inferences can be made based on scientific studies of that condition. Mild manic symptoms are associated with increased creativity, which would bode well for Mr. Trump in many ways as a leader, and is consistent with much of his business success. Mild mania is also associated with resilience to traumatic experiences; people with hyperthymia are less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a major trauma. This would bode well for facing up to the major stresses of the office of the presidency.
Re 13:1 And he took his place on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads unholy names.
2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been given a death-wound; and his death-wound was made well: and all the earth was wondering at the beast.
4 And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him?
5 And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.
6 And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.
7 And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
8 And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
9 If any man has ears, let him give ear.
10 If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.
12 And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.
13 And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men.
14 And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.
15 And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.
16 And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;
17 So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.
(BBE)
2Th 2:1 Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,
2 That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;
3 Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
4 Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
5 Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
6 And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
7 For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
8 And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
9 Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
(BBE)
Matt 24:23 Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;
24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
25 See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
Please keep in mind as we begin this the false Christ of the End Times will come from the political sphere and will be apostate, that is, will have been a declared Christian and then will turn away and deny God, declare himself God and demand worship in the new Temple in Israel.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-president-trump-will-sign-order-1493897653-htmlstory.html
"President Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting politically active churches from losing their tax-free status.
"The official emphasized that the order would not change existing law. The most significant portion of the order would direct the Internal Revenue Service to "exercise maximum enforcement discretion" in enforcing the Johnson amendment, which restricts religious groups from endorsing political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status.
"Trump met with evangelical leaders Wednesday night and with Catholic leaders Thursday morning before signing the order at a public ecumenical ceremony in the Rose Garden.
"'You're now in a position where you can say what you want to say...,' Trump said before signing the order, along with a proclamation. 'We are giving our churches their voices back.'
"Evangelicals supported Trump strongly during his election and had been pressuring the administration to go further in giving businesses discretion to assert morality clauses without running afoul of anti-discrimination laws."
If anyone thinks pastors don't talk to members of their flock when they are not in the pulpit...One should note the important part of this discussion: "Evangelicals supported Trump strongly during his election and had been pressuring the administration..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/01/president-trumps-first-100-days-the-fact-check-tally/?utm_term=.b4438797c3ac
President Trump is the most fact-challenged politician that The Fact Checker has ever encountered. He earned 59 Four-Pinocchio ratings during his campaign as president. Since then, he’s earned 16 more Four-Pinocchio ratings.
"But those numbers obscure the fact that the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up. The president’s speeches and interviews are so chock full of false and misleading claims that The Fact Checker often must resort to roundups that offer a brief summary of the facts that the president has gotten wrong.
"As part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, The Fact Checker team (along with Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of the Post graphics department) produced an interactive graphic that displayed a running list of every false or misleading statement made by the president. We also catalogued the president’s many flip-flops, since those earn Upside-Down Pinocchios if a politician shifts position on an issue without acknowledging he or she did so.
"So here are the numbers for the president’s first 100 days.
"492: The number of false or misleading claims made by the president. That’s an average of 4.9 claims a day.
10: Number of days without a single false claim. (On six of those days, the president golfed at a Trump property.)
5: Number of days with 20 or more false claims. (Feb. 16, Feb. 28, March 20, April 21 and April 29, his 100th day in office.)
"While the president is known to make outrageous claims on Twitter — and that was certainly a major source of his falsehoods — he made most of his false statements in unscripted remarks before reporters. (Interviews were another major source of false claims.) That’s because the president would rely on talking points or assertions that he had made in the past — and continued to make, even though they had been fact-checked as wrong.
"This makes Trump somewhat unique among politicians. Many will drop a false claim after it has been deemed false. But Trump just repeats the same claim over and over.
["There are many ways to measure the first 100 days of President Trump"]
"In particular, the president repeatedly took credit for events or business decisions that happened before he took the oath of office — or had even been elected.
