The Unholy Baptism

Since the mid-20th century, crime and moral depravity have exploded across the world, and particularly in the west. Certainly, those increases fulfill prophecies that Jesus Christ and the apostle Paul revealed concerning the end times.

Christ revealed that "because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:12-13) What did Christ mean when he stated that "the love of most will grow cold"? He clearly meant that many people who will claim to be His followers--or Christians--will lose their love for God and turn away from the faith in the last days.

But how does that translate into the increase of crime and moral decadence? When people lose their love for God, their faith declines. And they no longer honor or respect His laws and commandments. Nearly 3,000 years ago, King Solomon wrote this: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7)

The apostle Paul echoed Christ's prophecy with this message in his second letter to fellow apostle Timothy: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

There's a cause and effect relationship between the world's increasing rejection of God and the rise in crime and depravity. But there's also an overlooked factor in that relationship, and that factor is the use of hallucinogenic drugs, and the practices of occultism and eastern mysticism that have increased exponentially since the middle of the previous century.

What's the common denominator? Drugs, occultism and eastern mystical practices bring people into direct contact with demonic spirits that influence their worldview and encourage them to violate God's transcendent moral laws. Paul recorded another relevant prophecy that directly relates to the increase of crime and depravity, and the rising popularity of psychedelic drugs, occultism and eastern mysticism: "The (Holy) Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." (1 Timothy 4:1)

Why did hallucinogens, occultism and eastern mysticism become so popular in the previous century? Because they promised people a new consciousness that promised them happiness and an escape from fear and anxiety. And they promised to prepare the world for the next alleged step in the evolution of human consciousness.

But in reality, hallucinogens, occult practices and eastern mysticism bring people into direct contact with demonic spirits that seduce them into embracing an imaginary world that doesn't exist. For those people who rejected God's caveat that forbids them from getting involved in such practices, they're given "a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)

Emanuel Swedenborg was a famous medium who trafficked in demons for much of his life until he finally realized who the spirits were who he was communicating with. He issued this warning: When spirits begin to speak with a man, he ought to beware that he believes nothing whatever from them; for they say almost anything. Things are fabricated by them, and they lie. They would tell so many lies, and indeed with solemn affirmation that a man would be astonished. If a man listens and believes, they press on, and deceive, and seduce in many ways. Let men beware and therefore not believe them. (Samuel M. Warren, A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, 1977)

What does God's word say regarding hallucinogens, occultism and eastern religious practices? It says this: "There shall not be found among you . . . anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them (the nations that practice these things) out before you." (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)

Though the Bible never mentions hallucinogens, it refers to sorcery which was the ancient equivalent of modern psychedelic drugs. Some bible translations use the Greek word Pharmakeia, which is where the word pharmacy comes from. Sorcerers concocted potions that were designed to put folks into altered states of consciousness so they could make contact with the spiritual realm.

The Book of Revelation contains a scripture that indicates the entire world will be seduced by sorcery, or drugs in the end times before the return of Christ. (Revelation 18:21-23) Considering how popular hallucinogens have become over the past 50 years, it's hard to dismiss that scripture as a coincidence. Indeed, the nations of the world are succumbing to hallucinogenic drugs on a massive scale.

One of the reasons for the increase in psychedelic drugs is the search for spiritual truth, or experience above the mundane, boring existence of everyday life: But in the search for God, many people take the broad way, the fork in the road that leads to destruction. That road is the search for experience, not a submission to belief. They seek feelings, and when they cannot find them, they turn to drugs. A melding of drugs and the spiritual is the most dangerous kind of sorcery, because it dulls the senses and creates a false god: self. The End Time: Pharmakeia: psychedelic drugs and spirituality

Not everyone who takes hallucinogens, or gets involved in occult or eastern mystical practices encounters demonic spirits. However, they do give Satan a legal right to invade their lives and influence their minds. And that's a right that he'll never fail to take advantage of.

What happens to people who use hallucinogens or get involved in occult and mystical practices? Their worldview often changes from a Judeo-Christian worldview to an eastern, pantheistic worldview. And they often become nihilistic and extremely antagonistic towards authority and Christians.

A study published by Psychology Today concerning the spiritual transformation of psychedelic drug users underscores that: Psychedelic drug users endorsed more mystical beliefs, such as in a universal soul, no fear of death, unity of all things, existence of a transcendent reality, and oneness with God nature and the universe…psychedelic drug users defined spirituality as one's relationship to God, or whatever you perceive to be the "Ultimate Transcendence."

Christian researchers John Ankerberg and John Weldon have interviewed several people who've come into direct contact with demonic spirits via drugs, occultism and mysticism. Not surprisingly, these people have reported receiving nearly identical messages concerning God, death, sin, eternal judgment and hell. They reported that the spirits told them that God is an impersonal being; there is no sin, death is an illusion and there's no eternal judgment or a place called hell.

According to Ankerberg and Weldon, who do the spirits claim to be? The spirits claim to be many things. Judging from their own teachings, by far the most common assertion is that they are the spirits of the human dead…the spirits most often claim they are human spirits who have survived physical death. They also claim that they can reveal important information to men that will hasten their spiritual growth. (Ankerberg and Weldon, The Facts on Spirit Guides, Harvest House Publishers)

Of course, the "spiritual growth" that the spirits promote is a very eastern, new age spirituality that's found in Hinduism and Taoism. Not surprisingly, those are pagan religions that utilize occult practices to contact "deities" that are demonic spirits in disguise. It's not uncommon for people who use psychedelic drugs to begin practicing eastern religions because the spirits they encounter on drug trips often encourage them to get involved in eastern mysticism.

