Saturday, June 7, 2014

America & Christianity Under Attack!



But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9);
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution (2 Timothy 3:12);
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified (1 Peter 4:12-14);
Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets (Luke 6:22-23);
If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you (John 15:18-19);
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world (Philippians 2:14-15).
I am a U.S. citizen by birth and a member of the post-World War II “Baby Boom” generation, so that makes me a senior citizen.  In elementary school, my classmates and I stood facing the American Flag with right hands covering our hearts and recited the “Pledge of Allegiance:”
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
As a child, I was proud to say those words and I still am!  Having honorably served in the U.S. Army as a youth, I am also a loyal patriot.  I have been a “born again” Christian for twenty-seven years, and today I serve as a soldier in the Army of the Lord Jesus Christ!
All my life, I have been proud to be an American.  Second only to my love for and loyalty to Jesus Christ, nothing stirs my patriotic blood more than hearing Lee Greenwood’s songs, “I’m Proud To Be An American,” and “God Bless the USA,” as well as John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”  I’m also thrilled by the sight of “Old Glory” displayed in battle during wartime, on public buildings, private residences, in the streets during parades, at festivals and picnics, and over our nation’s Capitol.  Over the years, the Flag of The United States has been burned and trampled on both at home and abroad by disgruntled, unthankful citizens who take their frustration and wrath out on our flag just to make a point or a political statement.  The fact that our citizens at home choose to show such disrespect is disgraceful, considering that they have the right of free speech because our nation’s Founding Fathers and patriot soldiers sacrificed, fought and died defending The Constitution that protects their rights.
Today, I live in President Barack Hussein Obama’s “changing” America which hardly resembles the America that I knew as a child growing up in the 50’s.  Since President Obama was first sworn into office in January 2009, it has become obvious that not every American and self-professing Christian shares my patriotic sentiments.  However, I am quite certain that I am not alone by voicing concern and indignation because of this president’s blatant contempt and disregard for the Constitution of the United States.  He is the first American president who, on his own and apart from Congress, executes his “changes” by the stroke of a pen or a phone call!  In so doing, he is breaking the law and no one is holding him accountable!  “Why?!”  Brothers and Sisters, this is how strong the “enemy within” has become entrenched and fortified in our nation’s Capitol!  
I am confident that other American patriots have also noticed that President Obama frequently refuses to place his right hand over his heart and pledge allegiance to the American Flag.  Too many photos and videos published on the internet show him standing with his hands folded in front while others show their due respect.  I can’t help but wonder what kind of message his “changes” and open displays of disrespect are sending to the American people, to our children, to our allies and to our enemies.  What do these and his other anti-American actions and words say about the man that holds the highest office in the United States?  Exactly Who or What is Barack Hussein Obama?

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IS UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN!
To understand what is going on in America today, we need to go back in history to 1776 to learn about our Founding Fathers whose vision for America was freedom from oppression and tyranny!  Two hundred and thirty-eight years ago, merchants, lawyers, farmers, educators, soldiers, physicians, and pastors gathered as members of the Second Continental Congress.  Risking charges of treason, they had the courage of their convictions to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor so that a new nation might be born.  The document they adopted, the Declaration of Independence, is a symbol of freedom from tyranny and an outward expression of the certain unalienable rights found at the bedrock of America – LIFE, LIBERTY and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!
When the Founding Fathers signed their names to the Declaration of Independence, they could not have known how the experiment of self-government would unfold.   What they were confident of, however, is that LIBERTY is an inherent, God-given right, not one that originates from a king or other form of government.  Many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely. That the religious intensity of the original settlers would diminish to some extent over time was perhaps to be expected, but new waves of eighteenth century immigrants brought their own religious fervor across the Atlantic and the nation's first major religious revival in the middle of the eighteenth century injected new vigor into American religion. The result was that a religious people rose in rebellion against Great Britain in 1776, and that most American statesmen, when they began to form new governments at the state and national levels, shared the convictions of most of their constituents that religion was, to quote Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a famous French statesman, historian and social philosopher:
“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.”
“Religion in America ... must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it. Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief. I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion-for who can search the human heart?-But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.”
“The sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all differ in respect to the worship which is due to the Creator; but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man. Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all sects preach the same moral law in the name of God....”
“Moreover, all the sects of the United States are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same.”
“There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

