I am not particularly good at predicting the future. But here we are at the beginning of a new year. So why not?
It seems to me things could go either of two ways: more bad, or good at last. Of course I would prefer good at last. And we know the good will come at last (read Revelation). But timing isn’t up to me.
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| my favorite New Year quote |
More Bad
It’s a presidential election year, and it’s a strange one.
The leading Republican candidate—by overwhelming percentage points, such that
no one else really needs to bother—is former President Donald Trump. Maybe the
challengers are hanging on in hopes of something untoward happening to Donald
Trump, or because they think their “next in line” status might boost them to
the VP slot, which is not going to be offered to Mike Pence ever again. Or
maybe they are simply oblivious to reality, blinded by their own glaring
narcissism.
That means the upcoming primary election for the Republicans
will be fairly simple. It’s only two months away (with some variation by
state). It should go smoothly, if polling is even in the ballpark of accurate.
And yet, the desperation of the Democrat (and anti-Trump
Republican) efforts to prevent the obvious and inevitable is startling. I lose
count, but I think there are five lawsuits against Trump underway right now,
timed to interfere with the primary season and the rest of the election year. (Read
more here.) You would think that, in even a single unprecedented lawsuit against a former
president—who is currently a candidate—evidence would have to be so
overwhelming that no one would even question the verdict. And yet, every single
case is a ticky-tack, invented “crime.”
For example, Trump supposedly committed fraud—according to New
York State—by overestimating the value of his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, which he used to secure business loans.
The court’s estimate of that property is preposterously low. The banks who
loaned money based on Trump’s estimate were satisfied with the estimate, might
have estimated the value even higher, and regardless were willing to make the
loans—which were repaid with interest. So there is a disagreement about the
value of a property; there was no fraud. There was no one harmed or injured
monetarily or otherwise. There is no crime. And it certainly was no business of
a New York state court to invent one just so they could prosecute the former
President and current presidential candidate during the critical election year.
Another one, the classified documents case, is a disagreement about whether the former President can possess his own documents, or whether the National Archives should hold them. And they used a SWAT team at the former President’s residence, attempting to make it look like he was in the act of selling America’s secrets to enemy nations. (I wrote more here.)
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| The FBI spread out materials on the floor and implied President Trump was mishandling classified materials, during the Mar-a-Lago raid, August 2022, image from Wikipedia |
Meanwhile, multiple stashes of classified documents were
found in the possession of Biden—from when he was VP and a US Senator—both
positions that did not entitle him to take any classified documents away from a
secure location. And there is evidence, particularly in the University of Pennsylvania
stash, that China paid for Biden to have a position there, where he never
taught a class or did anything to merit millions of dollars, but coincidentally
staffers paid for by Chinese donations just happened to get hired on by the
Biden administration. Did the Chinese get access to those documents in exchange
for their payments? Or did they just get influence?
I’m not an investigative reporter. If I know about these
things, then they are known by other reporters (read more here; also, John Sullivan
did good reporting on the University of Pennsylvania/China connection), and by
government officials.
What I’m saying is, those who do the wrongdoing are
desperately trying to retain their power, and greatly fear a return of
President Trump—now that he knows their secrets, because of their conspiring so
obviously against him and against the American people.
So, how far will they go? Every time they indict Trump, his poll numbers go up. The American people—and especially conservatives—are law-abiding. So the assumption had been, if he’s indicted, and especially if he’s convicted of something—anything—then his base will abandon him. And that hasn’t happened. People who care about the rule of law aren’t fooled by people who use lawfare as a weapon against them.
If the lawsuits won’t work, there’s taking him off the
ballot. But that can’t stand, because it disenfranchises hundreds of thousands,
maybe millions, of voters in each of those states—for no legal reason. We have
had presidential candidates on the ballot when they were in prison. We have had
presidential candidates who have been accused of crimes. That is not a constitutionally
disqualifying factor. This will probably be decided by the Supreme Court.
Although it’s always worrisome when the preservation of our Constitution
depends on the opinions of nine unelected judges, at least we have more
somewhat-conservatives on the Court—because of Donald Trump.
The attempt to invoke the 14th Amendment—which
was intended to prevent leaders of the Confederacy from running for US
President right after the Civil War—requires convincing the country that
President Trump committed insurrection—while he was President (thus
insurrecting against himself), engaging in investigations into the legality of
the election, which it is his duty to protect. They have to label an event that
wasn’t an insurrection, just to stir people up, and they have to convince
people that asking for peaceful assembly—and later “go home in peace”—was
really telling people, by dog-whistle message, to attack the government and
stage a coup. Except, there isn’t even an accusation of insurrection in any of
the court cases or impeachments against him—because there wasn’t an
insurrection.
