FBI director Christopher A. Wray told a Senate committee in 2017 that the agency is actively investigating about 2000 potential terrorism cases. These are typically cases where, through a wide array of “snooping” tools, from old-fashioned shoe leather to “spook tools,” the agency discovers potential terror threats/plans against the United States.

Wray gave a very stern warning about what was on the near horizon for America. It is pretty bleak. Pretty scary stuff, frankly. If we think the horror brought to us by the nut-case shooter in Vegas was bad, as the saying goes, “You ain’t seen nuthin‘ yet.”

Wray outlined the threat for the Senators, telling them of the horrific potential posed to us by drones. They can be armed with virtually anything from toxins to grenades. Muslim terrorists have already been doing this overseas, in those countries that have been accepting immigrants for decades. It is estimated that in a few years, the Muslim population will outnumber the non-Muslim population in much of Europe and in some American states where their population growth outnumbers the American non-Muslims 3 to 1. Terrorism is on the rise in every nation with a growing Muslim immigration. Terrorists are being “home grown” in every European nation. It is a matter of time before our own “home grown” terrorists strike us…again. Drones are everywhere and is fast becoming a weapon of choice for terrorists.

 Wray said: “We’ve seen that overseas already with growing frequency…. I think the expectation is that it’s coming here imminently.” He noted that drones were “relatively easy to acquire, relatively easy to operate, and quite difficult to disrupt and monitor.”

We’re entering new times, a new era, a time of troubles. We’ve been blessed to have had relative peace in our time. It would appear those times are fading before our eyes as the Radical Left here at home, with hidden agendas, combined with gangs and illegals embedded within our borders with definite plans of wide-spread criminal activity which includes murdering our law enforcement people, stretch our local security defenses. Terrorists from abroad, hidden within our porous borders, are stretching our national security defenses in our efforts to locate and nullify their threats. Add to that, a series of catastrophic events that are stretching our budget quicker than a bunch of congressmen voting on a spending bill.

Richard Valdemar, a retired Sgt. from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department with 33 years of experience combating gangs, said: “They (gangs) are potentially a vicarious surrogate army to be used by international terrorists. To continue to deny that this nexus exists is to ignore valuable clues to the prevention of larger more serious criminal activity and possibly the next 9/11, Mumbai, or Beslan.”

Those who discount a Supreme Being will look around for a “superman” to rescue us. Some have declared that our President is the man for these times, put in place by God for such an hour. Having no prophetic or other such devining abilities, I decline to comment, other than to say, “I hope you’re right.”

I do know this much. There is a God. He is still on the throne. It is pointless to live in fear (which is not the same thing as having fear). King David, a man’s man, was a warrior able to take down a real giant who was an athletic, agile, powerful man named Goliath. This giant was perhaps the world’s first real terrorist. But, David, a young man much smaller took the giant terrorist down. He did it with stone and an overwhelming sense of confidence in…his God, not himself. He sensed that his strength to battle and his preservation came from God. But, this man of war, this man who fought many battles, such that the women made and sang songs about him, came upon times when he was afraid.

His answer to his fear was rather simple.

Psa 56:1-13 To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. (2) Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. (3) What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. (4) In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. (5) Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. (6) They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. (7) Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God. (8) Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? (9) When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. (10) In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. (11) In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. (12) Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. (13) For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?