Biblical Perspective on Current Events

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 42^nd president, and I moved to Washington state—the 42^nd 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:

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2007/01/greece-a-christian-nation

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

https://aapsonline.org/hcq-90-percent-chance/

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.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/hydroxychloroquine-most-effective-coronavirus-treatment-poll/

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.

https://civilianintelligencenetwork.ca/2020/02/12/george-soros-bill-gates-partner-with-china-on-coronavirus-drug/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/dr-anthony-fauci-says-data-from-remdesivir-coronavirus-drug-trial-shows-quite-good-news.html

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.

https://sidneypowell.com/media/open-memorandum-to-barack-obama/

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.

News Events and Comments

NEWS EVENTS AND COMMENTS

By Dr. Stephen Jones:  4-14-2020

Blog Post Date: 

Today is 4-14-20. It is the end of our second 76-day cleansing cycle for this coming Prophetic Year. It appears that these cleansing cycles had much to do with (1) the coronavirus and (2) the economic system (shutdown).

The midpoint of the two cycles fell on January 29, 2020, when President Trump signed the final USMC Trade Agreement and also banned travel to and from China as the first step toward preventing the coronavirus from coming here. Unfortunately, on January 15 the first (known) coronavirus carrier had already arrived in America from China. If I recall, he landed in Seattle, and shortly afterward there were cases of coronavirus and deaths in a nearby nursing home.

As usual, these dates (start, midpoint, end) are pattern setters for what should culminate at the end of the Prophetic Year (8^th day of Tabernacles).

It also may be significant that today is 4-14, because that seems to suggest that Cursed Time has something to do with it. It is likely that we should look at this from a chronological standpoint, in that 4-14 we reached the END of a Cursed Time cycle. Normally, a 76-day cycle is tacked on to a 414-day cycle to reach Blessed Time (490), and since 4-14 is indeed the end of a 76-day cycle this year, we should view this as the end of Cursed Time, not its start.

Of course, when God blesses us by great changes at the end of an era, the changes may be perceived as “curses,” when in fact God is answering prayer to set us free. It will be interesting to see what transpires during the rest of April, especially April 19 and 21.

Empty Hospitals

Last month the hospitals across the country were shut down and “non-essential” surgeries were cancelled. My wife was one of the last to get hip surgery (March 16) in Minneapolis. The hospital shut down the next day. The rationale was to make room for millions of coronavirus patients that were expected in the weeks and months to come.

However, the millions of patients never materialized, leaving hospitals nearly empty. Doctors and nurses found themselves out of work. Even all the makeshift hospitals being built by the Army Corps of Engineers have been nearly empty. One of the first to be built (Washington State) was finally shut down, not having housed a single coronavirus patient.

In order to justify all this fearmongering, and in order to get more financial aid from the federal government, those in high management positions have been instructing doctors and nurses to falsify their records. Every death is recorded as having been caused by coronavirus unless proven to be otherwise.

Worse yet, doctors and nurses are prohibited BY LAW from telling anyone that they are doing this. Listen to what this nurse has to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCgea5o3ALU&feature=youtu.be

So while the coronavirus is real, it is not as widespread as we are led to believe. The statistics are being inflated deliberately for some unknown agenda. The question is, “who benefits” from this deception? Secondly, there is a “silent war” going on within our own government, each with a different agenda. Both sides are using the coronavirus to further its own cause, for better or for worse. The origin of the virus hardly matters anymore; the immediate problem is how to cope with life during this silent war.

What to Expect

The coronavirus itself is less of a problem than the economic impact of the “cure” and the possible vaccine tyranny coming from Bill Gates of Hell. I do not think that side of the war has even the smallest chance of winning, but the threat is real, nonetheless.

Those who think the book of Revelation has yet to be fulfilled are the ones who are filled with fear. Those of us who see that the book of Revelation has been fulfilled over the past 2,000 years and that we are now seeing the collapse of Mystery Babylon have reason to rejoice, knowing that Babylon is falling, not rising.

