After the United States gave Ukraine the greenlight to strike targets within Russia, it has not taken long for the Ukrainian military to already confirm successful strikes within Russia. Russia, warning that there would be repercussions, has now positioned some of the warships near Cuba, off of the coasts of Florida, to flex its military capabilities.
Scott Ritter, a retired U.S. marine and former United Nations weapons inspector, was recently denied a flight to Istanbul to eventually reach St. Petersburg, and had has passport illegally seized from him. Ritter said he was not told why his passport was being revoked but that the orders had come directly from the Department of State, he was told.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded to this by referring to the U.S. as an “enemy” for the first time publicly, Russian state media Tass reported.
And we are an enemy country for them, much like they are to us.
Peskov said
Additionally, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that this action demonstrates that the U.S. is truly a “police state.”
This is yet another example on top of numerous others that show that the United States, which calls itself the world’s leading democracy, has long turned into a police state.
At the same time, Russia is beginning to respond to the United States’ actions to allow Ukraine to strike within Russia. President Vladimir Putin announced last week that they would begin to bolster their defenses and present a show of force by sending war vessels to the Caribbean Sea.
Today those Russian warships have come into the vicinity and the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard are following and patrolling the Russian warships. RT reported:
A Russian Navy flotilla has conducted long-range strike drills in the Atlantic Ocean en route to Cuba, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Tuesday.
The tactical naval group deployed by Russia’s Northern Fleet includes two of the most modern Russian military assets: the Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the lead vessel in its class.
According to the statement, the two ships delivered simulated long-range strikes against enemy naval targets located over 600km away.
Kazan’s primary armaments are cruise missiles, which can be older Oniks, newer Kalibr systems or, reportedly, the newest hypersonic Zircon projectiles, depending on the loadout. The frigate can fire the same array from its vertical-launch systems, as well as other weapons.
Previously during the voyage, the frigate’s crew trained to deal with an air raid using its guns and specialized anti-aircraft systems, the statement said.
The Russian flotilla, which also includes the oil tanker Pashin and the salvage tug Nikolay Chiker, reached Cuba on Wednesday, with the stopover set to last until next Monday.
The US Navy has deployed two destroyers and two support ships with sonar equipment to shadow the Russian nuclear boat, according to CBS. Another destroyer and a US Coast Guard cutter are following the rest of the group, a source told the news outlet on Monday.
Before the ships arrived in the region, Ukraine meanwhile claims they successfully struck a target within Russian territory.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a military source told Sky News: “A Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) mission has struck a Russian command node in Belgorod. Whilst damage assessment is still occurring, it is confirmed as a direct hit. This is the first UAF air-delivered munition delivered against a target within Russia.”
Earlier today Sputnik reported that ‘one person was killed as a result of a direct hit on an apartment building during the Ukrainian shelling of the town of Shebekino in Russia’s Belgorod Region from multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), and another three were wounded, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Wednesday.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. [8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Little by little this war continues to expand more and more, with both sides increasingly upping the ante, though what Russia has been doing is countering America’s endless warmongering. I figure that more of this Tom & Jerry will persist for more months to come, to get past the elections at least, but time shall tell.
Indeed, calling the U.S. a “police state” is more than fair and accurate. Most Americans are still so delusional about the oppressive slave nation we live in, willing to tolerate and put up with more and more losses of liberties in the name, enriching the military industrial complex.
America’s Nanny State Insanity: An Overregulated Nation With Far Too Many Laws And Little Freedoms
The US And NATO Have Become The New Fourth Reich, Destroying The World While Claiming Innocence
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Here we go again…..another Cuban Missile “crisis”.
The DS of Amerika’s administration is on a suicide mission, and it doesn’t care how many souls get delivered to Satan along the way. “That’s their “reasonable service” (Rom. 12: 1) to their master, Luci.
