A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON
CURRENT EVENTS
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: 5-16-2020
Blog Post Date: 5-17-2020
Thirty-two
years ago, in May of 1988, God told me that Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was
going to be president and that he would have a vice president from the south,
one who opposed him during the primaries but later joined with him. That VP
turned out to be Al Gore of Tennessee.
Revelation
from God always has a purpose. I have never known Him to do “small talk” or to
engage in mere gossip. The revelation of 1988, I suppose, was partly because I
lived in Arkansas at the time and knew many things about Clinton long before
the general public knew. At any rate, God referred to him as a “beast man,” one
having the heart of a beast.
I
understood that terminology better as time passed. I now see it in terms of Daniel
4:16, the prophecy that King Nebuchadnezzar fulfilled in Daniel
4:31, 32. It refers to the rulers of Babylon who see
and treat people as other animals (very “evolutionary”) and who rule according
to self-interest. They eat “grass,” and we know that “all flesh is grass”
(Isaiah
40:6; 1 Peter 1:24).
My
ministry in Arkansas ended after Bill Clinton moved out of state. He moved to
Washington DC in January 1993 to be the 42nd president, and I moved
to Washington state—the 42nd state—in November 1993.
By
this time, we also knew that Bill and Hillary Clinton were playing the role of
Ahab and Jezebel in the biblical story. A few years later, many church prophets
were saying the same, yet I know of none of them who expected Bill Clinton to
humble himself as Ahab did in 1 Kings 21:29, nor did they have any
revelation that his humbling would postpone divine judgment on America for
precisely three years (1
Kings 22:1).
Clinton’s
humbling came on September 11, 1998 in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
On that day, Bill Clinton confessed his sin at the White House prayer breakfast
and read Psalm 51, David’s prayer of repentance after his affair with
Bathsheba. But like Ahab before him, his repentance was incomplete. Ahab did
not give back the stolen field to Naboth; neither did Clinton end his evil
practices. Hence, in both cases, while God gave both of them partial credit by
postponing the judgment to the next generation (or presidency), the judgment
itself was not cancelled.
Three
years after Ahab’s humbling, war broke out between Israel and Syria. Three
years after Clinton’s humbling was September 11, 2001, and America’s wars in
the Middle East began. The precise timing, of course, should teach men about
the sovereignty of God. The world is not run by men—good or evil. The world is
run by the Creator Himself, who has every right to interact with the nations
and to judge them according to His own laws.
Likewise,
God gives men good or evil rulers according to His judgments. Such rulers do
not merely bring about divine judgment; they are the judgment. Hence, God gave
Judah to be under the authority of King Nebuchadnezzar as a matter of judgment
against Judah for its lawlessness (Jeremiah
27:6). Nebuchadnezzar would never have become king if the kings of Judah
had been righteous.
Nebuchadnezzar’s
heart was changed after acting as a beast for a period of “seven times,” and he
then gave glory to God and publicly recognized the God of Daniel as the true
God (Daniel
4:34). In fact, the fourth chapter of Daniel was written by Nebuchadnezzar
himself. He was not the only king in the succession of beast empires to do so.
King Darius did so in Daniel 6:26, decreeing that everyone in his
realm should recognize the God of Daniel as the true God.
In
later history, we see that the Grecian king, Alexander the Great, came to
Jerusalem and paid homage to the God of heaven. I shared this history here:
Still
later, Rome finally bowed to the God of heaven as well. So Bill Clinton’s
humbling was not without precedent. God has done this with every beast empire
throughout history just to show us that He remains sovereign and that these
“beast-hearted” kings did not gain power by their own strength or wisdom.
That
is perhaps the most important lesson we must know, if we are to have a right
perspective of current events. Some love Donald Trump; others hate him. There
is no neutrality or indifference among the people. But most people, including
Christians, have difficulty recognizing that no president or king is really the
one in charge. I have learned over the years to focus not on the works or
policies of men, but on the purposes of the sovereign God as he uses men to
accomplish His purposes and plans.
Hence,
God raised up Donald Trump as a Jehu to destroy the house of Ahab (2 Kings 9:6-10). Whether people like it or
not, Trump is doing this, because the purpose of God is to “avenge the blood
of all the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezebel.” Most of those sins
have yet to be uncovered to the public, and so Jezebel still has much public
support. But the judgment has already been set, and enough prophecy has already
come to pass that confirms His word.
I
am not on one side or the other; I am on God’s side and am in agreement with
His word as revealed to me long ago. In my view, no one can truly understand
the current political conflict without understanding its connection to the
biblical pattern being replayed since 1993.
