​2-18-19, Since the conservatives retook the White House and Donald Trump wanting to make ‘America Great Again;’ the liberal's fake “hate crimes” apparently to stimulate hate against conservatives who are: Christians, white people and Pres Trump. The good news is that because these things are not happening ... the frantic, lunatic, leftist liberals are faking them. List follows:

1. Jan 2019, Chicago IL liberal actor Mr Jussie Smollett apparently, with the help of two friends, staged or lied about a racist & anti-gay attack on himself blaming the phony event on supporters of Pres Trump.
2. Jan 2019, Washington DC ‘March for Life’ Covington Catholic High School student falsely accused by Nathan Phillips who originally told Washington Post the students swarmed him – in reality the kids were just waiting for their bus and Phillips confronted a boy beating a drum in his face.
3. Nov 2018, New York, Anti-Semitic Vandal Exposed As Democrat Activist.
4. July 2018, Waiter Fakes Note Calling Himself A Terrorist  - Khalil Cavil claimed a customer had left a note on the receipt, in lieu of a tip calling Cavil a “terrorist.” Initially the restaurant, Saltgrass Steak House banned the customers for life -  waiter had wrote it himself.
5. July 2018, Texas, Waitress Fakes Racist Note, Blames Law Enforcement – she apologized & later admitted to writing the note herself.
6. Sept 2018, New York woman was charged after she fabricated a story about white teens yelling racial slurs at her and leaving a racist note on her car.
7. Nov 2017, Missouri, racist graffiti hoax - high school racial slurs were left on a bathroom mirror - the student responsible was “non-white.”
8. April 2017, Muslim student at Beloit College wrote anti-Muslim graffiti on his own dorm room door.
9. April 2017, Israeli Man Behind Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats in the U.S. A former reporter for The Intercept was also charged in March 2017 with making several copycat threats.
10. May 2017, Minnesota students at St. Olaf college protests & boycotted classes after racist notes targeting black students were found around campus – perp a black student.
11. Sept 2017, Air Force Academy horrific racist notes were found. The perp one of the students targeted by the notes.
12. Nov 2017, Kansas, K-State report of racist graffiti left on car. “Go Home N***** Boy” and “Whites Only.” Perp was owner of the car himself.
13. Nov 2016:
    1. Racist Blaze At Black Church Was Carried Out By Black Church-goer (Nov. 2016)
    2. Michigan, anti-Muslim Hate Crime hoax - a Muslim woman at the University of Michigan claimed a drunk 20-something man threatened to light her on fire if she didn’t remove her hijab – it was a lie.
    3. Student Miss Taylor Volk, an openly bisexual senior at North Park University lied about hateful notes and emails.
    4. Philadelphia, Ashley Boyer claimed she was harassed at a gas station by white Trump supporting men one who had a weapon. Police Debunked It as she lied.
    5. Louisiana, White Men Rob Muslim Woman Of Her Hijab And Wallet hoax - An 18-year-old Muslim woman that two white men, one of whom was wearing a Trump hat, attacked and robbed her, taking her wallet and hijab while yelling racial slurs. She lied.
    6. St David’s Church Organist Vandalizes Own Church
    7. Sarah Harvard’s fictitious story about Native American claimed to have been harassed by an alleged Trump supporter who thought she was Mexican. Daily Caller Source

The Smollett hoax and the 2020 Democrats' shame
2-18-19, NYPost -- Democrat Smollett Hoax has affected the Dem pres candidates jockeying for position in 2020 - they had a lot to say before facts came out ... Pelosi just quietly deleted her tweet, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker & others just said they'd have to wait for more information AFTER THEY'd already pounced on the original story characterizing the incident as “a modern-day lynching ... Ola & Abel brothers were arrested ... they bought the rope at Ace Hardware ... More here

James 1:12-15

​2-4-19, Moody -- When C. S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters, many were impressed by his insights into the dynamics of temptation. They assumed he had done many years of theological study. He responded by referring to Psalm 36:1: “They forget that there is an equally reliable, though less credible, way of learning how temptation works. ‘My heart’—I need no other’s—‘showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly’.”

