THE WASHINGTON POST DOES IT AGAIN

On occasion I have often had to cite an entire article so that the reader can get the full orb or scope of the subject matter being discussed.  In the current case, there are several topics to discuss – the criminal negligence of this presidency that has become Benghazigate, the abuse of federal power for overt partisan political reasons that has become IRS Gate, and one or two others.  One fundamental and inescapable fact is that all of these lie at the very core of what is perhaps the most corrupt and lawless and politically-charged administration in the history of this nation.  Things do not happen in a vacuum, they are the cause and effects of forces of nature that push and pull and war against one another; they just don’t happen.

The Washington Post, true to its history and political bias, has come once again to the rescue of this administration.  Take for example its latest entry into the entire row of scandals that have rocked the Obama second term just months after the president taking his oath of office, which to many Americans he has yet to faithfully execute.  In this entry I will cite in brown the Post’s article and my own answer and observations following.  The article is another example of a press corps that has been politically hijacked by activists of one major political party and used as nothing more than the propaganda mouth piece of an administration that often shamelessly uses it as that.  Here it is…

Will Obama suffer the ‘second-term curse’?

By Karen Tumulty and Philip Rucker, Published: May 11

Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.”

Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging Congress.

CLARIFICATION: How are these two writers defining “unbudging”?  And what do they infer by such a charge?  Unbudging on what?  The president’s own allies in congress and especially in the US Senate still controlled by them, have not been able to come up with a working budget in years, although this is one required responsibility of theirs.  So what are these people talking about?  And why should this or any congress wish to promote or advance Obama’s agenda?  Why are these writers inferring that it should?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: And over the past week, two flaring controversies — handling of the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya, the other over Internal Revenue Service employees targeting tea party groups for special scrutiny — have dominated the discussion in Washington.

It is far from clear how big a political liability either will turn out to be.

At a minimum, they represent diversions working against a president who is keenly aware of how little time he has left to achieve big things.

CLARIFICATION: Potential criminal negligence in the handling of a terrorist attack on our consulate and the murder of our people in Benghazi on September 11^th, 2012 a mere “diversion”!?  The greatest terrorist strike against our embassy compound since the blowing of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania during the Clinton years, mere “diversions”?

And just what do the writers mean by writing that this president is “keenly aware of how little time he has left TO ACHIEVE BIG THINGS”!?  What nonsense is this masquerading as journalism!?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: And they are a test of the insular Obama team’s skill at keeping its footing in an environment of hyperpartisan politics and hair-trigger media.

CLARIFICATION: Again, what nonsense is this calling a House Oversight Committee’s exercise of its role to investigate government oversight “hyperpartisan politics” and its reporting by some news outlets such as CNN and Fox as hair-trigger media!?  What utter nonsense is this!?  The role of congress is to investigate any and all activities within our government where either an act or various acts of alleged or potential criminality has occurred.  This is how the House Oversight Committee describes its operations and responsibilities:

 “We exist to secure two fundamental principles. First, Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent. And second, Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. Our duty on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. We will work tirelessly, in partnership with citizen-watchdogs, to deliver the facts to the American people and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy.

This is the mission of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee”

Quoted from the website of the Committee On Oversight and Government Reform.

So what do Ms. Tumulty and Mr. Rucker mean by openly taking sides with this administration by referring to these latest scandals now being investigated by our government, as they should be regardless of what political party is in office, and thank God for that, because these are the checks and balances put into place by our Founding Fathers so that our government would be accountable for its actions and the use of our taxes!?  Why are these two journalists concerned that our government is functioning as it should?  As our Founders intended?  That there is accountability as long as congress exercises its role to oversee the activities and expenditures of other branches of our government?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: On Friday, for instance, news of the IRS admission and developments surrounding the Benghazi attack turned White House press secretary Jay Carney’s daily briefing into a feeding frenzy and drowned out coverage of a speech that Obama was giving that day on the implementation of the health-care law that stands as his biggest achievement.

CLARIFICATION:What’s wrong with Jay Carney having to explain the misuse of federal power?  Of a major arm of our government – an agency with police and prosecutorial powers over the citizens – abuse of that power to gather personal information of a religious and political nature of targeted groups of people and organizations to be used against them!?  The act of doing this is so un-American and such a breach of trust that it must be reported and those behind it brought to justice.  And why call the media’s demand for information and accountability on this a “feeding frenzy”!?  Why is this a “feeding frenzy” to these two writers?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: “After the election, the president said he was familiar with the literature on second-term difficulties,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss. “We scholars may be about to see whether knowledge of that history can help a president when they begin to strike.”

“What we’ve seen in the past week reignites the question scholars ask about problematic second terms,” Beschloss added. “Is it mainly a coincidence that every president of the past 80 years has had a hard time after getting reelected? Or is it somehow baked into the structure of a second-term presidency that some combination of serious troubles is going to happen?”

