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Pray “so far as it depends on you, live peacefully with all.” (Rom. 12:18.) The author of this article asks, “Just who is spreading this message of hate?” We must remember that our struggle is not against flesh and blood.

“The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”  (Psalm 11:5 ESV)

Does hatred and violence reside only on the far right, as the media seems to be spinning things? Consider this recent personal anecdote.

Late last year I was attending a board dinner for the group ALEC in Pittsburgh. ALEC represents conservative state legislators around the country. The left hates ALEC because it promote conservative reforms to state government and challenges the public sector unions.

In the middle of our meal we were jolted by shouting, shrieking and banging. Shortly thereafter about 25 left-wing activists pushed past a security guard and stormed into the room. . . .

They were mostly young, angry, and thuggish. They began throwing things at us, swearing, and chanting mantras like “ALEC is worse than Trump,” and “fight for 15” (the minimum wage they want). They surrounded us in a menacing and intimidating way.

Thankfully the security reinforcements finally showed up, but when they tried to escort these protesters from our private dinner, they became indignant and started kicking and shoving, while hissing things like: “Get away from me you bleeping fascist.”

During the campaign season, I attended many Trump rallies across the country. It wasn’t uncommon for fights and brawls to break out when protesters showed up. In most, but not all cases there are nut cases on both sides — the left instigated the violence. I saw it with my own two eyes.

Now in the wake of Charlottesville, the media and the left are preposterously not just accusing the nitwit white supremacists, but are labeling President Trump, conservatives, and Trump supporters racists and bigots. If you don’t renounce any association with or support for, Mr. Trump, you too are morally inferior.

The truth finally comes out: the left really does believe that Trump voters are “deplorable” people.

Ironically, many of these same media mavens are the people who have spent the last decade bemoaning the degradation of political discourse….

All of this, I fear, will be manifested in the months ahead in some very unhealthy and dangerous developments. Here are my predictions:

The shameful war on free speech on college campuses will intensify. Those on the right will be shut down — and this will be rationalized because conservatives are racists and those on the left are righteous. The closing of the American mind will get worse.

We will see more militancy from groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa, who have been emboldened by the media. These groups will become increasingly aggressive in their political tactics. Intimidation will be put on display. People who wear a Trump T-shirt, have a Trump bumper sticker or dare don a red Make America Great Again hat are going to get humiliated or beat up — or worse. (So much for the left being against bullying.)

Next, the demands from the grievance lobby on the left will grow increasingly ridiculous and outlandish. Will taking every statue of every Confederate in America satisfy the left? Of course not.

I’m predicting that the left’s lunatic insistence on “reparation payments” for slavery come back full force.

All of America — not just college campuses, news rooms, and the public square — will be declared “safe spaces” so that liberals are granted a de facto constitutional right never to be offended by a viewpoint that is contrary to their own.

Don’t be surprised if we see routine acts of violence and mayhem and shootings that will make the 1960s riots look like a picnic. The country will be ripped apart. The media will then throw up their hands and hypocritically say: “Gee whoever thought someone would actually shoot a congressman?” The other day on CNN I noted that Robert E. Lee was revered by many Southerners and that taking down statues of him was a bad idea. I was inundated with hate mail and even threats of physical injury.

…. For decades the left has preached the need for tolerance, but these are the people who want to use their own force or the force of the state to silence any voice that disrupts their worldview.

The shame of all this is that if liberals had simply ignored the wacko white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, and who represent perhaps 0.01 percent of the conservative movement, their flame of hatred would have burned out quickly and quietly.

That’s the last thing the left wanted. They gave the wackos on the right a media platform, so that militants on the left would have their own soap box and TV camera spotlight.

So just who is spreading a message of hate in America? (Excerpts from Stephen Moore’s article in The Washington Times – Stephen Moore is an economic consultant at Freedom Works.)

