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Corruption is nothing new. The methods are not new or news, simply the same old tricks with a new twist.

Everything has a snowball effect.
We can be part of the corrupt effect.
Or
Know it is prophesied and observe the signs as it gets crazy.
And spend our efforts in the Word and enjoy it's effects.

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That's a healthy attitude because a brief look around the contemporary scene is enough to bring an ox to its knees. I just began studying Revelations in depth recently and trying to piece together the sign of the times that Christ told us to watch for. It's fascinating while at the same time troubling because everything is so corrupt. I received an email this morning from our local D legislator's office, thanking us for expressing our support for the New Green Deal! I don't know whether he was being facetious or made a mistake! How anyone could support it is mind-boggling. Someone would really have to be out in left field.

I'm trying to figure out what God wants us to do VS what we're to leave for him to do. I recently brought this up at our bible study, as a friend doesn't take any political action - she won't even email representatives and dismisses me when I try to get others to speak up. I asked the pastor at bible study about it and he said that we should take action - that not doing anything is a cop-out. So I'm seeing the different style of Christians and not sure who is right. I think of the verse in James: "We should be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves." But we both have God's Spirit so I wonder why we think so differently.
 
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Some time ago I spent 8 months in a daily indepth study of Revelations.

Much of Prophecy has been fulfilled and Revelations recaps on a broad spectrum...and reveals what Shall come into fruition.



You are welcome.



Some before the Throne of David with their Lord God seated upon the Throne.

Others in Hell without Thee Lord God; Waiting
In torments; For Judgement.



I'm not shocked. Foreigners and Foreigners IN the US are under the business and authority of the US Federal Govt.

The US Federal Government IS TWO SIDED.
One Side identifies an Issue, and Suggests a Solution and the Other Side does everything Possible to Block the Solution.

It's a FACT, some People want a Universal Ruling Government to Dictate What People can and can not have, and All receive the exact same; and Others Like borders, Like to take care of their own, and restrictions for those whose intent is to CHANGE the US from an Independant Nation to a World Socialist Nation.



Newspapers have been Peddling sports stats, coupons, advertisements and propaganda
Opinions for years, and why for years I have not bought a "newspaper".

Sounds like your email is flooded with things that is driving you crazy.

Glory to God,
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Did you follow any specific pastor who taught Revelations or did you study on your own?

My email isn't flooded, I just signed up for several newsletters and I feel like I'm trying to play catch-up because I had backslidden for awhile and wasn't studying the bible at all. God began to open Revelations up to me and I'm trying to make up for lost time and bring myself up to speed.

The Tea Party is having rallies against socialism all over the country. They're asking everybody to take the lead and have them in their area. I hope that a lot of people show up. It's easy to sign up in case anyone is interested.

I haven't read MSM for years either - I think they're propaganda outlets.
 

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I just began studying Revelations in depth recently and trying to piece together the sign of the times that Christ told us to watch for.

Increase of world DIVIDING AWAY FROM God.

It's fascinating while at the same time troubling because everything is so corrupt.

Be not TROUBLED.
The world will INCREASE in Troubles.
A man IN CHRIST, is not IN the World.
Be not TROUBLED.
Claim YOUR PEACE IN Christ.
By Comforted IN Christ.

I'm trying to figure out what God wants us to do VS what we're to leave for him to do.

A man IN Christ is no longer, what He want us to do VS what He does.
A man IN Christ IS WITH Christ and Christ WITH the man.
Nothing new...
He wanted you to Believe in Him..
...you do.
He wanted you to Trust Him..
...you do.
He wanted you to Commit to Him..
...you did.
He wants you to ALLOW Him to guide you by and through His WORD, which results in Honor to Him and His Great Name.
And He wants to Reward you for your Honor toward Him.

I recently brought this up at our bible study, as a friend doesn't take any political action - she won't even email representatives and dismisses me when I try to get others to speak up. I asked the pastor at bible study about it and he said that we should take action - that not doing anything is a cop-out.

That is called ACTIVISM... You want others to hear you, agree with you, agree to ACT according to what you want.

Following along is always an Individuals Choice. Jesus did not spend all his effort complaining about men who would not do what "he wanted them to do".

Jesus let them go on about their business...
And Jesus went on about HIS Business.

Harboring what others do, IS OUT of your control, inasmuch as doing what the Lord wants you to do, IS in your control.

"We should be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves." But we both have God's Spirit so I wonder why we think so differently.

Doers of the WORD, does not mean Controlling others and being disappointed when they won't allow you to Control them.

IF you have Scripture (the WORD) that tells you to Control others...then BY that word, continue your Advocacy, telling others what they should do....IF NOT...then what you are trying to accomplish, is BY YOUR word, not the Lords. And maybe you will see why people think differently.

