Reconsidering Some of the Timing of the Book of Revelation

Although I've accepted the Pretribulation Rapture eschatology because it all hangs together so nicely, I do run into doubts about it.  The main doubt is about the amount of time in which the judgments of the seals play out:  That is, seven years is an awfully short time for the six seals of Revelation 6 to unfold, and the seventh doesn't even start until the 8th chapter..  

The first thing that started to bother me was why we have different groups of martyrs.  Those revealed under the altar at the opening of the 5th seal seem to have been waiting quite a long time for God to avenge them, but within the Tribulation time frame it's all within the seven years, and probably fewer than that since they are waiting for a new group of martyrs to join them.    

Presumably those martyred over the two millennia up to the Rapture would have gone in the Rapture and be in heaven with the Lord Jesus as the seals are being opened, not treated with any special distinction from the Church as a whole.  But those shown in the fifth seal are treated as a special group.  Why is there a separate special group of them presumably coming after those martyred over the last two millennia?    What makes this group different from some fifty million who were tortured and killed by the Roman Church over 600 years during the Middle Ages  for instance, who would now be in heaven with the raptured Church?   I can't see any reason to divide them.  Those under the altar are "souls," evidently not yet in their resurrected glorified bodies, which means they aren't part of the raptured Church.  

I'm thinking that at least the first five seals  were already opened throughout previous history.   When we get to the sixth seal, we are now getting what sounds like prophecy for the first time, NOW comes the Day of the LORD, so the opening of that seal could be yet future.  In fact that might be the starting point of the Seventieth Week of Daniel or the Great Tribulation, instead of the opening of the first seal.  However, this plays havoc with the Pretribulation time frame.   

It would put the martyrs in the Raptured Church and since they are not yet glorified that can't be the case.  These  things are not fitting together with the Pretrib scenario.  And it is during the Tribulation that the multitude pictured standing before the throne of God in Revelation 7 were martyred, and they must be those the martyrs under the altar are told to wait for.   But although the first four seals judgments are dreadful in their own way they don't point to the killing of believers, yet this is what is assumed in the Pretrib scenario.  It seems to me more likely that they represent all those martyred in the previous two millennia, now waiting for the final martyrs of the Great Tribulation that is about to occur to join them.  If that is the case, of course, the Rapture has not yet happened.  

And that is hard to reckon with after accepting the Pretrib eschatology.  When DOES it happen then?  I am still persuaded that it doesn't make sense for it to occur at Jesus' Second Coming, but I don't see any place for it before that if I remove it from the Pretrib frame of reference.  The Pretrib timing is still the most logically satisfying, but then the time possibilities for the first six seals, and especially the fifth, seem to me to undo it.  

In his vision of Revelation John saw Jesus open the seals.  The Pretrib timing has this beginning after the Rapture of the Church, but the timing is only because of that interpretation and otherwise there are no other clues to the timing.  It could have started in John's time.  Jesus had ascended to Heaven and had earned the right to open the scroll, and there is no clue given as to why there would be any delay.  Unless we equate the opening of the seals with the Great Tribulation or Day of the LORD itself, but then that is what I'm now finding problematic given the seven-year period it all has to fit into.

It certainly seems necessary that the Great Tribulation be the seven-year period of Daniel that has yet to be fulfilled.  There are many reasons for that besides the fact that the seventieth week is still unfulfilled, a major one being the Old Testament imagery and context of the middle part of the Book of Revelation, very specifically the beasts which reflect those of Daniel and certainly his fourth beast which is now revealed to be the Roman Empire, though described as including the characteristics of the first three empires.  We see the Roman Empire and we see the Roman Church as the historical context of the Antichrist.   

Revelation reflects history as well as representing events yet to come.  In John's time he would of course recognize the Roman Empire in the beast that incorporates the beasts of Daniel's prophecy, and therefore identify the final Antichrist and the Harlot Church as related to that beast  but the Roman Catholic apostasy did not yet exist so he wouldn't know about that.  However, she's "Mystery Babylon" and all the symbolism points back through the empires to Babylon and the original religion of Nimrod and Semiramis, which was well tracked in the book "The Two Babylons."   All the False Christs track through that line, which is characterized by the image of mother - Queen of Heaven, and child -Savior which became emblematic of the Roman Church, placing it squarely within that Babylonian lineage and outside Christianity.   The Antichrist would surely represent that system rather than some unknown modern nation, and since he is also a civil power the Pope is a great candidate, the Vatican being a secular state in its own right thanks to Mussolini.  

