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		<title>Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 17, 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,   We just got back from the Feast of Tabernacles and had a fantastic crowd at Panama City Beach. I spent the entire time there, and everybody was in high gear. I hope it went as well in &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-17-2025/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 17, 2025">Read More</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-17-2025/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 17, 2025</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>We just got back from the Feast of Tabernacles and had a fantastic crowd at Panama City Beach.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I spent the entire time there, and everybody was in high gear. I hope it went as well in all the sites.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>It’s almost like we haven’t been gone in the news.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The negotiations that were going on as relates to Ukraine, still are. <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5558816-trump-putin-budapest-meeting/">The next meeting is in Hungary, and in the meantime the war goes on.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamas-hands-over-remains-another-deceased-israeli-hostage-idf-says/">Israeli hostages have been released in the war in Gaza.</a></span> Those idiots better have learned their lesson, but probably not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a different mentality over there, and nothing makes sense to you or me. Everybody knows what has transpired so far.</p>
<p>Trump apparently wants to be known as a peace-maker.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I saw him brag about the wars he’s stopped in Africa, and he’s got bigger fish to fry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Who knows what Putin has in mind, or Zelensky for that matter. The war in Ukraine may be the hardest one to solve. There’s another meeting planned, but the principles have that look on their face.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It won’t be easy.</p>
<p>The Arabs have released hostages that should have never been taken in the first place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Things haven’t changed that much, despite thousands of years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Apparently Donald Trump has everybody’s respect in a way that we’ve not seen before.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They better agree before something else happens.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The rabble-rousers must have taken a play from some former playbook, because they’re still saying things that make me remember how they used to talk, and that was the 70’s!</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi may retire! But then again, maybe not. <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/breaking-gay-california-lawmaker-challenge-175310998.html">There is a backbench of hopefuls, one of them related, that may make life difficult for years to come.</a></span> Let’s hope not.</p>
<p>Charges have been filed on Comey and <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/trump-john-bolton-grand-jury-indictment.html">Bolton</a></span>, and they are not insignificant. Page after page of crimes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They thought they’d be in power forever, and so weren’t worried. I guess they never saw Trump coming, but now they’re in trouble. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Vigils were held all over Europe for Charlie Kirk. Who knew they even cared? <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/17/business/charlie-kirks-podcast-jumps-to-top-of-charts-after-assassination/">He was having an impact, and now even more</a></span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That shooter didn’t know what he would unleash. What do you want to bet that he realizes he made a big mistake, and will have to live with it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In prison.</p>
<p>We had a great and inspiring Feast.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We hope you’ll start planning right now for next year’s Feast.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>There used to be a thing about the “best Feast ever,” but whose memory goes back that far?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We’re having some great ones, no doubt about it, and looking to the future. We’re not through yet! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>With God’s help, we may never be.</p>
<p>Mark</p><p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-17-2025/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 17, 2025</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, Flags are flying at half staff. It is unbelievable the flooding in Texas. Having been in some of those canyons, I know the water gathers and comes fast. Some canyons have sirens. The death toll from summer &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-july-11-2025/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; July 11, 2025">Read More</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-july-11-2025/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – July 11, 2025</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>Flags are flying at half staff. It is unbelievable the flooding in Texas. Having been in some of those canyons, I know the water gathers and comes fast. Some canyons have sirens. The death toll from summer camps in the area is staggering. There will be lawsuits, and the camps (some of them of long-standing) are bound to go out of business. Can you imagine being the parents of those little girls?</p>
<p>But then there’s some media buzz about cloud seeding. We were worrying about man’s ability to engineer the weather a long time ago, and there’s some indication that may have happened. They were talking about this twenty years ago. Maybe there’s something to it. If there is, there are going to be lawsuits that can’t be settled.</p>
<p>The media is doing all it can to turn us against the President. If you read the liberal press (and it’s all over the internet) those that voted MAGA are turning on the President. His most fervent supporters are abandoning him. That’s what the media wants us to believe. I’m not moved.</p>
<p>They’re trying to claim that Trump is losing his base. Judging from the websites I read, that may be true. People are writing long comments, concluding that Trump is hiding something, particularly to do with the Jeffery Epstien files. Pam Bondi said they were sitting on her desk, then she said we already have it all. I think it has something to do with the fact that Epstien’s clients were the most powerful men in the world. But who knows?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>There’s talk of Dan Bongino resigning over the Epstein Island debacle. If he goes there’s also the possibility of Kash Patel going. Those were names that gave us confidence in this administration, and it won’t be good if they resign.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The left is beside itself over deportations. They’re hiding illegals when they’re fearful the authorities will deport them. Apparently ICE is going after churches that have advertised for illegals and are hiding them out. The Los Angeles mayor is raising money and advising them. Meanwhile the media is trying to tell us about every mishap, and they’re particularly concerned about agents violating American rights. Somebody needs to tell them that there are consequences for breaking our laws.</p>