God sends testing and trials, but He only allows temptations. He Himself is utterly holy and righteous. He cannot be tempted and so does not tempt us to sin (James 1:13). While testing comes from outside, temptations come from within. The fact is that our own sinful desires entice us to disobey God (James 1:14). When we give in, we’re “dragged away” by them. This is forceful and even violent language—the language of prey pursued and caught by a ruthless hunter.

Yielding to temptation is contrasted with enduring testing and troubles. On the one hand, evil desires result in sin, and the consequence is death (James 1:15). Ironically, James used the language of growth, namely conception and childbearing, to describe the genesis of sin. On the other hand, perseverance or endurance results in spiritual growth leading to mature faith (James 1:2–4). This is a very different growth process!

For those who persevere under trial, God has promised the special blessing of a “crown of life” (James 1:12). James was likely picturing the victory laurel presented to a winning athlete or a conquering general. However, God promises an eternal reward, far more valuable than earthly riches. Part of gaining wisdom (James 1:​5), then, is understanding the clear-cut choice we have between one path that leads to death and another that leads to life. Source

Psalm 1:6 “For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.” 
See also Psalm 121:1-2

2-18-19, Following is a list of some unusual facts about eleven past and present presidents:
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1. George Washington's [1789] false teeth were not wood; they were made of hippopotamus ivory, bone, animal and human teeth, lead, brass screws and gold wire. Historians believe that Washington's fondness for dark wine stained the fractures in his false teeth, giving off the look of grainy wood.
2. President John Adams & Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
3. James Madison was the smallest president stood at 5'4" and weighed around 100 pounds.
4. Martin Van Buren president #8 was the first president born [1782] in the USA.
5. William Henry Harrison shortest tenure in office; in 1841 gave the longest inauguration speech ever over 90 minutes on a wet, cold day; he fell ill of pneumonia and died 31 days into his presidency.
6. Zachary Taylor in 1850 while celebrating the Fourth of July he snacked on a bunch of cherries with iced milk. Apparently bacteria was present in either the cherries or the milk, leading to his death a few days later.
7. William Henry Harrison in 1891 was the first president to have electricity in the White House.
8. Grover Cleveland served as president in two non consecutive terms as #22 [1885-1889] and #24 [1893-1891]
9. Richard Nixon in 1970 had a one lane bowling alley installed in the White House basement.
10. Gerald Ford’s real name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. More here
11. President Donald John Trump is a germophobe [he doesn’t like to shake hands], he or his companies have been sued approximately 3500 times and he doesn’t drink alcoholic beverages; never had a beer. Because of Grover Cleveland's two non consecutive terms ... Pres Trump is actually #44.

​Israel sends 'bugged boots' to Terrorist Hamas Group in Gaza
2-18-19, Daily Mail -- Hamas have claimed Israel are sending bugged shoes to spy on people in a war-torn part of the country. The militant Islamic terror group, Hamas took control of the major goods crossing from the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, according to the Gaza strip's interior ministry. Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a near civil war with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah party.Tensions have risen again since March as Palestinians have gathered at least weekly along the border with Israel for often-violent protests, calling for an end to Israel's blockade of the territory.

Hamas Charter Calls for the Annihilation of the Jewish State of Israel
​7-25-14, The Islamic terror group in Gaza Israel, Hamas officials are notorious for making incendiary statements and anti-Semitic comments. In fact, their charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and the murder of Jews around the world.

