God has always had a plan for the earth and its inhabitants. That plan was to create a man from whom would come a family of sons and daughters who would worship Him as God. Even though that plan was thwarted by Satan shortly after the creation, God had already formulated what we might call a “backup plan” that would include sending His own Son to “buy back” any human who would accept the Son as Messiah.

Even though, to us, it might seem like a “back up plan”, God, in His omniscience knew what would happen long before any human events occurred, so His plan for Jesus to be sent to earth as Messiah, the redeemer of the human race, was NOT a backup plan, but was an integral part of the PLAN OF GOD. He is so far above us in His thoughts and His ways that He has ALL the answers before any questions are asked.

For the Lord God, Jerusalem, the ancient capital of Israel, is the center of everything on earth; it is the only city on earth where He has “placed His name” and all end times prophetic events point to the final actions that will take place in or around Jerusalem. Israel is still the Apple of God’s eye and Jerusalem is still the city where God “placed His name”. All believers who study end time Bible prophecy should be focusing, not just on events that are now occurring in that area, but on the unfulfilled prophecies that MUST eventually occur there.

Russia and Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war in February 2022, I followed, with a mild interest, the action taking place there, at least as closely as I could with the very limited western news coverage, much of which has been very slanted in support of Ukraine and against Russia.

By now, nearly every nation, and likely a huge majority of the people of the world have taken a side in the “war”, some backing Ukraine, some backing Russia.

Although my highest priority is usually watching events unfold in the  Middle East, recently I have taken a more focused approach to the Russia/Ukraine  issue when it became clear just how close we are to seeing some major actions take place in the Middle East, specifically actions that involve Israel.

Ok, so what does the Russia/Ukraine conflict have to do with the Middle East and specifically Israel? Are we seeing a move of God in either Russia, Ukraine, or Israel that might have implications for events to occur in the United States? A fair question since the US has gotten so involved in that questionable conflict.

Even though the news reports from multiple military fronts want you to believe that Ukraine is holding off Russia and will soon push all the Russian infantry and artillery back beyond their borders, any human being with even a small amount of discernment knows that the opposite is true.

If ordinary people in the US understand that there is no way that Ukraine can defeat the mighty Russian military machine, even with the massive amounts of money being funneled, supposedly, into the Ukraine military, then surely the US government knows it.

But it seems that the US government is hell-bent on continuing its unbridled support for the most corrupt administration in Ukraine, perhaps even world, history.

Natural Reasons for Supporting Ukraine: Are There Any?

I have tried to understand just what the national security interests of the US in Ukraine might be that would encourage the administration to continue supporting a losing cause against Russia.

Ukraine has historically been one of the “breadbaskets of the world”, producing massive amounts of wheat and other staples that help to feed the world. However, the United States has also been one of the world’s breadbaskets, not only providing ample food for US citizens, but also helping to feed hundreds of millions of people in other nations. The only reason the US would need to import food from Ukraine is the result of the almost criminal events that have worked to cripple food production in our Midwest and California.

Other than the large amounts of food that Ukraine is capable of producing, we need nothing of great value from that corrupt nation. We were completely energy independent while Trump was POTUS and still could be if US oil and gas producers were allowed to drill where they know there are massive amounts of American oil reserves, and had the shutdown of the Keystone XL pipeline not occurred under Biden’s orders. But we import few, if any, energy products from Ukraine so that cannot be the reason for the continued US involvement there.

Could the reports (proven by research and factual data) of Ukraine being the most corrupt government in the world, having the reputation as the money-laundering capital of the world, have some bearing on the so-called western world NOT wanting to see Ukraine fall to Russia? This could definitely be the main ‘natural reason’ for continuing to prop up a totally corrupt regime there. If there are no major natural reasons for the US involvement, could there be supernatural reasons that remain unseen to most people?

Supernatural Reasons

What if the REAL reason for the fighting in Ukraine is not over disputed land and territory, but is directly tied to the set up for one or more major prophetic events that will occur in the Middle East/Israel? There are still several major prophetic events in that area that have yet to be fulfilled. Could the outcome of the Russia/Ukraine war have a bearing on actions we will soon see in the Middle East?