Anyway, all these symbols point to ancient facts as well as currently existing entities as well as entities prophesied to play a future role in the End Times drama as spelled out in Revelation.  It all ends conclusively in the Day of the LORD.   Nimrod was Satan's first Antichrist stand-in (the word "vicar" will do) for the Messiah , though there are many antichrists in small and every false religion has its own version.   The Pope is put in the place of Christ too, that's what makes him the best candidate for the Tribulation Antichrist.  The vision represents that which was, which is and which is to come.  Although some teachers present this as a chronological sequence through the seven-year Tribulation, much of it appears to overlap.  It could nevertheless be a simple chronology anyway, except now I'm wondering about some elements that don't seem to fit, and that wondering MAY throw off where I end up placing the Rapture..

I also have a problem with the spiriting away of the Woman of Revelation 12 into the wilderness for 1260 days which is the equivalent of the "time, times and half a time"  allotted to different events in the Tribulation period, both in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation.    (Later:  Decided to go back to John MacArthur's study of Revelation to find out what he says about the woman's flight into the wilderness and of course he solved my problem:  this occurs at the midpoint of the Tribulation as the last three and a half of the seven years, considered to be the GREAT Tribulation, begins.  The Abomination of Desolatioin is just now set up in the temple and as Jesus warned in Matthew 24, those in Israel who know the scripture flee into the wildneress for the duration.   Works nicely.  By the way, this particular sermon in his Revelation series is especially fascinating for a lot of reasons:

.https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/66-42/the-war-of-the-ages-part-2  )

Well, I'm probably mostly trying to distract myself from other things that could drive me even crazier if I let them.  I'm far from having arrived at any conclusions about all this but I think the questions are valid and need more thought, maybe in a less crazy time, if that's even possible now..  (If I continue listening to the parts of MacArthur's Revelation series I've missed, and especially if I go back to earlier parts I may have failed to grasp, I may very well find he answers it all anyway.)

Multiple Sources of Election Fraud

 Already for weeks we'd been hearing of ballots found in dumpsters and wastebaskets, one bunch all marked for Trump.  We were getting uncontrolled mail-in voting, ballots submitted in the name of dead people and multiple ballots sent in by one person, new election laws enacted at the last minute by officials with no authority to make such decisions, all to loosen existing laws in a way that makes fraud easier.  No enforced deadline, ballots accepted long after the end of election night, no requirement that signatures be matched, postmarks fraudulently changed acording to one whistleblower,  legally pernitted observers kept from getting close enough to observe what's actually going on, under the excuse of social distancing although arrangbement s could have been made to put up plexiglass barriers and weren't.  Large numbers of  boxes of ballots to be counted delivered well  after election day to a number of polling places at 4 in the morning.  ALL in Democratic states run by Democratic governors.  Republican states were somehow able to get their ballots counted on election night, but not the Democrats.  In many precincts where Trump had a clear lead on election night, vote counting suddenly stopped and some time later all these extra ballots started being "found," every last one of them without exception marked for Biden, and in numbers that couldn't have been better calculated to overthrow Trump's earlier lead.  And that's not even to mention the fraudulent suppression of conservative opinion by Big Tech social media.

All circumstantial evidence of course, and when the Trump team started with the lawsuits we got loud objections to such supposedly unjustified conspiracy thinking for which there was "no evidence."  Al Gore got 37 days to have recounts done in Florida in 2000 without Bush interfering, declaring victory on the basis of the first count, got four different recounts and only then was Bush declared the winner.  But not this time.  Biden has declared victory, complaining about Trump's insistence on recounts and fraud checks, Biden supporters have even done victory dancing in the streets,  and Biden is acting like he's the President while these efforts to check the validity of the election are barely underway.  And this time it's not just one state but many states that are being checked.  

