The Bible teaches that one day, the world as we know it will come to an end and be replaced by a new Heaven and a new Earth. So how exactly will it all unfold? Dr. Robert Jeffress opens to Daniel 7 for a fascinating look into America
’s future.
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The sovereign rule of God is manifested just as much in tragedy as it is in prosperity. Today, R.C. Sproul calls us to reflect on the providence of God in every circumstance, including our pain and sorrow, so that we may mature in wisdom.
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TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
1 Kings 14:1-15:24
Acts 10:1-23
Psalm 133:1-3
Proverbs 17:7-8
1 Kings 14:2 — And here we thought that Jeroboam had completely forgot about Ahijah. Ahijah said Jeroboam would be almost as great as King David (1 Kings 11:38), but Jeroboam forgot the condition (1 Kings 12:27) and tried to solve the problem his way. If God saves you, He can keep you! Interesting that even though Jeroboam saw Ahijah prophesy and desired his prophecy to be realized, he also thought Ahijah could be easily tricked.
1 Kings 14:7 — This is the theme of the “political books” of the Bible. Psalm 75:7 and Daniel 2:21 bear tribute to God’s control of both theocratic nations (Israel) and secular nations (Babylon). God exalts and God casts down. All He asks in order to bless us (not to save us) is obedience! (1 Kings 14:8).
1 Kings 14:10 — Yes, this phrase is actually in the Hebrew. GotQuestions.org discusses the use of this uncommon expression. Here the king whose descendants could have had an everlasting dynasty, will be taken away as a man taketh away dung. How’s that for a spiritual legacy?
1 Kings 14:22 — Well, couldn’t Rehoboam have learned from Jeroboam’s example? He was right in the city that God chose to put his name (1 Kings 14:21). But they built high places.
1 Kings 14:25 — We have secular records of this battle of Pharaoh Shishak:
This wall carving within the Karnak Temple complex in Egypt commemorates Pharaoh Shishak’s military exploits, including an invasion into Israel, c. 925 BC. Shishak is referred to in the Bible, and most scholars believe the invasion depicted in the carving is the same event noted in the Bible in 1 Kings 14:25. The carving displays a large image of the god Amun leading a number of captive cities by ropes. The scene is damaged; but, among others, it lists the Israelite city of Megiddo as one of many attacked by the Egyptians.
1 Kings 14:26 — How transient wealth is (Matthew 6:19-21).
1 Kings 15:4 — Even though the LORD will inflict judgment on the descendants up to three and four generations, His mercy is for thousands of generations (Exodus 20:6, Deuteronomy 5:10)!
1 Kings 15:18 — If Asa had just prayed in the temple instead of strip mining the temple … but he set a pattern that Hezekiah would follow (2 Kings 18:16).
Acts 10:2 — People ask, “What about those that are looking for God but never hear?” Well, we know that all are sinners (Romans 3:23), worthy of death (Romans 6:23), but we see that God will be found of those who seek Him early (Proverbs 8:17).
Acts 10:15 — We have now entered the 4th dispensation of Bacon!
These match up with the classical “Seven Dispensations,” which were modified into the “Seven C’s of History.” This is a chart from an adult Sunday School class I taught.
Acts 10:19 — If Peter learned nothing from his years with the LORD, this is the first time we see the phrase “Peter thought” in the Bible (as opposed to the many times where “Peter said“)!
Psalm 133:2 — What is precious about the ointment? From Matthew Henry:
v. 2. (1.) This ointment was holy. So must our brotherly love be, with a pure heart, devoted to God. We must love those that are begotten for his sake that begat, 1 Jn. 5:1. (2.) This ointment was a composition made up by a divine dispensatory; God appointed the ingredients and the quantities. Thus believers are taught of God to love one another; it is a grace of his working in us. (3.) It was very precious, and the like to it was not to be made for any common use. Thus holy love is, in the sight of God, of great price; and that is precious indeed which is so in God’s sight. (4.) It was grateful both to Aaron himself and to all about him. So is holy love; it is like ointment and perfume which rejoice the heart. Christ’s love to mankind was part of that oil of gladness with which he was anointed above his fellows. (5.) Aaron and his sons were not admitted to minister unto the Lord till they were anointed with this ointment, nor are our services acceptable to God without this holy love; if we have it not we are nothing.
Proverbs 17:7 — As you consider the princely training by your elder brother (the soon to be crowned King of Kings), know what behavior befits a prince!
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Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. (Exodus 4:12)
Many a true servant of the Lord is slow of speech, and when called upon to plead for his Lord, he is in great confusion lest he should spoil a good cause by his bad advocacy. In such a case it is well to remember that the Lord made the tongue which is so slow, and we must take care that we do not blame our maker. It may be that a slow tongue is not so great an evil as a fast one, and fewness of words may be more of a blessing than floods of verbiage. It is also quite certain that real saving power does not lie in human rhetoric, with its tropes, and pretty phrases, and grand displays. Lack of fluency is not so great a lack as it looks.
If God be with our mouth, and with our mind, we shall have something better than the sounding brass of eloquence or the tinkling cymbal of persuasion. God’s teaching is wisdom; His presence is power. Pharaoh had more reason to be afraid of stammering Moses than of the most fluent talker in Egypt; for what he said had power in it; he spoke plagues and deaths. If the Lord be with us in our natural weakness we shall be girt with supernatural power. Therefore, let us speak for Jesus boldly, as we ought to speak.
Putin To Arrive In North Korea As Kim Hails “Invincible Comrades-in-Arms”
As G7 leaders who are to meet in Italy this week prepare expanded sanctions on Russia, President Vladmir Putin is soon expected in North Korea. Kim Jong Un on Wednesday hailed his country’s ties with Moscow, calling the two powers which actually share a tiny far eastern border “invincible comrades-in-arms”.
HHS Sued Over Rule Requiring Health Care Providers To Perform ‘Gender Transition’ Procedures
The attorneys general of Montana and Texas on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over a rule that says states must pay for “gender transition” procedures through their Medicaid programs and requires health care providers who receive federal funding to perform such procedures even in violation of state law.
Powell Admits The Biden Admin Is “Overstating” Jobs
we get that the actual number of “employed” workers plunged by 408K…
Chances for a hostage deal close to none
“Here, in a nutshell, is where we stand: A deal was on the table that was virtually identical to the proposal that Hamas put forward on May the 6th, a deal that the entire world was behind, a deal Israel has accepted, and Hamas could have answered with a single word: yes. Instead, Hamas waited nearly two weeks and then proposed more changes, a number of which go beyond positions it had previously taken and accepted. The terror organization also demands not only an American guarantee to end the war, but also guarantees from China, Russia, and Turkey.