Its immediate goal is clear: to terrorize Jewish Israelis, hoping they will force Israel to accede to the terrorist organization's demands. In a speech on Wednesday, translated by the IPT, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal spewed typical Hamas propaganda against Israel. Meshaal called on the various terrorist factions to join forces to strike Israeli civilian targets Meshaal said:

"The world only respects force … The Resistance prepared, built, smuggled and lay awake for its people, and was not sleeping. All the sons of Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular [Front] were born to resist the occupier. The Resistance nonetheless did not kill settlers rather it killed soldiers, officers and leaders of the occupation army and its elites. Our victims are civilians and their dead are soldiers and military."

The Israeli civilian casualty rate is relatively low because of Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense system, which shoots down approximately 85 percent of Hamas' rockets targeted. By virtue of its guerrilla tactics, Hamas utilizes its civilians as human shields. Meshaal said: "Hamas leadership and its people and their blood are a sacrifice for the people of Gaza, Jerusalem, the [West] Bank and 1948.”

Clearly, lifting the "siege" on Gaza would not end the conflict since the terrorist organization perceives that all of Israel is occupied territory and will not relinquish its terrorist tactics until the Jewish state is destroyed. Investigative Project more here

Yes, Obama also separated families at the border | McClatchy ...
6-21-18, Obama separated parents from their children at the border; and used tear gas... More here

Hannity: ‘Shifty’ Adam Schiff ‘Is By Far the Biggest Liar in Congress!
4-5-18, Sean Hannity -- “Shifty Adam Schiff” has been “purposefully and maliciously misleading the country about what is really going on with the Russia collusion investigation"...

Jeremiah 6:14, 8:11-12; Ezekiel 13:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3-8
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2-17-19, John Haller -- In a world blinded by its own arrogance, it is easy to be deceived by well-spoken words. With the increase in worldwide conflicts and battle lines being drawn over issues of morality and common sense, the world longs for a sense of peace on many levels, free from conflict and chaos. The desire for peace and safety is universal.

Problem is, without understanding and the ability to discern false peace from the true peace that comes from a relationship with Christ leaves the world unfulfilled, wanting and vulnerable to deception.

Unfortunately, in the secular world, as well as formerly solid churches who seems to constantly be looking for "Jesus plus..." in order to satisfy itching ears.  When deception of this magnitude in the church reaches this level of depravity and surrealistic association, it is even more imperative that we find solid, bible-teaching fellowships with which to associate. Deep deception is on the march. 

​John also speaks about the abominable sin stemming from lust. Also comparing the actions of the USA leaders:

"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb.

The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." 2 Peter 2:19-22; ​​2 Pet 1:3-4, 8-9; 2 Peter 1:1-2
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One hour 18 min video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1vGSnIw0E
At the hour 15 min mark a terrific image of a house
built on sand and the floods came destroying it.  Matthew 7:24–27 and Luke 6:47–49

Song of Solomon 2:1-2, 3-4
 
2-16-19, * -- The famous hymn "Lily of the Valley" [1]  claims Jesus is the LILY and in scripture it’s a bit tricky to discern who IS the ‘lily?’ Traditionally it has been interpreted as the Lord Jesus Christ, unfortunately that is incorrect. See the picturesque description in Solomon's scriptures:

• "I am the... lily of the valleys. v3 under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit was sweet to my taste [the lily]. v4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me [the lily] was love." [Clearly the woman is the Lily; it's the Church rather than Christ.] Song of Solomon 2:1-4
• The voice of my beloved! behold, He cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills - My beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Song of Solomon 2:8,16
• Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse [Bride of Christ]; Thou hast ravished my heart. Song of Solomon​ 4:9

The "lily" refers to the object of God's love in the feminine sense. We, the church, are the "Lily of the Valleys." In the New Testament, Jesus uses the "lilies" to represent the simplicity, purity, and effortless glory of the saints. Luke 12:27

[1] The hymn 'LILY OF THE VALLEY' is lovely and I include the link for a playlist below - even tho it refers to Jesus as the 'LILY.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9hCM8tv2G4&list=RDi9hCM8tv2G4&start_radio=1&t=0

