It's Too Expensive To Live In New York, So, I Will Propose A 70% Tax For New Yorkers In Order To Help Pay My Bills

OK, I'm struggling with some things here. Didn't I read or hear about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez complaining about how high the cost of living is in New York, and how she was having a hard time finding and affordable place to live? Next thing I know, she is proposing a 70% tax for those who live in the state of New York. Do we see what is going on here?

I think it was in the state of Illinois, where I heard that the tax on a house is extremely high, and if you don't pay that tax, you will not be able to live in your house, even if it is paid off. So, one could be all set in their retirement, having paid every last cent on the bill for the house, yet, still be kicked out because the owner can't afford the taxes.

Does anyone see the problem(s) here? First, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez realizes the high cost of living. Then, she proposes this unreal tax on the people. That will help pay for the rent that she says she can't afford.

My question is, do the people who live in these areas of the country, realize what is going on? And if so, do they see the connection between who they voted for and the kinds of decisions those who are voted into office are making for us?

Things like this happened in Bible days as well. People who served in the top levels of the governments sometimes made good decisions that served the country well. Conversely, some who were in office made bad or wrong decisions, and brought great harm to the people.

God has given us in America, the opportunity to vote and elect the people we choose into office. But some people want to stay away from politics because they believe that politics are bad. Others actually believe, and I have heard this before, that Christians have no place being involved in politics.

(One time, I brought some voter guides to a church building, who supposedly wanted them. I talked with the lady who was a secretary who wasn't very kind at all, and refused to take the voter's guides. She said that we shouldn't be judging people! Do these people not understand what the issues are at hand? A voter's guide simply is a paper revealing the answers of candidates concerning certain questions that were asked of them.)

We probably have embraced those two ways of doing things, for now we are reaping what we have sown. Either we don't care, or are uninformed of what's going on around us, or, we have this simple belief that says we are to stay away from politics.

Is this what we want? Be assured, this trend will find its way in each state eventually, if we don't step up and become responsible citizens.

Don't ever forget to pray for our country. We need God's help and intervention like never before.

Why The Left Is Not Impressed With The Growing Economy

I was just thinking about how the Left does not care for Capitalism, and why they are less than impressed about the growing economy we have today.

Why is Capitalism so valuable anyway? When God designed people, he created them to be workers. With the fall of mankind, as described in Genesis 3, we experience bad ramifications from this, including our response to work and responsibility.

God created families. The family unit is the basic unit of society. The Bible defines the family unit as being made up of one man and one woman, who will reproduce by having children, or will adopt children. Being a parent is a big responsibility, and it requires at least one parent to work, which is normally the husband, and father of the children.

Normal people desire to be part of a family unit. Men will aspire to be good husbands and fathers, while normal women will build the home of the family as well as manage the household. When children come, mothers who are normal will love and nurture their children. Parents will protect their children as much as they possibly can, and they will provide for their children as well.

Why would the Left not care about Capitalism and how it is benefitting our society today? The answer is simple; Leftists do not have a high value for the family unit!

Leftists are also redefining the family unit. Today, a man can have a marriage relationship with another man, if that is what he desires. Or at least he can have a sexual bonding with another male. Women have that same option. Many women are so disgusted at the men today, that they have chosen to be lesbians. But what is ironic about this, is that it is obvious that these kinds of relationships will not produce children, so, many homosexual or lesbian relationships look into adopting children.

But it even gets more bizarre. I have read or heard about a man who married his computer! Now, this one is beyond me, but it is happening in America today. And many would think of this type of activity as 'freedom'. But we see it as bondage.

God has not ordained men to marry men, nor has He ordained women to marry other women. Or computers or anything else. When we step out of God's boundaries, we step out of His umbrella of protection. We also open the door to Satan and give him an opportunity to cause us to stumble.

Capitalism has no meaning or value to a Leftist simply because there is no reason why they would need to earn money or make a living. And hey, if they can bum money off the rich, so much the better. And if we can do that legally, woo hoo!!

So, normal men and women work hard to provide for themselves food, shelter, clothing, and the basic things we need in life, for themselves and their families. But the Leftists want to have power in the top levels of government, mainly so they can make the laws and call the shots. And they can take the money that people worked hard at, legally, to provide for their families, and use it on themselves for their pleasures.

This is not only unfair. This is unjust. There will be a day of reckoning for all this. In the meantime, we will have to be praying and fasting for this country. We need help.