All circumstantial so far, yes it is, but there's an awful lot of circumstantial smoke here for there to be no fire.   And now I'm hearing about the possibility of some truly meaty evidence of large-scale fraud that may make a big difference very soon.  This is the testimony of Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney about a computer program used in many precincts that changes votes from one candidate to another.  This is the Hammer program which McInerney says was altered by a program called Scorecard invented by a Dennis Montgomery from a defense surveillance program to a vote switching program that is designed to flip something like 3% of the vote from Trump to Biden.   Montgomery's story is told here (and you may have to pick your jaw up off the floor after hearing about the level of corruption reported on here):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkKNNXa9to     I heard McInerney interviewed by Larry Elder on his program at 5 PDT  this Tuesday, and here's Steve Bannon interview of McInerney done before the election:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYpCzWKkSy8

Here's another pre-election  interview of McInerney about the Hammer/Scorecard program:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpVvjh_TMA

Until all this started coming out, despite the huge turnout for Trump, and despite knowledge of fraud committed in other elections by Democrats, and despite plenty of suspicion about this one,  I was willing to think well maybe angry Leftists did manage to get out the vote in enough numbers to pull off a legitimate win.  

Now I'm well beyond such a naive thought.  It may still be possible that the numbers will add up for Biden despite all the fraud, but while I say it's possible I really doubt it.   I just hope it's possible to get a fair and accurate reassessment of what really went on.

Chris Pinto radio show anticipating the election

 One of my favorites, Chris Pinto, who just put out a new documentary I must see, the true Christian History of America, did a radio show just before the election that I didn't get to until now.   http://www.noiseofthunderradio.com/show-downloads/

It's an hour long special, twice the usual length of his radio shows.  He gives his opinion that the only way Biden could win is through fraud, which may very well be what we are seeing right now, whether there is any way to prove it or not.  It won't be for lack of trying if not, considering all the lawsuits being filed.  I put a link in the previous post to lawyer Sydney Powell's discussion of the evidence.

Although it's about the election he spends a lot of time on the threat of Islam, one of the dangers of having a leftist government, amply demonstrated by Obama.  Recent beheadings in France make Islamic motivation clear.  The crazy thing, I'm saying this here, is that so many people ignore the stated aims of Islam to take over the world for Allah.  I think I must have quoted somewhere in this blog the statements to that effect from many Islamic leaders in the book by Ramon Bennett, Philistine.  If I find my post on it I'll put the link here.  

Pinto points out that the Islamic (Sharia) law that even private speech against Islam is to be punished is like the Inquisiion which punished "heresy" even when expressed in private.  According to Pinto, the right of freedom of speech came out of the Protestant Reformation, one of the concepts that is often wrongly imputed to the Enlightenment instead.   Opposition to the tyranny of the Roman Church in Europe was the inspiration for much of the Constitution and American law, and that was the project of the Reformation..  His new documentary about the true Christian heritage of America includes this sort of observation gleaned from his research.

And since a revival of the Inquisition is what I've said I expect to be a big part of the Tribulation period of the last days, Islam's growing influence in the West is right on schedule for that event that feels like it's right on the horizon.  Pinto has said at other times that he thinks the move to bring Muslims into the West, ostensibly out of compassion, is most likely because they would prosecute the Roman Catholic Inquisition against Protestants when they get strong enough, which would also fit nicely with the Marxist agenda which is already poised for global dominance.   

He also argues with prominent pastor John Piper's refusal to vote for Trump which means not voting at all, and wonders how many Christians would be influcenced by Piper.   I don't think he did a very clear job of answering him though.

HCQ the cure that is ignored for greed and power. The Zelenko Protocol for its use.

