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1 Corinthians 15:51-54
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

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One Republican Congressman says instead of sending stimulus checks to every qualifying American, direct payments should go to people who receive the coronavirus vaccine. “I hope the administration will look at that option because we actually buy something with our $1,400 — and that’s herd immunity,” said Rep. Steve Stivers (R., Ohio) in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live.
Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided.
(ETH) – A report coming out of Israel this morning is revealing that a 1,500-year-old Greek inscription bearing the name “Christ, born of Mary” was just unearthed in northern Israel, According to the Jerusalem Post, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the finding on Wednesday morning.

Donald Trump has revoked his own executive order to limit federal administration employees from lobbying or working for foreign countries in one of his final acts as president.

They were never going to be satisfied with just defeating Donald Trump in one election.  Ultimately, their goal is to personally destroy Donald Trump and the movement that he started so that it will never rise again.  They want to make sure that Trump will not run for president in 2024 or any future election, and they could potentially accomplish that if there is a vote in the U.S. Senate on whether or not Trump should be banned from running for office for the rest of his life.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial should start in mid-February, NBC News reported on Thursday.
(OPINION) ETH – Multiple Christians are warning that newly elected president Joe Biden will enact policies that will thrust humanity into the End Days, Many believe that it was God’s sovereign will for President Biden’s victory in the November election and to ultimately become the next president.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines on Thursday night, but authorities said it was too deep to cause major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.
(OPINION) ETH – There has been a slew of  UFO sightings that have taken place over the past few weeks across a span of locations from Ohio, Florida, California, North Carolina, Colombia, and Thailand but there was one sighting in particular that hs even one expert convinced that it was a “close encounter”.
(OPINION) ETH – President Joe Biden has a pen and has signed a slew of executive orders in just 48 hours of being sworn into office. One of these executive orders that Biden just signed is an executive order mandating all educational institutions receiving federal funding to now permit biological males to join female sports teams, use ladies’ locker rooms, and restrooms, and be eligible for women’s scholarships.
(OPINION) ETH – This next story should send a chill down your spine. Microsoft has just been granted a patent that would allow them to create a chatbot using the personal information of dead people.
(ETH) – A massive fire has broken out in Western India at the site of the world’s largest vaccine producer resulting in at least 5 deaths.

According to the report from The Hill, images of the fire revealed black smoke plumes coming from a building that was still under construction at the Serum Institute of India’s facilities in the city of Pune. The fire was reportedly put out but five lives were lost in the blaze.

Democrats in the US Congress have urged major social media platforms to eliminate algorithms and recommendations that breed extremism and undermine the sense of “objective reality.” Representatives Anna Eshoo and Tom Malinowski wrote letters demanding change to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. A similar letter was sent to the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, and Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, which is owned by Google. “For years, social media companies have allowed harmful disinformation to spread through their platforms, polluting the minds of the American people,” Eshoo tweeted.
I warned that an economic collapse was coming, and an economic collapse is exactly what we got.  2020 was a “personal financial disaster” for 55 percent of all Americans, approximately 12 million U.S. renters are “at least $5,850 behind in rent and utilities payments”, the Aspen Institute is projecting that up to 40 million people could be facing eviction when the rent and mortgage moratoriums finally end, and more than 70 million new claims for unemployment benefits have been filed since the COVID pandemic began.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, launching the start of the former president's trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot.
On Sunday afternoon, January 17, 2021, a swarm of small earthquakes started rattling the south side of Mount Hood with several dozen small quakes happening withing a few hours. The swarm has yet slowed down and stopped on January 20, 2021.
“We did what we came here to do — and so much more,” Trump said in the speech on Tuesday afternoon. He argued that his administration restored American strength at home and leadership abroad, “built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” and achieved a “series of historic peace deals in the Middle East.”
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump bestowed a rare award on King Hamad of Bahrain on Tuesday, acknowledging the Gulf state’s normalization of ties with Israel on his last full day in office.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump offered rare, kind words to his successor in a farewell video on Tuesday, while failing to address him by name, as he spent his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside.
The Trump administration was closing in on agreements with Mauritania and Indonesia to be the next Muslim countries to normalize relations with Israel, but ran out of time before the Republican president’s term ended, two US officials told The Times of Israel this week.
But despite the many scandals, racist invective, lies and violence that have left Trump with his lowest approval ratings, fewer allies than ever in Congress and a looming Senate trial as the only president to be impeached twice, Smith has no regrets about voting for him.
A storm of controversy is brewing in Australia after lobbying from Satanists got the pentagram listed as a symbol of faith alongside emblems of the world’s major religions. Satanists in Queensland are toasting a “small but important win for religious freedom” after the Sunshine Coast University Hospital added Satanism to the list of recognized religions in its multi-faith center. The pentagram is now displayed alongside a host of religious symbols including the Christian cross, Islam’s Star and Crescent, Hindu’s Om and Buddhism’s dharma wheel.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for a bonus episode of the You and Me Both podcast and talked about the January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol, telling the former Trump challenger that lawmakers “can’t move on” from the protest, as members were “traumatized” by the events.
If your economy is “spiraling downward”, is that a good sign or a bad sign?  To me, that doesn’t sound good at all, but if I am mistaken please tell me.  I just want to make sure that I am not “misinterpreting” anything.  Brian Deese, the man who will shortly be serving as the head of the National Economic Council, has publicly stated that our economy is “spiraling downward” at this moment.
“We cannot afford to wait any longer. Let’s send out $2k monthly checks,” Khanna said Tuesday as Democrats continue to clamor over President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending plan, which includes $1,400 checks rather than $2,000:
(OPINION) ETH – The coronavirus pandemic has produced a surge in many looking to the Word of God for hope and peace in this trying time. According to a new report from CBN News, Lifeway Christian Resources, which is one of the world’s largest providers of faith content, recently reported a significant growth in sales of Bibles beginning in April of last year when the pandemic began.
(ETH) – President-elect Joe Biden just made history on Tuesday by naming Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), who could make history becoming the first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official according to a report from The Hill.
According to the report from The Sun, the extreme measures is the latest in the country’s efforts to stop the spread of the more contagious mutant strain of the coronavirus detected in the UK last month. The report details that in the eastern state of Saxony, those individuals who choose to ignore lockdown measures will reportedly be held in a cordoned-off part of a refugee camp being built next week.
An Israeli minister stated in an interview that he stands firm in his commitment to name the soon-to-be-built train station adjacent to the Temple mount “Donald J. Trump Station.” Some rabbis note that the station will serve the Third Temple and, as such, the connection to the president is implicit.
Far-left members of the “Squad” are publicly shaming one aspect of President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending plan, which would provide Americans with $1,400 stimulus checks, calling for Congress to provide Americans with $2,000 checks and possibly have them “recurring.”
For years I have been warning that Christian persecution was rising all over the globe, but we have never seen anything like the past year.  Christians are being slaughtered all across Africa, they are being taken to concentration camps in North Korea, thousands of churches have been brutally shut down under a new wave of persecution in China, and millions of believers throughout the Middle East must live knowing that each new day may be their last.  Of course most Americans have never heard about any of this because the mainstream media won’t cover it.
We crossed a line that should have never been crossed when we sent “stimulus payments” directly to the American people during the very early stages of the COVID pandemic.  Even many Republicans that supported the measure acknowledged that what they were doing was pure socialism, but they defended the payments by insisting that we were in the middle of a major national emergency.
WASHINGTON — Fears of major protests by armed, far-right Trump supporters outside the Capitol and at state capitols Sunday proved unfounded, with only small groups, some carrying weapons, gathering in a handful of cities including Austin, Texas; Phoenix; Salem, Oregon; and Lansing, Michigan.
Katie Couric ask how are we going to ‘deprogram people who signed up for the cult of Trump’

