Wings of Liberty • February 14, 2025

Donkeys, Elephants, and Citizens of a Better Land

Christians are not immune to becoming entrenched politically and allowing a partisan mindset to obscure the spiritual and prophetic significance of events taking place around them. If there were any doubt on this point, the global Covid pandemic provides many examples of Christians doing this very thing.


Christians ought to have been the last people fooled by global lockdowns and digital passports during Covid. Anyone with a proper working familiarity with the Bible knows that it tells us the signs that the world will end. We are instructed in the most solemn terms to discern the signs of the times. Jesus Himself stated, “Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them” – Luke 12:37. Also see Luke 21:34-36, Matthew 24.


Amongst the many other prophecies of this sort interspersed throughout Scripture, there are two main books which speak extensively on prophecy and the end of the world. Those books are the books of Daniel and the Revelation. In both there are specific revelations from God regarding end time events. The book of Revelation begins with the statement that this is the “revelation of Jesus Christ” to the Apostle John regarding the end of the world – see Revelation 1:1.


Revelation 13 contains the prophecy of the “mark of the beast”, and describes it as a condition imposed on every person on earth by civil authorities who operate under the directions and influence of the “Lamb-Like Beast”. The mark of the beast, simply put, is a test for participation in society – it is a condition imposed by governments which completely restricts an individual from buying or selling if he or she does not have the mark. That means restrictions on commerce, transportation and mobility, speech, internet usage – everything.

If you think that sounds a lot like central bank digital currencies, digital passports, a cashless society, and the profound restrictions on personal freedom and movement that arose over the course of nearly four years, you’d be right. The global events we have witnessed are surely a harbinger of things to come. The system is being built before our very eyes.


The Bible emphasises that no one on the earth will be immune from the test of the mark of the beast, and in case there was any doubt, Revelation emphasises that it applies to “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” – Revelation 13:16.


Contrary to what the “once saved always saved” crowd says, the mark of the beast test is determinative of the salvation of the people at the end of the world. The class that refuses the mark is persecuted and ordered to be put to death by civil powers – Revelation 13:15, but triumphs in the end – Revelation 15:2. They get “the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name”. The class that takes the mark can buy and sell for a short time, but then it receives the plagues mentioned in Revelation 16, and is thrown into the Lake of Fire with the devil and his angels – Revelation 14:9-11; 19:20.


Most Christians who study their Bibles to some extent, as opposed to the vast number of professed Christians who do not, have some general awareness of these prophecies. And yet during Covid, there were millions upon millions of Christians who failed to recognize that near-global forced lockdowns, vaccine passports, restrictions on cash, segregated societies etc. were a prophesied move in the direction the events described in Revelation 13.


Those who failed to recognize the prophetic implications can be generally subdivided into two classes.

One group of Christians, as stated, were oblivious to the prophetic significance because they simply do not read their Bibles, or only read them cursorily. These people have essentially obtained all of their understanding of the Bible, such as it is, from their pastor or priest. They fail to inquire of the Word of God themselves.


While this nominal and uninformed type of Christianity is still labeled by the world as “Christianity”, this is illusive because Christians are instructed to study and watch - for example, see Mark 13:35-37.i Christ never instructed His followers to be ignorant and uninformed, to bow to public pressure on matters of conscience, or to receive their information from their equally ignorant and uninformed pastors or priests.


The other group of Christians in this category, however, failed to recognize the prophetic significance of the events around them even though they read the Bible to some greater or lesser extent. A large number in this class of persons, it can safely be said, often missed the prophetic significance of global lockdowns and economic restrictions because of their political allegiance to left wing ideology and/or parties.


Since it was primarily their tribe which imposed lockdowns and vaccine passports, etc., these Christians often proved incapable of putting sufficient distance between their party’s positions and their obligation to uphold and align themselves with Christian principles which have superior claims, such as liberty of conscience, the right to bodily autonomy, and freedom of speech. When governments around the world began to violate the right of free speech, these Christians sided with the state. When Christian pastors were being arrested for having a Bible study or a church service, these Christians sided with the state. When the governments told their citizens they had to have injections from Pfizer or Moderna or Astra Zeneca, these Christians sided with the state. They were unable to discern that what was taking place all around them was in fact an obvious advance toward the events of Revelation 13.


To underscore the depth of their blindness, many in this class are so deluded that they still think that coercing billions of people to take the useless and dangerous Pfizer shot, and locking them away from society if they refused, was a good idea.


