Just Who Are the Bad Guys in the End?

     Almost all apocalyptic theologians focus on Rome and the Roman Catholic Church as the political and spiritual "Babylon" of the tribulation period. For those who are not theologically savvy, "the tribulation" is a seven-year period when those who have converted to Christ are persecuted in the last half. Without making the distinction between when the rapture occurs,. those Christians during that time will be tested.
     "The rapture" is when the dead and living are caught up with Jesus. It is either before the tribulation (pre-trib), during (mid -trib), or after (post-trib). Regardless, of what is the time period for tribulation, their will be a building-up of iniquity which will reach a crescendo at the tribulation period.
     I believe the government and religion of the tribulation is in formation right now! Globalism at it's peak will usher in the leader - the Antichrist. The social gospel and liberation theology is ushering in the Church of the Apocalypse. "Apocalypse" is looking forward to future events; in theology the "end of days".
     With that said, who will be the Antichrist and who will be the religious leader? It is useful to understand the place of all the apocalyptic action! Theologians always place Rome as its epicenter, and the Pope as the Antichrist. Although, the Pope has, over time, empowered himself just as Nebuchadnezzar did, his theology is more like he Church at Thyatira (Rev 2) which still had an element of faithfulness. I believe the end of time religion will be one of syncretism - having another god besides God. Likely, that "god" will pretend to be Messianic but be a spiritual mess!
     It's not the Roman Catholic Church which will go awry but the "Church" in general. What is the Church? It is the universal body of those who claim to be believers. Because the Church is God's "threshing floor" where He separates the good grain from the chaff, that implies that there are strangers to God in the Church - those to whom He will say, "I never knew you!" (Mat 7:23). The end of time Church are those who portend and pretend to be Christians, but don't really know God! In other words, they are Catholics and Protestants. They all will be fooled by the false prophet.
     There are clues as to the who, what, and where of the apocalypse. Daniel saw many things in his visions:

Dan 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

     Let's first look at the first of the four beasts: The lion represents Babylon because of its power. The question is: what place in modern times is this "Babylon"? Is it Rome, the United States, or even the entire world?  A clue lies in verse 2. Daniel saw "a great sea". In those days that referred to the Mediterranean sea whose name means "center of the earth". I believe the focus is on the mid-east as the location of this new age corrupt government. The question remains: Is it Rome, Greece, or somewhere else?

     The bear would be the Medo-Persian Empire. By reason of God's Plan, that is on the same soil as Babylon. Moving on, the leopard represents the Greek, and the fourth, the Roman Empire whose political center was both Rome and Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). Thus, is Rome the focus, or the eastern empire? It could be either. The epicenter of the Babylonian Empire was Babylon which was in Iraq.  Alluded to is an offshoot of the of the fourth beast, the "little horn". The horn represents power and kingship. Theologians believe the little horn is the Antichrist.

Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.   

     "The woman" appears to be the harlot Babylon. Usually theologians take this woman to be Europe with the seven hills of Rome and the ten countries in the European Union. That may be some anti-Catholicism showing!  However, why would world events switch from "Babylon" to Europe? "They" say it is because of its wickedness. That is not convincing. What, then, are the ten horns? I agree, they are nations.  John agrees also:

Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 

Likewise, John defined the seven heads: 

Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

     Again, "the woman" would be the harlot Babylon. "The sea" is the Mediterranean, and the nations would be in that proximity.  What ten nations make up a specific area? Not by coincidence, it is the Promised Land:

Gen 15:18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19  The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21  And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

     These ten kingdoms make up the land between Egypt to Turkey from the sea to the Euphrates. That includes Babylon and most of the Babylonian Empire! Let's look at who these people were: 

• Kenites - Moses father-in-law was a Kenite. They lived in and around the area of Canaan. Kenites were named after Cain.
• Kenizzites - In the area now Syria. Descendants of Kenaz.
• Kadmonites - Means "ancients" and occupied the area now Israel.
• Hittites - Modern Turkey and Syria. Descendents of Heth.
• Perizzites - Lived around Hor and the Negev adjacent to Israel.
• Rephaims - East Jordan. Giants.
• Amorites - Syria and southern Mesopotamia.
• Canaanites - Phoenicans (Philistines). Means "low, humble, subjugated".
• Girgashites - Lived in western Palestine. Chaldean word meaning "clay" because they dwelt in clayey soil. 
• Jebusites - Inhabited Jerusalem. Early name of Jeruslalem was Jebus. Palestinian Arabs claim to be descended from them but erroneously so.

     By now the reader should have noticed that those nations of peoples are indeed much of Babylonian Empire and may be the ten nations of "iron" bound together by "clay" (the  Gurgasites). We know of the extreme hardship as the Hebrew people overpowered those nations which were truly "iron". 

     I contend that the area of focus for the events of the apocalypse should be the old empire of Babylon.

     Babylon is the whore of Revelation:

Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.

