Scott Lively Ministries

Its funny how seemingly random events can intersect in amazing ways. I’m working on adding graphics to the video version of the introduction and first chapter of “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom” which I’ll be releasing tomorrow morning (if all goes according to plan). The image I’m using on the front cover of the book is a vintage 1940ish photo of about _ Nazi officers gathering on the Pergamum Altar in Berlin for a group photo. The Pergamum Altar is the literal “Seat of Satan” of Revelation 2:13, excavated in Pergamus, Turkey in the late1800s and reassembled in Berlin’s Pergamum Museum built specially to house it. I contend that Adolf Hitler was an Antichrist, and highlight that he directed architect Albert Speer to design his infamous Nuremburg Rally Complex after the Pergamum Altar (the same design inspiration followed by Barack Obama for the stage on which he accepted the Democratic nomination for president in Denver in 2008).

As is my custom, I started my work session by scanning the coverage of current events on my favorite news websites while I drank my first cup of coffee. There, I stumbled on a story titled “State Department releases phone transcript of Hillary admitting she knew Benghazi was a planned attack.”

What’s amazing is that I was in Washington DC on the day of the Benghazi attack (which, in Eastern Standaed Time spanned 9/11 – 9/12, 2012) and the purpose of my trip was to search the captures Nazi photo collection at the National Archives. My best find was, wait for it, the photo of Nazi officers on the Seat of Satan.

What’s also amazing is that on the morning of 9/12 I was scheduled to shoot a video with Pastor Terry Jones in front of the White House condemning Barack Obama for his highly aggressive global push of the LGBT agenda. Pastor Jones – in the international spotlight for having just burned a Koran at his Florida church to highlight media hypocrisy about their coverage of Bible-burning by Muslims – was going to follow that stunt with a public showing of a new video by an Israeli Jew titled “The Innocence of Muslims” – which had the US media in a uproar at the same time Hillary’s staged Benghazi attack was scheduled. That’s the film Hillary blamed for the Benghazi attack, and Pastor Jones was forced to cancel our White House event to handle the resulting media demands for interviews.

You didn’t hear much about Pastor Jones after that, because the media shifted focus to the actual producer of the film, who had unrelated legal troubles that made him vulnerable to prosecution for making the film, and the perfect scapegoat for the entire scandal. Meanwhile, Hillary escaped unscathed from her conspiracy to stage a 9/11 false-flag terror event to cast herself and Obama as heroes despite the plan unraveling disastrously

Leviticus 23:10-12: “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.”

1 Corinthians 15:12-23: “Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain….But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”

If war is politics by other means, then politics is war by regular means. And in both, strategy is everything. For a couple of years I’ve been reading through Bernard Cornwell’s very well written Richard Sharpe series, historical fiction about the British war with Napoleon. War tactics were very formulaic in that era. For example, if the assaulting infantry was going up against artillery, the troops would be spread across a line, but against cavalry, the troops would form a square. Both responses were to survive counter-attacks to one’s offense, minimizing the inevitable casualties.

I also confess a fondness for the real-time-strategy computer game Starcraft, which I discovered was an excellent diversion from the intense intellectual rigors of law school, years ago. I was surprised to find that it improved my analytical skills, realizing in retrospect that behind the colorful graphics and entertaining sci-fi story line, Starcraft was all mathematics – specifically, the mathematics of strategy and logistics. The game literally improved my mind just by playing it (which is by no means an endorsement of all video games).

I raise these things to set the context for defending President Trump in the “game” of political warfare with the Deep State. I am defending him against fellow constitutionalists and conservatives whose ideological approach to the culture war is not balanced with sufficient respect for the realities of “realpolitik.” It’s the old contest of purity vs pragmatism that continually rages on both ends of the left/right political spectrum. It is the reason why secular immigration policy purists like Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge turned against the president when he couldn’t close the border to illegals as quickly as they hoped.

Having run for Governor of Massachusetts, I have personal experience with the challenge of juggling multiple issues in a way that satisfies multiple constituencies, each with varying degrees of tolerance for anything less than perfect purity in support of their own policy priorities. I lean to the side of purity of principles – but I also understand that politics is by definition the realm of compromise and you can’t be a purist on everything or you’ll never be able to assemble a voting majority in an election.

The issue that defined my ministry for a quarter century was the LGBT agenda, and in my view openly pandering to “conservative” homosexuals is President Trump’s greatest error – but I also know that if he were to take as firm a position against the LGBT agenda as I have, he would stir up the Millennial generation’s army of “Social Justice Warriors” who have been brainwashed and conditioned since pre-school to view “homophobia” as the greatest of all possible social evils. I think Trump’s strategy is play both sides and let the sleeping SJW dogs lie, expecting many will simply stay home to smoke weed on election day .

And from a “realpolitik” perspective, I think he believes that the evangelical half of his political base would not be able to effectively defend him on the “gay rights” issue because we lost the war over “gay marriage” (although I think that’s a wrong view because it was corrupt SCOTUS swing-vote Anthony Kennedy that defeated us, not a popular majority of the citizens!). In the Trump household there’s the added problem of Ivanka’s pro-LGBT zealotry, bizarre in a convert to orthodox Judaism, but a virtual statistical certainty for a child raised in a secular home in New York City in the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama era. So, I see Trump’s stand as a glass half full, and believe that as Biblical values go, he’s a work in progress trending slowly in the right direction. (I urge prayer for Ivanka become pro-family).

