Revelation 13:1-2.” I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on his horns, and blasphemous names on his heads. 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard. His feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
Important Takeaways:
- Joe Biden Just Let the Cat out of the Bag: A ‘New World Order’ Is Coming
- According to the White House, Biden met with “16 CEOs of major companies across several industries including energy, food, and manufacturing to provide a briefing on the latest developments on Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine.”
- Joe Biden said something that has a lot of people talking — he said the quiet part out loud. He noted the pandemic gave them “significant opportunities” to change things, that this was an “inflection point” in the world that occurs every three to four generations. Then he mentioned the “new world order” that was to come.
- “As one…of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946…Since then, we’ve established a liberal world order and that hadn’t happened in a long while. A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos. And now’s the time when things are shifting…there’s going to be a new world order out there and we’ve got to lead it. And we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”
- On top of that, listen to how he phrased things — how millions of people dying led to the present “liberal world order” and now there’s a new world order coming again? Please, tell us more, I’d like to know what further chaos is coming. And I thought all this thing about a new world order was supposed to be a conspiracy? Looks like Joe Biden doesn’t think it is.
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Proverbs 25:19 “Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.”
Important Takeaways:
- As many as 20,000 vehicles participate in Israeli COVID ‘Freedom Convoy’
- Despite nearly blackout by much of the Israeli press, as many as 20,000 vehicles participated in a “Freedom Convoy”
- Vehicles set off on Monday, Feb. 14, from 40 cities across Israel, calling on the government to lift the state of emergency declared due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the event’s organizers.
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Matthew 5:10-12 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
Important Takeaways:
- The Ignored Pandemic: 360 Million Christians Persecuted Worldwide
- “When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, they tried to appear moderate—but there’s no sign that Christianity will be anything other than a death sentence.” — World Watch List-2022.
- “The persecution of Christians in India has intensified, as Hindu extremists aim to cleanse the country of their presence and influence. The extremists disregard Indian Christians and other religious minorities as true Indians, and think the country should be purified of non-Hindus…..” — World Watch List-2022.
- In Qatar, “Violence against Christians rose sharply ….” — World Watch List-2022.
- “The COVID-19 pandemic has offered a new weapon to persecutors. In some areas, Christians have been deliberately overlooked in the local distribution of government aid and have even been accused of spreading the virus.” — World Watch List-2022.
- In the Central African Republic, which was “hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic … Christians were denied government aid and told to convert to Islam if they wanted to eat.”
- In short, the persecution of Christians, which was already horrific, has increased by nearly 70% over the last five years, with no signs of abating.
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Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- McDonald’s profit hit by rising costs, pandemic curbs
- Operating costs rose 14% to $3.61 billion as supply chain bottlenecks led the world’s largest burger chain to spend more for ingredients such as chicken and beef, as well as packaging material, while it also raised wages in the United States.
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Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- Cuban peso in free fall against the dollar
- The Cuban peso was trading at nearly 100 to the dollar on the informal market Tuesday, according to a trader and online trackers, a depreciation of more than 30% in less than a month and four times the fixed official rate.
- The peso’s free fall is bad news for a population that for two years has confronted a grave economic crisis here and unusually severe shortages of food, medicine and other goods, a predicament made worse by the coronavirus pandemic and the Cold War-era U.S. embargo.
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Mark 13:12 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.”
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Stress, Anxiety, Lot of Anger:’ Pandemic and Other Factors Fueling America’s Surging Murder Rate
- Experts say the spike in homicides began at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- “Pent up stress, anxiety, a lot of anger. People started losing their jobs. People are drinking more,” Criminologist Dr. Alex Piquero
- “All of these things put together have occurred in every city in the United States,” said Piquero.
- In 2021, Chicago, a city long plagued by deadly gun violence, saw its deadliest year in 25 years with 797 murders.
- Los Angeles counted nearly 400 deaths in 2021 and 134 in Oakland. Both California municipalities’ murder rates reached 15-year highs.
- Austin, Texas, recorded an unprecedented number of murders last year.
