MEMRI has launched the Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC), which will provide historical documentation for the years to come, for academic and educational purposes.

Since we cannot post these horrific graphics and videos on Meta platforms, we will provide verbal descriptions of them, and make the videos available for viewing on the MEMRI Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center Report account on Telegram.

Issue No. 1 includes summaries of the videos. Again, this content can be viewed here.

The following are the descriptions of the content posted for Issue No. 1

1. At the entrance to Kibbutz Beeri, the remains of a car full of civilians trying to escape the Hamas invasion and massacre. They were caught and burned alive.
2. Israeli babies shot and burned to death by Hamas operatives
3. More Israeli babies shot and burned to death by Hamas operatives
4. An Israeli family held hostage by Hamas terrorists who took control of their home inside Israel and killed a sister.
5. An Israeli family held hostage by Hamas terrorists who took control of their home. The father is shot and wounded; a boy is forced at gunpoint to go to other families in the village and tell them to leave their homes.
6. Hamas shoots into a shelter room full of murdered civilians
7. Beheaded Israeli soldiers
8. A kidnapped 85-year-old woman
9. A murdered girl in her car
10. A kidnapped Israeli couple from a party is abducted to Gaza

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Actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr fired back Sunday at director Rob Reiner on X (formerly Twitter), responding to his latest complaint about former President Trump and the future of the United States.

The anti-Trump hysteric Reiner attacked Republicans for continuing to support Trump despite his legal challenges and essentially predicted the end of the world if Democrats did not win the presidency in 2024.

“Let this sink in. Republicans say that even if Trump is a Convicted Felon who attempted to destroy American Democracy, they will still vote for him. We will only survive if he, and the corrupt party he leads, is decisively defeated in 2024,” Reiner posted.

Barr responded, “What a crazy idea, you mean beat him in a fair and general election that would require good ideas and debate (and not so obvious corruption)??? Lol, Good luck dems.”

“We know why you’re cheating and lying and indicting and false flagging,” Barr continued. “It’s your only hope. But keep telling us we are the threat to democracy.”

The Republican National Committee (RNC) shared a comment on Sunday, pointing out that “Since taking office, Joe Biden has spent 380 days – 39.9 percent of his presidency – on vacation.”

“Imagine how much worse things would be if he was working every day,” Barr quipped in return.

Rob Reiner

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• Longtime supporter of leftwing Democrat candidates & causes
• A founding member of the Democracy Alliance
• Has likened Tea Party conservatives to Nazis & Hamas terrorists
• Harbors deep contempt for Donald Trump & his allies
• Supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement
• Opposes election-integrity laws

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More military WOKENESS in action.

Army general tried to hunt down whistleblower who criticized Biden admin: Report

BY  TIMOTHY FRUDD

Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy Commander, and Army Maj. Jessica Dawson, a West Point associate professor, used their authority and government access in an attempt to unofficially investigate and punish an active-duty whistleblower for criticizing the Biden administration and various Army leaders.

According to private text messages and emails obtained by Breitbart News, Gervais and Dawson used official government resources to hunt for the anonymous whistleblower, identify them, and have them punished for speaking against the Biden administration and Army leadership, despite a lack of evidence.

Despite lacking evidence, Gervais and Dawson reportedly labeled the whistleblower an “insider threat” and repeatedly accused him of serving as “counterintelligence.” Breitbart News noted that the accusations by Gervais and Dawson were seemingly used as an effort to involve the Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID), which has the power as an independent agency to investigate serious felonies.

According to Pat Wier, a Navy reservist and civilian defense attorney, an investigation by CID would first require the designation of a significant threat. He described Gervais and Dawson’s accusations as “wrongful.”

“His alleged actions did not rise to the level of a serious crime, or any crime at all,” Wier said. Instead, Breitbart reported that based on private communications, the investigation seems to have been an attempt by military officials to utilize government powers to punish the whistleblower for political dissent.

According to Breitbart, Gervais and Dawson’s investigation lasted almost a year, aided by current and former progressive military members. The investigation resulted in the public identification of the suspected whistleblower, an Army general’s former aide filing an inspector general complaint against the whistleblower, and the inspector general’s system being politically weaponized against the whistleblower’s social media posts that criticized the Biden administration.

The inspector general complaint resulted in a 15-6 investigation into the whistleblower, which led to Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Samuel Shoemate being charged for violating Army Regulation 600-20 by “posting derogatory and disrespectful images/memes on multiple social accounts … towards different Senior Officials and Military Leaders.”

