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Media is not going to tell us what Democrats in Congress are doing to fight Russia's attack on our sovereignty to install Trump into the Oval Office …
We have to Google it!
Here's a start:
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You can read more about the Committee's ongoing work on Russia, with links provided that will take you to more information about the committee here
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(📎Note: This
is a January 2018 article, still relevant IMO...In fact, I am of the mind we need to be asking who is a "True Believer" and who is not, going forward.)
“Trump Will Start The
End Of The World, Claim Evangelicals Who Support Him
Evangelical Christians
overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe
he'll cause the world to end.
Many have questioned why
devout evangelicals support Trump, a man who has bragged about sexual
assault, lies perpetually and once admitted he never asks
God for forgiveness.
Trump’s lack of knowledge of the Bible is also
well-known.
Nevertheless, many
evangelical Christians believe that Trump was chosen by God to usher
in a new era, a part of history called the “end times.”
Beliefs
about this time period differ, but it is broadly considered the end
of the world, the time when Jesus returns to Earth and judges all
people.
Jerusalem has a
central role as the city of prophecy and the place where the end of
times plays out.
According to the prophecy, a 1,000-year period
of peace must be followed by seven years of tribulation, during which
wars, disease, and natural disasters will lay waste to the earth.
In
the book of Revelation, Israel is described as a nation that exists
during the time of tribulation, and Jerusalem's Jewish temple is
resurrected during this period.
The last temple was
destroyed around 70 A.D, and today there is a mosque on the
Temple Mount where the previous two temples are believed to have
stood.
Evangelicals believe that a unified Israel with control over
Jerusalem will facilitate the construction of a new Jewish temple,
and set the groundwork for the end of times.
That’s where Trump comes
in.
“What kick-starts the
end times into motion is Israel’s political boundaries being
reestablished to what God promised the Israelites according to the
Bible,” Nate Pyle, a pastor and author of a book about Jesus,
told Newsweek.
On December 6,
Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel, a controversial move that was lambasted by U.S.
allies around the world.
The eastern part of Jerusalem has long
been envisioned as the future capital of a Palestinian state if and
when a two-state solution is reached between Israel and the
Palestinians.
By recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, many
critics say Trump killed any chance of a negotiated peace deal in the
Middle East.
But evangelical Christians
threw their full weight behind the decision. Currently, over
half of all American evangelicals support Trump’s presidency,
and the announcement about Jerusalem plays a big role in that.
“Most evangelicals
subscribe to a belief in pre-millennialism, the belief that the second coming of Christ will begin a 1,000-year period where Christ
will rule over a peaceful and prosperous earth,” Neil J. Young, a
religion historian, told Newsweek. ...
“Israel is a key part of
this story, too, as Christians believe that events there are
fundamental to bringing about the end times,” Young continued.
“At
this point, Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel is the only concrete thing that his evangelical supporters can
point to as part of fulfilling biblical prophecy to bring about the
second coming of Christ."
Meanwhile, the evangelical
belief in the end times also includes the eventual conversion to
Christianity of the Jewish people.
The scenario begins when Christ
comes to Earth to take the living Christians who believe in him to
heaven and resurrect the dead who were true Christians, an event
called the rapture.
Afterward, it is believed that the Antichrist
will reign on earth during the seven-year period of tribulation.
“In this period, many
Jews will recognize the Antichrist is a false God and will turn to
Jesus. At the end of the seven years, Christ will return to
earth with an army of angels and defeat the Antichrist,” Young
told Newsweek.
For some, evangelicals
simultaneously hold views that are supportive of Israel and deeply
anti-Semitic.
“Evangelicals view
themselves as sympathetic to Israel, but the underlying belief is
motivated by a desire to see the Jewish people ‘turn to Jesus,'”
Blake Chastain, a former evangelical who hosts a podcast on
evangelicalism, told Newsweek...He said the
evangelical belief that Jews will eventually accept Jesus is
problematic.
"I’m not sure
evangelicals see that as offensive to the Jewish faith or dismissive
of the covenants God made with the Jewish people, but it certainly
seems so to me,” Chastain added.
To be sure, Trump’s
stance on Jerusalem isn’t the only reason evangelicals support him...“He was so specific
about protecting Christian liberties, it wasn’t holistically
religious liberties,” Pyle explains. “That spoke to a lot of
Christians, and then he also has this stance on Israel.”
Meanwhile, Young says that
Trump’s unlikely election victory also creates the impression that
Trump’s victory was ordained by God. ..."
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