Homosexual 'Trans' Single "Dad' Suing Britain For The Right To Be Listed As ‘Father’ On Child's Birth Certificate
​Men Can Be Mothers in UK, While French Schools Erase Terms ‘Father,’ ‘Mother’ ALSO US California & Pennsylvania
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​UK Govt Lawyer Declares 'Mother' Not Gender Specific |More here
2-15-19, A UK government lawyer has said that “mother” is no longer a gender specific term preserved only for women. The comments were made during a High Court hearing where a ‘transgender’ man born a woman gave birth to a child and is seeking to be named the father, rendering the baby legally motherless. More here
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10-1-18, A British-born baby could become the country’s first child to have no mother listed on its birth certificate, if a transgender dad wins his upcoming February trial. The trans man, whose identity is being withheld but identified only as 'TT' by England’s High Court, had legally transitioned by the time he became a single parent, acquiring England’s gender recognition certificate.

According to the June 2018 report in the Telegraph, lawyers for the mother/dad told the court that when he asked to be listed on the birth certificate as “father” or “parent,” he was told the law requires people who give birth to be listed as "mothers." Imagine that!!

In the crazy USA, birth certificates vary from state to state. In California and Pennsylvania, parents of a newly born baby have the option to be listed as “parent” rather than mother or father. And in 2017, the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to both be listed as parents on a child’s birth certificate, regardless of who gave birth a woman or a "man."

What Is Alexa? What Is Amazon Echo?
Alexa (named after the ancient library of Alexandria) is Amazon’s voice-control system. You speak your wishes or questions to the smart speaker and speaks back to you — at least simple ones. Many have dumped the gadget over privacy concerns. [Note: I do not have it nor would I.--Annette]

2-15-19, In Illinois Gary Montez Martin opened fire at a manufacturing facility warehouse in Aurora. He murdered five people and wounded several police officers before he was shot and killed by law enforcement.

Martin shouldn't have been allowed to own his firearm. He purchased a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber handgun in 2014, but was later discovered to have been convicted of an aggravated assault charge back in 1995 when he tried to apply for a concealed carry permit and was allowed to purchase the gun in error.  As a result, authorities wrote him a nice letter asking him to turn in his gun; if he was a law abiding citizen he would have ... but he wasn't.

Once again gun control laws already in place weren’t enforced; killers don't care about 'stupid' laws. More here

​Illinois No Gun law excerpts: Prohibited areas for concealed weapons

Jul 10, 2013 - PROHIBITED AREAS Section 65. Prohibited areas. (a) A licensee under this Act shall not knowingly carry a firearm on or into: (1) Any building ...

​​2-14-19, * -- In January 2019, the winter freeze might have shut down entire cities, but it couldn't slow down job growth as the economy roared through the cold and shattered projections with 304,000 non-farm jobs. Under Pres Trump there were job gains everywhere from transportation (27,000) to health care (42,000) to hospitality (74,000), construction gained 338,000 jobs in 12 months while manufacturing picked up 261,000 jobs in that same period. There was good news for many industries, but bad news for one. Alas, the poor fake news media.

The media is freezing colder than the polar vortex with thousands of lost jobs in January and February 2019. 

Miller vs Acosta: Statue of Liberty Poem | Here
Aug 2, 2017, President Trump's senior adviser, Stephen Miller, had to give a history lesson to CNN's Jim Acosta. Miller informed Acosta that to become a naturalized U.S. citizen speaking English is already required. But, moreover the poem Acosta quoted was not on the original statue but was added later. “When the Goddess of Liberty was given to the United States (in 1886) its donor’s agenda was to burnish France’s republican roots after the oppressive reign of Napoleon III and to celebrate the two nations’ commitment to the principles of liberty,” the New York Times reported in 2011.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Luke 12:1; Galatians 5:9
 
