I spent most of the day away from the news today. I had school to teach, then I made dinner, went to church, and was asked to visit a friend. When I did sit down to catch up on the day’s events, I found out that Barack Obama announced that he believes that Israel should go back to their pre-1967 borders. These borders would exclude places like the Garden of Gethsemene, Jesus’s tomb, and other sites that are important to Christianity – not to mention that it would leave Israel virtually indefensible.

I need to be clear here: I know that some nutjob says that the rapture is going to occur in two days, but he’s wrong: the Bible says that no man will know the day nor the hour of the rapture, and if it was on that day, that would make God a liar (I have a longer article on May 21 at Associated Content); however, the events described in the book of Revelation are near. I have a video that I need to review in the next day or so – it’s amazing, I’ve been a student of the end times for 15 years or so, but I still need to review the specifics every now and then. The events described in the Bible are being set up today.

The other thing that I think that it is important to point out is that God will not abandon Israel. Obama may think that he’s stamping out colonialism, but he’s really spitting in the face of God. God will not let the Jews be wiped out. In the book of Esther, the king signed a decree allowing people to wipe out the Jews on a certain day. Mordecai, Esther’s cousin, asked Esther to speak to the king, her husband, on behalf of her people. Esther was afraid to approach the king, because doing so uninvited could result in her death. Mordecai’s response was that she needed to speak up; if she didn’t tell anybody that she was a Jew, she would not escape unharmed. He added “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish.” (Esther 4:14)

Those words ring true today. We cannot remain silent. I’m certainly no Esther. God has not called me to be a princess; I’m not famous or powerful. The only thing that I do have is this small voice. I will what little I can. I will warn the few people that will hear. God will deliver the Jewish people. The Arabs may look like they have the upper hand, but anybody that opposed God is a fool. Just like God delivered the Jews in Esther’s day, he will deliver the Jews in our time. We can either be for them, and God might spare us, or we can be against them — if you are against them, and you do not feel the repercussions in this life, be sure that you will receive them in the eternity to come. Even if you are saved and on your way to Heaven, you are not off the hook. Even Christians will gain or lose rewards based on what they do in this life.

I stand with Israel. I trust that God will protect them, even if he has to rain down a miracle to do so. I expect to have more on this in the future, after I look more into the subject. It may be in the form of an article; but I’ll post a link here.

It seems as if the United States is trying to do the exact opposite. Michelle Obama mentioned it herself as she was on the campaign trail:

History is history. We might see it in a new light as time marches on (as I did by rereading this portion of the book), but it doesn’t change.

There’s a lot of kids, teenagers, and young adults that don’t understand history. For some, it’s a subject that people learn in school for the test and forget about it. I personally think that it’s important though. If we remember history, we can see patterns. We can see how history repeats itself. On a personal level, it can help you make decisions to help your family survive, or at least do a little better. It can also help you decide who to vote for.

I don’t want my history changed. I want to read about both the good and the bad parts.

While I was going through my storage shed the other day, I ran into some old books from 1900, including two of the volumes from America’s Story for America’s Children. They must have been my great-grandmother’s or something. I’m pretty excited to have found those books again. The books are interesting reading, and they haven’t been through any of the revisionism that some historians have participated in in the last few decades.

We can’t let history be taken away from us or from our children. That is one of the steps that the Soviet Union took when they took their citizen’s liberty. That is one of the steps that would be taken as our liberty dies.

This post really disturbed me: disturbing video. This post was awful in so many ways. It is awful what these people did. It is awful that only one old lady tried to help. The comments that people made about this incident are also disturbing.

So many people responded with racist comments. Many people responded with comments saying that all black people are like animals. Their posts really disturbed me. I know a lot of nice black people that don’t act like that. I know tons of Christian, conservative, Tea Party supporting black people who aren’t into the “black” culture. Yet when I responded in defense of my husband, kids, in-laws, Alan West, Herman Cain, and the like, I was called a disgusting individual.

It seems as if people like the Black Panthers and white supremacists want a race war. I’m sorry, but I am not going to go for that. Both the black sides and the white sides would want to kill me.

If black and white people did want to fight, obviously there is nothing I could do about it. I would be the enemy of both sides.