Russia Calls for Swift Release of Its Nationals Held by Hamas
Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova on Tuesday announced that she appealed to senior United Nations (UN) and other officials to take action to secure the release of Russian nationals held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip after eight months after their kidnapping.
Israel’s enemies have no incentive to end the war
Israel’s enemies share no common values of freedom, civil rights, or humane principles. Thus, they don’t have the incentive to cooperate.
How Estonia is becoming a hotbed for drone warfare
With a close eye on Ukraine’s use of drones, Estonians are fielding new kit, changing doctrine, and revamping training for unmanned systems in case they also have to repel a Russian invasion one day. Estonia — a country with a population of just 1.3 million — is also being uniquely thrifty, working to field systems whose price is often orders of magnitude cheaper than similar U.S. systems.
Bring it’: Backup plan in Congress to arrest Garland for contempt
Later a transcript of the Hur interview with Biden was released, but the Republican majority in the House has demanded access to the audio tapes, explaining they can reveal a lot more than just the printed word. Attorney General Merrick Garland refused, and even suggested Biden claim “executive privilege” to keep the tapes secret. Now the fight is about to get brutal, with GOP plans as early as Wednesday to find Garland in contempt of Congress, a vote that could result in jail time for Garland.
Hamas guards reportedly ordered to kill hostages if IDF rescue attempt detected
The leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas reportedly told their operatives guarding Israeli hostages that “if they think Israeli forces are coming, the first thing they should do is shoot the captives,” The New York Times reported on Monday, citing Israeli officials.
Hezbollah launches massive 215 rocket barrage at northern Israel in retaliation for killing of senior commander
After Israel Defense Forces carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night, killing a senior Hezbollah commander, the terror group responded with one of the largest rocket barrages since the start of the Oct. 7 war in Gaza as Israelis celebrated the Shavuot holiday. For the first time during the war, the city of Tiberias, which lies some 35 km (20 miles) from the Lebanese border, was also targeted by Hezbollah.
Why I think Donald Trump is “God’s choice” for president of the US (and why I care)
we live less than ten miles from the border, the siren sounds at the same time as the attack, giving us no time to run for the shelter. It may seem that under these circumstances, I would be more concerned with what is happening in my backyard than the upcoming US presidential elections. But the opposite is true. As the rockets came closer, I cursed Biden and everyone who voted for him, blaming them for the policies that had empowered Iran to buy rockets for the terrorists who openly stated their intention to murder every Jew on the planet.
Russian warships conduct Atlantic drills en route to Cuba. New hypersonic missiles are on board
Russian warships conducted drills in the Atlantic, the military said Tuesday, as they were heading to visit Cuba, part of Moscow’s efforts to project power amid the tensions with the West over Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said the Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the Kazan nuclear-powered submarine conducted the exercise that was intended to simulate a missile strike on a group of enemy ships.
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider
At the SBC’s annual meeting June 11-12 in Indianapolis, representatives will vote on whether to amend the denomination’s constitution to essentially ban churches with any women pastors — and not just in the top job. That measure received overwhelming approval in a preliminary vote last year.
NASA Watches Mars Light Up During Epic Solar Storm
Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers and orbiters have provided researchers with front-row seats to a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that have reached Mars — in some cases, even causing Martian auroras. If astronauts had been standing next to NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at the time, they would have received a radiation dose of 8,100 micrograys — equivalent to 30 chest X-rays. While not deadly, it was the biggest surge measured by Curiosity’s Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD, since the rover landed 12 years ago.
Sarasota hit by record-breaking 1-hour rainfall, all of South Florida under Flood Watch
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms produced by a broad and elongated area of low pressure are affecting parts of Florida. On Tuesday, June 11, 2024, this low pressure dropped record-breaking rainfall over Sarasota, causing significant flash flooding. Heavy rain is expected to continue in the days ahead and the flood threat will remain through the end of the work week.
Trudeau again says nothing after another church suspiciously burns to the ground in Canada
On Sunday, during the early morning hours, a four-alarm fire ripped through the historic church. Built in 1908, the Byzantine-style building burned almost to the ground in a matter of hours. Flames shooting through the roof confirmed what many suspected: Everything is gone.
Aliens might be living among us, according to new Harvard study
Aliens might be living among us, according to a study by Harvard academics. A new paper suggests extraterrestrials could also be living underground or in a base inside the Moon.
World Economic Forum Says, ‘Let Them Eat Fake Meat!’
The globalist elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) are calling on governments to promote fake meat and other alternative proteins in a coordinated effort to change consumers’ behavior.
After Protesting Exhibition Honoring Victims of Nova Music Festival Murdered by Hamas, Masked Anti-Israel Protesters Take Over NYC Subway Car and Demand Jews Identify Themselves: ‘This is Your Chance to Get Out’
On Monday, a group of masked anti-Israel leaving a protest outside an exhibit honoring Oct. 7 victims took over a New York City subway car and demanded Jews identify themselves.
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider
…The vote is partly the culmination of events set in motion two years ago. That’s when a Virginia pastor contacted SBC officials to contend that First Baptist and four nearby churches were “out of step” with denominational doctrine that says only men can be pastors. The SBC Credentials Committee launched a formal inquiry in April.
‘Intifada revolution’: Mob converges on NYC exhibit for Oct. 7 victims
A mob of protesters chanting “intifada revolution” on Monday night rallied outside a New York city exhibit memorializing the hundreds of victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel.
Idaho’s 500,000-acre curtailment order is irresponsible, unjustifiable and reckless
…I warned that this would place every acre within the boundaries of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer, along with adjacent industries, countes, and cites, in constant jeopardy of widespread curtailment. Yesterday afternoon, that threat became very real for thousands of farmers across the Snake River Plain, who were greeted by an order from the department that they must immediately cease irrigating crops on approximately 500,000 acres.
FDA is a front organization: There are no technicians in the buildings, no equipment and no sample testing occurs
…what has become clear is that the origins of these agencies are not what they make them out to be. Why are they lying about their origins? Because, Watt says, “they have maintained a bunch of empty office buildings that serve only as mailing addresses … There are no technicians in the buildings, there’s no equipment and no sample testing occurs.”
Enormous Mobs Are Literally Taking Over The Streets Of Major U.S. Cities On A Nightly Basis
Every night, huge groups of young people are literally taking over streets in large cities all over America. In many cases, major intersections are completely blocked off for stunts and dangerous competitions involving vehicles. These events are called “street takeovers”, and they are often accompanied by theft, violence and other acts of crime.
