Trump has unleashed all the evil that has been lurking and waiting
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WWII didn't destroy the world's evil. The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were meant to isolate evil. Our governmental institutions exist to supposedly protect us from evil.
So what happened? Why are we now teetering on the edge of our human rights being stolen from us? Why are we on the verge of becoming a country in which evil is the normal state of reality?
Here's my opinion. The Republican Party has spent decades trying to steal our rights from us. They have spent decades enriching themselves at the cost of the middle class and the poor. One of their biggest heroes is Ronald Reagan who was a master at peddling shit that the masses ate up, never realizing they were screwing themselves.
And finally, a horrible accident happened. Donald Trump became president. The Republican Party had found a fool who would pass most of their demented goals: huge tax breaks for the wealthy; wingnut judges at every level of the judiciary; the destruction of government oversight of business, industry, and the presidency itself. They allowed these things to happen while tolerating the insanity that accompanied it. They know that the creature is insane. They know his wall is a mental delusion. They know that Fox "news' controls his agenda, (whatever it is on any given day). They know the man is perhaps one of the biggest financial criminals in the history of the world. And they also know he can end up destroying our democracy.
But for some reason, they don't give a shit. They're getting what they want and the rest is "collateral damage." They are ruling for the moment and don't care about what comes next. They are enriching themselves and, evidently, don't give a flying fuck about the world they are leaving for their children, or even if their grandchildren are stuck living in a "Mad Max" world.
So, in America at least, Trump has unleashed the evil that has been lurking and waiting. And that evil is called the Republican Party and their current orange lord and master.
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The Forty-Two Months (of Rev.11:1-2: This period of time wherein the gentiles will "trample" Jerusalem is, as explained above, a reference to the Great Tribulation (which commences with the seventh trumpet directly after the termination of the two-witness ministry discussed in chapter eleven). Our Lord makes a similar reference to the trampling of Jerusalem by gentiles in Luke 21:24, and tells us that this situation of gentile intrusion and conquest will continue "until the gentiles' times have been fulfilled", that is, until His Second Advent brings antichrist's control of Israel and Jerusalem to a violent and immediate conclusion. It will be useful at this point to summarize the various scriptural designations for the forty-two month time period covered by the Great Tribulation:
In Daniel 7:25, the saints of the Most High (i.e., believers) are said to be handed over into the power of the little horn (i.e., antichrist and the Great Persecution) for "a time, times, and half a time", a biblical way of expressing the three and one half years of the Great Tribulation.
In Daniel 9:26, "the people of the prince which is to come" (i.e., antichrist as the ruler of revived Rome) will make a treaty during the last "seven" and break it in the middle of the "seven", that is, during middle of the seven years at the outset of the Great Tribulation.
In Daniel 12
, the angel speaking with Daniel declares that it will be "a time, times, and half a time" before the persecutions stop and everything comes to an end, that is, the Great Tribulation will last three and one half years.
In Revelation 11:2, the gentiles (i.e., the army of antichrist) will afflict Jerusalem for 42 months, that is, during the entire three and a half year period of the Great Tribulation (albeit under varying circumstances).
In Revelation 12:6, the woman Israel is said to be protected for 1,260 days, that is, during the whole 42 months of the Great Tribulation (expressed in standard 30 day months).
In Revelation 12:14, the woman Israel is said to be protected for a time, times, and half a time, that is, during this same period of the Great Tribulation's three and a half years.
In Revelation 13:5, the unbridled reign of antichrist is said to last for 42 months, that is, for the duration of the Great Tribulation.
Other than that, spot on.
Excellent crash-course on the historical, inherent evils in Republicanism, from RR to 45.
Well done. 