A look at what the Bible says will occur in the Middle East could help explain just what is going on with the US involvement in Ukraine, other than a bunch of corrupt politicians wanting to use that money-laundering haven to enrich themselves further.

God has determined exactly how events in the end times (that would be NOW) will occur. He will do whatever it takes to move nations and peoples around to be in place for the events to occur as they were prophesied.

The prophet Ezekiel wrote, regarding ‘Gog’, the leader of the invasion from the north of Israel that will likely occur in our lifetime: “And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:” Ezekiel 38:3-5.

God, Who is omnipotent, certainly has ways of causing people, and nations, to do what they must to fulfill His will for them, and “putting hooks into the jaws” is a means He uses to bring Gog into the place where He will fulfill the prophecy. Could it be that He is also “placing a hook” into the jaws of the United States to bring her into the proper position she must inhabit during the final days of this age?

We know from the Bible that Russia, as a member of the Gog/Magog invasion of Israel, WILL have an active role in the end times events that are now unfolding and will continue to unfold in the Middle East and specifically in Israel, whereas the US will NOT have such a role. That being said, what might transpire that will bring that setup, with Russia being present and the US being absent, to fruition?

Could the disastrous US involvement in Ukraine, costing our nation many billions of US dollars, along with any credibility and the favor of our allies, backing a phony Ukrainian president in a war that his country cannot possibly win, be the event that brings the US down to a point where we will be nearly irrelevant in the end times action?

Even though the current administration works hard to convince Americans that our economy is healthy and growing, we ALL know the opposite of those claims is the truth. Most of the decisions made since Biden entered the White House have been a financial disaster for this nation, and the involvement in Ukraine has only worsened a very bad economic situation.

Any nation that has a less than healthy economy is asking for major trouble interfering in any other nation’s business.

God’s plan for the wrap-up of the Church age has been settled for millennia and no action of men or governments will change that. With the glaring absence of the US in any Middle East end-times events, specifically as a long-time ally and strong supporter of the Jewish people, it certainly seems as though God is sending a message to this nation: Because of your decisions to remove any presence of God from all your public institutions, turning your back to me, coupled with your support of the myriad of satanic activities that have blinded this nation to the benevolent goodness and mercy of God, I also will turn my back to you in your time of need.

If this is indeed what we are seeing, any opportunity to reverse it is likely very small and disappearing very rapidly. The actions of the people of this nation, especially its leaders, and the growing apostasy of the Church, have made reconciliation with Almighty God more improbable than ever.

I am trying NOT to be a totally negative voice here but this nation has mocked God at every turn for more than 50 years and I must reiterate what Paul wrote in his letter to the Church at Galatia: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Galatians 6:7-8

God will not always allow man, or a nation,  to step over His line and continue to walk in ways that are contrary to His plan. There is a price to pay for mocking God and, unfortunately, I feel we are close to seeing that payment demanded of the US.

Maranatha!

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Consumer prices reached the highest rates in four decades, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May 2022 climbed 8.6% in the last year, making it increasingly difficult for American consumers to afford everyday goods. This is the largest 12-month increase since 1981, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The gasoline index rose 4.1%, food by 1.2%, energy by 3.9% and the food at home index increased 1.4%, BLS reported. Almost all aspects of American purchases increased in May, including shelter, airline fares, new and used cars and trucks, medical care, household furnishings and operations, recreation and clothing, according to BLS.

Inflation just hit a NEW 40-year high.

Overall CPI: +8.6% since last year
Gas: +48.7%
Fuel Oil: +106.7%
Meat, Poultry, & Fish: +13.1%
Milk: +15.9%
Eggs: +32.2%
Coffee: +15.3%
Used Cars: +16.1%
Airline Fares: +37.8%
Real Average Hourly Earnings: -3%

— Jacki Kotkiewicz (@jackikotkiewicz) June 10, 2022

The CPI measures the overall change in prices paid by American consumers for goods and services, regardless of occupation. It does not include the spending patterns in rural areas, farming families, men and women in the Armed Forces and individuals in prisons or mental institutions, according to BLS.