Many have chosen to reject God and God has turned them over to their wicked desires. They do shameful acts, shamelessly. The conscience is gone. They can now do whatever they want, and not feel bad about hurting others. And when they are in the White House, that only spells trouble. Serious trouble.

May God have mercy on us!

Pray
* God will save those who will come to know Him, but are in darkness right now.
* LGBT activists will become powerless
* People in America will learn the fear of the Lord
* The word of God will go out in power
* Those in the church to be envisioned to do the work of evangelism
* People will be able to separate the truth from the lies

Updated Ant and the Grasshopper Story and How It Applies To America Today

Someone sent me this yesterday, and I found it interesting and enlightening. I will share it here with my readers. I don't know who the writers were of this article, but I think the point is clear.

As you probably know, the classical version of the Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

I didn't write this, (Jim Quinn did) and I don't endorse it. But I it's funny, so here it is, the Updated Ant and Grasshopper fable:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases on Thursday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00 PM when there are no talk shows scheduled.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in -- which just happens to be the ant's old house -- crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.

Who Is Really Responsible For All The Evil And Suffering In The World?

I think, a lot of times, we blame God for things that the devil is responsible for. We blame God for all the wars that have been fought throughout History. We blame Him for the evil that happens to people, especially children. We see people suffering with hunger in third world countries. And many blame God for all that.

     Yet, could there be another element to this dilemma? Maybe something or someone else is responsible for all the suffering and hardships people are facing in this world. Could it be that we all have another common Enemy. And could it be that this Enemy is skilled at deception and blame shifting?

  God created the world perfectly, to begin with. He set boundaries for the first people He created. There would be consequences for violating those boundaries. God made His rules and principles clear to His people. Yet, the people He created chose to disobey and disregard the rules He made and the boundaries He placed around them.

  And there were consequences. We experience those consequences today, as we speak. Chaos and disorder abound. Wars seem inevitable. We become so filled with ourselves, that we end up hating ourselves and others. We listen to the lies of the devil and take them seriously, as if our lives depended upon them. We hate, and we are hated by others.

  This is not the kind of world God created for us to live in! There was a war in heaven, and the Enemy of our souls defied the true and living God. Although we don't know what that looked like or what exactly might have taken place, the Bible is very clear that it happened. The devil has no fear of God, and challenges God all the time. The devil tricks us and we fall into his traps. We believe his lies. Then he laughs at us and accuses us before God.

  Yet, we are very sure that God is the one who intends to hurt us and make us unhappy. We blame God for the wars that have gone on throughout History. We blame God for the suffering in the world. Yet, who is the real cause of our suffering? Who is behind it all?

  When God first created the world, the first man, Adam, lived in a Paradise type land. Every type of plant was available for him to eat and to look at. God created a woman for Adam and he called her name, 'Eve'. Adam was very happy with Eve, yet, there was a time when Adam wanted to test the boundaries that God had placed around him.

  Adam walked with God. God had taught Adam many things and one of those things was that Adam could eat of any tree in the Garden. Any tree, except one, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he ate from that tree, there would be consequences. The devil came up to Eve one time (notice, the devil did not come to Adam!) and he lied to her about what would happen if Eve were to take of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Eve was curious, and thought it would be a desirable thing to do, so she took. Satan lied to her about becoming like God, if she should eat of this fruit. Not only did she take, but she gave some to Adam, and he took as well. He knew better and was tricked into thinking he would get a better deal if he took the fruit. Instead of having to trust in God for wisdom now, he could have wisdom independent of God. So, both Adam and Eve took the fruit and there were consequences. God found them and told them the consequences. One of the things that happened, was that there would, from that point on, be enmity between human beings and the devil.

  From that point on, the devil has been making war against people. But people don't understand that. They can't see the devil, so, they think the person they are arguing with, or the person who is hating them, is the bad guy. Yes, we all have to give account for what we do. And if we listen to the devil, which we will do, by default, if we are not listening to God, we will be deceived.

  The devil is behind all the wars going on. He incites people and causes them to fight against each other. Satan is raging with hatred, and when people express this kind of hatred, they are carrying the devil's hatred for people in their own hearts.

  I never want us to think that when we do something bad or wrong, that the devil made me do it. We still have a choice not to listen or obey the devil. But many times, even out of ignorance, we blindly follow the devil's instructions. We will be accountable to God, for disobeying God!