We could generally summarize all the points made so far thusly: in America, if a Christian person was a member of Team Donkey, they were much more likely to rationalize oppression because it was Team Donkey that was doing the oppressing.


An observer might reasonably conclude from this, therefore, that a Christian person could avoid this spiritual blindness by simply not being a member of the Donkey Party. And of course, that would be a good idea for further reasons we will come to momentarily.


But it turns out the phenomenon is not exclusive to only to Team Donkey. It can be readily proven, in fact, that Christians who are on Team Donkey or Team Elephant both have a similar problem applying Bible principles objectively to a given fact scenario which touches on Revelation 13.


In case there were any doubt of this, Providence has now determined to demonstrate the point for the world to see by way of observation of those Christians who are members of Team Elephant. Observation supports the proposition that Christians on Team Elephant experience a similar cognizance-impairing bias.


When the Lamb-Like Beast imposes and threatens to impose aggressive global tariffs,i or threatens land seizures (Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and now the Gaza Strip)ii, Christians on Team Elephant tend to ignore it.


When the Lamb-Like Beast makes public pronouncements from the Executive Branch that society needs to return to God, or that God’s plan for America will be fulfilled “sooner rather than later”,iii they are silent. Most are not inclined to defend the separation of church and state or the First Amendment of the Constitution.

When the very co-author of Project 2025, which outlines plans for the state to legislate a national Sunday law, becomes part of the White House Cabinet, they are silent.iv Sunday legislation is undoubtedly the prophesied mark of the beast, the enforcement of the day of the Roman Papacy which boasts of its claimed change of the law of God as the special “mark” of its authority.v But many Christians, even those from the Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Baptist denominations, are quiet.


The Bible prophesies that the Lamb-Like Beast will make use of coercion as a mechanism to persuade the nations to impose the mark of the beast. Notice the language in Revelation 13:14 and 16: “saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live”, and, “he causes all, both small and great” etc, to “receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads”.

Tariffs are a tool of coercion. America has the greatest economic clout on the planet, and prophecy indicates that it will utilize its leverage to compel nations to impose the mark. We know the nations of the world will fall into line.vi


We appear to have come to an inflection point in the timeline of Bible prophecy, and ought to know that the imposition of the mark is on the near horizon. When the leader of the Lamb-Like Beast boastfully claims that it has the nations of the world “over a barrel” economically,vii watch out.


Around the world, plans to control buying, selling, speech and movement are being implemented in phases using digital IDs and artificial intelligence. Team Elephant has committed to funding AI in America to the tune of $500 billion dollars.viii There is a proposal to replace most Federal employees with machines.ix But there is little comment by Christians, and can there be any doubt their political allegiances are causing this silence?


The call in Revelation 18:4 to “Come out of her my people” applies not only to the apostate churches, but in principle applies to earthly party allegiances. It includes a separation from human tribalism. Therefore, come out of Team Donkey, and come out of Team Elephant, and be free of partisan loyalties because both of them will support the taking of the mark, and both of them will receive the plagues, and both of them will be thrown into the lake of fire. And if you are in them still, so will you.


According to the Apostle Paul, Christians ought to stand as registered independents with respect to political allegiances. God calls His followers “citizens with the saints” – a group who is called out and who’s allegiance is to heaven first, not second. They are of the “household of God”, not Team Donkey or Team Elephant.

Speaking of those who had gone before, Paul writes:


Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


Heb 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.


Heb 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.


Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.


This world is not our home. We have a city. We have a country. Let us stand as independents, judging righteously and not corrupted with partisanship. Let us watch faithfully and impartially, and weigh each issue against the inerrant standard of the Word of God. For we seek a city also, “Whose Builder and Maker is God” – Hebrews 11:10.



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i https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/brics-is-dead-donald-trump-reiterates-100-pc-tariff-threat-on-brics-nations/

ii https://allisrael.com/shock-proposal-trump-tells-netanyahu-us-is-going-to-take-over-gaza-pacify-rebuild-and-run-it

iii https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christian-bias-attorney-general-b2693563.html

iv https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise/?q=Sabbath&mode=document#document/p621 – see page 589. https://apnews.com/article/trump-russell-vought-confirmation-budget-project-2025-7d1c476694176876256e95cecbd49231 - Russ Vought, co-author Project 2025 confirmed.

v “Sunday is our mark of authority …. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of sabbath observance is proof of that fact” (The Catholic Record of London, Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923).