     Why would Rome be Babylon when Mesopotamia always was?  Theologians believe that the Roman Empire is a type of Babylonia. Indeed it is, but in apostolic times Rome was mostly the empire of Babylon. In modern times, the Holy Roman Empire is confined only to a small are of territory called the Vatican. However, since the Pope has allegiance all over the world and he is Pontificus Maximus, the Pope is the spiritual leader and traditionally has been supreme over kings. It looks like he is a candidate for the Antichrist but I believe the Pope and Roman Catholicism are mere tools of Babylon. Most of Europe is no longer even Catholic!
     Babylon must include Jerusalem. The City of God is the one most nations seek to control. Many of the events of Revelation are in the City of Zion which is the City of David (2 Sam 5:7). In modern times that great city is Jerusalem. Babylon stole the City of God for their false gods: Marduk, Nebo, and Nebuchadnezzar Later it was stolen for Allah! Apocalyptic "Babylon" will fight for the same City, not only the one on earth but in Heaven.
     Traditionally, ancient wars were fought to demonstrate whose gods are the most powerful. All the gods of those ten nations have always sought to show that their gods are stronger than Jehovah God. All of those "nations" were in land now controlled by Islam, at least before Israel gained independence in 1948. . In older times Babylonia was an Islamic Caliphate: Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and the Ottoman. Until Charles Martel stopped their expansion, much of Europe was part of the Caliphate. In other words, Babylon had become an Islamic Caliphate. Recently, ISIS attempted to restore that caliphate, recapturing much of  the old empire of Babylon.
     However, there is a problem: the city of Babylon no longer exists. It and it's sister city of Nineveh were destroyed by God. They were the Sodom and Gomorrah of that time! The capital of the Harlot Babylon is destined to be Jerusalem because that's where religions fornicate against God. Those pagan religions of Babylon desire to make Jerusalem their "whore" because their own whore has died of spiritual disease!    The ultimate goal of Islam is to have a worldwide caliphate. At the present time, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is trying to establish a global government whose religion is Islam, whose government is Sharia Law, and is ruled by an Islamic religious figure - one caliph who is a successor to Mohammad. That is not "radical Islam"; it is the strategy of Islam! Pan-Islamists have a stated goal: "to challenge, and ultimately conquer, the West." [James Brandon (May 10, 2006). "The Caliphate: One nation, under Allah, with 1.5 billion Muslims". The Christian Science Monitor. Amman, Jorday.] Of course Allah is their god but the Imam is their false prophet. In their own words from commentary on the Quran and the Haddeth:

We implore Allah Almighty to help us serve His cause and render our work for His Sake. I praise Allah, except whom there is none to be worshiped, who is the Ruler of the world. He is innocent and pure free from all blemishes, defects, flaws, or shortcomings. He gives refuge and sustains all. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-does-quran-hadeths-say-having-caliph-khalifa-part-ibrihim/).

     Because Islam wants Allah to be "Ruler of the World" it follows that they desire, no demand, that Islam be the worldwide global government of the world! 
    Islam has their own "Jesus". He is a prophet named Isa. 

That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- (Quran Chapter 4 The Women سورة النساء - An-Nisa: Verse 157.)

They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with Allah,- Allah will forbid him the garden (my note: Jerusalem), and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help. (Quran Chapter 5 The Table Spread سورة المائدة - Al-Maeda: Verse 72)

When Jesus (Isa) came with Clear Signs, he said: "Now have I come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and obey me. (Quran Chapter 43 Ornaments of Gold سورة الزخرف - Az-Zukhruf: Verse 63.)

Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus (Isa), and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (my note: in Islam). (Quran Chapter 2 The Cow سورة البقرة - Al-Baqara: Verse 136).

     It is clear that Isa is indeed their "Jesus", and the Christian Church's "Antichrist".  It is written that all shall bow to Allah, and that Isa (their Jesus) is not the Christ, the son of Mary. Who is he then? Their prophet, the Antichrist of the apocalypse! With the aid of their religious leader, another false prophet, perhaps an Imam, Isa will be proclaimed "God", or in their terms "Allah".
     The Pope and the Catholic Church have a part as well: in the first three-and-a half years, the Antichrist is loved. With the tolerance of the modern Catholic Church leaders, they will be easily duped! The Antichrist will be the master of deception. The biggest piece of that cunning is that Islam is a peaceful religion. We've heard that many times! Catholics have been deceived by that, and not to be outdone with tolerance, liberal Protestant denominations have as well. The acceptance of Islam is not a Catholic Problem but a problem with the modern Church.
     Overall, the modern Church is Laodicean in nature - not hot or cold but lukewarm. It confesses Jesus but their practices defile God's Name horribly! The worst of the worst of those are the Unitarian-Universalists. They are easily duped and consider all "gods" as equals. They will be the first for God "to spew out of his mouth" because of their fornication with other gods!
     The Christian Church will still be the true Church. However, just as the Jews have always fornicated with other gods (until they learned their lesson by Babylonian destruction), the Christian Church will at the end of days!
     We think of Church as sanctuary from the world but it's the "threshing floor". That invisible organization is where God's conviction is accepted or rejected. In the last days, 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christianity then threshed by God who allows the Antichrist to give them a choice:

Rev 20:14 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

     What is peculiar about this verse? It is a government policy of "convert or die"! Until Islam was cleaned up after 9/11, history painted Islam as a violent religion. God converts by offering peace (in the heart), but Mohammad converted by the blade. Chances are if you are a modern-day Muslim, you are because a Muslim zealot held a sword to your ancestor's throat! (See the 1890's book, Religions of the World). Muslim grew rapidly because of fear of decapitation. In modern times, it is fear which causes western people to bow to Islam!
     In the passage preceding, God allows the Antichrist to judge the Jews just as Nebuchadnezzar judged the Jewish people. Many heads were lost in Jerusalem as Solomon's Temple was destroyed by a quasi-type of the Antichrist! Modern-day Muslims are "children" of Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar. God allowed "Neb" to test the faithfulness of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, and the threat of decapitation is the same. If they take the Antichrist's number by kneeling to him, their penalty is fiery Hell. In Babylon, God saved his children from the fire, and in the end of days, his many children will too be saved when they reject the number of the beast (Dan 3)!
     What is the beast's number? Six-Six-Six, the same as Nebuchadnezzar's. Numerologists have identified the number of the beast with many tyrants over the years. They turned out not to be the Antichrist. Many Popes have been so designated as well as Napoleon and Hitler. Who admits that is their number?  Islam! (See http://motheofgod.com/threads/sacred-numbers-666-and-19-in-islam.5847/ and http://www.universalunity.org/6.html);