I was right about race relations deteriorating if Obama stunk. I hope I am not also right about my prediction that if I am not raptured, I will be killed, and I won’t die of natural causes. I had thought that I would be murdered for my Christian beliefs, but perhaps racists would want to kill me too.

It almost seems like we just started this nightmare of a presidency, when it’s time to start electing a new one. I suppose Obama won’t be spending as much time playing golf over the next couple of years at least. If you asked me about the candidates a couple of months ago, it would have seemed to me like more of the same (although perhaps not quite as bad), but that was before I first learned of Herman Cain.

Herman Cain knows how to get things done. He’s spent time running companies. He’s turned failing companies around. I doubt that he would be trying to impose requirements on small businesses to send out W-2s when they spent more than $600 at a particular business (fortunately that was struck down… it would have been pretty annoying to have to write W-2s to the grocery store, being a sole proprietor… unless that requirement only was for business-related expenses, of which I have almost none). I heard him speak on a local radio station around here. He has a lot to offer. According to Wikipedia, he helped bring down the Clinton Health Care Plan in the 1990s. The more I learn about him, the more I like him.

I know that people are talking about Donald Trump running, but the idea isn’t really all that exciting to me. I suppose I’d probably vote for him if he was running against Obama, but I’m not jumping for joy. Cain seems more likeable to me.

There has been a lot of talk lately about the Mahdi returning. He is also known as the 12th Imam. The Mahdi was an Imam that hid in a well around 874 AD. The hadith says that he will return at some point in the future, in a time where chaos reigned on the earth. The leader of Iran says that he has communicated with him, and evidently, Farrakhan thinks that his return is soon too.

In 2008 (also at the Savior’s day conference, I notice), Farrakhan proclaimed Obama to be the Messiah, or so it seemed. At the time, I mentioned that it is quite dangerous for Obama to let others call him the Messiah, as God has a way of dealing with people who allow others to think of them as God.

Last year, I discovered something very interesting: Barack Obama’s name is in the Bible. The Hebrew Bible uses the term Barack Bamah (okay, there’s no O there, but they also use the name Elias to talk about Elijah too, and Bamah is closer to Obama than Elias is to Elijah) in Luke 10:18. The term literally means “lightning high place”, which I interpret as “lightning from a high place.” In the verse, Jesus says “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven”. The term Barack Bamah is in the Hebrew version of the Bible; back in Bible days, Jesus actually used his name.

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist? Who knows? Judas Iscariot would be a good candidate for the Antichrist as well. We won’t know when we get there, but the way that the Moslems are talking about the arrival of the 12th Imam, and because the Mahdi has many characteristics that match those of the Antichrist of the Bible, it looks like his appearance may not be that far off.

Considering the political climate of the time, and that the name “Barack Bamah” is listed in the Bible in Luke 10:18, then it wouldn’t surprise me if Soros’s men try to take Obama out, Obama gets a wound to the head and nearly dies, or does die, but then he comes back and makes a full recovery. Imagine how many people would see him as the Messiah then!

Now, I hope that nothing happens to him, but if Soros is against you, that is very bad indeed.

When the debate was raging with regard to the health care bill, Sarah Palin remarked that she feared that nationalized health care could lead to death panels. Obama said that was crazy talk. Never mind that other countries that have nationalized care routinely deny drugs that are too expensive… or that the Netherlands actually encourages the euthanization of certain kinds of infants who would live a severely handicapped life.

Recently, an FDA Advisory panel voted against recommending the drug Avastin for use with breast cancer. They cited “effectiveness” as the reason, but many believe that the real reason is “cost effectiveness”. The drug costs $8,000 a month. A couple of recent studies claim that the drug will extend life for about one month; previous studies concluded that the drug would extend life by five months or more.

Some fear that this could be the start of “death panels” in the United States. Will other recommendations like this follow? Perhaps we will see more cases, like what happened to a woman in Oregon a year or so ago, where a $50 suicide pill was recommended because the state health system refused to pay for the $4000/month treatment that would keep her alive.

