Prayer
The Most Influential “Bad Hombre” in the World?
I was tempted to call this “The Most Influential Evil Person in the World” but thought that headline might raise a few eyebrows. I decided to use the phrase that Donald Trump made popular this past year:
Bad Hombre or “Bad Man.”
I’ve been meditating recently on movements of evil in the world i.e. what is anti-God, destructive, and motivated by the satanic realm. The question was “What single person on earth is influencing the greatest amount of evil on the planet?
You might be surprised by my answer–and even more by what I want you to do.
I believe the most influential bad hombre in the world today is…
Before I reveal the name, let’s remove a few possibilities. Foremost might be Kim Jong-un, the infantile dictator of North Korea. He’s a reasonable choice for potential evil because of nuclear weapons. But he doesn’t impact many folks beyond greatly oppressing his own people.
Another possibility is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS. He’s evil, killed thousands, but his kingdom is shrinking and his influence isn’t global. After him you might select the Supreme Leader of Iran–but his control is also regional. Or the president of China–which is still a communist nation and oppresses, to some degree, over 1.3 billion people.
But what person in the world possesses the greatest evil reach?
My choice:
George Soros.
Here are the reasons and what I want you to join me in doing.
George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930, then escaped Nazi-occupied Hungary in 1947–later emigrating to England. He graduated form the London School of Economics, worked as a banker, then started his first hedge fund in 1969–eventually renamed the Quantum Fund–which grew from $12 million to $25 billion dollars in less than fifty years.
Soros lives in the United States (Bedford Hills suburb of New York) and is one of the world’s 30 richest people. He is a well known supporter of progressive causes through his Open Society Foundations. Between 1979 and 2011, Soros donated 11 billion dollars to those groups to advance his purpose.
Human Events lists ten different ways Soros influences the world (for evil):
1. He gives billions to left-wing groups: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 and has given more than $7 billion to anti-God, anti-freedom groups such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.
2. He influences U.S. elections to try and change America. Soros hosted a 2004 fund-raiser for Barack Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and gave the maximum financial contribution when he ran for President. He opposes all conservatives viciously (Bush, Trump etc.)
3. He wants to curtail American sovereignty: Soros would like America to become subservient to international bodies. In 1998, he wrote: “Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”
4. Media Matters: Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group committed to globalism. Its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, mounting “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the cable news channel.
5. MoveOn.org: Soros has been a major founder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for far-left candidates.
6. Center for American Progress: Headed by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager. There has also been a revolving door between Democratic White Houses and the Soros-funded think tank.
7. Environmental extremism: Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his radical environmental ideas were funded by Soros’ money to groups such as: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama’s stimulus package (which failed) .
8. America Coming Together: Soros gave nearly $20 million to this group with the express purpose of defeating President George W. Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT’s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters.
9. Currency manipulation: A large part of Soros’ multi billion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an “economic war criminal.” He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because his short sale of US $10 billion worth of British pounds made him a $1 billion profit during the 1992 English currency crisis.
10. Delusional: Soros has said repeatedly that he sees himself as a messianic figure. “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—I fancied myself as some kind of god,” and “I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood.”
Dangerous, money-backed fantasies.
I would add a recent Number Eleven to this list. Soros gave $246 million dollars to fifty protest groups over the past decade to create chaos in America,. This included being the biggest donor to the “Women’s March” and the recent “A Day Without a Woman” protest (held on a prominent communist revolution date).
Of the Women’s March 544 partners, 100 groups received money from Soros between 2000 and 2014 that totaled $246,637,217, according to the Media Research Center. The ACLU ($37 million), Human Rights Watch ($32 million) and Planned Parenthood ($21 million) were the largest recipients.
“Those donations represent just a fragment of Soros’ massive global influence,” the Media Research Center said in its report. “His Open Society Foundations have given away more than $13 billion to push his globalist, anti-American views.”
And a most recent Soros cause: the European Refuge Crisis.
David Galland and Stephen McBride write: “Soros’s agenda is fundamentally about the destruction of national borders. This has recently been shown very clearly with his funding of the European refugee crisis.”
“The refugee crisis has been blamed on the civil war currently raging in Syria. But did you ever wonder how all these people suddenly knew Europe would open its gates and let them in?”
