In an Aug. 30, 2014 prophecy, Kim Clement prophesied about a September where a tide would be turning which would greatly affect Israel.

“Listen to the Word of the Lord. What do I have planned for September? What about Israel? What I’m about to tell you, says the Spirit, is not only for the land of Israel and the people of Israel, but this is for you, says the Lord,” Clement prophesied. “The tide is turning for Israel. The tide is turning for you.”

Clement’s prophecy further talked about something peculiar coming as we move into autumn where a great fall would take place. This goes right back to Clement’s prophecy about a “Strange July” and a “Hypnotic November” where he prophesied, “Is it that possibly the Spirit of God will cause many to fall in the fall?”

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“A very strange thing shall happen in September moving into the fall where there shall be a great fall,” Clement prophesied. “Fall of the enemies, fall of kings, fall of princes. I shall do a strange thing in Egypt again, but even as David met an Egyptian who was the son of Amalekite, who had been rejected because he was sick. David was about to go and take back what was stolen from him. David and his men were tired, and they came to an Egyptian, fed him and he revealed to them where the enemy was. I shall use Egypt again.”

Clement’s prophecy further discussed how many would be offended by God’s decision to use Egypt, but that the Lord says He will be revealing a “strange thing.”

“I will reveal a strange thing. Some of those who have been enemies of Israel shall suddenly turn and change their tune for a season, and I will restore and I will deliver and I will bring friendship for a season. And many of the enemies that now stand shall be nonexistent, says the Spirit of God. It shall take two years. Two years! But watch how I bless Israel, watch how the rain comes to America, watch how the rain comes to my Kingdom, watch and see, for God says beginning in September I will turn everything around, and my people shall see an intervention of a kind that they have never seen before,” said Clement.

Clement’s prophecy also detailed the nation of Syria and its role in the coming days.

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“You say, ‘What of Syria and what of a man who is on the golf course?’ The Spirit of God says I have given opportunity after opportunity. Now shall I use Israel again to defeat the Syrian. To defeat those who creep closer,” Clement prophesied. “There’s something falling from the heavens today while we are gathered together, something is coming down over Syria, over Israel, over Gaza, over Egypt, over some of the states of the United States of America.”

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Each day we see the Middle East becoming more and more contentious especially following the attack on Israel from Hamas. As followers of Christ, we are meant to support and bless Israel, meaning that this prophecy is certainly one we should heed today.

Clement further gave a prophecy of a five-year grace period which would come at this time.

“The time has come. The time has come for the nations to know the power of My Word, and My Son,” Clement said. “They shall open their hearts. The five-year period of amazing grace is coming.”

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A pastor was arrested after being caught up in a weeks-long stand-off with police officers.

As the BBC reported, police have been trying to arrest Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy after he was charged with crimes of sex trafficking, coercion and fraud. The Western Journal noted how Quiboloy had “sex with women and underage girls who faced threats of abuse and ‘eternal damnation’ unless they catered to [him].”

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Quiboloy claimed to be the “appointed son of God,” using his role of authority for evil. His ministry, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, is reported to have between 6-7 million followers. The ministry is said to have locations in 200 locations. Part of the crimes Quiboloy committed included trafficking children from the Philippines to America, where the BBC says they were “forced to solicit money for a bogus charity.”

During the two-week manhunt, The followers of Quiboloy stood their ground against the police on at the complex which has around 40 buildings, a school, hanger and Cathedral.

Kingdom of Jesus Christ Ministries was started back in 1985, with its United States location in the Van Nuys region of Los Angeles. Back in 2021, Charisma News reported how Quiboloy reported how around $20 million from America was sent to the church of the Philippines between the years of 2014 and 2019. The ministry’s nonprofit was supposed using the funds from their nonprofit Children’s Joy Foundation USA which was supposed to be for the purpose of helping children in the Philippines. However, it is believed that the money was used Quiboloy and other leader’s grand lifestyles.