Of course, right now, if you have the $8000 a month to pay for the drug, paying for it yourself would be an option, even if the insurance company refuses to pay for it any more. I’m sure that in the future, that will be perceived as unfair. After all, why should the rich have access to life-saving care when nobody else does? Eventually, that option will probably be taken away from the rich (you can’t let them have an unfair advantage, after all).

Preventing illness is going to become more important than ever. I recommend Underground Wellness.com as a resource for learning how to live a healthier life.

As early as January 2008, I was talking about hyperinflation. I don’t know much about the Weimar Republic… I’ve been looking at books, but I’m not sure which would have the information I’m looking for. Many of the books focus on Hitler’s rise, but I’m more interested in how people lived. I once read a web site where gold was going for a trillion marks or more an ounce, but I can’t find that site any more.

The word of the day, however, is deflation. I’ve been hearing the word for about a month or two as I drive to church on Sunday mornings. I know that the government has been printing way too much money, so I’ve been preparing for hyperinflation. The truth is, we should be preparing for both.

So how do you prepare for both? You need to be in the best financial shape that you can be. Now, don’t tell me that you can’t… I’ve written before about my finances. I do realize that there are people in worse financial shape than me… homeless people, many illegal immigrants, many drug addicts, many alcoholics, and a few hard-working families that are down on their luck. My friends lived in a place for a while where people with income lower than ours lived; many of my friends’ neighbors were in those situations. We’re in a difficult situation because my husband, the breadwinner, is in college.

First comes deflation. This is where your loans are going to be super expensive. Stop using credit cards! Let’s say you bought a 16GB iPad today for $599 with your credit card. Credit cards are generally a ripoff anyway, in the best circumstances you’re going to pay way too much in interest for it, even with a slight bit of inflation. When deflation hits, that credit card bill will be harder to pay for. First, the iPad’s value will sink like a rock. Let’s say it halves in value, so it’s worth $300. Secondly, deflation causes your wages to fall. I’ve experienced that before: I once had an income which would amount to maybe $100k a year (I had free housing and utilities so it’s a little difficult to guage), and overnight our family started making about $30k. Bills that were once no sweat kept me up at night wondering how they were going to get paid. That $300 iPad that you still owe $550 on, with half your salary, won’t have easy payments any more.

Same thing comes for cars. Now, we do have a car payment at my house; I wish that we didn’t. We have one car that we bought about four years ago for $1400 cash; the door is falling apart, but it runs and it’s paid for. Our other car we have payments on. Fortunately, it’s 2/3 paid for, but if you ran out and bought a car on credit right now (let’s say you got that great new Chevy Volt), you might pay $35k after tax credits. Deflation kicks in, your car is eventually worth $20k; you still owe $34k on it, and suddenly you’re making half of what you used to (because you have to take a pay cut at your job). Not a pretty picture.

So to prepare for deflation, try to get out of debt. If you don’t have the money to buy something, don’t. Cash is worth a lot more during deflation, so saving is good, if you can manage it. If you have a car that runs, save your money until you can pay cash for one. The same goes true for buying a house. You might not be able to pay cash for one, but if you’re going to buy one, put a sizable down payment down.

But then inflation kicks in. The rules are a little bit different. If you knew how to time the bottom, you could get rich. Unfortunately, that’s very risky to do.

I once remember reading a story about a man who borrowed money to buy a herd of cattle in the period of the Weimar Republic. He paid off his debt with one of the cows after inflation set in. You could do this with gold if you could time it right. Unfortunately, most people who tried this would get killed by deflation.

However, if you can buy gold, silver, or junk silver, that’s one way to prepare for hyperinflation. While the dollar will lose value during hyperinflation, the actual value of gold will stay fairly constant. If you can buy a hamburger with the value of a junk silver coin today, you’ll be able to buy a hamburger with the value of a junk silver coin five years from now. Theoretically, the value of silver and gold should fall during deflation; however, there are plenty of people that know that hyperinflation is next, so I’m not sure if the value will go down. I cashed out my kids’ savings bonds a year ago and bought silver with the money; they’ve made about 25% profit in the last year. Gold has gone up about $50 an ounce since earlier this year as well. When hyperinflation kicks in, coins with actual value will still be worth something… that is, unless Obama outlaws the private ownership of gold. Then things like food will be worth something. You might want to stock up on food just in case.

