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Demonized Words

A list of words, whose definition has been changed

Intolerant – today this word as well as all the other words I will mentioned have been demonized. Well guess what? I'm going to be intolerant to anything that is adverse to my family, my well-being, or any other aspect of my life. So get over it!

Aggressive – the other day on the radio I heard a Christian announcer say that aggressiveness has not been bred out of the male gender yet. Well I hope not! Aggressiveness is something inside a man that is necessary to protect himself and his family. If the Christian male looses his aggressiveness, which I am sad to say is occurring at an alarming rate. Then he and his family and all under him become victims. This is absolutely ridiculous, that any Christian man, in a position of influence should try to make Christian males sissies. Although you see this occurring in every church, and that saddens me to no end.

Judgment – thou shalt not judge seems to be the verse of the decade. Well, it may shock you, but we make judgments every day. Again I say get over it!

Oh how I love this little girl

Everyone should be so lucky

Men, Stop being confused!

De 23:1 ¶ "No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

Men you are sadly mistaken if you think this is what women want.

And women if you believe that men have a feminine side you too are sadly mistaken.

The only feminine side I have is my wife Cindy

Dead fish and birds

All over the world Dead Birds and Fish Are Showing up

So what the heck is going on? Immediately everyone thinks of the end of the world whether you are Christian or not. If you are trying to go to a prophecy website right now and it would take forever to load. I know, I've tried it. Does this mean it's the end of the world?

Scientists are scrambling for their own explanation. Some have said that it was shock from the fireworks on New Year's Day. Others have said that the deaths were because of pollution. One report came back after some of the birds were tested and it was discovered by their blood that they all died instantly from a heart attack. Whatever the case whether you're Christian or not you have to admit that it is very strange and maybe even shocking.

Let's take a look at some of the Bible scriptures and see what we can find.

Here is some scripture from the book of Enoch. First you must know that the book of Enoch is not in the Bible but is one of those extra books that was never included. At any rate here's what it says.

ALL the snow storms with all their plagues fall on you, in those days you shall not be able to stand before them (and we are still struggling). Enoch, 100:12. Now concerning the birds falling down ironically book what Enoch has to say: "And I looked and the Lord of the sheep (that is Jesus Christ) came to them and took the staff of His anger (compare with Revelation 2:27) and struck the Earth. And the Earth was split (remember seeing mysterious sinkholes on the news recently?). And all the animals and the "birds of the sky" FELL from those sheep and sank in the earth, and it closed over them". Enoch, 90:18. This is simply a symbolic WARNING of what Christ will do at His coming to those (evil black birds or "dark forces" of Satan preying upon God's chosen sheep) who oppose HIM!

There will be an increase in wars;

• There will be an increase in diseases;
• There will be an increase in earthquakes in different places;
• There will be an increase in violence;
• There will be famines,
• There will be immorality or lawlessness and violation of the Ten Commandments;
• Rebellious youth will be prevalent;
• There will be a homosexual increase;
• There will be hypocrisy;
• Vegetarianism will increase – People will depart from the faith and follow the “doctrine of demons, forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats;”
• There will be a marriage breakdown;
• There will be signs in the sun;
• There will be heart failure through stress;
• There will be an increase in knowledge;
• There will be an increase in travel; and
• There will be scoffers and skeptics, walking after their own lusts.
  

The cornerstone to all of this, according to Comfort, is Jerusalem, which Jesus predicted will be “trodden with Gentiles.” He says that Jerusalem was in the hands of the Gentiles until 1967, when the Jews regained Jerusalem, the bringing into existence all the signs of the ending.

Revelation 8:7
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

Revelation 8:9
and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Mathew Henry says this - 8:7-13 The first angel sounded the first trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. A storm of heresies, a mixture of dreadful errors falling on the church, or a tempest of destruction. The second angel sounded, and a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood. By this mountain some understand leaders of the persecutions; others, Rome sacked by the Goths and Vandals, with great slaughter and cruelty. The third angel sounded, and there fell a star from heaven. Some take this to be an eminent governor; others take it to be some person in power who corrupted the churches of Christ. The doctrines of the gospel, the springs of spiritual life, comfort, and vigour, to the souls of men, are corrupted and made bitter by the mixture of dangerous errors, so that the souls of men find ruin where they sought refreshment. The fourth angel sounded, and darkness fell upon the great lights of heaven, that give light to the world, the sun, and the moon, and the stars. The guides and governors are placed higher than the people, and are to dispense light, and kind influences to them. Where the gospel comes to a people, and has not proper effects on their hearts and lives, it is followed with dreadful judgments. God gives alarm by the written word, by ministers, by men's own consciences, and by the signs of the times; so that if people are surprised, it is their own fault. The anger of God makes all comforts bitter, and even life itself burdensome. But God, in this world, sets bounds to the most terrible judgments. Corruption of doctrine and worship in the church are great judgments, and also are the usual causes and tokens of other judgments coming on a people. Before the other three trumpets were sounded, there was solemn warning how terrible the calamities would be that should follow. If lesser judgments do not take effect the church and the world must expect greater; and when God comes to punish the world, the inhabitants shall tremble before him. Let sinners take warning to flee from the wrath to come; let believers learn to value and to be thankful for their privileges; and let them patiently continue in well doing.

