We learned from a news report that the Obama administration is plotting to overthrow Netanyahu in Israel.  I don’t think we have had a President since Israel became a nation in 1948 that has been so hostile to Israel.  In Zechariah 2:8, God said of Israel, “for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”  So, it appears to me that Obama is poking his finger in God’s eye, so to speak.  There are unpleasant consequences for doing that, just as there would be unpleasant consequences if you went around poking someone in the eye.

    Psa 2:12  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.  In other words, pay homage to the Son of God.  Love what He loves and hate what He hates.  You don’t take one position after another after another that is contrary to the position of the Son of God without paying a dear price.  Obama may be an arrogant and proud man, which he obviously is.  He may think he has arrived at the highest pinnacle of glory that a man can reach on this earth, but as an old song says there’s a bigger wheel than you.  Here are some of the lyrics to that old song:

    If you think that you're a big, big shot
    And everything you do is a whiz
    Just remember brother that everything you've got
    Is not yours, remember it's His.

    There's a big wheel, there's a big wheel
    He's a whole lot bigger than you
    There's a big wheel, there's a big wheel
       He's a whole lot bigger than me.

          Of course, when it’s the leader of the nation, it is a matter than affects us all.  What Obama does as President is representative of the nation, and that is serious.  It’s not just a matter of him invoking the judgment of God on himself.  He is calling for the judgment of God on our nation because the majority of the people elected him to represent them.  Then, in addition to that, you have a nation full of preachers, most of which won’t lift a voice to declare the truth to their congregation regarding the issues of the day.

    About 4,000 innocent precious lives of unborn babies were snuffed out today, and 300,000 pulpits are silent.  TV networks make a mockery of Christians and the Christian faith and Christian values in show after show, and 300,000 pulpits are silent.  Christians morality cannot be taught in public school classrooms, prayers can’t be offered at high school football games anymore, Jesus can be dishonored while the Muslim religion is accommodated, and 300,000 pulpits are silent.  Pornography has become an eight billion dollar business, and the Internet is flooded with porn, while 300,000 pulpits are silent. Rock music fills the airways and pollutes our children’s minds with music that legitimizes rape, murder, satanic worship, and other perversion, and 300,000 pulpits are not only silent – many preachers pattern their worship services after the rock music of the world.  The state promotes lotteries that prey on the poor people among us more than anyone else, and 300,000 pulpits are silent.  

    Put a post up on Facebook about being the salt and light of the earth, and you will likely get numerous responses from “Christians” who chastise you for being judgmental and “unloving”.  Why will they do that?  Simply because they have attended churches that had a silent pulpit on what it means to be salt and light.  Therefore, they have a skewed mindset regarding Christian involvement.  And, the average Christian is a wuss when it comes to standing up for the truth.  But, it’s mainly because 300,000 pulpits have failed to produce anything else.

I interviewed Gubernatorial Democratic candidate Bill White Friday morning on the radio.  He’s a typical liberal.  Liberals don’t like to tell you their actual blunt positions on certain issues.  They also like to talk in generalities, hoping you will accept that and get on their bandwagon without asking for specifics to the generalities.  When I asked him to explain why we need to replace Rick Perry, he said because we need to move forward, that he knows how to get things done, Rick Perry has spent 26 years as a state employee, and it’s time our state moves on.  That’s similar to someone saying we need to elect him because we need “change” and saying things like “Yes, we can”.  Change to what?  Yes, we can what?  The state needs to move on to what?  How does 26 years employed by the state tell us anything about a man’s qualifications or lack thereof, and what is in that statement that convinces anyone that a new guy would be better based on that alone?

    I would have a hard time being a liberal even if I believed their positions were correct on the issues because it is evidently part of their DNA to lie.  When I asked Mr. White if he supported abortion, he answered by saying he was “pro-choice” and cared about health decisions that were personal to women.  Pro-choice is a misnomer because liberals are not pro-choice on very many things.  They aren’t pro-choice in regards to allowing you to reject the socialistic Obamacare approach to health care.  They aren’t pro-choice in regards to public prayers.  And, they aren’t in favor of allowing an unborn baby to choose life.  Babies struggle to live when the womb is invaded by an abortionist.  And, health decisions are almost never the factor in deciding whether or not to kill an unborn person.

    If I couldn’t be honest with the facts in arguing my position, my position wouldn’t be worth defending.

