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How It Might End, Act I: Alarm bells going off all around us that so few people seem to hear
Journal of American Greatness ^ | September 25, 2021 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 09/26/2021 12:49:45 PM PDT by billorites

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To: amorphous

That’s kind of a standard bell-the-cat response. Great idea but when it gets down to particulars, no one wants to step forward.


61 posted on 09/26/2021 6:34:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Just maybe, if Trump moves to Texas and runs for Governor first... :)


62 posted on 09/26/2021 6:36:49 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kickass Conservative

Re: SloJo ignoring Supreme Court and other judges rulings. Obambi did this time and time again. I remember when a Federal Court ruled he could not refuse to grant oil leases on Federal land. At first, he ignored the ruling. When the Judge demanded that his administration show up and respond, some Justice Dept flunky appeared in Court, and ‘appeared’ to go along with the ruling. The next day Obambi simply wrote and signed a ‘new’ Executive Order that was exactly the same as the the previous one. Laws, statutes, rules, and regulations are for others. The democRATS could care less.

I also remember a Federal Judge who was impeached and removed from office. This same Judge was later elected to Congress by the same creepozoids.


63 posted on 09/26/2021 6:46:21 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: Da Coyote

professors and lawyers too


64 posted on 09/26/2021 6:50:02 PM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: billorites

Interesting that he doesn’t bring God into his equation. How easy it is for men to think they control world....and even believe they do.

If we go down as a nation it’s because the very foundation....”One nation under God” ...has been eliminated in one form or another, many times over.


65 posted on 09/26/2021 6:58:46 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: billorites

DisUnited States - bump for later....


66 posted on 09/26/2021 7:23:03 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: Kevmo
The states will eventually step forward after they've waited too late. The state governments will make the same mistake as Trump did by not acting sooner and more aggressively. The majority of states must consider what is at stake.

A majority could pull it off through a coordinated effort. Admittedly the odds are slim; however, it is vital, they try if America is to survive, I believe.

Those in power now will try to keep it by any means necessary, without regard to principle.

Besides repenting of our sins against the Almighty as a nation - primarily halting the killing of our unborn - the majority of states are the only means we have to take our country back from an out-of-control central government while we still can.

Then we must extricate ourselves from the many traps and snares laid in our path as a nation and as individuals by putting honest Representatives in place who write legislation that benefits the people, including our youngest citizens, and not the mega-corporations or the special interests.

Time is short. The Almighty is stirring the Medes up against the West, even now. The bible says our enemies will invade us - precisely what we're witnessing now. The birth pangs of a new age are getting closer and closer.

There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found written in the book--will be delivered. - Book of Daniel

I believe the end of our age is here and that a new era will begin very soon.

67 posted on 09/26/2021 8:50:52 PM PDT by amorphous
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belling the cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat


68 posted on 09/26/2021 8:54:36 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: amorphous

The states will eventually step forward after they’ve waited too late.
***As per usual. Waiting for politicians to step forward with solutions is like waiting for a check in the mail.

The state governments will make the same mistake as Trump did by not acting sooner and more aggressively. The majority of states must consider what is at stake.
***Yes, they must; but no, they won’t.

A majority could pull it off through a coordinated effort. Admittedly the odds are slim; however, it is vital, they try if America is to survive, I believe.
***I perceive that historians will trace America had its crossing-the-Rubicon moment with Berg vs. Obama. SCOTUS, who pokes their nose into all kinds of places where it’s none of their bizness, refused to do their jobs when it was obviously their job to do. That was when we became an official oligarchy.

Those in power now will try to keep it by any means necessary, without regard to principle.
***Becoming more obvious with each passing day.

Besides repenting of our sins against the Almighty as a nation - primarily halting the killing of our unborn
***Well said.

- the majority of states are the only means we have to take our country back from an out-of-control central government while we still can.
***I perceive that it’s too late, that secession is the most peaceful alternative.

Then we must extricate ourselves from the many traps and snares laid in our path as a nation and as individuals by putting honest Representatives in place who write legislation that benefits the people, including our youngest citizens, and not the mega-corporations or the special interests.
***Again, the concept of belling the cat. Great idea but who will do it? Trump was the closest we had and he got stomped on.

Time is short. The Almighty is stirring the Medes up against the West, even now.
***That is where the phrase “read the writing on the wall” came from: Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin.

The bible says our enemies will invade us
***I doubt that. Got some bible verses?

- precisely what we’re witnessing now. The birth pangs of a new age are getting closer and closer.
***That part I agree with. I also think Daniel 2:42-43 applies. …42And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. 44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.…

There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. - Book of Daniel
***Yup.

I believe the end of our age is here and that a new era will begin very soon.
***I agree. At this point it is difficult to read the signs of the times but we are right on the precipice.


69 posted on 09/26/2021 9:04:42 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+13&version=NIV
70 posted on 09/26/2021 9:38:06 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

That’s a bible prophecy about Babylon, which already came true.