Finally getting some informatoin about Dr. Zelenko, the first name i'd heard as having had great success treating COVID with HCQ.  Way back at the beginning, early March I think.  But I didn't get to know anything about him until recently.   Here's a really good interview with him.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLD1P5nH30&feature=youtu.be

Then there is a long paper titled The Zelenko Protocol which links to lists of documents by Zelenko and others on the use of hydrxychloroquine with COVID patients, and where at the top of the page you are directed to click on a link to find out his recommended treatment for COVID for high-risk, and low-risk patients and another link that tells you his recommended treatment for preventing COVID, which includes using Quercetin< Zinc and Vitamin C for low-risk people.. This alternative combination is also recommended to be used in larger doses for high-risk patients when HCQ is not available.

https://faculty.utrgv.edu/eleftherios.gkioulekas/zelenko/index.html

Zelenko Covid-19 Prophylaxis Protocol Twitter: @zev_dr 

Prophylaxis is an action taken to prevent or protect against a specified disease. Greek in origin, from the word "phylax", meaning "to guard" and "watching."

 Low Risk Patients 

Young healthy people do not need prophylaxis against Covid 19. In young and healthy people, this infection causes mild cold-like symptoms. It is advantageous for these patients to be exposed to Covid19, build up their antibodies and have their immune system clear the virus. This will facilitate the development of herd immunity and help prevent future Covid-19 pandemics.  However, if these patients desire prophylaxis against Covid-19, then they should take the protocol noted below. 

Moderate Risk Patients 

Patients from this category are healthy but have high viral-load exposure. This group includes medical personnel, caregivers of high-risk patients, people who use public transportation or may otherwise be exposed, first responders and other essential personnel who are crucial to the continued functioning of society. These patients should be encouraged to take prophylaxis against Covid-19 in accordance with the protocol noted below. 

High Risk Patients 

Patients are considered high risk if they are over the age of 60, or if they are younger than 60 but they have comorbidities, that is, they have other health conditions that put them at risk. These patients have between a 5 to 10% mortality rate if they are infected with Covid-19. These patients should be strongly encouraged to take prophylaxis against Covid-19 in accordance with the protocol noted below. 

Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients: 

Elemental Zinc 25mg one a day1 Vitamin C 1000mg once a day2 Quercetin 500mg (OTC) once a day 

If Quercetin is unavailable, then use Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400mg (OTC) once a day 3 Protocol for High Risk Patients: Elemental Zinc 25mg one a day Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ4 ) 200mg once a day for 5 days, then once a week If HCQ is unavailable then use Low and Moderate risk protocol.

 The treatment protocol once a person actually has COVID is at a separate link. Mostly a higher dose of the same things with additional treatments as needed. https://faculty.utrgv.edu/eleftherios.gkioulekas/zelenko/Zelenko-memo-August-protocol.pdf

So frustrating to know about this treatment that could have been savintg lives all along and have no way to do anything with the information.  It's nice to know there are doctors out there who use it and are in a position to do someting, and yet they can't get a hearing either.  Even Zelenko says he is often unable to to get hold of HCQ. 

Every time I hear the news reports on new cases of COVID and the death count going up I want to run screaming in the streets about the homicidal political corruption going on.  It's going to continue to be the case that a minuscule percentage of cases will actually die but NOBODY should have to die.  

Why isn't there a big uprising about THIS?  Mobs are destroying parts of cities for a big fat lie but nobody is demonstrating against the suppression of a drug that could save people.

Lately I have the feeling I am dying.  Just don't feel well.  Had it before though and didn't die.  Maybe just depressed.  Won't know until I know.  I like this particular health guru, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, who has a very radical approach to diet for preventing disease that is hard to follow but convincingly based on studies so that I wish I had the energy to follow it.  Or the money to spend a few weeks at his retreat facility.  But neither is really possible right now and I wouldn't really mind dying.  Not too happy about the idea of pain of course, and I really don't want to die of COVID so I'm going to do my best to avoid that with the zinc-quercetin combo since HCQ isn't available that I know of.  In a way I'd be very happy to die now.   I'm unable to do anything about the problems I write about here, might as well go where I'll be a lot happier.

A Ramble about the Election.

So this is what we deserve as a nation.  This is what God wants.   I took it all quite calmly, which surprised me, or maybe it was more like receiving a blow to the head that deprived me of all feeling.  I don't know.  But all it took to lose the calm was getting a messge from a liberal friend with whom I'd never discussed politics at all, just knowing it would be a disaster in this case.  And she probably had the same instinct, until now when she must have thought the messabge was so sweet that it couldn't upset anyone.  I don't know how to explain it otherwise anyway.  This was an email she got from the owner of a buienss that sells cooking supplies.  I'll edit it for length.

