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TRUMP’S FRAUD WHISTLEBLOWER PROGRAM REVEALS A CHRISTIAN PROBLEM
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"Fields White For Harvest”
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McLaughlin, Heritage Church, McKinney, Tx This is a wonderful Message. Don’t miss it, you will be blessed! Pass it on to your Homebound Family and friends
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The Christan Poist -11/19/2026 -- President Donald Trump recently announced an initiative offering financial rewards to Americans who expose fraud against the government. Through the Justice Department's new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, individuals can receive thousands of dollars for providing information that leads to criminal charges.
I am thankful the president is taking fraud seriously. Those who steal taxpayer money, manipulate government programs, or exploit others should be exposed and prosecuted. Offering rewards to those who uncover wrongdoing is a reasonable approach. Fraud does not merely cost the government money. It takes resources from legitimate recipients, burdens taxpayers, and undermines public trust.
But something about this initiative troubles me, and it has nothing to do with President Trump.
Why should we have to pay people to do what is right?
According to Pew Research Center's 2023–2024 Religious Landscape Study, 62% of American adults identify as Christians. That represents a substantial majority of the adult population. With so many professing Christians in this country, shouldn't we have been confronting dishonesty and corruption long before the government needed to offer financial incentives?
Where have Christians been?
How many Christians have witnessed dishonest business practices, fraudulent government claims, exploitation of the vulnerable, or outright theft and simply looked the other way? How often have we justified our silence because speaking up might create controversy, damage relationships, or threaten our personal interests?
Somewhere along the way, Christians began confusing keeping the peace with doing what is right, but Scripture does not give us that option. Romans 12:9 tells us to “Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” We don’t merely tell Christians to avoid participating in evil; We must hate it. There is a tremendous difference between refusing to commit wrongdoing and refusing to tolerate it. Proverbs 31:8 instructs us to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Isaiah 1:17 commands us to seek justice, correct oppression, and defend the vulnerable. These are not suggestions reserved for pastors, politicians, or law enforcement officers. They are moral responsibilities. Even the purpose of government reflects this biblical principle. Romans 13:3–4 describes governing authorities as responsible for restraining wrongdoing and administering justice. Proverbs 11:1 condemns dishonest scales, while Leviticus 19:35–36 requires honest weights and measures.
God cares about fairness in commerce, integrity in government, and justice between individuals. Why, then, have so many Christians surrendered their responsibility to confront evil?
Perhaps we have become too concerned with being liked. Perhaps we have accepted the cultural argument that faith belongs exclusively inside our churches and private homes. Perhaps we have convinced ourselves that remaining silent is an expression of Christian kindness.
Or perhaps we have simply become comfortable.
We have been told not to judge, not to offend, not to rock the boat. And too often, we have believed those messages (many of which are coming from non-Christians) without examining whether they are consistent with the Bible.
But biblical love is not indifferent toward wrongdoing. In fact, allowing someone to exploit another person while we remain silent is hardly an expression of love for the victim.
Jesus was compassionate, but He was never morally indifferent.
Of course, Christians must distinguish between suspicion and proof. Reckless accusations are themselves a form of injustice. Our obligation to pursue truth includes protecting innocent people from false allegations.
I support President Trump's effort to uncover fraud. If financial rewards encourage people to expose criminal activity, taxpayers and legitimate beneficiaries may benefit.
But the deeper question remains.
When did Christians begin waiting for government incentives before fulfilling their moral obligations? Why would we be more incentivized by the love of money to do the right thing rather than the love of God?
Consider the irony. We live in a country where millions profess allegiance to a savior who confronted religious hypocrisy, challenged corrupt practices, and defended the vulnerable. Yet we sometimes behave as though confronting dishonesty is somehow inconsistent with following Him to the point where our leader must reward us for doing so.
America certainly needs stronger accountability and better enforcement against fraud. But it also needs Christians willing to demonstrate integrity when nobody is watching, speak truth when doing so is uncomfortable, and confront wrongdoing even when there is nothing personally to gain.
The government can reward people for exposing fraud.
Christians should never have needed a reward in the first place.
ISRAEL, WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR?
DID THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS PREDICT THE RAPTURE? PROPHECY WATCHERS EXPLORES ANCIENT CLUES HIDDEN FOR 2,000 YEARS
Chrisma News - Aug. 8, 2026-- For decades, the Dead Sea Scrolls have strengthened confidence in the accuracy of the Old Testament. But could they also contain clues pointing to one of Christianity’s greatest prophetic hopes—the Rapture?