But meanwhile, with the lockdowns in California and Florida, a lot of fruit, nuts, and vegetables are unable to be harvested. With restaurants closed, farms are not sending food to them. The result is that there could be some food shortages in the near future. I do not know if farmers are going to be able to plant crops this Spring, but even if all goes well, the crops will take months to ripen. America still has a lot of food to feed its own population, so I think the biggest problem will be that less will be exported to countries that need food.

Meanwhile, the Mideast and parts of Africa are experiencing new rounds of locust swarms, which are likely to cause huge food shortages in those areas. Where will they buy food (if they have money to pay for it)? The world food supply is sure to become a problem this year. It would be wise for everyone to have some food stored in case of shortages later this year.

With all of the government’s “helicopter money” being thrown to everyone they can think of, I do not think that we will have a shortage of money overall. Individually speaking, of course, many will run short, especially if they are out of work. With 17 million new people now collecting unemployment insurance, the unemployment rate could hit 20 percent very quickly. But the government is spending trillions of dollars to try to make up for the economic collapse.

It will be interesting to see if they can keep up with the need that was brought about by shutting down the economy. Hopefully, the Democrat’s plan to keep us locked down until November will fail. If they were able to keep us all prisoners in our homes throughout the summer, the damage would be irreparable. They have a vested interest in inflating the coronavirus statistics in order to prolong the shutdown, hoping to then blame Trump for the economic disaster. But the Democrats, even with the fakestream media on their side, do not hold the reins of power, so I believe they will fail.

What we will need to monitor is the amount of new money being created in relation to the shortage of good being produced on account of the shutdown. When everyone has money to spend but the shelves are bare, that is a recipe for hyper-inflation. Desperate people are willing to pay more for the things they need, resulting in rising prices.

It is quite possible that the shutdown will conclude by the end of April. Trump has to be careful about ending it, however, because no matter when he ends it, he will be blamed for every coronavirus death (real or imagined) that occurs after he ends the shutdown. For political reasons, the Democrats will look for ways to blame him, just as they have already been doing.

When Trump shut down international travel with China in late January, the Democrats chastised him for being “racist.” Later, they blamed him for not acting sooner, knowing that most of the people would not remember that Trump had been criticized for acting too soon just a few weeks ago. That is the nature of politics. It relies heavily on the short memories of the people.

Silver and Gold

From a prophetic standpoint, I have believed for more than a decade that when the price of silver passed $50/oz, it will mark the moment when the arms of silver overthrow the head of gold (Daniel 2). That is why I began to study and monitor gold and silver prices. These are signs of the times. The number 50 is a sign of the Jubilee.

The COMEX defaulted on its gold contracts in late March, but they were able to hide it by changing the rules. Now in late April it is likely that they will default on their silver contracts as well. With Mexico and Peru shutting down their silver mines, 45 percent of world silver production is gone, at least temporarily. No one can buy large quantities of silver right now, even if they have the money.

Of course, if the price were to rise, someone might be willing to sell what they have. But the government continues to manipulate and suppress the price of both gold and silver. So the result is that there is simply no gold or silver to buy, because no one is willing to sell their physical supply. Not at these suppressed prices. Perhaps the government is hoping that with the shutdown, many will run short of cash and be forced to sell at these low prices. It’s hard to say.

Meanwhile, the price of physical silver is being decoupled from the speculative “spot price” of paper contracts. When the spot price goes down, the premiums on physical silver go up to make up for those ridiculously low prices. Right now, most silver dealers are asking for a 60 percent premium over and above the spot price. If the spot price went down to zero, it would hardly affect the real price of physical silver.

So chemical companies that need silver for industry will still find it hard to buy physical silver and certainly won’t be able to get it at the spot price. The spot price is becoming irrelevant, all because the government (and big banks) have manipulated the prices to unrealistic lows—even driving the price down below the cost of mining and production.

In March the government ran out of silver for its 1-ounce silver eagles. By law they are supposed to mint an adequate supply to meet demand, regardless of what it costs them to purchase the silver. But they do not care about the law when it gets in the way of their agenda. Even so, public pressure may soon force them to change their policy and allow a dramatic rise in price, much like what happened in 2011, when silver reached $49.84/oz. At the time, it looked like the fall of Babylon was near, but the silver price remained just under $50/oz.

I suspect we are now approaching a new release, where it will go over $50/oz.