The 15-6 investigation also claimed that Shoemate had violated Uniform Code of Military Justice Articles 88 (Contempt towards Senior Officials), 89 (Disrespect toward Superior Commissioned Officers, 133 (Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer and Gentleman), and DOD Instruction 5400.17 Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes.

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I went to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations this spring. Man-hating is never in short supply there and this year it was in especially fine form. I went to numerous presentations where the call to action was to “dismantle the patriarchy,” “eradicate the patriarchy,” or “smash the patriarchy.”

I began to wonder if anyone actually knew what the patriarchy was, so I decided to ask.

After one event I approached the moderator, thanked her, and asked what she thought a helpful definition of “the patriarchy” would be. She fumbled excessively and finally said, “Well, it’s the system in which we live. It is everything made by men, for men.” I pivoted over to a panellist, the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, and asked her the same question. After a great deal of stammering, she produced a similar answer.

So, to abolish the patriarchy, everything made by men has to go. It sounds almost Maoist in the level of destruction it would take to actually carry out the job of smashing the patriarchy: Demolish everything built, conceived, or forged by men, and build it all back better. The hubris of the idea is overwhelming.

I walked back to my hotel. I strode across the marble floor in the lobby and ascended 34 stories of steel and glass and wiring. I looked out the window at the fantastic landscape of New York City buildings jutting up in angular beauty below me. I thought about all the men who had built nearly everything within my stunning view, and the building in which I stood. I thought of all the digging and drilling and hauling and pounding and pouring and sweating that made that bustling, beautiful city possible. And I was grateful for the work of men.

Why is it not good enough that mostly men built these buildings? Why does something need to be made by women for it to be worthy of wonder and gratitude? I never walk through a sparkling hotel lobby and think, “Was this made by a man? Slimy devil built it just to spite women. It ought to be ripped down!”

And do men really make things only for the benefit of other men? The hotel I was staying in was bursting with women from every continent of the world. And they all seemed pretty pleased to have a place to stay. And running water. And lights. And I’m guessing the soft carpets under their feet were laid by men.

A friend I was rooming with at the hotel has a daughter who is a budding architect and just signed a contract to design buildings all over the world. Women, of course, can be architects and they can be great ones. But when this woman’s daughter goes to draft plans for a building, will she plan to hang “Women Only” signs everywhere and refuse to put in bathrooms for men? Will she build it with the intent that it will be built by women, for women?

In frontier times, did a man cut trees, shape logs, and stack them together to make a cabin so that only he could use it? More often than not, a man worked for the good of his family. He wanted to build a house so his wife and children could live in it and not die. Today, a man may not haul logs, but many a good man hauls himself to the office or the job site or the classroom or the field and wears out his life working for the benefit of others.

Yes, the man gets to enjoy the fruits of his labours too, but a good man (and I realize there are bad men) works and builds and dreams and sweats so that he can provide useful things to the people he loves and to people at large. Women do this, too. But most women opt out of hard labour while men tend to opt in. Therefore, much of what is built in the world is built by men. This is not evil. And it’s not a manifestation of “women’s oppression” as my UN comrades often insist. The work of men actually helps women. A lot.

Most of the women at the Commission on the Status of Women bristle at any mention of motherhood and resent the time it takes to raise a child. But is the crafting of a soul any less necessary or less grand than the crafting of a building? Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty once wrote of mothers, “She cannot claim the honour of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral—a dwelling for an immortal soul.” A woman can certainly build buildings, but perhaps there are even more important things she can do.

We should ask, what is more important—the house, or the child living and breathing and playing and sleeping in the house? A house has no meaning without someone to live in it. The maker of the house is not more honourable than those who work out their lives inside it. Both are noble. And perhaps the builder of the building and the one who gives the building purpose can glory in the contributions of the other.

I was treading the corridors of the UN for the rest of the week (most likely built by dreaded men) and marvelled at the bombastically joyous lights in Times Square (probably made mostly by awful men) and walked in the shade of trees (probably planted by selfish men) and gazed out my window every night at the marvellous mayhem of steel and lights before me. And I was thankful—thankful for men.

I still am.

AUTHOR

KIMBERLY ELLS

Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack.

During a heated Thursday House Judiciary Committee hearing, unhinged Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee lost it while defending prominent left-wing billionaire philanthropist George Soros as a “patriot.”

The moment came following critical comments made by a Republican on the committee, Rep. Thomas Tiffany (R-WI), who noted any sanctuary city in the U.S. would “almost certainly” have a “Soros prosecutor” over its jurisdiction.