Christmas 2010

Tax fix

I believe one of the ways to solve our economic problems in short it is to diminish the voice of the non-employed and students.  Voting should be a right not a privilege of those who are productive members of society.  Currently anyone over the age of 18 has he ability to vote.  This means that if someone is eligible to vote and not working either because they're a student or they are on unemployment or welfare has the capacity to influence the direction of our country.  Not only that but it creates a portion of society that influences our government and garners promises and support for that group.  As we see in government today the Liberals cater to this group.  If this group had no voice then there would be no social programs.  If there were still no social programs than that group would cease to exist at least to the point where the government is involved.  This would force people into the workplace and reduce the unemployment rate.  Now of course there would still be people unemployed, and there would still be students.  I believe it was Pres. Roosevelt who instituted most of our social programs for the needy.  All this did was in enlarge the group to what you see today.  Prior to that when a person was in need they went to their family for help.  If they had no family they went to their local church for help.  The government has tried to make the family and the church ineffectual ever since.  When I say the government I mean the progressive Liberal agenda.  See this agenda isn't really about helping people it's about control.  The larger they can make the group of dependents the more powerful they become.  It's really that simple!

What would I do?

First, change the voting requirements.  Make it so a person can't vote until a person has paid taxes for over 60 consecutive months.  Then and only then will they know what it's like to have their money taken from them by the government.  Of course many people will cry foul and say it's a constitutional right to vote and that it should not be hindered in any form.  They would also say that it's not fair that a certain segment of society in history to different.  I would submit to you that it's not fair that any individual or group of people is treated any different.  But yet that is what you have today.  Individuals like myself who have worked all their life and paid taxes all her life to fund social programs for a group of people who don't need to exist.  Take away the programs and you take away the group.  Subsequently you would have a larger pool of productive members of society and would be able to dismantle the overcomplicated much too large government  we see today.  It is unfair that I am 49 years old and when I go into a store I see an able bodied 25-year-old using food stamps.  Yet I have been struggling with a bad back my entire life.

Secondly, I would institute a flat tax.  It has been proven time and time again that a flat tax would pump much more money into the state and federal coffers.  According to Freedomworks.org Americans are paying the highest taxes in the nation's history.  The current complex tax system includes several inequities.  It penalizes married couples by making them pay higher taxes than single individuals.  And many Americans face a death tax that claims a significant portion of their estate after they die.  Late Noble Prize winning economist Milton Friedman first proposed a flat tax in 1962.  Nearly thirty years later, the idea gained national prominence when FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey introduced a flat tax proposal on the House floor.  He pledged  that a simple flat tax would allow Americans to “file their taxes on a form the size of a postcard.” 

Unfortunately, the Armey flat tax failed to pass Congress. To this day, we are still stuck with one of the most comlicated tax codes in the world.  Replacing the current messy tax code with a flat rate tax would be a huge improvement.  Since the early 1990’s, the flat tax revolution has spread across the world.  Currently,25 nations have adopted a single-rate flat tax system.  Most of these nations have tax rates below 20 percent. This month, Romania’s Senate just approved a proposal to lower their popular flat tax from 16 to10 percent. 
After implementing a flat tax, nearly all of these foreign nations have experienced economic growth and lower unemployment rates.  Between 2001 and 2004, The Hoover Institute found that tax revenue actually rose by 79.7 percent. Even a New York Times headline read “Russia Imposes Flat Tax on Income, and Its Coffers Swell.”  When people find their taxes to be low and sensible, they are willing to produce and invest more.  So why hasn’t the United States joined the flat tax revolution? Powerful special interest groups have blocked any efforts to improve the tax code.

According to Mike Pence, our current tax code has “special preferences and tax loopholes that Congress and an army of lobbyists have built into the tax code over time.  These fuel special interests and generally benefit one person, business or industry over another.” No wonder so many special interest groups are hostile to a flat tax. It would actually treat people equally.

Just imagine filling out your tax forms in five minutes with a flat tax.  According to the IRS, the average American taxpayer spends 26.5 hours preparing and sending in their taxes. Even IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman admits that he uses a tax preparer to file his own taxes, “I've used one for years.  I find it convenient.  I find the tax code complex so I use a preparer.”  Over a day of valuable time is lost each year that taxpayers could have spent being productive, spending time with family and friends or any way that they choose.  

Just my two cents,
Doug