Revelation 6:3-4 (KJV)
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power (G1325) was given to him that sat thereon to take (G2983) peace (G1515) from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great (G3173) sword (G3162).
*G1325 – δίδωμι – to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection)
Derivation: a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternative in most of the tenses); KJV Usage: adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.
*G2983 – λαμβάνω – a prolonged form of a prime verb which is only used as an alternative in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively [properly objective or actively, to get hold of; whereas 1209 is rather subjective, or passive, to have offered to one; while G138 is more violent, to seize or remove]) KJV Usage: accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).
*G1515 – εἰρήνη – peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity
Derivation: probably from a primary verb εἴρω (to join); KJV Usage: one, peace, quietness, rest, + set at one again.
*G3173 – μέγας – big (literally or figuratively, in a very wide application)
Derivation: (including the prolonged forms, feminine μεγάλη, plural μεγάλοι, etc.; compare also G3176, G3187); KJV Usage: (+ fear) exceedingly, great(-est), high, large, loud, mighty, + (be) sore (afraid), strong, X to years.
*G3162 – μάχαιρα – a knife, i.e. dirk; figuratively, war, judicial punishment.
Derivation: probably feminine of a presumed derivative of G3163; KJV Usage: sword.
>G3163 – μάχη – a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy. Derivation: from G3164; KJV Usage: fighting, strive, striving.
>>G3164 – μάχομαι – to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute
Derivation: middle voice of an apparently primary verb; KJV Usage: fight, strive.
On The Domestic Side
Came in shortly after posting last weeks update:
Quitness, Rest?!?!
2 NJ cops shot by sniper from high position: Report
Prosperity?!?!
Illegal migrants attack CBP agents while waving huge Venezuelan flag; video shows CBP response
Judicial Punishment!
From the article:
….American voters have seen the evidence of that already, when the FBI colluded with Democrats to fabricate the now-debunked “Russiagate” conspiracy theory against President Trump.
That featured some key FBI personnel openly boasting to each other that they would not let Trump become president. Their fabrications even were used as evidence in court filings requesting permission to do additional spying on the Trump campaign, and they were so egregious that the court, when it discovered the deceptions, reversed some of those permissions.
Further, the FBI staged an armed SWAT-type raid on Trump’s home recently in what appears to be a dispute over custody of paperwork from his presidency.
Now Fox News has reported on, and posted online, a report from House Republicans that details whistleblower allegations about misconduct and more.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken,” the report charges. “The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy.”
The authors from the House Judiciary Committee point out that the evidence undermines “the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission.”
It has evidence from whistleblowers who say the FBI leadership in Washington is “rotted at its core” and there is “rampant corruption, manipulation and abuse.”
It describes multiple situations of “political bias against conservatives,” Fox explained.
Some of the evidence already was known, such as that the FBI is “artificially inflating statistics about domestic violence extremism to fit the White House narrative on supposed dangers to democracy or that counterterrorism authorities were instructed to investigate parents who spoke out at school board meetings,” the report explained.
The agendas now are being directed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI chief Christopher Wray, who lead the government operations.
The evidence also indicates the FBI actively is trying to “purge” employees who are conservative as well as those who disagree with the managers’ “woke” agenda of diversity and “equity” ideas.
One episode, the report says, involves an agent who was told “child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority…”
The problems previously had been revealed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who have sought from the agencies answers to the whistleblower complaints.
The report calls for results: “Americans deserve to have confidence that the enormous power and reach of federal law enforcement will be used fairly and free of any indication of politicization. The FBI has the power, quite literally, to ruin a person’s life — to invade their residence, to take their property, and even to deprive them of their liberty.
“The potential abuse of this power, or even the appearance of abuse, erodes the fundamental principle of equality under the law and confidence in the rule of law.”…
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Significate Leftover?
Controversy?!?!
Jamie Raskin Claims Defending Ukraine Is About LGBTQ Rights
From the article:
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says that any decreased support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia is the same as an attack on the sacred woke values of the Democratic Party.
“Moscow right now is … a world center of antifeminist, antigay, anti-trans hatred, as well as the homeland of replacement theory for export,” said Raskin in a recent statement.
His words came only days after thirty Democrat colleagues sent a now-withdrawn letter to President Joe Biden calling for a ceasefire in Eastern Europe.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says that any decreased support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia is the same as an attack on the sacred woke values of the Democratic Party.
