When the answer is "No! Not Yet! I want to add more sin first!"

Today, I was volunteering in the 4-year-old class at church when the teacher gave one of my favorite object lessons. She had the kids use a Sharpie marker to scribble black lines onto a mirror. The kids looked at their reflection in the mirror with the black marks marring their reflection. The black lines represented sin. The kids were given a towel and challenged to try to wipe away the black lines (sin). No one could get even a speck of black mark off the mirror. Sharpie markers leave behind permanent ink after all.

Then the teacher took a red dry erase marker and drew a cross over the black scribbles to represent Christ's blood shed on the cross to atone for our sins. She asked the kids if they could wipe off the mirror now that it was covered in Christ's blood.  As expected, the red dry erase ink pulled off the permanent black ink, illustrating how only Christ can remove the weight of our sins with all the bondage, guilt, shame and death that comes with them.  But before the teacher let the kids wipe the mirror clean, she asked for volunteers, and one child quickly cried out, "No! Not Yet!  I want to add more sin first."

How many of us have wanted to come to Christ in repentance but delayed because we weren't done sinning yet, preferring to pile on as much sin as possible before surrendering our will to Him in genuine repentance?

That same child who really just wanted to color some more on the mirror grabbed the mirror after the lesson and kept staring at herself, focused intently on her reflection. So I considered how when we keep postponing Christ's offer, what we see in the mirror keeps getting darker and darker to the point that we can't even recognize ourselves anymore. What we then reflect to others is just random black scribbles, darkness with no clear direction, order, or beauty. Why wait to receive Christ's cleansing? We never know when it might be too late to truly repent!

There are pastors all over America and right here in my own county who are lying to their members about God's standard for righteousness. They falsely claim that certain sins condemned by God in Scripture (not man-made sins condemned by the Pharisees), even the Ten Commandments, no longer apply today. They encourage members to keep piling on more sin. Romans 6, Hebrews 10:26, and 1 John 3:6 all speak directly to this deception, warning believers against false teaching that will keep them from true repentance which leads to forgiveness, light, love, abundant life here on earth, and life everlasting. 

^"If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left." (Hebrews 10:26)

Do not be deceived. Let His blood wipe you clean!

“'Come now, let us settle the matter,' says the Lord. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.'" (Isaiah 1:18)

The Paradoxical Progressive Playbook from an Outsider's Perspective

A week after the 2016 presidential election, news networks and liberals are still scratching their heads wondering what went wrong.  There has been no shortage of op-ed pieces written on this matter, so instead of offering up more opinions as to why Hillary Clinton lost, perhaps it would help to present an outsider's perspective of the progressive liberal agenda as a mirror to help progressives see what outsiders' see.

From a pragmatic perspective, the progressive narrative dominating modern American culture does not seem compassionate, logical, or hopeful.  Instead of presenting a dream for a better future, progressive ideals place America on a destructive trajectory. The progressive playbook looks more like a toxic pile of insulting labels and paradoxical talking points than any reasonable or helpful plan for positive change, so those outside of progressive herds refused to support such dismal plans with their votes. An outsider's observations of the progressives' rule book for playing the social change game, with all its many contradictions, are listed below.

The Paradoxical Progressive Playbook

An Outsider's Perspective

• Truth is relative and tolerance is encouraged, except with regard to progressive platforms.  To join the progressive club, you must hold all views in common with the progressive elites. Comments, questions, or suggestions that oppose the progressive talking points will not be tolerated under any circumstance.  The marketplace of ideas now only has room for our ideas. Progressives value diversity as long as everyone thinks like we do. Freedom of speech is applauded during progressive protest events, but any speech that differs in content from ours must be silenced immediately. Use force when necessary.

• Even though wealthy Americans and business owners create jobs, build the economy, support their communities, and give generously to charity, they are a menace to society and must be punished.  Exceptions exist for wealthy businessmen who financially support our cause and collude with progressive minded politicians like Michael Froman, a former Citibank executive, did when he purchased the right to appoint Obama’s cabinet members. As for the others who do not advance our new social order, we don’t need the jobs they create anyway since we can choose to not work and live off entitlements or to work for the government or globalist billionaires as community organizers, protestors, lobbyists, and politicians.