Glory to God,
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Increase of world DIVIDING AWAY FROM God.



Be not TROUBLED.
The world will INCREASE in Troubles.
A man IN CHRIST, is not IN the World.
Be not TROUBLED.
Claim YOUR PEACE IN Christ.
By Comforted IN Christ.



A man IN Christ is no longer, what He want us to do VS what He does.
A man IN Christ IS WITH Christ and Christ WITH the man.
Nothing new...
He wanted you to Believe in Him..
...you do.
He wanted you to Trust Him..
...you do.
He wanted you to Commit to Him..
...you did.
He wants you to ALLOW Him to guide you by and through His WORD, which results in Honor to Him and His Great Name.
And He wants to Reward you for your Honor toward Him.



That is called ACTIVISM... You want others to hear you, agree with you, agree to ACT according to what you want.

Following along is always an Individuals Choice. Jesus did not spend all his effort complaining about men who would not do what "he wanted them to do".

Jesus let them go on about their business...
And Jesus went on about HIS Business.

Harboring what others do, IS OUT of your control, inasmuch as doing what the Lord wants you to do, IS in your control.



Doers of the WORD, does not mean Controlling others and being disappointed when they won't allow you to Control them.

IF you have Scripture (the WORD) that tells you to Control others...then BY that word, continue your Advocacy, telling others what they should do....IF NOT...then what you are trying to accomplish, is BY YOUR word, not the Lords. And maybe you will see why people think differently.

Glory to God,
Taken

I see that the lines are being drawn between God's people and HaSatans - it's unfolding before our eyes. The world is becoming more anti-Christian. We were talking about it in bible study - everyone thinks that the end times are upon us.

I think that we may be able to change at least some things affecting us and our families but unless Christians join together nothing will change. Look at how one woman - Madelyn Murray O'Hair - was able to have prayer taken out of schools. Where were all the Christian parents?

The pastor at our bible study said that it's wrong for Christians who refuse to get involved; I like him because he's proactive. The Christians who refuse to act don't realize that they're making their fellow Christians carry them. I tend to think that's where Scripture comes in at: "Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."

I honestly don't know how we couldn't be in the end times. I read this last night:

40 FACTS THAT SHOW AMERICA'S MORAL COLLAPSE IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL

According to a brand new survey that was just conducted by the Pew Research Center, 77 percent of all Americans are either “very worried” or “fairly worried” about America’s moral health. Of course, the truth is that we should all be deeply concerned because we can see evidence of the cancerous moral decay that is eating away at the foundations of our society all around us.

In life, each one of us gets to make choices, and some of those choices can lead to very bad outcomes. We all have old friends that “got on the wrong path”, and their lives ended up becoming cautionary tales. Well, the same principle applies to nations as a whole. America has been given very clear choices between good and evil, life and death, blessings and curses over and over again, and we have consistently made the wrong choices.
If we stay on this road, there is only one result that will be possible.

As long as we are drawing breath, there is always an opportunity to turn things around. That is true for individuals, and it is also true for our entire nation. But if we continue running toward evil, it is only a matter of time before exceedingly painful consequences overtake us.

The following are 40 facts that prove that America’s moral collapse is spinning wildly out of control…

#1 America has killed more than 60 million children since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The federal government endorses this activity by heavily funding the country’s leading abortion provider, and after that abortion provider harvests the organs of the dead children, the federal government also heavily funds the research that is conducted on those harvested organs.

#2 According to a Quinnipiac University poll from last year, 63 percent of all Americans want to keep Roe v. Wade in place.

#3 America is a global leader in sexual depravity. If you doubt this, just check out what is going on in Cleveland at the end of this month.

#4 Americans are now more likely to die from an opioid overdose than they are from a car accident.

#5 In the city of Baltimore, approximately one out of every four babies is born as an opioid addict.
 
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#6 Overdosing on drugs has now become the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.

#7 McDonalds feeds approximately 70 million people a day globally. Pornhub gets more than 78 million visits a day.

#8 The teen birth rate in the United States is higher “than in any other industrialized country in the world”.

#9 According to the CDC, approximately 110 million Americans have a sexually-transmitted disease right now.

#10 The CDC also tells us that there are approximately 20 million new sexually transmitted disease cases in the U.S. every single year.

#11 The number of married couples with children in the U.S. just reached a 56 year low.

#12 According to the United Nations Population Fund, 40 percent of all births in the U.S. now happen outside of marriage. But if you go back to 1970, that figure was sitting at just 10 percent.

#13 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.

#14 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.

