Trump Administration Slams Russia and Warns Israel

By Julio Severo

In her first appearance as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, Nikki Haley blamed Russia for the recent surge of violence in eastern Ukraine and warned sanctions against Russia will not be lifted until Moscow returns Crimea to Kiev.

Nikki Haley

Her remarks came amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is changing his intentions towards Russia. Throughout his campaign, Trump had praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed a wish for improved relations between the two countries.

On Thursday Putin accused Ukraine of starting the latest escalation to get from the Trump administration the same support it got from the Obama administration.

Ukraine is concerned that Trump could revoke the sanctions Obama had imposed on Russia. Allegedly, the sanctions were over Crimea, but Dr. Scott Lively has exposed that Obama’s real reason was the Russian law banning homosexual propaganda to children.

The Russian annexation of Crimea was a direct answer to the neocon coup in Ukraine funded by the left-wing billionaire George Soros.

“The Ukrainian leadership needs money, and the best way to get the EU, the U.S. and international organizations to pay is by posing as a victim of aggression,” Putin said.

Yet, Russia was not the only nation warned by the Trump administration. On Thursday, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reiterating his support for the settlements, the Trump administration was condemning them. According to the Jerusalem Post,

“The White House warned Israel on Thursday — in a surprising statement — to cease settlement announcements that are ‘unilateral’ and ‘undermining’ of President Donald Trump’s effort to forge Middle East peace.”

The Jerusalem Post explained that the Thursday statement is a change from recent actions by Trump, saying,

“Under Trump’s leadership, reference to a two-state solution was removed from the Republican Party platform over the summer, and the president’s envoy to Israel has publicly supported the settlement enterprise.”

Now, for the first time, the Trump administration declared that its intention is an Israeli State and Palestinian State in the land of Israel. The White House said,

“The United States remains committed to advancing a comprehensive final-status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that results in two states living side-by-side in peace and security.”

The only explanation for such dramatic changes in Trump’s actions and words is pressure from neocons. Even though Trump has spoken against neocons throughout his campaign, his change in foreign affairs is a sign that he is under pressure to follow the same neocon agenda of Obama and Bush.

His domestic policies are rallying fabulous support among conservatives within the United States, especially on pro-life issues, even though Trump said that he will keep in place Obama’s homosexualist laws.

Perhaps his foreign policy may prevail against neocons and be different from Obama and Bush, if he listens to his charismatic advisers.

Trump praying with evangelicals, including charismatics

While his administration was criticizing Russia and Israel, Trump was attending the National Prayer Breakfast, with televangelist Paula White at his right hand.

Trump and White have been friends for 15 years.

Trump helping charismatic televangelist Paula White to take her seat at his side

Highly acclaimed evangelist Rick Warren spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. 

Trump posted a picture of himself and his inner circle praying and he wrote alongside the image: “Moment of prayer last night after my nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.”

Trump received an estimated 80 per cent of the evangelical vote. He was heavily supported by televangelists, and he pledged them to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest network of abortion clinics in the world.

Trump supporter Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr, president of the Virginia-based Liberty University, a non-profit Christian institute, told the Washington Post: “I think Trump is more one of us. He’s not an elitist. He doesn’t look down his nose at evangelicals and Christians and conservatives. I’m very shocked by how accessible he is to so many. He answers his cellphone any time of the day or night.”

The only hope now is that evangelicals who are close to Trump use their opportunities to encourage him to follow his own speech on neocons and avoid the same pitfalls in the foreign policy that Obama and Bush fell into.

The Trump administration should not warn Israel for occupying the land God gave to Jews, not to Palestinians. This is an Israeli, not an American, business.

And he should not keep the unnecessary meddling that Obama made in the relationship Russia has with Crimea. This is a Russian, not an American, business.

If evangelicals cannot help Trump, neocons will keep him in the disastrous orbit of Obama’s and Bush’s foreign policy.

With information from FoxNews, Jerusalem Post, Reuters, DailyMail and CBN.

