Political Omen

There are a few references to taxes and paying taxes in the New Testament, such as Matthew 22:17, Mark 12:14, plus Romans 13:6-7. According to Luke 3:12-13, tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to Jesus: "Teacher, what shall we do?" And Jesus replied: "Collect no more than is appointed you."

So much for over-taxation......whether pertaining to income tax, property tax, sales tax, or gasoline tax!

Speaking of raising the gasoline tax, as one major-city-newspaper pro-abortion-homicide pro-homogay-pervert pro-evolution-mythology editorialist of the Twin Cities advocated, such a tax raise would NOT cause drivers to drive slower, NOR to drive less, NOR to cause roads to be repaired, NOR significantly solve Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" global-warming dilemna, NOR decrease terrorism by less dependence upon foreign oil imports. What would cause less gasoline consumption is for lower speed limits to be posted everywhere - especially along non-local-neighborhood highways - and vigorously enforced by cops without the underhanded imposition of non-marked police cars.

Concerning the secular media, and politics related to such, names pop up now and then which we are inclined to associate with possible correlation to endtime prophecies of Scripture.

For example, when we read this:

"In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries" (Daniel 11:21)

we think of antisemitic "Ahmanofjihad" [who has flattered Bush by calling Bush "Sovereign" and wanting to chat with him], which "Ahmanofjihad" publicly declared his desire to "wipe Israel from the face of the map." Relating to that, it is not a question of Bush punishing the president of Iran for wanting to get and have the non-imaginary "weapons of mass destruction" that the United States has, but rather the fact of the Bush administration wisely not resuming diplomatic relations with nor allowing uranium enrichment by a dangerous leader of an already-militarily-equipped country who wants "Israel wiped off the face of the map." Christ Jesus would have done the same as Bush has done, because us knowledgeable and enlightened ones (contrasted with asinine and ignorant lips-flapping blattering fools) already well know how God feels according to His Old Testament about those who would harm and destroy His chosen people.

To give another example, when we read this:
"As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings" (Daniel 7:24)

we speculate that those three kings might be Saddam of Iraq, Iran's Ahmadinejad and Assad of Syria....or the so-called presidents of Fatah, Hezbollah, and the PLO.

Though the world press spread disdain against the now-hung Saddam Hussein who allegedly lobbed SCUD missiles into Haifa and Tel Aviv during Gulf War I, harbored terrorist training camps in Iraq, paid off anti-Israel suicide-bomber families, and threatened OPEC for supplying America with foreign oil......the Devil's media is not at all harsh againt the present leader of Iran. When we read in Revelation chapter 13 of the beast of whom people boastfully declare: "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?" we remember Yahoo News and Associated Press puffing with publicity the purported continuing uranium enrichment processing plants of defiant Ahmadinejad [established by Iran's Ayatollah] which nobody seems to be doing anything about, at present. [One of the causes of the lack of punitive action against Iraq (contrasted with the Coalition's invasion of Saddam's Iraq) is that uranium enrichment could be used for commercial nuclear power generating plants instead of making bombs with the radioactive stuff].

We also read in Revelation chapter 13 of the lamb-like ["peace"-making] false prophet with "two horns" (the United Nations and the European Union?) which "peace"-treaty-concocting false prophet has both military and economic-control teeth, pertaining to fireworks-spectacular SDI technology plus restricting all worldwide economic transactions involving anti-terrorist security-marking with "666." Javier Solana (who does not speak for the United States!) seems to be the current likely fulfilment, with his six-letters-each first and last names.

Protect-America U.S. patriot George Bush is not likely to hand over Christian?-America's sovereignty to the European Union and Solana who deals with euros and not dollars. However, if Israel signs into the European Neighborhood bandwagon for the deceptive promise of peace with antisemitic arabs who intend to require Jews to leave the Israel's Promised Land, that could bring Israel's ally (the United States) into pactual cooperation....and construction of world government under Antichrist would be well underway.

Such global government would, by constitutionally-mandated international treaty, override In-God-We-Trust U.S. sovereignty and whoever is in the White House at the time.

History reminds us, however, that the name Adolf Hitler was in the process of becoming more and more widely known long before the Fuehrer entered the Reichstag and became a significant driving force in Europe and beyond during the 40s.