Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver said, “We have had more migrant arrivals in our city than any city in America per capita.” He asked ole Joe Biden administration for more work authorizations to get migrants off streets. Temperatures are falling and migrants keep coming. The Mayor is hoping work authorizations will help some of those in tents and shelters find more permanent housing.
 
However, the mayors, for good reason and likely fear of retribution, entirely omit that the Biden administration’s disastrous open southern border policies are at the center of what sparked the invasion of millions of migrants (and individuals on the FBI’s terror watch list) from all over the world into the US ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Five USA States Attempting to Interfere in 2024 Election
12-29-23, Forbes [here] -- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled Thursday to disqualify  and remove President Trump from the 2024 ballot claiming he’s an “insurrectionist” for inciting the
Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

2023 Pakistan
12-24-23, BBC --   In Sept 2023 the Christian community in the city of Jaranwala, in north-eastern Pakistan, saw nearly two dozen churches and tens of ... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67781469

2007 India
Churches Torched On Christmas
Dec 26, 2007, CBS --  Hindu terrorists ransacked and burned eight village Christian churches in eastern India, marring Christian Christmas celebrations.
 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-india-churches-torched-on-christmas/

Muslim Terrorists Kill 200 in Christian Villages
https://catholicvote.org › muslim-terrorists-kill-150-ch...
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2023 World
Annual Persecution Trends report highlights Nigeria, India, China and Iran as countries of growing concern
12-28-22, According to Release International’s latest Persecution Trends report. [here]  Nigeria, India and China are nations where the persecution of Christians looks set to increase in 2023. Terror groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa continue to defy authorities. Also Fulani militants attack Christian villages with impunity. 

​4-18-14, The kidnapping of more than one hundred Christian girls in northeastern Nigeria has triggered alarm in the media regarding the Islamist terror group responsible, Boko Haram. While this is one of their most high-profile attacks, the group has kidnapped and slaughtered Christians... they have included anything from bombing Christian churches to murdering Christian civilians one village at a time and, yes, kidnapping and converting Christian girls against their will.
​More here:https://helsinkiherald.com/2023/12/terrorists-kill-150-in-christmas-eve-attack-on-sleeping-christian-villages/
https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/very-terrifying-christmas-140-villagers-massacred-christian-area-nigeria
https://www.persecution.org/2023/12/26/at-least-96-nigerians-killed-in-christmas-eve-rampage-in-plateau-state/

​Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion [here]
12-18-23, (Reuters) - Japan's Nippon Steel (5401.T) clinched a deal buying U.S. Steel (X.N) for $14.9 billion in cash, prevailing in ...

The iconic Pittsburgh-based company is being sold to Japan. No big changes have been relayed to the more than 1,800 employees at U.S. Steel’s Minntac and Keetac iron ore mines and pellet plants in Keewatin and Mountain Iron, and Nippon vowed to honor union contracts.

​Japanese company Nippon to buy US Steel, worrying Iron [more]
12-19-23, PioneerPress, TwinCities -- Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Oliver, J.P. Morgan and Charles Schwab began to take over or peddle influence, resulting in the founding of ..

'We're bringing it back for some things we need': Some shoppers are heading to the stores to make after Christmas returns.

The National Retail Federation says almost 20% of gifts will be returned or exchanged after Christmas. More here

​12-25-23, * -- Today in the USA the ominous trends are taking us where no one want’s to go; 2023 was not a good year for America. Hunger, homelessness and the suicide rate [1] just continues to increase and almost nightly we see chaos in the streets. And I expect 2024 election season to add additional strain to our society, and I don’t think that our society will be able to handle it.  When conditions deteriorate, it is often those at the bottom of the economic food chain that feel it first. Food bank leaders from all corners of the country report that their neighborhood pantries are serving more people while having less resources, as economic pressures continue to ravage the budgets of low-income Americans and service providers alike. [..]

One out of every five children in the U.S. are going hungry. Meanwhile, homelessness in the U.S. is increasing at the fastest rate ever recorded. USA experienced a dramatic 12 percent increase in homelessness as soaring rents. Reported in January 2023 approximately 653,000 people are homeless. That’s the highest number since the country began keeping records in 2007.

Retail theft has absolutely skyrocketed in many of our largest cities since 2019; with many retail outlets just closing. Crime-ridden New York City has seen the biggest impact with a 64 percent increase in retail theft, followed by Los Angeles with a 61 percent jump and Virginia Beach, Virginia, which has seen a 44 percent rise. The vast hordes of illegal migrants constantly being added to the mix only makes things worse.
 
Ole Joe Biden criticized news coverage ... but we have reached a stage where all of the charades are finally crumbling. So brace yourself for what is ahead, because we are going to experience so much chaos during the year that is in front of us.
According to USA Today, “Americans are lonely and it’s killing them”, and at this point things are so bad that this crisis is being called “a new epidemic.” Loneliness has far greater implications for our health when we struggle with a sense of social disconnection or isolated. It’s especially bad during the Christmas holidays when you don’t have anyone to lean on for support. [Note: that’s where God comes in - but the liberal Leftist God hating leaders have removed God from the schools and dialog.]