• Facts never matter to us. We are ruled by our feelings, even when our feelings lie to us.  No matter how well people support their arguments with facts, if what they say makes us feel uncomfortable or compromises the validity of our worldview, they are wrong. Remember that there is no right or wrong, but we are always right, and they are always wrong.

• Progressives are free spirits. We think outside-of-the-box. We will not let conservatives tell us what to do with our bodies! We support socialized health care because the government can make better decisions about our healthcare and our bodies than we can, except with regard to abortion.  We just need to make sure progressive elites maintain control of our national healthcare syste because they are so interested in fanticide and euthanasia, they will tell us to abort anyway, especially if we're poor, black, or some other "weed". (Also note Alan Guttmacher's work regarding Planned Parenthood, abortion, and euthanasia.)

"It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization." - Margaret Sanger,  8 April 1923 New York Times article

• To manage conflict, shut-down all conversations involving opposing worldviews. Preferred progressive methods for ending uncomfortable conversations include:  

1. Make broad sweeping statements to categorize and insult entire groups of people even if the person holding the opposing viewpoint does not characterize that group as a whole.
2. Use elementary school style bullying as needed.
3. Complain that your feelings art hurt and start the water works.
4. Protest, riot, and commit acts of violence that will attract the media and provide free press for the progressive platform.
5. Apply labels liberally.  Popular progress labels include "sexist", "bigot" "racist", "intolerant", "xenophobic", "intolerant", "supremacist", and "nationalist".

• People do not kill people.  The NRA and guns kill people, so support all efforts to ban guns and bankrupt the NRA. Allowed exceptions include arming terrorists  and running guns to drug cartels because the progressive government leaders who made those decisions know far better than we do what is best. If we ban guns and set up more gun-free zones, then we will be safe because terrorists and criminals do not break our laws.We can trust the Democrats in federal government (who let our men die in Benghazi despite repeated pleas for help not just from Ambassador Stephens and even from the Pentagon who had reinforcements ready and waiting to defend them) to protect us, so why would we ever need to protect ourselves?

• Progressives support the interests of the LGBTQ community except when terrorists want to shoot them all in a bar in Orlando. In that case, the FBI stopped all investigations surrounding suspected terrorist Omar Matten due to FBI limitations.  We would not consider tightening the borders or keeping out the terrorists who have a deeper level of hatred for gays as as long as the nations that fund terror also fund our cause with many millions of dollars. 

• Even though America was founded on Christian principles which even Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson (both of whom were not Christians) insisted were vital for democracy’s survival (we're writing all that out of the revised history books), even though Christians continue to be the most generous people on earth with their time and their money, even though faith based ministries provide more effective world relief and humanitarian aid than secular or government programs, and even though Biblical truth and strong Christian faith were what drove William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Abraham Lincoln, and U.S. Republicans to take great risks to free the oppressed, Christianity must be suppressed because it hinders our ultimate goal of suppressing all mankind.

•  Since so many people have suffered and died in the name of religion, and since Catholics and evangelical Christians oppose our revolutionary ideas, both groups should be punished. To ensure that their influence dies, we will infiltrate their churches with wolves in sheep's clothing who will pretend to be like them but lead them all astray. (Reference "Catholic Spring" in the Podesta emails at WikiLeaks.)  Note how many have died under evangelical dictators in the chart below compared to atheists. Oops, evangelicals are note even listed in the top 10, but we do see 15 million killed under a Catholic dictator who was far more corrupt than he was Catholic.  Just don't look at how many people were killed by atheists, as our globalist minded financial backers are atheists, and we don't want to portray them as mass murderers. This chart only shows dictators, but while evangelicals and Catholics oppose dictatorships, progressives aren't for dictatorships either...well, not yet anyway, but that is where our agenda ultimately leads. It will be fine, though.  While ultimate power ultimately corrupts, these wealthy men who are vying for dictator status are on our side....at least for now. Oh never mind!