215 rockets fired at north after IDF killing of ‘most senior’ Hezbollah officer yet
Hezbollah lobs rockets at Israel as U.S. accuses Hamas of prolonging Gaza war
US military urges de-escalation as Israel-Lebanon tensions rise
‘Immense’ Scale of Gaza Killings Amount to Crime Against Humanity, UN Inquiry Says
U.N. Confirms Hamas Horrors on October 7 but Blames Israel for ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
UN inquiry says Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes since October 7
UN reports accuse Israel of ‘extermination,’ crimes against humanity; Hamas of war crimes
Foreign Ministry: UN report ‘ridden with lies and blood libels,’ describes ‘fictional reality’
Hamas urges US to pressure Israel, claims no indication Jerusalem agrees to truce deal
Hamas seeking US guarantees over Gaza ceasefire plan, sources say
Terror group Hamas seeking amendments to U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal, Blinken frustrated
Hamas Says Blinken ‘Part of the Problem’ as Ceasefire Deal Falters
Blinken pans Hamas response to Israeli offer, saying some proposed changes ‘not workable’
Sources: Talks stuck on Hamas demand for Israeli up-front commitment to permanent truce
Rescued hostage, ‘brainwashed’ by Hamas, thought IDF forces had come to kill him
Israel’s Ben-Gvir Attacks Decision to Release 30 Jailed Terrorists
Sources Say Joe Biden’s Gaza Pier Is Endangering Troops’ Lives for a ‘Photo-Op’
Thugs on NYC Subway Car Tell ‘Zionists’ to Leave
Multiple acts of vandalism across NYC linked to war in the Middle East
27 Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested in UCLA Unrest; Congress Investigates
More Universities Refuse to Adopt Boycott Movement Against Israel
French conservative leader embraces Marine Le Pen’s far-right party with history of antisemitism
Iran seen expanding enrichment after IAEA rebuke, but response tamer than feared
India: Modi Gives No Cabinet Positions to Muslims for First Time in History
40 Indians Killed, 50 Injured In Kuwait Building Fire, PM Takes Stock
PM Orban: Hungary Will Not Block NATO Support for Ukraine
Hungary agrees not to veto NATO’s deepening support for Ukraine in exchange for nonparticipation
Armenia to quit Russia-led ‘answer to NATO,’ the Collective Security Treaty Organization
US to Send Another Patriot Missile System as Kyiv Pleads for Air Defenses
Biden and Zelenskyy will sign a security deal, as G7 leaders agree to use Russian cash to help Kyiv
Biden to sign security agreement with Ukraine, sending ‘signal of our resolve’ to Russia
Russian warships, nuclear submarine enter Havana Harbor under watch of U.S. destroyers
Farage Offered Government Security, Man Charged After Campaign Trail Attack
Democracy ‘Directly Under Threat’ From ‘Mob Violence’ Says Nigel Farage After Being Attacked
Buenos Aires rocked by clashes over Milei reforms
House GOP sets Garland contempt vote over refusal to turn over Biden interview audio
GOP lawmaker planning to follow Garland contempt vote with proposing resolution to arrest him
‘Nothing but hypocrisy’: House GOP doubtful DOJ will charge Garland like former Trump aides
Report: Joe Biden Says Hunter Is Victim of Weaponized System of Justice
White House won’t rule out commuting Hunter Biden’s sentence
GOP rep: Hunter Biden conviction ‘creates an opening’ for Michelle Obama
Kushner’s Deal with Pro-Russia Serbs Raises Hackles
Biden’s #3 Man at DOJ Resigned to Join Alvin Bragg’s ‘Get Trump’ Team on November 18,2022
Maddow: GOP, Trump ‘Running Against the American System of Government’
‘Hellscape Dystopia’: Just 42% of Young Adults Are ‘Proud’ to Be American, Poll Shows
Explosive cases flow to US Supreme Court from ‘bold’ regional court
US supreme court in ‘crisis of legitimacy’ says AOC at House oversight round table
Alito recording plunges Supreme Court into deeper controversy
Phony ‘news’ portals surpass US newspaper sites, researchers say
Macron backs ban on use of smartphones for under 11s
Tesla’s ‘Full-Self Driving’ Feature Creates Deadly Situations on the Road
Boeing’s Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Sarangani, Philippines
Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 27,000ft
Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 22,000ft
Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 21,000ft
Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 19,000ft
Ibu volcano in Indonesia erupts to 16,000ft
Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 15,000ft
Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
Lewotobi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 10,000ft
Southern Florida receives record rainfall and flash flooding in a 500-to-1,000-year event
South Florida underwater: Tropical rainstorm delivers 17 inches of rain in 24 hours
DeSantis declares state of emergency after torrential rain leaves South Florida roads underwater
Athens heatwave: Tourist attractions shut and schools suspended as huge fire breaks out in city
Biden EPA Rules Will Cause Blackouts for Millions of Americans, Study Warns
As Baltimore shipping channel reopens, DOT estimates at least $1.7 billion to rebuild bridge
More than $100M spent to remove Key Bridge wreckage, feds say
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles
Crime is So Bad in Hawaii Police Are Urging Beachgoers to Take Their Valuables Into The Ocean
Arizona man wanted to start ‘race war’ with mass shooting at Atlanta concert: DOJ
Atlanta bus ‘hijacker’ hid inside Peachtree Center mall during mass shooting hours earlier
Multiple People Shot in N. Ill. in ‘Mass Casualty Incident,’ Authorities Say
Sandy Hook survivors call for gun control as they graduate high school
Arizona man sold firearms to undercover FBI agent for mass shooting, indictment says
Woman taken into custody after armed standoff at FBI building in Seattle, authorities say
Ted Cruz warns Biden’s border crisis puts US at risk of a ‘major terrorist attack’
Terror fears mount after arrests of border crossers linked to ISIS: ‘We’re headed for another 9/11’
ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border
Republicans Move to Ban DEI in Federal Government
Elon Musk Had Sex With SpaceX Intern, Asked Woman To Have His Babies, Claims Report
‘Virtual Strip Club:’ Utah Sues China’s TikTok over Platform Sexualizing Children
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Middle School Student Who Wore ‘Only Two Genders’ T-Shirt
Colorado Republicans call to oust party chairman after he attacked Pride Month
Survey: Nearly 60% of Biden Voters Confused About Basic Biology
House Dems Seek to Force Vote on IVF Bill Via Discharge Petition
Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics
Southern Baptists reject ban on women pastors in historic vote
Tiger mosquitoes blamed for spread of dengue fever: ‘Most invasive species’
4 yr old child in India tests positive for H9N2 bird flu, second such case in country, confirms WHO
Drug-resistant “dual mutant” flu strains now being tracked in U.S., CDC says
Moderna president: Company outlook ‘stabilizing’ thanks to new flu-COVID vaccine data
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The thin-skinned attorney general can’t seem to understand why his hyper-partisan DOJ is receiving so much criticism.