​Israel's War Against Hamas Won't End Even When the Shooting Stops [here]
11-8-23, HaaretzNews -- There will be no image of victory from this war, because it won't end even when the shooting stops. The hatred of the two factions is too strong - stems from their patriarchs Abraham's two sons: Isaac & Ishmael ... 

​Netanyahu says war ‘isn’t close to finished’
12-25-23, Guardian [here]-- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to expand the Gaza operation, saying the war “isn’t close to finished” and will take a long time. He dismissed what he cast as false media speculation that his government might call a halt to fighting against Hamas.

​Is there a war on Christmas? Christians and Conservative Republicans say yes [here]
12-10-20, YouGov.com --  A 2018 YouGov poll found that 39% of Americans believed there was a war on Christmas while 33% disagreed. The poll was conducted without political weighting, it shows that a similar number of Americans overall (40%) believe there is a war against Christmas today...

​Keep Christ in Christmas
12-21-23, VincentianNews -- It's that time of year once again when we marvel at the meaning of this Advent of Christmas. If Christ is the title of this annual event, we should by natural inclination ensure that He is center stage; but can we in all honesty proclaim we have not excluded Him from the season that is His?...

​12-19-23, * -- Apparently the USA - with 9 allies: Great Britain, Italy, Bahrain, Canada, France, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain — are on the verge of entering a new Middle East quagmire as an international armada assembles in the international waters around the Islamic nation of Yemen. The mission? Stop Yemen from threatening cargo and oil tankers headed to Israel.
 
Tiny Yemen has surprised the West with its ferocity attacking ships. This is a violation of international law and the West is fully justified in trying to stop them; on paper it appears that Yemen is outnumbered and seriously outgunned. A sure loser? Not so fast. The U.S. Navy constitutes the majority of the fleet sailing against Yemen, has some real vulnerabilities that will limit its actions. [..]
 
Each U.S. destroyer carries an estimated 90 missiles (perhaps a few more). Their primary mission is to protect the U.S. aircraft carrier they are shielding. What happens when Yemen fires 100 drones/ rockets/ missiles at a U.S. carrier? The U.S. Navy got rid of the ship tenders, i.e. those vessels capable of resupplying destroyers with new missiles to replace the expended rounds. In order to reload, that destroyer must sail to the nearest friendly port where the U.S. has stockpiled missiles for resupply.

The problems don’tt stop there as each of the Aegis missiles, cost about $2 million dollars. If Yemen opts to use drone swarms to saturate the battle space around a carrier, then the USA will firing very expensive missiles to destroy relatively inexpensive drones; and the U.S. only has a limited supply of these air defense missiles and does not have the industrial capability in place and operating to rapidly produce new ones to make up the deficit. The U.S. Navy may find itself having to sail away without finishing the job of eliminating the drone/missile threat from miniscule “Yemen.”
On November 9, 2023 the Yemenis shot down a MQ-9 Reaper drone [1] costing appx $30 million. What happens if Yemen sinks one or two U.S. Navy ships? Yemen, can inflict some serious damage to some of the ships and by doing so, score a moral victory that will fuel doubt about America’s naval capabilities and staying power. Perhaps this explains why the U.S. has been so slow to respond to the Yemenis attack.
"...Lord and His Christ shall reign forever and ever.'” Revelation 11:15

​Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. In the first millennium of the Christian era, leaders in the European Christian (Catholic) hierarchy developed a dogma that: all Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ...

Life goes on in Israel even as the Iron Dome takes out missiles sent from Syria and Lebanon. In Gaza, Khan Yunis and Shahjaya are under nearly constant bombing.  US Defense Sec Austin has chastised us, saying we need to make our attacks more surgical. What the world fails to understand is that the Islamic terrorist's underground network of tunnels is so vast that eradicating the cities below the cities will leave a lot of devastation, even when done with precision weapons. So far, 1500 shafts and tunnels have been found, even large enough for the passage of vehicles.
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Many complain that Israel must balance the destruction with humanitarian aid. I’m struggling to think of any past war when that was a requirement. Is Russia sending humanitarian aid to the Ukrainians who are being displaced? Humanitarian aid that is currently being sent to Palestinian civilians is being stolen by Hamas. Updates:
- In the Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank), there are daily raids rooting out Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists. 
- Up in the north, many are still expecting the war in Lebanon and Syria to launch. The US, Great Britain, France, and Germany are asking their citizens to leave Lebanon and Syria, along with Iraq and Yemen. ​

Hezbollah in Lebanon has funding, training and 250,000 missiles in their arsenal
- In Syria, the IDF struck hard around Damascus and al-Dimas this past week. 
- Hamas Commander and doctor ... Ahmed al-Kahlout, director of the Kamal Aswan Hospital in Gaza, was arrested by the IDF ... he's revealed that Hamas used his hospital as a military post, and he registered terrorists as medical staff to shield them from scrutiny. He also admitted to using his hospital to hide a captured Israeli soldier. Our world is not into facts anymore as the world chastises Israel.

This is the time we are living in; delusion is incredibly strong. We are feeling the soon rise of the antichrist. His spirit is already here. People’s gullibility to the lies of the enemy will only increase as time goes on. Our blessed hope is our soon rapture. The apostle Paul warned the Thessalonians:
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 – “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”