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• So evangelicals are not mass murderers, but they oppose our "Constitutionally protected" right to kill out own children which overrules the child's God given right to life (in our minds anyway), and that’s a problem. Imagine what the world would be like if the 58 million Americans* aborted since 1973 had been allowed to live, love, laugh, learn and give back. We are not like the tyrants in the chart above because we only mass murder innocent people whom Planned Parenthood operatives convince us will make our lives inconvenient. 

*53 million from 1973 through 2011 plus approximately 1 million per year since in the U.S. alone 

• Evangelical beliefs are far more radical than ours, especially in the way they treat women and children. Evangelicals actually teach that children are not an inconvenience but rather, a blessing and a gift from the Lord. They think separation of church and state means the government cannot dictate how they practice their faith, but we will make sure they are forced by law to pay for our abortions. Evangelical and Catholics are barbaric in the way they describe the partial birth procedure. Their medical accuracy and pictures make us feel guilty. (Remember again that anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable is wrong!).  The partial birth procedure is nothing more than turning the baby into a breech position (which is harmful for the mother, but losing sleep because of a baby's cries is no picnic either), and delivering the healthy, full-term baby backward, all except the head, and then while the body hangs out of the mother's body, the doctor simply pokes his scissors into the skull and then sucks the brains out.  It hurts like the dickens, but the full term healthy and vibrant fetal mass does not suffer forever. 

• Progressives are so much more humane and loving than gun toters. They hunt for food or for sport and call it conservationism.  We would not kill a flee on our pets, much less kill a large animal, and we protest like crazy when a gorilla is killed at the Cincinnati zoo to save a boy’s life.

• Thanks to the federal government’s progressive move to underwrite college education (which drove tuition prices sky high, but we don't care because unsustainable federal debt will bring down America and that is our end goal), progressive academia, college students, and millennials are now the most indoctrinated educated members of society. They are so indoctrinated educated that they can recite an entire diversity training manual from memory.  Some are so versed in social justice warrior skills that they can earn a PhD for a dissertation that labels STEM curricula as sexist on the premise that women cannot think objectively!  Post- doctoral research has become so advanced that one astute professor conducted a study that proved that pumpkins are racist!  While these educated progressives have no comprehension of basic economics, finance, history, civics, logic, or rhetoric, and cannot recite a single line from the U.S. Constitution, they know that Roe V. Wade gave them the freedom to abort babies.  They have no concept of communism or its ill effects. Nearly two-thirds of millennials surveyed agree with Marxist philosophy and 46% think socialism is good while 58% view capitalism unfavorably (view full survey results here), but that's good for our cause because socialism is a prerequisite for world domination, and capitalism works against us since it tends to restore failing economies.  They have no concept of the value of human liberty or of the ultimate price paid by countless American patriots to preserve it, so they would gladly trade their freedom, which has infinite worth, for free stuff the government buys with hard working taxpayers' money. They have no concept of limited resources or the implications of oppressive debt loads, but they have lots of ideas for ways to spend other people’s hard earned money. Progressive college students do not know how to handle disappointment as illustrated by the recent rioting, and they cannot deal with real life outside of their safe spaces, but they are expert protestors and have mastered the art of political correctness.  They will suit our  agenda perfectly.

• Even though slavery existed in every ancient civilization and continued through the Babylonian, Greek, and Roman empires, all through the Middle Ages, around the Mediterranean region, throughout Arabia and Africa, and grew during the 10th century German expansion during which so many Slavs were taken as slaves that we derived our generic term “slave” from them), and even though slavery spread to Russia and the entire Baltic sea region and on to Portugal, Europe, Britain, the West Indies, and the U.S. colonies, white Americans are the only ones to blame for slavery**, even if white Americans have no genetic connection to slave owners and even if they are descendants of abolitionists. White Anglo-Saxons did not start slavery, but they did lead the efforts to abolish it. Even so, we will punish all whites forever no matter how much they stand up against racial injustice now.