(OPINION) ETH – On a recent broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Katie Couric was the special guest and didn’t hold anything back attacking Republican members of Congress and President Donald Trump. and even asked:

(OPINION) ETH – Project Veritas reportedly released a new video today revealing a senior executive at Twitter, Vijaya Gadde, detailing plans to replicate censorship measures on a global scale.
President Trump’s failure to release a detailed plan showing the specific borders of a Palestinian Arab State incorporating Gaza and about 70% of Judea and Samaria ('West Bank') - before he leaves office at midday on 20 January – will sink the only solution that has any remote possibility of being implemented in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The United States Embassy in Jerusalem, together with the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, have recognized the City of David as a testament to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and founding principles.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman warned the incoming Biden Administration that a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would complicate and harm efforts to expand the Abraham Accords, the peace agreements between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.

As Joe Biden is busy announcing his plans, the White House produced a list of President Trump’s top achievements. And though the list tops at over 700, to many of his most ardent advocates, his term in office will be remembered as one of unprecedented love of Israel.

At least 13 Israelis have experienced facial paralysis after being administered the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, a month after the US Food and Drug Administration reported similar issues but said they weren’t linked to the jab. Israel has been hailed for its speedy and efficient mass inoculation program, which has vaccinated a staggering 20 percent of the country’s population since the drive began at the end of December.

Facebook has censored a video of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, for suggesting that globalist leaders are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to bring about a new world order.

Isn’t it fun to live in a rotting, decaying society that is coming apart at the seams all around us?  The latest economic numbers are extremely depressing, but now that free speech is being abolished and the elite are consolidating control over every aspect of our society, we are being assured that better days are right around the corner.
2021 has already started off with a big Boom! Loud booming noises have been heard in several counties of North carolina, Kentucky and Ohio.

Meanwhile a mysterious rumbling was felt across South Florida around 1pm on January 15, 2021, with calls and messages came in from Weston, Sunrise, Plantation, Margate, Tamarac, West Kendall, Doral, Pinecrest, and the Florida Keys.

USGS says there were no earthquake and, so far, the shakings don’t have a cause!