CLARIFICATION: With all due respect to Misters Tumulty and Rucker and Beechloss; the abuse of power by the IRS or any federal agency with police and prosecutorial powers over the citizenry and the possible criminal negligence of members of our government, are not just second term troubles; they’ve occurred precisely because – and this is lost to Misters Tumulty, Rucker, and Beechless – this administration has engaged in them and must be made to account for their actions by the only arm of our government vested with those powers.  This is not just mere “diversions” and “hyperpartisan politics,” but the exercise of an essential role our government must play in order to protect and preserve the delicate balance of power that prevents this nation from falling to tyranny and villainy.  Such actions may rattle your cages, but they are a must if we are to live as a free people.  Rather than complaining about it, you should be praising it as you did the Watergate investigations.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: White House officials acknowledge that the history of modern second-term presidencies is a sobering one, replete with scandal and failure.

But they insist that they have seen nothing to suggest that Obama will fall into the traps that have ensnared so many of his predecessors: nothing that rivals the Watergate investigation that drove Richard M. Nixon out of office in 1974, the Iran-contra scandal that nearly derailed Ronald Reagan’s presidency in 1986,or the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998.

The current furor will serve only to make Obama’s opponents look bad, they predict.

“Partisan investigations by the Republicans have been a part of daily life around here since the Republicans took over the House in 2011. Every time they jump up and down and scream, ‘Watergate,’ they end with egg on their face,” said White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer. “I don’t see this as a second-term phenomenon. It’s just life with the GOP in charge.”

CLARIFICATION: Again, the current investigations and those that preceded (Memogate, Fast and Furious, Solyndragate, and several others) were not “partisan investigations,” as charged by apologists in this administration and unchallenged in this article; but actual, valid, and legitimate investigations into very real acts of lawlessness with potential criminality by this administration and agencies within our government.  The investigations are a part of the oversight role of our government and its checks and balances.  It is being purposely being mischaracterized by these writers who leave the claims made by this White House unchallenged.  Why are Misters Tumulty and Rucker taking what this White House say at face value?  Why!?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: But even some of Obama’s allies worry privately that his difficulties may be made worse by his lack of deep relationships on Capitol Hill, notwithstanding his round of dinners with members lately. His congressional liaison, Miguel Rodriguez, came to the job virtually unknown by lawmakers. The president himself has a tendency to hunker down with a tight circle of loyalists.

CLARIFICATION: Excuse me, but Mr. Obama barely served as a junior senator from Illinois when he made his appearance in Washington.  He may have made many political allies and friends back in Chicago, but almost immediately being elected to the US Senate; with barely a few months of service as a junior senator, Mr. Obama got the “presidential bug” and decided to run for the presidency.  He didn’t have time to make friends, and those who support him have to one extent or another been machine operatives within his own party.  Those whom have worked with him in the Senate have observed that though he is personable on a stage with a teleprompter, personally the man is distant and aloof, and prefer to confer only with people he can trust.  The Post article by Misters Tumulty and Rucker appears to admit this where it says, “The president himself has a tendency to hunker down with a tight circle of loyalists.”

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: “I don’t think he has adequate people questioning him on these things,” said one close Obama ally and Washington veteran. He agreed to speak frankly on the condition that he not be identified.

CLARIFICATION:Again, why are statements coming out of this White House by apologists and activists being taken as blanket fact by the writers of this article?  Why aren’t they being challenged by these “journalists” and their feet held to the fire?  What kind of journalism is this!?

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: Obama’s aides remain optimistic about his ability to rack up major achievements, starting with the successful implementation of the health-care law enacted during his first term and including the passage of a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system.

“From the president on down, we all understand that controversies and distractions are going to arise,” said White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri. “But we try to keep a good sense of understanding the difference between what people care about and what is just politics.”

The current political culture “creates more froth around these controversies, but what is the impact?” added Palmieri, a Clinton White House veteran. “Things definitely move quickly now and go away faster than they used to.”

CLARIFICATION:Again, “Obama’s aides” statements go unchallenged and unquestioned by Misters Tumulty and Rucker.  Why!?  This is not “just politics.”  The Obama Admnistration’s actions and public statements surrounding the scandals that have followed them is the only “just politics” in this equation, and not the investigations themselves.  They are a vital act of oversight by the only branch of government authorized by our Constitution to conduct them.  To call this “just politics” is reprehensible, and shows the contempt these people and their apologists in the Washington Post have for the rule of law.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: It is true that the president’s adversaries are already predicting the most dire consequences, particularly from the questions that have arisen over the administration’s forthrightness in its response to the Benghazi attack.

“I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term,” former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee predicted on his radio show. “As bad as Watergate was because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did in fact die. And President Obama has yet to explain why did they die.”

Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) has labeled the Benghazi case “the most serious and most egregious coverup in American history.”

“We may be starting to use the I-word before too long,” Inhofe told conservative talk radio host Rusty Humphries, referring to the possibility of impeachment.

But the unease is no longer confined to the right, particularly after three State Department officials appeared before Congress last week and criticized administration actions before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks in Libya. E-mails from that chaotic period that have come to light through media reports in recent days suggest there was furious infighting among various agencies over the talking points presented as the administration’s first explanation of the events.

CLARIFICATION: People, these are not just statements from the president’s poltical opponents; they’re a matter of fact.  These events occurred and this administration was in full campaign mode before a crucial presendital  election, and there is mounting evidence of a cover-up reaching all the way up to the White House itself.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: “There is no evidence the White House is hiding the truth about what occurred in Benghazi,” journalist David Corn wrote in left-leaning Mother Jones magazine. “But the White House has indeed been caught not telling the full story.”

CLARIFICATION: David Corn is a committed radical and apologist of every left-wing cause, organization, and politician whose ever been involved in our nation’s capital.  Why should we be surprised that he’d make a brief appearance in support of the activities of this White House?  That the writers of this article should quote him verbatim without so much as a challenge should send red flags everywhere about these two writers and their intent and objectivity, as credible journalists.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: Meanwhile, the IRS’s admission that it singled out tea party groups for special scrutiny in deciding whether to grant tax-exempt status has confirmed accusations by some of those organizations that they were treated improperly.

The agency insists that decision was made by low-level career employees in its Cincinnati office and was not done for political purposes. But the revelation set off an outcry over what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called “thuggish practices.”

An inspector general’s report set to be released this week says senior IRS officials knew that agents were giving special attention to conservative groups in 2011, nine months before then-commissioner Douglas H. Shulman told Congress that the agency was not doing so.

CLARIFICATION: It is now being discovered, though gone unreported (spiked) by Misters Tumulty and Rucker in this article, that the IRS’s activities were not confined only to “low-level employees in its Cincinnati, Ohio office, but across the nation in several cities, conducting by many branches of the IRS.  This information is about to explode.  IF the IRS is going to be the federal agency that this administration will be using to implement and oversee Obama’s Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare; then it must be above reproach and its activities subjected to the law of the land and not its abuse.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: “Benghazi and the IRS, each one taken in isolation is in the ankle-biting category,” said historian David Kennedy. “But if you add up enough ducks, they can peck you to death. It’s a sea of trouble.”

Chris Lehane, one of the “masters of disaster” who ran the damage-control operation in the Clinton White House, said Obama’s staff has failed to follow some basic rules for dealing with a potential scandal: avoid putting out a narrative that will not be sustained by the facts and get in front of damaging information by making it public before your adversaries do.

For instance, “if they had put those [Benghazi] e-mails out on their own terms, they would have gotten a little more of the benefit of the doubt,” Lehane said. “There’s no question that if they had basically applied the fundamentals of crisis management, they would be in a different situation today.”

But with the attack happening less than two months before voters went to the polls last year, “they may have made the decision that it was better to win the presidential election and deal with the fallout on the other side,” Lehane said.

CLARIFICATION: WRONG!  What this administration should have done and did not; was to admit error.  To take responsibility for their failures, for the loss of life, for the tragedies, for the criminal negligence, and for trying to cover it all up; not try to change the narrative and spin it out of proportion in order to divert damage from themselves and project it as partisanship on their political enemies.  In short; they should stop playing the political football and begin to lead, and if they can’t do that, then they are unfit and untrustworthy of holding the offices they currently hold, because they are jeopardizing our nation’s security and are a clear and present danger in our midst – a Trojan Horse.

WASHINGTON POST: Tumulty and Rucker: History suggests that rocky terrain lay ahead on that other side.

“Every second-term president, at least since Eisenhower with the U-2 [spy plane shot down in Soviet airspace] has somehow gone into a ditch,” said Ken Duberstein, who was White House chief of staff during Reagan’s second term.

“The suggestions that Obama is in a deep ditch are probably premature,” Duberstein added. “But when you get in a ditch, you need to stop digging. You need to put down the shovel.”

CLARIFICATION: What these people say speaks volumes about their integrity or lack thereof.  It speaks volumes about the type of people being elected to hold public office and entrusted with the public trust.  It speaks volumes of people who call themselves public servants.  It speaks volumes of why our nation keeps getting into one crisis after another, and why we are reeling under the worse economy since the Great Depression.  It speaks volumes of why no matter the rhetoric coming from this president and this White House, every action taken by them has had the opposite effect of what the president has claimed for it.  Why the bouquet of roses he offers always turns to ashes when accepted by an unsuspecting citizenry.  And it speaks volumes of the type of journalism that now reports these stories.