"He gave himself credit for the January jobs report — 216,000 jobs — even though the data was collected the week of Jan. 12, before he became president. (In other words, the gain in jobs took place from Dec. 12 to Jan. 12.)
"Among other deals, Trump took credit for $1 billion investment by Fiat Chrysler (which the company said was due to talks with unions in 2015), $1 billion General Motors investment (also in the works for some time), 10,000 jobs added by Walmart (announced in October), 10,000 jobs created by Intel (announced originally in 2011), 1 million planned jobs by Chinese e-company Alibaba (a plan outlined in 2015), and a $25 billion investment by Charter Communications (in the works since 2015). Trump also touted a big investment by Japanese company SoftBank — which announced its investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory.
"On at least 15 occasions, Trump boasted that he had personally negotiated a cut between $600 million and $725 million off an order for Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. But Lockheed had already planned the cost reductions, saying in December that the next batch of 90 planes would cost six to seven percent less per plane than the previous order. (This was well before any meeting that Trump had with the company’s chief executive.) The Air Force’s budget had already accounted for the cut in price — and the price is expected to keep dropping.
"Another Trump favorite was claiming — seven times — that the United States had spent $6 trillion on wars in “the Middle East.” He usually utters this figure to note the money would have been better spent in the United States. But Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans’ care for the next three decades.
Health careFull story
“Obamacare is dead, it is gone.”
Repeated on Jan. 25 Feb. 10 Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb. 27 Mar. 11 Mar. 13Mar. 15 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 21 Mar. 25 Apr. 23 Apr. 24Apr. 28 Apr. 29Full story
“Obamacare is dead, it is gone.”
Repeated on Jan. 25 Feb. 10 Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb. 27 Mar. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 15 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mar. 21 Mar. 25 Apr. 23 Apr. 24 Apr. 28 Apr. 29
Source: Prepared speech
"The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office."
Full list at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.a69ec1160018
In response:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/320512-liberal-lies-about-president-trump
"If the left would use this same exacting precision in analyzing the words of President Trump, not only would they find that Trump is not “lying” but that he lacks the nefarious cover-up motives involved in several of the aforementioned Democratic mistruths.
"For instance, I was at Trump’s Saturday rally in Melbourne, Fla., where he urged his audience to “look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”
"The left used Trump’s vague statement to impart sinister suspicion. “How dare he make up a terrorist attack!?” and “liar!” were but a few of the apoplectic freak-outs. Meanwhile, the person beside me heard it entirely differently. “He’s referring to information he gathered regarding Sweden last night,” this person said.
"Trump’s clarification on Twitter that his “last night” remark indeed referred to a Friday night Fox News segment on crime in Sweden validated the latter interpretation over the former. Nevertheless, the former interpretation was adopted as gospel.
"The left’s “lying” narrative was again on full display when Trump stated that the murder rate was the highest it has been in 47 years. The liberals accused Trump of intentionally planting a false statistic, but they ought to have done a cursory Google search, which would have clarified exactly what Trump was getting at: the U.S. had just seen the biggest increase in murders in 45 years.
"Trump used this statistic several times throughout the campaign, and Politifact rated his statement as “mostly true.” But this time Trump left out one word — increase — and the left lost it, resorting to the “lying” label."
And, trying to be somewhat neutral:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/06/08/james-comey-testimony-conservative-media-239304
CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 08:
By HADAS GOLD 06/08/2017 02:23 PM EDT Updated 06/08/2017 03:27 PM EDT
"Former FBI director Jim Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill either completely vindicated President Donald Trump or further implicated him.
"That depends on which media is reporting the story.
"According to many right-wing outlets, Comey not only cleared Trump by confirming that he was not personally under investigation, he also helped stir up old drama around the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's emails and admitted he orchestrated leaks to the media after his firing.
"Much of the rest of the media, however, focused on Comey saying he took Trump’s statement that he “hopes” the FBI would drop the investigation into Michael Flynn as a directive, that Trump “lied” and “defamed” Comey and the FBI, and that Comey took detailed notes about his meetings with Trump because he was concerned that Trump would later lie about them.