That was the question explored during a recent Prophecy Watchers roundtable featuring Josh Peck, Gary Stearman and Mondo Gonzales. While emphasizing that the Dead Sea Scrolls are not inspired Scripture, the panel argued the ancient writings may preserve remarkable insights that align with New Testament prophecy.
“I certainly don’t put the extra-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls at the same level as the Bible,” Peck said. “But they do add a lot of contexts for the time that Christ would have lived.”
One of the discussions centered on Daniel 12 and repeated references in the scrolls to mysterious “shining ones.” Peck believes those figures are more than symbolic language.
“When you really break down everything that it says about them, it really seems to be talking about these are raptured believers,” he said, noting the writings distinguish them from both angels and ordinary people.
The conversation also turned to the 24 elders in Revelation. Peck argued they are glorified believers already in heaven before the Tribulation begins, calling their presence one of the clearest biblical arguments for a pre-Tribulation Rapture.
“If the 24 elders are … glorified believers,” Peck said, “they’re there in heaven before Jesus starts breaking scrolls.”
The Dead Sea Scrolls do not reveal a new doctrine. Instead, the writings show that long before the New Testament was completed, some Jewish believers were already anticipating prophetic events that we now see fulfilled in Christ—and ultimately pointing toward His promised return.
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Charisma News – Oct 31, 2026 -- Israel’s strategic relevance to American peace, prosperity and security reaches far beyond the friendship between two democracies.. In Israel, America has an ally that functions as an unsinkable aircraft carrier, a laboratory that never sleeps and an intelligence partner living inside the world’s most dangerous neighborhood.
Israel stands at the crossroads where the world’s major powers compete for control over essential energy routes, trade corridors and regional security. To borrow the first rule of New York City real estate: location, location, location. The US has repeatedly paid for retreat with American lives, abandoned allies, lost intelligence networks, diminished credibility and the expansion of terrorist organizations and hostile regional powers. From Lebanon and Somalia to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, every vacuum invited America’s adversaries to advance. China and Russia stand ready to fill any void left by an administration retreating from America’s hard-earned positions of strength. Those who point to Turkey or Saudi Arabia overlook their use of stealth jihad in Europe and their tampering with the region’s demographics to entrench Islamist dominance. No other trusted ally in the region possesses both the interest and experience necessary to prevent Chinese and Russian encroachment upon the strategic corridors through which the world’s energy and commerce flow. Israel sounded the shofar over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu took the case to the United Nations and Congress, where he was received with the indifference and contempt shown to Churchill in Chamberlain’s time. Israel became the only spark of hope for Kurds and Iranian dissidents, who prayed silently as it waged a shadow war of espionage, striking nuclear scientists and military commanders. When the moment of truth arrived, Israel was the pit bull that forged ahead and then stood alongside America. Israel was on the field while a feckless Europe, once America’s most trusted ally, proved disingenuous. The team contributed no assists: no bases, warships or airspace. Instead, European governments circumvented their own sanctions and placed money into the coffers of rogue nations. Technology wins wars, and Israel’s prime location is matched by its technological prowess. Israel’s brilliance shines on multiple fronts beyond military research and development. High technology, medicine, cyber defense, missile defense, agriculture, water management, intelligence and military innovation advance at a miraculous pace. From a sliver of land comes an extraordinary concentration of human ingenuity whose benefits travel far beyond Israel’s borders and directly into American medicine, industry, defense and security. These are extraordinary benefits to receive from a proven friend. Aristotle distinguished among friendships of pleasure, utility and virtue, with virtuous friendship being the highest. It alone possesses the foundation for an enduring relationship because it rests upon shared values and mutual respect. The bond between America and Israel is rooted in Judeo-Christian values under which the individual counts: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and respect for the dignity and liberty of the individual. This is a recipe whose ingredients were never stirred into the ironclad cauldrons of Islamist and autocratic regimes. It reveals the disparity between civilization grounded in individual liberty and theocracies, as well as the self-serving powers of China and Russia that insinuate themselves into the region with malign intent. It is precisely this shared devotion to liberty that thwarts the aspirations of both Islamists and autocrats. The Islamic Republic of Iran, frustrated by the American-Israeli alliance, convulses with repeated calls for the destruction of the “Big Satan" and the “Little Satan." Its devilish designs are focused on obliterating both America and Israel. Under the Trump administration, Israel has been granted greater respect and latitude and has stood at the forefront of dismantling the unstable republic’s nuclear threat. America has given Israel considerable moral support at the United Nations and remains, indisputably, its most abiding bulwark. That will never be forgotten. Yet in recent years, Americans across the country, many of whom know nothing