if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

John 3:36

How is it someone professing to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, a true child of God, thus a Christian can write an article about all the catastrophes of the nation, or the world yet not mention God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Bible or the escalating spiritual war?

Could it be political aspirations, and having lost a previous election it is time to omit anything pertaining to God, to Christ, to the Holy Spirit, to the Holy Bible, or the raging spiritual war every person in America, every person on earth is enjoined in?

Sad. Tragic. Just dead wrong.

Our primary purpose is to serve the Lord. To spread the gospel, which is Jesus Christ.

We certainly need to keep our eyes open, our ears open, to be diligent watchmen and watchwomen on the wall. Being keen observers. Even reporters. Sounders of the signs of the times. Without hysteria and in so doing always direct everyone who could possibly be hearing our words, reading our words to the Lord. To the Holy Bible. To the only place of peace on earth. In the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ and His heart in us.

Why are people lonely? Desperate? Afraid? Hungry and thirsty?

Not mainly due to Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s horrific policies that are tearing apart the foundations of America, continuing the work of his mentor, Barack Hussein Obama, who promised to foundationally change America — and so many failed to understand what that meant.

No, there is such a dearth of peace, of joy, of happiness, and a bounty of loneliness, despair, fear, loathing, violence, crime, and hatred due to one main thing and only one main thing — No Jesus Christ, no Holy Spirit, no One True Triune God, no knowing, believing, and living the Scriptures among the people.

A lost nation.

A dying nation.

Turned from God, from Jesus, from the Holy Spirit, from the Holy Bible doing whatever seems pleasing and acceptable in their own eyes. Anything goes. And it not only occurs, but it is now accepted, applauded, and approved by those who know better but choose to rebel against the truth [see Romans 1] and have been given over to their reprobate minds.

Oh, it’s going to get worse. Much, much worse. 2024 could become the most trying and difficult year yet. Why? Because the people refuse God, refuse the truth, refuse to humble themselves, to believe, to repent, to turn to God, turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, to repent and allow the Holy Spirit to work in them. To turn back to the whole inerrant infallible living Word of God rather than turning to everything under the sun which they do.

If waiting, trusting, and believing an election in 2024 will be the answer you are among the blind in utter darkness in this lost and dying nation. A people turned from God to their own pleasures, doing what they deem right in their own blindness imagining it to be enlightenment and sight, progress, believing what they choose rather than believing the whole inerrant infallible living Word of God.

The only peace, the only lasting [eternal] joy, the only truth, the only hope lies in an individual’s faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in God, in the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Bible, and not only believing, for Satan and the demons know and believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God — but they lack faith and obedience, repentance, submission, making Jesus Lord of their life.

Belief without humility, faith, repentance, and FAITH in obedient service and living is a void and hollow, selfishly determined belief. It is relativistic. False. Leading only to loneliness, desperation, and fear while putting on a veneer believing what lies beneath.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

This Year, Americans Have Become Hungrier, Lonelier And More Desperate

December 25, 2023

By Michael Snyder

Reprinted from The Economic Collapse & Prophecy News Watch

The ominous trends that we see all around us are taking us somewhere.  Needless to say, 2023 was not a good year for our country.  Hunger and homelessness have been absolutely exploding, the suicide rate just continues to go even higher, and there is chaos in the streets on an almost nightly basis.  It is in this environment that the election of 2024 will happen.  I expect election season to add an additional level of strain to our society, and I don’t think that our society will be able to handle it.  We are headed for a nightmare, and at this point everyone should be able to see that.

When conditions deteriorate, it is often those at the bottom of the economic food chain that feel it first.

And right now food banks all over the nation are dealing with a tsunami of hunger…

Food bank leaders from all corners of the country tell USA TODAY their neighborhood pantries are serving more people while using less resources, as economic pressures continue to ravage the budgets of low-income Americans and service providers alike.

Since pandemic-era boosts to government food aid ended earlier this year in many states, families are turning to food banks to close a gap in need that feels like it has no end in sight.

Susannah Morgan, the president of Oregon Food Bank, says that she is literally witnessing “the worst rate of hunger in my career”…

“This is the worst rate of hunger in my career,” said Morgan, who has worked at food banks in Boston, San Francisco and Anchorage, Alaska. “It’s so large, it’s hard to wrap your head around.”

I don’t know what I have to do to convince some people that things really are this bad.

I keep sharing fact after fact in my articles, but some people out there are just not convinced.

One out of every five children in the U.S. does not have enough food to eat, but the reality of the suffering that is now taking place just isn’t sinking in for many of those that are still living the high life.

Meanwhile, homelessness in the U.S. is increasing at the fastest rate ever recorded…

The United States experienced a dramatic 12 percent increase in homelessness as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said Friday.

About 653,000 people were experiencing homelessness during the January snapshot. That’s the highest number since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007 to count the homeless population.

There are many out there that feel that such people need to “get a job” or “work harder”, but the truth is that most Americans are living on the verge of economic disaster because most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

At the same time, Americans continue to get even lonelier.

According to USA Today, “Americans are lonely and it’s killing them”, and at this point things are so bad that this crisis is being called “a new epidemic”…

America has a new epidemic. It can’t be treated using traditional therapies even though it has debilitating and even deadly consequences.

The problem seeping in at the corners of our communities is loneliness and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is hoping to generate awareness and offer remedies before it claims more lives.

“Most of us probably think of loneliness as just a bad feeling,” he told USA TODAY. “It turns out that loneliness has far greater implications for our health when we struggle with a sense of social disconnection, being lonely or isolated.”

It is especially bad during this time of the year.

There are so many people out there that are deeply, deeply hurting because they are so lonely.

They are trying their best to face a world that has gone completely mad, but that can be really difficult to do when you don’t have anyone to lean on for support.

Speaking of a world gone mad, retail theft has absolutely skyrocketed in many of our largest cities since 2019…

Crime-ridden New York City has seen the biggest impact with a 64 percent increase in retail theft, followed by Los Angeles with a 61 percent jump and Virginia Beach, Virginia, which has seen a 44 percent rise.

Each month, more Americans are descending into poverty and more Americans are turning to crime.

And it certainly doesn’t help that vast hordes of illegal immigrants are constantly being added to the mix.

Chaos in the streets has become an almost constant state of affairs in this country, and this year in Oakland there was even rioting on Christmas Eve.

Of course our leaders continue to exist in a bubble where none of these problems constitutes a serious crisis.

To them, everything must be just fine because they are doing such a wonderful job.

When he was recently confronted about the reality of the economic crisis that we are now facing, Joe Biden bluntly told the press to “start reporting it the right way”…

President Biden criticized news coverage of the U.S. economy as he faces growing backlash from voters over his handling of inflation.

In brief remarks Saturday before boarding the presidential helicopter, Biden expressed confidence in the economy and ripped the reporters for the way it has been portrayed.

“All good. Take a look. Start reporting it the right way,” Biden said when asked about his economic outlook for 2024, according to a transcript released Sunday by the White House.

He wants the press to continue to spin things in a way that will make him look good as they always have done in the past.

But we have reached a stage where all of the charades are finally crumbling.

Conditions are bad now, and they are going to get even worse in 2024.

So brace yourself for what is ahead, because we are going to experience so much chaos during the year that is in front of us.