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This incident is not only heartbreaking because of the people who were abused and duped by Quiboloy in one way or the other, but because it shows how easily so many people were deceived by a false shepherd. Many will come in the name of Jesus, but we are to be on guard and use wisdom and discernment so we can tell who is truly of the Lord and who is not.

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In the dynamic world of modern Christian ministry, prophecy remains one of the most powerful yet misunderstood spiritual gifts. To shed light on the true nature and purpose of prophecy, international prophetic voice Joseph Z recently joined Joni Lamb and her co-hosts on an episode of Table Talk on the Daystar Network. As the founder of Z Ministries and author of “Demystifying the Prophetic: Understanding the Voice of God for the Coming Days of Fire,” Z offers crucial insights on navigating the complexities and dangers within the prophetic landscape today.

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Joseph Z explains this by distinguishing between the gift of prophecy, which he says is “available to all believers,” and the office of a prophet, a unique calling that carries specific responsibilities. “The gift of prophecy is for edification, exhortation and comfort,” he explains, referring to 1 Corinthians 14:3, “but the office of a prophet is governmental. It’s for equipping and building up the body of Christ.”

However, he warns of the dangers of what he calls “prophetic witchcraft,” a practice where individuals misuse the prophetic gift for manipulation or personal gain. “Prophetic witchcraft occurs when people twist the words of God to control others,” Z says. He adds that this behavior can deceive believers and lead them away from the truth. “People begin to rely on prophets more than they rely on Jesus or the Bible, and that’s a problem.”

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Z emphasizes that prophetic ministry must always point back to Christ and align with Scripture. “If prophecy doesn’t match the Word of God, it’s not prophecy—it’s manipulation,” he stresses. He draws from Deuteronomy 18:20, which states, “But the prophet who, presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”

The misuse of prophecy is especially concerning, he adds, when it is used to prey on people’s emotions and vulnerabilities. “There are prophets who tell people what they want to hear, not what God is saying. That’s dangerous,” Z warns. He describes this as a form of “psychic Christianity,” where the focus shifts away from God’s voice to personal desires.

To combat these dangers, Z urges believers to return to a pure, biblically grounded practice of prophecy. “God is not a God of confusion, but of peace,” he says, quoting 1 Corinthians 14:33. He encourages believers to test all prophetic words against Scripture, to ensure that they align with the character and teachings of Christ.

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“True prophetic ministry is simple,” he continues. “It’s about hearing God’s voice, knowing His Word and sharing it with humility and love. Anything else is just noise.”

By drawing clear distinctions between authentic prophecy and practices that distort it, Joseph Z provides valuable guidance for navigating the often murky waters of prophetic ministry. His call for discernment and adherence to Scripture serves as a reminder that while prophecy can be a powerful tool for building up the body of Christ, it must always be wielded with integrity and wisdom.

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Is This the End Times, and Was it All Foretold in the Words of an Ancient Bible Prophecy?

Are we all players in a mystery that began long before we were born, that has spanned the ages and has, in modern times, has threatened the future of our planet?

What does the future hold, and where does it all lead?

Jonathan Cahn answers these chilling questions and more in his latest blockbuster bestseller, “The Dragon’s Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days,” released Sept. 3 by Charisma Media.

Although Cahn has authored eight explosive New York Times bestsellers, he says this book is different than any he’s ever written before. First, it wasn’t the book he intended to write. He was working on a sequel to his book “The Return of the Gods” when current events demanded that he switch subjects. “This was not the book I had planned to write,” he says. “The Lord interrupted me and led me instead to write ‘The Dragon’s Prophecy.’ Another mystery was now to be opened.”

He says he’s also never written about end-time prophecy and how current world events are connected to the book of Revelation. While he was working on “The Dragon’s Prophecy,” current events kept unfolding so quickly that he could barely keep up. “This is the only book where, as I was writing it, I had to keep rewriting it to update it,” he says, “because what I was writing kept coming true.”

The Sign of the End Times

“The Dragon’s Prophecy” opens up an explosive truth that reveals an ancient mystery behind one of the central issues of modern times concerning Israel. For thousands of years the Jewish people disappeared as a nation. But a prophecy in the book of Ezekiel says that in last days they will come to life in the valley of dry bones and be resurrected.