about the founding of their republic, Constitution, or the words to their own national anthem, and who, despite being college-educated, can’t name the first three presidents, have nonetheless memorized the $3.8B figure Israel "receives" in foreign aid, lifted straight off Instagram and TikTok, ready to recite on command. Not because they understand it, but because it’s ammunition, a talking point deployed to paint Israel as a drain on America, or worse, a pariah. There is no interest in any other recipients of America’s largesse, nations that offer nothing in return. They remain willfully ignorant of just how advantageous it is for the U.S. to support a strategic partner, and of when and how those funds are actually spent - in and for America. Horrific as it sounds, weaponry is a business, and like all businesses, the rule is: old inventory out makes room for new designs. This is where Israel starts, by cleaning house on aging stockpiles, taking older inventory off the shelf: World War II-era weapons designs, Korean- and Vietnam-era systems, Vietnam-era M113 armored personnel carriers, older artillery, rifles, vehicles, and ammunition drawn from U.S. surplus programs and American stockpiles maintained in Israel. Meanwhile, some of the finest Israeli and American minds work in unison to transform $500 million in joint missile-defense funding into Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow, technologies that protect lives while advancing American defense capabilities. Israel also runs one of the largest outdoor urban warfare training courses in the world, and American soldiers regularly go there to train alongside their Israeli counterparts. It is estimated that between cybersecurity, intelligence sharing, and serving as what General Haig once called America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier, Israel’s value to the U.S. runs into the billions. What deserves equal consideration is how often Israel has been forced to fight for its survival, and how, at nearly every juncture, America has restrained the very ally whose decisive victory would ultimately have best served American interests. In 1948, as the newborn Jewish state faced invading Arab armies, the United States maintained an arms embargo. Israel survived anyway. Until 1967, Israel was little more than a fleck on America’s radar. As the Six-Day War approached, Israel’s prospects looked grim; the country prepared for mass casualties, with threats mounting and enemy armies gathering around it. Survival appeared an insurmountable challenge. For Israel, those six days were as miraculous as the six days of Creation, the country rose from the chaos of a war for survival to soar as a regional power, accomplishing a feat that still bewilders military strategists. Israel captured the Sinai, Gaza, Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Yet almost immediately, the question ceased to be the existential threat posed by Israel’s enemies, and became instead how much of Israel’s battlefield victory would have to be surrendered. Then came 1973. TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK -PART 2
Israel stands at the crossroads where the world’s major powers compete for control over essential energy routes, trade corridors and regional security. To borrow the first rule of New York City real estate: location, location, location. The US has repeatedly paid for retreat with American lives, abandoned allies, lost intelligence networks, diminished credibility and the expansion of terrorist organizations and hostile regional powers. From Lebanon and Somalia to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, every vacuum invited America’s adversaries to advance. China and Russia stand ready to fill any void left by an administration retreating from America’s hard-earned positions of strength. Those who point to Turkey or Saudi Arabia overlook their use of stealth jihad in Europe and their tampering with the region’s demographics to entrench Islamist dominance. No other trusted ally in the region possesses both the interest and experience necessary to prevent Chinese and Russian encroachment upon the strategic corridors through which the world’s energy and commerce flow. Israel sounded the shofar over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu took the case to the United Nations and Congress, where he was received with the indifference and contempt shown to Churchill in Chamberlain’s time. Israel became the only spark of hope for Kurds and Iranian dissidents, who prayed silently as it waged a shadow war of espionage, striking nuclear scientists and military commanders. When the moment of truth arrived, Israel was the pit bull that forged ahead and then stood alongside America. Israel was on the field while a feckless Europe, once America’s most trusted ally, proved disingenuous. The team contributed no assists: no bases, warships or airspace. Instead, European governments circumvented their own sanctions and placed money into the coffers of rogue nations. Technology wins wars, and Israel’s prime location is matched by its technological prowess. Israel’s brilliance shines on multiple fronts beyond military research and development. High technology, medicine, cyber defense, missile defense, agriculture, water management, intelligence and military innovation advance at a miraculous pace. From a sliver of land comes an extraordinary concentration of human ingenuity whose benefits travel far beyond Israel’s borders and directly into American medicine, industry, defense and security. These are extraordinary benefits to receive from a proven friend. Aristotle distinguished among friendships of pleasure, utility and virtue, with virtuous friendship being the highest. It alone possesses the foundation for an enduring relationship because it rests upon shared values and mutual respect. The bond between America and Israel is rooted in Judeo-Christian values under which the individual counts: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and