<p>I don’t think the war in Ukraine can be won. We can deplete our own supplies trying to help them fight the Russians, and or North Koreans, but they’ve made a bad situation worse. Apparently targets deep inside Russia have been hit by drones. The relationship between Trump and Putin may have gotten a whole lot worse, we’ll see. But it looks like Russia is determined now to take the whole thing, and a bunch of American weapons are involved.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>I’m still optimistic about the Trump administration. I hope the Bongino/Patel thing doesn’t go ballistic. I hope they don’t resign. Surely they wouldn’t without a heart-to-heart with the President.</p>
<p>Don’t get too comfortable. The Bible says when men say &#8220;peace and safety,&#8221; then all manner of disasters start to take hold.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Please pray for the parents of those girls in Texas. They must be going through something nobody can identify with. God help them. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">               </span></p>
<p>Mark</p>
<p>PS. Our Branson Feast site has moved to a new location at the Ledgestone Country Club, a top-rated golf course north of Silver Dollar City. Enjoy!</p><p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-july-11-2025/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – July 11, 2025</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,  Here we are on the eve of the Day of Atonement, and worrying about our situation.  I can’t remember a time when we were in more trouble.  The Middle East?  Nobody knows what will happen, but it &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-11-2024/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 11, 2024">Read More</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-11-2024/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 11, 2024</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Here we are on the eve of <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/how-seasonal-holy-days-reveal-gods-plan/">the Day of Atonement</a></span>, and worrying about our situation.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I can’t remember a time when we were in more trouble.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Middle East?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Nobody knows what will happen, but it looks like<span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/after-heavy-israeli-blows-hezbollah-forges-new-command-crucial-ground-war-2024-10-11/"> Israel is going deep inside Lebanon</a></span>, in essence pushing the terrorists back if they can’t kill them.</p>
<p>The media is all in. They’re non-stop in their constant accusations against the former President.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meanwhile, <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.barrons.com/news/harris-stars-on-vogue-cover-as-candidate-for-our-times-326efacf">Kamala has landed on the cover of Vogue magazine</a></span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Who’d have thought?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The left used to love Elon Musk.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>After all he’s known for battery cars, and operating space rockets.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We thought they were all about saving the planet and making us drive cars we don’t want.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Wrong.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-maga/">Elon’s been seen jumping around at a Trump rally</a></span>, the kiss of death.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He wonders aloud how many years he’ll do in prison if they don’t win.</p>
<p>Top generals are warning that Trump will be a fascist dictator if he wins.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Didn’t we already go through a Trump presidency?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Was he a fascist dictator?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>General Milley is putting out a warning that if re-elected, he will be.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The media is salivating over what kind of dirt insiders can throw, and who knows what’s happened in previous lifetimes?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I listen to his rallies, all of them, and don’t know what they’re talking about.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Wars?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We’ve got two dangerous ones in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Both, as you know, got underway afterward.</p>
<p>I saw an interaction with one of Elon Musk’s robots, and have to admit I was impressed.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The thing carried on a conversation with somebody.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Maybe there’s no stopping it now, especially since the price tag is only around twenty grand.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Everybody will have a robotic slave!</p>
<p>We’re getting ready <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://theicg.org/fot/">to go to the Feast.</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Yes, I know there have been hurricanes spawning countless tornados.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I’d rather chance it in Panama City Beach.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Maybe I shouldn’t have stopped flying to all the sites.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was already miserable, and with Covid there were just too many regulations.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was bad before, and it got worse.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Maybe these people do a good job, but don’t mind handing out abuse to regular Americans.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That’s me.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s all too much.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If they back off their airline authoritarianism maybe I’ll do it again, but don’t count on it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.21stcenturywatch.com/">new WATCH magazine</a></span> has arrived at our office, and we’ll be bringing, or sending copies to each of the Feast sites.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>You’ll get to at least see it at the Feast, and maybe page through it.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We are particularly proud of this edition, and I hope you’ll agree.</p>
<p>I hope I’m wrong, but I think we’re facing a dangerous time in America.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Something tells me neither side is going to accept losing the election.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>What are we looking at?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Another round of the agitators burning cities?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Assassinations?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We have no idea what’s about to happen.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The left is smearing Donald Trump with every headline.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Having listened to almost all of the Trump rallies and some interviews, I’m not afraid.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not of Trump, anyway.</p>