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Felicia Penner
September 9, 2017

In your great Mercy Lord, you gave us Trump instead of Hilary. In your great mercy still, we ask that you would preserve the Republic you gave us your children who were then seeking freedom to live their lives in peace before you, Lord. We again come before you, and pray that we would find a safe place to dwell, where we can live in peace before our God. Lord, it is Satan behind this, for he knows his days are short, and we are no match for him, but our Jesus is. Praise you Lord, may we see your standard rise again in this land, i pray that more and more of those who are in the middle of this cold civil war become cold to the violence they see the left portraying. May these moderates find their truth in you Jesus, and may they be freed from any lie they have believed as truth. Help us to love as you do Lord, even when the malice is strong against us. Give us your wisdom in these days, and put a guard at our mouths. May those on the right who have not bent their knee to you Lord, know that the evil they fight is supernatural and that they must depend on you. Draw them to you in their need, Lord. Help us know to hold this country with a open palm, not holding on to it, but holding on to you only. In Jesus name, Amen

Patricia
September 8, 2017

Lord, I love Your Word because Truth contains no lies. Sometimes people are violent because of anger, because they believes a lie, because they are bent toward violence. You know all things. Please reveal what is going on and right the wrong. We love and trust You Lord. Dear children, this is last hour, and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belonged to us, they would have remained with us: but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is a liar? It is the man whip denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the Antichrist-he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how we can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one that is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us: but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your. god. Do not be deceived: God can not be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Reveal hearts, intent, and desires; bring to Light what darkness tries to hide. Perfect that which concerns me about those who are lawless. Lord, there is great responsibility in media, remind the media of that; rise up the standard of righteousness in the field. In Jesus name! God bless America.

Jana D.
September 8, 2017

Dear Father,

Bring a revival of repentance to our land. And may the fear of God be restored. All other solutions are temporary without these.

Thank You for what You have done so far. We are on the upward path of restoration. Help to see where we were and how far we’ve come to encourage us in the way forward. The incline seems so steep at times. Thank You in the wonder Name of Your Son, and our beloved Savior. Amen.

Tammy Brode Wilkey
September 8, 2017

My prayers are for God to turn the hearts of those who are caught up in the anti-whatever wars, the anti-Trump anti-racist even the black lives matter back to Him. Sadly people think that it’s their one little area that’s affected and then another group of opened people has another little area and another group has another area. These are all heart issues and what we are seeing play out is the fruit within people.
Father, I enter your gates with thanksgiving, I thank you for each and every person and for where they are at while on their journey. Father I enter your courts with Praise and I praise you Jesus, for you paid the ultimate price! I praise you for restoring everything back to Daddy Gods original plan.
In Jesus name, I lift every person up in these group and I bless them with love, light & salvation,
I bless them with repentance and forgiveness
I bless them with restoration and their true identity in Christ.
Father I call them blessed because you call them blessed. I thank you Father for the plans you have for them, plans not to harm them, but plans to prosper their souls, their minds, wills and emotions, I thank you for your plans to give them hope in their their future with you!
I ask you to forgive each of us of our sins, and Father knowing you are faithful to forgive, I declare that the darkness in us all, the darkness in those talked about in these groups and in all people, that the anger, and short sidedness will fade away and they will be free from their old ways because your will is to save them all.
Father I thank you for your love for us all
I thank you for your son paying the price for our sins.
Jesus I thank you for your love and your precious blood for in that blood is life, health and healing. In your blood there is prosperity there is wholeness.
I bless each and every person alive today with all of you. Amen and Amen!

Judith A Street
September 8, 2017

I am in agreement to some extent with this comment, except as it relates to the writers references to any group (left or right ) as wackos. If in fact the writer believes in the scripture reference cited in the beginning of his article that the wrestle is not against flesh and blood then we understand that the heart of the intercessor is to see all people as in need of God’s grace, mercy and intervention. I would dare say that the people are not wacko but the spirit that drives them certainly is wacko.

If intercessors would dare to pray for the heart change of the far right and the hearts of the far left to change, to come into alignment with the Kingdom agenda, that they would have a road to Damascus experience like the Apostle Paul then we would begin to affect the Principality of racial hate that has presided over this nation for centuries. Its a heart change, a God encounter that is needed to put the Principality of Wachos down once and for all.

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