FT America breaks global rules as it defends the free world

The Bible News Prophecy Program discusses the hypocrisy and double standards of the United States. It highlights America's actions that contradict the rules-based international order it claims to defend, such as imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and opposing the International Criminal Court's charges against Israel's Prime Minister. The program also criticizes the US Department of Justice for politically motivated prosecutions and the censorship of moral and scientific positions. It emphasizes the need for national repentance and personal reflection on God's calling. This is the Bible News Prophecy Program, bringing you news and analysis of world events in the light of Bible Prophecy. The following program is brought to you by the Continuing Church of God. Greetings, friends and brethren around the world. This is James Martinette for the Bible News Prophecy Program. FT, America breaks global rules as it defends the free world. From COG writer, Financial Times posted the following. America breaks global rules as it defends the free world. 27th of May, 2024. As an organizing principle for Western foreign policy, the rules-based international order has long suffered from some disastrous flaws. It is a phrase that means nothing to a normal person. As a result, it is a deeply uninspiring concept. People might go to war to defend freedom or the motherland. Nobody is going to fight and die for the RBIO. Nonetheless, senior Western policymakers seem to be in love with the concept. Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, is fond of appealing to the rules-based international order when he visits China. Rishi Sunak, Britain's Prime Minister, has put the RBIO at the center of UK foreign policy. His likely successor, Sir Keir Starmer, a former lawyer, will be just as committed to the idea. In opposing Russian regression, Blinken argues that the U.S. is standing up for a world based on rules rather than raw power. That is an attractive idea, but rules are meant to be consistent. And America's own actions are undermining vital parts of the rules-based order. The past fortnight has brutally exposed these contradictions. The 100% tariffs that the Biden administration has imposed on Chinese electric vehicles are virtually impossible to reconcile with the international rules on trade. As a paper for a real goal, a think tank puts it, the tariffs squash any notion that the U.S. intends to abide by World Trade Organization rules. America's response to the prospect that the International Criminal Court will bring more war crimes charges against Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, also was telling. Rather than supporting the court's effort to enforce international law, Blinken told the U.S. Congress that the administration would consider imposing sanctions on the ICC. From www.ft.com. USA hypocrisy is more and more evident to the world as the above and what follows suggest. America's hypocrisy as an authoritarian state being exposed as Ukraine founders. 7th of April 2024. Even though a growing number of Western elites are awakening to the reality that Ukraine is headed for defeat and will drag NATO along with it. The so-called intellectual cognoscenti of foreign policy, like the editorial board of the New York Times, continue to indulge fantasies and delusions. They conclude a Sunday editorial pleading for more money for Zelensky and a losing cause with this. Mr. Trump and his followers may argue that the security of Ukraine, or even of Europe, is not America's business. But the consequence of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America and the world. The Washington and New York establishments continue to insist that Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian strongman. I have one word of advice. Look in the mirror and pay attention to what is happening in the United States before you mount your moral high horse and gallop off to lecture other countries on democracy and human rights. When I read the penultimate sentence in the paragraph above, I ask myself the question, how many political prisoners are there in Russia? I was not surprised by the answer. For political prisoners, the situation is often worse because the state aims to additionally punish them, or additionally isolate them from the world, or do everything to break their spirit. Veypan said his group counts 680 political prisoners in Russia. Guess what? The United States has prosecuted and persecuted twice as many political prisoners than Russia. In the three years since the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,265 defendants across nearly all 50 states and D.C. and secured sentences of incarceration for more than 460 people, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. In remarks Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland described the Justice Department's sprawling probe of the Capitol attack as one of the largest and most complex and resource-intensive investigations in our history. None of these numbers capture the lawfare assault on former President Trump and many of the people who served in key positions during his administration. The Biden administration routinely chastises many other countries, most recently India, for prosecuting political opponents. Talk about lack of self-awareness and irony. From sonar21.com Yes, there is a lot of hypocrisy and double standards in the USA. Rioters torched various parts of Southern California about five or so years ago, and most went unpunished. As far as I have been able to tell, most of those arrested related to the January 6, 2020 protests were arrested mainly for political purposes. Note that I said most and not all. Yes, there also seems to be a legal double standard as the United States Department of Justice has been more blatantly political for the past eight years or so. The censorship of moral positions as well as scientific ones related to LGBTQ and COVID issues has been reprehensible as well. The media, along with Big Tech, are often displaying their