The overall rise of 8.6% is higher than the 8.3% initially predicted by analysts, the New York Post reported.

The climbing cost of living has been blamed for President Joe Biden’s sinking approval ratings. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said in early May that the American people should blame Biden for his “awful” economic polling numbers after the outlet found that 77% of Americans believe current economic conditions are bad.

Heightened spending of pandemic savings, a lack of goods and pressures in the service sector contributed to soaring rates of inflation, according to The New York Times. Gas prices remain the largest cause for concern as they have fueled the soaring cost of food and health care, the New York Post noted.

Analysts have suggested that the cost of a barrel will approach or surpass $140 this summer. The more that gas rises above the current $5 a gallon average, the greater the risk of recession, CNBC noted.

‘Put On Your Seat Belts On’: BlackRock President Warns Of Massive Shortages Due To Inflation https://t.co/ZbFkqFkrHm

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 30, 2022

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday she does not expect the economy to tip into a recession, according to the New York Post.

Yellen’s contrast with remarks from World Bank Group President David Malpass, who said in May it was difficult to “see how we avoid a recession.” Similar concerns were echoed by Bank of America, which issued a dire warning to Americans about the near economic future of the country.

BlackRock President Rob Kapito predicted in March that an “entitled generation” was about to be shocked by the upcoming shortages in labor and raw material, which are already removing normal items from shelves.

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An enemy of the state is defined as a person accused of certain crimes against the state, such as treason. Treason is defined as the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. Treason, however, does not address the highest of all crimes against the state, the attempted dissolution of the state itself. The globalist elite are guilty of the highest crimes.

Globalism is a supremacist replacement ideology that seeks to destroy American sovereignty and make the United States part of a one-world planetary nation, ruled through the United Nations by the globalist elite. Globalism is an enemy of the current world order of 193 sovereign states, and cannot succeed without collapsing the United States into its planned unistate. Globalism is absolute totalitarianism on a planetary scale, deceitfully marketed as global peace, harmony, security, and public health.

The essence of globalism is totalitarian centralization of power into the hands of the supremacist globalist elite, who unapologetically plan to rule the world through the auspices of the United Nations, its international infrastructure of UN institutions, and the globalist business entities that support them. The world is in the final battle of globalism’s war on the nation state, and the globalist elite fully anticipate their planetary coup d état will succeed in 2022 with the support and collaboration of the treasonous Biden regime.

The globalist elite running the war on America are megalomaniacs, psychopaths, and enemies of the state disguised as humanitarians. They are skilled strategists who have implemented a phased tactical strategy over decades. Consider the most recent phases:

• The Covid plandemic set the stage for mail-in voting
• Mail-in voting set the stage for the 2020 presidential election steal
• The election steal set the stage for the January 6th protest
• The January 6th protest set the stage for the false flag operation that ended the challenges to Biden’s electoral certification, and labeled the protest an insurrection
• Labeling the protest an insurrection set the stage for claiming Trump supporters were domestic terrorists
• Labeling Trump supporters domestic terrorists, allowed the incarceration of American citizens held without due process
• Incarceration and the threat of domestic terrorism set the stage for creating Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) under the authority of Homeland Security
• Placing the DGB under the authority of Homeland Security allowed the institutional elimination of free speech in the name of national security
• Elimination of free speech sets the stage for the final phase of the globalist coup
• The surrender of American national sovereignty to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) in the name of public health

In an unprecedented act of globalist high treason, the Biden regime plans to secretly surrender the sovereignty of the United States to the authority of the United Nations at the May 22-28, 2022 meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHA is the governing body of the United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO). The Biden regime has proposed 13 amendments to the existing rules that change international health rules of the World Health Assembly. The amendments transfer the authority to make national health decisions, from sovereign member nations, including the United States, to the United Nations.

At the meeting, the WHO is drafting a Global Pandemic Treaty on pandemic preparedness that grants itself absolute power over global biosecurity including the powers to implement digital identities/vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions, and to determine medical treatments.

This is the platform for global governance because health decisions affect all aspects of civilian life and domestic economics. Political medicine administered worldwide through the United Nation’s WHO, awards planetary, one world, totalitarian governance to the globalist elite – exactly as they planned.

