Understanding Today's Underlying Issues

UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S UNDERLYING ISSUES

By Dr. Stephen Jones:  6-12-2020

Blog Post Date:  6-13-2020

The year 2020 is starting to heal blindness and to give 20/20 vision to many people.

Passover saw a covid-19 (plague) lockdown, which suggested the fulfillment of Exodus 12:22.

Pentecost is the celebration of the giving of the law (and Israel’s rejection of the law). It is the day God came down as fire and spoke the Ten Commandments. So now we are seeing the fires of the rioters and the rejection of the police departments (law enforcement).

That makes me wonder what we might see in phase three: Tabernacles.

The Longer View

Look at what has happened since the demolition of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. That was a pivotal event not only in American history but also in prophetic history. It was the end of 3 years since the humbling of King Ahab (Clinton) on September 11, 1998. Clinton fulfilled the role of Ahab found in 1 Kings 21:29 and 22:1, something we discerned in 1998.

The question was WHY did this happen? What was the hidden agenda, the goal, the motive? This was not done by a bunch of half-trained Saudi pilots. This was an inside job headed primarily by Vice President Cheney. The explosives in Building 7 had already been put into place earlier when they took down that building. Their reported excuse was that the building was unstable, so they “had to take it down.” But bringing down a building with explosives takes time. They certainly did not do all that after making a last-minute decision!

General Wesley Clark later revealed in many public interviews that the Pentagon had decided to go to war to “overthrow 5 countries in 7 years.” He asked the other generals, “Why?” They said, “We don’t know. It seems that if all you have is a hammer, ever problem looks like a nail.”

Well, we are now far enough along in the progression of time to begin to see the reason for all those wars. The wars were designed to cause chaos in Islamic countries to cause millions of refugees to flee into Europe and America, so they could be used to set up colonies with the help of certain political parties controlled by those who had caused the wars in the first place.

The overall goal was to settle America with people who knew little or nothing about the American form of government and its Constitution. By fast-tracking them to citizenship without having to learn how Liberty is defined and set forth in the Constitution, these people could be used to change the entire form of government into traditional forms of strong-man government.

The Islamic settlers were brought to America in the Obama years, knowing that he was a secret Muslim. The people were settled in many cities across Europe and America in large groups so that they would not be integrated with the general population but would retain their “culture.” Essentially, they would become a country within a country, which could then be used to create Islamic colonies with their own government, their own sharia law, and their own police force.

That is where we are today. That is why the peaceful protests were hijacked as a vehicle to cause chaos and eliminate the police departments. The more important question is who will replace the police departments??

They are already talking about replacing the police with neighborhood patrols. You can bet on it that these will be members of Antifa and other domestic terrorist organizations. They are planning to carve out their own independent “free state” territory as a home base that will then be expanded as they gain support from those who do not realize what is happening to them.

Seattle has just seen this happen. The hill overlooking the downtown area is called Capitol Hill. Antifa has now set up a perimeter, with signs proclaiming, “You are entering Free Capitol Hill.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/09/antifa-militants-seize-seattle-police-hq-set-up-autonomous-zone-n512621

This is a classic definition of an insurgency, complete with sedition and treason by the ruling Democratic Party in Seattle and the state of Washington. The only reason it is not a Civil War is because the State or Federal Government has not yet attacked them.

Our Attorney General in Minnesota wants to do the same in Minneapolis, first among the Somali community and perhaps in the black communities as well. The City Council (including Ellison’s son) has already voted to disband the police department and to replace it with unnamed Antifa members. Ellison is a prominent leader of Antifa and is the head of at least 2 other domestic terrorist groups in America.

https://operationdisclosure1.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-truth-about-george-floyd-antifa.html

This insurgency is well organized. It is not a spontaneous, grass-roots movement. Antifa was founded in the 1930’s as the paramilitary wing of the German Communist Party. Those were the days when the Communists (left wing International Socialists) were fighting the Fascists and Nazis (right wing National Socialists). Its original flag is similar to its modern flag:

A more recent photograph of Antifa shows a slight change, because they reversed the image of the flags and added the color black. But it has been a Communist organization from its inception. Therefore, the goals of Antifa are not merely to oppose Fascism but to restore Communism.

