Middle East powder kegs
Plus a new Humor Me cartoon
ARCHIVE CARTOON: My 2013 cartoon depicted the Middle East as powder kegs. Ten years later, nothing has changed except that Iran is closer to a nuclear bomb.
We are living in a time period that the Bible talks a lot about.
In Joel 3:1-2 it says, “In those days and at that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations
and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will put them on trial
for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
and divided up my land.”
Verse 1 — God has restored the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem. From the time Israel became a nation once again in 1948 until now, Israel has grown in numbers and wealth.
Verse 2 — God’s plan is to gather all nations and bring them down to Jerusalem and put them on trial for scattering the Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. And for “dividing up my land.” Even today, diplomats talk of dividing the land of Israel to form a 2-state solution, meaning Israel would give land to the Palestinians for peace. The Bible says that God owns the land and He has given it to the Jews. That settles it.
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THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
What are the first questions after every major crime? What caused him to do it. What websites did he frequent?
In the future they will ask; what sermons did he listen to? It's a short step from condemning speech that influences some crazy person who commits a crime to calling it a hate crime.
This is a slippery slope that will make criminals of us all. Last month, the Michigan House passed a bill that would make it “a felony to intimidate someone by intentionally using the wrong gender pronouns, according to some legal experts.”That’s right, it’s hate speech, if you use the wrong pronoun and you could be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than $10,000.
You don’t have to be a prophet to know that Christians will be targeted for not playing along in this fantasy. Christians will be guilty of a hate crime for simply believing in the Bible’s immutable fact that God created only two genders. And no matter how many hormones you take or body parts you mutilate, you can never change your chromosomes.
Next the churches will be targeted. Despite the supposed protections for churches and religious institutions in the Respect for (same-sex) Marriage Act, someone in the LGBTQIA+ community will sue some church that refuses to obey them. Mark my words.
RIGHT LINKS
VIDEO - Not the Bee: Abortion activists are still recovering from Roe being overturned but I'm over here enjoying skits like this making fun of them.
Townhall - Madeline Leesman: A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won the Miss Netherlands pageant and will move on to compete for the Miss Universe title.
Not the Bee: Almost 40% of Brown University students say they're LGBTQ compared to 14% in 2010. Please tell me again how this isn't a social contagion. (Question: What changed to cause this huge increase?)
Townhall - Sarah Arnold: Biden says quiet part out loud about the U.S. Military during live interview.
Not the Bee - Report: YMCA bans 16-year-old girl, kicks her off swim team for objecting to naked men in women's locker room.
Indiana Policy Review — Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D.: The consequences of a rising national debt.
HUMOR ME
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Ugh... and ten years later, “we” still don’t think these things through..... cluster bombs??This administration is riding roughshod over this country ...and I feel I have no voice. This has been a manufactured war from the onset and we have paid, will continue to pay and when Ukraine is nothing but rubble, we will pay for it to be rebuilt....