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Energy-rich Venezuela has had a lot of problems, including electricity cuts:

Venezuela is close to becoming a post-apocalyptic society – That’s what socialism has created

March 9, 2019

Hugo Chavez turned Venezuela into a socialist state …

Power outages are now commonplace, as is power rationing. Without a stable electric grid, what remains of Venezuela’s agriculture, manufacturing and business sectors are on the path to ruin. The little food that is produced cannot make it to market. Goods and services cannot be sold.

It is not surprising that more than 3 million Venezuelans have fled the nation. Food and water are basic needs, but without energy to run the economy, Venezuela may as well be a post-apocalyptic society in a zombie movie.

Fast forward to the present day. The average citizen of Venezuela has lost 19 pounds from malnutrition. Starving people are eating zoo animals. With inflation running 42,000 percent, a dozen eggs cost $29,000. If you’re hoping to buy a chicken to lay these “golden” eggs, you’ll have to save over $14 million. …

Chavez called oil companies greedy polluters in order to get elected. His intentions sounded noble, but as is always the case with socialism, the true motives and resulting consequences were equally dismal.

Here in America, socialist politicians want to follow the same playbook to take over the energy industry in the name of fighting climate change. …

Noam Chomsky will say “that isn’t real socialism.” Doubtful Danny Glover waits a day for gas. Michael Moore probably doesn’t eat zoo animals.

When socialism comes, it’s never the elites who suffer. It’s always the poor who suffer, who starve, who die under socialism. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/venezuela-is-close-to-becoming-a-post-apocalyptic-society-thats-what-socialism-has-created

Venezuela power cuts: Blackouts continue as protests loom

9 March 2019

A widespread power cut affecting much of Venezuela continued throughout Friday ahead of planned protests on Saturday.

President Nicolás Maduro and the US-backed opposition trying to oust him have blamed each other for the outage.

Hospitals struggled to cope and at least one hospital patient died when her respirator stopped working.

The power cuts, which started on Thursday, have been caused by problems at a major hydroelectric plant.

Venezuela depends on its vast hydroelectric infrastructure, rather than its oil reserves, for its domestic electricity supply. But decades of underinvestment has damaged the major dams, and sporadic blackouts are commonplace. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47504722

A man named Guillermo, who grew up in Venezuela and escaped two years ago to Santiago, Chile, responded to a couple of questions in an interview:

Are people still eating?

“There’s food, it’s just extremely scarce… but there’s food because there is still black markets.”

“The last time I saw a grocery store full of food I was extremely young, probably age five.”

Could Socialism destroy the United States the way it has ruined Venezuela?

One of the crazy things is that people, at the beginning, tend to be extremely skeptical to the warnings of people. It could happen. It could happen in an extremely short period of time.

The US could change from a Democracy, or let’s say the balance of power it has today, to a complete Socialist dictatorship. That could happen.

And when you say that to an American it may sound a little bit delusional. But the thing is how socialism evolves inside a country, and how the socialist politicians rig and modify the power to make themselves stay in that position and to basically delegate the other people [in power] is one of the things that scares me the most.

That happens really quick. They start to change institutions, they start to change laws that at first might not seem very important, but they are.

And it goes down to collapse very quickly. It could happen to any country.

https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/03/watch-a-venezuelan-sets-the-record-straight-on-juan-guaido-and-us-intervention/ 03/09/19

Currently, many are concerned that the US may elect a socialist president in 2020 as many announced opponents to Donald Trump have espoused socialist positions.

But it is not socialism, per se, that is the threat to the US, it is moral decline.

Debt, for one, is a curse that results from moral decline. Notice:

43 The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed…47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. 52 They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you (Deuteronomy 28:42-45,47-52).

6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his–how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you. Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. (Habakkuk 2:6-8).

Destruction (which the above also pointed to) is a curse that results from certain aspects of moral decline:

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

6…the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly (2 Peter 2:6)

Military defeat is prophesied to come because of moral decline:

15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. … 25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. (Deuteronomy 25:15-16, 25)

13 And the Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it, 14 but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts…16 I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.” (Jeremiah 9:13,14a,16)

The type of collective greed that various of the elites promote as socialism, that many accept, is also the result of moral decline. That is consistent with the following:

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7)

Of course, it is not just socialists that are fulfilling the above.

And as far as the 2020 presidential election in the US goes, we put together the following video:

Various politicians have announced their intentions to run for the office of the President of the United States in 2020. ‘Politico’ ran an article about the ‘sorry state’ of various candidates. Some candidates have felt the need to apologize for previous statements in support of biblical marriage and the need to endorse items of the LGBTQ agenda. Many also support abortion and other anti-biblical actions. Are these ‘American values’? Should the English language be changed to eliminate male/female and singular pronouns? Does the Bible warn about female leaders? Does the Bible warn about leaders that lead people to err? What about condoning sexual immortality? Do the presidential contenders fit prophecies warned about in 2 Timothy 3:1-5? These are some of the subjects that Dr. Thiel addresses.

Here is a link to the sermonette video: Sorry state of the 2020 presidential campaign.

None of the candidates for the US presidency have advocated policies towards true national repentance.

So yes, the US can decline rapidly, and actually is in the process now.

The Apocalypse known as the Great Tribulation is coming (Matthew 24:21; see also When Will the Great Tribulation Begin?).

Venezuela, the US, and the rest of the world, needs repentance and the Kingdom of God.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, March 9th, 2019 at 8:45 am and is filed under Prophecy.

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