**Please note that conservative Christians hold to a Biblical, benevolent patriotism.  We seek to manage our resources wisely, grow our economy, and honor God so that as He pours blessings upon us, we may be a blessing to other nations.  Our patriotism must never be a selfish, racist, or imperialistic nationalism. It's not about more for us, but about providing more benefits to the entire world through wise stewardship of the resources God has given us. 

• Even though slavery still exists in America for people of all colors and nationalities here in the U.S. and abroad through human trafficking and radical Islam, and even though conservative Christians of all races strive to set them free out of human compassion and in memory of all who have suffered in slavery before them,  progressives tend to ignore such injustice going on right now all around us because we are so consumed with injustices of the past.  Besides, we rae more likely to stir up the racial division and the violent street drama George Soros wants by rehashing past injustices, making everyone feel guilty, and punishing the majority.  Instead of fighting against current slavery and gross injustice in a way that could save and heal countless lives, families, marriages, and cultures, we will accept financial donations from nations who encourage and support human trafficking. We will preserve and expand pornography and lewd entertainment both in pop music culture and in darker corners of the internet, child pornography, and pedophilia in the name of free speech, free love, and free sexual expression, no matter how violent or inhumane, to increase the demand for trafficked victims. Those who fund us profit most when we support sexual slavery, and those of us who choose to indulge in the lusts of the flesh enjoy the easy access, so it’s a win/win.

• America is not great and never has been great.  Thus, America must be punished, weakened, marginalized and depressed so that the U.S. can no longer bring freedom, hope, healing, and charity to suffering people around the world.  The weaker America becomes, the more our wealthy, corrupt sugar daddies can radically transform America into vassal nation with no foundation of morality, no respect for the traditional family or the stability it brings to a nation, no rule of law, no respect for others, and no order at all.  In such a helpless estate, America will be poised and ready to become slaves to a corrupt, unaccountable, powerful, tyrannical global government. 

We ordinary outsiders whom progressives failed to consider during the 2016 election, are ruled by truth and common sense instead of progressive indoctrination and feelings, so we see the progressive agenda differently than they do.  It is an extremely clever strategy, especially as it has infiltrated schools, churches, and the media to totally transform how and what people think, but we wonder if the individuals who buy into this movement are being duped by their masters, or if they are deliberately allowing themselves to be used as pawns to dismantle America and to further the globalists' dream of uniting the entire world under their authority.  Such a notion may seem like a radical right wing conspiracy theory, but after 30 years of observing compounding evidence and perusing recent WikiLeaks and FBI reports, it is almost impossible to refute.  This 15 minute video provides a quick summary of all those years of evidence and outlines the globalists' strategy.

The Bible provides God's opinion on globalism in the book of Genesis. God initially created the earth to be one global community under His perfectly loving, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent reign, but the fall of man corrupted that perfect design.  The Tower of Babel account in Genesis 11: 1-11 shows man's attempt to unite as one global community, filled with pride and lust for power.  In His mercy, God disrupted their plans and spread the people out into unique nations with different languages to prevent them from become slaves to all- powerful, unaccountable, corrupt, global rulers.  When Christ returns to judge the earth, He will establish a unified kingdom, but peace, unity, and goodness are only possible under His reign, for only He is completely righteous, all knowing, and perfect in love and grace. Only God Himself can rightly manage that much power in truth and justice. Until he returns, antichrists will come and go. They will deny the truth, reject God, and seek to rule over people as gods.  But believers must be discerning and reject false teaching.  It should come as no surprise that George Soros and his posse of globalists, coming together under Soros' Open Society Foundation (aka Open Borders Society), are secular humanists who despise God and deceive and destroy that which God created for good.