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, has been revealed as the biggest private owner of farmland in the US, after buying up 242,000 acres in 18 states.The tech mogul, who is the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of $121billion, according to Forbes, has quietly built up a massive agriculture portfolio.
I sit down to read the recent Gregorian New Year’s supplement of the influential economic magazine TheMarker. We’re all interested in economic trends, and 2020 was an unpredictably grim year. The lead article headline looks particularly interesting: “Turning Point: Israel’s Big Population Challenge.”
US President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco's highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal between Israel and Morocco, a senior administration official told Reuters.
About a month before the great December conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, NASA researchers announced a separate, unexpected discovery: evidence of light in deep space without an explainable source. After studying photographs taken by the New Horizons space probe, which is now 4 billion miles away but still beaming footage to Earth, NASA came across an unexplained “glow.”
A high court in New York ruled again that Governor Mario Cuomo cannot institute restrictions on religious institutions that are more severe restrictions than other entities, such as grocery stores, gyms, bars, and casinos.
Can astronomers be so wrong about the number of galaxies in the universe? What if the universe is a little darker than expected, counting way less galaxy than previously estimated for years?  It seems so, according to new data harvested by NASA's New Horizon spacecraft.
WASHINGTON – It’s a Washington that most people would not recognize. Constitution Avenue is usually one of the busiest roads in the nation’s capital. But if you visited there now, you would mostly notice forklifts driving around, working with crews to keep installing a 2.5-meter fence all around Capitol Hill in a 500-meter radius.
The US is moving to include Israel in Central Command, the military command that oversees a vast swath of the Middle East, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
In recent weeks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has taken several significant decisions aimed at returning to the negotiating table with Israel with a tailwind of support from the incoming US administration.
In the menagerie of right-wing populist groups, the boogaloo bois stand out for their fashion, for their great love of memes, and, to put it plainly, for the incoherence of their ideology. Which is saying a lot, considering that the riot at the Capitol last Wednesday featured partisans of the long-gone country of South Vietnam, Falun Gong adherents, end-times Christians, neo-Nazis, QAnon believers, a handful of Orthodox Jews, and Daniel Boone impersonators.
Israel's US-sponsored peace agreements bring the Biden administration into action in a new reality already dictated to it.

Jay Shapiro claims that Biden's Middle East Policy will be based on Obama's, but it will be difficult for him, because Trump has radically changed the Middle East. Shapiro thinks that Biden will bring in Obama period advisors who will complicate the situation. 

Scores of military hardware, including what is said to be a new version of North Korea’s submarine-launched ballistic missile, touted as the world’s most potent, were shown off in a grandiose military parade in Pyongyang. An assortment of troops and some of the reclusive country’s most advanced military hardware were flaunted by Pyongyang on Thursday to mark the conclusion of the North Korea’s Workers’ Party congress – its first since 2016.
(OPINION) ETH– One of America’s most prominent evangelical leaders, Franklin Graham, just unleashed a scathing rebuke to House Republicans who betrayed President Trump and sided with Democrats during this week’s impeachment proceedings.

The latest excavations done at the City of David site unearthed an ancient street referred to as "the Pilgrimage Road," which dates back to Jesus' time and leads from the Shiloach Pool up to the entrances of the temple. Alongside the ancient street, a podium once used for addressing passers-by was unveiled.

A decision by US tech giants to permanently block US President Donald Trump’s accounts could have chilling implications for the democratic values America holds dear, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman warned.

(ETH) – Iran has reportedly deployed deadly “suicide drones” in northern Yemen, which is an area controlled by Tehran’s Houthi allies and is only a few hundred miles from Israel.

(OPINION) ETH – Skywatchers in Los Angeles reportedly caught glimpses of three mysterious black Bell 407 helicopters with no easily identifiable markings.
(OPINION) ETH – Many pastors are warning that “Political conspiracy theories” are responsible for helping fuel last week’s Capitol Riot, and some continuing to spread these assertions, even in the church. These pastors are now stepping up to condemn them as dangerous lies.
One of Israel’s most respected rabbis, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, has released a statement on the status of America as a waning world superpower and a message of hope for Israel to fill the void. Rabbi Eliyahu is the Chief Rabbi of Safed and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council
Newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she plans to file articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on the first full day of his presidency, alleging 'abuse of power.' Greene announced the provocative move in an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday night, insisting it was not merely symbolic, despite the futility of her plan with Democrats controlling the House.
UK customers who refuse to wear masks inside HSBC branches will be refused service and may have their accounts closed, the bank says. The threat was not well-received, particularly given HSBC’s criminal history.
(ETH) – Missouri has reportedly become the first “abortion-free state” in the U.S. after its last remaining abortion facility reportedly ceased terminating pregnancies.
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has just warned that if President Donald Trump is convicted at his Senate impeachment trial, the chamber will then move further and hold a separate vote on barring him from running for office ever again.
As fallout continues from the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol, Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, has a message for his fellow evangelicals: It's time for a reckoning.
In a video message posted to official White House account on Twitter on Wednesday, Trump struck a conciliatory tone, urging Americans to “overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one American people,” while disavowing those who resorted to violence in the name of his cause.