"That mainstream outlets and conservative outlets would focus on different aspects of the testimony isn't entirely surprising, but reflects the extent that conservative media is backing Trump when even some Republican senators are condemning his handling of Comey.
“Comey: Pres did not order me to let Flynn probe go,” read a Fox News chryon while a CNN chryon at the same moment read "Comey: I took Trump's request about Flynn as a directive" (though various Fox anchors and contributors noted that the testimony was damaging for Trump).
"On The Drudge Report, which often sets the agenda for right-leaning media, the focus was on Comey voluntarily saying he asked a friend to release the contents of memos from his conversations with Trump to the media, and that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed him to describe the department’s investigation into Clinton’s email practices as a “matter,” not an “investigation.” (Though Comey noted that while he did end up saying "matter," most of the media called it an investigation anyway.)
"Breitbart, whose former employees now populate the West Wing, set up shop at a local Washington bar that was throwing a watch party for the event. Their coverage mocked the “Washington elites” who were “celebrating” the testimony.
"Comey is in big trouble after this hearing. He admitted he’s a leaker, and has an actual network through which he leaks information to the press. In addition, he withheld from leaking information that would have vindicated President Trump weeks ago,” the site’s liveblog read.
"Townhall also focused on Comey leaking his memos, and that Comey said the president never asked him to stop the FBI’s Russia investigation.
"On the liberal end of the spectrum, the Huffington Post focused on Comey saying he purposely leaked in order to “get a special prosecutor.” TalkingPointsMemo focused on Comey saying he was fired in order to influence the probe into Russia, while Salon’s website declared "Trump’s in big trouble.”
"Many mainstream outlets like the major newspapers and TV networks highlighted Comey's explosive declaration that Trump lied and defamed him and the FBI. They also focused on the leaked memo, though many pointed out that Comey said the leaked memo had a point: To compel a special prosecutor. The New York Times sent a breaking news alert with Comey’s statement that he leaked the memo in order to trigger a special prosecutor, while USA Today took the calmer route, with their main story saying Comey “plays political hardball.”
'CNN’s website focused on the split between Comey and the White House, blaring the headline “Comey: President lied. White House: No, he didn’t,” a sentiment MSNBC’s website also focused on. Fox News’ website also mentioned that Comey accused Trump of lying, but in the same headline added that Comey suggested “Lynch covered for Clinton."
Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.
Okay, We have a pile of stuff. You know, STUFF. All this STUFF that passes itself off as news. Sides defending their sides often by defaming someone else, usually the Clintons or Trump. Truth up for grabs to the highest minded one claiming it or the lowest striking one grasping it with greedy paws. And the truth is a matter of perception. So long as it follows the mythology of left wing or right wing belief, that all things might be environmentally sound or fit the profit margin.
So, if we face the end times, we have to be careful about using news to make any decision without realizing there are inherent prejudices in them, including so-called Christian new media.
What we know for sure is that the Antichrist is out there somewhere and we have to look at the traits of any leaders and their subordinates to see if they have the traits of the AntiChrist seeing the leaders as much as we can without media filters.
For instance, Mr. Trump has exhibited traits that lead me to think of him this way:
Manic Episode Symptoms By Steve Bressert, Ph.D.
The symptoms of mania include: elevated mood, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, difficulty maintaining attention, increase in goal-directed activity, and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities. These manic symptoms significantly impact a person's daily living.
What is a manic episode? A manic episode is not a disorder in and of itself, but rather is diagnosed as a part of a condition called bipolar disorder.
A manic episode is a mood state characterized by period of at least one week where an elevated, expansive or unusually irritable mood exists. A person experiencing a manic episode is usually engaged in significant goal-directed activity beyond their normal activities. People describe a manic mood as feeling very euphoric, “on top of the world,” and being able to do or accomplish anything. The feeling is like extreme optimism — but on steroids.
