Podcast # 31: Hail to the Chief – Part One

My name is Mark Stevens, standing in today for Scott who is on vacation. I am talking with Allan Colston.  He is the author of the book The Last Days of Tolemac.   

Welcome Allan to this Podcast. As this is the first time we have spoken together, perhaps you could start off by telling me a little bit about your book.

Certainly Mark, it is a pleasure to chat with you. The Last Days of Tolemac is a book about prophecy. It deals with events that are happening in the world today and shows how they fulfill prophecies that were made many centuries ago. The book is set out in a series of questions and answers, and explains in detail:

• What is about to happen to our planet
• Why these events are happening at this time
• What places on earth will be affected
• What the new world will be like
• What we can do to prepare

Mark:  So tell me Allan, what do you think is about to happen to our planet?

Well Mark, as the book explains, our world is about to be transformed. We are about to experience “a new heaven and a new earth” as described in the Book of Revelation, in which there will be no more suffering and no more pain.

However, as The Bible points out, this transformation will be preceded by a series of events that will plunge the world into chaos and destruction. And as a result of these coming calamities, each one of us is faced with a critical choice.

We have to decide whether we want to be a part of the new world that is coming, by embracing the spiritual challenges that lie ahead, or whether we are content to ignore the signs and join the majority of the population that will fall victim to the catastrophes that will herald its arrival?

So the purpose of my Podcasts with Scott up until this time Mark, has been to bring listeners up to date with those events that are happening in the world today which, in my view, suggest that we are now living the “End Times” as described by Jesus and other Biblical prophets.

Mark:  So Allan, what sort of events are you referring to?

Well Mark, in my last Podcast with Scott that was titled “The Age of Tyrants”, I talked about the fact that the world has experienced more tyrannical rulers over the last hundred years, than at any other period in the history of the earth. I also went on to say:

“We seem to be living in an age of tyrants, where an encroaching darkness is stealing across the planet, slowly swallowing up all the countries of the world, and enslaving good men and women everywhere as it does so”.

As I mentioned, democracies around the world are in peril, as we see more and more countries falling under the sway of authoritarian rulers. Now when we talk about tyrants, we need to recognise that there is a key difference between authoritarian rulers and tyrants.

Authoritarian rulers dominate the affairs of a nation by controlling what their citizens are allowed to say and do. But what turns these rulers into tyrants, is not the fact that they are authoritarian in their style of government, but how they treat those people who are opposed to them.

Tyrants are not constrained by laws. They use their power cruelly and unjustly. In short, they kill their enemies, as we can see in countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea. And just lately we have two more countries to add to that list. They are Turkey and the Philippines.

And in fact, I ended my last Podcast with the following words.

“And this brings us to the United States, where the coming election is probably one of the most important in their history. Voters are faced with a choice between two starkly contrasting candidates. On the one hand there is Hillary Clinton, who is regarded as a threat and distrusted by many.

And then there is the phenomenon of Donald Trump, who claims to represent the best interests of all Americans, but then goes on to brand Mexicans, Muslims and migrants as the enemy, and who appears to display all the qualities that are the hallmark of a classic despot.

So the world waits to see what they will decide. Will voters preserve the principles that have made the United States the bastion of democracy for the last two hundred years or more, or will they vote for their fears and allow their country to descend into tyranny, just as Plato so long ago predicted?”

Mark:  Well Allan, as we all know by now, the Americans voted for Donald Trump.

Well not exactly Mark. Although he will be the new President, in terms of the number of votes cast, Trump actually ended up in third place. One of the most significant factors in the outcome of the election was that about 45% of the electorate, or 108 million people, chose not to vote at all.

And of those who did decide to vote, roughly three million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for Donald Trump. Hence his third place finish. In any other country where democratic elections are held, Clinton would have been declared an easy winner.

But America is not like any other country. Its electoral system is unique. In fact America is not even a democracy. It is a Republic bound by a Constitution, which is why every new President is required to pledge upon the Bible that he or she will uphold the Constitution.

Under this Constitution, voters don’t vote for the candidate of their choice. Instead, they vote for members of the Electoral College. There are a total of 538 Electoral College members who are allocated on a state by state basis according to the population of that state.

And this is where the Founding Fathers of Confederation proved to be undone by their own cunning. For, as Donald Trump emphasized again and again throughout his campaign, the American electoral system was rigged. Yet the irony of it all was that the outcome turned out to be rigged in his favour.

Mark:  Why do you say that Allan?

Well Mark, the fundamental inequity of the American voting system is that the candidate who wins the majority of votes in any one state, is allocated ALL the Electoral College votes for that state, no matter how close the final margin between the candidates may happen to be.

So what actually happened in this election was that Donald Trump managed to beat Hillary Clinton by a tiny margin in four key states. These were the states of Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. As a result, he was allocated ALL 64 of the Electoral College votes in those states.

