The Pope and the WCC Coming Together

I'd sort of known one of my great-nephews was doing some videos at You Tube on Christian subjects, but I'm not in touch with him and don't really know much about his point of view.  My brother sent me a link to this one and the first few minutes of it are right in line with some of my own recent blogs so I thought I'd post it here.

Maybe I'll get to talk to him about these things eventually and see how far we may agree or disagree.  It looks like he's into doing a lot of research which is good since I'm not up to doing much research  myself with my bad eyes, and in this case he's discovered that the apostate World Council of Churches and Pope Francis are teaming up in interesting ways. 

The RCC alone could be the basis for the final One World Religion but it's got to be able to pull in all the other religions for the Grand Finale of the Tribulation period.  The Popes have been working on this for years, making all kinds of concessions to all the world's religions.  Pulling in apostate Protestantism must bring them close to filling up their collection.

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Added Later:  Oh I'm really enjoying this as I keep listening.  C Jay notes that the UN Secretary General is a Jesuit, as is Pope Francis, and that tghey seem to be operating in synch for peace among nations, which is exactly what the first horse of the Apocalypse represents, peace on earth, of course the peace that isn't a real peace.  And Jay goes on to identify the Jesuits as the "CounterReformation Arm of the RCC" which they are. 

 The Jesuits have been notorious for their efforts to undermine and topple Protestant nations over the centuries since the Reformation and if you look deeply enough you can often find them at the very root of many political uprisings.  It was a Jesuit who invented the term "Social Justice" for instance,  one Luigi Tapparelli.  I wouldn't be at all surprised to find them firmly ensconsed at the base of all the Marxist destruction we are seeing in America right now, but just getting across that it IS Marxist has been a big enough project for the moment.    It turns out there has been Jesuit influence behind many historic bad guys such as Marx himself, and Stalin and others.  Chris Pinto has looked into this and I should check out his recent messages.   I don't know if my greatnephie puts any of this in the context of the Last Days scenario I've been pursuing but maybe that can be my contribution to his thinking.   

Back to his very interesting video.

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Still later:  Great stuff Jay.  You've done your homework.  You're doing a great job of showing how the Vatican is already working hard to put together the One World Religion that must be in place during the period of the Great Tribulation, which you may not be studying yet so I'll just point that out to you.  I think it is very close.  The Rapture comes first and then the Tribulation over which the Antichrist reigns both politically and spiritually.  Which history shows they already did in the Middle Ages, which the Reformation took away from them.  They've been waiting all this time to reinstate the power they had then, only now over the entire world, not just Europe.   Separation of church and state by the way is a uniquely American concept which was a reaction to exactly what the RCC did in Europe.

Fascinating to hear that Francis has an agreement with China that gives the RCC power over all the other religions.  So very jesuitical of him, or maybe just papal.  According to the current understanding of end times biblical prophecy which I've come to accept, the first act of the false Messiah/ Antichrist will be to make a covenant with Israel for seven years, terms unspecified in scripture.  This comes from the Book of Daniel which is foundational to much that is to unfold during the Tribulation which is spelled out in Revelation 6 to 18.  Some may think the idea pretty far-fetched that Francis could be the final Antichrist, but the more I know the more sure I am of it, and your information gives a lot of support to the idea.

I'd quibble with your remark about Trump but I'll keep it brief:  I don't like his schmoozing with the dictators either, especially since he was schmoozing the Chinese when he should have been defending Hong Kong against them.  But I give him the benefit of the doubt that he thinks you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar as it were, and he thinks it better to treat people as friends for the purpose of getting their cooperation.    You could argue whether that is a good strategy or whether it is working, but don't suspect him of  bad motives.  Trump is a businessman and a sort of chess player.   He might lose the game, but it may not be quite the same game you seem to think he's playing.

More Convinced that women not covering our heads in church is a great offense to God

Keep thinking about 1 Corinthians 11 where Paul argues for women to cover our heads in church.  Along with the foisting of bogus Greek manuscripts on the Church this seems to me to be another terrible trick designed to undermine the moral and spiritual strength of God's people.   The one essay that had the most influence may have been the work of a godly man, but it was a deception nevertheless.  (I argue all this at some length in my blog Hidden Glory).