With all that needs to be done to overcome the cruelty that has taken over the Republican Party, and the damage that cruelty has done to America, Election Day 11.3.20 was never going to be a finish linebut simply more of a starting gate.  Still, there’s no need to rush right through that gate….  Take some time to unravel it from your life, and I don’t know, maybe eat a salad or two.

The truth is this president has never been the real cause of what has gone wrong, but merely more of a symptom.   There’s a big effort ahead of us to really uproot the issues our country faces….  Soon enough we will all have to be back at it reaching out to a larger world with empathy, hope and kindness as best we can. … Thanks for having the kindness to cook.  You make goodness possible.

Totally blew my cool.  The self-righteousness, the sanctimoniousness, the ...the... imbecility!  The absolute lack of critical perspective on his opinion, both enrage and astonish me.  Does this guy think all his customers are liberals?  ARE all his customers liberals?  Has he any clue at all that he's accusing over 70 million conservatives of heinous behavior?  I hope he doesn't.  I hope he's just uncritically lost in his own closed box of assumptions and has no contact with the real world, because otherwise he's he's engaging in a politically divisive act I can only see as truly genuinely certifiably insane, accusing Trump supporters of cruelty or of supporting a cruel agenda.  . 

But this is typical of liberals rthese days, so why am I so astonished?  They say outrageous things about Trump and his supporters seemingly without the slightest concern about offending anyone.  Or not caring if they do, having gone beyond any sense of their opponents as human beings into the kind of mentality that dehumanizes the opposition.  We're just  "deplorables" after all and Trump is Evil Incarnate.   

What's evil in all this is how Trump and his supporters have been treated for the last four years, the lies and slanders, and the political ideology they emanate from, that hates America and seeks to destroy it and replace it with Communism.    We wonder whatever happened to treating your opponent with basic respect.  What happened to the time-honored peaceful transition between Presidential administrations and the grace given a new President for his first hundred days?  That one went out the window when Trump came into office.  Whatever happened to civil discourse?  I have not found it possible to discuss politics with any liberal friend,  one or the other of us has an emotional meltdown before we get very far.   There have been some sincere efforts to make it possible but without success.    Of course I see it as the fault of the Left more than the Right, far more:  the liberal agenda is being called from behind the scenes by powerful people who WANT to create chaos, although the average liberal may think he shares in a reasonable perspective on the world as if nothing had changed since decades ago.  For this idea to stand, however, he has to be deprived of facts that contradict the narrative put out by the main media, and of course the leftist media see to it he continues to be so deprived..   

So they think the daily rioting in Portland isn't rioting, it's all peaceful protests, because that's what the media tell them.  So they think BLM is a civil rights organization based on injustices to black people by the police.  No clue that it's really part of the Marxist agenda that goes back to the sixties which gave it a huge kickstart although it had been brewing for decades before that.   Since the opposition is defined by the Marxist agenda as "oppressors," and bogus history rewrites are used to justify the bogus claim, they don't know they are accepting a planned denigration of the opposition similar to what the Nazis did to the Jews, or the Catholic radio propagandist in Rwanda did to the Tutsis by calling them "cockroaches" to stir up the Hutus against them.  No, this isn't evolved tribalism, this ispropaganda-manipulated mayhem.  They think if you call Trump Hitler that's because he really is an evil fascist like Hitler, though it's all made up to demonize the opposition and justify any kind of unjust action against them they want.  Lying words have been the chosen weapon against Trump  and his supporters too, and since there is a pretty complete blackout of any opposing point of view it's succeeded oh so well at actually convincing liberals of the lie.  They are sincerely convinced..

Another liberal friend sent me a link to another extremely offensive opinion piece from before the election, about how the only "decent" vote would be for Biden:      https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/opinions/biden-only-decent-choice-2020-election-soifer/index.html.   I may have to come back and quote some of that here later. 

