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(and lately, the Spring of 2020, an American's perspective)
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To Those visiting regularly. My sincere apologies for messing up the order of numbered posts. Man, what a mess. No idea how it happened. I greatly apologize for the salmagundi. Everything is back in proper order.
800. SCOTUS, SUNDAY, SABBATH
801. How Did We Get Here?
What is a Fetus?
Marco Rubio is Shocked
We're Coming for Your Children
Dolan/Bassett Interview
802. No Drums
803. A.I. Deity?
804. The Sea and the Waves Roaring
July 4, 1776
LEGEND UPDATE
To Those Ignorant of History
Dr. David Martin Carpet Bombs the Room
805. The Need for Liberals
806. The U.N. Stumbles Again
Babylon, Babylon and More Babylon
Evospeak
807.Why Censor?
"THA DHIM"
808. The CBDC "Beast"
Political Theater
809. The Ten Suggestions?
Pig Beans?!?!
LEGEND Revisited - Scandinavian Division
Babylon, Oh Babylon
810. The Faith of Atheists
811. Problems
812. Is Pride a Sin?
On the UFO Front
813. The Great Falling Away
Congressman Burchett UFO Hearing Announcement
814. Is LEGEND Now Christian Rock?
A Little Menu of Stuff
A Little Life Edit
815. Karma and Taylor Swift
AERODRUMS
The UAP Hearings
Ice Cube and Injections
FYI - Math and Melodies
Martin Jepsen Andersen
Walsh, Prof. Dave, Logic and Common Sense
816. Il Gesu
Global Boiling?
817. Babylon: The Sparkle Creed
818. Christian Rock? Part 2
Bassists Extraordinaire!
This Guy is Just Nuts
Bukhchuluun Ganburged
Get Trump! No Matter What!
819. How Culture and Law Collide
820. Should Jews and Christians Work Together?
Some Great Reading
821. Is This True? Explosion Time
822. Two Popes in the House
Riots
Tucker, Steven Sund, J6
Karen Kingston Needs Prayer
823. A Warning Grossly Misplaced
824. Around the World
Nature's Drummer
825. The Strongest Natural Fiber
The Vatican and UFOs
826. Tranq
Where Do We Stand Thus Far?
Bowls!
Three Strikes. You're Out.
Archbishop Vigano in the News - Again!
Flash Rob!
Imagine the Corruption
827. Once Again: the "Rapture" is Nigh
Joey Baron
Tipoz, Typose, Typos
Jimmy Vincent
Maui
Guess How Many
How Far Can They Push?
Megaregions and 15-Minute Cities
Stew Peters Goes Off
Gentle Giant
Tucker and Trump
??? Money For Theaters ???
Ever Wonder?
828. Rationality
829. Two Thirds Believe a Lie About Life
Carlos Santana
Babylon, Oh Babylon
The Tour 60-day Challenge
How Much Evidence is Necessary?
An Astonishing Family Band
Maui - Truth Marches Forward
"Climate Change" OR Arson?
Maui - The Current 9/11
Radical Leftists on Parade
DEW Back on the Table???
Idalia and DeSantis
AGE LIMITS
830. It's All Connected
They MUST Get Trump
The Billionaire Starts a Maui Fund
An Arborist Speaks Out!
831. They Finally Got Control of the Web
Let's Summon Some Demons
China: The "Xi" Bible
Morality For Thee, Not For Me
832. Communicating With the Dead
833. From God's Point of View
Information: The Foundation of Life
Dr. David Martin - DO NOT FEAR 2.0
Trash Cans and rdavidr
Eric: Hawaii Real Estate YT Channel, Under Attack
Fast Food Freak Outs!
15 Secrets of the Vatican
Law, No Law??? Maui Police State
Dad Harmony: Mesmerizing
Video Underway with rdavidr
Where Are The Children?
Fan the Flames
Am I a Weatherman?
OH, COME ON!
834. Mikaila
Playing God
835. The Bible Trial
Smart Clothes???
LEGEND Revisited UPDATE
A Debate Between Design Versus Chance
Another Corrupt Governor?
Whatever You Think of Trump
The BLUE Stuff
836. A.I. and Air
Reality
Nick
Official Stories
837. See How Climate Change Works?
838. And He Added No More
839. The Highways of Our Brains
840. Looking Under Every Rock
The Attack on RFK
UNBELIEVABLE
Aliens Before Parliament?
841. Would Jesus Christ Be 'Cancelled' Today?
842. Perceptions
843. In Case You Aren't Paying Attention
Separation of Church and State?
Just a Quick Thought
NASA UAP Report
David Berlinski
RDAVIDR Does Trash Cans
Straw Poll - Trump by 35 Points???
Sky News - Rita Panahi - Leftists Losing It
844. I AM NOT WHITE
Why Speak Out?
Maui is Already Fading Away
*The Influence of RDAVIDR*
Some Important Observations by Robert F. Kennedy
An AMAZING YT Channel
845. Mob Mentality
846. Deception
Can Maui Truth Be Forced?
847. Auditors and Audits
R.I.P. Dom Famularo
848. Babylon Sinks Further Down
Strange Happenings
849. Dreams and Hopes
850. Thankful for the Kat and a Bear
851. Saint Faustina
Hamas vs. Israel
Why is There Distrust of Government?
A Sad, Happy Day
1 in 800
852. A Word About War and Babies
Jack Philipps - Cakes for Me, Not for Thee
The Current Condition?
ETs: Have You Ever Noticed?
Here We Go. Question The "Official" Narrative
LEGEND Update
853. Just What Is Free Speech?
No Drums, Anymore?
I'm Glad I am Not a Republican
854. Why So Much Antisemitism?
The Baffling Antagonistic Design Denier
855. The Human Soul
She Said, "Yes"
856. John MacArthur and the Sabbath
Israel Will Not Come Around
A Clump of Cells?
857. Lesser Charges
858. Lewiston, Maine Shooting
Tipping the Scales
Fast Food Fallout
859. Which War is More Important?
Babylon on Flags
A.I. Goes to Church
The Need of Spines
The Other Side of Dracula
Uh Oh. The Rapture Has Taken Place!
The Borders
860. Speaker Mike Johnson
861. I Never Knew You
Geoengineering?
862. The Rainbow
In Case You Were Wondering
Rogan/Musk
A Frightening Expose'
"A Whole Other Level"
863. Noah's Ark?
What Did Hamas Expect?
Aaron Spears R.I.P.
864. A Paradigm Shift
A Couple Questions to Ponder
865. Another Question to Ponder
Thoughts/OpEd
Why Am I Pessimistic?
Maui is Still a Mystery
866. What Drives You?
We Told You So
867. "50 in 5"
World News Ignored
868. A Mournful Journey
869. Was Jesus an Evolutionist?
870. This Raises Another Question
871. Is Creationism Science?
Iona
And the Betrayal Begins
J6 Confinement
40% Believe in Divine Creation
SHOT DEAD
A Very Cool Cymbal Manufacturing Video
872. The Benefits of Passion and Honesty
873. Sheep and Goats?
874. Comparatively Speaking
875. Study a Mind
LEGEND Revisited UPDATE
Where Are We At?
876. Oh Beans!
40 Failed Predictions
That One, Single Moment
The George Floyd Saga Continues
877. Thankful?
878. It's Getting Warmer
The Delusions are Ramping Up
Vivek Ramaswamy
Do I reject "Hell?"
One Week on Earth
879. HGE
880. The Case of Unbelievers With Believers
LEGEND UPDATE
Circumstances
Thankful
881. Who is a Jew?
882. A Cardinal Gets Evicted
Are You Sure There's No Creator?
883. Critical Thinking on Aliens and UFOs?
884. Opinionated People
New Life, Next Life?
885. The Tipping Point
886. More A.I. as the Beast System
Let Me Get This Straight
You Can't Make Sense of Nonsense.
887. The Bible. A Flat Earth?
888. Chimp/Human Hybrid?
Will Trump Survive?
Oh, Colorado! What have You Done?
ICELAND!
889. The Mouth of God?
890. Wise Men?
It's Viral!
891. The Pope is Wrong
892. Begotten
The 26th
LEGEND UPDATE
892. The Conflict of Rights
893. The UAP Debacle
What a Year
894. Can We Please Have Some Honesty?
895. Babylon Marches Backwards
Jovan Pulitzer - The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
896. Why Don't the Facts Matter?
and Who's in Charge?
897. ??? Victory over Sin is Unattainable ???
898. The Futility of Futurism
899. 5D Chess
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800. SCOTUS, SUNDAY, SABBATH - July 1, 2023
At one time at the beginning of Earth's history, all people kept the seventh-day Sabbath as the day of rest -
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Having written on this a great deal on these pages, I just bring that fact to the Reader's attention.
Every century of history records the existence of seventh-day Sabbath keepers on this globe - the Middle East, Northern Africa, Europe, the far East and onward to spread over six continents today. From God's people, then the Hebrews to over 500 various Sabbath keeping groups today, the seventh-day Sabbath has been known and kept.
With the demise of sanctity around the globe came the worship of deities placed upon the known solar system - sun gods, moon gods, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; and the 'venerabilis de solis;' the venerable day of the sun became the most popular; subverting the Sabbath in the minds of the growing bulk of humanity. So confused has everything become many people refer to the Sunday as the Sabbath. They are not the same.
There is God's, the Creator's Sabbath rest and there is the pagan day of rest; especially adopted and made more concrete by the apostasy of the Roman church.
It is a biblical fact the Father never changed the day. The Son never changed the day. The Holy Spirit never prompted or inspired any biblical author or messenger with the gift of prophecy to proclaim such a change. Only counterfeits have called upon people to regard the first day of the week as "holy." The Bible promotes and demands the honoring of the Seventh-day, as the memorial of creation. Paganism and the Papacy promotes the Sunday as a memorial of Christ rising from His tomb on the first day of the week.
"Sabbath" laws have existed for ages. Obviously the Hebrew nation worshipped on the Sabbath, according to their history and the Fourth Commandment of the Decalogue. Pagan Rome established the rest of the Sunday and emperor Constantine "Christianized" it and Papal Rome continued that law with the host of popes who took the throne of "Peter," Catholicism's first proclaimed pope. Peter is absolutely silent on the change of the day. Paul had no authority to change it, nor did all the apostles jointly. Only God can change His law that He wrote with His own finger in stone.
Down through the centuries various groups of people arose and proclaimed the Papal apostasy and the Sabbath truth.
In early America, Sunday laws were well known and strictly enforced. In the 1880's the Lord's Day Alliance sought to move Congress to regard Sunday by national decree. The law failed to materialize when things came to a head in 1888 and 1889.
As the secularization of America became more acute, Sunday laws gave way to a seven day work-week but, each state held on to Sunday laws to some degree or let them go, altogether.
Many readers will remember Sunday laws in place during the oil/gasoline crisis of the late 1970's. Gas stations were shut down on Sundays.
In one city in California, so many Seventh-day Adventists reside, with their schools, hospitals, and businesses, mail is delivered on Sunday, not the Sabbath. Most Americans do not know that.
The Supreme Court has faced many cases where employees have sought to keep either the Sabbath or Sunday and hold on to their jobs. The court has generally ruled in favor of believers, especially if they were hired with employers knowing their professed religious belief upon hiring them. One must wonder why, today, the cases continue to arrive before the Court, why lower courts continue to take away religious freedom and liberty from employees and the Supreme Court votes to give them back. I can recall at least half a dozen cases that have come before SCOTUS since I became a Christian.
Once again we have a story in the news that an employee of the USPS has been granted the right to not go to work on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-buoys-religious-141552733.html
"Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Sunday and the Sabbath are establishments of religion. The Sabbath is the oldest establishment of religion known to mankind, brought forth right at creation. The 1st Amendment is the law of the land and the states, nor private enterprise may force work upon nor against its provisions.
"The 9-0 ruling threw out a lower court's decision rejecting a claim by Gerald Groff, a former mail carrier in Pennsylvania, that the Postal Service's actions refusing to exempt him from working on Sundays, when he observes the Sabbath, violated federal anti-discrimination law."
It must be understood Gerald Groff does not observe the Sabbath. Sunday is not the Sabbath; never has been and never will be.
The Roman Catholic Church has no power or authority, beyond its own claims, to change the Law of God. Yet, in its Catechisms, in its version of the Ten Commandments, the Third commandment addresses a rest day, not the fourth, as it reads in the Bible, including the Douay/Rheims Catholic translation -
Exo 20:1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
Exo 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. #1
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. #2
Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. #3
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. #4
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. #5
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. #6
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. #7
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. #8
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. #9
Exo 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. #10
In the Roman Catholic Bible, the ten commandments read basically the same as every other version of Scriptures out there. Why does their catechism read differently?
Simply because Romanism allows veneration of graven images, so removes the second commandment, which shifts the fourth into the third position. Now you only have 9 commandments. So, they split the tenth into two commands, do not covet your neighbor's wife, and do not covet your neighbor's belongings.
This is actually religious history 101 but, how few understand it.
Did Jesus rise on the first day of the week. Yes, well before dawn He did so, after resting in His tomb on the Sabbath. Jesus kept the Sabbath His entire life, never changed the day and never will because it is a memorial of the six-day creation week and God's rest on day seven. It is the reason all humanity regards a seven-day week. The week is not man's. The week is the Creator God's.
I bring this up, once again, because prophecy predicts a showdown between God's law and man's law. The seventh-day Sabbath is the seal of the living God, his sign of sanctifying power and authority to create and recreate people through being born-again. The Sunday, the first day of the week, when legislated by Congress at some point in the future, shall become the mark of the Beast, the papal power; the antichrist power of Bible prophecy.
Right now the RCC claims she has the authority to change God's law and claims 'the change is her mark of that authority, and lo and behold, all Protestants regard her authority. The Scriptures state the seventh-day is to be regarded as God's day of rest but, we say Sunday is the day of rest and the whole world bows to Rome.' She has made that boast over and over for centuries.
The two days shall become the focus of all the populace on planet Earth before Christ returns.
Watch. Prophecy cannot and will not fail. God has spoken. The Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has put itself 'in place of Christ,' antechristos, and "thinks to change times and laws," Daniel 7:25. She has changed prophetic time, with the doctrine of Futurism, and thought to change the Law of God, with Sunday and veneration of graven images.
The Roman Church claims they do not worship, adore or venerate graven images. They just use them to remind us of the entities the images portray. Sorry, the commandment states, point blank, not to make them. And interestingly enough, the King James version and just about any other Bible translation you read will say not to bow down to them. Catholics kneel before graven images in some capacity in every Catholic church they enter. The kneel before images, candles, paintings/icons, relics, popes and priests. I was raised a Catholic. My relatives are French Roman Catholics going back centuries. Kneeling before graven images is common place. For any Catholic prelate to state otherwise is simple disingenuous, if not outright fabrication of a lie.
The Sabbath or the Sunday.
How ironic the RCC did not at least change it to the Son's day. No. She kept the pagan nomenclature.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Having written on this a great deal on these pages, I just bring that fact to the Reader's attention.
Every century of history records the existence of seventh-day Sabbath keepers on this globe - the Middle East, Northern Africa, Europe, the far East and onward to spread over six continents today. From God's people, then the Hebrews to over 500 various Sabbath keeping groups today, the seventh-day Sabbath has been known and kept.
With the demise of sanctity around the globe came the worship of deities placed upon the known solar system - sun gods, moon gods, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; and the 'venerabilis de solis;' the venerable day of the sun became the most popular; subverting the Sabbath in the minds of the growing bulk of humanity. So confused has everything become many people refer to the Sunday as the Sabbath. They are not the same.
There is God's, the Creator's Sabbath rest and there is the pagan day of rest; especially adopted and made more concrete by the apostasy of the Roman church.
It is a biblical fact the Father never changed the day. The Son never changed the day. The Holy Spirit never prompted or inspired any biblical author or messenger with the gift of prophecy to proclaim such a change. Only counterfeits have called upon people to regard the first day of the week as "holy." The Bible promotes and demands the honoring of the Seventh-day, as the memorial of creation. Paganism and the Papacy promotes the Sunday as a memorial of Christ rising from His tomb on the first day of the week.
"Sabbath" laws have existed for ages. Obviously the Hebrew nation worshipped on the Sabbath, according to their history and the Fourth Commandment of the Decalogue. Pagan Rome established the rest of the Sunday and emperor Constantine "Christianized" it and Papal Rome continued that law with the host of popes who took the throne of "Peter," Catholicism's first proclaimed pope. Peter is absolutely silent on the change of the day. Paul had no authority to change it, nor did all the apostles jointly. Only God can change His law that He wrote with His own finger in stone.
Down through the centuries various groups of people arose and proclaimed the Papal apostasy and the Sabbath truth.
In early America, Sunday laws were well known and strictly enforced. In the 1880's the Lord's Day Alliance sought to move Congress to regard Sunday by national decree. The law failed to materialize when things came to a head in 1888 and 1889.
As the secularization of America became more acute, Sunday laws gave way to a seven day work-week but, each state held on to Sunday laws to some degree or let them go, altogether.
Many readers will remember Sunday laws in place during the oil/gasoline crisis of the late 1970's. Gas stations were shut down on Sundays.
In one city in California, so many Seventh-day Adventists reside, with their schools, hospitals, and businesses, mail is delivered on Sunday, not the Sabbath. Most Americans do not know that.
The Supreme Court has faced many cases where employees have sought to keep either the Sabbath or Sunday and hold on to their jobs. The court has generally ruled in favor of believers, especially if they were hired with employers knowing their professed religious belief upon hiring them. One must wonder why, today, the cases continue to arrive before the Court, why lower courts continue to take away religious freedom and liberty from employees and the Supreme Court votes to give them back. I can recall at least half a dozen cases that have come before SCOTUS since I became a Christian.
Once again we have a story in the news that an employee of the USPS has been granted the right to not go to work on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-buoys-religious-141552733.html
"Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Sunday and the Sabbath are establishments of religion. The Sabbath is the oldest establishment of religion known to mankind, brought forth right at creation. The 1st Amendment is the law of the land and the states, nor private enterprise may force work upon nor against its provisions.
"The 9-0 ruling threw out a lower court's decision rejecting a claim by Gerald Groff, a former mail carrier in Pennsylvania, that the Postal Service's actions refusing to exempt him from working on Sundays, when he observes the Sabbath, violated federal anti-discrimination law."
It must be understood Gerald Groff does not observe the Sabbath. Sunday is not the Sabbath; never has been and never will be.
The Roman Catholic Church has no power or authority, beyond its own claims, to change the Law of God. Yet, in its Catechisms, in its version of the Ten Commandments, the Third commandment addresses a rest day, not the fourth, as it reads in the Bible, including the Douay/Rheims Catholic translation -
Exo 20:1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
Exo 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. #1
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. #2
Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. #3
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. #4
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. #5
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. #6
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. #7
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. #8
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. #9
Exo 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. #10
In the Roman Catholic Bible, the ten commandments read basically the same as every other version of Scriptures out there. Why does their catechism read differently?
Simply because Romanism allows veneration of graven images, so removes the second commandment, which shifts the fourth into the third position. Now you only have 9 commandments. So, they split the tenth into two commands, do not covet your neighbor's wife, and do not covet your neighbor's belongings.
This is actually religious history 101 but, how few understand it.
Did Jesus rise on the first day of the week. Yes, well before dawn He did so, after resting in His tomb on the Sabbath. Jesus kept the Sabbath His entire life, never changed the day and never will because it is a memorial of the six-day creation week and God's rest on day seven. It is the reason all humanity regards a seven-day week. The week is not man's. The week is the Creator God's.
I bring this up, once again, because prophecy predicts a showdown between God's law and man's law. The seventh-day Sabbath is the seal of the living God, his sign of sanctifying power and authority to create and recreate people through being born-again. The Sunday, the first day of the week, when legislated by Congress at some point in the future, shall become the mark of the Beast, the papal power; the antichrist power of Bible prophecy.
Right now the RCC claims she has the authority to change God's law and claims 'the change is her mark of that authority, and lo and behold, all Protestants regard her authority. The Scriptures state the seventh-day is to be regarded as God's day of rest but, we say Sunday is the day of rest and the whole world bows to Rome.' She has made that boast over and over for centuries.
The two days shall become the focus of all the populace on planet Earth before Christ returns.
Watch. Prophecy cannot and will not fail. God has spoken. The Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has put itself 'in place of Christ,' antechristos, and "thinks to change times and laws," Daniel 7:25. She has changed prophetic time, with the doctrine of Futurism, and thought to change the Law of God, with Sunday and veneration of graven images.
The Roman Church claims they do not worship, adore or venerate graven images. They just use them to remind us of the entities the images portray. Sorry, the commandment states, point blank, not to make them. And interestingly enough, the King James version and just about any other Bible translation you read will say not to bow down to them. Catholics kneel before graven images in some capacity in every Catholic church they enter. The kneel before images, candles, paintings/icons, relics, popes and priests. I was raised a Catholic. My relatives are French Roman Catholics going back centuries. Kneeling before graven images is common place. For any Catholic prelate to state otherwise is simple disingenuous, if not outright fabrication of a lie.
The Sabbath or the Sunday.
How ironic the RCC did not at least change it to the Son's day. No. She kept the pagan nomenclature.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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801. How Did We Get Here? - July 1, 2023
Everybody seems to be asking, 'How did we get here? How did we get down this road so far?'
My answer is the same as every other aspect of confusion the world is falling into and now running towards - Babylon. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion. It was predicted 1900 years ago when the apostle John wrote down the visions he received and became the book of the Revelation. God revealed to humanity confusion would cover the globe at the end of time. Come out of her, God calls. He is calling people out of confusion into truth; His truth, found in His Word, as well as His creation.
In the book of Deuteronomy we read this -
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.
Why is that in the Bible? Why would God direct Moses to write such a thing? Not only that but, to call such activity an abomination. You cannot get any more condemnatory towards something then to call it an abomination. God calls cross-dressing an abomination.
Now, if you look up commentaries on this, trying to ascertain what the verse refers to, it is more than likely addressing under garments because outward clothing was all relatively the same for men and women in ancient times. In the case of defense and fighting, men had shorter garments they could run in or a buckler, a belt they could roll up or fold up their longer garment and tuck it in if need be. Otherwise, men had garments that reached to the top of their feet, just like women. The difference was that women always had garments to the feet; pretty much all societies. Modesty. That custom, that standard held true right into the 20th century in many cultures. As American culture grew more confused, its influence literally changed the way the world dressed.
The larger point is, God warned and demanded, commanded on this issue thousands of years ago. Trans issues are ancient. It is not some new philosophical or mental/emotional phenomenon. It has been around a long time. God addressed it with the beginning of calling his nation out from Egypt; out from the world, to serve Him according to higher standards than the world's.
Beyond this issue from a biblical viewpoint there is the scientific viewpoint. "Feeling" is not scientific. Matter of fact, believers are not to use feelings to gauge anything spiritual. We are to walk by faith, not sight. We are to go by the written Word, not feeling, not tastes, not culture, and truly, not even science falsely so called -
1Tim 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Tim 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
Appealing to science over the Word of God has certainly happened among professed believers who have erred from the faith. It's happening more and more every year.
Just because something is found in the Old Testament does not make it of none effect. If it regards practical truth, it is as eternal as anything written in the New Testament. The priesthood and Earthly sanctuary services were ended. The civil laws for the nation of Israel were ended; the statues and judgments pertaining to national governance but, things addressing issues of men and women; standards and behavior, are just as valid today as when they were written, and truly, the Ten Commandments were in effect before God wrote them in stone. The easiest way to understand that is from seeing the rebellion of Lucifer right on through to Mt. Sinai. Lucifer bore false witness to the angelic host to begin the rebellion. Cain murdered his brother Abel. The fact is, the seventh-day Sabbath rest was established by God at creation and His people knew it, for God challenged them on their fidelity to the law before they got to Sinai - Exodus 16. You don't see the fourth commandment until Exodus 20. Abraham was said to keep God's laws and commandments and that was before there was a Hebrew nation - Gen. 26:5.
So, people claiming Duet. 22:5 no longer pertains to believers and society as a whole is just not true. Spiritual principles are eternal. God created men and women and the differences are to be keep different, and until mankind can genetically change the sexes, nobody is assigned a gender at birth. Your sex, your gender is determined, established, set in genetics when egg is joined to sperm, before birth. All the information that makes you, you was in sperm and egg at conception. Doctors do not assign gender. Doctors cannot assign gender any more than a pro basketball player can jump up and touch the ceiling of an arena.
A man may feel like a woman, whatever that means, and frankly, asking a man what a woman is determines pretty quick just how confused he is. Asking a woman what a man is also shows the same confusion. I do not mean a woman is an adult female; a man is an adult male. The differences between men and women have been written upon for ages. All women have some male characteristics and all men have some female characteristics. Everybody is different as to degree, person to person. Regardless of the levels, a man is still a man. Just because a little girl into womanhood likes cars, trucks, engines, guns, rockets and fishing does not make her a man. Just because a boy into manhood likes sewing, baking, or decorating a house does not make him a woman. This is humanity 101. How did it all become so confused?
As society moves away from God, their Creator, it becomes confused. It can become so confused no standards of any kind can develop and take over. The debauchery of pagan societies that went that way leave testimony behind of what rejecting God does to civilization: it becomes uncivilized. That is history 101. It does not mean a society ceases to function and produce. The arts continue, science continues, work continues but, it all becomes controlled by lower tendencies and policies, not higher principles. Therefore corruption takes over: lying, cheating, stealing become common and accepted; honor, integrity, the sanctity of life all become weakened and rejected until that society collapses from internal strife or outside invasion or both. That may seem a simplistic take on history but, that is what happened to every previous empire. Godless societies collapse, period. The only thing keeping Communist China afloat is the West; commerce with the West. Chinese totalitarianism would have collapsed by now were it not for the influence of outside capitalism and Western culture, which, in the final analysis, will collapse China just like corrupted Western culture will collapse Europe, North America, Australia and plenty of nations in S. America. Drug cartels control Mexico and S.A. nations. The corruption in those nations is old and now, amazingly enough, their leaders look at America and make the truthful claim she is worse then them! She is no more a land of the free, home of the brave. Her government has weaponized it's justice department. Her agencies, supposedly designed to protect Americans, have turned on them, calling her finest citizens its enemies. Her leaders don't know the difference between men and women and cannot even state what a woman is. No such confusion can be found in even communist, totalitarian nations.
That said, all nations are at war with God and the final battles between good and evil are developing into a final clash. Newsflash. God wins. Wins so decidedly, the planet is going to go into a hibernation of 1000 years before final sentence is carried out; the first rebel and his hosts left in darkness to ponder their ultimate fate - destruction and removal from existence, along with the lost of all ages in the final fires of God's unleashed presence and glory, Rev 20:9,10. When the Bible says the glory of God, a consuming fire, devours the lost, that is what will happen. The word 'devour' in the Greek is "katesthio" and it mean 'to eat down.' When locusts devour, eat down crops, is there anything left? No. Everything is gone.
All abominations and sin will be devoured in the final flames of judgment upon this world. No culture's accolades of an abomination will save it from destruction. People can shout and scream and protest all they want. When Christ returns, all negation of God's law goes up in smoke. For those who repent, who follow on to know the Lord and keep God's commandments and faith and testimony of Jesus; eternity awaits. A holy culture will someday exist. A righteous populace with live on forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
My answer is the same as every other aspect of confusion the world is falling into and now running towards - Babylon. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion. It was predicted 1900 years ago when the apostle John wrote down the visions he received and became the book of the Revelation. God revealed to humanity confusion would cover the globe at the end of time. Come out of her, God calls. He is calling people out of confusion into truth; His truth, found in His Word, as well as His creation.
In the book of Deuteronomy we read this -
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.
Why is that in the Bible? Why would God direct Moses to write such a thing? Not only that but, to call such activity an abomination. You cannot get any more condemnatory towards something then to call it an abomination. God calls cross-dressing an abomination.
Now, if you look up commentaries on this, trying to ascertain what the verse refers to, it is more than likely addressing under garments because outward clothing was all relatively the same for men and women in ancient times. In the case of defense and fighting, men had shorter garments they could run in or a buckler, a belt they could roll up or fold up their longer garment and tuck it in if need be. Otherwise, men had garments that reached to the top of their feet, just like women. The difference was that women always had garments to the feet; pretty much all societies. Modesty. That custom, that standard held true right into the 20th century in many cultures. As American culture grew more confused, its influence literally changed the way the world dressed.
The larger point is, God warned and demanded, commanded on this issue thousands of years ago. Trans issues are ancient. It is not some new philosophical or mental/emotional phenomenon. It has been around a long time. God addressed it with the beginning of calling his nation out from Egypt; out from the world, to serve Him according to higher standards than the world's.
Beyond this issue from a biblical viewpoint there is the scientific viewpoint. "Feeling" is not scientific. Matter of fact, believers are not to use feelings to gauge anything spiritual. We are to walk by faith, not sight. We are to go by the written Word, not feeling, not tastes, not culture, and truly, not even science falsely so called -
1Tim 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Tim 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
Appealing to science over the Word of God has certainly happened among professed believers who have erred from the faith. It's happening more and more every year.
Just because something is found in the Old Testament does not make it of none effect. If it regards practical truth, it is as eternal as anything written in the New Testament. The priesthood and Earthly sanctuary services were ended. The civil laws for the nation of Israel were ended; the statues and judgments pertaining to national governance but, things addressing issues of men and women; standards and behavior, are just as valid today as when they were written, and truly, the Ten Commandments were in effect before God wrote them in stone. The easiest way to understand that is from seeing the rebellion of Lucifer right on through to Mt. Sinai. Lucifer bore false witness to the angelic host to begin the rebellion. Cain murdered his brother Abel. The fact is, the seventh-day Sabbath rest was established by God at creation and His people knew it, for God challenged them on their fidelity to the law before they got to Sinai - Exodus 16. You don't see the fourth commandment until Exodus 20. Abraham was said to keep God's laws and commandments and that was before there was a Hebrew nation - Gen. 26:5.
So, people claiming Duet. 22:5 no longer pertains to believers and society as a whole is just not true. Spiritual principles are eternal. God created men and women and the differences are to be keep different, and until mankind can genetically change the sexes, nobody is assigned a gender at birth. Your sex, your gender is determined, established, set in genetics when egg is joined to sperm, before birth. All the information that makes you, you was in sperm and egg at conception. Doctors do not assign gender. Doctors cannot assign gender any more than a pro basketball player can jump up and touch the ceiling of an arena.
A man may feel like a woman, whatever that means, and frankly, asking a man what a woman is determines pretty quick just how confused he is. Asking a woman what a man is also shows the same confusion. I do not mean a woman is an adult female; a man is an adult male. The differences between men and women have been written upon for ages. All women have some male characteristics and all men have some female characteristics. Everybody is different as to degree, person to person. Regardless of the levels, a man is still a man. Just because a little girl into womanhood likes cars, trucks, engines, guns, rockets and fishing does not make her a man. Just because a boy into manhood likes sewing, baking, or decorating a house does not make him a woman. This is humanity 101. How did it all become so confused?
As society moves away from God, their Creator, it becomes confused. It can become so confused no standards of any kind can develop and take over. The debauchery of pagan societies that went that way leave testimony behind of what rejecting God does to civilization: it becomes uncivilized. That is history 101. It does not mean a society ceases to function and produce. The arts continue, science continues, work continues but, it all becomes controlled by lower tendencies and policies, not higher principles. Therefore corruption takes over: lying, cheating, stealing become common and accepted; honor, integrity, the sanctity of life all become weakened and rejected until that society collapses from internal strife or outside invasion or both. That may seem a simplistic take on history but, that is what happened to every previous empire. Godless societies collapse, period. The only thing keeping Communist China afloat is the West; commerce with the West. Chinese totalitarianism would have collapsed by now were it not for the influence of outside capitalism and Western culture, which, in the final analysis, will collapse China just like corrupted Western culture will collapse Europe, North America, Australia and plenty of nations in S. America. Drug cartels control Mexico and S.A. nations. The corruption in those nations is old and now, amazingly enough, their leaders look at America and make the truthful claim she is worse then them! She is no more a land of the free, home of the brave. Her government has weaponized it's justice department. Her agencies, supposedly designed to protect Americans, have turned on them, calling her finest citizens its enemies. Her leaders don't know the difference between men and women and cannot even state what a woman is. No such confusion can be found in even communist, totalitarian nations.
That said, all nations are at war with God and the final battles between good and evil are developing into a final clash. Newsflash. God wins. Wins so decidedly, the planet is going to go into a hibernation of 1000 years before final sentence is carried out; the first rebel and his hosts left in darkness to ponder their ultimate fate - destruction and removal from existence, along with the lost of all ages in the final fires of God's unleashed presence and glory, Rev 20:9,10. When the Bible says the glory of God, a consuming fire, devours the lost, that is what will happen. The word 'devour' in the Greek is "katesthio" and it mean 'to eat down.' When locusts devour, eat down crops, is there anything left? No. Everything is gone.
All abominations and sin will be devoured in the final flames of judgment upon this world. No culture's accolades of an abomination will save it from destruction. People can shout and scream and protest all they want. When Christ returns, all negation of God's law goes up in smoke. For those who repent, who follow on to know the Lord and keep God's commandments and faith and testimony of Jesus; eternity awaits. A holy culture will someday exist. A righteous populace with live on forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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What is a Fetus?
With all the protesting about women's rights (which seems quite odd now that Leftists cannot tell us what a woman is anymore), and all the talk and discussion and in your face vitriol about a woman's womb (oops, only women have those), and what goes into it, I thought I would show you the common understanding/definition of a "fetus" from the 1828 Webster's dictionary -
FETUS, n. plu. fetuses. [L. faetus.] The young of viviparous animals in the womb, and of oviparous animals in the egg, after it is perfectly formed; before which time it is called embryo. A young animal then is called a fetus from the time its parts are distinctly formed, till its birth.
At one time a fetus and a baby were the same thing. It was just a matter of development. A young animal (or human baby), from the time its parts are distinctly formed (not fully formed) UNTIL ITS BIRTH.
I found this at the Medline website. Notice the URL -
medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002398.htm
Dot gov. Government. If the government website posts this, how can there be people in government who deny this information?
"Fetal development
Learn how your baby is conceived and how your baby develops inside the mother's womb.
Information
WEEK BY WEEK CHANGES
Gestation is the period of time between conception and birth when a baby grows and develops inside the mother's womb. Because it's impossible to know exactly when conception occurs, gestational age is measured from the first day of the mother's last menstrual cycle to the current date. It is measured in weeks."
A baby grows and develops inside the mother's womb. Baby. Not a blob of tissue. No. A structure of life that has all it's parts in information in egg and sperm and all functioning parts in place in 10 weeks.
Now notice this statement -
Your baby is a fetus in your womb. Baby/fetus. Same thing; just a differentiation of development stages.
And this. There is a baby on the mother's womb. It is not her body. It is another body; a separate human being dependent on mother's body. HUGE difference.
People who scream for abortion rights convince themselves they are killing some blob of tissue that is their body and until it is born, remains their body. They are misinformed.
Nobody should have a right to kill a baby inside a mother's womb, especially in America where life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are rights granted by God. That goes for babies, too. At least, it used to, and still should.
FETUS, n. plu. fetuses. [L. faetus.] The young of viviparous animals in the womb, and of oviparous animals in the egg, after it is perfectly formed; before which time it is called embryo. A young animal then is called a fetus from the time its parts are distinctly formed, till its birth.
At one time a fetus and a baby were the same thing. It was just a matter of development. A young animal (or human baby), from the time its parts are distinctly formed (not fully formed) UNTIL ITS BIRTH.
I found this at the Medline website. Notice the URL -
medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002398.htm
Dot gov. Government. If the government website posts this, how can there be people in government who deny this information?
"Fetal development
Learn how your baby is conceived and how your baby develops inside the mother's womb.
Information
WEEK BY WEEK CHANGES
Gestation is the period of time between conception and birth when a baby grows and develops inside the mother's womb. Because it's impossible to know exactly when conception occurs, gestational age is measured from the first day of the mother's last menstrual cycle to the current date. It is measured in weeks."
A baby grows and develops inside the mother's womb. Baby. Not a blob of tissue. No. A structure of life that has all it's parts in information in egg and sperm and all functioning parts in place in 10 weeks.
Now notice this statement -
- At the end of the 10th week of pregnancy, your baby is no longer an embryo. It is now a fetus, the stage of development up until birth.
Your baby is a fetus in your womb. Baby/fetus. Same thing; just a differentiation of development stages.
And this. There is a baby on the mother's womb. It is not her body. It is another body; a separate human being dependent on mother's body. HUGE difference.
People who scream for abortion rights convince themselves they are killing some blob of tissue that is their body and until it is born, remains their body. They are misinformed.
Nobody should have a right to kill a baby inside a mother's womb, especially in America where life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are rights granted by God. That goes for babies, too. At least, it used to, and still should.
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Marco Rubio is Shocked
"Marco Rubio says he's heard shocking 'firsthand' accounts of UFOs from top Pentagon officials who claim US owns crashed non-human craft - and is working on reverse-engineering their technology"
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12238931/Senator-Marco-Rubio-says-officials-high-clearances-knowledge-UFO-craft-retrievals.html
Article with video interview. Just another bit of evidence this subject is not going away.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12238931/Senator-Marco-Rubio-says-officials-high-clearances-knowledge-UFO-craft-retrievals.html
Article with video interview. Just another bit of evidence this subject is not going away.
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We're Coming for Your Children,
Round 2
Round 1 was a Gay men's chorus on YT stating they were coming for our children.
Round 2 was a L-Q+ parade where marchers were standing up for Drag Queens and were saying they were coming for our children.
nypost.com/2023/06/24/drag-marchers-spark-outrage-with-chant-at-nyc-pride-event-were-here-were-queer-and-were-coming-for-your-children/
If you do a search for the event and look at the image pages, you'll see photos of the march and plenty of characters that are freaks, by definition. But, looking outrageous is as old as the hills for homosexuals and transvestites. I saw it as a little boy visiting Cape Cod, MA. That was 60 years ago. No, the outrageous nature of drag queens was not the worst of it. Adults in stages of undress, as in nakedness, with children all over the place should have gotten people arrested. Nope. Not anymore.
As I looked at the photos I pictured what it must have looked like for an entire town of men heading to Lot's house to have their way with Lot's males guests.
Sodom and Gomorrah is truly alive and well in modern-day America.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*Addendum* - Rather than a new post, I add on to this the fact that over six thousand congregations, 6,000+ churches have left the United Methodist Church over the issue of the acceptance of homosexuality by that denomination.
www.christianpost.com/news/over-6000-umc-churches-granted-dissafiliation-amid-schism.html
If the Reformer, John Wesley, were still alive I'm sure that number would be far greater. To see such a thing back in his day would have been impossible. The practice of homosexuality was universally seen as a grave sin, not an alternative lifestyle but, the Methodist church John and his brother Charles founded has changed beyond recognition today. Frankly, the acceptance of homosexuality is not the only thing early Methodists would have seen as an apostasy from the truth of Scriptural doctrine and caused a rising up and walking away.
The "Sparkle Creed" shows how the Lutheran Church has gone down the same road as Methodists. For all his faults of being a man who could truly get in someone's face and utter thunder from the pulpit, Martin Luther's trumpet would have excoriated such a thing in his day.
www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/progressive-lutheran-church-recites-the-lgbtq-version-of-the-apostles-creed.html
At least the Supreme Court used some common sense in its decision to back a web site designer being forced to create a site for gay weddings in a Colorado suit.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
Finally, a decision from the court that should set a precedent for all "artists" being forced to violate their conscience in submitting to the Sodomite agenda. Whether web site design, baking cakes or taking photographs, all such artistic enterprises: art, cannot be forced. It's atrocious reasoning by lawmakers and courts. How can you force someone to create art? Art is seen as something that is unique, not mass produced and manufactured. Art comes from a person's whole being. To force any artist or designer to violate their conscience is the depths of totalitarian rejection of God. Mark it. This decision by the Supreme Court only delays America's doom.
The Protestant Reformation is all but dead in this world. Fragments of its life remain and carry on and shall finish the work God gave it down through the centuries but, what changed Europe and founded America and went around the world has long ceded its place to apostasy from its original principles. Not until the final revival of those principles with calls to come out of Babylon, Rev 14:8; 18:1-5 will its glorious power be seen in civilization as in former times. It will spearhead the cause of God as the last-days bring about the end. It's just sad and tragic what could have been done a long time ago when there was a sense of unity will now have to be accomplished under stresses, strains and harassments, oppressions and persecutions that will more than match the ugly scenes of former times.
Even so...
Round 2 was a L-Q+ parade where marchers were standing up for Drag Queens and were saying they were coming for our children.
nypost.com/2023/06/24/drag-marchers-spark-outrage-with-chant-at-nyc-pride-event-were-here-were-queer-and-were-coming-for-your-children/
If you do a search for the event and look at the image pages, you'll see photos of the march and plenty of characters that are freaks, by definition. But, looking outrageous is as old as the hills for homosexuals and transvestites. I saw it as a little boy visiting Cape Cod, MA. That was 60 years ago. No, the outrageous nature of drag queens was not the worst of it. Adults in stages of undress, as in nakedness, with children all over the place should have gotten people arrested. Nope. Not anymore.
As I looked at the photos I pictured what it must have looked like for an entire town of men heading to Lot's house to have their way with Lot's males guests.
Sodom and Gomorrah is truly alive and well in modern-day America.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*Addendum* - Rather than a new post, I add on to this the fact that over six thousand congregations, 6,000+ churches have left the United Methodist Church over the issue of the acceptance of homosexuality by that denomination.
www.christianpost.com/news/over-6000-umc-churches-granted-dissafiliation-amid-schism.html
If the Reformer, John Wesley, were still alive I'm sure that number would be far greater. To see such a thing back in his day would have been impossible. The practice of homosexuality was universally seen as a grave sin, not an alternative lifestyle but, the Methodist church John and his brother Charles founded has changed beyond recognition today. Frankly, the acceptance of homosexuality is not the only thing early Methodists would have seen as an apostasy from the truth of Scriptural doctrine and caused a rising up and walking away.
The "Sparkle Creed" shows how the Lutheran Church has gone down the same road as Methodists. For all his faults of being a man who could truly get in someone's face and utter thunder from the pulpit, Martin Luther's trumpet would have excoriated such a thing in his day.
www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/progressive-lutheran-church-recites-the-lgbtq-version-of-the-apostles-creed.html
At least the Supreme Court used some common sense in its decision to back a web site designer being forced to create a site for gay weddings in a Colorado suit.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
Finally, a decision from the court that should set a precedent for all "artists" being forced to violate their conscience in submitting to the Sodomite agenda. Whether web site design, baking cakes or taking photographs, all such artistic enterprises: art, cannot be forced. It's atrocious reasoning by lawmakers and courts. How can you force someone to create art? Art is seen as something that is unique, not mass produced and manufactured. Art comes from a person's whole being. To force any artist or designer to violate their conscience is the depths of totalitarian rejection of God. Mark it. This decision by the Supreme Court only delays America's doom.
The Protestant Reformation is all but dead in this world. Fragments of its life remain and carry on and shall finish the work God gave it down through the centuries but, what changed Europe and founded America and went around the world has long ceded its place to apostasy from its original principles. Not until the final revival of those principles with calls to come out of Babylon, Rev 14:8; 18:1-5 will its glorious power be seen in civilization as in former times. It will spearhead the cause of God as the last-days bring about the end. It's just sad and tragic what could have been done a long time ago when there was a sense of unity will now have to be accomplished under stresses, strains and harassments, oppressions and persecutions that will more than match the ugly scenes of former times.
Even so...
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Dolan/Bassett Interview
In the field of UFOlogy Richard Dolan is well-known, as is Steve Bassett. Dolan has a YT channel where he comments on the subject and interviews people in it. Their selective credits as researchers, authors, speakers, etc., are well known among enthusiasts.
For anyone with an interest in this subject from a serious viewpoint; meaning discussion that is information-based, researched, I dare say even scholarly, you should find this conversation eye-opening. They discuss the subject in a vein of world events no different than anything you see discussed in national or world-news. For them, the last seven decades of UFO phenomena are not fanciful, tin-hat nonsense. Dolan is actually as well-versed in international events surround aspects of globalism, freedom and liberty as he is with the subject of UFOlogy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoSWOrGkZkA
"For more than twenty years, no one in the UFO community has been more associated with the concept of UFO Disclosure than Steve Bassett. Since the 1990s, he has worked tirelessly as a self-described UFO activist to achieve the goal of official recognition of the reality of the UFO/UAP reality by the United States government. Now three weeks after the latest major revelation in the community from David Grusch, Richard Dolan interviews Steve on what's next. Are we truly close to some kind of genuine UFO Disclosure? Steve believes the answer is yes and explains why."
Again, while these men are not professed Christians and Bible prophecy is not their focus, it is mine and they are filling gaps they know not of.
I cannot express just how definitive the phenomena will play into last-day events. I just believe evidence exists that it will, to some degree.
When the Bible refers to Lucifer as the prince of the power of the air, Ephesians 2:2, and a phenomena is taking the world by storm, in the atmosphere, it is only logical to take notice and put 2+2 together.
Watch the interview and realize very intelligent people are into this subject. Now, with the U.S. Congress involved, the issue is no longer tin-hat territory. It is categorized by some, right or wrong, as a matter of national security.
I pay close attention and know, at some point, "ETs" are going to make their appearance, in the whole of prophetic events fulfilling before our eyes. Satan is active, and the phenomena is in his bag of tricks for last-day deceptions in the final dog and pony show.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
For anyone with an interest in this subject from a serious viewpoint; meaning discussion that is information-based, researched, I dare say even scholarly, you should find this conversation eye-opening. They discuss the subject in a vein of world events no different than anything you see discussed in national or world-news. For them, the last seven decades of UFO phenomena are not fanciful, tin-hat nonsense. Dolan is actually as well-versed in international events surround aspects of globalism, freedom and liberty as he is with the subject of UFOlogy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoSWOrGkZkA
"For more than twenty years, no one in the UFO community has been more associated with the concept of UFO Disclosure than Steve Bassett. Since the 1990s, he has worked tirelessly as a self-described UFO activist to achieve the goal of official recognition of the reality of the UFO/UAP reality by the United States government. Now three weeks after the latest major revelation in the community from David Grusch, Richard Dolan interviews Steve on what's next. Are we truly close to some kind of genuine UFO Disclosure? Steve believes the answer is yes and explains why."
Again, while these men are not professed Christians and Bible prophecy is not their focus, it is mine and they are filling gaps they know not of.
I cannot express just how definitive the phenomena will play into last-day events. I just believe evidence exists that it will, to some degree.
When the Bible refers to Lucifer as the prince of the power of the air, Ephesians 2:2, and a phenomena is taking the world by storm, in the atmosphere, it is only logical to take notice and put 2+2 together.
Watch the interview and realize very intelligent people are into this subject. Now, with the U.S. Congress involved, the issue is no longer tin-hat territory. It is categorized by some, right or wrong, as a matter of national security.
I pay close attention and know, at some point, "ETs" are going to make their appearance, in the whole of prophetic events fulfilling before our eyes. Satan is active, and the phenomena is in his bag of tricks for last-day deceptions in the final dog and pony show.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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802. No Drums - July 1, 2023
I began this website to share things about drums and drumming. As it evolved I added pages about various aspects of that widening subject. As I saw things about drums and drumming in Christian thought on various websites, I began the Thoughts/Op/Ed pages. When Covid hit, I added articles on political matters, and also the entire scope of last-day events and Bible prophecy. I tried to keep things about drums and drumming in the mix, making notice of various players and bands, and stuff going on in the music industry. Certainly my forays in solo drum recordings got part of the mix, as well the reissue of From the Fjords and the new project, LEGEND Revisited, which I write about, mostly on the Recording Blog.
Well, if you live life you know it's a challenge. Circumstances and conditions change and we have to make choices. Things here at home changed fairly dramatically in January with a semi-permanent house guest. It's a small house and one of the bedrooms is filled, literally, with drums. I was able to record six albums in there and stuff for my YouTube channel and other things and it has served me well the last seven years, despite the compact size and tripping over cymbal stands on an almost regular, daily basis.
Before 'house guest' arrived I had fallen into a bout of insomnia which got worse by the week until I was falling asleep at 3 or 4 am in my chair. House guest arrived and my chair became my bed. 8 months of this has caused problems with an already aching back and I had to make a decision: stay in the chair or take down the drum set and revert it to a bedroom. I chose the latter.
If you're thinking about the main bedroom, my wife sleeps on a Sleep Number bed. Kills my back, no matter what setting I choose and I used to have one myself. I don't know why it has become so uncomfortable but, I shopped around and found something that worked for me. We got it in a king-size configuration - two twins. Now, one is for 'house guest,' the other for me.
I have expressed many times I hate playing to the four walls. I despise it. I do not practice. I never have. In my youth I sat down and played to albums. The thought of practicing rudiments and such is revoltingly boring to me. I bought books for the target goal and they all sit somewhere, unused. If I have a purpose in front of me, playing in preparation of a recording, etc., I can deal with the four walls. Remove that and I dislike walking into the room. I sit behind the set and play more for my brain and heart health than anything musical in mind. I'll play for ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes and that's it. Work up a sweat. Done. Despite the huge set-up and all the voices and "toys," it no longer holds the fascination and passion it once did. My back told me to take it all down. I did. It's a bedroom. Last night I fell asleep in my chair. Never made it into the room to inaugurate the bed. Being I fall asleep around 4 am, it's a matter of re-educating my physiology to go to sleep in a natural cycle again. Start getting tired, go to bed. I used to do that and fall asleep rather quickly.
Now, I don't really get tired. I'm awake, watching something or typing or reading and... gone. Never knew what hit me. Just out, until something wakes me up. I don't sleep more than 4 or 5 hours a night. At some point I'll crash and sleep 7 or 8 hours, then back to the regular cycle.
It's only been one day and I miss the drum set. I hardly played it but, it was there if I wanted to. When the bedroom is fully in order, I'll probably get into the Aerodrum box and set that up. I bought it a few years ago, maybe more; however long they've been around now, and I have not yet taken it out of the box to set it up on my laptop. I should have the space to try it out and see what it's like. At least it'll provide some motion and sound. I actually would have the room to set up my TrapKat but, last time I did, it was malfunctioning on a main pad so, back in the box it went. They want quite a bit of money to bring it back to full function (plus shipping), and that isn't in the budget so, Aerodrums will have to suffice. I could bring out the practice pad set-up but, that becomes as bad as the four walls.
I cannot say this is traumatic or anything. I just feel... kind of empty, like something is missing. Not the drums and cymbals... well, yes, all the drums and cymbals but, it's deeper than that. The loss of a sense of creation, being creative, is missing. Hm. After just one day. Well, three or four. Took me that long to take things down and get it all packed away somewhere. Another frustration of being in a very small house. Of course, many players live in apartments so, I'm not complaining. My nearest neighbor is 150' away and the other is 250' away, with a big building on his property edge. Nobody can hear me playing. That is always a concern for me. 'House guest' actually affected my playing on the new recording in a lot of negative ways, not even saying a word and being as accommodating as possible. It just messed with my head a lot, stressing me out, as well as causing me to delay starting the project, which caused a back-up I am now regretting with time and Tom's ability to mix the songs.
It'll be interesting to see how I cope with this. No drums.
I knew I should have built an office/music room when we first moved onto this property. Hindsight.
Bummer.
Well, if you live life you know it's a challenge. Circumstances and conditions change and we have to make choices. Things here at home changed fairly dramatically in January with a semi-permanent house guest. It's a small house and one of the bedrooms is filled, literally, with drums. I was able to record six albums in there and stuff for my YouTube channel and other things and it has served me well the last seven years, despite the compact size and tripping over cymbal stands on an almost regular, daily basis.
Before 'house guest' arrived I had fallen into a bout of insomnia which got worse by the week until I was falling asleep at 3 or 4 am in my chair. House guest arrived and my chair became my bed. 8 months of this has caused problems with an already aching back and I had to make a decision: stay in the chair or take down the drum set and revert it to a bedroom. I chose the latter.
If you're thinking about the main bedroom, my wife sleeps on a Sleep Number bed. Kills my back, no matter what setting I choose and I used to have one myself. I don't know why it has become so uncomfortable but, I shopped around and found something that worked for me. We got it in a king-size configuration - two twins. Now, one is for 'house guest,' the other for me.
I have expressed many times I hate playing to the four walls. I despise it. I do not practice. I never have. In my youth I sat down and played to albums. The thought of practicing rudiments and such is revoltingly boring to me. I bought books for the target goal and they all sit somewhere, unused. If I have a purpose in front of me, playing in preparation of a recording, etc., I can deal with the four walls. Remove that and I dislike walking into the room. I sit behind the set and play more for my brain and heart health than anything musical in mind. I'll play for ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes and that's it. Work up a sweat. Done. Despite the huge set-up and all the voices and "toys," it no longer holds the fascination and passion it once did. My back told me to take it all down. I did. It's a bedroom. Last night I fell asleep in my chair. Never made it into the room to inaugurate the bed. Being I fall asleep around 4 am, it's a matter of re-educating my physiology to go to sleep in a natural cycle again. Start getting tired, go to bed. I used to do that and fall asleep rather quickly.
Now, I don't really get tired. I'm awake, watching something or typing or reading and... gone. Never knew what hit me. Just out, until something wakes me up. I don't sleep more than 4 or 5 hours a night. At some point I'll crash and sleep 7 or 8 hours, then back to the regular cycle.
It's only been one day and I miss the drum set. I hardly played it but, it was there if I wanted to. When the bedroom is fully in order, I'll probably get into the Aerodrum box and set that up. I bought it a few years ago, maybe more; however long they've been around now, and I have not yet taken it out of the box to set it up on my laptop. I should have the space to try it out and see what it's like. At least it'll provide some motion and sound. I actually would have the room to set up my TrapKat but, last time I did, it was malfunctioning on a main pad so, back in the box it went. They want quite a bit of money to bring it back to full function (plus shipping), and that isn't in the budget so, Aerodrums will have to suffice. I could bring out the practice pad set-up but, that becomes as bad as the four walls.
I cannot say this is traumatic or anything. I just feel... kind of empty, like something is missing. Not the drums and cymbals... well, yes, all the drums and cymbals but, it's deeper than that. The loss of a sense of creation, being creative, is missing. Hm. After just one day. Well, three or four. Took me that long to take things down and get it all packed away somewhere. Another frustration of being in a very small house. Of course, many players live in apartments so, I'm not complaining. My nearest neighbor is 150' away and the other is 250' away, with a big building on his property edge. Nobody can hear me playing. That is always a concern for me. 'House guest' actually affected my playing on the new recording in a lot of negative ways, not even saying a word and being as accommodating as possible. It just messed with my head a lot, stressing me out, as well as causing me to delay starting the project, which caused a back-up I am now regretting with time and Tom's ability to mix the songs.
It'll be interesting to see how I cope with this. No drums.
I knew I should have built an office/music room when we first moved onto this property. Hindsight.
Bummer.
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803. A.I. Deity - July 2, 2023
In addressing Bible prophecy in these pages I remind the Reader of a few points.
1. I was raised a Roman Catholic.
2. I was born-again and became a Bible-believing Christian, a Protestant, in 1979.
3. Protestants protest religious positions opposed to the Bible.
4. The Protestant Reformation began well before Martin Luther, though the 16th century saw the bulk of activity in the Reformation across Europe.
5. The Protestant Reformers from the nations of Europe stood opposed to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on matters of salvation and Papal supremacy. For them, the Bible and the Bible alone was the rule of faith, practice and discipline for the believer. The Catholic teaching remains Tradition is more vital than the Bible because it comes from the living church for the last 2,000 years.
6. All Protestants at one time believed the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy was the fulfillment of prophecy regarding the antichrist power of Daniel and Revelation, the Mother Whore of Rev. 17 and 18, and scores of other prophetic matters throughout the books of the Bible, pointing out Rome at the great apostate power of prophecy, the great falling away producing the man of sin, the son of perdition, putting itself, in place of Christ.
7. The Protestant Reformation began as a spiritual baby and grew through the centuries as more study of the Bible, printed and scattered throughout the world, opened to its eyes more and more truth as believers came out of the Dark Ages, Inquisition, revolutions and wars both spiritual and physical. One can see the Anglican Church as an infant of the Reformation, remaining quite close to Romanism in doctrines and liturgical practices. The Lutheran Church, Presbyterian, Methodist and other denominations maintain some but, less tradition than their "Mother." Congregational, Baptist and other denominations maintain even less liturgy and more fundamental points of Scripture to function, though all of that has changed in the last century. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the last Protestant denomination to arise. Today, it and other churches, movements from the Reformation, have apostatized from the founding principles of their forefathers. What does that leave?
8. Revelation states God has a 'remnant,' the last portion of the original, and shall have it till the end of time, which is referred to as a remnant which keeps the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ - Rev. 12:17; 14:12. Anyone who abides in the principles of that remnant stands on the eternal platform of truth and against all apostasy from truth. It calls people out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon - confusion.
In these days of technology millions are asking where does A.I. fit into Bible prophecy? I am seeing more and more use of this passage, regarding the second beast of Rev. 13, to state what they see coming in the realm of Artificial Intelligence -
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
The prevailing thought seems to be that A.I. is the fulfillment of this "image" to the Beast; the first beast of Rev. 13. Unpack this.
1. Who and what is the first beast of Rev. 13? It is not Islam. It is not a secular humanist, globalist elitist. It is not an apostate Jew. Having gone over this at length, point by point in Daniel, Revelation, and other books and prophecies of the Bible, I remain committed to the studied position of Reformers and historians that the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy, along with its modern Vatican, is the only power in the history of the world that fulfills all the prophetic marks supplied by God in His Word to define and designate who and what that power is.
2. How would an image be made to the RCC and its Papacy and Vatican by A.I.? The word image is translated from the Greek word, "eikon;" where the English word 'icon' delineates from. What is an eikon?
eikōn
Thayer Definition:
1) an image, figure, likeness
1a) an image of the things (the heavenly things)
1a1) used of the moral likeness of renewed men to God
1a2) the image of the Son of God, into which true Christians are transformed, is likeness not only to the heavenly body, but also to the most holy and blessed state of mind, which Christ possesses
1b) the image of one
1b1) one in whom the likeness of any one is seen
1b2) applied to man on account of his power of command
1b3) to Christ on account of his divine nature and absolute moral excellence
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G1503 [eiko - faintness, to resemble]
Strong's Concordance 1504
eikōn
i-kone'
From G1503; a likeness, that is, (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance: - image.
Total KJV occurrences: 23
If the Beast is the RCC, its Papacy and Vatican an image of that fact would be rendered by A.I. how? How would the Papacy give life to A.I.? The Beast gives life to this new power in Revelation and causes it to worship, bow down to Papal decree.
If a son is the spitting image of his father, it means he looks just like his father. He may look just like his mother but, resembles his father in character and personality; meaning he acts like his father. Both applications apply to the Greek words, eiko and eikon.
Is it possible some super computer brain, an artificial intelligence will erect for itself a second church, a second Papacy and a second Vatican to rule the world? The original already exists. What would be the point?
Nobody doubts the architecture of technology in having ability to control money, buying and selling and all commerce on the Earth. China's social credit score policy and practice is now being touted for use around the world by various leaders espoused to the globalist agenda. Far too many professed Christians see an imprinted bar code or a tattoo of the number 666, or a computer chip implanted in humans being the end result of this techno-rise. Pray tell, what happened to all the fulfillment of all the marks of prophecy pointing to the Papacy as antechristos - "in place of Christ?" Do mainline Christians and evangelicals and fundamentalist believers think their flocks will be asked to bow and obey some super-computer? Seriously? This A.I. will champion the atheistic globalists and threaten all religions comprising billions of people; when A.I. experts are warning the entire global populace is threatened? What? Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum will be programmers for this A.I. which will threaten the whole world but, them??? Please. Do let us have common sense.
If an A.I. became a god of sorts, having an artificial sentience, what "miracles" could it perform? Miracles are supernatural events. Nothing could be more true that A.I. would be only natural, mechanical: a computer made by man.
In the history of the world, only one power meets the demands of fulfillment of the marks of the second Beast of Rev. 13. That power is the United States of America. It is falling from its original Protestant moorings, and following "Mother" Rome shall begin a movement (once again), to shut down Sunday, the child of the Papacy, its declared mark of authority, to address the ills facing humanity in regards to financial upheavals, climate change, social disintegration and need for spiritual revival. Its "success" shall sweep the world and cries of "peace and safety" shall arise.
The RCC is the epitome of a union of church and state. America, faced with supernatural events it will not be able to explain with science, will form a union of church and state that shall mirror the decrees and will of Mother Rome. From there, a one-world super church shall manifest unmistakable signs "God" is behind it when it shall be Lucifer, attempting to gain control of all the world and he shall. That is the signal that sudden destruction is coming. The seven last plagues and the glorious return of Christ shall bring this great controversy between good and evil to a close.
If you think the non-believers will never go along with this movement, which already had a trial run with the 1880's National Sunday Law, and saw smaller portions of advance in the 1970's oil crisis, you do not realize what is coming when "miracles" shall advance the cause of apostasy in "all power, signs and lying wonders" at the hands of "the man of sin," whatever pope sits in "the chair of Peter," when events reach their climax.
If you believe A.I. is God's stated fulfillment of prophetic events, have these teachers of the moment prove it by showing fulfillment of all the dozens of marks provided by Scripture to identify this antichrist power. Just because something seems to fit a verse, does not mean it fits the whole. Use critical thinking here. You must or you will be deceived.
Demons are at work to enslave the world to lies. Globalist entities are saturated with lies they believe and seek to press upon the people of this world. They want A.I. to gain control when they shall be powerless to stop such a progress of total control. "ET" and the phenomena of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena can easily be used by powers of darkness to deceive the world. The entire sphere of spiritualism - the immortality of a "soul", has been and will be used to deceive billions.
When the Bible says Satan is transformed into an angel of light and has ministers to do his bidding, 2Cor. 11:13-15, and that he, as the dragon, the fallen archfoe of Christ, goes forth to deceive the whole world, Rev. 12:9, that is exactly what God means people to understand.
The enemy is Babylon; spiritual, prophetic Babylon; the triad of characters made up of the Mother-Roman Catholic Church, her fornicating daughters of apostate Protestantism, and the kings of the Earth; all governments and societies slowly being deluded by satanic influences that mother and daughters are fornicating with.
A.I., by warnings being given from all quarters of technology, is apart from everything human and operating in life. It is a possible threat to all humanity, not just some of it. It is not being seen as controlled by any human elements but, undoing all human controls. It is godless information. If it is the image to the Beast, who or what is the Beast? If A.I. is the Beast, who or what is the image to the A.I. Beast? It all fits or none of it is worth consideration.
Tying yourself up into knots by just using portions of prophecy, not the whole, is a sure recipe for absolute disaster. The policy of Jesuit Futurism in prophetic interpretation is destroying prophesied Christianity and allowing it to live in a constant fogbank of this is it, no, now this is it, no, now we have our final characters, no, now this is the fulfillment of prophecy. This has been going on for a couple centuries now and is getting steadily worse. Confusion reigns. Wake up, and come out of Babylon, if you are being lulled to sleep in this miasma of meaningless mortification of history and Scripture truth. Time is running out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
1. I was raised a Roman Catholic.
2. I was born-again and became a Bible-believing Christian, a Protestant, in 1979.
3. Protestants protest religious positions opposed to the Bible.
4. The Protestant Reformation began well before Martin Luther, though the 16th century saw the bulk of activity in the Reformation across Europe.
5. The Protestant Reformers from the nations of Europe stood opposed to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on matters of salvation and Papal supremacy. For them, the Bible and the Bible alone was the rule of faith, practice and discipline for the believer. The Catholic teaching remains Tradition is more vital than the Bible because it comes from the living church for the last 2,000 years.