respect for the dignity and liberty of the individual. This is a recipe whose ingredients were never stirred into the ironclad cauldrons of Islamist and autocratic regimes. It reveals the disparity between civilization grounded in individual liberty and theocracies, as well as the self-serving powers of China and Russia that insinuate themselves into the region with malign intent. It is precisely this shared devotion to liberty that thwarts the aspirations of both Islamists and autocrats. The Islamic Republic of Iran, frustrated by the American-Israeli alliance, convulses with repeated calls for the destruction of the “Big Satan" and the “Little Satan." Its devilish designs are focused on obliterating both America and Israel. Under the Trump administration, Israel has been granted greater respect and latitude and has stood at the forefront of dismantling the unstable republic’s nuclear threat. America has given Israel considerable moral support at the United Nations and remains, indisputably, its most abiding bulwark. That will never be forgotten. Yet in recent years, Americans across the country, many of whom know nothing about the founding of their republic, Constitution, or the words to their own national anthem, and who, despite being college-educated, can’t name the first three presidents, have nonetheless memorized the $3.8B figure Israel "receives" in foreign aid, lifted straight off Instagram and TikTok, ready to recite on command. Not because they understand it, but because it’s ammunition, a talking point deployed to paint Israel as a drain on America, or worse, a pariah. There is no interest in any other recipients of America’s largesse, nations that offer nothing in return. They remain willfully ignorant of just how advantageous it is for the U.S. to support a strategic partner, and of when and how those funds are actually spent - in and for America. Horrific as it sounds, weaponry is a business, and like all businesses, the rule is: old inventory out makes room for new designs. This is where Israel starts, by cleaning house on aging stockpiles, taking older inventory off the shelf: World War II-era weapons designs, Korean- and Vietnam-era systems, Vietnam-era M113 armored personnel carriers, older artillery, rifles, vehicles, and ammunition drawn from U.S. surplus programs and American stockpiles maintained in Israel. Meanwhile, some of the finest Israeli and American minds work in unison to transform $500 million in joint missile-defense funding into Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow, technologies that protect lives while advancing American defense capabilities. Israel also runs one of the largest outdoor urban warfare training courses in the world, and American soldiers regularly go there to train alongside their Israeli counterparts. It is estimated that between cybersecurity, intelligence sharing, and serving as what General Haig once called America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier, Israel’s value to the U.S. runs into the billions. What deserves equal consideration is how often Israel has been forced to fight for its survival, and how, at nearly every juncture, America has restrained the very ally whose decisive victory would ultimately have best served American interests. In 1948, as the newborn Jewish state faced invading Arab armies, the United States maintained an arms embargo. Israel survived anyway. Until 1967, Israel was little more than a fleck on America’s radar. As the Six-Day War approached, Israel’s prospects looked grim; the country prepared for mass casualties, with threats mounting and enemy armies gathering around it. Survival appeared an insurmountable challenge. For Israel, those six days were as miraculous as the six days of Creation, the country rose from the chaos of a war for survival to soar as a regional power, accomplishing a feat that still bewilders military strategists. Israel captured the Sinai, Gaza, Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Yet almost immediately, the question ceased to be the existential threat posed by Israel’s enemies, and became instead how much of Israel’s battlefield victory would have to be surrendered. Then came 1973. TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK -PART 2
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OUR ETERNAL REWARDS
Revelation 4:9-11
Throughout Scripture, we find references to crowns. Let’s take a look at how they reveal the eternal rewards of loving Jesus Christ and following Him obediently.
The Crown of Victory. To finish life well, believers need Olympic endurance. Athletes in those ancient games were crowned with a perishable circlet of laurel leaves. But when we pursue our God-given ministry and triumph over sin, we’ll be given an imperishable crown (1 Corinthians 9:25-27).
The Crown of Exultation. Any believers to whom we ministered through the power of Jesus will be “our glory and joy” before the Lord (1 Thess. 2:18-20). Just imagine how you will rejoice in heaven upon seeing and talking with the people you care about, who appreciate your spiritual investment in them.
The Crown of Righteousness. Following Jesus is not easy, but there is great reward for living righteously when facing temptation or hardship. Believers who pursue godliness can look forward to the life to come—and to meeting God with a pure conscience (2 Timothy 4:6-8).
The Crown of Life. Anguish and pain are unavoidable in this life, but we can take heart because much spiritual growth happens in adversity. Hang in there to receive the crown of life that the Lord promised to those who love Him (James 1:12). In heaven, what will we do with the crowns God has given us? We will cast them before Jesus’ feet (Revelation 4:10), laying them down as a tribute to the One who saved us, gifted us, equipped us, and lived in us. Everything good and right comes to us through the Lord, so He deserves our crowns.
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