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LEADERS OF U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DEFYING GOD WITH “INCLUSIVE” LANGUAGE
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In fulfillment of Bible prophecy, the Democratic leadership of the 117th U.S. House of Representatives is
attempting to defy God with an “inclusive language” policy. The new rules would “address issues of inequities
on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, or
national origin.” This is impossible nonsense, of course, since addressing alleged inequality on the basis of
sexual orientation or gender identity creates inequality against sex and religion, etc. The rule would outlaw
the use of he and she, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, husband,
wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandson, or granddaughter, among others.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the new measures would make the House of Representatives “the most
inclusive in history.” True, and it would also make it the most stupid in history. “So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:27). “The
kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his
anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in
the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalm 2:2-4).
UNITED METHODIST MINISTER INVOKES HINDU GOD AT OPENING OF U.S. CONGRESS
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Emanuel Cleaver, an ordained United Methodist minister and Democrat Representative, opened the first
session of the 117th U.S. Congress by praying in the name of a Hindu god. He concluded, “We ask it in the
name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and god known by many names by different faiths. Amen and
a-woman.” The term “amen” has nothing to do with gender, of course. It simply means “so be it.” According
to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Brahma was born from a golden egg and created the earth and all things
on it. Later myths describe him as having come forth from a lotus that issued from Vishnu’s navel.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL STANDS UP AGAINST CANCEL CULTURE
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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is standing up for freedom of speech against the totalitarian cancel culture.
After the WSJ published an editorial on Dec. 11 by Joseph Epstein poking some fun at Joe Biden’s wife, Jill,
for flaunting the title of “Dr.,” there was a “flood of media and Twitter criticism,” angry tirades demanding
an apology, retraction, lifelong ban of Epstein, and the resignation of the WSJ editorial editor. Epstein was
sharply criticized by Northwestern University, where he taught some 20 years ago. The school went so far
as to remove Epstein’s name from its website listing past faculty. In his reply to the critics, Paul Gigot,
editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, wrote, “My guess is that the Biden team concluded it was
a chance to use the big gun of identity politics to send a message to critics as it prepares to take power.
There’s nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism. ... these pages aren’t going to stop
publishing provocative essays merely because they offend the new administration or the political censors
in the media and academe.” In a report on the WSJ brouhaha, The New Criterion observed, “Last month,
after the electors met to cast their votes for him, Joe Biden once again made a plea for unity. ‘Now it’s time
to turn the page ... to unite and to heal,’ he said. We applaud that sentiment. But we wonder what he
means by ‘unite’ and ‘heal.’ To judge by the actions of the institutions supporting his cause in this sorry
episode, ‘turning the page’ might just be euphemism for sweeping everything and everyone out of step
with his program into the oubliette” (“The ‘Dr.’ will see you now,” The New Criterion, Jan. 2021).
U.S. DIVORCE RATE HITS 50-YEAR LOW, BUT MARRIAGES ALSO ON THE DECLINE
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The following is excerpted from “U.S. Divorce Rate,” Christian Headlines, Nov. 11, 2020: “The new data
shows that 14.9 marriages per 1,000 ended in divorce in 2019, a rate that is the lowest it’s been since
1970, according to an analysis by author Wendy Wang, director of research for the Institute for Family
Studies. It’s even slightly less than in 1970 when it was 15.0, Wang wrote in an online analysis. The data is
derived from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. ... The drop in the divorce rate likely will
continue, despite the pandemic, Wang asserted. New data from the American Family Survey shows that 58
percent of married Americans say ‘the pandemic has made them appreciate their spouse more and half
agree that their commitment to marriage has deepened,’ Wang wrote. ... But the Census data also has
some bad news for the nation: The marriage rate continued to decline in 2019, hitting an all-time low.
‘For every 1,000 unmarried adults in 2019, only 33 got married. This number was 35 a decade ago in 2010
and 86 in 1970,’ Wang wrote.”
CIRCUIT COURT STRIKES DOWN BAN AGAINST “CONVERSION THERAPY”
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The following is excerpted from “Court Strikes Down,” PJMedia, Nov. 25, 2020: “Last week, a panel on the
11th Circuit Court of Appeals effectively struck down two Florida bans on sexual orientation change efforts
(SOCE) that sought to ban counselors from putting minors through ‘conversion therapy.’ The court ruled
that the laws violated the First Amendment by restricting free speech. While LGBT activists have rightly
condemned the historic abuses of ‘conversion therapy’ in the past, modern SOCE therapists use patient-
directed talk therapy, not ‘shock therapy.’ When the City of Boca Raton and the County of Palm Beach
banned SOCE counseling, licensed marriage and family therapists Robert Otto and Julie Hamilton sued,
seeking an injunction to prevent the city and county from enacting their bans. ... The therapists argue that
‘their clients typically have sincerely held religious beliefs conflicting with homosexuality, and voluntarily
seek SOCE counseling in order to live in congruence with their faith and to conform their identity, concept
of self, attractions, and behaviors to their sincerely held religious beliefs.’ ... As Judge Grant wrote, ‘The
ordinances thus codify a particular viewpoint--sexual orientation is immutable, but gender is not— and
prohibit the therapists from advancing any other perspective when counseling clients.’ ... This involves an
unconstitutional restriction of free speech. ‘Whether therapy is prohibited depends only on the content of
the words used in that therapy, and the ban on that content is because the government disagrees with it.
And whether the government’s disagreement is for good reasons, great reasons, or terrible reasons has
nothing at all to do with it. All that matters is that a therapist’s speech to a minor client is legal or illegal
under the ordinances based solely on its content,’ Judge Grant wrote. ... Lawsuits against ‘conversion
therapy’ bans received a new lease on life thanks to NIFLA v. Becerra. In that decision, Justice Clarence
Thomas explicitly struck down California’s law forcing crisis pregnancy centers to advertise abortion under
the argument that states can regulate ‘professional speech.’ In striking down California’s law, Thomas
referenced a case (King v. Governor of New Jersey) involving bans on sexual orientation change efforts.
Otto v. Boca Raton represents a landmark case for therapy freedom.”
BIGGEST LOCKDOWN IS COMING
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Lockdowns dominated the news for 2020, but the really big lockdown is in the future. Bible prophecy was
fulfilled literally and precisely in the first coming of Christ, and it will be fulfilled in the same manner in His
second coming. As a precursor, the Antichrist will lockdown the whole world with his worship program and
economic control scheme, backed up by the death penalty. It will be a global North Korea. “And he had
power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name” (Revelation 13:15-17). The Covid pandemic is child’s play compared with the trouble that looms on
the horizon. Billions of people will die during the Great Tribulation from wars, famine, pestilence,
earthquakes, and totalitarianism on a scale that will make Stalin and Mao seem like choir boys. It is all
described in the book of Revelation for those who are interested. It is called “the day of the Lord” because
it will spell doom for “the day of man.”