<p>I hope that all of you are getting ready to go to the Feast.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We’re working hard to make sure each and every one of them is memorable for all the right reasons. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Mark</p><p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-11-2024/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 11, 2024</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, Hurricane Helene has racked up a death toll to compare with the deadliest hurricanes of all time. Some of our people were caught up, stranded in the devastation it caused. It will be some time before they come &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-4-2024/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 4, 2024">Read More</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-4-2024/">Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 4, 2024</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org">Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>Hurricane Helene has racked up a death toll to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/04/list-of-deadliest-hurricanes-to-hit-mainland-us-includes-helene/75515723007/">compare with the deadliest hurricanes of all time</a>. Some of our people were caught up, stranded in the devastation it caused. It will be some time before they come out with all the statistics,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/hurricane-helene-death-toll-damage-missing-people">but it was, and is awful.</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>It rates alongside the worst of all time.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>It particularly tore up Asheville, North Carolina.</p>
<p>Now we hear that Disaster Relief funds have been depleted by funding the illegal immigrants. This is going to get weird, and right before possibly the most important election we’ll ever have.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Israel seems to be disregarding all the outrage and breast-beating by the international community.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/world/middleeast/cabinet-ground-op.html">They’re going into Lebanon on foot.</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>How deep, nobody knows.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>First the pagers went off, and now Israel is targeting the leadership.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Nasrallah has been killed along with several other leaders of Hezbollah.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>It looks like Israel is determined that this never happens again, and is willing to disregard all the discussion about “proportionality.”</p>
<p>Since when did war become about proportionality? It looks like Israel is going to take the opportunity to make sure something like Oct 7<sup>th</sup><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>doesn’t happen again for a long time.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>There are still hostages.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>No telling what is happening to them or if they’re still alive.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>But this terrorist stuff has got to stop, regardless.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Iran has fired nearly 200 missiles at Israel.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Most of them, intercepted and shot down.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>One guy got a shrapnel wound.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Still, they have the satisfaction of firing them and dreaming of the damage they might cause.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>They’re mad all over the Arab world, making life very uncomfortable for the leaders who’ve tried to moderate.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>This time it looks like they’ve kicked over a hornet’s nest.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It may never be over.</p>
<p><a href="https://theicg.org/about/holy-days/">This is the Fall Holy Day season.</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We had a wonderful Feast of Trumpets yesterday and are planning for the Day of Atonement on the Sabbath next week.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Michael, Melody and family are planning to drive to Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky. I’m going to be in PCB. My Mom used to tug my sleeve when I’d start talking out loud in airports. Needless to say, I’m not flying to all the sites this year.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>I imagine we’re all tired of what’s going on. Notice that gas prices are falling?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t get used to it if the current regime remains in charge.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kamala has to bus her crowd to give a speech and make it look like she’s got support. You have to camp to get into a Trump rally. But the mainstream is not done. They’re trying to link him to something that will make us turn away. It turns out he attended some P. Diddy (or whatever he’s calling himself) party. But it was a long time ago, and he had Melania with him. They’ll try to make something of it, even if there’s nothing.</p>
<p><a href="https://theicg.org/fot/">It’s hard to believe that</a><a href="https://theicg.org/fot/"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>i</a><a href="https://theicg.org/fot/">t’s Feast time again</a>. The Feast runs from October 17<sup>th</sup><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>through October 24 which is the Last Great Day.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> T</span>he way things are going, the prophetic fulfillment may not be as far off as we think.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Say a prayer for those who suffered the wrath of the hurricane. And that no more are coming.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span></p>
<p>Mark</p>
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		<title>Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; September 27, 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, Hurricane Helene tore up everything in its path, and some lost everything. Our hearts go out to Rick Ford who apparently got his place plowed and is staying elsewhere. Panama City Beach is apparently OK with some &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-september-27-2024/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; September 27, 2024">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>Hurricane Helene <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-helene-ravages-southeast-killing-least-22-leaving-millions-p-rcna173015">tore up everything in its path</a>,</span> and some lost everything. Our hearts go out to Rick Ford who apparently got his place plowed and is staying elsewhere. Panama City Beach is apparently OK with some flooding in the low areas. But back toward the East they haven’t faired so well. The internet says there are cities pretty much underwater, at least a couple of feet in the streets. There are reportedly millions without power, multiple tornadoes and a death count of 47.<span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/helene-to-trigger-inland-flooding-widespread-power-outages-in-southeastern-us/1695856"> It’s a catastrophe.</a></span></p>
