The Final Countdown

It is time once again to play, Does this mixture of headlines make any sense? As you read the following news items, remember that the embracing of sin (Jeremiah 50:14) coupled with the systematic removal of God (Jeremiah 50:29) will lead to catastrophic judgment upon the Western world (Jeremiah 50:28), particularly the United States (read Isaiah 18, Jeremiah 50-51, & Revelation 18 for an in-depth picture).

Group one–pro sin:

• Obama plans to fund D.C. abortions
• (UK) Parents will have “no say” over sex education in schools
• Surgeon General nominee wants to train new doctors on abortions
• Obama wants to rescind regulations enforcing “conscience-clause laws”
• National Health Service tells pupils they have a “right to good sex”
• Schoolchildren given sex lessons on what is available at local brothel
• ObamaCare to provide taxpayer funded abortion on demand
• Police officers who practice witchcraft get Pagan Police Association, own holidays
• 25% of abortions are done by pill (abortions increase because of ease)
• Abortion funds, marijuana in house health bill
• ‘Sex play’ for teens promoted in cartoon
• Gov’t drive fails to cut teen pregnancies
• Obama science czar called for forced abortions
• Obama science czar says, “years after birth, (a fetus) will ultimately develop into a human being”
• Gov’t insurance would allow coverage for abortion
• Stimulus Bill funds go to art houses showing “pervert” revues, pornography
• Same-sex couples granted legal status in Wisconsin
• US House funds needle exchange programs

Group two–anti-God:

• IRS tells pro-lifers to give up 1st Amendment
• Jail removes Bible verses from letters to inmate
• Catholic nurse ‘forced’ to help in late-term abortion
• City rejects ‘In God We Trust’ logo
• Sotomayor supported censoring Biblical verse
• National Institutes of Health head opposed as “nutty” after Christian conversion
• Church faces fine after town bans Sunday afternoon services
• Christian doctor axed for failing to back gay adoption
• Program to curb AIDS questioned after Bible verses used to promote abstinence
• Gov’t funded art exhibit encourages people to deface the Bible
• Prayers at Chesapeake council meetings stir debate
• Public library bans Sunday School posters because they promote religion
• UN shuts out Christian NGO after China objects
• Hall-of-Fame coach canned after student accepts Christ
• American arrested for talking about Jesus in Norway

Group three–just to think about:

• Fetuses found to have memories
• Parents cradle “dead” baby, who comes back to life
• Baby born at 23 weeks survives
• Grieving father finds ‘dead’ baby alive in coffin

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• Majority of teen pregnancies end in abortion
• Christian persecution roundup
• “Alternative lifestyle” vs Christianity update
• Christian persecution in the news
• Poll: A Pro-life majority in America

A quick look at some news from the realm of state-sponsored and promoted “alternative lifestyles” in the United States and UK:

• In the UK, taxpayers are paying for government employees to participate in a homosexual parade. The goal is to increase attendance to lend more credibility to the homosexual movement in Britain.
• The number of government-funded sex change operations in the UK has tripled after the government health body declared the procedure to be a “right” belonging to all persons.
• New York Governor David Paterson said he will “make sure” the State Senate votes on same-sex marriage before the summer recess.
• Also in New York, a “Folsom Street Festival” is ongoing, complete with public sex acts and sodomy from both heterosexuals and homosexuals. These sex-fests are common place in San Francisco, where lewd promotional posters are displayed in areas frequented by children.
• Back in the UK, a government official has apologized on behalf of the government and his party for legislation that banned the promotion of homosexuality in school. That is right, the law did not ban the teaching of homosexuality, which the UK starts pushing on kids at the tender age of 5. This law simply put an end to encouraging homosexuality, and the government felt the need to apologize for it.
• US Attorney General Eric Holder said that proposed “hate crimes” legislation would give special protections to homosexuals who were attacked by religious people, but would not protect Christians who were attacked by homosexuals.

This last story provides a good jumping off point to see how Christianity is being treated by these same governments. In addition to the aforementioned snub in the so-called “hate crimes” laws, these stories also come from the UK and USA:

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The Obama administration, in a cost cutting measure, is moving to scale back some of the database creating measures of the Real ID Act.

The new plan keeps elements of Real ID, such as requiring a digital photograph, signature and machine-readable features such as a bar code. States also will still need to verify applicants’ identities and legal status by checking federal immigration, Social Security and State Department databases.

But it eliminates demands for new databases — linked through a national data hub — that would allow all states to store and cross-check such information, and a requirement that motor vehicle departments verify birth certificates with originating agencies, a bid to fight identity theft.