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Teachings On The Harbinger For the Serious Student

Greg Sharpe who teaches this excellent series on The Harbinger is a pastor at Brandon Bible Tabernacle in Brandon, Florida.  Pastor Sharpe is to be commended, because he has developed a teaching series of The Harbinger that allows the serious Bible Student to get deeper into the New York Times Bestseller.

The teaching series are accurate, precise, well-developed from the book, and properly expounded by Pastor Sharpe, who helps make the various elements that form the nine harbingers, understandable, and easy to put into context as they occurred and developed one after the other.

"The Harbinger" Lesson One by Greg Sharp

"The Harbinger" Lesson Two by Greg Sharp

"The Harbinger" Lesson Three by Greg Sharp

"The Harbinger" Lesson Four by Greg Sharp

"The Harbinger" Lesson Five by Greg Sharp

“The Harbinger” Lesson Five by Greg Sharp (Another One)

"The Harbinger" Lesson Six by Greg Sharp

"The Harbinger" Lesson Seven by Greg Sharp

A HARBINGER OF IMPEACHMENT FOR OBAMA? BENGHAZI IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE & ABOMINATION

The duplicitous nature of the politician who at any cost masquerades as a leader and a statesman will in the end be discovered and be his own undoing, because there is just so many lies and deceits that can be said until such a day when one will contradict the other; and it will discovered that the emperor indeed has “no clothes,” just as has been reported of him.

I had warned my readers that Barack Hussein Obama was not only abominable, and that his Obama Nation was itself an abomination.  It has come to pass.  Everything I had warned about the man; the dictatorial tendencies, the amassing of unlimited amounts of ammunition without accountability from our elected officials in congress who have oversight over these matters, but who are reluctant to investigate; the spending of vast amounts of tax payer money, the crony capitalism and kickbacks to supporters and friends of his reelection, his unceasing campaigning across the nation at tax payer expense; the deliberate militarization of our law enforcement, the purchases of military vehicles for our streets, assault on our religious liberties, and the assault on the Second Amendment to our Constitution, the Executive Orders violating our Constitutional rights, the over $780 BILLION DOLLAR CUT in Medicare and transfer of funds to Obamacare, the unprecedented growth in our federal bureaucracy, the over-regulation and over-taxation of the American citizenry; the abuse of federal powers, the lawlessness and selective nature of observing and not observing federal law, and creation and arming of a civilian militia within the federal bureaucracy, the redefining of America’s enemies from Islamist terrorists to “right-wing white supremacists, the suspension of all operations investigating foreign terror cells inside the US of Islamic nature by the FBI and the Department of Justice, the suspension of all investigations involving the New Black Panther Party and other radical groups associated with it by the Justice Department – on direct orders from the office of Eric Holder; the redefining of roles within our military to reflect the new gender bender agenda of this administration, the abandonment of the Defense of Marriage Act, replaced by LGBT policies forced by this administration upon our military and through the courts into the workforce of the federal government and other areas, the continued increased federal funding of the multi-billion dollar abortion industry through Planned Parenthood and other groups; at every turn, the shaping of policies that are injurious to American society in general, and our Judeo-Christian values in particular, including the promotion of Islam over and above other faiths by this government as it proscribes the reading, teaching, and giving of Bibles within our military, including the public burning of Bibles by our military that were destined to reach the lost in Afghanistan, and many more policies and practices that make it clear to anyone who is discerning that this administration from the top down is the most corrupt, the most dangerous, and the most lawless in American history.

The Benghazi debacle is a disgrace; Hillary Clinton is a disgrace and should never show her face in public again.  Barack Obama is a disgrace and should either be impeached or resign from office immediately for his conduct throughout the Benghazi affair, and many others while in office.  On the night when our ambassador and the courageous special operatives assigned to him were being butchered by a band of terrorists marauders who overran the consulate and its compound; Mr. Obama decided to go campaigning for his reelection.  He totally ignored the reports that were coming in and the pleas from our people on the ground for help.  He is a disgrace.  His administration is a disgrace.  The people who staff his government are a disgrace.  And the people in the media and in government who continue to cover up for this man and his corrupt government, are themselves a disgrace and a byword.  They are an affront to America and are an affront to God.

It is a disgrace that not a single Democrat member of the House Oversight Committee on Terrorism has come out to criticize this administration in what is clearly criminal and impeachable negligence by this administration, from the president right down to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and other senior members who were apprised minute by minute of what was happening to our personnel in Libya the night of the attacks against our consulate there, and that on that same night, they all but ignored the pleas and cries for help by our ambassador and his staff.