6. All Protestants at one time believed the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy was the fulfillment of prophecy regarding the antichrist power of Daniel and Revelation, the Mother Whore of Rev. 17 and 18, and scores of other prophetic matters throughout the books of the Bible, pointing out Rome at the great apostate power of prophecy, the great falling away producing the man of sin, the son of perdition, putting itself, in place of Christ.
7. The Protestant Reformation began as a spiritual baby and grew through the centuries as more study of the Bible, printed and scattered throughout the world, opened to its eyes more and more truth as believers came out of the Dark Ages, Inquisition, revolutions and wars both spiritual and physical. One can see the Anglican Church as an infant of the Reformation, remaining quite close to Romanism in doctrines and liturgical practices. The Lutheran Church, Presbyterian, Methodist and other denominations maintain some but, less tradition than their "Mother." Congregational, Baptist and other denominations maintain even less liturgy and more fundamental points of Scripture to function, though all of that has changed in the last century. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the last Protestant denomination to arise. Today, it and other churches, movements from the Reformation, have apostatized from the founding principles of their forefathers. What does that leave?
8. Revelation states God has a 'remnant,' the last portion of the original, and shall have it till the end of time, which is referred to as a remnant which keeps the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ - Rev. 12:17; 14:12. Anyone who abides in the principles of that remnant stands on the eternal platform of truth and against all apostasy from truth. It calls people out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon - confusion.
In these days of technology millions are asking where does A.I. fit into Bible prophecy? I am seeing more and more use of this passage, regarding the second beast of Rev. 13, to state what they see coming in the realm of Artificial Intelligence -
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
The prevailing thought seems to be that A.I. is the fulfillment of this "image" to the Beast; the first beast of Rev. 13. Unpack this.
1. Who and what is the first beast of Rev. 13? It is not Islam. It is not a secular humanist, globalist elitist. It is not an apostate Jew. Having gone over this at length, point by point in Daniel, Revelation, and other books and prophecies of the Bible, I remain committed to the studied position of Reformers and historians that the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy, along with its modern Vatican, is the only power in the history of the world that fulfills all the prophetic marks supplied by God in His Word to define and designate who and what that power is.
2. How would an image be made to the RCC and its Papacy and Vatican by A.I.? The word image is translated from the Greek word, "eikon;" where the English word 'icon' delineates from. What is an eikon?
eikōn
Thayer Definition:
1) an image, figure, likeness
1a) an image of the things (the heavenly things)
1a1) used of the moral likeness of renewed men to God
1a2) the image of the Son of God, into which true Christians are transformed, is likeness not only to the heavenly body, but also to the most holy and blessed state of mind, which Christ possesses
1b) the image of one
1b1) one in whom the likeness of any one is seen
1b2) applied to man on account of his power of command
1b3) to Christ on account of his divine nature and absolute moral excellence
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G1503 [eiko - faintness, to resemble]
Strong's Concordance 1504
eikōn
i-kone'
From G1503; a likeness, that is, (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance: - image.
Total KJV occurrences: 23
If the Beast is the RCC, its Papacy and Vatican an image of that fact would be rendered by A.I. how? How would the Papacy give life to A.I.? The Beast gives life to this new power in Revelation and causes it to worship, bow down to Papal decree.
If a son is the spitting image of his father, it means he looks just like his father. He may look just like his mother but, resembles his father in character and personality; meaning he acts like his father. Both applications apply to the Greek words, eiko and eikon.
Is it possible some super computer brain, an artificial intelligence will erect for itself a second church, a second Papacy and a second Vatican to rule the world? The original already exists. What would be the point?
Nobody doubts the architecture of technology in having ability to control money, buying and selling and all commerce on the Earth. China's social credit score policy and practice is now being touted for use around the world by various leaders espoused to the globalist agenda. Far too many professed Christians see an imprinted bar code or a tattoo of the number 666, or a computer chip implanted in humans being the end result of this techno-rise. Pray tell, what happened to all the fulfillment of all the marks of prophecy pointing to the Papacy as antechristos - "in place of Christ?" Do mainline Christians and evangelicals and fundamentalist believers think their flocks will be asked to bow and obey some super-computer? Seriously? This A.I. will champion the atheistic globalists and threaten all religions comprising billions of people; when A.I. experts are warning the entire global populace is threatened? What? Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum will be programmers for this A.I. which will threaten the whole world but, them??? Please. Do let us have common sense.
If an A.I. became a god of sorts, having an artificial sentience, what "miracles" could it perform? Miracles are supernatural events. Nothing could be more true that A.I. would be only natural, mechanical: a computer made by man.
In the history of the world, only one power meets the demands of fulfillment of the marks of the second Beast of Rev. 13. That power is the United States of America. It is falling from its original Protestant moorings, and following "Mother" Rome shall begin a movement (once again), to shut down Sunday, the child of the Papacy, its declared mark of authority, to address the ills facing humanity in regards to financial upheavals, climate change, social disintegration and need for spiritual revival. Its "success" shall sweep the world and cries of "peace and safety" shall arise.
The RCC is the epitome of a union of church and state. America, faced with supernatural events it will not be able to explain with science, will form a union of church and state that shall mirror the decrees and will of Mother Rome. From there, a one-world super church shall manifest unmistakable signs "God" is behind it when it shall be Lucifer, attempting to gain control of all the world and he shall. That is the signal that sudden destruction is coming. The seven last plagues and the glorious return of Christ shall bring this great controversy between good and evil to a close.
If you think the non-believers will never go along with this movement, which already had a trial run with the 1880's National Sunday Law, and saw smaller portions of advance in the 1970's oil crisis, you do not realize what is coming when "miracles" shall advance the cause of apostasy in "all power, signs and lying wonders" at the hands of "the man of sin," whatever pope sits in "the chair of Peter," when events reach their climax.
If you believe A.I. is God's stated fulfillment of prophetic events, have these teachers of the moment prove it by showing fulfillment of all the dozens of marks provided by Scripture to identify this antichrist power. Just because something seems to fit a verse, does not mean it fits the whole. Use critical thinking here. You must or you will be deceived.
Demons are at work to enslave the world to lies. Globalist entities are saturated with lies they believe and seek to press upon the people of this world. They want A.I. to gain control when they shall be powerless to stop such a progress of total control. "ET" and the phenomena of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena can easily be used by powers of darkness to deceive the world. The entire sphere of spiritualism - the immortality of a "soul", has been and will be used to deceive billions.
When the Bible says Satan is transformed into an angel of light and has ministers to do his bidding, 2Cor. 11:13-15, and that he, as the dragon, the fallen archfoe of Christ, goes forth to deceive the whole world, Rev. 12:9, that is exactly what God means people to understand.
The enemy is Babylon; spiritual, prophetic Babylon; the triad of characters made up of the Mother-Roman Catholic Church, her fornicating daughters of apostate Protestantism, and the kings of the Earth; all governments and societies slowly being deluded by satanic influences that mother and daughters are fornicating with.
A.I., by warnings being given from all quarters of technology, is apart from everything human and operating in life. It is a possible threat to all humanity, not just some of it. It is not being seen as controlled by any human elements but, undoing all human controls. It is godless information. If it is the image to the Beast, who or what is the Beast? If A.I. is the Beast, who or what is the image to the A.I. Beast? It all fits or none of it is worth consideration.
Tying yourself up into knots by just using portions of prophecy, not the whole, is a sure recipe for absolute disaster. The policy of Jesuit Futurism in prophetic interpretation is destroying prophesied Christianity and allowing it to live in a constant fogbank of this is it, no, now this is it, no, now we have our final characters, no, now this is the fulfillment of prophecy. This has been going on for a couple centuries now and is getting steadily worse. Confusion reigns. Wake up, and come out of Babylon, if you are being lulled to sleep in this miasma of meaningless mortification of history and Scripture truth. Time is running out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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804. The Sea and the Waves Roaring - July 3, 2023
'Ray, didn't you say you are French?' Yes. Both sides of my family. So, seeing France in turmoil, again, on the heels of the Yellow Vest movement, is tough to see. I don't know anyone in France, though. I don't even know any Frigons in Canada, where my relatives came from, into Rhode Island.
There is a grave difference between these riots and the Yellow Vest uprising, though. The Yellow Vests are French patriots reacting to severe government corruption under the lack of leadership from globalist, President Emmanuel Macron.
The current riots are based on Islamic immigrants reacting to a police shooting of a young man at a stop light. All of France is burning and now the violence and destruction has moved into Belgium and Switzerland.
policetribune.com/french-riots-spread-to-belgium-switzerland-reports-of-rioters-targeting-christians-conservatives/
"Paris, FRANCE – There have been at least 40 attacks on police stations, 270 officers have been wounded, and more than 3,000 rioters have been arrested as violence rocked numerous cities in France for the fifth night in a row following the officer-involved shooting of a Muslim teen."
"Mainstream media in Europe and the United States have largely ignored the violent, immigrant-led riots and referred to them as “unrest,” and French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed the chaos on social media, video games, and bad parenting."
The rape is ignored. The killing is largely ignored and never placed upon a Muslim immigrant in the news, when a crime concerning one is solved. The torching of churches, cars, homes ignored. I watch the news out of France and the UK from those outlets willing to report the truth French and British mainstream media shoves under agenda and political rugs.
Why the silence or lack of accurate reporting from mainstream news? Because radical Leftists in France are aiding these riots, bringing in as much destruction as possible. Nobody wants to be the one to say, 'Enough,' and use whatever force necessary to stop wickedness from ruining public and private property, as Americans watched take place after the death of George Floyd. Warnings of the destruction of Europe from Islamic invasion have been given for decades. Many Muslims live in peace. Far too many do not, and much of what France was, is no more. Same as the UK. Same as other nations that allowed hundreds of thousands of unvetted Muslim "refugees" into their nations, either ignorant of or aiding Muslim Brotherhood plans to take over the world for their god, Allah. Not a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy fact, playing out before the world's eyes.
"They’re chanting Allahu Akbar as they torch France pic.twitter.com/57yqbmoRQd
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 2, 2023"
What we are watching is a concerted effort by globalists to wreak havoc wherever they can, to see to it society can be shut down for its own good and more and more of their totalitarian controls put in place. They allow and foment unrest for their purposes: "never let a crisis go to waste." And as is stated, Christians and Conservatives become targets.
Conservative candidate for president, Marine Le Pen has addressed the nation but, nothing is being done to stop the violence. Macron went to an Elton John concert while his nation burned. Blaming video games and bad parenting. Seriously? Allowing hundreds of thousands of military-age men to just cross into your nation has zip to do with any kind of parenting. The man is an absolute enemy of the French people he claims to serve; a pawn and puppet of Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
More is coming to America. More will happen around the world.
What did Jesus say?
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.
The illusion there is not to waves of water but, to unrest among people. In prophecy, waters represent people, as the angel explained to John regarding his visions -
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Water represents people, multitudes, nations and languages. If the waters are shown as rough seas or "roaring" as Christ predicted, it means strife and destruction.
The world is under stress and perplexity; both man-made and satanic, and humanity is reeling. When will it end? It will not. It may calm for a bit, then start up again, worse and worse until the end comes -
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
There is a grave difference between these riots and the Yellow Vest uprising, though. The Yellow Vests are French patriots reacting to severe government corruption under the lack of leadership from globalist, President Emmanuel Macron.
The current riots are based on Islamic immigrants reacting to a police shooting of a young man at a stop light. All of France is burning and now the violence and destruction has moved into Belgium and Switzerland.
policetribune.com/french-riots-spread-to-belgium-switzerland-reports-of-rioters-targeting-christians-conservatives/
"Paris, FRANCE – There have been at least 40 attacks on police stations, 270 officers have been wounded, and more than 3,000 rioters have been arrested as violence rocked numerous cities in France for the fifth night in a row following the officer-involved shooting of a Muslim teen."
"Mainstream media in Europe and the United States have largely ignored the violent, immigrant-led riots and referred to them as “unrest,” and French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed the chaos on social media, video games, and bad parenting."
The rape is ignored. The killing is largely ignored and never placed upon a Muslim immigrant in the news, when a crime concerning one is solved. The torching of churches, cars, homes ignored. I watch the news out of France and the UK from those outlets willing to report the truth French and British mainstream media shoves under agenda and political rugs.
Why the silence or lack of accurate reporting from mainstream news? Because radical Leftists in France are aiding these riots, bringing in as much destruction as possible. Nobody wants to be the one to say, 'Enough,' and use whatever force necessary to stop wickedness from ruining public and private property, as Americans watched take place after the death of George Floyd. Warnings of the destruction of Europe from Islamic invasion have been given for decades. Many Muslims live in peace. Far too many do not, and much of what France was, is no more. Same as the UK. Same as other nations that allowed hundreds of thousands of unvetted Muslim "refugees" into their nations, either ignorant of or aiding Muslim Brotherhood plans to take over the world for their god, Allah. Not a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy fact, playing out before the world's eyes.
"They’re chanting Allahu Akbar as they torch France pic.twitter.com/57yqbmoRQd
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 2, 2023"
What we are watching is a concerted effort by globalists to wreak havoc wherever they can, to see to it society can be shut down for its own good and more and more of their totalitarian controls put in place. They allow and foment unrest for their purposes: "never let a crisis go to waste." And as is stated, Christians and Conservatives become targets.
Conservative candidate for president, Marine Le Pen has addressed the nation but, nothing is being done to stop the violence. Macron went to an Elton John concert while his nation burned. Blaming video games and bad parenting. Seriously? Allowing hundreds of thousands of military-age men to just cross into your nation has zip to do with any kind of parenting. The man is an absolute enemy of the French people he claims to serve; a pawn and puppet of Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
More is coming to America. More will happen around the world.
What did Jesus say?
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.
The illusion there is not to waves of water but, to unrest among people. In prophecy, waters represent people, as the angel explained to John regarding his visions -
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Water represents people, multitudes, nations and languages. If the waters are shown as rough seas or "roaring" as Christ predicted, it means strife and destruction.
The world is under stress and perplexity; both man-made and satanic, and humanity is reeling. When will it end? It will not. It may calm for a bit, then start up again, worse and worse until the end comes -
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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July 4, 1776
Almost 250 years have gone by since the declaring to Great Britain the American colonies were sick, literally, and tired, assuredly, of King George's tyranny. Men signed an astonishing document for its time, for our time, for any time, and declared their separation, freedom and liberty and reasons why.
Every year, I wonder how many Americans have read The Declaration of Independence. I read it as a boy, in school, of course and all of it went right over my head. As an adult, to see what people went through then, at the hands of political corruption and tyranny, and seeing the exact same things today, is quite the revelation.
I am seeing headlines everywhere that France has fallen. Certainly Emmanuel Macron, fallen from his oaths to his nation, should be removed but, that will not change the problems in France.
If the non-president, Joe Biden, were impeached and removed from office, that would not help very much. Biden is a puppet. Everybody knows it but only the seriously ignorant of the situations that have surrounded Washington, D.C. and shore to shore governance in this nation. Some are willfully blind. Whatever the reasons, useful idiots who cannot practice critical thinking abound.
Donald J. Trump drew 50,000 people to a rally in a small town in South Carolina. The pictures are incredible. If Donald Trump replaced Joe Biden in the White House today, that would not change much.
Yes, I find the Declaration of Independence to be an inspiring document. Donald Trump does, too, as do multiplied millions of Americans but, not enough. A full third of Americans want a very different America than my great grandparents came to. That's 100,000,000 people and right now they control too much for any decent change to take place.
Institutional systemic corruption has turned America into, not a melting pot but, a cauldron. A cauldron that has begun to boil. Civil war? Hard to say. Revolution? Physical? No. Philosophical? Sure. A culture war has been ongoing for at least 60 years now. No president can change it or eliminate it. No Congress, either. Even one loyal to the oaths its members took to serve the Constitution. The current Congress gets such low numbers of approval they may as well pack up and go home but, no. Too much money and power. To easy to isolate yourself from real America and Americans. Senator Lindsey Graham found that out when he got booed off the stage at Trump's rally. His feelings may have been hurt. He may have been embarrassed. All he will do is listen to his own administrators and workers in his office, as they prop him up and stroke his wounds and he'll keep right on going as the political hypocrite he is, among hundreds, until he dies or is voted out, whichever comes first. And being voted out in this current environment of corrupt voting systems, pretty much assures Graham and all the rest of them who want to play the techno-game called American safe and secure elections, will remain in office as long as they want.
July 4, 1776. Hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, BBQ, roasted corn, badminton, horse shoes, work for some, shopping for others, fireworks, maybe some John Phillip Sousa, and back in bed. Nothing changed. Nothing accomplished. No new documents to sign to regain the freedoms and liberties taken away by evil, wicked people who shall, one day, face the Supreme Judge of all the Earth.
I'm not a defeatist. I'm a realist. Reality is showing us you can burn a nation down and those in power are insulated from it all now. The fall of the Soviet Union and Communism in Eastern Europe was the last time our generation has seen an uprising that brought real freedom and liberty to people under the thumb of tyranny.
I see nothing that shall prolong "the grand experiment," in its amazing and historical departure from gross, tyrannical power. Those in power are not just in power. They have control. There's a difference. Many in power down through the ages did not have control and were overthrown. There are no peaceful or physical avenues available to mankind to overthrow the current controllers. Technology has seen to that; something previous generations did not have and could not have.
It's a sad day. Fireworks can only mask, for a short hour, the situation that exists in this nation and the rest of the world. The only thing that remains to be seen is how long it takes for controllers to gain and hold total control. The controllers now tell the world their plans. They have no fear. It would appear they have no conscience. Why have fear of losing control when you control the motherboards, the software and the mouse clicks. You control the 1's and 0's. You control everything. Useless wars will continue. Money will become digitized, along with most everything else, and life will sink into totalitarianism. The only thing holding it back now is God's will and His desire to transform a people ready for the final events. When God is satisfied that number is made up, all hell will break loose, everywhere. The only thing that will save people is a message from God. The message, the everlasting Gospel, will keep an army of people going until they are all rounded up, imprisoned or hiding out in wilderness places where heat sensors and radar cannot penetrate. Then, all that shall be left is the greatest rescue in human history.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Every year, I wonder how many Americans have read The Declaration of Independence. I read it as a boy, in school, of course and all of it went right over my head. As an adult, to see what people went through then, at the hands of political corruption and tyranny, and seeing the exact same things today, is quite the revelation.
I am seeing headlines everywhere that France has fallen. Certainly Emmanuel Macron, fallen from his oaths to his nation, should be removed but, that will not change the problems in France.
If the non-president, Joe Biden, were impeached and removed from office, that would not help very much. Biden is a puppet. Everybody knows it but only the seriously ignorant of the situations that have surrounded Washington, D.C. and shore to shore governance in this nation. Some are willfully blind. Whatever the reasons, useful idiots who cannot practice critical thinking abound.
Donald J. Trump drew 50,000 people to a rally in a small town in South Carolina. The pictures are incredible. If Donald Trump replaced Joe Biden in the White House today, that would not change much.
Yes, I find the Declaration of Independence to be an inspiring document. Donald Trump does, too, as do multiplied millions of Americans but, not enough. A full third of Americans want a very different America than my great grandparents came to. That's 100,000,000 people and right now they control too much for any decent change to take place.
Institutional systemic corruption has turned America into, not a melting pot but, a cauldron. A cauldron that has begun to boil. Civil war? Hard to say. Revolution? Physical? No. Philosophical? Sure. A culture war has been ongoing for at least 60 years now. No president can change it or eliminate it. No Congress, either. Even one loyal to the oaths its members took to serve the Constitution. The current Congress gets such low numbers of approval they may as well pack up and go home but, no. Too much money and power. To easy to isolate yourself from real America and Americans. Senator Lindsey Graham found that out when he got booed off the stage at Trump's rally. His feelings may have been hurt. He may have been embarrassed. All he will do is listen to his own administrators and workers in his office, as they prop him up and stroke his wounds and he'll keep right on going as the political hypocrite he is, among hundreds, until he dies or is voted out, whichever comes first. And being voted out in this current environment of corrupt voting systems, pretty much assures Graham and all the rest of them who want to play the techno-game called American safe and secure elections, will remain in office as long as they want.
July 4, 1776. Hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, BBQ, roasted corn, badminton, horse shoes, work for some, shopping for others, fireworks, maybe some John Phillip Sousa, and back in bed. Nothing changed. Nothing accomplished. No new documents to sign to regain the freedoms and liberties taken away by evil, wicked people who shall, one day, face the Supreme Judge of all the Earth.
I'm not a defeatist. I'm a realist. Reality is showing us you can burn a nation down and those in power are insulated from it all now. The fall of the Soviet Union and Communism in Eastern Europe was the last time our generation has seen an uprising that brought real freedom and liberty to people under the thumb of tyranny.
I see nothing that shall prolong "the grand experiment," in its amazing and historical departure from gross, tyrannical power. Those in power are not just in power. They have control. There's a difference. Many in power down through the ages did not have control and were overthrown. There are no peaceful or physical avenues available to mankind to overthrow the current controllers. Technology has seen to that; something previous generations did not have and could not have.
It's a sad day. Fireworks can only mask, for a short hour, the situation that exists in this nation and the rest of the world. The only thing that remains to be seen is how long it takes for controllers to gain and hold total control. The controllers now tell the world their plans. They have no fear. It would appear they have no conscience. Why have fear of losing control when you control the motherboards, the software and the mouse clicks. You control the 1's and 0's. You control everything. Useless wars will continue. Money will become digitized, along with most everything else, and life will sink into totalitarianism. The only thing holding it back now is God's will and His desire to transform a people ready for the final events. When God is satisfied that number is made up, all hell will break loose, everywhere. The only thing that will save people is a message from God. The message, the everlasting Gospel, will keep an army of people going until they are all rounded up, imprisoned or hiding out in wilderness places where heat sensors and radar cannot penetrate. Then, all that shall be left is the greatest rescue in human history.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND UPDATE
A couple things of interest. Tom has completed his mixing of song #3, The Golden Crown and it is incredible. It elevates the original song, truly into a 21st century soundstage. The guitars are spectacular; the bass is solid as granite; every detail of the drums, cymbals and percussion is crisp and clean and whatever he did to my vocals made it a work of mixing art. It takes awhile to get there, given this is all an email and language communication task but, I could not be more pleased with the results on this special song that holds such a special memory in my mind, when it was originally recorded 45 years ago.
The other thing is an amazing email I received yesterday. In the last 17 years I have gotten communications from LEGEND and From the Fjords fans, from all the continents but, Asia and Antarctica. Yesterday, as well, I got an email from a young, high school student named Zhao. I would not place his last name here. I assume he is from China. He struggled with his English and was quite apologetic but, having looked at the website, he asked for a better picture of Kevin's face, to see what he looks like. Imagine that. In a nation practicing social credit scores and your face could end up on billboards as a penalty for being a bad citizen, as the regime determines it, a young person, knowing only a kind of life of complete control over it, wants a better picture of the face of a Western musician.
Well, there are not many pics of Kevin anyone has. So much so, we had to use a portion of a photo taken of Kevin and a child, that his cousin, Lou came up with, and we enlarged Kevin's face for inclusion on the inside album jacket of the Fjords reissue, back in 2019. I took a picture of it and sent that to Zhao. I hope it suffices.
Not many people know that China has the largest and fastest growing population of Christians on Earth. It is all underground, of course but, considering the new message of the album's songs, would it not be tremendous if Zhao could get a copy of the new recording? Pray for him and his family. Pray for all these hundreds of millions of people in such danger if they convert to Christ. Over 1 billion people under the thumb of a government bent on atheistic control. May God watch over each and every one, and may China's totalitarian regime come down soon, that the Gospel can flood it's way into all hearts and minds that are open.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*UPDATE for the UPDATE* - I need to correct something. I forgot about a young high schooler from Sri Lanka I have communicated with and mentioned him here on my site before so, Asia was covered. That leaves, Antarctica. Don't suppose I'd hear from anyone there unless they work in some science station or Penguin research facility. :-)
The other thing is an amazing email I received yesterday. In the last 17 years I have gotten communications from LEGEND and From the Fjords fans, from all the continents but, Asia and Antarctica. Yesterday, as well, I got an email from a young, high school student named Zhao. I would not place his last name here. I assume he is from China. He struggled with his English and was quite apologetic but, having looked at the website, he asked for a better picture of Kevin's face, to see what he looks like. Imagine that. In a nation practicing social credit scores and your face could end up on billboards as a penalty for being a bad citizen, as the regime determines it, a young person, knowing only a kind of life of complete control over it, wants a better picture of the face of a Western musician.
Well, there are not many pics of Kevin anyone has. So much so, we had to use a portion of a photo taken of Kevin and a child, that his cousin, Lou came up with, and we enlarged Kevin's face for inclusion on the inside album jacket of the Fjords reissue, back in 2019. I took a picture of it and sent that to Zhao. I hope it suffices.
Not many people know that China has the largest and fastest growing population of Christians on Earth. It is all underground, of course but, considering the new message of the album's songs, would it not be tremendous if Zhao could get a copy of the new recording? Pray for him and his family. Pray for all these hundreds of millions of people in such danger if they convert to Christ. Over 1 billion people under the thumb of a government bent on atheistic control. May God watch over each and every one, and may China's totalitarian regime come down soon, that the Gospel can flood it's way into all hearts and minds that are open.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*UPDATE for the UPDATE* - I need to correct something. I forgot about a young high schooler from Sri Lanka I have communicated with and mentioned him here on my site before so, Asia was covered. That leaves, Antarctica. Don't suppose I'd hear from anyone there unless they work in some science station or Penguin research facility. :-)
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To Those Ignorant of History
I am reading headlines that all around the nation Independence Day was castigated by radical Leftists ignorant of history, while they burned flags, proclaimed allegiance to America's enemies and one poor soul even demanded all Americans leave the continent, save for Native Americans. How about a bullet point list.
1. Native Americans came here over land bridges.
2. Native American tribes fought against each other for territory.
3. Europeans came here to get away from religious persecution and got along with Native Americans.
4. As the settlements of Europeans grew, they came under attack by some Native American tribes.
5. From that point on it became a matter of typical struggles for survival and dominance the entire globe has suffered for ceaseless ages.
6. European immigrants won the struggle for dominance. It was not pretty. It was not always straight warfare. Non-Christians among the populace did plenty of satanic things. The issue of slavery was no different than any other area of the world where slavery has been practiced for ages, including slave trade of Europeans taken back to Northern Africa for a couple centuries. The media loves to bury that historical fact.
7. As it is, Americans had to fight their own brethren from Europe and citizens in this nation to uphold principles of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
8. In their respect for the Native American warriors who fought and aspects of the nature of this continent, symbols of Native American and continental life became symbols of America, and America's love of sports. The Eagle, the Bison, the Mustang, the Native American are seen on currency and throughout commerce. Teams pay homage to the Native American warrior's tenacity and strength by naming themselves after those fighters. Towns, cities and states are named after Native American tribes.
For any radical Leftist that may be reading this, ignorant of world and North American history, get educated. You make fools of yourself. The very fact a Constitution and Bill of Rights exists gives you freedom and liberty to act like the foolish souls you are; defaming, burning, wrecking, screaming your vitriol at the moon. If you cannot stand the American nation - and anyone who comes to this website and reads these Thought pages knows I am angered and embarrassed by most of what the American government does - leave. Go somewhere else and see what life is like in the kind of culture and national governance you yearn for, neo-communists that you are. And don't let the gates hit you in the ass on your way out.
Oh, you're offended? Join the club of the millions of Americans offended by you every time you open your mouth and spew your foolishness and hatred.
Ignorance and lack of critical thinking are killing America. Do not intend to dumb me down. It is not going to happen. Truth is truth. It is not mine or yours. It just is. And truth tells me radical Leftists are the bane of human existence. No logic. No common sense. No common decency. Just pure self-interest, ignorant thinking and radical tactics to get your way. You are a mob. You cannot imagine how great America would be if you left and those who remained tried to get along, live peaceably, fight crime, educate children with reading, writing and arithmetic, true science, true history, and self-reliance with responsibility and accountability and left all radical and nonsensical indoctrination with you to take wherever you choose to go. Go attempt to convince the rest of the world no one can know what a woman is and men can have babies and breast feed them. Idiotace.
I will not apologize for simple observations made over 68 years of life. God forbid America falls to those who hate it and will destroy it for lack of truth and common sense.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
1. Native Americans came here over land bridges.
2. Native American tribes fought against each other for territory.
3. Europeans came here to get away from religious persecution and got along with Native Americans.
4. As the settlements of Europeans grew, they came under attack by some Native American tribes.
5. From that point on it became a matter of typical struggles for survival and dominance the entire globe has suffered for ceaseless ages.
6. European immigrants won the struggle for dominance. It was not pretty. It was not always straight warfare. Non-Christians among the populace did plenty of satanic things. The issue of slavery was no different than any other area of the world where slavery has been practiced for ages, including slave trade of Europeans taken back to Northern Africa for a couple centuries. The media loves to bury that historical fact.
7. As it is, Americans had to fight their own brethren from Europe and citizens in this nation to uphold principles of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
8. In their respect for the Native American warriors who fought and aspects of the nature of this continent, symbols of Native American and continental life became symbols of America, and America's love of sports. The Eagle, the Bison, the Mustang, the Native American are seen on currency and throughout commerce. Teams pay homage to the Native American warrior's tenacity and strength by naming themselves after those fighters. Towns, cities and states are named after Native American tribes.
For any radical Leftist that may be reading this, ignorant of world and North American history, get educated. You make fools of yourself. The very fact a Constitution and Bill of Rights exists gives you freedom and liberty to act like the foolish souls you are; defaming, burning, wrecking, screaming your vitriol at the moon. If you cannot stand the American nation - and anyone who comes to this website and reads these Thought pages knows I am angered and embarrassed by most of what the American government does - leave. Go somewhere else and see what life is like in the kind of culture and national governance you yearn for, neo-communists that you are. And don't let the gates hit you in the ass on your way out.
Oh, you're offended? Join the club of the millions of Americans offended by you every time you open your mouth and spew your foolishness and hatred.
Ignorance and lack of critical thinking are killing America. Do not intend to dumb me down. It is not going to happen. Truth is truth. It is not mine or yours. It just is. And truth tells me radical Leftists are the bane of human existence. No logic. No common sense. No common decency. Just pure self-interest, ignorant thinking and radical tactics to get your way. You are a mob. You cannot imagine how great America would be if you left and those who remained tried to get along, live peaceably, fight crime, educate children with reading, writing and arithmetic, true science, true history, and self-reliance with responsibility and accountability and left all radical and nonsensical indoctrination with you to take wherever you choose to go. Go attempt to convince the rest of the world no one can know what a woman is and men can have babies and breast feed them. Idiotace.
I will not apologize for simple observations made over 68 years of life. God forbid America falls to those who hate it and will destroy it for lack of truth and common sense.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Dr. David Martin Carpet Bombs the Room
I have heard few, if any speakers on the subject of Covid-19 and the "pandemic" speak with such fluid articulation and direct power with every statement made.
He spoke at the International Covid-19 Summit, in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, back in May.
"Brilliant" is a gross understatement. "Important" is risking a ho-hum reaction. This is a shot fired across the bow of the entire globalist cabal and all humanity should watch it. Few men speak with such ease of conviction on the truth.
rumble.com/v2qf01g-dr.-david-martin-the-international-covid-19-summit-european-parliament-may-.html
Here is one with all his slides shown -
rumble.com/v2qf21s-dr.-david-martin-slide-show-the-international-covid-19-summit-european-parl.html
He spoke at the International Covid-19 Summit, in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, back in May.
"Brilliant" is a gross understatement. "Important" is risking a ho-hum reaction. This is a shot fired across the bow of the entire globalist cabal and all humanity should watch it. Few men speak with such ease of conviction on the truth.
rumble.com/v2qf01g-dr.-david-martin-the-international-covid-19-summit-european-parliament-may-.html
Here is one with all his slides shown -
rumble.com/v2qf21s-dr.-david-martin-slide-show-the-international-covid-19-summit-european-parl.html
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805. The Need for Liberals - 7/7/23
'Ray, you claim Christianity as your faith and worldview yet, your disdain of people you refer to as "Leftists" is not very Christian.'
Let me address that statement, simply.
The Bible plainly states Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Deity clothed with humanity, loved all people, lived to shed truth to all people, died for all the sins of all people, rose for all people and invites all people into fellowship and connection to Him. Does that mean all people contain only friends of His kingdom; no enemies, no subterfuge, no warfare to fight? Of course not. The very people He called His were divided into two factions: Left and Right. Sadducees and Pharisees. So divided were they, He bypassed the entire institution and organization of His time, because of the corruption that existed within, and began another platform for His message. He did not just bypass the organization in place. He denounced it as forcefully as could be done and they sought to kill Him for it. He called them hypocrites, blind guides, fools, serpents, vipers, children of the devil, liars and more. True, because He loved them, there were tears in His voice. At other times it was pure righteous indignation, calling them a den of thieves.
Because I am and we are professed Christians - followers of Christ - does not mean we are to accept all practices of any and all people acting in opposition to truth. Denunciation may be necessary. Rebuke called for, in no uncertain terms.
Plenty of hypocrites exist in professed Christianity. All of the worst characteristics of those Christ bypassed exist in professed Christianity. With all due respect, where should people in need exist but, with access to a physician who can aid in healing illness and disease? As is often said, the church is not a rest home for saints but, a hospital for sinners. That said, Christ warns all that are lukewarm, making Him sick enough to vomit, He is going to spew them out of His mouth if they do not repent. Nobody skates through all this without warnings. We all need warnings, professed Christians or not. Self-righteousness is a dangerous thing, so is ignorance of truth and true righteousness.
There is another aspect I would like to share, as well. I am not a professed Conservative. I am certainly not a radical Leftist. I happen to observe a life that is often too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals. I am a Christian, an ambassador for Christ, as all believers are to be. I am a citizen of God's kingdom, as well as a citizen of America. I admire the principles of Americanism, as one of its citizens. Those opposed to those principles are either grossly uninformed and ignorant or out and out enemies of the Republic.
Let me tell you why America needs Liberals. Liberals are all about feelings. Watch an interview conducted by a Liberal reporter. "How did that make you feel?" They are all about feelings. The fact is, those who are down and out need understanding. They need someone to feel something for them. They are broken in soul and spirit. Yes, I'd much rather they turn to Christ for comfort but, the fact is, Conservatives can be pretty matter-of-fact, hardnosed and cold. They want facts, they want action, they want the rule of law to apply evenly to all people. They are often people who do not like to share their feelings.
Radical Leftists, no one needs. They act without conscience because they seem to have none. They are driven by leaders who follow Rules for Radicals. Nothing is sacred: not life, liberty or pursuit of happiness by others or even among themselves. They are led by blind guides: ruthless, cunning and crafty, void of principles. They work toward agendas and policy, not under the influence of principles. The means justifies the ends is their fervent policy. Their conscience is seared with a hot iron. They lie with abandon because they have no respect for the law of God, nor any belief they shall face God some day for everything they think, say and do. They will destroy anything or any one deemed to be in their way. They are a mob nasty people that cannot be trusted.
That said, cold, loveless, hateful professed conservatives are just as unwelcome and dangerous to a human society. Why do so many professed conservatives, ready to enter another civil war, love Donald Trump like a rock star? He is even idolized by many; a man of spurious action; who speaks before he thinks things through; a reactionary who surrounds himself with unvetted people who stab him in the back. Why? Because he is a New York, in-your-face, brawling, cunning businessman who does care about America and the little guy but, can shoot himself in the foot just like them, even though he's a billionaire. He speaks like an every man-type of guy. He represents principles of Americanism, despite his failings. Leftists cannot understand him or those who love him. He seems the only leader in America who cares about them: lovers of America, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
We all need love. We all need good counsel. We all need to make sound decisions based on principle but, cannot lay aside feelings; nor can we allow feelings, alone, to guide us.
I am deeply offended by radical Leftists who just want to tear down and have no idea how to build up. They do not care about building up anyone of but, an agenda. They only seek to control everyone and are so hateful, it's disgusting.
I am as offended by hard-nosed, cold and merciless professed conservatives, always ready to 'lock and load.'
Very few Americans seem able to critically view an issue and discuss its merits or failings on the basis of evidence, principle, logic and common sense. They are ready to believe the worst about people or, in the face of facts and evidence, refuse to believe truth that dethrones their idols or worse, are willing to cover-up their wrongdoings.
That is why I see no hope. Both sides can be led astray by charlatans, by people who can speak in pleasing ways to them but, are just empty vessels.
If they both remain alive, 2024 will probably see Donald Trump against Robert Kennedy Jr. for POTUS. Both are flawed men. Make no mistake about that. Both have shown they can be guided by lies and skewed half-truths. RFK has shown himself a man of principle on some things, and just a garden variety Democrat on others. Trump is just a savvy businessman. He'd have run on the Democrat ticket if they welcomes him. They didn't so, he ran as a Republican, and they proceeded to stab him in the back and are still doing it. Both have become hugely popular. Americans have a wicked choice. Neither man can save America from what is coming.
I watched an interview the BBC set up with newscaster, Stew Peters. Peters is a pretty forthright, fearless individual. He's an openly professed Christian. I don't know what doctrinal affiliation he has. The interview was an obvious hit piece, conducted by Liberal shills of the BBC, which is obviously a Leftist organization. Peters does not consider himself a Conservative but, his principles are certainly aligned with that side of the political spectrum.
I was very surprised to see and hear the BBC reporters close in on Peters about some parts of his self-produced documentary, "Died Suddenly." Apparently, in one section of the film, it was discovered that some of the examples of people dying suddenly did so BEFORE the rollout of the "vaccines." Rather than address that matter head on, Peters got defensive and just tried to state how many people have been saved by the film.
If the charges were accurate and Peters was ignorant of the truth of the matter, he could have just said he was not aware of that and would look into it and if true, remove those examples from the film, and make a public statement about it. If he was aware, after the release of the film, and made no statement about it and removed it from circulation until things were corrected, he practiced deceit. If he knew before the film was released, matters are just made worse.
I waited for him to just acknowledge the error, apologize for the mistake, and say any and all such errors would be removed from the documentary. He did not. He just kept saying the film saved millions of lives and castigated the BBC reporters for not doing due diligence in their own reporting of the pandemic.
I lost some respect for the man. He does a great work, as far as reporting the truth of news goes but, the apostle Paul set a standard for all believers when he wrote he was chief of sinners.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour but, seriously, as true as that is, we cannot hide behind it as a cloak over wrong doing. Forgiven does not mean go ahead and practice deception and cover it up if cornered on it. We have all done it since childhood. It is the fact of a fallen human nature. It has to go. Christ is not bringing any active hypocrisy or deceit into His eternal home. Not going to happen. That already erupted and caused a third of the angelic host to rebel with Lucifer and were cast out. Talk about aboriginals. None are more so than angels who occupied Heaven before the Earth was created. Yet, even there, sin began. In the presence of absolute love and holiness, subterfuge through pride began.
I don't hate radical Leftists. I don't hate anybody. I just have no trust in them; I see their policies and agenda are destructive of the principles that began this nation and Constitutional Republic, and if they are not stopped America will be destroyed. It is being destroyed before our eyes.
Will that happen to the nation's demise? God knows.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Let me address that statement, simply.
The Bible plainly states Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Deity clothed with humanity, loved all people, lived to shed truth to all people, died for all the sins of all people, rose for all people and invites all people into fellowship and connection to Him. Does that mean all people contain only friends of His kingdom; no enemies, no subterfuge, no warfare to fight? Of course not. The very people He called His were divided into two factions: Left and Right. Sadducees and Pharisees. So divided were they, He bypassed the entire institution and organization of His time, because of the corruption that existed within, and began another platform for His message. He did not just bypass the organization in place. He denounced it as forcefully as could be done and they sought to kill Him for it. He called them hypocrites, blind guides, fools, serpents, vipers, children of the devil, liars and more. True, because He loved them, there were tears in His voice. At other times it was pure righteous indignation, calling them a den of thieves.
Because I am and we are professed Christians - followers of Christ - does not mean we are to accept all practices of any and all people acting in opposition to truth. Denunciation may be necessary. Rebuke called for, in no uncertain terms.
Plenty of hypocrites exist in professed Christianity. All of the worst characteristics of those Christ bypassed exist in professed Christianity. With all due respect, where should people in need exist but, with access to a physician who can aid in healing illness and disease? As is often said, the church is not a rest home for saints but, a hospital for sinners. That said, Christ warns all that are lukewarm, making Him sick enough to vomit, He is going to spew them out of His mouth if they do not repent. Nobody skates through all this without warnings. We all need warnings, professed Christians or not. Self-righteousness is a dangerous thing, so is ignorance of truth and true righteousness.
There is another aspect I would like to share, as well. I am not a professed Conservative. I am certainly not a radical Leftist. I happen to observe a life that is often too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals. I am a Christian, an ambassador for Christ, as all believers are to be. I am a citizen of God's kingdom, as well as a citizen of America. I admire the principles of Americanism, as one of its citizens. Those opposed to those principles are either grossly uninformed and ignorant or out and out enemies of the Republic.
Let me tell you why America needs Liberals. Liberals are all about feelings. Watch an interview conducted by a Liberal reporter. "How did that make you feel?" They are all about feelings. The fact is, those who are down and out need understanding. They need someone to feel something for them. They are broken in soul and spirit. Yes, I'd much rather they turn to Christ for comfort but, the fact is, Conservatives can be pretty matter-of-fact, hardnosed and cold. They want facts, they want action, they want the rule of law to apply evenly to all people. They are often people who do not like to share their feelings.
Radical Leftists, no one needs. They act without conscience because they seem to have none. They are driven by leaders who follow Rules for Radicals. Nothing is sacred: not life, liberty or pursuit of happiness by others or even among themselves. They are led by blind guides: ruthless, cunning and crafty, void of principles. They work toward agendas and policy, not under the influence of principles. The means justifies the ends is their fervent policy. Their conscience is seared with a hot iron. They lie with abandon because they have no respect for the law of God, nor any belief they shall face God some day for everything they think, say and do. They will destroy anything or any one deemed to be in their way. They are a mob nasty people that cannot be trusted.
That said, cold, loveless, hateful professed conservatives are just as unwelcome and dangerous to a human society. Why do so many professed conservatives, ready to enter another civil war, love Donald Trump like a rock star? He is even idolized by many; a man of spurious action; who speaks before he thinks things through; a reactionary who surrounds himself with unvetted people who stab him in the back. Why? Because he is a New York, in-your-face, brawling, cunning businessman who does care about America and the little guy but, can shoot himself in the foot just like them, even though he's a billionaire. He speaks like an every man-type of guy. He represents principles of Americanism, despite his failings. Leftists cannot understand him or those who love him. He seems the only leader in America who cares about them: lovers of America, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
We all need love. We all need good counsel. We all need to make sound decisions based on principle but, cannot lay aside feelings; nor can we allow feelings, alone, to guide us.
I am deeply offended by radical Leftists who just want to tear down and have no idea how to build up. They do not care about building up anyone of but, an agenda. They only seek to control everyone and are so hateful, it's disgusting.
I am as offended by hard-nosed, cold and merciless professed conservatives, always ready to 'lock and load.'
Very few Americans seem able to critically view an issue and discuss its merits or failings on the basis of evidence, principle, logic and common sense. They are ready to believe the worst about people or, in the face of facts and evidence, refuse to believe truth that dethrones their idols or worse, are willing to cover-up their wrongdoings.
That is why I see no hope. Both sides can be led astray by charlatans, by people who can speak in pleasing ways to them but, are just empty vessels.
If they both remain alive, 2024 will probably see Donald Trump against Robert Kennedy Jr. for POTUS. Both are flawed men. Make no mistake about that. Both have shown they can be guided by lies and skewed half-truths. RFK has shown himself a man of principle on some things, and just a garden variety Democrat on others. Trump is just a savvy businessman. He'd have run on the Democrat ticket if they welcomes him. They didn't so, he ran as a Republican, and they proceeded to stab him in the back and are still doing it. Both have become hugely popular. Americans have a wicked choice. Neither man can save America from what is coming.
I watched an interview the BBC set up with newscaster, Stew Peters. Peters is a pretty forthright, fearless individual. He's an openly professed Christian. I don't know what doctrinal affiliation he has. The interview was an obvious hit piece, conducted by Liberal shills of the BBC, which is obviously a Leftist organization. Peters does not consider himself a Conservative but, his principles are certainly aligned with that side of the political spectrum.
I was very surprised to see and hear the BBC reporters close in on Peters about some parts of his self-produced documentary, "Died Suddenly." Apparently, in one section of the film, it was discovered that some of the examples of people dying suddenly did so BEFORE the rollout of the "vaccines." Rather than address that matter head on, Peters got defensive and just tried to state how many people have been saved by the film.
If the charges were accurate and Peters was ignorant of the truth of the matter, he could have just said he was not aware of that and would look into it and if true, remove those examples from the film, and make a public statement about it. If he was aware, after the release of the film, and made no statement about it and removed it from circulation until things were corrected, he practiced deceit. If he knew before the film was released, matters are just made worse.
I waited for him to just acknowledge the error, apologize for the mistake, and say any and all such errors would be removed from the documentary. He did not. He just kept saying the film saved millions of lives and castigated the BBC reporters for not doing due diligence in their own reporting of the pandemic.
I lost some respect for the man. He does a great work, as far as reporting the truth of news goes but, the apostle Paul set a standard for all believers when he wrote he was chief of sinners.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour but, seriously, as true as that is, we cannot hide behind it as a cloak over wrong doing. Forgiven does not mean go ahead and practice deception and cover it up if cornered on it. We have all done it since childhood. It is the fact of a fallen human nature. It has to go. Christ is not bringing any active hypocrisy or deceit into His eternal home. Not going to happen. That already erupted and caused a third of the angelic host to rebel with Lucifer and were cast out. Talk about aboriginals. None are more so than angels who occupied Heaven before the Earth was created. Yet, even there, sin began. In the presence of absolute love and holiness, subterfuge through pride began.
I don't hate radical Leftists. I don't hate anybody. I just have no trust in them; I see their policies and agenda are destructive of the principles that began this nation and Constitutional Republic, and if they are not stopped America will be destroyed. It is being destroyed before our eyes.
Will that happen to the nation's demise? God knows.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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806. The U.N. Stumbles Again - 7/8/23
"UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON PROTECTION AGAINST VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY - IESOGI
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Freedom of Religion"
The heading of the document above seems innocuous enough. All people, regardless of who and what they are or claim to be, should be free from violence and threats of violence if they are not breaking criminal laws. But, there is also a major problem in that heading.
Whether or not this UN "expert" has any established cred with all people is dubious. On the subject of sex, no one has credibility with all humanity; certainly not today.
Next, we have this UN expert siding with the premise that 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' are legitimate things. They are not legitimate with all people. In fact, at this point it could be stated most people on planet Earth see two sexes and two genders, male and female and homosexuality is not normal to the human species. So the UN can be seen pushing an agenda right in the first lines of the document.
Next, it is not just violence but, about discrimination. Another misnomer for all people. Most people in business around the world do not want men dressing as women, thinking they are women, operating in their businesses. If Drag Queens are seen as entertainment it is certainly not seen as legitimate in real life circumstances. Regardless of Leftist agenda and push, most people recognize the lame reasoning and total lack of genetic science to propagate such nonsense.
Look at the first, hi-lited statement in the document -
"As an unfixed paradigm, religion does not have essential inbuilt positions or prejudices, and it would make no sense to characterize it as inherently or predominantly pro- or anti-LGBT"
That is either preposterous ignorance or an outright lie. The Bible is profuse on its position against homosexuality. It is called an abomination and something that was part of what took place that brought about the end of the world in the judgment of God in the Deluge and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities on the plains of the region. The Hebrew faith and Christianity, going by its authoritative sourcebook for life, are inherently against the LGBTQ+ agenda. Any and all religion that sees that agenda as opposed to the principles and commands of whatever deity they worship has a right and a duty to denounce sinful activity. Violence towards practitioners, no. Rebuke of premise? Definitely. Christianity, for millions of people, has a fixed paradigm found in the teachings of Jesus Christ, His apostles and disciples found in the New Testament. If some professed Christians disagree with that assessment, that does not change the assessment of those who believe and are convicted that the L-Q community is not in harmony with God's plan for humanity and must be called a perversion of that plan. If that hurts people's feelings, that is not to be a concern for the truth or those who proclaim it. God, the Creator, decides what is right and wrong in the human family. Not mankind. God judges the world: not the UN, nor any international faction of law.
An explanatory paragraph comes next -
"And yet religion and the human rights of LGBT persons are often placed in antagonistic positions in social and political discourse, feeding the contention that there is an inherent conflict between FoRB and the human rights of LGBT individuals. The resulting sense of conflict undermines the ideal of peaceful human coexistence."
What an outrageous position anyone can take. There is no peace between sin and righteousness. Of course there is an inherent conflict between FoRB and the L-Q movement. To go by the UN's logic, any church that denies membership to an L-Q person can and should be overridden by the United Nations and international law??? Are they serious? Of course they are. They claim everyone should be free to practice their faith but, turn around and promote only those who practice a faith that accepts perversions of God's plan can function freely in the UN's "ideal" society.
"The mandate is concerned that these and other exclusionary views can have severe and negative consequences for the personhood, dignity, and spirituality of LGBT persons, who are often marginalized, stigmatized and excluded from religious communities simply because of who they are."
No. They are marginalized, stigmatized, and excluded because of what they claim they are and do. They claim homosexuality is acceptable to God. They claim they are the way they are by birth, even though there is no scientific evidence for that claim. They claim a man can be a woman by choice and vice-versa, when no such claim has any scientific truth to back it up. Common sense denies it. World history and cultures back that up but, in fact, that is no anchor of truth even if the whole world accepts the L-Q agenda. The Bible and the Bible alone, is the only rule of faith, practice and discipline for the believer. That is the Protestant foundation for millions of people. It is not the foundation of the Catholic Church but, the teachings of that church, likewise stand against the practice of sin; and homosexuality is a sin in the Catholic faith. The same can be said for genders. Two exist. Male and female. Now, the RCC has practiced wavering on those principles for ages in its clergy and many are concerned and confused about activities and positions their current Pope has taken. That is their business. It is certainly not the business of the UN to tell Catholics or Protestants how to conduct their faith.
Check out this hi-lited statement -
"International human rights law has created a coherent system under which FoRB and freedom from violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity are fully compatible.
"What constitutes actions contrary to the human rights of LGBT persons is not religion, it is the way some religious narratives are deliberately used to justify violence and discrimination.
I cannot speak for other religions. I will speak for the religion of the Bible. Violence against sinners, no. Discrimination against open sinners, most definitely, or the purpose of a church body, any church body, to practice it's faith according to the Word of God becomes null and void by "international human rights laws." I do not care what system any international body comes up with to claim anything is compatible. That is total BS. Homosexuality and transgenderism are not fully compatible with the Bible. No government has a right to enter the bedrooms of people. No government is established to dictate morality. Americans have a civil government, not a moral government. Obviously in Islam, a union of church and state exists around the world. The UN shows itself stupid to make a claim they can in no way enforce upon Islam or Christianity, in nations where it is protected by common law and rights admittedly granted by God, as in America.
The entire document is saturated with corruption, as is the case with everything the UN gets involved in. It is the most scandalous organization in the world. The UN and World Health Organization are hotbeds of lies, distortions, misinformation and corruption. And that's just going by truth, in general, not specific biblical injunctions.
Read this closely -
"The Human Rights Committee has established that no manifestation of religion or belief ought to propagate war, or incite national, religious, or racial hatred, discrimination, or violence. Many submissions received by the mandate raise concerns about religious leaders fueling disinformation, hate speech, and/or intolerance against LGBT persons, such as scapegoating them for controversies, positing them as a threat to the traditional family, and interpreting religious doctrines to place homosexuality and gender nonconformity within a discourse of immorality and sin. LGBT persons can be especially vulnerable to hate speech, because the constant exposure to it can lead to exile, emotional distress, and suicidality."
The L-Q agenda is a threat to the traditional family. Observational science has proved that point with numerous studies. Activist psychology and psychiatric voices have changed centuries of positions and now advocate for things once regarded as ridiculous, and historically, causes the demise of any civilization. The Human Rights Committee has some authority to tell me and all others that what the Bible plainly and bluntly calls immorality and sin, is not immorality and sin? By what possible authority? If all people have FoRB how can they not have the freedom to interpret the Bible to state anything at all, let alone specific statements about homosexuality and genders?
"For many individuals, their religion is part of the foundation of their sense of self, the source of truth. Although they may disagree with certain tenets of their religious teaching, or with the ways in which religious authorities interpret these, it is an important part of their identity and social fabric. To leave, and sometimes be forced to leave because of exclusionary practices or teachings can have significant implications for identity and spiritual wellbeing. In many cases, the painful departure from their religious or spiritual community has a life-long impact on their mental wellbeing."
Well, DUH! That is the entire point of disciplinary actions in a church. The apostle Paul said to remove a man fornicating with his stepmother -
1Cor 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1Cor 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1Cor 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Cor 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Cor 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Cor 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Paul said not to even eat with people who openly disgrace the standards and laws of God. Put the guy out of the church body. Were his feelings hurt? Probably. That is the whole point -
1Cor 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Cor 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Put him out now, that he can learn from his error of ways and repent and be saved in the end. If he wants to play with the devil, let him, and pray the guy wakes up from his sensual stupor.
This is just another example of the UN going so far past its original purpose there should be demands by national leaders for its total dismissal of function. It is an evil institution by its own statements. It is filled with hypocrites and a hypocrisy that disengages it from reality. It's a club, that many believe is a hotbed of pedophilia. It certainly could not surprise me.
The document is telling all humanity, you must accept the L-Q community, including religious faiths.
www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session53/A-HRC-53-37-reader-friendly-summary.pdf
This is one of the species of documents that are so afoul of truth and common sense, I cannot read the whole thing. Suffice to say, the U.N. stands against FoRB in the name of FoRB. That, my friends, is BABYLON. Confusion. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
The Christian faith is being corrupted by the culture. The Bible warns of this agenda at the end of time. Peter and Jude both wrote of it happening in the faith and in the world at large. It is happening before our eyes. The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Freedom of Religion"
The heading of the document above seems innocuous enough. All people, regardless of who and what they are or claim to be, should be free from violence and threats of violence if they are not breaking criminal laws. But, there is also a major problem in that heading.
Whether or not this UN "expert" has any established cred with all people is dubious. On the subject of sex, no one has credibility with all humanity; certainly not today.
Next, we have this UN expert siding with the premise that 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' are legitimate things. They are not legitimate with all people. In fact, at this point it could be stated most people on planet Earth see two sexes and two genders, male and female and homosexuality is not normal to the human species. So the UN can be seen pushing an agenda right in the first lines of the document.
Next, it is not just violence but, about discrimination. Another misnomer for all people. Most people in business around the world do not want men dressing as women, thinking they are women, operating in their businesses. If Drag Queens are seen as entertainment it is certainly not seen as legitimate in real life circumstances. Regardless of Leftist agenda and push, most people recognize the lame reasoning and total lack of genetic science to propagate such nonsense.
Look at the first, hi-lited statement in the document -
"As an unfixed paradigm, religion does not have essential inbuilt positions or prejudices, and it would make no sense to characterize it as inherently or predominantly pro- or anti-LGBT"
That is either preposterous ignorance or an outright lie. The Bible is profuse on its position against homosexuality. It is called an abomination and something that was part of what took place that brought about the end of the world in the judgment of God in the Deluge and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities on the plains of the region. The Hebrew faith and Christianity, going by its authoritative sourcebook for life, are inherently against the LGBTQ+ agenda. Any and all religion that sees that agenda as opposed to the principles and commands of whatever deity they worship has a right and a duty to denounce sinful activity. Violence towards practitioners, no. Rebuke of premise? Definitely. Christianity, for millions of people, has a fixed paradigm found in the teachings of Jesus Christ, His apostles and disciples found in the New Testament. If some professed Christians disagree with that assessment, that does not change the assessment of those who believe and are convicted that the L-Q community is not in harmony with God's plan for humanity and must be called a perversion of that plan. If that hurts people's feelings, that is not to be a concern for the truth or those who proclaim it. God, the Creator, decides what is right and wrong in the human family. Not mankind. God judges the world: not the UN, nor any international faction of law.
An explanatory paragraph comes next -
"And yet religion and the human rights of LGBT persons are often placed in antagonistic positions in social and political discourse, feeding the contention that there is an inherent conflict between FoRB and the human rights of LGBT individuals. The resulting sense of conflict undermines the ideal of peaceful human coexistence."
What an outrageous position anyone can take. There is no peace between sin and righteousness. Of course there is an inherent conflict between FoRB and the L-Q movement. To go by the UN's logic, any church that denies membership to an L-Q person can and should be overridden by the United Nations and international law??? Are they serious? Of course they are. They claim everyone should be free to practice their faith but, turn around and promote only those who practice a faith that accepts perversions of God's plan can function freely in the UN's "ideal" society.
"The mandate is concerned that these and other exclusionary views can have severe and negative consequences for the personhood, dignity, and spirituality of LGBT persons, who are often marginalized, stigmatized and excluded from religious communities simply because of who they are."
No. They are marginalized, stigmatized, and excluded because of what they claim they are and do. They claim homosexuality is acceptable to God. They claim they are the way they are by birth, even though there is no scientific evidence for that claim. They claim a man can be a woman by choice and vice-versa, when no such claim has any scientific truth to back it up. Common sense denies it. World history and cultures back that up but, in fact, that is no anchor of truth even if the whole world accepts the L-Q agenda. The Bible and the Bible alone, is the only rule of faith, practice and discipline for the believer. That is the Protestant foundation for millions of people. It is not the foundation of the Catholic Church but, the teachings of that church, likewise stand against the practice of sin; and homosexuality is a sin in the Catholic faith. The same can be said for genders. Two exist. Male and female. Now, the RCC has practiced wavering on those principles for ages in its clergy and many are concerned and confused about activities and positions their current Pope has taken. That is their business. It is certainly not the business of the UN to tell Catholics or Protestants how to conduct their faith.
Check out this hi-lited statement -
"International human rights law has created a coherent system under which FoRB and freedom from violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity are fully compatible.
"What constitutes actions contrary to the human rights of LGBT persons is not religion, it is the way some religious narratives are deliberately used to justify violence and discrimination.
I cannot speak for other religions. I will speak for the religion of the Bible. Violence against sinners, no. Discrimination against open sinners, most definitely, or the purpose of a church body, any church body, to practice it's faith according to the Word of God becomes null and void by "international human rights laws." I do not care what system any international body comes up with to claim anything is compatible. That is total BS. Homosexuality and transgenderism are not fully compatible with the Bible. No government has a right to enter the bedrooms of people. No government is established to dictate morality. Americans have a civil government, not a moral government. Obviously in Islam, a union of church and state exists around the world. The UN shows itself stupid to make a claim they can in no way enforce upon Islam or Christianity, in nations where it is protected by common law and rights admittedly granted by God, as in America.
The entire document is saturated with corruption, as is the case with everything the UN gets involved in. It is the most scandalous organization in the world. The UN and World Health Organization are hotbeds of lies, distortions, misinformation and corruption. And that's just going by truth, in general, not specific biblical injunctions.
Read this closely -
"The Human Rights Committee has established that no manifestation of religion or belief ought to propagate war, or incite national, religious, or racial hatred, discrimination, or violence. Many submissions received by the mandate raise concerns about religious leaders fueling disinformation, hate speech, and/or intolerance against LGBT persons, such as scapegoating them for controversies, positing them as a threat to the traditional family, and interpreting religious doctrines to place homosexuality and gender nonconformity within a discourse of immorality and sin. LGBT persons can be especially vulnerable to hate speech, because the constant exposure to it can lead to exile, emotional distress, and suicidality."
The L-Q agenda is a threat to the traditional family. Observational science has proved that point with numerous studies. Activist psychology and psychiatric voices have changed centuries of positions and now advocate for things once regarded as ridiculous, and historically, causes the demise of any civilization. The Human Rights Committee has some authority to tell me and all others that what the Bible plainly and bluntly calls immorality and sin, is not immorality and sin? By what possible authority? If all people have FoRB how can they not have the freedom to interpret the Bible to state anything at all, let alone specific statements about homosexuality and genders?
"For many individuals, their religion is part of the foundation of their sense of self, the source of truth. Although they may disagree with certain tenets of their religious teaching, or with the ways in which religious authorities interpret these, it is an important part of their identity and social fabric. To leave, and sometimes be forced to leave because of exclusionary practices or teachings can have significant implications for identity and spiritual wellbeing. In many cases, the painful departure from their religious or spiritual community has a life-long impact on their mental wellbeing."
Well, DUH! That is the entire point of disciplinary actions in a church. The apostle Paul said to remove a man fornicating with his stepmother -
1Cor 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1Cor 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1Cor 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Cor 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Cor 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Cor 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Paul said not to even eat with people who openly disgrace the standards and laws of God. Put the guy out of the church body. Were his feelings hurt? Probably. That is the whole point -
1Cor 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Cor 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Put him out now, that he can learn from his error of ways and repent and be saved in the end. If he wants to play with the devil, let him, and pray the guy wakes up from his sensual stupor.
This is just another example of the UN going so far past its original purpose there should be demands by national leaders for its total dismissal of function. It is an evil institution by its own statements. It is filled with hypocrites and a hypocrisy that disengages it from reality. It's a club, that many believe is a hotbed of pedophilia. It certainly could not surprise me.
The document is telling all humanity, you must accept the L-Q community, including religious faiths.
www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session53/A-HRC-53-37-reader-friendly-summary.pdf
This is one of the species of documents that are so afoul of truth and common sense, I cannot read the whole thing. Suffice to say, the U.N. stands against FoRB in the name of FoRB. That, my friends, is BABYLON. Confusion. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
The Christian faith is being corrupted by the culture. The Bible warns of this agenda at the end of time. Peter and Jude both wrote of it happening in the faith and in the world at large. It is happening before our eyes. The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Babylon, Babylon and More Babylon
Babylon. Confusion. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon grows exponentially in this world.
If you have not seen it yet, stories are everywhere about the CDC giving instructions on how to "chest feed." No, I do not mean breast feed. The term 'chest feed' is for men transitioning to women, taking certain hormones, etc., etc., who will never give any nutrition to an infant. But!!! to satisfy the mob (and even some of the radical Left mob are jostling on this one), people are somehow getting past the common sense gates of their minds and convincing themselves a man can feed a baby from his chest just because he identifies as a woman. I could state that is sick. I will state that is sick. If nothing else, it is certainly a type of confused never seen among the human race.
Why has the Left spent so much time attempting to put women in the big leagues with men in business, in entertainment, in sports, etc., only to turn around and give men an upper hand that blasts through the stratosphere for ridiculous?
You cannot make this stuff up. If you asked anyone on planet Earth, a century ago, if the human race would begin to go seriously warped and think a man could be a woman and a woman become a man, laughter would have reached the exosphere. Today, believe, accommodate, or get crushed by people so confused they are a danger to society.
Of course, the thing is, many who know this is all insanity and an attack on womanhood, refuse to speak out lest they be seen as saboteurs and traitors to the cause of "woke."
***
Another headline all over the place is the coke found in the White House. Everybody knows it belongs to junior but, the Secret Service stays quiet, all souls in the administration stay quiet, everyone stays quiet and lets this poor soul continue to drag his elderly father through mud deeper and thicker than any father in the White House has ever been dragged before. I'm not giving Joe a pass. He's a criminal and should be in prison but, like women are being abused in ways no one ever imagined, the presidency is just a sad, corrupt, carnival act now.
***
The non-president's administration wants to block out the sun to cool the planet. The particulate saturation of the atmosphere is not a unique idea now. It's been out there for many years but, no government has been stupid enough to actually do it, even though it has been going on for decades with airplanes and chem-trails. The proof of that has been caught on film and video for years but, again, it's all a conspiracy theory, nothing to see here, move along, mind your own business. Your government knows best.