The Bible says that the generation that sees the gathering of the Jewish people back to the land of Israel is witnessing a biblical sign—the sign of the end times.

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That sign happened on May 14, 1948, when Ezekiel’s prophecy came true and Israel once again became a nation. Cahn points out that with the Jewish people now concentrated into one place and time, the Enemy’s war against them would become increasingly focused and concentrated.

The Dark Resurrection

“We’ve watched prophecy fulfilled—God has resurrected the nation of Israel,” says Cahn. “But we have to understand that Satan—the Dragon, the Enemy—is a mimic. When God brings forth a work into the world, the Enemy seeks to bring forth an alternate work, a false work, an anti-work, to destroy the work and purposes of God.

“So he is going to mimic what God has done and he’s going to have his own resurrection,” he adds. “Think about it: if God resurrected an ancient people, then the Enemy will imitate that and also resurrect an ancient people—his own resurrection. He will resurrect an ancient archenemy of Israel.”

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The Sea Peoples

Anyone who reads the Bible knows that the ancient archenemy of Israel was the Philistines. No other people so continually warred against the Israelites, raiding them, oppressing them, taunting and provoking them, and terrifying them, as did the Philistines. None were so ever present in their history or so continually warred against their presence in the land. They swept over the ancient world and invaded across the Mediterranean, into Egypt, Greece and beyond.

“In their first known appearance in ancient inscriptions, they are known as the Sea Peoples,” says Cahn. “Egyptian inscriptions call one of the invading Sea Peoples the Pulasti, or the people of Peleset, or Palusata.  In Hebrew they are called the Pileshtim, the plural of the word Pilishti, a dweller of the region called Pilashet. It is believed that from the Hebrew Pileshtim came the Greek word Philistinoi. And from the Greek name came the Latin Philistinus, and from the Latin, the English word Philistine.”

The Philistines invaded Israel, dwelt in the land, fought bitter and brutal wars against Israel down through the ages. But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded the land of Israel in the late seventh and early sixth centuries B.C., he also destroyed the cities of Philistia, which was the beginning of the end of the Philistines. They soon vanished from the records of history, existing only as a memory.

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“But,” Cahn says, “if God was going to resurrect the nation of Israel that had likewise vanished in ancient times, and made it known in biblical prophecy that He would do so, it would follow that the Enemy and imitator of God would likewise seek to resurrect an ancient nation, that of Israel’s ancient enemies.

“It would follow that the Enemy would seek to raise from the dead the most embittered, persistent, and relentless of Israel’s ancient enemies. He would bring back the people who likewise laid claim to the land and unceasingly warred against Israel’s claim—the Philistines.”

The Mystery of the Palestinians

Could the enemy have resurrected the ancient Philistines in modern form?  He already has.  It’s not about the people—we must pray for all people.  And this particular people have no idea they’re being used.  They are called the Palestinians.  But most people have no idea what the word “Palestinian” means.  It means “the Philistines”!  So we have a people in the modern world who are actually called “the Philistines.”  The word Palestinian is English.  What they actually call themselves in Arabic is “Filastin” or the “Filastini.“

Just as amazing is when they came back into the world.  As God resurrected Israel, the enemy resurrected their ancient enemies.  The Zionist movement began at the very end of the 19th century.  It was just then that the word  “Filiastin” or “Filastini” began spreading through the Arabic world.  And every time the resurrection of Israel passed a milestone, the resurrection of the Philistines would follow, passing its own milestone.

The Replaying of the Ancient Mystery

The ancient Philistines dwelt in a region called Pilashet or Philistia.  Today the same region has a new name—the Gaza Strip! The Gaza Strip did not exist. It suddenly came into existence in 1948—the very same year that Israel came back into existence. So the Israelites returned to the land of Israel—and at the very same moment, the people called “Philistine” returned to the land of the Philistines.

