Thoughts/OpEd Page 6
From a Christian Perspective; From a Drummer's Perspective
(and lately, the Spring of 2020, an American's perspective)
Some thoughts, some ideas, some concepts, some principles to contemplate.
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500. CP on Drum Shells
501. Comparing Bearing Edges
They Told Us What They Were Going to Do
502. A Cardinal Takes His Stand
Pizza and Consent
503. Seeds!
Now THIS is POWERFUL
504. Heroes Are Not Enough
505. TST Strikes Again
Dr. Li-Meng Yan
506. Control
You Cannot Make This Up
507. The Shrinking of Earth
508. Is This It?
The OMP. Horse-hooved Thugs
509. The Nephilim
510. Oh, Canada!
Four Minutes of Horror
511. Protesting is White Privilege?!?!
WARNING: Etymotic Research
A Morality Pill?
Some Days, Just Stay Away
512. Signs and Cell Phones
Need an Explanation for Ukraine? RT.
513. My Drums Are Hilarious?
SICK, SICK, SICK, PSYCHOPATHIC SICK
First Shots Fired, From Who and Why
UPDATE: Does Putin Have a Point of View?
514. Finland Persecutes Open Christianity
515. Putin Said What?!?!
Call Me Whatever You Want
516. Why Are We Here?
517. Something Is Coming
518. Assassination, Anyone?
The First Casualty of War
519. Who's a Badass
520. Separation
521. Archbishop Vigano Strikes Again
A Super-educational Stew Peters Program
522. The Conscience Seared
523. MDM
524. Veggies! Ugh.
525. Catastrophism
526. Only the Smell Gets Worse
Evidence
The Burning of a Tower of Babel
Daylight 'Losing' Time
527. Four Drums
528. Another "Catastrophe"
529. WHICH WAR?
"A Third World War"
Whence Come the Fleas
Am I a Peasant?
530. Exoplanets
531. The Removal of Religion and Science
532. The Removal of Religion and Science, Part 2
A Ukrainian Space Ark?!?
I Used to Deny This. Not Anymore
533. Greg Reese, Greg Reese, Greg Reese!
Just One More Reason
Heart Disease
534. The Pope and I Agree?
The Real Revolution Coming
Patriot Purge
535. Sunset is Coming
Rasanen, Pohjola UPDATE
536. Elegance of Numbers Point to a Master Mathematician
537. Guard the Mind
538. Spies and War and Calendars
13 Seconds of Massive Reality Check
539. Of Course We're at WAR!
"I am Opposed to Self-Defense"?!?!?!
540. First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois
Wait. The Fourth Empire Is Coming?
OMG. Snake Venom?!?!
UPDATE
541. Is It Just a Calendar?
542. Vigano Draws Lines in the Sand
1500 pages of UFO Reports
543. A New Drum Shell Company
544. Another Invitation to D.I.Y.
MORE LOCKDOWNS?!?
545. Too Comfortable to Go Home
546. Zeitgeist
Yep. It's the Sound of the Heads
Rene' Creemers
Dylan Elise
547. Back to Drum Shells: Three Compared
548. Ancient Megalithic Technology
Dr. Bryan Ardis Speaks Out Again - The Jesuit Order
549. Legend Continues to be Out There
550. Okay, Maybe Five Final Drums
COVID: A Summary
1984: The Ministry of Truth
551. Blindness
They Don't Just Gamble in Las Vegas
552. The Vatican and UFOs
553. Disagree? Sue Them.
554. Response to a UFO Video Presentation
The Explosion That is Damien Schmitt
555. "All We Are Saying..."
556. Just Some Thoughts
557. Sagan/Tyson
558. 2,000 Mules
559. No Foundation, Everything Collapses
560. Russia Is America's Enemy?
561. Happy, man. We're All Happy.
562. An Example of "Babylon"
563. A Point to Consider
564. Futurism vs. Historicism Again
565. Bird Houses?
566. Monkey Pox
567. Come, Let Us Reason Together
568. A Difference in Perspectives
569. Congressional UAP Hearing
570. Wait. What?! Jesus Sinned???
571. Facing the Mixing Monster
572. Pelosi, Rome, and Fellowship
573. The Dominoes Will Fall
574. Uvalde
575. Alan White Passes Away
576. 'The Chosen'
577. The NRA Convention
578. "Please Don't Judge Him"
"Something Weird"
No, We Can't All Just Get Along
579. Who Controls the Narrative?
580. Constitution Not Absolute?
581. Sharing
582. Just Sayin.' Just Askin.'
WE TOLD YOU SO
Confusion Is Confusion
583. Two-Thirds of Christians Don't Know How to Witness
584. The Loss of Liberty and Morality
585. When Do We Reach Universal Pestilence?
1 in 9 Ain't Bad
586. Church Bells vs. Calls to Prayer
Cruz Missiles
587. Sums Up Firearm Ownership
588. Another Papal Resignation?
The Propaganda State
The State of Pregnancy
The Tytler Cycle
Kim Dotcom - The Coming Global Catastrophe
589. Do You Really Need All Those Drums and Cymbals?
590. TROUBLE
591. More Confusion
592. Violence!
593. Just Stop One Day a Week. Guess Which One.
594. The Wood Debate: Drums/Guitars
595. Sentient A.I.?
596. An Accidental Cuttlefish?
"What is a Woman" Documentary
597. Idiot Dinosaurs
598. How Can It Be a Surprise?
599. Why Has Drag Become Drama?
600. Is Artificial Intelligence the Coming Wave?
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500. CP on Drum Shells - February 10, 2022
Some years back I bought a whole bunch of back issues of Not So Modern Drummer magazines. I peeked at a few of them but, never dug in. With the ice storm and loss of power, I pulled the box out and found an issue I hadn't looked at yet. Candle light was not really happening for me so, when the power came back on but, the internet was still down, I went back to the magazines.
In the Vol. 2, #5, Spring/Summer 2000 issue is an article on the drum sets Carl Palmer had used up to that point: Ludwig, Premier, Yamaha, Gretsch and Remo, plus his renowned stainless steel set: perhaps the greatest innovative work of art in the history of drum sets. Then he had other custom wood sets made with component parts from Brady, Gladstone and custom metal works manufacturers. That took us to 2000.
Carl Palmer is one of the five biggest influences upon my playing. My first exposure to him was Arthur Brown's "Fire," though I had no idea Palmer was the drummer on that recording. When ELP hit, I was an instant fan and Palmer blew us all away with fantastic abilities not generally seen in Rock. He raised the bar for anybody and everybody looking to refine their skills and the artform of playing a drum set.
He's very picky as a player with his instruments. And most of that has to do with hardware, not so much drum shells. He looks at the entire kit with meticulous detail. Make a great shell but, not hardware? He moved on. Make nice hardware but, not the finest shells? He moved on. He's rarely seen endorsing drum companies throughout his career because he moves on. He called himself, "high risk." He's known for moving on. He mentions most players go through three companies in their careers settling on one. He went through five or six and still searches for - "the one." That is especially true for snare drums.
Anyway, in this article, covering a career of manufactured drums, both modern and vintage gear, he makes a comment I must reproduce here because it is the bottom line. People can throw me into the fire or under the bus all they want but, I know the truth; therefore, I know the ultra, super-hype of fictitious "rubbish," as the Brits like to say, put out by manufacturers of plywood drum shells, and others, as well. Here's the quote, and the truth, on page 21, the section - "Thoughts on Customized Gear:
"Now none of this means anything these days because if you stick a mic in front of a drum - give me the cheapest drum set - some good heads and some good mics and I'll process it and make it sound as good as my Gladstones. I'm not a fool - there has to be a certain amount of love and artistic input - gratifying to the eye - I enjoy that part as much as the sound. The story with a high end drum kit is you set it up and it sounds the absolute bollocks without any graphic equalisers. That's the only difference. You can get that sound out of a cheap kit but you've got to carry a lot of hardware. I still use my Remo drum kit and it will sound as good on record."
It's interesting. I have a friend up in Oklahoma. He owns over five dozen snare drums and ten or eleven drum sets, and the one set he claims sounds different than all the rest, are his Remos. I visited him a couple years ago and spent a day jamming and hanging out but, I didn't hear the Remo kit and we decided to get together again sometime and do a tom comparison video for the drum shell series on my YT channel.
Aside from any possible differences particleboard shells can make (because that is essentially what Remo shells are), as far as sound, what Palmer states is absolutely correct. Any differences are slight, and he makes that observation but, as an artist, he likes the idea of details and meticulous craftsmanship. The high end kit may sound great without any EQ but, with all the bells and whistles in today's recording software and all, anything can be made to sound good. The player might not feel as "artistic" or "musical" behind the inexpensive set but, get over that issue, if it fits, and put your passion into the music and when all is said and done, nobody is going to know you played an inexpensive drum set on any particular recording. Good heads, proper seating on the bearing edge, good tuning, good mics, all the software and anybody is good to go. Mounting of toms can be an issue for resonance and sustain, and floor tom legs grounding out on floors, as well but, both of those matters are easy to fix; utilizing ways to isolate the drums from issues that cancel out full-frequency response.
To those who believe I must be wrong, or crazy, or both, prove it. That's all I have asked. Show us the significant differences in sound the inexpensive drum has to the mid-level or high end drum - same heads, same mics, same room, etc. There's the obvious reason the drum companies themselves do not do such comparisons for consumers. There are no significant differences. "Nuances and subtleties," maybe. All lost in the complexity of sound a band produces, live or on record.
Yes, again, inexpensive drums do not pay attention to bearing edges and seating of drum heads. That is why I made sure on my YT test drums I redid any edges that were problematic. You'll get no argument from me there. If the finest made heads cannot sit correctly on the edge, tuning and tone become difficult, if not even impossible, for developing an optimum sound. The inexpensive, beginner drums are not about artistic inspiration in the details. They are about giving a new student player something to learn on. That said, most companies go the extra distance to put good edges on drums in all lines now. It's just a fact of selling merchandise today. If you don't, others will, and take that share of the market.
Even hardware has gotten exponentially better on starter drums. Not road worthy, no but, much better than starter drums when I was young. For mid-level drums, which is the lion's share of all drum markets combined, great sound and hardware is available, right out of the box.
My stacked plywood ring drums: as inexpensive as a drum can be made, and people may dislike the look but, nobody has said the sound is not as good as anything else out there. They have their quirks and more money input would allow for creating a better drum specimen, all-around but, that's just not necessary for me to be inspired to play here in my home.
Pay what you want. Just do not believe all the extra money is purchasing a much better sound. Not as far as drum shells are concerned. That is not an endorsement of beginner drums. That is an observation against all the super-hype companies put into advertising and explaining their proprietary drum shells. It's mostly erroneous nonsense.
In the Vol. 2, #5, Spring/Summer 2000 issue is an article on the drum sets Carl Palmer had used up to that point: Ludwig, Premier, Yamaha, Gretsch and Remo, plus his renowned stainless steel set: perhaps the greatest innovative work of art in the history of drum sets. Then he had other custom wood sets made with component parts from Brady, Gladstone and custom metal works manufacturers. That took us to 2000.
Carl Palmer is one of the five biggest influences upon my playing. My first exposure to him was Arthur Brown's "Fire," though I had no idea Palmer was the drummer on that recording. When ELP hit, I was an instant fan and Palmer blew us all away with fantastic abilities not generally seen in Rock. He raised the bar for anybody and everybody looking to refine their skills and the artform of playing a drum set.
He's very picky as a player with his instruments. And most of that has to do with hardware, not so much drum shells. He looks at the entire kit with meticulous detail. Make a great shell but, not hardware? He moved on. Make nice hardware but, not the finest shells? He moved on. He's rarely seen endorsing drum companies throughout his career because he moves on. He called himself, "high risk." He's known for moving on. He mentions most players go through three companies in their careers settling on one. He went through five or six and still searches for - "the one." That is especially true for snare drums.
Anyway, in this article, covering a career of manufactured drums, both modern and vintage gear, he makes a comment I must reproduce here because it is the bottom line. People can throw me into the fire or under the bus all they want but, I know the truth; therefore, I know the ultra, super-hype of fictitious "rubbish," as the Brits like to say, put out by manufacturers of plywood drum shells, and others, as well. Here's the quote, and the truth, on page 21, the section - "Thoughts on Customized Gear:
"Now none of this means anything these days because if you stick a mic in front of a drum - give me the cheapest drum set - some good heads and some good mics and I'll process it and make it sound as good as my Gladstones. I'm not a fool - there has to be a certain amount of love and artistic input - gratifying to the eye - I enjoy that part as much as the sound. The story with a high end drum kit is you set it up and it sounds the absolute bollocks without any graphic equalisers. That's the only difference. You can get that sound out of a cheap kit but you've got to carry a lot of hardware. I still use my Remo drum kit and it will sound as good on record."
It's interesting. I have a friend up in Oklahoma. He owns over five dozen snare drums and ten or eleven drum sets, and the one set he claims sounds different than all the rest, are his Remos. I visited him a couple years ago and spent a day jamming and hanging out but, I didn't hear the Remo kit and we decided to get together again sometime and do a tom comparison video for the drum shell series on my YT channel.
Aside from any possible differences particleboard shells can make (because that is essentially what Remo shells are), as far as sound, what Palmer states is absolutely correct. Any differences are slight, and he makes that observation but, as an artist, he likes the idea of details and meticulous craftsmanship. The high end kit may sound great without any EQ but, with all the bells and whistles in today's recording software and all, anything can be made to sound good. The player might not feel as "artistic" or "musical" behind the inexpensive set but, get over that issue, if it fits, and put your passion into the music and when all is said and done, nobody is going to know you played an inexpensive drum set on any particular recording. Good heads, proper seating on the bearing edge, good tuning, good mics, all the software and anybody is good to go. Mounting of toms can be an issue for resonance and sustain, and floor tom legs grounding out on floors, as well but, both of those matters are easy to fix; utilizing ways to isolate the drums from issues that cancel out full-frequency response.
To those who believe I must be wrong, or crazy, or both, prove it. That's all I have asked. Show us the significant differences in sound the inexpensive drum has to the mid-level or high end drum - same heads, same mics, same room, etc. There's the obvious reason the drum companies themselves do not do such comparisons for consumers. There are no significant differences. "Nuances and subtleties," maybe. All lost in the complexity of sound a band produces, live or on record.
Yes, again, inexpensive drums do not pay attention to bearing edges and seating of drum heads. That is why I made sure on my YT test drums I redid any edges that were problematic. You'll get no argument from me there. If the finest made heads cannot sit correctly on the edge, tuning and tone become difficult, if not even impossible, for developing an optimum sound. The inexpensive, beginner drums are not about artistic inspiration in the details. They are about giving a new student player something to learn on. That said, most companies go the extra distance to put good edges on drums in all lines now. It's just a fact of selling merchandise today. If you don't, others will, and take that share of the market.
Even hardware has gotten exponentially better on starter drums. Not road worthy, no but, much better than starter drums when I was young. For mid-level drums, which is the lion's share of all drum markets combined, great sound and hardware is available, right out of the box.
My stacked plywood ring drums: as inexpensive as a drum can be made, and people may dislike the look but, nobody has said the sound is not as good as anything else out there. They have their quirks and more money input would allow for creating a better drum specimen, all-around but, that's just not necessary for me to be inspired to play here in my home.
Pay what you want. Just do not believe all the extra money is purchasing a much better sound. Not as far as drum shells are concerned. That is not an endorsement of beginner drums. That is an observation against all the super-hype companies put into advertising and explaining their proprietary drum shells. It's mostly erroneous nonsense.
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501. Comparing Bearing Edges - February 11, 2022
I just watched a YT video on bearing edges. Most of the time, maybe all the time, videos on edges don't do any kind of comparisons. They just make claims about what bearing edges do to the sound of a drum and show how edges are done on router tables, etc.
When I did my videos on edges, parts 6, 7 and 8 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB-B0fqr3c part 6 ) I wanted to make comparisons, real world comparisons. With six different edges, using three different shells, I showed variations are slight to none. A bearing edge is a muting device, essentially. The more shell surface that touches the heads the more muting you get in the overall frequency ranges, with slight variations in that range, per head and drum. The inside cut can also effect the head's vibration rates around its perimeter, which effects harmonics. As I always say, nuances and subtleties exist in the overall character or personality of the sound: sustain, resonance, sound-body /sound-profile of a drum.
The video I just watched was made in a German recording studio, in July, 2021. After some time introducing the people involved they get down to it. ST drum company made four identical toms. They all had Remo Ambassadors on them, batter and reso. They claimed the drums were tuned the same but, I heard differences a little too wide to be called the same. Getting four drums made of wood, an organic substance with cellular structure that literally breathes and moves, is difficult. I would never expect perfection but, the pitch differences were a little too noticeable.
Four edges were put on the drums:
1. A full, single round-over outside to straight shell wall inside.
2. A slight round-over outside, w/30 degree counter-cut inside.
3. A slight round-over outside, w/45 degree counter-cut inside.
4. A slight round-over outside, w/60 degree counter-cut inside.
I watched and listened, wearing my Etymotic Research ER4 XR ear monitors.
The demonstration showed a frequency graph readout for each drum.
Were there differences? You know what? It's meaningless. I would defy anyone, ANYONE, to tell me what differences they hear in the context of a full set of drums and cymbals in the middle of a band, with the edges portrayed. The differences were slight, owning to what you are hearing: a drum with single strokes every 3 seconds. Small differences of fundamental pitch and how high, mid and low frequencies changed were demonstrated.
Differences? Yes. The people involved commented how dramatic the differences were and I sat there thinking, did I just watch and hear the same thing they did? Are they serious?
I'm serious about this. Drums are not a piano. Drums are not an acoustic guitar. Drums are not orchestral chimes. They are very basic, ancient percussion instruments comprised of a cylinder and a membrane or two, somehow placed under tension.
The sound of the drum is produced by a hand or stick striking a membrane and the membrane vibrates and resonates at a certain speed to produce a pitch. The sound wave leaves the membrane and moves down the cylinder and out, or gets trapped, resonating off the bottom head, back and forth until the concussion force in the air column weakens to dissipation. The density of the cylinder wall and the depth of the cylinder will offer a slight amplification of the sound wave to enhance or detract from its overall frequency range.
When people get so intricate with frequency ranges of a drum one needs to see on a graph to realize, something is so wrong, I cannot contain my perturbation. Common sense literally flies out a window with people. Playing drums is not messing around with filters and sine waves on a synthesizer. It is the fundamental aspect of striking a stretched membrane, and the fact is, where you strike the membrane, how you strike the membrane, and with what you strike the membrane has far more to do with the sound of a drum than anything the cylinder contributes.
Even though I make no argument about a drum being a unit of components and how it all contributes to its sound, how the drum is mounted in place has more to do with the overall sound of a drum than what the cylinder is made of or how it is treated.
Remember, even if you buy a drum set that will never leave your room, every room contributes a great deal to how a drum sounds to your ears or what a microphone picks up. Even if you never play in a band and never compete with any other sound, NOBODY sits at a drum set and strikes each drum every three seconds. NOBODY hits each tom in the exact same spot. Bass drums do get struck in the exact same spot. Snare drums generally get struck within a much smaller diametric range. Toms, because we are swinging arms extended from us, moving in a much greater physical range of motion, generally creates a larger diameter strike zone that develops drum to drum, especially in improvisation and off the cuff, in the moment execution. The more drums, the more memory involved in how the strike zones cascade across each surface around the kit, diameter to diameter. That is real world drumming. And the variations are a universe away from striking a drum once every three seconds.
Then the video changes things a little. And my points are made. They take drum 1 and put a coated Ambassador on it and tune it higher, and they take tom 4 and put an Emperor on it and tune it much lower and the drums then portray differences that would get noticed in the context of a band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5f94hBS2WA
There is a reason I made the video with the mystery drum set -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNhTW3jCz8Y.
When you cannot see, and all you can do is hear, your ears will tell you what is happening, not manufacturer super-hype on proprietary drum shells. And what happens is; the fundamental pitch each membrane is tensioned at and the pitch created is what is heard. That's all there is time for. Music infiltrates and masks everything else of the subtleties and nuances drums may produce.
My convictions remain. I honestly hoped that video would show me something I could really hang a hat on. Didn't happen. Not as far as real world music situations.
Do I hear differences in my "Leather" set, with mostly Keller shells (though not all), my stacked plywood ring drums, and my tabletop drums? Sure. Would I know which set was which if everything was tuned the same, and someone else played them and I heard them on a recording. Maybe? Maybe not, because the sound of a drum, ultimately, is the heads. Same heads, same tension, same room, same mics, same player, same sticks; the differences are minimal.
Play what you want, for whatever reasons you want, of course. Just use critical thinking and common sense before you spend the really big bucks and think those super-hyped shells will make a big difference in the sound of the drums.
When I did my videos on edges, parts 6, 7 and 8 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB-B0fqr3c part 6 ) I wanted to make comparisons, real world comparisons. With six different edges, using three different shells, I showed variations are slight to none. A bearing edge is a muting device, essentially. The more shell surface that touches the heads the more muting you get in the overall frequency ranges, with slight variations in that range, per head and drum. The inside cut can also effect the head's vibration rates around its perimeter, which effects harmonics. As I always say, nuances and subtleties exist in the overall character or personality of the sound: sustain, resonance, sound-body /sound-profile of a drum.
The video I just watched was made in a German recording studio, in July, 2021. After some time introducing the people involved they get down to it. ST drum company made four identical toms. They all had Remo Ambassadors on them, batter and reso. They claimed the drums were tuned the same but, I heard differences a little too wide to be called the same. Getting four drums made of wood, an organic substance with cellular structure that literally breathes and moves, is difficult. I would never expect perfection but, the pitch differences were a little too noticeable.
Four edges were put on the drums:
1. A full, single round-over outside to straight shell wall inside.
2. A slight round-over outside, w/30 degree counter-cut inside.
3. A slight round-over outside, w/45 degree counter-cut inside.
4. A slight round-over outside, w/60 degree counter-cut inside.
I watched and listened, wearing my Etymotic Research ER4 XR ear monitors.
The demonstration showed a frequency graph readout for each drum.
Were there differences? You know what? It's meaningless. I would defy anyone, ANYONE, to tell me what differences they hear in the context of a full set of drums and cymbals in the middle of a band, with the edges portrayed. The differences were slight, owning to what you are hearing: a drum with single strokes every 3 seconds. Small differences of fundamental pitch and how high, mid and low frequencies changed were demonstrated.
Differences? Yes. The people involved commented how dramatic the differences were and I sat there thinking, did I just watch and hear the same thing they did? Are they serious?
I'm serious about this. Drums are not a piano. Drums are not an acoustic guitar. Drums are not orchestral chimes. They are very basic, ancient percussion instruments comprised of a cylinder and a membrane or two, somehow placed under tension.
The sound of the drum is produced by a hand or stick striking a membrane and the membrane vibrates and resonates at a certain speed to produce a pitch. The sound wave leaves the membrane and moves down the cylinder and out, or gets trapped, resonating off the bottom head, back and forth until the concussion force in the air column weakens to dissipation. The density of the cylinder wall and the depth of the cylinder will offer a slight amplification of the sound wave to enhance or detract from its overall frequency range.
When people get so intricate with frequency ranges of a drum one needs to see on a graph to realize, something is so wrong, I cannot contain my perturbation. Common sense literally flies out a window with people. Playing drums is not messing around with filters and sine waves on a synthesizer. It is the fundamental aspect of striking a stretched membrane, and the fact is, where you strike the membrane, how you strike the membrane, and with what you strike the membrane has far more to do with the sound of a drum than anything the cylinder contributes.
Even though I make no argument about a drum being a unit of components and how it all contributes to its sound, how the drum is mounted in place has more to do with the overall sound of a drum than what the cylinder is made of or how it is treated.
Remember, even if you buy a drum set that will never leave your room, every room contributes a great deal to how a drum sounds to your ears or what a microphone picks up. Even if you never play in a band and never compete with any other sound, NOBODY sits at a drum set and strikes each drum every three seconds. NOBODY hits each tom in the exact same spot. Bass drums do get struck in the exact same spot. Snare drums generally get struck within a much smaller diametric range. Toms, because we are swinging arms extended from us, moving in a much greater physical range of motion, generally creates a larger diameter strike zone that develops drum to drum, especially in improvisation and off the cuff, in the moment execution. The more drums, the more memory involved in how the strike zones cascade across each surface around the kit, diameter to diameter. That is real world drumming. And the variations are a universe away from striking a drum once every three seconds.
Then the video changes things a little. And my points are made. They take drum 1 and put a coated Ambassador on it and tune it higher, and they take tom 4 and put an Emperor on it and tune it much lower and the drums then portray differences that would get noticed in the context of a band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5f94hBS2WA
There is a reason I made the video with the mystery drum set -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNhTW3jCz8Y.
When you cannot see, and all you can do is hear, your ears will tell you what is happening, not manufacturer super-hype on proprietary drum shells. And what happens is; the fundamental pitch each membrane is tensioned at and the pitch created is what is heard. That's all there is time for. Music infiltrates and masks everything else of the subtleties and nuances drums may produce.
My convictions remain. I honestly hoped that video would show me something I could really hang a hat on. Didn't happen. Not as far as real world music situations.
Do I hear differences in my "Leather" set, with mostly Keller shells (though not all), my stacked plywood ring drums, and my tabletop drums? Sure. Would I know which set was which if everything was tuned the same, and someone else played them and I heard them on a recording. Maybe? Maybe not, because the sound of a drum, ultimately, is the heads. Same heads, same tension, same room, same mics, same player, same sticks; the differences are minimal.
Play what you want, for whatever reasons you want, of course. Just use critical thinking and common sense before you spend the really big bucks and think those super-hyped shells will make a big difference in the sound of the drums.
They Told Us What They Were Going To Do
I am pretty sure anybody and everybody who comes to the site knows what is going on, and why. The dastardly and despicable things Leftists are have done, are doing, and will continue to do have become blatant and so in our faces we can know with full assurance nothing will stop these devils and puppets. They are too blind to see how their lies and stupidity hardly goes past their noses and falls flat to the ground. If the Press were not as bad and culpable they'd have nothing but, useful idiots to do their bidding.
That said, they told us years ago what they want, how they were going to get it, and nobody would stop them.
Check this video out and see the record. They really hid nothing. Their elitist attitude makes them feel invincible.
https://principia-scientific.com/shrink-the-worlds-population-secret-2009-meeting-of-billionaires/
Because no one knows the actual count of human beings affected by the Covid injections, nor what the long term effect will be on the billions injected, for sure the elites believe they will get what they want.
"1984" is truly upon us.
That said, they told us years ago what they want, how they were going to get it, and nobody would stop them.
Check this video out and see the record. They really hid nothing. Their elitist attitude makes them feel invincible.
https://principia-scientific.com/shrink-the-worlds-population-secret-2009-meeting-of-billionaires/
Because no one knows the actual count of human beings affected by the Covid injections, nor what the long term effect will be on the billions injected, for sure the elites believe they will get what they want.
"1984" is truly upon us.
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502. A Cardinal Takes His Stand - February 12, 2022
No, not a baseball or football player. A Cardinal from the Roman Catholic Church. Interesting news to contemplate.
Once again, I realize most people visiting and reading things at this website are probably more interested in drums and drumming than world events. At the same time, I believe 2020 changed the parameters for life in this world for all people. Drums and drumming are hobbies and passions. They may also be the platform used to make a living for a small sector of society but, freedom, liberty, tyranny, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, crimes against humanity... those are far more important subjects affecting us all.
Within that, for me, for the last, almost 43 years, is Bible prophecy and the return of Christ. That is the biggest event in history no one will escape the impact of. No One.
While I am not a Roman Catholic (I was raised one), I believe the RCC, its Papacy and the Vatican nation, plays a heavy role in events leading up to the second coming of Christ, and I have shared some of the more major aspects of that prophetic journey here on these pages.
This week, I saw an article that could be a tipper, a real watershed event-maker. A Roman Catholic cardinal has come out against RC teaching on the subject of homosexuality, creating a very interesting position for the Pope to be in. Remember, Pontifex Maximus is in the position of ultimate, infallible authority according to Catholic teaching, if and when he "speaks from the chair" of Peter. Roman Catholics, all 1.3 billion of them, are divided on many issues, and Francis is in a position to decide many of those matters but, every pope since 1870, when the doctrine of infallibility was determined, knows the fallout of such determination and dogma could be catastrophic. Creating range wars within the church is not part of the program, unless it's something deigned to weed out defectors and dissent and address it. When the Vatican became a nation-state, in 1929, the fallout increased from its own flock, to world dynamics. Big stuff.
Popes had authority throughout all of Europe down through the ages. The Protestant Reformation derailed that. The Jesuit Order was established to get that back, and the Jesuit Oath shows - by any means necessary. Moving from church business to international, political business is a pretty big jump. The popes know their role, century to century, decade to decade, time in the chair of Peter each one handles.
Two major things have developed.
1. The Bible predicts the rise and general acceptance of homosexuality throughout the world.
2. Roman Catholic doctrine denounces the practice of homosexuality.
3. The RCC is dividing over the practice.
4. A decision, "ex cathedra," 'from the chair;' meaning, the full authority of the office of Peter, chosen by Christ to be the first pope in RC teaching and doctrine, could trigger a civil war within the denomination or, work to bring Catholics together in a fateful journey to the end of its existence, and the entire world, prophetically speaking.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/liberal-cardinal-calls-revised-catholic-teaching-gays-2022-02-03/
I really dislike it when any news organization starts putting adjectives into its reports. They are generally subjective and pejorative. Referring to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, of Luxembourg, as a 'liberal' creates an aspect of the story Reuters wants readers to have, subjectively, not objectively. The world is now completely saturated with news, both sides, all sides, with heavy use of adjectives and adverbs designed to create news, create reactions; not report news and leave readers to decide for themselves.
"VATICAN CITY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A prominent liberal cardinal who leads a body representing European bishops has called for "fundamental revision" in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, and said it is wrong to fire Church workers for being gay.
"The remarks by Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich to the German Catholic news agency KNA were among the most direct calls ever by a Roman Catholic leader for change in teaching on one of the most controversial issues in the Church today.
"Hollerich is president of the pan-European grouping of Catholic bishops' conferences, known as COMECE.
"In the KNA interview, Hollerich was asked for his assessment of a campaign in which about 125 Catholic Church employees in Germany, including some priests, came out as LGBTQ, and about the Church's teachings on homosexuality.
"I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer true," he said in interview that was published on Tuesday in Germany.
"In another part Hollerich said: "I think it's time we make a fundamental revision of the doctrine""
What Francis does with this situation could be a watershed event. It could also be just more politics out of Vatican City-State that will drag on as the Pope watches the lay of the land and how the wind blows upon it.
Remember what Jesus stated: the way it was in Sodom and Gomorrah is the way it shall be when He returns. The condition of Sodom, obviously where the term "sodomy" comes from in the English language, was completely functioning as a homosexual culture. And not just homosexual but, a rogue and violent homosexual culture. Read Genesis 19, and that is obvious. That is what is building on Earth and has been throughout and since the mid-20th century.
"Hollerich, who did not elaborate on what aspects of the teaching he felt needed revision, said: "I also believe that we are thinking ahead in terms of doctrine. The way the pope has expressed himself in the past can lead to a change in doctrine.""
Hollerich has taken his place at ground zero. He's not moving. Homosexuals are welcome in his diocese. And anyone from the LGBTQ... community and culture will not be fired from a position in the church diocese and should not, anywhere in the world, as far as he is concerned and believes.
Popes can change, create doctrine. Don't think it's done often. It isn't. Plenty of Catholics in the 19th century thought the doctrine of infallibility was a really bad decision and would lead to problems. Plenty of modern Catholics, today, some of my own relatives, believe the pope is just a man with a position and no special connection to God that creates infallibility.
As I have mentioned before, the growth of the homosexual culture and its acceptance is one of, and may be the greatest sign of the times that Christ is coming. Say what you will about earthquakes and famine, wars and rumors of wars, etc., which all apply to signs of the times on a world-wide scale. Go back and forth on the details, statistics and minutiae of last-day events but, the continuing rise of the homosexual culture and its general acceptance in society is an enormous sign of our times of the breakdown of biblical morality in the Western world, and around the globe. This breakdown is affecting all society, religious and secular, among the most sincere of adherents who become entrapped in the allurements within the stressful nature of life building all around us. It is one of the reasons Islam grows, because its stand on homosexuality does not budge. America becomes the 'Great Satan' with things like this taking place. The West is a mess. The whole world shall become a mess, is becoming a moral quagmire and cesspool, biblically speaking. Islam has its own gig, equally as offensive to values and common sense. Nobody gets out of this without blame. Nobody, nothing. God is judging the world, all of it.
Christ, the Creator, is openly mocked in society and has been since the 60s. I'm sure you are now aware of the female comedian who announced she had taken all her shots, still retained her period, and mocked that Christ must love her more than anybody because she is still standing, and immediately fell to the floor and cracked her skull. The timing was about the most deliberate ever seen since fire rained down on Sodom but, was it the Lord? Or, was it just the coincidental impact of toxic injections flowing through her system?
Mocking Christ, mocking the reality of God, something regarded as completely ignorant, uncouth, worthless, offensive, and just plain stupid down through the last 2000 years in most civilized societies, has become commonplace in Western society. Another major sign of the times.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Now it is a matter of where this goes. Will Francis take Hollerich into his chambers and tell him what an idiot he is, or will Francis sit down and talk with him how this revision of doctrine can be executed? Perhaps neither. Timing is everything. Francis may let it all pass but, the homosexual wing of the RCC is unlikely to let this fade away. Whether or not a revision of Catholic doctrine takes place, homosexuality will continue to rise to be accepted as a legitimate, alternative lifestyle, if not just as normal as heterosexual life.
We are not just seeing cultural changes. We are watching events leading up to the collision of the Creator of this world, with this world, to judge this world, destroying this world, and take His people home.
I sincerely hope and pray you do not mock that reality, however it may collide with your worldview.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Once again, I realize most people visiting and reading things at this website are probably more interested in drums and drumming than world events. At the same time, I believe 2020 changed the parameters for life in this world for all people. Drums and drumming are hobbies and passions. They may also be the platform used to make a living for a small sector of society but, freedom, liberty, tyranny, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, crimes against humanity... those are far more important subjects affecting us all.
Within that, for me, for the last, almost 43 years, is Bible prophecy and the return of Christ. That is the biggest event in history no one will escape the impact of. No One.
While I am not a Roman Catholic (I was raised one), I believe the RCC, its Papacy and the Vatican nation, plays a heavy role in events leading up to the second coming of Christ, and I have shared some of the more major aspects of that prophetic journey here on these pages.
This week, I saw an article that could be a tipper, a real watershed event-maker. A Roman Catholic cardinal has come out against RC teaching on the subject of homosexuality, creating a very interesting position for the Pope to be in. Remember, Pontifex Maximus is in the position of ultimate, infallible authority according to Catholic teaching, if and when he "speaks from the chair" of Peter. Roman Catholics, all 1.3 billion of them, are divided on many issues, and Francis is in a position to decide many of those matters but, every pope since 1870, when the doctrine of infallibility was determined, knows the fallout of such determination and dogma could be catastrophic. Creating range wars within the church is not part of the program, unless it's something deigned to weed out defectors and dissent and address it. When the Vatican became a nation-state, in 1929, the fallout increased from its own flock, to world dynamics. Big stuff.
Popes had authority throughout all of Europe down through the ages. The Protestant Reformation derailed that. The Jesuit Order was established to get that back, and the Jesuit Oath shows - by any means necessary. Moving from church business to international, political business is a pretty big jump. The popes know their role, century to century, decade to decade, time in the chair of Peter each one handles.
Two major things have developed.
1. The Bible predicts the rise and general acceptance of homosexuality throughout the world.
2. Roman Catholic doctrine denounces the practice of homosexuality.
3. The RCC is dividing over the practice.
4. A decision, "ex cathedra," 'from the chair;' meaning, the full authority of the office of Peter, chosen by Christ to be the first pope in RC teaching and doctrine, could trigger a civil war within the denomination or, work to bring Catholics together in a fateful journey to the end of its existence, and the entire world, prophetically speaking.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/liberal-cardinal-calls-revised-catholic-teaching-gays-2022-02-03/
I really dislike it when any news organization starts putting adjectives into its reports. They are generally subjective and pejorative. Referring to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, of Luxembourg, as a 'liberal' creates an aspect of the story Reuters wants readers to have, subjectively, not objectively. The world is now completely saturated with news, both sides, all sides, with heavy use of adjectives and adverbs designed to create news, create reactions; not report news and leave readers to decide for themselves.
"VATICAN CITY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A prominent liberal cardinal who leads a body representing European bishops has called for "fundamental revision" in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, and said it is wrong to fire Church workers for being gay.
"The remarks by Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich to the German Catholic news agency KNA were among the most direct calls ever by a Roman Catholic leader for change in teaching on one of the most controversial issues in the Church today.
"Hollerich is president of the pan-European grouping of Catholic bishops' conferences, known as COMECE.
"In the KNA interview, Hollerich was asked for his assessment of a campaign in which about 125 Catholic Church employees in Germany, including some priests, came out as LGBTQ, and about the Church's teachings on homosexuality.
"I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer true," he said in interview that was published on Tuesday in Germany.
"In another part Hollerich said: "I think it's time we make a fundamental revision of the doctrine""
What Francis does with this situation could be a watershed event. It could also be just more politics out of Vatican City-State that will drag on as the Pope watches the lay of the land and how the wind blows upon it.
Remember what Jesus stated: the way it was in Sodom and Gomorrah is the way it shall be when He returns. The condition of Sodom, obviously where the term "sodomy" comes from in the English language, was completely functioning as a homosexual culture. And not just homosexual but, a rogue and violent homosexual culture. Read Genesis 19, and that is obvious. That is what is building on Earth and has been throughout and since the mid-20th century.
"Hollerich, who did not elaborate on what aspects of the teaching he felt needed revision, said: "I also believe that we are thinking ahead in terms of doctrine. The way the pope has expressed himself in the past can lead to a change in doctrine.""
Hollerich has taken his place at ground zero. He's not moving. Homosexuals are welcome in his diocese. And anyone from the LGBTQ... community and culture will not be fired from a position in the church diocese and should not, anywhere in the world, as far as he is concerned and believes.
Popes can change, create doctrine. Don't think it's done often. It isn't. Plenty of Catholics in the 19th century thought the doctrine of infallibility was a really bad decision and would lead to problems. Plenty of modern Catholics, today, some of my own relatives, believe the pope is just a man with a position and no special connection to God that creates infallibility.
As I have mentioned before, the growth of the homosexual culture and its acceptance is one of, and may be the greatest sign of the times that Christ is coming. Say what you will about earthquakes and famine, wars and rumors of wars, etc., which all apply to signs of the times on a world-wide scale. Go back and forth on the details, statistics and minutiae of last-day events but, the continuing rise of the homosexual culture and its general acceptance in society is an enormous sign of our times of the breakdown of biblical morality in the Western world, and around the globe. This breakdown is affecting all society, religious and secular, among the most sincere of adherents who become entrapped in the allurements within the stressful nature of life building all around us. It is one of the reasons Islam grows, because its stand on homosexuality does not budge. America becomes the 'Great Satan' with things like this taking place. The West is a mess. The whole world shall become a mess, is becoming a moral quagmire and cesspool, biblically speaking. Islam has its own gig, equally as offensive to values and common sense. Nobody gets out of this without blame. Nobody, nothing. God is judging the world, all of it.
Christ, the Creator, is openly mocked in society and has been since the 60s. I'm sure you are now aware of the female comedian who announced she had taken all her shots, still retained her period, and mocked that Christ must love her more than anybody because she is still standing, and immediately fell to the floor and cracked her skull. The timing was about the most deliberate ever seen since fire rained down on Sodom but, was it the Lord? Or, was it just the coincidental impact of toxic injections flowing through her system?
Mocking Christ, mocking the reality of God, something regarded as completely ignorant, uncouth, worthless, offensive, and just plain stupid down through the last 2000 years in most civilized societies, has become commonplace in Western society. Another major sign of the times.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Now it is a matter of where this goes. Will Francis take Hollerich into his chambers and tell him what an idiot he is, or will Francis sit down and talk with him how this revision of doctrine can be executed? Perhaps neither. Timing is everything. Francis may let it all pass but, the homosexual wing of the RCC is unlikely to let this fade away. Whether or not a revision of Catholic doctrine takes place, homosexuality will continue to rise to be accepted as a legitimate, alternative lifestyle, if not just as normal as heterosexual life.
We are not just seeing cultural changes. We are watching events leading up to the collision of the Creator of this world, with this world, to judge this world, destroying this world, and take His people home.
I sincerely hope and pray you do not mock that reality, however it may collide with your worldview.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Pizza and Consent
I have eaten a whole lot of pizza in my life. Hey, I grew up in the New Haven, Connecticut area. Pizza is life around there. A pizza place on every block. Italian pizza. Greek pizza. American pizza (not). Pizza made at home. Frozen pizza. Alternative gluten-free, vegan pizza (hey, it's something).
THIS post is not about that. Oh, no, no, no. This pizza is about moral corruption getting worse by the week in this world, and a definitive sign Christ is returning. Do not doubt me. You are watching the demise of an empire, like every empire before it that fell from immorality and corruption.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/school.district.apologises.for.assignment.asking.students.to.list.preferred.sexual.activities/138162.htm
This is so outrageous I could not even read the entire article. You read it and tell me this is acceptable education in America or anywhere else. Ancient Greece and Rome, maybe. But, they're gone. Their choices brought them down. If you think America and Western culture cannot collapse from this type of thing, you are ignorant of history and certainly the Bible. No teacher, no school with administrators in their right mind would have ever thought of such a thing, let alone attempted to pull it off when I was young.
Even if you did not believe in the second coming of Christ, you cannot get away from the fact of history. Any nation going down this road does not survive. EVER.
Asking kids to use a pizza to state what sexual preferences they prefer????!!!!
And you think "Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory?
Give me a break. If you cannot see what is happening, you are blind. The god of this world has blinded your mind and you cannot see, perceive or understand the truth.
If you see it, get ready.
God help us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
THIS post is not about that. Oh, no, no, no. This pizza is about moral corruption getting worse by the week in this world, and a definitive sign Christ is returning. Do not doubt me. You are watching the demise of an empire, like every empire before it that fell from immorality and corruption.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/school.district.apologises.for.assignment.asking.students.to.list.preferred.sexual.activities/138162.htm
This is so outrageous I could not even read the entire article. You read it and tell me this is acceptable education in America or anywhere else. Ancient Greece and Rome, maybe. But, they're gone. Their choices brought them down. If you think America and Western culture cannot collapse from this type of thing, you are ignorant of history and certainly the Bible. No teacher, no school with administrators in their right mind would have ever thought of such a thing, let alone attempted to pull it off when I was young.
Even if you did not believe in the second coming of Christ, you cannot get away from the fact of history. Any nation going down this road does not survive. EVER.
Asking kids to use a pizza to state what sexual preferences they prefer????!!!!
And you think "Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory?
Give me a break. If you cannot see what is happening, you are blind. The god of this world has blinded your mind and you cannot see, perceive or understand the truth.
If you see it, get ready.
God help us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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503. Seeds! - February 13, 2022
One of the reasons I believe in God and fiat creation is seeds. When people ask me why I should believe in God, I normally answer seeds, tears and Hummingbirds.
To this day science has no idea how seeds work. They know what seeds do. How? No. A seed is a tiny or very large package of information; more information than is found in a whole library of books. The smallest seeds are those of some varieties of Orchids. They weigh minute "nths" of an ounce. They can barely be seen with the naked eye. The largest is a 40 pound giant from the coconut clan.
Anyone into gardening knows the process. Plant the seed in damp soil. It comes to life, existing on it own nutrients within. When that storage is about used up, the outer skin or shield snaps and a protrusion emerges. It will end up facing down, never up. It becomes the root system drawing water and nutrients into the seed's factory of life. The tiny stalk emerges, literally lifting up the seed's physical body into the air. Then, the first two, true leaves appear. From there those two solar panels draw in light for photosynthesis to take place. The plant grows only to provide the next generation of seeds. Shade, beauty, food is just a by-product, which may contain the seeds for the next generation, like tomatoes, or wear them, like strawberries. And don't forget pollinators, like bees. The symbiotic relationships in all this cannot be put aside.
Seeds really bother Materialists, Naturalists, Macro-evolutionists trying to fit the whole thing into their parameters of origins.
For any kind of cellular life to develop into something that carries its own instructions for producing a duplicate, and only a duplicate of its kind, is a tough act to explain, outside design and a Designer. Life only lives just so long; bacteria, plants or people. The library of information has to be present to reproduce the next generation or that's it. Done. Gone. No second shot. Think about that.
Chicken or egg, plant or seed, whichever came first HAD to have the necessary information in it to produce the next generation. The Bible states the plant and chicken came first and had all the instructions within them to reproduce the next generation. You don't get millions of years to figure it out, let alone from random mutations and biological accidents. Then the numbers of possible successful attempts takes on thousands of zeros. It becomes statistical impossibility, not improbability. Impossibility.
Just consider the reproductive system necessary, in and of itself. That cannot take generations. You don't get the next generation without it! From soup to nuts, evolutionary explanations, tremendous storylines of faith in time, become utter futility to being lightyears away from calling fact.
No scientist or group of scientists, with all the money in the world, and the most complicated array of things in the biggest laboratory on Earth, could make a seed with all the necessary information in it to be and do what it does. Biologists know this. They still claim it's all an accident, a compilation of accidents, which they cannot reproduce on purpose. They say they will, someday. Call me crazy but, that's such a non-starter I can't believe I used to believe it.
The thing is, the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, our planet and all life on it, contains hundreds, thousands of such quandaries man has no factual answers for.
How can something less than a millimeter long, weighing less than a millionth of an ounce, produce some of the most incredibly gorgeous and jaw dropping plants on Earth? Talk about a nano-factory of information addressing tens of thousands or more parameters that must be in place to pull it all off. It isn't just the seed. It's the symbiotic relationship to the planet and its systems. Earth, water cycles, seasonal dissipation and development of nutrients in the soil; all under the magnificent watchcare of a star, our Sun, with just the right light and heat and temperature controls over it all.
You might as well ask a baby to build a space station as to believe all of what we see and experience in nature is an accident of some explosion of a dot, which came from nothing, billions of years ago. Everything from nothing. That is actually the biblical record. Fiat creation but, no. Modern science believes, claims to believe another fantastic event: everything from nothing by... what? Gravity? Nope. That's something. Something exists because of something else. Aliens? Doesn't help. The aliens had to come from something, somewhere, some time.
Science, however people define it (and it seems to come with more and more variations of definition over time), has far fewer factual answers than is claimed. While it uses its litany of pseudo-fact language; evo-speak: believed, believed to be, certainly, most certainly, conceivable, conceivably, could be, could have, inferred, likely, more likely, most likely, likelier, maybe, may have, might be, might have, must, must have, perhaps, possible, possibly, probable, probably, we believe (conceive, guess, speculate, suggest, strongly suggest, surmise, think), it is thought, thought to be, ..., with the word "quite" placed before some of these words, quite often... the fact is, they do not actually know what they claim as fact in more areas of existence than they want to admit.
The seed. Jesus used seeds in His teaching. They pertain to the mystery if life; birth, growth, development and maturity of ideas, spiritual life, church evangelism and all the rest. Skeptics love to point out Mustard seeds are not the smallest seeds, therefore Christ is wrong, therefore Christ need not be adhered to and the Bible need not be taken literally. The foolishness of that position, especially addressing parabolic teaching, is akin to asking how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?
Nobody knows the full variety of seeds available to plant or that were crop planted in that region 2,000 years ago; certainly not Orchid seeds. Then there is the nature of how plants develop variations over time, via genetic mutations (micro-evolution), as well as conditions which trigger variations of information already within the seed to get involved and take over. Heat and cold, moisture or drought, soils and atmosphere all contribute. It is possible - and if evolutionists get to use the term, so can everyone else - it is possible that variety of Mustard seed was the "least" or smallest of seeds known in that region at that time. But, again, the statement is made in a parable to make a point from something known about something not known.
Does anyone actually believe Christ meant for people to cut off their limbs or pluck out their eyes to stop sinning, as though that would do it? Please, do let us have common sense. Parables are teaching aids, generally not meant to be taken literally in all its components.
Common sense tells me seeds came from a massively intelligent Agent and Author of information and creative power. That is a more than reasonable explanation for me, especially when no better one has been made available. Yeah, it's a choice, a worldview based on a story. So is the other one. Nobody was there. Nobody saw it. Nobody can reproduce it in any experiment man has devised, it cannot then, be falsified and no amount of "peer review" can establish it as fact. It just makes sense to me that some little tiny thing can turn into something 300' feet high and live for centuries, or turn into food sources, or reproduce copies in timely schedules, comes from a mind. It is not chance. It is not an accident. It is certainly not a natural something from nothing.
Here's a great article I came upon about seeds, one of the best I've ever read, and which prompted this post. I've written about tears and Hummingbirds before. This time... seeds: books of life.
https://creation.com/sensational-seeds
I'll take the supernatural explanation. I didn't used to but, for the last 43 years it has come to make a lot more sense than anything science, falsely so-called, can muster up.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
To this day science has no idea how seeds work. They know what seeds do. How? No. A seed is a tiny or very large package of information; more information than is found in a whole library of books. The smallest seeds are those of some varieties of Orchids. They weigh minute "nths" of an ounce. They can barely be seen with the naked eye. The largest is a 40 pound giant from the coconut clan.
Anyone into gardening knows the process. Plant the seed in damp soil. It comes to life, existing on it own nutrients within. When that storage is about used up, the outer skin or shield snaps and a protrusion emerges. It will end up facing down, never up. It becomes the root system drawing water and nutrients into the seed's factory of life. The tiny stalk emerges, literally lifting up the seed's physical body into the air. Then, the first two, true leaves appear. From there those two solar panels draw in light for photosynthesis to take place. The plant grows only to provide the next generation of seeds. Shade, beauty, food is just a by-product, which may contain the seeds for the next generation, like tomatoes, or wear them, like strawberries. And don't forget pollinators, like bees. The symbiotic relationships in all this cannot be put aside.
Seeds really bother Materialists, Naturalists, Macro-evolutionists trying to fit the whole thing into their parameters of origins.
For any kind of cellular life to develop into something that carries its own instructions for producing a duplicate, and only a duplicate of its kind, is a tough act to explain, outside design and a Designer. Life only lives just so long; bacteria, plants or people. The library of information has to be present to reproduce the next generation or that's it. Done. Gone. No second shot. Think about that.
Chicken or egg, plant or seed, whichever came first HAD to have the necessary information in it to produce the next generation. The Bible states the plant and chicken came first and had all the instructions within them to reproduce the next generation. You don't get millions of years to figure it out, let alone from random mutations and biological accidents. Then the numbers of possible successful attempts takes on thousands of zeros. It becomes statistical impossibility, not improbability. Impossibility.
Just consider the reproductive system necessary, in and of itself. That cannot take generations. You don't get the next generation without it! From soup to nuts, evolutionary explanations, tremendous storylines of faith in time, become utter futility to being lightyears away from calling fact.
No scientist or group of scientists, with all the money in the world, and the most complicated array of things in the biggest laboratory on Earth, could make a seed with all the necessary information in it to be and do what it does. Biologists know this. They still claim it's all an accident, a compilation of accidents, which they cannot reproduce on purpose. They say they will, someday. Call me crazy but, that's such a non-starter I can't believe I used to believe it.
The thing is, the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, our planet and all life on it, contains hundreds, thousands of such quandaries man has no factual answers for.
How can something less than a millimeter long, weighing less than a millionth of an ounce, produce some of the most incredibly gorgeous and jaw dropping plants on Earth? Talk about a nano-factory of information addressing tens of thousands or more parameters that must be in place to pull it all off. It isn't just the seed. It's the symbiotic relationship to the planet and its systems. Earth, water cycles, seasonal dissipation and development of nutrients in the soil; all under the magnificent watchcare of a star, our Sun, with just the right light and heat and temperature controls over it all.
You might as well ask a baby to build a space station as to believe all of what we see and experience in nature is an accident of some explosion of a dot, which came from nothing, billions of years ago. Everything from nothing. That is actually the biblical record. Fiat creation but, no. Modern science believes, claims to believe another fantastic event: everything from nothing by... what? Gravity? Nope. That's something. Something exists because of something else. Aliens? Doesn't help. The aliens had to come from something, somewhere, some time.
Science, however people define it (and it seems to come with more and more variations of definition over time), has far fewer factual answers than is claimed. While it uses its litany of pseudo-fact language; evo-speak: believed, believed to be, certainly, most certainly, conceivable, conceivably, could be, could have, inferred, likely, more likely, most likely, likelier, maybe, may have, might be, might have, must, must have, perhaps, possible, possibly, probable, probably, we believe (conceive, guess, speculate, suggest, strongly suggest, surmise, think), it is thought, thought to be, ..., with the word "quite" placed before some of these words, quite often... the fact is, they do not actually know what they claim as fact in more areas of existence than they want to admit.
The seed. Jesus used seeds in His teaching. They pertain to the mystery if life; birth, growth, development and maturity of ideas, spiritual life, church evangelism and all the rest. Skeptics love to point out Mustard seeds are not the smallest seeds, therefore Christ is wrong, therefore Christ need not be adhered to and the Bible need not be taken literally. The foolishness of that position, especially addressing parabolic teaching, is akin to asking how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?
Nobody knows the full variety of seeds available to plant or that were crop planted in that region 2,000 years ago; certainly not Orchid seeds. Then there is the nature of how plants develop variations over time, via genetic mutations (micro-evolution), as well as conditions which trigger variations of information already within the seed to get involved and take over. Heat and cold, moisture or drought, soils and atmosphere all contribute. It is possible - and if evolutionists get to use the term, so can everyone else - it is possible that variety of Mustard seed was the "least" or smallest of seeds known in that region at that time. But, again, the statement is made in a parable to make a point from something known about something not known.
Does anyone actually believe Christ meant for people to cut off their limbs or pluck out their eyes to stop sinning, as though that would do it? Please, do let us have common sense. Parables are teaching aids, generally not meant to be taken literally in all its components.
Common sense tells me seeds came from a massively intelligent Agent and Author of information and creative power. That is a more than reasonable explanation for me, especially when no better one has been made available. Yeah, it's a choice, a worldview based on a story. So is the other one. Nobody was there. Nobody saw it. Nobody can reproduce it in any experiment man has devised, it cannot then, be falsified and no amount of "peer review" can establish it as fact. It just makes sense to me that some little tiny thing can turn into something 300' feet high and live for centuries, or turn into food sources, or reproduce copies in timely schedules, comes from a mind. It is not chance. It is not an accident. It is certainly not a natural something from nothing.
Here's a great article I came upon about seeds, one of the best I've ever read, and which prompted this post. I've written about tears and Hummingbirds before. This time... seeds: books of life.
https://creation.com/sensational-seeds
I'll take the supernatural explanation. I didn't used to but, for the last 43 years it has come to make a lot more sense than anything science, falsely so-called, can muster up.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now THIS is POWERFUL
A friend sent me a YT link. I do not know where this was shot, or when, or who the speaker is but, this is going viral, fast, and should. YT will take it down, for sure. This is a Mama bear on rocket fuel. Truth to power!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOxKpCeJPRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOxKpCeJPRE
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504. Heroes Are Not Enough - February 14, 2022
While I have made mention of many heroes willing to stand against the tyranny in the last two years, I also realize those in positions of power need do nothing but wait, or use the tools of power; police and military force, to retain control. It is sad and tragic to see it happening in those places where tyrants are not willing to let go of control for the sake of their authoritarian and totalitarian agendas. For everyone, both sides and the uncommitted in the middle, there is a lot at stake.
Again, history shows silent protest accomplishes little to nothing. Vocal protest puts tyrants on notice but, they are shielded from most of it, and sooner than later, it fades away because people cannot maintain fervency. Physical protest less than necessary to overthrow tyranny, causes retribution from those in power, which fragments and dissipates the protest. Only physical protest with ability to physically remove tyrants is successful. History shows that.
The thing is we do not live in a day and age of swords and shields, muskets and cannons. As long as police power and military might stay on the compliant side of tyrants, nothing can be done to stop tyranny, and generally, until total compliance of all citizens is created, through any number of avenues used to gain it, the high towers of control remain intact.
Only in those nations where foundation principles of the rules of law, freedom and liberty are held true by officers of law and order and military might will efforts to use them to stop dissension, fail. Far too many in those positions are now lost to tyranny, themselves. Complacent, compliant pawns of tyranny in such a day and age as ours, with physical power to take down cities in mere moments, become harbingers of literal doom.
If humanity lasts long enough to hold out until their next cycle of elections, those who realize elections have consequences may make a change, IF, if they have any serious contenders to vote for, and that is a big "IF." Even in America now, tyrants are criminally abusing voting systems, changing districts to favor political control and outcome so, tried and true political possibilities of change are almost meaningless. Nothing in Washington, D.C. shows any efforts to honor and adhere to the rule of laws that maintain God-given freedom and liberty recognized by the Founders. It's a runaway government now: too big, too bloated, too bloviating to stop their club entertainment and easy lifestyle.
I state it often because it must be repeated. The only Power that can conquer this current tyranny is God. Those in control of police and military power, and common service powers: electricity, water, food supplies and everything else common to modern daily life, see only a horizon of dominance. You can hurl epithets and memes at Justin Trudeau all day and night. His handlers have their orders and Trudeau will follow them, same as all nations controlled by people that cannot be touched.
The reason dystopian forms of entertainment gain in presence is because we were and are being shown what was coming and what is here and is yet coming. Hollywood shows forces of good overcoming evil because that is what sells. A happy ending remains the basis for ticket and book sales. It usually comes down to seconds before the biggest bomb in history explodes and wipes out the world-type-of-thing but, in reality, tyrants can make sure the only happy ending that takes place is theirs. Complete control.
I don't watch the Olympics anymore. Watching Olympics held in the biggest prison house on Earth is even more nonsensical to me. I do feel for the athletes and all involved being pushed around like the peons the CCP sees them as. On the other hand, athletes made choices to go, to put their athletic ability above their morals and principles (if they have any to begin with), and go for the gold. I cannot think of anything more ridiculous than athletes wearing masks. Only one athlete, a female from Iran, refused to march with hers in place. Once again, a female stands up. The males exist in compliance. We must ask ourselves a simple question. Why would leaders of nations stay silent when their athletes, their citizens are being treated to rank food and housing problems, far less than traditional winter Olympic conditions, seeing the entire area is snow-free, and generally only gets a few inches of snow in February so, man-made snow is the order of the day, creating problematic conditions; where news reporters are man-handled and controlled; where judging is sensationally corrupt, and not a single word of apology emanates from both the CCP or Olympic committee? The only logical answer is agenda. Powers at the helm are steering a ship into a dystopian nightmare they consider necessary to get people used to and the biggest sports stage on Earth is the one to get started with. This is all coming to a nation near you, including ours. Political leaders will define truth, error, misinformation and disinformation, and control what citizens see, hear, eat, and everything else of daily life. It's past history. Why should the tech age be any different, ESPECIALLY when tech is so easy to control?
Even IF, big if, medical tyranny is defused, that says nothing of what the immediate future may hold for those already injected.
Death rates, and they from obnoxiously inflated rates of particular illnesses; spontaneous abortions and still-born rates; rates of female monthly cycles and male/female infertility have all skyrocketed where people are actually taking notice and tabulating it all, comparing former years and decades. If you want to control population growth, you cannot just kill off populations. You have to control birthrates, as well. It is happening. Even if the recipients of the virus and billions of injected people survive this, the fallout seems to be clear. The human population has been placed in a fishbowl of global experiment and if it works, the agenda to control humanity is secured. If not, no question exists if these devils will not do something else to reduce global population and attain their ends.
Heroes fade with time and energy depletion. If Americans hold out until November, Democrats and some Republicans know their days are numbered. Logically, they must retain control of voting procedures and implementation, therefore controlling courts and media must remain, so their control remains intact.
In ten short months, or long ones probably; given what can be expected from D.C. to make America a greater hellhole than ever, we will see if things shall collapse or a possible turn-around can take place. Ten months will tell Americans what they need to see and know if their nation remains a Constitutional Republic or a mob-controlled lunatic democracy, destined to epic fail and total demise.
Those certain the "mark of the beast" is upon us, ignorant of Bible prophecy and history and that which is already in place, will continue to portray it all as temporary, telling their flocks the "Rapture" will take place any moment. When that fails, because it's error, tens of millions of people surrounded by death, illness, scarcity, and dystopian nightmare will crumble into a heap of human confusion.
I really do not know what God will do and how all this plays out. A few years before answers emerge? A decade? A generation? Generations? I hope we all know some beautiful girl with a bow and arrow is not going to be the answer. By that time films will not be entertainment but, a totalitarian, educational, brainwashing variety.
If I sound defeatist, I can only say I am a realist. I observe and take note with logic, common sense and biblical prophecy guiding me.
Forty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, Communism in the Eastern Bloc with it. And yet... here we are, with less freedom than we had at that time in nations that looked on with wonder at the heroics of citizens who had had enough in the throws of Communist utopian promises. Just because you can choose to watch 500 channels of television plus billions of websites to look at, does not mean you have real freedom and liberty. Not if cannot choose how to control your own health, and what is injected into your body or more importantly, your children's.
Canada called out the heroic Truckers. What a sight to behold. The Government has called out its police power. It's a cycle. You think you know of another way to stop it? Tell me. I'd like to know. Sure, hundreds of thousands of citizens can overrun a line of police with helmets and shields and batons or firearms. Then what? You honestly think Trudeau will not use the military? And if he did, the romance of shields and swords, muskets and cannons evaporates.
The Creator. That's it. The power of Heaven. Aside from that, darkness fills the Earth and gross darkness the people.
Pray to God and ask for His help, His intervention, and most of all His truth and salvation from the sins that have gotten free nations into this mess.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Again, history shows silent protest accomplishes little to nothing. Vocal protest puts tyrants on notice but, they are shielded from most of it, and sooner than later, it fades away because people cannot maintain fervency. Physical protest less than necessary to overthrow tyranny, causes retribution from those in power, which fragments and dissipates the protest. Only physical protest with ability to physically remove tyrants is successful. History shows that.
The thing is we do not live in a day and age of swords and shields, muskets and cannons. As long as police power and military might stay on the compliant side of tyrants, nothing can be done to stop tyranny, and generally, until total compliance of all citizens is created, through any number of avenues used to gain it, the high towers of control remain intact.
Only in those nations where foundation principles of the rules of law, freedom and liberty are held true by officers of law and order and military might will efforts to use them to stop dissension, fail. Far too many in those positions are now lost to tyranny, themselves. Complacent, compliant pawns of tyranny in such a day and age as ours, with physical power to take down cities in mere moments, become harbingers of literal doom.
If humanity lasts long enough to hold out until their next cycle of elections, those who realize elections have consequences may make a change, IF, if they have any serious contenders to vote for, and that is a big "IF." Even in America now, tyrants are criminally abusing voting systems, changing districts to favor political control and outcome so, tried and true political possibilities of change are almost meaningless. Nothing in Washington, D.C. shows any efforts to honor and adhere to the rule of laws that maintain God-given freedom and liberty recognized by the Founders. It's a runaway government now: too big, too bloated, too bloviating to stop their club entertainment and easy lifestyle.
I state it often because it must be repeated. The only Power that can conquer this current tyranny is God. Those in control of police and military power, and common service powers: electricity, water, food supplies and everything else common to modern daily life, see only a horizon of dominance. You can hurl epithets and memes at Justin Trudeau all day and night. His handlers have their orders and Trudeau will follow them, same as all nations controlled by people that cannot be touched.
The reason dystopian forms of entertainment gain in presence is because we were and are being shown what was coming and what is here and is yet coming. Hollywood shows forces of good overcoming evil because that is what sells. A happy ending remains the basis for ticket and book sales. It usually comes down to seconds before the biggest bomb in history explodes and wipes out the world-type-of-thing but, in reality, tyrants can make sure the only happy ending that takes place is theirs. Complete control.
I don't watch the Olympics anymore. Watching Olympics held in the biggest prison house on Earth is even more nonsensical to me. I do feel for the athletes and all involved being pushed around like the peons the CCP sees them as. On the other hand, athletes made choices to go, to put their athletic ability above their morals and principles (if they have any to begin with), and go for the gold. I cannot think of anything more ridiculous than athletes wearing masks. Only one athlete, a female from Iran, refused to march with hers in place. Once again, a female stands up. The males exist in compliance. We must ask ourselves a simple question. Why would leaders of nations stay silent when their athletes, their citizens are being treated to rank food and housing problems, far less than traditional winter Olympic conditions, seeing the entire area is snow-free, and generally only gets a few inches of snow in February so, man-made snow is the order of the day, creating problematic conditions; where news reporters are man-handled and controlled; where judging is sensationally corrupt, and not a single word of apology emanates from both the CCP or Olympic committee? The only logical answer is agenda. Powers at the helm are steering a ship into a dystopian nightmare they consider necessary to get people used to and the biggest sports stage on Earth is the one to get started with. This is all coming to a nation near you, including ours. Political leaders will define truth, error, misinformation and disinformation, and control what citizens see, hear, eat, and everything else of daily life. It's past history. Why should the tech age be any different, ESPECIALLY when tech is so easy to control?
Even IF, big if, medical tyranny is defused, that says nothing of what the immediate future may hold for those already injected.
Death rates, and they from obnoxiously inflated rates of particular illnesses; spontaneous abortions and still-born rates; rates of female monthly cycles and male/female infertility have all skyrocketed where people are actually taking notice and tabulating it all, comparing former years and decades. If you want to control population growth, you cannot just kill off populations. You have to control birthrates, as well. It is happening. Even if the recipients of the virus and billions of injected people survive this, the fallout seems to be clear. The human population has been placed in a fishbowl of global experiment and if it works, the agenda to control humanity is secured. If not, no question exists if these devils will not do something else to reduce global population and attain their ends.
Heroes fade with time and energy depletion. If Americans hold out until November, Democrats and some Republicans know their days are numbered. Logically, they must retain control of voting procedures and implementation, therefore controlling courts and media must remain, so their control remains intact.
In ten short months, or long ones probably; given what can be expected from D.C. to make America a greater hellhole than ever, we will see if things shall collapse or a possible turn-around can take place. Ten months will tell Americans what they need to see and know if their nation remains a Constitutional Republic or a mob-controlled lunatic democracy, destined to epic fail and total demise.
Those certain the "mark of the beast" is upon us, ignorant of Bible prophecy and history and that which is already in place, will continue to portray it all as temporary, telling their flocks the "Rapture" will take place any moment. When that fails, because it's error, tens of millions of people surrounded by death, illness, scarcity, and dystopian nightmare will crumble into a heap of human confusion.
I really do not know what God will do and how all this plays out. A few years before answers emerge? A decade? A generation? Generations? I hope we all know some beautiful girl with a bow and arrow is not going to be the answer. By that time films will not be entertainment but, a totalitarian, educational, brainwashing variety.
If I sound defeatist, I can only say I am a realist. I observe and take note with logic, common sense and biblical prophecy guiding me.
Forty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, Communism in the Eastern Bloc with it. And yet... here we are, with less freedom than we had at that time in nations that looked on with wonder at the heroics of citizens who had had enough in the throws of Communist utopian promises. Just because you can choose to watch 500 channels of television plus billions of websites to look at, does not mean you have real freedom and liberty. Not if cannot choose how to control your own health, and what is injected into your body or more importantly, your children's.
Canada called out the heroic Truckers. What a sight to behold. The Government has called out its police power. It's a cycle. You think you know of another way to stop it? Tell me. I'd like to know. Sure, hundreds of thousands of citizens can overrun a line of police with helmets and shields and batons or firearms. Then what? You honestly think Trudeau will not use the military? And if he did, the romance of shields and swords, muskets and cannons evaporates.
The Creator. That's it. The power of Heaven. Aside from that, darkness fills the Earth and gross darkness the people.
Pray to God and ask for His help, His intervention, and most of all His truth and salvation from the sins that have gotten free nations into this mess.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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505. TST Strikes Again - February 15, 2022
Pay close attention to..., well, like they say, "the Devil is in the details."
I mentioned a Satan club a little while ago. Another story has popped up. Actually, it's a national program meant to directly compete with The Good News Club, a Christian organization that developed from a Supreme Court decision that Christian Clubs must be allowed to operate on public school grounds, as long as the school did not participate in any indoctrination. Now there are around 5,000 of these clubs across America. The Satanic Temple (TST), also in the news quite a bit lately, decided to create their own club to compete with it.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/satan-club-archenemy-christian-clubs-kids-moline-illinois
A nation in spiritual warfare? It has always been and will always be, as long as time lasts.
There are some interesting facets of explanation and information from the spokesman of each club. Erroneous positions.
"The Satanic Temple, which runs the program, said students would be offered activities such as science and crafts projects, puzzles and games — and that they would learn about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative expression, too."
"Creative expression." There's a loaded gun if I ever saw one. Does anyone have any problem with teaching children about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking or problem solving? Well, a problem needs a solution, and the source and path of your solution might be diametrically opposed to your world-view, if you teach your children solutions come from adherence to biblical principles, like faith in God and trust in Scripture, and obedience to "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
"Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple spokesperson, told Fox News about the clubs, "I'm hoping that with our presence, people can see that good people can have different perspectives, sometimes on the same mythology, but not mean any harm."
First, the Bible states Christ taught no one is good but, God, Luke 18:19. There are no good people. There are sinners, fallen humanity, that need salvation, and once they enter a living connection with God, their minds come into exposure of things that are decidedly different when living for self. Selflessness, love, are principles from God, as are each of the tenets Greaves mentions: benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative expression. There is zero reason for bacteria to mutate into anything BUT things that think about self-preservation and survival. There is no development of principles of self-sacrifice and love for others in a materialistic, naturalistic, evolutionistic world-view. THAT is critical thinking. Faith and trust, benevolence to others... those are not principles that can develop from accidental life from hot mud puddles. The principle of love from a Big Bang? I think not. Creative expression? Why would anything approaching "creativeness" be part of anything that derived from an accidental list of mutations developing from survival of the fittest? Sure, survival of the fittest is a real thing. I'd just like to know how it develops a conscience and can appreciate beauty and creativity.
If Greaves stated law-biding people can have different perspectives, so be it. But, it goes beyond "good." Greaves stated differences of "mythology." Christianity is an historical religion, based on fulfilled prophecies, which are not myths; they are actual history, notated in books beyond the Bible. The stories of the Bible, like the Flood, have volumes of scientific evidence produced by empirical investigation and research placed before the world by PhD scientists from around the globe. That is not myth. That is active, observational, testable science of what flood water does and leaves behind as a statement of its presence.
If the Satanic Temple wants to believe nothing supernatural exists, so be it. Frankly, using a man with a goat's head, positioned with symbols and two children looking up at it/him with adoration is hardly critical thinking for marketing their benign after school club. Seriously? I am supposed to see their intent as harmless?
"Greaves also said, "We're not including items of religious opinion … We're not teaching children about Satanism. They're just going to know that this is taught by Satanists."
If that makes sense to you, I would question your ability to use critical thinking. You do not believe in a Devil or anything supernatural, and there is only one book in antiquity that mentions "Satan" as a real being, and while you deny that, you name your group after him, and call yourselves "Satanists?" What could be more confusing? I certainly would not want my children exposed to such nonsense and have it called critical thinking.
"And for them, the devil is simply a symbol of "defiance, independence, wisdom and self-empowerment."
Self-empowerment. Now that is certainly humanistic. On the other hand, this is stated at the Temple website:
"The mission of The Satanic Temple, a religious organization, is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits. The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted hate groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property..."
They call themselves a religious organization that advocates common sense. Frankly, I question how having a goat's head as an icon, and Baphomet as your main symbol of common sense makes sense from a standpoint of critical thinking and marketing. It's a complete deception. It's a lie. You have chosen a known symbol of witchcraft, pose a couple children looking at it with adoration, and want people to see you as a benevolent religious organization, with a symbol of human sacrifice as part of your religion for kids? Needless to say, they are marketing for kids into the dark side, or naive enough not to know there is a dark side.
They claim they do not believe in "spiritual evil." Is there any evil with them? Or is everything just "do as thou wilt?" Well, that leaves common sense in the dust and creates a "Purge" scenario for the human race.
People can be taught the principles of benevolent action. That does not mean humans are guaranteed to practice it. To the contrary. Look at history. Humans, even those professing belief in benevolent deity, can be anything but. Humans have a serious problem. SELF. You cannot teach Christlike character into the character. You cannot create benevolent, loving people with teaching. That is the whole point of God stating you must be born again. You must have a recreative change of who you are and what you are: a sinner into a sanctified person by a supernatural process. The Satanic Temple denies such a need or process. I'd love to see someone become Christlike without such a process. Certainly no one argues with the character of the real, biblical Jesus Christ. Let us be shown a member of the Satanic Temple who is Christlike in character: thought, word and deed, by the process of input of information. That, I want to see. Just go to the Satanic Temple website and read and see the convoluted nature of this non-spiritual "religion."
Here are the 7 Tenets of their "religion"
I - One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II - The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III - One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV - The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V - Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI - People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII - Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
On the face of it, they seem pretty logical... actually, no.
Who or what defines "reason?"
Define "justice" outside of "law."
What is reasonable justice?
Without laws, what keeps anyone from unjustly encroaching on another's freedom?
Define "spirit." Attitude?
What does it mean and who gets to define it for practical purposes of prevailing over any written or spoken word?
The problems in that last one are as cavernous as the Grand Canyon. Without a source higher than whatever man comes up with, only confusion and problems can emanate from such "principles." Pick your higher source, I don't care. Mine is the Bible. Without an authoritative source of information to lead and guide, it's an open ended field day of whatever "justice" you want your understanding of compassion, wisdom, and justice to prevail with. Babylon!!! Just as cagey as the Devil's first lies spoken in the Garden to Eve.
I expect a religion that claims no supernatural being to follow but, uses one for marketing and meaning, with no particular authoritative source of information to guide and dictate appropriate actions and response, to be as confusing as anything humans can come up with. The Satanic Temple meets the parameters.
But, there is more to this quandary. There is another interviewee, a Reece Kauffman. He is president of the organization called Child Evangelism, which operates the Good News Clubs. Here is a quote from him:
"Kauffman also says of the Satanic Temple, "They're doing the work of Satan, whether they want to acknowledge it or not, because this is what Satan would do. Satan, the term itself, means evil. And this is not the influence you want to bring upon your children."
No, the term 'Satan' does not mean 'evil.' It means 'adversary' or 'opponent.' Big difference. It is found 56 times in the KJV. Both the Hebrew, 'Satan,' and the Greek, 'Satanas,' mean the same thing. The general word translated 'evil' in the Hebrew is "ra" or "raah," and it simply means bad or evil. In the Greek, the general word translated 'evil' is "pheneros." The word 'evil' appears over 600 times in the KJV.
Like I stated; details. BTW, 'Devil' only appears in the NT and is from the Greek word 'diabolos,' and means transducer or accuser, a slanderer.
Obviously the religion of the Satanic Temple functions on the policy of transducing and accusing, slandering Jesus Christ and His book He authored, the Bible, and its contents. They are not just an alternative to Christianity. They are in opposition of it.
If Christians are going to be able to face this opposition, they must have their theology straight. Unfortunately, in the condition of Babylonian confusion, that is getting more and more difficult to find.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I mentioned a Satan club a little while ago. Another story has popped up. Actually, it's a national program meant to directly compete with The Good News Club, a Christian organization that developed from a Supreme Court decision that Christian Clubs must be allowed to operate on public school grounds, as long as the school did not participate in any indoctrination. Now there are around 5,000 of these clubs across America. The Satanic Temple (TST), also in the news quite a bit lately, decided to create their own club to compete with it.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/satan-club-archenemy-christian-clubs-kids-moline-illinois
A nation in spiritual warfare? It has always been and will always be, as long as time lasts.
There are some interesting facets of explanation and information from the spokesman of each club. Erroneous positions.
"The Satanic Temple, which runs the program, said students would be offered activities such as science and crafts projects, puzzles and games — and that they would learn about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative expression, too."
"Creative expression." There's a loaded gun if I ever saw one. Does anyone have any problem with teaching children about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking or problem solving? Well, a problem needs a solution, and the source and path of your solution might be diametrically opposed to your world-view, if you teach your children solutions come from adherence to biblical principles, like faith in God and trust in Scripture, and obedience to "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
"Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple spokesperson, told Fox News about the clubs, "I'm hoping that with our presence, people can see that good people can have different perspectives, sometimes on the same mythology, but not mean any harm."
First, the Bible states Christ taught no one is good but, God, Luke 18:19. There are no good people. There are sinners, fallen humanity, that need salvation, and once they enter a living connection with God, their minds come into exposure of things that are decidedly different when living for self. Selflessness, love, are principles from God, as are each of the tenets Greaves mentions: benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative expression. There is zero reason for bacteria to mutate into anything BUT things that think about self-preservation and survival. There is no development of principles of self-sacrifice and love for others in a materialistic, naturalistic, evolutionistic world-view. THAT is critical thinking. Faith and trust, benevolence to others... those are not principles that can develop from accidental life from hot mud puddles. The principle of love from a Big Bang? I think not. Creative expression? Why would anything approaching "creativeness" be part of anything that derived from an accidental list of mutations developing from survival of the fittest? Sure, survival of the fittest is a real thing. I'd just like to know how it develops a conscience and can appreciate beauty and creativity.
If Greaves stated law-biding people can have different perspectives, so be it. But, it goes beyond "good." Greaves stated differences of "mythology." Christianity is an historical religion, based on fulfilled prophecies, which are not myths; they are actual history, notated in books beyond the Bible. The stories of the Bible, like the Flood, have volumes of scientific evidence produced by empirical investigation and research placed before the world by PhD scientists from around the globe. That is not myth. That is active, observational, testable science of what flood water does and leaves behind as a statement of its presence.
If the Satanic Temple wants to believe nothing supernatural exists, so be it. Frankly, using a man with a goat's head, positioned with symbols and two children looking up at it/him with adoration is hardly critical thinking for marketing their benign after school club. Seriously? I am supposed to see their intent as harmless?
"Greaves also said, "We're not including items of religious opinion … We're not teaching children about Satanism. They're just going to know that this is taught by Satanists."
If that makes sense to you, I would question your ability to use critical thinking. You do not believe in a Devil or anything supernatural, and there is only one book in antiquity that mentions "Satan" as a real being, and while you deny that, you name your group after him, and call yourselves "Satanists?" What could be more confusing? I certainly would not want my children exposed to such nonsense and have it called critical thinking.
"And for them, the devil is simply a symbol of "defiance, independence, wisdom and self-empowerment."
Self-empowerment. Now that is certainly humanistic. On the other hand, this is stated at the Temple website:
"The mission of The Satanic Temple, a religious organization, is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits. The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted hate groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property..."
They call themselves a religious organization that advocates common sense. Frankly, I question how having a goat's head as an icon, and Baphomet as your main symbol of common sense makes sense from a standpoint of critical thinking and marketing. It's a complete deception. It's a lie. You have chosen a known symbol of witchcraft, pose a couple children looking at it with adoration, and want people to see you as a benevolent religious organization, with a symbol of human sacrifice as part of your religion for kids? Needless to say, they are marketing for kids into the dark side, or naive enough not to know there is a dark side.
They claim they do not believe in "spiritual evil." Is there any evil with them? Or is everything just "do as thou wilt?" Well, that leaves common sense in the dust and creates a "Purge" scenario for the human race.
People can be taught the principles of benevolent action. That does not mean humans are guaranteed to practice it. To the contrary. Look at history. Humans, even those professing belief in benevolent deity, can be anything but. Humans have a serious problem. SELF. You cannot teach Christlike character into the character. You cannot create benevolent, loving people with teaching. That is the whole point of God stating you must be born again. You must have a recreative change of who you are and what you are: a sinner into a sanctified person by a supernatural process. The Satanic Temple denies such a need or process. I'd love to see someone become Christlike without such a process. Certainly no one argues with the character of the real, biblical Jesus Christ. Let us be shown a member of the Satanic Temple who is Christlike in character: thought, word and deed, by the process of input of information. That, I want to see. Just go to the Satanic Temple website and read and see the convoluted nature of this non-spiritual "religion."
Here are the 7 Tenets of their "religion"
I - One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II - The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III - One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV - The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V - Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI - People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII - Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
On the face of it, they seem pretty logical... actually, no.
Who or what defines "reason?"
Define "justice" outside of "law."
What is reasonable justice?
Without laws, what keeps anyone from unjustly encroaching on another's freedom?
Define "spirit." Attitude?
What does it mean and who gets to define it for practical purposes of prevailing over any written or spoken word?
The problems in that last one are as cavernous as the Grand Canyon. Without a source higher than whatever man comes up with, only confusion and problems can emanate from such "principles." Pick your higher source, I don't care. Mine is the Bible. Without an authoritative source of information to lead and guide, it's an open ended field day of whatever "justice" you want your understanding of compassion, wisdom, and justice to prevail with. Babylon!!! Just as cagey as the Devil's first lies spoken in the Garden to Eve.
I expect a religion that claims no supernatural being to follow but, uses one for marketing and meaning, with no particular authoritative source of information to guide and dictate appropriate actions and response, to be as confusing as anything humans can come up with. The Satanic Temple meets the parameters.
But, there is more to this quandary. There is another interviewee, a Reece Kauffman. He is president of the organization called Child Evangelism, which operates the Good News Clubs. Here is a quote from him:
"Kauffman also says of the Satanic Temple, "They're doing the work of Satan, whether they want to acknowledge it or not, because this is what Satan would do. Satan, the term itself, means evil. And this is not the influence you want to bring upon your children."
No, the term 'Satan' does not mean 'evil.' It means 'adversary' or 'opponent.' Big difference. It is found 56 times in the KJV. Both the Hebrew, 'Satan,' and the Greek, 'Satanas,' mean the same thing. The general word translated 'evil' in the Hebrew is "ra" or "raah," and it simply means bad or evil. In the Greek, the general word translated 'evil' is "pheneros." The word 'evil' appears over 600 times in the KJV.
Like I stated; details. BTW, 'Devil' only appears in the NT and is from the Greek word 'diabolos,' and means transducer or accuser, a slanderer.
Obviously the religion of the Satanic Temple functions on the policy of transducing and accusing, slandering Jesus Christ and His book He authored, the Bible, and its contents. They are not just an alternative to Christianity. They are in opposition of it.
If Christians are going to be able to face this opposition, they must have their theology straight. Unfortunately, in the condition of Babylonian confusion, that is getting more and more difficult to find.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan
The other day I mentioned I would not be surprised if the world saw another virus or some deadly thing developed in China, placed upon the Olympic athletes and sent home to plague the world in some kind of time-delayed action. NO NATION, mark it, no nation is going to go to war with China for using any kind of bioweapon on the world. Not going to happen. The elites of each nation will have their protection plans and to hell with the rest of the population.
This morning I see a link for a video with a snippet from a Chinese doctor claiming this very scenario is taking place. True? I have no idea. She certainly is putting her own safety on the line to make this claim. Time will tell.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/02/whistleblower-claims-ccp-plans-to-spread-hemorrhagic-fever-bioweapon-via-olympics-dr-li-meng-yan/?utm_source=right-rail-trending
Watching Trudeau convinces me these people are all puppets just doing the bidding of forces much higher up the food chain. Trudeau is, as they say, a wimp. In the words of a formerly hefty, world-renowned, Austrian body builder; he's a "girly-man." I believe the more modern characterization is a "soy boy." The same must be said for most every major world leader. They are pawns being moved under the direction of bigger sharks in the sea of totalitarianism. They mean to depopulate the Earth. Nothing will stop them but, their own devices.
I hope Yan is wrong. I doubt she is.
This morning I see a link for a video with a snippet from a Chinese doctor claiming this very scenario is taking place. True? I have no idea. She certainly is putting her own safety on the line to make this claim. Time will tell.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/02/whistleblower-claims-ccp-plans-to-spread-hemorrhagic-fever-bioweapon-via-olympics-dr-li-meng-yan/?utm_source=right-rail-trending
Watching Trudeau convinces me these people are all puppets just doing the bidding of forces much higher up the food chain. Trudeau is, as they say, a wimp. In the words of a formerly hefty, world-renowned, Austrian body builder; he's a "girly-man." I believe the more modern characterization is a "soy boy." The same must be said for most every major world leader. They are pawns being moved under the direction of bigger sharks in the sea of totalitarianism. They mean to depopulate the Earth. Nothing will stop them but, their own devices.
I hope Yan is wrong. I doubt she is.
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506. Control - February 16, 2022
Watching Justin Trudeau turn into a complete control freak totalitarian, which is what he is inside and the situation in Canada just revealed it, brings me to a subject I have spoken on in the past and it always remains important: control.
From a Christian viewpoint, the faith is the embodiment of self-control. The principle of taking up one's cross and marching in a process of character development and Christlikeness under the influence of the Creator changing us from the inside out, through the born-again experience and daily walking in truth and its sanctifying influence, leads to self-control; gaining victory over "the sins that so easily beset us."
The Christian knows their own faults and weaknesses, and knows they have enough struggle with their own life to have a desire to control anyone else.
From the Christian worldview, anyone who desires to control another person capable of living their own life as they choose, has a mental deviation from a sound mind. I'd call it a mental illness, an aberration, or certainly an opening for one. The more control they want and exhibit, the more lessening of reasoning ability they have to live a balanced life.
We live in an age when children are controlling adults, which is bad enough but, parents have no concept of what parenting is and the God-given controls they have over their children until they grow and develop into adulthood and make their own choices and decisions: which is a process every parent generally fails to understand the nuances of but, we get there somehow.
Certainly business owners have a certain amount of control over employees. Demanding they take a medical injection? Absolutely ridiculous, and any CEO or Board that makes such a demand is operating from a mental position outside spiritual or civil balance and certainly Constitutional law. If a business can demand I take an injection, of anything, it can demand anything of me for employment. One's body is the final battleground. If that is not sacrosanct, there is no longer freedom and liberty by any previous definition.
When people, any person, seeks to control others, they become dangerous. Justin Trudeau is now a very dangerous person. Actually, under the rule of law Canada functions under, it is more dangerous that people in positions of civil responsibility are actively supporting his agenda and totalitarian decisions, or worse, doing nothing to stop him, when their conscience tells them, and the rule of law tells them this is all wrong on so many levels. Cowardice is dangerous to liberty; just as dangerous as authoritarianism is.
Christ told people to pay attention to the beams in their own eyes, rather than the slivers in someone else's eyes, for a reason that has stood the test of time. Judge not, lest you be judged by a more stern measure. And yet, Christ also said, Judge righteous judgment. Make decisions by parameters of righteous principles: evidence, facts, truth and the character of God as revealed in the totality of Scripture. Deal with your own life. Deal with others when they veer from the right path, defined by law: God's or man's in harmony with God's law.
I must maintain those in positions of law and authority, using police power, civil powers beyond those made available to them, under whatever guise, are mentally ill. Nobody with reason and sense challenges the notion Adolf Hitler was mentally warped. Nobody challenges that position for any despot that caused death down through time; and it does not matter what their veneer of civil or religious authority was claimed to be. When leaders lie to maintain or retain control of people; law-biding people just exercising liberty granted them to protest government abuse, they are mentally unstable. When they use force to maintain or retain control of law-biding citizens exercising rights, they are now mentally unstable and criminally responsible and accountable.
The fact that Trudeau remains Prime Minister is just as much a statement for his own mental illness as it is the cowardice or treason of those allowing him to make those decisions with impunity and without due process.
The same goes for doctors and medical tyranny. The same goes for police departments. The same goes for school boards and teachers. The same goes for all people in society losing civility.
If a national or state constitution is written with defacto language granting freedom and liberty in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which obviously and certainly includes freedom and liberty to choose or reject a path to medical treatment, that's the law. Done. Nothing can override that. They override it by breaking the law and should be instantly reprimanded and warned. Any departure must be put down in no uncertain terms. No one is above the law. That is the foundation, that is the abiding principle that must be maintained, or collapse is around the corner of tyranny. Tyranny never lasts. It's self-destructive but, its bite is painful and can last as long as people allow it to. Generations can pass.
I have already stated Trudeau and others in other nations are guppies under bigger fish in the global pond, and allowing themselves to be controlled by them. Everyone has a choice. It may be extremely hard to make right choices which is why, as far as Christianity goes, God offers self-control through the presence of His indwelling Spirit having control of our lives, by permission.
Consider. God does not force the world. Christ did not force anyone. His disciples did not force anyone; sought to control no one. Apostasy created control freaks and factors of controlling power in professed Christianity: bishops, popes, councils, persecution of "heretics," etc., etc. I recently heard an interesting adage. 'War is nothing more than one group of people telling another group, We are taking your house and God told us it was okay.'
God is in control: final, ultimate, sovereign control; always. No matter what happens, no matter how difficult things get and may and will get now and in the future, God is in control and the day shall come when He has His final say-so.
If you have a desire to control people, examine yourself. Control - which is just another aspect of power - corrupts; ultimately absolutely. Self-control is a witness and encouragement. Control of others living law-biding lives in granted freedom and liberty, is an invasive, abusive, and threatening policy. It's mentally imbalanced.
No big surprise the majority of citizens in all Western nations are now sick and tired of it and rising up.
From a Christian viewpoint, the faith is the embodiment of self-control. The principle of taking up one's cross and marching in a process of character development and Christlikeness under the influence of the Creator changing us from the inside out, through the born-again experience and daily walking in truth and its sanctifying influence, leads to self-control; gaining victory over "the sins that so easily beset us."
The Christian knows their own faults and weaknesses, and knows they have enough struggle with their own life to have a desire to control anyone else.
From the Christian worldview, anyone who desires to control another person capable of living their own life as they choose, has a mental deviation from a sound mind. I'd call it a mental illness, an aberration, or certainly an opening for one. The more control they want and exhibit, the more lessening of reasoning ability they have to live a balanced life.
We live in an age when children are controlling adults, which is bad enough but, parents have no concept of what parenting is and the God-given controls they have over their children until they grow and develop into adulthood and make their own choices and decisions: which is a process every parent generally fails to understand the nuances of but, we get there somehow.
Certainly business owners have a certain amount of control over employees. Demanding they take a medical injection? Absolutely ridiculous, and any CEO or Board that makes such a demand is operating from a mental position outside spiritual or civil balance and certainly Constitutional law. If a business can demand I take an injection, of anything, it can demand anything of me for employment. One's body is the final battleground. If that is not sacrosanct, there is no longer freedom and liberty by any previous definition.
When people, any person, seeks to control others, they become dangerous. Justin Trudeau is now a very dangerous person. Actually, under the rule of law Canada functions under, it is more dangerous that people in positions of civil responsibility are actively supporting his agenda and totalitarian decisions, or worse, doing nothing to stop him, when their conscience tells them, and the rule of law tells them this is all wrong on so many levels. Cowardice is dangerous to liberty; just as dangerous as authoritarianism is.
Christ told people to pay attention to the beams in their own eyes, rather than the slivers in someone else's eyes, for a reason that has stood the test of time. Judge not, lest you be judged by a more stern measure. And yet, Christ also said, Judge righteous judgment. Make decisions by parameters of righteous principles: evidence, facts, truth and the character of God as revealed in the totality of Scripture. Deal with your own life. Deal with others when they veer from the right path, defined by law: God's or man's in harmony with God's law.
I must maintain those in positions of law and authority, using police power, civil powers beyond those made available to them, under whatever guise, are mentally ill. Nobody with reason and sense challenges the notion Adolf Hitler was mentally warped. Nobody challenges that position for any despot that caused death down through time; and it does not matter what their veneer of civil or religious authority was claimed to be. When leaders lie to maintain or retain control of people; law-biding people just exercising liberty granted them to protest government abuse, they are mentally unstable. When they use force to maintain or retain control of law-biding citizens exercising rights, they are now mentally unstable and criminally responsible and accountable.
The fact that Trudeau remains Prime Minister is just as much a statement for his own mental illness as it is the cowardice or treason of those allowing him to make those decisions with impunity and without due process.
The same goes for doctors and medical tyranny. The same goes for police departments. The same goes for school boards and teachers. The same goes for all people in society losing civility.
If a national or state constitution is written with defacto language granting freedom and liberty in life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which obviously and certainly includes freedom and liberty to choose or reject a path to medical treatment, that's the law. Done. Nothing can override that. They override it by breaking the law and should be instantly reprimanded and warned. Any departure must be put down in no uncertain terms. No one is above the law. That is the foundation, that is the abiding principle that must be maintained, or collapse is around the corner of tyranny. Tyranny never lasts. It's self-destructive but, its bite is painful and can last as long as people allow it to. Generations can pass.
I have already stated Trudeau and others in other nations are guppies under bigger fish in the global pond, and allowing themselves to be controlled by them. Everyone has a choice. It may be extremely hard to make right choices which is why, as far as Christianity goes, God offers self-control through the presence of His indwelling Spirit having control of our lives, by permission.
Consider. God does not force the world. Christ did not force anyone. His disciples did not force anyone; sought to control no one. Apostasy created control freaks and factors of controlling power in professed Christianity: bishops, popes, councils, persecution of "heretics," etc., etc. I recently heard an interesting adage. 'War is nothing more than one group of people telling another group, We are taking your house and God told us it was okay.'
God is in control: final, ultimate, sovereign control; always. No matter what happens, no matter how difficult things get and may and will get now and in the future, God is in control and the day shall come when He has His final say-so.
If you have a desire to control people, examine yourself. Control - which is just another aspect of power - corrupts; ultimately absolutely. Self-control is a witness and encouragement. Control of others living law-biding lives in granted freedom and liberty, is an invasive, abusive, and threatening policy. It's mentally imbalanced.
No big surprise the majority of citizens in all Western nations are now sick and tired of it and rising up.
You Cannot Make This Up
I have never seen the Canadian government in action. This is a fascinating look at Conservatives and Liberals going back and forth, and the epitome of a house divided, just like the USA and other nations.
Listening to Trudeau and 95% of all Liberals continuously dodge questions with repetitive rhetoric was really shocking to me. In the U.S. chambers one will hear various reps on each side make their speeches in time slots. In Canada, it's just a raucous back and forth and a lot of voices maintaining disgust, while a referee, for all intents and purposes tries to maintain order. It's much like the way England operates, and seems much more real and energized and telling. Listening to Liberals not give answers but just level charges against the opposition and the protesters of the convoy was truly enlightening how these people think and plan. You cannot make this stuff up. They absolutely deny previous definitions of freedom and liberty, while they now claim Conservatives do not know what freedom really means, and just use their own version.
Well, I beg to differ. A Revolutionary war was fought in America to secure the freedoms and liberties we have, FROM GOD, and liberal, leftist control freaks see freedom and liberty as what politicians allow in any given moment of any given day.
Justin Trudeau should be removed from office by any means allowed by law. Having a family member that lives in Canada, I am saddened she lives in a nation that has thrown rational thinking to the wind and now sees anything and anyone that disagrees with and goes against its Prime Minister as anti-Canadian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYn-gtfhWAM&t=646s
I hope the same thing happens in America. Radical Leftists removed by any means allowable by the rule of law.
And for a more in-depth view of Trudeau's regime, Dr. David Martin breaks things down dramatically well, with necessary consequences that must come, if Canada is to be saved from its current tyranny. Trudeau has committed crimes. Will he be held accountable?
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/02/breaking-criminal-canadian-monopoly-dr-david-martin-exposes-why-trudeau-wont-back-down/
Listening to Trudeau and 95% of all Liberals continuously dodge questions with repetitive rhetoric was really shocking to me. In the U.S. chambers one will hear various reps on each side make their speeches in time slots. In Canada, it's just a raucous back and forth and a lot of voices maintaining disgust, while a referee, for all intents and purposes tries to maintain order. It's much like the way England operates, and seems much more real and energized and telling. Listening to Liberals not give answers but just level charges against the opposition and the protesters of the convoy was truly enlightening how these people think and plan. You cannot make this stuff up. They absolutely deny previous definitions of freedom and liberty, while they now claim Conservatives do not know what freedom really means, and just use their own version.
Well, I beg to differ. A Revolutionary war was fought in America to secure the freedoms and liberties we have, FROM GOD, and liberal, leftist control freaks see freedom and liberty as what politicians allow in any given moment of any given day.
Justin Trudeau should be removed from office by any means allowed by law. Having a family member that lives in Canada, I am saddened she lives in a nation that has thrown rational thinking to the wind and now sees anything and anyone that disagrees with and goes against its Prime Minister as anti-Canadian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYn-gtfhWAM&t=646s
I hope the same thing happens in America. Radical Leftists removed by any means allowable by the rule of law.
And for a more in-depth view of Trudeau's regime, Dr. David Martin breaks things down dramatically well, with necessary consequences that must come, if Canada is to be saved from its current tyranny. Trudeau has committed crimes. Will he be held accountable?
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/02/breaking-criminal-canadian-monopoly-dr-david-martin-exposes-why-trudeau-wont-back-down/
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507. The Shrinking of Earth - February 17, 2022
As I sit here uploading a video to my YT channel and have an hour to ponder current events, I continue to realize my faith in God increases because of His prophetic statements made about our world thousands of years ago. The practicality of rebellion against His government, character and purposes is ever before us. World leaders set themselves apart from world citizenry by greater distances each day. They do not care about popularity. They care about power.
I am not an economist, and frankly, the subject of money bores me. What I know, what I can see myself, without any education is that prices have gone up at a very alarming rate. Everybody sees it. Regardless of political stripes or worldview, this is an across the boards situation.
The supply chains are disrupted, the manufacturing consistencies are disrupted, the price of raw materials goes up, the price of goods goes up. Consumers pay the extra, not the manufacturers. They pass everything on to the consumer to maintain profit margins but, you make no profits if people have less money to spend and have to cut back and make choices about what their money gets spent on.
I just saw a headline that over 70% of Americans live week to week, paycheck to paycheck. They cannot save. They cannot afford "extras." If they cannot purchase, businesses suffer. If businesses suffer, they cut back on what they make and offer, as well as letting percentages of employees go.
In my world of drums, the prices of cymbals and heads has steadily risen every few years. It's all rising again. I no longer buy drums so, that does not affect me but, heads, yes. I no longer purchase big name sticks. I make my own or purchase bricks of small wood shop sticks. I have not purchased sticks in a long time. Hardware has really gone up. While I don't really use wraps, the price of wood veneer has gone up and I haven't purchased any in a few years now.
The custom or "boutique" drum makers get hit hard buy such times as these. Many will shut their doors. At one time, back in the 90s, there were hundreds, literally hundreds of people making drums for sale, using component parts, mostly from China. Shells and heads remained American made. In some cases, woodworkers could make their own shells, steam bending boards, or making stave or stacked block drum shells. Glues are American made. Not many tools remain American made anymore. Most of it all comes from outside American shores. Obviously foreign competition took a huge dent out of American made drums and cymbals, Asia has taken control of the drumming market, for all intents and purposes.
Depending on the profit margin required to stay afloat or desired for expansion, Covid - a now proven American/Chinese collaboration from Chapel Hill, NC to Wuhan, China and the medical tyranny it developed has held the world hostage. Tens of thousands of American businesses have gone out of business with more being added every week. Opening up states and businesses has proved too little, too late for too many businesses to remain open. Small businesses, which are the engine of free-market economies, are being removed. Government, i.e., politicians, especially Leftist politicians, could not care less. It does not affect them.
I believe all of this is not accidental. It is all, every bit of it, a planned and manipulated series of events to eventually bring about two classes of people: the rulers, the controllers, the providers; and those in need - both classes expanding rapidly. New millionaires and billionaires, and the new poor. The middle class levels squeezed out of existence, little by little.
In such cases of human existence down through history, this setup, tried often, fails every time. It can last for generations but, runs out of steam as harassment, oppression and persecution take its toll and humanity, fed up, rises up. In the present situation the Planners miscalculated results and in just two years explosions of protest in the hardest handled nations has erupted.
If you lived in South Dakota, nothing much changed. Some changes in Texas and Florida but, it all edged back to normal before other states realized the inadequacy of the event handlers - the WHO, the CDC and the FDA. If you lived in Australia or New Zealand, hands of civil authority got wrapped around your throat and remain. If the next round of elections are allowed, nation by nation, current politicians are toast. Of course, now that the world knows any election, anywhere, can be manipulated and controlled from beyond your nation's shores, most elected civil servants know their time in office can be extended however long they want. Again, all part of a plan. A bona fide, reality-based conspiracy fact. The more it gets circulated, the more people wake up. The more they wake up and realize who the actual enemies of freedom and liberty are, the more the elites have to worry about in controlling them.
Conspiracy theory. Conspiracy fact. Minds are constantly deciding which is true, at any given moment.
Most citizens of the world just want to be left alone and allowed to live their lives in peace, as they put up with the obnoxious nature of those elected to serve them and protect national constitutions they take oaths to protect and defend. That is not the reality to live with now. The reality is haves and have nots; total traitors to oaths; despicable despots and their desires to reduce "Mother Earth's" load of useless eaters among the human population, and controlling them for the good of all mankind. They have shown they can war us to death, inject us to death, starve us to death, or just kill us at will in some nations, and all nations seem to be veering in these directions at whatever increments they can control and pull off.
The inflation of evil is the bigger picture. The inflation in economies, heavier taxation and fees, less liberty and pursuit of happiness; that is the desire of the controllers. They consistently show themselves to be liars and devils. None one has to guess at it. They can watch it take place. Now, anyone who dissents, disagrees, speaks out against tyranny is an enemy of a nation; a domestic terrorist, a Nazi, a collusionist, a collaborator with Russia. It has gotten so ludicrous a Russian political appointee of some kind asked to make sure Biden tells Russians of their next invasion so she can plan ahead for her next vacation!
Of course even after all this, 30% of Americans still support the non-president and refuse to practice critical thinking or use common sense. They trust news agencies shown to be around the clock professional liars and agenda-driven pawns for the corporate elites. They cannot imagine the faces they see every night could lie to them, and the politicians they vote for can be traitors to their oaths.
Most of the time, in modern times, citizens get what they deserve because they refuse to educate themselves and stand up against anything, anything that even hints at elected civil servants attempting to control them; who take their time and when they believe the time is right, they snap the traps. Our necks don't snap. Our tails just get nipped over and over again and populations put up with it. Then, the neck is in the noose, and the traitors become those who dissent from government tyranny, which is the rule of politicians, no longer servants but, masters.
Who would have thought, just a month ago, truckers would become the heroes of liberty in free society? May God keep them and protect them and enlarge their resolve in every nation they rise up, to break the back of tyranny wherever it is, and may millions join them and tear down every wall built by wicked minds.
The battle is far from over. The injections have yet to do their full intended work. The world is going to become a boiling pot. The enemy of souls knows he has but a short time and his efforts to control humanity, destroy it, and "be like the most High" in the most perverted and warped way possible, is the closing agenda. As far as the temporal aspects of the war, Lucifer wins his pyrrhic victory. It does him and his legions no good, nor his servants among lost humanity, nor a world left in desolation by the glorious return of the Lord. So, why bother? The mystery of iniquity. It's a plague far worse than Covid.
Those who care about honoring the character of God and having it in them, motivating them, fortifying them, will end up the victors. Be of that number.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*After my upload finished and I checked it out, I noticed a Tucker Carlson video in the side margin and watched it. It actually speaks well to the subject matter, save for the religious aspects I share. Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H3EO_zinU
I am not an economist, and frankly, the subject of money bores me. What I know, what I can see myself, without any education is that prices have gone up at a very alarming rate. Everybody sees it. Regardless of political stripes or worldview, this is an across the boards situation.
The supply chains are disrupted, the manufacturing consistencies are disrupted, the price of raw materials goes up, the price of goods goes up. Consumers pay the extra, not the manufacturers. They pass everything on to the consumer to maintain profit margins but, you make no profits if people have less money to spend and have to cut back and make choices about what their money gets spent on.
I just saw a headline that over 70% of Americans live week to week, paycheck to paycheck. They cannot save. They cannot afford "extras." If they cannot purchase, businesses suffer. If businesses suffer, they cut back on what they make and offer, as well as letting percentages of employees go.
In my world of drums, the prices of cymbals and heads has steadily risen every few years. It's all rising again. I no longer buy drums so, that does not affect me but, heads, yes. I no longer purchase big name sticks. I make my own or purchase bricks of small wood shop sticks. I have not purchased sticks in a long time. Hardware has really gone up. While I don't really use wraps, the price of wood veneer has gone up and I haven't purchased any in a few years now.
The custom or "boutique" drum makers get hit hard buy such times as these. Many will shut their doors. At one time, back in the 90s, there were hundreds, literally hundreds of people making drums for sale, using component parts, mostly from China. Shells and heads remained American made. In some cases, woodworkers could make their own shells, steam bending boards, or making stave or stacked block drum shells. Glues are American made. Not many tools remain American made anymore. Most of it all comes from outside American shores. Obviously foreign competition took a huge dent out of American made drums and cymbals, Asia has taken control of the drumming market, for all intents and purposes.
Depending on the profit margin required to stay afloat or desired for expansion, Covid - a now proven American/Chinese collaboration from Chapel Hill, NC to Wuhan, China and the medical tyranny it developed has held the world hostage. Tens of thousands of American businesses have gone out of business with more being added every week. Opening up states and businesses has proved too little, too late for too many businesses to remain open. Small businesses, which are the engine of free-market economies, are being removed. Government, i.e., politicians, especially Leftist politicians, could not care less. It does not affect them.
I believe all of this is not accidental. It is all, every bit of it, a planned and manipulated series of events to eventually bring about two classes of people: the rulers, the controllers, the providers; and those in need - both classes expanding rapidly. New millionaires and billionaires, and the new poor. The middle class levels squeezed out of existence, little by little.
In such cases of human existence down through history, this setup, tried often, fails every time. It can last for generations but, runs out of steam as harassment, oppression and persecution take its toll and humanity, fed up, rises up. In the present situation the Planners miscalculated results and in just two years explosions of protest in the hardest handled nations has erupted.
If you lived in South Dakota, nothing much changed. Some changes in Texas and Florida but, it all edged back to normal before other states realized the inadequacy of the event handlers - the WHO, the CDC and the FDA. If you lived in Australia or New Zealand, hands of civil authority got wrapped around your throat and remain. If the next round of elections are allowed, nation by nation, current politicians are toast. Of course, now that the world knows any election, anywhere, can be manipulated and controlled from beyond your nation's shores, most elected civil servants know their time in office can be extended however long they want. Again, all part of a plan. A bona fide, reality-based conspiracy fact. The more it gets circulated, the more people wake up. The more they wake up and realize who the actual enemies of freedom and liberty are, the more the elites have to worry about in controlling them.
Conspiracy theory. Conspiracy fact. Minds are constantly deciding which is true, at any given moment.
Most citizens of the world just want to be left alone and allowed to live their lives in peace, as they put up with the obnoxious nature of those elected to serve them and protect national constitutions they take oaths to protect and defend. That is not the reality to live with now. The reality is haves and have nots; total traitors to oaths; despicable despots and their desires to reduce "Mother Earth's" load of useless eaters among the human population, and controlling them for the good of all mankind. They have shown they can war us to death, inject us to death, starve us to death, or just kill us at will in some nations, and all nations seem to be veering in these directions at whatever increments they can control and pull off.
The inflation of evil is the bigger picture. The inflation in economies, heavier taxation and fees, less liberty and pursuit of happiness; that is the desire of the controllers. They consistently show themselves to be liars and devils. None one has to guess at it. They can watch it take place. Now, anyone who dissents, disagrees, speaks out against tyranny is an enemy of a nation; a domestic terrorist, a Nazi, a collusionist, a collaborator with Russia. It has gotten so ludicrous a Russian political appointee of some kind asked to make sure Biden tells Russians of their next invasion so she can plan ahead for her next vacation!
Of course even after all this, 30% of Americans still support the non-president and refuse to practice critical thinking or use common sense. They trust news agencies shown to be around the clock professional liars and agenda-driven pawns for the corporate elites. They cannot imagine the faces they see every night could lie to them, and the politicians they vote for can be traitors to their oaths.
Most of the time, in modern times, citizens get what they deserve because they refuse to educate themselves and stand up against anything, anything that even hints at elected civil servants attempting to control them; who take their time and when they believe the time is right, they snap the traps. Our necks don't snap. Our tails just get nipped over and over again and populations put up with it. Then, the neck is in the noose, and the traitors become those who dissent from government tyranny, which is the rule of politicians, no longer servants but, masters.
Who would have thought, just a month ago, truckers would become the heroes of liberty in free society? May God keep them and protect them and enlarge their resolve in every nation they rise up, to break the back of tyranny wherever it is, and may millions join them and tear down every wall built by wicked minds.
The battle is far from over. The injections have yet to do their full intended work. The world is going to become a boiling pot. The enemy of souls knows he has but a short time and his efforts to control humanity, destroy it, and "be like the most High" in the most perverted and warped way possible, is the closing agenda. As far as the temporal aspects of the war, Lucifer wins his pyrrhic victory. It does him and his legions no good, nor his servants among lost humanity, nor a world left in desolation by the glorious return of the Lord. So, why bother? The mystery of iniquity. It's a plague far worse than Covid.
Those who care about honoring the character of God and having it in them, motivating them, fortifying them, will end up the victors. Be of that number.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*After my upload finished and I checked it out, I noticed a Tucker Carlson video in the side margin and watched it. It actually speaks well to the subject matter, save for the religious aspects I share. Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H3EO_zinU
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508. Is This It? - February 19, 2022
The Canadian truckers ignited something no other patriot movement on Earth could ignite since 1989 and the fall of Communism in Europe and the U.S.S.R. but, Canada is not a global mover and shaker. What happens in Canada generally means little to nothing in the affairs of the human race.
Right now the totalitarian, Trudeau, is removing all vestiges of liberty that defined Canada and Canadian life. It has been growing ever more socialistic for many years and then the truckers helped blow the lid off Comrade Trudeau's true character. Again, though, Trudeau is a puppet. He works for those higher up the ladder of global control.
America has been the global mover and shaker for over 200 years. Still an adolescent, historically speaking, nothing shook the world like American independence and Judeo/Christian culture. So great was the rise of this nation it made it into Bible prophecy as the second beast of Revelation 13.
A small rehearsing of past blogs on the subject. The empires of prophecy, beginning Daniel 2: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Papacy, America. If I go back a little before Daniel's and John's prophecies and history one can add Assyria and Egypt, which also play into Rev. 17. Yes, the British empire existed. South American and Asiatic empires existed but, none of them had anything to do with a march of events surrounding the ancient Hebrews and Christian movement and culture, which is the focus of the Bible.
A detour has developed; being the consistent dismantling and demise of the greatest nation in human history, the United States of America. In the 19th century its role in the world was decidedly as Christian as it was political: the two uncrowned horns of the lamblike beast in Revelation 13. Not so today but, that religious element is quite necessary for the fulfillment of its role in prophecy.
Consider this. Anyone who argues against the criminal activity that placed Joe Biden in the White House, and more than likely plenty of other politicians in their seats of local, state and federal offices, owing to corrupted political machinery, voting practices and technology, is not just blind but, dangerously under the control of corporate media and global handlers. They just are, and I cannot apologize for their ignorance of truth they refuse to acknowledge. Those of us who knew Hillary Clinton was a rogue back in the 90s, certainly have nothing to apologize for to now see the evidence of her intrinsic involvement in the criminal activity of spying on Trump as candidate and as President, and attempting to take his presidency down. Of course, she is not alone and if the justice department were not corrupt, she'd be wearing orange by now, as well as dozens of other "elected civil servants" and their minions in a government of, by and for the people.
America is a gigantic sinkhole at this point. It just keeps getting bigger. Australia, New Zealand, Austria, and pretty much all other nations, to one degree or another, showed us all what the world is in the last two years: a big round prison house run at the will of people who could care less about their oaths, principles of freedom and liberty, and their citizens. They handled the situation right - for them, and wrong for everyone else, by design. Man-made design or that of the big dog who runs the world, Lucifer, the ruler of this world, the god of this world, father of lies, murder, etc.; the job has been to defeat truth, defeat the influence of the gospel, and control this blue marble in space under the flag of rebellion and apostasy.
Still, America has its patriots. Canada will not motivate the world into a religious rebellion against God, nor will truckers and citizens of any other nation but, this one. If for no other reason that God chose it in His foreknowledge of human events and generally profound blessings He bestowed on this nation to be the most free and saturated with liberty in the history of the human race, America will yet move the Earth.
American truckers are planning, literally planning a very organized run from California to D.C. Trudeau had to invoke despotism against Canadians to give American truckers and citizens a foretaste. The Biden White House and corrupted city realize the nature of this coming storm and wave. Canada is now a western testing ground for Australian and New Zealand despotism. If Canada maintains control, Biden will have the go (I should say his handlers will have the go), to do whatever necessary to drive back and criminally prosecute the American truckers. They have failed at convincing Americans January 6th was an "insurrection." It is criminal to hold hundreds of people innocent of such a charge, which, legally, has not been held against them. It is all reprehensible political theater. Besides some trespassing, nothing can be held against them, and dozens and dozens of videos of that day show the entire thing as a false flag op, criminally activated by government employees. STILL, even with testimony in hearings, disgusting Democrats and GOP cowards and traitors refuse to release these citizens from their jail cells where evidence of torture, both mental and physical has taken place for over a year now. A year! No court dates. No chance to state your case. Guilty until proven innocent and the process held from them! Americanism? Bullsgeschicte! CORRUPTION beyond anything known in this nation before.
With all this behind us and in front of us, watching what D.C. does with the truckers will be fascinating and you can imagine the bookies taking bets on this event and the odds they give.
The truckers are organized with retired police and military, already ahead of the game contacting county sheriffs the route will entail. Totally peaceful, totally benign, just a law-biding, legal protest against government tyranny. It may loud. So are outdoor Rock concerts.
Well, elected civil servants in states have already seen the handwriting on the wall and dropped mandates for masks and vaccinations. Canadian Provinces, the same. Everybody knows their seats in politics are already gone so thirty Democrats have chosen to "retire" from political careers the Founders never intended anyone to have in the first place, which is how corruption develops! Retiring from a "career" in politics? Of course. These merchants of mandates have made it just a big business, a social club, an elitist cabal of control freaks. Others thinking they can hang on are reversing their despotic control of citizens they have tried to corral and in the process destroyed thousands of businesses and lives, let alone the guilt, the responsibility and accountability of mandating medical procedures and protocols that have taken lives! They have killed people with their agenda, and they went into this eyes wide open. This was the plan and has been for literal decades of research, patents, logistics, collaborations and conspiracies with global entities. They have not tried to hide all of it, so confident they have been of success. Considering the injections and half the populace of the world facing serious health problems or death, they missed their mark but, just need to hold on and get half way there.
The American trucker protest is not a grass roots, organic, off-the-cuff gig. Organizers are taking all precautions, and looking to barricade against any and all actions for potential risks they are being shown can and will happen because of what other nations are doing. The potential for tens of thousands of trucks of any and all wheel bases, stretching for more miles than any army in human history, is on the table. Expect Antifa attacks, Leftist 24/7 harassment by both peons and higher ups, and certainly corporate controlled news media. Obviously millions of citizens will cheer them on their way both physically and in spirit in speeches and blogs and articles.
I have mentioned the necessary 3.5% of citizenry necessary to make changes through protest. If that does not happen, change will not happen. In 1989 Eastern Europe that figure was crushed. It was truly 'all hands on deck.' It is being crushed in other nations. The pot is beginning to boil. Do not think the cabal does not have its cold water to throw in the pot. Its ice cubes are yet to be revealed in the U.S.A. We all know they exist and shall be used IF the Left believes they can get away with it. ALL politicians, all criminals and rogues only try what they believe they can get away with. Some lunatics do not care. They forge ahead because they have no sense of reason, only hatred for someone or something. They are blinded by their hate and we all know Washington, D.C. has those types walking the halls of government.
This convoy has the potential to throw a monkey wrench the size of Texas into the globalist gears. I want you to be aware of a quote I have posted previously.
You see, prophetically speaking, just because elitist control freaks are stalled or stopped, does not place America in a safe position before Heaven. Nay. A pendulum swing is still coming. Under the guise of Christianity, under the guise of religion, under the influence of false miracles and wonders and signs, America will turn the nation against God. Wait! The cabal is against God and we are fighting it! How can the victors of that fight be the ones who turn the nation against God??? Well, prophecy is not bound by culture. It is not tied to man's thinking or man's machinery. It is controlled by truth, and truth is outside human devising. Truth is God. Truth flows in paths of least resistance and straight through walls of any human making. Truth states apostate Christianity and a false, miracle-working revival shall be the major moving force on Earth in the close of this world's history. While so many professed Christian voices are pronouncing the rise of antichrist because technology can now control buying and selling, the rest of prophetic details and marks of fulfillment lie untouched, as though none of the rest matters. Cafeteria-style Christian exposition of prophecy remains as it has for a couple centuries: piecemeal.
No, the potential for a final showdown between truth and error, not Conservatives and Liberals, could take place. A final battle in the war of truth and lies is ready to take place, IF God has a church ready to withstand it. The big, popular side shall not be God's side. A remnant of the original church Christ established 2000 years ago shall be ready; hence prophetic mention of a remnant - 'that which remains.' A remnant shall keep the commandments of God and faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, while the rest of the population is into a big world-wide super church of "peace and safety," signs, wonders, false miracles and delusions used by the enemy of souls to take down the human race.
With the right impetus, the truckers could catapult that? Maybe. Consider this passage from a book and Christian writer, a woman who penned the words 140 years ago:
"The Protestant churches have rejected the clear, scriptural arguments in defense of God's law, and they long to stop the mouths of those whose faith they cannot overthrow by the Bible. Though they blind their own eyes to the fact, they are now adopting a course which will lead to the persecution of those who conscientiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian world are doing, and acknowledge the claims of the papal Sabbath.
"The dignitaries of Church and State will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth, and in order to secure public favor, legislators will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost this nation so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected. In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet's words: "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." [Revelation 12:17.]
"Our land is in jeopardy. The time is drawing on when its legislators shall so abjure the principles of Protestantism as to give countenance to Romish apostasy. The people for whom God has so marvelously wrought, strengthening them to throw off the galling yoke of popery, will by a national act give vigor to the corrupt faith of Rome, and thus arouse the tyranny which only waits for a touch to start again into cruelty and despotism. With rapid steps are we already approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall seek the support of the secular power, thus following the example of that apostate church, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will there be a national apostasy which will end only in national ruin." The Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 4, 1880, pages 409, 410.
When authoress, Ellen White wrote those words, America had moved past its Civil War, was going through the industrial revolution, the rise of the American empire, and a United States Congress coming under the influence of the professed Christian church in America desiring to see Sunday made national law. State laws existed for a century. Blue laws, long since faded away state by state and forces exist in a battle to keep it that way or, to resurrect the movement that began in the 19th century. The Supreme Court referred to America as a Christian nation then. That has gone by the wayside. Obama came right out and said that is no longer so. America is now a multi-cultural nation. The sure sign of the death of any nation. That is what the globalists want: the death of all sovereign nations. A one-world government. One flag for all citizens under one ruling body. The last two years have shown the lengths they will go to to get there. They are not done. Nor is the Papacy done. Nor is God done.
God has told us who wins. He does. He has told us who loses: the Vatican, apostate Protestant, kings of the Earth triad, enforcing the pagan/papal veneralbilis dei solis, the venerable day of the Sun, as international law, under the influence of a delusional miracle-working revival to stun every ear, eye and mind not under the total control of a Thus Saith the Lord.
The coming convoy could begin a period of religious/political revival in America. A movement that pushes political backs against the wall and demands things change in D.C. or, get out of the way. To secure public favor, legislators will crumble and do as the majority wants. Impossible! you say. Hey, all I can do is tell you what is coming and ask you to watch for it. I see it as currently impossible, myself, and a lot of people I have had fellowship with for years are none too pleased with that assessment. Especially when I bring in the whole "Satanic/"E.T." scenario to back up the arresting of the human race for final delusions.
I'm just stating you need to watch. Maybe the truckers will be completely overthrown as the world inches ever closer to Totalitarian control. Remember, they have police and military power. Unless that changes, the world is in big trouble. If it changes, and things in Canada have shown it is not but, if police and military say, No. We are not going down that road for you despots and lunatics, all weight on one side changes. Calling truckers terrorists is not only stupid, it's political suicide; at least in the eyes of reasoning, thinking people. Are there enough critical thinking Canadians to stand up against such stupidity? Remains to be seen, and a convoy through 3,000 miles of America could tip the scales for the entire globe.
Is this it? We all watch.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Right now the totalitarian, Trudeau, is removing all vestiges of liberty that defined Canada and Canadian life. It has been growing ever more socialistic for many years and then the truckers helped blow the lid off Comrade Trudeau's true character. Again, though, Trudeau is a puppet. He works for those higher up the ladder of global control.
America has been the global mover and shaker for over 200 years. Still an adolescent, historically speaking, nothing shook the world like American independence and Judeo/Christian culture. So great was the rise of this nation it made it into Bible prophecy as the second beast of Revelation 13.
A small rehearsing of past blogs on the subject. The empires of prophecy, beginning Daniel 2: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Papacy, America. If I go back a little before Daniel's and John's prophecies and history one can add Assyria and Egypt, which also play into Rev. 17. Yes, the British empire existed. South American and Asiatic empires existed but, none of them had anything to do with a march of events surrounding the ancient Hebrews and Christian movement and culture, which is the focus of the Bible.
A detour has developed; being the consistent dismantling and demise of the greatest nation in human history, the United States of America. In the 19th century its role in the world was decidedly as Christian as it was political: the two uncrowned horns of the lamblike beast in Revelation 13. Not so today but, that religious element is quite necessary for the fulfillment of its role in prophecy.
Consider this. Anyone who argues against the criminal activity that placed Joe Biden in the White House, and more than likely plenty of other politicians in their seats of local, state and federal offices, owing to corrupted political machinery, voting practices and technology, is not just blind but, dangerously under the control of corporate media and global handlers. They just are, and I cannot apologize for their ignorance of truth they refuse to acknowledge. Those of us who knew Hillary Clinton was a rogue back in the 90s, certainly have nothing to apologize for to now see the evidence of her intrinsic involvement in the criminal activity of spying on Trump as candidate and as President, and attempting to take his presidency down. Of course, she is not alone and if the justice department were not corrupt, she'd be wearing orange by now, as well as dozens of other "elected civil servants" and their minions in a government of, by and for the people.
America is a gigantic sinkhole at this point. It just keeps getting bigger. Australia, New Zealand, Austria, and pretty much all other nations, to one degree or another, showed us all what the world is in the last two years: a big round prison house run at the will of people who could care less about their oaths, principles of freedom and liberty, and their citizens. They handled the situation right - for them, and wrong for everyone else, by design. Man-made design or that of the big dog who runs the world, Lucifer, the ruler of this world, the god of this world, father of lies, murder, etc.; the job has been to defeat truth, defeat the influence of the gospel, and control this blue marble in space under the flag of rebellion and apostasy.
Still, America has its patriots. Canada will not motivate the world into a religious rebellion against God, nor will truckers and citizens of any other nation but, this one. If for no other reason that God chose it in His foreknowledge of human events and generally profound blessings He bestowed on this nation to be the most free and saturated with liberty in the history of the human race, America will yet move the Earth.
American truckers are planning, literally planning a very organized run from California to D.C. Trudeau had to invoke despotism against Canadians to give American truckers and citizens a foretaste. The Biden White House and corrupted city realize the nature of this coming storm and wave. Canada is now a western testing ground for Australian and New Zealand despotism. If Canada maintains control, Biden will have the go (I should say his handlers will have the go), to do whatever necessary to drive back and criminally prosecute the American truckers. They have failed at convincing Americans January 6th was an "insurrection." It is criminal to hold hundreds of people innocent of such a charge, which, legally, has not been held against them. It is all reprehensible political theater. Besides some trespassing, nothing can be held against them, and dozens and dozens of videos of that day show the entire thing as a false flag op, criminally activated by government employees. STILL, even with testimony in hearings, disgusting Democrats and GOP cowards and traitors refuse to release these citizens from their jail cells where evidence of torture, both mental and physical has taken place for over a year now. A year! No court dates. No chance to state your case. Guilty until proven innocent and the process held from them! Americanism? Bullsgeschicte! CORRUPTION beyond anything known in this nation before.
With all this behind us and in front of us, watching what D.C. does with the truckers will be fascinating and you can imagine the bookies taking bets on this event and the odds they give.
The truckers are organized with retired police and military, already ahead of the game contacting county sheriffs the route will entail. Totally peaceful, totally benign, just a law-biding, legal protest against government tyranny. It may loud. So are outdoor Rock concerts.
Well, elected civil servants in states have already seen the handwriting on the wall and dropped mandates for masks and vaccinations. Canadian Provinces, the same. Everybody knows their seats in politics are already gone so thirty Democrats have chosen to "retire" from political careers the Founders never intended anyone to have in the first place, which is how corruption develops! Retiring from a "career" in politics? Of course. These merchants of mandates have made it just a big business, a social club, an elitist cabal of control freaks. Others thinking they can hang on are reversing their despotic control of citizens they have tried to corral and in the process destroyed thousands of businesses and lives, let alone the guilt, the responsibility and accountability of mandating medical procedures and protocols that have taken lives! They have killed people with their agenda, and they went into this eyes wide open. This was the plan and has been for literal decades of research, patents, logistics, collaborations and conspiracies with global entities. They have not tried to hide all of it, so confident they have been of success. Considering the injections and half the populace of the world facing serious health problems or death, they missed their mark but, just need to hold on and get half way there.
The American trucker protest is not a grass roots, organic, off-the-cuff gig. Organizers are taking all precautions, and looking to barricade against any and all actions for potential risks they are being shown can and will happen because of what other nations are doing. The potential for tens of thousands of trucks of any and all wheel bases, stretching for more miles than any army in human history, is on the table. Expect Antifa attacks, Leftist 24/7 harassment by both peons and higher ups, and certainly corporate controlled news media. Obviously millions of citizens will cheer them on their way both physically and in spirit in speeches and blogs and articles.
I have mentioned the necessary 3.5% of citizenry necessary to make changes through protest. If that does not happen, change will not happen. In 1989 Eastern Europe that figure was crushed. It was truly 'all hands on deck.' It is being crushed in other nations. The pot is beginning to boil. Do not think the cabal does not have its cold water to throw in the pot. Its ice cubes are yet to be revealed in the U.S.A. We all know they exist and shall be used IF the Left believes they can get away with it. ALL politicians, all criminals and rogues only try what they believe they can get away with. Some lunatics do not care. They forge ahead because they have no sense of reason, only hatred for someone or something. They are blinded by their hate and we all know Washington, D.C. has those types walking the halls of government.
This convoy has the potential to throw a monkey wrench the size of Texas into the globalist gears. I want you to be aware of a quote I have posted previously.
You see, prophetically speaking, just because elitist control freaks are stalled or stopped, does not place America in a safe position before Heaven. Nay. A pendulum swing is still coming. Under the guise of Christianity, under the guise of religion, under the influence of false miracles and wonders and signs, America will turn the nation against God. Wait! The cabal is against God and we are fighting it! How can the victors of that fight be the ones who turn the nation against God??? Well, prophecy is not bound by culture. It is not tied to man's thinking or man's machinery. It is controlled by truth, and truth is outside human devising. Truth is God. Truth flows in paths of least resistance and straight through walls of any human making. Truth states apostate Christianity and a false, miracle-working revival shall be the major moving force on Earth in the close of this world's history. While so many professed Christian voices are pronouncing the rise of antichrist because technology can now control buying and selling, the rest of prophetic details and marks of fulfillment lie untouched, as though none of the rest matters. Cafeteria-style Christian exposition of prophecy remains as it has for a couple centuries: piecemeal.
No, the potential for a final showdown between truth and error, not Conservatives and Liberals, could take place. A final battle in the war of truth and lies is ready to take place, IF God has a church ready to withstand it. The big, popular side shall not be God's side. A remnant of the original church Christ established 2000 years ago shall be ready; hence prophetic mention of a remnant - 'that which remains.' A remnant shall keep the commandments of God and faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, while the rest of the population is into a big world-wide super church of "peace and safety," signs, wonders, false miracles and delusions used by the enemy of souls to take down the human race.
With the right impetus, the truckers could catapult that? Maybe. Consider this passage from a book and Christian writer, a woman who penned the words 140 years ago:
"The Protestant churches have rejected the clear, scriptural arguments in defense of God's law, and they long to stop the mouths of those whose faith they cannot overthrow by the Bible. Though they blind their own eyes to the fact, they are now adopting a course which will lead to the persecution of those who conscientiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian world are doing, and acknowledge the claims of the papal Sabbath.
"The dignitaries of Church and State will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth, and in order to secure public favor, legislators will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost this nation so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected. In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet's words: "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." [Revelation 12:17.]
"Our land is in jeopardy. The time is drawing on when its legislators shall so abjure the principles of Protestantism as to give countenance to Romish apostasy. The people for whom God has so marvelously wrought, strengthening them to throw off the galling yoke of popery, will by a national act give vigor to the corrupt faith of Rome, and thus arouse the tyranny which only waits for a touch to start again into cruelty and despotism. With rapid steps are we already approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall seek the support of the secular power, thus following the example of that apostate church, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will there be a national apostasy which will end only in national ruin." The Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 4, 1880, pages 409, 410.
When authoress, Ellen White wrote those words, America had moved past its Civil War, was going through the industrial revolution, the rise of the American empire, and a United States Congress coming under the influence of the professed Christian church in America desiring to see Sunday made national law. State laws existed for a century. Blue laws, long since faded away state by state and forces exist in a battle to keep it that way or, to resurrect the movement that began in the 19th century. The Supreme Court referred to America as a Christian nation then. That has gone by the wayside. Obama came right out and said that is no longer so. America is now a multi-cultural nation. The sure sign of the death of any nation. That is what the globalists want: the death of all sovereign nations. A one-world government. One flag for all citizens under one ruling body. The last two years have shown the lengths they will go to to get there. They are not done. Nor is the Papacy done. Nor is God done.
God has told us who wins. He does. He has told us who loses: the Vatican, apostate Protestant, kings of the Earth triad, enforcing the pagan/papal veneralbilis dei solis, the venerable day of the Sun, as international law, under the influence of a delusional miracle-working revival to stun every ear, eye and mind not under the total control of a Thus Saith the Lord.
The coming convoy could begin a period of religious/political revival in America. A movement that pushes political backs against the wall and demands things change in D.C. or, get out of the way. To secure public favor, legislators will crumble and do as the majority wants. Impossible! you say. Hey, all I can do is tell you what is coming and ask you to watch for it. I see it as currently impossible, myself, and a lot of people I have had fellowship with for years are none too pleased with that assessment. Especially when I bring in the whole "Satanic/"E.T." scenario to back up the arresting of the human race for final delusions.
I'm just stating you need to watch. Maybe the truckers will be completely overthrown as the world inches ever closer to Totalitarian control. Remember, they have police and military power. Unless that changes, the world is in big trouble. If it changes, and things in Canada have shown it is not but, if police and military say, No. We are not going down that road for you despots and lunatics, all weight on one side changes. Calling truckers terrorists is not only stupid, it's political suicide; at least in the eyes of reasoning, thinking people. Are there enough critical thinking Canadians to stand up against such stupidity? Remains to be seen, and a convoy through 3,000 miles of America could tip the scales for the entire globe.
Is this it? We all watch.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The OMP. Horse-hooved Thugs - February 19, 2022
This is disgusting. Absolutely revolting.
"Just following orders, Ma'am. Sorry about that."
No, more accurately, "Lady, get your damn 'bicycle' out of my way. How dare you."
So, just who is disseminating DISINFORMATION?
Canada becomes Tiananmen Square.
Bastards.
Any police officer who stood there and watched this should not just be ashamed but, removed from service being a disgrace to their oath; a dishonor to their uniform; just jack-booted thugs under the control of a wimpy, buffoon dictator.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/18/ottawa-mounted-police-charge-horses-into-crowd-disabled-elderly-woman-using-walker-trampled-police-claim-her-walker-was-bicycle/#more-227916
"Just following orders, Ma'am. Sorry about that."
No, more accurately, "Lady, get your damn 'bicycle' out of my way. How dare you."
So, just who is disseminating DISINFORMATION?
Canada becomes Tiananmen Square.
Bastards.
Any police officer who stood there and watched this should not just be ashamed but, removed from service being a disgrace to their oath; a dishonor to their uniform; just jack-booted thugs under the control of a wimpy, buffoon dictator.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/18/ottawa-mounted-police-charge-horses-into-crowd-disabled-elderly-woman-using-walker-trampled-police-claim-her-walker-was-bicycle/#more-227916
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509. The Nephilim - February 20, 2022
Here's how easy it is to get something biblically wrong and grow the walls of Babylonian confusion.
Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Truth. All the human race was composed of specimens taller than sin cursed mankind today. All life was bigger.
Until the intervention of modern medicine and extended lifespans, which has allowed a sustainable growth of human height, the human race grew smaller after the Flood, with ever shortening lifespans.
The evidence for giants that once lived has been mocked by evolutionists and unbelievers yet they readily admit species of insects, and life on land, in the air, and in the water was once bigger. Fossils prove it.
Where are the human fossils? Buried and decomposed and gone from circumstances surrounding the Flood. Just because no fossils of pre-Flood humanity have been readily discovered, hundreds of fossil footprints have been found in various places around the globe, in the same layers of rock as dinosaurs who supposedly lived 60 million years ago. Giant human bones have been found and displayed in 19th century and early 20th century photography.
Gigantic life was the common life before the Flood.
Error. Giants were the offspring of angels which mated with human females and produced a hybrid race of people.
First, the term "sons of God" is found 11 times in Scripture, both Old and New Testaments, and addresses those loyal to God, mostly among the human race but, in a few places, refers to angels and quite possibly life beyond Earth. I have written blogs on that numerous times.
Gen_6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen_6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Job_1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job_2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job_38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Joh_1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Rom_8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom_8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Php_2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
1John_3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1John_3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
The term "son of God" is found 48 times in the KJV and all but, twice, refers to Jesus Christ. In essence, Daniel 3:25 is the pronouncement of the king of Babylon, wholly ignorant of the plan of salvation. He saw a figure that had the appearance of majesty well beyond a human; i.e., a god. In Luke 3:38 the word 'son' is actually supplied by the translators but, the inference throughout the list of descendants is "the son of." Adam was the original son of God, from the hands of his Creator. Eve was the original daughter of God.
In no place in a study of the Bible does it state angels have procreation capabilities. They are angels, a separate form of creation and the Bible gives absolutely no hint that angels are equipped with procreation organs and internal systems to accomplish the task.
The sons of God in Gen. 6 are loyalists to their Creator. The daughters of men are those from the path of Cain; rebels, apostates, those not in league with God. The joining of God's people with Cain's lineage brought about a condition among mankind that required the end of all life on earth, lest the planetary populace become completely corrupted and lost. The principle has always existed and remains intact in the New Testament:
2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Cor 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
The Bible makes it plain. The sons of God in Gen. 6, were not angels. Angels did not mate with human females. It is nonsense. Yet, it has become a popular belief, and I was surprised to see it in the Jerusalem Post:
"Evidence of ‘biblical giants’ found in northern Israel
New docu-series to present rare, researched look at the Nephilim
By ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ Published: FEBRUARY 15, 2022 15:34
“The Bible describes the Nephilim in several places,” Landa said. “The main commentary of the Nephilim happens in Genesis chapter six. Most people cruise right over that passage. The Nephilim were the offspring of heavenly beings who were placed in the spiritual realm to watch over the earth in those days. They were principalities in the heavenly realm.”
https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-696572
"The Book of Enoch, an apocryphal second-century BCE source attributed to the great-grandfather of Biblical Noah, describes the Nephilim and claims the name of Mount Hermon is derived from the Hebrew word cherem, meaning “to be banished.” According to the Book of Enoch, the Nephilim were banished from heaven and sent to earth at Mount Hermon. The region, known as the Bashan, is where Og the king came out against the Israelites at the time of their entrance into the Promised Land."
Using the noncanonical book of Enoch to create a doctrinal belief, without the necessary biblical evidence to ground it, is utter Babylonian confusion and futility.
Four, one-hour programs devoted to the subject of giants would be easy enough to show evidence of giants. Making the Nephilim out to be supernatural or a hybrid supernatural race of beings, is ridiculous.
The Bible mentions giants (Nephilim) in several passages of Scripture, some listed here:
Num_13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Deut_2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deut_2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deut_3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
After the flood, the genetic pool from the family of Noah dwindled in physical stature but, some giants remained. They existed among the Canaanites, and the Hebrews, Moabites and Ammonites had names for them. The Bible specifically states remnants of their pre-flood genetic pool remained in some places.
Josh_12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Josh_13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
The famous, well-known story of David and Goliath of Gath, of the army of the Philistines, who had giant brothers as well, is another example. There is a reason David chose five smooth stones. He knew he only needed one for Goliath, and would have time for just one, well-placed shot. The other four? Goliaths brothers. Yeah. Cool story. Fist pump for David.
Average Bibles have around 1000 pages in them, depending on page material, and page & font size. Some are much smaller, some larger. It's a collection of "books" that can see a lifetime used to understand everything in it but, that does not mean the basic premises in the book cannot be understood with just some simple research in a concordance. People today do searches on the internet all the time. Google became one of the biggest companies on Earth because of searches done on its engines, and advertisers paying for space on the site. If people can use a search engine, they can use a Bible concordance to look up what the Book teaches on any given subject, word or phrase. The tools are online to do it, or can be downloaded for free, like eSword.
There really is no excuse for error to exist, when truth is so accessible. If one wants the truth, they shall find it and be made free from the enemy's lies. That is Christ's promise. That is God's pledge.
The reason the whole world will come under delusion is their fault, not God's. God has given mankind all it needs to make a connection, keep it going, and stand strong in every day of battle and spiritual war. You must be born again.
I used to speak to youth at camp meetings and various church group gatherings. I always challenged them in this way. God knows your doubts. God knows it all better than you do. Spend time reading the Bible for 30 days. One month. Ask God to make Himself known to you, through His word. Watch what happens. Be sincere. Be diligent. Ask God to make it real. I cannot recall the number of young people who told me how the experience they had changed their lives. Many others promoting the same challenge have had the same results.
God is forming a final army to take the final stand. The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. Use it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Truth. All the human race was composed of specimens taller than sin cursed mankind today. All life was bigger.
Until the intervention of modern medicine and extended lifespans, which has allowed a sustainable growth of human height, the human race grew smaller after the Flood, with ever shortening lifespans.
The evidence for giants that once lived has been mocked by evolutionists and unbelievers yet they readily admit species of insects, and life on land, in the air, and in the water was once bigger. Fossils prove it.
Where are the human fossils? Buried and decomposed and gone from circumstances surrounding the Flood. Just because no fossils of pre-Flood humanity have been readily discovered, hundreds of fossil footprints have been found in various places around the globe, in the same layers of rock as dinosaurs who supposedly lived 60 million years ago. Giant human bones have been found and displayed in 19th century and early 20th century photography.
Gigantic life was the common life before the Flood.
Error. Giants were the offspring of angels which mated with human females and produced a hybrid race of people.
First, the term "sons of God" is found 11 times in Scripture, both Old and New Testaments, and addresses those loyal to God, mostly among the human race but, in a few places, refers to angels and quite possibly life beyond Earth. I have written blogs on that numerous times.
Gen_6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen_6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Job_1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job_2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job_38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Joh_1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Rom_8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom_8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Php_2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
1John_3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1John_3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
The term "son of God" is found 48 times in the KJV and all but, twice, refers to Jesus Christ. In essence, Daniel 3:25 is the pronouncement of the king of Babylon, wholly ignorant of the plan of salvation. He saw a figure that had the appearance of majesty well beyond a human; i.e., a god. In Luke 3:38 the word 'son' is actually supplied by the translators but, the inference throughout the list of descendants is "the son of." Adam was the original son of God, from the hands of his Creator. Eve was the original daughter of God.
In no place in a study of the Bible does it state angels have procreation capabilities. They are angels, a separate form of creation and the Bible gives absolutely no hint that angels are equipped with procreation organs and internal systems to accomplish the task.
The sons of God in Gen. 6 are loyalists to their Creator. The daughters of men are those from the path of Cain; rebels, apostates, those not in league with God. The joining of God's people with Cain's lineage brought about a condition among mankind that required the end of all life on earth, lest the planetary populace become completely corrupted and lost. The principle has always existed and remains intact in the New Testament:
2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Cor 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
The Bible makes it plain. The sons of God in Gen. 6, were not angels. Angels did not mate with human females. It is nonsense. Yet, it has become a popular belief, and I was surprised to see it in the Jerusalem Post:
"Evidence of ‘biblical giants’ found in northern Israel
New docu-series to present rare, researched look at the Nephilim
By ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ Published: FEBRUARY 15, 2022 15:34
“The Bible describes the Nephilim in several places,” Landa said. “The main commentary of the Nephilim happens in Genesis chapter six. Most people cruise right over that passage. The Nephilim were the offspring of heavenly beings who were placed in the spiritual realm to watch over the earth in those days. They were principalities in the heavenly realm.”
https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-696572
"The Book of Enoch, an apocryphal second-century BCE source attributed to the great-grandfather of Biblical Noah, describes the Nephilim and claims the name of Mount Hermon is derived from the Hebrew word cherem, meaning “to be banished.” According to the Book of Enoch, the Nephilim were banished from heaven and sent to earth at Mount Hermon. The region, known as the Bashan, is where Og the king came out against the Israelites at the time of their entrance into the Promised Land."
Using the noncanonical book of Enoch to create a doctrinal belief, without the necessary biblical evidence to ground it, is utter Babylonian confusion and futility.
Four, one-hour programs devoted to the subject of giants would be easy enough to show evidence of giants. Making the Nephilim out to be supernatural or a hybrid supernatural race of beings, is ridiculous.
The Bible mentions giants (Nephilim) in several passages of Scripture, some listed here:
Num_13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Deut_2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deut_2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deut_3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
After the flood, the genetic pool from the family of Noah dwindled in physical stature but, some giants remained. They existed among the Canaanites, and the Hebrews, Moabites and Ammonites had names for them. The Bible specifically states remnants of their pre-flood genetic pool remained in some places.
Josh_12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Josh_13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
The famous, well-known story of David and Goliath of Gath, of the army of the Philistines, who had giant brothers as well, is another example. There is a reason David chose five smooth stones. He knew he only needed one for Goliath, and would have time for just one, well-placed shot. The other four? Goliaths brothers. Yeah. Cool story. Fist pump for David.
Average Bibles have around 1000 pages in them, depending on page material, and page & font size. Some are much smaller, some larger. It's a collection of "books" that can see a lifetime used to understand everything in it but, that does not mean the basic premises in the book cannot be understood with just some simple research in a concordance. People today do searches on the internet all the time. Google became one of the biggest companies on Earth because of searches done on its engines, and advertisers paying for space on the site. If people can use a search engine, they can use a Bible concordance to look up what the Book teaches on any given subject, word or phrase. The tools are online to do it, or can be downloaded for free, like eSword.
There really is no excuse for error to exist, when truth is so accessible. If one wants the truth, they shall find it and be made free from the enemy's lies. That is Christ's promise. That is God's pledge.
The reason the whole world will come under delusion is their fault, not God's. God has given mankind all it needs to make a connection, keep it going, and stand strong in every day of battle and spiritual war. You must be born again.
I used to speak to youth at camp meetings and various church group gatherings. I always challenged them in this way. God knows your doubts. God knows it all better than you do. Spend time reading the Bible for 30 days. One month. Ask God to make Himself known to you, through His word. Watch what happens. Be sincere. Be diligent. Ask God to make it real. I cannot recall the number of young people who told me how the experience they had changed their lives. Many others promoting the same challenge have had the same results.
God is forming a final army to take the final stand. The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. Use it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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510. Oh, Canada! - February 21, 2022
O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love thou dost in us command.
We see thee rising fair, dear land,
The True North, strong and free;
And stand on guard, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
(Refrain)
O Canada! O Canada!
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee,
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.
O Canada! Where pines and maples grow,
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow,
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western sea!
Thou land of hope for all who toil!
Thou True North, strong and free!
(Refrain)
O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies
May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
To keep thee steadfast through the years
From East to Western sea,
Our own beloved native land,
Our True North, strong and free!
(Refrain)
Ruler Supreme, Who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within Thy loving care.
Help us to find, O God, in Thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.
(Refrain)
Those are the original lyrics to the Canadian National Anthem. Below are the "official" lyrics.
O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.*
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North, strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
The changes took place over time. The sentiments regarding the land, how it denotes freedom, are now cast upon a trash heap of despotism.
My daughter, finishing up her education in Oklahoma, will be returning to a different nation than the one she left a couple months ago. Her own province, Alberta, has a leader that is attempting to take legal action against Trudeau's use of the Emergency Act; basically turning Canada into a dictatorship, hurling the weight of brutal police power, as well as theft of bank accounts and other measures against the truckers and protestors. Leaders are bragging about their intentions to harass protestors well beyond the finality and dispersal of their presence in Ottawa. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, once considered a vanguard of justice, have members that have taken to social media to brag about their physical brutality towards protestors. They have placed an eternal stigma of rottenness upon their careers and the force, itself, now nothing more than a rogue outfit of thugs who should be rounded up and imprisoned, themselves.
It seems wholly and entirely logical many in unmarked uniforms among the "police" are not even Canadian citizens but, mercenaries brought in to do the dirty work, as reports are now stating.
The references to God in both sets of lyrics have become totally meaningless now. I do not see how a single member of the Canadian Parliament could sing that anthem without serious shame. Those members of Parliament standing against Trudeau's tyranny are now marked individuals.
My family tree hails back to Eastern Canada; Quebec, specifically. I'm glad my parents and grand parents are not alive to see this atrocious violation of the spirit which made Canada the nation it used to be.
Most people have a picture of Canada being a pretty laid back place, with mountains, forests, plains, and oceans like America but, somehow more spread out and wild, yet with an atmosphere being pretty chill. I have known people from Canada, living in the U.S., telling stories of cold that would freeze your face as they told them.
Two of the most beloved television programs ever produced hail from Canada. Heartland, a 1-hour drama about a family horse ranch, and Murdoch Mysteries, the long-running, 1-hour master of 19th century tech to catch criminals.
The premise and spirit of both programs is torched by Trudeau's disgusting attitude and actions towards the citizens of Canada, supposedly free.
I mentioned some blogs back I am embarrassed to be French. Both Marcon in France and Trudeau in Canada blight the natural order of things with their abominable and loathsome leadership, both being pawns of the World Economic Forum and other elitist associations and organizations bent on world control. They are useful idiots of billionaire banksters and thinktanks.
My heart goes out to the citizens of Canada. The warning is clear. All nations now under dominion of tyrants are precursors for what will happen in America, the last hope for freedom in the world. The American empire, both admired and hated around the world, for good reasons, is going to collapse unless God steps in. I have no doubts about it. Death and destruction are coming. The Military Industrial Complex and bankster cabal want war, and will create war, because war is profitable. Only an absolute lunatic would enter a war in the 21st century with another superpower. Frankly, while Canada has not been a warring nation, America has been, for almost every year of its history.
The words of Jesus Christ about stress among nations, the multitudes roaring, man-made and natural disasters, the disintegration of law, order and morality, all of it, is building upon us.
We are watching the end of the world. Make NO mistake about it. How long the train to destruction rolls down its tracks no one but, God knows but, never has the world been in such a place of struggle for control by some and freedom and liberty by others.
Remember, at some point in the building turmoil, "Peace and Safety" will be declared. Then, sudden destruction will fall like a mountain on a mole hill.
Get ready, get ready, get ready. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
True patriot love thou dost in us command.
We see thee rising fair, dear land,
The True North, strong and free;
And stand on guard, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
(Refrain)
O Canada! O Canada!
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee,
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.
O Canada! Where pines and maples grow,
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow,
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western sea!
Thou land of hope for all who toil!
Thou True North, strong and free!
(Refrain)
O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies
May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
To keep thee steadfast through the years
From East to Western sea,
Our own beloved native land,
Our True North, strong and free!
(Refrain)
Ruler Supreme, Who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within Thy loving care.
Help us to find, O God, in Thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.
(Refrain)
Those are the original lyrics to the Canadian National Anthem. Below are the "official" lyrics.
O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.*
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North, strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
The changes took place over time. The sentiments regarding the land, how it denotes freedom, are now cast upon a trash heap of despotism.
My daughter, finishing up her education in Oklahoma, will be returning to a different nation than the one she left a couple months ago. Her own province, Alberta, has a leader that is attempting to take legal action against Trudeau's use of the Emergency Act; basically turning Canada into a dictatorship, hurling the weight of brutal police power, as well as theft of bank accounts and other measures against the truckers and protestors. Leaders are bragging about their intentions to harass protestors well beyond the finality and dispersal of their presence in Ottawa. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, once considered a vanguard of justice, have members that have taken to social media to brag about their physical brutality towards protestors. They have placed an eternal stigma of rottenness upon their careers and the force, itself, now nothing more than a rogue outfit of thugs who should be rounded up and imprisoned, themselves.
It seems wholly and entirely logical many in unmarked uniforms among the "police" are not even Canadian citizens but, mercenaries brought in to do the dirty work, as reports are now stating.
The references to God in both sets of lyrics have become totally meaningless now. I do not see how a single member of the Canadian Parliament could sing that anthem without serious shame. Those members of Parliament standing against Trudeau's tyranny are now marked individuals.
My family tree hails back to Eastern Canada; Quebec, specifically. I'm glad my parents and grand parents are not alive to see this atrocious violation of the spirit which made Canada the nation it used to be.
Most people have a picture of Canada being a pretty laid back place, with mountains, forests, plains, and oceans like America but, somehow more spread out and wild, yet with an atmosphere being pretty chill. I have known people from Canada, living in the U.S., telling stories of cold that would freeze your face as they told them.
Two of the most beloved television programs ever produced hail from Canada. Heartland, a 1-hour drama about a family horse ranch, and Murdoch Mysteries, the long-running, 1-hour master of 19th century tech to catch criminals.
The premise and spirit of both programs is torched by Trudeau's disgusting attitude and actions towards the citizens of Canada, supposedly free.
I mentioned some blogs back I am embarrassed to be French. Both Marcon in France and Trudeau in Canada blight the natural order of things with their abominable and loathsome leadership, both being pawns of the World Economic Forum and other elitist associations and organizations bent on world control. They are useful idiots of billionaire banksters and thinktanks.
My heart goes out to the citizens of Canada. The warning is clear. All nations now under dominion of tyrants are precursors for what will happen in America, the last hope for freedom in the world. The American empire, both admired and hated around the world, for good reasons, is going to collapse unless God steps in. I have no doubts about it. Death and destruction are coming. The Military Industrial Complex and bankster cabal want war, and will create war, because war is profitable. Only an absolute lunatic would enter a war in the 21st century with another superpower. Frankly, while Canada has not been a warring nation, America has been, for almost every year of its history.
The words of Jesus Christ about stress among nations, the multitudes roaring, man-made and natural disasters, the disintegration of law, order and morality, all of it, is building upon us.
We are watching the end of the world. Make NO mistake about it. How long the train to destruction rolls down its tracks no one but, God knows but, never has the world been in such a place of struggle for control by some and freedom and liberty by others.
Remember, at some point in the building turmoil, "Peace and Safety" will be declared. Then, sudden destruction will fall like a mountain on a mole hill.
Get ready, get ready, get ready. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Four Minutes of Horror
Brought to you by the merchant of menace, Greg Reece. I mentioned his website a short time ago. If I didn't know better I'd have to believe Mr. Reece was a writer of horror literature or screenplays for horror movies.
He can put enough info into a 4 min. video to creep you out for days. BUT, I hasten to add, his reporting just flows with documentation and evidence. They are videos meant for critical thinkers who are not moved or motivated by main stream voices telling us everything is okay, nothing to see here. Move along. Stay in line. Maintain order. Pay no attention to conspiracy theories. We have the truth. Trust us. We only care about your health and well-being.
Bullsgeschicte.
https://rumble.com/c/c-659545
https://rumble.com/vsnora-americas-food-supply-fertilized-with-human-remains-and-coated-with-nanopart.html
I could just put a list of links for each of his videos here but, you need to check the site out yourself.
All is not well. Humanity is under attack. There are far more reckless lunatics in positions of power and authority out there than we realize.
God help us.
He can put enough info into a 4 min. video to creep you out for days. BUT, I hasten to add, his reporting just flows with documentation and evidence. They are videos meant for critical thinkers who are not moved or motivated by main stream voices telling us everything is okay, nothing to see here. Move along. Stay in line. Maintain order. Pay no attention to conspiracy theories. We have the truth. Trust us. We only care about your health and well-being.
Bullsgeschicte.
https://rumble.com/c/c-659545
https://rumble.com/vsnora-americas-food-supply-fertilized-with-human-remains-and-coated-with-nanopart.html
I could just put a list of links for each of his videos here but, you need to check the site out yourself.
All is not well. Humanity is under attack. There are far more reckless lunatics in positions of power and authority out there than we realize.
God help us.
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510. Protesting is White Privilege?!?! - February 22, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/11/ottawa-trucker-convoy-is-rooted-canadas-settler-colonial-history/
"The primarily White supporters of the Freedom Convoy argue that pandemic mandates infringe upon their constitutional rights to freedom. The notion of “freedom” was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued. The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy. This explains why the Freedom Convoy members see themselves as entitled to freedom, no matter the public health consequences to those around them.
"Canada’s history of freedom then, was founded in the unfreedom of Indigenous people. This dynamic has been unnoticed and misconstrued by organizers, attendees and supporters of the Freedom Convoy. On the GoFundMe, the organizers claimed: “We are a peaceful country that has helped protect nations across the globe from tyrannical governments who oppressed their people, and now it seems it is happening here … We are doing this for our future Generations and to regain our lives back.” They are advancing a settler colonial genealogy that deploys the language of “freedom” and “unity” while engaging in actions that are harmful and violent."
Everybody knows the Washington Post is a Leftist newspaper. The two closing paragraphs above are from an article in that journal's online edition. They tell me all I need to know about the paper and the author, Taylor Dysart. She "is a PhD candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examines the intertwined worlds of healing, science, indigeneity and settler colonialism in the Amazon."
History is history. Non-Christian people, and I mean that literally, regardless of profession of faith, who went about oppressing anyone, show the dark side of humanity without Christ's guidance. The fact is, nations have been overthrown throughout all human history. Empires rise, empires fall. Skin shade has nothing to do with it, especially when history shows all shades of humans have inflicted pain and slavery upon all other shades of humans.
Regardless of ANY nation's previous history and ignominious actions towards indigenous people, this current world-wide event, this plandemic and everything about it is global and affects all people's freedoms and liberty. Leftists, too blind to read anything past their ideology, refuse to stay within the bounds of national and international documents of systemic freedoms and liberties granted and brought about by the actions of tyranny and despotism. My freedom and liberty does not stop at your fear. Wear your worthless mask. Take the injections. Do as you please in your personal freedom and liberty to conduct your health and life as you please. I have the right to do the same; a God granted right most Leftists show they could care less about because they have no principled belief in deity but, themselves.
The truth makes people free, indeed. Why are Leftists so perpetually wound up and frazzled about the freedoms of others all the time? They want freedom and liberty to do whatever they say and want and want everybody else to go with that. I don't think so.
If a mask works, if the injections work to protect you, what do you care if I do not wear one or refuse to be injected with an experimental fluid? Remove all the data of the worthlessness of masks and dangers of the injections. Your idea of freedom and liberty is based in the ideology that politicians have more authority and power than ever granted to them in most national constitutions; certainly the United States Constitution. THAT has been the issue from the start of this event. The event showed the nature of most people to comply for the sake of everybody around us. Once the investigations and data began to expose itself, very early on, complying became something pressed upon people who learned TRUTH and began to protest because of the LIES and obvious nefarious agenda crushing their very livelihoods and ability to take care of themselves, NOT DEPENDING ON GOVERNMENT. But, the Leftist wants big government to care for them, and believes everything government mouthpieces tell them, and sees all others as "harmful and violent" "conspiracy theorists."
Telling me my nation's past and my skin color has something to do with protesting for my medical freedom and liberty is so outrageous it makes Leftism look systemically insane and warrant such people with such beliefs one right: go pound sand.
How do you have a rational discussion with minds who believe skin color merits denial of medical liberty? How on Earth do you defend a position that claims skin color is privilege? Obviously not, or Caucasians would not be among the billions of people being forced to wear masks or take injections!!!
Please! Do let us have common sense.
As soon as you admit multiple shades of brown are part of any movement, which Caucasians are - light brown, tan, beige, whatever, wherever - on Earth, your argument falls down a thousand foot flight of stairs. All "races" are protesting. People who live their lives or see life as a shade of brown rather than rational ideas and principles are imbeciles and it does not matter if a PhD is tacked on after their name.
Only a Leftist would look at a crowd of tens or hundreds of thousands of people and trucks lined up for miles, seeing one flag they recoil at, or comments from one person, or actions from one person, makes the entire crowd the same. They never even think for a moment rogue government uses plants. No, no. That's a conspiracy theory, regardless of the FBI being caught doing it and even bragging they are good at it.
You will never gain a moment of my time telling me something I had zip to do with - the amount of melanin in my skin - determined my trajectory in life. Critical Race Theory, which is racism in the extreme, is something no person with common sense or the principles of Americanism engrained in them, engages in, and certainly not the teachings of Jesus Christ sincerely brought into the life.
This is all spiritual, prophetic Babylon, confusion, nonsense born of the darkness ever growing upon the human race.
At the top of the page you read - "The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness."
Well, first, ignorance claims America is a Democracy. It is not. It is a Constitutional Republic employing some elements of Democratic polity, i.e. voting for leaders. Right now, under the nose of the Leftist WP journal, democracy is being chipped away by rejecting what America actually is. Therefore, no big deal if one political party performs criminal acts to steal the democratically sanctioned election process and turn it into a free for all stuffing of ballot boxes with literally hundreds of thousands of votes from dead people, thousands living at the same address, and a host of other criminal infractions your skin shade nation refuses to investigate. How is it privileged "white" people refuse to investigate infractions committed by "brown" and "black" people in major cities, if they are so privileged and control everything? Because skin color does not drive them. Power does. However power can be attained and retained is what the course directive is and skin shade has nothing to do with it, except as "racism" can be used to gain their ends.
The moronic attitude of people who live according to "race" is a perpetuation of stupidity and ignorance.
In 1968, Hippies, protests of the Vietnam war, the Equal Rights movement, and all society seeming to crumble into a national political and moral quagmire, Burt Lancaster starred in a movie named, The Scalphunters. Ossie Davis portrayed a slave. He was obviously more articulate and educated than any other character in the film. 1968. I was 14. My favorite baseball coach was a one-armed "black" preacher. A marvelous man, Mr. Green. Many of my favorite athletes were "black." Two of the five most influential drummers upon my playing are "black." Dozens of other favorites have been "black."
I am so sick of "race" I could vomit. I'll be damned if I allow someone to tell me I am a harmful and violent person, a privileged person, because I refuse to have ignorant politicians force me to take a dangerous injection into my body.
You can go pound sand and shove your racism into the hole.
"The primarily White supporters of the Freedom Convoy argue that pandemic mandates infringe upon their constitutional rights to freedom. The notion of “freedom” was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued. The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy. This explains why the Freedom Convoy members see themselves as entitled to freedom, no matter the public health consequences to those around them.
"Canada’s history of freedom then, was founded in the unfreedom of Indigenous people. This dynamic has been unnoticed and misconstrued by organizers, attendees and supporters of the Freedom Convoy. On the GoFundMe, the organizers claimed: “We are a peaceful country that has helped protect nations across the globe from tyrannical governments who oppressed their people, and now it seems it is happening here … We are doing this for our future Generations and to regain our lives back.” They are advancing a settler colonial genealogy that deploys the language of “freedom” and “unity” while engaging in actions that are harmful and violent."
Everybody knows the Washington Post is a Leftist newspaper. The two closing paragraphs above are from an article in that journal's online edition. They tell me all I need to know about the paper and the author, Taylor Dysart. She "is a PhD candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examines the intertwined worlds of healing, science, indigeneity and settler colonialism in the Amazon."
History is history. Non-Christian people, and I mean that literally, regardless of profession of faith, who went about oppressing anyone, show the dark side of humanity without Christ's guidance. The fact is, nations have been overthrown throughout all human history. Empires rise, empires fall. Skin shade has nothing to do with it, especially when history shows all shades of humans have inflicted pain and slavery upon all other shades of humans.
Regardless of ANY nation's previous history and ignominious actions towards indigenous people, this current world-wide event, this plandemic and everything about it is global and affects all people's freedoms and liberty. Leftists, too blind to read anything past their ideology, refuse to stay within the bounds of national and international documents of systemic freedoms and liberties granted and brought about by the actions of tyranny and despotism. My freedom and liberty does not stop at your fear. Wear your worthless mask. Take the injections. Do as you please in your personal freedom and liberty to conduct your health and life as you please. I have the right to do the same; a God granted right most Leftists show they could care less about because they have no principled belief in deity but, themselves.
The truth makes people free, indeed. Why are Leftists so perpetually wound up and frazzled about the freedoms of others all the time? They want freedom and liberty to do whatever they say and want and want everybody else to go with that. I don't think so.
If a mask works, if the injections work to protect you, what do you care if I do not wear one or refuse to be injected with an experimental fluid? Remove all the data of the worthlessness of masks and dangers of the injections. Your idea of freedom and liberty is based in the ideology that politicians have more authority and power than ever granted to them in most national constitutions; certainly the United States Constitution. THAT has been the issue from the start of this event. The event showed the nature of most people to comply for the sake of everybody around us. Once the investigations and data began to expose itself, very early on, complying became something pressed upon people who learned TRUTH and began to protest because of the LIES and obvious nefarious agenda crushing their very livelihoods and ability to take care of themselves, NOT DEPENDING ON GOVERNMENT. But, the Leftist wants big government to care for them, and believes everything government mouthpieces tell them, and sees all others as "harmful and violent" "conspiracy theorists."
Telling me my nation's past and my skin color has something to do with protesting for my medical freedom and liberty is so outrageous it makes Leftism look systemically insane and warrant such people with such beliefs one right: go pound sand.
How do you have a rational discussion with minds who believe skin color merits denial of medical liberty? How on Earth do you defend a position that claims skin color is privilege? Obviously not, or Caucasians would not be among the billions of people being forced to wear masks or take injections!!!
Please! Do let us have common sense.
As soon as you admit multiple shades of brown are part of any movement, which Caucasians are - light brown, tan, beige, whatever, wherever - on Earth, your argument falls down a thousand foot flight of stairs. All "races" are protesting. People who live their lives or see life as a shade of brown rather than rational ideas and principles are imbeciles and it does not matter if a PhD is tacked on after their name.
Only a Leftist would look at a crowd of tens or hundreds of thousands of people and trucks lined up for miles, seeing one flag they recoil at, or comments from one person, or actions from one person, makes the entire crowd the same. They never even think for a moment rogue government uses plants. No, no. That's a conspiracy theory, regardless of the FBI being caught doing it and even bragging they are good at it.
You will never gain a moment of my time telling me something I had zip to do with - the amount of melanin in my skin - determined my trajectory in life. Critical Race Theory, which is racism in the extreme, is something no person with common sense or the principles of Americanism engrained in them, engages in, and certainly not the teachings of Jesus Christ sincerely brought into the life.
This is all spiritual, prophetic Babylon, confusion, nonsense born of the darkness ever growing upon the human race.
At the top of the page you read - "The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness."
Well, first, ignorance claims America is a Democracy. It is not. It is a Constitutional Republic employing some elements of Democratic polity, i.e. voting for leaders. Right now, under the nose of the Leftist WP journal, democracy is being chipped away by rejecting what America actually is. Therefore, no big deal if one political party performs criminal acts to steal the democratically sanctioned election process and turn it into a free for all stuffing of ballot boxes with literally hundreds of thousands of votes from dead people, thousands living at the same address, and a host of other criminal infractions your skin shade nation refuses to investigate. How is it privileged "white" people refuse to investigate infractions committed by "brown" and "black" people in major cities, if they are so privileged and control everything? Because skin color does not drive them. Power does. However power can be attained and retained is what the course directive is and skin shade has nothing to do with it, except as "racism" can be used to gain their ends.
The moronic attitude of people who live according to "race" is a perpetuation of stupidity and ignorance.
In 1968, Hippies, protests of the Vietnam war, the Equal Rights movement, and all society seeming to crumble into a national political and moral quagmire, Burt Lancaster starred in a movie named, The Scalphunters. Ossie Davis portrayed a slave. He was obviously more articulate and educated than any other character in the film. 1968. I was 14. My favorite baseball coach was a one-armed "black" preacher. A marvelous man, Mr. Green. Many of my favorite athletes were "black." Two of the five most influential drummers upon my playing are "black." Dozens of other favorites have been "black."
I am so sick of "race" I could vomit. I'll be damned if I allow someone to tell me I am a harmful and violent person, a privileged person, because I refuse to have ignorant politicians force me to take a dangerous injection into my body.
You can go pound sand and shove your racism into the hole.
WARNING: Etymotic Research
Etymotic Research is a company that makes various products for hearing, in its various branches. Hearing aids, and for my interest, Ear monitors/Earphones.
In 1991, I purchased a pair of ER4 in-ear monitors and still have them and use them today. I only had to change the canal filters one time. They explained I would lose some low end and I did. They still work fine, though.
Last August I purchased a pair of ER4 XRs. I wrote a review of them on the Recording Blog (August 12, 2021). Fantastic devices. I love them. I wrote reviews on various sites.
I purchased them new, off ebay for $150; a great price. So good, I wondered about the merchant but, they came fully sealed and obviously in brand new, unused condition. I know the high markups on audio equipment. If the seller is happy making less profit than other sellers, so be it.
I should have looked at the Warranty page at the Etymotic website first.
I only use them for listening to raw music files, mostly drums or drum videos on Youtube. Otherwise I just use inexpensive earbuds for my online listening.
This morning, the right side went lame. Not dead but, not much sound either. For all intents and purposes these are brand new. I went to the Etymotic website. A chat window popped up. I explained the situation. "Amanda" gave me four options to figure out the problem; three of them pointless because I already addressed that info in the first reply. I wondered, and asked if I was communicating with some kind of A.I. "Amanda" did not reply. I left the chat. I clicked somewhere on the page and another, different type of chat window opened up. I asked if I was communicating with a real human being. No reply ..., ... still no reply ..., closed that window. Another chat window opens up, this time with "Michael." Once again I typed out the problem, with my odd experience with "Amanda." Next thing I see, "Amanda" has joined the chat.
I had already gone and found the original box, looked at the manual, reversed the capsules and determined it is not a wire problem, it is capsule problem. "Amanda" apologizes and tells me Ebay is not a legit merchant for them so, no warranty. I replied, okay, wish I knew that before the purchase but, it's their product, what can be done? NOTHING for replacement or REPAIR. !!!!
Excuse me? It's your product and you cannot fix it? What do you make detachable capsules for?
Of course I'm upset. I expressed that, did not accept the apology, and stated I'd go and undo every review I have written. This is totally unacceptable customer service. Complete, epic fail. Never have I heard of a company that refuses to fix their product. It's not like it's some outdated device. How easy could it be to sell me a new capsule. No. She offered to sell me a new pair of phones with 20% off, presumably their list price. !!!!!
BUYER BEWARE. If you want to purchase anything from Etymotic Research read the whole website, and make sure you spend your money with a registered seller. I shall not spend a dime on another ER product. This is 2022. Customer service like that is a bad joke on consumers. You made the thing. Here's my receipt. What do you care who I bought them from? IT'S YOUR PRODUCT! IT FAILED. FIX IT! I don't care if you have to break open a box, remove a capsule from another pair and send it free or sell it to me. That is real customer service.
I even checked the site to see if I originally registered them but, didn't see anything. I immediately came here to write this post. And then I'm doing a search for another set of earphones; anything but, Etymotic Research.
In 1991, I purchased a pair of ER4 in-ear monitors and still have them and use them today. I only had to change the canal filters one time. They explained I would lose some low end and I did. They still work fine, though.
Last August I purchased a pair of ER4 XRs. I wrote a review of them on the Recording Blog (August 12, 2021). Fantastic devices. I love them. I wrote reviews on various sites.
I purchased them new, off ebay for $150; a great price. So good, I wondered about the merchant but, they came fully sealed and obviously in brand new, unused condition. I know the high markups on audio equipment. If the seller is happy making less profit than other sellers, so be it.
I should have looked at the Warranty page at the Etymotic website first.
I only use them for listening to raw music files, mostly drums or drum videos on Youtube. Otherwise I just use inexpensive earbuds for my online listening.
This morning, the right side went lame. Not dead but, not much sound either. For all intents and purposes these are brand new. I went to the Etymotic website. A chat window popped up. I explained the situation. "Amanda" gave me four options to figure out the problem; three of them pointless because I already addressed that info in the first reply. I wondered, and asked if I was communicating with some kind of A.I. "Amanda" did not reply. I left the chat. I clicked somewhere on the page and another, different type of chat window opened up. I asked if I was communicating with a real human being. No reply ..., ... still no reply ..., closed that window. Another chat window opens up, this time with "Michael." Once again I typed out the problem, with my odd experience with "Amanda." Next thing I see, "Amanda" has joined the chat.
I had already gone and found the original box, looked at the manual, reversed the capsules and determined it is not a wire problem, it is capsule problem. "Amanda" apologizes and tells me Ebay is not a legit merchant for them so, no warranty. I replied, okay, wish I knew that before the purchase but, it's their product, what can be done? NOTHING for replacement or REPAIR. !!!!
Excuse me? It's your product and you cannot fix it? What do you make detachable capsules for?
Of course I'm upset. I expressed that, did not accept the apology, and stated I'd go and undo every review I have written. This is totally unacceptable customer service. Complete, epic fail. Never have I heard of a company that refuses to fix their product. It's not like it's some outdated device. How easy could it be to sell me a new capsule. No. She offered to sell me a new pair of phones with 20% off, presumably their list price. !!!!!
BUYER BEWARE. If you want to purchase anything from Etymotic Research read the whole website, and make sure you spend your money with a registered seller. I shall not spend a dime on another ER product. This is 2022. Customer service like that is a bad joke on consumers. You made the thing. Here's my receipt. What do you care who I bought them from? IT'S YOUR PRODUCT! IT FAILED. FIX IT! I don't care if you have to break open a box, remove a capsule from another pair and send it free or sell it to me. That is real customer service.
I even checked the site to see if I originally registered them but, didn't see anything. I immediately came here to write this post. And then I'm doing a search for another set of earphones; anything but, Etymotic Research.
A Morality Pill?
Honk! Honk! I have news for you. That means Heil Hitler! Seriously, it does. A politician in Canada has told us that so, it must be true. So, while all you folks honk your horns today at bad drivers (have you ever watched any of the "Idiots in Cars," Youtube videos?), reckless pedestrians, crazy dogs, runaway children, friends by the roadside, etc., you can know you are also a Nazi. Hey, that's the lowdown from Ya'ara Saks, the Canadian MP. She must have insider info on that brilliant deduction.
That isn't what I wanted to really share though. Got an email from a friend who shared this link:
https://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/a-google-funded-fact-check-team-appears?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MzgxOTkwMCwiXyI6IkhWK2ZtIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ1NTM5NDQ3LCJleHAiOjE2NDU1NDMwNDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MDE2NDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.hDEhR2phcrLZ3q16kzFEPbOkqgyj6FJbaTaREwsp-6I
I was not familiar with Kassam. His experience with Indian "fact checkers" is crazy enough. Yes, you read that correctly. American tech/social platforms censoring people are using teams of people from India to determine if opinions and information written by Americans about American subjects and events, are factual. It's right up there with Honk! Honk!
In the article though, is the subject matter that brought about Kassam's problems with his social platform overlords. He posted a screen shot of a post made by Paul Hsieh, a contributor to Forbes, which stated a bioethicist, Parker Crutchfield suggests the use of a "morality pill," a psychoactive drug administered to people to provide "moral enhancement" to all of us so we could be normal and wear masks and take the injections and be good little healthy citizens.
I state it again with more confidence than ever. Leftists are mentally ill. They have something missing from their frontal lobes. Wires are crossed, neurons misfiring. They think nothing of herding humanity into barns of their safekeeping for our own good. Odd they deny the fact of herd immunity where Covid is concerned.
Anyway, in doing a little research I'll add this link, which is more about Hsieh's opinions, not employed Indian fact checking groups for the tech masters.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2020/08/30/could-a-morality-pill-help-stop-the-covid-19-pandemic/?sh=1e220c6a5b84
Viruses, injections, morality pills, what next? It is not a game. It's an actual agenda meant to control humanity, for its own good. Sick.
That isn't what I wanted to really share though. Got an email from a friend who shared this link:
https://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/a-google-funded-fact-check-team-appears?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MzgxOTkwMCwiXyI6IkhWK2ZtIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ1NTM5NDQ3LCJleHAiOjE2NDU1NDMwNDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MDE2NDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.hDEhR2phcrLZ3q16kzFEPbOkqgyj6FJbaTaREwsp-6I
I was not familiar with Kassam. His experience with Indian "fact checkers" is crazy enough. Yes, you read that correctly. American tech/social platforms censoring people are using teams of people from India to determine if opinions and information written by Americans about American subjects and events, are factual. It's right up there with Honk! Honk!
In the article though, is the subject matter that brought about Kassam's problems with his social platform overlords. He posted a screen shot of a post made by Paul Hsieh, a contributor to Forbes, which stated a bioethicist, Parker Crutchfield suggests the use of a "morality pill," a psychoactive drug administered to people to provide "moral enhancement" to all of us so we could be normal and wear masks and take the injections and be good little healthy citizens.
I state it again with more confidence than ever. Leftists are mentally ill. They have something missing from their frontal lobes. Wires are crossed, neurons misfiring. They think nothing of herding humanity into barns of their safekeeping for our own good. Odd they deny the fact of herd immunity where Covid is concerned.
Anyway, in doing a little research I'll add this link, which is more about Hsieh's opinions, not employed Indian fact checking groups for the tech masters.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2020/08/30/could-a-morality-pill-help-stop-the-covid-19-pandemic/?sh=1e220c6a5b84
Viruses, injections, morality pills, what next? It is not a game. It's an actual agenda meant to control humanity, for its own good. Sick.
Some Days Just Stay Away
There are good days. There are bad days. Some days you have a feeling... Other days, you have no clue what is coming.
This is the second time this has happened in just a month or two. Minding my own business, just carefully walking into the world of drums in that small bedroom; just want to sit down a get the blood moving for a little while and BANG!!!! Or CRASH!!!!! Or dynamite demolition. Take your pick. If you have never heard a 35 pound gong fall over and smash into everything else on a drum set, it's fast and horrifying. Time to make some changes.
This is the second time this has happened in just a month or two. Minding my own business, just carefully walking into the world of drums in that small bedroom; just want to sit down a get the blood moving for a little while and BANG!!!! Or CRASH!!!!! Or dynamite demolition. Take your pick. If you have never heard a 35 pound gong fall over and smash into everything else on a drum set, it's fast and horrifying. Time to make some changes.
Thankfully, nothing broken. Just a small wall scrape to fix. Cymbals are a lot more forgiving than drummers realize. Wood, not so much. Dings and digs in hoops, a scuff here and there.
Could have been worse is what I try to maintain in my mind. Small house, small rooms, it is what it is. I could always set up a 4 pc. and a few cymbals.... Nah.
Time for a new gong stand design. Or weigh the tripod down. Or, just put the gong away.
(Sigh)
Could have been worse is what I try to maintain in my mind. Small house, small rooms, it is what it is. I could always set up a 4 pc. and a few cymbals.... Nah.
Time for a new gong stand design. Or weigh the tripod down. Or, just put the gong away.
(Sigh)
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512. Signs and Cell Phones - February 24, 2022
Apparently global displeasure has caused Trudeau and his handlers to back off the Emergency Act and gross dictator stuff. A good thing but, not because of the truckers and people's peaceful protest. I imagine the elites don't like looking bad to their friends. It's not like being in a club with a bunch of Stalins and Hitlers. Far more refined-looking these days, they are. Trudeau is a weakling, a puppet. Too young and too fragile to be tough. He went crying to his handlers and they allowed him to back off with various world leaders speaking out. Of course, here in America the Biden tyrannical machine all love it and plan to do whatever they can to put all of us in a national straightjacket.
I suppose these are warning shots fired across the bows of the Canadian peons sailing at the behest of the cabal. "We control everything. Remember that." Of course, having such ignorant people in your cabinet and administration, making outrageously stupid remarks before the world doesn't help. "Honk. Honk." Nor dragging in mercenaries and UN troops to do your dirty business, and having rogue RMP agents bragging about harming people with tactics inspired by bullies with badges down through history.
UPDATE: Here's a more thorough reason:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-trudeau-reversal-motive-surfaces-canadian-banking-association-was-approved-by-world-economic-forum-to-lead-the-digital-id-creation/
As I have stated before, I really believe if they cannot gain total control of the internet and flow of information they will always be a couple short of a dozen. There are just too many outlets doing real investigation and speaking truth now, and you cannot arrest everyone in a crowd nor can you continually and successfully call dozens and dozens of alternative news sites conspiracy theorists. It no longer works for thinking people. Non-critical thinkers will continue to make up the bulk of useful idiots the cabal will use, and those they can easily persuade with money and position. Still, to really succeed, you either go full-blown Hitler or find another way to gain and maintain total dominance and control. The New World Order masters have failed again, though they will not stop trying with more viruses, war, financial disaster, starvation, you name it. It's on the table for them. Plus, we have yet to see how the injections will perform. Remember, time delays can be placed in anything including viruses and "vaccines." The final total of infirmed and dead remains to be seen.
That is why the idea of a virus and "vaccine" were quite brilliant. They did not pull it off because critical thinkers saw past it right away and began speaking out. The waffling of Fauci over and over did not help their agenda. The mean-spirited, yet ridiculous nature of politicians in the bag of the elites, with gross Draconian mandates, still in place in many cities and states, and stating stupid things didn't help. As long as cell phones have cameras, nothing can be hidden from the world anymore. Political hypocrites, frauds, liars, criminals beware.
We now expect the worst. We know they are devils, with nothing but, power and control on their minds. They certainly meet the criteria of Genesis 6:5:
"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Thinking past the current event and into prophetic events to come, that all works great for a false religious revival and signs and wonders. The internet will blow up with 'miracles' recorded by cell phones. As the Enemy of souls moves the final pieces of the war in place, with deception as his biggest tool, nobody will have to ask about something that happened on the other side of the world, and sit in doubt. Cell phones across the globe will capture it all, and every phone, laptop and monitor and t.v. screen will be showing startling and astounding things taking place. Remember, Satan works with ALL POWER, Signs and lying wonders through the man of sin: which is whoever sits in 'the chair of Peter' in the Roman Catholic Church Papacy/Vatican system. When multiplied millions of faithful and honest Roman Catholics and Protestants and sincere people in other faiths, or no faiths, are exposed to the Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14, the call to come out of Babylon will reap its harvest.
The final cabal is the triad of Revelation: the RCC Papacy/Vatican Mother; Apostate Protestant Daughters, and the Kings of the Earth/Paganism.
Right now the side of moving events is with Humanists, Materialists, Naturalism and Evolution, etc. "God does not exist. Nothing supernatural exists. It's all just things we can explain; and the things we can't, we have faith we'll know someday." Ohhh. Faith. Hm.
Here's the rub. If I am correct; that Satan is going to use a version of Extra-Terrestrials in his final deceptions, that will not help the non-believers when "ET" states God does exist, God is the Creator, and God wants the world to know a time of peace and safety has arrived to keep the world from blowing itself up or whatever. A world on the brink, arrested by signs and wonders, and everybody mellows out and "believes."
Variations on the basic theme can certainly exist and twirl around but, make no mistake about it. Satan shall appear as an angel of light and try to pull off the biggest deception every witnessed by human beings. He shall be globally successful save for the 'remnant,' that group that keeps the commandments of God, and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. They will not stay silent, regardless of consequences. The truth shall be known and exposed and every person on Earth given a chance to get on board or go down with the global apostate, rebel ship.
It's going to be interesting.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I suppose these are warning shots fired across the bows of the Canadian peons sailing at the behest of the cabal. "We control everything. Remember that." Of course, having such ignorant people in your cabinet and administration, making outrageously stupid remarks before the world doesn't help. "Honk. Honk." Nor dragging in mercenaries and UN troops to do your dirty business, and having rogue RMP agents bragging about harming people with tactics inspired by bullies with badges down through history.
UPDATE: Here's a more thorough reason:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-trudeau-reversal-motive-surfaces-canadian-banking-association-was-approved-by-world-economic-forum-to-lead-the-digital-id-creation/
As I have stated before, I really believe if they cannot gain total control of the internet and flow of information they will always be a couple short of a dozen. There are just too many outlets doing real investigation and speaking truth now, and you cannot arrest everyone in a crowd nor can you continually and successfully call dozens and dozens of alternative news sites conspiracy theorists. It no longer works for thinking people. Non-critical thinkers will continue to make up the bulk of useful idiots the cabal will use, and those they can easily persuade with money and position. Still, to really succeed, you either go full-blown Hitler or find another way to gain and maintain total dominance and control. The New World Order masters have failed again, though they will not stop trying with more viruses, war, financial disaster, starvation, you name it. It's on the table for them. Plus, we have yet to see how the injections will perform. Remember, time delays can be placed in anything including viruses and "vaccines." The final total of infirmed and dead remains to be seen.