Those who are tricked into supporting Antifa seldom understand how they are being used. They should know that whenever Communism has succeeded, they have always killed those who supported their revolution. Why? Because they figured if they would betray their own country, they would later betray the Communists as well—especially after discovering how they had been tricked and used for a secret agenda.

So this is the background behind the present insurgency. The Democratic Party has taken up its banner, and Antifa is the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party in America. Trump has smoked them out into the open, after they failed to remove him from office with the Russia-collusion hoax and the impeachment attempt in January.

Insurgency is their last option before they lose the election again in November 2020.

If they really believed their own polls (which claim that Biden is ahead of Trump), they would not feel the need for such drastic action. But they know that the polls today are no more valid than they were in 2016 which showed Hillary to be far ahead of Trump. Polls are used to sway public opinion, rather than to report public opinion. It is much the same with the fakestream news that has degenerated into sheer propaganda.

So that is the current “state of the union.” America is moving from a propaganda war to an actual insurgency. If and when the legitimate powers of government fight back, we will then move into the third phase of open war. If it is short, it will be called a “mass arrest.” If it takes longer, and if there is fighting in the streets, it will be called a “Civil War.”

Since phase 2 is connected to Pentecost, I wonder if phase 3 will be associated with Tabernacles.

The Solution

Clarifying a problem is important, but it is more important to offer a solution.

The biblical solution is found when we study the origin of Pentecost and its historical problem in the church, beginning with Mount Sinai. The Israelites refused to hear God’s voice at that original Pentecost when God spoke the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:19-21). By refusing to hear His voice, the people lacked faith (which comes by hearing—Romans 10:17).

So that generation died in the wilderness without receiving the promises. The problem was that they set the pattern for future generations and for the church itself. Hence, the church has again rejected the law, and only the overcomers (the Calebs and Joshuas) will inherit life in the First Resurrection.

I have learned in past decades that the world follows the example of the church—not individual Christians, but the church as a whole. Hence, when the church decided to become a beast system that valued power and money more than the character of Christ, the world breathed a sigh of relief and continued acting like a beast.

When the church hierarchy followed the pattern of King Saul (who was crowned on Pentecost), the people became slaves to men. God intended that church leaders would set the people free through the principle of the Jubilee.

This was also expressed biblically in terms of Old Covenant bondage (Hagar) in Galatians 4. It meant that most of the Christian people would not be taught the difference between the two covenants and would end up fleshly, Old Covenant believers while thinking that they were actually children of the New Covenant (Sarah).

When the church aborted and miscarried the Manchild, the world agreed and passed laws allowing abortion on demand. (See my booklet, The Prophetic Roots of Modern Abortion.)

And now the world is again following the example of the lawless church by working to abolish the police departments while burning down buildings and businesses. Just as the church replaced the law of God with traditions of men, i.e., man-made laws, so also Antifa wants to replace all biblically-based laws with man-made laws (such as sharia law).

Church lawlessness has empowered world lawlessness. Church traditions have destroyed the law of God, and so the world agrees with this principle. That is being reflected in the anarchy, the chaos, the move to defund and/or abolish the police departments, and ultimately to replace God’s rights with the rights of men to rule themselves as their own ambitious leaders see fit.

The intent is to get rid of the grand American Experiment whereby all men were created with certain inalienable rights that originate with God, and declaring that governments did not grant rights but were authorized only to protect the rights that God has given mankind. The forces of atheistic Communism and its Antifa branch wants to return us to the laws of men, claiming that God’s laws are oppressive. They want to depose God and deprive Him of His rights to rule. They claim that “enlightened” men are the ones who can grant rights.

But if men can grant rights, men can also remove those rights and put men into bondage. The main point of the American Revolution’s primary document, the Declaration of Independence, was to recognize God as the Grantor of Rights. The Constitution and every other law was supposed to be rooted in that great truth.

That is what is at stake today. We are seeing a great power struggle between Government under God and atheistic Socialism and Communism. The good news is that God wins in the end, and that the end is near.

Kingdom Political Issues

KINGDOM COMMENTS ON POLITICAL ISSUES

By Dr. Stephen Jones:  Nov 26, 2019

Blog Post Date:  11-27-2019

The 2020 election fever is spreading, now that we have entered the final year leading up to that election.