If anyone still doesn’t understand why patriotic Americans are OUTRAGED by what’s going on in this nation, it’s a shame he/she can’t interview every soldier who valiantly fought and died defending The Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic—patriots and soldiers who fought to birth this nation and those who have protected her from the very oppression and tyranny experienced by our Founding Fathers!  Throughout America’s history, there have been many who have made great sacrifices to defend freedom and democracy.   The freedoms that we enjoy today were bought with the shed blood of free men who fought and died for the cause of freedom!  Democracy and our very way of life are under siege both at home and abroad by those who do not believe in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.  These enemies are united in purpose, focus and determination, and they are systematically, proactively and aggressively destroying the America and Freedoms that we love and enjoy!  Therefore, American patriots and The Church of Jesus Christ must fight fire with fire!  I’m not talking about taking up arms and using physical force and violence against our government and president.  I’m talking about using every media venue and opportunity that our constitutional freedoms afford us, to fight back.  Church, I’m talking about praying and using your spiritual weapons!  We must remain vigilant and assume a PROACTIVE, AGGRESSIVE and OFFENSIVE stance and campaign against all attempts to stray from our Founding Fathers’ vision of freedom.  While we face many challenges as a nation, we must meet them head on with the confidence and convictions instilled by the generations of Americans who came before us and by faith in Jesus Christ!
For those who are blind to—or unconcerned about—what’s going on in America today—the truth is this nation is under attack from within by the following:
A corrupt federal government;
A divided, dysfunctional and inept Congress;
An anti-colonialist, anti-Christian, anti-American, president whose nationality, allegiance and agendas are obscure and questionable, and whose actions and words are those of a tyrannical king;
Secular humanist special interest groups;
Wealthy liberals, leftists, fascists and socialists.
For certain, America’s Founding Fathers would NOT RECOGNIZE the nation that they founded on Judeo-Christian values and they would be HORRIFIED and OUTRAGED by what America has become!  Every day in the news, we see and hear just how far America has strayed from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to what degree she has become mired in a stinking cesspool of UNLIMITED SIN AND MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEGRADATION! 
From the time of conception, America was a nation set apart by God Almighty to be governed by His Commandments and Laws and to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus Christ, to make disciples of all nations and evangelize the world.  
For you [AMERICA] are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your [FOUNDING FATHERS,] has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of [THE KING OF ENGLAND].  Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations; And repays them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them: He will not be slack to him that hates Him, He will repay him to his face. You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if you hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God shall keep unto you the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto your [FOUNDING FATHERS]: And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore unto your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you; but will lay them upon all them that hate you. And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you (Deuteronomy 7:6-16).  [PERSONALIZED EMPHASIS MINE]
AN ENCOURAGING WORD FOR THE CHURCH
OF JESUS CHRIST IN AMERICA AND ABROAD

At this time, I need to pause because I have to impart an encouraging word to The Church in America and abroad. 

In the midst of political, economic, religious and social corruption, dysfunction and turmoil—and despite the unending onslaught of biased, liberal news reporting, I have a FRESH REVELATION for Satan, his demons and their human servants and puppets:

GOD LOVES AMERICA AND IS NOT THROUGH WITH HER!  AMERICA IS STILL ONE NATION UNDER GOD!
IF YOU ARE TRULY A “BORN AGAIN” BELIEVER AND A PATRIOT, AND HATE WHAT YOUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESIDENT ARE DOING TO DESTROY AMERICA, BEGIN TO PRAY FERVENTLY AND UNCEASINGLY FOR GOD’S MERCY AND PROVIDENCE!  PRAYER WORKS, SO WORK IT!  BEGIN TO PROPHESY DELIVERANCE, HEALING AND LIFE OVER AMERICA!
[The Lord is Speaking:]  Behold, I will bring it [Name Your Nation] health and healing; I will heal them [Our People] and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it (Jeremiah 33:6-9).  [EMPHASIS MINE]
Even as I write, God is moving on worldwide true disciples, intercessors and prayer warriors to pray for the persecuted Church in America and abroad.  Possessing an ever-increasing love for this nation and persecuted Christians everywhere, these faithful and true Believers bear a heavy burden for America and their persecuted brethren.  God has found them willing to humble themselves and pray for America to be spared judgment.  God is using these Kingdom-dwellers to thwart an unprecedented attack of the enemy against Christians and Christianity.  That enemy, who is disguising himself as God, wants Americans and the world to believe the following LIES OF SATAN:

LIE #1—That God has forsaken America and The Church of Jesus Christ because of this nation’s grievous sins of abortion, apostasy, homosexuality, idolatry, sexual immorality, violence, etc.  While it is true that America’s sins are great against God and humanity, she will be judged for her wickedness in God’s Timing—not in Satan’s timing or in man’s timing.  God cannot be tempted by evil (James 1:13).
AS LONG AS THE CHURCH IS ON THE EARTH AND FULFILLING JESUS’ GREAT COMMISSION, THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT! (Matthew 16:18)  Any mindless, soulless agent/puppet of Satan who believes that he/she has the upper hand on God is delusional!
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.  Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure (Psalms 2:1-5)
In addition, anyone who believes that God’s true Believers are trembling in fear and wringing their hands in despair because of the Islamic, Marxist, fascist, socialist, liberal and homosexual agendas for America is in for a rude awakening!  True Believers and Patriots see and understand what the enemy is doing and trying to accomplish!  Their trust is in Almighty God!  United with God, they are a force to be reckoned with and they will not lie down and hand America over to the “enemy within!”
All along, God has been imparting to true Believers—those who have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying—guidance, instruction, knowledge, revelation, strategies, warning and wisdom!  If you are a “born again” Christian and you are not hearing from God, it isn’t because God isn’t speaking!  You are not hearing because you have become too entangled in the affairs of life, to hear Him!
If you are NOT a “born again” Christian, I exhort you to join the winning team while there is time.  The only Person who can save you from what’s coming on America and the world is Jesus Christ!  Christian-bashing has become a popular pastime in America and abroad.  Liberal news sources love to portray Christians as mental degenerates, hate mongers, extremists, intolerant, fanatics, freaks … and, more recently, “enemies of the Constitution!”  They have no clue what Christianity is really about because they are walking in spiritual darkness with Satan, the prince of this world! 
God is also beginning to expose every evil deed that have been conceived, planned and executed in secret by Satan’s agents/puppets that, no thanks to irresponsible voters, hold the highest offices in the land.
LIE #2—That everything bad that is happening in this nation represents God’s Judgment. 
LIE #3—That evil will prevail over The Church of Jesus Christ!
CHRISTIANS, I EXHORT YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!—DO NOT LISTEN TO OR BELIEVE THESE LIES!  STAND STRONG IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY AND PERSECUTION!  DO NOT BE MOVED OR TROUBLED BY WHAT IS REPORTED BY THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA!  SUCH REPORTING IS ONE-SIDED TO DELIBERATELY PAINT A FALSE PICTURE OF REALITY AND TO INSTILL AND FEED DOUBT, FEAR AND HOPELESSNESS!  DO NOT BELIEVE POLLS PUBLISHED BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA!  SUCH POLLS ARE FALSE AND MISLEADING BECAUSE THEY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF LIBERALS, LEFTISTS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS, NOT THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!  AS YOU CONTINUE ABOUT THE FATHER’S BUSINESS, STAY FOCUSED ON JESUS!  PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD THAT YOU MAY WITHSTAND IN THE EVIL DAY AND HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND FIRM! (EPHESIANS 6:13).  BRING INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST, EVERY THOUGHT AND VAIN IMAGINATION THAT EXALTS ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (2 CORINTHIANS 10:5).  MEDITATE ON GOD’S BLESSINGS & PROMISES AND PRACTICE PHILIPPIANS 4:8!  REMAIN UNDER GOD’S SUPERNATURAL PROTECTION AND PROVISION BY REPENTING OF ANY WILLFUL SIN!  DRAW CLOSER TO GOD, AS NEVER BEFORE!  SUBMIT YOURSELF AND YOUR LIFE TO HIM, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE!  KEEP YOURSELF BUILT UP AND STRONG BY CONTINUING IN THE WORD AND SPENDING QUALITY TIME IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHERE THERE IS LIBERTY, PEACE AND JOY! (2 CORINTHIANS 3:17; ROMANS 14:17).  ASSUME AND MAINTAIN AN ATTITUDE OF THANKSGIVING, PRAISE AND WORSHIP!  IN THE PRESENCE OF ENEMIES, BE WISE AS SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES! (MATTHEW 10:16).  BE EVER VIGILANT AND PRAY WITHOUT CEASING! (1 THESSALONIANS 5:17).  BE COMFORTED AND ENCOURAGED THAT GOD LOVES AMERICA AND HAS WONDERFUL PLANS FOR HER! 
THE ENEMY WITHIN
Having exposed and debunked Satan’s LIE concerning where America and The Church stand with God, I will now address the subject of America’s greatest threat—the “enemy within” referenced in the following two quotes:
QUOTE #1
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”Will Durant (1885–1981), an American writer, historian, and philosopher best known for The Story of Civilization;
QUOTE #2
“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.

President Lincoln’s Lyceum Address was delivered to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois on January 27, 1838, titled “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.”  The subject of Lincoln’s speech was citizenship in a democratic republic and threats to American institutions.  In the speech, Lincoln discussed in glowing terms the political system established by the Founding Fathers, but warned of a destructive force from within.
Church, that “destructive force from within” has shown its ugly face!  WHAT, IF ANYTHING, ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?
To say the least, America is in a serious state of moral decline.  To say the worst, the nation that our Founding Fathers conceived and birthed 238 years ago—is dying—and is deliberately and systematically being “changed” into a NEW ISLAMIC NATION!   Who or What is responsible?  Depending on who you ask, you will get many different answers.  The truth is one single person cannot shoulder the blame.  America’s decline has occurred gradually over time, as Satan has succeeded in desensitizing people to sin.  Many different people and governing agencies have contributed—and are continuing to contribute—to America’s decline and demise:
ENEMY #1
SATAN is responsible!

This is a given because Satan, his demons, and their willing and unwitting human agents HATE AND OPPOSE GOD, JESUS CHRIST, THE HOLY BIBLE, THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF CREATION, CHRISTIANS, AND CHRISTIANITY!  However, they are only partly to blame because they have been given open doors and free access to infiltrate and to become entrenched and fortified by none other than deceived, passive and unpatriotic Americans, “religious” hypocrites, and compromising Christians that do not represent or comprise The Church of Jesus Christ!  As stated in a previous blog, such so-called Christians are under God’s Judgment and shall have their part in the Lake of Fire—UNLESS THEY REPENT! (Revelation 21:8).
ENEMY #2
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are responsible!