Douglas Andrews
Poor, poor, pitiful Merrick Garland. Everyone’s always picking on him. But that’s because he’s not so much an attorney general as Joe Biden’s political hatchet man.
Take, for example, his protection of the Biden-Hur interview tape. If special prosecutor Robert Hur declined to prosecute Biden for having “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” then it stands to reason that the American people should know precisely why.
Yes, Hur told us in his devastating 345-page report that “no criminal charges are warranted,” primarily because a jury empaneled in Washington, DC, would never convict “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” but does anyone else see the extraordinary fault in that logic? That sympathetic people in friendly districts should be immune from criminal prosecution because of the unlikelihood of conviction?
If that’s the case, then how can Democrats ever be held accountable in the rigged town of DC, which in 2020 voted 92.1% for Joe Biden and just 5.4% for Donald Trump?
Again, if the argument that saves Biden from prosecution or even removal from office is his enfeebled state, then we should be able to weigh the evidence of enfeeblement. And this brings us back to Attorney General Garland’s repeated stonewalling of congressional oversight, primarily in the form of his refusal to release the actual audio recording of Hur’s interview with Biden.
Yes, yes, Garland has repeatedly told us he’s already released the transcript of the recording. But does anyone really think that transcript paints a complete picture of Biden’s cognitive state?
Accordingly, the Republican-controlled House voted yesterday to hold Garland in contempt of Congress for this repeated refusal. As the AP reports, “The 216-207 vote fell along party lines, with Republicans coalescing behind the contempt effort despite reservations among some of the party’s more centrist members. Only one Republican — Rep. David Joyce of Ohio — voted against it.”
We wonder: What would it have taken to get Joyce’s vote, given that Garland is the most corrupt and contemptuous “wingman” we’ve seen since Obama yes-man Eric Holder?
Next up may be a vote on a condition called “inherent contempt,” which House Republicans are attempting to organize and which, if successful, would require the House’s sergeant-at-arms to arrest Garland.
Yes, please.
Garland wasn’t too happy about these developments or about being the third-ever AG to be held in contempt of Congress. Late yesterday, he said as much: “It is deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives has turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon. Today’s vote disregards the constitutional separation of powers, the Justice Department’s need to protect its investigations, and the substantial amount of information we have provided to the Committees.”
A partisan weapon? Is this guy for real?
Garland whines about “conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself.” But as our Nate Jackson replied, the AG has it backward: His DOJ is undermining public trust. We’re just pointing it out.
As columnist Mollie Hemingway observes, “Threatening Americans that they better stop criticizing the corrupt DOJ should probably take care of the DOJ’s image problem with the American people.”
This complaint of victimization is now officially a pattern, given Garland’s Tuesday op-ed in The Washington Post, in which he decried the “escalation of attacks” and the “threats to defund particular department investigations” and the “conspiracy theories” and the “falsehoods.”
“We will not be intimidated by these attacks,” wrote Garland. “But it is absurd and dangerous that public servants, many of whom risk their lives every day, are being threatened for simply doing their jobs and adhering to the principles that have long guided the Justice Department’s work.”
No, Merrick, what’s absurd and dangerous is your own weaponization of the Department of Justice and the feeling that this engenders among half of the American people that we have a two-tiered justice system. As The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson writes:
There’s no law in America against spreading “conspiracy theories” — just ask the entire corporate media that spent years spreading outlandish conspiracy theories about how Trump was a Russian agent. What’s more, many Americans now sincerely believe (with good reason) that in light of the ongoing lawfare against Trump, the judicial process itself is indeed compromised and undeserving of public trust. If these Americans are spreading what Garland thinks are “conspiracy theories” for the purpose of persuading their countrymen that the Justice Department is untrustworthy, that is their right as Americans.
Leftists like Garland are like jihadists, both in their ideological zeal and in their disdain for everything except sheer power. Which is why they continually get the best of Republicans. So, enough of the Queensberry Rules. It’s time for the GOP to start dropping the gloves when the Democrats stonewall like Garland is doing. Otherwise, what’s to prevent the next administration official from doing the same thing when he gets hauled before Congress?
As for Garland’s thin skin, he should get out of the kitchen if he can’t stand the partisan heat. Either that or start behaving more like an attorney general than a mob enforcer, a Luca Brasi.
As Davidson concludes, “The real danger here is an attorney general who thinks he’s above criticism, and who feels comfortable issuing public threats that we’d better cut it out — or else.”
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Non Compos Mentis
“I … hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes, you know, love and acceptance [rainbow flag] … and insurrectionist symbology [Appeal to Heaven flag].” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
Belly Laugh of the Day
“We are led by Joe Biden, who, in my lifetime, is the most religious president I can recall.” —”The View” co-host Ana Navarro
For the Record
“Remember, [Hunter Biden’s] prosecution took six years — and if [Special Counsel David] Weiss and the Biden Justice Department had had their way, it wouldn’t have happened at all.” —Andrew McCarthy
“Hunter was cheating on his taxes after he had gotten clean and remarried. I wonder how the media is going to make him a victim in the next trial.” —David Harsanyi
“Ashley Biden’s diary is real. Hunter Biden’s laptop is real. And they both show that Joe Biden’s crimes are real.” —Tim Young
Useful Idiots
“The brutal fact is that Palestinian terrorists have discovered that a simple costume change is all it takes to use the West’s own naive squeamishness against them, and until we wake up to this fact, we’re simply willing victims of their all-too-effective propaganda war. Time for us to remind ourselves what ‘civilian’ means. And if you’re holding hostages, you’re not a civilian.” —Ian Haworth
Political Futures
“Seven years ago, just over half of those surveyed said sex is determined at birth. Now, that number is nearly two-thirds. After all the White House proclamations, all the media talk, all the change in language to ‘gender neutral’ pronouns — after it all, the number of Americans rejecting the foundation of transgenderism has increased. … The ideology which the Biden administration has so energetically promoted might no longer be the political benefit the president thinks it is.” —Byron York
“By eliminating basic ballot-security safeguards and loosening voter-verification requirements, we’ve guaranteed greater fraud. But thanks to the Democrats, these are now the rules of the game, and Republicans can’t fix them unless they win some elections.” —Douglas Andrews
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After its huge rocket barrage on northern Israel, a Hezbollah official promises “a dramatic increase” in the strength, intensity and number of attacks, and says “if the Israelis are crying about what happens to them in the north, they should prepare to wail and weep soon;” Secretary of State Antony Blinken blames Hamas for sinking ceasefire deal, but keeps pushing for an agreement, as recently rescued hostages talk more about their ordeal; an in-depth look at the impact of the Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel and the people who live there, the possibility of a full-blown war with Israel, and why the US needs to concerned about Hezbollah; Southern Baptists vote on key issues, including how to handle churches with women pastors, in vitro fertilization, and more; Emily Sturge of Campus Reform talks to CBN’s The Global Lane about why more Gen Z women are leaving the church than men; and as Father’s Day approaches, a look at the influence Christian dads can have on their children’s relationship with God.
