This main Commentary page contains all entries for the current year of 2025. Commentary entries are posted weekly (normally Tuesday in Taiwan) and briefly discuss recent news events. Although any news story that catches my attention is fair game, I make no bones about the fact that these entries tend to lean toward news events that might be of interest to believers who, like me, have an interest in end-time prophecy and its fulfillment.

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1/1/2025 — From the "One Last Hurrah" Department...

As you know, former President Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29 at the age of 100, and condolences have been pouring in from many quarters. He will be missed by many, and even people who may not have been big fans of Carter during his lifetime have been expressing positive sentiments out of respect for the 39th President of the United States.

To the surprise of no one, however, many in the liberal left are openly and capriciously delighting in the fact that it appears this means the U.S. flag over the Capitol will be flying at half-mast the day Donald Trump takes office on January 20. I suppose you could call it one last hurrah for the unmitigated disaster politely referred to as the Biden administration.

Who will not be missed by many.

Reactions here in Taiwan where I live have been mixed, since it was Carter who severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979 in order to establish them with Communist China—a process which required the U.S. to formally recognize Taiwan as a (renegade) province of the mainland bullies.

For what it's worth, Taiwan doesn't see things that way. Taiwan has been a de facto independent nation since 1949, and has grown accustomed to the scary-sounding saber-rattling they have been forced to listen to ever since then from the western side of the Taiwan Strait.

Although some here admire his accomplishments, the truth is that there are those in Taiwan who to this day see Carter as a naive, back-stabbing traitor who sold Taiwan out to the Communists—and you can hardly blame them for feeling that way. For the majority of people in Taiwan, what happened in 1979 is what they will remember the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia for.

But at least the Taiwanese don't stoop quite as low as the Iranians, whose sentiments toward the architect of crippling sanctions the U.S. imposed following Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution were summed up recently by an anonymous man in his 50s on the streets of Tehran:

"May he rot in hell."

Now, I admit that Carter may not have been my favorite president of all time, but at least I am reasonably confident that he will be in heaven with all the rest of us born-again believers.

But as far as Trump being inaugurated with the flag at half-mast is concerned, I admit that I'm curious if he'll have anything to say about it in his inaugural address. If I were him, I would simply ignore the flag thing, pay my respects to Carter, and move on to more important issues. You now, go ahead and let all the little swamp rats have their one last hurrah.

And let them play alone in the mud.

1/7/2025 — From the "Hardware on the Mantel" Department...

One of the toughest things about waiting for Donald Trump to take office is having to sit and watch the sickening gyrations of Joe Biden and his failed administration—an administration that, to the relief of millions of Americans and countries all over the world, has entered its final death throes.

Case in point: He just had to do it—he just hadn't quite hit rock bottom yet. Last Saturday, Gibberin' Joe awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton. Now, it would take me many pages to detail why this is such a nauseating mockery of everything the Medal of Freedom stands for, so I'll cut to the chase and share the reason that stands out as my personal favorite:

• In 2016, Hillary Clinton played a key role in the creation and promulgation of a "dossier" claiming to detail how the Russians had colluded with the Trump campaign, thus supplying him with the needed boost to defeat her in the 2016 election. Hillary's cohorts in the FBI knew it was fake, but continued to push it for all it was worth until it served as the basis for one of two failed attempts at impeaching President Trump.

The lies, schemes, and corruption that have characterized her entire life as a political figure are legendary...so much so that if such things were actually the basis for the Medal of Freedom, I would be heartily congratulating her because the highest civilian award in the United States would certainly be a richly deserved piece of hardware on her mantel.

Of course, they might have to change the name to the Medal of Felondom.

And honorable mention should go to her "body count," or the 40-odd acquaintances and associates of Hillary that have died, been killed, or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances.

On the bright side, however, anytime I hear about some big award like that, my thoughts invariably turn to the bema (aka the judgment seat of Christ). This event will occur in heaven after the Rapture, and all believers will be rewarded for their Spirit-led works that merit reward. Scripture mentions five crowns that will be awarded to believers for various works, and the one that I know I'm going to get is the one for longing for His appearing (2 Tim. 4:8).

I've written about this before—and I can't necessarily prove it conclusively from Scripture, but I am of the opinion that every single believer at the bema will receive something. In other words, I believe no one will walk away from the bema completely empty-handed. I am inclined to believe that the five crowns are not the only rewards available—I tend to think they are just the only ones specifically mentioned.

