According to Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, January 6, 2021, the day the U.S. Congress met to certify the Presidential election, will go down as one of the most tragic events in American history. When the combined houses re-convened to verify the November 3, 2020 election results, his remarks were introduced into the record:
“It is very, very difficult to put into words what has transpired today. I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside Dec. 7, 1941, as a day that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add Jan. 6, 2021, to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy.“
“This temple to democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized. The world saw Americans’ elected officials hurriedly ushered out because they were in harm’s way. The House and Senate floors were places of shelter until the evacuation was ordered, leaving rioters to stalk these hallowed halls.“
Various news organizations categorized what happened that day as a “riot,” “a Capitol breach,” and “one of the most horrific events in American history.” According to Senator Schumer and several of his colleagues, it was the equivalent of the carnage of World War 2, the crash of the Hindenburg, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, all rolled into one.
Facts Matter — Or Do They?
It was John Adams, America’s second President, who said; “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” It may have been a good idea for our political leaders and major news media outlets, along with a gullible public to wait for the facts and truth to emerge before leaping to conclusions.
- Fact: There were over 1 million visitors in the Nation’s capitol on January 6.
- Fact: Hundreds of thousands were listening to President Trump address his supporters
- Fact: The Capitol building is a 45 minute walk through the city, from the Ellipse, where the President spoke
- Fact: Several skirmishes with Capitol Police began on the steps of the Capitol, but these attacks began at least a half hour prior to the President finishing his remarks.
- Fact: No one has the exact count, but the number of individuals who actually entered into the Capitol were probably several hundred. And most of them were allowed, by police to casually to stroll through the Capitol. Probably several dozen went into the Congressional and Senate Chambers. They shouldn’t have, and someone stole a laptop, which was wrong.
In the conclusion of his speech, the President said: “So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here, this is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.”
Oh the horror! We can see why passions ran high, right? What inflammatory speech! Pardon the sarcasm. News headlines blurted out; “Trump’s speech incites violent mob.” The inconvenient fact is that any violence was the result of false flag radical left groups, sometimes mixed in with Trump supporters. One misguided Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt was shot in the neck, at point blank range, by a plain clothes Capitol policeman. Ms. Babbitt shouldn’t have been in the building, she shouldn’t have tried to crawl through a broken window but she shouldn’t have been shot without warning. There were a number of heavily armed police surrounding her and others on the landing. Though her actions were uncalled for, her execution and death were unnecessary and tragic.
The Capitol building is one of the largest public buildings in the world. Undoubtedly, tens of thousands surrounded the Capitol that day, but the violent acts were confined to a small area, and not committed by Trump supporters. In fact the video evidence shows many wrestling down those who were trying to break in. The vast majority who actually entered the Capitol looked like they were on a tour, and the few who went into the Senate chambers left peaceably when asked.
The appropriate videography mix of the thousands on the steps of the Capitol, the cut away to violence perpetrated by a few radicals, and Senator Schumer’s sober comments about the hallowed ground being desecrated, was all that was needed to seal the deal; the objection to the alternate electors from 6 key states was swept away, not by law, not by the Constitution, not by tradition or precedence, but by hyperbole and lies. The media made it seem like “tens of thousands stormed into the Capitol building,” like invading Vandals and Ostrogoths into Imperial Rome. But the truth is the over 1 million Americans peaceably assembled in Washington to give their support to the President, and then went home.
Net Result
At WN&PR, we don’t have a “dog in the hunt.” It is hard to ignore the thousands of witnesses who signed affidavits, under penalty of perjury, forensic computer scientists, and conclude that there wasn’t massive election tampering in the 2020 Presidential election. But what is done is done. Are these actions evidence of the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy?
Consider the Prophet Ezekiel. He was taken from his homeland of Judah to captivity in Babylon, almost 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. Ezekiel was given a strange mission, considering the logistics, and the current state Ezekiel found himself in, as a member of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes that had been released from the captivity of Egypt over 850 years earlier. Ezekiel describes an incredible encounter with God, by vision, along with His angelic realm. (Ezekiel 1) The mission given to the prophet must have sounded impossible to achieve. He was told to take this prophecy to “the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has “rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.” (Ezekiel 2:3)
The prophecy given to Ezekiel was not intended for his people — the Jews now in captivity. He was to prophesy to the “house of Israel.” But the house of Israel — the rest of the tribes of the formerly united Kingdom of Israel (under Saul, David and Solomon) had been conquered and carried away to Assyria some 125 years earlier! Ezekiel had an impossible job — how could he extricate himself from captivity in Babylon and make it to the remainder of the tribes of Israel? [Editors note: Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33 list all 12 Tribes.]
We have no Biblical record of Ezekiel finishing his mission to take a warning message to the house of Israel. Certainly “Israel,” or the so called “lost ten tribes” are the focal point of this book, as the name “Israel,” is mentioned 180 times in Ezekiel — more than any other book in the Bible.
For Our Time Today
If Ezekiel was given a prophetic message, directed to a people he could not easily contact, with explicit warning of impending captivity, the only possible meaning is that most of Ezekiel’s prophecy — a warning message to entire nations — is yet to be fulfilled!
The promise is given to the descendants of Jacob and the whole house of Israel that they will be brought back from captivity at some point in the future, to the lands God intended for them. (Ezekiel 39) Much of this prophecy is yet to be fulfilled.
But back to the present day. Ezekiel 34, among many other passages, indicts the shepherds of Israel. These are obvious references to the rulers and leaders of the nation, who ignore the plight of the average citizen, while basking in luxury themselves. Corruption and lawlessness among the ruling class of ancient Israel was the primary reason God removed His protective hedge from them in ancient times, allowing the mighty Assyrian army to punish them and carry them away captive, beginning 721 BC, after ignoring the pleas of many of the holy prophets sent to them. History, and in this case Prophecy repeats!
It may not be too long into the future when the prophetic message of Ezekiel is given to those who are most responsible for the determination of a Nation’s fate — its local, state, and national leaders. God speed that day! Will Ezekiel’s message be heeded? Read the book and find out!
If the last four years have shown anything those who are wide awake — it is the spotlight on those who are supposed to lead by example in our nation, not commanding and mandating rules and principles to the governed that they themselves are unwilling to adhere to.
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