People are still upset about what our Congress and President have done to our country this week.  I only hope they stay upset long enough to vote in November, and vote some bums out.  I’m plenty ticked off about it, as you can easily tell if you listen to me between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. weekdays.  Not only has this President set his face like a flint to pursue socialism for this country, he has also stuck his finger in God’s eye.

    Israel is called “the apple of God’s eye”.  B. Hussein Obama has decided to chastise Israel and make demands that they stop building in their own capital city.  His administration has decided to publicly announce that Israel is the problem in the pursuit of peace.  He has done much in the first year of his Presidency to invoke the judgment of God.  Thomas Jefferson said, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."  I believe that God’s judgment cannot be postponed much longer.

    Something, though, that concerns me as much as the leadership of this country doing what they are doing is the things that Christians say.  Some say that we are to submit to everything the government does regardless of what it is.  They base their philosophy on a misunderstanding of Romans, chapter 13.  Then, others say “Remember God is in control.”  By saying that, they mean that nothing could happen without it being God’s will and plan.  They say, “We don’t understand it, but God is in control.”

    If God is ordaining and planning everything that is happening, we don’t need to educate ourselves, or work for good candidates, or speak out against evil, or even vote.  This is called fatalism.  Look it up in the dictionary.  It is a doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are unalterable.  If our Founding Fathers had believed that, we would have never had this country with all its freedoms that are so much in jeopardy right now.  If you really believe that, why do you bother to try to get people to receive the Lord.  The belief is that it’s all predetermined and unalterable, anyway.  (Sadly, by the way, some Christians erroneously believe that regarding salvation.)

    If we all believed that we should submit to everything the government decides without resistance and if we all believed in fatalism, we would lose this country and all its freedoms quicker than is happening.  I would be interested in your response to these thoughts.  Go to the home page and click the contact button to respond from the web page.

Here is a quote from Ronald Reagan: “Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it.”

 Well, we saw it happen Sunday night, didn’t we? The minority of people who wanted this government take-over of health care that we are witnessing are supporting it under the guise of “medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it”. We have seen a sad day in America. The flags should really be flown at half-mast because something has died. Or, perhaps they should be flown upside down because the country is becoming distressed.

 Some people are threatening to quit paying taxes because of the bill that will now funnel more tax-payer money to aborting babies. What do you plan to do at this point? Your thoughts are invited. Respond to this blog by going to our home page and clicking the contact button.

I heard Faye Hardin at Lighthouse Church in Amarillo on Thursday evening. During her talk, she said that Obama would be brought down. I also got an e-mail from a friend that related what a fellow from Canada said about Obama. He had predicted that within 6 months of Obama’s Presidency, the American people that elected him would realize what a mistake they had made. He made another prediction. He says that Obama will leave office before his term is over. How? He thinks that perhaps, the Democrats themselves will either figure out a way to remove him from office or render him a lame-duck, one-term President. These are interesting statements. I think it would be wonderful if the elections of 2010 reduced the Democrats to the minority Party in both houses of Congress, and then if the remaining Democrats began to loathe Obama so much that they wouldn’t support him on any of his agenda. That’s a best case scenario, in my opinion. If they concoct a plan, such as the illegitimacy of his birth the natural-born citizen issue, to remove him, that wouldn’t help the country to have to put up with goofy Joe Biden. Whatever happens politically, let’s pray that God will render him of no effect in order to save the country and preserve freedom. What do you think? Reply to the blog by going to our home page here and clicking the contact button.

I was talking again about the Obamacare health bill fiasco this morning on the radio.  Republicans are planning to propose perhaps hundreds of amendments to basically bog the bill down so it won’t get passed.  Democrats are trying all sorts of maneuvers to ram it through.  They hope to get it done this week before Congress gets ready to leave town for the Easter break.  Can the Republicans stop it?  I don’t know.

    But, I do know that God rules in the affairs of men, and He can intervene from Heaven to put restrictions on the efforts of wicked people.  One of our callers this morning brought up the Scripture regarding Jehoshaphat and his overwhelming odds.  Enemies were coming in great numbers to destroy him.  But, when the people of God began to sing and praise the Lord, God got involved and the enemy turned on each other.  A great victory was wrought because of God’s response to the people praying and praising.

    So, we have a part in this.  The power available to us is greater than the Republicans have.  The power available to us is greater than the Democrats.  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  This evil socialistic health care bill hasn’t gotten rammed through yet, after a year of haggling by the Congress and the President.  So, let’s be encouraged by that and get busy putting roadblocks in the way of ungodly politicians by engaging in the spiritual warfare through prayer and praise.