That is why the idea of a virus and "vaccine" were quite brilliant. They did not pull it off because critical thinkers saw past it right away and began speaking out. The waffling of Fauci over and over did not help their agenda. The mean-spirited, yet ridiculous nature of politicians in the bag of the elites, with gross Draconian mandates, still in place in many cities and states, and stating stupid things didn't help. As long as cell phones have cameras, nothing can be hidden from the world anymore. Political hypocrites, frauds, liars, criminals beware.
We now expect the worst. We know they are devils, with nothing but, power and control on their minds. They certainly meet the criteria of Genesis 6:5:
"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Thinking past the current event and into prophetic events to come, that all works great for a false religious revival and signs and wonders. The internet will blow up with 'miracles' recorded by cell phones. As the Enemy of souls moves the final pieces of the war in place, with deception as his biggest tool, nobody will have to ask about something that happened on the other side of the world, and sit in doubt. Cell phones across the globe will capture it all, and every phone, laptop and monitor and t.v. screen will be showing startling and astounding things taking place. Remember, Satan works with ALL POWER, Signs and lying wonders through the man of sin: which is whoever sits in 'the chair of Peter' in the Roman Catholic Church Papacy/Vatican system. When multiplied millions of faithful and honest Roman Catholics and Protestants and sincere people in other faiths, or no faiths, are exposed to the Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14, the call to come out of Babylon will reap its harvest.
The final cabal is the triad of Revelation: the RCC Papacy/Vatican Mother; Apostate Protestant Daughters, and the Kings of the Earth/Paganism.
Right now the side of moving events is with Humanists, Materialists, Naturalism and Evolution, etc. "God does not exist. Nothing supernatural exists. It's all just things we can explain; and the things we can't, we have faith we'll know someday." Ohhh. Faith. Hm.
Here's the rub. If I am correct; that Satan is going to use a version of Extra-Terrestrials in his final deceptions, that will not help the non-believers when "ET" states God does exist, God is the Creator, and God wants the world to know a time of peace and safety has arrived to keep the world from blowing itself up or whatever. A world on the brink, arrested by signs and wonders, and everybody mellows out and "believes."
Variations on the basic theme can certainly exist and twirl around but, make no mistake about it. Satan shall appear as an angel of light and try to pull off the biggest deception every witnessed by human beings. He shall be globally successful save for the 'remnant,' that group that keeps the commandments of God, and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. They will not stay silent, regardless of consequences. The truth shall be known and exposed and every person on Earth given a chance to get on board or go down with the global apostate, rebel ship.
It's going to be interesting.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Need an Explanation of Ukraine? RT.
https://www.rt.com/russia/550394-donbass-republics-military-help-putin/
Look at a world map. The Ukraine is on the South Western border of Russia. To the South Eastern border of Ukraine exists two new Republics - Donetsk and Lugansk. They are populated by mostly Russian people. Their leaders wrote letters to Putin asking for help from Ukrainian aggression towards them. Putin says, Okay, I can do that. The world claims Putin is starting World War 3. The Press is helping in that portrayal. It's really quite disgusting. Truth means nothing anymore. The only thing that matters is agenda. Make Putin the bad guy, push the agenda against Trump, against anything associated with Conservatism and truth. Falsify, lie, make stuff up on the spot, and then to add insult to injury, put Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden in front of a crowd and let them mangle the English language and coherent thought, or have Harris say something profoundly stuffed and empty all at the same time. Then have minds like Mitt Romney's blaming the Ukraine situation on Trump. You cannot make this stuff up.
"Donetsk and Lugansk declared their independence from Ukraine in 2014, after the West-backed protests ended with a coup ousting the democratically elected government in Kiev. The Ukrainian military’s attempts to subjugate the area by force failed, resulting in the uneasy ceasefires signed in Minsk, Belarus – first in September 2014, then in February 2015."Moscow had long refused to recognize the two republics, pointing to Minsk and calling the conflict an internal Ukrainian matter. On Monday, however, Putin said that Kiev had openly refused to comply with the Minsk agreements and signed a decree on the “long overdue” recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk."
Have you heard Biden or Pelosi or Psaki, or NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN or anybody else report those facts, including plenty of professed Conservatives who see Putin as the Boogeyman, as well?
Politicians and their minions make everything so incredibly complicated. Putin has no reason to drop a nuke on Kiev. The Ukraine is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Now, Biden? Yeah, Biden's handlers, defending Biden Junior's Ukrainian money tree, backed by the M.I.C. and war mongers, would drop a bomb and blame it on Putin, and the world gets dragged into mutual destruction. Well... not so much. China would sit this out, sweep up the ashes, and take control of the planet at some point.
On the other hand... never let it out of your mind the cry of 'Peace and Safety' will go out at some point, logically to stop mutual destruction and set up destruction from the Adversary's final bag of tricks.
We watch and wait.
Look at a world map. The Ukraine is on the South Western border of Russia. To the South Eastern border of Ukraine exists two new Republics - Donetsk and Lugansk. They are populated by mostly Russian people. Their leaders wrote letters to Putin asking for help from Ukrainian aggression towards them. Putin says, Okay, I can do that. The world claims Putin is starting World War 3. The Press is helping in that portrayal. It's really quite disgusting. Truth means nothing anymore. The only thing that matters is agenda. Make Putin the bad guy, push the agenda against Trump, against anything associated with Conservatism and truth. Falsify, lie, make stuff up on the spot, and then to add insult to injury, put Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden in front of a crowd and let them mangle the English language and coherent thought, or have Harris say something profoundly stuffed and empty all at the same time. Then have minds like Mitt Romney's blaming the Ukraine situation on Trump. You cannot make this stuff up.
"Donetsk and Lugansk declared their independence from Ukraine in 2014, after the West-backed protests ended with a coup ousting the democratically elected government in Kiev. The Ukrainian military’s attempts to subjugate the area by force failed, resulting in the uneasy ceasefires signed in Minsk, Belarus – first in September 2014, then in February 2015."Moscow had long refused to recognize the two republics, pointing to Minsk and calling the conflict an internal Ukrainian matter. On Monday, however, Putin said that Kiev had openly refused to comply with the Minsk agreements and signed a decree on the “long overdue” recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk."
Have you heard Biden or Pelosi or Psaki, or NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN or anybody else report those facts, including plenty of professed Conservatives who see Putin as the Boogeyman, as well?
Politicians and their minions make everything so incredibly complicated. Putin has no reason to drop a nuke on Kiev. The Ukraine is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Now, Biden? Yeah, Biden's handlers, defending Biden Junior's Ukrainian money tree, backed by the M.I.C. and war mongers, would drop a bomb and blame it on Putin, and the world gets dragged into mutual destruction. Well... not so much. China would sit this out, sweep up the ashes, and take control of the planet at some point.
On the other hand... never let it out of your mind the cry of 'Peace and Safety' will go out at some point, logically to stop mutual destruction and set up destruction from the Adversary's final bag of tricks.
We watch and wait.
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513. My Drums Are Hilarious? - February 24, 2022
Well, another two days of ice and North Texas is shut down, and as the heating system tries to keep up, I'm sitting here reflecting on various issues that have come up in the last week or so.
I received a comment on my Youtube channel the other day. He stated my stacked plywood ring drums are "almost hilarious." The context of the video was about using a plastic food bucket for a drum shell and getting the sound of a drum because of the heads, certainly not the bucket. I compared it to the 10" plywood drum in the current set-up, sitting to my left in the room I make most of my videos in.
"Your kit does nothing for me it's almost hilarious but if you save money and like your sound that's what counts to you"
I thought about that for awhile. "Hilarious."
It really goes to show that drums and drumming are as much about visual context as aural. In placing performance videos of the stacked plywood drums (SPRD) on my channel, no one has ever said anything negative about their sound. To the contrary. I have recorded with them, and they are displayed on the Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD on the "Battle with Self" track, where I do a drum battle with myself, using my Keller set and the SPD. There is virtually no distinguishing thing that would tell anyone what I was using for the second drum set. They sound like the Keller set.
Knowing that viewers may just step into my channel on any single video in the series about drum shell hype in the manufacturing industry, without ever seeing anything else on it, they probably are unaware of the "Leather" set, mostly Keller Maple shells, or the Tabletop sets, or anything else on the channel. The SPRD are an experiment, albeit one that has obviously grown since I made the first three drums six years ago. I do not sell them, though I have been asked and offered payment. The American Percussion Instruments co. has a patent on making drum shells from concentric plywood rings ("multi-annular rings") and they look pretty cool, although the company has done nothing with them beyond some pictures of shells on their website, which has been greatly reduced on the last version of their website I looked at. It all seems strange but, to each his own. They make more abstract percussion instruments. Traditional drums are not their thing. I'm not purchasing licensing rights to make and sell plywood drums but, in previous pictures they had some really nice looking colors/stains and finishes on their traditional drums.
Think about this. Open any musical instrument catalog from a merchant that puts them out. Guitars and basses in all kinds of shapes and finishes, page after page. Keyboards, not so much. Keys players have never had that kind of cosmetic choice. Nor do woodwind players, brass players, flute players, string players beyond guitars, and even acoustic guitars have remained pretty neutral for centuries. Electric violinists have had some custom instruments made and there are manufacturers of electric violins that offer some variations of materials and cosmetics. Drums? Oh, a huge history of cosmetics.
Someone once said my SPRD look like something from IKEA. I got the point. To my eyes, a lot more interesting than looking at white or black drums or other solid color drums. Absence of chrome parts bothers people. "What? No chrome hoops or lugs? What's wrong with your drums?"
Their simple design and price point to make them seems to bother some people. Inexpensive means cheap and less than able to create nice drum sound. Wrong.
If you have been reading here for awhile, you have seen pictures of the set. They're all over the site. No, they do not look like traditional drums. They sound like them.
Remember Arbiter drums? No lugs. An ingenious way to tension heads. They never caught on.
Peavy drums. Their radial edge drums. No lugs. The lug nuts were in an extended ring around the shell. Spacey looking, images of Saturn or something, and as good as they sounded, they never caught on. Both Arbiter and Peavy are collectibles now.
Plexiglass, fiberglass, aluminum and other sheet metals have all had their exposure as drum shells, and while acrylic drums have their fans since the late 60s, early 70s, see-through drums have never really caught on. They are seen more as a novelty, a circus act, especially when you begin making them look like a striped Barber's pole. If you are too young to remember the red and white turning or stationary tubes outside of Barber shops for a hundred years, they were everywhere, in every town at one time. Some still exist in use. Ludwig's swirling acrylic drums were from the Disco age of music. Then the lights inside the shells. All cosmetic stuff for the eyes, regardless of sound and durability. Retro aspects of the market have seen a comeback of those models. They remain a novelty, near as I can tell. One of my favorite players, Billy Cobham, used clear Fibes back in the day. They have their fans today but, nothing has come close to traditional plywood drums and finishes on them or traditional wraps.
Drummers care about how their drums look. They have a big footprint. Even a 4pc. kit has more to see than anybody else in the band, except the keyboard players with multiple rigs yet, all black, though, save for the odd synth out there.
At the same time drummers, as wild as they are portrayed, are as traditional as any other musician. Drums need to maintain a certain look or they are rejected by the general population of players.
Some people absolutely hate DW's round turret lugs, which actually came from Camco drums back in the day, which DW purchased. To me, round drum, round lug, makes perfect sense. Back then I thought Rogers had the nicest looking lugs. I played Ludwig because I started on a Ludwig set and just increased it as the years went buy, and Rogers were more expensive, as well. Slingerland, Gretsch, Premier, Sonor... nope. I liked Rogers lugs. What's with that?
I do not like the old fashioned, Duco finishes. Back in the day it seemed to come about to match a school's colors. Blue and silver, red and gold, green and yellow, whatever, from high school through college. I see that finish, even in modern styles, and I am left barren by it. I saw a set with Black sparkle top & bottom and grey sparkle in the middle that was elegantly attractive but, nothing I'd put money down for. If someone gave me that set of drums... IDK. I might keep them that way or put an exotic wood veneer on them or something else. Black and grey, not my thing, and yet at one time, a nice black stain and finish on a very noticeable grain pattern was pretty cool and desirable to me. Not anymore.
I have mentioned before, my Ludwig LEGEND set were mostly Pink Champagne drums. My first 4pc was that color and I just kept adding drums to it. Then came my days of unbridled imagination and they ended up getting covered with flocked wallpaper, and looked pretty regal to me, and seemed to fascinate people who came down into the basement and saw them, as well as live. "Wait? What? Ludwig doesn't offer a finish like that. Is it custom?" Nope. Just wallpaper - which comes in literally thousands of patterns. You can look through wallpaper books for days. I have used it a few times on drum sets.
Then there was the company that came out with skin thin expandable elastic wraps for drum shells. Take off the hardware, stretch the fabric on, punch holes, reinstall the hardware, new drum set.
Today, with digital printing, there is really nothing conceivable that cannot be placed on a drum set. Even digital painting can spray a design over the entire kit, hardware and all, from the seas and oceans, to mountains and valleys, to the Milky Way galaxy.
With all that, the world market of manufactured drums has the same categories and variations of finishes available the last hundred years. Stock cannot be gargantuan anymore. Supply line speeds figure into making and stocking drums, and obviously the bottom line is what sells. For a century, with all the possibilities of the digital age upon us; stained or plain wood, and a few categories of plastic wraps remain how drums look. And if you go outside those norms of hoops and lugs... nothing catches on and I have to say, I find that just plain odd.
I obviously do not consider my SPRD "hilarious." Different, yes. I like different. Always have. If I had the money and was a collector, I'd have a set of Arbiter's, Peavey's, North drums, and other different drums people have come up with. In reality the history of drums is as much the history of 20th century art and design, manufacturing and finishing techniques as anything else.
I received a comment on my Youtube channel the other day. He stated my stacked plywood ring drums are "almost hilarious." The context of the video was about using a plastic food bucket for a drum shell and getting the sound of a drum because of the heads, certainly not the bucket. I compared it to the 10" plywood drum in the current set-up, sitting to my left in the room I make most of my videos in.
"Your kit does nothing for me it's almost hilarious but if you save money and like your sound that's what counts to you"
I thought about that for awhile. "Hilarious."
It really goes to show that drums and drumming are as much about visual context as aural. In placing performance videos of the stacked plywood drums (SPRD) on my channel, no one has ever said anything negative about their sound. To the contrary. I have recorded with them, and they are displayed on the Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD on the "Battle with Self" track, where I do a drum battle with myself, using my Keller set and the SPD. There is virtually no distinguishing thing that would tell anyone what I was using for the second drum set. They sound like the Keller set.
Knowing that viewers may just step into my channel on any single video in the series about drum shell hype in the manufacturing industry, without ever seeing anything else on it, they probably are unaware of the "Leather" set, mostly Keller Maple shells, or the Tabletop sets, or anything else on the channel. The SPRD are an experiment, albeit one that has obviously grown since I made the first three drums six years ago. I do not sell them, though I have been asked and offered payment. The American Percussion Instruments co. has a patent on making drum shells from concentric plywood rings ("multi-annular rings") and they look pretty cool, although the company has done nothing with them beyond some pictures of shells on their website, which has been greatly reduced on the last version of their website I looked at. It all seems strange but, to each his own. They make more abstract percussion instruments. Traditional drums are not their thing. I'm not purchasing licensing rights to make and sell plywood drums but, in previous pictures they had some really nice looking colors/stains and finishes on their traditional drums.
Think about this. Open any musical instrument catalog from a merchant that puts them out. Guitars and basses in all kinds of shapes and finishes, page after page. Keyboards, not so much. Keys players have never had that kind of cosmetic choice. Nor do woodwind players, brass players, flute players, string players beyond guitars, and even acoustic guitars have remained pretty neutral for centuries. Electric violinists have had some custom instruments made and there are manufacturers of electric violins that offer some variations of materials and cosmetics. Drums? Oh, a huge history of cosmetics.
Someone once said my SPRD look like something from IKEA. I got the point. To my eyes, a lot more interesting than looking at white or black drums or other solid color drums. Absence of chrome parts bothers people. "What? No chrome hoops or lugs? What's wrong with your drums?"
Their simple design and price point to make them seems to bother some people. Inexpensive means cheap and less than able to create nice drum sound. Wrong.
If you have been reading here for awhile, you have seen pictures of the set. They're all over the site. No, they do not look like traditional drums. They sound like them.
Remember Arbiter drums? No lugs. An ingenious way to tension heads. They never caught on.
Peavy drums. Their radial edge drums. No lugs. The lug nuts were in an extended ring around the shell. Spacey looking, images of Saturn or something, and as good as they sounded, they never caught on. Both Arbiter and Peavy are collectibles now.
Plexiglass, fiberglass, aluminum and other sheet metals have all had their exposure as drum shells, and while acrylic drums have their fans since the late 60s, early 70s, see-through drums have never really caught on. They are seen more as a novelty, a circus act, especially when you begin making them look like a striped Barber's pole. If you are too young to remember the red and white turning or stationary tubes outside of Barber shops for a hundred years, they were everywhere, in every town at one time. Some still exist in use. Ludwig's swirling acrylic drums were from the Disco age of music. Then the lights inside the shells. All cosmetic stuff for the eyes, regardless of sound and durability. Retro aspects of the market have seen a comeback of those models. They remain a novelty, near as I can tell. One of my favorite players, Billy Cobham, used clear Fibes back in the day. They have their fans today but, nothing has come close to traditional plywood drums and finishes on them or traditional wraps.
Drummers care about how their drums look. They have a big footprint. Even a 4pc. kit has more to see than anybody else in the band, except the keyboard players with multiple rigs yet, all black, though, save for the odd synth out there.
At the same time drummers, as wild as they are portrayed, are as traditional as any other musician. Drums need to maintain a certain look or they are rejected by the general population of players.
Some people absolutely hate DW's round turret lugs, which actually came from Camco drums back in the day, which DW purchased. To me, round drum, round lug, makes perfect sense. Back then I thought Rogers had the nicest looking lugs. I played Ludwig because I started on a Ludwig set and just increased it as the years went buy, and Rogers were more expensive, as well. Slingerland, Gretsch, Premier, Sonor... nope. I liked Rogers lugs. What's with that?
I do not like the old fashioned, Duco finishes. Back in the day it seemed to come about to match a school's colors. Blue and silver, red and gold, green and yellow, whatever, from high school through college. I see that finish, even in modern styles, and I am left barren by it. I saw a set with Black sparkle top & bottom and grey sparkle in the middle that was elegantly attractive but, nothing I'd put money down for. If someone gave me that set of drums... IDK. I might keep them that way or put an exotic wood veneer on them or something else. Black and grey, not my thing, and yet at one time, a nice black stain and finish on a very noticeable grain pattern was pretty cool and desirable to me. Not anymore.
I have mentioned before, my Ludwig LEGEND set were mostly Pink Champagne drums. My first 4pc was that color and I just kept adding drums to it. Then came my days of unbridled imagination and they ended up getting covered with flocked wallpaper, and looked pretty regal to me, and seemed to fascinate people who came down into the basement and saw them, as well as live. "Wait? What? Ludwig doesn't offer a finish like that. Is it custom?" Nope. Just wallpaper - which comes in literally thousands of patterns. You can look through wallpaper books for days. I have used it a few times on drum sets.
Then there was the company that came out with skin thin expandable elastic wraps for drum shells. Take off the hardware, stretch the fabric on, punch holes, reinstall the hardware, new drum set.
Today, with digital printing, there is really nothing conceivable that cannot be placed on a drum set. Even digital painting can spray a design over the entire kit, hardware and all, from the seas and oceans, to mountains and valleys, to the Milky Way galaxy.
With all that, the world market of manufactured drums has the same categories and variations of finishes available the last hundred years. Stock cannot be gargantuan anymore. Supply line speeds figure into making and stocking drums, and obviously the bottom line is what sells. For a century, with all the possibilities of the digital age upon us; stained or plain wood, and a few categories of plastic wraps remain how drums look. And if you go outside those norms of hoops and lugs... nothing catches on and I have to say, I find that just plain odd.
I obviously do not consider my SPRD "hilarious." Different, yes. I like different. Always have. If I had the money and was a collector, I'd have a set of Arbiter's, Peavey's, North drums, and other different drums people have come up with. In reality the history of drums is as much the history of 20th century art and design, manufacturing and finishing techniques as anything else.
I wonder if I wrapped the shells in wood veneer or drum wrap, put lugs on them and chrome hoops, if they would still be "almost hilarious?"
Play on, brothers and sisters. Play on.
Play on, brothers and sisters. Play on.
SICK, SICK, SICK, PSYCHOPATHIC SICK!
https://tv.gab.com/channel/redvoicemedia/view/frightening-resurfaced-world-economic-forum-clip-62152fd4d017c1301edffe08
The World Economic Forum - "We Are One Of The Last Generations Of Homo Sapiens"
These people are lunatics. And they are gaining control of the world!
God help us.
The World Economic Forum - "We Are One Of The Last Generations Of Homo Sapiens"
These people are lunatics. And they are gaining control of the world!
God help us.
First Shots Fired, From Who and Why
https://www.rt.com/russia/550493-ukraine-donbass-military-operation-prehistory/
I know Putin is no saint. I also know Ukraine is a pretty corrupt nation, as well. So, who fired the first shots and why? The above article lays it out succinctly. MSM Western news sources refuse to report it. The agenda must remain in place, after all. Blame Russia for everything.
Do you know one of the first things Putin did when he was elected? He threw out all the corporate oligarchs in control. They called it persecution. Putin saw it as a cancer that had to be removed if Russia was to survive after the fall of the USSR. Corporations run the world.
Like any and all news outlets, RT has its biases, too but, it gives another side of the typical corporate news picture.
I can state this with conviction, not a single American should risk their lives defending Ukraine.
I know Putin is no saint. I also know Ukraine is a pretty corrupt nation, as well. So, who fired the first shots and why? The above article lays it out succinctly. MSM Western news sources refuse to report it. The agenda must remain in place, after all. Blame Russia for everything.
Do you know one of the first things Putin did when he was elected? He threw out all the corporate oligarchs in control. They called it persecution. Putin saw it as a cancer that had to be removed if Russia was to survive after the fall of the USSR. Corporations run the world.
Like any and all news outlets, RT has its biases, too but, it gives another side of the typical corporate news picture.
I can state this with conviction, not a single American should risk their lives defending Ukraine.
UPDATE: Does Putin Have a Point of View?
I used to believe Vladimir Putin was a rogue of rogues. A friend asked me, "Have you read any of his speeches? Have you heard him speak?" I hadn't. My opinions were based on the same source as my original understanding of what happened on 9/11: the main stream corporate media machine.
If you asked me whether I would trust Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin, logic and common sense would force me to choose Putin. I have read his speeches and heard him in interviews and such and he has a point of view that is founded in nationalism, and his own adherence to Orthodox Russian Christianity. While I am not a 100% Putin fan, here's a article that makes his case, from a Westerner's observance. Makes sense to me, and leads me to believe Washington, D.C. is one of the most corrupt, opportunistic and untrustworthy criminal organizations in history. Seriously. The C.I.A., "deep state," rogue agencies, airhead or maniacal elected civil servants thinking they are rulers... the whole thing is rotten to the core.
Here's another person's collective viewpoint of what is being called the precipice for World War 3.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/scholz-caves-on-nord-stream-while-putin-throws-donbass-a-lifeline/
What is the truth? God knows. Generally, some from both sides. The point is, conflicts effect all of us, in every phase and aspect of consumer life.
Wars and rumors of wars is what Christ said. That is more than ever, the times we live in. Save for Antarctica, every continent is involved in a war somewhere.
It will end when Christ returns, not before then.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
If you asked me whether I would trust Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin, logic and common sense would force me to choose Putin. I have read his speeches and heard him in interviews and such and he has a point of view that is founded in nationalism, and his own adherence to Orthodox Russian Christianity. While I am not a 100% Putin fan, here's a article that makes his case, from a Westerner's observance. Makes sense to me, and leads me to believe Washington, D.C. is one of the most corrupt, opportunistic and untrustworthy criminal organizations in history. Seriously. The C.I.A., "deep state," rogue agencies, airhead or maniacal elected civil servants thinking they are rulers... the whole thing is rotten to the core.
Here's another person's collective viewpoint of what is being called the precipice for World War 3.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/scholz-caves-on-nord-stream-while-putin-throws-donbass-a-lifeline/
What is the truth? God knows. Generally, some from both sides. The point is, conflicts effect all of us, in every phase and aspect of consumer life.
Wars and rumors of wars is what Christ said. That is more than ever, the times we live in. Save for Antarctica, every continent is involved in a war somewhere.
It will end when Christ returns, not before then.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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514. Finland Persecutes Christianity - February 26, 2022
I have followed this case for awhile now. I have mentioned it here on the blog. A recent link at the end of this post will update you.
Her name is Paivi Rasanen, a member of the Finland Parliament. She broke the Finland "Ethnic Agitation Law." She has publicly stated the biblical standard of marriage between a man and a woman. That upset some people who disagree with that standard, and harassment became oppression, which ultimately became persecution, and Rasanen faces 2 years incarceration.
You know I get into documentation and details. Below are some portions of the Finland Constitution which seem to defy the government's position:
Section 1: The Constitution
Finland is a sovereign republic.
The constitution of Finland is established in this constitutional act. The constitution shall guarantee the inviolability of human dignity and the freedom and rights of the individual and promote justice in society.
Finland participates in international co-operation for the protection of peace and human rights and for the development of society. Finland is a Member State of the European Union (1112/2011, entry into force 1.3.2012).
Section 2: Democracy and the rule of law
The powers of the State in Finland are vested in the people, who are represented by the Parliament. Democracy entails the right of the individual to participate in and influence the development of society and his or her living conditions. The exercise of public powers shall be based on an Act. In all public activity, the law shall be strictly observed.
Chapter 2: Basic rights and liberties
Section 6: Equality
Everyone is equal before the law.
No one shall, without an acceptable reason, be treated differently from other persons on the ground of sex, age, origin, language, religion, conviction, opinion, health, disability or other reason that concerns his or her person.
Rasanen has freedom and rights as an individual to have religious convictions and opinions on what influences Finlandian society.
So, what is the problem? An "acceptable reason" exists to prosecute her. She hurt some people's feelings.
Oddly enough the constitution was amended to allow for Exceptionary Law, which is where LGBTQ comes in. Amazingly, the law violates the constitution. Exceptionary laws, like the 'Ethnic Agitation Law,' can be removed but, that's an act of parliament. If parliament is Leftist, anybody out of harmony with Leftists runs risks, as a member of parliament, herself, has found out, as well as the Lutheran pastor, Juhana Pohjola, who referenced her on his website. They went after him, as well.
So, the laws stand opposed to each other, and ideology defines which way the balances tip in defining an acceptable reason to remove someone's freedom and liberty to have religious convictions and opinions which influence the development of society.
As it states in the article, Finland says, You are free to believe what you want, just keep it between your ears. You no longer have the freedom to say anything or write anything that hurts people's feelings and offends them.
I find it ironic that Finland has a huge Heavy Metal culture, of all genres, especially the darker ones that freely speak against God and Christ, and despite all the offended Christians, nothing happens to them. That is called ideological hypocrisy. It now seems to be the controlling influence everywhere, save for those nations maintaining standards they have for ages.
This all means, if Jesus Christ walked through Finland today, they'd lock Him up, because no one offended people more than Christ. TRUTH WILL ALWAYS OFFEND SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE. When anything offensive can be proscribed and made illegal, as "hate," totalitarianism is on the doorstep. Calling yourself a Republic, a nation based on the rule of law, mocks the principle when people can be locked up for saying something people don't like.
Meaning no offense to LGBTQ but, every nation and civilization in history that accepted homosexuality, collapsed. God will not stop you. God allows free will and choice. God will judge, though, when the time arrives.
Still, based on the preceding, Rasanen had an obvious defense. Speaking against the practice of homosexuality and provisions for biblical marriage does not remove the rights of homosexuals under the law. She violated nothing but, hurt some feelings. No law should exist that protects feelings or protects people from being offended. There is no way she should lose the case unless corruption sits on the bench; a complete possibility, anywhere in the world now.
As the article states, the Equality Act in the American Congress can create the same situation, with a congress run by radical Leftists. I am guessing it passes because too many GOP senators are RINOs or out and out Leftists.
Prophetically, this is all part of my reason for seeing the major prophetic history detour. America cannot fulfill her prophetic role in her current state of godlessness. As the second beast of Rev. 13, it starts as a lamb then speaks as the dragon. It begins Christlike but, takes on the character of Satan, as a false, miracle-working revival blinds people to truth and biblical principles guaranteed in the United States Constitution. It will be stepped on, not by radical Leftists and cowardly Republicans already doing so but, by those professing belief in God and Christ, the very people now clamoring for survival because of their lack of witness and influence to keep America within the fabric of righteous principles and basic living. The backsliding and apostasy of the churches getting swallowed up into the prevailing culture has caused the entire world to suffer under the heavy-handedness of continually corrupted and godless politicians and government starting wars all over the globe, with another right in front of us. NO ONE should be ignorant of the role the CIA has played in the problems with UKRAINE, nor the corruption of the Biden family involved there.
No, this conflict is not a fulfillment of prophecy. Again, cafeteria-style popular preachers, picking and choosing what elements of prophecy they want to see fulfilled, does not an exhaustive and complete prophecy make. You cannot pick and choose. The Bible interprets itself. All marks of prophecy on any given subject or character must find fulfillment or, look elsewhere or, just wait.
The current condition of America, so far removed from its moorings, speaks like a dragon from a secular viewpoint, to be sure but, Jesus said those who think to take your lives will think they are doing God service. That does not describe godless atheists. That describes professed believers. Mark it. Remember it. The religious leaders prosecuted Christ with the aid of the state. So it shall be at the end of time. Religious leaders and their followers shall appeal to the state and demand it legislate an establishment of religion and prosecute dissent. Backed up by ALL power, signs and lying wonders in a false revival that drops the jaws of the world, the United States of America will become the active agent in the fall of the world's dominoes of time. The end of the world will come at the hands of the greatest and most blessed nation in history. The irony is most certainly biblical, as the nation God blessed and chose to represent Him killed their Messiah.
The current crisis certainly has agitated professed Christians as more and more realize the need for revival and reformation. The coming false revival will change that, whenever it comes. A series of events will take place: man-made or natural disasters, financial collapse, certainly the Covid charade fits the bill; harassment, oppression, persecution will arise and Americans are saying ENOUGH! A backlash is building. The final backlash opening the gate for Lucifer to begin the final dog and pony show? Time will tell.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/16/this-religious-prosecution-in-finland-could-be-harbinger-for-other-democracies/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Top5&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGC0LYVCZdbs8jtYrE8DjSSbj1w84kN-rJV-6E5KEARshuf6SYmRhz7r7r3L9q5BR74O9R7Tx92534DfyorQO3_rq5Ddn9dvKsh5HMR4KkOoV_xyYg
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Finland_2011.pdf?lang=en
Her name is Paivi Rasanen, a member of the Finland Parliament. She broke the Finland "Ethnic Agitation Law." She has publicly stated the biblical standard of marriage between a man and a woman. That upset some people who disagree with that standard, and harassment became oppression, which ultimately became persecution, and Rasanen faces 2 years incarceration.
You know I get into documentation and details. Below are some portions of the Finland Constitution which seem to defy the government's position:
Section 1: The Constitution
Finland is a sovereign republic.
The constitution of Finland is established in this constitutional act. The constitution shall guarantee the inviolability of human dignity and the freedom and rights of the individual and promote justice in society.
Finland participates in international co-operation for the protection of peace and human rights and for the development of society. Finland is a Member State of the European Union (1112/2011, entry into force 1.3.2012).
Section 2: Democracy and the rule of law
The powers of the State in Finland are vested in the people, who are represented by the Parliament. Democracy entails the right of the individual to participate in and influence the development of society and his or her living conditions. The exercise of public powers shall be based on an Act. In all public activity, the law shall be strictly observed.
Chapter 2: Basic rights and liberties
Section 6: Equality
Everyone is equal before the law.
No one shall, without an acceptable reason, be treated differently from other persons on the ground of sex, age, origin, language, religion, conviction, opinion, health, disability or other reason that concerns his or her person.
Rasanen has freedom and rights as an individual to have religious convictions and opinions on what influences Finlandian society.
So, what is the problem? An "acceptable reason" exists to prosecute her. She hurt some people's feelings.
Oddly enough the constitution was amended to allow for Exceptionary Law, which is where LGBTQ comes in. Amazingly, the law violates the constitution. Exceptionary laws, like the 'Ethnic Agitation Law,' can be removed but, that's an act of parliament. If parliament is Leftist, anybody out of harmony with Leftists runs risks, as a member of parliament, herself, has found out, as well as the Lutheran pastor, Juhana Pohjola, who referenced her on his website. They went after him, as well.
So, the laws stand opposed to each other, and ideology defines which way the balances tip in defining an acceptable reason to remove someone's freedom and liberty to have religious convictions and opinions which influence the development of society.
As it states in the article, Finland says, You are free to believe what you want, just keep it between your ears. You no longer have the freedom to say anything or write anything that hurts people's feelings and offends them.
I find it ironic that Finland has a huge Heavy Metal culture, of all genres, especially the darker ones that freely speak against God and Christ, and despite all the offended Christians, nothing happens to them. That is called ideological hypocrisy. It now seems to be the controlling influence everywhere, save for those nations maintaining standards they have for ages.
This all means, if Jesus Christ walked through Finland today, they'd lock Him up, because no one offended people more than Christ. TRUTH WILL ALWAYS OFFEND SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE. When anything offensive can be proscribed and made illegal, as "hate," totalitarianism is on the doorstep. Calling yourself a Republic, a nation based on the rule of law, mocks the principle when people can be locked up for saying something people don't like.
Meaning no offense to LGBTQ but, every nation and civilization in history that accepted homosexuality, collapsed. God will not stop you. God allows free will and choice. God will judge, though, when the time arrives.
Still, based on the preceding, Rasanen had an obvious defense. Speaking against the practice of homosexuality and provisions for biblical marriage does not remove the rights of homosexuals under the law. She violated nothing but, hurt some feelings. No law should exist that protects feelings or protects people from being offended. There is no way she should lose the case unless corruption sits on the bench; a complete possibility, anywhere in the world now.
As the article states, the Equality Act in the American Congress can create the same situation, with a congress run by radical Leftists. I am guessing it passes because too many GOP senators are RINOs or out and out Leftists.
Prophetically, this is all part of my reason for seeing the major prophetic history detour. America cannot fulfill her prophetic role in her current state of godlessness. As the second beast of Rev. 13, it starts as a lamb then speaks as the dragon. It begins Christlike but, takes on the character of Satan, as a false, miracle-working revival blinds people to truth and biblical principles guaranteed in the United States Constitution. It will be stepped on, not by radical Leftists and cowardly Republicans already doing so but, by those professing belief in God and Christ, the very people now clamoring for survival because of their lack of witness and influence to keep America within the fabric of righteous principles and basic living. The backsliding and apostasy of the churches getting swallowed up into the prevailing culture has caused the entire world to suffer under the heavy-handedness of continually corrupted and godless politicians and government starting wars all over the globe, with another right in front of us. NO ONE should be ignorant of the role the CIA has played in the problems with UKRAINE, nor the corruption of the Biden family involved there.
No, this conflict is not a fulfillment of prophecy. Again, cafeteria-style popular preachers, picking and choosing what elements of prophecy they want to see fulfilled, does not an exhaustive and complete prophecy make. You cannot pick and choose. The Bible interprets itself. All marks of prophecy on any given subject or character must find fulfillment or, look elsewhere or, just wait.
The current condition of America, so far removed from its moorings, speaks like a dragon from a secular viewpoint, to be sure but, Jesus said those who think to take your lives will think they are doing God service. That does not describe godless atheists. That describes professed believers. Mark it. Remember it. The religious leaders prosecuted Christ with the aid of the state. So it shall be at the end of time. Religious leaders and their followers shall appeal to the state and demand it legislate an establishment of religion and prosecute dissent. Backed up by ALL power, signs and lying wonders in a false revival that drops the jaws of the world, the United States of America will become the active agent in the fall of the world's dominoes of time. The end of the world will come at the hands of the greatest and most blessed nation in history. The irony is most certainly biblical, as the nation God blessed and chose to represent Him killed their Messiah.
The current crisis certainly has agitated professed Christians as more and more realize the need for revival and reformation. The coming false revival will change that, whenever it comes. A series of events will take place: man-made or natural disasters, financial collapse, certainly the Covid charade fits the bill; harassment, oppression, persecution will arise and Americans are saying ENOUGH! A backlash is building. The final backlash opening the gate for Lucifer to begin the final dog and pony show? Time will tell.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/16/this-religious-prosecution-in-finland-could-be-harbinger-for-other-democracies/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Top5&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGC0LYVCZdbs8jtYrE8DjSSbj1w84kN-rJV-6E5KEARshuf6SYmRhz7r7r3L9q5BR74O9R7Tx92534DfyorQO3_rq5Ddn9dvKsh5HMR4KkOoV_xyYg
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Finland_2011.pdf?lang=en
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515. Putin Said What?!?!? - February 26, 2022
Putin speaks Russian. He understands some English but, does not speak it. When he speaks, translators are necessary.
Reading that Putin warned the world to stay out of his business or he will respond with power the world has never seen before, and other translations of said statement, led me to do some searching for transcripts of the address.
I found two. I copied and pasted both to a couple word pad pages and read them, side by side. When I got to the infamous warning statement, one transcript did not even include the statement, yet has it in an article on the same website page!
Here are the two links:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/full-text-of-vladimir-putin-s-speech-announcing-special-military-operation-in-ukraine/ar-AAUftE2
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10545641/Putins-gives-chilling-warning-West-early-morning-TV-broadcast.html
The first link, from Microsoft Network, is not the full text.
The second link, the Daily Mail news of the UK, is.
In the full speech, Putin makes it plain the West is an empire of lies, doing the bidding of the US government. That is has no right to be telling anybody how to exist because of its own corruption of morals and standards. No joke. He pulls no punches. Frankly, observing what exists and only guessing at what only God sees, I cannot disagree with the man.
Pretty much every translated paragraph contains differences, some crucial. Look at some selected translations from the two websites linked:
"As for the military sphere, modern Russia, even after the collapse of the USSR and the loss of a significant part of its potential, is today one of the most powerful nuclear powers in the world and, moreover, has certain advantages in a number of the latest types of weapons. In this regard, no one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dire consequences for any potential aggressor.
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"As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country."
Both about the same and the context is a potential aggressor and a direct attack on Russia. Putin will throw the first punch. He will not wait. More on that later.
"If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen."
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"The entire course of events and analysis of incoming information shows that Russia's clash with these forces is inevitable. It is only a matter of time: they are getting ready, they are waiting for the right time. Now they also claim to possess nuclear weapons. We will not allow this to be done."
There is a huge difference between aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons, and claiming you possess them. Are you kidding me? That same claim, and Putin makes it in the speech, was made by America towards Iraq and the possession and use of WMD. A war was started with a nation who did not attack America, had nothing to do with 9/11, had no WMD, millions of civilians died, plus all the American troops killed or maimed supposedly because Hussain had WMD! Not aspiring to acquire them. Had them. False.
"In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation.
"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation."
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"In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the sanction of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22 this year with the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, I decided to conduct a special military operation .
"Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous, bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation."
While the statements are close enough, how many news articles have been willing to show Putin stated the distinct process Russia went through for this military action? Looking at headlines, you'd think Russia just decided to go pound Ukraine. So, bad enough the translations can be off. The intent of the corporate news and banksters, and Western governments, that exist to fight endless wars and make money, is to make Putin and Russia look as bad as possible. Today, Macron stated this conflict is going to go on. Already? How can he know that? Because it is planned. They pushed Russia with NATO threats, CIA interference in UKRAINE and all the rest, Russia responded; we've got war! More sons and daughters sent to die for what? Nobody cares about Ukraine's borders when they do not care about their own! This has nothing to do with Ukraine. It has to do with the 'great reset' and 'new world order.' Covid has failed. Let's reduce the population of the planet with nuclear war! Devils. They are devils.
"In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who you yourself call “nats.” The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their choice in favour of being with their historical homeland, Russia, and we supported their choice. As I said, we could not act otherwise."
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"In this regard, I appeal to the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the inhabitants of Crimea and Sevastopol from those whom you yourself call 'Nazis'. Crimeans and Sevastopol residents made their choice to be with their historical homeland, with Russia, and we supported this. I repeat, they simply could not do otherwise."
"nats" or 'Nazis.' You tell me which is the stronger comment. Which one is correct? I don't know. It certainly makes a difference for various reasons, in such a tense situation. Logically, Putin stated more than once Ukraine has acted like Nazis to its own people. "Nats?" Little bugs biting people? Illogical.
"Now a few important, very important words for those who may be tempted to intervene in ongoing events. Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so to create threats for our country, for our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences that you have never experienced in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard."
That statement, the big one being posted all over the globe, is not in both transcripts. Suspicious that Microsoft would not include it, yes?
Throughout the speech Putin states his assessment of Western hypocrisies and butting into everyone's business. America is at fault there. It is not, by any stretch of the Founder's imaginations, that America should be the policeman of the world. The entire globe knows the atrocities of the American empire and its wars beyond WW2. The American people, fighting those wars, are almost entirely ignorant or blind or in denial of those atrocities.
Did Putin declare nuclear war on the West? Obviously not. He warned the world Russia is prepared to respond in force to any threats made upon its country and its people. He'll throw the first punch. He will not wait for the West to make good on threats. NO DIFFERENT than statements made by Trump for four years, or any other American president in the last half century. Obama's red line in the sand was a joke, just like Biden is a joke. Russia supplies natural gas to the EU, through Ukraine. Ukraine's faulty infrastructure caused Russia to send gas to the EU directly. Why would the enemy of the West sell natural gas to it? Why would Russia allow any and all businesses from around the world to set up shop in Russia if it is the enemy of free markets and just a big bully as the USSR was? Putin even mentions in the speech how the fall of the USSR contained many lessons of the failure of its own bloated government.
Read the full transcript of Putin's speech. Once again, the man makes more sense than anything Clinton or Bush or Obama or Biden ever said, liars all. Obama met with Russia's president, Medvedev, and on an open mic told him he could do more in cooperation with Russia, after the next American election. No big deal with the Left and MSM. Trump wanted to work with Putin, and the Satanic Left did everything they could to sour that and try to have Trump removed from office with more lies than Pfizer has drugs, 24/7 on its corporate news minions broadcasts. Four years of lies and criminal activity. Read anything of anyone being held responsible for all that corruption at the hands of traitors to the rule of law? No. The entire D.C. rotten to the core cabal commits crime with impunity.
It is sickening to watch this all unfold.
And you wonder why I state the only thing I trust is the Word of God?
Wait! you say. There are plenty of different translations of the Bible. How can you trust it?
I own and use many different translations. I stick with the King James Version because nothing in it, of any less than accurate translation, changes the character of God, the plan of salvation, or any doctrine one cannot seek out, cover to cover. Some modern translations cannot meet that standard.
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
If you study the Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture, you will know the truth and it will make you free.
Reading that Putin warned the world to stay out of his business or he will respond with power the world has never seen before, and other translations of said statement, led me to do some searching for transcripts of the address.
I found two. I copied and pasted both to a couple word pad pages and read them, side by side. When I got to the infamous warning statement, one transcript did not even include the statement, yet has it in an article on the same website page!
Here are the two links:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/full-text-of-vladimir-putin-s-speech-announcing-special-military-operation-in-ukraine/ar-AAUftE2
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10545641/Putins-gives-chilling-warning-West-early-morning-TV-broadcast.html
The first link, from Microsoft Network, is not the full text.
The second link, the Daily Mail news of the UK, is.
In the full speech, Putin makes it plain the West is an empire of lies, doing the bidding of the US government. That is has no right to be telling anybody how to exist because of its own corruption of morals and standards. No joke. He pulls no punches. Frankly, observing what exists and only guessing at what only God sees, I cannot disagree with the man.
Pretty much every translated paragraph contains differences, some crucial. Look at some selected translations from the two websites linked:
"As for the military sphere, modern Russia, even after the collapse of the USSR and the loss of a significant part of its potential, is today one of the most powerful nuclear powers in the world and, moreover, has certain advantages in a number of the latest types of weapons. In this regard, no one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dire consequences for any potential aggressor.
********************
"As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country."
Both about the same and the context is a potential aggressor and a direct attack on Russia. Putin will throw the first punch. He will not wait. More on that later.
"If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen."
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"The entire course of events and analysis of incoming information shows that Russia's clash with these forces is inevitable. It is only a matter of time: they are getting ready, they are waiting for the right time. Now they also claim to possess nuclear weapons. We will not allow this to be done."
There is a huge difference between aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons, and claiming you possess them. Are you kidding me? That same claim, and Putin makes it in the speech, was made by America towards Iraq and the possession and use of WMD. A war was started with a nation who did not attack America, had nothing to do with 9/11, had no WMD, millions of civilians died, plus all the American troops killed or maimed supposedly because Hussain had WMD! Not aspiring to acquire them. Had them. False.
"In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation.
"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation."
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"In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the sanction of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22 this year with the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, I decided to conduct a special military operation .
"Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous, bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation."
While the statements are close enough, how many news articles have been willing to show Putin stated the distinct process Russia went through for this military action? Looking at headlines, you'd think Russia just decided to go pound Ukraine. So, bad enough the translations can be off. The intent of the corporate news and banksters, and Western governments, that exist to fight endless wars and make money, is to make Putin and Russia look as bad as possible. Today, Macron stated this conflict is going to go on. Already? How can he know that? Because it is planned. They pushed Russia with NATO threats, CIA interference in UKRAINE and all the rest, Russia responded; we've got war! More sons and daughters sent to die for what? Nobody cares about Ukraine's borders when they do not care about their own! This has nothing to do with Ukraine. It has to do with the 'great reset' and 'new world order.' Covid has failed. Let's reduce the population of the planet with nuclear war! Devils. They are devils.
"In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who you yourself call “nats.” The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their choice in favour of being with their historical homeland, Russia, and we supported their choice. As I said, we could not act otherwise."
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"In this regard, I appeal to the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the inhabitants of Crimea and Sevastopol from those whom you yourself call 'Nazis'. Crimeans and Sevastopol residents made their choice to be with their historical homeland, with Russia, and we supported this. I repeat, they simply could not do otherwise."
"nats" or 'Nazis.' You tell me which is the stronger comment. Which one is correct? I don't know. It certainly makes a difference for various reasons, in such a tense situation. Logically, Putin stated more than once Ukraine has acted like Nazis to its own people. "Nats?" Little bugs biting people? Illogical.
"Now a few important, very important words for those who may be tempted to intervene in ongoing events. Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so to create threats for our country, for our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences that you have never experienced in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard."
That statement, the big one being posted all over the globe, is not in both transcripts. Suspicious that Microsoft would not include it, yes?
Throughout the speech Putin states his assessment of Western hypocrisies and butting into everyone's business. America is at fault there. It is not, by any stretch of the Founder's imaginations, that America should be the policeman of the world. The entire globe knows the atrocities of the American empire and its wars beyond WW2. The American people, fighting those wars, are almost entirely ignorant or blind or in denial of those atrocities.
Did Putin declare nuclear war on the West? Obviously not. He warned the world Russia is prepared to respond in force to any threats made upon its country and its people. He'll throw the first punch. He will not wait for the West to make good on threats. NO DIFFERENT than statements made by Trump for four years, or any other American president in the last half century. Obama's red line in the sand was a joke, just like Biden is a joke. Russia supplies natural gas to the EU, through Ukraine. Ukraine's faulty infrastructure caused Russia to send gas to the EU directly. Why would the enemy of the West sell natural gas to it? Why would Russia allow any and all businesses from around the world to set up shop in Russia if it is the enemy of free markets and just a big bully as the USSR was? Putin even mentions in the speech how the fall of the USSR contained many lessons of the failure of its own bloated government.
Read the full transcript of Putin's speech. Once again, the man makes more sense than anything Clinton or Bush or Obama or Biden ever said, liars all. Obama met with Russia's president, Medvedev, and on an open mic told him he could do more in cooperation with Russia, after the next American election. No big deal with the Left and MSM. Trump wanted to work with Putin, and the Satanic Left did everything they could to sour that and try to have Trump removed from office with more lies than Pfizer has drugs, 24/7 on its corporate news minions broadcasts. Four years of lies and criminal activity. Read anything of anyone being held responsible for all that corruption at the hands of traitors to the rule of law? No. The entire D.C. rotten to the core cabal commits crime with impunity.
It is sickening to watch this all unfold.
And you wonder why I state the only thing I trust is the Word of God?
Wait! you say. There are plenty of different translations of the Bible. How can you trust it?
I own and use many different translations. I stick with the King James Version because nothing in it, of any less than accurate translation, changes the character of God, the plan of salvation, or any doctrine one cannot seek out, cover to cover. Some modern translations cannot meet that standard.
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
If you study the Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture, you will know the truth and it will make you free.
Call Me Whatever You Want
I don't care if you call me... well, take your pick, doesn't matter to me. From my point of view anyone with common sense, logic, and sanity would offer to sit down with Vladimir Putin, anywhere, anyplace, any time, and work to see to it the world is a safer place, PERIOD. Stop sentence. Done.
Every nation has a right to feel secure, especially around their borders. Ask Americans at the Southern border if they feel secure. NOOOOOOO. Duh. The border is not secure and America is literally being invaded with illegal immigrants, according to national law, not my opinion. The Law.
Russia is bordered by nations belonging to NATO, or nations they would like to be part of NATO, aka Ukraine. Finland does not want the tension, so it stayed out of NATO. Same for Belarus. NATO nations grant space for NATO military bases and armaments. It does not matter if Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania are a threat. From a Russian point of view, NATO is the threat, setting up bases. Given the corruption of D.C. politics and politicians, and outrageous comments of American military leaders that war with Russia and China would result in a win for America, always starting or entering wars, anyone who thinks Putin should just sit around and wait to sing Kumbaya is a moron. Ukraine going NATO is obviously too much in the mind of Russians, seeing the inevitable. That is 1400 miles of border possibly placing NATO/American military might on Moscow's doorstep. Why do you think Russia developed hypersonic missiles?
How stupid do these leaders get? Ignoring treaties and pacts and agreements signed decades ago, nations are all demonizing Putin. Germany is shutting down the gas-line project from Russia, Nordstream 2. I'm sorry. How does that hurt Russia? We know it means less heat for Germans. Russia doesn't get to sell natural gas. Okay. They'll sell it elsewhere. All the "sanctions" placed upon Russia. Okay, now get out of my country, Russia says, and that hurts international business, which hurts manufacturers and employees, which hurts national economies. Russia will just do business elsewhere, with, oh yeah, the other superpower - CHINA. Just what America needs. Two superpowers aligned against America. Good deal, Joe and D.C. cabal. That will affect everything from monetary concerns, to oil, to all natural resources, to food production, to American's needs, wants, and dreams. War is death. It depletes national economies and makes money for war machines and banksters manufacturing articles of war and giving loans to buy it all, and those who invest in it, like D.C. politicians.
If ever Americans could see elections have consequences, now should be it, and yet still, 1/3 of Americans approve of the job the criminal, non-president is doing. That, alone, is all one needs to know that America's best days are behind it.
Every nation has a right to feel secure, especially around their borders. Ask Americans at the Southern border if they feel secure. NOOOOOOO. Duh. The border is not secure and America is literally being invaded with illegal immigrants, according to national law, not my opinion. The Law.
Russia is bordered by nations belonging to NATO, or nations they would like to be part of NATO, aka Ukraine. Finland does not want the tension, so it stayed out of NATO. Same for Belarus. NATO nations grant space for NATO military bases and armaments. It does not matter if Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania are a threat. From a Russian point of view, NATO is the threat, setting up bases. Given the corruption of D.C. politics and politicians, and outrageous comments of American military leaders that war with Russia and China would result in a win for America, always starting or entering wars, anyone who thinks Putin should just sit around and wait to sing Kumbaya is a moron. Ukraine going NATO is obviously too much in the mind of Russians, seeing the inevitable. That is 1400 miles of border possibly placing NATO/American military might on Moscow's doorstep. Why do you think Russia developed hypersonic missiles?
How stupid do these leaders get? Ignoring treaties and pacts and agreements signed decades ago, nations are all demonizing Putin. Germany is shutting down the gas-line project from Russia, Nordstream 2. I'm sorry. How does that hurt Russia? We know it means less heat for Germans. Russia doesn't get to sell natural gas. Okay. They'll sell it elsewhere. All the "sanctions" placed upon Russia. Okay, now get out of my country, Russia says, and that hurts international business, which hurts manufacturers and employees, which hurts national economies. Russia will just do business elsewhere, with, oh yeah, the other superpower - CHINA. Just what America needs. Two superpowers aligned against America. Good deal, Joe and D.C. cabal. That will affect everything from monetary concerns, to oil, to all natural resources, to food production, to American's needs, wants, and dreams. War is death. It depletes national economies and makes money for war machines and banksters manufacturing articles of war and giving loans to buy it all, and those who invest in it, like D.C. politicians.
If ever Americans could see elections have consequences, now should be it, and yet still, 1/3 of Americans approve of the job the criminal, non-president is doing. That, alone, is all one needs to know that America's best days are behind it.
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516. Why Are We Here? - March 1, 2022
It's hard to believe, if the criminal activity of the 2020 election did not take place, the year of rank debacles and destruction of principles of Americanism and the natural flow of good deriving from them, would be felt by Americans as they were just a scant year ago. Instead, we have failure to keep in place the most basic principles of Americanism.
It's an era long planned. Sars-CoV 2 was just a small part of it, basically the tip of the spear. The disintegration of the United States of America was thought out and planned in the minds of men who hate freedom and liberty and self-responsibility and equality. Never forget, the Democrat Party was the party of the KKK, the Nanny State, and New World Order. The GOP got on board with Bush Sr., and here we are today, with the one monkey wrench removed in 2020. So desperate, so sure were they of all facets of government; especially state governments and the justice department, they went ahead in the face of cameras catching every step of it all, and reversed an election, a blowout, a political tsunami, and gave the presidency to a mentally ill old puppet man and completely foolish vice president and a pack of radical, Leftist wannabes that have created one debacle after another and STILL, they blame it all on Trump. Talk about losers. I never liked Trump's use of the term. It's just pejorative but, in this case, it is the truest description that can be given because they are, actually, indeed, losers. They lost the election and knew they'd lose it so, they stole it.
Whatever anyone thinks of Vladimir Putin, the West basically made him. The look on his face when he met Trump was one of such surprise it told volumes. The Left got close to Russia for one reason only: to use Russia in the venture of a New World Order. From everything I have read about and from Putin, he is just like Trump. He loves his nation and everything about it: the people, the natural beauty, the potential. He saw the USSR disintegrate and come down. Something destiny will always bring about because people want to be free, naturally. It is in humanity. God put it there. Only a mind that does not think clearly, do people want to be controlled, and all minds can be brought there over time; which is why this mental breakdown of national resolve has been at work for a century and more.
America changed the world and the world saw it and began to change with it. America became corrupt with power and the world followed suit. And in that following, dark, depraved, demented minds saw the corruption and decided to take things into their own hands and wars began. Everybody wanting to be top dog. The USA stopped being united, for a civil war, and has never really recovered. And bear in mind that war was fought, not over slavery but, states rights. Slavery would have gone the way of death like every other thing that seeks to control another human being. Christianity, itself, had statements in its source code, its Guidebooks of papyrus parchment for life, in its New Testament, that already planted seeds of equality among mankind.
Putin considers himself a Russian patriot, a Russian nationalist: Russia comes first. Communism does not work. Totalitarianism does not work. The West lies like it breathes and is now run by the same radicals he watched take over the Motherland and ruin it. He wants Russian glory from the days of Nicholas II. He has said all these things in interviews and speeches. He has said, 'Leave us alone, if you must. We will work and partner with anyone that will make things better for RUSSIA, first. Otherwise, leave us alone.' NATO and the WEST and the New World Order and the Great Reset would not, cannot leave Russia alone. It is the biggest national land mass on the planet. Incredible resources. They want it.
Putin sees Ukraine and Belarus and even Finland as Russian. He does not trust the West because of the West's constant butting into world affairs, especially America, like it is the pure, holy champion of mankind or something. The Russian mafia is just a copycat of the American mafia. All nations have organized crime. Only those with it in their internal and external political affairs are the ones to be really watched and distrusted. America is now one of those nations. In the eyes of the world America is an empire that is corrupt and no better than any other nation out there. The entire world of Islam sees it. Europe sees it and cooperates because it gets goodies from it. China plays it. Russia wants it to be warned it will not put up with any s--t from it. So when Donald Trump reached out his hand and shook Putin's as another nationalist, Putin had that shocked look on his face. He saw Russia being left alone to prosper, even as the West began to reverse its former cooperation through Obama and now plaster him all over the world as THE boogeyman of the 21st century. Now, Putin is back to telling everybody I will not wait for the corrupt West to fire the first shot. I will. Stay away. I am warning you.
This is what I have seen for the years I took a friend's advice and actually read Putin's speeches and interviews. Russia first. The elites hate that. They cannot abide by that. They will destroy the world trying to destroy Putin if they can. They are insane. Putin new Biden would do nothing. His handlers? That's another story.
Out in the shop yesterday for a few hours, talk radio on in the background, and the absolute stupidity and ignorance of professed Conservative pundits calling Putin a madman, insane, lunatic, dangerous... hey, push a bear and what do you expect? I had to turn the radio off. Even as this new "war" rages, the amount of lies, absolute lies the West is putting out about it, is outrageous. Pictures taken from another time. Lies about what is actually happening. Lies about Putin's intentions. Lies about everything, and only the outlets that see what has and is actually happening and willing to investigate every story, every line, every declaration, are willing to expose it for what it is: the New World Order trying to overthrow Putin!
Like I say, Putin is no saint. He professes he is a traditional Russian Orthodox Christian. He does not condone Western standards now existing that have wandered from its moorings, and he has said so: boldly, straight forward, stating, 'What has happened to you people? Have you gone mad? You are allowing the dregs of corruption and immorality to destroy you. We will not follow you into destruction of values mankind has stood upon for ages.' THAT is what has turned the world on Putin. Russians corrupted by the West now bite at his heels. The Russian media also slaps him around when and if they can but, he is not the jellyfish of the Western politician afraid of his own shadow. If you lie about Putin, he goes after you. He does not cower. He does not flinch. He attacks. The West then skewers him for beating up on the Press. He cannot win. In this new world order the only path is cooperation. Putin refuses. Now he is pissed off enough to tell Ukraine, 'I have had it with your Western crap and abuse of fellow Russians. It stops now.' What does Ukraine do? It has filed its papers to join the EU. While asking Russia to sit down and talk out of one side of its mouth, it asks the EU to let it in so it can have the EU's immediate help in standing against Putin, who just wants Ukraine to remain the Russian culture and place it historically has been. That is why the two new Republics in its southeast developed. They want to be Russian. They see what Western politics and values are and they do not want what Ukraine has become. They are persecuted for wanting to remain Russian. They see Canada, like every other nation on Earth has watched and realized Communism is not dead. It is alive and growing. It is going to take over the world. They asked Putin for help. He decided to give it, after all accommodations for Ukraine and prior agreements were exhausted.
I pray for Putin. I pray for God to hold things in check. Mutual destruction is on the table now and the West, not Putin, has caused it. The corrupt American empire facilitated this. A totally useless and worthless Biden and company has brought this on, more so deep state and its corruption that operates outside the rules of American law.
The people of Ukraine want Bibles. That is the story coming out of that nation. They see annihilation coming and they want God, many for the first time opening God's book to see what it says. Bookstores are out of Bibles. Imagine. America? Not so much.
No, Putin is not a saint. He is a child of one of the worst political regimes known to history. Somehow he grew past it, and if Donald Trump were president right now, this event would not be taking place. Putin would have had a partner to see that both nations could be great again.
Will God allow nuclear war?
We will see, soon enough. Personally, I do not think it will happen. Something will come to stop it. What? I have already told you what I believe might happen. Here we are.
Let's watch.
It's an era long planned. Sars-CoV 2 was just a small part of it, basically the tip of the spear. The disintegration of the United States of America was thought out and planned in the minds of men who hate freedom and liberty and self-responsibility and equality. Never forget, the Democrat Party was the party of the KKK, the Nanny State, and New World Order. The GOP got on board with Bush Sr., and here we are today, with the one monkey wrench removed in 2020. So desperate, so sure were they of all facets of government; especially state governments and the justice department, they went ahead in the face of cameras catching every step of it all, and reversed an election, a blowout, a political tsunami, and gave the presidency to a mentally ill old puppet man and completely foolish vice president and a pack of radical, Leftist wannabes that have created one debacle after another and STILL, they blame it all on Trump. Talk about losers. I never liked Trump's use of the term. It's just pejorative but, in this case, it is the truest description that can be given because they are, actually, indeed, losers. They lost the election and knew they'd lose it so, they stole it.
Whatever anyone thinks of Vladimir Putin, the West basically made him. The look on his face when he met Trump was one of such surprise it told volumes. The Left got close to Russia for one reason only: to use Russia in the venture of a New World Order. From everything I have read about and from Putin, he is just like Trump. He loves his nation and everything about it: the people, the natural beauty, the potential. He saw the USSR disintegrate and come down. Something destiny will always bring about because people want to be free, naturally. It is in humanity. God put it there. Only a mind that does not think clearly, do people want to be controlled, and all minds can be brought there over time; which is why this mental breakdown of national resolve has been at work for a century and more.
America changed the world and the world saw it and began to change with it. America became corrupt with power and the world followed suit. And in that following, dark, depraved, demented minds saw the corruption and decided to take things into their own hands and wars began. Everybody wanting to be top dog. The USA stopped being united, for a civil war, and has never really recovered. And bear in mind that war was fought, not over slavery but, states rights. Slavery would have gone the way of death like every other thing that seeks to control another human being. Christianity, itself, had statements in its source code, its Guidebooks of papyrus parchment for life, in its New Testament, that already planted seeds of equality among mankind.
Putin considers himself a Russian patriot, a Russian nationalist: Russia comes first. Communism does not work. Totalitarianism does not work. The West lies like it breathes and is now run by the same radicals he watched take over the Motherland and ruin it. He wants Russian glory from the days of Nicholas II. He has said all these things in interviews and speeches. He has said, 'Leave us alone, if you must. We will work and partner with anyone that will make things better for RUSSIA, first. Otherwise, leave us alone.' NATO and the WEST and the New World Order and the Great Reset would not, cannot leave Russia alone. It is the biggest national land mass on the planet. Incredible resources. They want it.
Putin sees Ukraine and Belarus and even Finland as Russian. He does not trust the West because of the West's constant butting into world affairs, especially America, like it is the pure, holy champion of mankind or something. The Russian mafia is just a copycat of the American mafia. All nations have organized crime. Only those with it in their internal and external political affairs are the ones to be really watched and distrusted. America is now one of those nations. In the eyes of the world America is an empire that is corrupt and no better than any other nation out there. The entire world of Islam sees it. Europe sees it and cooperates because it gets goodies from it. China plays it. Russia wants it to be warned it will not put up with any s--t from it. So when Donald Trump reached out his hand and shook Putin's as another nationalist, Putin had that shocked look on his face. He saw Russia being left alone to prosper, even as the West began to reverse its former cooperation through Obama and now plaster him all over the world as THE boogeyman of the 21st century. Now, Putin is back to telling everybody I will not wait for the corrupt West to fire the first shot. I will. Stay away. I am warning you.
This is what I have seen for the years I took a friend's advice and actually read Putin's speeches and interviews. Russia first. The elites hate that. They cannot abide by that. They will destroy the world trying to destroy Putin if they can. They are insane. Putin new Biden would do nothing. His handlers? That's another story.
Out in the shop yesterday for a few hours, talk radio on in the background, and the absolute stupidity and ignorance of professed Conservative pundits calling Putin a madman, insane, lunatic, dangerous... hey, push a bear and what do you expect? I had to turn the radio off. Even as this new "war" rages, the amount of lies, absolute lies the West is putting out about it, is outrageous. Pictures taken from another time. Lies about what is actually happening. Lies about Putin's intentions. Lies about everything, and only the outlets that see what has and is actually happening and willing to investigate every story, every line, every declaration, are willing to expose it for what it is: the New World Order trying to overthrow Putin!
Like I say, Putin is no saint. He professes he is a traditional Russian Orthodox Christian. He does not condone Western standards now existing that have wandered from its moorings, and he has said so: boldly, straight forward, stating, 'What has happened to you people? Have you gone mad? You are allowing the dregs of corruption and immorality to destroy you. We will not follow you into destruction of values mankind has stood upon for ages.' THAT is what has turned the world on Putin. Russians corrupted by the West now bite at his heels. The Russian media also slaps him around when and if they can but, he is not the jellyfish of the Western politician afraid of his own shadow. If you lie about Putin, he goes after you. He does not cower. He does not flinch. He attacks. The West then skewers him for beating up on the Press. He cannot win. In this new world order the only path is cooperation. Putin refuses. Now he is pissed off enough to tell Ukraine, 'I have had it with your Western crap and abuse of fellow Russians. It stops now.' What does Ukraine do? It has filed its papers to join the EU. While asking Russia to sit down and talk out of one side of its mouth, it asks the EU to let it in so it can have the EU's immediate help in standing against Putin, who just wants Ukraine to remain the Russian culture and place it historically has been. That is why the two new Republics in its southeast developed. They want to be Russian. They see what Western politics and values are and they do not want what Ukraine has become. They are persecuted for wanting to remain Russian. They see Canada, like every other nation on Earth has watched and realized Communism is not dead. It is alive and growing. It is going to take over the world. They asked Putin for help. He decided to give it, after all accommodations for Ukraine and prior agreements were exhausted.
I pray for Putin. I pray for God to hold things in check. Mutual destruction is on the table now and the West, not Putin, has caused it. The corrupt American empire facilitated this. A totally useless and worthless Biden and company has brought this on, more so deep state and its corruption that operates outside the rules of American law.
The people of Ukraine want Bibles. That is the story coming out of that nation. They see annihilation coming and they want God, many for the first time opening God's book to see what it says. Bookstores are out of Bibles. Imagine. America? Not so much.
No, Putin is not a saint. He is a child of one of the worst political regimes known to history. Somehow he grew past it, and if Donald Trump were president right now, this event would not be taking place. Putin would have had a partner to see that both nations could be great again.
Will God allow nuclear war?
We will see, soon enough. Personally, I do not think it will happen. Something will come to stop it. What? I have already told you what I believe might happen. Here we are.
Let's watch.
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517. Something Is Coming - March 1, 2022
I'm planning the next video in my YT drum shell/sound/hype series. More comparisons between real or regular/typical drums and "non-drums." I have to sit and wonder, what is the point?
The non-president is about to go before the nation and lie his way through teleprompters showing his feeble mind things to say, with his entourage desperately hoping he does not blow it. I would say the odds are against that. Even if Biden were completely lucid, there is nothing positive that can be said about the State of the Union. There is no union, that is obvious. Division is worse than ever. More people are dying from the injections then the rates of actual deaths from the virus at its height. THOUSANDS of international studies now exist on the dangers of everything leaders did. EVERYTHING. Lockdowns, mask mandates, injection mandates, the injections themselves and all the rest of it. Gates is telling the world another pandemic is coming. The word is out the World Economic Forum is planning a hack pandemic: control of the web and the flow of digital information. The world is enraged and in turmoil. Obviously the war in Ukraine has taken the place of Covid-19 in minds, as a 12 mile long convoy heads to D.C. with at least 6 other convoys on their way to join it, with hundreds of thousands of people along the way waving flags and cheering as the truckers pass by, state to state. It's war. Make no mistake about that. War is on every front now.
Here's where truth doesn't matter.
I am reading a great deal about the history of Russia/Ukraine. Historians are just as biased as anything else involving news and politics. Just like now, situations arise. Some arise on purpose; planned. Others arrive by circumstances and conditions no one saw. Either way, "spin" has always existed. At least two sides of every story have always existed. "Historians" are no different in how they record history and important events in it.
A sheet of paper actually has six sides. Four of them may be slight but, they exist, and add details.
Does it matter what the actual truth of the history of Ukraine is, if Putin thinks otherwise? Putin must be addressed on what he believes and what is driving him. If the truth is not on Putin's side, would it not be advisable to sit down with him and ask him why he believes what he does? Just having "historians" shouting Putin is wrong is not going to stop Putin. Putin believes what he believes about a unified Russia and the history behind his intentions. Plenty of others believe the same thing in Russia and in a couple surrounding nations; with voices now being threatened if they don't shut up, like in the Czech Republic. If all of this is a bad history lesson, why aren't world leaders speaking about that? No. All they are speaking about are things to make, try to make the world hate Vladimir Putin and in the process are making things worse for the entirety of their own national populations already and things will get exponentially worse. What is going on here?
It has become obvious, right at the start, Putin planned this for quite awhile and the West has known it was coming and planned for it. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
Most nations in the West are now run by Leftists. Some are radical. They all are intent on seeing the New World Order/Great Reset happening. They not only do not care how their citizens suffer under the sure weight of changes coming through inflation and more and more government control, they want citizens to suffer. They want citizens to "need," and have government be the only source they can turn to. "1984" has truly arrived.
We are being told only government has the right to decide and pronounce what "truth" is, and dissention must not be allowed. We are being told the "climate" is the most important thing to address on Earth, while those who used to be totally and completely against war are now pushing it to a brink. China has announced formal relations with NORTH KOREA. Seeing a picture of Kim with Jinping creates a background of colors that should cause the hairs on every neck on Earth to stand up.
America is now being run by complete, radical imbeciles/foxes bent on destruction. Destruction of God, destruction of freedom, liberty, economies, life... it is the biggest cult of death in the history of the human race.
Something is going to happen. Something is going to arrest the world in its tracks. That is what I logically believe. Maybe the first nuke has to drop but, there cannot be a first without a second, a third, fourth and all the rest.
One wonders where the first would strike. D.C.? Moscow? Beijing, as usual, is loving this. China can sit back and enjoy the show. That is how China became a superpower. When was the last time you heard about China involved in a war? China involves itself in some border skirmishes. It has some problems with Vietnam. Most of its wars have been Civil wars. That is where the most life has been taken. Over 1 BILLION people populate China. It has the biggest army on Earth. Nobody knows what it actually has for weapons of war. It is more than prepared to take on any nation.
If nuclear warfare is on God's blackboard... he will let mankind reap what it has sown. If mutual destruction is not on God's blackboard, something must come to ease tensions and stop the takeover of radical Leftists, which may not pollute the air with radiation but, will just as surely destroy life, and anything else that stands in the way of reducing the planet's population and helping their deity - Mother Earth.
As mankind, some of it anyway, wakes up to what is happening, the words of Jesus become all too real:
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Remember, in prophecy waters represent people, nations, languages, civilization. Humanity is roaring and the roar is going to get more loud and more intense, especially as the Covid injection adverse reaction and death toll rises higher and higher. A world in pain, grief, outrage and anger is on the brink. If you do not know or believe what the Bible says about the end of time... please, wake up.
Now it's a short waiting game. Something must come, must happen, must shock the world to stop it from desolation. You know my position. Satan's dog and pony show is close.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The non-president is about to go before the nation and lie his way through teleprompters showing his feeble mind things to say, with his entourage desperately hoping he does not blow it. I would say the odds are against that. Even if Biden were completely lucid, there is nothing positive that can be said about the State of the Union. There is no union, that is obvious. Division is worse than ever. More people are dying from the injections then the rates of actual deaths from the virus at its height. THOUSANDS of international studies now exist on the dangers of everything leaders did. EVERYTHING. Lockdowns, mask mandates, injection mandates, the injections themselves and all the rest of it. Gates is telling the world another pandemic is coming. The word is out the World Economic Forum is planning a hack pandemic: control of the web and the flow of digital information. The world is enraged and in turmoil. Obviously the war in Ukraine has taken the place of Covid-19 in minds, as a 12 mile long convoy heads to D.C. with at least 6 other convoys on their way to join it, with hundreds of thousands of people along the way waving flags and cheering as the truckers pass by, state to state. It's war. Make no mistake about that. War is on every front now.
Here's where truth doesn't matter.
I am reading a great deal about the history of Russia/Ukraine. Historians are just as biased as anything else involving news and politics. Just like now, situations arise. Some arise on purpose; planned. Others arrive by circumstances and conditions no one saw. Either way, "spin" has always existed. At least two sides of every story have always existed. "Historians" are no different in how they record history and important events in it.
A sheet of paper actually has six sides. Four of them may be slight but, they exist, and add details.
Does it matter what the actual truth of the history of Ukraine is, if Putin thinks otherwise? Putin must be addressed on what he believes and what is driving him. If the truth is not on Putin's side, would it not be advisable to sit down with him and ask him why he believes what he does? Just having "historians" shouting Putin is wrong is not going to stop Putin. Putin believes what he believes about a unified Russia and the history behind his intentions. Plenty of others believe the same thing in Russia and in a couple surrounding nations; with voices now being threatened if they don't shut up, like in the Czech Republic. If all of this is a bad history lesson, why aren't world leaders speaking about that? No. All they are speaking about are things to make, try to make the world hate Vladimir Putin and in the process are making things worse for the entirety of their own national populations already and things will get exponentially worse. What is going on here?
It has become obvious, right at the start, Putin planned this for quite awhile and the West has known it was coming and planned for it. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
Most nations in the West are now run by Leftists. Some are radical. They all are intent on seeing the New World Order/Great Reset happening. They not only do not care how their citizens suffer under the sure weight of changes coming through inflation and more and more government control, they want citizens to suffer. They want citizens to "need," and have government be the only source they can turn to. "1984" has truly arrived.
We are being told only government has the right to decide and pronounce what "truth" is, and dissention must not be allowed. We are being told the "climate" is the most important thing to address on Earth, while those who used to be totally and completely against war are now pushing it to a brink. China has announced formal relations with NORTH KOREA. Seeing a picture of Kim with Jinping creates a background of colors that should cause the hairs on every neck on Earth to stand up.
America is now being run by complete, radical imbeciles/foxes bent on destruction. Destruction of God, destruction of freedom, liberty, economies, life... it is the biggest cult of death in the history of the human race.
Something is going to happen. Something is going to arrest the world in its tracks. That is what I logically believe. Maybe the first nuke has to drop but, there cannot be a first without a second, a third, fourth and all the rest.
One wonders where the first would strike. D.C.? Moscow? Beijing, as usual, is loving this. China can sit back and enjoy the show. That is how China became a superpower. When was the last time you heard about China involved in a war? China involves itself in some border skirmishes. It has some problems with Vietnam. Most of its wars have been Civil wars. That is where the most life has been taken. Over 1 BILLION people populate China. It has the biggest army on Earth. Nobody knows what it actually has for weapons of war. It is more than prepared to take on any nation.
If nuclear warfare is on God's blackboard... he will let mankind reap what it has sown. If mutual destruction is not on God's blackboard, something must come to ease tensions and stop the takeover of radical Leftists, which may not pollute the air with radiation but, will just as surely destroy life, and anything else that stands in the way of reducing the planet's population and helping their deity - Mother Earth.
As mankind, some of it anyway, wakes up to what is happening, the words of Jesus become all too real:
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Remember, in prophecy waters represent people, nations, languages, civilization. Humanity is roaring and the roar is going to get more loud and more intense, especially as the Covid injection adverse reaction and death toll rises higher and higher. A world in pain, grief, outrage and anger is on the brink. If you do not know or believe what the Bible says about the end of time... please, wake up.
Now it's a short waiting game. Something must come, must happen, must shock the world to stop it from desolation. You know my position. Satan's dog and pony show is close.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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518. Assassination, Anyone? - March 4, 2022
Watching Justin Trudeau take control of personal bank accounts of citizens in Canada should tell anyone all they need to know about Leftist controlled government. Of course, I have zero doubts Right-controlled government would do exactly the same if the circumstances and conditions made that option politically acceptable to enough people to get away with it. The Right in Canada seems more Right than the Right in America. They seem more interested in the rule of law, from what I watched of their Parliament in action during the Ottawa convoy. So much political theater takes place now, it's really difficult to know who is an authentic Conservative.
I read the American People's Convoy is up to 40 miles long, yet to be joined by more convoys joining them. It will hold the record by the time it gets to DC. Not to mention Americans that shall follow them to their destination.
Putin has a 40 mile military convoy converging on Ukraine. One will make a difference. I'm not betting on the American convoy.
May I be honest? As I understand it, the American convoy is not entering the city. That means nobody in DC is going to see them. The MSM, or now the so-called Legacy media, is not going to cover it so, for all intents and purposes politicians will have no care of their presence. It's moot. Meaningless. Invisible. It means something to those of us who love America and liberty. To those running the nation into the ground, they have their agenda and nothing is going to stop them, especially as they now have cart blanche paths to criminal reelection with impunity. If you can think of anything more corrupt, what would that be?
The only thing the majority of politicians care about is reelection to maintain their cushy jobs. They no longer have to worry about reelection if they continue to run them remotely, through technology off shore. And there is NOTHING Americans can do about it. We can ask God to intervene. Beyond that...
And get this. This one dropped my jaw. Vernon Jones, running for a Congressional seat for Georgia, after being exposed as a truly corrupt individual on the Stew Peters program, is just moving right along, and stated in an interview the plan shall be: Jones, once elected, nominates Trump for Speaker of the House. Trump then begins impeachment proceedings upon Biden and Harris. Once they are out, with obvious high crimes and misdemeanors hanging over them, Trump retakes the White House as third in line. The possibility of that happening is so nonsensical you may as well believe "Q" can save America.
I have zero respect for Senator Lindsay Graham. He is someone that simply cannot be trusted. He a professional political waffle agent of deceit and treachery. He is now calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin. A sitting US Senator openly calling for the assassination of a head of state. Can you think of anything more Putin would need to know these fools are pushing for all-out world war? Are they all owned and operated by the corporations that run the world? Yes. Bought, owned, used. Puppets.
My wife loves Lauren Boebert, the feisty, pistol-packing Congresswoman from Colorado. I wonder how long it will take to cool her jets and she becomes another pawn, another puppet beholding to some corporation that buys her candidacy. Right now she seems to be fearless. When she shouted out "13" during Biden's SOTU speech, acknowledging the number of American troops killed on that day during the Afghanistan military withdrawal debacle, Lindsay Graham said "Shut up" under his breath. The way things are, under normal circumstances Graham would be political toast. Today, even with the camera on him, showing his reaction to Boebert, Graham will just coast along.
RINOs run the GOP. Radicals run the Democrats. Washington, D.C. is run by multinational corporations and no amount of trucks parking outside the city is going to change that. The convoy is a political sporting event. The only reason Trudeau backed off was because the cabal saw his faulty performance as something that could hurt them. The truckers and Canadian citizens meant nothing. Trudeau failed in performance, that's all. So, his handlers backed him off. The same will hold true with the American convoy. DC will ignore it. Life goes on. The Dems have already dropped Covid mandates. Fauci is nowhere to be seen. Gates is out there stating another pandemic will come. And every person with any common sense wants to get back to life without Covid in their face 24/7. The Trudeau situation will not be repeated here in America.
Look, these criminal minds stole an American presidential election in real time, before the world. Putin has stated that in public interviews and speeches. The world knows what happened. Hundreds of American citizens who protested that were arrested and been locked up in jail without due process for over a year. Congress has not only done nothing, its sham and despicable J6 committee is now going after Trump for sham criminal charges he was behind it all. Such corruption has never before existed in the United States of America. It will eventually destroy the United States of America.
Again I state, I know of no peaceful protest that changed or brought down corruption in government in all human history. Someone point out that protest, of it exists. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Absolute power does not care about peace. It cares only about attaining and retaining more power.
Unless a military coup takes place, and that is not going to happen with today's "woke" military, America's days are numbered. That is the only logical conclusion that can be made. Yes, it is fatalistic. It's also historic. No empire lasts forever. Corruption takes them all down. America, as the greatest pseudo-empire in history, will also be the most short-lived.
The amount of amazing propaganda coming out of the world Press about the Ukraine situation is mind-boggling.
Next comes a series of events to take control of the world. Covid is part of that. Now they have to take control of two things - currency and the internet. They will. Without war but, certainly with war if they need it. All they need is technology, which they have.
After that...
I hope I'm not around to see it. Hollywood dystopianism is going to become reality unless something takes place to halt it; something much bigger than the banksters, and the WEF, and the military industrial complexes of this world, and the Luciferian cabal in control.
God help us.
I read the American People's Convoy is up to 40 miles long, yet to be joined by more convoys joining them. It will hold the record by the time it gets to DC. Not to mention Americans that shall follow them to their destination.
Putin has a 40 mile military convoy converging on Ukraine. One will make a difference. I'm not betting on the American convoy.
May I be honest? As I understand it, the American convoy is not entering the city. That means nobody in DC is going to see them. The MSM, or now the so-called Legacy media, is not going to cover it so, for all intents and purposes politicians will have no care of their presence. It's moot. Meaningless. Invisible. It means something to those of us who love America and liberty. To those running the nation into the ground, they have their agenda and nothing is going to stop them, especially as they now have cart blanche paths to criminal reelection with impunity. If you can think of anything more corrupt, what would that be?
The only thing the majority of politicians care about is reelection to maintain their cushy jobs. They no longer have to worry about reelection if they continue to run them remotely, through technology off shore. And there is NOTHING Americans can do about it. We can ask God to intervene. Beyond that...
And get this. This one dropped my jaw. Vernon Jones, running for a Congressional seat for Georgia, after being exposed as a truly corrupt individual on the Stew Peters program, is just moving right along, and stated in an interview the plan shall be: Jones, once elected, nominates Trump for Speaker of the House. Trump then begins impeachment proceedings upon Biden and Harris. Once they are out, with obvious high crimes and misdemeanors hanging over them, Trump retakes the White House as third in line. The possibility of that happening is so nonsensical you may as well believe "Q" can save America.
I have zero respect for Senator Lindsay Graham. He is someone that simply cannot be trusted. He a professional political waffle agent of deceit and treachery. He is now calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin. A sitting US Senator openly calling for the assassination of a head of state. Can you think of anything more Putin would need to know these fools are pushing for all-out world war? Are they all owned and operated by the corporations that run the world? Yes. Bought, owned, used. Puppets.
My wife loves Lauren Boebert, the feisty, pistol-packing Congresswoman from Colorado. I wonder how long it will take to cool her jets and she becomes another pawn, another puppet beholding to some corporation that buys her candidacy. Right now she seems to be fearless. When she shouted out "13" during Biden's SOTU speech, acknowledging the number of American troops killed on that day during the Afghanistan military withdrawal debacle, Lindsay Graham said "Shut up" under his breath. The way things are, under normal circumstances Graham would be political toast. Today, even with the camera on him, showing his reaction to Boebert, Graham will just coast along.
RINOs run the GOP. Radicals run the Democrats. Washington, D.C. is run by multinational corporations and no amount of trucks parking outside the city is going to change that. The convoy is a political sporting event. The only reason Trudeau backed off was because the cabal saw his faulty performance as something that could hurt them. The truckers and Canadian citizens meant nothing. Trudeau failed in performance, that's all. So, his handlers backed him off. The same will hold true with the American convoy. DC will ignore it. Life goes on. The Dems have already dropped Covid mandates. Fauci is nowhere to be seen. Gates is out there stating another pandemic will come. And every person with any common sense wants to get back to life without Covid in their face 24/7. The Trudeau situation will not be repeated here in America.
Look, these criminal minds stole an American presidential election in real time, before the world. Putin has stated that in public interviews and speeches. The world knows what happened. Hundreds of American citizens who protested that were arrested and been locked up in jail without due process for over a year. Congress has not only done nothing, its sham and despicable J6 committee is now going after Trump for sham criminal charges he was behind it all. Such corruption has never before existed in the United States of America. It will eventually destroy the United States of America.
Again I state, I know of no peaceful protest that changed or brought down corruption in government in all human history. Someone point out that protest, of it exists. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Absolute power does not care about peace. It cares only about attaining and retaining more power.
Unless a military coup takes place, and that is not going to happen with today's "woke" military, America's days are numbered. That is the only logical conclusion that can be made. Yes, it is fatalistic. It's also historic. No empire lasts forever. Corruption takes them all down. America, as the greatest pseudo-empire in history, will also be the most short-lived.
The amount of amazing propaganda coming out of the world Press about the Ukraine situation is mind-boggling.
Next comes a series of events to take control of the world. Covid is part of that. Now they have to take control of two things - currency and the internet. They will. Without war but, certainly with war if they need it. All they need is technology, which they have.
After that...
I hope I'm not around to see it. Hollywood dystopianism is going to become reality unless something takes place to halt it; something much bigger than the banksters, and the WEF, and the military industrial complexes of this world, and the Luciferian cabal in control.
God help us.
The First Casualty of War
The first casualty of war is the truth.
I thought I posted this already but, apparently didn't. Paul Joseph Watson's take, generally humorously true.
https://rumble.com/vw5fy7-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth....html
This one is far more serious, and has been my understanding of the situation for a few years now. It took a long time for my eyes to open. Now that they are, I hope they never close.
https://rumble.com/vw9b65-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the-truth.html
I thought I posted this already but, apparently didn't. Paul Joseph Watson's take, generally humorously true.
https://rumble.com/vw5fy7-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth....html
This one is far more serious, and has been my understanding of the situation for a few years now. It took a long time for my eyes to open. Now that they are, I hope they never close.
https://rumble.com/vw9b65-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the-truth.html
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519. Who's a Badass? - March 5, 2022
For awhile now I have seen the term "bad ass" everywhere. He, she, they, it is bad ass. If you are a bad ass, bad means good... in some sort of non-traditional, societally dangerous way. It means you somehow get away with things. It means you don't take anything from anybody, in any aspect of life you dominate or operate in. Pick any field of anything in the world. A bad ass exists in it. It mostly applies to younger people but, those in their senior years can also be in the category. It can also apply to the best of any category, as people define parameters for "best" and "greatness." At this point in the culture, anything and anyone can be badass. Yes, the term is now considered one word, not two.
A badass is not necessarily someone who ingratiates theirself to society. They live as they want to, regardless of what people think; some living above the law, or attempting to. Others are just "heroes" of various sectors of society, rising above the din of corruption. Seems logical they would be called a "goodass." Doesn't quite ring a bell of "cool," does it? Wonder why.
I was once called a badass. 43 years ago, a Legend concert finished and I was sitting behind the drum set, taking things down and a guy came up on the stage and crouched down, looking through all the drums and cymbals and stuff and said, 'Man, you the most baddest assed drummer I ever seen since Billy Cobham.' Stunned that I was, I spoke with him for awhile and talked music, drums and drumming. Nice guy. Then he was gone. Never saw him again. The term has been around a long time.
A badass can be super-talented, super-smart, super-heroic, super-cool but, not super-religious. No, no. Super-religious is equated with being a fanatic, a negative in society. Standing up for purity and holiness and peace, and the power of love is not popular, even if some people in such a class get noticed at times. It's fleeting. It's too much light for eyes in spiritual darkness.
Of course, there are exceptions. Popes; other religious leaders like a Gandhi or Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa can be super-religious and have plenty of admirers.
Revelation says, All the world WONDERS after the beast, Rev 13:3. The Greek word means to admire, to wonder or marvel at. All the world admires the beast, marvels at a religious entity and power that captivates the world. The Bible also states, when Christ returns He shall be admired by all His people, 2 Thes. 1:10, KJV. Lots of admiration and marveling going on.
We even have the 'Marvel' comics 'universe:' a bunch of badass superheroes and supervillains. Far too many people would rather spend an evening with Iron Man or Captain America or Black Widow than Jesus Christ, and the difference between them is lightyears, an infinity of being.
Generally, an ass has meant stubborn or dumb or contrary, typifying the perceived character traits of an ass: a donkey.
Popularity for the badasses of the world grows exponentially in culture. So much so, more and more people every year wish they were a badass. Men are prone to desire it more than women but, there are badass awards for both sexes. Even children can be badasses, something that seems totally obnoxious and contrary to the way people used to want their children to behave. Of course, if a child runs into danger to help someone, they can be called a badass and become a hero. The term is now ubiquitous. Some even state the term is now old, worn out, and fading fast. Not according to my eyes and observation.
My point is, in such a society as now exists, it is no surprise Jesus Christ, the Creator of the universe and Saviour of the human race, and thereby the peace and stability of the entire universe, is not very popular. He's not "badass" enough. He's not much more than a comic book character in the minds of billions. Even placing His name and the term in the same sentence or paragraph seems sacrilegious. He was pure, holy, kind, peaceful, loving and... perfect. If He were not, we are lost. 'Oh, no,' the badass says. 'I'm not lost. I'm right where I want to be.'
And yet, this same Jesus stood up against a national power structure of a decided union of church and state; calling out its corruption in public, turning over tables, twice, of the corrupt "money-changers" selling sacrificial animals in the sanctuary complex. Christ called them thieves that turned His Father's house into a den of treacherous and vile business transactions. His conduct was so surprising it shocked the disciples. Pretty... yeah, well badass.
He has been in battle with forces of darkness since the great rebellion in Heaven, and its transference to Earth; and for 33 years fought off innumerable temptations of mind and body, thoughts and speech and behavior we cannot possibly have comprehension of. He talked to anybody, touched anybody, healed anybody, forgave and saved anyone who wanted salvation from the power and penalty of sin. Nobody touched lepers. Christ did. He raised dead people to life three times. Yeah, let's see Captain Marvel pull that off.
Christ went through the most cruel torture and death known to the region at the time and stood up against the most powerful ancient empire in history and did not buckle, did not flinch, did not waver, did not change a word of His principles spoken and acted out. Pretty "badass." Find someone in history, anyone, that comes close to His life. They do not exist. Still, Christ was not a badass. It's useless to equate Him with any human twisting of language, terms and meanings. God is love. Christ is love. He was not badass. He was and is love. He thought, and spoke, and acted from a framework of consistent love to everyone around Him, all He came in contact with; even asking the Father to forgive the ignorance of the Romans who crucified Him, nailing Him to a cross. A Roman centurion looked at Him hanging there, with the events that transpired and said, "Truly this was the Son of God."
A few believers begged for His body, placed Him in a donated rich man's tomb, and He rose from the dead, just as He said He would. Dead. Alive. Power? No such equal existed or ever shall exist. He is life; the power of life was in Him and remains there, the immortal Son of God in humanity.
Christ does not fit into this world of badass adoration. Nor will His disciples, His church. They do not belong here and the time is coming when the final rejection of Christ's people will be a worldwide, full-blown, stupid ass denunciation and rejection of them and Christ's truth: a planetary contrariness and stubbornness which will show all Heaven and God's universe the time has come to finish it off, again, and for Christ to rescue His people and resurrect from death, from dirt, hundreds of millions of believers down through time, and take them all home. Power? Beyond any nuke anyone is waiting to go off in this current mess the Earth finds itself in.
The world is in darkness. Humanity thinks it is so smart, has all the answers, and now people everywhere see the evil building around them at the hands of wicked minds, saturated in self and depravity. Pedophile rings. Human trafficking. Depopulation schemes. Crimes against humanity. The worst of the race standing like peacocks before the world; its elites, demented and empty of anything worthy of human compassion.
The Man of sorrows shall have His say someday but, then, as the King of kings and Lord of lords; the conquering Warrior of righteousness; a Light so bright and powerful it shall literally slay the wicked and every badass that exists; who thought Christ to be some religious fanatic with a bunch of stories written about Him they stayed ignorant of because they'd rather be tough and cool. They'll be dead and lost, while a resurrected host of redeemed people from their ancient and new graves shall rise up and travel their way home with those alive who love Him; travelling to Heaven in the biggest miracle convoy no human mind can imagine. I cannot wait.
The world is so convoluted and fog-banked by deceptions and lies, it cannot see correctly. Minds have been blinded by the god of this world. Good is bad. Bad is good. Right is wrong. Wrong is right.
Only God can unscramble human minds and hearts. He'll do it for anyone that cries out for help, under the convictions of the Holy Spirit that they are lost but, there is hope. No threat of nuclear annihilation can remove hope in Yeshua Messiah and the kingdom of God. He is there, ready to forgive and counsel and direct the path of those who want a better way and to be better, themselves. Changed now, changed in a moment, in the blink of an eye into immortal beings, experiencing eternity with the redeemed of all ages, when Christ returns.
"Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
A badass is not necessarily someone who ingratiates theirself to society. They live as they want to, regardless of what people think; some living above the law, or attempting to. Others are just "heroes" of various sectors of society, rising above the din of corruption. Seems logical they would be called a "goodass." Doesn't quite ring a bell of "cool," does it? Wonder why.
I was once called a badass. 43 years ago, a Legend concert finished and I was sitting behind the drum set, taking things down and a guy came up on the stage and crouched down, looking through all the drums and cymbals and stuff and said, 'Man, you the most baddest assed drummer I ever seen since Billy Cobham.' Stunned that I was, I spoke with him for awhile and talked music, drums and drumming. Nice guy. Then he was gone. Never saw him again. The term has been around a long time.
A badass can be super-talented, super-smart, super-heroic, super-cool but, not super-religious. No, no. Super-religious is equated with being a fanatic, a negative in society. Standing up for purity and holiness and peace, and the power of love is not popular, even if some people in such a class get noticed at times. It's fleeting. It's too much light for eyes in spiritual darkness.
Of course, there are exceptions. Popes; other religious leaders like a Gandhi or Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa can be super-religious and have plenty of admirers.
Revelation says, All the world WONDERS after the beast, Rev 13:3. The Greek word means to admire, to wonder or marvel at. All the world admires the beast, marvels at a religious entity and power that captivates the world. The Bible also states, when Christ returns He shall be admired by all His people, 2 Thes. 1:10, KJV. Lots of admiration and marveling going on.
We even have the 'Marvel' comics 'universe:' a bunch of badass superheroes and supervillains. Far too many people would rather spend an evening with Iron Man or Captain America or Black Widow than Jesus Christ, and the difference between them is lightyears, an infinity of being.
Generally, an ass has meant stubborn or dumb or contrary, typifying the perceived character traits of an ass: a donkey.
Popularity for the badasses of the world grows exponentially in culture. So much so, more and more people every year wish they were a badass. Men are prone to desire it more than women but, there are badass awards for both sexes. Even children can be badasses, something that seems totally obnoxious and contrary to the way people used to want their children to behave. Of course, if a child runs into danger to help someone, they can be called a badass and become a hero. The term is now ubiquitous. Some even state the term is now old, worn out, and fading fast. Not according to my eyes and observation.
My point is, in such a society as now exists, it is no surprise Jesus Christ, the Creator of the universe and Saviour of the human race, and thereby the peace and stability of the entire universe, is not very popular. He's not "badass" enough. He's not much more than a comic book character in the minds of billions. Even placing His name and the term in the same sentence or paragraph seems sacrilegious. He was pure, holy, kind, peaceful, loving and... perfect. If He were not, we are lost. 'Oh, no,' the badass says. 'I'm not lost. I'm right where I want to be.'
And yet, this same Jesus stood up against a national power structure of a decided union of church and state; calling out its corruption in public, turning over tables, twice, of the corrupt "money-changers" selling sacrificial animals in the sanctuary complex. Christ called them thieves that turned His Father's house into a den of treacherous and vile business transactions. His conduct was so surprising it shocked the disciples. Pretty... yeah, well badass.
He has been in battle with forces of darkness since the great rebellion in Heaven, and its transference to Earth; and for 33 years fought off innumerable temptations of mind and body, thoughts and speech and behavior we cannot possibly have comprehension of. He talked to anybody, touched anybody, healed anybody, forgave and saved anyone who wanted salvation from the power and penalty of sin. Nobody touched lepers. Christ did. He raised dead people to life three times. Yeah, let's see Captain Marvel pull that off.
Christ went through the most cruel torture and death known to the region at the time and stood up against the most powerful ancient empire in history and did not buckle, did not flinch, did not waver, did not change a word of His principles spoken and acted out. Pretty "badass." Find someone in history, anyone, that comes close to His life. They do not exist. Still, Christ was not a badass. It's useless to equate Him with any human twisting of language, terms and meanings. God is love. Christ is love. He was not badass. He was and is love. He thought, and spoke, and acted from a framework of consistent love to everyone around Him, all He came in contact with; even asking the Father to forgive the ignorance of the Romans who crucified Him, nailing Him to a cross. A Roman centurion looked at Him hanging there, with the events that transpired and said, "Truly this was the Son of God."
A few believers begged for His body, placed Him in a donated rich man's tomb, and He rose from the dead, just as He said He would. Dead. Alive. Power? No such equal existed or ever shall exist. He is life; the power of life was in Him and remains there, the immortal Son of God in humanity.
Christ does not fit into this world of badass adoration. Nor will His disciples, His church. They do not belong here and the time is coming when the final rejection of Christ's people will be a worldwide, full-blown, stupid ass denunciation and rejection of them and Christ's truth: a planetary contrariness and stubbornness which will show all Heaven and God's universe the time has come to finish it off, again, and for Christ to rescue His people and resurrect from death, from dirt, hundreds of millions of believers down through time, and take them all home. Power? Beyond any nuke anyone is waiting to go off in this current mess the Earth finds itself in.
The world is in darkness. Humanity thinks it is so smart, has all the answers, and now people everywhere see the evil building around them at the hands of wicked minds, saturated in self and depravity. Pedophile rings. Human trafficking. Depopulation schemes. Crimes against humanity. The worst of the race standing like peacocks before the world; its elites, demented and empty of anything worthy of human compassion.
The Man of sorrows shall have His say someday but, then, as the King of kings and Lord of lords; the conquering Warrior of righteousness; a Light so bright and powerful it shall literally slay the wicked and every badass that exists; who thought Christ to be some religious fanatic with a bunch of stories written about Him they stayed ignorant of because they'd rather be tough and cool. They'll be dead and lost, while a resurrected host of redeemed people from their ancient and new graves shall rise up and travel their way home with those alive who love Him; travelling to Heaven in the biggest miracle convoy no human mind can imagine. I cannot wait.
The world is so convoluted and fog-banked by deceptions and lies, it cannot see correctly. Minds have been blinded by the god of this world. Good is bad. Bad is good. Right is wrong. Wrong is right.
Only God can unscramble human minds and hearts. He'll do it for anyone that cries out for help, under the convictions of the Holy Spirit that they are lost but, there is hope. No threat of nuclear annihilation can remove hope in Yeshua Messiah and the kingdom of God. He is there, ready to forgive and counsel and direct the path of those who want a better way and to be better, themselves. Changed now, changed in a moment, in the blink of an eye into immortal beings, experiencing eternity with the redeemed of all ages, when Christ returns.
"Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
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520. Separation - March 6, 2022
I grew up in an America that was starting to irrevocably separate. While the 60's were a veritable utopia compared to today, there was a lot of protesting and fighting. When Kennedy was assassinated, America took such a blow, it never really recovered.
Woodstock, Peace and Love was up against Vietnam and Civil Rights protesting. Some wanted to live in a "Yellow Submarine" and others wanted to live "the way it always has been." But the way it always was, was not. There has never really been a time in American history when separation was not before each generation in some shape or form. America never really recovered from the Civil War. It actually has never had time to recover from any war because it is always fighting wars. Always.
Americans have always been separated by one thing or another, even if it was just fervent Yankees or Red Sox. Our society breeds separation. It thrives on it. It rarely knows cooperation. It only knows competition. I'm all for free markets and developing a better mouse trap. Make a million bucks. Good for you. That all changed for me when Pet Rocks made people millionaires. What was happening to Americans? Pet Rocks?!? Well, previous generations said that about every following generation. Hollywood was the end of the world. Jazz was the end of the world. Rock and Roll was the end of the world. Heavy Metal was the end of the world. Madonna, Spears, Beyonce', et al. is the end of the world.
Today, the Methodist Church is separating over homosexuality and other perversions of God's created and intended order of life. Truckers are lined up 70 miles long in protest against elitists who think they know best how to control citizen's health. The entire medical community is separated. The entire WORLD is separating from Russia. Never in modern history has such a separation been seen. Even the Ford motor company sold vehicles to Germany in WW2. Russia is being as totally isolated as the world can make it. Over Ukraine? What???
How can Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Soros and Charles Schwab all be on the same page??? It is as obvious as January 2020 something is not right here. It was obvious to me then, the reporting of the virus was not right. It was obvious to others who put their investigations out there and by March, it was apparent. Something much deeper and bigger was happening. It is the same with Russia and Ukraine. Cause the problem/ provide a solution or just demand it, force it.
The world has known little but, war and death since the beginning. From Cain and Able... well, from Lucifer's rebellion in Heaven, there has only been separation, war and death.
The lies, the disinformation campaigns, the treachery, all leading up to the birth of Christ. Oh, you thought I was writing about stuff going on today? It's all the same: nothing new under the sun. They killed, not just an innocent man but, their Messiah; the Creator of the universe become a man, to save them.
'My God, My God! Why have You forsaken Me?' The most incredible, impactful, astonishing separation ever to take place.
Christ felt a separation no one will ever truly understand or experience. One with the Father from eternity, experiencing the separation of the second death; darkness, nothing, gone. Christ experienced that. Life experienced death. The event was not normal. The Creator, clothed with humanity, died the most cruel punishment known to man at that time. Yeah, don't ask me to explain it. How can God die? How can God become a zygote and a baby and a child and a man, and then die for mankind? It's a mystery. The mystery of godliness versus the mystery of iniquity.
Nobody but, God knows how Lucifer went bad and separated from his Maker. Nobody really understands what happened inside Cain. You can see it a million times portrayed by Hollywood, or written in books, or seen in any number of outlets and ways man is shown killing man, separating man from life but, as deeply as it may be contemplated, no one really understands the mind. It is an infinity of space only God understands. No PhD can ever adequately explain why and how human minds warp. Take any two people and put them through the same conditions and circumstances and one becomes a business owner, a husband and father and help to his community. The other becomes a criminal mastermind, with no care for the life of others. How does that separation take place? How, what causes such different choices and results? You can study it all your life and have your ideas but, no one truly knows. If you think the brain, which is NOT the mind, is just some series of accidents and mutations, you have not got a clue. God created the mind, and man does not even really know what it is, let alone understand it. NOBODY can point to anything in a brain and say, "There is the mind." The mind is not a physical organ. It is not tissue. It is not electrical. That's all brain stuff. The mind is separate from the brain and somehow acts within it. There are people who have had catastrophic head injuries and literally lost chunks of their brains and they still have minds: they still think and act "normally." How can that be? Because the mind is separate from the brain.
Psychology is the study of the mind of man. Christianity is the study of the mind of Christ: "Let this mind be in you, as it was in Christ Jesus..." Think this way. But, even spending a lifetime studying the choices Christ made, the way He approached every situation recorded in the Gospels, can afford no actual understanding of how God became a man and died for that which He created. No relationship on Earth is adequate to truly make the connection. We can only have glimpses granted to us through human experience and relationships in the normal rounds of life cycles.
So, in essence, because our understanding shall always be imperfect in this life, our minds perceive things with faults. We can create enemies that actually love us, and not see enemies we think are friends. So goes the influence upon human minds from the father of lies. He lives to separate. He lives, he fights to separate anything from something else; especially people from God. People, nations, does not matter. He is death. God is life. All we can do is make choices which side we will stand on.
I've been a Christian for 43 years. I was an atheist for half my young life. The previous half, God was just a concept, a statue of someone hanging on a cross, religious people dressed in black and white, Latin masses, popes carried around on thrones wearing weird hats, rosary beads, candles, confessionals, scapulars... Roman Catholicism. Then, it all changed. I was born again. I was so radically changed no one around me understood it. One cousin did. He was born again around the same time. New life in Christ. Old things passed away. All things became new.
Forty-three years later... I know less now than ever, practically speaking. Why God wakes me up every day and keeps me vertical and ventilating, I do not know. I can read He loves me. I can know it. I cannot understand it. I know I do not want to be separated from the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit's influence. There are days when jumping off a cliff makes more sense than marching one more day but, I keep marching. "A battle and a march. A battle and a march."
There came a day when Christ spoke of Himself as the bread of life, and His blood as life. Everybody heard it all and walked away. Eating His flesh and drinking His blood? Gross. Paganism. Disgusting.
His disciples stood there, puzzled at what they heard, watching everyone walk away, wondering what next? Christ asked them if they would go away, also. Peter spoke for them; "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life and we know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And yet, not all. Even as Peter spoke, one of the twelve, Judas, was separating in his heart and mind, and would eventually sell out His Creator for 30 pieces of silver, and end up committing suicide over his dark and senseless, useless, traitorous choice.
The world is ever separating and shall not stop. The final separation is ever building to a climax. Two camps - sheep and goats; children of two mothers: the woman of Revelation 12 or that of Revelation 17; a true church and a false church. One side totally committed, sealed by God, in His kingdom. The other, some committed, some just going along. Marked of the beast in his system.
Down through the ages, while it was possible, controlling humanity; its buying and selling was never as we see it today. Russia is being cut off in front of our eyes. It is being done by every company under the control of the cabal. All aspects of life are turning on Russia. God is shouting, "Do you see? It is coming. The path of technology, man's futile intelligence is here. Your buying and selling can be controlled, even more than what you see, and shall be, upon a remnant of people that keep My commandments, and the faith and testimony of My Son, Jesus Christ."
This event may fizzle. No nukes. No drawn out conflict. Everything going back to a 'new' normal with the cabal in more control than ever. But, remember, the final enemy of God against his people is not the atheistic, humanistic, materialist, naturalist, godless elite that wants religion removed from the planet. No, no. Mark it. It shall be a profession of faith that puts itself in place of Christ. It does not remove Him. It claims to speak for Him, in His place: antechristos - antichrist.
'They that seek to kill you will think they do God service.'
Religion is coming back, big-time. And it shall cause a final separation in humanity. Truth versus tradition. The law of God versus the law of man. Reason versus obstinance. Two sides, finished. Virgins with oil in their lamps versus those in darkness. Those prepared versus those deceived.
All hell is going to break loose.
Then shall the end come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Woodstock, Peace and Love was up against Vietnam and Civil Rights protesting. Some wanted to live in a "Yellow Submarine" and others wanted to live "the way it always has been." But the way it always was, was not. There has never really been a time in American history when separation was not before each generation in some shape or form. America never really recovered from the Civil War. It actually has never had time to recover from any war because it is always fighting wars. Always.
Americans have always been separated by one thing or another, even if it was just fervent Yankees or Red Sox. Our society breeds separation. It thrives on it. It rarely knows cooperation. It only knows competition. I'm all for free markets and developing a better mouse trap. Make a million bucks. Good for you. That all changed for me when Pet Rocks made people millionaires. What was happening to Americans? Pet Rocks?!? Well, previous generations said that about every following generation. Hollywood was the end of the world. Jazz was the end of the world. Rock and Roll was the end of the world. Heavy Metal was the end of the world. Madonna, Spears, Beyonce', et al. is the end of the world.
Today, the Methodist Church is separating over homosexuality and other perversions of God's created and intended order of life. Truckers are lined up 70 miles long in protest against elitists who think they know best how to control citizen's health. The entire medical community is separated. The entire WORLD is separating from Russia. Never in modern history has such a separation been seen. Even the Ford motor company sold vehicles to Germany in WW2. Russia is being as totally isolated as the world can make it. Over Ukraine? What???
How can Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Soros and Charles Schwab all be on the same page??? It is as obvious as January 2020 something is not right here. It was obvious to me then, the reporting of the virus was not right. It was obvious to others who put their investigations out there and by March, it was apparent. Something much deeper and bigger was happening. It is the same with Russia and Ukraine. Cause the problem/ provide a solution or just demand it, force it.
The world has known little but, war and death since the beginning. From Cain and Able... well, from Lucifer's rebellion in Heaven, there has only been separation, war and death.
The lies, the disinformation campaigns, the treachery, all leading up to the birth of Christ. Oh, you thought I was writing about stuff going on today? It's all the same: nothing new under the sun. They killed, not just an innocent man but, their Messiah; the Creator of the universe become a man, to save them.
'My God, My God! Why have You forsaken Me?' The most incredible, impactful, astonishing separation ever to take place.
Christ felt a separation no one will ever truly understand or experience. One with the Father from eternity, experiencing the separation of the second death; darkness, nothing, gone. Christ experienced that. Life experienced death. The event was not normal. The Creator, clothed with humanity, died the most cruel punishment known to man at that time. Yeah, don't ask me to explain it. How can God die? How can God become a zygote and a baby and a child and a man, and then die for mankind? It's a mystery. The mystery of godliness versus the mystery of iniquity.
Nobody but, God knows how Lucifer went bad and separated from his Maker. Nobody really understands what happened inside Cain. You can see it a million times portrayed by Hollywood, or written in books, or seen in any number of outlets and ways man is shown killing man, separating man from life but, as deeply as it may be contemplated, no one really understands the mind. It is an infinity of space only God understands. No PhD can ever adequately explain why and how human minds warp. Take any two people and put them through the same conditions and circumstances and one becomes a business owner, a husband and father and help to his community. The other becomes a criminal mastermind, with no care for the life of others. How does that separation take place? How, what causes such different choices and results? You can study it all your life and have your ideas but, no one truly knows. If you think the brain, which is NOT the mind, is just some series of accidents and mutations, you have not got a clue. God created the mind, and man does not even really know what it is, let alone understand it. NOBODY can point to anything in a brain and say, "There is the mind." The mind is not a physical organ. It is not tissue. It is not electrical. That's all brain stuff. The mind is separate from the brain and somehow acts within it. There are people who have had catastrophic head injuries and literally lost chunks of their brains and they still have minds: they still think and act "normally." How can that be? Because the mind is separate from the brain.
Psychology is the study of the mind of man. Christianity is the study of the mind of Christ: "Let this mind be in you, as it was in Christ Jesus..." Think this way. But, even spending a lifetime studying the choices Christ made, the way He approached every situation recorded in the Gospels, can afford no actual understanding of how God became a man and died for that which He created. No relationship on Earth is adequate to truly make the connection. We can only have glimpses granted to us through human experience and relationships in the normal rounds of life cycles.
So, in essence, because our understanding shall always be imperfect in this life, our minds perceive things with faults. We can create enemies that actually love us, and not see enemies we think are friends. So goes the influence upon human minds from the father of lies. He lives to separate. He lives, he fights to separate anything from something else; especially people from God. People, nations, does not matter. He is death. God is life. All we can do is make choices which side we will stand on.
I've been a Christian for 43 years. I was an atheist for half my young life. The previous half, God was just a concept, a statue of someone hanging on a cross, religious people dressed in black and white, Latin masses, popes carried around on thrones wearing weird hats, rosary beads, candles, confessionals, scapulars... Roman Catholicism. Then, it all changed. I was born again. I was so radically changed no one around me understood it. One cousin did. He was born again around the same time. New life in Christ. Old things passed away. All things became new.
Forty-three years later... I know less now than ever, practically speaking. Why God wakes me up every day and keeps me vertical and ventilating, I do not know. I can read He loves me. I can know it. I cannot understand it. I know I do not want to be separated from the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit's influence. There are days when jumping off a cliff makes more sense than marching one more day but, I keep marching. "A battle and a march. A battle and a march."
There came a day when Christ spoke of Himself as the bread of life, and His blood as life. Everybody heard it all and walked away. Eating His flesh and drinking His blood? Gross. Paganism. Disgusting.
His disciples stood there, puzzled at what they heard, watching everyone walk away, wondering what next? Christ asked them if they would go away, also. Peter spoke for them; "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life and we know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And yet, not all. Even as Peter spoke, one of the twelve, Judas, was separating in his heart and mind, and would eventually sell out His Creator for 30 pieces of silver, and end up committing suicide over his dark and senseless, useless, traitorous choice.
The world is ever separating and shall not stop. The final separation is ever building to a climax. Two camps - sheep and goats; children of two mothers: the woman of Revelation 12 or that of Revelation 17; a true church and a false church. One side totally committed, sealed by God, in His kingdom. The other, some committed, some just going along. Marked of the beast in his system.
Down through the ages, while it was possible, controlling humanity; its buying and selling was never as we see it today. Russia is being cut off in front of our eyes. It is being done by every company under the control of the cabal. All aspects of life are turning on Russia. God is shouting, "Do you see? It is coming. The path of technology, man's futile intelligence is here. Your buying and selling can be controlled, even more than what you see, and shall be, upon a remnant of people that keep My commandments, and the faith and testimony of My Son, Jesus Christ."
This event may fizzle. No nukes. No drawn out conflict. Everything going back to a 'new' normal with the cabal in more control than ever. But, remember, the final enemy of God against his people is not the atheistic, humanistic, materialist, naturalist, godless elite that wants religion removed from the planet. No, no. Mark it. It shall be a profession of faith that puts itself in place of Christ. It does not remove Him. It claims to speak for Him, in His place: antechristos - antichrist.
'They that seek to kill you will think they do God service.'
Religion is coming back, big-time. And it shall cause a final separation in humanity. Truth versus tradition. The law of God versus the law of man. Reason versus obstinance. Two sides, finished. Virgins with oil in their lamps versus those in darkness. Those prepared versus those deceived.
All hell is going to break loose.
Then shall the end come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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521. Archbishop Vigano Strikes Again - March 8, 2022
Archbishop Carlo Vigano has laid out a 24 page open letter to the world, explaining the current Russian/Ukraine situation. In the third paragraph he nails the biggest perpetrators, in his viewpoint:
"If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the globalist elite to carryout its criminal plan."
He states far more than that. He lays out the perpetrators of the Covid event, starting with the mainstream media and press, cooperative government and medical institutions, financial institutions, even naming the Catholic Hierarchy as a problem. "Relying on authoritative and objective sources," the archbishop draws a conclusion:
"Even if we only want to limit our investigation to the economic aspect, we understand that news agencies, politics and public institutions themselves depend on a small number of financial groups belonging to an oligarchy that, significantly, is united not only by money and power, but by the ideological affiliation that guides its action and interference in the politics of nations and the whole world. This oligarchy shows its tentacles in the UN, NATO, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, and in “philanthropic” institutions such as George Soros’ Open Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
That just takes him to the end of page 2! He opens page 3, thus:
"All these entities are private and answer to no one but themselves, and at the same time they have the power to influence national governments, including through their own representatives who are made to be elected or appointed to key posts. They admit it themselves, when they are received with all the honors by Heads of State and world leaders, beginning with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (here), respected and feared by these leaders as the true masters of the fate of the world. Thus, those who hold power in the name of the “people” find themselves trampling on the people’s will and restricting their rights, in order to be obedient like courtiers to masters whom nobody has elected but who nevertheless dictate their political and economic agenda to the nations."
Those same 'authoritative and objective sources' are those news outlets anyone had access to right from the start, and some, literally for the last few decades.
The Archbishop is spot on, just putting pieces of a planetary puzzle together. The thing is, according to Bible prophecy and history, he's fighting for the wrong team. His own religious organization fulfills all the marks of Bible prophecy laid upon the power of Daniel's "little horn," and Revelation's reviving "beast;" the antichrist institution and prophetic mother whore of Rev 17: the Roman Catholic Church, Papacy, and Vatican.
Either Vigano is a sincere seeker of truth, and will hopefully take his stand for the truth beyond politics but, also the truth of the Bible beyond Catholic traditions he follows, or... I must conclude he is an agent of duplicity to draw the daughters of Mother Rome - apostate Protestant churches - closer to home. The latter has been the tactic of the Vatican and its soldiers for well over 100 years now.
Going back into the 19th century, Rome has laid tracks for the engines of apostate Protestantism to glide upon. I have mentioned in previous posts the history of Cardinal James Gibbons, of Baltimore; sometimes referred to as 'the American Pope.' His books sold as well as any other author in the nation. His influence was enormous. "The Faith of Our Fathers" went through printing after printing, a best seller, reaching to eleven editions. It sold well over 50,000 copies by the eleventh edition, here and abroad and was ultimately printed in at least forty-seven editions and sold over a quarter million copies, one of which I found a long time ago, in a bookstore selling old and antique volumes up in New England.
Gibbons was a strong champion of Sunday legislation, which is a denial of the first amendment to the U.S. constitution - Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion. Sunday may be the oldest establishment of religion in human history, aside from two: God's seventh-day Sabbath, and the institution of marriage, both marked in the second chapter of Genesis. The moral law, itself, was instated at the beginning, else Adam and Eve could not have been guilty of the sin of breaking the first commandment, and Cain could not have been guilty of breaking the sixth: and such it went down through the opening history of the human race. God's law is as perpetual as God's character and sovereignty are. Exodus 20 is not the beginning of the understanding of God's commandments among his people. Exodus 16 lays out the issue of the Sabbath before the events of Mt. Sinai ever took place. Abraham was commended for keeping God's laws centuries before the giving of the tables of stone to Moses took place. Any reading and study of the Bible shows the plain fact the law of God is as perpetual as He is. It's a transcript of His character, His government, and His purposes.
Archbishop Vigano must not be taken at face value because the history of the Roman Catholic Church, it's Papacy and Vatican State, can never be taken at face value. The nature of Romanism has always been hidden behind veils of secrecy and clandestine movements to attain and maintain absolute power among men. It is a hierarchy of human expression of religion. The biblical church of Christ has one Head, Jesus. From there, the body of 12 apostles, long gone, then apostles or 'missionaries,' as the Greek term means, then elders and deacons, and then spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit given to the body of Christ for the work of ministry to the body and the world. Nobody is any more authoritative than they use the Bible and a Thus saith the Lord as their authority. No position, no title, no desk anyone sits behind, no chair they sit in, nothing gives power and authority over their fellow believers but, the Word of God, the Bible. The Bible, and the Bible, alone, is the only rule of faith, practice and discipline among Christ's people. That is the difference between Rome and those who rose up against her down through history. Wars were fought, no different than the Russian/Ukraine situation now. Territory of consolidated powers were constantly involved. There is nothing new under the sun.
For 24 pages Vigano expresses the same positions I have taken upon aspects of national apostasy from the rule of law America has, as well as the apostasy of the world from the same, and principles of democracy nations have employed since the descension of royalty to rule them. What is Vigano up to?
After laying out correct perspectives of the situation, and history of the Russian and Ukraine tensions he states:
"As we can see, NATO has failed to keep its commitments to Russia, or has at least forced the situation at a very delicate moment for geopolitical balances. We should ask ourselves why the United States – or rather the American deep state which regained power after the electoral fraud that brought Joe Biden to the White House – wants to create tensions with Russia and involve its European partners in the conflict, with all the consequences we can imagine."
A very powerful clergyman and former agent of the Vatican recognizes the election fraud of 2020. Putin has done the same in his own speeches and interviews. The world knows, by the weight of the evidence, Joe Biden is not the actual, elected President of the United States of America. Donald J. Trump is, by a landslide victory. The world cannot possibly trust a nation so guilty of such gross criminal activity in the face of its arrogant pronunciations of being the greatest democracy in the history of the world. It has become the greatest hypocrisy in the history of the world!
Vigano then hits the U.S. laboratories in Ukraine, something no outlet in mainstream media will touch, for obvious reasons:
"Still on the subject of American interests in Ukraine, it is worth mentioning the virological laboratories located in Ukraine which are under the control of the Pentagon and where it seems that only US specialists with diplomatic immunity are employed directly under the American Ministry of Defense. We should also remember the complaint made by Putin regarding the collection of genomic data about the population, which can be used for bacteriological weapons with genetic selection (here, here and here)."
The "here" you see throughout the document are links to documentation pertaining to his remarks.
"It is not the Ukrainians who ought to enter the European Union or NATO, it is rather the other nations who ought to finally be jolted by pride and courage to leave them, shaking off this detestable yoke and rediscovering their own independence, sovereignty, identity, and faith. Their own souls. To be clear: the New Order is not an inescapable destiny, and it can be subverted and denounced, if only the peoples of the world realize that they have been deceived and swindled by an oligarchy of clearly identifiable criminals, who one day will have to answer for those sanctions and those blocks of funds that today they apply with impunity to anyone who does not bend the knee before them."
Written like any true patriot would write it. My question remains: to what nation is Vigano a loyal patriot of? I say - until otherwise proven incorrect - Vatican State.
After quoting Isaiah 58:6-8 (in Latin, not the original Hebrew), and than the English translation, he writes:
"The world crisis with which the dissolution of traditional society is being prepared has also involved the Catholic Church, whose Hierarchy is held hostage by apostates who are courtiers of power. There was a time in which Popes and Prelates confronted Kings without concern for human respect, because they knew they spoke with the voice of Jesus Christ, the King of kings. The Rome of the Caesars and Popes is now deserted and silent, just as for centuries the Second Rome of Constantinople has also been silent. Perhaps Providence has ordained that Moscow, the Third Rome, will today in the sight of the world take on the role of κατέχον (2Thess 2:6-7), of eschatological obstacle to the Antichrist. If the errors of communism were spread by the Soviet Union, even to the point of imposing themselves within the Church, Russia and Ukraine can today have an epochal role in the restoration of Christian Civilization, contributing to bringing the world a period of peace from which the Church too will rise again purified and renewed in her Ministers. The United States of America and the European nations should not marginalize Russia, but rather form an alliance with her, not only for the restoration of trade for the prosperity of all, but in view of the reconstruction of a Christian Civilization, which alone can save the world from the globalist techno-health transhuman monster."
And there we see Mother calling her children home. Almost all professed Christianity follows the prophetic lines of Futurism, the creation of the Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, in the 16th century. Rome now takes any finger off herself as apostate, as antichrist - "in place of Christ" - and places it on the NWO and its branches and players, which have taken his church 'hostage.' Maybe Putin and the Orthodox church can do something to unite Christianity and Kumbaya can be experienced - Peace and safety.
Be warned.
While Vigano leaves no stone unturned, history screams caution. It is as fearless and well documented an account of treachery among actors against the human race as you could ever read. He rehearses the history of Joe Biden in Ukraine and the corruption involved by the American State Dept. and CIA. It would appear Vigano has read every piece of information alternative news sources have put out there about... well, everything. It's as if he has put a team of researches and writers into this 24 page explosion of atoms involved. Nothing and no one is left untouched. The letter is a sledge hammer upon the solidifying concrete of the New World Order in all its factions and branches involved in this new war in Ukraine, including indictment of his own church.
You can read the document yourself in numerous places. Here's one:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/exclusive-declaration-italys-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-regarding-russia-ukraine-crisis/
Most people will never take the time to read all 24 pages. There is a tremendous amount of information squeezed into so short a document. Entire books are written like this. Yet, anyone who reads it will be informed. It is a perfect example to show the absolute necessity of the handlers to gain control of the internet. The World Wide Web is the constant knife in the side of the NWO and elitists determined to gain planetary control. Yes, it can be manipulated with mis and disinformation. Only those who dig can sift through and find correct and true answers. They are not hidden in a corner.
It is not Vigano at the helm here. He did not write this. It was written for him, I'm fairly certain of that. He has placed an enormous bullseye on his back. Or, logically, the Vatican is going to make a move, having sat back and watched the world move along for a couple decades now, just trying to retain its own members in the wake of constant scandals and now, a Communist Pope. The Vatican, through its world agents, always has a plan, ever modifying and adapting itself to circumstances and conditions it changes or has changed on it, among the players seeking power and control.
Watch. Either Vigano is denounced or even dies, a martyr to the cause, or promoted and made a cardinal, maybe even the next pope; someone who could gather the whole apostate flock together for the final battle against the law of God.
I reckon time will soon tell.
There are no more conspiracy theories about this. There is just conspiracy evidence, if one is prone to 'study, to show themselves approved unto God, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the globalist elite to carryout its criminal plan."
He states far more than that. He lays out the perpetrators of the Covid event, starting with the mainstream media and press, cooperative government and medical institutions, financial institutions, even naming the Catholic Hierarchy as a problem. "Relying on authoritative and objective sources," the archbishop draws a conclusion:
"Even if we only want to limit our investigation to the economic aspect, we understand that news agencies, politics and public institutions themselves depend on a small number of financial groups belonging to an oligarchy that, significantly, is united not only by money and power, but by the ideological affiliation that guides its action and interference in the politics of nations and the whole world. This oligarchy shows its tentacles in the UN, NATO, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, and in “philanthropic” institutions such as George Soros’ Open Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
That just takes him to the end of page 2! He opens page 3, thus:
"All these entities are private and answer to no one but themselves, and at the same time they have the power to influence national governments, including through their own representatives who are made to be elected or appointed to key posts. They admit it themselves, when they are received with all the honors by Heads of State and world leaders, beginning with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (here), respected and feared by these leaders as the true masters of the fate of the world. Thus, those who hold power in the name of the “people” find themselves trampling on the people’s will and restricting their rights, in order to be obedient like courtiers to masters whom nobody has elected but who nevertheless dictate their political and economic agenda to the nations."
Those same 'authoritative and objective sources' are those news outlets anyone had access to right from the start, and some, literally for the last few decades.
The Archbishop is spot on, just putting pieces of a planetary puzzle together. The thing is, according to Bible prophecy and history, he's fighting for the wrong team. His own religious organization fulfills all the marks of Bible prophecy laid upon the power of Daniel's "little horn," and Revelation's reviving "beast;" the antichrist institution and prophetic mother whore of Rev 17: the Roman Catholic Church, Papacy, and Vatican.
Either Vigano is a sincere seeker of truth, and will hopefully take his stand for the truth beyond politics but, also the truth of the Bible beyond Catholic traditions he follows, or... I must conclude he is an agent of duplicity to draw the daughters of Mother Rome - apostate Protestant churches - closer to home. The latter has been the tactic of the Vatican and its soldiers for well over 100 years now.
Going back into the 19th century, Rome has laid tracks for the engines of apostate Protestantism to glide upon. I have mentioned in previous posts the history of Cardinal James Gibbons, of Baltimore; sometimes referred to as 'the American Pope.' His books sold as well as any other author in the nation. His influence was enormous. "The Faith of Our Fathers" went through printing after printing, a best seller, reaching to eleven editions. It sold well over 50,000 copies by the eleventh edition, here and abroad and was ultimately printed in at least forty-seven editions and sold over a quarter million copies, one of which I found a long time ago, in a bookstore selling old and antique volumes up in New England.
Gibbons was a strong champion of Sunday legislation, which is a denial of the first amendment to the U.S. constitution - Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion. Sunday may be the oldest establishment of religion in human history, aside from two: God's seventh-day Sabbath, and the institution of marriage, both marked in the second chapter of Genesis. The moral law, itself, was instated at the beginning, else Adam and Eve could not have been guilty of the sin of breaking the first commandment, and Cain could not have been guilty of breaking the sixth: and such it went down through the opening history of the human race. God's law is as perpetual as God's character and sovereignty are. Exodus 20 is not the beginning of the understanding of God's commandments among his people. Exodus 16 lays out the issue of the Sabbath before the events of Mt. Sinai ever took place. Abraham was commended for keeping God's laws centuries before the giving of the tables of stone to Moses took place. Any reading and study of the Bible shows the plain fact the law of God is as perpetual as He is. It's a transcript of His character, His government, and His purposes.
Archbishop Vigano must not be taken at face value because the history of the Roman Catholic Church, it's Papacy and Vatican State, can never be taken at face value. The nature of Romanism has always been hidden behind veils of secrecy and clandestine movements to attain and maintain absolute power among men. It is a hierarchy of human expression of religion. The biblical church of Christ has one Head, Jesus. From there, the body of 12 apostles, long gone, then apostles or 'missionaries,' as the Greek term means, then elders and deacons, and then spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit given to the body of Christ for the work of ministry to the body and the world. Nobody is any more authoritative than they use the Bible and a Thus saith the Lord as their authority. No position, no title, no desk anyone sits behind, no chair they sit in, nothing gives power and authority over their fellow believers but, the Word of God, the Bible. The Bible, and the Bible, alone, is the only rule of faith, practice and discipline among Christ's people. That is the difference between Rome and those who rose up against her down through history. Wars were fought, no different than the Russian/Ukraine situation now. Territory of consolidated powers were constantly involved. There is nothing new under the sun.
For 24 pages Vigano expresses the same positions I have taken upon aspects of national apostasy from the rule of law America has, as well as the apostasy of the world from the same, and principles of democracy nations have employed since the descension of royalty to rule them. What is Vigano up to?
After laying out correct perspectives of the situation, and history of the Russian and Ukraine tensions he states:
"As we can see, NATO has failed to keep its commitments to Russia, or has at least forced the situation at a very delicate moment for geopolitical balances. We should ask ourselves why the United States – or rather the American deep state which regained power after the electoral fraud that brought Joe Biden to the White House – wants to create tensions with Russia and involve its European partners in the conflict, with all the consequences we can imagine."
A very powerful clergyman and former agent of the Vatican recognizes the election fraud of 2020. Putin has done the same in his own speeches and interviews. The world knows, by the weight of the evidence, Joe Biden is not the actual, elected President of the United States of America. Donald J. Trump is, by a landslide victory. The world cannot possibly trust a nation so guilty of such gross criminal activity in the face of its arrogant pronunciations of being the greatest democracy in the history of the world. It has become the greatest hypocrisy in the history of the world!
Vigano then hits the U.S. laboratories in Ukraine, something no outlet in mainstream media will touch, for obvious reasons:
"Still on the subject of American interests in Ukraine, it is worth mentioning the virological laboratories located in Ukraine which are under the control of the Pentagon and where it seems that only US specialists with diplomatic immunity are employed directly under the American Ministry of Defense. We should also remember the complaint made by Putin regarding the collection of genomic data about the population, which can be used for bacteriological weapons with genetic selection (here, here and here)."
The "here" you see throughout the document are links to documentation pertaining to his remarks.
"It is not the Ukrainians who ought to enter the European Union or NATO, it is rather the other nations who ought to finally be jolted by pride and courage to leave them, shaking off this detestable yoke and rediscovering their own independence, sovereignty, identity, and faith. Their own souls. To be clear: the New Order is not an inescapable destiny, and it can be subverted and denounced, if only the peoples of the world realize that they have been deceived and swindled by an oligarchy of clearly identifiable criminals, who one day will have to answer for those sanctions and those blocks of funds that today they apply with impunity to anyone who does not bend the knee before them."
Written like any true patriot would write it. My question remains: to what nation is Vigano a loyal patriot of? I say - until otherwise proven incorrect - Vatican State.
After quoting Isaiah 58:6-8 (in Latin, not the original Hebrew), and than the English translation, he writes:
"The world crisis with which the dissolution of traditional society is being prepared has also involved the Catholic Church, whose Hierarchy is held hostage by apostates who are courtiers of power. There was a time in which Popes and Prelates confronted Kings without concern for human respect, because they knew they spoke with the voice of Jesus Christ, the King of kings. The Rome of the Caesars and Popes is now deserted and silent, just as for centuries the Second Rome of Constantinople has also been silent. Perhaps Providence has ordained that Moscow, the Third Rome, will today in the sight of the world take on the role of κατέχον (2Thess 2:6-7), of eschatological obstacle to the Antichrist. If the errors of communism were spread by the Soviet Union, even to the point of imposing themselves within the Church, Russia and Ukraine can today have an epochal role in the restoration of Christian Civilization, contributing to bringing the world a period of peace from which the Church too will rise again purified and renewed in her Ministers. The United States of America and the European nations should not marginalize Russia, but rather form an alliance with her, not only for the restoration of trade for the prosperity of all, but in view of the reconstruction of a Christian Civilization, which alone can save the world from the globalist techno-health transhuman monster."
And there we see Mother calling her children home. Almost all professed Christianity follows the prophetic lines of Futurism, the creation of the Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, in the 16th century. Rome now takes any finger off herself as apostate, as antichrist - "in place of Christ" - and places it on the NWO and its branches and players, which have taken his church 'hostage.' Maybe Putin and the Orthodox church can do something to unite Christianity and Kumbaya can be experienced - Peace and safety.
Be warned.
While Vigano leaves no stone unturned, history screams caution. It is as fearless and well documented an account of treachery among actors against the human race as you could ever read. He rehearses the history of Joe Biden in Ukraine and the corruption involved by the American State Dept. and CIA. It would appear Vigano has read every piece of information alternative news sources have put out there about... well, everything. It's as if he has put a team of researches and writers into this 24 page explosion of atoms involved. Nothing and no one is left untouched. The letter is a sledge hammer upon the solidifying concrete of the New World Order in all its factions and branches involved in this new war in Ukraine, including indictment of his own church.
You can read the document yourself in numerous places. Here's one:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/exclusive-declaration-italys-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-regarding-russia-ukraine-crisis/
Most people will never take the time to read all 24 pages. There is a tremendous amount of information squeezed into so short a document. Entire books are written like this. Yet, anyone who reads it will be informed. It is a perfect example to show the absolute necessity of the handlers to gain control of the internet. The World Wide Web is the constant knife in the side of the NWO and elitists determined to gain planetary control. Yes, it can be manipulated with mis and disinformation. Only those who dig can sift through and find correct and true answers. They are not hidden in a corner.
It is not Vigano at the helm here. He did not write this. It was written for him, I'm fairly certain of that. He has placed an enormous bullseye on his back. Or, logically, the Vatican is going to make a move, having sat back and watched the world move along for a couple decades now, just trying to retain its own members in the wake of constant scandals and now, a Communist Pope. The Vatican, through its world agents, always has a plan, ever modifying and adapting itself to circumstances and conditions it changes or has changed on it, among the players seeking power and control.
Watch. Either Vigano is denounced or even dies, a martyr to the cause, or promoted and made a cardinal, maybe even the next pope; someone who could gather the whole apostate flock together for the final battle against the law of God.
I reckon time will soon tell.
There are no more conspiracy theories about this. There is just conspiracy evidence, if one is prone to 'study, to show themselves approved unto God, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A Super-educational Stew Peters Program
I don't always watch every day. I look at the guests and subjects. Much is repetitive. This program; some bold, important new information is exposed as the program unfolds.
The one section that impressed me the most was the one on the situation reported here, on an event that should have taken place at the University of Texas but, instead turned into a riot, by useful idiots of Antifa. I used to live minutes from UT, and have a family member that went there. I drove through the campus many times getting around Denton. Jeff Younger was the speaker, running for a seat at the Texas State House, and he breaks down info on Antifa I was not familiar with. It made a lot of things fall into place.
All the guests had very important things to share. An ESPN whistleblower on corruption taking place in media; a couple, with the wife harmed by Covid injections; new microscopic evidence of what's in the injections; and more.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/03/globalist-war-on-whites-pfizer-bioweapon-casualties-explode-millions-of-eggs-hatch-in-jab/
It's hard to feel compassion for those who are literally trying to stop and even kill entire sectors of humanity they disagree with, who dissent from their agenda of world-wide control of all the human race. They claim democracy and act totally despotic, and outright Satanic. They are not just lying hypocrites. They are literally doing the work of Lucifer. Sign of the times, though.
The one section that impressed me the most was the one on the situation reported here, on an event that should have taken place at the University of Texas but, instead turned into a riot, by useful idiots of Antifa. I used to live minutes from UT, and have a family member that went there. I drove through the campus many times getting around Denton. Jeff Younger was the speaker, running for a seat at the Texas State House, and he breaks down info on Antifa I was not familiar with. It made a lot of things fall into place.
All the guests had very important things to share. An ESPN whistleblower on corruption taking place in media; a couple, with the wife harmed by Covid injections; new microscopic evidence of what's in the injections; and more.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/03/globalist-war-on-whites-pfizer-bioweapon-casualties-explode-millions-of-eggs-hatch-in-jab/
It's hard to feel compassion for those who are literally trying to stop and even kill entire sectors of humanity they disagree with, who dissent from their agenda of world-wide control of all the human race. They claim democracy and act totally despotic, and outright Satanic. They are not just lying hypocrites. They are literally doing the work of Lucifer. Sign of the times, though.
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522. The Conscience Seared - March 10, 2022
As a professing Christian I am supposed to love everybody. In principle, I do. I want everyone to experience salvation in Christ and have the new outlook and purpose that God gives to each soul born again and brought into the kingdom of hope and peace, joy and love.
Now, those are just words one finds in the Bible and on the lips of believers, and it can all become rather ho-hum, or even seem antagonistic to reality on the Christian journey. I know. Every true believer knows.
Honestly? I hope Anthony Fauci experiences salvation and finds peace. I also hope he is investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and hung for crimes against humanity: he and the rest of the devils who are controlling everything with their plans and lies and despotism.
How does one have compassion on people so twisted and evil? Well, if you find out Fauci went through all kinds of horrors as a child, which warped his mind from common to criminal, at least you generally get a sense of some kind of reason for inhuman thought and activity. Those in control of the money, the power and authority to make plans to control the world, and I use the word "authority" in a certain sense; for no one, no group of people has been given authority to kill people at will; they have to usurp authority for such devilish behavior. The police do not have authority to kill people at will. Laws and procedures and protocols are written to guide them and contain them in the path of their duties to society they are employed by. Even the military, which exists to kill enemies, has rules of engagement. Do police and soldiers make decisions every day whether they will follow those rules? Yes.
I used to believe the police, the military would never fire on Americans just standing up for the rule of law and principles of Americanism. Their conscience would not cooperate. I no longer believe that. Too many are godless and would follow such orders. Others would never do it. Right there exists the material for a civil war.
Those who believe they are above the law, that exist outside the dimensions of normalcy, populations, civilized populations live in, lose the benefits and borders of conscience placed on all human beings. Right now, as I type, Washington, D.C. is filled with people running the nation, most of which have the "Do you know who I am?" mentality. Unfortunately, their attitude comes with all the connections, power and authority over "lesser" citizens to rain down hell on people they do not like. Government now uses agencies designed to protect law-biding people, to harass and put fear into people. That is the very definition of tyranny.
Now, Christians have been a persecuted people since the influence of Christ. Even in professed Christian societies and civilization, believers have been persecuted by other professed believers. We know America is not a Christian nation for at least two sound reasons. One - Jesus Christ is not named on a single document of law and authority in our nation. Two - while the Constitution protects believers from any encroachment upon their faith, the last two years have shown the true attitude of non-believers towards professed Christianity and its adherents in America and other nations where a majority of citizens are believers. Laws have been made, pushing aside the laws of God, that mark and prosecute Christians for their faith. This is plainly seen where Christians are prosecuted for not adhering to the homosexual agenda. While Christians do not force homosexuals to believe and act in accordance with the faith, homosexuals will force Christians to deny their faith and administer to whatever needs and desires homosexuals have in how they function in society. An obvious moral dilemma; one the government has taken sides on; the homosexual side. Sodomy laws existed because of the situation that existed in Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodomy was considered a perversion no society could accept and remain moral and standing. No civilization in history has. Every one that accepts homosexuality as normal behavior has come down. That's just history. Check it out for yourself. Sodom and Gomorrah were the typification of such societies. It was the example of a society that lost any collective conscience.
In the times the New Testament was written, Greece had already fallen: an empire where homosexuality was common, even in the military. Ancient artifacts display homosexual acts on shields and typical home possessions, like pottery. Rome was affected by Grecian culture. Rome was sexually corrupted. The apostle Paul wrote numerous times upon the influence of homosexuality in his day. Today? LGBTQ is ubiquitous in society, even in professed Christian churches. America will fall. That's the testimony of history.
While everybody is talking about world war 3 right now, the cultural war we experience has existed, non-stop, for 6,000 years of human history, biblically speaking. That war is perpetual, and it causes words like joy, peace, unity, harmony and such to seem meaningless at times, when society at war with God goes to war with His people. ALL tyrants are at war with God. From there, war against their fellow humans is only a matter of money, position, and time. Actually, even amongst children with no money, no power and no authority; they execute war upon each other with unfortunate relish and vehemence all the time. Social media shows bullying is not at the hands of a few children in a school, like when I was a kid. It, too, is ubiquitous among the young. You can be killed, literally, as a game. Your age does not matter. Your innocence does not matter. Life means nothing to more and more people. Conscience is being seared throughout the last generations Earth shall know.
For adults (or is that really just selfish children), once the money is procured for armies and weaponry; once the positions are attained in whatever government is enacted; when the time is seen to be right, warped minds will attack their fellow man. That's history. It has nothing to do with land or resources or religion. It has to do with corrupt minds: blinded, darkened, warped minds. Those are the minds in control of America right now. They are in control of Western civilization, and most of the rest of the world, as well. It has been that way since Cain killed his brother Abel. Anger, jealousy, hatred, rage towards someone doing things the way God wants them done, while they try to live above the law but, conscience is pricked. There is the difference between the human and the animal. Conscience. That is why the Bible declares the conscience is seared like a hot iron in the lost, the evil, the wicked, the proud, the arrogant, the high and mighty or the lowly follower of them. Conscience becomes blunted by the practice of sin. The brain may function perfectly. The mind? The conscience? Not so much.
Why do people kill babies? How can anyone kill a baby? They must violate conscience. If they sense guilt, they still have a conscience. Calling a developing baby in a mother's womb, "tissue," when science, the god of all Leftists, plainly shows the entire cycle of life taking place is IMPOSSIBLE to explain by a series of accidents and mutations over time, is just the sinner's way to shadow the obvious; to put it out of conscience, and it can be done, too. Studies show, over and over again, abortion brings with it conviction upon conscience. It can all be blunted away for those performing them and those having the procedures done. Abortion right up to the time of birth? That is a conscience blunted, stifled, covered, manipulated, coerced, name your path. No sane human being kills babies. When life becomes nothing more than a medical procedure, conscience has been smothered somehow, some way. God can and does bring a blunted conscience back to reality. Doctors and nurses involved in abortions have left it all and champion life. Their testimonies are laced with hope and triumph over a sector of evil in society that has taken more life than most tyrants down through history.
It would be rather impossible, with nothing, no history to look upon, to know the pain Adam and Eve felt experiencing the loss of both their sons; one to murderous death and the other to diabolical apostasy, marked by a sorely broken character and mind. They blamed themselves, of course; for their original disobedience is what triggered the broken connection to their Creator, passed down to every human being ever to be born. Nay, more than that. All animal life was affected, the planet was affected. God's judgment was to allow Lucifer to enter the sphere of peace, joy and harmony the Creator established, and rule with the iron fist of hate he has for his Creator. And so it has gone since there was war in Heaven. Two wars, really, and one to come. The original war, which saw Lucifer and angels that followed him in His rebellion lose their eternal estate, and the war depicted in Revelation 12, after the crucifixion of Christ, when any and all doubts as to Lucifer's intentions in wanting to be like the most High were completely unmasked, and he was irrevocably cast out of Heaven to the Earth, where he wages war upon God, via His creation, every moment of every day. Satan has no conscience. He lost it. The highest of God's creations, no longer has connection to reason. So it becomes with all who follow the paths of disobedience.
The third war will arrive a thousand years from now, when God and His people, with the New Jerusalem, shall descend and rest upon the old Jerusalem. The resurrection of the lost will take place and Lucifer and his host will have people to tempt once again; and after a thousand years of darkness (and who knows what kind of fighting will take place between him and his legions who followed him in that time), they are more than ready to take control of a vast expanse of lost humanity and stage a final thrust upon the City and its inhabitants. Revelation 20 contains the scene. They lose that war, too. The glory of God shall burst forth and ignite everything corrupted by sin. "Our God is a consuming fire." The Earth will burn to ash. It is not a natural fire. It is the glory of God which no corruption can exist in its presence. Everything will become dust.
Ever wonder why some evil angels who controlled a poor possessed soul, asked Christ, "Have you come to torment us before the time?" What time? Aren't devils roasting and toasting in "hell" right now? Nope. Erroneous tradition, that one. Source? A wrangled paganism adopted and used by Roman Catholicism, bequeathed to Protestantism, sadly maintained. It's the time the devils know is coming: the last battle on Earth between righteousness and evil, a thousand years from now. That is it. That is the finality of their existence and the existence of all sin, corruption, and woe.
When the fire has done its work of purification, the smoke seeming to rise up forever, the angelic host and redeemed of all ages looking upon a desolation no eyes have ever beheld, God will speak and the redeemed shall behold the magnificence of a new creation come into being, and it won't be six days. It will be an emergence of creative power such as eyes have never seen, ears have never heard, and all senses have never experienced. A new Earth.
Yeah, I know. That seems like a fairy tale. Ask someone in the 16th century if a man would walk on the moon, or if you could talk to someone on the other side of the world and see their face while you do it. Add a thousand things to that list. Don't limit the power of the infinite God. He has wonders in store we cannot imagine. Humanity is from the dust. Men create holograms. God creates, too. Expect it to be infinitely more complex and amazing.
Until that time, the haunting of the fall shall affect all of us, believer, non-believer alike, as wicked minds plan wicked things and wickedness takes place to strip away peace, joy, harmony, unity, all good things God desired we have and never lose.
It is not an easy thing to lose conscience. God has plenty of road blocks to stand in the way but, it can be done, is done, and will continue to be done by more and more human beings that want self to rule.
The one thing nobody and nothing can take away is knowledge. What you know is in a place only you can effect. You can choose a path to lose what you know. No one can take it away. The Bible states it best:
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3
If you know God, you know this:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:11
Whatever the wicked do in this life, the believer can know, he can know that he knows God is in control, and shall give the expected end when this sojourn through the pains of life is over. We can expect eternal peace, joy, harmony, unity, love - an eternal oneness never to be disrupted by sin again:
Habbakuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
When this war, this mess is over, it shall never happen again. The cost realized to be far too great. The results, far too devastating. The loss, far too severe.
Sin, wickedness shall cease one day. Over, forever.
Love will be the eternal influence over all things; for God is love.
Until then, a battle and march. A battle and a march.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now, those are just words one finds in the Bible and on the lips of believers, and it can all become rather ho-hum, or even seem antagonistic to reality on the Christian journey. I know. Every true believer knows.
Honestly? I hope Anthony Fauci experiences salvation and finds peace. I also hope he is investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and hung for crimes against humanity: he and the rest of the devils who are controlling everything with their plans and lies and despotism.
How does one have compassion on people so twisted and evil? Well, if you find out Fauci went through all kinds of horrors as a child, which warped his mind from common to criminal, at least you generally get a sense of some kind of reason for inhuman thought and activity. Those in control of the money, the power and authority to make plans to control the world, and I use the word "authority" in a certain sense; for no one, no group of people has been given authority to kill people at will; they have to usurp authority for such devilish behavior. The police do not have authority to kill people at will. Laws and procedures and protocols are written to guide them and contain them in the path of their duties to society they are employed by. Even the military, which exists to kill enemies, has rules of engagement. Do police and soldiers make decisions every day whether they will follow those rules? Yes.
I used to believe the police, the military would never fire on Americans just standing up for the rule of law and principles of Americanism. Their conscience would not cooperate. I no longer believe that. Too many are godless and would follow such orders. Others would never do it. Right there exists the material for a civil war.
Those who believe they are above the law, that exist outside the dimensions of normalcy, populations, civilized populations live in, lose the benefits and borders of conscience placed on all human beings. Right now, as I type, Washington, D.C. is filled with people running the nation, most of which have the "Do you know who I am?" mentality. Unfortunately, their attitude comes with all the connections, power and authority over "lesser" citizens to rain down hell on people they do not like. Government now uses agencies designed to protect law-biding people, to harass and put fear into people. That is the very definition of tyranny.
Now, Christians have been a persecuted people since the influence of Christ. Even in professed Christian societies and civilization, believers have been persecuted by other professed believers. We know America is not a Christian nation for at least two sound reasons. One - Jesus Christ is not named on a single document of law and authority in our nation. Two - while the Constitution protects believers from any encroachment upon their faith, the last two years have shown the true attitude of non-believers towards professed Christianity and its adherents in America and other nations where a majority of citizens are believers. Laws have been made, pushing aside the laws of God, that mark and prosecute Christians for their faith. This is plainly seen where Christians are prosecuted for not adhering to the homosexual agenda. While Christians do not force homosexuals to believe and act in accordance with the faith, homosexuals will force Christians to deny their faith and administer to whatever needs and desires homosexuals have in how they function in society. An obvious moral dilemma; one the government has taken sides on; the homosexual side. Sodomy laws existed because of the situation that existed in Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodomy was considered a perversion no society could accept and remain moral and standing. No civilization in history has. Every one that accepts homosexuality as normal behavior has come down. That's just history. Check it out for yourself. Sodom and Gomorrah were the typification of such societies. It was the example of a society that lost any collective conscience.
In the times the New Testament was written, Greece had already fallen: an empire where homosexuality was common, even in the military. Ancient artifacts display homosexual acts on shields and typical home possessions, like pottery. Rome was affected by Grecian culture. Rome was sexually corrupted. The apostle Paul wrote numerous times upon the influence of homosexuality in his day. Today? LGBTQ is ubiquitous in society, even in professed Christian churches. America will fall. That's the testimony of history.
While everybody is talking about world war 3 right now, the cultural war we experience has existed, non-stop, for 6,000 years of human history, biblically speaking. That war is perpetual, and it causes words like joy, peace, unity, harmony and such to seem meaningless at times, when society at war with God goes to war with His people. ALL tyrants are at war with God. From there, war against their fellow humans is only a matter of money, position, and time. Actually, even amongst children with no money, no power and no authority; they execute war upon each other with unfortunate relish and vehemence all the time. Social media shows bullying is not at the hands of a few children in a school, like when I was a kid. It, too, is ubiquitous among the young. You can be killed, literally, as a game. Your age does not matter. Your innocence does not matter. Life means nothing to more and more people. Conscience is being seared throughout the last generations Earth shall know.
For adults (or is that really just selfish children), once the money is procured for armies and weaponry; once the positions are attained in whatever government is enacted; when the time is seen to be right, warped minds will attack their fellow man. That's history. It has nothing to do with land or resources or religion. It has to do with corrupt minds: blinded, darkened, warped minds. Those are the minds in control of America right now. They are in control of Western civilization, and most of the rest of the world, as well. It has been that way since Cain killed his brother Abel. Anger, jealousy, hatred, rage towards someone doing things the way God wants them done, while they try to live above the law but, conscience is pricked. There is the difference between the human and the animal. Conscience. That is why the Bible declares the conscience is seared like a hot iron in the lost, the evil, the wicked, the proud, the arrogant, the high and mighty or the lowly follower of them. Conscience becomes blunted by the practice of sin. The brain may function perfectly. The mind? The conscience? Not so much.
Why do people kill babies? How can anyone kill a baby? They must violate conscience. If they sense guilt, they still have a conscience. Calling a developing baby in a mother's womb, "tissue," when science, the god of all Leftists, plainly shows the entire cycle of life taking place is IMPOSSIBLE to explain by a series of accidents and mutations over time, is just the sinner's way to shadow the obvious; to put it out of conscience, and it can be done, too. Studies show, over and over again, abortion brings with it conviction upon conscience. It can all be blunted away for those performing them and those having the procedures done. Abortion right up to the time of birth? That is a conscience blunted, stifled, covered, manipulated, coerced, name your path. No sane human being kills babies. When life becomes nothing more than a medical procedure, conscience has been smothered somehow, some way. God can and does bring a blunted conscience back to reality. Doctors and nurses involved in abortions have left it all and champion life. Their testimonies are laced with hope and triumph over a sector of evil in society that has taken more life than most tyrants down through history.
It would be rather impossible, with nothing, no history to look upon, to know the pain Adam and Eve felt experiencing the loss of both their sons; one to murderous death and the other to diabolical apostasy, marked by a sorely broken character and mind. They blamed themselves, of course; for their original disobedience is what triggered the broken connection to their Creator, passed down to every human being ever to be born. Nay, more than that. All animal life was affected, the planet was affected. God's judgment was to allow Lucifer to enter the sphere of peace, joy and harmony the Creator established, and rule with the iron fist of hate he has for his Creator. And so it has gone since there was war in Heaven. Two wars, really, and one to come. The original war, which saw Lucifer and angels that followed him in His rebellion lose their eternal estate, and the war depicted in Revelation 12, after the crucifixion of Christ, when any and all doubts as to Lucifer's intentions in wanting to be like the most High were completely unmasked, and he was irrevocably cast out of Heaven to the Earth, where he wages war upon God, via His creation, every moment of every day. Satan has no conscience. He lost it. The highest of God's creations, no longer has connection to reason. So it becomes with all who follow the paths of disobedience.
The third war will arrive a thousand years from now, when God and His people, with the New Jerusalem, shall descend and rest upon the old Jerusalem. The resurrection of the lost will take place and Lucifer and his host will have people to tempt once again; and after a thousand years of darkness (and who knows what kind of fighting will take place between him and his legions who followed him in that time), they are more than ready to take control of a vast expanse of lost humanity and stage a final thrust upon the City and its inhabitants. Revelation 20 contains the scene. They lose that war, too. The glory of God shall burst forth and ignite everything corrupted by sin. "Our God is a consuming fire." The Earth will burn to ash. It is not a natural fire. It is the glory of God which no corruption can exist in its presence. Everything will become dust.
Ever wonder why some evil angels who controlled a poor possessed soul, asked Christ, "Have you come to torment us before the time?" What time? Aren't devils roasting and toasting in "hell" right now? Nope. Erroneous tradition, that one. Source? A wrangled paganism adopted and used by Roman Catholicism, bequeathed to Protestantism, sadly maintained. It's the time the devils know is coming: the last battle on Earth between righteousness and evil, a thousand years from now. That is it. That is the finality of their existence and the existence of all sin, corruption, and woe.
When the fire has done its work of purification, the smoke seeming to rise up forever, the angelic host and redeemed of all ages looking upon a desolation no eyes have ever beheld, God will speak and the redeemed shall behold the magnificence of a new creation come into being, and it won't be six days. It will be an emergence of creative power such as eyes have never seen, ears have never heard, and all senses have never experienced. A new Earth.
Yeah, I know. That seems like a fairy tale. Ask someone in the 16th century if a man would walk on the moon, or if you could talk to someone on the other side of the world and see their face while you do it. Add a thousand things to that list. Don't limit the power of the infinite God. He has wonders in store we cannot imagine. Humanity is from the dust. Men create holograms. God creates, too. Expect it to be infinitely more complex and amazing.
Until that time, the haunting of the fall shall affect all of us, believer, non-believer alike, as wicked minds plan wicked things and wickedness takes place to strip away peace, joy, harmony, unity, all good things God desired we have and never lose.
It is not an easy thing to lose conscience. God has plenty of road blocks to stand in the way but, it can be done, is done, and will continue to be done by more and more human beings that want self to rule.
The one thing nobody and nothing can take away is knowledge. What you know is in a place only you can effect. You can choose a path to lose what you know. No one can take it away. The Bible states it best:
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3
If you know God, you know this:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:11
Whatever the wicked do in this life, the believer can know, he can know that he knows God is in control, and shall give the expected end when this sojourn through the pains of life is over. We can expect eternal peace, joy, harmony, unity, love - an eternal oneness never to be disrupted by sin again:
Habbakuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
When this war, this mess is over, it shall never happen again. The cost realized to be far too great. The results, far too devastating. The loss, far too severe.
Sin, wickedness shall cease one day. Over, forever.
Love will be the eternal influence over all things; for God is love.
Until then, a battle and march. A battle and a march.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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523. MDM - March 11, 2022
What does MDM stand for? Mis - Dis - and Mal information, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Once again: misinformation is incorrect information placed out there by accident or without harmful intent. Disinformation is error put out on purpose. Malinformation is putting personal information of someone into the public sphere to do harm, like "revenge porn."
"Domestic violent extremism poses one of the most significant terrorism-related threats to the United States. During the Biden-Harris Administration, DHS has prioritized combating all forms of terrorism and targeted violence, including through its efforts to support the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Since January 2021, DHS has taken several steps in this regard, including:
*increased efforts to better identify and evaluate mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) with a homeland security nexus, including false or misleading conspiracy theories spread on social media and other online platforms that endorse violence;"
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/03/11/dhs-releases-report-internal-review-domestic-violent-extremism
There's a whole lot more.
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022
"Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland
"The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.
"...the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions;
"Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:
"The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
"For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021." ?????
"Foreign terrorist organizations and domestic threat actors continue to amplify pre-existing false or misleading narratives online to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions. Some of these actors do so to encourage unrest, which could lead to acts of violence against the facilities, individuals, institutions, and organizations cited above."
"Meanwhile, COVID-19 mitigation measures—particularly COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates—have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020 and could continue to inspire these extremists to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures." ???????
"Domestic violent extremists have also viewed attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals, and have recently aspired to disrupt U.S. electric and communications critical infrastructure, including by spreading false or misleading narratives about 5G cellular technology.
"Some domestic violent extremists have continued to advocate for violence in response to false or misleading narratives about unsubstantiated election fraud. The months preceding the upcoming 2022 midterm elections could provide additional opportunities for these extremists and other individuals to call for violence directed at democratic institutions, political candidates, party offices, election events, and election workers."
Get the picture? If you distrust your government you are a terrorist that poses an extremist and violent potential upon Americans.
If you know anything, and I mean anything about the last two years, reported by serious American investigators and journalists: mountains and reams of video, hard copy evidence, microscopic evidence, admissions by government agents and agencies, whistleblowers, scientists and medical professionals all over the planet with their research and 100's of studies, etc., etc., etc., you know the above quotes are seriously frightening to principles of liberty and the first amendment to the Bill of Rights.
It is apparent and obvious as a train wreck, the DHS and FBI and other alphabet agencies are run by Leftists, pure and simple. Democrat water carriers. It is absolutely astounding DHS would put out a bulletin with such flagrant and obscene lies in it, calling any and all Americans who have taken the time to look at evidence, evidence that has descended like a spring avalanche on the nation to show, without ANY DOUBT, almost on a daily basis it comes, showing the 2020 election had criminal activities involved, that entire state legislatures are calling for investigation or calling for the recall of electoral votes that took place under extremely dubious circumstances. COVID has been blown wide open, on dozens of alternative news sites - the entire history of it, and the cabal that put it into gear, the dangerous "vaccines," and on and on. All of it has lead to a distrust of elected civil servants and appointees that make up Federal and State and Local government.
Just who gets to decide what mis and dis and malinformation is? Who gets to claim their information is the only true information? Based on what I am reading, only what the federal government places before the American citizenry can be considered accurate and true. Anything opposed to it is potential terrorist information. The explosive nature of these bulletins is outrageous and reprehensive. By this policy America would never have been born. The King of England was right. Anything against his pronouncements was terrorism. The entire Colonial army were terrorists!
Based on these bulletins all alternative news sites are suspect and open to prosecution. Over a hundred million people who read and believe the evidence presented on so many topics Americans are being lied to from their government, are all terrorists. 70 miles worth of truckers now parked outside D.C. are terrorists. Donald Trump is terrorist #1!
I am now considered a terrorist potentially inciting violence because I completely and whole heartedly believe election fraud took place on a massive scale and the election was stolen from the actual winner, DJT. I am considered a terrorist because I distrusted a government that parked Anthony Fauci in front of me, day in and day out, lying, backtracking, waffling, twisting, and literally responsible for the lives of every person who trusted these wicked servants of evil and took experimental injections of serums killing people of all ages all throughout America and the world, according to government statistics shown on VAERS!!!! When did VAERS become a conspiracy theory? And VAERS has been studied to show it is only accurate from 1-10% of actual numbers.
Not only do I distrust government politicians and their cronies, I do so precisely because of documents like these! They cause me to distrust them for good, valid, documented and proven reasons!
I sit here astonished at the gall and reprehensible tactics of an agency that basically has zero reason to exist.
The FBI is shot to hell now. An organization that once had the admiration of children and adults for generations has become a puppet of Leftist government. That is not a theory. It's just plain fact I can read evidence and stories of almost daily on dozens of news sites.
THEY caused the election of Trump to begin with. THEY caused the distrust. THEY caused the disgust Americans have for them. Violence? What violence? What extremists? You mean the violence that took place all summer long last year burning down cities, looting and TERRORIZING peaceful citizens all over the nation?!? That violence? No, they mean January 6; a day that turned a peaceful protest into a boisterous one, led by videotaped actors from the Capitol Police and the FBI agents and their players on the ground. My God, the nature of the lies is higher than Everest! Do they honestly believe Americans that practice critical thinking buy into this BS?
America is sinking. America has become a shadow of its former self. I am ashamed my father fought a world war for this pile of barnyard defecation with a stench that rises to the exosphere. I am thankful he is not alive to see what this nation has become at the hands of rabid Leftists and corrupt members of the GOP and all their minions. It is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
God help us.
Once again: misinformation is incorrect information placed out there by accident or without harmful intent. Disinformation is error put out on purpose. Malinformation is putting personal information of someone into the public sphere to do harm, like "revenge porn."
"Domestic violent extremism poses one of the most significant terrorism-related threats to the United States. During the Biden-Harris Administration, DHS has prioritized combating all forms of terrorism and targeted violence, including through its efforts to support the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Since January 2021, DHS has taken several steps in this regard, including:
*increased efforts to better identify and evaluate mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) with a homeland security nexus, including false or misleading conspiracy theories spread on social media and other online platforms that endorse violence;"
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/03/11/dhs-releases-report-internal-review-domestic-violent-extremism
There's a whole lot more.
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022
"Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland
"The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.
"...the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions;
"Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:
"The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
"For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021." ?????
"Foreign terrorist organizations and domestic threat actors continue to amplify pre-existing false or misleading narratives online to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions. Some of these actors do so to encourage unrest, which could lead to acts of violence against the facilities, individuals, institutions, and organizations cited above."
"Meanwhile, COVID-19 mitigation measures—particularly COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates—have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020 and could continue to inspire these extremists to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures." ???????
"Domestic violent extremists have also viewed attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals, and have recently aspired to disrupt U.S. electric and communications critical infrastructure, including by spreading false or misleading narratives about 5G cellular technology.
"Some domestic violent extremists have continued to advocate for violence in response to false or misleading narratives about unsubstantiated election fraud. The months preceding the upcoming 2022 midterm elections could provide additional opportunities for these extremists and other individuals to call for violence directed at democratic institutions, political candidates, party offices, election events, and election workers."
Get the picture? If you distrust your government you are a terrorist that poses an extremist and violent potential upon Americans.
If you know anything, and I mean anything about the last two years, reported by serious American investigators and journalists: mountains and reams of video, hard copy evidence, microscopic evidence, admissions by government agents and agencies, whistleblowers, scientists and medical professionals all over the planet with their research and 100's of studies, etc., etc., etc., you know the above quotes are seriously frightening to principles of liberty and the first amendment to the Bill of Rights.
It is apparent and obvious as a train wreck, the DHS and FBI and other alphabet agencies are run by Leftists, pure and simple. Democrat water carriers. It is absolutely astounding DHS would put out a bulletin with such flagrant and obscene lies in it, calling any and all Americans who have taken the time to look at evidence, evidence that has descended like a spring avalanche on the nation to show, without ANY DOUBT, almost on a daily basis it comes, showing the 2020 election had criminal activities involved, that entire state legislatures are calling for investigation or calling for the recall of electoral votes that took place under extremely dubious circumstances. COVID has been blown wide open, on dozens of alternative news sites - the entire history of it, and the cabal that put it into gear, the dangerous "vaccines," and on and on. All of it has lead to a distrust of elected civil servants and appointees that make up Federal and State and Local government.
Just who gets to decide what mis and dis and malinformation is? Who gets to claim their information is the only true information? Based on what I am reading, only what the federal government places before the American citizenry can be considered accurate and true. Anything opposed to it is potential terrorist information. The explosive nature of these bulletins is outrageous and reprehensive. By this policy America would never have been born. The King of England was right. Anything against his pronouncements was terrorism. The entire Colonial army were terrorists!
Based on these bulletins all alternative news sites are suspect and open to prosecution. Over a hundred million people who read and believe the evidence presented on so many topics Americans are being lied to from their government, are all terrorists. 70 miles worth of truckers now parked outside D.C. are terrorists. Donald Trump is terrorist #1!
I am now considered a terrorist potentially inciting violence because I completely and whole heartedly believe election fraud took place on a massive scale and the election was stolen from the actual winner, DJT. I am considered a terrorist because I distrusted a government that parked Anthony Fauci in front of me, day in and day out, lying, backtracking, waffling, twisting, and literally responsible for the lives of every person who trusted these wicked servants of evil and took experimental injections of serums killing people of all ages all throughout America and the world, according to government statistics shown on VAERS!!!! When did VAERS become a conspiracy theory? And VAERS has been studied to show it is only accurate from 1-10% of actual numbers.
Not only do I distrust government politicians and their cronies, I do so precisely because of documents like these! They cause me to distrust them for good, valid, documented and proven reasons!
I sit here astonished at the gall and reprehensible tactics of an agency that basically has zero reason to exist.
The FBI is shot to hell now. An organization that once had the admiration of children and adults for generations has become a puppet of Leftist government. That is not a theory. It's just plain fact I can read evidence and stories of almost daily on dozens of news sites.
THEY caused the election of Trump to begin with. THEY caused the distrust. THEY caused the disgust Americans have for them. Violence? What violence? What extremists? You mean the violence that took place all summer long last year burning down cities, looting and TERRORIZING peaceful citizens all over the nation?!? That violence? No, they mean January 6; a day that turned a peaceful protest into a boisterous one, led by videotaped actors from the Capitol Police and the FBI agents and their players on the ground. My God, the nature of the lies is higher than Everest! Do they honestly believe Americans that practice critical thinking buy into this BS?
America is sinking. America has become a shadow of its former self. I am ashamed my father fought a world war for this pile of barnyard defecation with a stench that rises to the exosphere. I am thankful he is not alive to see what this nation has become at the hands of rabid Leftists and corrupt members of the GOP and all their minions. It is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
God help us.
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524. Veggies! Ugh. - March 12, 2022
I am someone that has struggled with my weight my entire life: a definitive yo-yo experience. There have been dozens of different diets down through the decades for a simple reason. In my lifetime the population has grown more and more unhealthy.
We now have a situation where gross obesity is something to be, even celebrated by some. I don't. I hate being overweight. "Well, then lose weight," you say. Indeed. Losing weight starts with a choice that is not one choice at one moment. It's a continuous choice that must be made throughout a lifetime.
Science now shows there are chemicals placed in our foods and daily circumstances of life, that actually, literally promote weight gain. It's a battle well beyond taste.
If you have watched my videos over the course of the time I've posted them on YouTube, you have seen me gain weight. I work hard. I play a very physical musical instrument. I'm a vegetarian, mostly vegan, that rarely eats "junk" foods, which, in fact, based on their complete lack of nutritional values, are not really "food." You can eat them. Millions do. They are not articles of food as God designed food to be, though. They've been robbed, and we get robbed as a result. They are robbed of nutrients. We are robbed of complete nutrition, which is necessary for good blood, which is the life of all cells and organs in our bodies.
Here's "food" as God originally designed it.
Gen 1:29 And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;
Gen 1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which is breath of life, every green herb is for food:' and it is so.
In a perfect world, God gave everything a plant-based diet. There were no predators, no prey.
For people; fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables. That's an enormous category of choice, too. Every region of the globe has its own treasures springing forth from the earth. Modern civilization has made it possible to experience a lot of them.
I know I have mentioned this before, somewhere back in well over 500 posts. The strongest creatures on earth, the largest land animals in temperate climates, beasts of burden, are complete vegetarians or subsist on vegetation if they have to. Elephants, Hippos, Gorillas, Oxen and Cattle, Horses, you name it. Even fossilized dinosaurs have been found with fossilized grass in their mouths. So, right away, those who think humans have to eat animals to survive are a little ignorant of everything around them. We choose to be predators and consume animal flesh for food. We absolutely do not have to.
People say, "You have to have protein." #1. Nobody knows how much protein humans need for life. It varies from person to person. #2. All food has protein. Proteins are the building blocks of cells. If it has cells, it has protein. Telling a human they need to eat dead animals, while the animals they generally eat are all vegetarian, is so convoluted it truly staggers the mind. Where do cattle get their protein to exist at 1200 pounds? Pound for pound, the Mountain Gorilla is the strongest animal on Earth.
I became a vegetarian when I became a Christian because of the Genesis diet. Yes, after the flood, with the destruction of plant life and necessity to wait for seeds to sprout again, God gave Noah and his family permission to eat "clean" animals. I've addressed that in past posts, as well so, I won't go over that again; save to state that the lists of clean animals fit for "food" as God defines it, and unclean animals not fit for food: meaning, food that can create good blood for nutrition for humans, free of various toxins and impurities, can be found in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Jesus never changed health law. Never. Read it again. His death cannot and did not change the anatomical nature of animals or humans.
One thing believers in God do not generally notice: when mankind began to eat animal flesh for food, their ages/lifespans began to drop off dramatically. Think about that. What could be the 2+2=4 connection? It wasn't consumption of refined sugar. It certainly was not lack of hard work, living in a world destroyed by the flood, having to regain form and benefits for mankind. Man lived almost a 1000 years in the beginning. Think of that. After the flood, down the ages went. God shortened the time man could sin and cause problems for humanity. How? He let man eat dead animals for food.
Anyway, seeing no one is going to be eating animals for food in Heaven; no Burger King, no steak houses or sea "food" restaurants, may as well get with the program now. "But, Ray," you ask, "how can a vegetarian have a problem with weight gain?"
Ah. For me, two simple things. Well, complex things, physiologically speaking but, stress and lack of sleep. Perfect recipe for weight gain. Plus, I'm gluten intolerant, and legumes destroy my stomach. Carbs, carbs, carbs. But, out of the choices of fruit, vegetables, grain and nuts I can eat, there's plenty to consume. I just fight a constant war with my body flooding itself with chemicals to deal with stress, and the lack of healing the body does while we sleep. Stress and lack of sleep are constant enemies of good health.
So, when my stepson got engaged and they decided on a wedding date, I had 9 weeks to lose enough weight to get into clothes I can't fit into and there is no way I am buying new clothes for one day. Not happening.
What to do? The "Daniel" diet. What's that? It's found in the first chapter of the book of Daniel, and I have mentioned this before, too.
Israel was conquered by the Babylonians. Most were taken captive and brought back to Babylon for purposes of slavery, or whatever service the king desired. He asked they be separated by appearance and general mental acumen. He put them on the king's diet - part of the brainwashing program - which contained unclean creatures and fermented wine. Daniel asked the captain of the guard if he and his three friends could just eat vegetables and have water to drink for ten days and let them be compared to others on the king's regimen of food and drink. They did so, and the captain found them better in appearance than others eating the king's normal diet, and changed the diet of everyone as a result. When they get before the king, he speaks with them and finds them ten times sharper than the king's normal counselors. Teenagers, mind you.
Now, here is the book of Daniel, filled with symbolic dreams and prophecies pertaining to the march of history and the end of the world, and the first chapter is about some teenagers and their diet and refusal to bend to the culture surrounding them, not disobeying God's stated order of diet and health? Really? No big dream or vision? No beasts? No battles? Oh, yes, the biggest battle of all? Appetite. If humans have choices, like most people in most civilizations, they eat according to taste, not according to health. Tastes can be perverted and more and more junk and unhealthful stuff passes their lips. We are what we eat, and even vegans can eat too much, not get enough exercise, etc. Obesity is now epidemic in America, even among children. Far more dangerous than threat of nuclear war, diabetes has become common among children. All kinds of illnesses and maladies associated with obesity are plaguing children, including premature death.
Two weeks ago I decided to go with the Daniel diet, as I call it. I don't even care for vegetables that much. I find them pretty bland and tasteless. I do a lot better with fruit, grain and nuts but, I also know veggies have nutrients without the expense of calories so... I'm losing weight. I still play drums everyday. I still exercise and get yardwork done. I'll admit, veggies are not great for optimum energy. You need healthy fats for that but, energy is not my main concern right now. Weight loss is. The first two weeks I've also had some smoothies, owing to fruit in the fridge and freezer, and nuts I always have around. Once those were used up, it's down to green. From green to lean, baby. That's the mission.
I'm not weighing myself. Scales are useless. I can see what I need to in a mirror after gigging this battle for 55 years, and either clothes will fit or they will not seven weeks from now. I need to lose 100 pounds to get down to the weight I want. That isn't going to happen, of course but, I'll get there. For now, I just need to fit into a jacket and slacks. I hate spending money on clothes. I don't even like spending money on food. If a pill existed that provided 100% nutrition, energy and digestive system necessities, I'd be taking it. No such thing exists, and cannot exist. The digestive system are organs that need exercise just like muscles. They can be overworked, which happens in tens of millions of people all day long but, they should not be left to languish, either.
The Daniel diet. Even for those who do not need to lose any weight, which is a smaller and smaller category of people every year in America, the Daniel diet is simple. You can pretty much eat all you want. You get a full round of vitamins and nutrients and believe it or not, there are bodybuilding societies and clubs, male and female, that are filled with vegans. I've seen their magazines. No joke. There are many long distance runners that are vegans. There are athletes in many sports that are vegans.
For me, I take a bunch of different raw and frozen veggies (no, corn is not a vegetable; it's a grain), with some walnuts and/or almonds, throw it all in a big bowl with a little olive or seed oil, some herbs, a little Himalayan salt, scoop out what I want, heat it up or leave it cold, and chow down.
Yeah, I miss pizza, bigtime, and I don't eat normal "abeetz." LOL. (Look it up). I miss a smaller shadow even more, though.
Wish me well. You'll see size difference in future YT videos. No; no before and after pictures. We've all seen them. I know at 67, I do this now or it just gets harder and harder and a steeper mountain to climb. I will get there.
When you have a stroke... everything changes. You do what you have to, to stay vertical and ventilating. Stress and lack of sleep? That's another battle but, we do what we can. At least, we should. We owe it to our Creator and our loved ones to be healthy. Honestly, for believers it's an obligation to be the healthiest people on the planet. It is not that way. That can be seen as a shame, even a great sin of insubordination and laziness.
"When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,
and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.
Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies." Proverbs 23:1-3 LITV
Serious enough for you?
No one will ever see an image of an overweight Savior.
He is our example in ALL things.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
We now have a situation where gross obesity is something to be, even celebrated by some. I don't. I hate being overweight. "Well, then lose weight," you say. Indeed. Losing weight starts with a choice that is not one choice at one moment. It's a continuous choice that must be made throughout a lifetime.
Science now shows there are chemicals placed in our foods and daily circumstances of life, that actually, literally promote weight gain. It's a battle well beyond taste.
If you have watched my videos over the course of the time I've posted them on YouTube, you have seen me gain weight. I work hard. I play a very physical musical instrument. I'm a vegetarian, mostly vegan, that rarely eats "junk" foods, which, in fact, based on their complete lack of nutritional values, are not really "food." You can eat them. Millions do. They are not articles of food as God designed food to be, though. They've been robbed, and we get robbed as a result. They are robbed of nutrients. We are robbed of complete nutrition, which is necessary for good blood, which is the life of all cells and organs in our bodies.
Here's "food" as God originally designed it.
Gen 1:29 And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;
Gen 1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which is breath of life, every green herb is for food:' and it is so.
In a perfect world, God gave everything a plant-based diet. There were no predators, no prey.
For people; fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables. That's an enormous category of choice, too. Every region of the globe has its own treasures springing forth from the earth. Modern civilization has made it possible to experience a lot of them.
I know I have mentioned this before, somewhere back in well over 500 posts. The strongest creatures on earth, the largest land animals in temperate climates, beasts of burden, are complete vegetarians or subsist on vegetation if they have to. Elephants, Hippos, Gorillas, Oxen and Cattle, Horses, you name it. Even fossilized dinosaurs have been found with fossilized grass in their mouths. So, right away, those who think humans have to eat animals to survive are a little ignorant of everything around them. We choose to be predators and consume animal flesh for food. We absolutely do not have to.
People say, "You have to have protein." #1. Nobody knows how much protein humans need for life. It varies from person to person. #2. All food has protein. Proteins are the building blocks of cells. If it has cells, it has protein. Telling a human they need to eat dead animals, while the animals they generally eat are all vegetarian, is so convoluted it truly staggers the mind. Where do cattle get their protein to exist at 1200 pounds? Pound for pound, the Mountain Gorilla is the strongest animal on Earth.
I became a vegetarian when I became a Christian because of the Genesis diet. Yes, after the flood, with the destruction of plant life and necessity to wait for seeds to sprout again, God gave Noah and his family permission to eat "clean" animals. I've addressed that in past posts, as well so, I won't go over that again; save to state that the lists of clean animals fit for "food" as God defines it, and unclean animals not fit for food: meaning, food that can create good blood for nutrition for humans, free of various toxins and impurities, can be found in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Jesus never changed health law. Never. Read it again. His death cannot and did not change the anatomical nature of animals or humans.
One thing believers in God do not generally notice: when mankind began to eat animal flesh for food, their ages/lifespans began to drop off dramatically. Think about that. What could be the 2+2=4 connection? It wasn't consumption of refined sugar. It certainly was not lack of hard work, living in a world destroyed by the flood, having to regain form and benefits for mankind. Man lived almost a 1000 years in the beginning. Think of that. After the flood, down the ages went. God shortened the time man could sin and cause problems for humanity. How? He let man eat dead animals for food.
Anyway, seeing no one is going to be eating animals for food in Heaven; no Burger King, no steak houses or sea "food" restaurants, may as well get with the program now. "But, Ray," you ask, "how can a vegetarian have a problem with weight gain?"
Ah. For me, two simple things. Well, complex things, physiologically speaking but, stress and lack of sleep. Perfect recipe for weight gain. Plus, I'm gluten intolerant, and legumes destroy my stomach. Carbs, carbs, carbs. But, out of the choices of fruit, vegetables, grain and nuts I can eat, there's plenty to consume. I just fight a constant war with my body flooding itself with chemicals to deal with stress, and the lack of healing the body does while we sleep. Stress and lack of sleep are constant enemies of good health.
So, when my stepson got engaged and they decided on a wedding date, I had 9 weeks to lose enough weight to get into clothes I can't fit into and there is no way I am buying new clothes for one day. Not happening.
What to do? The "Daniel" diet. What's that? It's found in the first chapter of the book of Daniel, and I have mentioned this before, too.
Israel was conquered by the Babylonians. Most were taken captive and brought back to Babylon for purposes of slavery, or whatever service the king desired. He asked they be separated by appearance and general mental acumen. He put them on the king's diet - part of the brainwashing program - which contained unclean creatures and fermented wine. Daniel asked the captain of the guard if he and his three friends could just eat vegetables and have water to drink for ten days and let them be compared to others on the king's regimen of food and drink. They did so, and the captain found them better in appearance than others eating the king's normal diet, and changed the diet of everyone as a result. When they get before the king, he speaks with them and finds them ten times sharper than the king's normal counselors. Teenagers, mind you.
Now, here is the book of Daniel, filled with symbolic dreams and prophecies pertaining to the march of history and the end of the world, and the first chapter is about some teenagers and their diet and refusal to bend to the culture surrounding them, not disobeying God's stated order of diet and health? Really? No big dream or vision? No beasts? No battles? Oh, yes, the biggest battle of all? Appetite. If humans have choices, like most people in most civilizations, they eat according to taste, not according to health. Tastes can be perverted and more and more junk and unhealthful stuff passes their lips. We are what we eat, and even vegans can eat too much, not get enough exercise, etc. Obesity is now epidemic in America, even among children. Far more dangerous than threat of nuclear war, diabetes has become common among children. All kinds of illnesses and maladies associated with obesity are plaguing children, including premature death.
Two weeks ago I decided to go with the Daniel diet, as I call it. I don't even care for vegetables that much. I find them pretty bland and tasteless. I do a lot better with fruit, grain and nuts but, I also know veggies have nutrients without the expense of calories so... I'm losing weight. I still play drums everyday. I still exercise and get yardwork done. I'll admit, veggies are not great for optimum energy. You need healthy fats for that but, energy is not my main concern right now. Weight loss is. The first two weeks I've also had some smoothies, owing to fruit in the fridge and freezer, and nuts I always have around. Once those were used up, it's down to green. From green to lean, baby. That's the mission.
I'm not weighing myself. Scales are useless. I can see what I need to in a mirror after gigging this battle for 55 years, and either clothes will fit or they will not seven weeks from now. I need to lose 100 pounds to get down to the weight I want. That isn't going to happen, of course but, I'll get there. For now, I just need to fit into a jacket and slacks. I hate spending money on clothes. I don't even like spending money on food. If a pill existed that provided 100% nutrition, energy and digestive system necessities, I'd be taking it. No such thing exists, and cannot exist. The digestive system are organs that need exercise just like muscles. They can be overworked, which happens in tens of millions of people all day long but, they should not be left to languish, either.
The Daniel diet. Even for those who do not need to lose any weight, which is a smaller and smaller category of people every year in America, the Daniel diet is simple. You can pretty much eat all you want. You get a full round of vitamins and nutrients and believe it or not, there are bodybuilding societies and clubs, male and female, that are filled with vegans. I've seen their magazines. No joke. There are many long distance runners that are vegans. There are athletes in many sports that are vegans.
For me, I take a bunch of different raw and frozen veggies (no, corn is not a vegetable; it's a grain), with some walnuts and/or almonds, throw it all in a big bowl with a little olive or seed oil, some herbs, a little Himalayan salt, scoop out what I want, heat it up or leave it cold, and chow down.
Yeah, I miss pizza, bigtime, and I don't eat normal "abeetz." LOL. (Look it up). I miss a smaller shadow even more, though.
Wish me well. You'll see size difference in future YT videos. No; no before and after pictures. We've all seen them. I know at 67, I do this now or it just gets harder and harder and a steeper mountain to climb. I will get there.