The difference between the Cuban missle crisis of the 60s and the so called “crisis” is that there was more merit of calling it a crisis in the 60s due to the actual conflict between the USA, the Vatican, and the former USSR.
Using Mark 13:7 to suggest in your readers minds that present wars are prophesied in Scripture (and therefore inevitable) is unscriptural. Mark 13 and its parallel passages in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 are best understood as having been fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ad. Matthew 24:34 is the key that unlocks what Jesus was tring to get across to his listeners: “Assuredly I say to YOU, THIS GENERATION will by no means pass away until all these things take place.”
And that’s exactly what happened. Within 40 years of Jesus’ warning and prediction Titus drug a plow over Jerusalem. Josephus described it as the greatest massacre in history. It was in fact and still is to this day when considering the percentage of people in a nation wiped out. Only a tiny remnant (the faithful in the nation of Israel) escaped this GREAT TRIBULATION—because they understood Jesus’ warning in Matthew 24:15-22.
No, preterism is unscriptural.
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
That has not happened yet.
Hi Jacob, the disciples asked TWO questions of Jesus:
1. “Tell us when these things shall be?” (Mt. 24:3a) What things? The “things” Jesus had predicted two verses earlier about the destruction of the temple.
2. “And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Jesus answered the first question in verses 4-34 (which includes wars and rumors of wars, along with earthquakes, famines, etc all of which precipitated the fall of Jerusalem as detailed by Josephus in his volume on the Jewish Wars.
Jesus answers the disciples second question beginning in verse 36…BUT of THAT DAY and HOUR no one knows..”. In other words there will be no sign of Christ’s second coming. Just as there were no signs given to the people prior to the flood in Noah’s day (v 38). It was an ordinary day when the flood came. People were eating and drinking and marrying. That’s how it will be in the day Christ returns. NO SIGNS will precede it.
Lets not take the SIGNS Jesus said would precede the fall of Jerusalem in 70 ad and apply them to a time (Christ’s return) Jesus said would have NO accompanying signs of warning.
PS. There are full preterists (who have many things correct but who absurdly think Christ retiuned in 70 ad), and partial preterists (who while acknowledging the uniqueness of 70 ad and many prophesies fulfilled in that event clearly understand that Christ’s return is yet future). Be careful to not lump full preterism with partial preterism. In one sense ALL Christians are in fact partial preterists who rightly see some prophesies as having already been fulfilled—preterist meaning “past”—and other prophesies as having a future fulfillment (i.e. Christ’s return, New Heavens and New Earth, etc.).
“In other words there will be no sign of Christ’s second coming.”
Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? […]
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. […] [25] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
I’m not sure what you think you’ve proven by restating the Scriptures already discussed.
Matthew 24:38-39 will not allow you to take the signs surrounding the fall of Jerusalem in 70 ad and apply them to Christ’s second coming. Neither will Luke 17:28-30 allow you to do so.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! It’s all games. And the Vatican/Orthodox Catholic bankers & cronies behind it all….like Augustine all sanctimonious sending out Constantine’s Roman soldiers against the faithful Christians labeled ‘heretics’, who are always the minority.
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They’ve pretty much cleansed Russia& Eastern Europe of Bible believing Christians, not to mention cosmopolitan humanist Europe returning to its pagan & Dark Age pagan-corrupted roots. And the rest of Asia which was always given to the dragon/serpent wisdom and philosophy of some Japhetic, mainly Shemitic, peoples gone east from Babel, and even into the Pacific Islands & Australasia, as well as into the Americas.
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Now they turn their attention to what little remains here…and it’s sure easy to scapegoat with so much cultivated & encouraged wickedness: real Christians are easily targeted & taken down as part of the ‘collateral damage’, especially now that material goods & land is ‘transferred’ out of the hands of the average citizen. They must turn their covetous eyes to what remains, & to other things: tokenizing EVERYTHING as some sort of exchangeable monetary unit: Revelation 13&18 KJB. Agenda 2030 etc.