One of the more popular demons that's deceived multitudes is a spirit that calls itself "Ramtha." Ramtha has been channeled by a medium named J.Z. Knight who's become quite popular by allowing the demon spirit to promote Satan's messages through her. Here are samples of the lies this demonic spirit has promoted: The Christian God is an idiotic deity…God the principle is all things. There is no such thing as evil. For 2,000 years, we have been called sinful creatures, but we are equal with God or Christ. God has never judged anyone. There is no hell and there is no devil. There is no death, but there is a belief in death. Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem.

You can understand why God's word in the bible forbids all contact with the spiritual realm. Why? Because people will come into direct contact with demons that will deceive them and lead them into eternal damnation.

Indeed, hell exists. Indeed, the devil exists, and he works relentlessly to prevent the salvation of every human being that he can through his lies. Consider the lies of "Ramtha" and consider this lie that Satan spoke to Eve a long time ago in the primordial Garden of Eden when he enticed her to rebel against the Lord and eat fruit from a forbidden tree: "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. ^"For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:4-5)

That's the same lie that Satan has told through his fallen angels for thousands of years. It was that lie that brought sin and death into the human race. And because Eve and her husband Adam chose to believe that lie and sin against the Lord, every human being since then has been under the curse of death and eternal damnation.

That necessitated God to send His only begotten Son into the world to save mankind from the curse of eternal death by His own death on the cross for all sin.

How do we escape the curse? Paul explained: "If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, 'Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.' For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'" (Romans 10:9-13)

Exorcism: Reality or Myth?

A scene from the classic horror film The Exorcist

The advent of modern psychology was supposed to do away with the so-called myth of demon possession and the subsequent need for exorcism. That was considered ancient superstition and the outmoded thinking of simple-minded people.

Psychology and its close cousin psychiatry claimed to have all the answers to aberrant human behavior. Hallucinations, disembodied voices, nightmares, unusual sensations, paranoia and strange behavior could now be explained by early childhood experiences or chemical imbalances inside the brain.

Thus, it became cruel to suggest that someone's erratic behavior could be the result of demon possession and or oppression. The folks who believed in that stuff were simpletons and cretins who were too ignorant to understand modern science. Mentally ill people needed therapy and treatment rather than witchdoctors and exorcists.

But along came the 1960s counterculture and hallucinogenic drugs. And along with the drugs came the eastern religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism that opened doors to the spiritual realm.

Millions of people who had been extremely skeptical of the supernatural became convinced that it not only existed, but that it offered them a plethora of benefits from inner peace to holistic healing to material prosperity.

In reality, those people tapped into a dark and sinister spiritual realm ruled by Satan and his demons. The devil and his fallen angels willingly promoted the con to people who were completely oblivious to what they had encountered. And in some cases, they took possession of the bodies, souls and minds of their ignorant dupes.

They didn't always enter people through drugs and eastern mystical practices. They also entered through occult devices such as the Ouija Board. That was the device that an adolescent boy named Roland Doe (a pseudonym) used to try and contact his deceased grandmother.

Doe didn't make contact with his grandmother, but he did make contact with a powerful demonic spirit that took possession of his soul. After Doe became possessed, he began speaking Hebrew, a language he had never learned. And the furniture in his house began rearranging itself. And deep, guttural voices came out of his mouth; voices that were impossible for his adolescent vocal chords to produce.

Though you may not be familiar with Doe's story, you're probably familiar with the classic horror film, The Exorcist, that was released in 1973. That movie was based upon Doe's experiences. Did psychology have an answer for Doe's behavior? Of course not.

And it doesn't have answers for a host of bizarre behaviors that people are exhibiting these days; behaviors that are rapidly increasing. Such as? Such as the type of behavior that a troubled young boy displayed before Jesus Christ cast a demon out of him.

Christ encountered the boy's father one day when he greeted Jesus from a large crowd that had gathered to hear the Messiah preach. The man pleaded with Christ: "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It scarcely ever leaves him and is destroying him. I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not." (Luke 9:38-40) 

After Christ rebuked His disciples for failing to deliver the boy from the evil spirit, He cast out the spirit and healed the young man. That was just one of the many exorcisms that Christ performed during His ministry in ancient Israel.

In fact, Christ gave His disciples and all of His followers the authority to cast out demons. Shortly before He returned to heaven after His resurrection, He gave these commands:

Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well. (Mark 16:15-18)

Certainly, we see very little of that today. Even much of the Christian church has turned away from Christ's commands to utilize God's power to deal with emotional and behavioral problems that are rooted in the demonic. Many churches offer psychological counseling, completely ignoring the fact that God's power is more than sufficient to deal with spiritual problems.

Is every emotional malady related to demonic oppression and possession? Of course not. But some are, and they can't be treated by godless methods that don't work. Some churches are finally starting to figure that out and are returning to Christ's commands.

And naturally, those churches are being ridiculed as backwards, ignorant and "anti-science." Obviously, the devil counts on you not knowing your rights as a Christian. Ignorance is one of Satan's most powerful weapons. And you can't defeat him without God's weapons. Unless, of course, you don't mind losing.

Political Subterfuge

Michael Savage provides some fascinating insight in his blockbuster book, Government Zero. In the book, the conservative author and commentator reveals that two of the biggest enablers of Barack Obama's unfettered illegal immigration program are Charles and David Koch.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the Koch brothers, they're ultra-wealthy industrialists who promote themselves as strong conservatives with solid Christian values. They're noted for supporting Republican presidential candidates, and funding conservative causes.

They're also despised by leftists, which isn't surprising. Leftists hate wealthy capitalists, especially those who aren't their own. But if they read Savage's book, they might develop a more favorable opinion of Charles and David Koch.