Sometimes the manic mood is more irritable than it is elevated, especially if the person’s wishes are curtailed or denied altogether. Often a person in the midst of mania will engage in multiple projects at the same time, with little pre-planning or thought going into them, and finishing none of them. They may work on these projects at all hours of the day, with little regard for sleep or rest.
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The manic feelings the person experiences should be severe enough to cause difficulty or impairment in their ability to function at work, with friends or family, at school, or other important areas in their life. Symptoms also cannot be the result of substance use or abuse (e.g., alcohol, drugs, medications) or caused by a general medical condition.
(We have no idea what drugs Trump may be on. Se we temper the conslusion we draw with "ifs" and "maybes."
Specific Symptoms of a Manic Episode
In order for a manic episode to be diagnosed, three (3) or more of the following symptoms must be present:
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
Decreased need for sleep (e.g., one feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
Attention is easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant items
Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school; or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
Inflated self-esteem is typically present, ranging from uncritical self-confidence to marked grandiosity, and may reach delusional proportions. Individuals may give advice on matters about which they have no special knowledge (e.g., how to run the United Nations). Despite lack of any particular experience or talent, the individual may embark on writing a novel or composing a symphony or seek publicity for some impractical invention. Grandiose delusions are common (e.g., having a special relationship to God or to some public figure from the political, religious, or entertainment world).
Almost invariably, there is a decreased need for sleep. The person usually awakens several hours earlier than usual, feeling full of energy. When the sleep disturbance is severe, the person may go for days without sleep and yet not feel tired.
Manic speech is typically pressured, loud, rapid, and difficult to interrupt. Individuals may talk nonstop, sometimes for hours on end, and without regard for others’ wishes to communicate. Speech is sometimes characterized by joking, punning, and amusing irrelevancies. The individual may become theatrical, with dramatic mannerisms and singing. Sounds rather than meaningful conceptual relationships may govern word choice (i.e., clanging). If the person’s mood is more irritable than expansive, speech may be marked by complaints, hostile comments, or angry tirades.
The individual’s thoughts may race, often at a rate faster than can be articulated. Some individuals with Manic Episodes report that this experience resembles watching two or three television programs simultaneously. Frequently there is flight of ideas evidenced by a nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech, with abrupt changes from one topic to another. For example, while talking about a potential business deal to sell computers, a salesperson may shift to discussing in minute detail the history of the computer chip, the industrial revolution, or applied mathematics. When flight of ideas is severe, speech may become disorganized and incoherent.
A person in a manic episode may easily lose attention. Distractibility is evidenced by an inability to screen out irrelevant external stimuli (e.g., the interviewer’s tie, background noises or conversations, or furnishings in the room). There may be a reduced ability to differentiate between thoughts that are germane to the topic and thoughts that are only slightly relevant or clearly irrelevant.
The increase in goal-directed activity often involves excessive planning of, and excessive participation in, multiple activities (e.g., sexual, occupational, political, religious). Increased sexual drive, fantasies, and behavior are often present. The person may simultaneously take on multiple new business ventures without regard for the apparent risks or the need to complete each venture satisfactorily. Almost invariably, there is increased sociability (e.g., renewing old acquaintances or calling friends or even strangers at all hours of the day or night), without regard to the intrusive, domineering, and demanding nature of these interactions. Individuals may also display psychomotor agitation or restlessness by pacing or by holding multiple conversations simultaneously (e.g., by telephone and in person at the same time). Some individuals write a torrent of letters on many different topics to friends, public figures, or the media.
Expansiveness, unwarranted optimism, grandiosity, and poor judgment often lead to an imprudent involvement in pleasurable activities such as buying sprees, reckless driving, foolish business investments, and sexual behavior unusual for the person, even though these activities are likely to have painful consequences. The individual may purchase many unneeded items (e.g., 20 pairs of shoes, expensive antiques) without the money to pay for them. Unusual sexual behavior may include infidelity or indiscriminate sexual encounters with strangers.