The battleground issues emerging are as follows:

The Democrats are painting the Republicans and Trump as racists and white nationalists.

The Republicans are painting the Democrats as Socialists.

The racial undertones of this political season coming from the Democrats make it appear that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s was all for naught and that racial hatred and discrimination are worse than ever.

In 1998 Republican Bob Dole got the highest Black vote in recent history—12%. (Nixon got 32%.) Democrat Bill Clinton got 83%. No Republican candidate has gotten a higher percentage since Nixon. In 2016 Trump received only 8% of the Black vote. However, The Democrats are steadily losing the support of the Black community and have already lost about 40% of the Hispanic community.

Black supporters of Trump have now reached record levels of 34% and climbing. Without at least 90% of Black support, the Democratic Party cannot hope to win the 2020 elections.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-black-vote/

“Republican presidential candidates generally cede the black vote to Democrats, but Trump has paid more attention to getting the black vote than any Republican presidential candidate in decades. Despite progressives’ hourly accusations of white supremacy, Trump’s approval ratings among blacks are robust. If Trump’s black vote totals are even half of the lower percentage in 2020, he’d get four more years in office.”

Democrats appear to be instructing the mainstream press to call them “Progressives.” It is a term that indicates “progress,” but progress from what? That is a bit like Obama’s call for “change.” It appeals to people who see faults in governmental policies. But by choosing a Marxist term (i.e., the call for a “progressive income tax”), they are really telling us that they intend to change the country and the world from the Christian worldview of the constitutional system we were founded upon to a Marxist Socialist worldview.

That is the real issue facing us today. In the 1930’s we shifted from a Republican form of government to a Democracy. The general public did not realize that “Democracy” was a euphemism for Socialism, which in turn, is the path to Communism, according to Karl Marx himself.

Ever hear of the Democratic People’s Republic of China? How about the Democratic Republic of Congo? Even the Soviet Union, though ruled by the Communist Party, was the USSR, “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” Though the USSR imploded in 1991 and was reformed as the Russian Republic, the West has gradually but steadily moved toward Socialism.

Today, ironically, Putin’s Russia is establishing itself as a Christian Republic (based on the Russian Orthodox Church), while the USA (until Trump) has been establishing itself as the USSA, United Socialist States of America. In other words, in many ways America is farther down the road to Communism than Russia is today, and Europe is even more Socialist. The tables have turned completely. As this becomes more and more apparent—especially among the Black community—the Democratic Party that supports this move to Socialism is trying to relabel itself as the Progressive Party.

Trump may or may not be the ideal candidate to regress back to the original intent of our founders, but these issues are now coming to the surface for all to see. In the end, it is not about any particular candidate or person. It is about whether or not the people lose faith in the biblical path to genuine Liberty and whether or not they want to join its main historical nemesis, which we know as Socialism, which was proposed by Karl Marx and others like him.

Socialism vs. Biblical Freedom

Socialism simulates biblical love. The main difference is that as time passes, the people are forced to “love” others, and it loses its value as a voluntary act, which is the biblical standard. Socialism has sounded very good to the poor, who were easily convinced that “spreading the wealth” was a good thing, even though, at its root, it is based on theft and abolishing the right to own property and assets for which a person has labored. The Christian concept of freedom is based on the sanctity of one’s labor and the right to own it. Such is the biblical idea of justice and liberty.

Socialism, on the other hand, is based on the principle of “fairness” and “sameness,” where equality means that everyone must have equal wealth. To accomplish this, one must steal from the rich and give a small portion of it to the poor, while keeping the bulk of it for administrative purposes and to enrich the politicians doing this “good work.” (They think they deserve it.) The result is that all the ordinary people become equally poor, as seen in the example of the USSR in the past century before it imploded.

No one wants to work when they know the government will take most of it anyway. It is, after all, much easier to be on the receiving end of the system, where the rewards are greater. In the end, Socialism encourages people to NOT work, and it is only where people enjoy or take pride in their labor that any work at all is accomplished.

It took 70 years for the USSR’s system of Socialism to collapse. That experiment alone proves that it does not work. Under such a system, it eventually becomes necessary to force the people to work. Governmental power increases proportionately, until the people are in abject slavery. This is the opposite of biblical liberty.