The coronavirus vaccines now being distributed in Israel tend to cause significant side-effects with receipt of the second dose – even more so than with the first dose, a senior Israeli coronavirus official warned Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence quoted Ecclesiastes 3:3 — “A time to heal” — in his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday, subtly reminding her that she had recently used that verse to call for an end to the country’s divisions.
A senior US intelligence official on Wednesday said airstrikes in eastern Syria on Iranian-linked targets the previous night were carried out by Israel with intelligence provided by the United States.
When US President Donald Trump won the election in 2016, many foreign countries wondered what kind of US foreign policy might be crafted by the new US administration. One country had already begun to put its eggs in the Trump basket.
President Donald Trump, under pressure to resign after being accused of inciting a deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol last week, said Tuesday that moves to impeach him are 'absolutely ridiculous" and causing "tremendous anger," but added that he does not want violence.
I have never seen as much anger in the United States as I am seeing right now, and that greatly saddens me.  No matter what happens, we should always love one another.  Unfortunately, most Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are seething with hate right now.  Leading up to the election in November, the left and the right were primarily attacking each other with angry words, but now the level of physical violence that we are witnessing is extremely alarming.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied all responsibility for last week's riot on Capitol Hill, saying his fiery speech to his supporters before they marched on the Capitol was 'totally appropriate.' In his first public remarks since Wednesday's MAGA storming of the Capitol, the president slammed Democrats, accusing them of creating 'tremendous danger' with their attempt to remove him from office but said repeatedly he wanted 'no violence.'
A Democratic representative warned Tuesday that there is an 'ongoing threat' to the Capitol as thousands of 'armed patriots' are ready to descend on Washington D.C. to prevent Democrats from moving forward with impeachment and said they are prepared to use their weapons against members of Congress.
The U.S. government will require all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
(OPINION) ETH – On the first Sunday service following the mob attack by Trump supporters that stormed the U.S. Capitol, influential pastor Samuel Rodriguez reportedly called on the Church to “repent” for “making the person who occupies the White House” more important than God.
Ministers call for two-state solution for Israel-PA conflict

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan, met in Cairo on Monday where they called for a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that the PA is ready to return to the negotiation table with Israel under international legitimacy, the Xinhua news agency reports.
Analysis: Believing the new White House will tread the same path as Obama on foreign affairs, especially Iranian nuclear aspirations, senior defense officials say bilateral dialogue should at first be handled by security officials who already have close ties with U.S. counterparts
The head of the public health services at the Health Ministry, Dr. Sharon Elrai-Price, warned Tuesday during a briefing that a single dose of the coronavirus vaccine does not provide sufficient protection against infection from the virus.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mossad (Israel’s spy agency) chief Yossi Cohen were seen at Cafe Milano in Washington DC on Monday, according to Politico reporter Meridith McGraw.
Yoni Tzadok is running an unusual school in the mountains of Judea to prepare for the Third Temple. According to Tzadok, the first requirement for entering the Temple will be speaking the “Holy Tongue” which is not Hebrew but, rather, a return to how men spoke before the divine linguistic barrier imposed at the Tower of Babel.

No one likes to admit they were fooled. It's tough to admit we were wrong. Now, many evangelicals are seeing President Donald Trump for who he is, but more need to see what he has done to us. It’s time for an evangelical reckoning.

In a speech a week before leaving office, Pompeo confirmed a November New York Times report that al-Qaeda’s second-in-command was killed in Tehran over the last summer. The report said Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who used the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was killed by Israeli agents at the behest of the US.
Clock ticks towards release of UFO report as emergency relief bill forces US intelligence agencies to reveal knowledge 
We’re set to hear what US intelligence agencies have learnt about UFOs in their decades investigating the phenomenon, thanks to a law buried deep in the emergency relief bill that was signed by President Donald Trump. A 180-day clock is ticking for the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence to provide Congress with an unclassified report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” – more commonly referred to as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) – due to one of the stipulations contained in the 5,600-page bill that Trump signed in late December.
AP — The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, DC, in the days leading up to US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week’s deadly siege at the US Capitol.
US President Donald Trump on Monday issued an emergency declaration to support the security of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, NBC News reported.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman appeared to hint at a possible second bid by President Donald Trump for the White House, amid reports the president is planning to run in 2024.

Biden’s official Twitter account was responding to former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was among 14 people wounded in a shooting rampage by Jared Lee Loughner in Tucson in 2011; six people died in the attack. Giffords had recounted how her life and community “changed forever.”
So you would think Americans would recognize a coup, but instead they’re the last group of people on the planet who would. Because their media doesn’t present them as coups. They’re labeled as spreading democracy, freedom etc., as standing up against the bad guys, and liberating innocent people -even if many of them die in the process.
Censorship has become a hot-button issue in the wake of the protests in Washington D.C. last week. In a move that many considered extreme, Twitter permanently banned the US President and Facebook followed suit, banning Trump “indefinitely.”  YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit and others have blocked, labeled or deleted posts or accounts over the last several days. Twitter also blocked Gen. Michael Flynn and Facebook removed the page of the Walkaway campaign of former liberals who are now advocates for the conservative movement.
The State of California has so much cash, thanks to a revenue surplus, that it may be required to return some to taxpayers, according to a new budget proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom for 2021.
Jim Barfield witnesses DC riots and talks about how the deep state is trying to prevent the Third Temple.
A peaceful Trump rally in Washington DC seemed to have spiraled  out of control as several alleged ‘Trump supporters’ stormed barricades outside Congress, where lawmakers were convening to vote to certify the Electoral College of the 2020 US election. The Library of Congress was evacuated due to violent clashes.
Up to a million Americans will descend on Washington this Wednesday, when Congress moves to formalize November’s election. If misrepresented by the media, the event could be the spark for the mother of all national breakups.
The new year is off to a rocky start as, days after a 220-meter asteroid flew past Earth, an even bigger space object is en route. To make matters worse, infamous seer Nostradamus predicted an asteroid strike some time in 2021.
Have you noticed that quite a few prominent Republicans have been dropping dead lately?  At a time of the year when most people are at home celebrating the holidays with their families, Republican lawmakers have been dying one after another.  Of course important people die all the time, but to have this many Republican politicians die so closely to one another is definitely unusual.  I believe that 2021 is going to be a very strange year, and it has definitely gotten off to a very strange start.
Democratic Missouri representative Emanuel Cleaver, a ‘pastor’, recited the opening prayer on the first day of the 117th Congress on Sunday. The ‘prayer’ began with a hint of hope for decreased political division.