Many Americans are ignorant and gullible because they are ill-advised or misinformed.  Some do not have the means or resources to research candidates, so they naively believe every lie their president and government tells them.  This doesn’t change the fact that God’s people (and a godly nation) are destroyed for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Since churches, newspapers and local issue groups often provide free voter guides, not to mention the influence and power of “word of mouth,” there is no excuse for ignorance and God will hold uninformed voters accountable!  To quote former President John F. Kennedy:  “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all;”
Many Americans are lazy and passive.  They would rather remain on welfare than work and earn an honest living.  The government knows this and secures their votes by offering them “free stuff.”  Others fail to exercise their Fifteenth Amendment right to vote.  By not speaking out against evil, God will hold them accountable!  Others vote irresponsibly and unwisely by not bothering to research a candidate’s track record to discover what issues he/she supports or opposes.  God will hold them accountable for supporting people that oppose God’s Commandments and dare to shake their arrogant fists in His face!;
Many Americans are prejudiced and vote blindly for a particular political party because of their loyalty to family tradition.  They are guilty of idolatry because their political party has become an idol in their life.  God said: “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3);
Many Americans re-elect losers and deadbeats instead of firing them for not doing their jobs and for not representing a government of the people, by the people and for the people!;
Many Americans do not share their concerns and views with their senators.  Their silence is a sin because they are not protesting and resisting evil (James 4:7).  Their silence is killing America!;
Many Americans do not fund campaigns that support candidates who are committed to resolve America’s major issues;
Many Americans of the younger generation have lost their moral compass.  They are ignorant of America’s Judeo-Christian roots and foundation because this important part of American History has deliberately been removed from school text books.  Consequently, they swallow the LIES of their liberal college professors and their politically-correct government;
Many Americans are unwilling to fight to protect and preserve The Constitution because they naively think they can’t lose their freedom and way of life.  They have never experienced extreme deprivation, poverty and hardship like their ancestors did during The Great Depression and the great World Wars.  Everything has been handed to them on a silver platter.  They are self-centered and care only about themselves.  They vote liberal because they want freedom to do and say as they please.  They are of the IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT! generation;
ENEMY #3
THE CHURCH is responsible!

Many self-professing Christians possess head knowledge about Jesus, but have never experienced the spiritual rebirth of being “born again.”  They are hypocrites because they don’t practice what they preach.  They are just as carnal, fleshly and worldly as any unsaved sinner.  Consequently, the votes they cast in favor of liberal and leftist candidates distort the true count of Conservative Christian voting. 
Many “born-again” Christians compromise the Word of God and fail to vote according to God’s standards of holiness, excellence and integrity!  Compromising Christians are lukewarm because they have left their “first love,” Jesus Christ.  They also are hypocrites because they don’t practice what they preach.  They are just as carnal, fleshly and worldly as any unsaved sinner.  Other “born again” Christians entirely turn their back on God and are spiritual apostates.  No wonder Satan has had free license to have his way!
As a collective whole, The Church is:
DIVIDED, POWERLESS and STEEPED IN LEGALISM and TRADITION due to denominationalism, which is NOT OF GOD!
BACKSLIDDEN, SICKLY and DEMON-OPPRESSED & POSSESSED due to FLESHLY, WORLDLY & DEMONIC AFFILIATION and INFLUENCE and WILLFUL SIN;
INWARDLY FOCUSED, SELF-CENTERED, LAZY, and FAILING TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION of making disciples to continue Jesus’ work and to evangelize the world;
GUILTY OF IDOLATRY.
Far too many Christians are in the beginning, middle or final stage of Backsliding and Apostasy and are too deceived to realize it—or to care!  A backslidden man or woman once walked with God but has turned against Him; he/she once fought the world, the flesh, and the devil but has retreated from battle and joined the enemy; he/she once fellowshipped with saints, but is now removed from them; and he/she has been overcome by sin and Satan and is filled with he/she own ways.  Jesus the Good Shepherd cares because He loves His sheep and doesn’t want even one to be lost! 

[Jesus is Speaking:]  What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents (Luke 15:4-10) [Emphasis Added].
Unlike Peter who denied the Lord three times but was restored to right relationship (Matthew 26:70-74), many Christians that backslide into the world and depart from the faith and become apostates, never find their way back to God on their own.  They are once again spiritually blind and in need of interceding prayer and the Church’s unconditional love and help!
ENEMY #4
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is responsible!