Portuguese version of this article: Governo Trump critica severamente a Rússia e dá aviso para Israel

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Gay “Marriage”: Obama Lied, Rick Warren Believed

By Julio Severo

Barack Obama “deceived” Pastor Rick Warren during the 2008 presidential election in an appearance at Warren’s Saddleback Church, where Obama said, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”

David Axelrod, who served as a top White House adviser after helping Obama get elected, said Obama lied when he publicly stated his opposition to same-sex “marriage” in 2008. In his new book, “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,” Axelrod writes that he knew Obama supported gay “marriage.”

The real Obama said in 1996, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”

Longtime Obama adviser Axelrod writes in his new memoir that Obama followed his advice that he should not declare his real position on gay “marriage” so he could avoid opposition from African American religious leaders and others to get elected president in 2008. He said Obama “modified his position” to say he supported civil unions — but not same-sex “marriage.”

Obama feigned opposition to gay “marriage” for most of his political career, compromising his true beliefs out of concern it could hurt him with voters.

But as president in 2010 he returned publicly to his original position.

Axelrod writes in “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics” that he told the future president in 2008 that he should hide the ball and deceive the American public for political purposes.

Axelrod had been also hired to help build Aécio Neves candidacy for the 2014 Brazilian presidential election campaign. Sadly for Brazil, both Neves and incumbent Dilma Rousseff are members of pro-homosexuality parties. It is not known how Axelrod taught his Brazilian candidate to hide the ball and deceive the Brazilian public for political purposes, but he lost.

Sadly for America, Axelrod’s U.S. candidate never lost.

How can Brazilian and American voters choose candidates according to pro-family values if they are deceived? And they have been deceived especially in homosexual issues, including homosexual “marriage.”

Ancient Jewish tradition holds that homosexual “marriage” was the “final insult” to God which caused Him to bring the Great Flood. If this is true, how could not Pastor Rick Warren discern this terrible sign for America?

According to WorldNetDaily, in the 2008 presidential campaign, Warren hosted in his church the Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion, open to all media, where Democrat candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain answered questions posed exclusively by Warren, who wanted to help evangelicals choose the “best” candidate based on their own answers and “sincerity.” The problem was: there was a lot of answers and insincerity.

Obama gave Warren an answer about marriage that Warren and evangelicals wanted to hear: “marriage is the union between a man and a woman” and also a “sacred union.”

Yet, the responsibility of a man of God is not to ask sinners to answer public questions to guide God’s people. It is obvious that sinners are free to lie — and Obama used this right abundantly.

Of course, McCain also lied, because he told Warren that he did not believed in the homosexual version of marriage, but more recently, he has been supportive of adoption by homosexuals and hostile to the Russian laws banning homosexual propaganda to children.

Warren’s job was not to ask sinners what they are, but to show, based in a Christian discernment, what their true convictions were. God says that his leaders “must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy. They must show the people how to tell the difference between what is clean and what is unclean.” (Ezekiel 44:23 GWV)

Yet, instead of teaching his evangelical public how to use true Christian discernment, Warren let two liars to speak freely their lies as he instructed his public to analyze their lies. He, not his public, should analyze and interpret Obama and McCain’s lies and insincerity.

There is no surprise that Obama lied about his true agenda, which is to lie to advance more lies.

But the Christian agenda for a Christian leader is crystal-clear: to help his public to see through liars and their lies, and to understand and support what is right.

Obama had always been a believer in the homosexual “marriage,” according to Axelrod, who said of Obama in 2008: “He also recognized that the country wasn’t there yet—that we needed to bring the country along.”

Warren was “deceived” because he wanted to be deceived. There is no lack of Bible instruction from God for his leaders to understand their responsibilities to sinners, including sinners who want to govern the most powerful nation in the world.

With a little help from the Holy Spirit and his gift of spiritual discernment (which would enable him to see what he is not able to see), Warren could have said, “I do not believe that Obama and McCain are prepared for the U.S. presidency. Folks, let us pray, for our country needs a powerful visitation from God!”

I know many good American who do not possess spiritual discernment. But they would not need a polygraph to test Obama’s sincerity. By looking at his background, they were able to understand what Obama would eventually do — which he did.

I hope that Rick Warren and his public have learnt precious lessons about liars and their lies.

With information from the Associated Press, Daily Beast, Daily Mail and WorldNetDaily.