But towards the end of the ‘prayer’ Cleaver asked the Hindu deity Brahma for “peace across the land” and inside Congress as well.

An orange alert has been announced as over 100,000 residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were warned that they may need to evacuate their homes within 24 hours as the La Soufrière volcano began spewing lava. 

For those struggling to find spiritual meaning in the turmoil through which we are living, the recent words of Rabbi Alon Anava, speaking from the holy city of Tzfat in northern Israel, are intended to bring clarity.
A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer argued Monday that the United States can kill its own citizens without judicial review when litigation would reveal state secrets.
The mission of the evangelical Christian church going forward is fraught with tense, intergenerational challenges but great opportunity is ahead, according to Presbyterian Church in America leader Bryan Chapell.
New York State Assembly Proposes New Bill A416 That Would Take “Disease Carriers” And Place Them In ‘Holding Area’ Designated By Governor Cuomo
The Gateway Pundit reports "Bill A416 relates to “the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases that are potentially dangerous to the public health.” The Governor would have sweeping powers to indefinitely detain American citizens and put them in internment camps." This is not an over-estimation of just how scary and just how dangerous this situation is. Is COVID-19 being used to create an American gulag in the name of fighting a pandemic? It sure look like it. Remember all those people in Berlin in 1933, all those Jews who watched what was coming and decided to 'ride it out'? Think you will fare any better than they did?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said he expects the coronavirus vaccination to be mandatory in some institutions in the future. In an interview with Newsweek published Friday, Fauci said he's "sure" institutions like hospitals will mandate the vaccine.
The UN’s outgoing Middle East peace envoy has said the Palestinians could gain from Israel’s normalization agreements with Arab states, potentially strengthening their hand in peace talks.
President Trump spoke to 300 state legislators from the battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia on Saturday in a Zoom conference call hosted by Got Freedom? in which the 501 (c) (4) non-profit election integrity watchdog group urged those lawmakers to review evidence that the election process in their states was unlawful and consider decertifying the results of the November 3 presidential elect
Israel has dismissed allegations leveled by Tehran that it is trying to trigger a war between the US and Iran, adding that it was worried for its own security on the anniversary of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s claim that Israel was plotting attacks on US forces in Iraq in order to spark a military conflict in the region was “total nonsense,” Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday. According to Steinitz, it was Israel that needed to be on guard for possible Iranian strikes.
With vaccine rollouts underway, humanity looks set to win the fight against the coronavirus. But some elites planning a post-coronavirus ‘Great Reset’ don’t want to go back to normal. Here’s what they have planned instead.
The Covid pandemic will shape the outlook for years to come. In good ways and bad. At the beginning of the lockdowns, I often warned that shenanigans would follow (also see AmericanThinker: Beware of tyranny more than covid 19. Now that some countries have entered a third round, the entirety of the experiment is open to the naked eye. The sight is not so pretty.
Some 21 residents of a Bat Yam retirement home tested positive for the coronavirus after they were vaccinated but before they had developed antibodies, according to Ynet. The other 150 residents of the home will be tested for the virus.

Vice President Mike Pence has said he will support the bid by a dozen Republican Senators to overturn Joe Biden's election win in Congress next week.  Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, issued a statement Saturday saying the VP 'shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election.'

Partial lockdowns could lead to an explosion in coronavirus cases, a top German researcher has told The Jerusalem Post.If more people congregate in fewer places in a more concentrated time period, they are more likely to pass on the virus, said Prof. Andrei Sommer, a visiting professor at Isra University in Jordan and a former member of the University of Ulm, in an interview with the Post.
Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif took a page from antisemitic history by claiming that Israel could be  behind a “fake casus belli” and conspiratorial plan to push Iran and the US toward war. He claimed that “new intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans” and that this would lead to a “trap” for US President Donald Trump. Trump has vowed to hold Iran responsible for attacks against the US in Iraq.
WARNING: Pope Francis In His New Year’s Angelus Commands Catholics To ‘Trust Themselves To The Gaze Of Mary’ Because She ‘Can Do All Things’, But She Can’t
Concluding his New Year Angelus reflection, Pope Francis prayed that the Virgin Mary “obtain for us from heaven the precious good of peace” and expressed his hope that “peace will reign in people's hearts and families; in places of work and leisure; in communities and nations”. Pope Francis went on to explain that throughout our journey along the paths of time, “the reassuring and consoling gaze of the Blessed Virgin Mary” is one of encouragement as we entrust our anguish and torment to her, “who can do all things”.
(The Sun) – Russia is poised to test an “unstoppable” 15,000mph nuclear missile it boasts can beat any defense and wipe out Texas. The RS-28 Sarmat doomsday rocket is now primed to replace the much-feared R-36 – once dubbed the “Satan” nuke by Nato.