It is a greater disgrace that this administration from the president to every member in it, and its press corps, have called these hearing “political” rather than take charge and responsibility for their lack of action, their politicization of the events, their willful manipulation of the facts, their willful twisting of the facts to suit their narrative that Al Qaeda had been vanquished, when in fact, it had not, and was and remains quite active along with other terrorist groups throughout the region, as they currently are in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Sudan.

It is a disgrace that this administration has worked in tandem with Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood (as it is doing now in Syria) – to overthrow legitimate friendly governments throughout the Middle East, such as Mubarak’s Egypt, Morocco, and worked to overthrow without Congress’ approval the government of Libya (Kaddafi), and has under oath said that it received its authority from the United Nations, and did not need congress’ approval to do this.

It is a disgrace for this administration to continue to deny these facts and to politicize everything it does by blaming previous administrations, and the ongoing investigations by oversight committees of congress who are responsible for such activities when there is suspicion that the executive branch of government may have acted improperly on the night of September 11^th, 2012.  It is nothing but a disgrace for Barack Obama and his people in this administration not to “man up” to these things and to take charge and show true leadership by admitting guilt and responsibility for their criminal negligence, and rather to promise not to conduct themselves in like manner in the future.  They are a total and complete disgrace and deserve the full measure of the law to come down on every single one of them.

It is nothing less than a national disgrace that this administration, led by this commander in chief and his entourage of cabinet level personnel and underlings; left our people to die and did nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP THEM, BUT WENT CAMPAIGNING THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 11^TH, and have yet to give a true account of their activities that night.  It is a disgrace!

No one died during the Watergate burglary of the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. when Nixon was president, because there were still principled people within our government who held his feet to the fire and made him and his people to the fire.  These were members of Nixon’s own party led by Howard Baker, who applied the full extent of the law against Nixon and forced him to resign or face impeachment.  Where are the principled Democrats today, who will hold Barack Obama’s feet to the fire and either force him to resign or impeach him outright for his criminal and lawless negligence of his responsibilities!?  WHERE ARE THEY!?

AND WHERE IS THE INDEPENDENT PRESS THAT HELD NIXON RESPSONSIBLE FOR A BUNGLED BURGLARY BUT WHERE NOT A SINGLE PERSON DIED, BUT WILL NOT REPORT THE CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE OF THIS ADMINISTRATION WHERE AMERICAN LIVES WERE LOST BECAUSE THIS PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION FAILED TO TAKE ACTION TO SAVE THOSE LIVES AND INSTEAD LEFT THE NATION’S CAPITAL TO CAMPAIGN!!!????

The corruption is so vast and the lawlessness in our government so great that there is scant chance that any of the people who ought to pay for these crimes will ever be prosecuted or the politicians ever made to serve time for their negligence.  It is to the credit of those who are now coming forward to stand against these pagan Goliaths in our midst, that serves as a testimony to the selflessness of those willing to sacrifice themselves so that the corrupt self-serving politicians behind the negligence will never walk away without giving an account of themselves to the American people and their representatives in congress.  Should they fail to do so, there is One who most assuredly require it of them, and of Him it is said that they will not escape or be able to give an excuse as they do now instead of taking full responsibility for their negligence which prevented American lives from being saved the night of September 11^th, 2012 at the consulate’s compound in Benghazi, Libya.

A PUBLIC WORD ABOUT MY DEFENSE OF THE HARBINGER & JONATHAN CAHN

ABOUT JONATHAN CAHN:

I have personally known Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn for more than ten years.  I have been both blessed and privileged to have had a front row seat to his teaching, and more specifically to the man himself.

Having been exposed to the various false teachings and pseudo-gospels that proliferate the mission field, our television sets, and the religious telemarketers on radio, and now cyberspace; being well-acquainted with the various false doctrines passing themselves off as God's Word, I've developed a nose for recognizing what is aberrant and unbiblical, both in practice and in teaching.

ABOUT THE MAN AND HIS DETRACTORS:

I can tell you with full assurance as one who has known Jonathan Cahn since 1998, and more closely in the last six years; every single charge and accusation – every single one against him, against his book, and against his teachings – is categorically wrong and Scripturally incorrect, and the methods used against him have been unbiblical  I know this for a fact.  In fact, I am willing to stake my life for it.  I have never felt stronger about anything in my life.

WHAT HIS DETRACTORS SEEK EVIDENCED BY WHAT THEY'VE SAID AND WRITTEN ABOUT HIM:

These people seek to destroy the man, his credibility; his work, his ministry and calling in Christ, and the effectiveness of what God is warning this nation at this hour about; whereas Jonathan has not lifted a finger to reciprocate in like manner, but has continued his work and labor for the Lord in the Holy Spirit of God, and this itself bears witness unmistakably in my estimation of who is on the right side of this matter.  Not just the facts – the facts, when properly examined and addressed in a biblical manner – bear his book The Harbinger out – but the conduct of the man contrasted to the conduct of his detractors.