HCQ OR REMDESIVIR?
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: 5-12-2020
Hydroxychloroquine
Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients
In a letter
to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently
updated table of studies that report results of treating
COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine
(HCQ, Plaquenil®).
To date, the total number of reported patients
treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic
azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France,
South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved
clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report
from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.
The antiviral properties of these drugs have been
studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral
entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by
the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the
damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating
autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Additional benefits shown in some studies, AAPS
states, is to decrease the number of days when a patient is contagious, reduce
the need for ventilators, and shorten the time to clinical recovery.
Peer-reviewed
studies published
from January through April 20, 2020, provide clear and convincing evidence that
HCQ may be beneficial in COVID-19, especially when used early, states AAPS.
Unfortunately, although it is perfectly legal to prescribe drugs for new
indications not on the label, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
recommended that CQ and HCQ should be used for COVID-19 only in hospitalized
patients in the setting of a clinical study if available. Most states are
making it difficult for physicians to prescribe or pharmacists to dispense
these medications.
Headline:
Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective’ coronavirus treatment, poll of
doctors finds
An
international poll of thousands of doctors rated the Trump-touted anti-malaria
drug hydroxychloroquine the best treatment for the novel
coronavirus.
Nonetheless,
Dr. Fauci wants to push Gilead’s new drug, costing $1000 per tablet. Gilead is
partnered with George Soros.
By
the way, now that HCQ’s patent has long expired, and the pill costs just 10
cents, no one has any incentive to do a hundred million dollar double blind
study to see if it works against covid-19. There is simply no money in that.
For the same reason, no one wants to test any vitamins or minerals to see how
they would work. Only new drugs that can be patented are worth testing. The system
was set up so that drug companies could claim that their competition’s products
are “scientifically untested.”
But
a growing number of doctors are starting to have their eyes opened to the
political agenda of the FDA and Big Pharma. Follow the money!
A MEMORANDUM TO BARACK OBAMA
In
the wake of the declassified documents showing how the government agencies had
violated the law and FISA abuse, the DOJ finally dropped its prosecution of
General Flynn. Barack Obama then complained that the Rule of Law was been
trampled, claiming that Flynn was guilty of perjury and that he was let off
“scot-free.” Actually, the Rule of Law was already being trampled, and William
Barr’s decision partially restored the Rule of Law.
Flynn’s
lawyer responded to Obama’s public complaint in a memorandum reminding the
former president of a number of items.
First, General Flynn was not charged with perjury—which requires a
material false statement made under
oath with intent to deceive.1 A perjury
prosecution would have been appropriate and the Rule of Law applied if the Justice
Department prosecuted your former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his
multiple lies under oath in an investigation of a leak only he knew he caused.
McCabe
lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector
General for the DOJ. He was informed of the purpose of the interview, and he
had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was the leaker. McCabe even lied
about lying. He lied to his own agents—which sent them on a “wild-goose-chase”—thereby
making his lies “material” and an obstruction of justice. Yet, remarkably,
Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.
Applying
the Rule of Law, after declining McCabe’s perjury prosecution, required the
Justice Department to dismiss the prosecution of General Flynn who was not
warned, not under oath, had no counsel, and whose statements were not only not recorded,
but were created as false by FBI
agents who falsified the 302.
Secondly,
Powell wrote, shortly after Eric Holder became Obama’s DOJ, he moved to dismiss
charges against Senator Ted Stevens after a jury had convicted him on multiple
counts, because of “egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory
evidence and concocted purported crimes.” This was the same reason William Barr
dropped the case against Flynn.
Fifth, there is precedent for guilty pleas being
vacated. Your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to such reversals.
At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in
Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The
defendants “got off scot-free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had
concocted the charges and terrorized the defendants into pleading guilty to
“offenses” that were not
crimes.
Sixth, should further edification be necessary,
see Why Innocent People Plead
Guilty, written in 2014 by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton
appointee). Abusive prosecutors force innocent people to plead guilty with
painful frequency. The Mueller special counsel operation led by Andrew
Weissmann and Weissmann “wannabes” specializes in prosecutorial terrorist
tactics repulsive to everything “justice” is supposed to mean. These tactics
are designed to intimidate their targets into pleading guilty—while punishing
them and their families with the process itself and financial ruin.
Seventh…
General
Flynn did not even know he was the subject of an investigation—and in truth, he
was not. The only crimes here were by your alumni in the FBI, White House,
intelligence community, and Justice Department.
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