“The refugee crisis is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It coincided with donated money to the US-based Migration Policy Institute and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, both Soros-sponsored organizations. Both groups advocate the resettlement of third-world Muslims into Europe.”
“In 2015, a Sky News reporter found ‘Migrant Handbooks’ on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which are written in Arabic, had been given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by a group called ‘Welcome to the EU.’ Welcome to the EU is funded by—you guessed it—[George Soros] Open Society Foundations.”
“Soros has not only backed groups that advocate the resettlement of third-world migrants into Europe, he in fact is the architect of the ‘Merkel Plan.’ The Merkel Plan was created by the European Stability Initiative whose chairman Gerald Knaus is a senior fellow at none other than the Open Society Foundations.”
Maybe President Trump should pass on that information to Angela Merkel when she visits the American capital this Friday.
To sum up, one of the world’s richest men, George Soros, messianic billionaire is:
- Forcefully behind the American immigration chaos through crazy ideas about open borders.
- Actively promotes the Islamization and de-stabilization of Europe.
- The biggest private financial backer of the abortion holocaust (1-2 billion dead babies and counting in the 20th and 21 centuries worldwide).
- A driving force behind globalization and a one world government (open borders).
- The main financier of riots, marches, anarchy and secular tyranny in the world’s most important freedom-loving nation (the United States).
Do you know of anyone in the world, who is doing more to encourage evil than George Soros? What should we do about it?
Today, first of all, I’m launching a global call to pray for George Soros (and those around him)–for his salvation and for his removal from the world of evil influence. He may be “big” on earth, but he’s puny before the power and majesty of our prayer-answering God.
Second, I’m asking some of you to “come out” from any of his movements, protests, marches, and promotions of open societies–which is simply a code-name for a one world government.
The infamous dictators of the 20th century–Hitler, Stalin, and Mao–may have led scores of millions of people to their deaths. But George Soros’ influence extends to hundreds of millions or possibly billions (through abortion alone). He may not have ordered the executions, but he helped pay for them.
Let’s pray like a laser for 86 year old George Soros. God loves him and wants to save him.
God, our blessed Savior, wants to “deliver us from evil (Matthew 6:13).”
The Real Heart of Thanksgiving
I have always appreciated reality more than fantasy–actual history compared to fictional stories. There is something about hearing a true story that speaks clearly and powerfully to the heart.
Not that imaginative story-telling cannot be helpful and instructive. Jesus’ use of parables is a good example. But there is something about a real struggle and the lessons learned that reaches into our inner being and shouts, “that can be you too.”
During this special week when the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, I want to share two true stories to enlarge your grateful heart. Both are a testament that thankfulness is often forged in the furnace of affliction.
It is suffering that produces the real heart of Thanksgiving. Read More
Tremors of Revival at the National Day of Prayer
I am still in Washington, D.C. where the 65th Annual National Day of Prayer took place on Thursday, May 5. In my thirty five years of participating in the NDP, this one was the most powerful I have ever attended.
Maybe that’s because we have never needed God more than in 2016 to intervene the affairs of a nation that is going off a leadership, moral and financial cliff.
I saw some tremors of revival at this year’s NDP…
Here is a report from John Bornshein, the Vice President of the event. I will make some personal comments between his commentary.
“Every year, the National Day of Prayer (NDP) Task Force facilitates several events on Capitol Hill including the National Observance at the Cannon House Office Building. With speakers like Tony Evans, Chuck Swindoll, Oliver North, Max Lucado, Beth Moore, and Franklin Graham, the expectations are always high and the response is overwhelming.”
“More than five hundred thousand people tune in live each year, via video stream and televised broadcast, for what is sure to be a prayer event highlight reel as representatives from each branch of government, prominent ministries and businesses share encouraging and convicting messages with ambassadors, delegates, and individuals from all walks of life in the historic Caucus Room – and the 65th annual National Day of Prayer observance did not disappoint.”
This year’s NDP featured up to 47,000 different prayer events all over the nation with millions of people involved. It was the largest day of Americans crying out to God in the history of the nation.
