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"President Donald Trump has held roughly 50% more meetings with foreign leaders than President Barack Obama did over the same amount of time in their respective first terms in office. A review of both presidencies reveals that Obama met with about 20 foreign leaders through July 6, 2009, not including international summits or the United Nations and other institutions. Trump has met with about 30 leaders through June 6, 2017 – not including summits, the UN, or the Palestinian Authority. …Trump’s ambitious foreign policy schedule contradicts critics’ attempts to portray his foreign policy as “isolationist,”  or to suggest the 45th president is not interested in foreign affairs."

For those that think Trump is against the New World Order of the Pope and globalization wherein the mark of the beast will be a sure thing to spread globally, think again. If he was against the Pope and his agenda as so many assume, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing right now. Not only have we seen more talk about religion in politics after Trump gained office so as to assure the prophecy regarding the religious laws needed to enforce the mark of the Roman church comes to fruition, we see Trump escalating his foreign table talks with everyone he can get a meeting with so as to speed things up. Basic reality is, if he was an isolationist as many claim, he would emulate or at least lean towards the nonexistent foreign policies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and not John Paul II.

Seeing how he was a billionaire before gaining the office of the presidency, which means he was required to attend that Vatican CEO meeting long before running for office, and as expected things needed to get done to assure the agenda of Rome is escalated. The fact he was a billionaire with vested interests in many nations means he has a ton of political contacts in each of those nations wherein he has already made friends where it counts to assure his real estate deals get special treatment, and yes that includes tax breaks since he is bringing all sorts of jobs to each area he builds in (is this why he never released his tax forms?) Nary a money worshipping politician is going to ignore the chance to gain financially from any big business looking to set up shop in their neck of the woods. So, getting his foot in the door is bound to be even easier for him to do than it was for Obama.

As the article outlines and even posts a list of meetings Trump has already had the last few months, he has already had 50% more meetings with foreign leaders than Obama did by the same time in office. And yes, this reminds me of another controversial political leader that when he gained office in 1978, he true broke records in political globetrotting. That's right, directly after John Paul I was murdered for reason I suspect had to do with his disapproval of Masons in the Vatican inner garrisons. John Paul II on the other hand was a man used to wicked practices as well as a war criminal that helped the Nazi's kill the Jews, was then elected by the prelates of Rome to go forth and make allies with as many nations as possible before he was old enough to die off. This is why both John Paul I & II were unusually young when elected. The Jesuit general, or "black Pope" as most know him by, was very aware of his dying god's time running out and so they needed both a charismatic as well as a very young and energetic Pope to be able to go forth for more than the usual few years the older Popes had to do their work.

 And by the way, this book by the Groff's was written in 1992 and the Toronto Blessing movement began in January of 1994. Truth is, there are many ancient books that speak of what we see in many churches today as not only being demonic, but of the Hindu philosophy known as Yoga. I am sad to say that many Christians today see no wrong in borrowing the bodily moves from this demonic cult as a way to exercise and I must say, Deuteronomy 12:29-32 is plain, as followers of the Creator God we must take heed and not follow after such things or we will be ensnared by them. There are many honest God fearing people all over the world that delved into Yoga to lose weight or enhance their awareness. When Satan sees he has a foothold he allows them to lose the weight and gain the mental capacity they crave and in so doing their look upon Yoga as a viable force to seek after and before you know it, they bow to Buddha in worship and lose their salvation for all eternity. In short, when you play with fire, you must always expect to be burned.

I could also spend much time in showing all the new and strange religions popping up that prove this prophecy fulfilled in how actual demonic doctrines are now looked upon and exciting and new. In fact, I just received an article the other day where the Jedi religion of the Star Wars movies has actually grown to be the most popular alternative faith today! In a recent Census in England and Wales they found 176,632 people claiming to be Jedi Knights. This makes them the most popular alternative faith and seventh most popular over all! Worse yet, when they did a Census in 2001 that number was a whopping 390,127 people claiming belief in the Jedi creed. The number has dropped by 50% yes, but it's still large enough to hold the number one spot. (See article here)

Now I can go on and on about numerous other strange beliefs running rampant throughout the church like purgatory, limbo, ghosts or even candle and incense burning, but I think you get my point. This prophecy has been fulfilled in a very apparent manner.