There is not one word of what Paul said in that passage to justify the idea that he was referring to a merely cultural practice of any of the different cultures represented in the Church at Corinth.  That has to be read into the passage.  It is not there.  Paul argues from Creation and from Nature and from Apostolic authority, and even from the presence of angels in the churches, and maybe even from common sense;  he says not one word to justify interpreting his meaning to be that it's just a cultural practice and therefore we don't have to take it to have anything to do with covering the head.  Some of those ancient cultures had such a practice but we don't, therefore we don't have to.  Very odd idea since the head is the entire focus of his teaching, both the necessity of covering the woman's head and of uncovering the man's.  As I say in a recent post below, we do require men to take off their hats in church based on this passage, so it makes no sense to interpret the instruction for women to have to do with anything but the head just as it does for men

I've speculated that this could be a reason God has not given us revival over the last sixty or so years.  Since it is a fundamental principle given by God that we are violating, and not the trivial thing some try to make of it, this is a very likely speculation.

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Later:  Speculating again.  Wondering how much the weakening of the headship principle in the churches by abandoning the head covering might even have contributed to the rampant moral breakdown in the culture.   Feminism, Sexual Freedom, easy Divorce, Cohabitation without marriage, Gay Rights, the LGBTQ movement, the legalization of pornography and so on.  All the Liberation of Sin movements of the Sixties.    The Church, after all, is supposed to be one of the bulwarks against moral corruption in the culture.  We've been falling down on the job for some time now, and of course there must be many causes, but this could be a big one.   Then of course what seems to have been an epidemic of sexual sin in the churches.  The natural weakness of the flesh of fallen humanity is enough of course, but this does seem to suggest a greater weakness than that, like the little Dutch boy took his finger out of the hole in the dike back there somewhere. 

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Scriptural Support for the Reformers' view of the Antichrist

Listening to a Prophecy Roundtable through Jan Markell's Understanding the Times ministry, and remembering some points of possible difference from my own thinking,  For instance I've been persuaded that the Antichrist, THE Antichrist, is best interpreted as the Protestant Reofrmers did, who understood him to be the Pope -- all Popes, the papacy itself, but the final Antichrist would therefore be the last Pope.  

Whether we are there now or not is a matter of conjecture, hopefully sanctified or biblically educated conjecture, but nevertheless conjectiure.  I've been pretty convinced that we are right on the threshold of the last week or seven years of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel, which is the Tribulation period that follows the Rapture, but of course I could be wrong.  Nevertheless such prophecy ministries as Jan Markell's have the same strong impression that it is right at the door, the recent events that are changing the world being taken as a major indicator, unprecedented events, the lockdown of whole nations for the COVID virus, and in America the rise of Marxist ideology in destructive riots under the guise of a civil rights movement.  

It took me a while to shake off some other interpretations of end times prophecy and come around to the Pre-Tribulation Rapture point of view, and Markell's ministry was one influence, though I think John MacArthur's teachings were a bigger influence.  In any case I'm persuaded.  Nevertheless there are some issues where I differ, and the identity of the Antichrist is one.   If it weren't for the odd signs that accompanied the election of this latest Pope, * however, I might not be as convinced as I am that he is likely to be THE final Pope and the Antichrist of the tribulation.  Those signs include thirteens  and a 666 in the timing of his election, a lightning bolt hitting the building where he was to be elected. and then the radical character of the Pope who has departed further from anything resembling Christian doctrine than even the most radical Popes that preceded him.  NEVERTHELESS even these things might be misleading.

 It was Chris Pinto who made me aware of the Reformers' view of the Antichrist and it is very compelling.  It was from one of his teachings that I came to see that there were many Christian teachers throughout the centuries who identified the papacy as Antichrist, not just the Protestant Reformers of Luther's time.**  And they derived their understanding of his identity from the Bible.

The timing of the revelation of the Antichrist is one place current thinking differs from the Reformers' view:

2 Thessalonians 2:3    Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Today this is usually interpreted to mean he has not yet been revealed though there is really nothing in the passage itself to make that the necessary interpretation.  All it is saying is that the Day of the LORD will not come UNTIL the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed.  The two are apparently connected in the verse.   But the Reformers considered him to have been revealed when the Bishop of Rome, i.e. the papacy, was elevated to the status of Universal Bishop in 606 AD.   And they understood the falling away, or the "great apostasy" as we sometimes call it, to be the corruption of doctrine of the Roman Church.  Paul explicitly warned against teaching to come concerning the forbidding of marriage and the eating of meats, both of which are RC doctrine, the celibacy requirement for priests and what became fish on Friday in our time.   If the Reformers' view is correct that the falling away came with the Roman Church and the Antichrist was revealed as the papacy, then the Day of the Lord could follow at any time.  

