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The Lord's Lightning—Bill Koenig

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May 24, 2001

Note from Bill:

When arriving this morning at the White House's northwest security gate (the entrance to the West Wing and the Press Room), I noticed that security checks were being handled by phone instead of the computer.

I asked one of the guards about what had caused the problem. She said, "you won't believe it but our guardhouse was hit by lightning last night, and it knocked out our computer.”

There was also a "tornado watch" last night from Washington eastward, covering all of eastern Maryland. I saw the dark clouds moving east but fortunately there were no tornadoes. (A small tornado did touch down 50 miles south of Washington.)

I believe that the Lord showed last night and today that He was not happy with the visit of the Dalai Lama to the White House. Although this was not his first visit to the White House, it was his first visit to the Bush White House.

The Dalai Lama is a distinguished spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists, and he has a nice and fun personality. However, he is a false god, who speaks a false message. Most importantly, he doesn’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Furthermore, isn't it interesting that on the day the Dalai Lama is welcomed to the White House, the other big news to break is Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords’ probable decision to leave the Republican Party to become an Independent, a move that will give the Democrats a majority in the Senate?

This decision will throw the Senate into disarray, affecting all the Republican committee chairmanship positions and making Democratic Senator Tom Daschle the Senate Majority leader.

Moreover, on the first day the Jeffords’ story emerged, the Dalai Lama arrived in Washington, and President Bush and Secretary of State Powell both came out in favor of the Mitchell Report on the Middle East, a report that called for Israel to stop settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza.

Additionally, to put these events into perspective, John McTernan has noted that Senator Jeffords is from Vermont, the first and only state to approve same-sex unions and a state that is strongly pro-choice. And tomorrow, his expected party defection will throw the U.S. Senate into instability, creating doubts and roadblocks for the president’s upcoming judicial appointments and a variety of legislative programs.

Is the Lord speaking to the Bush Administration and our nation? Absolutely! And there will be no compromises.

President George W. Bush and his administration needs our prayers. Lets pray that God's will be done!

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