The United States government has become increasingly anti-Christian and anti-God.  The antichrist spirit has obviously gained control of The White House and Congress!  I believe the door for this demonic invasion opened wide when Satan masterminded the ridiculous LIE of “separation of church and State.”  The Founding Fathers guaranteed us “freedom OF religion” and not “freedom FROM religion.”  Some ill-informed people say The Constitution has built a “separation of church and State” wall to guide us in these hard-to-define times.  It is only hard to define to those who don’t agree with The Constitution!  This clause is actually pretty straight forward to those who care to read it!  I challenge anyone to find that statement or any similar statement in The Constitution.  You won’t, because it doesn’t exist!
Christians and their beliefs and liberties are under attack as never before by enemies of Jesus Christ; namely, liberal and leftist extremists, secular humanists, anti-Americans, anti-colonists, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).  From the White House down, these groups and their wealthy supporters deny that a systematic war against Christians and Christianity is being waged, but when you’re on the receiving end of the persecution they have been dishing out, TRUTH is impossible to refute!  Consider the following partial list of overwhelming evidence:
Deliberate Omission of Creationism from school textbooks.  Creationism just happens to refute one of Satan’s greatest End-Time lies and deception, “Evolution,” an unproven theory of a deceived man, Charles Darwin;
Removal of The Holy Bible from public schools.  And yet our children have unlimited access to books that teach them about other religions, including the principles and practices of witchcraft, Satan worship, Islam, New Age, Scientology, etc.  Our children also have access to books that teach them that the gay lifestyle is normal, when in fact it is an abomination to God! (Leviticus 20:13);
Prayer Outlawed.  In June 1963, the Supreme Court upheld the argument of atheist Madelyn Murray O'Hare that had ramifications so widespread it insured that God would be evicted from public society across the entire spectrum of the American governmental system! From that day forward, not only has prayer been outlawed, God’s very name has been declared hateful to the United States Constitution, and forbidden to be mentioned in any federal, state, county, city or municipal context.  Not just prayer is forbidden in the public forum. Display of the cross is forbidden. The Ten Commandments are forbidden. The Bible is forbidden. Nativity plays and scenes are forbidden. The words “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency is hated.  The First Amendment of the Constitution that ensures our freedom of speech is under attack because the mere mention of the names “God,” “Jesus” or “Christ” is forbidden.  Even Christmas is under attack!  Traditional Christmas cards are being changed to read “Happy Holidays.”  Churches are being sued for displaying Nativity scenes on their own property.  More than that, anything even suggestive of those names is forbidden.  But that’s not all.  For nearly 90 years, a World War I memorial cross—the Bladensburg Cross—has honored our nation’s bravest heroes.  Now, angry atheists are suing to tear down this historic war monument in Maryland because they are “shocked” and “upset” that a cross could honor fallen veterans.  To tear down this monument would dishonor our veterans. Those who fought valiantly for our nation a century ago deserve to have their memory cherished by the Bladensburg Cross.
Oh, how quickly Americans have forgotten September 11, 2001!  Everyone prayed that day and in the days following—except the anti-America, anti-God crowd!  On that terrible day, many fear and grief-stricken Americans inquired of the Lord:  God, where were you?” … “Why did you allow this terrible thing to happen?”  The truth is—why should America have expected God to prevent 911 when this nation literally kicked Him out of everything?
Removal of the “Pledge of Allegiance” and its phrase “one nation under God” from some public places;
Through lawsuits and planned legislation, forcing churches to accept and not preach against the sins of abortion and same-sex homosexual relationships and marriages.  If this actually happens, pastors will be forced to marry gay couples.  The effort to force Christians to violate their consciences and God’s Word must be opposed with all vigor, regardless of the consequences because it is unconstitutional.  Christians are being chastised, dismissed, harangued and sued for daring to practice their deeply held convictions in the public arena.
Soldiers being denied their freedom of religion and prayer.  A disturbing trend is evolving in the military environment in the form of increasing hostility to religious practices and fear that expressing their religious beliefs will result in disciplinary action or hinder career advancement;
Legalized Abortion, thanks to Roe vs. Wade (1973).  Between 1973 and 2013 … 56,662,169 Million babies have been murdered by abortion.  The death toll does not include self-induced abortions.  The Center for Reproductive Rights, a powerful and radical international abortion group is trying to use the United Nations to stop the pro-life movement.  They’re actually trying to force the U.N. to use anti-torture treaties to silence the Church, arguing that the pro-life message tortures women.  They argue that not even religious freedom should protect the pro-life message and that pro-life leaders should be viewed as international criminals.  This is exactly backwards. Killing children is brutal and inhumane. The pro-life movement saves lives!
Our political system no longer functions as it was designed and intended to by the Founding Fathers.  For example:
House districts are owned by one Party or the other, making general elections irrelevant;
A Non-Bipartisanship Congress.  In theory, opposing political parties should find common ground through compromise.  In practice is a different matter.  Each party is advancing their own political agenda at the expense of the other party because of conflicting ideologies.  Consequently, Congress is failing to work together to solve America’s most important issues.  Governing in America has become a lost art.  Politicians are elected to serve the people, to govern and to lead, not to fight and bicker amongst themselves;
Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, causes Senate gridlocks by blocking GOP Amendments;
Disproportionate power is given to BIG MONEY;
Senate rules give the minority and individual senators too much power;
Liberal extremists, leftists, secular humanists, and anti-Americans seek every opportunity to bypass and rewrite The Constitution;
There is no accountability from the Oval Office down.  President Obama has broken many laws!  He bypasses Congress and The Constitution and signs Bills into law with a stroke of a pen or a phone call.  Why is he still in office?;
Out-of-control government spending;
The government is involved too much in the personal, private lives of its citizens and seeks ways to become even more involved;
The government is too big and has too much power;
The government is totally corrupt because its infrastructure and power pursues MONEY.  “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). There is no regard for the people, environment and future generations;
The Homosexual Agenda.  Gays weren’t content to come out of the closet.  They want the whole ball of wax, seeking ways to cram their perverse lifestyle down the throat of every heterosexual American and Christian.  They seek minority status.  They want to infiltrate every corner of civilization.  They want to pastor churches and pervert the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They want access to your children! 
The $17.5 Trillion national debt and the devaluing of the American dollar.  Collectively, the U.S. government, the state governments, corporate America and American consumers have accumulated the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world.  For decades, the U.S. dollar was the reserve currency of the world which gave the U.S. financial system an unusual degree of stability.  But all of that is changing.  Foreign countries are increasingly turning away from the dollar to other currencies.
The economy is over-regulated, overtaxed and grossly distorted by a deeply flawed monetary system.  The increase in Americans filing bankruptcy is staggering.  The downturn of the American economy is alarming.  The U.S. is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Virtually all pension funds in the United States, both private and public, are massively underfunded.  With millions of Baby Boomers ready to retire, there is no way that all of these obligations can be met. Social Security and Medicare expenses are wildly out of control.  For decades, our leaders in Washington pushed us towards “a global economy” and told us it would be so good for us.  But there is a flip side.  Now workers in the U.S. must compete with workers all over the world, and our greedy corporations are free to pursue the cheapest labor available anywhere on the globe.  Millions of jobs have already been shipped out of the United States.
Our government has the ability to generate $1.2 Trillion in taxes.  It spends $1.4 to $1.5 Trillion per year. The U.S. government is spending more money each year than it raises in taxes. How does it do that? It borrows the money to make up the difference. In 1992, it had to borrow about a quarter of all the money it spent. This amount borrowed is called the deficit. The government has been operating this way since the 1960's. The accumulation of yearly deficits is called the National Debt. By 1992, the National debt was estimated at over 4 Trillion dollars.
The government has given up on trying to pay back the national debt and is struggling to just keep up with the interest payments. Right now, interest payments is one of the top three expenditures in the National budget each year. In just a few years, it will be the largest expenditure. In 1980 the percentage of income tax used to pay the interest of the debt was about 30%. In 1992, just 12 years later, that had doubled to 60%. Experts project that within just a few years, the interest payments alone will absorb all of the taxes collected. At this point, there will be no money to run the country and America will be bankrupt.
Even if our budget was balanced, we would still be in trouble because we don't have the cash flow left over to pay the interest on our existing debt. This means we borrow to pay the interest which means the existing debt is compounding. It doesn't take an expert to realize the eventual results of that. If we continue to spend more than we take in, the U.S. government is heading for an eventual collapse.
Rise in Unemployment which is putting severe stress on state unemployment funds.  It is getting really hard to find a job in the United States.
Unlawful Surveillance.  The FAA is allowing local police departments across America to use military drones to eavesdrop and collect data on private citizens without a search warrant or just cause.  Drones are used by the military in countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan to collect data on terrorists.  These unmanned electronic spies look like the average model plane, weighing no more than five pounds and measuring approximately 3 feet in length.  But inside is high-tech surveillance equipment that can detect anything it is programmed to collect, such as audio and video.  Manufacturers are targeting at least 18,000 local law enforcement agencies across America for drone sales.  The FAA has streamlined the process, which will allow police departments to obtain drone permits in expeditiously.  These developments are an affront to American’s civil right to privacy;
The IRS Scandal.  The Internal Revenue Service was found guilty of inappropriately targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups to keep them from participating in the political process and to date, no one in our government has held them accountable;
Socialism & Marxism.  The United States of America is very quickly becoming a socialist welfare state.  Nearly 50 Million Americans receive food stamps.  And politicians that promise the most “free stuff” get elected;
ENEMY #5
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is responsible!  