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They did the same in the Middle East with Bible believers, using crony Islam as a weapon & tool, much as they did in the bloody games played around the time of Islam’s birth, and then the later Crusades & backscratching treaties.
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Perhaps now they will doublecross all of Islam, or perhaps only what they’ve radicalized & call ‘fundamentalist’. You do have the Shia and Sunni division already, and there are Islamic nations actively coming against Jerusalem, as well as amongst those ‘protesting’ but not doing anything in the latter days. Ezekiel 38, for example.
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Islamic solidarity with BRICS is an interesting phenomenon, especially the Saudi part of it. I suspect that Rome will pivot to that as well after the cultivated radical right pre-Vatican II reaction against the cultivated, now set up, irrational ‘left’ of Vatican II and Francis the double-talking ‘pope’ with his crony papal juden. When Strauss, Guggenheim and Astor handily went down with the Titanic…it left a serious imbalance amongst financiers, Jewish, as well as professing & evangelical which was much more faithful amongst Bible believers as the King James reigned supreme.
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The ASV did NOT go over well in the U.S. In fact, Dewey (interesting name there–remembering John Dewey’s part in the recreation of education etc) Lockman was able to pick up the copyrights to it pretty cheaply because of that. He apparently had good intentions, so far as his friend Frank Logsdon observed….but God chastened that man sorely, and Logsdon cut off & renounced all connection with the ASV and revision work after getting close enough to it to see what was going on. In fact, he dedicated the rest of his life to traveling from church to church to warn against the revisionists. The same thing happened with the ‘Living Bible’ until the Billy Graham Association championed & promoted it. In even later & more recent times, the ‘gender neutral’ NIV bombed, but it was picked up & deceitfully misrepresented by monopolized publishers & Rupert Murdock.
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God’s gonna deal with all of that.
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Back to main topic here: Edom obviously comes against & is judged at some point, given many passages, & especially Obadiah, but doesn’t make the Ezekiel 38 list, other than the Moabite overlap with Jordan.
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Things to watch.
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I have noted A LOT of preterist propaganda, which makes sense, since it fits with Rome’s eschatology as the one world antichrist religion & governance takes shape…..and it suits pagan ends, too. They can say that America’s Wall Street through which they worked was ‘Babylon the Great’, & their antichrist head Messiah/Christ returning. The Kingdom Now people are all prone to receiving that.
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Another thing is a lot of propaganda promoting grossly allegorized interpretations of scripture: like Chris Pinto recently promoting that rising Islam is the scorpion demonic judgment of Revelation 9 KJB.
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That’s a real reach, & must ignore all the man of sin, bottomless pit, going to his own place etc cross-referencing scripture, PLUS the obvious nod to the ‘gods’, & specifically, Apollo, in the names of their devil leaders: Apollyon in Greek, Abaddon relating to Hebrew.
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He has also very recently been promoting that gross ignorance of Allah being the Arabic ‘moon god’ which is only a very small part of the story of Allah’s roots & invention.
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The word Allah came of al ilah: the god (masculine as Baal, because he is unknowable, nameless, karmic, impersonal& unpredictable), and al ilat (feminine as Astarte, the three goddesses, three ‘swans’ of Mecca that Mohammed chose, probably with the help of his devil/jinn, the seven hundred winged ‘Gabriel’, as his merged ‘monotheistic’ god). It’s not a personal name like Elohim or Jehovah, Jesus etc.
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This al ilat part probably links with the Odile/Odette white & black swan mythology of old pagan Russia immortalized in their famous ballet, & definitely with Venus/Aphrodite/Diana syncretized pagan goddesses that were carried up through Rome with the filthy pagan writings, immortalized in their religious paintings by “the Masters” etc…..and garbled with scripture in Dante & Milton.
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Baal & Astarte/Asherah could merge, shapeshift, have masculine, feminine or both features, and were referred to by either genders or both, and in both the singular or the plural. We have traces of this characteristic in our King James Bible where Baalim, plural, is used with ‘he’ singular in the same sentence verse.