According to Savage, Charles and David provided the big financial muscle for a powerful lobbyist group named ALEC (American Legislative Executive Council) that enabled GEO Corporation to score a lucrative contract from the U.S. government last year to build "shelters" for all those illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border from Central America.

Savage describes what those "shelters" are like: They are more like resorts. Soccer fields with artificial turf; lighting, flat-screen TVs and swimming pools. Those are some shelters.

And so, who says that Barack Obama is anti-business? Especially when the government business goes to companies backed by phony conservatives? If the Koch brothers were real conservatives who opposed Obama's "transformation of America," they wouldn't be supporting companies that are making huge coin off of that transformation.

But the Koch brothers aren't real conservatives. And they probably never were. Thus, it was hardly a surprise when Charles recently hinted that the United States might be better off with Hillary Clinton in the White House next January after Obama's tenure mercifully comes to an end. Would he and David support her? "It's possible. We would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way."  

Now you can get a better understanding on why the American and international media loathe Donald Trump. He's independently wealthy and he can't be bought. He frightens people such as the Koch brothers who are on the one-world bandwagon.

Trump wants to close America's borders while the wealthy elites such as Charles and David Koch want to keep them open so the U.S. will be overrun by uneducated and unskilled third world immigrants who will bankrupt the nation and bring anarchy into the streets.

That will likely result in the loss of freedom and the institution of martial law, something that leftists and Marxists desire for America. You can't have martial law without chaos and anarchy in the streets. Trump also wants to end the exodus of American companies to China and Mexico that have cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs. You can't have martial law without huge unemployment numbers, especially among the poor.

Am I endorsing Trump for president? Absolutely not. I personally don't believe he has a chance. His own party is desperately trying to destroy him and the media are doing a daily hatchet job on him. Plus, those "protesters" who are showing up from all over the country to disrupt his rallies are nothing more than paid goons sent from activist groups that have targeted him.

Hillary Clinton may be a despicable person, but she's a globalist. She may be a terrible politician and a compulsive liar and a greedy opportunist, but she knows who's really in charge and how to play their game to get what she wants. Like Obama, she'll sell her soul for 4-8 years of fame and fortune.

And so, when Charles Koch "hints" at voting for Hillary Clinton in November, then you know the fix is in. The global elites want Hillary. They want someone in the White House who'll continue America's "transformation" that really began under George W. Bush rather than Obama. And we're marching relentlessly toward a world government.

In the late 1st century, the apostle John received an allegorical vision from God concerning the coming dreaded world government. Here's what he saw:

And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. (Revelation 13:1-2)

John's beast represents the coming global government that will feature 10 nation groups ruled by seven powerful kings. They'll answer to an eighth king--a supreme ruler--who'll be the dreaded Antichrist.

Certainly, a world government is yet to come. But consider what's going on in America and around the world. And realize that a world government is not that far away.

Freedom Strikes Out

Curt Schilling

When Curt Schilling pitched, he possessed one of the best fastballs in the major leagues. He used that fastball to strike out over 3,000 hitters in a successful career that resulted in 216 regular season wins and 11 postseason victories.

Those are good totals, but probably not quite good enough to earn him a place in Major League Baseball's coveted Hall of Fame. And his chances for the Hall probably became slimmer after he recently posted some controversial comments on his Facebook page that cost him his job as a baseball analyst at ESPN.

What did Schilling say that so angered his bosses at the sports network? Did he denigrate an ethnic group or make homophobic comments? Did he malign a non-Christian religion? Did he insult the Great and Mighty Barack Obama?

He did none of that. Rather, he had the audacity to proclaim that transgender restrooms are an extremely bad idea. He defended traditional separate bathrooms for men and women.

Schilling also punctuated his opinion by posting a picture on Facebook of a corpulent man wearing a long blond wig and women’s clothing. Schilling said sarcastically: "Let him in! To the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!"  

Schilling spiced his commentary with this statement: A man is a man no matter what they call themselves...Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic. 

For that, Schilling was terminated by ESPN, even though he posted his opinion on his own social media outlet and not on ESPN or on one of its social media outlets. Evidently, the First Amendment doesn't apply to employees at the sports network where having a Judeo-Christian worldview can cost you your job.

Schilling is no stranger to controversy. He was disciplined in the past by ESPN honchos for sharing his conservative opinions. Last year, he compared Muslim extremists to Nazis, a comparison that seemed to shock only the secular left.

For the record, Schilling stated that he believed that 5-10 percent of Muslims are extremists, which seems plausible considering Islam's violent theology. The left skewered Schilling's remarks to make them sound as though he had equated Islam with Nazism. He didn't, but he was torched nevertheless by the Marxist media and subsequently suspended by ESPN.

And after he voiced his opinion on transgender bathrooms, Schilling was finally canned by ESPN. However, the real reason why the sports network cut Schilling loose was because of fear.

Fear? Yes fear. Fear of bad publicity, boycotts and the threat of lawsuits from Big Gay enforcers and powerful Muslim groups such as CAIR. ESPN doesn't want to lose viewers and advertising revenue, and conservative Christian commentators--especially those like Schilling who openly share their faith--have become increasingly bad for business these days.

Schilling has become yet another example of the fulfillment of end-time biblical prophecy concerning the persecution of Christians. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ warned: "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me." (Matthew 24:9)

The apostle Peter wrote this: "Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you." (1 Peter 4:12-14)

The apostle Paul prophesied this: "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." (2 Timothy 3:12-13)

Who are the evildoers and impostors? They are phonies such as the Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama and his fire-breathing pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who claim to be Christians, but persecute genuine Christians and promote a very anti-Christian message. Keep in mind how hostile the Obama administration has been toward conservatives and Christians. That's not a coincidence. 

