It's more than a feeling, more than a perception and more than instinct. Most anyone I talk to share the uneasy feeling - the sense of something bad about to happen. It is almost as if a heavy, dark, cloud is hanging over the planet. It is presumably something supernatural, unearthly - it is something irrational...or is it?
This year, with little fanfare, we recognized the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. It was almost completely overlooked by everyone, or at least everyone who held captive behind the wall. When I take a moment to remember back to that day, that speech by President Reagan, outside the Berlin Wall when he so eloquently ordered, "...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall..." It was a time when collectively, the world felt a giant weight was lifted as the Wall came tumbling down, brick by brick. For the first time in decades, leaders of the two super-powers were friends. It was a time when the talk changed from nuclear treaties to the fashion sense of the two "first ladies". It was the end of the Soviet Union, Communism and the Cold War. In the U.S., the economy was flourishing, unemployment was virtually non-existent; the nation and world rallied behind Ronald Reagan and Mikael Gorbachev. It was the happiest time in the lives of most American's.
The years that followed gradually reversed the gains made in the 8 short years of the Reagan Presidency, with the greatest destruction taking place over the past six years of the Obama Presidency. This period in our time has been described as the opening of the gates of hell, with the worst yet to come. As hard as Ronald Reagan worked to bring peace to the world, Obama is working to bring the world to war. With our troops scattered in conflicts around the world and our economy stretched to the brink, Obama has successfully turned our nation into a joke. We are no longer influential. We are no longer respected or feared by anyone from the smallest third world nation, to the largest world powers in China and Russia. As a nation, we have empowered the most dangerous of terrorist groups while abandoning our friends in Israel. For the first time in nearly 60 years, the Russian military has a presence only 60 miles off our shores. For the first time in decades, we have a President who refuses to meet with or have a dialogue with the leader of Russia - a President who has virtually renewed the cold war using only the media to do his thinking and talking. None of this is coincidental. There is a overwhelming change to our collective souls.
The gates of hell, indeed have been opened, with a very distinct line dividing the two sides as the bible prophesied. The differences in our attitudes from 1989 to today are discontenting. The presence of evil surrounds our very being, getting stronger every day as evidenced by the events in our daily lives.
As we examine our national priorities as defined by our President, despite the dangers in our world, we have gay marriage, environmental restrictions to fight a fictional problem called Global Warming, abortion rights under any circumstance, legalization of marijuana, amnesty for illegal immigrants, national healthcare with government oversight and mandates, governmental control over the masses using espionage and intimidation, government control over income (or lack thereof), government prohibition of Christianity, increased restrictions on civil rights for select groups, increased government corruption and concealing of data, funding of terrorist activities and likely, much more which has yet to surface. The priorities of our President and his administration are centered around issues which can be considered at least in part, sinful.
In these times, we are witness to Christians being attacked or vilified for their beliefs. Yet, for non-Christians or athiests, while they have had the right to believe or not believe, as they wish; they are increasingly encouraged to lash out against Christians. While a business in our nation has the right to refuse service to anyone, those who refuse service to a gay "married" couple, can now be heavily fined and sued for extreme amounts of money. Even as I write this, there is legislative action around the nation, suggesting prison terms for anyone refusing to service a gay wedding. That is, while a Christian business owner can be sentenced to prison, a person smoking pot in a rapidly expanding geography, is no longer breaking the law.
These priorities have contributed to our current societal downfall, but as important, they have contributed to tensions around the world. With the challenges facing our nation, from growing terrorism to probable attacks on our technology from Iraq, China and even Russia; our President has failed to address the offending nations in any way. Instead, he chose to pick a battle with Russia over their position on homosexuality during the Sochi Olympics. From Russia's perspective, are they expected to listen to a President, whose nation is in the midst of a morality crisis? To add to the comical irony, our President is meeting with China on environmental issues, while China continues to poison our technological infrastructure. The President then proudly announces that China will agree to enact environmental controls by 2030. If Global Warming presented an immediate danger as the proponents of this hoax would have us believe, why is it acceptable for the worlds largest industrial polluter to continue polluting for 16 more years while American citizens are expected to take a shower using a tablespoon of water?
As mentioned earlier, the Russian military is currently positioned only 60 miles off our coast in the Gulf of Mexico. They are also conducting training in the Arctic. As we have learned in the past, Russia has very solid moral culture and a proud history, right or wrong. We have chosen as a nation, to back Russia into a corner in the media, about their position on gay or abortion rights. We have imposed economic sanctions against Russia for their actions in Ukraine, while we continue to fund and support the Nazi backed opposition in Ukraine. Apart from committing an act of war against Russia, as we have by imposing sanctions, we have repeated a failed tactic last used by President Jimmy Carter in 1976. Sanctions did not work back then, why would they work today?
The United States is not the nation it once was. I am not saying that we have always been innocent or Christian. I believe we have made mistakes in the past, but I do not feel that our past actions were ever based on evil, as I believe today. I am not proud of who we are today and I do not support what we do today. Don't get me wrong, I am a patriot and proud to be an American. I love my country and I will die for my Constitution and all it represents. The United States of 2014, is not the United States of our forefathers. It is not the United States of Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan. Our nation is under attack by negative, dangerous people. Our President has never proven his citizenship nor his alliance to the nation which has provided the foundation for his nefarious agenda. This evil however, does not stop with the President, as we witnessed a mockery of our electoral process just one week ago. Though the party majority changed in our Congress, the leadership had not changed. This will ensure that those in power today, will remain in power in January. Any attempt to challenge this outcome would have likely been met with aggressive opposition.
The evil is also not limited to the leadership in the United States. Though it may appear that I had defended the actions taken by Russia in Ukraine and other parts of the world, I do not consider Russia without fault. It is clear to me that Putin is working to revive the Soviet Union, but our failed diplomacy has only encouraged Russia to move ahead with their plan. In addition to their actions in Ukraine, Russia has been supporting the dangerous activities of Al Queda, Isis and the nation of Iran. When everything is blended together, it is a recipe for world war - a conflagration, the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetime.
There is indeed, a very negative feeling hovering over our world. This feeling is the product of the increasing tensions, not just in our nation, but throughout the world. When I step back and look at all that is occurring. When I see how negative behavior is encouraged and Christianity is discouraged, even punished. When I see the onslaught of vampire and other satanic movies, filling the screens and minds of our society. When I see the death, destruction, deception and terror, I can only surmise that the gates of hell have opened for business, and the devil is running wild on earth. On it's own, it is unsettling and frightening. Oh, I know that God will prevail. I know that the good will always win against evil. My concern is not that this war against evil will occur - it has already started. I look forward to the end, when the world is rid of evil forever.
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