Bad to Worse for USA via China's Strangle hold

 This is Bad

"More than 45,000 International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) members from over three dozen facilities across 14 Gulf and East Coast ports went on strike early Tuesday, marking the largest labor action at US ports in nearly 50 years."

"US Maritime Alliance (USMX)—a coalition of port operators and carriers—failed to agree on a new labor contract offer that would have boosted wages by 50% over six years and pledged to place limitations on port automation."

"The union has set an increase of 77% in wages over six years as the baseline to enter negotiations.  More than half of NY & NJ longshoremen make over $150k/yr and 20% of them earn over $250k/yr."

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/it-begins-us-port-strikes-erupt-first-shutdown-50-years-sparks-fears-supply-chain-crisis

Every time a port's crane touches a sea container, the US unions get paid.  Therefore in USA, it is cheaper to have port cranes touch a container only once, lift off the ship directly onto a truck, then send it the rest of the way by road.

Roads are destroyed by heavy loads traveling long distances, measured by ton-km's.  US federal government foots the bill for $1.2 Trillion to repair & rebuild US roads.

In Europe, ~90% of containers move from ocean ships to electrified railroad trains, the other 10% are moved with river & channel barges. The railroads move containers far closer to the recipient than the ones on barges.  Only the last few km's are done by truck.

Click on image to enlarge.  The turquoise colored dots are ocean ship sea ports.  The yellow dots are inland waterway ports that can receive barges and smaller ships for sea container offloading.  Water is the cheapest and most effective route, especially bulky &/or heavy cargo.

And see this:

https://x.com/syncronus/status/1838928309163601929

China Makes It Worse

China will soon make this bad situation far worse, adding layer upon layer, so as to punish & destroy USA directly, and the rest of the Western world indirectly.

For more info, see this:  

Erin, End Times prophetess of God, has posted her latest prophecy:

Dream 853 – The Deadly Plans of the Red Dragon

Received on Monday, September 30, 2024

http://sparrowcloud9.com/heaven-dreams-interpretations/the-tribulation/excerpt-from-dreams-questions-answered/full-dreams/dream-853/

Salvation & Protection

Get close to God.

Even if you have a reinforced steel & concrete bunker under your house, you need to be close to God so as to receive His protection.

Only with God (ie. only as a Born Again, obedient child of God, with a loving intimate relationship with Jesus Christ) are you truly safe.  

If you are a True Christian, you likely pray to God more than 5 times each day, read your Bible at least an hour each day, have gotten all iniquity out of your life (ie. pre-planned, wilful, or chronic sin), love God with all your heart mind soul & strength, love everyone else as you love yourself, forgiven everybody who has trespassed against you & hold no grudges or bitterness, hate all sin just as God hates all sin, at least weekly you pick up your cross & follow Jesus, be a fisher of men by giving your testimony and preaching the Gospel to every creature, live and share the Fruit of the Holy Spirit:   faith, longsuffering, patience, meekness, gentleness, temperance, goodness, righteousness, godliness, joy, peace, truth, and love (Gal. 5:22,23; Eph. 5:9; 1 Tim 6:11), and do good works for the greater glory of God.

True Christians trust in God's promise that God will ensure no sin is so tempting that they are unable to resist.  They also trust in God's promise that God will always ensure that an avenue of escape exists, so that they can flee from the temptation (1 Cor. 10:13; Match ⁷26:41; Gal.  5:16; James 1:12-16, 4:7; Luke 15:7; Ezek. 18:21; Ps. 32:2).

For those who are not yet qualified as a True Christian (see above), then you are a luke-warm Christian, or a hypocrite, or a wolf in sheep's clothing, or a non-believer.  In this case, the following is for you:

Workers of Iniquity

Repentance means "One & done", where a sinner turns away from their former sin, and turns towards God, and they never repeat that same sin again, nor any similar sin.  They have permanently learned their whole lesson.

If someone claims to have repented, but they repeat the same or similar sin, they have done a false repentance, and are now doing chronic sin.

Chronic sinners will sin and confess, then sin and confess again, on & on they go.  They never get to true repentance.

Chronic sins are iniquity.  Chronic sinners repeatedly do iniquity.  They have therefore become a "Worker of Iniquity".  

Workers of Iniquity are unrepentant sinners.

For unrepentant sinners, God hates their evil deeds (Psalm 5:5), is angry at them every day (Psalm 7:11), hates their actions (Proverbs 6:18), hates their worship (Proverbs 15:8), hates their ways (Proverbs 15:9), hates their thoughts (Proverbs 15:26), is far from the wicked (Prov. 15:29), and refuses to hear their prayers for help (John 9:31, Isaiah 59:1-2, Lam 3:44, Prov 15:29, Jer. 7:16, Mica 3:4; Ezek 8:18, 1 Pet 3:12).

Prayers of an unrepented sinner are an abomination to God, and become sin in themselves (Prov 28:9, Ps 109:7).

Unlike the unrepentant sinners, God hears the prayers of the righteous (Prov. 15:29, Ps. 34:17-19), & helps the righteous, obedient, children of God:

[Psa 34:17-19 KJV] "17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."

2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."

Unrepentant sinners will be tried by God & convicted, then thrown alive into Hell (ie. The Lake of Fire), where they will have no rest, neither day nor night, but suffer burning & torment for ever & ever (Rev. 14:11, 20:10, 15). There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:12, 13:42, 50; 22:13, 24:51, 25:30; Luke 13:28)

If you want to go to Heaven (&/or avoid the Lake of Fire), you must confess & repent all your sins to God, and ask for God's forgiveness; be a Born Again Christian who received the Holy Spirit's baptism by fire; fully believes in the true Jesus Christ who is fully God and fully man; love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength; loves all others as you love yourself; forgives the trespasses of all others; seeks to lovingly obey God's commandments; get all iniquity (pre-planned, or chronic sin) out of your life; hate sin; pick up your cross & follows Jesus by sharing your testimony, preaching the Gospel, and doing good works as proof of your salvation; don't do the Unforgiveable Sin; and don't take the Mark of the Beast.

If you aren't a fool, here is a link to what you need to know & do immediately.  

This is urgent, as WW3 likely begins within a few hours to a few months, so don't delay.  All are welcome to fully join God's winning side.

The following is a summary of 300+ Bible verses, arranged into 26 commandments, to help you quickly get started.

God's 26 Commandments for Christians

https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2019/12/gods-26-commandments-for-christians.html