The political world can be a very tempting luring trap, for many politicians and statements like the ones from SP’s spokesperson tells that they aren’t yet aware of the enemy’s golden trap set in waiting for a power-hungry child of God to step in it. Prayer for the nations, the USA and Canada, and all these kind European countries, in fact all nations on earth need divine intervention in opening the eyes of leaders on all fronts. Let them see how Satan is waiting, rubbing his hands, hoping they won’t see through the salve, but they need to before they relegate us all in a new direction that we do not want to go in.

I pray and hope that you are well. I’ve been reading your blog for the past one year and God has used many of the articles here to correct and sharpen me as never before. I thank Him for people like you and others. May the Lord keep you under His wing and clothed in Christ for the pleasure of His heart!

I usually don’t read so much news about politics, I’m no expert (not even an amateur concerning this subject) and I don’t live in US either. Nevertheless my eyes fell on this article and in a split-second remembered your prophecy about Sarah Palin.

Please see below the article from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/05/palin.reaction/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Is this the turnabout you saw?! I thought it was interesting.

Bless!

See whole article below:

Astounding. Risky. Quitter. And that’s what fellow conservatives had to say Sunday about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her decision to step down with 18 months left in her term.
Democrats left it to Republican and conservative voices to assess what Friday’s unexpected announcement by Palin means for her and a possible run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. For example, Vice President Joe Biden called it a personal decision, offering no analysis of why she did it.
By contrast, those on the political right acknowledged that they didn’t know what to make of it.
Karl Rove, the “architect” of George W. Bush’s successful presidential campaigns, said the resignation left many of Palin’s fellow Republicans “a little perplexed.”
“It’s a risky strategy,” Rove told “Fox News Sunday.”
“Astounding,” was the pronouncement by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and conservative columnist George Will said Palin was declaring herself a quitter.
Palin, who was Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, said she already knew she would not seek a second term and decided against being a lame duck governor for the next 18 months.
She also complained that too much time and too many taxpayer dollars were going toward fighting ethics investigations and that the mainstream media were continuing with unfair attacks on her and her family.
Some analysts believe that Palin will seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and that her resignation is intended to free her to prepare.
Rove, whom Bush dubbed “the Architect” for managing his successful presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004, said stepping down now won’t lessen the media spotlight on Palin. In fact, he said, leaving the governor’s office takes away her platform for controlling her agenda and message.
“The media, if she wants to run for president, is going to be following her for the next 3½ years,” said Rove, who called the move unclear and therefore a potentially harmful strategy for a politician. “Effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp. … It’s not clear what she’s doing and why.”
Grassley told the CBS program “Face the Nation” that he had “no insight into why she did it.”
“I would think, if you want to run for president — and I’m not sure that’s got anything to do with what she’s doing — that the forum of a governorship would be a better forum than just being a private citizen,” the veteran senator said.
Will told the ABC program “This Week” that he had “no idea why she did this.”
“The one that rings most hollow is, she doesn’t want to put Alaska through the terror of [her] being a lame-duck governor,” Will said. “If she is just weary of it, one can understand that. Still, she made a contract with [voters] to serve out her term. And she said, in her own words, she now is a quitter.”
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska criticized Palin’s decision as abandoning the state’s voters. Palin defeated Murkowski’s father the gubernatorial election in 2006.
But Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, also on the Fox program, said Sunday that Murkowski’s statement disappointed him because it failed to recognize all that Palin has accomplished in her 2½ years in office.
“She doesn’t need a title to effect change and bring some hope to people who need it,” said Parnell, a Republican who stands to become governor when Palin steps down this month.
Palin had no public appearances Sunday, but she encouraged her followers via Twitter to ignore the pundits.
“Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again,” her Twitter message said.
In an Independence Day message to supporters, Palin said she was leaving office for a “higher calling.”
“How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country,” Palin said in a statement attributed to her on her Facebook page. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.”
Palin said her administration had “accomplished more during this one term than most governors do in two.”
“We have accomplished so much, and there’s much more to do, but my family and I determined after prayerful consideration that sacrificing my title helps Alaska most,” she said. “And once I decided not to run for re-election, my decision was that much easier. I’ve never been one to waste time or resources.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, noted that Palin will remain in the media spotlight regardless of whether she is governor.
“The challenge that she’s going to have is that there will be people who will say, ‘Look, if they chased you out of this, it won’t get any easier at other levels,’ ” Huckabee said. “It could be a brilliant strategy. The point is, we don’t know.”
Huckabee called a presidential campaign “brutal” and said a Republican primary will ratchet up the pressure on Palin.
“When your opponents within your own team spend millions of dollars to redefine you, it’s very, very difficult,” Huckabee said.

Btw, Palin lost by a land slide. As did McCain.

Palin is a moron.

Socialism is more stable than capitalism and the socialist countries like Iceland are stable with a higher quality of life.

