CHANGE IS COMING, HOPE IS ON THE HORIZON

How much lower do you think gas prices will go? It really doesn’t matter because it won’t last. The Beast now knows the American people will tolerate up to about $4 per gallon. Watch the Federal Beast place new taxes on gas after January 20. New taxes up to about $2 per gallon are probably not out of the question. The economic terrorist attack that has already taken place has crippled the mortgage industry, shrunk the banking industry, and wrecked the auto maker industry. Fearfully, the American people will plead with the Beast for protection. The people are so frightened of the coming depression, they will demand for the Federal Beast to do something to save the economy. But fear no more, CHANGE is coming. HOPE is on the horizon.

We’ve already been warned that after January 20 we might only have 6 months of relative calm before our new leader is “tested.” Our new leader is clever enough to know he needs the American people to be fearful. So the predicted “test” helps to create that situation where the people will be so frightened that they will bow down and beg for the Federal Beast to do something. Wars and rumors of war, threats of terrorist attacks, threats of violence and riots can go a long way to convince the people to blindly accept martial law. But fear no more, CHANGE is coming. HOPE is on the horizon.

Those who would riot and protest, the so-called revolutionaries, the militants, and all the extremists will never successfully overthrow the Beast; but what they can do is succeed in scaring the American people into begging for the new socialism coming from Washington. Peace at any cost is what a fearful people will accept. As long as they can have their six-pack and Monday Night Football on their big-screen HD TV, they will not care if the Constitution is suspended and the country enslaved. As the radicals in the streets make more commotion, they stupidly allow the true leaders of the Beast to appear more in the center as those leaders in reality continue to move to the left. But fear no more, CHANGE is coming. HOPE is on the horizon.

It appears that the Federal Beast opposes terrorism much the same way it once opposed Communism. Billions and billions of dollars are spent to keep the military spread around the world to fight the war on terrorism without ever defeating terrorism. Much like Orwell’s 1984, the Beast needs the smoke and mirrors production of the appearance of a formidable foe. The thought of an ever-present enemy allows the Beast to manage the “conflict” while in truth it continues to advance its real objective of totalitarian rule. Remember September 11, 1990 when Bush 41 uttered the words “New World Order” in his "Toward a New World Order" speech? But fear no more, CHANGE is coming. HOPE is on the horizon.

MEXICO Mission Trip Pictures

Here's a link to a little collection of pictures from a summer (2008) mission trip to Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. 13 of us from Grace Bible Fellowship Church of Baton Rouge went with some other believers from Oklahoma, Alabama, and Michigan. "To Every Tribe Ministries" organized the trip for us.

MEXICO PICs

What is Faith?

Faith: Based on fact, or gift from God?
What are the objects of faith?
Who has faith?
What is the use of faith?

These are some of the things examined in an essay called "What is Faith?" You can read it now by clicking on: WHAT IS FAITH

FOURTH AMENDMENT BLUES

Just got off the phone (Thur Apr 17) with a pastor friend. It seems a family in his church had a visit yesterday from his state's Dept. of Children and Families (DCF). The DCF agent wanted to inspect the house because of an anonymous tip his office received concerning alleged abuse of a child in this particular family. Fortunately the 17-year-old daughter who answered the door had enough wisdom and courage to deny entry to the agent. She called her father who immediately called the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). An HSLDA attorney guided the father through the process over the phone.

Evidently, the state has ignored the U.S. Constitution and has invoked what they call "justifiable cause" instead of the Constitutionally lawful "probable cause." The DCF agent had been informed the family was abusing an infant by keeping the infant in a closet where it was possibly being smothered by the heat, etc. The father of the family makes a very good living and has a big house and the particular closet referred to is a large "walk-in" type closet with its own separate AC vent. The family had turned the closet into a nursery. There are 8 children, and the older ones are being home schooled. The mother is pregnant with number 9 to be delivered any day.

The DCF agent returned today to speak with two of the sons who were away working yesterday. He informed the family he had to come back because of policy, but after having interviewed the children and being impressed by their conduct and seeing that the "closet" is really a nursery, he declared he would not be back. For that I am thankful, but for his blatant violation of the Constitution I am outraged and fearful of what might become a trend since the supposed "phone call" was made in Texas about the polygamist compound near Eldorado.

Our Fourth Amendment reads, "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."

Evidently, states are ignoring "probable cause" and replacing it with terms that sound like they mean the same thing but in reality do not. It also seems states are now comfortable with anonymous tips which also violate our Constitution. The Sixth Amendment guarantees our right "to be confronted with the witnesses against" us.

Agencies like DCF or Child Protection Services or whatever title a state might choose are good in their intentions. I am for protecting children and families. However, I am not for abusive agencies acting in ways that they are accusing their victims of acting. These agencies are staffed with men whose hearts can be corrupted by power. Sinful men twisting the law in the name of the law is tyranny. As we ignore these attacks on our liberties and look the other way for fear we might lose our security, we really lose our liberty.

May God remember mercy in wrath.