***
Never in my lifetime could anyone have imagined the leader of Russia would become the spokesperson for the continuance of Judeo-Christian influence in civilization but, Vladimir Putin has become the voice of reason and rebukes the West for allowing the dismantling of its civilization. Putin is no saint. That said, he seems to be in the right place, at the right time, and as God is the one who sets up kings and kingdoms and takes them down at His will and Divine worldview, Putin is the guy God has chosen to speak out against apostasy from history and truth. God is in charge, whether men shall believe it or not -
Dan 2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
Dan 2:21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Dan 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
Dan 2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Dan 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Dan 4:25 They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. And they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.
***
If you have not seen it, 'France has fallen' is a headline all over the place, on websites that actually report the news. Tens of thousands of police put on the streets to attempt to slow down the immigrant uprising, thousands of buildings destroyed, thousands of cars burned, churches on fire, Christians in danger, the French totally disgusted with Macron, and a Muslim immigrant telling the world - for 132 years we have been occupied by European forces. Now it is our turn to occupy.
The Muslim Brotherhood has decided it is time to make its move and never let a crisis go to waste. The pivotal point of Western civilization is upon us.
***
Michigan has decided to vote on a law making it a crime to state anything in public against the LGBTQ movement. Ask yourself if Islam is going to abide by such a law. Cowardly Christians might. Courageous Christians will speak out and we will see what kind of ratio exists between the two. And this, then, vacuum packs women in their fight against transgenders dominating them in sports once dedicated to women.
Freedom of speech is being torched, in America, the nation that changed the world.
A final clash of civilizations is about to erupt. What could stop it? My guess? "ET" and the final, Satanic dog and pony show.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
If you have not seen it yet, stories are everywhere about the CDC giving instructions on how to "chest feed." No, I do not mean breast feed. The term 'chest feed' is for men transitioning to women, taking certain hormones, etc., etc., who will never give any nutrition to an infant. But!!! to satisfy the mob (and even some of the radical Left mob are jostling on this one), people are somehow getting past the common sense gates of their minds and convincing themselves a man can feed a baby from his chest just because he identifies as a woman. I could state that is sick. I will state that is sick. If nothing else, it is certainly a type of confused never seen among the human race.
Why has the Left spent so much time attempting to put women in the big leagues with men in business, in entertainment, in sports, etc., only to turn around and give men an upper hand that blasts through the stratosphere for ridiculous?
You cannot make this stuff up. If you asked anyone on planet Earth, a century ago, if the human race would begin to go seriously warped and think a man could be a woman and a woman become a man, laughter would have reached the exosphere. Today, believe, accommodate, or get crushed by people so confused they are a danger to society.
Of course, the thing is, many who know this is all insanity and an attack on womanhood, refuse to speak out lest they be seen as saboteurs and traitors to the cause of "woke."
***
Another headline all over the place is the coke found in the White House. Everybody knows it belongs to junior but, the Secret Service stays quiet, all souls in the administration stay quiet, everyone stays quiet and lets this poor soul continue to drag his elderly father through mud deeper and thicker than any father in the White House has ever been dragged before. I'm not giving Joe a pass. He's a criminal and should be in prison but, like women are being abused in ways no one ever imagined, the presidency is just a sad, corrupt, carnival act now.
***
The non-president's administration wants to block out the sun to cool the planet. The particulate saturation of the atmosphere is not a unique idea now. It's been out there for many years but, no government has been stupid enough to actually do it, even though it has been going on for decades with airplanes and chem-trails. The proof of that has been caught on film and video for years but, again, it's all a conspiracy theory, nothing to see here, move along, mind your own business. Your government knows best.
***
Never in my lifetime could anyone have imagined the leader of Russia would become the spokesperson for the continuance of Judeo-Christian influence in civilization but, Vladimir Putin has become the voice of reason and rebukes the West for allowing the dismantling of its civilization. Putin is no saint. That said, he seems to be in the right place, at the right time, and as God is the one who sets up kings and kingdoms and takes them down at His will and Divine worldview, Putin is the guy God has chosen to speak out against apostasy from history and truth. God is in charge, whether men shall believe it or not -
Dan 2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
Dan 2:21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Dan 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
Dan 2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Dan 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Dan 4:25 They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. And they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.
***
If you have not seen it, 'France has fallen' is a headline all over the place, on websites that actually report the news. Tens of thousands of police put on the streets to attempt to slow down the immigrant uprising, thousands of buildings destroyed, thousands of cars burned, churches on fire, Christians in danger, the French totally disgusted with Macron, and a Muslim immigrant telling the world - for 132 years we have been occupied by European forces. Now it is our turn to occupy.
The Muslim Brotherhood has decided it is time to make its move and never let a crisis go to waste. The pivotal point of Western civilization is upon us.
***
Michigan has decided to vote on a law making it a crime to state anything in public against the LGBTQ movement. Ask yourself if Islam is going to abide by such a law. Cowardly Christians might. Courageous Christians will speak out and we will see what kind of ratio exists between the two. And this, then, vacuum packs women in their fight against transgenders dominating them in sports once dedicated to women.
Freedom of speech is being torched, in America, the nation that changed the world.
A final clash of civilizations is about to erupt. What could stop it? My guess? "ET" and the final, Satanic dog and pony show.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Evospeak
"Evospeak" is my coined term for the way Naturalist, Materialist, evolutionary scientists write things that are anything but, decisive and yet only they are allowed to take such positions and have the general public believe they know what they are talking about.
Take a look at the paragraph below, taken from the APOD site; the Archive Picture Of the Day site, which features pictures of things in both inner and outer space. It's a favorite site I go to every week. This particular paragraph is an explanation of markings on the surface of the Mar's moon, Phobos.
"Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious but may be related to tidal stresses experienced by close-orbiting Phobos or the crater-forming impact itself."
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230708.html
Evospeak. They get to use very inconclusive language and they do it all the time, regardless of the subject matter or field of endeavor. If a PhD scientist, in any field, that believes in creation, states the Earth, the planets, the moons, the stars, the galaxies, the universe, life may have been created by Divine power, and state all their scientific reasons for taking that position: making that conclusion, they are instantly relegated to a prison of marginalization and attack. That is just suggesting creation. If they state it boldly as a fact as good as any other explanation of how everything got here, they risk getting fired. It's an example of the gross hypocrisy that exists.
If atheist, Richard Dawkins, and others that think as he does, should state life on Earth is the result of alien panspermia, having absolutely no evidence such a thing could or did take place, they get a pass. If a creationist states a Creator, a grand Designer made everything, and show why they believe it, with books worth of evidence, they get lambasted as unreasoning fools.
Will the real fool, please, stand up.
Psalm 14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
UPDATE - Let me add this. The Tampon company, August, is advertising they are an inclusive company that sells tampons for all those who menstruate. Only biological females menstruate. She refers to "menstruaters" in interviews. "Period Care Made Just For You - For anyone who menstruates."
There may come a day when genetic engineering will literally turn males into females. I doubt it but, you can be sure the Babylonian "godplayers" are working on it in laboratories around the world. Whoever gets there first and patents it, become overnight billionaires.
Every controversy seems to have money behind it. That is why the Bible states the love of money is the root of all evil.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Take a look at the paragraph below, taken from the APOD site; the Archive Picture Of the Day site, which features pictures of things in both inner and outer space. It's a favorite site I go to every week. This particular paragraph is an explanation of markings on the surface of the Mar's moon, Phobos.
"Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious but may be related to tidal stresses experienced by close-orbiting Phobos or the crater-forming impact itself."
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230708.html
Evospeak. They get to use very inconclusive language and they do it all the time, regardless of the subject matter or field of endeavor. If a PhD scientist, in any field, that believes in creation, states the Earth, the planets, the moons, the stars, the galaxies, the universe, life may have been created by Divine power, and state all their scientific reasons for taking that position: making that conclusion, they are instantly relegated to a prison of marginalization and attack. That is just suggesting creation. If they state it boldly as a fact as good as any other explanation of how everything got here, they risk getting fired. It's an example of the gross hypocrisy that exists.
If atheist, Richard Dawkins, and others that think as he does, should state life on Earth is the result of alien panspermia, having absolutely no evidence such a thing could or did take place, they get a pass. If a creationist states a Creator, a grand Designer made everything, and show why they believe it, with books worth of evidence, they get lambasted as unreasoning fools.
Will the real fool, please, stand up.
Psalm 14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
UPDATE - Let me add this. The Tampon company, August, is advertising they are an inclusive company that sells tampons for all those who menstruate. Only biological females menstruate. She refers to "menstruaters" in interviews. "Period Care Made Just For You - For anyone who menstruates."
There may come a day when genetic engineering will literally turn males into females. I doubt it but, you can be sure the Babylonian "godplayers" are working on it in laboratories around the world. Whoever gets there first and patents it, become overnight billionaires.
Every controversy seems to have money behind it. That is why the Bible states the love of money is the root of all evil.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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807. Why Censor? - July 10, 2023
What is the standard for censorship?
Leftist run, technological social platforms began censoring members years ago, during the Obama administration. The wave of censoring grew worse during the Trump administration. From getting censored or blocked on social sharing sites, to getting fired from your job for things posted online, censoring free speech in America, which has to plow through and run over the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights to do so, has become commonplace in all Leftist run tech platforms.
Generally, the censoring takes place because posts run afoul of tech platformn "rules" about mis and disinformation.
Twitter, which began as a totally self-agrandizing, look-at-me website; sharing whatever thoughts you may have on anything, at any moment during the day, turned into a tsunami of political outreach. Along with Facebook - which I was on and left many years ago when I found out Zuckerberg had collusion taking place between the site and Deep State agencies: some saying Deep State actually built the platform - censorship became so rank, as to become, literally a mimmicing playground for Comminist wannabes. I never understood why alternative, competing platforms were not started right from the moment it became universally known censoring became the rule, and that was during the Trump administration.
What is the standard for censorship? People can say it varies from platform to platform but, that is not really true. The two major platforms, then YouTube, only censored speech that came from anyone who had a political or social position slanted against Leftist ideology. Whether political opinions/information or medical opinions or information, everything shut down was coming from people speaking out against Leftist ideology. Zuckerberg and company lied under oath before Congress. Congress, itself, is an organization that lies on a daily basis and the depth of the "swamp" became an acknowledged Mariana Trench.
My point has always been - and this goes back decades during my time of ministry and being shut down by church leaders - why do they practice censorship when there is no set, acknowledged standard for what is truth and that which is mis or disinformation related to it? Churches have fundamental beliefs. They hold in place until someone or something comes along that challenges a doctrine's place as true. In science, there is generally never a shut door because the farther mankind can look into a cell or put into space, things mankind believes are constantly challenged and changed, or should be; and that is where conflict arises.
Why do Leftists censor? The only logical conclusion one can come to is simply because they have no grounds to prove what they believe is true, therefore shut down all competing information that may or will unmask their errors and lies. If they have control, they shut down dissent. I am unaware of any society considered on the Right, that practices censorship without open discussion. Read on if you disagree with that.
America fought a long, hard, bloody war against England to chisel the right of free speech into granite monuments all over Washington, D.C., the nation's capitol. Shutting down free speech is the wall that rises and forms a prison around any populace. When people in power practice it they show they have no just or sound arguments against dissent. They cannot prove their own beliefs as a possible truth so they just shut down those who disagree with them, even if it costs lives. They do not care about life. They care only about power and control.
I saw this play out in the 80's in the Christian denomination I was a member of; which showed it lacked a decent understanding of the Christian faith, and practices Romanism; to the point of having a man-made book of rules which all members must go by, to prove their loyalty and faithfulness to that church hierarchy. I saw policy play out through all human history. It is recorded for anyone to see, who takes the time to read.
God allowed Lucifer to twist and distort truth, and lie about His character in veiled ways to gain a following of one third of the angelic host. He allowed those lies to build into an open insurrection, war broke out - whatever that means in a celestial, supernatural environment - and Lucifer and his hosts were cast out of Heaven.
When someone's position goes beyond discussion and becomes physically volatile, someone has to take a stand against it. Physical violence only comes when a denial of truth takes place and discussion cannot be allowed to expose corruption. The American Revolution only took place because England's king shut down free speech which exposed his crimes. And they were crimes, according to English law.
England had progressed to a place where the "divine right of kings" was being checked by parliamentary jurisprudence which gave citizens rights. Kings and queens were losing their supreme, dictatorial powers.
A very interesting article on the question of and debate about slavery, within Congress, is found here -
billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/benjamin-franklin-and-the-first-abolitionist-petitions
Benjamin Franklin broke the whole discussion wide open when he backed a petition by Quaker members of Congress. It took decades but, slavery was finally abolished in America. It is also interesting to note a response Franklin wrote to his Southern Congressional brethren, using their own reasoning in a "biting satire," which exposes the truth of the slave trade everywhere, not just in America -
"Franklin responded to the conclusion of the controversy in his typical manner – he wrote a biting satire. It took the form of a fictional speech by Muslim Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim of Algiers apologizing for piracy and Christian slavery in a way that mirrored the southern arguments. “If we cease our cruises against the Christians, how shall we be furnished with the commodities their countries produce, and which are so necessary? . . . . Let us then hear no more of this detestable proposition, the manumission of Christian slaves.”
Leftists are cowards. They cannot defend their positions so, they attempt to crush dissent. They cancel whatever they cannot defend against in open discussion and debate. They appeal to "science" which backs a position favorable to their Leftist agenda, and shut down all debate within the scientific community to protect their tyranny. The scientific community practices censorship and shuts down debate and opportunities for those who stand against long-held positions, and do it with shallow reasoning for what they claim are ipso facto positions. Churches do the same thing, using man-made rules to control discussion about biblical subjects; especially those that rise up and stand against man-made rules, regulations and authority.
Anywhere truth cannot be overturned with evidence by a competing force, the competing force standing against the truth, shuts down all discussion and debate. They are cowards. All who shut down debate are essentially cowards. They certainly straddle the quicksand of wickedness. Some are happy to rule from such a platform and openly revel in their evil.
When debate and discussion openly determines a truthful path, it establishes a platform which denies error by virtue of the power of truth. Heresy does exist. Error does exist. Lies exist. Something can be a lie. Truth exposes a lie.
Establishing truth may be a painful process, at times. Once it is established with discussion and debate and inspection of evidence, protect it against onslaught but, until you reach that point, shutting down debate is a coward's path.
We saw that path in bold display during the "pandemic." All discussion about the history of the illness, alternative treatments and remedies, and the science of the "vaccines," was put down as broadly and widely as possible. Without total control of the internet, the truth could not be stopped. It battered away at the battleship of tyranny and in America, people woke up to what was happened in the power play and state by state, things went back to normal. Some states, run by radical Leftists, still operate from the platform of lies and tyranny about the matter.
In all social constructs and societies humans have room to grow and advance. They also come to slippery slopes. The only thing humanity has to deciding an issue, in a balanced, forthright way, is discussion and debate. If both sides, or all sides are honest, they welcome discussion and debate, even if cherished positions are challenged. Truth is all that should matter. Anything else is a war against freedoms and liberties granted by God and established in the rule of law. In America's case that is the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If something is found to be wrong with the premises contained in those documents, channels and ways exist to change things, which foster the necessity of public discussion and debate.
All societies have problems. Only some societies practice forms of freedoms and liberty designed to keep truth in balanced protection. America used to be one of them. It is swiftly losing that place in civilization and becoming a very uncivil place as a result.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Leftist run, technological social platforms began censoring members years ago, during the Obama administration. The wave of censoring grew worse during the Trump administration. From getting censored or blocked on social sharing sites, to getting fired from your job for things posted online, censoring free speech in America, which has to plow through and run over the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights to do so, has become commonplace in all Leftist run tech platforms.
Generally, the censoring takes place because posts run afoul of tech platformn "rules" about mis and disinformation.
Twitter, which began as a totally self-agrandizing, look-at-me website; sharing whatever thoughts you may have on anything, at any moment during the day, turned into a tsunami of political outreach. Along with Facebook - which I was on and left many years ago when I found out Zuckerberg had collusion taking place between the site and Deep State agencies: some saying Deep State actually built the platform - censorship became so rank, as to become, literally a mimmicing playground for Comminist wannabes. I never understood why alternative, competing platforms were not started right from the moment it became universally known censoring became the rule, and that was during the Trump administration.
What is the standard for censorship? People can say it varies from platform to platform but, that is not really true. The two major platforms, then YouTube, only censored speech that came from anyone who had a political or social position slanted against Leftist ideology. Whether political opinions/information or medical opinions or information, everything shut down was coming from people speaking out against Leftist ideology. Zuckerberg and company lied under oath before Congress. Congress, itself, is an organization that lies on a daily basis and the depth of the "swamp" became an acknowledged Mariana Trench.
My point has always been - and this goes back decades during my time of ministry and being shut down by church leaders - why do they practice censorship when there is no set, acknowledged standard for what is truth and that which is mis or disinformation related to it? Churches have fundamental beliefs. They hold in place until someone or something comes along that challenges a doctrine's place as true. In science, there is generally never a shut door because the farther mankind can look into a cell or put into space, things mankind believes are constantly challenged and changed, or should be; and that is where conflict arises.
Why do Leftists censor? The only logical conclusion one can come to is simply because they have no grounds to prove what they believe is true, therefore shut down all competing information that may or will unmask their errors and lies. If they have control, they shut down dissent. I am unaware of any society considered on the Right, that practices censorship without open discussion. Read on if you disagree with that.
America fought a long, hard, bloody war against England to chisel the right of free speech into granite monuments all over Washington, D.C., the nation's capitol. Shutting down free speech is the wall that rises and forms a prison around any populace. When people in power practice it they show they have no just or sound arguments against dissent. They cannot prove their own beliefs as a possible truth so they just shut down those who disagree with them, even if it costs lives. They do not care about life. They care only about power and control.
I saw this play out in the 80's in the Christian denomination I was a member of; which showed it lacked a decent understanding of the Christian faith, and practices Romanism; to the point of having a man-made book of rules which all members must go by, to prove their loyalty and faithfulness to that church hierarchy. I saw policy play out through all human history. It is recorded for anyone to see, who takes the time to read.
God allowed Lucifer to twist and distort truth, and lie about His character in veiled ways to gain a following of one third of the angelic host. He allowed those lies to build into an open insurrection, war broke out - whatever that means in a celestial, supernatural environment - and Lucifer and his hosts were cast out of Heaven.
When someone's position goes beyond discussion and becomes physically volatile, someone has to take a stand against it. Physical violence only comes when a denial of truth takes place and discussion cannot be allowed to expose corruption. The American Revolution only took place because England's king shut down free speech which exposed his crimes. And they were crimes, according to English law.
England had progressed to a place where the "divine right of kings" was being checked by parliamentary jurisprudence which gave citizens rights. Kings and queens were losing their supreme, dictatorial powers.
A very interesting article on the question of and debate about slavery, within Congress, is found here -
billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/benjamin-franklin-and-the-first-abolitionist-petitions
Benjamin Franklin broke the whole discussion wide open when he backed a petition by Quaker members of Congress. It took decades but, slavery was finally abolished in America. It is also interesting to note a response Franklin wrote to his Southern Congressional brethren, using their own reasoning in a "biting satire," which exposes the truth of the slave trade everywhere, not just in America -
"Franklin responded to the conclusion of the controversy in his typical manner – he wrote a biting satire. It took the form of a fictional speech by Muslim Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim of Algiers apologizing for piracy and Christian slavery in a way that mirrored the southern arguments. “If we cease our cruises against the Christians, how shall we be furnished with the commodities their countries produce, and which are so necessary? . . . . Let us then hear no more of this detestable proposition, the manumission of Christian slaves.”
Leftists are cowards. They cannot defend their positions so, they attempt to crush dissent. They cancel whatever they cannot defend against in open discussion and debate. They appeal to "science" which backs a position favorable to their Leftist agenda, and shut down all debate within the scientific community to protect their tyranny. The scientific community practices censorship and shuts down debate and opportunities for those who stand against long-held positions, and do it with shallow reasoning for what they claim are ipso facto positions. Churches do the same thing, using man-made rules to control discussion about biblical subjects; especially those that rise up and stand against man-made rules, regulations and authority.
Anywhere truth cannot be overturned with evidence by a competing force, the competing force standing against the truth, shuts down all discussion and debate. They are cowards. All who shut down debate are essentially cowards. They certainly straddle the quicksand of wickedness. Some are happy to rule from such a platform and openly revel in their evil.
When debate and discussion openly determines a truthful path, it establishes a platform which denies error by virtue of the power of truth. Heresy does exist. Error does exist. Lies exist. Something can be a lie. Truth exposes a lie.
Establishing truth may be a painful process, at times. Once it is established with discussion and debate and inspection of evidence, protect it against onslaught but, until you reach that point, shutting down debate is a coward's path.
We saw that path in bold display during the "pandemic." All discussion about the history of the illness, alternative treatments and remedies, and the science of the "vaccines," was put down as broadly and widely as possible. Without total control of the internet, the truth could not be stopped. It battered away at the battleship of tyranny and in America, people woke up to what was happened in the power play and state by state, things went back to normal. Some states, run by radical Leftists, still operate from the platform of lies and tyranny about the matter.
In all social constructs and societies humans have room to grow and advance. They also come to slippery slopes. The only thing humanity has to deciding an issue, in a balanced, forthright way, is discussion and debate. If both sides, or all sides are honest, they welcome discussion and debate, even if cherished positions are challenged. Truth is all that should matter. Anything else is a war against freedoms and liberties granted by God and established in the rule of law. In America's case that is the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If something is found to be wrong with the premises contained in those documents, channels and ways exist to change things, which foster the necessity of public discussion and debate.
All societies have problems. Only some societies practice forms of freedoms and liberty designed to keep truth in balanced protection. America used to be one of them. It is swiftly losing that place in civilization and becoming a very uncivil place as a result.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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"THA DHIM"
Some years ago I linked to a YouTube video featuring some Indian musicians making up a Fusion group for an Indian music festival. A young Mohini Dey has gone on to be a world renowned bassist with incredible skills but, the fact is, each of the five musicians making up the quintet are world-class masters. Drum set, bass, violin, clay drums and a small guitar that is an Indian version of a Ukulele, which will blow your mind what the guy plays on it. All of them will amaze you, to hear Western Fusion played with their unique Indian phrasing and time keeping.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4imiKBwDoc
From a different year of this annual festival, a large percussion ensemble, "THA DHIM," play a two-hour concert. Sixty individuals playing various Indian drums, along with Western drum set, and even a couple guys playing an Indian version of a Jaw Harp. It's the Indian sense of time-keeping and phrasing that is so interesting, to me. I have not watched the entire two-hour concert yet but, wanted to mention it here before I forget.
Think 60 Trilok Gurtus on one stage. Yeah, it's crazy.
They begin by playing a piece that introduces each segment of the ensemble. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JNRQAE7Yc
Here's an eight minute video of part of the performance -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cygU2nYfV4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4imiKBwDoc
From a different year of this annual festival, a large percussion ensemble, "THA DHIM," play a two-hour concert. Sixty individuals playing various Indian drums, along with Western drum set, and even a couple guys playing an Indian version of a Jaw Harp. It's the Indian sense of time-keeping and phrasing that is so interesting, to me. I have not watched the entire two-hour concert yet but, wanted to mention it here before I forget.
Think 60 Trilok Gurtus on one stage. Yeah, it's crazy.
They begin by playing a piece that introduces each segment of the ensemble. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JNRQAE7Yc
Here's an eight minute video of part of the performance -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cygU2nYfV4
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808. The CBDC "Beast" - July 11, 2023
Once again I am seeing an evangelical take on Bible prophecy, based on the method of interpretation known as "Futurism," which places the immediacy of fulfilling prophecy on "globalist" machinations of control.
CBDC, if you do not know, stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. It is being touted and pushed by the World Economic Forum as a way to level the playing field for all humanity. Even within members of the WEF, it is stated to have both positive and negative possible outcomes. The negative? Digital currency can be programmed. It can literally be programmed to allow the purchase of some things and disallow purchase of other items, like illegal drugs, guns and ammunition, unhealthy "food," and other decisions made by the controllers.
The obvious inference is Revelation 13:15-18, which states the time will come when buying and selling will be controlled to a point that God's people can be boycotted and persecuted through such a means.
The problem with this path is a simple one. Just because the technological infrastructure of such a system is in place does not mean its inventors or handlers are the "beast" of Bible prophecy. Far from it.
Suppose your driver's license was used to dictate what you can buy or sell. It could be done, quite easily. Would that make the state you live in the beast of Bible prophecy? Of course not. The beast of Bible prophecy is a religious entity, with state influence. It is different from typical state powers which employ some aspects of religion.
There is a huge difference between the USA, considered a state power with a Judeo-Christian culture, or Saudi Arabia, which is a state power with an Islamic culture; and the Roman Catholic Church, which is a religious power that is also a state, as in Vatican City State. The latter fulfills a definitive mark or description of the antichrist power that rises up in the book of Daniel, chapter 7. The believer MUST remember that Daniel and Revelation are meant to be understood together and other portions of Scripture help to uncover their meaning.
If you get caught up in the Roman Catholic, Jesuit inspired and designed prophetic interpretation system of Futurism, you will be deceived. You are being deceived. The same goes for the other Jesuit designed system, the Preterist system of interpretation, which points backwards in time for fulfillment of prophecy; such as 666 and the antichrist beast being placed on emperor Nero in the first century. Both backward and forward systems were designed by Jesuit priests, the army of the pope, to take the finger of prophecy off the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy as the universally understood fulfillment of Daniel and Revelation's prophetic, apostate beast power.
Yes, I bring this up a lot because the ruse is everywhere now; and a sad failing of Protestant leadership to remain steadfast upon the anchors of their forefather's understanding of last-day characters and events. That is why the Roman Catholic Church is portrayed as a "mother" in prophecy; a mother of harlots. Who are the harlot daughters of Mother? Apostate Protestant churches that no longer hold to the teachings of their forefathers on this subject and others.
There are distinct reasons why so many Protestant churches disagree on many biblical subjects but, for at least 300 years were united on the subject of antichrist. The Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy was seen as the direct fulfillment of prophetic designations describing that power, which spawned the Reformation to stand against her claim to be "antechistos" - "in place of Christ."
The globalists, the world banks, the WEF, the Illuminati and all their tendrils and tentacles, are not the antichrist power of Bible prophecy. They are antichrist systems, to be sure. Remember what the apostle John wrote -
1John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
There is a particular character of prophecy that is antichrist to come, from John's time, and yet, many antichrists existed then: entities that put themselves in place of Christ to take the allegiance of believers away from Christ. The policy of antichrist can be fulfilled in what John stated just before the passage posted -
1John 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.
1John 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.
1John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
The world and the things of this world, can be antichrist; put in place of Christ in the heart and mind. Christ is to have the supreme allegiance of the believer. What did Jesus say to Peter -
Mat 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
At that moment, Peter was an antichrist. The Messiah's path was laid out in Scripture. Peter was being used by the Devil to dissuade Christ from following that path and Christ's rebuke was a sharp and pointed warning to Peter.
Anything, anyone can fulfill a minor role as an antichrist. That is not the same thing as THE antichrist of Bible prophecy; a massive entity that puts itself 'in place of Christ' as a redemptive path for believers. That is what the Roman Catholic Church and its popes and prelates stand for. It is an indictment upon the system, not sincere, individual members of that system. Them, God calls out of Babylon - spiritual confusion - to stand on the eternal platform of truth in Christ.
The principle of interpretation known as "Historicism," is the mode of interpretation used by Christians for ages. It is a system of understanding that begins with the time of the prophets themselves, and moves on down through history to fulfill things stated in their visions and dreams of future events; close to the prophets time or centuries in advance.
Do not be deceived.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
CBDC, if you do not know, stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. It is being touted and pushed by the World Economic Forum as a way to level the playing field for all humanity. Even within members of the WEF, it is stated to have both positive and negative possible outcomes. The negative? Digital currency can be programmed. It can literally be programmed to allow the purchase of some things and disallow purchase of other items, like illegal drugs, guns and ammunition, unhealthy "food," and other decisions made by the controllers.
The obvious inference is Revelation 13:15-18, which states the time will come when buying and selling will be controlled to a point that God's people can be boycotted and persecuted through such a means.
The problem with this path is a simple one. Just because the technological infrastructure of such a system is in place does not mean its inventors or handlers are the "beast" of Bible prophecy. Far from it.
Suppose your driver's license was used to dictate what you can buy or sell. It could be done, quite easily. Would that make the state you live in the beast of Bible prophecy? Of course not. The beast of Bible prophecy is a religious entity, with state influence. It is different from typical state powers which employ some aspects of religion.
There is a huge difference between the USA, considered a state power with a Judeo-Christian culture, or Saudi Arabia, which is a state power with an Islamic culture; and the Roman Catholic Church, which is a religious power that is also a state, as in Vatican City State. The latter fulfills a definitive mark or description of the antichrist power that rises up in the book of Daniel, chapter 7. The believer MUST remember that Daniel and Revelation are meant to be understood together and other portions of Scripture help to uncover their meaning.
If you get caught up in the Roman Catholic, Jesuit inspired and designed prophetic interpretation system of Futurism, you will be deceived. You are being deceived. The same goes for the other Jesuit designed system, the Preterist system of interpretation, which points backwards in time for fulfillment of prophecy; such as 666 and the antichrist beast being placed on emperor Nero in the first century. Both backward and forward systems were designed by Jesuit priests, the army of the pope, to take the finger of prophecy off the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy as the universally understood fulfillment of Daniel and Revelation's prophetic, apostate beast power.
Yes, I bring this up a lot because the ruse is everywhere now; and a sad failing of Protestant leadership to remain steadfast upon the anchors of their forefather's understanding of last-day characters and events. That is why the Roman Catholic Church is portrayed as a "mother" in prophecy; a mother of harlots. Who are the harlot daughters of Mother? Apostate Protestant churches that no longer hold to the teachings of their forefathers on this subject and others.
There are distinct reasons why so many Protestant churches disagree on many biblical subjects but, for at least 300 years were united on the subject of antichrist. The Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy was seen as the direct fulfillment of prophetic designations describing that power, which spawned the Reformation to stand against her claim to be "antechistos" - "in place of Christ."
The globalists, the world banks, the WEF, the Illuminati and all their tendrils and tentacles, are not the antichrist power of Bible prophecy. They are antichrist systems, to be sure. Remember what the apostle John wrote -
1John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
There is a particular character of prophecy that is antichrist to come, from John's time, and yet, many antichrists existed then: entities that put themselves in place of Christ to take the allegiance of believers away from Christ. The policy of antichrist can be fulfilled in what John stated just before the passage posted -
1John 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.
1John 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.
1John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
The world and the things of this world, can be antichrist; put in place of Christ in the heart and mind. Christ is to have the supreme allegiance of the believer. What did Jesus say to Peter -
Mat 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
At that moment, Peter was an antichrist. The Messiah's path was laid out in Scripture. Peter was being used by the Devil to dissuade Christ from following that path and Christ's rebuke was a sharp and pointed warning to Peter.
Anything, anyone can fulfill a minor role as an antichrist. That is not the same thing as THE antichrist of Bible prophecy; a massive entity that puts itself 'in place of Christ' as a redemptive path for believers. That is what the Roman Catholic Church and its popes and prelates stand for. It is an indictment upon the system, not sincere, individual members of that system. Them, God calls out of Babylon - spiritual confusion - to stand on the eternal platform of truth in Christ.
The principle of interpretation known as "Historicism," is the mode of interpretation used by Christians for ages. It is a system of understanding that begins with the time of the prophets themselves, and moves on down through history to fulfill things stated in their visions and dreams of future events; close to the prophets time or centuries in advance.
Do not be deceived.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Political Theater
Almost all the news sites I frequent are posting stories of how various members of Congress excoriated FBI Director, Christopher Wray, in hearings.
It is a crime to lie, to knowingly and willfully lie or mislead Congress. The number of people recorded by news information outlets to lie to Congress is as long as my arm. Already known information is placed against public testimony and 'so and so' lied to Congress is in headlines all over the place.
When was the last time you heard of someone being charged with the crime of lying to Congress? It seems every person who goes before a Congressional Committee in the last six years lies through their teeth to them and yet, no one is ever charged. How can that be? Political Theater.
Everything is just political theater, today. No one is ever held responsible or accountable for the crime. It is no different than members of Congress spouting off about illegal immigration. The borders remain porous, as millions cross the Southern border every year and just take up residence and get jobs legal citizens should have.
It is a crime to illegally cross the nation's borders. Just like FBI planted agents and Capitol police ushered people into the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, verified by dozens and dozens of personal video taken that day, Border Patrol agents have been shown, told to, just allow people to come into the nation unvetted and unchecked. Then some members of Congress crank off about it, if any even do, and yet, nothing is done. It is all just political theater.
Talk about theater. The new movie, Sound of Freedom, about the fight against child sex trafficking, a small budget film that grossed over 40 million dollars on its opening weekend, is being blasted by msm sources. That leads people to wonder why would any movie reviewer attempt to take down a movie about the attempt to stop child sex trafficking? Well, you say, the acting is bad, the script is bad, the scenes are unrealistic, etc., but, according to movie-goers, there's not a dry eye in the house. The movie places before viewers the most heart-wrenching situation in the world today. Apparently the film is realistic enough yet, oh yes, I neglected to mention, it is sources known to be on the Left of the political spectrum that are panning the film.
Political theater. Everything is just a big movie telling stories and nothing changes. Nothing is done to stop crime and corruption because everything surrounding all the corruption is just fake: basically, actors playing roles.
America deserves to collapse, if we gauge the nation's performance by the inaction of its elected civil servants.
God help us.
It is a crime to lie, to knowingly and willfully lie or mislead Congress. The number of people recorded by news information outlets to lie to Congress is as long as my arm. Already known information is placed against public testimony and 'so and so' lied to Congress is in headlines all over the place.
When was the last time you heard of someone being charged with the crime of lying to Congress? It seems every person who goes before a Congressional Committee in the last six years lies through their teeth to them and yet, no one is ever charged. How can that be? Political Theater.
Everything is just political theater, today. No one is ever held responsible or accountable for the crime. It is no different than members of Congress spouting off about illegal immigration. The borders remain porous, as millions cross the Southern border every year and just take up residence and get jobs legal citizens should have.
It is a crime to illegally cross the nation's borders. Just like FBI planted agents and Capitol police ushered people into the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, verified by dozens and dozens of personal video taken that day, Border Patrol agents have been shown, told to, just allow people to come into the nation unvetted and unchecked. Then some members of Congress crank off about it, if any even do, and yet, nothing is done. It is all just political theater.
Talk about theater. The new movie, Sound of Freedom, about the fight against child sex trafficking, a small budget film that grossed over 40 million dollars on its opening weekend, is being blasted by msm sources. That leads people to wonder why would any movie reviewer attempt to take down a movie about the attempt to stop child sex trafficking? Well, you say, the acting is bad, the script is bad, the scenes are unrealistic, etc., but, according to movie-goers, there's not a dry eye in the house. The movie places before viewers the most heart-wrenching situation in the world today. Apparently the film is realistic enough yet, oh yes, I neglected to mention, it is sources known to be on the Left of the political spectrum that are panning the film.
Political theater. Everything is just a big movie telling stories and nothing changes. Nothing is done to stop crime and corruption because everything surrounding all the corruption is just fake: basically, actors playing roles.
America deserves to collapse, if we gauge the nation's performance by the inaction of its elected civil servants.
God help us.
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809. The Ten Suggestions? - 7/14/23
Over 3,000 years ago an event took place that has become so familiar to Western civilization, even a few Hollywood movies have been made about it: the Exodus of the Hebrew people from Egypt and the giving of the Ten Commandments and the law to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
The Bible does not state "the Ten Commandments." Nor does it state the "Moral Law." Those are theological/categorical terms man has placed upon them.
The Bible does state the ten commandments are called the "royal law" and "law of liberty" -
Jas 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Jas 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Most times it is just referred to as "the law." Some times it is referred to as the "two tables of testimony" -
Exo 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The Hebrew word for "table" gives us more the idea of a plaque.
Today, the law of liberty is regarded more as the ten suggestions. 'Here's what you can do to be a moral person;' though many would not regard the first four commandments as important, at all. Those first four commands address our duty to our Creator. The second six regard our duty to our fellow man.
To think of them as suggestions does not even give them the place of a stop sign or traffic light. The Bible says we shall all be judged by those ten simple statements written with the hand of God. They are a standard of righteousness God uses to judge all mankind, depending on their understanding of spiritual light that shined upon their minds, if they never actually heard of the religion and history of the Bible.
In ancient times, many of the commands were common to all civilized societies. Some, not all.
Many professed Christians, and I mean that, based on surveys, have never read the 20th chapter of Exodus. They may know some subset of commands or abbreviated version engraved into stone on some courthouse lawn marker or statue or something but, the full commands of God, written with His own hand (however that took place), they have never read.
The number of professed Christians who only concern themselves with the New Testament and Psalms, even if their clergy preach from the Old Testament all the time, is a sure way to understand the current condition of our culture. That is not to say the NT does not mention the Law. God forbid. It is mentioned dozens of times.
Down through history many books have been written about the moral law. I remember when Pat Robertson, who passed away recently, wrote a book about the Ten Commandments. He saw the culture drifting away from the influence and mandated conduct contained in the law. Oddly enough, Robertson, like many, if not most evangelicals today, believe the Ten Commandments are not literally viable and mandated upon believers anymore. It is possibly the greatest act of heresy ever perpetuated by people professing faith towards God. I mean that among Protestants. Obviously Roman Catholic doctrine teaches many things opposed to the Word of God, which is what sparked the reformation in every century people rose up to protest the Church of Rome. That said, the ten commandments are considered quite valid and mandatory in the Catholic faith.
I have addressed Roman Catholic apostasy and its self-proclaimed attempt to change the law of God; which is one of the marks of anti-Christ, Daniel 7:25. The RCC has published numerous tracts and articles in their journals over the centuries chiding Protestantism for following Catholic traditions and not the Bible. I used to pass some out at my seminars. A pretty thorough collection of statements from the RCC and other faiths, concerning the Sabbath can be found here-
www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath-history/denominational-statements-on-the-sabbath/id/catholic
Most people are shocked to see the history of statements from the pens and preaching of non-Sabbath keeping Christians upon this subject.
In most homes there exist understood parental rules of some kind. They are not mere suggestions of conduct. They are law. Breaking them carries penalties, through responsibility and accountability, when a babe shows itself smart enough to "get it," right through to children leaving the home to carry out adult life. And then they have sets of rules for conduct within their own families. Every generation has them and parents expect them to be obeyed. Violate them and suffer a penalty. Family life, 101.
How is it in our "modern" society human parents can have rules of conduct they expect to be obeyed but, humanity's Parent and His law is just some set of suggestions or old, antiquated rules no longer applicable to the human race? A child, of whatever age, breaks house rules and suffers some kind of penalty, depending on the infraction: removal from society of the home = sent to their room; standing in a corner, spanked; loss of privileges, getting grounded for some period of time, etc., and no amount of crying and bellyaching or sorely attempted negotiations allows the child to escape their due judgment. Yet somehow, people think breaking God's commandments carries no penalty. They don't matter anymore. They were "nailed to the cross." They are part of the Jewish religious system. This futile and audacious reasoning has convinced generations of professed believers to deny their guilty conscience when they break God's laws. And remember what James wrote - break one and you break them all, in principle.
The law is a transcript of God's character; how He operates His kingdom.
God puts nothing before us. Christ came and lived and died and rose from the dead for us, so we do not have to die and suffer the penalty of sin, which is death: the "second death;" removal from existence.
God would never use a likeness of us to communicate with. He communicates directly to us through the work and influence of the Holy Spirit and His spoken words to His servants, the prophets, to us.
He would never use our name in vein, in some way to just exclaim how upset He is.
Time belongs to the Creator. All space, matter and time are His. He gives us six days to do whatever we want. He only asks of us one day to regard as sacred time; a memorial of the greatest act of power that could ever be witnessed - the creation of the universe, by speaking it into existence. He spoke and it stood fast. Inconceivable power.
If you pay attention, you begin to see the depth of the law. Keep time holy? We cannot see time. It has no odor; is not solid to feel. It cannot be placed in a box, yet it is a tremendous gift. GGod commands humanity to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; which literally means set apart for a holy use. The seventh-day is God's day. Humanity was asked to remember one day and most of humanity has forgotten it. They keep a counterfeit day, instead, and frankly, do not keep the day, at all. They go to a church service, then do whatever they want the rest of the day. Is that keeping the fourth commandment? Not even close. Besides that, in the Bible, a day begins at sunset, not midnight. So, in fact, the Sabbath begins at sunset to close out the sixth day of the week and ends at sunset on Sabbath. Sunday proposes nothing sacred, at all, as far as God has said. If it were, it should be kept from sundown to sundown; God's day cycle, not man's: midnight to midnight.
Well, you know, the Catholics can go to Mass on Saturday night. But everyone knows that is an act of convenience for those who don't feel like getting up Sunday morning.
No, the seventh-day Sabbath is the Lord's day and it requires serious contemplation to come to grips with holy time. It is the longest commandment for a reason. There's a lot of information in it. The Catholic Church has also whittled it down to a sentence: "Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy." Then they turned around changed it to Sunday from their own sense of power through their popes, claiming to be Christ, to be God on Earth.
Full disclosure, here's a link to a more modern Roman Catholic Catechism that lays out all the reasoning about the Sabbath/Sunday issue. Ask your self where God commanded Sunday to replace the Sabbath. There's all kinds of theological rabbits pulled out of hats but, there is no command from God to keep Sunday in place of His Sabbath. You will also notice the use of the terms "Christians" quite a bit; meaning - Roman Catholics.
www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a3.htm
Notice this footnote -
111 CIC, can. 1246 § 2: "The conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See."
So, the Pope says, "Okay, change it," and it gets changed. Just like that. The Pope, not God. The word of the Pope, not the Word of God. But, in the Roman Church the word of a the Pope is the word of God, because they are in place of God: the Vicar of Christ. When the Pope makes a declaration "ex cathedra" from the chair (of Peter), he is consider infallible. Guided by the Holy Spirit he cannot make a mistake in judgment.
Peter, said first Pope by the RCC, made mistakes. Paul rebuked him to his face about one of them, when Peter acted the hypocrite towards Gentile converts, when fellowshipping with Jews. Roman Catholics will tell us popes can make mistakes but, in the 19th century, 1869-1870, at the First Vatican Council, to the wincing of many a Catholic who made note of the unfortunate declaration, infallibility was placed upon the "Holy See," whatever pope takes the throne.
The Reader will no doubt remember Peter never sat on a throne. For that matter, Christ never sat on a throne. How can any sinner sit on a throne as the supposed vicar of Christ on Earth. It is the spirit of anti-Christ that perpetuates such apostasy from the plain truth of God's Word.
The Sabbath/Sunday issue is not just a controversy about a couple days, take your pick. The Sabbath requires commitment. It requires thought. And it shall be the dividing line for all humanity sometime in the near future.
The second six commandments address our duty to each other.
If you love your parents, would you want someone to dishonor them? Then we should not, either. Yes, you begin to see more of the depth of spirituality of the law because parents and teenagers are generally at war with each other, to some degree, when life and hormones begin to radically change. God says, NO. Honor your mother and father. No parents are perfect. It takes committed connection to our Heavenly Father to consistently honor our earthly parents under all circumstances.
Do you want anyone to kill you? Don't kill anyone.
Do you want someone to sleep with your spouse? Don't commit adultery.
Do you want someone to steal what belongs to you? Do not steal from anyone.
Do you want anyone to lie to you, to bear a false witness about you? Don't lie to anyone or bear a false witness against anyone.
Do you want anyone to covet your spouse or your belongings? Uh, oh. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!! Human beings are saturated with self and look at me, look at what I own, look at what I can do mentality. It is visible in toddlers. It is visible in people of all ages. Now we really have a problem.
We can understand not killing anyone. We can understand not stealing, not bearing a false witness against people. We have a difficult time clicking with keeping time holy but, we somehow figure out ways to conduct ourselves in harmony with eight of God's laws. Nine and ten? Our eyes are bombarded with spouses and two sexes to covet after, and the belongings of others to covet after and wish we had the same, to some degree or another. Lust is marketed for everything from food to clothes, from toys to entertainment. Everything is affected by our fallen nature to covet after things. Why do you think religions began systems and orders of monks and nuns? Unfortunately, you cannot escape your mind and thoughts. Only a living, submissive connection with our Creator can keep our mind free from breaking God's law. It takes recreation, being born-again and fighting the good fight of faith, hence, our need to remember God is the Creator and can recreate us into the stature and fulness of Christ, if we will cooperate. Sunday is NOT the principle behind that power to change us. The Sabbath is. It is the memorial of God's creative power.
It is an ignorant mind that thinks the ten commandments are some old-fashioned, unnecessary code of conduct that can be pushed aside for what amounts to Satanism - which is, "whatsoever thou wilt." Do whatever you desire. Think how you want. Speak how you want. Be and live as you want and that is just fine but, that is the recipe for the destruction that is coming: the growth of self to heights so intrusive to peace - God's society and kingdom of peace - He is going to wipe out the insanity once again. First time, a flood. Next time, fire. And then the final fires to turn Earth, its inhabitants, Lucifer and his army of demons to ashes; to begin again, never to see it all fall to self again. Affliction shall not arise a second time.
When God says, "Obey" He means it because the safety and tranquility of the universe depends on it.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Rev 12:17 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.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Bible does not state "the Ten Commandments." Nor does it state the "Moral Law." Those are theological/categorical terms man has placed upon them.
The Bible does state the ten commandments are called the "royal law" and "law of liberty" -
Jas 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Jas 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Most times it is just referred to as "the law." Some times it is referred to as the "two tables of testimony" -
Exo 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The Hebrew word for "table" gives us more the idea of a plaque.
Today, the law of liberty is regarded more as the ten suggestions. 'Here's what you can do to be a moral person;' though many would not regard the first four commandments as important, at all. Those first four commands address our duty to our Creator. The second six regard our duty to our fellow man.
To think of them as suggestions does not even give them the place of a stop sign or traffic light. The Bible says we shall all be judged by those ten simple statements written with the hand of God. They are a standard of righteousness God uses to judge all mankind, depending on their understanding of spiritual light that shined upon their minds, if they never actually heard of the religion and history of the Bible.
In ancient times, many of the commands were common to all civilized societies. Some, not all.
Many professed Christians, and I mean that, based on surveys, have never read the 20th chapter of Exodus. They may know some subset of commands or abbreviated version engraved into stone on some courthouse lawn marker or statue or something but, the full commands of God, written with His own hand (however that took place), they have never read.
The number of professed Christians who only concern themselves with the New Testament and Psalms, even if their clergy preach from the Old Testament all the time, is a sure way to understand the current condition of our culture. That is not to say the NT does not mention the Law. God forbid. It is mentioned dozens of times.
Down through history many books have been written about the moral law. I remember when Pat Robertson, who passed away recently, wrote a book about the Ten Commandments. He saw the culture drifting away from the influence and mandated conduct contained in the law. Oddly enough, Robertson, like many, if not most evangelicals today, believe the Ten Commandments are not literally viable and mandated upon believers anymore. It is possibly the greatest act of heresy ever perpetuated by people professing faith towards God. I mean that among Protestants. Obviously Roman Catholic doctrine teaches many things opposed to the Word of God, which is what sparked the reformation in every century people rose up to protest the Church of Rome. That said, the ten commandments are considered quite valid and mandatory in the Catholic faith.
I have addressed Roman Catholic apostasy and its self-proclaimed attempt to change the law of God; which is one of the marks of anti-Christ, Daniel 7:25. The RCC has published numerous tracts and articles in their journals over the centuries chiding Protestantism for following Catholic traditions and not the Bible. I used to pass some out at my seminars. A pretty thorough collection of statements from the RCC and other faiths, concerning the Sabbath can be found here-
www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath-history/denominational-statements-on-the-sabbath/id/catholic
Most people are shocked to see the history of statements from the pens and preaching of non-Sabbath keeping Christians upon this subject.
In most homes there exist understood parental rules of some kind. They are not mere suggestions of conduct. They are law. Breaking them carries penalties, through responsibility and accountability, when a babe shows itself smart enough to "get it," right through to children leaving the home to carry out adult life. And then they have sets of rules for conduct within their own families. Every generation has them and parents expect them to be obeyed. Violate them and suffer a penalty. Family life, 101.
How is it in our "modern" society human parents can have rules of conduct they expect to be obeyed but, humanity's Parent and His law is just some set of suggestions or old, antiquated rules no longer applicable to the human race? A child, of whatever age, breaks house rules and suffers some kind of penalty, depending on the infraction: removal from society of the home = sent to their room; standing in a corner, spanked; loss of privileges, getting grounded for some period of time, etc., and no amount of crying and bellyaching or sorely attempted negotiations allows the child to escape their due judgment. Yet somehow, people think breaking God's commandments carries no penalty. They don't matter anymore. They were "nailed to the cross." They are part of the Jewish religious system. This futile and audacious reasoning has convinced generations of professed believers to deny their guilty conscience when they break God's laws. And remember what James wrote - break one and you break them all, in principle.
The law is a transcript of God's character; how He operates His kingdom.
God puts nothing before us. Christ came and lived and died and rose from the dead for us, so we do not have to die and suffer the penalty of sin, which is death: the "second death;" removal from existence.
God would never use a likeness of us to communicate with. He communicates directly to us through the work and influence of the Holy Spirit and His spoken words to His servants, the prophets, to us.
He would never use our name in vein, in some way to just exclaim how upset He is.
Time belongs to the Creator. All space, matter and time are His. He gives us six days to do whatever we want. He only asks of us one day to regard as sacred time; a memorial of the greatest act of power that could ever be witnessed - the creation of the universe, by speaking it into existence. He spoke and it stood fast. Inconceivable power.
If you pay attention, you begin to see the depth of the law. Keep time holy? We cannot see time. It has no odor; is not solid to feel. It cannot be placed in a box, yet it is a tremendous gift. GGod commands humanity to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; which literally means set apart for a holy use. The seventh-day is God's day. Humanity was asked to remember one day and most of humanity has forgotten it. They keep a counterfeit day, instead, and frankly, do not keep the day, at all. They go to a church service, then do whatever they want the rest of the day. Is that keeping the fourth commandment? Not even close. Besides that, in the Bible, a day begins at sunset, not midnight. So, in fact, the Sabbath begins at sunset to close out the sixth day of the week and ends at sunset on Sabbath. Sunday proposes nothing sacred, at all, as far as God has said. If it were, it should be kept from sundown to sundown; God's day cycle, not man's: midnight to midnight.
Well, you know, the Catholics can go to Mass on Saturday night. But everyone knows that is an act of convenience for those who don't feel like getting up Sunday morning.
No, the seventh-day Sabbath is the Lord's day and it requires serious contemplation to come to grips with holy time. It is the longest commandment for a reason. There's a lot of information in it. The Catholic Church has also whittled it down to a sentence: "Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy." Then they turned around changed it to Sunday from their own sense of power through their popes, claiming to be Christ, to be God on Earth.
Full disclosure, here's a link to a more modern Roman Catholic Catechism that lays out all the reasoning about the Sabbath/Sunday issue. Ask your self where God commanded Sunday to replace the Sabbath. There's all kinds of theological rabbits pulled out of hats but, there is no command from God to keep Sunday in place of His Sabbath. You will also notice the use of the terms "Christians" quite a bit; meaning - Roman Catholics.
www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a3.htm
Notice this footnote -
111 CIC, can. 1246 § 2: "The conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See."
So, the Pope says, "Okay, change it," and it gets changed. Just like that. The Pope, not God. The word of the Pope, not the Word of God. But, in the Roman Church the word of a the Pope is the word of God, because they are in place of God: the Vicar of Christ. When the Pope makes a declaration "ex cathedra" from the chair (of Peter), he is consider infallible. Guided by the Holy Spirit he cannot make a mistake in judgment.
Peter, said first Pope by the RCC, made mistakes. Paul rebuked him to his face about one of them, when Peter acted the hypocrite towards Gentile converts, when fellowshipping with Jews. Roman Catholics will tell us popes can make mistakes but, in the 19th century, 1869-1870, at the First Vatican Council, to the wincing of many a Catholic who made note of the unfortunate declaration, infallibility was placed upon the "Holy See," whatever pope takes the throne.
The Reader will no doubt remember Peter never sat on a throne. For that matter, Christ never sat on a throne. How can any sinner sit on a throne as the supposed vicar of Christ on Earth. It is the spirit of anti-Christ that perpetuates such apostasy from the plain truth of God's Word.
The Sabbath/Sunday issue is not just a controversy about a couple days, take your pick. The Sabbath requires commitment. It requires thought. And it shall be the dividing line for all humanity sometime in the near future.
The second six commandments address our duty to each other.
If you love your parents, would you want someone to dishonor them? Then we should not, either. Yes, you begin to see more of the depth of spirituality of the law because parents and teenagers are generally at war with each other, to some degree, when life and hormones begin to radically change. God says, NO. Honor your mother and father. No parents are perfect. It takes committed connection to our Heavenly Father to consistently honor our earthly parents under all circumstances.
Do you want anyone to kill you? Don't kill anyone.
Do you want someone to sleep with your spouse? Don't commit adultery.
Do you want someone to steal what belongs to you? Do not steal from anyone.
Do you want anyone to lie to you, to bear a false witness about you? Don't lie to anyone or bear a false witness against anyone.
Do you want anyone to covet your spouse or your belongings? Uh, oh. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!! Human beings are saturated with self and look at me, look at what I own, look at what I can do mentality. It is visible in toddlers. It is visible in people of all ages. Now we really have a problem.
We can understand not killing anyone. We can understand not stealing, not bearing a false witness against people. We have a difficult time clicking with keeping time holy but, we somehow figure out ways to conduct ourselves in harmony with eight of God's laws. Nine and ten? Our eyes are bombarded with spouses and two sexes to covet after, and the belongings of others to covet after and wish we had the same, to some degree or another. Lust is marketed for everything from food to clothes, from toys to entertainment. Everything is affected by our fallen nature to covet after things. Why do you think religions began systems and orders of monks and nuns? Unfortunately, you cannot escape your mind and thoughts. Only a living, submissive connection with our Creator can keep our mind free from breaking God's law. It takes recreation, being born-again and fighting the good fight of faith, hence, our need to remember God is the Creator and can recreate us into the stature and fulness of Christ, if we will cooperate. Sunday is NOT the principle behind that power to change us. The Sabbath is. It is the memorial of God's creative power.
It is an ignorant mind that thinks the ten commandments are some old-fashioned, unnecessary code of conduct that can be pushed aside for what amounts to Satanism - which is, "whatsoever thou wilt." Do whatever you desire. Think how you want. Speak how you want. Be and live as you want and that is just fine but, that is the recipe for the destruction that is coming: the growth of self to heights so intrusive to peace - God's society and kingdom of peace - He is going to wipe out the insanity once again. First time, a flood. Next time, fire. And then the final fires to turn Earth, its inhabitants, Lucifer and his army of demons to ashes; to begin again, never to see it all fall to self again. Affliction shall not arise a second time.
When God says, "Obey" He means it because the safety and tranquility of the universe depends on it.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Rev 12:17 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.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Pig Beans!?!?
You'll have to read this to understand the dangers facing mankind at the hands of genetic engineers.
Pig Beans. Beans that have genetically impregnated pig protein into them.
basedunderground.com/2023/07/14/pig-beans-the-latest-gmo-frankenfood/
I should mention, I have eaten hamburgers made from pea protein, using beet juice and other natural ingredients that taste quite good. I stopped eating soy products all the time years ago, learning how much estrogen is in soy beans. Not good for men. The constant "updating" of these products leave me cold, now. I rarely consume them and would rather make my own alternatives.
Moolec. I'd assume it's a reference to cows. On the other hand, in the Bible there is a nefarious deity pagans used to worship, known as Molech, the bull god.
Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed [offspring] pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Lev 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Genetic engineering. Amalgamation. Men seeking to be the Creator.
The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
**I want to add an addendum here. Think not that what is written here is close to the depth of the spirituality and principles contained in each commandment. As I said; entire books have been written about the moral law.
Just reading the sermon on the mount reveals deeper things from the teachings of Christ. Do not commit adultery. Well, if you just look at a woman (or man) with lust [sinful desire] in your heart, you have already committed adultery.
Do not bear a false witness against your neighbor. Well, if you are asked something about your neighbor and you just raise an eyebrow to portray or convey an opinion against your neighbor, you have borne a false witness.
The Law is a mirror. It is there to show us God's character and our lack of it and need for it, as it reflects our true nature of self to us because we are sinners in need of a Saviour.
When Moses brought the tables of stone to God, the LORD proclaimed this -
Exo 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exo 34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Exo 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Exo 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
God's character is bound up in His Law. His kingdom of mercy and justice are also bound up in it. The Law cannot be done away with anymore than God or His kingdom can be done away with.
We cannot save ourselves by keeping the Law. Nor can we be saved if we claim to believe and love God and not keep His Law, all ten commands, as an act of faith and trust in the life-changing power of salvation by grace, through faith, unto good works, Eph. 2:8-10. "Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone," James 2:17.
You row the boat of salvation with two oars, faith and works. One oar will not get you far against the currents of deception, not the least of which is self-deception. That is the deception of the Laodicean condition, Rev. 3:14-22: thinking we are alright, when we are all wrong.
Millions are deceived, by their own ministers no less, on the balance of this subject. It will play an enormous part in last-day events.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Pig Beans. Beans that have genetically impregnated pig protein into them.
basedunderground.com/2023/07/14/pig-beans-the-latest-gmo-frankenfood/
- One of the latest GMO Frankenfoods is Piggy Sooy, a soybean genetically engineered to contain pig protein. One or more undisclosed pig genes are spliced into conventional soya to create a soybean with 26.6% animal protein
- Moolec, the U.K.-based company that developed Piggy Sooy, is also working on developing a pea plant that produces beef protein. The company claims these transgenic hybrids will provide similar taste, texture and nutritional value as meat, without the high cost of cultured or lab-grown meat alternatives
I should mention, I have eaten hamburgers made from pea protein, using beet juice and other natural ingredients that taste quite good. I stopped eating soy products all the time years ago, learning how much estrogen is in soy beans. Not good for men. The constant "updating" of these products leave me cold, now. I rarely consume them and would rather make my own alternatives.
Moolec. I'd assume it's a reference to cows. On the other hand, in the Bible there is a nefarious deity pagans used to worship, known as Molech, the bull god.
Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed [offspring] pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Lev 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Genetic engineering. Amalgamation. Men seeking to be the Creator.
The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
**I want to add an addendum here. Think not that what is written here is close to the depth of the spirituality and principles contained in each commandment. As I said; entire books have been written about the moral law.
Just reading the sermon on the mount reveals deeper things from the teachings of Christ. Do not commit adultery. Well, if you just look at a woman (or man) with lust [sinful desire] in your heart, you have already committed adultery.
Do not bear a false witness against your neighbor. Well, if you are asked something about your neighbor and you just raise an eyebrow to portray or convey an opinion against your neighbor, you have borne a false witness.
The Law is a mirror. It is there to show us God's character and our lack of it and need for it, as it reflects our true nature of self to us because we are sinners in need of a Saviour.
When Moses brought the tables of stone to God, the LORD proclaimed this -
Exo 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exo 34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Exo 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Exo 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
God's character is bound up in His Law. His kingdom of mercy and justice are also bound up in it. The Law cannot be done away with anymore than God or His kingdom can be done away with.
We cannot save ourselves by keeping the Law. Nor can we be saved if we claim to believe and love God and not keep His Law, all ten commands, as an act of faith and trust in the life-changing power of salvation by grace, through faith, unto good works, Eph. 2:8-10. "Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone," James 2:17.
You row the boat of salvation with two oars, faith and works. One oar will not get you far against the currents of deception, not the least of which is self-deception. That is the deception of the Laodicean condition, Rev. 3:14-22: thinking we are alright, when we are all wrong.
Millions are deceived, by their own ministers no less, on the balance of this subject. It will play an enormous part in last-day events.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND Revisited - Scandinavian Division
I received an email from Martin, labeled 'Greetings From LEGEND Revisited (Scandinavian Division)' which just contained a picture -
As you know Martin lives in Denmark and Janne in Sweden but, their respective bands played at a festival and these old friends got a chance to meet up and spend a little time together. Wish I could have been there to meet them both.
Strange and wonderful life, this; being able to produce music together and circumstances may never allow us to actually meet in person, some day.
I will say, beyond the privilege of working with these gentlemen (and of course, Tom, Manos and Boris), there is the music, just to listen to.
I put all the mixes of the songs, both those Tom has worked on and Martin's original rough mixes of the songs Tom has not gotten to yet, into Audacity and listen to them as I would a CD and it remains a very enjoyable listen for me; moving, momentous, and quite inspiring to hear the musical work Martin and Janne have put into these compositions. I long for fans to hear them all finished, polished up and ready to go.
We'll get there.
Onward>>>
Strange and wonderful life, this; being able to produce music together and circumstances may never allow us to actually meet in person, some day.
I will say, beyond the privilege of working with these gentlemen (and of course, Tom, Manos and Boris), there is the music, just to listen to.
I put all the mixes of the songs, both those Tom has worked on and Martin's original rough mixes of the songs Tom has not gotten to yet, into Audacity and listen to them as I would a CD and it remains a very enjoyable listen for me; moving, momentous, and quite inspiring to hear the musical work Martin and Janne have put into these compositions. I long for fans to hear them all finished, polished up and ready to go.
We'll get there.
Onward>>>
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Babylon, Oh Babylon
Confusion. It seems to be ramping up exponentially.
A man wins a beauty contest in the Netherlands. He'll be the contestant for Netherlands at the MISS Universe contest. How the other contestants, real women, put up with that is beyond me.
Maybelline cosmetics is now using bearded men to advertise their new make-up lines. It looks absolutely freakish and nonsensical. Again, why are women not totally insulted and lambasting this insanity?
A female, admittedly so, clergyperson for a typical Liberal church, states God is queer. At what point do reasoning, thinking people rise up and say, Enough!
A movie made around the toy, Barbie, is a woke farce of an attempt to manipulate young minds and falls on its face in the minds of adults, even woke ones. This goes along with Disney hemorrhaging money at its theme parks and movie releases, while Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser's self-inflicted torpedo, leaves the U.S, stating he fears for his safety.
Parents in the UK can now be arrested if they refuse to pay for their child's mutilation trans surgery. Elections have consequences. On the other hand, do they, if citizens are voting radical Leftists into office? You get what you vote for, unless you live in America where you get whatever criminals give you after they steal elections.
A Federal judge in Wisconsin rules an 11-year-old boy/trans-girl, must be allowed to use the girls' bathroom. Logic would require, demand, every parent of a girl would rise up in arms at such a decision and the school administrators should tell the judge to go pound sand but, needless to say, that is not happening. To read the backstory, the mother of this child should be declared unsuitable, if not mentally unhinged. She claims the boy has "identified" as a girl since the age of three. Any parent that allows a three-year-old to decide its gender is not functioning with full logic capabilities.
Babylon. Prophetic, spiritual confusion. I doubt any previous generation could predict Western civilization could possibly fall into such a chasm of foolishness and absurdities as we are witnessing.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A man wins a beauty contest in the Netherlands. He'll be the contestant for Netherlands at the MISS Universe contest. How the other contestants, real women, put up with that is beyond me.
Maybelline cosmetics is now using bearded men to advertise their new make-up lines. It looks absolutely freakish and nonsensical. Again, why are women not totally insulted and lambasting this insanity?
A female, admittedly so, clergyperson for a typical Liberal church, states God is queer. At what point do reasoning, thinking people rise up and say, Enough!
A movie made around the toy, Barbie, is a woke farce of an attempt to manipulate young minds and falls on its face in the minds of adults, even woke ones. This goes along with Disney hemorrhaging money at its theme parks and movie releases, while Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser's self-inflicted torpedo, leaves the U.S, stating he fears for his safety.