#15 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

#17 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.

#18 Over half a million people are homeless in the United States right now, but more cities than ever are passing laws making it illegal to feed them.

#19 One recent study found that the average American spends 86 hours a month on a cell phone.

#20 A different study found that one-third of all American teenagers haven’t read a single book in the past year.

#21 Americans are obsessed with material things and are willing to go deep into debt to get what they want. At this point, 480 million credit cards are in circulation in this country. That number has risen by nearly 13 percent since 2015.

#22 37 million credit card accounts in the U.S. are “seriously delinquent” at this moment.

#23 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.

#24 It has been reported that one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease.

#25 It has been estimated that 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.

#26 According to the Pentagon, 71 percent of our young adults are ineligible to serve in the U.S. military because they are either too dumb, too fat or have a criminal background.

#27 The city of San Francisco handed out a total of 5.8 million free syringes to drug addicts in 2018.

#28 During one seven day stretch last summer, a total of 16,000 official complaints were submitted to the city of San Francisco about piles of human feces littering the streets.

#29 When you include unfunded liabilities, the true size of our national debt is 222 trillion dollars. What we are doing to future generations of Americans is beyond criminal.

#30 The suicide rate in the United States is up 34 percent since the year 2000.

#31 Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for Americans from age 15 to age 24.

#32 We are literally destroying the planet that we have been given. It is being projected that the total amount of plastic in the oceans of the world will exceed the total weight of all fish by the year 2050.

#33 There are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the United States today.

#34 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been involved in combined.

#35 About one-third of all American women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.

#36 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion when you include all forms of abortion.

#37 One very shocking study found that 86 percent of all abortions are done for the sake of convenience.

#38 An average of more than 100 churches are dying in the United States every single week.

#39 Only about 27 percent of all U.S. Millennials currently attend church on a regular basis.

#40 The number of Americans with “no religion” has increased by 266 percent over the last three decades.

Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder
 
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I see that the lines are being drawn between God's people and HaSatans - it's unfolding before our eyes. The world is becoming more anti-Christian. We were talking about it in bible study - everyone thinks that the end times are upon us.

I think that we may be able to change at least some things affecting us and our families but unless Christians join together nothing will change. Look at how one woman - Madelyn Murray O'Hair - was able to have prayer taken out of schools. Where were all the Christian parents?

The pastor at our bible study said that it's wrong for Christians who refuse to get involved; I like him because he's proactive. The Christians who refuse to act don't realize that they're making their fellow Christians carry them. I tend to think that's where Scripture comes in at: "Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."

I honestly don't know how we couldn't be in the end times.

To begin with; Scripture itself notified us One of Jesus' fulfillments was to Cause "DIVIDE".
^ That began 2,000 + years ago.
LUKE 12:5

Also In Scripture, we were notified Since Jesus' first Coming, That Began the "last days".
HEB. 1:2

Also Known from Scripture, we are notified in the "last days", of scoffers, WHICH goes beyond Disbelievers, TO; open speaking AGAINST those who Do Believe.
1 Pet 3:3

The LIST of things you mentioned are OLD THINGS that have been happening for Years.
Most Biblical Students have Known WHAT was foretold. And people who Pay attention to Political and Religious World and Up coming generations have Noticed the INCREASE In World Population and INCREASE of "Last days" prophecy being fulfilled.

Again your List is not new, rather the statistics of number percentages show the AMOUNT of INCREASE.

Glory to God,
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Poor woman.………… she literally lives to hunt that kind of stuff.

Appears so. She seems excited to have learned something new and feels the need to get this "new" information out to fellow Christians.

Problem is, it is NOT "NEW". It's Old News, and has been On-going for the last 2,000 years. The News is merely the AMOUNT/ Percentage of INCREASE.

God Bless,
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Appears so. She seems excited to have learned something new and feels the need to get this "new" information out to fellow Christians.

Problem is, it is NOT "NEW". It's Old News, and has been On-going for the last 2,000 years. The News is merely the AMOUNT/ Percentage of INCREASE.

God Bless,
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Probably fairly commensurate with the percentage of the increase of the population of the Earth.
 
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To begin with; Scripture itself notified us One of Jesus' fulfillments was to Cause "DIVIDE".
^ That began 2,000 + years ago.
LUKE 12:5

Also In Scripture, we were notified Since Jesus' first Coming, That Began the "last days".
HEB. 1:2

Also Known from Scripture, we are notified in the "last days", of scoffers, WHICH goes beyond Disbelievers, TO; open speaking AGAINST those who Do Believe.
1 Pet 3:3

The LIST of things you mentioned are OLD THINGS that have been happening for Years.
Most Biblical Students have Known WHAT was foretold. And people who Pay attention to Political and Religious World and Up coming generations have Noticed the INCREASE In World Population and INCREASE of "Last days" prophecy being fulfilled.