So what that all boiled down to in practice, was that 525,000 votes in those four states accounted for 64 out of the 270 Electoral College votes that Trump needed to win the Presidency. So 12% of his final Electoral College tally came from just 0.04% of the people who turned out to vote.

And if that isn’t rigging the system Mark, then I don’t know what is. And because of this we have to ask, was this just luck, or was it perhaps a matter of fate? And could this result play a part in determining the future destiny of America, and the fulfillment of Bible prophecy?

Anyway, since the election, political pundits of every persuasion have had a field day trying to explain what went wrong, and why and how Clinton managed to lose an election in which she had seemed to be heading for a landslide victory just two weeks before.

But what almost all of these commentators have failed to point out, is that Hillary lost the election because of a monumental lack of judgment on her part. And it was this error in judgement that ultimately cost her the election. So she had no one to blame but herself.

Mark:  So what sort of error in judgment did she make?

Well Mark, it all began in 1996 when Hillary employed a 19 year old Muslim lady fresh out of George Washington University named Huma Abedin. Over the years Huma assumed a number of different positions, ranging from senior advisor to deputy chief of staff when Hillary was Secretary of State.

Hillary even introduced Huma to her future husband, and in 2010 ex-President Bill Clinton officiated at their wedding. The unfortunate part for Hillary was that Huma’s husband, a Congressman from New York by the name of Anthony Wiener, turned out to be a sleazy character who fell afoul of the law.

Wiener resigned from Congress in 2011 as a result of a sexting scandal in which he admitted sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to a series of women via his Twitter account. And although Huma Abedin separated from her husband, she never actually divorced him.

As you can imagine, the salacious details of this case, involving a nine-time Congressman, were splashed across the nation causing considerable embarrassment to the Clinton campaign, especially when the New York Post reported just before the election that Wiener had sexted another woman while lying in bed with his young son.

So when Director James Comey announced that the FBI had found a laptop belonging to Wiener that contained a trove of emails between Hillary and Huma, the impact that it had on the country was electric. In fact I well remember my own reaction at the time. “Oh Hillary, how could you have been so dumb!”

After all, you could perhaps forgive her for using a private server to conduct Government business, especially since the FBI could find no evidence of an actual crime. But it is another thing entirely to share emails involving matters of state with a defrocked politician who had admitted to deviant sexual behaviour.

From that moment on Hillary began hemorrhaging support and her campaign was doomed. And interestingly enough, the segment of the voting public that deserted her in those final days were white college-educated women – the very ones who were most horrified by what had transpired.

In retrospect it may have been fortunate for the country that Clinton lost, for had she won, she would have had to deal with a hostile Republican Congress that would have blocked everything that she tried to do, and would most likely have led to four more years of complete gridlock in Washington.

Mark:  So what do you think will happen now under President Trump?

Well Mark, the first thing that everyone will discover is that Donald Trump is not Barack Obama. That may seem like a trite thing to say, but what people in America and all around the world need to realise is that everything that they have become used to over the last eight years will change from January 20th onwards.

Donald Trump is not only different from Barack Obama, but he is totally opposed to everything that Obama has achieved in his eight years in the White House. And Trump will devote his efforts to ensuring that nothing of Obama’s legacy remains intact at the end of his time in office.

So whereas Obama is a globalist, an environmentalist, a supporter of free trade, a protector of civil rights, the rights of women and the rights of the LGBTQ community, as well as being a staunch defender of the poor, Donald Trump is none of these things. And it all began in his early childhood.

Young Donald was a problem child. At least he proved to be more than his parents could handle in his early years. He had a short attention span coupled with a violent temper and an over abundance of energy. So they despatched him off to the New York Military Academy in the hope that they would be able to channel his energy in a positive direction.

I suppose that that should be a lesson to parents everywhere about the dangers of sending children off to military school. Anyway, the young Trump learned two things while he was there. The first was that “might is right”, and the second was that it was the job of the military to “By God get things done”.

So it is no surprise that when it came time for him to set about choosing the key people to fill his Cabinet, he would turn to the military to fill his most important positions. Only this time he would be the one giving the orders, and it would be their job to do whatever it takes to “get things done”.

And then there’s another thing that the public need to know about Donald Trump Mark, and that is that a leopard never changes its spots.

Mark:  OK Allan you’ve got me there. What do you mean by that?

Well Mark, one of the things that has confounded the American public during the election campaign, was that Trump was notorious for saying one thing one day and then reversing himself a few days later. So you never knew what he really stood for, or whether he had any basic principles at all.

But there is one way that you can see into the true character of a person that does not rely on speech and that cannot be disguised. And that is a person’s handwriting. And although most people have never seen Donald Trump’s writing, we do have a record of his signature.

Back in May of last year The Telegraph newspaper in England ran an article about the signatures of famous people, and what they indicated about their characters. One of the people whose signatures they analysed was Donald Trump.

Here’s what Elaine Quigley, a noted British graphology expert and handwriting analyst, had to say about it.