"The truth is that This Quran is the 666 , The Book from The Lord of the Universe. "

"GOD made His Messenger [Muhammad] a witness with the letter Qaf and the number 666. "

     In other words, to Muslims, "666" is Allah's number! Just as Isa is their prophet and is our Antichrist, the number of their Quran is the number of our fearsome "beast".
     The Beast surely arises from the Euphrates since the "four angels" which were bound there will be loosed. There is a reason that Nebuchadnezzar was a type of Antichrist. Babylon was on the Euphrates. It seems that all evil at the end of days comes out of Babylon, and goodness refers to Zion. Thus, it seems to be a great spiritual war between Babylon and Jerusalem, fought some on the earth and at least watched from Heaven. Those "angels" are surely spiritual beings, or dark angels who are called forth to destroy a portion of the righteous, and are Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Roman deities of sorts.
     We've examined the place - Babylon, the beast - Isa, the ten horns - the ancestors of the Muslims - and now we need to look at the "seven heads" which is interpreted seven mountains:

Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

     There are seven pillars of  Ismailism, and early Islamic majority. Since then, time has reduced them to Five Pillars of Islam. The Quran mentions five holy mountains of their religion. Not mentioned were Golgotha and Mt. Hermon which both were holy mountains to Jews and Muslims. There seems to have been seven holy mountains of Islam. They may have been reduced to five because of direct mention. Islam places importance on their holy mountains:

Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?  (Quran, 78:6-7)

     The pillars of Islam are "pegs" or mountains which are the tenets of Ismailism - once the largest branch of Islam in Shiism. (Ismail was the oldest son of Abraham and is claimed to be the lineage of most Muslim people. Those "pegs" were pillars and are identified from Wilkipedia "Seven Pillars of Ismailism":

1. Guardianship (Walaya)
2. Purity (Tahara)
3. Prayer (Salat)
4. Charity (Zakah)
5. Fasting (Sawm)
6. Pilgrimage (Hajj)
7. Struggle (Jihad)

     The bottomless pit" is the  "Well of Souls" in Islam - the place of the Holy of Holies in Judaism and Christianity. Beneath the rock of Ornan's Threshing Floor is where Solomon's Temple once stood and the Dome of the Rock (Islamic Temple) now stands. "Well of Souls" derives from a medieval Islamic legend that at this place the spirits of the dead can be heard awaiting Judgment Day." (Wikipedia) That fits in quite well with where those dead who are not Christians, await judgment. It is handy for them that Isa will have a place of torment for those he kills!
     Above the Well of Souls is the rock itself, the very place on which Abraham was said to have been willing to sacrifice Isaac. It is called "the foundation stone" by the Jews. "the Stone marks the center of the world and serves as a cover for the Abyss (Abzu) containing the raging waters of the Flood." (again, from Wikipedia; "The Well of Souls". 
     Ironically, this place of the dead was where the waters of life flowed forth and killed evil people, excepting Noah and his family. There is so much more that points to Islam as the false religion of the tribulation, and their Isa as the Antichrist. Not much has been said about the global government - an Islamic Caliphate - whose rule is by Sharia Law. That fits quite well with the rule of the Antichrist. 
     Not to be forgotten is progressivism in the government and the Church. The modern Church with its social justice has become more Marxist than Christian! Liberals are the useful idiots which Islam uses to propagate their immigration. The West will not be defeated by Islamic War (Jihad) but immigration as they arrive and refuse to assimilate. By the time discerning people get wise to the Islamic/Progressive coalition, it will be too late! Suddenly, during the last three and one-half years, communism with it's cruelty and Islam with its, shall join forces. There is little difference between  communism and Sharia Law!  Look at the cruelty of the "ten kingdoms" - the ten Babylonian/Muslim kingdoms - as they administer their law:

Dan 7:35 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

     Can I prove this? It is hypothesis but is based on Scripture and Islam's own holy writings. The French Republic created their own "god" - the God of Reason - and the French Church just caved. Before long, Libertas (Liberty) was fornicating in the Cathedral of Notre Dame as the clerics denied Christ and joined in on the pleasure. It are the free things and such which will attract even the elect to the false doctrine of the end-of-time church and the seemingly nice government of the Antichrist!

Discovering the Kingdom of God

     The Kingdom of God has its mysteries. What is the Kingdom of God? It's when in the presence of God. Scripture is vague about where and what is the Kingdom of God. The best answer which I have found was from Jesus:

Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

     God has a realm wherein is His throne, but the earth is merely a place for His feet to rest (God rested on the seventh day). 