  But you may ask, how would anyone even know what God is saying? Has God spoken to us? The answer is, yes! God has given us His word. His word tells us of His promises to us. Not only that, but, when we are in God's word, we learn to be discerning. We can learn to recognize when God is speaking to us, and when the devil is tempting us to believe a lie. God's word helps us to be discerning. It helps us to separate the truth from the lies.

   The devil is like a puppet master. He is behind the scenes orchestrating the activities of people and nations. He is the Father of Lies and lies to his people continually. But we don't see them as lies, because they appear to us as the truth. Again, that is where knowing what the Bible says can help.

   There is a term used by magicians called, misdirection. What the magician does, is to make the audience focus on something in a particular direction, while the magician does something that could be visible, that will make his trick work. He doesn't want the audience to see what he is doing, so, by some action, he gets the audience to focus on something elsewhere. That way, the audience won't see what he is doing in order to get the trick or illusion to work out right, because they will be focused on the other thing. The devil is like that as well. He gets us to focus on the wrong things, while he accomplishes many things behind our backs, or while we aren't looking.

  Satan causes a lot of suffering in the world. But none of us has to be subject to the devil. We can put our trust in God, and we can turn to Him in repentance and faith. When we trust in what Jesus did on the Cross, then we can be forgiven of all our sins, and we can become a new creature in Christ. The power of God will live in us and give us victory over sin and the devil. God the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. Then we will more easily be able to separate the truth from the lies. Plus, the love of God will be in our hearts, and we will be able to be reconciled to people around us.

   When we are born again, we are born into God's family. Our spirit, which was dead, is now alive. We are alive spiritually and have eternal life with God.

  Isn't living like this much better than living in a world filled with hate and fighting? In the kingdom of God, there are no bullies. God is the God of peace and reconciliation.

2018 Midterm Contrast

This meme says it all. I have nothing more to say about this except that all of us need to vote, and we need to vote wisely.

Monday, November 5th, has been designated as a day of prayer and fasting for our country. Let's be praying and fasting for the continuation of a free nation, and let's make sure we get out and vote on or before November 6th!

May God make the people in this country discerning. May we learn how to separate the truth from the lies. May we be able to separate good from evil and light from darkness. May we walk in the light and promote the truth in love!

Why Some People Think Capitalism Is Evil

Some light has been shed on the subject. Now I understand why some people think Capitalism is evil. It makes sense like never before.

Why is Capitalism evil in the eyes of some people? It is simply because our culture has been ingrained to believe in a philosophy that originally comes from Eastern religions.

The philosophy is called, 'Yin-Yang'. Whether we want to believe it or not, we, as a nation, seemed to have embraced this idea. Probably even without realizing it.

So, what is Yin-Yang* anyway? It is the thought that everything must be balanced. Everything in this universe is balanced naturally. Some examples are things that are opposite, like light and darkness, and life and death. But it even affects wealth and poverty, for they are also opposites which balance each other out.

How does this tie in with Capitalism? Capitalism works because people want to work to earn a living, by using their skills and talents which ultimately, not only serve the person's family, but also serves others. When Capitalism excels, people earn more money. Some become wealthy. In the understanding of people who embrace Yin-Yang, that means that there will be people in poverty. That is how Yin-Yang balances itself out.

I remember listening to a teaching on apologetics a while back, and the instructor was having a dialog with an Indian waitress. India is a very poor country, if you have never studied this before. Years ago, because of their religious belief in reincarnation, they didn't eat meat. They also had a caste system working for them which put people in different places or classes, depending upon their finances. There is a lot of poverty in India. It is indeed very sad. The instructor was talking with this waitress, and she was not open to Christianity. When the instructor drew her out, it had to do with the fact that there were Indian boys suffering in poverty, while American boys, were able to have video games and other such nice toys. In the understanding of the Indian waitress, she believed that the Indian boys who were suffering, suffered because American boys were wealthy. For every rich American boy, there would be a balance of a poverty stricken boy, somewhere in the world. That is how Yin-Yang balances itself out.

What does God say about this? God sends blessings to those who know Him, as well as to those who do not know Him. God allows difficulties to come to those who know Him, and to those who don't. His blessings are common blessings to all.

But as far as wealth and poverty go, God blesses those who work hard. The book of Proverbs has a lot to say about working hard verses being lazy. It is not about nature balancing economics out around the world. God expects all of us to work hard, with the skills and abilities He has given to each one of us.