The kind of nation that we do not want to live in is a totalitarian police state where the state rules supreme, the “leader” is lavishly worshipped, no dissent is tolerated, and the government micromanages everything.  America is supposed to be the opposite of that, but from all appearances, President Barack Hussein Obama is determined to fulfill his dangerous campaign promise of “changing” America.  Had Americans known exactly what changes he had in mind, they would not have voted him into office!  

Brothers and Sisters, do we really want America to change so that it resembles totalitarian regimes?  Remember, all past and existing regimes have a nightmarish history of brutality and death.  Is that really where we want to end up as a nation?

The truth is that we desperately need to take America in the opposite direction of where President Obama is trying to take us.  We need a much smaller federal government, a much greater emphasis on freedom and liberty, a return to true free market capitalism, and politicians that are willing to take a low profile and that are actually in office to serve the American people.  But what we need and what we are getting are two very different things!
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S TRACK RECORD
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!

I do not presume to accuse the President of the United States of committing any indiscretion or crime.  President Obama is accusing and condemning himself by his own deeds and words!

[Jesus is Speaking:]  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them (Matthew 7:15-20) [Emphasis Mine];
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (Luke 6:45).
President Obama claims to be a Christian.  Based on the above Scriptures and the following track record, you decide whether he is or not.

Adding to the $17+ Trillion Dollar National Debt.  President Obama is running up a crushing federal debt at a level unprecedented in American history.  This ensures the future will bring ruinous taxes, runaway inflation, or eventual financial collapse;
President Obama has endorsed and benefitted from systematic violation of election and campaign funding laws. His election saw widespread voter registration fraud from his allies at ACORN and systematic acceptance of dubious campaign donations by disabling normal credit card verification procedures for online donations, allowing donations to be made from foreign donors and from donors using fictitious names. This in turn allowed donors to skirt donation limits if they wished, simply by using bogus names. In the “stimulus” bill, Obama has funded ACORN and similar groups to the tune of billions;
President Obama has endorsed, and will continue to foster, the entitlement mentality, playing the victim, and mob rule;
President Obama is ushering in socialism at an astounding pace. Soon, no major expense in a normal human life will be paid for by the individual. Every major expense, from housing to advanced education to medical care, will be paid for by Big Brother. Incentives to work will be destroyed for both the “rich” and the “poor.” We will all soon be poorer as a result;
President Obama is trampling, penalizing, micromanaging, and destroying American business to an unprecedented degree;
President Obama is lending aid, money, and support to tyrannies and terrorists. From releasing dangerous GITMO terrorists to handing almost a billion dollars to Palestinian terrorists, Obama has yet to meet a terrorist or tyrant that he doesn’t like;
President Obama is turning his back on America’s great strength, our Judeo-Christian heritage and culture.  He is even proclaiming that America is no longer a Christian nation, even though 80% of Americans still believe in the resurrection of Christ;
President Obama is criminalizing innocent behavior and excusing unlawful behavior.  Isaiah 5:20 is a WARNING from God to those who pervert justice:  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
President Obama is rapidly ceding the Middle East back to terrorists and tyrants. He is letting the Taliban gain strength to the point where it now threatens to take over Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal.  As if this were not bad enough, he has reduced funding for missile defense and threatens to eliminate the program entirely. 