And what happened after that, is that a transformation began overtaking the Palestinians.  They became progressively morphed into the image of the ancient Philistines. The ancient Philistines used to train their children to become child soldiers. So the resurrected Philistines would train their children, likewise, to become child soldiers.  The ancient Philistines nursed a bitter hatred against the nation of Israel—so did the resurrected Philistines.

And the ancient Philistines used to launch attacks, invasions, from the Gaza Strip into the land of Israel, brutalizing Israeli villages, and taking back captives, hostages, to Gaza.  And this is the mystery behind what shocked the world on Oct. 7, 2023—and which then has changed the world.

It is all part of an ancient mystery that is behind some of the most critical and calamitous events of our world.  The mystery also ordains what is yet to happen.  It is this mystery that Jonathan Cahn unveils in “The Dragon’s Prophecy.”

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Chris Reed on MorningStar Fallout: ‘They Wanted to Bury Me’

Chris Reed is speaking out following Rick Joyner’s message to MorningStar Ministries regarding Chris’ resignation from the ministry.

After Chris Reed’s departure from Morningstar, Joyner expressed frustration with Reed’s absence from the ministry.

“I did not feel that there was a shepherd’s heart revealed,” Joyner said. “A shepherd lays down their life for the sheep and certainly has regard for them. I didn’t quite feel like there was regard for me, for our board, any of this stuff that we had entrusted a lot to him. And I don’t think to just quit like that is what we ever need to do with anyone, with no notice.”

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Join Tonight’s Nationwide Prayer Call With President Trump

Former President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump will be joining a prayer call hosted by The National Faith Advisory Board.

The prayer call is tonight, Monday, Sept. 9, at 8:00 p.m. EDT. If you would like to join this call for prayer over the nation, you can RSVP your spot here.

There will be leading Christian voices from across the country joining the call as well, including Paula White, Jentezen Franklin, Lorenzo Sewell, Samuel Rodriguez and IFA President Dave Kubal.

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The ‘Ring of Fire’ Rosh Hashanah Eclipse Is Coming Soon

Why do solar eclipses keep falling on such noteworthy dates? In 2024, there will be a total of just two solar eclipses. The first happened on April 8th, 2024. That was known as the “Great American Eclipse of 2024,” and it occurred just after the sun had gone down in Israel and the first day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar had begun. The second solar eclipse of 2024 will take place on Oct. 2nd. When it occurs, the sun will have just gone down in Israel and the festival of Rosh Hashanah will have just started.

I realize that this is a lot to process, and so let it sink in for a moment.

Is it just a coincidence that the first solar eclipse of 2024 just happened to fall on the very first day of the very first month on the Hebrew calendar, and the second solar eclipse of 2024 just happens to fall on the day that is celebrated as “the Jewish New Year”?

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Have you ever heard someone say, “There’s just something about them”? This usually means they see something they admire in a person. They know that individual stands stand out from the crowd, but they can’t quite put their finger on why.

I’m happy when I hear this phrase said about someone who’s a Christian. When we are good to people and God’s love flows through us, there is something that just draws people’s attention.

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Scripture says Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Matt. 5:13-16). On the job, in the grocery store and even among friends and family members who don’t yet know Christ, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

There is so much turmoil in people’s lives today—so much darkness—and they’re looking for a source of hope. As Christians, we are the ones who can help them find what they need through a relationship with God.

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In Matthew 5:13a (NIV), Jesus says, “But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything.” Somewhere along the way, the lines between godliness and ungodliness have gotten blurred. Things that would have been considered wrong 20 or 30 years ago are considered “not so bad” today. If this continues, I wonder what the next 20 years will bring.

We may need to ask ourselves: What are we showing the world? What is it that keeps us “salty”? As Christians, how do we, as Christians, keep our lights shining in the darkness around us? What sets us apart?

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During his latest sermon to the congregation at Global Vision Bible Church, Pastor Greg Locke gave a brief update about the incident last week where his home was shot at while one of his children was at home. Thankfully, everyone in the Locke family was safe.

“God protects His children in supernatural ways,” Locke says to the congregation. “We could’ve been having a very, very very different conversation this morning. If any conversation at all for that matter.”