Portuguese version of this article: “Casamento” gay: Obama mentiu, Rick Warren acreditou

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Rev. Rick Warren addresses pro-family conference at the Vatican

VATICAN CITY (AP) — An American evangelical leader has urged his fellow clerics at a Vatican conference to be true to the Bible's teachings on sex and marriage.

Rev. Rick Warren

The Rev. Rick Warren is among representatives of 14 religions at the conference on the "complementarity" of men and women in marriage and the family. Participants at the gathering believe men and woman have different God-given roles in marriage and the family.

Warren, who pastors one of America's largest Protestant churches, said the Bible defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. He added, "When God's word is clear, we must not, we cannot, back up, back down, back off, backslide or just give in."

Warren encouraged religious leaders to celebrate traditional marriage and its benefits to men, women and children.

Pope Francis opened the three-day conference on Monday, declaring that children have the right to grow up with a mother and father.

Commentary by Julio Severo: Some of the leaders in this pro-family conference at the Vatican also attended the pro-family conference at the Kremlin in September.

Source: Associated Press, via Last Days Watchman

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Rick Warren attacks anti-homosexuality bill

Meanwhile, Evangelical Alliance Ireland supports pro-homosexuality bill

By Julio Severo

Gay activists, who despise the divine condemnation of homosexuality, do not hesitate to use and distort the words of Jesus Christ to teach Christians that the only way for Christians to be able to demonstrate love for homosexuals is by supporting the approval of anti-“homophobia” bills.

Without such support, homosexual militants insist that Christians deserve labels as “homophobic”, hypocrites, murderers of homosexuals, etc. Their insistence is steady throughout the media. Their charges against Christians are incessant.

If constant dripping will eventually wear away a stone, then it seems that homosexual dripping is wearing away the evangelical resistance.

In Ireland, a pro-homosexuality bill received the support from the Evangelical Alliance Ireland (EAI), which explained its stance by saying that if Jesus Christ did not discriminate, so Christians are not also supposed to discriminate. EAI declared,

“Co-habiting couples are a reality — this legislation seeks to deal with that reality from a legal perspective. We may disagree on the detail of the legislation but as followers of a just and compassionate God we can recognise the justice and fairness of providing some legal protection for the reality of both same-sex and opposite-sex cohabiting relationships”.

On the other hand, Rick Warren embraced similar stance to use God’s compassion to condemn a heavy anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda. This African nation, which formerly had homosexual kings that abused boys, still faces today sexual abuses against boys. Moreover, Uganda is under international pressure to support the gay agenda. But it was not to condemn vehemently homosexual abuses against boys that Warren meddled in Uganda.

Differently from Islamic nations as Iran, which executes homosexuals arbitrarily, the Ugandan bill condemns to capital punishment only men persistent in homosexuality, homosexuals that rape boys and HIV homosexuals that infect other people.

Warren explained his motives to meddle in Uganda,

“We are all familiar with Edmund Burke’s insight that, ‘All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.’ That is why I'm sharing my heart with you today. As an American pastor, it is not my role to interfere with the politics of other nations, but it IS my role to speak out on moral issues.”

Yet, Warren, whose experience includes meetings with religious Muslims leaders, does not use his role to speak out to Muslims that they should stop persecuting Christians. He also does not use his role to speak out against the Islamic laws that condemn homosexuals to death.

In his own nation, the United States, Warren has refrained from using his role to speak out against aggressive homosexual bills. He has also refrained from bothering Obama and his administration, which are explicitly pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality. Before the Obamanian majesty, instead of using his role to speak out on abortion and homosexuality, Warren limits himself to a smooth-tongued behavior.

The Ugandan bill is likely not to be approved, because international opposition — stemming from homosexual groups, UN and EU — has been massive.

In my view, the most problematic part of this bill is the imposition on Ugandan citizens to denounce to police homosexual practices. That imposition would harm Christian ministries that help homosexuals.

But Warren’s view is that the heavy Ugandan bill does not reflect the Gospel.

Yet, let’s talk plainly. What is the law that reflects the Gospel?

Does a law that condemns, fines, arrests or executes murderers reflect the Gospel?