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Evangelist and teacher of pastors, Elijah Abraham is back with us to talk about the gospel, the church, doctrines, evangelism, and his recent overseas trips.
Date: June 12, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet
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Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet is president and CEO of Truth for Health Foundation. Since February 2020, she’s been part of the team of frontline physicians treating COVID early at home. With Dr. Peter McCullough, she is a co-author/editor of the Guide to COVID Early Treatment: Options to Stay Out of Hospital and Save Your Life. She is a past director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She received her M.D. degree and internship in Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed special training at Johns Hopkins. She spoke on this broadcast as an independent physician, not as a spokesperson for any healthcare system, pharmaceutical company, insurance plans or political party. She is a patient advocate.
The 77th World Health Organization Assembly is over and the pandemic treaty was not passed. Dr. Vliet believes they are distracting people by saying that the treaty ran into problems so it’s only on the “back burner” until the next gathering when there’s less pressure and less public focus.
What they did “under the radar” was to pass International Health Regulatory Agreement amendments from the 2005 agreement. She contends that the amendments that were passed are more draconian than ever. For example, in one of the amendments they now have arrest power for anyone who criticizes the avian flu vaccines.
Is avian (bird) flu rampant in animals? Dr. Vliet says it’s not because the unreliable PCR test is being used as a diagnostic test when in fact, it’s not and never has been. Nonetheless it’s being used to claim bird flu in animals which is an excuse to slaughter the food supply and scare people into receiving more experimental shots. In other words, the playbook that was used in 2020 for the COVID pandemic (and disrupt the election) is being used in regard to the avian flu situation.
From cancer to court cases, to gain-of-function and more, a lot is covered for you to hear and to share with others, on this edition of Crosstalk.
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The health of the economy has been one of the primary determining factors in many presidential elections, and it will be the same this time around too. Of course that is really bad news for Joe Biden, because the American people absolutely hate what is happening to the economy. Even though the media is constantly telling us that the economy is doing just fine, the vast majority of the population is not buying into the propaganda. Hordes of small businesses are failing, retailers are shutting down thousands of stores, and poverty is exploding all over the nation. But inflation is the biggest reason why Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy. According to one recent survey, it is “far and away” the biggest issue for American voters…
Inflation is “far and away” the biggest issue for Americans heading into the 2024 election, but economic outlooks and President Biden’s approval rating vary by race and ethnicity, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.
That survey found that 58 percent of Americans consider the economy to be weak, and only 34 percent think that it is on the right track…
When asked how strong they think the economy is today, 42 percent of respondents said it was strong while 58 percent perceive the economy as weak, according to the online survey of 1,660 registered voters conducted May 15-16, 2024.
Just 34 percent of respondents said they believe the economy is on the right track, although that answer varied significantly depending on whether the respondent was a Republican or Democrat — 13 percent and 59 percent, respectively.
Other surveys have come up with similar results.
According to a recent ABC News/Ipsos survey, 85 percent of U.S. adults consider inflation to be an important issue…
U.S. adults trust former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden on the issue of inflation by a double-digit margin, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll this month, which found that price increases remain a top concern for voters, with less than six months to go until Election Day.
In all, 85% of poll participants said inflation is an important issue, making it the second-highest priority among adults surveyed. The top priority, the economy, also relates to individuals’ perceptions of price increases.
On each of those issues, the economy and inflation, adults surveyed by ABC News/Ipsos said they trusted Trump over Biden by a margin of 14 percentage points.
Why are we seeing poll results like this when inflation is supposedly not even a problem?
Right now, headlines all over the country are bolding declaring that inflation is under control.
You can believe that if you want, but the truth is that the cost of just about everything has been soaring in recent years…
Gas prices are currently sitting at a national average of $3.45 per gallon, down from $3.50 last week as low demand and increasing supply provide relief at the pump, AAA said. But overall, today’s prices are still 45% more expensive than in January 2021, when it cost $2.38 per gallon to fill up.
Electricity costs are up about 29% since Biden took office.
It also costs more to buy a car (20.4% increase), maintain it (30.5%) and insure it (51.3%) than it did four years ago.
Housing costs have become particularly painful.
Just check out these numbers…
The real estate firm Zillow reports that since January 2020, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical U.S. home has nearly doubled. It’s up 96% in just four years.
According to Zillow, a typical buyer will now pay nearly $2,200 a month, with a 10% down payment. Meaning, homeownership now costs well above the 30% of median income that was once thought to equate to “affordable” housing cost in America.
And with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hovering around seven percent right now, there’s not a whole lot of light at the end of this tunnel.
Small businesses are also being crushed by inflation.
In a recent piece for the Daily Mail, Kevin O’Leary explained that food costs for restaurants have spiked “30 to 40 percent over the last 36 months”…
Supply chains crippled by the COVID pandemic lockdown haven’t recovered. Food costs – especially for proteins like chicken, beef and seafood – are up 30 to 40 percent over the last 36 months. Worst of all for the restaurant industry – customers haven’t returned from the shutdowns.
Meanwhile, a lot more Americans are working from home these days, and so there is a lot less foot traffic for restaurants that are located in our core urban areas…
And while Americans rarely worked from their home prior to the pandemic, an estimated 22 millions employed adults (about 14 percent of the workforce) haven’t returned to the office, according to Pew Research Center.
That means fewer people are going out to lunch or meeting colleagues for dinner after work.
This has been devastating to businesses that invested in brick-and-mortar locations. Eateries in urban locations have been hit especially hard as their expensive locations are no longer receiving the footfall they need to meet rent.
On top of everything else, California and other blue states have been changing minimum wage laws…
Indeed, the restaurant industry’s struggles are most pronounced in deep-blue California – where Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has turned the not-so-Golden State into the closest American facsimile to Venezuela.
Newsom signed a law in September jacking up the minimum wage for fast-food workers from $16-per-hour to $20 – making decades-old businesses unprofitable overnight.
One California trade group estimated the Maduro-style edict led to the firing of nearly 10,000 workers even before the law went into effect on April 1.