For his part, Schilling's taking his dismissal well. He has ample resources and doesn't need the ESPN job nor the money. He said this: 

I'll always love talking about pitching. I thought I was good at it. But at a company where the rules are different based completely and solely on your perspective and your beliefs, it didn't work. They didn't like that.

No, they didn't. And that's become the norm rather than the exception in today's increasingly secular, anti-Christian world where "tolerance" means that everything's acceptable. Everything that is, except traditional Judeo-Christian values.

Liar Liar, Pants on Eternal Fire

The Bible tells us that all human beings are liars (Psalm 116:11), and that the spiritual father of liars is the devil himself.

Here's how Jesus Christ described Satan: "He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44)

Though most folks consider lying to be more of an annoyance than anything else, it's repugnant to God. Furthermore, the Bible reveals that eternal damnation is the destiny of all unrepentant liars: "Outside (of Heaven) are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." (Revelation 22:15)

Predictably, lying is encouraged by some world religions such as Islam and Judaism when falsehood advances the cause. Lying in Islam is called Taqiyya which can be used against infidels for the purpose of deceiving them.

Judaism permits falsehood for the purpose of diplomacy rather than deceit. For example? Judaism allows a person to complement someone who cooked a bad meal rather than insult and embarrass them. Certainly, it's considered bad manners to insult other folks when it involves telling the truth. Some people call diplomatic lies "white lies." But they're lies nonetheless.

Those sorts of lies probably won't condemn you to eternal damnation. But lying for the purpose of concealing criminal or immoral acts will. Lying for the purpose of cheating someone out of money or material possessions will. And lying for purpose of preventing someone's salvation by denying that Jesus Christ is the only "Way and the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6) to eternal life, will really get you into serious trouble with God.

The real reason why people lie is because they think they can get away with it. Most people lie out of fear because they've got something to hide. And secular researchers have discovered that children begin to lie as early as 2-3 years of age.

Professor Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts says this:

We're really trained to be deceptive. If we're not, if we're totally truthful all the time that's not a good thing, there's a price to be paid for that. We don't like people who tell us the truth all the time. The lies that we accept from politicians right now are lies that are seen as acceptable because it's what we want to hear, like a spouse saying that an outfit flatters you. 

Politicians are considered the worst sort of liars. Feldman accurately claims that politicians love to tell people what they want to hear. That's designed to get votes. However, when politicians fail to deliver on their promises, then reality sets in. By then, it's usually too late.

Who can forget Barack Obama's now legendary lie? "If you like your health insurance, you can keep it." That was designed to sell his catastrophic health care bill that forced many people to acquire health insurance coverage they didn't want and couldn't afford. Yet despite that lie and a myriad of others, Obama is still held in high esteem by his loyal followers.

Professor Kang Lee of the University of Toronto states that "there's a high cost in everyday society — a loss of trust that is difficult to regain — when someone is discovered to be lying." There are also costs to the liar, he said, noting studies that measure the effect of deception on the body and brain and how much energy it takes to create and maintain a lie.

The apostle Paul warned that falsehood will flourish in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

We're living in the time that Paul prophesied of. Millions of people embrace lies such as evolution, global warming and false religions (Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism etc.) without investigating them for evidence. And why don't they investigate them? Because they've embraced delusion.

What happens to people who reject the truth to embrace lies? Paul wrote: "They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)

That's the real tragedy of falsehood. Or, as the old saying goes: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't true.

The Grievance Master

 Rev. Al and the infamous Crown Heights riot

When he was recently asked by Megyn Kelly of Fox News to comment on the violent rhetoric being espoused by the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, the Rev. Al Sharpton claimed that his organization "does not use nor condone that kind of language." 

Sharpton's organization is known as the National Action Network, and while it may not currently espouse the kind of provocative, in-your-face rhetoric being used by BLM, it certainly did years ago. In fact, the reverend and his organization not only once espoused violent rhetoric, they backed it up with violent action.

Such as the violence that occurred during the infamous Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) riot in 1991. That riot began soon after 7-year old cousins Gavin and Angela Cato were struck by a car driven by an Orthodox Jew named Yosef Lifsh. 

Gavin and Angela were riding their bikes during a summer evening that year when Lifsh's car went out of control and struck the two children after it was rear-ended by another car. Since the Catos were black and Lifsh was a white Orthodox Jew, many blacks believed that Lifsh intentionally targeted the children.

Relations between Jews and blacks in New York were already strained before the incident. Just a month before riot, truthrevolt.org recalled this:  

On July 20, 1991, Leonard Jeffries of City College (New York), who had a history of anti-Semitic slurs, presented a two-hour long speech claiming "rich Jews" financed the slave trade, Jews controlled the film industry (together with Italian mafia), and used that control to paint a brutal stereotype of blacks. Jeffries also attacked Diane Ravitch, (Assistant Secretary of Education) calling her a "sophisticated Texas Jew," "a debonair racist" and "Miss Daisy."

Though Lifsh got out of his car and tried to help the children, he was attacked by a group of angry people. A short time later, the then corpulent Sharpton turned up the heat on an already volatile situation by uttering this peaceful message: "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." 

The rhetoric predictably got even worse after Gavin Cato died from his injuries. Sharpton called the Jews "diamond merchants" and "bloodsuckers", and he accused them of draining black neighborhoods of money while putting nothing back into them. His inflammatory rhetoric provoked the riot that took the life of a 29 year-old Orthodox Jew named Yankel Rosenbaum who was stabbed several times and beaten to death in Crown Heights on August 20. 

Sharpton's peaceful street protest also resulted in seven stores being looted or burned; 27 vehicles being destroyed, and 190 people being injured including 152 police officers. Property damage was estimated at one million dollars. Thank goodness that Sharpton's group espoused nonviolent protest. You can only imagine what might have happened had it promoted what the BLM promotes.

