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Modern Witchcraft Combines Self-Love, Feminism, Self-Help With A Dazzling Array Of Crystals And Spell Casting
Gala Darling looks every bit the Instagram-famous modern witch, with nearly 60,000 followers. Being a professional witch is her full-time job.
Modern witchcraft combines feminism, self-help, and wellness. But is there more to it than pretty crystals, stunning Instagram pictures, and lucrative business opportunities?
“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (KJV)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the past year, I have noticed on my Instagram feed a seeming explosion in women posting pictures promoting topics like “self love”, “wellness”, “be good to yourself”, “praying to the Universe” and “boss babe”. Harmless fun, right? Just motivating women to succeed, right? Wrong. Every one of those things I just mentioned are part and parcel of modern-day witchcraft practiced by modern-day witches. You’ve been pulled into witchcraft and don’t even know it. Or maybe you do.
Gala Darling reveals that her “spiritual awakening” was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy wakes up, miraculously transported from the sepia world of rural Kansas to the technicolor land of Oz.
Darling is standing beside her altar—a round, pink table laid with energy-charged crystals and magic candles—at The Wing, an all-women social club in Manhattan where 60 members and guests have signed up for her “Radical Self-Love Workshop.”
Gala Darling says how witchcraft changed her life:
Think twice the next time you use the #bossbabe hashtag, it comes from the witchcraft world. And in particular, it comes from Gala Darling, resident witch and spell caster.
A 33-year-old writer and self-help guru, she explains how her years-long fog of depression lifted when she discovered “tapping,” an ancient Eastern healing technique that she describes as “a combination of acupuncture and cosmic psychology.”
The audience is rapt because Darling isn’t just a self-help guru but a stylish, sassy witch who swears often and radiates cool-girl vibes. She used to be “really goth and cynical” and thought tapping was “bull****”—until, she says, it worked. Now she casts spells on Donald Trump.
Darling is tall and striking, with alabaster skin and kohl-rimmed green eyes. She wears a rainbow sherbet-colored maxi skirt, a grey tee knotted above her navel, and a silver pentagon ring. Her black hair is dip-dyed a raspberry, purpley pink shade that almost matches her lipstick. All of this makes for a punk rock-meets-My Little Pony aesthetic, complete with bicep sleeve tattoos and glittering fingernails.
Gala Darling looks every bit the Instagram-famous modern witch, with nearly 60,000 followers. Being a professional witch and self-love priestess is her full-time job. (She declined to say how much she earns through her practice.)
At a time when millennial women are embracing wellness fads and are bent on toppling the patriarchy, the contemporary witch is their enlightened, rebellious role model.
She has seen a resurgence in pop culture over the last few years, from the campy and wildly popular 2013 TV series American Horror Story: Coven to Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch. Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop sells tools for female-oriented practical magic like jade and rose quartz “yoni” eggs that purport to do more than just exercise your kegels.
Celebrities like Katy Perry, Victoria Beckham, Cara Delevingne, and Lena Dunham are hooked on crystals’ alleged healing powers and positive vibes (it doesn’t hurt that they’re also pretty). Adele chalked up her lackluster Grammy’s performance last year to misplacing hers.
The ’90s were another heyday of witchiness—of the benign, Hollywood variety—that saw films like Hocus Pocus and The Craft become cult classics, Charmed become a TV smash, while J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked were instant bestsellers (Rowling’s Potter books went on to become the second-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, and a musical adaptation of Wicked was named one of Broadway’s top-grossing shows ever last year).
Today’s witchy sweet spot lies somewhere between the mind-body wellness movement and intersectional feminism. Embracing all things witchy and “magical”—believing that visualization rituals can help you manifest your dreams; that tarot cards can tell you something about your life which your logical brain might otherwise ignore; that wearing a crystal pendant necklace will protect you from negative energy—has become a way for women to feel empowered and trust their instincts.