Now I hear about an organization that treats "the Trump Agenda" as if it were Nazism itself and calls for punishing those who supported it.   Something Trump Accountability.  Right, punish your political opponents for disagreeing with you.  Great, you really want to unite all of us.   The Trump Agenda as understood by his supporters is a pro-America agenda like most conservative agendas though more focused and aggressive than the usual versions.  Bring back American prosperity and American goodness and undo decades of Marxist destruction.  But by redefining the Trump Agenda as something evil, such as separating children from their families at the border or keeping them in cages, they can justify all sorts of enormities against Trump supporters, even to dragging ordinary Americans out of their cars and beating them nearly to death, just on the basis of lying propaganda.

If Cooks-supplierMan, quoted above, had any sense of reality, he couldn't so blithely condemn 71 million Americans as he does.  That's the main clue that he's thinking ideologically and irrationally.  Unfortunately most liberals think the same way.  Too many people think this political dividie reflects two more or less equal sides in a difference of opinion, having no clue that the Left id ideologically driven by hidden forces bent on destroying America.  The devil has done his work well.  He controls the vast majority of the sources of information that might disabuse the ordinary liberal of this great folly, the mainstream media, the social media, the universities, the entertainment industry.  

What is the "cruelty" that man has in mind?  You'd think by now I could get inside the liberal mindset well eough to rattle it off, but I can't.  "Keeping children in cages" on the border?   Because they have NO clue whatever that it was the Obama administration that initiated that system at the border that is being blamed on Trump.  And those are cages anyway, that's a chain-link fence cordoning off a large area.  What else?  The constant refrain of "racism?"  The Left is being driven by lies and if Biden-Harris really are elected we're going to be governed by lies.  Again.  All in the name of compassion and kindness and empathy and goodness.  It turns the stomach.

So I mentioned the Trump Accountability project or whatever it's called tht was brought up by Heather on the Dark Horse podcase, that wants to punish anyone who supported the Trump agenda.  Three items of the Trump Agenda as they see it were specified.  Separating children from their families at the border, promiting anti-semitism and racism, and killing people by COVID mismanagement.  Heather responded that the first two are false but thinks Trump does deserve the accusation about COVID.  She wasn't specific and I'm not sure what she had in mind.  The vacillation about masks?   