Acts 7:49 and 2 Chron 9:18 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

     Kings have authority in their realm. Obviously, to be a citizen of God's Kingdom, God must be the authority in someone's life.  To have full citizenship, since no one cannot hold two spiritual citizenships (Luke 16:13), every person must decide who they will serve: will it be to serve themselves or serve God? Hint: if they elect to serve themselves, it is Satan's will which is done, and their Lord is the Devil who is Prince of the World (Ephes 2:2), a Pretender to God's throne:

Isa 14:13 ...thou (Satan) hast said in thine heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

     Have you ever wondered why God came down to earth as Jesus?

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 

     Jesus's purpose in life was "that he might destroy the works of the Devil." It is a spiritual war which overflows into the physical! The "war" is about the spiritual but it is fought on solid ground for control of Heaven. The earth will be destroyed but God's Kingdom cannot be! Satan wants to sit on the throne and have everyone worship him as they should be God. I use the word "should" because none of God's citizens are fully obedient to the King! Like it or not, when Christians sin, we are seditious and traitorous. Christians claim to serve the King but actually serve in deed, the Pretender to the throne. God knows the false promises of His adversary and understands. He knows we are willing to serve Him, but because of Satan's bribes, are tempted to rebel (Mat 26:41).      The war is about control of the Kingdom of God. Christians are actively engaged in the Spiritual Revolution. Why so? Jesus said (Luke 17:21), "The Kingdom of God is within you." When is it that sinners change allegiance? It is when they are born-again (John 3:7). They come to the conclusion that  God is in charge, and they are not. As they are enlightened that they can and will be destroyed by sin, they look up to God for reprieve. Rebirth is changing allegiances from Satan to God, and forsaking the Prince of the Air for the King Jesus - King of the Jews. Christians, when they forsake the world, spiritually become "good Jews". The Christian "elect" are God's chosen people and become peculiar and of God's "holy nation" (1 Pet 2:9). The citizenship of born-again Christians is changed from the world to God's "Holy Nation" which is the Kingdom of God.
     There was a constructed temple in God's nation - Israel - within the world. God said that he didn't need that temple:

Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

1 Cor 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

      From the Acts passage we see that God doesn't need a building in which to reign but 1 Corinthians indicate that God dwells within the souls of those born-again. Citizenship is granted, and only faithfulness to the King need be tested. Satan does that! He works for God to test the faith of mankind, including the provisionary citizens of God's Kingdom (See the Book of Job).
     Christians can defile the temple! God will destroy that seditious traitor (1 Cor 3:17 above). Satan's role is to test the allegiance of Christians: Which master do they truly serve? If  they are "pretend citizens" in Satan's "pretend kingdom", God will destroy them. Pretending Christians - those not devoted to God - will be cast into Hell with their father the devil!
     With all that said, the Kingdom of God lies within you because of the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit. God and sin cannot coexist. Eventually, it becomes evident whose servant people truly are! Of course, God is patient but he should see his citizens becoming better citizens. That obedience is how the citizens of the Kingdom of God demonstrate their love for the King! (John 14:15). The Law of God in God's Kingdom, then, is not a dictatorship. The Law there is only to test the patriotism of the citizens to the King!     Now let us look at the verses of the day:

Mark 4:11 And he (Jesus) said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

     I have, through scripture, revealed "the mystery of the Kingdom of God". Parables are the use of like stories to simply spiritual matters. Jesus revealed the mystery in parables, but for you, I gathered inspired Word to further explain. We must be patriotic! There is a Kingdom, and patriots are true to the King. It is not a democracy but a theocracy. Our dependence is not on Liberty but on Jesus. That statue in New York Harbor is for the world. Jesus is in my heart. That's where I look for prosperity and safety! 

Apocalypse

     "Apocalypse" means to reveal things from afar. John the Beloved revealed the end of days from the first century A.D. Although, the end of time would come with Jesus who would "come quickly" (Rev 22:20), the concept of time is irrelevant to God. "Quickly" could have meant then, now, soon, or much later. John revealed the signs of the end of times so that Christians would be sober and vigilant (1 Pet 5:8).
    In my forthcoming book, Killing God, I disclose that the "Church", whose first building was built on the threshing floor of Ornan, is where God threshes out the "good" grain from the chaff. Revelation is all about the "threshing of the Church" at the end of days. God threshed the Church in Jerusalem and even the Jewish nation using King Nebuchadnezzar and the nation of Babylon. That threshing is a metaphor for the end of days when God finally tires of his seventy times seven chances and gives one last chance! With poetic justice, with the destruction of the Church, or Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, it seemed to be the last chance for the Jews to turn to God.
     In the end of days, events occur after the Christians - the living and dead - are taken up to Heaven. One-hundred forty-four thousand Jews at that time will be given the same chance that the Jews had in Babylon. Keep in mind that Jerusalem represents Heaven. (I believe the Garden of Eden was the Kingdom of David, and Jerusalem the location of the Tree of Life which was in the midst of the Garden of God). It is to be noted that Babylon "killed" Jerusalem when they destroyed it but like Jesus it was resurrected again in 1948 when the nation of Israel was established. Jerusalem, like God, can only be wounded; it too is imperishable! In Revelation the "foundation of peace" which is Jerusalem, will be replaced by New Jerusalem after the world, like Israel, will again be destroyed by fire!
     Not only did John reveal the apocalypse but so did Isaiah, hundreds of years before! Isaiah warned Judah (the land of the Jews) about it's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon:

Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.    

