{"id":3555,"date":"2010-05-10T21:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:03:42","slug":"observations-and-conclusions-from-two-bold-christians-on-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/observations-and-conclusions-from-two-bold-christians-on-the-front-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Observations and conclusions from two bold Christians on the front line."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some observations and conclusions from two bold Christians on the front line.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Daubenmire ran for Congress in Ohio always loudly proclaiming the cross of Christ during his campaign. Here are the results of the vote for him and his observations and conclusions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">I  lost          my race for Congress last night. It played out pretty much the  way I envisioned          it would. I had warned the Tea Party movement that they <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240926071100\/https:\/\/newswithviews.com\/Daubenmire\/dave190.htm\" target=\"_blank\">better          pick a horse<\/a> in the primary or they would wind up with a  choice between          two Bob Dole clones in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">That          is exactly what they got. Here are the results. The virtual tie  between          the top two \u201cconservative\u201d Republicans will require a recount,          but it won\u2019t matter. There isn\u2019t a nickel\u2019s difference          between them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Candidate          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0%          of Votes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Number Of Votes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Gibbs,          Bob (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a020.97%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010,953<br \/>\nDailey, Fred (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a020.66%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010,789<br \/>\nMoll, Jeannette (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a019.00%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09,922<br \/>\nHood, Ron (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a015.59%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08,140<br \/>\nDaubenmire, Dave (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a011.91% \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06,221 *<br \/>\nLiggett, Hombre (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.69%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04,017<br \/>\nRoyer, Michael (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.48%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01,295<br \/>\nBromberg, Beau (R) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.69%          \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0884<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">let  me share a few important lessons that I learned.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> It is very difficult to defeat the Political machine. They are  ruthless,          dishonest, and well funded. They choose the candidate, fund the  candidate,          and oppose anyone who challenges the status quo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> Most folks are all bark and no bite. Very few in my circle of  friends          lifted a hand to help; they didn\u2019t take a yard sign, write a  check,          or offer any assistance; Most didn\u2019t even encourage their  friends          to vote for me: not as much as an email to their list in support  of my          run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> I had lots of help but most of it came from \u201coutsiders.\u201d My          campaign manager Mark Mattingly, contacted me on line and volunteered to help. He  put in          an incredible month of work. He never asked for a dime, in fact,  he sacrificed          his own money. Helpers came out of the woodwork, most donations  came from          strangers on-line and from radio appearances on The          Power Hour and Call          to Decision, as well as those who responded from News With  Views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> The day after the election many of my friends are contacting me  and saying          <em>\u201cHey, you could have won. I never dreamed you could get that           much support.\u201d<\/em> No wonder we lose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> Less than 20% of the registered voters turned out to vote. Only  51,421          votes were cast. If only 4733 Evangelicals had turned out and  voted for          me I would have won. Do you suppose there were 4733 Christians  among the          205,684 who didn\u2019t go to the polls?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">I should          have won this race in a romp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> Despite what you hear in the news people are still not hurting  enough.          Government assistance in the form of unemployment checks has  softened          the pain. Things are not going to get better. Their pain  threshold is          about to be tested. Only then will they fall on their face and  beg for          mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> I led with the cross. Every piece of campaign literature, every  sign we          stuck in the ground, every email we sent had a picture of my  Cross hat          on it. We made it very clear that this was an opportunity to  vote for          the Cross. Never in my lifetime has such a bold Christian  witness been          given to the electorate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong> But the church missed the signal. They didn\u2019t turn out. The  cowardly          pastors did not encourage them to. They chose \u201cLukewarm\u201d  politicians          over a \u201chot\u201d, on-fire-for-Jesus Christian. I promised to carry          the cross over from the church to the Congress. Most stayed home  and watched          American Idol. They are without excuse, dumbed down by  government schools,          brain-dead TV, and milquetoast pastors. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is Dave&#8217;s conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">The          battle is clearer to me than it has ever been. It took a run for  congress          and a humble man of God to remind me where the real battle is  raging.          The battle for Truth is in our churches. Only bold Christian men  can save          this nation. I will continue to point that out no matter how  many lame          excuses I hear from the blind guides, and those who enable them,  and their          complicity in the culture-suicide the salt-less-Gospel is  permitting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong><a title=\"I led with the cross\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240926071039\/https:\/\/newswithviews.com\/Daubenmire\/dave193.htm\">Full article<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Like I said before, people running on a Christian platform cannot get elected to Dog Catcher in most parts of our nation. Even most &#8220;Christians&#8221; will not come out and vote for true Christians. Secular Humanists and Marxists have taken over this nation because the gospel is not being preached in our churches and most calling themselves Christians see the fat lady singing but do not understand that it is the end of the American Idol program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">If only bold Christian men can save this nation like Dave believes then there is little hope for America. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are some bold Christian men like Dave Daubenmire, Jim Schwiesow and Franklin Graham that have not bowed their knee to the political correctness or media Baal, but for every Christian leader like them we have a hundred <\/span>milquetoast  pastors<span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"> that just tell the Laodiceans what they want to to hear. Meanwhile, the enemy keeps advancing from the undefended rear while spiritually blind citizens in Laodicea stay entertained by idols dropped through the air by their enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong>The other of the two bold Christians on the front line is Sheriff Jim Schwiesow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">He believes our now pagan nation is under judgment with the flood in Tennessee and the oil disaster in the gulf just being the latest. I know one thing, it is not looking good for the gulf. We could have a huge catastrophic event forming in the gulf of Mexico that could be a heavy blow to this nation for years. In any case, Schwiesow thinks it is too late and he gives our nation 3 to 5 years. He may be correct. Here are a few of Schwiesow&#8217;s observations and conclusions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Even           in the face of such divine condemnation the people do not flee  from their          egregious lawlessness and sin, they shun correction and sink  even deeper          into gross and disgusting degeneracy, and they seemingly take  pride in          the nastiness of their perversions. Indeed so proud are they  that their          putrescence is packaged and exported via films, music, and the  written          word to the entirety of the world. We are most certainly a shame  deficient          people. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">I am          continually astounded at the ignorance and superficiality of the  national          media. This nation faces phenomenally calamitous events of  Biblical proportions          almost daily, and such are treated with benign indifference or  outright          neglect. Reporters are not reporters they are in fact biased  proponents          of socialist ideology and politically correct causes. They will  closet          consequential issues and spend hours on such twaddle as illicit  celebrity          affairs, who cares social events, reality show outcomes, poorly  documented          and unsubstantiated medical and pharmaceutical propaganda, the  opines          of the secular psychological causes of inimical human behavior  by Opra          Winfrey and Dr. Phil, and which fat singer won the prize on  American idol. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Just          now the media geeks are on a tear to convince the great unwashed  that          the country is on the road to a recovery from the great  Bush\/Obama recession          and that things are going to be just hunky dory if we will only  persist          with the policies of the Federal Reserve and the government\u2019s  bureaucratic          idiots that got us into this mess in the first place. This  nation is poised          for economic disaster and no amount of tinkering by a socialist  government,          the corrupt Federal Reserve, or the fat cat Wall Street Bankers  is going          to stay indefinitely the monumental crash that is on the  horizon. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Many          of us go on our way believing that bad things only happen to  other people,          and that the god of fate has predestined our continued well  being. We          have only to observe the plight of the flood victims in  Tennessee who\u2019s          homes in flood free zones have been submerged in water to the  roof line          to understand the fallacy of such thinking. We would do well to  condition          ourselves to the fact that no one is immune to the divine  chastisement          that is being poured out upon this nation. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">This           government \u2013 all of it from the executive on down &#8211; is on a  mission          to obliterate the name of the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ  from American          culture. With an activist judiciary as their enforcer government  bureaucrats          regularly attempt to efface the name of Christ from every  institutional          entity both public and private. The movement is so pronounced  that there          have been serious attempts to prohibit the meeting of families  in private          homes for Christian worship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">This          tells me that the transformation of the United States from a  Constitutional          Republic to godless totalitarian communism is nearly complete.  No secular          ideology other than Marxist communism mandates the absolute  elimination          of Christian belief and Christian worship. The communist dogma  is of Satan          and not Karl Marx; Marx was simply demonically led to fulfill  the dictates          of his father the devil who hates the Son of God.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">At the          risk of offending the true believers who sit among the nominal  Christians          in the denominational churches I submit that a predominant  number of these          churches today abet the heathen in the suppression of the  teachings of          Christ. When the preachers of these congregations avoid the hard  lessons          of scripture and displace, avoid, or eliminate the Gospel and  replace          it with humanism and the secular doctrines of social justice  they fall          to the desires of the powers and principalities in high places. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">This           is now a nation of divided interests. It consists of a  collection of conflicting          cultures and hoards of wandering nomads with no allegiance or  commonality          of purpose. This has been deliberately engineered by a  collection of half-baked          socialists, greedy and venal politicians looking to maintain  political          power by the votes of dependent itinerants, and by the cold and  calculating          satanic agents who would sacrifice the lives of millions to  achieve a          world-wide demonic domain. I give          the country three years at the least and five years at the most.  We are          done; the floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and the massive oil  infusion          of the gulf waters are not happenstance. Everything that is upon  us is          directly attributable to the moral rottenness of the people. An  economic          collapse is around the bend and will be followed by famine,  racial warfare,          nuclear destruction and the captivity of the people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">This          is what happens when a people abandon faith in the true God,  pursue heathen          religions, and lust after the things of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><a title=\"The fate of a pagan nation\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250122172934\/https:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Schwiesow\/jim166.htm\">Full article<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Schwiesow&#8217;s views are always a bit radical and usually too conspiratorial for me, but I have to admit that he made some good points in that article. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"> My own observations and conclusions are that the fat lady has already sung on American idol.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some observations and conclusions from two bold Christians on the front line. Dave Daubenmire ran for Congress in Ohio always loudly proclaiming the cross of Christ during his campaign. Here are the results of the vote for him and his observations and conclusions. I lost my race for Congress last night. 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