Reuters reports Mexican authorities are studying the case of a 32-year-old female doctor who was hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said he will be among a dozen Republican senators who will challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory when Electoral College results are tallied in Congress next week.
The Kentucky home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was vandalized just days after he refused to allow the upper chamber to vote on boosting stimulus checks to $2,000. 'WERES MY MONEY’ was spray painted on the front door to McConnell’s home in the Highlands section of Louisville on Saturday.
Emirati pursuit of peace with Israel is backed by a genuine discourse of religious moderation and broad-mindedness

A conspiracy theory touting lawyer who has championed Donald Trump's election fraud claims is stirring controversy by suggesting Vice President Mike Pence should 'face execution by firing squad' for 'treason'.

The United States removed its only aircraft carrier from the Middle East region to ‘de-escalate’ tensions with Iran where one of its top officials said that President Trump and other US leaders were ‘not safe on this Earth.’
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dashed hopes that 2021 will be any better than 2020 by tweeting his support of the Great Reset.

‘Build back better’ is, as Johnson is perfectly well aware, the slogan of the World Economic Forum’s deeply sinister Fourth Industrial Revolution — aka ‘the Great Reset‘ – whose aims include the deliberate crashing of the world economy, the crushing and destruction of small businesses, and the creation of a new cash-free society in which no one (save the technocratic elite) owns private property.

Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20 percent at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over the tattered atomic deal.
OMG! That is a nightmare!Hundreds of dead birds fell down from the sky in the center of Rome, Italy just after fireworks for New Year.  Roads around the Termini train station end of Via Cavour were covered by carcasses.
We were all so innocent when 2020 began. In January 2020, people around the world had not yet heard of the COVID-19 virus, and those who had – outside of Wuhan, China – didn’t know it would turn so many lives upside down.
Several businesses in Washington, D.C are preparing for possible violent protests in the coming week from supporters of President Donald Trump. This included The Hotel Harrington, a business which announced on Monday that it would be closed on January 6. This is the day that Congress will meet to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Iran’s foreign ministry has issued an ominous warning to Washington just days after US war planes were spotting flying over the Middle East. A spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “We will respond strongly to any US attack. We are ready for any scenario."

The year’s end is a time for reflecting on the past year and preparing for the new one. Most people are looking forward to moving past COVID-19 and its lockdowns and returning to “normal life.” But, for Joe Biden, still popping Champagne corks after the Electoral College vote, 2021 may be creeping up to become his worst nightmare. America was severely broken and fundamentally changed during 2020 and it will take a long time to fix it — a job that President-elect Biden is unprepared to handle.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are pressuring the Trump administration to carry out a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the Arabic-language newspaper Dar Al-Hayat reported on Thursday.
Health experts agree that the best way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to vaccinate our way out of it. Unfortunately, Americans’ willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine is waning, even as a punishing third wave claims well over 1,000 U.S. lives each day.
The US is pushing for another Arab or Muslim state to normalize relations with Israel in the three weeks before US President  Donald Trump leaves office, a Trump administration source said on Wednesday.

Los Angeles is launching a digital iPhone receipt for COVID-19 vaccinations, which could one day become a 'vaccine passport' that would be required for such activities as airline travel and live concerts.

Former White House envoy Jason Greenblatt says Trump is fighting an “uphill battle” in his efforts to prove the election was conducted unfairly, but hopes he will “continue to be a force for good” in any event.
(ABC 13) – These 2021 astronomical events will give you another reason to kiss 2020 goodbye. A supermoon will turn red for a super total lunar eclipse on May 26, according to AccuWeather. It will be visible across the western United States before sunrise.
2020 has been a year that none of us will ever forget.  We experienced the worst global pandemic in 100 years, we witnessed the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, civil unrest erupted in major cities all over America, and we had one of the wildest presidential elections in our history.  Other than that, it was a pretty quiet year.  For a few moments, let’s take one more look back at the past 12 months.
BEIJING (AP) — China accused the U.S. of staging a show of force by sailing two Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday morning.

The Navy said the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Curtis Wilbur “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit” in accordance with international law

President Donald Trump will be declassifying U.S. intelligence findings that China paid non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack American soldiers, Axios reported.

The United States flew strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, a show of force meant to deter Iran from attacking American or allied targets in the Middle East.

Israel’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom has called on the British government to move its embassy to Jerusalem, defended the settlements, and said that Brexit would “help” trade between the nations.
Despite the coronavirus outbreak, according to Lifeway Christian Resources, Bible sales increased across the globe this year.

Lifeway Christian Resources, a leading provider of Christian books and educational materials, noted in a new report that Bible sales between April and June increased significantly. Lifeway CEO Ben Mandrell believes that the increase in Bibles can be attributed to people’s desire to seek hope and healing during times of great difficulty, such as the pandemic.

A US drone fired a “ninja” missile at a truck in Salqin, Syria, but did not kill anyone, locals said on Tuesday. This is the R9X missile, a modified Hellfire missile that can be launched from US armed drones, such as the Reaper.