     This was a warning from God using Isaiah for the revelation.  Isaiah saw destruction coming, not only for the Jews, but for the world at the end of days. Isaiah's vision was prophecy for the destruction of Judah and for the end of the world. The entire Book of Revelation compares the apocalypse to Babylon. When we read about Babylon, we are symbolically reading about the world in latter days!

Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come...

1 Cor 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Revelation Chapter 6 is John's vision and revelation of the great and terrible day of the Lord!

With Babylon it was the destruction of the flesh which God allowed. At the end of days, it is the same thing. God threshed Jerusalem using Babylon, and He will thresh the world using the same "great whore" (Rev 17:1). 

Manipulation

     A kind of hatred is manipulation: the use of cunning to control others. I like the King James Version word subtil which is highly skillful.

Gen 3:1 ...the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

     The subtil (subtle) serpent, endowed with the spirit of Lucifer, proceeded to convince Eve to do his will. I've actually seen people who would put the Devil to shame because of their skillful use of cunning! What the serpent did was manipulate Eve for her will to coincide with his will. I often use the phrase: "useful idiot" but God has his own verbiage:

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

     Manipulators depend on that! Wisdom is seeing through the façade.  People manipulate all the time, and like the serpent, their technique is the same - convince foolish people. The object is for manipulators to convince others to do their will. The fool's will, through cunning, comes to harmonize with the manipulator's will. That was what the Devil did to Eve and children of the Devil use the same tactic!    

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,... Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

     Manipulators mimic their real father! The Devil is a murderer of souls. He kills people with subtlety. Hatred is murder, and hence murder is hatred (1 John 3:15). This makes the point that manipulation is a form of hatred because the manipulator fails to love the manipulated enough to use truth in interactions!
     The serpent used the argument following:

Gen 3:4 ...Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

     The serpent first accused God of manipulation: to persuade them not to eat of the fruit, He said they would die, knowing full-well that God just didn't want them to have His knowledge. God doesn't manipulate as we soon found out. Eve didn't die physically right that moment but she died somewhat later. The serpent manipulated Adam when he saw that Eve didn't die so he ate as well.  (The serpent wasn't honest. He never mentioned time!) If it had not been for their contrition and God's grace, Adam and Eve would have died eternally! They did go from immortality to mortality in life just as God warned. They died because Satan manipulated them using the wily serpent. The serpent murdered Adam and Eve because Satan tricked them into doing his will and not God's. He was successful: original sin is mankind doing Satan's will while all the time thinking they are doing their own will.
     Because the Devil is the father of lies, and sinners are his children, they do what the Devil desires. They do those things even unwittingly since they are Satan's "useful idiots" who serve his purpose. All those foolish people who take to the streets with vitriol are useful idiots - Satan's fools. Sure, their strings are pulled by powerful people behind the scenes (the serpents) but inevitably, they are the Devil's fools as well as evil men's useful idiots!
     Children learn manipulation because they inherited original sin from Eve - the mother of all. It's in their DNA and immediately even innocent babies learn to manipulate. Parents quickly become Pavlovian, even treating the child when the bell is not rung! Parents are conditioned to spoil children who need only ring the bell to obtain pleasure. Early on it may be for nourishment or attention, but they soon learn that they can get things by manipulation. Of course, that is their method of obtaining comfort and nourishment but they soon use manipulation to get what they want, either things or wants.
     Children are cunning, oftentimes smarter than the parents. Their technique works this way: if you don't give me what I want, I will be upset. Of course, good parents don't want to upset their child because conflict is inevitable. Parents allow themselves to be manipulated for two reasons: (1) to spoil the child or (2) they are afraid of conflict. What if Eve had not been manipulated with the first cunning device? Obviously, the serpent would have even used more cunning to get his will. Children act like their father and use his techniques!
     Right now, as they read this, parents don't like the idea that I am comparing their children to the Devil. I don't like it either, but until God emancipates them from Satan and adopts them as his own, children will do the will of their father because they are like their father genetically. Adoption should change things.

Ephesians 1:5 (God) having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself.

     Christians should change their will in congruence with Satan to be in harmony with God's will. To be blunt, Christians should not hate others by manipulation. They are to do unto others as they would have them to unto them! Nobody likes to be manipulated. With children, it may be cute but from adults it is repugnant!

     Unfortunately, some children never grow up. They enjoy being the master of those around them, treating them like the Pavlovian dogs weak parents are conditioned to be. Children who manipulate their parents are not honoring them as they are commanded to do!

     What do strong-willed children need to do? Change! What do strong-willed adults need to do? Change! Who can change people? God can! People enjoy being around those who are kind, considerate, respectful, truthful, and straight-forward. They don't like being around those with hidden agendas! Ask yourself: "Do I enjoy manipulators?" If you do, then you enjoy manipulation. That is foolish!

Vanity and Exultation

     What is salvation? Scripture says, "You shall be saved" (Jer 30:7; Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21). Incidentally, the passages from the Book of Joel and Acts say the exact same thing: (ESV today).

And it will come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

    Thus, "Calling on the Name of the Lord" is imperative for salvation! Let's now compare this with the Third Commandment:

Exod 20:7 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

     Acts and Joel indicates that "calling on Name of the Lord" is the way to salvation. God wrote in stone not to "take the Name of the Lord in vain". Do you understand the connection? Acts tells what must happen to be saved: calling on the Name of the Lord, and in Exodus God commands that one not take the Name of the Lord in vain. Thus, the former is a reward for calling and the latter offers a punishment for not calling, or taking that Name without having a purpose.