2-14-19, * -- Jesus spoke of leaven and the wicked Pharisees. (Luke 12:1-2) In baking, a little leaven ["yeast"] about 2 teaspoons in appx 4 cups of flour will spread throughout making bread dough, causing the dough to rise in preparation for baking. It’s a perfect example of the spread of sin and wickedness throughout the human race. (Malachi 4:1) Since 1945 moral Godly values in America have declined sin and wickedness have increased. (2 Timothy 3:12-13) In 1973 the USA Supreme Court decided it was okay for a woman to kill her unborn child; Roe Vs Wade lawful abortion was born. Then in 2015 the Supreme Court said same sex marriage throughout the nation was also okay. [1] Most Americans now accept cursing the Lord's name, blasphemy, abortion, homosexuality, pre-marital sex, same sex marriage and all forms of wickedness.
 
For over 200 years America has been blessed as a moral example for the nations of the world. Nation after nation followed her good example; but now they follow her evil examples. Recently, to a cheering crowd, New York legalized the killing of full term abortion, nine month babies. The state of Virginia is following.  [".....a little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump." 1 Corinthians 5:6]
 
As a nation and people America has no future! None! Wickedness of mankind is described of ancient Israel that perfectly describes America today. The Lord said: "Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood: Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Wasting and destruction are in their paths." Isaiah 59:7
 
Shall not the almighty righteous Creator God judge America for her wickedness and evil? He brought judgment upon His own "chosen people;" why wouldn't He bring it upon America, or upon the whole Christ rejecting world? True believers in Christ will be protected from His wrath as in ancient Israel (1 Kings 19:18) the Lord provided an escape for His prophet Elijah and during the plagues of Egypt. (Exodus 12:12; Revelation 2:24) Noah and his family also Lot and his daughters escaped destruction.
 
The Lord Himself told us to "watch" for the Lord's second coming (Mark 13:33, 37; Rev 3:3) watch for signs; many have been happening over the past few years and continue to happen. They’re pointing to the coming of the Lord to resurrect and rapture His believing children to glory; I think it’ll be this present year of 2019.

The rescue of God's people is right at the doors. (Matthew 24:32-33) A good chance that somewhere around SIXTY DAYS until our precious Lord and Savior is coming to rapture His believing saints to glory. 
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* Excerpted and adapted from email message from Pastor F. M. Riley

In the Song of Solomon 2:8-13 we read of a resurrection and rapture taking place in the spring of the year and the phases of moon and Hebrew feast days are coming soon:

• New barley moon April 5, 2019 [2]
• Passover is April 20-27, 2019​

Aviv Barley, the Weather and the Head of the Year
Soon after the Aviv [3] barley was struck, YHWH [God] told Moshe and Aharon that “this month is the head of months for you; it is the first month of the year to you.” Exodus 12:2 This tells us that the first month of the year comes just after the barley matures in the Land; in year 2019 it'll occur on April 5, 2019. Deuteronomy 16:1

​[1] Same sex marriage here
[2] Hebrew Calendar here
[3] Aviv: The Hebrew word aviv (Heb. אביב) actually translates as the season of “spring.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces questions after her boyfriend Riley Roberts receiving House email account
2-15-19, The Democrat Socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet from Luke Thompson alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker's office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account. Cortez claims her 'partner' needs access to her Google calendar ...  Jason Chaffetz, former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Ocasio-Cortez' claims don’t stack up. It’s totally naïve and inappropriate – you wouldn’t allow it in most companies, let alone the House of Representatives. There should be real consequences.” 

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2-15-19, Pres Trump Rose Garden - 49 min announcement of 'NATIONAL EMERGENCY' [he expects to go to court and win] and Spending bill - he even took a question from Jim Acosta ... he discussed North Korea and China plus...
Video here

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• In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson was first to issue an emergency proclamation over the insufficiency of maritime tonnage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, to their consumers abroad and within the United States.
• In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 declared emergencies without limiting their scope or duration, without citing the relevant statutes, and without congressional oversight.
• In 1976 under Pres Jimmy Carter, Congress passed the official National Emergencies Declaration Act; since then there's been 58 declarations by eight presidents; 31 still in effect.