A record number of billion-dollar disasters struck the US in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

With the arrival of the pandemic, a US presidential election that resulted in pandemonium, Israel heading to the polls for the fourth time, and the bizarre threat of murder hornets, it is only fitting that as 2020 prepares to make its exit, the earth begins to shake.
A powerhouse storm explosively intensifying in the northern Pacific could rank as the strongest nontropical cyclone observed in that ocean basin.

The storm’s pressure has already dropped to 928 millibars on New Year’s Eve, and is predicted to drop as low as 920 millibars, which would be even lower than extreme cyclones that formed in the same vicinity in 2014 and 2015.

Reuters reports that one of the first Swiss to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 shot later died in the canton of Lucerne.

Of course they did not indicate whether the death was related to the inoculation, but neither Swissmedic, canton officials nor Pfizer answered for the moment. Suspicious, no?

2020 was bad. 2021 could be worse! Nostradamus, a french philosopher, has indeed forecast for 2021, a zombie apocalypse, a famine of biblical proportions, Muslims taking over the world, powerful solar storms, a giant asteroid impact and more in the next 12 months.
A new Member of Knesset, a resident of the Golan, firmly established his political path with a powerful act of faith by praying on the Temple Mount. "This was my first time on the Temple Mount," Vaturi told Israel365News. "I wanted to go sooner, but since I was sworn in two weeks ago, I haven't had a free moment. I felt it was important for my new function to connect to the source, the basis of our sanctity as a nation.

Specific examples of voter fraud will be presented Jan. 6 if debate is held on the 2020 election results, according to Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller on Newsmax TV.Electoral College ballots are scheduled to be certified during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Miller said evidence presented there would be different than that in the legal battles President Donald Trump’s campaign has fought in the courts.

The Pentagon program that investigates unidentified flying objects will start releasing some of its information to the public in less than six months, a directive included in the Intelligence Authorization Act attached to the government funding bill, reports The Debrief.
We have seen spikes in certain major cities before, but there has never been a year quite like this.  In 2020, murder rates have been soaring dramatically from coast to coast, and many are deeply concerned about what our big metropolitan areas will look like if this trend continues into 2021 and beyond.  The civil unrest that erupted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd certainly contributed to the rising numbers, but authorities have been shocked that murder rates have remained so elevated all year long.  Americans are killing Americans in record numbers, and nobody seems to have a solution to this growing national crisis.
This pandemic just entered an alarming new phase.  The new mutant strain of the virus commonly known as “Super COVID” has been creating a tremendous amount of panic in the UK, and cases have also been confirmed in Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Singapore, India, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates.  But until Tuesday there were no known cases in the United States, and many were urging for travel restrictions to be instituted in order to keep it from gaining a foothold here. 
ER nurse tests positive for COVID-19 eight days AFTER he received Pfizer vaccine

A California nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 eight days after receiving the vaccination. 

ER nurse Matthew W., received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18, according to a post from Instagram. 

'Got my Covid vaccine! The 15 minutes afterward sitting around with a bunch of others while health care workers asked us how we felt made me think of an opium den. I’ll report back if I start to grow a third arm,' Matthew wrote.

Israel is leading the global vaccination race with more than seven per cent of its population already given the jab in the space of nine days. 

Some 644,000 people have received a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab in the country of 8.7million, the highest per-capita rate in the world.
The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' and that a more deadly virus could yet sweep the globe. Dr Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies programme, said on Tuesday that the pandemic was a 'wake-up call'.
Vice President Mike Pence refused to sign on to a plan that would upend Congress certifying the election on January 6 for President-elect Joe Biden. 

Earlier this week, Rep. Louie Gohmert and Arizona's slate of Republican Electoral College 'electors' filed a federal lawsuit to get a judge to say Pence has the power to pick pro-Trump electors when he presides over the Congressional session where he will finalize the presidential election results.

(CBN) – Hundreds of Pakistani Christian families had to flee their homes prior to Christmas after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to the neighborhood after a faith-based social media post was published by a local pastor.

President Trump’s legal team petitioned the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to consider its challenge of an earlier decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to dismiss its claims of irregularities in the use of absentee ballots during the 2020 presidential campaign.

President-elect Joe Biden committed yet another verbal flub Tuesday when he erroneously referred to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as “president-elect.”

(CNN) — Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.

A Christian reporter who saw her work as God’s will has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai after she documented the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Monday morning of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the South China Morning Post reports. The sentence is often used to silence dissidents.

Donald Trump has landed atop an annual Gallup poll as the US’ ‘Most Admired Man,’ taking the title from Barack Obama, who won for the past 12 years, but now places as runner-up, with Joe Biden following at a distant third.

Eighteen percent of respondents to the survey, released Tuesday, named President Trump as their most admired man, while Obama’s support dropped to 15 percent. Despite his presidential victory and inauguration day looming, Biden garnered only six percent support.

Franklin Graham, evangelical pastor and son of Billy Graham, posted on Facebook Monday that Christians have a responsibility to save “the soul of our nation” by voting for Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the Republicans facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in a January 5 runoff election.