There is also some question about how to interpret 2 Thessalonians 2:7 

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

This is usually understood today to refer to the removal of the Holy Spirit with the Church at the Rapture, but the Reformers understood it to refer to Caesar.  Paul is being very cryptic here, apparently avoiding naming the restrainer.  He's being cautious and that was understood by the Reformers as necessary in the days of the Caesars when Paul was writing.  If he was referring to the Holy Spirit he shouldn't have needed to avoid saying so since such caution presumably wouldn't be necessary in that case.  The need to avoid alerting the Church's enemies of the day also explains the strange apocalyptic imagery to describe the heathen empires in the books of Daniel and Revelation.  That imagery even frustrated Luther so it should also flummox an unbeliever trying to decipher it.

After the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the line of Caesars, in 606 AD the Byzantine Emperor Phocas made the Bishop of Rome Universal Bishop, which was identified by many as the creation of the Antichrist.   So  Caesar was taken out of the way and the new Caesar as it were, the Antichrist, now appears on the scene as the head of a new phase of the Roman Empire, as many also understood that, especially since it came to rule over the West in a political sense, with power over the kings, and it took on many of the rituals and emblems of the Roman pagan religions..  So in contrast to some current prophetic views within the Pre-Tribulation Rapture camp, the Roman Empire is already revived, and the Antichrist has already been revealed.  They're not hidden, they've been there all along, but it will take the absence of the true Church to bring them to the global prominence and power they've been waiting for.  

I also don't think it makes much sense to suppose that the Holy Spirit will actually be removed from the earth since a huge number of people are going to be saved during the Tribulation and that isn't just a matter of intellectual assent, the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit is necessary.  

So I still think the Man of Sin of the Tribulation period is most likely to be a Pope and most likely to be this current Pope.  Again perhaps I'm wrong.  in fact it's possible that calling this personality the "Antichrist" is wrong since scripture doesn't use that term for him.  However, again, wait and see.  The next thing on the prophetic timetable is the Rapture of the Church no matter who the Antichrist figure turns out to be.  Whoever it is will make a seven-year covenant with Israel and then those seven years will count down to the return of Christ.
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* https://watchpraystand.blogspot.com/2014/01/god-sends-seagull-and-crow-to-attack.html

** https://watchpraystand.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-antichrist-of-tribulation-day-of.html

Hope for Revival, Hindrances to Revival

So many things these days work against the possibility of revival it is easy to give up on it.  For one thing if we are really in the last days shouldn't we just expect everything tn the culture and in the churches to deteriorate as it seems to be doing?  Lawlessness is one of the signs of the last days and we re certainly seeing lawlessness in the culture as protests grow violent day after day and there are active efforts by local governments to prevent the usual methods of restraining such violence.  A law was passed to deprive the police of their usual nonlethal methods of crowd control, prompting the police commissioner to say she couldn't in good conscience require them to put themselves in such a dangerous position without such protections.  I think that was in Seattle, but it might have been in Portland.  Both cities have been experiencing what seems like an endless daily attack by protests, protests that apparently start out more or less peaceful but become violent at some point in the evening.  Overall our "lawmakers" seem determined to interfere with laws meant to protect life and property rather than enforce them.   They seem happy to impose their political views on their opposition too, willing to lie to sway public opinion.  In the recent congressional hearing of Attorney General William Barr, the Democrats would seem to ask him a question but then refuse to let him answer.  They woulc castigate him for supposed transgressions they themselves invented, without any regard to evidence that he was at all guilty of such transgressions, and certainly no interest in taking his denials seriously let alone finding out the truth about any of it.

Then we have the COVID-19 pandemic 3which has been wreaking a different kind of havoc on the country.  "Pestilence" is another of the signs of the end days leading up to the return of Jesus.

So we have reason to be expecting the Rapture of the Church very soon, which will be the trigger for the seven-year Tribulation before His return.  