The Wing is an appropriate setting for a witchy workshop on self-love and empowerment. The club describes itself as a “coven not a sorority,” and many of its 650 members—a politically progressive group of women, most of them in their twenties and thirties—work in creative industries.
Darling kicks off the “Radical Self-Love Workshop” with an exercise in “connecting to our intuitive selves” that requires dabbing her coveted “gratitude oil” on our wrists (“it has tiny crystals inside and smells am-a-zing”) and telling each other what we’re thankful for.
Next she hands out “Witchling Oracle Cards”—a whimsical take on tarot cards—and encourages us to decipher some personal message from cutesie illustrations of Witchlings like “Dreams” and “Abundance.”
Later, we write down what “spirituality” means to us (I’m tempted by Darling’s reassurance that “it’s OK to draw three big question marks!”).
We whip up “happiness recipes,” or lists of feel-good rituals that fall under “mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual” categories. “I’d like everyone to write ‘orgasm’ under the physical category, because sex magic is the best magic,” Darling says to whoops and cheers.
We also make note of things we want to “leave behind,” in the metaphysical sense, post-Summer Solstice—which, per Darling’s instructions, we must “ceremoniously burn” when we get home.
Finally, we break off in groups to create “wishing circles,” an exhausting exercise that involves blowing a wish into your hands, vigorously rubbing them together for several agonizing minutes (the witch’s equivalent of Tracy Anderson’s arm workout), then joining scalding palms with your circle neighbors and, per Darling, blowing your wish “up to the sky like a little baby birdie.”
Admittedly, I expected something called a “Radical Self-Love Workshop” to be ripe for parody: a hipster witch rhapsodizing about the healing powers of crystals to a group of spellbound, modern-day Stevie Nicks impersonators. But Darling’s tactics for cultivating self-love are relatively practical, as these things go, and dispensed with casual humor. (On reliable ways to achieve an orgasm: “While you’re working up to that moment—you know, the moment—visualize yourself beaming it out into the universe because that stuff works! Try it this week and then tag me on Instagram. Don’t make me a video, but tell me what happened because I want to know.”)
She’s not excessively moony or self-serious about the spiritual stuff (“I define spirituality as whatever makes me feel alive, thankful, and connected”). And the witchcraft-lite she weaves into her teachings—feminine power, sexuality, creative enrichment, astrology—is broadly appealing to many young women.
The Babe Collective movement is firmly rooted in witchcraft
My introduction to the occult scene in New York City was in 2015, when I attended a “goddess circle for curating extraordinary confidence” organized by three women in Brooklyn who called themselves the BABE Collective; “BABE” being an acronym for “Badass Beauties Elevating Society.”
It was a workshoppy event similar to Darling’s at The Wing: a description advertised “bringing a heightened awareness to what being confident means in the spiritual, practical and personal sense.”
It was part coven and part 12-step program: Roughly a dozen women gathered in a teepee in Williamsburg and meditated while eating expensive, organic dark chocolate—an “offering to ourselves” and an exercise in “taking time to savor something.” We prayed to Kali, the Hindu goddess who is worshipped as the Mother of the Universe.
“I haven’t focused exclusively on creating a community of witches, though that’s kind of happened indirectly,” said Robin Lee, 28, who has grown the BABE Collective into a global community with $47-a-month membership rates. “Tons of women from all over the world are just awake and curious about understanding themselves on a deeper level. When you get down to the route of witchcraft, magic, alchemy—all these things are about the Wild Feminine and using your own energy and power to change your consciousness at will.”
In a moment when feminism has escaped the academy and captivated the popular imagination, it’s fitting that the witch—a radical and dangerous figure who can’t be controlled by stuffy and uptight men—has been recast as a symbol of resistance.
“The timing makes perfect sense: Spiritual hunger, environmental concerns, and gender politics all combine here,” Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches: Salem, 1692, told The Daily Beast of the witch’s trendy resurgence. “Plus witches are subversive, something which our political times demand. We’ve little vocabulary for female power, or at least few words of which we can be proud. It’s all the more enticing to reclaim imagery and nomenclature that has been used against you for hundreds of years.”
