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Friday, March 15, 2024

By Greg Hunter

The news you are about to read you can find nowhere else than USAWatchdog.com. You have heard me talk about the “real” approval rating of Joe Biden. It’s been stuck at 9% for months. I have two very good sources for this number: One is Martin Armstrong with his “Socratees” program. The other is a confidential source I know personally that I have to protect; otherwise, he could get fired from a very big tech company.

The new news is from my confidential source, and he says that Biden’s real approval number is about 8%. It’s gets worse. My confidential source says on a deep data dive on Biden, he cannot win a single demographic. Let that sink in. JOE BIDEN CANNOT WIN A SINGLE DEMOGRAPHIC. This has never happened in presidential polls. When I asked what this means, my deep data mining source summed it up by saying “Biden is unelectable.”

The so-called lawfare (like warfare) cases against Donald Trump are falling apart. The Jack Smith “documents” case is going to get dismissed. The Trump RICO case in Georgia is also going down in flames, and prosecutor Fani Willis is going to get dismissed. The Alvin Bragg/Stormy Daniels case is going to get postponed, and it, too, will likely be dismissed.

This is a disaster on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling 9-0 that Trump cannot be kept off any state ballot by desperate Democrats. Are they going to give up or are they going to do something even more desperate and create a global war? We will see.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is now saying the inflation she called “transitory” in 2021 is anything but transitory. Looks like the Fed is going to be fighting inflation, and you do not do that by cutting interest rates. So, the Fed is NOT going to cut interest rates as you have been told by the Lying Legacy Media over and over again.

Credit card delinquencies are on the rise, and this, no doubt, is also a sign goods are getting more expensive for “We the People.” You can put off your credit card payment, but you cannot put off eating—for long.

What Can I Hide from God? Jeremiah 23:23-24

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“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth?”declares the LORD. Jeremiah 23:23-24

Many of the false gods people have worshipped throughout history, including Jeremiah’s time, were limited in both time and space. They could travel from place to place, but only one place at a time. However, that is not true of God. One of his attributes is omnipresence – he is everywhere, and his presence fills the creation. And being everywhere, is there anything he does not know? An attribute we call omniscience.

These two verses come amid a passage where God, through Jeremiah, called out false prophets who claimed to speak in God’s name. God is telling these false prophets that he knows what they are doing and saying. Nothing is hidden from him. And these false prophets would be held accountable for what they are telling the people.

But this short passage does not just apply to false prophets. Each of us has our secret places, the inner recesses of our hearts and minds. The thoughts, feelings, and motives we keep hidden from other people. And we are often guilty of thinking they are also hidden from God.

God knows what is in my secret places. I cannot hide them from him. God knows all the ugliness that I keep locked away inside. He knows the unhealthy thoughts and feelings I struggle with. And he knows why I act and respond the way I do. Even better than I do.

Yet all too often, when I come before him, I pretend that ugliness is not there—that all is well. How much better is it to admit to him what he already knows? And to seek his help in taking out the garbage. Only then can I be truly clean, having an undivided heart and mind that honors and pleases my Lord.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Christian History of Singapore

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BY RANDALL NILES

The Portuguese were the first to arrive in Singapore and introduce the region to Christianity through Jesuit missionaries. In 1624, a Jesuit named Rhodes arrived in what is today Vietnam. In the tradition of the Jesuits, Rhodes was a success because he learned the local languages and trained local leaders. When he was finally kicked out of the region, Rhodes had helped plant hundreds of indigenous churches. By the 1660s, there were more than half a million followers of Jesus in Southeast Asia.

The first North American missionaries came to Southeast Asia in the early 1800’s. Adoniram Judson landed in Burma in 1813. More than a decade later, he had only baptized 18 people. Still, he worked hard to preach, translate the Bible, and build a Baptist missionary organization with his wife, Ann. Then, in 1827, Judson became the first missionary to make contact with the Karen people. The Karen were a primitive, tribal group scattered among the jungles of the southeast coast. They were a hunted and enslaved minority.

After Judson established a relationship with the Karen, he paid the ransom for an illiterate slave named Ko Tha Byu. Ko was a pretty nasty guy, also known to be a thief and a murderer. Through Judson, Ko found forgiveness through Jesus Christ, and went on to be an evangelist to his own people. The revival that followed is one of the great stories of modern missions in Southeast Asia. It turns out Ko Tha Byu was able to link the Gospel of Jesus Christ to an ancient Karen teaching known as the “Tradition of the Elders.”

According to historian Samuel Moffett, there were remarkable parallels between traditional Karen beliefs and those in the Jewish Scriptures. So much so that a number of scholars theorize that the Karen people were linked to Jewish communities before migrating to Southeast Asia.

The core of what they called their ‘Tradition of the Elders’ was a belief in an unchangeable, eternal, all-powerful God, creator of heaven and earth, of man, and of woman formed from a rib taken from man. They believed in humanity’s temptation by a devil, and its fall, and that some day a messiah would come to its rescue. They lived in expectation of a prophecy that white foreigners would bring them a sacred parchment roll.”
– Samuel Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia, p. 327

Within five years, the Baptist church in Burma took off. Though it would be the next generation of missionaries who would provide the Bible to the Karen in their own language – the “sacred parchment roll” – many Karen viewed Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of their ancient teachings. By the time of Adoniram Judson’s death in 1850, there were nearly 8,000 followers of Jesus among the Karen people – with 74 churches, 12 schools, and 114 native pastors. After God, Judson credited the Gospel’s success in Southeast Asia to the “Karen Apostle” — a redeemed murderer named Ko Tha Byu.

Despite some stories of success like Ko Tha Byu and the Karen people, Southeast Asia was a hard place for Christian evangelism during the 19th century. The Buddhists and Hindus generally welcomed missionaries, but worked against Christian conversions. Foreign missionaries spent entire lifetimes befriending locals, learning the languages, and sharing the Gospel, but very few Asians turned to Jesus. By the end of the 19th century, less than 10% of the Southeast Asian population called themselves Christians.

However, about 100 years later, at the end of the 20th century, Christians accounted for more than 20 percent of the population in the region. Much of this growth came about as the unintended consequence of world events, such as Japanese oppression during World War II and Western decolonization of the region. Now, it seems the greatest age for Christianity in Southeast Asia may be just around the corner.