    "In vain" means that the Name is taken with no real value. What is the value of the Name of the Lord? It is the Way to salvation! What is the penalty for not valuing the Name? God will not hold him guiltless who takes his Name with vanity. Note that, the command does not use the words "say His Name" but take! Saying is of the lips. Taking is of the heart. Taking is obtaining. Taking with vanity is obtaining the truth then doing nothing with it! The penalty for that is conviction: those who take the Lord's Name in vain are guilty of something? What is the crime?

     Maybe the value of the Name and whose Name has significance:

Luke 2:21 ...he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

     "He" is obviously the Lord "God with us" (Mat 1:23).  Furthermore, that Name (Jesus) is the Way to salvation:

Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name (Jesus) under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

     Why is Jesus so important. It is He who can save! How is He able to save? 

 Rom 2:23 ...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

     Thus, Jesus died for our sins; that is grace! We should have died but he died in our place. Jesus's death says "take that gift". Those who don't take that gift, consider Jesus's death without purpose. His sacrifice was vanity to those who don't take the gift! What happens to those who reject Jesus's purpose (which was to die for us)?

 Luke 12:10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Ghost will not be forgiven.

     Speaking, or saying things against Jesus, can be forgiven. Peter denied Jesus three times, but Jesus had yet to die. He was forgiven. However, the Holy Ghost is the Ghost of Jesus and signifies that Jesus died. Taking Jesus's death frivolously is blasphemy which "will not be forgiven", and corresponds with the guiltiness of the Third Commandment.

    Isaiah indicated long ago how to be saved: call upon His (God's) Name:

Isa 12:2 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” 3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 And you will say in that day:“Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name,make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. 

     Call upon God's Name. Take the gift which God offers. Exalt God's Name! Exalt is the opposite of vanity. Exalting proclaims Jesus's purpose: to die for mankind!

     The woman at the well was offered "living water" by Jesus who identified Himself as God. The Samaritan woman went out and exalted Jesus, proclaiming Him God (John 4). She was converted. She was one who "shall be saved".

     When is salvation? Jeremiah says it is at the time of Jacob's distress, at least for the Jews:

Jer 30:7 Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

      Jacob's distress was when God's camp was threatened by Esau and Jacob (Israel) turned to God for salvation (Gen 32). His distress was that his camp would be divided. However, Esau allowed him to pass across the Jordan to safety. (Across the Jordan was into "Paradise" symbolically). Eschatologists believe that in the Book of Revelation, Jacob's distress is when the Jews are divided; some to safety and others not. Thus, the time of salvation, would be the latter half of the seven-year tribulation period.. Those dead and living in Christ would already have been taken away, and the salvation of the Jews would be sort of a last chance to be saved. After that, the world will have been divided, and no one else would be saved.
     Obviously, those already dead and living in Christ who were taken away before the tribulation period were saved at that time. For Gentiles, the Day of Salvation is when Christians, dead and alive, meet Jesus in the sky. That is for those who called on the Name of God. Those who are not taken up, have blasphemed Jesus's purpose, and took God's death in vain, reminding the reader again that "vanity" is without purpose.

Just Who or What is God?

     Theologians have really confused the identity of God by such terms as "persons", "personalities" and "substances" which they call homeostasis. Added  to that is "Godhead", "the Holy Trinity", and a few other "impersonal" descriptions. Even I, having used the word impersonal, have fallen into the trap because we tend to use words that we understand! Theologians, in their commentaries, even write chapters on "The Nature of God". God is not merely natural and neither does he only have substance.
     Now let me qualify my statements: until God made Himself Flesh. With that transition, God is a person, He has substance, and certainly a personality! On the other hand, God is not three persons; He is One. He does not have three "personalities" but only One, and He is not representative of three different powers (Godhead) but only One - God!
     Just what is a "god"? "A being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship." (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). This definition is of a generic god and has the following attributes:

• "A being." All that means is that a god exists. By existing, gods are present, are real, and factual. True gods cannot be mythological or they are not truly gods.
• An existence in whom there is "belief." Others must trust that these existences are indeed gods. With that, gods must believe that they are gods. That's not too hard for even members of the human race perceive themselves "as gods" (Gen 3:5). Gods, to be "gods" must claim to be gods. That is not to be taken lightly because recently on America's Got Talent Mel B  called herself a "goddess" - a female god.
• Gods must have "more than natural attributes." Of course, gods can have appearance and actually be "natural" but they must also be supra or beyond natural. Not only are gods substances but spiritual (i.e,  supernatural). Human beings are not really "gods". Unlike false gods, though, humans do have natural substances and false gods' substances are material. Whatever "appears" is the idol. Since false gods are not real, mankind must construct them. False gods do not exist and without existence cannot create.
• Gods have "more than natural powers." Gods are, thus, mighty. They must be able to do things which animals and humans cannot do. They must excel their substance. What I mean by that is that their power must be more than meets the eye. God's create! That's what god's do with their power! Mankind worships them because they are believed to have power. Sub-par gods, if they were real, could only create matter. The head god must be able to create life.
• Gods, because  they are superior to mankind, "require human worship." Thus, gods have self-assigned authority. They demand obedience, adoration, and appeasement.

     Keep in mind that these comments are about generic gods - those who either claim godhood or those which people make into gods. Human beings are not truly gods because we are natural, and have only substance. One might believe that because we think we are greater than what we are but take away our substance, and cognition evaporates. Unless... unless we are more than substance! Indeed, we are! The One True God made us in His own image. What, then, are the differences between generic gods and the One True God?