I am not exaggerating – American sovereignty will end with passage of Biden’s 13 amendments and the proposed Global Pandemic Treaty. This is the culmination of the globalist COUP and takeover of America, and it is being done through political medicine in the name of public health. Words matter.

On May 4, 2022, Dr. Peter Breggin and his wife Ginger Ross Breggin published an extraordinary article titled, “Biden Handing Over U.S. Sovereignty to WHO,” that details the plan with chilling precision. The following excerpt demonstrates how the Orwellian definition of the word “health” has no limits – it includes anything and everything affecting an individual’s state of being:

Defining “Health” and WHO’s Domain of Authority

According to the Foreword to WHO’s regulations, there is no specific limit to what constitutes a health emergency, and it is certainly not limited to pandemics. WHO’s domain includes:

a scope not limited to any specific disease or manner of transmission, but covering “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans…

WHO’s powerful reach is also defined by the number of other organizations it is authorized to cooperate with once it has declared an emergency or health crisis: “other competent intergovernmental organizations or international bodies with which WHO is expected to cooperate and coordinate its activities, as appropriate, include the following: United Nations, International Labor Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Air Transport Association, International Shipping Federation, and Office International des Epizooties.”

The Preamble to the WHO Constitution (separate from the International Health Regulations) summarizes WHO’s concept of what is included under its mandate of improving, guiding, and organizing world health:

WHO remains firmly committed to the principles set out in the preamble to [its] Constitution

• Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
• The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.
• The health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest cooperation of individuals and States.
• The achievement of any State in the promotion and protection of health is of value to all.
• Unequal development in different countries in the promotion of health and control of diseases, especially communicable diseases, is a common danger.
• Healthy development of the child is of basic importance; the ability to live harmoniously in a changing total environment is essential to such development.
• The extension to all peoples of the benefits of medical, psychological, and related knowledge is essential to the fullest attainment of health.
• Informed opinion and active co-operation on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the improvement of the health of the people.
• Governments have a responsibility for the health of their peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures.

Given WHO’s assessment of the breadth of its health concerns, mandates, and goals — almost any kind of problematic situation that affects the people of a nation could be considered a health problem. Indeed, under WHO’s approach, it would be difficult to find any important national issue that was not a potential health problem. With the imminent passage of the American-sponsored amendments to the International Health Regulations, WHO will have free reign for using these expansive definitions of health to call a crisis over anything it wishes in any nation it desires.

The essence of globalism is totalitarian centralization of power into the hands of the supremacist globalist elite, who unapologetically plan to rule the world through the auspices of the United Nations and its network of international institutions. The world is in the final battle of globalism’s war on the nation state, and the globalist elite fully anticipate their planetary coup d’état will succeed in May 2022 with the support and collaboration of the treasonous Biden regime.

If the coup succeeds, Americans should expect:

• Another pandemic will be released before the November 2022 midterm elections
• Martial law will be declared to quell the social chaos
• Elections will be suspended
• American sovereignty will transfer to the United Nations when the six-month grace period to withdraw from the agreements expires
• The United States of America will be governed under the auspices of the United Nations by the tyrannical, supremacist, globalist elite who have been planning the coup for decades

Only serious intervention by patriotic governors with the courage to preemptively assert states’ rights will deny the tyranny of the globalist WHA/WHO takeover, and avert the final phased act of globalist terrorism.

Without intervention, the United States of America will cease to exist as a sovereign nation.

©Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.

Today, we look at the latest ways communist China has compromised our elites, in a process that has come to be called ‘elite capture’.  We’ll leave Hunter Biden’s laptop and questions about whether Joe Biden has corruptly sold his office for another day.  There are plenty of other things happening.

Liz Cheney’s husband’s law firm represents Chinese companies tied to China’s military, intelligence, and security services.  So when Liz Cheney says we need to stand up to the “generational threat” posed by China’s “malign behavior”, just remember where her bread is buttered and ask yourself if it’s all just posturing.