In such an environment how would it make sense to seek the revival of the Church?  What's the point?  There are plenty of churches that are disobedient in a vaqriety of ways these days, some teaching a completely false doctrine that denies God's word, some of them "liberal" churches that are supporting the lawlessness in the culture as if it were a righteous thing to do, as if it expressed God's love.   Churches have become lax on many biblical teachings such as divorce, the incidence of divorce among Christiansbeing no different than in the rest of the population.   Our laws have been perverted in many ways by our legislators and our courts over the last few decades, so that the murder of unborn babies is now legal and treated as a "right" as if our very Constitutional rights support it.  Same with the legalization of pornography, treated as freedom of speech.  These perversions have changed the character of American society dramatically over the last half century or so, and unfortunately many Christians have pretty much just fallen in step with it all instead of opposing it.  John Adams famously said that our system of government was designed for a moral and religious people, that it was "wholly inadequate for the government of any other."    Well, we are now that "any other," no longer that moral and religious people.  The devil has done his work well.  America is pretty much undone already, and now that we are under siege by this virus and these lawless violent protests, the nation's complete destruction wouldn't take much to accomplish.

The Church should act as a bulwark against such destruction but the Church has been weakened along with the culture.  We should be the "salt" that inhibits its corruption, but we are just as corrupt in many areas;  we should be the "light" that illuminates truth and righteousness and restrains lawlessness and falseness, but many congregations have already succumbed to false doctrine and become useless.

Many have been crying for revival for many years but it has not come.  Oh we've had some bogus revivals, such as the "laughing revival" that started in Toronto, and other "revivals" in Florida, based on "supernatural" phenomena that are not biblical.  In fact such bogus revivals discourage some of us from praying for revival at all because we don't want more of that and despite solid biblical opposition to it such as in the Strange Fire Conference at John MacArthur's church some years ago now, there area still many who think those were genuine revivals.  was God in them at all?  I don't know, but their tone was fleshly.  

What we want is a sober revival of godliness and biblical truth that characterized earlier revivals, like the one in Scotland I highlighted in a recent post.    God gave them revival as they agreed to the principles of the Protestant Reformation.   They no doubt had some things to repent of but nothing like we have today to repent of before we can expect God to revive us.

And repentance is the necessary first step as that video about Scotland affirmed.  Just praying for revival has not succeeded.  Perhaps the major effort was Leonard Ravenhill's.  He called for repentance and reform and constant prayer but revivgal didn't come through his efforts.  Why not?  I remember that some ten years ago or so Kay Arthur whose Precept Minitries exist all over the country called for prayer for revival among her Bible study groups, and that didn't bring revival either.

Somehow we've been failing to discover the necessary conditions that God would honor with revival.      What are we missing?   I speculated that Ravenhill gave too much credence to the charistmatic movement, which the Strange Fire Conference has definitively exposed as fraudulent.  That's just a speculation, I don't know if it is the reason though it could have been I suppose.  Beyond that I've speculated that our abandonment of the woman's head covering may be a strong reason God won't honor us now as well.   The reason I think both of these carry some weight as hindrances to revival is that they are both rationalized away, and treated as acceptable to God.   Perhaps now there are more Christians who reject the charismatic movement, but it's certainly not all, and the woman's head covering has been relegated to culture rather than bilbical principles.

The Strange Fire Conference made it clear that the "gifts of the Spirit" that are claimed by the charismatic movement are not the same phenomena described as those gifts in the New Testament.  The "gift of prophecy" is not prophecy from God, it's more like fortune telling.  The "gift of tongues" has no recognizable meaning as did the languages spoken through the Spirit by the early Christians.  Certainly God may still do supernatural works, but those supernatural works are not from Him.  We need to completely repudiate such phenomena if we are to have true godly revival.

The scripture about the head covering, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, is too complex to argue here.  I've done that at my other blog, Hidden Glory.  All I'd mention here is that by that scripture we require men to remove their hats in church, showing that we still regard the covering of the head to be what that scripture is all about.  That being the case there is no excuse to interpret away that meaning for women.  The passage is about covering the head, it has no other meaning, and it is based on God's own principles, not on culture.  If we require men to remove their headgear, the only action that makes sense for women is that we require women to cover their heads in the same circumstances.  Besides this we need to note that historically women did cover their heads in church, pretty much up until the mid-20th century, which happens to coincide with the feminist movement in the general culture.   Then the abandonment of covering the head got rationalized in the theological literature, in ways I thihnk are pretty transparently illogical and unconscionable despite what I must assume is the sincerity and Christian spirit of the authors.  Yet such rationalizations have persuaded a whole generation of some of the best pastors in the nation and probably the world, just as a similarly questionable defense of the "oldest" manuscripts that are really corrupt and unworthy, has been used to deceive the same basically good teachers into using bad Bibles.  Perhaps this too should be one of the things the churches need to repent of if God would give us revival.   

