It had been a light rain that had been nearly continuous since the sun had risen. Unable to do much of anything, the entire group had gathered in the general store. Though Bob's wound had shown no sign of infection, Kathy had checked him anyway. She then announced to his satisfaction that the time of daily visits was over and she would only want to see him once a week. Unless he felt any discomfort or his accidentally opened the wound and started to bleed again.

Bob looked out the window, smiled and told her,

"Not much chance of that today. I think we're stuck inside all day by the looks of it."

Alex, who was sitting next to Michelle said,

"Bummer. Mike and I were going to see about finding some of those editable plants your cards show growing around here."

"Not today, by the looks of it. Don't worry. It's light, and might even break today. If not, there's always tomorrow."

"Bob, the other day you were talking about how some of the things that have happened were deliberate. I've been wondering about that. How could that be? We had people elected that were supposed to prevent that kind of thing. So what happened? Where did it all go wrong?" Kathy wanted to know.

"It happened as anything like this does. With deception and incrementalism. There was an old time Chinese general by the name of Sun Tzu. He said it best it his book called 'The Art of War', when he wrote 'All war is based on deception'. Make no mistake about it, this is war. not just between men, but between God and Satan. Satan is using every trick he can to win. And he is deceiving people in every walk of life and at every level of government. Tell me something, have you ever seen this?"

Bob held up his hand. He had his index finger and pinkie held straight up, while the two middle fingers were crossed over the thumb along with the thumb.

"I've seen it, but I don't know what it means."

"It is a Satanic hand sign. I bring that up because I've seen it in some very unusual places, being used by very unexpected people. I mean I've seen it used by American Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, First Ladies, Congressmen, Foreign Royalty, all kinds of high ranking people. I've seen it used by the heads of major corporations, and even televangelists. Satan has his people everywhere. And most people never noticed. With all these movers and shakers taking the enemies side, it was only a matter of time until this day came."

"Bob, how could they do something that big and not be discovered? It makes it hard to believe. I know I've heard a lot of those kind people talk about God in public. How can you say they are all working for the devil? "

Bob looked at Maria and told her.

"Maria, I never said all of them had sold out to him. Never underestimate the power of greed. I believe that, in an effort to gain more and more money and power, they sold themselves out to the highest bidder. We've all seen it before. Some politician says he'll do something to help the people who put him in office, and after the election he changes. He always has a 'good' reason for doing it in public, but he has still betrayed the people. So why did he do it? For his own personal gain. Maybe it's money, maybe it's power, maybe a combination of things, but he did it for his own benefit and not the good of the people.

That's how it starts. I mean how does a person that is paid a hundred thousand dollars a year in office suddenly become worth millions in less than a couple of years? It had to come from somewhere. I'm sure it wasn't from speaking engagements. It came from lobbyists, corporations that want certain bills voted on in certain ways, and that kind of thing. Incrementally, they gave away more and more of peoples rights, untill there was little left to give. They finally reach a point where they can and will promise anything as long as it serves their ends. I honestly believe they would sign their own death warrants if they thought it would put money in their pocket. They get to a place where they don't believe anything can touch them as long as they have enough power and money. They can buy the best lawyers, publicists, and other support people to take care of their reputation. All the while, they get further and further from the people they are supposed to
work for, while their support team makes them look like just good honest people trying their best for the people.

Take the gun control laws. The idea was ill conceived from the beginning. Take weapons away from people and you end gun violence was the thought. But the criminals didn't give up anything. End result, the criminals had less and less reason to fear being shot and so they got bolder. The people then screamed at their Representatives to do something about it, and so you get more gun control laws. Bit by bit the people got more and more disarmed and the politicians could point to their records to show that they were trying to help and so got more power by enacting more laws. They got more money from the lobbyists. And things got worse for everyone. But the ones in power didn't care. They got what they wanted. Power and money.

After enough of the selling out of the people, they were ready to sell out the country, and they did."

"But Bob, what about the Christian leaders we elected? I heard them talk all the time and ending with, 'God Bless America' more times than I can remember."

"Maria, it's one thing to say 'god', but you have to ask yourself, which god are they talking about? Do they mean the creator of Heaven and earth, The Father of Jesus Christ, or some other 'god'? As for myself, I don't trust anyone who talks about any god without saying the name of Jesus Christ. If they truely were Christains, there shouldn't have been a problem with that. Most of them never mentioned the name of Jesus.

No, I'm afriad that the ones that didn't decieve us by Satans power, were seduced by the pleasures of this world and got to the point they didn't care about anything but themselves."


BW, Vietnam Vet

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