People who experience a manic episode are often diagnosed with a type of bipolar disorder.
I am far from an expert on psychology, but I have spent time with manics and Trump seems dangerously close to that behavior. Everything about his actions, the late night tweets, the inability to concentrate on one subject, the wandering from topic to something off topic during a question period, the need by some aides to put his name in documents so he will pay attention for a reasonable period of time, the rambling speeches roaming from one topic to the next scream manic behavior. His determination to continue doomed construction projects mentioned in the previous post. His optimism that things will always go his way. His continuing to say things are the way he said they were even when faced with the facts they are not that way. His statement that he is "the only one" who could save the country.
Such a thing is not without precedent. Manic DEPRESSIVES (which I am not saying he is) often make successful business leaders despite suffering from the trait. Ted Turner and the late Rene Rivkin are prominent examples. Some have even denied themselves treatment because the manic phase of bipolar makes them feel so good. Artists and performers seem to be particularly. The late Robin Williams stands out in my mind. Van Gogh often gets diagnosed posthumously.
In politics, President Abraham Lincoln exhibited tell tale signs. As did Napoleon and Winston Churchill.
Trump held all three of those occupations. That does NOT mean he has a mental illness. It merely points out that people with the illness have succeeded in those occupations.
And it is not just me seeing this:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mood-swings/201610/trumps-temperament-not-narcissistic-not-normal
"My analysis is: Donald Trump likely isn’t psychologically normal, in the sense of having hyperthymic temperament, which paradoxically could benefit him in some ways as a leader, though not the kind many of us would want. Hyperthymia also would explain many of his personal foibles.
"Consider: He sleeps 4 hours per night, about half the biological norm. Yet he’s very energetic, creative, talkative. He talks about having not just high physical, but also sexual, energy. The question of his sexual behavior has become central to the campaign in recent weeks. If we take him at his word, and if these reports are true, all these symptoms reflect being sped up, above the usually normal range, in one’s feelings, thinking, and movement. That’s the definition of “manic” symptoms. (This doesn’t mean being delusional and thinking you’re Jesus Christ, just like “depressive” doesn’t mean you want to shoot yourself).
(Agreeing with me above. Will.)
"Based on his own claims, Mr. Trump’s self-description can be translated psychologically into mild manic symptoms, which in technical terms, is called “hyperthymia.” This is NOT a psychiatric diagnosis; you won’t find it in the psychiatric diagnostic manual. It is instead a personality state, related biologically to manic-depressive illness. And it isn’t normal.
"Now, at one level, this is like saying he is tall, or that someone else might be thin. These are normal physical and psychological traits, and some of us are at the upper or lower ends. Mr. Trump is at the upper end of energy, creativity, extraversion, and what psychologists call “openness to experience”. These all occur with hyperthymia.
"Severe manic symptoms occur in manic-depressive illness, which I am not saying he possesses. But some inferences can be made based on scientific studies of that condition. Mild manic symptoms are associated with increased creativity, which would bode well for Mr. Trump in many ways as a leader, and is consistent with much of his business success. Mild mania is also associated with resilience to traumatic experiences; people with hyperthymia are less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a major trauma. This would bode well for facing up to the major stresses of the office of the presidency.
There are some drawbacks too. People with manic symptoms show less empathy for others, compared with those who suffer depression, who have increased empathy. You can draw inferences based on this observation, perhaps, for some of Mr. Trump’s policies, depending on your political viewpoint. Manic symptoms also are associated with impulsivity, an inability to hold back when one need’s to hold back, which many commentators have observed in Mr. Trump’s debate performances, as well as in other aspects of his life, such as his sexual behavior.
Does Mr. Trump's psychological profile strengthen or weaken him as a potential presidential leader?
The answer is two-fold: First, there's more than one kind of temperament that can make you fit to be president. Second, it depends more on your political preferences, and it depends on what’s happening in the world.