Does a law that condemns, fines, arrests or executes pedophiles reflect the Gospel?

Does a law that condemns, fines, arrests or executes rapists reflect the Gospel?

Let’s be realistic: the Gospel does not condemn, fine, arrest or execute anyone. The Gospel did not come to condemn, fine, arrest or execute any criminal. The only kind of condemnation the Gospel mentions is eternal condemnation, making it clear that men that choose to live in sin shall be condemned to eternal death, being destined to suffer in Hell, eternally separated from God.

The Gospel came to save sinners. That is its exclusive occupation. So if because of the Gospel human laws cannot condemn homosexuality, then because of the same Gospel they cannot condemn murders, rapes and pedophilia

As far as the Gospel is concerned, we love homosexuals, pedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc. We love them because Jesus loves them and wants to save them. Yet, this does not mean that we should oppose laws that condemn homosexuality, pedophilia, murders, rapes, etc.

Twenty years ago, International Amnesty got in touch with me asking for my support against death penalty in Texas, because in the 1980s I was a member of a team that ministered, by correspondence, to prisoners in death row in Texas. My mission was to minister to Spanish-speaking prisoners. All of them had committed gruesome murders.

Can the Gospel save such criminals? Of course! For a long time I talked about Jesus’ love to them, sending Christian literature in Spanish, etc. Yet, whether they wanted to open their hearts to Jesus or not, my view is that they should pay their social debt.

Human laws were fulfilling their role, condemning a murderer with maximum penalty. My mission was only to lead the murderer to know the love of Jesus Christ.

There is a separation between law and Gospel. The State should fulfill its role to punish those that violate just laws. The role of the Gospel is not to destroy just laws, but only to fulfill another role: to reach out all the sinners with the message of salvation.

It is unfortunate that in his own country, Warren has refrained from using his role to speak out on behalf of Christian efforts to defend natural marriage against systematic assaults from the homosexual movement. Doubtless, Warren does not want to offend and infuriate homosexual groups or the liberal media, which does not praise of kind of defense.

Apparently, that same media, which does not condemn Islamic laws against homosexuality, is condemning the anti-homosexuality bill in the Christian Uganda. And, with all of these spotlights, Obama enters the stage.

Obama defends openly the murder of innocent unborn babies. If Warren, who in his public opportunities with Obama, has never used his role to speak out against such murderous inclinations, why is he now meddling in Uganda? Where is his consistency?

Is it fair for Warren to remember his “role to speak out on moral issues” only to Uganda, and not to Obama and his administration? Is it fair for Warren to be forceful and vehement only to Uganda, and not to Obama and his administration?

I like Warren when he says what is fair. But it is hard to appreciate when he and others, in the name of a smooth-tongued Christian love, seem to demonstrate more interest in getting media sympathy than challenging the unfair standards imposed by liberal trends.

As the Apostle Paul teaches in Romans, we have to transform ourselves by the renewing of the way we think. Without this regular transformation, we are inevitably dragged by the maelstroms, fads and traps of this world. Without this regular transformation, we get entrapped by the way the world thinks. Without this regular transformation, the Gospel becomes, instead a message of salvation and deliverance from sin, a creature in the image of human ideas and wishes:

In the hands of gay activists and liberal and progressive Christians, the Gospel is a tool to promote the acceptance of sinners with their sins. They use the Gospel to preach insistently that the only way for Christians to prove that they are as compassionate as their God is by supporting bills stemming from the entrails of the homosexual movement.

In the hands of Christians that want to please both sides, the Gospel is a tool of political, social and religious conveniences.

In the hands of the Holy Spirit, the Gospel is a tool distinct, but not opposed, from laws condemning sin. A fair law deals with misdeeds by punishing the violator. The Gospel deals with sinners to save them from eternal condemnation, without exempting them from paying their social and criminal debts here on the Earth.

Without this understanding of the separation between law and Gospel, you can easily stumble into the same delusions of the Evangelical Alliance Ireland.

May these examples help us to be balanced, impartial and fair on the law and Gospel.

Portuguese version of this article: Rick Warren ataca lei anti-homossexualismo

Source: http://www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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