Scripture for Today, 10-9-18: Deception

Lying Lips & Apocalypse
“When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Romans 1:21-22
 
10-9-18, * -- I’m in no mood to mince words here, nor is there good reason to. The truth about the United States of America’s political and cultural upheavals needs to be plainly stated; so looking at the good, the bad and the ugly… first good … short list of each – there’s much more:

1. President Trump has achieved an amazing feat with our nation’s economy that’s already roaring back
2. The unemployment rates have fallen to their lowest levels on record, and our nation’s overall unemployment rate is at a 50-year low – consumer confidence highest in 18 years and small business optimism highest point in history
3. The USA economy grew at a rate of 4.2 percent in the second quarter of 2018 & the stock market has jumped 27% since Pres Trump began slashing regulations, implementing sensible tariff policies and cutting taxes.
4. North Korea talks have produced good results with Kim Jong Un’s missile and other tests halted
5. US Military is unshackled; again doing their jobs no longer requiring the President’s approval to shoot back
6. Many conservative judges have been appointed to the federal appeals courts and two constitutional judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court
7. Again it’s okay to say “Merry Christmas” and to claim we are “one nation under God.” [We may not be a truly “Christian” nation at this point in time, but at least we now have a President who is supporting the basic expressions of our faith.]
8. The obvious truth that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital is finally official and the USA moved its embassy to Jerusalem!

 
The list of ugly:

1. The conduct of the left is clearly riddled with hatred, commonly unlawful, routinely deceptive, habitually self-serving, frankly phony and often violent. It’s not that the left doesn’t understand the virtues of common sense, law, due process and faith – but rather, they don’t want them!
2. The left governs by mob rule; if they can smear and move the goalposts in the process, that’s just fine. Disruptions and crises are useful to them – they don’t want healing.
3. California’s US Congresswoman, Maxine Waters hysterical screeching - for whatever reason - ‘Impeach 45!’ She and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker encourages attacks on Pres Trump’s staff in public places [3]; many now require security guards. [Civilians who wear MAGA hats are also attacked. The Dems do not dissuade them!]
4. Leftist liberals ignore laws to advance their agenda [Comey Mrs Clinton’s emails; spying on candidate Trump] and that’s because they could! If laws are in their way, they ignore or attack them.
5. The left exalts senseless ideologies such as climate change celebrating economic policies that are not supported by third grade math.
6. It’s predominately the left that supports abortion on demand and attacks national boundaries, pushes for government dependence, expands welfare, riots against free speech, hates Israel, promotes violence as a means of expression [ANTIFA], puts down Christians and believes in redistribution of wealth.
7. Millenials form the bedrock of liberal activists and mobs. They constitute the majority population of “Occupy Wall Street,” “Black Lives Matter” and “Antifa.” They are proving you only need two things to succeed: ignorance and confidence.

 
When conservatives disagree with the liberal-socialist agenda, they don’t flood Twitter with murder threats or roundhouse kicks to peaceful protesters. Although conservatives on the ‘right’ were deeply distraught with the elections of Obama and his policies, they never rioted in the streets, torched cars, beat up bystanders, threatened to kill electors, shot cops, formed filthy communes in public places, encouraged assassinations, promoted anarchy, planned hit squads against homes, bankrolled mobs, shut down free speech, nor asked for safe rooms, teddy bears, pet therapy and Play-Doh in universities. They don’t menace the left with threats of rape and they don’t shoot democrat lawmakers at baseball games. They don’t pose with severed heads of the President. Conservatives do not shout at folks in elevators, restaurants, encouraging supporters to harass liberal lawmakers wherever they find them [as Maxine Waters has done], or burning the left’s campaign headquarters to the ground. [..snip]
 
God’s holy word lays out a series of truths about these matters; see Daniel 8:12, 23-25. Gabriel explains some details about the antichrist with the emerging picture reinforcing that the end times will be upside down. We read in Isaiah 5:20 that in the end times ‘Good will be bad and bad will be good; right will be wrong and wrong will be right.’ In Daniel 8:25 we read: “He will cause deceit to prosper.”
 
At every level and turn deception is key to the end times; the real goal is a godless one-world government controlling the minds of the masses. Satan's supporters will believe things which are not true [strong delusion? 2 Thes 2:10-12] (Colossians 2:8) The seeds of hate against “God’s people” are flourishing today and nobody set that prejudice in motion more effectively than our nation’s first Muslim [black] President, Barak Hussein Obama [Soetoro] as follows:

1. At the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast he claimed the terrible deeds done in the name of Christ. [1]
2. He was the one who mocked folks for “clinging to God; Bible & guns.”
3. Georgetown University had to cover a symbol of Jesus’ name before he spoke
4. He tried to implement a non-religious Christmas
5. In 2006 he said, “….we are no longer a Christian nation” and in 2009 to his Turkish buddies.
6. He didn’t recognize the US National Day of Prayer in the White House, but hosted an Islamic Ramadan dinner.
7. The left & Democrat party is anti-God, pro abortion, anti-family, pro-gay, anti-Israel, anti-prayer (etc.) The DNC omitted God from their convention articles [2]; and the crowd booed when they added it back. 
8. Liberal, leftist Democrats & media are intellectually dishonest and unprincipled because they are always in search of a world without moral consequences.

 
The Tribulation Scriptures plainly lay out the loathsome behaviors directed against God and His followers by those who support the antichrist. A number of passages provide startling parallels between the vile behaviors that are graduating in liberals today and the abhorrent deeds that qualify the globalists during the end times. (Daniel 7:21, 25; Dan. 11:33; Rev. 12:11; 20:4)
 
Conclusion: The title of this article focuses on deception; it is used to advance Satan’s plan of domination. The socialist ideals of liberals cannot succeed where truth is given priority and virtue is encouraged. It will be during the end times as it is now: that an atmosphere of crisis with a steaming, festering and putrid ‘stew’ of lies will be fostered by the depraved world to justify a collectivist oppression of God and His precepts.
 
There is no remedy for this grievous situation except almighty God and His Gospel

Job 12:19-24; Proverbs 10:9, 12:22; Galatians 6:7-8

Those who are truly born again in Christ need not fear; Jesus knows what we now face and He knows what’s coming.  He reminds us: “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you. If you loved Me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded Me.’ John 14:27-31
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​[1] Obama Christian’s ‘high horse’ https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-31156153
[2] DNC 2012 omitted God: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/04/god-also-absent-from-democrats-platform/comment-page-1/
[3] Sen. Cory Booker Pleads for Supporters to 'Get Up in the Face of Trump's.. 
Jul 28, 2018, Cory Booker Pleads for his Supporters to 'Get Up in the Face of Congresspeople'...
 
*Excerpted and adapted from Steve Schmutzer here