And who can forget the infamous Tawana Brawley rape hoax (1987) that Sharpton continued to promote even after Brawley herself admitted to fabricating it? Sharpton used that hoax to promote himself as a champion of civil rights and a defender against white racists. In reality, the only person that Sharpton championed was himself and his inflated self-image. 

Now Sharpton wants everyone to believe that he's a great man of peace who promotes nonviolent social protest to highlight racial injustice just like the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sharpton is to Dr. King as Genghis Khan was to Jesus Christ. 

If Sharpton is truly the Christian that he claims to be, then he should be familiar with this famous quote from the Lord he claims to represent here on earth: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." (Matthew 5:9) Or this one: 

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48)

Surely, Sharpton's familiar with those scriptures. But he won't preach them because the grievance industry thrives on provocative rhetoric and confrontation rather than on peace and harmony. Sharpton's familiar with that. And long before the Black Lives Matter group existed, Sharpton was already utilizing the BLM's modus operandi for his own personal gain.

Vladimir Putin and the 2016 Election

A popular item for an unpopular man: Barack Obama toilet paper in Russia

Does Russia want to start a war with the United States? Why have the Russians become increasingly bold in recent years with a series of provocative actions aimed at the U.S.?

Last Tuesday (4/12/2016), a Russian Su-24 fighter jet repeatedly circled the USS Donald Cook, a naval destroyer that was cruising in the Baltic Sea. Though the ship's officials tried to warn with jet's pilot to desist, the pilot ignored the warnings.

According to a Russian military spokesman, the crew of the ship acted provocatively and aggressively, which concerned the operators of monitoring stations and ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Su-24 attack aircraft demonstrated to the American crew readiness to harshly prevent a violation of the frontier and to defend the interests of the country.

The Russians claim that the USS Cook sailed too close (24 miles) to Russian waters, while U.S. military officials claim that the ship never got closer than 75 miles from Russian waters. Who's telling the truth? The U.S. is probably telling the truth because the Russians have an ulterior motive for the provocative act.

And what's that? I believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be trying to influence the upcoming 2016 U.S. presidential election by drawing the U.S. into a military confrontation with Russia.

But why? Because if the U.S. responds militarily by shooting down a Russian fighter jet, the Russians might respond by bombing some U.S. military bases in Europe. Putin doesn't believe that President Barack Obama wants anything to do with a military confrontation with Russia or anyone else, and he doesn't believe that Obama will respond if the Russians launch an attack.

A Russian military strike against the U.S. would also humiliate America in the eyes of the world. It would make the U.S. look extremely weak and vulnerable. If that happens, Putin likely believes that many Americans would then reject Hillary Clinton in November as their next president because she'll be seen as an extension of Obama.

But why would Putin want the U.S. to elect a president who'll stand up to Russia? He doesn't want that. Rather, he wants someone who'll be friendly with Russia and won't try to prevent the Bear from becoming a world superpower.

Putin's still angry at the U.S. for imposing economic sanctions on his nation after he annexed Crimea in 2014. He's angry at the U.S. for trying to persuade the Ukraine to join NATO. Putin considers Ukraine part of Russia, and the Bear's influence in eastern Europe would've been emasculated had the Ukraine joined NATO.

Putin's also angry at the U.S. for intentionally flooding the world with cheap oil in order to tank the Russian ruble. Russia's economy is heavily dependent on crude oil sales, and more oil on the international market means lower demand and lower prices. And that hurts Russia. Here's what I wrote last year:

Thus, crude oil is dirt cheap right now on the global market. That's holding Russia down economically and preventing the Bear from building the formidable military that Putin envisions will one day rule the world. And indeed, it will. But when that happens will be determined by how long the western world, and particularly the United States, decides to keep the crude flowing. Though the U.S. currently possesses the largest amount of crude and coal in the world, radical environmentalists want America to turn off the spigots, shutter the coal mines and go green. 

The Russians certainly don't want war with the U.S. Russia has billions of dollars invested in the American economy, and the Bear needs America a lot more right now than America needs Russia. But the time is coming when Russia won't need America because the Bear will be able to stand on its own two feet without the aid of an archenemy.

However, that time hasn't come yet. But it will. Biblical prophecy reveals that Russia is going to build a devastating military coalition that will threaten the entire world before the return of Jesus Christ. (Ezekiel 38-39) And that coalition will attempt an invasion of Israel at an event called Armageddon:

Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army-your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops-the many nations with you." (Ezekiel 38:1-6)

Who is Gog? Gog was an ancient name for Russia. Who will Russia's military coalition consist of? Meshek, Tubal, Gomer and Beth Togarmah were located in what is now Turkey. Persia is now Iran; Cush is now Ethiopia, and Put is now Morocco.

Though that doesn't sound like much of a military alliance, consider that Magog represents the new Russian empire--"the many nations with you"--that will comprise Eastern Europe, Asia and much of Western Europe. Magog will also consist of the nations of the Middle East, Northern Africa and Asia Minor. Many of these nations are currently Islamic that will eventually be transformed into "Christian" nations before the advent of the dreaded Antichrist.

That's what's coming. For now, Putin will try to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election by embarrassing the Obama administration via provocative confrontations such as the recent one in the Baltic. Don't expect that to be the last one. There'll be more. Will Putin's strategy work? We'll find out in November.