⁷ I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. ⁸ Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. ⁹ Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. ¹¹ Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work. (2 John 2: 7-11)

Spiritual Reminders as Floods and Flames Ravage North Carolina

As I sit here by the fireplace, warmed by the heat of the flames and soothed by their soft glow, I think of my dear friends west of here where fire is having the opposite effect, igniting fear and destruction. They are surrounded by out-of-control fires whose dense smoke makes it difficult to breathe. That mountainous region provides the most spectacular views in the fall when the trees are covered with so many bright and bold shades of complementary warm colors reflected from the lush leaves. Yet now, the bright warm colors are emanating from flames canopied in dark, gagging smoke. The combination of prolonged drought, forest fires, and malicious arson have brought fire fighters to their knees, desperate for God's cleansing rain to vanquish the fierce and fiery enemy.

Last night, the rhythmic sounds of hard steady rain, which point to God's provision and nurture of life, did not lull me into peaceful sleep as usual. Instead, the sounds were steady reminders to pray that rain would leave us and smother the fires to the west. The rain also reminded me to pray for our friends to the east for whom rain brought destructive flooding, becoming the enemy not the remedy.

Our state has been hammered by both fire and floods in less than five weeks time. Both water and fire are essential for sustaining life, yet each has the power to destroy life and everything in its path. With so much power to heal or to kill, they are only good when kept within safe boundaries. The same could be said for so many other gifts in life as well.

God judged the whole earth (except for those he spared in the ark) once by flood, and He will judge it again one day by fire. Are we allowing these floods and fires to serve as wake-up calls, reminding us how much we need a rescuer who is greater than the water and fire which He made?

Do the fires remind us that God appeared to Moses through a burning bush and revealed Himself as the Great I AM who is perfect in holiness yet hears our cries, goes with us, and delivers His people ? (Exodus 3) Do the fires remind us the God is a consuming fire which should then lead us to both repentance and to worship?

"See, the Name of the Lord comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire." (Isaiah 30:27)

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:28-29)

Do the fires remind us that God walks with us and protects us through life's fires as He did with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego through the blazing furnace flames?(Daniel 3)

Do the floods remind us of God's promise in Genesis 9:11 to never flood the entire earth again?  Do they remind us that He is the giver of living water by which we will never thirst again? (John 4 and John 7:38)

Do they remind us of our eternal inheritance through Christ?

"‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’ "  (Revelation 7:16-17)

Whatever thoughts these floods and fires may stir in each of us, can we agree that the One who created water and fire possesses all the power, mercy, and love to deliver both the body and the soul from destruction? Let us be faithful in prayer for our NC friends to the east and the west, asking for God's presence to uphold and deliver them through floods and flames.

More pictures and updates of the fires which are now spreading across the state can be found here:
http://www.charlottestories.com/dozens-wildfires-now-spreading-across-north-carolina/

Biblical Encouragement on the Day Before Election 2016

While praying for our nation this morning, especially in light of all the new information released which reveals depths of evil and corruption far worse than anyone ever imagined, I was reminded of Daniel, chapters 3 and 6.

The election tomorrow may have some of us feeling like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as they were about to be cast into the fiery furnace or like Daniel as he faced the lion's den. All four put their trust in God to save them while recognizing that even if God chose not to save them (or work things out in the way they thought best), they could trust in His sovereign goodness to work out a better plan (which will bring God greater glory). God walked with these faithful men through the fire and shut the mouths of the lions in a way that even had the pagan, power hungry king pronouncing:

“Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.....for no other god can save in this way.” (Daniel 3: 28-29)

“I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
“For he is the living God
and he endures forever;
his kingdom will not be destroyed,
his dominion will never end.
He rescues and he saves;
he performs signs and wonders
in the heavens and on the earth...." (Daniel 6:26-27)

We can trust Him no matter what the outcome is tomorrow.

Let use remember to use our minds to think Biblically, not emotionally, as we vote and as we respond to the results.

A friend reminded me of  a sermon our pastor gave several years ago when she stated the following:

"When things look dire to us, God isn't pacing around the throne room in a panic saying that He hadn't planned on that happening. I am also reminded how God used many wicked/hardened leaders in the Old Testament to work things out for the good. No matter the outcome, He's got this in His control."