WHY I WRITE AS I DO AND WHAT I SEEK WITH WHAT I WRITE

The aim of what I write and its content is for primarily for God's glory; to raise the Lord Jesus the Messiah up, to affirm the word He has given to our nation at this hour, to keep what has been entrusted to us as His servants, to fulfill God's calling on my life for this hour and beyond, and to add my voice to others calling the leaders of this nation, the people of this nation, and the  people of God - Jew and Gentile - to repentance and revival in the name of Jesus the Messiah.

I seek to keep that which has been given to me as a gift from the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Yeshua ha Maschiach - the following words the Holy Spirit spoke through the Apostle Peter:

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.  Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

(1Peter 4:10-11)

THE PURPOSE IF RECONCILIATION AND RESOLUTION

Therefore at the heart of what I do is to bring reconciliation between brethren with very different world views and theologies, but whom know the Lord, and to set the record straight about Jonathan.

I do not wish to destroy anyone's ministry, nor do I seek it; I seek to clarify and set the record straight, because much has been said and written about Jonathan Cahn and about his Best-selling book, The Harbinger.

I have no wish to hurt anyone, nor do I want to see any of my brethren on the other side of this controversy either to stumble in any way, nor do I wish to see anyone's faith or ministry ship-wrecked by this ordeal.  My greatest desire is that when all has been said and done about The Harbinger, public apologies will be forthcoming to Jonathan and that there will reconciliation among the body of Christ.

THE PAINS OF LABOR BEFORE THE BIRTH OF RECONCILIATION

But before this can manifest itself, unfortunately the falsehoods must be excised by the truth, as one by one each charge; each accusation, each contention is properly addressed and biblically resolved not just to one party's satisfaction, but if the Lord wills; to everyone's satisfaction.

To this end, I have applied myself to this task in the Holy Spirit and in the truth of God's Word to address this matter and I will not rest until it is resolved and we can as fellow brethren of each other in the body of Christ and servants of His by God's calling, grace, and election; get the matter past us.

I have sought to do this here on my website, and via private correspondence in the recent past, sending responses to the various detractors of The Harbinger, and even to David James himself, but with very little results.  I have sought to be an ambassador of goodwill, and as a fellow brother and servant of God in Christ to seek a resolution to the matter.

The criticisms of these people have been about the methods they've employed against other Christians and their ministries, and I have given example upon biblical example from God's Word as the Scriptural alternatives to their methods, but it has all fallen on deaf ears. 

Again, I must reiterate; what I have done, I have done to bring resolution and not to put a stumbling block before anyone, or destroy anyone's faith, simply to tell the truth and nothing but the truth according to God's inerrant Word.  I do not bring into question anyone's salvation, or faith in Jesus Christ - as some have done against Jonathan and against me - but to affirm the truth and correct the wrong done to this man and his ministry by these people.

I do not seek to discredit anyone's calling, or bring into question anyone's ministry or credentials, as some of these have done with Jonathan, nor do I wish anyone to be ship-wrecked as regards the faith; but to come out of this understanding that the year-long witch hunt conducted by The Berean Call under T.A. McMahon and David James whom they commissioned to write against it; will in the end, after examining everything, conclude that their obsessive attacks have been nothing but the product of a colossal misunderstanding on their part.

To this end, after all of my efforts to reach out by writing these responses to these people have all fallen on deaf ears; I am compelled to write a book, and maybe if the Lord wills, two books, definitively addressing all of the charges and accusations that have proliferated on cyberspace the last couple of months against The Harbinger and against Jonathan my friend whose walk and integrity and genuine faith I vouch for with my life.  There are very few people I can speak of in this way.  Jonathan is one most assuredly I am honored and humbled to know and call friend and fellow heir of Jesus Christ.

THE DESIRED OUTCOME OF ALL THIS

And if in the end public apologies are made by them to Jonathan and to his publisher, Charisma House, and the body of Christ is then restored to addressing the very real and very serious degeneration of our nation and its rapid decline; we may be able to join hands and pray to the God of heaven that He spare our land, forgive us our trespasses against Him and each other, and restore US to Himself and to one another in the unity and peace of the Holy Spirit of God.

THE HARBINGER: A PLEA & WARNING TO DAVID JAMES, THE BEREAN CALL, AND OTHERS

Dear David,

Quite often I have heard you say that if people know your heart, they will understand your true intentions about why you have devoted now it appears almost all of your time and energies pursuing Jonathan Cahn, a brother in Christ, with such zeal.  Let me pose to you that you have lost yourself and do not know where your heart truly is in this witch hunt, because you have delivered your will to this cause thinking you are serving God (as Saul of Tarsus once did, read his autobiography in his letters); and it took a revelation of Jesus Christ for him to abandon what he was doing.