Last month I wrote about the “restaurant apocalypse” that is sweeping across America, and unfortunately conditions are not going to improve for America’s restaurants any time soon.
So if you have a favorite restaurant, you may want to visit it while you still can.
We really have reached an economic tipping point, and the months ahead are going to be filled with uncertainty.
I believe that the economy is going to steadily deteriorate as we get closer to the election.
Needless to say, that is good news for Donald Trump and bad news for Joe Biden.
But whoever wins is going to have a colossal mess on their hands.
It has taken decades of incredibly bad decisions to get us to this point, and our economic future looks incredibly bleak indeed.
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If you are an older person raised in the West – as I am – you will have lived through three different periods: Christian, post-Christian, and anti-Christian. You would have been born in a largely Christian period, in which most folks – even if they were not actually Christian themselves – shared and believed in biblical truths and values. Even the institutions such as education, the media, politics, and business more or less reflected the Christian worldview.
Then you moved to the next phase where Christianity began to have less and less influence and clout in society. Sure, most folks still paid lip service to Christianity, but it increasingly played less of an important role in the lives of more and more people.
And then we have life in the West today where Christians have become the new counterculture. Much of society and its institutions have declared war on the church and the people of God. Hostility to Christians is now found everywhere and is simply getting worse.
But here is a major problem for believers today – at least older ones. Many of us still might think that we are back in the first, or at least, second period. So we think the sorts of things we did back then will work just fine today. But not necessarily. We can no longer find a Christian consensus. We can no longer count on institutions to back us up.
If we go to a large shop or grocery store it will more than likely be filled with pro-homosexual material or celebrate Islamic holy days – but not Christian ones. Governments will increasingly be enacting legislation and laws which are hostile to Christianity, be it forcing Christian schools to hire non-Christian staff, forcing workers to affirm all sorts of immoral lifestyles, or making workers attend various DEI and woke training (propaganda) sessions – and that just for starters.
The mainstream media of course is now almost entirely at odds with biblical Christianity, never missing an opportunity to attack the faith while promoting every other worldview and lifestyle. Popular culture largely sneers at and mocks Christian concerns while promoting diabolical agendas. The list goes on…
Of course the secularisation and de-Christianisation of the West started much earlier than when you and I were born. It has been happening for a number of centuries now. But ideas take a while to filter down into everyday culture, and now we are feeling the impact of modernism, the Enlightenment, and related intellectual movements.
A new book by American evangelical writer Aaron Renn looks at similar themes: Life in the Negative World (Zondervan, 2024). He uses differing terminology as he also looks at these three periods:
-the positive world (1964-1994)
-the neutral world (1994-2014)
-the negative world (2014-present) (pp. 6-7)
One can quibble about the dating, but the three periods correspond to what I mentioned above: a generally pro-Christian world; a world somewhat indifferent to the faith; and a period which is mainly hostile to it. He says of the present period: “For the first time in the history of our country, orthodox Christianity is viewed negatively by secular society, especially by its elite domains.” (xv)
The whole point then is to ask ourselves: how do we do mission and represent God in such a changed – and changing – situation? How do we be salt and light in this new arrangement? How can we stay true to our Lord in this increasingly hostile environment?
Like any biblical believer would insist, Renn does not think we can or should change the message. But we may need to change the method and the means of presenting this unchanging message to a changing culture.
Of course many Christians have thought about such matters of late. And Renn admits to having no easy and clear answers here. But he does call us to think and pray much more carefully about how we are to proceed in the days ahead. He looks briefly at some of the causes for the changes in the West, but then – and more importantly – suggests ways to respond.
He has three sections of the book looking at three areas that we need to respond in: the personal, the institutional, and the missional. In the second, he reminds us of how we must cope with the new situation we find ourselves in. We are no longer the dominant group in society that we once were. We must readjust our thinking and act accordingly:
In today’s world, evangelicals aren’t a majority, either by themselves or as part of a larger Christian group. We don’t run society’s major institutions, and sometimes we barely have a seat at the table in them. Our core values are now in disfavor. In a negative world, where the institutions of culture see Christian identity and beliefs as negative status markers, the old model of thinking and acting like a majority needs to be jettisoned. Evangelicals need to learn to act like a minority and spend more time and effort focused on sustaining their own communities and beliefs.
This is why I’ve said evangelicals need to have a shift in emphasis toward becoming more of a counterculture. Minorities must operate at some level as strong countercultures or subcultures in order to sustain themselves. This is the shift evangelicals need to make.
This doesn’t mean evangelicals should abandon mission and evangelism or become hostile or hateful toward other groups. They should not resign themselves to doing nothing or no longer caring about the country or the general welfare of society. But it does them no good to focus on these things if they don’t also tend to the strength and well-being of their own evangelical communities, much the same way other minority groups have had to tend to theirs. We can’t give somebody something we don’t have ourselves. Strengthening our communities will enable evangelicals to have a genuinely Christian place they can invite others into, and this can serve as a base from which to pursue outward mission…. (pp. 114-115)
Of course, folks like Rod Dreher had written similar things, as in his 2017 book, The Benedict Option. But I emphasise this because it is too easy for us older evangelicals to think we are still living in a world we lived in 50 or 60 years ago.
Well, times have changed, and we need to rethink how we are to be salt and light in a much different world. Yes, the early church was in a similar position of living in a negative world. But unlike them, we have centuries of Western (Christian) civilisation behind us. They did not.
To see it all crumbling right before our very eyes is quite painful for many of us. But God is always at work, and we always can count on our unchanging God continuing to act in our changing world. Renn speaks more to our changing culture:
One of the problems evangelicals face in America today is that they exist almost entirely inside space owned by others—legally owned in many cases, but more importantly, socially and culturally owned. This may include the places they work, shop, and dine. Evangelicals who live in urban centers are typically surrounded by people who overwhelmingly embrace secular progressive beliefs and perspectives, and they “own” the culture of that area. Many businesses and residences in these places feature signs or flags that show their support of various causes embraced by secular progressives: pride flags, Black Lives Matter signs, or “In this house . . .” signs…. (pp. 132-133)
Speaking of THAT sign, I wrote about it when my wife and I were visiting family in Madison, Wisconsin some years ago. We saw it everywhere. It said:
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
BLACK LIVES MATTER
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
SCIENCE IS REAL
LOVE IS LOVE
NO MATTER YOUR FAITH OR ABILITY
KINDNESS IS EVERYTHING
Madison is a college town and has long been known as a hotbed of lefties and progressives. So I discussed that sign. I said in part: “Hmm, that in itself is worth an entire article! Plenty of rather vacuous leftist rhetoric and clichés there, along with all the usual identity politics and hot-button causes of the left.” https://billmuehlenberg.com/2019/05/29/moral-madness-in-the-mad-city/
But it does clearly show that we are indeed becoming strangers in a strange land (Exodus 2:22). The once Christian West is no more. Just as ancient Israel had to cope with that reality of being a bad fit in the surrounding culture, so do we.