When you have a stroke... everything changes. You do what you have to, to stay vertical and ventilating. Stress and lack of sleep? That's another battle but, we do what we can. At least, we should. We owe it to our Creator and our loved ones to be healthy. Honestly, for believers it's an obligation to be the healthiest people on the planet. It is not that way. That can be seen as a shame, even a great sin of insubordination and laziness.
"When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,
and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.
Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies." Proverbs 23:1-3 LITV
Serious enough for you?
No one will ever see an image of an overweight Savior.
He is our example in ALL things.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
525. Catastrophism - March13, 2022
While 'the sea and the waves are roaring,' and it will get much worse in the times ahead, maybe even this year (no prediction, just observation), and the world on the brink of another major conflict it will not recover from (if it can even recover from handlers of this one when the dust settles), a "catastrophe" is in the news daily. Food shortages; power consumption problems - gasoline, natural gas, oil, electricity; currency and money problems which will all cause catastrophic results for people all over the planet, with the web and intertwined commerce and lives people now live; talking about archaeology may not seem very important.
I grew up Roman Catholic, public schooled, zero biblical knowledge, with the teaching that a comet strike wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
Catastrophism is now an accepted form of science, though it absolutely denies a world-wide flood catastrophe, despite the physical evidence all across the face of land mass on the planet, especially the layers of sediments, continent to continent. Things like the White Cliffs of Dover, which are actually trillions of microscopic crustaceans stacked up hundreds of feet, not just on the coast of the UK but, elsewhere, also create problems from millions of years of buildup explanations. That's another subject.
Archaeology has it own civil war going; the dissidents (not Bible-believers or creationists), against the established, status quo, institutional explanations of the past. They reject the "official" explanations. The dissidents point to megalithic structures that stand as monuments to civilizations that had to quarry stone tens to hundreds of miles away and build fantastic temples and palaces and construction well beyond the possibilities of Bronze age techniques and tools. Artifacts of all shapes and sizes and figuration of extremely hard stone with perfectly symmetrical and smooth surfaces, using copper tools? Hardly. How, then, was it all done?
These dissidents are claiming all belief in deity and destructive events all civilizations have, i.e. a cataclysmic flood, are to be honed down to meteoric events that wiped out a much older history of mankind. Some get into "ET" creating ancient wonders, and others just leave the "who" out of it and ask where such artifacts came from, given the explanations traditional archaeology renders. It's one thing to try and explain the perfect outside of a hard stone bowl. It's altogether another thing to explain the perfect inside of a hard stone bowl or vase, or other carved out object. You do not carve perfect circles or tunnels in stone with copper chisels.
Some stone surfaces can be radically smoothed with other, harder stones, wet sand and other techniques. Techniques we all know exist because of carving and sculpture well before and beyond the life of Christ, generally using marble. Even plasters are made to fill in rough spots, chisel marks, etc.. Other types of stone, whether walls, buildings, statues or smaller artifacts, not so much. Perfectly cut, enormous stones weighing tons, and shaped stone is not the work of ancient shepherds.
Archaeologists find these things in their usual proclaimed layers of dirt, giving their age, and clean them up and display them, and have no real ideas how such things could be so perfect. They make claims, have their theories and all but, have no actual evidence of tools to accomplish the task.
For the believer in the Creator and His Word, what do we say about the pre-flood world and technology? We generally have the impression things went along in basic agriculture and livestock handling right up to the times of the Flood. We read Cain built a "city." The Hebrew word in that passage's context could mean a fort, a village or hamlet or town, or a metropolis. We don't know.
After the Deluge we have the story of the building of the tower of Babel, no mean feat if they intended to build a tower high enough and large enough to contain the region's population and keep them in safety should God send another flood; which everybody knew reached higher than mountain tops. Yeah, a strong sight bigger than anything built on Earth today, with the most modern techniques, machinery and tools. The tower was never finished. God intervened, scattered the population, and the tower faded into the sands of history.
Here's what we can know, as the Lord is pleased to inform us in His Word.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
1. Giants. Right away that changes the dynamic of weight handling, man to man. If a man today can dead lift 1000 pounds, half a ton; and lift overhead almost 600 pounds, think of what a giant could lift and maneuver. How tall was Adam? We don't know. We know Goliath and his brothers were 9'. We know skeletal remains have been found around 12' in length. Yeah, mainstream archaeologists don't like those discoveries, either. I had a friend very familiar with museum life tell me what is stored in crates in lower levels of museums would blow the minds of humanity. If Adam was 12' tall or taller, his shoulders would have been the width of a compact car. Big. Strong. Well beyond the abilities of men living today.
2. Renown. The Hebrew word, 'shem' can mean a wide variety of things like fame, honor, distinction, position, etc. These were not necessarily a bunch of shepherds. And remember, Adam named everything. EVERYTHING. The capacity of his mind was so much greater than modern man's. Adam lived long enough to speak with relatives of Noah. They needed nothing written down. They just told each other and had mental capacity for massive amounts of information.
3. The building of the ark and its sea worthiness has often been a point of contention for mockers and scoffers. Unfortunately science has shown such a ship could weather such a deluge and forces of nature, and that does not mean God did not protect the inhabitants with divine care. The boat was a floating storage unit, not something meant to sail the oceans for commerce or war. The longest wooden ship ever built, by historic reference, was the 1909 "Wyoming," a New England schooner, at over 400 feet. It sailed for 14 years before it sank. God's ship only had to outlast an explosive flood for a couple months, then float on calm seas for a year. We do not know the entire schematic design and details of the ship. It took a century to build. That's a lot of details we don't know.
I don't know what mankind had 6000 years ago, living for almost 1000 years in a lifetime. Ask yourself what Tesla might have come up with if he lived that long. All we know is that God destroyed it all and buried it under heaps and mountains gathered together by other forces of nature as the flood waters receded. I believe what man made of megalithic structures were built by those giants, those men of renown. Tools for cutting. I have no idea. Water jets, for all I know. Nobody knows but, when you see circular saw marks or other type of power tool marks in granite, they got there somehow.
Children were taught Ben Franklin discovered electricity. The kite and key experiment. The fact is he was experimenting with things well before that storm in Philadelphia. Did you know the Greeks understood static electricity 2600 years ago? Do you know of the "Baghdad Battery," 2,000 years old? Want to guess what the antediluvians might known about electricity? I have no idea. I just known a man fresh from the hands of the Creator, with mental capacity far beyond that of modern man, living heading towards one thousand years old, can learn a whole lot, and make and build a whole lot, and share it all face to face with his fellows. No books needed.
Mankind's choice has always been to believe the word of God, or believe what they can figure out; constantly having to learn and relearn, over and over again because first, second, third, forth, fifth, etc., conclusions, based on assumptions, have proved wrong, time and time again.
When enormous blocks of some of the heaviest and hardest stone has cutting marks in them, or grinding marks in them; claiming copper tools and hammers did that is, indeed, pretty ridiculous. While the archaeological dissidents want to dismiss the status quo, unless they go with "ET" which they have no proof of, they don't know how it was done, either. Their guess is just that; a guess. But, I hand it to them. The differences between pre-flood masonry and post-flood masonry is pretty radical. Egypt contains some extraordinary artwork with obvious tooled etching in them at later times. It may as well be a child with crayons coloring on the statue of David. Other examples are not so convincing either. Obvious chisel etchings on top of refined sculpture does not help the status quo archaeologist explanations. BUT!, the dissident and institutional archaeologist have faith in what they believe. No facts or hard evidence but, faith their side wins the day.
As far as "ET," I keep seeing it brought into more and more discussion of things in this world. I can only make a logical conclusion that "thing," that subject and entity is going to be used by the enemy in a big dog and pony show delusion at some point. Just sayin.' Just sharing. Time will tell.
So, once again we see that faith comes into science just as much as religion. You can make all the claims you want, and claim all the science you want. I'm sticking with the Word of God because of Him and His character, and His ability to tell humanity the end from the beginning by giving that information to fallible humans who could have absolutely no idea if what they were writing down would come to pass. They wrote by faith. I read by faith. I believe by evidence of fulfilled prophecy and my own experience. Science, with no absolute answers, makes incredible proclamations by faith. The obvious problem? They claim their faith is the only one allowed. The official explanations are to be obeyed. Anything else is mis or disinformation. The dissident fights the official publications dissecting their positions, while the dissident has no opportunity to defend themselves in the same journals. Same as all the official garbage leveled against creationists, and they have plenty of PhDs in their ranks. Doesn't matter. The official explanation is the only one to be believed. Transfer it all into last day events. It's all the same policy at work.
We'll see what God says about it all when the time arrives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I grew up Roman Catholic, public schooled, zero biblical knowledge, with the teaching that a comet strike wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
Catastrophism is now an accepted form of science, though it absolutely denies a world-wide flood catastrophe, despite the physical evidence all across the face of land mass on the planet, especially the layers of sediments, continent to continent. Things like the White Cliffs of Dover, which are actually trillions of microscopic crustaceans stacked up hundreds of feet, not just on the coast of the UK but, elsewhere, also create problems from millions of years of buildup explanations. That's another subject.
Archaeology has it own civil war going; the dissidents (not Bible-believers or creationists), against the established, status quo, institutional explanations of the past. They reject the "official" explanations. The dissidents point to megalithic structures that stand as monuments to civilizations that had to quarry stone tens to hundreds of miles away and build fantastic temples and palaces and construction well beyond the possibilities of Bronze age techniques and tools. Artifacts of all shapes and sizes and figuration of extremely hard stone with perfectly symmetrical and smooth surfaces, using copper tools? Hardly. How, then, was it all done?
These dissidents are claiming all belief in deity and destructive events all civilizations have, i.e. a cataclysmic flood, are to be honed down to meteoric events that wiped out a much older history of mankind. Some get into "ET" creating ancient wonders, and others just leave the "who" out of it and ask where such artifacts came from, given the explanations traditional archaeology renders. It's one thing to try and explain the perfect outside of a hard stone bowl. It's altogether another thing to explain the perfect inside of a hard stone bowl or vase, or other carved out object. You do not carve perfect circles or tunnels in stone with copper chisels.
Some stone surfaces can be radically smoothed with other, harder stones, wet sand and other techniques. Techniques we all know exist because of carving and sculpture well before and beyond the life of Christ, generally using marble. Even plasters are made to fill in rough spots, chisel marks, etc.. Other types of stone, whether walls, buildings, statues or smaller artifacts, not so much. Perfectly cut, enormous stones weighing tons, and shaped stone is not the work of ancient shepherds.
Archaeologists find these things in their usual proclaimed layers of dirt, giving their age, and clean them up and display them, and have no real ideas how such things could be so perfect. They make claims, have their theories and all but, have no actual evidence of tools to accomplish the task.
For the believer in the Creator and His Word, what do we say about the pre-flood world and technology? We generally have the impression things went along in basic agriculture and livestock handling right up to the times of the Flood. We read Cain built a "city." The Hebrew word in that passage's context could mean a fort, a village or hamlet or town, or a metropolis. We don't know.
After the Deluge we have the story of the building of the tower of Babel, no mean feat if they intended to build a tower high enough and large enough to contain the region's population and keep them in safety should God send another flood; which everybody knew reached higher than mountain tops. Yeah, a strong sight bigger than anything built on Earth today, with the most modern techniques, machinery and tools. The tower was never finished. God intervened, scattered the population, and the tower faded into the sands of history.
Here's what we can know, as the Lord is pleased to inform us in His Word.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
1. Giants. Right away that changes the dynamic of weight handling, man to man. If a man today can dead lift 1000 pounds, half a ton; and lift overhead almost 600 pounds, think of what a giant could lift and maneuver. How tall was Adam? We don't know. We know Goliath and his brothers were 9'. We know skeletal remains have been found around 12' in length. Yeah, mainstream archaeologists don't like those discoveries, either. I had a friend very familiar with museum life tell me what is stored in crates in lower levels of museums would blow the minds of humanity. If Adam was 12' tall or taller, his shoulders would have been the width of a compact car. Big. Strong. Well beyond the abilities of men living today.
2. Renown. The Hebrew word, 'shem' can mean a wide variety of things like fame, honor, distinction, position, etc. These were not necessarily a bunch of shepherds. And remember, Adam named everything. EVERYTHING. The capacity of his mind was so much greater than modern man's. Adam lived long enough to speak with relatives of Noah. They needed nothing written down. They just told each other and had mental capacity for massive amounts of information.
3. The building of the ark and its sea worthiness has often been a point of contention for mockers and scoffers. Unfortunately science has shown such a ship could weather such a deluge and forces of nature, and that does not mean God did not protect the inhabitants with divine care. The boat was a floating storage unit, not something meant to sail the oceans for commerce or war. The longest wooden ship ever built, by historic reference, was the 1909 "Wyoming," a New England schooner, at over 400 feet. It sailed for 14 years before it sank. God's ship only had to outlast an explosive flood for a couple months, then float on calm seas for a year. We do not know the entire schematic design and details of the ship. It took a century to build. That's a lot of details we don't know.
I don't know what mankind had 6000 years ago, living for almost 1000 years in a lifetime. Ask yourself what Tesla might have come up with if he lived that long. All we know is that God destroyed it all and buried it under heaps and mountains gathered together by other forces of nature as the flood waters receded. I believe what man made of megalithic structures were built by those giants, those men of renown. Tools for cutting. I have no idea. Water jets, for all I know. Nobody knows but, when you see circular saw marks or other type of power tool marks in granite, they got there somehow.
Children were taught Ben Franklin discovered electricity. The kite and key experiment. The fact is he was experimenting with things well before that storm in Philadelphia. Did you know the Greeks understood static electricity 2600 years ago? Do you know of the "Baghdad Battery," 2,000 years old? Want to guess what the antediluvians might known about electricity? I have no idea. I just known a man fresh from the hands of the Creator, with mental capacity far beyond that of modern man, living heading towards one thousand years old, can learn a whole lot, and make and build a whole lot, and share it all face to face with his fellows. No books needed.
Mankind's choice has always been to believe the word of God, or believe what they can figure out; constantly having to learn and relearn, over and over again because first, second, third, forth, fifth, etc., conclusions, based on assumptions, have proved wrong, time and time again.
When enormous blocks of some of the heaviest and hardest stone has cutting marks in them, or grinding marks in them; claiming copper tools and hammers did that is, indeed, pretty ridiculous. While the archaeological dissidents want to dismiss the status quo, unless they go with "ET" which they have no proof of, they don't know how it was done, either. Their guess is just that; a guess. But, I hand it to them. The differences between pre-flood masonry and post-flood masonry is pretty radical. Egypt contains some extraordinary artwork with obvious tooled etching in them at later times. It may as well be a child with crayons coloring on the statue of David. Other examples are not so convincing either. Obvious chisel etchings on top of refined sculpture does not help the status quo archaeologist explanations. BUT!, the dissident and institutional archaeologist have faith in what they believe. No facts or hard evidence but, faith their side wins the day.
As far as "ET," I keep seeing it brought into more and more discussion of things in this world. I can only make a logical conclusion that "thing," that subject and entity is going to be used by the enemy in a big dog and pony show delusion at some point. Just sayin.' Just sharing. Time will tell.
So, once again we see that faith comes into science just as much as religion. You can make all the claims you want, and claim all the science you want. I'm sticking with the Word of God because of Him and His character, and His ability to tell humanity the end from the beginning by giving that information to fallible humans who could have absolutely no idea if what they were writing down would come to pass. They wrote by faith. I read by faith. I believe by evidence of fulfilled prophecy and my own experience. Science, with no absolute answers, makes incredible proclamations by faith. The obvious problem? They claim their faith is the only one allowed. The official explanations are to be obeyed. Anything else is mis or disinformation. The dissident fights the official publications dissecting their positions, while the dissident has no opportunity to defend themselves in the same journals. Same as all the official garbage leveled against creationists, and they have plenty of PhDs in their ranks. Doesn't matter. The official explanation is the only one to be believed. Transfer it all into last day events. It's all the same policy at work.
We'll see what God says about it all when the time arrives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
526. Only the Smell Gets Worse - March 15, 2022
As I scan headlines on the various news sites I go to, I realize that news is just as much a business as any other. It isn't just stating a headline to define a storyline in as few words as possible. Creating headlines becomes an artform to draw readers into what's behind them.
I'm tired of seeing competitive sports terms like; destroyed, wrecked, demolished and all the rest; especially when you read the story and quickly realize the fierce terminology is just click bait.
Going down one news list I encountered a headline of how Led Zeppelin was formed. I found such a headline odd in a political news feed. I did read the story and was transported back to those explosive years of British music invasion and how fast it all developed and affected every easily influenced young person in Europe and America; and I was among them.
I also read a story about a former military man, now deceased, who commented on his time with Project Blue Book in the late 50's - early 60's, and its investigations into the UFO phenomena. But, UFOs have been in the news for a few years now, also part of the plan.
Historically, government lies to citizens may find its largest ongoing surge in that very subject, now referred to as UAP's by government. "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" is a lie, in and of itself. The government knows what most vehicles up there are. At least as far as they are part of deeper plans to use it all for more world dominance, whether by actual Luciferian control or control by corporate elites. Lies about the Kennedy assassination, and everything else just picked up steam after all that. Which is not to state government leaders never lied to citizens before that and those times. Lies before that time just seemed more singular event themed. Yes, the Kennedy assassination was a single event but, the government has maintained it's long history of lies about it since that time, as a corrupt web of agents, while other things come and go.
What I have come to realize, for myself, is that regardless of the current list of subjects - Covid, election fraud, vaccines, political corruption, Ukraine, the economy, and all the rest; once you know you are being lied to, and it is proven over and over and over again for seven decades, it all becomes more of the same and the manure pile doesn't change material. It just gets bigger and the stench gets worse. The barnyard defecation doesn't change. It's the same stuff. Nothing new. Same ol,' same ol.'
If anything, citizens become numb to it all. The boldness of the liars increases as they get away with it. The impact of the corruption becomes less and less as citizens become less and less shocked and realize there is nothing they can do about it, especially knowing they have elected people to positions of power who could care less about them and truth, live in lies like they breathe, and only have intentions to ruin America (or whatever nation you live in because it's all the same), and control everything with government of, by and for the politicians, not the people.
I am reading of this plan to reinstate Trump. It's as nonsensical as "Q." It will never happen. If it did happen, it would only reinforce my belief Trump cannot be trusted. He is just another version of corruption and weakness and part of the cabal, on some lesser level. He may not be a political animal, or less of one than traitors in D.C. generally but, with all he did to "make America great again," because of what he actually did to do it, he left it weaker than before he got in. You cannot make changes that mean anything by Executive Orders. Executive Orders are part of the corruption. His use of them, like those before him, and now Biden, are just legal writ of manmade control; not Congressional, government of the people, by and for the people control of the nation. Being a businessman, he helped the economy. Otherwise, he surrounded himself with anti-American, anti-constitutionalist minions who plagued him for four years and still do, today. He made a useless fight with the Press when he should have made an important fight against GOP and D.C. corruption, and did so wisely, not as a big mouth ready to punch anyone who hit him first. He holds rallies where tens of thousands show up and support him, when, in fact, he left behind a force of criminals that now control the election process to make sure he'll never get back in, if, indeed, he was or is an actual patriot. If he knew the Bible half as much as George Washington, his entire field of usefulness would have increased exponentially but, he showed his ignorance there, as well. Given Covid, pharmaceutical company money and Trump, I remain convinced he is just a lesser part of the problems D.C. is saturated with in systemic failure. Of course, "failure" is my viewpoint. For the handlers, it's all success.
The mountain and stench are so great, I have not even seen much of anything of the truckers surrounding D.C. in "conservative" news. It was 24/7 in Canada. Why not here in America? It's a bigger convoy. I told you it would make no difference. It cannot make a difference. Politicians are isolated from it. Now that they have control of voting systems - both parties - systemic corruption is guaranteed. Patriots speaking out serve to rev up citizens who shall never actually revolt, especially while they are doing all they can just to keep gas in the tank and food on the table. This is how tyranny works, and I mean 'works.' It works. It has only become easier with technology.
I see nothing empirical on the horizon telling me help is on the way. The pundits are meaningless. What few voices in Congress speaking out are meaningless, there is no justice system worth the titles on the doors, and as the dollar gets trashed and new currencies become operating from outside American influence and control, the American empire is going to go the way of every empire before it, dragged into the graves of corruption.
It's really amazing to see and watch. The greatest nation in history brought to dust by the exact same policies that have brought down every other nation in history - godlessness. Of course, dust is yet to come. Right now, communism is what is here and getting bigger. They will control it all and hand out what they believe people need to get by.
Yes, I have said prophecy is going to take place and America will, somehow and someway, fulfill its role in it as the major player of how dominoes fall in last-day events. Of that I have no doubt. A union of church and state is going to take place. When? Not anytime soon. Right now election fraud remains THE biggest concern and if it is not addressed, coast to coast, there is no hope the American Republic can survive. Forget war. We are on the verge of war, paying higher gas prices and food prices and more for everything, in more rapid time than ever in history BECAUSE election fraud took place in front of a dazed American citizenry with a totally corrupted government sure they could pull it off.
I remember the first time I heard Led Zeppelin's debut album. I remember 'Dazed and Confused.' Never did I think it would become the description of the bulk of national and international citizenry, now fighting to keep heads above water under the dominion of so few despotic people in control of our lives.
Those who denied the existence of the global cabal, by any name you choose to call it, are now reaping the lack of diligence sowed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I'm tired of seeing competitive sports terms like; destroyed, wrecked, demolished and all the rest; especially when you read the story and quickly realize the fierce terminology is just click bait.
Going down one news list I encountered a headline of how Led Zeppelin was formed. I found such a headline odd in a political news feed. I did read the story and was transported back to those explosive years of British music invasion and how fast it all developed and affected every easily influenced young person in Europe and America; and I was among them.
I also read a story about a former military man, now deceased, who commented on his time with Project Blue Book in the late 50's - early 60's, and its investigations into the UFO phenomena. But, UFOs have been in the news for a few years now, also part of the plan.
Historically, government lies to citizens may find its largest ongoing surge in that very subject, now referred to as UAP's by government. "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" is a lie, in and of itself. The government knows what most vehicles up there are. At least as far as they are part of deeper plans to use it all for more world dominance, whether by actual Luciferian control or control by corporate elites. Lies about the Kennedy assassination, and everything else just picked up steam after all that. Which is not to state government leaders never lied to citizens before that and those times. Lies before that time just seemed more singular event themed. Yes, the Kennedy assassination was a single event but, the government has maintained it's long history of lies about it since that time, as a corrupt web of agents, while other things come and go.
What I have come to realize, for myself, is that regardless of the current list of subjects - Covid, election fraud, vaccines, political corruption, Ukraine, the economy, and all the rest; once you know you are being lied to, and it is proven over and over and over again for seven decades, it all becomes more of the same and the manure pile doesn't change material. It just gets bigger and the stench gets worse. The barnyard defecation doesn't change. It's the same stuff. Nothing new. Same ol,' same ol.'
If anything, citizens become numb to it all. The boldness of the liars increases as they get away with it. The impact of the corruption becomes less and less as citizens become less and less shocked and realize there is nothing they can do about it, especially knowing they have elected people to positions of power who could care less about them and truth, live in lies like they breathe, and only have intentions to ruin America (or whatever nation you live in because it's all the same), and control everything with government of, by and for the politicians, not the people.
I am reading of this plan to reinstate Trump. It's as nonsensical as "Q." It will never happen. If it did happen, it would only reinforce my belief Trump cannot be trusted. He is just another version of corruption and weakness and part of the cabal, on some lesser level. He may not be a political animal, or less of one than traitors in D.C. generally but, with all he did to "make America great again," because of what he actually did to do it, he left it weaker than before he got in. You cannot make changes that mean anything by Executive Orders. Executive Orders are part of the corruption. His use of them, like those before him, and now Biden, are just legal writ of manmade control; not Congressional, government of the people, by and for the people control of the nation. Being a businessman, he helped the economy. Otherwise, he surrounded himself with anti-American, anti-constitutionalist minions who plagued him for four years and still do, today. He made a useless fight with the Press when he should have made an important fight against GOP and D.C. corruption, and did so wisely, not as a big mouth ready to punch anyone who hit him first. He holds rallies where tens of thousands show up and support him, when, in fact, he left behind a force of criminals that now control the election process to make sure he'll never get back in, if, indeed, he was or is an actual patriot. If he knew the Bible half as much as George Washington, his entire field of usefulness would have increased exponentially but, he showed his ignorance there, as well. Given Covid, pharmaceutical company money and Trump, I remain convinced he is just a lesser part of the problems D.C. is saturated with in systemic failure. Of course, "failure" is my viewpoint. For the handlers, it's all success.
The mountain and stench are so great, I have not even seen much of anything of the truckers surrounding D.C. in "conservative" news. It was 24/7 in Canada. Why not here in America? It's a bigger convoy. I told you it would make no difference. It cannot make a difference. Politicians are isolated from it. Now that they have control of voting systems - both parties - systemic corruption is guaranteed. Patriots speaking out serve to rev up citizens who shall never actually revolt, especially while they are doing all they can just to keep gas in the tank and food on the table. This is how tyranny works, and I mean 'works.' It works. It has only become easier with technology.
I see nothing empirical on the horizon telling me help is on the way. The pundits are meaningless. What few voices in Congress speaking out are meaningless, there is no justice system worth the titles on the doors, and as the dollar gets trashed and new currencies become operating from outside American influence and control, the American empire is going to go the way of every empire before it, dragged into the graves of corruption.
It's really amazing to see and watch. The greatest nation in history brought to dust by the exact same policies that have brought down every other nation in history - godlessness. Of course, dust is yet to come. Right now, communism is what is here and getting bigger. They will control it all and hand out what they believe people need to get by.
Yes, I have said prophecy is going to take place and America will, somehow and someway, fulfill its role in it as the major player of how dominoes fall in last-day events. Of that I have no doubt. A union of church and state is going to take place. When? Not anytime soon. Right now election fraud remains THE biggest concern and if it is not addressed, coast to coast, there is no hope the American Republic can survive. Forget war. We are on the verge of war, paying higher gas prices and food prices and more for everything, in more rapid time than ever in history BECAUSE election fraud took place in front of a dazed American citizenry with a totally corrupted government sure they could pull it off.
I remember the first time I heard Led Zeppelin's debut album. I remember 'Dazed and Confused.' Never did I think it would become the description of the bulk of national and international citizenry, now fighting to keep heads above water under the dominion of so few despotic people in control of our lives.
Those who denied the existence of the global cabal, by any name you choose to call it, are now reaping the lack of diligence sowed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Evidence
A guest was in my home and in the course of conversation they burst out laughing and said, "Don't tell me you believe that stuff!"
There's a reason, dozens and dozens of them, why I believe voter fraud and criminal activity took place during the 2020 election. Call me crazy but, prove me wrong:
https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/Voter-Fraud-Compilation-Page
I sent my guest that page. I believe I will not receive due diligence on their part to provide me with an opposite list of credible debunking evidence. It does not exist.
Were it not for the gross corruption existing in government, Donald Trump would be in the Oval Office by one of the, if not the greatest landslide in American history.
No, I do not believe the corruption will be overcome through legal means, though several states are now trying. The corruption is too systemic. That said, the price paid by Americans denying the evidence will be paid at the gas pump, the grocery store, and any and every other place they shop, and every service they require.
Elections have consequences. That's the saying. In this case, the greater fact is, corruption has consequences.
There's a reason, dozens and dozens of them, why I believe voter fraud and criminal activity took place during the 2020 election. Call me crazy but, prove me wrong:
https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/Voter-Fraud-Compilation-Page
I sent my guest that page. I believe I will not receive due diligence on their part to provide me with an opposite list of credible debunking evidence. It does not exist.
Were it not for the gross corruption existing in government, Donald Trump would be in the Oval Office by one of the, if not the greatest landslide in American history.
No, I do not believe the corruption will be overcome through legal means, though several states are now trying. The corruption is too systemic. That said, the price paid by Americans denying the evidence will be paid at the gas pump, the grocery store, and any and every other place they shop, and every service they require.
Elections have consequences. That's the saying. In this case, the greater fact is, corruption has consequences.
The Burning of a Tower of Babel
A friend sent me a link to a short video and I hunted down the story behind it. An art park/festival of some kind, in Russia burn a different image of something every year. As reported and pictured in the article and video they chose a constructed tower of Babel, on a much smaller scale but, the intent was; imagine doing away with discord among nations.
Unfortunately, while the article claims the biblical story of the tower in Genesis 11 is a myth, it was God's design and purpose to scatter a rebellion before it reached another depth of darkness such as existed in Noah's time. As such, that scattering shows the world will never by one again, until God's plan and purpose of salvation is thoroughly worked out and Christ returns. Until then, wars and rumors of wars, distress among nations and all the rest, just as Jesus stated, will take place leading up to His second coming.
The video's symbolic intent is admirable though, because fire is going to purify the Earth someday. All confusion, all lies, all deceptions, all sorrow, pain and death will be gone in one, sweeping, planetary event of the full glory of God unleashed and consuming this sin-cursed Earth, and every human being in the journey of life will be there to see and experience it, saved or lost; our choice. Lucifer and his hosts, as well, all reduced to ashes of time under the Sovereignty of God. The redeemed living on for eternity on the Earth made new.
The article and video is here:
https://www.odditycentral.com/art/russian-art-park-burns-23-meter-tall-tower-of-babel-as-symbol-of-discord.html
Of course, the European Union has its own modern recreation. Amazon has plans to build one. Even Israel has plans to construct one. How odd is that? Well, not odd at all when you consider the principles and policies behind all rebellion and rejection of truth. Everybody thinks they can unite the world. That is the goal. Epic failure. Not just epic failure but, failure with a delusion:
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." 1 Thes. 5:2,3
Unfortunately, while the article claims the biblical story of the tower in Genesis 11 is a myth, it was God's design and purpose to scatter a rebellion before it reached another depth of darkness such as existed in Noah's time. As such, that scattering shows the world will never by one again, until God's plan and purpose of salvation is thoroughly worked out and Christ returns. Until then, wars and rumors of wars, distress among nations and all the rest, just as Jesus stated, will take place leading up to His second coming.
The video's symbolic intent is admirable though, because fire is going to purify the Earth someday. All confusion, all lies, all deceptions, all sorrow, pain and death will be gone in one, sweeping, planetary event of the full glory of God unleashed and consuming this sin-cursed Earth, and every human being in the journey of life will be there to see and experience it, saved or lost; our choice. Lucifer and his hosts, as well, all reduced to ashes of time under the Sovereignty of God. The redeemed living on for eternity on the Earth made new.
The article and video is here:
https://www.odditycentral.com/art/russian-art-park-burns-23-meter-tall-tower-of-babel-as-symbol-of-discord.html
Of course, the European Union has its own modern recreation. Amazon has plans to build one. Even Israel has plans to construct one. How odd is that? Well, not odd at all when you consider the principles and policies behind all rebellion and rejection of truth. Everybody thinks they can unite the world. That is the goal. Epic failure. Not just epic failure but, failure with a delusion:
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." 1 Thes. 5:2,3
Daylight 'Losing' Time
My wife absolutely hates Daylight Savings Time. She has a week or more of mood change, fatigue, and morning fog. Me, I never experienced any serious changes but, I don't much sleep anyway.
For those who have problems with the change, you now have some evidence and science backing you up from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
https://archive.ph/jyVhN
Here's the Abstract of the paper:
"The last several years have seen intense debate about the issue of transitioning between standard and daylight saving time. In the United States, the annual advance to daylight saving time in spring, and fall back to standard time in autumn, is required by law (although some exceptions are allowed under the statute). An abundance of accumulated evidence indicates that the acute transition from standard time to daylight saving time incurs significant public health and safety risks, including increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events, mood disorders, and motor vehicle crashes. Although chronic effects of remaining in daylight saving time year-round have not been well studied, daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology—which, due to the impacts of the delayed natural light/dark cycle on human activity, could result in circadian misalignment, which has been associated in some studies with increased cardiovascular disease risk, metabolic syndrome and other health risks. It is, therefore, the position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that these seasonal time changes should be abolished in favor of a fixed, national, year-round standard time."
Personally, it just seems natural when you go to bed it's dark out, and when you wake, it's light out. Farmers don't need it anymore. Nobody needs it. Making it national law is just another aspect of government politicians butting their busybody noses into things they should have no national opinion or say-so in.
For those who have problems with the change, you now have some evidence and science backing you up from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
https://archive.ph/jyVhN
Here's the Abstract of the paper:
"The last several years have seen intense debate about the issue of transitioning between standard and daylight saving time. In the United States, the annual advance to daylight saving time in spring, and fall back to standard time in autumn, is required by law (although some exceptions are allowed under the statute). An abundance of accumulated evidence indicates that the acute transition from standard time to daylight saving time incurs significant public health and safety risks, including increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events, mood disorders, and motor vehicle crashes. Although chronic effects of remaining in daylight saving time year-round have not been well studied, daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology—which, due to the impacts of the delayed natural light/dark cycle on human activity, could result in circadian misalignment, which has been associated in some studies with increased cardiovascular disease risk, metabolic syndrome and other health risks. It is, therefore, the position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that these seasonal time changes should be abolished in favor of a fixed, national, year-round standard time."
Personally, it just seems natural when you go to bed it's dark out, and when you wake, it's light out. Farmers don't need it anymore. Nobody needs it. Making it national law is just another aspect of government politicians butting their busybody noses into things they should have no national opinion or say-so in.
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527. Four Drums - March 18, 2022
Okay, back to drums.
I made a new YT video for my channel; #19 in the series of Drum Shells, Sound and Hype in the drum manufacturing industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoHagIi1HE
I took four different "drums" and compared them, all 14" diameter, 3 of which are 7x14. Three (at least two), of the drums can be considered free-floating shell systems. I tuned them all to the same relative pitch.
Drum #1 - a very simple single-headed "frame" drum I made from two layers of 3/4" plywood (1.5" total width), 1/4" thick, w/bearing edge, sitting on another circle of 3/4" plywood. I used a regular metal hoop (though only 6 ears), regular 12-24 tension rods, and tightened the head into some 12-24 star nuts underneath the circle. The star nuts dig in enough to maintain grip.
The second drum employed galvanized metal roll roofing, or flashing material. I looked at some sitting on the floor of my shop and thought, "Can I make a drum out of that stuff? Of course I can." Extremely thin, no musical tone to speak of. The roll was 10' long. Allowing it to expand when I cut the tape holding it tightly together, I maneuvered the wrap around or coiled layers into a 13 7/8" circle, which gave it three wrap around layers. I just took a file to the outside edges to make sure nothing sharp contacted the heads. The total thickness of the "shell" is less than a 1/16" and the length is held in place with some tape, and the layers are basically held together with some two-sided tape every 8 or 9" - there is zero rigidity to the circumference of the shell. Hold it up with one finger and it sags into an egg shape. Just the same, with two heads under tension, it's rigidity increased a hundred fold. I used two triple flange hoops, 10-24 threaded rods, acorn nuts, and star nuts below to tension the heads. Works fine.
The third drum is a stacked plywood ring shell, w/plywood hoops and my simple, dual tension system of 1/4" threaded rod with an acorn nut on the batter hoop and a tee-nut in the reso hoop to thread the rod into. Works really well. The shell is 5/8" thick, with a dble 45 degree bearing edge, around 3/16" outside and the rest sloping inside the shell.
The fourth drum is from my "Leather" set; a 10-ply Keller shell, 1/4" thick, with some tooled leather for a wrap and solid Maple hoops. I employ a single lug around the equator of the shell. The bearing edge is a dble 45.
I made a new YT video for my channel; #19 in the series of Drum Shells, Sound and Hype in the drum manufacturing industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoHagIi1HE
I took four different "drums" and compared them, all 14" diameter, 3 of which are 7x14. Three (at least two), of the drums can be considered free-floating shell systems. I tuned them all to the same relative pitch.
Drum #1 - a very simple single-headed "frame" drum I made from two layers of 3/4" plywood (1.5" total width), 1/4" thick, w/bearing edge, sitting on another circle of 3/4" plywood. I used a regular metal hoop (though only 6 ears), regular 12-24 tension rods, and tightened the head into some 12-24 star nuts underneath the circle. The star nuts dig in enough to maintain grip.
The second drum employed galvanized metal roll roofing, or flashing material. I looked at some sitting on the floor of my shop and thought, "Can I make a drum out of that stuff? Of course I can." Extremely thin, no musical tone to speak of. The roll was 10' long. Allowing it to expand when I cut the tape holding it tightly together, I maneuvered the wrap around or coiled layers into a 13 7/8" circle, which gave it three wrap around layers. I just took a file to the outside edges to make sure nothing sharp contacted the heads. The total thickness of the "shell" is less than a 1/16" and the length is held in place with some tape, and the layers are basically held together with some two-sided tape every 8 or 9" - there is zero rigidity to the circumference of the shell. Hold it up with one finger and it sags into an egg shape. Just the same, with two heads under tension, it's rigidity increased a hundred fold. I used two triple flange hoops, 10-24 threaded rods, acorn nuts, and star nuts below to tension the heads. Works fine.
The third drum is a stacked plywood ring shell, w/plywood hoops and my simple, dual tension system of 1/4" threaded rod with an acorn nut on the batter hoop and a tee-nut in the reso hoop to thread the rod into. Works really well. The shell is 5/8" thick, with a dble 45 degree bearing edge, around 3/16" outside and the rest sloping inside the shell.
The fourth drum is from my "Leather" set; a 10-ply Keller shell, 1/4" thick, with some tooled leather for a wrap and solid Maple hoops. I employ a single lug around the equator of the shell. The bearing edge is a dble 45.
There are obvious differences of tone with each drum. It is also obvious that, again, the sound of a drum is produced by the heads. The shells provide a surface for sound waves off the batter head to pass back and forth between the batter and resonant heads. They are trapped and move until the concussive force from the strike dissipates. That is affected by shell wall density and depth.
The frame drum has no shell, per se,' and the system can only produce a sound of one head under tension. In this particular case I only had one G12 to use, while the other drums have 10 mil clear heads, save for the Leather drum which employs an Evans Black 7.5 mil reso head. I'll get into the differences there.
The frame drum has harsh overtones. Using a 10 mil head would have increased those. A twin-ply or hydraulic head would be my choice if I used the drum in a set-up. The volume was obviously low. Nothing to trap the concussion force and sound wave. Strike the drum and the sound is out, away and gone but, that is not to say the drum has no sustain. The head vibrated and that is where sustain comes from: a sustained head vibration at optimum speeds. The 12-mil head, being slightly thicker than 10-mil, means under the same tension force, it's pitch is lower than the other drums. To bring it to the same relative pitch I had to put more force on the head, decreasing its vibration rate and duration, and changing the nuances of its tone under the greater stress at the tension points. These are the little things that go into sound.
The metal drum sounded a little muted and "dry;" not as lively a tone but, still efficient and full. It actually sounds better and better each time I strike it. It's volume was higher than the frame drum but, less than the next two. Bear in mind: no specific bearing edge. Any kind of thicker shell to place an edge on, would add some volume but, would dry out the sound even more: more shell material touching the head, affecting vibration with extra muting. Again, really nuances and subtleties impossible to hear in the context of a band.
The third drum, the stacked rings, offered "good" tone: and remember, there are no sufficient, agreed upon standards by all drummers as to what "good" sound is, or for that matter, "bad" sounding drums. There is only personal, subjective taste each player goes by. The drum meets my own personal standards of tone, sustain, and volume.
The bearing edge on the outside of the shell is a little wide but, plywood can be very tricky to work with. Remember the layers are not vertical, like regular plywood shells with the but ends making up the bearing edge. They are lateral, butt ends creating the shell wall. I leave a little more wood because a router bit spinning at 25k RPM's can yank that small area of the layer right off the shell. How each layer is glued by some manufactures of plywood better than others. Leaving that extra area of wood touching the head creates another aspect of muting so, a little less sustain and volume but, while it can be heard up close, in a band setting, if I used them that way, live or recording, those small aspects are totally hidden. At 5/8" thick, should it not be the loudest of the four? Nope.
The fourth drum was livelier, brighter, louder, and had the most sustain. Why? Shell wall density. Vertical plywood makes for a more dense shell wall; flat cut veneers that make up the layers, regardless of the number of plies glued together.
Think of a board. It has a planed edge and a butt end. Place the board vertical or horizontal, there's your shell wall, a bearing edge going on the butt end and planed end of plies glued together with the shell wall being flat cut veneer. Glue up the layers and you get a really hard, dense shell.
Stack a bunch of boards on top of one another and cut the ends off at 5/8." The cellular grain structure is different and not as dense using wood that way. Making only an inner 45 degree edge, leaving just a touch of wood to do a little sanding on is pretty risky using butt end plywood. Having wrecked enough edges that way, I leave more material on the outside cut.
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Rule out drum #1 for obvious reasons. It's technically a drum but, has no true musicality for my tastes. That does not mean it could not be used. Remember, mics, cables, and signal into electronic equipment can manipulate sound into a thousand parameters. That "sour" drum could be turned into something perfectly useful because of electronic equipment. The thing is, time is money. Studio engineers don't want to bother with things like that. For them it's "Bring in the best stuff you have."
Shell wall density (and depth) are the two most decisive elements of what shells contribute to sound. Think of it this way. Around 20 years ago I got into making stereo speakers: book shelf, 4' towers, etc. Parts Express has everything you need to make your own speakers and the results can be, like DIY drums, pretty cool. My cousin used to be into it and that was my first exposure to DIY speakers.
A speaker receives an electronic signal to its magnet and coil and sound is heard. Consider that striking a drum head. The science of building speakers is an entire industry and has been since the beginning of the entire discovery of sound coming through horns of some kind. Electricity, electronics and sound. Over a century of discovery, research and development.
Speakers create sound, NOT speaker cabinets. That does not mean cabinets do not contribute to what speakers throw out. A lot of science goes into speaker enclosures.
I never got onto the science. I just used 3/4" plywood. I never added fancy veneer or anything else. My first pair of speakers back in the 90's, employed Pine boards, stained and finished. I used 4 speakers: woofer, midrange and tweeter and a horn tweeter on the top of the cabinet. From the top of the woofer, set in at the typical 90 degrees, I angled the shape of the front of the cabinet a few degrees. The midrange and tweeter angled up a little. The horn on top pointed straight up. I saw a picture in a magazine and replicated what I saw. They were 4' tall and sounded great.
Enclosures can be shallow, deep, insulated or uninsulated, contain port tubes or not, to increase low end frequency range and other parameters. I use those same port tubes in my front bass drum heads. Even passive woofers can be installed, which render some extra low end by virtue of the hot woofer vibrating and pumping inside the enclosure. So, cabinets - the drum shell - can have an effect on the sound of speakers in subtle ways, nothing dramatic, enclosure to enclosure, using identical sets of speakers. With drums, nuances can be heard by what the shell wall density can trap and reflect of the sound waves thrown off by the heads. That is the physics of the process. Heads produce sound, not drum shells. Speakers produce sound, not speaker enclosures. Enclosures handle sound from the speakers. Shells handle sound from the heads. Even more so, the source of the sound, from the electronics, has as much or more to do with the sound than the speakers the signals are sent to. Consider that aspect the head manufacturers and how they make their heads and what they make them of. You get the drum stick and employ your velocity and touch upon them.
Regardless of all the super-hype manufacturers claim about their proprietary shells and sound, think this. Take some top of the line, custom made speakers; and they can cost tens of thousands of dollars. I remember a pair in a hi-fidelity magazine going for $60,000 dollars a pair and that was four decades ago. Today, well over a hundred grand can be spent for a pair of speakers. Also, things have individualized: midrange and tweeters in one cab, woofer/subwoofer in another cab, and vocal range speakers in another enclosure. Plus, surround sound.
Check out 11 of the world's most expensive loudspeakers, starting at $450K:
https://www.whathifi.com/us/features/11-worlds-most-expensive-loudspeakers
So, here's the thing. Take the highest priced system on Earth, place it in huge room. Play some music, crank it up. Put a guitarist, a bassist, a keyboardist and a singer in the room. Crank them up and have them play the same music. Tell me if anything special would be heard from the stereo system. Nope. If everything was played note for note, at the same decibel level, nothing from the stereo system would be distinguished.
It's the same with a drum set. What ever we may hear in those subtle, nuanced differences in the overall sound acoustic drums put out; in a band context, the bassist is putting out the same frequency range. The guitarist is throwing out an even wider frequency range. The keyboardist is throwing out the widest frequency range of all, and the singer is doing their thing. Whatever acoustic differences you might hear in different drums are gone in the context of a band. Far too much competition in the sound stage. For volume in modern music performance, drummers need mics and PA, as well, to compete. Uh oh. Now comes the significant effects of mic design, cable function, electronic outboard or recording equipment and the entire digital world of it all. So much could be done in the analogue world. Today? It's a whole universe.
I have mentioned my experience, decades ago, recording 'From the Fjords.' Seeing pics of my Ludwig set back then, elsewhere on the site, we went into the studio with most of it. At least 17 drums, and as many or more cymbals. Buddy, the engineer, didn't like the sound of my snare drum. He dropped his wallet on it and told me to try that. ?!?!? I hated it. Dead. Box. Pillow. No way. He had me play it a little than made some adjustments inside the recording room and called me in. Hm. Okay. I went with it. Then he wanted to take the front heads of the bass drums! No way!!! The guys said to give him the chance and see what he does. He put mics about half way into each drum; a 24x26 and a 14x20. I hated the sound and the feel and was not happy. I played awhile and once again he called me in. I was shocked. It was gargantuan. Okay... so be it. That was the analogue days of 1978. Today? There is nothing that cannot be done with anything. I have seen Tom work wonders with just three mics on his student line set I renovated for our Miledge Muzic recordings.
I could easily make a whole set of roof flashing drums and use them live or on a recording and nobody would know what they are. With slightly better made frame drums for a set, with appropriate heads, the same could be accomplished.
If you want to spend top dollar for drums, that's your choice. No matter how you slice it, paying top dollar does not guarantee better sound than lower lines of drums. Better than beginner lines? Sure but, even there, if the sound of toms mounted at the shells, and typical floor tom mounting and legs appeals to you, even many of today's manufactured beginner's drums can easily give you plenty to work with for recording and playing live. Some companies offer an amazing line of sizes for starter drums. The hardware will not be road worthy and the finishes will not have as much to offer but, even there many more choices exist today than back in my day. The lugs will be the least expensive things companies can attach to the shells, and you'll probably want to change out the heads to better quality Mylar. Maybe not. Those are things far different than claims made for top of the line drums because of specially made proprietary plywood shells.
Everybody basically desires quality, and even the best of the best. Nothing wrong with that. Interestingly enough, a clunker will still get you there just as easily as a Rolls Royce or Ferrari. The clunker won't last as long, and it will have some problems and less than perfect details and probably a little less of a smooth ride but, it will get you there. Do you remember the days when Hollywood stars drove around in clunkers to make their statements about Hollywood excess? "Rent a Wreck." It was "the thing" back then. Didn't last long.
People have tried to use the differences in cars in my sharing of this subject. Don't try and tell them a Volkswagen can be compared to a Jag. Well, let's face it. Automobiles have tens of thousands of parts. It's apples and onions compared to drums. If you want to ride in style or you can get there in simplicity, either way, you get there. Do I want wine red or black wrap on my drums? No. Do I want lugs prone to failure? No. But, having renovated inexpensive drums and recorded with them, I know what can be done.
The sound of a drum is produced by heads under tension, and there are no Volks versus Jag heads coming from head manufacturers. They do not sell beginner, mid-levels and top of the line heads. They just sell variations of top of the line Mylar and coating products. Remember that.
Marketing hype must be seen for what it is: a way to sell product. Most of it, when it comes to drum shells, is just hollow, impractical and expensive talk.
Everybody makes great drums. Everybody is not completely honest about the super claims they make about their drums. That's unfortunate for both makers and consumers.
The frame drum has no shell, per se,' and the system can only produce a sound of one head under tension. In this particular case I only had one G12 to use, while the other drums have 10 mil clear heads, save for the Leather drum which employs an Evans Black 7.5 mil reso head. I'll get into the differences there.
The frame drum has harsh overtones. Using a 10 mil head would have increased those. A twin-ply or hydraulic head would be my choice if I used the drum in a set-up. The volume was obviously low. Nothing to trap the concussion force and sound wave. Strike the drum and the sound is out, away and gone but, that is not to say the drum has no sustain. The head vibrated and that is where sustain comes from: a sustained head vibration at optimum speeds. The 12-mil head, being slightly thicker than 10-mil, means under the same tension force, it's pitch is lower than the other drums. To bring it to the same relative pitch I had to put more force on the head, decreasing its vibration rate and duration, and changing the nuances of its tone under the greater stress at the tension points. These are the little things that go into sound.
The metal drum sounded a little muted and "dry;" not as lively a tone but, still efficient and full. It actually sounds better and better each time I strike it. It's volume was higher than the frame drum but, less than the next two. Bear in mind: no specific bearing edge. Any kind of thicker shell to place an edge on, would add some volume but, would dry out the sound even more: more shell material touching the head, affecting vibration with extra muting. Again, really nuances and subtleties impossible to hear in the context of a band.
The third drum, the stacked rings, offered "good" tone: and remember, there are no sufficient, agreed upon standards by all drummers as to what "good" sound is, or for that matter, "bad" sounding drums. There is only personal, subjective taste each player goes by. The drum meets my own personal standards of tone, sustain, and volume.
The bearing edge on the outside of the shell is a little wide but, plywood can be very tricky to work with. Remember the layers are not vertical, like regular plywood shells with the but ends making up the bearing edge. They are lateral, butt ends creating the shell wall. I leave a little more wood because a router bit spinning at 25k RPM's can yank that small area of the layer right off the shell. How each layer is glued by some manufactures of plywood better than others. Leaving that extra area of wood touching the head creates another aspect of muting so, a little less sustain and volume but, while it can be heard up close, in a band setting, if I used them that way, live or recording, those small aspects are totally hidden. At 5/8" thick, should it not be the loudest of the four? Nope.
The fourth drum was livelier, brighter, louder, and had the most sustain. Why? Shell wall density. Vertical plywood makes for a more dense shell wall; flat cut veneers that make up the layers, regardless of the number of plies glued together.
Think of a board. It has a planed edge and a butt end. Place the board vertical or horizontal, there's your shell wall, a bearing edge going on the butt end and planed end of plies glued together with the shell wall being flat cut veneer. Glue up the layers and you get a really hard, dense shell.
Stack a bunch of boards on top of one another and cut the ends off at 5/8." The cellular grain structure is different and not as dense using wood that way. Making only an inner 45 degree edge, leaving just a touch of wood to do a little sanding on is pretty risky using butt end plywood. Having wrecked enough edges that way, I leave more material on the outside cut.
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Rule out drum #1 for obvious reasons. It's technically a drum but, has no true musicality for my tastes. That does not mean it could not be used. Remember, mics, cables, and signal into electronic equipment can manipulate sound into a thousand parameters. That "sour" drum could be turned into something perfectly useful because of electronic equipment. The thing is, time is money. Studio engineers don't want to bother with things like that. For them it's "Bring in the best stuff you have."
Shell wall density (and depth) are the two most decisive elements of what shells contribute to sound. Think of it this way. Around 20 years ago I got into making stereo speakers: book shelf, 4' towers, etc. Parts Express has everything you need to make your own speakers and the results can be, like DIY drums, pretty cool. My cousin used to be into it and that was my first exposure to DIY speakers.
A speaker receives an electronic signal to its magnet and coil and sound is heard. Consider that striking a drum head. The science of building speakers is an entire industry and has been since the beginning of the entire discovery of sound coming through horns of some kind. Electricity, electronics and sound. Over a century of discovery, research and development.
Speakers create sound, NOT speaker cabinets. That does not mean cabinets do not contribute to what speakers throw out. A lot of science goes into speaker enclosures.
I never got onto the science. I just used 3/4" plywood. I never added fancy veneer or anything else. My first pair of speakers back in the 90's, employed Pine boards, stained and finished. I used 4 speakers: woofer, midrange and tweeter and a horn tweeter on the top of the cabinet. From the top of the woofer, set in at the typical 90 degrees, I angled the shape of the front of the cabinet a few degrees. The midrange and tweeter angled up a little. The horn on top pointed straight up. I saw a picture in a magazine and replicated what I saw. They were 4' tall and sounded great.
Enclosures can be shallow, deep, insulated or uninsulated, contain port tubes or not, to increase low end frequency range and other parameters. I use those same port tubes in my front bass drum heads. Even passive woofers can be installed, which render some extra low end by virtue of the hot woofer vibrating and pumping inside the enclosure. So, cabinets - the drum shell - can have an effect on the sound of speakers in subtle ways, nothing dramatic, enclosure to enclosure, using identical sets of speakers. With drums, nuances can be heard by what the shell wall density can trap and reflect of the sound waves thrown off by the heads. That is the physics of the process. Heads produce sound, not drum shells. Speakers produce sound, not speaker enclosures. Enclosures handle sound from the speakers. Shells handle sound from the heads. Even more so, the source of the sound, from the electronics, has as much or more to do with the sound than the speakers the signals are sent to. Consider that aspect the head manufacturers and how they make their heads and what they make them of. You get the drum stick and employ your velocity and touch upon them.
Regardless of all the super-hype manufacturers claim about their proprietary shells and sound, think this. Take some top of the line, custom made speakers; and they can cost tens of thousands of dollars. I remember a pair in a hi-fidelity magazine going for $60,000 dollars a pair and that was four decades ago. Today, well over a hundred grand can be spent for a pair of speakers. Also, things have individualized: midrange and tweeters in one cab, woofer/subwoofer in another cab, and vocal range speakers in another enclosure. Plus, surround sound.
Check out 11 of the world's most expensive loudspeakers, starting at $450K:
https://www.whathifi.com/us/features/11-worlds-most-expensive-loudspeakers
So, here's the thing. Take the highest priced system on Earth, place it in huge room. Play some music, crank it up. Put a guitarist, a bassist, a keyboardist and a singer in the room. Crank them up and have them play the same music. Tell me if anything special would be heard from the stereo system. Nope. If everything was played note for note, at the same decibel level, nothing from the stereo system would be distinguished.
It's the same with a drum set. What ever we may hear in those subtle, nuanced differences in the overall sound acoustic drums put out; in a band context, the bassist is putting out the same frequency range. The guitarist is throwing out an even wider frequency range. The keyboardist is throwing out the widest frequency range of all, and the singer is doing their thing. Whatever acoustic differences you might hear in different drums are gone in the context of a band. Far too much competition in the sound stage. For volume in modern music performance, drummers need mics and PA, as well, to compete. Uh oh. Now comes the significant effects of mic design, cable function, electronic outboard or recording equipment and the entire digital world of it all. So much could be done in the analogue world. Today? It's a whole universe.
I have mentioned my experience, decades ago, recording 'From the Fjords.' Seeing pics of my Ludwig set back then, elsewhere on the site, we went into the studio with most of it. At least 17 drums, and as many or more cymbals. Buddy, the engineer, didn't like the sound of my snare drum. He dropped his wallet on it and told me to try that. ?!?!? I hated it. Dead. Box. Pillow. No way. He had me play it a little than made some adjustments inside the recording room and called me in. Hm. Okay. I went with it. Then he wanted to take the front heads of the bass drums! No way!!! The guys said to give him the chance and see what he does. He put mics about half way into each drum; a 24x26 and a 14x20. I hated the sound and the feel and was not happy. I played awhile and once again he called me in. I was shocked. It was gargantuan. Okay... so be it. That was the analogue days of 1978. Today? There is nothing that cannot be done with anything. I have seen Tom work wonders with just three mics on his student line set I renovated for our Miledge Muzic recordings.
I could easily make a whole set of roof flashing drums and use them live or on a recording and nobody would know what they are. With slightly better made frame drums for a set, with appropriate heads, the same could be accomplished.
If you want to spend top dollar for drums, that's your choice. No matter how you slice it, paying top dollar does not guarantee better sound than lower lines of drums. Better than beginner lines? Sure but, even there, if the sound of toms mounted at the shells, and typical floor tom mounting and legs appeals to you, even many of today's manufactured beginner's drums can easily give you plenty to work with for recording and playing live. Some companies offer an amazing line of sizes for starter drums. The hardware will not be road worthy and the finishes will not have as much to offer but, even there many more choices exist today than back in my day. The lugs will be the least expensive things companies can attach to the shells, and you'll probably want to change out the heads to better quality Mylar. Maybe not. Those are things far different than claims made for top of the line drums because of specially made proprietary plywood shells.
Everybody basically desires quality, and even the best of the best. Nothing wrong with that. Interestingly enough, a clunker will still get you there just as easily as a Rolls Royce or Ferrari. The clunker won't last as long, and it will have some problems and less than perfect details and probably a little less of a smooth ride but, it will get you there. Do you remember the days when Hollywood stars drove around in clunkers to make their statements about Hollywood excess? "Rent a Wreck." It was "the thing" back then. Didn't last long.
People have tried to use the differences in cars in my sharing of this subject. Don't try and tell them a Volkswagen can be compared to a Jag. Well, let's face it. Automobiles have tens of thousands of parts. It's apples and onions compared to drums. If you want to ride in style or you can get there in simplicity, either way, you get there. Do I want wine red or black wrap on my drums? No. Do I want lugs prone to failure? No. But, having renovated inexpensive drums and recorded with them, I know what can be done.
The sound of a drum is produced by heads under tension, and there are no Volks versus Jag heads coming from head manufacturers. They do not sell beginner, mid-levels and top of the line heads. They just sell variations of top of the line Mylar and coating products. Remember that.
Marketing hype must be seen for what it is: a way to sell product. Most of it, when it comes to drum shells, is just hollow, impractical and expensive talk.
Everybody makes great drums. Everybody is not completely honest about the super claims they make about their drums. That's unfortunate for both makers and consumers.
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528. Another "Catastrophe" - March 19, 2022
On March 18, 1979, around 1 a.m., I gave my life to Christ. It was a very intense and extremely joyous, lifechanging experience for me; a singular event where nothing in my life was left untouched.
Raised Catholic, turning into a young atheist, causing my parents great pain, and both consternation and confusion for friends and other family members, I was willing to take on the world and tell them there is no God. Then, at 24, it all changed.
I experienced God. I read the Bible, studied it, incessantly for months. Got baptized, joined a church, and eventually entered the world of independent ministry. I liked reading religious history books. Old ones. New England is a great place to find old book stores and I found various volumes written in the 19th century, even 18th century, as well as early 20th century. The subject matter was generally Catholicism against Protestantism. When I became a Protestant, extended family became quite vehement or just totally cold. My parents... confused but, at least I believed in God, and they saw such a change they just sort of sat back and watched.
My mother, always a little pistol, came home one day and exclaimed my belief in the Sabbath must be true because a Catholic priest went into the coffee shop where she worked as a waitress, and she told him her son had become a Christian. The priest was congratulatory. Then she told him I kept the seventh-day as the Sabbath, not Sunday. 'Why? What's going on with that? Why don't we keep the Sabbath? It's the fourth commandment. He showed me what the Bible says,' and so on. The priest sat stunned and just refused to engage. She pressed, he shut down, and finally admitted the Sabbath is the Bible day and the Catholic Church changed it. 'Why? How can they do that? That's not right.' Suffice to say, he didn't enjoy his coffee and basically asked her to drop it. After some personal processing on her own, and studying the Bible herself, she asked to be baptized and I was honored to do so.
My dad basically held the fort. He never went to church after Vatican 2. He didn't like all the changes but, remained a Catholic in name. He knew the truth. He was a thoughtful man, a deep thinker. He saw his son change. He saw his wife change. He saw the lives of my new friends; basically happy and polite, committed people to God with higher virtues and ideals. On his death bed in the hospital, he gave his life to God. His speech changed. His demeanor changed. He told me was "...resting in the Lord, resting in the Lord." Never had he said anything like that before. He found peace. At the end, the room was filled with a few family friends, and nurses, and we sang some hymns, trying to comfort him. He was in great pain. I had been telling him to hang on and then, I just told him to let go and we'll see him again when Jesus returns. He breathed his last and died in my arms. Mom came unglued. There were tears everywhere. We gave her the room.
Out in the hall one of the nurses came up to me and said, "We see a lot of people die in here but, I have never seen anything like that before." She put her arm around me and said, "Thank you."
It was a catastrophic moment. Mom's life fell through the floor. Life went on, and 25 years later she remarried. Then, she was gone. In that time she became a pretty fearless witness for Christ. She was no scholar but, she read her Bible every day and wore it out, literally. She came to understand what I had come to understand, and hundreds of millions before me: Catholicism and Protestantism are two things at natural war with each other. One is the antithesis of the other. One has always claimed to teach the truth because it is the true church. The other claims, we teach the truth, therefore we are the true church. A huge philosophic and historical difference exists in that gulf, that chasm and canyon of man-made traditions and policy versus biblical religious principle.
The Roman Catholic Church has prided itself that it is not like Protestantism. It is the true church and outside of it there is no salvation. Protestantism is divided into thousands of sects and denominations. How can it be true? She has made that point for centuries. Today, there exists a Pope in the chair of Peter that has courted the world and he has caused such a commotion the time has arrived to address it.
http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2022/03/15/a-memorandum-on-the-next-conclave-is-circulating-among-the-cardinals-here-it-is/
A detailed memo has been circulating among the Cardinals, written by an anonymous someone calling themselves, "Demos," which is Greek for 'people.' It begins thus:
"Commentators of every school, if for different reasons, with the possible exception of Father Spadaro, SJ, agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe."
The memo goes on to state the failures and abject erroneous positions Francis has taken during his pontificate. It is a solid piece of traditional Roman Catholic reasoning. As a Protestant I see its failures, biblically, naturally but, the typical clandestine activity of the Curia is now wide open. The cardinals must prepare for the next conclave! The man is not on his deathbed, is he? Is he about to be?
People can get upset that I have outed this Pope as a Communist. He is. He believes in wealth redistribution. That's communism. And some of the things in the memo I have brought out in these posts in the last year. The man is a Catholic train wreck, IF you believe in traditional Roman Catholicism.
My father passed away during the early Pontificate of John Paul 2, perhaps the most powerful and well-known Pope in a thousand years. He was a supreme politician and saw a weakened, watered down Protestantism beat a path to his door. Francis...? My father would have been ashamed.
What does it all mean? There is still mystery behind the death of John Paul 1. Books have been written. Talk about conspiracy theories. I would not be surprised to see the life of Pope Francis go the way of all the Earth anytime now. The Curia is in disarray, filled with dissension, heresy, crime, abominations and just the right condition for a revival to take place, which could bring on the final dominoes of Earth's history to be set in motion.
This also could mean the final chance for the movement of Protestantism to take its stand, declare the truth, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine becomes a footnote, all things considered, because the war between truth and error, between Christ's church and the Devil's is going to clash. Apostate Protestantism will clasp hands with Rome. The kings of the Earth will join its ranks, as "all power, signs and wonders" splash before the world from the throne of the one who calls himself Vicarius Filii Dei - Vicar of the Son of God. The man of sin, antechristos, he who sits "in the chair," not some future boogeyman but, the one who has fought against the truth of God for millennia, in hundreds of various men, "in place of Christ," with more power than kings and entire armies, is going to experience a Renaissance; a rebirth of influence not seen in the entire history of the Papacy. He will literally bring about the catastrophe of the end of the world, thinking "we hold upon this Earth the place of God Almighty."
Two sides. That's it. God's or man's. Those are the options. No others. You cannot stay out of it, as some free agent looking for another team to join. There are only two teams - God's or Satan's. That's it. You are controlled by one of two powers. Everybody. The majority is and has always been and will always be on Satan's side; under delusive influences, both selfish and supernatural. On God's side are the selfless, controlled by the Holy Spirit of God, Christ in them, the hope of glory.
Martyrdom happens today, even as I type; someone is losing their life because they are a Christian in a world that hates Him, that uses His name as the first curse or vociferation out of their mouth when they get angry.
We are all sinners in need of a Savior. Christ is spiritually cleansing a people, making them ready for His glorious return. The lost will literally fall dead from the glory of His presence when He comes bursting through the corridors of space and time with billions of angels dressed for battle, to this blue marble speck of dust in a universe watching with intense interest in the war taking place here.
The Vatican is going to rise in influence. Satan will see to that. The remnant will rise in influence. God will see to that. Truth and His people will be pushed to the front and all humanity will be faced with final choices: God's way, God's law or man's way, man's law. No barcodes, tattoos, implanted chips, branding or inking. The issue is one of the mind, the frontal lobes, the seat of reason and choice, principles and law.
God's law, written with His finger, the transcript of His character, government and purposes, or man's law; useless traditions that prop up men as supreme judges and controllers of the gates of Heaven: spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
Which will you choose, and show it, with a life infused with the help and influence of Christ or, doing your thing, your way, as you please; you are the master of your life. Simple. No degree needed. No university education required. A choice to choose the direction of life towards Heaven or, the second death; eternal life or, destruction and removal of life, gone, a faded memory in the mind of someone who knew you, maybe loved you, carrying on with eternal wonders and discoveries, forever.
Me, my mom, my dad. We all found Christ in different ways, under different pressures and influences. God has a thousand ways we know not of to get through to us, if we are willing.
2Cor 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Raised Catholic, turning into a young atheist, causing my parents great pain, and both consternation and confusion for friends and other family members, I was willing to take on the world and tell them there is no God. Then, at 24, it all changed.
I experienced God. I read the Bible, studied it, incessantly for months. Got baptized, joined a church, and eventually entered the world of independent ministry. I liked reading religious history books. Old ones. New England is a great place to find old book stores and I found various volumes written in the 19th century, even 18th century, as well as early 20th century. The subject matter was generally Catholicism against Protestantism. When I became a Protestant, extended family became quite vehement or just totally cold. My parents... confused but, at least I believed in God, and they saw such a change they just sort of sat back and watched.
My mother, always a little pistol, came home one day and exclaimed my belief in the Sabbath must be true because a Catholic priest went into the coffee shop where she worked as a waitress, and she told him her son had become a Christian. The priest was congratulatory. Then she told him I kept the seventh-day as the Sabbath, not Sunday. 'Why? What's going on with that? Why don't we keep the Sabbath? It's the fourth commandment. He showed me what the Bible says,' and so on. The priest sat stunned and just refused to engage. She pressed, he shut down, and finally admitted the Sabbath is the Bible day and the Catholic Church changed it. 'Why? How can they do that? That's not right.' Suffice to say, he didn't enjoy his coffee and basically asked her to drop it. After some personal processing on her own, and studying the Bible herself, she asked to be baptized and I was honored to do so.
My dad basically held the fort. He never went to church after Vatican 2. He didn't like all the changes but, remained a Catholic in name. He knew the truth. He was a thoughtful man, a deep thinker. He saw his son change. He saw his wife change. He saw the lives of my new friends; basically happy and polite, committed people to God with higher virtues and ideals. On his death bed in the hospital, he gave his life to God. His speech changed. His demeanor changed. He told me was "...resting in the Lord, resting in the Lord." Never had he said anything like that before. He found peace. At the end, the room was filled with a few family friends, and nurses, and we sang some hymns, trying to comfort him. He was in great pain. I had been telling him to hang on and then, I just told him to let go and we'll see him again when Jesus returns. He breathed his last and died in my arms. Mom came unglued. There were tears everywhere. We gave her the room.
Out in the hall one of the nurses came up to me and said, "We see a lot of people die in here but, I have never seen anything like that before." She put her arm around me and said, "Thank you."
It was a catastrophic moment. Mom's life fell through the floor. Life went on, and 25 years later she remarried. Then, she was gone. In that time she became a pretty fearless witness for Christ. She was no scholar but, she read her Bible every day and wore it out, literally. She came to understand what I had come to understand, and hundreds of millions before me: Catholicism and Protestantism are two things at natural war with each other. One is the antithesis of the other. One has always claimed to teach the truth because it is the true church. The other claims, we teach the truth, therefore we are the true church. A huge philosophic and historical difference exists in that gulf, that chasm and canyon of man-made traditions and policy versus biblical religious principle.
The Roman Catholic Church has prided itself that it is not like Protestantism. It is the true church and outside of it there is no salvation. Protestantism is divided into thousands of sects and denominations. How can it be true? She has made that point for centuries. Today, there exists a Pope in the chair of Peter that has courted the world and he has caused such a commotion the time has arrived to address it.
http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2022/03/15/a-memorandum-on-the-next-conclave-is-circulating-among-the-cardinals-here-it-is/
A detailed memo has been circulating among the Cardinals, written by an anonymous someone calling themselves, "Demos," which is Greek for 'people.' It begins thus:
"Commentators of every school, if for different reasons, with the possible exception of Father Spadaro, SJ, agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe."
The memo goes on to state the failures and abject erroneous positions Francis has taken during his pontificate. It is a solid piece of traditional Roman Catholic reasoning. As a Protestant I see its failures, biblically, naturally but, the typical clandestine activity of the Curia is now wide open. The cardinals must prepare for the next conclave! The man is not on his deathbed, is he? Is he about to be?
People can get upset that I have outed this Pope as a Communist. He is. He believes in wealth redistribution. That's communism. And some of the things in the memo I have brought out in these posts in the last year. The man is a Catholic train wreck, IF you believe in traditional Roman Catholicism.
My father passed away during the early Pontificate of John Paul 2, perhaps the most powerful and well-known Pope in a thousand years. He was a supreme politician and saw a weakened, watered down Protestantism beat a path to his door. Francis...? My father would have been ashamed.
What does it all mean? There is still mystery behind the death of John Paul 1. Books have been written. Talk about conspiracy theories. I would not be surprised to see the life of Pope Francis go the way of all the Earth anytime now. The Curia is in disarray, filled with dissension, heresy, crime, abominations and just the right condition for a revival to take place, which could bring on the final dominoes of Earth's history to be set in motion.
This also could mean the final chance for the movement of Protestantism to take its stand, declare the truth, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine becomes a footnote, all things considered, because the war between truth and error, between Christ's church and the Devil's is going to clash. Apostate Protestantism will clasp hands with Rome. The kings of the Earth will join its ranks, as "all power, signs and wonders" splash before the world from the throne of the one who calls himself Vicarius Filii Dei - Vicar of the Son of God. The man of sin, antechristos, he who sits "in the chair," not some future boogeyman but, the one who has fought against the truth of God for millennia, in hundreds of various men, "in place of Christ," with more power than kings and entire armies, is going to experience a Renaissance; a rebirth of influence not seen in the entire history of the Papacy. He will literally bring about the catastrophe of the end of the world, thinking "we hold upon this Earth the place of God Almighty."
Two sides. That's it. God's or man's. Those are the options. No others. You cannot stay out of it, as some free agent looking for another team to join. There are only two teams - God's or Satan's. That's it. You are controlled by one of two powers. Everybody. The majority is and has always been and will always be on Satan's side; under delusive influences, both selfish and supernatural. On God's side are the selfless, controlled by the Holy Spirit of God, Christ in them, the hope of glory.
Martyrdom happens today, even as I type; someone is losing their life because they are a Christian in a world that hates Him, that uses His name as the first curse or vociferation out of their mouth when they get angry.
We are all sinners in need of a Savior. Christ is spiritually cleansing a people, making them ready for His glorious return. The lost will literally fall dead from the glory of His presence when He comes bursting through the corridors of space and time with billions of angels dressed for battle, to this blue marble speck of dust in a universe watching with intense interest in the war taking place here.
The Vatican is going to rise in influence. Satan will see to that. The remnant will rise in influence. God will see to that. Truth and His people will be pushed to the front and all humanity will be faced with final choices: God's way, God's law or man's way, man's law. No barcodes, tattoos, implanted chips, branding or inking. The issue is one of the mind, the frontal lobes, the seat of reason and choice, principles and law.
God's law, written with His finger, the transcript of His character, government and purposes, or man's law; useless traditions that prop up men as supreme judges and controllers of the gates of Heaven: spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
Which will you choose, and show it, with a life infused with the help and influence of Christ or, doing your thing, your way, as you please; you are the master of your life. Simple. No degree needed. No university education required. A choice to choose the direction of life towards Heaven or, the second death; eternal life or, destruction and removal of life, gone, a faded memory in the mind of someone who knew you, maybe loved you, carrying on with eternal wonders and discoveries, forever.
Me, my mom, my dad. We all found Christ in different ways, under different pressures and influences. God has a thousand ways we know not of to get through to us, if we are willing.
2Cor 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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529. WHICH WAR? - March 20, 2022
Russia has a dark side. Ukraine has a dark side. NATO has a dark side. America has a dark side. Every accountable human being has a dark side. Take all those godless dark sides and add in agendas of money, power, influence, control, hedonism, etc., and you have war. Physical war, business war, cultural war, spiritual war, information war, you name it, it all stems from the root of self, some how, some way. No leader is perfect, at their best. No general or commander is perfect. No soldier is perfect. No civilian is perfect.
Consider one fact in the Russian/Ukraine conflict: Ukrainian civilians are fighting in the battles. So, when you read of the total number of civilians killed in this "war," are you getting the factual numbers? No. You are getting inflated and twisted numbers because of agendas and the wars already in place well before Russia fired the first shot.
The entire global cabal is involved in this conflict for each of their chosen agendas. Not much of anything or anyone can be trusted. Putin is the easy "devil" to blame. Mainstream news has done no background reporting of Zelenskyy. The fact is, the Azov Battalion, a Neo-Nazi organization, is fighting for Ukraine. That means NATO is backing Nazis, literally, while Putin has claimed he is fighting to end the Nazification of Ukraine.
Putin made a reference to John 15:13 in a recent speech. That brought an instant avalanche of denunciation down on him and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, backing him; from Russian Orthodox leaders and ministers, to evangelical leaders around the world. The verse in question, that Putin paraphrased:
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
He was praising the actions of Russian soldiers and their commitment to the *cause.* The enormous crowd roared. The Press put out stories that many of the crowd were just placed on buses and brought to the event unawares. Some claimed they were paid or forced to go. True? Your guess is as good as mine because nothing does not come without an agenda behind it. Show Putin maintains his worldwide, superior approval rating for any Russian leader in the history of that nation in modern times or, make him look like Satan in a suit any way you can.
My posts have an agenda behind them. I am a Bible-believing Christian, a Constitutionalist American, with beliefs, convictions and opinions that are in that worldview, as well as being a maker and player of drum set artistry. I share to convince or cause readers to ponder and think about the things I write. I am decidedly anti-Leftist, as far as what I believe are the dangers of that worldview. I am anti-Roman Catholic erroneous traditions, anti-Papacy, and anti-Vatican. I do not lie. I'd love to see all the readers and people who visit here become children of God, our Creator, and disciples of Christ, our Saviour, in freedom of truth. You know my agenda. With other entities, maybe yes, maybe no.
I know I cannot trust anything in the mainstream press to be true, most of the time. I know most politicians lie and cannot be trusted. I know history and evidence shows the people running the U.S. government and all its branches cannot be trusted. Too much evidence exists to deny that reality all citizens should have. I know Putin is no "saint." I know Zelenskyy is no "saint." I know some of the history of Ukraine that is not being discussed by those with an agenda to use it for their own ends of making money and gaining power and control, and using Russia as the catalyst for it all, while the Russian people, the vast majority of them, think, "What in the hell is wrong with these people? Are they trying to destroy the world?" Well, that's what many Ukrainians are thinking about Putin right now. Not all, though. Both sides have detractors from the popular positions.
In fact, there are voices out there stating that Russia is basically attacking Russia because the Ukraine is not an actual state or nation. Putin mentions it often. Trump even mentioned it. Other leaders of other nations have stated it. Some historians have stated it. Then there is the other camp stating the exact opposite. It goes the same with Israel and "Palestine" and other national territories surrounding Israel. It is happening with mainland China and Taiwan. Many Mexicans believe Texas is not America's. It's Mexico's and they aim to get it back. This is age old stuff here. There just aren't many willing to go to modern war to stake their claims. Putin is.
Anybody who lambasts Putin because he started a military conflict and people are being killed, is more than naive about old and modern world history and even Russian history, and the facts of war, itself. I am certainly no paragon of wisdom but, based on things I have looked at, right or wrong, morally speaking, I can see Putin's side in this. That was definitely not the case several years ago. Today, I know more.
The question in my mind is - Which War is being fought here? More to the point, How many wars are being fought here? Who are the actual players? What is their agenda? It is NOT just a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. No way. No how. The West is into this up to their ears.
I obviously believe war is totally unproductive when negotiation and discussion can take place. A nation attacks; a nation has the right to defend itself. Putin claims all such discussion over more than a decade but, certainly since 2014, has all been useless. Ukraine has not stayed with anything it signed signatures to from various leaders, allegedly put in place by American/CIA interference. Yeah, it's a total bowl of scrambled eggs, and as a friend put it, add heat, get omelet. A pan of globalist eggs cooking into an omelet is on the stove. They do not care if nuclear war breaks out, as long as they have ways to maintain power and control and keep making money. If the entire world goes up in fire, smoke and radiation ashes, and Africa stays uninvolved and standing, they would modernize the entire continent and seek to gain and maintain control of it. They'll find a way to terraform the Sahara and turn it into green, lush land for any and all purposes they desire; a Southern Mediterranean paradise.
Ukraine is not just defending itself from Putin's aggression and agenda to unify Russia. It is evading its own malfeasance and responsibilities for what it has done by cooperating with the corrupt West, using it, while seeking to destroy its own people to its South East, and lying like a thief in every direction. Putin could not care less about the West anymore. He'll seek to join with the majority of the population of the Earth, in Asia, and create a bastion of prominence to sink the West into oblivion. Will the West start a nuclear war to see to it Putin does not succeed? I believe it would.
The pan is hot. If the omelet gets made, we are all in deep barnyard defecation.
Time will tell.
God help us.
Consider one fact in the Russian/Ukraine conflict: Ukrainian civilians are fighting in the battles. So, when you read of the total number of civilians killed in this "war," are you getting the factual numbers? No. You are getting inflated and twisted numbers because of agendas and the wars already in place well before Russia fired the first shot.
The entire global cabal is involved in this conflict for each of their chosen agendas. Not much of anything or anyone can be trusted. Putin is the easy "devil" to blame. Mainstream news has done no background reporting of Zelenskyy. The fact is, the Azov Battalion, a Neo-Nazi organization, is fighting for Ukraine. That means NATO is backing Nazis, literally, while Putin has claimed he is fighting to end the Nazification of Ukraine.
Putin made a reference to John 15:13 in a recent speech. That brought an instant avalanche of denunciation down on him and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, backing him; from Russian Orthodox leaders and ministers, to evangelical leaders around the world. The verse in question, that Putin paraphrased:
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
He was praising the actions of Russian soldiers and their commitment to the *cause.* The enormous crowd roared. The Press put out stories that many of the crowd were just placed on buses and brought to the event unawares. Some claimed they were paid or forced to go. True? Your guess is as good as mine because nothing does not come without an agenda behind it. Show Putin maintains his worldwide, superior approval rating for any Russian leader in the history of that nation in modern times or, make him look like Satan in a suit any way you can.
My posts have an agenda behind them. I am a Bible-believing Christian, a Constitutionalist American, with beliefs, convictions and opinions that are in that worldview, as well as being a maker and player of drum set artistry. I share to convince or cause readers to ponder and think about the things I write. I am decidedly anti-Leftist, as far as what I believe are the dangers of that worldview. I am anti-Roman Catholic erroneous traditions, anti-Papacy, and anti-Vatican. I do not lie. I'd love to see all the readers and people who visit here become children of God, our Creator, and disciples of Christ, our Saviour, in freedom of truth. You know my agenda. With other entities, maybe yes, maybe no.
I know I cannot trust anything in the mainstream press to be true, most of the time. I know most politicians lie and cannot be trusted. I know history and evidence shows the people running the U.S. government and all its branches cannot be trusted. Too much evidence exists to deny that reality all citizens should have. I know Putin is no "saint." I know Zelenskyy is no "saint." I know some of the history of Ukraine that is not being discussed by those with an agenda to use it for their own ends of making money and gaining power and control, and using Russia as the catalyst for it all, while the Russian people, the vast majority of them, think, "What in the hell is wrong with these people? Are they trying to destroy the world?" Well, that's what many Ukrainians are thinking about Putin right now. Not all, though. Both sides have detractors from the popular positions.
In fact, there are voices out there stating that Russia is basically attacking Russia because the Ukraine is not an actual state or nation. Putin mentions it often. Trump even mentioned it. Other leaders of other nations have stated it. Some historians have stated it. Then there is the other camp stating the exact opposite. It goes the same with Israel and "Palestine" and other national territories surrounding Israel. It is happening with mainland China and Taiwan. Many Mexicans believe Texas is not America's. It's Mexico's and they aim to get it back. This is age old stuff here. There just aren't many willing to go to modern war to stake their claims. Putin is.
Anybody who lambasts Putin because he started a military conflict and people are being killed, is more than naive about old and modern world history and even Russian history, and the facts of war, itself. I am certainly no paragon of wisdom but, based on things I have looked at, right or wrong, morally speaking, I can see Putin's side in this. That was definitely not the case several years ago. Today, I know more.
The question in my mind is - Which War is being fought here? More to the point, How many wars are being fought here? Who are the actual players? What is their agenda? It is NOT just a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. No way. No how. The West is into this up to their ears.
I obviously believe war is totally unproductive when negotiation and discussion can take place. A nation attacks; a nation has the right to defend itself. Putin claims all such discussion over more than a decade but, certainly since 2014, has all been useless. Ukraine has not stayed with anything it signed signatures to from various leaders, allegedly put in place by American/CIA interference. Yeah, it's a total bowl of scrambled eggs, and as a friend put it, add heat, get omelet. A pan of globalist eggs cooking into an omelet is on the stove. They do not care if nuclear war breaks out, as long as they have ways to maintain power and control and keep making money. If the entire world goes up in fire, smoke and radiation ashes, and Africa stays uninvolved and standing, they would modernize the entire continent and seek to gain and maintain control of it. They'll find a way to terraform the Sahara and turn it into green, lush land for any and all purposes they desire; a Southern Mediterranean paradise.
Ukraine is not just defending itself from Putin's aggression and agenda to unify Russia. It is evading its own malfeasance and responsibilities for what it has done by cooperating with the corrupt West, using it, while seeking to destroy its own people to its South East, and lying like a thief in every direction. Putin could not care less about the West anymore. He'll seek to join with the majority of the population of the Earth, in Asia, and create a bastion of prominence to sink the West into oblivion. Will the West start a nuclear war to see to it Putin does not succeed? I believe it would.
The pan is hot. If the omelet gets made, we are all in deep barnyard defecation.
Time will tell.
God help us.
"A Third World War"
“I’m ready for negotiations with him. I was ready for the last two years. And I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war. I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy
First, do you know how many news outlets cannot seem to get that man's name spelled correctly? I has assumed it was one "Y" but, apparently, his last name is spelled with two. I am not a journalist. If I discovered that fact, how is it news networks and their journalists and copy editors cannot decide how to spell the man's name? If they cannot get a name spelling correctly, especially Western journalists not familiar with the language, can those same journalists be counted on, trusted to get other details and facts correct? Just asking.
Second, now that Zelenskyy has dissolved all political parties in Ukraine but, his own, and morphed news networks into one national network the government has control over, which is the definition of totalitarianism: a total takeover of a nation, how is it anything in the West would support this guy?
Third, negotiations between agents of both nations have been ongoing. Is Zelenskyy stating without a face to face with Putin, world war 3 is coming? With an American senator (Lindsay Graham) stating publicly, three times, Putin should be assassinated, he should just trust a meeting in some "neutral" place and to talk to the guy, basically a criminal in his own right, the West is propping up like some poor little kid being bullied around by the Bear?
Fourth, Putin is telling the world to back off; this is not their business. Zelenskyy is telling the world, a world war is coming if he cannot work things out with Russia. Who is being the more open, honest and practical? How can this totalitarian using literal Nazi forces on his front line, be telling the world if he and Putin cannot work things out it starts world war 3? Does he know something the rest of us do not know? Is he being zealously and foolishly presumptuous? Are those really the cards he wants to hold and place bets on? Is it just a big bluff? Has the West already told him they are going to war with Russia, just hang on?
It seems to me, just on the outside looking in, the entire world, all citizens on the globe need to know the answers to such questions, and more.
Putin or Zelenskyy.
Will the real lunatic, please, stand up.
It's Nuke City, baby. Nobody tells anybody what to do anymore, least of all, America. You sit down and stay down till you get it worked out or the planet is toast. Anybody willing to fight a world war 3 is mentally unstable and cannot be trusted. No joke.
This is where Biden gets removed from office. 25th amendment. Harris also gets removed for every obvious reason known to man. That leaves Pelosi. She'll retire. There is no way another mentally impaired senior citizen gets the Oval Office in such a world situation. Then what? Then who? There are 14 positions behind them, president of the senate and cabinet secretaries, and not a single one has close to the necessary capabilities to address such a situation. They are all political wimps and unAmerican, anti-constitutionalists. I state that with confidence. They are socialists, if not avowed communists.
God help us.
First, do you know how many news outlets cannot seem to get that man's name spelled correctly? I has assumed it was one "Y" but, apparently, his last name is spelled with two. I am not a journalist. If I discovered that fact, how is it news networks and their journalists and copy editors cannot decide how to spell the man's name? If they cannot get a name spelling correctly, especially Western journalists not familiar with the language, can those same journalists be counted on, trusted to get other details and facts correct? Just asking.
Second, now that Zelenskyy has dissolved all political parties in Ukraine but, his own, and morphed news networks into one national network the government has control over, which is the definition of totalitarianism: a total takeover of a nation, how is it anything in the West would support this guy?
Third, negotiations between agents of both nations have been ongoing. Is Zelenskyy stating without a face to face with Putin, world war 3 is coming? With an American senator (Lindsay Graham) stating publicly, three times, Putin should be assassinated, he should just trust a meeting in some "neutral" place and to talk to the guy, basically a criminal in his own right, the West is propping up like some poor little kid being bullied around by the Bear?
Fourth, Putin is telling the world to back off; this is not their business. Zelenskyy is telling the world, a world war is coming if he cannot work things out with Russia. Who is being the more open, honest and practical? How can this totalitarian using literal Nazi forces on his front line, be telling the world if he and Putin cannot work things out it starts world war 3? Does he know something the rest of us do not know? Is he being zealously and foolishly presumptuous? Are those really the cards he wants to hold and place bets on? Is it just a big bluff? Has the West already told him they are going to war with Russia, just hang on?
It seems to me, just on the outside looking in, the entire world, all citizens on the globe need to know the answers to such questions, and more.
Putin or Zelenskyy.
Will the real lunatic, please, stand up.
It's Nuke City, baby. Nobody tells anybody what to do anymore, least of all, America. You sit down and stay down till you get it worked out or the planet is toast. Anybody willing to fight a world war 3 is mentally unstable and cannot be trusted. No joke.
This is where Biden gets removed from office. 25th amendment. Harris also gets removed for every obvious reason known to man. That leaves Pelosi. She'll retire. There is no way another mentally impaired senior citizen gets the Oval Office in such a world situation. Then what? Then who? There are 14 positions behind them, president of the senate and cabinet secretaries, and not a single one has close to the necessary capabilities to address such a situation. They are all political wimps and unAmerican, anti-constitutionalists. I state that with confidence. They are socialists, if not avowed communists.
God help us.
Whence Come the Fleas
If you are new to the site and are not yet aware of the Greg Reese Report, I once again must reference it. How anyone can pack so much vital information into a just three or four minutes is a marvel.
I state that this blog is from the perspective of a Christian and a Drummer, and since 2020, an American. My perspective of America has so dwindled as to make me horrified what leaders of the greatest nation in human history have done and will do to attain power. It isn't just America. It's other nations, and their reprehensible plans have been halted before they burst upon the world, like Japan and Germany using bioweapons in WW1 and 2. Various gases, powders, and Ceramic bombs containing plague-laden fleas... now we have viruses and "vaccines."
Before the onset of "conspiracy theory" disinformation campaigns, I can imagine people trying to warn the world of German or Japanese attack being called other things to convince citizens they were crazy, wild-eyed, radical, sky-is-falling weirdos. Today, as one after another "conspiracy theory" is proven to be conspiracy fact, we now have a cabal, a group of agents in the Western Hemisphere; rich, demented, dangerous; a league of players in the darkest of activities making plans, pushing plans, executing plans to control civilization. Some people, far too many, believe evil cannot get to this level in a modern world. This is "dark ages-type" stuff; castles and moats and dungeons and times of severe ignorance and superstition. It must be because common sense would preclude such activity in Judeo/Christian society could never take place. No. Not the case. It has, can, and will.
If you've been coming here, you are already aware. If not, three links to Reese's latest should convince you the players are so confident of success, their plans are in plain view.
https://rumble.com/vwj5yx-pentagon-funded-bio-weapons-labs-in-the-ukraine.html
https://rumble.com/vx0stv-klaus-schwab-and-hunter-biden-connected-to-ukraine-bio-labs.html
https://rumble.com/vxrydl-enemies-within.html
I would say this. Logically, if God does not exist and offer hope, we are doomed. There is no other conclusion to draw.
Thankfully, God has made Himself known through His creation, which the Lord of the flies seeks to obliterate, lest the Creator's signature be seen by all who care to look and behold it.
The cabal of death grows stronger.
Thankfully, the Creator sees all such as atoms. The Sovereign of the universe maintains control. That does not mean rebellious mankind is guaranteed safety. It does mean, however dark it gets, it cannot last, it cannot remove hope in everlasting life beyond the lunacy vying for control. Judgment day cometh.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I state that this blog is from the perspective of a Christian and a Drummer, and since 2020, an American. My perspective of America has so dwindled as to make me horrified what leaders of the greatest nation in human history have done and will do to attain power. It isn't just America. It's other nations, and their reprehensible plans have been halted before they burst upon the world, like Japan and Germany using bioweapons in WW1 and 2. Various gases, powders, and Ceramic bombs containing plague-laden fleas... now we have viruses and "vaccines."
Before the onset of "conspiracy theory" disinformation campaigns, I can imagine people trying to warn the world of German or Japanese attack being called other things to convince citizens they were crazy, wild-eyed, radical, sky-is-falling weirdos. Today, as one after another "conspiracy theory" is proven to be conspiracy fact, we now have a cabal, a group of agents in the Western Hemisphere; rich, demented, dangerous; a league of players in the darkest of activities making plans, pushing plans, executing plans to control civilization. Some people, far too many, believe evil cannot get to this level in a modern world. This is "dark ages-type" stuff; castles and moats and dungeons and times of severe ignorance and superstition. It must be because common sense would preclude such activity in Judeo/Christian society could never take place. No. Not the case. It has, can, and will.
If you've been coming here, you are already aware. If not, three links to Reese's latest should convince you the players are so confident of success, their plans are in plain view.
https://rumble.com/vwj5yx-pentagon-funded-bio-weapons-labs-in-the-ukraine.html
https://rumble.com/vx0stv-klaus-schwab-and-hunter-biden-connected-to-ukraine-bio-labs.html
https://rumble.com/vxrydl-enemies-within.html
I would say this. Logically, if God does not exist and offer hope, we are doomed. There is no other conclusion to draw.
Thankfully, God has made Himself known through His creation, which the Lord of the flies seeks to obliterate, lest the Creator's signature be seen by all who care to look and behold it.
The cabal of death grows stronger.
Thankfully, the Creator sees all such as atoms. The Sovereign of the universe maintains control. That does not mean rebellious mankind is guaranteed safety. It does mean, however dark it gets, it cannot last, it cannot remove hope in everlasting life beyond the lunacy vying for control. Judgment day cometh.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Am I a Peasant?
First things, first. I have zero affinity for Nancy Pelosi. I believe she is a corrupt politician. Zero respect.
That said, the headlines on Conservative news outlets reads things like this:
"Pelosi Reveals Her Disdain For Everyday Americans; “I Like To Eat At 5:30, Like A PEASANT”"
Well, she may have meant to raise herself above all us lowly "deplorables" out here but, before she gets stoned, you may want to consider another possibility to her statement.
Language changes, society to society, national region, cultures, etc. I say 'lunch,' some say 'dinner.' I say 'supper,' some say 'dinner.'
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, supper [dinner] like a peasant [pauper]." That's a well known saying in the world of health and diet. Breakfast literally means, break fast: your body had its last meal around 12 hours before and needs nutrition to begin another day. You break the fast with a hearty meal.
At lunch you eat a medium-sized meal and finish off your work cycle, and at night you "sup."
"supper (n.)mid-13c., soper, "the last meal of the day," from Old French soper "evening meal," noun use of infinitive soper "to eat the evening meal," which is of Germanic origin (see sup (v.1)).
"eat the evening meal," c. 1300, from Old French super, soper "dine, sup, dip bread in soup or wine, sop up" (Modern French souper), which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers."
Some bread and soup or broth. A light meal. Used to be the traditional evening meal for French workers.
That little bit of etymology could be Pelosi's meaning. The 5:30 meal being a light meal.
The headlines relate to a recording of Pelosi, with no date attached to it.
Personally, I only eat a couple meals a day and have done so for over 40 years. If I eat a third meal it's generally light, just some popcorn or fruit or soup. Something like that.
This is my disdain for what I am tired of seeing in newsfeeds: "gotcha" news. Conservative, Liberal, doesn't matter. Both sides have more stories on things members of the other side state or do that is repugnant to them, than stories with actual importance.
Having a Bible-believing, Christian worldview, I already know what opponents and detractors say and have said for centuries. Nothing new under the sun. I know what Leftists say. Parading constant examples peppered through a news feed has gotten so old I have stopped going to more and more news sites that practice this ridiculous excuse for informative "news." It's juvenile.
If Pelosi was caught saying, "We are going to make laws dividing elites from peasants," now you have some news. The way Pelosi eats? Seriously? I already know how she thinks. Leftist disdain for Americans. Same ol,' same ol.' If Pelosi is calling me a peasant, so what? I already know she's an elitist and thinks that way. It isn't news. It's just taking shots at the obvious.
If she meant to say she eats light meals at 5:30, she was defamed. I don't like her but, nobody should be publicly defamed.
Isn't it time we grow up?
That said, the headlines on Conservative news outlets reads things like this:
"Pelosi Reveals Her Disdain For Everyday Americans; “I Like To Eat At 5:30, Like A PEASANT”"
Well, she may have meant to raise herself above all us lowly "deplorables" out here but, before she gets stoned, you may want to consider another possibility to her statement.
Language changes, society to society, national region, cultures, etc. I say 'lunch,' some say 'dinner.' I say 'supper,' some say 'dinner.'
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, supper [dinner] like a peasant [pauper]." That's a well known saying in the world of health and diet. Breakfast literally means, break fast: your body had its last meal around 12 hours before and needs nutrition to begin another day. You break the fast with a hearty meal.
At lunch you eat a medium-sized meal and finish off your work cycle, and at night you "sup."
"supper (n.)mid-13c., soper, "the last meal of the day," from Old French soper "evening meal," noun use of infinitive soper "to eat the evening meal," which is of Germanic origin (see sup (v.1)).
"eat the evening meal," c. 1300, from Old French super, soper "dine, sup, dip bread in soup or wine, sop up" (Modern French souper), which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers."
Some bread and soup or broth. A light meal. Used to be the traditional evening meal for French workers.
That little bit of etymology could be Pelosi's meaning. The 5:30 meal being a light meal.
The headlines relate to a recording of Pelosi, with no date attached to it.
Personally, I only eat a couple meals a day and have done so for over 40 years. If I eat a third meal it's generally light, just some popcorn or fruit or soup. Something like that.
This is my disdain for what I am tired of seeing in newsfeeds: "gotcha" news. Conservative, Liberal, doesn't matter. Both sides have more stories on things members of the other side state or do that is repugnant to them, than stories with actual importance.
Having a Bible-believing, Christian worldview, I already know what opponents and detractors say and have said for centuries. Nothing new under the sun. I know what Leftists say. Parading constant examples peppered through a news feed has gotten so old I have stopped going to more and more news sites that practice this ridiculous excuse for informative "news." It's juvenile.
If Pelosi was caught saying, "We are going to make laws dividing elites from peasants," now you have some news. The way Pelosi eats? Seriously? I already know how she thinks. Leftist disdain for Americans. Same ol,' same ol.' If Pelosi is calling me a peasant, so what? I already know she's an elitist and thinks that way. It isn't news. It's just taking shots at the obvious.
If she meant to say she eats light meals at 5:30, she was defamed. I don't like her but, nobody should be publicly defamed.
Isn't it time we grow up?
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530. Exoplanets - March 25, 2022
"I have examined each claimed earthlike exoplanet as they are announced, and I have concluded that there are no earthlike exoplanets. Over 30 years ago, if scientists were asked to predict how many exoplanets would be earthlike out of 5,000, most of them might have opined that the number would reach into the dozens, perhaps even the hundreds.
"So, what went wrong? It was the optimistic hope that naturalistic explanations would prevail—that life would show to be plentiful in the universe. The stark reality is far from that. The evidence reveals that we are probably alone in the universe. That is a bleak realization for those committed to naturalism. But to those who know and experience God, this is tremendous news. We already knew that God specially made man in his image. No other entity in creation is so described. Life itself is a very complex and special thing, requiring far more stringent requirements than naturalists can admit. Even an environment of a planet that can support life is very special. The lack of earthlike planets among the 5,000 exoplanets is evidence of purposeful design, indicating that there is a Designer."
Those are the closing two paragraphs of an article at the Answers in Genesis website.
https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/extrasolar-planets/5000-known-exoplanets-and-counting/
If you read here in some path of regularity, you know I believe life exists out there in this vast universe because the Bible alludes to it. It is not directly stated but, it is alluded to in a few specific ways:
The redeemed shall reign with Christ (reign over who?).
The 99 sheep that need no saving. If Christ is the Shepherd, and we are the lost sheep, who are the 99?
And lastly, doing a study on the "sons of God." They were there to sing for joy with the morning stars (the angelic host) when God created Earth and life upon it, Job 38:6,7. Who are the sons of God?
So, thinking the answers to those questions through, in light of Scripture, I conclude life, lots of it, is out there among the two trillion estimated galaxies that are thought to exist. I certainly would not be surprised to find out there are far more, too.
If I may, indulge some thoughts on the premises brought forth in those last two paragraphs; some application of common sense and spiritual logic.
First of all, aside from some embarrassment that would be placed before "life only on Earth" proponents, how would discovery of life beyond Earth challenge the belief in a Creator and creation? I should think if life were discovered beyond Earth it's complexity would spin the heads of Naturalists who believe everything came into existence from nothing, which actually sounds pretty supernatural. Of course, spinning and scratching heads does not dissuade Materialists from their viewpoint. They are committed to their faith and belief.
The author of the article states, because there are no planets among the 5,000 exoplanets discovered thus far, to be observed to be like Earth, no life exists in the universe beyond Earth. Obviously angels exist, from the biblical perspective. "Well, yes, yes," the proponent of life only on Earth would say "but, they are different. We are talking about Earthlike lifeforms." Hm. Okay. So, you know lifeforms exist that are not Earthlike; they are supernatural lifeforms but, you conclude God could not have populated the universe with other types of non-Earthlike lifeforms. Sorry. That boat don't float. Just because God has not specifically told us what is out there, offers no proof nothing does. God tells us what we need to know. Mankind does not need to know the specifics of what is out there, as far as life is concerned. He has told us of angels. That is certainly enough, in and of itself, to reject 'no life beyond Earth' opinions.
"The evidence reveals that we are probably alone in the universe."
Mm, well, if two trillion galaxies are known to exist - containing billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of stars each; the largest galaxy known so far containing a trillion stars - and we know of only 5,000 exoplanets out there, in our galaxy, is "evidence" no life exists beyond Earth, such weak reasoning should stagger a mind using critical thinking to draw conclusions. It does not matter what Naturalists conclude, have concluded, or will conclude, anyway. They are not the bottom line. God and His Word are; drawing on principles to make conclusions. The current evidence may lead to a conclusion no Earthlike exoplanets exist but, the current evidence is an atom, all things considered.
"But to those who know and experience God, this is tremendous news. We already knew that God specially made man in his image. No other entity in creation is so described."
So, what image and likeness are angels made in? If "image" means "character," certainly angels have that, and unfallen at that. We are fallen. If "likeness" means "features," well, God is above the physical. He takes shape and form to give His creation a practical avenue to fellowship with Him. Christ brought that down to a real human level but, God is not a man. God is so far beyond what we can think it is utter futility to try and understand the complete nature of Deity.
Angels are not human; not male or female; they are a separate form of creation. The Bible states they have wings, though they are not always portrayed or seen that way. They are often pictured as men in white garments, or other type of clothing, making them seem as human as anyone else. They travel at the speed of thought. I'm sorry but, you cannot leave angels out of this discussion. Doing so is a severe disservice to their presence in the universe. And to conclude God could not make an infinite number of lifeforms throughout the universe of like design is really shallow, is it not, when we have so little information about the place? We don't even know all the lifeforms on Earth. New ones are discovered to this day, especially in the oceans; and they are wild, too, surprising us to be able to live in really extreme conditions and environments. Well, extreme for humans. Get the picture? We can have no just conception of what life can exist in any environments or planetary conditions God created. We are still learning what lifeforms on Earth can live in.
"Even an environment of a planet that can support life is very special. The lack of earthlike planets among the 5,000 exoplanets is evidence of purposeful design, indicating that there is a Designer."
I have no argument with that. Naturalists and Materialists are faced with all kinds of problems in explaining what is and how it got here. Evidence of purposeful design is no barrier to design beyond what is seen on Earth, though.
Man knows of no tree that can produce different fruit every month, let alone twelve different fruits. Well, the Tree of Life does, Rev 22:2. And it may rotate an infinite number for eternity. Special? We have no idea how "special" can be defined. We have no comprehension. We are like slugs in a university by comparison.
Yes, Earth is special because God created it in the wake of Lucifer's rebellion and challenge to God's sovereignty. He created it in six days of pageantry and mind-blowing power, not to mention the solar system and galaxy, all spoken into existence. Lucifer's challenge turns into dust; less than dust. It became such an absurdity he went postal and lives to destroy whatever he can. He cannot create from nothing. He just perverts what is already created.
Modern science has no use for angels, for Heaven, for the supernatural. Well, at least those in science who are Naturalists and Materialists. I just question the common sense and logic of professed Christians who cannot see past what they understand of our galaxy, a literal speck of dust among two trillion galaxies estimated to exist. It would take around 64,000 years to count to two trillion out loud. That's upwards of a thousand lifetimes. Who in there right mind would conclude no life exists beyond Earth because we know of 5,000 exoplanets that show no evidence of having characteristics that define and allow for life, on Earth?
That is just such shallow imagination and reasoning. It puts God in a box of man's creation, while they claim God is infinite in nature and above His creation.
It isn't like the subject is a test of fellowship or has salvific qualities to it. On the other hand, those who put God in their own box of understanding become easier targets for Satan to deceive; and deceptions are coming my friends; designed to deceive, if possible, the very elect.
Watch how this subject becomes part of the final battles before Christ returns.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"So, what went wrong? It was the optimistic hope that naturalistic explanations would prevail—that life would show to be plentiful in the universe. The stark reality is far from that. The evidence reveals that we are probably alone in the universe. That is a bleak realization for those committed to naturalism. But to those who know and experience God, this is tremendous news. We already knew that God specially made man in his image. No other entity in creation is so described. Life itself is a very complex and special thing, requiring far more stringent requirements than naturalists can admit. Even an environment of a planet that can support life is very special. The lack of earthlike planets among the 5,000 exoplanets is evidence of purposeful design, indicating that there is a Designer."
Those are the closing two paragraphs of an article at the Answers in Genesis website.
https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/extrasolar-planets/5000-known-exoplanets-and-counting/
If you read here in some path of regularity, you know I believe life exists out there in this vast universe because the Bible alludes to it. It is not directly stated but, it is alluded to in a few specific ways:
The redeemed shall reign with Christ (reign over who?).
The 99 sheep that need no saving. If Christ is the Shepherd, and we are the lost sheep, who are the 99?
And lastly, doing a study on the "sons of God." They were there to sing for joy with the morning stars (the angelic host) when God created Earth and life upon it, Job 38:6,7. Who are the sons of God?
So, thinking the answers to those questions through, in light of Scripture, I conclude life, lots of it, is out there among the two trillion estimated galaxies that are thought to exist. I certainly would not be surprised to find out there are far more, too.
If I may, indulge some thoughts on the premises brought forth in those last two paragraphs; some application of common sense and spiritual logic.
First of all, aside from some embarrassment that would be placed before "life only on Earth" proponents, how would discovery of life beyond Earth challenge the belief in a Creator and creation? I should think if life were discovered beyond Earth it's complexity would spin the heads of Naturalists who believe everything came into existence from nothing, which actually sounds pretty supernatural. Of course, spinning and scratching heads does not dissuade Materialists from their viewpoint. They are committed to their faith and belief.
The author of the article states, because there are no planets among the 5,000 exoplanets discovered thus far, to be observed to be like Earth, no life exists in the universe beyond Earth. Obviously angels exist, from the biblical perspective. "Well, yes, yes," the proponent of life only on Earth would say "but, they are different. We are talking about Earthlike lifeforms." Hm. Okay. So, you know lifeforms exist that are not Earthlike; they are supernatural lifeforms but, you conclude God could not have populated the universe with other types of non-Earthlike lifeforms. Sorry. That boat don't float. Just because God has not specifically told us what is out there, offers no proof nothing does. God tells us what we need to know. Mankind does not need to know the specifics of what is out there, as far as life is concerned. He has told us of angels. That is certainly enough, in and of itself, to reject 'no life beyond Earth' opinions.
"The evidence reveals that we are probably alone in the universe."
Mm, well, if two trillion galaxies are known to exist - containing billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of stars each; the largest galaxy known so far containing a trillion stars - and we know of only 5,000 exoplanets out there, in our galaxy, is "evidence" no life exists beyond Earth, such weak reasoning should stagger a mind using critical thinking to draw conclusions. It does not matter what Naturalists conclude, have concluded, or will conclude, anyway. They are not the bottom line. God and His Word are; drawing on principles to make conclusions. The current evidence may lead to a conclusion no Earthlike exoplanets exist but, the current evidence is an atom, all things considered.
"But to those who know and experience God, this is tremendous news. We already knew that God specially made man in his image. No other entity in creation is so described."
So, what image and likeness are angels made in? If "image" means "character," certainly angels have that, and unfallen at that. We are fallen. If "likeness" means "features," well, God is above the physical. He takes shape and form to give His creation a practical avenue to fellowship with Him. Christ brought that down to a real human level but, God is not a man. God is so far beyond what we can think it is utter futility to try and understand the complete nature of Deity.
Angels are not human; not male or female; they are a separate form of creation. The Bible states they have wings, though they are not always portrayed or seen that way. They are often pictured as men in white garments, or other type of clothing, making them seem as human as anyone else. They travel at the speed of thought. I'm sorry but, you cannot leave angels out of this discussion. Doing so is a severe disservice to their presence in the universe. And to conclude God could not make an infinite number of lifeforms throughout the universe of like design is really shallow, is it not, when we have so little information about the place? We don't even know all the lifeforms on Earth. New ones are discovered to this day, especially in the oceans; and they are wild, too, surprising us to be able to live in really extreme conditions and environments. Well, extreme for humans. Get the picture? We can have no just conception of what life can exist in any environments or planetary conditions God created. We are still learning what lifeforms on Earth can live in.
"Even an environment of a planet that can support life is very special. The lack of earthlike planets among the 5,000 exoplanets is evidence of purposeful design, indicating that there is a Designer."
I have no argument with that. Naturalists and Materialists are faced with all kinds of problems in explaining what is and how it got here. Evidence of purposeful design is no barrier to design beyond what is seen on Earth, though.
Man knows of no tree that can produce different fruit every month, let alone twelve different fruits. Well, the Tree of Life does, Rev 22:2. And it may rotate an infinite number for eternity. Special? We have no idea how "special" can be defined. We have no comprehension. We are like slugs in a university by comparison.
Yes, Earth is special because God created it in the wake of Lucifer's rebellion and challenge to God's sovereignty. He created it in six days of pageantry and mind-blowing power, not to mention the solar system and galaxy, all spoken into existence. Lucifer's challenge turns into dust; less than dust. It became such an absurdity he went postal and lives to destroy whatever he can. He cannot create from nothing. He just perverts what is already created.
Modern science has no use for angels, for Heaven, for the supernatural. Well, at least those in science who are Naturalists and Materialists. I just question the common sense and logic of professed Christians who cannot see past what they understand of our galaxy, a literal speck of dust among two trillion galaxies estimated to exist. It would take around 64,000 years to count to two trillion out loud. That's upwards of a thousand lifetimes. Who in there right mind would conclude no life exists beyond Earth because we know of 5,000 exoplanets that show no evidence of having characteristics that define and allow for life, on Earth?
That is just such shallow imagination and reasoning. It puts God in a box of man's creation, while they claim God is infinite in nature and above His creation.
It isn't like the subject is a test of fellowship or has salvific qualities to it. On the other hand, those who put God in their own box of understanding become easier targets for Satan to deceive; and deceptions are coming my friends; designed to deceive, if possible, the very elect.
Watch how this subject becomes part of the final battles before Christ returns.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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531. The Removal of Religion and Science - March 26, 2022
Most of the time there is a battle between religion and science. At least, non-religious scientists create that battle, and have for well over a century and a half. At one point in time scientists saw science as away to understand the workings of God in everything we see and experience: land, sea, space... it was all chapters of a book telling us how incredible God is, in what was seen in creation.
Today, the premise - We must not allow God's foot to get in the door - has entrenched itself in "science."
I saw portions of a pathetic speech by Justin Trudeau the other day, at the EU Parliament. Pathetic is not the right word. Treacherous is closer to the fact. In the speech he categorized people who deny science; the science of Covid and "vaccines," as dangerous to society. Of course, for him, any dissention from his despotism and crushing of liberty makes for bad Canadians. Only a few parliamentarians stood up and denounced his speech. It was heartwarming to at least see some with courage to openly denounce tyranny.
The same is obviously here, in America. The battles of the early 20th century between religion and professed science gave birth to an absolute war that remains more intense today, despite constant discoveries that lead to excitement in the creation/intelligent design camps. The war against God is increasing, not decreasing. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and other, many more American dark forces, are determined to remove God from human consciousness.
The current male swimmer, "Lia" Thomas, considers himself female, therefore, despite the science constantly shoved in our faces when it comes to moral matters, it is shoved into a closet so the guy can swim with females. Confused? Hey, it's Babylon. Confusion is the rule, not common sense and logic and, well, science.
The same goes for "Rachel" Levine, voted woman of the year by Time magazine. A man, wants to be a woman, gets to be, despite the science that states he's a man: penis, testicles, sperm, chromosomes; all that biology and science. Both undergo hormone treatments. Both are men, same as Bruce Jenner, same as any man or woman claiming to be the opposite sex.
The new woman nominated to take a seat on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was chosen by Joe Biden precisely because she is a "black" "woman," yet she doesn't know what she is. At her confirmation hearings, she was asked what a woman is. She said she didn't know because she isn't a biologist. If that confused woman ends up on the Supreme Court, we can know America is in a confused leadership state of affairs that will bring down the nation, just as the non-president, Joe Biden announces America must lead in the coming New World Order.
I certainly cannot claim to understand the minds and crossed wires of sincere people who believe, feel they are something they biologically are not. I know it may seem like hate to stand against their admissions. It isn't. It's common sense, and logic, and science.
Disney, ever the growing "woke" empire, removed a same-sex kissing scene in an upcoming Buzz Lightyear animated movie. Backlash took it out, then greater backlash from LGBTQ put it back in. War, anyone?
It seems only someone addicted to electronic games, constantly looking at little screens, or big ones, could fail to realize and see what is taking place in society. The warnings from pulpits and press against the onslaught of humanism, back in the 70's and 80's, seen as nonsense and calamity howling back then, has now come full-force. No God, no religion, no sexes, no morality, no standards of civilization, only science that props up a social engineering agenda, allowed. It's happening and most people are not seeing it as a threat to their safety in society. It's them, over there, not here in our home but, that is fading fast. Publicly trained students are succumbing to the brainwashing. Homes are dividing coast to coast. Nazis are fighting a war against Russia. The world is saluting them. The elites want war because war makes money. War is profitable. Therefore, we war.
I don't know what is coming. I suspect the entrance of Lucifer into this confused mix with an opportunity for "peace and safety." Masquerading as "ET"? Supernatural events surrounding the Vatican and Papacy? Natural disasters and events that put all humanity on notice the world is waxing old as a garment? Death beyond human estimate from technological weapons, bioweapons, war, medicine, needles, food, water, air? All the above? Probably.
It's the end of the world, people. Only someone living by themselves in a cave could not notice the changes taking place, and the circumstances and conditions arising.
A family member recently told me they didn't see any reason to believe in some globalist cabal trying to overtake the world. The ignorance of what can be read from their own websites was pretty obvious. They are telling us their intentions. They have been for decades. People are engrossed with dozens of things throughout a day that prevents them from seeing what is growing all around them. Even those who want a NWO and leaders to take care of them and run society, are too engrossed in the very things that threaten them to see the ultimate results - transhumans, controlled by technology. Dystopian nightmares of proportions never dreamed by humanity, pre-20th century.
Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Two camps are being constructed by two builders. Those in darkness, by the builder, Lucifer. And those in the Light, built by the LORD God. His glory shall be upon them: His glory being His character. Hatred is coming beyond what anyone has ever seen. Love is coming, which has been seen before, in the life of Christ, bestowed within those who desire to be like him. You do not have to desire to be like Satan to be just like him. You only have to deny Christ, deny sinfulness and deny the plan of salvation and you'll get there, a perfect image of the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning. Oh, you are not a liar or murderer? Look deeper and see what your mind has performed that stayed thoughts, not action. The thing is, God says those thoughts are just as powerful as the actions that could be committed from them. We are accountable for thoughts dwelt upon. Hate is a powerful thing. Love is, too, and that battle is the final one. Who do you love supremely? What do you love, supremely? Who and what will receive your allegiance and obedience? The world is dividing. Can't you see it?
Two camps. Two sides. One will be huge. One will be big enough but, hatred will breed persecution and those numbers will dwindle, world-wide, until a small remnant is left, alive, awaiting a final, world-wide death decree to be carried out. Then, at the darkest hour, the tables turn, and the rescue of all time takes place. The darkness will be shred by the Light and glory of Iesou Christos and His armies from Heaven.
Everything we see happening has a point, my friend. They are warnings. Alarms. Signals. Heed them. And prepare. The end of all things is at hand, sometime, coming.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Today, the premise - We must not allow God's foot to get in the door - has entrenched itself in "science."
I saw portions of a pathetic speech by Justin Trudeau the other day, at the EU Parliament. Pathetic is not the right word. Treacherous is closer to the fact. In the speech he categorized people who deny science; the science of Covid and "vaccines," as dangerous to society. Of course, for him, any dissention from his despotism and crushing of liberty makes for bad Canadians. Only a few parliamentarians stood up and denounced his speech. It was heartwarming to at least see some with courage to openly denounce tyranny.
The same is obviously here, in America. The battles of the early 20th century between religion and professed science gave birth to an absolute war that remains more intense today, despite constant discoveries that lead to excitement in the creation/intelligent design camps. The war against God is increasing, not decreasing. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and other, many more American dark forces, are determined to remove God from human consciousness.
The current male swimmer, "Lia" Thomas, considers himself female, therefore, despite the science constantly shoved in our faces when it comes to moral matters, it is shoved into a closet so the guy can swim with females. Confused? Hey, it's Babylon. Confusion is the rule, not common sense and logic and, well, science.
The same goes for "Rachel" Levine, voted woman of the year by Time magazine. A man, wants to be a woman, gets to be, despite the science that states he's a man: penis, testicles, sperm, chromosomes; all that biology and science. Both undergo hormone treatments. Both are men, same as Bruce Jenner, same as any man or woman claiming to be the opposite sex.
The new woman nominated to take a seat on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was chosen by Joe Biden precisely because she is a "black" "woman," yet she doesn't know what she is. At her confirmation hearings, she was asked what a woman is. She said she didn't know because she isn't a biologist. If that confused woman ends up on the Supreme Court, we can know America is in a confused leadership state of affairs that will bring down the nation, just as the non-president, Joe Biden announces America must lead in the coming New World Order.
I certainly cannot claim to understand the minds and crossed wires of sincere people who believe, feel they are something they biologically are not. I know it may seem like hate to stand against their admissions. It isn't. It's common sense, and logic, and science.
Disney, ever the growing "woke" empire, removed a same-sex kissing scene in an upcoming Buzz Lightyear animated movie. Backlash took it out, then greater backlash from LGBTQ put it back in. War, anyone?
It seems only someone addicted to electronic games, constantly looking at little screens, or big ones, could fail to realize and see what is taking place in society. The warnings from pulpits and press against the onslaught of humanism, back in the 70's and 80's, seen as nonsense and calamity howling back then, has now come full-force. No God, no religion, no sexes, no morality, no standards of civilization, only science that props up a social engineering agenda, allowed. It's happening and most people are not seeing it as a threat to their safety in society. It's them, over there, not here in our home but, that is fading fast. Publicly trained students are succumbing to the brainwashing. Homes are dividing coast to coast. Nazis are fighting a war against Russia. The world is saluting them. The elites want war because war makes money. War is profitable. Therefore, we war.
I don't know what is coming. I suspect the entrance of Lucifer into this confused mix with an opportunity for "peace and safety." Masquerading as "ET"? Supernatural events surrounding the Vatican and Papacy? Natural disasters and events that put all humanity on notice the world is waxing old as a garment? Death beyond human estimate from technological weapons, bioweapons, war, medicine, needles, food, water, air? All the above? Probably.
It's the end of the world, people. Only someone living by themselves in a cave could not notice the changes taking place, and the circumstances and conditions arising.
A family member recently told me they didn't see any reason to believe in some globalist cabal trying to overtake the world. The ignorance of what can be read from their own websites was pretty obvious. They are telling us their intentions. They have been for decades. People are engrossed with dozens of things throughout a day that prevents them from seeing what is growing all around them. Even those who want a NWO and leaders to take care of them and run society, are too engrossed in the very things that threaten them to see the ultimate results - transhumans, controlled by technology. Dystopian nightmares of proportions never dreamed by humanity, pre-20th century.
Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Two camps are being constructed by two builders. Those in darkness, by the builder, Lucifer. And those in the Light, built by the LORD God. His glory shall be upon them: His glory being His character. Hatred is coming beyond what anyone has ever seen. Love is coming, which has been seen before, in the life of Christ, bestowed within those who desire to be like him. You do not have to desire to be like Satan to be just like him. You only have to deny Christ, deny sinfulness and deny the plan of salvation and you'll get there, a perfect image of the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning. Oh, you are not a liar or murderer? Look deeper and see what your mind has performed that stayed thoughts, not action. The thing is, God says those thoughts are just as powerful as the actions that could be committed from them. We are accountable for thoughts dwelt upon. Hate is a powerful thing. Love is, too, and that battle is the final one. Who do you love supremely? What do you love, supremely? Who and what will receive your allegiance and obedience? The world is dividing. Can't you see it?
Two camps. Two sides. One will be huge. One will be big enough but, hatred will breed persecution and those numbers will dwindle, world-wide, until a small remnant is left, alive, awaiting a final, world-wide death decree to be carried out. Then, at the darkest hour, the tables turn, and the rescue of all time takes place. The darkness will be shred by the Light and glory of Iesou Christos and His armies from Heaven.
Everything we see happening has a point, my friend. They are warnings. Alarms. Signals. Heed them. And prepare. The end of all things is at hand, sometime, coming.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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532. The Removal of Religion and Science, Part 2 - March 26, 2022
"Cox pointed to a number of factors that have impacted a diminished view of organized religion, including a breach of trust.
"Gallup has found that trust and confidence in organized religion have plummeted over the past two decades. In 2021, only 37% of the public reported having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in religious institutions, a massive decline since 2001 when 60 percent reported feeling confident," he said.
"He further added that while only 35% of Americans overall believe religion causes more harm than good, among the disaffiliated who were raised in religious homes, 69% say religion causes problems more than it provides solutions. Some 63% of Americans who have always been religiously unaffiliated also believe religion causes more problems in society than it solves.
"And while more than half of Americans say raising children with religion is a benefit, 82% of the religiously unaffiliated disagree. Only 40% of Gen Z see raising children with religion as a good thing."
Those are the final paragraphs of a story about the current effect of religion in American society. If you doubt the things I shared in the last post, read the article.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/americans.are.leaving.church.and.most.arent.coming.back.report/138364.htm
The article is filled with plenty of statistics gathered and reporting the situation is rather bleak. Now, you will generally see people often relate to a difference between "religion" and "Jesus." Religion is generally seen as a negative, Jesus as a positive. That denies what the Bible specifically states about the term "religion," as I have written before, and in this case, religion is just a broadly used term for organized faith of some kind. It truly strikes us, "The Faith of Our Fathers" is losing ground.
The world is going humanist, secular, tech and robotized, i.e. transhuman; another type of human being: a better one - "building back better" - not mixed up by religious thought and practice. After all, do we not see a clash between various clergy defending Russia, castigating Russia, defending Ukraine, castigating Ukraine?
Do we not see religious leaders defending homosexuality and denouncing homosexuality?
Do we not see religious leaders denouncing racism, while they practice it, themselves?
Do we not see more and more headlines of religious leaders of major churches and institutions caught in sexual scandals, money scandals, and other scandals of the weaknesses of human flesh?
What good is religion?
Good news does not sell, bad news does. So, we expect to see stories of a single pastor or priest made out to represent the whole of religion by a secularized, humanist Press. Religion and God are to be removed from society by omnipotent, omniscient elitists that know what is better for the planet and its inhabitants. In their warped minds, anyway.
All of this was predicted 2000 years ago. I suppose it is well summed up in a statement by the apostle Peter:
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
That pretty much sums it up. Scoffers, disbelievers becoming a majority; mocking, deriding, and forgetful that God made the world out of water, destroyed it with water when the first round of scoffers perished, and the next time fire will be the purging agent. Peter writes to his readers that God is not slack concerning His promises. Time is irrelevant to God. He is above and beyond, outside of time He created. Everything is always the present before Him. He has no past nor future. He waits for His creation to turn to Him, to repent and be saved from their sins. Someday He shall recreate the Earth and things will go back to normal, for surely what is now is not normal. It is the gross realization of abnormality, death being the biggest offender. Death is not normal. Eternal life was the original plan and shall go back to that normality some day.
BUT! the scoffers state. Religion is just something men came up with to come to grips with evil. Stories of "good" versus "bad," even among gods; which were little more than big men and women acting the same as little men and women on Earth. There was no world-wide flood, even though dozens of ancient civilizations around the globe have stories of one; even though the planet shows the final results of a deluge on every single continent.
Here's the problem. Religion did not make a butterfly from a cocoon of goo. Religion did not make a Hummingbird. Religion did not make an eye and the system of tears to lubricate them and act as a release valve for both positive and negative emotions. Religion certainly did not make a Platypus and numerous other creatures that totally defy Materialist, Naturalist explanations of the origins of life and beyond. Religion did not make all the seeds being planted in gardens around the Northern Hemisphere right now: tiny packages containing libraries worth of code and instructions to go from seed, to plant and fruit, to seed, to start it all over again. Religion did not make the incredible and amazing human life cycle in all its microscopic wonder. No, Jesus made all those and millions, billions more. Not to mention galaxies and solar systems and we can only imagine what else is out there which God's people will one day begin eternity to discover and enjoy. Religion is man's expression of understanding his Creator, his Sovereign Lord and Ruler. Plenty of religions exist. Tens of thousands, actually. And yes, many of them contain little more than man's imaginations. Yet the biblical Creator promises that if you want to know Him, He will draw you to Him, to the truth, to salvation and immortal life. Your choice.
It's sad, tragic to see people rejecting their Creator. Soon enough they will receive a Deceiver as their lord. Leaving spiritual defensive mechanisms aside, they will believe what they sense, rather than a plain Thus Saith the LORD. They will become deluded by lies seen in "all power, signs and lying wonders," and events with no explanations but, the supernatural or certainly above and beyond natural as we currently understand it. All the deniers of the supernatural will yet be taken captive by it because they rejected God, His Word, and His principles found in His character, government and purposes. They will reject true love and put in its place an overmastering delusion of deceptions and lies from their father, the god of this world. They will choose the fake; falsehoods, fictitious fraudulent fabrications in the place of the truth.
It is so obvious, it is stunning to watch it all be rejected year by year.
It will be far too late when humanity realizes what has befallen them, and the faults will lie at their own doors.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Gallup has found that trust and confidence in organized religion have plummeted over the past two decades. In 2021, only 37% of the public reported having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in religious institutions, a massive decline since 2001 when 60 percent reported feeling confident," he said.
"He further added that while only 35% of Americans overall believe religion causes more harm than good, among the disaffiliated who were raised in religious homes, 69% say religion causes problems more than it provides solutions. Some 63% of Americans who have always been religiously unaffiliated also believe religion causes more problems in society than it solves.
"And while more than half of Americans say raising children with religion is a benefit, 82% of the religiously unaffiliated disagree. Only 40% of Gen Z see raising children with religion as a good thing."
Those are the final paragraphs of a story about the current effect of religion in American society. If you doubt the things I shared in the last post, read the article.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/americans.are.leaving.church.and.most.arent.coming.back.report/138364.htm
The article is filled with plenty of statistics gathered and reporting the situation is rather bleak. Now, you will generally see people often relate to a difference between "religion" and "Jesus." Religion is generally seen as a negative, Jesus as a positive. That denies what the Bible specifically states about the term "religion," as I have written before, and in this case, religion is just a broadly used term for organized faith of some kind. It truly strikes us, "The Faith of Our Fathers" is losing ground.
The world is going humanist, secular, tech and robotized, i.e. transhuman; another type of human being: a better one - "building back better" - not mixed up by religious thought and practice. After all, do we not see a clash between various clergy defending Russia, castigating Russia, defending Ukraine, castigating Ukraine?
Do we not see religious leaders defending homosexuality and denouncing homosexuality?
Do we not see religious leaders denouncing racism, while they practice it, themselves?
Do we not see more and more headlines of religious leaders of major churches and institutions caught in sexual scandals, money scandals, and other scandals of the weaknesses of human flesh?
What good is religion?
Good news does not sell, bad news does. So, we expect to see stories of a single pastor or priest made out to represent the whole of religion by a secularized, humanist Press. Religion and God are to be removed from society by omnipotent, omniscient elitists that know what is better for the planet and its inhabitants. In their warped minds, anyway.
All of this was predicted 2000 years ago. I suppose it is well summed up in a statement by the apostle Peter:
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
That pretty much sums it up. Scoffers, disbelievers becoming a majority; mocking, deriding, and forgetful that God made the world out of water, destroyed it with water when the first round of scoffers perished, and the next time fire will be the purging agent. Peter writes to his readers that God is not slack concerning His promises. Time is irrelevant to God. He is above and beyond, outside of time He created. Everything is always the present before Him. He has no past nor future. He waits for His creation to turn to Him, to repent and be saved from their sins. Someday He shall recreate the Earth and things will go back to normal, for surely what is now is not normal. It is the gross realization of abnormality, death being the biggest offender. Death is not normal. Eternal life was the original plan and shall go back to that normality some day.
BUT! the scoffers state. Religion is just something men came up with to come to grips with evil. Stories of "good" versus "bad," even among gods; which were little more than big men and women acting the same as little men and women on Earth. There was no world-wide flood, even though dozens of ancient civilizations around the globe have stories of one; even though the planet shows the final results of a deluge on every single continent.
Here's the problem. Religion did not make a butterfly from a cocoon of goo. Religion did not make a Hummingbird. Religion did not make an eye and the system of tears to lubricate them and act as a release valve for both positive and negative emotions. Religion certainly did not make a Platypus and numerous other creatures that totally defy Materialist, Naturalist explanations of the origins of life and beyond. Religion did not make all the seeds being planted in gardens around the Northern Hemisphere right now: tiny packages containing libraries worth of code and instructions to go from seed, to plant and fruit, to seed, to start it all over again. Religion did not make the incredible and amazing human life cycle in all its microscopic wonder. No, Jesus made all those and millions, billions more. Not to mention galaxies and solar systems and we can only imagine what else is out there which God's people will one day begin eternity to discover and enjoy. Religion is man's expression of understanding his Creator, his Sovereign Lord and Ruler. Plenty of religions exist. Tens of thousands, actually. And yes, many of them contain little more than man's imaginations. Yet the biblical Creator promises that if you want to know Him, He will draw you to Him, to the truth, to salvation and immortal life. Your choice.
It's sad, tragic to see people rejecting their Creator. Soon enough they will receive a Deceiver as their lord. Leaving spiritual defensive mechanisms aside, they will believe what they sense, rather than a plain Thus Saith the LORD. They will become deluded by lies seen in "all power, signs and lying wonders," and events with no explanations but, the supernatural or certainly above and beyond natural as we currently understand it. All the deniers of the supernatural will yet be taken captive by it because they rejected God, His Word, and His principles found in His character, government and purposes. They will reject true love and put in its place an overmastering delusion of deceptions and lies from their father, the god of this world. They will choose the fake; falsehoods, fictitious fraudulent fabrications in the place of the truth.
It is so obvious, it is stunning to watch it all be rejected year by year.
It will be far too late when humanity realizes what has befallen them, and the faults will lie at their own doors.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A Ukrainian Space Ark?!?
Up front, I am certainly not posting this because I believe it. Nowhere near enough empirical evidence.
On the other hand, what have I been posting for the last few years? Satan is going to use the whole "ET" gig for some last day deceptions and delusions and size the world up for the last, big dog and pony show of "all power, signs and lying wonders," and do so through "the man of sin," which prophetically is any pope sitting in the "dragon's" "seat" of power of the Papacy in Vatican City/State, in Rome; the city on seven hills.
Watching the video, you will probably shake your head but, follow it through and you will see the connections I have made almost all my adult life the last 43 years. On the verge of nuclear war or some enormous catastrophic cataclysm staring Earth in the face, "ET" arrives to save the day, and the final events will then be rapid ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz01w7weyDI
Trust me, I'm not betting the farm on this. I just knew, sooner or later the UFO subject was going to rise up to center stage.
Is it about to happen? We'll all watch and see. It's going to be interesting. More than that. If I'm right, it's going to be the most serious time in human history.
Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
On the other hand, what have I been posting for the last few years? Satan is going to use the whole "ET" gig for some last day deceptions and delusions and size the world up for the last, big dog and pony show of "all power, signs and lying wonders," and do so through "the man of sin," which prophetically is any pope sitting in the "dragon's" "seat" of power of the Papacy in Vatican City/State, in Rome; the city on seven hills.
Watching the video, you will probably shake your head but, follow it through and you will see the connections I have made almost all my adult life the last 43 years. On the verge of nuclear war or some enormous catastrophic cataclysm staring Earth in the face, "ET" arrives to save the day, and the final events will then be rapid ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz01w7weyDI
Trust me, I'm not betting the farm on this. I just knew, sooner or later the UFO subject was going to rise up to center stage.
Is it about to happen? We'll all watch and see. It's going to be interesting. More than that. If I'm right, it's going to be the most serious time in human history.
Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I Used to Deny This. Not Anymore.
A year or two ago I came upon a website:
geoengineeringwatch.org
I used to deny, then just question the act of spraying the skies with nanoparticles and controlling weather and atmospheric conditions; chemtrails. Not quite convinced. Too outlandish. Too prone with too many players who would whistle-blow their heads off. Today, after looking at a few things at that website every now and then, I am a believer. It is unquestionable, undeniable, and all a part of the same cabal of elitists involved in strange devastating fires, storms, the Covid conspiracy, the Vaccination carnage, and now we are being told more viruses and pandemics are on the way; food will become scarce; money and currency is changing, all globally. It is all from the same players, part of the same sinister group of control freaks and demigods (in their own eyes).
Watch this video, one of many Dane Wigington has made. It is a powerful and very deliberate 52 minutes. A man with a background necessary to investigate and expose what is being done to Earth's skies, and thereby all ecosystems and life on the planet, he pulls no punches. He puts it all up on the screen; a man after my own heart. Don't just say it. Show it. I may have mentioned the website before on this blog. It bears repeating.
I used to proclaim in prophecy seminars that humanity is at a place it has never been before: we now have the capacity to destroy ourselves. Right now, the Ukraine/Russia conflict has everyone asking the big question - will someone drop a nuke and start the end of life on Earth? A huge sign of the times; that the age of last day events is upon us, and Christ is going to return, most probably in our lifetime.
Well, even if a nuke is not dropped, Wigington courageously goes about exposing what is being done, come hell or high water. Regardless of blowback or rebuke, he presses on, year after year and apparently the tide is beginning to turn. The link is to a presentation he did back in 2015. Here we are seven years later, and nothing has gotten better. It gets steadily worse. Why? Watch and see. The evil at the helm of this current world always gets worse than we think possible. Just because nobody drops a nuke does not mean mankind is safe. Not by a longshot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0Ko2OU4Ec&list=PLwfFtDFZDpwutYOt4Ds-626kTMX3gDcuD&index=6
geoengineeringwatch.org
I used to deny, then just question the act of spraying the skies with nanoparticles and controlling weather and atmospheric conditions; chemtrails. Not quite convinced. Too outlandish. Too prone with too many players who would whistle-blow their heads off. Today, after looking at a few things at that website every now and then, I am a believer. It is unquestionable, undeniable, and all a part of the same cabal of elitists involved in strange devastating fires, storms, the Covid conspiracy, the Vaccination carnage, and now we are being told more viruses and pandemics are on the way; food will become scarce; money and currency is changing, all globally. It is all from the same players, part of the same sinister group of control freaks and demigods (in their own eyes).
Watch this video, one of many Dane Wigington has made. It is a powerful and very deliberate 52 minutes. A man with a background necessary to investigate and expose what is being done to Earth's skies, and thereby all ecosystems and life on the planet, he pulls no punches. He puts it all up on the screen; a man after my own heart. Don't just say it. Show it. I may have mentioned the website before on this blog. It bears repeating.
I used to proclaim in prophecy seminars that humanity is at a place it has never been before: we now have the capacity to destroy ourselves. Right now, the Ukraine/Russia conflict has everyone asking the big question - will someone drop a nuke and start the end of life on Earth? A huge sign of the times; that the age of last day events is upon us, and Christ is going to return, most probably in our lifetime.
Well, even if a nuke is not dropped, Wigington courageously goes about exposing what is being done, come hell or high water. Regardless of blowback or rebuke, he presses on, year after year and apparently the tide is beginning to turn. The link is to a presentation he did back in 2015. Here we are seven years later, and nothing has gotten better. It gets steadily worse. Why? Watch and see. The evil at the helm of this current world always gets worse than we think possible. Just because nobody drops a nuke does not mean mankind is safe. Not by a longshot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0Ko2OU4Ec&list=PLwfFtDFZDpwutYOt4Ds-626kTMX3gDcuD&index=6
533. Greg Reese, Greg Reese, Greg Reese! - March 27, 2022
The man is a monster, and I mean that in the common way musicians use the term to exclaim someone's mastery of an instrument. Greg Reese is a master documentarian; a monster of political and social commentary.
To say every American should watch his short but, incredibly powerful video, is a gross understatement.
https://rumble.com/vylykt-pfizer-seeks-approval-to-inject-infants-with-deadly-gene-therapy-shots.html
I have stood against the pharmaceutical companies for 40 years, since I learned the original Greek words used for "sorcery" in Revelation, etc.: pharmakeucia, pharmakeus, et al.
I have posted on this before, more than once and won't belabor it here but, his newest video, if seen by all Americans, joined with so many others he has put together, should cause an outrage and reaction that would quickly put together another Nuremberg trial. But, we also know the brainwashing of Americans continues at a feverish pace and far too many are asleep or drugged by the cabal's corporate incessant lies and activities for control.
These verses in Revelation say a lot about what is happening today:
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Satan was allowed into Heaven to carry on his rebellion of words and charges, even after losing his first estate. We know that from the opening scenes of Job. But, when Christ was crucified, the final war took place and Satan was irrevocably cast out to Earth, where he and his hosts shall remain until they are destroyed forever. We know that from the verses above and Rev. 20. From that point onward, he realizes his days are numbered and the closer Earth gets to the return of Christ, the faster he works because he knows he has but a short time. While two millennia seems an obvious and monumental timespan for humans, we do not know Lucifer's age. We do not know how long he lived in the glories of Heaven before he decided to rebel. For him, two thousand years may seem just a couple decades for us, maybe a couple weeks. If you knew you only had two weeks to live, what would you do? From Lucifer's point of view, what he does is already chiseled in proverbial granite; he sets out to trap the human race, the whole world in his deceptions.
When you watch the Reese video linked, watch the one before it, as well: the Nazification of the West.
https://rumble.com/vy8vwd-the-nazification-of-the-west.html
If you watch it, make sure you look closely at the end, left and right of the flag.
I'm telling you, the guy is a monster. I have never seen anyone be able to put something into four minutes that contains such rapid fire explosions of information. Much of it I know but, there's plenty I was not aware of and it's always a wide-eyed, jaw dropping-type experience or, the furrowing of the brow and anger welling up at what despots have done and have planned. Even that which I already know seems to be presented in a new way.
The current elitist cabal, under Satan's influence and control, is truly out to swiftly, as quickly as possible, stop the world in its tracks and take over. As usual, Leftists, always ready to twist and lie, are using the Ukraine to create fog for other activities already underway. Get the planet thinking about WW3 and nukes, while they are attempting to continue their Covid vaccine onslaught, even though so much of their plan is now exposed. They know they have but a short time and if they want to be successful, they must do what they want to do quickly.
I have come to the place where I believe whatever the main stream corporately controlled news states, the opposite is probably true. Yet, even today, I watched a blowhard Sean Hannity attempt to rake Tulsi Gabbard over his warped Conservative coals. It was such a lopsided interview I couldn't watch it all. Hannity bullied her, interrupted her, spoke over her until I had had enough. After mentioning she is a Lt. Colonel in the National Guard, he treated her like some wannabe. I stopped watching and listening to Hannity decades ago. I watched this particular YT video because of its title and Gabbard's appearance. Any true Conservative could not possibly be unaware of the other side of the story with what Ukraine is and does. Hannity is doing the Cabal's work, whether he realizes it or not. How many years have Conservatives gone after Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family and its dealings with Ukraine, and all of a sudden, the national leaders that worked with Biden are now good guys? Seriously?
I state again, Putin is no saint. Neither is Zelenskyy. Were it not for Putin, American biolabs in Ukraine would still be operating. No, I would not want Putin for President. That said, the man is doing more to stop the growth of Western corruption than any other leader in the world. I hope a peaceful solution can be found. It will not be found in Hannity and company's ignorance and/or lies, that's for sure.
Time moves on fast and determined for the cabal. They mean business. Actually, they are business. They control it all. Their minions are foot soldiers of corruption and censorship.
I've said it for a couple years now. The human race rises up now or it's game over. Readers here know that. Readers of independent, alternative media all over the world know it but, our numbers are shifting. In the face of police state tactics and a woke military under the control of the tyrants, a takeover by the masses looks more difficult with each passing day.
Even if America survives until November, there is nothing in place to assure honest election results, knowing surely the GOP will absolutely trounce Democrats when the day hits. They stole the last election. They will think nothing of stealing the next midterm elections, either.
I say again, God is the only hope. And I am not certain He is going to rescue the blind and negligent from their generations of foolishness which got us to where we are. We can pray and hope and spread the truth.
After knowing what history shows us of nations and wars, nobody should be so sure God will not allow nukes to drop and see billions of people die from instant force or radiation exposure.
Time will soon tell if humanity is successful in this stand. Even if it is, the world still has to deal with truth and allegiance to God or allegiance to men. Christ is returning. Never lose sight of that, regardless of how much time slips by.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
To say every American should watch his short but, incredibly powerful video, is a gross understatement.
https://rumble.com/vylykt-pfizer-seeks-approval-to-inject-infants-with-deadly-gene-therapy-shots.html
I have stood against the pharmaceutical companies for 40 years, since I learned the original Greek words used for "sorcery" in Revelation, etc.: pharmakeucia, pharmakeus, et al.
I have posted on this before, more than once and won't belabor it here but, his newest video, if seen by all Americans, joined with so many others he has put together, should cause an outrage and reaction that would quickly put together another Nuremberg trial. But, we also know the brainwashing of Americans continues at a feverish pace and far too many are asleep or drugged by the cabal's corporate incessant lies and activities for control.
These verses in Revelation say a lot about what is happening today:
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Satan was allowed into Heaven to carry on his rebellion of words and charges, even after losing his first estate. We know that from the opening scenes of Job. But, when Christ was crucified, the final war took place and Satan was irrevocably cast out to Earth, where he and his hosts shall remain until they are destroyed forever. We know that from the verses above and Rev. 20. From that point onward, he realizes his days are numbered and the closer Earth gets to the return of Christ, the faster he works because he knows he has but a short time. While two millennia seems an obvious and monumental timespan for humans, we do not know Lucifer's age. We do not know how long he lived in the glories of Heaven before he decided to rebel. For him, two thousand years may seem just a couple decades for us, maybe a couple weeks. If you knew you only had two weeks to live, what would you do? From Lucifer's point of view, what he does is already chiseled in proverbial granite; he sets out to trap the human race, the whole world in his deceptions.
When you watch the Reese video linked, watch the one before it, as well: the Nazification of the West.
https://rumble.com/vy8vwd-the-nazification-of-the-west.html
If you watch it, make sure you look closely at the end, left and right of the flag.
I'm telling you, the guy is a monster. I have never seen anyone be able to put something into four minutes that contains such rapid fire explosions of information. Much of it I know but, there's plenty I was not aware of and it's always a wide-eyed, jaw dropping-type experience or, the furrowing of the brow and anger welling up at what despots have done and have planned. Even that which I already know seems to be presented in a new way.
The current elitist cabal, under Satan's influence and control, is truly out to swiftly, as quickly as possible, stop the world in its tracks and take over. As usual, Leftists, always ready to twist and lie, are using the Ukraine to create fog for other activities already underway. Get the planet thinking about WW3 and nukes, while they are attempting to continue their Covid vaccine onslaught, even though so much of their plan is now exposed. They know they have but a short time and if they want to be successful, they must do what they want to do quickly.
I have come to the place where I believe whatever the main stream corporately controlled news states, the opposite is probably true. Yet, even today, I watched a blowhard Sean Hannity attempt to rake Tulsi Gabbard over his warped Conservative coals. It was such a lopsided interview I couldn't watch it all. Hannity bullied her, interrupted her, spoke over her until I had had enough. After mentioning she is a Lt. Colonel in the National Guard, he treated her like some wannabe. I stopped watching and listening to Hannity decades ago. I watched this particular YT video because of its title and Gabbard's appearance. Any true Conservative could not possibly be unaware of the other side of the story with what Ukraine is and does. Hannity is doing the Cabal's work, whether he realizes it or not. How many years have Conservatives gone after Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family and its dealings with Ukraine, and all of a sudden, the national leaders that worked with Biden are now good guys? Seriously?
I state again, Putin is no saint. Neither is Zelenskyy. Were it not for Putin, American biolabs in Ukraine would still be operating. No, I would not want Putin for President. That said, the man is doing more to stop the growth of Western corruption than any other leader in the world. I hope a peaceful solution can be found. It will not be found in Hannity and company's ignorance and/or lies, that's for sure.
Time moves on fast and determined for the cabal. They mean business. Actually, they are business. They control it all. Their minions are foot soldiers of corruption and censorship.
I've said it for a couple years now. The human race rises up now or it's game over. Readers here know that. Readers of independent, alternative media all over the world know it but, our numbers are shifting. In the face of police state tactics and a woke military under the control of the tyrants, a takeover by the masses looks more difficult with each passing day.
Even if America survives until November, there is nothing in place to assure honest election results, knowing surely the GOP will absolutely trounce Democrats when the day hits. They stole the last election. They will think nothing of stealing the next midterm elections, either.
I say again, God is the only hope. And I am not certain He is going to rescue the blind and negligent from their generations of foolishness which got us to where we are. We can pray and hope and spread the truth.
After knowing what history shows us of nations and wars, nobody should be so sure God will not allow nukes to drop and see billions of people die from instant force or radiation exposure.
Time will soon tell if humanity is successful in this stand. Even if it is, the world still has to deal with truth and allegiance to God or allegiance to men. Christ is returning. Never lose sight of that, regardless of how much time slips by.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Just One More Reason
Isa 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Another way to state that underlined part of the passage is, "wear out." The Earth, the planet, the inhabitants shall wear out like a T-shirt, like some jeans, like an old sweater.
Pollution. I believe planet Earth has shown itself to be pretty resilient in the wake of modern man's handling of the delicate ecosystems that exist. Sill, God made a prediction thousands of years ago, when anyone could say to Isaiah, "You are crazy. The Earth cannot wear out, nor its inhabitants wear out and die as a result."
Well, we now know Isaiah was correct in what he saw and shared from the Creator. Check out these links:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/microplastics-found-deep-underground-in-uk-waters
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/21/nanoplastic-pollution-found-at-both-of-earths-poles-for-first-time
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/22/microplastics-may-be-linked-to-inflammatory-bowel-disease-study-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/08/microplastics-damage-human-cells-study-plastic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/water-firms-are-main-source-of-microplastics-in-uk-rivers-study-says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/17/microplastic-particles-discovered-in-human-organs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/12/microplastics-discovered-blowing-ashore-in-sea-breezes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/worms-fail-to-thrive-in-soil-containing-microplastics-study
Those are links to articles of things happening in the UK and even the Earth's poles. The same things are happening all over the planet.
Add to that all other types of pollution, including constant evidence of chemical seeding of the atmosphere, everything dumped into the world's oceans, all the plastic creating state-sized mats floating on it, bees and other pollinating insects are dying, and now the dastardly denizens of the medical/pharmaceutical cabal and the adverse reactions to their "vaccines" are all over the globe, and humans are being pummeled, along with the Earth; and things show, once again, God knows the end, from the beginning.
Nothing, no one is exempt. Not even tribal communities living in the most remote locations on Earth. All atmosphere moves, all water moves in constant cycles. Nothing is pure or clean anymore.
The Earth and its inhabitants are waxing old like a garment. Things are going to become a nightmare. Jesus is coming. Yes, there is also coming the world-wide cry of 'Peace and safety.' Mankind will think it has all been worked out. Then, suddenly, the plagues shall begin falling from the bowls of God's judgment on the final rebellion, and the Earth will reach its last stages of light and life into darkness and death.
That's the thing about prophecy. It may all seem too outrageous to believe but, then it hits you upside the head and shocks you as it shouts to, 'Pay attention! This is not a game! This is reality!'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Another way to state that underlined part of the passage is, "wear out." The Earth, the planet, the inhabitants shall wear out like a T-shirt, like some jeans, like an old sweater.
Pollution. I believe planet Earth has shown itself to be pretty resilient in the wake of modern man's handling of the delicate ecosystems that exist. Sill, God made a prediction thousands of years ago, when anyone could say to Isaiah, "You are crazy. The Earth cannot wear out, nor its inhabitants wear out and die as a result."
Well, we now know Isaiah was correct in what he saw and shared from the Creator. Check out these links:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/microplastics-found-deep-underground-in-uk-waters
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/21/nanoplastic-pollution-found-at-both-of-earths-poles-for-first-time
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/22/microplastics-may-be-linked-to-inflammatory-bowel-disease-study-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/08/microplastics-damage-human-cells-study-plastic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/water-firms-are-main-source-of-microplastics-in-uk-rivers-study-says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/17/microplastic-particles-discovered-in-human-organs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/12/microplastics-discovered-blowing-ashore-in-sea-breezes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/worms-fail-to-thrive-in-soil-containing-microplastics-study
Those are links to articles of things happening in the UK and even the Earth's poles. The same things are happening all over the planet.
Add to that all other types of pollution, including constant evidence of chemical seeding of the atmosphere, everything dumped into the world's oceans, all the plastic creating state-sized mats floating on it, bees and other pollinating insects are dying, and now the dastardly denizens of the medical/pharmaceutical cabal and the adverse reactions to their "vaccines" are all over the globe, and humans are being pummeled, along with the Earth; and things show, once again, God knows the end, from the beginning.
Nothing, no one is exempt. Not even tribal communities living in the most remote locations on Earth. All atmosphere moves, all water moves in constant cycles. Nothing is pure or clean anymore.
The Earth and its inhabitants are waxing old like a garment. Things are going to become a nightmare. Jesus is coming. Yes, there is also coming the world-wide cry of 'Peace and safety.' Mankind will think it has all been worked out. Then, suddenly, the plagues shall begin falling from the bowls of God's judgment on the final rebellion, and the Earth will reach its last stages of light and life into darkness and death.
That's the thing about prophecy. It may all seem too outrageous to believe but, then it hits you upside the head and shocks you as it shouts to, 'Pay attention! This is not a game! This is reality!'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Heart Disease
I haven't posted on Covid and the "Vaccine" onslaught in awhile because it is now everywhere to read but, corporate main stream media. Even some alt news sites that guardedly addressed the situation two years ago have acquiesced to the truth based on the evidence and voices crying out.
Now that deaths have increased astronomically in the 18-44 yo group for no apparent reason (if you are involved in corporate mainstream media), and heart inflammation and attacks are going through the roof the corporate msm and fascist medical cabal must come up with something to inform people. How about these:
Cold Weather
Hot Weather
Daylight Savings Time
Sex
Skipping Breakfast
Television (Binge watching)
So, everything BUT the mRNA gene therapy "vaccines" can be blamed.
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/corporate-media-blames-everything-other-than-vaxxes-for-exploding-heart-attack-rates/
I have no idea what the painting that starts the article off means but, the article seems to sum the situation up well.
Humanity is not even close to being out of the woods yet.
BTW, yeah, I saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock. Fake. All preplanned and fake. As well as Smith's hypocrisy, laughing at Rock's joke, then getting all indignant and manly because his wife wasn't laughing.
Actors acting. What a concept.
Now that deaths have increased astronomically in the 18-44 yo group for no apparent reason (if you are involved in corporate mainstream media), and heart inflammation and attacks are going through the roof the corporate msm and fascist medical cabal must come up with something to inform people. How about these:
Cold Weather
Hot Weather
Daylight Savings Time
Sex
Skipping Breakfast
Television (Binge watching)
So, everything BUT the mRNA gene therapy "vaccines" can be blamed.
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/corporate-media-blames-everything-other-than-vaxxes-for-exploding-heart-attack-rates/
I have no idea what the painting that starts the article off means but, the article seems to sum the situation up well.
Humanity is not even close to being out of the woods yet.
BTW, yeah, I saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock. Fake. All preplanned and fake. As well as Smith's hypocrisy, laughing at Rock's joke, then getting all indignant and manly because his wife wasn't laughing.
Actors acting. What a concept.
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534. The Pope and I Agree? - March 29, 2022
Pope Francis - Beings of the Universe
Before someone says, "Ray, you and the Pope have something in common," I'll head that off at the pass.
Back in 2014 Pontifex Maximus gave an address at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in dedication to a Bust of Pope Benedict XVI given to the Academy. In his short speech he said:
"You are addressing the highly complex subject of the evolution of the concept of nature. I will not go into the scientific complexity, which you well understand, of this important and crucial question. I only want to underline that God and Christ are walking with us and are also present in nature, as the Apostle Paul stated in his discourse at the Areopagus: “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). When we read the account of Creation in Genesis we risk imagining that God was a magician, complete with an all powerful magic wand. But that was not so. He created beings and he let them develop according to the internal laws with which He endowed each one, that they might develop, and reach their fullness. He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time in which He assured them of his continual presence, giving life to every reality. And thus Creation has been progressing for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until becoming as we know it today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who gives life to all beings. The beginning of the world was not a work of chaos that owes its origin to another, but derives directly from a supreme Principle who creates out of love. The Big Bang theory, which is proposed today as the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of a divine creator but depends on it. Evolution in nature does not conflict with the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve. "
The Big Bang theory most definitely contradicts the divine intervention of the Creator. The Bible says He spoke on day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6 and an explosion of pageantry and life took place that angels and the sons of God rejoiced and sang at, Job 38:6,7. Gas did not come first. Light, His light, then Water, then land, and on day 4 came stars. Gas and stars did not come first. Even if one believes the universe already existed and the Genesis account is only a narrative of the Milky Way galaxy and what human eyes can see of the cosmos - an act to address the rebellion and war that took place in Heaven, and God's answer to Lucifer's charges - the Bible states, point blank, God spoke, and everything came into being and stood fast, Psalm 33:6-9. There were no billions of years. It all came in 6 literal days, all to show the rebellion and charges of Lucifer against God's sovereignty were not just wrong but, so far afoul of reality as to leave the fallen angel in total embarrassment. None of the surrounding truths of the rebellion in Heaven and its devolving to Earth can be removed from the biblical testimony. The rebellion, the six days of creation, God's resting on the seventh day, the lies, deceptions, and sophistry of Lucifer, using the flying serpent to engage and deceive Eve, then the choice of Adam to stand with his wife and eat the prohibited fruit, their guilt, loss of innocence, covering of their nakedness with the coats of the sacrifice, then the pronouncements of the results and penalties for disobedience and their removal from Eden: none of it can be removed from the creation narrative, for it all plays into the plan of salvation. All biblical writers making reference to it, corroborate its literal truth, including Jesus, Who is, indeed, the One who stepped forth and created everything. This is theology 101.
The Pope is just plain wrong to state the Big Bang and Creation week have anything in common. They do not, other then both are claimed to have emanated from nothing BUT, one supernaturally and the other naturally. Nobody has a shred, an iota of evidence that something, anything can come from nothing, naturally. Mathematics on a chalk board may look "beautiful" and fascinating but, that is not empirical, observable, testable and repeatable proof or evidence of truth. It just isn't.
Evolution takes place. No one argues that, if the definition means change over time; microevolution. Macro-evolution, change from one kind of creature into another, in tiny stages of mutations and accidents of nature, no. That definition of evolution has zero proof, as well. ZERO. Which is why every single story of missing links never pan out, as time, of all things, shows more accurately what those creatures were: apes or actually man, not some ape-man.
"We have found the missing link!"
"Well, wait a minute. I thought you already found it; several times over the decades the last century. How many times can you find it? You didn't really find it, did you? But, you won't put that on the cover of National Geographic, will you? And Sir David Attenborough doesn't do any interviews to correct the exclamation points in all the headlines, all debunked, even by the materialist/naturalist community, will he?"
For the Pope to proclaim Jesus Christ was born of a woman who was the descendant of an ape-like creature is pure blasphemy. Politicians that Pontiffs are, they go where the wind of change goes and try to maintain both traditional faith and new modeled faith, to make it easier to remain current, on top of things, and for people to enter their ark of safety: the true church, out of which no one can be saved. So Romanism claims.
Of course, Francis has sent shockwaves through his flock by stating all kinds of people, with wide ranging beliefs can be saved, even without evidence of being born again. Ah, but, Roman Catholicism teaches when babies are baptized, even though Jesus taught believers should be baptized, not babies who cannot believe: babies are saved. If they are not baptized and perish somehow, their "soul" goes to Limbo, a place of existence/non-existence forever. Hey, I did not make make this stuff up. Romanism did, or borrowed it from paganism's teachings, just modified and adapted to meet the needs of each generation the last 2000 years.
That is not even the reason for this post. The Pope stated God gave autonomy to the beings of the universe. Hm. Did he mean Adam and Eve, as the first two beings in the universe? I doubt angels get offended but, they might wonder where they fit into the Pope's reasoning, seeing they were around before Adam and Eve. Maybe the Pope meant them. Did he mean other populations of beings out there, i.e. extraterrestrials?
"Yeah, Ray. He meant that. You and he have something in common." Hm.
Here's what I believe. The Pope is moving into the ET crowd because Lucifer is going to use the whole ET gig and the Papacy, to attempt to pull off the biggest deception in history.
An American might think if/when "ET" makes its appearance, it will do so, landing on the White House lawn. Euros might think they would do so on the lawn of the EU Parliament. Maybe the Chinese would expect ET to land in the outer court of the Forbidden City. Well, I believe if Satan uses the ET hoax he will land something spectacular in the courtyard of St. Peter's Basilica.
"All the world wondered after the beast," Rev. 13:3 The beast/antichrist power is the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican City/State. No other power or entity in history meets all the marks of Bible prophecy in identifying it. The "man of sin," 2Thes 2:3, is a simple term for the popes, regardless of any one of them, for they are all considered "in place of Christ," antechristos. The RCC considers herself the mother of all churches. She is the Mother of whoredom who fornicated with kings of the Earth down through time and corrupted "the faith once delivered to the saints." This position is not just biblical but, historic, and for centuries it stood as truth among millions in Europe's nations that left allegiance to Rome and became Protestant countries. America was based on principles of the Protestant Reformation. Why do you think the riots of New York took place in the 19th century? Because Protestants saw wave after wave of Roman Catholics coming to America and the revealed plan: written it in books and newspapers and magazines of the times, saw it as a attempt to make America Catholic. Two world wars changed the focus as Catholic Americans fought and died for the nation's freedoms and liberties. Ultimately, John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, was elected president and today, the influence of Catholicism should be heavy in Washington, D.C. but, far too many professed Catholic legislators are apostates. It's a mess of enormous proportions for Rome. A billion Catholics, and most do not practice the faith. What can the Vatican do? Not much. What will Lucifer do? Much. Big time much.
Ask yourself what will happen, overnight, if "ET" lands at St. Peter's and chooses to communicate with whatever pope "sits in the chair of Peter?" All nationals leaders will be placed aside. All focus, by the entire world, will be on Rome. Wars cease. Conflicts halt. From there, as the Devil weaves the web of delusion and deception, all power, signs and lying wonders will be performed at the hands of a pope. From there the "revival" of faith, brotherhood, peace and safety moves throughout all churches, all religions, all nations, all groups except one... the remnant who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. The final battle for the mind will take place.
All I can ask you to do is study, to show yourself an approved workman of God, rightly dividing the Word of truth, and to pray and watch what develops and what happens.
I do not feel in error here. Logic and world events, and correlating the gift of prophecy leads me to these conclusions. The only element not given is time. No man knows the day nor the hour. We can only know it approaches and draws close.
For a world on the edge of nuclear warfare, I'd say something big is about to happen.
Unless, of course, it all fizzles out and back to the slowly turning wheel of time we go. Except, too much is happening, isn't it? Nobody's life is being left unaffected and untouched by everything that's taking place. Every nation is in the throws of turmoil. It could all drag on. It could all explode, literally.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Before someone says, "Ray, you and the Pope have something in common," I'll head that off at the pass.
Back in 2014 Pontifex Maximus gave an address at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in dedication to a Bust of Pope Benedict XVI given to the Academy. In his short speech he said:
"You are addressing the highly complex subject of the evolution of the concept of nature. I will not go into the scientific complexity, which you well understand, of this important and crucial question. I only want to underline that God and Christ are walking with us and are also present in nature, as the Apostle Paul stated in his discourse at the Areopagus: “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). When we read the account of Creation in Genesis we risk imagining that God was a magician, complete with an all powerful magic wand. But that was not so. He created beings and he let them develop according to the internal laws with which He endowed each one, that they might develop, and reach their fullness. He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time in which He assured them of his continual presence, giving life to every reality. And thus Creation has been progressing for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until becoming as we know it today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who gives life to all beings. The beginning of the world was not a work of chaos that owes its origin to another, but derives directly from a supreme Principle who creates out of love. The Big Bang theory, which is proposed today as the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of a divine creator but depends on it. Evolution in nature does not conflict with the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve. "
The Big Bang theory most definitely contradicts the divine intervention of the Creator. The Bible says He spoke on day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6 and an explosion of pageantry and life took place that angels and the sons of God rejoiced and sang at, Job 38:6,7. Gas did not come first. Light, His light, then Water, then land, and on day 4 came stars. Gas and stars did not come first. Even if one believes the universe already existed and the Genesis account is only a narrative of the Milky Way galaxy and what human eyes can see of the cosmos - an act to address the rebellion and war that took place in Heaven, and God's answer to Lucifer's charges - the Bible states, point blank, God spoke, and everything came into being and stood fast, Psalm 33:6-9. There were no billions of years. It all came in 6 literal days, all to show the rebellion and charges of Lucifer against God's sovereignty were not just wrong but, so far afoul of reality as to leave the fallen angel in total embarrassment. None of the surrounding truths of the rebellion in Heaven and its devolving to Earth can be removed from the biblical testimony. The rebellion, the six days of creation, God's resting on the seventh day, the lies, deceptions, and sophistry of Lucifer, using the flying serpent to engage and deceive Eve, then the choice of Adam to stand with his wife and eat the prohibited fruit, their guilt, loss of innocence, covering of their nakedness with the coats of the sacrifice, then the pronouncements of the results and penalties for disobedience and their removal from Eden: none of it can be removed from the creation narrative, for it all plays into the plan of salvation. All biblical writers making reference to it, corroborate its literal truth, including Jesus, Who is, indeed, the One who stepped forth and created everything. This is theology 101.
The Pope is just plain wrong to state the Big Bang and Creation week have anything in common. They do not, other then both are claimed to have emanated from nothing BUT, one supernaturally and the other naturally. Nobody has a shred, an iota of evidence that something, anything can come from nothing, naturally. Mathematics on a chalk board may look "beautiful" and fascinating but, that is not empirical, observable, testable and repeatable proof or evidence of truth. It just isn't.
Evolution takes place. No one argues that, if the definition means change over time; microevolution. Macro-evolution, change from one kind of creature into another, in tiny stages of mutations and accidents of nature, no. That definition of evolution has zero proof, as well. ZERO. Which is why every single story of missing links never pan out, as time, of all things, shows more accurately what those creatures were: apes or actually man, not some ape-man.
"We have found the missing link!"
"Well, wait a minute. I thought you already found it; several times over the decades the last century. How many times can you find it? You didn't really find it, did you? But, you won't put that on the cover of National Geographic, will you? And Sir David Attenborough doesn't do any interviews to correct the exclamation points in all the headlines, all debunked, even by the materialist/naturalist community, will he?"
For the Pope to proclaim Jesus Christ was born of a woman who was the descendant of an ape-like creature is pure blasphemy. Politicians that Pontiffs are, they go where the wind of change goes and try to maintain both traditional faith and new modeled faith, to make it easier to remain current, on top of things, and for people to enter their ark of safety: the true church, out of which no one can be saved. So Romanism claims.
Of course, Francis has sent shockwaves through his flock by stating all kinds of people, with wide ranging beliefs can be saved, even without evidence of being born again. Ah, but, Roman Catholicism teaches when babies are baptized, even though Jesus taught believers should be baptized, not babies who cannot believe: babies are saved. If they are not baptized and perish somehow, their "soul" goes to Limbo, a place of existence/non-existence forever. Hey, I did not make make this stuff up. Romanism did, or borrowed it from paganism's teachings, just modified and adapted to meet the needs of each generation the last 2000 years.
That is not even the reason for this post. The Pope stated God gave autonomy to the beings of the universe. Hm. Did he mean Adam and Eve, as the first two beings in the universe? I doubt angels get offended but, they might wonder where they fit into the Pope's reasoning, seeing they were around before Adam and Eve. Maybe the Pope meant them. Did he mean other populations of beings out there, i.e. extraterrestrials?
"Yeah, Ray. He meant that. You and he have something in common." Hm.
Here's what I believe. The Pope is moving into the ET crowd because Lucifer is going to use the whole ET gig and the Papacy, to attempt to pull off the biggest deception in history.
An American might think if/when "ET" makes its appearance, it will do so, landing on the White House lawn. Euros might think they would do so on the lawn of the EU Parliament. Maybe the Chinese would expect ET to land in the outer court of the Forbidden City. Well, I believe if Satan uses the ET hoax he will land something spectacular in the courtyard of St. Peter's Basilica.
"All the world wondered after the beast," Rev. 13:3 The beast/antichrist power is the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican City/State. No other power or entity in history meets all the marks of Bible prophecy in identifying it. The "man of sin," 2Thes 2:3, is a simple term for the popes, regardless of any one of them, for they are all considered "in place of Christ," antechristos. The RCC considers herself the mother of all churches. She is the Mother of whoredom who fornicated with kings of the Earth down through time and corrupted "the faith once delivered to the saints." This position is not just biblical but, historic, and for centuries it stood as truth among millions in Europe's nations that left allegiance to Rome and became Protestant countries. America was based on principles of the Protestant Reformation. Why do you think the riots of New York took place in the 19th century? Because Protestants saw wave after wave of Roman Catholics coming to America and the revealed plan: written it in books and newspapers and magazines of the times, saw it as a attempt to make America Catholic. Two world wars changed the focus as Catholic Americans fought and died for the nation's freedoms and liberties. Ultimately, John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, was elected president and today, the influence of Catholicism should be heavy in Washington, D.C. but, far too many professed Catholic legislators are apostates. It's a mess of enormous proportions for Rome. A billion Catholics, and most do not practice the faith. What can the Vatican do? Not much. What will Lucifer do? Much. Big time much.
Ask yourself what will happen, overnight, if "ET" lands at St. Peter's and chooses to communicate with whatever pope "sits in the chair of Peter?" All nationals leaders will be placed aside. All focus, by the entire world, will be on Rome. Wars cease. Conflicts halt. From there, as the Devil weaves the web of delusion and deception, all power, signs and lying wonders will be performed at the hands of a pope. From there the "revival" of faith, brotherhood, peace and safety moves throughout all churches, all religions, all nations, all groups except one... the remnant who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. The final battle for the mind will take place.
All I can ask you to do is study, to show yourself an approved workman of God, rightly dividing the Word of truth, and to pray and watch what develops and what happens.
I do not feel in error here. Logic and world events, and correlating the gift of prophecy leads me to these conclusions. The only element not given is time. No man knows the day nor the hour. We can only know it approaches and draws close.
For a world on the edge of nuclear warfare, I'd say something big is about to happen.
Unless, of course, it all fizzles out and back to the slowly turning wheel of time we go. Except, too much is happening, isn't it? Nobody's life is being left unaffected and untouched by everything that's taking place. Every nation is in the throws of turmoil. It could all drag on. It could all explode, literally.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Real Revolution Coming
This guy makes Fauci seem like Captain Kangaroo. He is a darling of the World Economic Forum, and speaking all over the place. This is sick stuff. When you confidently call Jesus and the resurrection "fake news" and tell the world transhumanism is the reality coming, tell me the world is in a good place.
https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/the-wefs-yuval-noah-harari-jesus-62421b45903d55b0648f7696
As far as the revolution that is here, what do Fink, Schwab and Soros have in common? They all believe Putin has tipped over the globalist applecart. Putin will be saying, "You're welcome," to a chorus of crickets.
https://valiantnews.com/2022/03/blackrock-ceo-joins-soros-schwab-declares-russia-has-upended-world-order-globalism/
https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/the-wefs-yuval-noah-harari-jesus-62421b45903d55b0648f7696
As far as the revolution that is here, what do Fink, Schwab and Soros have in common? They all believe Putin has tipped over the globalist applecart. Putin will be saying, "You're welcome," to a chorus of crickets.
https://valiantnews.com/2022/03/blackrock-ceo-joins-soros-schwab-declares-russia-has-upended-world-order-globalism/
Patriot Purge
When Tucker Carlson released his documentary series, "Patriot Purge," I didn't seek to watch it because I already knew the truth about January 6. I was watching something else and saw it in the sidebar and decided to check it out. At around 20 minutes each, they could easily have been 60 minutes each. You have probably seen it. If you haven't, even if you know what took place on that day, watching it will only... well, not just confirm it but, outrage your already confirmed knowledge of how corrupt the Federal government is. The series puts some human faces to the event and the serious nature of the consequences, some of them very articulate and informed. The section on Ashley Babbitt will make you sick, as well it should.
Believing as I do about last day events and Bible prophecy, I never saw this stage of America taking place. Prophecy predicts a movement of a revived Christianity (both true and false) pushing against D.C. and getting its way, while a remnant stand against the tide of apostasy that shall sweep the nation and the world. The idea of the American government targeting its citizens; patriots, America-loving Constitutionalists, most of them believers in God and in some capacity practicing their Christian faith, or Jewish faith, or even Muslim faith for those members of Islam who do practice a peaceful side, or other members of other faiths, or no faith, they just love America, is something the mind of most Americans cannot grasp. Actual agencies actually targeting actual Americans is actually crazy but, it is true. I expect Leftist run news agencies to lie and I expect politicians to lie, and I expect deep state to lie and... well, that about covers it, doesn't it? What's left, who's left to lie? I just never expected police and military to accept Leftist propaganda and disinformation and actually be trained to take out American citizens who just want the rule of law to actually mean something and run the nation.
Watch the programs if you haven't. I watched them on a couple of different sites, owing to quality issues. Here's the first installment, on Bitchute. All three segments are on there:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7rIITh3eHpai/
Tucker is right about thing, for sure. Tyranny does not stop protest or insurrection. It causes it.
Believing as I do about last day events and Bible prophecy, I never saw this stage of America taking place. Prophecy predicts a movement of a revived Christianity (both true and false) pushing against D.C. and getting its way, while a remnant stand against the tide of apostasy that shall sweep the nation and the world. The idea of the American government targeting its citizens; patriots, America-loving Constitutionalists, most of them believers in God and in some capacity practicing their Christian faith, or Jewish faith, or even Muslim faith for those members of Islam who do practice a peaceful side, or other members of other faiths, or no faith, they just love America, is something the mind of most Americans cannot grasp. Actual agencies actually targeting actual Americans is actually crazy but, it is true. I expect Leftist run news agencies to lie and I expect politicians to lie, and I expect deep state to lie and... well, that about covers it, doesn't it? What's left, who's left to lie? I just never expected police and military to accept Leftist propaganda and disinformation and actually be trained to take out American citizens who just want the rule of law to actually mean something and run the nation.
Watch the programs if you haven't. I watched them on a couple of different sites, owing to quality issues. Here's the first installment, on Bitchute. All three segments are on there:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7rIITh3eHpai/
Tucker is right about thing, for sure. Tyranny does not stop protest or insurrection. It causes it.
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535. Sunset is Coming - March 31, 2022
It's been a few years now that I have contemplated walking away from the drums. The overwhelming logical reason is, I hate playing to the four walls. That is the reality of it. I have a large set of drums and cymbals sitting in a room far too small for it all, and I am sitting down to play for my health: my heart, my brain, my blood flow and the rest of what drumming physically and mentally affords. I play along to internal riffs and melodies and mental sequences of time and pulse and if I go 30 minutes, it's a long time. Generally I get way too bored before I see the hands on the clock traverse that much space and time. There's less and less satisfaction to it all.
It's isn't the idea of ever learning; trying new things. It's the lack of purpose for it. No sound, practical reason for it exists. This isn't "Groundhog Day."
When I was in my teens and early 20s, playing along to records was a daily routine. It was the natural thing to do. It was woodshed time; the days of learning and preparation; developing a mental catalog and intellectual encyclopedia of styles, moves and fills, physical stamina and dexterity and coordination. I never actually practiced anything. I never sat down and played rudiments over and over. I never even had a practice pad. Even today, making various kinds of pads, I never use them. I played along to music, and like most kids, pictured myself playing to the gratified audiences heard on all the Live albums I had in my record collection and truly enjoyed playing along with. Every new band had a sound to integrate with. There was purpose behind it all: intentional push and planning, at least on a personal scale of desire, that I'd end up being a professional musician. That is the dream of tens of millions. So, practice, practice, practice.
I did end up in a band; a power trio, playing an eclectic mix of music of the times: the 1970s. I recorded an album. Played some gigs. Was in a Top40 club band for a living. Well, not really a living. I lived at home with my parents. I never made enough money to go out on my own. None of us did. It was dance band four or five nights a week, and rehearsals on the weekends during the days, or on empty nights we didn't play out. Legend and Golden Lady was my life for some years in my early 20's. Life was down in the basement with the guys. A basement often occupied with friends sitting or standing around listening to rehearsals. Small basement, too. Our own tiny universe of musical ecosystem.
Then... God. A life-change so radical and powerful I left it all and went another direction; to the absolute astonishment of everybody I knew. Having shared all this before in many places, I won't drive that highway again here but, life had enormous purpose when I was young. Music, then God and His truth. From music to ministry.
Jump 43 years. Even though I had drum sets, and began making drums, and playing in a group for ten years, playing another eclectic mix of genre in Asaph: hymns meets synthesized orchestra; and then meeting Tom and recording sessions with him for years, releasing five CDs, all the energy and hopes and dreams were fading. Finding out about the international fan base of Legend and 'From the Fjords' was a real shock. Involved in the reissue of the album, then getting the invitation to play the festival in Germany, all the planning and practicing... then Covid and lockdowns and 'vaccines' and, "No way." Putting an experimental serum in my body just to play a concert in Germany, knowing the effects the injections were showing all over the world... not worth the risk.
I had the stroke last year, and decided to record the Concepts album, and recorded tracks for two more CDs. Obviously the way things have gone with that project has kept me from investing more money into another CD. And now, after a lifetime of drums, there isn't any purpose anymore. There is not much energy. I have shared things on my YT channel and here on the site. I have basically shown, after 20 videos, the sound of a drum has a source, and it is not the super-hype from drum manufacturers and their proprietary shells. It's the simplicity of a drum head under tension.
I've received an awful lot of kind words and positive comments and communication for all the videos uploaded to YT. Upwards of 100 now? I haven't actually looked at the tally. I just put videos up as I'm moved to do so. There's more I can do but, other necessities of life are encroaching and time for drums will lessen, and things will go back into cases and bags and trunks and end up, who knows where for who knows how long, and 70 will be here before I know it. I have two beautiful boards out in the shop I intended to make snare drum shells out of but, can't seem to find the motivation and ambition.
The world's coming unglued, literally. And it is now more for the young lions than ever. I feel sorry for them, actually. Most seem totally unaware what is encircling them, what is being done to completely control their lives once the old lions have departed and their voices are heard no more. It's interesting, it's basically a bunch of old lions trying to take control of the planet. The young seem unaware of what is transpiring.
Pondering to just let it all go; have some big drummer's flea market, yard sale, going out of purpose sale, moving sale, whatever to call it seems the logical thing to do. No, I cannot just keep a 4 pc. set around. Boredom would kill me from that. That has never been my approach to the instrument and never could be for any length of time. It isn't how I think or apply what I am as a human being to the instrument. It works great for others and has for a century. It's entrapment for me. It always made playing just a job. Give the guitarist one string. Give the keys player 12 notes. Sure, they could do something. Not what they want to, though.
So, big decision time. Torn, tired, practicing critical thinking and common sense doesn't offer much help. How to leave behind something that is an extension of mind and body. I just can't quite conceive of a life without percussion but, it's coming. Just the way it is.
I know there are people reading this who can fully relate to what I am sharing. It's a reality check everybody has to come to grips with, especially those who play such a physical instrument as a drum set, and abilities wane if you don't keep at it in consistent time and ways. I haven't, for most of my varied existence in life, for that matter.
When reality strikes with more and more force and speed, when it all dawns on the mind and happens, and sunset is there, it cannot be avoided... well, that will be the end of YT and this site. Yeah, I'd love to be Carl Palmer and still out playing in my 70s. The guy has indomitable energy and drive. I'd love to meet him some day. Others, too. Cobham, Gadd, Vinnie, and all the players still performing and recording who were at it in the 60s. Our hats tip to them. They have been able to keep the dream alive, inspiring others as they do so.
Texas is a very predictable place for music and after playing and recording with Tom for those phenomenal years... improv became something that just enthralled me in a solar system of delight and intrigue and accomplishment... far from fully explored but, here, in Texas? Doesn't exist. Not that I have encountered. If I found someone to record with, with that sense of musical adventure, there is the necessary purpose. There is the reason for staying focused and strong. Without that, the four walls shall just not suffice to produce satisfaction. They don't respond. They don't get involved. They don't appreciate and render feedback. They just surround me.
So... it will hurt to see people purchase all this stuff and take it all away. It will be like the demise of a family. Every drum, every cymbal, every effect, every piece of hardware that all sat at a musical table and shared life at the infusion of whipping drum sticks and patterns and discussion and creating a planet of sound...
It's been an interesting run. Not a great run. No. But, it's been interesting.
Sure, you never know what tomorrow may bring. I'm just, logically, practically running out of tomorrows.
It's isn't the idea of ever learning; trying new things. It's the lack of purpose for it. No sound, practical reason for it exists. This isn't "Groundhog Day."
When I was in my teens and early 20s, playing along to records was a daily routine. It was the natural thing to do. It was woodshed time; the days of learning and preparation; developing a mental catalog and intellectual encyclopedia of styles, moves and fills, physical stamina and dexterity and coordination. I never actually practiced anything. I never sat down and played rudiments over and over. I never even had a practice pad. Even today, making various kinds of pads, I never use them. I played along to music, and like most kids, pictured myself playing to the gratified audiences heard on all the Live albums I had in my record collection and truly enjoyed playing along with. Every new band had a sound to integrate with. There was purpose behind it all: intentional push and planning, at least on a personal scale of desire, that I'd end up being a professional musician. That is the dream of tens of millions. So, practice, practice, practice.
I did end up in a band; a power trio, playing an eclectic mix of music of the times: the 1970s. I recorded an album. Played some gigs. Was in a Top40 club band for a living. Well, not really a living. I lived at home with my parents. I never made enough money to go out on my own. None of us did. It was dance band four or five nights a week, and rehearsals on the weekends during the days, or on empty nights we didn't play out. Legend and Golden Lady was my life for some years in my early 20's. Life was down in the basement with the guys. A basement often occupied with friends sitting or standing around listening to rehearsals. Small basement, too. Our own tiny universe of musical ecosystem.
Then... God. A life-change so radical and powerful I left it all and went another direction; to the absolute astonishment of everybody I knew. Having shared all this before in many places, I won't drive that highway again here but, life had enormous purpose when I was young. Music, then God and His truth. From music to ministry.
Jump 43 years. Even though I had drum sets, and began making drums, and playing in a group for ten years, playing another eclectic mix of genre in Asaph: hymns meets synthesized orchestra; and then meeting Tom and recording sessions with him for years, releasing five CDs, all the energy and hopes and dreams were fading. Finding out about the international fan base of Legend and 'From the Fjords' was a real shock. Involved in the reissue of the album, then getting the invitation to play the festival in Germany, all the planning and practicing... then Covid and lockdowns and 'vaccines' and, "No way." Putting an experimental serum in my body just to play a concert in Germany, knowing the effects the injections were showing all over the world... not worth the risk.
I had the stroke last year, and decided to record the Concepts album, and recorded tracks for two more CDs. Obviously the way things have gone with that project has kept me from investing more money into another CD. And now, after a lifetime of drums, there isn't any purpose anymore. There is not much energy. I have shared things on my YT channel and here on the site. I have basically shown, after 20 videos, the sound of a drum has a source, and it is not the super-hype from drum manufacturers and their proprietary shells. It's the simplicity of a drum head under tension.
I've received an awful lot of kind words and positive comments and communication for all the videos uploaded to YT. Upwards of 100 now? I haven't actually looked at the tally. I just put videos up as I'm moved to do so. There's more I can do but, other necessities of life are encroaching and time for drums will lessen, and things will go back into cases and bags and trunks and end up, who knows where for who knows how long, and 70 will be here before I know it. I have two beautiful boards out in the shop I intended to make snare drum shells out of but, can't seem to find the motivation and ambition.
The world's coming unglued, literally. And it is now more for the young lions than ever. I feel sorry for them, actually. Most seem totally unaware what is encircling them, what is being done to completely control their lives once the old lions have departed and their voices are heard no more. It's interesting, it's basically a bunch of old lions trying to take control of the planet. The young seem unaware of what is transpiring.
Pondering to just let it all go; have some big drummer's flea market, yard sale, going out of purpose sale, moving sale, whatever to call it seems the logical thing to do. No, I cannot just keep a 4 pc. set around. Boredom would kill me from that. That has never been my approach to the instrument and never could be for any length of time. It isn't how I think or apply what I am as a human being to the instrument. It works great for others and has for a century. It's entrapment for me. It always made playing just a job. Give the guitarist one string. Give the keys player 12 notes. Sure, they could do something. Not what they want to, though.
So, big decision time. Torn, tired, practicing critical thinking and common sense doesn't offer much help. How to leave behind something that is an extension of mind and body. I just can't quite conceive of a life without percussion but, it's coming. Just the way it is.
I know there are people reading this who can fully relate to what I am sharing. It's a reality check everybody has to come to grips with, especially those who play such a physical instrument as a drum set, and abilities wane if you don't keep at it in consistent time and ways. I haven't, for most of my varied existence in life, for that matter.
When reality strikes with more and more force and speed, when it all dawns on the mind and happens, and sunset is there, it cannot be avoided... well, that will be the end of YT and this site. Yeah, I'd love to be Carl Palmer and still out playing in my 70s. The guy has indomitable energy and drive. I'd love to meet him some day. Others, too. Cobham, Gadd, Vinnie, and all the players still performing and recording who were at it in the 60s. Our hats tip to them. They have been able to keep the dream alive, inspiring others as they do so.
Texas is a very predictable place for music and after playing and recording with Tom for those phenomenal years... improv became something that just enthralled me in a solar system of delight and intrigue and accomplishment... far from fully explored but, here, in Texas? Doesn't exist. Not that I have encountered. If I found someone to record with, with that sense of musical adventure, there is the necessary purpose. There is the reason for staying focused and strong. Without that, the four walls shall just not suffice to produce satisfaction. They don't respond. They don't get involved. They don't appreciate and render feedback. They just surround me.