Again your List is not new, rather the statistics of number percentages show the AMOUNT of INCREASE.

Glory to God,
Taken

I'm glad you posted those Scriptures - I learn when someone uses them in context.

I read yesterday that we've spent 32 million per hour on war since 2001 - it's unbelievable that we worked so hard and the money we paid in taxes went to useless wars: We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001

We see legislators running America over a cliff and all that is listed going on - maybe as you said for many years, but now at a stepped up pace. These do look like the last days. The country and world seem to grow more anti-Christian by the hour. I'm more of a proactive type and I'm looking for ways to get involved because I think we're to do God's work in this world. I evangelize by handing out tracts but I'm looking for something more.
 

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Appears so. She seems excited to have learned something new and feels the need to get this "new" information out to fellow Christians.

Problem is, it is NOT "NEW". It's Old News, and has been On-going for the last 2,000 years. The News is merely the AMOUNT/ Percentage of INCREASE.

God Bless,
Taken

Yes I like sharing what I read. God just opened Revelations up to me several months ago and seeing it fulfilled is fascinating. We're not learning about Revelations in bible study so I like sharing it on here.
 

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I'm glad you posted those Scriptures - I learn when someone uses them in context.

I read yesterday that we've spent 32 million per hour on war since 2001 - it's unbelievable that we worked so hard and the money we paid in taxes went to useless wars: We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001

No doubt billions are spent on wars.
And the fact is;
The Congress must Vote and Approve an Appropriation every TWO Years to continue FUNDING a War.
Many times a Conflict, is commonly called "a War'.
Much that the Government Agrees to FUND, is by and through LOANS, with a PROMISE, the Government will REPAY the LOAN.
The Government Carries the LOAN.
The Government Carries the INTEREST on the LOAN.
The Government TAXES Corporations and Individuals and the those COLLECTIONS, PAY the INTEREST on the LOANS.
And the Actual AMOUNTS of the LOANS, BECOME the TRILLION DOLLARS of DEBT the Government racks up moment by moment.
And WHAT HAPPENS when an Individual conducts their PERSONAL Business in the SAME FASHION?
The Individual Becomes UNTRUSTWORTHY to be GIVEN a LOAN, Because they are UNTRUSTWORTHY to make REPAYMENT.
And WHO OVERSEES THE Governments UNTRUSTWORTINESS ?

We see legislators running America over a cliff and all that is listed going on -

Ofcourse. Not because of the LIST, Because that is simply a LIST of Results of Corruption.

The CORRUPTION hinges in the WAY Government Conducts BUSINESS.
And the People do not pay attention to HOW the Government Conducts BUSINESS.

The PEOPLE complain of RESULTS and then WANT the very Government that Conducts Business in a Wayward Fashion to come up with a Solution to FIX their own Corruption.
Utterly Laughable.

These do look like the last days.

These Are the End Days.

The country and world seem to grow more anti-Christian by the hour.

Obvious.

I'm more of a proactive type and I'm looking for ways to get involved

Being Involved does not mean relying on Other people to INFORM.

I'm looking for something more.

Then instead of reading an OTHERS Opinions and Complaints.

Spend your efforts Learning HOW the Government operates, regarding A Secular Point of view.
And
Spend your efforts Learning WHAT and the Understanding of WHY Scripture teaches, regarding A Spiritual Point of view.

Without YOU Knowing and Understanding HOW and WHY...you can only offer complaints and can do nothing to offer solutions.

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Yes I like sharing what I read. God just opened Revelations up to me several months ago and seeing it fulfilled is fascinating. We're not learning about Revelations in bible study so I like sharing it on here.

Mostly what you are sharing is Secular Complaints of things People have known for years.

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AOC is indeed messed up... but blissfully uninformed posting like this is just another thing for our resident Conspiracy Theorist to be ashamed of. (Now we are to judge people as maniacal because they have big eyes???)
I struggle to find anything to argue with in the first 7 posts myself, what am I missing?
 

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I received an email this morning from our local D legislator's office, thanking us for expressing our support for the New Green Deal! I don't know whether he was being facetious or made a mistake!

I'm trying to figure out what God wants us to do VS what we're to leave for him to do. I recently brought this up at our bible study, as a friend doesn't take any political action - she won't even email representatives and dismisses me when I try to get others to speak up
gee I wonder why?
But we both have God's Spirit so I wonder why we think so differently.
i hope this maybe helps, Bc it was somewhat of a pain to build on this iPad!
 
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