These are the Last Days

Sex club orgies for the rich and godless

How bad will the world become in the end times directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ? According to the apostle Paul, it will become this bad:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

But why? What's the cause of such moral decadence? The world's rejection of God and His transcendent moral laws. Again, Paul provides a brilliant explanation:

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans 1:21-25)

According to Paul, the world's rejection of God inevitably leads its rebels down a dark path to sexual immorality and perversion:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. (Romans 1:26-27)

And Paul described what becomes of godless rebels:

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:28-32)

Skeptics will argue that such depravity has existed in every generation since the beginning of time. And they're correct. But there have been times when the world has become exceedingly wicked. And God has raised his hand against that wickedness. He judged the ancient world of Noah with a global flood that destroyed all life except Noah, his family and two members of every animal and bird group. (Genesis 6)

The Lord destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire after the residents of those towns refused to repent of their sexual immorality. And he's going to destroy the world yet again in the future--this time by fire--directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote:

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3)

Christ likened the days directly preceding His return to the ancient days of Noah. (Matthew 24:36-41) The world was monstrously wicked in those ancient days. And it's approaching that level of evil again in these last days.

To illustrate that point, the online version of the Independent, a UK tabloid, recently published an article detailing the rising popularity of sex parties (orgies) among godless hipsters in the UK. Here's a sample of that article:

Guests wander the luxury Mayfair apartment in formal attire, chit-chatting, lounging on sofas and sipping champagne. At midnight a bell is rung and everyone gets naked. Around half an hour later, after the initial awkwardness has worn off, the flat is a sea of writhing bodies...If you're going to have sex with a total stranger, you're probably going to want them to be attractive, so Heaven Circle (sex club) vets its guests, even operating a tier system with extra special parties for the sexual elite. A "Sex Olympics" is currently being planned, where the best performers from parties around the world will come together for a sort of fantasy team orgy. The mix at the parties tends to be mostly swinging couples, with a few single men and women thrown in too.  

Sexual immorality is a barometer of evil. When it increases exponentially in the world, then judgment is near. No generation that's embraced sexual sin has managed to escape God's judgment. And this one won't either. 

Rich and Hellbound

Down and Out: The humiliation of being homeless

Steve Wynn, the billionaire business tycoon who's built several posh Las Vegas casino-hotels, was speaking from the heart recently when he talked about folks who are on the opposite end of the financial spectrum. 

Did Wynn denounce poverty and argue for greater welfare benefits for the poor? Did he decry racism and bigotry as the root causes of the widening disparity between uber-rich people such as himself and those who struggle to keep a roof over their heads?

He did neither. Rather, he said something that was downright insulting and repugnant. But unlike a lot of his wealthy brethren who are complete phonies, he was painfully honest, if not condescending. 

What did Wynn say? He said this: Rich people only like being around rich people. Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people. 

Wynn said that in the context of his hotels, which are considered to be some of the most luxurious on the planet. His hotels cater to the wealthiest people in the world who don't want to be in the company of ordinary folks. He elaborated: 

This company caters to the top end of the gaming world. We're sort of Chanel or Louis Vuitton, to use the comparison, the metaphor of the retail business. But unlike Chanel and Louis Vuitton, we are able in our business to cater to all of the market. By making our standards so high...that everybody wants to be in the building. Or to put it in a more colloquial way, rich people only like being around rich people. Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people. So we try and make the place feel upscale for everyone. That is to say we cater to people who have discretion and judgment and we give them a choice and we are consistent in that.

Wynn's not necessarily a bad person. He's a job creator who's helped a lot of people earn a good living and live a comfortable life. He may not personally have contempt for poor folks, but he knows that a lot of his rich customers do. And they don't want to be around poor people. Thus, Wynn's hotels are extremely pricey and unaffordable for ordinary folks.

A lot of rich people portray themselves as folks who care deeply about the poor. In fact, they despise the poor and often exploit them for personal and political purposes. 

That's nothing new. Jesus Christ warned His followers not to use the poor to gain glory for themselves: "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." (Matthew 6:2)

What does the Bible say about vast wealth? Nothing good. Is money bad? Is it a sin to be rich? Absolutely not. Rather, money is an idol that people worship in place of God. The apostle Paul elaborated on that in his first of two letters to fellow apostle Timothy: 

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1 Timothy 6:6-10)

Christ said that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mark 10:25) Why? Because wealth is the false god of the rich. 

And wealth is a false god that can't save anyone from eternal damnation. Christ said this: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." (Luke 16:13)

Throughout history, material wealth has often been used as a measuring stick for personal character and success. Thus, the more money you possess, the greater the person you're considered to be. Nearly 3,000 years ago, the psalmist wrote that "people praise you when you prosper." (Psalm 49:18) And many look down on you when you fail, and they insult you because of that. 

The psalmist went on to say this: 

"This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings. They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions." (Psalm 49:13-14)

Hell is populated with wealthy people who believed that their money would buy them eternal life and keep them out of the grave. But it didn't. They snubbed their noses at God and chose to receive their rewards on earth rather than wait for a far-greater, eternal reward in heaven. 

And now, they've become like the people they loathed and despised and ridiculed while they lived on earth in opulent luxury. They've become eternally destitute. 

Though while they lived they counted themselves blessed—and people praise you when you prosper—they will join those who have gone before them, who will never again see the light of life. People who have wealth without understanding are like the beasts that perish. (Psalm 49:18-20)

Cultural Pedophilia?

An Islamic tradition: Child-brides

Though there are many differences between Christianity and Islam, one of the major differences is the definition of marriage. In what way? Christianity condemns polygamy while Islam approves of it.

But it doesn't stop there. Islam not only allows Muslim men to marry several women, it also allows them to marry extremely young women. How young? As young as eight or nine years-old.

Where did Islam's tradition of child-brides originate? It originated with its founding prophet Muhammad who had 18 wives, with Aesha being the youngest at nine years-old. Yes, that's right. Muhammad's youngest wife was a mere nine-years old when he added Aesha to his harem.