Starting her own PAC
Getting over 70% of Republican support
Keeping her name in the news
Talking about issues
Attacking Obama’s socialism
Embrasing Reagan’s ideals
Stumping in battleground states and the traditionally republican states that McCain lost in 2008 like Florida and Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

The Number of the Beast is described in the Book of Revelation 13:17-18. The original Greek reads:

καὶ ἵνα μή τις δύνηται ἀγοράσαι ἢ πωλῆσαι εἰ μὴ ὁ ἔχων τὸ χάραγμα, τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ θηρίου ἢ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ. Ὧδε ἡ σοφία ἐστίν· ὁ ἔχων νοῦν ψηφισάτω τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ θηρίου· ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου ἐστί· καὶ ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτοῦ χξϛʹ.

The King James translates:[5]

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

In the Greek manuscripts, the Number is rendered in Greek numerical form as χξϛʹ,[6] or sometimes literally as ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ, hexakósioi hexēkonta héx, “six hundred and sixty-six”.[7][8]

Scholars have speculated that the reference to this passage was a way of speaking in code about then contemporary figures about whom it would have been politically dangerous to criticize openly.
[edit] 616
The early Church father Irenaeus knew several occurrences of the 616-variant but regarded them as a scribal error and affirmed that the number 666 stood “in all the most approved and ancient copies” and is attested by “those men who saw John face to face”.[12]

Red arrow points to χιϛʹ (616) in P115 deciphered in May 2005.In May 2005, it was reported that scholars at Oxford University using advanced imaging techniques[13] had been able to read previously illegible portions of the earliest known record of the Book of Revelation(a 1,700 year old papyrus), from the Oxyrhynchus site, Papyrus 115 or P115, dating one century after Irenaeus. The fragment gives the Number of the Beast as 616 (chi, iota, stigma), rather than the majority text 666 (chi, xi, stigma).[1] The other early witness Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C) has it written in full: hexakosiai deka hex (lit. six hundred sixteen).[14]

Significantly, P115 aligns with Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C) which are generally regarded as providing the best testimony to Revelation. Thus, P115 has superior testimony to that of P47 which aligns with Codex Sinaiticus and together form the second-best witness to the Book of Revelation. This has led some scholars to conclude that 616 is the original number of the beast.[15][16]

Dr. Paul Lewes in his book, A Key to Christian Origins (1932) wrote:

“The figure 616 is given in one of the two best manuscripts, C (Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, Paris), by the Latin version of Tyconius (DCXVI, ed. Souter in the Journal of Theology, SE, April 1913), and by an ancient Armenian version (ed. Conybaere, 1907). Irenaeus knew about it [the 616 reading], but did not adopt it (Haer. v.30,3), Jerome adopted it (De Monogramm., ed. Dom G Morin in the Rev. Benedictine, 1903). It is probably original. The number 666 has been substituted for 616 either by analogy with 888, the [Greek] number of Jesus (Deissmann), or because it is a triangular number, the sum of the first 36 numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6…+36 = 666)”.[17]

Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. Dr. Ellen Aitken said: “Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast. It’s probably about 100 years before any other version.”[18]

616 also coincides with an alternative spelling of Nero

The bible is a political document of the time it was written. The content of the bible does not represent proof of anything.

There are some legacy issues – the Church has just (1962)apologised for burning people at the stake because they claimed the earth went round the sun. At some point in the future other apologies will have to be given for the intolerance of views expressed towards evolution etc. Religion can find a home in those who have some developed some belief system as the basis of their moral value set. Other value sets have and will evolve independently of a belief in deities.

Religion will eventually evolve away from its current forms because the increasing education of the population will make societies more secular. Reliogion will adapt as it always does

Palin creates SarahPAC Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:19 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: Republicans
From NBC’s Norah O’Donnell

In a sign Sarah Palin wants to continue to be a player on the national political stage, the Alaska Governor has started a new political action committee to raise funds, SarahPAC.

The PAC is registered in Virginia and is modeled after HillPAC, Hillary Clinton’s former political committee. Palin’s committee allows her to raise money for other Republicans.

According to the Web site, the committee will also support Palin’s “plans to build a better, stronger, and safer America in the 21st century.”

Palin continues to have a huge political following. As of noon today, she has 464,000 friends on Facebook.com.

Gardner argues that were God to start preventing some deadly accidents, he would have to prevent all such accidents, resulting in chaos. The reality is far worse than that. Since believers give credit to God for answering their prayers when they are saved from catastrophe or illness, they have to explain why he answered their prayers and not those other people’s prayers, why he saved these children from a tsunami and not those other children. Any believer who today thanks God for making sure that his coronary bypass operation was successful has to explain why God allowed at least 37 peasants to be buried in a Guatemalan landslide on Sunday. Such an explanation requires either extraordinary narcissism on the believer’s part or positing capricious injustice on the part of God.