Hence, we are presented with the atheistic path and the God-given path to liberty. The people as a whole must choose between two opposite paths. Do the people have faith in God and His law, or do they reject God and search for a secular path to liberty? One system is based on the sanctity of labor; the other is based on government-sanctioned theft of labor.

The Democratic Party has chosen to align itself with the Socialist path and is being pulled to the far left as a radical “Progressive” movement. The Republican Party is being pulled in the other direction by President Trump after being just another arm of the Babylonian rulers for a long time. This polarization is dividing the people into radically different camps.

Tithe is not Theft

Biblical taxation is based on a return on one’s labor. God labored to create the world, giving Him the right to a return on His labor. He provides the dirt, the rain, the atmosphere, the sun, etc., while men provide their own labor, using God’s materials to produce wealth. In this business arrangement, men are given 90% of that which is produced as payment; God is given 10% in payment for His labor. Tithes are owed when men create wealth using God’s materials (nature). Offerings are voluntary, but there are also first-fruits offerings that are owed to God by the law of first-fruits.

That which is owed to God is then delegated to Kingdom governments who represent Him on earth. The money or assets are used to support those who are in authority who work full time as God’s agents. Their duties are primarily in the area of defense. Their day-to-day duties include record keeping and the administration of justice. On occasion they may be called to lead the people in wars of self-defense from foreign threats.

God’s agents in government are also responsible to teach the laws and spiritual principles in the word of God. They are expected to know how to conduct spiritual warfare as well, because all battles must be won in the heavens before they can be won on earth.

If God’s government agents do their jobs according to their individual callings, they are worthy of the financial support that God delegates to them through the tithes from the land, flocks, and herds, supplemented also by various voluntary offerings.

In Times of Captivity

In times of captivity, where God sells the nation into the hands of foreign, ungodly governments, the tithe system of the Kingdom is disrupted. With the authority that God delegates to ungodly governments also comes the right to receive the tithes for the support of such governments. However, they inevitably tax the people more than is allowed by God’s law.

God uses this as a form of corrective judgment in order to show His people the folly of lawlessness and how the bondage of other gods promotes false paths to liberty.

In the time of the Judges, God put Israel in captivity to six different nations, all of which followed the laws of false gods. When the divine sentence expired, God raised up Judges to deliver them, and the people repented of their lawlessness, at least temporarily. Yet the age-long problem remained, which is that the law was not truly written on their hearts. They again saw false gods as desirable and considered God’s law to be restrictive and contrary to liberty.

In simple terms, the flesh desires to sin and considers the law of God to be oppressive. So it seems that each generation has had to learn the lesson for itself.

The last great captivity began first with the Assyrian captivity of Israel and was completed with the Babylonian captivity of Judah. Both captivities were based upon God’s judgment time cycles. The Assyrian captivity was based on the “seven times” judgment (2,520 years). Judah’s captivity gave us more details, breaking it down into 4 main empires with certain extensions.

Israel’s captivity ended from 1776-1800, which was 2,520 years from 745-721 B.C. Judah’s captivity would have ended in 1917, had it not been for the century of independence that they enjoyed from 163-63 B.C. Because of this, Judah’s captivity did not truly end until 2017.

In the past century, America was turned into a Socialist Democracy and secularized in order to bring up a generation of lawless people who forgot the principles of biblical government that was set up after Israel’s captivity ended in 1776-1800.

But now that Judah’s captivity has ended (2017), we are seeing the implosion of Babylonian Socialism. This is seen clearly in the current political conflict and crisis, as each side of the debate has come to the surface. There are good and bad people in both parties, of course, but these two paths are emerging steadily, giving the people opportunity to repent once again, as seen so often in the book of Judges.

It is not about voting for any particular candidate of either party. It is about understanding the laws of God and the path of true liberty that He has set forth in His word. All political candidates express their own views, either for or against the Kingdom of God. It is for us to understand the underlying issues and the significance of the times in which we now live. We are responsible to act accordingly, and if we know the divine plan, we know that those advocating the Kingdom of God are destined to win, regardless of the chaos now seen in the world.