Bill Clinton Declared EIGHTEEN National Emergencies
1-13-19, Pres Trump's potential declaration of a national emergency for the security on the US southern border's ​not unusual or rare. During his presidency, Bill Clinton from January 1993 through January 2001, declared a national emergency 18 times, the Washington Post reported; many of  declared sanctions on various foreign entities as a condemnation of their actions.

NYPD Officers Again Turn Backs to De Blasio at Slain Cop's Funeral
7-11-17, For the second time in recent memory, rank-and-file NYPD officers turned their backs in a show of solidarity against Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Psalm 37:1-3

2-2-19, * -- Christians all over America are appalled and sickened of what the wicked are doing. In New York a bunch of idiots cheered, whooping and hollering in glee over the right to kill babies right up to birth - clearly something is terribly wrong with the USA. Surely almighty God will punish evil doers and godly men and women will be the last to rejoice.

In Revelation 1:3, 21:3 we learn that born again believers [the Church] in Christ are in the business of reaching out to the lost for their repentance and salvation; we don't have glee over their pending punishment.
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Our duty is to literally seek to and save the lost (John 10:7-9). The lost unrepentant sinner is described in Romans 1:28-31: “They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,  Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.”

God’s kids will be safely removed when His righteous judgment will be administered. Prophet Malachi 3:16-18 “… in that day when I make up My Jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.”

Our blessed hope is to live in joyous expectation of the Lord Jesus second coming.(Titus 2:13)  God’s great purpose in His Church is to prepare a people to be His “kings and priests on earth” and to rule with Him. (Revelation 1:5-7; 1 John 5:18-20)

The wicked shall not endure; the future life of the born again believer in Christ will be as the Creator intended before the fall of Lucifer and his minions. [1] The believer in Christ will be in glory with the Lord forever. [2] We must not fret.

[1] Wicked will fall: Psalm 141:10; Pro 4:19; Isaiah 11:4; Hosea 7:13; Daniel 8:25; 1 Tim 6:9; Philippians 3:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Jude 1:10
[2] Belivers/Saints will be saved: Matthew 7:13-14; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 John 5:13-14; Revelation 3:5-9

*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Pastor Joseph Chambers, Paw Creek Ministries, Charlotte, NC here 

Republican Lawmakers Got Played
2-14-19, Details of Border Deal was announced by a group of lawmakers led by Republican Sen. Richard Shelby and Democrat Rep. Nita Lowey, after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. However, the Democrats slipped a “poison pill” into the deal that will prevent the 55 miles of wall or any wall from being built - reported by Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky): ​pic.twitter.com/q2porHboEI

1. Funds can only be used to make steel bollard design… no concrete wall, no prototypes. Same thing as what Bush and Obama built… just a little bit taller.
2. The bill secures more than $3.1 billion in foreign health services, more than twice for the wall more than twice for the wall pic.twitter.com/2eIbweTl9V
3. Sec. of DHS cannot increase border crossing fees. pic.twitter.com/5fDW6No9dI
4. Border "Wall" construction is only allowed in the Rio Grande Valley Sector pic.twitter.com/xXE4BJFZdE
5. The bill DOES expand Catch and Release by reducing the number of border beds from 49,060 to 40,520
6. No funding for additional enforcement and removal field personnel. – that means no more ICE agents to deport people already in the country.
7. Expands the Alternatives to Detention program from 82,000 to 100,000… so instead of housing family units at the border- they get moved into the interior where they almost always stay in the country permanently.
8. Provides $40 million for additional ICE staffing dedicated to overall ATD case management, particularly for asylum seekers… so no new ICE agents, but money to ICE to help illegal aliens settle in a non-detention center in the country
9. $3.4 billion in refugee assistance – $74 million more than last year
   $4.4 billion in international disaster assistance – $100 million more than last year
10. Does not eliminate any foundations that Trump wanted to get rid of including: The Asia Foundation, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Once again the Republicans in Congress got outplayed; at this point it should be clear that the GOP may be playing for the other side.

