God the Father and the Lord Jesus have given believers the gift of the Holy Spirit. Those baptized in the Spirit have wonderful gifts, including the important gift of discernment, or discerning of spirits. They are able to discern when they are being lied to, when they are confronting falsehood. People without that gift don’t have that direct ability. They have to try to figure things out. They are easily misled. They are the overwhelming majority of people in America and on earth today.
Even a very average intellect can see the dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel did not have adequate security. People could come and go in the hotel. After all, it is a private hotel.
The shooter was able to assemble a weapon not far from that event.
Officials praise and thank the Secret Service and other security for stopping the shooter. And indeed they need to be thankful for that. But what if this attacker had had a bomb or some other such device? He would have been right there and could have set it off. We might be writing about a real horror today.
This is just more pure evil in the last days. I saw the headline in the NY Post shortly after the event. The main headline was “EVIL.” They had it right. That’s it. Most media and most government leaders just do not get it because they don’t know and they don’t have that discernment gift.
Evil is pervasive in these last days. Why didn’t we hear that from the political leaders and the commentators?
As to the fact that no one was seriously injured or killed, thanks go of course to God. Why didn’t we hear that from everyone?
Reflecting after the fact, why hold such an event in such an obviously insecure place?
And to top all this I am thinking about the fact that this atrocious US Congress has not approved a bill to pay salaries for the Secret Service and other essential groups charged with protecting the President and Americans in general.
In the last days, God turns those who refuse to accept the truth over to a spirit of delusion. It surely appears that this has been and is happening right now. Many of the confused and out-of-control disruptive people in our day seem highly deluded, unable to discuss things rationally. But sadly so too are many who quietly occupy positions of authority but seem incapable of coming to a meaningful understanding of what is going on and incapable of needed action,
Many of the people we see every day are clearly godless. They don’t know Jesus. They haven’t been born again. They don’t have the Holy Spirit and the gifts. And they stumble around, some in leadership roles in all fields and some in roles of out of control rebels.
Frightening.
Jesus is coming soon. Believers know that. He can’t come soon enough for most.
I remember words the Lord said to me on this subject years ago:
“When I come things will be different.”
Yes they will. Thankfully.
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April 2026
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