Seems to me he acted very fast by shutting down travel with China back at the end of Februrary, and got called xcenophobic for it by Biden and the equivalent by Pelosi who made a big producting of going to a restraurant in San Francisco's Chinatown to underscore the accusation.  Then I remember Trump's energetic plan to get American businesses to retool for the production of needed medical supplies, and his quick action in builiding an alterantive hospitla in New York as well as sending a medically equipped ship.  Which Cuomo ignored while he sent sisck people to the nursing homes where they infected the elderly residents whose deaths then drove up the statistics in New York.  But that's Trump's fault?  What else?   Supporting hysdroxychloroquine?  Which is very clearly THE cure for COVID which the Left has so denigrated nobody tgrusts it.  The power of propaganda.  Not supporting the wearing of masks?  That might be a fault I'd agree with but on the other hand we were getting so many contradictory messages about masks I'm not sure any President would have known which side to be on.  Apparently they don't really work becauyse the virus easily passes through them although they stop large droplets that may also carry the virus.  I don't know, what else?  Considering the confusing that has reigned on this subject around the world why should Trump have been expected to know exactly what to do?  And then he wanted to open up the country because the lockdown has maybe ev3en more serious effects on people than the virus.  Is that what they are complaining aBout?   So that came up on the Dark Horse podcast yesterday.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ5iWpoN89k&t=292s As usual I like a lot of what the Dark Horse duo have to say, but certainly not all of it.   Bret really does think that Trump committed an abuse of power in asking the Ukrainian President to look into the allegations about Hunter Biden.  Why?  I'd guess because golly gee it just sort of SOUNDS like abuse of power to him.  And there wasn't much more than that behind the whole impeachment of Trump either, although Weinstein at  least does dee that there was a huge politically motivated conspiracy against Trump in all that.  However, all the conservative commentaries I heard said the request was well within Presdiental powers and even responsibility to uncover such a corruption if it existed.  Seems that a lot of the attacks on Trump are based on things just not feeling right to people utterly ignornant of politics at the Presdiental lefel.  Even the Ukrainian President defended Trump and Trump kept saying there was nothing wrong with that phone call but no matter, the ignorant know better. And I have to mention that in another podcast a while back Weinstein explains some of his own ideological perspective when he says the American system is fantastically productive but its spoils are not fairly distributed.   "Spoils?"  Since when are the fruits of an individual's labor labor some kind of "spoils"  subject to "distribution" anyway?   Capitalism is fantastically productive in a free society, but by what law are those who do the producing obligated -- by the state -- to share it?  Obligated by God, yes, but Weinstein is talking about things on the human level as if he wants just what the Communists want, governmental control of the fruits of an individual's labor.  And besides, America's prosperity has always benefitted all Americans, what sort of "fair" distribution does he envision?   The usual leftist methods drive entrepreneurs out of the country where they can't benefit anyone else anyway.  And it turns out that Trump's reduction of taxes that strengthened businesses and increased employment actually brought more revenue into the government than before and that gets ignroed too.  Revenue for all the programs dear to the hearts of liberals. He also seems to think there is SOME justification for the protests in this upposedly unfair system of distribution?  Some kind of justifiable frustration?   Even though the supposed basis for ti in racism turns out to be false?   We know there was a lot of fraud in this election -- from the Left of course, surprise surprise.  Enough to change the outcome I don't know.  Maybe we'll never know.    Trump administration lawyer Sydney Powell yesterday described incidents that are being investigated:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6swRH38oKs Well, this is a fallen world, the Founders did what they could to take that fact into account with their checks and balances,  but a determined criminal mind can overcome it.  As John Adams said, our system was designed for a religious and moral people and is wholly inadequate for any other.  We're the "any other" now.  Come soon, Lord Jesus.

A Natural Food Supplement that Does What HCQ Does.

Hey COVID!  Your days are numbered.   Or they would be numbered if any of the people who are in a position to do something about the problem cared.

 It turns out that there are other chemicals besides HCQ that act as ionophores to zinc, meaning chemicals that open the "gate" as it were to let zinc into the cells of the body where it works to prevent a virus like COVID from replicating.  It had occurred to me that there must be other such chemicals since zinc has to get into our cells to do us any good for lots of reasons and HCQ isn't something we nornormally have on hand.  But it didn't occur to me to search for those other chemicals.

Then a friend discovered that there is a Quercetin-Zinc supplement that's used for allergies and immune system strengthening that works the same way Hydroxychloroquine works,.  There are reviews of such a supplement at Amazon that say so, but then I googled the question whether Quercetin is an ionophore,  and I got Pub Med saying YES, from six years ago yet:

Natural sources of zinc (Google search page):

Oysters contain more zinc per serving than any other food, but red meat and poultry provide the majority of zinc in the American diet. Other good food sources include beans, nuts, certain types of seafood (such as crab and lobster), whole grains, fortified breakfast cereals, and dairy products [2,

Natural sources of Quercetin on Google search page: 

Quercetin is contained in abundance in apples, honey, raspberries, onions, red grapes, cherries, citrus fruits, and green leafy vegetables [2]. Among vegetables and fruits, quercetin content is highest in onions.

Natural sources of epigallocatechin-gallate, the other chemical mentioned at Pub Med as a zinc ionophore 

Though EGCG is predominantly found in green tea, it also exists in small amounts in other foods, such as (3): Tea: green, white, oolong, and black teas. Fruits: cranberries, strawberries, blackberries, kiwis, cherries, pears, peaches, apples, and avocados. Nuts: pecans, pistachios, and hazelnuts.

Here's the Amazon page:  

Amazon.com

Amazon.com

And here's the Pub Med article:

Zinc ionophore activity of quercetin and epigallocatechin-gallate: from Hepa 1-6 cells to a liposome model - PubMed

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We're Up Against a Behemoth of a Political Delusion

 Is Douglas Murray right when he says the Left is truly convinced that they are facing a real fascist threat on the right, both in the US and in Britain?.  They talk as if they are, they accuse the right of fascism all the time, but it's so delusional it's hard to take seriously.  And yet maybe they are truly that delusional, truly do believe their delusion.    