“Let me ask you this: first of all, we have accusatory commentary of Soros DA’s. Let us not put an individual that is not here, a contributing American, and jeopardize his life, or always throwing his name out in the most ugliest of ways,” Jackson Lee said before beginning her questioning of one of the law enforcement witnesses at the hearing focused on crime associated with criminal illegal immigrants.

“I am offended by that. Mr. Soros does not deserve that. He is an American and a patriot, and he also comes from a minority community, one might say, and you create a dangerous situation. That’s unfortunate,” she added.

A patriot? Arguably no single living person has wielded so much subversive influence over this nation than Soros, who funds radical causes, open borders politicians, and pro-crime prosecutors, mayors, and governors. Defending him as a patriotic American tells you everything you need to know about Sheila Jackson Lee and her comrades in today’s Democrat Party.

Sheila Jackson Lee

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Over the course of her career as a legislator, Jackson Lee has often accused her political opponents of racism. For example:

• During a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wrote angrily in a letter to the editor.
• In July 2010, Jackson Lee spoke at an NAACP meeting where she derided the conservative Tea Party movement as a racist phenomenon, saying: “All those who wore [Klansman] sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing, uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the Tea Party. Don’t you be fooled. Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement.”

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Air Force Academy Instructional Materials Include Presentations on Critical Race Theory, White Privilege, and Black Lives Matter – Attacks American ‘Creation Myth’ of the Declaration of Independence.

You will not believe the Marxist drivel being taught at our Air Force Academy. I genuinely fear for the future of our military.

We received 478 pages of records from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), a component of the United States Department of Defense, which include instructional materials and emails that address topics such as Critical Race Theory, “white privilege,” and Black Lives Matter.

We obtained these records as the result of a November 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Defense Department failed to respond to a request for Air Force Academy training material records on Critical Race Theory (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:22-cv-03510)).

The records include a PowerPoint presentation titled “Political Psychology, Lessons 32-33: Prejudice and Racism.” On a slide labeled “Race and Partisanship” is a bullet stating: “Opposition to interracial dating correlated with white partisanship after Obama’s election despite being unrelated to party identification in previous decades.”

That presentation includes a set of tables with the headline “White Americans’ Support for Democratic Candidates for President as a Function of Old-Fashioned Racism.” Another slide depicts tables which purport to show “Correlations between Republican Party Identification and Old-Fashioned Racism among White Americans.”

A slide titled “Racialization of Public Policy” includes a bullet stating “They [pollsters] found that the image of a black man greatly impacted responses among Trump supporters.” The next bullet asserts:

Another slide purports to show a chart depicting “White Identity among White Americans,” with the subtitle “How Important Is Being White to Your Identity?”

Additional slides are titled “How White Identity Shapes Politics” and contain tables purporting to show:

• Effect of White Identity on Empathy toward People of Color
• Effect of White Identity on Support for Voter ID Laws
• Effect of White Identity on Support for Political Violence

A slide titled “Race and Politics” includes an image of President Obama with the bullet “Because the President is the leader of his respective party – Obama signified a massive shift in image of the stereotypical Democrat,” followed by the bullet: “The Democratic party became branded as the party of Black Americans.”

A “CRT Talking Points” document prepared at the direction of the Air Force Academy Superintendent includes the question “Does CRT teach cadets to hate our country?” The scripted “academic answer” to the question asserts, “much of what is ‘divisive’ [about CRT] is that it’s hard for people to hear the words ‘white supremacy’ without feeling defensive, even though that is the academically correct way to talk about most of American history.”

The records include a transcript of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s June 23, 2021, congressional testimony in which he tells Rep. Matt Gaetz, “I don’t know what the issue of critical race theory is and what the relevance here in the department. We do not teach critical race theory. We don’t embrace critical race theory. And I think that’s a spurious conversation.”

Two weeks later, on July 7, 2021, Dean of Faculty Brigadier General Linell Letendre forwards to Superintendent Lieutenant General Richard Clark, Commander of Cadets Brigadier General Paul Moga, and others whose names are redacted, a Washington Post opinion piece written the previous day by USAFA Professor Lynne Chandler Garcia, titled “Why U.S. military academies should teach critical race theory.” Letendre adds a note promoting the piece:

My thanks to Dr. Chandler Garcia for putting into words what many of us have expressed to each other around the water coolers about the importance of teaching our cadets how to think. [Emphasis in original] As future leaders of the profession of arms, we owe them nothing less.