The witch’s taboo appeal is a double-edged sword, and Schiff suggested it could be more empowering for women to identify with real women, or at least a mythological figure who didn’t have such a fraught history.
“In a perfect world it would be lovely if women could reach to more nonfictional role models, as boys are able to. If we’re in the world of myth, why witches rather than Athena? I suppose she’s part of the establishment, and she doesn’t come down to us with a long list of martyred forebears. Plus, we know that Athena is wholly mythical. It seems at least some men are still concerned there might be sorcerers among us.”
Indeed, the witch remains a threatening figure, particularly to the Alex Jones’ and Rush Limbaugh’s of the world. Days before the 2016 election, Jones ran a story on his alt-right website, Infowars, claiming Hillary Clinton “‘regularly’ attended witch’s church,” and citing a “Clinton insider” as his source. After the first presidential debate, Limbaugh called Clinton a “witch with a capital B.”
Right-wingers wielded rhetorical pitchforks at rapper Azealia Banks when she came out of the broom closet in January 2015 (“The truth is I’m a witch”) in one of her infamous Twitter rants.
“The most magical people are the ones who have to deal with oppression, because the non-magical are jealous,” Banks wrote. “That’s why Jews and Blacks have been persecuted over and over again throughout history… all I’m trying to say is that black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS.”
Witches band together to cast a binding spell on President Trump
Last February, Lana Del Ray took to Twitter to promote dates for a series of online “binding spells” to prevent President Trump and his administration from doing harm. Gala Darling was among the self-identifying witches who orchestrated an anti-Trump binding spell on Facebook live, though hers wished harm on the president.
“120,000 people from around the world signed on with pictures of Trump and wrapped them in string while I said an incantation,” she told me, speaking on the phone the day after the workshop. Most of the online participants were women between the ages of 25 and 34, according to Darling (geographically, California, Texas, England, and New York saw the highest volume of participants).
The hex wasn’t as harmful as participants hoped. Indeed, casting spells can seem hokey and ineffective—even to other patriarchy-defying witches.
“People always assume I do that stuff, but I just help women who want to have their witch awakening, which is just an awakening to their feminine energy and the cause of healing Mother Earth,” said Sarah Wilson, 37, who lives in Martha’s Vineyard and organizes online covens.
But for others, channeling their feminine energy in massive online spells offers a sense of community.
“There was some pushback on Facebook from people saying things like, ‘The most effective thing you can do is vote,’” Darling said of her Trump binding spell. “But why not do both? I believe in marrying the physical and the metaphysical. Obviously the spell didn’t work in the sense that he’s still alive. But have you looked at his life right now?” source
The First Musician Came From Cain’s Line, And The Last Musicians Are Silenced In Babylon When God Judges The Soundtrack Of The World System
From the very beginning of the Bible, music is presented not as a harmless background feature of human life, but as something deeply connected to worship, culture, rebellion, and spiritual direction. After Cain goes out from the presence of the LORD, his descendants begin building the first city, developing culture, and producing the first human musician. This is the “beating heart” of the 7 Mountains Mandate from the New Apostolic Reformation. The first song mentioned in the Bible is the song of Moses in Exodus 15, and the last song mentioned in the Bible is the song of Moses found in Revelation 15. There is a soundtrack of the world that comes from Cain, and there are the songs of God that come from Heaven. If you are going to have the right music, then you need to find the right City first.
“For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Hebrews 11:10 (KJB)
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The Soundtrack Of The World
Cain Leaves The Presence Of The LORD
Cain’s judgment did not produce repentance. Instead of seeking mercy, Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and began life in exile. That is the beginning of man’s organized world-system apart from God. And from the very beginning of that first city, music begins to play as a soundtrack.