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“We were doing some things actually for the museum in Pigeon Forge,” says Locke. “We were coming back the next day, we were going to stay the night and we decided that we would go ahead and come back.”

Locke says that on their way home, he needed to stop. His wife, Tai, was driving separately, so he knew he needed to call her and tell her he was making a stop. She then told him that while she wasn’t stopping, she felt the Lord asking her to get in the right lane and slow down.

“The Lord tells you to slow down, you better slow down. I don’t care how strange it seems to anybody, and I don’t care how much they honk at you; slow down,” Locke says.

As the family approached their home after the pit stop and slowdown, Locke saw what he thought was glass everywhere. He got out of the car to investigate, and what he found was not glass but something much more lethal.

“It was spent shell casings,” Locke says. “So, at that point I didn’t know what had transpired so quickly, and how severe of a situation it was.”

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Locke says he then called the police and reported what he saw. In the past, the Lockes have had dead chickens placed in their driveway, the church pulpit vandalized and other various crimes committed against them.

Locke played a recording of a sound that was picked up near his yard when the incident happened. Rounds upon rounds of bullets being shot off can be heard in the distance.

“Sixty rounds in less than three seconds,” Locke says. “Sixty of them. The detective said he’d never seen that many spent shell casings in a drive by shooting situation like this.”

Locke says he and his family have not been allowed back at their house since the shooting took place. Despite all of the horror, Locke still acknowledges God’s goodness in the storm.

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Continue to lift up the Locke family in prayer during this sensitive time, that God’s protection may continue to be upon them as they do mighty works for the Lord.

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In a recent video, pastor and author Dr. Mark Hitchcock spoke about current events in the Middle East and how they connect to biblical prophecies concerning the end times. According to Hitchcock, the escalating conflict between Israel and Gaza and the worldwide call for peace could be a prelude to a pivotal peace treaty, which he believes will be brokered by the Antichrist, marking the start of The Great Tribulation period described in the Bible.

“The talk about peace in the Middle East right now is pervasive,” Hitchcock says. “It’s dominating global news. The yearning for peace just keeps building.” He noted that the current international pressure on Israel for a ceasefire is unlike anything seen before. Headlines from news outlets such as Foreign Affairs and The Guardian are highlighting the urgency of peace talks and the potential for wider conflict. Hitchcock argues that this urgency reflects a “striking foreshadow” of events prophesied in the Bible.

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Hitchcock cited Daniel 9:27, which describes a future covenant between Israel and “many” that will be established by a coming world leader. “The final time of seven years that will begin after the Rapture of the church will begin with a peace treaty between Israel and its neighbors,” he explained. “This treaty is going to be forged and brokered by the coming final Antichrist, and the world’s stage has never been more ready for his appearance.”

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According to Hitchcock, the current efforts by global powers, including the United States, to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza could be a precursor to this prophesied covenant. He referenced recent U.S. negotiations, noting, “The U.S. has been engaging with Egypt and Qatar to outline a final take-it-or-leave-it deal.” This type of forced agreement, Hitchcock suggested, mirrors the kind of compelled covenant mentioned in the biblical text. He explains that the Hebrew term used for “confirm” or “make” a covenant in Daniel 9:27 can imply enforcement or imposition.

Hitchcock believes the Bible’s prediction of a temporary peace, enforced by the Antichrist, aligns with the current geopolitical climate. He argued that this treaty will lead to the rebuilding of the third temple in Israel, a key event in end times biblical prophecy, and will ultimately be broken by the Antichrist midway through the seven-year period. “He will double-cross Israel, and all hell will literally break loose in the land of Israel in the end times,” Hitchcock said.

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Hitchcock emphasized that the seven-year Tribulation does not begin with the Rapture, a common misconception. “The seven-year tribulation begins with some kind of a treaty or a truce… that brings peace to Israel,” he clarifies. He suggested that this period could begin at any time, potentially soon after the Rapture.

“The world is ripe and ready for the rise of the Antichrist,” Hitchcock continues, adding that the next significant event on the prophetic timeline is the Rapture, which could happen at any moment. He encouraged listeners to be prepared, saying, “May our Lord Jesus come quickly, and may He find us ready when He comes.”