So, feel free to see yourself being rewarded for all kinds of things you may do or endure in obedience to the Holy Spirit for the glory and honor of Christ. And when we all get to heaven soon and very soon, be prepared to make a little room above the fireplace in your mansion in heaven. While it's likely that our rewards will primarily take the form of enhanced roles and responsibilities in the kingdom, who knows?

We just might have a little hardware to put on the mantel.

1/14/2025 — From the "Death by Death" Department...

As you all know, there has been no shortage of controversy concerning the mRNA COVID vaccines over the last several years. Many have claimed the vaccines were grossly undertested (with certain test results discreetly buried) and recklessly foisted on the public in order for Big Pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna to cash in and rake in tens of billions of dollars.

Many are convinced the public has been lied to by Big Pharma, various government agencies, and the mainstream media from the very beginning of this entire COVID saga. Hey, the vaccines are safe and effective, didn't ya know...and those lies provided cover for the global effort to push the mRNA vaccines on the whole world.

More recently, however, scarier theories have begun to emerge. As cancer rates in many countries have begun to rise sharply for reasons that remain elusively unclear, some have even gone so far as to blame the mRNA vaccines. But there is never any mention of the vaccines in articles about this worrying increase in cancer rates, right? So surely this must be yet another one of those anti-vax conspiracy theories, right?

Well, if that's what you were hoping for, I'm afraid I've got some bad news:

Turns out it's not a conspiracy theory after all.

Dr. Kevin McKernan is a genomics scientist and founder of Medicinal Genomics, and has recently done groundbreaking research into cancerous tumors. And as a result of what he has found, he is sounding the alarm.

What McKernan has basically done is gene-sequenced a cancerous tumor, and he has discovered that its genetic sequence matches that of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. To make a long story slightly less long, this essentially represents the first definitive scientific proof that the mRNA vaccines absolutely do cause cancer in vaccinated individuals. John Beaudoin, Sr., an independent vaccine investigator, was a bit more blunt:

"When Kevin McKernan gene-sequenced the tumor [...] and matched the genetic sequence to the Pfizer vaccine, it's freaking over. It's over."

To which McKernan added:

"And we can find components of Pfizer's vaccines inside this thing a year after vaccination."

So there it is: Our worst fears about the mRNA vaccines have been confirmed.

And I fear it's only going to get worse.

As I discuss in an article entitled "A Horse of a Most Peculiar Color," I am of the opinion that the mRNA vaccines will lead to a wave of deaths that will constitute part of the fourth seal judgment, described by John in Revelation 6:7–8 as the rider on a pale or sickly green horse. John tells us that death will come in four forms: (a) the sword, (b) famine, (c) death, and (d) wild animals. And it is the third item that catches one's attention.

Obviously (a), (b), and (d) need no further explanation. But in (c) we have "death by death" (Greek: thanatos). I mean, what's up with that? As I explain in the article I linked to, usage of the Greek word thanatos seems a bit odd here, and leaves a thoughtful reader wondering just exactly what kind of death John is actually talking about. The reason I say that is because it's not the same word he most likely would have used if he had simply meant "disease" or "pestilence" in the usual sense, although that is a legitimate secondary meaning of thanatos. But in other places a different word is used for those.

So just what is John talking about??

As I explain in that article, I am tempted to see John's odd usage of "death by death" as a reference to something he wouldn't have understood in familiar human terms. And I am tempted to see this as a reference to the huge number of deaths that are going to occur in the next few years due to the effects of a vaccine that is, to put it mildly, neither safe nor effective.

Part of me prays I am wrong...but I just can't shake this one off.

Fortunately, I was able to avoid the mRNA vaccine. But one of my wife's high school friends just died a couple of weeks ago following a nearly two-year battle with multiple tumors throughout her body. And according to my wife, she had gotten several mRNA vaccines, like many people in Taiwan.

Is there a connection? Only God knows.

And God also knows that I don't have any plans to get an mRNA COVID vaccine anytime in the foreseeable future.

1/21/2025 — From the "Demented Vitriol" Department...

OK, I can breathe a huge sigh of relief now...we made it past the inauguration without a rogue airstrike on the Capitol or a team of assassins opening fire at Donald Trump. That was what I was halfway expecting, given the demented vitriol that spews forth from Trump haters in Washington. Speaking of demented vitriol, that calls to mind one Nancy Pelosi.