“And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.” Genesis 4:16 (KJB)
This is the first major step: separation from God. Before Cain builds, before his line develops culture, before music appears, Cain first departs from the presence of the LORD.
The order matters: departure from God → city-building → culture → music → violence → judgment
Cain’s world is not built on faith, sacrifice, blood atonement, or obedience. It is built by a man who refused to do things God’s way.
Application
Not every successful civilization is blessed of God. Not every cultural achievement is spiritual. Man can build cities, produce art, develop music, advance technology, and organize society while being completely separated from the LORD. The first city in the Bible does not begin with worship. It begins with Cain. It is this mess that NAR seeks to control through the 7 Mountains Mandate. The seven mountains are: Education, Religion, Family, Business, Government, Arts & Music, and the Media.
Closing Challenge
Be careful not to confuse civilization with righteousness. A world can be educated, musical, artistic, wealthy, and technically advanced — and still be east of Eden, outside the presence of God. Christians are not called to take control of the 7 Mountains, they’re to call lost sinners to come out of it.
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4 (KJB)
Cain Builds The First City
The first city in the Bible is built by the first murderer. Cain names it after his son Enoch, not after the LORD. This is man making a name for himself in a fallen world.
“And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.” Genesis 4:17 (KJB)
Cain’s city becomes the prototype of the world-system: organized human life without submission to God. It is not merely bricks and buildings. It is the beginning of man’s attempt to create security, identity, culture, legacy, and permanence apart from the LORD.
This is the spirit that later appears at Babel:
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (KJB)
Cain names his city after his son. Babel says, “let us make us a name.” Same spirit. Same rebellion. Same self-exalting civilization. Ezekiel shows us God’s city that will exist in the Millennium.
“It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.” Ezekiel 48:35 (KJB)
Application
The world is always trying to make a name for itself. It builds cities, systems, empires, religions, music industries, entertainment kingdoms, and commercial networks — but without God, it is still Cain’s city.
Closing Challenge
Ask yourself this: am I building for the LORD, or am I building something to preserve my own name? Moravian church bishop Count Nikolaus Von Zinzendorf famously said “Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten”. And that’s good advice. Peter says “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” 1 Peter 5:6 (KJB)
Music Appears In Cain’s Line
The first human musician mentioned in the Bible is Jubal, a descendant in Cain’s line.
“And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” Genesis 4:21 (KJB)
This does not mean music itself in and of itself is evil. God later uses music in worship, praise, prophecy, and spiritual rejoicing. But the first mention of human music is not in the tabernacle, not in the temple, not among the sons of Levi, and not in the Psalms. It is in Cain’s line. That is prophetically instructive. Music appears early in the development of man’s world apart from God. Alongside city-building, livestock enterprise, metallurgy, and violence, music becomes part of fallen man’s culture.
“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.” Genesis 4:22 (KJB)
Cain’s line produces culture, craftsmanship, industry, music, and metalwork. But it does not produce worship of the LORD.
“Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.” Amos 6 (KJB)
Application
Music is powerful because it moves the heart. It can carry doctrine, emotion, rebellion, sensuality, worship, sorrow, joy, idolatry, or praise. The question is not merely, “Does it sound good?” The question is, “What spirit does it carry, what truth does it teach, and whom does it glorify?”
Closing Challenge
Do not judge music only by talent, beauty, popularity, or emotional effect. Cain’s line had music before it had worship.
Lucifer Was Connected With Music Before Jubal
Before Jubal ever handled the harp and organ, the anointed cherub appears to have had musical workmanship connected with him in the day he was created.
“Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.” Ezekiel 28:13 (KJB)
This passage addresses the king of Tyrus, but the language clearly reaches beyond an earthly ruler. He was “in Eden the garden of God.” He was “created.” He was connected with “tabrets” and “pipes.”
Music is not a small thing in Scripture. It is deeply spiritual.
