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I don’t like to use caps, but this is an exception:
WHAT A BLATANT IN YOUR FACE LIE!

Democratic Socialism is not Nazi (National Socialism) it is pure out and out Communist (International Socialism).

>Spot on, the woman is in no sense nationalist - the “N” in the word “Nazi” - communists are internationalists, or globalists.

Its refreshing to hear this young man, Kirk, say these things, somebody needs to!

On one hand you tell us the RCC has had no particular millennial view of Revelation, while on the other hand you use a passage from 2 Peter, to prove just the opposite. A very particular view, used by Amillennialists to prove there can be no coming of Christ (his second coming) to this earth to reign for a thousand years...because the earth will be “burned up.”

You can’t have it both ways.

What the RCC author of this piece says nothing about, is the amillennialist interpretation of Revelation, of himself and his church.

So, of course he’s going to say Revelation is not about the end of the world, it is about “right now.” Amillennialists believe the church - i.e., the papacy - is supposed to be ruling the world...”right now.”

Up until the Protestant “back to the Bible” movement, their Amillennialism held sway, while they ruled Europe. But, since Revelation does not support their totalitarian interpretation, their view no longer holds sway.

The big question now is, when the IMF tries to implement this in this country, how is Trump going to come down on it? He says he’s for the common man, not the globalists, we’ll see.

Sorry he is no longer with us. One of the greatest country musicians.

I heard him back in the 1962 at the Navy enlisted men’s club, San Diego. Nobody had hardly heard of him at that time. He performed by himself, a one man band, he didn’t need anybody else. One tune he played was Scottish bagpipes on a guitar. Incredible, never heard anything like it.

This REALLY ticks me off...see, and hear, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY

What do you see but crosses on foreign fields where our servicemen have fallen. Thousands of them. All buried under the cross of Christianity (with a few Judaism stars scattered here and there among the Christian crosses).

What are these atheist communistocrats going to next, go to Europe and Asia and remove all those Christian crosses? that these brave men chose to be buried under?

Wouldn’t that be something, the very thing these heroes fought against, socialism (godless Nazism, Communism), desiring to remove the Christian cross above them?

My dad, by the way, was a lifer in the Army, fighting in WW2 and the Korean war, against forms of godless socialism.

Even when it does harm, many Brits tend to have a high-handed, superior manner in dealing with Americans.

>Five star admiral Ernest King must have been well aware of this, he was renowned for his opposition to the Brits high-handedness, so much so some historians call him an anglo-phobe. Eisenhower,trying to get the chief of staffs to “work with the Brits,” said “somebody ought to shoot King.”

Reading through this thread, I wondered who would flag Larry King for his distortion about “In all my years...I have never seen a conversation where a producer said to a host ‘pitch the story this way...’”

But fellow Alaskan Erik stepped to the plate. Good post, Erik. “They don’t have to be told to pitch a story a certain way. they just do it naturally.”

see my post #23

Good Bluegrass stand up bass on this one (Blackberry Blossom) - a long haired hippy playing it, sorry bout that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PqXsUcGFE

It’s not that hard to figure out. History repeats itself.

1. Severe economic times enabled Hitler and the Bolsheviks to come to power...as in every communist revolution since then.

2. Good economic times hinders our current plague of communistocrats from coming to power.

My yorkie knows the time my wife is supposed to be home from work, starts barking her head off in anticipation about that time

Whew. Man you’ve nailed it. You have articulated what I have been seeing for quite some time now, but didn’t have the words to describe it. Sad but true.

How infant baptism came to be? In my understanding of church history, it started when Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. A former pagan empire, now to be made Christian. Christianity now a state church, was faced with a huge influx of pagans to be made Christian by baptism.

The state church saw the pragmatic, and much faster, answer to the problem, was to just sprinkle water on them. Once the former, and Biblical, mode of baptism was compromised, it was just a matter of time before they rationalized again, and began to sprinkle infants as their baptism.

Left out the word “is” in this paragraph -

The tribulation is defined by its persecution of those who do not worship the beast, neither his image, neither receive his mark. Rev. 20:4 says it is them “who had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark,” who are raised in the first resurrection.

According to Revelation, the first resurrection closes out this age, while beginning the next, the millennial kingdom.

It is impossible to make this event (the first resurrection, Rev. 20, when the post-trib rapture takes place) be a pretrib rapture.

The tribulation is defined by its persecution of those who do not worship the beast, neither his image, neither receive his mark. Rev. 20:4 says it them “who had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark,” who are raised in the first resurrection.

Clearly, Revelation has FIRST the tribulation, with its beast, and his image and mark. THEN the resurrection.

“Wheresoever the resurrection is, there will the rapture be also.”

The first resurrection is the “nexus” event, which, in one event, closes out this age while beginning the next - the millennial kingdom.

Privatizing the military is about the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. Outsourcing civilians to fight our wars overseas? Give me a break. I’m sure they can obtain rifles, but where’s their artillary, tanks, fighter jets and bombers, Navy destroyers, airraft carriers and aircraft, Marine Corps, etc.?

Our Army, Navy, Airforce, and Marines can’t do the job?

THE QUESTION NOT BEING ASKED IS *WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM

>Psalms 9:17, The wicked shall be turned into hell; and all the nations that forget God.

There was a time when the western world lived under a totalitarian pagan system, the imperial Roman Empire. Enter Christianity and the Bible in the time of Constantine, the result - the Roman Catholic Empire. Over a thousand years later, enter Protestantism and the Bible, the result - America the greatest example of Christian freedom. Freed from both pagan and ecclesiastical totalitarian tyranny.

Today in America, most have forgotten God (per the passage from Psalms cited above), THIS is the real answer to the question, “why are these kids wanting socialism.” Most of their parents have forgotten God...and our great Christian heritage of freedom, which comes from the Bible.

The charges against Servetus were that he rejected the Trinity in favor of Sabellian unitarianism, and that he rejected infant baptism. Eschatology wasn’t the issue.

>As all of Europe at that time was Amillennialist, both Catholic and Protestantism, as Premillennialism was yet to be discovered, of course eschatology was not the issue.

But Premillennialists such as myself, looking back to the time of Calvin, see Amillennialism a prime motivation behind the “purging” of the “kingdom of God,” meaning Protestant and Catholic Europe, of its alleged “heretics.” Though certainly not the only reason.

Also, thanks for bringing up infant baptism, another issue that Calvin was on the wrong side of, which I should have added to my list in my previous post.