<p>All the major pollsters have the presidential race a toss-up within the margin of error. But Kamala Harris is the leader in most of the major polls. I don’t know how that could be, but you figure it out. You don’t need me to tell you that the world is a mess, and there are further threats that haven’t been realized yet. Don’t we have enough trouble already?</p>
<p>It looks like Israel is ignoring all the breast-beating and <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-continue-ceasefire-discussions-lebanon-netanyahu-says-2024-09-27/">hitting deep within Lebanon.</a></span> They’re apparently going to make sure that another October 7 never happens again, at least for the foreseeable future. Some of the more moderate regimes in the Arab world have their hands tied, and have to make hostile statements and threats toward Israel whether they want to or not. That’s because there are elements within their domain that demand it. This Middle East trouble may get out of hand. Maybe it already has.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to say about Ukraine. It looks like Zelensky would involve everybody in a world war. This is another one that could get out of control. Trump says he’ll get that war settled before he enters the White House if elected. How? We don’t know. <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/09/27/Trump-Zelensky-meeting/5851727437669/">Trump apparently met with Zelensky at Trump Tower today</a></span>, maybe we’ll hear more about it.</p>
<p>This is a time when we need to be praying for those in the path of Hurricane Helene, and for our country.</p>
<p>We’ve just wrapped up another issue of TCW magazine, and I’d be lying if I told you we’re not proud of it. It’s off to the printer, and should be waiting in your mailbox after the <a href="https://theicg.org/fot/"><span style="color: #008000;">Feast.</span></a> I plan to take some printer copies of it to show off at Panama City Beach.</p>
<p>The Feast of Trumpets is October 3, the Day of Atonement October 12 (Sabbath), and the Feast of Tabernacles begins on October 17 and runs through the last Great Day October 24. My son and his family are planning to be at the Feast site at Land Between the Lakes. They’re going to see this, so I’ll keep it brief. They both worked hard on this latest issue of Watch magazine, and are of tremendous help all the time.</p>
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		<title>Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; September 22, 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, The scenes from the border are unbelievable.  Here they come.  It was bad before, but now it’s even worse.  It’s not like a one time arrival of some group, it’s thousands of people waiting to be signed &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-september-22-2023/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; September 22, 2023">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>The scenes from the border are unbelievable.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2023/09/22/more-troops-headed-to-mexico-border-as-migrants-surge/">Here they come.</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was bad before, but now it’s even worse.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s not like a one time arrival of some group, it’s thousands of people waiting to be signed up for a court date two years out.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Who can stand to watch?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>When, in world history, has any nation agreed to such a thing?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Reports come only once or twice a day, but this travesty goes on around the clock.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The pretender says it’s Trump’s fault.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Texas Governor <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/abbott-sends-texas-national-guard-assist-border">Abbot has declared an invasion</a></span>, for all the good it will do.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Even talking about the situation at the border is terribly depressing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/zelensky-pleads-for-continued-foreign-assistance-in-un-general-assembly-address/ar-AA1gXL8m">Zelensky appeared at the United Nations</a></span> this week.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why, you ask?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>To lecture us about global warming?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He’s fixing to start WWIII at our expense and he thinks we’re going to listen to him blather on about global warming?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Something about this whole Ukraine war thing doesn’t make sense.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why are we contributing many times what the Europeans are?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And they want planes.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Everything we’ve got, military wise, Zelensky needs.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Does somebody think Ukraine is going to defeat Russia? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>He may have queered the whole deal.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It seems he’s irritated his benefactors in Poland, which had contributed money and arms.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Now <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukraine-plans-sue-poland-hungary-slovakia-over-food-import-ban-2023-09-18/">Zelensky is suing them</a></span> over a grain deal?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That might be a mistake. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>We knew when we saw the first example of a flash mob that there was going to be trouble.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Now they’re <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12514831/Wild-rise-flash-rob-mobs-making-hundreds-thousands-dollars-designer-goods-60-seconds-Crimewave-cost-California-19BILLION-year-state-sets-task-force-tackle-brazen-thieves.html">flash-mobbing department stores</a></span>, high end stores, and stealing everything whether it’s locked down or not.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In some places stores are having to leave their expensive real estate and close.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s a trend.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The downtown districts of America are becoming dangerous, if they weren’t already. Big name merchandisers can’t make a go of it if their luxury items are walking out the door.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The thieves always get away.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Social justice, you know.</p>
<p>I don’t know how, but everyone seems to think the pretender is going to run for a second term.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They better cheat even better than last time.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They better hope they don’t win.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They’ve already put the U. S. in a downward spiral, economically and internationally.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>With the <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/us-national-debt-hits-33-trillion-mark-for-first-time-ever/">national debt now at something like 32 trillion</a></span>, and spending money that doesn’t exist on global warming and the war in Ukraine, it makes you wonder what’s next?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s like those in power are in a race to destroy everything.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Constitution can just take a back seat, they’ve got problems to solve.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>At our expense.</p>