Parents in the UK can now be arrested if they refuse to pay for their child's mutilation trans surgery. Elections have consequences. On the other hand, do they, if citizens are voting radical Leftists into office? You get what you vote for, unless you live in America where you get whatever criminals give you after they steal elections.
A Federal judge in Wisconsin rules an 11-year-old boy/trans-girl, must be allowed to use the girls' bathroom. Logic would require, demand, every parent of a girl would rise up in arms at such a decision and the school administrators should tell the judge to go pound sand but, needless to say, that is not happening. To read the backstory, the mother of this child should be declared unsuitable, if not mentally unhinged. She claims the boy has "identified" as a girl since the age of three. Any parent that allows a three-year-old to decide its gender is not functioning with full logic capabilities.
Babylon. Prophetic, spiritual confusion. I doubt any previous generation could predict Western civilization could possibly fall into such a chasm of foolishness and absurdities as we are witnessing.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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810. The Faith of Atheists - July 16, 2023
I have watched a number of debates and/or discussions between atheists and believers or, in the case of some people, non-believers searching for answers or at least those who see the value of religion in culture and society.
The one thing, or one of the things that seems to crop up continually is the fact, the absolute historic fact, that the stories of the Bible are so impressive they have taken on a life of their own that far exceeds the lifetime of any human, thousands of years removed from the timelines of the stories that have had an influence; not just in Western civilizations but, creating converts in all cultures around the world. Yet, the atheist takes the position all those stories, written by dozens of different people over approximately 2500 years of time, linked together by bits of information all through the books, both Old and New Testaments, are all just man-conceived writings. And, AND they never address the prophetic predictions of the Bible.
I once again stake my claim on belief in God, not only by what I have personally experienced but, by the very nature of the predictions made in the Book that have come true; by names, places and events history has laid out before mankind to behold that God can tell the end, from the beginning, and uses His prophets to show the world there is no God but, Him.
Those who choose not to believe in a literal, supernatural Creator and Sovereign over the universe cannot explain how normal people could possibly predict future events by their own mortal conscience and knowledge. One person might guess something. One thing, in a certain time frame close to them. Multiple people, who never met or communicated in any way, making predictions about people and events over centuries and millennia? Seriously? You just cast it all aside as poetry and parables? Really? Surely, you jest.
I was raised Catholic. When, at 10 years old, I was confronted with an atheist for the first time, I was dumbfounded and my parents had no way to combat the influence growing inside me. They had no knowledge of prophecy. No average Catholic does. Most of the Catholic clergy has no idea of the fulfillment of prophecies, especially when the Catholic view of prophecy is based on the premises of the two Jesuits, Alcazar and Ribera - Preterism and Futurism. Historicism cannot be part of Roman Catholic approach to prophecy because the entire Protestant Reformation, using the principles of Historicism, saw the Papacy as anti-Christ, the man of sin, the Little Horn of Daniel 7 and the Beast of Revelation 13, and the Mother whore of Revelation 17, etc. So, for my ten-year-old brain there was nothing to withstand the influence of a co-worker of my mother telling me religion is all based on fear, and by 13 I was an atheist. My father, a determined Catholic who hardly practiced the fulness of that faith, almost had a heart attack screaming at me that no goddamn atheist was going to live in his house; while my mother stood there petrified and scared out of her wits her husband was about to have a coronary, as I sat on the couch and feared for me life.
Jump ten years into the future and I became a Christian. How? What could possibly change my mind that dozens of friends could not convince me of? I was moved by the accuracy of Bible prophecy. How can it be men, writing thousands of years ago, could accurately predict the rise and fall of nations centuries, millennia beyond them? The signs of the times written out in great detail by the Gospel writers, along with other apostles and disciples adds up to an anvil no human hammer has worn out and never will.
God knows asking people to believe in Someone who lived 2000 years ago is pretty out there. It was the same for people 2000 years ago, whom for generations believed in a Messiah who had not yet come. When He arrived, they rejected Him, when their very own prophecies should have been understood to show the Messiah arrived exactly when the prophecies predicted and those same prophecies predicted the downfall of their entire society and culture. When Jesus said not one of the stones of the temple would remain standing, the Jewish leaders laughed and claimed Jesus of Nazareth was nuts. Well, they all came down; all of them and the Jews were scattered all over Europe and ultimately, Islam took control of the land, and then the Papal/Islamic wars began and the Jews, for 2000 years, had no say over the land God gave them and frankly, the events of 1947 ARE NOT fulfillment of prophecies addressing the return of Jews to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity! The lies of Futurism have ransacked the Protestant religion and left that community attempting to reunite with Rome, when nothing about Rome has actually changed. Rome has not changed. Protestantism has changed.
All of this history is portrayed in the symbolism of Bible prophecy, interpreted by the statements of other portions of Scripture and history, itself, and no atheist I have ever met has a clue about Bible prophecy. None. And I have to reason no current well-known atheist does either. Not Dawkins, not Harris, not Hitchens, not Dennet, not any of them have or had a clue about what they are talking about. I was one of them. I know what the arguments are. They are all based on biblical ignorance, especially is that the case of former professed Christians. Tragic but, also incredibly predictable. If you have no grasp or understanding of Bible prophecy you will become confused about the concept of the biblical God; His character, government and purposes. Even true believers have their moments and times of doubt. Why do they hang on? Because they know the Bible is not just a book of ancient stories. It is alive. It is the living Word, embodied in Iesu Christos, the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
Jesus Christ was not just a Man. Jesus Christ is the Creator, Who became a Man, as the Son of God: God manifested in human flesh and bone to live, to show and teach, and to die for mankind, that our sins not be our death. A story, a nice story they say with some good thoughts and examples. Sin? Nonsense. There is no such thing as sin, from a religious perspective. It is all social constructs.
No atheist can explain conscience. No atheist can explain the mind. Not the brain, which is also far from decent human understanding how such a computer could come into being by accidents and mutations but, the mind. The mind is not genetic. Conscience may show itself as data in neurons but, that is not its origin. It is the playing field. It is not the concept of the game.
I watch atheists traverse into the most incredible fog banks of reasoning; all this attempt at explaining things they have no real clue about, with hypotheses and conjectures that explain nothing. They make up their own religions, their own gods of science and self. They seem impervious to realizing they have just replaced the notion of God with self, and must ask themselves why a bag of molecules, that is a human being, should or could have any desire, understanding, goal or premise about morality and right or wrong beyond survival. If survival of the fittest is the only goal, generation after generation, there can be no rise of anything like sacrifice or love or wonder or perpetuation of concepts that cost lives, not preserves them in the quest for survival. Molecules have no mind, no reasoning ability, no planning aforethought. Chemicals do not have purpose, do not have morality, do not think about themselves or others. They just react under chemical processes. And no amount of chemical processes could possibly accidentally produce a copy of massive amounts of information contained in their first, miraculous cell. No natural circumstances created a cell. They cannot do it with all their knowledge but, they have a religion that states a cell could have come about by accidents. Their lack of common sense evades a cliff that is a thousand miles wide and deep. For no lab on Earth can make a living cell, let alone a cell that can reproduce itself once constructed, let alone have it develop into creatures that think and have purpose by reason and logic and common sense, when all it has to work with is a need to survive.
Frankly, atheists have way more faith in the supernatural than I do.
Again, there is a reason why the Bible states - The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
Notice, the Bible writer gives the atheist a pass. He says in his heart there is no God. He would never state such a thing in public. Today, saying it in public makes people a hero: standing against the nonsense and wickedness of religion. Yet, what they always fail to recognize and understand is hypocrisy.
Jesus said you MUST be born-again. It is not an option and the plan of salvation nor Christ's kingdom on earth, in the hearts of mankind, can succeed without people being born-again, renewed in the spirit of their mind. Not their brains. Their minds.
When the atheists claim religion is responsible for more death than atheism, they speak a gross error when it comes to Christianity. People who are born-again do not kill people who disagree with them. Not loving your neighbor enough to leave them to their own choices and the providence of God to lead them to salvation, is a hallmark of the professed Christian, not truly a citizen of the kingdom of God. Just because someone professes to be a Christian does not mean they have been changed by the influence of the Holy Spirit upon their minds. It just means they have made some kind of mental ascent to the concept. That is not enough. Jesus said, You must be born again. Must, not ought to be or should be. You must be born again.
In the Catholic faith, the baptism of a baby supposedly is the born-again experience. I leave that to its obvious futility.
In the Protestant churches the concept may be known, in general, if at all but, hardly experienced. It's reality is not alive. It's a idea, a story about something Jesus said in a conversation with someone who requested an interview one night. Nicodemus, by name. A member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish leadership. A man of influence, who was totally confounded by the things Christ said. How can someone go back into his mother's womb and be born again? It made no sense until Christ was killed and rose from the dead. New life. Repentance and sorrow for his blindness filled him. He was converted as the truth became alive and came home to his mind, you must be born again.
No atheist, no scientist can explain how my mind was changed towards God and towards my fellow man. You cannot place the supernatural experience of being born-again under a microscope. It cannot be placed in a test tube. Until an atheist can explain to me what happened to me on March 18, 1979, around midnight, when a peace and joy and love filled me like nothing I had ever experienced before or since; at my request of God taking my life and doing whatever He wanted with it, I just wanted to believe; and the room seemed to light up and the presence of something far beyond myself in that room took hold of my life and changed me; literally changed me from being an atheist to a Christian, a follower of Christ; all your so-called science and naturalism and materialism is not worth a bag of dust. My mind filled with my sins and began to crush me and I asked forgiveness and the entire experience increased exponentially... no. Your reasonings for life and mind and purpose and direction are vapors; hammers on the anvil that eventually wear out and break, while the anvil remains.
The experience may be different from person to person but, making a commitment to follow Someone you never saw, never heard, never met and you trust with your life is not a social construct. It's a miracle. A supernatural reality beyond the understanding and reason given by atheists who have never had the experience and therefore, cannot address it from anything other than supposition.
Jesus said it best. You cannot see the wind. You do not know where it comes from or where it's going but, you see see the results of its presence. So it is with anyone who is born-again. Old things are passed away. All things become new.
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The one thing, or one of the things that seems to crop up continually is the fact, the absolute historic fact, that the stories of the Bible are so impressive they have taken on a life of their own that far exceeds the lifetime of any human, thousands of years removed from the timelines of the stories that have had an influence; not just in Western civilizations but, creating converts in all cultures around the world. Yet, the atheist takes the position all those stories, written by dozens of different people over approximately 2500 years of time, linked together by bits of information all through the books, both Old and New Testaments, are all just man-conceived writings. And, AND they never address the prophetic predictions of the Bible.
I once again stake my claim on belief in God, not only by what I have personally experienced but, by the very nature of the predictions made in the Book that have come true; by names, places and events history has laid out before mankind to behold that God can tell the end, from the beginning, and uses His prophets to show the world there is no God but, Him.
Those who choose not to believe in a literal, supernatural Creator and Sovereign over the universe cannot explain how normal people could possibly predict future events by their own mortal conscience and knowledge. One person might guess something. One thing, in a certain time frame close to them. Multiple people, who never met or communicated in any way, making predictions about people and events over centuries and millennia? Seriously? You just cast it all aside as poetry and parables? Really? Surely, you jest.
I was raised Catholic. When, at 10 years old, I was confronted with an atheist for the first time, I was dumbfounded and my parents had no way to combat the influence growing inside me. They had no knowledge of prophecy. No average Catholic does. Most of the Catholic clergy has no idea of the fulfillment of prophecies, especially when the Catholic view of prophecy is based on the premises of the two Jesuits, Alcazar and Ribera - Preterism and Futurism. Historicism cannot be part of Roman Catholic approach to prophecy because the entire Protestant Reformation, using the principles of Historicism, saw the Papacy as anti-Christ, the man of sin, the Little Horn of Daniel 7 and the Beast of Revelation 13, and the Mother whore of Revelation 17, etc. So, for my ten-year-old brain there was nothing to withstand the influence of a co-worker of my mother telling me religion is all based on fear, and by 13 I was an atheist. My father, a determined Catholic who hardly practiced the fulness of that faith, almost had a heart attack screaming at me that no goddamn atheist was going to live in his house; while my mother stood there petrified and scared out of her wits her husband was about to have a coronary, as I sat on the couch and feared for me life.
Jump ten years into the future and I became a Christian. How? What could possibly change my mind that dozens of friends could not convince me of? I was moved by the accuracy of Bible prophecy. How can it be men, writing thousands of years ago, could accurately predict the rise and fall of nations centuries, millennia beyond them? The signs of the times written out in great detail by the Gospel writers, along with other apostles and disciples adds up to an anvil no human hammer has worn out and never will.
God knows asking people to believe in Someone who lived 2000 years ago is pretty out there. It was the same for people 2000 years ago, whom for generations believed in a Messiah who had not yet come. When He arrived, they rejected Him, when their very own prophecies should have been understood to show the Messiah arrived exactly when the prophecies predicted and those same prophecies predicted the downfall of their entire society and culture. When Jesus said not one of the stones of the temple would remain standing, the Jewish leaders laughed and claimed Jesus of Nazareth was nuts. Well, they all came down; all of them and the Jews were scattered all over Europe and ultimately, Islam took control of the land, and then the Papal/Islamic wars began and the Jews, for 2000 years, had no say over the land God gave them and frankly, the events of 1947 ARE NOT fulfillment of prophecies addressing the return of Jews to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity! The lies of Futurism have ransacked the Protestant religion and left that community attempting to reunite with Rome, when nothing about Rome has actually changed. Rome has not changed. Protestantism has changed.
All of this history is portrayed in the symbolism of Bible prophecy, interpreted by the statements of other portions of Scripture and history, itself, and no atheist I have ever met has a clue about Bible prophecy. None. And I have to reason no current well-known atheist does either. Not Dawkins, not Harris, not Hitchens, not Dennet, not any of them have or had a clue about what they are talking about. I was one of them. I know what the arguments are. They are all based on biblical ignorance, especially is that the case of former professed Christians. Tragic but, also incredibly predictable. If you have no grasp or understanding of Bible prophecy you will become confused about the concept of the biblical God; His character, government and purposes. Even true believers have their moments and times of doubt. Why do they hang on? Because they know the Bible is not just a book of ancient stories. It is alive. It is the living Word, embodied in Iesu Christos, the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
Jesus Christ was not just a Man. Jesus Christ is the Creator, Who became a Man, as the Son of God: God manifested in human flesh and bone to live, to show and teach, and to die for mankind, that our sins not be our death. A story, a nice story they say with some good thoughts and examples. Sin? Nonsense. There is no such thing as sin, from a religious perspective. It is all social constructs.
No atheist can explain conscience. No atheist can explain the mind. Not the brain, which is also far from decent human understanding how such a computer could come into being by accidents and mutations but, the mind. The mind is not genetic. Conscience may show itself as data in neurons but, that is not its origin. It is the playing field. It is not the concept of the game.
I watch atheists traverse into the most incredible fog banks of reasoning; all this attempt at explaining things they have no real clue about, with hypotheses and conjectures that explain nothing. They make up their own religions, their own gods of science and self. They seem impervious to realizing they have just replaced the notion of God with self, and must ask themselves why a bag of molecules, that is a human being, should or could have any desire, understanding, goal or premise about morality and right or wrong beyond survival. If survival of the fittest is the only goal, generation after generation, there can be no rise of anything like sacrifice or love or wonder or perpetuation of concepts that cost lives, not preserves them in the quest for survival. Molecules have no mind, no reasoning ability, no planning aforethought. Chemicals do not have purpose, do not have morality, do not think about themselves or others. They just react under chemical processes. And no amount of chemical processes could possibly accidentally produce a copy of massive amounts of information contained in their first, miraculous cell. No natural circumstances created a cell. They cannot do it with all their knowledge but, they have a religion that states a cell could have come about by accidents. Their lack of common sense evades a cliff that is a thousand miles wide and deep. For no lab on Earth can make a living cell, let alone a cell that can reproduce itself once constructed, let alone have it develop into creatures that think and have purpose by reason and logic and common sense, when all it has to work with is a need to survive.
Frankly, atheists have way more faith in the supernatural than I do.
Again, there is a reason why the Bible states - The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
Notice, the Bible writer gives the atheist a pass. He says in his heart there is no God. He would never state such a thing in public. Today, saying it in public makes people a hero: standing against the nonsense and wickedness of religion. Yet, what they always fail to recognize and understand is hypocrisy.
Jesus said you MUST be born-again. It is not an option and the plan of salvation nor Christ's kingdom on earth, in the hearts of mankind, can succeed without people being born-again, renewed in the spirit of their mind. Not their brains. Their minds.
When the atheists claim religion is responsible for more death than atheism, they speak a gross error when it comes to Christianity. People who are born-again do not kill people who disagree with them. Not loving your neighbor enough to leave them to their own choices and the providence of God to lead them to salvation, is a hallmark of the professed Christian, not truly a citizen of the kingdom of God. Just because someone professes to be a Christian does not mean they have been changed by the influence of the Holy Spirit upon their minds. It just means they have made some kind of mental ascent to the concept. That is not enough. Jesus said, You must be born again. Must, not ought to be or should be. You must be born again.
In the Catholic faith, the baptism of a baby supposedly is the born-again experience. I leave that to its obvious futility.
In the Protestant churches the concept may be known, in general, if at all but, hardly experienced. It's reality is not alive. It's a idea, a story about something Jesus said in a conversation with someone who requested an interview one night. Nicodemus, by name. A member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish leadership. A man of influence, who was totally confounded by the things Christ said. How can someone go back into his mother's womb and be born again? It made no sense until Christ was killed and rose from the dead. New life. Repentance and sorrow for his blindness filled him. He was converted as the truth became alive and came home to his mind, you must be born again.
No atheist, no scientist can explain how my mind was changed towards God and towards my fellow man. You cannot place the supernatural experience of being born-again under a microscope. It cannot be placed in a test tube. Until an atheist can explain to me what happened to me on March 18, 1979, around midnight, when a peace and joy and love filled me like nothing I had ever experienced before or since; at my request of God taking my life and doing whatever He wanted with it, I just wanted to believe; and the room seemed to light up and the presence of something far beyond myself in that room took hold of my life and changed me; literally changed me from being an atheist to a Christian, a follower of Christ; all your so-called science and naturalism and materialism is not worth a bag of dust. My mind filled with my sins and began to crush me and I asked forgiveness and the entire experience increased exponentially... no. Your reasonings for life and mind and purpose and direction are vapors; hammers on the anvil that eventually wear out and break, while the anvil remains.
The experience may be different from person to person but, making a commitment to follow Someone you never saw, never heard, never met and you trust with your life is not a social construct. It's a miracle. A supernatural reality beyond the understanding and reason given by atheists who have never had the experience and therefore, cannot address it from anything other than supposition.
Jesus said it best. You cannot see the wind. You do not know where it comes from or where it's going but, you see see the results of its presence. So it is with anyone who is born-again. Old things are passed away. All things become new.
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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811. Problems - July 21, 2023
We all have problems. Every single day, for most of us, problems arise. Little ones, larger ones, enormous ones that can completely derail our normal, daily existence. Now, I am talking problems, not catastrophes. That's another category, altogether.
Why are there problems in life? First answer? Humanity. Humans are faulty; make mistakes and somewhere down the line someone else' mistake becomes a problem for you. More than likely, you have made mistakes making problems for other people down the line from you. Can't be helped. Well, some people think it can with the entrance of A.I. into every aspect of civilization. No mistakes. No problems. Ah, but, for now, human coders and software manufacturers can make mistakes. Same with robotics. If or when A.I. is able to self-manufacture code and construction of robots, humanity will continue to cause problems. We are fallen. Our minds and brains are not functioning at 100% every moment of every day.
Then there's just everything wearing down. Nothing lasts forever. Our parts wear out. All manufactured parts or devices wear out at some point and problems can ensue, right? This is all pretty logical and some observance with common sense. We have problems because of us.
Here's a problem that does not involve mistakes. It involves intentional, planned and executed motions by people with control over things you do. You can be harmed intentionally, no fault of your own. Just the existence of evil causes that. You can be fired or laid off. You can have your bank account frozen. You can have your business websites frozen. Worse, you can have all your online info scrubbed, if those in control want it so. From there, problems ensue to try and get back whatever you have lost and at the end of the day you begin telling yourself the old adage - Life sucks. Then you die.
I have mentioned before, my website contains mostly information about drums, drumming, and music. 2020 changed that and I began writing my thoughts on being an American in the current environment and culture. Then I got into Bible prophecy and biblical subject matter. I figure, the way things are moving, it's time.
Lately I have been unable to log into my Weebly account on my laptop. Square bought Weebly, and I now have to go through a couple processes to log-in, including a verification number sent to my cell phone. A nuisance but, not a problem. I am no longer receiving verification codes. No idea why. I've been a Weebly user for 10, 12 years or more. No problems. I've made my current laptop for at least five years now. Since Square bought Weebly, problems. Hey, buy-out transitions are never without problems. You just have to roll with the issues as they crop up.
On the desktop I got some months back, I have no problems logging in. Makes no sense to me and it's probably just a tech glitch. I sent a contact message to Square. It replied by giving me a phone number to call. My message did not even get sent into a cue of some kind, with someone getting back to me. Nope. I have to call. Not a problem...maybe.
You see, today, literally thousands of people, tens of thousands and maybe more, I really don't know about the possible big numbers, are being shut out of their online life. Censored, canceled, shut down. Imagine a culture where a Democrat running for President, gets his YouTube channel shut down. This is a presidential race season and one of the most recognizable people in the United States of America, gets his personal YT channel shut down because of "disinformation," "misinformation," and this new term made up by Leftist government, "malinformation," which means, malicious information. Robert F. Kennedy has been in the public eye all his life. He's a very popular person and with the positions he has been taking in his race for POTUS, his popularity is rising exponentially. He has ticked off the social platform giants with some of those positions and they shut down his channel. In America; with a Bill of rights in the Constitution that states, first one, Americans have a right to speak freely. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of freedom and liberty. Without it, the only thing that can exist is tyranny.
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I'm a registered Independent. I have voted in two presidential elections my entire life and that was not for a candidate but, against candidates. If I was going to be a member of a political party it would be the Constitution Party. I'm not, simply because no one chosen to run for POTUS in that party, however amply able to take the job, will ever get elected. Elections are a business: a money-making business; a monopoly run by two political businesses. I never cared. The last few years, yeah, I care. I now speak out against corruption in government, as well as religion, and about confusion in our current culture.
I don't know the political landscape of Weebly or Square. I just wonder, if an employee checks into my problem of not being able to log into my website on my laptop and checks out my site, if I will run up against the now typical wall of censorship taking place throughout current cancel culture. Just sayin.'
I don't get a lot of traffic here. I am thankful for each person who regularly comes by every week or so, and the new visitors I get every week. Just a word of notice. This week may be my last one I'm able to use this platform.
Welcome to America, 2023.
Why are there problems in life? First answer? Humanity. Humans are faulty; make mistakes and somewhere down the line someone else' mistake becomes a problem for you. More than likely, you have made mistakes making problems for other people down the line from you. Can't be helped. Well, some people think it can with the entrance of A.I. into every aspect of civilization. No mistakes. No problems. Ah, but, for now, human coders and software manufacturers can make mistakes. Same with robotics. If or when A.I. is able to self-manufacture code and construction of robots, humanity will continue to cause problems. We are fallen. Our minds and brains are not functioning at 100% every moment of every day.
Then there's just everything wearing down. Nothing lasts forever. Our parts wear out. All manufactured parts or devices wear out at some point and problems can ensue, right? This is all pretty logical and some observance with common sense. We have problems because of us.
Here's a problem that does not involve mistakes. It involves intentional, planned and executed motions by people with control over things you do. You can be harmed intentionally, no fault of your own. Just the existence of evil causes that. You can be fired or laid off. You can have your bank account frozen. You can have your business websites frozen. Worse, you can have all your online info scrubbed, if those in control want it so. From there, problems ensue to try and get back whatever you have lost and at the end of the day you begin telling yourself the old adage - Life sucks. Then you die.
I have mentioned before, my website contains mostly information about drums, drumming, and music. 2020 changed that and I began writing my thoughts on being an American in the current environment and culture. Then I got into Bible prophecy and biblical subject matter. I figure, the way things are moving, it's time.
Lately I have been unable to log into my Weebly account on my laptop. Square bought Weebly, and I now have to go through a couple processes to log-in, including a verification number sent to my cell phone. A nuisance but, not a problem. I am no longer receiving verification codes. No idea why. I've been a Weebly user for 10, 12 years or more. No problems. I've made my current laptop for at least five years now. Since Square bought Weebly, problems. Hey, buy-out transitions are never without problems. You just have to roll with the issues as they crop up.
On the desktop I got some months back, I have no problems logging in. Makes no sense to me and it's probably just a tech glitch. I sent a contact message to Square. It replied by giving me a phone number to call. My message did not even get sent into a cue of some kind, with someone getting back to me. Nope. I have to call. Not a problem...maybe.
You see, today, literally thousands of people, tens of thousands and maybe more, I really don't know about the possible big numbers, are being shut out of their online life. Censored, canceled, shut down. Imagine a culture where a Democrat running for President, gets his YouTube channel shut down. This is a presidential race season and one of the most recognizable people in the United States of America, gets his personal YT channel shut down because of "disinformation," "misinformation," and this new term made up by Leftist government, "malinformation," which means, malicious information. Robert F. Kennedy has been in the public eye all his life. He's a very popular person and with the positions he has been taking in his race for POTUS, his popularity is rising exponentially. He has ticked off the social platform giants with some of those positions and they shut down his channel. In America; with a Bill of rights in the Constitution that states, first one, Americans have a right to speak freely. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of freedom and liberty. Without it, the only thing that can exist is tyranny.
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I'm a registered Independent. I have voted in two presidential elections my entire life and that was not for a candidate but, against candidates. If I was going to be a member of a political party it would be the Constitution Party. I'm not, simply because no one chosen to run for POTUS in that party, however amply able to take the job, will ever get elected. Elections are a business: a money-making business; a monopoly run by two political businesses. I never cared. The last few years, yeah, I care. I now speak out against corruption in government, as well as religion, and about confusion in our current culture.
I don't know the political landscape of Weebly or Square. I just wonder, if an employee checks into my problem of not being able to log into my website on my laptop and checks out my site, if I will run up against the now typical wall of censorship taking place throughout current cancel culture. Just sayin.'
I don't get a lot of traffic here. I am thankful for each person who regularly comes by every week or so, and the new visitors I get every week. Just a word of notice. This week may be my last one I'm able to use this platform.
Welcome to America, 2023.
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812. Is Pride a Sin? July 22, 2023
I was in my teens, watching some afternoon television, specifically, The Mike Douglas Show; a popular program featuring big band singer Mike Douglas, as host; interviewing guests from all walks of life: celebrities, sports figures, and everyday people who were in the news for some reason. He was on for 20 years. My parents watched the program faithfully. Douglas was part of the entire talk-show circuit people went on, just like Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson. My young readers are certainly familiar with the Tonight Show.
I forget if the actor, Ricardo Montalban, was the guest host for the week or just a guest for that particular day. Now mind you, I was an atheist back then.
At one point in the conversation Douglas says to Mr. Montalban, "You must be very proud of your children," and Ricardo stops him with a twist of the hand and says something like, "Oh, no. We mustn't say, "pride." Pride is not good. I would rather say, I rejoice in my children."
It hit me like a truck. I never forgot it. Pride is not good. For my entire life I have believed pride is not good. It wasn't my Catholic parents who said it. It wasn't in some sermon given by a priest during Mass. It was a Roman Catholic actor on a tv talk show.
Now check this out -
"King Lawal, 31, who has been a member for two years at North Northamptonshire Unitary Council in England, was suspended from the Conservative Party and "canceled" by six other organizations for sharing a tweet during LGBT pride month calling on those who have pride to repent of their sin and turn to Jesus Christ. The post included an image citing Isaiah 3:9, stating, "Whatever God calls 'Sin' is nothing to be Proud of.’
“‘When did Pride become a thing to celebrate. Because of Pride Satan fell as an arch Angel,” Lawal wrote in his tweet. “Pride is not a virtue but a Sin. Those who have Pride should Repent of their sins and return to Jesus Christ. He can save you. #PrideMonth #Pride23 #PrideParade.’”
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-council-member-suspended-for-calling-pride-a-sin.html
Pride, arrogance, haughtiness, display, pomp, swelling presumption, being puffed up, delusions of grandeur, self-admiration, self-glorification, and other words and terms, phrases and meanings have been used to describe pride and being proud for thousands of years in the Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek, Latin and English languages and plenty of others I have no familiarity with. Pride has been understood as a universal poor showing for a human being.
In the Bible, the word "pride" appears 49 times in the King James Version, translated from numerous Hebrew and Greek words, and couple Chaldee words: Chaldean being the language of ancient Babylon. In Western civilization; Judeo/Christian society; open, bold, ostentatious pride was something looked down upon by all generations. Today? Not so much. I could copy and paste all 49 places the word is found and for reasoning people, it is obvious to see. For the unreasoning, they see words from an old book, that's it.
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.
It may be one of the biggest signs of the times humanity can behold that the world is coming to its end: the mountain of pride built all over the world; especially, incredibly and tragically enough, in the Western hemisphere. Never, in any society I am aware of, has pride been looked at in a positive manner by reasonable people, until this current generation. And yet, are they reasonable? No. If they were, they would never call a month "Pride," and certainly not about activities and practice God flat out calls abominations. And like any Christian would logically state: Don't get angry with me. I didn't say it. God did.
Now, we all can recognize humble people who use the word "pride" somewhat out of turn, with less than proper understanding of the meaning. Indeed, like Montalban was posed, many parents are "proud" of their children. For some, that means exactly what the traditional meaning states. They are arrogant and puffed up about their kid, being better than their peers and make a big display about it. For others it just means they are happy and thankful for an accomplishment their child has attained. Like Montalban, they rejoice in their children but, "pride" has taken on a meaning it never had; certainly not in Judeo/Christian society. Well, our society no longer is. Barack Obama recognized that in his administration and said it. America is not a Christian nation. To a certain degree that is technically correct but, it was not the legality of the term he was speaking to. He was stating America is just as much an Islamic nation; something history slams him down, big-time for. Truth was not important to Obama, just like most politicians.
We all know what a pride of lions is. The King of beasts, it is said. There is nothing like the roar of a lion out in nature. Four hundred and fifty pounds of muscle, mane, claws and teeth. 'Majestic; is another meaning for words translated from the original bible languages. There is a big difference between the lion and King Charles being coronated in a display that is the epitome of pride among men: robes, jewels, crowns, gold, pomp and circumstance 99 and 99.999% of human beings will never be associated with. It is one of the last shows of proud majesty in the modern world. The Creator and Saviour rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. Charles... you get the picture.
Nobody with a reasoning mind can pick up a Bible and read anything that would lead a logical person to think pride is good. Matter of fact, one verse in the Bible even mentions lions associated with pride -
Zec 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zec 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zec 11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
The character and activity of God's people became so fiercely revolting, Zechariah does not trumpet a warning. An invitation to destructive forces is welcomed in to do their work of bringing down, what should have been the brightest light in ancient times - God's people, Israel but, the shepherds howl because the flocks will be devoured by the young lions and indeed, Babylon was portrayed as a lion sweeping down upon the Jewish nation and absolutely pounding it -
Jer 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Babylon came and destroyed the people and the land. Yet her own history was prophesied -
Dan 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
A man's heart? Yes. Weak with pride. And King Nebuchadnezzar was struck down because of his pride and arrogance, in chapter 4. He was able to figure out he offended the God of the Bible and repented and God restored him.
Dan 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Not so, his grandson, Belshazzar. His drunken partying and pride cost him his entire kingdom; taken down in one night by the armies of the Medes and Persians, seen in Daniel chapter 5. Today? It is the same. People have no need of God, no desire for God, no humility before the Creator and sustainer of all. People are proud of their sin; their display of perversions and abominations. It's party-time.
Psalm 10:3 Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.
Psalm 10:4 The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.
Pro 8:13 The fear [reverence] of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward [perverted] mouth, do I hate.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
And yet today, shame is considered a sin. Do not shame people. Uplift them in their arrogance and casting away of all righteousness or worse: masking it in a veil of religion. In God's eyes, you cannot go down a worse path than covering sin with religion.
Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isa 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Today; for a long time, really, you cannot have a get together without booze being involved. For the young, alcohol represents a good time. Without it, everything is boring. You must be able to get drunk to have a good time. "Holy Matrimony" fouled by the language and actions of inebriated people at the reception of the happy couple. Married before God. Party before the Devil.
The people of God got proud; God brought in his methods of chastisement in the form of heathen armies to humble his people and bring them back to their senses. Over and over, century after century this process played out until the Messiah finally arrived and they killed Him. Their attitude is so wickedly displayed in this passage -
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
We were not born of fornication like you. That was the rumor. Mary had a child out of wedlock. She was just a loose woman, a slut. Well, today sex means nothing. Sex is a kiss goodnight; something you just do when you "hook up." Marriage? A worthless tradition, and even for those who get married, adultery is something that just seems to come with the territory. Society is broken, shattered like a beer bottle dropping on a concrete floor, and if any society had nothing to be proud of it is today's culture of sin. I mean, c'mon, that's what it is. A culture of self and sin. BUT, don't call it sin and upset someone, some group practicing it. That will get you fired from your job and "canceled." "Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good." They will not get fired or canceled some day, quickly approaching. No, they will be destroyed by the power, glory, brightness and majesty of Christ's return to save the remnant of His people.
Look. God is love. God loves everybody. Christ died for everybody. That does not mean God loves everything people do. What people do causes a tremendous amount of grief to themselves and others, even if they refuse to admit it or understand it.
A reprise -
Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isa 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isa 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
Isa 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue [remnant] of his people,
Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. [Grow up]
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared [trapped], and taken.
Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, sprinkled through the Bible: God's Word. A case is built for right. A case is built against wrong. There shall be no excuses for anyone before the judgment seat of Christ. Every chance for turning from evil is all written down. And if you think evil is just defined by murder or stealing; you are dead wrong.
Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
You mean Christ combined foolishness with theft and murder??? You just read it. To God, sin is deeper than most of humanity realizes. It is just a tiny seed that began in Lucifer's mind and grows into a heinous plant you can just look at and see where it all led to.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I forget if the actor, Ricardo Montalban, was the guest host for the week or just a guest for that particular day. Now mind you, I was an atheist back then.
At one point in the conversation Douglas says to Mr. Montalban, "You must be very proud of your children," and Ricardo stops him with a twist of the hand and says something like, "Oh, no. We mustn't say, "pride." Pride is not good. I would rather say, I rejoice in my children."
It hit me like a truck. I never forgot it. Pride is not good. For my entire life I have believed pride is not good. It wasn't my Catholic parents who said it. It wasn't in some sermon given by a priest during Mass. It was a Roman Catholic actor on a tv talk show.
Now check this out -
"King Lawal, 31, who has been a member for two years at North Northamptonshire Unitary Council in England, was suspended from the Conservative Party and "canceled" by six other organizations for sharing a tweet during LGBT pride month calling on those who have pride to repent of their sin and turn to Jesus Christ. The post included an image citing Isaiah 3:9, stating, "Whatever God calls 'Sin' is nothing to be Proud of.’
“‘When did Pride become a thing to celebrate. Because of Pride Satan fell as an arch Angel,” Lawal wrote in his tweet. “Pride is not a virtue but a Sin. Those who have Pride should Repent of their sins and return to Jesus Christ. He can save you. #PrideMonth #Pride23 #PrideParade.’”
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-council-member-suspended-for-calling-pride-a-sin.html
Pride, arrogance, haughtiness, display, pomp, swelling presumption, being puffed up, delusions of grandeur, self-admiration, self-glorification, and other words and terms, phrases and meanings have been used to describe pride and being proud for thousands of years in the Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek, Latin and English languages and plenty of others I have no familiarity with. Pride has been understood as a universal poor showing for a human being.
In the Bible, the word "pride" appears 49 times in the King James Version, translated from numerous Hebrew and Greek words, and couple Chaldee words: Chaldean being the language of ancient Babylon. In Western civilization; Judeo/Christian society; open, bold, ostentatious pride was something looked down upon by all generations. Today? Not so much. I could copy and paste all 49 places the word is found and for reasoning people, it is obvious to see. For the unreasoning, they see words from an old book, that's it.
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.
It may be one of the biggest signs of the times humanity can behold that the world is coming to its end: the mountain of pride built all over the world; especially, incredibly and tragically enough, in the Western hemisphere. Never, in any society I am aware of, has pride been looked at in a positive manner by reasonable people, until this current generation. And yet, are they reasonable? No. If they were, they would never call a month "Pride," and certainly not about activities and practice God flat out calls abominations. And like any Christian would logically state: Don't get angry with me. I didn't say it. God did.
Now, we all can recognize humble people who use the word "pride" somewhat out of turn, with less than proper understanding of the meaning. Indeed, like Montalban was posed, many parents are "proud" of their children. For some, that means exactly what the traditional meaning states. They are arrogant and puffed up about their kid, being better than their peers and make a big display about it. For others it just means they are happy and thankful for an accomplishment their child has attained. Like Montalban, they rejoice in their children but, "pride" has taken on a meaning it never had; certainly not in Judeo/Christian society. Well, our society no longer is. Barack Obama recognized that in his administration and said it. America is not a Christian nation. To a certain degree that is technically correct but, it was not the legality of the term he was speaking to. He was stating America is just as much an Islamic nation; something history slams him down, big-time for. Truth was not important to Obama, just like most politicians.
We all know what a pride of lions is. The King of beasts, it is said. There is nothing like the roar of a lion out in nature. Four hundred and fifty pounds of muscle, mane, claws and teeth. 'Majestic; is another meaning for words translated from the original bible languages. There is a big difference between the lion and King Charles being coronated in a display that is the epitome of pride among men: robes, jewels, crowns, gold, pomp and circumstance 99 and 99.999% of human beings will never be associated with. It is one of the last shows of proud majesty in the modern world. The Creator and Saviour rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. Charles... you get the picture.
Nobody with a reasoning mind can pick up a Bible and read anything that would lead a logical person to think pride is good. Matter of fact, one verse in the Bible even mentions lions associated with pride -
Zec 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zec 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zec 11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
The character and activity of God's people became so fiercely revolting, Zechariah does not trumpet a warning. An invitation to destructive forces is welcomed in to do their work of bringing down, what should have been the brightest light in ancient times - God's people, Israel but, the shepherds howl because the flocks will be devoured by the young lions and indeed, Babylon was portrayed as a lion sweeping down upon the Jewish nation and absolutely pounding it -
Jer 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Babylon came and destroyed the people and the land. Yet her own history was prophesied -
Dan 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
A man's heart? Yes. Weak with pride. And King Nebuchadnezzar was struck down because of his pride and arrogance, in chapter 4. He was able to figure out he offended the God of the Bible and repented and God restored him.
Dan 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Not so, his grandson, Belshazzar. His drunken partying and pride cost him his entire kingdom; taken down in one night by the armies of the Medes and Persians, seen in Daniel chapter 5. Today? It is the same. People have no need of God, no desire for God, no humility before the Creator and sustainer of all. People are proud of their sin; their display of perversions and abominations. It's party-time.
Psalm 10:3 Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.
Psalm 10:4 The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.
Pro 8:13 The fear [reverence] of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward [perverted] mouth, do I hate.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
And yet today, shame is considered a sin. Do not shame people. Uplift them in their arrogance and casting away of all righteousness or worse: masking it in a veil of religion. In God's eyes, you cannot go down a worse path than covering sin with religion.
Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isa 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Today; for a long time, really, you cannot have a get together without booze being involved. For the young, alcohol represents a good time. Without it, everything is boring. You must be able to get drunk to have a good time. "Holy Matrimony" fouled by the language and actions of inebriated people at the reception of the happy couple. Married before God. Party before the Devil.
The people of God got proud; God brought in his methods of chastisement in the form of heathen armies to humble his people and bring them back to their senses. Over and over, century after century this process played out until the Messiah finally arrived and they killed Him. Their attitude is so wickedly displayed in this passage -
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
We were not born of fornication like you. That was the rumor. Mary had a child out of wedlock. She was just a loose woman, a slut. Well, today sex means nothing. Sex is a kiss goodnight; something you just do when you "hook up." Marriage? A worthless tradition, and even for those who get married, adultery is something that just seems to come with the territory. Society is broken, shattered like a beer bottle dropping on a concrete floor, and if any society had nothing to be proud of it is today's culture of sin. I mean, c'mon, that's what it is. A culture of self and sin. BUT, don't call it sin and upset someone, some group practicing it. That will get you fired from your job and "canceled." "Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good." They will not get fired or canceled some day, quickly approaching. No, they will be destroyed by the power, glory, brightness and majesty of Christ's return to save the remnant of His people.
Look. God is love. God loves everybody. Christ died for everybody. That does not mean God loves everything people do. What people do causes a tremendous amount of grief to themselves and others, even if they refuse to admit it or understand it.
A reprise -
Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isa 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isa 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
Isa 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue [remnant] of his people,
Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. [Grow up]
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared [trapped], and taken.
Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, sprinkled through the Bible: God's Word. A case is built for right. A case is built against wrong. There shall be no excuses for anyone before the judgment seat of Christ. Every chance for turning from evil is all written down. And if you think evil is just defined by murder or stealing; you are dead wrong.
Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
You mean Christ combined foolishness with theft and murder??? You just read it. To God, sin is deeper than most of humanity realizes. It is just a tiny seed that began in Lucifer's mind and grows into a heinous plant you can just look at and see where it all led to.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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On the UFO Front
"‘Non-human intelligence’: Schumer proposes stunning new UFO legislation"
thehill.com/opinion/technology/4101345-non-human-intelligence-schumer-proposes-stunning-new-ufo-legislation/
Legislation, my Friends. Did you ever in your life expect to see such a story coming out of Washington, D.C.?
"Stunning." "Extraordinary." Quite unbelievable, the headlines are showing. Indeed.
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, introduced extraordinary legislation on July 13, suggesting that the U.S. government or private contractors may secretly possess recovered UFOs and “biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.”
"According to the legislation, “non-human intelligence” is defined as “any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform, regardless of nature or ultimate origin which may be presumed responsible for” UFOs."
www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf
You've come a long way, Baby.
Seventy years of obfuscation and lies, misinformation and disinformation. 'Nothing to see here. Move along. It's just swamp gas or birds or balloons."
‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘UAP Disclosure Act of 2023’’.
And here are the words UFOlogists have sought for seven decades -
"(1) All Federal Government records related to
5 unidentified anomalous phenomena should be pre-
6 served and centralized for historical and Federal
7 Government purposes.
8 (2) All Federal Government records concerning
9 unidentified anomalous phenomena should carry a
10 presumption of immediate disclosure and all records
11 should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to
12 become fully informed about the history of the Fed-
13 eral Government’s knowledge and involvement sur-
14 rounding unidentified anomalous phenomena.
15 (3) Legislation is necessary to create an en-
16 forceable, independent, and accountable process for
17 the public disclosure of such records."
Several posts back - the Dolan/Bassett interview - Steve Bassett mentioned he believed this month something big was coming. Looks like he was correct.
It should be noted the legislation begins with stating it is an appropriations Bill for 2024. So, should it pass, the months will pass, as well. The co-signers are Senators Rounds, Rubio, and Gillibrand.
The text of the legislation is quite fascinating and you should read it, though it is 64 pages long and most of it is typical D.C. legal speak. The place is run by lawyers, after all.
This is interesting -
"5 (10) LEGACY PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘legacy
6 program’’ means all Federal, State, and local gov-
7 ernment, commercial industry, academic, and private
8 sector endeavors to collect, exploit, or reverse engi-
9 neer technologies of unknown origin or examine bio-
10 logical evidence of living or deceased non-human in-
11 telligence that pre-dates the date of the enactment
12 of this Act."
"19 (12) NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.—The term
20 ‘‘non-human intelligence’’ means any sentient intel-
21 ligent non-human lifeform regardless of nature or ul-
22 timate origin that may be presumed responsible for
23 unidentified anomalous phenomena or of which the
24 Federal Government has become aware."
So the legislation goes beyond craft anomalies and goes into biological territory. Any sentient, living or deceased non-human intelligence???
"10 (18) TECHNOLOGIES OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN.--
11 The term ‘‘technologies of unknown origin’’ means
12 any materials or meta-materials, ejecta, crash de-
13 bris, mechanisms, machinery, equipment, assemblies
14 or sub-assemblies, engineering models or processes,
15 damaged or intact aerospace vehicles, and damaged
16 or intact ocean-surface and undersea craft associ-
17 ated with unidentified anomalous phenomena or in-
18 corporating science and technology that lacks prosaic
19 attribution or known means of human manufacture."
"4 (B) INCLUSIONS. — The term ‘‘unidentified
5 anomalous phenomena’’ includes what were pre-
6 viously described as --
7 (i) flying discs;
8 (ii) flying saucers;
9 (iii) unidentified aerial phenomena;
10 (iv) unidentified flying objects
11 (UFOs); and
12 (v) unidentified submerged objects 13 (USOs)."
Within 300 days after the Bill is enacted, Every head of a government agency must review the collected documents and determine their release to the general public, the Review Board and the Archivist for placement in the national archives for public consumption. No use for UFOlogists to begin jumping up and down. They know how this works and they have seen all the nothing burgers so-far. That said, 2024 is an election year and it will be extremely interesting to see how candidates react to this. You can bet Trump will be right on board with full disclosure but, so will Kennedy. Frankly, I expect Biden to be gone by then. He is seriously a decrepit old man now. His brain is going quickly and at some point the absolute criminal comedy of this situation will no longer be overlooked. He can only be a pawn for just so long before he blurts out what has been and what is being done.
Suffice to say, I'm not letting go of my belief of "ET" being involved in last-day events anytime soon.
That said, just because Congress may pass this legislation does not mean anyone will follow it. If the Senate passes it, it still must go before the House. If Congress does not know exactly what exists of documentation and physical evidence, they don't know what to ask for, save in general terms as they have done. The Pentagon has no pressure put on them to deliver what they want kept secret for whatever back budget agenda they have on the subject matter. The same can be said for all the alphabet agencies named in the Bill, and there are a dozen of them. And the same goes for private contractors and corporations.
And then there is the section where it states all the reasons full disclosure may not be brought forth, and the usual national security, etc., etc., etc. reasons to keep things hidden. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
So, all in all, this could be seen as another attempt to pacify voices calling for disclosure. The devil is in the details and the Devil is in control of this narrative. He has nothing on him to evade his own plans on the calendar.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
thehill.com/opinion/technology/4101345-non-human-intelligence-schumer-proposes-stunning-new-ufo-legislation/
Legislation, my Friends. Did you ever in your life expect to see such a story coming out of Washington, D.C.?
"Stunning." "Extraordinary." Quite unbelievable, the headlines are showing. Indeed.
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, introduced extraordinary legislation on July 13, suggesting that the U.S. government or private contractors may secretly possess recovered UFOs and “biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.”
"According to the legislation, “non-human intelligence” is defined as “any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform, regardless of nature or ultimate origin which may be presumed responsible for” UFOs."
www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf
You've come a long way, Baby.
Seventy years of obfuscation and lies, misinformation and disinformation. 'Nothing to see here. Move along. It's just swamp gas or birds or balloons."
‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘UAP Disclosure Act of 2023’’.
And here are the words UFOlogists have sought for seven decades -
"(1) All Federal Government records related to
5 unidentified anomalous phenomena should be pre-
6 served and centralized for historical and Federal
7 Government purposes.
8 (2) All Federal Government records concerning
9 unidentified anomalous phenomena should carry a
10 presumption of immediate disclosure and all records
11 should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to
12 become fully informed about the history of the Fed-
13 eral Government’s knowledge and involvement sur-
14 rounding unidentified anomalous phenomena.
15 (3) Legislation is necessary to create an en-
16 forceable, independent, and accountable process for
17 the public disclosure of such records."
Several posts back - the Dolan/Bassett interview - Steve Bassett mentioned he believed this month something big was coming. Looks like he was correct.
It should be noted the legislation begins with stating it is an appropriations Bill for 2024. So, should it pass, the months will pass, as well. The co-signers are Senators Rounds, Rubio, and Gillibrand.
The text of the legislation is quite fascinating and you should read it, though it is 64 pages long and most of it is typical D.C. legal speak. The place is run by lawyers, after all.
This is interesting -
"5 (10) LEGACY PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘legacy
6 program’’ means all Federal, State, and local gov-
7 ernment, commercial industry, academic, and private
8 sector endeavors to collect, exploit, or reverse engi-
9 neer technologies of unknown origin or examine bio-
10 logical evidence of living or deceased non-human in-
11 telligence that pre-dates the date of the enactment
12 of this Act."
"19 (12) NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.—The term
20 ‘‘non-human intelligence’’ means any sentient intel-
21 ligent non-human lifeform regardless of nature or ul-
22 timate origin that may be presumed responsible for
23 unidentified anomalous phenomena or of which the
24 Federal Government has become aware."
So the legislation goes beyond craft anomalies and goes into biological territory. Any sentient, living or deceased non-human intelligence???
"10 (18) TECHNOLOGIES OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN.--
11 The term ‘‘technologies of unknown origin’’ means
12 any materials or meta-materials, ejecta, crash de-
13 bris, mechanisms, machinery, equipment, assemblies
14 or sub-assemblies, engineering models or processes,
15 damaged or intact aerospace vehicles, and damaged
16 or intact ocean-surface and undersea craft associ-
17 ated with unidentified anomalous phenomena or in-
18 corporating science and technology that lacks prosaic
19 attribution or known means of human manufacture."
"4 (B) INCLUSIONS. — The term ‘‘unidentified
5 anomalous phenomena’’ includes what were pre-
6 viously described as --
7 (i) flying discs;
8 (ii) flying saucers;
9 (iii) unidentified aerial phenomena;
10 (iv) unidentified flying objects
11 (UFOs); and
12 (v) unidentified submerged objects 13 (USOs)."
Within 300 days after the Bill is enacted, Every head of a government agency must review the collected documents and determine their release to the general public, the Review Board and the Archivist for placement in the national archives for public consumption. No use for UFOlogists to begin jumping up and down. They know how this works and they have seen all the nothing burgers so-far. That said, 2024 is an election year and it will be extremely interesting to see how candidates react to this. You can bet Trump will be right on board with full disclosure but, so will Kennedy. Frankly, I expect Biden to be gone by then. He is seriously a decrepit old man now. His brain is going quickly and at some point the absolute criminal comedy of this situation will no longer be overlooked. He can only be a pawn for just so long before he blurts out what has been and what is being done.
Suffice to say, I'm not letting go of my belief of "ET" being involved in last-day events anytime soon.
That said, just because Congress may pass this legislation does not mean anyone will follow it. If the Senate passes it, it still must go before the House. If Congress does not know exactly what exists of documentation and physical evidence, they don't know what to ask for, save in general terms as they have done. The Pentagon has no pressure put on them to deliver what they want kept secret for whatever back budget agenda they have on the subject matter. The same can be said for all the alphabet agencies named in the Bill, and there are a dozen of them. And the same goes for private contractors and corporations.
And then there is the section where it states all the reasons full disclosure may not be brought forth, and the usual national security, etc., etc., etc. reasons to keep things hidden. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
So, all in all, this could be seen as another attempt to pacify voices calling for disclosure. The devil is in the details and the Devil is in control of this narrative. He has nothing on him to evade his own plans on the calendar.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
813. - The Great Falling Away - 7/22/23
I am seeing headlines on Christian news sites that the apostle Paul's warnings are coming to pass -
2Thes 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Thes 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Thes 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;
2Thes 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.
Now, as you know, I am a professed Protestant. I believe in the principles of Protestantism. I protest the existence of the Church of Rome and its doctrines opposed to Scripture, as well as the civil interference of the preaching of the Gospel. The Protest of the evangelical Princes, in 1529, was based on those two precepts. The Church has no right to stop the preaching of the Gospel, nor does the king. The "Church" at the time was the Roman Catholic Church. Groups outside the RCC existed, for centuries but, there were no truly organized bodies of Christians as today, aside from entire populations of people like the Waldensians and Hugenot and the Vaudois, whose entire civic and social life was wrapped up in biblical Christianity. They were persecuted by "Mother" Rome mercilessly and incessantly. Their demise was based on believing a lie. 'Come down from your mountain strongholds and we will discuss the matter.' They foolishly trusted Mother. They came down. Rome destroyed them. Plenty of history books record the matter.
Now, to this issue of evangelical preachers of today saying what we are seeing is this falling away, this apostasy from truth Paul wrote of.
I say, nonsense. Sorry but, evangelical, Protestant churches have been falling away from doctrinal pillars for a very long time. It's just gotten way out of hand today. Prophetically, they became daughters, harlots of Mother by refusing to let go of traditions and doctrines Mother holds that cannot be established in Scripture. You cannot state "Sola Scriptura," the Bible alone, and then practice traditions not found in Scripture. You cannot say Sola Scriptura and then state some doctrines are important, others are not. If the Bible is true, it teaches one truth on any subject, not numerous ones. Why does confusion exist? Because the Bible said so; that professed believers would reside in spiritual, prophetic Babylon for not withdrawing from erroneous doctrines and traditions of Mother. They drink her wine, they get drunk. Simple as that -
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.
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Once you figure out who and what Mother is, the rest is pretty easy, and there was, again, one thing all Protestants were unified on for centuries: The Roman Catholic Church, it's papacy and today it's Vatican make up that great falling away; the great apostasia. And many Christians left the churches of their fathers realizing those churches remained daughters of the Whore who fornicated with the kings of the earth, perverting the truth with paganism. So far has Protestantism wandered there are hardly any Protestants left but, God has told that as well -
Rev 12:17 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.
A remnant, a residue, that which remains of the original. God has his "seven thousand" that have not bowed the knee to Baal, 1Kings 9:9-18.
Then there is just all the information surrounding the premise Paul lays out. If the great falling away is in Protestantism then this must also be true -
The man of sin, son of perdition must be a professed, yet apostate Protestant. (Rome would love that interpretation)
"Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
A Protestant/evangelical is coming who opposes all that is called God and exalts himself above God.
He sits in the temple of God, shewing himself to be God.
I would ask, to which of any Protestant evangelicals has ever been attributed "We hold upon this Earth the place of God, Almighty." Well, Pope Leo wrote it, about Rome's popes. The dozens of statements by popes and prelates regarding the power and authority of popes is a saturation of history. It is claimed they can disfellowship angels from Heaven! And in that usurped power the very law of God and prophetic time has been abrogated.
Are popes worshipped? When priests kneel before popes and kiss his ring, when they lay prostrate before popes to pledge their allegiance to him, what would you call that? The Bible calls worship bowing before someone. That's what the Hebrew and Greek words simply mean. To bow down in obeisance.
What about sitting in the temple of God? It does not mean a building made with hands. Although, if it did, pictures of the entire Roman Catholic built world certainly shows their intent to bring Heaven down to Earth. An enormous staircase once sat in Bernini's Hall, up to the supposed "chair of Peter," which he was claimed to sit in as Rome's first pope. Popes would climb that staircase and sit, in essence between Heaven and Earth as 'Pontifex Maximus:' the 'chief bridge builder' between Heaven and Earth. A title of the Caesars, which popes took for themselves.
But no, the temple refers to the believer. We are the temple of Christ's church. Our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit. Our minds are the temple of reason and choice for truth. The temple refers to God's people so, this apostate must be a professed member of the body of Christ. Can't be an atheist. Can't be a Muslim. Can't be a Jew as many commentators state. No. Must be a professed Christian in the body of Christ. Well, evangelical ministers certainly apply. On the other hand, the RCC has gone on record for centuries THEY are the true church and none other. 'Outside the church there is no salvation.' While Rome and daughters play cuddles with each other for the last several decades getting closer all the time, Mother has never abrogated that doctrinal position. Now will she. She is two-faced, something Protestants once understood well. She claims to be the only true church and hence, the man of sin must be a member of her body, all 1 billion of them today.
No modern pope shows themselves to be God. All of that faded away in the 20th century, yet, they still carry popes on thrones, use all kinds of pagan paraphernalia to surround themselves with and people just consider it "stuff" of no real consequence. What does God say in His Word?
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he [God} who now letteth will let, until he [man of sin] be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
I believe things were ready to go when JP2 was on the throne of man. He was the most powerful, influential pope in a thousand years, but God's church waffled and backslid and the days of prophetic events, like the fall of Communism and the Soviet Union, just sailed past and the 90's and 2000's just continued to grow darker and darker, as secular humanism takes more and more control.
No, the falling away of evangelical clergy to the cursed culture of Western civilization is certainly a fall from the place of their forefathers but, not the falling away of "Mother," Paul warned of. That has been established by doctrine, treatise, Bulls, decrees, pronouncements, history and practical observance of Romanism down through the centuries. The Roman Catholic system of religion is the great apostasy. The faithful people of the Catholic world, as well as ignorant Protestants and evangelicals, and all people of all nations can have the truth. Just search. God will aid you. Ask Him for truth. Nothing is more important to Him than His people have the truth. And before too long a final message will encircle the globe, as God calls His people out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon before it is too late and the judgements of God finally fall upon her and the world she fornicates with.
It's coming. Get ready. Do not be swayed by policies of Futurism and Preterism. The path of Historicism is the one that will guide you into practical, logical truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
2Thes 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Thes 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Thes 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;
2Thes 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.
Now, as you know, I am a professed Protestant. I believe in the principles of Protestantism. I protest the existence of the Church of Rome and its doctrines opposed to Scripture, as well as the civil interference of the preaching of the Gospel. The Protest of the evangelical Princes, in 1529, was based on those two precepts. The Church has no right to stop the preaching of the Gospel, nor does the king. The "Church" at the time was the Roman Catholic Church. Groups outside the RCC existed, for centuries but, there were no truly organized bodies of Christians as today, aside from entire populations of people like the Waldensians and Hugenot and the Vaudois, whose entire civic and social life was wrapped up in biblical Christianity. They were persecuted by "Mother" Rome mercilessly and incessantly. Their demise was based on believing a lie. 'Come down from your mountain strongholds and we will discuss the matter.' They foolishly trusted Mother. They came down. Rome destroyed them. Plenty of history books record the matter.
Now, to this issue of evangelical preachers of today saying what we are seeing is this falling away, this apostasy from truth Paul wrote of.
I say, nonsense. Sorry but, evangelical, Protestant churches have been falling away from doctrinal pillars for a very long time. It's just gotten way out of hand today. Prophetically, they became daughters, harlots of Mother by refusing to let go of traditions and doctrines Mother holds that cannot be established in Scripture. You cannot state "Sola Scriptura," the Bible alone, and then practice traditions not found in Scripture. You cannot say Sola Scriptura and then state some doctrines are important, others are not. If the Bible is true, it teaches one truth on any subject, not numerous ones. Why does confusion exist? Because the Bible said so; that professed believers would reside in spiritual, prophetic Babylon for not withdrawing from erroneous doctrines and traditions of Mother. They drink her wine, they get drunk. Simple as that -
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.
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Once you figure out who and what Mother is, the rest is pretty easy, and there was, again, one thing all Protestants were unified on for centuries: The Roman Catholic Church, it's papacy and today it's Vatican make up that great falling away; the great apostasia. And many Christians left the churches of their fathers realizing those churches remained daughters of the Whore who fornicated with the kings of the earth, perverting the truth with paganism. So far has Protestantism wandered there are hardly any Protestants left but, God has told that as well -
Rev 12:17 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.
A remnant, a residue, that which remains of the original. God has his "seven thousand" that have not bowed the knee to Baal, 1Kings 9:9-18.
Then there is just all the information surrounding the premise Paul lays out. If the great falling away is in Protestantism then this must also be true -
The man of sin, son of perdition must be a professed, yet apostate Protestant. (Rome would love that interpretation)
"Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
A Protestant/evangelical is coming who opposes all that is called God and exalts himself above God.
He sits in the temple of God, shewing himself to be God.
I would ask, to which of any Protestant evangelicals has ever been attributed "We hold upon this Earth the place of God, Almighty." Well, Pope Leo wrote it, about Rome's popes. The dozens of statements by popes and prelates regarding the power and authority of popes is a saturation of history. It is claimed they can disfellowship angels from Heaven! And in that usurped power the very law of God and prophetic time has been abrogated.
Are popes worshipped? When priests kneel before popes and kiss his ring, when they lay prostrate before popes to pledge their allegiance to him, what would you call that? The Bible calls worship bowing before someone. That's what the Hebrew and Greek words simply mean. To bow down in obeisance.
What about sitting in the temple of God? It does not mean a building made with hands. Although, if it did, pictures of the entire Roman Catholic built world certainly shows their intent to bring Heaven down to Earth. An enormous staircase once sat in Bernini's Hall, up to the supposed "chair of Peter," which he was claimed to sit in as Rome's first pope. Popes would climb that staircase and sit, in essence between Heaven and Earth as 'Pontifex Maximus:' the 'chief bridge builder' between Heaven and Earth. A title of the Caesars, which popes took for themselves.
But no, the temple refers to the believer. We are the temple of Christ's church. Our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit. Our minds are the temple of reason and choice for truth. The temple refers to God's people so, this apostate must be a professed member of the body of Christ. Can't be an atheist. Can't be a Muslim. Can't be a Jew as many commentators state. No. Must be a professed Christian in the body of Christ. Well, evangelical ministers certainly apply. On the other hand, the RCC has gone on record for centuries THEY are the true church and none other. 'Outside the church there is no salvation.' While Rome and daughters play cuddles with each other for the last several decades getting closer all the time, Mother has never abrogated that doctrinal position. Now will she. She is two-faced, something Protestants once understood well. She claims to be the only true church and hence, the man of sin must be a member of her body, all 1 billion of them today.
No modern pope shows themselves to be God. All of that faded away in the 20th century, yet, they still carry popes on thrones, use all kinds of pagan paraphernalia to surround themselves with and people just consider it "stuff" of no real consequence. What does God say in His Word?
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he [God} who now letteth will let, until he [man of sin] be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
I believe things were ready to go when JP2 was on the throne of man. He was the most powerful, influential pope in a thousand years, but God's church waffled and backslid and the days of prophetic events, like the fall of Communism and the Soviet Union, just sailed past and the 90's and 2000's just continued to grow darker and darker, as secular humanism takes more and more control.
No, the falling away of evangelical clergy to the cursed culture of Western civilization is certainly a fall from the place of their forefathers but, not the falling away of "Mother," Paul warned of. That has been established by doctrine, treatise, Bulls, decrees, pronouncements, history and practical observance of Romanism down through the centuries. The Roman Catholic system of religion is the great apostasy. The faithful people of the Catholic world, as well as ignorant Protestants and evangelicals, and all people of all nations can have the truth. Just search. God will aid you. Ask Him for truth. Nothing is more important to Him than His people have the truth. And before too long a final message will encircle the globe, as God calls His people out of spiritual, prophetic Babylon before it is too late and the judgements of God finally fall upon her and the world she fornicates with.
It's coming. Get ready. Do not be swayed by policies of Futurism and Preterism. The path of Historicism is the one that will guide you into practical, logical truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Congressman Burchett UFO Hearing Announcement
Congressman Tim Burchett, as plain a speaking man as exists in the House, along with Congresswoman Luna, held a hearing announcement which is pretty revealing. 22 min. long and next week's hearing looks to be a real one this time. No more nonsense and stonewalling and obfuscation allowed from the Pentagon or intelligence community and others in government. The link is to Tim Burchett's YT channel where he posted the announcement and press briefing -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-hCpZcVD50
So, we have laws protecting whistleblowers, potential laws for full disclosure on the docket, and an announcement for serious hearings into the UFO phenomenon. I'd say the next year is going to be a barn burner on this subject.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-hCpZcVD50
So, we have laws protecting whistleblowers, potential laws for full disclosure on the docket, and an announcement for serious hearings into the UFO phenomenon. I'd say the next year is going to be a barn burner on this subject.