He had letters of commendation from the religious leadership of his day authorizing him to pursue, arrest, and incarcerate all followers of Jesus of Nazareth throughout Judea and the surrounding regions where Jewish communities predominated.  He had legitimate reasons to believe that his cause was right, and that he was doing the right thing, as you do.  He had a zeal for God and abandoned his will into it, just as you have done.  I submit to you that you no longer are in complete control of your faculties, though you believe you still are. 

Evidence of this is your inability to accept reproof when given to you by so many people – people who have not met, do not know each other, and are all born again members of the body of Christ.  It is time for you to awaken.  Remember what the proverb warns in regard to this, because it is universal to all people; and that is that a man who hardens his neck after much reproof will suddenly be broken beyond remedy. (Proverbs 29:1)

If you haven’t become that casualty, the evidence indicates that you and your associates – Brannon Howse, T.A. McMahon, Thomas Ice and others – are on the fast track to having this Scripture fulfill in your lives.  You and they are on the fast track to a colossal train wreck.  But you and they must be the judge to that, and I would ask you to prayerfully before God, in true sincerity inquire and ask that He open the eyes of your understanding in order for you and they to see the truth.  This is independent of The Harbinger and your treatment of Jonathan Cahn.  This deals with your personal lives and walk in Christ and how you see yourselves.  This is why it bears witness upon so many people to independently equate your words and behavior, and how you have all reacted to criticism from these various sources with a total and reckless disregard, dismissing them all as “straw man arguments,” and other convenient self-justifying dismisses of things that a truly humble person would’ve brought immediately before God, and at the very least acknowledged publicly that he would.  You and they have not, and have hardened yourselves to them.  Not good.

Be careful then that the Scripture that says: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18) – because if you suppress the truth about yourselves and what you are doing and have been doing to a brother in Christ; another servant of God, for over a year now – then you are engaged in the greatest unrighteousness, for you are bearing false witness against another, are acting in quick judgment of that other brother in violation of the Law for you have become judges of it – as it says, Do not speak against one another, brethren.  He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. (James 4:11)  There is a biblical manner in resolving doctrinal differences and differences of opinion among brethren.  Neither you or any of your colleagues have followed it or practice it in your lives, but you have built entire “ministries” around the false mantle of “discernment” and have abused the proper use of Apologetics in reckless crusades against other legitimate Christian ministries and causes for years now.  As James asks in the Holy Spirit, so do I, There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? (James 4:12)  Who do you people really think you are?  Judge, jury, and executioner before the bar of public opinion, before the Judge and Lawgiver of life, and try your brethren without mercy at every turn with every available resource at your disposal to destroy their faith, their walk, their ministry, and their credibility in the name of the blessed Savior who Himself was persecuted in the same manner you persecute your brethren!?

You have abandoned true Christian Orthopraxy with the false religiously bigoted acts and behavior of the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus day, and of every age – the public practice of religious persecution of God’s servants in the name of God by any means possible in order to discredit and destroy their testimony and their work, and submit them to your will.  You do not have to belong to any religious order to do this; this has been the legacy of every religious bigot since the dawn of man. 

Remember, no one who has ever done this has ever believed their cause was wrong, or that they were opposing God.  Quite the contrary; they believed their cause was right, and saw themselves as the protectors of their faith, fighting what appeared to them the heresies of their day.  What’s more, they produced convincing polemics in support to support their convictions which later became the doctrinal thesis to justify the crimes and excesses of the Counter Reformation, the Crusades, the Spanish and European Inquisitions, and the wholesale murder of millions throughout history.  Hitler and other Anti-Semites even used Martin Luther’s later writings to justify his genocide of innocent Jews in the last century.  The pen is mightier than the sword, but the pen you wield against your neighbor and against your brother is the Sword of God’s Eternal and inerrant Word, therefore what you do, you do to rob your brother of his credibility, kill the life of His ministry, and destroy him utterly from the faith; which is the work not of God, but of the thief of our faith, according to Jesus Christ’s own words. (John 10:10)  Beware.  Beware of yourselves.

Because you and your colleagues are born again Christians, I have no doubt that you are saved, just as all other parties in these debates are saved.  But I do understand that by your actions and words, there has been created needless controversies, disputes, and persecutions of others stemming from all of this that could’ve been avoided.  This is why James (above) in the Holy Spirit warns against it, and the Scriptures teach the proper manner that differences of opinion and doctrines are to be resolved among believers – among Christian brethren.  I outline them in my upcoming book.  You and your colleagues will – Lord willing – be able to read them for yourselves, though they are not far from you, because all you and they need to do is to open your Bibles with humble hearts and allow God to speak to you from them, and He will.