vi https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/asian-economies-scramble-to-appease-trump-as-the-us-president-ratchets-up-tariff-threats-.html;

vii https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/brics-is-dead-donald-trump-reiterates-100-pc-tariff-threat-on-brics-nations/

viii https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2025/01/23/trumps-ai-push-understanding-the-500-billion-stargate-initiative/

ix https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/elon-musk-led-doges-big-plan-for-the-us-government-replace-humans-with-ai-tools-and-automate-majority-of-jobs/articleshow/118126032.cms



Charlie Kirk

By Wings of Liberty • September 12, 2025
The world has lost a giant, and his name was Charlie Kirk. We live in a world of silent cowardice. There are cities in America today where a woman can be raped on the subway in broad daylight and bystanders will say nothing. It is a world where selfishness and iniquity have caused the hearts of many to grow cold, as the Bible warns in Matthew 24:12. It is a world where wickedness unobjected to has strangled principled discourse. People have stifled the voice of conviction in their personal lives for so long that it has subdued independence and courage in the public square. Put simply: people who are cowards in their personal lives will be cowards in their public lives. Under the best of circumstances in such a world, it would be difficult for anyone to stand up in the public square and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is a majoritarian position. But it takes supreme courage to enter public territory where one holds a minority opinion and engage in public dialogue with those who hate everything you stand for. When Charlie Kirk went to a public university to speak on the Bible, the sanctity of life and marriage, or how it is impossible for men to become women, he was entering territory where he knew his opinions were hated and would be misrepresented. He knew he was going to be threatened and vilified. He knew there was a risk to his life. But he went anyway. Whether you agreed with him or not, liked him or not, whether he was right about everything or not, it is necessary to somberly consider and lament the killing of such a man. We mourn the loss of rare species of animals and insects, flora and fauna. Billions are poured into the fight to save threatened animals. But the rarest of all things in this wicked, cold-hearted world is the principled and courageous human being. The silencing of a principled man, killed for the express purpose of censoring his voice, is a tragedy of infinitely greater magnitude than this foolish, dissipated generation realizes. We live in a world where closeted podcasters voice their opinions from the comfort of their living rooms. Most have never faced a big crowd, let alone a big hostile crowd. Let’s face it. Some of the most brazen and cocky online personalities who bark the loudest from their private apartment cocoons would soil themselves at the prospect of standing at a microphone surrounded by hundreds or thousands of actual people. Especially real hostile people. But Charlie Kirk was not only courageous, he respectfully dialogued with the people who screamed at him, insulted him, and hated him. In a world of polarization and cancel culture, and naked, open hostility, Charlie was measured and polite. A perverse generation of leftist students celebrates the loss of Charlie Kirk. They bask in it. They do not realize that they are rejoicing in the loss of that rarest of blessings: someone who cared enough to come speak to them despite their hostility. And who will go now? The ultimate censorship is murder. Cain killed Abel to silence his conscientious and courageous, principled speech. The Bible records the deaths and persecution of the prophets, every one of them censored and punished for speaking the truth. Isaiah sawn in two, Jeremiah thrown into the pit, Elijah hunted by wicked Jezebel. The apostles faired no better. Peter crucified, James killed with the sword, Stephen stoned, Paul beheaded. The blood of righteous Abel cried unto the Lord from the ground, and “he, being dead, yet speaketh” – Hebrews 11:4. Does the blood of Charlie Kirk cry less loudly? It takes courage to speak in the face of hostile crowds, but it is not only courage which drives a person to take such a risk. It takes conviction. A love of the truth. And yes, a love of people. The world has lost a giant. And it is right to mourn the passing of such a man. … On December 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk’s last minority opinion will be published posthumously. The book is on a subject he felt to be infinitely more important than mere politics. It is on the subject of the ancient and forgotten seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, and is titled, “Stop in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life”. A Christian world which has embraced the papal falsehood of Sunday sacredness will soon hear the thoughts of a martyr on the sacredness of the seventh day of the fourth commandment. These are doubtless words that the conservative right, and proponents of Project 2025 need to hear. These are words which the left, who have rejected Creator God and Redeemer need to hear. It is another sign of the times.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED

By Wings of Liberty • August 14, 2025
THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED Nearly a hundred and forty years ago there was a major national initiative to unite church and state in America and impose what was claimed to be Christianity on society. The push united representatives from at least eleven denominations, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. After a severe struggle the movement failed. i Today, America is facing another similar crisis. … THE HISTORICAL PUSH FOR CHURCH AND STATE UNION IN AMERICA In the late 1800s, the National Reform Association (NRA) ii achieved country-wide political momentum for its initiative for a religious amendment to the Constitution to make the United States a Christian state. Its proposed amendment was worded as follows: "We the people" would acknowledge "Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government..." iii The stated purpose of the NRA was to unite church and state. It’s organizational constitution contained the following purpose: To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land. iv The practical result of the proposed constitutional amendment was stated in the Christian Statesman, the flagship publication of the NRA, on February 21, 1884. Writer Rev. J. C. K. Milligan asked the question, “How is the Amendment to be carried out practically?viii In answer he stated: “In brief, its adoption will at once make the morality of the ten commandments to be the supreme law of the land, and anything in the State constitutions and laws that is contrary to them will become unconstitutional. v Another proponent of the NRA, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., stated the following in a speech at the New York National Reform Convention: We want State and religion—and we are going to have it. It shall be that so far as the affairs of State require religion, it shall be revealed religion, the religion of Jesus Christ. The Christian oath and Christian morality shall have in this land ‘an undeniable legal basis.’ We use the word religion in its proper sense, as meaning a man’s personal relation of faith and obedience to God. vi Those who opposed the religious amendment to the Constitution were declared to be “infidels” and “lunatics”, and Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, and all others, including Seventh-day Adventists, were classed with the atheists, and pronounced as ‘atheists’ themselves by Mr. Edwards: These all are, for the occasion, and so far as our Amendment is concerned, one class… They must be counted together.... they must be treated as [atheists], for this question, one party. Now look at it—look at the controversy. The question is not between opinions that differ, but opinions that are opposite, that are contradictory, that mutually exclude each other. It is between Christianity and infidelity. It is between theism and atheism, between the acknowledgment of a God and the denial that there is any God… They “are conjoined with the other members of this class by the accident of differing with the mass of Christians upon the question of what precise day of the week shall be observed… vii After stating that those who opposed the NRA religious amendment were only a “minority”, Mr. Edwards proceeded to describe the unfitness of such people for “advanced” societal participation: “I would tolerate him [the atheist, including Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, etc] as I would a conspirator. The atheist is a dangerous man.... But he shall be tolerated. He may live, and go free, hold his lands, and enjoy his home; he may even vote; but for any higher, more advanced citizenship, he is, as I hold, utterly disqualified. viii The NRA ultimately failed in its initiative to have a national Sunday law passed and the push to unite church and state sullenly subsided for a time. Today, however, a resurgent coalition of parties, Protestant and Catholic, has largely already succeeded where the NRA failed. Christian Dominionism, including the Heritage Foundation/Project 2025, and adherents to the New Apostolic Reformation, have seized political power and are altering government to implement religious policy and goals, as Revelation 13 foretells. We believe this union of church and state represents the image to the beast recorded by John in Revelation: Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ix EXAMPLES OF CHURCH/STATE UNION TODAY There is no shortage of examples to evidence that religious power is influencing, or outright controlling in some instances, the state. For example, Christian dispensationalism controls foreign policy in the Middle East, as Senator Ted Cruz recently admitted in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Ecumenical Christianity is convinced that whoever blesses the nation of Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses it will be cursed.

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Signs of the Second Coming of Christ

By Wings of Liberty • July 30, 2025
The largest earthquake to hit the planet in 14 years struck off the coast of Russia on July 29, 2025. The monster 8.8 magnitude quake triggered global tsunami warnings, including officials urging the evacuation of the Hawaii islands coastline. Sirens blare. Anxious millions watch the internet for news updates, concerned for themselves and the safety of their loved ones. People watch and wonder. Floods and storms and earthquakes. War and disease and famine. What do these things mean? It is all a fulfilment of Bible prophecy. Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus warned humanity of the signs of the end of the world, culminating in His return to this planet to raise the dead and rescue His faithful believers - 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, and the destruction of the wicked – Matthew 13:30. We should expect to hear of “wars and rumors of wars” – Mathew 24:6, and to see “pestilences and famine” – Matthew 24:7. The Lord specifically referred to earthquakes and the roaring of the waves. Christ warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:25-28 The signs of the times are everywhere, friend. While officials can tell you to evacuate the coastline, and news agencies can inform you of the devastation which took place from this or that natural disaster, the explanation and deeper meaning of the increasing agitation and unrest in our world is found only in the Bible. These are the signs of the approaching Creator and Redeemer. Are you ready? Today is the day of salvation - 2 Corinthians 6:2, the door of mercy is still open. Christ is ministering in the courts in heaven on ehalf of humanity. But when he returns to this earth it will already be too late for repentance. The work of intercession will be finished and the door of mercy closed. Today is the day to seek the Lord while He may be found!. It is not safe to trifle with the call of mercy.