So... it will hurt to see people purchase all this stuff and take it all away. It will be like the demise of a family. Every drum, every cymbal, every effect, every piece of hardware that all sat at a musical table and shared life at the infusion of whipping drum sticks and patterns and discussion and creating a planet of sound...
It's been an interesting run. Not a great run. No. But, it's been interesting.
Sure, you never know what tomorrow may bring. I'm just, logically, practically running out of tomorrows.
Rasanen, Pohjola UPDATE
I have mentioned the legal proceedings against Finnish Parliament member, Paivi Rasanen and clergyman, Juhana Pohloja, which has been going on for over a decade. She was ultimately acquitted of hate speech charges. That's a big win for freedom of speech and religious freedom of conscience disputes.
For Christians, of any doctrinal practice, standing up for God's standards and truth at they understand it is becoming more and more dangerous to anything publicly stated and proclaimed. Having Scripture as your authoritative Source means less and less to atheistic/humanistic civil servants bent on removing God and religion from society and its functions. Fortunately, even as the world grows more humanist, those who believe in legally protected speech are growing in number because if they can shut down Christians, they can shut down any religion, any philosophy, and any position that goes against an official narrative.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Paivi Rasanen and Juhana Pohjola for recovering from their ordeal.
https://thenewamerican.com/finnish-lawmaker-acquitted-of-hate-speech-charges-for-criticizing-homosexuality/
For Christians, of any doctrinal practice, standing up for God's standards and truth at they understand it is becoming more and more dangerous to anything publicly stated and proclaimed. Having Scripture as your authoritative Source means less and less to atheistic/humanistic civil servants bent on removing God and religion from society and its functions. Fortunately, even as the world grows more humanist, those who believe in legally protected speech are growing in number because if they can shut down Christians, they can shut down any religion, any philosophy, and any position that goes against an official narrative.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Paivi Rasanen and Juhana Pohjola for recovering from their ordeal.
https://thenewamerican.com/finnish-lawmaker-acquitted-of-hate-speech-charges-for-criticizing-homosexuality/
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536. Elegance of Numbers Point to a Master Mathematician - 4/2/2022
I am not into math, per se. That said, woodworkers use it, constantly. Drummers that are woodworkers, making drums, covering drums, use it all the time. Pi is one such number: 3.141. I use it to find how much material I will need, generally veneer, to cover drums from 6" to 26" diameters.
Right now I'm making a couple of snare drum shells out of staves. One has 24 staves of Padauk and the other, 32 staves of Purpleheart. The trusty calculator gets a lot of use for that kind of stuff. Actually, I worked out all the math decades ago and wrote it all down in a notebook, and use those reference pages anytime I make or recover drums.
Beyond that, no, I'm no mathematician. Back in school, I had a math teacher, Mr. Kenney. He looked like a 6'4" Michael Keaton, with a deep, Brad Garret, Lurch-like, voice, and even had the growl. He also had a death stare that could slice you in half. He was my favorite teacher. He gave me an appreciation for math.
I have written about math before, as far as a look into the mind of the Creator. The Fibonacci sequence and the Mandelbrot sequence are the two I have mentioned but, so many more exist.
Just to blow your mind, take a look at this page and see the sheer number of mathematical sequences, and that is only a fraction of the 5,000 - 50,000 known mathematical sequences and number gymnastics out there, compiled in the EOIS (Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences); printed and online versions. Some are even called "magic" numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_integer_sequences
https://oeis.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences
I came upon a page today that caused wonderment: at the existence of God, and the denial of God. For those in science who believe in "ET," it is easy to use that unknown to address mysteries man does not understand. Of course, "ET" had to come from a cause, as well, and that becomes the rub. Causality. Causality causes just as many stories as the Bible. Everybody chooses which stories they will believe and take as truth. The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy are stories. Creation, the Flood, Moses, Christ are stories. Each has elements of known truth to them, corroborated by various known facts but, they all take aspects of faith, as well. It is far easier for me to believe in Christ than Dark Matter. I experience God and Christ. Dark Matter cannot be detected by anything or anyone. It remains chalk on a blackboard from all that I have read about it. Even claims that trumpet found evidence of it is dismantled by scientists honest enough to say, "Yeah, BUT..."
137. More accurately 1/137. Apparently that number is a "constant." It shows up in all kinds of science. Nobody knows why. It's just there. Watch a video on it and ask yourself how such a number can be associated with so many things? How can that not be evidence of design and therefore a Designer? Chance? How? The mind says, Design. Man says, Nope. Just chance. Yet too many minds realize the nature of that position.
The Bible states nature has enough in it to tell anyone observing, God exists, no excuses: all reasonable conclusions point to a Creator, Romans 1:20. Scientists say, 'Well, we cannot deal with the supernatural,' yet they do, all the time. They hold on to faith that someday mysteries will find answers and yet, they even have numbers that they agree, have no answers as to how they can exist, at all, let alone by chance, by accident.
This link is to an article that has a bunch of rabbit hole links embedded in it, as well as short videos to watch. YouTube is saturated with mathematical and science videos about things that scream "God" to me, and yet, just mysteries and anomalies to others.
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/03/unexplained-maybe-unexplainable-numbers-control-the-universe/
The article gets into various aspects of '137' with some cool quotes about it, and other number facts, as well. And once again, I am seeing the aspect of "ET" brought into the discussion. To communicate with "ET" we only need to mention 137, or some other number that has enormous weight in science and "ET" will know, because of the universality of those numbers, that mankind has intelligence. The expectation of experiencing extraterrestrials in now universal in science and in the general planetary population. The only holdouts are Evangelicals who believe the Bible states Earth, alone, has life on it. I believe that conclusion is untrue, and have written why, numerous times. Either way, both sides act by faith because no one has empirically experienced ET. Pictures, film, testimonies all create interest but, it isn't fact for everybody. I'd like to suggest math and numbers act the same way.
Mathematicians use the words "beautiful" and "elegant" and "pure" when they speak or write of mathematics. They see something in numbers and equations and formulas, just as artistic as any painting or musical composition. Nature is filled with numbers. Where did it all come from? Mankind did not invent math. Mankind did not invent numbers. Man just symbolizes numbers with various notations like, a "1" or a "2" or a "3." What those numbers do, state and show is not man's inventions but, for man to discover because the numbers already existed, what they show already existed, and there is no way such order can come from chaos, let alone "nothing." Everything from nothing. Common sense tells us that is impossible. That is a "supernatural" premise. Nothing natural shows it to be true. Yet modern science is filled with things that have yet to be proven true by empirical evidence: that which can be observed, tested, repeated; calculated beyond a chalkboard and formula, into reality.
I had an experience that proved God exists, for me. I need no proof beyond being born-again. Everything else that points to the Creator is just more information that bolsters the bottom line.
Young people ask about "love" all the time. "How do you know you are in love?" Books, ad infinitum have been written on the subject. When you experience it, you know. Same with God. When you experience God, you know. Before that, Deity is a concept, an idea, a adaptive possibility. The Hummingbird declares it. The entire universe declares it but, the experience proves it.
A man once said to Jesus; "Lord, I believe. You help my unbelief," Mark 9:24.
The same formula exists today.
Col 1:27 to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
If Christ is outside of you, that does not mean He does not exist. It just means you have not experienced Him. Experience Him, and then everything, literally everything changes.
The science of Christianity is an experience that involves observation, testing, repeating and drawing conclusions.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1Thes 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I got my evidence 43 years ago and continue to get it. The experience makes all the difference. As Jesus said, "You must be born again." It's not an option. It's a necessity. And the necessity does not end with the initial experience. The science of Christianity, the discovery, the experiment, is a lifelong one. Factually, it is eternal. It shall never stop. More shall be added to the experience, forever.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Right now I'm making a couple of snare drum shells out of staves. One has 24 staves of Padauk and the other, 32 staves of Purpleheart. The trusty calculator gets a lot of use for that kind of stuff. Actually, I worked out all the math decades ago and wrote it all down in a notebook, and use those reference pages anytime I make or recover drums.
Beyond that, no, I'm no mathematician. Back in school, I had a math teacher, Mr. Kenney. He looked like a 6'4" Michael Keaton, with a deep, Brad Garret, Lurch-like, voice, and even had the growl. He also had a death stare that could slice you in half. He was my favorite teacher. He gave me an appreciation for math.
I have written about math before, as far as a look into the mind of the Creator. The Fibonacci sequence and the Mandelbrot sequence are the two I have mentioned but, so many more exist.
Just to blow your mind, take a look at this page and see the sheer number of mathematical sequences, and that is only a fraction of the 5,000 - 50,000 known mathematical sequences and number gymnastics out there, compiled in the EOIS (Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences); printed and online versions. Some are even called "magic" numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_integer_sequences
https://oeis.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences
I came upon a page today that caused wonderment: at the existence of God, and the denial of God. For those in science who believe in "ET," it is easy to use that unknown to address mysteries man does not understand. Of course, "ET" had to come from a cause, as well, and that becomes the rub. Causality. Causality causes just as many stories as the Bible. Everybody chooses which stories they will believe and take as truth. The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy are stories. Creation, the Flood, Moses, Christ are stories. Each has elements of known truth to them, corroborated by various known facts but, they all take aspects of faith, as well. It is far easier for me to believe in Christ than Dark Matter. I experience God and Christ. Dark Matter cannot be detected by anything or anyone. It remains chalk on a blackboard from all that I have read about it. Even claims that trumpet found evidence of it is dismantled by scientists honest enough to say, "Yeah, BUT..."
137. More accurately 1/137. Apparently that number is a "constant." It shows up in all kinds of science. Nobody knows why. It's just there. Watch a video on it and ask yourself how such a number can be associated with so many things? How can that not be evidence of design and therefore a Designer? Chance? How? The mind says, Design. Man says, Nope. Just chance. Yet too many minds realize the nature of that position.
The Bible states nature has enough in it to tell anyone observing, God exists, no excuses: all reasonable conclusions point to a Creator, Romans 1:20. Scientists say, 'Well, we cannot deal with the supernatural,' yet they do, all the time. They hold on to faith that someday mysteries will find answers and yet, they even have numbers that they agree, have no answers as to how they can exist, at all, let alone by chance, by accident.
This link is to an article that has a bunch of rabbit hole links embedded in it, as well as short videos to watch. YouTube is saturated with mathematical and science videos about things that scream "God" to me, and yet, just mysteries and anomalies to others.
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/03/unexplained-maybe-unexplainable-numbers-control-the-universe/
The article gets into various aspects of '137' with some cool quotes about it, and other number facts, as well. And once again, I am seeing the aspect of "ET" brought into the discussion. To communicate with "ET" we only need to mention 137, or some other number that has enormous weight in science and "ET" will know, because of the universality of those numbers, that mankind has intelligence. The expectation of experiencing extraterrestrials in now universal in science and in the general planetary population. The only holdouts are Evangelicals who believe the Bible states Earth, alone, has life on it. I believe that conclusion is untrue, and have written why, numerous times. Either way, both sides act by faith because no one has empirically experienced ET. Pictures, film, testimonies all create interest but, it isn't fact for everybody. I'd like to suggest math and numbers act the same way.
Mathematicians use the words "beautiful" and "elegant" and "pure" when they speak or write of mathematics. They see something in numbers and equations and formulas, just as artistic as any painting or musical composition. Nature is filled with numbers. Where did it all come from? Mankind did not invent math. Mankind did not invent numbers. Man just symbolizes numbers with various notations like, a "1" or a "2" or a "3." What those numbers do, state and show is not man's inventions but, for man to discover because the numbers already existed, what they show already existed, and there is no way such order can come from chaos, let alone "nothing." Everything from nothing. Common sense tells us that is impossible. That is a "supernatural" premise. Nothing natural shows it to be true. Yet modern science is filled with things that have yet to be proven true by empirical evidence: that which can be observed, tested, repeated; calculated beyond a chalkboard and formula, into reality.
I had an experience that proved God exists, for me. I need no proof beyond being born-again. Everything else that points to the Creator is just more information that bolsters the bottom line.
Young people ask about "love" all the time. "How do you know you are in love?" Books, ad infinitum have been written on the subject. When you experience it, you know. Same with God. When you experience God, you know. Before that, Deity is a concept, an idea, a adaptive possibility. The Hummingbird declares it. The entire universe declares it but, the experience proves it.
A man once said to Jesus; "Lord, I believe. You help my unbelief," Mark 9:24.
The same formula exists today.
Col 1:27 to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
If Christ is outside of you, that does not mean He does not exist. It just means you have not experienced Him. Experience Him, and then everything, literally everything changes.
The science of Christianity is an experience that involves observation, testing, repeating and drawing conclusions.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1Thes 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I got my evidence 43 years ago and continue to get it. The experience makes all the difference. As Jesus said, "You must be born again." It's not an option. It's a necessity. And the necessity does not end with the initial experience. The science of Christianity, the discovery, the experiment, is a lifelong one. Factually, it is eternal. It shall never stop. More shall be added to the experience, forever.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
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537. Where's the Balance - April 3, 2022
I have mentioned my own mental health has been affected by constant negative headlines of things way beyond my control, that just burn a smoldering, unhealthy fire within me - billionaire psychopaths and their lunatic schemes, extremely corrupt government here and abroad, the war being waged against humanity, barbarism of militant Islam, and just humans becoming animals. Men are women/women are men, children are being groomed for a mental migration from reality, and on and on, day in, day out. It's no wonder sports are the most widely watched things on TV. It's a diversion from reality. In essence, it means nothing, absolutely nothing to the necessities of daily life. Unless you bet on the winners. And even with sports today, criminals make up team members, half-time shows get more and more gross and decadent, and the world going mad with XY calling themselves XX and mopping the floor, courts, pools, and tracks against their biological opposite athletes gets worse by the week. States are having to make laws denying this perversion of normalcy.
Daily intake of this swill can cause and is causing mental indigestion for millions of people feeling they got transported to another planet without ever saying, "Beam me up, Scotty." Madness is pole to pole. Why? Well, you know my answer. The return of the Lord draweth nigh.
Practically and spiritually speaking, anyone who reads the Bible, or especially studies it, knows some things are mentioned a lot and other things, not so much. For instance, in the whole Bible, "Lucifer," "Satan" and "devil" are only mentioned 118 times. Not very much for the entity that started this whole mess and wreaks havoc around the globe, 24/7 for the last 6,000 years. "Truth" or some form of the word is found over 200 times. "Love" is found over 300 times. "Jesus" and "Christ" are found around 1600 times, just in the New Testament. Interestingly, "goodness," "righteousness" and forms of or other corroborating words are found well over 1,000 times, while "sin" and other forms or corroborating words are found 650 times, and it is the reason there needs to be the birth, life, death, resurrection, heavenly ministry, and glorious return of the Savior.
Everyone knows, while the Bible mentions plenty of sins, reading instances where its committed does not conjure up what those same sins on television or movies conjures up, even after you see it. It's one of things that, down through time, commentators have marveled at. We all know sin exists out there and if we are honest, it is in each of us, as well. The entire gospel is predicated on the angel's declaration, "You shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins." Not IN their sins. FROM their sins: both the penalty and power of sin.
How much sin can humans be exposed to in this modern, rebellious, degenerate age and not be affected by it? Are we all destined for monasteries and convents to preserve us? Of course not. Jesus said to be in the world, not of it. He functioned in this world and did not sin. He asks us to abide in Him, to live with Him influencing our minds, living spiritually in us, that the same can be obtained in us: being free from sin. Impossible, you say? You are not aware of what the Bible teaches, then. Even Jesus said it simply: "Go and sin no more." Did He mean it? Obviously.
Why do various churches the world over expect converts to stop using drugs, drinking booze, fornicating, lying, stealing, disrespecting parents, taking God's name in vein, bowing down to idols, and for churches that actually keep all ten commandments, remembering the Sabbath day to keep it holy; not going to church in the morning and doing whatever else you want Friday night and Saturday afternoon and evening? The Roman Catholic Church teaches Sunday must be kept holy. To not do so is a sin. You research and see how many Catholics actually go to Mass the world over. How many Catholics, congregants and clergy, are watching Sunday afternoon football, religiously every week of the season? Football is THE consistently highest rated viewership for television audiences. Hey, for me, it's just the first day of the week. For Catholics and most other professed Christians, it supposedly replaced the fourth commandment; meaning, it's a commandment. Breaking the commandments is sin. What is sin? "Sin is transgression of the law," 1 John 3:4.
My point is, no church I am aware of, in any kind of coherence to the standards of biblical living, allows its people to just sin with impunity. Responsibility and accountability for our words and actions exist. Sin is sin, and God is not asking man's permission to call things sin. He decides what sin is. He decides what love is, for that matter, for He is love. God is love. The highest form of love. Infinite love. It is His decision how humans should and must behave and live to represent His kingdom to the world around them and prepare for the world to come.
I know a guy who once told me, "Yea, I always have God in my back pocket." God is not a wallet. We do not sit on God and take him out at our leisure. It's the same erroneous thought as, "God is my co-pilot." That sounds nice but, it's a recipe for disaster. That's why the Bible states, "A man's heart devises his way but, the LORD directs his steps," Pro. 16:9. God flies the plane. He doesn't need a co-pilot. If we fly the plane, God will be flying it anyway, because we will crash it every time without His being at the controls. God wants to tell us where to step, guiding us, in front of us, directing us from behind, surrounding us with His influence daily, with counsel, admonitions, warnings and principles of conduct. He's trying to change our minds, literally. What we put into them directly affects that process for yay or nay. It's just the direct cause-to-effect principle. We are what we eat. We are what we think. We are what we go ahead and do. We all know thoughts, words, actions: sin has consequences.
Look, I'm in the same boat. There is a reason why God refers to the last generation of professed Christians as the Laodicean church. A body of believers actually existed in Laodicea, now located in Southwestern Turkey. It was a wealthy city, with rich fabric manufacturing and banking. They considered themselves rich and increased with goods and did not know they were wretched, poor, blind, miserable, and naked. That spiritual condition is the condition of the world today. Even the wicked seem walled against any conviction they are committing abominations but, the professed Christian world, "Christendom," is a mess, which is worse. Christians are held to a higher standard based on knowledge of the truth we all have access to. Laodiceans are such a sickening thing, Christ says He's going to vomit! What is that process? It is the body's way of removing impurities. Christ is going to throw up and heave out all impurities in His church that are making Him sick with our confusion and excuse-making, and denial of truth and being sanctified by it.
I am not stating we should not stand against evil by exposing it. That must be done, including being honest to "examine [ourselves], whether we be in the faith." But, exposing sin and evil cannot be constantly imbibing and digesting its details in the lives of the rebellious and lost. There must be balance.
I have mentioned 2009 before. That was the year a friend shared with me some reading material and videos about 9/11. I was so shocked and absorbed I spent two weeks, 24 hours a day at times, reading and watching and devastated at what I learned. It all made Ruby Ridge and Waco seem like a parking ticket. It changed me. My government, by the severe weight of the evidence, can not be trusted. I had to stop reading and watching. I even noticed a change in my friend. He literally changed. He seemed darker. He admitted it, too.
The news is bad, every minute of every day, now. Insanity is everywhere. "Darkness covers the Earth, gross darkness the people." Take that in every day and the mind will begin to process information in negative ways within us.
Paul laid down the guiding principle for minds in all ages:
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Does that sound too goody, goody, too prudish, too puritanical and narrow-minded? I would remind you, there are no television or movie companies in Heaven. There are no awards ceremonies for stars in Heaven, because there are no "stars." There are no ratings systems necessary. Life is all General audiences, all the time. It's all life, all the time. It's all good, and holy, and righteous, all the time. It's always light all the time. No darkness in the city of God, no criminals, nothing to hurt in any way out in the countryside. There are no aliens, no star wars, no death and destruction. There are no tears, once all this mess is finally over and done with. All tears shall be dried and gone and ultimately, forgotten, as the infinite time scale of eternity rolls along.
That is why Heaven is what it is, and only those who would be happy there, will be there.
The word "keep" is found around 50 times in the NT. It generally is from a Greek word meaning, to guard. We must keep or guard our minds, our hearts, our eyes, out thoughts, our brothers and sisters in the kingdom, God's commandments and the faith of Jesus. Be on guard.
In many passages throughout the NT we can read that God can "keep" us from falling, from sinning, as in 2 Peter:
2Pet 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pet 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pet 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pet 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pet 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pet 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pet 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Even the prescription for praying for the sick is mapped out this way:
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
We all have faults; the generalization of what we lack in being like Christ. That is different than specific sins. That is God's territory and God's alone. That is correct. Confessing sins to a priest is wrong: biblically, morally and practically. No man should know the details of another man's sins. Christ, alone, can address the details of our lives, and telling people to go say some some rote prayers and light some candles is in no way a sanctifying power in the life of the believer. The penitent may feel better, if they go through that process: getting it off their chest, as it were but, now it is in the priest's mind. Hundreds, thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of sins over years, many easily placed to voices heard on the other side of the screen, and many sins have been committed with that knowledge because men were not meant to contain such information in their minds. The history of the Catholic confessional is, unfortunately but, logically filled with falling and abominations of weak men, asked to "take the place of Christ" before his fellow sinners. It has been one of the great walls of difference between Protestants and Catholics and the two systems of religion found in each. I was raised Catholic. I know whereof I speak.
The United States, pretty much all weaponized and modern nations have guidance systems, color codes, sounds, lights, and expediency warnings in case of elevated dangers. God and His word are to be His people's guidance system. Above and beyond that, in the gifts of the Spirit, prophecy exists; He guides his people in real time: "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets." Then and now, old men, young men, old women, young women (Joel 2:28-32) have and shall dream dreams and see visions and receive notice from the Sovereign of the universe as dangers increase.
The last thing we need to do is increase those dangers with our own negligence and imbalances in life.
Guard the avenues of your soul.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Daily intake of this swill can cause and is causing mental indigestion for millions of people feeling they got transported to another planet without ever saying, "Beam me up, Scotty." Madness is pole to pole. Why? Well, you know my answer. The return of the Lord draweth nigh.
Practically and spiritually speaking, anyone who reads the Bible, or especially studies it, knows some things are mentioned a lot and other things, not so much. For instance, in the whole Bible, "Lucifer," "Satan" and "devil" are only mentioned 118 times. Not very much for the entity that started this whole mess and wreaks havoc around the globe, 24/7 for the last 6,000 years. "Truth" or some form of the word is found over 200 times. "Love" is found over 300 times. "Jesus" and "Christ" are found around 1600 times, just in the New Testament. Interestingly, "goodness," "righteousness" and forms of or other corroborating words are found well over 1,000 times, while "sin" and other forms or corroborating words are found 650 times, and it is the reason there needs to be the birth, life, death, resurrection, heavenly ministry, and glorious return of the Savior.
Everyone knows, while the Bible mentions plenty of sins, reading instances where its committed does not conjure up what those same sins on television or movies conjures up, even after you see it. It's one of things that, down through time, commentators have marveled at. We all know sin exists out there and if we are honest, it is in each of us, as well. The entire gospel is predicated on the angel's declaration, "You shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins." Not IN their sins. FROM their sins: both the penalty and power of sin.
How much sin can humans be exposed to in this modern, rebellious, degenerate age and not be affected by it? Are we all destined for monasteries and convents to preserve us? Of course not. Jesus said to be in the world, not of it. He functioned in this world and did not sin. He asks us to abide in Him, to live with Him influencing our minds, living spiritually in us, that the same can be obtained in us: being free from sin. Impossible, you say? You are not aware of what the Bible teaches, then. Even Jesus said it simply: "Go and sin no more." Did He mean it? Obviously.
Why do various churches the world over expect converts to stop using drugs, drinking booze, fornicating, lying, stealing, disrespecting parents, taking God's name in vein, bowing down to idols, and for churches that actually keep all ten commandments, remembering the Sabbath day to keep it holy; not going to church in the morning and doing whatever else you want Friday night and Saturday afternoon and evening? The Roman Catholic Church teaches Sunday must be kept holy. To not do so is a sin. You research and see how many Catholics actually go to Mass the world over. How many Catholics, congregants and clergy, are watching Sunday afternoon football, religiously every week of the season? Football is THE consistently highest rated viewership for television audiences. Hey, for me, it's just the first day of the week. For Catholics and most other professed Christians, it supposedly replaced the fourth commandment; meaning, it's a commandment. Breaking the commandments is sin. What is sin? "Sin is transgression of the law," 1 John 3:4.
My point is, no church I am aware of, in any kind of coherence to the standards of biblical living, allows its people to just sin with impunity. Responsibility and accountability for our words and actions exist. Sin is sin, and God is not asking man's permission to call things sin. He decides what sin is. He decides what love is, for that matter, for He is love. God is love. The highest form of love. Infinite love. It is His decision how humans should and must behave and live to represent His kingdom to the world around them and prepare for the world to come.
I know a guy who once told me, "Yea, I always have God in my back pocket." God is not a wallet. We do not sit on God and take him out at our leisure. It's the same erroneous thought as, "God is my co-pilot." That sounds nice but, it's a recipe for disaster. That's why the Bible states, "A man's heart devises his way but, the LORD directs his steps," Pro. 16:9. God flies the plane. He doesn't need a co-pilot. If we fly the plane, God will be flying it anyway, because we will crash it every time without His being at the controls. God wants to tell us where to step, guiding us, in front of us, directing us from behind, surrounding us with His influence daily, with counsel, admonitions, warnings and principles of conduct. He's trying to change our minds, literally. What we put into them directly affects that process for yay or nay. It's just the direct cause-to-effect principle. We are what we eat. We are what we think. We are what we go ahead and do. We all know thoughts, words, actions: sin has consequences.
Look, I'm in the same boat. There is a reason why God refers to the last generation of professed Christians as the Laodicean church. A body of believers actually existed in Laodicea, now located in Southwestern Turkey. It was a wealthy city, with rich fabric manufacturing and banking. They considered themselves rich and increased with goods and did not know they were wretched, poor, blind, miserable, and naked. That spiritual condition is the condition of the world today. Even the wicked seem walled against any conviction they are committing abominations but, the professed Christian world, "Christendom," is a mess, which is worse. Christians are held to a higher standard based on knowledge of the truth we all have access to. Laodiceans are such a sickening thing, Christ says He's going to vomit! What is that process? It is the body's way of removing impurities. Christ is going to throw up and heave out all impurities in His church that are making Him sick with our confusion and excuse-making, and denial of truth and being sanctified by it.
I am not stating we should not stand against evil by exposing it. That must be done, including being honest to "examine [ourselves], whether we be in the faith." But, exposing sin and evil cannot be constantly imbibing and digesting its details in the lives of the rebellious and lost. There must be balance.
I have mentioned 2009 before. That was the year a friend shared with me some reading material and videos about 9/11. I was so shocked and absorbed I spent two weeks, 24 hours a day at times, reading and watching and devastated at what I learned. It all made Ruby Ridge and Waco seem like a parking ticket. It changed me. My government, by the severe weight of the evidence, can not be trusted. I had to stop reading and watching. I even noticed a change in my friend. He literally changed. He seemed darker. He admitted it, too.
The news is bad, every minute of every day, now. Insanity is everywhere. "Darkness covers the Earth, gross darkness the people." Take that in every day and the mind will begin to process information in negative ways within us.
Paul laid down the guiding principle for minds in all ages:
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Does that sound too goody, goody, too prudish, too puritanical and narrow-minded? I would remind you, there are no television or movie companies in Heaven. There are no awards ceremonies for stars in Heaven, because there are no "stars." There are no ratings systems necessary. Life is all General audiences, all the time. It's all life, all the time. It's all good, and holy, and righteous, all the time. It's always light all the time. No darkness in the city of God, no criminals, nothing to hurt in any way out in the countryside. There are no aliens, no star wars, no death and destruction. There are no tears, once all this mess is finally over and done with. All tears shall be dried and gone and ultimately, forgotten, as the infinite time scale of eternity rolls along.
That is why Heaven is what it is, and only those who would be happy there, will be there.
The word "keep" is found around 50 times in the NT. It generally is from a Greek word meaning, to guard. We must keep or guard our minds, our hearts, our eyes, out thoughts, our brothers and sisters in the kingdom, God's commandments and the faith of Jesus. Be on guard.
In many passages throughout the NT we can read that God can "keep" us from falling, from sinning, as in 2 Peter:
2Pet 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pet 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pet 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pet 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pet 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pet 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pet 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Even the prescription for praying for the sick is mapped out this way:
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
We all have faults; the generalization of what we lack in being like Christ. That is different than specific sins. That is God's territory and God's alone. That is correct. Confessing sins to a priest is wrong: biblically, morally and practically. No man should know the details of another man's sins. Christ, alone, can address the details of our lives, and telling people to go say some some rote prayers and light some candles is in no way a sanctifying power in the life of the believer. The penitent may feel better, if they go through that process: getting it off their chest, as it were but, now it is in the priest's mind. Hundreds, thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of sins over years, many easily placed to voices heard on the other side of the screen, and many sins have been committed with that knowledge because men were not meant to contain such information in their minds. The history of the Catholic confessional is, unfortunately but, logically filled with falling and abominations of weak men, asked to "take the place of Christ" before his fellow sinners. It has been one of the great walls of difference between Protestants and Catholics and the two systems of religion found in each. I was raised Catholic. I know whereof I speak.
The United States, pretty much all weaponized and modern nations have guidance systems, color codes, sounds, lights, and expediency warnings in case of elevated dangers. God and His word are to be His people's guidance system. Above and beyond that, in the gifts of the Spirit, prophecy exists; He guides his people in real time: "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets." Then and now, old men, young men, old women, young women (Joel 2:28-32) have and shall dream dreams and see visions and receive notice from the Sovereign of the universe as dangers increase.
The last thing we need to do is increase those dangers with our own negligence and imbalances in life.
Guard the avenues of your soul.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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538. Spies, War and Calendars - April 6, 2022
Here's what we all know.
Russia spends time and money on their military. Ten times less than the USA, and yet they have armaments the USA does not. They are a military behemoth. They don't waste money like the USA does.
Ukraine gets stuff from other nations, when it comes to their military. They have nothing going for it but, determination. Lots of corruption runs that nation, just like this one. Well, worse, actually. Just the same, there's a reason the USA uses Ukraine. How has this battle, this military confrontation, gone on as long as it has already? How is it all modern "wars" have gone on as long as they have?
Spies, Politics, and Money.
Everybody knows spies are in all nations that have planetary influence, and even those that do not. Everybody spies on everybody. Since I was a kid I have seen things in the news about this spy caught and that spy caught. Recent times have shown Chinese spies working in America, one even dating a US Democrat Congressman.
Nations get their info and make their plans, all well ahead of what we see as world events when they unfold. Covid has revealed us the facts that this event is decades old.
Putin said he wanted to denazify Ukraine; demilitarize Ukraine. He had to make plans. He knew he was taking on NATO before he went into this. NATO is the reason he got into this! Putin should have been able to pound Ukraine into fragments in short time but, we see he is not fighting Ukraine. He is fighting NATO on the sidelines, putting money and military might into Ukraine's hands. He knew that before he started.
Spies gather information, war makes money, calendars determine the cash flow. This has gone on for a century now. Well, historically, spies, politics and calendars have gone on since the beginning of banks and free-markets. Kingdoms just took money and livestock from citizens to make arms and feed armies. With the fading of kings and kingdoms, banks and loans and free-markets took over, save for dictatorships and Communism, which is just another type of kingdom, with a whole bunch of wannabe kings and queens taking things from citizens. In free nations, politicians legally do whatever they want in taxation and citizens can complain and politicians make promises and yet, armies get bigger and the possibility of wiping out all life on Earth became a reality. That is the only thing that keeps Putin from an early victory. Nobody wants to drop a nuke. Everybody has them. Nobody wants to use them because that ends the money train.
Armies exist to crush enemies. But, in the hands of politicians, corporations and banks, armies exist to make money. That means wars must drag on. Putin and Zelenskyy have little care for civilian life, all things considered. I certainly believe Putin cares more than Zelenskyy. Otherwise he'd have carpet bombed Ukraine by now. But, wars are also political and such activity is always on the world screen, even more in the digital age, and business interests are involved, and great care must be taken how the web withstands every move made.
Putin could have made quick work of this. He has choices. Ukraine does not. Ukraine can only plead with NATO for help, or it is toast.
The banksters see it all, the globalists see it all as a cash cow, and good reason to put the planet under more and more controls to "save humanity." It's all BS, and we all know it, and yet are powerless to do anything about it. All we can do is expose it but, more and more humanity is caught up in la-la land to maintain sanity. With all the information out there, it also shows us those who have taken the time to make the money and control things, control things, literally.
Brown has got to be the most suspicious nominee to SCOTUS ever and yet, three suspicious GOP Senators are going to vote to confirm her. Madison Cawthorn has exposed corruption and debauchery within his surroundings and all of it just proves what I have believed for years... there are constant anvils being hung over the heads of legislators so they will do the bidding of darker powers in control. Want to spend the night with babe? Here are the pictures and video. Now, vote as we tell you. It's just that easy for political and moral airheads to get sucked into such wells of moral ineptitude.
D.C. is a viper pit. It has been for a century and gets worse with each passing decade.
This is all in Putin's hands. He can wipe out Ukraine and leave the West out of his concerns because most of the populated world is on his side of the planet. Or, he can wage another decades long war, costing trillions of dollars and getting nowhere, like Russia's go-round with Afghanistan. Or, he can back out now, and work with others to leave the USA and West in it's past; and put together new currencies, new trade partners, and new prospects for Asia, which he has been doing for 25 years.
It is all spies and wars and calendars. It's all political gaming. It's all about money. It's all about origins. For America and Americans, aside from Native Americans, none of us have origins here. We are all European or people from much older nations. For Putin, he sees Russia and its origins, and would like to see all Russia and Russians united. Historians will disagree on details, for sure, and are, as this conflict rages but, Putin see a bigger picture. It's unlikely he gets to see its fulfillment. He'll have to settle for other options.
This is all an enormous global chessboard. We all see it. There's just nothing we can do about it.
God help us.
Russia spends time and money on their military. Ten times less than the USA, and yet they have armaments the USA does not. They are a military behemoth. They don't waste money like the USA does.
Ukraine gets stuff from other nations, when it comes to their military. They have nothing going for it but, determination. Lots of corruption runs that nation, just like this one. Well, worse, actually. Just the same, there's a reason the USA uses Ukraine. How has this battle, this military confrontation, gone on as long as it has already? How is it all modern "wars" have gone on as long as they have?
Spies, Politics, and Money.
Everybody knows spies are in all nations that have planetary influence, and even those that do not. Everybody spies on everybody. Since I was a kid I have seen things in the news about this spy caught and that spy caught. Recent times have shown Chinese spies working in America, one even dating a US Democrat Congressman.
Nations get their info and make their plans, all well ahead of what we see as world events when they unfold. Covid has revealed us the facts that this event is decades old.
Putin said he wanted to denazify Ukraine; demilitarize Ukraine. He had to make plans. He knew he was taking on NATO before he went into this. NATO is the reason he got into this! Putin should have been able to pound Ukraine into fragments in short time but, we see he is not fighting Ukraine. He is fighting NATO on the sidelines, putting money and military might into Ukraine's hands. He knew that before he started.
Spies gather information, war makes money, calendars determine the cash flow. This has gone on for a century now. Well, historically, spies, politics and calendars have gone on since the beginning of banks and free-markets. Kingdoms just took money and livestock from citizens to make arms and feed armies. With the fading of kings and kingdoms, banks and loans and free-markets took over, save for dictatorships and Communism, which is just another type of kingdom, with a whole bunch of wannabe kings and queens taking things from citizens. In free nations, politicians legally do whatever they want in taxation and citizens can complain and politicians make promises and yet, armies get bigger and the possibility of wiping out all life on Earth became a reality. That is the only thing that keeps Putin from an early victory. Nobody wants to drop a nuke. Everybody has them. Nobody wants to use them because that ends the money train.
Armies exist to crush enemies. But, in the hands of politicians, corporations and banks, armies exist to make money. That means wars must drag on. Putin and Zelenskyy have little care for civilian life, all things considered. I certainly believe Putin cares more than Zelenskyy. Otherwise he'd have carpet bombed Ukraine by now. But, wars are also political and such activity is always on the world screen, even more in the digital age, and business interests are involved, and great care must be taken how the web withstands every move made.
Putin could have made quick work of this. He has choices. Ukraine does not. Ukraine can only plead with NATO for help, or it is toast.
The banksters see it all, the globalists see it all as a cash cow, and good reason to put the planet under more and more controls to "save humanity." It's all BS, and we all know it, and yet are powerless to do anything about it. All we can do is expose it but, more and more humanity is caught up in la-la land to maintain sanity. With all the information out there, it also shows us those who have taken the time to make the money and control things, control things, literally.
Brown has got to be the most suspicious nominee to SCOTUS ever and yet, three suspicious GOP Senators are going to vote to confirm her. Madison Cawthorn has exposed corruption and debauchery within his surroundings and all of it just proves what I have believed for years... there are constant anvils being hung over the heads of legislators so they will do the bidding of darker powers in control. Want to spend the night with babe? Here are the pictures and video. Now, vote as we tell you. It's just that easy for political and moral airheads to get sucked into such wells of moral ineptitude.
D.C. is a viper pit. It has been for a century and gets worse with each passing decade.
This is all in Putin's hands. He can wipe out Ukraine and leave the West out of his concerns because most of the populated world is on his side of the planet. Or, he can wage another decades long war, costing trillions of dollars and getting nowhere, like Russia's go-round with Afghanistan. Or, he can back out now, and work with others to leave the USA and West in it's past; and put together new currencies, new trade partners, and new prospects for Asia, which he has been doing for 25 years.
It is all spies and wars and calendars. It's all political gaming. It's all about money. It's all about origins. For America and Americans, aside from Native Americans, none of us have origins here. We are all European or people from much older nations. For Putin, he sees Russia and its origins, and would like to see all Russia and Russians united. Historians will disagree on details, for sure, and are, as this conflict rages but, Putin see a bigger picture. It's unlikely he gets to see its fulfillment. He'll have to settle for other options.
This is all an enormous global chessboard. We all see it. There's just nothing we can do about it.
God help us.
13 Seconds of Massive Reality Check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lF3n9bbZg&t=13s
Pathetic. National Humiliation. International laughingstock. Universal tragedy.
The vivid reality of the non-president of the Divided States of America.
Pathetic. National Humiliation. International laughingstock. Universal tragedy.
The vivid reality of the non-president of the Divided States of America.
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539. Of Course We're at WAR! - April 7, 2022
"IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Defense Department Announces $300 Million in Additional Assistance for Ukraine
APRIL 1, 2022
Attributed to Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby:
This afternoon, April 1, the Department of Defense (DoD) notified Congress of additional assistance activities under authority provided by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).
Through USAI, DoD will provide up to $300 million in security assistance to bolster Ukraine's capacity to defend itself. This decision underscores the United States' unwavering commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity in support of its heroic efforts to repel Russia's war of choice.
Capabilities in this package include:
• Laser-guided rocket systems;
• Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles;
• Small-to-large caliber nonstandard ammunition;
• Night vision devices, thermal imagery systems, and optics;
• Tactical secure communications systems;
• Non-standard machine guns;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Medical supplies, field equipment, and spare parts.
The United States has now committed more than $2.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $1.6 billion in security assistance since Russia's unprovoked, premeditated invasion.
Unlike Presidential Drawdown, USAI is an authority under which the United States procures capabilities from industry rather than delivering equipment that is drawn down from DoD stocks. This announcement represents the beginning of a contracting process to provide new capabilities to Ukraine's Armed Forces.
The United States also continues to work with its Allies and partners to identify and provide to the Ukrainians additional capabilities.
The United States will continue to utilize all available tools to support Ukraine's Armed Forces in the face of Russian aggression."
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2987119/defense-department-announces-300-million-in-additional-assistance-for-ukraine/
Unpack this.
"sovereignty and territorial integrity" - What makes a territory? Borders. What creates sovereignty and integrity? The rule of law. How is it the U.S. government agrees that Ukraine has sovereignty and a territory and border that must be protected but, America just lets whoever wants to walk in, just walk in by the hundreds of thousands into millions, regardless of who they are, what they believe, what they want, place of origin, how they expect to live, etc.? Does Ukraine do that? No. No nation but, America does it. All other nations practice immigration policies and laws. We have them. D.C. traitors refuse to honor and abide by those laws. The Biden administration is now giving cell phones to illegal immigrants to safely monitor them. Seriously???
Look at that "assistance" list. We claim we are providing assistance? How can America NOT be at war with Russia, providing such assistance? Medical aid is one thing. That is humanitarian. The rest is flat out warfare. America is, once again, fighting proxy wars, that lead into boots on the ground wars.
"Russia's unprovoked, premeditated invasion" - That is a lie. Putin told the world what he was going to do and WHY. The MSM could not care less about Ukraine's unceasing, unprovoked, premeditated Nazi invasions of two new Republics, which provoked Putin to finally respond to requests for help.
"procure capabilities from industry" - And there you have it. The USA is not sending things from its own stockpiles. It has contracted with and is paying the military industrial complex to make and send armaments to Ukraine. USA borrows money to do this. So, the usual players, the banksters and the m.i.c. all profit, which is why America is ALWAYS at war. Always. Somewhere on the globe America is always at war and the issue is not freedom and liberty. The issue is money. The issue is empire building. This is not close to what the Founders of this nation envisioned. American sons and daughters continue to die for this insanity, while America builds military bases all over the globe, which is Putin's main concern in Russia's sovereign borders.
Without NATO's interference, this would have been over in a heartbeat. Nazis overthrown. The new Republics safe from tyranny and despotism but, now we have General Mark Milley telling the world this is going to be a protracted conflict. Of course it is! It always is. There's money to be made. Military budgets and new gadgets and missiles and rockets and stuff to play with. And obviously, all this new war-tech comes with instructions so, the U.S. will send people to Ukraine to instruct them how to use it all but, we are not at war with Russia. Ukraine is, not us. BS.
And Americans think some truckers, some protests, a few psuedo-Constitutional Congressmen and Senators are going to stop all this madness?
Surely, you jest.
Defense Department Announces $300 Million in Additional Assistance for Ukraine
APRIL 1, 2022
Attributed to Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby:
This afternoon, April 1, the Department of Defense (DoD) notified Congress of additional assistance activities under authority provided by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).
Through USAI, DoD will provide up to $300 million in security assistance to bolster Ukraine's capacity to defend itself. This decision underscores the United States' unwavering commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity in support of its heroic efforts to repel Russia's war of choice.
Capabilities in this package include:
• Laser-guided rocket systems;
• Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles;
• Small-to-large caliber nonstandard ammunition;
• Night vision devices, thermal imagery systems, and optics;
• Tactical secure communications systems;
• Non-standard machine guns;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Medical supplies, field equipment, and spare parts.
The United States has now committed more than $2.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $1.6 billion in security assistance since Russia's unprovoked, premeditated invasion.
Unlike Presidential Drawdown, USAI is an authority under which the United States procures capabilities from industry rather than delivering equipment that is drawn down from DoD stocks. This announcement represents the beginning of a contracting process to provide new capabilities to Ukraine's Armed Forces.
The United States also continues to work with its Allies and partners to identify and provide to the Ukrainians additional capabilities.
The United States will continue to utilize all available tools to support Ukraine's Armed Forces in the face of Russian aggression."
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2987119/defense-department-announces-300-million-in-additional-assistance-for-ukraine/
Unpack this.
"sovereignty and territorial integrity" - What makes a territory? Borders. What creates sovereignty and integrity? The rule of law. How is it the U.S. government agrees that Ukraine has sovereignty and a territory and border that must be protected but, America just lets whoever wants to walk in, just walk in by the hundreds of thousands into millions, regardless of who they are, what they believe, what they want, place of origin, how they expect to live, etc.? Does Ukraine do that? No. No nation but, America does it. All other nations practice immigration policies and laws. We have them. D.C. traitors refuse to honor and abide by those laws. The Biden administration is now giving cell phones to illegal immigrants to safely monitor them. Seriously???
Look at that "assistance" list. We claim we are providing assistance? How can America NOT be at war with Russia, providing such assistance? Medical aid is one thing. That is humanitarian. The rest is flat out warfare. America is, once again, fighting proxy wars, that lead into boots on the ground wars.
"Russia's unprovoked, premeditated invasion" - That is a lie. Putin told the world what he was going to do and WHY. The MSM could not care less about Ukraine's unceasing, unprovoked, premeditated Nazi invasions of two new Republics, which provoked Putin to finally respond to requests for help.
"procure capabilities from industry" - And there you have it. The USA is not sending things from its own stockpiles. It has contracted with and is paying the military industrial complex to make and send armaments to Ukraine. USA borrows money to do this. So, the usual players, the banksters and the m.i.c. all profit, which is why America is ALWAYS at war. Always. Somewhere on the globe America is always at war and the issue is not freedom and liberty. The issue is money. The issue is empire building. This is not close to what the Founders of this nation envisioned. American sons and daughters continue to die for this insanity, while America builds military bases all over the globe, which is Putin's main concern in Russia's sovereign borders.
Without NATO's interference, this would have been over in a heartbeat. Nazis overthrown. The new Republics safe from tyranny and despotism but, now we have General Mark Milley telling the world this is going to be a protracted conflict. Of course it is! It always is. There's money to be made. Military budgets and new gadgets and missiles and rockets and stuff to play with. And obviously, all this new war-tech comes with instructions so, the U.S. will send people to Ukraine to instruct them how to use it all but, we are not at war with Russia. Ukraine is, not us. BS.
And Americans think some truckers, some protests, a few psuedo-Constitutional Congressmen and Senators are going to stop all this madness?
Surely, you jest.
"I Am Opposed to Self-Defense" ?!?!?!
Emmanuel Macron, poster boy for a New World Order, just decreased his chances of re-election (if the French have maintained any sense of logic and reason), by telling the world a farmer who defended his property and family from a home invasion of four men is going back to the "Wild West."
You cannot make this stuff up.
"When commenting on the matter, Macron said that he considers himself to be living in the “state of law.”
“Everyone must be safe, and the public authorities have to ensure it,” he declared while speaking on Europe 1.
“But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,” said Macron."
This said while France's crime rate is through the roof because of "immigration" and gang warfare against his "state of law" and "public authorities."
https://rmx.news/article/macron-rejects-self-defense-after-a-farmer-kills-a-burglar-who-broke-into-his-home/
Sorry, Mr. Macron. I do clearly and disputably decline your sense of safety. Well before a "Wild West," citizens of free nations, where liberty was based on personal responsibility and rule of law, allowing for "self-defense," did just fine, thank you. It is the removal of personal protection that allows gangs and crime to proliferate, as well as a rogue state.
What would Macron said if the home owner was killed or his daughter raped or killed? What would you have said, Mr. Macron? "We are sorry for the loss of life, for the pain caused by ruthless criminal activity but, we must not allow citizens to protect themselves from evil. The state, and only the state, must have that responsibility."
The man is a fool. I hope France removes him from his catastrophic globalist stupidity and nonsensical rule.
You cannot make this stuff up.
"When commenting on the matter, Macron said that he considers himself to be living in the “state of law.”
“Everyone must be safe, and the public authorities have to ensure it,” he declared while speaking on Europe 1.
“But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,” said Macron."
This said while France's crime rate is through the roof because of "immigration" and gang warfare against his "state of law" and "public authorities."
https://rmx.news/article/macron-rejects-self-defense-after-a-farmer-kills-a-burglar-who-broke-into-his-home/
Sorry, Mr. Macron. I do clearly and disputably decline your sense of safety. Well before a "Wild West," citizens of free nations, where liberty was based on personal responsibility and rule of law, allowing for "self-defense," did just fine, thank you. It is the removal of personal protection that allows gangs and crime to proliferate, as well as a rogue state.
What would Macron said if the home owner was killed or his daughter raped or killed? What would you have said, Mr. Macron? "We are sorry for the loss of life, for the pain caused by ruthless criminal activity but, we must not allow citizens to protect themselves from evil. The state, and only the state, must have that responsibility."
The man is a fool. I hope France removes him from his catastrophic globalist stupidity and nonsensical rule.
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540. First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois - April 9, 2022
The First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois is in the news. They are fasting from "whiteness."
To say all this has gone too far is an egregious slap in the face of common sense, which looks on in horror at just how distant from reality professed Christians can get.
First United Church would have you believe they are a welcoming, accepting, nurturing, loving body of believers and in many ways a visitor, unfamiliar with the Bible, might find that so. Their website is very well done, with nice photographs of the church building, inside and out, as well as nice shots of the membership and things they do. They do not have a statement of faith. They have a set of core values. I found it natural this church did not have the word "truth" on it's site, save for one place, and it's in one of their "values:"
"Social justice: Empowered by the grace of God and following the example of Jesus Christ, we speak our truths and beliefs as we challenge and change social and cultural structures that perpetuate unfair and unjust impact."
I do not believe I have ever seen such an overt statement before. Not that speaking out against injustice or social and cultural issues is different. Of course not. The Bible speaks to those issues over and over again, from different writers down through time. I just have never seen God and Jesus Christ placed in the same sentence and context as "our truth." That one phrase cast a spotlight on the subject more than anything else. That church has "their" truth. Most churches will state they have God's truth, and Christ's truth.
This is like people who regularly refer to "your Sabbath." I correct them instantly. It is not my Sabbath. It is God's Sabbath. He rested on the seventh day. He wrote the fourth commandment on stone with His own hand. He commanded humanity to rest on the seventh day of His week. His week. His day. His commandment. Not mine.
When people say, "You have your Sabbath, I have mine," I tell them I don't want my own Sabbath, any more than I want my own faith. The Bible says we must have the faith of Jesus. It's His faith, which He is the author and finisher of. If my faith is not His faith working in my life, which then makes it my faith, His gift to me, the ease at which the professed believer can make shipwreck of faith and life is exponentially increased.
Ask yourself a simple question. Do you think criminals love their spouse and children? Family is quite important in the culture of organized crime. But, they're criminals. They commit crime. How can they care about their families? They have their version of love, faith, truth, and life. "Nothing personal. It's just business."
First United of Oak Park is a Leftist organization masquerading as an example of Christian charity and love. As such, they accept anybody and everybody. Well, in fact, Christians should be loving to all people, from all walks of life. The Gospel of salvation is for everyone, everywhere. Do not miss this simple point, though. "You shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins."
How can anyone know they have sins to be saved from? According to the Bible: "the royal law," "the law of liberty," the moral law, the ten commandments, written with the finger of God "and He added no more," Deut. 5:22. That is the mirror to look in. That is the standard by which all people shall be judged. Christ is the victor over sin. He never sinned: not by a thought or word or action. He is God's offering; the Lamb which takes away the sins of the world. The perfect sacrifice for sin; my sins and your sins. God is love. Jesus is Deity. Jesus is love. Jesus fought injustice. He turned over the tables of the money changers. He accepted the prostitutes and lepers and infirmed, the tax collectors, and children; all classes of people put down by the culture of the day, who saw in Him a refuge. He told them all and He tells us, "Go and sin no more."
I may have missed the word "truth" or some variation of it elsewhere on the First United site. I did not see the word "sin" one time. I did see this -
"Practice inclusion by valuing people of all races, ethnicities, cultural identities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities in every aspect of our congregational life."
You already know I believe their is one race; the human race. Continental origins and the amount of melanin in someone's skin, the shape of their nose, eyes, chin or color or texture of their hair does not create "races," unless you believe the social engineers who began all that nonsense. There is no major or even minor scientific difference between humans. Genetic differences are less than one percent. They are insignificant. There is NO VALUE, NONE in granting the social engineers their proclamations of race, that divides humanity. They and it should be roundly rejected. Everyone is a shade of brown. No one is white, no one is black, no one is red, no one is yellow. Everyone is a shade of brown.
Evil has brought forth issues of "race." And it is evil that has brought forth the notion sin is not as God proclaims but, as humans proclaim. Disbelief is sin. It is just as wrong in the eyes of God for the pastor of First United Church to proclaim this, because it is a lie; it is bearing false witness -
"The story of Noah is an origin myth, it is telling the story of how did the world come to be the way that it is. How did the nations come to be, how did people spread across the earth? It is an origin myth, it is telling the story of how—making reality explicable and placing it inside a coherent narrative. The story is not itself a morality play, it is telling the story of how."
That is a lie. Aside from Moses, who recorded Genesis, other old testament writers mention the Flood as an historic fact. Jesus referred to it as a fact; one that likened itself to what will take place when He returns... the end of the world. Other new testament writers referred to Noah and the Flood as a fact of history. Science even declares a global flood not just a possibility but, a probability, if not an actual occurrence. It just depends on which "science" you want to see observable evidence from.
There is no such thing, biblically speaking, as gender identity. God created humans, and mammalian life, male and female. XY, XX chromosomes. That is it. Humanity is saying, "No. We are what we want to be and you must accept that." No, I do not have to accept that.
I have no certainty or deep understanding why Bruce Jenner identifies as a woman and has gone through all the changes to physically, on the outside, become one, and all other transgenders. Does he still have a penis? "Lia" Thomas does, and apparently exposed himself to girls in a situation they felt was way out of line. Honestly, I did not read the article. I would not waste my time. Jenner is a man. Whether or not the new SCOTUS judge, Ketanji Brown understands that, is immaterial, save as it affects her ability to actually judge on the court. I would say, Yes. It will greatly affect her ability to judge accurately, according to the rule of law. Especially would that be the case if looking at the East entrance to the building she will work in, with it's sculpture of Moses holding the tables of the law in his hands. I would also say, not just Moses but, Confucius and Solon would also know the difference between a man and a woman. I may as well add all the figures carved above the entrances to the building. Ketanji Brown is a confused human being. How can a confused human being be a judge? Well, according to her sentences placed on pedophiles brought out in confirmation hearings, America has the answer to that question. The three GOP senators who voted to confirm her will go down in history as three more confused and worthless civil servants who took oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So will all the Democrats but, at this point their disgust of the rule of law and of God, Himself, has been on stage for the whole world to see for many years now.
I'm going to guess First United sees pedophilia as wrong. Maybe not, as far as individuals in the membership. "Love" gets described and defined and interpreted by professed believers in many different ways, today. I do know, and they should know homosexuality is a sin. God says it is. Rather than humbly go with that and address life in God's order, man now calls it a crime to make such statements. Who is in trouble when Jesus returns? Well, the humanists don't believe Jesus even existed, or if He did, He was just a man. Hey, there are religions, like Jehovah's Witnesses and some other groups who believe the same thing.
It is the professed believer who is in more trouble than the out and out disbeliever. Both are lost. One creates far more confusion.
On the First United history page is this:
"Welcoming the LGBTQ communityThe decision to become an Open and Affirming (UCC)/More Light (PCUSA) congregation in 1995 was a major event for the congregation. This decision meant that the church affirmed and supported the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals into the church both as members and as pastoral staff. Some members left First United over this decision. But more of them stayed to greet the new visitors and members who saw First United as an open and welcoming place to worship, no matter anyone’s sexual orientation or gender identity."
Do you see? CONFUSION. Babylon. Signs of the times. Christ is coming back to end this mess of mixed-up malcontents. I wonder what the founders of the two churches who made up First United, back in the 1800s, would think of the above statement? I do not have to wonder. Oh, yes, things have changed. The website says so:
"How did First United Church turn into the socially conscious, welcoming congregation it is today? It turns out that the church has a long history of leadership and civic involvement. It grew and changed along with Oak Park."
And there is the policy known by historians down through time: the church did not change the culture. The culture changed the church.
I would never question the sincerity of a professed Christian. I am definitely going to question their doctrines, their "values" and statements of "covenant" and existence, though, by comparing them with the full testimony of Scripture.
Reading through the website and the pastor's sermon and this whole, we are putting aside "whiteness" for Lent is a ruse. It's a departure from truth. There are agnostics, atheists, naturalists, materialists, humanists, and people of all other religions that do all the things that First United Church does in their community. The one thing that God asks His people to do is tell the truth, His truth. It does not matter what all the other stuff amounts to, good as it all may be, because the issue is the Good news of salvation FROM SIN. You can't proclaim that if you will not proclaim sin is sin because God says it is!
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matt 7:21-23
People say, "Jesus said not to judge." They will show you Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged," and the verses that follow. What they will not show you is John 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
What is righteous judgment? Critical thinking. Making decisions on principles, not feelings. Being balanced in all we think, say and do, according the full word of God.
The fact is, First United Church of Oak Park is a sign of the times that Christ is returning soon. Church bodies that leave out truth, any truth, are prophetic, spiritual Babylon. Mother Rome and her wayward daughters. Rome has it down to man-made "venial" and "mortal" sins, a yearly calendar of obligations and acts, salvation by works. Traditions on top of traditions bequeathed to her daughters who still practice many of them, like the 40 days of Lent. But, many also adopt humanistic premises, as well. Things Rome considers abomination. Confusion. Mother gave birth to confused daughters, imbibing at the teats of the world, and made drunk, just like their mother who fornicated with the kings of Earth down through history.
First United Church can proclaim it is a Christian Church. They can say whatever they want. They may be united. They may be nice people. That does not make them born-again believers in Jesus Christ that live by faith in God's word, as truth; not cunningly devised fables and myths.
In the grand scheme of things, First United is actually far more dangerous than the church of Satan. Why? Because the church of Satan is obvious. That is why Jesus said to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. The church of Satan is not a deception. First United is. It's a deception, a delusion of what Christianity is to be, all of it, by the entire and whole testimony of Jesus Christ and His disciples; not the chopped up, dissected version made available by those who have "their" truth.
There is no actual difference between the humanism of the church of Satan and that of First United. The same policies exist in both, regardless of the obvious differences.
There is a glass of orange juice and a glass of orange juice with some drops of odorless, tasteless poison in it. First United looks and seems like the former. It is the latter. I state that as a whole. I cannot state that by virtue of individuals in it. I can state that by virtue of "their" collective prescription for ministry.
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/April-7-2022-Press-Release.pdf
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sermon-3-6-22.pdf
First United would call me a "hater." Well, I do not hate them. I hate sin. I hate deception. I am wary of delusions. We have been warned by God, in His Word of truth.
Whether we will stand by it will tell the story of our lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
To say all this has gone too far is an egregious slap in the face of common sense, which looks on in horror at just how distant from reality professed Christians can get.
First United Church would have you believe they are a welcoming, accepting, nurturing, loving body of believers and in many ways a visitor, unfamiliar with the Bible, might find that so. Their website is very well done, with nice photographs of the church building, inside and out, as well as nice shots of the membership and things they do. They do not have a statement of faith. They have a set of core values. I found it natural this church did not have the word "truth" on it's site, save for one place, and it's in one of their "values:"
"Social justice: Empowered by the grace of God and following the example of Jesus Christ, we speak our truths and beliefs as we challenge and change social and cultural structures that perpetuate unfair and unjust impact."
I do not believe I have ever seen such an overt statement before. Not that speaking out against injustice or social and cultural issues is different. Of course not. The Bible speaks to those issues over and over again, from different writers down through time. I just have never seen God and Jesus Christ placed in the same sentence and context as "our truth." That one phrase cast a spotlight on the subject more than anything else. That church has "their" truth. Most churches will state they have God's truth, and Christ's truth.
This is like people who regularly refer to "your Sabbath." I correct them instantly. It is not my Sabbath. It is God's Sabbath. He rested on the seventh day. He wrote the fourth commandment on stone with His own hand. He commanded humanity to rest on the seventh day of His week. His week. His day. His commandment. Not mine.
When people say, "You have your Sabbath, I have mine," I tell them I don't want my own Sabbath, any more than I want my own faith. The Bible says we must have the faith of Jesus. It's His faith, which He is the author and finisher of. If my faith is not His faith working in my life, which then makes it my faith, His gift to me, the ease at which the professed believer can make shipwreck of faith and life is exponentially increased.
Ask yourself a simple question. Do you think criminals love their spouse and children? Family is quite important in the culture of organized crime. But, they're criminals. They commit crime. How can they care about their families? They have their version of love, faith, truth, and life. "Nothing personal. It's just business."
First United of Oak Park is a Leftist organization masquerading as an example of Christian charity and love. As such, they accept anybody and everybody. Well, in fact, Christians should be loving to all people, from all walks of life. The Gospel of salvation is for everyone, everywhere. Do not miss this simple point, though. "You shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins."
How can anyone know they have sins to be saved from? According to the Bible: "the royal law," "the law of liberty," the moral law, the ten commandments, written with the finger of God "and He added no more," Deut. 5:22. That is the mirror to look in. That is the standard by which all people shall be judged. Christ is the victor over sin. He never sinned: not by a thought or word or action. He is God's offering; the Lamb which takes away the sins of the world. The perfect sacrifice for sin; my sins and your sins. God is love. Jesus is Deity. Jesus is love. Jesus fought injustice. He turned over the tables of the money changers. He accepted the prostitutes and lepers and infirmed, the tax collectors, and children; all classes of people put down by the culture of the day, who saw in Him a refuge. He told them all and He tells us, "Go and sin no more."
I may have missed the word "truth" or some variation of it elsewhere on the First United site. I did not see the word "sin" one time. I did see this -
"Practice inclusion by valuing people of all races, ethnicities, cultural identities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities in every aspect of our congregational life."
You already know I believe their is one race; the human race. Continental origins and the amount of melanin in someone's skin, the shape of their nose, eyes, chin or color or texture of their hair does not create "races," unless you believe the social engineers who began all that nonsense. There is no major or even minor scientific difference between humans. Genetic differences are less than one percent. They are insignificant. There is NO VALUE, NONE in granting the social engineers their proclamations of race, that divides humanity. They and it should be roundly rejected. Everyone is a shade of brown. No one is white, no one is black, no one is red, no one is yellow. Everyone is a shade of brown.
Evil has brought forth issues of "race." And it is evil that has brought forth the notion sin is not as God proclaims but, as humans proclaim. Disbelief is sin. It is just as wrong in the eyes of God for the pastor of First United Church to proclaim this, because it is a lie; it is bearing false witness -
"The story of Noah is an origin myth, it is telling the story of how did the world come to be the way that it is. How did the nations come to be, how did people spread across the earth? It is an origin myth, it is telling the story of how—making reality explicable and placing it inside a coherent narrative. The story is not itself a morality play, it is telling the story of how."
That is a lie. Aside from Moses, who recorded Genesis, other old testament writers mention the Flood as an historic fact. Jesus referred to it as a fact; one that likened itself to what will take place when He returns... the end of the world. Other new testament writers referred to Noah and the Flood as a fact of history. Science even declares a global flood not just a possibility but, a probability, if not an actual occurrence. It just depends on which "science" you want to see observable evidence from.
There is no such thing, biblically speaking, as gender identity. God created humans, and mammalian life, male and female. XY, XX chromosomes. That is it. Humanity is saying, "No. We are what we want to be and you must accept that." No, I do not have to accept that.
I have no certainty or deep understanding why Bruce Jenner identifies as a woman and has gone through all the changes to physically, on the outside, become one, and all other transgenders. Does he still have a penis? "Lia" Thomas does, and apparently exposed himself to girls in a situation they felt was way out of line. Honestly, I did not read the article. I would not waste my time. Jenner is a man. Whether or not the new SCOTUS judge, Ketanji Brown understands that, is immaterial, save as it affects her ability to actually judge on the court. I would say, Yes. It will greatly affect her ability to judge accurately, according to the rule of law. Especially would that be the case if looking at the East entrance to the building she will work in, with it's sculpture of Moses holding the tables of the law in his hands. I would also say, not just Moses but, Confucius and Solon would also know the difference between a man and a woman. I may as well add all the figures carved above the entrances to the building. Ketanji Brown is a confused human being. How can a confused human being be a judge? Well, according to her sentences placed on pedophiles brought out in confirmation hearings, America has the answer to that question. The three GOP senators who voted to confirm her will go down in history as three more confused and worthless civil servants who took oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. So will all the Democrats but, at this point their disgust of the rule of law and of God, Himself, has been on stage for the whole world to see for many years now.
I'm going to guess First United sees pedophilia as wrong. Maybe not, as far as individuals in the membership. "Love" gets described and defined and interpreted by professed believers in many different ways, today. I do know, and they should know homosexuality is a sin. God says it is. Rather than humbly go with that and address life in God's order, man now calls it a crime to make such statements. Who is in trouble when Jesus returns? Well, the humanists don't believe Jesus even existed, or if He did, He was just a man. Hey, there are religions, like Jehovah's Witnesses and some other groups who believe the same thing.
It is the professed believer who is in more trouble than the out and out disbeliever. Both are lost. One creates far more confusion.
On the First United history page is this:
"Welcoming the LGBTQ communityThe decision to become an Open and Affirming (UCC)/More Light (PCUSA) congregation in 1995 was a major event for the congregation. This decision meant that the church affirmed and supported the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals into the church both as members and as pastoral staff. Some members left First United over this decision. But more of them stayed to greet the new visitors and members who saw First United as an open and welcoming place to worship, no matter anyone’s sexual orientation or gender identity."
Do you see? CONFUSION. Babylon. Signs of the times. Christ is coming back to end this mess of mixed-up malcontents. I wonder what the founders of the two churches who made up First United, back in the 1800s, would think of the above statement? I do not have to wonder. Oh, yes, things have changed. The website says so:
"How did First United Church turn into the socially conscious, welcoming congregation it is today? It turns out that the church has a long history of leadership and civic involvement. It grew and changed along with Oak Park."
And there is the policy known by historians down through time: the church did not change the culture. The culture changed the church.
I would never question the sincerity of a professed Christian. I am definitely going to question their doctrines, their "values" and statements of "covenant" and existence, though, by comparing them with the full testimony of Scripture.
Reading through the website and the pastor's sermon and this whole, we are putting aside "whiteness" for Lent is a ruse. It's a departure from truth. There are agnostics, atheists, naturalists, materialists, humanists, and people of all other religions that do all the things that First United Church does in their community. The one thing that God asks His people to do is tell the truth, His truth. It does not matter what all the other stuff amounts to, good as it all may be, because the issue is the Good news of salvation FROM SIN. You can't proclaim that if you will not proclaim sin is sin because God says it is!
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matt 7:21-23
People say, "Jesus said not to judge." They will show you Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged," and the verses that follow. What they will not show you is John 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
What is righteous judgment? Critical thinking. Making decisions on principles, not feelings. Being balanced in all we think, say and do, according the full word of God.
The fact is, First United Church of Oak Park is a sign of the times that Christ is returning soon. Church bodies that leave out truth, any truth, are prophetic, spiritual Babylon. Mother Rome and her wayward daughters. Rome has it down to man-made "venial" and "mortal" sins, a yearly calendar of obligations and acts, salvation by works. Traditions on top of traditions bequeathed to her daughters who still practice many of them, like the 40 days of Lent. But, many also adopt humanistic premises, as well. Things Rome considers abomination. Confusion. Mother gave birth to confused daughters, imbibing at the teats of the world, and made drunk, just like their mother who fornicated with the kings of Earth down through history.
First United Church can proclaim it is a Christian Church. They can say whatever they want. They may be united. They may be nice people. That does not make them born-again believers in Jesus Christ that live by faith in God's word, as truth; not cunningly devised fables and myths.
In the grand scheme of things, First United is actually far more dangerous than the church of Satan. Why? Because the church of Satan is obvious. That is why Jesus said to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. The church of Satan is not a deception. First United is. It's a deception, a delusion of what Christianity is to be, all of it, by the entire and whole testimony of Jesus Christ and His disciples; not the chopped up, dissected version made available by those who have "their" truth.
There is no actual difference between the humanism of the church of Satan and that of First United. The same policies exist in both, regardless of the obvious differences.
There is a glass of orange juice and a glass of orange juice with some drops of odorless, tasteless poison in it. First United looks and seems like the former. It is the latter. I state that as a whole. I cannot state that by virtue of individuals in it. I can state that by virtue of "their" collective prescription for ministry.
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/April-7-2022-Press-Release.pdf
https://www.firstunitedoakpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sermon-3-6-22.pdf
First United would call me a "hater." Well, I do not hate them. I hate sin. I hate deception. I am wary of delusions. We have been warned by God, in His Word of truth.
Whether we will stand by it will tell the story of our lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Wait. The Fourth Empire Is Coming?
Here is a great example of Futurism versus Historicism when it comes to Bible prophecy.
Everywhere I am seeing headlines that the Klaus Schwab-WEF/Great Reset/New World Order is about to usher in the fourth kingdom of Daniel's prophecy, the Rapture is coming, and a seven year tribulation is closing in. FUTURISM.
The principles of interpretation ascribed to Historicism is taking dreams or visions from the day of the prophet having them and relating them, and then moving forward through time. In the case of Daniel 2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12 - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, the Little Horn Power (RCC/Papacy), King of the South (humanism, etc), the destruction of all empires/Stone (Second Coming of Christ). That is the history of the Mid-East/Western world and major influences of our current world. Add Revelation and the same holds true, with the added character of the lamblike beast that speaks as a dragon (the USA), and the capture of the world with the confusion of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: the triad of the Mother -RCC/Papacy/Vatican; Daughters - Apostate Protestants; and the Kings of the Earth - world religions and paganism/humanism, etc., caught into a final delusive rebellion against the law of God, the seven last plagues, and the second coming of Christ/end of the world.
The fourth kingdom came and went. That is history. Gone. Those waiting for an expectant futurist secret rapture and seven year tribulation wait in vain. When even the Jews are caught up into Futurism, you know things are greatly confused BUT, if the Jews stayed with Historicism, all prophecies pertaining to the historical march of empires down to Rome, make Jesus Christ the Messiah. There is no other option. They cannot have that. Futurism is their way out of it, bequeathed to them by Jesuit Romanism. It shall fail them just as their Sanhedrin failed them 2,000 years ago.
Confusion reigns.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.israel365news.com/268145/klaus-schwab-calls-to-form-one-world-government-daniels-fourth-kingdom/
Everywhere I am seeing headlines that the Klaus Schwab-WEF/Great Reset/New World Order is about to usher in the fourth kingdom of Daniel's prophecy, the Rapture is coming, and a seven year tribulation is closing in. FUTURISM.
The principles of interpretation ascribed to Historicism is taking dreams or visions from the day of the prophet having them and relating them, and then moving forward through time. In the case of Daniel 2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12 - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, the Little Horn Power (RCC/Papacy), King of the South (humanism, etc), the destruction of all empires/Stone (Second Coming of Christ). That is the history of the Mid-East/Western world and major influences of our current world. Add Revelation and the same holds true, with the added character of the lamblike beast that speaks as a dragon (the USA), and the capture of the world with the confusion of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: the triad of the Mother -RCC/Papacy/Vatican; Daughters - Apostate Protestants; and the Kings of the Earth - world religions and paganism/humanism, etc., caught into a final delusive rebellion against the law of God, the seven last plagues, and the second coming of Christ/end of the world.
The fourth kingdom came and went. That is history. Gone. Those waiting for an expectant futurist secret rapture and seven year tribulation wait in vain. When even the Jews are caught up into Futurism, you know things are greatly confused BUT, if the Jews stayed with Historicism, all prophecies pertaining to the historical march of empires down to Rome, make Jesus Christ the Messiah. There is no other option. They cannot have that. Futurism is their way out of it, bequeathed to them by Jesuit Romanism. It shall fail them just as their Sanhedrin failed them 2,000 years ago.
Confusion reigns.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.israel365news.com/268145/klaus-schwab-calls-to-form-one-world-government-daniels-fourth-kingdom/
OMG. Snake Venom?!?!
Hey, I'm just putting this out there. I have learned whatever the MSM harps on, the opposite is probably or definitely the truth. Once you learn that, things categorize pretty quickly. Thus, I knew in January, 2020 the news on Covid was not right. Something did not pass the logic, common sense, and principle test. We were being lied to, just as Americans have been and are being lied to about Trump/Russia, Covid, masks, injections, monetary issues, January 6, Russia/Ukraine and just about anything and everything else pumped out by the global, corporate controlled media.
'Bioweapon' takes on a whole new meaning. 'Evil' takes on a whole new aspect.
Too far fetched this time? Decide for yourself.
Stew Peters interviews Dr. Bryan Ardis. It's more satanic than we could realize.
https://rumble.com/v10miez-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html
'Bioweapon' takes on a whole new meaning. 'Evil' takes on a whole new aspect.
Too far fetched this time? Decide for yourself.
Stew Peters interviews Dr. Bryan Ardis. It's more satanic than we could realize.
https://rumble.com/v10miez-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html
UPDATE
Apparently the video has caused quite a stir and sent people into mega-research mode. That's a very good thing, as always.
A friend emailed and said he found the video less than convincing. My first thoughts are two. Dr. Bryan Ardis has been one of the out-front, outspoken doctors on this event from very early on. Most everything else he has put out there proved correct. He's not a "sky-is-falling" kind-of-guy.
Two, Stew Peters has a lot of people around him that look into things and keep him updated and on top of information. He dots his I's and crosses his T's. If he produced this, I have to believe he placed the information before medical people he trusts to vet it.
The fact that the "virus" was concluded to be a bioweapon by dozens of doctors and scientists, and thousands of doctors have spoken out against the entire lockdown and sequence of still occurring events creates, for me, a logical step in the progress of information about it and of Ardis' conclusion.
The selective, regional water supply scenario? Well, they are filling the skies, have plans for the food supplies, why not the water supplies? Is there anything these immoral agents of death would not do to bring about the world they want?
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has thrown his hat into the ring about it.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-04-14-millions-people-swalling-venom-derived-pharmaceuticals-rattlesnakes-pit-vipers-death-stalker-scorpions.html
As impossibly out there as it all sounds, this event, the long planning and execution, shows us just how evil these merchants of menace are. It is no jump for me to believe their evil is deeper than thought to be.
A friend emailed and said he found the video less than convincing. My first thoughts are two. Dr. Bryan Ardis has been one of the out-front, outspoken doctors on this event from very early on. Most everything else he has put out there proved correct. He's not a "sky-is-falling" kind-of-guy.
Two, Stew Peters has a lot of people around him that look into things and keep him updated and on top of information. He dots his I's and crosses his T's. If he produced this, I have to believe he placed the information before medical people he trusts to vet it.
The fact that the "virus" was concluded to be a bioweapon by dozens of doctors and scientists, and thousands of doctors have spoken out against the entire lockdown and sequence of still occurring events creates, for me, a logical step in the progress of information about it and of Ardis' conclusion.
The selective, regional water supply scenario? Well, they are filling the skies, have plans for the food supplies, why not the water supplies? Is there anything these immoral agents of death would not do to bring about the world they want?
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has thrown his hat into the ring about it.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-04-14-millions-people-swalling-venom-derived-pharmaceuticals-rattlesnakes-pit-vipers-death-stalker-scorpions.html
As impossibly out there as it all sounds, this event, the long planning and execution, shows us just how evil these merchants of menace are. It is no jump for me to believe their evil is deeper than thought to be.
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541. Is It Just A Calendar? - April 16, 2022
Today is the seventh-day of the week. That's what it states on calendars. Tomorrow is 'Sunday,' "Easter."
Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, based on our solar calendar. Why?
Passover begins on the first full moon of Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, which is Lunar-based. Why?
How is it the two days are linked by circumstances in the Bible yet, one day always falls on a Sunday? No other commemorative day; not one's birthday, not any holiday other than the American Thanksgiving; not Christmas, which claims to mark Christ's birth, falls on the same day every year but, the calendar days that marks Christ's death and resurrection, always falls on Friday and Sunday?
Like Thanksgiving - which began as a religious day, not a food and family day - all religious holidays modern man keeps are man-made. They are not God-made. They are not prescribed by God. Christmas, Easter, and all other days but, one, are man-made. The weekly Sabbath of the fourth commandment is the only day God commands to "Remember..." yet, how few among professed believers obey.
Easter, one of the supposed holiest days of the professed Christian year, along with "holy week," a term I am hearing and seeing more and more, are of pagan origin. They are joined to ancient rites, goddesses and feasts of Spring and new life, which is where eggs, bunnies and chicks come in. Ishtar, Eostre, and other pagan deities were known and worshipped by pagan lands and peoples surrounding the Hebrew nation of God's calling, right into the 5th millennium and here we are in the sixth and nothing has changed. The Hebrews were told, point blank, not to adopt any pagan rituals and attempt to turn them into ways to worship the Creator (Deut. 12:29-32). Fertility rites were considered an abomination by God. How is it the entire professed Christian world celebrates exactly what God told His people NOT to?
Passover commemorates that evening in Egypt when the first-born were killed. As the last plague of ten which fell upon the rebellious citizenry of that offending nation, with its rogue and obstinate Pharaoh, it was nothing short of doom. The Jews who followed God's commands, placing the blood of the slain lamb on the door posts and lintel of their homes, were passed over by the angel who carried out the sentence on all the land of the Hebrew captivity. The Hebrews were spared. Passover falls on a different day every year. The seven yearly feast Sabbaths fell on different days every year, as well. Easter always falls on the same day; Sunday. The day of the Sun.
Well, you say Christ rose on a Sunday, therefore Sunday should be remembered. Says who? How is it sunrise services, "40 days of weeping" (Lent), and spring festivals are condemned in Scripture (Ezekiel 8:13-18), and any recognition of the Sun as something connected to worship is condemned (Deut. 4:19) yet, the entire Christian world is doing their holiest observations on a Sunday every year? How can that be? Rome. The Roman Catholic Church can easily be known as the Mother of abominations because all of it comes from her apostasy from truth and her influence upon the nations and faith of billions of people who refuse to just worship God according to a Thus Saith The LORD, not a thus saith the church.
What alarms the most is how all this information has been known by clergy and theologians for centuries and STILL, rather than obey, ways are sought to circumvent the commands of God so the traditions of men may be kept. It's an atrocity that truly boggles the mind.
Babylon is the religion of man. It is the practice of producing and using other avenues as a gateway to heaven, for Babilu means 'the gate to god.' That's what it was anciently and that's what it still is today. Man-made religion, man-made acts, man's way of attempting to please the Creator when all He commanded was to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall work but, the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD our God. Jesus said, He is Lord of the Sabbath day, (Mark 2:27,28). But, no, Rome says Christ rose the first day of the week, therefore that is the day we shall commemorate and keep. That is the authority of the church. That is the power Christ supposedly gave to His church: to change the direct commands of God to get along in this world. And go ahead and add whatever else you like if it floats your boat nd makes it easier for people to accept your faith. God's house turned into dens of thieves, selling salvation through man's tactics and design.
God or man. It's an easy choice. Yet so few are willing to make it. Most just remain committed to traditions rather than a plain thus saith the Lord. We all do it. We are all guilty of it in one way or another but, that does not free us. Chains are chains. Entrapment is entrapment. We need to be freed from man's traditions which stand against, literally against the plain commands of God. It's one thing to have a tradition that is benign. It is another when it displaces a direct commandment from the Creator. That is to be the final showdown on this Earth. That is the final battle and the war between good and evil: God's commands or man's commands. And the simplicity of good versus evil will be God's Sabbath, His seal of authority, against man's Sunday, man's mark of authority.
Just to call it Easter is such an affront to God it is staggering. Call it 'resurrection day.' Call it something, anything other than the name of a pagan goddess. Easter is not Passover; not in commemoration, not in the ancient languages, not in anything. This is not a 'holy week' by God's command. This is just a week of man's invention.
It is not about calendars and days. It is about TIME. Time is God's creation. God commands use of time. He is Sovereign. He asks we remember to set aside, to keep the 24 hours of time of the seventh-day of the week for contemplation of His creation, and recreation of our lives in being born-again through the Spirit, in Christ, who, factually, rested on the Sabbath, as the commandment states. He rested from His work of redemption on His day of rest, rose on the first day of the week to continue on His ministry for mankind, as He finally ascended into Heaven to begin His work as our High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary. Christ rested on the Sabbath day all His life and never uttered a word of its change to mark the day of His resurrection. Instead, He told His disciples to pray that their flight from Roman aggression not be in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day, speaking of an event that was 40 years past His ascension into Heaven, (Matthew 24:20).
This is not rocket science here. This is simple stuff. Raised Catholic, I never knew any of this. When I found it all out, from studying the Bible 43 years ago, changes came as knowledge grew. I found others who believed these things, even while so many Sabbath-keepers retain religious traditions from Rome, themselves.
The bottom line is this. God commands, man obeys. It does not matter what others think, say or do. The follower of Christ, follows Christ; His teachings, His words, His way, His truth and life, and shall for all eternity when He comes again.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, based on our solar calendar. Why?
Passover begins on the first full moon of Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, which is Lunar-based. Why?
How is it the two days are linked by circumstances in the Bible yet, one day always falls on a Sunday? No other commemorative day; not one's birthday, not any holiday other than the American Thanksgiving; not Christmas, which claims to mark Christ's birth, falls on the same day every year but, the calendar days that marks Christ's death and resurrection, always falls on Friday and Sunday?
Like Thanksgiving - which began as a religious day, not a food and family day - all religious holidays modern man keeps are man-made. They are not God-made. They are not prescribed by God. Christmas, Easter, and all other days but, one, are man-made. The weekly Sabbath of the fourth commandment is the only day God commands to "Remember..." yet, how few among professed believers obey.
Easter, one of the supposed holiest days of the professed Christian year, along with "holy week," a term I am hearing and seeing more and more, are of pagan origin. They are joined to ancient rites, goddesses and feasts of Spring and new life, which is where eggs, bunnies and chicks come in. Ishtar, Eostre, and other pagan deities were known and worshipped by pagan lands and peoples surrounding the Hebrew nation of God's calling, right into the 5th millennium and here we are in the sixth and nothing has changed. The Hebrews were told, point blank, not to adopt any pagan rituals and attempt to turn them into ways to worship the Creator (Deut. 12:29-32). Fertility rites were considered an abomination by God. How is it the entire professed Christian world celebrates exactly what God told His people NOT to?
Passover commemorates that evening in Egypt when the first-born were killed. As the last plague of ten which fell upon the rebellious citizenry of that offending nation, with its rogue and obstinate Pharaoh, it was nothing short of doom. The Jews who followed God's commands, placing the blood of the slain lamb on the door posts and lintel of their homes, were passed over by the angel who carried out the sentence on all the land of the Hebrew captivity. The Hebrews were spared. Passover falls on a different day every year. The seven yearly feast Sabbaths fell on different days every year, as well. Easter always falls on the same day; Sunday. The day of the Sun.
Well, you say Christ rose on a Sunday, therefore Sunday should be remembered. Says who? How is it sunrise services, "40 days of weeping" (Lent), and spring festivals are condemned in Scripture (Ezekiel 8:13-18), and any recognition of the Sun as something connected to worship is condemned (Deut. 4:19) yet, the entire Christian world is doing their holiest observations on a Sunday every year? How can that be? Rome. The Roman Catholic Church can easily be known as the Mother of abominations because all of it comes from her apostasy from truth and her influence upon the nations and faith of billions of people who refuse to just worship God according to a Thus Saith The LORD, not a thus saith the church.
What alarms the most is how all this information has been known by clergy and theologians for centuries and STILL, rather than obey, ways are sought to circumvent the commands of God so the traditions of men may be kept. It's an atrocity that truly boggles the mind.
Babylon is the religion of man. It is the practice of producing and using other avenues as a gateway to heaven, for Babilu means 'the gate to god.' That's what it was anciently and that's what it still is today. Man-made religion, man-made acts, man's way of attempting to please the Creator when all He commanded was to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall work but, the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD our God. Jesus said, He is Lord of the Sabbath day, (Mark 2:27,28). But, no, Rome says Christ rose the first day of the week, therefore that is the day we shall commemorate and keep. That is the authority of the church. That is the power Christ supposedly gave to His church: to change the direct commands of God to get along in this world. And go ahead and add whatever else you like if it floats your boat nd makes it easier for people to accept your faith. God's house turned into dens of thieves, selling salvation through man's tactics and design.
God or man. It's an easy choice. Yet so few are willing to make it. Most just remain committed to traditions rather than a plain thus saith the Lord. We all do it. We are all guilty of it in one way or another but, that does not free us. Chains are chains. Entrapment is entrapment. We need to be freed from man's traditions which stand against, literally against the plain commands of God. It's one thing to have a tradition that is benign. It is another when it displaces a direct commandment from the Creator. That is to be the final showdown on this Earth. That is the final battle and the war between good and evil: God's commands or man's commands. And the simplicity of good versus evil will be God's Sabbath, His seal of authority, against man's Sunday, man's mark of authority.
Just to call it Easter is such an affront to God it is staggering. Call it 'resurrection day.' Call it something, anything other than the name of a pagan goddess. Easter is not Passover; not in commemoration, not in the ancient languages, not in anything. This is not a 'holy week' by God's command. This is just a week of man's invention.
It is not about calendars and days. It is about TIME. Time is God's creation. God commands use of time. He is Sovereign. He asks we remember to set aside, to keep the 24 hours of time of the seventh-day of the week for contemplation of His creation, and recreation of our lives in being born-again through the Spirit, in Christ, who, factually, rested on the Sabbath, as the commandment states. He rested from His work of redemption on His day of rest, rose on the first day of the week to continue on His ministry for mankind, as He finally ascended into Heaven to begin His work as our High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary. Christ rested on the Sabbath day all His life and never uttered a word of its change to mark the day of His resurrection. Instead, He told His disciples to pray that their flight from Roman aggression not be in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day, speaking of an event that was 40 years past His ascension into Heaven, (Matthew 24:20).
This is not rocket science here. This is simple stuff. Raised Catholic, I never knew any of this. When I found it all out, from studying the Bible 43 years ago, changes came as knowledge grew. I found others who believed these things, even while so many Sabbath-keepers retain religious traditions from Rome, themselves.
The bottom line is this. God commands, man obeys. It does not matter what others think, say or do. The follower of Christ, follows Christ; His teachings, His words, His way, His truth and life, and shall for all eternity when He comes again.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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542. Vigano Draws Lines in the Sand - April 16, 2022
Archbishop Carlo Vigano is in the news again. He did an interview which gets into the correlation between the mafia - an inside the RCC mafia - and the globalists. He contends apostasy is in his own church, which is certainly true. Yet, the Roman Catholic Church, itself, is an apostasy from the original faith Christ delivered to His disciples.
The full transcript of the interview is found here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/facing-global-coup-involves-civil-society-church-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano/
"We are facing a global coup that involves both civil society and the Church. Both are infiltrated and controlled by characters who use their power and the authority that derives from it, not for the purposes of the institutions they govern, but in order to destroy them. This crisis of authority must be denounced, because the action of those who have reached the highest levels of leadership both of nations and of the Church is a subversive and criminal act."
I wholly agree. The crisis of authority must be denounced. The Roman Catholic Church claims to have authority from Christ; to stand in the place of Christ on Earth, through its leadership. Vigano knows all this. Is Vigano just a sincere Catholic trying to warn the world or is he an agent of deceit, following the script presented to him, to draw the departed daughters of Rome closer than ever to "Mother."
How can any faithful archbishop get into the illegitimacy of the election of Francis as Pope? He does, when questioned about it. He addresses the absolute failure of Vatican 2, and claims a "deep church" exists in the RCC:
"4. The [institutional] Catholic Church, which has for some time now been committed to ecumenism, and in line with the logic of approval advocated by the globalist oligarchies, seems today to aim at the creation of a single religion, a syncretism that mixes monotheistic doctrines and pagan beliefs, such as the Andean cult of the Pachamama: is this an act of homicide or is it rather a suicidal gesture?
"Both. On the one hand, the corrupt part of the Hierarchy – which for the sake of brevity I call the deep church – since it is subservient to Satan, hates the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and intends to kill Her, just as happened to the Church’s Head. But we know that just as Christ is risen, so His Mystical Body will also be resurrected after Her Passion. So yes: those who serve the Devil carry out a murderous operation, however crazy and doomed to failure.
"On the other hand, the healthy portion of the Hierarchy is mostly composed of Bishops and clerics who nevertheless accept the ideological premises of the present apostasy, since they accept the Council and the new liturgy that conveys its errors to the masses. They do not want the Church to succumb, but they are deluding themselves, against all the evidence and after sixty years of failure, by thinking that the Council has merely been misinterpreted, that the new Mass is celebrated badly but that we can return to a certain dignity in the liturgy, that ecumenism is good as long as it is only with the [Eastern] Orthodox but not with idolaters. But if they are not convinced that the crisis began with Vatican II, if they do not understand that it was the Council that caused this disaster, and that to remedy it it is necessary to return to the faith, morals and liturgy that existed before the Council, they are unwittingly part of the problem. They, although with the best intentions, represent that part of the moderates who, in the face of an attack on all fronts, if they do not fight, constitute an obstacle to the solution of the crisis. Their support for the Council and the secularized mentality of the deep church makes their gesture certainly suicidal."
This entire... well, the entire front Vigano has placed before the world for years is just playing on the political actions being seen in all nations, which the Vatican is, as well: a nation. His script is already there to copy. Vigano portrays himself as an old fashioned, conservative Roman Catholic, speaking to conservatives of all nations and faiths. He offers nothing new. His words, phrases and terms are borrowed from those doing actual research before him. "Deep church" is the Order of the Jesuits: an army founded by Ignatius Loyola to stop, to destroy the Protestant Reformation back in the 16th century. It still exists today. They are the "CIA" of the Papacy. They are spies, agents, they are even acknowledged combatants against their own church and faith, if that is what it takes to gain in the end, for "the ends justifies the means." Even if Vigano became a Protestant, much like father Charles Chiniquy, author of 'Fifty Years in the Church of Rome,' a book that is still in print and should be read by every professed Christian, one must remain vigilant, for the agents of Rome are the sharpest knives in the drawer. Abraham Lincoln found that out in defending Chiniquy in a plot to ruin him. Lincoln was Chiniquy's attorney. It's a fascinating and powerful book. Every conspirator in the death of Lincoln was a Roman Catholic. Those hung, and those at large. The Jesuit order and the RCC is no different than it was in the 19th century. It just decided to wear a more pleasing mask to gain the confidence of wayward Protestant daughters.
Make no mistake about this. Vigano knows exactly what he is doing, and the silence of the Papacy upon his speeches and opinions just keeps it all in perspective. Francis not only knows Vigano is causing a schism, I am convinced it is all a ploy because Francis has lost the affinity of many of Mother's "daughters" with his own globalist, communist, apostate views. It seems every organized body of professed Christians on Earth are going through motions of conservatives against liberals. Catholic voices want Vigano condemned for heresy. Others call Vigano a hero for standing up when few, if any, will.
On a recent Stew Peters program the history of the Jesuit order was explored. I was shocked to see it. Tying it all in to the globalist plot exercised through Covid was astonishing. This is not some preacher, some evangelist holding a prophecy seminar before dozens, hundreds or thousands. This is a program now seen by millions.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/dr-stella-symbolism-will-be-serpents-downfall-jesuit-global-order-trump-endorses-oz/
Peters is a Christian. His faith is pretty much that of most evangelicals and the espousing of Futurism when it comes to prophecy and prophetic events, and where the world is at right now. I must say, though, that Peters getting into the Jesuit order is profoundly important and I hope and pray he follows truth wherever it leads and takes his stand for all truth, including God's written commandments, according to the weight of the evidence and testimony of Jesus.
The world is spinning into final conflicts. Everything shall become religious, regardless of the movements of secularism inundating the globe. All acknowledge a war is on: a cultural, spiritual, political, monetary, military war. We should make no mistake about this. A military war is being fought by armies of the unseen angelic hosts of Christ and Lucifer. It is as real as any war every fought on Earth. It is much older, it is far more important, and the victors are already known.
The only issue is what side each human will stand on.
Vigano, for his part as a Catholic, draws exact lines in the Catholic sands of faith: the real church or the Pope's; the Bergoglian church, as he calls it. Tradition versus modernism.
"But the real reason, the one that motivates every action of the Bergoglian Church, is the relentless hatred for Tradition, of which the contemplative and conservative orders are an eloquent manifestation. Imagine the anger of these modernists who, at the same time that the most progressive communities are dying out and religious orders are disappearing in the crisis of vocations and the loss of many who have abandoned religious life, witness monasteries and institutes flourish again in which there is discipline, fidelity to the Rule of the Founder, true poverty, penance, the spirit of recollection and the Tridentine Liturgy. All this makes their failure evident and therefore it must be eliminated, so that it may not be seen that Tradition has a much greater following (and would have enormously more, if it were not systematically boycotted) than the post-conciliar religion with its priests without cassocks, its nuns without veils, its religious who do not pray, and its empty churches.
"In Bergoglio's mind, the only vocations that deserve his approval are those that are modernist, inclusive, aimed at the existential peripheries, and composed of doctrinal nothingness, moral emptiness, and trite humanitarian slogans. As soon as a vocation shows even vague signs of being genuinely Catholic and animated by the desire to give glory to God and save souls, it is attacked as being an expression of clericalism, intolerance, fundamentalism, rigidity ... with all the Bergoglian repertoire of more or less offensive words that is one of the techniques used to criminalize the adversary, a method already successfully tested ever since the Council."
Protestants need to wake up to what is being perpetuated through Vigano's efforts. The Gateway Pundit and other Conservative, alternative news outlets seem to see Vigano as a real hero. He is a puppet of Rome, nothing more until evidence proves otherwise. If he is as traditional as he claims, he is the enemy of the true faith of Christianity. Not that modern Catholicism is the friend of Christianity. It is still the antithesis of it, just a little watered down. Traditional Catholicism believes in the death of heretics. It believes the Pope should rule the Earth, as the one who stands in the place of Christ. That is antichrist. And that is what political conservatives are conceding to Vigano when they prop him up as some kind of American patriot. He is a patriot of the Papacy. Never forget that. Read the next passage carefully:
6. Pope Francis has praised multiculturalism, ecologism, and immigration, received Soros and Bill Gates at the Vatican, and played the role o the promoter of experimental gene serums. Could one hypothesize that there is a correlation between his work and his formation as a Jesuit?
"If we were to limit ourselves to "hypothesizing" this correlation, we would show at least naivety and carelessness. The Society of Jesus, which was among the most important Orders in the Church, has been targeted by the action of the devil, who has corrupted its charism and has progressively diverted it well before Vatican II, and it is today the assault body, so to speak, with which the deep church demolishes what remains of the Catholic Church so as to replace it with an amorphous NGO that can act as a "container" of the Religion of Humanity desired by the Freemasons and the New World Order, consistent with the ideological foundations laid down by the Council. Like every Jesuit, Bergoglio is first a Jesuit and then a Catholic. For this reason it is still forbidden for the Jesuits to ascend the ranks of the Hierarchy, which is why the Argentine had to ask the Pope for a dispensation to be consecrated Archbishop of Buenos Aires. If that dispensation had not been granted and instead the Rule of St. Ignatius had been respected, we would have been spared the disasters we have seen since 2013. It is evident that the Jesuits have played a prominent role not only in carrying out the conciliar revolution, but also in maneuvering to bring one of their own to the Throne of Peter."
The pot calls the kettle black. This effort to make it seem globalists in the RCC are the enemy, when the entire history of the Church of Rome is an attempt at globalism, is an astounding ruse.
"Pope Benedict summoned me immediately, and before I could even mention the events with Bertone, he proposed to appoint me President of the Pontifical Council for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, in place of Cardinal Velasio de Paolis. And he did so with these precise words: "I am convinced that this is the task with which you can render the best service to the Holy See."
"The Holy Father wrote to me: "I find myself confirmed in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. On the other hand, I am sure that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take up the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways appears to be decisive for the future of the universal Church.
"My offcial assignment in that immense and beloved nation has come to an end, but that challenge – to which Pope Benedict almost prophetically referred and in which he had involved me – is more open than ever."
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“The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error – a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.” Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Letter, August 15, 1854.
One pope claims America is a pest, and another claims America is a "great country." Change? No. Subterfuge.
“We maintain that the Church of Rome is intolerant, that is, she uses every means in her power to root out heresy; but her intolerance is the result of her infallibility. She alone has the right to be intolerant because she alone has the truth. The Church tolerates heretics where she is obliged to do so, but she hates them with a deadly hatred, and uses all her power to annihilate them. If ever Roman Catholics in this land should become a considerable majority – which in time will surely be the case – then would religious freedom in the Republic of the United States come to an end. Our enemies know how the Roman Church treated heretics in the Middle Ages and how she treats them today wherever she has the power. We no more think of denying these historical facts than we do of blaming the Holy God and the princes of the Church for what they have thought is good to do.” Bishop Patrick John Ryan (future Archbishop of Philadelphia 1884-1911), in the “Shepherd of the Valley,” St. Louis Roman Catholic journal – quoted in the Church Guardian, Montreal, October 28, 1885.
Ryan was an old fashioned Catholic yet, one of his most prominent speeches was based on What Catholics Do Not Believe. Well, I know what he believed about heresy and heretics, same as Thomas Aquinas, revered "saint" and theologian of the RCC.
Vigano is a servant of the Papacy. He is no friend of American patriots. He believes what the Roman Catholic Church has always taught - "outside the church there is no salvation." Anyone who claims to see a positive view of the Jesuit Order is not a friend of Jesus Christ.
Be warned.
The interview is a lengthy one you can read, should read, for yourself. It is filled with evidence. How you interpret that evidence will be based on your worldview. Mine is biblical. Vigano's is not. It is Papal. It may mimic today's battles in the political world but, the ends justifies the means; becomes an avowed enemy, if the RCC can gain in the end.
99% of today's Roman Catholics know none of this. Pray for them. Pray for everyone's eye to be opened.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear, listen to what the Spirit is trying to tell us today.
The full transcript of the interview is found here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/facing-global-coup-involves-civil-society-church-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano/
"We are facing a global coup that involves both civil society and the Church. Both are infiltrated and controlled by characters who use their power and the authority that derives from it, not for the purposes of the institutions they govern, but in order to destroy them. This crisis of authority must be denounced, because the action of those who have reached the highest levels of leadership both of nations and of the Church is a subversive and criminal act."
I wholly agree. The crisis of authority must be denounced. The Roman Catholic Church claims to have authority from Christ; to stand in the place of Christ on Earth, through its leadership. Vigano knows all this. Is Vigano just a sincere Catholic trying to warn the world or is he an agent of deceit, following the script presented to him, to draw the departed daughters of Rome closer than ever to "Mother."
How can any faithful archbishop get into the illegitimacy of the election of Francis as Pope? He does, when questioned about it. He addresses the absolute failure of Vatican 2, and claims a "deep church" exists in the RCC:
"4. The [institutional] Catholic Church, which has for some time now been committed to ecumenism, and in line with the logic of approval advocated by the globalist oligarchies, seems today to aim at the creation of a single religion, a syncretism that mixes monotheistic doctrines and pagan beliefs, such as the Andean cult of the Pachamama: is this an act of homicide or is it rather a suicidal gesture?
"Both. On the one hand, the corrupt part of the Hierarchy – which for the sake of brevity I call the deep church – since it is subservient to Satan, hates the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and intends to kill Her, just as happened to the Church’s Head. But we know that just as Christ is risen, so His Mystical Body will also be resurrected after Her Passion. So yes: those who serve the Devil carry out a murderous operation, however crazy and doomed to failure.
"On the other hand, the healthy portion of the Hierarchy is mostly composed of Bishops and clerics who nevertheless accept the ideological premises of the present apostasy, since they accept the Council and the new liturgy that conveys its errors to the masses. They do not want the Church to succumb, but they are deluding themselves, against all the evidence and after sixty years of failure, by thinking that the Council has merely been misinterpreted, that the new Mass is celebrated badly but that we can return to a certain dignity in the liturgy, that ecumenism is good as long as it is only with the [Eastern] Orthodox but not with idolaters. But if they are not convinced that the crisis began with Vatican II, if they do not understand that it was the Council that caused this disaster, and that to remedy it it is necessary to return to the faith, morals and liturgy that existed before the Council, they are unwittingly part of the problem. They, although with the best intentions, represent that part of the moderates who, in the face of an attack on all fronts, if they do not fight, constitute an obstacle to the solution of the crisis. Their support for the Council and the secularized mentality of the deep church makes their gesture certainly suicidal."
This entire... well, the entire front Vigano has placed before the world for years is just playing on the political actions being seen in all nations, which the Vatican is, as well: a nation. His script is already there to copy. Vigano portrays himself as an old fashioned, conservative Roman Catholic, speaking to conservatives of all nations and faiths. He offers nothing new. His words, phrases and terms are borrowed from those doing actual research before him. "Deep church" is the Order of the Jesuits: an army founded by Ignatius Loyola to stop, to destroy the Protestant Reformation back in the 16th century. It still exists today. They are the "CIA" of the Papacy. They are spies, agents, they are even acknowledged combatants against their own church and faith, if that is what it takes to gain in the end, for "the ends justifies the means." Even if Vigano became a Protestant, much like father Charles Chiniquy, author of 'Fifty Years in the Church of Rome,' a book that is still in print and should be read by every professed Christian, one must remain vigilant, for the agents of Rome are the sharpest knives in the drawer. Abraham Lincoln found that out in defending Chiniquy in a plot to ruin him. Lincoln was Chiniquy's attorney. It's a fascinating and powerful book. Every conspirator in the death of Lincoln was a Roman Catholic. Those hung, and those at large. The Jesuit order and the RCC is no different than it was in the 19th century. It just decided to wear a more pleasing mask to gain the confidence of wayward Protestant daughters.
Make no mistake about this. Vigano knows exactly what he is doing, and the silence of the Papacy upon his speeches and opinions just keeps it all in perspective. Francis not only knows Vigano is causing a schism, I am convinced it is all a ploy because Francis has lost the affinity of many of Mother's "daughters" with his own globalist, communist, apostate views. It seems every organized body of professed Christians on Earth are going through motions of conservatives against liberals. Catholic voices want Vigano condemned for heresy. Others call Vigano a hero for standing up when few, if any, will.
On a recent Stew Peters program the history of the Jesuit order was explored. I was shocked to see it. Tying it all in to the globalist plot exercised through Covid was astonishing. This is not some preacher, some evangelist holding a prophecy seminar before dozens, hundreds or thousands. This is a program now seen by millions.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/dr-stella-symbolism-will-be-serpents-downfall-jesuit-global-order-trump-endorses-oz/
Peters is a Christian. His faith is pretty much that of most evangelicals and the espousing of Futurism when it comes to prophecy and prophetic events, and where the world is at right now. I must say, though, that Peters getting into the Jesuit order is profoundly important and I hope and pray he follows truth wherever it leads and takes his stand for all truth, including God's written commandments, according to the weight of the evidence and testimony of Jesus.
The world is spinning into final conflicts. Everything shall become religious, regardless of the movements of secularism inundating the globe. All acknowledge a war is on: a cultural, spiritual, political, monetary, military war. We should make no mistake about this. A military war is being fought by armies of the unseen angelic hosts of Christ and Lucifer. It is as real as any war every fought on Earth. It is much older, it is far more important, and the victors are already known.
The only issue is what side each human will stand on.
Vigano, for his part as a Catholic, draws exact lines in the Catholic sands of faith: the real church or the Pope's; the Bergoglian church, as he calls it. Tradition versus modernism.
"But the real reason, the one that motivates every action of the Bergoglian Church, is the relentless hatred for Tradition, of which the contemplative and conservative orders are an eloquent manifestation. Imagine the anger of these modernists who, at the same time that the most progressive communities are dying out and religious orders are disappearing in the crisis of vocations and the loss of many who have abandoned religious life, witness monasteries and institutes flourish again in which there is discipline, fidelity to the Rule of the Founder, true poverty, penance, the spirit of recollection and the Tridentine Liturgy. All this makes their failure evident and therefore it must be eliminated, so that it may not be seen that Tradition has a much greater following (and would have enormously more, if it were not systematically boycotted) than the post-conciliar religion with its priests without cassocks, its nuns without veils, its religious who do not pray, and its empty churches.
"In Bergoglio's mind, the only vocations that deserve his approval are those that are modernist, inclusive, aimed at the existential peripheries, and composed of doctrinal nothingness, moral emptiness, and trite humanitarian slogans. As soon as a vocation shows even vague signs of being genuinely Catholic and animated by the desire to give glory to God and save souls, it is attacked as being an expression of clericalism, intolerance, fundamentalism, rigidity ... with all the Bergoglian repertoire of more or less offensive words that is one of the techniques used to criminalize the adversary, a method already successfully tested ever since the Council."
Protestants need to wake up to what is being perpetuated through Vigano's efforts. The Gateway Pundit and other Conservative, alternative news outlets seem to see Vigano as a real hero. He is a puppet of Rome, nothing more until evidence proves otherwise. If he is as traditional as he claims, he is the enemy of the true faith of Christianity. Not that modern Catholicism is the friend of Christianity. It is still the antithesis of it, just a little watered down. Traditional Catholicism believes in the death of heretics. It believes the Pope should rule the Earth, as the one who stands in the place of Christ. That is antichrist. And that is what political conservatives are conceding to Vigano when they prop him up as some kind of American patriot. He is a patriot of the Papacy. Never forget that. Read the next passage carefully:
6. Pope Francis has praised multiculturalism, ecologism, and immigration, received Soros and Bill Gates at the Vatican, and played the role o the promoter of experimental gene serums. Could one hypothesize that there is a correlation between his work and his formation as a Jesuit?
"If we were to limit ourselves to "hypothesizing" this correlation, we would show at least naivety and carelessness. The Society of Jesus, which was among the most important Orders in the Church, has been targeted by the action of the devil, who has corrupted its charism and has progressively diverted it well before Vatican II, and it is today the assault body, so to speak, with which the deep church demolishes what remains of the Catholic Church so as to replace it with an amorphous NGO that can act as a "container" of the Religion of Humanity desired by the Freemasons and the New World Order, consistent with the ideological foundations laid down by the Council. Like every Jesuit, Bergoglio is first a Jesuit and then a Catholic. For this reason it is still forbidden for the Jesuits to ascend the ranks of the Hierarchy, which is why the Argentine had to ask the Pope for a dispensation to be consecrated Archbishop of Buenos Aires. If that dispensation had not been granted and instead the Rule of St. Ignatius had been respected, we would have been spared the disasters we have seen since 2013. It is evident that the Jesuits have played a prominent role not only in carrying out the conciliar revolution, but also in maneuvering to bring one of their own to the Throne of Peter."
The pot calls the kettle black. This effort to make it seem globalists in the RCC are the enemy, when the entire history of the Church of Rome is an attempt at globalism, is an astounding ruse.
"Pope Benedict summoned me immediately, and before I could even mention the events with Bertone, he proposed to appoint me President of the Pontifical Council for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, in place of Cardinal Velasio de Paolis. And he did so with these precise words: "I am convinced that this is the task with which you can render the best service to the Holy See."
"The Holy Father wrote to me: "I find myself confirmed in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. On the other hand, I am sure that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take up the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways appears to be decisive for the future of the universal Church.
"My offcial assignment in that immense and beloved nation has come to an end, but that challenge – to which Pope Benedict almost prophetically referred and in which he had involved me – is more open than ever."
*******
“The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error – a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.” Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Letter, August 15, 1854.
One pope claims America is a pest, and another claims America is a "great country." Change? No. Subterfuge.
“We maintain that the Church of Rome is intolerant, that is, she uses every means in her power to root out heresy; but her intolerance is the result of her infallibility. She alone has the right to be intolerant because she alone has the truth. The Church tolerates heretics where she is obliged to do so, but she hates them with a deadly hatred, and uses all her power to annihilate them. If ever Roman Catholics in this land should become a considerable majority – which in time will surely be the case – then would religious freedom in the Republic of the United States come to an end. Our enemies know how the Roman Church treated heretics in the Middle Ages and how she treats them today wherever she has the power. We no more think of denying these historical facts than we do of blaming the Holy God and the princes of the Church for what they have thought is good to do.” Bishop Patrick John Ryan (future Archbishop of Philadelphia 1884-1911), in the “Shepherd of the Valley,” St. Louis Roman Catholic journal – quoted in the Church Guardian, Montreal, October 28, 1885.
Ryan was an old fashioned Catholic yet, one of his most prominent speeches was based on What Catholics Do Not Believe. Well, I know what he believed about heresy and heretics, same as Thomas Aquinas, revered "saint" and theologian of the RCC.
Vigano is a servant of the Papacy. He is no friend of American patriots. He believes what the Roman Catholic Church has always taught - "outside the church there is no salvation." Anyone who claims to see a positive view of the Jesuit Order is not a friend of Jesus Christ.
Be warned.
The interview is a lengthy one you can read, should read, for yourself. It is filled with evidence. How you interpret that evidence will be based on your worldview. Mine is biblical. Vigano's is not. It is Papal. It may mimic today's battles in the political world but, the ends justifies the means; becomes an avowed enemy, if the RCC can gain in the end.
99% of today's Roman Catholics know none of this. Pray for them. Pray for everyone's eye to be opened.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear, listen to what the Spirit is trying to tell us today.
1500 Pages of UFO Reports
This came out a couple weeks ago but, thought I'd add it to the mix and my continued belief this subject is way past being on a back shelf somewhere, as far as events coming.
The U.S. branch of the British news paper, The SUN, filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Pentagon, regarding UFOs, after the 2017 release of the now, well-known videos showing a couple objects flying at great speeds. Along with comments from varied people that this is a serious subject and possible threat to national security, etc., etc. the Defense Intelligence Agency finally sent 1500+ pages of information and reports regarding various UFO encounters: people being radiation burned, and other physical effects; people being mentally effected, emotionally effected, even an unwanted pregnancy? Indeed, lots more.
The Sun has not released the documents yet. The thing is, for 8 decades the military and federal government have consistently told Americans there is nothing to see here. Now, in the last five years, not only are admissions made but, now we have constant "threat" assessment statements. Whatever.
For me, it's just more confirmation Satan IS going to use this subject in some kind of last-day event, deceitful, delusionary way to garner souls under his banner.
We wait and watch to see what happens.
https://www.livescience.com/ufo-report-human-biological-injuries
The U.S. branch of the British news paper, The SUN, filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Pentagon, regarding UFOs, after the 2017 release of the now, well-known videos showing a couple objects flying at great speeds. Along with comments from varied people that this is a serious subject and possible threat to national security, etc., etc. the Defense Intelligence Agency finally sent 1500+ pages of information and reports regarding various UFO encounters: people being radiation burned, and other physical effects; people being mentally effected, emotionally effected, even an unwanted pregnancy? Indeed, lots more.
The Sun has not released the documents yet. The thing is, for 8 decades the military and federal government have consistently told Americans there is nothing to see here. Now, in the last five years, not only are admissions made but, now we have constant "threat" assessment statements. Whatever.
For me, it's just more confirmation Satan IS going to use this subject in some kind of last-day event, deceitful, delusionary way to garner souls under his banner.
We wait and watch to see what happens.
https://www.livescience.com/ufo-report-human-biological-injuries
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543. A New Drum Shell Company - April 18, 2022
Okay, back to drums.
For most of my life Keller is the go to company for drum shells for DIYers. Eames offers Birch shells, and the only other company I knew of, that made shells for Gretsch - Jasper - is no longer in service.
Awhile back I came upon a new USA company making drum shells. It's a nice website, and their shells look great, and testimony to that fact is made by numerous quotes from customers; both individuals and custom drum makers. As I perused the site I came upon the page giving details about their various wood species they use for their plywood shells. I was surprised to see the same, typical misnomers for plywood drums and hyped-up sound. Especially in this case because they placed in columns the Janka scale reference for hardness of the various species they use.
They make three different series, and a custom selection of the customer's choosing. Some are full drum set sizes and others are just 14" snare drum sizes.
There are no sound files offered, just the typical statements of what the sound qualities of each specie is. Here's where I watched the boat sink, for me. I'm not naming the company because, as I said, they obviously make fine products and I'm not throwing anyone under a bus. That stated, this is the opening statement for one series:
"Made exclusively of one standard wood, the ____ Series amplifies the wood’s character and creates a pure tone and resonance true to its species."
Now remember, density of the shell wall, shell depth, and a proper bearing edge to allow for best head seating are the lion's share of what shells can do to impact what the heads throw off, regardless of species. No membranes vibrating - no cylinder makes a sound by itself.
They offer six different species. That's pretty cool. Full Maple, Ash, Birch, Cherry, Mahogany and Walnut, in 4 thicknesses: 6, 8, 10 and 12 ply, with very slight variations of millimeter thickness, specie to specie veneers for total layup of the shells.
Here's what they chart:
Maple - Hardness - 1450; Sustain - Long; Tone - Bright, Mid-low.
Ash - 1320 - Medium - Bright, Crisp, Loud.
Birch - 1260 - Medium - Mids, Focused.
Cherry - 950 - Medium - Punchy.
Mahogany - 1100 - Short - Low, Warm.
Walnut - 1010 - Medium - Warm, Dark.
Look at those hardness numbers. At 1100, how could Mahogany have a shorter sustain and a low, warm tone when it is only a listed 220 lbf less than Ash? That's actually high, though. On lists I have seen, African Mahogany is 800 lbf but, that's moot. None of those numbers are far enough apart - the hardness/density of the species - to significantly change what the drum heads throw off when struck. The cellular structure of thin plywood is not the same as a 2" thick board used in the Janka tests. Drop the metal ball used on a 1/4" or less piece of plywood and destroy its cellular structure. I'm telling you, without audio confirmation, these numbers and sound qualities are nonsense. How can Ash, with less hardness than Maple, be a louder sound chamber? What is the difference between low and warm, and warm and dark when only 90 lbf exists between the listed Mahogany and Walnut? How can smaller tom, using the same heads, be darker than another tom of another species? Let me hear the darker tone of an 8" or 10" Walnut plywood tom over Maple. Don't say it. Show it.
These typical sound profiles are so ubiquitous in the manufacturing industry it's almost criminal. Consumers are being mislead. Even if the detailed profiles were actually existent, the subtle nature of the differences are meaningless when you put that drum set in the middle of a band, a PA system and outboard equipment, or studios and recording software. And the differences in prices are substantial, especially when they get to exotic woods.
Here's the layout for the combination series.
Maple/Gum - Sustain - Long, Tone Focused.
Now, wait. We know Maple is harder than the other species used thus far. The softest Gum is listed at over 1300 lbf. How do you get a "Focused" tone when some Gum is harder than Maple, and Maple gives a Bright, Mid-Low tone? Do you see the issues here?
Maple/Poplar - Medium - Punchy and Round.
I never understood "Round" used for a sound profile. Drums are round. What does round mean, as opposed to... square? Admittedly, Poplar is softer than Maple. Why was Poplar used back in the day? It's inexpensive. An inner and outer layer of Maple with a Poplar core made for Ludwig and Slingerland's shells. As Ludwig Senior admitted, the action is within that first inner ply. Beyond that the sound waves are nothing by the time they get into the shell core. Drum shells cannot modify the sound waves enough to turn a vibrating sound wave into something "punchy." Heads can, though. That's the point of some models of drumheads.
Mahogany/Poplar - Medium - Warm and Focused.
You want warm and focused? Put 2-ply heads on your Maple drums, or any drums. Done.
This blew my mind though.
Bubinga. 1980 - Long - Deep and Round.
Stop the music! Bubinga is over 500 lbf beyond Maple. Maple is hard enough to provide a "Bright" tone. How is it Bubinga, being that much harder, does not provide that much more brightness to the tone? And, the 10 ply Bubinga shell is only 4.9 mm thick. It's a very thin shell. Ah, then. It is not the species of wood. It truly is the density of the shell wall, and a very thin Bubinga shell will not have the density of a thicker Maple plywood shell. Although, let it be stated, the sound profiles are given for any shell thickness, which should not be. If you are going to list sound profiles and state them the same for any thickness of shell wall you have just reduced your validity to naught. Sorry. Stay consistent, and then prove it, or just leave the shells as cosmetically different. Walnut shells are very attractive. Bubinga is really nice, too. The lightness of Maple can be fairly blank for cosmetic grain patterns, though it stains, dyes and finishes well. Getting into sound profiles? Change my mind with some evidence.
When you expect and ask players to weed through all this hype, confusion is created, as well as misgivings and disappointment when consumers receive their product and find out no significant or dramatic sound characteristic differences exist. With NOTHING to compare things to, any customer gets what they get and just thinks their instruments meet the hype. They have no empirical way to know otherwise.
If you take a Maple tom and mount it with a shell bracket, and a Poplar tom mounted with isolation hardware, the Poplar tom will have a wider range of frequency and sustain. If you take a Bubinga tom and put twin-ply heads on it, the Mahogany tom with single-ply clear, is going to sound brighter than the much harder Bubinga. That is just physics and common sense.
And don't forget, sustain is moot. In the context of moving music, nobody hears how long your drums sustain. It's impossible. What's heard is the initial impact of the velocity of a stick upon the batter head and whatever transfers through a microphone into all the rest. Even in an acoustic setting, sustain, as much as I love it and make drums to provide it, hits too much competition from the rest of the band.
How easy would it be for this shell company to make a single tom from each line and demonstrate the veracity of the sound profile claims? They do not. They are just parroting what has been stated by the manufacturers for the last few decades. They seek to prove nothing. Nobody else does. Why should they?
Change the heads, change the sound of a drum.
Like I said, I have no desire to throw any company under the bus. I'm just committed to truth, and the truth is, plywood drums cannot be as different, specie to specie used, as manufacturers super-hype. It's just marketing to sell product. Broken record but, true.
For most of my life Keller is the go to company for drum shells for DIYers. Eames offers Birch shells, and the only other company I knew of, that made shells for Gretsch - Jasper - is no longer in service.
Awhile back I came upon a new USA company making drum shells. It's a nice website, and their shells look great, and testimony to that fact is made by numerous quotes from customers; both individuals and custom drum makers. As I perused the site I came upon the page giving details about their various wood species they use for their plywood shells. I was surprised to see the same, typical misnomers for plywood drums and hyped-up sound. Especially in this case because they placed in columns the Janka scale reference for hardness of the various species they use.
They make three different series, and a custom selection of the customer's choosing. Some are full drum set sizes and others are just 14" snare drum sizes.
There are no sound files offered, just the typical statements of what the sound qualities of each specie is. Here's where I watched the boat sink, for me. I'm not naming the company because, as I said, they obviously make fine products and I'm not throwing anyone under a bus. That stated, this is the opening statement for one series:
"Made exclusively of one standard wood, the ____ Series amplifies the wood’s character and creates a pure tone and resonance true to its species."
Now remember, density of the shell wall, shell depth, and a proper bearing edge to allow for best head seating are the lion's share of what shells can do to impact what the heads throw off, regardless of species. No membranes vibrating - no cylinder makes a sound by itself.
They offer six different species. That's pretty cool. Full Maple, Ash, Birch, Cherry, Mahogany and Walnut, in 4 thicknesses: 6, 8, 10 and 12 ply, with very slight variations of millimeter thickness, specie to specie veneers for total layup of the shells.
Here's what they chart:
Maple - Hardness - 1450; Sustain - Long; Tone - Bright, Mid-low.
Ash - 1320 - Medium - Bright, Crisp, Loud.
Birch - 1260 - Medium - Mids, Focused.
Cherry - 950 - Medium - Punchy.
Mahogany - 1100 - Short - Low, Warm.
Walnut - 1010 - Medium - Warm, Dark.
Look at those hardness numbers. At 1100, how could Mahogany have a shorter sustain and a low, warm tone when it is only a listed 220 lbf less than Ash? That's actually high, though. On lists I have seen, African Mahogany is 800 lbf but, that's moot. None of those numbers are far enough apart - the hardness/density of the species - to significantly change what the drum heads throw off when struck. The cellular structure of thin plywood is not the same as a 2" thick board used in the Janka tests. Drop the metal ball used on a 1/4" or less piece of plywood and destroy its cellular structure. I'm telling you, without audio confirmation, these numbers and sound qualities are nonsense. How can Ash, with less hardness than Maple, be a louder sound chamber? What is the difference between low and warm, and warm and dark when only 90 lbf exists between the listed Mahogany and Walnut? How can smaller tom, using the same heads, be darker than another tom of another species? Let me hear the darker tone of an 8" or 10" Walnut plywood tom over Maple. Don't say it. Show it.
These typical sound profiles are so ubiquitous in the manufacturing industry it's almost criminal. Consumers are being mislead. Even if the detailed profiles were actually existent, the subtle nature of the differences are meaningless when you put that drum set in the middle of a band, a PA system and outboard equipment, or studios and recording software. And the differences in prices are substantial, especially when they get to exotic woods.
Here's the layout for the combination series.
Maple/Gum - Sustain - Long, Tone Focused.
Now, wait. We know Maple is harder than the other species used thus far. The softest Gum is listed at over 1300 lbf. How do you get a "Focused" tone when some Gum is harder than Maple, and Maple gives a Bright, Mid-Low tone? Do you see the issues here?
Maple/Poplar - Medium - Punchy and Round.
I never understood "Round" used for a sound profile. Drums are round. What does round mean, as opposed to... square? Admittedly, Poplar is softer than Maple. Why was Poplar used back in the day? It's inexpensive. An inner and outer layer of Maple with a Poplar core made for Ludwig and Slingerland's shells. As Ludwig Senior admitted, the action is within that first inner ply. Beyond that the sound waves are nothing by the time they get into the shell core. Drum shells cannot modify the sound waves enough to turn a vibrating sound wave into something "punchy." Heads can, though. That's the point of some models of drumheads.
Mahogany/Poplar - Medium - Warm and Focused.
You want warm and focused? Put 2-ply heads on your Maple drums, or any drums. Done.
This blew my mind though.
Bubinga. 1980 - Long - Deep and Round.
Stop the music! Bubinga is over 500 lbf beyond Maple. Maple is hard enough to provide a "Bright" tone. How is it Bubinga, being that much harder, does not provide that much more brightness to the tone? And, the 10 ply Bubinga shell is only 4.9 mm thick. It's a very thin shell. Ah, then. It is not the species of wood. It truly is the density of the shell wall, and a very thin Bubinga shell will not have the density of a thicker Maple plywood shell. Although, let it be stated, the sound profiles are given for any shell thickness, which should not be. If you are going to list sound profiles and state them the same for any thickness of shell wall you have just reduced your validity to naught. Sorry. Stay consistent, and then prove it, or just leave the shells as cosmetically different. Walnut shells are very attractive. Bubinga is really nice, too. The lightness of Maple can be fairly blank for cosmetic grain patterns, though it stains, dyes and finishes well. Getting into sound profiles? Change my mind with some evidence.
When you expect and ask players to weed through all this hype, confusion is created, as well as misgivings and disappointment when consumers receive their product and find out no significant or dramatic sound characteristic differences exist. With NOTHING to compare things to, any customer gets what they get and just thinks their instruments meet the hype. They have no empirical way to know otherwise.
If you take a Maple tom and mount it with a shell bracket, and a Poplar tom mounted with isolation hardware, the Poplar tom will have a wider range of frequency and sustain. If you take a Bubinga tom and put twin-ply heads on it, the Mahogany tom with single-ply clear, is going to sound brighter than the much harder Bubinga. That is just physics and common sense.
And don't forget, sustain is moot. In the context of moving music, nobody hears how long your drums sustain. It's impossible. What's heard is the initial impact of the velocity of a stick upon the batter head and whatever transfers through a microphone into all the rest. Even in an acoustic setting, sustain, as much as I love it and make drums to provide it, hits too much competition from the rest of the band.
How easy would it be for this shell company to make a single tom from each line and demonstrate the veracity of the sound profile claims? They do not. They are just parroting what has been stated by the manufacturers for the last few decades. They seek to prove nothing. Nobody else does. Why should they?
Change the heads, change the sound of a drum.
Like I said, I have no desire to throw any company under the bus. I'm just committed to truth, and the truth is, plywood drums cannot be as different, specie to specie used, as manufacturers super-hype. It's just marketing to sell product. Broken record but, true.
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544. Another Invitation to D.I.Y. - April 19, 2022
I'm surfing and think I'll do a simple search "the finest drums." I used a few different search engines, and went to the image page of each or just read down through the hit list. What did I see?
In the order I saw pics or hits:
Ludwig, DW, Tama, Pearl, Taye, Canopus, PDP, Dixon, Yamaha, Sonor, Craviotto, Liberty, C&C, Gretsch, Premier, Noble & Cooley, Oriollo, Tamburo, Rogers, Barton, Mapex, Pork Pie, Sleishman, Eastar, British Drum Co., SD (Super Drums), ddrum, HD Custom, Groove Percussion, Monolith, Masshoff, RS, Loyal, Q, Valley Custom...
I quit at that point. That list seems to cover the big manufacturers and some custom/boutique makers, as well as Asian companies making drums for student/beginner lines and lines better than that, as well, and other names in that category came up but, they may be the finest drums for students or players looking for good drum sets to play. They are not the "finest drums." I didn't include them on the list. I know other names are out there but, they were not on the search lists, as far as I went with each one.
I knew I would not see what I was looking for... anything associated with D.I.Y. drums.
Being a diehard DIYer and making drums from component parts or from scratch (save for functioning. plated metal parts and heads), for around 40 years, going back into the 1970s, I know what a DIYer can do and what DIY drums sound like. They sound as fine as anything out there. They might not look as fine, depending on the time one puts into fine finishing but, they sound the same.
I was thinking of all the mistakes I made on the recent Purpleheart and Padauk snare drums. I definitely need to change the throw-off on the Padauk. It just isn't made well. Functions but, for the Padauk I want something better and merchants carry boatloads of them. I don't go in for really expensive throw-offs because I just don't drop the snares often enough to warrant the high cost. That said, throw-offs need to function in some aspect of smoothness and adjustability. I bought cheap and got cheap and for the original purpose... a drum from, probably 20 years ago, it was okay. It's been sitting for a long time, brought back into use when I made the PVC snare. I changed all that hardware to brass and the black stuff was, once again, sitting around. The lugs, hoops and tension rods are fine.
Anyway, I made mistakes that either had to be corrected or just let go of (cosmetics). I knew I had some high gloss Tung oil around and couldn't find it, so, I just decided to wax the shells. Worked okay. Satin luster. I'd have rather had high gloss luster. Then I found the oil. Bummer. Remove the wax? No thanks.
Looking at the drums, if they didn't know I make my own, anyone might think I purchased them as custom items, especially the Purpleheart, which is admittedly, as an experiment, pretty wild looking, as snare drums go.
In the order I saw pics or hits:
Ludwig, DW, Tama, Pearl, Taye, Canopus, PDP, Dixon, Yamaha, Sonor, Craviotto, Liberty, C&C, Gretsch, Premier, Noble & Cooley, Oriollo, Tamburo, Rogers, Barton, Mapex, Pork Pie, Sleishman, Eastar, British Drum Co., SD (Super Drums), ddrum, HD Custom, Groove Percussion, Monolith, Masshoff, RS, Loyal, Q, Valley Custom...
I quit at that point. That list seems to cover the big manufacturers and some custom/boutique makers, as well as Asian companies making drums for student/beginner lines and lines better than that, as well, and other names in that category came up but, they may be the finest drums for students or players looking for good drum sets to play. They are not the "finest drums." I didn't include them on the list. I know other names are out there but, they were not on the search lists, as far as I went with each one.
I knew I would not see what I was looking for... anything associated with D.I.Y. drums.
Being a diehard DIYer and making drums from component parts or from scratch (save for functioning. plated metal parts and heads), for around 40 years, going back into the 1970s, I know what a DIYer can do and what DIY drums sound like. They sound as fine as anything out there. They might not look as fine, depending on the time one puts into fine finishing but, they sound the same.
I was thinking of all the mistakes I made on the recent Purpleheart and Padauk snare drums. I definitely need to change the throw-off on the Padauk. It just isn't made well. Functions but, for the Padauk I want something better and merchants carry boatloads of them. I don't go in for really expensive throw-offs because I just don't drop the snares often enough to warrant the high cost. That said, throw-offs need to function in some aspect of smoothness and adjustability. I bought cheap and got cheap and for the original purpose... a drum from, probably 20 years ago, it was okay. It's been sitting for a long time, brought back into use when I made the PVC snare. I changed all that hardware to brass and the black stuff was, once again, sitting around. The lugs, hoops and tension rods are fine.
Anyway, I made mistakes that either had to be corrected or just let go of (cosmetics). I knew I had some high gloss Tung oil around and couldn't find it, so, I just decided to wax the shells. Worked okay. Satin luster. I'd have rather had high gloss luster. Then I found the oil. Bummer. Remove the wax? No thanks.
Looking at the drums, if they didn't know I make my own, anyone might think I purchased them as custom items, especially the Purpleheart, which is admittedly, as an experiment, pretty wild looking, as snare drums go.
Yes, I am a novice woodworker. Most of that is just periphery to carpentry and I'm no expert carpenter, either. I make just as many mistakes doing that, as well, because I don't do either full-time. I forget more than I remember.
Just the same, if someone gets all the component parts from any of the various merchants out there they can make a snare drum or set of drums that will sound just a good as anything, ANYTHING out there. That is a fact owing to the simplicity of what drums are. They won't look as nice and have no surface protection (dust, dirt, spills, etc.) but, you could leave the shells dry, no finish, no covering or wrap, and they will sound fine; as fine as anything made by manufacturers or, custom makers that pay attention to more details than typical manufactured, assembly line drums.
Drums are not rocket science. I say that all the time. The routered channels in the Purpleheart. As I mentioned elsewhere, they were added to cover mistakes made during planing the staves. I was nervous, not having done it before but, I set up my trusty homemade router table to accommodate the need and away I went and though my old bit did some burning, it adds to the overall complexity of the cosmetic look of the thing. Then, with a little confidence, I changed the bit and added the other two channels in the middle. More burning (40 year old, used bits) but, a nicer, more consistent, even result.
No, I would not suggest a beginner DIYer try that unless they are already into woodworking and tools but, if you have or buy a drill and appropriate size bits, and get a pie chart or, layout chart from Drum Foundry, you can layout typical series of lugs for any size drum available by manufacturers and put your lugs on the shell.
The all important bearing edges? You can have those put on by many merchants for an added fee or, once again, purchase a router, a bit or two, and install it to some hardboard, like MDF and make your own table; practice making cuts on some scrap wood, and you can easily put bearing edges on a drum. The roller wheel on the bit makes it all pretty simple.
It is a fact that back in the 90s, when DIY drums exploded, most boutique drum companies that sprang up, literally hundreds of them, were just guys that saw how easy it is to make standard drums. Those with woodworking experience got into stave and block shells. I keep saying I'm going to make a full set of stave drums, not just a snare but, haven't done it yet. I enjoy the drums I have enough to just have the idea sit on a back shelf. I mean, making drums out of typical shells, plywood rings or a tabletop/plywood sheet drum set? Who needs staves?
That said, DIY is the land of imagination and experimenting. You aren't going to find that with companies having to meet stock limits and manufacturing schedules.
Admittedly, many players are just not interested in making their own drums because they aren't tinkerers like that. But, those who are? You can make your own set of drums. Put a wrap on them and you have a professional look. Wrapping drums is not difficult either. You have to be careful but, it's simple.
I saw a pic today of a DW 6 pc kit. Eight thousand dollars. Even with the inflation of prices for component parts and veneer/wraps I could make... at least 3, 4, maybe 5, 6pc. drum sets for that amount of money. Three or four for the price of one? I can think of no reasons why not.
If you are interested, this website will inform you of just about any and every step involved. Check it out:
http://pdgood.us/drumshed/
I have helped out a lot of players that communicate with me from YouTube videos I've posted on my channel. I'm happy to supply any info I can from my own experience.
A lot of players, young and old, would love to do it but, just do not think they can. Think again. It's a shell, some finishing, some lugs, heads, hoops, and tension rods, claws for kicks, and various mounting options for each drum - stands, spurs, legs, etc. That's it.
For kids, maybe your moms or dads, siblings or extended family members can get involved. There are so many how to videos on YT, I could list them all day long. The info is out there.
There is nothing like playing an instrument you make yourself. It's a very satisfying thing.
Plan and execute. You can do it.
Just the same, if someone gets all the component parts from any of the various merchants out there they can make a snare drum or set of drums that will sound just a good as anything, ANYTHING out there. That is a fact owing to the simplicity of what drums are. They won't look as nice and have no surface protection (dust, dirt, spills, etc.) but, you could leave the shells dry, no finish, no covering or wrap, and they will sound fine; as fine as anything made by manufacturers or, custom makers that pay attention to more details than typical manufactured, assembly line drums.
Drums are not rocket science. I say that all the time. The routered channels in the Purpleheart. As I mentioned elsewhere, they were added to cover mistakes made during planing the staves. I was nervous, not having done it before but, I set up my trusty homemade router table to accommodate the need and away I went and though my old bit did some burning, it adds to the overall complexity of the cosmetic look of the thing. Then, with a little confidence, I changed the bit and added the other two channels in the middle. More burning (40 year old, used bits) but, a nicer, more consistent, even result.
No, I would not suggest a beginner DIYer try that unless they are already into woodworking and tools but, if you have or buy a drill and appropriate size bits, and get a pie chart or, layout chart from Drum Foundry, you can layout typical series of lugs for any size drum available by manufacturers and put your lugs on the shell.
The all important bearing edges? You can have those put on by many merchants for an added fee or, once again, purchase a router, a bit or two, and install it to some hardboard, like MDF and make your own table; practice making cuts on some scrap wood, and you can easily put bearing edges on a drum. The roller wheel on the bit makes it all pretty simple.
It is a fact that back in the 90s, when DIY drums exploded, most boutique drum companies that sprang up, literally hundreds of them, were just guys that saw how easy it is to make standard drums. Those with woodworking experience got into stave and block shells. I keep saying I'm going to make a full set of stave drums, not just a snare but, haven't done it yet. I enjoy the drums I have enough to just have the idea sit on a back shelf. I mean, making drums out of typical shells, plywood rings or a tabletop/plywood sheet drum set? Who needs staves?
That said, DIY is the land of imagination and experimenting. You aren't going to find that with companies having to meet stock limits and manufacturing schedules.
Admittedly, many players are just not interested in making their own drums because they aren't tinkerers like that. But, those who are? You can make your own set of drums. Put a wrap on them and you have a professional look. Wrapping drums is not difficult either. You have to be careful but, it's simple.
I saw a pic today of a DW 6 pc kit. Eight thousand dollars. Even with the inflation of prices for component parts and veneer/wraps I could make... at least 3, 4, maybe 5, 6pc. drum sets for that amount of money. Three or four for the price of one? I can think of no reasons why not.
If you are interested, this website will inform you of just about any and every step involved. Check it out:
http://pdgood.us/drumshed/
I have helped out a lot of players that communicate with me from YouTube videos I've posted on my channel. I'm happy to supply any info I can from my own experience.
A lot of players, young and old, would love to do it but, just do not think they can. Think again. It's a shell, some finishing, some lugs, heads, hoops, and tension rods, claws for kicks, and various mounting options for each drum - stands, spurs, legs, etc. That's it.
For kids, maybe your moms or dads, siblings or extended family members can get involved. There are so many how to videos on YT, I could list them all day long. The info is out there.
There is nothing like playing an instrument you make yourself. It's a very satisfying thing.
Plan and execute. You can do it.
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MORE LOCKDOWNS?!?
Why am I seeing predictions for more lockdowns coming all over the place? Fauci has point blank stated lockdowns are to secure more vaccinations. Vaccination epic failure is anywhere and everywhere you search on the web. NO TRUST can be placed in ANY government agency addressing the health of Americans.
Honestly, I know these psychopaths are desperate. I know they are miffed their plans for world-wide control and depopulation have run into serious roadblocks of humanity's disgust and pushback so, to state more lockdowns are coming, with HUNDREDS of studies worldwide showing they not only do not work to stop the spread of the virus, they do untold harm, especially to children, is just radical hatred for anything right and good. Their desire for control is untethered now.
The newest Greg Reese video shows the unbelievable despotism in Taiwan right now. The most radical lockdown policy in modern times. When you see videos of people jumping out windows, rather than starve to death, you know things there are anything BUT, worthy of contemplation for governance and society. China is a monster, period. Why is it being spoken of in such admirable terms by Leftists? Because they are Communists. That is the only logical conclusion to draw.
Why has Trump endorsed Dr. Oz? He's a Leftist. He has nothing to offer Americans by way of governance. Trump must not be the 2024 candidate. If laws are not made to protect the voting process, he will not gain back the White House, anyway.
The world is truly going mad, and if Americans allow any more lockdowns, we deserve what we get.
I have stated for years here that God's decisions to step in and save this nation can be just as nil and empty as a Federal promise for a better America. It appears God is not stepping in and is going to let America reap what it has sown; same goes for the rest of the world but, in America; a people with such a Constitution and rules of law to be on this current path is a critical and obvious demonstration of where any nation can go, regardless of profession, regardless of blessings from on high, if it will not reconcile itself to doing things God's way.
The unrighteous are in control and will do whatever they have to, to maintain that control. A time of trouble is upon us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Honestly, I know these psychopaths are desperate. I know they are miffed their plans for world-wide control and depopulation have run into serious roadblocks of humanity's disgust and pushback so, to state more lockdowns are coming, with HUNDREDS of studies worldwide showing they not only do not work to stop the spread of the virus, they do untold harm, especially to children, is just radical hatred for anything right and good. Their desire for control is untethered now.
The newest Greg Reese video shows the unbelievable despotism in Taiwan right now. The most radical lockdown policy in modern times. When you see videos of people jumping out windows, rather than starve to death, you know things there are anything BUT, worthy of contemplation for governance and society. China is a monster, period. Why is it being spoken of in such admirable terms by Leftists? Because they are Communists. That is the only logical conclusion to draw.
Why has Trump endorsed Dr. Oz? He's a Leftist. He has nothing to offer Americans by way of governance. Trump must not be the 2024 candidate. If laws are not made to protect the voting process, he will not gain back the White House, anyway.
The world is truly going mad, and if Americans allow any more lockdowns, we deserve what we get.
I have stated for years here that God's decisions to step in and save this nation can be just as nil and empty as a Federal promise for a better America. It appears God is not stepping in and is going to let America reap what it has sown; same goes for the rest of the world but, in America; a people with such a Constitution and rules of law to be on this current path is a critical and obvious demonstration of where any nation can go, regardless of profession, regardless of blessings from on high, if it will not reconcile itself to doing things God's way.
The unrighteous are in control and will do whatever they have to, to maintain that control. A time of trouble is upon us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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545. Too Comfortable to Go Home? - April 22, 2022
In one of the most strange events in biblical history, the Jews had been captives in Babylon for years. When Cyrus gave them the opportunity to go home, most of the captives stayed in Babylon. They became pseudo-Jews; so conditioned to Babylonian comforts they saw going back home as too inconvenient, too much of a needless struggle; especially with the walls torn down, and Jerusalem ransacked. Why go back and rebuild when everything was so good in Babylon?
Does anyone want Jesus to return and to go home?
Earth life, at present, is a temporary situation. We are captives here, held under certain chains of life under Satan's rule; the god of this world. Yes, God is in complete control, yet He only controls people who want His guidance and influence in their lives. Love does not force. Love invites. God is not forcing anyone to Heaven. Nobody will be dragged kicking and screaming through the gates of Paradise.
The question to be asked is - Why would anyone want to stay here and not go home to the places Jesus said He prepared for those who love Him? Christ shall not return until He has a people prepared and ready to go.
War, even the threat of nuclear annihilation, shortages, living week to week, even day to day with growing inflation and living expenses, rampant crime, protests, riots, censorship, sanctions, boycotts, hate in every direction, agenda-driven lunacy, "doxxing," you must be "woke," growing pollution land, sea and sky, illness, viruses, "vaccines," resulting debilitation and deaths by tens, hundreds of thousands, if not unscored millions world-wide, government corruption, control freak psychopaths in control of nations, lies and lying are common place, trust is gone, persecution of people of religious faith on every continent by people of other religious faiths... I could go on and on.
Unless someone is living in a totally reclusive and seclusive condition of life, everyone realizes the world seems to be coming unglued. These are not isolated characteristics of life on Earth. This is all over the globe. It is just as Jesus said it would be before He returned. Widespread human upheaval. Normal has become abnormal. Abnormal has become normalized.
If you believe Christ is coming in the event of the ages you are seen as a rabid religious nut yet, ask yourself what would be better, more of the same insanity here or, eternal life in total, complete harmony and peace in Heaven? Well, the common response is, such a notion is not reality. Religion is fantasy, not realty.
Regardless of the planet housing billions of people who believe in deity, and have their reasons for doing so, the disbelievers have taken control of the narrative. Religion is pointless, even mental illness, as far as they are concerned. They have no answers to the on-point happenings of prophetic events down through the ages. They have no answers for much of anything, actually. They just complain about people who believe they have answers, which they hate because it condemns their godlessness.
I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ, the Creator, the Savior and Redeemer, and the coming King. I have stated my reasons for that, my experience in that, and have no reason to let go of "the Blessed Hope." The return of Christ is THE ONLY HOPE. Beyond that, hope can only be based on humanity, and we see humanity is growing callous, not loving and kind.
That said... living against the tide of a dying world, a dangerous world, a freak show world, an angry world looking for someone, anyone, anything to blame to attempt to make sense of it all is stressful, at best and almost impossible, at worst. In some ways, believers can be whittled down by pressures to rather have the reality of insane daily life than the reality of the end of the world. The end of the world is not going to be a cakewalk. In many ways for believers, it will be easier for those laid to rest to be resurrected when Christ arrives. Living through what is coming is going to be serious and beyond belief that we, as believers in biblical truth, will become an enemy of the state and an enemy of the global movement to attempt peace and safety at any cause, even at the loss of all freedom and liberty and plain violation of God's commandments.
Each decade gets worse, not better. "Better" is not even a word that humanity agrees upon anymore. Better for me is terrible for a wide sector of the populace. Better for them is absolute tyranny or insanity for me.
Most normal people want to be left alone to live life as they please, being civil to their neighbor. Unfortunately, "neighbors" are not content to leave people alone anymore. They demand compliance to their agenda and movements and moral fog banks. Rational discussion, the most necessary element of civilized society, has become scarce and rare.
For believers, their are two choices. Hold the line or join the crowd. Joining the crowd is the easy but, a losing choice. Holding the line is the hard but, the winning choice. Circumstances are developing that the latter choice will seem to be the obvious wrong choice. Pressures are coming to try the souls of every human being on the planet. No longer will living by preference cut it. Living by conviction is the only thing that will get the believer through the coming nightmare.
Oh, you are expecting to be 'raptured' out before that time comes? Wait until you find out that belief is doctrinally void of truth and reason and validity. You expect to be whisked away and when it does not happen and you find yourself in the midst of the majority of humanity becoming cold and belligerent, and hot about anything and everything going on around them they don't like, you will have increased your stress levels by a thousand percent.
The Christian walks by faith, not by sight. We cannot see God is in control. He is, by faith. If we have not experienced Christianity as a living reality that affects every aspect of daily life; if it is only a mental exercise, based on traditions and what others have told us the faith is all about, we will never make it through what is coming.
Many people, maybe most of us, know the battle of appetite and struggles with weight gain, and maintenance of health is life's hardest struggle. Just walk out your door and look at humanity, at least in America, and see that most of us are not vibrant and healthy. That struggle pales into insignificance with the reality of being victorious over sin in our lives of character fault: what we think and feel, spirit and soul, and how it effects our bodies.
Christ ministers for His people in the Heavenly sanctuary right now and has been for 2000 years. The time is coming when that ministry shall end. He will have a completely cleansed and victorious people to represent Him on Earth. When that group, His body, His church, His people are made up, His work as High Priest ends.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
All humanity divided: sheep/goats; awake/asleep; spiritually armored or naked; Christ will then lay off the role as priest and prepare for the final war as a conquering King. No second chances. We have had thousands of chances, multiplied beyond count in this present life. No excuses can be given. Choices made now, today, is what counts.
The majority will forsake the march and battles of the Lord. They would rather have the insanities of a lost world than the realities of faith in the world to come.
The majority has never been on God's side. Never has been. Never will be. Honestly, sure, I'd rather just be taken back to the 50's, when I was born and life was far simpler but, that is not reality. A world going crazy is reality.
We have two choices. Hang on or let go. That can be taken two ways. Hang on to Christ and let go of the world, or hang on to the world and let go of Christ.
We cannot change what is happening or what is coming. We cannot stop it. It cannot be prevented. We can only prepare and share the good news that this is most definitely not all there is. There is Christ and fellowship in His light of truth, in the midst of growing darkness, and there is a place He has prepared for His people to live eternally with Him. He backs up His claims with prophetic accuracy that can be trusted. Who or what can be trusted anymore? God can be trusted because His Word works. It's just that simple, and He offers humanity to test Him, to have Him prove the authenticity and trustworthiness of His word.
We have been warned. God has spoken through His chosen agents down through all history. The warnings are clear. Our response may be foggy, may be sketchy and not fully determined but, the warnings are vivid.
It is a truth that many times what we think is coming does not turn out as bad as we imagined or envisioned. That is not the case for what is coming. It shall be worse than we can conceive. A time of trouble worse than anything Earth has experienced. Worse than the results and traumas of history: wars, disease, famines? Yes, because that, and the aspects of conscience, sin, responsibility and accountability shall be added into that mix in ways humanity has never faced before. "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind." This is not just about physical necessity. This is about spiritual necessity; something far deeper and more crucial than daily food.
Are we clean or dirty? Christ is coming for a clean church, not a dirty one. He comes for a church without spot or wrinkle. Consider that reality. Spots mean necessary washing. Wrinkles mean ironing. That means heat. Adequate heat to wash clothes of the toughest dirt and press out the ingrained wrinkles of poor choices and results of life that have tainted our characters and made us unchristlike. The heat of pressures and trials and attack from forces of evil that only care about self are the things that purify the church. Ease is wonderful but, is often hypnotically dangerous. Ease too regularly brings neglect and carelessness.
More than wars and rumors of war and other signs of the times; more than jobs, careers, money, possessions, even more than food, what we need is character, Christlike characters to make it through what is coming. Serious. No lie. God did not ask anyone to make a career. He asks us to make a character, connected to Him. That, alone, will carry His people through the time of trouble coming; a time of trouble such as never was or ever shall be.
Christ in us, the hope of glory. Is Christ in you, in complete control of influence in you? Babylon is not a place. It's a condition. We must come out of it while time is given to do so. Nobody knows when their last day arrives. Everybody on Earth will know when the last day has arrived.
I don't want to stay here. I want to go home. I'm not ready for Jesus to come. Cooperation with the Lord is the total package, the absolute necessity. The only true path.
"Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Does anyone want Jesus to return and to go home?
Earth life, at present, is a temporary situation. We are captives here, held under certain chains of life under Satan's rule; the god of this world. Yes, God is in complete control, yet He only controls people who want His guidance and influence in their lives. Love does not force. Love invites. God is not forcing anyone to Heaven. Nobody will be dragged kicking and screaming through the gates of Paradise.
The question to be asked is - Why would anyone want to stay here and not go home to the places Jesus said He prepared for those who love Him? Christ shall not return until He has a people prepared and ready to go.
War, even the threat of nuclear annihilation, shortages, living week to week, even day to day with growing inflation and living expenses, rampant crime, protests, riots, censorship, sanctions, boycotts, hate in every direction, agenda-driven lunacy, "doxxing," you must be "woke," growing pollution land, sea and sky, illness, viruses, "vaccines," resulting debilitation and deaths by tens, hundreds of thousands, if not unscored millions world-wide, government corruption, control freak psychopaths in control of nations, lies and lying are common place, trust is gone, persecution of people of religious faith on every continent by people of other religious faiths... I could go on and on.
Unless someone is living in a totally reclusive and seclusive condition of life, everyone realizes the world seems to be coming unglued. These are not isolated characteristics of life on Earth. This is all over the globe. It is just as Jesus said it would be before He returned. Widespread human upheaval. Normal has become abnormal. Abnormal has become normalized.
If you believe Christ is coming in the event of the ages you are seen as a rabid religious nut yet, ask yourself what would be better, more of the same insanity here or, eternal life in total, complete harmony and peace in Heaven? Well, the common response is, such a notion is not reality. Religion is fantasy, not realty.
Regardless of the planet housing billions of people who believe in deity, and have their reasons for doing so, the disbelievers have taken control of the narrative. Religion is pointless, even mental illness, as far as they are concerned. They have no answers to the on-point happenings of prophetic events down through the ages. They have no answers for much of anything, actually. They just complain about people who believe they have answers, which they hate because it condemns their godlessness.
I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ, the Creator, the Savior and Redeemer, and the coming King. I have stated my reasons for that, my experience in that, and have no reason to let go of "the Blessed Hope." The return of Christ is THE ONLY HOPE. Beyond that, hope can only be based on humanity, and we see humanity is growing callous, not loving and kind.
That said... living against the tide of a dying world, a dangerous world, a freak show world, an angry world looking for someone, anyone, anything to blame to attempt to make sense of it all is stressful, at best and almost impossible, at worst. In some ways, believers can be whittled down by pressures to rather have the reality of insane daily life than the reality of the end of the world. The end of the world is not going to be a cakewalk. In many ways for believers, it will be easier for those laid to rest to be resurrected when Christ arrives. Living through what is coming is going to be serious and beyond belief that we, as believers in biblical truth, will become an enemy of the state and an enemy of the global movement to attempt peace and safety at any cause, even at the loss of all freedom and liberty and plain violation of God's commandments.
Each decade gets worse, not better. "Better" is not even a word that humanity agrees upon anymore. Better for me is terrible for a wide sector of the populace. Better for them is absolute tyranny or insanity for me.
Most normal people want to be left alone to live life as they please, being civil to their neighbor. Unfortunately, "neighbors" are not content to leave people alone anymore. They demand compliance to their agenda and movements and moral fog banks. Rational discussion, the most necessary element of civilized society, has become scarce and rare.
For believers, their are two choices. Hold the line or join the crowd. Joining the crowd is the easy but, a losing choice. Holding the line is the hard but, the winning choice. Circumstances are developing that the latter choice will seem to be the obvious wrong choice. Pressures are coming to try the souls of every human being on the planet. No longer will living by preference cut it. Living by conviction is the only thing that will get the believer through the coming nightmare.
Oh, you are expecting to be 'raptured' out before that time comes? Wait until you find out that belief is doctrinally void of truth and reason and validity. You expect to be whisked away and when it does not happen and you find yourself in the midst of the majority of humanity becoming cold and belligerent, and hot about anything and everything going on around them they don't like, you will have increased your stress levels by a thousand percent.
The Christian walks by faith, not by sight. We cannot see God is in control. He is, by faith. If we have not experienced Christianity as a living reality that affects every aspect of daily life; if it is only a mental exercise, based on traditions and what others have told us the faith is all about, we will never make it through what is coming.
Many people, maybe most of us, know the battle of appetite and struggles with weight gain, and maintenance of health is life's hardest struggle. Just walk out your door and look at humanity, at least in America, and see that most of us are not vibrant and healthy. That struggle pales into insignificance with the reality of being victorious over sin in our lives of character fault: what we think and feel, spirit and soul, and how it effects our bodies.
Christ ministers for His people in the Heavenly sanctuary right now and has been for 2000 years. The time is coming when that ministry shall end. He will have a completely cleansed and victorious people to represent Him on Earth. When that group, His body, His church, His people are made up, His work as High Priest ends.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
All humanity divided: sheep/goats; awake/asleep; spiritually armored or naked; Christ will then lay off the role as priest and prepare for the final war as a conquering King. No second chances. We have had thousands of chances, multiplied beyond count in this present life. No excuses can be given. Choices made now, today, is what counts.
The majority will forsake the march and battles of the Lord. They would rather have the insanities of a lost world than the realities of faith in the world to come.
The majority has never been on God's side. Never has been. Never will be. Honestly, sure, I'd rather just be taken back to the 50's, when I was born and life was far simpler but, that is not reality. A world going crazy is reality.
We have two choices. Hang on or let go. That can be taken two ways. Hang on to Christ and let go of the world, or hang on to the world and let go of Christ.
We cannot change what is happening or what is coming. We cannot stop it. It cannot be prevented. We can only prepare and share the good news that this is most definitely not all there is. There is Christ and fellowship in His light of truth, in the midst of growing darkness, and there is a place He has prepared for His people to live eternally with Him. He backs up His claims with prophetic accuracy that can be trusted. Who or what can be trusted anymore? God can be trusted because His Word works. It's just that simple, and He offers humanity to test Him, to have Him prove the authenticity and trustworthiness of His word.
We have been warned. God has spoken through His chosen agents down through all history. The warnings are clear. Our response may be foggy, may be sketchy and not fully determined but, the warnings are vivid.
It is a truth that many times what we think is coming does not turn out as bad as we imagined or envisioned. That is not the case for what is coming. It shall be worse than we can conceive. A time of trouble worse than anything Earth has experienced. Worse than the results and traumas of history: wars, disease, famines? Yes, because that, and the aspects of conscience, sin, responsibility and accountability shall be added into that mix in ways humanity has never faced before. "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind." This is not just about physical necessity. This is about spiritual necessity; something far deeper and more crucial than daily food.
Are we clean or dirty? Christ is coming for a clean church, not a dirty one. He comes for a church without spot or wrinkle. Consider that reality. Spots mean necessary washing. Wrinkles mean ironing. That means heat. Adequate heat to wash clothes of the toughest dirt and press out the ingrained wrinkles of poor choices and results of life that have tainted our characters and made us unchristlike. The heat of pressures and trials and attack from forces of evil that only care about self are the things that purify the church. Ease is wonderful but, is often hypnotically dangerous. Ease too regularly brings neglect and carelessness.
More than wars and rumors of war and other signs of the times; more than jobs, careers, money, possessions, even more than food, what we need is character, Christlike characters to make it through what is coming. Serious. No lie. God did not ask anyone to make a career. He asks us to make a character, connected to Him. That, alone, will carry His people through the time of trouble coming; a time of trouble such as never was or ever shall be.
Christ in us, the hope of glory. Is Christ in you, in complete control of influence in you? Babylon is not a place. It's a condition. We must come out of it while time is given to do so. Nobody knows when their last day arrives. Everybody on Earth will know when the last day has arrived.
I don't want to stay here. I want to go home. I'm not ready for Jesus to come. Cooperation with the Lord is the total package, the absolute necessity. The only true path.
"Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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546. Zeitgeist - April 23, 2022
Back in the early 2000s a series of movies were produced called, Zeitgeist. The first focuses on the corruptions of religion, thereby concluding all religion is false, and providing a foundation for everything wrong with the deluded world. The second and third get into things I have also addressed frequently: historical corruption and BS of official explanations for various events we are all familiar with, like 9/11 and other reasons why things are the way they are because of powers and entities that exist and have a great deal of control thereby: world banks, global corporations, certain industries and influential, powerful people within them.
Just because you know something is false, does not mean you know the truth. What you believe takes the place of error can also be ignorance, error and lies. Unless you have some kind of authoritative source of truth to guide you, you have nothing to weigh anything against.
In light of the fact we know a couple airplanes most certainly did not bring down three buildings on 9/11 does not mean anyone has brought forth actual, factual, documented truth who, what, when, where, why and how those buildings came down. Many theories abound, quite plausible. They are yet unproven. Even if a method were proven, the perpetrators are yet unknown. Same can be said for all kinds of events like the JFK assassination, the California fires, and Covid, for that matter. Official explanations which are nonsense does not give people the truth. It just gives people the nonsense, the ridiculous, and the lies.
Even with all the evidence and documentation presented by various people in the last couple years about Covid, billions of people have been injected with serums that will probably kill many, if not most of them because they trusted entities they should not have. They trusted their government, the press, the medical community, even their local doctors, which, really, if you cannot trust your personal doctor, who can you trust? Nobody. And that is the point. The testimony of nurses whistleblowing that hospitals have become killing fields is too much for most people to grasp. It cannot be true but, waves of testimony, secret videos and tape recordings shock the senses. Doctors place their trust in the wrong people, at times, as well. Then the matter of fault takes over and the webs of lies and corruption grow to protect each other, lest the house of cards falls and crumbles.
What source can be used to weigh everything against? Who and what can be trusted? Some people, so mistrustful of everything on Earth, have gone to just trusting the "universe," as though it is some kind of reasoning, thinking and acting organism or individual. Such is the general human need to trust something greater than ourselves because life is so much bigger and greater than ourselves.
Those who believe the universe created itself, with all its laws of physics and all its unfathomable information believe the same BS spoken by articulate, highly educated people corrupting government, religion, history, science, and everything else on Earth. There is no, meaning zero, empirical, observable, testable and repeatable evidence the universe created itself. You can believe it if you want to. You are just believing people telling you something. It's no different than people believing something their pastor or priest tells them. They trust their clergy. Then they find out their clergy has committed egregious sin, and they are shattered, or they just find out things said by religious experts are simply not true.
Do you know the number of people who believe the Christian religion, who could not save their life to muster half a dozen passages of Scripture why? They just trust what others have told them.
Again, without a reliable, trustworthy, authoritative source to weigh things against, how can anyone know what is true?
Someone brought up Zeitgeist in some commentary of why they do and don't believe what they understand or once understood as true. I had never heard of the movies and decided to watch the first. I got in eight minutes and thirty-something seconds and stopped. Ignorance of what the Bible teaches, joined together with truth of things that historically corrupted religion, is a quicksand for the mind if ever there was one. George Carlin's ignorance of truth and proclamations of things he is unaware of, regardless of how popular or well-received or accepted in religion, does not constitute truth or evidence against belief in the Bible or its Author. It just shows the tracks of truth and error lie close together and thereby makes it easier to deceive people in their ignorance.
Apparently the Zeitgeist trio of films has won a lot of awards and influenced many millions of people. Going to the website shows a fourth production is coming out this year.
Always remember the tracks of truth and error lie close together. And, if you do not have a trustworthy source to guide you, you cannot know important truth. You can only know what someone believed or believes is the truth and propagated it then or propagates it now in well-spoken ways, with some education behind them to do it. Every single week some branch of science has to admit something held true has to be let go of because of new findings and discoveries. If you trust science, you are in a constantly evolving realm of information that breeds, literally breeds confusion. The scientific communities are in such wide arrays of disagreements with themselves its a wonder anything new gets discovered. Various branches just trust other branches have told them the truth and basically each just copies and pastes what they have read. WE ALL DO IT NOW. I have done it many times, even in sermons preached decades ago. I trusted a source and it proved wrong. Does that mean the Bible is erroneous? No. Does that mean Jesus never lived or if He did, was just a man? No. If every sermon I ever preached was wrong does not mean Jesus never existed. It just means my understanding of the religion He began is wrong. It would behoove me to find out why. My experience was true. It happened. I was born again and my life dramatically changed. I would not drop that because what I thought was true about the Bible turned out to be wrong in some or many ways.
So many people are Catholic or Protestant, Muslim or Hindi, atheists or agnostics because their parents and grandparents were or their friends are. That's a truly poor reason to believe something as true or false. It's even dangerous. Most religions do not teach the faith of the parents will get their children into whatever blessing comes in the future once the children reach an age of accountability.
Religion. Thousands of different religions, and within them, dozens, hundreds or thousands of branches exist, all with highly educated, well-spoken people making their mundane or outrageous claims. Good luck trusting religion. There I plant my flag on the Bible's explanation that most of it is Babylon: spiritual, prophetic confusion. Just because it exists does not mean everything about religion is false, and certainly does not mean the Christian religion, in the simplicity of the teachings and life of Jesus Christ is false. Corruption of water does not make water bad. It just makes the corrupted source of corrupted water harmful. Clean out the corruption and drink, otherwise, we die. We cannot live without water. We are 60% water. No one. Check it, no one knows how water came into existence on Earth. Plenty of ideas exist. No proof exists. The Bible states God made everything from water. You might want to ask yourself how writers living four to two thousand years ago could know or believe such a thing.
Government, i.e. elected civil servants; politicians? I won't even go there. If you trust it and them, you are already deluded. They have shown no reliability, at all, that they can be trusted with just about anything, accept becoming corrupted by the atmosphere's they live and breathe in; mostly the atmosphere of reelection at any and all cost of whatever has to be said or done to make it happen. Those few civil servants that are honest and show integrity become targets. We see it happen consistently enough to realize the corruption is systemic. It isn't going to change.
All these entities have trustworthy individuals doing the best they honestly can to make the world a better, safer place. Unfortunately, they are also housing too many cads and nefarious agents of ignorance and confusion and even outright evil.
How about Disney. Yeah, long gone, really. It's just that the really immoral stuff is now rearing its ugly head and people are bent out of shape about it. They trusted Disney to be a source of traditional family values. Nope.
Even generally sappy and cheesy Hallmark is losing audience and actors because of zeitgeist societal changes it is adapting.
I have written many times on this issue of sources of trust. It's all collapsing.
As near as I can tell, if one allows the Bible to interpret itself, by comparing Scripture with Scripture, it is the only trustworthy source of unimpeachable truth on Earth. Yes, that is my conviction. That offers no proof to you. I can show what I believe it states. That is the thing about the Bible and biblical faith. You must prove it yourself, to yourself by entering the journey for yourself. You cannot trust me. I am an erring human being. We all are. Nobody has the life upon them to be a paragon of wisdom all the time. WE ALL SIN, we all make mistakes, we all tend to selfishness and self-preservation and few among us have that sense of heroism to protect others before ourselves, and die, as Jesus said, for our friends or even greater, for our enemies.
I have written before on "the religion of experts." Being an expert does not mean you are not corrupt. There are experts on ways to corrupt the thinking of a populace. Worshiping experts is foolishness. Dr. Anthony Fauci has pulled the plug on that dirty bathwater. Every "expert" agency involved with Covid is no longer trusted by half the planet's population. He has become a caricature of corruption for millions of reasoning, thinking people.
'Zeitgeist' means the way people think and act at any given point in time. Zeitgeists can and have been created through various elements and agents of mis and disinformation, distractions and illusions.
Things are confused because agents have caused it. Who, what, when, where, why and how? See, that's the bottom line. Without an authoritative source of trustworthy information, you can rarely have complete and accurate answers to those questions, and honestly, just because I believe the Bible is that source does not mean I have answers to all questions. Not even close. I only have guiding principles to get me to a place and time where all questions can finally be answered. Until that time, until Christ returns, I must walk by faith, not sight. If I did not have a trustworthy source of principled information I'd be crazy to follow something and someone I have never seen or heard for myself, and plenty of people think Christians are, and point it out all the time! They have a point. They also have points based on ignorance. That makes their points useless to be a definitive guide. The Bible offers prophecy. There is no way around that and unfortunately, too many detractors are wholly ignorant of that foundation God rests His kingdom and character upon.
Right now, as I type, planet Earth is divided into more factions than at any other time in world history. The Bible predicts just two ultimate factions will emerge: the remnant and the rest of the world joined in rebellion against the Creator and His moral law, which George Carlin made fun of in the portion of his routine used in the opening minutes of Zeitgeist. Carlin was an honest individual and made a lot of common sense observations, which made him iconic in our era. Using him to define anything religious, though, is hardly a source to be trusted. Making observations of things you do not fully understand makes you an agent of confusion, intended or otherwise.
If your foundation is wrong, I am not trusting what you build upon it.
What is your source of authoritative truth? If you do not have one, and know it; even know that you know it, you are a ship floating on a sea without chart or compass.
A zeitgeist is coming. An entire era is about to be changed and a world caught up in delusions is about to suffer the consequences of trusting sources they should not have.
May God help each one of us to know the truth and be made free by it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Just because you know something is false, does not mean you know the truth. What you believe takes the place of error can also be ignorance, error and lies. Unless you have some kind of authoritative source of truth to guide you, you have nothing to weigh anything against.
In light of the fact we know a couple airplanes most certainly did not bring down three buildings on 9/11 does not mean anyone has brought forth actual, factual, documented truth who, what, when, where, why and how those buildings came down. Many theories abound, quite plausible. They are yet unproven. Even if a method were proven, the perpetrators are yet unknown. Same can be said for all kinds of events like the JFK assassination, the California fires, and Covid, for that matter. Official explanations which are nonsense does not give people the truth. It just gives people the nonsense, the ridiculous, and the lies.
Even with all the evidence and documentation presented by various people in the last couple years about Covid, billions of people have been injected with serums that will probably kill many, if not most of them because they trusted entities they should not have. They trusted their government, the press, the medical community, even their local doctors, which, really, if you cannot trust your personal doctor, who can you trust? Nobody. And that is the point. The testimony of nurses whistleblowing that hospitals have become killing fields is too much for most people to grasp. It cannot be true but, waves of testimony, secret videos and tape recordings shock the senses. Doctors place their trust in the wrong people, at times, as well. Then the matter of fault takes over and the webs of lies and corruption grow to protect each other, lest the house of cards falls and crumbles.
What source can be used to weigh everything against? Who and what can be trusted? Some people, so mistrustful of everything on Earth, have gone to just trusting the "universe," as though it is some kind of reasoning, thinking and acting organism or individual. Such is the general human need to trust something greater than ourselves because life is so much bigger and greater than ourselves.
Those who believe the universe created itself, with all its laws of physics and all its unfathomable information believe the same BS spoken by articulate, highly educated people corrupting government, religion, history, science, and everything else on Earth. There is no, meaning zero, empirical, observable, testable and repeatable evidence the universe created itself. You can believe it if you want to. You are just believing people telling you something. It's no different than people believing something their pastor or priest tells them. They trust their clergy. Then they find out their clergy has committed egregious sin, and they are shattered, or they just find out things said by religious experts are simply not true.
Do you know the number of people who believe the Christian religion, who could not save their life to muster half a dozen passages of Scripture why? They just trust what others have told them.
Again, without a reliable, trustworthy, authoritative source to weigh things against, how can anyone know what is true?
Someone brought up Zeitgeist in some commentary of why they do and don't believe what they understand or once understood as true. I had never heard of the movies and decided to watch the first. I got in eight minutes and thirty-something seconds and stopped. Ignorance of what the Bible teaches, joined together with truth of things that historically corrupted religion, is a quicksand for the mind if ever there was one. George Carlin's ignorance of truth and proclamations of things he is unaware of, regardless of how popular or well-received or accepted in religion, does not constitute truth or evidence against belief in the Bible or its Author. It just shows the tracks of truth and error lie close together and thereby makes it easier to deceive people in their ignorance.
Apparently the Zeitgeist trio of films has won a lot of awards and influenced many millions of people. Going to the website shows a fourth production is coming out this year.
Always remember the tracks of truth and error lie close together. And, if you do not have a trustworthy source to guide you, you cannot know important truth. You can only know what someone believed or believes is the truth and propagated it then or propagates it now in well-spoken ways, with some education behind them to do it. Every single week some branch of science has to admit something held true has to be let go of because of new findings and discoveries. If you trust science, you are in a constantly evolving realm of information that breeds, literally breeds confusion. The scientific communities are in such wide arrays of disagreements with themselves its a wonder anything new gets discovered. Various branches just trust other branches have told them the truth and basically each just copies and pastes what they have read. WE ALL DO IT NOW. I have done it many times, even in sermons preached decades ago. I trusted a source and it proved wrong. Does that mean the Bible is erroneous? No. Does that mean Jesus never lived or if He did, was just a man? No. If every sermon I ever preached was wrong does not mean Jesus never existed. It just means my understanding of the religion He began is wrong. It would behoove me to find out why. My experience was true. It happened. I was born again and my life dramatically changed. I would not drop that because what I thought was true about the Bible turned out to be wrong in some or many ways.
So many people are Catholic or Protestant, Muslim or Hindi, atheists or agnostics because their parents and grandparents were or their friends are. That's a truly poor reason to believe something as true or false. It's even dangerous. Most religions do not teach the faith of the parents will get their children into whatever blessing comes in the future once the children reach an age of accountability.
Religion. Thousands of different religions, and within them, dozens, hundreds or thousands of branches exist, all with highly educated, well-spoken people making their mundane or outrageous claims. Good luck trusting religion. There I plant my flag on the Bible's explanation that most of it is Babylon: spiritual, prophetic confusion. Just because it exists does not mean everything about religion is false, and certainly does not mean the Christian religion, in the simplicity of the teachings and life of Jesus Christ is false. Corruption of water does not make water bad. It just makes the corrupted source of corrupted water harmful. Clean out the corruption and drink, otherwise, we die. We cannot live without water. We are 60% water. No one. Check it, no one knows how water came into existence on Earth. Plenty of ideas exist. No proof exists. The Bible states God made everything from water. You might want to ask yourself how writers living four to two thousand years ago could know or believe such a thing.
Government, i.e. elected civil servants; politicians? I won't even go there. If you trust it and them, you are already deluded. They have shown no reliability, at all, that they can be trusted with just about anything, accept becoming corrupted by the atmosphere's they live and breathe in; mostly the atmosphere of reelection at any and all cost of whatever has to be said or done to make it happen. Those few civil servants that are honest and show integrity become targets. We see it happen consistently enough to realize the corruption is systemic. It isn't going to change.
All these entities have trustworthy individuals doing the best they honestly can to make the world a better, safer place. Unfortunately, they are also housing too many cads and nefarious agents of ignorance and confusion and even outright evil.
How about Disney. Yeah, long gone, really. It's just that the really immoral stuff is now rearing its ugly head and people are bent out of shape about it. They trusted Disney to be a source of traditional family values. Nope.
Even generally sappy and cheesy Hallmark is losing audience and actors because of zeitgeist societal changes it is adapting.
I have written many times on this issue of sources of trust. It's all collapsing.
As near as I can tell, if one allows the Bible to interpret itself, by comparing Scripture with Scripture, it is the only trustworthy source of unimpeachable truth on Earth. Yes, that is my conviction. That offers no proof to you. I can show what I believe it states. That is the thing about the Bible and biblical faith. You must prove it yourself, to yourself by entering the journey for yourself. You cannot trust me. I am an erring human being. We all are. Nobody has the life upon them to be a paragon of wisdom all the time. WE ALL SIN, we all make mistakes, we all tend to selfishness and self-preservation and few among us have that sense of heroism to protect others before ourselves, and die, as Jesus said, for our friends or even greater, for our enemies.
I have written before on "the religion of experts." Being an expert does not mean you are not corrupt. There are experts on ways to corrupt the thinking of a populace. Worshiping experts is foolishness. Dr. Anthony Fauci has pulled the plug on that dirty bathwater. Every "expert" agency involved with Covid is no longer trusted by half the planet's population. He has become a caricature of corruption for millions of reasoning, thinking people.
'Zeitgeist' means the way people think and act at any given point in time. Zeitgeists can and have been created through various elements and agents of mis and disinformation, distractions and illusions.
Things are confused because agents have caused it. Who, what, when, where, why and how? See, that's the bottom line. Without an authoritative source of trustworthy information, you can rarely have complete and accurate answers to those questions, and honestly, just because I believe the Bible is that source does not mean I have answers to all questions. Not even close. I only have guiding principles to get me to a place and time where all questions can finally be answered. Until that time, until Christ returns, I must walk by faith, not sight. If I did not have a trustworthy source of principled information I'd be crazy to follow something and someone I have never seen or heard for myself, and plenty of people think Christians are, and point it out all the time! They have a point. They also have points based on ignorance. That makes their points useless to be a definitive guide. The Bible offers prophecy. There is no way around that and unfortunately, too many detractors are wholly ignorant of that foundation God rests His kingdom and character upon.
Right now, as I type, planet Earth is divided into more factions than at any other time in world history. The Bible predicts just two ultimate factions will emerge: the remnant and the rest of the world joined in rebellion against the Creator and His moral law, which George Carlin made fun of in the portion of his routine used in the opening minutes of Zeitgeist. Carlin was an honest individual and made a lot of common sense observations, which made him iconic in our era. Using him to define anything religious, though, is hardly a source to be trusted. Making observations of things you do not fully understand makes you an agent of confusion, intended or otherwise.
If your foundation is wrong, I am not trusting what you build upon it.
What is your source of authoritative truth? If you do not have one, and know it; even know that you know it, you are a ship floating on a sea without chart or compass.
A zeitgeist is coming. An entire era is about to be changed and a world caught up in delusions is about to suffer the consequences of trusting sources they should not have.
May God help each one of us to know the truth and be made free by it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Yep. It's the Sound of the Heads.
I came across a few videos of drumist, Gary Chaffee, doing three short solos. The videos seem to take place in a small studio of some kind and might even be a teaching situation, Chaffee being one of the premier drum instructors of his era.
Notice the set he's using. Two 12" toms. Two very different 12" toms, pitched high and low. Just struck alone, the difference is apparent. Rack tom bright w/high tension on the heads, "floor" tom dry. In the context of the entire kit and various patterns being played, they become almost indistinguishable, and pretty much just blend into a whole-set sound field.
When I take the position the sound of a drum is the mostly the heads, not the shell, and what shells contribute are nuances and subtleties, the evidence is there. The shell traps the sound waves between the heads, provides volume and resonance, and substantial differences in shell depth provides some extra low end presence, but comes with other aspects that may or may not be desired when it comes to feel. In the context of music, who would notice what Chaffee was using if piano, bass, horns or guitar, whatever, was added into the mix?
Anyway, check out the videos and see what I mean: the sound of a drum is the heads. Change the heads, change the sound of the drum.
Plus, Chaffee is one of the masters of the instrument. Always interesting to watch his complexity at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXCDoADzUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeWDidoDuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dbmDPWAAA
Notice the set he's using. Two 12" toms. Two very different 12" toms, pitched high and low. Just struck alone, the difference is apparent. Rack tom bright w/high tension on the heads, "floor" tom dry. In the context of the entire kit and various patterns being played, they become almost indistinguishable, and pretty much just blend into a whole-set sound field.
When I take the position the sound of a drum is the mostly the heads, not the shell, and what shells contribute are nuances and subtleties, the evidence is there. The shell traps the sound waves between the heads, provides volume and resonance, and substantial differences in shell depth provides some extra low end presence, but comes with other aspects that may or may not be desired when it comes to feel. In the context of music, who would notice what Chaffee was using if piano, bass, horns or guitar, whatever, was added into the mix?
Anyway, check out the videos and see what I mean: the sound of a drum is the heads. Change the heads, change the sound of the drum.
Plus, Chaffee is one of the masters of the instrument. Always interesting to watch his complexity at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXCDoADzUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeWDidoDuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dbmDPWAAA
Rene' Creemers
My first exposure to Dutch drumming virtuoso, Rene' Creemers was his duo with fellow drumist, Wim De Vries, in 'Drumbassadors.' The guys are uncanny in what they do together. Both entertaining and seriously masterful on the instrument.
Today I saw Creemers video in the side bar at YT and checked it out and was blown away by his inventiveness and innovation. No kidding, man, this guy is a unique player. If you are not familiar with him or have not seen him in awhile, check him out.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ren%C3%A9Creemers/videos
I happened to start out with 'Kaleidoscope' and was seriously impressed but, any one of his newest videos is really cool.
Today I saw Creemers video in the side bar at YT and checked it out and was blown away by his inventiveness and innovation. No kidding, man, this guy is a unique player. If you are not familiar with him or have not seen him in awhile, check him out.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ren%C3%A9Creemers/videos
I happened to start out with 'Kaleidoscope' and was seriously impressed but, any one of his newest videos is really cool.
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Dylan Elise
You may or may not know the talent and work of Dylan Elise. I first saw a video of him in a contest he participated in when he was 16. His facility was jaw dropping.
I shared the video on a forum I used to go to and I was shocked that he was not well received. He was a nobody, and therefore, somehow that meant his abilities were not worthy of notice and commendation. Mind you, at 16, he could do just about anything anybody out there could do. His talent is that of a natural. I'm sure he has put in his practice time but, "naturals" are the people in this world who make it look so easy, when it is actually seriously difficult, and most players, athletes, etc., cannot do it, and they might put in twice the work, too.
All these years later, just to check, I went to Drummerworld, where they have 500 drummers listed in alphabetical order. Dylan is not on the list. He's been an award winning drummer in New Zealand, he's traveled the globe, he's played with different artists, including the reunion of Blood, Sweat and Tears. He is not some weekend warrior. Lots of players know of his talent and bring it up on discussion boards and for some reason his place in the world of drumming is nowhere near what it could and should be.
He's a humble guy. For years he worked as a street drummer during New Zealand holidays and festivals and absolutely wowed big crowds that consistently gathered around and watched him mesmerize and thrill them with his beats and chops. The guy's a monster, a beast, a master. How can it be this man is not as well known as any other player on Earth? Take Australian, Virgil Donati. Virgil is world renowned. He should be. Yet, as far as I'm aware he has not played with any big names in music that are well-known and recognized. Let's face it, as incredible as Allan Holdsworth was, he was hardly a household name. Many considered Allan the best player on the planet, with a sound, abilities and style that set him apart from every other guitarist that ever played the instrument. Virgil has been in bands, been around a long time and I can tell you, there is basically nothing that Virgil can do that Dylan could not. How is it Virgil is a huge name in drumming, from Australia, and Dylan, from neighboring New Zealand, has nowhere near such name recognition?
He's in his 30's now, lives in America where his exposure should be 100% better yet, somehow, this phenomenal drumist has more of a cult following than international recognition among the world's drumming community. I find that one of the strangest things in that community.
If you know his work, you know his hands are outrageously good. The twirling of any player on Earth has nothing on Elise; and I mean Sonny Emory, the late John Blackwell, Thomas Lang, the Gospel Chops players, and anyone else known for great stick handling. What he does while he is twirling is mind-blowing. Seriously.
I know the drumming community has this reputation of being this big fellowship of Kumbaya and all. I have found it really isn't so. Talent held by nobodies is just passed aside for the oddest reasons. It's that way in everything, really. Pick a subject. Everybody knows of a musician that does not receive the recognition they should get. It's sad, really. There are well-known players out there who could not hold the proverbial candle to Elise. And he just seems to take it in stride because he is a humble guy, just taking life as it comes.
Here's his links to his website and YT channel:
http://dylanelise.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DylanElise/videos
Even if his abilities and style does not float everyone's boat, nobody should deny this player has got the goods for anything thrown at him. He really deserves the highest recognition, even if he doesn't have some huge discography behind his name.
Dylan Elise is a phenomenon. No joke.
Check him out.
I shared the video on a forum I used to go to and I was shocked that he was not well received. He was a nobody, and therefore, somehow that meant his abilities were not worthy of notice and commendation. Mind you, at 16, he could do just about anything anybody out there could do. His talent is that of a natural. I'm sure he has put in his practice time but, "naturals" are the people in this world who make it look so easy, when it is actually seriously difficult, and most players, athletes, etc., cannot do it, and they might put in twice the work, too.
All these years later, just to check, I went to Drummerworld, where they have 500 drummers listed in alphabetical order. Dylan is not on the list. He's been an award winning drummer in New Zealand, he's traveled the globe, he's played with different artists, including the reunion of Blood, Sweat and Tears. He is not some weekend warrior. Lots of players know of his talent and bring it up on discussion boards and for some reason his place in the world of drumming is nowhere near what it could and should be.
He's a humble guy. For years he worked as a street drummer during New Zealand holidays and festivals and absolutely wowed big crowds that consistently gathered around and watched him mesmerize and thrill them with his beats and chops. The guy's a monster, a beast, a master. How can it be this man is not as well known as any other player on Earth? Take Australian, Virgil Donati. Virgil is world renowned. He should be. Yet, as far as I'm aware he has not played with any big names in music that are well-known and recognized. Let's face it, as incredible as Allan Holdsworth was, he was hardly a household name. Many considered Allan the best player on the planet, with a sound, abilities and style that set him apart from every other guitarist that ever played the instrument. Virgil has been in bands, been around a long time and I can tell you, there is basically nothing that Virgil can do that Dylan could not. How is it Virgil is a huge name in drumming, from Australia, and Dylan, from neighboring New Zealand, has nowhere near such name recognition?
He's in his 30's now, lives in America where his exposure should be 100% better yet, somehow, this phenomenal drumist has more of a cult following than international recognition among the world's drumming community. I find that one of the strangest things in that community.
If you know his work, you know his hands are outrageously good. The twirling of any player on Earth has nothing on Elise; and I mean Sonny Emory, the late John Blackwell, Thomas Lang, the Gospel Chops players, and anyone else known for great stick handling. What he does while he is twirling is mind-blowing. Seriously.
I know the drumming community has this reputation of being this big fellowship of Kumbaya and all. I have found it really isn't so. Talent held by nobodies is just passed aside for the oddest reasons. It's that way in everything, really. Pick a subject. Everybody knows of a musician that does not receive the recognition they should get. It's sad, really. There are well-known players out there who could not hold the proverbial candle to Elise. And he just seems to take it in stride because he is a humble guy, just taking life as it comes.
Here's his links to his website and YT channel:
http://dylanelise.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DylanElise/videos
Even if his abilities and style does not float everyone's boat, nobody should deny this player has got the goods for anything thrown at him. He really deserves the highest recognition, even if he doesn't have some huge discography behind his name.
Dylan Elise is a phenomenon. No joke.
Check him out.
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547. Back to Drum Shells: Three Compared - April 27, 2022
I was watching a YT video on making a drum shell and when it finished the channel showed a video about a comparison of three different shells in a free floating frame: Acrylic, Brass and Maple.
I always say 'nuances and subtleties' for a reason. Aside from the Maple being tuned to a higher pitch, you can hear the subtle differences, which are lost in the music. The drums become the same sound in the context of competing for space in the sound stage of the band.
The reasons for subtle differences and main similarities? Shell density handling the frequencies in the sound waves from the heads. The heads are what produce sound. The shells enhance or dehance those waves and frequencies.
I have yet to hear a drum shell dramatically enhance or dehance anything drum heads throw off in dramatic ways that are truly discernible in the context of music when the same heads and tensions are employed.
Now, if you tension heads at variable rates, you change the sound waves and frequencies put out. At that point corresponding shell densities may react differently and coincide better, tension to tension. You may notice small differences between shell material but, if all things remain equal, anything and everything a cylinder does to seat a couple drum heads under tension pretty much cannot really effect the sound very much. The range of main frequencies and densities available in drums is just not very wide.