The monitoring of citizens on a worldwide scale is key to the creation of a global government and to the ability of the Antichrist to track humans across the globe (see Revelation 13 & 14). While the proposed changes to the Real ID Act seem to take a step back from building a global watchdog database that includes Americans, the newly planned Pentagon cybercommand does the opposite. When created, the cyberdefense initiative will have the ability to monitor and log e-mails, instant message conversations, and web browsing history. While presumably the privacy of American’s will be safe unless they are talking to suspected terrorists (even though earlier this week the NSA admitted to intercepting more calls and e-mails of Americans than previously thought), the infrastructure will be in place to monitor and log all Internet and telephone communications with the flip of a switch.

Lest you doubt the goals, they are already implementing these plans in Britain, where everything from e-mails to Facebook messages are to be cataloged. Further, a system that is able to monitor all forms of communication worldwide (including cell phone and satellite usage) is already in existence (do a search on ECHELON after reading this post).

Meanwhile, the US State Department is sponsoring a conference on globalization. It is coming, and it is coming soon.

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• News digest for April 27, 2009
• Welsh parents using GPS to track their kids
• More steps taken toward globalization
• World closing in on common currency
• April 26 news digest

A sampling of news items written in the last week from America’s mother, who is “ashamed and confused” (Jeremiah 50:12).

• Boys as young as 12 are being issued ‘Condom Cards’ that entitle them to free condoms, no question asked. No wonder teen pregnancy and abortion rates are off the charts in Britain.
• The number of young people (aged 13-24) seeking drug and alcohol treatment in the UK has risen by 12% in the last year, with a 44% increase since 2006.
• On the playground, Ring Around the Rosy and Row Your Boat have been replaced by songs about sex. The new racy lyrics are being imported from movies and songs that are marketed to young people.
• A new study indicates that 7% of women under the age of 25 are users of cocaine. This is being blamed on increased alcohol use and the “social acceptance” of chronic drug abusers such as Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse.
• Speaking of alcohol, 49% of Brits say they are drinking more alcohol during the day, mostly due to fears over the economy.

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The Daily Mail reports that a majority of teen pregnancies in the United Kingdom now end in abortions, with pregnancy rates on the rise. All this despite the government handing out condoms and teaching sex in grade school.

Or perhaps it is because of these things.

Most pregnancies among girls under 18 ended in abortion last year.

Out of around 40,000 pregnancies more than 20,000 were terminated – the first time more had chosen this option than become mothers.

The figure is higher than 2007, when it just hit 50 per cent, and consistent with a steady upwards trend since the Government started its controversial Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in 1999.

Figures out on May 21 will also show that for the first time the number of abortions performed on women living in England and Wales topped 200,000.

The teenage pregnancy strategy, which has cost taxpayers more than £300million, was meant to halve the number of conceptions among girls under 18 in England between 1998 and 2010.

Ministers have tried to slash teenage pregnancies by freely handing out contraceptives and expanding sex education.

But the fall in pregnancy rates has not met Government targets, and in 2007 the rate actually rose.

Teenage pregnancy rates are now higher than they were in 1995. Pregnancies among girls under 16 – below the age of consent – are also at the highest level since 1998.

Critics labelled the Government scheme the ‘Teenage Abortion Strategy’.

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• Poll: A Pro-life majority in America
• Sex, drugs, and alcohol consume British culture
• Making pregnancy and abortion ’sexy’
• The Godless state vs Christ’s church
• “Alternative lifestyle” vs Christianity update

***The Turkish-Iranian Business Forum, currently taking place in Ankara, has yielded a new trade agreement between the two countries. Ties will continue to strengthen between Iran (Ezekiel 38:5), Turkey (Ezekiel 38:6), and other nations as they form a confederation with Russia (Psalm 83:4-5) that eventually attacks Israel (Ezekiel 38:15; Luke 21:20).

***The swine flu has gone global, with the World Health Organization raising the pandemic alert to level 5. Diseases from animals, such as the avian flu and AIDS, may play a significant role during the Tribulation (Revelation 6:8).

***Even the Japanese are seeing a surge in communist and socialist philosophies among the citizenry. This is another example of how the free-world is opening its arms to collectivism, a philosophy used by the Antichrist to gain influence over the globe (Daniel 11:24).

***Albania applied for EU membership today. The EU continues to expand and will soon become global (Daniel 7:23).

***The United States has become a nation of no core beliefs whose citizens define their values based on opinion polls, according to Joseph Farah. This backs up a New York times story detailing the shift in the Republican stance on gay marriage, for no reason other than to get votes. As US Representative and outspoken Christian John Fleming says, the country is marching towards socialism and secularism. The constant degradation of American society (Isaiah 18:2, 7), and the attempt to remove God from all walks of life (Jeremiah 50:29) will lead to America’s judgment (Jeremiah 50:28).