<p>We’re going to leave to go to the Feast of Tabernacles next week.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The day of Atonement, an annual High Day, begins at sundown Sunday night and we will be conducting a service on Monday.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We have <span style="color: #008000;"><a style="color: #008000;" href="https://theicg.org/fot/">Feast of Tabernacles sites</a></span> in several wonderful locations and we are looking forward to the celebration of the time when we won’t have to worry about thievery and destruction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We won’t have to worry that we’re being spent into oblivion.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a wonderful break when God’s people get together, away from the nonsense.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But some of us will still be paying attention.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Have a great Feast!<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></p>
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		<title>Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 21, 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, Sad news this week, Wilma Gilbert has died.  We owe a tremendous amount to Wilma.  She was a fixture here at the office from our inception until 2012.  She took it upon herself to learn all the &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-october-21-2022/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; October 21, 2022">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Greetings from Tyler,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Sad news this week, Wilma Gilbert has died.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We owe a tremendous amount to Wilma.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She was a fixture here at the office from our inception until 2012.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She took it upon herself to learn all the stipulations to do with bulk mail, and looked after our mailings you might say religiously.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She became like a grandmother to my Daughter-in-law Melody, and our family went to visit her in Kentucky and have lunch together after she’d moved.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We’d seen her a couple of times when she came here to visit members of her family, and we all went out to eat.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Apparently my Dad irritated her with his messages on radio and TV, so much so that she set out to prove him wrong.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>In doing so, she became a member for life.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She died peacefully Wednesday night, and we will forever be in her debt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Maybe you’ve heard, the UK is in an economic crisis.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Liz Truss barely lasted long enough for us to know her name.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>The head of lettuce with the wig outlasted her.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>But what’s next?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Apparently she’d made promises that the old guard thought out of place. Cut taxes on the wealthy?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why, it’s not the English way!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Our <i>Twenty-First Century WATCH</i> magazine with a rare photo at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation on the cover has taken longer than ever at the printer.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Apparently they’re suffering similar maladies imposed on businesses everywhere.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Covid mandates, supply-chain troubles, who knows?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We expected copies to be available for the Feast of Tabernacles, but it wasn’t to be. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> It was promised that a descendant of King David would rule over the throne of Israel in perpetuity, and that Divine promise has been kept.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Queen Elizabeth was an incredible example to us all including the nations that claimed her as their sovereign, Canada, Australia, New Zealand…<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>A coronation of the UK’s King Charles is coming, and will be a spectacle to behold.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Surely he’ll be less outspoken (and full of it), having learned from his mother’s Royal manners.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>The loss of Queen Elizabeth may haunt us more than we expect. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Two and a half years later, the CDC is still putting out mandates.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>They call them recommendations.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>They’ve decided that Covid shots should be part of the regular regimen for vaccines and should be required for attendance at school.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Several states have “opted out,” paving the way for court cases as far as the eye can see. Now an education has become a political hot potato.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some states are not too happy about the “requirements,” defying the new “rules” almost immediately. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Why are so many suffering heart trouble, heart attacks and strokes within weeks of being vaccinated? It seems like that might be a question they’d want answered before forging ahead with enforcement and penalties. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Is it just me, or is starting to seem like the government has turned on the very people they’re sworn to represent?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We’re entering the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>months when they realize they have but a short time to implement as many infuriating policies as possible.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s no longer politics when a party turns against God and everything His believers stand for.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>What in life is not treated as “politics”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>by media and some three letter agency?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It seems that the freedom God gave us is under siege for every woke reason imaginable.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Will lost freedom in the United States be the great accomplishment of this generation? <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> We suffer mindless nonsense from those who purport to be leaders, and agree with almost nothing they say.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>A little kindergarten talk with broad, meaningless gestures should do the trick.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s not working!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>They’re about to find out how big a hurry they’re in. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Halloween is upcoming, and I (unfortunately) live in a neighborhood that goes all out for decorations.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Inflatables sprawl deflated in yards during the day, but at night they blow up and light up.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>One lady has a life size critter doing something rotten in front of her house.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>You can’t even look.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>What’s she going to do with that thing when the holiday is over?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>I wouldn’t want it in my attic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> The Feast was a huge success at our various locations, and we thank God for the opportunity to enjoy something He commanded as a commemoration of Israel’s forty years in the wilderness.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s a reminder that we’re not permanent, yet, merely “tabernacles” (temporary dwellings) on this earth with the hope of Eternal Life in God’s Kingdom.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mark</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, We’re all seeing the catastrophic devastation along the path of Hurricane Ian.  You can only imagine the emotional impact of seeing your home leveled and everything destroyed.  But people have not even been able to return to &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-september-30-2022/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; September 30, 2022">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>We’re all seeing the catastrophic devastation along the path of Hurricane Ian.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>You can only imagine the emotional impact of seeing your home leveled and everything destroyed.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>But people have not even been able to return to pick through whatever remains.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>The clean-up will take years. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>The storm raged for some nine hours wreaking the devastation we’ve all seen.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>The wind was blowing 155 miles an hour, and it went on for hours.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Causeways are breached, roads are impassable, and it may be some time before we know the death toll and the extent of damage.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>An early estimate is $20 billion.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Meanwhile there is no electricity, no gas, no water.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>This storm is still churning its way north.</p>
<p>So who bombed the Nordstream pipeline?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>There’s all kinds of conjecture, and we don’t know who did it.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Unfortunately there’s video of the pretender saying he’d “end” the Nordstream pipeline.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>When a shocked female reporter asked, “How are you going to do that?” He stammered and said, “I promise you we’ll end it.”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We’re all wishing he hadn’t said that.</p>
<p>Predictions are all over the map as to what happens with energy in Europe this winter.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Some have dire warnings, others think Europe will figure something out.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia’s not the only one with oil and gas to sell.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Logistics will have to be overcome.</p>
<p>Italy appears to have elected Giorgia Meloni as its first female Prime Minister.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Europe doesn’t know whether to panic or what to do.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She’s being painted as “far right,” and comparisons are being made with Mussolini (CNN, you might have guessed.)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>At a time when the EU has bought in to every new wave doctrine, she’s talking about God and family and normal people.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not about pronouns or saving the planet.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She’s not on board with the immigration from the Middle East and is encouraging Italians to have babies.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She’s a “euro-skeptic,” not campaigning to pull out of the EU, but unabashed in her criticisms.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She sounds way too much like somebody we know to be accepted by the media or the smug politicians who run the EU.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>This makes things all the more interesting.</p>
<p>You might have guessed, <i>YouTube</i> removed one of her speeches due to her stated positions on several sensitive issues.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>How dare she address the downside of popular policies, outraging the conventional wisdom!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>These social media companies can call whatever they want “disinformation.”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Dare dispute one of their sworn beliefs with insults and they’ll be swift to punish.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Apparently it didn’t work.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She won Italy with 44% of the electorate. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>She’s anti-LGBTwhatever and the mainstream is pretty sure she’ll go rogue.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>She’ll be a fascist and end up disappointing all her supporters.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>You don’t suppose a backlash is beginning to build in Europe?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Nothing would disgust the mainstream media more.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>After all, they’ve been choking us with nonsense for years, and they thought they had Europe in the bag.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Maybe not.</p>
<p>With the storm moving north and expected to make landfall again, we’re worried about our Feast site in Myrtle Beach.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s a location that has suffered storms and floods in the past, and we can only hope and pray that the Feast<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>of Tabernacles will go as planned.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Panama City seems to have escaped the brunt of it.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>We hope everyone has made plans and preparations, and we’re all looking forward to a time of joy in spite of all the calamity around us.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span></p>