“Moscow right now is … a world center of antifeminist, antigay, anti-trans hatred, as well as the homeland of replacement theory for export,” said Raskin in a recent statement.
His words came only days after thirty Democrat colleagues sent a now-withdrawn letter to President Joe Biden calling for a ceasefire in Eastern Europe.
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{Just can’t make this stuff up!}
More strife, disputes and war to come!
3 More Major Wars That Could Suddenly Erupt In 2023
From the article:
Are we going to see more war in the months ahead? Both sides just continue to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, but it may soon have to share top billing as more wars suddenly erupt around the globe.
Now that it looks like Benjamin Netanyahu will be returning to power in Israel, a major confrontation with Iran is seemingly closer than ever. Meanwhile, tensions between North Korea and South Korea have risen to the highest level in my entire lifetime.
Most people don’t realize this, but the North Koreans are poised to launch an invasion at all times. All they need is an opportunity, and that may come when China invades Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping recently reaffirmed his commitment to “reunification” with Taiwan, and officials in the western world are warning that this could come sooner rather than later.
As I detail in my brand new book entitled “End Times”, we truly are living in a time of “wars and rumors of wars”. Let us hope that the potential wars that I just listed can be delayed for as long as possible, because the death and destruction that they would cause would be off the charts.
Personally, I am so glad that Yair Lapid has been defeated and that Benjamin Netanyahu will be the next prime minister of Israel.
But without a doubt, it also brings war between Israel and Iran much closer.
For years, Netanyahu has pledged that he will never allow Iran to develop their own nuclear weapons…
“Iran has never given up its quest for nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them,” Netanyahu said. “I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of elminating Israel.”
Unfortunately, the IAEA says that Iran has now reached a point where they could potentially create their own nukes.
So the clock is ticking….
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Strife?!?!
From the article:
…”Some of us remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 or the Checkpoint Charlie Crisis of 1961 in Berlin,” he said. “They look, on the surface, to be more dangerous. But we know from the archives that neither Khrushchev nor Kennedy were willing to use their most destructive weapons.
“We don’t know that about three individuals right now,” said Chang, who has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department and the Department of Defense, and testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
“All three of them have been making threats – first strike threats – with their nuclear weapons, both strategic and tactical,” he said.
“This moment, where we see the Russians desperate, where we see the Chinese political system in distress, where we see a North Korea that is quite fragile – these leaders have incentives to do things that could take us by surprise.”…
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Escalating strife?!?!
China warns reported US plan for B-52 bombers in Australia could ‘trigger arms race’
More controversy?!?!
Here Are The US Troops In Europe Supporting Ukraine
From the article:
…“I don’t see a distinction — boots on the ground or military personnel — regardless of what they’re doing. And that’s always been the way it’s been defined,” Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the DCNF.
The Defense Department’s personnel data center shows 16 active duty servicemembers in Ukraine as of June 30.
In December 2020, there were 38 military personnel in Ukraine, “probably all at the embassy and half consisting of the Marine guard,” whose return to the Kyiv embassy has not been confirmed but are a standard presence at U.S. embassies, Cancian explained.
To properly track U.S. assistance to Ukraine could require a body equivalent to the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the organization tasked with monitoring Afghanistan reconstruction assistance, experts told the DCNF. SIGAR recorded 189 staff members, including at least 30 for in-country operations before the U.S. military withdrawal, according to the latest public budget document.
“I can’t imagine anything less than 50 would even put a dent in the process,” Davis told the DCNF….
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Exceeding Fear!
‘The Big One Is Coming’: Ukraine ‘Just The Warmup’, Says US Nuclear Commander
From the article:
One of America’s most senior military commanders who oversees the US nuclear weapons program has urged the United States to dramatically upgrade its defense capabilities, warning that the China was developing nuclear weapons faster than the U.S. and adding: ‘The big one is coming’.
Navy Adm. Charles A. Richard, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, issued an unusually blunt warning on Wednesday, saying that China’s nuclear threat was a ‘near-term problem’.
‘As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking,’ Richard said.
‘It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are…’…
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Zechariah 13:7-9
Awake, O sword (H2719), against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
*H2719 – חרב – chereb – kheh’-reb – From H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement. KJV Usage: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
>H2717 – חרב חרב – chârab chârêb – khaw-rab’,khaw-rabe’ – A primitive root; to parch (through drought), that is, (by analogy) to desolate, destroy, kill. KJV Usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy (-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Come out of Babylon for her judgement is near!
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