The TTP deal will doubtless give President Obama authority to make all sorts of arrangements that he has been wanting to make in treaty negotiations. He couldn't successfully complete those because of congressional and public opposition. The well-founded fear is that fast-track executive authority will have us waking up one day to find that
we must give up our guns to the confiscators. Such authority might be tied to international or global agreements buried in the details of the TPP, thus bypassing the Second Amendment and all congressional oversight.
Blinding and Binding America
by Terry James
I can't get out of mind the stories of how the victors over kingdoms would sometimes slaughter the families of the defeated king, then blind him. He would then be bound and led into captivity, if he wasn't himself killed. We, of course, know of such a biblical story of the Babylonians blinding and binding Israel's king in such a way (Jeremiah 52: 11).
In that instance, the king had invited the Babylonians to see all the great treasures within Israel's Temple and governmental coffers. That foolish act soon brought the visitors along with the military hordes to bind and rob the nation, taking whomever they chose into captivity to be subservient to the captors.
Jesus' words should echo in the spiritual ears of Bible believers today, upon observing things going on within the American government: "No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house" (Mark 3:27).
Also, the apostle Paul's words should ring loudly in forewarning: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (2 Timothy 2:13).
The above seems to me to apply to what's going on with our own nation in a sense. Our population, even our senators and representatives, have been blinded. The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that is being forced upon America showed the vast riches of this country to those who lust after them. This portends, in my view, the blinding and binding of this nation's citizenry-- actions that will soon take us into captivity under global gulag.
The very people we elected in the 2014 midterm elections now seem to be ready to cave to the wishes of an administration that has demonstrated time and time again it is not the "transparent" entity it promised, but one that wishes to keep us in the dark while it plots changing America into a socialist world order.
Prophetically speaking, it could perhaps be no other way. America must lose sovereignty and national autonomy. The world must be loosed from the dollar that monetarily interlinks the continents, thus prevents globalization as envisioned by the minions that are prophetically scheduled to appear in these final days of the age, as foretold by Paul the apostle.
"Evil men and seducers" (women, too) are indeed waxing worse and worse, as the KJV would have it. We are to just keep our noses out of our governmental masters business while they plan our futures of global gulag. In much the same way, Ms. Pelosi said of the Obamacare debacle, “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” Republican Congressman Paul Ryan declared about the TPP trade bill, “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to.”
One Senator isn't buying it. His protest follows.
It has become increasingly clear that the President’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is far more than a trade deal. It forms an enduring, self-governing political entity with vast regulatory power. Yet fast-track – which has led without fail to the adoption of every covered agreement since its inception – would rush it through with less legislative scrutiny than a Post Office reform bill...
The President has refused to answer the most simple but crucial questions about how he plans to use fast-track powers. He will not even answer whether he believes his plan will increase or reduce the trade deficit, increase or reduce manufacturing jobs, or increase or reduce wages. Concerns raised about how this new Pacific Union will impact our sovereignty have been met with only a continued unwillingness to reply to any questions about the limits of its reach and power. (Jeff Sessions, Breitbart.com, SEN. SESSIONS: SLOW FAST-TRACK NOW, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE, June 21, 2015)
The TTP deal will doubtless give President Obama authority to make all sorts of arrangements that he has been wanting to make in treaty negotiations. He couldn't successfully complete those because of congressional and public opposition. The well-founded fear is that fast-track executive authority will have us waking up one day to find that we must give up our guns to the confiscators. Such authority might be tied to international or global agreements buried in the details of the TPP, thus bypassing the Second Amendment and all congressional oversight.
Because of the same hidden treaty-like protocols, we might also find on that morning that we now must pay confiscatory taxes to the global community to which we are tied through the TPP or whatever hybrid develops from that arrangement. Perhaps we will also be told that our homes will now be fitted with special thermostats to bring us in compliance with carbon emission standards/electric usage, etc. These possibilities might be in the offing, according to those who carefully monitor the climate-change fanatics who surround this presidential administration and the climate-change controllers around the world.
My own congressman and senators -- in whom I've placed considerable hope -- have caved and are now supporting this TPP, fast-track deal. Apparently, they, like others who are embracing it as "good for America," have learned nothing. In responding to an email sent by my son in which he expressed concern for the TTP deal, the congressman said the following:
"I have been contacted by a number of constituents who are concerned that TPA [Trans Pacific Agreement] cedes too much authority to the President. This is simply not true. TPA strengthens the system of checks and balances in the Federal Government and gives Congress and the American people a say in trade negotiations. With TPA, we are, in fact, intensifying--not weakening--congressional oversight to all future trade negotiations.
I suppose the intensive oversight Congress and the people will be given must first be denied us by blinding us, because the TTP is hidden from our view. We are told we must trust that it is the best thing for us. The question is: Why should we?
First, this is a president who is determined to change America to a socialist economic system. He has proven this at every turn. The economy has gone swiftly downhill in every reporting period, once the truth has been fully revealed.
Secondly, we apparently haven't learned the painful lesson that more of our liberties are taken from us with each passing trade deal. When our sovereignty is made subservient to global regulations, our national protections dissolve.
Bill Clinton gave us NAFTA (which was also fast-tracked, as were its successor trade deals). Since that time, other trade catastrophes have resulted. For examples, CAFTA, KORUS and the Panama Free Trade Agreement.
We have now come to the worst of the lot, the TPP, which, under the guise of free trade, would put raw economic power, at America's expense, into the hands of a few powerful monetary elite.
The blinding of the nation is not only fiscal and geopolitical. It is spiritual, as its citizens move ever farther away from God and the moral foundations on which the Founding Fathers placed America. Its binding with the chains of global godlessness seems to be on the fast track.
The Lord, however, is never surprised, and eternally in control. The time is quickly approaching when He will deal with those who want to replace Him within the affairs of man.
"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure" (Psalms 2: 5: 4-5).