Line Item Veto and Why Presidents Still Can't Do It | More here
2-14-19, No line item veto power for Pres Trump that's a partial veto to cancel an individual provision or provisions - line-items - in spending, or "appropriations" bills, without vetoing the entire bill. Virtually every president since the 18th Ulysses S. Grant in 1876 has asked Congress for line-veto power. President Bill Clinton actually got, but did not keep it long. In 1996 Clinton signed the 1996 Line Item Veto Act and used it for the first time to cut three measures from an expansive spending and taxation bill. He it two more times in 1997, cutting one measure from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and two provisions of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Almost immediately, groups aggrieved by the action, including the City of New York, challenged the line-item veto law in court. In 1998, the US District Court for the District of Columbia declared the 1996 Line Item Veto Act unconstitutional and the Clinton administration appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 ruling issued on June 25, 1998, the Supreme Court, in the case of Clinton v. City of New York upheld the District Court's decision, overturning the 1996 Line Item Veto Act as a violation of the "Presentment Clause," (Article I, Section 7), of the U.S. Constitution. However, by the time the Supreme Court took the power away from him, President Clinton used the line-item veto to cut 82 items from 11 spending bills.

Luke 17:26-30

​2-3-19, * -- In today’s America everything is permissible; all manner of wickedness is accepted so long as it’s not Christian or conservative. Based on past historical events as outlined in God’s Holy Word; America is in mortal danger.
While it’s true that God’s longsuffering and would that none should perish (2 Peter 3:9-10), He’s not indifferent to mankind’s increasing wickedness. God is not powerless to act; just because He has not yet acted … doesn’t mean He will never act. Those who believe otherwise, subscribe to a form of lunacy known as normalcy bias. [..snip]

The Holy Bible reports that prior to the flood of Noah: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil." (Gen. 6:5) Wickedness was worldwide and all of humanity lived unconstrained doing whatever they wanted. For 120 years Noah preached (Gen 6:3; 2 Peter 2:5) warning the people to get right or get left. The Lord instructed Noah, his family and the animals to enter the Ark when God sealed the doors behind them. The deep opened up, the rains began to fall and soon the whole of creation went to a watery grave.

Several centuries after the Great Flood, a man named Abraham with his nephew Lot settled in the land of Canaan. Over time Lot settled on the lush plains of Jordan called Sodom & Gomorrah (Gen. 13:10-12). Eventually Lot’s community became a hotbed of wickedness. After God’s warning to Abraham and negotiations about how many would be saved from Sodom & Gomorrah … only Lot and his two daughters were saved. [Gen. 18:25, 19:22]

Currently in America, New York just legalized abortions of human babies up to and including full term nine month old fully formed infant. On the heels of this sickening news, the state of Virginia offered up legislation allowing the killing of babies as they’re being born. This is murder and like child sacrifice of old ‘Paganism’ utilizes the powers of the State, particularly the law and the courts. Yes, it's child sacrifice for the woman’s pleasure.
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Now in America there’s a pro-Israel, pro-life and pro-Christian President in the White House and as Israel celebrated its 70th year of rebirth. The 'end time' clock is ticking as the attacks on President Trump and Christians have become a full-out assault from the demonic realm (Eph. 6:12) as Satan knows his time is running short ... he no longer has the luxury of subtlety.

If historical and biblical patterns continue [Eccl 3:9-10, 15, 6:10], we should be at the very cusp of the Lord Jesus Christ’s return [Mark 13:29] when the righteous born again believers in Christ will be removed from the wicked.

If God punished the wicked in Noah’s and Lot’s day, rescuing a few, how can we doubt He’ll do it again?
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Pete Garcia here