I've done my own videos for snare shell comparisons on my YT channel and it really is shocking how little things change when heads are the same and tensioned to the same pitch.
Here's a link to the video I just watched. Check it out yourself and see, or hear any dramatic differences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0mnxVlxDE
Links to my own comparison videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rXprDgHsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMdtofZ_OY
I'm finishing up three new snare drums. Two are done, one remains and I'll do a video of the three soon, and once again, we'll see if shell materials make a dramatic difference that equals the super-hype in the manufacturing industry over drum shells and sound.
I always say 'nuances and subtleties' for a reason. Aside from the Maple being tuned to a higher pitch, you can hear the subtle differences, which are lost in the music. The drums become the same sound in the context of competing for space in the sound stage of the band.
The reasons for subtle differences and main similarities? Shell density handling the frequencies in the sound waves from the heads. The heads are what produce sound. The shells enhance or dehance those waves and frequencies.
I have yet to hear a drum shell dramatically enhance or dehance anything drum heads throw off in dramatic ways that are truly discernible in the context of music when the same heads and tensions are employed.
Now, if you tension heads at variable rates, you change the sound waves and frequencies put out. At that point corresponding shell densities may react differently and coincide better, tension to tension. You may notice small differences between shell material but, if all things remain equal, anything and everything a cylinder does to seat a couple drum heads under tension pretty much cannot really effect the sound very much. The range of main frequencies and densities available in drums is just not very wide.
I've done my own videos for snare shell comparisons on my YT channel and it really is shocking how little things change when heads are the same and tensioned to the same pitch.
Here's a link to the video I just watched. Check it out yourself and see, or hear any dramatic differences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0mnxVlxDE
Links to my own comparison videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rXprDgHsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMdtofZ_OY
I'm finishing up three new snare drums. Two are done, one remains and I'll do a video of the three soon, and once again, we'll see if shell materials make a dramatic difference that equals the super-hype in the manufacturing industry over drum shells and sound.
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548. Ancient Megalithic Technology - April 28, 2022
Just like opposition people discover in religion between various faiths of the same religion, because of the way students and academics view the ancient source material, manuscripts used to translate into various modern languages; the same exists exists in other studies, like archaeology.
In the last couple years l have come upon various "renegades" who depart from typical academic positions on ancient mankind, especially when it comes to megalithic construction and what can only be described as artwork logically beyond known Bronze Age tools and techniques.
YouTube abounds with examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUDu40BC5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CnZlX0gXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo77OvnjfIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ait_LbRIQLA
I've watched some examples of the outlander positions and it is based on simple logic and common sense, based on modern archaeology as we know and understand it. How did this stuff get here?
Buildings made from stones weighing tens to hundreds of tons, to artifacts of all shapes and sizes, smooth as glass on curved surfaces. Cast aside as anomalies by academia, these voices of dissension have gathered quite a bit of notice as they, at least, recognize the massive differences, and some postulate either time for human existence goes back much farther or, mankind had "help" from sources unknown to do it all, or both.
Time being longer than believed does not really help. According to typical explanations the farther you might go back just keeps you less, not more knowledgeable of all aspects of human endeavor and life skills. Time does not really help. If mankind was smarter farther back, then lost it all and began again, in actual fact, that follows the biblical record, something both sides of modern archaeology reject.
When these positions are placed before me, I obviously take the biblical worldview. Does the Bible offer explanations for the discrepancies in archaeological discoveries? Nothing point-blank specific that I am aware of.
Yet, there is a possible explanation and that explanation is no more or less a possible explanation than time being older than first understood or, aid or outright manufacture of hi-tech from extra-terrestrials. The more that subject is out in the open, the more things get ascribed to it, with the featured advanced civilizations said to exist, without any empirical evidence: evidence that can be submitted to the scientific method.
How about this. #1, you already know the biblical position of giants in ancient times. I've commented about that. Humanity may have been twice or more than twice as tall as people today. That would bring the entire size of gigantic beasts into a more accommodating existence for a humanity twice or more as tall and large back then.
#2, the Bible also states mankind before the flood had greater intellectual powers. The fact is, from a biblical viewpoint, we know more about the post-flood world than the pre-flood one. The deluge destroyed the Earth and God buried everything under layers of sediments and even mountains. What man has dug up is radically miniscule compared to what is yet out there, hidden from site by nature gone extreme.
The pristine world was not what we see today. As beautiful as the planet is, in all its post-flood grandeur, its original state was far greater and majestic and jaw dropping. Don't forget, while the Grand Canyon can literally take your breath away it is the result of the deluge and its catastrophic impact upon the planet. Same with majestic mountain ranges thrust up by heaving tectonic plates colliding with each other. The flood was not just a rain and water event. It was a cataclysmic event of proportions never seen again by mankind. It wiped out all life on Earth, save for aqua-life, and even much of that was trapped and preserved in layers of mud, sand and developing rock in the planetary heaving of everything.
With that in mind, #3, what did man have at his possible use for building and shaping and smoothing? We cannot know for a fact. None of us were there to see it all but, what if that which is buried today laid on the surface of the Earth then? What did God create, spoken into existence, displayed at the beginning, that generally time takes to make, consequential to mankind's fall?
What if, in fact, power was attained? How did Noah and his family and friends build the massive Ark? Well, twice or more as tall and large and strong, the lumber used was easier to handle. All tools would have been twice as big, as well. I'm sure you have seen the pictures of the fossilized battery discovered, as well as various metals, gems, and other artifacts found too close to the surface and too young to be considered something that existed before what academics call the Bronze Age today? They can hem and haw but, the fact is, these items have been found where they have been, regardless of modern academic skepticism.
Mankind twice as tall, twice as strong, twice as intelligent, and with ways and means we know not of... could they have built megalithic structures and sculpted such refined works of art by themselves; ET not necessary?
What if God created diamonds at the outset? What if they lay right at the surface of the Earth? Bear in mind something. The Bible states Lucifer was adorned with gems when he was created. The Bible states gems make up the foundations of the city of Heaven. God paves the streets with gold. The early Earth, fresh from the Creator's hand, was a place where things reflected from every direction: the hues, the symmetry, the design, the colors, the life, everything was alive with vibrancy. Even after the Fall, before the flood, mankind had 1700 years to take what was available and design and achieve that which we known not. The use of diamonds to grind? The use of metals, harder and stronger than copper? Saws, planes, and other tools, possibly powered? What if battery operated tools predated today's common tools by millennia? What if water was used in ways as it is used today, to cut materials?
Yes, this is all conjecture. So are the explanations of those who dissent from official positions of what existed 3300 - 1200 BC. It certainly seems more plausible to me than bringing 'ET' into the discussion. Angels are actually extra-terrestrials. For the person who holds a biblical worldview, it makes as much sense to believe angels, both fallen and unfallen, aided man with complex and otherworldly things, rather than how people think of 'ET.'
We live in a world fast rejecting the testimony of Scripture as the basis for truth and all that is and how it should exist and function. We have drifted so far mankind is now working to create a transhuman specie, a combination of flesh, bone, and digital existence. God forbid. But, in fact, He will not forbid. He will allow mankind to sail in waters he knows not of and make shipwreck of all the blessings and guidance God has been pleased to give to mankind for its benefit. He allowed it 4500 years ago, he allows it now.
Man may speculate on everything when answers are right in front of him. It's a dying world, not one that stands at the precipice of marvels beyond number. Even stating that, mankind has amassed a collection of wonders and marvels that seem impossible, as modern technology takes more and more of a center stage. There's even a television program named, "Modern Marvels" that has been on the air since 1993.
The elites of today would have been mice compared to men before the flood. They will find out the hard way the paths they have chosen are paths of rebellion and once again, destruction of everything. There comes a point when man is so easily led by the enemy of souls it is always only a matter of time before catastrophe strikes.
As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In the last couple years l have come upon various "renegades" who depart from typical academic positions on ancient mankind, especially when it comes to megalithic construction and what can only be described as artwork logically beyond known Bronze Age tools and techniques.
YouTube abounds with examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUDu40BC5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CnZlX0gXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo77OvnjfIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ait_LbRIQLA
I've watched some examples of the outlander positions and it is based on simple logic and common sense, based on modern archaeology as we know and understand it. How did this stuff get here?
Buildings made from stones weighing tens to hundreds of tons, to artifacts of all shapes and sizes, smooth as glass on curved surfaces. Cast aside as anomalies by academia, these voices of dissension have gathered quite a bit of notice as they, at least, recognize the massive differences, and some postulate either time for human existence goes back much farther or, mankind had "help" from sources unknown to do it all, or both.
Time being longer than believed does not really help. According to typical explanations the farther you might go back just keeps you less, not more knowledgeable of all aspects of human endeavor and life skills. Time does not really help. If mankind was smarter farther back, then lost it all and began again, in actual fact, that follows the biblical record, something both sides of modern archaeology reject.
When these positions are placed before me, I obviously take the biblical worldview. Does the Bible offer explanations for the discrepancies in archaeological discoveries? Nothing point-blank specific that I am aware of.
Yet, there is a possible explanation and that explanation is no more or less a possible explanation than time being older than first understood or, aid or outright manufacture of hi-tech from extra-terrestrials. The more that subject is out in the open, the more things get ascribed to it, with the featured advanced civilizations said to exist, without any empirical evidence: evidence that can be submitted to the scientific method.
How about this. #1, you already know the biblical position of giants in ancient times. I've commented about that. Humanity may have been twice or more than twice as tall as people today. That would bring the entire size of gigantic beasts into a more accommodating existence for a humanity twice or more as tall and large back then.
#2, the Bible also states mankind before the flood had greater intellectual powers. The fact is, from a biblical viewpoint, we know more about the post-flood world than the pre-flood one. The deluge destroyed the Earth and God buried everything under layers of sediments and even mountains. What man has dug up is radically miniscule compared to what is yet out there, hidden from site by nature gone extreme.
The pristine world was not what we see today. As beautiful as the planet is, in all its post-flood grandeur, its original state was far greater and majestic and jaw dropping. Don't forget, while the Grand Canyon can literally take your breath away it is the result of the deluge and its catastrophic impact upon the planet. Same with majestic mountain ranges thrust up by heaving tectonic plates colliding with each other. The flood was not just a rain and water event. It was a cataclysmic event of proportions never seen again by mankind. It wiped out all life on Earth, save for aqua-life, and even much of that was trapped and preserved in layers of mud, sand and developing rock in the planetary heaving of everything.
With that in mind, #3, what did man have at his possible use for building and shaping and smoothing? We cannot know for a fact. None of us were there to see it all but, what if that which is buried today laid on the surface of the Earth then? What did God create, spoken into existence, displayed at the beginning, that generally time takes to make, consequential to mankind's fall?
What if, in fact, power was attained? How did Noah and his family and friends build the massive Ark? Well, twice or more as tall and large and strong, the lumber used was easier to handle. All tools would have been twice as big, as well. I'm sure you have seen the pictures of the fossilized battery discovered, as well as various metals, gems, and other artifacts found too close to the surface and too young to be considered something that existed before what academics call the Bronze Age today? They can hem and haw but, the fact is, these items have been found where they have been, regardless of modern academic skepticism.
Mankind twice as tall, twice as strong, twice as intelligent, and with ways and means we know not of... could they have built megalithic structures and sculpted such refined works of art by themselves; ET not necessary?
What if God created diamonds at the outset? What if they lay right at the surface of the Earth? Bear in mind something. The Bible states Lucifer was adorned with gems when he was created. The Bible states gems make up the foundations of the city of Heaven. God paves the streets with gold. The early Earth, fresh from the Creator's hand, was a place where things reflected from every direction: the hues, the symmetry, the design, the colors, the life, everything was alive with vibrancy. Even after the Fall, before the flood, mankind had 1700 years to take what was available and design and achieve that which we known not. The use of diamonds to grind? The use of metals, harder and stronger than copper? Saws, planes, and other tools, possibly powered? What if battery operated tools predated today's common tools by millennia? What if water was used in ways as it is used today, to cut materials?
Yes, this is all conjecture. So are the explanations of those who dissent from official positions of what existed 3300 - 1200 BC. It certainly seems more plausible to me than bringing 'ET' into the discussion. Angels are actually extra-terrestrials. For the person who holds a biblical worldview, it makes as much sense to believe angels, both fallen and unfallen, aided man with complex and otherworldly things, rather than how people think of 'ET.'
We live in a world fast rejecting the testimony of Scripture as the basis for truth and all that is and how it should exist and function. We have drifted so far mankind is now working to create a transhuman specie, a combination of flesh, bone, and digital existence. God forbid. But, in fact, He will not forbid. He will allow mankind to sail in waters he knows not of and make shipwreck of all the blessings and guidance God has been pleased to give to mankind for its benefit. He allowed it 4500 years ago, he allows it now.
Man may speculate on everything when answers are right in front of him. It's a dying world, not one that stands at the precipice of marvels beyond number. Even stating that, mankind has amassed a collection of wonders and marvels that seem impossible, as modern technology takes more and more of a center stage. There's even a television program named, "Modern Marvels" that has been on the air since 1993.
The elites of today would have been mice compared to men before the flood. They will find out the hard way the paths they have chosen are paths of rebellion and once again, destruction of everything. There comes a point when man is so easily led by the enemy of souls it is always only a matter of time before catastrophe strikes.
As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Dr. Bryan Ardis Speaks Out Again - The Jesuit Order
I recently wrote a blog about the mention of the history of the Jesuits by Stew Peters on his program (#542) and his interview with Dr. Bryan Ardis (OMG. Snake Venom?!?). It's a startling position once well-known by Protestants who experienced the work of the Jesuits in their lands and nations. Books have been written about the history of the Jesuits. They have advised kings and queens and taken them down. They have started wars, facilitated them with Vatican fortunes, and changed the course of history. They are the CIA of the Roman Catholic Church. They are agents of change; change that benefits the Pope and Romanism. Most Roman Catholics know little of their history. They see the front, the exposed view of Jesuit priests but, the secret history of the Jesuits is not something generally taught in Catholic schools or Sunday sermons, not even by professed Protestants anymore.
Pope Francis is the first Pontiff to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit Order. The implications of that fact are enormous.
Now, another interview of Dr. Bryan Ardis, conducted by Conservative commentator, J.D. Rucker, has emerged with some whopping statements about the role of the Vatican and Jesuit order in current events.
My own observance is that Dr. Ardis is not aware of the prophetic information about the Church of Rome and its history and designs upon humanity. He's just looking at events and following names and patterns of movement and activity, the same way people look at the subject of the Illuminati and Freemasonry and such. With the interview now out there, I'd expect the good doctor to be exposed to things associated with Bible prophecy he has not been aware of.
Check out the interview. Ardis is certainly not shying away from anything. His fearlessness paints a target on his back. May God surround and protect him from that which he exposes.
https://rumble.com/v10d2p9-dr-bryan-ardis-pope-francis-is-behind-covid-and-the-shots.html
For all I believe about the principles of Protestantism and Bible prophecy and last-day events, even with Rome being the Mother of abominations, such a position that Ardis presents is wider in scope than I'd have put together. I would not be surprised to find out it is wholly accurate. It's just a bigger footprint than Rome has ever been occupying, and a seriously more nefarious one, all things considered.
Pope Francis is the first Pontiff to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit Order. The implications of that fact are enormous.
Now, another interview of Dr. Bryan Ardis, conducted by Conservative commentator, J.D. Rucker, has emerged with some whopping statements about the role of the Vatican and Jesuit order in current events.
My own observance is that Dr. Ardis is not aware of the prophetic information about the Church of Rome and its history and designs upon humanity. He's just looking at events and following names and patterns of movement and activity, the same way people look at the subject of the Illuminati and Freemasonry and such. With the interview now out there, I'd expect the good doctor to be exposed to things associated with Bible prophecy he has not been aware of.
Check out the interview. Ardis is certainly not shying away from anything. His fearlessness paints a target on his back. May God surround and protect him from that which he exposes.
https://rumble.com/v10d2p9-dr-bryan-ardis-pope-francis-is-behind-covid-and-the-shots.html
For all I believe about the principles of Protestantism and Bible prophecy and last-day events, even with Rome being the Mother of abominations, such a position that Ardis presents is wider in scope than I'd have put together. I would not be surprised to find out it is wholly accurate. It's just a bigger footprint than Rome has ever been occupying, and a seriously more nefarious one, all things considered.
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549. Legend Continues to be Out There - April 28, 2022
I continue to see things about Legend on the Web. It always amazes me to see this stuff. I guess, since the 2019 reissue of From the Fjords, the interest continues.
The album continues to receive mostly praise and also censure.
I wonder if people know they can easily contact me to ask any questions they might have about the band. It puzzles me, with everything out there, that people continue to see Fjords in very stiff ways. People see it as a groundbreaking Metal album and ask what are certain songs doing on the disk? I've said a hundred times Legend was not a Metal band. We played some heavy stuff but, the album was meant to be a collection of our musical interests, given the massive influences of the late 60's and 70's upon the three of us. That meant all the variations of Rock, including Classical Rock (Progressive), as well as Jazz Rock (Fusion), and for Kevin and Fred even straight Jazz was in their wheelhouse. I don't recall John Judge, the original bassist being into Jazz but, perhaps so.
All those influences came out in our individual voices and our collective voice, as a band. There just wasn't any singular genre we settled into. We were a power trio that played integrated Rock, if you will. All kinds of sounds were integrated into the lyric lines and stories. We never recorded any acoustic songs but, we played them live.
I continue to think of Kevin Nugent and the great loss of his departure from this life. Everybody that knew him feels the same. He was quite a unique person, and a great musician, impossible to forget. Fred Melillo maintains an excellence of musicianship in his current pursuits. He's had some issues with Carpal Tunnel and has had to reconfigure his physical approach to bass but, he's met the challenge and continues to play and record.
Legend was what it was for us; a fleeting time of musical exploration and discovery. I went the direction in life I did, becoming a Christian from years of atheism, and aside from some possibilities of new players, Legend dissolved and each went their separate ways. Nothing unusual in that. Though having a good many albums worth of material on paper and in mind, it certainly would have been interesting to see what could have been recorded, and where it all might have taken us.
It's unfortunate, to me anyway, that people take such a pigeonholed view of Legend: what it was, was not, should have been, etc. A quick email to me could put everything in perspective. We chose to do what we did and never even thought twice about it. It was just a natural approach to making music based on our influences, without locking into any single genre. Hence, the album has variations of textures and sounds and execution of ideas.
I'll probably never be able to see that point made across the boards for fans or detractors of the band and the album but, I'll continue to try.
Legend began around 1975,76. That's 47 years ago and in many ways, it seems like last week. Lots of vivid memories. And my drum set still exists, in the hands of the guy I sold it to back then!
Now that is a legend.
The album continues to receive mostly praise and also censure.
I wonder if people know they can easily contact me to ask any questions they might have about the band. It puzzles me, with everything out there, that people continue to see Fjords in very stiff ways. People see it as a groundbreaking Metal album and ask what are certain songs doing on the disk? I've said a hundred times Legend was not a Metal band. We played some heavy stuff but, the album was meant to be a collection of our musical interests, given the massive influences of the late 60's and 70's upon the three of us. That meant all the variations of Rock, including Classical Rock (Progressive), as well as Jazz Rock (Fusion), and for Kevin and Fred even straight Jazz was in their wheelhouse. I don't recall John Judge, the original bassist being into Jazz but, perhaps so.
All those influences came out in our individual voices and our collective voice, as a band. There just wasn't any singular genre we settled into. We were a power trio that played integrated Rock, if you will. All kinds of sounds were integrated into the lyric lines and stories. We never recorded any acoustic songs but, we played them live.
I continue to think of Kevin Nugent and the great loss of his departure from this life. Everybody that knew him feels the same. He was quite a unique person, and a great musician, impossible to forget. Fred Melillo maintains an excellence of musicianship in his current pursuits. He's had some issues with Carpal Tunnel and has had to reconfigure his physical approach to bass but, he's met the challenge and continues to play and record.
Legend was what it was for us; a fleeting time of musical exploration and discovery. I went the direction in life I did, becoming a Christian from years of atheism, and aside from some possibilities of new players, Legend dissolved and each went their separate ways. Nothing unusual in that. Though having a good many albums worth of material on paper and in mind, it certainly would have been interesting to see what could have been recorded, and where it all might have taken us.
It's unfortunate, to me anyway, that people take such a pigeonholed view of Legend: what it was, was not, should have been, etc. A quick email to me could put everything in perspective. We chose to do what we did and never even thought twice about it. It was just a natural approach to making music based on our influences, without locking into any single genre. Hence, the album has variations of textures and sounds and execution of ideas.
I'll probably never be able to see that point made across the boards for fans or detractors of the band and the album but, I'll continue to try.
Legend began around 1975,76. That's 47 years ago and in many ways, it seems like last week. Lots of vivid memories. And my drum set still exists, in the hands of the guy I sold it to back then!
Now that is a legend.
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550. Okay, Maybe Five Final Drums - April 29, 2022
Okay, okay, maybe more than two final snare drums. :-)
I've had shells and parts and stuff sitting around for years. Decades, in fact. I'm finally putting it all to use and making a total of five new snare drums - Purpleheart and Padauk stave, Keller Maple, stacked plywood ring and another PVC unit. It's all materials left over from other projects. Considering we are planning another move, I'd rather box up finished drums than parts. Ultimately I'll sell them all for good prices, owing to just about everything I make being an experiment of one thing or another. Can't sell a drum for an advanced price when I decide to change things after it's done, welllll... not done, which is why I change something, like always adding another throw-off instead of using the snare butt because there is always an issue of the wires being too close to the heads on the tom setting. Add a second throw-off and the wires drop down where I need them. I like a fairly tight and crisp snare sound. But (no pun intended), now there's holes to fill from the screw locations for the butts. Sometimes they show, sometimes now. Either way, cosmetic defect. Personally, I don't care about stuff like that as far as using the instrument. I don't see it and certainly nobody else is going to, either, even if the drum had greater exposure out from behind my larger set-ups.
I am really liking the Padauk. It plays really well, given to that matter of shell wall density and handling of the shock/percussive wave produced when striking the drum head, and the wave going back and forth between the heads and around the inside of the cylinder. It doesn't sound any different as far as tone but, it feels really nice. I'd like it even more with Maple hoops but, I did discover a way to save drumsticks from degradation; the force of rim shots on metal hoops. I put a piece of vinyl tubing on the hoop. The rim shots sound the same but, the vinyl absorbs some of the force upon the stick.
The Purpleheart is also nice. I really experimented with that drum, much as I did the first Purpleheart stave I made. A very deep and broad snare bed, the 32 staves and the 16 tension points. It looks so different from any snare drum I've made. In the end, though, it plays and sounds the same as snare drums do. It just looks like a snare drum circus. A fit way to call it a day on making drums.
Leaving the staves flat shows "round" is not necessary. Nor is "perfectly" round. Nor is perfectly flat. All these shows of perfection make for good ad copy and marketing but, have little to do with actual sound, especially when drum heads can stretch. People will vehemently disagree with that statement but, I'm still waiting for actual, empirical evidence to the contrary, not anecdotal comments about someone's drums, or just repeating what "experts" have stated, with no audible proof to back comments up. Personally, in this world we live in, a world where marketing accounts for so much belief in things, I have no problem asking for evidence.
Think of how the pandemic was marketed. For pity's sake, they cannot even decide when it's over. One day Fauci says it's over for America. The White House gets miffed, because it retains plans to use it, and the very next day Fauci says the pandemic is not over for America. Marketing. It's all marketing. The virus, masks, injections, fear, fear, fear. Marketing becomes gospel for people.
I'm really thinking of making and selling drums and not charge the huge prices that are out there. It's a hobby. The prices for parts has risen, like everything else, and D.I.Y. is not benefitted by it. Although, honestly, the Purpleheart cost me almost nothing: the price of the board and the basic lumber/hardware store parts and a couple throw-offs, heads and set of wires. I made mistakes, as always. That'll keep the price down, which would always be the case because me and mistakes are traveling partners, joined at the hip. That should be the badge on the drum - Mistakes. That would blow people's minds. Who would ever name a drum brand, Mistakes? :-) Well, a couple brothers or cousins (or friends), I forget, started the Ugly Drum company back in the... long time ago. 80's. 90's? They made PVC snare drums. They got good reviews, too. I did a search for them one day. Couldn't find anything.
Funny thing about "ugly" drums. You'll see threads on forums. Here's the ugliest drum in the world kind-of-thing. It never fails that one man's ugly is another man's cool or beautiful. I'm sure people look at my drums and think some are pretty awful looking, especially the plywood drums but, just like the sound of a drum is subjective, so is the look of a drum. I can't sell anything plywood, anyway. There's a patent on it.
As far as badges, I actually don't get into them. I've never used or made one for a single drum I've ever put together. The first set I made thirty years ago I designed a Maple leaf that I burned into the wood and I drilled tiny holes around the circumference of it which made a vent hole in total size but, I don't put vents in my drums so, I stopped that. Vent holes are simply unnecessary for sound. They hold a badge, that's about it. They originally vented off-gassing from finish materials inside the shell. If they are not allowed to cure they can corrode parts affixed the drum, holding outside parts in place. I tell people, go ahead and put your thumb over the vent hole and tell me the sound changes.
Badges, as works of art and "branding" can be pretty cool, though. A lot of players really take pride in badges, and certainly drum makers do. They put all the time, effort and money into designing them.
When I was a kid, I always liked the Ludwig badge over Slingerland or Gretsch but, the Rogers was the one I liked the most, just like Rogers drums but, having started with Ludwig, and owing to Rogers always costing more, I stayed with Ludwig. Then Ludwig radically changed their badges and I was repulsed. About that time I was putting the Legend set together, with the wallpaper wrap and all, and all badges came off the drums and never went back on.
Making drums, as I always say, is fun and frustrating. Sometimes equal measures of both or one takes the lion's share, usually frustration. The older I get, you'd think the frustrations would be minimal. Nope. Especially is that the case with router bits and clean edges (no burning). If I made drums to sell, and really got into details and stuff, I'd be purchasing new bits every other drum, working with really dense and hard woods.
Hole drilling can be a pain, too. You mark out holes perfectly but, a drill bit tends to do it's own thing when it hits wood, especially hard woods, or woods with variations in grain, which can have soft and hard spots. I'd be buying those, regularly, too. At least the Brad points. Others can be sharpened, easy enough.
"Mistakes." Seriously, that has to be something to consider. Make the price right and there will always be customers. Although, for me, my track record of trying to do such things... epic fail awaits!!! Just trying to market them would be tricky enough. Now, if I was Vinnie Coliuta, or Dave Weckl, or other world-known player, selling a drum would be branded and out the door by default. That's the world we live in.
Of course, right now, today, the world is talking major food shortages, starvation, new diseases, nuclear war... hardly a world where making and selling drums means much, when "normality" is becoming more scarce than a snow man in Texas. We try to stay normal, we adapt and modify. The fact is, times are changing and controllers gain more of it, and the world is driving up on disaster ridge. That's the reality. I may make drums but, my faith must not take a back seat to prophetic truth and sensibilities.
I'll put up some pics of the new units and get them on my YT channel for comparison sake, asap.
I've had shells and parts and stuff sitting around for years. Decades, in fact. I'm finally putting it all to use and making a total of five new snare drums - Purpleheart and Padauk stave, Keller Maple, stacked plywood ring and another PVC unit. It's all materials left over from other projects. Considering we are planning another move, I'd rather box up finished drums than parts. Ultimately I'll sell them all for good prices, owing to just about everything I make being an experiment of one thing or another. Can't sell a drum for an advanced price when I decide to change things after it's done, welllll... not done, which is why I change something, like always adding another throw-off instead of using the snare butt because there is always an issue of the wires being too close to the heads on the tom setting. Add a second throw-off and the wires drop down where I need them. I like a fairly tight and crisp snare sound. But (no pun intended), now there's holes to fill from the screw locations for the butts. Sometimes they show, sometimes now. Either way, cosmetic defect. Personally, I don't care about stuff like that as far as using the instrument. I don't see it and certainly nobody else is going to, either, even if the drum had greater exposure out from behind my larger set-ups.
I am really liking the Padauk. It plays really well, given to that matter of shell wall density and handling of the shock/percussive wave produced when striking the drum head, and the wave going back and forth between the heads and around the inside of the cylinder. It doesn't sound any different as far as tone but, it feels really nice. I'd like it even more with Maple hoops but, I did discover a way to save drumsticks from degradation; the force of rim shots on metal hoops. I put a piece of vinyl tubing on the hoop. The rim shots sound the same but, the vinyl absorbs some of the force upon the stick.
The Purpleheart is also nice. I really experimented with that drum, much as I did the first Purpleheart stave I made. A very deep and broad snare bed, the 32 staves and the 16 tension points. It looks so different from any snare drum I've made. In the end, though, it plays and sounds the same as snare drums do. It just looks like a snare drum circus. A fit way to call it a day on making drums.
Leaving the staves flat shows "round" is not necessary. Nor is "perfectly" round. Nor is perfectly flat. All these shows of perfection make for good ad copy and marketing but, have little to do with actual sound, especially when drum heads can stretch. People will vehemently disagree with that statement but, I'm still waiting for actual, empirical evidence to the contrary, not anecdotal comments about someone's drums, or just repeating what "experts" have stated, with no audible proof to back comments up. Personally, in this world we live in, a world where marketing accounts for so much belief in things, I have no problem asking for evidence.
Think of how the pandemic was marketed. For pity's sake, they cannot even decide when it's over. One day Fauci says it's over for America. The White House gets miffed, because it retains plans to use it, and the very next day Fauci says the pandemic is not over for America. Marketing. It's all marketing. The virus, masks, injections, fear, fear, fear. Marketing becomes gospel for people.
I'm really thinking of making and selling drums and not charge the huge prices that are out there. It's a hobby. The prices for parts has risen, like everything else, and D.I.Y. is not benefitted by it. Although, honestly, the Purpleheart cost me almost nothing: the price of the board and the basic lumber/hardware store parts and a couple throw-offs, heads and set of wires. I made mistakes, as always. That'll keep the price down, which would always be the case because me and mistakes are traveling partners, joined at the hip. That should be the badge on the drum - Mistakes. That would blow people's minds. Who would ever name a drum brand, Mistakes? :-) Well, a couple brothers or cousins (or friends), I forget, started the Ugly Drum company back in the... long time ago. 80's. 90's? They made PVC snare drums. They got good reviews, too. I did a search for them one day. Couldn't find anything.
Funny thing about "ugly" drums. You'll see threads on forums. Here's the ugliest drum in the world kind-of-thing. It never fails that one man's ugly is another man's cool or beautiful. I'm sure people look at my drums and think some are pretty awful looking, especially the plywood drums but, just like the sound of a drum is subjective, so is the look of a drum. I can't sell anything plywood, anyway. There's a patent on it.
As far as badges, I actually don't get into them. I've never used or made one for a single drum I've ever put together. The first set I made thirty years ago I designed a Maple leaf that I burned into the wood and I drilled tiny holes around the circumference of it which made a vent hole in total size but, I don't put vents in my drums so, I stopped that. Vent holes are simply unnecessary for sound. They hold a badge, that's about it. They originally vented off-gassing from finish materials inside the shell. If they are not allowed to cure they can corrode parts affixed the drum, holding outside parts in place. I tell people, go ahead and put your thumb over the vent hole and tell me the sound changes.
Badges, as works of art and "branding" can be pretty cool, though. A lot of players really take pride in badges, and certainly drum makers do. They put all the time, effort and money into designing them.
When I was a kid, I always liked the Ludwig badge over Slingerland or Gretsch but, the Rogers was the one I liked the most, just like Rogers drums but, having started with Ludwig, and owing to Rogers always costing more, I stayed with Ludwig. Then Ludwig radically changed their badges and I was repulsed. About that time I was putting the Legend set together, with the wallpaper wrap and all, and all badges came off the drums and never went back on.
Making drums, as I always say, is fun and frustrating. Sometimes equal measures of both or one takes the lion's share, usually frustration. The older I get, you'd think the frustrations would be minimal. Nope. Especially is that the case with router bits and clean edges (no burning). If I made drums to sell, and really got into details and stuff, I'd be purchasing new bits every other drum, working with really dense and hard woods.
Hole drilling can be a pain, too. You mark out holes perfectly but, a drill bit tends to do it's own thing when it hits wood, especially hard woods, or woods with variations in grain, which can have soft and hard spots. I'd be buying those, regularly, too. At least the Brad points. Others can be sharpened, easy enough.
"Mistakes." Seriously, that has to be something to consider. Make the price right and there will always be customers. Although, for me, my track record of trying to do such things... epic fail awaits!!! Just trying to market them would be tricky enough. Now, if I was Vinnie Coliuta, or Dave Weckl, or other world-known player, selling a drum would be branded and out the door by default. That's the world we live in.
Of course, right now, today, the world is talking major food shortages, starvation, new diseases, nuclear war... hardly a world where making and selling drums means much, when "normality" is becoming more scarce than a snow man in Texas. We try to stay normal, we adapt and modify. The fact is, times are changing and controllers gain more of it, and the world is driving up on disaster ridge. That's the reality. I may make drums but, my faith must not take a back seat to prophetic truth and sensibilities.
I'll put up some pics of the new units and get them on my YT channel for comparison sake, asap.
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COVID: A Summary
By Paul Craig Roberts. As concise a summary as I have seen. Roberts has a very varied background, from public service, to teaching, to consulting, to writing about subjects on the economy, war, politics, etc. He is recognized as one of the most influential people in alternative media.
A quick, forthright read, and shows where we were, are, and are heading.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/04/26/covid-a-summary/
A quick, forthright read, and shows where we were, are, and are heading.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/04/26/covid-a-summary/
1984: The Ministry of Truth
The Disinformation Governance Board.
True. Not parody. Not comedy routine. Not China, though they have stuff like that. I was going to write a blog about it but, Tucker Carlson did a monologue that really mops the floor of the Democrat/Biden Bondage Boondoggle upon America citizens. These people really are lunatics on parade. Well, we "deplorables" can sarcastically jest all we like but, this is really happening. In America. Now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4inJSblCUY
True. Not parody. Not comedy routine. Not China, though they have stuff like that. I was going to write a blog about it but, Tucker Carlson did a monologue that really mops the floor of the Democrat/Biden Bondage Boondoggle upon America citizens. These people really are lunatics on parade. Well, we "deplorables" can sarcastically jest all we like but, this is really happening. In America. Now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4inJSblCUY
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551. Blindness - April 30, 2022
Blindness. The inability to physically or mentally see or understand.
The Bible speaks quite a bit about blindness. Much is stated about physical blindness but, the things stated about intellectual or spiritual blindness is where we come face to face with the real dangers of being "blind."
Here are eight passages from both Old and New Testaments. They concern leaders, clergy, the Jewish nation, and just everyday people who were and are blind to the reality of human need: salvation from sin, and help with being what we are - fallen human beings.
Isa 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isa 56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
2Cor 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2Cor 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Cor 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2Cor 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
The 23rd chapter of Mathew is a complete denunciation by Christ of the entire religious system of the blinded leaders in Israel, and much of that could easily be placed upon spiritual Israel; the churches and professed believers of our day. Christ rebuked the blindness in no uncertain terms. The blindness made everything corrupt.
There are sermons in every one of those passages. We all find ourselves in categories of blindness far too often in life. Those who make decisions to see, shall. Guide will guide us into all truth, if that is what we want and seek.
It is entirely possible you have just looked at those passages and have no understanding of what you just read. Why? Because spiritual things are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2:14. We need a change of mind, a change of thought, thinking and reasoning to understand even the plainest language and statements in the Bible. I would see it on the faces of people attending seminars. Point blank information and it would just go right by them. They could read easily enough. They could not see. That is why being born again is not an option. It is a must; "you must be born again," John 3:7
The number of humans blinded to the reality of the Covid pandemic is astounding. Literal reams and stacks of discoveries and documentation concerning the drug companies, politicians, control freaks, an entire cabal, going back decades exist. How can anyone NOT realize what has and is taking place?
The continued trust citizens place upon elected civil servants shown to be liars; just instigators of unrest because of falsehoods, or attempting to completely control them with the same, is a sad and nationally significant harbinger of things to come. And now, we are discovering another symptom and adverse reaction to the injections: physical blindness:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-04-28-many-people-fully-vaccinated-covid-going-blind.html
The number of people who believe whatever spokesmen for government tell them is shocking. Elected civil servants are either incredibly stupid or know exactly what they are doing in destroying the value of the dollar and the U.S. economy. America is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine while our own economy is tanking. Stupidity? Maybe. Evil? Definitely.
Just getting into drum shells and manufacturer ultra-hype about them has shown me how dense people are to simple, empirical truth. One commenter even thanked me for applying critical thinking to the subject. Critical thinking is the application of evidence in making decisions: any and all decisions requiring processing of information. Many simply do not want to process information to make judgments.
Mental or spiritual blindness is growing worse in this world. I often quote Isaiah, "...darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people."
2Pet 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pet 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pet 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
"Established," in English, means begun and maintained by consistent endeavor, policy and/or principles. Many things of the "establishment" are wrong, regardless of how long things have been an acceptable part of governed society. Lockdowns were wrong right from the beginning. You do not quarantine healthy animals. You quarantine the sick. Shutting down the world was not a response to Covid. It was a preplanned exercise in human population control, including the violation of national constitutions. The rule of law meant nothing to the controllers, nor does the current crop of problems we see: out of control inflation, coming food shortages including the destruction of processing plants and storage facilities all over America. Coincidence? Nonsense. Ignored national borders and illegal immigration and infiltration, rising crime, civil unrest, scandals, corruption, and adverse reactions and deaths associated with the injections. None of this means anything to those who do not value life, who revel in the profits and stratagems of war, who even hate and go out of their way to persecute those who oppose them, especially professed Christians and Conservatives.
The Greek word translated 'established,' 'sterizo,' means to set something fast, to turn resolutely, to render constant or confirm one's mind. "Make up your mind."
The prophet Elijah once asked the confused people of the kingdom, How long will you hop between two opinions? Back and forth. Back and forth. If Jehovah is God, follow Him. If Baal, then follow him but, make up your mind! The people stood silent. They could say nothing, for Elijah spoke the truth. They were not established in the truth of the Lord. They were blown about by winds of whatever sounded good at whatever time, by whoever sounded the best to their carnal, blinded minds.
It is no different today. People follow charismatic leaders. Frankly, there is zilch that is charismatic about Joe Biden. He is obviously mentally debilitated, getting worse by the week, is just a pawn for the Obama cabal, and his choice for VP is one of the least likeable people in all of politics. They all lie like they breathe. The only possible way Biden is in the White House is because his party and non-American entities put him there by criminal actions and a stolen election.
A new documentary is being released: "2000 mules." It's an expose' on the all the facts and avenues of how the 2020 election was a stolen one; a criminal action. Will it make a difference? No. Even if the vast majority see the truth and demand action to make things right, it won't be. The controllers know who has the power. Them. Those who believe Biden won the election fairly will not be convinced otherwise. They have swallowed the Kool-Aid. They have made decisions that have seared their conscience with a hot iron of blindness.
Those who are blinded by ignorance and those who are blinded by power and quest for absolute control are leading the entire army of ignorance over a cliff and the fault will lie at their own door.
Why are people so blind? "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." It's all choices. Choosing what seem the safest, most convenient roads; living by preference and policy, not conviction and principle. Not thinking critically, according to evidence, and according to an unwavering authoritative source of information. Nobody has to be mentally and spiritually blind. People choose to be, because answers are there. Information is there. Truth is there, and few there be that find it because they refuse to search for it. They are now dependent on others for sustenance and knowledge. They refuse to think for themselves. They would rather have what they can have now, then work and wait for that which is fundamentally better for them and society. They do not care about debt. They only care of having what they want, now. The entire economic system is on the verge of intended collapse. The world is being reduced to dependent need, with no training or thought to producing anything for themselves.
NOTHING is balanced right now. EVERYTHING has gotten worse. Society is crumbling and here's the kicker. The time will come when delusions, overmastering delusions will bring praise and cheers of peace and safety, all is okay, and then, sudden destruction will come like a woman gone into labor and that's it. Game over. The lost, lost and the saved, saved.
Welcome to the death of a blind planet. The time is coming when, even those who see will end up blinded by things devised to secure them in the traps of rebellion against God. If possible, even the very elect will be deceived if they will not establish themselves in present truth. I use that verse as an example:
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
In the King James version, and others, "it were" is in italics, meaning the words are not in the original manuscripts and the translators want the reader to know that. They believe the words are implied. Take them out and the instruction and warning from Christ absolutely changes. "It were" means, not possible. If possible means false Christs, false prophets showing signs and wonders, if possible will do whatever they can to deceive God's people. No holds barred. No stones of deceit unturned. If they can deceive, they will deceive. The only protection is in a Thus saith the Lord that you study out yourself, comparing Scripture with Scripture, allowing the Bible to interpret itself. Ah, well, that sounds like work. I think I'll pass. I trust my pastor or priest to tell me the truth. I trust my doctor, my congressman, the president, ad infinitum. That is NOT the path taken by early believers:
Acts 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming there went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
They did not just accept what the apostle Paul and Silas told them. They checked it out for themselves! They placed it all against the testimony of Scripture for themselves. They trusted the Word of God, not the one bringing it to them. THAT is called "noble." The noble Bereans. Would that all professed believers were so noble, today. They are not. And that which exists, exists because they are not, in this professed Christian nation being led down the path to destruction, disregarding all voices of warning in the process.
Hang on to God, through His Word, my friend. Everything else is going to eventually collapse into heaps of man-made rubble and dust: the final testimony of a race that refused to see, and were irrevocably blind.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Bible speaks quite a bit about blindness. Much is stated about physical blindness but, the things stated about intellectual or spiritual blindness is where we come face to face with the real dangers of being "blind."
Here are eight passages from both Old and New Testaments. They concern leaders, clergy, the Jewish nation, and just everyday people who were and are blind to the reality of human need: salvation from sin, and help with being what we are - fallen human beings.
Isa 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isa 56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
2Cor 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2Cor 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Cor 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2Cor 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
The 23rd chapter of Mathew is a complete denunciation by Christ of the entire religious system of the blinded leaders in Israel, and much of that could easily be placed upon spiritual Israel; the churches and professed believers of our day. Christ rebuked the blindness in no uncertain terms. The blindness made everything corrupt.
There are sermons in every one of those passages. We all find ourselves in categories of blindness far too often in life. Those who make decisions to see, shall. Guide will guide us into all truth, if that is what we want and seek.
It is entirely possible you have just looked at those passages and have no understanding of what you just read. Why? Because spiritual things are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2:14. We need a change of mind, a change of thought, thinking and reasoning to understand even the plainest language and statements in the Bible. I would see it on the faces of people attending seminars. Point blank information and it would just go right by them. They could read easily enough. They could not see. That is why being born again is not an option. It is a must; "you must be born again," John 3:7
The number of humans blinded to the reality of the Covid pandemic is astounding. Literal reams and stacks of discoveries and documentation concerning the drug companies, politicians, control freaks, an entire cabal, going back decades exist. How can anyone NOT realize what has and is taking place?
The continued trust citizens place upon elected civil servants shown to be liars; just instigators of unrest because of falsehoods, or attempting to completely control them with the same, is a sad and nationally significant harbinger of things to come. And now, we are discovering another symptom and adverse reaction to the injections: physical blindness:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-04-28-many-people-fully-vaccinated-covid-going-blind.html
The number of people who believe whatever spokesmen for government tell them is shocking. Elected civil servants are either incredibly stupid or know exactly what they are doing in destroying the value of the dollar and the U.S. economy. America is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine while our own economy is tanking. Stupidity? Maybe. Evil? Definitely.
Just getting into drum shells and manufacturer ultra-hype about them has shown me how dense people are to simple, empirical truth. One commenter even thanked me for applying critical thinking to the subject. Critical thinking is the application of evidence in making decisions: any and all decisions requiring processing of information. Many simply do not want to process information to make judgments.
Mental or spiritual blindness is growing worse in this world. I often quote Isaiah, "...darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people."
2Pet 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pet 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pet 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
"Established," in English, means begun and maintained by consistent endeavor, policy and/or principles. Many things of the "establishment" are wrong, regardless of how long things have been an acceptable part of governed society. Lockdowns were wrong right from the beginning. You do not quarantine healthy animals. You quarantine the sick. Shutting down the world was not a response to Covid. It was a preplanned exercise in human population control, including the violation of national constitutions. The rule of law meant nothing to the controllers, nor does the current crop of problems we see: out of control inflation, coming food shortages including the destruction of processing plants and storage facilities all over America. Coincidence? Nonsense. Ignored national borders and illegal immigration and infiltration, rising crime, civil unrest, scandals, corruption, and adverse reactions and deaths associated with the injections. None of this means anything to those who do not value life, who revel in the profits and stratagems of war, who even hate and go out of their way to persecute those who oppose them, especially professed Christians and Conservatives.
The Greek word translated 'established,' 'sterizo,' means to set something fast, to turn resolutely, to render constant or confirm one's mind. "Make up your mind."
The prophet Elijah once asked the confused people of the kingdom, How long will you hop between two opinions? Back and forth. Back and forth. If Jehovah is God, follow Him. If Baal, then follow him but, make up your mind! The people stood silent. They could say nothing, for Elijah spoke the truth. They were not established in the truth of the Lord. They were blown about by winds of whatever sounded good at whatever time, by whoever sounded the best to their carnal, blinded minds.
It is no different today. People follow charismatic leaders. Frankly, there is zilch that is charismatic about Joe Biden. He is obviously mentally debilitated, getting worse by the week, is just a pawn for the Obama cabal, and his choice for VP is one of the least likeable people in all of politics. They all lie like they breathe. The only possible way Biden is in the White House is because his party and non-American entities put him there by criminal actions and a stolen election.
A new documentary is being released: "2000 mules." It's an expose' on the all the facts and avenues of how the 2020 election was a stolen one; a criminal action. Will it make a difference? No. Even if the vast majority see the truth and demand action to make things right, it won't be. The controllers know who has the power. Them. Those who believe Biden won the election fairly will not be convinced otherwise. They have swallowed the Kool-Aid. They have made decisions that have seared their conscience with a hot iron of blindness.
Those who are blinded by ignorance and those who are blinded by power and quest for absolute control are leading the entire army of ignorance over a cliff and the fault will lie at their own door.
Why are people so blind? "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." It's all choices. Choosing what seem the safest, most convenient roads; living by preference and policy, not conviction and principle. Not thinking critically, according to evidence, and according to an unwavering authoritative source of information. Nobody has to be mentally and spiritually blind. People choose to be, because answers are there. Information is there. Truth is there, and few there be that find it because they refuse to search for it. They are now dependent on others for sustenance and knowledge. They refuse to think for themselves. They would rather have what they can have now, then work and wait for that which is fundamentally better for them and society. They do not care about debt. They only care of having what they want, now. The entire economic system is on the verge of intended collapse. The world is being reduced to dependent need, with no training or thought to producing anything for themselves.
NOTHING is balanced right now. EVERYTHING has gotten worse. Society is crumbling and here's the kicker. The time will come when delusions, overmastering delusions will bring praise and cheers of peace and safety, all is okay, and then, sudden destruction will come like a woman gone into labor and that's it. Game over. The lost, lost and the saved, saved.
Welcome to the death of a blind planet. The time is coming when, even those who see will end up blinded by things devised to secure them in the traps of rebellion against God. If possible, even the very elect will be deceived if they will not establish themselves in present truth. I use that verse as an example:
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
In the King James version, and others, "it were" is in italics, meaning the words are not in the original manuscripts and the translators want the reader to know that. They believe the words are implied. Take them out and the instruction and warning from Christ absolutely changes. "It were" means, not possible. If possible means false Christs, false prophets showing signs and wonders, if possible will do whatever they can to deceive God's people. No holds barred. No stones of deceit unturned. If they can deceive, they will deceive. The only protection is in a Thus saith the Lord that you study out yourself, comparing Scripture with Scripture, allowing the Bible to interpret itself. Ah, well, that sounds like work. I think I'll pass. I trust my pastor or priest to tell me the truth. I trust my doctor, my congressman, the president, ad infinitum. That is NOT the path taken by early believers:
Acts 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming there went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
They did not just accept what the apostle Paul and Silas told them. They checked it out for themselves! They placed it all against the testimony of Scripture for themselves. They trusted the Word of God, not the one bringing it to them. THAT is called "noble." The noble Bereans. Would that all professed believers were so noble, today. They are not. And that which exists, exists because they are not, in this professed Christian nation being led down the path to destruction, disregarding all voices of warning in the process.
Hang on to God, through His Word, my friend. Everything else is going to eventually collapse into heaps of man-made rubble and dust: the final testimony of a race that refused to see, and were irrevocably blind.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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They Don't Just Gamble in Las Vegas
And you want me to believe the "official" story of the Las Vegas shooting is true? Yeah, not.
Do not wonder why I am against "International Codes."
I only know what the article states about the organizations involved but, they have been "police stated" beyond belief. In America. 1984.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/charity-builds-dozens-of-tiny-homes-for-homeless-on-private-property-cops-govt-destroy-all-of-it/
How can men and women take the oaths they do and then just follow orders like this? The guy was right to shame them. But, this is now all around the nation. When I was a kid, and calling the police "pigs" was popular, I was against it. Cops were basically honorable. Today? Honestly, I see a uniform and wonder who lives underneath it.
If criminal enterprise owns and runs Las Vegas business, as is so often portrayed in media, it seems it also runs the city that never sleeps, itself.
This will go viral. What happens in Las Vegas is definitely not going to stay in Las Vegas.
It seems every day things tell me I am not living in the United States of America.
*Language warning*
Do not wonder why I am against "International Codes."
I only know what the article states about the organizations involved but, they have been "police stated" beyond belief. In America. 1984.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/charity-builds-dozens-of-tiny-homes-for-homeless-on-private-property-cops-govt-destroy-all-of-it/
How can men and women take the oaths they do and then just follow orders like this? The guy was right to shame them. But, this is now all around the nation. When I was a kid, and calling the police "pigs" was popular, I was against it. Cops were basically honorable. Today? Honestly, I see a uniform and wonder who lives underneath it.
If criminal enterprise owns and runs Las Vegas business, as is so often portrayed in media, it seems it also runs the city that never sleeps, itself.
This will go viral. What happens in Las Vegas is definitely not going to stay in Las Vegas.
It seems every day things tell me I am not living in the United States of America.
*Language warning*
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552. The Vatican and UFOs - May 1, 2022
Just something to bring to your attention, more of the same I have for quite awhile now.
It is my position that the Protestant, Historicist view of Bible prophecy is correct. In that position, the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church, its system of religion, the Vatican State, is 'antichrist:' putting itself 'in place of Christ.' It is the great Mother of apostasy portrayed in Rev. 17.
I was raised Catholic, became an atheist at a young age and when I became a Christian and learned the Historicist position I accepted it because it just made the most sense and offered the fullest explanation of all the prophecies in Daniel, Revelation, and those found in other books of the Bible; things I was wholly ignorant of growing up in the church. That was 43 years ago and that position continues to make the most sense.
I have also written quite a bit on the UFO phenomena and how Satan is and will use it for a big dog and pony show of deceit and delusion, and it will somehow involve the Vatican; whatever Pontiff sits in their chair of Peter. That belief has been reinforced numerous times over the years but, more recently two documentaries have mentioned things more specifically.
I am no UFOlogist but, my belief takes me back to the first year of my Christian conversion, the summer of 1979 and a two guests on the Mike Douglas Show; a claimed abductee and the author relating her experience. I've written about that, as well. Their testimony that program was like an enormous neon sign of what would develop.
Many documentaries have been made about UFOs and one will often hear comments about God and Jesus Christ in them, generally as either being part of the "universal flow of life and ascended masters" or something of that nature, or just out and out fabrications that are actually just ET, themselves.
Ancient artworks, paintings, depict what seem to be crafts in the backgrounds of scenes depicting Christ crucified or laboring for the people, or paintings of Mary, His mother, or other Catholic "saints." Many websites show them. They remain anomalies and more and more such depictions are being found in works of art centuries old.
In the cases notated at the moment, two quick comments, with real clandestine, behind closed doors discussions are related to.
The first, in 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind,' a doc put together by Dr. Steven Greer, attorney Daniel Sheehan is interviewed and if you watch it between 16-19 minutes in, Sheehan implicates communication with the Vatican about preparing mankind for "ET."
I don't have accounts with any streaming services but, I did find a viewing of the film at this site:
https://soap2day.ac/MczozMToiOTcxNHx8MjMuMjM2Ljg4LjI1Mnx8MTY1MTM0MTY1MiI7.html
The second, a new documentary by the Cousins brothers, of the 'Third Phase of Moon' YT channel, entitled 'Above Top Secret,' apparently streaming at #1 on Amazon, this time in an interview with Greer, he quickly mentions the Jesuits involved in technology that invokes the UFO scenario. In the Third Phase video on their channel, some clips of the film are shown at the end, and around 15:30 - 16:30 minutes in, Greer mentions the Jesuits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K221NR6whjE
Why is the RCC, the Vatican, and the Jesuit Order being mentioned in documentaries about UFOs and contact with ET?
Call me crazy; I'm just coming upon far too much consistent information that leads me to believe Lucifer's seat, his earthly office of power, as it states in Rev. 13, is Rome, is the RCC, is the Vatican, and through the Papacy the final deceptions will come, and much of that will involve the entrance of "extra-terrestrials" into the human experience. Don't forget, angels are extra-terrestrials, both sides: the fallen and loyal among angelic hosts. Satan's use of his armies of darkness in coming events will be as broad and wide as he can make it. In war, there comes the point where everything that can be thrown at the enemy is and the war between light and darkness, Christ and Lucifer will be no different. God wins, regardless but, for Satan, the issue is taking down as much of humanity as he can, in his hatred of God and Christ, and truth.
Regardless of the truth of UFOs in any sense, in regards to any research, the subject, now seen as something the governments of the world are releasing information about, is a regular section of evening newscasts, as more and more things are seen and recorded by the owners of the billions of cell phones out there. As most in UFOlogy will honestly state, 90% of sightings have explanations. It's the 10% that retains enigma and keeps the subject alive and well throughout the world. Having seen UFOs myself, twice, in so many cases those who see them know what they saw; they just don't know what it was which they saw. In other cases it's obvious as a train wreck. It would be one thing if hundreds have seen them and sightings were very rare. Even if tens of thousands were seen over the last eight decades. Sightings have reached into the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions now. Dozens of YT channels show new sightings on a weekly, if not daily basis. This subject grows larger by the year. It's not going away.
Having Stew Peters and Dr. Bryan Ardis mentioning the Jesuits recently, as well, adds to the overall impact of Rome's influence in the unfolding of world events.
This is all quite interesting because the UFO community basically believes all religion is man-made and all of it is a big nothing-burger, yet prophecy predicts religion will become an enormous influence on Earth again, far more invested in world events than anything seen in the past, beyond the early church's influence after Christ's time on Earth. The Bible predicts the rise of two revivals; one false and one true. The world will be gripped by them. Scriptures predictions of just two basic sides drawing apart will take place. Jesus called them sheep and goats, and in Revelation - Mother and her daughters and the kings of the Earth, against the 'remnant, 'that which remains' of the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3), those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ.
It may seem repetitious but, I'll keep posting developments as I see them because the cars of information makes a whole train.
All I can do is say, Watch. It will come. Nothing can stop it. God has told us the end from the beginning. His Word is faithful and true, the Bible interprets itself, prophecy is history in advance, and all things shall come to pass.
The mocking, the castigating, the denunciations are there and will continue but, the day will come when mouths are stopped, jaws will drop, and the final displays of the supernatural shall be beyond anything the world has seen.
"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thes. 2:7-12
Time is in God's hands. All things in due time. All things at the right time. That time is approaching.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It is my position that the Protestant, Historicist view of Bible prophecy is correct. In that position, the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church, its system of religion, the Vatican State, is 'antichrist:' putting itself 'in place of Christ.' It is the great Mother of apostasy portrayed in Rev. 17.
I was raised Catholic, became an atheist at a young age and when I became a Christian and learned the Historicist position I accepted it because it just made the most sense and offered the fullest explanation of all the prophecies in Daniel, Revelation, and those found in other books of the Bible; things I was wholly ignorant of growing up in the church. That was 43 years ago and that position continues to make the most sense.
I have also written quite a bit on the UFO phenomena and how Satan is and will use it for a big dog and pony show of deceit and delusion, and it will somehow involve the Vatican; whatever Pontiff sits in their chair of Peter. That belief has been reinforced numerous times over the years but, more recently two documentaries have mentioned things more specifically.
I am no UFOlogist but, my belief takes me back to the first year of my Christian conversion, the summer of 1979 and a two guests on the Mike Douglas Show; a claimed abductee and the author relating her experience. I've written about that, as well. Their testimony that program was like an enormous neon sign of what would develop.
Many documentaries have been made about UFOs and one will often hear comments about God and Jesus Christ in them, generally as either being part of the "universal flow of life and ascended masters" or something of that nature, or just out and out fabrications that are actually just ET, themselves.
Ancient artworks, paintings, depict what seem to be crafts in the backgrounds of scenes depicting Christ crucified or laboring for the people, or paintings of Mary, His mother, or other Catholic "saints." Many websites show them. They remain anomalies and more and more such depictions are being found in works of art centuries old.
In the cases notated at the moment, two quick comments, with real clandestine, behind closed doors discussions are related to.
The first, in 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind,' a doc put together by Dr. Steven Greer, attorney Daniel Sheehan is interviewed and if you watch it between 16-19 minutes in, Sheehan implicates communication with the Vatican about preparing mankind for "ET."
I don't have accounts with any streaming services but, I did find a viewing of the film at this site:
https://soap2day.ac/MczozMToiOTcxNHx8MjMuMjM2Ljg4LjI1Mnx8MTY1MTM0MTY1MiI7.html
The second, a new documentary by the Cousins brothers, of the 'Third Phase of Moon' YT channel, entitled 'Above Top Secret,' apparently streaming at #1 on Amazon, this time in an interview with Greer, he quickly mentions the Jesuits involved in technology that invokes the UFO scenario. In the Third Phase video on their channel, some clips of the film are shown at the end, and around 15:30 - 16:30 minutes in, Greer mentions the Jesuits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K221NR6whjE
Why is the RCC, the Vatican, and the Jesuit Order being mentioned in documentaries about UFOs and contact with ET?
Call me crazy; I'm just coming upon far too much consistent information that leads me to believe Lucifer's seat, his earthly office of power, as it states in Rev. 13, is Rome, is the RCC, is the Vatican, and through the Papacy the final deceptions will come, and much of that will involve the entrance of "extra-terrestrials" into the human experience. Don't forget, angels are extra-terrestrials, both sides: the fallen and loyal among angelic hosts. Satan's use of his armies of darkness in coming events will be as broad and wide as he can make it. In war, there comes the point where everything that can be thrown at the enemy is and the war between light and darkness, Christ and Lucifer will be no different. God wins, regardless but, for Satan, the issue is taking down as much of humanity as he can, in his hatred of God and Christ, and truth.
Regardless of the truth of UFOs in any sense, in regards to any research, the subject, now seen as something the governments of the world are releasing information about, is a regular section of evening newscasts, as more and more things are seen and recorded by the owners of the billions of cell phones out there. As most in UFOlogy will honestly state, 90% of sightings have explanations. It's the 10% that retains enigma and keeps the subject alive and well throughout the world. Having seen UFOs myself, twice, in so many cases those who see them know what they saw; they just don't know what it was which they saw. In other cases it's obvious as a train wreck. It would be one thing if hundreds have seen them and sightings were very rare. Even if tens of thousands were seen over the last eight decades. Sightings have reached into the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions now. Dozens of YT channels show new sightings on a weekly, if not daily basis. This subject grows larger by the year. It's not going away.
Having Stew Peters and Dr. Bryan Ardis mentioning the Jesuits recently, as well, adds to the overall impact of Rome's influence in the unfolding of world events.
This is all quite interesting because the UFO community basically believes all religion is man-made and all of it is a big nothing-burger, yet prophecy predicts religion will become an enormous influence on Earth again, far more invested in world events than anything seen in the past, beyond the early church's influence after Christ's time on Earth. The Bible predicts the rise of two revivals; one false and one true. The world will be gripped by them. Scriptures predictions of just two basic sides drawing apart will take place. Jesus called them sheep and goats, and in Revelation - Mother and her daughters and the kings of the Earth, against the 'remnant, 'that which remains' of the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3), those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ.
It may seem repetitious but, I'll keep posting developments as I see them because the cars of information makes a whole train.
All I can do is say, Watch. It will come. Nothing can stop it. God has told us the end from the beginning. His Word is faithful and true, the Bible interprets itself, prophecy is history in advance, and all things shall come to pass.
The mocking, the castigating, the denunciations are there and will continue but, the day will come when mouths are stopped, jaws will drop, and the final displays of the supernatural shall be beyond anything the world has seen.
"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thes. 2:7-12
Time is in God's hands. All things in due time. All things at the right time. That time is approaching.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Disagree? Sue Them - May 2, 2022
A Word...
This is a simple "how come/why is it?" post.
I have spent a fair amount of time sharing the fact no one has a right not to be offended. You wouldn't think so, judging by the number of law suits being filed these days by offended people.
For all you citizens who believe you have a right not to be offended by what you see as misuse of pronouns, comments and positions about your sexual choices, anything said against your favorite people in life: be they politicians, actors/entertainers, sports figures, etc., and all those who get offended by any use of any term you deem to be sacred to some individual or group so you file lawsuits to destroy people you hate, by default, as you claim they all hate you, may I state this:
The most common curse in the Western Hemisphere, used by the vast majority of people living in it, any time you get upset or surprised or angry, is "Jesus Christ," or one or the other. When was the last time you saw a lawsuit filed against hundreds of millions of people, by professed Christians, offended by your illogical, crude, rude and hateful expression of your lack of any kind of rationale or common courtesy, when you don't even believe in Him; yet use His name or title for any reason you deem fit at the moment? If Christians filed lawsuits for everything they find offensive, court dockets would be crammed, jammed, and slammed for decades with no room for anything else. Using the Lord's name in vain is so common I have heard non-English speaking people use it, so influenced have they been by acutely ignorant citizens of this nation.
It is now a true statement that people will sue you for a word, literally.
Even your foolish sense of offense is offensive to reasoning, thinking people who know there's more to life than trying to force everybody to do things the way you wish everybody did. And yes, we all know professed Christians have been some of the worst offenders of that kind of attitude. They were either not true Christians or woefully misguided and they still exist. They were and are false Christians, owned and operated by forces of darkness with unconverted hearts and minds. We do not accept their perversions, or yours, nor your crybaby, woe is me narcissistic mind-sets and your avowed determination to plow anyone and everyone under who will not bend to your radical, offensive attitude and empty ploys. You are hypocrites, which is one of the most offensive things to God. You make it almost impossible for people to love you but, Christians do because Christ loves you. The Person you curse, the Person who died for you and desires you to have peace and salvation from your sins, loves you. His people do, as well, which is why they aren't lining up to force all of you to act civil and mind your own business, not theirs, literally.
One finds it curious Islam is decidedly against homosexuality and other societal abnormalities commonly understood as perversions but, you don't see anyone taking them to court. Why is that?
When we see humanity tripping over their own hate and waywardness, we feel sorry for them because there is coming an eventuality, an accounting, a placement before the Judge of all the Earth to answer for every thought, every word, and every action in life. Even if that fact were not so, it is still sad to see people so convinced they should be able to shout and scream and sue society into compliance. If every person on the planet acted as you desire, because you threatened them and forced them to, you have gained nothing and lost more than you realize but, you do not care, do you? You are of your father, the devil. He doesn't care, either. He knows he loses, no matter what angle he takes. He's lost already yet, force is his way. Force is his means but, at least he has enough imagination to use deception and delusion as well. You only know force and demand. There is no deception or delusion you can draw anyone into, who has reason and common sense.
That is the role of all radical Leftism. You cannot and will not leave people alone who disagree with you. You must castigate, marginalize, denounce and destroy them. Some baker, a photographer, a teacher, an athlete or coach, anyone and everyone who stands up to the wave of lunacy is an avowed enemy that must be shut down.
You will keep using the name of Christ as common foul discourse because you are the actual haters, not the rest of us. You are the ones who will not let it go and leave people alone. You are the ones who reject freedom and liberty for all, especially freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. You are as radical as militant Islamists blowing up the world and killing people in the name of their deity. If you could get away with it, you'd do it, wouldn't you? You would wipe the face of the Earth from anyone who rejects your conclusions of what life is about. I can let you go your way and curse at me all day long. I won't sue you. I'd seek a rational discussion with you. But, you are not rational. You are exploding inside with anger and hatred for anyone who disagrees with you. And now the headlines are saturated with your quest to go after the children, the youngest and most innocent members of society; and see to it they not be children anymore but, soldiers in your warped army of confused and angry rhetoric, hiding behind rainbows painted all over the place; the symbol of God's covenant with mankind. It's the biggest and most offensive hi-jacking of all time and you come right out and call it "pride." The Bible says pride goes before fall, for a reason. It's law. As much a law as gravity.
You are to be pitied. Just like hypocrites in professed Christianity and every other religion, just like common thieves and liars and murderers will be judged, so will you, some day, if you do not come to your senses and repent: turn from your hatred of people who disagree with you.
It's really something when people cast aside the Bible and the evidences of the existence and presence of God, the Creator and Sovereign of life because even if that was all just empty belief and man-made stuff (which does exist in professed Christianity), the Book has startling information in it; principles that address this subject in such vivid portrayal; which is why we believe the end of all things is approaching. Society has always had its varying sides and ways humanity sees things. To see everything morphing together into sides of what the Bible refers to as light and the side of darkness: definitive demarcation taking place as it is between the righteous and unrighteous, just adds to the believer's confidence the Book is true and its Author is real. And this is defined by what God calls righteousness and unrighteousness.
Force is from the Devil. "Authority" and force are not the same thing. Force is just power. Humans do not have the intelligence and foresight to use force. They misuse it constantly. Force is an emotional reaction. You hit me. I hit you back. Christ said turn the other cheek. That is principle. And Christians do it all the time. We state what we believe and the leave the results with an Almighty mind and understanding, so far beyond us it is incomprehensible. Rather than just say, I do not believe that, and set up ways to explain your beliefs, free to anyone who will listen, you attack those with negative views of your antagonism towards Christian values and standards and beliefs or, any values, standards or beliefs that stand against yours and your agenda.
Total degenerates can have power. That's what despots and tyrants are: filled with power madness. We see it all happening in front of us; the collapse of society. Christians expect persecution. Christians expect to be derided and scorned and rejected. It hurts, to be certain but, no one gets through life without pain, without inconveniences, without being rejected by someone, at some time. Everybody suffers in regards to things personal and private, as well as public. Christians though, true Christians, realize that humanity has been deceived by an active enemy. Therefore, since we have all been under that influence in life at some time, and those who break free are thankful for that freedom and liberty in Christ, we aren't trying to force anybody into our own peace and hopes. It cannot be done. Love does not force. Forcing someone to be free is an oxymoron.
Having written this many times on this site, I'll mention it again. No, I most definitively do not believe the Bible states God is going to burn and torture people forever in some place out there called "hell." That is not the fate of the lost and I am happy to sit down with anyone, anytime and discuss that from the Bible. I guarantee you, that false idea and ancient doctrine cannot thoroughly be proven from the totality of Scripture, cover to cover, and there have been plenty of theologians and authors who have put down the truth about that for centuries. Thank the Roman Catholic Church for that falsehood, borrowed from paganism, bequeathed to Mother's daughters; those churches who continue to teach her warped use of force to get people to believe. The Bible teaches, everywhere, that the lost will cease to exist because anything clutching to sin, become sin, is consumed by the righteousness, holiness and purity of God. God, the Father, will just be Himself and in His presence sin cannot exist. That is the physics of Deity. "Our God is a consuming fire," Heb. 12:29.
Parents have authority over their children. That does not give parents a right to abuse and physically harm their children and send them to emergency rooms when parents choose a path of power. The Bible says to train up a child: educate and guide and lead by Christlike example. Yes, we all fail at that but, that is the principle we strive for and aim to meet. Forcing a child to eat vegetables for nutrition or go to bed at an appropriate time for adequate rest, is not the same as forcing a cake maker to bake and top a food art with something his convictions are against by divine decree, through civil decree, because you feel everybody must accept you and your way of life. Big difference. But, you see, anger and hatred do not care about principle. They only care about policy and power.
The world will achieve its quest for power and control, and shouts of peace and safety will rise; they'll have it finally conquered but, then comes the discovery they have been duped by an enemy they were warned of. Too late then. Retribution cometh, and shall fall with authority and executive judgment humans cannot understand. They will experience it, though, to death. Like Father, the presence of the Son also destroys sin and those who cling to it. It is like nature, itself. We cannot look straight at the sun or risk eye damage. You cannot mix certain elements or risk fire or explosion. God loves us, all of us but, choosing the path of sin and rebellion risks consequences of both natural and supernatural result. When Christ returns in glory, and its supernatural effects, sinners will be destroyed by the brightness of his coming: the supernatural power of Divine presence, 2Thes. 1:7-10.
Yes, I write this in frustration of seeing society collapse in front of us; who realize what is happening and see the end is coming, and know people are going to choose sin and rebellion and be lost, when they could have chosen eternal life. There is eternal life or eternal death. With all the choices humanity makes every moment of every day, those two choices are really the only ones that truly count and mean something. All else is temporal.
Choose life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
This is a simple "how come/why is it?" post.
I have spent a fair amount of time sharing the fact no one has a right not to be offended. You wouldn't think so, judging by the number of law suits being filed these days by offended people.
For all you citizens who believe you have a right not to be offended by what you see as misuse of pronouns, comments and positions about your sexual choices, anything said against your favorite people in life: be they politicians, actors/entertainers, sports figures, etc., and all those who get offended by any use of any term you deem to be sacred to some individual or group so you file lawsuits to destroy people you hate, by default, as you claim they all hate you, may I state this:
The most common curse in the Western Hemisphere, used by the vast majority of people living in it, any time you get upset or surprised or angry, is "Jesus Christ," or one or the other. When was the last time you saw a lawsuit filed against hundreds of millions of people, by professed Christians, offended by your illogical, crude, rude and hateful expression of your lack of any kind of rationale or common courtesy, when you don't even believe in Him; yet use His name or title for any reason you deem fit at the moment? If Christians filed lawsuits for everything they find offensive, court dockets would be crammed, jammed, and slammed for decades with no room for anything else. Using the Lord's name in vain is so common I have heard non-English speaking people use it, so influenced have they been by acutely ignorant citizens of this nation.
It is now a true statement that people will sue you for a word, literally.
Even your foolish sense of offense is offensive to reasoning, thinking people who know there's more to life than trying to force everybody to do things the way you wish everybody did. And yes, we all know professed Christians have been some of the worst offenders of that kind of attitude. They were either not true Christians or woefully misguided and they still exist. They were and are false Christians, owned and operated by forces of darkness with unconverted hearts and minds. We do not accept their perversions, or yours, nor your crybaby, woe is me narcissistic mind-sets and your avowed determination to plow anyone and everyone under who will not bend to your radical, offensive attitude and empty ploys. You are hypocrites, which is one of the most offensive things to God. You make it almost impossible for people to love you but, Christians do because Christ loves you. The Person you curse, the Person who died for you and desires you to have peace and salvation from your sins, loves you. His people do, as well, which is why they aren't lining up to force all of you to act civil and mind your own business, not theirs, literally.
One finds it curious Islam is decidedly against homosexuality and other societal abnormalities commonly understood as perversions but, you don't see anyone taking them to court. Why is that?
When we see humanity tripping over their own hate and waywardness, we feel sorry for them because there is coming an eventuality, an accounting, a placement before the Judge of all the Earth to answer for every thought, every word, and every action in life. Even if that fact were not so, it is still sad to see people so convinced they should be able to shout and scream and sue society into compliance. If every person on the planet acted as you desire, because you threatened them and forced them to, you have gained nothing and lost more than you realize but, you do not care, do you? You are of your father, the devil. He doesn't care, either. He knows he loses, no matter what angle he takes. He's lost already yet, force is his way. Force is his means but, at least he has enough imagination to use deception and delusion as well. You only know force and demand. There is no deception or delusion you can draw anyone into, who has reason and common sense.
That is the role of all radical Leftism. You cannot and will not leave people alone who disagree with you. You must castigate, marginalize, denounce and destroy them. Some baker, a photographer, a teacher, an athlete or coach, anyone and everyone who stands up to the wave of lunacy is an avowed enemy that must be shut down.
You will keep using the name of Christ as common foul discourse because you are the actual haters, not the rest of us. You are the ones who will not let it go and leave people alone. You are the ones who reject freedom and liberty for all, especially freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. You are as radical as militant Islamists blowing up the world and killing people in the name of their deity. If you could get away with it, you'd do it, wouldn't you? You would wipe the face of the Earth from anyone who rejects your conclusions of what life is about. I can let you go your way and curse at me all day long. I won't sue you. I'd seek a rational discussion with you. But, you are not rational. You are exploding inside with anger and hatred for anyone who disagrees with you. And now the headlines are saturated with your quest to go after the children, the youngest and most innocent members of society; and see to it they not be children anymore but, soldiers in your warped army of confused and angry rhetoric, hiding behind rainbows painted all over the place; the symbol of God's covenant with mankind. It's the biggest and most offensive hi-jacking of all time and you come right out and call it "pride." The Bible says pride goes before fall, for a reason. It's law. As much a law as gravity.
You are to be pitied. Just like hypocrites in professed Christianity and every other religion, just like common thieves and liars and murderers will be judged, so will you, some day, if you do not come to your senses and repent: turn from your hatred of people who disagree with you.
It's really something when people cast aside the Bible and the evidences of the existence and presence of God, the Creator and Sovereign of life because even if that was all just empty belief and man-made stuff (which does exist in professed Christianity), the Book has startling information in it; principles that address this subject in such vivid portrayal; which is why we believe the end of all things is approaching. Society has always had its varying sides and ways humanity sees things. To see everything morphing together into sides of what the Bible refers to as light and the side of darkness: definitive demarcation taking place as it is between the righteous and unrighteous, just adds to the believer's confidence the Book is true and its Author is real. And this is defined by what God calls righteousness and unrighteousness.
Force is from the Devil. "Authority" and force are not the same thing. Force is just power. Humans do not have the intelligence and foresight to use force. They misuse it constantly. Force is an emotional reaction. You hit me. I hit you back. Christ said turn the other cheek. That is principle. And Christians do it all the time. We state what we believe and the leave the results with an Almighty mind and understanding, so far beyond us it is incomprehensible. Rather than just say, I do not believe that, and set up ways to explain your beliefs, free to anyone who will listen, you attack those with negative views of your antagonism towards Christian values and standards and beliefs or, any values, standards or beliefs that stand against yours and your agenda.
Total degenerates can have power. That's what despots and tyrants are: filled with power madness. We see it all happening in front of us; the collapse of society. Christians expect persecution. Christians expect to be derided and scorned and rejected. It hurts, to be certain but, no one gets through life without pain, without inconveniences, without being rejected by someone, at some time. Everybody suffers in regards to things personal and private, as well as public. Christians though, true Christians, realize that humanity has been deceived by an active enemy. Therefore, since we have all been under that influence in life at some time, and those who break free are thankful for that freedom and liberty in Christ, we aren't trying to force anybody into our own peace and hopes. It cannot be done. Love does not force. Forcing someone to be free is an oxymoron.
Having written this many times on this site, I'll mention it again. No, I most definitively do not believe the Bible states God is going to burn and torture people forever in some place out there called "hell." That is not the fate of the lost and I am happy to sit down with anyone, anytime and discuss that from the Bible. I guarantee you, that false idea and ancient doctrine cannot thoroughly be proven from the totality of Scripture, cover to cover, and there have been plenty of theologians and authors who have put down the truth about that for centuries. Thank the Roman Catholic Church for that falsehood, borrowed from paganism, bequeathed to Mother's daughters; those churches who continue to teach her warped use of force to get people to believe. The Bible teaches, everywhere, that the lost will cease to exist because anything clutching to sin, become sin, is consumed by the righteousness, holiness and purity of God. God, the Father, will just be Himself and in His presence sin cannot exist. That is the physics of Deity. "Our God is a consuming fire," Heb. 12:29.
Parents have authority over their children. That does not give parents a right to abuse and physically harm their children and send them to emergency rooms when parents choose a path of power. The Bible says to train up a child: educate and guide and lead by Christlike example. Yes, we all fail at that but, that is the principle we strive for and aim to meet. Forcing a child to eat vegetables for nutrition or go to bed at an appropriate time for adequate rest, is not the same as forcing a cake maker to bake and top a food art with something his convictions are against by divine decree, through civil decree, because you feel everybody must accept you and your way of life. Big difference. But, you see, anger and hatred do not care about principle. They only care about policy and power.
The world will achieve its quest for power and control, and shouts of peace and safety will rise; they'll have it finally conquered but, then comes the discovery they have been duped by an enemy they were warned of. Too late then. Retribution cometh, and shall fall with authority and executive judgment humans cannot understand. They will experience it, though, to death. Like Father, the presence of the Son also destroys sin and those who cling to it. It is like nature, itself. We cannot look straight at the sun or risk eye damage. You cannot mix certain elements or risk fire or explosion. God loves us, all of us but, choosing the path of sin and rebellion risks consequences of both natural and supernatural result. When Christ returns in glory, and its supernatural effects, sinners will be destroyed by the brightness of his coming: the supernatural power of Divine presence, 2Thes. 1:7-10.
Yes, I write this in frustration of seeing society collapse in front of us; who realize what is happening and see the end is coming, and know people are going to choose sin and rebellion and be lost, when they could have chosen eternal life. There is eternal life or eternal death. With all the choices humanity makes every moment of every day, those two choices are really the only ones that truly count and mean something. All else is temporal.
Choose life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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554. Response to a UFO Video Presentation - May 3, 2022
I have been sharing things about the UFO subject for a couple years now. You know my position.
I received an email with a link to a pretty well done video about the UFOlogy subject from a Christian, biblical perspective. I say pretty well done because I saw some issues.
I relied to the emailer and shall post my reply here because I believe the video presents important information but, I must also share my comments because I am not endorsing the video 100%.
Some slight editing of my email reply has also been done. The link to the video is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DTyX_ZcrE
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I went to the guy's website. I believe it's an unfortunate mix of truth and some error, judging by video titles. I couldn't find out anything substantial about the person or group responsible.
Most of the video's premise is stuff I have believed and preached for 40 years. It is happening, has been but, reaching a climax.
He also uses clips from videos I believe I have sent you in the past, presentations by Steven Greer and others in UFOlogy. The Rosen/Von Braun section is from a Greer doc. Greer has been very outspoken that the "threat" aspect is false and will be used to usher in a final grip on humanity but, he also wholly believes in ET, communicates with them, denies the existence of God, etc., etc. so, he's just a part of the problem. He is pictured meditating at the end of the video.
#1. The universe is filled with intelligent creation. The Bible alludes to it in three ways, as I have shared. The sons of God, the 99, and whoever the redeemed reign over.
#2. Demonic deception can be overthought or overblown. Even the doc mentioned both American and Nazi craft. Today, corporations and government black budget projects have put tens of billions or more into craft R&D so, a good deal of what people see (like TR3B triangles) are of human origin. It may be argued forces of darkness are giving scientists in these projects their guidance. No one knows.
#3. The documentary reinforces my belief that the "soul" is a totally pagan concept that Satan has always used for nefarious purposes. Most of Christianity believes Platonism: the existence of ghostlike entities that can exist outside the body. The body is evil, a cage. The soul is good. That is Greek philosophy, not Hebrew thinking found in Scripture. Humans were created noble. A body is not a cage. It's a temple. A soul is a person, life, not something inside a person that gets out at death. Spiritually, metaphorically, the soul is the emotional makeup of a creature. We are spirit, soul and body. Intellectual ("be ye renewed by the spirit of your mind"), emotional and physical creatures. All three are to be sanctified, 1 Thes 5:23. We do not have ghosts living in us that get out at death. If Christians actually studied their Bibles and not just believe whatever they are told from pulpits, from generations of teachers who never bothered to study the subject out but, just believe whatever their forefathers taught them, the entire realm of the supernatural could never be used for deception. Spiritualism would be worthless to Lucifer. The dead are dead, not alive. Eternal life does not take place until resurrection at the second coming or at the end of the 1000 years, Rev. 20. The Bible refers to death, over and over and over as a sleep: a temporary cessation of life. Thankfully some believers down through the centuries have exposed the lies of Romanism bequeathed to her daughters who continue to teach her doctrines, borrowed from paganism. I was happy to see the truth presented in the doc, though it could have been much stronger because of its influence on humanity.
#4. Watching the couple interview the old guy; I believe they are SDAs. Maybe a 3ABN network program. The man is one of a few who left the cabal and speaks out about it. I'm guessing he's become an Adventist based on his statements about the soul. SDAs are one of the few bodies of believers that teach the truth about death and hell and correlating subjects. Another, I forget his name, left the cabal when he could no longer watch children being sacrificed. He claims the world is run by around 8500 people, all Luciferians. He didn't mention "ET" etc., in his testimony, though I believe it's obvious.
#5. It's unfortunate Lue Elizondo carries with him a lot of two-sided testimony. Many in UFOlogy no longer trust him. That said, what is demonic is, regardless of whoever told Lue what it is, and even to the point of other voices in world government stating the entire gig is going to be used to fake the second coming of Christ, which I know I sent you a link to for a video clip of, in a prior email. So, government testimony is pretty worthless on this subject. It cannot be trusted. It's all disinformation in one way, shape, or form.
#6. 1 Tim 4:1,2 should always be followed by verses 3-5 for they are context to showing the apostasy of the Roman church into the RCC, Papacy and Vatican: celibacy and unbiblical dietary laws (fish on Friday, calendar fasting days, Lent, etc.)
#7. Mark 13:22,23 should always be compared to Matt 24:24. "It were" is not in the original manuscript. In the KJV that is noted by placing the words in italics in both passages. The translators believed they are implied. Newer translations do not include "it were," correctly, and yet still, like the video presenter, make it seem the elect cannot be deceived. That is just plain wrong.
"If possible, I will get you to burn what you are cooking on the stove." That does not mean you cannot be made to burn what you're cooking. It means I will use every means available to distract you and only vigilance on your part will render food unburnt.
Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Mar 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
There is no reason for Christ to warn His disciples if they could not be deceived by neglect or rejection of warnings.
#8. He uses Rev. 16:13,14 to describe what is happening. Incorrectly used, because the verses are from the seven last plagues. We are not in the seven last plagues. The policy of deceptions can be related though.
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Dragon = Satan working through paganism, spiritism, new age, etc.
Beast = RCC, Papacy, Vatican.
False prophet = the Daughters of Romanism: apostate Protestantism practicing Mother's doctrines.
I instantly take it back to Demi Lovato's testimony in the video.
How do frogs catch their prey? With their tongues.
The video is very good, notwithstanding things I have notated here.
As I have shared with you for years now, this subject is not going away. To the contrary, it is building. I believe it will be used by the enemy of souls to work into a whole "angel of light" deception coming.
We will soon see.
Take care,
Ray
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UPDATE - A friend did a little research and found that the studio that produces Xendrius videos is 'Little Light Studios,' which has people involved who do identify as "Adventists" (Seventh-day Adventists).
I received an email with a link to a pretty well done video about the UFOlogy subject from a Christian, biblical perspective. I say pretty well done because I saw some issues.
I relied to the emailer and shall post my reply here because I believe the video presents important information but, I must also share my comments because I am not endorsing the video 100%.
Some slight editing of my email reply has also been done. The link to the video is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DTyX_ZcrE
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I went to the guy's website. I believe it's an unfortunate mix of truth and some error, judging by video titles. I couldn't find out anything substantial about the person or group responsible.
Most of the video's premise is stuff I have believed and preached for 40 years. It is happening, has been but, reaching a climax.
He also uses clips from videos I believe I have sent you in the past, presentations by Steven Greer and others in UFOlogy. The Rosen/Von Braun section is from a Greer doc. Greer has been very outspoken that the "threat" aspect is false and will be used to usher in a final grip on humanity but, he also wholly believes in ET, communicates with them, denies the existence of God, etc., etc. so, he's just a part of the problem. He is pictured meditating at the end of the video.
#1. The universe is filled with intelligent creation. The Bible alludes to it in three ways, as I have shared. The sons of God, the 99, and whoever the redeemed reign over.
#2. Demonic deception can be overthought or overblown. Even the doc mentioned both American and Nazi craft. Today, corporations and government black budget projects have put tens of billions or more into craft R&D so, a good deal of what people see (like TR3B triangles) are of human origin. It may be argued forces of darkness are giving scientists in these projects their guidance. No one knows.
#3. The documentary reinforces my belief that the "soul" is a totally pagan concept that Satan has always used for nefarious purposes. Most of Christianity believes Platonism: the existence of ghostlike entities that can exist outside the body. The body is evil, a cage. The soul is good. That is Greek philosophy, not Hebrew thinking found in Scripture. Humans were created noble. A body is not a cage. It's a temple. A soul is a person, life, not something inside a person that gets out at death. Spiritually, metaphorically, the soul is the emotional makeup of a creature. We are spirit, soul and body. Intellectual ("be ye renewed by the spirit of your mind"), emotional and physical creatures. All three are to be sanctified, 1 Thes 5:23. We do not have ghosts living in us that get out at death. If Christians actually studied their Bibles and not just believe whatever they are told from pulpits, from generations of teachers who never bothered to study the subject out but, just believe whatever their forefathers taught them, the entire realm of the supernatural could never be used for deception. Spiritualism would be worthless to Lucifer. The dead are dead, not alive. Eternal life does not take place until resurrection at the second coming or at the end of the 1000 years, Rev. 20. The Bible refers to death, over and over and over as a sleep: a temporary cessation of life. Thankfully some believers down through the centuries have exposed the lies of Romanism bequeathed to her daughters who continue to teach her doctrines, borrowed from paganism. I was happy to see the truth presented in the doc, though it could have been much stronger because of its influence on humanity.
#4. Watching the couple interview the old guy; I believe they are SDAs. Maybe a 3ABN network program. The man is one of a few who left the cabal and speaks out about it. I'm guessing he's become an Adventist based on his statements about the soul. SDAs are one of the few bodies of believers that teach the truth about death and hell and correlating subjects. Another, I forget his name, left the cabal when he could no longer watch children being sacrificed. He claims the world is run by around 8500 people, all Luciferians. He didn't mention "ET" etc., in his testimony, though I believe it's obvious.
#5. It's unfortunate Lue Elizondo carries with him a lot of two-sided testimony. Many in UFOlogy no longer trust him. That said, what is demonic is, regardless of whoever told Lue what it is, and even to the point of other voices in world government stating the entire gig is going to be used to fake the second coming of Christ, which I know I sent you a link to for a video clip of, in a prior email. So, government testimony is pretty worthless on this subject. It cannot be trusted. It's all disinformation in one way, shape, or form.
#6. 1 Tim 4:1,2 should always be followed by verses 3-5 for they are context to showing the apostasy of the Roman church into the RCC, Papacy and Vatican: celibacy and unbiblical dietary laws (fish on Friday, calendar fasting days, Lent, etc.)
#7. Mark 13:22,23 should always be compared to Matt 24:24. "It were" is not in the original manuscript. In the KJV that is noted by placing the words in italics in both passages. The translators believed they are implied. Newer translations do not include "it were," correctly, and yet still, like the video presenter, make it seem the elect cannot be deceived. That is just plain wrong.
"If possible, I will get you to burn what you are cooking on the stove." That does not mean you cannot be made to burn what you're cooking. It means I will use every means available to distract you and only vigilance on your part will render food unburnt.
Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Mar 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
There is no reason for Christ to warn His disciples if they could not be deceived by neglect or rejection of warnings.
#8. He uses Rev. 16:13,14 to describe what is happening. Incorrectly used, because the verses are from the seven last plagues. We are not in the seven last plagues. The policy of deceptions can be related though.
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Dragon = Satan working through paganism, spiritism, new age, etc.
Beast = RCC, Papacy, Vatican.
False prophet = the Daughters of Romanism: apostate Protestantism practicing Mother's doctrines.
I instantly take it back to Demi Lovato's testimony in the video.
How do frogs catch their prey? With their tongues.
The video is very good, notwithstanding things I have notated here.
As I have shared with you for years now, this subject is not going away. To the contrary, it is building. I believe it will be used by the enemy of souls to work into a whole "angel of light" deception coming.
We will soon see.
Take care,
Ray
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UPDATE - A friend did a little research and found that the studio that produces Xendrius videos is 'Little Light Studios,' which has people involved who do identify as "Adventists" (Seventh-day Adventists).
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The Explosion That is Damien Schmitt
I don't remember the first time I was exposed to the artistry of drumist, Damien Schmitt. Way before he was anywhere near as well known as he is today, and even now, he remains a player that, again, because he has no big discography to his name with a big name band, he remains unknown to many drummers, even though he has played with world-renowned musicians. Actually, he's an accomplished musician that plays other instruments, and is a composer, as well, with lots of studio talents at all the tech stuff.
Like Gergo Borlai, another player who's talent was in shadows for a long time, and despite being a working player since a very young age (Schmitt plays with a favorite of mine, violinist Jean Luc Ponty), at least the guy has been covered by Drummerworld but, that would be common sense, seeing Drummerworld hails from Europe and Schmitt is much more well-known there, like Borlai.
The drum festival circuit has opened up both their names and talents to the drumming world at large but, seriously, if you have never seen the explosive nature of Damien Schmitt, you have yet to see the height of drum technique in a solo or group play. I know I have written about him before on my blog but, his overall approach to the instrument is without lack. I used to believe there was almost nothing he could not play. Not anymore. His skills are among the best that have ever played the instrument, and honestly, better than many of the "elites." There is nothing he cannot do. He just gets better and better.
I once read a statement many, many years ago from flugelhorn player, Chuck Mangione, that Joe LaBarbera was an "intelligent drummer." It made an impression on me, and caused me to think a lot more about what I was doing. Damien seems the epitome of being an intelligent drummer. With all that he can do for the sake of "show," it seems there is nothing he does that does not have thought behind it; not just going with habits and routines. Yes, he has his "isms," his favorite, go-to moves, like every drummer that ever played the instrument but, he never seems to lack new touches to his solos and group playing. His "catalog" is vast.
His speed is among the fastest players out there: Borlai, Ronald Bruner Jr., Royster and the "Gospel Chops" players, Chambers, Cobham and Palmer in their younger days, and certainly Buddy in his, et al but, what sets him apart is his dexterity and coordination, his independence and his endurance is machine-like. It's a marvel to watch it all. And he does it all, all of it, like he's playing a game; just having fun, and doesn't break a sweat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGr4sGnvKuU
As serious as he is about what he does, he's always experimenting with new sounds and toys to play with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3PjuJP8X_A
You don't see him in many "drum battles." It has always been my belief that everyone has something to say with their own "voice" at the set but, reality can strike fear into most players and going up against Schmitt could be a very humbling experience but, in the video, two other players share the spot and you can see, they hold their own but, Damien always has that extra "purpose" to what he does. Even playing with total abandon, his precision is never lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOkQjeMGXU
Lots of videos on YT, as well as his website:
https://damienschmitt.fr/
I know there are players who like the most easy going, laid back drumming without complexity and that is what they love to hear and do, and that's cool. It takes an ocean to float all the boats but, if you are moved by technique and inventiveness, and just the sheer joy of watching someone play the instruments, and have never seen the explosion that is Damien Schmitt, you should.
Like Gergo Borlai, another player who's talent was in shadows for a long time, and despite being a working player since a very young age (Schmitt plays with a favorite of mine, violinist Jean Luc Ponty), at least the guy has been covered by Drummerworld but, that would be common sense, seeing Drummerworld hails from Europe and Schmitt is much more well-known there, like Borlai.
The drum festival circuit has opened up both their names and talents to the drumming world at large but, seriously, if you have never seen the explosive nature of Damien Schmitt, you have yet to see the height of drum technique in a solo or group play. I know I have written about him before on my blog but, his overall approach to the instrument is without lack. I used to believe there was almost nothing he could not play. Not anymore. His skills are among the best that have ever played the instrument, and honestly, better than many of the "elites." There is nothing he cannot do. He just gets better and better.
I once read a statement many, many years ago from flugelhorn player, Chuck Mangione, that Joe LaBarbera was an "intelligent drummer." It made an impression on me, and caused me to think a lot more about what I was doing. Damien seems the epitome of being an intelligent drummer. With all that he can do for the sake of "show," it seems there is nothing he does that does not have thought behind it; not just going with habits and routines. Yes, he has his "isms," his favorite, go-to moves, like every drummer that ever played the instrument but, he never seems to lack new touches to his solos and group playing. His "catalog" is vast.
His speed is among the fastest players out there: Borlai, Ronald Bruner Jr., Royster and the "Gospel Chops" players, Chambers, Cobham and Palmer in their younger days, and certainly Buddy in his, et al but, what sets him apart is his dexterity and coordination, his independence and his endurance is machine-like. It's a marvel to watch it all. And he does it all, all of it, like he's playing a game; just having fun, and doesn't break a sweat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGr4sGnvKuU
As serious as he is about what he does, he's always experimenting with new sounds and toys to play with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3PjuJP8X_A
You don't see him in many "drum battles." It has always been my belief that everyone has something to say with their own "voice" at the set but, reality can strike fear into most players and going up against Schmitt could be a very humbling experience but, in the video, two other players share the spot and you can see, they hold their own but, Damien always has that extra "purpose" to what he does. Even playing with total abandon, his precision is never lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOkQjeMGXU
Lots of videos on YT, as well as his website:
https://damienschmitt.fr/
I know there are players who like the most easy going, laid back drumming without complexity and that is what they love to hear and do, and that's cool. It takes an ocean to float all the boats but, if you are moved by technique and inventiveness, and just the sheer joy of watching someone play the instruments, and have never seen the explosion that is Damien Schmitt, you should.
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555. "All We Are Saying..." - May 7, 2022
"All we are saying, is rise up and give a diversity of tactics a chance."
Well, no, that's not what kids sang during the Vietnam War protests back when I was young. They sang "give peace a chance." Today, the "Ruth [Bader-Ginsberg)] Sent Us" group is calling for protests against the Supreme Court. Actually, the six Catholic justices on the court. That's what they state on the website:
"Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights. We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics."
https://www.ruthsent.us/
So far some Catholic churches have been vandalized. This blog is not about them, though. Leftism has always been void of the rule of law. It functions on lower influences that bypass the frontal lobes. Mob mentality always does that. It reacts before it thinks, or thinks how to react but, not to understand and communicate. Civilized people do that. Barbarians react and use force.
As everybody knows, abortion is murder. C'mon now, it is. You cannot get around that. It is NOT a woman's body. It is a second body, dependent on the woman, that is growing inside her. That's why pregnant women have been said to be "with child," for centuries.
Babies, right from the start, were it not for mechanics of design the Creator installed into the female system, would abort the new foreign invader right off the bat but, God put together a miraculous system of procedures that allow the baby to grow and develop. It is not a woman's body. It's another body. Killing it is murder. It's a person. We name them before they are born. Surgeries are performed on them before they are born. Inheritances are logged before they are born. Financial planning is made before they are born. We prepare for them before they are born. It is not just a bunch of cells. BTW, just how many cells is that, that abortion proponents are claiming a baby is? "It's just a mass of cells." Look it up. In just 13 weeks it's 3 billion, then 13 billion, then 38 billion just in the frontal lobes of its brain. Two trillion total cells at birth.
Leftists are literally talking, openly, about the mother and doctor deciding the fate of the child AFTER it is born. They are barbarians. What else could you call it? Barbaric. Killing a baby before it is out of the mother's internal care is bad enough. AFTER it is out and breathing on its own? In what civilized society is such a thing tolerated? Apparently the new American society, for Leftists.
As I said, that is not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is about people rising up against those rising up, and claiming to take America back. Sound like a civil war? Definitely a war of some kind. Culture war.
"Coach Dave Daubenmire: Christians have to reclaim the territory for Christ"
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-05-06-christians-should-reclaim-territory-for-christ.html
The coach was unknown to me.
"Coach Dave Daudenmire of Pass the Salt Ministries said that Christians have to reclaim the territory for the Lord Jesus Christ if they want to remove the dark forces in the land.
“And so what we do is we go to the boundary markers of these places — let’s say the Supreme Court of the United States, as an example — and go to the four corner boundaries of those and drive in the stakes, reclaiming that area for Jesus Christ. It’s all about reclaiming territory,” Daubenmire said during the May 2 episode of his “Pass the Salt” program on Brighteon.TV.
"The veteran high school football coach mentioned that he came across Steve Hemphill of Active Faith and talked about “staking,” which is putting or driving stakes into the ground and reclaiming territory that has been stolen by the enemy. He said that he drove Scripture-laden stakes in the ground at his home and declared that it is off limits to the forces of darkness."
My question is this. Where did Jesus teach such a thing? Where did He claim Christians must claim territory, vie for it, control it, operate it, run it... chapter and verse, please?
"Daubenmire pointed out that Christians are supposed to go and take authority over the territory in which they live by staking the four corners of their town or city.
"Daubenmire said that Christians need to take back spiritual authority over these high places. He added that Christians can reclaim the areas occupied by the enemy by going back and driving stakes in the ground and declaring that it belongs to the Lord."
"Spiritual authority" with physical stakes in the ground?
Christ said the kingdom is spiritual: it is in the believer: in the frontal lobes, in the change of thinking being born-again brings about. "Be ye renewed by the spirit of your mind." "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." "For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."
Phlp 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Those are just a few passages from the New Testament about thinking. In the KJV, in Revelation it states the seal of the living God goes in the forehead. The Mark of the Beast goes in the forehead and in the hand. Symbolic. Not on the head or hand - in. Big difference.
That principle is to actuate what Christians do. Nowhere does it state any nation is theirs by virtue of kingdom status. "My kingdom is not of this world," John 18:36.
"And we took the Ten Commandments and we laid them against the Georgia Guidestones. We got a huge cross and we put it above the Georgia Guidestones. We staked out the Georgia Guidestones, and we reclaimed. Remember, the Bible says, everywhere you set your foot, I’ve given it to you as an inheritance,” Daubenmire said."
An inheritance. When do people get an inheritance? When a testator dies. That cannot mean the death of Jesus. He rose from the dead. Who or what dies? The world. When this world bites the dust and that happens when Christ returns, then the redeemed receive their crowns of victory:
2Tim 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Christians are purposed with a task to proclaim the truth, to announce the kingdom is at hand, to be within us. It has no boundaries. There are no physical stakes to map it out and claim. This is the thinking of those who make Christ temporal; who make Him a King, just like they tried to do in John 18, and Jesus fled them and went into a mountain to pray for them and their ignorance.
Well, ignorance remains today and worse, it is prophetic. Force is not Christ's way without in this world. Satan is the god, the ruler of this world. That is point blank truth. It is not ours. We are to be in it, not of it. Heaven is our home. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for each of His disciples. Some day, 1,000 years from now, the New Jerusalem, heaven, shall descend and take up it's spot on Earth as the capital of the universe but, not today, not now, not in God's plan.
The time is coming when men will seek to kill God's people and think they are doing God service, John 16:2.
The difference between Leftists who want to use 'a diversity of tactics' to get their way, and professed Christians who want to stake out their territory, is zip. There is no difference. Both want their way. Both are moving from ignorance.
The second beast of Rev. 13 is America, as I showed. A false revival is coming, building, and when it arrives it will be a movement of falsehoods and false miracles and policies that are foreign to the principles of the teachings of Jesus. It will all be about Him, they will say but, He has already stated the facts. They cannot be ignored or neglected. They cannot be cast aside. Christ's kingdom is not of this world.
Preach the word! That is what the Bible states. Stand with the armor of God upon us, to repel all the flaming arrows of the devil, and plenty are coming now, from every direction, in all nations the ruler of this world controls. He will continue to control them until Christ returns, even in the name of Christ. He's a deceiver. The great murdering liar will make it seem Christ has come and deceive the whole world.
The reason America is in the condition it is today, is because Christians dropped the ball over a century and a half ago. Little by little the churches joined the culture. Today is the result of that backsliding. Taking it back with stakes? Seriously? Satan is afraid of some stakes in the ground. Please, do let us have common sense. Someone hammers a stake into the ground and says this is now Christ's territory and the Devil and his hosts say, "Uh, oh. I guess that's that. They put a stake in the ground. We need to back off."
People! If Joe Biden is laughing at Americans, you can KNOW that Lucifer is laughing way ahead of him. Biden's in the White House because professed Christians are not in the truth, and living it!
"2000 Mules" has been released. For some reason it apparently proves the election was stolen where other documentaries have not? We have known the election was stolen the week after it took place. How is it Dinesh D'Souza did not know it then? Now he does because of cell phone records? This is going to change the American landscape? No. Already the dozens of water carrying fact-checking sites run by loyal Democrats and radical Leftists are tearing it apart, piece by piece, and for most American Leftists, THAT is the gospel truth, not D'Souza's documentary, not truth, not facts, not logic, common sense and reason. Joe Biden got 81 million votes in the most fair and honest election in American history, while the non-president claims the MAGA movement is the most dangerous thing in American history! You cannot make this up!
'2000 Mules' gives Trump more stuff to talk about at his rallies. Do you know why Trump has yet to announce for 2024? I'll tell you what I think. I think he knows the next election this Autumn is to be no more honest and fair than the last one was. He is not going to announce, when he knows he can easily, technologically lose again to these rabid Leftists he helped bring death upon the masses by fast-tracking the development of these death serums, for a virus produced by radical lunatics in an American lab on to a Chinese lab for dispersal into the world, which is the Devil's!
Trump is most certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to Constitutional principle, nor biblical Christianity. He's a billionaire businessman. He doesn't like to lose. There is no character building in it for him. He is out there drawing enormous crowds to hear him speak, while Biden cannot draw even a handful of people to see him wherever he goes. And those who hear Trump speak are groups containing thousands and thousands of professed Christians raring to go and take America back with their stake driving.
This goes bad, biblically speaking. I've been saying civil war is coming and Leftists are obviously preparing to fire the first shots. Of course, they hate guns so, they'd be wiped out in a couple days in such a conflict but, not the military under the control of Leftists. If they can keep Americans in jail for a year and a half, lying about them, persecuting them, even torturing them, and the justice department does nothing to intervene, some stakes will not bother them, let alone the god of this world.
That said, "all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." People are going to be persecuted at the hands of professed believers in America and all throughout the world in what is coming. The false revival is coming, directly followed by a true revival and the final events will be rapid ones. You see, even rabid Leftists will not be able to cast aside what they shall see and hear when the false miracles, signs, wonders and delusions are falling all around them like fire from heaven.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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I want to update this and add something. Many believers look at the Old Testament and use various stories found there to back up the idea of taking the land. Many such stories of Israelite history are found there. Here is the huge difference. Israel was a theocracy. It was a nation specifically chosen and begun by God, in which He was its leader in charge with chosen subordinates and a priesthood of which the entire nation was asked to participate in its religious services. It's very daily existence was directed by the laws of God. Prophets regularly guided the nation. No such physical nation has existed since or will in this life.
The prophetic fall of Israel: its rejection of truth, the Messiah and His messengers revealed the nature of how far Israel departed from their Creator after centuries of apostasy. It's leaders, people, and false prophets brought the nation to doom in 33 and finally 70 A.D., as Daniel was told and Scripture predicted. Christ had already continued on with a body of believers; Jews then Gentiles, which literally went through the world like fire in a dry field: spiritual Israel. That is what exists today - No nation, no borders, no sanctuary, sacrifices or priests. All believers are considered a holy priesthood. Our Sacrifice, died once, for all, and as resurrected and ascended High Priest ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary for the sanctification and spiritual cleansing of His people. Literal Israel was, is no more, and no false, erroneous prophetic message placed upon the rejected, secular nation of Israel today means anything to the truth of the everlasting Gospel. Copying its commission, which they, themselves failed at when they had theocratic direction to complete, is foolhardy on the part of professed believers today. It is not just foolhardy, it is delusional and literally dangerous for them and the United States.
There is nothing so dangerous as political power in the hands of religious enthusiasts.
Some would instantly say, "Wait. Then current protestors towards Catholic Justices on the court are right." No, they are not. Again, abortion is not the remedy for a stomach ache. It is the death, the murder of another human being under crucial stages of development, and even fully developed, according to the inhumane, barbaric, fanatical beliefs of radical Leftists.
Those Justices siding with Constitutional and lawful directives for Life in and Liberty from the womb, are right. May they hold the line for truth and not shrink from their duty because of the threats of a literal mob of born humans with as much common sense and principle as the piles of brick they throw in their hateful, blinded tantrums. I pray they learn. I doubt they will. May God somehow help them to see.
Well, no, that's not what kids sang during the Vietnam War protests back when I was young. They sang "give peace a chance." Today, the "Ruth [Bader-Ginsberg)] Sent Us" group is calling for protests against the Supreme Court. Actually, the six Catholic justices on the court. That's what they state on the website:
"Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights. We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics."
https://www.ruthsent.us/
So far some Catholic churches have been vandalized. This blog is not about them, though. Leftism has always been void of the rule of law. It functions on lower influences that bypass the frontal lobes. Mob mentality always does that. It reacts before it thinks, or thinks how to react but, not to understand and communicate. Civilized people do that. Barbarians react and use force.
As everybody knows, abortion is murder. C'mon now, it is. You cannot get around that. It is NOT a woman's body. It is a second body, dependent on the woman, that is growing inside her. That's why pregnant women have been said to be "with child," for centuries.
Babies, right from the start, were it not for mechanics of design the Creator installed into the female system, would abort the new foreign invader right off the bat but, God put together a miraculous system of procedures that allow the baby to grow and develop. It is not a woman's body. It's another body. Killing it is murder. It's a person. We name them before they are born. Surgeries are performed on them before they are born. Inheritances are logged before they are born. Financial planning is made before they are born. We prepare for them before they are born. It is not just a bunch of cells. BTW, just how many cells is that, that abortion proponents are claiming a baby is? "It's just a mass of cells." Look it up. In just 13 weeks it's 3 billion, then 13 billion, then 38 billion just in the frontal lobes of its brain. Two trillion total cells at birth.
Leftists are literally talking, openly, about the mother and doctor deciding the fate of the child AFTER it is born. They are barbarians. What else could you call it? Barbaric. Killing a baby before it is out of the mother's internal care is bad enough. AFTER it is out and breathing on its own? In what civilized society is such a thing tolerated? Apparently the new American society, for Leftists.
As I said, that is not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is about people rising up against those rising up, and claiming to take America back. Sound like a civil war? Definitely a war of some kind. Culture war.
"Coach Dave Daubenmire: Christians have to reclaim the territory for Christ"
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-05-06-christians-should-reclaim-territory-for-christ.html
The coach was unknown to me.
"Coach Dave Daudenmire of Pass the Salt Ministries said that Christians have to reclaim the territory for the Lord Jesus Christ if they want to remove the dark forces in the land.
“And so what we do is we go to the boundary markers of these places — let’s say the Supreme Court of the United States, as an example — and go to the four corner boundaries of those and drive in the stakes, reclaiming that area for Jesus Christ. It’s all about reclaiming territory,” Daubenmire said during the May 2 episode of his “Pass the Salt” program on Brighteon.TV.
"The veteran high school football coach mentioned that he came across Steve Hemphill of Active Faith and talked about “staking,” which is putting or driving stakes into the ground and reclaiming territory that has been stolen by the enemy. He said that he drove Scripture-laden stakes in the ground at his home and declared that it is off limits to the forces of darkness."
My question is this. Where did Jesus teach such a thing? Where did He claim Christians must claim territory, vie for it, control it, operate it, run it... chapter and verse, please?
"Daubenmire pointed out that Christians are supposed to go and take authority over the territory in which they live by staking the four corners of their town or city.
"Daubenmire said that Christians need to take back spiritual authority over these high places. He added that Christians can reclaim the areas occupied by the enemy by going back and driving stakes in the ground and declaring that it belongs to the Lord."
"Spiritual authority" with physical stakes in the ground?
Christ said the kingdom is spiritual: it is in the believer: in the frontal lobes, in the change of thinking being born-again brings about. "Be ye renewed by the spirit of your mind." "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." "For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."
Phlp 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Those are just a few passages from the New Testament about thinking. In the KJV, in Revelation it states the seal of the living God goes in the forehead. The Mark of the Beast goes in the forehead and in the hand. Symbolic. Not on the head or hand - in. Big difference.
That principle is to actuate what Christians do. Nowhere does it state any nation is theirs by virtue of kingdom status. "My kingdom is not of this world," John 18:36.
"And we took the Ten Commandments and we laid them against the Georgia Guidestones. We got a huge cross and we put it above the Georgia Guidestones. We staked out the Georgia Guidestones, and we reclaimed. Remember, the Bible says, everywhere you set your foot, I’ve given it to you as an inheritance,” Daubenmire said."
An inheritance. When do people get an inheritance? When a testator dies. That cannot mean the death of Jesus. He rose from the dead. Who or what dies? The world. When this world bites the dust and that happens when Christ returns, then the redeemed receive their crowns of victory:
2Tim 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Christians are purposed with a task to proclaim the truth, to announce the kingdom is at hand, to be within us. It has no boundaries. There are no physical stakes to map it out and claim. This is the thinking of those who make Christ temporal; who make Him a King, just like they tried to do in John 18, and Jesus fled them and went into a mountain to pray for them and their ignorance.
Well, ignorance remains today and worse, it is prophetic. Force is not Christ's way without in this world. Satan is the god, the ruler of this world. That is point blank truth. It is not ours. We are to be in it, not of it. Heaven is our home. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for each of His disciples. Some day, 1,000 years from now, the New Jerusalem, heaven, shall descend and take up it's spot on Earth as the capital of the universe but, not today, not now, not in God's plan.
The time is coming when men will seek to kill God's people and think they are doing God service, John 16:2.
The difference between Leftists who want to use 'a diversity of tactics' to get their way, and professed Christians who want to stake out their territory, is zip. There is no difference. Both want their way. Both are moving from ignorance.
The second beast of Rev. 13 is America, as I showed. A false revival is coming, building, and when it arrives it will be a movement of falsehoods and false miracles and policies that are foreign to the principles of the teachings of Jesus. It will all be about Him, they will say but, He has already stated the facts. They cannot be ignored or neglected. They cannot be cast aside. Christ's kingdom is not of this world.
Preach the word! That is what the Bible states. Stand with the armor of God upon us, to repel all the flaming arrows of the devil, and plenty are coming now, from every direction, in all nations the ruler of this world controls. He will continue to control them until Christ returns, even in the name of Christ. He's a deceiver. The great murdering liar will make it seem Christ has come and deceive the whole world.
The reason America is in the condition it is today, is because Christians dropped the ball over a century and a half ago. Little by little the churches joined the culture. Today is the result of that backsliding. Taking it back with stakes? Seriously? Satan is afraid of some stakes in the ground. Please, do let us have common sense. Someone hammers a stake into the ground and says this is now Christ's territory and the Devil and his hosts say, "Uh, oh. I guess that's that. They put a stake in the ground. We need to back off."
People! If Joe Biden is laughing at Americans, you can KNOW that Lucifer is laughing way ahead of him. Biden's in the White House because professed Christians are not in the truth, and living it!
"2000 Mules" has been released. For some reason it apparently proves the election was stolen where other documentaries have not? We have known the election was stolen the week after it took place. How is it Dinesh D'Souza did not know it then? Now he does because of cell phone records? This is going to change the American landscape? No. Already the dozens of water carrying fact-checking sites run by loyal Democrats and radical Leftists are tearing it apart, piece by piece, and for most American Leftists, THAT is the gospel truth, not D'Souza's documentary, not truth, not facts, not logic, common sense and reason. Joe Biden got 81 million votes in the most fair and honest election in American history, while the non-president claims the MAGA movement is the most dangerous thing in American history! You cannot make this up!
'2000 Mules' gives Trump more stuff to talk about at his rallies. Do you know why Trump has yet to announce for 2024? I'll tell you what I think. I think he knows the next election this Autumn is to be no more honest and fair than the last one was. He is not going to announce, when he knows he can easily, technologically lose again to these rabid Leftists he helped bring death upon the masses by fast-tracking the development of these death serums, for a virus produced by radical lunatics in an American lab on to a Chinese lab for dispersal into the world, which is the Devil's!
Trump is most certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to Constitutional principle, nor biblical Christianity. He's a billionaire businessman. He doesn't like to lose. There is no character building in it for him. He is out there drawing enormous crowds to hear him speak, while Biden cannot draw even a handful of people to see him wherever he goes. And those who hear Trump speak are groups containing thousands and thousands of professed Christians raring to go and take America back with their stake driving.
This goes bad, biblically speaking. I've been saying civil war is coming and Leftists are obviously preparing to fire the first shots. Of course, they hate guns so, they'd be wiped out in a couple days in such a conflict but, not the military under the control of Leftists. If they can keep Americans in jail for a year and a half, lying about them, persecuting them, even torturing them, and the justice department does nothing to intervene, some stakes will not bother them, let alone the god of this world.
That said, "all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." People are going to be persecuted at the hands of professed believers in America and all throughout the world in what is coming. The false revival is coming, directly followed by a true revival and the final events will be rapid ones. You see, even rabid Leftists will not be able to cast aside what they shall see and hear when the false miracles, signs, wonders and delusions are falling all around them like fire from heaven.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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I want to update this and add something. Many believers look at the Old Testament and use various stories found there to back up the idea of taking the land. Many such stories of Israelite history are found there. Here is the huge difference. Israel was a theocracy. It was a nation specifically chosen and begun by God, in which He was its leader in charge with chosen subordinates and a priesthood of which the entire nation was asked to participate in its religious services. It's very daily existence was directed by the laws of God. Prophets regularly guided the nation. No such physical nation has existed since or will in this life.
The prophetic fall of Israel: its rejection of truth, the Messiah and His messengers revealed the nature of how far Israel departed from their Creator after centuries of apostasy. It's leaders, people, and false prophets brought the nation to doom in 33 and finally 70 A.D., as Daniel was told and Scripture predicted. Christ had already continued on with a body of believers; Jews then Gentiles, which literally went through the world like fire in a dry field: spiritual Israel. That is what exists today - No nation, no borders, no sanctuary, sacrifices or priests. All believers are considered a holy priesthood. Our Sacrifice, died once, for all, and as resurrected and ascended High Priest ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary for the sanctification and spiritual cleansing of His people. Literal Israel was, is no more, and no false, erroneous prophetic message placed upon the rejected, secular nation of Israel today means anything to the truth of the everlasting Gospel. Copying its commission, which they, themselves failed at when they had theocratic direction to complete, is foolhardy on the part of professed believers today. It is not just foolhardy, it is delusional and literally dangerous for them and the United States.
There is nothing so dangerous as political power in the hands of religious enthusiasts.
Some would instantly say, "Wait. Then current protestors towards Catholic Justices on the court are right." No, they are not. Again, abortion is not the remedy for a stomach ache. It is the death, the murder of another human being under crucial stages of development, and even fully developed, according to the inhumane, barbaric, fanatical beliefs of radical Leftists.
Those Justices siding with Constitutional and lawful directives for Life in and Liberty from the womb, are right. May they hold the line for truth and not shrink from their duty because of the threats of a literal mob of born humans with as much common sense and principle as the piles of brick they throw in their hateful, blinded tantrums. I pray they learn. I doubt they will. May God somehow help them to see.
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556. Just Some Thoughts - May 7, 2022
Where was the Garden of Eden? How about a logical thought? The Sahara Desert.
There are several interesting statement in the writings of E.G. White, in her volumes concerning the time of the Patriarchs. Here's one:
"The pure and lovely garden of Eden, from which our first parents were driven, remained until God purposed to destroy the earth by a flood. God had planted that garden, and especially blessed it; and in his wonderful providence he withdrew it from the earth, and will return it to the earth again, more gloriously adorned than before it was removed from the earth. God purposed to preserve a specimen of his perfect work of creation free from the curse wherewith he had cursed the earth." Spirit of Prophecy, Vol.1, 61.1, 1870
The Garden of Eden existed. Just like Adam and Eve, humanity's first parents existed, and today, scientific evidence points that out in the study of DNA. Anyway, this place of unsurpassed beauty, covering an unspecified area, was removed before God judged the Earth with the Deluge. Removed from where? Looking up the rivers mentioned in Genesis that flowed through Eden offers no help. The Flood changed the surface of the Earth. That includes the terrain where rivers flowed. Is it possible the Sahara Desert was Eden? Talk about a paradise being removed. Nothing but, layers of sand settled on the spot, larger than any desert on the planet. Science claims the area was once a lush paradise. Their reason for its demise is different, much like the poles once being lush as well, and changed by the dramatic forces brought on by the bursting of the planet's crust and 40 days of rainfall.
Science claims life began in Africa. Perhaps so, though not as Africa is today, nor by the means Evolutionary Materialism states. The existence of today's continents took place upon the rupturing forces of the Cataclysm.
Only Adam and Eve saw Eden from within. They will see it again some day, apparently more beautiful than it was to their fresh eyes when they lived in it. It certainly seems God just pulled up Eden by the roots and left behind nothing but sand beneath its fertile soils. Not possible, you say?
About that asteroid belt. Is it possible it is made up of chunks of Earth shout into space at the time of the Flood?
The Flood came about first by water beneath the surface of the planet. We have no idea how much water to land ration existed. We do know this:
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Seeing what a few heavy rainfalls have done here in Texas over the last several years I've lived here, the ponds created in all the yards of clay-based soils, the overflowing of water from reservoirs into parking lots, so deep, parks were closed for weeks. Rain upon rain upon rain and that was nothing compared to 40 straight days of heavy rainfall.
Still, it was the breaking of the fountains of the deep that contributed the most to the current condition of a salt water covered planet. Where did all that land go? How about shot into space with natural forces never seen since the Flood?
What are comets? Dirt and ice. Dirt and water shot into space, freezing in the cold of space, would make up comets, no? From there they travel under the constraints of the gravity of the planets.
We see the power of volcanoes and that is the limit of our understanding of the power of nature. The Flood was not just the power of nature. It was the supernatural judgment of the Creator of the universe upon the sins of mankind, so grievous, if he did not stop it, the Earth would have been lost to corruption. Not seen before then, nor seen since, it was an event that changed everything of our planet's cosmetics.
There are videos of the creation of islands from cooling lava thrown out by undersea volcanos. It's fascinating to see.
Recently we saw the undersea volcano eruption in Tonga. An estimated 18 megatons of energy was released. That is trite compared to what took place beneath Noah and his family when they sat in that container, protected by Divine aid with the remnants of life on Earth with them. The Flood story was not just true, it is mega-true. The Earth shows the distinct markings of its presence and impact and they are all over the globe. Do parts of that catastrophe continue to come back and shower us or circle through the solar system and eventually melt away from the effect of the sun upon them? Are they God's reminders that mankind has responsibilities and accountability to Him, and the day of a second judgment shall come - the end of the world?
The second coming of Christ shall be the antithesis of the first arrival of the Babe in Bethlehem. The mountains shall melt. That's what the Bible says. What kind of natural event could do such a thing? No natural event. A supernatural event, and that is what the second coming of Christ shall be: the event of all ages. It shall be a rescue event, a military onslaught, a spiritual and lawful judgement preceded by the upheaval of global plagues, including a final planetary earthquake and the fall of 150 pound hailstones. The end of the world, part 2. And that is not the full end. Part 3 comes 1000 years later. THEN the very full presence of God shall literally burn the planet away. Then God shall recreate it all over again, to the amazement and astonishment of the redeemed gathered behind the clear walls of Jasper, making up the gigantic city of God, over two hundred miles around, with 200' tall walls.
It's all beyond belief, isn't it? Not to those who have experienced Christ. THAT is the difference. Once you truly experience the presence and power of the Messiah, our Creator and recreator in the life, myths become fact, just like that. Even if science did not back them up, the believer knows it is all true because they have been changed, they have been impacted, not by natural things but, supernaturally: that which is far above the natural, outside it, and not controlled by it. The Creator intervenes and makes the life force of the Spirit real in the believer's existence: the mind, the spirit, the soul, the heart; call it what you will. The reality of being born-again is the thing that cannot be done away with by all the skeptics down through all the ages. It is real. I experienced it. Hundreds of millions, maybe billions have down through time and still are today. I see testimony of it all the time. God is still working, despite what it looks like in every direction. God is still recreating hearts and minds. When the final heart and mind is changed and no one else will receive the invitation to salvation from sin, God will close human probation and events will transpire that shall change everything, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Just some things to think about.
There are several interesting statement in the writings of E.G. White, in her volumes concerning the time of the Patriarchs. Here's one:
"The pure and lovely garden of Eden, from which our first parents were driven, remained until God purposed to destroy the earth by a flood. God had planted that garden, and especially blessed it; and in his wonderful providence he withdrew it from the earth, and will return it to the earth again, more gloriously adorned than before it was removed from the earth. God purposed to preserve a specimen of his perfect work of creation free from the curse wherewith he had cursed the earth." Spirit of Prophecy, Vol.1, 61.1, 1870
The Garden of Eden existed. Just like Adam and Eve, humanity's first parents existed, and today, scientific evidence points that out in the study of DNA. Anyway, this place of unsurpassed beauty, covering an unspecified area, was removed before God judged the Earth with the Deluge. Removed from where? Looking up the rivers mentioned in Genesis that flowed through Eden offers no help. The Flood changed the surface of the Earth. That includes the terrain where rivers flowed. Is it possible the Sahara Desert was Eden? Talk about a paradise being removed. Nothing but, layers of sand settled on the spot, larger than any desert on the planet. Science claims the area was once a lush paradise. Their reason for its demise is different, much like the poles once being lush as well, and changed by the dramatic forces brought on by the bursting of the planet's crust and 40 days of rainfall.
Science claims life began in Africa. Perhaps so, though not as Africa is today, nor by the means Evolutionary Materialism states. The existence of today's continents took place upon the rupturing forces of the Cataclysm.
Only Adam and Eve saw Eden from within. They will see it again some day, apparently more beautiful than it was to their fresh eyes when they lived in it. It certainly seems God just pulled up Eden by the roots and left behind nothing but sand beneath its fertile soils. Not possible, you say?
About that asteroid belt. Is it possible it is made up of chunks of Earth shout into space at the time of the Flood?
The Flood came about first by water beneath the surface of the planet. We have no idea how much water to land ration existed. We do know this:
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Seeing what a few heavy rainfalls have done here in Texas over the last several years I've lived here, the ponds created in all the yards of clay-based soils, the overflowing of water from reservoirs into parking lots, so deep, parks were closed for weeks. Rain upon rain upon rain and that was nothing compared to 40 straight days of heavy rainfall.
Still, it was the breaking of the fountains of the deep that contributed the most to the current condition of a salt water covered planet. Where did all that land go? How about shot into space with natural forces never seen since the Flood?
What are comets? Dirt and ice. Dirt and water shot into space, freezing in the cold of space, would make up comets, no? From there they travel under the constraints of the gravity of the planets.
We see the power of volcanoes and that is the limit of our understanding of the power of nature. The Flood was not just the power of nature. It was the supernatural judgment of the Creator of the universe upon the sins of mankind, so grievous, if he did not stop it, the Earth would have been lost to corruption. Not seen before then, nor seen since, it was an event that changed everything of our planet's cosmetics.
There are videos of the creation of islands from cooling lava thrown out by undersea volcanos. It's fascinating to see.
Recently we saw the undersea volcano eruption in Tonga. An estimated 18 megatons of energy was released. That is trite compared to what took place beneath Noah and his family when they sat in that container, protected by Divine aid with the remnants of life on Earth with them. The Flood story was not just true, it is mega-true. The Earth shows the distinct markings of its presence and impact and they are all over the globe. Do parts of that catastrophe continue to come back and shower us or circle through the solar system and eventually melt away from the effect of the sun upon them? Are they God's reminders that mankind has responsibilities and accountability to Him, and the day of a second judgment shall come - the end of the world?
The second coming of Christ shall be the antithesis of the first arrival of the Babe in Bethlehem. The mountains shall melt. That's what the Bible says. What kind of natural event could do such a thing? No natural event. A supernatural event, and that is what the second coming of Christ shall be: the event of all ages. It shall be a rescue event, a military onslaught, a spiritual and lawful judgement preceded by the upheaval of global plagues, including a final planetary earthquake and the fall of 150 pound hailstones. The end of the world, part 2. And that is not the full end. Part 3 comes 1000 years later. THEN the very full presence of God shall literally burn the planet away. Then God shall recreate it all over again, to the amazement and astonishment of the redeemed gathered behind the clear walls of Jasper, making up the gigantic city of God, over two hundred miles around, with 200' tall walls.
It's all beyond belief, isn't it? Not to those who have experienced Christ. THAT is the difference. Once you truly experience the presence and power of the Messiah, our Creator and recreator in the life, myths become fact, just like that. Even if science did not back them up, the believer knows it is all true because they have been changed, they have been impacted, not by natural things but, supernaturally: that which is far above the natural, outside it, and not controlled by it. The Creator intervenes and makes the life force of the Spirit real in the believer's existence: the mind, the spirit, the soul, the heart; call it what you will. The reality of being born-again is the thing that cannot be done away with by all the skeptics down through all the ages. It is real. I experienced it. Hundreds of millions, maybe billions have down through time and still are today. I see testimony of it all the time. God is still working, despite what it looks like in every direction. God is still recreating hearts and minds. When the final heart and mind is changed and no one else will receive the invitation to salvation from sin, God will close human probation and events will transpire that shall change everything, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Just some things to think about.
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557. Sagan/Tyson - May 7, 2022
A Carl Sagan quote -
“[Science] works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.”
This is a fascinating statement, taken from his work, Cosmos. Carl Sagan was once a hero of mine, in my young days as an atheist. His voice and speech patterns were easily recognizable, and his affable nature was such that he seemed just a regular guy, smart but, approachable.
All that changed when I was born again. But, take away the religious aspect of what he stated in his book, Cosmos.
Here's another:
"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I’m not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they’re called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation." Contact, pg. 162
From my current worldview and viewpoint, may I place some alternative notions before you?
“[Science] works. It is not perfect. - True
"It can be misused. - True
"It is only a tool. - True
"But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. - Opinion and completely false.
"It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. - False.
"Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.” - True
Sagan's statement about science being the best tool we have is his opinion, nothing more. If no science existed, mankind would be functioning with various tools and aids, and for many in current mankind, better than we are functioning today while we pollute the air, water, land and strip it of critical environments and life on and in it. Science created this mess, well, I'll stay with Sagan's argument: the misuse of science. At the very least, hypocrites mishandling it.
Science is supposed to be self-correcting. Is it? Obviously not, when textbooks today still contain information science showed was false a century ago. Sagan did not mention it in the quote but, maybe elsewhere? I don't know. The thing is, "science" has agendas: money and financial involvement, status and employment futures, cultural impact, and did I say money? Lots of money, in grants, book deals, teaching aspirations and positions, etc. True science does self-correct, and creationists have been more than happy to show that for a century, as well. Why hasn't science changed? It has, where it is convenient for those in charge. Where everything would change to the point of science and God, together? No, no. We cannot have that, even if the scientific community used to function that way, and evidence points in that direction. Everything must remain natural and material. Nothing supernatural can be allowed. THAT is opinion, as well. That is a man-made castle like any other and it functions with the same amount of faith as any religion on Earth, with hypocrites and charlatans and conmen, too.
Science is obviously not applicable to everything. If it was, there would be no debate about the existence of religion. Science cannot answer questions of morality. It cannot answer situations of ethics, which is why ethical problems exist in science! Only if scientists remain morally and ethically true can science have any impact for constant good. Otherwise, we have problems, like those associated with medical science right now, in the adverse reaction, death serums pumped by science! Then there's global cooling, warming, climate change. Proven faults and outright lies have been exposed in the science of climate change yet, not only does science not back off, it makes constant charges to change the entire world into a one-world order to protect the planet, while they conspire to kill its human inhabitants. I should trust these people and their science? I think not.
If science did not exist, morality would still be an issue and one must question why morality is an issue, at all, if everything began as cells in a chemical hot bath? What need has bacteria for morals? What need have creatures from the seas with morals? What need have creatures that ventured onto land with morals? What need have creatures that developed sophisticated language and writing and societies with morals? Well, even world-renowned atheist, Richard Dawkins is thankful for the impact of religion upon society, when it remains free from corruption. Take it away and what will science do to stop hordes from developing and ransacking everything in sight and by sheer power, taking control? It is the impress of morals upon humanity that makes life on Earth in bearable freedoms and liberties possible. Take it all away, leave science and what do you have? CHINA! Did Carl Sagan have any asperations to live in the USSR or Communist China or North Korea? What about despotic African or South American nations?
Sagan claims science contains no sacred truths. Au, Contraire!!! The most sacred truth of all current science is Darwinism, a premise so impossible to prove by today's scientific methods the only reason it exists is because it is a religion based on faith. He was not even original. Stuff he believed and wrote about was written by ancient Greeks centuries before Christ. Creationists with PhDs hanging all over the walls have picked it apart, based on the evidence of the scientific method, for decades now. Does the Sagan wing of science follow the path of evidence? No way. Their lives and beliefs are too sacred to change. They must defeat the enemy of Darwinism at all costs. Hypocrites.
All assumptions critically examined? Seriously? Blood cells and tissue discovered in fossilized bones, supposedly tens to hundreds of millions of years old? How is that possible, by the scientific method? It isn't? Does anyone see science changing? Nope. They just disregard the evidence or make up the most ridiculous stories... wait... stories? Yes, stories to encapsulate their sacred truth and religious faith in Naturalism from serious inspection and real scientific investigation.
Arguments from authority being worthless, is a joke. It has to be. The religion of "experts" rules the world. A parade of them is constantly conveyer-belted before the world on every news network, every day and night of the week. Experts. They can all disagree with each other, too, and all that confusion they breed is just part of Sagan's religion and the freedom to render assumptions until proven otherwise, and when they are proven false, new expert opinions arise, based on science? What science? Methodical, observable science or just numbers on blackboards? Or worse, nothing more than words out front of hidden agendas for population compliance and control. That situation, right now, in and of itself, which has split the scientific community, is reason enough to not trust science as the best tool humanity has to come up with answers to life's questions. Right now, the question of what is life, what is a baby, is everywhere. Scientists come in with a dramatic range of answers to that question and what can science do about some answers that are definitely in the morality range?
Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised? Yeah, it must but, it isn't. Things hang on like barnacles on an old boat. The very nature of dark matter and dark energy. NO PROOF of either exists. Just hypotheses. Someone claims, here it is! Nope. Can't be accepted. I have it! Nope, doesn't hold water. We have found it!!! Nope, wrong again. Yet dark matter and energy are written up in articles and books as though they are absolute, empirically proven facts!
The unexpected is sometimes true. Indeed! Just listen to testimonies from atheist scientists who discovered that truth and now believe in creation and a Creator.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson claims we are all star dust. Charming. Proof? None. Even if stars exploding can create other stars, where did the first stars come from? No explosions, sorry. No compression of gasses, sorry. Nowhere near enough gravity to compress it into anything that could start fusion. Matter of fact, where did the gasses come from? Nothing? A formula on a black board? How is that science? Even in mathematics. Where did that come from? Not the symbols. Man made the symbols to represent the numbers. How is it possible what they show came by accident?
Sagan had no leg to stand on if he maintained his own principles. Enough discoveries existed before he died to cause him to question his own beliefs. 1996 was not the dark ages.
"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I’m not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they’re called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation." Contact, pg. 162
Then why couldn't Carl Sagan explain prophecies that predicted events centuries, millennia before they took place? Major, world changing events that could not possibly be engineered by men to fulfill their prophetic placement in the scale of time to work with, and, in fact, were fulfilled by total unbelievers who could have cared less about them or even knew of them. We are talking about Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome here, and the continuation of Rome through the Papacy, as well as the most important nation in secular history, the United States of America, the most unique and singular nation ever to be devised and brought into fruition back in its day.
I do not function as a skeptic. I was one my whole young life and wasted a over a decade being a skeptic, if even that, when if any professed Christian believer just showed me what the Bible predicts and their fulfillments, my young life may have been completely different and far more fruitful.
Sorry but, telling me I cannot appeal to a source of authority that can tell the future centuries and millennia in advance is just illogical. I don't need any scientist guiding me with constant corrections, decade after decade, and these days, year after year, even month after month.
Sure there are contradictions between religions. Too bad Sagan did not understand the placement of physical and spiritual Babylon and world confusion into his studies. He put in its place science, scientism, which brought him, through millions who watched him or read his books, a great deal of success and satisfaction.
Carl Sagan denied being an atheist. One could not call him an agnostic, either. His belief was in the universe. The thing is, science begins with a simple premise: causality. Even if you could prove a "big bang" took place from the instant expansion of a compressed, dense dot of material, what caused the dot of material? Science has no answer, other than numbers on chalkboards. Well, today, dry erase marker boards. There is yet to be any truly, observable, repeatable, empirical scientific evidence for a Big Bang. It continues to remain full of holes and more and more scientists see them and question the validity of the hypotheses. Being the most prominent one, they wait for another and work with what they believe. THAT is faith in action. That is religion. Faith in the unseen, unknown, non-experienced. Truthfully, that is more faith than I have in God. I have experienced being born again, and seen the handiwork of God in my own life. I have that experience to base my beliefs on, plus, the accuracy of Bible prophecy. Is it all wrong? Sagan says it could be.
I certainly care about the truth. I take the time to post it here consistently, as I understand it. Carl Sagan may have been a nice guy, with a nice smile and nice families and life, based on his beliefs, though it's obvious he suffered problems in life, as well. It seemed he constantly tried to find some kind of balance between science and religion, a religion he could live with. The fact is, biblically speaking, he lead millions, hundreds of millions of people astray from the truth and in its place put man as god or just science as god, the wonders of the laws of physics and the universe as deity. He never wondered how such laws could come into being without a Master mind? He did. Yet, he became more determined to exhaust traditional deity from the thought process and possibilities of truth the older he got. He will have to stand before God some day and answer for that.
"Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws." Broca's Brain: Reflections of the Romance of Science, pg. 330, 1979. [The year I was born again]
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
At least I can show you where God portrayed Himself that way to Daniel in vision. I'm not about to challenge the teaching of Jesus:
Matt 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matt 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matt 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
He rejected 'inspiration and revelation' from his 'line of work.' He considered them hypotheses. Ironically, that are what drives scientific exploration every day, is it not?
The Bible states you can prove God's perfect will.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
That's a pretty high statement to make. I have, though. So have countless others that Carl Sagan did not influence. While he may have believed belief in the traditional aspects of the Christian religion were foolishness, let it be noticed God is concerned that we use our minds. Religion, true religion is not mindless drivel.
Back in 2011, on the Bill Maher program, guest Neil DeGrasse Tyson stated this:
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
I saw that quote in a creation presentation and it caused me some confusion, regardless of how arrogant I believe Tyson is in his dismissal of Christianity and religion, in general. Carl Sagan said science was a tool and it could be misused. Two well known scientists who apparently disagreed with each other over a major element of their own personal and collective lives - science.
As a carpenter/woodworker, using all kinds of tools, can I state that a table saw is true, whether or not I believe in it?
A router is true, whether or not I believe in it?
Sandpaper is true, whether or not I believe in it?
Hm, a ruler is true whether or not I believe in it. A ruler contains an accepted ranking of increments. If I do not accept the general ranking, standard or metric, it is only true to those who do accept it.
Science is not true or false. It is a tool. Science gets you to those aspects of subject matter. Science is a method. Conclusions are drawn from hypotheses through the scientific method. Having watched or heard or read 40 years of various Creationist and Intelligent Design films, programs, books and audio presentations, I am aware of hundreds and hundreds of objections, people far more intelligent than I am, have made about subjects Sagan believed, and apparently Tyson believes because, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, "[who is] the science," it's true, whether or not I believe in it. Too bad it has to correct itself so often.
Mm. No. Not a workable hypotheses for me. Everybody begins at a square 1. Everybody begins with a worldview. They may change it over time but, everyone is born, grows, learns things from some source and develops a parameter or set of them they go by and everything is seen through that worldview to determine truth, including scientists. I changed mine when I was exposed to Bible prophecy and was then manifestly changed by being born again. The same has happened to plenty of scientists faced with another paradigm to consider. In fact, the number of scientists that both practice science and believe in Deity is an enormous number. They just don't make issues of it because of what they have seen happen to anyone who does.
When I am asked if anything could change what I believe about creation, I say, No. I'm being honest. Nothing could be shown me which denies special creation and a Creator. I've seen the other side. Sagan says science works. That's fine. Declaring religion doesn't because you cannot scientifically prove it, is nonsense. That is my belief. It is a personal belief, based on a personal experience and personal study. Christianity is a personal connection to a Saviour from the power and penalty of sin. We can be recreated of heart and mind and often times, aspects of our physical body, as well. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are prisoners of hope. We develop patience and other essential traits of character through suffering in one way or another. None of it needs scientific validation. Our lives validate our beliefs. Nature, itself, all around us, validates our beliefs. It just depends on what colored glasses you wear.
I guess I wear glasses the color of blood red sacrificial salvation and the blue of God's character and promises and loyalty to His children.
Works for me.
“[Science] works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.”
This is a fascinating statement, taken from his work, Cosmos. Carl Sagan was once a hero of mine, in my young days as an atheist. His voice and speech patterns were easily recognizable, and his affable nature was such that he seemed just a regular guy, smart but, approachable.
All that changed when I was born again. But, take away the religious aspect of what he stated in his book, Cosmos.
Here's another:
"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I’m not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they’re called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation." Contact, pg. 162
From my current worldview and viewpoint, may I place some alternative notions before you?
“[Science] works. It is not perfect. - True
"It can be misused. - True
"It is only a tool. - True
"But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. - Opinion and completely false.
"It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. - False.
"Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.” - True
Sagan's statement about science being the best tool we have is his opinion, nothing more. If no science existed, mankind would be functioning with various tools and aids, and for many in current mankind, better than we are functioning today while we pollute the air, water, land and strip it of critical environments and life on and in it. Science created this mess, well, I'll stay with Sagan's argument: the misuse of science. At the very least, hypocrites mishandling it.
Science is supposed to be self-correcting. Is it? Obviously not, when textbooks today still contain information science showed was false a century ago. Sagan did not mention it in the quote but, maybe elsewhere? I don't know. The thing is, "science" has agendas: money and financial involvement, status and employment futures, cultural impact, and did I say money? Lots of money, in grants, book deals, teaching aspirations and positions, etc. True science does self-correct, and creationists have been more than happy to show that for a century, as well. Why hasn't science changed? It has, where it is convenient for those in charge. Where everything would change to the point of science and God, together? No, no. We cannot have that, even if the scientific community used to function that way, and evidence points in that direction. Everything must remain natural and material. Nothing supernatural can be allowed. THAT is opinion, as well. That is a man-made castle like any other and it functions with the same amount of faith as any religion on Earth, with hypocrites and charlatans and conmen, too.
Science is obviously not applicable to everything. If it was, there would be no debate about the existence of religion. Science cannot answer questions of morality. It cannot answer situations of ethics, which is why ethical problems exist in science! Only if scientists remain morally and ethically true can science have any impact for constant good. Otherwise, we have problems, like those associated with medical science right now, in the adverse reaction, death serums pumped by science! Then there's global cooling, warming, climate change. Proven faults and outright lies have been exposed in the science of climate change yet, not only does science not back off, it makes constant charges to change the entire world into a one-world order to protect the planet, while they conspire to kill its human inhabitants. I should trust these people and their science? I think not.
If science did not exist, morality would still be an issue and one must question why morality is an issue, at all, if everything began as cells in a chemical hot bath? What need has bacteria for morals? What need have creatures from the seas with morals? What need have creatures that ventured onto land with morals? What need have creatures that developed sophisticated language and writing and societies with morals? Well, even world-renowned atheist, Richard Dawkins is thankful for the impact of religion upon society, when it remains free from corruption. Take it away and what will science do to stop hordes from developing and ransacking everything in sight and by sheer power, taking control? It is the impress of morals upon humanity that makes life on Earth in bearable freedoms and liberties possible. Take it all away, leave science and what do you have? CHINA! Did Carl Sagan have any asperations to live in the USSR or Communist China or North Korea? What about despotic African or South American nations?
Sagan claims science contains no sacred truths. Au, Contraire!!! The most sacred truth of all current science is Darwinism, a premise so impossible to prove by today's scientific methods the only reason it exists is because it is a religion based on faith. He was not even original. Stuff he believed and wrote about was written by ancient Greeks centuries before Christ. Creationists with PhDs hanging all over the walls have picked it apart, based on the evidence of the scientific method, for decades now. Does the Sagan wing of science follow the path of evidence? No way. Their lives and beliefs are too sacred to change. They must defeat the enemy of Darwinism at all costs. Hypocrites.
All assumptions critically examined? Seriously? Blood cells and tissue discovered in fossilized bones, supposedly tens to hundreds of millions of years old? How is that possible, by the scientific method? It isn't? Does anyone see science changing? Nope. They just disregard the evidence or make up the most ridiculous stories... wait... stories? Yes, stories to encapsulate their sacred truth and religious faith in Naturalism from serious inspection and real scientific investigation.
Arguments from authority being worthless, is a joke. It has to be. The religion of "experts" rules the world. A parade of them is constantly conveyer-belted before the world on every news network, every day and night of the week. Experts. They can all disagree with each other, too, and all that confusion they breed is just part of Sagan's religion and the freedom to render assumptions until proven otherwise, and when they are proven false, new expert opinions arise, based on science? What science? Methodical, observable science or just numbers on blackboards? Or worse, nothing more than words out front of hidden agendas for population compliance and control. That situation, right now, in and of itself, which has split the scientific community, is reason enough to not trust science as the best tool humanity has to come up with answers to life's questions. Right now, the question of what is life, what is a baby, is everywhere. Scientists come in with a dramatic range of answers to that question and what can science do about some answers that are definitely in the morality range?
Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised? Yeah, it must but, it isn't. Things hang on like barnacles on an old boat. The very nature of dark matter and dark energy. NO PROOF of either exists. Just hypotheses. Someone claims, here it is! Nope. Can't be accepted. I have it! Nope, doesn't hold water. We have found it!!! Nope, wrong again. Yet dark matter and energy are written up in articles and books as though they are absolute, empirically proven facts!
The unexpected is sometimes true. Indeed! Just listen to testimonies from atheist scientists who discovered that truth and now believe in creation and a Creator.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson claims we are all star dust. Charming. Proof? None. Even if stars exploding can create other stars, where did the first stars come from? No explosions, sorry. No compression of gasses, sorry. Nowhere near enough gravity to compress it into anything that could start fusion. Matter of fact, where did the gasses come from? Nothing? A formula on a black board? How is that science? Even in mathematics. Where did that come from? Not the symbols. Man made the symbols to represent the numbers. How is it possible what they show came by accident?
Sagan had no leg to stand on if he maintained his own principles. Enough discoveries existed before he died to cause him to question his own beliefs. 1996 was not the dark ages.
"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I’m not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they’re called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation." Contact, pg. 162
Then why couldn't Carl Sagan explain prophecies that predicted events centuries, millennia before they took place? Major, world changing events that could not possibly be engineered by men to fulfill their prophetic placement in the scale of time to work with, and, in fact, were fulfilled by total unbelievers who could have cared less about them or even knew of them. We are talking about Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome here, and the continuation of Rome through the Papacy, as well as the most important nation in secular history, the United States of America, the most unique and singular nation ever to be devised and brought into fruition back in its day.
I do not function as a skeptic. I was one my whole young life and wasted a over a decade being a skeptic, if even that, when if any professed Christian believer just showed me what the Bible predicts and their fulfillments, my young life may have been completely different and far more fruitful.
Sorry but, telling me I cannot appeal to a source of authority that can tell the future centuries and millennia in advance is just illogical. I don't need any scientist guiding me with constant corrections, decade after decade, and these days, year after year, even month after month.
Sure there are contradictions between religions. Too bad Sagan did not understand the placement of physical and spiritual Babylon and world confusion into his studies. He put in its place science, scientism, which brought him, through millions who watched him or read his books, a great deal of success and satisfaction.
Carl Sagan denied being an atheist. One could not call him an agnostic, either. His belief was in the universe. The thing is, science begins with a simple premise: causality. Even if you could prove a "big bang" took place from the instant expansion of a compressed, dense dot of material, what caused the dot of material? Science has no answer, other than numbers on chalkboards. Well, today, dry erase marker boards. There is yet to be any truly, observable, repeatable, empirical scientific evidence for a Big Bang. It continues to remain full of holes and more and more scientists see them and question the validity of the hypotheses. Being the most prominent one, they wait for another and work with what they believe. THAT is faith in action. That is religion. Faith in the unseen, unknown, non-experienced. Truthfully, that is more faith than I have in God. I have experienced being born again, and seen the handiwork of God in my own life. I have that experience to base my beliefs on, plus, the accuracy of Bible prophecy. Is it all wrong? Sagan says it could be.
I certainly care about the truth. I take the time to post it here consistently, as I understand it. Carl Sagan may have been a nice guy, with a nice smile and nice families and life, based on his beliefs, though it's obvious he suffered problems in life, as well. It seemed he constantly tried to find some kind of balance between science and religion, a religion he could live with. The fact is, biblically speaking, he lead millions, hundreds of millions of people astray from the truth and in its place put man as god or just science as god, the wonders of the laws of physics and the universe as deity. He never wondered how such laws could come into being without a Master mind? He did. Yet, he became more determined to exhaust traditional deity from the thought process and possibilities of truth the older he got. He will have to stand before God some day and answer for that.
"Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws." Broca's Brain: Reflections of the Romance of Science, pg. 330, 1979. [The year I was born again]
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
At least I can show you where God portrayed Himself that way to Daniel in vision. I'm not about to challenge the teaching of Jesus:
Matt 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matt 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matt 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
He rejected 'inspiration and revelation' from his 'line of work.' He considered them hypotheses. Ironically, that are what drives scientific exploration every day, is it not?
The Bible states you can prove God's perfect will.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
That's a pretty high statement to make. I have, though. So have countless others that Carl Sagan did not influence. While he may have believed belief in the traditional aspects of the Christian religion were foolishness, let it be noticed God is concerned that we use our minds. Religion, true religion is not mindless drivel.
Back in 2011, on the Bill Maher program, guest Neil DeGrasse Tyson stated this:
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
I saw that quote in a creation presentation and it caused me some confusion, regardless of how arrogant I believe Tyson is in his dismissal of Christianity and religion, in general. Carl Sagan said science was a tool and it could be misused. Two well known scientists who apparently disagreed with each other over a major element of their own personal and collective lives - science.
As a carpenter/woodworker, using all kinds of tools, can I state that a table saw is true, whether or not I believe in it?
A router is true, whether or not I believe in it?
Sandpaper is true, whether or not I believe in it?
Hm, a ruler is true whether or not I believe in it. A ruler contains an accepted ranking of increments. If I do not accept the general ranking, standard or metric, it is only true to those who do accept it.
Science is not true or false. It is a tool. Science gets you to those aspects of subject matter. Science is a method. Conclusions are drawn from hypotheses through the scientific method. Having watched or heard or read 40 years of various Creationist and Intelligent Design films, programs, books and audio presentations, I am aware of hundreds and hundreds of objections, people far more intelligent than I am, have made about subjects Sagan believed, and apparently Tyson believes because, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, "[who is] the science," it's true, whether or not I believe in it. Too bad it has to correct itself so often.
Mm. No. Not a workable hypotheses for me. Everybody begins at a square 1. Everybody begins with a worldview. They may change it over time but, everyone is born, grows, learns things from some source and develops a parameter or set of them they go by and everything is seen through that worldview to determine truth, including scientists. I changed mine when I was exposed to Bible prophecy and was then manifestly changed by being born again. The same has happened to plenty of scientists faced with another paradigm to consider. In fact, the number of scientists that both practice science and believe in Deity is an enormous number. They just don't make issues of it because of what they have seen happen to anyone who does.
When I am asked if anything could change what I believe about creation, I say, No. I'm being honest. Nothing could be shown me which denies special creation and a Creator. I've seen the other side. Sagan says science works. That's fine. Declaring religion doesn't because you cannot scientifically prove it, is nonsense. That is my belief. It is a personal belief, based on a personal experience and personal study. Christianity is a personal connection to a Saviour from the power and penalty of sin. We can be recreated of heart and mind and often times, aspects of our physical body, as well. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are prisoners of hope. We develop patience and other essential traits of character through suffering in one way or another. None of it needs scientific validation. Our lives validate our beliefs. Nature, itself, all around us, validates our beliefs. It just depends on what colored glasses you wear.
I guess I wear glasses the color of blood red sacrificial salvation and the blue of God's character and promises and loyalty to His children.
Works for me.
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558. 2,000 Mules - May 8, 2022
I just finished watching the Dinesh D'Souza film, 2,000 Mules; an expose' on election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, as well as entanglements with other elections. Someone sent me a link to Rumble. I replied to him in a couple emails. They have been edited below.
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Having seen clips, I basically knew what to expect and yet, it was actually worse than I thought. D'Souza invites five, well-known political pundits to join him. I have asked myself how those five men, professed Constitutional, rule of law Conservatives, especially Dennis Prager, has not had the wherewithal to keep up with the massive amounts of evidence that began to come in one day after the election: all the videos, testimonies, investigation, research, and absolute resolve on the part of Democrats to shut down ANY discussion otherwise, joined by typical traitorous GOP leaders.
It is the same, was the same with Covid. Those who began speaking out in early 2021, professionals from all medical fields, were not accepted by those same 5 men, as far as I know, and plenty of others. They took a wait and see attitude. Because they waited so long to accommodate actual evidence, not "crumbs," as stated in the video, compiled by Gateway Pundit and other alt news outlets, as well as all the work of Mike Lindell (My Pillow), and obviously, from the outset, Trump himself, sharing detailed evidence, I feel those men have zip to tell me, including D'Souza.
The lack of courage and fortitude from so many, for so long - the time has passed. Deep state has control. The destruction of America is underway, even to the brink of nuclear war by a party that used to consistently talk down war, dread war, even cower from actual enemies. They hate America. They want to see it fall.
Up is down, black is white, wrong is right.
When one of the tag lines for the film was, Watching this will make you mad, or something like that, that is true, not because I know the election was a widespread, despicable, criminal activity but, because those do nothings who, at best, only raised questions when answers were exploding from every quarter of the nation, and even the world, as world leaders had the guts to come out and say the American election was a fraud, I am angry alright - at those cowards who let this all happen, and even those who were part of the plan. Yes, I am convinced some in the GOP, like McCarthy and McConnell, and others, knew it would take place and did take place. Their maniacal hatred of Trump is pathetic and traitorous. The film shows that from one whistleblower, though national names were not mentioned, just local GOP politicians and others.
Most of my life I have been told I move too fast and that is true. I don't leap before I look but, it is not in me to drag on stuff, anything in life. Those who moved slowly, if at all, on the election fraud, too late now. I would be shocked to see anything done, regardless of evidence, when SCOTUS has already made it plain they are not going to address this, for whatever reason or anvils hung over their heads.
In watching the video, just the opening few minutes made me feel betrayed because of cowardice, moving too slowly and waiting for someone else to do their job.
It does not matter that all five men are convinced when they state so by the film's end. The entire conservative movement's leaders had zilch for influence to keep Clinton and Obama from being elected, twice each, nor from addressing GOP traitors, like Bush, from doing all they have done to destroy the Republic. This all took place within the scope of 9/11. The election fraud is just another incident in a long line of total compliance with darkness since that time and before.
It's heartbreaking. It's reality.
Having seen the entire film, I believe it falls apart at the halfway point and becomes opinions from there on in.
D'Souza does a huge disservice to all the other aspects of investigation done by people just as professional and knowledgeable as True the Vote and Gregg Philipps; like Jovan Pulitzer, and people that worked with Mike Lindell, all the corruption with the machines and the manufacturers and interference from outside nations, as well as all the whistleblowers and the train of videos taken inside places that show criminal fraud in action. He does not mention any of that and leaves all that hard work and effort as basically meaningless, as though all of that was not enough to force law enforcement to do their jobs and get to the bottom of all of it well before Dinesh made his film. His is just one more piece. It not any more powerful a smoking gun that many other presentations. It just has more "Hollywood" in it.
To end it with the opinions and foresight of the five and only have Larry Elder state something must and will be done, and the another guy stating somewhere, someone with a conscience will start the ball rolling, was the most glaringly ignorant assessment I have seen in a long time. Tell the Dems what to say, acknowledge they will say it - they can see it all now - and throw up your hands that nothing will be done. That's what they did. They made the film meaningless in two minutes.
We, the people, have no voice in the matter. Those men supposedly do. They have microphones, radio, internet, book deals, interviews. The Democrat leadership will watch this film, yawn, laugh, and go back to business. Maybe Stacy Abrams pays a price. Maybe.
Nothing will happen because the corruption goes so much deeper than mules and non-profits sending them out. I knew members of the GOP knew this stuff happened. I would willingly guarantee McCarthy and McConnell know it. Systemic corruption is in place. One remedy is secession. More movements in states will go for that. Beyond that... the die is cast. Every election from here on in is meaningless.
Maybe Florida will stay on top of things, maybe Arizona. Maybe Texas. Maybe South Dakota and Oklahoma.
Unless I missed it I did not hear one, serious condemnation of the Democrat Party and serious unequivocal call and demand for the FBI to take down every aspect of fraud that took place and people go to jail for it, regardless of their positions in life. Why not? Because they already know the FBI is corrupt. The Justice Dept. is corrupt. Both parties are corrupt. It's systemic corruption. I mean, at least for the cameras make the demand. Make it seem you are truly angry and will push for justice. It was not even warm, let alone hot in that room. They joked when watching the crime take place. These people are not serious patriots. Politics is their business. It's how they make a living, and good ones, at that. They will not attempt to rock any boats. Maybe Elder will. The others? I'd have to see and hear it, to believe it.
When Prager shouted, We now have the proof!, I thought, has this guy been living in a cave for the last 18 months?
What a tragic shame on America.
For things to change in this nation, deep repentance would have to take place. I do not believe it will. That is not the mindset of the one third of Americans who voted for Trump.
So, despite D'Souza's contribution to the already mountain of evidence compiled showing Trump actually won the election, targeting cell phones and mules and non-profit organizations is not going to change anything.
God help us.
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Having seen clips, I basically knew what to expect and yet, it was actually worse than I thought. D'Souza invites five, well-known political pundits to join him. I have asked myself how those five men, professed Constitutional, rule of law Conservatives, especially Dennis Prager, has not had the wherewithal to keep up with the massive amounts of evidence that began to come in one day after the election: all the videos, testimonies, investigation, research, and absolute resolve on the part of Democrats to shut down ANY discussion otherwise, joined by typical traitorous GOP leaders.
It is the same, was the same with Covid. Those who began speaking out in early 2021, professionals from all medical fields, were not accepted by those same 5 men, as far as I know, and plenty of others. They took a wait and see attitude. Because they waited so long to accommodate actual evidence, not "crumbs," as stated in the video, compiled by Gateway Pundit and other alt news outlets, as well as all the work of Mike Lindell (My Pillow), and obviously, from the outset, Trump himself, sharing detailed evidence, I feel those men have zip to tell me, including D'Souza.
The lack of courage and fortitude from so many, for so long - the time has passed. Deep state has control. The destruction of America is underway, even to the brink of nuclear war by a party that used to consistently talk down war, dread war, even cower from actual enemies. They hate America. They want to see it fall.
Up is down, black is white, wrong is right.
When one of the tag lines for the film was, Watching this will make you mad, or something like that, that is true, not because I know the election was a widespread, despicable, criminal activity but, because those do nothings who, at best, only raised questions when answers were exploding from every quarter of the nation, and even the world, as world leaders had the guts to come out and say the American election was a fraud, I am angry alright - at those cowards who let this all happen, and even those who were part of the plan. Yes, I am convinced some in the GOP, like McCarthy and McConnell, and others, knew it would take place and did take place. Their maniacal hatred of Trump is pathetic and traitorous. The film shows that from one whistleblower, though national names were not mentioned, just local GOP politicians and others.
Most of my life I have been told I move too fast and that is true. I don't leap before I look but, it is not in me to drag on stuff, anything in life. Those who moved slowly, if at all, on the election fraud, too late now. I would be shocked to see anything done, regardless of evidence, when SCOTUS has already made it plain they are not going to address this, for whatever reason or anvils hung over their heads.
In watching the video, just the opening few minutes made me feel betrayed because of cowardice, moving too slowly and waiting for someone else to do their job.
It does not matter that all five men are convinced when they state so by the film's end. The entire conservative movement's leaders had zilch for influence to keep Clinton and Obama from being elected, twice each, nor from addressing GOP traitors, like Bush, from doing all they have done to destroy the Republic. This all took place within the scope of 9/11. The election fraud is just another incident in a long line of total compliance with darkness since that time and before.
It's heartbreaking. It's reality.
Having seen the entire film, I believe it falls apart at the halfway point and becomes opinions from there on in.
D'Souza does a huge disservice to all the other aspects of investigation done by people just as professional and knowledgeable as True the Vote and Gregg Philipps; like Jovan Pulitzer, and people that worked with Mike Lindell, all the corruption with the machines and the manufacturers and interference from outside nations, as well as all the whistleblowers and the train of videos taken inside places that show criminal fraud in action. He does not mention any of that and leaves all that hard work and effort as basically meaningless, as though all of that was not enough to force law enforcement to do their jobs and get to the bottom of all of it well before Dinesh made his film. His is just one more piece. It not any more powerful a smoking gun that many other presentations. It just has more "Hollywood" in it.
To end it with the opinions and foresight of the five and only have Larry Elder state something must and will be done, and the another guy stating somewhere, someone with a conscience will start the ball rolling, was the most glaringly ignorant assessment I have seen in a long time. Tell the Dems what to say, acknowledge they will say it - they can see it all now - and throw up your hands that nothing will be done. That's what they did. They made the film meaningless in two minutes.
We, the people, have no voice in the matter. Those men supposedly do. They have microphones, radio, internet, book deals, interviews. The Democrat leadership will watch this film, yawn, laugh, and go back to business. Maybe Stacy Abrams pays a price. Maybe.
Nothing will happen because the corruption goes so much deeper than mules and non-profits sending them out. I knew members of the GOP knew this stuff happened. I would willingly guarantee McCarthy and McConnell know it. Systemic corruption is in place. One remedy is secession. More movements in states will go for that. Beyond that... the die is cast. Every election from here on in is meaningless.
Maybe Florida will stay on top of things, maybe Arizona. Maybe Texas. Maybe South Dakota and Oklahoma.
Unless I missed it I did not hear one, serious condemnation of the Democrat Party and serious unequivocal call and demand for the FBI to take down every aspect of fraud that took place and people go to jail for it, regardless of their positions in life. Why not? Because they already know the FBI is corrupt. The Justice Dept. is corrupt. Both parties are corrupt. It's systemic corruption. I mean, at least for the cameras make the demand. Make it seem you are truly angry and will push for justice. It was not even warm, let alone hot in that room. They joked when watching the crime take place. These people are not serious patriots. Politics is their business. It's how they make a living, and good ones, at that. They will not attempt to rock any boats. Maybe Elder will. The others? I'd have to see and hear it, to believe it.
When Prager shouted, We now have the proof!, I thought, has this guy been living in a cave for the last 18 months?
What a tragic shame on America.
For things to change in this nation, deep repentance would have to take place. I do not believe it will. That is not the mindset of the one third of Americans who voted for Trump.
So, despite D'Souza's contribution to the already mountain of evidence compiled showing Trump actually won the election, targeting cell phones and mules and non-profit organizations is not going to change anything.
God help us.
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559. No Foundation, Everything Collapses - May 11, 2022
When you build, everything needs a sound and strong foundation. They even build foundations now that can withstand small earthquakes. Not just strong but, scientifically designed to allow for some shifting, especially in earth that has a lot of sand on top of foundation rock. Modern marvels.
So, there are a lot of foundations in life. We all know them. Honesty is one. Without it, trust cannot exist. Without trust, society fractures. For instance. If you are reading the news from alt sites, you know Fox news, including Tucker Carlson, has nixed any mention of '2000 Mules.' The same is the case with Newsmax. They not only walled mention of the film, they canceled an interview scheduled with Dinesh D'Souza. Fox has been hemorrhaging viewers for years now. Nothing surprising there, really. Newsmax I never had much confidence in to begin with. Most of them are 'never Trumpers.' I'm not really a "Trumper" for that matter, obviously but, he was a far sight better than any other recent occupants of the WH; for the working of a Constitutional Republic, and that is the foundation that no longer exists in America. The Constitution is the foundation of the nation. Without it, any and every other idea for governance can come waltzing in and wreck things, and do it quickly. We saw that simply played out since the turn of this century. Society is crumbling. I cannot believe, in America, what I paid for gasoline yesterday, just to mow my lawn. I cannot believe what little is in my shopping cart for groceries and what I am paying for it. Parties are working to destroy America, and successfully. Push aside the restrictions of Constitutional law, round the corners, forget some lines, or just don't bother with it at all, and watch how men can destroy whatever they touch of America and the principles of Americanism.
The Constitution is only part of it, though. That's the government foundation that made history, in a world with kings and queens and other styles of governance that always kept people unequal. Obviously something deeper exists: a foundation much more important.
Someone sent me a link to a video to watch. It's short and to the point.
https://gab.com/jld61972/posts/108086220132801359
Even if you are not a professed Christian, watch that preacher and see a foundation in action. Bold, courageous preachers have existed for centuries and many exhibit a fair amount of common sense, too. The preacher is hitting the transgender movement with some heavy blows on the anvil. The congregation erupts with approval. The foundation? God made them male and female. That's it. Creation is a bottom line; a foundation you cannot remove without messing up all civilization, and dooming it to confusion and ultimately destruction. Theistic evolution, materialism, naturalism, all of it is just a mess when it comes to the foundation God stated - He spoke, and it all came into being. Complexity beyond comprehension, spoken into existence.
Our Founders stated all men are created equal, so join those two foundations mentioned thus far. Principles that changed the world and yet, with those foundations, slavery existed in this country. Other countries with policy over principle, slavery existed at the same time around the world. It was more egregious here because the foundation stated God created all men equal. All are equal under the law. Well, there's another foundation. There are man's laws but, there is the foundation of God's law; the moral law; the ten commandments, written with the finger of God, as Scripture states. He wrote them down and "He added no more." Concise, point blank, pretty impossible to misunderstand, and they carry built-in responsibility and accountability. Remove them and society collapses.
The thing here is that the collapse can be greatly attributed to Christian churches and teachers in them who claim the moral law is done away with. The moral law, "the law of liberty," "the royal law," ten brief and simple commands to adjust society to how people should consider God and consider their neighbor, their fellow man. Remove them, remove God's stated will, remove cohesion of all other law. Which is why, again, John Adams, Founder and second President of the United States, stated:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
Dominoes are what they are. You can entertain and amaze people with the set-up of tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands set up on gigantic floors but, when they tip, they tip and away it goes. God's law, man's laws, societal cohesion, accountability, responsibility, it all falls when the first domino tips.
What's very interesting to me in the preacher clip is not his words. They are not unique, per se', even today in evangelical churches. What I found fascinating were the collars. What's with all the collars on the men? It is all Romanism, Mother, man-made traditions that can do as much to separate people as anything else. I don't know what church was exhibited. Whatever it is, it's not biblical. That is the rub for the timeline of Christianity, the same with Judaism. 6,000 years of God stating, this is the way, and man saying, we'll try this instead.
One more foundation. In the Word, from the Word, is prophecy. It has been estimated over a quarter of the Bible is prophetic in nature. I have seen some who say, fully two-thirds of it is. Prophecy is so important God states in Revelation if you take out anything from that book, God will take your name out of the book of life. Serious warning.
Prophecy has a lot of commentators and positions. I have written on some here. Revelation 20 states, point blank:
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Earth is where this final confrontation takes place. The lost of humanity, in their graves for ages, are raised to meet the final judgment. They try to overtake the city of God, where the redeemed watch this final meeting of all human life, and fire comes down and devours the lost rebels. Again - "For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29. God unleashes his glory, in His presence sin cannot exist, that which is cursed and clutched to sin consumes. That is the doctrine throughout the Bible. The Earth and all sin and sinners shall be consumed out of existence and then God shall recreate the Earth from the ashes. Lucifer gone, the angels that rebelled with him gone, humanity that rebelled with him, gone, the Earth cursed by sin, gone. New heaven, new Earth, peace, harmony, righteousness, holiness and good, only good, moves on from there.
The simplicity of that premise shows a startling order to God's character, government and purposes and yet, what do we see all around us? WAR and attempts for control. That is history. One party out to control another. Right now, Right, Left. Globalists, religionists, godly, godless, everywhere groups fighting to save or control a world that is going to burn. DO NOT miss the point. The world cannot be saved.
Yes, we are stewards and should not ruin it in our own capacity as caretakers of the world around us but, ultimately, the planet is lost. ALL controllers are doomed to failure: epic failure of proportions that cannot be estimated. Whether you try and control one person or billions, you are doomed to failure and will make shipwreck of life.
I once heard a preacher tell us of an old woman he knew. She used to say, "Fuel for the lake; just fuel for the lake," when she encountered people arguing over things. Fuel for the lake. Every particle, every atom, every molecule is all going to burn in the lake of fire and brimstone that the Earth shall become, and the world will be purified from it all by the glory of God.
And all these factions trying to save the nation, save the West, save the world, or control the world are prophetically doing their part to actually destroy it! It's astounding to watch. Nobody but, God can control the world safely. God can save but, He asks for man's cooperation. No cooperation, man is left to his own devices. Lucifer is the god, the ruler of this world, and what do we see? Destruction and pain, sorrow, death, confusion. His end will come, and all who follow him and have touched this world with sin will come to and end 1000 years from now. In the duration, a dead world and darkness for Lucifer and his hosts to ponder. They brought it on. God gives them a thousand years to think about what will ultimately befall them and their senseless rebellion; the redeemed of the ages raised to immortal life, spending a thousand years asking questions, getting answers learning, growing, being restored to what was lost. Eden lost, to Eden restored.
THE most important thing to be restored? Christlike character.
"Affliction shall not arise a second time."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So, there are a lot of foundations in life. We all know them. Honesty is one. Without it, trust cannot exist. Without trust, society fractures. For instance. If you are reading the news from alt sites, you know Fox news, including Tucker Carlson, has nixed any mention of '2000 Mules.' The same is the case with Newsmax. They not only walled mention of the film, they canceled an interview scheduled with Dinesh D'Souza. Fox has been hemorrhaging viewers for years now. Nothing surprising there, really. Newsmax I never had much confidence in to begin with. Most of them are 'never Trumpers.' I'm not really a "Trumper" for that matter, obviously but, he was a far sight better than any other recent occupants of the WH; for the working of a Constitutional Republic, and that is the foundation that no longer exists in America. The Constitution is the foundation of the nation. Without it, any and every other idea for governance can come waltzing in and wreck things, and do it quickly. We saw that simply played out since the turn of this century. Society is crumbling. I cannot believe, in America, what I paid for gasoline yesterday, just to mow my lawn. I cannot believe what little is in my shopping cart for groceries and what I am paying for it. Parties are working to destroy America, and successfully. Push aside the restrictions of Constitutional law, round the corners, forget some lines, or just don't bother with it at all, and watch how men can destroy whatever they touch of America and the principles of Americanism.
The Constitution is only part of it, though. That's the government foundation that made history, in a world with kings and queens and other styles of governance that always kept people unequal. Obviously something deeper exists: a foundation much more important.
Someone sent me a link to a video to watch. It's short and to the point.
https://gab.com/jld61972/posts/108086220132801359
Even if you are not a professed Christian, watch that preacher and see a foundation in action. Bold, courageous preachers have existed for centuries and many exhibit a fair amount of common sense, too. The preacher is hitting the transgender movement with some heavy blows on the anvil. The congregation erupts with approval. The foundation? God made them male and female. That's it. Creation is a bottom line; a foundation you cannot remove without messing up all civilization, and dooming it to confusion and ultimately destruction. Theistic evolution, materialism, naturalism, all of it is just a mess when it comes to the foundation God stated - He spoke, and it all came into being. Complexity beyond comprehension, spoken into existence.
Our Founders stated all men are created equal, so join those two foundations mentioned thus far. Principles that changed the world and yet, with those foundations, slavery existed in this country. Other countries with policy over principle, slavery existed at the same time around the world. It was more egregious here because the foundation stated God created all men equal. All are equal under the law. Well, there's another foundation. There are man's laws but, there is the foundation of God's law; the moral law; the ten commandments, written with the finger of God, as Scripture states. He wrote them down and "He added no more." Concise, point blank, pretty impossible to misunderstand, and they carry built-in responsibility and accountability. Remove them and society collapses.
The thing here is that the collapse can be greatly attributed to Christian churches and teachers in them who claim the moral law is done away with. The moral law, "the law of liberty," "the royal law," ten brief and simple commands to adjust society to how people should consider God and consider their neighbor, their fellow man. Remove them, remove God's stated will, remove cohesion of all other law. Which is why, again, John Adams, Founder and second President of the United States, stated:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
Dominoes are what they are. You can entertain and amaze people with the set-up of tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands set up on gigantic floors but, when they tip, they tip and away it goes. God's law, man's laws, societal cohesion, accountability, responsibility, it all falls when the first domino tips.
What's very interesting to me in the preacher clip is not his words. They are not unique, per se', even today in evangelical churches. What I found fascinating were the collars. What's with all the collars on the men? It is all Romanism, Mother, man-made traditions that can do as much to separate people as anything else. I don't know what church was exhibited. Whatever it is, it's not biblical. That is the rub for the timeline of Christianity, the same with Judaism. 6,000 years of God stating, this is the way, and man saying, we'll try this instead.
One more foundation. In the Word, from the Word, is prophecy. It has been estimated over a quarter of the Bible is prophetic in nature. I have seen some who say, fully two-thirds of it is. Prophecy is so important God states in Revelation if you take out anything from that book, God will take your name out of the book of life. Serious warning.
Prophecy has a lot of commentators and positions. I have written on some here. Revelation 20 states, point blank:
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Earth is where this final confrontation takes place. The lost of humanity, in their graves for ages, are raised to meet the final judgment. They try to overtake the city of God, where the redeemed watch this final meeting of all human life, and fire comes down and devours the lost rebels. Again - "For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29. God unleashes his glory, in His presence sin cannot exist, that which is cursed and clutched to sin consumes. That is the doctrine throughout the Bible. The Earth and all sin and sinners shall be consumed out of existence and then God shall recreate the Earth from the ashes. Lucifer gone, the angels that rebelled with him gone, humanity that rebelled with him, gone, the Earth cursed by sin, gone. New heaven, new Earth, peace, harmony, righteousness, holiness and good, only good, moves on from there.
The simplicity of that premise shows a startling order to God's character, government and purposes and yet, what do we see all around us? WAR and attempts for control. That is history. One party out to control another. Right now, Right, Left. Globalists, religionists, godly, godless, everywhere groups fighting to save or control a world that is going to burn. DO NOT miss the point. The world cannot be saved.
Yes, we are stewards and should not ruin it in our own capacity as caretakers of the world around us but, ultimately, the planet is lost. ALL controllers are doomed to failure: epic failure of proportions that cannot be estimated. Whether you try and control one person or billions, you are doomed to failure and will make shipwreck of life.
I once heard a preacher tell us of an old woman he knew. She used to say, "Fuel for the lake; just fuel for the lake," when she encountered people arguing over things. Fuel for the lake. Every particle, every atom, every molecule is all going to burn in the lake of fire and brimstone that the Earth shall become, and the world will be purified from it all by the glory of God.
And all these factions trying to save the nation, save the West, save the world, or control the world are prophetically doing their part to actually destroy it! It's astounding to watch. Nobody but, God can control the world safely. God can save but, He asks for man's cooperation. No cooperation, man is left to his own devices. Lucifer is the god, the ruler of this world, and what do we see? Destruction and pain, sorrow, death, confusion. His end will come, and all who follow him and have touched this world with sin will come to and end 1000 years from now. In the duration, a dead world and darkness for Lucifer and his hosts to ponder. They brought it on. God gives them a thousand years to think about what will ultimately befall them and their senseless rebellion; the redeemed of the ages raised to immortal life, spending a thousand years asking questions, getting answers learning, growing, being restored to what was lost. Eden lost, to Eden restored.
THE most important thing to be restored? Christlike character.
"Affliction shall not arise a second time."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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560. Russia Is America's Enemy? - May 13, 2022
Friday the 13th. I wake up to news all over that Russia is America's enemy: even from professed Conservatives who should know better than to trust anything stated by the main stream media and corporate-controlled Press.
Friday the 13th needs a boogeyman. Russia and Putin are the current chosen adversaries. Well, in the West, anyway. Putin knows most of the planet's population is on his side of the globe.
I agree with the impact of the U.S.S.R. on the world. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was, indeed, an enemy of America and the free world. Communism, Totalitarianism, Marxism was considered a political and societal poison that ruined everything it touched through it's ultimate despotism when the honeymoon of talk about everybody sharing and sharing alike hit the streets and the engines of godless political control began grinding.
That all changed in 1989. Democrats and Republicans and certainly the MSM paint Russia as an enemy, responsible for most of America's problems. Vladimir Putin is right when he says, Russia should be so powerful. Russia has been in a building mode since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. It cannot do much of anything it is blamed for by American politicians and press.
I have written on Russia before because I did my own research of reading and listening to Putin's speeches. It is unlikely someone who has built back Russia the way he has, with his consistent high polling numbers, the highest in the world, has been lying to Russians and the rest of the world populace since he began his desire to see Russia returned to days of glory not seen since the turn of the 20th century. He has stated time and time again he will partner with anyone he sees can help his nation. He is a Russia-first patriot. Anyone else can be a whatever-first patriot of their own nation. That's fine with him, as long as Russia and its citizens are benefitted by any partnership. That sounds pretty wise, to me.
While America, the most hated nation on Earth because of its constant wars and butting into everybody's business around the world - empire building - is currently engineering America's collapse into further Marxism, Trump came along and would have partnered with Putin were it not for his cowardice when the Leftists denounced him for everything on Earth and every day was a war with the Left, including Leftists in the Republican Party. Putin chides the West all the time for its attitudes towards religious standards, falling away like scales on a dead fish. When you look at it solely from the viewpoint of Left vs. Right, Putin is the enemy to anything Left. China is as far Left as you can get. Why would China work with Russia? Because, again, if it helps Russia and Russians, Putin will work with you. Let's face facts. While China is THE totalitarian nightmare of the planet, the West is buying most of what they use from the place. We have zero, ZERO reason to buy anything from a nation that kills its citizens for dissention against Communism. Politicians did so, against the warnings that came from people with common sense, that partnering with China would bring about the demise of the USA. It is now happening and Putin sits back and shakes his head, while American politicians hoped trade with China would make it more free and cooperative. Nope. China has a definitive agenda it is not veering from. And now, lifetime appointed Xi will see to that.
Putin has made no threats to America, until the Ukraine situation and NATO's butting in. He allows all kinds of American businesses to set up shop in Russia. He is not stupid. While America spends ten times what Russia does on its military budget, Putin's war machine has developed the most sophisticated weaponry on Earth and everybody knows it. That now, for them, makes Putin Boogeyman #1. Rather than threaten the globe and attempt to take over the world, Putin just says, Back off, as he attempts to remove the criminal/neonazi regime in Ukraine - definitely NOT a friend of America - that has been persecuting and pummeling two Republics that broke away from Ukraine and pleaded with Putin for help. Putin has stayed out of this for ten years.
It is alarming to me that Americans will believe whatever they are told by lying, manipulating, conniving, agenda-driven, godless politicians, when truth is available to all, if they would just take it upon themselves to find it.
Putin just realizes America's place in world affairs. They are a PITA and he just does what is necessary to let it know Russia will not be manhandled, intimidated, deceived or bullied by America. It's really very simple. If Russia is an enemy at all, it is because it will not bow to American bullying. Russia cannot offer America what China does - cheap manufacturing of goods. China builds. It only builds. It does not expend itself it buys as much as it sells. It now owns millions of acres of property around the world, including America; what was once American farmland. China spends to profit China, in its desires for world dominance. Russia is not there. Better than it was, though, and all stories of Putin putting down dissent are stories where Putin puts down violence: what should take place in American cities dealing with violence, robberies, looting, wanton destruction of property, and all the rest. Putin will stop it. American leaders will not. He is strong. American leaders are basically weak and gutless, afraid of their own shadows when it comes to the Press. Putin does not care what the Press says about him. He just works and keeps things Russia first. He is as much a thorn in the sides of Globalists as Trump was. There are now NO thorns in the sides of globalists in the West, save for Bolsanro in South America. Nothing in SA has any real say-so in world affairs so, in fact, there is only one voice that stands against globalism and that is Putin's. It seems impossible for someone of my generation to state that. It is impossibly true. If there is another voice from a major power speaking out against globalism, where is it? The Catholic Church? Hardly. Prelates within it, maybe but, the Pope is a hypocrite and a communist. Well, popes are whatever they need to be in the direction the wind is blowing. That's history.
It is interesting the Vatican has a Catholic-first mentality by doctrine, belief and claim in heavenly calling. Putin takes no such stand. He considers himself a Russian Orthodox. Whether he abides by the teachings of the Orthodox church I know not. He may be just as hypocritical as the Pope but, when it comes to defending the policies Putin wants running his nation, he is staunch. American politicians should be so staunch in obeying the Constitution's limited role of government and stay out of the way of free markets.
I have yet to see any serious, valid reason how and why Russia is an enemy of the United States of America. It has backed him into corners time and again and he just adjusts, modifies and adapts to the world around him and the lemons handed to him. Russia does not have the sweetest lemonade on Earth but, it's trying to get there, near as I can tell.
No nation has no problems. It is impossible, as long as right and wrong exist, and wrong will always fight for a space at the table and use anything to get there. Right is always on the defensive in this world. Wrong is the policy of the ruler, the god of this world, the first and foremost liar and murderer from the beginning. The forces of darkness always seem to have more energy than forces of light to maintain the battle. It is because Satan knows he has but a short time. Time is running out. Light knows eternity is ahead. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the truth. What force that drives within the redeemed to proclaim truth and the Gospel, lacks a roll-call as enormous as forces of darkness. Weariness does not stop the progress but, it sure slows it down.
If you want to see a list of progress in Russia, at Putin's leadership (and perceived failures), check this out, and *notice* - it is from a Ukrainian website: an article published in 2017 -
The rankings combine those who rated a particular action as a success and those who rated it as a failure. Putin’s greatest successes, in descending order, were:
His greatest failures, again in descending order from the most to the least, are, Russians say:
https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/04/26/russians-list-putins-greatest-successes-and-greatest-failures-euromaidan-press/
In that list of failures, consider what Putin had to work with when he began and what he fights to achieve success in those categories. Take #6. Improving ties with the West. How does one go about doing that when the West blames you for everything wrong in it!? #3. Putin began rebuilding by dealing with the oligarchs. That is a constant battle. One that is unlikely to ever be fully victorious. No nation can be fully free of financial control freaks.
Anyone can go back and forth on all those points in both lists but, again, ask yourself how the guy gets poll ratings of 80% approval. Even 60% is higher than American presidents can achieve.
No, Putin is no saint. He is not going to win any awards for being the nicest guy on Earth. Religious freedom in Russia could be much better. I just reject the notion Russia is an enemy of America and Americans who want America-first as the guiding principle it must run by to stay strong and free. America is running out of baby formula, while pallets of it are sent to illegal immigrants crossing the border, and the largest maker of formula says it will be two months before stock is replenished and Bill Gates has a company just now releasing an alternative baby formula? Who can make this stuff up???
You contact me and tell me how Russia is an enemy of the USA. I truly believe that narrative is not just wrong but, misguided and at worst, evil; intended to just persist in creating chaos in the world. It took me five pages of hits to find that list. All hits were from Leftist sites or Neo-Conservative sites and to find that list from Ukrainians? Ukrainian people hate their own government. It's corrupt. It always has been. It's basically organized, political crime in action: a mafia. Hence, it's dealings with the Biden crime family. Russians see the need for Ukrainians to be free from that corruption. So do many Ukrainians. It shall come at great cost, mainly because of NATO/Western interference; which is just another cog in the wheel of the Great Reset/globalist takeover.
God have mercy, ignorance is not bliss.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Friday the 13th needs a boogeyman. Russia and Putin are the current chosen adversaries. Well, in the West, anyway. Putin knows most of the planet's population is on his side of the globe.
I agree with the impact of the U.S.S.R. on the world. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was, indeed, an enemy of America and the free world. Communism, Totalitarianism, Marxism was considered a political and societal poison that ruined everything it touched through it's ultimate despotism when the honeymoon of talk about everybody sharing and sharing alike hit the streets and the engines of godless political control began grinding.
That all changed in 1989. Democrats and Republicans and certainly the MSM paint Russia as an enemy, responsible for most of America's problems. Vladimir Putin is right when he says, Russia should be so powerful. Russia has been in a building mode since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. It cannot do much of anything it is blamed for by American politicians and press.