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Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Important Takeaways:
- Troubling Trend: Great Resignation Versus AI, Robotics And Automation
- Across the country, it’s quitting time. Hiring continues to sputter, with payrolls rising by only 199,000 across the United States
- December Jobs Report shows that unemployment fell to just 3.9%
- A record number of people quit their jobs in 2021 – over 40 million
- Jay Jacobs, Senior VP for the fund. “We think we’re going to be in the golden era of robotics adoption for the United States”
- Dataquest predicts the following trends for robotics in 2022, in an article outlining the “robot revolution”:
- The Advancement of “Cobots” – according to Dataquest, these robots are designed to work alongside people in a safe and effective manner.
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) Creating Contact-free Experiences
- Smart Factories – manned by robots, featuring low-cost sensors and an unstoppable immunity to COVID, Dataquest says “previously impossible things may become extremely realistic.”
- The Rise of RPA (robot-process-automation): “In the healthcare industry, for example, RPA is utilized to automate many activities like as billing, inventory management, and appointment scheduling.
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Rev 6:7, 8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
Important Takeaways:
- How These Western Countries Suppressed Freedom During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Dennis Prager “Looking at the government overreach and abuses of power in virtually every other Western nation, one can only conclude that America truly is the last free man standing.”
- Canada – Canada is one of the only countries in the world that bans the unvaccinated from all public transportation—airplanes, trains, and buses. And no Canadian home can entertain more than three non-household visitors—a ban that prevented families and friends from getting together for Christmas.
- Europe – most European countries introduced the so-called health pass or “European COVID-19 Pass.”
- Netherlands – anti-lockdown protest was banned by the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, because people would “not be adhering to social distancing rules.” Thousands of people nevertheless showed up. They were met with drones, water cannons, and huge numbers of police. Footage capturing a police dog biting down on a peaceful protester’s arm has gone viral.
- France – Starting next week, working from home will become compulsory for those who can. So, too, wearing a mask is compulsory throughout the country for everyone aged 11 and over in enclosed spaces and on public transport, on pain of a fine.
- Australia – Australia placed most of its citizens under house arrest for much of 2021. Melbourne, the country’s second-largest city, described by the Voice of America on Oct. 21 as “officially the world’s most locked down city,” was locked down 260 days. Residents were prohibited from traveling more than 5 kilometers from their homes. Schools were, and remain, closed, and international travel was, and remains, prohibited. Needless to say, all shops, bars, and restaurants were closed.
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Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- Denver’s Potter’s House Closes and Sells Megachurch Site, Goes Permanently Virtual Due to Pandemic
- The church’s pastor, Touré Roberts, announced “COVID-19 forced every church in America to rethink how to best serve their parishioners and the broader community,” Roberts told the newspaper. “Due to the inability to gather and the economic instability of the pandemic, our church, like many other churches in the nation, experienced declining donations.”
- “We decided that the best way forward would be to sell the property, continue our online offering that had proven a successful alternative and maintain our hands-on community outreach operations, which includes our food bank that feeds thousands of families per year,” the pastor told the Post.
- As CBN News reported in November, more than 4,000 churches closed in the U.S. in 2020 alone. Over that same time period, over 20,000 pastors left the ministry and 50 percent of current pastors say they would leave the ministry if they had another way of making a living, according to The Barna Group
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By Christopher Walljasper
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department is providing up to $1.5 billion to help school meal programs weather the supply chain crunch, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Friday.
Procuring large amounts of food has become difficult because of delays in shipments, a lack of certain products, high food costs and labor shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
USDA is tapping the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for funding, providing $1 billion for schools to purchase food for their meal programs and another $500 million for the purchase of local foods to be distributed to schools, Vilsack said.
“This will result in a 5% increase in what school districts normally have available,” Vilsack said at Gourmet Gorilla, a food service company that prepares 40,000 meals to schools in the Chicago area.
The 1930s-era CCC has generally been tapped to provide subsidies for farmers, and gives USDA broad authority to make direct payments to growers when crop prices are low.
The number of Americans without enough food to eat remains higher than before the pandemic, and the Biden administration has sought to ramp up funding for food stamps and school meal programs.
The funds should be available starting in January.
(Reporting by Christopher Walljasper; Writing by Caroline Stauffer and Mark Porter)