With each passing day, the government controls more and more of our lives.  Apparently, Obama is about to issue an executive order to ban large parts of recreational fishing.  It’s considered harmful to the resource.  "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy" is the title of a document that has been created by some wacky people.  Under the guise of 'marine spatial planning' entire watersheds could be shut down, even 2,000 miles up a river drainage from the ocean.  What will Obama think of next, or what will someone who has Obama’s ear think of next that restricts our lives still further?

    If the federal government isn’t enough control over us, it has been quite unpleasant to deal with the local city government.  You’d think that folks who live in the same city with us would have the same loathing of government control of every aspect of our lives as we do.  Not so.  My experience since starting a church in Amarillo is that local bureaucrats have the same kind of mind set.  After considerable hassle in regards to remodeling and getting everything worked out to their satisfaction, now we have to make changes to our elaborate expensive sign.  Never mind that you spend a big chunk of money buying the equipment and software necessary to make your sign displays do all sorts of things to attract attention, the city passed an ordinance that forbids us and many others from using many of the features of our signs.  Of course, it’s all in the name of safety.  What we call “attracting attention” is what they call “distractions”.  

    Have you noticed that every time a government worker or politician slaps more restrictions on your life and takes more of your freedom away that it is for the “public good” or “for the safety of the environment”?  They evidently have it within their power to do just about anything they want.  Perhaps, you and I should be sure to thank God today for the freedoms that we still have.  I have a feeling that next month and next year, we’ll have less freedom than we do today.  At least for now, I can still spout off about it.  I suppose that someday they’ll figure out a way to stop us from doing that, too.

I hope you like snow because we are having the biggest snowstorm we have had in more than 9 years.  It’s a good day to stay inside and listen to your radio – on the Kingdom Keys Network, of course.  

    Obama spoke to the Congress and the nation last night in the annual State of The Union speech.  I don’t know what you thought about the speech, but the word that came to my mind was “hooey”.  “That’s a bunch of hooey”, I thought.  I decided to look up the word “hooey” in the dictionary to see if that was an appropriate word to describe what I had been listening to.  The definition is that hooey is “silly or worthless talk”, or “nonsense; bunk”.  That’s a pretty good commentary on the 70 minute talk in which Obama referred to himself over 130 times, blamed Bush again for the problems, rebuked the Supreme Court justices sitting in front of him, vowed to change the policy to allow homosexuals to openly serve in the military, and spouted off numerous lies.  (Sometime in private, ask me what I really think about this fellow who is a forerunner of the Antichrist, in my opinion.)

    I have not mentioned anything on the radio about this yet.  So, you blog readers will be the first to know.  I have several tickets to the Bill Gaither Homecoming tour coming to Lubbock on May 1, 2010.  You can contact us to put your name in for a drawing.  I will be drawing out some names in a few weeks to give away a pair of tickets to.  Actually, I will give away several pair of tickets.  So, get your name in.  You may win 2 of these tickets.

        Ricky Pfeil

In the hour of News, Views, & Commentaries, Ricky listed approximately 50 things about Obama that people say "doesn't matter", but it does matter if you don't want the country to be transformed into a Marxist/Socialist country.  The list is on a Word Document and is too long to post here on the web site.  Call, e-mail us, or leave a message on this web site for it to be e-mailed to you as an attachment.  Christmas music was broadcast in the second hour of the morning program.  Listen to us throughout the next month to hear great Christmas music and programming.

Just in case you missed the morning show this morning, during the first hour Rick talked about the Democrats counting on the ignorance and gullibility of people to accept the government take-over of “health care” in the Senate bill. He also talked about the Obama administration’s desire, expressed by one of Obama’s czars, to silence Hannity and other right-wing talk shows. Some of the editorials used by Ricky during the first hour of the morning program during News, Views, and Commentaries can be accessed by clicking the links on their titles listed below:

Sodom In The Nation's Capital
Healthcare Radicals Bank On Public Ignorance & Gullibility
Oklahoma's Two U.S. Senators Ready To Debate Health Care Bill
Look What Obama Czar Wants To Do To Hannity

In the second hour, there was music, information, and fun. The last portion of the second hour included phone calls from listeners asking questions about prayer and “speaking in tongues”. Jeremy and Diana joined in the discussion during the last segment of the morning program and said a number of things about giving thanks. Jeremy shared thoughts based on this reading of Psalm 111:1-3, 7-8.

Remember to take time today to be thankful for all that God has done in your life. Our prayer for you is that you would have a blessed day and a wonderful Thanksgiving.