Third World countries suffer mainly because of the type of government they have. Many governments are oppressive and do not allow freedom for people to use their skills and talents, to build a community. Women are oppressed in many of these cultures, and there is not enough opportunity for them to build a community which will in turn, provide jobs for people to have. It doesn't have anything to do with America being the wealthiest nation in the world. It's not like America is wealthy, so that means another large nation will become poverty stricken. It doesn't balance itself out like that.

Actually, America is the wealthiest nation in the world, and that the world has ever had. If one wants to balance this out, then one other large nation would be poverty stricken. Out of all the nations in the world, there would be an equal amount of wealthy nations to poor nations.

Whenever God entrusts something to us, we must be faithful with it and use it to serve others. I believe God brought America about in order for our country to be able to serve other countries and to even help them to prosper, or at least teach them how to be prosperous. I think this could happen, but as I mentioned above, the governments of many of these countries will get in the way, and help will not be available to the people.

One other thing; It is not good for people to uproot themselves and leave their societies. Sometimes, this has to be done though, for safety or survival reasons, but generally speaking, people should stay planted where they are and develop their own societies. Also, for an American to go to another country and to try to change things and 'Americanize' the people group, is wrong. We go over there to help other people get started. It is up to them to take the ball and run with it.

For more information on Yin-Yang, please go to https://feng-shui.lovetoknow.com/Ying_Yang_Meaning

Yin-Yang symbol

So Who Are The Real Nazis?

  During the 2016 presidential campaign, a rumor went out saying that Donald Trump is a Nazi. Many bought into this fairy tale, and to this day, the story continues, at least on the side that is opposed to Trump.

  In the 1930s, Hitler made his mark on the world. He had it out with a group of people he hated, and had over 6 million of them killed. It was mainly one group of people, the Jews, who were the hated targets. He hated them because they were great business people and were doing so well economically, that he saw them as a threat.

  Fast forward to the present. Conservatives, and in particular, Donald Trump, are labeled as 'Nazis'. I find this ironic, especially since these people have been asked why they consider Trump as a Nazi, they either give some unrelated answer or no answer at all.

   Maybe a theory would be, since Donald Trump wants to build a border wall, he must be targeting a group of people he hates, and in this case, it would be people with brown skin. Anyone who has been aware of events happening in the past 50+ years knows that there is a drug epidemic that is not helped because people from Central and South America can enter into the country at will. Not only are there problems with drugs, but also the sex-slave trade benefits from having no boundary that will keep the criminals out. But the Left disregards this information, and holds onto their belief system that Donald Trump is a Nazi.

  But who are the real Nazis today? Could it be that the Liberal Left are the true Nazis of our day? Take a look at what they are doing, and see the similarities between them and Hitler.

   The Left has a targeted group they attack as well as Hitler did. These people they are seeking out to destroy are not the Jews though. They are not blacks, Puerto Ricans, Oriental, or any other race of people. But they are non other than the white males who live in America and call themselves Americans.

   Not only does the Left have their targeted group, but they are even taking stabs at destroying this group of people. The cause of their hatred of white males is called, 'White Supremacy'. They accuse every person born with white skin and of the male gender, of being a supremacist.

   We see this action carried out when a practice baseball game is underway, and a shooter comes out and uses his gun on these people. Oh, did I mention that the group is even more refined than just white males. This hated group is made up of 'Christian' white males, meaning Conservative white men. In this incident, one white male, who is Conservative almost lost his life.

   Yes, the white 'Christian' male poses a threat to everyone else, according to their theory. They would get rid of them in a heart beat, if they could.

   So, who are the real Nazis here? I think you can begin to see who the true Socialists are. May the true Nazis stand up and admit who they are! (No, they won't because they use something called, deflection, which takes the focus off themselves, and puts it on others to make the others look like the bad guys).

   Next time you hear Maxine Waters order her followers to harass people who are Conservatives, and supporters of Donald Trump, remember who the real Nazis are. Next time you see a comedian depicting acts of killing Donald Trump, remember who the real Nazi is. The next time you read an email from MoveOn organization (funded and supported by George Soros), you will be freshly  aware of who the real Nazis are. And it isn't Donald Trump. Nor is it the Conservatives or white Christian men.

Prayers:
* Pray that God would open our eyes, and the eyes of those who know Him, to the truth.
* Pray for God to help us separate the truth from the lies.
* Pray for the salvation of lost souls who are caught in the midst of the ideology of the Liberal Left.
* Pray for God to raise up God fearing men and women to be put in places of authority especially in the government.
* Pray that God will remove unrighteous authority from their office. Pray for them to be replaced by Godly people.