Western civilization has historically forbidden prepubescent girls to be taken in marriage, and rightly so. Nine year-old girls aren't physically developed to have sexual relations with adults. 

Young girls not only can be physically harmed by sex with adults, they can also be emotionally damaged. However, that's of no concern to Islam that views women as inferior beings that were created by Allah to be used by men.

The Muslim world generally denies that Islam condones adult-child weddings, and it accuses westerners of spreading propaganda to tarnish that religion's image. But while Islam doesn't outwardly condone adult-child weddings, it doesn't condemn them either. 

In Pakistan for example, a bill that was first introduced in 2014 to ban that barbaric practice was recently struck down. From www.rt.com:  

Legislation to ban child marriages was struck down in Pakistan as the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) said it was "anti-Islamic" and "blasphemous." The new law failed at the first stage of the legislative process.The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014, which would have made it more difficult for children to marry, was quickly withdrawn by Marvi Menon of the Pakistan Muslim League party. The decision to pull the plug on the anti-pedophilia bill was triggered by CII speaking out against the idea. The council provides advice for lawmakers on whether the newly proposed laws comply with Sharia laws. The proposed legislation was shut down in its infancy on "purely religious grounds." 

 CII Chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani said the proposed law opposed Islamic teachings: "Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah." 

What does the Quran say regarding adult-child weddings? While it doesn't directly mention them, it does say this: "And test the orphans [in your charge] until they reach a marriage­able age; then, if you find them to be mature of mind/sound in judgment, hand over to them their possessions…" (Quran, 4:6)

How does the Quran define a "marriageable age?" It doesn't, leaving that up to the individual to determine when a girl is of "sound mind and sound judgment" to be taken as a wife.

Do you think that someone who burns with lust for adolescent girls is truly going to consider whether or not a girl is physically and emotionally ready for marriage? Of course not. If she turns him on, he'll try to marry her.

Still, Islam's apologists condemn anyone who suggests that their religion encourages adult-child marriages. One such apologist website says this:

It is absolutely clear from the Quran that child marriage is something God never authorized. Child marriage is detrimental to the overall well-being of children, and quite frankly, is another form of slavery. The psychopathic mentality that allows this is a sign of a very sick and disturbed mind, something that seems to be much abundant within the clergy-class. Any rational person can immediately identify the evils of such an oppressive act. It surprises me to see how a beacon of light is manipulated by a bunch of misogynistic individuals to enslave billions around the world!

By characterizing those who marry young girls as "misogynists" with "sick and disturbed minds," the author blasphemes Islam's founding prophet who took a nine year-old girl to be his wife. Muhammad set the standard, of which many of his followers throughout the centuries have followed.

Islam's apologists don't want you to know that their religion encourages such evil. And it encourages other evils such as suicide bombings, the wholesale slaughter of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims, and even the beheadings of innocent children who aren't Muslims.

The apologists want you to believe that Islam is a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a few nuts and radicals who've besmirched that religion's impeccable reputation. Only ignorant fools choose to believe that.

Concerning those who oppress young children who are created in the image of God, Jesus Christ said this: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." (Mark 9:42)

Indeed. Prepubescent girls are too young to be in marriage. And those who force them into marriage under the guise of culture and religion are nothing but sexual predators or pedophiles. That's evil that can't be apologized away. 

Planned Destruction

Has the global recession been purposely orchestrated?

Why is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump so loathed by America's leftist political establishment and its attendant media class? Could it be that he knows something that they don't want ordinary people to know?

Such as? Such as America's economy that's teetering on the brink of collapse with its staggering debt load. Though that's hardly a secret, most folks simply don't care about the debt because they've been told that it's no big deal.

However, it is. And at some point, it's going to wreck the U.S. economy and hurt millions of people. But how? By making the U.S. dollar about as worthless as the Mexican Peso or the Zimbabwean dollar. 

When could that happen? When the U.S. dollar is no longer the preferred currency of the nations. While that could take several years, it's coming because the U.S. is absolutely reviled in the eastern world where emerging giants such as China and Russia would love to dump their U.S. dollars and switch to an alternative currency such as the Chinese yuan. 

America's monstrous debt load strains the dollar and threatens its value. The U.S pays a staggering amount of interest on that debt. The interest alone is greater than the combined GNP of many nations. 

But why would an alleged cabal of financial elites, globalists and politicians want to sink the U.S. economy? Because that would level the financial playing field of the nations and likely result in a global economic depression. And that would encourage the introduction of a new global financial system that would be touted as the ultimate safeguard against economic disasters and the resulting poverty created by those disasters.

Donald Trump may be a lot of things. He may not be fit to be president of the United States. But he does know economics. And he's sounding the alarm. From Newsmax.com:  

According to Trump, the United States is no longer a rich country. "When you’re not rich, you have to go out and borrow money. We’re borrowing from the Chinese and others. We’re up to $16 trillion in debt...We are going up to $16 trillion [in debt] very soon, and it’s going to be a lot higher than that before he (Obama) gets finished. When you have [debt] in the $21-$22 trillion, you are talking about a downgrade no matter how you cut it."

Trump also believes that the U.S. unemployment rate is closer to 15-16 percent rather than the five percent rate currently published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why the discrepancy? Because the Bureau of Labor only counts people who are drawing unemployment benefits, not those who've stopped receiving benefits.

If Trump's figures are accurate--and some folks believe that those figures may be a bit modest--then the U.S. hasn't experienced such economic misery since the Great Depression. And the very fact that Trump has pledged to rid the U.S. of its economic debt if he's elected to the presidency is a likely reason why he's got a target on his back.