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814. Is LEGEND Now Christian Rock? - 7/22/23
The question arises for me to answer, is the new album, LEGEND Revisited, now having the songs with biblical lyrics and themes, to be considered Christian Rock? My answer?
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. That is easy to explain and prove, despite decades of proclamations from musicians in this supposed genre.
Look at a history of modern music. If you go back centuries you basically had Classical, Folk and monastery Chanting that made up the music of the Western civilization. Hymns began to come along, a very particular type of genre and musical structure, which is called just that: Hymnody.
Come forward to the 19th century. With slavery came African melodies which formulated into Southern Gospel music. Southern Gospel grew into New Orleans Jazz, which ventured into New York and Chicago. Thus far, all these types of music were played by people who considered themselves Christian yet, we have no mention of "Christian Jazz" in music terminology. Some of the greatest Jazz musicians known were church goers and had very spiritual ideas about music, in general.
The Blues developed from African melodies, as did Soul music, was also connected to Gospel music. The same people played it: church goers and believers in the Lord, as well as people with no particular religious affiliation. There is no Christian Blues or Christian Soul or Christian Rhythm and Blues. The Christian God was often mentioned in lyrics of all those genres. The idea that the music industry in the early 20th century was populated by atheists is nonsense. I'm not getting into the battle that waged about music in Christian culture. I am just sticking with the historic facts.
Rock and Roll, despite any aspects of sexual inference, developed out of Gospel and New Orleans Jazz and Midwestern Blues. Everybody knows Little Richard spent his whole career in and out of church. As the music became more "worldly," with worldly, secular themes, he struggled with that, as did others in early R&R. Have you ever heard any reference to Christian Rock and Roll? No. Why? Because the Blues and Jazz tended to drift away from church foundations and culture. Rock and Roll was a further departure from that culture, yet in many respects, church kids were in these new bands. Elvis Presley was raised in church. He sang like he saw people sing in Memphis churches. He was connected with Gospel music all his life and struggled the same as did Little Richard and others.
When the Beatles hit, things changed dramatically. They were playing music from Rockabilly artists and Blues artists as did all bands coming out of Great Britain. The Blues was just a foundation all Rock bands had in their sound, from Cream to Black Sabbath. The British Invasion was a declared departure and rebellion against Western culture and that era saw American music truly depart from the foundations it stood on as far as music history goes. The departure caused the Jesus Movement to spring up. Along comes 'Jesus freak' hippie, Larry Norman, who begins to write Rock songs with "Christian" lyrics and all of a sudden, 'Christian Rock' was said to be born. So, apparently, despite the lack of Christian Jazz, Blues and Soul, which all mentioned God in some capacity in lyrics (no, not the Gospel message per se' but, in a general sense, because of the people playing the music and the church foundation involved), we somehow developed a new genre; Christian Rock because of the Jesus-themed lyrics. Well, I ask, were the Doobie Brothers a Christian Rock band because of their hit, "Jesus is Just Alright"? They are still playing that song to enthusiastic crowds 50 years later. I just watched a concert they performed for their 50th anniversary. They sounded incredibly good when many other bands that age need to pocket their picks and go home.
If you are old enough you remember the tv show, 'Dick Clark's American Bandstand.' Bands came on and the kids danced and he had bands on from the whole spectrum of what was out there. Bands played live, then after some years lip-syncing and air drumming became the thing. The Young Rascals, The Animals, even Aerosmith played on that program. Check out the full list of all the bands that played on that show. It's unbelievable. And many of the artists were church going, professed Christians. Were their bands declared Christian Rock? No.
Nobody ever called Folk music Christian Folk, even though it began as something played mostly by Christians in ancient times, colored by national cultures in Europe. Folk music came back big in the 60's. It was Folk music then and still is, regardless of the message. Same with Country music which always had Christian themes and God as part of its message. It still does today, even though Rock music took it over. Nobody claims there is Christian Country music. Plenty of believers play it. Plenty of songs mention God and faith and even Jesus Christ. It's in there, despite the more bawdy direction Country music took over the decades. It is not called Christian Country. Even Gospel music is not called Christian Gospel. That's a given.
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. It is Rock music that has Christians as members of bands or artists, or Rock music that has a Christian worldview in the lyrics but, that does not make it Christian Rock. Rock music was defined by a sound, not a lyrical message. The lyrical messages of Rock bands over the last 60 years are all over the philosophical spectrum. Enter George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord;' a song about an eastern philosophy, not Jesus Christ. Drug usage and partying lifestyles gave way to Psychedelic Rock, Fantasy Rock, even Coven Rock played by people into witchcraft. But, in fact, all of them sounded basically the same. It's Rock music. Electric guitars and amplified drums. The message is just the band's message.
When Kansas members Kerry Livgren and Dave Pope became Christians and Livgren began to write Christian themes in lyrics, did that make Kansas a Christian Rock band? Singer, Steve Walsh was uncomfortable with the new direction and left the band. Ultimately, to write fully-themed lyrics for songs, Livgren and Pope left the group. Never was Kansas referred to as a Christian Rock band. They have always been referred to as a Progressive Rock band, regardless of lyrics. They were actually part of the Classical Rock explosion because of their compositions.
I reject the notion that their exists any Christian genre aside from Hymnody, which is distinctly Christian by virtue of its history and musical structure, made for singing the Christian message. Aside from that, Christians have been part of all genres, even those that make my skin crawl and an oxymoron develops in my mind when such "music" is equated with Jesus Christ. That's my subjective outlook. There is no such thing as Christian Metal or any subgenre of it. Christianity had nothing to do with its rise. Christianity had nothing to do with the rise of Rock music, either.
LEGEND is not a Christian Rock band because I rewrote the lyrics. LEGEND is factually not a band but, a recording project. It was and is a multi-genre Rock sound, now with a biblical message. Some people dubbed LEGEND Viking Rock or Metal because of one song on the album. That still causes me to shake my head 17 years after finding that out. No. Rock music may be played by Norsemen or have lyrics about Vikings but, calling something Viking Metal is not possible when Vikings had nothing to do with the development of Rock or Metal. Christianity had nothing to do with the development of 60's and beyond Rock music. Fewer and fewer church-goers aligned with Rock music because of its lifestyle and messages, until Larry Norman took the sound of Rock and added lyrics about Christian themes to it. He certainly did not invent or develop a new sound. He just added a message to the established sound.
Some will disagree with me on this and believe categorization such as Christian Rock works to define a band's ...music and sound? No. It does not, does it? It defines a message. Which is why I stand my ground on this subject.
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. There may be Rock played by professed Christians. There's a difference. "LEGEND Revisited" is not a Christian Rock album. It is an album I have always categorized as a Multi-genre Power Trio. It had lyrics; stories about ancient myths and legends, including deities. Now it has stories about biblical themes and characters and the God of the Bible.
Please, do not make it more (or less) than it is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. That is easy to explain and prove, despite decades of proclamations from musicians in this supposed genre.
Look at a history of modern music. If you go back centuries you basically had Classical, Folk and monastery Chanting that made up the music of the Western civilization. Hymns began to come along, a very particular type of genre and musical structure, which is called just that: Hymnody.
Come forward to the 19th century. With slavery came African melodies which formulated into Southern Gospel music. Southern Gospel grew into New Orleans Jazz, which ventured into New York and Chicago. Thus far, all these types of music were played by people who considered themselves Christian yet, we have no mention of "Christian Jazz" in music terminology. Some of the greatest Jazz musicians known were church goers and had very spiritual ideas about music, in general.
The Blues developed from African melodies, as did Soul music, was also connected to Gospel music. The same people played it: church goers and believers in the Lord, as well as people with no particular religious affiliation. There is no Christian Blues or Christian Soul or Christian Rhythm and Blues. The Christian God was often mentioned in lyrics of all those genres. The idea that the music industry in the early 20th century was populated by atheists is nonsense. I'm not getting into the battle that waged about music in Christian culture. I am just sticking with the historic facts.
Rock and Roll, despite any aspects of sexual inference, developed out of Gospel and New Orleans Jazz and Midwestern Blues. Everybody knows Little Richard spent his whole career in and out of church. As the music became more "worldly," with worldly, secular themes, he struggled with that, as did others in early R&R. Have you ever heard any reference to Christian Rock and Roll? No. Why? Because the Blues and Jazz tended to drift away from church foundations and culture. Rock and Roll was a further departure from that culture, yet in many respects, church kids were in these new bands. Elvis Presley was raised in church. He sang like he saw people sing in Memphis churches. He was connected with Gospel music all his life and struggled the same as did Little Richard and others.
When the Beatles hit, things changed dramatically. They were playing music from Rockabilly artists and Blues artists as did all bands coming out of Great Britain. The Blues was just a foundation all Rock bands had in their sound, from Cream to Black Sabbath. The British Invasion was a declared departure and rebellion against Western culture and that era saw American music truly depart from the foundations it stood on as far as music history goes. The departure caused the Jesus Movement to spring up. Along comes 'Jesus freak' hippie, Larry Norman, who begins to write Rock songs with "Christian" lyrics and all of a sudden, 'Christian Rock' was said to be born. So, apparently, despite the lack of Christian Jazz, Blues and Soul, which all mentioned God in some capacity in lyrics (no, not the Gospel message per se' but, in a general sense, because of the people playing the music and the church foundation involved), we somehow developed a new genre; Christian Rock because of the Jesus-themed lyrics. Well, I ask, were the Doobie Brothers a Christian Rock band because of their hit, "Jesus is Just Alright"? They are still playing that song to enthusiastic crowds 50 years later. I just watched a concert they performed for their 50th anniversary. They sounded incredibly good when many other bands that age need to pocket their picks and go home.
If you are old enough you remember the tv show, 'Dick Clark's American Bandstand.' Bands came on and the kids danced and he had bands on from the whole spectrum of what was out there. Bands played live, then after some years lip-syncing and air drumming became the thing. The Young Rascals, The Animals, even Aerosmith played on that program. Check out the full list of all the bands that played on that show. It's unbelievable. And many of the artists were church going, professed Christians. Were their bands declared Christian Rock? No.
Nobody ever called Folk music Christian Folk, even though it began as something played mostly by Christians in ancient times, colored by national cultures in Europe. Folk music came back big in the 60's. It was Folk music then and still is, regardless of the message. Same with Country music which always had Christian themes and God as part of its message. It still does today, even though Rock music took it over. Nobody claims there is Christian Country music. Plenty of believers play it. Plenty of songs mention God and faith and even Jesus Christ. It's in there, despite the more bawdy direction Country music took over the decades. It is not called Christian Country. Even Gospel music is not called Christian Gospel. That's a given.
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. It is Rock music that has Christians as members of bands or artists, or Rock music that has a Christian worldview in the lyrics but, that does not make it Christian Rock. Rock music was defined by a sound, not a lyrical message. The lyrical messages of Rock bands over the last 60 years are all over the philosophical spectrum. Enter George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord;' a song about an eastern philosophy, not Jesus Christ. Drug usage and partying lifestyles gave way to Psychedelic Rock, Fantasy Rock, even Coven Rock played by people into witchcraft. But, in fact, all of them sounded basically the same. It's Rock music. Electric guitars and amplified drums. The message is just the band's message.
When Kansas members Kerry Livgren and Dave Pope became Christians and Livgren began to write Christian themes in lyrics, did that make Kansas a Christian Rock band? Singer, Steve Walsh was uncomfortable with the new direction and left the band. Ultimately, to write fully-themed lyrics for songs, Livgren and Pope left the group. Never was Kansas referred to as a Christian Rock band. They have always been referred to as a Progressive Rock band, regardless of lyrics. They were actually part of the Classical Rock explosion because of their compositions.
I reject the notion that their exists any Christian genre aside from Hymnody, which is distinctly Christian by virtue of its history and musical structure, made for singing the Christian message. Aside from that, Christians have been part of all genres, even those that make my skin crawl and an oxymoron develops in my mind when such "music" is equated with Jesus Christ. That's my subjective outlook. There is no such thing as Christian Metal or any subgenre of it. Christianity had nothing to do with its rise. Christianity had nothing to do with the rise of Rock music, either.
LEGEND is not a Christian Rock band because I rewrote the lyrics. LEGEND is factually not a band but, a recording project. It was and is a multi-genre Rock sound, now with a biblical message. Some people dubbed LEGEND Viking Rock or Metal because of one song on the album. That still causes me to shake my head 17 years after finding that out. No. Rock music may be played by Norsemen or have lyrics about Vikings but, calling something Viking Metal is not possible when Vikings had nothing to do with the development of Rock or Metal. Christianity had nothing to do with the development of 60's and beyond Rock music. Fewer and fewer church-goers aligned with Rock music because of its lifestyle and messages, until Larry Norman took the sound of Rock and added lyrics about Christian themes to it. He certainly did not invent or develop a new sound. He just added a message to the established sound.
Some will disagree with me on this and believe categorization such as Christian Rock works to define a band's ...music and sound? No. It does not, does it? It defines a message. Which is why I stand my ground on this subject.
There is no such thing as Christian Rock. There may be Rock played by professed Christians. There's a difference. "LEGEND Revisited" is not a Christian Rock album. It is an album I have always categorized as a Multi-genre Power Trio. It had lyrics; stories about ancient myths and legends, including deities. Now it has stories about biblical themes and characters and the God of the Bible.
Please, do not make it more (or less) than it is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Little Menu of Stuff
Having the serious case of insomnia that I am having, I spend my nights on YouTube going down rabbit holes and come across a lot of things that are new, or old; that bring back memories and all the other things that make YT, YT.
Just menu of YT videos I have come across this evening/morning, that I found highly entertaining or interesting or both, based on things I like - drums and drumming, laughter, and astronomy.
Because YT is a veritable time menu, we can go back to our childhood years and find things long forgotten or find things well remembered but, lost to retrieval. Many in my age bracket remember the era of "rabbit ears" for TV antennas, and we could only get certain stations and channels. The more sophisticated and costly the antennas the more channels you could watch, and back then, there were not many. 13 channels on the dial and most were white noise and fuzz. On occasion a signal wafting around the atmosphere got picked up and you watched things you never had opportunity to see otherwise.
For our family it was NBC. ABC and CBS and some local stations and once in awhile PBS showed up but, never NBC. Kids would ask me if I saw such and such a program on NBC, the next day at school and I had to say, Nope. You learned quickly who had big antennas on the roof of their house and who were using rabbit ears.
First up, something I never saw and never knew existed: this drum battle between Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson from 1969. The sound is not great; probably a video captured off a tv speaker but, the action is pure high-end technique. If you haven't seen them, I also include a second battle between the two, on the Carson show and a battle between Buddy and later Tonight Show drummer, Ed Shaughnessy -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IqlNe7Cjk&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYtPbGzfeU&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXdi25469U&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
We all know of entertainers; actors, singers, musicians [non-drummers], plus professional athletes and others who play the drums. YT is a treasure trove of videos of them. Here's one, of one of the most beloved "stars" America and the world has known - dancer/actor Fred Astaire. I posted videos of Fred playing drum solos with his feet that are incredible to behold but here, I came upon a video where he sits down at a set and shows his style; as graceful as his dancing skills.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=479-6WzYTgY
Sticking with drums, anyone familiar with this website knows my passion of the subject of truth in drum manufacturing and sound, and the over-hyped marketing of proprietary drum shells most all the companies get into today. I came across a guy I never heard of before who apparently has gone down the same rabbit hole on the subject with a series of videos of his own, which he began around 8 months ago. Having started mine over 5 years ago now, it is just unbelievable how time flies.
This gentleman has a different style of presentation which is quite good. I won't say we are 100% in line and I have not watched his entire series but, I'd say we are certainly on the same team and it is great to see more voices speaking out on the subject. Check him out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKDRDRAphy8&list=PLb0EaBs6638kEoYs0pQQcCKZ7FpGFwofR&index=3
Next is a video, also from the Tonight Show, but with Jay Leno hosting, with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal as guests. I have watched dozens of Williams videos. I truly do not laugh enough. The Bible says laughter is like a medicine, and it's true. I don't have a whole lot to laugh about in my life and finding things on YT to create some medicine is a welcome point of departure for me. Williams and Crystal take the house down. Along with that, a show with Johnny, with guest, actor Robert Blake, from the tv show Barretta, back in the 70's. Just listening to Burt Reynolds laugh is entertaining enough but, Johnny goes overboard in trying to keep up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTKTOgWJcA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=buio4b9cZb0
On a more serious note, the James Webb Space Telescope is changing the way astronomers see the universe and it's both, for me anyway, fascinating and amusing. I'm a creationist, as you know, and Webb seems to be putting more and more evidence behind that model of origins of the universe. Just like design and information discovery is throwing nails into the gears of Darwinism, Webb is calling into question much of what scientists believe about the universe.
Right now, 99.99% of scientists believe the universe had a beginning. Two models are entertained. The Big Bang, everything from nothing; and fiat creation, everything from God, the Creator. Both are miracles. Say what you will but, everything from nothing, if nothing is actually allowed to be no thing, is a miracle of greater magnitude than God [someone] creating it all from nothing. Webb is showing galaxies too early, too large and too well formed than possible, with the current big bang model. And mind you, this is looking at pin points in the ether. Finding a point to peer into yields pictures of a thousand galaxies and more. How many pin points are there to look at? A thousand, ten, a hundred thousand, a million, billions, trillions of pin points? An almost infinite number. How long would that take? And what would humankind see? Far more than they imagine.
How do they explain these new anomalies? Enter "evospeak:" my term for explanations using a couple dozen oft used nebulous words and terms to basically tell people they have no idea, even when they claim great knowledge. They guess and call it science. The same is true with all origin theories. People guess, based on the evidence, and frankly, the "glasses" they wear to see that evidence. Creationists have to do the same, even with the Genesis creation account. No scientist was there. No firsthand observations by any human. Everybody has their reasons for their hypotheses. Nobody can, nor should be allowed to place a flag in the dirt of knowledge and science and say, 'This is the absolute truth. Believe or else.' They all say, 'Of course' yet, they do it to an extreme of firing people who disagree with the prevalent understanding. That is called hypocrisy.
A model is a model. A model of a car is not the car. Even there, the human has manufactured parts to put together. It all takes a mind, yet, serious people believe it could all come from nothing. Yes, it is as absurd as it reads.
From the development of space telescopes to electron microscopes the farther we look out or in, screams design and therefore, a Designer. For my choices for belief, that one makes the most sense and is the most edifying for the human species. The video is not a theologically sourced one, though plenty of design proponents and creationists love seeing what is developing before the world's eyes, with greater technology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpbZGwZ6_4
Nostalgia is something that exists for us because times change; in many ways are getting more difficult and we yearn for a simpler, less complicated time. For the Christian, nostalgia will not exist because as time rolls along, everything gets better and better. There will be no stress, no anxiety, no complications, no pain, no suffering. Humanity will be given ceaseless ages to learn, experience, and improve on all knowledge of all things God is saving for those who love Him.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Just menu of YT videos I have come across this evening/morning, that I found highly entertaining or interesting or both, based on things I like - drums and drumming, laughter, and astronomy.
Because YT is a veritable time menu, we can go back to our childhood years and find things long forgotten or find things well remembered but, lost to retrieval. Many in my age bracket remember the era of "rabbit ears" for TV antennas, and we could only get certain stations and channels. The more sophisticated and costly the antennas the more channels you could watch, and back then, there were not many. 13 channels on the dial and most were white noise and fuzz. On occasion a signal wafting around the atmosphere got picked up and you watched things you never had opportunity to see otherwise.
For our family it was NBC. ABC and CBS and some local stations and once in awhile PBS showed up but, never NBC. Kids would ask me if I saw such and such a program on NBC, the next day at school and I had to say, Nope. You learned quickly who had big antennas on the roof of their house and who were using rabbit ears.
First up, something I never saw and never knew existed: this drum battle between Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson from 1969. The sound is not great; probably a video captured off a tv speaker but, the action is pure high-end technique. If you haven't seen them, I also include a second battle between the two, on the Carson show and a battle between Buddy and later Tonight Show drummer, Ed Shaughnessy -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IqlNe7Cjk&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYtPbGzfeU&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXdi25469U&pp=ygUzYnVkZHlyaWNoICBsb3VpcyBiZWxsc29uIHRvbmlnaHQgc2hvdyBqb2hubnkgY2Fyc29u
We all know of entertainers; actors, singers, musicians [non-drummers], plus professional athletes and others who play the drums. YT is a treasure trove of videos of them. Here's one, of one of the most beloved "stars" America and the world has known - dancer/actor Fred Astaire. I posted videos of Fred playing drum solos with his feet that are incredible to behold but here, I came upon a video where he sits down at a set and shows his style; as graceful as his dancing skills.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=479-6WzYTgY
Sticking with drums, anyone familiar with this website knows my passion of the subject of truth in drum manufacturing and sound, and the over-hyped marketing of proprietary drum shells most all the companies get into today. I came across a guy I never heard of before who apparently has gone down the same rabbit hole on the subject with a series of videos of his own, which he began around 8 months ago. Having started mine over 5 years ago now, it is just unbelievable how time flies.
This gentleman has a different style of presentation which is quite good. I won't say we are 100% in line and I have not watched his entire series but, I'd say we are certainly on the same team and it is great to see more voices speaking out on the subject. Check him out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKDRDRAphy8&list=PLb0EaBs6638kEoYs0pQQcCKZ7FpGFwofR&index=3
Next is a video, also from the Tonight Show, but with Jay Leno hosting, with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal as guests. I have watched dozens of Williams videos. I truly do not laugh enough. The Bible says laughter is like a medicine, and it's true. I don't have a whole lot to laugh about in my life and finding things on YT to create some medicine is a welcome point of departure for me. Williams and Crystal take the house down. Along with that, a show with Johnny, with guest, actor Robert Blake, from the tv show Barretta, back in the 70's. Just listening to Burt Reynolds laugh is entertaining enough but, Johnny goes overboard in trying to keep up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTKTOgWJcA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=buio4b9cZb0
On a more serious note, the James Webb Space Telescope is changing the way astronomers see the universe and it's both, for me anyway, fascinating and amusing. I'm a creationist, as you know, and Webb seems to be putting more and more evidence behind that model of origins of the universe. Just like design and information discovery is throwing nails into the gears of Darwinism, Webb is calling into question much of what scientists believe about the universe.
Right now, 99.99% of scientists believe the universe had a beginning. Two models are entertained. The Big Bang, everything from nothing; and fiat creation, everything from God, the Creator. Both are miracles. Say what you will but, everything from nothing, if nothing is actually allowed to be no thing, is a miracle of greater magnitude than God [someone] creating it all from nothing. Webb is showing galaxies too early, too large and too well formed than possible, with the current big bang model. And mind you, this is looking at pin points in the ether. Finding a point to peer into yields pictures of a thousand galaxies and more. How many pin points are there to look at? A thousand, ten, a hundred thousand, a million, billions, trillions of pin points? An almost infinite number. How long would that take? And what would humankind see? Far more than they imagine.
How do they explain these new anomalies? Enter "evospeak:" my term for explanations using a couple dozen oft used nebulous words and terms to basically tell people they have no idea, even when they claim great knowledge. They guess and call it science. The same is true with all origin theories. People guess, based on the evidence, and frankly, the "glasses" they wear to see that evidence. Creationists have to do the same, even with the Genesis creation account. No scientist was there. No firsthand observations by any human. Everybody has their reasons for their hypotheses. Nobody can, nor should be allowed to place a flag in the dirt of knowledge and science and say, 'This is the absolute truth. Believe or else.' They all say, 'Of course' yet, they do it to an extreme of firing people who disagree with the prevalent understanding. That is called hypocrisy.
A model is a model. A model of a car is not the car. Even there, the human has manufactured parts to put together. It all takes a mind, yet, serious people believe it could all come from nothing. Yes, it is as absurd as it reads.
From the development of space telescopes to electron microscopes the farther we look out or in, screams design and therefore, a Designer. For my choices for belief, that one makes the most sense and is the most edifying for the human species. The video is not a theologically sourced one, though plenty of design proponents and creationists love seeing what is developing before the world's eyes, with greater technology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpbZGwZ6_4
Nostalgia is something that exists for us because times change; in many ways are getting more difficult and we yearn for a simpler, less complicated time. For the Christian, nostalgia will not exist because as time rolls along, everything gets better and better. There will be no stress, no anxiety, no complications, no pain, no suffering. Humanity will be given ceaseless ages to learn, experience, and improve on all knowledge of all things God is saving for those who love Him.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Little Life Edit
Some posts back I mentioned how I could not log into my Weebly web site because I was not receiving the verification code I am sent on my cell phone from Square, the company that bought Weebly. For some reason I was able to get into the site from my desktop and kept things current but, I normally do not shut down the desk top. I let it go to sleep but, I wondered if this tech glitch would ultimately lead to me getting "canceled" or something. Nope.
I got an email today from my friend, Mike Van Dyk, the inventor of Drumnetics bass drum pedals, telling me he tried to call and got a message my phone was disconnected. ?????
Come to find out the phone service we switched to, the Walmart gig, rejected a payment and I have been disconnected for the last ten days, which is the time span I have not been able to get into my website via laptop. No phone, no verification code, no website entrance.
I'd put some various emojis in here but, you get the picture. It never dawned on me to check my phone. I keep it charged. Delete all the spam texts. Done.
It was a good thing Mike emailed me. I'd not have found out until I tried to make a call, which I rarely do. Unless my daughter calls or texts me, I rarely use my phone. I'm as far from being addicted to a cell phone as a human being can get. Nobody calls me, save for Mike every now and then or my daughter. Unless I make calls to service people, as I need to do about our aerobic septic system lately, my life on a cell phone is nil.
Life's little edits are a pain. Problems, right?
We are so tethered to technology it is sick. I have mentioned before; even some of the men who developed social platform sites have come out and said how literally, physically, mentally and emotionally dangerous it can be.
I have been watching YT videos on aspects of mixing and mastering digital music files. Today, things have gotten so out of whack, getting distortion and clipping into your music has actually become acceptable to the young who listen to the lion's share of music. My whole life, "clipping," allowing a signal to distort, was always, always wrong and seen as a poor job. Today? Not so much. Is that what digital technology has done to people? Created something more acute and pristine yet, at the same time, brought in more junk than useful things for life? Now, the tech thinkers, inventors and creators on this globe are warning us about the advancements and potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence; as in, A.I. could and probably will take over the world.
And while all this is going on, fewer and fewer people, in America and Europe, believe in God, by alarming percentages. Can you see the sink hole humanity is falling into?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I got an email today from my friend, Mike Van Dyk, the inventor of Drumnetics bass drum pedals, telling me he tried to call and got a message my phone was disconnected. ?????
Come to find out the phone service we switched to, the Walmart gig, rejected a payment and I have been disconnected for the last ten days, which is the time span I have not been able to get into my website via laptop. No phone, no verification code, no website entrance.
I'd put some various emojis in here but, you get the picture. It never dawned on me to check my phone. I keep it charged. Delete all the spam texts. Done.
It was a good thing Mike emailed me. I'd not have found out until I tried to make a call, which I rarely do. Unless my daughter calls or texts me, I rarely use my phone. I'm as far from being addicted to a cell phone as a human being can get. Nobody calls me, save for Mike every now and then or my daughter. Unless I make calls to service people, as I need to do about our aerobic septic system lately, my life on a cell phone is nil.
Life's little edits are a pain. Problems, right?
We are so tethered to technology it is sick. I have mentioned before; even some of the men who developed social platform sites have come out and said how literally, physically, mentally and emotionally dangerous it can be.
I have been watching YT videos on aspects of mixing and mastering digital music files. Today, things have gotten so out of whack, getting distortion and clipping into your music has actually become acceptable to the young who listen to the lion's share of music. My whole life, "clipping," allowing a signal to distort, was always, always wrong and seen as a poor job. Today? Not so much. Is that what digital technology has done to people? Created something more acute and pristine yet, at the same time, brought in more junk than useful things for life? Now, the tech thinkers, inventors and creators on this globe are warning us about the advancements and potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence; as in, A.I. could and probably will take over the world.
And while all this is going on, fewer and fewer people, in America and Europe, believe in God, by alarming percentages. Can you see the sink hole humanity is falling into?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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815. Karma and Taylor Swift - July 25, 2023
What is Karma?
As a religious principle in some religious philosophies, karma is the result or consequences of previous actions. If you treat people poorly, you shall end up being treated poorly. If you treat people good, you shall be treated good.
"What goes around, comes around."
"Point a finger at me, three are pointing back at you."
The philosophy is antagonistic and foreign to the religion of Christ. Obviously, Christ only did good and He was crucified for going against Jewish leaders and their institution and system of religious traditions, rules and regulations to merit salvation. The influence He had upon the people, was bad and dangerous in their eyes. Who was right? The Jewish leaders or the Messiah? Christ called these leaders hypocrites and vipers. Was He right or wrong?
He healed all who came to Him. Right or wrong to do?
He told the truth. Right or wrong to do?
He certainly pointed a finger at the leaders and called their entire system corrupt. Did He have three fingers pointing back at Him that caused His death? Those who believe in Karma would say, Yes but, what did Jesus say?
John 9:1 And passing by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
The Jews believed in their own type of karma. Do good, good comes back to you. If something bad happens to you, you must have done something bad. In the case of the blind man born blind, it must have been his parents; so reasoned the disciples. Jesus said, Neither. His circumstances are what they are that the glory of God could be revealed through him; and Jesus gave him physical sight he never had. He could not have been or done anything bad before he was born. Unless, of course, one believes in the immortal soul and thereby previous lives through reincarnation. That was not a Jewish belief. Then it must have been his parents who sinned and a blind child was their "karma." No, Christ said. Not the parents.
Evil exists. It exists because of the fall of the angel Lucifer, one third of the heavenly host of angels who rebelled with him, and the deception of and fall of Adam and Eve, the parents of humanity. That means the situation ethics of "karma" are false, for all humanity suffers from things they have not brought upon themselves. They also suffer consequences for things they do bring upon themselves. It is the life of being fallen sinners in need of salvation.
Job, a righteous man, well-loved and respected; blessed with flocks and herds. His children are rebellious. His wife, we find out, is not the nicest person in his life.
Satan goes before God and brags how the whole world is following him and his agenda for life. God says, Not quite. My servant Job follows Me.
Lucifer says, Sure, He follows you. You have blessed him. Remove it all and he will curse you.
Go ahead, says God. Remove what he has. Touch him but, do not take his life.
Satan rushes in with thieves, marauders, storm and tempest, Bagdad boils and Job's children are dead, property destroyed, herds and flocks gone and he is covered with pussy, oozing sores he scrapes with some broken pottery. To make matters worse, his wife tells him to curse God and die. Job refuses. He is shocked and confused and in unimaginable physical, mental and emotional pain.
Then the story continues at length with his "friends" that come to see him and say, What on Earth did you do to have all this happen? You must have angered God in ways that rained down disaster on you.
There were no Jews at that time but, what they believed was a type of Karma ultimately adopted by the Jewish faith.
Job spends the bulk of the book telling his friends he knew of nothing he did wrong and pleads for a day in God's court to understand the situation. The three friends are joined by another young guy with more "wisdom" to share about God only allowing such things when we do wrong. Job gets angry, God intervenes, chastises the four empty vessels, and then asks Job some probing questions to show him he doesn't know very much, either. Job repents. God restores to him more than he had. Moral of the story? Humanity has an enemy. Life happens, directed by that enemy as God allows. No matter what, turn to God for He is just and will ultimately reward those who love Him with eternal life. Whatever we have to go through now, because of our own choices or the choses of others, God will make it all up to us when the controversy and war between good and evil is finally over. Until then, hang on, the just shall live by faith.
The Bible does not endorse Karma.
Now, on to the next section of this post. Taylor Swift. I am not a fan. All I know is, she was once a young Country music star and took some turns and became some badass megastar of Pop music.
In 2022 she released a song titled, Karma. I place the lyrics here, all of them; so warning: they are not all pretty -
You're talking shit for the hell of it
Addicted to betrayal, but you're relevant
You're terrified to look down
'Cause if you dare, you'll see the glare
Of everyone you burned just to get there
It's coming back around
[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep my side of the street clean
You wouldn't know what I mean
Stop. Obviously Taylor believes she has done nothing wrong in life that anything should come back around to her. The use of foul language in the opening line is not something she sees as inappropriate, oddly enough, given the huge number of fans she has that are children. She is not a bad influence, no. She keeps her side of the street clean. So she believes. She does not forgive those who have hurt her. She does not pray for them. She waits for Karma to get back at them.
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
Stop. Karma is her god. An all knowing entity. Because she sees herself as good, she is okay. She can save herself with her own good works in life. She is a victim of others bad deeds, and Karma, her boyfriend and god will pay them back while she enjoys the breeze in her hair and cats in her lap; while she flexes her righteousness like a goddamn acrobat. Why acrobats are damned by the Karma god, I have no idea. Why would she align herself with damned people? See any CONFUSION here?
[Verse 2]
Spiderboy, king of thieves
Weave your little webs of opacity
My pennies made your crown
Trick me once, trick me twice
Don't you know that cash ain't the only price?
It's coming back around
[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep my side of the street clean
You wouldn't know what I mean
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
[Bridge]
Ask me what I learned from all those years
Ask me what I earned from all those tears
Ask me why so many fade, but I'm still here
(I'm still here, I'm still here)
Stop. Again. The lyrics portray someone who has earned their salvation through what they have suffered. Certainly not what Christ suffered for us but, what she has suffered as the victim of others misdeeds and hurtful words, etc. Others have faded, she is still here, still standing, still righteous because of her good works, keeping her side of the street clean. It's an overmastering delusion.
[Breakdown]
'Cause karma is the thunder
Rattling your ground
Karma's on your scent like a bounty hunter
Karma's gonna track you down
Step by step, from town to town
Sweet like justice, karma is a queen
Karma takes all my friends to the summit
Karma is the guy on the screen
Coming straight home to me
Stop. Karma is the god who tracks you down. It is not offering redemption. Not inviting you to peace, if you repent. It will hunt you down and get even. It is a "queen" that takes everyone who does good to the summit and gives you your desires.
Consider the biblical truth. Babylon is portrayed as a queen that thinks she cannot fail or fall, who is still standing when the rest have faded and fallen. I sit a queen. I am no widow and shall see no sorrow. Rev. 18:7
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Rev 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Do not miss the point. God judges Babylon, looking at the records, at her works based on her rejection of the truth and admitting to a need of salvation by God's grace through faith unto good works, not BECAUSE of good works. She saw herself blessed with wealth and power and saw herself as righteous and good; being a Mother and totally religious, and blessing her daughters in her traditions. All is well. She relaxed in her righteousness. I sit a queen. I am no widow. My suitors, the kings of the earth are always here to fornicate with. I live deliciously because of them. They drink my wine. They do my bidding. I am just fine.
Then, destruction comes upon her swiftly. But, all who are in Babylonian confusion are not being hunted down by some Karma god. Though they be chief of sinners, they are called out to stand in the truth and be saved by repenting of their sins under the influence of the gift of God to see clearly and be born-again and experience peace and joy and freedom from sin; not a breeze in their hair or a cat in their lap.
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend (Karma is my boyfriend)
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend (Weekend)
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
[Outro]
Karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god (Ah)
Uh-huh, mm
Karma's a relaxing thought
Taylor Swift, as immensely popular as she is, is a tragically bad influence upon those who idolize her, listen to her and take in what she preaches. She certainly can repent of her sins, like everyone else. Time will tell what she and her friends on their false summit will do before it is too late.
Babylon, prophetic, spiritual Babylon: confusion, is growing and shall cover the earth in a spiritual darkness that shall ultimately bring about its end and destroy it.
Think not it is just those, like Swift, who are deceived. Nay. Most of God's people are in religious institutions they trust in but, the time is coming when the whole world shall be exposed to Babylon's sins and abominations and all will make a choice where they stand: God's side of truth or Mother's side of wine and lies. Christ's side of life or Lucifer's side of death are the only choices. Two categories of people, and I can tell you with full assurance of biblical truth, the summit will not be occupied by people who saved themselves by their good works but, those who repented of their sins and accepted the life, death and resurrection of Christ in their place and were saved by His love, His grace, mercy and new life in Christ, in the truth, as it is in Jesus.
Even so, come!
As a religious principle in some religious philosophies, karma is the result or consequences of previous actions. If you treat people poorly, you shall end up being treated poorly. If you treat people good, you shall be treated good.
"What goes around, comes around."
"Point a finger at me, three are pointing back at you."
The philosophy is antagonistic and foreign to the religion of Christ. Obviously, Christ only did good and He was crucified for going against Jewish leaders and their institution and system of religious traditions, rules and regulations to merit salvation. The influence He had upon the people, was bad and dangerous in their eyes. Who was right? The Jewish leaders or the Messiah? Christ called these leaders hypocrites and vipers. Was He right or wrong?
He healed all who came to Him. Right or wrong to do?
He told the truth. Right or wrong to do?
He certainly pointed a finger at the leaders and called their entire system corrupt. Did He have three fingers pointing back at Him that caused His death? Those who believe in Karma would say, Yes but, what did Jesus say?
John 9:1 And passing by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
The Jews believed in their own type of karma. Do good, good comes back to you. If something bad happens to you, you must have done something bad. In the case of the blind man born blind, it must have been his parents; so reasoned the disciples. Jesus said, Neither. His circumstances are what they are that the glory of God could be revealed through him; and Jesus gave him physical sight he never had. He could not have been or done anything bad before he was born. Unless, of course, one believes in the immortal soul and thereby previous lives through reincarnation. That was not a Jewish belief. Then it must have been his parents who sinned and a blind child was their "karma." No, Christ said. Not the parents.
Evil exists. It exists because of the fall of the angel Lucifer, one third of the heavenly host of angels who rebelled with him, and the deception of and fall of Adam and Eve, the parents of humanity. That means the situation ethics of "karma" are false, for all humanity suffers from things they have not brought upon themselves. They also suffer consequences for things they do bring upon themselves. It is the life of being fallen sinners in need of salvation.
Job, a righteous man, well-loved and respected; blessed with flocks and herds. His children are rebellious. His wife, we find out, is not the nicest person in his life.
Satan goes before God and brags how the whole world is following him and his agenda for life. God says, Not quite. My servant Job follows Me.
Lucifer says, Sure, He follows you. You have blessed him. Remove it all and he will curse you.
Go ahead, says God. Remove what he has. Touch him but, do not take his life.
Satan rushes in with thieves, marauders, storm and tempest, Bagdad boils and Job's children are dead, property destroyed, herds and flocks gone and he is covered with pussy, oozing sores he scrapes with some broken pottery. To make matters worse, his wife tells him to curse God and die. Job refuses. He is shocked and confused and in unimaginable physical, mental and emotional pain.
Then the story continues at length with his "friends" that come to see him and say, What on Earth did you do to have all this happen? You must have angered God in ways that rained down disaster on you.
There were no Jews at that time but, what they believed was a type of Karma ultimately adopted by the Jewish faith.
Job spends the bulk of the book telling his friends he knew of nothing he did wrong and pleads for a day in God's court to understand the situation. The three friends are joined by another young guy with more "wisdom" to share about God only allowing such things when we do wrong. Job gets angry, God intervenes, chastises the four empty vessels, and then asks Job some probing questions to show him he doesn't know very much, either. Job repents. God restores to him more than he had. Moral of the story? Humanity has an enemy. Life happens, directed by that enemy as God allows. No matter what, turn to God for He is just and will ultimately reward those who love Him with eternal life. Whatever we have to go through now, because of our own choices or the choses of others, God will make it all up to us when the controversy and war between good and evil is finally over. Until then, hang on, the just shall live by faith.
The Bible does not endorse Karma.
Now, on to the next section of this post. Taylor Swift. I am not a fan. All I know is, she was once a young Country music star and took some turns and became some badass megastar of Pop music.
In 2022 she released a song titled, Karma. I place the lyrics here, all of them; so warning: they are not all pretty -
You're talking shit for the hell of it
Addicted to betrayal, but you're relevant
You're terrified to look down
'Cause if you dare, you'll see the glare
Of everyone you burned just to get there
It's coming back around
[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep my side of the street clean
You wouldn't know what I mean
Stop. Obviously Taylor believes she has done nothing wrong in life that anything should come back around to her. The use of foul language in the opening line is not something she sees as inappropriate, oddly enough, given the huge number of fans she has that are children. She is not a bad influence, no. She keeps her side of the street clean. So she believes. She does not forgive those who have hurt her. She does not pray for them. She waits for Karma to get back at them.
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
Stop. Karma is her god. An all knowing entity. Because she sees herself as good, she is okay. She can save herself with her own good works in life. She is a victim of others bad deeds, and Karma, her boyfriend and god will pay them back while she enjoys the breeze in her hair and cats in her lap; while she flexes her righteousness like a goddamn acrobat. Why acrobats are damned by the Karma god, I have no idea. Why would she align herself with damned people? See any CONFUSION here?
[Verse 2]
Spiderboy, king of thieves
Weave your little webs of opacity
My pennies made your crown
Trick me once, trick me twice
Don't you know that cash ain't the only price?
It's coming back around
[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep my side of the street clean
You wouldn't know what I mean
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
[Bridge]
Ask me what I learned from all those years
Ask me what I earned from all those tears
Ask me why so many fade, but I'm still here
(I'm still here, I'm still here)
Stop. Again. The lyrics portray someone who has earned their salvation through what they have suffered. Certainly not what Christ suffered for us but, what she has suffered as the victim of others misdeeds and hurtful words, etc. Others have faded, she is still here, still standing, still righteous because of her good works, keeping her side of the street clean. It's an overmastering delusion.
[Breakdown]
'Cause karma is the thunder
Rattling your ground
Karma's on your scent like a bounty hunter
Karma's gonna track you down
Step by step, from town to town
Sweet like justice, karma is a queen
Karma takes all my friends to the summit
Karma is the guy on the screen
Coming straight home to me
Stop. Karma is the god who tracks you down. It is not offering redemption. Not inviting you to peace, if you repent. It will hunt you down and get even. It is a "queen" that takes everyone who does good to the summit and gives you your desires.
Consider the biblical truth. Babylon is portrayed as a queen that thinks she cannot fail or fall, who is still standing when the rest have faded and fallen. I sit a queen. I am no widow and shall see no sorrow. Rev. 18:7
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Rev 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Do not miss the point. God judges Babylon, looking at the records, at her works based on her rejection of the truth and admitting to a need of salvation by God's grace through faith unto good works, not BECAUSE of good works. She saw herself blessed with wealth and power and saw herself as righteous and good; being a Mother and totally religious, and blessing her daughters in her traditions. All is well. She relaxed in her righteousness. I sit a queen. I am no widow. My suitors, the kings of the earth are always here to fornicate with. I live deliciously because of them. They drink my wine. They do my bidding. I am just fine.
Then, destruction comes upon her swiftly. But, all who are in Babylonian confusion are not being hunted down by some Karma god. Though they be chief of sinners, they are called out to stand in the truth and be saved by repenting of their sins under the influence of the gift of God to see clearly and be born-again and experience peace and joy and freedom from sin; not a breeze in their hair or a cat in their lap.
[Chorus]
'Cause karma is my boyfriend (Karma is my boyfriend)
Karma is a god
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend (Weekend)
Karma's a relaxing thought
Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
Sweet like honey, karma is a cat
Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat
Me and karma vibe like that
[Outro]
Karma is my boyfriend
Karma is a god (Ah)
Uh-huh, mm
Karma's a relaxing thought
Taylor Swift, as immensely popular as she is, is a tragically bad influence upon those who idolize her, listen to her and take in what she preaches. She certainly can repent of her sins, like everyone else. Time will tell what she and her friends on their false summit will do before it is too late.
Babylon, prophetic, spiritual Babylon: confusion, is growing and shall cover the earth in a spiritual darkness that shall ultimately bring about its end and destroy it.
Think not it is just those, like Swift, who are deceived. Nay. Most of God's people are in religious institutions they trust in but, the time is coming when the whole world shall be exposed to Babylon's sins and abominations and all will make a choice where they stand: God's side of truth or Mother's side of wine and lies. Christ's side of life or Lucifer's side of death are the only choices. Two categories of people, and I can tell you with full assurance of biblical truth, the summit will not be occupied by people who saved themselves by their good works but, those who repented of their sins and accepted the life, death and resurrection of Christ in their place and were saved by His love, His grace, mercy and new life in Christ, in the truth, as it is in Jesus.
Even so, come!
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AERODRUMS
As I mentioned some posts back, I took down my acoustic drum set and packed it away. I'm kind of sorry I did but, the reasons remain so...
Tonight, I set-up the Aerodrums. I'm going to assume most players have heard of them by now. If not, it's a way of playing airdrums and via their software getting some nominal sounds from it.
aerodrums.com has all the info and videos.
Set-up was okay to very frustrating. I went through the steps and once I got into using their sticks to operate their menu things began getting me pissed off. Sorry but, that's what happened. The position of the menu was literally below my left leg. Reaching around to tap on it to make changes seemed ridiculous.
You start with just hats, kick, snare and your foot markers. If you aren't used to playing heel down, yeah, get ready for some aggravation. It says you can play heel up but, I've yet to look for the info on that.
As far as the tracking of their sticks with the marker balls on the tips, it's pretty good. What began to seriously get under my skin was placement of the individual drums and cymbals. I play and am very used to tight set-ups. Forget that here. The tracking will be setting off everything in the 5pc. kit, ride, 2 crashes and hats. So, I had to put things farther out than normal for me and I played around with it for half hour or so, worked up a little body heat and then got bored real quick and turned it off.
There may be editing values to mess around with for specific sound quality. I saw an edit button on one of the screens. I hate programming, which is why I ended up taking down my TrapKat/Roland set-up. So, for me, at this point in my life, I could never consider Aerodrums fun. It is something to give me physical movement, exercise and some sound. They are used live and for recording, which I find difficult to believe, given the sounds. There must be a way to import your own sound files and drum software for use with the unit. I would not be caught dead using this rig's sounds on a recording, unless it was electronic music, maybe; where fidelity of drum, cymbal and percussion sound is not necessary and gets electronically manipulated to the moon and back with all the software and plug-ins and stuff, anyway. You get more chirps, beeps and peeps with that. Aerodrums are better than those early edrum sounds.
The ride cymbal tracking was not enjoyable. Nor was fussing around with movement to strike the bell.
The cymbals sound very thin and the drums sound pretty soft and puffy.
It is what I expected, I guess. It is most definitely not something to grant aural satisfaction for, unless your need for authentic sound is not that high on your list.
To me, it's a novelty, a fancy toy. It's pretty unique, of course. Airdrums with sound? Welcome to the 21st century. But, for me, playing a 5pc kit with a few cymbals will almost keep my from using it and that is called the "Big Rock Kit." There may be ways to copy and paste to increase the kit's size, and tune and all those parameters that edrums have. I'm just not there, anymore. Technically, the more you add, the more difficult for the tracking system to accurately work so, I suspect what is, is.
For players with volume situations to contend with, this is certainly an answer to be able to get full movement and practice time in.
Hey, praise and honor to the guys from the UK who came up with the whole system. It fulfills a need and a niche.
Anyway, there's my review. :-( I know. The worst review ever. What can I say? I enjoyed the TrapKat more. I'd have it set up were it not for pads malfunctioning and a hefty repair price. It's obviously a lot more tactile. The only tactile sensation with Aerodrums is the sticks slapping the palms of your hands to cause the quick stopping motion of the tracking balls, which triggers the sounds.
I'll use them for the purpose I got them... five or six years ago. The thing has been sitting in its box for that long. It came out in 2014 and I got it pretty much right around its release, as I recall. Maybe 2017.
It'll do for now.
*UPDATE* - No, it won't. Way too frustrating to deal with the system interface and the actual physical execution of setting things up and striking things you can only get a visual of on your computer screen. It is just not working for me. It's an air drumming war zone. If you want to just play simple beats and fills, it works okay. The more complicated and fast you play, staying within the parameters of their 5pc., 4 cymbal system, the more frustrating things become, let alone trying to set up a slightly more involved user kit.
It's sad too, because it's a genius idea.
I'd rather spend the money to get my TrapKat fixed. At least it is a tactile reality to play and involves less space than you have to move your arms around with the Aerodrums. Yes, the price difference is obvious but, I already own the TK. I've had 2 of the models over a 25 year period.
The Aerodrums go back in the box. Maybe someone will buy it from me.
Tonight, I set-up the Aerodrums. I'm going to assume most players have heard of them by now. If not, it's a way of playing airdrums and via their software getting some nominal sounds from it.
aerodrums.com has all the info and videos.
Set-up was okay to very frustrating. I went through the steps and once I got into using their sticks to operate their menu things began getting me pissed off. Sorry but, that's what happened. The position of the menu was literally below my left leg. Reaching around to tap on it to make changes seemed ridiculous.
You start with just hats, kick, snare and your foot markers. If you aren't used to playing heel down, yeah, get ready for some aggravation. It says you can play heel up but, I've yet to look for the info on that.
As far as the tracking of their sticks with the marker balls on the tips, it's pretty good. What began to seriously get under my skin was placement of the individual drums and cymbals. I play and am very used to tight set-ups. Forget that here. The tracking will be setting off everything in the 5pc. kit, ride, 2 crashes and hats. So, I had to put things farther out than normal for me and I played around with it for half hour or so, worked up a little body heat and then got bored real quick and turned it off.
There may be editing values to mess around with for specific sound quality. I saw an edit button on one of the screens. I hate programming, which is why I ended up taking down my TrapKat/Roland set-up. So, for me, at this point in my life, I could never consider Aerodrums fun. It is something to give me physical movement, exercise and some sound. They are used live and for recording, which I find difficult to believe, given the sounds. There must be a way to import your own sound files and drum software for use with the unit. I would not be caught dead using this rig's sounds on a recording, unless it was electronic music, maybe; where fidelity of drum, cymbal and percussion sound is not necessary and gets electronically manipulated to the moon and back with all the software and plug-ins and stuff, anyway. You get more chirps, beeps and peeps with that. Aerodrums are better than those early edrum sounds.
The ride cymbal tracking was not enjoyable. Nor was fussing around with movement to strike the bell.
The cymbals sound very thin and the drums sound pretty soft and puffy.
It is what I expected, I guess. It is most definitely not something to grant aural satisfaction for, unless your need for authentic sound is not that high on your list.
To me, it's a novelty, a fancy toy. It's pretty unique, of course. Airdrums with sound? Welcome to the 21st century. But, for me, playing a 5pc kit with a few cymbals will almost keep my from using it and that is called the "Big Rock Kit." There may be ways to copy and paste to increase the kit's size, and tune and all those parameters that edrums have. I'm just not there, anymore. Technically, the more you add, the more difficult for the tracking system to accurately work so, I suspect what is, is.
For players with volume situations to contend with, this is certainly an answer to be able to get full movement and practice time in.
Hey, praise and honor to the guys from the UK who came up with the whole system. It fulfills a need and a niche.
Anyway, there's my review. :-( I know. The worst review ever. What can I say? I enjoyed the TrapKat more. I'd have it set up were it not for pads malfunctioning and a hefty repair price. It's obviously a lot more tactile. The only tactile sensation with Aerodrums is the sticks slapping the palms of your hands to cause the quick stopping motion of the tracking balls, which triggers the sounds.
I'll use them for the purpose I got them... five or six years ago. The thing has been sitting in its box for that long. It came out in 2014 and I got it pretty much right around its release, as I recall. Maybe 2017.
It'll do for now.
*UPDATE* - No, it won't. Way too frustrating to deal with the system interface and the actual physical execution of setting things up and striking things you can only get a visual of on your computer screen. It is just not working for me. It's an air drumming war zone. If you want to just play simple beats and fills, it works okay. The more complicated and fast you play, staying within the parameters of their 5pc., 4 cymbal system, the more frustrating things become, let alone trying to set up a slightly more involved user kit.
It's sad too, because it's a genius idea.
I'd rather spend the money to get my TrapKat fixed. At least it is a tactile reality to play and involves less space than you have to move your arms around with the Aerodrums. Yes, the price difference is obvious but, I already own the TK. I've had 2 of the models over a 25 year period.
The Aerodrums go back in the box. Maybe someone will buy it from me.
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The UAP Hearings
The UAP hearing was held Tuesday; a two and half hour affair. Some headlines called it a "shocking" collection of testimony.
Congressman Tim Burchett and Congresswoman Luna pushed for the hearings. Burchett stated that the time had come for all secrecy to end and transparency to be brought forth.
Mr. Ryan Graves, Mr. David Grusch and Mr. David Fravor were the witnesses. Graves and Fravor with military experience. Grusch with intelligence community standing.
About the only thing I could say is that their testimony, such as it was, is now on the public record. For whatever reasons, I do not quite trust David Grusch. He knows nothing first hand. His testimony only supports what he states he has been told by others. If whistleblower protection laws are now in place, the only thing that really matters is the testimony from those who he spoke with. His testimony seemed a very self-concerned. His demeanor just struck me wrong. He claimed he fears for his life. Seriously? That may be harsh but, that is my impression.
Two of these three men have been giving testimony to their experiences for years. Did they say anything they have not said before? No. Grusch is basically brand new to the UFOlogy scene. Under questioning he seemed to hide behind - he could not state anything in "public" - so many times, it seemed his presence was as farce. To his defense he and the other men have been placed under pressures of questioning and intimidation from other forces, including more secretive sources and those within agencies that employed them. The intelligence committee of Congress has questioned these men, in closed hearings. More than that, worse than that, the intelligence "community," unelected officials bring in an intimidation factor and have power beyond anything they should have. Frankly, they should have no power regarding the transparency of the government. They should suggest, not demand or control the transportation of information. Grusch referred to it numerous times; "classified" information. The obvious problem are those who get to declare information "classified."
Things are on record in that regard and the Committee before them could refer to that written testimony IF they were allowed to see it. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez even made reference to the hearings being whistleblower hearings yet, half of what could or should have been stated to answer questions was withheld. The entire thing seemed silly. The entire affair showed the incredible bloated nature of the American government.
Burchett thanked two men for their presence at the hearing; Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, both who have developed sketchy reputations among many UFOlogists, especially filmmaker, Corbell.
It was obvious most on the Committee possessed little understanding of all the information that has been available in the public sphere for decades. Beyond the information released in 2014 and 2017, they really seemed ignorant of all that is out there on this subject. It made the hearing quite boring and almost useless.
SCIF stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, meaning a room for private testimony, and the term was brought up continually. More questions could be answered and information given only under those circumstances. What is the point of public hearings, then? To be told participants will only get information in private?
Again, nothing was stated that was new in any way. Grusch is under confidentiality agreements and secrecy laws to which he could be arrested and jailed for revealing "sensitive" "classified" information (so he stated) but, is that not the entire point of these hearings for now, supposedly protected whistle blowers??? Are they protected or are they not? It seems obvious they are not, for all intents and purposes. It was an absolute smack in the face for those desiring transparency from government.
Congressman Burchett stated they made history at the hearings. Other public hearings have already taken place and nothing new was stated so, all that was achieved was info for the public record. No actual transparency took place. Nothing was shown or revealed. The questions from committee members had obvious answers given. Most seemed rhetorical in nature. And now all we have are promises for more closed door hearings so, waiting for the government to make things public is, as has been stated, like watching a glacier move.
*UPDATE* - In watching some impressions from people in the UFOlogy community, I was surprised to hear so many positive ones. Most found it extraordinary and engrossing, stating they could have watched it for hours more. I am quite surprised at that, as boring as I found it. It did move along quickly, I'll say that much but, all we had were three men testifying under oath to God (which would be interesting to ask if any of them actually believe in God), that they either saw or, heard of others who have seen things, and how they encountered mild to severe reactions when making known what they experienced. Everything they said, in fact more than what they said can be heard in conversations and interviews they have had with people in the UFOlogy podcast world. Stating under oath was no big deal. They are not heroes for doing so. They all have lives, guaranteed income through retirement from military service or other income from books, etc. It did not cost them anything to sit at that table. Graves and Fravor have been doing this for years now. Grusch is a wild card. He had permission to do an interview that started his exposure to the world. Now, he claims he will tell all behind closed doors, and supposedly, he already has to the intelligence committee. I get the impression he is thoroughly enjoying his new fame. He isn't scared of anyone. It's a dog and pony show. Sorry. I just have a gut feeling this man is not what he portrays himself to be.
Admittedly, Burchett and Luna and the other members of Congress there who make up this committee got their morning in the sun, as it were and now, we have what is seen as serious information about the subject in the Congressional Record. While true, it did nothing to increase awareness among the general public. It's members of Congress who are late to the party, even as some of them mentioned they have had interest in this subject since childhood. If that is the case, why were they not the ones to push for this particular hearing? A third of the members of the committee had negative things to say about the government. Will the FBI now see them as possible terrorists?
As much as I will not deny the sincerity of the participants on the committee, especially as bi-partisan as it was, amazingly enough, this was hardly a beginning that can move the mountain of bloat and control that is Washington, D.C., especially on this subject.
Whether or not the Swamp discloses anything will not change the possibilities and assurances that this is going to be a subject to take the stage of the world in last-day deceptions. The prince of the power of the air will certainly see to that when the time is right for his 'power, signs and lying wonders' to take off.
We'll see what happens when the dust settles and the news cycle picks up for next week.
Congressman Tim Burchett and Congresswoman Luna pushed for the hearings. Burchett stated that the time had come for all secrecy to end and transparency to be brought forth.
Mr. Ryan Graves, Mr. David Grusch and Mr. David Fravor were the witnesses. Graves and Fravor with military experience. Grusch with intelligence community standing.
About the only thing I could say is that their testimony, such as it was, is now on the public record. For whatever reasons, I do not quite trust David Grusch. He knows nothing first hand. His testimony only supports what he states he has been told by others. If whistleblower protection laws are now in place, the only thing that really matters is the testimony from those who he spoke with. His testimony seemed a very self-concerned. His demeanor just struck me wrong. He claimed he fears for his life. Seriously? That may be harsh but, that is my impression.
Two of these three men have been giving testimony to their experiences for years. Did they say anything they have not said before? No. Grusch is basically brand new to the UFOlogy scene. Under questioning he seemed to hide behind - he could not state anything in "public" - so many times, it seemed his presence was as farce. To his defense he and the other men have been placed under pressures of questioning and intimidation from other forces, including more secretive sources and those within agencies that employed them. The intelligence committee of Congress has questioned these men, in closed hearings. More than that, worse than that, the intelligence "community," unelected officials bring in an intimidation factor and have power beyond anything they should have. Frankly, they should have no power regarding the transparency of the government. They should suggest, not demand or control the transportation of information. Grusch referred to it numerous times; "classified" information. The obvious problem are those who get to declare information "classified."
Things are on record in that regard and the Committee before them could refer to that written testimony IF they were allowed to see it. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez even made reference to the hearings being whistleblower hearings yet, half of what could or should have been stated to answer questions was withheld. The entire thing seemed silly. The entire affair showed the incredible bloated nature of the American government.
Burchett thanked two men for their presence at the hearing; Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, both who have developed sketchy reputations among many UFOlogists, especially filmmaker, Corbell.
It was obvious most on the Committee possessed little understanding of all the information that has been available in the public sphere for decades. Beyond the information released in 2014 and 2017, they really seemed ignorant of all that is out there on this subject. It made the hearing quite boring and almost useless.
SCIF stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, meaning a room for private testimony, and the term was brought up continually. More questions could be answered and information given only under those circumstances. What is the point of public hearings, then? To be told participants will only get information in private?
Again, nothing was stated that was new in any way. Grusch is under confidentiality agreements and secrecy laws to which he could be arrested and jailed for revealing "sensitive" "classified" information (so he stated) but, is that not the entire point of these hearings for now, supposedly protected whistle blowers??? Are they protected or are they not? It seems obvious they are not, for all intents and purposes. It was an absolute smack in the face for those desiring transparency from government.
Congressman Burchett stated they made history at the hearings. Other public hearings have already taken place and nothing new was stated so, all that was achieved was info for the public record. No actual transparency took place. Nothing was shown or revealed. The questions from committee members had obvious answers given. Most seemed rhetorical in nature. And now all we have are promises for more closed door hearings so, waiting for the government to make things public is, as has been stated, like watching a glacier move.
*UPDATE* - In watching some impressions from people in the UFOlogy community, I was surprised to hear so many positive ones. Most found it extraordinary and engrossing, stating they could have watched it for hours more. I am quite surprised at that, as boring as I found it. It did move along quickly, I'll say that much but, all we had were three men testifying under oath to God (which would be interesting to ask if any of them actually believe in God), that they either saw or, heard of others who have seen things, and how they encountered mild to severe reactions when making known what they experienced. Everything they said, in fact more than what they said can be heard in conversations and interviews they have had with people in the UFOlogy podcast world. Stating under oath was no big deal. They are not heroes for doing so. They all have lives, guaranteed income through retirement from military service or other income from books, etc. It did not cost them anything to sit at that table. Graves and Fravor have been doing this for years now. Grusch is a wild card. He had permission to do an interview that started his exposure to the world. Now, he claims he will tell all behind closed doors, and supposedly, he already has to the intelligence committee. I get the impression he is thoroughly enjoying his new fame. He isn't scared of anyone. It's a dog and pony show. Sorry. I just have a gut feeling this man is not what he portrays himself to be.
Admittedly, Burchett and Luna and the other members of Congress there who make up this committee got their morning in the sun, as it were and now, we have what is seen as serious information about the subject in the Congressional Record. While true, it did nothing to increase awareness among the general public. It's members of Congress who are late to the party, even as some of them mentioned they have had interest in this subject since childhood. If that is the case, why were they not the ones to push for this particular hearing? A third of the members of the committee had negative things to say about the government. Will the FBI now see them as possible terrorists?
As much as I will not deny the sincerity of the participants on the committee, especially as bi-partisan as it was, amazingly enough, this was hardly a beginning that can move the mountain of bloat and control that is Washington, D.C., especially on this subject.
Whether or not the Swamp discloses anything will not change the possibilities and assurances that this is going to be a subject to take the stage of the world in last-day deceptions. The prince of the power of the air will certainly see to that when the time is right for his 'power, signs and lying wonders' to take off.
We'll see what happens when the dust settles and the news cycle picks up for next week.
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Ice Cube and Injections
I'm sure you have noticed my backing away from posting about the pandemic, injections, and what's happening around the world. I began to see the numbers of people waking up to the reality and truth of the situation, exponentially, showed populations were doing some due diligence and informing themselves. That said, the amount of information, post vaccine era, is alarming on informing us what is happening out there from pregnancies to athletics and shows we are far, far from over what this diabolical scheme will cost those who trusted news outlets and the experts at the beginning.
Tucker Carlson did a new program riding around with rapper/actor, Ice Cube, and at one point the whole nine million dollar offer for him to be part of something, only if he got injected, came up in the interview. He refused the money and would not get injected. Good for him. I'm sure some kind of backlash will befall him but, it seems rather obvious he wouldn't care. He's not someone to be pressured into service.
Drs. Peter McCullough, Robert Malone and many others continue to sound an alarm and warn of the dangers of the gene therapy shots.
The entire embalming/funeral home industry seems to have exploded with serious issues of blood clots in corpses.
More and more in the medical community are speaking out, especially in the case of hospital workers who can no longer hide behind demands and commands for acquiescence to blind conscience and do whatever they are told.
I see articles addressing the situation every, single day at news sites I go to. Post injection studies are being done and the results are shocking what is happening around the world. Mainstream news remains the corporately controlled puppets they are, as they stay silent on all the information gathering into a mountain of condemnation. While the world wants to just go back to normal, we read of exposed plans for more pandemics and lockdowns, even surrounding global warming/climate change radicalization. Some states have even put together committees to look into mRNA chemicals being inserted into the food supply to see to it all are "vaccinated" by default, while other states are seeking ways to protect their citizens from this disgusting onslaught. I cannot imagine anything more nefarious. It is satanic. The controllers are not done by a long shot and staying uninformed is not wise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Tucker Carlson did a new program riding around with rapper/actor, Ice Cube, and at one point the whole nine million dollar offer for him to be part of something, only if he got injected, came up in the interview. He refused the money and would not get injected. Good for him. I'm sure some kind of backlash will befall him but, it seems rather obvious he wouldn't care. He's not someone to be pressured into service.