The morning began promptly at 9:00 a.m. eastern with the presentation of the colors by the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard and the National Anthem. Mrs. Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, kicked off the momentous celebration with a warm greeting and introduction of Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. She then had everyone on the edge of their seats when she made the following statement: “
“’In 1988, the late Vonette Bright began petitioning Members of Congress to support a bill that would designate the first Thursday in May as the annual National Day of Prayer. By a joint resolution of the United States Congress, it was signed into law by President Reagan on May 8th of that year.'”
“‘Mrs. Bright continued in leadership until 1991. Then she and the National Prayer Committee asked me to succeed her as chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. After much prayer and careful consideration, I accepted the responsibility and have now served for 25 consecutive years. The Day of Prayer has been observed by more than 33 million people at 630,000 prayer gatherings around the world…and today, another chapter begins.'”
“‘I am pleased to announce that Mrs. Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Dr. Billy Graham, will succeed me as the new chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. It is imperative that we preserve this American heritage to insure that this powerful expression of our religious freedom will continue for generations to come. I couldn’t be more grateful that the Lord has laid upon Anne the mantle of leadership for national prayer. She is eminently qualified to serve the nation in this capacity. We honor her for accepting this responsibility.’”
I truly believe that Anne Graham Lotz is God’s chosen leader for the next era of the NDP. Her strong evangelistic voice, commitment to God’s Word, and prophetic understanding of the dark days we’re in are utterly crucial to what lies before us.
“The National Observance continued and Rabbi Jonathan Cahn (author of The Harbinger) took the podium first and blessed the occasion with eloquent words and a personal challenge for how we should view the exercise of prayer and solemn assembly. He then put the Shofar to his lips and belted out what seemed to be the longest held note to echo throughout the halls of Congress in the history of our nation. At that moment, we knew the prayer event had begun and not just in Washington D.C.”
Cahn was powerful and moving–like hearing a modern-day prophet of God. We must turn from our sins or America will cease to be, The atmosphere was electric as he called the nation to repentance.
“The line-up of speakers that followed were second to none with each building on the other, emphasizing repentance and a return to the God of our Fathers. After a series of convicting messages and prayers of reverence to the Almighty, Dr. Tony Evans, the 2016 Honorary Chairman, concluded the gathering with the National Prayer that was spoken aloud in unison by the standing-room only crowd that had remained steadfast throughout the full 3-hour plus gathering.”
The biggest tremor of the day occurred when Glenn Sheppard called us onto our knees and faces to cry out to God. Groans and cries for mercy were heard all over the chambers of the Cannon Office Building for a number of minutes. We had touched the agonized heart of God for America.
“It was a powerful and fitting way to conclude the National Observance while serving as a springboard to more than 47,000 similar gatherings that took place from coast to coast. In addition, an estimated 90 nations participated in the annual observance along with South Korea, India and Australia where prayer coordinators mobilized thousands to fast and pray for the United States.”
“From pilots flying over capitols to petition from above, to balloon launches, parades, park gatherings and more, there were millions of prayers lifted up at an unprecedented level. President Barack H. Obama and all 50 Governors unanimously called on Americans to pray.”
“Truly, the 65th annual National Day of Prayer was a historic moment in time for God’s church, across the oceans, to unite in prayer in One Voice. It was the largest such day of prayer in the modern era and already, many have started their planning efforts for May 4, 2017. “
Following the Capitol Hill event, In late afternoon, local believers gathered as God’s rainbow coalition to pray for the city. Prayers were offered in many languages, Pastor Lon Solomon repented on behalf of the city’s pastors for pride, isolation, and division between churches. The young generation was prayed and for and encouraged to take their place in a genuine American revival. It was an awesome experience of praise, tears, prophetic words, and thundreds of prayers going up to God on the west lawn of the US Capitol.
When the day had finished, I was convinced that God had heard our prayers and His tremors of revival had begun,
“Immediately following the National Day of Prayer, the NDP Task Force, announced that it was partnering with Pulse Ministries to rally intercessors far and wide back to Washington D.C., July 14-17 (National Prayer Summit and Together 2016) for what will be one of the largest gatherings of prayer at the National Mall.”
I was privileged to be a part of the first large prayer gathering for revival in America–Washington For Jesus–on April 29, 1980. God used that event to bring many streams of renewal into our land that lasted for nearly a generation, Together 2016 is the rallying cry of the next generation for God to do it again.
It has never been more needed.
But be encouraged.
After National Day of Prayer 2016, some tremors of revival have begun.