<p>Mark</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler, We’ve just returned from a wonderful and uplifting Feast of Tabernacles.  Some came down with the virus at our Panama City Beach location. Many have sought out treatments early, not waiting to be hospitalized and added to &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-1-october-2021/" aria-label="Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong &#8211; 1 October 2021">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p><a href="https://theicg.org/fot/">We’ve just returned from a wonderful and uplifting Feast of Tabernacles.</a>  <a href="https://www.mypanhandle.com/tracking-covid-19-by-the-numbers/">Some came down with the virus at our Panama City Beach location</a>. Many have sought out treatments early, not waiting to be hospitalized and added to the statistics the media doles out with such drama.  Now we know dozens who have suffered only the mildest of ailments before returning to normality, and for that we’re very grateful.  Others have been less fortunate.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/why-do-some-people-avoid-news-because-they-dont-trust-us-or-because-they-dont-think-we-add-value-to-their-lives/">It came to my attention during the Feast of Tabernacles that some church of God groups never go near world events</a>.  That would be involvement in “this world’s politics.”  But reading some of the scriptures my Dad did very successfully in public, <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2013/09/nowhere-hide-governments-massive-intrusion-our-lives/">“this world’s politics” has delved into areas of personal decision where it has no business</a>.  <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/my-silent-truth/social-media-intrusion-of-private-space-2601/">Every big brand name, perhaps due to cooperation with powers they need to oblige, is on board with whatever the agencies put out</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/8/16/22623742/our-freedom-amid-covid-19-is-absolute-until-it-conflicts-with-the-freedom-of-others">We never expected that it would be the CDC that would curtail freedoms</a>.  If the entities that the masses employ refused involvement it wouldn’t be much of an issue.  <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/here-are-companies-mandating-vaccines-all-or-some-employees-n1275808">Unfortunately ALL the big names are on board with guidelines issued from on high, and good luck trying to bypass the red tape</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://abc7chicago.com/california-vaccine-mandate-newsom-k-12-covid-require-for-kids-in-school/11071968/">Some places are worse than the United States, even places like California</a> and <a href="https://abc7ny.com/covid-19-ny-coronavirus-restrictions-new-york-in/7917108/">New York</a>.  The authorities don’t take kindly to backtalk.  The <a href="https://www.collective-evolution.com/2021/06/08/the-unseen-damages-fact-checking-has-on-public-discourse/">social media giants are banning all discussion that disputes the universal propaganda</a>.  By all means, make your own decisions.  <a href="https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/letter-to-the-editor-dont-let-the-media-make-your-decisions-for-you/">But don’t let the media, the corporations or the unaccountable agencies bully you into anything.</a>  There’s discussion of the whole mess in the monthly letter, arriving shortly.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/12575/20210714/new-evidence-reveals-massive-errors-and-provable-fraud-occurred-in-georgia-during-november-2020-elections.htm">Many of us are not confident that the election was on the up and up</a>.  The media would lose its collective mind if they were forced to admit the truth.  <a href="https://theconversation.com/us-is-split-between-the-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-and-deaths-and-hospitalizations-reflect-this-divide-164460">They want us divided, apparently</a>.  They pretend that those who got vaccinated are furious at those who didn’t.  <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2021/07/27/don-lemon-unvaccinated-people-should-be-shunned-from-society-n2593158">They want shame and punishment administered to anybody still arguing</a>.  The media is through trying to convince us of anything.  <a href="https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/businesses-safe-to-deny-the-unvaccinated-lawyers-20210929-p58vr9">They think the time has come for firings and refusal of service to those putting up any resistance.</a></p>
<p>In Australia they’re breaking heads, gently of course.  <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-australian-riot-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-anti-lockdown-protesters-in-melbourne-12414439">Firing upon crowds with rubber bullets has become acceptable in Sydney and Melbourne</a>.  <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/australians-are-suffering-from-excessive-covid-lockdowns/#slide-1">The lock-downs are in force</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/asia/australia-covid-worst-day-intl-hnk/index.html">and the division is in the streets</a>.  Doubtful the mainstream news will show any of this, but it’s happening.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/marco-rubio-dems-spending-bill-nutcases-left-wing-socialist-economy">Socialism is being foisted upon a naïve population here in the United States</a>.  <a href="https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2021/06/02/its-time-to-stop-paying-americans-to-stay-home/">The government is paying people to stay home</a>.  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/15/966376492/millions-are-out-of-a-job-yet-some-employers-wonder-why-cant-i-find-workers">So much so that help wanted signs are everywhere you go</a>.  <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/17/fast-food-labor-shortage/">Even fast food has become slow, with signs about the labor shortage</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYrmZHP-EY">Meanwhile the scenes at our southern border are too disgusting to view.</a>  <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/23/thousands-of-haitian-migrants-vanish-via-white-houses-math/">They sent out a spokesman to lead us to believe that the latest influx was returned to Haiti</a>.  But he wasn’t telling the whole truth.  <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/haitian-migrants-being-released-into-u-s-on-a-very-very-large-scale-despite-administrations-assurances/">Many have been transported to American cities and towns, as if we didn’t have enough trouble</a>.  <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rubio-migrants-border-trump/2021/09/30/id/1038541/">There are reports of some eighty thousand, from South America and all over the world, walking toward the southern border</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/jimmy-carter-why-he-failed/">Not since Jimmy Carter has America been so humiliated on the world scene</a>.  For some reason <a href="https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/joe-biden-just-gave-the-taliban-an-arsenal-of-military-weapons/">we just gave all of Afghanistan to the terrorists.</a>  <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/its-a-mistake-to-think-some-jihadis-are-only-focused-on-the-local/ar-AAOKeWq">So we can expect for that ugly sect to bomb and destroy targets in the Western world.</a>  We’d hate to know what’s actually transpiring in Afghanistan in the absence of any civilized authority.  We couldn’t sleep if we knew.</p>