Lucifer’s fall was rooted in pride and self-exaltation:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” Isaiah 14:12 (KJB)
“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” Isaiah 14:13 (KJB)
That same self-exalting spirit shows up in Babel: “let us make us a name.”
Application
The devil understands music. He understands beauty. He understands atmosphere. He understands emotional movement. He understands how to use sound to influence worship, doctrine, culture, and rebellion.
This is why music must be tested spiritually, not merely enjoyed emotionally.
Closing Challenge
The issue is not whether music moves you. The issue is where it moves you.
Babel Continues The Spirit Of Cain’s City
Babel does not physically descend from Cain’s preserved genealogy, because the Flood comes between Cain’s world and the post-Flood nations. After the Flood, Babel arises through Nimrod, from the line of Ham.
“And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.” Genesis 10:6-10 (KJB)
So physically, Babel is not traced through Cain. But spiritually and typologically, Babel carries forward the way of Cain. Cain built the first city. Nimrod builds the first kingdom-city system. Cain went out from the presence of the LORD. Babel organizes mankind in collective rebellion against the command of God.
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (KJB)
Babel is Cain’s city expanded into a global religious-political project.
Application
The world-system always wants unity without truth, religion without obedience, culture without holiness, and heaven without the God of heaven.
That is Babel.
Closing Challenge
Beware of any movement that promises unity while rejecting the word of God. Babel was unified, but God still judged it.
Babylon Is The Final Form Of Cain And Babel’s System
Babylon the great in Revelation is the final prophetic form of the same system that began in seed form with Cain’s city and was organized nationally at Babel.
- Cain gives us the first city.
- Babel gives us the first kingdom-city rebellion.
- Babylon the great gives us the final world-system before the Second Advent.
“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:1-5 (KJB)
Babylon is religious. Babylon is political. Babylon is commercial. Babylon is seductive. Babylon is wealthy. Babylon is global. Babylon is anti-God.
Revelation 18 shows her commercial greatness:
“And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:” Revelation 18:11 (KJB)
And then, at the end, her music stops:
“And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;” Revelation 18:22 (KJB)
That is a stunning Bible connection.
- The first human musician appears in Cain’s line.
- The last musicians mentioned are silenced in Babylon.
- The world-system begins with music in Genesis 4 and ends with music being judged in Revelation 18.
Application
Babylon’s music represents more than entertainment. It is the sound of a world celebrating itself while standing under the judgment of God. It is the music of commerce, pleasure, seduction, religion, idolatry, and rebellion. It is the soundtrack of a civilization that made itself rich, intoxicated the nations, and rejected the LORD.
Closing Challenge
When God judges Babylon, He does not merely stop her armies. He unplugs their Jukebox and stops her music.
Godly Music Is Different From Babylon’s Music
The Bible does not condemn music itself. The LORD receives praise, singing, psalms, harps, trumpets, and spiritual songs when they are directed toward Him in truth.
“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.” Psalm 100:2 (KJB)
“Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.” Psalm 149:1 (KJB)
“And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.” Matthew 26:30 (KJB)
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the LORD.” Colossians 3:16 (KJB)
So the issue is not music versus no music. The issue is Cain’s music or Christ’s music. The issue is whether the song is serving the world, the flesh and the Devil, or serve the LORD God.
Application
Godly music is not just religious-sounding music. According to Colossians 3:16, it is connected to the word of Christ dwelling richly, teaching, admonishing, wisdom, grace, and the LORD.
That is very different from music designed merely to entertain, seduce, excite, manipulate, or glorify man.
Closing Challenge
A song can mention God and still not be spiritual. The test is whether it lines up with the word of God and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Prophetic Pattern
Here is the full pattern:
- Lucifer: music connected with the anointed cherub before his fall.
- Cain: first murderer, departs from the presence of the LORD.
- Cain’s city: first city, built by a rebel.
- Jubal: first human musician, from Cain’s line.
- Babel: first organized kingdom-city rebellion under Nimrod.