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A censorship movement is rising in the world’s democracies–whether it’s British citizens charged over social media posts, France’s arrest of the owner of the social media platform Telegram, Brazil’s shutting down Elon Musk’s X for not complying with censorship restrictions, or Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that the Biden White House pressured Facebook and Instagram to censor stories it didn’t like.

“This anti-free speech movement is the most sophisticated, largest and global movement we have ever faced,” says legal scholar Jonathan Turley, author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

Turley says, “I think the problem with free speech is that every generation has to defend it. And this generation has never been more divided, because they have been told that free speech is going to hurt them.”

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A poll last month by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found nearly one in three Americans now believe the First Amendment “goes too far.”

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz told MSNBC in 2022, “I think we need to push back on this. There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”

On the contrary, the freedom to say what the majority doesn’t like is the very foundation of a free society. And yet, that bedrock freedom is under attack by governments and political leaders.

An investigation by the Foundation for Freedom Online found documents from Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA that indicate that as recently as 2021, the agency worked with platforms to censor speech by labeling people posting so-called “misinformation” as “domestic threat actors,” a possible First Amendment violation. The website showing the operation was then scrubbed from the internet but was found using the “Wayback Machine.”

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A CISA spokesman said the agency has never censored anyone, and that the material was probably removed because it created a misunderstanding. But CISA is a part of Homeland Security, which tried to create a disinformation czar.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from USAID, a State Department program intended to strengthen democracies overseas, show that the agency encourages other nations to censor social media.

In other Western democracies, the censorship situation is even worse.

In Great Britain, a nation most Americans used to consider a bastion of democracy, police charge thousands of citizens each year over their social media posts. One video shows an officer at a man’s door telling him, “I’m arresting you for improper use of the electronic communications network.”

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Christian YouTuber Allen Parr has encouraged fellow believers to reflect on their political views and ask themselves which political platform best reflects the Bible.

Parr provided a breakdown of the policies of both the Republican and Democratic Parties, stressing that while neither party absolutely adheres to the biblical worldview, one does respect Biblical values.

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“My brothers and sisters, I’m going to go on record and say: Listen, these issues may not be important to you, although I believe they should be. But for me, the issues I just shared with you in this chart weigh so heavily on my spirit,” he said.

“They weigh more for me personally than issues like health care and criminal justice reform, although those are very important. But these issues weigh so much more heavily for me that I cannot, in good conscience, support a party that wants to redefine what family looks like—family, the very core of our society.”

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He explained that he “cannot vote to pass laws that would encourage and allow children to mutilate their bodies, sometimes not even requiring parental consent,” nor can he “vote for a party that wants to enforce laws allowing LGBTQ+ couples to marry one another.

“I cannot support a party that’s in favor of a parent possibly losing custody of their child because they don’t affirm that child’s decision to transition,” Parr declared. “I cannot vote for a party that supports little children of opposite sexes sharing bathrooms. I cannot vote for my daughter to one day have to compete athletically against a biological male.”

“I just can’t. I just can’t. For that reason, I’m going to go on record and say: I cannot support that party. You have the right to vote however you want, and this is not me pushing my perspective on you,” he said. “I’m simply sharing with you where I’m at and the reasons why I am choosing to vote the way I will vote.”

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He noted that he believes may Christians are “asking the wrong question.”

“When you place your vote, I don’t think we should be asking, ‘Does this party promote values that are biblical?’” Parr added.

“Because, as I’ve shared with you in this video, you could make an argument that both parties promote some biblical values,” he noted. “Rather, I think we need to be asking, ‘Which party is promoting values that are unbiblical, that directly go against the scriptures and against a Christian biblical worldview?’”

“I cannot tell you who to vote for or how to vote, but I can tell you that for me, these issues weigh more heavily. Even though they’re all important and should not be minimized, these issues are the ones that I believe are the weightier matters of the law.”

This article was originally published on American Faith, and is reposted with permission.

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