"For Scripture says to Pharaoh: 'I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.'" (Romans 9:17)

Further personal reflection: 
Understanding man's responsibility in light of God's sovereignty is challenging and easily leads us to two extremes, apathy or anxiety. The attitude of apathy says, "God will do what He pleases, so why bother?", while anxiety is the result of trusting in one's own efforts instead of in God's power. To think we carry the responsibility and burden all on our own is to lack trust in God's sovereignty.

We know God did not approve of His people's cries for a human king, but He gave them Saul whose failures taught them to trust in God, not in earthly powers. If more people had overcome apathy by taking the effort to vote in the primaries, perhaps Trump would not be on the ticket, but God allowed it, and we can see how God is already influencing Trump and how the entire election process has been a wake-up call to our need for repentance. No matter how our words and actions influence outcomes in a pragmatic way, we know God sees our hearts and our motives and is honored when we both stand with Him against evil and apathy and trust wholly in Him through the trials. We need to trust and obey.

Vote Your Conscience

We can probably all agree that we should vote our conscience.  Miriam's Dictionary defines "conscience" as "the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being either morally right or wrong."

So voting our conscience involves the mind and the heart, not just the emotions.

Anyone who has counseled an adolescent girl, an angry male, or a hormonal woman down from an emotional meltdown knows that truth quells fickle feelings which lie to us and that a big picture, long term perspective will settle and bring peace.

So why would anyone base their votes in such high stakes political races on isolated feelings and lies instead of on the big picture with the truth and the long term common good in mind?

Let God's people think! May we think Biblically with a logical and careful examination of the facts, not the lies or opinions propagated by the media. 

 

Careful not to influence church members' votes, our pastor simply told the congregation to vote as an act of worship.  Worship should also fully engage both the mind and the heart. We worship with our vote when we vote our conscience.  When our vote is determined by the absolute truth of God's word and the promptings of His Spirit in our hearts, we bring Him glory, even if we must vote for an ungodly person given no better options. God sees the motives of our hearts and delights in the praises of His people.

   ²³ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23-24)

An Election in Which Truth and Justice Become Bigger Issues than Partisan Politics

My biggest frustration with this entire election season and politics in general is how much voting is based on opinion instead of facts. We should all agree that the media is biased, so the tendency is to pick and choose media outlets that share our bias instead of researching the facts for ourselves to verify that it is true. I try to practice the 5-step validation process I shared in a blog post previously to check what I post here to ensure that it is valid, but it takes time, so I still have plenty of information to verify and fact check before sharing more here.

When the FBI releases their report of findings from the Clinton email and Clinton Foundation investigations, we will have confirmed information (much of which is already available and verified through WikiLeaks's released emails) which NONE OF US (not even Clinton's most vehement opponents) wants to be true. These facts will matter far more than the candidates' personalities or character and  possibly more than their party platform goals. The truth in these cases has the potential to negatively impact every single American regardless of race, gender, sexual preference, religion, or political affiliation. Even though what is on the line crosses all party lines, how we vote in the POTUS race should directly impact the long term outcome.

I would like to hint at those findings by parsing through today's headlines to find a few key facts. (Note:  Facts, not opinions, are what truly matter, so verify everything) The FBI claims they are 99% confident that their findings will result in an indictment of Hillary (and likely Huma, Weiner, Podesta, Lynch, Mills, and others). Emails released by WikiLeaks reveal coordinated collusion between the DOJ and the White House to ensure that Hillary was not indicted even though Comey listed a large number of felonies committed through her careless handling of sensitive email on national television, and it's all summarized in FBI reports found here. So assuming this collusion continues, we can expect repeated interference from Lynch to thwart justice on the reopened email investigation and the Clinton Foundation investigation as well.

Clinton supporters prefer to ignore WikiLeaks despite the growing evidence (Colin Powell, Donna Brazile, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz) that validates the authenticity and accuracy of these leaked emails. They also insist the FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which has been going on for a year now, is a political stunt to impact the elections. They insist the CF does a lot of good work and that all the accusations are both false and politically motivated.