Members of the Bush family have ties to China.  Prescott Bush got a golf course approved in China – no mean feat – when his brother George H. W. Bush was president.  Another brother, Neil Bush, got a contract during that presidency with a Chinese semiconductor firm.  He had no qualifications for the work, but got paid $400,000 a year, anyway.  Sound familiar?  More recently, the Bush Foundation sent 2 million COVID masks to China at a time the U.S. was facing a mask shortage.  And we’re supposed to believe the Bush family has America’s best interests at heart?

Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta, received at least a million dollars to lobby the White House last year on behalf of the giant Chinese telecom company Huawei.  Huawei, you might recall, was banned in the U.S. and eight other countries because it poses national security risks.

Republican lawmakers accuse a Chinese surveillance firm of sparking a congressional investigation into a U.S. company which had been exposing the Chinese firm’s monitoring of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province for the Chinese Communist Party.  The U.S. company says the investigation is part of the CCP’s efforts to silence critics of China’s genocide and repression of the Uighurs.

There’s a bill in Congress to require think tanks and nonprofits to disclose foreign funding, like universities currently have to do.  The bill is intended in part to address Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups, but notes, “A number of … think tanks, and other civil society organizations receive substantial funding from Beijing that is often targeted at shaping views and discourse on China.”  The money comes from a political warfare arm of the CCP that works to undermine democratic countries around the world, including the U.S.

The bill is a good idea, but it will have to get past Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell first, both of whom have their own China problems.  Nancy’s husband and son get a lot of money from business relationships in China which, critics say, has led her to soften her criticism of Chinese human rights abuses.  As for Mitch McConnell, an Inspector General report recommended his wife Elaine Chao be criminally prosecuted for helping a U.S. shipping company owned by her father and sister with extensive business in China while she was Secretary of Transportation under Donald Trump.  The Justice Department may have declined to investigate, but the stench remains.

Now that more people are waking up to the fact that China is our enemy and seeks to put the entire world under its authoritarian thumb, it’s time root out Chinese elite capture and drain this part of the swamp.

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Governor Ron DeSantis Has a New 2022 campaign theme song written and performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant titled “Sweet Florida.”

Listen to Sweet Florida by Johnny Van Zant:

Race to the White House says this about the 2022 race for governor of Florida:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have his eyes set on the Republican nomination in the 2024 GOP Primary, but his presidential ambitions likely rest on his ability to win re-election in 2022. Democrats’ hopes of an upset are buoyed by the razor-thin margin of the 2018 governor election, where DeSantis won by just 0.4%, the closest election in state history. However, Republicans have several reasons to be confident as well. First, DeSantis was able to outlast the blue tidal wave that swept Democrats into the House on an over 8% win in the national popular vote, and the political environment will likely be more favorable in 2022. Second, Florida has shifted about 4% towards the Republican party since 2018, so Democrats will have to navigate their way through more treacherous political terrain to secure victory. [Emphasis added]

DATES	SAMPLEi	POLLSTER	SPONSOR	RESULT	NET RESULT

Feb.28-Mar.12	500	LV	C/D Saint Leo University		Fried	27%	51%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+24
Feb.28-Mar.12	500	LV	C/D Saint Leo University		Crist	33%	49%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+16
Feb.28-Mar.12	500	LV	C/D Saint Leo University		Taddeo	30%	49%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+19
Feb.23	1,064	LV	The Political Matrix/The Listener Group		Fried	50%	50%	DeSantis		Fried	+1
Feb.23	1,064	LV	The Political Matrix/The Listener Group		Crist	57%	44%	DeSantis		Crist	+13
Feb.7-20	685	RV	A/B University of North Florida		Fried	32%	55%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+23
Feb.7-20	685	RV	A/B University of North Florida		Crist	34%	55%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+21
Feb.7-10	625	RV	A- Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy		Taddeo	37%	53%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+16
Feb.7-10	625	RV	A- Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy		Fried	42%	53%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+11
Feb.7-10	625	RV	A- Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy		Crist	43%	51%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+8
Jan.26-29	500	LV	B+ Suffolk University	USA Today	Fried	40%	51%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+11
Jan.26-29	500	LV	B+ Suffolk University	USA Today	Crist	43%	49%	DeSantis		DeSantis	+6

AVG.

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