There are potentially new political defections coming over the $2 Trillion stimulus bill, and that’s where I want to bring another dimension of strategic analysis into focus: the globalist advantage in air-power – the leftist corporate media – and why it was necessary for President Trump to propose the bail-out himself.

The problem with media is not the lack of alternate voices. Rush Limbaugh alone counter-balances a big part of the left. The problem is that the “legacy” media, which influences the 60% mushy middle (between the 20% of ideologues at either end of political spectrum) is entirely owned by center-left elites, who have now extended their controlling ownership into the social media industry. They are, unfortunately, the heirs of “Walter Cronkite trustworthiness” in the minds of the non-ideological middle, and that’s often the key to close elections. In the same way that tradition alone dictates “voting Democrat” for many American families, unquestioned tradition allows the legacy media to largely define reality for the 60%.

Trump is the first president to declare the media “enemies of the people” because he knows their power MUST be broken to stop our leftward slide. Soft and civil Reaganesque chiding of the media for “liberal bias” is not enough – they need to be shamed publicly to awaken their consumers to the severity of the problem.

And that strategy was working … until the globalist counteroffensive called Covid 19, a world-wide scorched-earth defense to stop Trump’s army of patriotic populists in their tracks. In military terms it was a disease-bearing cavalry charge to push the infantry into a defensive square and then an immediate massive artillery bombardment of the square. And over-arching the battle-field, an all-in media air-campaign to terrify the entire population into panicked stampede to speed the collapse of the civilian infrastructure and destroy our supply-lines. That’s why the media is our worst enemy.

When fighting a war, a general must adapt to actual conditions, and that is what our Commander in Chief has done. If he were merely to argue for calm and patience to the panic-stricken 60% – envisioning breadlines and homelessness as the media intended — he would seem impotent and their anxiety would grow. But instead he offered immediate tangible reassurance to the 60% that he would take care of them. It worked and the elites’ were thwarted once again.

Was the cause of constitutionalism harmed by such a vast increase of debt? Sadly, yes. Is this proof that Trump is part of the globalist plan? Ridiculous!

Harm in war is inevitable, and any tactic that keeps an advancing army on the field, is, on balance, a good one.

Video Summary: Dr. Scott Lively publishes an Open Letter to President Trump asking him to end the Covid-19 lockdowns for the sake of the constitution and the economic survival of the nation and argues that many true patriots would rather risk death to preserve liberty than have security under totalitarianism. He reads portions of Patrick Henry’s famous “Liberty or Death” speech to show how closely the current crisis parallels the issues and debate over British tyranny in the period preceding the Revolutionary War.

Article: An Open Letter to President Trump

Dear President Trump, I am one of your strongest supporters and have stood by you through every assault by our common enemies – the lying media, the evil Democrats, and the stupid Never Trumpers. I have done so because I believe your straight-talking, overtly masculine, anti-Globalist agenda is the only hope short for the survival of America short of God’s miraculous intervention – and indeed, I have frequently reiterated that I believe you are God’s man in the White House for such a time as this. Your pattern of triumphing over every strategy and tactic they have deployed – growing stronger and more prayerful with each battle – gives proof to that claim and gives strong encouragement to every patriot.

Whether this current pandemic was orchestrated to stop you from utterly defeating those enemies (as you are on track to do), or whether they are just taking advantage of a naturally occurring disease outbreak, the fact is they are now deliberately using it to take down the global economy and the only person who can stop them is you, Mr. President.

In the unprecedented chaos these enemies, especially the Trump-hating media, have created across the world and in our homeland, I fear that they may have created such a psychological trap for you in their “lockdown to takedown” strategy that you might actually defer to their forked-tongued “agents of expertise” like Fauci and surrender the fate of the economy into their malevolent unclean hands to avoid being blamed for American deaths they self-servingly predict.
As an American patriot, I beg you defy them, President Trump. Please follow your own instincts and reopen the economy! The true choice here is freedom or slavery for the citizens – and true patriots would rather have freedom with risk of death than life under totalitarianism.

No one made this case better than Patrick Henry in 1775, and so I now offer key excerpts from his most eloquent speech, verbatim, and ask you to simply substitute “globalist” wherever it reads “ British,” remembering that this speech was made in response to compelling arguments for security through appeasement. I now quote Mr. Henry’s retort:

“Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes
against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this
the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so
nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am
willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry…to justify those hopes….Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet…

[W]hat means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? …They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to
them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for … years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing.

Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. …There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending – …we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Besides, sir, we have no choice. … There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our
chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come…

What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” End of excerpt.

There are great lessons to be learned from this great crisis we now suffer – and we will truly never be the same as a people and an nation. The question is whether we will emerge as a Constitutional Republic or as a Socialist Empire.

If we surrender to the Socialists now – the deep blue “lock-down” governors of New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Hawaii, Nevada, etc, by letting them continue to deny Americans our basic inalienable rights, or far worse to put all of America within their clutches with a national lockdown, then they will rule us forever.

I implore you, Mr. President: end the lock-downs, open the economy, and let the American people rebuild our nation before these enemies – both foreign and domestic – take us past the point of no return! Like our Founders, many of us are willing to risk our lives for Liberty! Let the fearful and high-risk sequester themselves in safety, but for the sake of God and our Constitution, Unleash the Brave and Resolute Patriots, Sir!