So how do we know who is telling the truth? Can we trust the FBI reports and verified WikiLeaks over defensive comments by the candidates and pundits who have so much at stake? Common sense would say "of course not".  Another way to make an objective assessment is to follow the money. Clinton Foundation financials are available at online. These financials only list the money that goes directly to the Foundation. The $68 million or more of personal contributions channeled to Bill and Hillary privately through the shakedown scandal uncovered by WikiLeaks and reported by the NY Times, MSBNC and others are NOT included in these financials. This is strictly Foundation money. In 2013,  the most recent financials I found, the CF spent 57% of the revenue the took in.  Of the Foundation's total expenditures, they only gave away 10% via grants (6% in the US and 4% overseas). We will not discuss how the money they actually gave away was used (though there is mounting testimony indicating that it went to support friends or donors with associated business interests instead of actually helping people in need). Let's only consider the facts from the financial statements which I have summarized in the image below.

Compare the Clinton Foundation financials to the Trump Foundation financials to get an idea of what we should expect to see from a non-profit charitable foundation used to consolidate and channel contributions to worthy causes.

So who gives money to a charitable organization with operating costs so high that only 10% of their expenses (or 6% of their revenues) actually go toward charitable grants?  The list of CF donors are provided on the CF website and on the financial statement to some extent. Some (or many) of these donors have personal, business, political, or radical Islamic interests that a Secretary of State or POTUS could assist through the use of federal resources and high level government influence. If the money goes directly to the Clintons and bypasses the CF to the tune of the $68M reported, imagine how much of America these donors could buy? Uranium deals for Russia? Executive pardons? Prison closures? Open borders? Weapons for ISIS?  Refusal to send help despite repeated calls for help and insistence from the Pentagon to cover up the arms transfer? that was ready and available despite Immigration papers for known terrorists? A nuclear deal with Iran? Positions of power within the US government?  Removal from the terrorist watch list?   Access to critical persons of interest? Fetal body parts from Planned Parenthood?  Human trafficking assistance? Classified information?

(Side Note: The FBI confirmed that five different foreign intelligent agencies accessed Clinton's emails, some rated at the highest possible security classification, which gives them enough information to do irreparable harm.)

 ¹⁹ Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. ²⁰ Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.  (Deuteronomy 16:  19-21)

Please also consider that when a government entity contributes funds to any organization, whether schools, healthcare, banks, car manufacturers, etc., then the government takes ownership interest in it. Common Core forced federal control over our schools.  Obamacare puts our healthcare in the government's hands. Similarly, when foreign countries invest in America by donating to the CF or by paying the the Clinton couple directly, they take ownership of America.  That includes our people, our resources, and our security. Ownership of America by other nations equates to control by other nations. Foreign money and political corruption for personal profit directly contributed to the fall of Rome, by the way.

While the FBI is expected to present scathing and undeniable evidence of numerous, far reaching, and excessive white-collar crimes through the Clinton Foundation, we cannot expect the selling off of America for the personal profit by the Clintons or any other Washington elite to stop or be punished as long as the DOJ continues in collusion with the Clintons, bypassing our nation's laws to forbid indictment. The only ways we can help stop this corruption that I can see (please enlighten me of others as I am no expert) so that justice can be meted and so that America can be reclaimed for everyone (consider again  how CF corruption hurts all Americans, without respect to political party) are as follows:

• Vote against Hillary. Yes that means a vote for Trump, no matter how one may despise his character or the allegations against him, which thankfully, are mostly either unproven or have been retracted (except for the lewd comments he admitted and apologized for) so that Trump can replace Lynch who has consistently demonstrated intent to block prosecution.  Would the quote, "Desperate times call for desperate measures apply here?"

• Support the ACLJ and any other legal firms with the expertise and respect for law and justice to successfully prosecute the DOJ and all guilty parties in court. We must consider, however, that any case that makes it to the Supreme Court could still be thrown out if the new POTUS elects a pro-corruption, Pro-Clinton justice.  See previous bullet point.

• Pray for God's truth and justice to prevail with full confidence in the one true God who can do all things!

"The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them." (Psalm 145:18-19)