Meanwhile, there was this insurrection in the US Capitol, which included a US Congresswoman. And this one in the California State
Capitol. Don’t expect to see consequences for the participants in these unlawful
acts.
So, if taking him off the ballot fails, what else will they
try? If they truly believe Trump is Hitler—and their rhetoric certainly
portrays him that way (despite the lack of millions of deaths, or authoritarian
rule, as they are attempting)—would they try to assassinate him? Tucker Carlson
has mentioned it. Others probably as well. But would the Deep Staters dare do
that, when it is so obvious that they are conspiring against him?
They aren’t clear, logical thinkers. So I wouldn’t put it
past them. But I hope not.
They might try stealing the election again. But usually that
only works when the margin of error is small, and when it can be turned by a
limited number of places—as in 2020. With 10-point leads, any election
tampering—especially when we’re watching, because we saw what they did before—is
going to be clumsy and obvious.
So what else will they try? Another pandemic, so serious
that they have to “call off the election for the sake of our safety”? I don’t
think we’ll buy that, after all the COVID lies. Will they come up with some
other disaster?
I don’t know what to picture. But if more bad continues, I can’t envision an election actually happening in November.
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| My Patriot Supply, among others, is predicting a "black swan event" in 2024, image from here |
I’m not the only one wondering these things. People are
starting to use the term “black swan event,” meaning something unforeseen and
unpredictable will happen. (There was this mention by Catherine Herridge a
little over a week ago. This came up on social media group today; the interviewee suggests it might take the form of a major cyber attack in
October.) The thing is, you shouldn’t be able to expect a black swan event, but
we’re using the term in predictions—because it’s so likely they’ll try to come
up with something, since for them another Trump presidency would end life as
they know it (they term this “ending democracy,” in hopes that will fool people).
Meanwhile, we need to keep calm and carry on, as the saying
goes.
Good at
Last
What if good at last actually happens. What might
that look like?
In our country, maybe Biden will become too nonfunctional
for them to trot out “Weekend at Bernie’s” style. This seems a likely
possibility between now and November. The other possibility is that the growing
evidence of his influence peddling as a family business will be seen for the
treason that it is, and he will be thrown out. Then what? By law, his VP would
be required to step in for the remainder of the term. But that is such a
distasteful possibility, I think those now covering for and propping Biden up are
assuming they can do that endlessly.
Or maybe his failure will come right about at the time of
the Democrat convention, and they’ll just throw out all the Dem Primary votes
in the country and come out of the convention with whomever the Deep Staters
want—an absolute failure such as Gavin Newsome (note his debate with Ron DeSantis) or the never-run-anything-in-her-life-but-is-a-perfect-shill-for-Barack,
Michelle Obama. With only two months in front of the people, maybe they could
hide how ineffectual, Marxist, and America-hating she is.
OK, none of that looks like good at last yet.
What if the Deep State got completely uncovered—all the
names, all the information? And they all had to leave in disgrace? Every last
conspirator against the Constitution! Sweet justice! That would be nice.
Do I picture it happening? It is happening.
This week a list of Epstein names came up. This wasn’t the “black book”; according to Kash Patel, that’s being held by the FBI—for, um, security purposes. This was just the Ghislaine Maxwell trial transcripts with names no longer redacted (except names of victims, which are still redacted). There may be a few new names, but so far nothing earthshaking. Headlines declared that Trump was on the list, but that was for the ignorant. If you read, you find out he is exonerated. He never went to the island. He expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years before Epstein’s first trial. Trump cooperated with investigators into Epstein. And testimony from witnesses in the trial, after being asking repeatedly if they had seen Trump at any of Epstein’s places, was that they had never seen him.
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| screenshot of X post of summary of massive election fraud in the 2020 election |
Another news item today is the disclosure of election fraud
evidence—by Trump. An X account of KanekoaTheGreat was forwarded to me. This very long thread starts with an overall summary of the import of this
information. Then it goes into a more detailed summary of problems in Georgia.
There’s so much wrong with that election that it should never have been
certified. That’s as far as I’ve read so far. But next come Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
Arizona, and Michigan. I’ve been following election fraud details all along
(read here, here, here, here, here, and here), but these include things I hadn’t been aware of.
The evidence has been there, and accumulating, all along. It
has never been allowed to be shown in court—where the American people could see
it. So it appears Trump is doing what he does: taking it directly to the
people. Expect mainstream media to ignore it.