Recently, Wikileaks, the information organization that publishes sensitive material on the web, leaked a report indicating that the ongoing economic crisis in Europe was planned.   That coincides with the sputtering U.S. economy that still hasn't recovered from the housing market meltdown that occurred in 2007. The U.S. economy should've recovered by now. But it hasn't. And neither has Europe's. Clearly, something's going on and it's not good.

Is the fix in? Is the U.S. headed for an economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression years of the 1930s? Could Barack Obama, who's a political puppet with limited skills and no knowledge of economic markets be part of that fix?

Considering that he's a proponent of the infamous Cloward-Piven economic strategy that aims to destroy a nation's economy by overwhelming its welfare system with multitudes of unskilled and uneducated third world immigrants, that seems very plausible. Remember that the same thing is happening in Europe where multitudes of "refugees" are pouring into the continent from Syria, Iraq and Africa.

In the late 1st century A.D., the apostle John received a vision from God concerning a future world government that will possess absolute, tyrannical authority over the entire planet.

According to the vision, that global government will be ruled by the dreaded Antichrist who will institute a new economic system that will be fully electronic. However, it will come with a catch: "He (Antichrist) also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16-17)

That's where the world is headed. Economic recessions are planned to bankrupt wealthy nations and transition the world toward a new, global cashless economic system. Eventually, that economy will be under the control of the Antichrist. 

And no one will be allowed to participate in that economy unless they receive the electronic mark that will contain the Antichrist's number. In order to obtain that mark, every person will have to worship this diabolical man as God. Those who refuse will be marked for death. 

When will all this happen? It may take several years. But it's going to happen. And we're already on the way. 

Conspiracy Theories?

The IMF: Working toward a New World Order

Wikileaks is considered by many to be the Edward Snowden of international organizations that publishes sensitive material that governments, financial institutions, wealthy foundations and NGOs would rather not be published.

Why? Because that sensitive material contains the type of information that infuriates ordinary folks who have a difficult time believing that powerful people exist who are actually plotting to take away their wealth and destroy their nations. 

And since that sounds too absurd to be believable, the elites and their political puppets usually avoid scrutiny and get a free pass from their media lackeys. What happens when folks get loose lips and spill the proverbial beans? They're dismissed as kooks who are trying to peddle conspiracy theories in order to attract attention to themselves.

No one wants to be known as a kook who peddles conspiracy theories. Especially not someone who works in the media where credibility is critical to one's success. Destroy someone's credibility and you've damaged their reputation along with their career.

But Wikileaks doesn't have to worry about protecting its reputation because it's been publishing authentic, documented material for several years. And because of that, the elites want to seize control of the internet so they can put Wikileaks and other information websites such as The Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily and Alex Jones' Info Wars out of business. Permanently.

For now though, the elites will just have to resort to damage control when Wikileaks opens the curtain on another one of their escapades. Such as? Such as the latest report that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has been working to bankrupt European nations in order to move Europe toward a new world order.

Zerohedge.com. reviewed the Wikileaks document and said this: 

One of the recurring concerns involving Europe's seemingly perpetual economic, financial and social crises, is that these have been largely predetermined, "scripted" and deliberate acts. This is something the former head of the Bank of England admitted one month ago when Mervyn King said that Europe's economic depression "is the result of "deliberate" policy choices made by EU elites.  It is also what AIG Banque strategist Bernard Connolly said back in 2008 when laying out "What Europe Wants".

 What do the elites want for Europe? Zerohedge quotes from an extensive report originally written in 2008 by AIG Bank and subsequently obtained by Wikileaks:

To use global issues as excuses to extend its power:

• environmental issues: increase control over member countries; advance idea of global governance

• terrorism: use excuse for greater control over police and judicial issues; increase extent of surveillance

• global financial crisis: kill two birds (free market; Anglo-Saxon economies) with one stone (Europe-wide regulator; attempts at global financial governance)

• EMU: create a crisis to force introduction of “European economic government”

Environmental issues? That's a euphemism for Global Warming-Climate Change. Indeed, it's a manufactured crisis that's designed to produce a new world order. Terrorism? Could the massive influx of "refugees" into Europe from the Middle East and Africa, along with the massive flood of illegal immigrants from Central America into the United States be designed to cause anarchy and foment totalitarian police states?

And could the global financial crisis be designed to bankrupt wealthy nations in order to move the world toward a global financial system controlled by a financial oligarchy? Indeed, that sounds too incredible to be true. And the elites know that most people are extremely reluctant to believe such things. Rather, that's the nonsense of bitter clingers and simpletons who embrace conspiracy theories. But that's not for educated people who know better.

Well then, know and understand this: Nearly 2,600 years ago, the prophet Daniel received a vision from God concerning the rise of a powerful world government in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ: Daniel was given a vision of four allegorical beasts that represented powerful empires. 

Concerning the final empire, here's what he described: "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." (Daniel 7:7)

Daniel's fourth beast symbolizes a future world government that will consist of a confederacy of 10 nation groups. Compare Daniel's vision to the vision that the apostle John received 600 years later that John recorded into the Revelation: "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." (Revelation 13:1-2)

Like it or not, we're headed for a one-world government. The Wikileaks report provides yet another confirmation that the ancient biblical prophecies concerning the rise of a world government in the end times is now taking place. And the Bible also reveals who will eventually assume control of that government--the dreaded Antichrist. 

When we study biblical prophecy concerning the end times, and apply that to the events currently taking place in the world, we know that Christ's return is getting near. "Educated people" may dismiss the latest Wikileaks report as nonsense. 

But those who know better, realize what real nonsense is. It's denial in the face of irrefutable evidence. And only a fool denies truth that's backed by evidence.