An August 13, 2021, email exchange between academy officials details hosting a virtual discussion with Stephen Brookfield, author of “Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism,” to USAFA faculty members. One official raises concerns over Brookfield’s discussion topics related to Critical Race Theory.

In a separate email chain, a person whose name is redacted sends the Brookfield event information to Letendre: “In case this slipped your notice, I just wanted to make sure you and the dean were aware that the [redacted] book group initiative has the potential to further the CRT storm.”

The dean replies, “Thanks for the SA [situational awareness]. No concerns. We need to keep doing the right things to prepare and develop faculty.” Forty-three faculty members signed up for Brookfield’s talk.

Another presentation discusses the teachings of Brookfield and has the headline “The (White) Elephant in the Room” and bullets which are partially obscured.

A slide in the series has the title “Team Teaching” and includes the bullet: “Allows you to … Demonstrate how to engage in difficult conversations in a way focused on behaviors not personhood, & on learned white supremacy not essential moral differences or failings.” Another bullet states “Allows you to … Facilitate racial affinity groups.”

Another slide is titled “The Fatigue of WWW – Witnessing White Woke-ness.”

An additional slide proposes:

A calculus of understanding amongst Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) who have negotiated the dynamics of structural racism all their lives & are tired of WITNESSING ‘WOKENESS’ in White people coming to new racial awareness. [Emphasis in original]

One of the Brookfield slides is titled, “Hard Truths I’ve Learned as a White Instructor/Leader” and contains bullets such as “I MUST assume that for students and colleagues of color, EVERYTHING is seen through the lens of race. For them, NOTHING is ‘race free’.” And, “I MUST acknowledge my own racist behavior when it’s pointed out to me – not to try to ‘explain’ it away, not protest my innocence.” [Emphases in original]

Still another Brookfield slide contains the bullets “I MUST NEVER ask people of color to teach me about racism – figuring out what whites should do is MY responsibility” and “I MUST NEVER ‘confess’ my racism so as to seek ‘absolution’ from BIPOC students & colleagues.” [Emphases in original]

Among the works written by Brookfield listed in the bibliography is “Creating an Anti-Racist White Identity.”

A slide from Lesson 28 in Behavioral Science 362 is titled “What is CRT?” and includes:

• Recognize that race is not biologically reality, but socially constructed and socially significant
• Helps us understand the legacy of racism and how embedded within social institutions
• Sees racism as systemic

Another slide in the presentation discusses the 1619 Project that argues that America was not founded in 1776.

A presentation, which has no specification as to whether it is intended for faculty or the students, is titled “Free Speech in the Military” and has a slide labeled “The Commie Cadet,” which includes images of West Point cadet Spencer Rapone at his West Point graduation ceremony showing the inside of his cap in which is written “Communism will win,” and one of him wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt under his uniform.

A presentation, apparently intended for the cadets, is titled “American Political System & Theory, Lesson 25-31 Law & Democracy” and a slide containing a list of information under “Things to Know,” which describes Critical Race Theory as: “Critical Race Theory studies racism as a social construct” and “Proponents say learning the history of racism is crucial to addressing inequities.”

Lesson 14 of a Social Sciences presentation is titled “What does Race have to do with Security?” The next slide, titled “Critical Race Theory,” provides several bullet points of “definitions” of CRT, such as:

A collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view, (Brooks 1994)”

The view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of color. (Curry 2009).

Another slide discusses the “‘Myth’ of American Peoplehood” with one bullet claiming: “The U.S. too has a creation myth: The Declaration of Independence declares that all men have rights endowed by their Creator; Ideas of social contracts forged in a state of nature.”

In the same Social Sciences presentation is a slide titled: “Lesson 16: Black Lives Matter – Causes and Context.” A bloc of slides in the presentation discusses BLM, with one slide alleging: “White privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard. It means that your skin color isn’t one of the things making it harder.” [Emphases in original]

Various slides promoting BLM follow, including one depicting a white police officer holding a sign pointing to a black man, asking, “Is his life worth less than mine?” and a white woman holding a similar sign pointing to a black woman.

Numerous slides depict alleged police brutality against blacks, one of which states “Nearly 90% of documented force used by FPD [Ferguson, MO Police Department] was used against African Americans.”

The Air Force is fomenting racialism, racial separatism and segregation, and anti-white hatred among its rising young leadership at the Air Force Academy. These documents show the Biden Defense Department is teaching these cadets on how to hate America using repackaged revolutionary Marxist propaganda.

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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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