Drs. Peter McCullough, Robert Malone and many others continue to sound an alarm and warn of the dangers of the gene therapy shots.
The entire embalming/funeral home industry seems to have exploded with serious issues of blood clots in corpses.
More and more in the medical community are speaking out, especially in the case of hospital workers who can no longer hide behind demands and commands for acquiescence to blind conscience and do whatever they are told.
I see articles addressing the situation every, single day at news sites I go to. Post injection studies are being done and the results are shocking what is happening around the world. Mainstream news remains the corporately controlled puppets they are, as they stay silent on all the information gathering into a mountain of condemnation. While the world wants to just go back to normal, we read of exposed plans for more pandemics and lockdowns, even surrounding global warming/climate change radicalization. Some states have even put together committees to look into mRNA chemicals being inserted into the food supply to see to it all are "vaccinated" by default, while other states are seeking ways to protect their citizens from this disgusting onslaught. I cannot imagine anything more nefarious. It is satanic. The controllers are not done by a long shot and staying uninformed is not wise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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FYI - Math and Melodies
In western music there are a possible 24,576 scales that can be found to create an unimaginable number of melodies. Change the rhythm structures of the notes in a ten note melody and the number of songs you can compose is -
"... around 82,500,000,000,000,000,000 melodies that are 10 notes long."
That is eighty-two Quintillion, five-hundred Quadrillion.
www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-scales/how-many-scales-are-there/
plus.maths.org/content/how-many-melodies-are-there
Kind of makes one wonder why there would be any lawsuits involving taking another artist's melody.
"... around 82,500,000,000,000,000,000 melodies that are 10 notes long."
That is eighty-two Quintillion, five-hundred Quadrillion.
www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-scales/how-many-scales-are-there/
plus.maths.org/content/how-many-melodies-are-there
Kind of makes one wonder why there would be any lawsuits involving taking another artist's melody.
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Martin Jepsen Andersen
Back in my time with LEGEND I had this idea to have three bands. Kevin, Fred and I would be the core of each one. LEGEND, then a more Progressive Rock band and a Fusion band. Each band would play around 45 minutes or so, the length of a typical LP. I actually had the idea because of my love of keyboards. I have never, actually been a fan of electric guitar in Rock formats. I didn't have many favorite guitarists simply because I find the sound of distortion unpleasing, generally speaking. I can listen to Jazz guitarists all day, even though what they play goes over my head most of the time, and I love Stick players but, in the field of Rock, unless someone has a unique voice, to my ears, I'm just not drawn to the sound. Kevin had that kind of voice and his frequent use of 12 string just enhanced that for me.
The Prog band idea would have added keyboards to the overall sound, and same for the Fusion group and maybe another instrument, like violin. We knew a fantastic keyboardist/violinist back then. I just wanted to be involved in a band with keyboards.
One of my fantasies back then was to be in a duo, just keyboards and drum set, like a few that existed back in the 60's and 70's; playing a wider variety of genres. Lee Michaels and Frosty always come to mind. I was not really into the Blues but, found the duo sound they created fascinating. It's a reason I love my work with Tom Cranor and Miledge Muzic. Tom has a distinctive voice at the guitar; one I always find interesting an inspiring and our CDs show that influence upon me in my playing in our improvisation format.
I toyed with the idea of rerecording the LEGEND album with a keyboard player but, as I listened to bands in the genre with keyboards, I noticed a very full, if not overloaded soundstage. I decided it just wouldn't work with this music.
It takes a lot for a guitarist to impress me. Their tone is very important to me, which is one of the reasons I loved Al DiMeola, with Return to Forever. I loved the Mahavishnu Orchestra and all but, to my ears, John McLaughlin's tone was horrendous. I can always tell Holdsworth's tone and playing. I consider it the most unique sound in the world of electric guitarists. He left us much too soon. I never understood, on a first listen, what he was playing but, loved his voice. I always feel pretty comfortable with Pat Metheny, too. Wonderful voice and sound. Many others, too, like Wes Montgomery, Joe Beck and Frank Gambale, that have created their own individual paths. *And I edit this to include Jeff Beck, one of my favorites, for sure.
I clicked on an Allan Holdsworth station on Pandora, and putting aside Holdsworth's unique voice, so many of the other bands that Pandora brought up in the rotation had players that do something I have heard all my life and tend to recoil at: the playing of a phrase over and over and over again in a solo. Most musicians do it and aside from drumists, who have so few notes to work with, it's a thing that really hits me wrong when I hear it. I know it's a very emotional thing for the player, in the moment, in a solo. I just hear such repetition as a sonic nuisance almost all the time I hear it. A very subjective reaction, to be sure.
As I listened to the Pandora rotation, it came into my mind I do not think I have ever heard Martin play such a phrase in the over-and-over-again mode. I listened to the solos from all the Revisited songs, and to be certain, I went to his YT channel and listened more and sure enough, if he has done it, I did not hear it in anything I listened to and that may be one of things that drew me to his playing five years ago in thinking about playing at the Keep It True festival. I just truly like Martin's playing. It reminded me of Kevin's. A voice that is his own.
Martin, to me, belongs to an elite group of players that are always imaginative and inventive and always searching for a new place to go on the fretboard. If he repeats a phrase, he seems to have an inner clock that keeps him from playing it more than a bar or two. I just sent him an email to that effect. I want him to know how much I appreciate his musical thinking and activity on this recording. I cannot wait for people to hear what he has done with the songs. I truly believe Kevin would be really impressed. And while I know comparisons will be made between Martin and Kevin, I also believe Martin did something that will silence the mouths of naysayers. He went into this giving musical credit where credit is due. He honored Kevin's takes on the songs yet, also made them his own. It shows an individual musical voice and also musical integrity, and shows musical and personal character, as well.
Martin is a truly gifted player; not just his hands but, his musical mind, as well. If you have not heard him, and you are into electric guitar, you really must check out his YT channel and watch and listen and hear a voice that is solidly his own.
www.youtube.com/@jaythornhill/videos
All musicians have influences that form and shape their playing but, it is the ability to create a voice of one's own, out of those influences, that sets a musician apart from his peers.
It would certainly be special to perform this material live with Martin, and Janne, too. And a vocalist, as well. I would not even attempt it while playing drums. Janne did an incredible job; one that surprised me song after song but, I won't hold out hope for such an event, all things considered in the current world scenario. Six thousand or more miles is a loooong jump and matters remain outstanding that present lines I will not cross concerning vaccines for travel. I'll tell you, though. While I'm outside riding that mower for two hours, I certainly conjure up a stage or two in my mind that we perform on and it's pretty cool for an old bag o' bones like me.
I feel quite honored and privileged to have Martin and Janne participating in this project and I surely hope we can do it again some time.
Onward>>>
The Prog band idea would have added keyboards to the overall sound, and same for the Fusion group and maybe another instrument, like violin. We knew a fantastic keyboardist/violinist back then. I just wanted to be involved in a band with keyboards.
One of my fantasies back then was to be in a duo, just keyboards and drum set, like a few that existed back in the 60's and 70's; playing a wider variety of genres. Lee Michaels and Frosty always come to mind. I was not really into the Blues but, found the duo sound they created fascinating. It's a reason I love my work with Tom Cranor and Miledge Muzic. Tom has a distinctive voice at the guitar; one I always find interesting an inspiring and our CDs show that influence upon me in my playing in our improvisation format.
I toyed with the idea of rerecording the LEGEND album with a keyboard player but, as I listened to bands in the genre with keyboards, I noticed a very full, if not overloaded soundstage. I decided it just wouldn't work with this music.
It takes a lot for a guitarist to impress me. Their tone is very important to me, which is one of the reasons I loved Al DiMeola, with Return to Forever. I loved the Mahavishnu Orchestra and all but, to my ears, John McLaughlin's tone was horrendous. I can always tell Holdsworth's tone and playing. I consider it the most unique sound in the world of electric guitarists. He left us much too soon. I never understood, on a first listen, what he was playing but, loved his voice. I always feel pretty comfortable with Pat Metheny, too. Wonderful voice and sound. Many others, too, like Wes Montgomery, Joe Beck and Frank Gambale, that have created their own individual paths. *And I edit this to include Jeff Beck, one of my favorites, for sure.
I clicked on an Allan Holdsworth station on Pandora, and putting aside Holdsworth's unique voice, so many of the other bands that Pandora brought up in the rotation had players that do something I have heard all my life and tend to recoil at: the playing of a phrase over and over and over again in a solo. Most musicians do it and aside from drumists, who have so few notes to work with, it's a thing that really hits me wrong when I hear it. I know it's a very emotional thing for the player, in the moment, in a solo. I just hear such repetition as a sonic nuisance almost all the time I hear it. A very subjective reaction, to be sure.
As I listened to the Pandora rotation, it came into my mind I do not think I have ever heard Martin play such a phrase in the over-and-over-again mode. I listened to the solos from all the Revisited songs, and to be certain, I went to his YT channel and listened more and sure enough, if he has done it, I did not hear it in anything I listened to and that may be one of things that drew me to his playing five years ago in thinking about playing at the Keep It True festival. I just truly like Martin's playing. It reminded me of Kevin's. A voice that is his own.
Martin, to me, belongs to an elite group of players that are always imaginative and inventive and always searching for a new place to go on the fretboard. If he repeats a phrase, he seems to have an inner clock that keeps him from playing it more than a bar or two. I just sent him an email to that effect. I want him to know how much I appreciate his musical thinking and activity on this recording. I cannot wait for people to hear what he has done with the songs. I truly believe Kevin would be really impressed. And while I know comparisons will be made between Martin and Kevin, I also believe Martin did something that will silence the mouths of naysayers. He went into this giving musical credit where credit is due. He honored Kevin's takes on the songs yet, also made them his own. It shows an individual musical voice and also musical integrity, and shows musical and personal character, as well.
Martin is a truly gifted player; not just his hands but, his musical mind, as well. If you have not heard him, and you are into electric guitar, you really must check out his YT channel and watch and listen and hear a voice that is solidly his own.
www.youtube.com/@jaythornhill/videos
All musicians have influences that form and shape their playing but, it is the ability to create a voice of one's own, out of those influences, that sets a musician apart from his peers.
It would certainly be special to perform this material live with Martin, and Janne, too. And a vocalist, as well. I would not even attempt it while playing drums. Janne did an incredible job; one that surprised me song after song but, I won't hold out hope for such an event, all things considered in the current world scenario. Six thousand or more miles is a loooong jump and matters remain outstanding that present lines I will not cross concerning vaccines for travel. I'll tell you, though. While I'm outside riding that mower for two hours, I certainly conjure up a stage or two in my mind that we perform on and it's pretty cool for an old bag o' bones like me.
I feel quite honored and privileged to have Martin and Janne participating in this project and I surely hope we can do it again some time.
Onward>>>
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Walsh, Prof. Dave, Logic and Common Sense
You can add true science to that title, as well.
Matt Walsh - political/societal commentator, author, film maker (What is a Woman?), YouTuber, etc.
Professor Dave - teacher (chemistry, physics, biology), YouTuber, etc.
My only exposure to the "Professor" had been through videos by world renown chemist, Dr. James Tour, who engaged videos put out by Dave about videos Tour made on chemical origins.
I happened to see that Matt Walsh also engaged Dave when the "Professor" gave the general public, with his "knack of explaining stuff" his understanding of the transgender subject.
If you know anything about Dave, you know he leads with arrogance, caustic ad hominem attacks, and tremendous disdain for Christianity and Conservatives. If you watched his debate with Tour, you know he'll even attack an audience. Tour pretty much took everything Dave states about chemistry apart, into the pieces of rhetoric Dave throws around with an air of superiority but, always without an ounce of class. He is the epitome of sarcasm in action. Personally, I have never seen anyone like him on YouTube. I suppose they exist but, I have not been exposed to them. Maybe the reporter, Cenk Uygur but, even he comes in a distant second place next to "Professor Dave."
I do not understand why Dave feels the need to be so caustic. It just seems to be a Leftist thing for him. Trust me, I have seen people on the Right also get seriously caustic and ugly. It does discussion no good, at all. It does not help. It is entertaining to certain segments of "the choir" but, turns more people off than can possibly be educated by any truth someone may hold to. Facts and truth are two things not helped by caustic and acidic presentation.
Every once in a while I come across something so saturated with logic and common sense it is just beautiful. It isn't just reasonable, it's obviously true. Not possibly true but, obviously true.
Matt Walsh's response to the opening of Dave's video about transgenderism is one of those moments. It is so razor sharp it is just astoundingly beautiful reasoning on ice. Check it out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Y_V7CgmTg
There was one thing that Dave stated and showed on a slide that Walsh did not comment on but, I will.
Dave considers himself a teacher of sciences. He stated on the slide that society cannot make you gay in the same way that society cannot make you trans. Now, Matt covers that well enough but, what I notice in this discussion is the strange lack of the term "homosexual." If someone can be referred to as a transsexual why are homosexuals always referred to as gay, when gay is not biological term. It is not a scientific term. It is a purely, societal term; a cultural term. Yet, homosexual is rarely used anymore. Why? Why is bisexual used and transsexual used but, homosexual must now be replaced with "gay," when homosexuals are not necessarily "happy" people.
Dave claims 10% of the population is "gay." Last I saw, the number was 1.4%. Where did the jump come from? Society: the culture is changing. It is not changing chromosomally, biologically, scientifically, or through evolutionary movement. Society is changing through rebellion to that which has stood solid for all human history. God created them male and female and designed male to go with female. So, when Dave says liberals should not state gender is a social construct; it is a biological construct, defined by science, there is no true observational, methodical science that shows such a thing, anymore than there is science that establishes a "homosexual gene."
I am not a scientist. I leave that to others but, do not tell me I cannot comment on it because I am not one, anymore than a male doctor cannot comment on female health issues. We can all read and study and draw conclusions on the weight of evidence.
In this case, the weight of evidence is on the side of sound science, logic and common sense. A woman is an adult female. A man is an adult male. No "science, falsely so-called" can change that reality.
Matt Walsh - political/societal commentator, author, film maker (What is a Woman?), YouTuber, etc.
Professor Dave - teacher (chemistry, physics, biology), YouTuber, etc.
My only exposure to the "Professor" had been through videos by world renown chemist, Dr. James Tour, who engaged videos put out by Dave about videos Tour made on chemical origins.
I happened to see that Matt Walsh also engaged Dave when the "Professor" gave the general public, with his "knack of explaining stuff" his understanding of the transgender subject.
If you know anything about Dave, you know he leads with arrogance, caustic ad hominem attacks, and tremendous disdain for Christianity and Conservatives. If you watched his debate with Tour, you know he'll even attack an audience. Tour pretty much took everything Dave states about chemistry apart, into the pieces of rhetoric Dave throws around with an air of superiority but, always without an ounce of class. He is the epitome of sarcasm in action. Personally, I have never seen anyone like him on YouTube. I suppose they exist but, I have not been exposed to them. Maybe the reporter, Cenk Uygur but, even he comes in a distant second place next to "Professor Dave."
I do not understand why Dave feels the need to be so caustic. It just seems to be a Leftist thing for him. Trust me, I have seen people on the Right also get seriously caustic and ugly. It does discussion no good, at all. It does not help. It is entertaining to certain segments of "the choir" but, turns more people off than can possibly be educated by any truth someone may hold to. Facts and truth are two things not helped by caustic and acidic presentation.
Every once in a while I come across something so saturated with logic and common sense it is just beautiful. It isn't just reasonable, it's obviously true. Not possibly true but, obviously true.
Matt Walsh's response to the opening of Dave's video about transgenderism is one of those moments. It is so razor sharp it is just astoundingly beautiful reasoning on ice. Check it out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Y_V7CgmTg
There was one thing that Dave stated and showed on a slide that Walsh did not comment on but, I will.
Dave considers himself a teacher of sciences. He stated on the slide that society cannot make you gay in the same way that society cannot make you trans. Now, Matt covers that well enough but, what I notice in this discussion is the strange lack of the term "homosexual." If someone can be referred to as a transsexual why are homosexuals always referred to as gay, when gay is not biological term. It is not a scientific term. It is a purely, societal term; a cultural term. Yet, homosexual is rarely used anymore. Why? Why is bisexual used and transsexual used but, homosexual must now be replaced with "gay," when homosexuals are not necessarily "happy" people.
Dave claims 10% of the population is "gay." Last I saw, the number was 1.4%. Where did the jump come from? Society: the culture is changing. It is not changing chromosomally, biologically, scientifically, or through evolutionary movement. Society is changing through rebellion to that which has stood solid for all human history. God created them male and female and designed male to go with female. So, when Dave says liberals should not state gender is a social construct; it is a biological construct, defined by science, there is no true observational, methodical science that shows such a thing, anymore than there is science that establishes a "homosexual gene."
I am not a scientist. I leave that to others but, do not tell me I cannot comment on it because I am not one, anymore than a male doctor cannot comment on female health issues. We can all read and study and draw conclusions on the weight of evidence.
In this case, the weight of evidence is on the side of sound science, logic and common sense. A woman is an adult female. A man is an adult male. No "science, falsely so-called" can change that reality.
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816. Il Gesu - 7/29/23
There is a church in Rome, in the neighborhood called, "Argentina," that is one of the most significant churches in the world. It is simply called, Il Gesu. Not many Catholics really know of it today and certainly 99.99% of Protestants/Evangelicals/Fundamentalists don't know of it.
It's full Latin title is - Santissimo Nome di Gesu - the Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. If you look it up you'll find plenty of websites that explain its history and show many pictures of it, outside and inside the building. Rather than my own words, I'll copy and paste several things you'll find about this church.
"When Martin Luther became a menace, the Vatican decided to act and try to halt the spread of his doctrines. The Pope convoked a general assembly of the highest Catholic church representatives in Northern Italy (the Council of Trento), where the main theories and precepts were rejected and the Catholic values were reinforced in many ways.
"The church of Il Gesù is the architectural answer to that famous council, as it’s built with one single central nave (aisle-less), and expands on a central axis, forming a cross, because the worshipers' attention had to be directed to the celebration around the main altar only. This also explains its sober and solemn design. It was all about strengthening the Catholic paradigms as opposed to the new dangerous current of thought.
"The church was built after the request of Ignatius of Loyola, a clergyman proclaimed saint after his death, who was the founder of the order of the Jesuits. The funds came from the cardinal Alessandro Farnese, grandson of Pope Paul III and one of the most influential figures of the time, known as the Great Cardinal. He was actually appointed cardinal by his grandfather when he was only 14, which is a sign of how some families (mainly Borgia and Farnese) used to control the political world of the Vatican."
"On the left hand side, one of the atriums hosts the magnificent altar dedicated to St. Ignacius, rich in gold, and precious stone decorations. The altar includes the funerary monument, and celebrates the life of the saint, offering the experience of an incredibly unique sacred theater.
"In fact, every afternoon, at 17:30, the canvas of the painting goes down, such a stage curtain, and reveals the bronze statue covered in gold depicting St. Ignatius. This magical appearance is accompanied by sacred music and suggestive lighting. The Jesuits were fond of the theatrical representations, considered an effective way to represent the life and works of the saints. This Baroque machine, which was borrowed directly from the theater scene of the times, still works flawlessly."
www.romesightseeing.net/il-gesu/
www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2023/01/counter-reformation-churches-of-rome_02068162752.html
"This Jesuit-built Church in Rome was the first to glorify the Eucharist"
"After the Reformation, Christ incarnate was to be proclaimed as boldly as possible."
"The new church was more inclined to gold than silver. It remains one of the most exuberant expressions of the celestial kaleidoscope that has ever been created. Visitors to St Peter’s and many other impressive churches usually come away with a somber feeling. Il Gesù is a veritable riot. It gladdened the hearts of its congregation as much as it would have appalled a minimalist such as John Calvin. Rome, for Calvin, was already the home of the Antichrist, “an impious and abominable kingdom.” It was a city that didn’t need additional smoke and mirrors. Il Gesù was built as the mother church of the Jesuits, which is what it remains today. Begun in 1568, the project was important enough for Michelangelo to offer his services, reportedly at no charge. Instead, the architect was the less celebrated Giacomo da Vignola. The church started as a large building with a relatively restrained interior. The focus was to be on the altar and the Eucharist. Over the years it has become a showcase for some of the most flamboyant religious art in the Eternal City. The ceiling fresco alone is enough to make visitors gasp. Its unabashed illusionism realistically brings heaven to earth."
aleteia.org/2019/05/31/this-jesuit-built-church-in-rome-was-the-first-to-glorify-the-eucharist/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Ges%C3%B9
Calvin and Luther were but two of dozens of European national Christian leaders who all knew, from Scripture and personal experience and observance, the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican were the Antichrist of Bible prophecy. The Jesuit Order, founded by Loyola, was considered the army of the Pope. Solemn oaths were taken by all its priests, swearing allegiance to the Pope and becoming the absolute enemies of Protestantism; determined to destroy it by any means necessary: the ends justifies the means.
When you look at pictures of the building, you will see at least four statues of entities standing on people. Two outside represent Loyola and Francis Xavier. Inside are enormous statues of the Church represented as women. The people these statues are standing on represent heretics, apostates, Protestants and idolaters: the Roman Catholic Church triumphing over these "menaces" of society. One of them has a Roman emperor kneeling at her feet. Mind you, the church Il Gesu is the Mother Church of the Jesuit Order. Churches all over the world, including America, have been copied and built to exact replicas. As one of the articles states, the Jesuits have been disbanded more than once. Historically they have been thrown out of every country in the world, in some cases more than once, where they have set up their order, except the USA. Mother, whether the Jesuit order or the great Mother of Harlots, is a dangerous entity. It is one of the reasons why Ian Paisley, one of the last true Protestants of Europe to occupy a political seat in the UK (Ireland), could not hold his peace when JP2 spoke before the European Parliament in 1988.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nw3VQQvJRg
"I denounce you, Anti-Christ! I refuse you as Christ's enemy and Antichrist with all your false doctrine"
He was physically removed from the assembly. You can see parliament's reaction to his protest. At one time it would have been completely impossible for a pope to speak before an assembly of representatives from Protestant nations. They are no longer Protestant nations.
"All the world wondered after the beast." Rev. 13:3
As a politician and a preacher, in general, I have little in common with Paisley. He passed away in 2014. And yet, as variable as Protestant churches were throughout the Reformation, they all had in common that one thing. They all saw the Catholic system of religion as Antichrist. Not so, today. What happened?
The Jesuit Order is responsible for the prophetic interpretations known as Preterism and Futurism, held by most professed non-Catholic groups today. Indeed, Protestantism has changed. Not the Vatican.
As I said, there are many sites you can go to, to read about this church edifice and see what is in it. It is absolutely unbelievable and a testimony to Romanism's belief she is a representation of Heaven on Earth, including having a vicar of Christ as its head.
What is she? You decide.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It's full Latin title is - Santissimo Nome di Gesu - the Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. If you look it up you'll find plenty of websites that explain its history and show many pictures of it, outside and inside the building. Rather than my own words, I'll copy and paste several things you'll find about this church.
"When Martin Luther became a menace, the Vatican decided to act and try to halt the spread of his doctrines. The Pope convoked a general assembly of the highest Catholic church representatives in Northern Italy (the Council of Trento), where the main theories and precepts were rejected and the Catholic values were reinforced in many ways.
"The church of Il Gesù is the architectural answer to that famous council, as it’s built with one single central nave (aisle-less), and expands on a central axis, forming a cross, because the worshipers' attention had to be directed to the celebration around the main altar only. This also explains its sober and solemn design. It was all about strengthening the Catholic paradigms as opposed to the new dangerous current of thought.
"The church was built after the request of Ignatius of Loyola, a clergyman proclaimed saint after his death, who was the founder of the order of the Jesuits. The funds came from the cardinal Alessandro Farnese, grandson of Pope Paul III and one of the most influential figures of the time, known as the Great Cardinal. He was actually appointed cardinal by his grandfather when he was only 14, which is a sign of how some families (mainly Borgia and Farnese) used to control the political world of the Vatican."
"On the left hand side, one of the atriums hosts the magnificent altar dedicated to St. Ignacius, rich in gold, and precious stone decorations. The altar includes the funerary monument, and celebrates the life of the saint, offering the experience of an incredibly unique sacred theater.
"In fact, every afternoon, at 17:30, the canvas of the painting goes down, such a stage curtain, and reveals the bronze statue covered in gold depicting St. Ignatius. This magical appearance is accompanied by sacred music and suggestive lighting. The Jesuits were fond of the theatrical representations, considered an effective way to represent the life and works of the saints. This Baroque machine, which was borrowed directly from the theater scene of the times, still works flawlessly."
www.romesightseeing.net/il-gesu/
www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2023/01/counter-reformation-churches-of-rome_02068162752.html
"This Jesuit-built Church in Rome was the first to glorify the Eucharist"
"After the Reformation, Christ incarnate was to be proclaimed as boldly as possible."
"The new church was more inclined to gold than silver. It remains one of the most exuberant expressions of the celestial kaleidoscope that has ever been created. Visitors to St Peter’s and many other impressive churches usually come away with a somber feeling. Il Gesù is a veritable riot. It gladdened the hearts of its congregation as much as it would have appalled a minimalist such as John Calvin. Rome, for Calvin, was already the home of the Antichrist, “an impious and abominable kingdom.” It was a city that didn’t need additional smoke and mirrors. Il Gesù was built as the mother church of the Jesuits, which is what it remains today. Begun in 1568, the project was important enough for Michelangelo to offer his services, reportedly at no charge. Instead, the architect was the less celebrated Giacomo da Vignola. The church started as a large building with a relatively restrained interior. The focus was to be on the altar and the Eucharist. Over the years it has become a showcase for some of the most flamboyant religious art in the Eternal City. The ceiling fresco alone is enough to make visitors gasp. Its unabashed illusionism realistically brings heaven to earth."
aleteia.org/2019/05/31/this-jesuit-built-church-in-rome-was-the-first-to-glorify-the-eucharist/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Ges%C3%B9
Calvin and Luther were but two of dozens of European national Christian leaders who all knew, from Scripture and personal experience and observance, the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican were the Antichrist of Bible prophecy. The Jesuit Order, founded by Loyola, was considered the army of the Pope. Solemn oaths were taken by all its priests, swearing allegiance to the Pope and becoming the absolute enemies of Protestantism; determined to destroy it by any means necessary: the ends justifies the means.
When you look at pictures of the building, you will see at least four statues of entities standing on people. Two outside represent Loyola and Francis Xavier. Inside are enormous statues of the Church represented as women. The people these statues are standing on represent heretics, apostates, Protestants and idolaters: the Roman Catholic Church triumphing over these "menaces" of society. One of them has a Roman emperor kneeling at her feet. Mind you, the church Il Gesu is the Mother Church of the Jesuit Order. Churches all over the world, including America, have been copied and built to exact replicas. As one of the articles states, the Jesuits have been disbanded more than once. Historically they have been thrown out of every country in the world, in some cases more than once, where they have set up their order, except the USA. Mother, whether the Jesuit order or the great Mother of Harlots, is a dangerous entity. It is one of the reasons why Ian Paisley, one of the last true Protestants of Europe to occupy a political seat in the UK (Ireland), could not hold his peace when JP2 spoke before the European Parliament in 1988.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nw3VQQvJRg
"I denounce you, Anti-Christ! I refuse you as Christ's enemy and Antichrist with all your false doctrine"
He was physically removed from the assembly. You can see parliament's reaction to his protest. At one time it would have been completely impossible for a pope to speak before an assembly of representatives from Protestant nations. They are no longer Protestant nations.
"All the world wondered after the beast." Rev. 13:3
As a politician and a preacher, in general, I have little in common with Paisley. He passed away in 2014. And yet, as variable as Protestant churches were throughout the Reformation, they all had in common that one thing. They all saw the Catholic system of religion as Antichrist. Not so, today. What happened?
The Jesuit Order is responsible for the prophetic interpretations known as Preterism and Futurism, held by most professed non-Catholic groups today. Indeed, Protestantism has changed. Not the Vatican.
As I said, there are many sites you can go to, to read about this church edifice and see what is in it. It is absolutely unbelievable and a testimony to Romanism's belief she is a representation of Heaven on Earth, including having a vicar of Christ as its head.
What is she? You decide.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Global Boiling???
www.nationalreview.com/2015/10/climate-change-no-its-not-97-percent-consensus-ian-tuttle/
The controllers are really laying it on thick.
"July is on track to be the hottest month in recorded history, scientists confirmed Thursday, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Earth has moved into an "era of global boiling".
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/un-says-july-hottest-month-141746692.html
From a Texas perspective, I am noticing the local weather station proclamations of daily heat are not what my thermometer says. I HATE HEAT. It literally makes me sick. I had a heat stroke when I was 8 years old. My temp went through the roof and I was given an ice bath to bring it down and I have been opposed to high heat ever since.
What am I doing in Texas? Yeah, tell me about it. That said, it is July in Texas and the heat is a typical high 90's into low triple digits, just like it is most July's here. There is no boiling. There are no people freaking out. We had a couple days in June higher than normal. Other than that, welcome to Texas. I go out to mow the lawn after 7 pm. Still warm to hot but, I'm not melting. Back in the 90's I am told there was a stretch of heat that lasted all Summer, and the temps never dropped below 100, even at night. Nobody was screaming about global boiling back then. It's just a cycle that comes and goes.
Man-made global warming is just a hyped-up, globalist, controller mind-game to put fear in people, and put in place more controls over humanity, including anticipated lockdowns, again. The data is hyped. The useful idiots are screaming, while the controllers are still flying around in private jets, riding around in big cars, and lying through their teeth.
The only thing standing in their way? The world wide web. And they are working feverishly to gain total control of it.
From the second hit on a search of - scientists who deny man-made global warming -
"FORBES OPINION
"'97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong
Alex Epstein
Contributor
"Jan 6, 2015,02:12pm EST
"If you've ever expressed the least bit of skepticism about environmentalist calls for making the vast majority of fossil fuel use illegal, you've probably heard the smug response: “97% of climate scientists agree with climate change” — which always carries the implication: Who are you to challenge them?
"The answer is: you are a thinking, independent individual--and you don’t go by polls, let alone second-hand accounts of polls; you go by facts, logic and explanation.
"Here are two questions to ask anyone who pulls the 97% trick.
"1. What exactly do the climate scientists agree on?
"Usually, the person will have a very vague answer like "climate change is real."
"Which raises the question: What is that supposed to mean? That climate changes? That we have some impact? That we have a large impact? That we have a catastrophically large impact? That we have such a catastrophic impact that we shouldn't use fossil fuels?
"What you'll find is that people don't want to define what 97% agree on--because there is nothing remotely in the literature saying 97% agree we should ban most fossil fuel use.
"It’s likely that 97% of people making the 97% claim have absolutely no idea where that number comes from.
"If you look at the literature, the specific meaning of the 97% claim is: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that there is a global warming trend and that human beings are the main cause--that is, that we are over 50% responsible. The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half."
www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=6a532fc83f9f
I can do this all morning.
www.aei.org/carpe-diem/there-is-no-climate-emergency-say-500-experts-in-letter-to-the-united-nations/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/10/climate-change-no-its-not-97-percent-consensus-ian-tuttle/
If you want to denounce people like me, just call me a "climate denier." That's akin to a "conspiracy theorist."
I am of those who want to know what the 3% who deny man-made global warming have to say. I do not care about the 97% because consensus can be a total political, cultural, agenda-driven hodge-podge of "me too." Talk to scientists down through time who had to stand up to consensus. Probably 99% of scientists believe everything came from nothing - Big Bang and all. Creationists have had an uphill battle to fight for a century. Should they believe all the books, papers and consensus documents, when their creation model works just as well with the evidence, thank you very much?
Nothing much has changed since that article was published in 2015. The polar bears are good, adapting to the current cycle. I am not adapting but, that goes without saying. God forbid I die in this place. Not that it will matter once I'm "asleep." I could be dropped into a volcano and it wouldn't make any difference.
Ah, well, I yearn for mountains, fresh cool breezes and no scorpions, fire ants or gigantic bees, not to mention other crawling critters, like velvet ants, which are flightless wasps who pack a real gun shot if stung. No, I haven't been. I've killed plenty, though, as well as my share of Black Widow spiders.
You do not walk around in bare feet in Texas.
The controllers are really laying it on thick.
"July is on track to be the hottest month in recorded history, scientists confirmed Thursday, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Earth has moved into an "era of global boiling".
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/un-says-july-hottest-month-141746692.html
From a Texas perspective, I am noticing the local weather station proclamations of daily heat are not what my thermometer says. I HATE HEAT. It literally makes me sick. I had a heat stroke when I was 8 years old. My temp went through the roof and I was given an ice bath to bring it down and I have been opposed to high heat ever since.
What am I doing in Texas? Yeah, tell me about it. That said, it is July in Texas and the heat is a typical high 90's into low triple digits, just like it is most July's here. There is no boiling. There are no people freaking out. We had a couple days in June higher than normal. Other than that, welcome to Texas. I go out to mow the lawn after 7 pm. Still warm to hot but, I'm not melting. Back in the 90's I am told there was a stretch of heat that lasted all Summer, and the temps never dropped below 100, even at night. Nobody was screaming about global boiling back then. It's just a cycle that comes and goes.
Man-made global warming is just a hyped-up, globalist, controller mind-game to put fear in people, and put in place more controls over humanity, including anticipated lockdowns, again. The data is hyped. The useful idiots are screaming, while the controllers are still flying around in private jets, riding around in big cars, and lying through their teeth.
The only thing standing in their way? The world wide web. And they are working feverishly to gain total control of it.
From the second hit on a search of - scientists who deny man-made global warming -
"FORBES OPINION
"'97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong
Alex Epstein
Contributor
"Jan 6, 2015,02:12pm EST
"If you've ever expressed the least bit of skepticism about environmentalist calls for making the vast majority of fossil fuel use illegal, you've probably heard the smug response: “97% of climate scientists agree with climate change” — which always carries the implication: Who are you to challenge them?
"The answer is: you are a thinking, independent individual--and you don’t go by polls, let alone second-hand accounts of polls; you go by facts, logic and explanation.
"Here are two questions to ask anyone who pulls the 97% trick.
"1. What exactly do the climate scientists agree on?
"Usually, the person will have a very vague answer like "climate change is real."
"Which raises the question: What is that supposed to mean? That climate changes? That we have some impact? That we have a large impact? That we have a catastrophically large impact? That we have such a catastrophic impact that we shouldn't use fossil fuels?
"What you'll find is that people don't want to define what 97% agree on--because there is nothing remotely in the literature saying 97% agree we should ban most fossil fuel use.
"It’s likely that 97% of people making the 97% claim have absolutely no idea where that number comes from.
"If you look at the literature, the specific meaning of the 97% claim is: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that there is a global warming trend and that human beings are the main cause--that is, that we are over 50% responsible. The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half."
www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=6a532fc83f9f
I can do this all morning.
www.aei.org/carpe-diem/there-is-no-climate-emergency-say-500-experts-in-letter-to-the-united-nations/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/10/climate-change-no-its-not-97-percent-consensus-ian-tuttle/
If you want to denounce people like me, just call me a "climate denier." That's akin to a "conspiracy theorist."
I am of those who want to know what the 3% who deny man-made global warming have to say. I do not care about the 97% because consensus can be a total political, cultural, agenda-driven hodge-podge of "me too." Talk to scientists down through time who had to stand up to consensus. Probably 99% of scientists believe everything came from nothing - Big Bang and all. Creationists have had an uphill battle to fight for a century. Should they believe all the books, papers and consensus documents, when their creation model works just as well with the evidence, thank you very much?
Nothing much has changed since that article was published in 2015. The polar bears are good, adapting to the current cycle. I am not adapting but, that goes without saying. God forbid I die in this place. Not that it will matter once I'm "asleep." I could be dropped into a volcano and it wouldn't make any difference.
Ah, well, I yearn for mountains, fresh cool breezes and no scorpions, fire ants or gigantic bees, not to mention other crawling critters, like velvet ants, which are flightless wasps who pack a real gun shot if stung. No, I haven't been. I've killed plenty, though, as well as my share of Black Widow spiders.
You do not walk around in bare feet in Texas.
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817. Babylon: The Sparkle Creed - July 29, 2023
I mentioned this in passing two or three weeks ago. I received an email about it specifically this week, and while I am rather tired of posting things about this subject; it is my belief that the homosexual plus movement is one of the major signs of the times that Christ is returning; just as He said -
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.
Sodom and Gomorrah were completely controlled by sexual perversion and were living normally, as though everything was just another day of life, when destruction came.
Our society, Western civilization; Judeo/Christian culture is changing, has been changing for decades and ultimately, the Bible states the condition of Sodom shall become the "norm" in the times when Christ returns. We are not there yet but, I would say this. If the homosexual movement ceased being as radically in society's face as it is, it would most certainly gain more acceptance. Not because what the lifestyle is, is alright but, because most people do not like having things shoved into their face. They are willing to live and let live. I am. I am against the sexual practice of homosexuality but, it is not my business nor my concern what people do in the privacy of their own homes. That is God's concern. But when the perversions of the times are spread out like some kind of table with goodies before children, now you generally have brought a fight on, and thereby, the wrath of mankind is kindled. The radical, in your face nature of Leftism causes normal people to recoil. With so much of society supporting sexual perversion as it is, we see the tide changing and the end approaching.
That said, this is a post about Babylonian confusion. I do not suppose anything could be more confused and open to judgment as this: a church in Minnesota that has rewritten the Apostle's Creed to favor its own L-Q+ lifestyle agenda.
I am not an advocate of creeds, per se'. While I do believe in fundamental articles of faith to let people know the foundational things a body of believers do believe in; turning things into prayers? No. That said, here is the original Apostle's Creed, which had nothing to do with the Apostles, themselves. It is just a twelve point take on what the Latin church of the 4th or 5th century assembled for a declaration of faith.
“I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.”
I take issue with some things in the creed, biblically speaking but, that is not the point of this post. The creed, as developed by the Edina Community Lutheran Church of Minneapolis, is the "Sparkle Creed." It goes like this -
“I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God. I believe in the rainbow Spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity, I believe in the church of everyday saints as numerous, creative and resilient as patches on the AIDS quilt, whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in wonder. I believe in the call to each of us that love is love is love, so beloved, let us love. I believe, glorious God. Help my unbelief.”
Needless to say the only thing in that creed that bears any resemblance to truth and biblical faith is the quote from the man with the demon possessed son - "Lord, I believe. Help Thou mine unbelief." Mark 9:29
Anyone, any group can make up whatever prayer they want, whatever statement of belief they want. To make a statement of belief like that, would have brought down serious rebukes from the Apostles, after they picked their jaws up off the ground. If this kind of thinking does not reverse, the judgment of God is all that awaits.
We live in an age of confusion so profound and blinding it seems impossible to have such things associated, openly associated with the Christian faith: life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, His apostles and disciples that make up the New Testament.
We are approaching the times of the final moments of human history in the days of Noah and Lot.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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.
Sodom and Gomorrah were completely controlled by sexual perversion and were living normally, as though everything was just another day of life, when destruction came.
Our society, Western civilization; Judeo/Christian culture is changing, has been changing for decades and ultimately, the Bible states the condition of Sodom shall become the "norm" in the times when Christ returns. We are not there yet but, I would say this. If the homosexual movement ceased being as radically in society's face as it is, it would most certainly gain more acceptance. Not because what the lifestyle is, is alright but, because most people do not like having things shoved into their face. They are willing to live and let live. I am. I am against the sexual practice of homosexuality but, it is not my business nor my concern what people do in the privacy of their own homes. That is God's concern. But when the perversions of the times are spread out like some kind of table with goodies before children, now you generally have brought a fight on, and thereby, the wrath of mankind is kindled. The radical, in your face nature of Leftism causes normal people to recoil. With so much of society supporting sexual perversion as it is, we see the tide changing and the end approaching.
That said, this is a post about Babylonian confusion. I do not suppose anything could be more confused and open to judgment as this: a church in Minnesota that has rewritten the Apostle's Creed to favor its own L-Q+ lifestyle agenda.
I am not an advocate of creeds, per se'. While I do believe in fundamental articles of faith to let people know the foundational things a body of believers do believe in; turning things into prayers? No. That said, here is the original Apostle's Creed, which had nothing to do with the Apostles, themselves. It is just a twelve point take on what the Latin church of the 4th or 5th century assembled for a declaration of faith.
“I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.”
I take issue with some things in the creed, biblically speaking but, that is not the point of this post. The creed, as developed by the Edina Community Lutheran Church of Minneapolis, is the "Sparkle Creed." It goes like this -
“I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God. I believe in the rainbow Spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity, I believe in the church of everyday saints as numerous, creative and resilient as patches on the AIDS quilt, whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in wonder. I believe in the call to each of us that love is love is love, so beloved, let us love. I believe, glorious God. Help my unbelief.”
Needless to say the only thing in that creed that bears any resemblance to truth and biblical faith is the quote from the man with the demon possessed son - "Lord, I believe. Help Thou mine unbelief." Mark 9:29
Anyone, any group can make up whatever prayer they want, whatever statement of belief they want. To make a statement of belief like that, would have brought down serious rebukes from the Apostles, after they picked their jaws up off the ground. If this kind of thinking does not reverse, the judgment of God is all that awaits.
We live in an age of confusion so profound and blinding it seems impossible to have such things associated, openly associated with the Christian faith: life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, His apostles and disciples that make up the New Testament.
We are approaching the times of the final moments of human history in the days of Noah and Lot.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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818. Christian Rock? Part 2 - July 30, 2023
In Part 1 of this subject I looked at the question of LEGEND being or becoming a Christian Rock band because Revisited has biblical lyrics in a Christian worldview. My answer was No, simply because I do not believe there is such a thing as Christian Rock music, nor Christian Metal, nor Christian Classical, Folk or Jazz, or any other genre of music save for Hymnody, a form of music that is decidedly Christian.
The religious faith of Christianity had nothing to do with the entrance of Rock and Roll music, nor the fanning out of other genres from it. Professed Christians may have or did take part in the recording or performance of the music but, not in the invention of it.
Christian Rock, then, seems to refer to the message contained in the lyrics, as with Christian Metal and all the sub-genres contained. I have a question.
How many genres of Rock music are there? In doing a search, the first hit rendered this list -
Interestingly enough, Christian Rock is not on that list. Each item on that list refers to a type of sound each genre has. Glam and Gothic could also include a look: clothing, hair styles, etc. For the most part, though, sound is the objective.
If you go to Wiki for a list, it's alphabetically organized and contains hundreds, literally, of sub-genres. I had never heard of, probably most of them. With "Christian" in the title the list includes -
In the case of sound, none of those genres contribute any kind of alternative sound to their genres. They are substantially the same sounds as their secular counterparts. The only difference is the inclusion of some kind of Christian worldview/lyrical nature.
When I see Viking Rock I'll imagine it has a sound but, more a message about Viking culture. The same for other such genres. I even saw one called Rock Against Communism. ??? It has messages of White supremacy and such. It's sound though, for both genres, is pretty much the same.
Here I find myself asking, How does one know the band is Christian? Obviously, if the reason is the nature of the lyrics, one should be able to understand them when they are sung, Yes? That is logical. Good luck with that. Seriously. Without a lyric sheet I would challenge most people to tell me what is being stated without one, upon a first listen or subsequent listens. I am determined to have the lyrics understood in this current project and let me tell you, it is not easy when the human voice is in the same frequency range as electric guitars, especially rhythm guitar work. My cousin heard some rough mixes and said he hoped there was a lyric sheet. Mixing down the songs with processing reveals more distinction of voice but, in this sound, this music, calling something Christian better have the same understanding of words sung as in Hymnody or it is a futile heading to call it Christian. The religious faith of Christianity is BASED on the Word of God; written, spoken and proclaimed. If that standard cannot be met, calling something Christian, something based on Jesus Christ and His teachings, is rather ridiculous, if not hypocritical. That is why I refuse any heading as LEGEND Revisited being called Christian Rock. The album cover, the lyrics, dozens of Bible verses included in the record jacket for anyone who wants the background of the lyrics will be available but, that has nothing to do with the music, itself. Rock is a music genre based on sound. Christianity had nothing to do with it and in 70 years has not added anything to its sound.
Generally speaking, if you want to understand what is being sung, CCM: Contemporary Christian Music would be the category of artists and bands that will afford a lighter feel, musically, so the lyrics are not as challenged. Unfortunately, as many have pointed out over the years, CCM is pretty light on theology and message, as well.
One of the interesting things I noticed on both lists is the inclusion of Folk Rock but, not Country Rock, which is an enormous industry and genre. Country music never had drums and electric guitars and bass. That all came about when Rock music began to get infused throughout American culture. As big as it is, it is not listed. Odd, indeed. As far as a money making industry it eclipses 90% of all the Rock genres listed, together; especially the Wiki list.
What is the naked truth of this subject? It will not make my position popular but, I'm used to that. Such is life. The truth is, young people enamored with the sound of Rock music wanted to copy it and put some words to it, to legitimize it somehow, and called it Christian Rock. They did not want to turn off any listeners so the words were either weak and banal or not understood in the wake of the sound. An early artist who challenged that was John Michael Talbot, as well as his brother, Terry Talbot. Terry basically left the scene and John Michael became a Catholic monk which altered his sound dramatically. Another artist who put the sound together with great proclamation of the words is Craig Smith. Keith Green was very influential but, passed away early in his life. There were others, serious musicians and lyricists but, in no way was an entire genre formed around them and certainly not -
Enter CCM. I absolutely reject the notion Larry Norman was the beginning of that industry. Far from it. It more completely came into being in the late 80's and 90's. But CCM in many cases, from the statements of people in it, basically dropped the ball for the sake of money, popularity, awards and all the rest the secular world of music has to offer, and it remains that way with the same general cryptic lyrics preaching to the choir who know whom "He," 'Him" and "His" refer to. For many, CCM is dead; at best, hanging on by a thread. That is stated succinctly here -
"Paradoxically, it was the success of Christian music that led to its failure. The industrialisation that managed people’s demands for Christian music ended up being the cause of its own demise.
"In the 90s, sales of Christian music albums exceeded those of classical, jazz and new age music. Supply could not keep up with demand. Record companies had to keep signing bands, just to keep the machinery of business going, feeding the playlists of Christian radio stations in the USA with new material. In the rush to sign new acts, labels became less discerning about who to back. Bands with little character or talent found themselves being snapped up by the industry.
"Not only did this increased supply inevitably mean lower quality, but the need for predictable sounds to fill the specific styles of those shows meant that Christian music gradually became part of a commercial monster that was unable to cope with creativity. And with secular labels dictating content, the desire to impact the surrounding culture for Christ faded away. Instead of being on the cutting edge and pushing creative boundaries in the way Larry Norman did, CCM turned in on itself and became safe."
www.premierchristianity.com/home/50-years-of-ccm-why-the-glory-days-of-christian-music-are-over/914.article
Now, don't get all up in my face with examples of CCM bands and artists with actually meaningful lyrics. I know they exist. Frankly, they are not the artists keeping the industry afloat, if it still is. I never followed its artists at large. Some would say and have, that CCM has been a non-influential medium for a long time now. It's just the secular music world-lite. In the case of "Christian" Metal... if biblical principle is the undergirding of it all, well...I leave it before the judgment seat of Christ to determine if something represents Him as the Word states should be done. I have written on this on my website at length. No need to repeat everything here and this post is not about that. It is but, more, it is about sound. Christianity had nothing to do with the inception of American Rock and Roll or early Rock music; certainly not the British Invasion. The entire Rock industry became one infused with addictions to alcohol, drugs and promiscuous sex. No sense of Christianity could be connected to that.
Larry Norman came along and asked, "Why should the Devil have all the good music?" The statement is an oxymoron in and of itself. Now, half a century later, the basic Rock genre - electric instruments and drum set - is ubiquitous in all cultures around the world. The verbal and written wars about it and the Church remain, weakened by time but, it is still there and will probably fade to non-existence with the passing of my generation. I am not one who sees drums as part of typical worship music or, even atypical music, especially in buildings without the size and acoustics to address the volume. Enter Electronic drums. I've used them.
I try to live within the bounds of principle. People are free to call music whatever they want. If they call music Christian for sales reasons, there is a God or mammon issue. If they call it Christian for reasons of categorization but, it fails to proclaim the Gospel in as solidly a manner as the Bible, it fails of its connection to its categorization. It can then be criticized and even condemned for being "worldly," if not "backslidden" or outright apostasy from truth. Just because it is entertainment, if you call it by the name of Christ, no one is free from proclaiming Him with the same words and teachings He, His apostles and disciples used, at least in open principle, not veiled language so as not to turn anyone off. Can't get too "preachy." And who says that? God? Not.
LEGEND Revisited - From the Lord is not a Christian Rock production. The lyrics state what they do, and I do not shy away from the truth. I have no reason to. The music remains a multi-genre, power trio-type; combinations of melody, harmony and rhythm. The message is a biblical one; a biblical worldview. What, will a genre called Bible Rock hit the lists? God forbid. If people, musicians and bands allow themselves to be categorized they'll be judged by those categorizations as God views things, not just mankind.
I learned that Christian Metal is also called White Metal or Heavenly Metal. If I'm wrong, I'll find out but, no such sound shall be heard in Heaven. It's a sound akin to the fallen human sphere of "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." We are all transgressors of God's law and will and calling any sound Christian, trying to squeeze the biblical image of Jesus Christ into it for categorization's sake is but a futile attempt to be legitimate in the world's eyes. Hymnody never sought recognition as a legitimate genre. It just developed from traditional music styles that existed and became its own force in music.
If professed Christian musicians want to play any genre of modern music, that is their choice. Calling it Christian? Think deeply on that before you dig a hole you'll not get out of.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The religious faith of Christianity had nothing to do with the entrance of Rock and Roll music, nor the fanning out of other genres from it. Professed Christians may have or did take part in the recording or performance of the music but, not in the invention of it.
Christian Rock, then, seems to refer to the message contained in the lyrics, as with Christian Metal and all the sub-genres contained. I have a question.
How many genres of Rock music are there? In doing a search, the first hit rendered this list -
- Alternative Rock
- Rock n Roll
- Blues Rock
- Indie Rock
- Punk Rock
- Psychedelic Rock
- Glam Rock
- Folk Rock
- Garage Rock
- Electronic Rock
- Instrumental Rock
- Jazz Rock
- Gothic Rock
- Jam Rock
- Geek Rock
- Classic Rock
Interestingly enough, Christian Rock is not on that list. Each item on that list refers to a type of sound each genre has. Glam and Gothic could also include a look: clothing, hair styles, etc. For the most part, though, sound is the objective.
If you go to Wiki for a list, it's alphabetically organized and contains hundreds, literally, of sub-genres. I had never heard of, probably most of them. With "Christian" in the title the list includes -
In the case of sound, none of those genres contribute any kind of alternative sound to their genres. They are substantially the same sounds as their secular counterparts. The only difference is the inclusion of some kind of Christian worldview/lyrical nature.
When I see Viking Rock I'll imagine it has a sound but, more a message about Viking culture. The same for other such genres. I even saw one called Rock Against Communism. ??? It has messages of White supremacy and such. It's sound though, for both genres, is pretty much the same.
Here I find myself asking, How does one know the band is Christian? Obviously, if the reason is the nature of the lyrics, one should be able to understand them when they are sung, Yes? That is logical. Good luck with that. Seriously. Without a lyric sheet I would challenge most people to tell me what is being stated without one, upon a first listen or subsequent listens. I am determined to have the lyrics understood in this current project and let me tell you, it is not easy when the human voice is in the same frequency range as electric guitars, especially rhythm guitar work. My cousin heard some rough mixes and said he hoped there was a lyric sheet. Mixing down the songs with processing reveals more distinction of voice but, in this sound, this music, calling something Christian better have the same understanding of words sung as in Hymnody or it is a futile heading to call it Christian. The religious faith of Christianity is BASED on the Word of God; written, spoken and proclaimed. If that standard cannot be met, calling something Christian, something based on Jesus Christ and His teachings, is rather ridiculous, if not hypocritical. That is why I refuse any heading as LEGEND Revisited being called Christian Rock. The album cover, the lyrics, dozens of Bible verses included in the record jacket for anyone who wants the background of the lyrics will be available but, that has nothing to do with the music, itself. Rock is a music genre based on sound. Christianity had nothing to do with it and in 70 years has not added anything to its sound.
Generally speaking, if you want to understand what is being sung, CCM: Contemporary Christian Music would be the category of artists and bands that will afford a lighter feel, musically, so the lyrics are not as challenged. Unfortunately, as many have pointed out over the years, CCM is pretty light on theology and message, as well.
One of the interesting things I noticed on both lists is the inclusion of Folk Rock but, not Country Rock, which is an enormous industry and genre. Country music never had drums and electric guitars and bass. That all came about when Rock music began to get infused throughout American culture. As big as it is, it is not listed. Odd, indeed. As far as a money making industry it eclipses 90% of all the Rock genres listed, together; especially the Wiki list.
What is the naked truth of this subject? It will not make my position popular but, I'm used to that. Such is life. The truth is, young people enamored with the sound of Rock music wanted to copy it and put some words to it, to legitimize it somehow, and called it Christian Rock. They did not want to turn off any listeners so the words were either weak and banal or not understood in the wake of the sound. An early artist who challenged that was John Michael Talbot, as well as his brother, Terry Talbot. Terry basically left the scene and John Michael became a Catholic monk which altered his sound dramatically. Another artist who put the sound together with great proclamation of the words is Craig Smith. Keith Green was very influential but, passed away early in his life. There were others, serious musicians and lyricists but, in no way was an entire genre formed around them and certainly not -
Enter CCM. I absolutely reject the notion Larry Norman was the beginning of that industry. Far from it. It more completely came into being in the late 80's and 90's. But CCM in many cases, from the statements of people in it, basically dropped the ball for the sake of money, popularity, awards and all the rest the secular world of music has to offer, and it remains that way with the same general cryptic lyrics preaching to the choir who know whom "He," 'Him" and "His" refer to. For many, CCM is dead; at best, hanging on by a thread. That is stated succinctly here -
"Paradoxically, it was the success of Christian music that led to its failure. The industrialisation that managed people’s demands for Christian music ended up being the cause of its own demise.
"In the 90s, sales of Christian music albums exceeded those of classical, jazz and new age music. Supply could not keep up with demand. Record companies had to keep signing bands, just to keep the machinery of business going, feeding the playlists of Christian radio stations in the USA with new material. In the rush to sign new acts, labels became less discerning about who to back. Bands with little character or talent found themselves being snapped up by the industry.
"Not only did this increased supply inevitably mean lower quality, but the need for predictable sounds to fill the specific styles of those shows meant that Christian music gradually became part of a commercial monster that was unable to cope with creativity. And with secular labels dictating content, the desire to impact the surrounding culture for Christ faded away. Instead of being on the cutting edge and pushing creative boundaries in the way Larry Norman did, CCM turned in on itself and became safe."
www.premierchristianity.com/home/50-years-of-ccm-why-the-glory-days-of-christian-music-are-over/914.article
Now, don't get all up in my face with examples of CCM bands and artists with actually meaningful lyrics. I know they exist. Frankly, they are not the artists keeping the industry afloat, if it still is. I never followed its artists at large. Some would say and have, that CCM has been a non-influential medium for a long time now. It's just the secular music world-lite. In the case of "Christian" Metal... if biblical principle is the undergirding of it all, well...I leave it before the judgment seat of Christ to determine if something represents Him as the Word states should be done. I have written on this on my website at length. No need to repeat everything here and this post is not about that. It is but, more, it is about sound. Christianity had nothing to do with the inception of American Rock and Roll or early Rock music; certainly not the British Invasion. The entire Rock industry became one infused with addictions to alcohol, drugs and promiscuous sex. No sense of Christianity could be connected to that.
Larry Norman came along and asked, "Why should the Devil have all the good music?" The statement is an oxymoron in and of itself. Now, half a century later, the basic Rock genre - electric instruments and drum set - is ubiquitous in all cultures around the world. The verbal and written wars about it and the Church remain, weakened by time but, it is still there and will probably fade to non-existence with the passing of my generation. I am not one who sees drums as part of typical worship music or, even atypical music, especially in buildings without the size and acoustics to address the volume. Enter Electronic drums. I've used them.
I try to live within the bounds of principle. People are free to call music whatever they want. If they call music Christian for sales reasons, there is a God or mammon issue. If they call it Christian for reasons of categorization but, it fails to proclaim the Gospel in as solidly a manner as the Bible, it fails of its connection to its categorization. It can then be criticized and even condemned for being "worldly," if not "backslidden" or outright apostasy from truth. Just because it is entertainment, if you call it by the name of Christ, no one is free from proclaiming Him with the same words and teachings He, His apostles and disciples used, at least in open principle, not veiled language so as not to turn anyone off. Can't get too "preachy." And who says that? God? Not.
LEGEND Revisited - From the Lord is not a Christian Rock production. The lyrics state what they do, and I do not shy away from the truth. I have no reason to. The music remains a multi-genre, power trio-type; combinations of melody, harmony and rhythm. The message is a biblical one; a biblical worldview. What, will a genre called Bible Rock hit the lists? God forbid. If people, musicians and bands allow themselves to be categorized they'll be judged by those categorizations as God views things, not just mankind.
I learned that Christian Metal is also called White Metal or Heavenly Metal. If I'm wrong, I'll find out but, no such sound shall be heard in Heaven. It's a sound akin to the fallen human sphere of "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." We are all transgressors of God's law and will and calling any sound Christian, trying to squeeze the biblical image of Jesus Christ into it for categorization's sake is but a futile attempt to be legitimate in the world's eyes. Hymnody never sought recognition as a legitimate genre. It just developed from traditional music styles that existed and became its own force in music.
If professed Christian musicians want to play any genre of modern music, that is their choice. Calling it Christian? Think deeply on that before you dig a hole you'll not get out of.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Bassists Extraordinaire!
Well, I simply had to share these videos. 2.3 million people have watched the first one thus far and to me, every musician on the planet should check these out. There are lessons here for drumists.
Every musician in civilization knows YouTube is a treasure trove of crazy instruments and even crazier musicians who play them. You could literally spends weeks, maybe months hunting down all musical uniqueness on that platform.
When I was young, Jack Bruce was bass royalty. John Paul Jones' masterful style; John Entwistle's unique sound and technique; Chris Squire's unmistakable Rickenbacker on the Classical Rock mountain; Geddy Lee and others as Prog developed; and of course, Larry Graham's slapping influence into the early 70's Fusion explosion and bassists who took the instrument to another level: Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Percy Jones, and many others and then came Victor Wooten who stopped clocks in every direction as he made the bass, not just an instrument of note, as did Jaco but, turned it into a musical playground and circus act. To this day his playing still astounds and has led to a mountain range of players, so many unknown, save for their YouTube channels, who do absolutely phenomenal things.
I first came upon Davey504 by accident and from there his interactions with Charles Berthoud were classic bass showdowns and both have showcased many players on their channels from around the world.
I just watched Charles' challenge from two years ago, then his challenge from one year ago. Just jaw dropping players, and the few who entered the challenge with guitar, piano and wind synth certainly showed no lack of technique and style.
I remember Fred playing his fretless, when few players back then even heard of the instrument, save for Jazz players on acoustic standup (which Fred also played and gave him talent to fly on an electric fretless). Fred is still an amazing player. It was just a joy to play with him back in LEGEND.
Check out these videos if you have not seen them. You will be highly impressed, even if a bass guitar is not your thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN0cg1HBVoY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXRz14m4Sc
And I'll throw in this mindblower, as well -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=losXjlEseO4
Every musician in civilization knows YouTube is a treasure trove of crazy instruments and even crazier musicians who play them. You could literally spends weeks, maybe months hunting down all musical uniqueness on that platform.
When I was young, Jack Bruce was bass royalty. John Paul Jones' masterful style; John Entwistle's unique sound and technique; Chris Squire's unmistakable Rickenbacker on the Classical Rock mountain; Geddy Lee and others as Prog developed; and of course, Larry Graham's slapping influence into the early 70's Fusion explosion and bassists who took the instrument to another level: Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Percy Jones, and many others and then came Victor Wooten who stopped clocks in every direction as he made the bass, not just an instrument of note, as did Jaco but, turned it into a musical playground and circus act. To this day his playing still astounds and has led to a mountain range of players, so many unknown, save for their YouTube channels, who do absolutely phenomenal things.
I first came upon Davey504 by accident and from there his interactions with Charles Berthoud were classic bass showdowns and both have showcased many players on their channels from around the world.
I just watched Charles' challenge from two years ago, then his challenge from one year ago. Just jaw dropping players, and the few who entered the challenge with guitar, piano and wind synth certainly showed no lack of technique and style.
I remember Fred playing his fretless, when few players back then even heard of the instrument, save for Jazz players on acoustic standup (which Fred also played and gave him talent to fly on an electric fretless). Fred is still an amazing player. It was just a joy to play with him back in LEGEND.
Check out these videos if you have not seen them. You will be highly impressed, even if a bass guitar is not your thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN0cg1HBVoY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXRz14m4Sc
And I'll throw in this mindblower, as well -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=losXjlEseO4
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This Guy is Just Nuts
A young guy named Marcin Patrzalek, from Poland, performed on America's Got Talent a few years ago now. I saw him via the side bar on YouTube. You don't see many solo musicians perform on that program. I know some violinists, pianists, and others have been on that stage. I just watched, again, by accident, one of the most incredible acoustic guitarists I have ever seen handle the instrument. He's using pickups to capture every tap, strum, and drum and you will almost believe you are watching some kind of camera trickery. This kid is astoundingly good and Poland has itself a true star. I have seen acoustic tap and drum players before. It's a true artform. This guy is just nuts with it. He's a one man band -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzBKlcYaKNg&t=0s
In the world of music and musicians people become so enamored with well known players and all the "best" lists and polls, when time and time again the world wide web shows us there is no best because there is always someone out there, virtually unknown, nowhere near a household name, that can perform rings around the most well-known artists on any instrument.
Marcin has quite a following now; subscribers and views of that video and time can only take him farther with the talents he's been given.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtTfjq7CyU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzBKlcYaKNg&t=0s
In the world of music and musicians people become so enamored with well known players and all the "best" lists and polls, when time and time again the world wide web shows us there is no best because there is always someone out there, virtually unknown, nowhere near a household name, that can perform rings around the most well-known artists on any instrument.
Marcin has quite a following now; subscribers and views of that video and time can only take him farther with the talents he's been given.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtTfjq7CyU
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Bukhchuluun Ganburged
Back in the 1970's I remember seeing Seals and Crofts on one of those Live-in Concert/Don Kirshner's Rock Concert-type tv shows. Jimmy Seals did a sample of two-tone throat singing. It was fascinating. I never forgot it, and never saw anyone else do it since that evening.
Well, once again, I just saw something in the YouTube sidebar about the singer/performer, Bukhchu. The title of the video did not mention his name. The title of the video is - 'Most UNBELIEVABLE Blind Audition you've EVER seen.' It was The Voice Global channel. An audition that turned around all four chairs in literally seconds. Mind you, all four chairs turned around BEFORE the man started his two-tone throat singing.
When he finished his song, an absolute eruption from silence took place. The four judges stood, the audience ovation was explosive, and that humble man, talented at a world class level was asked by all four judges to be on their "team." They were completely blown away by the guy. He chose someone named Guy. No idea who he is. It is the Australian version of the program. It was a choice that doomed Bakhchu.