I have written on Russia before because I did my own research of reading and listening to Putin's speeches. It is unlikely someone who has built back Russia the way he has, with his consistent high polling numbers, the highest in the world, has been lying to Russians and the rest of the world populace since he began his desire to see Russia returned to days of glory not seen since the turn of the 20th century. He has stated time and time again he will partner with anyone he sees can help his nation. He is a Russia-first patriot. Anyone else can be a whatever-first patriot of their own nation. That's fine with him, as long as Russia and its citizens are benefitted by any partnership. That sounds pretty wise, to me.
While America, the most hated nation on Earth because of its constant wars and butting into everybody's business around the world - empire building - is currently engineering America's collapse into further Marxism, Trump came along and would have partnered with Putin were it not for his cowardice when the Leftists denounced him for everything on Earth and every day was a war with the Left, including Leftists in the Republican Party. Putin chides the West all the time for its attitudes towards religious standards, falling away like scales on a dead fish. When you look at it solely from the viewpoint of Left vs. Right, Putin is the enemy to anything Left. China is as far Left as you can get. Why would China work with Russia? Because, again, if it helps Russia and Russians, Putin will work with you. Let's face facts. While China is THE totalitarian nightmare of the planet, the West is buying most of what they use from the place. We have zero, ZERO reason to buy anything from a nation that kills its citizens for dissention against Communism. Politicians did so, against the warnings that came from people with common sense, that partnering with China would bring about the demise of the USA. It is now happening and Putin sits back and shakes his head, while American politicians hoped trade with China would make it more free and cooperative. Nope. China has a definitive agenda it is not veering from. And now, lifetime appointed Xi will see to that.
Putin has made no threats to America, until the Ukraine situation and NATO's butting in. He allows all kinds of American businesses to set up shop in Russia. He is not stupid. While America spends ten times what Russia does on its military budget, Putin's war machine has developed the most sophisticated weaponry on Earth and everybody knows it. That now, for them, makes Putin Boogeyman #1. Rather than threaten the globe and attempt to take over the world, Putin just says, Back off, as he attempts to remove the criminal/neonazi regime in Ukraine - definitely NOT a friend of America - that has been persecuting and pummeling two Republics that broke away from Ukraine and pleaded with Putin for help. Putin has stayed out of this for ten years.
It is alarming to me that Americans will believe whatever they are told by lying, manipulating, conniving, agenda-driven, godless politicians, when truth is available to all, if they would just take it upon themselves to find it.
Putin just realizes America's place in world affairs. They are a PITA and he just does what is necessary to let it know Russia will not be manhandled, intimidated, deceived or bullied by America. It's really very simple. If Russia is an enemy at all, it is because it will not bow to American bullying. Russia cannot offer America what China does - cheap manufacturing of goods. China builds. It only builds. It does not expend itself it buys as much as it sells. It now owns millions of acres of property around the world, including America; what was once American farmland. China spends to profit China, in its desires for world dominance. Russia is not there. Better than it was, though, and all stories of Putin putting down dissent are stories where Putin puts down violence: what should take place in American cities dealing with violence, robberies, looting, wanton destruction of property, and all the rest. Putin will stop it. American leaders will not. He is strong. American leaders are basically weak and gutless, afraid of their own shadows when it comes to the Press. Putin does not care what the Press says about him. He just works and keeps things Russia first. He is as much a thorn in the sides of Globalists as Trump was. There are now NO thorns in the sides of globalists in the West, save for Bolsanro in South America. Nothing in SA has any real say-so in world affairs so, in fact, there is only one voice that stands against globalism and that is Putin's. It seems impossible for someone of my generation to state that. It is impossibly true. If there is another voice from a major power speaking out against globalism, where is it? The Catholic Church? Hardly. Prelates within it, maybe but, the Pope is a hypocrite and a communist. Well, popes are whatever they need to be in the direction the wind is blowing. That's history.
It is interesting the Vatican has a Catholic-first mentality by doctrine, belief and claim in heavenly calling. Putin takes no such stand. He considers himself a Russian Orthodox. Whether he abides by the teachings of the Orthodox church I know not. He may be just as hypocritical as the Pope but, when it comes to defending the policies Putin wants running his nation, he is staunch. American politicians should be so staunch in obeying the Constitution's limited role of government and stay out of the way of free markets.
I have yet to see any serious, valid reason how and why Russia is an enemy of the United States of America. It has backed him into corners time and again and he just adjusts, modifies and adapts to the world around him and the lemons handed to him. Russia does not have the sweetest lemonade on Earth but, it's trying to get there, near as I can tell.
No nation has no problems. It is impossible, as long as right and wrong exist, and wrong will always fight for a space at the table and use anything to get there. Right is always on the defensive in this world. Wrong is the policy of the ruler, the god of this world, the first and foremost liar and murderer from the beginning. The forces of darkness always seem to have more energy than forces of light to maintain the battle. It is because Satan knows he has but a short time. Time is running out. Light knows eternity is ahead. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the truth. What force that drives within the redeemed to proclaim truth and the Gospel, lacks a roll-call as enormous as forces of darkness. Weariness does not stop the progress but, it sure slows it down.
If you want to see a list of progress in Russia, at Putin's leadership (and perceived failures), check this out, and *notice* - it is from a Ukrainian website: an article published in 2017 -
The rankings combine those who rated a particular action as a success and those who rated it as a failure. Putin’s greatest successes, in descending order, were:
- Raising the country’s military capability
- Strengthening the international standing of Russia
- Resolving the Chechen problem
- Restoring order to the country
- Improving ties with CIS countries [Commonwealth of Independent States]
- Promoting optimism and hope
- Improving international relations
- Fighting crime
- Protecting democracy and freedoms.
His greatest failures, again in descending order from the most to the least, are, Russians say:
- Fighting corruption
- Improving the standard of living
- Bringing the oligarchs to heel
- Economic development
- Strengthening morality
- Improving ties with the West
- Creating conditions for private business
- Eliminating the threat of terrorism in Russia.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/04/26/russians-list-putins-greatest-successes-and-greatest-failures-euromaidan-press/
In that list of failures, consider what Putin had to work with when he began and what he fights to achieve success in those categories. Take #6. Improving ties with the West. How does one go about doing that when the West blames you for everything wrong in it!? #3. Putin began rebuilding by dealing with the oligarchs. That is a constant battle. One that is unlikely to ever be fully victorious. No nation can be fully free of financial control freaks.
Anyone can go back and forth on all those points in both lists but, again, ask yourself how the guy gets poll ratings of 80% approval. Even 60% is higher than American presidents can achieve.
No, Putin is no saint. He is not going to win any awards for being the nicest guy on Earth. Religious freedom in Russia could be much better. I just reject the notion Russia is an enemy of America and Americans who want America-first as the guiding principle it must run by to stay strong and free. America is running out of baby formula, while pallets of it are sent to illegal immigrants crossing the border, and the largest maker of formula says it will be two months before stock is replenished and Bill Gates has a company just now releasing an alternative baby formula? Who can make this stuff up???
You contact me and tell me how Russia is an enemy of the USA. I truly believe that narrative is not just wrong but, misguided and at worst, evil; intended to just persist in creating chaos in the world. It took me five pages of hits to find that list. All hits were from Leftist sites or Neo-Conservative sites and to find that list from Ukrainians? Ukrainian people hate their own government. It's corrupt. It always has been. It's basically organized, political crime in action: a mafia. Hence, it's dealings with the Biden crime family. Russians see the need for Ukrainians to be free from that corruption. So do many Ukrainians. It shall come at great cost, mainly because of NATO/Western interference; which is just another cog in the wheel of the Great Reset/globalist takeover.
God have mercy, ignorance is not bliss.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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561. Happy, man. We're All Happy. - May14, 2022
Reading what I have been, and probably you, as well; we are seeing the tentacles and nets of the globalists closing in. Everything that humans need to survive: food, water, housing, even decent weather for various needs are all under assault. Add to that basic desires of freedom and liberty being taken away, as the controllers laugh at us and smile and deflect and ignore and just cruise along on their good ship "Depopulation," while they continue taking control.
There is nothing new under the sun. The Bible says that. It's a statement of generalization, an all things considered-kind-of-thing. As far as control freaks, they have been around since the beginning. Empires always start with control freaks and greed. People say you cannot define greed and greedy. Here's my definition. Greed is taking from me so you can get more power and control. Not outright theft. People that aren't satisfied with what they have and get to taking from others to have more, is greed. Business and greed are bedfellows but, business is the free right to make and sell something or any other process in getting goods from manufacturers of goods to the populace - raw materials to finished products. Nothing wrong with that. Same with offering a service. But, greed. Just finding ways to take, less and less in return, that is something else. Greed gives and takes at the same time. It just profits on the take side and builds bigger and bigger. At some point, the mind of the onlooker just thinks, that's greedy.
The world is controlled by greed. Money-makers who may have even begun as regular folks with an idea, and it blossomed and made them wealthy, and somewhere along the line they got involved with things that are run by greed. To have more, they had to take from others, not in exchange of money for goods or services but, like a mafia, demanding money for protections, etc., etc. Corruption, criminal behavior. Every year of human life on Earth that has continued on, to one degree or another, and what is happening now, is no different. The only new thing under the sun in this case, that is making it easier and easier to gain control, is technology. Each new generation is not only more dependent on technology, technology is being used to kill them, literally. Right now medical technology has made humanity lab rats. Communications technology has begun tracking all humanity, anyone with a cell phone. Space technology has put satellites up there and are doing the work of locating 1's and 0's in everyone's life. Digital life. People live by it, work by it, are entertained by it, and will die by it. Even a car crash is a digital event; as two vehicles, controlled by mother boards and computer chips, collide while someone is using a cell phone and loses their bearings for just the blink of an eye.
I don't know as technology that exists was ever predicted by anyone. Even the Wright Brothers remain a shocker; that man could fly, even a short distance? Impossible! And here we are sending rockets and probes out of our solar system. There are lots of new things under the sun.
The controllers... I think of a statement by Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if school kids even know who he was, anymore. Ever seen a rare two dollar bill? His face is on it. Ah, but the lowly nickel found in millions of pockets... I wonder if that is even true anymore: change in pockets and purses. Cards, digital currency, swipe and pay is the modern world. Purses. My wife always carries one but, I see far more women in stores without them these days, all ages. That means they either have some cash in a pocket, unlikely, or just a card. More likely.
Anyway, Thomas Jefferson wrote this:
"Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor [persecution], and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
I've posted that quote in these blogs a time or two. I've placed it in letters, emails, and I used it in seminars. It is one of the more profound statements I have read, attributed to the Founders of the United States of America. I repeatedly use it because he states the premise can never be too often repeated. Rights established must be maintained or zealots will remove them. The Revolutionary war, in Jefferson's mind, was not a conclusion because the spirit of totalitarianism always exists and today shows that Jefferson was right. He saw the dominos. They were inevitable.
What next, then? Will our rights revive or expire in a convulsion? It seems obvious a convulsion is happening. Or, is it?
The control freaks know the population is not one that can be controlled by force, alone. That works for certain sizes, when all you have is weaponry dominance. At some point, though, every army has enough members with a conscience, that orders from the controllers will not move them to kill their fellowman, innocent of anything but, desiring freedom and liberty to be left alone. Police are getting more divided because of all that is happening, nation to nation.
What to do then? Control of food is ancient. All empires have used it at one time or another. Henry Kissinger, former occupant of the Richard Nixon administration, always in the news back in the 70s, stated this more oft-used quote these days:
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Simple observations, now being played out. Food control is beginning. Energy control is beginning. Money control is already there. All control factors are being put in place.
I have come to believe, sadly, that God is about to let mankind reap what it has sown. He is not going to step in and save the world from despotism. The generations have a lesson to learn. Many lessons. Young and old will learn that God really does exist and is the Sovereign controller of all things. No matrix, no illusions of what life is, no philosophy proponents of simulation experiments, and certainly no "fact checkers" involved. Man shall be brought to zero. Only the strongest will retain faith that God exists, that He cares and loves and would do everything to bring peace and happiness BUT, tough love is, once again, the answer for this time. The Bible is saturated with tough love and mankind just does not learn for more than a generation or two and the vile nature of the unconverted human heart starts the processes of evil and control all over again. This time, when the lesson is learned, I reckon it will be the final lesson and a people, a remnant will finally take a stand, the last stand, and develop character safe to take to heaven, alive, and then, the event of all ages shall finally take place: the return of Christ, the resurrection of the loyal from all ages, and then end of the world as we know it.
Unfortunately, horrors and pain and suffering will be greatly multiplied before that event arrives. So much so, the spirit of mankind will wish for death, than life. This is worldwide. Not Ukraine. Not Syria. Not some African nation or South American nation. Not even China, which has come to control people in such a way the populace knows nothing else and is basically... "happy," as they understand the feeling and idea. Obey government, live, have a little, get married, have children [no longer a one-child only policy but, limit of three now], life goes on. You own some possessions. You can dress however you like. No more drab Communist, everybody wears the same clothing-regimes. That has all changed. Even a Western-standard, 40-hour work week exists there. And the globalists see how it all works. Everything controlled and most people... "happy." Why not? So, China has become the dream of the controllers. Godless American politicians and business owners and many of their seconds, thirds and fourths in the control line, etc., are out and praise China's accomplishments.
The Bible predicts the fall of Communist, Marxist, Totalitarianism. I'd have thought, based on what was happening back in 1989, it would have happened a long time ago. Nope. It morphed, and the controllers love the outcome.
But, wait, Ray, if everything became like China, the world will be "happy," in a sort of way of understanding happiness. Indeed. Anyone who dissents just gets taken away and is prisoned, used for body parts, scientific experimentation of one kind or another, and slave labor to build and make things the controllers desire. Yeah, that is not going to work for a few billion people used to a whole lot more freedom than that so... the controllers have to get to that place a lot more stealthily. Control by increments of nano-technology. Beat them before they know they were even in a contest. Destroy critical thinking. Make everything a conspiracy theory. Dissect and create separate society within society, create chaos, confusion, weariness, loss of morality, loss of strength, determination and most importantly, loss of will power.
Look, man, for a president of the United States of America [the non-president], which no longer is united, to think he can have an information control bureau taking place - government, politicians and their chosen nuts and bolts deciding what is true and what is not - is seriously sicko, mentally overboard, and radically outrageous. Well, Biden is sick. Obama, and Biden's other controllers, and their controllers over them, are playing this as the fastest guns in the West. It really is a race now. They are out in the open, full bore, intending to win. What can stop them? Just saying, NO? Good luck with that one. Lots of people say, "No," in China. They are no more.
I suspect the controllers will win.
I hope to God I am definitively, decidedly wrong.
They will eventually lose control. The seven last plagues are going to come. God wins. That cannot be changed. What needs to change are the hearts and minds of a people who desire more to live with God, in His presence, in Heaven, in what Christ has prepared for them, than on this rebellious, chaotic, dying world. When that number is achieved (God knows), the end will transpire.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
There is nothing new under the sun. The Bible says that. It's a statement of generalization, an all things considered-kind-of-thing. As far as control freaks, they have been around since the beginning. Empires always start with control freaks and greed. People say you cannot define greed and greedy. Here's my definition. Greed is taking from me so you can get more power and control. Not outright theft. People that aren't satisfied with what they have and get to taking from others to have more, is greed. Business and greed are bedfellows but, business is the free right to make and sell something or any other process in getting goods from manufacturers of goods to the populace - raw materials to finished products. Nothing wrong with that. Same with offering a service. But, greed. Just finding ways to take, less and less in return, that is something else. Greed gives and takes at the same time. It just profits on the take side and builds bigger and bigger. At some point, the mind of the onlooker just thinks, that's greedy.
The world is controlled by greed. Money-makers who may have even begun as regular folks with an idea, and it blossomed and made them wealthy, and somewhere along the line they got involved with things that are run by greed. To have more, they had to take from others, not in exchange of money for goods or services but, like a mafia, demanding money for protections, etc., etc. Corruption, criminal behavior. Every year of human life on Earth that has continued on, to one degree or another, and what is happening now, is no different. The only new thing under the sun in this case, that is making it easier and easier to gain control, is technology. Each new generation is not only more dependent on technology, technology is being used to kill them, literally. Right now medical technology has made humanity lab rats. Communications technology has begun tracking all humanity, anyone with a cell phone. Space technology has put satellites up there and are doing the work of locating 1's and 0's in everyone's life. Digital life. People live by it, work by it, are entertained by it, and will die by it. Even a car crash is a digital event; as two vehicles, controlled by mother boards and computer chips, collide while someone is using a cell phone and loses their bearings for just the blink of an eye.
I don't know as technology that exists was ever predicted by anyone. Even the Wright Brothers remain a shocker; that man could fly, even a short distance? Impossible! And here we are sending rockets and probes out of our solar system. There are lots of new things under the sun.
The controllers... I think of a statement by Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if school kids even know who he was, anymore. Ever seen a rare two dollar bill? His face is on it. Ah, but the lowly nickel found in millions of pockets... I wonder if that is even true anymore: change in pockets and purses. Cards, digital currency, swipe and pay is the modern world. Purses. My wife always carries one but, I see far more women in stores without them these days, all ages. That means they either have some cash in a pocket, unlikely, or just a card. More likely.
Anyway, Thomas Jefferson wrote this:
"Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor [persecution], and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
I've posted that quote in these blogs a time or two. I've placed it in letters, emails, and I used it in seminars. It is one of the more profound statements I have read, attributed to the Founders of the United States of America. I repeatedly use it because he states the premise can never be too often repeated. Rights established must be maintained or zealots will remove them. The Revolutionary war, in Jefferson's mind, was not a conclusion because the spirit of totalitarianism always exists and today shows that Jefferson was right. He saw the dominos. They were inevitable.
What next, then? Will our rights revive or expire in a convulsion? It seems obvious a convulsion is happening. Or, is it?
The control freaks know the population is not one that can be controlled by force, alone. That works for certain sizes, when all you have is weaponry dominance. At some point, though, every army has enough members with a conscience, that orders from the controllers will not move them to kill their fellowman, innocent of anything but, desiring freedom and liberty to be left alone. Police are getting more divided because of all that is happening, nation to nation.
What to do then? Control of food is ancient. All empires have used it at one time or another. Henry Kissinger, former occupant of the Richard Nixon administration, always in the news back in the 70s, stated this more oft-used quote these days:
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Simple observations, now being played out. Food control is beginning. Energy control is beginning. Money control is already there. All control factors are being put in place.
I have come to believe, sadly, that God is about to let mankind reap what it has sown. He is not going to step in and save the world from despotism. The generations have a lesson to learn. Many lessons. Young and old will learn that God really does exist and is the Sovereign controller of all things. No matrix, no illusions of what life is, no philosophy proponents of simulation experiments, and certainly no "fact checkers" involved. Man shall be brought to zero. Only the strongest will retain faith that God exists, that He cares and loves and would do everything to bring peace and happiness BUT, tough love is, once again, the answer for this time. The Bible is saturated with tough love and mankind just does not learn for more than a generation or two and the vile nature of the unconverted human heart starts the processes of evil and control all over again. This time, when the lesson is learned, I reckon it will be the final lesson and a people, a remnant will finally take a stand, the last stand, and develop character safe to take to heaven, alive, and then, the event of all ages shall finally take place: the return of Christ, the resurrection of the loyal from all ages, and then end of the world as we know it.
Unfortunately, horrors and pain and suffering will be greatly multiplied before that event arrives. So much so, the spirit of mankind will wish for death, than life. This is worldwide. Not Ukraine. Not Syria. Not some African nation or South American nation. Not even China, which has come to control people in such a way the populace knows nothing else and is basically... "happy," as they understand the feeling and idea. Obey government, live, have a little, get married, have children [no longer a one-child only policy but, limit of three now], life goes on. You own some possessions. You can dress however you like. No more drab Communist, everybody wears the same clothing-regimes. That has all changed. Even a Western-standard, 40-hour work week exists there. And the globalists see how it all works. Everything controlled and most people... "happy." Why not? So, China has become the dream of the controllers. Godless American politicians and business owners and many of their seconds, thirds and fourths in the control line, etc., are out and praise China's accomplishments.
The Bible predicts the fall of Communist, Marxist, Totalitarianism. I'd have thought, based on what was happening back in 1989, it would have happened a long time ago. Nope. It morphed, and the controllers love the outcome.
But, wait, Ray, if everything became like China, the world will be "happy," in a sort of way of understanding happiness. Indeed. Anyone who dissents just gets taken away and is prisoned, used for body parts, scientific experimentation of one kind or another, and slave labor to build and make things the controllers desire. Yeah, that is not going to work for a few billion people used to a whole lot more freedom than that so... the controllers have to get to that place a lot more stealthily. Control by increments of nano-technology. Beat them before they know they were even in a contest. Destroy critical thinking. Make everything a conspiracy theory. Dissect and create separate society within society, create chaos, confusion, weariness, loss of morality, loss of strength, determination and most importantly, loss of will power.
Look, man, for a president of the United States of America [the non-president], which no longer is united, to think he can have an information control bureau taking place - government, politicians and their chosen nuts and bolts deciding what is true and what is not - is seriously sicko, mentally overboard, and radically outrageous. Well, Biden is sick. Obama, and Biden's other controllers, and their controllers over them, are playing this as the fastest guns in the West. It really is a race now. They are out in the open, full bore, intending to win. What can stop them? Just saying, NO? Good luck with that one. Lots of people say, "No," in China. They are no more.
I suspect the controllers will win.
I hope to God I am definitively, decidedly wrong.
They will eventually lose control. The seven last plagues are going to come. God wins. That cannot be changed. What needs to change are the hearts and minds of a people who desire more to live with God, in His presence, in Heaven, in what Christ has prepared for them, than on this rebellious, chaotic, dying world. When that number is achieved (God knows), the end will transpire.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
562. An Example of "Babylon" - May 14, 2022
Alright, so, spiritual, prophetic Babylon. I have gone over extensive biblical information on the subject: the combining of ancient, physical Babylon and it's prophetic counterpart. Babylon = confusion. God confounded or confused the people so they could not understand each other's language; people gathered with those they could understand, and off went the various groups to form the world as we know it, groups growing and splitting into groups, ad infinitum: boundaries, nations, cultures, languages. ONE race. The human race. ONE truth. God's truth. The spirit of Babylon is to make a soup of everything and make everything, okay. Accepted confusion. Just a big bowl of cultural, religious, societal, international salad.
I have been sharing upon the subject for over 40 years now and the world has never let me down in coming up with new material to share on this.
I have also said the UFO/ET phenomena will be used by Satan to bring about a cohesion of all things under his banner. Check out this video. All you need to do is check out the first five minutes.
ECETI - Enlightened Contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - is a place out in Oregon, many would just say is a type of new age, peace and love, hippie ranch where a lot of crazy stuff happens. I would not argue that, save for the concentration of attention on ET and how ET is going to, one day, bring about oneness. Contact now, see the real next level of human existence take place when ET finally decides to get fully involved with humanity because ET is just the next level. Ascended masters, like Mary, Yeshua (Jesus) are awaiting those who pass over, to guide and direct the next stage of existence. Religions are just man-made aspects of a greater reality: dimensional reality.
Babylon is based on counterfeits. That was ancient Babylon - 'the gateway to god' - and is modern, prophetic Babylon. It's all counterfeits; replacements for truth. Some aspects, far out. Others very close, even using correct aspects of it. It's a mixing bowl of ingredients, intended to back a cake that fits anybody's and everybody's palette. It is the ultimate cafeteria of mental and spiritual pursuit. It offers spirit, soul and bodily healing, based on the definitions of spirit and soul offered by spiritualism, not the Bible's stated parameters, both good and evil aspects. It offers fellowship for all. It offers light, not so much truth; as your truth is your truth, his truth is his truth, and we all fulfill whatever needs our truth has, as we all just get along here. If you have a negative spirit, we can help you accept the light coming from whatever dimension is trying to help you reach the next level. You must get rid of those negatives, though. They breach the spirit of oneness and cause problems for each and all.
Such a happy place, and testimonies from people who have been there, from all kind of backgrounds, and employment, and conditions and walks in life, praise the place.
James Gilliland seems to be the main guy there. I don't know if he owns the property or is just a natural spokesperson for the group. Seems like a real nice fellow, and actually is a sight more conservative than one might imagine, especially when it comes to government control. In Oregon? Yeah, go figure.
Gilliland is quite open about his own experiences and encourages others to have them: encourages everyone to have them: everyone - ANY background, any belief system, no beliefs, whatever. Come on out and experience real love and fellowship. He makes no bones of stating his beliefs and convictions about UFOlogy in general, including all those he sees as charlatans and fakes and grifters. An interesting guy, to be sure.
Based on the principles I have shared about spiritual, prophetic Babylon, just watch the first five minutes. It's all in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcB4eKSd1U
Here's another. Short. YouTube is filled with things like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4OMbAe7Fk
I remain consistently and constantly convinced the UFO phenomena, regardless of side tracks people take it into, is going to be a central deception in the closing scenes of Earth's history in its final rebellion against God.
It's happening.
This is why I go back and forth on whether or not God is going to allow the world to reap what it has sown or, step in and stop it and allow Satan his final dog and pony show.
The globalists seems to be winning, with Lucifer guiding them, and yet, there is the work of Lucifer in aspects of the paranormal and the cosmos.
Either way, the world draws closer to its next judgment. It cannot be avoided. The coin in the funnel continues to roll and pick up speed. "Another ratchet click," as a friend likes to say.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I have been sharing upon the subject for over 40 years now and the world has never let me down in coming up with new material to share on this.
I have also said the UFO/ET phenomena will be used by Satan to bring about a cohesion of all things under his banner. Check out this video. All you need to do is check out the first five minutes.
ECETI - Enlightened Contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - is a place out in Oregon, many would just say is a type of new age, peace and love, hippie ranch where a lot of crazy stuff happens. I would not argue that, save for the concentration of attention on ET and how ET is going to, one day, bring about oneness. Contact now, see the real next level of human existence take place when ET finally decides to get fully involved with humanity because ET is just the next level. Ascended masters, like Mary, Yeshua (Jesus) are awaiting those who pass over, to guide and direct the next stage of existence. Religions are just man-made aspects of a greater reality: dimensional reality.
Babylon is based on counterfeits. That was ancient Babylon - 'the gateway to god' - and is modern, prophetic Babylon. It's all counterfeits; replacements for truth. Some aspects, far out. Others very close, even using correct aspects of it. It's a mixing bowl of ingredients, intended to back a cake that fits anybody's and everybody's palette. It is the ultimate cafeteria of mental and spiritual pursuit. It offers spirit, soul and bodily healing, based on the definitions of spirit and soul offered by spiritualism, not the Bible's stated parameters, both good and evil aspects. It offers fellowship for all. It offers light, not so much truth; as your truth is your truth, his truth is his truth, and we all fulfill whatever needs our truth has, as we all just get along here. If you have a negative spirit, we can help you accept the light coming from whatever dimension is trying to help you reach the next level. You must get rid of those negatives, though. They breach the spirit of oneness and cause problems for each and all.
Such a happy place, and testimonies from people who have been there, from all kind of backgrounds, and employment, and conditions and walks in life, praise the place.
James Gilliland seems to be the main guy there. I don't know if he owns the property or is just a natural spokesperson for the group. Seems like a real nice fellow, and actually is a sight more conservative than one might imagine, especially when it comes to government control. In Oregon? Yeah, go figure.
Gilliland is quite open about his own experiences and encourages others to have them: encourages everyone to have them: everyone - ANY background, any belief system, no beliefs, whatever. Come on out and experience real love and fellowship. He makes no bones of stating his beliefs and convictions about UFOlogy in general, including all those he sees as charlatans and fakes and grifters. An interesting guy, to be sure.
Based on the principles I have shared about spiritual, prophetic Babylon, just watch the first five minutes. It's all in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcB4eKSd1U
Here's another. Short. YouTube is filled with things like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4OMbAe7Fk
I remain consistently and constantly convinced the UFO phenomena, regardless of side tracks people take it into, is going to be a central deception in the closing scenes of Earth's history in its final rebellion against God.
It's happening.
This is why I go back and forth on whether or not God is going to allow the world to reap what it has sown or, step in and stop it and allow Satan his final dog and pony show.
The globalists seems to be winning, with Lucifer guiding them, and yet, there is the work of Lucifer in aspects of the paranormal and the cosmos.
Either way, the world draws closer to its next judgment. It cannot be avoided. The coin in the funnel continues to roll and pick up speed. "Another ratchet click," as a friend likes to say.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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563. A Point to Consider - May 14, 2022
Why is it in the last five years or more I am seeing constant surveys showing that fewer and fewer people are reading the Bible, clergy are leaving a biblical worldview, fewer going to worship services with other believers, the younger generation leaving the churches of their forefathers, even believing in any deity at all, let alone the God of the Bible, the Creator, here in America...
and at the same time seeing more and more information coming from government and the military on the existence of UFOs/UAPs, more and more surveys stating people want the truth, stop BS'ing the general public, and that extra-terrestrial life exists, and factually, the rising numbers of people claiming to have ET experiences, more specifically referred to as "experiencers" or "abductees" ?
Coincidence? Nonsense.
As one falls away from moorings and fortress, the other opens up. It's an obvious paradigm shift. Before today, Americans and most of the populace of the world, had affinity for deity. As such, pulling off an ET scenario could only find place in books, magazines and movies. Too much resistance and fear and just plain ol' disbelief.
As people fall away from deity and still have questions of origins and morality and directions in life more and more filled with chaos, the shift can take place to bring in "ET."
Check out this conversation from Newsmax, with Congressman Tim Burchett. A United States Congressman quoting the Bible on the existence of UFOs??? The video has the entry music of the channel, one of the dozens of channels on YT that gets into the UFO phenomena. The intro lasts 20 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfDr94Pmdaw
I've already addressed the misuse of Ezekiel, chapter 1 and other places in Scripture used to prove the existence of UFOs and visitation by "ET." It's not a surprise we are at a place where people in positions of power are going there.
Here's another interview with Burchett:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLIiUv-p8k
Notice something. Neither interviewer brings up a fourth possibility. They bring up the U.S. military, foreign militaries (generally Russian or Chinese), or ET. The fourth is actually the more realistic: private corporations who can spend as much money as they want on any kind of technology they happen to favor. In the case of travel, the possibility of some things seen by people all over the planet are possible craft designs built by the moneybags corporations that basically run the planet.
Here's a video of remarks by current Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, commenting on the coming meeting of the AOIMSG (Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group), public hearings. It's located on the video list from the previous YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrn3DCQ5bCY
Public hearings, not private. Out in the open. Will the AOIMSG deflect and try to sidestep? Probably. Nobody wants to state private corporations have more air power than government militaries. On the other hand, black budget government projects could be part of the questions and discussion. Nobody wants to address billions of dollars of taxes going into secret projects even Congress is unaware of. They hold the national purse strings. They send money towards budgets for the branches of the military and people within those branches siphon it off to secret projects? Who says, 'I'll hold the bag on that one?' Find him or her, and you have a customer for a bridge you want to sell.
Then comes another documentary, just released, "A Tear in the Sky." Check out the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR3lCb0St0A
Calls for government to come clean on the subject continue to rise. They aren't going away. By design, it's all a matter of Babylon and the final rebellion at the highest levels. Fall guys? Every huge project needs one or more; the used, the passionate, the fanatics. But, think. These objects are flying by use of power 99.99% of the people living on Earth have no idea exists. What is it? I don't know. But, if it was made available to the entire world, it would change the world. "Peace and safety" anyone?
The drift that will shock the world is when religion and ET join together in one big revival of all power, signs and lying wonders: the existence and fall of prophetic Babylon - The RCC, Apostate Protestantism, and the Kings of the Earth (governments and the rest of the religious, secular world).
and at the same time seeing more and more information coming from government and the military on the existence of UFOs/UAPs, more and more surveys stating people want the truth, stop BS'ing the general public, and that extra-terrestrial life exists, and factually, the rising numbers of people claiming to have ET experiences, more specifically referred to as "experiencers" or "abductees" ?
Coincidence? Nonsense.
As one falls away from moorings and fortress, the other opens up. It's an obvious paradigm shift. Before today, Americans and most of the populace of the world, had affinity for deity. As such, pulling off an ET scenario could only find place in books, magazines and movies. Too much resistance and fear and just plain ol' disbelief.
As people fall away from deity and still have questions of origins and morality and directions in life more and more filled with chaos, the shift can take place to bring in "ET."
Check out this conversation from Newsmax, with Congressman Tim Burchett. A United States Congressman quoting the Bible on the existence of UFOs??? The video has the entry music of the channel, one of the dozens of channels on YT that gets into the UFO phenomena. The intro lasts 20 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfDr94Pmdaw
I've already addressed the misuse of Ezekiel, chapter 1 and other places in Scripture used to prove the existence of UFOs and visitation by "ET." It's not a surprise we are at a place where people in positions of power are going there.
Here's another interview with Burchett:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLIiUv-p8k
Notice something. Neither interviewer brings up a fourth possibility. They bring up the U.S. military, foreign militaries (generally Russian or Chinese), or ET. The fourth is actually the more realistic: private corporations who can spend as much money as they want on any kind of technology they happen to favor. In the case of travel, the possibility of some things seen by people all over the planet are possible craft designs built by the moneybags corporations that basically run the planet.
Here's a video of remarks by current Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, commenting on the coming meeting of the AOIMSG (Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group), public hearings. It's located on the video list from the previous YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrn3DCQ5bCY
Public hearings, not private. Out in the open. Will the AOIMSG deflect and try to sidestep? Probably. Nobody wants to state private corporations have more air power than government militaries. On the other hand, black budget government projects could be part of the questions and discussion. Nobody wants to address billions of dollars of taxes going into secret projects even Congress is unaware of. They hold the national purse strings. They send money towards budgets for the branches of the military and people within those branches siphon it off to secret projects? Who says, 'I'll hold the bag on that one?' Find him or her, and you have a customer for a bridge you want to sell.
Then comes another documentary, just released, "A Tear in the Sky." Check out the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR3lCb0St0A
Calls for government to come clean on the subject continue to rise. They aren't going away. By design, it's all a matter of Babylon and the final rebellion at the highest levels. Fall guys? Every huge project needs one or more; the used, the passionate, the fanatics. But, think. These objects are flying by use of power 99.99% of the people living on Earth have no idea exists. What is it? I don't know. But, if it was made available to the entire world, it would change the world. "Peace and safety" anyone?
The drift that will shock the world is when religion and ET join together in one big revival of all power, signs and lying wonders: the existence and fall of prophetic Babylon - The RCC, Apostate Protestantism, and the Kings of the Earth (governments and the rest of the religious, secular world).
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564. Futurism vs. Historicism Again - May 16, 2022
I just came upon an article, via a link from Liberty Daily, that pastors are "Boycotting Bible Prophecy" and leaving their churches unwarned as to the imminence of the "Rapture."
There are plenty of things in the article I could and maybe should comment on but, seeing I have already gone over a lot, if not most of those things in previous blog posts I've done on last-day events, I'll hold off on those. Suffice to place before you the bullet points the author, Jonathan Brentner, placed in his article:
"Pastors Boycotting Bible Prophecy Are Sabotaging The Sleeping Church."
https://harbingersdaily.com/pastors-boycotting-bible-prophecy-are-sabotaging-the-sleeping-church
As far as the sleeping church, it's an interesting point he raises. If the church is sleeping, which Christ said half of the professed church would be in His parable of the foolish virgins, Matt 25:1-13, would we not expect half the clergy to be asleep, as well? The problem of "dumb dogs, that cannot bark," has been a real one throughout the history of God's people. Hence Isaiah's use of the term in his own writings, Isa. 56:10. Preacher's sleep, flocks sleep.
Then there is the Laodicean condition of the era, Rev 3:14-22. Thinking we are rich, increased with goods, have need of nothing and do not realize we are wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked. It's a stunning condemnation, one Christ makes because He rebukes and chastens those He loves.
But, to Mr. Brentner's bullet points -
"The Bible tells us that:
How about I quote Jesus on that last one.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
So, Mr. Brentner tells his readers not to let anyone deceive them: Jesus is going to secretly come and whisk His people away before the judgments of Rev 6-18 sweep over the entire planet. Jesus said, Let no man deceive you, when the disciples asked him what would be the sign of His coming and the end of the world? Then Jesus went on to state the signs of the destruction of Jerusalem, the disciples original point, combining that with what leads up to the end of the world, His return, His appearing, His second coming. There is nothing secret about those events. Jerusalem and the temple fell in 70 A.D. with horrific events surrounding it. The second coming of Christ will take place in the same kind of scenarios. Jesus even outright denied any use of the word "secret" being joined to His appearing:
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
There will be nothing secret about Christ's return. It is the entrance of a delivering, rescuing, conquering King. There will be NOTHING secret about billions of angels blowing heavenly trumpets, waking up the dead of all ages from their dusty beds for the resurrection of the righteous to immortality.
It is not a good thing that pastors are not telling their flocks the end of all things is at hand. Ezekiel was told by the Lord to comment on the condition of the shepherds in his day:
Eze 34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
The 34th chapter is as much a denunciation of the clergy then, as it became when Jesus condemned their entire system of corruption in Matthew 23. It was that corruption that led up to the statements of Jesus about the fall of Jerusalem/the temple - 70 A.D. /His second coming - end of the world.
The bullet points from Brentner are pure Futurism: the doctrine bequeathed by Romanism's Jesuit priests in the 16th century to the apostate Protestant churches refusing to protest anymore by the 18th and 19th centuries.
The seven-year tribulation, which Christians believing in Futurism's lies believe they will be raptured out of here from, pertain to the 9th chapter of Daniel, verses 25-27, depicting the life, baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, as well as the destruction of the temple and loss of placement for the Jews as God's chosen people, in the seventy weeks told Daniel by Gabriel. The very information that proves Christ was Yeshua of Nazareth, Messiah the Prince of peace, Futurism places upon "antichrist" in a seven-year period at the end of time. If that is the case, why do Jews pronounce an anathema upon reading Daniel, chapter 9? Because it proves Jesus Christ is their Messiah! They know it. How is it Christians lost that information and had it replaced with the nonsense of a secret appearing of Christ before He returns in the clouds of glory, which is the end of the world? The Roman Catholic Church, Papacy, Vatican antichrist. That is how. Romanism has invaded the land and taken control, just as prophecy predicted in Daniel 11. The King of the North, as the Roman empire and then its continuation through the Papacy, has begun its final march. All the world wonders after the beast. Jesuit Ribera would be so thrilled to see his original doctrinal points so weakening the Protestant Reformation, as they were designed to do.
There is no whisking away of the people of God. How is it the apostle Paul goes through a history of the horrors God's people endured up to his day, and would beyond that day in persecutions, which believers still go through in many lands, in Hebrews 11, and yet, for some reason today's church is spared from such things? Tell me how today's professed Christians will face those who went through such animosity and terror? Torn apart by wild animals, crucified, starved to death, frozen to death, hung, burned alive, beheaded, and set upon by the most foul and egregious tortures ever devised by sinful man through the Dark Ages, and even by fools calling themselves Protestants in their yet blindness from "Mother." Yet God is going to just sweep away the current church from any such thing now? Based on WHAT PRINCIPLE of Scripture? What issue of faith that prior generations had to go through those things victorious, cannot be had by God's people today? He spares them, why? There is no Scriptural answer to that question. There is just the erroneous doctrine of the "Rapture," itself based on a Latin term, 'raptura,' which should be a dead give away where the idea came from.
Then there is the actual premise, itself. If the doctrine of eternal security is true, and the secret rapture is true, what difference does it make what preachers proclaim? People are saved, cannot be lost, regardless of any spiritual preparation, so the entire premise of Mr. Brentner's concern is moot. Whether or not preachers warn their flocks, they have nothing to concern themselves over. At any moment they are going to be snatched from existence on this world! Fancy that. Previous ages had to suffer the vehemence and venom of the Enemy of souls but, today's believers, apparently including people like me, who absolutely, unequivocally deny the doctrine of the secret Rapture, will be taken out of here, regardless. If anyone says my denial of the doctrine cancels my ticket, that means truth and error mean something, people are not once saved, always saved, and the house of theological cards comes down. They cannot have it both ways.
Look at the reasoning of Mr. Brentner, which is the basic reasoning of all those who believe if Futurism's confusion:
"I know it’s difficult to wait for our departure from this world. I wish that I could say that the Lord will come for us before we suffer any more from the hostility of our deadly enemy, the devil. I know that many who read this live in countries where the oppression of the enemy far exceeds what we now face in the U.S.
"Unfortunately, a large number of believers today have become desensitized to the imminent appearing of Jesus and have stopped watching for it. They do not know what Scripture says about the day in which we live and live without any awareness of Jesus’ imminent appearing. As a result, they easily fall prey to the deceptive lies of the mainstream media, which they hear repeated over and over again.
"The result is a snoozing church that remains unaware that time is running out for the world as we know it. Many believers plan for the future as though they have decades of life ahead of them; they do not."
What difference does that make? Any of it. The Rapture takes place regardless of spiritual condition of believers so, they can plan for the future all they want, especially knowing all such predictions of the Rapture previous to this time, by authors and preachers for generations, have all failed to come to pass. Hal Lindsay made a career of predicting the Rapture. Many evangelical preachers, now deceased, made their predictions to their flocks, all failed to see fulfillment. No man knows the day or the hour, period. And the hour is the end of the world, not a whisking away from trouble, that every previous generation of believers has had to endure, in faith and hope and determination. "He that endures unto the end, the same shall be saved." Wait, what? How do you endure, if you are popped on out of here in the Rapture? Mr. Brentner may not predict the "Rapture's" date but, the very premise is false. It creates "snoozing" by default.
Please, do let us have common sense.
Yes, globalists are aiming for control. Yes, a time of trouble is brewing. Yes, things are going to get worse and worse. No, God is not going to secretly remove His people from it all, when they have a job to do, preaching and proclaiming the everlasting Gospel! And that brings up another point. Second chances.
The Futurists believe people of the world get a second chance. The church is taken away, all hell breaks loose, and the world, having rejected truth up to that point, gets another another chance to repent and be saved, albeit in horrible conditions - that every other generation of believers has had to endure down through time.
I'm sorry, not sorry. Such nonsense has no place in the faith once delivered unto the saints. Tell me, what can be worse then that which previous generations of believers have had to endure being faithful unto Christ? Seriously? Do you know the tortures practiced upon believers during the Dark Ages? Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs, if you can stomach it.
"One of two things will interrupt the long-range plans of the sleeping saints in America:
I can say with absolute certainty, however, that those who know Jesus as their Savior will miss all of the Day of the Lord described in Isaiah 13 and 24 and all of the judgments of Revelation 6-18."
Do you see the moot points in that? If the "Rapture" occurs, what difference does any of what the man writes make? None of it means a thing. If the "Rapture" occurs today, every believer is taken away and that is that and his written concerns are null and void. They are null and void regardless, because of the erroneous doctrine itself, and those that surround it. Futurism is a lie. If the United States of America falls, that would certainly retard the process of the Gospel, seeing America sends out more missionaries than other nations but, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the kingdom of God, and factually, history has shown the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel. The testimony and witness of those who faithfully and fearlessly endured unto death down through the ages has given rise to a witness that changed the lives of untold numbers of onlookers.
If the Rapture does not occur, and America falls into Globalism, life gets inconvenient by greater and greater percentages and tough luck, we'll have to go through what God's people around the world already are going through, and have for thousands of years!
When Mr. Brentner and millions like him find out the "Rapture" is a fraud, a bogus belief and deception, and find themselves in the midst of everything they believed they would be saved from, what then? Talk about a bridge to hopelessness. Talk about a hard slap in the face of sober reality. Facing all the things they believed they would be spared from and having to make eternal decisions they thought they made already and could not be lost by any other kind of spiritual decision or choice? The Beast, the antichrist, is not some person in the future. The Mark is not some tattoo or chip or injection or any other physical thing placed upon or in people.
The Beast/antichrist power is the Papacy, their mark of authority is changing the Sabbath to Sunday, and when it is universally legislated, first in America, then the rest of the world, it shall become the prophetic mark of the beast, and the world will divide over the commandments of God or the commandments of men. That is the battle. Those are the battlefield grounds: truths in the mind, IN the forehead, not On the forehead or IN the hand. Spiritual realities take place in choices that refine character. That is the battle. The battle for the mind. Focred bar codes could be placed all over my body and that does not change my intellectual and spiritual choice to be loyal to God by obeying His commandments through grace through faith.
I cannot even imagine the confusion in the minds of those having to face what is coming when they were sure, certain beyond any doubt, because they believed what their preachers and teachers told them, that they would not be around to face it all. Truth means something NOW. The Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14 mean something now. When the final call to come out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon takes place, that is it. That is the last call to humanity to get right with God. Then human probation closes and thousands, hundreds of thousands of chances stop. Second chances? Every day affords new chances to serve the Lord. Humanity will be divided. Sheep/goats. Remnant/Harlots. The Loyal/the Rebellious. Then come the plagues. Then comes the end of the world. No secret whisking away but, a final triumphant return of Christ that shall literally shake the globe, the entire planet, and Christ shall gather up His harvest, from East to West, and take His people home; Earth a destroyed, burning, wasteland for Satan and his hosts to sit and ponder for a thousand years. Then Revelation 20 will take place. Then it's finally over, and total peace and eternity rolls on from there.
I feel for those who believe in Futurism. It is void of reality, common sense, and reason. It is not only not true, it is treacherously false. If you sit down with someone who believes it and show them the truth, they sit, looking like deer in the headlights. Better they are confused and straightened out now, then face what is coming in the near future. There will be no escape from that confusion and delusion then.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
There are plenty of things in the article I could and maybe should comment on but, seeing I have already gone over a lot, if not most of those things in previous blog posts I've done on last-day events, I'll hold off on those. Suffice to place before you the bullet points the author, Jonathan Brentner, placed in his article:
"Pastors Boycotting Bible Prophecy Are Sabotaging The Sleeping Church."
https://harbingersdaily.com/pastors-boycotting-bible-prophecy-are-sabotaging-the-sleeping-church
As far as the sleeping church, it's an interesting point he raises. If the church is sleeping, which Christ said half of the professed church would be in His parable of the foolish virgins, Matt 25:1-13, would we not expect half the clergy to be asleep, as well? The problem of "dumb dogs, that cannot bark," has been a real one throughout the history of God's people. Hence Isaiah's use of the term in his own writings, Isa. 56:10. Preacher's sleep, flocks sleep.
Then there is the Laodicean condition of the era, Rev 3:14-22. Thinking we are rich, increased with goods, have need of nothing and do not realize we are wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked. It's a stunning condemnation, one Christ makes because He rebukes and chastens those He loves.
But, to Mr. Brentner's bullet points -
"The Bible tells us that:
- There will be a terrible worldwide famine with great shortages of food during the early months or years of the Tribulation. What we see today is the lead up to what will happen after the Rapture.
- Lawlessness and deception will abound in the last days, which is today.
- The Luciferian globalists of our day will succeed in setting up a New World Order over which the antichrist will assume control after we are gone.
- The Lord’s wrath will descend upon the world as never before in history. Those perpetrating violence, the murder of unborn children, the disruption of our food supply, and violence face a horrifying future, one that will lead to their great distress and eventually their death.
- Isaiah 13:9-13 and 24:1-6 describe God’s future judgment on the earth. The severity of what lies ahead for the wicked of our day fits with their murderous agenda, deception, and unprecedented lawlessness.
- The Lord has planned a way of escape for us. It’s the Rapture. Don’t let anyone deceive you, Jesus is coming for us before the judgments of Revelation 6-18 sweep over the entire planet.
How about I quote Jesus on that last one.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
So, Mr. Brentner tells his readers not to let anyone deceive them: Jesus is going to secretly come and whisk His people away before the judgments of Rev 6-18 sweep over the entire planet. Jesus said, Let no man deceive you, when the disciples asked him what would be the sign of His coming and the end of the world? Then Jesus went on to state the signs of the destruction of Jerusalem, the disciples original point, combining that with what leads up to the end of the world, His return, His appearing, His second coming. There is nothing secret about those events. Jerusalem and the temple fell in 70 A.D. with horrific events surrounding it. The second coming of Christ will take place in the same kind of scenarios. Jesus even outright denied any use of the word "secret" being joined to His appearing:
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
There will be nothing secret about Christ's return. It is the entrance of a delivering, rescuing, conquering King. There will be NOTHING secret about billions of angels blowing heavenly trumpets, waking up the dead of all ages from their dusty beds for the resurrection of the righteous to immortality.
It is not a good thing that pastors are not telling their flocks the end of all things is at hand. Ezekiel was told by the Lord to comment on the condition of the shepherds in his day:
Eze 34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
The 34th chapter is as much a denunciation of the clergy then, as it became when Jesus condemned their entire system of corruption in Matthew 23. It was that corruption that led up to the statements of Jesus about the fall of Jerusalem/the temple - 70 A.D. /His second coming - end of the world.
The bullet points from Brentner are pure Futurism: the doctrine bequeathed by Romanism's Jesuit priests in the 16th century to the apostate Protestant churches refusing to protest anymore by the 18th and 19th centuries.
The seven-year tribulation, which Christians believing in Futurism's lies believe they will be raptured out of here from, pertain to the 9th chapter of Daniel, verses 25-27, depicting the life, baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, as well as the destruction of the temple and loss of placement for the Jews as God's chosen people, in the seventy weeks told Daniel by Gabriel. The very information that proves Christ was Yeshua of Nazareth, Messiah the Prince of peace, Futurism places upon "antichrist" in a seven-year period at the end of time. If that is the case, why do Jews pronounce an anathema upon reading Daniel, chapter 9? Because it proves Jesus Christ is their Messiah! They know it. How is it Christians lost that information and had it replaced with the nonsense of a secret appearing of Christ before He returns in the clouds of glory, which is the end of the world? The Roman Catholic Church, Papacy, Vatican antichrist. That is how. Romanism has invaded the land and taken control, just as prophecy predicted in Daniel 11. The King of the North, as the Roman empire and then its continuation through the Papacy, has begun its final march. All the world wonders after the beast. Jesuit Ribera would be so thrilled to see his original doctrinal points so weakening the Protestant Reformation, as they were designed to do.
There is no whisking away of the people of God. How is it the apostle Paul goes through a history of the horrors God's people endured up to his day, and would beyond that day in persecutions, which believers still go through in many lands, in Hebrews 11, and yet, for some reason today's church is spared from such things? Tell me how today's professed Christians will face those who went through such animosity and terror? Torn apart by wild animals, crucified, starved to death, frozen to death, hung, burned alive, beheaded, and set upon by the most foul and egregious tortures ever devised by sinful man through the Dark Ages, and even by fools calling themselves Protestants in their yet blindness from "Mother." Yet God is going to just sweep away the current church from any such thing now? Based on WHAT PRINCIPLE of Scripture? What issue of faith that prior generations had to go through those things victorious, cannot be had by God's people today? He spares them, why? There is no Scriptural answer to that question. There is just the erroneous doctrine of the "Rapture," itself based on a Latin term, 'raptura,' which should be a dead give away where the idea came from.
Then there is the actual premise, itself. If the doctrine of eternal security is true, and the secret rapture is true, what difference does it make what preachers proclaim? People are saved, cannot be lost, regardless of any spiritual preparation, so the entire premise of Mr. Brentner's concern is moot. Whether or not preachers warn their flocks, they have nothing to concern themselves over. At any moment they are going to be snatched from existence on this world! Fancy that. Previous ages had to suffer the vehemence and venom of the Enemy of souls but, today's believers, apparently including people like me, who absolutely, unequivocally deny the doctrine of the secret Rapture, will be taken out of here, regardless. If anyone says my denial of the doctrine cancels my ticket, that means truth and error mean something, people are not once saved, always saved, and the house of theological cards comes down. They cannot have it both ways.
Look at the reasoning of Mr. Brentner, which is the basic reasoning of all those who believe if Futurism's confusion:
"I know it’s difficult to wait for our departure from this world. I wish that I could say that the Lord will come for us before we suffer any more from the hostility of our deadly enemy, the devil. I know that many who read this live in countries where the oppression of the enemy far exceeds what we now face in the U.S.
"Unfortunately, a large number of believers today have become desensitized to the imminent appearing of Jesus and have stopped watching for it. They do not know what Scripture says about the day in which we live and live without any awareness of Jesus’ imminent appearing. As a result, they easily fall prey to the deceptive lies of the mainstream media, which they hear repeated over and over again.
"The result is a snoozing church that remains unaware that time is running out for the world as we know it. Many believers plan for the future as though they have decades of life ahead of them; they do not."
What difference does that make? Any of it. The Rapture takes place regardless of spiritual condition of believers so, they can plan for the future all they want, especially knowing all such predictions of the Rapture previous to this time, by authors and preachers for generations, have all failed to come to pass. Hal Lindsay made a career of predicting the Rapture. Many evangelical preachers, now deceased, made their predictions to their flocks, all failed to see fulfillment. No man knows the day or the hour, period. And the hour is the end of the world, not a whisking away from trouble, that every previous generation of believers has had to endure, in faith and hope and determination. "He that endures unto the end, the same shall be saved." Wait, what? How do you endure, if you are popped on out of here in the Rapture? Mr. Brentner may not predict the "Rapture's" date but, the very premise is false. It creates "snoozing" by default.
Please, do let us have common sense.
Yes, globalists are aiming for control. Yes, a time of trouble is brewing. Yes, things are going to get worse and worse. No, God is not going to secretly remove His people from it all, when they have a job to do, preaching and proclaiming the everlasting Gospel! And that brings up another point. Second chances.
The Futurists believe people of the world get a second chance. The church is taken away, all hell breaks loose, and the world, having rejected truth up to that point, gets another another chance to repent and be saved, albeit in horrible conditions - that every other generation of believers has had to endure down through time.
I'm sorry, not sorry. Such nonsense has no place in the faith once delivered unto the saints. Tell me, what can be worse then that which previous generations of believers have had to endure being faithful unto Christ? Seriously? Do you know the tortures practiced upon believers during the Dark Ages? Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs, if you can stomach it.
"One of two things will interrupt the long-range plans of the sleeping saints in America:
- The Rapture will occur
- The Lord’s judgment on the U.S. will greatly increase and drastically change everything
I can say with absolute certainty, however, that those who know Jesus as their Savior will miss all of the Day of the Lord described in Isaiah 13 and 24 and all of the judgments of Revelation 6-18."
Do you see the moot points in that? If the "Rapture" occurs, what difference does any of what the man writes make? None of it means a thing. If the "Rapture" occurs today, every believer is taken away and that is that and his written concerns are null and void. They are null and void regardless, because of the erroneous doctrine itself, and those that surround it. Futurism is a lie. If the United States of America falls, that would certainly retard the process of the Gospel, seeing America sends out more missionaries than other nations but, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the kingdom of God, and factually, history has shown the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel. The testimony and witness of those who faithfully and fearlessly endured unto death down through the ages has given rise to a witness that changed the lives of untold numbers of onlookers.
If the Rapture does not occur, and America falls into Globalism, life gets inconvenient by greater and greater percentages and tough luck, we'll have to go through what God's people around the world already are going through, and have for thousands of years!
When Mr. Brentner and millions like him find out the "Rapture" is a fraud, a bogus belief and deception, and find themselves in the midst of everything they believed they would be saved from, what then? Talk about a bridge to hopelessness. Talk about a hard slap in the face of sober reality. Facing all the things they believed they would be spared from and having to make eternal decisions they thought they made already and could not be lost by any other kind of spiritual decision or choice? The Beast, the antichrist, is not some person in the future. The Mark is not some tattoo or chip or injection or any other physical thing placed upon or in people.
The Beast/antichrist power is the Papacy, their mark of authority is changing the Sabbath to Sunday, and when it is universally legislated, first in America, then the rest of the world, it shall become the prophetic mark of the beast, and the world will divide over the commandments of God or the commandments of men. That is the battle. Those are the battlefield grounds: truths in the mind, IN the forehead, not On the forehead or IN the hand. Spiritual realities take place in choices that refine character. That is the battle. The battle for the mind. Focred bar codes could be placed all over my body and that does not change my intellectual and spiritual choice to be loyal to God by obeying His commandments through grace through faith.
I cannot even imagine the confusion in the minds of those having to face what is coming when they were sure, certain beyond any doubt, because they believed what their preachers and teachers told them, that they would not be around to face it all. Truth means something NOW. The Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14 mean something now. When the final call to come out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon takes place, that is it. That is the last call to humanity to get right with God. Then human probation closes and thousands, hundreds of thousands of chances stop. Second chances? Every day affords new chances to serve the Lord. Humanity will be divided. Sheep/goats. Remnant/Harlots. The Loyal/the Rebellious. Then come the plagues. Then comes the end of the world. No secret whisking away but, a final triumphant return of Christ that shall literally shake the globe, the entire planet, and Christ shall gather up His harvest, from East to West, and take His people home; Earth a destroyed, burning, wasteland for Satan and his hosts to sit and ponder for a thousand years. Then Revelation 20 will take place. Then it's finally over, and total peace and eternity rolls on from there.
I feel for those who believe in Futurism. It is void of reality, common sense, and reason. It is not only not true, it is treacherously false. If you sit down with someone who believes it and show them the truth, they sit, looking like deer in the headlights. Better they are confused and straightened out now, then face what is coming in the near future. There will be no escape from that confusion and delusion then.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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565. Bird Houses? - May 19, 2022
I look at headlines and marvel that such things can be happening in America and around the world. That so few people can have so much control over multitudes that vote them into office is sickening. You would think they were all kings and queens running kingdoms over serfs and slaves; not elected, public, civil servants that are supposed to work and make life as simple and better as possible by staying out of the people's way.
I got so upset by the news I can't look at it anymore. Covid remains kicking around, and I am so sick and tired of all that BS, save for the aftereffects: the sick and dying from adverse effects of the injections, even while the same people in control try and push stuff under rugs, admitting to small infractions while investigators are uncovering corruption stacked to the top of pharma's, mega-billion dollar headquarters.
Biden... I wish everybody would just be honest and say president Obama. Biden is mentally incompetent. I doubt they even involve him in daily briefings or cabinet discussions. At least the disinformation bureau and pseudo-Mary Poppins is toast. It's back-shelfed, I'm sure. They'll find someone else, less looney-tunes sounding, to head it up and reintroduce it when they feel the timing is better - If they can survive the coming tidal wave of voter disgust and disapproval months away. Even Democrats are sorely disgusted. They have to deal with needless inflation like everybody else.
Ukraine. More people waking up to the propaganda and lies about that situation. Just the same, Ukraine is now everything for politicians while Americans literally have to choose between gasoline and putting food on the table.
None of it makes a dime's worth of sense, unless you know two things: the destructive death cult of Leftism and Bible prophecy. It still doesn't make any sense but, at least one can know who, what, when, where and why. The "how" tends to take a little longer but, it isn't as though the Devil has new tricks up his sleeve. Same ol,' same ol' with him - confusion, blindness, lack of critical thinking = control of multitudes.
To keep from having another stroke, oh, by the way, I've been losing weight. I stopped eating grain. Even though I have an intolerance to gluten and stopped eating wheat, etc., years ago, I stopped all other grains, as well. I have a few Lara bars for breakfast, head out to the shop, maybe grab a handful of almonds if hunger strikes; then I have various vegetable soups/stews I make. Cold or hot. They work fine, low in calories, weight comes off. No free sugar. Just whatever is in the bars, and fruit.
In the meantime, I have been busy every day out in the shop. I've had shells for new drums sitting, waiting for final finishes, and new drums to build for the drum shell series on my YT channel. My wife is involved in a new job, opening a new dental office but, the building is not done yet so, she's working from home, and way too much commotion out in the room I finish drums to try and put final coats on. Been seriously hot and humid, as well. Too much dust in the air. Too bad dust doesn't have a dollar value. Everybody in Texas would be millionaires.
We'll be selling and moving, that's the plan, anyway, though nothing exists on the market to make it work but, if/when, I am not taking half the stuff I have packed and loaded and moved time and time again in the past, and that means wood. Lots of wood. So, what to do with all the useless circles for plywood drum shells?
How about bird houses?
I got so upset by the news I can't look at it anymore. Covid remains kicking around, and I am so sick and tired of all that BS, save for the aftereffects: the sick and dying from adverse effects of the injections, even while the same people in control try and push stuff under rugs, admitting to small infractions while investigators are uncovering corruption stacked to the top of pharma's, mega-billion dollar headquarters.
Biden... I wish everybody would just be honest and say president Obama. Biden is mentally incompetent. I doubt they even involve him in daily briefings or cabinet discussions. At least the disinformation bureau and pseudo-Mary Poppins is toast. It's back-shelfed, I'm sure. They'll find someone else, less looney-tunes sounding, to head it up and reintroduce it when they feel the timing is better - If they can survive the coming tidal wave of voter disgust and disapproval months away. Even Democrats are sorely disgusted. They have to deal with needless inflation like everybody else.
Ukraine. More people waking up to the propaganda and lies about that situation. Just the same, Ukraine is now everything for politicians while Americans literally have to choose between gasoline and putting food on the table.
None of it makes a dime's worth of sense, unless you know two things: the destructive death cult of Leftism and Bible prophecy. It still doesn't make any sense but, at least one can know who, what, when, where and why. The "how" tends to take a little longer but, it isn't as though the Devil has new tricks up his sleeve. Same ol,' same ol' with him - confusion, blindness, lack of critical thinking = control of multitudes.
To keep from having another stroke, oh, by the way, I've been losing weight. I stopped eating grain. Even though I have an intolerance to gluten and stopped eating wheat, etc., years ago, I stopped all other grains, as well. I have a few Lara bars for breakfast, head out to the shop, maybe grab a handful of almonds if hunger strikes; then I have various vegetable soups/stews I make. Cold or hot. They work fine, low in calories, weight comes off. No free sugar. Just whatever is in the bars, and fruit.
In the meantime, I have been busy every day out in the shop. I've had shells for new drums sitting, waiting for final finishes, and new drums to build for the drum shell series on my YT channel. My wife is involved in a new job, opening a new dental office but, the building is not done yet so, she's working from home, and way too much commotion out in the room I finish drums to try and put final coats on. Been seriously hot and humid, as well. Too much dust in the air. Too bad dust doesn't have a dollar value. Everybody in Texas would be millionaires.
We'll be selling and moving, that's the plan, anyway, though nothing exists on the market to make it work but, if/when, I am not taking half the stuff I have packed and loaded and moved time and time again in the past, and that means wood. Lots of wood. So, what to do with all the useless circles for plywood drum shells?
How about bird houses?
Come each season we decorate accordingly. Spring and Summer we have flowers, birds, bird houses and stuff around the house. Pictured is a house I tried a year ago, along with a bird feeder hanging outside. Indoor plywood is not really happy outside, regardless of finish product, save for boat finishes. I thought about the expense and using it and thought about doing this for a small selling option but, the time is incredible. Nobody is going to pay what I'd have to get to deal with regular business issues - materials, tool wear, and time. The shells are already there. It's the tops that take the time. Incredible amounts of time, with the tools I have to work with.
So, a couple for my daughters and one for son-in-law and his new wife, and another I began a year ago and just never finished, that'll wind up somewhere in the house. I may even put a hinge on it and make a cookie jar out of it. Of course, I don't eat cookies so...
So, a couple for my daughters and one for son-in-law and his new wife, and another I began a year ago and just never finished, that'll wind up somewhere in the house. I may even put a hinge on it and make a cookie jar out of it. Of course, I don't eat cookies so...
Plywood does some crazy things depending on how you layer the pieces and shape and sand it all down. The above still need work, and finishes and perches.
The next drum set is going to be the challenge. A full stave set made with scraps I am not taking away from here. Basic pieces cut. Lots of work to go. It is going to shock people. Know why? The sound of a drum is the heads, not the shells. Having proved that time and again now, I need to add the cap stone.
Till next time.
I say again: Think for yourself. If you do not, someone will be happy to think for you.
The next drum set is going to be the challenge. A full stave set made with scraps I am not taking away from here. Basic pieces cut. Lots of work to go. It is going to shock people. Know why? The sound of a drum is the heads, not the shells. Having proved that time and again now, I need to add the cap stone.
Till next time.
I say again: Think for yourself. If you do not, someone will be happy to think for you.
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566. Monkey Pox - May 20, 2022
I sit here listening to the Cardinals outside, singing their songs as though everything is life as usual. It's not.
I have sufficiently underestimated the ability for Americans and other Western nation populace, to practice critical thinking. On the other hand, regardless, what is, is, now, and cannot be stopped. The die is cast.
If you do critically think things through, you realize the American government, and all Western Hemisphere governments, and all other governments, are thoroughly corrupt or corrupt enough to give cooperation to the establishment of a one world order to keep the planet from demise. If that means killing off billions to reset things, so be it, the cabal has thought through. They have no morals. They just live by the power of money. The time will come, states the Bible, they will throw their silver and gold to the moles and the bats for it shall become worthless when God asks for an accounting but, they don't believe that, and for all intents and purposes they are successfully pulling off their plans so, why not just keep going?
Honest elections are now history. Justice is cast into the street. People are trying to keep their heads above water, too tired to do anything in democracies where elections are the only avenue for change. Technology has now taken control. This is vastly different than control factors in the past. History has shown two parties with the same advantages - hand made weapons. One side always had more and more professionals to use them against dissent but, at some point the numbers of dissention grow and those same iron weapons, arrows, whatever, down to the entrance of firearms, could be used to stage revolutions and overthrow tyranny. That is gone. Technology: 1's and 0's, has changed all that.
Governments are signing over individual sovereignty to one of the most dangerous and corrupt orders on the planet: the World Health Organization. Various nations, like the USA, require approval from various government bodies within nations to ratify such acts and treaties and staged authority but, all of that is meaningless as we see governments filled with corrupt people pushing pens on papers however their handlers tell them to. If the American Senate actually stops ratification of the Biden/radical Leftist treason... well, I'll believe it when I see it, and even then, nothing has the longevity of integrity to maintain hope.
The world will be under the control of the WHO. Lockdowns for any "health" reason they determine. Civil wars will break out, of necessity because, like in America, some states have governors and legislative bodies that will not go along with this treason. But, again, I probably underestimate the resolve necessary to accomplish tasks of gargantuan order when this takeover truly gets into gear. Not many state governors or legislative bodies in America could take the pressures. The new round of America-first candidates rising up in various states, face tech, again, and whatever criminal activity necessary, come November.
For a little while now I have watched stories of the Monkey Pox gaining territory. It's a pretty disgusting thing. Another pandemic is coming. Add to that a bird flu that can jump species, including human, plus plans for food distribution of chemical and tech contents to get people while they just eat... eat what's left to eat, and planetary population reduction will continue. Technology shall provide infrastructure and enough people will be kept around to keep the lights on when things need repair. Other than that the 'useless eaters' will be removed so "Mother Earth" can rest easy again.
Monkey Pox carries a visual element. Talk about a way to instill fear in people. Wait till pictures of it appear on every screen, every magazine, newspaper, and billboard.
Oddly enough (I jest), Bill Gates has a vaccine for that. Of course he does. His companies work around the clock, around the world to protect humanity from these new plagues.
Monkey Pox. It just sounds bad, doesn't it? African, South American, Asian jungles of darkness and danger.
BTW, why are we seeing so much about lack of baby formula and not a word (that I have seen) about breast feeding? It isn't as though God has not addressed the need. What am I missing here? The same as not seeing a word about the human immune system when the "pandemic" struck. ALL INFORMATION put out by international corporation-owned news is controlled, worded, structured, and delivered for optimal effect. It has zip to do with informing people and everything to do with controlling people.
Monkey Pox. Masks, forget. Enough people know they are worthless and logically, as well as medically proven, to be dangerous after just a few hours of straight wearing them. Or do they? So, what can you do to stop the spread of Monkey Pox? Of course, quarantine the world again. And trust me. This time, people will want to stay tucked away into their homes.
We wait to see if a nuke will get dropped somewhere and add that to the nightmare coming. Maybe Yellowstone will blow.
Oh, and again, forget about the secret rapture taking believers out of this building human quagmire of scrambled eggs. Wait till you see the fear on the faces of Christians expecting that event to save them and it does not take place.
This is a masterful batter to bake a cake of epic proportions. Lucifer does not play. This is war, all day, every day for him.
But, remember. Cries of 'peace and safety' will ring out. A stabilizing, rescuing, beneficent element is going to appear at some point. Religious revival is going to take place at some point, both false and then the true.
Nobody can adequately portray what is coming in the years to come. Technology will advance, exponentially, while humanity suffers for it. Well, some humanity. Others will be part of the glowing future seen on billboards around the world. Hollywood told us. The Gospel according to Hollywood has given us all the info to know what is coming, for decades now. It has just been seen as sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian 'Hunger Game' entertainment. Can't possibly be reality.
Think again.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I have sufficiently underestimated the ability for Americans and other Western nation populace, to practice critical thinking. On the other hand, regardless, what is, is, now, and cannot be stopped. The die is cast.
If you do critically think things through, you realize the American government, and all Western Hemisphere governments, and all other governments, are thoroughly corrupt or corrupt enough to give cooperation to the establishment of a one world order to keep the planet from demise. If that means killing off billions to reset things, so be it, the cabal has thought through. They have no morals. They just live by the power of money. The time will come, states the Bible, they will throw their silver and gold to the moles and the bats for it shall become worthless when God asks for an accounting but, they don't believe that, and for all intents and purposes they are successfully pulling off their plans so, why not just keep going?
Honest elections are now history. Justice is cast into the street. People are trying to keep their heads above water, too tired to do anything in democracies where elections are the only avenue for change. Technology has now taken control. This is vastly different than control factors in the past. History has shown two parties with the same advantages - hand made weapons. One side always had more and more professionals to use them against dissent but, at some point the numbers of dissention grow and those same iron weapons, arrows, whatever, down to the entrance of firearms, could be used to stage revolutions and overthrow tyranny. That is gone. Technology: 1's and 0's, has changed all that.
Governments are signing over individual sovereignty to one of the most dangerous and corrupt orders on the planet: the World Health Organization. Various nations, like the USA, require approval from various government bodies within nations to ratify such acts and treaties and staged authority but, all of that is meaningless as we see governments filled with corrupt people pushing pens on papers however their handlers tell them to. If the American Senate actually stops ratification of the Biden/radical Leftist treason... well, I'll believe it when I see it, and even then, nothing has the longevity of integrity to maintain hope.
The world will be under the control of the WHO. Lockdowns for any "health" reason they determine. Civil wars will break out, of necessity because, like in America, some states have governors and legislative bodies that will not go along with this treason. But, again, I probably underestimate the resolve necessary to accomplish tasks of gargantuan order when this takeover truly gets into gear. Not many state governors or legislative bodies in America could take the pressures. The new round of America-first candidates rising up in various states, face tech, again, and whatever criminal activity necessary, come November.
For a little while now I have watched stories of the Monkey Pox gaining territory. It's a pretty disgusting thing. Another pandemic is coming. Add to that a bird flu that can jump species, including human, plus plans for food distribution of chemical and tech contents to get people while they just eat... eat what's left to eat, and planetary population reduction will continue. Technology shall provide infrastructure and enough people will be kept around to keep the lights on when things need repair. Other than that the 'useless eaters' will be removed so "Mother Earth" can rest easy again.
Monkey Pox carries a visual element. Talk about a way to instill fear in people. Wait till pictures of it appear on every screen, every magazine, newspaper, and billboard.
Oddly enough (I jest), Bill Gates has a vaccine for that. Of course he does. His companies work around the clock, around the world to protect humanity from these new plagues.
Monkey Pox. It just sounds bad, doesn't it? African, South American, Asian jungles of darkness and danger.
BTW, why are we seeing so much about lack of baby formula and not a word (that I have seen) about breast feeding? It isn't as though God has not addressed the need. What am I missing here? The same as not seeing a word about the human immune system when the "pandemic" struck. ALL INFORMATION put out by international corporation-owned news is controlled, worded, structured, and delivered for optimal effect. It has zip to do with informing people and everything to do with controlling people.
Monkey Pox. Masks, forget. Enough people know they are worthless and logically, as well as medically proven, to be dangerous after just a few hours of straight wearing them. Or do they? So, what can you do to stop the spread of Monkey Pox? Of course, quarantine the world again. And trust me. This time, people will want to stay tucked away into their homes.
We wait to see if a nuke will get dropped somewhere and add that to the nightmare coming. Maybe Yellowstone will blow.
Oh, and again, forget about the secret rapture taking believers out of this building human quagmire of scrambled eggs. Wait till you see the fear on the faces of Christians expecting that event to save them and it does not take place.
This is a masterful batter to bake a cake of epic proportions. Lucifer does not play. This is war, all day, every day for him.
But, remember. Cries of 'peace and safety' will ring out. A stabilizing, rescuing, beneficent element is going to appear at some point. Religious revival is going to take place at some point, both false and then the true.
Nobody can adequately portray what is coming in the years to come. Technology will advance, exponentially, while humanity suffers for it. Well, some humanity. Others will be part of the glowing future seen on billboards around the world. Hollywood told us. The Gospel according to Hollywood has given us all the info to know what is coming, for decades now. It has just been seen as sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian 'Hunger Game' entertainment. Can't possibly be reality.
Think again.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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567. Come, Let Us Reason Together - May 21, 2022
Last night, watching a Michael Behe video on 'cells,' I learned I have held an astonishing belief about the number of cells in our bodies. Matter of fact, I recall writing a blog post recently where I mentioned humans have around two trillion cells in their bodies. Nay! Modern research has now discovered an estimated 30-40 trillion cells in our bodies. They all have preprogramming to do various jobs, are all actual factories, if not entire microscopic cities with the same types of life in them - workers, policing, sanitation, governing, health, repair shops, and so much more, it is mindboggling. I remember telling a friend about that years ago and he just looked at me like I was off my nut. It is even more sophisticated and marvelous than I understood at the time.
Check out this current video, #6 in Dr. Behe's series on cells. Naturally magnetized bacteria? It's amazing -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOOeAzKOoY
I have written a lot about the subject of Creation versus Materialism, Naturalism and Macro-evolution. One of the reasons Intelligent Design does not go away is because new research constantly, consistently shows elements of design in life. The side of time and accidents coming up with life to begin with is astronomical enough, even statistically impossible but, the variations from that point onward... there isn't enough time to pull it all off. The math just won't allow for it.
I used to think calling Evolutionism a religion was kind of over the top. Not anymore. The person who believes Materialism believes in miracles as much as I do. A miracle is something supernatural, above the natural universe we know. Well, the universe, itself, continues to reveal things that make the 'everything from nothing' belief a product of faith that easily challenges the type of faith any religion requires.
One would not think it possible scientists could not practice critical thinking: going where all the evidence leads but, it is true, nonetheless. We now live in a world with such thick shrouds covering minds, obvious evidence, mountains of evidence, for anything and all things just does not make a difference and penetrate frontal lobes to make reasonable assessments.
Here's a for instance. I saw a headline about a statement by Dr. Ben Carson. He is world renowned for children's surgery, ran for president and had a cabinet position in Trump's administration. His statement is not about medicine or science or creation, and he is a creationist. No, his statement was about common sense.
If someone kills a pregnant woman they can be charged for two murders. Yet, if someone murders the baby inside her, that is not even one murder. How can that be? It is void of logic, reason, and common sense. Doctors deliver babies full term and premature. Is it a baby, premature? Of course it is! Yet other doctors kill those premature babies, and laws are now being passed that says the baby can be killed at maturity! How is it not murder, if the woman can be killed before she delivers the baby and the killer is guilty of two deaths?
Since the recent SCOTUS leak, demonstrations have shown women bragging, trumpeting, praising, reveling, joking, and stating unbelievably dark and barren remarks about killing babies inside them. It is no different to them than taking out the trash or placing food scraps in a garbage disposal.
I remember back in the 70's a doctor changed his mind and stopped performing abortions once he saw images from a camera placed inside the womb showing babies screaming in pain, being dismembered and sucked out like junk in a pool. I can never forget those images seen on Nightline that evening. As I recall, I was not yet a Christian. I was an atheist, and stood confounded and aghast that anyone could argue what the evidence clearly showed. The doctor was roundly rejected and castigated for his position, though many did change their minds on the subject. Fifty years later and the same rejection of evidence, even more dark and ugly, exists.
When someone tells me it is nonsense that the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment cannot possibly be the element of eternal decision prophecy states, I say, Look at society. Look at civilization. The Sabbath is about remembering creation. Creation of time, matter and life. The fourth commandment is the heart of the Law. It is about God's sovereignty because of His creative power. Right now, as I type, babies are being aborted to death. Their lives are being terminated by people who flatly reject creation and believe, if anything, that everything is an accident. So, babies are accidents, too. Get pregnant, "just take care of it." It is not a baby. It's just trillions of cells, which are just microscopic blobs and tissue. The lack of critical thinking to draw such a conclusion is the same rejection of evidence that keeps Fauci and people in his orbit from being arrested, that keeps the Biden crime family, and the Clinton cabal from being arrested; that rejects the FACT that a presidential election became a criminal enterprise; that believes life is an accident, and everything that is, is a series of mutations, not design, and just trillions of accidents down through time.
The Sabbath says, NO. The Sabbath states God is Creator of the universe. Life is from a Designer, a Potentate of authority beyond the combined power and authority of all humanity and their lofty positions down through all human history. He is infinitely more powerful and Sovereign. The very fact He allows mankind to make ignorant, foolish, boisterous, and deadly decisions every moment of every day shows a restraint that is truly breathtaking. Yet, mankind shakes their fist, and says, "Butt out. Not needed here. Not wanted. My life is mine. I'll do what I want." Well, even among men exist laws that deny the full extent of such choice.
A guy rides a motorcycle past my house frequently and by the sight and sound is traveling over 100 mph. Trucks go by at 80 and they are moving slow compared to this guy. You will never see a police car up this way. Too far outside of town and nobody ever catches him or stops him. He gets away with it. All over the world people, high and low, are getting away with law breaking. They think that. They get caught when they makes mistakes in the process and even at that, law breaking is a custom now, in Washington, DC. It's habitual, systemic and crucial to success of plans.
Here's what Christ said, Every idle word that people speak they shall give account of in the day of judgment. Every idle word. Meaningless statements. Empty, silly, nonsense. All recorded. All written down. All there to stand against the idle or serious sinner when they stand before their Creator in that day.
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
God gives people chances; all day, every day, to come to their senses. Years, decades, lifetimes of sin and rejection of evidence to the contrary of our selfish, reckless, determined ways. It amazes me people can look at war and ask, Where's God? How can He allow such carnage? But, kill a growing baby in a womb and those same people, to the tune of tens of millions of deaths over the decades, do not blink an eye. The hypocrisy, the blindness, the confusion is truly stunning. Well, it is stunning to those who make the connection to truth and its life, and its Life-giver, who is the Lawgiver.
The human race is not just divided. It is developing fruit. Fruit that shall become so obvious to onlookers when Christ returns to harvest His people, the demarcation between the righteous and the wicked will not present a hint of difficulty to the angelic host gathering up those going home. It shall be as Jesus taught. When the harvest shows, it shall be ready.
Right now, much is identifiable but, there remains multitudes with only internal matters and decisions. Angels cannot read minds. God can. He knows every thought, and those are written down, as well. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It does not necessarily show in the outward, daily existence. The time shall come when every thought will produce outward action. We look at humanity and see... in some cases goodness, and more cases wickedness. The vast majority, we cannot tell, and truthfully it is not our job to tell. We are asked to judge actions, not character or motives. The time is coming when character and motives will literally display for God or against God. All humanity obviously on one side or the other, and mark it, the lost side will claim loyalty to God. They will seek to kill God's people and think they do God service.
The world is going to become a seething cauldron of hatred, even in the midst of its great signs and wonders revival to arrive and cause the lost host to proclaim 'Peace and safety.' It all seems an oxymoron. Lucifer is the epitome of an oxymoron. The highest of created beings, next to the throne of God, became the darkest of minds and actions, the originator of all that is evil. And he shall have a world of followers devoted to him, without knowing it is him. Deception. He is out to deceive the whole world. He is succeeding.
The only way to get out of this alive is to reason with God. He is wholly reasonable and willing.
Are we?
If a cell can be a city, a microscopic, designed city of life, surely God knows you and why you are the way you are, and do the things you do, and if He is willing to change you, if He came and lived and died to change us, let us be reasonable and choose life as God defines life, and how to live it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Check out this current video, #6 in Dr. Behe's series on cells. Naturally magnetized bacteria? It's amazing -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOOeAzKOoY
I have written a lot about the subject of Creation versus Materialism, Naturalism and Macro-evolution. One of the reasons Intelligent Design does not go away is because new research constantly, consistently shows elements of design in life. The side of time and accidents coming up with life to begin with is astronomical enough, even statistically impossible but, the variations from that point onward... there isn't enough time to pull it all off. The math just won't allow for it.
I used to think calling Evolutionism a religion was kind of over the top. Not anymore. The person who believes Materialism believes in miracles as much as I do. A miracle is something supernatural, above the natural universe we know. Well, the universe, itself, continues to reveal things that make the 'everything from nothing' belief a product of faith that easily challenges the type of faith any religion requires.
One would not think it possible scientists could not practice critical thinking: going where all the evidence leads but, it is true, nonetheless. We now live in a world with such thick shrouds covering minds, obvious evidence, mountains of evidence, for anything and all things just does not make a difference and penetrate frontal lobes to make reasonable assessments.
Here's a for instance. I saw a headline about a statement by Dr. Ben Carson. He is world renowned for children's surgery, ran for president and had a cabinet position in Trump's administration. His statement is not about medicine or science or creation, and he is a creationist. No, his statement was about common sense.
If someone kills a pregnant woman they can be charged for two murders. Yet, if someone murders the baby inside her, that is not even one murder. How can that be? It is void of logic, reason, and common sense. Doctors deliver babies full term and premature. Is it a baby, premature? Of course it is! Yet other doctors kill those premature babies, and laws are now being passed that says the baby can be killed at maturity! How is it not murder, if the woman can be killed before she delivers the baby and the killer is guilty of two deaths?
Since the recent SCOTUS leak, demonstrations have shown women bragging, trumpeting, praising, reveling, joking, and stating unbelievably dark and barren remarks about killing babies inside them. It is no different to them than taking out the trash or placing food scraps in a garbage disposal.
I remember back in the 70's a doctor changed his mind and stopped performing abortions once he saw images from a camera placed inside the womb showing babies screaming in pain, being dismembered and sucked out like junk in a pool. I can never forget those images seen on Nightline that evening. As I recall, I was not yet a Christian. I was an atheist, and stood confounded and aghast that anyone could argue what the evidence clearly showed. The doctor was roundly rejected and castigated for his position, though many did change their minds on the subject. Fifty years later and the same rejection of evidence, even more dark and ugly, exists.
When someone tells me it is nonsense that the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment cannot possibly be the element of eternal decision prophecy states, I say, Look at society. Look at civilization. The Sabbath is about remembering creation. Creation of time, matter and life. The fourth commandment is the heart of the Law. It is about God's sovereignty because of His creative power. Right now, as I type, babies are being aborted to death. Their lives are being terminated by people who flatly reject creation and believe, if anything, that everything is an accident. So, babies are accidents, too. Get pregnant, "just take care of it." It is not a baby. It's just trillions of cells, which are just microscopic blobs and tissue. The lack of critical thinking to draw such a conclusion is the same rejection of evidence that keeps Fauci and people in his orbit from being arrested, that keeps the Biden crime family, and the Clinton cabal from being arrested; that rejects the FACT that a presidential election became a criminal enterprise; that believes life is an accident, and everything that is, is a series of mutations, not design, and just trillions of accidents down through time.
The Sabbath says, NO. The Sabbath states God is Creator of the universe. Life is from a Designer, a Potentate of authority beyond the combined power and authority of all humanity and their lofty positions down through all human history. He is infinitely more powerful and Sovereign. The very fact He allows mankind to make ignorant, foolish, boisterous, and deadly decisions every moment of every day shows a restraint that is truly breathtaking. Yet, mankind shakes their fist, and says, "Butt out. Not needed here. Not wanted. My life is mine. I'll do what I want." Well, even among men exist laws that deny the full extent of such choice.
A guy rides a motorcycle past my house frequently and by the sight and sound is traveling over 100 mph. Trucks go by at 80 and they are moving slow compared to this guy. You will never see a police car up this way. Too far outside of town and nobody ever catches him or stops him. He gets away with it. All over the world people, high and low, are getting away with law breaking. They think that. They get caught when they makes mistakes in the process and even at that, law breaking is a custom now, in Washington, DC. It's habitual, systemic and crucial to success of plans.
Here's what Christ said, Every idle word that people speak they shall give account of in the day of judgment. Every idle word. Meaningless statements. Empty, silly, nonsense. All recorded. All written down. All there to stand against the idle or serious sinner when they stand before their Creator in that day.
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
God gives people chances; all day, every day, to come to their senses. Years, decades, lifetimes of sin and rejection of evidence to the contrary of our selfish, reckless, determined ways. It amazes me people can look at war and ask, Where's God? How can He allow such carnage? But, kill a growing baby in a womb and those same people, to the tune of tens of millions of deaths over the decades, do not blink an eye. The hypocrisy, the blindness, the confusion is truly stunning. Well, it is stunning to those who make the connection to truth and its life, and its Life-giver, who is the Lawgiver.
The human race is not just divided. It is developing fruit. Fruit that shall become so obvious to onlookers when Christ returns to harvest His people, the demarcation between the righteous and the wicked will not present a hint of difficulty to the angelic host gathering up those going home. It shall be as Jesus taught. When the harvest shows, it shall be ready.
Right now, much is identifiable but, there remains multitudes with only internal matters and decisions. Angels cannot read minds. God can. He knows every thought, and those are written down, as well. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It does not necessarily show in the outward, daily existence. The time shall come when every thought will produce outward action. We look at humanity and see... in some cases goodness, and more cases wickedness. The vast majority, we cannot tell, and truthfully it is not our job to tell. We are asked to judge actions, not character or motives. The time is coming when character and motives will literally display for God or against God. All humanity obviously on one side or the other, and mark it, the lost side will claim loyalty to God. They will seek to kill God's people and think they do God service.
The world is going to become a seething cauldron of hatred, even in the midst of its great signs and wonders revival to arrive and cause the lost host to proclaim 'Peace and safety.' It all seems an oxymoron. Lucifer is the epitome of an oxymoron. The highest of created beings, next to the throne of God, became the darkest of minds and actions, the originator of all that is evil. And he shall have a world of followers devoted to him, without knowing it is him. Deception. He is out to deceive the whole world. He is succeeding.
The only way to get out of this alive is to reason with God. He is wholly reasonable and willing.
Are we?
If a cell can be a city, a microscopic, designed city of life, surely God knows you and why you are the way you are, and do the things you do, and if He is willing to change you, if He came and lived and died to change us, let us be reasonable and choose life as God defines life, and how to live it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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568. A Difference in Perspectives
Every week I check out the NASA photo archives for the weekly pictures they posted: astronomy picture of the day. I've mentioned it numerous times before. I've been going to the site for many years now. Fascinating stuff. The perspective of explanations for things varies greatly, though. I'm no astronomer but, let it be known, there is far more that astronomers do not know about the universe, than what they do know.
Here's an example of difference in perspectives. On the May 17 entry is this picture:
Here's an example of difference in perspectives. On the May 17 entry is this picture:
It shows two galaxies. Well, others, as well but, two to focus on. The picture description states it this way:
NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit & Copyright: Capture: Greg Turgeon; Processing: Kiko Fairbairn
"Explanation: Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Investigations indicate that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just on the upper right. Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic of a spiral galaxy, and faint swirls and shells of stars and gas visible in this wide and deep image. One thing that >remains unexplained is the unusually small globular star clusters, seen as faint dots on the image. Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than NGC 1316. Yet the observed globulars are too old to have been created by the recent spiral collision. One hypothesis is that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. Another surprising attribute of NGC 1316, also known as Fornax A, is its giant lobes of gas that glow brightly in radio waves."
Mr. Turgeon captured a great shot. Whatever was involved in the processing, Kiko Fairbairn did an excellent job, yes? Phenomenal stuff.
The perspective of NASA is that the galaxies are 'colliding,' the larger 'devouring' the smaller. Everything with materialists is about accidents and death. From my perspective as a believer in the Creator, I see a dance, a choregraphed exhibit of literal, galactic proportions. And the speed at which it is happening is astounding as well but, so far away it cannot be fully visualized. Picture an airliner far away, traveling at 600 mph and it seems to be moving so slowly it should fall from the sky. Magnify that scenario by lightyears of size and distance.
I see the Creator engaged in spectacle: in artistry so meticulous we are told stars rarely, if ever, collide in these events. Wait, two galaxies of hundreds of billions of stars moving at incredible speeds and nothing collides? Are you serious? Well, we are told the distances between stars is so great it is more space than objects to strike each other. Yet the number of stars is so great their collective light creates a visual mist and individual stars cannot be detected by natural eyesight. In my mind, it is no chance happening. It is a designed event.
Picture if every galaxy has just one world with life on it. That would be at least two trillion planets. So, your world is in the midst of a galaxy, somewhere in the arms or floating, moving in the elliptical mass of stars the Creator of gravity holds together. Another galaxy is moving your way and in time the population of your worlds watch as they begin to intertwine and stars move within stars. Look at the Andromeda galaxy. We are told it and the Milky Way are moving closer together and shall be involved in one of these dances, someday. Andromeda is larger and if you have seen this video, you realize what such a dance entails:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8&t=0s
You cannot be unimpressed by what such a dance involves. Stars like the sands of the seas, yet trillions of miles apart from each other, gives you a faint idea what the grand scale of galaxies actually is.
And let us say a couple stars do collide and produce an explosion beyond human comprehension. Destructive? Why not see fireworks on the order of Heaven, not a July 4th example. Imagine being a citizen of one of those two worlds in those two galaxies watching such an impact, fully far enough away from you to pose no harm but well within view. And if many stars do connect, a fireworks show beyond imagination.
In my God's universe harmony exists, peace exists. The full extent of apprehending dreams are realized by those who live in loyalty and oneness with their Creator. Call them the sons of God, the ninety-nine, citizens of God's kingdom out there, where sin does not touch; only the wonders of God, undefiled are incorporated into daily existence.
Man sees destruction all the time. Given a world where death is so prevalent, that makes sense. And yet death does not exist beyond this world. This world is the one that rebelled, through our first parents. The others passed any tests given them. They view this world as the alien among them.
I see music and artistry and imagination in such events. Even the Hubble photo could have been left alone, no music but, why do people instinctively put music to such photos and create videos from them? Because we are not microbes from mud puddles. We are created and endowed with creative thoughts and ideas.
What I see in those two galaxies, God did that, through being born-again, converted, changed in mind. As tough as life is, that is the logical direction to travel.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit & Copyright: Capture: Greg Turgeon; Processing: Kiko Fairbairn
"Explanation: Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Investigations indicate that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just on the upper right. Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic of a spiral galaxy, and faint swirls and shells of stars and gas visible in this wide and deep image. One thing that >remains unexplained is the unusually small globular star clusters, seen as faint dots on the image. Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than NGC 1316. Yet the observed globulars are too old to have been created by the recent spiral collision. One hypothesis is that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. Another surprising attribute of NGC 1316, also known as Fornax A, is its giant lobes of gas that glow brightly in radio waves."
Mr. Turgeon captured a great shot. Whatever was involved in the processing, Kiko Fairbairn did an excellent job, yes? Phenomenal stuff.
The perspective of NASA is that the galaxies are 'colliding,' the larger 'devouring' the smaller. Everything with materialists is about accidents and death. From my perspective as a believer in the Creator, I see a dance, a choregraphed exhibit of literal, galactic proportions. And the speed at which it is happening is astounding as well but, so far away it cannot be fully visualized. Picture an airliner far away, traveling at 600 mph and it seems to be moving so slowly it should fall from the sky. Magnify that scenario by lightyears of size and distance.
I see the Creator engaged in spectacle: in artistry so meticulous we are told stars rarely, if ever, collide in these events. Wait, two galaxies of hundreds of billions of stars moving at incredible speeds and nothing collides? Are you serious? Well, we are told the distances between stars is so great it is more space than objects to strike each other. Yet the number of stars is so great their collective light creates a visual mist and individual stars cannot be detected by natural eyesight. In my mind, it is no chance happening. It is a designed event.
Picture if every galaxy has just one world with life on it. That would be at least two trillion planets. So, your world is in the midst of a galaxy, somewhere in the arms or floating, moving in the elliptical mass of stars the Creator of gravity holds together. Another galaxy is moving your way and in time the population of your worlds watch as they begin to intertwine and stars move within stars. Look at the Andromeda galaxy. We are told it and the Milky Way are moving closer together and shall be involved in one of these dances, someday. Andromeda is larger and if you have seen this video, you realize what such a dance entails:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8&t=0s
You cannot be unimpressed by what such a dance involves. Stars like the sands of the seas, yet trillions of miles apart from each other, gives you a faint idea what the grand scale of galaxies actually is.
And let us say a couple stars do collide and produce an explosion beyond human comprehension. Destructive? Why not see fireworks on the order of Heaven, not a July 4th example. Imagine being a citizen of one of those two worlds in those two galaxies watching such an impact, fully far enough away from you to pose no harm but well within view. And if many stars do connect, a fireworks show beyond imagination.
In my God's universe harmony exists, peace exists. The full extent of apprehending dreams are realized by those who live in loyalty and oneness with their Creator. Call them the sons of God, the ninety-nine, citizens of God's kingdom out there, where sin does not touch; only the wonders of God, undefiled are incorporated into daily existence.
Man sees destruction all the time. Given a world where death is so prevalent, that makes sense. And yet death does not exist beyond this world. This world is the one that rebelled, through our first parents. The others passed any tests given them. They view this world as the alien among them.
I see music and artistry and imagination in such events. Even the Hubble photo could have been left alone, no music but, why do people instinctively put music to such photos and create videos from them? Because we are not microbes from mud puddles. We are created and endowed with creative thoughts and ideas.
What I see in those two galaxies, God did that, through being born-again, converted, changed in mind. As tough as life is, that is the logical direction to travel.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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569. Congressional UAP Hearing - May 21, 2022
What does God intend us to believe about...
A Congressional sub-committee held a six-hour session asking a Rep from the Navy, and a Pentagon Rep about UFOs, USAPs, ET, etc. As expected by people within UFOlogy it was a big nothingbuger. Questions were empty, for the most part, and answers even more empty, even for those questions that had some thought and background to them.
UFOs exist. Denying that is foolish. That makes the Pentagon foolish. Although, they now admit they exist but, they deny any real knowledge of them. Nobody with any knowledge of American and world history where UFOs have impacted citizenry by sight (I'm not getting into abductions here), believes the government/military stonewalling. They don't just obfuscate. They lie. Their reasons? They aren't telling. Could be embarrassment: that things are flying around out there that they have zip to show for knowledge of or, some believe more likely, people will freak out if they are told the truth. Can't have a national populace freaking out. Then why tell Americans about near misses of UAPs with military craft? Why have military sign non-disclosure agreements that deny them free speech rights to tell what they see? Ah, yes. Matters of national security. If you state you have no knowledge of these things beyond a small number of sightings that cannot be naturally explained, where does the aspect of national security come in? There is no national security where UAPs come in. Whatever they are, whatever they can do is beyond the security the military can provide so... why the lies? Mm. Back to the embarrassment explanation.
Of course, they just freaked out the majority of the populace with a supposed bat virus and shut the planet down. Logic declares they really do not care what the populace thinks or believes or how it reacts, save for what they want for reactions and compliance to building a one world order.
Ah, but, ET is apparently not cooperating.
Once again, our options.
Natural, explainable occurrences (which make up fully 90% or more of sightings).
Human made - U.S. Government, other governments.
Private corporation made.
ET made.
All the above.
Government/military does not openly address the ET option and apparently is now suggesting laws be made that deny misinformation or disinformation of that explanation. Once again, putting a lid on free speech is being openly discussed, sought after, and soon, if they get away with it, actualized.
Government can no longer be believed in any of its factors or tentacles. They have made that abundantly clear by their consistent speech and actions. It makes more sense at this point to believe the opposite of anything it states. If they say they do not know, they definitely know.
I came across an article that attempts to put another slant on the subject:
https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/denison-forum/what-god-may-have-intended-with-the-question-of-alien-life.html
The basic idea is that life beyond Earth is unknowable, thereby unimportant, is a distraction from contemplation of far more important matters, and the size and grandeur of the universe is God's way of telling us how great He is and how much He loves us to let us see and learn more about Him as the universe is studied. I would not argue any of that. For the most part he is correct in the essential points he raises. Where do I digress?
Here's the thing. The subject matter is there. In the last 80 years hundreds of thousands if not well over a million people have seen things zipping or floating or moving around up there that defy natural explanation of typical human understanding or abilities. They are there, whatever they are.
They are moving at incredible speeds, maneuvering in incredible ways, all without fossil fuels. How? What benefit to mankind would be given if such technology were known and available to all humanity? That reason, alone, should make it a subject of necessary universal knowledge and understanding.
If one cannot believe its government reps - and you should know other national governments are now quite open and honest about the subject and the information they have gathered over the decades so, that makes the U.S. government even more suspect and unbelievable - where does one go for some kind of truthful explanation?
The author of the linked article states the Bible does not say either way, whether life exists beyond Earth. That is, at least, more accurate than those Christians who state the Bible declares no life exists beyond Earth, period. At the same time, if you have been a regular reader here, you know the position that states the Bible does make declarations that at least allude to life beyond Earth.
All of this means something. What? Options?
*Governments, private corporations put this stuff out and up there and watch for ways to use what they have developed, especially when it comes to warfare. One would think logic declares if any government had such craft, they'd have been weaponized at the same time of development and by now, one nation would control the world. All advanced nations have military and private citizens that have observed these things, as well as nations not highly advanced but, in advanced nations such craft would determine the fate of war.
*ET sends drones throughout the galaxy, exists, travels, observes, studies but, maintains distance. They do not get involved.
*ET does the above and at the right time will reveal themselves to humanity and help us out of the mess that has been made.
*ET has plans, alright: the collection or control of all planetary natural resources and removal of sentient life at the necessary time.
*Add in morals. Some ET has some, others do not. At some point a battle for Earth, beyond Earthlings takes place.
*Craft and ET entities are visual deceptions of the Devil or actual, physical objects and are part of a final delusion before Christ returns. Just because angels can exist, unseen among us, in other dimensions or supernatural reality does not mean Satan has no use for genetic mastering and distorting Roses to contain thorns as well as flowers. He exists in our real, physical world. Using real, physical things for deception and human suffering, as well as pleasure unto disobedience, is only logical. How does he obtain them? Through human endeavor or another way, unknown to us. That does not matter. If we knew, it would not change the reality of craft flying in the globe's atmosphere and beyond. Lots of video has been taken from things seen in space, especially concerning the International Space Station.
If other options exist, it matters because all the options involve ultimate decisions for humanity and those elected to serve the people. Yeah, yeah, most of them only serve themselves now and hope to have decent places in the cabal when the NWO takes shape. That's another subject. Suffice to say enough elected civil servants appear to remain that would want the world notified and warned of threats or exposed to benefits, which could potentially stop war. Ah, but war makes money, money controls people, and therefore, this entire scope of a subject could just be a wildly elaborate scam for war beyond turf, into space. War mongers must have war, after all. But, that does not explain centuries of sightings, does it?
I don't know how many books have been written or interviews given by those once in the military or government that have stated what they have seen, heard or know about the subject. Dozens and dozens. Maybe hundreds by now. The only book I care about to address the matter is the Bible. It tells me what God wants me to know and is not opinions. It's mandatory reading for those who hope to live in eternity.
From that perspective there is only one logical option. The subject matters because it can and probably will be used for last-day deceptions.
I have mentioned this before and shall repeat it. Went into a Walmart some time back and walking through the gadget section a bunch of tvs were playing in ultra-high definition. A tortoise was pictured and the detail on those screens was better than what my own eyes could see, even with readers on. It was astounding. That was man's inventions on display. Trust me, all life in the universe can see exactly what is happening on this world in hi-def beyond our comprehension. They don't have any need to come here and check the place out. They have been, probably since the fall of Adam and Eve. Angels, that do come here in service to the Creator, see well beyond human capabilities. Man was made "a little lower than the angels," Heb. 2:6,7.
Using the Bible for info, I am ruling out ET. Private corporation R&D? Drones maybe. Humans could not withstand the G-forces these craft move at. Guv/military? I doubt it. Man cannot help himself and dominance is the goal. If the U.S. or any other government had this stuff, they'd have put it on the table and told everybody to behave, or else, long before now.
The only logical answer is Satan and future plans. Given the first recorded sighting of a UFO was way back in the 17th century, as I understand it, Lucifer has given this a whole bunch of thought for a projected outcome. Go back farther than that, in ancient cave paintings, cultural murals and drawings, etc., and his ideas for deception go back even farther.
No, rule out Ezekiel's wheel. Not a space craft. The vision has far more connotation and meaning than that (see #271).
I view all of this through the prism of the Bible. It can break things down much better and it is a shame, if not a crime people twist it to mean things it does not state, and state things it does not mean. Compare Scripture with Scripture, all of it. Yes, it takes some time. Humans have little better to do. The Bible even states it this way:
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
God's truth more necessary than your food, at least as important? Then people have time to study the Bible, if they chose to.
The Bible makes it plain that Satan deceives. That is his existence, to deceive people. The entire UFO subject is vitally important because deceptions are happening and are coming, and if, as some think, these physical craft are piloted by beneficent beings, then the deceptions are going to be positive, not negative, which coincides with all the Bible states about last-day delusions of signs and wonders.
I write upon this subject because it increases in nature, not decreases. I have watched it increase for 50 years now. I'm convinced.
May it all come to a head soon, and get this gig over with.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A Congressional sub-committee held a six-hour session asking a Rep from the Navy, and a Pentagon Rep about UFOs, USAPs, ET, etc. As expected by people within UFOlogy it was a big nothingbuger. Questions were empty, for the most part, and answers even more empty, even for those questions that had some thought and background to them.
UFOs exist. Denying that is foolish. That makes the Pentagon foolish. Although, they now admit they exist but, they deny any real knowledge of them. Nobody with any knowledge of American and world history where UFOs have impacted citizenry by sight (I'm not getting into abductions here), believes the government/military stonewalling. They don't just obfuscate. They lie. Their reasons? They aren't telling. Could be embarrassment: that things are flying around out there that they have zip to show for knowledge of or, some believe more likely, people will freak out if they are told the truth. Can't have a national populace freaking out. Then why tell Americans about near misses of UAPs with military craft? Why have military sign non-disclosure agreements that deny them free speech rights to tell what they see? Ah, yes. Matters of national security. If you state you have no knowledge of these things beyond a small number of sightings that cannot be naturally explained, where does the aspect of national security come in? There is no national security where UAPs come in. Whatever they are, whatever they can do is beyond the security the military can provide so... why the lies? Mm. Back to the embarrassment explanation.
Of course, they just freaked out the majority of the populace with a supposed bat virus and shut the planet down. Logic declares they really do not care what the populace thinks or believes or how it reacts, save for what they want for reactions and compliance to building a one world order.
Ah, but, ET is apparently not cooperating.
Once again, our options.
Natural, explainable occurrences (which make up fully 90% or more of sightings).
Human made - U.S. Government, other governments.
Private corporation made.
ET made.
All the above.
Government/military does not openly address the ET option and apparently is now suggesting laws be made that deny misinformation or disinformation of that explanation. Once again, putting a lid on free speech is being openly discussed, sought after, and soon, if they get away with it, actualized.
Government can no longer be believed in any of its factors or tentacles. They have made that abundantly clear by their consistent speech and actions. It makes more sense at this point to believe the opposite of anything it states. If they say they do not know, they definitely know.
I came across an article that attempts to put another slant on the subject:
https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/denison-forum/what-god-may-have-intended-with-the-question-of-alien-life.html
The basic idea is that life beyond Earth is unknowable, thereby unimportant, is a distraction from contemplation of far more important matters, and the size and grandeur of the universe is God's way of telling us how great He is and how much He loves us to let us see and learn more about Him as the universe is studied. I would not argue any of that. For the most part he is correct in the essential points he raises. Where do I digress?
Here's the thing. The subject matter is there. In the last 80 years hundreds of thousands if not well over a million people have seen things zipping or floating or moving around up there that defy natural explanation of typical human understanding or abilities. They are there, whatever they are.
They are moving at incredible speeds, maneuvering in incredible ways, all without fossil fuels. How? What benefit to mankind would be given if such technology were known and available to all humanity? That reason, alone, should make it a subject of necessary universal knowledge and understanding.
If one cannot believe its government reps - and you should know other national governments are now quite open and honest about the subject and the information they have gathered over the decades so, that makes the U.S. government even more suspect and unbelievable - where does one go for some kind of truthful explanation?
The author of the linked article states the Bible does not say either way, whether life exists beyond Earth. That is, at least, more accurate than those Christians who state the Bible declares no life exists beyond Earth, period. At the same time, if you have been a regular reader here, you know the position that states the Bible does make declarations that at least allude to life beyond Earth.
All of this means something. What? Options?
*Governments, private corporations put this stuff out and up there and watch for ways to use what they have developed, especially when it comes to warfare. One would think logic declares if any government had such craft, they'd have been weaponized at the same time of development and by now, one nation would control the world. All advanced nations have military and private citizens that have observed these things, as well as nations not highly advanced but, in advanced nations such craft would determine the fate of war.
*ET sends drones throughout the galaxy, exists, travels, observes, studies but, maintains distance. They do not get involved.
*ET does the above and at the right time will reveal themselves to humanity and help us out of the mess that has been made.
*ET has plans, alright: the collection or control of all planetary natural resources and removal of sentient life at the necessary time.
*Add in morals. Some ET has some, others do not. At some point a battle for Earth, beyond Earthlings takes place.
*Craft and ET entities are visual deceptions of the Devil or actual, physical objects and are part of a final delusion before Christ returns. Just because angels can exist, unseen among us, in other dimensions or supernatural reality does not mean Satan has no use for genetic mastering and distorting Roses to contain thorns as well as flowers. He exists in our real, physical world. Using real, physical things for deception and human suffering, as well as pleasure unto disobedience, is only logical. How does he obtain them? Through human endeavor or another way, unknown to us. That does not matter. If we knew, it would not change the reality of craft flying in the globe's atmosphere and beyond. Lots of video has been taken from things seen in space, especially concerning the International Space Station.
If other options exist, it matters because all the options involve ultimate decisions for humanity and those elected to serve the people. Yeah, yeah, most of them only serve themselves now and hope to have decent places in the cabal when the NWO takes shape. That's another subject. Suffice to say enough elected civil servants appear to remain that would want the world notified and warned of threats or exposed to benefits, which could potentially stop war. Ah, but war makes money, money controls people, and therefore, this entire scope of a subject could just be a wildly elaborate scam for war beyond turf, into space. War mongers must have war, after all. But, that does not explain centuries of sightings, does it?
I don't know how many books have been written or interviews given by those once in the military or government that have stated what they have seen, heard or know about the subject. Dozens and dozens. Maybe hundreds by now. The only book I care about to address the matter is the Bible. It tells me what God wants me to know and is not opinions. It's mandatory reading for those who hope to live in eternity.
From that perspective there is only one logical option. The subject matters because it can and probably will be used for last-day deceptions.
I have mentioned this before and shall repeat it. Went into a Walmart some time back and walking through the gadget section a bunch of tvs were playing in ultra-high definition. A tortoise was pictured and the detail on those screens was better than what my own eyes could see, even with readers on. It was astounding. That was man's inventions on display. Trust me, all life in the universe can see exactly what is happening on this world in hi-def beyond our comprehension. They don't have any need to come here and check the place out. They have been, probably since the fall of Adam and Eve. Angels, that do come here in service to the Creator, see well beyond human capabilities. Man was made "a little lower than the angels," Heb. 2:6,7.
Using the Bible for info, I am ruling out ET. Private corporation R&D? Drones maybe. Humans could not withstand the G-forces these craft move at. Guv/military? I doubt it. Man cannot help himself and dominance is the goal. If the U.S. or any other government had this stuff, they'd have put it on the table and told everybody to behave, or else, long before now.
The only logical answer is Satan and future plans. Given the first recorded sighting of a UFO was way back in the 17th century, as I understand it, Lucifer has given this a whole bunch of thought for a projected outcome. Go back farther than that, in ancient cave paintings, cultural murals and drawings, etc., and his ideas for deception go back even farther.
No, rule out Ezekiel's wheel. Not a space craft. The vision has far more connotation and meaning than that (see #271).
I view all of this through the prism of the Bible. It can break things down much better and it is a shame, if not a crime people twist it to mean things it does not state, and state things it does not mean. Compare Scripture with Scripture, all of it. Yes, it takes some time. Humans have little better to do. The Bible even states it this way:
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
God's truth more necessary than your food, at least as important? Then people have time to study the Bible, if they chose to.
The Bible makes it plain that Satan deceives. That is his existence, to deceive people. The entire UFO subject is vitally important because deceptions are happening and are coming, and if, as some think, these physical craft are piloted by beneficent beings, then the deceptions are going to be positive, not negative, which coincides with all the Bible states about last-day delusions of signs and wonders.
I write upon this subject because it increases in nature, not decreases. I have watched it increase for 50 years now. I'm convinced.
May it all come to a head soon, and get this gig over with.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
570. Wait. What?! Jesus Sinned??? - May 21, 2022
"(OPINION) A new study suggests that nearly one in four Gen Z adults believe Jesus was a man who sinned like everyone else rather than the incarnate Son of God of Christian orthodoxy.
Polling conducted for the American Bible Society (ABS) and its latest “State of the Bible 2022” report found that 38% of people ages 18-25 believe “Jesus Christ was human and committed sins, like other people.”
The result is roughly in line with Gen X (37%), millennials (35%), and baby boomers (35%), who also don’t seem to believe in the biblical doctrine of a sinless Christ.
Americans aged 77 and older believed Jesus sinned at statistically lower numbers (26%) as the group proved to be the “most likely to be Bible Users (58%) of any generation.”
The findings were detailed in Chapter 2 of the 2022 “State of the Bible” report released this month, featuring data compiled by ABS in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago.
A total of 2,598 U.S. adults were surveyed in January online or by phone in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study has an error margin of ±2.51%. The poll found that 18% of all ages who are biblically engaged believed Jesus was a sinner.
Researchers with ABS defined scriptural engagement as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes a person’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.”
Among respondents considered part of the “Movable Middle” — those considered Bible friendly and Bible neutral — just over one-third said they believed Jesus had sinned during His life on Earth. Those categorized as “Bible Disengaged” made up the highest portion of respondents who said Jesus was a sinner at 43%.
John Plake, director of ministry intelligence at ABS and editor-in-chief of the “State of the Bible” series, told The Christian Post this kind of secular confusion about Christian theology is an opportunity to share with the world.
“I hear statistics [like these], and I’m less concerned about the national or generational assumptions about the dual nature of Jesus or pick your particular point of doctrine here,” Plake said. “I’m more concerned that we point people to the Word of God.
“We get them there, they’re going to find wisdom, they’re going to find hope for their struggles, and if we can help people connect deeply with the Bible, then the doctrinal challenges are going to work themselves out.” "
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/nearly-40-of-generation-z-adults-believe-that-jesus-was-not-sinless/
First, such a survey, as all surveys, conducted on small numbers of participants, always challenges credulity. In this case, though, I have no reason to suspect an erroneous outcome. The plight of biblical worldview and adherence to Scriptural teaching has been ongoing and should show results of the ascendance of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion.
The thing here is that if Jesus sinned, in any way, by thought, word, or deed, humanity is lost; there is no sacrifice for sin, and the faith is useless, and even nonsensical. Those who deny the testimony of Scripture on this point, calling themselves "Christian" is a total misnomer and worthless. If Jesus sinned, we're lost, big time. Unless, of course, people believe they can save themselves by their good works. Frankly, if you believe Jesus sinned, the necessity of good works becomes moot, as well. Then, I guess it becomes salvation by good intentions? That sounds Leftist enough to believe the church has, indeed, as Paul, Peter, Jude and John warned, been infiltrated by apostates.
1Pet 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pet 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile [literally fish bait; a lure, deceit] found in his mouth:
1Pet 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pet 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1Pet 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
The entire attitude of the last comment in the article is a serious miscalculation of how the human mind works. If doctrinal challenges have not worked themselves out over the centuries among committed believers on the light they understood, how in the world will things work themselves out when professed believers cannot even get the central point of salvation right?
The ignorance of the situation is vast. The sanctuary, well, right from the first sacrifices for Adam and Eve, the sacrificial animal was to be without flaws; no physical defects, no sickness. The blood shed for the sins of the penitent had to be worthy of the sacrifice it shadowed to come, in the Messiah. If Jesus sinned, the plan of salvation is moot. That is Christianity 101. Somewhere along the way, not only was the moral law done away with by the bulk of professed Christendom but, the very sacrifice of Christ became worthless for more than a third of young people involved with the Bible. The fact that 18% of all professed believers with some kind of relationship with the Bible points out a glaringly vital hole in what people are hearing from pulpits, either in person or on/in media of some kind.
"Researchers with ABS defined scriptural engagement as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes a person’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.”
That statement displays a fatal interaction and relationship that shapes a circle into a triangle. Another religion has been concocted. It is not biblical Christianity.
There have always been those who denied Jesus was sinless. Early apostates got into the notion. The Gnostics had such ideas. Salvation was based on knowledge - gnosis - not what was done with a life through experience and selflessness through the influence of the Spirit in being born again and changed. Two millennia later, it appears doctrinal challenges have not worked themselves out, have they?
Paul saw it happen:
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be
lovers of their own selves,
covetous,
boasters,
proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful,
unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers,
false accusers,
incontinent, [lack of self-control]
fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors,
heady,
highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres [traditionally thought to be Pharaoh's magicians] withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Quite a list. Indeed, I would say people are turning to fables to guide them. Scratch my ears. Make this itch of conviction go away!
The NT has other such lists of what things will be like in what is called Christianity. Not good. Matter of fact, the NT states far more about the condition making up apostasy at the end of time than that which makes up true belief. Why is that? Because God knows we need the warnings.
Paul, Peter, Jude and John all made commentary on last-day problems and conditions invading the faith. John dealt with things happening before he even died, it began that fast and steadily marched down through time. Same with James. Despite great revivals and doctrinal discoveries down through the centuries of more light and truth, fables exist. They seem to be getting worse. You cannot get worse than Jesus sinned. It dissolves the faith into a hot parking lot of theological goo.
Be warned.
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." 2 Tim 2:15,16
Babblings. As in Babel; as in Babylonian confusion.
Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Polling conducted for the American Bible Society (ABS) and its latest “State of the Bible 2022” report found that 38% of people ages 18-25 believe “Jesus Christ was human and committed sins, like other people.”
The result is roughly in line with Gen X (37%), millennials (35%), and baby boomers (35%), who also don’t seem to believe in the biblical doctrine of a sinless Christ.
Americans aged 77 and older believed Jesus sinned at statistically lower numbers (26%) as the group proved to be the “most likely to be Bible Users (58%) of any generation.”
The findings were detailed in Chapter 2 of the 2022 “State of the Bible” report released this month, featuring data compiled by ABS in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago.
A total of 2,598 U.S. adults were surveyed in January online or by phone in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study has an error margin of ±2.51%. The poll found that 18% of all ages who are biblically engaged believed Jesus was a sinner.
Researchers with ABS defined scriptural engagement as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes a person’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.”
Among respondents considered part of the “Movable Middle” — those considered Bible friendly and Bible neutral — just over one-third said they believed Jesus had sinned during His life on Earth. Those categorized as “Bible Disengaged” made up the highest portion of respondents who said Jesus was a sinner at 43%.
John Plake, director of ministry intelligence at ABS and editor-in-chief of the “State of the Bible” series, told The Christian Post this kind of secular confusion about Christian theology is an opportunity to share with the world.
“I hear statistics [like these], and I’m less concerned about the national or generational assumptions about the dual nature of Jesus or pick your particular point of doctrine here,” Plake said. “I’m more concerned that we point people to the Word of God.
“We get them there, they’re going to find wisdom, they’re going to find hope for their struggles, and if we can help people connect deeply with the Bible, then the doctrinal challenges are going to work themselves out.” "
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/nearly-40-of-generation-z-adults-believe-that-jesus-was-not-sinless/
First, such a survey, as all surveys, conducted on small numbers of participants, always challenges credulity. In this case, though, I have no reason to suspect an erroneous outcome. The plight of biblical worldview and adherence to Scriptural teaching has been ongoing and should show results of the ascendance of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion.
The thing here is that if Jesus sinned, in any way, by thought, word, or deed, humanity is lost; there is no sacrifice for sin, and the faith is useless, and even nonsensical. Those who deny the testimony of Scripture on this point, calling themselves "Christian" is a total misnomer and worthless. If Jesus sinned, we're lost, big time. Unless, of course, people believe they can save themselves by their good works. Frankly, if you believe Jesus sinned, the necessity of good works becomes moot, as well. Then, I guess it becomes salvation by good intentions? That sounds Leftist enough to believe the church has, indeed, as Paul, Peter, Jude and John warned, been infiltrated by apostates.
1Pet 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pet 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile [literally fish bait; a lure, deceit] found in his mouth:
1Pet 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pet 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1Pet 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
The entire attitude of the last comment in the article is a serious miscalculation of how the human mind works. If doctrinal challenges have not worked themselves out over the centuries among committed believers on the light they understood, how in the world will things work themselves out when professed believers cannot even get the central point of salvation right?
The ignorance of the situation is vast. The sanctuary, well, right from the first sacrifices for Adam and Eve, the sacrificial animal was to be without flaws; no physical defects, no sickness. The blood shed for the sins of the penitent had to be worthy of the sacrifice it shadowed to come, in the Messiah. If Jesus sinned, the plan of salvation is moot. That is Christianity 101. Somewhere along the way, not only was the moral law done away with by the bulk of professed Christendom but, the very sacrifice of Christ became worthless for more than a third of young people involved with the Bible. The fact that 18% of all professed believers with some kind of relationship with the Bible points out a glaringly vital hole in what people are hearing from pulpits, either in person or on/in media of some kind.
"Researchers with ABS defined scriptural engagement as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes a person’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.”
That statement displays a fatal interaction and relationship that shapes a circle into a triangle. Another religion has been concocted. It is not biblical Christianity.
There have always been those who denied Jesus was sinless. Early apostates got into the notion. The Gnostics had such ideas. Salvation was based on knowledge - gnosis - not what was done with a life through experience and selflessness through the influence of the Spirit in being born again and changed. Two millennia later, it appears doctrinal challenges have not worked themselves out, have they?
Paul saw it happen:
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be
lovers of their own selves,
covetous,
boasters,
proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful,
unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers,
false accusers,
incontinent, [lack of self-control]
fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors,
heady,
highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres [traditionally thought to be Pharaoh's magicians] withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Quite a list. Indeed, I would say people are turning to fables to guide them. Scratch my ears. Make this itch of conviction go away!
The NT has other such lists of what things will be like in what is called Christianity. Not good. Matter of fact, the NT states far more about the condition making up apostasy at the end of time than that which makes up true belief. Why is that? Because God knows we need the warnings.
Paul, Peter, Jude and John all made commentary on last-day problems and conditions invading the faith. John dealt with things happening before he even died, it began that fast and steadily marched down through time. Same with James. Despite great revivals and doctrinal discoveries down through the centuries of more light and truth, fables exist. They seem to be getting worse. You cannot get worse than Jesus sinned. It dissolves the faith into a hot parking lot of theological goo.
Be warned.
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." 2 Tim 2:15,16
Babblings. As in Babel; as in Babylonian confusion.
Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
571. Facing the Mixing Monster - May 22, 2022
With all that's happening in the world and my own personal life, it's hard to justify spending time dealing with recording files. I've spent a lot of time and considerable amount of money on recording projects in the last few years only to see things fall apart, epic fail, or just sit on this computer.
I had a thought, though. A neighbor came over today to check out my bird houses and I showed him the drum room, which has the stacked plywood ring set-up taking up the whole room and he was pretty astonished. He learned to play snare drum in marching band when he was young and never saw anything like the set. He knows a player that is in some local bands and wants to bring him over to see the set and other drums I've made. He's a businessman and really thinks I need to make drums to sell, even if I just went to various craft shows. I don't know about all that but, I got to thinking if his friend might be able to mix down these tracks I have for two more solo drum set albums, or might know someone that can do a simple mix down of the files.
Then I went to Bandmix. I haven't logged in, in a long time, and wondered if a search might show me someone in my area that has a studio or a recording set-up and might be able and willing to mix down the files for me. I hit page 4 and the site went belly up for some reason, so I left it.
Then I got to thinking about Audacity and once again, doing it myself. I can sit down behind any drum set and play away, I have done it numerous times in my life when asked. Looking at recording software I literally get terrified. It's facing a monster of some kind that will eat my files as I mess something up with just a single mouse click.
I went back to YouTube to look at some tutorials. I've written about that at length and suffice to say the last year has not produced any more articulate teachers I can actually follow. That said, I did find one video that was helpful, if only to show basics that you really can't mess up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJBNm_EdYg
Mixing a Drum Set Using Audacity.
It's actually found on a Library channel that has all kinds of tutorials for all kinds of things. Go figure.
So, back to the Recording Blog to put new entries there and the plan is simply this: make CDs just for friends or people I come into contact with that would be interested. I have the publishing software and printer, paper cutter, blank disks and jewel cases, and if I can wing a stereo mix it doesn't have to be "mastered" for airplay or anything else. It just has to stay within ranges that can be played on any CD playing device. I may even place it all on my own YT channel. Selling anything is off the table now.
I have come to realize the nature of the current drumming community. Today's newer style is not the style I play in. Older guys from my own young timeline would be more into things I do and we all know guys in my age bracket aren't purchasing CDs left and right. The young just want to download files and put stuff on their cell phones. Nobody is ever going to see a Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD on any of the download sites. So, attempting to produce something to sell is doomed and I wish I understood that before getting into producing the first CD. Still, it was a good experience and the CD came out pretty good.
I know if Tom had the time he could knock out a Master quality file right quick but, he remains one busy man. I just don't know anyone else that could do it, that has the time to.
Once my wife goes back to work at the new office I'll finish up some drums, and those birdhouses, and attempt to stare down the mixing monster and get something of this work down to disk. Homegrown all the way. D.I.Y. R Us, is what I live by.
I go back to the original idea for CSDS. There are not many drums-only albums out there. Regardless of what skill level I play at in the minds of people, recording such a venture is rare, and if I have the ideas to record and put out there, I should. Sharing is what should be done. My association with Legend, regardless of the album's notoriety, is not going to garner a large drumming audience and like so many players around the world, talented individuals; no-names outnumber the big-names 10,000 to 1. Huge ocean. Lots of tiny fish.
So, for some friends I believe will enjoy it, I'll do it.
Time to grab the sword and slay the mixing monster, once and for all.
I had a thought, though. A neighbor came over today to check out my bird houses and I showed him the drum room, which has the stacked plywood ring set-up taking up the whole room and he was pretty astonished. He learned to play snare drum in marching band when he was young and never saw anything like the set. He knows a player that is in some local bands and wants to bring him over to see the set and other drums I've made. He's a businessman and really thinks I need to make drums to sell, even if I just went to various craft shows. I don't know about all that but, I got to thinking if his friend might be able to mix down these tracks I have for two more solo drum set albums, or might know someone that can do a simple mix down of the files.
Then I went to Bandmix. I haven't logged in, in a long time, and wondered if a search might show me someone in my area that has a studio or a recording set-up and might be able and willing to mix down the files for me. I hit page 4 and the site went belly up for some reason, so I left it.
Then I got to thinking about Audacity and once again, doing it myself. I can sit down behind any drum set and play away, I have done it numerous times in my life when asked. Looking at recording software I literally get terrified. It's facing a monster of some kind that will eat my files as I mess something up with just a single mouse click.
I went back to YouTube to look at some tutorials. I've written about that at length and suffice to say the last year has not produced any more articulate teachers I can actually follow. That said, I did find one video that was helpful, if only to show basics that you really can't mess up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJBNm_EdYg
Mixing a Drum Set Using Audacity.
It's actually found on a Library channel that has all kinds of tutorials for all kinds of things. Go figure.
So, back to the Recording Blog to put new entries there and the plan is simply this: make CDs just for friends or people I come into contact with that would be interested. I have the publishing software and printer, paper cutter, blank disks and jewel cases, and if I can wing a stereo mix it doesn't have to be "mastered" for airplay or anything else. It just has to stay within ranges that can be played on any CD playing device. I may even place it all on my own YT channel. Selling anything is off the table now.
I have come to realize the nature of the current drumming community. Today's newer style is not the style I play in. Older guys from my own young timeline would be more into things I do and we all know guys in my age bracket aren't purchasing CDs left and right. The young just want to download files and put stuff on their cell phones. Nobody is ever going to see a Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD on any of the download sites. So, attempting to produce something to sell is doomed and I wish I understood that before getting into producing the first CD. Still, it was a good experience and the CD came out pretty good.
I know if Tom had the time he could knock out a Master quality file right quick but, he remains one busy man. I just don't know anyone else that could do it, that has the time to.
Once my wife goes back to work at the new office I'll finish up some drums, and those birdhouses, and attempt to stare down the mixing monster and get something of this work down to disk. Homegrown all the way. D.I.Y. R Us, is what I live by.
I go back to the original idea for CSDS. There are not many drums-only albums out there. Regardless of what skill level I play at in the minds of people, recording such a venture is rare, and if I have the ideas to record and put out there, I should. Sharing is what should be done. My association with Legend, regardless of the album's notoriety, is not going to garner a large drumming audience and like so many players around the world, talented individuals; no-names outnumber the big-names 10,000 to 1. Huge ocean. Lots of tiny fish.
So, for some friends I believe will enjoy it, I'll do it.
Time to grab the sword and slay the mixing monster, once and for all.
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572. Pelosi, Rome, and Fellowship - May 24, 2022
If you are not a Roman Catholic you might be unaware of the hierarchy of that church. Most people know pope, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, nuns. Basics. There are positions in between those but, the basic hierarchy of Romanism is quite the top-down system.
So, for decades Leftists in D.C., professed Catholics, have supported abortion. Doctrinally, abortion is a moral issue being made political because of the positions and confusion caused by professed Catholic legislators.
The Archbishop of the San Francisco diocese pronounced a ban on Nancy Pelosi receiving communion. She considers herself a faithful Catholic. She is confused. Matter of fact, the priest of her local diocese has stated he will not follow the Archbishop's edict and Pelosi will receive communion. In fact, the Archbishop's ban is only good for his own territory. Pelosi could attend a mass outside his district and receive communion but, while lots of Catholic clergy are uncomfortable with the politicizing of the matter, it stands as a microcosm of problems within the USA, itself.
First, the kingdom of God is not a democracy. If the truth of the matter, as the RCC understands and proclaims it - that abortion is a mortal sin - no Roman Catholic should support it and any public figure that does, especially, should not just be banned from communion but, disfellowshiped, excommunicated from the church.
Whoopi Goldberg made a comment that it is not the Archbishop's job, "Dude," to be banning communion from congregants. Yeah, sorry, it most definitely is his job. That's how the aspect of a hierarchy works. Top down control. A cardinal of that diocese could overrule a decision, and the pope could overrule a cardinal but, as the system exists and functions, is supposed to function on such matters, the "dude" is well within his rights and authority.
For the local priest to defy the archbishop... watch how that plays out. The American Catholic Church is hardly that anymore. The Americanized version of Catholicism is a shadow of what it once was, and is, as far as historic Catholicism goes. The same can be stated for every other professed Christian denomination throughout the land. Holding the line on doctrines once considered foundational, fundamental truth has become a Herculean task as each generation reduces commitment to truth in their own lives, becoming more and more corrupted by the culture. That isn't new. To the contrary, it is an ancient problem the Hebrew nation faced for 1500 years. It became the problem of the early Christian church. It was a problem for the Protestant Reformation, and remains a problem in every century, especially modern times where the culture has so rapidly disintegrated.
The kingdom of God is a benevolent dictatorship. God decrees, that's it. Done. End of discussion. No discussion, actually, because God is not asking opinions for things humanity is completely ignorant of. We hardly know ourselves, let alone the necessities for the entire human race.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The word translated 'reins,' is actually from the Hebrew word for the kidneys. Today we know the kidneys are purifying organs. In ancient times, the Hebrews considered the kidneys, along with the heart, the core of a human. God tries, tests the core of humanity. The core of every person is their character. God tests character all the time, to show us, and heaven what actual kind of persons we are.
Various translations of those verses state the heart is weak, corrupt, incurable, desperately sick and other observations. We are a mess, whether we know it or not. God knows it and is not asking our opinions on how life should go. He knows. He makes it plain. We can choose to obey or disregard and the results lie at our own door.
While I am no more a Roman Catholic and stand against the existence of hierarchical organization in a church, the RCC, of all churches, should be handling their hypocrites with easy dispatch when it comes to abortion. Pelosi, all RC legislators that support abortion, let alone abortion up to birth, should be roundly swept from membership in the church they profess to be part of. Failure to act causes just as much confusion as the hypocrites cause. The same can be said within the organization of all Christian bodies. Sin should be called by its right name and sinners that will not repent should be excommunicated. The apostle Paul played no games.
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.
1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him that hath so wrought this thing,
1Co 5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1Co 5:5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:
2Th 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2Th 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
While Paul gave decisive counsel and command for what to do with sin in the church - purge it - he also gave instruction to check on those put out, that if they can be reestablished in the faith, they must be.
2Th 3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
2Co 2:5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
2Co 2:6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
2Co 2:7 so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
2Co 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
2Co 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
The church is not a club. It is not a cafeteria to pick and choose what one will take and leave on a shelf. The church, the body of Christ, is, in fact, a spiritual army with a vital mission and battles of a very serious war to fight: the most serious of any war ever fought or could ever be fought amongst men - the battles for salvation of souls.
Just like political parties losing members because of apostasy from platforms, churches are losing members because of apostacy from doctrines once understood to be truth. In a final analysis not all doctrines from all churches are true but, that is not the issue here. If it is true, if it is believed to be true by membership, it should be followed. If it is cast aside by any members they should be cast aside from the fellowship of that faith. Otherwise what will happen is what has happened, Babylon. Confusion. Even James saw it 2000 years ago:
Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Strong words. True words. Pelosi and any others are not above them, in any church, regardless of what they think but, the words of James are only as good as any put them to use. Less and less do we see that happening in this world, as evil grows and righteousness shrinks.
The American Constitution is the document that all elected civil servants are bound to, by decree and by oaths taken upon election. If they veer, if they disregard, if they neglect or reject its provisions for limited government, they should be removed from office. But, you see, as it is, the tide has swelled from inaction and in the world of politics and the world of religion, time has produced great falling away.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So, for decades Leftists in D.C., professed Catholics, have supported abortion. Doctrinally, abortion is a moral issue being made political because of the positions and confusion caused by professed Catholic legislators.
The Archbishop of the San Francisco diocese pronounced a ban on Nancy Pelosi receiving communion. She considers herself a faithful Catholic. She is confused. Matter of fact, the priest of her local diocese has stated he will not follow the Archbishop's edict and Pelosi will receive communion. In fact, the Archbishop's ban is only good for his own territory. Pelosi could attend a mass outside his district and receive communion but, while lots of Catholic clergy are uncomfortable with the politicizing of the matter, it stands as a microcosm of problems within the USA, itself.
First, the kingdom of God is not a democracy. If the truth of the matter, as the RCC understands and proclaims it - that abortion is a mortal sin - no Roman Catholic should support it and any public figure that does, especially, should not just be banned from communion but, disfellowshiped, excommunicated from the church.
Whoopi Goldberg made a comment that it is not the Archbishop's job, "Dude," to be banning communion from congregants. Yeah, sorry, it most definitely is his job. That's how the aspect of a hierarchy works. Top down control. A cardinal of that diocese could overrule a decision, and the pope could overrule a cardinal but, as the system exists and functions, is supposed to function on such matters, the "dude" is well within his rights and authority.
For the local priest to defy the archbishop... watch how that plays out. The American Catholic Church is hardly that anymore. The Americanized version of Catholicism is a shadow of what it once was, and is, as far as historic Catholicism goes. The same can be stated for every other professed Christian denomination throughout the land. Holding the line on doctrines once considered foundational, fundamental truth has become a Herculean task as each generation reduces commitment to truth in their own lives, becoming more and more corrupted by the culture. That isn't new. To the contrary, it is an ancient problem the Hebrew nation faced for 1500 years. It became the problem of the early Christian church. It was a problem for the Protestant Reformation, and remains a problem in every century, especially modern times where the culture has so rapidly disintegrated.
The kingdom of God is a benevolent dictatorship. God decrees, that's it. Done. End of discussion. No discussion, actually, because God is not asking opinions for things humanity is completely ignorant of. We hardly know ourselves, let alone the necessities for the entire human race.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The word translated 'reins,' is actually from the Hebrew word for the kidneys. Today we know the kidneys are purifying organs. In ancient times, the Hebrews considered the kidneys, along with the heart, the core of a human. God tries, tests the core of humanity. The core of every person is their character. God tests character all the time, to show us, and heaven what actual kind of persons we are.
Various translations of those verses state the heart is weak, corrupt, incurable, desperately sick and other observations. We are a mess, whether we know it or not. God knows it and is not asking our opinions on how life should go. He knows. He makes it plain. We can choose to obey or disregard and the results lie at our own door.
While I am no more a Roman Catholic and stand against the existence of hierarchical organization in a church, the RCC, of all churches, should be handling their hypocrites with easy dispatch when it comes to abortion. Pelosi, all RC legislators that support abortion, let alone abortion up to birth, should be roundly swept from membership in the church they profess to be part of. Failure to act causes just as much confusion as the hypocrites cause. The same can be said within the organization of all Christian bodies. Sin should be called by its right name and sinners that will not repent should be excommunicated. The apostle Paul played no games.
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.
1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him that hath so wrought this thing,
1Co 5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1Co 5:5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:
2Th 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2Th 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
While Paul gave decisive counsel and command for what to do with sin in the church - purge it - he also gave instruction to check on those put out, that if they can be reestablished in the faith, they must be.
2Th 3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
2Co 2:5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
2Co 2:6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
2Co 2:7 so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
2Co 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
2Co 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
The church is not a club. It is not a cafeteria to pick and choose what one will take and leave on a shelf. The church, the body of Christ, is, in fact, a spiritual army with a vital mission and battles of a very serious war to fight: the most serious of any war ever fought or could ever be fought amongst men - the battles for salvation of souls.
Just like political parties losing members because of apostasy from platforms, churches are losing members because of apostacy from doctrines once understood to be truth. In a final analysis not all doctrines from all churches are true but, that is not the issue here. If it is true, if it is believed to be true by membership, it should be followed. If it is cast aside by any members they should be cast aside from the fellowship of that faith. Otherwise what will happen is what has happened, Babylon. Confusion. Even James saw it 2000 years ago:
Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Strong words. True words. Pelosi and any others are not above them, in any church, regardless of what they think but, the words of James are only as good as any put them to use. Less and less do we see that happening in this world, as evil grows and righteousness shrinks.
The American Constitution is the document that all elected civil servants are bound to, by decree and by oaths taken upon election. If they veer, if they disregard, if they neglect or reject its provisions for limited government, they should be removed from office. But, you see, as it is, the tide has swelled from inaction and in the world of politics and the world of religion, time has produced great falling away.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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573. The Dominoes Will Fall - May 25, 2022
Reading reports of what is taking place at the World Economic Forum conference, what is being said, openly, boldly, confidently, the cabal obviously believes it cannot be stopped, and that is probably true. God could stop them, of course. The question is whether or not He will.
The condition of the professed body of Christ in this world is as such that it is unlikely enough people will cry out for Him to work towards that end. The bulk are asleep, which Christ predicted 2,000 years ago.
It is the age old process I have mentioned before, spoken in various use of terms - Revival, complacency, apathy, tyranny. The four waves of human existence. We are about to enter the tyranny stage. How long it lasts... no one but, God can know.
I had mentioned the influence of the global investment companies Vanguard and Blackrock, and others at the top of that food chain, some time back. Someone sent me an email with events taking place that should cause Americans to rise up. I do not know the source and asked (no reply yet). I have no reason to doubt the information. Here it is:
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"Do you know what DEF fluid is? It's Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Every Diesel truck that has been made since 2010 is required to use it. It's a product made of 67% Urea fertilizer and 33% distilled water. Every diesel truck you see driving down the road today has to have this product to drive. The engines won't start without it. There are regulators inside the engine that mix DEF with the Diesel to reduce Diesel emissions. That's the purpose of DEF.
"Right now, Russia is the largest exporter of Urea by a wide margin. Qatar is second. Egypt and China are Tied for 3rd. Both Russia and China have decided to no longer export Urea. On top of that, India is the largest manufacturer of Urea in the world even though they consume most of what they make. What little they would export..........they no longer do. They are now stopping the exportation of any and all Urea minus a deal they just cut with Sri Lanka.
"What does this mean for you and me? Well, first, the United States imports most of it's Urea fertilizer. We are the third largest importer in the entire world. We depend on other countries to eat, drive and ship our products.
"Secondly... Flying J is the largest Service provider for Truckers around the Unites States. I'm sure you've seen their massive gas stations when traveling around the country. Flying J gets 70% of their DEF fluid from shipments via Union Pacific railroad. UP has single user access to the Fertilizer plants that Urea/DEF fluid comes from. No other rail provider has access to these distribution points. This means Flying J can't just go around Union Pacific. Union Pacific is in charge....for a reason I'm gonna mention in a few paragraphs.
"Flying J provides 30% of all DEF consumed in the United States. UP has told Flying J to reduce their shipments by a whopping 50%. And if they do not comply then they will be completely embargoed. That would in effect bankrupt FJ. This means that 15% of all DEF consumed by truckers in the US is no longer available at the largest travel service center for the entire trucking industry.
"Rome rotted from the inside out. It was easily invaded because it was occupied with internal problems. It appears we have discovered the Trigger. DEF fluid. If this holds up, DEF shortages will be the catalyst that causes food shortages in the coming months. Not only is there a shortage of fertilizer to grow crops in drought-stricken states (See Kansas' drop in wheat production for 2022)....but....now it looks like, unless the Federal Government intervenes via the Defense Production Act, ...which I am no longer confident they will....there is gonna be an absolute massive shortage of trucking in the coming months.
"There simply isn't going to be DEF fluid sufficient to keep the engines running and moving. Home Depot is now limiting the amount of DEF you can buy in their stores.
"I would think long and hard about the decisions you are making right now. Where you live. What you spend money on. How you prepare. This is so real that the CEO of Flying J, Shameek Konar was summoned to a Surface Transportation Board hearing to give them all this info.
"From what I'm reading....Blackrock is the majority shareholder of Union Pacific railroad. How is that important? Americas biggest fertilizer producer is CF Industries. Their largest shareholder is Blackrock. Blackrock controls the fertilizer industry in the U.S.. Union Pacific has exclusive rights to distribution points of fertilizer. Urea is fertilizer. Flying J needs Urea/DEF. Blackrock is controlling everything.
"The Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor. Tom Donilon’s brother, Mike Donilon is a Senior Advisor to Joe Biden. Tom Donilon’s wife, Catherine Russell, is the White House Personnel Director. Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, who graduated college in 2019, now works on the White House National Security Council.
"It appears Blackrock is spearheading the dismantling of the US system on behalf of the Globalists. And the first domino they are pushing over is the energy sector. They are using DEF to get the party started."
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As I stated, I have no knowledge of the source of the information. I did look up DEF shortages and there was no lack of hits on the search list. It's real.
Just this past week pharma CEOs and investigation has revealed things about them and the pandemic and the vaccines that shows every step was planned and executed with sloppy precision but, precise enough to pull it off. Bill Gates is, once again, calling for a global body to control the world, and vaccinate every man, woman and child. More information has revealed the 2020 election was criminally manipulated and everybody in DC could care less, and even traitorous Mike Pence is thinking of running for POTUS in '24. How the man even shows his face is testimony to how much these globalists are certain they are going to win, and take control. The technology is there. They have well-placed soldiers all over the world, and what can stop them? Voting? We now realize just how thorough they control that. A dozen more things, dozens, listed on every alt news site, shows that the world, not just nations but, the entire world is about to come under control of a handful of entities. All under the watching eyes and influence of Lucifer, of course but, it has always been his policy to mask himself, to stay in the shadows. That will change at some future point; maybe very soon but, for now his minions are doing all they can to take total control of the planet; successfully.
While millions are glued to a divorce proceeding between movie stars, and gun control is again, always in the news because of shootings committed by lunatics, the controllers of information are openly telling us what they are doing and going to do, and in the state of complacency most of the planet's population is in, there is little that can stop them.
This is the kind of desperate situation Israel faced time and time again and when they finally woke up to their fault in the scenarios and cried out to God for help, He answered. Over and over again, 1500 years of that see-saw scenario played out in Old testament history. It has been no different in the last 2000 years. Humanity is too predictable and Satan takes constant advantage of that.
Lord, our thickness and dullness and obstinate foolishness is so prominent and ever-placing us in swamps and briars, and we do not learn until it is too late. Do something to stop the repetition and cycles of ignorance and haughty negligence.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The condition of the professed body of Christ in this world is as such that it is unlikely enough people will cry out for Him to work towards that end. The bulk are asleep, which Christ predicted 2,000 years ago.
It is the age old process I have mentioned before, spoken in various use of terms - Revival, complacency, apathy, tyranny. The four waves of human existence. We are about to enter the tyranny stage. How long it lasts... no one but, God can know.
I had mentioned the influence of the global investment companies Vanguard and Blackrock, and others at the top of that food chain, some time back. Someone sent me an email with events taking place that should cause Americans to rise up. I do not know the source and asked (no reply yet). I have no reason to doubt the information. Here it is:
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"Do you know what DEF fluid is? It's Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Every Diesel truck that has been made since 2010 is required to use it. It's a product made of 67% Urea fertilizer and 33% distilled water. Every diesel truck you see driving down the road today has to have this product to drive. The engines won't start without it. There are regulators inside the engine that mix DEF with the Diesel to reduce Diesel emissions. That's the purpose of DEF.
"Right now, Russia is the largest exporter of Urea by a wide margin. Qatar is second. Egypt and China are Tied for 3rd. Both Russia and China have decided to no longer export Urea. On top of that, India is the largest manufacturer of Urea in the world even though they consume most of what they make. What little they would export..........they no longer do. They are now stopping the exportation of any and all Urea minus a deal they just cut with Sri Lanka.
"What does this mean for you and me? Well, first, the United States imports most of it's Urea fertilizer. We are the third largest importer in the entire world. We depend on other countries to eat, drive and ship our products.
"Secondly... Flying J is the largest Service provider for Truckers around the Unites States. I'm sure you've seen their massive gas stations when traveling around the country. Flying J gets 70% of their DEF fluid from shipments via Union Pacific railroad. UP has single user access to the Fertilizer plants that Urea/DEF fluid comes from. No other rail provider has access to these distribution points. This means Flying J can't just go around Union Pacific. Union Pacific is in charge....for a reason I'm gonna mention in a few paragraphs.
"Flying J provides 30% of all DEF consumed in the United States. UP has told Flying J to reduce their shipments by a whopping 50%. And if they do not comply then they will be completely embargoed. That would in effect bankrupt FJ. This means that 15% of all DEF consumed by truckers in the US is no longer available at the largest travel service center for the entire trucking industry.
"Rome rotted from the inside out. It was easily invaded because it was occupied with internal problems. It appears we have discovered the Trigger. DEF fluid. If this holds up, DEF shortages will be the catalyst that causes food shortages in the coming months. Not only is there a shortage of fertilizer to grow crops in drought-stricken states (See Kansas' drop in wheat production for 2022)....but....now it looks like, unless the Federal Government intervenes via the Defense Production Act, ...which I am no longer confident they will....there is gonna be an absolute massive shortage of trucking in the coming months.
"There simply isn't going to be DEF fluid sufficient to keep the engines running and moving. Home Depot is now limiting the amount of DEF you can buy in their stores.
"I would think long and hard about the decisions you are making right now. Where you live. What you spend money on. How you prepare. This is so real that the CEO of Flying J, Shameek Konar was summoned to a Surface Transportation Board hearing to give them all this info.
"From what I'm reading....Blackrock is the majority shareholder of Union Pacific railroad. How is that important? Americas biggest fertilizer producer is CF Industries. Their largest shareholder is Blackrock. Blackrock controls the fertilizer industry in the U.S.. Union Pacific has exclusive rights to distribution points of fertilizer. Urea is fertilizer. Flying J needs Urea/DEF. Blackrock is controlling everything.
"The Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor. Tom Donilon’s brother, Mike Donilon is a Senior Advisor to Joe Biden. Tom Donilon’s wife, Catherine Russell, is the White House Personnel Director. Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, who graduated college in 2019, now works on the White House National Security Council.
"It appears Blackrock is spearheading the dismantling of the US system on behalf of the Globalists. And the first domino they are pushing over is the energy sector. They are using DEF to get the party started."
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As I stated, I have no knowledge of the source of the information. I did look up DEF shortages and there was no lack of hits on the search list. It's real.
Just this past week pharma CEOs and investigation has revealed things about them and the pandemic and the vaccines that shows every step was planned and executed with sloppy precision but, precise enough to pull it off. Bill Gates is, once again, calling for a global body to control the world, and vaccinate every man, woman and child. More information has revealed the 2020 election was criminally manipulated and everybody in DC could care less, and even traitorous Mike Pence is thinking of running for POTUS in '24. How the man even shows his face is testimony to how much these globalists are certain they are going to win, and take control. The technology is there. They have well-placed soldiers all over the world, and what can stop them? Voting? We now realize just how thorough they control that. A dozen more things, dozens, listed on every alt news site, shows that the world, not just nations but, the entire world is about to come under control of a handful of entities. All under the watching eyes and influence of Lucifer, of course but, it has always been his policy to mask himself, to stay in the shadows. That will change at some future point; maybe very soon but, for now his minions are doing all they can to take total control of the planet; successfully.
While millions are glued to a divorce proceeding between movie stars, and gun control is again, always in the news because of shootings committed by lunatics, the controllers of information are openly telling us what they are doing and going to do, and in the state of complacency most of the planet's population is in, there is little that can stop them.
This is the kind of desperate situation Israel faced time and time again and when they finally woke up to their fault in the scenarios and cried out to God for help, He answered. Over and over again, 1500 years of that see-saw scenario played out in Old testament history. It has been no different in the last 2000 years. Humanity is too predictable and Satan takes constant advantage of that.
Lord, our thickness and dullness and obstinate foolishness is so prominent and ever-placing us in swamps and briars, and we do not learn until it is too late. Do something to stop the repetition and cycles of ignorance and haughty negligence.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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574. Uvalde - May 27, 2022
Because I live in Texas people reading might have expected me to state something about the tragedy. Frankly, there is nothing to say. Everything about it is a repeat, been said dozens of times before. A mentally disturbed person, a trouble maker, a threatening, mixed up potential monster exhibited thoughts and behavior that many people noticed and nothing was done about it. Some thought about it, some tried, nothing changed. Actually, yes, it changed. Things got steadily worse. Then the mentally disturbed person gets their hands on a firearm and disaster strikes. Then Democrats blame Republicans, the NRA, Conservative pundits, and Conservatives in general. Lots of ugly talk, lots of Democrat and Leftist boiling over, exploitation and political opportunism against the 2nd amendment. It's a broken record. The needle gets stuck and stays there until some other event can be utilized to take away American's rights to defend themselves with a firearm.
When I was doing public evangelism and such events took place and people asked me why God allows such things, I mentioned Isaiah:
Isa 57:1 The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Isa 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
God knows the future, He knows what is coming. When the righteous, the merciful, the kind, the nice one is taken in death, far from "their time," nobody thinks to themselves God is saving them from something worse they would go through later, maybe that same day, or that week, that month, or that year. It doesn't matter. This life is painful and we suffer loss because of sin and sinners. Man's laws against murdering with intent to kill, first degree, does not stop mentally ill people, or even extremely angry people, from killing. Minds made up to commit violence will find ways and there are actually far more gruesome ways to take a life, with any number of weapons.
I can tell you George Floyd has nothing to do with Uvalde. Why did Obama use Uvalde to bring up the Floyd situation? Why has Biden made ridiculous remarks? Why is Gavin Newsome making snide remarks to Texas governor Abbott, and now telling Californians he is going to sign a bunch of bills commandeering guns. The answer is simple. These are people, Leftists, who never let a tragedy go to waste, who get instantly politically opportunistic and exploit a situation. They do not understand the principles of freedom and liberty and Americanism, or they do, and hate them, and vow to do away with them in favor of controlling Americans in whatever ways they can, Constitution be damned.
If we want freedom and liberty, there will always be prices to pay and tragedies that go with them because of people who do not care about the rule of law.
Twenty-one people are gone, just like each tragedy before this one, the last in El Paso, if I recall correctly, and the same voices, like Robert O'Rourke, begin instantly using the situation to scream about gun control. Criminals laugh, because they will get guns regardless of laws, and honest, law-biding Americans will be left defenseless in their homes and persons in a world getting more and more violent. Common sense says more people should be armed, not less. Leftists do not want to comment on how the shooter fired for 12 minutes before he went inside the building and continued, and if more people were armed and trained to use firearms, could have taken the shooter down, as has happened in other scenes played out around the nation. Leftists will not tell you that when police arrived, they did nothing, and ended up arresting a mother who decided to defend children any way she could by entering the shooting zone. An off-duty, border patrol agent had a bullet zip his skull when he decided to get involved. The police? They just set up a perimeter. The same situation plays out at every tragedy. Does anybody on the Left scream about the police doing nothing? Parents did. People there who saw it all have. Leftists, who want less police with hands tied behind their backs, no. They say nothing. The Police claim they were there 4 minutes after the first shots were fired. That left 8 minutes for that menace to continue shooting and then go inside, take hostages, and decide to kill anyone he could before we was taken down by an officer with some professional guts.
No, I suppose all the details are not yet known. Things will unravel. Facts will come out. If they side with Leftists, mainstream media will trumpet it. If they side with people on the Right, Corporate controlled, Leftist media will remain silent, and alternative news outlets will report it. And Leftists will begin their "fact checking," and "Conspiracy theory" garbage. It has been this way for decades. It is the most sure revolving door in American life.
For me, as an American believing in the principles of the rule of law, freedom, liberty, personal responsibility and accountability, the monster who killed his grandmother, 2 adults and 19 children, wounding many others, is the one to blame, and doing away with the right to bear arms will not change that. Just move to Chicago if you doubt it. Criminals will always get guns. Unless the world stops their manufacture, criminals will always get guns. And if the world stops making them, some uncooperating rogue nation will make and manufacture their own and sell them to whoever wants them all around the world. That is life on a sinful planet and shall remain that way, and get worse, until Jesus returns. Simple as that, in the midst of growing suffering, pain and tragedy.
Honestly, every time this happens, all the way back to 1966, the UT shooting in Austin, my first exposure to a mass shooting event, at 11 years old, listening to a radio with my cousins I was visiting in Rhode Island, the same sets of scenarios play out. And frankly, I am more astounded people refuse to believe the Bible, believe in God, when His word has the answers to "Why?" and when it will stop, and people have been proclaiming it for millennia. At 13, I decided to become an atheist. Looking at the world, I believed there could be no God. I focused on the wrong things. When I focused on other things, like Bible prophecy and creation, I gave my life to God, 11 years later.
God is not silent. Never has been. People are just too busy with other stuff than reading that old, ancient, politically incorrect book. Obama even castigated those who do - those clinging to their guns and their Bibles, as though the Bible tells people to go ahead and get even and kill people, when Scripture states, point blank:
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Ignorance controls this world. The ruler, the god of this world, Satan, rejoices over all the violence, the sickness, the death, the fists shaking at God, blaming Him. God? The Creator watches and gives time for people to repent because this world is a speck, and its inhabitants atoms but, He does not want one single person to eternally perish but, that all should come to repentance and new life; eternal life in Christ.
Ramos? He died so, God obviously saw no time for repentance for him, His fate sealed. Unless he did ask forgiveness before the final shots that took his life were fired. God knows.
"Wait, Ray. Are you saying God would forgive a mass murderer?" Well, has he not forgiven murderers, in general? Moses killed a man. David had Uriah killed. Plenty of people in prisons have found Christ and come to salvation at the foot of the cross, and the altar in the Heavenly sanctuary where Christ ministers for humanity; they have made peace with their Maker, and shall be in paradise when Christ returns. Grace. We all need grace. God's grace saves each one of us. Whoever comes, Christ will in no way cast them out.
This life is temporal. Millions of children have died before their time and continue to do so in countless tragedies. God has saved every tear fallen in his bottle. Everything is written down. Every fact known. Every sin: thoughts, words and deeds for all people down through all time. Every sorrow, all the confusion, all the sufferings. All will be handled with perfect mercy and justice. And everyone of the redeemed will be perfectly satisfied the right decisions were made, and if asked, would choose to go exactly as God saw fit to let our days go on Earth.
Psa 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psa 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Psa 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
Psa 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
I don't know about each of the children in the Uvalde tragedy. I do know, it behooves the parents to go as close to God as they can so that they can spend eternity with those children who wake to eternal life on resurrection morning.
This life is the blink of an eye. Eternal life, forever? Not a moment of boredom, suffering, pain, questions? All made known, nothing hidden, everything revealed, everything literally new, constantly learning the highest of possibilities, enjoying every moment of every day? Indeed, the years of this life, however many or few, shall be forgotten quickly enough, as eternity moves along.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
When I was doing public evangelism and such events took place and people asked me why God allows such things, I mentioned Isaiah:
Isa 57:1 The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Isa 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
God knows the future, He knows what is coming. When the righteous, the merciful, the kind, the nice one is taken in death, far from "their time," nobody thinks to themselves God is saving them from something worse they would go through later, maybe that same day, or that week, that month, or that year. It doesn't matter. This life is painful and we suffer loss because of sin and sinners. Man's laws against murdering with intent to kill, first degree, does not stop mentally ill people, or even extremely angry people, from killing. Minds made up to commit violence will find ways and there are actually far more gruesome ways to take a life, with any number of weapons.
I can tell you George Floyd has nothing to do with Uvalde. Why did Obama use Uvalde to bring up the Floyd situation? Why has Biden made ridiculous remarks? Why is Gavin Newsome making snide remarks to Texas governor Abbott, and now telling Californians he is going to sign a bunch of bills commandeering guns. The answer is simple. These are people, Leftists, who never let a tragedy go to waste, who get instantly politically opportunistic and exploit a situation. They do not understand the principles of freedom and liberty and Americanism, or they do, and hate them, and vow to do away with them in favor of controlling Americans in whatever ways they can, Constitution be damned.
If we want freedom and liberty, there will always be prices to pay and tragedies that go with them because of people who do not care about the rule of law.
Twenty-one people are gone, just like each tragedy before this one, the last in El Paso, if I recall correctly, and the same voices, like Robert O'Rourke, begin instantly using the situation to scream about gun control. Criminals laugh, because they will get guns regardless of laws, and honest, law-biding Americans will be left defenseless in their homes and persons in a world getting more and more violent. Common sense says more people should be armed, not less. Leftists do not want to comment on how the shooter fired for 12 minutes before he went inside the building and continued, and if more people were armed and trained to use firearms, could have taken the shooter down, as has happened in other scenes played out around the nation. Leftists will not tell you that when police arrived, they did nothing, and ended up arresting a mother who decided to defend children any way she could by entering the shooting zone. An off-duty, border patrol agent had a bullet zip his skull when he decided to get involved. The police? They just set up a perimeter. The same situation plays out at every tragedy. Does anybody on the Left scream about the police doing nothing? Parents did. People there who saw it all have. Leftists, who want less police with hands tied behind their backs, no. They say nothing. The Police claim they were there 4 minutes after the first shots were fired. That left 8 minutes for that menace to continue shooting and then go inside, take hostages, and decide to kill anyone he could before we was taken down by an officer with some professional guts.
No, I suppose all the details are not yet known. Things will unravel. Facts will come out. If they side with Leftists, mainstream media will trumpet it. If they side with people on the Right, Corporate controlled, Leftist media will remain silent, and alternative news outlets will report it. And Leftists will begin their "fact checking," and "Conspiracy theory" garbage. It has been this way for decades. It is the most sure revolving door in American life.
For me, as an American believing in the principles of the rule of law, freedom, liberty, personal responsibility and accountability, the monster who killed his grandmother, 2 adults and 19 children, wounding many others, is the one to blame, and doing away with the right to bear arms will not change that. Just move to Chicago if you doubt it. Criminals will always get guns. Unless the world stops their manufacture, criminals will always get guns. And if the world stops making them, some uncooperating rogue nation will make and manufacture their own and sell them to whoever wants them all around the world. That is life on a sinful planet and shall remain that way, and get worse, until Jesus returns. Simple as that, in the midst of growing suffering, pain and tragedy.
Honestly, every time this happens, all the way back to 1966, the UT shooting in Austin, my first exposure to a mass shooting event, at 11 years old, listening to a radio with my cousins I was visiting in Rhode Island, the same sets of scenarios play out. And frankly, I am more astounded people refuse to believe the Bible, believe in God, when His word has the answers to "Why?" and when it will stop, and people have been proclaiming it for millennia. At 13, I decided to become an atheist. Looking at the world, I believed there could be no God. I focused on the wrong things. When I focused on other things, like Bible prophecy and creation, I gave my life to God, 11 years later.
God is not silent. Never has been. People are just too busy with other stuff than reading that old, ancient, politically incorrect book. Obama even castigated those who do - those clinging to their guns and their Bibles, as though the Bible tells people to go ahead and get even and kill people, when Scripture states, point blank:
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Ignorance controls this world. The ruler, the god of this world, Satan, rejoices over all the violence, the sickness, the death, the fists shaking at God, blaming Him. God? The Creator watches and gives time for people to repent because this world is a speck, and its inhabitants atoms but, He does not want one single person to eternally perish but, that all should come to repentance and new life; eternal life in Christ.
Ramos? He died so, God obviously saw no time for repentance for him, His fate sealed. Unless he did ask forgiveness before the final shots that took his life were fired. God knows.
"Wait, Ray. Are you saying God would forgive a mass murderer?" Well, has he not forgiven murderers, in general? Moses killed a man. David had Uriah killed. Plenty of people in prisons have found Christ and come to salvation at the foot of the cross, and the altar in the Heavenly sanctuary where Christ ministers for humanity; they have made peace with their Maker, and shall be in paradise when Christ returns. Grace. We all need grace. God's grace saves each one of us. Whoever comes, Christ will in no way cast them out.
This life is temporal. Millions of children have died before their time and continue to do so in countless tragedies. God has saved every tear fallen in his bottle. Everything is written down. Every fact known. Every sin: thoughts, words and deeds for all people down through all time. Every sorrow, all the confusion, all the sufferings. All will be handled with perfect mercy and justice. And everyone of the redeemed will be perfectly satisfied the right decisions were made, and if asked, would choose to go exactly as God saw fit to let our days go on Earth.
Psa 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psa 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Psa 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
Psa 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
I don't know about each of the children in the Uvalde tragedy. I do know, it behooves the parents to go as close to God as they can so that they can spend eternity with those children who wake to eternal life on resurrection morning.
This life is the blink of an eye. Eternal life, forever? Not a moment of boredom, suffering, pain, questions? All made known, nothing hidden, everything revealed, everything literally new, constantly learning the highest of possibilities, enjoying every moment of every day? Indeed, the years of this life, however many or few, shall be forgotten quickly enough, as eternity moves along.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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575. Alan White Passes Away - May 27, 2022
Alan White was a cool drummer. He had many sides. Organic beat-keeper, session-man, longtime YES member, knowledgeable percussionist and composer, trained pianist...
Bill Bruford was a strategist; very meticulous, very intent behind the drums. He was getting more and more into Jazz and Fusion and decided to leave YES at a high time for it. Alan White, in replacing him, brought a funky-kind of vibe and playfulness to some very intricate music for its time.
A lot of discussion takes place around the subject but, "Progressive Rock" was not the term I remember used for ELP, YES, and other bands that blended a type of Classical sound with Rock. Hence, I remember the genre being called "Classical Rock." Prog Rock came about later.
I saw YES two or three times. They opened for Grand Funk Railroad at the Yale Bowl, back in the early days, with Bruford. Then I saw them a couple times with White. One of those times was the Topographic Oceans tour and while I found the music seriously boring compared to earlier albums (and listening today I find it really beautiful), I'll never forget White's drum set enclosed inside a mechanical beetle of some kind, wings opening, ready to fly away. It was my inspiration to one day having a dragon's head surround my set in Legend, and the eyes would light up and smoke blast through its nostrils during my solo. Dreams. They all start somewhere.
Alan had larger drum sets as time went on, with percussion items and electronics. He added Rototoms, North drums, timbales, all kinds of stuff from time to time, tour to tour. He was not a player that caused a great deal of excitement with his playing, per se.' He was not a 'chopsmeister.' That said, he propelled the music with a wonderful dual organic nature and tight professionalism that worked great for the compositions of the band, and metered well with Chris Squire's playing. Nobody in YES was "theatrical." Yes, the time called for costumes for name band musicians back then but, nobody had any lion's share of the stage. The five of them were so good and so musically tight they formed a true "band," all superstars.
When I was young I played along to Yessongs, their triple live album, all the time. It was one of my favorites. Alan's work on Relayer was really good. I will never forget hearing that album for the first time. Goosbump City on 'The Gates of Delirium.'
When Fusion came along and my musical tastes changed towards that genre, while I stayed current with YES, I didn't listen as much. Then life changed for me in 1979, and I didn't follow Prog Rock anymore. YES went kind of technopop and became sort of stiff, like so much music of the 80s, yet White fit it to his own style from things I'd hear from time to time.
I saw a video of him in the last year or two with the band and did not recognize him. Not only had he aged but, he looked absolutely frail. The band did not sound very good. There must come a point where playing music over and over for 50 years becomes more habitual than inspired and it just becomes passing the time on stage for fans. Especially with new, younger members taking spots for departed mainstays. Today's young lion's grew up in a totally different world. The music of the latter 60's and 70's was all knew and vibrant. While much of it still holds its own, played by younger musicians, it loses some of the life that birthed it decades before.
Jon Anderson is a marvel. His voice has stayed with him, regardless of projects he's into, and while he has obviously aged, he looks healthy. Squire is gone, of course. Wakeman is hanging in there and the professor, Steve Howe, will probably live to be 100.
Alan White was a terrific player in such a technical environment. Always a gentleman, he played knowing his place in the music. That is not something easy to come by for all drummers. Many players could not do what White did all those years. Plenty would underplay or overplay. Alan found his place, his position in the music and enhanced it well.
The time has come for many of the players I grew up listening to, to remove from the drum throne and live out their last years. I'm right behind them.
Alan White left his mark, and so few players have done that. It's a tribute to the person he was.
Alan White. (1949 - 2022) R.I.P.
Bill Bruford was a strategist; very meticulous, very intent behind the drums. He was getting more and more into Jazz and Fusion and decided to leave YES at a high time for it. Alan White, in replacing him, brought a funky-kind of vibe and playfulness to some very intricate music for its time.
A lot of discussion takes place around the subject but, "Progressive Rock" was not the term I remember used for ELP, YES, and other bands that blended a type of Classical sound with Rock. Hence, I remember the genre being called "Classical Rock." Prog Rock came about later.
I saw YES two or three times. They opened for Grand Funk Railroad at the Yale Bowl, back in the early days, with Bruford. Then I saw them a couple times with White. One of those times was the Topographic Oceans tour and while I found the music seriously boring compared to earlier albums (and listening today I find it really beautiful), I'll never forget White's drum set enclosed inside a mechanical beetle of some kind, wings opening, ready to fly away. It was my inspiration to one day having a dragon's head surround my set in Legend, and the eyes would light up and smoke blast through its nostrils during my solo. Dreams. They all start somewhere.
Alan had larger drum sets as time went on, with percussion items and electronics. He added Rototoms, North drums, timbales, all kinds of stuff from time to time, tour to tour. He was not a player that caused a great deal of excitement with his playing, per se.' He was not a 'chopsmeister.' That said, he propelled the music with a wonderful dual organic nature and tight professionalism that worked great for the compositions of the band, and metered well with Chris Squire's playing. Nobody in YES was "theatrical." Yes, the time called for costumes for name band musicians back then but, nobody had any lion's share of the stage. The five of them were so good and so musically tight they formed a true "band," all superstars.
When I was young I played along to Yessongs, their triple live album, all the time. It was one of my favorites. Alan's work on Relayer was really good. I will never forget hearing that album for the first time. Goosbump City on 'The Gates of Delirium.'
When Fusion came along and my musical tastes changed towards that genre, while I stayed current with YES, I didn't listen as much. Then life changed for me in 1979, and I didn't follow Prog Rock anymore. YES went kind of technopop and became sort of stiff, like so much music of the 80s, yet White fit it to his own style from things I'd hear from time to time.
I saw a video of him in the last year or two with the band and did not recognize him. Not only had he aged but, he looked absolutely frail. The band did not sound very good. There must come a point where playing music over and over for 50 years becomes more habitual than inspired and it just becomes passing the time on stage for fans. Especially with new, younger members taking spots for departed mainstays. Today's young lion's grew up in a totally different world. The music of the latter 60's and 70's was all knew and vibrant. While much of it still holds its own, played by younger musicians, it loses some of the life that birthed it decades before.
Jon Anderson is a marvel. His voice has stayed with him, regardless of projects he's into, and while he has obviously aged, he looks healthy. Squire is gone, of course. Wakeman is hanging in there and the professor, Steve Howe, will probably live to be 100.
Alan White was a terrific player in such a technical environment. Always a gentleman, he played knowing his place in the music. That is not something easy to come by for all drummers. Many players could not do what White did all those years. Plenty would underplay or overplay. Alan found his place, his position in the music and enhanced it well.
The time has come for many of the players I grew up listening to, to remove from the drum throne and live out their last years. I'm right behind them.
Alan White left his mark, and so few players have done that. It's a tribute to the person he was.
Alan White. (1949 - 2022) R.I.P.
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576. 'The Chosen" - May 28, 2022
I feel moved to comment on something I probably have in the past, here.
There's a series, entitled, 'The Chosen,' that is rapidly gaining viewers and apparently having a big impact on people. Over 400 million views by over 94 million different viewers thus far, for the first two seasons. The producers are aiming for 1 billion viewers.
The Chosen is about the life of Christ and His disciples. Needless to say such movies and television programs have been around for a long time. Everything from Creation through to the second coming of Christ have been portrayed. I have seen my share.
When I became a Christian my interest in seeing such media evaporated. The reason, for me, was simple. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator of all, the perfect Sacrifice to redeem mankind, the greatest Teacher in the history of the world, is Deity. He is divine. He is God. "God manifest in the flesh." He is one with the Father and the Spirit.
How on Earth can any fallen, sinful human being portray, in any way close to authentically, such a Person? It is impossible. It is not improbable, it is impossible.
An actor may, per chance, portray George Washington close to the actual character and personality Washington had, even though only written records exist to describe him. George Washington was just a man, a sinner like everyone that comes into this world and goes from an innocent baby to someone who needs salvation from sins. Jesus Christ is salvation. He does not need it. He brought it to mankind. The weight of the salvation of the human race was upon His shoulders. The weight of the sins of the world was upon Him. Tell me how any human being ever born could understand such a situation, personally. It cannot be done. That role was reserved for one Person and one Person only to understand and experience.
Have you ever had an experience with people, then sat around and repeated it to others? Have you listened to how each person rehearsed what they experienced and noticed glaring differences from the way you remember it? Humans cannot even get their own experiences correct. How is an erring, sinful human being supposed to accurately portray the sinless, spotless, Son of God, just because he has a text, a script to go by? Who can tell him, from the aspect of truth, if he has done well? What, because he acted well? Because he caused people to take in a scene with interest? What if the portrayal, however emotional or intellectual, was way off from the truth and reality of the way Christ spoke and acted? What, then, takes place? Erroneous matter. There is nothing more deceptive that a little truth and little error mixed together.
In ancient times artwork became a source of teaching, an aid to teaching. The Hebrews only had artwork in the Sanctuary, and its interior was reserved for the priesthood to behold. The Sanctuary services were a portrayal of the plan of salvation. A fabric courtyard surrounded the fabric and wooden sanctuary, itself. Every aspect of the layout of it all was given to Moses based on a pattern from the Heavenly Sanctuary. Great, meticulous workmanship went into its construction by chosen Hebrew artisans. The priests, their clothing, all furniture and implements of the services, all instructions for what and how things were to be done were given to Moses in exacting detail.
Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and all cultures had artwork in every direction. Not the Hebrews. Other civilizations used and had artwork extensively. The Roman Church used the influence of those archetypes to teach, and hence, statues and paintings of Christ and scenes from the biblical life of Christ began to be used to help the pagan world grasp the significance of the Gospels. As time went on, other things began to be portrayed: traditions that sprung from man-made concepts of religion and faith. The entire religion of Christ was perverted, removed from its settings of the four Gospels and Acts. Ancient documents show the spiritual war that took place between those who wanted to retain the simplicity of the teachings of Christ and His apostles versus the explosion of traditions and visual aids that warped it all, and as conflict arose, it ultimately became determined some authority had to be in place to decide matters to end confusion. Enter Papa, the Papacy, the Vicar of Christ, the Vice Regent of the Savior, and ultimately the claim of holding the place of God on Earth. It all involved naked, simple truth versus man-made traditions, embellishments and elaborations, human adornment and enhancement.
The truth needs only the influence of the Holy Spirit upon the mind to make it come alive. When I read how the series, The Chosen, has impacted people exposed to it; how it has them reading their Bibles again, and children have taken an interest in the faith, I know beyond shadow of doubt it is all a repeat of former times, ancient times, when man-made religion displaced the simplicity and impact and power of the word of God. Pageantry takes place on holidays and at other times. Everything is always about man making things about God better to understand and all we do is pervert it all. Humans adore spectacle. Satan counts on it. He banks on it helping him to deceive.
Yes, you can sit an actor in cultural clothing, in a staged ancient setting and have them repeat the same words Christ spoke in translation languages but, what was behind the words; the inflections, the looks on the Teacher's face, the pauses, the nuances and intent cannot be done because Messiah had a mission that did not involve a paycheck. It did not involve cameras and makeup and special effects, and lighting and carpenter crews to construct it all. It had the weight of the salvation of the human race upon it. No series can have that. Not even close. No actor can make it authentic.
Nobody knows what Jesus looked like. Therefore, right away a problem exists. The mind is left to portray Christ however each individual reads and is affected by the Spirit's actuation in the process. Once you watch a portrayal, read the Bible and see in your mind the actors involved. It gets burned into the brain. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. I still see Charlton Heston or Burt Lancaster when I read about Moses. I still see Robert Powell sometimes, when I read the Gospels.
Look it up. Almost 70 different actors have attempted to portray Christ on film since 1912. Did they all do it the same? Well, that's impossible. They are all different people, themselves, which is the point. They brought themselves into the portrayal of the selfless, sinless Son of God, who thought only how to portray the Father's character in every moment of His life. The difference is a staggering rift of reality.
The crucifixion of Christ was the most horrible scene in human history. It was not just the torture involved and lacerations upon the body of Christ, the flow of blood, the mixture of dirt when He fell, the pounding of the nails, and all the rest, upon an innocent Man; a totally innocent person: a perfect sinless life. It was the impossible to understand disconnection taking place between the Father and His Son. Jesus Christ took on the wages of sin, which is death, the second death spoken of in Revelation. No separation ever existed between the Father and the Son. Eternal, infinite oneness.
Everybody dies. The first death is temporary, referred to as a "sleep" all throughout Scripture. All will be resurrected from the temporary cessation of life in one of two resurrections: when Christ returns, and a thousand years later when the executive judgement of final punishment is rendered to the lost of the human race. That judgment is eternal. Destructive fire that shall devour them and the Earth, and reduce it all to ashes. The second death is it. Done. Over. Gone. Christ experienced the second death for mankind. Total. complete loss of everything: a darkness no human being has ever experienced. Not yet. Jesus did. That was the price He paid. He could not see beyond the tomb. The stress upon Him was greater than anything ever placed on another human being. It killed Him. No man can possibly portray any of that to any degree of authenticity. Any portrayal of it, is a betrayal of it. It reduces it all to the mind of man, how man sees things, when God's religion is how He sees things and relates it to mankind through His Word.
The end of time will involve supernatural sights, sounds, happenings, and deceptions, delusions, lies and deceit. On the other side, true miracles will take place. Christ and Lucifer will be fighting for the world. The war for the mind is one that has gone on continually for 6,000 years. It is not about power. Christ could make Lucifer disappear in an instant. It is war for the mind. Anything Satan can do to change how people think and react to stimuli becomes part of his plans. The more people are exposed to man's way of thinking, the easier it is to deceive them. Modern entertainment fulfills a need Satan uses to deceive. The supernatural is everywhere now, throughout the world of entertainment. At one time it was disturbing. Today it is 'cool.' Angels are supernatural; above the natural world. Satan and his hosts are planning supernatural deceptions and if people become used to the supernatural it becomes all the easier to use it to create delusions.
For those watching this program, The Chosen, and having an interest in Scripture for the first time or again, as the case may be, if they truly ask God to bless their exposure to the Word, they will begin to see things that Hollywood gets wrong, time and time again. And they will, hopefully, come face to face with a reality that no portrayal of Jesus Christ can be close to authentic and real. It is not possible. That, then, makes it a delusion, a deception, however honorable in intent such portrayal is meant to contain. It cannot strengthen the Gospel. It can only weaken it, reducing it to the level of man, not drawing up the mind to the level of God.
"Let this mind be in you as it was also in Christ Jesus." The mind is the battlefield. The mind is to be protected from anything that can pervert it's ability to think clearly and definitively when it comes to the matter of salvation. Mankind always, always messes things up no matter how hard people may try to do things right, because we are fallen. If only we had the ability to take back things thought, spoken and done throughout life. The number of things I stated from the pulpit over the decades of ministry causes me great distress. I can only ask God to forgive me for my humanity.
There is also something to consider by way of the Word. That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the eyes of God, Luke 16:15. Now, whatever you may want to place in that framework of thought, ask yourself if man's impossible portrayal of God's Son falls into that category. Man may receive accolades and awards for such portrayals. God looks down on it as a weak, frail, blasphemous attempt to entertain people.
Sure, movies are emotional. That is one thing that becomes dangerous about them. It's all fake and yet it can cause emotional upheaval to the soul. It is not real. It should have no effect upon our minds, anymore than a magician's tricks should cause us to cry or become angry, sad, elated or think ill of another person.
There is the other side, as well. The person chosen to portray Judas. Not that betrayal cannot be portrayed by sinners. We are all guilty of it to one degree or another. The issue becomes the mind of the actor that has to get into such a demonstrably satanic betrayal. I find it hard to believe such a thing can be emotionally or mentally healthy. Portraying the greatest betrayer of all time. That is not a role I should think one would be thankful to get accolades and praise for.
Fake is coming. It is here and has been for ages but, what is coming is the final showstopper, the big final scene, the goal of the mastermind plan to deceive the whole world.
We best be on our guard. An adversary is planning deceptions for each of us, keenly devised by watching our entire lives. Overmastering delusions are coming.
God help us.
There's a series, entitled, 'The Chosen,' that is rapidly gaining viewers and apparently having a big impact on people. Over 400 million views by over 94 million different viewers thus far, for the first two seasons. The producers are aiming for 1 billion viewers.
The Chosen is about the life of Christ and His disciples. Needless to say such movies and television programs have been around for a long time. Everything from Creation through to the second coming of Christ have been portrayed. I have seen my share.
When I became a Christian my interest in seeing such media evaporated. The reason, for me, was simple. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator of all, the perfect Sacrifice to redeem mankind, the greatest Teacher in the history of the world, is Deity. He is divine. He is God. "God manifest in the flesh." He is one with the Father and the Spirit.
How on Earth can any fallen, sinful human being portray, in any way close to authentically, such a Person? It is impossible. It is not improbable, it is impossible.
An actor may, per chance, portray George Washington close to the actual character and personality Washington had, even though only written records exist to describe him. George Washington was just a man, a sinner like everyone that comes into this world and goes from an innocent baby to someone who needs salvation from sins. Jesus Christ is salvation. He does not need it. He brought it to mankind. The weight of the salvation of the human race was upon His shoulders. The weight of the sins of the world was upon Him. Tell me how any human being ever born could understand such a situation, personally. It cannot be done. That role was reserved for one Person and one Person only to understand and experience.
Have you ever had an experience with people, then sat around and repeated it to others? Have you listened to how each person rehearsed what they experienced and noticed glaring differences from the way you remember it? Humans cannot even get their own experiences correct. How is an erring, sinful human being supposed to accurately portray the sinless, spotless, Son of God, just because he has a text, a script to go by? Who can tell him, from the aspect of truth, if he has done well? What, because he acted well? Because he caused people to take in a scene with interest? What if the portrayal, however emotional or intellectual, was way off from the truth and reality of the way Christ spoke and acted? What, then, takes place? Erroneous matter. There is nothing more deceptive that a little truth and little error mixed together.
In ancient times artwork became a source of teaching, an aid to teaching. The Hebrews only had artwork in the Sanctuary, and its interior was reserved for the priesthood to behold. The Sanctuary services were a portrayal of the plan of salvation. A fabric courtyard surrounded the fabric and wooden sanctuary, itself. Every aspect of the layout of it all was given to Moses based on a pattern from the Heavenly Sanctuary. Great, meticulous workmanship went into its construction by chosen Hebrew artisans. The priests, their clothing, all furniture and implements of the services, all instructions for what and how things were to be done were given to Moses in exacting detail.
Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and all cultures had artwork in every direction. Not the Hebrews. Other civilizations used and had artwork extensively. The Roman Church used the influence of those archetypes to teach, and hence, statues and paintings of Christ and scenes from the biblical life of Christ began to be used to help the pagan world grasp the significance of the Gospels. As time went on, other things began to be portrayed: traditions that sprung from man-made concepts of religion and faith. The entire religion of Christ was perverted, removed from its settings of the four Gospels and Acts. Ancient documents show the spiritual war that took place between those who wanted to retain the simplicity of the teachings of Christ and His apostles versus the explosion of traditions and visual aids that warped it all, and as conflict arose, it ultimately became determined some authority had to be in place to decide matters to end confusion. Enter Papa, the Papacy, the Vicar of Christ, the Vice Regent of the Savior, and ultimately the claim of holding the place of God on Earth. It all involved naked, simple truth versus man-made traditions, embellishments and elaborations, human adornment and enhancement.
The truth needs only the influence of the Holy Spirit upon the mind to make it come alive. When I read how the series, The Chosen, has impacted people exposed to it; how it has them reading their Bibles again, and children have taken an interest in the faith, I know beyond shadow of doubt it is all a repeat of former times, ancient times, when man-made religion displaced the simplicity and impact and power of the word of God. Pageantry takes place on holidays and at other times. Everything is always about man making things about God better to understand and all we do is pervert it all. Humans adore spectacle. Satan counts on it. He banks on it helping him to deceive.
Yes, you can sit an actor in cultural clothing, in a staged ancient setting and have them repeat the same words Christ spoke in translation languages but, what was behind the words; the inflections, the looks on the Teacher's face, the pauses, the nuances and intent cannot be done because Messiah had a mission that did not involve a paycheck. It did not involve cameras and makeup and special effects, and lighting and carpenter crews to construct it all. It had the weight of the salvation of the human race upon it. No series can have that. Not even close. No actor can make it authentic.
Nobody knows what Jesus looked like. Therefore, right away a problem exists. The mind is left to portray Christ however each individual reads and is affected by the Spirit's actuation in the process. Once you watch a portrayal, read the Bible and see in your mind the actors involved. It gets burned into the brain. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. I still see Charlton Heston or Burt Lancaster when I read about Moses. I still see Robert Powell sometimes, when I read the Gospels.
Look it up. Almost 70 different actors have attempted to portray Christ on film since 1912. Did they all do it the same? Well, that's impossible. They are all different people, themselves, which is the point. They brought themselves into the portrayal of the selfless, sinless Son of God, who thought only how to portray the Father's character in every moment of His life. The difference is a staggering rift of reality.
The crucifixion of Christ was the most horrible scene in human history. It was not just the torture involved and lacerations upon the body of Christ, the flow of blood, the mixture of dirt when He fell, the pounding of the nails, and all the rest, upon an innocent Man; a totally innocent person: a perfect sinless life. It was the impossible to understand disconnection taking place between the Father and His Son. Jesus Christ took on the wages of sin, which is death, the second death spoken of in Revelation. No separation ever existed between the Father and the Son. Eternal, infinite oneness.
Everybody dies. The first death is temporary, referred to as a "sleep" all throughout Scripture. All will be resurrected from the temporary cessation of life in one of two resurrections: when Christ returns, and a thousand years later when the executive judgement of final punishment is rendered to the lost of the human race. That judgment is eternal. Destructive fire that shall devour them and the Earth, and reduce it all to ashes. The second death is it. Done. Over. Gone. Christ experienced the second death for mankind. Total. complete loss of everything: a darkness no human being has ever experienced. Not yet. Jesus did. That was the price He paid. He could not see beyond the tomb. The stress upon Him was greater than anything ever placed on another human being. It killed Him. No man can possibly portray any of that to any degree of authenticity. Any portrayal of it, is a betrayal of it. It reduces it all to the mind of man, how man sees things, when God's religion is how He sees things and relates it to mankind through His Word.