OTHER NOTEWORTHY DISASTERS
OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Obamacare Healthcare;

Benghazi.  The Obama administration’s negligence led to the deaths of four Americans, and then it was covered up with the help of the liberal media;

Abuse of Power.  By the stroke of a pen or a phone call, President Obama has proven himself to be arrogant and that he has no regard or respect for The Constitution or the laws of the United States!  He constantly bypasses Congress.  Many of his supporters like the idea that we should either start ignoring The Constitution or that we should get rid of it entirely.  America does not have a king.  Our Constitution is designed around a system of checks and balances, where an elected President works with an elected Congress to pass laws that comply with The Constitution.  Rather than work with a Republican Congress, President Obama pledged to use the “pen” and the “phone” to craft executive orders to bypass Congress.  That’s unacceptable!  We have one of the most dangerous presidents in the history of this country.  Recently, the president said: We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help they need. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone.”  This is the worst threat to individual American freedom since the nation’s founding.  The three branches of government exist for a reason. The checks and balances exist for a reason: to keep one branch from having too much power. If we have a president that can make and change laws on a whim, no matter what good they do, then we no longer live in a democratic republic. We live in a dictatorship.  This kind of abuse of power is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared when The Constitution was written. Congress needs to make sure that President Obama does not have the ability to make whatever laws he wants.  The Supreme Court should not let this happen, based on the obvious fact that President Obama’s “pen and phone” policy is completely unconstitutional.  And to think that people are applauding his arrogance!  His abuse of power is not just limited to the United States.  He has increasingly been acting like a type of imperial ruler that gets to tell everyone else in the world what they are supposed to do. 

“Big Brother” Surveillance.  Under President Obama, the United States has been developing surveillance technologies that dictators of the past never even dreamed were possible.  For example, a very highly sophisticated surveillance grid known as “Trapwire” is being installed in major cities and at “high value targets” all over the country.  Sadly, the mainstream media has not covered this at all, and most Americans still do not even realize that it exists.  The president is using our nation’s intelligence agencies to spy on Congress and the American people.  CHURCH, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING HAS BECOME A REALITY!;
The failure of President Obama’s immigration policies;


President Obama’s repeated attacks on our Constitutional Rights:

First Amendment
The First Amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Can you imagine a world where there is no more YouTube, no more Facebook and no more Twitter?  That’s where America is headed because many in the U.S. Congress are obsessed with censoring the Internet.
The U.S. government is now encouraging children to spy on their parents as part of the “war on terror.”   If a school official hears that a parent has said the “wrong thing” at home, that parent could get labeled as a “potential terrorist.” (Mark 13:12)
In 2011, Barack Obama signed a law that officially designates the United States as part of the “battleground” on the war on terror.  This new law allows the U.S. military to arrest American citizens if they are suspected of being “potential terrorists” and to detain them indefinitely without trial.  So if the U.S. military comes and grabs your neighbor and ships him off to Guantanamo Bay, this new law may be to blame.
The elite literally want to control what we think and what we say.  If you love free speech, and if you love the Internet as it currently exists, then you need to stand up and say something right now!  If we do not respond to these constant attacks on the First Amendment, then eventually we are going to lose it.
Second Amendment
The Second Amendment protects every American’s right to keep and bear arms.  This attack falls under the guise of “gun control.”
Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause as determined by a neutral judge or magistrate:  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
In case you didn’t know, your government has been amassing phone metadata (call numbers and call durations) and records of Internet activity for almost every American. Although President Obama has claimed that government officials still need a warrant to access that information, the collection of this data alone seems enough to put the Fourth Amendment at the top of the endangered list.
Fifth Amendment
The Fifth Amendment sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy:  No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
The Fifth Amendment allows any person safety from self incrimination, meaning a person does not have to answer a question if he believes it will get him into trouble. The Supreme Court has decided that a person’s silence is an admission of guilt unless he actually says he is utilizing the Fifth Amendment.
The Twenty-Second Amendment
The Twenty-Second Amendment limits the number of times that a person can be elected president of the United States.  A person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once.
President Obama has taken the position that he can rewrite any law he chooses, any way he chooses, for any reason he chooses.  Although he is not a dictator, HE IS CLAIMING THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE DICTATORIAL POWERS for himself.  This is extremely dangerous to our republic. What is America going to do if President Obama decides, with the stroke of a pen or a phone call, to “change” the Twenty-Second Amendment so he is able to run and serve as president a third term or a fourth term?
Are we doomed to live in a country with slowly dwindling rights? Or can America possibly pull itself together enough to get these Amendments off the “endangered list”?
President Obama bypassed Congress and traded five Taliban terrorists for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who according to secret documents, at some point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a "mujahid," or warrior for Islam;

The VA Hospital Scandal marked by veterans being denied treatment and kept waiting on secret waiting lists, resulted in deaths and other suffering in multiple cities.  It has proven itself to be scandal that Obama cannot hide from or lie his way through;

President Obama’s use of taxpayer dollars to pay the Secret Service to monitor sarcastic remarks on social media;

President Obama’s war on coal;