• Before substance, God Existed; not for a short time but He always was, is, and always will be. Take away everything created, and the One True God is still there!
• Not even power was there before the beginning besides God. He was Almighty. All power exists in Him and always did. 
• Because God is Almighty, all things are done through Him. That's everything!
• Because other things exist, and were not always in existence, somehow they were created. Something cannot come from nothing! That is a physical law and is the First Law of Thermodynamics. The only real possibility is that all things were created. Everything but God needs explanation. Creation is the only valid explanation for the beginning. Hence, God really created all Existence except Himself because He always existed.
• God created both the seen (matter) and the unseen (the spiritual). Thus, he created the heaven and the earth, or the supernatural and the natural. How was that performed? Through His Almightiness. Creation, again, is what the True God would do! Since God is Almighty, He doesn't need assistance. There is only One God. Any others who claim godhood are false gods. They are created but not real beings. Mankind created them in them in their minds. Therefore, having other gods besides God is irreverent!
• There was a reason God created. He wanted love and companionship. Thus, creation was the first act of love. If God did not create, then divine love is non-existence. Divine love is almighty love. Why would anyone not want to be loved and to love? God is essential for peace in the world because without love the world would no longer exist..
• Thus, since God creates, He is the source of love, and His love nourishes the world. Without God, love is farcical! 
• Because God so loved the world, He wanted to empathize with His creatures. Therefore, God became Flesh to suffer what his creatures suffer. He suffered death because all men are destined to die. He wanted to feel that! However, he needed a reason to die. His reason was to save His creatures.
• God was always supernatural. He had no substance as He was Spirit. Because He Created and was the Authority, God's Spirit is holy! He requires human worship because He so loves His creatures.
• God made Himself natural. As Creator, God has that Power! That's what real God's would do. He put on flesh. Jesus is God's "person" who has a "personality". Jesus's person and personality is God incarnate. There are not three persons but One. There are not three personalities but one! However, God does have three attributes. He is Father (Creator), Jesus (God's Appearance), and Spirit (God's Power and love). God appeared in different forms in different eras, but His most notable is the Flesh.
• God always appeared, thus Jesus always existed (John 1-2, 14). Where was He? Appearing to mankind as the Voice, saying the Word of God, as the angel of God, the burning bush, the fourth man in the fiery furnace, and the "man" who wrestled with Jacob. Jesus, the person, is God in the world, or God manifested. When God manifests Himself, He is called Jesus, the Christ, and Emmanuel. God still is without Name but for man's benefit, he is called the Name.
• God took the Name as sort of a password to the gate to Heaven. That gate is guarded by cherubim, and to enter therein, because there is no other Way, the Name for entry is "Jesus". 
• However, it is not merely saying the Name "Jesus" which allows passage into the supernatural, but what God did. It's taking God's name reverently because He died in our place. God was born to die for mankind as an offering. His Flesh was the propitiation for our flesh. It is God's own death - the crucifixion - which allows entry into the Garden of the Lord. 
• Those who are allowed entry cannot take God's Name (purpose) in vain. He is called Jesus. His Name is taken in vain when the purpose for Jesus is taken flippantly or even casually. Jesus was born to die for us. By not accepting God's propitiation of Himself, His sacrifice is for naught or in vain.
• God died for mankind. His death was in the person of Jesus. God's substance died. 
• Even though His Flesh died, God's Holy Spirit experienced death. Power drained out of God as all the sins of all mankind was taken on. God felt virtue flowing from Himself to cover all sin.
• When God incarnate died, his Holy Spirit experienced His pain. After God's death, the "Ghost of Jesus" still lived.
• The Holy Spirit is still God with us. Because God's Spirit experienced death on the cross with God's Flesh, God's Spirit is called the Holy Ghost (of Jesus who Is God).
• God didn't die but He experienced death. It was His Flesh which was sacrificed - called Jesus. His Spirit felt death but never died. 
• In the beginning, God had glorious flesh. It could be what it needed to be for the occasion: flesh, smoke, fire, a cloud, light, a beautiful apparition which we call an angel, an audible Voice or Words which were spoken. After God's worldly Flesh was dispensed of, he was transformed with glorious Flesh - "glorified". Jesus still appears to mankind but in the same manner as before God had Flesh! His Word is still spoken but in a mental language. If Jesus's "Ghost" lives within the Creature, the Word is always audible through the conscience.
• The human "conscience" is God's mouthpiece which guides the minds of men. The mind directs the traffic into the temple within. That temple is the soul. The mind allows sin to enter the soul if the flesh is weak (needing pleasure) but with too much levity, iniquity replaces God's "Ghost" which is imbued within its "cup". 
• Because God resides in His creatures, if He does, then He is a personal God. God does not require (demand) entry. He is a graceful God, unlike generic gods. 
• Therefore, the One True God is real substance who had human flesh and is a Unique God. Because God cannot be corrupted, his flesh was transformed into glorious incorruptible flesh not made of substance but "glory". Glory is God's presence. Since only God is "good", glorified flesh is perfect flesh.
• Because God lives within His creatures, and guides and directs, He is a personal God. He feels what we feel and knows our every thought. 