The next thing you see is the part of the competition; apparently the phase called the "battles." Two team members face-off in one song chosen by the team leader. In this case, Guy. I proceeded to watch one of the most unique musicians I have ever seen and heard get burned, and burned badly. I am not a watcher of The Voice. I have seen some YT videos of it, and seen a show or two on tv, in passing. No doubt, very talented people perform. In the program segment leading up to the battle, it was obvious as a train wreck Bukhchu was not comfortable with the song chosen by Guy; a Michael Jackson song. The young man Bukhchu was paired with, Johnny Manuel, has a tremendous voice. That cannot be argued. When the battle ended up being a duo, with Bukhchu basically providing some back-up for the other singer, as nice as the total piece was, the train wreck that took place was what was 'unbelievable;' and two judges made their opinions known right off the bat when asked what they thought.
Guy, ignorantly, trying to be artsy, set that poor man up to lose. Absolutely, negatively, threw him off a cliff. Guy shot himself in the foot when he asked the judges, 'Did you all turn around because of the way Bukhchu sang?' That answer was, YES!!! They all turned around BEFORE Bakhchu got into his throat singing. The man has a really good voice; completely in harmony with playing his instrument and doing the throat singing. It was an exceptional moment that brought the house to silence; complete silence until he finished.
Bukhchu stood there, along with the other singer, watching the judges go back and forth with their disagreements. When the host asked Bukhchu if he felt the battle was unfair, you could see a billboard written on the man's face the answer was, Yes, but, being the humble, gracious man he is, he said, 'I don't know.'
Guy had to make a choice and the obvious choice was the other singer and Bukhchu was done. I sat their in shock that this multi-talented man that could easily be a world-renowned performer, and should be, was given a bomb to carry to his end, while the team "leader" tried to justify has actions; failing miserably.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzP4nTNtcDc
Well, the only logical thing to do was do a search for Bukhchu and see what YT listed. I found a TedEx video, where Bukhchu plays for a larger audience in Sydney and it is 6 minutes of gorgeous, unique, other worldly sound. It took place six years before The Voice debacle. At least the man got some exposure on it. And to top it off, he asked that the audience to applaud for the house band that played behind the battle. Talk about character.
Here, it is just him and he does a wonderful job; even involving the entire audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0v0pT9flo
He has his own YT channel, where he teaches throat singing and playing the horse fiddle and also performs. The man is just an incredible human being. Even if this sound and type of music is not your thing, you should hear this fine and articulate musician. What he does is stunning.
www.youtube.com/@horsefiddle/videos
And to show what the man can do, he does a solo version of The Earth Song, the song that did him in on The Voice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYvXEZ7xtc
And make sure you check out his version of 'Hallelujah.' It is impeccable.
I cannot say enough good things about this man. Check him out.
Well, once again, I just saw something in the YouTube sidebar about the singer/performer, Bukhchu. The title of the video did not mention his name. The title of the video is - 'Most UNBELIEVABLE Blind Audition you've EVER seen.' It was The Voice Global channel. An audition that turned around all four chairs in literally seconds. Mind you, all four chairs turned around BEFORE the man started his two-tone throat singing.
When he finished his song, an absolute eruption from silence took place. The four judges stood, the audience ovation was explosive, and that humble man, talented at a world class level was asked by all four judges to be on their "team." They were completely blown away by the guy. He chose someone named Guy. No idea who he is. It is the Australian version of the program. It was a choice that doomed Bakhchu.
The next thing you see is the part of the competition; apparently the phase called the "battles." Two team members face-off in one song chosen by the team leader. In this case, Guy. I proceeded to watch one of the most unique musicians I have ever seen and heard get burned, and burned badly. I am not a watcher of The Voice. I have seen some YT videos of it, and seen a show or two on tv, in passing. No doubt, very talented people perform. In the program segment leading up to the battle, it was obvious as a train wreck Bukhchu was not comfortable with the song chosen by Guy; a Michael Jackson song. The young man Bukhchu was paired with, Johnny Manuel, has a tremendous voice. That cannot be argued. When the battle ended up being a duo, with Bukhchu basically providing some back-up for the other singer, as nice as the total piece was, the train wreck that took place was what was 'unbelievable;' and two judges made their opinions known right off the bat when asked what they thought.
Guy, ignorantly, trying to be artsy, set that poor man up to lose. Absolutely, negatively, threw him off a cliff. Guy shot himself in the foot when he asked the judges, 'Did you all turn around because of the way Bukhchu sang?' That answer was, YES!!! They all turned around BEFORE Bakhchu got into his throat singing. The man has a really good voice; completely in harmony with playing his instrument and doing the throat singing. It was an exceptional moment that brought the house to silence; complete silence until he finished.
Bukhchu stood there, along with the other singer, watching the judges go back and forth with their disagreements. When the host asked Bukhchu if he felt the battle was unfair, you could see a billboard written on the man's face the answer was, Yes, but, being the humble, gracious man he is, he said, 'I don't know.'
Guy had to make a choice and the obvious choice was the other singer and Bukhchu was done. I sat their in shock that this multi-talented man that could easily be a world-renowned performer, and should be, was given a bomb to carry to his end, while the team "leader" tried to justify has actions; failing miserably.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzP4nTNtcDc
Well, the only logical thing to do was do a search for Bukhchu and see what YT listed. I found a TedEx video, where Bukhchu plays for a larger audience in Sydney and it is 6 minutes of gorgeous, unique, other worldly sound. It took place six years before The Voice debacle. At least the man got some exposure on it. And to top it off, he asked that the audience to applaud for the house band that played behind the battle. Talk about character.
Here, it is just him and he does a wonderful job; even involving the entire audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0v0pT9flo
He has his own YT channel, where he teaches throat singing and playing the horse fiddle and also performs. The man is just an incredible human being. Even if this sound and type of music is not your thing, you should hear this fine and articulate musician. What he does is stunning.
www.youtube.com/@horsefiddle/videos
And to show what the man can do, he does a solo version of The Earth Song, the song that did him in on The Voice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYvXEZ7xtc
And make sure you check out his version of 'Hallelujah.' It is impeccable.
I cannot say enough good things about this man. Check him out.
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Get Trump! No Matter What!
I didn't think I would post anything about the Trump indictment. The obvious nature of this witch hunt is so outrageously glaring and egregious even some Democrats have grown weary of all this 'Get Trump No matter What' gig.
The only real danger for Trump is a corrupt, activist, Trump-hating judge. Otherwise the indictment, like everything else thrown at the man, is going to fail, spectacularly, because there is no evidence, not even a premise but an old law from the early 20th century that even then will not apply under scrutiny.
I have posted here that radical Leftists have a mental illness. I have seen that opinion elsewhere, well before it made sense to me by constant observation. Something is not wired correctly in them and they operate almost solely on emotions, lack common sense; and principle just flies away as they attack in any and all forms they can muster; to achieve a goal they cannot see failure involved, until they fail. Rather than learn, they just move on to something else, driven by out of control emotions. The hatred for Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. is an unprecedented mental illness that has no merit or practical application to running a nation for the good of its citizenry.
Democrats and by stealth and cowardice, some Republicans, hope to accomplish anything to see to it Trump cannot run for POTUS in 2024. If they can somehow, some way make him a convicted felon, the Constitution they have no use for, generally, will keep Trump off the ballot.
These poor souls, so devoid of honor and integrity, are showing their true characters to the entire planetary populace taking the time to watch their carnival in action. Those in league with these scoundrels have the same intent: keep Trump out of international politics and dealings. Those who have seen America as a place everybody on the globe is trying to get to, look at everything happening in this nation with a mentally feeble, criminal charlatan in power and wonder if going to America is worth any risks or sacrifices to get here.
If the trial, the judge, allows things to proceed honestly; Trump gets the chance to place before the world all the evidence that caused his loss at the hands of fraud and criminal activity caught on video, seen in expert examination of analytical data and the open testimony of the same. He's being charged with trying to overthrow an election. Do these people realize how stupid they are? He should be allowed to show why he showed information that back his position. The Democrats overthrew the election with fraud and criminal activity.
Here's the thing, though. The corruption is now so deep and wide and the unbridled hatred so keen, these wicked people have no reason or intention of holding a fair trial. Why? Their goal must be achieved and they are running out of time. Lie, cheat, fabricate; whatever must be done now.
Obviously, Trump has sharp attorneys and given the chance they will defeat this atrocity of so-called justice. I'll still pray God intervenes. Not that I am a Trump fan, per se.' I just hate dishonesty and corruption and hope it is soundly defeated and relegated to one of the most sour and contemptible times in American history; with no further damage to the Republic.
From the viewpoint of a Christian, I feel sorry for these people. They are lost in a hatred and hypocrisy so unfathomably deep it seems impossible for God's spirit of conviction to get through to them, to put the brakes on because a cliff is coming they will never be able to keep from going over.
*UPDATE*
We all know Trump has a big mouth. He can put his foot in it just as much as he can make astounding predictions about international affairs, financial systems and economies. He has always been a brash New Yorker. Everybody knows this and has, for years.
Trump has now made a statement, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you." Knowing exactly what he means, the DOJ has asked for a protection order from him. Trumps acts like a NY bully. The DOJ acts like some skinny, little kid, peeing his pants. IT IS ALL POLITICAL THEATER. I have never seen the likes of it. The DOJ treats Trump like he is Al Capone. If you are too young to know who that is; he was the most well-known gangster in his day.
I have stated it many times here: If you hit Trump, he is going to hit back harder. That's his nature. Nice guy, until you cross him. Yet, in all the haranguing the man has taken thus far, every stone has fallen to the ground like a BB off a battleship. This new indictment will meet the same result as everything else they have thrown at him. Trump's worst problem is his own self. It remains to be seen if his attorneys can keep him out of jail through this current process.
The only real danger for Trump is a corrupt, activist, Trump-hating judge. Otherwise the indictment, like everything else thrown at the man, is going to fail, spectacularly, because there is no evidence, not even a premise but an old law from the early 20th century that even then will not apply under scrutiny.
I have posted here that radical Leftists have a mental illness. I have seen that opinion elsewhere, well before it made sense to me by constant observation. Something is not wired correctly in them and they operate almost solely on emotions, lack common sense; and principle just flies away as they attack in any and all forms they can muster; to achieve a goal they cannot see failure involved, until they fail. Rather than learn, they just move on to something else, driven by out of control emotions. The hatred for Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. is an unprecedented mental illness that has no merit or practical application to running a nation for the good of its citizenry.
Democrats and by stealth and cowardice, some Republicans, hope to accomplish anything to see to it Trump cannot run for POTUS in 2024. If they can somehow, some way make him a convicted felon, the Constitution they have no use for, generally, will keep Trump off the ballot.
These poor souls, so devoid of honor and integrity, are showing their true characters to the entire planetary populace taking the time to watch their carnival in action. Those in league with these scoundrels have the same intent: keep Trump out of international politics and dealings. Those who have seen America as a place everybody on the globe is trying to get to, look at everything happening in this nation with a mentally feeble, criminal charlatan in power and wonder if going to America is worth any risks or sacrifices to get here.
If the trial, the judge, allows things to proceed honestly; Trump gets the chance to place before the world all the evidence that caused his loss at the hands of fraud and criminal activity caught on video, seen in expert examination of analytical data and the open testimony of the same. He's being charged with trying to overthrow an election. Do these people realize how stupid they are? He should be allowed to show why he showed information that back his position. The Democrats overthrew the election with fraud and criminal activity.
Here's the thing, though. The corruption is now so deep and wide and the unbridled hatred so keen, these wicked people have no reason or intention of holding a fair trial. Why? Their goal must be achieved and they are running out of time. Lie, cheat, fabricate; whatever must be done now.
Obviously, Trump has sharp attorneys and given the chance they will defeat this atrocity of so-called justice. I'll still pray God intervenes. Not that I am a Trump fan, per se.' I just hate dishonesty and corruption and hope it is soundly defeated and relegated to one of the most sour and contemptible times in American history; with no further damage to the Republic.
From the viewpoint of a Christian, I feel sorry for these people. They are lost in a hatred and hypocrisy so unfathomably deep it seems impossible for God's spirit of conviction to get through to them, to put the brakes on because a cliff is coming they will never be able to keep from going over.
*UPDATE*
We all know Trump has a big mouth. He can put his foot in it just as much as he can make astounding predictions about international affairs, financial systems and economies. He has always been a brash New Yorker. Everybody knows this and has, for years.
Trump has now made a statement, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you." Knowing exactly what he means, the DOJ has asked for a protection order from him. Trumps acts like a NY bully. The DOJ acts like some skinny, little kid, peeing his pants. IT IS ALL POLITICAL THEATER. I have never seen the likes of it. The DOJ treats Trump like he is Al Capone. If you are too young to know who that is; he was the most well-known gangster in his day.
I have stated it many times here: If you hit Trump, he is going to hit back harder. That's his nature. Nice guy, until you cross him. Yet, in all the haranguing the man has taken thus far, every stone has fallen to the ground like a BB off a battleship. This new indictment will meet the same result as everything else they have thrown at him. Trump's worst problem is his own self. It remains to be seen if his attorneys can keep him out of jail through this current process.
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819. How Culture and Law Collide - August 5, 2023
Let's start in India. India considers itself a Republic. It has 28 states and 8 territories. It has a parliament and functions with provisions as a representative democracy. India's Constitution claims religious freedom for all. That is the law. It's 1.4 billion citizens should have that freedom but, there's a caveat.
It's religious makeup, according to Wiki is -
That 80% of Hindi population rule with an iron fist in some states and have religious laws that do away with the nation's constitutional provisions. Here's something you do not see in America, in a true Constitutional Republic, getting more fragile by the week -
www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-wife-and-son-arrested.html
"Pastor, wife and 3-year-old son jailed on charges of luring innocent people to Christianity
"A pastor, his wife, and young son have been jailed for allegedly luring innocent people to Christianity in violation of an anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state where Christians only make up less than 1% of the 200 million population.
"The pastor, Harendra Singh, and his wife, Priya, were arrested by the police and jailed along with their 3-year-old son on July 31 after they were accused of hosting a prayer meeting in their home located in the town of Haidargarh, a report from the Union of Catholic Asian News said.
"Even though the pastor had denied the allegation that he was luring innocent people to the Christian faith, the family was arrested for violating Uttar Pradesh’s Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021. Their young son had to be jailed with them because, in India, children up to 6 years old are frequently forced to live with their incarcerated parents, especially their mothers, UCA said.
“It is unfortunate that their 3-year-old son also had to go to prison with them,” Dinanath Jaiswal, a social activist assisting persecuted Christians, told the publication.
"Even though India’s Constitution “guarantees religious freedom to all persons,” Uttar Pradesh’s state legislators explained in a copy of the law that their anti-conversion statute was necessary to protect “gullible persons.”
“In the recent past many such examples have come to light where gullible persons have been converted from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement by fraudulent means,” state legislators said."
How would like to live in a nation where elected civil servants get to determine who is gullible and who is not? But, more than that, how are "misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, and allurement by fraudulent means" defined? When you have just 1.8% of your population as Christian, what are you afraid of? If the majority population's religion is true and can withstand critical examination, what are you protecting? Ah, your gullible population. Why are they gullible? Because Hinduism is true and must be protected by the government? If a government must protect a religion, that religion is weak, if not worthless to change anyone's life. The guy whose face is on a one hundred dollar bill stated that -
"When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." Benjamin Franklin, 1780
Claiming people are free to believe whatever they want but, they cannot spread their religious faith convictions lest gullible people go from being convicted Hindus to convicted and committed Christians is a total sham. Either your faith can withstand examination or it cannot and should be let go of, for it then becomes an influence upon truly gullible, confused people who cannot defend their own chosen faith: if faith is chosen and not proscribed at birth and must be maintained by government decree.
Here, in America -
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-preacher-arrested-at-public-drag-event.html
Following the arrest, Rescue the Rainbow shared a video of Pastor Matt Trewhella of Mercy Seat Christian Church in Milwaukee rebuking the police officers for their “unlawful, tyrannical” behavior and preaching from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Rome.
“Romans 13, again, for those of you officers who just arrived, makes it clear that your duty is to punish the evildoers. That would be the people over there that are sexualizing children,” Trewhella is heard saying in the video.
“And our duty is to reward those who do good. That would be the people you've arrested. So you've totally perverted your God-given function and role, turned it on its head, and we wonder how did evil get a foothold in Germany? In the Soviet Union?”
As several police officers stood watch, Trewhella continued: “... You shouldn't be arresting the good guys and letting the bad guys have free reign. Your duty is to arrest the bad guys. There is an ordinance right here in town regarding instructing children and sexual matters.
“What do you think that's all about? They're instructing children in sexual matters. You could arrest them but you chose not to. You chose to arrest the Christians who are simply out here praying and offering literature to people.”
While it’s not clear which ordinance Trewhella referenced in the video, under Wisconsin law, police have the authority to arrest any adult who causes a child to “view or listen to sexually explicit conduct.”
There is nothing for me to comment upon here. The young man arrested has it right and God bless him for accurately portraying the situation.
YouTube and various Christian news have plenty of videos of police ignorant of or willfully violating the rights of citizens across America. Either police departments are not instructing their officers correctly on the law or a fair percentage of police forces around the nation do not care about the rule of law - an oxymoron if ever there was one - or just have angst towards people of the professed Christian faith. Either way, a police state in America is building into exactly what the preacher stated - Nazi or communist Germany or the former communist Soviet Union.
Here's another -
www.christianpost.com/news/communists-lgbt-activists-target-christian-owned-coffee-shop.html
So, while the young man handing out literature, speaking through a microphone (which he stopped because of the town ordinance), and praying is arrested because people at a Drag event are upset, yet a group, a mob of radical Leftists can stand in the doorway of a business and harass it's professed Christian owner. Why?
"Since its opening last month, The Drip Café, a Christian-owned coffee shop ministry in Denver, has been targeted by protesters over its belief that homosexuality is sinful," Christian Post reporter Ian Giatti wrote earlier this month. "Owner Jamie Sanchez believes the Denver communists and other LGBT protesters were triggered by Scripture on the website of his coffee shop's parent nonprofit Recycle God's Love, which ministers to the local homeless population."
Radical Leftists have zero understanding of what it means to live in a Constitutional Republic with a Bill of Rights protecting free speech and religious faith. The police should disperse such a mob and if you look at the picture with the article you can see the group standing right in front of the doorway to the shop. Why? Because the rule of law trumps, outweighs and stands above hurt feelings. That is all it is. Feelings. No rights of the mob have been infringed. Obviously. They are blocking the doorway to a business and protesting because they don't like being called sinners. NEWSFLASH!!! Nobody likes being called a sinner and we are ALL SINNERS! That is the understanding of every single person who owns a Bible! At least, it should be but, even that has changed and is dissolving in front of our eyes. That does not change the fact: we are all sinners, violators of God's Law and need salvation from the penalty and power of sin.
This is another example of the confusion that has begun to reign -
www.christianpost.com/news/mlb-player-cut-for-tweet-on-homosexuality-stands-by-his-beliefs.html
"A Major League Baseball pitcher released by the Boston Red Sox after one start in June following backlash to his social media activity, including a 2021 tweet stating that "homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God," has vowed not to apologize for his Christian beliefs.
"Matt Dermody, a 33-year-old pitcher who signed with the Boston Red Sox organization this year and made one spot start, appeared on Tomi Lahren's "Tomi Lahren is Fearless" podcast Friday to discuss the fallout over his now-deleted June 2021 tweet.
"In the tweet in question, Dermody wrote, "homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God" and "will go to hell," citing 1 Corinthians 6:9.
"May we all examine our hearts, ask Jesus to forgive us and repent of all our sins. I love you all in Christ Jesus!" Dermody tweeted. In addition, concern was raised by progressives about his social media activity supporting former President Donald Trump."
I absolutely digress from the popular doctrine of a burning "hell" where sinners are sent upon death. I have written on that, profusely on these pages. The entire Bible states death is the wages of sin, not eternal torture in flames. The final judgment and execution of it is eternal; not the flames. Allow the whole Bible to interpret itself and this nonsensical and destructive false doctrine would be brought to dust, right quick.
Anyway, the Law states you cannot fire someone because of their religious faith. State and National Supreme Courts have ruled upon this, more than once. If Dermody sues the Red Sox and he can establish the fact he was fired for his faith (which is tough to do), he will be found in a position to be reinstated by the team. The team's general manager has already gone on record of the team's position, knowing Dermody's faith before the mob took over.
"Commenting on Dermody's dismissal in a statement to The Boston Globe, Red Sox General Manager Brian O'Halloran cited the fact that "we wanted to give the opportunity to other players" and acknowledged that "we factor in everything."
"Certainly we considered everything that became public with regard to his Twitter activity. That was also something that we factored into this decision," O'Halloran maintained.
O'Halloran also apologized for calling up Dermody even though the Red Sox knew about the tweet.
"We regret that this caused people to feel that hurt," he said. "I'm sorry about that. We're sorry about that. We celebrated Pride Day the other day and that was an incredible day at the ballpark. The atmosphere was so joyous and celebratory on the field and in the stands."
"We're proud of our history celebrating Pride Night and standing next to the LGBTQ+ community. We're sorry that a roster decision that we made caused harm to that community. We regret that it hurt people in the community, it hurt our fans, it hurt people that work in the organization."
HURT FEELINGS. That is what America has fallen into. It is no longer established as a Constitutional Republic and Rule of Law, with protections for citizens granted by Almighty God. It has fallen into the weakest of all national life - ruled by feelings. Maintain a joyous and celebratory feeling at all costs, literally, and throw the rule of law out the window.
Nobody has a right NOT to be offended. Jesus Christ offended people every single day for the life of His public ministry and still offends people. Americans have a God-given right to speak freely, and even atheists, abject sinners, apostates, uneducated useful idiots and morons get the same right to speak freely and if that offends people, that is on those offended to not be sure enough of their own life and beliefs to just disregard falsehoods, as they understand them. That is life in a true Republic under the rule of law. BUT, a true democracy allows for a majority rule; whatever the majority chooses. The "woke mob" is the opposite of true freedom and liberty. The Founders of this nation understood a Democracy to be an evil thing which often, in the history of their own nation, England, saw mob rule or the other side of the coin, kingly power and tyranny take control. They fought back both with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. RIGHTS; provisions for freedom and liberty to live free from harassment by government or citizens with hurt feelings.
I say it all the time. I am glad my father is not alive to see this mess that has developed, after he fought a war to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
All Americans are having to decide where they stand in this culture war: this war of the Rule of Law versus mob mentality.
There is one more thing I would bring to your attention -
www.christianpost.com/news/idaho-newspaper-calls-sean-feucht-worship-event-as-dangerous.html
"Idaho newspaper denounces Sean Feucht event as 'dangerous Christian nationalism'
"An Idaho newspaper has denounced the outdoor worship events held by Christian worship artist and activist Sean Feucht, claiming that they are held by “dangerous activists who represent “dangerous Christian nationalism."
"In advance of a “Kingdom to the Capitol” event held outside of the Idaho state Capitol in Boise, the editorial board of the Idaho Statesman published a column last Saturday denouncing Feucht and his ideas.
“Feucht and his group are playing on the same, tired, worn-out, BS, far-right ‘fears’ that evildoers on the Left are coming for your children, through the schools, through the libraries, at Pride festivals and drag shows,” wrote the editors. 1
“It’s no accident the rallies are being held at state Capitol buildings, as these charlatans increasingly want to inject their brand of religion into politics.” 2
#1 is true. Evil-doers on the Left are coming for our children through the schools, libraries (just ask Kirk Cameron), Pride Festivals and Drag shows. For pities sake they even put a song on YT stating the fact. They declare it all over social media. They aim to make America L-Q+. Bend and bow or be destroyed. There is no in between for these absolute radicals by definition of anything understood to be American for the last 250 years.
BUT! #2 is also true. They are not charlatans. The editors got that wrong. They are openly avowed to the policy of Christian nationalism - the idea that the nation should be run by Christians and the Bible. No thanks. A union of church and state can be just as, if not more tyrannical than a single person with national sovereignty. History shows what a union of church and state can do: in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, ignorant Protestant churches, Islam and as seen above, Hinduism. There is a reason the principle of a wall of separation between church and state was put in place by the Founders and crafted it into a succinct 16 words - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." And they went through numerous drafts before that exact wording was chosen. Read the history of it. Both secularists and many evangelicals have it decidedly wrong.
The Founders believed in the separation of church and state. They did not believe in a separation of God from state. There is a world of difference between the two and the Founders' writings establish that fact.
So the editors of the Idaho Statesman made their position known. Will they allow someone from the other side make a statement they will publish? THAT would be the deciding factor of whether or not the Statesman is actually a journal that understands and practices the principles of Americanism or is just a radical Leftist "rag." They have freedom and liberty to be that. It's America. You get to speak freely and offend people without constraint or penalty, unless you are promoting actual insurrection or violence. Ah, but, even there, the cultural war choses different definitions for "insurrection" and "violence."
Throw away the Bible if you will. I would like to suggest it is the only source of information that can be completely trusted today. Every person on planet earth will decide that and soon enough.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It's religious makeup, according to Wiki is -
- 79.8% Hinduism
- 14.2% Islam
- 2.3% Christianity
- 1.7% Sikhism
- 0.7% Buddhism
- 0.4% Jainism
- 0.23% unaffiliated
- 0.65% other[12]
That 80% of Hindi population rule with an iron fist in some states and have religious laws that do away with the nation's constitutional provisions. Here's something you do not see in America, in a true Constitutional Republic, getting more fragile by the week -
www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-wife-and-son-arrested.html
"Pastor, wife and 3-year-old son jailed on charges of luring innocent people to Christianity
"A pastor, his wife, and young son have been jailed for allegedly luring innocent people to Christianity in violation of an anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state where Christians only make up less than 1% of the 200 million population.
"The pastor, Harendra Singh, and his wife, Priya, were arrested by the police and jailed along with their 3-year-old son on July 31 after they were accused of hosting a prayer meeting in their home located in the town of Haidargarh, a report from the Union of Catholic Asian News said.
"Even though the pastor had denied the allegation that he was luring innocent people to the Christian faith, the family was arrested for violating Uttar Pradesh’s Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021. Their young son had to be jailed with them because, in India, children up to 6 years old are frequently forced to live with their incarcerated parents, especially their mothers, UCA said.
“It is unfortunate that their 3-year-old son also had to go to prison with them,” Dinanath Jaiswal, a social activist assisting persecuted Christians, told the publication.
"Even though India’s Constitution “guarantees religious freedom to all persons,” Uttar Pradesh’s state legislators explained in a copy of the law that their anti-conversion statute was necessary to protect “gullible persons.”
“In the recent past many such examples have come to light where gullible persons have been converted from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement by fraudulent means,” state legislators said."
How would like to live in a nation where elected civil servants get to determine who is gullible and who is not? But, more than that, how are "misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, and allurement by fraudulent means" defined? When you have just 1.8% of your population as Christian, what are you afraid of? If the majority population's religion is true and can withstand critical examination, what are you protecting? Ah, your gullible population. Why are they gullible? Because Hinduism is true and must be protected by the government? If a government must protect a religion, that religion is weak, if not worthless to change anyone's life. The guy whose face is on a one hundred dollar bill stated that -
"When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." Benjamin Franklin, 1780
Claiming people are free to believe whatever they want but, they cannot spread their religious faith convictions lest gullible people go from being convicted Hindus to convicted and committed Christians is a total sham. Either your faith can withstand examination or it cannot and should be let go of, for it then becomes an influence upon truly gullible, confused people who cannot defend their own chosen faith: if faith is chosen and not proscribed at birth and must be maintained by government decree.
Here, in America -
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-preacher-arrested-at-public-drag-event.html
Following the arrest, Rescue the Rainbow shared a video of Pastor Matt Trewhella of Mercy Seat Christian Church in Milwaukee rebuking the police officers for their “unlawful, tyrannical” behavior and preaching from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Rome.
“Romans 13, again, for those of you officers who just arrived, makes it clear that your duty is to punish the evildoers. That would be the people over there that are sexualizing children,” Trewhella is heard saying in the video.
“And our duty is to reward those who do good. That would be the people you've arrested. So you've totally perverted your God-given function and role, turned it on its head, and we wonder how did evil get a foothold in Germany? In the Soviet Union?”
As several police officers stood watch, Trewhella continued: “... You shouldn't be arresting the good guys and letting the bad guys have free reign. Your duty is to arrest the bad guys. There is an ordinance right here in town regarding instructing children and sexual matters.
“What do you think that's all about? They're instructing children in sexual matters. You could arrest them but you chose not to. You chose to arrest the Christians who are simply out here praying and offering literature to people.”
While it’s not clear which ordinance Trewhella referenced in the video, under Wisconsin law, police have the authority to arrest any adult who causes a child to “view or listen to sexually explicit conduct.”
There is nothing for me to comment upon here. The young man arrested has it right and God bless him for accurately portraying the situation.
YouTube and various Christian news have plenty of videos of police ignorant of or willfully violating the rights of citizens across America. Either police departments are not instructing their officers correctly on the law or a fair percentage of police forces around the nation do not care about the rule of law - an oxymoron if ever there was one - or just have angst towards people of the professed Christian faith. Either way, a police state in America is building into exactly what the preacher stated - Nazi or communist Germany or the former communist Soviet Union.
Here's another -
www.christianpost.com/news/communists-lgbt-activists-target-christian-owned-coffee-shop.html
So, while the young man handing out literature, speaking through a microphone (which he stopped because of the town ordinance), and praying is arrested because people at a Drag event are upset, yet a group, a mob of radical Leftists can stand in the doorway of a business and harass it's professed Christian owner. Why?
"Since its opening last month, The Drip Café, a Christian-owned coffee shop ministry in Denver, has been targeted by protesters over its belief that homosexuality is sinful," Christian Post reporter Ian Giatti wrote earlier this month. "Owner Jamie Sanchez believes the Denver communists and other LGBT protesters were triggered by Scripture on the website of his coffee shop's parent nonprofit Recycle God's Love, which ministers to the local homeless population."
Radical Leftists have zero understanding of what it means to live in a Constitutional Republic with a Bill of Rights protecting free speech and religious faith. The police should disperse such a mob and if you look at the picture with the article you can see the group standing right in front of the doorway to the shop. Why? Because the rule of law trumps, outweighs and stands above hurt feelings. That is all it is. Feelings. No rights of the mob have been infringed. Obviously. They are blocking the doorway to a business and protesting because they don't like being called sinners. NEWSFLASH!!! Nobody likes being called a sinner and we are ALL SINNERS! That is the understanding of every single person who owns a Bible! At least, it should be but, even that has changed and is dissolving in front of our eyes. That does not change the fact: we are all sinners, violators of God's Law and need salvation from the penalty and power of sin.
This is another example of the confusion that has begun to reign -
www.christianpost.com/news/mlb-player-cut-for-tweet-on-homosexuality-stands-by-his-beliefs.html
"A Major League Baseball pitcher released by the Boston Red Sox after one start in June following backlash to his social media activity, including a 2021 tweet stating that "homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God," has vowed not to apologize for his Christian beliefs.
"Matt Dermody, a 33-year-old pitcher who signed with the Boston Red Sox organization this year and made one spot start, appeared on Tomi Lahren's "Tomi Lahren is Fearless" podcast Friday to discuss the fallout over his now-deleted June 2021 tweet.
"In the tweet in question, Dermody wrote, "homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God" and "will go to hell," citing 1 Corinthians 6:9.
"May we all examine our hearts, ask Jesus to forgive us and repent of all our sins. I love you all in Christ Jesus!" Dermody tweeted. In addition, concern was raised by progressives about his social media activity supporting former President Donald Trump."
I absolutely digress from the popular doctrine of a burning "hell" where sinners are sent upon death. I have written on that, profusely on these pages. The entire Bible states death is the wages of sin, not eternal torture in flames. The final judgment and execution of it is eternal; not the flames. Allow the whole Bible to interpret itself and this nonsensical and destructive false doctrine would be brought to dust, right quick.
Anyway, the Law states you cannot fire someone because of their religious faith. State and National Supreme Courts have ruled upon this, more than once. If Dermody sues the Red Sox and he can establish the fact he was fired for his faith (which is tough to do), he will be found in a position to be reinstated by the team. The team's general manager has already gone on record of the team's position, knowing Dermody's faith before the mob took over.
"Commenting on Dermody's dismissal in a statement to The Boston Globe, Red Sox General Manager Brian O'Halloran cited the fact that "we wanted to give the opportunity to other players" and acknowledged that "we factor in everything."
"Certainly we considered everything that became public with regard to his Twitter activity. That was also something that we factored into this decision," O'Halloran maintained.
O'Halloran also apologized for calling up Dermody even though the Red Sox knew about the tweet.
"We regret that this caused people to feel that hurt," he said. "I'm sorry about that. We're sorry about that. We celebrated Pride Day the other day and that was an incredible day at the ballpark. The atmosphere was so joyous and celebratory on the field and in the stands."
"We're proud of our history celebrating Pride Night and standing next to the LGBTQ+ community. We're sorry that a roster decision that we made caused harm to that community. We regret that it hurt people in the community, it hurt our fans, it hurt people that work in the organization."
HURT FEELINGS. That is what America has fallen into. It is no longer established as a Constitutional Republic and Rule of Law, with protections for citizens granted by Almighty God. It has fallen into the weakest of all national life - ruled by feelings. Maintain a joyous and celebratory feeling at all costs, literally, and throw the rule of law out the window.
Nobody has a right NOT to be offended. Jesus Christ offended people every single day for the life of His public ministry and still offends people. Americans have a God-given right to speak freely, and even atheists, abject sinners, apostates, uneducated useful idiots and morons get the same right to speak freely and if that offends people, that is on those offended to not be sure enough of their own life and beliefs to just disregard falsehoods, as they understand them. That is life in a true Republic under the rule of law. BUT, a true democracy allows for a majority rule; whatever the majority chooses. The "woke mob" is the opposite of true freedom and liberty. The Founders of this nation understood a Democracy to be an evil thing which often, in the history of their own nation, England, saw mob rule or the other side of the coin, kingly power and tyranny take control. They fought back both with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. RIGHTS; provisions for freedom and liberty to live free from harassment by government or citizens with hurt feelings.
I say it all the time. I am glad my father is not alive to see this mess that has developed, after he fought a war to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
All Americans are having to decide where they stand in this culture war: this war of the Rule of Law versus mob mentality.
There is one more thing I would bring to your attention -
www.christianpost.com/news/idaho-newspaper-calls-sean-feucht-worship-event-as-dangerous.html
"Idaho newspaper denounces Sean Feucht event as 'dangerous Christian nationalism'
"An Idaho newspaper has denounced the outdoor worship events held by Christian worship artist and activist Sean Feucht, claiming that they are held by “dangerous activists who represent “dangerous Christian nationalism."
"In advance of a “Kingdom to the Capitol” event held outside of the Idaho state Capitol in Boise, the editorial board of the Idaho Statesman published a column last Saturday denouncing Feucht and his ideas.
“Feucht and his group are playing on the same, tired, worn-out, BS, far-right ‘fears’ that evildoers on the Left are coming for your children, through the schools, through the libraries, at Pride festivals and drag shows,” wrote the editors. 1
“It’s no accident the rallies are being held at state Capitol buildings, as these charlatans increasingly want to inject their brand of religion into politics.” 2
#1 is true. Evil-doers on the Left are coming for our children through the schools, libraries (just ask Kirk Cameron), Pride Festivals and Drag shows. For pities sake they even put a song on YT stating the fact. They declare it all over social media. They aim to make America L-Q+. Bend and bow or be destroyed. There is no in between for these absolute radicals by definition of anything understood to be American for the last 250 years.
BUT! #2 is also true. They are not charlatans. The editors got that wrong. They are openly avowed to the policy of Christian nationalism - the idea that the nation should be run by Christians and the Bible. No thanks. A union of church and state can be just as, if not more tyrannical than a single person with national sovereignty. History shows what a union of church and state can do: in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, ignorant Protestant churches, Islam and as seen above, Hinduism. There is a reason the principle of a wall of separation between church and state was put in place by the Founders and crafted it into a succinct 16 words - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." And they went through numerous drafts before that exact wording was chosen. Read the history of it. Both secularists and many evangelicals have it decidedly wrong.
The Founders believed in the separation of church and state. They did not believe in a separation of God from state. There is a world of difference between the two and the Founders' writings establish that fact.
So the editors of the Idaho Statesman made their position known. Will they allow someone from the other side make a statement they will publish? THAT would be the deciding factor of whether or not the Statesman is actually a journal that understands and practices the principles of Americanism or is just a radical Leftist "rag." They have freedom and liberty to be that. It's America. You get to speak freely and offend people without constraint or penalty, unless you are promoting actual insurrection or violence. Ah, but, even there, the cultural war choses different definitions for "insurrection" and "violence."
Throw away the Bible if you will. I would like to suggest it is the only source of information that can be completely trusted today. Every person on planet earth will decide that and soon enough.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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820. Should Jews and Christians Work Together? - August 5, 2023
This is a long one. Get your Bible out.
I saw an article that I would like to unpack. It did not pass the test of biblical credulity for me.
"Rabbi urges Christians, Jews to work together: ‘We have more in common than what divides’ "
www.christianpost.com/news/rabbi-urges-christians-jews-to-work-together.html
"ORLANDO — Rabbi Tuly Weisz, the founder of Israel 365, believes it's time in the prophetic biblical timeline for Jews and Christians to work together.
"Weisz has devoted much of his work at Israel 365 to forging a relationship between Christians and Jews and sharing the significance of Israel throughout the Bible and God's love for His people. The rabbi believes some take "Israel for granted" and others are disconnected from the land.
"God had a very specific plan for specific people to be in a specific area, and all of the landscape and the geography is so essential to understanding the Bible. Because the Jews have been outside of Israel for so long, we've been disconnected from Israel, the land. And the Christian world has been disconnected from the land of the Bible," Weisz said in an interview with The Christian Post.
"It's been 75 years since Israel became a Jewish state, and Weisz, who studied for his rabbinical ordination at Yeshiva University in New York, said the reunification of the Jewish people and the land of Israel feels like a marriage. The reunion marks another phase of the three sections of Scripture that Weisz said will take place before the End Times.
"The Jews returning to Israel, himself among them, has opened his eyes "to the spiritual shift that's happening" in the world.
"I started to really appreciate the Bible much more once I understood Israel's role. I also appreciate Israel's role in the world by understanding the Bible," he added.
"Weisz talked about looking at the Old Testament as being in three sections: First, the history, which tells of the forefathers, the Kings, and wars. Second are the laws, the list of "thou shalts and thou shalt nots," and lastly, spiritual prophecy."
"He described the final stage as a transition from the physical restoration of the land and the people to a more spiritual restoration or redemption.
"It's all over the Bible, but Isaiah 2 is my favorite passage where it talks about how, in the end of days, the mountain of God will stand firm over all of the other areas," Weisz added. "It says that all of the nations will flow towards and up to Jerusalem. Why? Because from Zion shall come forth the Torah, the instruction, the Word of God, and the Word of God from Jerusalem."
"What that represents is this idea that the Word of God and the recognition of the One God of Israel will start to spread all over the world to the Jews, to the Gentiles," he continued. "It's describing a spiritual partnership between all faiths, Jews, non-Jews, who recognize God and who recognize Jerusalem."
I could copy and paste the entire article here and comment on every paragraph but, you can check out the whole article and see what was stated. I have enough right here to be suspicious. Not to say the rest of the article does not contain things that are off. It most assuredly does. I'm just weary of the entire union between the two bodies when there are not more things that connect than divide.
I'm sure Mr. Weisz must know there are more Jews in New York City than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined. Whatever exodus took place in the 80's and 90's has reversed. Jews are not too concerned with returning to the State of Israel.
For Mr. Weisz, everything seems to center around Jerusalem. The article states, 75 years have passed since Israel became an established state. Why have they not been an established state for the last 2000 years? They rejected God, rejected Messiah, were under the dominion of the Roman empire and scattered as a result. They remain without anything their religion mandates - a priesthood, a sanctuary and services, and a theocracy that made them the people of God to begin with. The establishment of the state of Israel means nothing. To many, that statement is heresy. I would ask those who believe such to show me from the entire Bible where ANY mention of a modern Jewish state means anything to Bible prophecy and last-day events. Do not show me passages which refer to the return to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. And do not show me passages which relate to literal Israel when Daniel was shown and Jesus, Himself and the apostles stated their entire system of existence would be cut off, broken down, torn away from the tree of God's choosing, and never again to be a physical or spiritual representation of God's kingdom. They had their chance for 1500 years. They rejected their Messiah. The New Testament is not source material for their religion and they have had 2000 years to examine and investigate the evidence. They rejected then. They reject now.
Replacement theology exists because the angel that spoke to Daniel, and Yeshua stated it point blank and Paul corroborated it.
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
The Hebrew word "chathak" [determined], literally means cut off. Daniel 9 is considered cursed reading for Jews. Why? Because it predicts the coming of the Messiah and the finishing of the Jewish nation that rejected Him. The time prophecy began with the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem as a sovereign state under the Persian umbrella, under the reign of King Ahasuerus. The prophecy runs out the year the disciple Stephen was stoned by the leadership of the Jewish nation. The nation of Israel was cut off, by God's decree, from their place as His chosen people. They killed the Messiah. Then they began persecuting God's followers of the Messiah and the prophecy, as predicted, came true. The Jewish nation filled up the cup of its iniquity, transgression and sin.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Act 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Act 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Act 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off [the Jewish nation], and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Rom 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Rom 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
God had a people for 2500 years before delivering the Hebrews out of Egypt. For 1500 years Israel was given chance after chance to do as God directed and represent Him truthfully. They became corrupt and never fully removed that corruption from the theocracy. They murdered the Messiah, they killed the followers of Christ and the final blow came upon them. God rejected them and created an assembly of Jews and Gentiles in His invisible church; the body of Christ.
The regression of the nation of Israel and removal of its representative status as God's theocratic people, and the progression of the NT church and the invisible kingdom of God, the "Israel" of God, made up of Jew and Gentile, with only Christ as High Priest, is obvious in Scripture. Why is it denied by evangelicals? Because they have come to accept and believe Jesuit Futurism in the realms of prophecy and are confused. Simple as that. Our eyes should be focused on Jerusalem above, not Jerusalem on Earth. That city is meaningless to Scripture prophecy. The Jews are no longer God's chosen people. They said, 'Let His blood be on our heads' and so it has been for the last 2000 years.
Psa 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psa 122:7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Psa 122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Psa 122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
I have seen that passage used over and over again to establish Jerusalem as a central location for God's people and their focus. Why would I pray for peace to be upon a city population that has rejected and killed its Messiah? I would pray for guilt and conviction to come upon minds in Jerusalem. Peace? Why would anyone do that? 'Christ said, My peace I give to you, not the peace the world gives.' The people of the Jewish State need Christ's peace. They will never have peace from physical war until they attain peace in the spiritual war. That peace comes through being born-again in Christ Jesus.
Anybody can and should work with anybody to make the world a better place. It has nothing to do with Christians working with Jews to the benefit of the modern state of Israel; which Jews believe would make the world a better place, and certainly their region, as they annex more and more land in defiance of agreements and treaties they have signed.
India decides to protect "gullible" people from Christians. I'd like to suggest professed Christians are being gullible when they follow Jesuit prophetic commentary and link with Jews to establish Jerusalem.
Frankly, making the world a better place needs to have the word "better" defined. That is not happening in the culture war that exits within the destruction of Western civilization.
Israel has shown itself to being a poor ally more than once in America's history, especially the naval situation with the USS Liberty incident, which actual, not political, investigation shows was not what Israel stated and "apologized" for. Israel pushed the Covid injections hard and it has more injected people with more problems than any other nation at this point. Most people know the world's banking and commodities are run by Jewish oligarch families who have no serious care for their own Jewish heritage save for the establishment of Zionism; which is not the same as traditional Judaism. Zionism is akin to the Muslim Brotherhood in Islam. It exists to establish a world-wide control factor, much like Islam wants a world-wide caliphate.
Sincere Jews need to be told the Messiah arrived 2000 years ago. The second coming of Jesus is not the first coming of Messiah for the Jews. That belief shall prove catastrophic for anyone believing it.
Christians and the modern state of Israel do not have much of anything in common. Jews and Christians do not have much in common outside of the Old Testament, which evangelicals have generally come to see as invalid for the faith, even though their preachers speak upon it as much as the NT. Go figure. Yet, as far as their theology goes, the Law, the Ten Commandments, are no longer to be held as vital and valid to the faith, especially the fourth commandment. Even among Jews in Israel today, you have the Orthodox, the Conservative and the Reformed groups. More sects exist within that. They do not go by the Old Testament alone but, have their other religious texts including the Mishna, the Talmud, Kabbalah, Zohar, the Code of Jewish law and other sacred texts that nullify their position as God's chosen people. Their entire religion is now a confused species of centuries of apostasy from the truth. They broke their covenant with God. Individual Jews can journey their way into the kingdom but, the nation of Israel and Jerusalem are not a nation of prophecy anymore. The New Jerusalem is -
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Someone is thinking, What about that passage in Zechariah?
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Zec 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zec 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Zec 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
There are 21 verses in the chapter. Read them all in context. You have only to ask one question? Did that day ever come? No. No war over Jerusalem took place with all the nations. Why not? It could have and would have happened, IF the Jews received their Messiah. They rejected Him and the message, designation and representation as God's people went to all who receive Christ as Savior and Lord.
That does not mean the scenes in Zechariah are wholly gone. No. The scene of all scenes is coming, a thousand years from now -
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.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
John saw two scenes in quick succession: the resurrection of the lost and their final executive judgment. The major destructive scene in Zechariah plays out in Rev. 20. The New Jerusalem will descend and rest upon the Old Jerusalem, crushing the city beneath it. The final judgment will then commence with the resurrection of the unrighteous lost from all ages.
"Hell" in those two places above are from the Greek word "Hades." Hades was the place in mythology where departed souls go. Christians do not believe in Greek mythology. Why, then, is the word used? Because it also means grave, and is translated that way in some places. For the Jew, making up the early church and teaching the Gentiles who came in the truth; where do the dead go? The grave. Death and the graves gave up the dead that were in them. The resurrection of the lost. All of it was cast into the lake of fire: the entire seething planet burning to ultimate ash. We see that in volcanoes, do we not? Small streams of fire: lava? That's what is coming for the whole planet.
How do we reconcile "devoured" with "forever and ever" and "the second death?"
Devoured means devoured. Light something on fire and it is devoured to ashes. It does not burn forever. Nothing burns forever and it is castigation of tyranny and despotism upon God to state He creates a magic, supernatural fire that burns forever, as though the redeemed shall enjoy such a display of horror somewhere out there in the universe. 'Come. Let's all take a trip to hell today and see the wicked writhing in torturous agony and pain and suffering for their sins. We haven't been there in a few hundred years.'
Sick. And how would you enjoy heaven knowing a loved one, who chose sin over salvation, is burning somewhere out there. Well, factually, not out there, somewhere. Earth. Earth becomes the lake of fire. What? The lost will be burning below us beneath the crust of the new earth?!?!? Believe it or not, that is proclaimed by some in the professed Christian faith.
The second death is different from the first death but, it is still death. The first death means death: cessation of life but, it is temporary. A resurrection of the righteous shall take place at the second coming of Christ when eternal life shall be given to them. A resurrection of the lost shall take place a thousand years later when God judges the world and the entire planet goes up in smoke because "our God is a consuming fire," and when His full glory is unleashed upon the lost they, Lucifer, the angels who rebelled with him, and this entire planet shall cease to exist and be burned to ashes: the waters evaporated, the rocks and mountains melted down to ash.
Where does "forever and ever" fit in? Hyperbole. If you were John, watching such a horrific scene of the entire planet going up in smoke for days to complete the work of final judgment, and you watched that smoke trail off into space and it looked like it would go... forever and ever, would it not? But, it shall not.
If I look at the ground and say, 'It's going to take me forever to dig this hole'... does it? No. The task is just 'forever' in the mind, as hyperbole, to make a point. Children use the term a lot, especially when it comes to chores.
Having done studies on this at length on my site, let me just place here a few passages of Scripture. There are 40 verses in Psalm 37. Read them all but, regard the truth of this -
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psa 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psa 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psa 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Psa 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psa 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psa 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psa 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Nobody burns forever. It's a literary hyperbole meant to make a point, given John's circumstances in vision. At least 63 times in the KJV Bible the term 'forever' is used to accentuate a temporary period. Christ used hyperbole to make a point. Read Mark chapter 9, and he included comments about the fate of the lost -
Mar 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Mar 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mar 9:44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mar 9:46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
Mar 9:48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mar 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Anyone for a 350 pound millstone necklace?
Needless to say, Christ was not telling people to cut off hands and feet or gouge out eyes, for none of that can stop a person from sinning in their mind. Do you believe God will use immortal maggots to feed on the lost forever? What? The lost regrow skin and organs to be eaten by maggots forever, that somehow evade being burned in the fire burning up the lost? Yes, that is pretty sick. A total attack upon God's character.
The imagery here is taken from "Gehenna," the word translated hell in these verses; which was a dump outside Jerusalem where trash, garbage, dead criminals, etc., were tossed. Yeah, a disgusting place. Fire kept burning, maggots eating garbage and as long as things were thrown in for fire to burn and maggots to consume, trash and garbage not quenched, maggots and fire not quenched.
What is unquenchable fire? A fire that cannot be quenched; meaning, it cannot be put out, and shall burn until all consumptive material is burned to ash. Fire departments face fires like those all the time. Too hot, too fierce, too much for streams of water to douse. The heat just evaporates the water. When combustible material is lessened, then the unquenchable fire, like unquenchable thirst receiving water, goes out, as thirst is quenched.
Is God going to put a salt of literal fire on His people, to test them? No. Salt was a preservative in Bible times. God shall preserve his people with fiery trials to increase faith and build Christlike character in them and fit them for walking with angels in Heaven.
All of this imagery is found all through the Bible. If you study the Bible, these threads of truth can be put together like pieces of any puzzle. You must allow the Bible to interpret itself. Then things become clear, as we are aided by the Holy Spirit to understand what God has revealed of His character, government and purposes.
I have spent the extra space and time on this tentacle because when you see how easy it has been for Satan to blind sincere believers about this subject, you realize how he has blinded minds on others, as well; including the State of Israel and Bible prophecy.
When the consuming fire of God does its work of purification, then God shall recreate the planet more beautiful than the original Eden and eternity shall commence without even a hint of the rebellion and perpetuation of sin and sinners, which shall all be forgotten as endless time rolls on. It's a reality that used to be understood in better times. Today? More and more Americans do not believe in Heaven or "hell," which in the case of the popular version, is a good thing but, even though God is love, that does not and cannot dismiss justice and judgment. Sin and sinners choosing to cling to their sins shall be eradicated from God's universe. There can be absolutely no question about the truth of Scripture on that point. Our God is a consuming fire. His presence can consume sin in us now or we shall be consumed by his presence a thousand years from now. Our choice to live in God's presence or die in it; the second death. That death is forever. No return. No more chances. It's done. Sin shall be removed from God's universe.
Literal Israel and Jerusalem play no primary or even secondary role in prophecy. The nation had its chances. Messiah came, was rejected, and only individual Jews can make that spiritual connection and enter the kingdom of God through new birth, just like the rest of humanity. Those proclaiming the modern state of Israel; a red calf, the rebuilding of the Temple, etc., are in a Futurist prophetic quagmire of their own making, via Jesuit theology to topple the Reformation, which has largely been successful.
Israel is a postage stamp of earth. If radical Islam gains control of nuclear weapons, Israel, at least Jerusalem is going up in flame and smoke and if and when it happens, all those expecting America and other nations to enter some holy war against Islam will be sorely disappointed.
The region is hot and shall remain hot because the hatred between the two entities is thousands of years old, and Israel disregards modern treaties and agreements made with Arabs. They are bringing destruction upon themselves. It makes no sense but, you see, Israel considers itself God's chosen people, with an inheritance of the land. It is theirs. God will protect them. So they think and believe.
I do not condone anything done by Arabs to wage war against Israel. I do not condone anyone's rockets raining down on any else. I just see it is never going to end until the world ends. Which is why Israel fights so hard for no Arab nation to have nuclear capability. They know what will happen if that takes place. If they struck first, they would lose any semblance of allies in the West. It is certainly a tightrope they walk and regardless of talk from the West, they walk it alone.
For Christians to work with Jews to establish a more solid foundation for Israel in the region are involving themselves in a sinking boat.
Americans and those Americans professing Christian faith, are being sucked into a black hole of lies that is growing exponentially. The truth is there for those who can be led into it. That number seems to be lessening with each passing year.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I saw an article that I would like to unpack. It did not pass the test of biblical credulity for me.
"Rabbi urges Christians, Jews to work together: ‘We have more in common than what divides’ "
www.christianpost.com/news/rabbi-urges-christians-jews-to-work-together.html
"ORLANDO — Rabbi Tuly Weisz, the founder of Israel 365, believes it's time in the prophetic biblical timeline for Jews and Christians to work together.
"Weisz has devoted much of his work at Israel 365 to forging a relationship between Christians and Jews and sharing the significance of Israel throughout the Bible and God's love for His people. The rabbi believes some take "Israel for granted" and others are disconnected from the land.
"God had a very specific plan for specific people to be in a specific area, and all of the landscape and the geography is so essential to understanding the Bible. Because the Jews have been outside of Israel for so long, we've been disconnected from Israel, the land. And the Christian world has been disconnected from the land of the Bible," Weisz said in an interview with The Christian Post.
"It's been 75 years since Israel became a Jewish state, and Weisz, who studied for his rabbinical ordination at Yeshiva University in New York, said the reunification of the Jewish people and the land of Israel feels like a marriage. The reunion marks another phase of the three sections of Scripture that Weisz said will take place before the End Times.
"The Jews returning to Israel, himself among them, has opened his eyes "to the spiritual shift that's happening" in the world.
"I started to really appreciate the Bible much more once I understood Israel's role. I also appreciate Israel's role in the world by understanding the Bible," he added.
"Weisz talked about looking at the Old Testament as being in three sections: First, the history, which tells of the forefathers, the Kings, and wars. Second are the laws, the list of "thou shalts and thou shalt nots," and lastly, spiritual prophecy."
"He described the final stage as a transition from the physical restoration of the land and the people to a more spiritual restoration or redemption.
"It's all over the Bible, but Isaiah 2 is my favorite passage where it talks about how, in the end of days, the mountain of God will stand firm over all of the other areas," Weisz added. "It says that all of the nations will flow towards and up to Jerusalem. Why? Because from Zion shall come forth the Torah, the instruction, the Word of God, and the Word of God from Jerusalem."
"What that represents is this idea that the Word of God and the recognition of the One God of Israel will start to spread all over the world to the Jews, to the Gentiles," he continued. "It's describing a spiritual partnership between all faiths, Jews, non-Jews, who recognize God and who recognize Jerusalem."
I could copy and paste the entire article here and comment on every paragraph but, you can check out the whole article and see what was stated. I have enough right here to be suspicious. Not to say the rest of the article does not contain things that are off. It most assuredly does. I'm just weary of the entire union between the two bodies when there are not more things that connect than divide.
I'm sure Mr. Weisz must know there are more Jews in New York City than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined. Whatever exodus took place in the 80's and 90's has reversed. Jews are not too concerned with returning to the State of Israel.
For Mr. Weisz, everything seems to center around Jerusalem. The article states, 75 years have passed since Israel became an established state. Why have they not been an established state for the last 2000 years? They rejected God, rejected Messiah, were under the dominion of the Roman empire and scattered as a result. They remain without anything their religion mandates - a priesthood, a sanctuary and services, and a theocracy that made them the people of God to begin with. The establishment of the state of Israel means nothing. To many, that statement is heresy. I would ask those who believe such to show me from the entire Bible where ANY mention of a modern Jewish state means anything to Bible prophecy and last-day events. Do not show me passages which refer to the return to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. And do not show me passages which relate to literal Israel when Daniel was shown and Jesus, Himself and the apostles stated their entire system of existence would be cut off, broken down, torn away from the tree of God's choosing, and never again to be a physical or spiritual representation of God's kingdom. They had their chance for 1500 years. They rejected their Messiah. The New Testament is not source material for their religion and they have had 2000 years to examine and investigate the evidence. They rejected then. They reject now.
Replacement theology exists because the angel that spoke to Daniel, and Yeshua stated it point blank and Paul corroborated it.
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
The Hebrew word "chathak" [determined], literally means cut off. Daniel 9 is considered cursed reading for Jews. Why? Because it predicts the coming of the Messiah and the finishing of the Jewish nation that rejected Him. The time prophecy began with the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem as a sovereign state under the Persian umbrella, under the reign of King Ahasuerus. The prophecy runs out the year the disciple Stephen was stoned by the leadership of the Jewish nation. The nation of Israel was cut off, by God's decree, from their place as His chosen people. They killed the Messiah. Then they began persecuting God's followers of the Messiah and the prophecy, as predicted, came true. The Jewish nation filled up the cup of its iniquity, transgression and sin.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Act 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Act 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Act 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off [the Jewish nation], and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Rom 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Rom 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
God had a people for 2500 years before delivering the Hebrews out of Egypt. For 1500 years Israel was given chance after chance to do as God directed and represent Him truthfully. They became corrupt and never fully removed that corruption from the theocracy. They murdered the Messiah, they killed the followers of Christ and the final blow came upon them. God rejected them and created an assembly of Jews and Gentiles in His invisible church; the body of Christ.
The regression of the nation of Israel and removal of its representative status as God's theocratic people, and the progression of the NT church and the invisible kingdom of God, the "Israel" of God, made up of Jew and Gentile, with only Christ as High Priest, is obvious in Scripture. Why is it denied by evangelicals? Because they have come to accept and believe Jesuit Futurism in the realms of prophecy and are confused. Simple as that. Our eyes should be focused on Jerusalem above, not Jerusalem on Earth. That city is meaningless to Scripture prophecy. The Jews are no longer God's chosen people. They said, 'Let His blood be on our heads' and so it has been for the last 2000 years.
Psa 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psa 122:7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Psa 122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Psa 122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
I have seen that passage used over and over again to establish Jerusalem as a central location for God's people and their focus. Why would I pray for peace to be upon a city population that has rejected and killed its Messiah? I would pray for guilt and conviction to come upon minds in Jerusalem. Peace? Why would anyone do that? 'Christ said, My peace I give to you, not the peace the world gives.' The people of the Jewish State need Christ's peace. They will never have peace from physical war until they attain peace in the spiritual war. That peace comes through being born-again in Christ Jesus.
Anybody can and should work with anybody to make the world a better place. It has nothing to do with Christians working with Jews to the benefit of the modern state of Israel; which Jews believe would make the world a better place, and certainly their region, as they annex more and more land in defiance of agreements and treaties they have signed.
India decides to protect "gullible" people from Christians. I'd like to suggest professed Christians are being gullible when they follow Jesuit prophetic commentary and link with Jews to establish Jerusalem.
Frankly, making the world a better place needs to have the word "better" defined. That is not happening in the culture war that exits within the destruction of Western civilization.
Israel has shown itself to being a poor ally more than once in America's history, especially the naval situation with the USS Liberty incident, which actual, not political, investigation shows was not what Israel stated and "apologized" for. Israel pushed the Covid injections hard and it has more injected people with more problems than any other nation at this point. Most people know the world's banking and commodities are run by Jewish oligarch families who have no serious care for their own Jewish heritage save for the establishment of Zionism; which is not the same as traditional Judaism. Zionism is akin to the Muslim Brotherhood in Islam. It exists to establish a world-wide control factor, much like Islam wants a world-wide caliphate.
Sincere Jews need to be told the Messiah arrived 2000 years ago. The second coming of Jesus is not the first coming of Messiah for the Jews. That belief shall prove catastrophic for anyone believing it.
Christians and the modern state of Israel do not have much of anything in common. Jews and Christians do not have much in common outside of the Old Testament, which evangelicals have generally come to see as invalid for the faith, even though their preachers speak upon it as much as the NT. Go figure. Yet, as far as their theology goes, the Law, the Ten Commandments, are no longer to be held as vital and valid to the faith, especially the fourth commandment. Even among Jews in Israel today, you have the Orthodox, the Conservative and the Reformed groups. More sects exist within that. They do not go by the Old Testament alone but, have their other religious texts including the Mishna, the Talmud, Kabbalah, Zohar, the Code of Jewish law and other sacred texts that nullify their position as God's chosen people. Their entire religion is now a confused species of centuries of apostasy from the truth. They broke their covenant with God. Individual Jews can journey their way into the kingdom but, the nation of Israel and Jerusalem are not a nation of prophecy anymore. The New Jerusalem is -
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Someone is thinking, What about that passage in Zechariah?
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Zec 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zec 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Zec 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
There are 21 verses in the chapter. Read them all in context. You have only to ask one question? Did that day ever come? No. No war over Jerusalem took place with all the nations. Why not? It could have and would have happened, IF the Jews received their Messiah. They rejected Him and the message, designation and representation as God's people went to all who receive Christ as Savior and Lord.
That does not mean the scenes in Zechariah are wholly gone. No. The scene of all scenes is coming, a thousand years from now -
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.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
John saw two scenes in quick succession: the resurrection of the lost and their final executive judgment. The major destructive scene in Zechariah plays out in Rev. 20. The New Jerusalem will descend and rest upon the Old Jerusalem, crushing the city beneath it. The final judgment will then commence with the resurrection of the unrighteous lost from all ages.
"Hell" in those two places above are from the Greek word "Hades." Hades was the place in mythology where departed souls go. Christians do not believe in Greek mythology. Why, then, is the word used? Because it also means grave, and is translated that way in some places. For the Jew, making up the early church and teaching the Gentiles who came in the truth; where do the dead go? The grave. Death and the graves gave up the dead that were in them. The resurrection of the lost. All of it was cast into the lake of fire: the entire seething planet burning to ultimate ash. We see that in volcanoes, do we not? Small streams of fire: lava? That's what is coming for the whole planet.
How do we reconcile "devoured" with "forever and ever" and "the second death?"
Devoured means devoured. Light something on fire and it is devoured to ashes. It does not burn forever. Nothing burns forever and it is castigation of tyranny and despotism upon God to state He creates a magic, supernatural fire that burns forever, as though the redeemed shall enjoy such a display of horror somewhere out there in the universe. 'Come. Let's all take a trip to hell today and see the wicked writhing in torturous agony and pain and suffering for their sins. We haven't been there in a few hundred years.'
Sick. And how would you enjoy heaven knowing a loved one, who chose sin over salvation, is burning somewhere out there. Well, factually, not out there, somewhere. Earth. Earth becomes the lake of fire. What? The lost will be burning below us beneath the crust of the new earth?!?!? Believe it or not, that is proclaimed by some in the professed Christian faith.
The second death is different from the first death but, it is still death. The first death means death: cessation of life but, it is temporary. A resurrection of the righteous shall take place at the second coming of Christ when eternal life shall be given to them. A resurrection of the lost shall take place a thousand years later when God judges the world and the entire planet goes up in smoke because "our God is a consuming fire," and when His full glory is unleashed upon the lost they, Lucifer, the angels who rebelled with him, and this entire planet shall cease to exist and be burned to ashes: the waters evaporated, the rocks and mountains melted down to ash.
Where does "forever and ever" fit in? Hyperbole. If you were John, watching such a horrific scene of the entire planet going up in smoke for days to complete the work of final judgment, and you watched that smoke trail off into space and it looked like it would go... forever and ever, would it not? But, it shall not.
If I look at the ground and say, 'It's going to take me forever to dig this hole'... does it? No. The task is just 'forever' in the mind, as hyperbole, to make a point. Children use the term a lot, especially when it comes to chores.
Having done studies on this at length on my site, let me just place here a few passages of Scripture. There are 40 verses in Psalm 37. Read them all but, regard the truth of this -
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psa 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psa 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psa 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Psa 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psa 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psa 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psa 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Nobody burns forever. It's a literary hyperbole meant to make a point, given John's circumstances in vision. At least 63 times in the KJV Bible the term 'forever' is used to accentuate a temporary period. Christ used hyperbole to make a point. Read Mark chapter 9, and he included comments about the fate of the lost -
Mar 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Mar 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mar 9:44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mar 9:46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
Mar 9:48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mar 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mar 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Anyone for a 350 pound millstone necklace?