So books like Renn’s help us to think about this shifting situation that we find ourselves in. He offers some proposals, as have other authors recently. But two things at least will be required of us in the days ahead. First, we must recognise that we are “not in Kansas anymore”.
It is not just Dorothy who had to grapple with that reality in The Wizard of Oz, nor Cypher who referred to it in The Matrix. Christians today in the West need to see how radically the landscape has changed in such a short period of time. The Christian West that I grew up in during the 1950s is now long gone.
But we also need God’s heart on all this. We need to take this seriously, and with tears. It was Francis Schaeffer who got this right decades ago. Back in 1969 in his important book Death in the City he put it this way:
Do not take this lightly. It is a horrible thing for a man like myself to look back and see my country and my culture go down the drain in my own lifetime. It is a horrible thing that forty years ago you could move across this country and almost everyone, even non-Christians, would have known what the gospel was. A horrible thing that thirty to forty years ago our culture was built on the Christian consensus and now we are in an absolute minority.
So Schaeffer was fully aware of this shift taking place way back then. And he had the right attitude toward it all. We need to have our hearts broken over the things that break God’s heart. And then we need to pray and think and seek God like mad as we consider how to adjust to this new situation.
Yes, the gospel of Jesus Christ – as always – is the power of God to save, and to save mightily. But how we might go about the Christian mission in this radically changing West is something to think carefully about and seek God’s face over. And Renn’s book is one of many that can help us out in this regard.
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This may be the most honest polling numbers of the year.
Fully two-thirds of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will be affected by cheating.
This comes from Rasmussen Reports and matches their previous record on the same question.
Via Rasmussen.
Maybe it’s because of the all of the Democrat cheating?
Via Rasmussen Reports:
Two-thirds of voters are worried that cheating could affect this year’s election, and many of them still don’t trust electronic voting machines.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Likely U.S. voters are concerned that the outcome of the presidential election will be affected by cheating, including 40% who are Very Concerned. Thirty-one percent (31%) aren’t concerned, including 14% who are Not At All Concerned about cheating in the election.
Belief that electronic voting machines may be vulnerable to online hacking – which has been the subject of coverage by the New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio and other news organizations – remains widespread.
Forty-four percent (44%) of voters think it’s likely that many electronic voting machines are connected to the Internet during elections, including 21% who consider it Very Likely. Thirty-five percent (35%) don’t believe it’s likely voting machines are connected to the Internet during elections, including 23% who say it’s Not At Likely. Another 20% are not sure.
Then there’s this…
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Let’s join Dr. Dave Bowen in a deep dive into how far American culture has turned away from biblical teachings to accepting what God declares is sin!
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Today’s top headline news brief from NEWSMAX includes:
[5:29] -NEWSMAX Host Jenn Pellegrino is glad the liberal media is finally checking Biden’s lies and tall tales. [Prime News]
[8:53] -Senate candidate Kari Lake believes the radical left is afraid of Trump. [Greg Kelly Reports]
[11:27] -Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson: “Biden’s open border policy is a clear and present danger.” [Newsline]
[13:44] -Former NSA and UN Ambassador John Bolton: “Putin is sending Biden and the world a clear message in Cuba.” [The Record with Greta Van Susteren]
[17:40] -Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will appeal a federal judge’s ruling on his state’s transgender laws.
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A European Union court has ordered Hungary to pay a fine of €200 million for refusing to adhere to the bloc’s rules imposing open borders on all its member states.
The ruling, which dates back to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s refusal to implement a 2020 order from the European Court allow migrants to stay in Hungary indefinitely pending their asylum appeals, also states that Hungary must pay a daily fine of one million euros until it complies.
In its verdict, the European Court of Justice said that Hungary had refused to “comply with the 2020 judgment as regards the right of applicants for international protection to remain in Hungary pending a final decision on their appeal against the rejection of their application and the removal of illegally staying third-country nationals.”
“That failure, which consists in deliberately avoiding the application of a common EU policy as a whole, constitutes an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law,” the verdict continued.
Posting on his Facebook page, Orban described the decision as “outrageous and unacceptable.”
“According to today’s decision of the European Court, Hungary will be fined a one-time 200 million euros + 1 million euros per day for not allowing illegal migrants to enter,” Orban wrote. “The decision is outrageous and unacceptable. We will not allow financial blackmail by Brussels bureaucrats! We will protect the borders and we will protect the Hungarian people!”
Unlike most EU states, Hungary has won praise from conservatives around the world for refusing to allow millions of migrants to enter and reside in the country on bogus asylum claims.
The ruling follows the success of various conservative and patriotic parties across the continent during last week’s European elections.
Unfortauntely, Hungary appeared to buck this trend after Orban’s support dropped from 55 percent to 44 percent compared with the country’s 2022 general election.
@PM_ViktorOrban: Summarizing the result of the European Parliament elections, we could send it to Brussels in a telegram that reads:
Stop migration! Stop gender! Stop war! Stop Soros! Stop Brussels! pic.twitter.com/yqryRwDSKU— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) June 9, 2024
However, Orban appeared buoyed by the success of other conservative parties, such as France’s National Rally and Germany’s Alternative for Germany party.
“To sum up the result of the European parliamentary election we can resume it best as a telegram that sounds like this,” he said. “Migration full stop. Gender full stop. War full stop. Soros full stop, Brussels full stop.”
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Using the same tactics as the Jan. 6 Committee, Pelosi is quick to bury any evidence exonerating Trump from any claims of ‘insurrection.’
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Newt Gingrich
Real Clear Wire
Democratic analysts don’t seem to understand why the all-out legal assault on President Donald Trump isn’t working. It’s because they keep talking among themselves and not with the American people.
The American people don’t live and work in the New York-Washington political-media-government bubble. If reporters and analysts listened to Americans, as we do at America’s New Majority Project, they would learn how decisive the choice between President Joe Biden or President Trump is. They would also see how difficult, if not impossible, it will be for President Biden to get easily re-elected.
The propaganda media is trying to focus the election on what it sees as President Trump’s flaws. The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are trying to focus the election on what they see as the threat President Trump represents.
But the 2024 election is ultimately going to come down to a simple question: Can the American people afford four more years of Biden’s policies and principles?