“Trump’s signature is, of course, his face to the world, so he wants to be dominant, hard, aggressive and to keep people at arm’s length, so he can do everything his way. I have always said that his signature is like barbed wire with blood on it. It is aggressive, it is bloodthirsty and there is absolutely no sense of inspiration in it.

She went on to add: “Trump’s signature betrays his lack of creativity, and even though he is not uneducated, we can see that he is self-absorbed. Look at the angles, look how sharp it is. Anyone who gets near Trump will get hurt.”

Now Mark, I can’t show you what she was referring to, but it is sufficiently revealing to make it worth inserting in my Blog summary of this Podcast. And what makes this especially disturbing, is that this is her assessment of the man who is about to become the leader of the Free World.

And there is another thing that can shine a light onto his personality and his dealings with other people. It is the story told by Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire English businessman who founded the Virgin Group which controls more than 400 companies. Did you ever hear about it?

Mark:  No Allan, I can’t say that I did.

Well according to the story which appears on his website, during one of his business visits to the United States, he was invited by Donald Trump to a one-on-one lunch meeting with him at his apartment in Manhattan. Here’s what Branson had to say about that meeting:

“Some years ago, Mr Trump invited me to lunch for a one-to-one meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. We had not met before and I accepted. Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help. He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people.

“He didn’t speak about anything else and I found it very bizarre. I told him I didn’t think it was the best way of spending his life. I said it was going to eat him up, and do more damage to him than them. There must be more constructive ways to spend the rest of your life. (Hopefully my advice didn’t lead to him running for President!)”

And what this story tells us Mark is that Donald Trump is a person who not only holds a grudge, but is prepared to wreak vengeance on those who displease him “even if he has to spend the rest of his life doing so”. I mention this because there is the small matter of Hillary Clinton.

During one of the election debates, Trump interrupted Clinton to say that if he succeeded in becoming President, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her crimes. And of course we all recall the enduring chants of his supporters to “lock her up, lock her up”.

Since the election, Trump has said little about whether he is prepared to follow through with his threat, leading many to surmise that his comments were merely campaign rhetoric. But I am not so sure. In fact I think he may be just biding his time until he becomes President.

In fact it would not surprise me if Trump is waiting to see if President Obama is going to be far-sighted enough to issue an official pardon to Hillary Clinton for any crimes that she may have committed during her time in office, before he steps down.

And if he does not, then my hunch is that Trump will find some pretext to revisit his earlier threat. And this would be very easy to arrange. All he would need to do is to arrange one of his victory stops in a Republican state and then ask the crowd “What do you think I should do about Hillary?”

And then when the crowd responds with their usual cry of “Lock her up”, it would be easy for him to say, “You know that I am a very forgiving person. I don’t hold grudges. But when you say you want me to lock her up, what can I do? My hands are tied. I have no choice but let the law take its course.”

And if he did go ahead and appoint a special prosecutor, I have no doubt that the person he chose would be able to come up with sufficient incriminating evidence to convict her of a crime. And if found guilty, that she would end up behind bars.

The leopard never changes its spots.

Mark:  So are you saying that Donald Trump may turn out to be a tyrant?

Well Mark we don’t know yet. We will have to wait and see. But we do know that he sees nothing wrong with torturing anyone that he deems to be an enemy of the state, for he has already gone on record to say that he approves of “water-boarding or worse” as a means of extracting information.

But what we can say is that he will prove to be an authoritarian leader who will be prepared to do whatever it takes to get his own way, especially as there appears to be no countervailing power in Congress that is likely to prevent him from doing exactly as he wishes.

And it seems clear to me that because there has never been anyone quite like Trump in the history of the United States, it would not be a stretch to suggest that what will happen under his leadership is likely to be totally different from anything that has happened in the past.

America has elected a former reality TV personality known as “the Donald” to be their new leader. And based on his actions up to this point, it seems more and more likely that he intends to rule the country like another Don – Don Corleone of the Godfather. In other words, he intends to be “The Boss”.

After all, his entire career has been built upon his projected image of being a tough guy who wins by getting what he wants. And those are the very qualities that characterise people that he claims to admire the most – people like Putin and Saddam Hussein, and even Kim Jong-un.

One of the boasts that Trump likes to make is that he has never actually finished reading a book in his life. If this is true, then I think it is a pity, because if he had he would have found out that most books finish with the words “The End”.

And for a man who will shortly have the keys to the nuclear codes and the power to destroy the world, I would have thought that that would have been enough to give him, as well as the American people and the rest of the world, cause for pause.

Some people have asked me if I think that Donald Trump will turn out to be the long-awaited Anti-Christ. I tell them no I don’t. But I do think that he will serve up a very good first course.

Mark:  Thanks Allan. We need to take a break. When we come back we will continue our discussion with Allan Colston, author of the book The Last Days of Tolemac.

To be continued in Part Two

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