ANSWER:
The verse they speak of is...

• 2 Corinthians 5:8, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

MANY use this passage as a basis of "proof" that because it says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord," it must mean Paul is advocating life after death immediate. One point many miss in regards to this passage is the fact that Paul is commenting on the carnal nature of the people that should be "absent" so as to walk "in the Lord" as true and obedient Christians. With that said, do these next two passages declare Paul dead and speaking from the grave?

• 1 Corinthians 5:3, "For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,”
• Colossians 2:5, "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ."

The meaning is obvious when taken in context to that which is written. To be absent from the body is to deny the flesh and therefore present with the Lord as we walk in the Spirit. Romans 6:6-8 put it ever so plainly when it said, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:" And John 3:6 says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Let's not forget Romans 8:1 wherein it says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

But to further illustrate this fact. We need to look into what happened in John chapter 11. If believers in Christ go immediately to Heaven the second they die, then I must ask three questions.

#1, why would Jesus be so cruel to Lazarus who was supposedly already in Heavenly splendor 4 whole days? I saw cruelty because Jesus rose Him from the dead and Lazarus, according to those that preach immediate life after death, forced to leave the splendor and eternal peace and beauty of Heaven to come back to this dark and dismal planet filled with sin and temptation?

#2 If Lazarus was already in Heaven according to some, if he went into a life of sin would he then go to hell when he died again?

#3 If Lazarus really went to Heaven, and spent 4 days there, why doesn’t the Word of God describe what he saw while there? Do not patriarchs and prophets describe it when they are there in vision?

1. Why should Jesus save us?
Titus 3:5 __________________________________________________________________________________

2. How are we saved?
Ephesians 2:8, 9 ____________________________________________________________________________
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean?” “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” “That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” Proverbs 20:9; Zechariah 4:6; 1 Corinthians 2:5.

3. Yet what is an important element in faith?
James 2:14-26 ______________________________________________________________________________

4. Jesus came to call whom to what?
Mark 2:17 _________________________________________________________________________________

5. How does one repent?
Isaiah 55:7 ________________________________________________________________________________

6. What should we be asking God to do for us?
Psalm 51:2 ____________________________________________________________________________          “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23, 24.

7. When will our search for God be successful?
Jeremiah 29:13 ____________________________________________________________________________
               
8. What if I regard iniquity in my heart?
Psalm 66:18 _______________________________________________________________________________

9. Jesus wants people who want to be made what?
John 5:6 __________________________________________________________________________________

10. Why will only a few receive eternal life?
Matthew 7:14 ______________________________________________________________________________

11. Who will not be worthy?

Matthew 10:37 _____________________________________________________________________________

12. Will God accept a divided commitment?
Matthew 6:24 _____________________________________________________________________________  

13. What is the cost of discipleship?
Luke 14:33 ________________________________________________________________________________
               
14. What did Paul say he did daily?
1 Corinthians 15:31 ________________________________________________________________________
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

15. If we want Jesus, what do we need to do?
Luke 9:23 _________________________________________________________________________________
               
16. When we come in that way, will He reject us?
John 6:37 ________________________________________________________________________________  

17. When we confess our sins to Him, what two things will He do for us?
1 John 1:9 _________________________________________________________________________________
               
18. Must we do anything with our sins besides confessing them?
Proverbs 28:13 _____________________________________________________________________________ 

19. When we give up our sins, how far does He remove them from us?
Psalm 103:12 ______________________________________________________________________________ 

20. What if we are guilty of the darkest of sins?
Isaiah 1:18 ________________________________________________________________________________
               
21. He will do this for us upon what two conditions?
Isaiah 1:19 _______________________________________________________________________________   

22. Can I obey God without His power?
John 15:5 _________________________________________________________________________________