I am greatly pleased to report that Trump did one thing he promised to do on Day One—and God bless him for it—and that is pardon the J6'ers, whose fraudulent four-year incarceration is one of the greatest stains left on America by an equally fraudulent Biden administration.

One of the most succinct and accurate descriptions of what really happened on January 6 is encapsulated in the following meme I stumbled across:

January 6 is the day that
the government staged a riot
to cover up the fact that they
certified a fraudulent election.

As far as events surrounding the 2020 election go, about the only thing Trump could do that would top that—and I'm praying he will at some point—is release and expose to the American public the irrefutable evidence of the fraud that stole that election from him four years ago. Such proof, and it's out there, would be the kryptonite that would melt all the anti-Trump rhetoric pouring forth from the liberal left. The exposure of the undeniable fraud that was implemented in the 2020 election is the one thing the Democrats fear most and have worked the hardest to prevent.

And I hope Trump runs it up the
flag pole on top of the Capitol.

But back to Nancy Pelosi. Following the announcement of Trump's pardoning of the great majority of the J6'ers (about 1,500 people), Nancy Pelosi took advantage of the opportunity to trash the righting of this horrible wrong as only a bought-and-sold, Trump-loathing, left-wing liberal can:

"Tonight, the President announced pardons and commutations of sentences for those who violently attacked the Capitol and law enforcement officers on January 6th. The President's actions are an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution. It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. Despite the President's decision, we must always remember the extraordinary courage and valor of the law enforcement heroes who stood in the breach and ensured that democracy survived on that dark day."

And you'll be pleased to know that I managed to stifle the urge to vomit as I copy-and-pasted the above. This is a classic recipe for Democrats in the Biden administration: demented vitriol mixed with a dash of phony patriotism and served with a side dish of deep-fried lies.

Anyway, so it begins. I have no idea how long Trump's second term as president will last, but I certainly hope he is able to undo some of the horrific damage inflicted on this country by the deep-state demons of the Biden admin over the last four years.

And if a few of them end up in prison where they belong, even better.

But the idea of who gets caught really doesn't cause me a great deal of concern. Frankly, I am holding out hope that Trump's second term will end somewhat suddenly, at least for believers. Why? Let me put it this way:

I'm not all that interested in who gets caught—
I'm much more interested in getting caught up.

1/28/2025 — From the "Chicken" Department...

Playing chicken is a great way to get someone to back off, and if done artfully enough it is often successful in achieving the desired reaction from the other side in a conflict. But there are some people that it doesn't work well with, and it tends to backfire. Rather than backing off, they come storming back and shove it down your throat, and you are the one who ends up backing off.

And President Trump is gaining a reputation as being one of those people with whom it tends to backfire.

Case in point: Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

Trump is wasting no time in making good on his promise to start deporting massive numbers of illegal aliens who have waltzed across our southern border during the last four years, and two flights full of illegal Colombian aliens were scheduled to be flown back to Colombia.

But that apparently didn't sit well with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who felt his countrymen weren't being treated with the appropriate level of "dignity" and refused to give permission for the two planes to land in Colombia. He protested that his fellow Colombians were being treated like criminals, and he simply wasn't going to stand for that.

Gosh, what's an American president to do? Well, he could have said:

"OK, well darn, I guess we'll just have to let these freeloading criminals stay in America after all. Nothing I can do."

But Trump didn't say that. Oh no. Trump's response was a little more along the following lines:

"Listen up, Gustavo. These illegal aliens from your country are threatening the national security and public safety of my country, and if you think you can just turn your nose up at them, I've got a news flash for you, hombre. I've got a better idea: How about I slap a 25 percent tariff on all Colombian goods coming into the United States just to give you a little taste, and then let that rise to 50 percent after a week or so. We call those 'sanctions' in English, and trust me—that's just the tip of the iceberg. Oh, and while I'm at it, I think I'll ban all Colombian government officials from entering the United States. Háblame amigo, or do you want some more?"

And in a flash, it was clear who lost this particular game of chicken.

Six minutes later, Petro published a statement on X announcing he would happily accept the Colombian illegals back into Colombia, and even offered the use of his own presidential plane to fly them back (more "dignified," you know). He also reversed his original statement by emphasizing that no Colombian will ever be banished from Colombian territory.

To quote an old McDonald's commercial:

I'm lovin' it.

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