In praying for revival I would want to emphasize at least the need to repent of accepting charismatic phenomena as from God, and repent of abndoning the head covering for women.  This is speculation and I can't argue for sure that ithese areTHE lreasons we haven't had revival but I do think it very well could be.  In either case it would be right to give them up because they are wrong and MAYBE God would honor us with revival if we did.    There will be many who resist both of these attitudes and that could keep us from true revival IF what I'm saying is right.

We need repentance for all our sins, both personal and corporate in any case if we want revival.  That is where we have to start.  We need to ask God to reveal to us where the hindrances lie and confess and pray according to His will.

It may be that the Rapture is at the very door, and the Tribulation is right behing it, and there isn't even time for revival, but I can't think of anything we would be better engaged in at any time.  Revival is when we become full of the spirit of God.  There is never a time when the Church doesn't need to be full of the Spirit of God.   We need to be praying that the lawlessness will be restrained and that righteouesness prevail in the culture, but above all we need the power of God in the churches and in our own lives if there is any hope at all of saving the culture.    And if not the culture, then human beings, since revivals not only renew the spiritual life of the churches but convert unbelievers.  When people re right with God, whether newly converted Christians or spiritually renewed Christians, the culture will naturally straighten out.

Hydroxychloroquine: Another Victim of Fake News and Political Suppression

There were two studies, actually three I think, done earlier this year that purpoted to show that the drug was either harmful or ineffective or both.   Both studies were based on bad science and one of them had to be pulled from the prestigious journal that had published it without careful review.  

Better studies have been coming out, such as the Henry Ford study:   .
https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study  \

 Here's onet by Dr. Harvey A. Risch of the Yale School of Public Health:
The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists:  We Just Need to Start Using It

https://www.newsweek.com/key-defeating-covid-19-already-exists-we-need-start-using-it-opinion-1519535

(see interview with him linked below)

.  But the first thing that needs to be said is that the drug has been used for 65 years for malaria and lupus, entirely safely for hundreds of thousands of patients.    Dr. Daniel Wallace has treated lupus patients for decades with no problems.   Dr. Raoul Didier has had positive results with 4000 COVID-19 patients, saying only 20 didn't do well. And clinical experience of many MDs with the COVID-19 virus has been very positive.  If it is used early in the disease in the right dose, and especially with azithromycin and zinc it retards the growth of the virus in the cells.

The bogus study done by the VA a few months ago was based on using it with people who had serious conditions besides the virus and it was used late in their infection with the virus.  Such a study should not ever have been published and along with another similar bogus tudy it has done nothing but poison people's minds against a therapeutic drug that could be a powerful help against this virus.

Anyway, Hydroxychloroquine has a solid reputation with a great many MDs for its effectiveness against the COVID-19 virus.  We need an effective antidote to the poisoning of the public mind against it, but since the Left dominates every form of public information that's a tall order.  Golly gosh, here we are in the  USSRA lready, hey?
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* Here's the Gold-Wohlgelernter video again:
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Added 10/19   The discussion of Hydroxychloroquine starts about 13:00.    She discusses how three prestigious journals published faulty studies and then had to retract them.  The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.   The JAMA study was done in Brazil using not Hydroxychlorowuine but Chloroquine, a precursor to HCQ that has a known lethal dosage limit which was exceeeded with many of the patients in that study.  About 24:45 Dr. Gold starts talking about the VA study and how it went wrong in the first place by studying people in the late stages of the virus, that HCQ especially with zinc, works best in the vert early stage to prevent the virus from replicating in the cells, but that later there is too much viral load in the body, with a high inflammatory condition and organ failure as the immune system overreacts, and it's too late for the drug to do any good.  So of course people died in that study.

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And here's a segment of a pocast by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying in which they discuss the Yale study of the drug among other things related to the virus.   They are liberals who definitely dislike Trump, but they are good at exposing the politicization of this pandemic as well as other things going on these days.

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Added 9/4:  DR. HARVEY RISCH, EPIDEMIOLOGIST AT YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVIEWED BY MARK LEVIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lNoFBTlfI

OCTOBER 19 added:  In the first three minutes Levin covers the basics.  Quoted one virologist  who said there have been 53 studies showing the benefits of HCQ for COVID, which we need to know more about, and only 14 with a negative conclusion, which were badly done as science.