71 posted on 09/26/2021 9:46:46 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo

Yeah, first Babylon was a shadow or forerunner of the end-time Babylon, the daughter of Babylon, or mystery Babylon. There is a lot of material and scripture about both if you’re interested in the subject. Many people have differing opinions as to who/what is end-time Babylon. I believe the odds are it’s America who meets most of the criteria at this time. And I think the time we’re living in is close to the end of the age described in the bible.


72 posted on 09/26/2021 10:00:06 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin’ the children day by day, yeah!
Me say de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin’ the blood of the sufferers, yeah!
Building church and university, wooh, yeah!
Deceiving the people continually, yeah!
Me say them graduatin’ thieves and murderers
Look out now they suckin’ the blood of the sufferers (sufferers)
Yea! (sufferers)

Babylon System - Bob Marley & The Wailers


73 posted on 09/26/2021 10:04:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Wow, Marley was in to a lot more than I gave him credit for. Thanks for that !


74 posted on 09/26/2021 10:10:49 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

I agree that these are very close to the end times. Mystery,Babylon is a worldwide religion.

Babylon the great was the actual city.

revelation chapter 17:

1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
15 And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon#Historicist_and_idealistic_interpretations

The Family International’s view
The Family International (formerly known as “The Children of God”) believes that the Whore of Babylon refers to the United States of America,[58][59] with founder and former leader David Berg stating in one of his writings “all mankind worships her & loves her & fucks her & has fornication & intercourse with her & bestows upon her everything they’ve got & all their power & all! That’s Babylon! Including today’s Babylon, America, the Capitalist West & the Communist East.”[60][61]


75 posted on 09/26/2021 10:24:32 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo
The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

Revelations contain a great deal of symbology within symbology. I admittedly lack the wisdom to understand all sealed within its verses. Some, I feel, apply to the end of Christ's Millennial Reign. The "great city" mentioned can only mean Jerusalem. "That rules over the kings of the earth" perhaps refers to the millennial reign since Christ will rule the world from Jerusalem after the Second Advent.

Other scriptures are more precise about the end of our current age. God told us the "end from the beginning." Begin in Genesis, I like to say. There is no substitute for knowledge of a great deal of scripture before tackling or trying to understand Revelations.

That doesn't prevent most from trying, including the party you linked to above.

Just sayin'... :)

76 posted on 09/27/2021 10:45:20 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: This_Dude
"I don’t believe there will be a civil war. We’re just too soft and we’ll fed and we’ll entertained. Our side lacks the stomach for even heated argument, never mind bullets whistling past their heads. The left has the will and zeal, however misguided, to fight a hot war with the brutality to win it while we yell at our TVs and complain with our keyboards. Half the country was burning just a year ago and no one did anything about it, except for maybe Kyle Rittenhouse. Our side talks an excellent game, but only about 3 of us has the balls to actually pick up a weapon and drive a bullet into a leftard’s brain. The left is more or less in control of every facet of American life. They control the schools, media, government, military, and can manipulate language to bend our culture as they wish it to be seen, yet we do nothing. There will be no CW2. It would have happened by now."

That pretty much sums up the truth of it. I would add that Christian men do not result to physical violence unless it it forced upon them, But when a good man is pushed beyond their limit of Christian restraint and believes they must act in a direct way than civility will end. We are far from this point unless the Government itself becomes so egregious and threatens liberty. The Covid restrictions and destruction of business just threw gas on the fire. If they followed up by taking away guns or outlawing semiautomatic rifles that would be a tipping point. If the left assassinated Trump or if the Government arrested him, that would also be a tipping point. They already in many states outlawed religious services for Covid and many weak Christians bought into the excuse. If anything starts it will be in fly over country in rural America and defiance will spread. Wholesale defiance will lead to states separating if National troops were called up to enforce unconstitutional Washington D.C edicts. Hopefully elections next year can prevent the leftist onslaught of Americans.

77 posted on 09/27/2021 11:35:03 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: amorphous

The reason I linked the party above from Wikipedia was they agree with you. I think they’re fringe.


78 posted on 09/27/2021 12:52:14 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: cgbg
 
 
Yeah, the Ottoman empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Soviet Union, take your pick. They're littered throughout history - rotted from the inside until they finally fell over. People will set up their alternative societies, alternative means to survive in spite of the despotism, like they've always have. During the reign of Obummer I remember how bad things got during his second go-round. Lot of bartering went on, some of which I participated in. Lot of organized criminal gangs arose, which was rather unusual for my area. Not just the casual thievery that's in the usual background noise of society, but prolific organized groups that went out on the hunt night after night. Daytime wasn't exactly safe either. This current regime is lining up to be worse, in time.
 
 

79 posted on 09/27/2021 4:29:49 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Kevmo
You linked the vulgar ( used F word ) and the biased piece from Wiki because apparently, an ad hominem attack is the best you could do due to, I suspect, lack of knowledge of the subject. Many Christians do think America could be the daughter of Babylon mentioned in prophesy. Many books have been written on the subject by well-known authors. And as to the matter being "fringe," you of all people have little room to call others "fringe," Mr. Cold Fusion.

I have no time for hypocrites. Adios...

80 posted on 10/04/2021 11:10:21 AM PDT by amorphous
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