The Obama administration frequently leaves men (and even children) to suffer and die, with minimal apparent effort on their behalf. For Example:

Glenn Doherty and Tyrone Woods were abandoned in the field.  They fought back ferociously in the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks and received no help.
Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine who has actually served his country with “honor and distinction.”  After making a wrong turn while driving with guns he legally owned and carried, he was jailed and remains in terrible conditions in neighboring Mexico.
Pastor Saeed Abedini. While the Obama administration was giving the Taliban five commanders for a likely American deserter, it was giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief even as it continued to hold and abuse an American pastor who was seized by the Revolutionary Guard while he was in Iran legally to help build an orphanage.
American babies in Sudanese prison. Sudan has imprisoned and sentenced to death for apostasy, Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman married to an American. Their children, including a toddler and an infant, are imprisoned with their mother and have committed no crimes, not even the fake crime of “apostasy.” Meriam was sentenced to 100 lashes and death.  The American Center for Law and Justice in Atlanta, Georgia, is fighting to save Meriam’s life.  To date, the State Department has offered no response.
By President Obama’s own words, he is a proven LIAR and, according to Revelation 21:8, all liars shall have their part in the Lake of Fire!

President Obama’s rocky and deteriorating relationship with Israel.  If he turns his back on Israel, America’s fate will be sealed because Israel is God’s Chosen People and America has always been Israel’s Spiritual Brother;

President Obama goes to great lengths to demonize his opposition.  Since he has been president, numerous government papers, studies and reports have been released that identify groups of people that are opposed to Obama as “potential terrorists”.  Some of the groups targeted as “potential terrorists” include those that “revere individual liberty”, “conspiracy theorists”, “returning veterans”, anti-abortion activists, those that visit “extremist websites”, those that are “fiercely nationalistic”, those that “believe in the right to bear arms”, anyone that is opposed to illegal immigration, anyone that is anti-UN, and anyone that is “suspicious of centralized federal authority.”  President Obama’s supporters and the liberal media jump at every chance to accuse anyone who opposes President Obama and his policies as being racist, which is another LIE from the pit of Hell!

According to the Word of God, the leader of any nation is known by his deeds and words.  President Obama is judged and condemned by his actions and the words that he speaks out of the abundance of his heart (Matthew 12:36; Luke 6:45).
20 QUOTES ABOUT ISLAM BY BARACK OBAMA
#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam;”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer;”
#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country;”
#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam;”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance;”
#6 “Islam has always been part of America;”
#7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities;”
#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings;”
#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings;”
#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam;”
#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace;”
#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed;”
#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education;”
#14 “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality;”
#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality;”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another;’”
#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month;”
#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe;”
#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear;”
#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”
20 QUOTES ABOUT CHRISTIANITY BY BARACK OBAMA
#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation;”
#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”
#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life;”
#5 “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics;”
#6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount;”
#7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values;”
#8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they;”
#9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell;”
#10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.  I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.  That’s just not part of my religious makeup;”
#11 “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing;”
#12 “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell;”
#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths;”
#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount;”
#15 “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations;”
#16 “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology;”
#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites;”
#18 “we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own;”
#19 “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer;”
#20 “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”
About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
Americans who naively believe that all is well with The United States are blind and deceived!  They are living in a fantasy world with their heads buried in the sand and to make matters worse, they are probably watching biased, one-sided, liberal news sources!  You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand what’s going on and where it’s leading!  WAKE UP, AMERICA!  ARE YOU SO BLIND AND DECEIVED THAT YOU CAN’T SEE THE THREAT TO YOUR FREEDOMS AND WAY OF LIFE? 
America is under attack from within and every American patriot and “born again” Christian should be doing something to combat the enemy of democracy as we know it!  As a patriot, as a Christian, as a family, as a church—are you doing everything you can to prevent America from becoming a new Islamic nation?  What are you doing to expose and combat fascism, Marxism and socialism?  I EXHORT YOU!  Do not sit idly by believing things will get better in time.  Time is a luxury that America does not have!  Unless we make our individual and collective voices heard today, tomorrow we stand to lose the country and freedoms that we hold so dear!  I challenge you to stand with me to take America back!  Make your voices heard by signing petitions, participating in polls, writing letters to your Congressmen and Senators and donating your energy, time and money!  The America of 1776 is not obsolete, nor is she a lost cause!  She is God’s rare and priceless jewel that must be defended and protected at all costs!
Tragically, America has become a nation that is dripping with corruption and wickedness from the top to the bottom.  It is only by God’s Grace, Mercy and Providence that America has not been judged for her sins.  I for one am thankful that He has not given up on America and that, until Jesus Christ returns, the Church will prevail against the gates of Hell!

God’s Word is clear about the fate of any nation that forsakes Him and chooses to disobey His Commandments and practice evil:  The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God” (Psalms 9:17).  In addition, DISOBEDIENCE reaps a harvest of CURSES (Deuteronomy 28:15-68), while OBEDIENCE reaps a multitude of BLESSINGS (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
PATRIOTS, CHRISTIANSPLEASE JOIN ME AND OTHER INTERCESSORS AND PRAYER WARRIORS TO PRAY FOR AMERICA!  PRAYER IS POWERFUL AND WORKS, SO WORK IT!
[The Lord is Speaking:]  If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).  [Emphasis Mine]
Blessings!
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