The end of time will involve supernatural sights, sounds, happenings, and deceptions, delusions, lies and deceit. On the other side, true miracles will take place. Christ and Lucifer will be fighting for the world. The war for the mind is one that has gone on continually for 6,000 years. It is not about power. Christ could make Lucifer disappear in an instant. It is war for the mind. Anything Satan can do to change how people think and react to stimuli becomes part of his plans. The more people are exposed to man's way of thinking, the easier it is to deceive them. Modern entertainment fulfills a need Satan uses to deceive. The supernatural is everywhere now, throughout the world of entertainment. At one time it was disturbing. Today it is 'cool.' Angels are supernatural; above the natural world. Satan and his hosts are planning supernatural deceptions and if people become used to the supernatural it becomes all the easier to use it to create delusions.
For those watching this program, The Chosen, and having an interest in Scripture for the first time or again, as the case may be, if they truly ask God to bless their exposure to the Word, they will begin to see things that Hollywood gets wrong, time and time again. And they will, hopefully, come face to face with a reality that no portrayal of Jesus Christ can be close to authentic and real. It is not possible. That, then, makes it a delusion, a deception, however honorable in intent such portrayal is meant to contain. It cannot strengthen the Gospel. It can only weaken it, reducing it to the level of man, not drawing up the mind to the level of God.
"Let this mind be in you as it was also in Christ Jesus." The mind is the battlefield. The mind is to be protected from anything that can pervert it's ability to think clearly and definitively when it comes to the matter of salvation. Mankind always, always messes things up no matter how hard people may try to do things right, because we are fallen. If only we had the ability to take back things thought, spoken and done throughout life. The number of things I stated from the pulpit over the decades of ministry causes me great distress. I can only ask God to forgive me for my humanity.
There is also something to consider by way of the Word. That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the eyes of God, Luke 16:15. Now, whatever you may want to place in that framework of thought, ask yourself if man's impossible portrayal of God's Son falls into that category. Man may receive accolades and awards for such portrayals. God looks down on it as a weak, frail, blasphemous attempt to entertain people.
Sure, movies are emotional. That is one thing that becomes dangerous about them. It's all fake and yet it can cause emotional upheaval to the soul. It is not real. It should have no effect upon our minds, anymore than a magician's tricks should cause us to cry or become angry, sad, elated or think ill of another person.
There is the other side, as well. The person chosen to portray Judas. Not that betrayal cannot be portrayed by sinners. We are all guilty of it to one degree or another. The issue becomes the mind of the actor that has to get into such a demonstrably satanic betrayal. I find it hard to believe such a thing can be emotionally or mentally healthy. Portraying the greatest betrayer of all time. That is not a role I should think one would be thankful to get accolades and praise for.
Fake is coming. It is here and has been for ages but, what is coming is the final showstopper, the big final scene, the goal of the mastermind plan to deceive the whole world.
We best be on our guard. An adversary is planning deceptions for each of us, keenly devised by watching our entire lives. Overmastering delusions are coming.
God help us.
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577. The NRA Convention - May 28, 2022
The NRA (National Rifle Association) Convention is being held this weekend down in Houston. A number of performers and speakers have withdrawn from the event, citing the victims of the Uvalde school shooting as the reason. Mistake. Big mistake.
https://www.faithwire.com/2022/05/27/lee-greenwood-joins-celebs-politicians-in-backing-out-of-nra-convention-citing-texas-horror-i-cannot-be-canceled/
I understand the reason. I just reject it as being useful to the narrative. It instantly blames gun ownership for the tragedy, which is decidedly not the case. A mentally disturbed individual misusing a firearm caused the tragedy.
Many would like to have seen the convention postponed out of respect. No. The principles of the Second Amendment and right to bear arms in defense of person, property and nation could and should be thoughtfully pronounced and proclaimed. The right use of firearms could have stopped the shooter before more damage to life was attained. Never forget that fact. Responsible gun ownership and use has prevented many a tragedy and will continue to do so if the Second Amendment is left alone.
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/woman-shoots-and-kills-man-in-west-virginia-after-he-opened-fire-with-rifle-into-crowd/
I am not a member of the NRA. I'm not into guns, per se.' I respect the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights - RIGHTS, mind you, and most of my adult life I have been surrounded by neighbors with lots of guns for hunting and target shooting, and if necessary, defense of person and property.
Allowing Leftists a centimeter of forward movement in their radical fight against private gun ownership should be denied. The victims of Uvalde were not killed by a rifle. They were killed or wounded by a madman with a rifle. The difference is a gulf of principle and truth versus policy and error. Negligence and policy allowed that young madman the ability to move forward with his public statements and attitudes. It has been the same for almost every single mass murderer in U.S. history. They all gave hints, gave notice. People noticed. Nobody moved on it or some tried but, people in positions of civil authority refused to respond. Though we now have laws which give the right to people in positions of authority opportunity to check and balance possible provocateurs, thus far it seems those laws are being used against law-biding citizens that happen to take stands against corruption in civil government.
The RIGHT to bear arms is just as important as a right to life. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. They are principles that should never take a back seat to any event, however tragic, and should sit as reminders of rights that if not held sacred, like all other rights, can be held in contempt and misused for nefarious purposes.
Backing out of an invitation to speak or perform at a convention which honors rights and principles that are God-granted, appealing to principles and people for right understanding of the amendment and necessity to honor it even more, not less, seems to me the actuating principle to attend and participate in such a convention.
No disrespect to those who pulled out but, I believe they were wrong to do so and could have used the opportunity for clarifications, for education, even for mourning because of someone who violated sacred principles. The convention need not be a celebration but, should be a gathering of people who understand why Uvalde took place in a nation that has forgotten or rejected God, His granted rights, and what truly unites and protects a nation.
This tragedy is not new, nor shall it be the last. The answer is God; certainly NOT Leftism and radical policies, nor radicals on the right that claim to have a right to shoot at anything that moves out of their lane. Fanatical Leftists and people on the Right are both a bane to society. That does not mean people should meet in some undetermined, foggy middle. It means the principles of the Constitution and rule of law, and law of the Father above, should be considered Americanism 101, and dealing with the confused and mentally deranged is part of that responsibility.
Things are going to get worse. That's prophecy. Get used to it. The New World Order cabal thinks it can manage a utopia with their uber-radical ideas, removing personal protection with firearms tops on the list. They cannot. All such movements are doomed to failure because technology cannot change the mind of man. It can bypass it, and that is their intention: make transhuman bots out of everybody. Program everybody. Haves, have nots, Peace and safety. Not happening. Human need for freedom and liberty will always exist and with it, rebellion and protestant reformation against tyranny and despotism in the name of utopian pursuits.
May the people attending and participating at the NRA Convention use their time wisely this weekend and make the event an important success.
UPDATE! Just the headline, alone, tells it all, as far as radical Leftists go:
Ethan Klein of H3 Podcast Calls on 400,000 Fans to Bomb NRA Meeting
https://thelibertydaily.com/ethan-klein-of-h3-podcast-called-to-bomb-nra-meeting-and-youtube-yawns/
Salvador Ramos Kills 21 people, wounds others. Radical Leftists call for the killing of thousands who disagree with their ideology, including kids that will be at the convention with their parents. I know Salvador Ramos was sick. I know radical Leftists are sick, as well.
https://www.faithwire.com/2022/05/27/lee-greenwood-joins-celebs-politicians-in-backing-out-of-nra-convention-citing-texas-horror-i-cannot-be-canceled/
I understand the reason. I just reject it as being useful to the narrative. It instantly blames gun ownership for the tragedy, which is decidedly not the case. A mentally disturbed individual misusing a firearm caused the tragedy.
Many would like to have seen the convention postponed out of respect. No. The principles of the Second Amendment and right to bear arms in defense of person, property and nation could and should be thoughtfully pronounced and proclaimed. The right use of firearms could have stopped the shooter before more damage to life was attained. Never forget that fact. Responsible gun ownership and use has prevented many a tragedy and will continue to do so if the Second Amendment is left alone.
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/woman-shoots-and-kills-man-in-west-virginia-after-he-opened-fire-with-rifle-into-crowd/
I am not a member of the NRA. I'm not into guns, per se.' I respect the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights - RIGHTS, mind you, and most of my adult life I have been surrounded by neighbors with lots of guns for hunting and target shooting, and if necessary, defense of person and property.
Allowing Leftists a centimeter of forward movement in their radical fight against private gun ownership should be denied. The victims of Uvalde were not killed by a rifle. They were killed or wounded by a madman with a rifle. The difference is a gulf of principle and truth versus policy and error. Negligence and policy allowed that young madman the ability to move forward with his public statements and attitudes. It has been the same for almost every single mass murderer in U.S. history. They all gave hints, gave notice. People noticed. Nobody moved on it or some tried but, people in positions of civil authority refused to respond. Though we now have laws which give the right to people in positions of authority opportunity to check and balance possible provocateurs, thus far it seems those laws are being used against law-biding citizens that happen to take stands against corruption in civil government.
The RIGHT to bear arms is just as important as a right to life. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. They are principles that should never take a back seat to any event, however tragic, and should sit as reminders of rights that if not held sacred, like all other rights, can be held in contempt and misused for nefarious purposes.
Backing out of an invitation to speak or perform at a convention which honors rights and principles that are God-granted, appealing to principles and people for right understanding of the amendment and necessity to honor it even more, not less, seems to me the actuating principle to attend and participate in such a convention.
No disrespect to those who pulled out but, I believe they were wrong to do so and could have used the opportunity for clarifications, for education, even for mourning because of someone who violated sacred principles. The convention need not be a celebration but, should be a gathering of people who understand why Uvalde took place in a nation that has forgotten or rejected God, His granted rights, and what truly unites and protects a nation.
This tragedy is not new, nor shall it be the last. The answer is God; certainly NOT Leftism and radical policies, nor radicals on the right that claim to have a right to shoot at anything that moves out of their lane. Fanatical Leftists and people on the Right are both a bane to society. That does not mean people should meet in some undetermined, foggy middle. It means the principles of the Constitution and rule of law, and law of the Father above, should be considered Americanism 101, and dealing with the confused and mentally deranged is part of that responsibility.
Things are going to get worse. That's prophecy. Get used to it. The New World Order cabal thinks it can manage a utopia with their uber-radical ideas, removing personal protection with firearms tops on the list. They cannot. All such movements are doomed to failure because technology cannot change the mind of man. It can bypass it, and that is their intention: make transhuman bots out of everybody. Program everybody. Haves, have nots, Peace and safety. Not happening. Human need for freedom and liberty will always exist and with it, rebellion and protestant reformation against tyranny and despotism in the name of utopian pursuits.
May the people attending and participating at the NRA Convention use their time wisely this weekend and make the event an important success.
UPDATE! Just the headline, alone, tells it all, as far as radical Leftists go:
Ethan Klein of H3 Podcast Calls on 400,000 Fans to Bomb NRA Meeting
https://thelibertydaily.com/ethan-klein-of-h3-podcast-called-to-bomb-nra-meeting-and-youtube-yawns/
Salvador Ramos Kills 21 people, wounds others. Radical Leftists call for the killing of thousands who disagree with their ideology, including kids that will be at the convention with their parents. I know Salvador Ramos was sick. I know radical Leftists are sick, as well.
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578. "Please Don't Judge Him" - May 28, 2022
Here's the headline:
School shooter’s mother speaks out: “He had his reasons for doing what he did. Please don’t judge him.
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/school-shooters-mother-speaks-out-he-had-his-reasons-for-doing-what-he-did-please-dont-judge-him/
I had originally went with reports that Ramos killed his grandmother and that was not the case. She is in the hospital.
Now, I can easily imagine most people reading that headline thinking, Mom, you have a serious misunderstanding. There is no reason for your son doing what he did. No reason became part of his unreasonable actions. There is no excuse, no reason, only sick-minded tragedy. That is the only reasonable conclusion.
One can understand a mother trying to make sense of it all. There is no sense to any of it.
One thing should be understood, though: the rights of people to judge actions. Judging righteous judgement, as Jesus told us to do. We cannot judge character, because we cannot change it, only God can. We cannot judge motives because unless they are given to us, we cannot read minds and know them, only God can. We can and must judge actions. It's the one thing that is sorely missing from our society today. People, especially people in positions of civil authority, and religious authority, getting away with sinful and criminal actions.
Nobody is above the law and certainly nobody is above God's Law. Law breakers should and must be addressed in ways suited to our justice system. If the justice system fails, which it has, epically, then society fails, crumbles and the dust gets blown away by the winds of time that have pushed out of the way every other civilization that crumbled into immorality and injustice.
Salvador Ramos is an easy example of judging actions with righteous judgment. Judging George Bush, Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence; easy for some, tough for others. It all depends on political positioning and worldview. The Catholic Church has had an easy/tough time judging immoral priests, especially preying on children and youth. Judging Ravi Zacharias, well-known, now deceased evangelical speaker, very tough for some but, easy for others, especially those who disdain any and all religion. Southern Baptists got some news that has rattled them recently, in a 288-page investigative report of sex abuse by clergy. Not hard to judge, unless it happened to be a revered shepherd of your flock.
The apostle Paul said the redeemed shall judge angels, 1 Cor. 6:3. That is what the millennium is for. Looking at the records God has kept of all sentient life. I don't know how many loyal angels there are but, Revelation states Satan took a third of them with him in the rebellion. Suffice to say it may be entirely reasonable to believe more angels will perish in the executive judgment than humans. Who knows? Billions are going to stand there, outside the walls of the New Jerusalem, to receive just compensation for unrepented and unforgiven sins. The wages of sin is death, and the second death will happen for the lost. Well, a first death for the rebellious angels. They have watched, purposed death and destruction for thousands of years. Then, they will experience it themselves; a permanent, irrevocable, final death - the judgment of God upon their actions, in the lake of fire ignited by the pure glory of God.
I can understand Ramos' mother pleading with people not to judge her son. God knows if she should have judged him more closely over his years, and acted accordingly but, in this current world parents are hinderances to reason, as youth see it, and generally always have. She had her reasons for raising him as she did, and her circumstances in life all had reasons. There are reasons for most anything. Salvador Ramos had reasons why he warped. From there, reason was gone. Reason was cast aside for unbridled lunacy. Reason concludes Salvador Ramos was insane, void of reason, and there are many more like him out there, controlled by evil angels and darkness. Man's laws will not change any of that. Denial of God has brought it about. Always has. Always will, unless actual, physical, chemical brain elements are not in order. Maybe that was the case, and forgiving Ramos for not having proper brain chemical components or alignment is useless. The event was not his fault, per se.' This is the kind of stuff that plays out over the time of an investigation.
Judging righteous judgment is an assessment of all facts and truth before making a final judgment. That is called critical thinking. Salvador Ramos was void of that. He planned and executed but, no critical thinking of results was part of his thinking. If it was; the pain, the suffering, even the death of a husband, of a victim who died, of a heart attack from the event, then we know Salvador Ramos was evil. 18 is young to be so evil but, in this world, from the murder of Abel by his brother Cain until now, evil comes in all age brackets.
Do you wonder why and how God could judge and destroy entire cities, children among them? Evil. Children overtaken by evil and twisted to become like their father, the devil. Our society is seeing more and more young kids acting as, not just bullies but, antagonists of life, itself. Kids are killing kids. Don't even try to blame guns. The blame is sin; unrenounced, unrepented sin. Sin kills. Always. Nobody escapes the death of sin. Only those changed into the character of Christ shall bypass death and be translated to Heaven, like Enoch and Elijah, when Jesus returns. All others - resurrected from death; judged righteous and worthy of eternal life because of Iesou Christos, Yeshua Messiah; His birth, life, death, resurrection and ministry in the lives of all who receive Him.
Would that Salvador Ramos had received Him on his 18th birthday, instead of a receipt for purchasing a couple rifles.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
School shooter’s mother speaks out: “He had his reasons for doing what he did. Please don’t judge him.
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2022/05/school-shooters-mother-speaks-out-he-had-his-reasons-for-doing-what-he-did-please-dont-judge-him/
I had originally went with reports that Ramos killed his grandmother and that was not the case. She is in the hospital.
Now, I can easily imagine most people reading that headline thinking, Mom, you have a serious misunderstanding. There is no reason for your son doing what he did. No reason became part of his unreasonable actions. There is no excuse, no reason, only sick-minded tragedy. That is the only reasonable conclusion.
One can understand a mother trying to make sense of it all. There is no sense to any of it.
One thing should be understood, though: the rights of people to judge actions. Judging righteous judgement, as Jesus told us to do. We cannot judge character, because we cannot change it, only God can. We cannot judge motives because unless they are given to us, we cannot read minds and know them, only God can. We can and must judge actions. It's the one thing that is sorely missing from our society today. People, especially people in positions of civil authority, and religious authority, getting away with sinful and criminal actions.
Nobody is above the law and certainly nobody is above God's Law. Law breakers should and must be addressed in ways suited to our justice system. If the justice system fails, which it has, epically, then society fails, crumbles and the dust gets blown away by the winds of time that have pushed out of the way every other civilization that crumbled into immorality and injustice.
Salvador Ramos is an easy example of judging actions with righteous judgment. Judging George Bush, Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence; easy for some, tough for others. It all depends on political positioning and worldview. The Catholic Church has had an easy/tough time judging immoral priests, especially preying on children and youth. Judging Ravi Zacharias, well-known, now deceased evangelical speaker, very tough for some but, easy for others, especially those who disdain any and all religion. Southern Baptists got some news that has rattled them recently, in a 288-page investigative report of sex abuse by clergy. Not hard to judge, unless it happened to be a revered shepherd of your flock.
The apostle Paul said the redeemed shall judge angels, 1 Cor. 6:3. That is what the millennium is for. Looking at the records God has kept of all sentient life. I don't know how many loyal angels there are but, Revelation states Satan took a third of them with him in the rebellion. Suffice to say it may be entirely reasonable to believe more angels will perish in the executive judgment than humans. Who knows? Billions are going to stand there, outside the walls of the New Jerusalem, to receive just compensation for unrepented and unforgiven sins. The wages of sin is death, and the second death will happen for the lost. Well, a first death for the rebellious angels. They have watched, purposed death and destruction for thousands of years. Then, they will experience it themselves; a permanent, irrevocable, final death - the judgment of God upon their actions, in the lake of fire ignited by the pure glory of God.
I can understand Ramos' mother pleading with people not to judge her son. God knows if she should have judged him more closely over his years, and acted accordingly but, in this current world parents are hinderances to reason, as youth see it, and generally always have. She had her reasons for raising him as she did, and her circumstances in life all had reasons. There are reasons for most anything. Salvador Ramos had reasons why he warped. From there, reason was gone. Reason was cast aside for unbridled lunacy. Reason concludes Salvador Ramos was insane, void of reason, and there are many more like him out there, controlled by evil angels and darkness. Man's laws will not change any of that. Denial of God has brought it about. Always has. Always will, unless actual, physical, chemical brain elements are not in order. Maybe that was the case, and forgiving Ramos for not having proper brain chemical components or alignment is useless. The event was not his fault, per se.' This is the kind of stuff that plays out over the time of an investigation.
Judging righteous judgment is an assessment of all facts and truth before making a final judgment. That is called critical thinking. Salvador Ramos was void of that. He planned and executed but, no critical thinking of results was part of his thinking. If it was; the pain, the suffering, even the death of a husband, of a victim who died, of a heart attack from the event, then we know Salvador Ramos was evil. 18 is young to be so evil but, in this world, from the murder of Abel by his brother Cain until now, evil comes in all age brackets.
Do you wonder why and how God could judge and destroy entire cities, children among them? Evil. Children overtaken by evil and twisted to become like their father, the devil. Our society is seeing more and more young kids acting as, not just bullies but, antagonists of life, itself. Kids are killing kids. Don't even try to blame guns. The blame is sin; unrenounced, unrepented sin. Sin kills. Always. Nobody escapes the death of sin. Only those changed into the character of Christ shall bypass death and be translated to Heaven, like Enoch and Elijah, when Jesus returns. All others - resurrected from death; judged righteous and worthy of eternal life because of Iesou Christos, Yeshua Messiah; His birth, life, death, resurrection and ministry in the lives of all who receive Him.
Would that Salvador Ramos had received Him on his 18th birthday, instead of a receipt for purchasing a couple rifles.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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"Something Weird"
While the world is coming unglued, science discovers the universe is expanding faster than originally studied.
Using the Hubble space telescope and decades of research it is now discovered the universe is expanding "at a rate of 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec — far faster than the astronomers’ predictions of 67.5.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/nasa-something-weird-is-expanding-universe-amid-hubble-discovery/
Many people are not aware that the Bible states God stretches out the heavens. Nothing weird about that.
Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Psa 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isa 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isa 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Jer 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him
Why is the universe expanding? Because the Creator is stretching it out at His discretion. It isn't new physics, though there is always a chance man makes new discoveries of ancient things.
One must wonder, at such speeds, just how did things moving that fast since the "big bang" slow down enough to form stars and galaxies. At such speeds, whatever was supposed to inflate and expand within the space of lightspeed at the beginning, hardly has the time to coalesce into anything as structured and dramatic as a pinwheel galaxy, itself spinning at incredible speeds. Please, do let us have common sense.
The "fine tuning" of the universe, acknowledged by cosmologists, should be reason enough to retain the convictions of early scientists who saw the cosmos as a way to understand the mind of God and get a glimpse of His thinking.
Everything that exists, exists because God created it all, and it all has hints to His character, government and purposes.
Just sayin.'
Using the Hubble space telescope and decades of research it is now discovered the universe is expanding "at a rate of 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec — far faster than the astronomers’ predictions of 67.5.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/nasa-something-weird-is-expanding-universe-amid-hubble-discovery/
Many people are not aware that the Bible states God stretches out the heavens. Nothing weird about that.
Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Psa 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isa 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isa 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Jer 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him
Why is the universe expanding? Because the Creator is stretching it out at His discretion. It isn't new physics, though there is always a chance man makes new discoveries of ancient things.
One must wonder, at such speeds, just how did things moving that fast since the "big bang" slow down enough to form stars and galaxies. At such speeds, whatever was supposed to inflate and expand within the space of lightspeed at the beginning, hardly has the time to coalesce into anything as structured and dramatic as a pinwheel galaxy, itself spinning at incredible speeds. Please, do let us have common sense.
The "fine tuning" of the universe, acknowledged by cosmologists, should be reason enough to retain the convictions of early scientists who saw the cosmos as a way to understand the mind of God and get a glimpse of His thinking.
Everything that exists, exists because God created it all, and it all has hints to His character, government and purposes.
Just sayin.'
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UPDATE - Clamoring for the Supernatural
Earlier this morning I wrote about the supernatural now being everywhere and accepted by most people (#576 -The Chosen). Save for atheists and many in fields of science, the subject of the supernatural is no longer questioned by a majority of people. People of faith, people of no faith all accept the notion of communicating with departed loved ones (or others), beings beyond, dimensions beyond, and the rest of the ideas aligning with the subject of the supernatural. It makes for a continued battlefield of options for the Adversary.
This afternoon I just came upon a headline that places my point in greater context:
A New ‘Jesus Movement’? Evangelist Nick Hall Says Gen Z Is Hungry for ‘Something Supernatural’
https://americanfaith.com/a-new-jesus-movement-evangelist-nick-hall-says-gen-z-is-hungry-for-something-supernatural/
“I would argue they’re [Gen Z] leaving things that haven’t been effective for a long time,” he said. “They’re leaving things that’s a club and not a movement, things that have become more political than Jesus-focused. … They want something that’s supernatural. They don’t want something that’s safe.”
I would ask this. Did the apostles desire something supernatural? Did Christ do anything supernatural in calling his disciples. Other than telling Nathanael He saw him pondering while beneath a fig tree, which even caused Jesus to tell him much greater things would Nathanael see, He did nothing supernatural to convince His disciples to follow him. Nay, he even warned of such thinking. The opposite counsel is found in Matthew's gospel:
Mat 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Mat 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Now, once again, I reckon the intent is sincere and God still works miracles. Satan does not care. Leave the Scriptures out in any way, any portion, and deception finds an open door. We are not to seek after signs, signs follow the believers. If people want to see supernatural things, the father of lies is more than willing to dish up a feast for people, even professed Christians. Sincerity does not protect. Truth, the Word of God brought into the life does.
A false religious revival is coming, based on signs, wonders and the presence of God in "miracles:" fire from Heaven, days of Elijah: Rev 13:13,14. As we have seen previously, the second Beast of Rev. 13 is America. It shall fall into traps because it shall refuse the truth as it is in Jesus, and the American church will fall into traps of supernatural occurrences believed to be the presence of God.
We have been warned.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
This afternoon I just came upon a headline that places my point in greater context:
A New ‘Jesus Movement’? Evangelist Nick Hall Says Gen Z Is Hungry for ‘Something Supernatural’
https://americanfaith.com/a-new-jesus-movement-evangelist-nick-hall-says-gen-z-is-hungry-for-something-supernatural/
“I would argue they’re [Gen Z] leaving things that haven’t been effective for a long time,” he said. “They’re leaving things that’s a club and not a movement, things that have become more political than Jesus-focused. … They want something that’s supernatural. They don’t want something that’s safe.”
I would ask this. Did the apostles desire something supernatural? Did Christ do anything supernatural in calling his disciples. Other than telling Nathanael He saw him pondering while beneath a fig tree, which even caused Jesus to tell him much greater things would Nathanael see, He did nothing supernatural to convince His disciples to follow him. Nay, he even warned of such thinking. The opposite counsel is found in Matthew's gospel:
Mat 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Mat 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Now, once again, I reckon the intent is sincere and God still works miracles. Satan does not care. Leave the Scriptures out in any way, any portion, and deception finds an open door. We are not to seek after signs, signs follow the believers. If people want to see supernatural things, the father of lies is more than willing to dish up a feast for people, even professed Christians. Sincerity does not protect. Truth, the Word of God brought into the life does.
A false religious revival is coming, based on signs, wonders and the presence of God in "miracles:" fire from Heaven, days of Elijah: Rev 13:13,14. As we have seen previously, the second Beast of Rev. 13 is America. It shall fall into traps because it shall refuse the truth as it is in Jesus, and the American church will fall into traps of supernatural occurrences believed to be the presence of God.
We have been warned.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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No, We Can't All Just Get Along - May 29, 2022
I just went to the Gateway Pundit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
I just scanned the headlines. Airheads, traitors, lunatics and criminals are running the world. Seriously. I can draw no other logical conclusion. The world is literally under attack from the darkest forces it has ever had to deal with, pole to pole. Some would say, No Hitler is out there, functioning. Au contraire. China functions no differently than Nazi Germany. It is just willing to use people, rather than kill them off but, if they refuse to be used, they get sent away to be used, anyway, or killed off.
I need not leave the boundaries of America to find gross criminal activity among those elected to preserve law and order. There is no justice department anymore. There is only a cabal of political cronies doing what they are told.
You know the drill. Every day has headlines showing the world is coming unglued but, for some reason today's headlines seem all the more telling of how radical and dangerous things are. Putin, for all he's wanting to do to preserve Russia, is apparently openly joining voices for a NWO. That probably seems the safest way to avoid nuclear confrontation. That, in and of itself, shows how sick and crazy leaders of the world are.
I'm on my way out to the shop to finish a snare drum and wondering what for? The way things are going people will not have enough money to buy a loaf of bread soon enough, and won't even have the money to do it, as everything goes totally digital, or worse, eye scans or hand scans, and funds are taken out of your account.
Man, we ain't in Kansas, anymore.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
I just scanned the headlines. Airheads, traitors, lunatics and criminals are running the world. Seriously. I can draw no other logical conclusion. The world is literally under attack from the darkest forces it has ever had to deal with, pole to pole. Some would say, No Hitler is out there, functioning. Au contraire. China functions no differently than Nazi Germany. It is just willing to use people, rather than kill them off but, if they refuse to be used, they get sent away to be used, anyway, or killed off.
I need not leave the boundaries of America to find gross criminal activity among those elected to preserve law and order. There is no justice department anymore. There is only a cabal of political cronies doing what they are told.
You know the drill. Every day has headlines showing the world is coming unglued but, for some reason today's headlines seem all the more telling of how radical and dangerous things are. Putin, for all he's wanting to do to preserve Russia, is apparently openly joining voices for a NWO. That probably seems the safest way to avoid nuclear confrontation. That, in and of itself, shows how sick and crazy leaders of the world are.
I'm on my way out to the shop to finish a snare drum and wondering what for? The way things are going people will not have enough money to buy a loaf of bread soon enough, and won't even have the money to do it, as everything goes totally digital, or worse, eye scans or hand scans, and funds are taken out of your account.
Man, we ain't in Kansas, anymore.
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579. Who Controls the Narrative?
Pick a subject. Any one you want. When it comes to media, a narrative is always developed and controlled. Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation; whatever kind of information is available, two sides are involved.
It isn't that there's your truth, my truth, and the truth. That always plays out. Many times the info in between contains more truth than either side the other way. The issue is whether or not two of those categories are allowed to get to the public-at-large, at all. Whoever controls the narrative decides that. To see a narrative actually existing in the united states of america (uncapitalized for a reason), that states freedom of speech must be controlled by government is the most insane and radical position ever placed before the populace of this nation. The very first Amendment in the Bill of Rights openly attacked, boldly attacked, confidently ATTACKED: a principle being attacked around the world, is astonishing to see in proclaimed free nations.
The obvious for instance right now is Ukraine. The narrative from the Left and Right, at least in the beginning, was that big, bad Russia was invading Ukraine because Putin is the devil. That has been the narrative from the beginning and those who would like the wider version of the situation placed before the general public have the uphill battle. Thankfully, it did not take long before more and more alt news media began to post the other side and now, even members of Congress, generally too afraid of their own shadows to speak up, are realizing things are not as they were told about Ukraine.
Another for instance. Guns. The second amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. Because people do not want to deal with the mentally disturbed in society, shootings take place. The worst of those are school shootings because the victims are children. Who is controlling the narrative on this issue? Congress, POTUS, SCOTUS, military, police, etc., all take some kind of worded vow to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. That should be the narrative, ipso facto. I have a right to own firearms to protect my person, property and nation. Tragedies happen. Far more will happen if only criminals have the guns. Leftists, void of Constitutional loyalty, make children the narrative. They make guns the narrative. Guns cannot be the narrative. Guns do nothing until handled, either legally or illegally. When someone is 17, they become the operative, exploited narrative if they are struck down by a bullet in a school shooting. Turn 18, warmongers think nothing of putting a firearm in their hands and send them off to fight useless wars, and millions of innocent civilians die. Yes, literally. Millions. Look it up.
Abortion. The narrative the Left constantly poses is that a baby inside a mother's womb is not a human being. Not until it breathes on its own is it a viable human being. That is their narrative. It's a stupid narrative because of science, as well as practical medical treatments. What is lying in an incubator under constant medical care when it is removed from the mother before full-term? Obviously, it's a baby. Nobody calls it a fetus when it's in an incubator. It cannot breathe or survive on its own yet but, it's a baby. The narrative for the Right is life, a right to life. Not just a right but, a Divine right. Ah, now all subjects find themselves in another narrative, another side. Your truth, my truth, the truth, and God's truth, and the last two are not necessarily the same.
No, civil government cannot decide God's truth but, some of it is logically obvious. Nobody controls God's truth or His narrative. They can try to mask it, closet it, hide it any way they can but, God's truth cannot be stopped. It can be slowed down, by divine permission because God can make the rocks and trees cry out if He chose so. God is the original Dr. Doolittle. He knows what everything is thinking, at all times. He made a donkey speak to warn a foolish prophet.
America had a God narrative in the beginning. They recognized only God could have given a lowly, though passionate, rugged and exhausted army the victory over the most well-trained and outfitted army and navy on the planet at the time: The British Army and Navy. Each state thanked God for His mercies and grace and provisions of care. I have posted the preambles to state constitutions that thank the great Sovereign of the universe for His watchcare over their newly born states.
Our Founders, though all had varying doctrinal beliefs and modes and levels of faith, all held to a God narrative in addressing things that faced the nation. That is lost. Another narrative took its place and how God thinks about any given subject is not the first concern of politicians, nor is the Constitution. The first thing politicians care about is their re-electability and money for campaigns, which means donors. Donors are the first concern. How will they react to anything said or done? So, they do surveys and take polls. Everything, rather than following a God narrative and principle, gets put in a process of policy-popularity, a donor narrative, main stream media narrative, constituent narrative. At least the last one should be in there because elected civil servants are there to serve the interests of the people who voted them into office for a term.
FOX news, now mainstream, has changing and continues to change its narrative to uplifting Leftism and putting down Conservativism. If Tucker Carlson were not the most popular political commentator on television, he'd have been capped by now and truly, given Carlson's position over the documentary, 2000 mules, he is already capped and has been for a long time. He is no geyser of truth. He is generally way behind the reporting of alt news sites that are right there on the day to day, and they have a narrative. It is just not the narrative that grabs the attention of the majority of Americans under the influence of the new narrative, the narrative placed to control how people think of an event, sometimes even before the event takes place.
I go back and forth with a friend of mine on how things are going to go. He is certain things are developing that shall push professed Christendom's backs against walls, which they will ultimately fight their way out from, and stage a great revival, aided by false supernatural events and wonders. Maybe. And as I have stated continually, that is the prophetic scenario that will eventually play out.
My position has been more dubious. That may happen. It probably will happen but, all I see is the wrong side controlling the narrative, and people, even after the last two years of medical and political tyranny, STILL BEING PUSHED, are still willing to be thrust aside like yesterday's trash in favor of the Left's radical, insane agenda. The world controllers gain ground through having control of money, media, militaries, and machinations of technology. They continue in their attempts to control the internet. Should they succeed, I believe it's over. Humanity shall face a new dark ages, not of superstition but, super-technology controlling lives. Not just controlling lives outside of humans but, controlling them from inside humans. Mankind is planned to be controlled by these lunatics.
Everybody chooses a narrative. Mine is the Bible, then the principles of Americanism, then that which is called Conservatism. If the second two are not in harmony with the first, that narrative becomes useless, save to know what people are thinking and where things might be heading.
I maintain no one knows where things are heading in the immediate future. Any number of man-made and natural disasters could drastically and dramatically change narratives and directions for nations. While people like Alex Jones predicted the Covid situation, nobody with any clout in media exposure of a narrative called this event. It changed everything and did so literally overnight around the world. The Monkey Pox is now on the board. Then there is the coming, medically predicted storm of death from vaccine adverse reactions, mostly vaids (vaccine auto-immune deficiency syndrome), and cancers, blood clots and heart failure. 80% of pregnancies have been lost to miscarriages. A percentage rate so much higher than normal but! Who controls the narrative Americans are seeing?
It is all in God's hands and, indeed, our hands, by our response to God's directions. His narrative remains. It is done, literally. We just can't get and stay with the program long enough for this insanity to end. But, it shall end, some day.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
His narrative has always been, Watch and pray because you do not know when all these things shall come to pass. We can recognize signs. We can know it is coming, getting close. We cannot know when. That narrative should control the last-day army of God, His body, His church, marching forward, proclaiming God's ;ast-day messages to the world. When it does, the end will come.
It isn't that there's your truth, my truth, and the truth. That always plays out. Many times the info in between contains more truth than either side the other way. The issue is whether or not two of those categories are allowed to get to the public-at-large, at all. Whoever controls the narrative decides that. To see a narrative actually existing in the united states of america (uncapitalized for a reason), that states freedom of speech must be controlled by government is the most insane and radical position ever placed before the populace of this nation. The very first Amendment in the Bill of Rights openly attacked, boldly attacked, confidently ATTACKED: a principle being attacked around the world, is astonishing to see in proclaimed free nations.
The obvious for instance right now is Ukraine. The narrative from the Left and Right, at least in the beginning, was that big, bad Russia was invading Ukraine because Putin is the devil. That has been the narrative from the beginning and those who would like the wider version of the situation placed before the general public have the uphill battle. Thankfully, it did not take long before more and more alt news media began to post the other side and now, even members of Congress, generally too afraid of their own shadows to speak up, are realizing things are not as they were told about Ukraine.
Another for instance. Guns. The second amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. Because people do not want to deal with the mentally disturbed in society, shootings take place. The worst of those are school shootings because the victims are children. Who is controlling the narrative on this issue? Congress, POTUS, SCOTUS, military, police, etc., all take some kind of worded vow to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. That should be the narrative, ipso facto. I have a right to own firearms to protect my person, property and nation. Tragedies happen. Far more will happen if only criminals have the guns. Leftists, void of Constitutional loyalty, make children the narrative. They make guns the narrative. Guns cannot be the narrative. Guns do nothing until handled, either legally or illegally. When someone is 17, they become the operative, exploited narrative if they are struck down by a bullet in a school shooting. Turn 18, warmongers think nothing of putting a firearm in their hands and send them off to fight useless wars, and millions of innocent civilians die. Yes, literally. Millions. Look it up.
Abortion. The narrative the Left constantly poses is that a baby inside a mother's womb is not a human being. Not until it breathes on its own is it a viable human being. That is their narrative. It's a stupid narrative because of science, as well as practical medical treatments. What is lying in an incubator under constant medical care when it is removed from the mother before full-term? Obviously, it's a baby. Nobody calls it a fetus when it's in an incubator. It cannot breathe or survive on its own yet but, it's a baby. The narrative for the Right is life, a right to life. Not just a right but, a Divine right. Ah, now all subjects find themselves in another narrative, another side. Your truth, my truth, the truth, and God's truth, and the last two are not necessarily the same.
No, civil government cannot decide God's truth but, some of it is logically obvious. Nobody controls God's truth or His narrative. They can try to mask it, closet it, hide it any way they can but, God's truth cannot be stopped. It can be slowed down, by divine permission because God can make the rocks and trees cry out if He chose so. God is the original Dr. Doolittle. He knows what everything is thinking, at all times. He made a donkey speak to warn a foolish prophet.
America had a God narrative in the beginning. They recognized only God could have given a lowly, though passionate, rugged and exhausted army the victory over the most well-trained and outfitted army and navy on the planet at the time: The British Army and Navy. Each state thanked God for His mercies and grace and provisions of care. I have posted the preambles to state constitutions that thank the great Sovereign of the universe for His watchcare over their newly born states.
Our Founders, though all had varying doctrinal beliefs and modes and levels of faith, all held to a God narrative in addressing things that faced the nation. That is lost. Another narrative took its place and how God thinks about any given subject is not the first concern of politicians, nor is the Constitution. The first thing politicians care about is their re-electability and money for campaigns, which means donors. Donors are the first concern. How will they react to anything said or done? So, they do surveys and take polls. Everything, rather than following a God narrative and principle, gets put in a process of policy-popularity, a donor narrative, main stream media narrative, constituent narrative. At least the last one should be in there because elected civil servants are there to serve the interests of the people who voted them into office for a term.
FOX news, now mainstream, has changing and continues to change its narrative to uplifting Leftism and putting down Conservativism. If Tucker Carlson were not the most popular political commentator on television, he'd have been capped by now and truly, given Carlson's position over the documentary, 2000 mules, he is already capped and has been for a long time. He is no geyser of truth. He is generally way behind the reporting of alt news sites that are right there on the day to day, and they have a narrative. It is just not the narrative that grabs the attention of the majority of Americans under the influence of the new narrative, the narrative placed to control how people think of an event, sometimes even before the event takes place.
I go back and forth with a friend of mine on how things are going to go. He is certain things are developing that shall push professed Christendom's backs against walls, which they will ultimately fight their way out from, and stage a great revival, aided by false supernatural events and wonders. Maybe. And as I have stated continually, that is the prophetic scenario that will eventually play out.
My position has been more dubious. That may happen. It probably will happen but, all I see is the wrong side controlling the narrative, and people, even after the last two years of medical and political tyranny, STILL BEING PUSHED, are still willing to be thrust aside like yesterday's trash in favor of the Left's radical, insane agenda. The world controllers gain ground through having control of money, media, militaries, and machinations of technology. They continue in their attempts to control the internet. Should they succeed, I believe it's over. Humanity shall face a new dark ages, not of superstition but, super-technology controlling lives. Not just controlling lives outside of humans but, controlling them from inside humans. Mankind is planned to be controlled by these lunatics.
Everybody chooses a narrative. Mine is the Bible, then the principles of Americanism, then that which is called Conservatism. If the second two are not in harmony with the first, that narrative becomes useless, save to know what people are thinking and where things might be heading.
I maintain no one knows where things are heading in the immediate future. Any number of man-made and natural disasters could drastically and dramatically change narratives and directions for nations. While people like Alex Jones predicted the Covid situation, nobody with any clout in media exposure of a narrative called this event. It changed everything and did so literally overnight around the world. The Monkey Pox is now on the board. Then there is the coming, medically predicted storm of death from vaccine adverse reactions, mostly vaids (vaccine auto-immune deficiency syndrome), and cancers, blood clots and heart failure. 80% of pregnancies have been lost to miscarriages. A percentage rate so much higher than normal but! Who controls the narrative Americans are seeing?
It is all in God's hands and, indeed, our hands, by our response to God's directions. His narrative remains. It is done, literally. We just can't get and stay with the program long enough for this insanity to end. But, it shall end, some day.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
His narrative has always been, Watch and pray because you do not know when all these things shall come to pass. We can recognize signs. We can know it is coming, getting close. We cannot know when. That narrative should control the last-day army of God, His body, His church, marching forward, proclaiming God's ;ast-day messages to the world. When it does, the end will come.
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580. Constitution Not Absolute? - May 31, 2022
Well, the meteor shower was a bust last night. The shower of ignorant remarks from non-president Biden continue, though. Now he is claiming the Constitution and Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights are not absolute.
"I mean, I just — and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
I would like to suggest nobody could afford a cannon when the 2nd amendment was passed. I would also like to suggest single shot firearms were all that existed then and did for another hundred years. I would also suggest Biden actually read the 2nd amendment:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Arms. Shall not be infringed. Arms, not handguns. Arms. Whatever firearms you see a need to own is what the Founders intended you are free and at liberty to own. That right shall not be infringed. That is absolute.
Criminals have always existed. Criminals will always exist. The Founders NEVER intended that Americans could not defend themselves from the ability of criminals to weaponize themselves above the lawful citizenry. Such is stupid. Arms dealers exist and sell to highest bidders or to those willing to pay prices for sophisticated weapons. How can it be right that lawful citizens cannot arm themselves to the same degree?
Well, someone in the Leftist narrative says, "Do you want the Wild West again?" "Who needs an assault rifle?" Go to Chicago! The wild west exists today! Go to New York City. Go to any major city in America that are "gun free" for citizens and the people are being killed by the dozens, by armed criminals, far more than the history of any old "wild west" town.
The leftist narrative always calls them "assault" rifles. For a homeowner, such light, easy to point and shoot firearms are the way to go for self-defense. Or for practice or for any other reason they so choose to have one, if a criminal has one and intends to shoot them! Criminals will have them, as long as manufacturers somewhere in the world makes them. Criminals will always have weapons. They're criminals! They don't abide by laws!
The principle that says advanced weaponry for a military is a deterrent against rogue nations is the same principle that states the more law-biding citizens are armed, the more deterrent exists against criminals opening fire upon them. Even criminally mental people don't want anyone firing back at them.
I wrote about controlling the narrative yesterday. The Leftist narrative has the floor, all the time, because the corporate controlled media has the lion's share of information rendering. All the dozens and dozens of alternative news sites on the internet now offer citizens another option where to get news, and in many cases, viewers and readers far outnumber network news. Still, magazines, newspapers, network television, Hollywood, NEA education, even sports teams now tow the Leftist, "woke" line and narrative. They are lying hypocrites and anyone with common sense knows it. More guns are fired at human beings in a three-hour evening of network television than months or years of actual life out in non-city-life America. Every bodyguard these hypocrites employ carry firearms. The computer toy software industry makes millions on violent games with plenty of digital blood flying all over the place. Do kids playing these games grow up to be killers? If that were the case, 1,000 people a day would be dying from gun violence. So, sure, we can make all the violent movies and tv that make money because it is not an influence, they say. Than what is wrong with every single, law-biding American owning any firearms they choose to defend themselves with or enjoy using for legal means in a growingly violent world? Do you see the blatant stupidity and/or hypocrisy here? Either law-biding citizens have rights, free of ignorant politicians opinions and commentary, or they do not. Rights should shut-up the armchair quarterbacks.
The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. Do they want a civil war? I believe so. A civil war would be the easiest way to root out those you cannot control with your narratives and lies and power hungry control freaks. Trudeau wants a law to take away all handguns from Canadians, and any firearm employing a magazine with over five shots. The stupidity of that man is so glaring it is blinding to normal people with any common sense. If hunting is the allowable firearm ownership, who uses a magazine to hunt deer or turkeys? If you believe guns kill people, all guns should be removed from the citizenry. Only the police and military should own guns. Five shots in a magazine can kill five people right quick. Their malinformation, their platitudes are reprehensibly revolting, and that is what governments know they will have on their hands if they go "too far" with gun control: revolt, revolution. I don't know about Canada. They re-elected the moron, and I mean that pejorative. He is a moron. A puppet moron. They take in increments. That is their modus operandi. That way citizens can be kept busy with other news, while they do not realize the chunks being taken over time, till finally, you have taken away rights altogether.
Does anybody even know where the Uvalde school officer is, not was but, is, right now? Nobody seems to know where he was when the shooting began. I'm curious to know where he is. Logically, gone. Long gone. He acted the coward. He's gone. The police, swearing to protect and serve, were cowards or worse; puppets, told to stand down. The situation literally calls for "conspiracy theories" to explode because since when do police stand down because of gunfire, especially when lives are at risk, and children's lives at that? The entire nature of being a police officer is moving into danger if lives must be saved. If that is not the demeanor of the professional police officer, go be a carpenter or plumber or something. You should not be wearing wearing a uniform that tells people you can be trusted in a dangerous emergency. The pain and suffering of parents wondering if their children could have been saved, that they were ones who bled out... . I cannot imagine the torture of mind and soul upon those parents.
America is either going to bust loose of ignorance and tyranny or is doomed to lose all liberty. It must go one way or the other, and bets could be placed on loss of liberty because Americans are no longer taught to think critically. They are taught to obey their masters who will take care of them if they are good citizens and not fret themselves over politicians who sidestep the Constitution at every turn of every day.
If there is a single nation in existence that does not have a government that does not lie to its citizens, which one is that? Seriously? Name it. Even if one exists, for my existence, the government of the American nation is the one I have to wonder, on a daily basis, if they are telling me the truth. I go into each day believing they are lying to me. Or people like Biden; ignorant, dangerous people are in control and will say anything, anything to stay in control.
The headlines of the non-narrative information sources are screaming at us to beware and act and react now or America is lost. In fact, the free world is lost.
It is hard to watch, when there are no champions that can make a difference.
There is One. Jesus Christ. He can make a difference. God is the only Entity that can make a difference now, and Americans are too interested in... well, not so much anymore, when your baby does not have formula and when your gas tank is always half empty, and your grocery bill is mountainous. Will Americans turn to the Sovereign of the universe to take control? How far will Americans get pushed before collapse comes at the hands of those who want it, so a New World Order can commence?
God knows.
"I mean, I just — and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
I would like to suggest nobody could afford a cannon when the 2nd amendment was passed. I would also like to suggest single shot firearms were all that existed then and did for another hundred years. I would also suggest Biden actually read the 2nd amendment:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Arms. Shall not be infringed. Arms, not handguns. Arms. Whatever firearms you see a need to own is what the Founders intended you are free and at liberty to own. That right shall not be infringed. That is absolute.
Criminals have always existed. Criminals will always exist. The Founders NEVER intended that Americans could not defend themselves from the ability of criminals to weaponize themselves above the lawful citizenry. Such is stupid. Arms dealers exist and sell to highest bidders or to those willing to pay prices for sophisticated weapons. How can it be right that lawful citizens cannot arm themselves to the same degree?
Well, someone in the Leftist narrative says, "Do you want the Wild West again?" "Who needs an assault rifle?" Go to Chicago! The wild west exists today! Go to New York City. Go to any major city in America that are "gun free" for citizens and the people are being killed by the dozens, by armed criminals, far more than the history of any old "wild west" town.
The leftist narrative always calls them "assault" rifles. For a homeowner, such light, easy to point and shoot firearms are the way to go for self-defense. Or for practice or for any other reason they so choose to have one, if a criminal has one and intends to shoot them! Criminals will have them, as long as manufacturers somewhere in the world makes them. Criminals will always have weapons. They're criminals! They don't abide by laws!
The principle that says advanced weaponry for a military is a deterrent against rogue nations is the same principle that states the more law-biding citizens are armed, the more deterrent exists against criminals opening fire upon them. Even criminally mental people don't want anyone firing back at them.
I wrote about controlling the narrative yesterday. The Leftist narrative has the floor, all the time, because the corporate controlled media has the lion's share of information rendering. All the dozens and dozens of alternative news sites on the internet now offer citizens another option where to get news, and in many cases, viewers and readers far outnumber network news. Still, magazines, newspapers, network television, Hollywood, NEA education, even sports teams now tow the Leftist, "woke" line and narrative. They are lying hypocrites and anyone with common sense knows it. More guns are fired at human beings in a three-hour evening of network television than months or years of actual life out in non-city-life America. Every bodyguard these hypocrites employ carry firearms. The computer toy software industry makes millions on violent games with plenty of digital blood flying all over the place. Do kids playing these games grow up to be killers? If that were the case, 1,000 people a day would be dying from gun violence. So, sure, we can make all the violent movies and tv that make money because it is not an influence, they say. Than what is wrong with every single, law-biding American owning any firearms they choose to defend themselves with or enjoy using for legal means in a growingly violent world? Do you see the blatant stupidity and/or hypocrisy here? Either law-biding citizens have rights, free of ignorant politicians opinions and commentary, or they do not. Rights should shut-up the armchair quarterbacks.
The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. Do they want a civil war? I believe so. A civil war would be the easiest way to root out those you cannot control with your narratives and lies and power hungry control freaks. Trudeau wants a law to take away all handguns from Canadians, and any firearm employing a magazine with over five shots. The stupidity of that man is so glaring it is blinding to normal people with any common sense. If hunting is the allowable firearm ownership, who uses a magazine to hunt deer or turkeys? If you believe guns kill people, all guns should be removed from the citizenry. Only the police and military should own guns. Five shots in a magazine can kill five people right quick. Their malinformation, their platitudes are reprehensibly revolting, and that is what governments know they will have on their hands if they go "too far" with gun control: revolt, revolution. I don't know about Canada. They re-elected the moron, and I mean that pejorative. He is a moron. A puppet moron. They take in increments. That is their modus operandi. That way citizens can be kept busy with other news, while they do not realize the chunks being taken over time, till finally, you have taken away rights altogether.
Does anybody even know where the Uvalde school officer is, not was but, is, right now? Nobody seems to know where he was when the shooting began. I'm curious to know where he is. Logically, gone. Long gone. He acted the coward. He's gone. The police, swearing to protect and serve, were cowards or worse; puppets, told to stand down. The situation literally calls for "conspiracy theories" to explode because since when do police stand down because of gunfire, especially when lives are at risk, and children's lives at that? The entire nature of being a police officer is moving into danger if lives must be saved. If that is not the demeanor of the professional police officer, go be a carpenter or plumber or something. You should not be wearing wearing a uniform that tells people you can be trusted in a dangerous emergency. The pain and suffering of parents wondering if their children could have been saved, that they were ones who bled out... . I cannot imagine the torture of mind and soul upon those parents.
America is either going to bust loose of ignorance and tyranny or is doomed to lose all liberty. It must go one way or the other, and bets could be placed on loss of liberty because Americans are no longer taught to think critically. They are taught to obey their masters who will take care of them if they are good citizens and not fret themselves over politicians who sidestep the Constitution at every turn of every day.
If there is a single nation in existence that does not have a government that does not lie to its citizens, which one is that? Seriously? Name it. Even if one exists, for my existence, the government of the American nation is the one I have to wonder, on a daily basis, if they are telling me the truth. I go into each day believing they are lying to me. Or people like Biden; ignorant, dangerous people are in control and will say anything, anything to stay in control.
The headlines of the non-narrative information sources are screaming at us to beware and act and react now or America is lost. In fact, the free world is lost.
It is hard to watch, when there are no champions that can make a difference.
There is One. Jesus Christ. He can make a difference. God is the only Entity that can make a difference now, and Americans are too interested in... well, not so much anymore, when your baby does not have formula and when your gas tank is always half empty, and your grocery bill is mountainous. Will Americans turn to the Sovereign of the universe to take control? How far will Americans get pushed before collapse comes at the hands of those who want it, so a New World Order can commence?
God knows.
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581. Sharing - June 1, 2022
I share. I share a lot. At least, I think I do. I have come to reality checks about that, that really affect all of us. Different pathways on this. How we process the idea of sharing.
Some people, even at a keyboard, are terribly shy. Being unseen helps them. Others are outgoing and gregarious and if the keyboard were in a storefront window, they'd be happy as a feral cat falling into a cat food factory dumpster.
Some people feel, they share because they want to.
They share because they have to, and that breaks down into sharing because they are being forced somehow or because they'll explode (or implode), if they don't.
Then there's always those who share because they are paid to do so, a strong motivator for sure, which also comes into the "forced" category at times.
From this arises the feeling, belief, conviction, whatever, that we have something worthy to share. Regardless, the thoughts and internal questions easily arise - do I have something worthy to share? Is it actually worth sharing? If I share it, will anyone care? But, then you come back to having to share it or you'll fester in some way (imploding) or lose it someway (exploding), or seethe in some way (forced to).
I often wonder how many websites are out there from drummers, that also contain religious and political commentary? Most people stay away from those things. My very purpose is bound up in sharing the religious things. 2020 caused the political side to come out. With all the alternative news sites out there, my sharing things in the last 2 years could be pretty slim to none, for chances of influencing anyone. It's entirely possible anyone coming here to see about my abilities behind a set of drums, would read my thoughts on other matters and take off out of here like a missile. They would make the mistake that my time with people would be the same as my time behind a keyboard. Not. I only share things with people who ask questions. I'll give them honest answers. I don't badger people. I don't like it. Why would I do it to others I know: coworkers, friends, relatives? I don't do public speaking anymore and in those cases, people are coming to hear and see whatever you have to share. They know that, coming through the doors. Now, my children. That's another matter. Just look at them and they feel you are badgering them. They are both grown and on their own now. I don't even tell them anything unless they ask.
This entire website is me sharing. Does it mean anything to anyone? How many owners of websites enter into that mental territory? I have people thank me for my Thought posts. More tend to comment on my writing style: I write like I speak. They can hear me speaking when reading. It seems to be a positive effect for them. Interestingly enough, I have gotten more comments about the political/spiritual aspects of what I share than all the stuff about drums and drumming, which is the basis for the site. By now though, since Covid, all the other stuff has come into play.
I believe most people who share will do so until something strikes them as a sound reason not to. And that breaks down into categories, too. 'Don't share anymore. You have nothing to say worth sharing;' which can actually cause an opposite reaction as you say, 'Oh, yeah? Watch me.' Or, life just adds a bunch of things to the, already, heavy mix and something has to go and the website is it. I cannot imagine how many YouTube channels fall into those two categories, and the first, regardless of your own attitude to fight on, may hit a reality check and you find out, I guess I didn't have anything worth sharing. I know things I have shared on my channel have made a difference for people because they communicate that to me. They email me and ask further questions and pick my brain on drumming subjects.
Then there's the fight for time and space to get people to your site. I leave all that with the Lord. I am not comfortable with self-promotion. I've mentioned that before. "Here I am! Come to my site! I have something you should see!" No thanks. Not for me.
At this point in my life, its circumstances have created this site as about the only sharing with humanity I do, aside from my YT channel, which really isn't something I have lots of stuff to share about. I have some new videos coming up; tomorrow is a new one, to be exact, and a few after that but, making drums involves a lot of time between videos.
Encouragement is important in life. Without it, paths become pretty grown over with weeds pretty quick, and I mean mental and emotional weeds, the negative stuff to deal with.
For me, as a believer in God, faith comes into it and I'll share until there's nothing else to share about. I made a decision in life, about life, when a lot of people were comparing me to names in drumming that were well known. My decision to follow wherever God led me left no real way to keep that track going so, I left it all. Drumming now... it's a whole different thing. There's no way to know what might have happened if Covid never took place and the Keep It True gig in Germany went off as planned. I have to see that as a door I could not walk through if it meant getting an injection to travel abroad. All things considered, I made the right decision on that one.
I shared some things with someone today. I guess I expected a more positive response. Nope. Didn't happen. I shared other things as an email response I was asked to give my thoughts on. I'm not expecting a reply and when it comes to my convictions of truth, response and reply do not matter. I share truth because it's truth, regardless of what a response might be. It is better to be "neither elated by applause or dejected by censure," when it comes to sharing truth.
I shared some new stuff here on the site. The DIY page; which is getting seriously long and I should probably start a new page for that subject. I don't know if Weebly has limitations on that.
It would be great to receive a lot of positive feedback from what I have shared on this site but, at this stage of life, musically, spiritually, politically... it's logically not going to happen. Same with recordings. Same with everything else I'm into, simply because, regardless of how I feel, I'm old now. Unless you are big in the name category, age does not afford much attention, regardless of what you can share. Life is ever more and more for the young, by the young, or people who use the young to stay current themselves.
Not many people visit the site. The numbers remain pretty consistent so, I imagine it's the same people and they are getting something out of it. Until the tally numbers hit zero and stay there awhile, I guess I'll keep sharing, and figuring it means something to someone besides me.
Thanks for stopping by and checking the site out. I appreciate it.
Some people, even at a keyboard, are terribly shy. Being unseen helps them. Others are outgoing and gregarious and if the keyboard were in a storefront window, they'd be happy as a feral cat falling into a cat food factory dumpster.
Some people feel, they share because they want to.
They share because they have to, and that breaks down into sharing because they are being forced somehow or because they'll explode (or implode), if they don't.
Then there's always those who share because they are paid to do so, a strong motivator for sure, which also comes into the "forced" category at times.
From this arises the feeling, belief, conviction, whatever, that we have something worthy to share. Regardless, the thoughts and internal questions easily arise - do I have something worthy to share? Is it actually worth sharing? If I share it, will anyone care? But, then you come back to having to share it or you'll fester in some way (imploding) or lose it someway (exploding), or seethe in some way (forced to).
I often wonder how many websites are out there from drummers, that also contain religious and political commentary? Most people stay away from those things. My very purpose is bound up in sharing the religious things. 2020 caused the political side to come out. With all the alternative news sites out there, my sharing things in the last 2 years could be pretty slim to none, for chances of influencing anyone. It's entirely possible anyone coming here to see about my abilities behind a set of drums, would read my thoughts on other matters and take off out of here like a missile. They would make the mistake that my time with people would be the same as my time behind a keyboard. Not. I only share things with people who ask questions. I'll give them honest answers. I don't badger people. I don't like it. Why would I do it to others I know: coworkers, friends, relatives? I don't do public speaking anymore and in those cases, people are coming to hear and see whatever you have to share. They know that, coming through the doors. Now, my children. That's another matter. Just look at them and they feel you are badgering them. They are both grown and on their own now. I don't even tell them anything unless they ask.
This entire website is me sharing. Does it mean anything to anyone? How many owners of websites enter into that mental territory? I have people thank me for my Thought posts. More tend to comment on my writing style: I write like I speak. They can hear me speaking when reading. It seems to be a positive effect for them. Interestingly enough, I have gotten more comments about the political/spiritual aspects of what I share than all the stuff about drums and drumming, which is the basis for the site. By now though, since Covid, all the other stuff has come into play.
I believe most people who share will do so until something strikes them as a sound reason not to. And that breaks down into categories, too. 'Don't share anymore. You have nothing to say worth sharing;' which can actually cause an opposite reaction as you say, 'Oh, yeah? Watch me.' Or, life just adds a bunch of things to the, already, heavy mix and something has to go and the website is it. I cannot imagine how many YouTube channels fall into those two categories, and the first, regardless of your own attitude to fight on, may hit a reality check and you find out, I guess I didn't have anything worth sharing. I know things I have shared on my channel have made a difference for people because they communicate that to me. They email me and ask further questions and pick my brain on drumming subjects.
Then there's the fight for time and space to get people to your site. I leave all that with the Lord. I am not comfortable with self-promotion. I've mentioned that before. "Here I am! Come to my site! I have something you should see!" No thanks. Not for me.
At this point in my life, its circumstances have created this site as about the only sharing with humanity I do, aside from my YT channel, which really isn't something I have lots of stuff to share about. I have some new videos coming up; tomorrow is a new one, to be exact, and a few after that but, making drums involves a lot of time between videos.
Encouragement is important in life. Without it, paths become pretty grown over with weeds pretty quick, and I mean mental and emotional weeds, the negative stuff to deal with.
For me, as a believer in God, faith comes into it and I'll share until there's nothing else to share about. I made a decision in life, about life, when a lot of people were comparing me to names in drumming that were well known. My decision to follow wherever God led me left no real way to keep that track going so, I left it all. Drumming now... it's a whole different thing. There's no way to know what might have happened if Covid never took place and the Keep It True gig in Germany went off as planned. I have to see that as a door I could not walk through if it meant getting an injection to travel abroad. All things considered, I made the right decision on that one.
I shared some things with someone today. I guess I expected a more positive response. Nope. Didn't happen. I shared other things as an email response I was asked to give my thoughts on. I'm not expecting a reply and when it comes to my convictions of truth, response and reply do not matter. I share truth because it's truth, regardless of what a response might be. It is better to be "neither elated by applause or dejected by censure," when it comes to sharing truth.
I shared some new stuff here on the site. The DIY page; which is getting seriously long and I should probably start a new page for that subject. I don't know if Weebly has limitations on that.
It would be great to receive a lot of positive feedback from what I have shared on this site but, at this stage of life, musically, spiritually, politically... it's logically not going to happen. Same with recordings. Same with everything else I'm into, simply because, regardless of how I feel, I'm old now. Unless you are big in the name category, age does not afford much attention, regardless of what you can share. Life is ever more and more for the young, by the young, or people who use the young to stay current themselves.
Not many people visit the site. The numbers remain pretty consistent so, I imagine it's the same people and they are getting something out of it. Until the tally numbers hit zero and stay there awhile, I guess I'll keep sharing, and figuring it means something to someone besides me.
Thanks for stopping by and checking the site out. I appreciate it.
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582. Just Sayin.' Just Askin.' - June 3, 2022
For those who have been awake and aware for a long time, and for those since the aftermath of 2001, and those in the last couple years, and for those now waking up to the fact; the majority of the elected civil servants of the United States government are no longer trustworthy and are betrayers of sacred oaths, and intend to remove the effect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights from the fabric and polity of American society and life - taking away more and more RIGHTS, Liberty and Freedoms, the question is and must be asked: what can be done about it?
The recent acquittal of Clinton's lawyer, from charges of lying to the FBI about facets of the entire Russian collusion hoax, etc., shows the Justice Department is done being just. Forget the rule of law helping America out.
How about Alex Jones, Stew Peters, the website and podcaster "war rooms" of all the various political pundits out there, trying to wake up Americans? Well, the lot of them could not stop Clinton from having two terms, nor Bush, nor Obama, and could not keep Trump in office, even as many disagreed with each other about his efficacy for office. Does anyone even know what Conservatism means anymore? Does it actually have a coherent definition acceptable to all? Waking people up is not anything more than that. Okay, you're awake to the reality. Now what? Write to your elected reps? Melt the phone lines? Nope, we are past that now. The controllers are way past the days when such activity could make a difference. They smell victory, they do not care who writes or emails or calls or protests in whatever numbers. They will lock you up for just walking into the Capitol and looking around.
I find it fascinating the FBI could use cell phone records to place people in the Capitol on January 6 but, Dinesh D'Souza and True the Vote, doing the same, exact thing to show the criminal activity of the 2020 election in the documentary, 2000 Mules... yeah, that's all debunked. FOX news has told Americans. Nothing to see here. Move along. AND NO VOICES IN CONGRESS ARE SAYING A WORD. Wholly, entirely predictable. Various professed, "conservative" news outlets, like Newsmax, have put the documentary totally on a back shelf, if not outright, openly rejected it.
Normally the voting booth is an answer. Not anymore. Republicans in more than "name only" and Independents and even disgruntled, disgusted Democrats looking forward to a complete wave of destruction to take place against RINOs, Leftists, and traitorous control freaks now running the government, may wake up on November 9th to shock and contempt. Nothing has been done, nationally, to safeguard elections from all the avenues of fraud used last time, and probably for a long time, which is how people like Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and co. keep getting elected. Can it be constituents are that foolish, term after term? If so, America has been lost for a long time.
Civil war is the answer for some. Good luck with that one. Those who control the military and police forces out gun the national populace by miles, if not light years, and no amount of guerilla warfare is going to change that, because in reality, no one wants to see cities dropped to rubble, nor heartland towns dropped into the Earth, nor croplands burned to ash, and all the rest that can be accomplished by modern weaponry the government does not want you to have but, they can certainly have it, use it, and see only victory in another civil war, which, all things considered, many believe they want to happen to be able to sweep up dissention once and for all.
Heroes? Who would that be? Madison Cawthorne stood up, literally, to salute his flag and love for his nation, exposed corruption and they "primaried" him; removed him from contention for re-election in his state's primary cycle. They are going after others. I have seen Lauren Boebert's name in the crosshairs. She is certainly a tiny package of total outspoken, in your face patriotism that must not be allowed to remain with a vote in Congress.
If we think or hope Rand Paul in the Senate, or Matt Gaetz or others in Congress are coming to the rescue, you wait in vain. Regardless of their apparent patriotism, there are not enough of such people in the Federal government to halt the dissension into hell that is happening.
Well, how about just taking back all the governor seats in each state and basically tell the Federal government to go pound sand? I don't know what is being planned to derail Kari Lake, in Arizona. They will not even debate her, she is that powerful. Would I be surprised to find Lake is not the Republican candidate for governor the morning after their primary and some RINO is in? Nope. We are right back to the voting booth corruption and Party corruption, and media corruption.
Well, let's see. If voting is no longer a sure thing; if civil war is not realistic; if putting true American patriots in all the governors chairs is just as unlikely because of the rampant, systemic corruption, what's left?
Mind you, Leftists are not waiting around for patriots to figure out and decide what to do. The NWO, Great Reset takeover plans and their handlers and controllers are not waiting around to see their plans fail in America. Food plants continue to burn and explode. Mass shootings continue to come in odd waves, which make them seem planned, which is or is not true but, millions now believe it is, because the government obviously want Americans disarmed. Too many "weapons of war" and "assault rifles" in the hands of people seeking to defend themselves from the mentally disturbed and unhinged of this world.
So, Leftists keep marching. Rules for Radicals remain their marching orders, as well as those of the various cabals that now run the planet. Make no mistake, your gasoline bill, grocery bill, power bill, empty shelves, face mask covered mouths tells you the story there. Oh, yeah, now even Fauci, the Father of this mess, is saying Biden wants to reinstall masks for plane flights because it's a power trip. Biden is expendable, and he will be expended somehow. While Fauci should be in jail right now, he's out there propping himself up as some kind of patriot telling people his service to the nation will end with the 2024 election. You cannot make this stuff up. Well, actually, George Orwell already did, didn't he?
Got any other ideas how this is going to be stopped? A religio/political uprising? That's prophetic. It may happen but, prophecy also states such an uprising is going to be based on false miracles and signs and wonders and false doctrines, and completely misplaced energy to stop the hemorrhaging in and of America.
How about the interjection of "ET" to stop the world from spinning into totalitarian control?
You see, as much as I believe both those scenarios may or will definitely happen, they are not under the control of man. They must be counted out as remedies for the current death of a nation now in progress.
The way I practically and logically see it, again, there is one hope and one hope only, and that is God; the Creator, the Sovereign, the Ruler over all. If He does not step in, somehow, some way, there is no logical path Americans can take, peaceful or violent, that will make even a temporary difference, let alone a perpetual one.
Now, all things considered, ask yourself where the LORD of all the Earth can enter the field in such a time as this, and make a difference people will recognize and respect? Raise up a Moses? Esthers? Paul's, to almost convince people to become Christians, like King Agrippa?
Moses and Esther were part of a theocracy. Paul was not. Moses and Esther and various others God raised up in OT times, made a difference. Aside from seeing the great conversion of Gentiles to the faith, Paul made no political differences. Jesus made none. The apostles made none. Rome was in power, stayed in power until its division, and then the Papacy took over. The Reformers certainly made differences at times, in their own nations but, the Reformation is all but dead now. Many professed Protestants are looking to Roman Catholic, Archbishop Vigano to make a difference. Have mercy, what does that tell me?
I do not see God raising up heroes to keep a political nation alive and kicking. He concern is His kingdom and the progress of the Gospel, which persecution has never and can never stop. In fact, the opposite is true: "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel."
It may be, God sees it as the best thing in the Gospel's interest to allow America to fall into tyranny and despotism. Have you pondered that? While patriots frantically seek for answers, and evangelicals falsely proclaim the cabal is the Beast and the injections are the mark, or other false narratives on current events, the truth will not shine its brightest until darkness is everywhere. Darkness is here and getting worse by the week, and when will it be a better time to focus on God's truth, not America's problems, which all stem from America's blatantly obvious spiritual problems?
The answer is always Jesus Christ and "the truth as it is in Jesus." The question hardly matters, the situation hardly matters, the characters in play hardly matter. What matters is Iesou Christos and the power of salvation. You would think all professed Christians would see that and drop politics like a red hot, burning glob of metal. Well, at least more see the signs of the times are screaming and Christ is coming. Now, if they could only recognize the truth their forefathers taught about who and what the antichrist Beast of prophecy is. As long as they teach Roman Catholic, Jesuit Futurism, revivals of faith are doomed to fail or worse: bring about the end of the world just as Lucifer is planning, through them and the other powers of the Earth.
Got Remnant?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The recent acquittal of Clinton's lawyer, from charges of lying to the FBI about facets of the entire Russian collusion hoax, etc., shows the Justice Department is done being just. Forget the rule of law helping America out.
How about Alex Jones, Stew Peters, the website and podcaster "war rooms" of all the various political pundits out there, trying to wake up Americans? Well, the lot of them could not stop Clinton from having two terms, nor Bush, nor Obama, and could not keep Trump in office, even as many disagreed with each other about his efficacy for office. Does anyone even know what Conservatism means anymore? Does it actually have a coherent definition acceptable to all? Waking people up is not anything more than that. Okay, you're awake to the reality. Now what? Write to your elected reps? Melt the phone lines? Nope, we are past that now. The controllers are way past the days when such activity could make a difference. They smell victory, they do not care who writes or emails or calls or protests in whatever numbers. They will lock you up for just walking into the Capitol and looking around.
I find it fascinating the FBI could use cell phone records to place people in the Capitol on January 6 but, Dinesh D'Souza and True the Vote, doing the same, exact thing to show the criminal activity of the 2020 election in the documentary, 2000 Mules... yeah, that's all debunked. FOX news has told Americans. Nothing to see here. Move along. AND NO VOICES IN CONGRESS ARE SAYING A WORD. Wholly, entirely predictable. Various professed, "conservative" news outlets, like Newsmax, have put the documentary totally on a back shelf, if not outright, openly rejected it.
Normally the voting booth is an answer. Not anymore. Republicans in more than "name only" and Independents and even disgruntled, disgusted Democrats looking forward to a complete wave of destruction to take place against RINOs, Leftists, and traitorous control freaks now running the government, may wake up on November 9th to shock and contempt. Nothing has been done, nationally, to safeguard elections from all the avenues of fraud used last time, and probably for a long time, which is how people like Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and co. keep getting elected. Can it be constituents are that foolish, term after term? If so, America has been lost for a long time.
Civil war is the answer for some. Good luck with that one. Those who control the military and police forces out gun the national populace by miles, if not light years, and no amount of guerilla warfare is going to change that, because in reality, no one wants to see cities dropped to rubble, nor heartland towns dropped into the Earth, nor croplands burned to ash, and all the rest that can be accomplished by modern weaponry the government does not want you to have but, they can certainly have it, use it, and see only victory in another civil war, which, all things considered, many believe they want to happen to be able to sweep up dissention once and for all.
Heroes? Who would that be? Madison Cawthorne stood up, literally, to salute his flag and love for his nation, exposed corruption and they "primaried" him; removed him from contention for re-election in his state's primary cycle. They are going after others. I have seen Lauren Boebert's name in the crosshairs. She is certainly a tiny package of total outspoken, in your face patriotism that must not be allowed to remain with a vote in Congress.
If we think or hope Rand Paul in the Senate, or Matt Gaetz or others in Congress are coming to the rescue, you wait in vain. Regardless of their apparent patriotism, there are not enough of such people in the Federal government to halt the dissension into hell that is happening.
Well, how about just taking back all the governor seats in each state and basically tell the Federal government to go pound sand? I don't know what is being planned to derail Kari Lake, in Arizona. They will not even debate her, she is that powerful. Would I be surprised to find Lake is not the Republican candidate for governor the morning after their primary and some RINO is in? Nope. We are right back to the voting booth corruption and Party corruption, and media corruption.
Well, let's see. If voting is no longer a sure thing; if civil war is not realistic; if putting true American patriots in all the governors chairs is just as unlikely because of the rampant, systemic corruption, what's left?
Mind you, Leftists are not waiting around for patriots to figure out and decide what to do. The NWO, Great Reset takeover plans and their handlers and controllers are not waiting around to see their plans fail in America. Food plants continue to burn and explode. Mass shootings continue to come in odd waves, which make them seem planned, which is or is not true but, millions now believe it is, because the government obviously want Americans disarmed. Too many "weapons of war" and "assault rifles" in the hands of people seeking to defend themselves from the mentally disturbed and unhinged of this world.
So, Leftists keep marching. Rules for Radicals remain their marching orders, as well as those of the various cabals that now run the planet. Make no mistake, your gasoline bill, grocery bill, power bill, empty shelves, face mask covered mouths tells you the story there. Oh, yeah, now even Fauci, the Father of this mess, is saying Biden wants to reinstall masks for plane flights because it's a power trip. Biden is expendable, and he will be expended somehow. While Fauci should be in jail right now, he's out there propping himself up as some kind of patriot telling people his service to the nation will end with the 2024 election. You cannot make this stuff up. Well, actually, George Orwell already did, didn't he?
Got any other ideas how this is going to be stopped? A religio/political uprising? That's prophetic. It may happen but, prophecy also states such an uprising is going to be based on false miracles and signs and wonders and false doctrines, and completely misplaced energy to stop the hemorrhaging in and of America.
How about the interjection of "ET" to stop the world from spinning into totalitarian control?
You see, as much as I believe both those scenarios may or will definitely happen, they are not under the control of man. They must be counted out as remedies for the current death of a nation now in progress.
The way I practically and logically see it, again, there is one hope and one hope only, and that is God; the Creator, the Sovereign, the Ruler over all. If He does not step in, somehow, some way, there is no logical path Americans can take, peaceful or violent, that will make even a temporary difference, let alone a perpetual one.
Now, all things considered, ask yourself where the LORD of all the Earth can enter the field in such a time as this, and make a difference people will recognize and respect? Raise up a Moses? Esthers? Paul's, to almost convince people to become Christians, like King Agrippa?
Moses and Esther were part of a theocracy. Paul was not. Moses and Esther and various others God raised up in OT times, made a difference. Aside from seeing the great conversion of Gentiles to the faith, Paul made no political differences. Jesus made none. The apostles made none. Rome was in power, stayed in power until its division, and then the Papacy took over. The Reformers certainly made differences at times, in their own nations but, the Reformation is all but dead now. Many professed Protestants are looking to Roman Catholic, Archbishop Vigano to make a difference. Have mercy, what does that tell me?
I do not see God raising up heroes to keep a political nation alive and kicking. He concern is His kingdom and the progress of the Gospel, which persecution has never and can never stop. In fact, the opposite is true: "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel."
It may be, God sees it as the best thing in the Gospel's interest to allow America to fall into tyranny and despotism. Have you pondered that? While patriots frantically seek for answers, and evangelicals falsely proclaim the cabal is the Beast and the injections are the mark, or other false narratives on current events, the truth will not shine its brightest until darkness is everywhere. Darkness is here and getting worse by the week, and when will it be a better time to focus on God's truth, not America's problems, which all stem from America's blatantly obvious spiritual problems?
The answer is always Jesus Christ and "the truth as it is in Jesus." The question hardly matters, the situation hardly matters, the characters in play hardly matter. What matters is Iesou Christos and the power of salvation. You would think all professed Christians would see that and drop politics like a red hot, burning glob of metal. Well, at least more see the signs of the times are screaming and Christ is coming. Now, if they could only recognize the truth their forefathers taught about who and what the antichrist Beast of prophecy is. As long as they teach Roman Catholic, Jesuit Futurism, revivals of faith are doomed to fail or worse: bring about the end of the world just as Lucifer is planning, through them and the other powers of the Earth.
Got Remnant?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
UPDATE
I just watched a few of Gregg Reese's new video's. One is on the truth of Monkey Pox, an obvious and proven, documented, preplanned situation just like Covid has been, with vaccine rollouts and the dangers associated with them. The next was one on How we can take America back. Fits right in with the post I just put up before this.
https://rumble.com/v16g827-how-we-can-take-back-america.html
I have yet to disagree with Greg Reese. Matter of fact, it is not that I disagreed with the video, in principle. I just pragmatically see it as impossible to pull off.
The point is taking America back, county by county. That has been a premise promoted by county sheriffs for years now. How far along has that taken us in the fight against tyranny?
Taking America back county by county is certainly logical. Is it practically possible? I do not believe so.
There are over 3,000 counties and other districts in America. Trump won over 2500 of them in 2020. It seems logical to conclude America had already taken their counties back. And who is in the White House today?
Voting is not going to do the necessary job because the voting system is corrupt and corrupt people, pretty much found in far too many counties in America, in one job or another, in some way or another, will use a corrupted system to get and maintain political power. Until the system is fixed, there is absolutely no logical reason to believe elections will be fair and honest and according to the will of the people and provisions of our rules of law. No hint of action can be found in Congress to address this issue. What few counties in what few states are attempting to address it are meeting constant and heavy resistance from elected officials. If that does not scream "Corruption!," what would?
Kari Lake may take the day in the Arizona governor's race in November and may be effective to right Arizona's heaving ship. Until that time arrives, near as I have seen she is the strongest spokesperson among possible new governors with an actual outspoken desire and battle plan to change things. In reality, DeSantis, in Florida is the only real and true Conservative governor in America. I no longer see Noem, in SD, as a viable practicing Conservative. She shrouds herself in her state, for the most part, and more and more stays out of national conversations. Her state is doing well. Don't fix what ain't broken.
My own governor in Texas is just a waffle iron, for all intents and purposes. The same can be said for most other Republican governors around the nation.
The same divide that exists politically in America; a third Republican, a third Democrat and a third Independent among voters means plenty of sheriffs and county civil servants are not going to help take back counties they are in control of.
I hate to be a stick in the mud but, Washington, D.C., its politicians, media, and political swamp, does not care about counties. You may save your children from the corruptions of public education, county to county but, even there, school boards are just NWO types: radical Leftists who believe the world needs one government, period, and all the children of the world should be under their influence and "care."
"You cannot help stupid." Common sense has all but drained out of American life.
I'm certainly not against taking America back, county by county but, been there, done that and 2020 showed it. They rigged the election to make sure Biden took the most important counties in the most important states.
NO AMERICAN should be against investigating voter fraud and corruption. The fact that the majority of Americans in political positions will do NOTHING to investigate, and the corporate media will do EVERYTHING to stop investigation, tells us counties are not a viable answer. Some states may be able to secure every single county in their state, for an election cycle. And what? Democrats and Leftists are going to give up the ship? That is not the way of 'Rules for Radicals.'
I'm not from Missouri but, "Show me." The county I live in is pretty Conservative and it still followed the obviously erroneous WHO and CDC and Fauci and all the rest when the truth was there and available to anyone doing a little research. I am still seeing people walking around with masks on. Young people, at that. Only a few, mind you but, it shows the lies and the fear still remain an influence and now the next round of disease and injections is here and they can do this for years until the world is dead or compliant, as they ruin everything in sight - food, money, employment; everything people need for survival in a modern, technological world the enemies of God and rights and liberty now control.
I am telling you, point blank. The only hope is God and His truth. That is it.
https://rumble.com/v16g827-how-we-can-take-back-america.html
I have yet to disagree with Greg Reese. Matter of fact, it is not that I disagreed with the video, in principle. I just pragmatically see it as impossible to pull off.
The point is taking America back, county by county. That has been a premise promoted by county sheriffs for years now. How far along has that taken us in the fight against tyranny?
Taking America back county by county is certainly logical. Is it practically possible? I do not believe so.
There are over 3,000 counties and other districts in America. Trump won over 2500 of them in 2020. It seems logical to conclude America had already taken their counties back. And who is in the White House today?
Voting is not going to do the necessary job because the voting system is corrupt and corrupt people, pretty much found in far too many counties in America, in one job or another, in some way or another, will use a corrupted system to get and maintain political power. Until the system is fixed, there is absolutely no logical reason to believe elections will be fair and honest and according to the will of the people and provisions of our rules of law. No hint of action can be found in Congress to address this issue. What few counties in what few states are attempting to address it are meeting constant and heavy resistance from elected officials. If that does not scream "Corruption!," what would?
Kari Lake may take the day in the Arizona governor's race in November and may be effective to right Arizona's heaving ship. Until that time arrives, near as I have seen she is the strongest spokesperson among possible new governors with an actual outspoken desire and battle plan to change things. In reality, DeSantis, in Florida is the only real and true Conservative governor in America. I no longer see Noem, in SD, as a viable practicing Conservative. She shrouds herself in her state, for the most part, and more and more stays out of national conversations. Her state is doing well. Don't fix what ain't broken.
My own governor in Texas is just a waffle iron, for all intents and purposes. The same can be said for most other Republican governors around the nation.
The same divide that exists politically in America; a third Republican, a third Democrat and a third Independent among voters means plenty of sheriffs and county civil servants are not going to help take back counties they are in control of.
I hate to be a stick in the mud but, Washington, D.C., its politicians, media, and political swamp, does not care about counties. You may save your children from the corruptions of public education, county to county but, even there, school boards are just NWO types: radical Leftists who believe the world needs one government, period, and all the children of the world should be under their influence and "care."
"You cannot help stupid." Common sense has all but drained out of American life.
I'm certainly not against taking America back, county by county but, been there, done that and 2020 showed it. They rigged the election to make sure Biden took the most important counties in the most important states.
NO AMERICAN should be against investigating voter fraud and corruption. The fact that the majority of Americans in political positions will do NOTHING to investigate, and the corporate media will do EVERYTHING to stop investigation, tells us counties are not a viable answer. Some states may be able to secure every single county in their state, for an election cycle. And what? Democrats and Leftists are going to give up the ship? That is not the way of 'Rules for Radicals.'
I'm not from Missouri but, "Show me." The county I live in is pretty Conservative and it still followed the obviously erroneous WHO and CDC and Fauci and all the rest when the truth was there and available to anyone doing a little research. I am still seeing people walking around with masks on. Young people, at that. Only a few, mind you but, it shows the lies and the fear still remain an influence and now the next round of disease and injections is here and they can do this for years until the world is dead or compliant, as they ruin everything in sight - food, money, employment; everything people need for survival in a modern, technological world the enemies of God and rights and liberty now control.
I am telling you, point blank. The only hope is God and His truth. That is it.
WE TOLD YOU SO
Every single person on planet Earth who tried to warn people of the nature of the Covid vaccines as a gene therapy experiment was right; absolutely right.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/bayer-head-admits-covid-19-vaccine-is-gene-therapy/
"Stefan Oelrich, head of Bayer’s pharmaceuticals department, admitted at the World Health Summit that the COVID-19 vaccine is gene therapy. He smugly stated that the drug companies knew people would reject the vaccine if they knew it was in fact a gene-altering injectable. They lied to us for profits as the vaccine certainly did not prevent anyone from contracting or transmitting the virus.
“If we had surveyed two years ago if people were willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate,” Oelrich admits while forgetting many took the “gene therapy” through force." "
Now, we wait to see how bad things are going to get, bad enough as they have been.
With such a public statement, how can it be possible the entire lot of them are not arrested and locked up? Because they basically now control the world, by design.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/bayer-head-admits-covid-19-vaccine-is-gene-therapy/
"Stefan Oelrich, head of Bayer’s pharmaceuticals department, admitted at the World Health Summit that the COVID-19 vaccine is gene therapy. He smugly stated that the drug companies knew people would reject the vaccine if they knew it was in fact a gene-altering injectable. They lied to us for profits as the vaccine certainly did not prevent anyone from contracting or transmitting the virus.
“If we had surveyed two years ago if people were willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate,” Oelrich admits while forgetting many took the “gene therapy” through force." "
Now, we wait to see how bad things are going to get, bad enough as they have been.
With such a public statement, how can it be possible the entire lot of them are not arrested and locked up? Because they basically now control the world, by design.
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Confusion Is Confusion
I just read two different articles at the same website:
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/16088/20220603/former-gay-drug-user-and-dealer-who-got-saved-by-christ-says-theres-no-justification-for-homosexuality.htm
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/16082/20220603/mennonite-church-usa-repents-committing-violence-against-lgbt-people-repeals.htm
Now, someone is greatly confused. Either the former homosexual drug dealer, or the leadership of the Mennonite Church, one of the most conservative denominations in history, stemming from the Anabaptists of the 16th century.
The former homosexual renounced his "gay" lifestyle when he became a Christian, while in prison for using and dealing drugs. He became an author and a Bible professor. No small change of life.
The Mennonite Church maintained an anti-homosexual lifestyle, and still maintains that doctrinal belief in its fundamental statement but, the denomination's organization allows for districts to deny that statement and do its own thing as it sees fit. Confusion within confusion.
Scripturally speaking, Dr. Yuan is correct. The Mennonite leadership is way off base. While over 80% sided against the doctrinal position - ministers of the church cannot endorse or perform "gay marriages," only around 55% sided with a position to allow LGBTQIA people into denominational membership, enough to carry the new position.
The amazing thing is that Yuan, when in prison, sought for permission for a homosexual life while reading a Gideon Bible in prison. He could find no justification for it, and gave his life to Christ.
The Mennonites have repented of their "violence" towards homosexuals and other perversions of God's order for humanity stated in Scripture. They repented for rejecting homosexuality. Yuan repented for being a homosexual.
Confusion. The world looks on and how can it help but think ill of biblical Christianity, or any professed form of it, when it is such a hodgepodge of confusion? It has been this way since the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church but, at least for centuries believers understood her apostasy and stood against it. Not so much today.
Confusion is confusion.
When the Bible prophetically calls modern-day Christianity, Babylon, it is completely correct. That said; again, the Bible states emphatically - "Come out of her, MY PEOPLE." God has people in spiritual, prophetic Babylon and He calls them out of confusion to stand on the eternal platform of truth.
As time moves on that call will become more profound and more hated by the majority who would rather exist in their confusion of mixtures of man-made religion and faith, which is not "the faith once delivered unto the saints." Those who come out and take their stand for the faith and testimony of Jesus, and the commandments of God, will ready themselves for the return of Christ in glory and a place prepared for them in the heavenly homes of the redeemed. Final battles are to be waged. The truth will triumph and those who live it, will triumph with it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/16088/20220603/former-gay-drug-user-and-dealer-who-got-saved-by-christ-says-theres-no-justification-for-homosexuality.htm
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/16082/20220603/mennonite-church-usa-repents-committing-violence-against-lgbt-people-repeals.htm
Now, someone is greatly confused. Either the former homosexual drug dealer, or the leadership of the Mennonite Church, one of the most conservative denominations in history, stemming from the Anabaptists of the 16th century.
The former homosexual renounced his "gay" lifestyle when he became a Christian, while in prison for using and dealing drugs. He became an author and a Bible professor. No small change of life.
The Mennonite Church maintained an anti-homosexual lifestyle, and still maintains that doctrinal belief in its fundamental statement but, the denomination's organization allows for districts to deny that statement and do its own thing as it sees fit. Confusion within confusion.
Scripturally speaking, Dr. Yuan is correct. The Mennonite leadership is way off base. While over 80% sided against the doctrinal position - ministers of the church cannot endorse or perform "gay marriages," only around 55% sided with a position to allow LGBTQIA people into denominational membership, enough to carry the new position.
The amazing thing is that Yuan, when in prison, sought for permission for a homosexual life while reading a Gideon Bible in prison. He could find no justification for it, and gave his life to Christ.
The Mennonites have repented of their "violence" towards homosexuals and other perversions of God's order for humanity stated in Scripture. They repented for rejecting homosexuality. Yuan repented for being a homosexual.
Confusion. The world looks on and how can it help but think ill of biblical Christianity, or any professed form of it, when it is such a hodgepodge of confusion? It has been this way since the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church but, at least for centuries believers understood her apostasy and stood against it. Not so much today.
Confusion is confusion.
When the Bible prophetically calls modern-day Christianity, Babylon, it is completely correct. That said; again, the Bible states emphatically - "Come out of her, MY PEOPLE." God has people in spiritual, prophetic Babylon and He calls them out of confusion to stand on the eternal platform of truth.
As time moves on that call will become more profound and more hated by the majority who would rather exist in their confusion of mixtures of man-made religion and faith, which is not "the faith once delivered unto the saints." Those who come out and take their stand for the faith and testimony of Jesus, and the commandments of God, will ready themselves for the return of Christ in glory and a place prepared for them in the heavenly homes of the redeemed. Final battles are to be waged. The truth will triumph and those who live it, will triumph with it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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583. Two-Thirds of Christians Do Not Know How to Witness - 6/3/22
https://www.christianpost.com/church-ministries/two-thirds-of-christians-dont-know-methods-for-sharing-jesus.html
"Most American Christians want to share their faith but only a minority of them have encouraged others to embrace Jesus Christ in the last six months, according to new data released by Lifeway Research that suggests more than six in 10 believers don't know any methods for telling others about their faith in Christ."
"However, 52% of Americans who identify as Christian believe that encouraging someone to change their religious beliefs is “offensive and disrespectful," and 66% of Christians are not familiar with any "methods for telling others about Jesus."
A survey and story like that deserves commentary. If Jesus felt like 52% of Americans professing Christianity, we'd have been lost; the whole world lost. I don't know about you but, to me, it is far more offensive - to God - to let people live in the junk of this world (when they could have the truth and peace and hope), and are bound for destruction. Meaning no disrespect but, such an attitude is nonsensical. Our belief in Jesus Christ is salvation. Offending people with the Gospel comes with the territory. Jesus offended people every day of His life. The majority of the planet's population has and will reject salvation in Christ. They have been, are and will be offended by it. So? What of those who might receive the truth and experience a changed life?
First, the woman at the well, John 4:1-42. Christ sits at a well, alone. A Samaritan woman comes along. Jesus asks the woman for some water. The woman, confused that a Jew would ask her for water causes her to begin a conversation. Ultimately, Christ tells her the facts of her life, she takes off back to town to tell everyone she has found the Prophet, and seeing her excitement, the whole town goes out to the well to see this man. Many are converted.
Jesus told her he had water to offer her, and it was like a geyser bursting from within. She found that water supply and it was as natural as breathing to go tell others of her experience.
It was like that for me when I was converted. I never shut up. I entered public ministry. I did public seminars and a couple radio programs. Not everybody has to do that, by any means. Still, telling others what has happened to you is not hard if one has truly been born-again and discovered the water of life. Perhaps two-thirds of professed Christians are not born-again. They go to churches, they may go to various church activities and are involved with their congregations. That's all well and good but, Jesus said, 'You must be born again or you cannot see or enter the kingdom of God,' John 3:1-15.
That single issue may be the most important matter in all of professed Christianity today.
Apart from that, here's a suggestion: F.O.R.T.
It stands for Family, Occupation, Religion, your Testimony.
In a conversation, ask someone about their family, tell them about yours. If it's at work, occupations would be known but, if not, ask what they do for a living and tell them what you do. At some point in the conversation or longer relationship, ask them if they are part of a religion. Tell them yours, and give your testimony how you came to Christ. It's a simple pattern that can work because it's just about everyday life.
I'll add this, Health Reform. Americans suffer from S.A.D. The Standard American Diet, and their health is terrible. Learn the truth and blessings of God's Genesis diet and principles of health, and some simple and effective natural remedies and share them as you have opportunities. Christ healed people and that became His greatest entry into people's lives where they would listen to His teachings because they received their health back to them. While miracles can certainly happen, people strengthening the body's ability to heal itself is just as important. Share principles of health with people, bless their lives and the doors open for the presentation of the Gospel and its great Healer of souls.
Jesus is God. Jesus is the greatest Teacher that ever lived. Jesus is the Creator. Jesus died for the world. Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus is in Heaven drawing people to Him through the influence of the Holy Spirit on hearts and minds. Jesus is coming back again. If you know Jesus Christ, if you know that you know the truth, witnessing for Him comes naturally. Add to that specific gifts and talents the Holy Spirit gives to believers to aid them in their witnessing walk with Christ, and you have all you need to share the Gospel.
Historic times of the truth moving through humanity like an ocean tsunami or fire through a field have been experienced and will be experienced again in this world. It's going to be tremendous.
I hope you'll be part of it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Most American Christians want to share their faith but only a minority of them have encouraged others to embrace Jesus Christ in the last six months, according to new data released by Lifeway Research that suggests more than six in 10 believers don't know any methods for telling others about their faith in Christ."
"However, 52% of Americans who identify as Christian believe that encouraging someone to change their religious beliefs is “offensive and disrespectful," and 66% of Christians are not familiar with any "methods for telling others about Jesus."
A survey and story like that deserves commentary. If Jesus felt like 52% of Americans professing Christianity, we'd have been lost; the whole world lost. I don't know about you but, to me, it is far more offensive - to God - to let people live in the junk of this world (when they could have the truth and peace and hope), and are bound for destruction. Meaning no disrespect but, such an attitude is nonsensical. Our belief in Jesus Christ is salvation. Offending people with the Gospel comes with the territory. Jesus offended people every day of His life. The majority of the planet's population has and will reject salvation in Christ. They have been, are and will be offended by it. So? What of those who might receive the truth and experience a changed life?
First, the woman at the well, John 4:1-42. Christ sits at a well, alone. A Samaritan woman comes along. Jesus asks the woman for some water. The woman, confused that a Jew would ask her for water causes her to begin a conversation. Ultimately, Christ tells her the facts of her life, she takes off back to town to tell everyone she has found the Prophet, and seeing her excitement, the whole town goes out to the well to see this man. Many are converted.
Jesus told her he had water to offer her, and it was like a geyser bursting from within. She found that water supply and it was as natural as breathing to go tell others of her experience.
It was like that for me when I was converted. I never shut up. I entered public ministry. I did public seminars and a couple radio programs. Not everybody has to do that, by any means. Still, telling others what has happened to you is not hard if one has truly been born-again and discovered the water of life. Perhaps two-thirds of professed Christians are not born-again. They go to churches, they may go to various church activities and are involved with their congregations. That's all well and good but, Jesus said, 'You must be born again or you cannot see or enter the kingdom of God,' John 3:1-15.
That single issue may be the most important matter in all of professed Christianity today.
Apart from that, here's a suggestion: F.O.R.T.
It stands for Family, Occupation, Religion, your Testimony.
In a conversation, ask someone about their family, tell them about yours. If it's at work, occupations would be known but, if not, ask what they do for a living and tell them what you do. At some point in the conversation or longer relationship, ask them if they are part of a religion. Tell them yours, and give your testimony how you came to Christ. It's a simple pattern that can work because it's just about everyday life.
I'll add this, Health Reform. Americans suffer from S.A.D. The Standard American Diet, and their health is terrible. Learn the truth and blessings of God's Genesis diet and principles of health, and some simple and effective natural remedies and share them as you have opportunities. Christ healed people and that became His greatest entry into people's lives where they would listen to His teachings because they received their health back to them. While miracles can certainly happen, people strengthening the body's ability to heal itself is just as important. Share principles of health with people, bless their lives and the doors open for the presentation of the Gospel and its great Healer of souls.
Jesus is God. Jesus is the greatest Teacher that ever lived. Jesus is the Creator. Jesus died for the world. Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus is in Heaven drawing people to Him through the influence of the Holy Spirit on hearts and minds. Jesus is coming back again. If you know Jesus Christ, if you know that you know the truth, witnessing for Him comes naturally. Add to that specific gifts and talents the Holy Spirit gives to believers to aid them in their witnessing walk with Christ, and you have all you need to share the Gospel.
Historic times of the truth moving through humanity like an ocean tsunami or fire through a field have been experienced and will be experienced again in this world. It's going to be tremendous.
I hope you'll be part of it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
584. The Loss of Liberty and Morality - June 4, 2022
I have mentioned before the difference between freedom and liberty. Freedom is the right to think and act within oneself. Liberty is the right to live according to legal statutes - God's, and man's; in harmony with God's laws.
Both states of life offer no right to violate another citizen's rights; their freedoms and liberties. Both citizens and leaders from the citizenry are bound by God's laws and man's, in harmony with them. Law, in and of itself, is not the answer and never has been, for laws can be tyrannical; just a reflection of the warped thinking of a tyrant or despot, or a common fool.
In our nation an atheist can be elected to civil service, for the Constitution states no religious test can be administered for holding public office. That is the principle. An atheist can be civil and protect civil rights. Seeing the understanding of a Creator and supernatural Sovereign has been at the foundation of this nation's understanding of existence, it would be odd to have someone rejecting that history and its characters, to be in a place of civil authority at the Federal level but, in principle, it is the law. People are free and at liberty to vote that person into office or reject their candidacy.
While God's Moral law, the Ten Commandments - the Royal law, the Law of Liberty, as James calls them in his epistle - are the standard of man's duty to God and man's duty to his fellow man, civil law is different. Civil law is about man being civil to his fellowman. Civil law, those who create it, are not in the place to judge morality, or to fashion moral standards according to their singular or collective understanding. You can hate your neighbor but, you cannot punch him in the face because of that hatred. It is God's place to judge the morality of hate. It is man's duty to judge the acts of incivility to one's neighbor. "Hate crimes" are, by principle, history and common sense, absolutely wrong. People are free and at liberty to hate. They are not free to act on that and violate another citizen's right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Call it a tight rope and balancing act but, that is the foundation of the Republic and while not perfect, it's the best mankind has come up with for the function of civil law and authority for national existence.
Some of the worst laws in history were written by religious people desiring other religious people or non-religious people to be moral, as they understood morality. The Moral law, the 4th commandment, states that the human race should rest from work on the seventh-day of the week, the Sabbath. The morality of that is simple, as well as complex. God said it, we should believe it, that settles it. It is in the Moral law as a standard of duty and loyalty to God, the Creator. It asks us to keep the Sabbath "holy." That is a standard of spiritual morality. Yet a day, what is it? It is time. You cannot touch it, see it, smell it, or know it exists in any way save for God telling us seven days make a week, and we mark it on calendars. Keeping time holy is beyond man's ability. To prove that, we have had laws that told people they must rest on Sunday, and if you didn't, you lost a week's pay. Second time, another week's pay and a week in the stocks. Third violation, death. That was a law in Connecticut back in the early 17th century. Other states had other Sunday laws of similar restrictions and penalties.
Sunday laws, already beginning with a perversion of God's law about the Sabbath, always take away the civil rights of their fellowman. In a theocracy, God had provisions in His law to address Sabbath breakers. We do not live in a theocracy overseen by chosen priests and prophets and rulers of God. Congress cannot ask citizens to be holy. It only requires citizens to be civil to each other, within rights granted by God, and those of man in harmony with rights granted by God.
Blue laws, Sunday restrictions, were never moral, and were decidedly uncivil, and invaded the rights granted by God. Sunday is the first day of the week. It has nothing to do with the Sun, in God's order. The Sun and Moon were created on the 4th day of creation week. In God's order there should be no Sun day. It's station in pagan history is one of the most ancient of all practices. The worship of the Sun, as deity. It's an apostasy from God's stated order. The first day of the week is a work day. Six days we shall labor but, the seventh day is God's day of rest for his creatures. No work by me, servants, or beasts of labor, or guests within my gates. It is time to reflect on God's creation and His holiness to be instilled in us, is to be the practice of His creation on His day of rest. Well, that is not the practice of the world, is it?
Holiness is a state of being that involves the influence of the Holy Spirit of God in one's mind and life. It is sacredness within. Indeed, not many experience it every moment of every day but, it is the condition that God works within us to attain: the condition Adam and Eve had when they were created; the condition of loyal angels that minister the will of God among mankind. Holiness is the perpetual state of God. It cannot possibly be forced or enforced by man. It cannot be legislated by man. Regardless of man's "good intentions," one or a thousand written and codified ways man thinks men should be holy, is always going to take away civil rights granted by God. You cannot make someone holy by taking a week's pay, or another week's pay and time in the stocks, and certainly not by a decree of death hanging over their heads. Fear. You certainly can motivate people by fear. God does not motivate by fear. God does not intimidate. God motivates from love, for God is love. Man, religious men have perverted that fact. Roman Catholicism's man-made traditions and laws have perverted the law of God, entered the realm of civil law and perverted civil law, as well, down through the Roman church's history. Her daughters, the various churches that broke away from Mother, yet retain much of her character and thought, have perverted God's order, and violated God granted rights, as well.
Outside of a theocracy, Sabbath breaking is a moral standard God shall judge in His own time and way. Men have no business involving themselves with its violation. Sabbath keeping churches can address their own memberships and remove the consistent Sabbath breaker from their roles but, that is all. Sunday is just the first day of the week, a common work day. It has no holiness attached to it. It has no sanctity attached to it. There is nothing special attached to it in the Bible. Whoa, someone says. Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday. Indeed. He rested in the tomb from His work of salvation, on the Sabbath, and rose on the first day of the week to begin the work of ministering to the world the power and blessings of His sacrifice for the world. It's Sunday. Time to go to work!
Man's weekend and making Monday the first day of the work week, is comfortable, yes but, it is not God's law. God says Sabbath is holy. Sunday is a regular day for work. No man or group of men have the authority to change that order. Ah, but, you see Romanism believes it does. Popes can change law. No, they cannot, when it comes to God's laws but, you see, again; the papacy is Christ's vicar on Earth. He speaks for Christ, acts for Christ, has the same authority among men as Christ, claims he. No, he does not. He is an apostate from God's order, pointed out in prophecy as the power of antichrist, claiming to be 'in place of Christ,' and an enemy of righteousness in God's stated and established order.
The Founders of the United States were not perfect men by any means. They had a deep understanding of their times, though, and saw the foolishness and dangers present in kings and queens, popes and prelates, inventing laws that violated rights granted by God. They codified a group of laws that protect rights by limiting the power and authority of the Federal government.
A recent survey showed around 20% of Americans use elected civil servants as examples of morality. The percentage should be 0. Civil servants address matters of civil law, man's duty to his fellowman and their rights in the basis of every day life. All people should be moral. What a world it would be if that were the case but, morality, the act of being moral, is one that always involves a high standard to gauge by. That standard in our Western hemisphere has been God and His law. That has moved throughout the world by commission of Christ to make disciples of all the world by instruction, by sharing, by loving and helping their fellow man. NO force is of God. Defense of people, protection of rights has been the history of the growth of the American Republic. Mistakes, violations, removal of rights equal for all citizens are constantly addressed and corrected which has made America 'the shining city on a hill' millions want to get to. Imagine a world where all had equal rights, no one was above the law, and all people had freedom to pursue and have life, liberty and happiness within the boundaries of God's law. In principle, that's Heaven. The only difference is morality. Heaven shall have citizens with pure hearts and minds and holiness, a level of morality infused by the Spirit of God.
Corruption now rots the Republic. Special interests groups run Washington, D.C. Any observer could spend a day writing out all the corruptions America engages in and months detailing them. How did this happen? The rejection of God and His established order. The rejection of the limits of Constitutional provisions and Bill of Rights. The longtime careers of public servants, no longer servants but, wannabe mini-kings and queens. "Do you know who I am???" Yeah, you're a civil servant. So what? Do your service and go back to your life in the private sector. You are not special. You are a common man or woman, subject to the frailties of humanity. Well, today, seeing as a member of the Supreme Court does not know the difference between a man and a woman, things are more confused than ever.
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. With all its thousands of laws, America is coming unglued and more laws shall make it worse, not better. "Their oughta be a law!" is the common refrain but, that's incorrect. America has far more laws than it needs and citizens must reject the notion that having a Union of States means citizens must relinquish some rights and liberty to protect it. That is the foundation of all Totalitarianism. If God has granted humans rights, and the amendments in the Bill of Rights to the Constitutions delineates and protects those rights; that is done, sound, solid, final. Mess with it and America falls.
America is falling. Rights, liberties are being taken away constantly.
We knew by common sense and now know by many, many scientific studies done, that the world suffered greatly, much worse than the virus, itself, because of man-made, totalitarian lockdowns and nefarious remedies.
Some believe the answer to it all is the reinvigoration of God in society and the reinstallation of Sunday laws. That is coming. Sunday will be legislated as the law of the land, and the world. Do not doubt it. Prophecy is never and can never be wrong.
When? I do not know. No one does but, the signs will be there to let us know when it is approaching. Until then, principle dictates we must fight to retain Constitutional liberty and principles of morality no civilization can remove and remain standing.
Expect persecution, if you are someone who abides by the Moral Law of God, and the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights.
Totalitarian forces exist and are growing. A gargantuan battle is building. No one is safe from it, no matter how much a victor will claim "peace and safety." The current cabal of secular, atheist totalitarians will not know what hit them when the final dog and pony show begins. The Papacy, her Daughters, and the Kings of the Earth united with them, are going to control the planet under the banner of Lucifer, with signs, wonders, delusions and false miracles to back them up. This is not a secular battle, though it involves secular principles and policies. It is a spiritual battle and must be fought in faith that God rules, does so by choice, offers choice to us to follow Him, and leave the results with Him.
God has already won. It's unfortunate mankind will not receive that victory and invitation into God's kingdom.
We will be tested. We will face satanic forces, and worse, forces convinced they act for God.
A battle and a march. A battle and a march. Plant the truth wherever we can.
Maintain faith, brethren. The faith of Jesus.
Courage in the Lord.
Both states of life offer no right to violate another citizen's rights; their freedoms and liberties. Both citizens and leaders from the citizenry are bound by God's laws and man's, in harmony with them. Law, in and of itself, is not the answer and never has been, for laws can be tyrannical; just a reflection of the warped thinking of a tyrant or despot, or a common fool.
In our nation an atheist can be elected to civil service, for the Constitution states no religious test can be administered for holding public office. That is the principle. An atheist can be civil and protect civil rights. Seeing the understanding of a Creator and supernatural Sovereign has been at the foundation of this nation's understanding of existence, it would be odd to have someone rejecting that history and its characters, to be in a place of civil authority at the Federal level but, in principle, it is the law. People are free and at liberty to vote that person into office or reject their candidacy.
While God's Moral law, the Ten Commandments - the Royal law, the Law of Liberty, as James calls them in his epistle - are the standard of man's duty to God and man's duty to his fellow man, civil law is different. Civil law is about man being civil to his fellowman. Civil law, those who create it, are not in the place to judge morality, or to fashion moral standards according to their singular or collective understanding. You can hate your neighbor but, you cannot punch him in the face because of that hatred. It is God's place to judge the morality of hate. It is man's duty to judge the acts of incivility to one's neighbor. "Hate crimes" are, by principle, history and common sense, absolutely wrong. People are free and at liberty to hate. They are not free to act on that and violate another citizen's right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Call it a tight rope and balancing act but, that is the foundation of the Republic and while not perfect, it's the best mankind has come up with for the function of civil law and authority for national existence.
Some of the worst laws in history were written by religious people desiring other religious people or non-religious people to be moral, as they understood morality. The Moral law, the 4th commandment, states that the human race should rest from work on the seventh-day of the week, the Sabbath. The morality of that is simple, as well as complex. God said it, we should believe it, that settles it. It is in the Moral law as a standard of duty and loyalty to God, the Creator. It asks us to keep the Sabbath "holy." That is a standard of spiritual morality. Yet a day, what is it? It is time. You cannot touch it, see it, smell it, or know it exists in any way save for God telling us seven days make a week, and we mark it on calendars. Keeping time holy is beyond man's ability. To prove that, we have had laws that told people they must rest on Sunday, and if you didn't, you lost a week's pay. Second time, another week's pay and a week in the stocks. Third violation, death. That was a law in Connecticut back in the early 17th century. Other states had other Sunday laws of similar restrictions and penalties.
Sunday laws, already beginning with a perversion of God's law about the Sabbath, always take away the civil rights of their fellowman. In a theocracy, God had provisions in His law to address Sabbath breakers. We do not live in a theocracy overseen by chosen priests and prophets and rulers of God. Congress cannot ask citizens to be holy. It only requires citizens to be civil to each other, within rights granted by God, and those of man in harmony with rights granted by God.
Blue laws, Sunday restrictions, were never moral, and were decidedly uncivil, and invaded the rights granted by God. Sunday is the first day of the week. It has nothing to do with the Sun, in God's order. The Sun and Moon were created on the 4th day of creation week. In God's order there should be no Sun day. It's station in pagan history is one of the most ancient of all practices. The worship of the Sun, as deity. It's an apostasy from God's stated order. The first day of the week is a work day. Six days we shall labor but, the seventh day is God's day of rest for his creatures. No work by me, servants, or beasts of labor, or guests within my gates. It is time to reflect on God's creation and His holiness to be instilled in us, is to be the practice of His creation on His day of rest. Well, that is not the practice of the world, is it?
Holiness is a state of being that involves the influence of the Holy Spirit of God in one's mind and life. It is sacredness within. Indeed, not many experience it every moment of every day but, it is the condition that God works within us to attain: the condition Adam and Eve had when they were created; the condition of loyal angels that minister the will of God among mankind. Holiness is the perpetual state of God. It cannot possibly be forced or enforced by man. It cannot be legislated by man. Regardless of man's "good intentions," one or a thousand written and codified ways man thinks men should be holy, is always going to take away civil rights granted by God. You cannot make someone holy by taking a week's pay, or another week's pay and time in the stocks, and certainly not by a decree of death hanging over their heads. Fear. You certainly can motivate people by fear. God does not motivate by fear. God does not intimidate. God motivates from love, for God is love. Man, religious men have perverted that fact. Roman Catholicism's man-made traditions and laws have perverted the law of God, entered the realm of civil law and perverted civil law, as well, down through the Roman church's history. Her daughters, the various churches that broke away from Mother, yet retain much of her character and thought, have perverted God's order, and violated God granted rights, as well.
Outside of a theocracy, Sabbath breaking is a moral standard God shall judge in His own time and way. Men have no business involving themselves with its violation. Sabbath keeping churches can address their own memberships and remove the consistent Sabbath breaker from their roles but, that is all. Sunday is just the first day of the week, a common work day. It has no holiness attached to it. It has no sanctity attached to it. There is nothing special attached to it in the Bible. Whoa, someone says. Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday. Indeed. He rested in the tomb from His work of salvation, on the Sabbath, and rose on the first day of the week to begin the work of ministering to the world the power and blessings of His sacrifice for the world. It's Sunday. Time to go to work!
Man's weekend and making Monday the first day of the work week, is comfortable, yes but, it is not God's law. God says Sabbath is holy. Sunday is a regular day for work. No man or group of men have the authority to change that order. Ah, but, you see Romanism believes it does. Popes can change law. No, they cannot, when it comes to God's laws but, you see, again; the papacy is Christ's vicar on Earth. He speaks for Christ, acts for Christ, has the same authority among men as Christ, claims he. No, he does not. He is an apostate from God's order, pointed out in prophecy as the power of antichrist, claiming to be 'in place of Christ,' and an enemy of righteousness in God's stated and established order.
The Founders of the United States were not perfect men by any means. They had a deep understanding of their times, though, and saw the foolishness and dangers present in kings and queens, popes and prelates, inventing laws that violated rights granted by God. They codified a group of laws that protect rights by limiting the power and authority of the Federal government.
A recent survey showed around 20% of Americans use elected civil servants as examples of morality. The percentage should be 0. Civil servants address matters of civil law, man's duty to his fellowman and their rights in the basis of every day life. All people should be moral. What a world it would be if that were the case but, morality, the act of being moral, is one that always involves a high standard to gauge by. That standard in our Western hemisphere has been God and His law. That has moved throughout the world by commission of Christ to make disciples of all the world by instruction, by sharing, by loving and helping their fellow man. NO force is of God. Defense of people, protection of rights has been the history of the growth of the American Republic. Mistakes, violations, removal of rights equal for all citizens are constantly addressed and corrected which has made America 'the shining city on a hill' millions want to get to. Imagine a world where all had equal rights, no one was above the law, and all people had freedom to pursue and have life, liberty and happiness within the boundaries of God's law. In principle, that's Heaven. The only difference is morality. Heaven shall have citizens with pure hearts and minds and holiness, a level of morality infused by the Spirit of God.
Corruption now rots the Republic. Special interests groups run Washington, D.C. Any observer could spend a day writing out all the corruptions America engages in and months detailing them. How did this happen? The rejection of God and His established order. The rejection of the limits of Constitutional provisions and Bill of Rights. The longtime careers of public servants, no longer servants but, wannabe mini-kings and queens. "Do you know who I am???" Yeah, you're a civil servant. So what? Do your service and go back to your life in the private sector. You are not special. You are a common man or woman, subject to the frailties of humanity. Well, today, seeing as a member of the Supreme Court does not know the difference between a man and a woman, things are more confused than ever.
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. With all its thousands of laws, America is coming unglued and more laws shall make it worse, not better. "Their oughta be a law!" is the common refrain but, that's incorrect. America has far more laws than it needs and citizens must reject the notion that having a Union of States means citizens must relinquish some rights and liberty to protect it. That is the foundation of all Totalitarianism. If God has granted humans rights, and the amendments in the Bill of Rights to the Constitutions delineates and protects those rights; that is done, sound, solid, final. Mess with it and America falls.
America is falling. Rights, liberties are being taken away constantly.
We knew by common sense and now know by many, many scientific studies done, that the world suffered greatly, much worse than the virus, itself, because of man-made, totalitarian lockdowns and nefarious remedies.
Some believe the answer to it all is the reinvigoration of God in society and the reinstallation of Sunday laws. That is coming. Sunday will be legislated as the law of the land, and the world. Do not doubt it. Prophecy is never and can never be wrong.
When? I do not know. No one does but, the signs will be there to let us know when it is approaching. Until then, principle dictates we must fight to retain Constitutional liberty and principles of morality no civilization can remove and remain standing.
Expect persecution, if you are someone who abides by the Moral Law of God, and the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights.
Totalitarian forces exist and are growing. A gargantuan battle is building. No one is safe from it, no matter how much a victor will claim "peace and safety." The current cabal of secular, atheist totalitarians will not know what hit them when the final dog and pony show begins. The Papacy, her Daughters, and the Kings of the Earth united with them, are going to control the planet under the banner of Lucifer, with signs, wonders, delusions and false miracles to back them up. This is not a secular battle, though it involves secular principles and policies. It is a spiritual battle and must be fought in faith that God rules, does so by choice, offers choice to us to follow Him, and leave the results with Him.
God has already won. It's unfortunate mankind will not receive that victory and invitation into God's kingdom.
We will be tested. We will face satanic forces, and worse, forces convinced they act for God.
A battle and a march. A battle and a march. Plant the truth wherever we can.
Maintain faith, brethren. The faith of Jesus.
Courage in the Lord.
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585. When Do We Reach Universal Pestilence? - June 4, 2022
As the 20th century was opening with the threat of Tuberculosis and Small Pox. Plague struck Manchuria in 1910. It is still around in Africa. I was also not around when the Spanish Flu struck.
Then came Polio. Born in 1954, my parents and millions of others worried about child birth back then. You may known someone who was hit with it. I do.
Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Measles... and it all still persists in places around the globe.
You may remember Legionnaire's Disease. It first hit our senses in 1976. It's a type of deadly Pneumonia. It is still around. 10-20,000 people are year die from it.
Then came AIDS or, HIV, in the 1980s. Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Hundreds of thousands around the world still die from it. Millions live with it.
SARS became news in 2003.
Ebola. Zika Virus.
The Swine Flu came about in 2009.
Covid.
Now, Monkey Pox, spreading swiftly around the world. Yeah, it makes no sense, all things considered and if you trust the WHO, the CDC, Bill Gates and company, and the rest of the cabal, you are yet asleep.
I saw today a new illness from Ticks, that can kill. New illnesses from Mosquitos. The Bird Flu. It's a Satanic cafeteria of death out there.
It has been a never ending stream of disease, never seen in civilizations before. It is a fact that laboratories around the world experiment with pathogens that could wipe out humanity. Voices told us Covid was man-made and all voices in authority cried, "Conspiracy theory!!!" Now we know that was the truth all along and still those responsible walk around free, and it causes us to wonder how many other diseases are man-made manipulations of things in nature that would not really harm us were it not for truly mad scientists messing around with it all.
Regardless of who, what, when, where, why and how, we are surrounded by illnesses of unprecedented number and it will continue to get worse, whether naturally or man-made for whatever nefarious reasons. We were told this would happen.
Disease has always been around but, the rise of everything hitting us today cannot be compared with a singular plague of the Dark Ages. Yes, it wiped out a quarter of Europe. All from fleas living on rats. But, today, men now venture into corridors of horror that has caused nations to stop the experimentation.
The Bible mentions "pestilence" a lot. Both the Hebrew and Greek words translated 'pestilence' mean plague or disease.
When Christ spoke about the last days, before His return, He mentioned pestilence as a sign of the times. When Mark wrote down the last day events sermon, he did not mention pestilence but, recorded Christ stating "troubles."
Matt 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Mark recorded that these shall just be the beginning of sorrows that shall come upon the Earth.
It is also interesting that, in a time when plague was known, famines were known, war among kingdoms, earthquakes were well known in the region, Jesus should mention these things will be seen in diverse; different places. Not the usual places but, different places; as in all over the globe. Places such things were not generally seen. Universal trouble.
We seem to be there, if we will be honest with ourselves. While Africa was not especially hit hard with Covid, it has had a constant string of other serious illnesses, and it should be mentioned many of them were brought to them beyond Africa's borders. So much angst exists in Africa towards American interference with their continent's nation's health, using Africans as constant Guinea Pigs, they have had it. Covid just proved to them the powers that be cannot be trusted.
Six of seven continents are in trouble, and those powers that be are coming right out and telling humanity what is coming. They have no reason to hide it all. It is the Great Reset. We're going back to scratch, removing as much of the human population as the Earth needs to right itself under the weight of mankind. Never mind, again, the fact that every human being could fit into Texas on a 1,000 sq' plot but, these lunatics worship the Earth. They have no regard for its Creator. And no one would deny pollution exists. Many would deny man-made global warming exists. No one denies the globe goes through temperature changes. They just recognize the role the Sun plays in it all. Personally speaking, NYC stinks. Go back out into the rural areas of NY and the air is a lot fresher. The Polar Bears are doing okay, as are the Caribou and other species supposedly going extinct because of global warming. The lies told through media is reprehensible. Nobody is saying we should pollute. But common sense tells us electric cars are not the answer, when we are being told electricity is going to be iffy across the nation this summer. So, if everybody owned electric cars things would be better? Please, do let us have common sense.
For a couple centuries Christians have been claiming the second coming of Christ was near. Troubles will precede it. Yet, here we are, still meandering around this old world. Why? Because those among mankind who consider themselves believers have consistently stalled the progress of the Gospel by adapting more and more to the world's standards and cultures, just as Jesus said would happen. Only a remnant would remain.
That said, enough people seem to be getting serious enough about their faith that the Devil is picking up the pace and we are seeing the great hatred he has for humanity by the minions he uses to cause suffering in the world.
For the first time in human history mankind has the capability to destroy itself through war. I doubt Putin is going to send a nuke anywhere. At the same time, I also doubt he is going to let NATO push him around and bring more trouble to his front door. He claims he can wipe out the American East coast with just two missiles. Possible? I don't know. Probable? Unlikely because even if America does not have that capability, every leader in the world would be heading for the bunkers before the nukes start flying back and forth. Nobody wins and Putin knows it. The thing is, Putin is not going to let anybody else win, either.
I really believed Christ would come within five years of my conversion in 1979, the signs were so prominent. Forty-three years later, things are worse, and truly, forty-three years from now, if things advanced as they have, things would be worse still and humanity would be trudging along. BUT, things do not seem to be advancing as they have been. Things are moving ever more quickly. Dangers from land, sea and air are all around us now. What does it all mean?
It means Jesus Christ is going to return, sometime in our future. Technology is advancing so fast, if Jesus does not return, lunatics will wipe out humanity or A.I. will, because A.I. is now creating its own language no man can understand. I just saw that article headline. Science fiction and Hollywood can only portray what is inevitable if things keep going the way they are with technology.
The prophet Daniel was told:
Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Well, a couple hundred years ago believers began to see more and more details about Bible prophecies and last-day events. The 19th century was filled with signs of the times, especially after the founding of the second beast of Revelation 13, the United States of America. But, that aside, the expansion of knowledge in this world has grown so exponentially man knows more in the last 50 years than all human history put together. To say knowledge shall increase is flat out wrong now. It has increased and that means the end of time is approaching. The fact is, it is man's knowledge and haughty arrogance in it, that is bringing about the end of time.
I state all the time I do not know when Christ shall return. Nobody does, and if someone tells you they do, run, do not walk away from them. They are fakes, false shepherds, false prophets. The fact that no one can say 'when' is absolutely no reason to deny what we see happening in the world on a global scale. Not a local scale of the mid-east or European continent of biblical times but, all over the planet. It tells us the end is close. That is crucial and important.
My friend, you may come here to see things I share about drums and drumming, and that's fine. Happy to have you stop by but, drums mean zip when it comes to the salvation of your life and your place in eternity. Nothing, no thing is more important than the value of your eternity in God's eyes.
Christ is coming again. In light of human history, the last century is a blink of an eye. The last 43 years of my life, a short wisp of wind. The amount of time that passes gets us closer, not farther away from the event of all ages. Miss out and you miss out on everything. EVERYTHING.
Take stock and act accordingly, think critically, get right with God. If you know Him, draw ever closer. Watch and pray, as Jesus said. Figure out where you are and need to be and will be, if you follow on to know the Lord, and are used by Him to save others from what is coming on the Earth as an overwhelming surprise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Then came Polio. Born in 1954, my parents and millions of others worried about child birth back then. You may known someone who was hit with it. I do.
Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Measles... and it all still persists in places around the globe.
You may remember Legionnaire's Disease. It first hit our senses in 1976. It's a type of deadly Pneumonia. It is still around. 10-20,000 people are year die from it.
Then came AIDS or, HIV, in the 1980s. Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Hundreds of thousands around the world still die from it. Millions live with it.
SARS became news in 2003.
Ebola. Zika Virus.
The Swine Flu came about in 2009.
Covid.
Now, Monkey Pox, spreading swiftly around the world. Yeah, it makes no sense, all things considered and if you trust the WHO, the CDC, Bill Gates and company, and the rest of the cabal, you are yet asleep.
I saw today a new illness from Ticks, that can kill. New illnesses from Mosquitos. The Bird Flu. It's a Satanic cafeteria of death out there.
It has been a never ending stream of disease, never seen in civilizations before. It is a fact that laboratories around the world experiment with pathogens that could wipe out humanity. Voices told us Covid was man-made and all voices in authority cried, "Conspiracy theory!!!" Now we know that was the truth all along and still those responsible walk around free, and it causes us to wonder how many other diseases are man-made manipulations of things in nature that would not really harm us were it not for truly mad scientists messing around with it all.
Regardless of who, what, when, where, why and how, we are surrounded by illnesses of unprecedented number and it will continue to get worse, whether naturally or man-made for whatever nefarious reasons. We were told this would happen.
Disease has always been around but, the rise of everything hitting us today cannot be compared with a singular plague of the Dark Ages. Yes, it wiped out a quarter of Europe. All from fleas living on rats. But, today, men now venture into corridors of horror that has caused nations to stop the experimentation.
The Bible mentions "pestilence" a lot. Both the Hebrew and Greek words translated 'pestilence' mean plague or disease.
When Christ spoke about the last days, before His return, He mentioned pestilence as a sign of the times. When Mark wrote down the last day events sermon, he did not mention pestilence but, recorded Christ stating "troubles."
Matt 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Mark recorded that these shall just be the beginning of sorrows that shall come upon the Earth.
It is also interesting that, in a time when plague was known, famines were known, war among kingdoms, earthquakes were well known in the region, Jesus should mention these things will be seen in diverse; different places. Not the usual places but, different places; as in all over the globe. Places such things were not generally seen. Universal trouble.
We seem to be there, if we will be honest with ourselves. While Africa was not especially hit hard with Covid, it has had a constant string of other serious illnesses, and it should be mentioned many of them were brought to them beyond Africa's borders. So much angst exists in Africa towards American interference with their continent's nation's health, using Africans as constant Guinea Pigs, they have had it. Covid just proved to them the powers that be cannot be trusted.
Six of seven continents are in trouble, and those powers that be are coming right out and telling humanity what is coming. They have no reason to hide it all. It is the Great Reset. We're going back to scratch, removing as much of the human population as the Earth needs to right itself under the weight of mankind. Never mind, again, the fact that every human being could fit into Texas on a 1,000 sq' plot but, these lunatics worship the Earth. They have no regard for its Creator. And no one would deny pollution exists. Many would deny man-made global warming exists. No one denies the globe goes through temperature changes. They just recognize the role the Sun plays in it all. Personally speaking, NYC stinks. Go back out into the rural areas of NY and the air is a lot fresher. The Polar Bears are doing okay, as are the Caribou and other species supposedly going extinct because of global warming. The lies told through media is reprehensible. Nobody is saying we should pollute. But common sense tells us electric cars are not the answer, when we are being told electricity is going to be iffy across the nation this summer. So, if everybody owned electric cars things would be better? Please, do let us have common sense.
For a couple centuries Christians have been claiming the second coming of Christ was near. Troubles will precede it. Yet, here we are, still meandering around this old world. Why? Because those among mankind who consider themselves believers have consistently stalled the progress of the Gospel by adapting more and more to the world's standards and cultures, just as Jesus said would happen. Only a remnant would remain.
That said, enough people seem to be getting serious enough about their faith that the Devil is picking up the pace and we are seeing the great hatred he has for humanity by the minions he uses to cause suffering in the world.
For the first time in human history mankind has the capability to destroy itself through war. I doubt Putin is going to send a nuke anywhere. At the same time, I also doubt he is going to let NATO push him around and bring more trouble to his front door. He claims he can wipe out the American East coast with just two missiles. Possible? I don't know. Probable? Unlikely because even if America does not have that capability, every leader in the world would be heading for the bunkers before the nukes start flying back and forth. Nobody wins and Putin knows it. The thing is, Putin is not going to let anybody else win, either.
I really believed Christ would come within five years of my conversion in 1979, the signs were so prominent. Forty-three years later, things are worse, and truly, forty-three years from now, if things advanced as they have, things would be worse still and humanity would be trudging along. BUT, things do not seem to be advancing as they have been. Things are moving ever more quickly. Dangers from land, sea and air are all around us now. What does it all mean?
It means Jesus Christ is going to return, sometime in our future. Technology is advancing so fast, if Jesus does not return, lunatics will wipe out humanity or A.I. will, because A.I. is now creating its own language no man can understand. I just saw that article headline. Science fiction and Hollywood can only portray what is inevitable if things keep going the way they are with technology.
The prophet Daniel was told:
Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Well, a couple hundred years ago believers began to see more and more details about Bible prophecies and last-day events. The 19th century was filled with signs of the times, especially after the founding of the second beast of Revelation 13, the United States of America. But, that aside, the expansion of knowledge in this world has grown so exponentially man knows more in the last 50 years than all human history put together. To say knowledge shall increase is flat out wrong now. It has increased and that means the end of time is approaching. The fact is, it is man's knowledge and haughty arrogance in it, that is bringing about the end of time.
I state all the time I do not know when Christ shall return. Nobody does, and if someone tells you they do, run, do not walk away from them. They are fakes, false shepherds, false prophets. The fact that no one can say 'when' is absolutely no reason to deny what we see happening in the world on a global scale. Not a local scale of the mid-east or European continent of biblical times but, all over the planet. It tells us the end is close. That is crucial and important.
My friend, you may come here to see things I share about drums and drumming, and that's fine. Happy to have you stop by but, drums mean zip when it comes to the salvation of your life and your place in eternity. Nothing, no thing is more important than the value of your eternity in God's eyes.
Christ is coming again. In light of human history, the last century is a blink of an eye. The last 43 years of my life, a short wisp of wind. The amount of time that passes gets us closer, not farther away from the event of all ages. Miss out and you miss out on everything. EVERYTHING.
Take stock and act accordingly, think critically, get right with God. If you know Him, draw ever closer. Watch and pray, as Jesus said. Figure out where you are and need to be and will be, if you follow on to know the Lord, and are used by Him to save others from what is coming on the Earth as an overwhelming surprise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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1 in 9 Ain't Bad - June 4, 2022
I watch an interview with an astronomer today, a well known Christian creationist. When asked about life beyond Earth he stated that we now know of over 4,000 exo-planets out there and none seem to have the characteristics that make life on Earth possible. 4,000 planets.
He also stated, the old argument, that if sentient life exists out there, they would need salvation, and that means Jesus would have had to go through a life, death and resurrection for any other world out there. Wrong. He assumes any other sentient life out there is fallen and needs salvation. Do two thirds of the angelic host, loyal to God, need salvation? No. What not? They did not rebel. They have not chosen disobedience. That proves all sentiment life would not need salvation, if they have not chosen to disobey God. Their worlds would remain free from sin.
But, back to planets out there. Our solar system has 9 planets (I like Pluto, so, sue me). Even eight works just fine. Since the Hubble deep field exploration and others, it is now estimated as many as two TRILLION galaxies are out there in this vast universe, and we have no finite idea where it's boundaries actually are.
What if only 1 planet per galaxy contained sentient life? Two trillion planets that could support life, and created sentient life, at that. The sons of God, the 99, those the redeemed from sin shall reign over as they travel with the Lamb, wherever He goes.
Call me naive but, the redeemed should expect to travel the universe to see what else is out there and it will take forever to do so.
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
He also stated, the old argument, that if sentient life exists out there, they would need salvation, and that means Jesus would have had to go through a life, death and resurrection for any other world out there. Wrong. He assumes any other sentient life out there is fallen and needs salvation. Do two thirds of the angelic host, loyal to God, need salvation? No. What not? They did not rebel. They have not chosen disobedience. That proves all sentiment life would not need salvation, if they have not chosen to disobey God. Their worlds would remain free from sin.
But, back to planets out there. Our solar system has 9 planets (I like Pluto, so, sue me). Even eight works just fine. Since the Hubble deep field exploration and others, it is now estimated as many as two TRILLION galaxies are out there in this vast universe, and we have no finite idea where it's boundaries actually are.
What if only 1 planet per galaxy contained sentient life? Two trillion planets that could support life, and created sentient life, at that. The sons of God, the 99, those the redeemed from sin shall reign over as they travel with the Lamb, wherever He goes.
Call me naive but, the redeemed should expect to travel the universe to see what else is out there and it will take forever to do so.
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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586. Church Bells vs. Calls to Prayer - June 5, 2022
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The first amendment was made when the nation basically had to address variations found in the professed Christian faith. No national church allowed. No popes or prelates dominating. Separation of church and state but, not God from state. Big difference.
The Muslim faith was known. George Washington addressed it in remarks towards the treaty of Tripoli, protecting American ships and businesses engaged in commerce.
How things have changed. Today, radical, militant Islam is the entire world's largest terrorist organization. Their influence is so strong there are places in cities in the world, including the USA, where the police do not enter, American citizens are repelled from entering, and even those Christians who seek to evangelize Muslim communities and events are physically harmed and they are blamed for being foolish, rather than a process of shutting down such anti-Constitutional behavior found in Muslim communities. Ben Carson, during his campaign for president, was absolutely correct when he stated Islam and its Sharia laws are not in harmony with the American Constitution.
Now, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a law has been passed allowing public Muslim calls to prayer. That means 5 times a day, beginning at sunrise, all throughout the city in the communities with mosques, around two dozen of them, citizens will hear, not the sound of bronze or electronic chimes but, the Islamic spoken call to prayer.
Church bells were once the call to services and town meetings because churches held that position as a main meeting place for citizens. In larger cities, as America grew, it became a nuisance for many citizens to hear tons of both Protestant and Catholic bronze chiming or pounding - as the case may have been - members to services, and in most cases it was ceased where "disturbing the peace" elements of protest persisted. Today church bells are not heard much throughout the nation. It might be said college and university campuses have more electronic chime music playing than heard Sunday mornings from churches. And that is just on Sunday mornings at meeting time. It's not religious. It contains no public pronouncements of doctrine. In cases where a hymn is played through an electronic carillon, a melody is roughly heard, no message. It's quite charming to hear. I have no problem with church bells on a Sunday morning, not because I am a Christian. I don't go to church on Sundays. Nor would I have a real problem with a ram's horn used to call people to meetings, though sunrise? No. But, a spoken call to prayer, which is a prayer in and of itself? No way. Not in America. No laws should be made to allow it. Each community should decide for itself and if communities in Minneapolis decide against, it stands against. If it decides for, so be it. People can stay or move. State authority should not be part of it. No laws to respect an establishment of religion nor prohibit one. If people cannot remain civil in its discussions, state steps in and addresses incivility. Beyond that, it should stay out of it.
The Islamic call to prayer is doctrinal. It is absolute. It is a denial and rejection of all other faiths. Let's see any other religion in America put over loudspeakers for all communities to hear the Lord's prayer every day, the Shema, or other such statement of faith and see what happens. Are you serious? Leftists would have a cow.
The Islamic call to prayer, the Adhan, goes like this:
"God is the greatest (Allahu akbar); intoned four times.
I testify that there is no God but Allah (Ashhadu anna la ila ill Allah); intoned twice.
I testify that Mohammed is God’s Prophet (Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasul Allah); intoned twice.
Come to prayer (Hayya alas salah); intoned twice.
Come to security/salvation (Hayya alal falah); intoned twice.
God is the greatest (Allahu akbar); intoned twice.
There is no God but Allah (La ilah ill Allah); intoned once.
Another line is sometimes added to the first prayer of the day (first light fajr):
Prayer is better than sleep (Assalatu khayrum minan naum); intoned twice.
https://www.approachguides.com/blog/guide-to-the-islamic-call-to-prayer-adhan/
Now, if the Minneapolis situation is not addressing and dealing with respecting an establishment of religion, exactly what is it doing, or not doing?
If a Christian group wants a club on school grounds, every single atheist and radical Leftist mouthpiece begins screaming violation of the first amendment, and lawsuits are filed. Islam, which around the world is beheading Christians and other non-Islamic religious adherents, and even its own they see as apostates; bombing, killing, terrorizing and it can be seen in the news from places around the planet every single day, gets to have their religious doctrines publicly loud-spoken through PA systems all across a major American city, 5 times a day, because American Islamic leaders claim they are a religion of peace?!?
Bear something in mind from the closet of common sense. This is the 20th century. People have all kinds of time reminders from hour one in our lives - alarm clocks, cell phone apps, robotic A.I. devices, wrist watches, radios, and other things to tell them what time it is and/or remind them to do things. How is it Islam needs a public call to prayer to remind them to pray? They do not. This is not about the first amendment. Just read the call. This is about the projected dominance of Islam all over planet Earth because that is their doctrinal mission. "Security and salvation."
The Christian mission is to make disciples through teaching and live harmoniously with rulers within nations. True peace, though apostates have ruined that fact down through time. The Islamic mission is to subjugate the world. No honest Muslim can deny that, even if going by pre-Medina teachings of their Prophet. Post-Medina, don't even try to deny the mission. You cannot do so with any amount of explanations, arbitration or bobbing and weaving.
The city counsel states it is just trying to be fair to all parties. The number of citizens calling BS on that has been too small to keep this from happening. Nobody wants to be seen offending Islam, which all the more assures Muslims their god is in control and they shall conquer the world some day.
I have often stated the fulfillment of Bible prophecy finds detours for various reasons, and time carries on, looking for avenues to resurrect revival of faith and mission. Islam was no longer an issue when the Ottoman empire came down and prophecy was fast fulfilling in the 19th century. Islam is not directly mentioned in Scripture, in prophecy. It obviously did not exist in biblical times, and prophetically, Islam was not a major roadblock to prophetic fulfillment. In many ways, the American government, deep state, C.I.A. changed all that with constant interference in Islamic national politics. The Muslim Brotherhood developed to reestablish a Muslim caliphate for all Islam, and seeing Islam is now almost a third of Earth's population, you'd better believe a monkey wrench is in the gears of prophetic fulfillments.
I believe when the final lying signs, wonders, miracles, and all the rest of the false religious revival in Christianity begins, and/or the entrance of "ET" into world affairs, Islam will fall in line like everybody else not protected by a Thus Saith the LORD. Until that time, Islam will not stop its march to world dominance. China sees this. Russia sees it. Common sense thinkers in Europe see it but, it is too late for Europe. Multiculturalism is killing it, controlled by NWO-types who want conflict, war, and all humanity at each other's throats so they can ultimately swoop in and save the day, after killing as much of the Earth's population as necessary.
This all reality now, not the stuff of Hollywood dystopian screen writers.
This is coming to a city near you, sooner or later. Every nation in the Western hemisphere is not having enough children to keep their nations or cultures standing. That is objective, demographic fact people have been warning about for decades now. Muslims see it, know it, and are literally birthing European nations into subjugation, England the first to fall. There's no laws against having children, and even China has relented on its own laws regarding child birth. It sees, however alarming and dangerous overpopulation can be, it needs as many citizens to make up its military as possible because Islam is not going away. If it gets nukes, if an Islamic nation elects a truly militant, radical leader, or is controlled by that type of Imam, Israel is toast; then the world is toast as other nations are drawn into a conflagration to end all conflagrations.
It is a shame religious leaders in America, including professed Christian leaders, do not understand the dynamics of what is happening on Earth. Israel is NOT God's nation anymore. Scripture is so clear on that. The teaching of Jesus is so point blank on that. The apostle Paul, clear as noonday when he is taken into complete context and people do not twist his writings as Peter warned was done in his day. America sending hundreds of billions of dollars to protect Israel from Muslim aggression is worthless because Israel has never been what it pretends to be.
Westerners wonder if the population of Israel understands what Zionism truly is. Zionism is no different than Islamism. The bottom line is dominance. The American empire has its own version of world dominance. China has another version. Blending a mix of religion, money and finance, military might, population growth and more, all figure into how each power seeks dominance, and do not discount the Vatican in all of this. "Mother" is always involved somehow. The Jesuit order sees to that. Zionism is about the dominance of Israel and the ruination of all other cultures and civilizations, and not for Yah, either. They don't bother with God. It's mostly for money and power. The love of money is the root of all evil.
This is reality, not some new Thriller novel. There is a literal fight for planet Earth playing out. Suffering and woe cannot be sidestepped for billions of people as the elites from each sector move their pieces on the global board. It's a hideous, disgusting, devilish game.
Nothing can overcome Jehovah God but, that does not mean detours do not arise and cause a whole lot of pain. This is not about the land where Christ lived and ministered. This is not about us, in America, nor about Islamic Asia, nor Communist China, nor yet even Putin's Russia, being blamed for everything. This is a Satanic drama playing out on a global scale. The ruler and god of this world is engaging in plans for destruction beyond any scope we can imagine.
The second coming of Christ is the only hope for this world, and like all other powers, is about finality of dominance. Christ is not going to force anybody to be a follower of His kingdom. He is just going to come and rescue His own people from a coming death decree, show up as He is -GOD- in all unimaginable power and indescribable glory, and the world that has stood against Him for ages is coming to an end. Mankind will use up its capital of power and control and meet its rebellious fate, marked for it since the beginning of time. The serpent shall bruise the heel of Messiah. Messiah shall crush the head of the serpent. This is not about any nation. This is an ultimate war between Lucifer, the shining one, and Jesus Christ, the bright and morning star.
Whose light will you follow?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The first amendment was made when the nation basically had to address variations found in the professed Christian faith. No national church allowed. No popes or prelates dominating. Separation of church and state but, not God from state. Big difference.
The Muslim faith was known. George Washington addressed it in remarks towards the treaty of Tripoli, protecting American ships and businesses engaged in commerce.
How things have changed. Today, radical, militant Islam is the entire world's largest terrorist organization. Their influence is so strong there are places in cities in the world, including the USA, where the police do not enter, American citizens are repelled from entering, and even those Christians who seek to evangelize Muslim communities and events are physically harmed and they are blamed for being foolish, rather than a process of shutting down such anti-Constitutional behavior found in Muslim communities. Ben Carson, during his campaign for president, was absolutely correct when he stated Islam and its Sharia laws are not in harmony with the American Constitution.
Now, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a law has been passed allowing public Muslim calls to prayer. That means 5 times a day, beginning at sunrise, all throughout the city in the communities with mosques, around two dozen of them, citizens will hear, not the sound of bronze or electronic chimes but, the Islamic spoken call to prayer.
Church bells were once the call to services and town meetings because churches held that position as a main meeting place for citizens. In larger cities, as America grew, it became a nuisance for many citizens to hear tons of both Protestant and Catholic bronze chiming or pounding - as the case may have been - members to services, and in most cases it was ceased where "disturbing the peace" elements of protest persisted. Today church bells are not heard much throughout the nation. It might be said college and university campuses have more electronic chime music playing than heard Sunday mornings from churches. And that is just on Sunday mornings at meeting time. It's not religious. It contains no public pronouncements of doctrine. In cases where a hymn is played through an electronic carillon, a melody is roughly heard, no message. It's quite charming to hear. I have no problem with church bells on a Sunday morning, not because I am a Christian. I don't go to church on Sundays. Nor would I have a real problem with a ram's horn used to call people to meetings, though sunrise? No. But, a spoken call to prayer, which is a prayer in and of itself? No way. Not in America. No laws should be made to allow it. Each community should decide for itself and if communities in Minneapolis decide against, it stands against. If it decides for, so be it. People can stay or move. State authority should not be part of it. No laws to respect an establishment of religion nor prohibit one. If people cannot remain civil in its discussions, state steps in and addresses incivility. Beyond that, it should stay out of it.
The Islamic call to prayer is doctrinal. It is absolute. It is a denial and rejection of all other faiths. Let's see any other religion in America put over loudspeakers for all communities to hear the Lord's prayer every day, the Shema, or other such statement of faith and see what happens. Are you serious? Leftists would have a cow.
The Islamic call to prayer, the Adhan, goes like this:
"God is the greatest (Allahu akbar); intoned four times.
I testify that there is no God but Allah (Ashhadu anna la ila ill Allah); intoned twice.
I testify that Mohammed is God’s Prophet (Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasul Allah); intoned twice.
Come to prayer (Hayya alas salah); intoned twice.
Come to security/salvation (Hayya alal falah); intoned twice.
God is the greatest (Allahu akbar); intoned twice.
There is no God but Allah (La ilah ill Allah); intoned once.
Another line is sometimes added to the first prayer of the day (first light fajr):
Prayer is better than sleep (Assalatu khayrum minan naum); intoned twice.
https://www.approachguides.com/blog/guide-to-the-islamic-call-to-prayer-adhan/
Now, if the Minneapolis situation is not addressing and dealing with respecting an establishment of religion, exactly what is it doing, or not doing?
If a Christian group wants a club on school grounds, every single atheist and radical Leftist mouthpiece begins screaming violation of the first amendment, and lawsuits are filed. Islam, which around the world is beheading Christians and other non-Islamic religious adherents, and even its own they see as apostates; bombing, killing, terrorizing and it can be seen in the news from places around the planet every single day, gets to have their religious doctrines publicly loud-spoken through PA systems all across a major American city, 5 times a day, because American Islamic leaders claim they are a religion of peace?!?
Bear something in mind from the closet of common sense. This is the 20th century. People have all kinds of time reminders from hour one in our lives - alarm clocks, cell phone apps, robotic A.I. devices, wrist watches, radios, and other things to tell them what time it is and/or remind them to do things. How is it Islam needs a public call to prayer to remind them to pray? They do not. This is not about the first amendment. Just read the call. This is about the projected dominance of Islam all over planet Earth because that is their doctrinal mission. "Security and salvation."
The Christian mission is to make disciples through teaching and live harmoniously with rulers within nations. True peace, though apostates have ruined that fact down through time. The Islamic mission is to subjugate the world. No honest Muslim can deny that, even if going by pre-Medina teachings of their Prophet. Post-Medina, don't even try to deny the mission. You cannot do so with any amount of explanations, arbitration or bobbing and weaving.
The city counsel states it is just trying to be fair to all parties. The number of citizens calling BS on that has been too small to keep this from happening. Nobody wants to be seen offending Islam, which all the more assures Muslims their god is in control and they shall conquer the world some day.
I have often stated the fulfillment of Bible prophecy finds detours for various reasons, and time carries on, looking for avenues to resurrect revival of faith and mission. Islam was no longer an issue when the Ottoman empire came down and prophecy was fast fulfilling in the 19th century. Islam is not directly mentioned in Scripture, in prophecy. It obviously did not exist in biblical times, and prophetically, Islam was not a major roadblock to prophetic fulfillment. In many ways, the American government, deep state, C.I.A. changed all that with constant interference in Islamic national politics. The Muslim Brotherhood developed to reestablish a Muslim caliphate for all Islam, and seeing Islam is now almost a third of Earth's population, you'd better believe a monkey wrench is in the gears of prophetic fulfillments.
I believe when the final lying signs, wonders, miracles, and all the rest of the false religious revival in Christianity begins, and/or the entrance of "ET" into world affairs, Islam will fall in line like everybody else not protected by a Thus Saith the LORD. Until that time, Islam will not stop its march to world dominance. China sees this. Russia sees it. Common sense thinkers in Europe see it but, it is too late for Europe. Multiculturalism is killing it, controlled by NWO-types who want conflict, war, and all humanity at each other's throats so they can ultimately swoop in and save the day, after killing as much of the Earth's population as necessary.
This all reality now, not the stuff of Hollywood dystopian screen writers.
This is coming to a city near you, sooner or later. Every nation in the Western hemisphere is not having enough children to keep their nations or cultures standing. That is objective, demographic fact people have been warning about for decades now. Muslims see it, know it, and are literally birthing European nations into subjugation, England the first to fall. There's no laws against having children, and even China has relented on its own laws regarding child birth. It sees, however alarming and dangerous overpopulation can be, it needs as many citizens to make up its military as possible because Islam is not going away. If it gets nukes, if an Islamic nation elects a truly militant, radical leader, or is controlled by that type of Imam, Israel is toast; then the world is toast as other nations are drawn into a conflagration to end all conflagrations.
It is a shame religious leaders in America, including professed Christian leaders, do not understand the dynamics of what is happening on Earth. Israel is NOT God's nation anymore. Scripture is so clear on that. The teaching of Jesus is so point blank on that. The apostle Paul, clear as noonday when he is taken into complete context and people do not twist his writings as Peter warned was done in his day. America sending hundreds of billions of dollars to protect Israel from Muslim aggression is worthless because Israel has never been what it pretends to be.
Westerners wonder if the population of Israel understands what Zionism truly is. Zionism is no different than Islamism. The bottom line is dominance. The American empire has its own version of world dominance. China has another version. Blending a mix of religion, money and finance, military might, population growth and more, all figure into how each power seeks dominance, and do not discount the Vatican in all of this. "Mother" is always involved somehow. The Jesuit order sees to that. Zionism is about the dominance of Israel and the ruination of all other cultures and civilizations, and not for Yah, either. They don't bother with God. It's mostly for money and power. The love of money is the root of all evil.
This is reality, not some new Thriller novel. There is a literal fight for planet Earth playing out. Suffering and woe cannot be sidestepped for billions of people as the elites from each sector move their pieces on the global board. It's a hideous, disgusting, devilish game.
Nothing can overcome Jehovah God but, that does not mean detours do not arise and cause a whole lot of pain. This is not about the land where Christ lived and ministered. This is not about us, in America, nor about Islamic Asia, nor Communist China, nor yet even Putin's Russia, being blamed for everything. This is a Satanic drama playing out on a global scale. The ruler and god of this world is engaging in plans for destruction beyond any scope we can imagine.
The second coming of Christ is the only hope for this world, and like all other powers, is about finality of dominance. Christ is not going to force anybody to be a follower of His kingdom. He is just going to come and rescue His own people from a coming death decree, show up as He is -GOD- in all unimaginable power and indescribable glory, and the world that has stood against Him for ages is coming to an end. Mankind will use up its capital of power and control and meet its rebellious fate, marked for it since the beginning of time. The serpent shall bruise the heel of Messiah. Messiah shall crush the head of the serpent. This is not about any nation. This is an ultimate war between Lucifer, the shining one, and Jesus Christ, the bright and morning star.
Whose light will you follow?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Cruz Missiles
I am not a big fan of Ted Cruz. His remarks in 2016 when Trump was campaigning against him, I thought would have ruined his future in politics, especially at the GOP convention. Not that Trump was a saint. Far from it. Cruz is still kicking though, and for the most part, seems to have learned something and is more outspoken on issues that need addressing. Being in Texas, the Uvalde shooting, events both before and after, have caused him to speak out. During, I have not seen him get involved but, things in Uvalde are dwindling as the police department withdraws into itself more and more, with less and less providing of information the public demands.
I just watched this three minute video of an interview where Cruz lays out facts about gun violence in America, compared to the rest of the world. While he did not mention it, if you factor in the five worst cities in America for gun violence and deaths, remove them from the statistics, America drops into the bottom of the world list. And they are all gun-free cities. Well... the criminals and gangs have guns. But, Cruz hits the targets well enough in this short clip. Check it out.
https://rumble.com/v16vscr-ted-cruz-shoots-the-lefts-favorite-gun-control-talking-point-full-of-holes-.html
I just watched this three minute video of an interview where Cruz lays out facts about gun violence in America, compared to the rest of the world. While he did not mention it, if you factor in the five worst cities in America for gun violence and deaths, remove them from the statistics, America drops into the bottom of the world list. And they are all gun-free cities. Well... the criminals and gangs have guns. But, Cruz hits the targets well enough in this short clip. Check it out.
https://rumble.com/v16vscr-ted-cruz-shoots-the-lefts-favorite-gun-control-talking-point-full-of-holes-.html
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587. Sums Up Firearms Ownership - June 7, 2022
Another real life situation sums up the necessity, practicality, legality, and principle of firearm ownership under the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
https://www.westernjournal.com/pregnant-mom-evens-odds-fends-off-armed-robbers-ar-15/
The headline tells the basic story but, the article addresses the background of the discussion in politics. It could have been much longer. Then again, for many this is just old news, and length of information means nothing because they know the facts, and others don't want them.
While Leftists cannot tell you what a woman is, or rather, refuse to, Leftists also are either blind to or ignorant of the facts concerning the differences between firearms and true statistics that betray their narrative and agenda to strip Americans of their rights.
Most Republicans are just poor civil servants. Democrats are that and bad actors. They get all in your face but, behind their heated rhetoric is an empty file cabinet. No information, no common sense, no practical necessity, no truth. They lie like rugs. They twist and distort like political tornadoes. They are just pathetically bad actors. What makes it tragic is that one full third of Americans still support them. That does not mean Democrats are good actors. It means one third of Americans cannot or will practice critical thinking, will not think for themselves and just follow leaders... well, hard-Left Democrats.
Honestly, if 100% of Americans supported Republicans, it is just as likely we'd be just as off-the-wall as America has become because most members of the GOP seem clueless when it comes to truth and factual information, as well. And what parts and parcels of that, that they have, they are too cowardly to stand up for.
Democrat members of Congress are, more and more, publicly stating their disdain and true feelings for the Declaration, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. "F**k the Constitution" one headline read, in quotes. The same wording has been stated with various 'expletives deleted' joined to it.
I remember so many pundits stating if Obama were elected, America would be lost. They were right but, it goes back decades before that. If Democrats are allowed to retain control of Congress and the WH and attain control of SCOTUS, well, at this point, with millions of Americans having to choose between gasoline and food, with headlines predicting food shortages and famine, obviously Democrats should be drummed out of D.C. like a D.C.I. band taking down a packed summer stadium in full force.
Should it happen? Yes. Will it happen? Maybe. Can it happen? I doubt it. Why do I state it that way? Leftists control the Federal government, the voting system, the military, the police forces, the major media, the education and schools, the money and banks, the technology, and the culture. That is why Trump is holding rallies and Biden's handlers are running the nation into the dirt, while handing it over to China and the NWO.
I'm glad I'm at the end of my life. I'm sorry for my children (no grandchildren), that will have to live through what is upon us all but, worse yet, yes, our collective grandchildren's generation.
There is true repentance and pleading with God. I am thinking, more and more, God has made His decision, and that is reaping what has been sown.
https://www.westernjournal.com/pregnant-mom-evens-odds-fends-off-armed-robbers-ar-15/
The headline tells the basic story but, the article addresses the background of the discussion in politics. It could have been much longer. Then again, for many this is just old news, and length of information means nothing because they know the facts, and others don't want them.
While Leftists cannot tell you what a woman is, or rather, refuse to, Leftists also are either blind to or ignorant of the facts concerning the differences between firearms and true statistics that betray their narrative and agenda to strip Americans of their rights.
Most Republicans are just poor civil servants. Democrats are that and bad actors. They get all in your face but, behind their heated rhetoric is an empty file cabinet. No information, no common sense, no practical necessity, no truth. They lie like rugs. They twist and distort like political tornadoes. They are just pathetically bad actors. What makes it tragic is that one full third of Americans still support them. That does not mean Democrats are good actors. It means one third of Americans cannot or will practice critical thinking, will not think for themselves and just follow leaders... well, hard-Left Democrats.
Honestly, if 100% of Americans supported Republicans, it is just as likely we'd be just as off-the-wall as America has become because most members of the GOP seem clueless when it comes to truth and factual information, as well. And what parts and parcels of that, that they have, they are too cowardly to stand up for.
Democrat members of Congress are, more and more, publicly stating their disdain and true feelings for the Declaration, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. "F**k the Constitution" one headline read, in quotes. The same wording has been stated with various 'expletives deleted' joined to it.
I remember so many pundits stating if Obama were elected, America would be lost. They were right but, it goes back decades before that. If Democrats are allowed to retain control of Congress and the WH and attain control of SCOTUS, well, at this point, with millions of Americans having to choose between gasoline and food, with headlines predicting food shortages and famine, obviously Democrats should be drummed out of D.C. like a D.C.I. band taking down a packed summer stadium in full force.
Should it happen? Yes. Will it happen? Maybe. Can it happen? I doubt it. Why do I state it that way? Leftists control the Federal government, the voting system, the military, the police forces, the major media, the education and schools, the money and banks, the technology, and the culture. That is why Trump is holding rallies and Biden's handlers are running the nation into the dirt, while handing it over to China and the NWO.
I'm glad I'm at the end of my life. I'm sorry for my children (no grandchildren), that will have to live through what is upon us all but, worse yet, yes, our collective grandchildren's generation.
There is true repentance and pleading with God. I am thinking, more and more, God has made His decision, and that is reaping what has been sown.
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588. Another Papal Resignation? - June 8, 2022
The history of the Papacy has more intrigue than any other institution, simple because of how old it is. Only one "pontifex maximus" ever resigned though, Celestine V. Then shocking the Catholic world, Benedict XVI decided to resign, at 85, rather than live out his role, weakened by poor health, until death. Many Vatican and Papal watchers have been pushing around rumors for a couple years that, the recently wheelchair-bound, Francis is in poor health grave enough to possibly resign, and his recent visit to Celestine's tomb backs that notion up.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rumors-of-pope-francis-resignation-intensify-amid-appointment-of-new-cardinals-unusual-trip/
Anybody watching world events, knowing the history of the Papacy, knows the Vatican is a very sophisticated operation, century to century, even with scandals of two popes, a female pope, popes who fathered children and all the rest. The modern Papacy, despite the clothing, the ancient rites, ancient traditions and structures is up to date on all technology, and Reagan found that out when he conspired with JP2 to bring down European Communism, and they both watched it collapse the Soviet Union. Today its modernism is not just technical but, socially diverse enough to call for titles of "apostacy" to be placed on this Pontificate, from within its own flock. Just saw and read an article (didn't listen) with a podcast from one of the RCC's Conservative voices, John Henry Westen, presenting evidence of a Masonic infiltration into the Vatican and their church.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/masonic-infiltration-of-the-vatican-the-evidence/
Man, is that old news. There aren't any churches of influence Freemasonry has not infiltrated.
I have claimed this Pope could not be the one who triggers the fall of final dominoes on Earth. He cannot even keep his flock together, let alone be a unifying element on the world scene of nations growing ever more liberal and Leftist. Leftism is a destructive force. It's basis is against the stated order of God and whatever it touches will see society pay a price of downward spiral into an abyss of cultural confusion. I am not saying Conservatism does not have confusion. It does, because it promotes things opposite the truth of the Creator. Leftists generally deny there is a Creator. Conservatives generally believe there is one, and that varies but, it's one of the things that holds the movement together, even if it isn't a stated tenet within it: a belief in God and standards for humanity that have made sense for ages in the minds of reasonable people.
John Paul II was a force of nature, even beyond the Catholic Church, when he began his office. That is the type of person Rome needs to take a global command. The choice of Francis was the work of Liberals; voices throughout the denomination had warned against for decades. Francis has failed in converting the church into a multicultural mish-mash of forces to join the rest of the world's slide into more confusion than ever. Some say that was the intention all along. A failed papacy that would lead to the reign of someone of superstar stature again, at a time when the world will need heroes. Bold move. The RCC is as divided as denominations in professed Protestantism. It's actually useless to use the term because there is hardly any Protestantism left. It's "Evangelicalism" now. Nobody protests Romanism anymore. They have become too much like it, in culture and policy - daughters that they are - steeped in many of Rome's traditions; not the Word of God.
The lack of an influential power to meet the needs of the times and salvific truth is a reason to understand why the Bible states a "remnant" will exist, that keeps the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus, to fight the final battles of the Lord. How many churches, or church groups do you know of that keep the ten commandments as written? Many Sabbath-keeping groups exist yet, most of them are into Judaism, or leave out other essential aspects of truth, or have just apostatized from their moorings, floating off into man-made rules, regulations, and popery. God shall raise up a remnant to finish his work, and its small size will be a testimony to the power of God in people's lives to sanctify them and make them Christlike, recreated in Christ Jesus.
As Mother and Daughters of Revelation's prophetic target draw closer and closer together, elements exist in them that simply will not. They might foggy but, how to bring them around from what truth they agree on? Create a world so foul, religious enemies will put aside differences to join together, partner together to try and stop the downward cultural spiral.
Do not forget the possible and logical entrance of Satan's "ET" into the picture, nor His own entrance as Christ. We cannot imagine the influences that are going to burst on this planet to gather the world together to the final battle of this long, drawn out war.
It's impossible to know but, all things considered it seems logical to believe the next pope could be the guy that takes it all down. Remember, Paul wrote (2 Thes. 2:1-12), that the man of sin, the son of perdition, at the head of a great apostacy, would be used by Satan to work lying signs and wonders, delusions and false miracles to deceive the global populace not fortified by a Thus saith the Lord. Overmastering delusions are coming. The Bible, throughout prophecy, points to the RCC, it's Papacy and it's Vatican as the antichristian power used by the Devil to seat himself on top of the world in a show of force not seen since the Flood, and post-flood Babylon. It will bring about the end of the world. The very nature of the events necessary call for someone of enormous potential. Many thought JP2 was the one, and might have been, had God's people risen up with its message and boldly proclaimed it. They did not meet the call and here we are, "lukewarmness" all around us.
The world's professed Christian bodies, steeped in Futurism, await an imminent secret rapture, 7-year tribulation, and rise of antichrist, either from Islam or the world's secular elite. That position leaves out dozens of biblical marks that signify who and what antichrist actually is but, the blindness that exists is so dense and dark, apostate Protestantism seems to race on to destruction.
Watch now, to see what takes place. It will be no surprise if Francis steps down. A conclave, to end all conclaves, will take place. When the white smoke emerges from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel's roof, expect a vote for a bold, powerful, charismatic, and very humble individual who will gather the world together to its final Armageddon.
Antichrist - 'in place of Christ' - is here, has been for over a thousand years, meets all the marks of prophecy pointing it out, and shall take a pivotal role in bringing about the last-day rebellion against the law of God and His truth. Persecution will rise again and despite the technology and all the knowledge, a dark ages will descend on an Earth that refuses the light of truth, once again.
The history is there, the principles are there, the prophecies are accurate, and all shall be fulfilled, some way, some how in God's order and good time, with a people finally intent on cooperating with Him, no matter what the cost.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rumors-of-pope-francis-resignation-intensify-amid-appointment-of-new-cardinals-unusual-trip/
Anybody watching world events, knowing the history of the Papacy, knows the Vatican is a very sophisticated operation, century to century, even with scandals of two popes, a female pope, popes who fathered children and all the rest. The modern Papacy, despite the clothing, the ancient rites, ancient traditions and structures is up to date on all technology, and Reagan found that out when he conspired with JP2 to bring down European Communism, and they both watched it collapse the Soviet Union. Today its modernism is not just technical but, socially diverse enough to call for titles of "apostacy" to be placed on this Pontificate, from within its own flock. Just saw and read an article (didn't listen) with a podcast from one of the RCC's Conservative voices, John Henry Westen, presenting evidence of a Masonic infiltration into the Vatican and their church.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/masonic-infiltration-of-the-vatican-the-evidence/
Man, is that old news. There aren't any churches of influence Freemasonry has not infiltrated.
I have claimed this Pope could not be the one who triggers the fall of final dominoes on Earth. He cannot even keep his flock together, let alone be a unifying element on the world scene of nations growing ever more liberal and Leftist. Leftism is a destructive force. It's basis is against the stated order of God and whatever it touches will see society pay a price of downward spiral into an abyss of cultural confusion. I am not saying Conservatism does not have confusion. It does, because it promotes things opposite the truth of the Creator. Leftists generally deny there is a Creator. Conservatives generally believe there is one, and that varies but, it's one of the things that holds the movement together, even if it isn't a stated tenet within it: a belief in God and standards for humanity that have made sense for ages in the minds of reasonable people.
John Paul II was a force of nature, even beyond the Catholic Church, when he began his office. That is the type of person Rome needs to take a global command. The choice of Francis was the work of Liberals; voices throughout the denomination had warned against for decades. Francis has failed in converting the church into a multicultural mish-mash of forces to join the rest of the world's slide into more confusion than ever. Some say that was the intention all along. A failed papacy that would lead to the reign of someone of superstar stature again, at a time when the world will need heroes. Bold move. The RCC is as divided as denominations in professed Protestantism. It's actually useless to use the term because there is hardly any Protestantism left. It's "Evangelicalism" now. Nobody protests Romanism anymore. They have become too much like it, in culture and policy - daughters that they are - steeped in many of Rome's traditions; not the Word of God.
The lack of an influential power to meet the needs of the times and salvific truth is a reason to understand why the Bible states a "remnant" will exist, that keeps the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus, to fight the final battles of the Lord. How many churches, or church groups do you know of that keep the ten commandments as written? Many Sabbath-keeping groups exist yet, most of them are into Judaism, or leave out other essential aspects of truth, or have just apostatized from their moorings, floating off into man-made rules, regulations, and popery. God shall raise up a remnant to finish his work, and its small size will be a testimony to the power of God in people's lives to sanctify them and make them Christlike, recreated in Christ Jesus.
As Mother and Daughters of Revelation's prophetic target draw closer and closer together, elements exist in them that simply will not. They might foggy but, how to bring them around from what truth they agree on? Create a world so foul, religious enemies will put aside differences to join together, partner together to try and stop the downward cultural spiral.
Do not forget the possible and logical entrance of Satan's "ET" into the picture, nor His own entrance as Christ. We cannot imagine the influences that are going to burst on this planet to gather the world together to the final battle of this long, drawn out war.
It's impossible to know but, all things considered it seems logical to believe the next pope could be the guy that takes it all down. Remember, Paul wrote (2 Thes. 2:1-12), that the man of sin, the son of perdition, at the head of a great apostacy, would be used by Satan to work lying signs and wonders, delusions and false miracles to deceive the global populace not fortified by a Thus saith the Lord. Overmastering delusions are coming. The Bible, throughout prophecy, points to the RCC, it's Papacy and it's Vatican as the antichristian power used by the Devil to seat himself on top of the world in a show of force not seen since the Flood, and post-flood Babylon. It will bring about the end of the world. The very nature of the events necessary call for someone of enormous potential. Many thought JP2 was the one, and might have been, had God's people risen up with its message and boldly proclaimed it. They did not meet the call and here we are, "lukewarmness" all around us.
The world's professed Christian bodies, steeped in Futurism, await an imminent secret rapture, 7-year tribulation, and rise of antichrist, either from Islam or the world's secular elite. That position leaves out dozens of biblical marks that signify who and what antichrist actually is but, the blindness that exists is so dense and dark, apostate Protestantism seems to race on to destruction.
Watch now, to see what takes place. It will be no surprise if Francis steps down. A conclave, to end all conclaves, will take place. When the white smoke emerges from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel's roof, expect a vote for a bold, powerful, charismatic, and very humble individual who will gather the world together to its final Armageddon.
Antichrist - 'in place of Christ' - is here, has been for over a thousand years, meets all the marks of prophecy pointing it out, and shall take a pivotal role in bringing about the last-day rebellion against the law of God and His truth. Persecution will rise again and despite the technology and all the knowledge, a dark ages will descend on an Earth that refuses the light of truth, once again.
The history is there, the principles are there, the prophecies are accurate, and all shall be fulfilled, some way, some how in God's order and good time, with a people finally intent on cooperating with Him, no matter what the cost.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Propaganda State
I am seeing this subject or this article or references to it in various places so, here's a couple samples:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/everything_is_a_weapon_the_u.s_government_is_waging_psychological_warfare_on_the_nation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation
Propaganda is biased information used to influence people in some way - fear, excitement, anger, distress, etc.
George Orwell's novel, 1984, is saturated with the premise of the government using it to control the population. We've all seen it in various media. The Covid event was filled with it, and pretty much now, all governments of the world have used it to promote agendas for control and will continue to do so. Honesty in government, if it once existed, no longer does.
When we realize the government of the United States has been using propaganda... well, the shining city on a hill-theme gets pretty tarnished.
9/11/2001 was a stream of propaganda that has turned into a powerful river and waterfall. We, Americans, are now considered the enemies of government agenda. You can be as loyal an American as can be, doesn't matter for that is what makes you an enemy. We have seen this since the Clinton era, especially government angst towards those professing the Christian faith. Today, well, we will see more and more propaganda in our faces as complete and total liars take control of everything. Actually, I should restate that. The confidence and boldness of the propagandists is so strong, they are openly telling us they will use whatever necessary to take control and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Just ask yourself a simple question. How stupid, ignorant or arrogant does one have to be to stand before the American people and tell them this is the best economy in America, EVER? Having Biden state that means two things. They think Americans are totally and hopelessly void of truth, and they will ruin anyone stating otherwise. Nobody in their right mind would make such a statement unless they were not in their right mind. Enter Joe Biden, the non-president. His controllers are happy, his minions are aghast but, say nothing; that this frail, old, mentally ill man is in the most powerful seat on the globe.
God help us.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/everything_is_a_weapon_the_u.s_government_is_waging_psychological_warfare_on_the_nation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation
Propaganda is biased information used to influence people in some way - fear, excitement, anger, distress, etc.
George Orwell's novel, 1984, is saturated with the premise of the government using it to control the population. We've all seen it in various media. The Covid event was filled with it, and pretty much now, all governments of the world have used it to promote agendas for control and will continue to do so. Honesty in government, if it once existed, no longer does.
When we realize the government of the United States has been using propaganda... well, the shining city on a hill-theme gets pretty tarnished.
9/11/2001 was a stream of propaganda that has turned into a powerful river and waterfall. We, Americans, are now considered the enemies of government agenda. You can be as loyal an American as can be, doesn't matter for that is what makes you an enemy. We have seen this since the Clinton era, especially government angst towards those professing the Christian faith. Today, well, we will see more and more propaganda in our faces as complete and total liars take control of everything. Actually, I should restate that. The confidence and boldness of the propagandists is so strong, they are openly telling us they will use whatever necessary to take control and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Just ask yourself a simple question. How stupid, ignorant or arrogant does one have to be to stand before the American people and tell them this is the best economy in America, EVER? Having Biden state that means two things. They think Americans are totally and hopelessly void of truth, and they will ruin anyone stating otherwise. Nobody in their right mind would make such a statement unless they were not in their right mind. Enter Joe Biden, the non-president. His controllers are happy, his minions are aghast but, say nothing; that this frail, old, mentally ill man is in the most powerful seat on the globe.
God help us.
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The State of Pregnancy
Another article on the knowledge Big Pharma had on exactly what the ramifications of the Covid injections meant. In this case, destructive effects on pregnancy.
If you know your serum will harm a developing baby, how can that NOT be a move to depopulate the world?
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/07/confidential-pfizer-docs-covid-vaccination-causing-depopulation/
https://noqreport.com/2022/06/09/latest-pfizer-doc-dump-admits-mrna-covid-vaccines-will-result-in-mass-depopulation/
If you know your serum will harm a developing baby, how can that NOT be a move to depopulate the world?
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/07/confidential-pfizer-docs-covid-vaccination-causing-depopulation/
https://noqreport.com/2022/06/09/latest-pfizer-doc-dump-admits-mrna-covid-vaccines-will-result-in-mass-depopulation/
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The Tytler Cycle
I have mentioned the Four Waves before: those cycles that humanity goes through, repeatedly. You might see them stated in different words or terms but, generally they are:
Freedom
Complacency
Apathy
Tyranny
A people start out in freedom in some way, or we'll place people in that condition. Freedom brings its benefits with it, generally a rise in materialism. Complacency develops, and then apathy sets in, which opens the doors to tyranny from those taking advantage of the apathy the population falls into.
The Tytler Cycle is the same thing, with more categories. Alexander Tytler was a Scotsman, an historian who lived in the 18th century. He watched the early ascendance of the Founders and the American independence from England, beating back the most powerful army in the world in our Revolution.
Although the United States had been founded, he saw eventual problems that existed throughout history and would strike the newly formed nation just like all others:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Each stage may take whatever amount of time but, eventually, it does take place.
America is facing bondage again. The technological age could see to it such bondage is permanent. Not only bondage but, annihilation through any number of control factors.
Elites see the human race as only necessary for their own prosperity and enrichment. Removing whatever numbers of "useless eaters" necessary is now a possibility, a probability, a surety to save Mother Earth from over- burdening.
This is old news, of course but, it is also current news. It's a cycle. It always moves along because of fallen humanity and its predictability.
Once again, the only possible solution is the Creator and Saviour of the world. It is the constantly mentioned fact, if not at least plausibility, that the elitist cabal hates Christianity and wants it removed from Earth. It is the only religion with a balance of effect that can stabilize any nation. Even atheists like Richard Dawkins recognize that. Religion, in general; peaceful religions free of hypocrisy and in-name-only adherents, can always provide a mellowing influence. Christianity comes with responsibility and doctrinal accountability to the promotion of "sin." Elites cannot have that. It must be removed. Propaganda and agendas have been underway since the 19th century to remove the influence of religion and especially Christianity from all thought and practice.
The cabal will ultimately fail. "Ultimately," remains in God's hands. The cycles of humanity can only grow more intense as we near the end of time.
"Troubles," is what Jesus said would come: troubles on a global scale. We are here. More on that tomorrow.
Freedom
Complacency
Apathy
Tyranny
A people start out in freedom in some way, or we'll place people in that condition. Freedom brings its benefits with it, generally a rise in materialism. Complacency develops, and then apathy sets in, which opens the doors to tyranny from those taking advantage of the apathy the population falls into.
The Tytler Cycle is the same thing, with more categories. Alexander Tytler was a Scotsman, an historian who lived in the 18th century. He watched the early ascendance of the Founders and the American independence from England, beating back the most powerful army in the world in our Revolution.
Although the United States had been founded, he saw eventual problems that existed throughout history and would strike the newly formed nation just like all others:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Each stage may take whatever amount of time but, eventually, it does take place.
America is facing bondage again. The technological age could see to it such bondage is permanent. Not only bondage but, annihilation through any number of control factors.
Elites see the human race as only necessary for their own prosperity and enrichment. Removing whatever numbers of "useless eaters" necessary is now a possibility, a probability, a surety to save Mother Earth from over- burdening.
This is old news, of course but, it is also current news. It's a cycle. It always moves along because of fallen humanity and its predictability.
Once again, the only possible solution is the Creator and Saviour of the world. It is the constantly mentioned fact, if not at least plausibility, that the elitist cabal hates Christianity and wants it removed from Earth. It is the only religion with a balance of effect that can stabilize any nation. Even atheists like Richard Dawkins recognize that. Religion, in general; peaceful religions free of hypocrisy and in-name-only adherents, can always provide a mellowing influence. Christianity comes with responsibility and doctrinal accountability to the promotion of "sin." Elites cannot have that. It must be removed. Propaganda and agendas have been underway since the 19th century to remove the influence of religion and especially Christianity from all thought and practice.
The cabal will ultimately fail. "Ultimately," remains in God's hands. The cycles of humanity can only grow more intense as we near the end of time.
"Troubles," is what Jesus said would come: troubles on a global scale. We are here. More on that tomorrow.
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Kim Dotcom - The Coming Global Catastrophe
I could not tell you very much about this guy. I know he's a very big financial/technology influencer. His track record of predictions, etc., is good. I don't believe he professes any faith but, I haven't checked on that.
People can say I am a calamity howler and all the rest that comes with the territory of sharing biblical, prophetic, last-day events but, far too many other voices are out there now, big names in finance and all, telling people to prepare. Another "teotwawki," like 2000, Y2K - "the end of the world as we know it?" I doubt it. We can see it happening. Well, for those taking notice, anyway. It's a happening reality, not a guess based on computers tabulation of time.
https://noqreport.com/2022/06/05/kim-dotcom-posts-most-important-thread-about-major-global-collapse-that-is-coming/
In my mind there is no such thing as a 'minor' global collapse. 'Global' pretty much makes it 'major.' Why he calls it a major global collapse, I don't know. A global collapse... yeah, big.
When those not of the biblical faith are telling us collapse is coming, all the people of faith can do is tell you to hang on, get right with God, and get ready as best you can, and address what the financial and societal prognosticators do not get into - spiritual realities, including religious delusions and deceptions.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
People can say I am a calamity howler and all the rest that comes with the territory of sharing biblical, prophetic, last-day events but, far too many other voices are out there now, big names in finance and all, telling people to prepare. Another "teotwawki," like 2000, Y2K - "the end of the world as we know it?" I doubt it. We can see it happening. Well, for those taking notice, anyway. It's a happening reality, not a guess based on computers tabulation of time.
https://noqreport.com/2022/06/05/kim-dotcom-posts-most-important-thread-about-major-global-collapse-that-is-coming/
In my mind there is no such thing as a 'minor' global collapse. 'Global' pretty much makes it 'major.' Why he calls it a major global collapse, I don't know. A global collapse... yeah, big.
When those not of the biblical faith are telling us collapse is coming, all the people of faith can do is tell you to hang on, get right with God, and get ready as best you can, and address what the financial and societal prognosticators do not get into - spiritual realities, including religious delusions and deceptions.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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589. Do You Really Need All Those Drums and Cymbals? - June 10, 2022
Figuring you already know what I use for instruments, bear with me to place a couple pics of my two drum sets for those who come here to read the OpEds and biblical information, and should they see my set, flip out.
People come into the house and see that taking up a bedroom and drop their jaws. Okay, it's a lot of stuff. They are all experimental, something I tried 7 or 8 years ago and the set just keeps building. Aside from hardware to set things up, and the drum heads, they are basically hardware store drums, made from stuff anybody can get at any hardware/lumber outlet.
That set has drums in it that go back 25 years, things I have experimented with and changed and veneered and currently have tooled leather on them.
Those are my two main drum sets, and if you look closely you would see many of the same cymbals, plenty of which I have owned since 1991 and some, bought used, are older than that.
Still, so many drums and cymbals. Do I really need all that? I love that question. The last person who saw the set, the husband of a Realtor who walked through the house, exclaimed, "Holy cow, man! Are you Neil Peart or somethin?!?"
I had such drum sets since my late teens. Why? Do I really need all that? Yes and No.
First, sound, or more specifically sounds. Pitches, characters, personalities, nature, and lastly, how I interpret drum set percussion within music. I love lots of sounds; the choices and the opportunities. If I had more reachable cubic footage, I'd have more things to hear when struck. Not drums. I never got too excited about drums. Cymbals, on the other hand, I find very intriguing. A drum, you can strike the head and the hoop/head (rim shot) or just the hoop. Very little variation drum to drum. I can change pitches but, all companies out there, cosmetics are far more distinctive in difference than actual drum sound. I only care for one tone from a drum, which renders with a particular set model of drum head, snare drum excluded. Of all the model drum heads out there that can modify the sound of a drum, 99% of them are not my thing.
A cymbal; you can strike the very edge, swipe the edge, strike the bow and the bell and get four distinct musical sounds, model to model, alloy to alloy. That's why I have more cymbals than drums.
Could I play a smaller set? Sure, and have, those I have made, bought or used of someone else' ownership. I tend to get bored quickly with small drum sets, though.
"Need" is a subjective term. When it comes to music, "need" is pretty esoteric. Musicians tend to run a full gamut, from minimalist to extravagant, which can both be quite subjective, as well.
I'm not really recording anymore. Most of what I do now is play for my heart and blood flow and brain. I won't be playing live gigs anymore. Maybe recording opportunities will come around but, I'm not holding my breath. I am more involved with my YT channel, and that is pretty infrequent.
I experiment, and have some ideas to yet try and see what things sound like.
I'll say this, which is the bottom line. A piano has 88 notes. Humans have ten fingers. You cannot play all 88 notes at once, and generally, in popular music, will not play them all on a live gig or recording session but, they are nice to have if you want to.
Keyboards come in all shapes and sizes and musicians certainly make good use of fewer notes to choose from on small instruments. I could play what I do with fewer drums and cymbals. I suppose a bassist could make do with 3 strings instead of 4, and certainly instead of 5, 6, or more. Nice to have if you want to use them, though, and the same could be said for most other instruments, as well, maybe all of them.
Yes, melodic instruments are about more octaves to choose from, while drum sets are basically for keeping time but, as I have stated before, borrowing from a well-known Jazz drummer: "I am no one's time-keeping babysitter. Everybody needs to know where "1" is."
If someone wants to play a snare and bass drum, hi-hats and one other cymbal, go for it. If someone wants to play something larger than what I use (and it's out there), go for it. When it comes to music and musical instruments - "To each, his own."
Whatever one chooses to use to express themselves, that is for them to decide.
If I may. Must everyone own all the clothes they do? Must they eat all the foods (and junk foods) they do? Must they drink all the beverages they do? Must everyone own all the records, CDs, and files they do? Must everyone own and display all the pictures or paintings or stuff on the walls and various surfaces in a home that they do? I could ask the question all day long, of all sorts of life activities.
I know someday it's all gonna burn to ashes. Regardless of who ends up with my belongings after I die (unless I sell it all first, which is the plan), it is all going back to the earth some day.
Until then, I hear what I hear and play what I can.
Those are my two main drum sets, and if you look closely you would see many of the same cymbals, plenty of which I have owned since 1991 and some, bought used, are older than that.
Still, so many drums and cymbals. Do I really need all that? I love that question. The last person who saw the set, the husband of a Realtor who walked through the house, exclaimed, "Holy cow, man! Are you Neil Peart or somethin?!?"
I had such drum sets since my late teens. Why? Do I really need all that? Yes and No.
First, sound, or more specifically sounds. Pitches, characters, personalities, nature, and lastly, how I interpret drum set percussion within music. I love lots of sounds; the choices and the opportunities. If I had more reachable cubic footage, I'd have more things to hear when struck. Not drums. I never got too excited about drums. Cymbals, on the other hand, I find very intriguing. A drum, you can strike the head and the hoop/head (rim shot) or just the hoop. Very little variation drum to drum. I can change pitches but, all companies out there, cosmetics are far more distinctive in difference than actual drum sound. I only care for one tone from a drum, which renders with a particular set model of drum head, snare drum excluded. Of all the model drum heads out there that can modify the sound of a drum, 99% of them are not my thing.
A cymbal; you can strike the very edge, swipe the edge, strike the bow and the bell and get four distinct musical sounds, model to model, alloy to alloy. That's why I have more cymbals than drums.
Could I play a smaller set? Sure, and have, those I have made, bought or used of someone else' ownership. I tend to get bored quickly with small drum sets, though.
"Need" is a subjective term. When it comes to music, "need" is pretty esoteric. Musicians tend to run a full gamut, from minimalist to extravagant, which can both be quite subjective, as well.
I'm not really recording anymore. Most of what I do now is play for my heart and blood flow and brain. I won't be playing live gigs anymore. Maybe recording opportunities will come around but, I'm not holding my breath. I am more involved with my YT channel, and that is pretty infrequent.
I experiment, and have some ideas to yet try and see what things sound like.
I'll say this, which is the bottom line. A piano has 88 notes. Humans have ten fingers. You cannot play all 88 notes at once, and generally, in popular music, will not play them all on a live gig or recording session but, they are nice to have if you want to.
Keyboards come in all shapes and sizes and musicians certainly make good use of fewer notes to choose from on small instruments. I could play what I do with fewer drums and cymbals. I suppose a bassist could make do with 3 strings instead of 4, and certainly instead of 5, 6, or more. Nice to have if you want to use them, though, and the same could be said for most other instruments, as well, maybe all of them.