A few years ago, I published A First-Rate Madness, in which I argued that there are some positive benefits to manic-depressive illness. In particular, many of our greatest crisis leaders, like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, had a version of that condition. In contrast, some of our worst leaders, like Neville Chamberlain, were stable, personable, mentally healthy. Being “normal” is a drawback for crisis leadership, in times of great change. But in times of peace and prosperity, “normal” leaders do better, since all that is needed is moderation and caution at the helm. Churchill was a miserable failure in the British Cabinet in peacetime prosperity in the 1920s, while Chamberlain was a great success. When war came, the reverse was the case.
So there’s a dynamic between crisis and non-crisis periods, and between being mentally healthy/normal versus being somewhat abnormal. Manic-depressive leaders do best in crisis periods but mentally healthy/normal leaders do best in times of peace and stability.
The question of whether Trump is the right man for the times is not really about whether he is psychologically “normal” or not, but whether we are in a time of the kind of crisis where a hyperthymic leader does best. One might argue that 2016 is much less a time of crisis than 2008, in the midst of the Great Recession and multiple Middle Eastern wars. If things are more stable than many believe, it could be that the hyperthymic leader would just cause more trouble, like Churchill in the 1920s, rather than solve the problems we have. In that case, Trump would be the wrong man for these times, and Hillary Clinton, who is more reliable and stable, would probably be a better leader.
Usually, such questions are discussed with a stigmatizing attitude. The idea is that “mental illness” is bad or harmful; thus, if you dislike Trump, you question his sanity. If you like him, you resent any such pathologizing. The psychiatric profession, ironically, shares this discriminatory attitude; it’s claimed that one shouldn’t “diagnose” public figures, the assumption being that in doing so we would be criticizing that person. We psychiatrists feed into the public’s discrimination against psychiatric illness.
What few realize is that a psychiatric condition could benefit a leader, as I described in First-Rate Madness. Research studies find that depression is associated with realism and empathy, and manic symptoms (fast thinking and high energy and activity) are associated with creativity and resilience to stressful events.
There’s no known evidence that Trump ever had periods of clinical depression. If true, then all the above benefits of hyperthymic temperament have one negative flip-side. Depression is associated with increased empathy toward others; mania is the reverse, with decreased empathy toward others. The weakness of hyperthymia can be low empathy, especially for those who aren’t in the silent majority, like Muslims (including me), or those who haven't been in the halls of power, like women.
So will Trump be a great leader? Possibly, if you want to follow where he wants to go. Probably not, for everyone else.
But this all leads me to a possibility that is frightening: would such a leader who feels a comfort zone for conflict and finds success in that arena, given enough power, actually seek to provoke conflict so he will feel comfortable and feel at an advantage? Did we not see that in the debates? Trump pushed as many emotional buttons as he could in his opponents to create emotional conflict rather than reasoned debate. Would such a leader then having won with such tactics not continue those tactics in all his political relationships? Haven't we been witnessing that? When things look to be claiming down, Mr. Trump can't seem to resist starting a new fight with someone. He has insulted allies and needled even our closest friends. The nice thing for him about being rich is that the rich are considered "eccentric" while the less wealthy are considered "sick" or "fools". The thing about being the leader of a country with nuclear weapons is one overreaction could obliterate much of the world one offhand remark could ignite a fool in the Kim Dynasty.
But I am behaving as most US citizens as seeing only this part of the world and thinking that is where the only power lies. But there are other leaders to consider and this question to leave you with: why would Evangelicals vote for a person with a record f divorces, sexual dalliance and lying simply to get political favor when God is meant to be the government?
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But I am behaving as most US citizens as seeing only this part of the world and thinking that is where the only power lies. But there are other leaders to consider and this question to leave you with: why would Evangelicals vote for a person with a record f divorces, sexual dalliance and lying simply to get political favor when God is meant to be the government?
Please hold all these thoughts somewhere in the back of your mind or outlined in some part of your computer. We will be publishing only once a week, on Saturdays, for the next three months