No matter where you are financially, it’s time to get prepared. You don’t have to be George Soros to get in a better financial position. Pay off your debts, try to save a little, and don’t buy anything that you can’t afford unless it’s an absolute necessity.

All the great deals on school supplies are on. Yesterday, I finally got around to inventorying all our school and office supplies. I bought so many pencils for cheap last year, I didn’t need any. I didn’t need pens either. I had plenty of mechanical pencils too (the pens and mechanical pencils are for me and dh; dd uses pencils). I still had four boxes of crayons from last year; dd isn’t using crayons as much as she used to, and ds was still not using too many last year. So what I really needed was markers, a couple rulers, college ruled 1-subject notebooks (for me), and colored pencils. I could use a few more crayons and a few file folders too.

So I went shopping for school and office supplies for the upcoming year. Wal-Mart had a great deal on 1″ notebooks; our choir needed some, so I picked up 10. The aisles were busy with parents getting supplies for their kids.

Today, I had to go register dd for soccer. There were tons of other sports teams registering today too. As I pulled up, I saw a crowd of kids in football gear standing outside.

Getting ready for another school year and registering dd for soccer, watching all the other parents registering their kids for sports and buying school supplies, struck me as odd. On one hand, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. The people that want to see this country destroyed are in power. The prophecies regarding the last days are lining up to be fulfilled. Yet we are all buying school supplies and signing up our kids for sports like nothing is going on.

I guess you have to do that. There’s not much else you can do. It just seems a little weird planning for the future when it might not even arrive.

If you haven’t watched the video that I posted the other day containing the interview with the former KGB agent, I highly recommend it. It is 16 minutes long, but it will really show you where we are today and how fragile what we have currently is.

The question of the useful idiots is discussed in the interview, but I wanted to bring it up here.

First, what is a useful idiot? The term “useful idiot” was used in the old days of Soviet Russia. I hadn’t even heard of the term until the past year. It refers to people that support the cause of the Communist takeover, but aren’t in the power establishment.

People might choose to become useful idiots because they see the radicals winning, and figure that they better be on the winning side when the battle ends. They make this calculated move to further their own careers. For example, journalists, politicians, teachers, actors and directors tend to support the overhaul of America en masse. There are very few that stand with the Constitution and with the Founding Fathers.

So what happens to these useful idiots when Obama and his Weather Underground pals get their way and take over the country? Will they get the positions of power that they are hoping for?

Probably not, in many cases. It won’t be up to the masses to determine who gets the prime positions in this new society. It will be up to the people in power, like Bill Ayers, the Clintons, Obama, Al Gore, Van Jones, and the like. If you are not in with this group now, there is no assuming that you will have any part in leading the new Communist America. Dissent and complaining will not get you anywhere you want to be. It will get you into the modern-day gulag.

Years ago, my now-husband introduced me to the Dragonlance series of books. In the books, there is one recurring theme: “evil turns in upon itself”. Over the past several years, I have learned how true that theme is.

Think about drug dealers, the mafia, or gangsters. Do they peacefully interact? Or do they fight among each other, competing to see who will be top dog? Has one mafia member ever hurt or killed another in order to advance among the ranks? In my very backyard of Arizona, people end up kidnapped or killed because something goes wrong in their human trafficking operations. Heads literally roll through nightclubs right across the border because somebody is not happy with what is going on.

I know that I probably will end up in a death camp or something if/when this government takeover finally happens. I am way too stubborn. I can’t pledge allegiance to a godless government, nor can I renounce all that I believe in with all my heart. We already have people being denied degrees unless they renounce certain Christian principles, like the belief that homosexuality is wrong. I am thinking of one case in particular, but I think I also remember hearing of cases where scientists that didn’t believe in evolution were denied degrees (even if they were able to clearly articulate the theory… they not only had to know it, they had to believe it). I’m just going off the top of my head there.

The people that will survive will be the people that keep their head down and are willing to accept the new order. That’s not me. It also will probably not be most of the people that are supporting a Communist America, if they are expecting a reward for their efforts today.