President Trump’s problems all involve his own alleged behavior and activities. Even the totally phony legal attacks remain locked into a Trump-centered issue. No American is hurt by the things President Trump has supposedly done. Indeed, few Americans pay any attention to the outlandish, manipulated legal attacks on President Trump.
Most Americans see the case against Trump as political lawfare. If anything, they are offended by the left’s assault on the rule of law and the Constitution. This is why the conviction in the so-called hush money trial led to an enormous surge of contributions to Trump’s campaign. Far from running away from President Trump, the American people found themselves running to defend him. They saw him as a champion being persecuted unfairly and took the conviction as a direct warning of what could happen to them.
By contrast, President Biden’s problems all impact everyday Americans. Bidenflation continues to drive already high prices higher. Child care costs increased 4.1 percent in the last year. Young parents are having to take on third and fourth jobs just to break even on costs. Grocery prices are forcing Americans to make tough decisions about how to feed their families. Young people can’t afford to buy houses – which is more than offsetting any good will Biden might have generated by (illegally) waiving student loan repayments.
President Biden’s policies are causing millions of Americans real pain.
Biden’s open border policy allows Venezuelan criminals to go to New York City and murder policemen. Biden’s open border policy allows fentanyl and other drugs to flood our country and poison our communities. When more than 100,000 Americans a year are dying from drug overdoses, it is hard worry about how Trump valued his apartment or paid his attorney.
The average American can’t afford groceries, gasoline, or the electricity bill thanks to Bidenflation. Democrats want Americans to focus on these legal attacks. But Americans are focused on their own survival in the terrible economy President Biden and Democrats created.
For the elite establishment Democrats, this is all still about politics. For the American people, it’s about survival.
Economically, Biden’s destructive policies make life more expensive. Culturally, people are sick of radical dictates which denigrate religious liberty and seek to indoctrinate children against the will of their parents. Finally, as a matter of safety, Americans realize that Biden does not have the knowledge, ability, or wits to defend our nation against our adversaries.
The 2024 election isn’t about what the establishment media thinks. It’s about America’s survival.
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This article was originally published by RealClearPolicy and made available via RealClearWire.
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On Thursday’s “Wake Up America,” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said we need to find out what the Biden family did to deserve millions of dollars from countries that are adversarial to America.
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Reflecting on why some celebrate Pride Month, and my appearance on Fox News in debating a pastor who supports homosexuality, I decided to re-release these points:
1. Tolerance is simply putting up with differences, but love embraces regardless of differences. In the past, I had the privilege of visiting a male prostitute in North Hollywood… I had received a call from his sister, telling me that he was suicidal. I drove there the next day and spent two hours with him, sharing my own prodigal story and telling him about God’s love and the hope we have in Christ.
When I left, he seemed built up and encouraged, but within a month, I received a call telling me that he had died in his sleep. Before his death, he told his family he had been reading my books. Tolerance would not have motivated me to drive three hours round trip, but love did!
2. Challenging those we disagree with is often a characteristic of love, not hate. Parents confront, challenge, and admonish daily. Do they hate their children?
When people disagree, do they always hate each other? Of course not. The reason challenges against the LGBTQ agenda are labeled “hate speech” is to silence the messenger. Those who support the LGBTQ movement wouldn’t get very far if they said, “We know that many Christians love us, but we don’t like their advice.”
3. The Creator made His plan obvious. Jesus said that since the beginning of creation, God created them male and female so that they would be joined together and become one flesh (Mark 10:6-8). Jesus adds, “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Verse 9). We can see from God’s original design that males and females are to be joined together. Yes, there are only two genders, not an infinite number.
As many today struggle with what is called “gender confusion” or “gender dysphoria,” we can lovingly remind them of this biblical truth: God is not the author of confusion but of peace (1 Cor 14:33).
4. There is no Scriptural support for homosexuality or transgenderism. Some argue, “The Bible is not an ethical textbook—culture changes, and so does the Bible.” Not so.
Not a single moral law that God has ever given is obsolete. Homosexuality and transgenderism are never once painted in a positive light in Scripture; sexual perversion is always identified as a sin. To suggest that Naomi and Ruth or Jonathan and David had same-sex relationships gives the phrase “grasping for the wind” new meaning. This is eisegesis in its purest form—reading things into the text that are not there.
Feelings are not a gauge of truth. Some parents are inclined to change their views when their children come out as gay or transgender. When that happens, we must lovingly explain to our children that we all struggle with sin, but that is not a reason to reinterpret the clear meaning of Scripture.
If a child is struggling with anger, disobedience, or addiction, we don’t change the Scriptures to fit their behavior. Instead, we offer hope in the midst of their struggle. No matter how many laws are passed in favor of gay marriage or transgenderism, it will not change God’s mind. The Bible says, “Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6). Times change — truth does not.
5. The Bible is crystal clear. It’s been said, “If the plain sense makes good sense, seek no other sense lest it result in nonsense.”
I cringe whenever I hear those who support homosexuality say that phrases such as “abandoning natural relations” in Romans 1:26-28 mean something different such as switching passions (e.g., a person likes men one day and women the next). Or that homosexuality is fine as long as the couple is committed.
Some say that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was only neglecting the poor, but that is not what the Bible says. The sins of homosexuality and sexual immorality are identified in Gen 19:4-9 and Jude 1:7). Additionally, church history also supports the biblical teachings against homosexuality. The early Church Fathers, as well as the creeds and confessions, and the later Reformers all echoed the same truth in this area.
6. The mocking tones of most pastors who support homosexuality speak volumes. A movement that truly is of God is undergirded with love and humility; words are seasoned with grace. But the opposite is often true: One well-known pastor mocked fundamentalists, saying, “They are not fun and they are mental.”
Another leader made a shocking statement, “Our greatest spiritual problem has not been sin, it’s been shame.” Confused? So was I! Many of the Christian leaders who support the LGBTQ agenda are angry and arrogant—they speak only to their cheerleaders and ridicule those who don’t agree with them. It reminds me of Jeremiah 23, where teachers were altering God’s Word and actually encouraging sin.
7. “But I was born this way” is not an excuse. The Bible teaches that everyone is born a sinner. I was born to lie, cheat, lust, and deceive, but that doesn’t make it right—it makes me sinful and in desperate need of a Savior.
In closing, when both sides stand before God, one will say, “Lord, I followed your Word as best as I could. I upheld the Scriptures and anchored my life to the fundamentals of the faith. Your Word appeared crystal clear in this area.”
But the other side will say something like, “Lord, I believe that you gave us a fresh and new perspective in this area. I know that many Scriptures, as well as church history, cast homosexuality in the same light as other sins, but I don’t think that applies now.”
Choose your side carefully.
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