- Babylon: final global system of religious, political, commercial, and cultural rebellion.
- Revelation 18: Babylon’s musicians are silenced forever.
This is not accidental. The Bible is showing us that the world-system has always had a soundtrack. It began with a man who went out from the presence of the LORD. It grew into a city. It organized into Babel. It ends as Babylon the great. And when God judges it, the music stops.
Application
The world’s music is often not neutral. It can carry the spirit of Cain, the pride of Lucifer, the rebellion of Babel, and the seduction of Babylon.
But the believer’s song should be different.
“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;” Revelation 5:9 (KJB)
The world sings about itself. Heaven sings about the Lamb.
Closing Challenge
Make sure your music belongs to the right city. Cain’s city has a song, and Babylon has musicians. But the City of Zion has the Lamb.
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- I just want to thank you for the teachings you give every Sunday night on radio. You are such a blessing to me. I absolutely love your way of teaching the scriptures. I don’t have a church where I can have fellowship and teaching, so you have been my teacher for many months now. Thanks God you are there for all of us who have no church to go to. I pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly in your ministry, and your loved ones too. You are such a blessing to me, and many others, in these last days before the rapture. Thank you so much Geoffrey, from the bottom of my heart. May the Lord keep you, until He comes back for us. You are in my prayers.” Donald Godin
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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORT…TO THE FIGHT!!!
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Trump Naively Calls Xi A ‘Good Friend’ While China’s Communist Strongman Invokes The ‘Thucydides Trap’ As A Taunt To The Rising Power Of The East
Trump Calls Xi A Good Friend As China’s Communist Strongman Invokes The Thucydides Trap And Places Taiwan Squarely In The Crosshairs
Xi Jinping did not casually mention the Thucydides Trap, he chose it like a dagger wrapped in silk. The very mention of it is a taunt to the American president. That phrase describes the moment when a rising power challenges an established power and the pressure between them makes war more likely. Xi knows exactly what that means. In that framework, China is the rising power, America is the aging empire, and Taiwan is the tripwire. So when Xi raises the Thucydides Trap in front of Trump, while Taiwan is sitting at the center of the talks, he is not merely warning against conflict. He is showing open aggression to Washington with the possibility that China’s rise may now be unstoppable.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?” Psalms 2:1 (KJB)
That is what makes Trump’s “it’s an honor to be your friend” language so dangerous and so revealing. Xi is not Trump’s friend. Xi is the Communist ruler of a nation that believes Taiwan belongs under Beijing’s control, and he is reminding the American president that history has a pattern: the old power resists, the new power presses, and somewhere between fear and ambition the shooting starts. China wants America to “manage” the rivalry by backing away from Taiwan. America wants to preserve its Pacific order without triggering war. But Taiwan cannot be both surrendered and defended at the same time.
Taiwan becomes flashpoint of Trump-Xi summit as Rubio warns Beijing of ‘repercussions’ for invasion
FROM THE NY POST: President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, were all smiles and full of public praise for each other at the start of their much-anticipated summit meeting here Thursday. A very different story began to emerge behind closed doors after Xi continually pressed the issue of Taiwan, the self-governing, democratic island that China claims as its own. The mid-morning sit-down ran long — about 40 minutes over its scheduled time. Trump was notably quieter at the leaders’ next stop, the 15th-century Temple of Heaven. He ignored shouted questions, and the body language of both presidents was noticeably stiffer. The Chinese quickly put out their version of the reasons why.
“President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning wrote on X soon after the meeting broke up. “If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy. “Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water,” Mao went on. “Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the US.”
The White House did not release its own readout of the bilateral meeting for several hours — and that statement made no mention of Taiwan. Communications director Steven Cheung refused to talk about the topic when reporters for The Post and other outlets saw him at the state banquet, instead directing them to the official statement. READ MORE
China issues ‘veiled threat’ over Taiwan to Trump and the United States
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