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More news from 9/4          Dr. Simone Gold who was fired from her job after the video I posted above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSGIC_irVs

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Another update:   Update from a few weeks ago:  Interview of Twila Blase, RN, who runs the Citizens Council for Health Freedom, on a Christian radio program, Stand In the Gap:  https://standinthegapmedia.org/radio/?sapurl=Lys5MmE0L2xiL21pLytubTk3anBkP2F1dG9wbGF5PXRydWUmYnJhbmRpbmc9dHJ1ZSZlbWJlZD10cnVl

The discussion of HCQ begins about 13:20 and i've put the counter there but don't know if it will hold.  Before that they discussed masks and went on after it to other issues involving COVID- 19.

Seeking Revival

I've given up on revival and come back to it many times over the last few years,  It's easy to think God would not give us revival in our present condition, our many disobedient churches, our personal sins, the sins of the nation and the churches.   And without repentance there is no doubt that is true.  Yet there is no other help for us but God so what else can we do but seek revival? 

tart with personal repentance, ask God to show us our sins and grant us repentance, ask God to purge the churches of sin, of false doctrines, of fear of man, of fearfulness in the face of the growing threat from the world,  that He would give us the love that casts out fear, that we would become characterized by a self-sacrificial spirit, a spirit of dying to self, of becoming nothing that He may increase and guide us. 

False doctrine in so many churches is a barrier, the liberalism that pursues a false love is a barrier, and many other things we need the Lord to show us, which He will if we ask.  I alwaqys think of the abandonment of the head covering for women, which is the subject of one of my blogs, but I also know I have to start with confessing my own mountain of sins to God and seeking repentance.

I found this video about a revival in Scotland back in 1638, when a church was to vote on a National Covenant to embrace the principles of the Protestant Reformation.  The need for repentance and reformation is emphasized if we also want revival:

Is the Communist Revolution underway in America now?

I'm again watching the two films I mentioned earlier, Agenda: Grinding America Down and Agenda 2: Masters of Deceit, put together by Curtis Bowers.  You can rent or buy them at Amazon, or get them on DVD at Jan Markell's "Understqanding the Times" website.  The first one won awards, think the second one did too but not sure.  The first one has a rather antiquated feel because he uses so many clips from earlier decades.  I know liberals would dislike a lot of it because it is overtly Republican and overtly Christian, but I sorely wish liberals would come to see at least how we on the right see these things, with at least a modicum of respect if not belief.  

It isn't about current events because they were made in 2009 I think and 2017, and the current focus of that time was the Obama administration, but the overall content is how the Communist Party and Marxism in its many forms has been working behind the scenes for a hundred years to undermine America.  I' ve been very aware for many yeas of the Sixties contribution to the effort and how successful it has been in that most of our political terminology from the Left is easily traceable to that influence.  Political Correctness was invented by Marxism   and Social Justice was invented by Marxism.   And my impression is that the rioting we are seeing today in major cities has to have been promoted by forces organized by Marxists, which they may very well see as their hoped-for revolution finally getting the kickstart they've been waiting for through the last few  decades.  They've succeeded in getting enough radicals into local office to oppose efforts to quell the rioting, stifling the usual forces of law and order, much of it through their most effective weapon of lying propaganda.  It ls really amazingt to see how well they are pulling off their agenda.  And then it's amazing to see how radical are the platforms of the current Democratic Party, even by the formerly middle of the road Biden.  Stuff that most Democrats wouldn't have supported a decade ago.

Well-meaning liberals don't seem to know that the liberal Demcratic Party they may think they support is no longer that party and that they are actually supporting the Communist overthrow of America.  I fell for it myself for many years.  Most of us never learned enough about the principles that govern America to be able to object to any of it, and in the sixties the Left succeeded in getting the universities to throw out their required courses in American History and Institutions and Western Civilization, and the effort to vilify both has continued relentlessly while revisionist histories are being taught in their place.   Which is why today's generation is so willing to destroy our entire heritage, the good with the bad.

I'm certainly aware of how such an idea is going to be scorned and dismissed by most nice well meaning liberals.  You'll be able to find all kinds of criticism of these films and various of its concepts just about anywhere you look these days, much of it given a respectable academic framework, very persuasive of course.  At the same time the conservative point of view is being suppressed by major sources of news and information, including social media.  Hard to combat such an organized propaganda effort, and the sad truth is that they have become very very organized in recent years.  Yes I know it must be hard to believe. 

In the context of my recent end-times posts I am guessing that all this is setting the stage for the Tribulation period's world government after the Christian Church has left the planet.