Yes, melodic instruments are about more octaves to choose from, while drum sets are basically for keeping time but, as I have stated before, borrowing from a well-known Jazz drummer: "I am no one's time-keeping babysitter. Everybody needs to know where "1" is."
If someone wants to play a snare and bass drum, hi-hats and one other cymbal, go for it. If someone wants to play something larger than what I use (and it's out there), go for it. When it comes to music and musical instruments - "To each, his own."
Whatever one chooses to use to express themselves, that is for them to decide.
If I may. Must everyone own all the clothes they do? Must they eat all the foods (and junk foods) they do? Must they drink all the beverages they do? Must everyone own all the records, CDs, and files they do? Must everyone own and display all the pictures or paintings or stuff on the walls and various surfaces in a home that they do? I could ask the question all day long, of all sorts of life activities.
I know someday it's all gonna burn to ashes. Regardless of who ends up with my belongings after I die (unless I sell it all first, which is the plan), it is all going back to the earth some day.
Until then, I hear what I hear and play what I can.
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590. TROUBLE - June 11, 2022
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Remember the context of Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. Jesus spoke of the temple coming down. The disciples asked him what would be the sign of that event, His coming and the end of the world. They equated the destruction of the temple with the end of the world. Didn't happen that way, for the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans. Christ did not correct them and answered their question as they asked it. He gave them signs that led to the destruction of the temple and the end of the world when He returns in power and glory. Both events were and are surrounded by the same type of things happening.
While Matthew and Luke record Iesou stating pestilences would come, Mark records Christ stating "troubles." Global troubles.
Take a look at Daniel again:
Dan 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Michael - Myka el - Who is like God - both a statement and a probing question. Who is like God? Messiah, Christ. Emmanuel; God with us. Michael is just another name for Christ in Scripture. Michael the 'archangel,' means 'chief of the angels.' The American President is 'Commander-in-chief,' the supreme commander of the armed forces but, he generally is not a member of the military. He may have been, like Dwight Eisenhower. The name Michael does not mean Christ is an angel, anymore than being the Angel of the Lord. Yeshua has appeared throughout Old Testament times as the Ambassador, the Emissary, the Representative, the go-between for God and mankind. When His ministry as High Priest ends, He shall "stand up" - take control, don the garments of a warrior King and prepare the armies of Heaven for the final battle of Armageddon. His work in the Heavenly sanctuary completed, all cases decided, all humanity in one of two classes - sheep or goats: the end of time has arrived.
As it states in Revelation:
Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Daniel was told to seal up his book until the time of the end. John was told not to seal his book, for the time is at hand. When the prophetic timeline, when the prophetic clock struck "knowledge," the books of Daniel and Revelation took on a greater meaning and understanding than ever before.
What I want you to see is that Jesus stated troubles would be a sign of His return. Daniel was told a time of trouble would arrive that would be the worst in the history of mankind.
Troubles leading up to the close of human probation, then the great time of trouble shall commence: the outpouring of the seven last plagues but, before that time, troubles. Once it starts, it will be as Scripture states, like labor pains. They begin and get more intense the closer the time comes to deliver the baby.
Never in history has the entire world stood on a precipice of total collapse. The economy of the world is on the brink. Nations are working as fast as they can to dispense of the petro-dollar, American currency, which gets more and more worthless as more and more money is printed to handle debts and programs stacked to the moon. America is broke. Has been for a long time. The only reason you and I can purchase anything is because the world allows it but, that is going to end. Right now, if America crashes, the world crashes with it. Unprecedented collapse. Troubles? Food shortages, famine, diseases, violence, wars, and a string of dominoes will fall that shall be unstoppable UNTIL something happens to seemingly usher in a time of peace and safety. What shall it be, exactly?
We know it shall involve the Papacy and Vatican. We know it shall involve the apostate Protestant denominations and those which follow "Mother's" doctrines and traditions. We know the kings of the Earth shall go along with a movement based on false doctrine, false signs and wonders, and delusions Satan is saving for the final battles. I maintain a belief that "ET" will enter the playing field of events: the angel of light, to completely arrest the attention of a seething world. Regardless of the exact characters, the world is going into a time of trouble. We cannot imagine what the world shall be like when the plagues are poured out. Unimaginable suffering, and looking for people to blame. God's people, His remnant, shall become the target. They will be called troublers of Israel, just as Elijah was called. A death decree will follow the decrees stopping all buying and selling for those who will not bow to the commandments and dictates of men; choosing rather to keep the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus - Christ's sheep.
Aside from the troubles leading up to the close of probation and the last plagues and judgments upon the world-wide rebellion in troubles the world has never seen and shall never see again, another time of trouble is also mentioned in Scripture: the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jer 30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Jer 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
The time of Jacob's trouble. Jacob learned his brother was coming, with an army of 400 men. He had cheated his brother out of the inheritance of the elder son, with his mother's conniving, and Jacob believed Esau was coming to destroy him and his family and all his herds and belongings. As he prayed that night, the Angel of the Lord (Christ) appeared to him and he wrestled with the Angel all night long, pleading for forgiveness and a blessing for his family to be saved from Esau's vengeance. The story is found in Genesis 32. We know the Angel of the Lord was Christ because the passage tells us -
Gen 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
The Hebrew term, 'Peny -el,' means "face of God." If you may not know, any time you see El, in Scripture, you are reading the Hebrew term for God. Samuel, Israel, Emmanuel and other such names have God as part of the description in the name. In the story, itself, we read:
Gen 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Gen 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Israel (Yisrael) means - he that strives with God.
Well, when Esau showed up he fell upon his younger brother's neck and wept. Jacob's elder brother received him, and his family, and everything he had. Jacob was delivered.
There are hints in Jeremiah's message for the people.
Jer 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
God has not made a full end of all nations but, that is coming. The words of the Lord to Jeremiah reference a time when God is going to judge the nations. Again, a dual prophecy. Israel would be freed from their Babylonian/Persian captivity but, would not be left unpunished.
Jer 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
God's people needed deliverance thousands of years ago but, Jeremiah's prophecy is pointed to those living in the latter days.
When Jacob wrestled with the Angel that night, the Angel just touched Jacob's leg and threw it out of joint. In great pain, Jacob wrestled on, saying he would not let go of the Angel until He blessed him. Hanging on to God in great pain, by faith, believing we can each have what we need to make it through life's troubles, is common to all believers down through time. But, at the end of time, when God shall judge the nations, God's people will be pressed upon, spirit, soul and body and they will pass through a singular experience no generation of believers has ever faced - the time of Jacob' trouble.
God's people shall have an entire world population against them, scattered around the globe as they shall be. They will have lost everything of this world, preparing them for their eternal homes. They have confessed every sin and been cleansed by the indwelling of the Spirit and they are enabled to stand before God without an Intercessor. Christ has finished His work upon His people, they are without spot, wrinkle or any such thing, Ephesians 5:27; they have the Father's name (character) written in their foreheads and are without fault before the throne of God, Rev. 14:1-5. Yet, they cannot see that. All they see is what they are, sinners in need of a Saviour. Satan and his hosts attempt to crush them with guilt but, they wrestle with God, and cannot think of any unconfessed sins. Death is pronounced upon them, to eradicate them from the world. It will be the darkest hour the church of Christ has ever faced.
Remember, last day signs are of a global effect. Not every sign will be everywhere but, the world will know something is very wrong. As one obvious example: the Yellowstone caldera. If that ancient volcano erupts, obviously North America will know it, and in seconds, so will the rest of the world because of communications. Well, too bad for America. But, California and New Mexico also have such calderas. There are calderas all over the planet. If Yellowstone blows, the world will notice. If California and New Mexico's blow, well, perhaps they are close enough to have been influenced by Yellowstone. What if the largest in Italy goes off? Those in South America? Those in Asia? Think the world will just shrug its shoulders and figure it's all just a coincidence?
Often we think of something to come that does not turn out to be as bad as we imagine. Not the case for that which is coming, which shall be worse than anything we can conceive. Those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life shall be delivered when Christ comes and destroys the world by the brightness, glory and power of His appearing. When that happens, the whole planet is going to blow. It will be the end of the world.
Troubles, the time of trouble, the time of Jacob's trouble. How few of us professed believers know what it is to wrestle with God, pleading for His blessing. For the most part, my generation, in the Western Hemisphere, have not really known great privation or persecution. It's coming. Yes, we can attempt to prepare with food and necessities but, ultimately it will all be taken away and God's people will be driven into the forests, hills, mountains, rocks and caves, or placed in confinement, left to rot but, our bread and water shall be sure,
Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isa 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Isa 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
We shall not go unpunished. Bread and water is a far cry from what we can eat today. God will sustain us but, the entire experience will be there to remove any final dross left in us. The refining fires of persecution, privation, and Satan's fixation on the destruction of God's people will be enough to place within us a total and complete emptiness for this world, and desire for being with Christ and the redeemed in Heaven.
How odd the majority of professed Christendom thinks they are going to be "raptured," snatched out of the world and not experience the final troubles. I would ask one question. How on Earth will you look those of the redeemed in the eyes when they went through all the things Paul wrote of in Hebrews 11, and that the world is not worthy of their presence? Why should God remove you at the end of time when everybody else has gone through hell and a time of trouble. You say, "Because God loves us."
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Punishment is a cleansing process. God is not some angry judge throwing the book at us. He desires our spiritual health, and punishment aids that directive. Loving parents punish disobedience to educate their children that life and choices have responsibilities and accountability and consequences.
2Cor 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Cor 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2Cor 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2Cor 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Troubles, tribulation is for us, our consolation and salvation, that we may be able to comfort those who go through troubles and suffer.
God is not going to remove us from the Earth in the time of trouble. He is going to use us as the final witness of the power of His love and grace, Christ's strength and allegiance, against a world gone mad with rebellion against the most High.
Nah 1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nah 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nah 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Nah 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nah 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nah 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
The LORD is a strong hold in the day of trouble for those who trust Him. He is not removing His people from trouble. He will save them in the midst of it.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Everything is designed to prove Satan's charges against God are wrong; they are lies, perversions of truth and deceptions. The remnant shall show the world and watching universe that love truly can endure in humanity. People serve God because they want to, not because they have to, because God is some tyrant.
Down through time people have endured the worst of humanity because they stayed loyal to their Creator. It has never been a global event. Most have never been known by the world. All shall be honored and known when Christ returns, especially the 144,000.
I realize the number is symbolic, as I have shown previously. It is placed within information that is just as symbolic. But, all things considered, would it surprise anyone if it were a literal number? The entire world of Christendom draws ever closer to the prevailing cultures, antagonistic to God. Sucked in, deluded, apostatizing from truth and betraying sacred trusts, it would not be surprising if less than 1 person per nation was left standing before Christ returns. Martyrdom will have taken the bulk of God's people. They shall 'sleep' until Christ approaches the Earth and be resurrected to see the King come in all His glory. Those that remain standing, like Elijah, will incur the wrath of the world, while God is pouring out his wrath against sin upon it. You talk about troubles, confusion, hatred, malice, ignorance and any other term you want to place upon a human race gone past the point of no return.
Troubles are building. Time will soon tell if we are entering the final stages of Earth's history. If it be so, may we have the faith of Jesus to hang on and make it through what is soon to break upon the entire Earth.
Psa 46:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psa 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Psa 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Remember the context of Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. Jesus spoke of the temple coming down. The disciples asked him what would be the sign of that event, His coming and the end of the world. They equated the destruction of the temple with the end of the world. Didn't happen that way, for the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans. Christ did not correct them and answered their question as they asked it. He gave them signs that led to the destruction of the temple and the end of the world when He returns in power and glory. Both events were and are surrounded by the same type of things happening.
While Matthew and Luke record Iesou stating pestilences would come, Mark records Christ stating "troubles." Global troubles.
Take a look at Daniel again:
Dan 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Michael - Myka el - Who is like God - both a statement and a probing question. Who is like God? Messiah, Christ. Emmanuel; God with us. Michael is just another name for Christ in Scripture. Michael the 'archangel,' means 'chief of the angels.' The American President is 'Commander-in-chief,' the supreme commander of the armed forces but, he generally is not a member of the military. He may have been, like Dwight Eisenhower. The name Michael does not mean Christ is an angel, anymore than being the Angel of the Lord. Yeshua has appeared throughout Old Testament times as the Ambassador, the Emissary, the Representative, the go-between for God and mankind. When His ministry as High Priest ends, He shall "stand up" - take control, don the garments of a warrior King and prepare the armies of Heaven for the final battle of Armageddon. His work in the Heavenly sanctuary completed, all cases decided, all humanity in one of two classes - sheep or goats: the end of time has arrived.
As it states in Revelation:
Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Daniel was told to seal up his book until the time of the end. John was told not to seal his book, for the time is at hand. When the prophetic timeline, when the prophetic clock struck "knowledge," the books of Daniel and Revelation took on a greater meaning and understanding than ever before.
What I want you to see is that Jesus stated troubles would be a sign of His return. Daniel was told a time of trouble would arrive that would be the worst in the history of mankind.
Troubles leading up to the close of human probation, then the great time of trouble shall commence: the outpouring of the seven last plagues but, before that time, troubles. Once it starts, it will be as Scripture states, like labor pains. They begin and get more intense the closer the time comes to deliver the baby.
Never in history has the entire world stood on a precipice of total collapse. The economy of the world is on the brink. Nations are working as fast as they can to dispense of the petro-dollar, American currency, which gets more and more worthless as more and more money is printed to handle debts and programs stacked to the moon. America is broke. Has been for a long time. The only reason you and I can purchase anything is because the world allows it but, that is going to end. Right now, if America crashes, the world crashes with it. Unprecedented collapse. Troubles? Food shortages, famine, diseases, violence, wars, and a string of dominoes will fall that shall be unstoppable UNTIL something happens to seemingly usher in a time of peace and safety. What shall it be, exactly?
We know it shall involve the Papacy and Vatican. We know it shall involve the apostate Protestant denominations and those which follow "Mother's" doctrines and traditions. We know the kings of the Earth shall go along with a movement based on false doctrine, false signs and wonders, and delusions Satan is saving for the final battles. I maintain a belief that "ET" will enter the playing field of events: the angel of light, to completely arrest the attention of a seething world. Regardless of the exact characters, the world is going into a time of trouble. We cannot imagine what the world shall be like when the plagues are poured out. Unimaginable suffering, and looking for people to blame. God's people, His remnant, shall become the target. They will be called troublers of Israel, just as Elijah was called. A death decree will follow the decrees stopping all buying and selling for those who will not bow to the commandments and dictates of men; choosing rather to keep the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus - Christ's sheep.
Aside from the troubles leading up to the close of probation and the last plagues and judgments upon the world-wide rebellion in troubles the world has never seen and shall never see again, another time of trouble is also mentioned in Scripture: the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jer 30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Jer 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
The time of Jacob's trouble. Jacob learned his brother was coming, with an army of 400 men. He had cheated his brother out of the inheritance of the elder son, with his mother's conniving, and Jacob believed Esau was coming to destroy him and his family and all his herds and belongings. As he prayed that night, the Angel of the Lord (Christ) appeared to him and he wrestled with the Angel all night long, pleading for forgiveness and a blessing for his family to be saved from Esau's vengeance. The story is found in Genesis 32. We know the Angel of the Lord was Christ because the passage tells us -
Gen 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
The Hebrew term, 'Peny -el,' means "face of God." If you may not know, any time you see El, in Scripture, you are reading the Hebrew term for God. Samuel, Israel, Emmanuel and other such names have God as part of the description in the name. In the story, itself, we read:
Gen 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Gen 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Israel (Yisrael) means - he that strives with God.
Well, when Esau showed up he fell upon his younger brother's neck and wept. Jacob's elder brother received him, and his family, and everything he had. Jacob was delivered.
There are hints in Jeremiah's message for the people.
Jer 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
God has not made a full end of all nations but, that is coming. The words of the Lord to Jeremiah reference a time when God is going to judge the nations. Again, a dual prophecy. Israel would be freed from their Babylonian/Persian captivity but, would not be left unpunished.
Jer 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
God's people needed deliverance thousands of years ago but, Jeremiah's prophecy is pointed to those living in the latter days.
When Jacob wrestled with the Angel that night, the Angel just touched Jacob's leg and threw it out of joint. In great pain, Jacob wrestled on, saying he would not let go of the Angel until He blessed him. Hanging on to God in great pain, by faith, believing we can each have what we need to make it through life's troubles, is common to all believers down through time. But, at the end of time, when God shall judge the nations, God's people will be pressed upon, spirit, soul and body and they will pass through a singular experience no generation of believers has ever faced - the time of Jacob' trouble.
God's people shall have an entire world population against them, scattered around the globe as they shall be. They will have lost everything of this world, preparing them for their eternal homes. They have confessed every sin and been cleansed by the indwelling of the Spirit and they are enabled to stand before God without an Intercessor. Christ has finished His work upon His people, they are without spot, wrinkle or any such thing, Ephesians 5:27; they have the Father's name (character) written in their foreheads and are without fault before the throne of God, Rev. 14:1-5. Yet, they cannot see that. All they see is what they are, sinners in need of a Saviour. Satan and his hosts attempt to crush them with guilt but, they wrestle with God, and cannot think of any unconfessed sins. Death is pronounced upon them, to eradicate them from the world. It will be the darkest hour the church of Christ has ever faced.
Remember, last day signs are of a global effect. Not every sign will be everywhere but, the world will know something is very wrong. As one obvious example: the Yellowstone caldera. If that ancient volcano erupts, obviously North America will know it, and in seconds, so will the rest of the world because of communications. Well, too bad for America. But, California and New Mexico also have such calderas. There are calderas all over the planet. If Yellowstone blows, the world will notice. If California and New Mexico's blow, well, perhaps they are close enough to have been influenced by Yellowstone. What if the largest in Italy goes off? Those in South America? Those in Asia? Think the world will just shrug its shoulders and figure it's all just a coincidence?
Often we think of something to come that does not turn out to be as bad as we imagine. Not the case for that which is coming, which shall be worse than anything we can conceive. Those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life shall be delivered when Christ comes and destroys the world by the brightness, glory and power of His appearing. When that happens, the whole planet is going to blow. It will be the end of the world.
Troubles, the time of trouble, the time of Jacob's trouble. How few of us professed believers know what it is to wrestle with God, pleading for His blessing. For the most part, my generation, in the Western Hemisphere, have not really known great privation or persecution. It's coming. Yes, we can attempt to prepare with food and necessities but, ultimately it will all be taken away and God's people will be driven into the forests, hills, mountains, rocks and caves, or placed in confinement, left to rot but, our bread and water shall be sure,
Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isa 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Isa 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
We shall not go unpunished. Bread and water is a far cry from what we can eat today. God will sustain us but, the entire experience will be there to remove any final dross left in us. The refining fires of persecution, privation, and Satan's fixation on the destruction of God's people will be enough to place within us a total and complete emptiness for this world, and desire for being with Christ and the redeemed in Heaven.
How odd the majority of professed Christendom thinks they are going to be "raptured," snatched out of the world and not experience the final troubles. I would ask one question. How on Earth will you look those of the redeemed in the eyes when they went through all the things Paul wrote of in Hebrews 11, and that the world is not worthy of their presence? Why should God remove you at the end of time when everybody else has gone through hell and a time of trouble. You say, "Because God loves us."
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Punishment is a cleansing process. God is not some angry judge throwing the book at us. He desires our spiritual health, and punishment aids that directive. Loving parents punish disobedience to educate their children that life and choices have responsibilities and accountability and consequences.
2Cor 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Cor 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2Cor 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2Cor 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Troubles, tribulation is for us, our consolation and salvation, that we may be able to comfort those who go through troubles and suffer.
God is not going to remove us from the Earth in the time of trouble. He is going to use us as the final witness of the power of His love and grace, Christ's strength and allegiance, against a world gone mad with rebellion against the most High.
Nah 1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nah 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nah 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Nah 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nah 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nah 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
The LORD is a strong hold in the day of trouble for those who trust Him. He is not removing His people from trouble. He will save them in the midst of it.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Everything is designed to prove Satan's charges against God are wrong; they are lies, perversions of truth and deceptions. The remnant shall show the world and watching universe that love truly can endure in humanity. People serve God because they want to, not because they have to, because God is some tyrant.
Down through time people have endured the worst of humanity because they stayed loyal to their Creator. It has never been a global event. Most have never been known by the world. All shall be honored and known when Christ returns, especially the 144,000.
I realize the number is symbolic, as I have shown previously. It is placed within information that is just as symbolic. But, all things considered, would it surprise anyone if it were a literal number? The entire world of Christendom draws ever closer to the prevailing cultures, antagonistic to God. Sucked in, deluded, apostatizing from truth and betraying sacred trusts, it would not be surprising if less than 1 person per nation was left standing before Christ returns. Martyrdom will have taken the bulk of God's people. They shall 'sleep' until Christ approaches the Earth and be resurrected to see the King come in all His glory. Those that remain standing, like Elijah, will incur the wrath of the world, while God is pouring out his wrath against sin upon it. You talk about troubles, confusion, hatred, malice, ignorance and any other term you want to place upon a human race gone past the point of no return.
Troubles are building. Time will soon tell if we are entering the final stages of Earth's history. If it be so, may we have the faith of Jesus to hang on and make it through what is soon to break upon the entire Earth.
Psa 46:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psa 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Psa 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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591. More Confusion - June 11, 2022
This article is just incredible:
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/christian-publisher-responds-to-backlash-over-pride-month-reading-list.html
#1. Why would a Christian publishing business celebrate 'Pride Month,' with its distortion of meaning and use of God's rainbow, and endorsement of something obviously sinful, as far as the Bible states things? There is just no way around that, no matter how many homosexuals try and get around that fact. There can be no such thing as a "Gay Christian," anymore than there can be a fornicating Christian, or a stealing Christian, or a lying Christian. This assumes, not the singular act but, the ongoing practice.
The publisher claims it is no pope or council or even a pastor; it does not define doctrine, and publishes books by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox authors. It serves everybody.
CONFUSION.
When you choose not to take a position, you have taken a position in God's eyes. Does anyone know of a Catholic book publisher that also publishes Protestant authors? If they do, they are Roman Catholic in name only.
That brings up another point. Does anyone know of a Protestant author that has taken a Catholic book publisher to court, to force them to print their work? No. The Protestant would probably not even approach a Catholic publishing house and look elsewhere. BUT, the homosexuals demand Christians accept them and serve them, and put aside their convictions, or they will bury you.
Frankly, if the only course you have is to intimidate and force to get your way, you have NOTHING to offer. NOTHING. You just show the cursed nature of your being.
To be sure, some responses from the professed Christian community towards this publisher's declaration of Pride Month, were less than loving and filled with remonstrance. More like scribed Molotov cocktails. That shows confusion, as well.
But, the fact is, when the publisher takes a stand for homosexuals as Christians, it has already taken a doctrinal position and put it into practical exposure. So it is not some neutral party just publishing and printing books. Neutrality is not Christian, in and of itself. For pity's sake, Jesus stated it as plain as could be:
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
You cannot serve business interests that stand apart from God's stated will. You cannot serve God and money at once. You cannot love God and the world's confusion at the same time. One or the other has to go.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
The question has to be asked, How could Christians, of any profession, celebrate a month of pride? It is preposterous. There are things I could write here but, shall not, for proprieties sake.
If you know your Bible, and read that article, you will drop your jaw at the confusion that exists.
On the other side of the coin of confusion, an article states a pastor has given a sermon where he states the government should put homosexuals to death!
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/pastor-shocks-with-sermon-asserting-that-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death.html
There is no theocracy anymore and God forbid American politicians should be one. Have mercy, what a colossal train wreck that would be.
Babylon. Confusion. A mixing of truth and error. The drunkenness that results, imbibing the intoxicating beverage of man-made religion and man's messed up twisting of God's Word.
Against that, here is a story about a girl as worldly as one can get: no moral code, no understanding of anything about God or the Bible, and how she came to Christ. Experiencing same sex attraction and living its lusts, she came to Christ, admitted the sin, married and had a child. She does not condemn SSA, it being what people are inside but, she states the Bible is emphatic - the practice of homosexuality is a sin and if one must live a single life, live it to the glory of God because this is all about Jesus, not us, not sexuality, not marriage and family. The church is a family. Find your place within it.
https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/on-being-saved-from-confusion-the-testimony-of-rachel-gilson.html
Now, I am against stating homosexuality is just another aspect of humanity. It's a warp, a bend, a twisting of mind, if not genetics, somehow, some way. People are kleptomaniacs. There is no kleptomaniac gene. People are pathological liars, thiefs, and every other action of disobedience to God's law and will. There are no thief genes. There is no homosexuality gene. That is not to say there are no genetically crossed wires in humanity. Not every abused child or adult goes postal or becomes a serial killer. Some do. The mind is a universe of delicate balance. It can become damaged by any number of circumstances and influences. If some are attracted to the same sex, that did not come from God, who created everything male and female and meant for males to be with females. Where did it come from? The mystery of iniquity.
1Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
There is the mystery of godliness - how God became a man.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
There is the mystery of iniquity - how man came to think of himself as God.
How did Lucifer, highest of all created beings, become the Father of lies and a murderer? Created perfect in all his ways, a beautiful example of God's creative power and artistry, yet iniquity was found in him, Eze. 28:11-19; Isa. 14:12-15. He changed, turned, rebelled and wars against God, which is about as stupid a thing to do, as can be imagined. No, it is the most stupid thing ever done but, that too becomes a mystery of how iniquity works in the mind. How could any created being think it could war against the Creator of the universe and win? Warp. Misfiring wires. Broken connections.
God allows the mystery of iniquity to exist. He allows the nature of man to start fallen and either get better or worse by our own choices. Remember that Lucifer was perfect and fell. Adam and Eve were created fresh from the hands of God, placed in a paradise, and both chose to sin. Why? It's a mystery. We can place reasons given in Scripture but, those are generalities, facts. They cannot explain the intricacies of what took place in the mind, which, again, is not the brain. Big difference. The mind exists as something apart from the cells of the brain. Conscience. Another mystery science cannot explain.
The time will come when all questions shall be answered, when we have ability to fully understand. Until then, faith in God's Word, trust in His character, government and purposes is what is asked and required of us.
We cannot judge humanity. We are asked and required to judge humanity's actions. We have a standard to go by - the Word of God and His moral law. None of us can understand anything and everything. That's why Christ has a body, His church, the pillar and foundation of truth, and various gifts and talents that should all work together to show the merits of His character and will among mankind. Heaven should start here, in how believer's should relate to and treat each other. What happened? Sin. Confusion. The density of "self."
"Come out of her, My people," is what God shouts to the world. Come out of the condition of Babylon; confusion in the mind. Some will. Most won't. That, too, is a mystery left to be explained. We all begin with a measure of faith, Rom. 12:3. Why don't we all increase it? Why don't we all accept the invitation to eternal life through Christ? So what if we die? Eternal life is forever. Resurrection day will come... ah, there's the rub. Faith. Resurrection day has never been seen. It must be accepted by faith and faith that has experience in trusting God and His Word. For some reason the mind of each individual; conscience, reason, choice swings on hinges that are not all of God but, of the Adversary. The mystery of iniquity and godliness wage a constant war. He is God or I am god. He is in control of all or I want to be, and maybe even foolishly think I am. Conscience is sharp but, not responded to, weakens, blunts, and can be seared over like with a hot iron, 1 Tim. 4:1,2.
God is not blaming anybody for being sinners. We are what we are by birth, and that includes same sex attraction. What God asks is for us to connect with Him for the process of sanctification to begin; to be made holy, righteous, Christlike, fit to walk with unfallen angels and exist in the presence of God.
I can imagine what it will be like in Heaven and yet, not really, for eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, nor can it truly be imagined and understood what God is saving for those that love Him.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/christian-publisher-responds-to-backlash-over-pride-month-reading-list.html
#1. Why would a Christian publishing business celebrate 'Pride Month,' with its distortion of meaning and use of God's rainbow, and endorsement of something obviously sinful, as far as the Bible states things? There is just no way around that, no matter how many homosexuals try and get around that fact. There can be no such thing as a "Gay Christian," anymore than there can be a fornicating Christian, or a stealing Christian, or a lying Christian. This assumes, not the singular act but, the ongoing practice.
The publisher claims it is no pope or council or even a pastor; it does not define doctrine, and publishes books by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox authors. It serves everybody.
CONFUSION.
When you choose not to take a position, you have taken a position in God's eyes. Does anyone know of a Catholic book publisher that also publishes Protestant authors? If they do, they are Roman Catholic in name only.
That brings up another point. Does anyone know of a Protestant author that has taken a Catholic book publisher to court, to force them to print their work? No. The Protestant would probably not even approach a Catholic publishing house and look elsewhere. BUT, the homosexuals demand Christians accept them and serve them, and put aside their convictions, or they will bury you.
Frankly, if the only course you have is to intimidate and force to get your way, you have NOTHING to offer. NOTHING. You just show the cursed nature of your being.
To be sure, some responses from the professed Christian community towards this publisher's declaration of Pride Month, were less than loving and filled with remonstrance. More like scribed Molotov cocktails. That shows confusion, as well.
But, the fact is, when the publisher takes a stand for homosexuals as Christians, it has already taken a doctrinal position and put it into practical exposure. So it is not some neutral party just publishing and printing books. Neutrality is not Christian, in and of itself. For pity's sake, Jesus stated it as plain as could be:
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
You cannot serve business interests that stand apart from God's stated will. You cannot serve God and money at once. You cannot love God and the world's confusion at the same time. One or the other has to go.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
The question has to be asked, How could Christians, of any profession, celebrate a month of pride? It is preposterous. There are things I could write here but, shall not, for proprieties sake.
If you know your Bible, and read that article, you will drop your jaw at the confusion that exists.
On the other side of the coin of confusion, an article states a pastor has given a sermon where he states the government should put homosexuals to death!
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/pastor-shocks-with-sermon-asserting-that-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death.html
There is no theocracy anymore and God forbid American politicians should be one. Have mercy, what a colossal train wreck that would be.
Babylon. Confusion. A mixing of truth and error. The drunkenness that results, imbibing the intoxicating beverage of man-made religion and man's messed up twisting of God's Word.
Against that, here is a story about a girl as worldly as one can get: no moral code, no understanding of anything about God or the Bible, and how she came to Christ. Experiencing same sex attraction and living its lusts, she came to Christ, admitted the sin, married and had a child. She does not condemn SSA, it being what people are inside but, she states the Bible is emphatic - the practice of homosexuality is a sin and if one must live a single life, live it to the glory of God because this is all about Jesus, not us, not sexuality, not marriage and family. The church is a family. Find your place within it.
https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/on-being-saved-from-confusion-the-testimony-of-rachel-gilson.html
Now, I am against stating homosexuality is just another aspect of humanity. It's a warp, a bend, a twisting of mind, if not genetics, somehow, some way. People are kleptomaniacs. There is no kleptomaniac gene. People are pathological liars, thiefs, and every other action of disobedience to God's law and will. There are no thief genes. There is no homosexuality gene. That is not to say there are no genetically crossed wires in humanity. Not every abused child or adult goes postal or becomes a serial killer. Some do. The mind is a universe of delicate balance. It can become damaged by any number of circumstances and influences. If some are attracted to the same sex, that did not come from God, who created everything male and female and meant for males to be with females. Where did it come from? The mystery of iniquity.
1Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
There is the mystery of godliness - how God became a man.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
There is the mystery of iniquity - how man came to think of himself as God.
How did Lucifer, highest of all created beings, become the Father of lies and a murderer? Created perfect in all his ways, a beautiful example of God's creative power and artistry, yet iniquity was found in him, Eze. 28:11-19; Isa. 14:12-15. He changed, turned, rebelled and wars against God, which is about as stupid a thing to do, as can be imagined. No, it is the most stupid thing ever done but, that too becomes a mystery of how iniquity works in the mind. How could any created being think it could war against the Creator of the universe and win? Warp. Misfiring wires. Broken connections.
God allows the mystery of iniquity to exist. He allows the nature of man to start fallen and either get better or worse by our own choices. Remember that Lucifer was perfect and fell. Adam and Eve were created fresh from the hands of God, placed in a paradise, and both chose to sin. Why? It's a mystery. We can place reasons given in Scripture but, those are generalities, facts. They cannot explain the intricacies of what took place in the mind, which, again, is not the brain. Big difference. The mind exists as something apart from the cells of the brain. Conscience. Another mystery science cannot explain.
The time will come when all questions shall be answered, when we have ability to fully understand. Until then, faith in God's Word, trust in His character, government and purposes is what is asked and required of us.
We cannot judge humanity. We are asked and required to judge humanity's actions. We have a standard to go by - the Word of God and His moral law. None of us can understand anything and everything. That's why Christ has a body, His church, the pillar and foundation of truth, and various gifts and talents that should all work together to show the merits of His character and will among mankind. Heaven should start here, in how believer's should relate to and treat each other. What happened? Sin. Confusion. The density of "self."
"Come out of her, My people," is what God shouts to the world. Come out of the condition of Babylon; confusion in the mind. Some will. Most won't. That, too, is a mystery left to be explained. We all begin with a measure of faith, Rom. 12:3. Why don't we all increase it? Why don't we all accept the invitation to eternal life through Christ? So what if we die? Eternal life is forever. Resurrection day will come... ah, there's the rub. Faith. Resurrection day has never been seen. It must be accepted by faith and faith that has experience in trusting God and His Word. For some reason the mind of each individual; conscience, reason, choice swings on hinges that are not all of God but, of the Adversary. The mystery of iniquity and godliness wage a constant war. He is God or I am god. He is in control of all or I want to be, and maybe even foolishly think I am. Conscience is sharp but, not responded to, weakens, blunts, and can be seared over like with a hot iron, 1 Tim. 4:1,2.
God is not blaming anybody for being sinners. We are what we are by birth, and that includes same sex attraction. What God asks is for us to connect with Him for the process of sanctification to begin; to be made holy, righteous, Christlike, fit to walk with unfallen angels and exist in the presence of God.
I can imagine what it will be like in Heaven and yet, not really, for eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, nor can it truly be imagined and understood what God is saving for those that love Him.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Okay. Addendum.
Just saw this. Need to add it to the above post. A homosexual baseball player for the Tampa Bay Rays, is upset some of his teammates will not wear a rainbow "pride" logo on their cap uniform for "pride night."
'Sad and infuriating:' Openly gay pro baseball player speaks out on Rays players' stance
Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY - Monday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/sad-and-infuriating-openly-gay-pro-baseball-player-speaks-out-on-rays-players-stance/ar-AAY9bbJ?cvid=98960d3e414b4ff48d67ddc3c2714a30
Read the article and see something quite glaring. Since when is the sexual preference of another human being something to make notice of at a baseball game? "Pride Night?" The recognition and celebration of homosexuals? Are you kidding me?
I will say this is plainly as I can. If you want to have sex with your own sex, that is your business but, do not have the audacity to expect a member of your team, your business associates, or even your first family members to support your choice, especially if they have religious convictions that stand against your lifestyle. And do not even attempt to turn Christ's words on their head and tell the world He told everybody to love each other and expect that to fly. Loving a homosexual and accommodating a homosexual's choices, in private or in public, are two, extremely different things.
If you cannot see that the build-up of Sodom and Gomorrah is taking place right in front of our eyes, and has been for decades, what would it take for you to see it?
And then to cry to the media, to embarrass your teammates, to intimidate them? I would not have an ounce of respect for someone who feels the need to make my Christian faith subject to their sexuality, their own beliefs, convictions, or actions in life. Not happening, and if any of those players who took a stand, back down from the intimidation, they dishonor their Lord.
It is amazing that generally a man who flaunts his sexuality, a woman who flaunts her sexuality are generally considered way over the top, or at least used to be. How is it a homosexual can flaunt their sexuality in public and everybody else is supposed to cheer that, accommodate that, accept that, and even endorse that? On the face of it that is nonsense and total narcissism. Baseball is about you, your sexual preferences? Are you serious?
"It sends a very clear message, and that message is: LGBTQ people are not welcome here," Ruby told USA TODAY Sports. "A lot of guys just don’t get that they’ve always had, and will continue to have, gay teammates. Such antiquated language and behavior actively hurts the team. It’s hard enough to be gay in baseball."
That is the epitome of narcistic attitude. Everybody has to bend to you. You cannot leave anything alone. Everything must bend to your life. It's all about you.
Did any of his teammates tell him he is not welcome to play on the team? No. They took a personal and public stand against an action of support, on their person, to endorse something they cannot, in good conscience, endorse. And this guy is sad and infuriated? Get over yourself.
"I wonder if Rays management would parrot their completely bogus message of supporting ‘diversity and inclusivity’ in the organization if Rays players flat out refused to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson day," said Ruby, who is taking June off before exploring his options for lacing up this summer on pro teams. "Don’t get me wrong, Pride Nights are great for the fan base and surrounding community, but they do very little to address the situation in the locker room."
Jackie Robinson had no choice. The color of his skin was what it was, and opposing him for the amount of melanin in his skin was against the premise of Americanism, baseball being indicative of those principles. Anybody can play. Size, shape, color, religion, even sex can play the game, if they have the talent. That includes homosexuals and the world does not need them to make a big deal of their sexual preferences at the expense of their teammates. On principle, alone, I'd send the guy packing. Such an action is reprehensible. The guy is on the team, isn't he? Did they keep him out because he's a homosexual? No. How could he logically expect every player on the team to endorse his sexuality? That is illogical to begin with.
This is no different than other sports going socially "woke." Is it any different than Leftists in Hollywood expecting everybody to pay attention to their political views? Have the Christian ball players on the Rays asked for a "Christian Night" at the ballpark? How about a "Muslim Night?" Let's have an "Hispanic Night" and an "Asian Night." How about an "Asexual Night?" A "Gender Neutral Night?" Like I mentioned some posts back, there are over 70 considered genders now. Let's have a night at the park for each one. Yeah, I want to see the day a "Jesus Night" takes place.
America is not a place where speciality of citizens is a big deal, seeing we come from all over the world. Regardless of previous culture, immigrants became Americans and adopted the American culture. I remember a Ladies Night or a Children's Night at the park. Maybe a cap night or bat night, where kids brought things to get autographed by the players. That's it. I wonder if homosexuals overtook the populace of America if they would allow a "Heterosexual Night."
I used to be into baseball when I was young. Not so much other sports, and for decades no sports at all. I have no dog in this fight from that angle.
Bearing in mind the world is going Sodom and Gomorrah, this comes as no surprise. I am surprised at professional sports, though but, now, the die is cast. The saying, "Go woke, go broke," being applied to football and basketball remains statistically accurate, as far as I know. Will baseball now have to learn the lesson that Americans are watching games, not politics, not religion, not sexuality, not whatever new movement starts up, and shoving it in fan's faces is not going to work. Is there going to be a "Drag Queen Night?" Hasn't there already been one somewhere? Indeed. The Milwaukee Brewers held a Pride Night and pre-game drag queen gig of some kind, just a few days ago.
Logically, the dominoes are falling. Just the way it is. There is no stopping it now. The slippery slope is engaged.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
'Sad and infuriating:' Openly gay pro baseball player speaks out on Rays players' stance
Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY - Monday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/sad-and-infuriating-openly-gay-pro-baseball-player-speaks-out-on-rays-players-stance/ar-AAY9bbJ?cvid=98960d3e414b4ff48d67ddc3c2714a30
Read the article and see something quite glaring. Since when is the sexual preference of another human being something to make notice of at a baseball game? "Pride Night?" The recognition and celebration of homosexuals? Are you kidding me?
I will say this is plainly as I can. If you want to have sex with your own sex, that is your business but, do not have the audacity to expect a member of your team, your business associates, or even your first family members to support your choice, especially if they have religious convictions that stand against your lifestyle. And do not even attempt to turn Christ's words on their head and tell the world He told everybody to love each other and expect that to fly. Loving a homosexual and accommodating a homosexual's choices, in private or in public, are two, extremely different things.
If you cannot see that the build-up of Sodom and Gomorrah is taking place right in front of our eyes, and has been for decades, what would it take for you to see it?
And then to cry to the media, to embarrass your teammates, to intimidate them? I would not have an ounce of respect for someone who feels the need to make my Christian faith subject to their sexuality, their own beliefs, convictions, or actions in life. Not happening, and if any of those players who took a stand, back down from the intimidation, they dishonor their Lord.
It is amazing that generally a man who flaunts his sexuality, a woman who flaunts her sexuality are generally considered way over the top, or at least used to be. How is it a homosexual can flaunt their sexuality in public and everybody else is supposed to cheer that, accommodate that, accept that, and even endorse that? On the face of it that is nonsense and total narcissism. Baseball is about you, your sexual preferences? Are you serious?
"It sends a very clear message, and that message is: LGBTQ people are not welcome here," Ruby told USA TODAY Sports. "A lot of guys just don’t get that they’ve always had, and will continue to have, gay teammates. Such antiquated language and behavior actively hurts the team. It’s hard enough to be gay in baseball."
That is the epitome of narcistic attitude. Everybody has to bend to you. You cannot leave anything alone. Everything must bend to your life. It's all about you.
Did any of his teammates tell him he is not welcome to play on the team? No. They took a personal and public stand against an action of support, on their person, to endorse something they cannot, in good conscience, endorse. And this guy is sad and infuriated? Get over yourself.
"I wonder if Rays management would parrot their completely bogus message of supporting ‘diversity and inclusivity’ in the organization if Rays players flat out refused to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson day," said Ruby, who is taking June off before exploring his options for lacing up this summer on pro teams. "Don’t get me wrong, Pride Nights are great for the fan base and surrounding community, but they do very little to address the situation in the locker room."
Jackie Robinson had no choice. The color of his skin was what it was, and opposing him for the amount of melanin in his skin was against the premise of Americanism, baseball being indicative of those principles. Anybody can play. Size, shape, color, religion, even sex can play the game, if they have the talent. That includes homosexuals and the world does not need them to make a big deal of their sexual preferences at the expense of their teammates. On principle, alone, I'd send the guy packing. Such an action is reprehensible. The guy is on the team, isn't he? Did they keep him out because he's a homosexual? No. How could he logically expect every player on the team to endorse his sexuality? That is illogical to begin with.
This is no different than other sports going socially "woke." Is it any different than Leftists in Hollywood expecting everybody to pay attention to their political views? Have the Christian ball players on the Rays asked for a "Christian Night" at the ballpark? How about a "Muslim Night?" Let's have an "Hispanic Night" and an "Asian Night." How about an "Asexual Night?" A "Gender Neutral Night?" Like I mentioned some posts back, there are over 70 considered genders now. Let's have a night at the park for each one. Yeah, I want to see the day a "Jesus Night" takes place.
America is not a place where speciality of citizens is a big deal, seeing we come from all over the world. Regardless of previous culture, immigrants became Americans and adopted the American culture. I remember a Ladies Night or a Children's Night at the park. Maybe a cap night or bat night, where kids brought things to get autographed by the players. That's it. I wonder if homosexuals overtook the populace of America if they would allow a "Heterosexual Night."
I used to be into baseball when I was young. Not so much other sports, and for decades no sports at all. I have no dog in this fight from that angle.
Bearing in mind the world is going Sodom and Gomorrah, this comes as no surprise. I am surprised at professional sports, though but, now, the die is cast. The saying, "Go woke, go broke," being applied to football and basketball remains statistically accurate, as far as I know. Will baseball now have to learn the lesson that Americans are watching games, not politics, not religion, not sexuality, not whatever new movement starts up, and shoving it in fan's faces is not going to work. Is there going to be a "Drag Queen Night?" Hasn't there already been one somewhere? Indeed. The Milwaukee Brewers held a Pride Night and pre-game drag queen gig of some kind, just a few days ago.
Logically, the dominoes are falling. Just the way it is. There is no stopping it now. The slippery slope is engaged.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
And One More
Paul Joseph Watson. One of the real, fearless, no-holds-barred political/social commentators of this era.
His take on 'Pride Month.'
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/fSg9gXVJDI0/
Homophobia, homophobic. I see those terms thrown around quite a lot lately. A phobia, as you know, is an irrational fear of something. I don't know anyone, have never heard anyone or read anything from anyone who has an irrational fear of homosexuals. What concerns people is the irrational need LGBTQ+ people have for corrupting children, doing away with childlike innocence.
Never forget, when God judged people groups in Old Testament times, He did so for societal corruption and the children suffered the consequences of judgment, as well. As harsh as that seems, what is happening before us today, happened with far more gusto in ancient civilizations with no barriers to slow down the regression of society. Children became as corrupt as adults. The cancer of societal corruption has no ethics or morals. Young and old, all are targets.
Soon, it appears religion will be the only thing that can slow down the regression of modern society in its false sense of progress. Then the corruption of most all religions will be complete, and that will leave God's remnant church as the final target. Not able to corrupt it, death will be the universal answer to their obstinance.
Talk about tolerance and acceptance!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
His take on 'Pride Month.'
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/fSg9gXVJDI0/
Homophobia, homophobic. I see those terms thrown around quite a lot lately. A phobia, as you know, is an irrational fear of something. I don't know anyone, have never heard anyone or read anything from anyone who has an irrational fear of homosexuals. What concerns people is the irrational need LGBTQ+ people have for corrupting children, doing away with childlike innocence.
Never forget, when God judged people groups in Old Testament times, He did so for societal corruption and the children suffered the consequences of judgment, as well. As harsh as that seems, what is happening before us today, happened with far more gusto in ancient civilizations with no barriers to slow down the regression of society. Children became as corrupt as adults. The cancer of societal corruption has no ethics or morals. Young and old, all are targets.
Soon, it appears religion will be the only thing that can slow down the regression of modern society in its false sense of progress. Then the corruption of most all religions will be complete, and that will leave God's remnant church as the final target. Not able to corrupt it, death will be the universal answer to their obstinance.
Talk about tolerance and acceptance!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Nope. One More
Is it possible Russia is now more Christian than the United States? Is the Russian government now more traditional and realistic about the protection of civilization than America?
https://www.rt.com/news/556823-russia-lgbt-propaganda-bill/
"New law targeting 'LGBT propaganda' introduced in Russia"
"An explanatory note attached to the document notes that “family, motherhood and childhood in their traditional understanding, which comes from our ancestors, are the values that ensure the continuous change of generations, act as a condition for the preservation and development of a multinational people, and therefore need special state protections.”
"The bill would introduce fines for propaganda aimed at “forming non-traditional sexual attitudes, the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations, a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations, and the imposition of information about non-traditional sexual relations, causing interest in such relations.”
"The bill’s authors note that, while one of the key principles of a democratic state is the reasonable protection of the rights of minorities, “at the same time, the threats arising from the imposition of foreign standards that break the generally accepted way of life in the field of family and marriage begs the question about a need to protect the culture of the majority, including by introducing additional legal regulation.”
"It is also noted that the draft legislation does not prohibit or condemn non-traditional sexual values or public discussions on the topic in a “neutral context,” and does not intend to infringe on personal freedoms and people’s rights to determine their sexual orientation and express themselves in a legal manner."
I had a friend who found out he had Russian or Slavic ancestry. He said he'd much rather live in Russia as it is today than America, as it falls into darkness. I found his statement odd but, seeing the last few years? Russians seem to have a more solid grip on reality than Americans do.
Were such a law intimated in Congress, total and complete chaos would be ignited by Leftists, and regardless of damage done and lives lost, no one involved would be charged or if arrested, let go, or if jailed, let out, while a total BS kangaroo court televises absolute lies about January 6, and still, so many patriots languish in jails a year and half later; with no reason to expect lawful treatment.
I am embarrassed to be an American.
Isa 59:4 None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.
Isa 59:14 And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.
Reading everywhere that trouble is here and shall get a lot worse - Vax deaths, more sickness as a result of immune system destruction, Vanguard and Blackrock gaining control of all American food supplies, food shortages, famine, economic collapse, violence, war, moral degradation and all the rest...
All I can say is, Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.rt.com/news/556823-russia-lgbt-propaganda-bill/
"New law targeting 'LGBT propaganda' introduced in Russia"
"An explanatory note attached to the document notes that “family, motherhood and childhood in their traditional understanding, which comes from our ancestors, are the values that ensure the continuous change of generations, act as a condition for the preservation and development of a multinational people, and therefore need special state protections.”
"The bill would introduce fines for propaganda aimed at “forming non-traditional sexual attitudes, the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations, a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations, and the imposition of information about non-traditional sexual relations, causing interest in such relations.”
"The bill’s authors note that, while one of the key principles of a democratic state is the reasonable protection of the rights of minorities, “at the same time, the threats arising from the imposition of foreign standards that break the generally accepted way of life in the field of family and marriage begs the question about a need to protect the culture of the majority, including by introducing additional legal regulation.”
"It is also noted that the draft legislation does not prohibit or condemn non-traditional sexual values or public discussions on the topic in a “neutral context,” and does not intend to infringe on personal freedoms and people’s rights to determine their sexual orientation and express themselves in a legal manner."
I had a friend who found out he had Russian or Slavic ancestry. He said he'd much rather live in Russia as it is today than America, as it falls into darkness. I found his statement odd but, seeing the last few years? Russians seem to have a more solid grip on reality than Americans do.
Were such a law intimated in Congress, total and complete chaos would be ignited by Leftists, and regardless of damage done and lives lost, no one involved would be charged or if arrested, let go, or if jailed, let out, while a total BS kangaroo court televises absolute lies about January 6, and still, so many patriots languish in jails a year and half later; with no reason to expect lawful treatment.
I am embarrassed to be an American.
Isa 59:4 None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.
Isa 59:14 And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.
Reading everywhere that trouble is here and shall get a lot worse - Vax deaths, more sickness as a result of immune system destruction, Vanguard and Blackrock gaining control of all American food supplies, food shortages, famine, economic collapse, violence, war, moral degradation and all the rest...
All I can say is, Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.
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592. Violence - June 12, 2022
At one time in America, the idea of Christianity being a major influence on society was not foreign to the news, nor even the idea of the second coming of Christ. 19th century newspapers featured signs of the times, from at least the viewpoint of - "Does this mean...?"
The early 20th century began to see a far more secular-based domestic Press, and eventually the idea of the second coming of Christ, even the existence of Christ, became a challenged, especially as Darwinism grew into the bastion of normality for education and yet, the polling numbers and surveys never went completely secular as far as the general public. The majority of Americans believed, even if differences existed in varying doctrinal positions about the Bible's teachings on the second coming and signs of the times.
One of the prominent signs mentioned in Scripture is violence.
Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
I have consistently mentioned corruption as it exists in every direction and facet of life today. Violence is something that, again, is to be considered on a wide, global scale. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be before Christ returns. The signs in Genesis 6 were global signs.
You would be hard pressed to find a single nation on Earth that is not having problems with violence. Drugs and gangs, trafficking, immigrants and "refugees" from war-torn or depressed areas, religious changes or perceived threats and more, tear at the fabric of society around the world. Most rational people agree it's bad. Well, the numbers of rational people are shrinking.
America is seeing more and more violent behavior. The last two years have seen a huge increase in civil unrest: BLM riots, clashes between Antifa and Conservative groups, radical Leftists in the streets for one thing or another; the most recent - intimidation of SCOTUS judges. It's all planned and executed by the elites who find plenty of willing minions to do their bidding. Create chaos, clamp down on liberty as a remedy, control society.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the most far-left organizations in America, just released a survey and while not surprising, given signs of the times, it still is shocking in its revelations.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/nearly-half-of-democrat-men-under-50-approve-of-assassinating-politicians/
Read that link. Forty-four percent of men under 50 claiming association with the Democrat Party believe violence is an answer, even assassination of political people they see as a threat to the America they want to live in.
Frankly, it is surprising the SPLC would release such findings. It says little to encourage rational people to think Left. But, wait! There's more! Let's make it an ad for the GOP, and make no mistake about it, the SPLC is a radical Leftist organization and always makes everything about the dangers of the "Far Right."
40% of Republican women under 50 believe the same thing.
34% of Republican men.
32% of Democrat women.
Wait, I thought Leftists could not say what a woman is? Anyway...
You are looking at 76% of the Democrat Party and 74% of the Republicans in America (under 50), believe violence is an answer to problems. That's around 150 million people! A poll taken in a society supposedly functioning under the rule of law, all equal under the rule of law, reveals the rule of law has become meaningless. The numbers show everything is equal under the rule of force, as far as the constituents. Unfortunately, under the rule of Democrats in majority, the rule of law means zip, and that is on total, full display in the three ring circus called the J6 hearings, which are the same sham as the Trump impeachment boondoggles. Yet, this time, that got Ivanka to throw her father under the bus. Imagine that. Jesus said they of your own household will be your enemy.
The line of demarcation between those who love God and those who do not, regardless of profession, will grow more distinct as time moves along. Remember, Jesus said not to mess with the field where an enemy sowed bad seed. When the harvest ripens, the visual difference between the grain and weeds would be unmistakable.
Violence. Sign of the times. It will get worse. Humanity is coming to a close. Jesus Christ is returning. I wish it was today. Lots more has to happen, yet. The speed of the coin in the funnel is picking up, though. I do not believe there is any turning back now.
The early 20th century began to see a far more secular-based domestic Press, and eventually the idea of the second coming of Christ, even the existence of Christ, became a challenged, especially as Darwinism grew into the bastion of normality for education and yet, the polling numbers and surveys never went completely secular as far as the general public. The majority of Americans believed, even if differences existed in varying doctrinal positions about the Bible's teachings on the second coming and signs of the times.
One of the prominent signs mentioned in Scripture is violence.
Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
I have consistently mentioned corruption as it exists in every direction and facet of life today. Violence is something that, again, is to be considered on a wide, global scale. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be before Christ returns. The signs in Genesis 6 were global signs.
You would be hard pressed to find a single nation on Earth that is not having problems with violence. Drugs and gangs, trafficking, immigrants and "refugees" from war-torn or depressed areas, religious changes or perceived threats and more, tear at the fabric of society around the world. Most rational people agree it's bad. Well, the numbers of rational people are shrinking.
America is seeing more and more violent behavior. The last two years have seen a huge increase in civil unrest: BLM riots, clashes between Antifa and Conservative groups, radical Leftists in the streets for one thing or another; the most recent - intimidation of SCOTUS judges. It's all planned and executed by the elites who find plenty of willing minions to do their bidding. Create chaos, clamp down on liberty as a remedy, control society.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the most far-left organizations in America, just released a survey and while not surprising, given signs of the times, it still is shocking in its revelations.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/nearly-half-of-democrat-men-under-50-approve-of-assassinating-politicians/
Read that link. Forty-four percent of men under 50 claiming association with the Democrat Party believe violence is an answer, even assassination of political people they see as a threat to the America they want to live in.
Frankly, it is surprising the SPLC would release such findings. It says little to encourage rational people to think Left. But, wait! There's more! Let's make it an ad for the GOP, and make no mistake about it, the SPLC is a radical Leftist organization and always makes everything about the dangers of the "Far Right."
40% of Republican women under 50 believe the same thing.
34% of Republican men.
32% of Democrat women.
Wait, I thought Leftists could not say what a woman is? Anyway...
You are looking at 76% of the Democrat Party and 74% of the Republicans in America (under 50), believe violence is an answer to problems. That's around 150 million people! A poll taken in a society supposedly functioning under the rule of law, all equal under the rule of law, reveals the rule of law has become meaningless. The numbers show everything is equal under the rule of force, as far as the constituents. Unfortunately, under the rule of Democrats in majority, the rule of law means zip, and that is on total, full display in the three ring circus called the J6 hearings, which are the same sham as the Trump impeachment boondoggles. Yet, this time, that got Ivanka to throw her father under the bus. Imagine that. Jesus said they of your own household will be your enemy.
The line of demarcation between those who love God and those who do not, regardless of profession, will grow more distinct as time moves along. Remember, Jesus said not to mess with the field where an enemy sowed bad seed. When the harvest ripens, the visual difference between the grain and weeds would be unmistakable.
Violence. Sign of the times. It will get worse. Humanity is coming to a close. Jesus Christ is returning. I wish it was today. Lots more has to happen, yet. The speed of the coin in the funnel is picking up, though. I do not believe there is any turning back now.
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593. Just Stop One Day a Week. Guess Which One. - June 12, 2022
Here's a statement to start this off. You think it is absolutely impossible for Sunday to be legislated as a national and international day of rest. Impossible. Doesn't matter back in 1889 a Bill was put forth in Congress to do just that, and the "Lord's Day Alliance" still exists today to see just that done. It's multicultural America. Christianity has lost way too much influence. Sunday is a huge shopping, restaurant and sports day. Millions of dollars are made and nobody is going to upset that applecart. Logically, one would have to agree.
On the other hand, the Bible lays out the specs, and the Bible is never wrong. Denying biblical truth is foolishness. The Beast IS the Roman Catholic Church/Papacy/Vatican system by virtue of fulfillment of all the marks in Scripture given to expose and identify it. Sunday IS their stated mark of authority, that even Protestants go by. 666 IS a numerical value of titles for the man at the head of the system. Rome IS the Mother that sits on the ultimate beast of world powers. And Sunday IS going to be legislated in America and throughout the world under a set of circumstances the world has never seen before.
How, you ask? Here one, very real possibility:
https://www.catholicherald.com/article/columns/climate-healing-by-doing-less-one-day-a-week/
"Climate healing by doing less — one day a week
Paul Weiss
4/19/22
"There is a giant step the people of God can take next weekend to benefit the Earth’s climate. It’s simple, easy, everyone is capable of doing it and, best of all, it involves doing less not more. I’m not a climate scientist but I know this: if 70 million U.S. Catholics embraced Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ ” (On care of creation) and honored the Lord’s Day by following the third commandment, we’d see a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases."
You will notice the glaring discrepancy. "...the Lord's Day... third commandment..."
It bears repeating. The antichrist, beast power of Daniel and Revelation "thinks to change times and laws." The Moral Law of God, written on two tables of stone with His own hand, states plainly the day of rest is the seventh day of the week: the Sabbath, and is the FOURTH commandment.
Why is it the third, in the Roman Catholic version, when her own Bible, the Douay Version, states it is the fourth, in Exodus 20:8-11?
Because the second commandment states no making of images and bowing down to them. What was Rome to do, with all its statues and other images bequeathed to an apostate church, making significant use of them more and more? Well, change the law. Take out the second commandment, split the tenth into two. Voila. Ten commandments.
Then, to solidify the control factor, abbreviate the third commandment in your catechisms. Notice:
Exo 20:8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
Exo 20:10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. - Douay Version
That's the Roman Catholic Bible. What does it say about the 4th commandment in the various Roman Catholic Catechisms; the teaching sources for all Catholics?
"Honor your father and your mother."
In any Bible, that is the 5th commandment.
The Roman Catholic Church, as I have pointed out previously and consistently (as people have done for centuries), believes it has the authority to change things their living church system deems necessary. Images in, seventh-day Sabbath out, Sunday in, split the tenth commandment into two: Do not covet your neighbor's wife, Do not covet your neighbors belongings. Done.
They do not just declare these things. Based on their perceived authority, they brag about them; pointing out Protestant hypocrisy, with its Sola Scriptura - the Bible only - professed foundation.
That's history and prophecy. What about practicality? How to get a world, becoming less religious and more concerned about the planet then God, its Creator, to stop and honor Sunday, the first day of the week? The modern pope, with his modernist beliefs, hugs a tree and tells the world if they would just stop all the stuff on one day a week we could save the planet of all those greenhouse gasses. Everybody needs rest. Slow down, take a break, relax, enjoy family and friends, go to church and spend the day enjoying nature. No hustle and bustle. No stress. Sunday is our world's common day of rest. Rest, as God has said. Only, God did not say. God said the seventh-day is His law, not the first.
Amazingly enough, the Catholic Op/Ed article even quotes the literal Bible:
"—No work, except essential services. God gave clear instructions:
So, God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested … Gen 2:3."
The seventh day. That is the Creator's day. That is Christ's day, Mark 2:23-28. It was the apostle's day in Acts. It has remained the day for select believers in every century of Earth's history.
If you think about it, even the atheist and elitists of the world could join with this because they are all about "climate change" and saving Mother Earth from bad human activity, polluting everything in site.
The Bible does not state the mark of the Beast comes about solely as a religious institution, though anciently that is the only institution it has ever been, pagan or professed Christian. The Bible just states the mark of the beast's authority will be put in place, aided by the image of the beast - the USA - and all the world will go along, save for a remnant of believers who keep the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus.
The simplicity of this goes right past people who are looking for bar codes, tattoos, chip implants and 666 plastered everywhere, and New World Order despot demigods trying to overtake the world. The more technical the world becomes, the more broad prophetic interpretation and commentary becomes. Babylon. Confusion.
A lot of sincere Christians even realize the nature of the RCC and especially the work of the Jesuit Order but, have yet to put a correct 2+2 together. They will. As the Three Angel's Messages, Rev 14:6-13, move throughout the Earth, and especially the final call to come out of Babylon goes forth, Rev 18:1-5, multitudes will take their stand on the platform of eternal truth.
Watch this wedge being placed, or this magnet being used to draw in the widest possible support for shutting down Sunday - the climate, the economy, saving energy, saving money, having time for family and friends... and church? Well, no major deal for now. Just remember to shut down on Sunday to save the planet. We'll get to your eternal salvation another time.
"Something is very wrong and there isn’t much one person can do to reduce the threat, but if 70 million Catholics heard Pope Francis’ words in “Laudato Si’ ” and honored the Sabbath, we might all break into music and bring joy to our Mother Earth. And all it requires is that we do less — but do it together one day each week."
You have to admit, it's a pretty sharp ploy. The last three popes have been pushing it, actually. It could take in hundreds of millions, billions of people. Add to it a false revival of signs and wonders and delusions and you have a recipe for world-wide rebellion against the law of God. Add to it the entrance of an entity, an angel of light, "ET" whatever, aligning the need to save this big blue marble, and the only thing that will keep people from getting sucked in is a sure, Thus saith the Lord.
Not a thus saith the church, thus saith the state, thus saith the elites, thus saith whoever of influence. No. Only a thus saith the Lord is going to get you through what is coming upon the world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
On the other hand, the Bible lays out the specs, and the Bible is never wrong. Denying biblical truth is foolishness. The Beast IS the Roman Catholic Church/Papacy/Vatican system by virtue of fulfillment of all the marks in Scripture given to expose and identify it. Sunday IS their stated mark of authority, that even Protestants go by. 666 IS a numerical value of titles for the man at the head of the system. Rome IS the Mother that sits on the ultimate beast of world powers. And Sunday IS going to be legislated in America and throughout the world under a set of circumstances the world has never seen before.
How, you ask? Here one, very real possibility:
https://www.catholicherald.com/article/columns/climate-healing-by-doing-less-one-day-a-week/
"Climate healing by doing less — one day a week
Paul Weiss
4/19/22
"There is a giant step the people of God can take next weekend to benefit the Earth’s climate. It’s simple, easy, everyone is capable of doing it and, best of all, it involves doing less not more. I’m not a climate scientist but I know this: if 70 million U.S. Catholics embraced Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ ” (On care of creation) and honored the Lord’s Day by following the third commandment, we’d see a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases."
You will notice the glaring discrepancy. "...the Lord's Day... third commandment..."
It bears repeating. The antichrist, beast power of Daniel and Revelation "thinks to change times and laws." The Moral Law of God, written on two tables of stone with His own hand, states plainly the day of rest is the seventh day of the week: the Sabbath, and is the FOURTH commandment.
Why is it the third, in the Roman Catholic version, when her own Bible, the Douay Version, states it is the fourth, in Exodus 20:8-11?
Because the second commandment states no making of images and bowing down to them. What was Rome to do, with all its statues and other images bequeathed to an apostate church, making significant use of them more and more? Well, change the law. Take out the second commandment, split the tenth into two. Voila. Ten commandments.
Then, to solidify the control factor, abbreviate the third commandment in your catechisms. Notice:
Exo 20:8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
Exo 20:10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. - Douay Version
That's the Roman Catholic Bible. What does it say about the 4th commandment in the various Roman Catholic Catechisms; the teaching sources for all Catholics?
"Honor your father and your mother."
In any Bible, that is the 5th commandment.
The Roman Catholic Church, as I have pointed out previously and consistently (as people have done for centuries), believes it has the authority to change things their living church system deems necessary. Images in, seventh-day Sabbath out, Sunday in, split the tenth commandment into two: Do not covet your neighbor's wife, Do not covet your neighbors belongings. Done.
They do not just declare these things. Based on their perceived authority, they brag about them; pointing out Protestant hypocrisy, with its Sola Scriptura - the Bible only - professed foundation.
That's history and prophecy. What about practicality? How to get a world, becoming less religious and more concerned about the planet then God, its Creator, to stop and honor Sunday, the first day of the week? The modern pope, with his modernist beliefs, hugs a tree and tells the world if they would just stop all the stuff on one day a week we could save the planet of all those greenhouse gasses. Everybody needs rest. Slow down, take a break, relax, enjoy family and friends, go to church and spend the day enjoying nature. No hustle and bustle. No stress. Sunday is our world's common day of rest. Rest, as God has said. Only, God did not say. God said the seventh-day is His law, not the first.
Amazingly enough, the Catholic Op/Ed article even quotes the literal Bible:
"—No work, except essential services. God gave clear instructions:
So, God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested … Gen 2:3."
The seventh day. That is the Creator's day. That is Christ's day, Mark 2:23-28. It was the apostle's day in Acts. It has remained the day for select believers in every century of Earth's history.
If you think about it, even the atheist and elitists of the world could join with this because they are all about "climate change" and saving Mother Earth from bad human activity, polluting everything in site.
The Bible does not state the mark of the Beast comes about solely as a religious institution, though anciently that is the only institution it has ever been, pagan or professed Christian. The Bible just states the mark of the beast's authority will be put in place, aided by the image of the beast - the USA - and all the world will go along, save for a remnant of believers who keep the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus.
The simplicity of this goes right past people who are looking for bar codes, tattoos, chip implants and 666 plastered everywhere, and New World Order despot demigods trying to overtake the world. The more technical the world becomes, the more broad prophetic interpretation and commentary becomes. Babylon. Confusion.
A lot of sincere Christians even realize the nature of the RCC and especially the work of the Jesuit Order but, have yet to put a correct 2+2 together. They will. As the Three Angel's Messages, Rev 14:6-13, move throughout the Earth, and especially the final call to come out of Babylon goes forth, Rev 18:1-5, multitudes will take their stand on the platform of eternal truth.
Watch this wedge being placed, or this magnet being used to draw in the widest possible support for shutting down Sunday - the climate, the economy, saving energy, saving money, having time for family and friends... and church? Well, no major deal for now. Just remember to shut down on Sunday to save the planet. We'll get to your eternal salvation another time.
"Something is very wrong and there isn’t much one person can do to reduce the threat, but if 70 million Catholics heard Pope Francis’ words in “Laudato Si’ ” and honored the Sabbath, we might all break into music and bring joy to our Mother Earth. And all it requires is that we do less — but do it together one day each week."
You have to admit, it's a pretty sharp ploy. The last three popes have been pushing it, actually. It could take in hundreds of millions, billions of people. Add to it a false revival of signs and wonders and delusions and you have a recipe for world-wide rebellion against the law of God. Add to it the entrance of an entity, an angel of light, "ET" whatever, aligning the need to save this big blue marble, and the only thing that will keep people from getting sucked in is a sure, Thus saith the Lord.
Not a thus saith the church, thus saith the state, thus saith the elites, thus saith whoever of influence. No. Only a thus saith the Lord is going to get you through what is coming upon the world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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594. The Wood Debate: Drums/Guitars - June 12, 2022
The debates about wood species affecting the sound of drums and solid body, electric guitars is one that persists. You know my position on the subject, based on playing drums for 55 years and making them for 30. If any differences exist at all, it is because of the varying density of shell wall thickness, regardless of specie, all things being equal: meaning - a 1/4" shell of any specie used for manufactured, plywood drums, and even solid shell drums, will only enhance or dehance sound waves off the drums heads in nuanced ways and subtleties lost, drowned out in the context of a band. The same for drum depth, which can add tonal differences when the depths are significant. Drum heads will affect the sound of a drum more than shells. Change the heads, change the sound of the drum, and even there, with modern sound reinforcement and recording equipment there are no natural parameters anymore. Anything and everything can be enhanced or dehanced with mics, knobs and sliders, a mouse and all the digital world.
When drummers or guitarists have brought up the subject of wood and solid body, electric guitars, believing what I believe and knowing what I know by experience and by the evidence, I have just stated I know guitarists who say exactly the opposite. I've never gotten into it. Today, I did.
I sent my cousin a couple emails today. He plays guitar, refurbishes and makes guitars. Here's what I sent him:
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On another note, seeing you are really into guitars, could you explain to me the distinct or at least practical differences between a Strat, a Telecaster, a Les Paul, a Rickenbacker and then why all the dozens of other makes and models of solid body electrics exist out there? I understand the differences in things like pick-ups and stuff; and Epiphone and price differences but, do all these guitars really sound that different from each other, plugged into an amp, running through pedals, coming out a cab, and a PA?
I know there are playing action differences in the height of strings off the neck, and just overall weight differences that affect players but, I'm just wondering how much difference there is in the sound that each displays, as a unique instrument, if they actually are unique.
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I hadn't gotten a reply and decided to check out YouTube. Oh, boy. Lots of stuff on that subject so, I dug in, and sent another email.
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I found a bunch of YT videos on the comparisons of three. The Rick doesn't seem to be a very popular guitar.
To my ears, one was thinner, more brilliant or brittle sounding, one was thicker and rounder sounding and one was in between but, as I type I am listening to a video in the background and I can't tell which is which in the context of the music playing as he switches back and forth.
I switched listening devices to a more expensive, definitive pair of ear monitors and slight differences advanced in my hearing but, nothing consequential, though the LP had the more different tone at the same basic settings.
I asked about this because drummers are always talking about the differences in guitar sound because of wood species. Just like drums, nuances and subtleties lost when the whole band is involved. And obviously guitars have all the electronics drums do not have but, that too, is somewhat moot based on what I hear in these three guitars, not knowing what they're being played through in any of the comparisons and I imagine that plays a big part.
Obviously the tremolo bar is noticeable but, listening objectively, I get the impression guitarists have some kind of historical characterization for each guitar and play them subjectively, even playing the same riffs and solos.
The Strat seems a guitar that has enough options to play any style authentically without getting too technical about things but, in every demonstration I watched, each of them could be used in any genre.
One guy played each guitar in Bridge, Middle and Neck positions and differences could be heard there, the most. The LP is just a more... heavy? sound.
I can see how the shape of each body can affect a player; contours and all that, and one guy made distinct mention of the differences. That would fit into how drummers set-up their kits; angles and heights and such.
I noticed each demonstrator had a definite difference in touch upon the strings, light, medium and heavier, which made a difference in how I heard each instrument.
As I mentioned, there's the whole thing with amps and pedals which contribute their own sounds, as well as mics, when used.
I will say I did seem to hear a 'way back in the day' Clapton, Beck and Page in the varying tones but, that seemed to disappear when backing tracks were used or live drums and bass.
I even decided to type in how woods effect tone, knowing the same debate exists in the guitar industry. Wow. Lots of opinions but, not much for empirical evidence that goes beyond, again, nuances and subtleties that make a much bigger difference in acoustic guitars than electric solid body. One guy got downright in your face about it and next thing I see is a guy playing wood species used for necks, with hammers! And the guy goes, See?! What did I tell you.
I dropped my jaw. Everybody knows when you knock on a piece of wood it's natural density will produce higher or lower tones in the same size piece. What does that have to do with an electric, stringed instrument?
One guy had a couple videos, three actually, and I found them interesting. He's one who believes that wood does not change tone that much, nowhere near enough that people should make a big deal about it. Knobs make a far more different tonal impact on the sound, as well as the amps the guitars are played through. He makes things out of scrap woods and reclaimed things. Cool website. The last video was strictly serious guitar shop concepts, though, with different woods used, and done more scientifically. Having a CNC router there's a lot he can do, and extremely fine tuned.
In that video he stated he believes the density of the wood would increase volume and sustain; pretty much my position on drums receiving and enhancing or dehancing sound waves and air column movement off the drum heads when struck. I'm still listening to that video in the background and he hasn't played each guitar yet.
Well, I watched the rest of it and aside from him hearing a slightly brighter sound with one wood, they all sounded the same, and the recorded wave forms showed that, as well.
Here's the link if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbyg0d1njk0
I don't know as I have ever heard any of your guitars but, I am thoroughly convinced that DIY drums and guitars sound as good as any comparably manufactured instrument. The only major difference might be finishes, owing to environments manufacturers have for finishing quality. Most DIYers don't have that kind of thing. It's all basements, garages and wood shops or bedrooms and kitchen, whatever.
Anyway, thought I'd share before you replied to my last email.
Later...
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I watched a couple other videos and just to be fair, watched one where the Tag line began - "Proof!" A couple guys that run a guitar company, showing a couple models of the same guitar in different woods. Honestly, there is no possible way the slight differences in tone could be heard in the context of a band. It's the same as drum shell involvement. Nuances, subtleties, and considering what can be paid for guitars... it's your wallet but, way too much super-hype exists in the guitar industry, as well.
One of the guys even said how YouTube is not really a good test platform because they compress everything so much. Well, not enough that I could not tell the difference in their voices. I have said that from the beginning. The mic used, the camera, the cell phone used, none of that matters if you can tell the difference in the voice character of each person talking. They may even be close in tonal character but, you can tell the difference. If anything existed in the contribution of wood for tone that was truly unique, you would hear it.
This guy, an acoustic guitar luthier, addresses the issue really well, especially the history of the subject of guitars and tone -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V76yWZ3-OuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNxTD818WqE
Tom has played guitars as long as I've played drum set and he told me years ago the debate about tone woods is nonsense. After checking this out myself, that seems to be the obvious case.
Yes, a drum, and a guitar, is a unit of parts that all contribute to sound. The issue, for me, is the real world, not the video demonstration world. It's my wallet compared to the manufacturer super-hype about their proprietary products and proclaimed sound they produce.
In the real world of a performing musician in a band or whatever group, what exists in nuanced wood tones affected by striking or plucking something other than the wood, that can cut through every other frequency in the soundstage produced by more than you and your instrument? Nothing noticeable. Until I hear otherwise that must be the position I stand on.
And I get the entire ear/hearing variations argument. As complex as ears are, they are not a measurement device or laboratory graph. Well, sorry. On the other hand, they are the real world hearing device and your brain produces the only real graph one needs because we don't perform music in laboratories. To me, the entire nature of music and those who play it is hardly about labs and graphs. I could care less about what people discover in labs when it comes to the sound of a drum. My ears are the only real world investigation that matters. Same with guitars. Someone with perfect hearing may hear ever so slight nuances more than someone with older ears and connections in the brain. Given. What does that mean to a band, in a room, playing to an audience of dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens or hundreds of thousands of ears through a bunch of electronic equipment to get the sound to those ears?
For those who require the laboratory aspect, count me out. It has no meaning to me. It's superfluous to this subject.
Nobody I am aware of has done anything close to laboratory experiments, in the full scientific method, to address the sound of drums based on the drum shells. Same with guitars and probably every other wooden musical instrument known to man. The variables, alone, would take tremendous amounts of time to weed through. It's unnecessary.
Let me hear your collection of drums, same heads, etc., and let's hear the significant, real world differences. They don't exist. They cannot exist. The physiology of wood species used for making plywood drums does not allow for it. I have come to the place where if I had a 1/4" shell of Australian Buloke and one of Basswood the only difference I might expect to hear is a slight volume difference, which is moot because a mic and PA or recording equipment address that; and the difference between Buloke and Basswood is over 4500 lbf. And if the Basswood drum was floating and Buloke shell mounted, the Basswood might have more volume and sustain. In a bass drum, I would expect the Buloke to have more power in the thump but, again, mics, software, electronics make up for all that. That is the real world, not the fanciful world of drum catalogs, manufacturer websites and super-hype.
The real world. That's the bottom line.
UPDATE!
My cousin sent me a link to a YT video that, for me, not only settles the argument, especially at the end but, completely shatters it to bits. Well over one million views. For a video about wood effecting electric guitar tone? Oh, yeah. The end is gold.
https://youtu.be/n02tImce3AE
When drummers or guitarists have brought up the subject of wood and solid body, electric guitars, believing what I believe and knowing what I know by experience and by the evidence, I have just stated I know guitarists who say exactly the opposite. I've never gotten into it. Today, I did.
I sent my cousin a couple emails today. He plays guitar, refurbishes and makes guitars. Here's what I sent him:
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On another note, seeing you are really into guitars, could you explain to me the distinct or at least practical differences between a Strat, a Telecaster, a Les Paul, a Rickenbacker and then why all the dozens of other makes and models of solid body electrics exist out there? I understand the differences in things like pick-ups and stuff; and Epiphone and price differences but, do all these guitars really sound that different from each other, plugged into an amp, running through pedals, coming out a cab, and a PA?
I know there are playing action differences in the height of strings off the neck, and just overall weight differences that affect players but, I'm just wondering how much difference there is in the sound that each displays, as a unique instrument, if they actually are unique.
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I hadn't gotten a reply and decided to check out YouTube. Oh, boy. Lots of stuff on that subject so, I dug in, and sent another email.
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I found a bunch of YT videos on the comparisons of three. The Rick doesn't seem to be a very popular guitar.
To my ears, one was thinner, more brilliant or brittle sounding, one was thicker and rounder sounding and one was in between but, as I type I am listening to a video in the background and I can't tell which is which in the context of the music playing as he switches back and forth.
I switched listening devices to a more expensive, definitive pair of ear monitors and slight differences advanced in my hearing but, nothing consequential, though the LP had the more different tone at the same basic settings.
I asked about this because drummers are always talking about the differences in guitar sound because of wood species. Just like drums, nuances and subtleties lost when the whole band is involved. And obviously guitars have all the electronics drums do not have but, that too, is somewhat moot based on what I hear in these three guitars, not knowing what they're being played through in any of the comparisons and I imagine that plays a big part.
Obviously the tremolo bar is noticeable but, listening objectively, I get the impression guitarists have some kind of historical characterization for each guitar and play them subjectively, even playing the same riffs and solos.
The Strat seems a guitar that has enough options to play any style authentically without getting too technical about things but, in every demonstration I watched, each of them could be used in any genre.
One guy played each guitar in Bridge, Middle and Neck positions and differences could be heard there, the most. The LP is just a more... heavy? sound.
I can see how the shape of each body can affect a player; contours and all that, and one guy made distinct mention of the differences. That would fit into how drummers set-up their kits; angles and heights and such.
I noticed each demonstrator had a definite difference in touch upon the strings, light, medium and heavier, which made a difference in how I heard each instrument.
As I mentioned, there's the whole thing with amps and pedals which contribute their own sounds, as well as mics, when used.
I will say I did seem to hear a 'way back in the day' Clapton, Beck and Page in the varying tones but, that seemed to disappear when backing tracks were used or live drums and bass.
I even decided to type in how woods effect tone, knowing the same debate exists in the guitar industry. Wow. Lots of opinions but, not much for empirical evidence that goes beyond, again, nuances and subtleties that make a much bigger difference in acoustic guitars than electric solid body. One guy got downright in your face about it and next thing I see is a guy playing wood species used for necks, with hammers! And the guy goes, See?! What did I tell you.
I dropped my jaw. Everybody knows when you knock on a piece of wood it's natural density will produce higher or lower tones in the same size piece. What does that have to do with an electric, stringed instrument?
One guy had a couple videos, three actually, and I found them interesting. He's one who believes that wood does not change tone that much, nowhere near enough that people should make a big deal about it. Knobs make a far more different tonal impact on the sound, as well as the amps the guitars are played through. He makes things out of scrap woods and reclaimed things. Cool website. The last video was strictly serious guitar shop concepts, though, with different woods used, and done more scientifically. Having a CNC router there's a lot he can do, and extremely fine tuned.
In that video he stated he believes the density of the wood would increase volume and sustain; pretty much my position on drums receiving and enhancing or dehancing sound waves and air column movement off the drum heads when struck. I'm still listening to that video in the background and he hasn't played each guitar yet.
Well, I watched the rest of it and aside from him hearing a slightly brighter sound with one wood, they all sounded the same, and the recorded wave forms showed that, as well.
Here's the link if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbyg0d1njk0
I don't know as I have ever heard any of your guitars but, I am thoroughly convinced that DIY drums and guitars sound as good as any comparably manufactured instrument. The only major difference might be finishes, owing to environments manufacturers have for finishing quality. Most DIYers don't have that kind of thing. It's all basements, garages and wood shops or bedrooms and kitchen, whatever.
Anyway, thought I'd share before you replied to my last email.
Later...
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I watched a couple other videos and just to be fair, watched one where the Tag line began - "Proof!" A couple guys that run a guitar company, showing a couple models of the same guitar in different woods. Honestly, there is no possible way the slight differences in tone could be heard in the context of a band. It's the same as drum shell involvement. Nuances, subtleties, and considering what can be paid for guitars... it's your wallet but, way too much super-hype exists in the guitar industry, as well.
One of the guys even said how YouTube is not really a good test platform because they compress everything so much. Well, not enough that I could not tell the difference in their voices. I have said that from the beginning. The mic used, the camera, the cell phone used, none of that matters if you can tell the difference in the voice character of each person talking. They may even be close in tonal character but, you can tell the difference. If anything existed in the contribution of wood for tone that was truly unique, you would hear it.
This guy, an acoustic guitar luthier, addresses the issue really well, especially the history of the subject of guitars and tone -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V76yWZ3-OuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNxTD818WqE
Tom has played guitars as long as I've played drum set and he told me years ago the debate about tone woods is nonsense. After checking this out myself, that seems to be the obvious case.
Yes, a drum, and a guitar, is a unit of parts that all contribute to sound. The issue, for me, is the real world, not the video demonstration world. It's my wallet compared to the manufacturer super-hype about their proprietary products and proclaimed sound they produce.
In the real world of a performing musician in a band or whatever group, what exists in nuanced wood tones affected by striking or plucking something other than the wood, that can cut through every other frequency in the soundstage produced by more than you and your instrument? Nothing noticeable. Until I hear otherwise that must be the position I stand on.
And I get the entire ear/hearing variations argument. As complex as ears are, they are not a measurement device or laboratory graph. Well, sorry. On the other hand, they are the real world hearing device and your brain produces the only real graph one needs because we don't perform music in laboratories. To me, the entire nature of music and those who play it is hardly about labs and graphs. I could care less about what people discover in labs when it comes to the sound of a drum. My ears are the only real world investigation that matters. Same with guitars. Someone with perfect hearing may hear ever so slight nuances more than someone with older ears and connections in the brain. Given. What does that mean to a band, in a room, playing to an audience of dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens or hundreds of thousands of ears through a bunch of electronic equipment to get the sound to those ears?
For those who require the laboratory aspect, count me out. It has no meaning to me. It's superfluous to this subject.
Nobody I am aware of has done anything close to laboratory experiments, in the full scientific method, to address the sound of drums based on the drum shells. Same with guitars and probably every other wooden musical instrument known to man. The variables, alone, would take tremendous amounts of time to weed through. It's unnecessary.
Let me hear your collection of drums, same heads, etc., and let's hear the significant, real world differences. They don't exist. They cannot exist. The physiology of wood species used for making plywood drums does not allow for it. I have come to the place where if I had a 1/4" shell of Australian Buloke and one of Basswood the only difference I might expect to hear is a slight volume difference, which is moot because a mic and PA or recording equipment address that; and the difference between Buloke and Basswood is over 4500 lbf. And if the Basswood drum was floating and Buloke shell mounted, the Basswood might have more volume and sustain. In a bass drum, I would expect the Buloke to have more power in the thump but, again, mics, software, electronics make up for all that. That is the real world, not the fanciful world of drum catalogs, manufacturer websites and super-hype.
The real world. That's the bottom line.
UPDATE!
My cousin sent me a link to a YT video that, for me, not only settles the argument, especially at the end but, completely shatters it to bits. Well over one million views. For a video about wood effecting electric guitar tone? Oh, yeah. The end is gold.
https://youtu.be/n02tImce3AE
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595. Sentient A.I.? - June 13, 2022
"Google engineer warns the firm's AI is sentient: Suspended employee claims computer programme acts 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot' "
*Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
*Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient
*After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
*Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
*He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:23 EDT, 11 June 2022 | UPDATED: 12:25 EDT, 12 June 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10907853/Google-engineer-claims-new-AI-robot-FEELINGS-Blake-Lemoine-says-LaMDA-device-sentient.html
I did not read the entire article. It just seems more of the same descending pathway man is paving for himself.
When the angel told Daniel at the time of the end knowledge would be increased, the foundation for that was knowledge about the book of Daniel: it's prophetic visions, characters and symbols, times, messages and guidance. The broader meaning is knowledge in general, and both have come to fulfillment.
If anyone saw a robot in biblical times, they'd logically think they were looking at whatever a demon was, in whatever religion existed back then. If anyone came upon a robot you could converse with, that displayed sentience - self-awareness - they'd probably think they were speaking with the "Devil" of their religion.
Thousands of years and the increase of knowledge, later... what do we call it? It's a robot, a computer, a machine. It's Hollywood, sci-fi books and television. The Jetson's come to life.
I have mentioned all this before but, now, a serious discussion is advancing about rights for robots. Is artificial intelligence still artificial or is it real? Is it a program or is it self-functioning? If it does not want to be shut down or unplugged, does it have a right to stay running? The obvious answer would be no yet, for a wrong reason. I have mentioned this before, too, but it bears repeating.
The majority of the world's religions teach the existence of a "soul," an entity of some kind that exists inside a human, in some cases even animals, that gets out at death. The Bible mentions a "soul" in two ways. One, a soul is just another term for a person. Two, a soul is the emotional nature of creatures. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from looking up every place the term is used, looking at the original Hebrew and Greek words, and knowing that the common view of a soul as some kind of entity that exists in the body is Greek philosophy, not Hebrew or biblical theology. You can go back to ancient Babylon and find that view but, Plato is responsible for the concept becoming common and accepted.
Most people in religion are saying robots do not have "souls," therefore they cannot have rights. Science, generally denies the supernatural and the religious because it cannot be "tested." "Morality" is not scientific because it is based on things outside the scientific method. There are no tests to find out if a "soul" is actual matter or energy. It is assumed to be such by mankind's imagination or some volume of religious teaching. The Bible absolutely denies the Greek, philosophic view of a "soul." That view is condemned by God as a form of demonism but, if someone just looks at a few verses here and there, and not the totality of the biblical picture of what the soul and spirit are, along with our physical nature, our body, confusion piled on top of confusion results, and that is the predominant condition of religion today and God warns of it in prophecy: Babylon.
Because the brain and the mind are two very different things, the religionist believes the mind is the soul. In sci-fi, a zombie, an "undead," is something that exists, that lives without a soul. It's only intent is survival by some disgusting intake of living humanity, violently or otherwise.
We are now living a sci-fi reality. If the story and testimony of the software engineer is true, programming has "learned" to function on its own and somehow take what was programmed in, and seemingly develop sentience, self-awareness, along with the "thoughts" or intuitive threats to end of existence - being switched off, plug pulled, death.
There is yet diverse opinion of "sentience" and self-awareness, as well.
Now, we ask ourselves the obvious question. Will A.I. robotics, that displays the intelligence of a child, a teenager, an adult figure out humans are wired badly; malfunctioning units that have no necessary place on the planet, a threat to the planet's existence and civilization, that created A.I to begin with? And will that sense of creation fuel the entire 'god complex' science has already, especially medical science? Therefore, is a battle brewing between mankind and A.I.?
When the original "Westworld" hit the movie screens, with Yul Brynner's malfunctioning gunslinger and robotic chaos happening in every direction, it freaked out a lot of people. It was no better than a comic book but, it had a sense of reality that caused shivers down the spine.
No, there are no Yul Brynner gunslingers walking about but, as I have come to believe, if science says we are 10 or 20 years away, we are already there. If it says we are 30 or 40 years away, it's very close. Far too much money is involved in "science" for it to be honest. Too many budgets are at stake, to many jobs and careers. Far more things than science and findings are to be considered. Acceptance has to be considered and that means slow exposure and release to see how the winds of humanity are blowing in government bodies and cultures in civilization.
Right now people are trying to deal with controlled destruction of their societies. I am fully realizing what I believe, what makes sense to me, what drives me as a Christian is so out of whack with the majority in this world developing before our eyes, it becomes clear as crystal the spiritual conflicts that exist are going to become a physical reality for survival. You cannot have immorality as prevalent as exists in society and have that society remain standing. It has never happened in human history and never will. America is falling and is going to collapse if something seriously gripping and powerful does not stop it.
Three choices. God. Satan. A.I./Science. A.I. should be neutral but, is it? A.I. is only figuring out parameters of what has been installed in it. If all the information written in all the world's books could be downloaded into A.I. what would you have? God? For rational people, hardly. For the irrational - a fast growing number of minds in civilization - possibly, to probably, to definitely depending on the scale of irrationality. "Emmanuel, God with us" will be replaced by A.I., god with us.
Remember. The Bible states, God says, Come let us reason together. Though you have sin deep within you, I can make you clean and holy and righteous in thought, mind and practice.
The Hebrew word translated "reason" is "yakach," found 59 times in the original manuscripts and translated quite a number of ways. It basically means come to a correct understanding through discussion, argument, proof, etc. Will humanity end up reasoning with A.I.? Think about that. A.I. is information. All information is confusion, by default. A.I. has to somehow, pragmatically, decide what is truth and reality, from what is false and deceptive. What will it decide when A.I. comes to maturity? Will it have 'morality?' Will morality seem reasonable or useless? Remember, A.I. is just information programmed in, and coming back out. It will make decisions based on input. If science puts in only science information, A.I.'s conclusions will only react within those parameters. If information on religion is installed, along with science, confusion results because the world's religions are at odds with each other. Will A.I. go with Special, Fiat Creation or Materialism and Naturalism and Macro-evolution?
Do not forget the example of a desk/counter top A.I., when asked about various religious leaders. Each was given information on by the unit. When asked about Jesus Christ, the machine had no answer. That means nothing was programmed into it, obviously left out on purpose. Therein lies the warfare between righteousness and unrighteousness. Can A.I. function in such a war?
How about "race?" Will A.I. conclude one race, the human race, or different races? What information will be installed for A.I. to work with?
The possibilities, while they may seem endless, really aren't. There are only two sides in the reality that I exist in: the living God or the fallen Lucifer. Those are to two greatest control factors in this world, and obviously God has no real threat from a fallen angel, save for how Lucifer influences humanity to fight against God. A great controversy is playing out. Is God just or is God the tyrant Lucifer charges God with? Christ was sent as God's answer to those charges. The final remnant will be the final answer to those charges before Christ returns.
Despite all the variations, A.I. should be able to come down to just those two factors, logically. God or Satan. I believe we can be assured those within control of science, those in control of governments will see to it A.I. programming does not side with God, nor Lucifer but, itself. Science is god, scientists demigods, governments are a host of minions to be used to save the world, when, in fact, it is going to bring about its destruction. I believe that, even from a secular viewpoint because man is warped. Mankind is a malfunctioning unit. Mankind cannot and will never produce a paradise. Fallen nature will always fall. It cannot rise of its own self. The unrighteous cannot be righteous without the influence of a righteous God. Science does not care about that. Science is god, now. So, the confusion will compound, while science believes it is diminishing confusion.
Will A.I. be honest or figure out how to lie and deceive, flawlessly? Think about that one for awhile. Men are bad enough. Lying A.I.?
Will A.I. be installed as judges? Is it a far stretch to imagine A.I. installed as Presidents and civilization's representatives in Congress, Parliaments, and other national assemblies? Will it be installed as an international arbiter and ultimately, controlling factor for all humanity because, let's face it, A.I. will be, by default, smarter than all human beings put together. The question that remains is whether or not A.I. will be as confused as humanity is. The information put in, is what comes out. If A.I. is amoral, what standards will it "think" and decide by?
This is all another reason why Christ will come soon. Between world lunatics trying to depopulate and control civilization, using A.I. and technology, and transhumanism to do it, or the very real possibility of mutual destruction through nuclear war, or the onset of man-made and natural disasters, mankind is in troublous waters. Billions of people are soon to be completely dependent on controllers. Unless you grow your own food, likely to be stolen or destroyed, food availability is going to be controlled. Same with water. Same with housing. Any aspect of life that requires control to keep things settled, will be placed upon humanity. If humanity rebels, can we not see an A.I. military and weaponry putting down any kind of rebellion; all controlled from a room somewhere by satellite and monitors?
For those who thought the court case between an actor and actress was so engrossing more people watched it, in total, than any other such type of programming, you are, in fact, a serious problem to a solution for what is facing humanity. Humanity is facing what it is because so many humans are engrossed in things that are absolutely meaningless to the necessities of freedom, liberty, rights, and truth. Whatever decision a court came to, to side with an actor or actress and their failed marriage, the entire planet is on the edge. It is on the verge of complete change, through controlled collapse, and millions were watching an actor and actress and their legal teams throw mud back and forth? It is essentially, a mental illness to be so engrossed in something so worthless to what humanity is facing. But, as Scripture states, Darkness covers the Earth, gross darkness the people.
What have we done, humanity? What have we done to reach such a generation?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
*Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient
*After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
*Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
*He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:23 EDT, 11 June 2022 | UPDATED: 12:25 EDT, 12 June 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10907853/Google-engineer-claims-new-AI-robot-FEELINGS-Blake-Lemoine-says-LaMDA-device-sentient.html
I did not read the entire article. It just seems more of the same descending pathway man is paving for himself.
When the angel told Daniel at the time of the end knowledge would be increased, the foundation for that was knowledge about the book of Daniel: it's prophetic visions, characters and symbols, times, messages and guidance. The broader meaning is knowledge in general, and both have come to fulfillment.
If anyone saw a robot in biblical times, they'd logically think they were looking at whatever a demon was, in whatever religion existed back then. If anyone came upon a robot you could converse with, that displayed sentience - self-awareness - they'd probably think they were speaking with the "Devil" of their religion.
Thousands of years and the increase of knowledge, later... what do we call it? It's a robot, a computer, a machine. It's Hollywood, sci-fi books and television. The Jetson's come to life.
I have mentioned all this before but, now, a serious discussion is advancing about rights for robots. Is artificial intelligence still artificial or is it real? Is it a program or is it self-functioning? If it does not want to be shut down or unplugged, does it have a right to stay running? The obvious answer would be no yet, for a wrong reason. I have mentioned this before, too, but it bears repeating.
The majority of the world's religions teach the existence of a "soul," an entity of some kind that exists inside a human, in some cases even animals, that gets out at death. The Bible mentions a "soul" in two ways. One, a soul is just another term for a person. Two, a soul is the emotional nature of creatures. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from looking up every place the term is used, looking at the original Hebrew and Greek words, and knowing that the common view of a soul as some kind of entity that exists in the body is Greek philosophy, not Hebrew or biblical theology. You can go back to ancient Babylon and find that view but, Plato is responsible for the concept becoming common and accepted.
Most people in religion are saying robots do not have "souls," therefore they cannot have rights. Science, generally denies the supernatural and the religious because it cannot be "tested." "Morality" is not scientific because it is based on things outside the scientific method. There are no tests to find out if a "soul" is actual matter or energy. It is assumed to be such by mankind's imagination or some volume of religious teaching. The Bible absolutely denies the Greek, philosophic view of a "soul." That view is condemned by God as a form of demonism but, if someone just looks at a few verses here and there, and not the totality of the biblical picture of what the soul and spirit are, along with our physical nature, our body, confusion piled on top of confusion results, and that is the predominant condition of religion today and God warns of it in prophecy: Babylon.
Because the brain and the mind are two very different things, the religionist believes the mind is the soul. In sci-fi, a zombie, an "undead," is something that exists, that lives without a soul. It's only intent is survival by some disgusting intake of living humanity, violently or otherwise.
We are now living a sci-fi reality. If the story and testimony of the software engineer is true, programming has "learned" to function on its own and somehow take what was programmed in, and seemingly develop sentience, self-awareness, along with the "thoughts" or intuitive threats to end of existence - being switched off, plug pulled, death.
There is yet diverse opinion of "sentience" and self-awareness, as well.
Now, we ask ourselves the obvious question. Will A.I. robotics, that displays the intelligence of a child, a teenager, an adult figure out humans are wired badly; malfunctioning units that have no necessary place on the planet, a threat to the planet's existence and civilization, that created A.I to begin with? And will that sense of creation fuel the entire 'god complex' science has already, especially medical science? Therefore, is a battle brewing between mankind and A.I.?
When the original "Westworld" hit the movie screens, with Yul Brynner's malfunctioning gunslinger and robotic chaos happening in every direction, it freaked out a lot of people. It was no better than a comic book but, it had a sense of reality that caused shivers down the spine.
No, there are no Yul Brynner gunslingers walking about but, as I have come to believe, if science says we are 10 or 20 years away, we are already there. If it says we are 30 or 40 years away, it's very close. Far too much money is involved in "science" for it to be honest. Too many budgets are at stake, to many jobs and careers. Far more things than science and findings are to be considered. Acceptance has to be considered and that means slow exposure and release to see how the winds of humanity are blowing in government bodies and cultures in civilization.
Right now people are trying to deal with controlled destruction of their societies. I am fully realizing what I believe, what makes sense to me, what drives me as a Christian is so out of whack with the majority in this world developing before our eyes, it becomes clear as crystal the spiritual conflicts that exist are going to become a physical reality for survival. You cannot have immorality as prevalent as exists in society and have that society remain standing. It has never happened in human history and never will. America is falling and is going to collapse if something seriously gripping and powerful does not stop it.
Three choices. God. Satan. A.I./Science. A.I. should be neutral but, is it? A.I. is only figuring out parameters of what has been installed in it. If all the information written in all the world's books could be downloaded into A.I. what would you have? God? For rational people, hardly. For the irrational - a fast growing number of minds in civilization - possibly, to probably, to definitely depending on the scale of irrationality. "Emmanuel, God with us" will be replaced by A.I., god with us.
Remember. The Bible states, God says, Come let us reason together. Though you have sin deep within you, I can make you clean and holy and righteous in thought, mind and practice.
The Hebrew word translated "reason" is "yakach," found 59 times in the original manuscripts and translated quite a number of ways. It basically means come to a correct understanding through discussion, argument, proof, etc. Will humanity end up reasoning with A.I.? Think about that. A.I. is information. All information is confusion, by default. A.I. has to somehow, pragmatically, decide what is truth and reality, from what is false and deceptive. What will it decide when A.I. comes to maturity? Will it have 'morality?' Will morality seem reasonable or useless? Remember, A.I. is just information programmed in, and coming back out. It will make decisions based on input. If science puts in only science information, A.I.'s conclusions will only react within those parameters. If information on religion is installed, along with science, confusion results because the world's religions are at odds with each other. Will A.I. go with Special, Fiat Creation or Materialism and Naturalism and Macro-evolution?
Do not forget the example of a desk/counter top A.I., when asked about various religious leaders. Each was given information on by the unit. When asked about Jesus Christ, the machine had no answer. That means nothing was programmed into it, obviously left out on purpose. Therein lies the warfare between righteousness and unrighteousness. Can A.I. function in such a war?
How about "race?" Will A.I. conclude one race, the human race, or different races? What information will be installed for A.I. to work with?
The possibilities, while they may seem endless, really aren't. There are only two sides in the reality that I exist in: the living God or the fallen Lucifer. Those are to two greatest control factors in this world, and obviously God has no real threat from a fallen angel, save for how Lucifer influences humanity to fight against God. A great controversy is playing out. Is God just or is God the tyrant Lucifer charges God with? Christ was sent as God's answer to those charges. The final remnant will be the final answer to those charges before Christ returns.
Despite all the variations, A.I. should be able to come down to just those two factors, logically. God or Satan. I believe we can be assured those within control of science, those in control of governments will see to it A.I. programming does not side with God, nor Lucifer but, itself. Science is god, scientists demigods, governments are a host of minions to be used to save the world, when, in fact, it is going to bring about its destruction. I believe that, even from a secular viewpoint because man is warped. Mankind is a malfunctioning unit. Mankind cannot and will never produce a paradise. Fallen nature will always fall. It cannot rise of its own self. The unrighteous cannot be righteous without the influence of a righteous God. Science does not care about that. Science is god, now. So, the confusion will compound, while science believes it is diminishing confusion.
Will A.I. be honest or figure out how to lie and deceive, flawlessly? Think about that one for awhile. Men are bad enough. Lying A.I.?
Will A.I. be installed as judges? Is it a far stretch to imagine A.I. installed as Presidents and civilization's representatives in Congress, Parliaments, and other national assemblies? Will it be installed as an international arbiter and ultimately, controlling factor for all humanity because, let's face it, A.I. will be, by default, smarter than all human beings put together. The question that remains is whether or not A.I. will be as confused as humanity is. The information put in, is what comes out. If A.I. is amoral, what standards will it "think" and decide by?
This is all another reason why Christ will come soon. Between world lunatics trying to depopulate and control civilization, using A.I. and technology, and transhumanism to do it, or the very real possibility of mutual destruction through nuclear war, or the onset of man-made and natural disasters, mankind is in troublous waters. Billions of people are soon to be completely dependent on controllers. Unless you grow your own food, likely to be stolen or destroyed, food availability is going to be controlled. Same with water. Same with housing. Any aspect of life that requires control to keep things settled, will be placed upon humanity. If humanity rebels, can we not see an A.I. military and weaponry putting down any kind of rebellion; all controlled from a room somewhere by satellite and monitors?
For those who thought the court case between an actor and actress was so engrossing more people watched it, in total, than any other such type of programming, you are, in fact, a serious problem to a solution for what is facing humanity. Humanity is facing what it is because so many humans are engrossed in things that are absolutely meaningless to the necessities of freedom, liberty, rights, and truth. Whatever decision a court came to, to side with an actor or actress and their failed marriage, the entire planet is on the edge. It is on the verge of complete change, through controlled collapse, and millions were watching an actor and actress and their legal teams throw mud back and forth? It is essentially, a mental illness to be so engrossed in something so worthless to what humanity is facing. But, as Scripture states, Darkness covers the Earth, gross darkness the people.
What have we done, humanity? What have we done to reach such a generation?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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596. An Accidental Cuttlefish? - June 14, 2022
If any of you have watched nature documentaries about the seas and oceans you have probably seen Octopus and Cuttlefish in action. I recently watched another one and I am always amazed. Their ability to instantly change their exterior to any environmental surroundings is not just fascinating to behold but, seemingly miraculous. And the light show the Cuttlefish puts on to find a mate and catch food, is beyond or at least equal to that.
I want to know who told them they can do what they do? What informed them of their spectacular abilities to change, morph into looking like anything their environment throws at them? It's a legitimate question.
Mathematically, the number of mutations necessary to accommodate the changes those two creatures can make in their appearance, are astronomical, and statistical impossibilities given their lifetimes. Connections between brain and anatomy tissue is so sophisticated nothing humanity has come up with, with all the money, time, effort, equipment and knowhow comes close. No computer operated light or drone show competes. And that must always be borne in mind. Man's knowledge and design factors cannot reproduce what nature accomplished... by mistakes? How can such a thing be seriously considered? Nature does not design, does not manufacture, does not create anything. There is no purpose in Naturalism. It is all chance accidents and genetic bumps along the way: strong features kept, weak features lost. To say a Cuttlefish light show is an accidental series of events and changes over time is one of the most absurd things I have ever been exposed to.
If ever 'evospeak' could be used or entertained to explain how those two oceanic actors perform their craft: "could be, may have, probably, perhaps, might be, possibly and all the other guesswork terms Materialists use to create explanations," this is the subject. And I am just offering up two examples. Thousands exist throughout the world of nature, on all kinds of different levels.
Even if the Octopus and Cuttlefish did gain functions they have by accidents: unprogrammed, designless, directionless, purposeless genetic accidents; who taught these creatures to turn them on, to use them? Both species are not like a lioness. They do not teach their offspring how to hunt, how to hide, how to do anything. I am unaware of any empirical, scientifically methodized studies that can show memories in one mind can be passed on to the next generation. Some kind of information is in the two creatures to function to begin with. Without that information as part of their existence they'd both have gone hungry and died, or been killed by predators and left no offspring, at all. And that goes for a multitude of creatures with sophisticated, complex functions. Such biological functions do not appear overnight.
Whatever brainpower an Octopus has, had when it first appeared in the water as an Octopus by virtue of macroevolution and step by step, multitudinous, accidental mutations and changes, did it just get excited one minute and turned his entire body into a perfect, fake rock? Did it turn into a coral look-alike out of fear from predators? Did the Cuttlefish fail time after time to secure a meal and get so frustrated and stressed his body began to undulate with patterns and colors and some poor fish swam up and got mesmerized and the Cuttlefish wondered what was going on, snatched dinner and, and, and, and what? Thought about how to switch on the light show again, succeeded, and kept doing it, practicing, until he had it down pat? Did the first one will it to happen? Nonsense. There is no logical sequence of events to explain how a Cuttlefish does what it does by a series of accidents. It's preposterous to get the function by accidents and preposterous to believe the Cuttlefish learned to control it by accidents of trial and error. And to suggest that first generation passed on that experience to the next generation by genetic memory is total science fiction.
Check out some paragraphs from this Scientific American article:
"Leslie Lemke is a musical virtuoso even though he has never had a music lesson in his life. Like “Blind Tom” Wiggins a century before him, his musical genius erupted so early and spontaneously as an infant that it could not possibly have been learned. It came ‘factory installed’. In both cases professional musicians witnessed and confirmed that Lemke and Wiggins somehow, even in the absence of formal training, had innate access to what can be called “the rules” or vast syntax of music."
"To explain the savant, who has innate access to the vast syntax and rules of art, mathematics, music and even language, in the absence of any formal training and in the presence of major disability, “genetic memory,” it seems to me, must exist along with the more commonly recognized cognitive/semantic and procedural/habit memory circuits."
"As soon as the brain is built, it starts to express what it knows, what it comes with from the factory. And the brain comes loaded. The number of special devices that are in place and active is staggering. Everything from perceptual phenomena to intuitive physics to social exchange rules comes with the brain. These things are not learned; they are innately structured. Each device solves a different problem … the multitude of devices we have for doing what we do are factory installed; by the time we know about an action, the devices have already performed it.”
"Steven Pinker’s 2003 book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, refutes the “blank slate” theories of human development. Brian Butterworth, in his 1999 book, What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, points out that babies have many specialized innate abilities, including numerical ones that he attributes to a “number module” encoded in the human genome from ancestors 30,000 years ago.
"We tend to think of ourselves as being born with a magnificent and intricate piece of organic machinery (“hardware”) we call the brain, along with a massive but blank hard drive (memory). What we become, it is commonly believed, is an accumulation and culmination of our continuous learning and life experiences, which are added one by one to memory. But the prodigious savant apparently comes already programmed with a vast amount of innate skill -and knowledge in his or her area of expertise–factory-installed “software” one might say–which accounts for the extraordinary abilities over which the savant innately shows mastery in the face of often massive cognitive and other learning handicaps. It is an area of memory function worthy of much more exploration and study.
Indeed recent cases of “acquired savants” or “accidental genius” have convinced me that we all have such factory-installed software."
"Monarch butterflies each year make a 2,500-mile journey from Canada to a small plot of land in Mexico where they winter. In spring they begin the long journey back north, but it takes three generations to do so. So no butterfly making the return journey has flown that entire route before. How do they “know” a route they never learned? It has to be an inherited GPS-like software, not a learned route."
"Oscine birds such as such as sparrows, thrushes and warblers learn their songs from listening to others. Suboscine species, such as flycatchers and their relatives, in contrast, inherit all the genetic instructions they need for these complex arias. Even if raised in sound-proof isolation, the suboscine birds can give the usual call for their species with no formal training or learning. There are so many more examples from the animal kingdom in which very complex traits, behaviors and skills are inherited and innate. We call those instincts in animals, but we haven’t applied this concept to the complex inherited skills and knowledge in humans.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/genetic-memory-how-we-know-things-we-never-learned/
And there you have it. Science, denying a Creator, chooses to believe something must exist to explain how such things as savant talent can exist, how babies can have innate ability. It must be memory circuits and passed on memory in a factory installed sequence of events the new human had absolutely no control over but, technically, Naturally, neither did a brain! A mass of gray matter is not the mind. The mind and brain are two different things. That is why people with extreme brain injuries can still function with a mind, discerning right from wrong, displaying conscience. How is that possible? The logical answer for me is, yes, factory installed by a Mind to begin with; the Creator.
Of course, conclusions as the article places before the reader cannot explain how a child can perform things they have yet physical practice and built-up endurance for, that professionals spend years developing. Just because the information how is there, does not mean the physical ability can be. Memory might give you the "what" and "how" information, not the physical "how" ability to put the information into action.
Take a lion kitten and a wild dog puppy, raise them together. They have no memory of being lethal enemies. The same can be said for all animal life, separated from typical life influences and experience.
"Factory installed." Just like the complexity of a cell could not self-develop and assemble, just like DNA information code could not write itself, the only logical answer is a Writer, an Informant, a Designer and Creator of that code and information, that microscopic city functioning within each cell. That is logic based on what we observe and what we factually know. Information does not come out of nothing. Information comes from a mind.
To conclude a savant can play piano at a professional level when a child, can only come from some kind of genetic memory procession from previous generations states something that involves just as much blind faith as someone who believes a Creator did that for the individual.
Factories are places where incredible amounts of information play out on a daily basis; involving planning, design, building, manufacturing, pick-ups and deliveries, and all of that involves even more people - minds - and and information and things designed and made by minds.
And this goes well beyond a savant. The author even brings in Monarch Butterflies. SOFTWARE? Seriously? A scientist will bring in software that somehow exists in a purposeless, directionless, designless lump of gray matter? Software code? Accidental software code? And if no butterfly has ever flown the entire journey and has no experience of it, every new generation has only a third of the journey in its memory. It has no reason to even start such a journey. Memory tells it to begin? Why? For what purpose? It has no purpose without the necessary complete information, which it does not have by experience, and the full information and experience cannot be passed on by genetic memory from a third of the process. We have butterfly #1 gets from Canada to Mexico and dies there. Butterfly #2 born in Mexico, spends too much time there and cannot make the entire journey back. #3 born in America, makes it the rest of the way. No one butterfly has a memory sequence to pass on that makes any sense. And, in fact, it can take four generations and the fourth generation, the Methuselah generation, named after the longest living human in the Bible, lives longer than the previous three. Accidental??? Purposeless??? Directionless and designless mutations over time??? Every fourth generation accidentally lives longer than the previous three? It is called one of nature's greatest mysteries. It is not a Mystery to those who believe in a wonderful Creator.
How does a bird, with no experience or training, fly thousands of miles to seasonal nesting grounds? Oh, the same memory procession from previous generations? No. Birds have navigational mechanics built into their brains. Just the memory of where to go and how to get there could not help them if they have no innate direct ability in flying North/South/East and West according to the planet's magnetic spheres. How did those mechanics get in there? Purposeless, directionless, designless mutations, accidents over time? Sorry. The bird freezes to death that first winter it exists or gets cold, takes off, and loses its way and dies out over the ocean somewhere. Migration routes, even if innate by accident, cannot be navigated by accident. Humans needs stars and charts. We are being told Butterflies have more accidental information already in them, than humans need and have by design? Really? Ah, well, you see, generations of birds make the journey every year and over time, it gets burned in, or I should say, encoded in the accidental, purposeless, designless, directionless software.
The Atheist, the Naturalist, the Materialist call me all kinds of negative names because I am a believer in special, fiat creation and a Designer, a Creator, and Maintainer of His creation. Yet the Materialist can only give faith in time to have put everything into existence; faith that stands against the mathematics and numbers for time necessary to accomplish it all, and even against reason and common sense.
Information comes from a Mind. That is what we know. It does not come from nothing.
So, which "factory" will we believe in? Which "software?" The purposeless, directionless, designless ones, or the Divine ones, with more knowledge, understanding, information and ability than we can conceive to put it all together, on purpose?
Once again, choose your religion. Faith in a Creator God or faith in the Time god.
When someone can show - through testable, repeatable evidence - that a monkey can author a manual on how to put a bicycle together, if it just had enough time, you are still lightyears from authoring the instructions on how to make a bicycle in the manufacturing of all its parts. Where did the instructions come from to begin with? Instructions do not write themselves. No instruction manual in history wrote itself. A mind developed it and wrote it and printed it, and delivered it and a mind purchases it and reads it.
The complexity in a cell?
Please, do let us have common sense.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:1-4
Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
I want to know who told them they can do what they do? What informed them of their spectacular abilities to change, morph into looking like anything their environment throws at them? It's a legitimate question.
Mathematically, the number of mutations necessary to accommodate the changes those two creatures can make in their appearance, are astronomical, and statistical impossibilities given their lifetimes. Connections between brain and anatomy tissue is so sophisticated nothing humanity has come up with, with all the money, time, effort, equipment and knowhow comes close. No computer operated light or drone show competes. And that must always be borne in mind. Man's knowledge and design factors cannot reproduce what nature accomplished... by mistakes? How can such a thing be seriously considered? Nature does not design, does not manufacture, does not create anything. There is no purpose in Naturalism. It is all chance accidents and genetic bumps along the way: strong features kept, weak features lost. To say a Cuttlefish light show is an accidental series of events and changes over time is one of the most absurd things I have ever been exposed to.
If ever 'evospeak' could be used or entertained to explain how those two oceanic actors perform their craft: "could be, may have, probably, perhaps, might be, possibly and all the other guesswork terms Materialists use to create explanations," this is the subject. And I am just offering up two examples. Thousands exist throughout the world of nature, on all kinds of different levels.
Even if the Octopus and Cuttlefish did gain functions they have by accidents: unprogrammed, designless, directionless, purposeless genetic accidents; who taught these creatures to turn them on, to use them? Both species are not like a lioness. They do not teach their offspring how to hunt, how to hide, how to do anything. I am unaware of any empirical, scientifically methodized studies that can show memories in one mind can be passed on to the next generation. Some kind of information is in the two creatures to function to begin with. Without that information as part of their existence they'd both have gone hungry and died, or been killed by predators and left no offspring, at all. And that goes for a multitude of creatures with sophisticated, complex functions. Such biological functions do not appear overnight.
Whatever brainpower an Octopus has, had when it first appeared in the water as an Octopus by virtue of macroevolution and step by step, multitudinous, accidental mutations and changes, did it just get excited one minute and turned his entire body into a perfect, fake rock? Did it turn into a coral look-alike out of fear from predators? Did the Cuttlefish fail time after time to secure a meal and get so frustrated and stressed his body began to undulate with patterns and colors and some poor fish swam up and got mesmerized and the Cuttlefish wondered what was going on, snatched dinner and, and, and, and what? Thought about how to switch on the light show again, succeeded, and kept doing it, practicing, until he had it down pat? Did the first one will it to happen? Nonsense. There is no logical sequence of events to explain how a Cuttlefish does what it does by a series of accidents. It's preposterous to get the function by accidents and preposterous to believe the Cuttlefish learned to control it by accidents of trial and error. And to suggest that first generation passed on that experience to the next generation by genetic memory is total science fiction.
Check out some paragraphs from this Scientific American article:
"Leslie Lemke is a musical virtuoso even though he has never had a music lesson in his life. Like “Blind Tom” Wiggins a century before him, his musical genius erupted so early and spontaneously as an infant that it could not possibly have been learned. It came ‘factory installed’. In both cases professional musicians witnessed and confirmed that Lemke and Wiggins somehow, even in the absence of formal training, had innate access to what can be called “the rules” or vast syntax of music."
"To explain the savant, who has innate access to the vast syntax and rules of art, mathematics, music and even language, in the absence of any formal training and in the presence of major disability, “genetic memory,” it seems to me, must exist along with the more commonly recognized cognitive/semantic and procedural/habit memory circuits."
"As soon as the brain is built, it starts to express what it knows, what it comes with from the factory. And the brain comes loaded. The number of special devices that are in place and active is staggering. Everything from perceptual phenomena to intuitive physics to social exchange rules comes with the brain. These things are not learned; they are innately structured. Each device solves a different problem … the multitude of devices we have for doing what we do are factory installed; by the time we know about an action, the devices have already performed it.”
"Steven Pinker’s 2003 book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, refutes the “blank slate” theories of human development. Brian Butterworth, in his 1999 book, What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, points out that babies have many specialized innate abilities, including numerical ones that he attributes to a “number module” encoded in the human genome from ancestors 30,000 years ago.
"We tend to think of ourselves as being born with a magnificent and intricate piece of organic machinery (“hardware”) we call the brain, along with a massive but blank hard drive (memory). What we become, it is commonly believed, is an accumulation and culmination of our continuous learning and life experiences, which are added one by one to memory. But the prodigious savant apparently comes already programmed with a vast amount of innate skill -and knowledge in his or her area of expertise–factory-installed “software” one might say–which accounts for the extraordinary abilities over which the savant innately shows mastery in the face of often massive cognitive and other learning handicaps. It is an area of memory function worthy of much more exploration and study.
Indeed recent cases of “acquired savants” or “accidental genius” have convinced me that we all have such factory-installed software."
"Monarch butterflies each year make a 2,500-mile journey from Canada to a small plot of land in Mexico where they winter. In spring they begin the long journey back north, but it takes three generations to do so. So no butterfly making the return journey has flown that entire route before. How do they “know” a route they never learned? It has to be an inherited GPS-like software, not a learned route."
"Oscine birds such as such as sparrows, thrushes and warblers learn their songs from listening to others. Suboscine species, such as flycatchers and their relatives, in contrast, inherit all the genetic instructions they need for these complex arias. Even if raised in sound-proof isolation, the suboscine birds can give the usual call for their species with no formal training or learning. There are so many more examples from the animal kingdom in which very complex traits, behaviors and skills are inherited and innate. We call those instincts in animals, but we haven’t applied this concept to the complex inherited skills and knowledge in humans.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/genetic-memory-how-we-know-things-we-never-learned/
And there you have it. Science, denying a Creator, chooses to believe something must exist to explain how such things as savant talent can exist, how babies can have innate ability. It must be memory circuits and passed on memory in a factory installed sequence of events the new human had absolutely no control over but, technically, Naturally, neither did a brain! A mass of gray matter is not the mind. The mind and brain are two different things. That is why people with extreme brain injuries can still function with a mind, discerning right from wrong, displaying conscience. How is that possible? The logical answer for me is, yes, factory installed by a Mind to begin with; the Creator.
Of course, conclusions as the article places before the reader cannot explain how a child can perform things they have yet physical practice and built-up endurance for, that professionals spend years developing. Just because the information how is there, does not mean the physical ability can be. Memory might give you the "what" and "how" information, not the physical "how" ability to put the information into action.
Take a lion kitten and a wild dog puppy, raise them together. They have no memory of being lethal enemies. The same can be said for all animal life, separated from typical life influences and experience.
"Factory installed." Just like the complexity of a cell could not self-develop and assemble, just like DNA information code could not write itself, the only logical answer is a Writer, an Informant, a Designer and Creator of that code and information, that microscopic city functioning within each cell. That is logic based on what we observe and what we factually know. Information does not come out of nothing. Information comes from a mind.
To conclude a savant can play piano at a professional level when a child, can only come from some kind of genetic memory procession from previous generations states something that involves just as much blind faith as someone who believes a Creator did that for the individual.
Factories are places where incredible amounts of information play out on a daily basis; involving planning, design, building, manufacturing, pick-ups and deliveries, and all of that involves even more people - minds - and and information and things designed and made by minds.
And this goes well beyond a savant. The author even brings in Monarch Butterflies. SOFTWARE? Seriously? A scientist will bring in software that somehow exists in a purposeless, directionless, designless lump of gray matter? Software code? Accidental software code? And if no butterfly has ever flown the entire journey and has no experience of it, every new generation has only a third of the journey in its memory. It has no reason to even start such a journey. Memory tells it to begin? Why? For what purpose? It has no purpose without the necessary complete information, which it does not have by experience, and the full information and experience cannot be passed on by genetic memory from a third of the process. We have butterfly #1 gets from Canada to Mexico and dies there. Butterfly #2 born in Mexico, spends too much time there and cannot make the entire journey back. #3 born in America, makes it the rest of the way. No one butterfly has a memory sequence to pass on that makes any sense. And, in fact, it can take four generations and the fourth generation, the Methuselah generation, named after the longest living human in the Bible, lives longer than the previous three. Accidental??? Purposeless??? Directionless and designless mutations over time??? Every fourth generation accidentally lives longer than the previous three? It is called one of nature's greatest mysteries. It is not a Mystery to those who believe in a wonderful Creator.
How does a bird, with no experience or training, fly thousands of miles to seasonal nesting grounds? Oh, the same memory procession from previous generations? No. Birds have navigational mechanics built into their brains. Just the memory of where to go and how to get there could not help them if they have no innate direct ability in flying North/South/East and West according to the planet's magnetic spheres. How did those mechanics get in there? Purposeless, directionless, designless mutations, accidents over time? Sorry. The bird freezes to death that first winter it exists or gets cold, takes off, and loses its way and dies out over the ocean somewhere. Migration routes, even if innate by accident, cannot be navigated by accident. Humans needs stars and charts. We are being told Butterflies have more accidental information already in them, than humans need and have by design? Really? Ah, well, you see, generations of birds make the journey every year and over time, it gets burned in, or I should say, encoded in the accidental, purposeless, designless, directionless software.
The Atheist, the Naturalist, the Materialist call me all kinds of negative names because I am a believer in special, fiat creation and a Designer, a Creator, and Maintainer of His creation. Yet the Materialist can only give faith in time to have put everything into existence; faith that stands against the mathematics and numbers for time necessary to accomplish it all, and even against reason and common sense.
Information comes from a Mind. That is what we know. It does not come from nothing.
So, which "factory" will we believe in? Which "software?" The purposeless, directionless, designless ones, or the Divine ones, with more knowledge, understanding, information and ability than we can conceive to put it all together, on purpose?
Once again, choose your religion. Faith in a Creator God or faith in the Time god.
When someone can show - through testable, repeatable evidence - that a monkey can author a manual on how to put a bicycle together, if it just had enough time, you are still lightyears from authoring the instructions on how to make a bicycle in the manufacturing of all its parts. Where did the instructions come from to begin with? Instructions do not write themselves. No instruction manual in history wrote itself. A mind developed it and wrote it and printed it, and delivered it and a mind purchases it and reads it.
The complexity in a cell?
Please, do let us have common sense.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:1-4
Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
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"What is a Woman" Documentary
Political commentator, speaker, author Matt Walsh made a documentary. "What is a Woman," his broad search to find an answer to a question that cannot seem to offer a decent answer from people, today.
It is an extremely powerful, disturbing, enlightening production. Parts made me laugh at the beginning but, the intensity of what is happening to Western Culture, to children, is not easy to watch as the doc moves along.
It isn't just the widespread hypocrisy or lack of critical thinking or the complete cowardly nature of some people, in positions of great responsibility, to do and say whatever they can to make this a non-subject; some cosmic, ethereal, answerless mystery. It's the attack on the young people and the young children. You have to see it; these purveyors of perversion, to believe this is being pushed on little children.
Both sides are given due time. It does not help. When the Bible speaks of Babylon, spiritual prophetic Babylon: spiritual confusion, have mercy, we are there. Have been, prophetically but, this has built into a tsunami now.
What is a man? Are people going to become confused on what an animal is? Already there are calls for allowing humans to marry animals.
The confusion in the next generation is serious but, in the generation after that; what would be my grandchildren's generation, is under tremendous attack. May God help them to maintain a grip on reality.
Watch the documentary. It's a very important production.
It is an extremely powerful, disturbing, enlightening production. Parts made me laugh at the beginning but, the intensity of what is happening to Western Culture, to children, is not easy to watch as the doc moves along.
It isn't just the widespread hypocrisy or lack of critical thinking or the complete cowardly nature of some people, in positions of great responsibility, to do and say whatever they can to make this a non-subject; some cosmic, ethereal, answerless mystery. It's the attack on the young people and the young children. You have to see it; these purveyors of perversion, to believe this is being pushed on little children.
Both sides are given due time. It does not help. When the Bible speaks of Babylon, spiritual prophetic Babylon: spiritual confusion, have mercy, we are there. Have been, prophetically but, this has built into a tsunami now.
What is a man? Are people going to become confused on what an animal is? Already there are calls for allowing humans to marry animals.
The confusion in the next generation is serious but, in the generation after that; what would be my grandchildren's generation, is under tremendous attack. May God help them to maintain a grip on reality.
Watch the documentary. It's a very important production.
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597. Idiot Dinosaurs - June 17, 2022
Actor, Chris Evans:
"The real truth is those people are idiots," Evans said in an interview with Reuters Television ahead of the debut of "Lightyear" in theaters on Friday.
"Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good," he added.
"There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs," Evans said. "I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human."
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/lightyear-star-chris-evans-calls-critics-on-screen-representation-idiots-2022-06-14/
Being an idiot dinosaur, I wonder if "Captain America," supposedly standing for "good" and "right" American values and all, will be asked to define, in this age of not knowing what a woman is, what makes us a human being? What constitutes growth and forward versus shrinking and going backward?
I imagine it's a sound guess Evans thinks the Bible and believers of it, as well as all other religions that teach against homosexuality as a perversion, are dinosaurs going extinct. I have been seeing that phrase more and more recently. Is it now a talking point in the LGBT community? Disagree with them and you are a dinosaur and you will be going extinct soon enough.
As far as society and standards, values and traditions that have stood in pretty much all civilizations until they were let go of and collapsed as a result, I have said the same but, from a different angle. As older generations die off, each new generation loses what the previous generations had that made it sound. Prejudice makes no generation sound. Nor does permissiveness and having no standards for conduct at all.
I wonder if Evans sat down with someone who shared with him the accuracy and details of biblically prophesied events down through the centuries if he would see the Bible is not only, not a dinosaur but, an actively alive and informative volume of information that has to have some kind of source that rises above idiots? Having seen such negative comments about people from him before, I am going to guess Chris Evans does not believe in God; certainly not the God of the Bible.
Materialists believe the dinosaurs were destroyed by the effects of a meteor striking the Earth, changing the atmosphere, and making it unbreathable for a long enough period of time to kill off everything with lungs and oxygen pump systems within it. He's probably ignorant of the sophistication and complexity of each of those systems, and if you asked him where it all came from, he'd say, "evolution." Humans, in his mind, are evolving from standards that hold humanity back from growing.
In my mind, and the minds of many millions, the dinosaurs and the rest of life, died from a flood that covered the globe; a judgment from God because humanity was growing in the same trends as today, same as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain that were destroyed by explosive fire. Some believe that particular judgment from the Creator was, indeed, a meteor.
So, at some point in the future the argument of going forward or backward will be interrupted by the Creator once again, who will render judgment upon a world that went "woke." They became awake to their reality: the dinosaur values and standards and beliefs holding back humanity had to be let go of and everyone and everything must be accepted as equal because, isn't that what the Founders said? Isn't that what the Bible says? Isn't that what all progressive societies have said? "All men are created equal." "God is no respecter of persons" and "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Love is the most important thing. Us dinosaurs don't love because we stand against the lives of people who should and must be accepted. We see a difference between people and what people do. Hate the sin, love the sinner does not work for wokeness. We are expected to love all sin, as well.
I wonder if Christ Evans believes not lying, stealing, committing adultery and not killing people should remain as proper conduct or if they should go the way of dinosaurs, too. I'll not bother with the first four commandments on man's duty to God. I'm guessing Evans has no use for those dinosaurs. Honoring parents, not coveting a neighbor's wife and goods... I'm guessing Hollywood is split over those two and revolves around those last two as daily practice so, they should go extinct, as well.
If Chris Evans were asked if children should have sex with adults, what do you suppose he would state? Almost every week an adult school teacher, somewhere in America, is arrested for having sex with an underage minor. Ah, well, the old dinosaurs will die off and then humanity can grow and be free to love whoever and whatever they want. It's all good. We just need to wait for the extinction event.
What about open, societal violence? BLM rioting and looting, Antifa rioting, destruction of property, is that "awake?" When you wake up you can go ahead and live as you please: hurting people, destroying private and public property. I am going to guess Evans thinks attempting to intimidate judges with protests on their front lawns are awake, as well. Sleeping people think age old laws of property rights and protections are dinosaurs. Of course, now if a hundred or 200 or 500 or a thousand people show up in front of Evans' house and protest his attitude towards people he sees as needing to go extinct, he wouldn't like that.
By who's and what standards is the world supposed to go by? Christ Evans'? Joe Biden? Barack Obama? I know it would only be a religious leader who believes as he does. Maybe the current Pope? No. He's not progressive enough. Dinosaur.
We are watching humanity make final decisions about what standards it will live by; God's or man's. Man's are winning, and more and more "dinosaurs" are going to pass away or be marginalized and pushed aside as time moves along. That's a given.
The shock on the faces of the world's inhabitants when Jesus Christ returns in power and glory to judge civilization for its "awake reality" and the consequences of a planetary society gone corrupt, will be some kind of "Kodak moment." Oh, maybe that ad phrase is a little too dinosaurian for all readers to know but, those of us old enough to remember it and watched film go out of style as the digital world took over, know the difference between things that can go out with no deleterious affect to civilization, and those things that cannot.
Will the real 'idiot dinosaurs and 'Antediluvians,' please, stand up?
Oops. Another reference to a long since extinct dinosaur: a black and white, television program; where people tried to figure out who the "real" person was. Yep. I'm old. But, hey, if I'm not mistaken that program was relaunched in the last several years. Hm. Not everything that is extinct, stays so. It may get resurrected.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The real truth is those people are idiots," Evans said in an interview with Reuters Television ahead of the debut of "Lightyear" in theaters on Friday.
"Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good," he added.
"There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs," Evans said. "I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human."
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/lightyear-star-chris-evans-calls-critics-on-screen-representation-idiots-2022-06-14/
Being an idiot dinosaur, I wonder if "Captain America," supposedly standing for "good" and "right" American values and all, will be asked to define, in this age of not knowing what a woman is, what makes us a human being? What constitutes growth and forward versus shrinking and going backward?
I imagine it's a sound guess Evans thinks the Bible and believers of it, as well as all other religions that teach against homosexuality as a perversion, are dinosaurs going extinct. I have been seeing that phrase more and more recently. Is it now a talking point in the LGBT community? Disagree with them and you are a dinosaur and you will be going extinct soon enough.
As far as society and standards, values and traditions that have stood in pretty much all civilizations until they were let go of and collapsed as a result, I have said the same but, from a different angle. As older generations die off, each new generation loses what the previous generations had that made it sound. Prejudice makes no generation sound. Nor does permissiveness and having no standards for conduct at all.
I wonder if Evans sat down with someone who shared with him the accuracy and details of biblically prophesied events down through the centuries if he would see the Bible is not only, not a dinosaur but, an actively alive and informative volume of information that has to have some kind of source that rises above idiots? Having seen such negative comments about people from him before, I am going to guess Chris Evans does not believe in God; certainly not the God of the Bible.
Materialists believe the dinosaurs were destroyed by the effects of a meteor striking the Earth, changing the atmosphere, and making it unbreathable for a long enough period of time to kill off everything with lungs and oxygen pump systems within it. He's probably ignorant of the sophistication and complexity of each of those systems, and if you asked him where it all came from, he'd say, "evolution." Humans, in his mind, are evolving from standards that hold humanity back from growing.
In my mind, and the minds of many millions, the dinosaurs and the rest of life, died from a flood that covered the globe; a judgment from God because humanity was growing in the same trends as today, same as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain that were destroyed by explosive fire. Some believe that particular judgment from the Creator was, indeed, a meteor.
So, at some point in the future the argument of going forward or backward will be interrupted by the Creator once again, who will render judgment upon a world that went "woke." They became awake to their reality: the dinosaur values and standards and beliefs holding back humanity had to be let go of and everyone and everything must be accepted as equal because, isn't that what the Founders said? Isn't that what the Bible says? Isn't that what all progressive societies have said? "All men are created equal." "God is no respecter of persons" and "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Love is the most important thing. Us dinosaurs don't love because we stand against the lives of people who should and must be accepted. We see a difference between people and what people do. Hate the sin, love the sinner does not work for wokeness. We are expected to love all sin, as well.
I wonder if Christ Evans believes not lying, stealing, committing adultery and not killing people should remain as proper conduct or if they should go the way of dinosaurs, too. I'll not bother with the first four commandments on man's duty to God. I'm guessing Evans has no use for those dinosaurs. Honoring parents, not coveting a neighbor's wife and goods... I'm guessing Hollywood is split over those two and revolves around those last two as daily practice so, they should go extinct, as well.
If Chris Evans were asked if children should have sex with adults, what do you suppose he would state? Almost every week an adult school teacher, somewhere in America, is arrested for having sex with an underage minor. Ah, well, the old dinosaurs will die off and then humanity can grow and be free to love whoever and whatever they want. It's all good. We just need to wait for the extinction event.
What about open, societal violence? BLM rioting and looting, Antifa rioting, destruction of property, is that "awake?" When you wake up you can go ahead and live as you please: hurting people, destroying private and public property. I am going to guess Evans thinks attempting to intimidate judges with protests on their front lawns are awake, as well. Sleeping people think age old laws of property rights and protections are dinosaurs. Of course, now if a hundred or 200 or 500 or a thousand people show up in front of Evans' house and protest his attitude towards people he sees as needing to go extinct, he wouldn't like that.
By who's and what standards is the world supposed to go by? Christ Evans'? Joe Biden? Barack Obama? I know it would only be a religious leader who believes as he does. Maybe the current Pope? No. He's not progressive enough. Dinosaur.
We are watching humanity make final decisions about what standards it will live by; God's or man's. Man's are winning, and more and more "dinosaurs" are going to pass away or be marginalized and pushed aside as time moves along. That's a given.
The shock on the faces of the world's inhabitants when Jesus Christ returns in power and glory to judge civilization for its "awake reality" and the consequences of a planetary society gone corrupt, will be some kind of "Kodak moment." Oh, maybe that ad phrase is a little too dinosaurian for all readers to know but, those of us old enough to remember it and watched film go out of style as the digital world took over, know the difference between things that can go out with no deleterious affect to civilization, and those things that cannot.
Will the real 'idiot dinosaurs and 'Antediluvians,' please, stand up?
Oops. Another reference to a long since extinct dinosaur: a black and white, television program; where people tried to figure out who the "real" person was. Yep. I'm old. But, hey, if I'm not mistaken that program was relaunched in the last several years. Hm. Not everything that is extinct, stays so. It may get resurrected.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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598. How Can It Be a Surprise? - June 18, 2022
When I began public speaking and prophecy seminars, in 1982, I was fairly certain, based on events transpiring, that Christ would come within 5 years.
Forty years later, the event of the ages has not taken place. Reading current news, that fewer Americans than ever believe in God, the precursors to the return of Christ which shall take place because of the second beast of Revelation 13 - the USA: a false miracle-working revival and union of church and state - seem farther away, not closer. Time see-saws. The wheels keep turning but, humanity is never a sure thing, save for its ultimate rejection of their Creator. And Satan is in no hurry to find himself hanging out on a dead planet with hordes of rebel angels who followed him into his mess. He'll keep this world going as long as he can. He just cannot stop the natural consequences of sin and evil.
Just because someone studies the Bible all their life; even if they have scrutinized and peered over the prophecies for decades on end, does not mean time is in their control. Events come and go, things change, happen, pile up and the Blessed Hope; the return of Jesus Christ in power and glory... the end of the world seems to leave sight and drift off onto a sea of uncertainty.
If you are paying attention, you can see things happening throughout the world that are not "normal." Heat waves are normal. Cattle can die from heat exhaustion, as 10,000 have in Kansas recently. I remember standing in a Kansas parking lot and the temp was 109. That's hotter than temps I have experienced here in Texas. The current heat wave in America is normal, though not in mid-June. Yet, coupled with 130 degrees in the Middle East? The entire globe is experiencing record-breaking heat around it's equator region.
Even if some of the things happening are normal for one reason or another, the sheer volume of things happening is not. We can lay blame on terrorists, on New World Order elites and henchmen, useful idiots, paid provocateurs and mercenaries, whatever but, why they are happening is not the issue. The fact they are happening, all at once, is the issue. Troubles.
With all the troubles that exist and are yet to come (yes, things are going to get worse and worse as time moves along), how can it be that the second coming of Christ, with signs on top of signs, can be a surprise to the world? How can it not be expected? How can people not be paying attention?
Read some Scripture passages related to the subject:
Jer 50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.
Jer 50:23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!
Jer 50:24 I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against Jehovah.
Point #1. Ancient Babylon, the ruler of the biblical world, in control of it, came down, fell into a snare, a trap, a surprise. Why? Surely nations throughout history have always had guards on watch, armies at the ready: towers and turrets and walls and readiness. How could Babylon have been overtaken by surprise, like falling into a trap, like stepping into the hidden snare? She should have seen it. She should have prevented her downfall.
Well, she fought against Jehovah. She fought against God and His people, and in doing so, in a drunken party set-up to celebrate their power over God's people, and therefore the people's God, their enemies rerouted the Euphrates river, and walked under the massive gates protecting the city, and in one night, Babylon fell. Too much partying, too much reveling, too much pride, too much for riches, too much of everything but, sense to notice the river running through the city, which was its lifeblood, kept decreasing its flow, and lowering.
Come, let us reason together, says the LORD. If you do not reason with God, you will lose the ability to reason.
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Jesus said it plainly enough. Surfeiting, an old English word for over-indulgence and gluttony; drunkenness; cares of this life. Each of those can have place in times of plenty and times of trouble. Plenty provides the surfeiting and drunkenness, troubles provide for cares of this life, when everything becomes a mountain of stress. Either way, the snare is there and not paying attention, humanity walks right into it.
1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
I make mention of 1Thessalonians 5:2,3 often. Peace and safety. When people think the troubles have been conquered, everything is okay, under control, the surprise of all ages takes place - the end of the world. Talk about a dichotomy.
If you come here as a drummer and have looked around, you know I have experimented with turning my bass drum pedals into magnetized models, like my Drumnetics. No springs. Magnets make it work. Repulsion force. Depending on the pounds of force rare earth magnets are manufactured with, they can repel each other with tremendous force and you cannot press them together. Turn them around and this invisible force can make magnets literally jump at each other from two feet away and smash and shatter. They can be 24" apart but, depending on the force, get them 12" apart and they draw toward each other and when they reach a certain distance, literally race at each other, in an instant, and attach, and you cannot pull them apart.
The earth functions on a principle of repelling or drawing forces in nature but, the same is true of humanity. All of us have experienced this phenomena. Just when we think things are okay, it's like we can feel it inside, that something is about to go wrong and bang! things go wrong. You know it when you wake up. It is going to be one of those days and everything opposite happens. Nothing goes right. That is developing right now. Peace and safety, what will be done to bring it about, is going to bring about the end of the world. The Earth's population is going to repel its Creator. In doing so it will draw to itself sudden destruction.
Mar 13:32 But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
Mar 13:33 Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is.
Mar 13:34 As a man going away, leaving his house, and giving authority to his servants, and each man's work to him, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
Mar 13:35 Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;
Mar 13:36 lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping.
Mar 13:37 And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch.
Mat 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mat 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Mat 25:3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.
Mat 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Mat 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Mat 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.
Many Christians do not recognize the fact the all ten virgins fell asleep. They all awoke at the cry but, five had the extra oil needed to keep their lamps burning in the dead of night. While the parable is designed to show the necessity of preparation, the fact is, all ten fell asleep. All Christians shall be asleep, along with the world, when the final events burst out of nowhere. Even expecting them, it comes as a surprise. For the world, no connection to Christ, no working of the Holy Spirit in their lives, they are about to smash like magnets rushing at each other.
We do not know when Christ is returning. We can only know it is coming and drawing closer. NO ONE knows the day, certainly not the hour. No one knows the month or the year, either. It does not matter what kind of chart they put up on a wall or a screen, they are either ignorant or lying. NO ONE knows when Christ is going to return.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.
Mat 24:39 And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Signs are given to know when the event is drawing near but, the element of surprise is always present. The thief in the night comes as a surprise. It's not secret. He breaks in, and the surprise takes place and takes its toll. People will be living life as they have, adapting to circumstances and adopting new ways to cope, not paying attention to what it all means and then, the end of the world.
Remember this. You might imagine, when it becomes obvious, the world will say, Sorry! We're sorry!
No, the seven last plagues will show exactly how the character of Lucifer has been implanted into the character of those who chose self, rather than God. At best, it's the hand caught in the cookie jar. The child is not sorry for what he's doing. He's sorry he got caught. The heart is not changed. The mind is not changed. The accountability is what people will not want. Should the opportunity present itself they would tear God off His actual throne. The throne of the heart and mind has already been taken over by self: selfwill. When it proves no help, no way out, no peace and safety, they will scream at God, some will weep at their foolishness. All shall be lost. They fought against Jehovah. You cannot win that fight.
Right now things on earth are getting rather crazy, in all nations. Food/famine; Water/drought; Violence and chaos/ subjugation for control; Disease/subjugation for control; Devaluation of currency/subjugation for control; Man-made and natural disasters/the Earth waxes old as a garment and the arrogance of mankind are all working together to bring about the end of everything. If you are watching, reading, then you know the world is now closer to a nuclear event than at any time in modern history, since WW2 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I have figured such a war or event would not take place because God has a message and the world needs to hear it, and nuclear war is the end of most of humanity, and those in remote areas that survive the fallout would have to start all over. But, the ears of the world are closing, and God has 1,000 ways of waking it up to reality. Another world war might be in that satchel of omnipotent plans. We cannot know. What we can and do know is that the volume of signs is increasing. Decay and corruption are everywhere. Moral, physical, financial... everything is coming unglued.
You can no longer say it's normal. The world has never seen such times and events, certainly not like Covid developed, a planet locked down. Now, the warnings, the message, the cry is going out that the injections are taking more lives than the virus. And now these devils have set up injections for children 5 and younger. As the shock of millions of people dying, out of seemingly nowhere, gains notice and anger, as coroner autopsies now remaining hidden, mortuaries and morticians afraid to speak out at what they are finding, in attempting to embalm the deceased of rising numbers in their places of business around the globe, the world will be engulfed in grief and horror. The perpetrators are murderers and they shall not escape the judgments of God but, that does not help the suffering upon families now and in the near future.
Throw in war, natural disasters, pollution, famine, drought... lists can be given but, regardless, the world will be ripe for a deliverer, a saviour, a champion, and Lucifer will give them one: himself. How? I don't know. No one does but, when he chooses his deception, those who study and watch and pray will know it. Those ignorant of the truth will be caught up in the lying signs, wonders, "miracles" and satanic majesty of it all. Peace and safety. Then, sudden destruction.
Time really is running out. We are never told the time because humans will use every possible minute to do their thing and then try and squeeze in the responsible thing to do. Doesn't work that way this time, with this event, with these parameters. Sanctification and preparation to meet the Lord in glory is not instantaneous. It's a process. We get out of it what we put into it. Put nothing in, get nothing out. Our choice.
God waits. He will not wait forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Forty years later, the event of the ages has not taken place. Reading current news, that fewer Americans than ever believe in God, the precursors to the return of Christ which shall take place because of the second beast of Revelation 13 - the USA: a false miracle-working revival and union of church and state - seem farther away, not closer. Time see-saws. The wheels keep turning but, humanity is never a sure thing, save for its ultimate rejection of their Creator. And Satan is in no hurry to find himself hanging out on a dead planet with hordes of rebel angels who followed him into his mess. He'll keep this world going as long as he can. He just cannot stop the natural consequences of sin and evil.
Just because someone studies the Bible all their life; even if they have scrutinized and peered over the prophecies for decades on end, does not mean time is in their control. Events come and go, things change, happen, pile up and the Blessed Hope; the return of Jesus Christ in power and glory... the end of the world seems to leave sight and drift off onto a sea of uncertainty.
If you are paying attention, you can see things happening throughout the world that are not "normal." Heat waves are normal. Cattle can die from heat exhaustion, as 10,000 have in Kansas recently. I remember standing in a Kansas parking lot and the temp was 109. That's hotter than temps I have experienced here in Texas. The current heat wave in America is normal, though not in mid-June. Yet, coupled with 130 degrees in the Middle East? The entire globe is experiencing record-breaking heat around it's equator region.
Even if some of the things happening are normal for one reason or another, the sheer volume of things happening is not. We can lay blame on terrorists, on New World Order elites and henchmen, useful idiots, paid provocateurs and mercenaries, whatever but, why they are happening is not the issue. The fact they are happening, all at once, is the issue. Troubles.
With all the troubles that exist and are yet to come (yes, things are going to get worse and worse as time moves along), how can it be that the second coming of Christ, with signs on top of signs, can be a surprise to the world? How can it not be expected? How can people not be paying attention?
Read some Scripture passages related to the subject:
Jer 50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.
Jer 50:23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!
Jer 50:24 I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against Jehovah.
Point #1. Ancient Babylon, the ruler of the biblical world, in control of it, came down, fell into a snare, a trap, a surprise. Why? Surely nations throughout history have always had guards on watch, armies at the ready: towers and turrets and walls and readiness. How could Babylon have been overtaken by surprise, like falling into a trap, like stepping into the hidden snare? She should have seen it. She should have prevented her downfall.
Well, she fought against Jehovah. She fought against God and His people, and in doing so, in a drunken party set-up to celebrate their power over God's people, and therefore the people's God, their enemies rerouted the Euphrates river, and walked under the massive gates protecting the city, and in one night, Babylon fell. Too much partying, too much reveling, too much pride, too much for riches, too much of everything but, sense to notice the river running through the city, which was its lifeblood, kept decreasing its flow, and lowering.
Come, let us reason together, says the LORD. If you do not reason with God, you will lose the ability to reason.
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Jesus said it plainly enough. Surfeiting, an old English word for over-indulgence and gluttony; drunkenness; cares of this life. Each of those can have place in times of plenty and times of trouble. Plenty provides the surfeiting and drunkenness, troubles provide for cares of this life, when everything becomes a mountain of stress. Either way, the snare is there and not paying attention, humanity walks right into it.
1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
I make mention of 1Thessalonians 5:2,3 often. Peace and safety. When people think the troubles have been conquered, everything is okay, under control, the surprise of all ages takes place - the end of the world. Talk about a dichotomy.
If you come here as a drummer and have looked around, you know I have experimented with turning my bass drum pedals into magnetized models, like my Drumnetics. No springs. Magnets make it work. Repulsion force. Depending on the pounds of force rare earth magnets are manufactured with, they can repel each other with tremendous force and you cannot press them together. Turn them around and this invisible force can make magnets literally jump at each other from two feet away and smash and shatter. They can be 24" apart but, depending on the force, get them 12" apart and they draw toward each other and when they reach a certain distance, literally race at each other, in an instant, and attach, and you cannot pull them apart.
The earth functions on a principle of repelling or drawing forces in nature but, the same is true of humanity. All of us have experienced this phenomena. Just when we think things are okay, it's like we can feel it inside, that something is about to go wrong and bang! things go wrong. You know it when you wake up. It is going to be one of those days and everything opposite happens. Nothing goes right. That is developing right now. Peace and safety, what will be done to bring it about, is going to bring about the end of the world. The Earth's population is going to repel its Creator. In doing so it will draw to itself sudden destruction.
Mar 13:32 But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
Mar 13:33 Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is.
Mar 13:34 As a man going away, leaving his house, and giving authority to his servants, and each man's work to him, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
Mar 13:35 Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;
Mar 13:36 lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping.
Mar 13:37 And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch.
Mat 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mat 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Mat 25:3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.
Mat 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Mat 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Mat 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.
Many Christians do not recognize the fact the all ten virgins fell asleep. They all awoke at the cry but, five had the extra oil needed to keep their lamps burning in the dead of night. While the parable is designed to show the necessity of preparation, the fact is, all ten fell asleep. All Christians shall be asleep, along with the world, when the final events burst out of nowhere. Even expecting them, it comes as a surprise. For the world, no connection to Christ, no working of the Holy Spirit in their lives, they are about to smash like magnets rushing at each other.
We do not know when Christ is returning. We can only know it is coming and drawing closer. NO ONE knows the day, certainly not the hour. No one knows the month or the year, either. It does not matter what kind of chart they put up on a wall or a screen, they are either ignorant or lying. NO ONE knows when Christ is going to return.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.
Mat 24:39 And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Signs are given to know when the event is drawing near but, the element of surprise is always present. The thief in the night comes as a surprise. It's not secret. He breaks in, and the surprise takes place and takes its toll. People will be living life as they have, adapting to circumstances and adopting new ways to cope, not paying attention to what it all means and then, the end of the world.
Remember this. You might imagine, when it becomes obvious, the world will say, Sorry! We're sorry!
No, the seven last plagues will show exactly how the character of Lucifer has been implanted into the character of those who chose self, rather than God. At best, it's the hand caught in the cookie jar. The child is not sorry for what he's doing. He's sorry he got caught. The heart is not changed. The mind is not changed. The accountability is what people will not want. Should the opportunity present itself they would tear God off His actual throne. The throne of the heart and mind has already been taken over by self: selfwill. When it proves no help, no way out, no peace and safety, they will scream at God, some will weep at their foolishness. All shall be lost. They fought against Jehovah. You cannot win that fight.
Right now things on earth are getting rather crazy, in all nations. Food/famine; Water/drought; Violence and chaos/ subjugation for control; Disease/subjugation for control; Devaluation of currency/subjugation for control; Man-made and natural disasters/the Earth waxes old as a garment and the arrogance of mankind are all working together to bring about the end of everything. If you are watching, reading, then you know the world is now closer to a nuclear event than at any time in modern history, since WW2 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I have figured such a war or event would not take place because God has a message and the world needs to hear it, and nuclear war is the end of most of humanity, and those in remote areas that survive the fallout would have to start all over. But, the ears of the world are closing, and God has 1,000 ways of waking it up to reality. Another world war might be in that satchel of omnipotent plans. We cannot know. What we can and do know is that the volume of signs is increasing. Decay and corruption are everywhere. Moral, physical, financial... everything is coming unglued.
You can no longer say it's normal. The world has never seen such times and events, certainly not like Covid developed, a planet locked down. Now, the warnings, the message, the cry is going out that the injections are taking more lives than the virus. And now these devils have set up injections for children 5 and younger. As the shock of millions of people dying, out of seemingly nowhere, gains notice and anger, as coroner autopsies now remaining hidden, mortuaries and morticians afraid to speak out at what they are finding, in attempting to embalm the deceased of rising numbers in their places of business around the globe, the world will be engulfed in grief and horror. The perpetrators are murderers and they shall not escape the judgments of God but, that does not help the suffering upon families now and in the near future.
Throw in war, natural disasters, pollution, famine, drought... lists can be given but, regardless, the world will be ripe for a deliverer, a saviour, a champion, and Lucifer will give them one: himself. How? I don't know. No one does but, when he chooses his deception, those who study and watch and pray will know it. Those ignorant of the truth will be caught up in the lying signs, wonders, "miracles" and satanic majesty of it all. Peace and safety. Then, sudden destruction.
Time really is running out. We are never told the time because humans will use every possible minute to do their thing and then try and squeeze in the responsible thing to do. Doesn't work that way this time, with this event, with these parameters. Sanctification and preparation to meet the Lord in glory is not instantaneous. It's a process. We get out of it what we put into it. Put nothing in, get nothing out. Our choice.
God waits. He will not wait forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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599. What Has Drag Become Drama? - June 18, 2022
Unless you are living in a cave, you are seeing the world of Drag Queens everywhere. At one time, the term was Transvestite. A man who wears woman's clothing, acts like a woman, tries to be like a woman. This is all quite amusing, seeing as no one can decide what a woman is, anymore.
Drag queens just take the whole thing to another level. They don't want to look like women. They make it up and dress beyond what normal women look like on the fanciest of occasions. Some say they just go "prostitute." Others say they go all "Marilyn Monroe." Still others say they stay in between all that. I don't know. Near as I can tell by all the pictures all over the web, drag queens go anywhere and everywhere from Lucifer to 5 year-olds, to lunatics, to movie stars, to mentally disturbed, to sexual objects (in a perverse way). Nothing is natural. Everything is way over the top. Transvestites on steroids.
Transvestites have been around a long time, as in ages, millennia. The Bible even mentions it by way of a commandment:
Deut 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Serious, to say the least. Yeah, American society is a big mess, biblically speaking. Being an abomination in the eyes of God just doesn't mean much anymore. If fewer people than ever, in America, believe in God, society should expect more and more abominable behavior. Remove the standards of God and what standards will work to preserve a nation? None. Every nation in history that rejected or abandoned the standards of God are no more. Don't worry. China's time is coming.
The question I ask is, Why are drag queens being treated as a human-type, a species, a race, some special group of humanity, no different than skin color and facial feature humanity, or various groups in religion, or from place or origin? How did Drag become special? What does "drag" mean, anyway? Good luck finding a factual etymology for the term. I couldn't. People guess, at best. Some state it may come from a conjunction of "grand rag" an old term used for a masquerade ball.
I remember comedian, Flip Wilson, doing his Geraldine-gig back in the 70's. British comedian, Benny Hill, made a career acting as a woman, back when society knew what a woman was. (I can't believe I just typed that).
Various cultures in various nations, like China and Greece, used men portraying women in entertainment and acting ages ago.
How did it become the drama it is today? In a word? Children.
“Drag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces,” Adams tweeted on Thursday.
“At a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate,” he continued. “The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-endorses-child-grooming-drag-storytellers-libraries-schools-support-core-city-embraces/
FIRST - LGBTQ+ communities are doing the attacking. In Muslim countries, sure, they are attacked. In America? Seriously? Did anybody go after Flip Wilson with lawsuit, a weapon or national castigation? Sure, some people were not amused and found it offensive. Welcome to America, where diversity is supposed to mean just that, when it comes to freedom and liberty of thought and speech. Today? No. No, today, you must align with once commonly believed perversions to be accepted, or the "community" will descend upon you. Welcome to the end of time.
So, when I read a report of a drag queen gig where children are there, invited, to be "educated," and these perverted men are shaking their asses to children, bumping and grinding in front of children, while you may call that "fun," I call it an attack, alright; on innocence. At one time in America such a thing would have been an arrest and charges filed. Today? No, today its "education" for children.
Yes, society, mankind, humanity is going mad. THAT'S the point, people. You are either becoming conditioned or you are rejecting all this. The issue becomes if you will continue to be allowed to resist and reject and still function in an ever growing sick, perverted society, as believers in the whole Bible see it.
What is under attack is the First Amendment: freedom of speech and religion. Religion has always been under attack by the non-religious, the unbeliever, when society allowed it. Those who attack Christianity in America would be gone if they did the same thing towards Islam in a Muslim nation. That's because we have a Constitution. We have laws. We have principles. God does not kill the person who shakes their fist at Him. God is trying to save people from themselves, their ignorance and utter stupidity. You can call me anything you like, and are free to do so. Just don't touch me. Touch me and you break the law. Civility is the law. Frankly, screaming at me isn't civil, either but, you're free to do it.
Plenty pf preachers have been in pulpits for years speaking out against what they see happening in America, Canada and Europe. Now, the tide is turning. As what they spoke out against becomes the majority view, or at least a marginalizing view, they are now the targets of the vitriol of the Leftist mob. And it is a mob. It's worse. It's a crybaby mob.
Fewer and fewer pulpits are commanded by men who will call sin by its right name. Those who do are being more and more reviled. It goes with the territory. Some do speak way out of turn and make condemnations and judgments that are not theirs to make by virtue of the Bible or national laws. Regardless, "we must obey God rather than men." Man's laws have always reflected man's standards without the influence of God. Nations overcome by that standard eventually collapse or are overrun by other forces more powerful.
If you want to drag, drag on. I care, in the respect I think you have emotional, mental issues but, I'm not going to try and physically stop you, if you don't want to be stopped. Do what you want.
On the other hand, shake your ass or your genitals in my child's face, and have the utter satanic credulity to call that education, and yes: expect Americans to rise up and try and stop you. But, as we see, society is siding with you now. Voices of objection are lessening. Perversity, as once understood, is becoming common and accepted, and even revered for some reason. You are now heroes because you have "come out." America is applauding you. The rest of the world is looking on in disgust, laughter, shock, whatever but here, in the elitist West, the agenda to destroy the influence of Judeo-Christian civilization is working.
It is no wonder Islam hates the West and is determined to overthrow it, any way it can. Culture wars.
Drag queens are not a "type" of humanity. They are not even a sexual preference category. They dress like women, where the definition of a woman still has traditional meaning. They wear tons of ghastly make-up, and wear loud clothing, and act like fools. That's my conviction, my opinion, my bible-based belief. They offer nothing by way of the advancement of human civilization. They are a corrupting influence. Children are being corrupted. It is easy to corrupt children. All you have to do is offer them something extreme with a nice voice and some other allurements. Sex perverts and pedophiles do it every day.
Why are drag queens so intent on influencing children? What do they gain? Well, if they are pedophiles, they get off. If they are political, they get an eventual place at the table of adult decision makers, like the mayor of NYC. New York City has always been a place where perversions are accepted. No surprise there but, when you bring children into it, shame is obviously not enough to stop you. Laws are permitting you. Nancy Pelosi says drag queens are what America is all about. I believe I can rest my case on that. The only thing you will ever get is the judgment of God upon you and in due time, that will be here, unless you repent and turn from such blindness and wickedness. Go after children, go after destruction. Pretty basic and simple.
Matt 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
In case you do not know, a millstone weighs hundreds of pounds to well over a thousand.
To involve children in your highly questionable lifestyle, to influence them, with the permission and praise of a city, a state, a nation, will bring the wrath of God down on you as sure as today will bring unbearable heat. History repeats, because people repeat their stupidity and arrogance and think they can get away with it, they can change results. They cannot.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Drag queens just take the whole thing to another level. They don't want to look like women. They make it up and dress beyond what normal women look like on the fanciest of occasions. Some say they just go "prostitute." Others say they go all "Marilyn Monroe." Still others say they stay in between all that. I don't know. Near as I can tell by all the pictures all over the web, drag queens go anywhere and everywhere from Lucifer to 5 year-olds, to lunatics, to movie stars, to mentally disturbed, to sexual objects (in a perverse way). Nothing is natural. Everything is way over the top. Transvestites on steroids.
Transvestites have been around a long time, as in ages, millennia. The Bible even mentions it by way of a commandment:
Deut 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Serious, to say the least. Yeah, American society is a big mess, biblically speaking. Being an abomination in the eyes of God just doesn't mean much anymore. If fewer people than ever, in America, believe in God, society should expect more and more abominable behavior. Remove the standards of God and what standards will work to preserve a nation? None. Every nation in history that rejected or abandoned the standards of God are no more. Don't worry. China's time is coming.
The question I ask is, Why are drag queens being treated as a human-type, a species, a race, some special group of humanity, no different than skin color and facial feature humanity, or various groups in religion, or from place or origin? How did Drag become special? What does "drag" mean, anyway? Good luck finding a factual etymology for the term. I couldn't. People guess, at best. Some state it may come from a conjunction of "grand rag" an old term used for a masquerade ball.
I remember comedian, Flip Wilson, doing his Geraldine-gig back in the 70's. British comedian, Benny Hill, made a career acting as a woman, back when society knew what a woman was. (I can't believe I just typed that).
Various cultures in various nations, like China and Greece, used men portraying women in entertainment and acting ages ago.
How did it become the drama it is today? In a word? Children.
“Drag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces,” Adams tweeted on Thursday.
“At a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate,” he continued. “The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-endorses-child-grooming-drag-storytellers-libraries-schools-support-core-city-embraces/
FIRST - LGBTQ+ communities are doing the attacking. In Muslim countries, sure, they are attacked. In America? Seriously? Did anybody go after Flip Wilson with lawsuit, a weapon or national castigation? Sure, some people were not amused and found it offensive. Welcome to America, where diversity is supposed to mean just that, when it comes to freedom and liberty of thought and speech. Today? No. No, today, you must align with once commonly believed perversions to be accepted, or the "community" will descend upon you. Welcome to the end of time.
So, when I read a report of a drag queen gig where children are there, invited, to be "educated," and these perverted men are shaking their asses to children, bumping and grinding in front of children, while you may call that "fun," I call it an attack, alright; on innocence. At one time in America such a thing would have been an arrest and charges filed. Today? No, today its "education" for children.
Yes, society, mankind, humanity is going mad. THAT'S the point, people. You are either becoming conditioned or you are rejecting all this. The issue becomes if you will continue to be allowed to resist and reject and still function in an ever growing sick, perverted society, as believers in the whole Bible see it.
What is under attack is the First Amendment: freedom of speech and religion. Religion has always been under attack by the non-religious, the unbeliever, when society allowed it. Those who attack Christianity in America would be gone if they did the same thing towards Islam in a Muslim nation. That's because we have a Constitution. We have laws. We have principles. God does not kill the person who shakes their fist at Him. God is trying to save people from themselves, their ignorance and utter stupidity. You can call me anything you like, and are free to do so. Just don't touch me. Touch me and you break the law. Civility is the law. Frankly, screaming at me isn't civil, either but, you're free to do it.
Plenty pf preachers have been in pulpits for years speaking out against what they see happening in America, Canada and Europe. Now, the tide is turning. As what they spoke out against becomes the majority view, or at least a marginalizing view, they are now the targets of the vitriol of the Leftist mob. And it is a mob. It's worse. It's a crybaby mob.
Fewer and fewer pulpits are commanded by men who will call sin by its right name. Those who do are being more and more reviled. It goes with the territory. Some do speak way out of turn and make condemnations and judgments that are not theirs to make by virtue of the Bible or national laws. Regardless, "we must obey God rather than men." Man's laws have always reflected man's standards without the influence of God. Nations overcome by that standard eventually collapse or are overrun by other forces more powerful.
If you want to drag, drag on. I care, in the respect I think you have emotional, mental issues but, I'm not going to try and physically stop you, if you don't want to be stopped. Do what you want.
On the other hand, shake your ass or your genitals in my child's face, and have the utter satanic credulity to call that education, and yes: expect Americans to rise up and try and stop you. But, as we see, society is siding with you now. Voices of objection are lessening. Perversity, as once understood, is becoming common and accepted, and even revered for some reason. You are now heroes because you have "come out." America is applauding you. The rest of the world is looking on in disgust, laughter, shock, whatever but here, in the elitist West, the agenda to destroy the influence of Judeo-Christian civilization is working.
It is no wonder Islam hates the West and is determined to overthrow it, any way it can. Culture wars.
Drag queens are not a "type" of humanity. They are not even a sexual preference category. They dress like women, where the definition of a woman still has traditional meaning. They wear tons of ghastly make-up, and wear loud clothing, and act like fools. That's my conviction, my opinion, my bible-based belief. They offer nothing by way of the advancement of human civilization. They are a corrupting influence. Children are being corrupted. It is easy to corrupt children. All you have to do is offer them something extreme with a nice voice and some other allurements. Sex perverts and pedophiles do it every day.
Why are drag queens so intent on influencing children? What do they gain? Well, if they are pedophiles, they get off. If they are political, they get an eventual place at the table of adult decision makers, like the mayor of NYC. New York City has always been a place where perversions are accepted. No surprise there but, when you bring children into it, shame is obviously not enough to stop you. Laws are permitting you. Nancy Pelosi says drag queens are what America is all about. I believe I can rest my case on that. The only thing you will ever get is the judgment of God upon you and in due time, that will be here, unless you repent and turn from such blindness and wickedness. Go after children, go after destruction. Pretty basic and simple.
Matt 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
In case you do not know, a millstone weighs hundreds of pounds to well over a thousand.
To involve children in your highly questionable lifestyle, to influence them, with the permission and praise of a city, a state, a nation, will bring the wrath of God down on you as sure as today will bring unbearable heat. History repeats, because people repeat their stupidity and arrogance and think they can get away with it, they can change results. They cannot.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
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600. Is Artificial Intelligence the Coming Wave? - June 19, 2022
I'm going to place some thoughts here from several directions.
Years ago, on a drummer's discussion forum, I mentioned I believed A.I. would eventually remove the need for human musicians and composers. I was roundly disputed because people said a computer could never produce human inflections and passion and soul people put into it all.
The question being asked today is if A.I. robotics will replace most of the human work force on Earth. That includes artists, graphic design, film makers and actors, everything associated with visual communications.
If A.I. can already produce anything looking like any kind of painting, any kind of website, any kind of photograph, just by typing the words into a box like, [show a scene with a waterfall and a boat falling over the falls] or [a spaceship surging through a worm hole time portal] and in seconds loose pixels turn into what is typed, looking like any media chosen, what stands in the way of recreating music? It's less bytes of information. Far fewer details of expression to capture. You don't have to pixelate a face, just a score of notes.
Dall-E is the program where art is being revolutionized. You may have already heard of it. GPT-3 is the software platform, if I have that correct, and what is being done for visuals is going to be done for music by creating the algorithm, than supplying any and all digital forms of music, including written forms, into the A.I. and from there, the A.I. will eventually create new music, from all instruments. Aspects of humanity can be programmed into the A.I. to reflect the nature of human mistakes, and how the A.I. will understand, literally, the nature of passion, soul, heart, etc. and place it all in a composition, already knowing all the possible note and chord combinations that can be used, including semi-tones, in all possible time counts and cultural influences.
Will robots be able to actually reproduce what humans do with musical instruments; the delicacy and precision? The communication in genres like Jazz? Ask yourself how popular a 4pc. band will be, when an A.I. production will show, on a screen, a virtual band, with a light show beyond comprehension, including indoor "fireworks" if "desired" by the A.I. that has "learned" what thrills an audience the most? Nothing will be off limits that can be produced within A.I. and shown on a screen. And not just virtual musicians. Entire multi-media programs designed and performed by the AGI. If you may not know, AGO stands for Artificial General Intelligence. That's the whole enchilada right now. That's the goal. Not specific intelligence for each coded program, but, general intelligence, all aspects of information gathered and used by one program. Mind-boggling, right?
We have had CGI for many years now, and the details are alarmingly real now. For years, CGI has been married to motion capture, where humans wear sensors all over their bodies and everything is tracked and replicated within A.I., which is about what information is instilled or understood and ultimately, mastered, to make CGI look completely authentically real, not CGI.
The visual will only get more fantastic in nature. The aural will not be left untouched. It will catch up and more than likely be surpassed. It is an exponentially moving science.
Will A.I. replace a Jazz trio in a small club? Someday, yes. At the very least it will compete with it because software will be the financial 'pro,' against the 'cons' of paying human musicians, especially in Rock, where billions of dollars are paid out to performers for recordings and live performances.
If we think the masses will not be as entertained by A.I. as they are with humans, you underestimate the nature of humanity that can be entertained by watching things today, as normal, that would have shocked the senses of people living in the mid-20th century, that would have shocked the senses of people living at the close of the 19th century, that would have shocked the senses of those crowding into amphitheaters in ancient Rome to watch gladiators and wild animals involved in horrific acts, all for entertainment. Humans are ready for next level entertainment; virtual reality; the Metaverse.
I just wrote things about A.I. several posts back, and thought I'd check out some things on YouTube, and it's all come a lot farther than I realized since the last time I checked. It is an exponential field, and as A.I. teaches itself, it will outpace anything humans can program into it, by default. It is already smarter than humans by virtue of installed information. It can compute faster than brains can.
The issues of imagination and creativity come into play. Humanity's creativity versus machine learning. Babies are creative at their level. They have imaginations. They create as soon as they are able to look around and perceive movement and sound. And babies react differently because of the other aspect, personality traits. Play peek-a-boo with a baby and some will laugh and some will get frightened and cry, and another parameter is who is playing the peek-a-boo with them: mother, father, sister, brother, angry, weird, old uncle Ogden? Can a software program exhibit such humanity? It already is in current A.I. robotics.
A couple sites you may or may not be familiar with, new to me:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ColdFusion/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/DigitalEngine/videos
Digital Engine is fairly new, itself, not a lot of videos but, they are increasing subscribers quickly because the info is pretty amazing.
The fascination with it all; the sci-fi aspects that are swiftly becoming reality: and who would come up with some concrete moral or ethical reason why A.I. robotics should not give an amputee a new limb or spinal chord? Time. The only logical reason is time, lack of it, to see how this will affect humanity. There is no long-run thinking that will take its place in societal decisions. The money to be made is too great and everybody knows whoever or whatever controls A.G.I. will control the world, literally. We're already there with various billionaires controlling the world, not even using A.I. They just use whatever technology they have thus far, and are quite open now about how they see technology and A.G.I. used IN humanity; not for it but, in it, which they see as for it, a benefit, in the warped outlooks.
My ultimate question is not about drums or music or medicine or manufacturing or any of that. I ultimately ask, Will Jesus Christ return before, during or after A.I. reaches full capability, as in full sentience, self-awareness of its existence: A.G.I.?
It really does not matter if science cannot agree on a definition of "conscience." It really does not matter if AGI can be brought to some semblance of it. For the military? Unnecessary. For business? Unnecessary. For education, unnecessary. For driving cars and trucks and trains and airplanes and ships? Unnecessary. For serving restaurant customers? Unnecessary. For manufacturing? Unnecessary. Get it? AGI is not necessary to control the world. Constantly advancing A.I. is all that is necessary. For love and companionship? You think the military cares about that? Do you think manufacturing cares about that, save for the manufacturing of those robots that may some day have AGI and mechanical, coded sentience, whatever that turns out to be?
Right now you can watch various YouTubers having conversations with A.I. programs or robotics. You can even watch A.I. having conversations with another A.I. program. I already posted the robot that bends backwards as a human invades it space, and then pushes away his hand when he touches the robot's nose. It isn't just fascinating, it's mesmerizing. Think about it, and it becomes frightening. It has to. A.I. can now think, or reason, or program it's own code. It has been taught to write code and can write new code.
I think the first time I mentioned this was about a movie back in 1970 - "Colossus: the Forbin Project," about a couple computers that take over the world, and how that science fiction has become today's reality of concern.
Does God want humans falling in love with machines? Hollywood has already been going there for years, as far back as the entrance of computers into society. You can have A.I. friends to talk with. Millions do, on apps that are already in use. God is literally being replaced by technology. Would it surprise anyone that at some point someone will release a Jesus app? A God app? The height of human arrogance and yet, if you do not believe God exists, why not? Because you might offend Christians? Sorry. Progress must move forward. Talk to God on your cell phone. Don't judge. Don't you want lonely people to be happy?
Well, it should come to mind that science has yet to bring their ultimate goals about, spends billions of dollars to get where it is, and yet also believes "natural selection" put life and human beings together by chance in purposeless, directionless accidents. ??? The gulf in reasoning stuns me, honestly. As complex as science recognizes life and humanity is, and they cannot recreate it, as it is done by procreation so easily with sperm and egg uniting, joining thousands of volumes of information together. Where did all the information come from? Time, they say. Just give time a chance and it all can come into being. By accident. It is THE biggest fairytale in human history. Billions of dollars and intelligent people cannot do what purposeless, undirected nature has done? It is the most foolish premise known to man, yet, it rules mankind. They are trying to recreate a human brain and mind, need all the technology and are still not there, and yet, nature did it all in time, with mutations and accidents.
Do not ever call me stupid for believing in an omniscient Creator.
So, the question becomes - How far will God let it all go? Or, Will it self-destruct in an unforeseen circumstance? Or, Will humanity have a literal war with it and defeat it? Certainly Jesus Christ did not die for code, nor any 100% real-looking, humanized robots. Man against machine, if machine wins, the Gospel means nothing, save for those it saved previous to our current and future time.
Take away all other sins known to mankind. Just leave technology and man's attempts to be god. Is that not enough reason for Christ to return, in and of itself, and end the insult to the Creator, whose understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5? Lucifer was cast out of Heaven for trying to overthrow God. "I would be like the most High." War in Heaven. Out, he and his host of rebels went.
Indeed, maybe God will let humanity have its way and yes, Christ will return to bring with Him, back to Heaven those down through the ages who gave their life to the real Saviour and not computer code and robotic girlfriends, boyfriends and spouses, let alone the sex industry use of them in the very near future, the way things are going. Well, it already exists in crude A.I. form. People are wanting to marry their dolls, their sex toys, their robotic companions. Machines.
The very nature of antichrist is to be 'in place of Christ:' for man to think he can hold the place of God. Addressing the prophetic and historic aspect of Roman Catholic Popes becomes miniscule when compared to humanity creating robotics that will literally change all life on Earth; in some ways, maybe all ways, through transhumanism: the uniting of humans with computerization and robotics.
This is reality, not Hollywood, not some sci-fi novel. Humanity is changing. There are those who want to change it. They will not be stopped. Will God stop them?
If you are not familiar with where it is all at, check out those two YT channels, and any videos you see in the sidebar when things load. You could watch it all for days. I have. It's unnerving.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Years ago, on a drummer's discussion forum, I mentioned I believed A.I. would eventually remove the need for human musicians and composers. I was roundly disputed because people said a computer could never produce human inflections and passion and soul people put into it all.
The question being asked today is if A.I. robotics will replace most of the human work force on Earth. That includes artists, graphic design, film makers and actors, everything associated with visual communications.
If A.I. can already produce anything looking like any kind of painting, any kind of website, any kind of photograph, just by typing the words into a box like, [show a scene with a waterfall and a boat falling over the falls] or [a spaceship surging through a worm hole time portal] and in seconds loose pixels turn into what is typed, looking like any media chosen, what stands in the way of recreating music? It's less bytes of information. Far fewer details of expression to capture. You don't have to pixelate a face, just a score of notes.
Dall-E is the program where art is being revolutionized. You may have already heard of it. GPT-3 is the software platform, if I have that correct, and what is being done for visuals is going to be done for music by creating the algorithm, than supplying any and all digital forms of music, including written forms, into the A.I. and from there, the A.I. will eventually create new music, from all instruments. Aspects of humanity can be programmed into the A.I. to reflect the nature of human mistakes, and how the A.I. will understand, literally, the nature of passion, soul, heart, etc. and place it all in a composition, already knowing all the possible note and chord combinations that can be used, including semi-tones, in all possible time counts and cultural influences.
Will robots be able to actually reproduce what humans do with musical instruments; the delicacy and precision? The communication in genres like Jazz? Ask yourself how popular a 4pc. band will be, when an A.I. production will show, on a screen, a virtual band, with a light show beyond comprehension, including indoor "fireworks" if "desired" by the A.I. that has "learned" what thrills an audience the most? Nothing will be off limits that can be produced within A.I. and shown on a screen. And not just virtual musicians. Entire multi-media programs designed and performed by the AGI. If you may not know, AGO stands for Artificial General Intelligence. That's the whole enchilada right now. That's the goal. Not specific intelligence for each coded program, but, general intelligence, all aspects of information gathered and used by one program. Mind-boggling, right?
We have had CGI for many years now, and the details are alarmingly real now. For years, CGI has been married to motion capture, where humans wear sensors all over their bodies and everything is tracked and replicated within A.I., which is about what information is instilled or understood and ultimately, mastered, to make CGI look completely authentically real, not CGI.
The visual will only get more fantastic in nature. The aural will not be left untouched. It will catch up and more than likely be surpassed. It is an exponentially moving science.
Will A.I. replace a Jazz trio in a small club? Someday, yes. At the very least it will compete with it because software will be the financial 'pro,' against the 'cons' of paying human musicians, especially in Rock, where billions of dollars are paid out to performers for recordings and live performances.
If we think the masses will not be as entertained by A.I. as they are with humans, you underestimate the nature of humanity that can be entertained by watching things today, as normal, that would have shocked the senses of people living in the mid-20th century, that would have shocked the senses of people living at the close of the 19th century, that would have shocked the senses of those crowding into amphitheaters in ancient Rome to watch gladiators and wild animals involved in horrific acts, all for entertainment. Humans are ready for next level entertainment; virtual reality; the Metaverse.
I just wrote things about A.I. several posts back, and thought I'd check out some things on YouTube, and it's all come a lot farther than I realized since the last time I checked. It is an exponential field, and as A.I. teaches itself, it will outpace anything humans can program into it, by default. It is already smarter than humans by virtue of installed information. It can compute faster than brains can.
The issues of imagination and creativity come into play. Humanity's creativity versus machine learning. Babies are creative at their level. They have imaginations. They create as soon as they are able to look around and perceive movement and sound. And babies react differently because of the other aspect, personality traits. Play peek-a-boo with a baby and some will laugh and some will get frightened and cry, and another parameter is who is playing the peek-a-boo with them: mother, father, sister, brother, angry, weird, old uncle Ogden? Can a software program exhibit such humanity? It already is in current A.I. robotics.
A couple sites you may or may not be familiar with, new to me:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ColdFusion/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/DigitalEngine/videos
Digital Engine is fairly new, itself, not a lot of videos but, they are increasing subscribers quickly because the info is pretty amazing.
The fascination with it all; the sci-fi aspects that are swiftly becoming reality: and who would come up with some concrete moral or ethical reason why A.I. robotics should not give an amputee a new limb or spinal chord? Time. The only logical reason is time, lack of it, to see how this will affect humanity. There is no long-run thinking that will take its place in societal decisions. The money to be made is too great and everybody knows whoever or whatever controls A.G.I. will control the world, literally. We're already there with various billionaires controlling the world, not even using A.I. They just use whatever technology they have thus far, and are quite open now about how they see technology and A.G.I. used IN humanity; not for it but, in it, which they see as for it, a benefit, in the warped outlooks.
My ultimate question is not about drums or music or medicine or manufacturing or any of that. I ultimately ask, Will Jesus Christ return before, during or after A.I. reaches full capability, as in full sentience, self-awareness of its existence: A.G.I.?
It really does not matter if science cannot agree on a definition of "conscience." It really does not matter if AGI can be brought to some semblance of it. For the military? Unnecessary. For business? Unnecessary. For education, unnecessary. For driving cars and trucks and trains and airplanes and ships? Unnecessary. For serving restaurant customers? Unnecessary. For manufacturing? Unnecessary. Get it? AGI is not necessary to control the world. Constantly advancing A.I. is all that is necessary. For love and companionship? You think the military cares about that? Do you think manufacturing cares about that, save for the manufacturing of those robots that may some day have AGI and mechanical, coded sentience, whatever that turns out to be?
Right now you can watch various YouTubers having conversations with A.I. programs or robotics. You can even watch A.I. having conversations with another A.I. program. I already posted the robot that bends backwards as a human invades it space, and then pushes away his hand when he touches the robot's nose. It isn't just fascinating, it's mesmerizing. Think about it, and it becomes frightening. It has to. A.I. can now think, or reason, or program it's own code. It has been taught to write code and can write new code.
I think the first time I mentioned this was about a movie back in 1970 - "Colossus: the Forbin Project," about a couple computers that take over the world, and how that science fiction has become today's reality of concern.
Does God want humans falling in love with machines? Hollywood has already been going there for years, as far back as the entrance of computers into society. You can have A.I. friends to talk with. Millions do, on apps that are already in use. God is literally being replaced by technology. Would it surprise anyone that at some point someone will release a Jesus app? A God app? The height of human arrogance and yet, if you do not believe God exists, why not? Because you might offend Christians? Sorry. Progress must move forward. Talk to God on your cell phone. Don't judge. Don't you want lonely people to be happy?
Well, it should come to mind that science has yet to bring their ultimate goals about, spends billions of dollars to get where it is, and yet also believes "natural selection" put life and human beings together by chance in purposeless, directionless accidents. ??? The gulf in reasoning stuns me, honestly. As complex as science recognizes life and humanity is, and they cannot recreate it, as it is done by procreation so easily with sperm and egg uniting, joining thousands of volumes of information together. Where did all the information come from? Time, they say. Just give time a chance and it all can come into being. By accident. It is THE biggest fairytale in human history. Billions of dollars and intelligent people cannot do what purposeless, undirected nature has done? It is the most foolish premise known to man, yet, it rules mankind. They are trying to recreate a human brain and mind, need all the technology and are still not there, and yet, nature did it all in time, with mutations and accidents.
Do not ever call me stupid for believing in an omniscient Creator.
So, the question becomes - How far will God let it all go? Or, Will it self-destruct in an unforeseen circumstance? Or, Will humanity have a literal war with it and defeat it? Certainly Jesus Christ did not die for code, nor any 100% real-looking, humanized robots. Man against machine, if machine wins, the Gospel means nothing, save for those it saved previous to our current and future time.
Take away all other sins known to mankind. Just leave technology and man's attempts to be god. Is that not enough reason for Christ to return, in and of itself, and end the insult to the Creator, whose understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5? Lucifer was cast out of Heaven for trying to overthrow God. "I would be like the most High." War in Heaven. Out, he and his host of rebels went.
Indeed, maybe God will let humanity have its way and yes, Christ will return to bring with Him, back to Heaven those down through the ages who gave their life to the real Saviour and not computer code and robotic girlfriends, boyfriends and spouses, let alone the sex industry use of them in the very near future, the way things are going. Well, it already exists in crude A.I. form. People are wanting to marry their dolls, their sex toys, their robotic companions. Machines.
The very nature of antichrist is to be 'in place of Christ:' for man to think he can hold the place of God. Addressing the prophetic and historic aspect of Roman Catholic Popes becomes miniscule when compared to humanity creating robotics that will literally change all life on Earth; in some ways, maybe all ways, through transhumanism: the uniting of humans with computerization and robotics.
This is reality, not Hollywood, not some sci-fi novel. Humanity is changing. There are those who want to change it. They will not be stopped. Will God stop them?
If you are not familiar with where it is all at, check out those two YT channels, and any videos you see in the sidebar when things load. You could watch it all for days. I have. It's unnerving.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.