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I hold it loosely, not wanting to go beyond the scripture, but have come to think of it like trinitarian extra-biblical philosophy, the antitrinity of Revelation 13-16, or the cherubs/chariot/wheels/horses of scripture. What are we to make of these chariots with the horses in them, for example? Zechariah 6 KJB. It makes sense when you consider that Lucifer/Satan is a fallen cherub….and is always counterfeiting & seeking to usurp the place of God. And, chronologically, Zechariah 5 comes before Zechariah 6….more food for thought & prayer.
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Islam’s crescent, hearkening back to paganism, can be either the horns of the male bull, or the crescent moon referring to the feminine, or both. Think of the main face of the cherub, nailed down by comparing Ezekiel 28 with Ezekiel 1-10 KJB, the golden calf in Exodus & the calf idols of Jeroboam in the northern kingdom of Israel. And, think of Genesis 37 and Revelation 12 KJB. Satan & his counterfeits.
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The glory of God departed the Temple in Ezekiel 10 KJB. Today that treasure is in the bodies of believers individually & the Body of Christ corporately….and I don’t pretend to understand all of that fully. But it does underline the time of the removal of the remnant of believers of this age in the greater biblical timeline, & with respect to the time of Jacob’s trouble, Daniel’s 70th week.
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You also have the three stars commonly associated with Islam. Islamic country flags all feature the crescent & one to seven stars. Some five-pointed, some EIGHT which was the number of points on Ishtar/Astarte’s star, only one 6-pointed that I could find. Some of the flags also feature one or three TREES. Malaysia’s Air Force flag is surely thought-provoking!
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So, the idolatries of Chiun, Remphan and Molech are represented. A study of trees throughout the King James Bible is interesting, too. What it teaches us of kings/emperors and world empires, the spirit & hierarchy behind them.
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I’ve much appreciated Chris Pinto’s work giving the history of the King James Bible, but not appreciated some of the politicizing & Calvinistic elements there, or his alliance with the Trinitarian Society which always gave me a check in the spirit, short of full acceptance or recommendation without comment.
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These latest things are like huge red warning lights with alarm bells going off. They all connect with pseudo-King James Only believing circles ….counterfeits who really trust ‘only the originals’, even the TR, and which therefore are nicolaitan & popish, turning folks from faith & submission to the Lord Jesus Christ and his words, to men & their philosophies, traditions.
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1611 Defense Podcast at youtube has put up two recent interviews with Dr. Perry Demoupolos which are long, but very detailed & useful, going into these things concerning the King James Bible, & also some of the intrigues with regard to Russia/Ukraine & the one world Bible versions.
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Jason Cooley has been teaching on Sundays concerning the Counterfeit King James Bible people, with particulars shared from Ruckman & building from there with what Toronto pastor George La More discovered & further documented, being also booted from the Scholars Guild. Rumble. Well worth the time.
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There is a common link there between those ministries, & the work of Pete Heisey who was a King James Bible translator in Romania who died suddenly & unexpectedly some years back. Also to Black Creek Baptist and to the men associated with purecambridgetext. org.
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Beware what you believe….prove & double prove all things by the word of God, not overlaid with some philosophical or traditional grid & so interpreted, and according to truth, not corruptible desire. Beware when men import some alien system into the perfection of the King James Bible as it is & has been faithfully passed on to us….because it destroys doctrinal links & so much more.
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Remember the witness of faithful martyrs…even in situations of betrayal, as, say, Tyndale….and God’s provision of grace for them in trials. Beware bitterness, rebellion, covetousness….& what you yoke up with or give your allegiance to. We truly do live in perilous times.
War is like a big stampede of bulls pushing against a big gate, and that gate is coming apart at its hinges, and when it does it’s going to charge and wreak havoc in the streets!
World War III and a supposed Cold War part II to boot.