But if you do not want to do listen to this, then be careful that the following Scripture does not or has not come to pass in your lives which says:

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

This then is the spiritual state of a person who has known God or knows Him, for it says very clearly of them – even though they knew God (Romans 1:21a) – so it is speaking of people of faith who KNEW GOD – they did not honor as God, or give thanks (Romans 1:21b) – when one dismisses repeated exhortations from other Christians and build a wall of convenient excuses to justify themselves before other people, while God is sending to them one person after another warning them of what they are doing; they are no longer honoring God, but are in willful rejection of His repeated admonitions through His servants.  Paul makes it very clear what results from this, when he writes that their foolish heart becomes darkened. (Romans 1:21c)  Then he follows this with the evidence manifesting itself in the following manner, Professing to be wise, they became fools .(Romans 1:22)  A form of cognitive dissonance (spiritual blindness) comes over them that impairs their ability at true circumspection, because they no longer acknowledge themselves (in their thinking) as wretches saved by God’s grace, after all, they are servants of Christ aren’t they?  And now see themselves as God’s rightful avatars of truth and sole defenders of the faith. 

This is the natural progression of the Pharisee state of mind  - the spiritual, mental, emotional, and behavioral state of being they find themselves in.  They become factious and divisive, and of these we are warned to keep away from after a second and third warning. (Titus 3:10)  Once they’ve reached this state of mind, it is nearly impossible for anyone to convince them otherwise, because they are too far gone; though nothing is impossible for God, because we have Paul’s example to give us hope.  God will always receive the truly penitent heart and restore all things to that person.  He can and will do that for you and for your colleagues too, if you but heed the repeated warnings and do the right thing. 

Do not think of yourself/yourselves above this; for the people who write to you to warn you of them have the Holy Spirit too, and it is a witness that so many from so many diverse places and backgrounds are coming forward and writing to you as I do here and have done privately before to warn you in the love of Christ and the fellowship of His Holy Spirit to look up, walk circumspectly and humbly, and end this persecution; this witch hunt, because it has gotten out of hand, and God is not pleased, nor does it do Him honor for those who are His servants to conduct themselves in such a manner.  Christ is not served by it, nor is He glorified, but the enemies of the cross are being given by the enemy ammunition to discredit our faith before a world we must reach with the Gospel.  Many lives hang in the balance, many ministries as well.

But to those who will not listen to repeated reproof, and think themselves above it, and build all sorts of excuses to justify themselves in front of others, the following is what occurs:

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.  For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 1:21-25)  False beliefs in oneself and false opinions of oneself and others is sin and therefore a state of impurity, and subject to all that comes with it.  It affects one’s mental was well as physical health, just as the proper understanding of God’s Word and its practice brings mental as well as physical good health to one’s life, for they are life to those who find them and health to all their body; just as the proverb says. (Proverbs 4:22)  You have turned the truth of God for a lie – the lie of academic intellectual pursuits over Christian truth, and have bowed before the false altar of your own theological superiority over others.  You don’t even realize this, and don’t think for a moment that it hasn’t crossed your mind/s because the Holy Spirit speaks to you, but it is up to you to listen to what He says.  The choice of whether you listen and obey or not is totally up to you and you alone.  Remember, this has been the characteristics that have marked every religious order that has opposed God’s revivals and God’s servants throughout human history.  No one is above it, and no one is exempt.  This is why we must be careful to practice Christian Orthopraxy towards our brethren and be careful to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)

Be careful then that the following Scriptures have not come to pass with you and your colleagues, for no one is exempt from them, which say:

‘Go to this people and say,

“You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;

And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

For the heart of this people has become dull,

And with their ears they scarcely hear,

And they have closed their eyes;

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

And hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart and return,

And I would heal them.”’

(Acts 28:26b-27)

I am not saying that it has fully come to pass, otherwise I would not feel compelled in the Holy Spirit to send this warning to you, and you would not be receiving it from others.  The evidence that you do and are receiving it, is a measure of God’s mercy and grace in your lives, and a plea from His heart to yours to awaken and see what you have done, and return to your former state of being, because it is very late, and the disease has progressed, but it is not incurable.  Turn back, repent, and seek the Lord God, and you’ll find mercy at the feet of Jesus Christ the Lord.  Remember His words:

But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. (Mark 9:39)

This is why He pleaded with Saul of Tarsus, “Saul, Saul; why are you persecuting Me?” (Acts 9:4, 22:7, 26:14)  What you do, you do to your brother and your brethren; but you do not only to him/they; but you do to Christ.  This is wickedness in its worst form, because whether intentionally done or unintentionally done; it masquerades as Christian service.  It is not.  Turn, turn from your wicked ways.  Turn in Jesus ‘ name, turn to Him.  The hour is late, very late, and the disease is advanced, but not incurable.  Be reconciled to God, plead for His mercy, and apologize and make peace with your brother/brethren before Christ comes.  And learn not to repeat this mistake again.