At some point, though, things have to be made right. The
description in Revelation is that Babylon falls in an hour (Revelation
18). And the Savior fights His own battles—actually, it looks like, despite
any actual battles being carried out in Armageddon, in the end, His power is so
great that the battles are simply ended. Possibly His glory “burns” the wicked
(symbolically or literally, or maybe both).
And then the survivors (the decent, upright people of the
earth) will establish order according His righteous rule.
That will happen. This year? I don’t know. But, with our
world in the mess it’s in, this would be a good time for rescue. And there are
some reasons to consider the possibility. For one, there’s a war going on in
Israel; that seems like it could escalate any moment into Armageddon.
There’s an eclipse coming up in April—the third in a series over the US, the combined paths of totality forming an aleph, the first letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet. The first was September 2017, the second October 2023. The April 8, 2024, eclipse falls on the eve of Nissan 1, the beginning of the Jewish new calendar year. Maybe that’s a significant sign in the heavens. It’s not too far into the future for us to wait and see.
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| Three eclipses over the US form a Hebrew letter aleph, image is a screenshot from here |
We did that for the 1290 days mentioned in Daniel 12,
counting from the closing of the temples worldwide in March 2020 until October
7, the day of the Hamas attack on Israel. Counting the 1335 days mentioned in the
next verse of Daniel—guessing that was a concurrent count, rather than
sequential—took us to November 21, 2023, when there was a temporary ceasefire
to return many of those who had been kidnapped. Was that a big enough thing for
Daniel to have mentioned all those centuries ago? I don’t know. I’m continuing
to watch and wait.
Incidentally, five months from November 21 takes us to the
eve of Passover, April 21, 2024, which seems significant. What could happen in
five months? Revelation 9 mentions a time of torment for five months:
“and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.”
It’s going to sting. But not to fear if you’re among the righteous, described
as “grass of the earth,” “any green thing”, or “any tree,” along with those who
have covenanted their allegiance to God, “have the seal of God in their
foreheads.”
So there’s going to be something that stings the
unrighteous. They’ll want to die and be unable to. I don’t know how to picture
this. Descriptions of the “sting” include locusts shaped like horses prepared
for battle (armored swarms), with crowns (royalty or government power), hair of
women, teeth of lions. I don’t know what that all means. But these scary
stinging locust plagues, as John the Revelator saw them, “had tails like unto
scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt
men five months.”
We’re a month and a half into this particular five months,
since November 21st, and I don’t see this plague stinging the
unrighteous. But maybe it is happening in a way I don’t see or understand. Or (more
likely) maybe that five-month plague will happen some other time.
Still, things are happening. There are earthquakes, floods,
lightning strikes, solar flares, volcanic eruptions. More than usual? You have
to know what’s usual. YouTuber Christian Homestead puts all kinds of things
into a spreadsheet—including various natural disasters. It’s accessible in the
description of each of his videos. It looks to me like these sorts of disasters are becoming more frequent, and
maybe more intense.
One point Jared of Christian Homestead makes is that,
however things happen, they’re likely to look natural, such that people who
don’t want to believe can ascribe some other explanation—like climate change,
for example.
Mr. Spherical Model has pointed out that, if the Second
Coming is to “come as a thief in the night,” then looking for really obvious
events that everyone can see is probably not going to work.
It may be more like the wise men who looked for the Star of
Bethlehem. They knew what to look for, and approximately when to expect it.
Other people who were not looking probably shrugged and thought, “Huh, that
star is kind of bright. I don’t remember that one being there,” and then going
back to their oblivious lives instead of celebrating the Savior’s birth.
What we should expect is that the Second Coming will come in
a time of great evil (check). When evil is called good and good is called evil
(check). When there are “beasts,” one representing collusions of power
spreading across the globe, supported by a second, lying beast that makes the
first beast seem powerful. I’d say the Deep State and its corollaries around
the world, supported by a combination of media and academia that lie to support
the other “beast” is about as clear as any of the symbolic descriptions in
Revelation (so, check).
That means the world not going to get better on its own.
It’s not likely to get better just because many of us are working in our
communities—and working with governments at all levels—to make things better.
We need to do those things. But it’s more to declare our allegiance to God than
it is to personally win the war against evil.
So, predicting this year: either more bad will keep
happening—and we’ve grown accustomed to things not being made right. Or good
at last will happen, and all things will be made right, which I
think will only happen if this is the year the Savior returns. That would be
the brightest outlook for a year that otherwise looks to be both frustrating
and scary.
As a line from one of our hymns says, “There is hope smiling
brightly before us, and we know that deliverance is nigh.”
May this be the year that we witness good at last.
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