He says this at about 11:50 in this interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97HfUZMEQA

The conversation has built up to it for the last few minutes but here he's answering a question from one of the interviewers --  why this is all happening, why all the rioting and denial of the rrioting etc.  .

it's a scary thought that they could actually believe this delusion, especially since it is clearly the Left who are the fascists these days, the Antifa the equivalent of the brownshirts, the rioting a sort of endless Kristallnacht against some phantom enemy that includes everybody in the end.  It is so completely irrational, delusional, I have enormous trouble believing it, but perhaps he's right.  I have trouble understanding how the Left can hate Trump as much as they do, how they can accuse him of fasicsm and his followers of fascism, accuse him of white supremacy, it's so absurd it is tantamount to some kind of insanity that has never existed before that I've heard of.    

Even the saner liberals I've come to appreciate, such as Bret Weinstein, maintain some level of this kind of insanity about Trump, some  version of Trump Derangement Syndrome that persists in spite of his apparent clarity of thought about what is going on in Portland.   As Murray says Trump has many faults,  but fascism isn't one of them.  But the Left seems to be utterly incapable of seeing past this delusion.  If Murray is right about it of course.  And I'm afraid he probably is.

It's been a puzzle to me how anyone could have such a depth of hatred for Trump, which seems to be a hatred for his personaltiy quite apart from his policies, or at least I haven't been able to determine exactly which policies figure in it.  I have relatives who carry on as if he were the most evil person who ever existed because he appointed a pro-;life judge to the Supreme Court, although she's said clearly there are no grounds for repealing Roe v Wade.  That's just another bit of the delucional symdrome I guess, I suppose different people on the left hold different bits of it.

There are things about Trump, things he says, that make me cringe, but they are mostly unfortunate perssonality quirks to my mind, and in a way they could even be understood to be a sign of a good personality trait:  I'm thinking of the speech Melania Trump made recently on the campaign trail, I forget where, but she said she may have some disagreements with how he says certain things in his tweets but that his tweeting itself reflectgs his desire to communicate directly with the American people.  And that could certainly be understood as a good trait.  

I see it that way.  I see him overall as a genuine sincere uncomplicated patriot whose entire mission as President is exactly what he's presented it to be:  to restore America to her former greatness, by undoing the Leftist attacks on everything that made her great.  To restore the economy the left has destroyed for instance with overzealous environmentallism, driving our businesses out of the country and selling us out to our enemies such as China.  Restoring our pride in our nation's history, restoring measures to protect and defend Americans, such as closing our borders and strengthening our military.   

I suppose the deranged Left reads all that as "fascism," unfortunately, since they have no sense of history and no sense of anything sane really, about the responsibility of the goverfnment toward its people, how the government of a nation should function.

There is no doubt that there has been an enormous propaganda campaign over the last few decades, and probably farther back than that, done mostly through the universities but also through the lying media, to obliterate our honorable American history in the minds of the public and replace it with Marxism and Communism.  I've mentioned some of the methods I'm aware of such as the rewriting of history texts through the tax-exempt foundations, the teaching of Marxist dogma in the universities etc.  The entertainment industry has done a lot of the indoctrination of the public too, through propaganda-based movies and TV shows.    And besides the political indoctrination there has been a concerted undermining of morality so that we of the sixties generation gave up on marriage and practiced serial cohabitation cuz all that cultural baggage was no longer defensible, and abortion got legalized, and pornography got made into a free speech right and all that is just the tip of the iceberg of the remaking of America by the Left.  Now we are trying to dig in our heels at the very end of this transformation, or rather even disintegration, of our political institutions and our culture and hoping against hope, and praying to God, that it may not be too late to recover it.  SOME of us are, and who knows if there are enough of us left, and who knows what we are going to be faced with just around the corner.

Guess I got a bit carried away with Murray's observation of the motivation of the Left.  I'm afraid he's right though.  Things really are that deranged, half the population really are that deluded.