The United Kingdom has already made sex-education mandatory for five year-olds, and now they have announced that homosexuality must be taught (including sexual aspects of it) beginning with eleven year-olds. America’s mother is truly ashamed and confounded (Jeremiah 50:12).

***Astronomers have taken a picture of an object in space 13 billion light years away. That is 76,254,048,000,000,000,000,000 miles from your computer screen. Incredible. (Luke 21:11, 25; Mark 13:24-25.)

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• News digest for April 27, 2009
• The End of Christian America
• Russia calls for global currency; says US rushing to Marxism
• Christian persecution roundup
• World economy continues slide, prompts call for “global order”

Condensing the days news into one post worked well yesterday, so we are going to do it again. There is a lot of stuff going on.

***The Egyptian news weekly Al-Usbua reports (via the Jerusalem Post) that an Iranian vessel attempting to deliver weapons to Hamas was destroyed by either an Israeli or American vessel off the Sudanese coast. Along those lines, a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute today says that arms transfers to the Mideast are up 38 percent since 2004, with many of them going to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia from the United States. All this happens while Syria and Turkey stage joint military maneuvers, a “disturbing development” according to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

It is appropriate that so many arms and military exercises are happening in the region, and all of the above nations have a part in the Russian led march on Israel (Ezekiel 38:15), but not on the same side. While Iran (Ezekiel 38:5), Syria (Isaiah 17:1, Psalm 83:8) and Turkey (Ezekiel 38:6) will join with Russia and many other Arab nations (Psalm 83:4-5), Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Ezekiel 38:13) will team with the United States to defend Israel (Isaiah 18:7).

***Israel’s population is nearing 7.5 million, with over 5.5 million of those being Jews. Yet Palestinians continue to refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not accept eastern Jerusalem as being part of Israel, and that is critical to future events. Very soon Israel will sign a peace contract that creates a Palestinian state and divides up Jerusalem (Joel 3:2; Zechariah 14:2), but this is a contract Israel signs with “death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15) and will only last 42 months before the Russian & Arab march on Israel (Ezekiel 38:11; Daniel 9:27).

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• Christian persecution in the news

There are a lot of smaller stories in the news today, so instead of making several shorter postings, let’s combine some of the more appropriate stories into one post.

Lebanon wants to keep strong ties with Egypt while Jordan continues to push for Palestinian statehood.  Lebanon (Psalm 83:7), Egypt (Daniel 11:40), Jordan (Psalm 83:7), and a Palestinian state (Psalm 83:7) are all part of the Russian confederation that tries to eliminate Israel (Psalm 83:4-5) halfway through the Tribulation (Daniel 9:26-27; Ezekiel 38:11).

North Korea proclaims it has restarted its nuclear facilities and is said to be harvesting plutonium. North Korea is also reprocessing fuel rods at a time when three of its national companies have been blacklisted by the UN for their role in developing ballistic missile technology. North Korea will be one of the Oriental nations to join with China in a march to the Middle East (Revelation 16:12). This follows the Russian led march against Israel mentioned above. In both instances nuclear weapons will be used (Revelation 8:7, 9:18; Isaiah 13:10-13; Joel 2:3, 30; 2 Peter 3:10-12).

Great Britain has announced a plan to monitor every email and listen to every internet phone call that comes through its borders. The Antichrist, who like Great Britain will be part of the EU (Daniel 7:20, 24; 9:26), will use similar technology to monitor and track every human on earth, but at an even deeper level (Revelation 13:16-18), enabling him to gain control over the whole earth (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7). The technology exists for this now, and it is already in use in some instances.

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The UK Telegraph reports of a Welsh trial that allows parents to use satellites to monitor every move their children make. The Antichrist will use similar technology in an attempt to monitor and control every human being on the planet (Revelation 13:16-18). Microchips are already being used to track everything from pets to employees to the whereabouts of Alzheimer’s patients and (s00n) what medicines patients take. Shortly it will go global, but those who accept this tracking system (the mark of the beast) are eternally doomed to hell (Revelation 14:11)

Interestingly, the Antichrist will arise out of the EU (Daniel 7:20, 24), and currently there is a computer at EU headquarters known as the Brussels Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal. This B.E.A.S.T. is capable of tracking every human being on the planet already. All that is missing are the tags in the right hand or forehead (Revelation 13:16, 14:9, 20:4).

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