     I hope that this commentary distinguishes the True God from impostor gods. I hope that people come to realize that they are not gods, but God Is! I would hope that they now understand that there are not different gods called the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost but God who is the Creator, Jesus - God manifested, and Jesus's Holy Ghost - God within us! Christ is God with us. That's what God is called! We worship God only. We can call Him according to how he appears to us, but in the end, God just Is! Right now, God appears to mankind in Spirit. Because of dim eyes, we cannot "see" God. However, those who know God have bright eyes and realize that He lives within them. If we obey God, our conscience is in harmony with God's Will. That harmony is when our will is subservient to God's Will. 

Haters

     Those who pull the word "hater" out of the bucket of epithets first seem to have the upper hand. Of course, hatred has degrees from apathy to detestation. Oddly enough, caring nothing either way is mild hatred. Detestation is best explained by a child as "hating their guts" which immature pubescents express often. The spiritual explanation for hatred is lacking love. The ultimate love is desiring that in the end that "none should perish" (John 3:16). Since hatred is the lack of love, then the ultimate hatred is that all should perish. The Devil desires that! Someplace in between is that some should perish. Damning hatred is even that any should perish.
     Thus, hatred is highly correlated to wanting anyone to perish. Perish means to die! When John wrote of God's grace, the intent was that God wants everyone to live forever! Ultimate hatred, then, is that someone desires that another die forever. Murder, therefore, is hatred. God sees it that way as well:

1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 

     Hatred is serious business. The penalty for hatred, as is murder, is dying oneself. Ironically, haters have murder in their hearts, and as such kill themselves forever! While trying to kill others, inevitably, without forgiveness, they kill themselves; and not just from this life but for eternity.
     Looking at the metrics for hatred, mankind all have a problem with hatred! That's why loving others is a corollary to loving God (Mat 22:36-40). Loving others is how people demonstrate to God that they love Him. Not loving others - hatred - reveals to God that you don't love Him.
     Can one murder without hatred? Nada. Emotion drives one to murder, as does convenience. The latter does not seem like hatred. Jews were killed because they were inconvenient to the Third Reich. Is that a type of hatred? Some killed Jews because they were different. Is that hatred? Others killed Jews because they perceived that Jews killed God. Is that hatred? The answer is "yes" to all those questions. The giving and taking of life belongs to God and God only!
     What about killing for justice to be served. God ordained mankind to have civility and punishment is necessary. Murdering is punishable by death (Exod 21:24), but not for hatred. Vengeance belongs to the Lord (Psalm 94:1). Disciple must never be taken personally.

Rom 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

     Is calling someone who differs "hater" being kind? No, it is demonstrating hatred by slinging that epithet. The most extreme haters call others "hater" the most. This seems to be born out in almost all protests we see today. Of course, protests have a façade of righteous indignation but that is just what it is!  Usually hatred is demonstrated by exaggeration, false accusations, and deception. The truth is generally that differences exist because of opinions.
     What sets one group apart from what is right is the degree of respect for life. What things made Nazism so disgusting? Hatred and murder? Being different was the metric for those. Differences are not only racial but anything the Devil can use to divide. If differences don't exist to exploit, haters create them. As an example. when the president pointed out that oftentimes immigrants are bad dudes who do awful things, Trump surely intended to point out a major problem with America's immigration policy. What he said was true but seemed to be unsympathetic. Perhaps it was! However, even though it did not display empathy, it is largely true as anyone can discover from the newspapers. There is a major crime, drug, and assault problem with those immigrating specifically from the south which our nation does not see from Canadian immigrants.
     Because of the difference in skin hue, Trump was accused of racism. Unfortunately, dark races commit crimes and to deal with that is not hatred. It's not their skin tone which makes them criminals but the environment from which they come. Mexicans should have little respect for their own law, so why would they respect ours? They come from a corrupt country run by thugs - the Mexican mob.  Liberals created a divisive atmosphere, not because they love Latinos, but because they have disgust for America. Thus, the hatred for Trump is not because he is a hater but because progressives hate the laws of the United States. Why so? Because their view of fairness does not correspond with the U.S. Constitution. They are very vocal about hatred for individual rights coming from the Bill of Rights. Although they proclaim freedom of speech, if speech differs from theirs, they despise it. Since the Second Amendment enforces free speech, they despise the Second Amendment!
     Progressives don't really hate Trump; they hate America and it's Constitution. Innately, socialism is seditious and un-American. They want another government which differs from the one we have! Their desire is to repress the masses through regulation. Socialism does that by providing crumbs to society in payment for blind allegiance. The American Dream is not based on handouts but motivation. Progressivism is in opposition to those who are motivated. That's where they want Americans to remain. Their hatred for American institutions and patriotism is a childish maneuver to get their way, and if they cannot, to destroy the best government ever in existence!
     To determine who are really the Nazis and haters, one need only ask the question: Who is it that lacks respect for life? Who is it that has lack of respect for others? The answer for those questions is the pro-abortion party which is the one which has antipathy for justice. Lawlessness is of Satan:

Mat 23:28 ...you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

     Progressives are after their own brand of law which appears to be righteous but is lawless in that rather than what is right it is their whim. Marx wrote down their whims in the Communist Manifesto. That document divides people into about any and all factions from gender to industriousness. Progressives hate America, and those who stand up for America. When they gather together, the hatred is manifested. Who is it that is violent and hateful? Just look at the mob protests and answer the question yourself. America will not be destroyed from those of other nations but within. Why would Americans even desire to have Muslim immigration? Because it is another way to be divisive. They never let a good crisis go to waste! For whose benefit? Theirs!