The 500,000th Israeli was vaccinated against the novel coronavirus on Tuesday at a Clalit health fund clinic in Jerusalem, as the Health Ministry reported another spike in coronavirus cases

On Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that thousands of inmates convicted of non-forcible sex crimes may be eligible for early release under a ballot measure that was overwhelmingly approved by voters four years ago.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to force quick action on increasing direct stimulus payments to $2,000 despite President Donald Trump’s demands for the change.
Well, it looks like we are going to get $600 stimulus payments from the federal government after all.  Oh goody!  For the millions of Americans that are on the brink of being evicted from their homes, that will be enough for about half a mortgage payment or about half a month of rent.  Many are referring to this as America’s “let them eat cake moment”, and that probably is not too far off target.
As Donald Trump Comes To The End Of His Presidency, The Anti-America Deep State And The Swamp Is Bigger And More Powerful Than Ever
So as Obama was God's judgment on America, we then told you that the installation of Donald Trump as president would be God's judgment on the world. We told you that under Trump, God would start something that we called the 'global shaking', and brother, that's exactly what these last 4 years has been, a literal shaking of the entire world. That's why you see the Trump presidency coming to a close as the entire world is suffering through a pandemic with large sections of it on lockdown. Is that enough shaking for you? Don't worry, it'll get worse. Just wait until 2021 gets here, you'll long for the days of 2020. 

Nearly twice as many Americans now believe it’s not crucial to be married before having kids as opposed to about 15 years ago, a new survey says.

Twenty-nine percent of US adults polled by Gallup in May said it is still “very important’’ for couples to marry before having children — compared to 49 percent in 2006.

Graham, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse, called on his followers to rally an “army” to prevent Democrats from taking control of the US Senate.

PETRINJA, Croatia -- A strong earthquake in Croatia destroyed buildings and killed at least seven people Tuesday southwest of the capital, displacing scores of area residents or making them afraid to sleep indoors as emergency teams searched for those still missing by nightfall.

White House coronavirus testing czar Admiral Brett Giroir says he's confident all Americans will be inoculated by late June and the vaccine will work against the new mutant strain that emerged in Europe.  'We’re clearly on schedule, 20 million vaccinations distributed by the first week in January, we expect another 30 million in January, another 50 million in February,' Giroir said on Fox News Sunday.

The Middle East peace agreements the Trump administration brokered between Arab nations and Israel were accomplished despite the doubts by the "deep state" in Washington. So far, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates have reached agreements to normalize relations with Israel.
There are expectations among some of Israel’s highest echelons that there will be normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia by the end of 2021, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

After Donald Trump finally caved and signed the $900 billion coronavirus relief package Sunday night, the House Appropriations Committee chairwoman called the president's proposed spending cuts dead on arrival.

A spokesperson for New York Representative Nita Lowey, whose committee holds the power of the federal purse, said Trump's red-lined version of the sweeping aid and funding legislation is 'DOA.'

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has doubled the number of its precision missiles over the past year, the terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday.

In a four-hour interview with the pro-Hezbollah al-Mayadeen news website, Nasrallah also claimed his Iran-backed Shiite group has the ability to accurately hit any part of Israel. And he said Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US were seeking to kill him.

A recent study concluded that a massively destructive earthquake is due to hit Israel any day. The same researcher said that such earthquakes served as prophetic mile markers in the Bible and may even have been responsible for the earthshaking victory of the Children of Israel at Jericho.
Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Monday will try to push through higher pandemic relief payments of $2,000 for Americans after President Donald Trump backed down from a fight with lawmakers that could have shut down the federal government.
We need to make 2021 a year of hope, because right now there is more economic suffering in America than we have seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  More than 100,000 businesses have permanently closed down since the pandemic began, many of our most iconic chains have filed for bankruptcy over the past 12 months, and tent cities are popping up in major cities all across the country. 
Experts fear Russia could weaponise the deadly Ebola virus as part of a catastrophic biological weapons project. 

Unit 68240 of Moscow's FSB spy agency - linked to the Salisbury Novichok poisonings - is thought to be behind the programme codenamed Toledo.

It is believed the unit is researching both Ebola and the even-more deadly Marburg virus.

BEIJING—The People’s Bank of China on Sunday concluded its second digital-currency pilot program, as the central bank moves closer to a formal rollout that would make China the first major world economy to introduce such a system.

San Francisco (CNN Business)Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.

President Trump has signed into law a $2.3 trillion package, averting a partial government shutdown, after lawmakers rejected his proposal to increase direct aid to Americans while cutting out a slew of aid for foreign countries. “I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed,” Trump said in a statement.
President Donald Trump will continue to command the following of “a big chunk” of the Republican Party after he leaves office, Maryland’s GOP Gov. Larry Hogan said on Sunday.
A delegation from Morocco will visit Israel this week to work on advancing diplomatic ties, following the countries’ recent agreement to establish full relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday.
The Dead Sea has slowly been coming back to life, with sinkholes on the shores filling up with fish. But last winter, for the first time in memory, the shores filled with blossoming flowers.

'The fraud will be so obvious, SCOTUS can then invalidate the presidential election. Real conservative senators can then be appointed, after Kemp, Perdue and Loeffler's arrest,' the poster adds.

Despite the waning number of Christians in the country, Iraq’s parliament unanimously passed a law to make Christmas “a national holiday, with annual frequency,” according to Christianity Today.

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