<p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-trash-biden-pentagon-officials-140714324.html">Four American generals have gone on the record, under oath, and thrown the pretender under the bus</a>. <a href="https://goadnews.com/joe-biden-accused-of-having-concealed-the-recommendations-of-several-generals/"> All said they recommended leaving 2500 troops to manage the withdrawal, which the world now knows turned into deadly chaos</a>.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXnL6zrn4U">The pretender still has that confused look on his face</a>.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whfp0zjq02M">He said he never heard anything like that</a>.  This doesn’t happen.  The Pentagon doesn’t dispute the President, unless of course he’s Donald Trump.  But now it’s their fall guy.  It’s all his fault, they’ll claim.  <a href="https://rightnewswire.com/joe-biden-is-losing-on-every-front-and-even-his-own-party-is-against-him/">His reputation isn’t exactly squeaky clean, and now it seems that he’ll be blamed for every debacle in progress</a>.  It suits his handlers fine.  The guilt won’t live forever.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.forestparkreview.com/2019/12/04/its-not-racist-to-be-against-illegal-aliens/">It looks as though the governing forces are going for broke against our best interests, scolding us all the while</a>.  It’s unclear they could have done more damage if they were trying, and some of us think they were.  American citizens are being punished, chased around and cursed while <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/08/02/a-lot-of-sneezing-and-coughing-among-illegal-immigrants-pouring-across-border-n2593463">our borders are wide open and the third world is pouring in</a>.  <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/whats-wrong-illegal-immigration">The people being placed within our midst are, in many cases, totally unfamiliar with our polite society.</a>  Some are antagonistic toward us as a people, and resent our prosperity.  Others are just as mad as we are about the deadly mistakes made in our name.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/the-great-tribulation-is-it-about-to-happen/">You never know if things are going straight downhill</a>, or <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/europe-and-america-in-prophecy/">if there will be another revival of the American spirit.</a>  <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/who-what-is-the-beast-of-revelation/">Will all the Western nations give up freedom and wait for instructions?</a>  Not all of us!  God gave us FREEDOM, and chances are we won’t relinquish it willingly.</p>
<p>Mark</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Greetings from Tyler,</p>
<p>Did it strike you as amusing, the way coronavirus edicts were announced in the midst of an unmitigated disaster in Kabul?  Let us get up in the air about some draconian, ruinous domestic orders, shall we?  Let&#8217;s have lawsuits flying, people outraged that those on high have determined that the orders should be enforced along the lines of the Mark of the Beast.  Did the conniving class read the Bible in order to render the ultimate punishment for not following orders?</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to look hard.  Already people are having to “show their papers” proving they&#8217;ve followed orders, otherwise… sorry.  The smart little physician, without whom this illness might never have existed, advises that people shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to fly, save they have the proof.  There&#8217;s no shortage of famous types urging everybody to do as they&#8217;re told or prepare to be denied things you need.</p>
<p>Social media will eradicate your memory if one publicly espouses some belief other than that which has been approved by the pertinent parties.  They, and their fact-checkers alone determine the truth of any given subject.  Maybe they&#8217;ll have to alter their perception after more indisputable facts go viral, but for now your musings are banned.</p>
<p>The idea that the public has been muzzled, and agrees to “terms and conditions” is troubling.  We know that these incalculably wealthy platforms are allowed to thrive by… do I have to say it?  They are shielded from legal responsibility for their actions, Congress has decreed it.  Your Constitutional rights have not been abridged by a sovereign power, but by a private company made immune by “law.”</p>
<p>In the 60&#8217;s it was all about rebellion.  Neither the dropped-out college kids nor those who stayed in school were about to follow the dictates of “the man.”  They weren&#8217;t about to obey societal norms and they sure weren&#8217;t going to follow any dictatorial orders.  Can you even imagine if the COVID panic had happened during the rebellion of the 60&#8217;s?  So those rebels, by and large, are now running the agencies and the whole show.  They&#8217;ve become “the man.”</p>
<p>They&#8217;re insisting that we all fall into line and follow their dictates.  How bizarre is that?  They were willing to draw the line, and not put up with the kindergarten talking points on the news.  No they&#8217;d protest, maybe riot.  But somebody try that now?  They&#8217;ll come down with the full might of the alphabet agencies and when possible, law enforcement.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve got a frontman reading from a script he didn&#8217;t write, trying to understand what he&#8217;s saying.  No questions, please.  The speaker of the house is admitting that the Chinese are committing heinous crimes if not genocide against the Uigers, but says climate change is more important.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve made up evidence of climate change.  Claims are made over news networks that turn out to be totally bogus.  Who can forget the nonsense coming out of East Anglia University, or the manic attempt to cover it up?</p>
<p>But they&#8217;ve decided FEAR is the way to get people to do whatever they want, and so far it&#8217;s working!  They&#8217;ve chased us around for decades about climate change.  They point to weather incidents to bolster (<span style="color: #008000;"><em>prove</em></span>) their claims, but then insist it&#8217;s not about weather.  Not that this is proof one way or the other, but we&#8217;ve had one of the mildest summers anybody can remember in Texas.  Ok, it&#8217;s not about weather, but we&#8217;re not in a panicky mood.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s as if the powers in charge are out to extinguish any hint of patriotism.  We&#8217;re ashamed of some things that were done historically, but now we have to be ashamed of what our leaders have done in Afghanistan.  You could hardly have written a worse screenplay.  The excuses are lame and unbelievable.  It&#8217;s as if they set out to give the U. S. a black eye while enriching the Taliban beyond their wildest dreams.  We&#8217;ve got an idea who wanted it to turn out this way.  Read the next <i>20<sup>th</sup> Century WATCH </i>for details.</p>
<p>Our border looks like the third world, and is populated now by vast numbers of people from the southern regions.  Lately they&#8217;re flooding in from Haiti.  If you want to see a disastrous land, cursed by generations of corruption and widespread poverty, look no further.  Here they come from El Salvador,</p>
<p>Guatemala and Nicaragua, with some from Africa and the Middle East.  How long before we have <i>their </i>problems?</p>
<p>Most of those who keep <a href="https://theicg.org/about/holy-days/">God&#8217;s Holy Days</a> have already set out for the <a href="https://theicg.org/fot/">Feast of Tabernacles</a>.  It is intended to be a time of joy and a celebration of the time when the <a href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/what-is-the-kingdom-of-god/">Kingdom of God</a> is to be established.  We can have joy looking forward, because things are going bad at breakneck speed with the crew running the show, whoever it is.</p>
<p>Mark</p>
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<p>Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php</p>
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