hypocrisy as they push many improper agendas that suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Romans 1 verse 18. Through their censorship. This will not end well. The truth does matter and hypocrisy is destructive. The Bible warns. O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger and a staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against a hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath I will give him a charge to take the spoils and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Isaiah 10 verses 5-6. King James Version. Yes, the USA is a hypocritical nation and will one day be no more. See Anglo-America in Prophecy and the Lost Tribes of Israel. The hypocritical journalism and Big Tech censorship is hurting the USA. Yes, so are many statements from Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Consider that the press in the USA used to claim that it was the fourth branch of the government, stemming from its claim that the media's responsibility to inform the populace was essential to the healthy functioning of democracy. That simply is not happening in the USA anymore, at least not in a fully truthful or unbiased way. Did you know that the Bible warns about those who do not want to know about the truth? Notice. Now go, write it before them on a tablet and note it on a scroll, that it may be for a time to come, forever and ever, that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the Lord, who say to the seers, Do not see, and to the prophets, Do not prophecy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophecy deceit. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perversity, and rely on them, therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. And ye shall break it like the breaking of the potter's vessel, which is broken in pieces, ye shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern. Isaiah 30 verses 8-14. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3 verse 13, KJV. Many who do not trust the Bible, but instead trust in oppression and perversity, want smooth things. Many want to love and believe a lie, and that is further condemned in Revelation 22 verse 15. In the CCOG, we continue to proclaim what the Bible teaches, e.g. watch our latest uploaded video, Gender Confusion Science in the Scripture. The USA needs national repentance. But while that is not likely at this stage, personal repentance is. Is God calling you? This booklet discusses topics including calling, election, and selection. Here is an excerpt from chapter 1. Is God calling you? Could God be calling you? Right now, God is calling a people out of this sin-sick and dying world. It is a wonderful calling for a fantastic purpose. It is so awe-inspiring that many have difficulty believing it. Perhaps you are being called right now. You need to know, lest you ignore a real call from the great God of all the universe. Read this booklet to find out whether God is calling you. A common idea of today's Greco-Roman Protestant world is that a battle is taking place between God and Satan. The idea teaches that God is trying to get everyone saved, and Satan is trying to get everyone lost. If that be true, then every honest person would have to admit God is losing, because even the total of all phenomenal Christians in the world have always been a minority on this earth. Nowadays, the vast majority of all people do not even profess Christianity. Yet, as far as salvation goes, your Bible says there is only one name under heaven by which we can be saved. Let it be known to you all the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This, the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4 verses 10-12. New King James Version, unless otherwise noted. Billions of people have lived and died without ever hearing the name of Jesus Christ, let alone the real truths of the Bible. What about those people? What about little babies that live only a few hours? Has God caused them to be doomed? Are they lost forever? Absolutely not! Everyone will have a chance. Specific calling necessary. The shocking fact is God is not trying to get everyone saved now. It is a lack of understanding of God's plan that causes Protestant evangelists to shout in this age, give your heart to the Lord before it's too late. The inspired word of God reveals that no one can come to Jesus Christ unless the Father specifically calls him. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. John 6 verse 44. Similarly, in John 6 verse 65, Jesus taught, Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father. God the Father must call for any to come to Jesus, but God has not called all now. In other words, God must call one to be saved in this age. Jesus explained to his intimate followers that they had been called. He said, I chose you out of the world. John 15 verse 19. The Bible is filled with positive proof that all Christians must receive a divine call from God, and there is a much more positive story. The plain truth is that God is not trying to save the whole world now, but has a plan for all. Another truth to grasp is that if God is calling you, while that includes your salvation, Philippians 2 verse 12, you are called for more than just your own salvation, and those who are called are called to a calling. And what is it? First, a calling to a changed life, a life of overcoming sin and self, growing grace and in knowledge. 2 Peter 3 verse 18. Building character while enduring to the end for salvation. Matthew 10 verse 22. God sent his son Jesus. John 3 verse 16 through 17. So you can have a new life in Christ. Romans 6 verse 4 and verse 23. Christians are to be a new creation. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17. You have sinned, yet no matter what you did, you can be forgiven and given a fresh start in life in the truth of God. Please read 1 John 1 verse 6 through 10. This is James Marchinette. This Bible News Prophecy Program was sponsored by the Continuing Church of God. For more information, including access to our free literature, visit BibleNewsProphecy.net or www.ccog.org.