Needless to say, Christ was not telling people to cut off hands and feet or gouge out eyes, for none of that can stop a person from sinning in their mind. Do you believe God will use immortal maggots to feed on the lost forever? What? The lost regrow skin and organs to be eaten by maggots forever, that somehow evade being burned in the fire burning up the lost? Yes, that is pretty sick. A total attack upon God's character.
The imagery here is taken from "Gehenna," the word translated hell in these verses; which was a dump outside Jerusalem where trash, garbage, dead criminals, etc., were tossed. Yeah, a disgusting place. Fire kept burning, maggots eating garbage and as long as things were thrown in for fire to burn and maggots to consume, trash and garbage not quenched, maggots and fire not quenched.
What is unquenchable fire? A fire that cannot be quenched; meaning, it cannot be put out, and shall burn until all consumptive material is burned to ash. Fire departments face fires like those all the time. Too hot, too fierce, too much for streams of water to douse. The heat just evaporates the water. When combustible material is lessened, then the unquenchable fire, like unquenchable thirst receiving water, goes out, as thirst is quenched.
Is God going to put a salt of literal fire on His people, to test them? No. Salt was a preservative in Bible times. God shall preserve his people with fiery trials to increase faith and build Christlike character in them and fit them for walking with angels in Heaven.
All of this imagery is found all through the Bible. If you study the Bible, these threads of truth can be put together like pieces of any puzzle. You must allow the Bible to interpret itself. Then things become clear, as we are aided by the Holy Spirit to understand what God has revealed of His character, government and purposes.
I have spent the extra space and time on this tentacle because when you see how easy it has been for Satan to blind sincere believers about this subject, you realize how he has blinded minds on others, as well; including the State of Israel and Bible prophecy.
When the consuming fire of God does its work of purification, then God shall recreate the planet more beautiful than the original Eden and eternity shall commence without even a hint of the rebellion and perpetuation of sin and sinners, which shall all be forgotten as endless time rolls on. It's a reality that used to be understood in better times. Today? More and more Americans do not believe in Heaven or "hell," which in the case of the popular version, is a good thing but, even though God is love, that does not and cannot dismiss justice and judgment. Sin and sinners choosing to cling to their sins shall be eradicated from God's universe. There can be absolutely no question about the truth of Scripture on that point. Our God is a consuming fire. His presence can consume sin in us now or we shall be consumed by his presence a thousand years from now. Our choice to live in God's presence or die in it; the second death. That death is forever. No return. No more chances. It's done. Sin shall be removed from God's universe.
Literal Israel and Jerusalem play no primary or even secondary role in prophecy. The nation had its chances. Messiah came, was rejected, and only individual Jews can make that spiritual connection and enter the kingdom of God through new birth, just like the rest of humanity. Those proclaiming the modern state of Israel; a red calf, the rebuilding of the Temple, etc., are in a Futurist prophetic quagmire of their own making, via Jesuit theology to topple the Reformation, which has largely been successful.
Israel is a postage stamp of earth. If radical Islam gains control of nuclear weapons, Israel, at least Jerusalem is going up in flame and smoke and if and when it happens, all those expecting America and other nations to enter some holy war against Islam will be sorely disappointed.
The region is hot and shall remain hot because the hatred between the two entities is thousands of years old, and Israel disregards modern treaties and agreements made with Arabs. They are bringing destruction upon themselves. It makes no sense but, you see, Israel considers itself God's chosen people, with an inheritance of the land. It is theirs. God will protect them. So they think and believe.
I do not condone anything done by Arabs to wage war against Israel. I do not condone anyone's rockets raining down on any else. I just see it is never going to end until the world ends. Which is why Israel fights so hard for no Arab nation to have nuclear capability. They know what will happen if that takes place. If they struck first, they would lose any semblance of allies in the West. It is certainly a tightrope they walk and regardless of talk from the West, they walk it alone.
For Christians to work with Jews to establish a more solid foundation for Israel in the region are involving themselves in a sinking boat.
Americans and those Americans professing Christian faith, are being sucked into a black hole of lies that is growing exponentially. The truth is there for those who can be led into it. That number seems to be lessening with each passing year.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
Some Great Reading
New people come to the site every week that know nothing about me, my beliefs and convictions about much of anything. Whether regarding drums and drumming, religion or national and world affairs, the site has gotten more eclectic over the years. Regulars know I am a Sabbath-keeping Christian, the biblical seventh-day of the week, fourth commandment and all that. On Sabbath, beginning Friday at sunset, I do a fair amount of studying and reading for writing new posts. I go to a regular dozen or more websites to see what's happening out there and rarely do I not see something worth covering. This past Sabbath was a real treat for me.
The previous two posts grew out of seeing things being stated and done in the religious and/or political/cultural world. Many weeks it's more of the same and I just let it all go by. When I see things regarding the origins subject; the creation/naturalism debate, that strike a chord in me, I share things for your perusal.
People are always asking for proof that God exists. The proof is all around us, in thousands of ways. Yes, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions when all life and all matter is investigated objectively.
Here's an article addressing the Naturalist, Materialist position on human consciousness. Consciousness, conscience, the mind, is a real problem for the Naturalist. There is no reason for random chemicals to make a brain, by a series of accidents, mutations, let alone the mind. It is the position of many in observational sciences that the mind could not be made through such processes. Here is a critique of a Naturalist's position on how consciousness, conscience and morality came into being. I found it a really concise read -
evolutionnews.org/2023/08/self-referential-absurdity-in-a-theory-of-consciousness/
Next is an article on the manipulation of truth; something I have written on extensively since the Covid outbreak. Who has the gatekeeper role of deciding what truth is, in our Constitutional Republic? A really good position is made for the truth on this subject -
www.discovery.org/a/no-one-has-monopoly-on-truth-answers-not-even-govt/
Now for the subject of design in creation - bird feathers. Microscopes and certainly the electron microscope has opened up a world of design factors never understood before. Logical conclusions must be drawn based on the weight of evidence. Is everything from nothing by nothing or, is everything from a Creator, by design? Bird feathers show a side of this argument for creation the entire world should know. In depth -
creation.com/why-feathers-are-so-tough
Here's one on Peacock feathers that will blow your mind. The astronomical chances of such design coming together by accidents, mutations through time is just logically ridiculous. If people want to believe such beauty and design and engineering could come together by accident, you may as well believe a kid can walk into an airplane hanger carrying a paper fighter jet and walk out flying an F-18 -
creation.com/the-beauty-of-the-peacock-tail-and-the-problems-with-the-theory-of-sexual-selection
Lastly, another article of thousands written over the decades on honeybees; masters of insect abilities. Here, a revelation of scientific research into how bees can make such fast decisions, throughout very busy days of hunting for food and finding and communicating sources for nutrition for the queen. Bees do not waste time. They are the most industrious creatures in our world. They are constant testimonies around the globe for the existence and watchcare of a Creator -
www.icr.org/article/honeybees-make-fast-decision/
The nature of the typical honeybee is marvelous. You can walk through a field of clover with thousand of bees buzzing around at your feet and they will just move out of your way and go about their business. The ground dwelling Yellowjacket? Not so much. The African bee? Even less so. Even most wasps, which can inflict a lot of pain, will just move rather than fight and defend themselves if they have an escape route. They exist in droves in Texas, all kinds and I have to share space with them all the time as they build varying nests for their young. I meet the mud daubers in the doorway of my shop every day. They like building their mud containers anywhere they can under protection from moisture. If my shop doors are open, they are there working and really could not care less about me.
Our world is filled with a variety of life, all affected by the fall and sin and yet, by and large, nature that can do damage to human beings minds it's own business. They protect their young and their territories but, usually give us all some pretty profound space to not get hurt. The symbiotic relationships between creatures and/or plant-life contains innumerable examples that threaten the entire premise of accidental changes over time. It's a now or never/death situation and they exist everywhere, including the development of a child in the womb.
When the Bible says nobody can have an excuse not to believe, that is the truth -
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The previous two posts grew out of seeing things being stated and done in the religious and/or political/cultural world. Many weeks it's more of the same and I just let it all go by. When I see things regarding the origins subject; the creation/naturalism debate, that strike a chord in me, I share things for your perusal.
People are always asking for proof that God exists. The proof is all around us, in thousands of ways. Yes, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions when all life and all matter is investigated objectively.
Here's an article addressing the Naturalist, Materialist position on human consciousness. Consciousness, conscience, the mind, is a real problem for the Naturalist. There is no reason for random chemicals to make a brain, by a series of accidents, mutations, let alone the mind. It is the position of many in observational sciences that the mind could not be made through such processes. Here is a critique of a Naturalist's position on how consciousness, conscience and morality came into being. I found it a really concise read -
evolutionnews.org/2023/08/self-referential-absurdity-in-a-theory-of-consciousness/
Next is an article on the manipulation of truth; something I have written on extensively since the Covid outbreak. Who has the gatekeeper role of deciding what truth is, in our Constitutional Republic? A really good position is made for the truth on this subject -
www.discovery.org/a/no-one-has-monopoly-on-truth-answers-not-even-govt/
Now for the subject of design in creation - bird feathers. Microscopes and certainly the electron microscope has opened up a world of design factors never understood before. Logical conclusions must be drawn based on the weight of evidence. Is everything from nothing by nothing or, is everything from a Creator, by design? Bird feathers show a side of this argument for creation the entire world should know. In depth -
creation.com/why-feathers-are-so-tough
Here's one on Peacock feathers that will blow your mind. The astronomical chances of such design coming together by accidents, mutations through time is just logically ridiculous. If people want to believe such beauty and design and engineering could come together by accident, you may as well believe a kid can walk into an airplane hanger carrying a paper fighter jet and walk out flying an F-18 -
creation.com/the-beauty-of-the-peacock-tail-and-the-problems-with-the-theory-of-sexual-selection
Lastly, another article of thousands written over the decades on honeybees; masters of insect abilities. Here, a revelation of scientific research into how bees can make such fast decisions, throughout very busy days of hunting for food and finding and communicating sources for nutrition for the queen. Bees do not waste time. They are the most industrious creatures in our world. They are constant testimonies around the globe for the existence and watchcare of a Creator -
www.icr.org/article/honeybees-make-fast-decision/
The nature of the typical honeybee is marvelous. You can walk through a field of clover with thousand of bees buzzing around at your feet and they will just move out of your way and go about their business. The ground dwelling Yellowjacket? Not so much. The African bee? Even less so. Even most wasps, which can inflict a lot of pain, will just move rather than fight and defend themselves if they have an escape route. They exist in droves in Texas, all kinds and I have to share space with them all the time as they build varying nests for their young. I meet the mud daubers in the doorway of my shop every day. They like building their mud containers anywhere they can under protection from moisture. If my shop doors are open, they are there working and really could not care less about me.
Our world is filled with a variety of life, all affected by the fall and sin and yet, by and large, nature that can do damage to human beings minds it's own business. They protect their young and their territories but, usually give us all some pretty profound space to not get hurt. The symbiotic relationships between creatures and/or plant-life contains innumerable examples that threaten the entire premise of accidental changes over time. It's a now or never/death situation and they exist everywhere, including the development of a child in the womb.
When the Bible says nobody can have an excuse not to believe, that is the truth -
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
821. Is This True? Explosion Time-
August 7, 2023
A friend sent me this link -
gab.com/TheRealDonaldTrumpet/posts/110838664501847981
You will see this -
Donald Trumpet@TheRealDonaldTrumpet
1d··Edited
Trump Card incoming…
THIS DOD TASK FORCE OFFICIAL JUST ADMITTED ON LIVE TV, before 2 news anchors:
1) @realdonaldtrump
ended the Bankrupt UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION in 2018.
2) The Queen of England & Pope were BOTH officially notified that THE ACT OF 1871 had ended, America was returning to a Constitutional Republic, and was no longer a Corporation owned by The Crown and The Vatican.
3) The @SpaceForceDoD
has ALL 2020 ELECTION FRAUD DATA, Records, Videos, Counterfeit Ballots, Illicit Payments, Emails, etc., AND IT WILL ALL BE SUBPOENAED IN COURT as defense evidence thanks to Jack Smith, Joe Biden & the Deep State. This Exposes Everyone!
4) Of the 60 Election Fraud Cases filed over the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump WON 2 and 57 cases were NEVER HEARD because Judges declared “no standing.” IT HAS NEVER BEEN TRUE “there’s no evidence” OR “Trump lost 60 Court cases.” Both were/are total media lies.
5) 650 U.S. Military Cargo Planes filled with U.S. Gold were collected from underneath The Vatican and returned to America. [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
TRUE???
I just watched the video. The woman being interviewed is Jan Halper-Hayes, a former member of the DoD Task Force and former Trump Transition Team member. The arrogance of the male British News reporter is certainly on display but, she straightens them both out with facts: among them, information relating to some of the above bullet points. This is all new to me and seriously alarming. It makes things, potentially, even more explosive when this trial hits. It certainly makes sense of the way things have happened in this nation for the last 140 years.
It also brings Bible prophecy into it, with the Vatican being involved.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking into this, I came upon these website articles. If you are a citizen of the United States; if you are a patriot, the information contained in these two articles will cause you great distress.
In a nut shell, the Civil War bankrupted the nation. America borrowed money from England (central bankers, Rothchild's, etc.), and the Vatican (which sided with Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederation in the war). Both the bankers and the Vatican had much to gain. Ultimately in 1871 a new government was formed, as a corporation. It was no longer a government of, by and for the people. It was a for profit making business. Through other government decrees the situation just became worse for Americans, no longer owning the government. The government owns the people, and the Bankers and Vatican own the government.
Allegedly, Donald Trump, through an executive order in 2018, changed it all back to pre-1871 standards. The corporation was dissolved, the debts canceled. This is something he apparently knew for a long time before he was elected. After his election, he signed an executive order to protect elections from any foreign interference. The 2020 election instantly became null and void because of suspected foreign interference through hackable machines from outside American borders. Trump immediately began to speak out after the election results went bats after midnight.
The current indictment and trial will offer Trump legal recourse to subpoena witnesses and credibly blow the doors off the courtroom hinges. The basic history of the 1871 Act is contained in these two articles below. I have yet to research Trump's involvement in trying to right a sinking ship. If it is true, the Democrats have not just misplayed their hand; they have shot themselves in the head and the entire cabal could come crashing to the ground because, in fact, all elections are just political theater -
www.newshawknetwork.com/united-state-history-constitution/dc-organic-act-1871-changed-everything/
www.newshawknetwork.com/united-state-history-constitution/the-act-of-1871-changes-everything-part-2/
No joke. Every single person aligned with Trump is in possible danger. The cabal cannot allow this information to get into the hands of citizens at large and certainly not allow their tower to topple. For Trump to be successful, every American who loves their country; Right, Center, Left should rise up and tell their representatives the gig is up, the facade is down, and the corruption must cease.
This all being new to me, you may know much more than I do. I had heard of the Act of 1871 before but, not in this light. What I can see is another civil war taking place. The nature of the corruption in D.C. has taken on a whole new darkness in my eyes. Every single elected civil servant is NOT a servant of the Constitution but, a servant of the new Corporation's constitution and central banks and the Vatican, if indeed, Donald Trump did not change it all through Executive Order. If he did, may God truly surround him with angels that excel in strength. Either the rats leave the sinking ship or they join together to literally smother Trump. Time will soon tell.
The entire indictment has interesting ramifications. A case like this can take a couple years to actually go to court. Lots of maneuvering by attorneys. It's just a courtroom chessboard in play. BUT, obviously the 2024 election is just 15 months away. The cabal must make Trump a felon to keep him from running. The thing is, the original Constitution is meaningless, via 1871. Using it to sideline Trump will become an open door issue, because Trump's team will surely bring all the history to light.
The intrigue of this is potentially the biggest fight America will ever face. The influence of the Vatican and legislation of Sunday as the national day of rest is certainly on the table and expect it all to come into focus through all this, depending on how it goes.
Monumental times for sure.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
gab.com/TheRealDonaldTrumpet/posts/110838664501847981
You will see this -
Donald Trumpet@TheRealDonaldTrumpet
1d··Edited
Trump Card incoming…
THIS DOD TASK FORCE OFFICIAL JUST ADMITTED ON LIVE TV, before 2 news anchors:
1) @realdonaldtrump
ended the Bankrupt UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION in 2018.
2) The Queen of England & Pope were BOTH officially notified that THE ACT OF 1871 had ended, America was returning to a Constitutional Republic, and was no longer a Corporation owned by The Crown and The Vatican.
3) The @SpaceForceDoD
has ALL 2020 ELECTION FRAUD DATA, Records, Videos, Counterfeit Ballots, Illicit Payments, Emails, etc., AND IT WILL ALL BE SUBPOENAED IN COURT as defense evidence thanks to Jack Smith, Joe Biden & the Deep State. This Exposes Everyone!
4) Of the 60 Election Fraud Cases filed over the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump WON 2 and 57 cases were NEVER HEARD because Judges declared “no standing.” IT HAS NEVER BEEN TRUE “there’s no evidence” OR “Trump lost 60 Court cases.” Both were/are total media lies.
5) 650 U.S. Military Cargo Planes filled with U.S. Gold were collected from underneath The Vatican and returned to America. [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
TRUE???
I just watched the video. The woman being interviewed is Jan Halper-Hayes, a former member of the DoD Task Force and former Trump Transition Team member. The arrogance of the male British News reporter is certainly on display but, she straightens them both out with facts: among them, information relating to some of the above bullet points. This is all new to me and seriously alarming. It makes things, potentially, even more explosive when this trial hits. It certainly makes sense of the way things have happened in this nation for the last 140 years.
It also brings Bible prophecy into it, with the Vatican being involved.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking into this, I came upon these website articles. If you are a citizen of the United States; if you are a patriot, the information contained in these two articles will cause you great distress.
In a nut shell, the Civil War bankrupted the nation. America borrowed money from England (central bankers, Rothchild's, etc.), and the Vatican (which sided with Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederation in the war). Both the bankers and the Vatican had much to gain. Ultimately in 1871 a new government was formed, as a corporation. It was no longer a government of, by and for the people. It was a for profit making business. Through other government decrees the situation just became worse for Americans, no longer owning the government. The government owns the people, and the Bankers and Vatican own the government.
Allegedly, Donald Trump, through an executive order in 2018, changed it all back to pre-1871 standards. The corporation was dissolved, the debts canceled. This is something he apparently knew for a long time before he was elected. After his election, he signed an executive order to protect elections from any foreign interference. The 2020 election instantly became null and void because of suspected foreign interference through hackable machines from outside American borders. Trump immediately began to speak out after the election results went bats after midnight.
The current indictment and trial will offer Trump legal recourse to subpoena witnesses and credibly blow the doors off the courtroom hinges. The basic history of the 1871 Act is contained in these two articles below. I have yet to research Trump's involvement in trying to right a sinking ship. If it is true, the Democrats have not just misplayed their hand; they have shot themselves in the head and the entire cabal could come crashing to the ground because, in fact, all elections are just political theater -
www.newshawknetwork.com/united-state-history-constitution/dc-organic-act-1871-changed-everything/
www.newshawknetwork.com/united-state-history-constitution/the-act-of-1871-changes-everything-part-2/
No joke. Every single person aligned with Trump is in possible danger. The cabal cannot allow this information to get into the hands of citizens at large and certainly not allow their tower to topple. For Trump to be successful, every American who loves their country; Right, Center, Left should rise up and tell their representatives the gig is up, the facade is down, and the corruption must cease.
This all being new to me, you may know much more than I do. I had heard of the Act of 1871 before but, not in this light. What I can see is another civil war taking place. The nature of the corruption in D.C. has taken on a whole new darkness in my eyes. Every single elected civil servant is NOT a servant of the Constitution but, a servant of the new Corporation's constitution and central banks and the Vatican, if indeed, Donald Trump did not change it all through Executive Order. If he did, may God truly surround him with angels that excel in strength. Either the rats leave the sinking ship or they join together to literally smother Trump. Time will soon tell.
The entire indictment has interesting ramifications. A case like this can take a couple years to actually go to court. Lots of maneuvering by attorneys. It's just a courtroom chessboard in play. BUT, obviously the 2024 election is just 15 months away. The cabal must make Trump a felon to keep him from running. The thing is, the original Constitution is meaningless, via 1871. Using it to sideline Trump will become an open door issue, because Trump's team will surely bring all the history to light.
The intrigue of this is potentially the biggest fight America will ever face. The influence of the Vatican and legislation of Sunday as the national day of rest is certainly on the table and expect it all to come into focus through all this, depending on how it goes.
Monumental times for sure.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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822. Two Popes in the House - August 7, 2023
The United States Capitol has undergone numerous renovations of buildings down through time. I just learned something quite interesting.
In 1949/50 work was done in the Capitol Building and in the House of Representatives, over its doors are placed relief plaques of various people down through history who had something to do with codifying of law that American law is based on. There are 23 plaques in all.
7 are kings, emperors, etc.
6 are international statesmen
4 are legal authors
2 are American civil servants
2 are popes
1 philosopher
1 biblical character
www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/relief-portrait-plaques-lawgivers
Many of those personages overlap categories. Yes, 2 popes. Innocent III and Gregory IX. Both were known, according to the .gov site, for retaining or preserving aspects of Roman Law. Interesting? Ask yourself, what would the representative of Jesus Christ, the Vicar of Christ on Earth have to do with preserving the influence of secular law when Jesus, Himself said His kingdom is not of this world? When followers tried to make Him king, He fled from the scene and went up a mountain to pray, John 6:1-15. Obviously the confusion controlling the Jewish people was acute. He had much to try and get through to them about the principles of God government. The Jewish system had become completely corrupt. He bypassed it. Another corrupt system was prophesied to arise and become much worse.
Now, Innocent III was a powerful man. He controlled the "Papal States:" he governed secular entities. He did not preside as some pastor over them, like the House chaplain or something. No, no. He had final say over the governments. The Papal States were territories in central Italy.
"Pope Innocent III, also known as Lothair of Segni, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 until his death on 16 July 1216.1 He was one of the most influential pontiffs of the Middle Ages and built the papacy into a more powerful and prestigious institution than it had ever been before.3 Innocent III reformed the Roman Curia, reestablished and expanded the pope’s authority over the Papal States, worked tirelessly to launch Crusades to recover the Holy Land, combated heresy in Italy and southern France, shaped a powerful and original doctrine of papal power within the church and in secular affairs, and presided over the Fourth Lateran Council, which reformed many clerical and lay practices within the church.0 He was born into a noble Italian family and studied theology in Paris and canon law in Bologna. At 30, his uncle, Pope Clement III, made him a cardinal, and the day after Pope Celestine III died, Innocent became one of the youngest men ever selected to sit in Peter's Chair.
Does that sound like a biography of Jesus Christ and His ministry?
Pope Gregory IX was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the Decretales and instituting the Papal Inquisition, in response to the failures of the episcopal inquisitions established during the time of Pope Lucius III, by means of the papal bull Ad abolendam, issued in 1184.14 Gregory was a canon lawyer, theologian, defender of papal prerogatives, and founder of the papal Inquisition.0 The Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1234, was the first collection of canon law for the Catholic Church invested with universal and exclusive authority, and was the culmination of a century and a half process by which the a now papal-led Church came to be the leading institution within medieval European society.2 Gregory IX served as pope for more than 14 years, making him one of the longest-serving popes of the century.3
Does that sound like the biography of Jesus Christ and His ministry?
Does any of that reflect the ministry of the Son of man, the Son of God, the Savior of the world?
My web browser, Brave, will take a searches and compile a summary paragraph with its search A.I. The footnote numbers you see reference various sites; in this case Wiki, Britannica.com, historyofpopes.com, etc.
People can become angry with those who believe the papacy is the fulfillment of prophecy in regards to the man of sin, the power of the antichrist, the Beast, Mother of harlots, etc., but, the popes have brought it all upon themselves by their belief they are Christ's representative on Earth and also a continuing line of Roman law and order, hence, Pontifex Maximus; the title given to the Roman emperors. The 'chief bridge builders' between heaven and earth are what the popes consider themselves. They put themselves "in place of Christ," which is exactly what "antechristos" means.
Christ is the living connection and Ambassador between Heaven and earth, not the Popes, not the entire system of hierarchical government the Roman Catholic Church functions with. And I can guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics have little to no idea just how far the aspects of their system reaches.
Now, back to the U.S. Capitol. There is no way in "hell" the Founders would have allowed relief work of two popes, especially those two popes, to be placed in the halls of our Constitutional Republic: a government of, by and for the people but, by 1949 America was but a faint shadow of its former self, no longer sustained by the principles of Protestantism.
How did those two popes end up on on the walls of the House?
"The subjects of the reliefs were chosen by scholars from the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., in consultation with authoritative staff members of the Library of Congress. The selection was approved by a special committee of five Members of the House of Representatives and the Architect of the Capitol."
Canon Law, Papal Law, Bulls and Decrees have nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights. I state the first 10 because of what I am learning about the Act of 1871 and changes that took place regarding the American government.
I know if I do more research I will find more evidence of how the Vatican has a controlling influence in Washington, D.C.. Along with the banksters, or more sure, against the banksters, a final battle will be waged. The Papacy ends up top dog. Then the end will come.
It is appearing nothing is as it seems in America, other than the systemic corruption controlling the Federal government. Where will it all roll next?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In 1949/50 work was done in the Capitol Building and in the House of Representatives, over its doors are placed relief plaques of various people down through history who had something to do with codifying of law that American law is based on. There are 23 plaques in all.
7 are kings, emperors, etc.
6 are international statesmen
4 are legal authors
2 are American civil servants
2 are popes
1 philosopher
1 biblical character
www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/relief-portrait-plaques-lawgivers
Many of those personages overlap categories. Yes, 2 popes. Innocent III and Gregory IX. Both were known, according to the .gov site, for retaining or preserving aspects of Roman Law. Interesting? Ask yourself, what would the representative of Jesus Christ, the Vicar of Christ on Earth have to do with preserving the influence of secular law when Jesus, Himself said His kingdom is not of this world? When followers tried to make Him king, He fled from the scene and went up a mountain to pray, John 6:1-15. Obviously the confusion controlling the Jewish people was acute. He had much to try and get through to them about the principles of God government. The Jewish system had become completely corrupt. He bypassed it. Another corrupt system was prophesied to arise and become much worse.
Now, Innocent III was a powerful man. He controlled the "Papal States:" he governed secular entities. He did not preside as some pastor over them, like the House chaplain or something. No, no. He had final say over the governments. The Papal States were territories in central Italy.
"Pope Innocent III, also known as Lothair of Segni, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 until his death on 16 July 1216.1 He was one of the most influential pontiffs of the Middle Ages and built the papacy into a more powerful and prestigious institution than it had ever been before.3 Innocent III reformed the Roman Curia, reestablished and expanded the pope’s authority over the Papal States, worked tirelessly to launch Crusades to recover the Holy Land, combated heresy in Italy and southern France, shaped a powerful and original doctrine of papal power within the church and in secular affairs, and presided over the Fourth Lateran Council, which reformed many clerical and lay practices within the church.0 He was born into a noble Italian family and studied theology in Paris and canon law in Bologna. At 30, his uncle, Pope Clement III, made him a cardinal, and the day after Pope Celestine III died, Innocent became one of the youngest men ever selected to sit in Peter's Chair.
Does that sound like a biography of Jesus Christ and His ministry?
Pope Gregory IX was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the Decretales and instituting the Papal Inquisition, in response to the failures of the episcopal inquisitions established during the time of Pope Lucius III, by means of the papal bull Ad abolendam, issued in 1184.14 Gregory was a canon lawyer, theologian, defender of papal prerogatives, and founder of the papal Inquisition.0 The Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1234, was the first collection of canon law for the Catholic Church invested with universal and exclusive authority, and was the culmination of a century and a half process by which the a now papal-led Church came to be the leading institution within medieval European society.2 Gregory IX served as pope for more than 14 years, making him one of the longest-serving popes of the century.3
Does that sound like the biography of Jesus Christ and His ministry?
Does any of that reflect the ministry of the Son of man, the Son of God, the Savior of the world?
My web browser, Brave, will take a searches and compile a summary paragraph with its search A.I. The footnote numbers you see reference various sites; in this case Wiki, Britannica.com, historyofpopes.com, etc.
People can become angry with those who believe the papacy is the fulfillment of prophecy in regards to the man of sin, the power of the antichrist, the Beast, Mother of harlots, etc., but, the popes have brought it all upon themselves by their belief they are Christ's representative on Earth and also a continuing line of Roman law and order, hence, Pontifex Maximus; the title given to the Roman emperors. The 'chief bridge builders' between heaven and earth are what the popes consider themselves. They put themselves "in place of Christ," which is exactly what "antechristos" means.
Christ is the living connection and Ambassador between Heaven and earth, not the Popes, not the entire system of hierarchical government the Roman Catholic Church functions with. And I can guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics have little to no idea just how far the aspects of their system reaches.
Now, back to the U.S. Capitol. There is no way in "hell" the Founders would have allowed relief work of two popes, especially those two popes, to be placed in the halls of our Constitutional Republic: a government of, by and for the people but, by 1949 America was but a faint shadow of its former self, no longer sustained by the principles of Protestantism.
How did those two popes end up on on the walls of the House?
"The subjects of the reliefs were chosen by scholars from the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., in consultation with authoritative staff members of the Library of Congress. The selection was approved by a special committee of five Members of the House of Representatives and the Architect of the Capitol."
Canon Law, Papal Law, Bulls and Decrees have nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights. I state the first 10 because of what I am learning about the Act of 1871 and changes that took place regarding the American government.
I know if I do more research I will find more evidence of how the Vatican has a controlling influence in Washington, D.C.. Along with the banksters, or more sure, against the banksters, a final battle will be waged. The Papacy ends up top dog. Then the end will come.
It is appearing nothing is as it seems in America, other than the systemic corruption controlling the Federal government. Where will it all roll next?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Riots
The riot that took place at Union Station, in New York City caused me to wonder if any other such unfortunate circumstances developed elsewhere in the past month. Indeed.
A riot took place at an LA youth detention center, as well as a prison in Manitoba. Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and Stockholm, Sweden experienced riots or "borderline" riots. Police were injured, sadly by youth involved, bearing no traditional semblance of listening to voices of civic order and authority.
A planned criminal riot slated for the heavy business/shopping district on Oxford Street, London, apparently devised on TikTok, brought about warnings from Mayor Sadiq Kahn, to stay away, and that a heavy police presence would be seen.
Riots are not new, of course. I ask, are we seeing a frequency change in the number of riots taking place? To have a riot take place because a social media influencer stated there would be a PlayStation5 give away, bringing out over 1000 teens and youth, caused literal terror for people there and injuries to citizens and police, is a pretty off-the-wall occurrence. But, you see, we are no longer seeing people hoping they get the prize. We are seeing people out to get the prize no matter what, as though they are entitled to the prize.
We will watch things get worse, as time increases the inner sins of humanity to care only about self.
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.
Gen 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
While it will not happen overnight, for that would raise too many questions in people's minds; it will take place in a way - lobsters in a pot - to lull humanity to sleep; to not see what is taking place. Violence will increase and do so surrounding generally benign events of life. We have already seen enormous riots break out during sporting events or police shootings or gang activity. "Christmas" shopping, festivals, giveaways? Attitudes towards police authority have warn so thin, in many cities across America, officers have left major city forces for employment elsewhere. While a "police state" is literally being activated in America, and we see this in the news constantly now, especially involving political enemies of Democrats and the current administration; we also see an attitude of people saying enough is enough and officers just trying to do their normal jobs of keeping the peace, risk their lives on America's city streets. It is now being seen in cities all over the globe.
Violence. It is going to become worse because human hearts are hardening and becoming calloused and cold, Matt. 24:12.
Ask yourself the last time you heard of a six-year-old child saying this -
'Shot that bitch dead:'
www.wtkr.com/news/shot-that-b-dead-unsealed-search-warrants-reveal-new-details-on-day-richneck-teacher-shot
News stories are *** the "itc." I will not. A 'bitch' is a female dog. Calling human females a bitch shows the degeneracy of the human race. From the mouth of a six-year-old? Seriously? Something is very wrong.
The coin is circling the funnel, gaining speed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A riot took place at an LA youth detention center, as well as a prison in Manitoba. Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and Stockholm, Sweden experienced riots or "borderline" riots. Police were injured, sadly by youth involved, bearing no traditional semblance of listening to voices of civic order and authority.
A planned criminal riot slated for the heavy business/shopping district on Oxford Street, London, apparently devised on TikTok, brought about warnings from Mayor Sadiq Kahn, to stay away, and that a heavy police presence would be seen.
Riots are not new, of course. I ask, are we seeing a frequency change in the number of riots taking place? To have a riot take place because a social media influencer stated there would be a PlayStation5 give away, bringing out over 1000 teens and youth, caused literal terror for people there and injuries to citizens and police, is a pretty off-the-wall occurrence. But, you see, we are no longer seeing people hoping they get the prize. We are seeing people out to get the prize no matter what, as though they are entitled to the prize.
We will watch things get worse, as time increases the inner sins of humanity to care only about self.
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.
Gen 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
While it will not happen overnight, for that would raise too many questions in people's minds; it will take place in a way - lobsters in a pot - to lull humanity to sleep; to not see what is taking place. Violence will increase and do so surrounding generally benign events of life. We have already seen enormous riots break out during sporting events or police shootings or gang activity. "Christmas" shopping, festivals, giveaways? Attitudes towards police authority have warn so thin, in many cities across America, officers have left major city forces for employment elsewhere. While a "police state" is literally being activated in America, and we see this in the news constantly now, especially involving political enemies of Democrats and the current administration; we also see an attitude of people saying enough is enough and officers just trying to do their normal jobs of keeping the peace, risk their lives on America's city streets. It is now being seen in cities all over the globe.
Violence. It is going to become worse because human hearts are hardening and becoming calloused and cold, Matt. 24:12.
Ask yourself the last time you heard of a six-year-old child saying this -
'Shot that bitch dead:'
www.wtkr.com/news/shot-that-b-dead-unsealed-search-warrants-reveal-new-details-on-day-richneck-teacher-shot
News stories are *** the "itc." I will not. A 'bitch' is a female dog. Calling human females a bitch shows the degeneracy of the human race. From the mouth of a six-year-old? Seriously? Something is very wrong.
The coin is circling the funnel, gaining speed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Tucker, Steven Sund, J6
"Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back."
twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1689783814594174976
Fifty-five minutes of shocking testimony by Sund on the events of January 6, 2021. I state shocking, based on the factual testimony he gives but, after all this time, anyone - ANYONE - with any critical thinking skills, logic and common sense, knows January 6th was a primed set-up by the intelligence communities and in no way an insurrection by American citizens who went to the Capitol to peaceful protest the 2020 election fraud.
Sund gives testimony on events leading up to the day, during the day and post-observations in his book on the event.
Instant pushback by Leftists calls him a conspiracy theorist. He theorizes little to nothing. He just states facts. Tucker theorizes, logically. Common sense would raise the questions that should and must be asked to move investigation forward for answers to see if an actual conspiracy to turn the event on its head, took place.
You will shake your head, over and over, listening to Sund.
Anyone with any sense knows, sees the corruption in Washington, D.C. It is one thing when a lie has to be tracked down. It's another when lies are heard in the moment, as is so often the case from anyone in D.C. who opens their mouth these days. We should all feel deeply incensed at such depravity of guttural intent from people who take oaths for civil service.
We can only hope whoever becomes POTUS in 2024 will exonerate all J6 citizens arrested and jailed, many still awaiting trial, and give them their lives back, and all conspirators involved in that event take their place in incarceration. Evil took place that day and since, and it did not come from American patriots who love their country.
God help us.
twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1689783814594174976
Fifty-five minutes of shocking testimony by Sund on the events of January 6, 2021. I state shocking, based on the factual testimony he gives but, after all this time, anyone - ANYONE - with any critical thinking skills, logic and common sense, knows January 6th was a primed set-up by the intelligence communities and in no way an insurrection by American citizens who went to the Capitol to peaceful protest the 2020 election fraud.
Sund gives testimony on events leading up to the day, during the day and post-observations in his book on the event.
Instant pushback by Leftists calls him a conspiracy theorist. He theorizes little to nothing. He just states facts. Tucker theorizes, logically. Common sense would raise the questions that should and must be asked to move investigation forward for answers to see if an actual conspiracy to turn the event on its head, took place.
You will shake your head, over and over, listening to Sund.
Anyone with any sense knows, sees the corruption in Washington, D.C. It is one thing when a lie has to be tracked down. It's another when lies are heard in the moment, as is so often the case from anyone in D.C. who opens their mouth these days. We should all feel deeply incensed at such depravity of guttural intent from people who take oaths for civil service.
We can only hope whoever becomes POTUS in 2024 will exonerate all J6 citizens arrested and jailed, many still awaiting trial, and give them their lives back, and all conspirators involved in that event take their place in incarceration. Evil took place that day and since, and it did not come from American patriots who love their country.
God help us.
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Karen Kingston Needs Prayer
Karen Kingston is a former employee of the pharmaceutical industry; a researcher - a professional researcher - well acquainted with patents and law. She began to speak out about the Covid situation early on and provided the public with stacks of research on the virus and the "vaccines." She has been a frontline wall of information against the cabal's attempts to use the human race as Guinea Pigs for their gene therapy subjugation. I have mentioned her here, before. She has been a frequent guest on the Stew Peters program and others, as well as being involved in public speaking and seminars to get her message out there. She has become a very unwelcome thorn in the cabal's side. She needs our prayers for God's protection upon her.
A recent video shows a haggard and wholly unrecognizable Kingston in Mexico, fleeing for her life. The dramatic video may seem rather outlandish until we realize the 20th century has shown the results of dissenters from government and corporate corruption, over and over again. Americans just have never been in such a situation as the current one, where nothing employees of government tell us can be trusted, as agencies meant for keeping the Constitution upheld and rights of Americans sound have been turned into weapons against those who stand up to them. Think Snowden, Assange, and literally dozens of other whistleblowers in America and other nations which have had to flee for their own safety for doing the right thing.
Watch the video, which looks to be streamed and has some problems with phone reception at her location, and decide for yourself just how corrupt and dangerous is the current crop of federal life forms upon Americans who want their God-given freedoms and liberties maintained.
rumble.com/v35zjoi-karen-kingston-poisoned-calls-out-robert-malone-and-others.html
Her comments and concerns about Dr. Robert Malone, patent holder on mRNA technology and another voice which began to speak out, are interesting, to say the least. It's difficult to make sense of all the lines of silk in the current web of government underhandedness.
Call me whatever you will. The only sure anchor is the Bible and standard of truth and exposure of coming events it gives us. Which leads me into my next post ...
A recent video shows a haggard and wholly unrecognizable Kingston in Mexico, fleeing for her life. The dramatic video may seem rather outlandish until we realize the 20th century has shown the results of dissenters from government and corporate corruption, over and over again. Americans just have never been in such a situation as the current one, where nothing employees of government tell us can be trusted, as agencies meant for keeping the Constitution upheld and rights of Americans sound have been turned into weapons against those who stand up to them. Think Snowden, Assange, and literally dozens of other whistleblowers in America and other nations which have had to flee for their own safety for doing the right thing.
Watch the video, which looks to be streamed and has some problems with phone reception at her location, and decide for yourself just how corrupt and dangerous is the current crop of federal life forms upon Americans who want their God-given freedoms and liberties maintained.
rumble.com/v35zjoi-karen-kingston-poisoned-calls-out-robert-malone-and-others.html
Her comments and concerns about Dr. Robert Malone, patent holder on mRNA technology and another voice which began to speak out, are interesting, to say the least. It's difficult to make sense of all the lines of silk in the current web of government underhandedness.
Call me whatever you will. The only sure anchor is the Bible and standard of truth and exposure of coming events it gives us. Which leads me into my next post ...
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823. A Warning Grossly Misplaced - 7/12/23
I am not familiar with the ministry of Michael Youssef. Never heard of him before. Apparently he holds a prominent place in the evangelical world. I am seeing headlines associated with his ministry on most Christian news sites I have been to this week. They are alarming, not because of his warnings but, because of the warnings. I know, that seems quite confusing. Behold -
www.christianpost.com/news/michael-youssef-warns-of-coming-deception-by-antichrist.html
www.christianpost.com/news/michael-youssef-holding-worldwide-evangelistic-events.html
"Michael Youssef warns biblical illiteracy is setting the stage for world's deception by the Antichrist (pt. 1)"
"Michael Youssef holding worldwide evangelistic events to combat fading Gospel understanding (pt. 2)"
The headlines, themselves, tell you the problem. Do you see it? If you are a Historicist, when it comes to Bible prophecy, you see it instantly and know what has faded is the correct principle of interpreting the prophecies of Daniel, Revelation and other places throughout Scripture; portraying information about things leading up to last-day events.
Jesuit (Ribera) Futurism states the antichrist is yet to come. He'll be either a Jew, an Arab, or possibly some prominent, even mega billionaire political figure. I have seen variations on those themes.
Protestant Historicism states the antichrist came a millennium and a half ago - the establishment of the political Papacy as sovereign over all the Roman empire: a continuation of the Roman empire.
Jesuit (Alcazar) Preterism states antichrist already came, as most prophetic events were fulfilled in the first century with Nero and pagan Rome, etc.
Those are the three lines of reasoning Christians have used to understand Bible prophecy. The current condition of professed Christendom is decidedly Futurist with some Preterist commentators out there. Historicism, which fueled the Reformation for all of Bible students and Protestants in Europe and Western civilization for centuries, has become the faded pursuit of understanding.
"Prominent pastor and author Michael Youssef has warned that many churches today are failing to teach the whole Gospel or equip Christians with biblical knowledge, setting the stage for the world to be deceived by the Antichrist.
"In an interview with The Christian Post, the 74-year-old pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, homed in on the increasing biblical illiteracy prevalent among professing Christians, something he sees as the “great problem with the Church in America.”
“Biblical illiteracy is rampant, and people are going to fall for deception, for false teachings, for anything, because they're not grounded in the Word of God,” he said."
While it is always a good thing when an appeal for better biblical understanding is made, the current confusion within almost all of professed Christendom comes from missing important biblical truth and a solid foundation for understanding prophetic books and literature. Biblical illiteracy is rampant. No doubt there. The overwhelming problem was the entrance of Roman Catholic, Jesuit, Counter Reformation literature and the apostasy of Protestantism to eventually accept it as truth. That is not to mention other important truths playing a major role in last-day events, skewered by falsehoods like the immortality of a "soul;" a currently burning "hell;" the non-perpetuity of the ten commandments and especially the fourth commandment-the seventh-day Sabbath; eternal security; the role of the state of Israel; and other monkey wrenches thrown into the minds of believers. It has all been placed into a basket of "confusion:" spiritual, prophetic Babylon; with a final call from God to come out of it before the end strikes like a tsunami upon a world refusing to acknowledge the truth.
Youssef's call for literacy is pretty much a worthless call, in the sense he is a Futurist and people are going to be caught totally unawares waiting for a secret rapture when human probation closes and the world is thrust into the seven last judgments of God upon an evil, dangerous, rebellious world.
The persecution of any professed Christian is a reprehensible act in a nation with a rule of law and Bill of Rights such as America has. Yet, in America, harassment, oppression and even persecution takes place every, single day somewhere in this nation. We expect it to be seen in lands controlled by paganism or atheism. Not in nations of the West, founded upon biblical principles. Those principles have faded, if not wholly been lost.
What is America when Christians who stand praying silently in front of an abortion clinic are arrested but, hordes of violent people can trash cities, public and private property, attack Christian events, and even have such a group as Antifa allowed to pursue its violent, anti-American agenda? What is it when private citizens can be arrested for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic (which rarely takes place, btw) yet private citizens eating dinner in a restaurant can be surrounded and harassed by radical Leftists and nothing happens to them? They can block doorways to establishments standing for biblical truth but, nothing happens to them. Even if it is falsehood, every person has a right to believe what they believe in peace. Nobody gets to walk through life unoffended. Nobody has a right, when offended, to stop someone's freedom to believe and speak what they believe. It is the ignorance of people, causing problems in America and the West. Not the ignorance of the agenda-driven Leftist who only cares about results, not the rule of law. Aside from useful idiots, they know exactly what they are doing. It is the ignorance of Americans and/or their cowardice to stand against all agenda-driven mobs with truth and Rights granted by God. The tactic of wearing out the enemy so they have no energy to fight back is working well in America.
In the previous post, Karen Kingston would welcome any invitation to debate detractors in open forum. She'd welcome a day in court to show her research but, no. The real dangerous entities hunt down dissidents. They cannot be allowed to speak to the general public. They must be stopped. So it has been in every corrupted civilization in history, even Israel, as God's people and in the professed Christian church down through the ages.
America is engaged in a cultural, civil war precisely because the churches have been captured by aspects of the culture that has weakened them to a point of no influence upon society. Within that, a political remedy has been proposed. It began with groups like the moral majority and continues today with talk of "Christian nationalism." None of it can help America.
Let Youseff, himself, show you the crux of the matter -
“This is what is preached from major pulpits: homosexuality was wrong in the Old Testament because it was associated with pagan worship, but not in the New Testament,” he said.
“That is not true, because the Bible says, ‘He made them man and woman, and He made them to fit in every way and then made them to marry for life,’ and so forth. They throw the whole creation event out of the window. Or, they say, ‘The God of the Old Testament is a God of vengeance, but the God of the New Testament — which is the old first-century heresy — is the God of love. That is absolutely false.
“Yet, many young preachers are now saying, ‘Let’s get unhitched from the Old Testament.’ But the Old Testament is the very foundation upon which the New Testament builds. The Old Testament says Jesus is coming; the New Testament says He's here. The two are one; we cannot separate them.”
These shifts in teachings, Youssef warned, are setting the stage for the world to be deceived by the Antichrist due to a lack of discernment.
“The world is really being prepared for the Antichrist,” he said. “But when the Antichrist comes and deceives the world, we have no discernment because we do not know the words of Jesus.”
He referenced Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 24 and 25 to identify signs of the End Times and the Antichrist. He described the Antichrist as a “man of peace; a smart, slick politician who's going to make everybody feel good about him.”
“And then halfway through the seven years, of course, he's going to turn and begin to persecute believers,” Youssef said."
And there you have the affect of Futurism upon the minds of the majority of professed Christians today. Of course, the historic fact is, popes have been smart, slick politicians who make everyone feel good about them UNTIL their message conflicts with the Papal agenda. Then we see Inquisitions take place. It is only the wide spread influence of true Protestantism that curtailed persecution in both Papal and apostate Protestant Europe and paved the way for America to be born, and even early America fell prey to popery in Protestant churches.
BTW, Jesus never spoke about any such personage as Youseff states. The term 'antichrist' is not mentioned in the Gospels. The only thing mentioned in Matthew 24 and 25 is this -
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
MANY shall come in Christ's name; not a single "antichrist."
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
That is a reference to the event of Jerusalem being surrounded by Roman armies, called away to fight elsewhere, which gave a break for Christians to flee, per Christ's instructions. The armies returned in 70 A.D. and completely destroyed the city and literally took down every stone of the temple to retrieve all the melted gold that drained down into the foundation rocks. Thousands of Jews who ran into the temple for protection perished from fire and sword. Before the fires were lit, historians claim blood ran down the steps from the carnage. The Temple was one of the standout works of architecture in the known world and nothing was to be done to harm it. The corrupt passions of the pagan soldiers could not be withstood and firebrands were tossed throughout the Temple precincts and fires erupted. The Temple apparently exploded into what could only be described as unquenchable fire. When it finally went out, the Temple was down, thousands of charred bodies laid everywhere and one of the most tragic events in human history was finalized, when the Roman army worked to remove every stone in the way, to retrieve the gold and every word of Christ's prediction came true.
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.
It's obvious to see the plural nature of Christs words. No single antichrist is mentioned.
Nothing is mentioned in chapter 25 so, picture the young or old professed believer, reading the above article, and they go to Matthew 24 and 25 and read and see nothing about a final antichrist or even the term, and confusion and frustration sets in because of the confusion and illiteracy of the authors of the article and Youseff, himself. Now, he is going to travel the world to hold events to continue the propagation of the Futurism he believes and the confusion will just become that much more dense, even if great interest accompanies his meetings.
I know God will guide all sincere people to the truth for them to make intelligent decisions. Whether they make those decisions remains to be seen by Heaven but, God is not withholding the truth from sincere seekers. On the contrary -
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
We tend to think we are the ones seeking God when He is the One who draws all who will to Him.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
If Jesus is lifted up, as a sacrifice for our sins, dying for us, because we are sinners in need of a Saviour and need repentance from the sins literally killing us, He will draw us to Him.
The Devil is out to deceive the whole world, Rev 12:9. That's a lot of plans for a lot of different groups and people and know that he is well-equipped to pull it off.
Only in Christ and His Word is their ultimate protection.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.christianpost.com/news/michael-youssef-warns-of-coming-deception-by-antichrist.html
www.christianpost.com/news/michael-youssef-holding-worldwide-evangelistic-events.html
"Michael Youssef warns biblical illiteracy is setting the stage for world's deception by the Antichrist (pt. 1)"
"Michael Youssef holding worldwide evangelistic events to combat fading Gospel understanding (pt. 2)"
The headlines, themselves, tell you the problem. Do you see it? If you are a Historicist, when it comes to Bible prophecy, you see it instantly and know what has faded is the correct principle of interpreting the prophecies of Daniel, Revelation and other places throughout Scripture; portraying information about things leading up to last-day events.
Jesuit (Ribera) Futurism states the antichrist is yet to come. He'll be either a Jew, an Arab, or possibly some prominent, even mega billionaire political figure. I have seen variations on those themes.
Protestant Historicism states the antichrist came a millennium and a half ago - the establishment of the political Papacy as sovereign over all the Roman empire: a continuation of the Roman empire.
Jesuit (Alcazar) Preterism states antichrist already came, as most prophetic events were fulfilled in the first century with Nero and pagan Rome, etc.
Those are the three lines of reasoning Christians have used to understand Bible prophecy. The current condition of professed Christendom is decidedly Futurist with some Preterist commentators out there. Historicism, which fueled the Reformation for all of Bible students and Protestants in Europe and Western civilization for centuries, has become the faded pursuit of understanding.
"Prominent pastor and author Michael Youssef has warned that many churches today are failing to teach the whole Gospel or equip Christians with biblical knowledge, setting the stage for the world to be deceived by the Antichrist.
"In an interview with The Christian Post, the 74-year-old pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, homed in on the increasing biblical illiteracy prevalent among professing Christians, something he sees as the “great problem with the Church in America.”
“Biblical illiteracy is rampant, and people are going to fall for deception, for false teachings, for anything, because they're not grounded in the Word of God,” he said."
While it is always a good thing when an appeal for better biblical understanding is made, the current confusion within almost all of professed Christendom comes from missing important biblical truth and a solid foundation for understanding prophetic books and literature. Biblical illiteracy is rampant. No doubt there. The overwhelming problem was the entrance of Roman Catholic, Jesuit, Counter Reformation literature and the apostasy of Protestantism to eventually accept it as truth. That is not to mention other important truths playing a major role in last-day events, skewered by falsehoods like the immortality of a "soul;" a currently burning "hell;" the non-perpetuity of the ten commandments and especially the fourth commandment-the seventh-day Sabbath; eternal security; the role of the state of Israel; and other monkey wrenches thrown into the minds of believers. It has all been placed into a basket of "confusion:" spiritual, prophetic Babylon; with a final call from God to come out of it before the end strikes like a tsunami upon a world refusing to acknowledge the truth.
Youssef's call for literacy is pretty much a worthless call, in the sense he is a Futurist and people are going to be caught totally unawares waiting for a secret rapture when human probation closes and the world is thrust into the seven last judgments of God upon an evil, dangerous, rebellious world.
The persecution of any professed Christian is a reprehensible act in a nation with a rule of law and Bill of Rights such as America has. Yet, in America, harassment, oppression and even persecution takes place every, single day somewhere in this nation. We expect it to be seen in lands controlled by paganism or atheism. Not in nations of the West, founded upon biblical principles. Those principles have faded, if not wholly been lost.
What is America when Christians who stand praying silently in front of an abortion clinic are arrested but, hordes of violent people can trash cities, public and private property, attack Christian events, and even have such a group as Antifa allowed to pursue its violent, anti-American agenda? What is it when private citizens can be arrested for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic (which rarely takes place, btw) yet private citizens eating dinner in a restaurant can be surrounded and harassed by radical Leftists and nothing happens to them? They can block doorways to establishments standing for biblical truth but, nothing happens to them. Even if it is falsehood, every person has a right to believe what they believe in peace. Nobody gets to walk through life unoffended. Nobody has a right, when offended, to stop someone's freedom to believe and speak what they believe. It is the ignorance of people, causing problems in America and the West. Not the ignorance of the agenda-driven Leftist who only cares about results, not the rule of law. Aside from useful idiots, they know exactly what they are doing. It is the ignorance of Americans and/or their cowardice to stand against all agenda-driven mobs with truth and Rights granted by God. The tactic of wearing out the enemy so they have no energy to fight back is working well in America.
In the previous post, Karen Kingston would welcome any invitation to debate detractors in open forum. She'd welcome a day in court to show her research but, no. The real dangerous entities hunt down dissidents. They cannot be allowed to speak to the general public. They must be stopped. So it has been in every corrupted civilization in history, even Israel, as God's people and in the professed Christian church down through the ages.
America is engaged in a cultural, civil war precisely because the churches have been captured by aspects of the culture that has weakened them to a point of no influence upon society. Within that, a political remedy has been proposed. It began with groups like the moral majority and continues today with talk of "Christian nationalism." None of it can help America.
Let Youseff, himself, show you the crux of the matter -
“This is what is preached from major pulpits: homosexuality was wrong in the Old Testament because it was associated with pagan worship, but not in the New Testament,” he said.
“That is not true, because the Bible says, ‘He made them man and woman, and He made them to fit in every way and then made them to marry for life,’ and so forth. They throw the whole creation event out of the window. Or, they say, ‘The God of the Old Testament is a God of vengeance, but the God of the New Testament — which is the old first-century heresy — is the God of love. That is absolutely false.
“Yet, many young preachers are now saying, ‘Let’s get unhitched from the Old Testament.’ But the Old Testament is the very foundation upon which the New Testament builds. The Old Testament says Jesus is coming; the New Testament says He's here. The two are one; we cannot separate them.”
These shifts in teachings, Youssef warned, are setting the stage for the world to be deceived by the Antichrist due to a lack of discernment.
“The world is really being prepared for the Antichrist,” he said. “But when the Antichrist comes and deceives the world, we have no discernment because we do not know the words of Jesus.”
He referenced Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 24 and 25 to identify signs of the End Times and the Antichrist. He described the Antichrist as a “man of peace; a smart, slick politician who's going to make everybody feel good about him.”
“And then halfway through the seven years, of course, he's going to turn and begin to persecute believers,” Youssef said."
And there you have the affect of Futurism upon the minds of the majority of professed Christians today. Of course, the historic fact is, popes have been smart, slick politicians who make everyone feel good about them UNTIL their message conflicts with the Papal agenda. Then we see Inquisitions take place. It is only the wide spread influence of true Protestantism that curtailed persecution in both Papal and apostate Protestant Europe and paved the way for America to be born, and even early America fell prey to popery in Protestant churches.
BTW, Jesus never spoke about any such personage as Youseff states. The term 'antichrist' is not mentioned in the Gospels. The only thing mentioned in Matthew 24 and 25 is this -
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
MANY shall come in Christ's name; not a single "antichrist."
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
That is a reference to the event of Jerusalem being surrounded by Roman armies, called away to fight elsewhere, which gave a break for Christians to flee, per Christ's instructions. The armies returned in 70 A.D. and completely destroyed the city and literally took down every stone of the temple to retrieve all the melted gold that drained down into the foundation rocks. Thousands of Jews who ran into the temple for protection perished from fire and sword. Before the fires were lit, historians claim blood ran down the steps from the carnage. The Temple was one of the standout works of architecture in the known world and nothing was to be done to harm it. The corrupt passions of the pagan soldiers could not be withstood and firebrands were tossed throughout the Temple precincts and fires erupted. The Temple apparently exploded into what could only be described as unquenchable fire. When it finally went out, the Temple was down, thousands of charred bodies laid everywhere and one of the most tragic events in human history was finalized, when the Roman army worked to remove every stone in the way, to retrieve the gold and every word of Christ's prediction came true.
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.
It's obvious to see the plural nature of Christs words. No single antichrist is mentioned.
Nothing is mentioned in chapter 25 so, picture the young or old professed believer, reading the above article, and they go to Matthew 24 and 25 and read and see nothing about a final antichrist or even the term, and confusion and frustration sets in because of the confusion and illiteracy of the authors of the article and Youseff, himself. Now, he is going to travel the world to hold events to continue the propagation of the Futurism he believes and the confusion will just become that much more dense, even if great interest accompanies his meetings.
I know God will guide all sincere people to the truth for them to make intelligent decisions. Whether they make those decisions remains to be seen by Heaven but, God is not withholding the truth from sincere seekers. On the contrary -
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
We tend to think we are the ones seeking God when He is the One who draws all who will to Him.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
If Jesus is lifted up, as a sacrifice for our sins, dying for us, because we are sinners in need of a Saviour and need repentance from the sins literally killing us, He will draw us to Him.
The Devil is out to deceive the whole world, Rev 12:9. That's a lot of plans for a lot of different groups and people and know that he is well-equipped to pull it off.
Only in Christ and His Word is their ultimate protection.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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824. Around the World - August 12, 2023
Once again, events in India have been picked up by religious news services as a Catholic priest gets in trouble for proclaiming an Indian king, Chatrapati Shivaji, was a national hero, a protector of Indians but, not a God.
You may not know Hinduism contains over 3 million gods. Yes, I was surprised to hear such a number myself. I learned that years ago when a former Hindu visited our church. There are deities for everything and everyone to worship. Would it not be logical to believe the nation of India should be free from all ills that plague humanity? It is certainly not. Imagine, then, the response to someone saying there is one God in three persons, and the life, death, resurrection and ministry in Heaven of one of those persons, who is the Creator of the universe, is the only path to eternal life. Yeah, you'd bother a bunch of folks, right?
"Hindu nationalist groups had shared the Catholic priest’s remarks on social media and carried out demonstrations demanding his arrest for offending their “religious sentiments.”
"Woke" has existed for ages before it came to America.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255049/catholic-priest-in-goa-given-anticipatory-bail-for-comment-about-hindu-king
"Barbie dolls dressed as Jesus and Catholic Saints cause outrage"
You can read this yourself. It's absolutely ridiculous. Not just the art project but, the response. Why do people live in a fallen world and expect it to not offend them? They are as ignorant as those in India or anywhere else where people do not have the freedom to be rude and stupid.
endtimeheadlines.org/2023/08/barbie-dolls-dressed-as-jesus-and-catholic-saints-cause-outrage/
I think the most nonsensical aspect to this is the portrayal of Christ on the cross with a Ken-doll-type smile on his face. Never mind. I'll just show you -
You may not know Hinduism contains over 3 million gods. Yes, I was surprised to hear such a number myself. I learned that years ago when a former Hindu visited our church. There are deities for everything and everyone to worship. Would it not be logical to believe the nation of India should be free from all ills that plague humanity? It is certainly not. Imagine, then, the response to someone saying there is one God in three persons, and the life, death, resurrection and ministry in Heaven of one of those persons, who is the Creator of the universe, is the only path to eternal life. Yeah, you'd bother a bunch of folks, right?
"Hindu nationalist groups had shared the Catholic priest’s remarks on social media and carried out demonstrations demanding his arrest for offending their “religious sentiments.”
"Woke" has existed for ages before it came to America.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255049/catholic-priest-in-goa-given-anticipatory-bail-for-comment-about-hindu-king
"Barbie dolls dressed as Jesus and Catholic Saints cause outrage"
You can read this yourself. It's absolutely ridiculous. Not just the art project but, the response. Why do people live in a fallen world and expect it to not offend them? They are as ignorant as those in India or anywhere else where people do not have the freedom to be rude and stupid.
endtimeheadlines.org/2023/08/barbie-dolls-dressed-as-jesus-and-catholic-saints-cause-outrage/
I think the most nonsensical aspect to this is the portrayal of Christ on the cross with a Ken-doll-type smile on his face. Never mind. I'll just show you -
It's pure sacrilege and the human race's ignorance never ceases to surprise but, it's the end of the world. What can we expect? More of the same.
endtimeheadlines.org/2023/08/barbie-dolls-dressed-as-jesus-and-catholic-saints-cause-outrage/
"Missouri Senior Center Bans Bible Study Because ‘Some Residents Were Offended’
I'm going to post some of the article here for educational purposes -
"Abigail Southerland with American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) says when their client attempted to organize a Bible study for residents of the complex, the facility offered common spaces to be used and reserved one of the common areas for the study.
"After residents held the weekly Bible study over the course of several months “without issue,” Southerland, who serves as senior litigation counsel for ACLJ, said their client was told in June to stop “because some residents were purportedly offended by the Bible study.”
"Management also claimed the study was not allowed since the center was a federally funded building and that Bible studies are prohibited under FHA guidelines.
“This is literally the exact opposite of the law,” said Southerland.
"After the resident contacted the ACLJ, the group sent a demand letter to the facility outlining federal law, which, according to Southerland, states “not only does the FHA allow a Bible study on federally funded property, but it also expressly prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion in regard to providing facility services.”
“The [Department of Justice] has made it clear that ‘someone could not, for example, be excluded from reserving a common room for a prayer meeting when the room may be reserved for various comparable secular uses,’” she explained.
"Southerland pointed to a 2008 case involving a Chicago-area condo association which was found to have violated the rights of Jewish homeowners when the association refused to allow a religious item on their exterior doorpost.
"Despite an association rule against displaying items outside a condo owner’s door, the court found the association acted with discriminatory intent because other homeowners were allowed to keep items on and around their own exterior doors.
"Southerland said if the senior living complex does not “quickly reverse course for our client, we will file a federal lawsuit to protect her religious liberty.”
“Unfortunately, many of the most vulnerable among us, such as our senior citizens, experience violations of the very freedoms that our law is enacted to protect,” she added.
I mentioned before how these cases are piling up, even though the courts have sided with people of faith again and again. Still, there are those ignorant of the First Amendment and how it applies to American daily life who discriminate and harass. It never seems to end, and at one time in America, it never really began. Despite sentiments and physical altercation between Protestants and Catholics at various times, America got beyond its post-Pilgrim era of towns being run by clergymen who demanded everybody tow the line or end up in the stocks. And today, the very antithesis of Christianity, the Church of Satan, is allowed their time and place on school campuses. That is a real sign of the times as to where this nation is at, spiritually speaking. No, it is not a matter of allowing Satanists to do their thing. It's a matter of any Satanists existing to such a level in America, at all. Something caused this rampant explosion of paganism. The failure of the professed Christian faith to have an impact on society is the cause. You can't blame the Beatles. They had an opportunity to develop because of the weak spiritual faith apparent throughout Great Britain. You cannot blame the British Invasion because all those bands found entry into an America that no longer saw the need for Jesus Christ and salvation. The music already existed for decades in America. It was the Rock and Roll attitude of rebellion that ransacked the world and began a slide into darkness the planet has never recovered from. So much so, entire genres seem to exist for the soul purpose of denouncing religion in general and Christianity, specifically.
All debauchery begins as a seed and grows. If there is no equal or stronger force to stop it, it overtakes sinful society and all societies are sinful because humans are fallen. That is why the Bible states this -
1Pet 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pet 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
What is sobriety? It's the opposite of drunkenness. And how does drunkenness fit into prophecy?
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.
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
I would submit the very act of not standing up to Roman Catholcism, Popery and Vatican intrigue, doctrinally, truthfully speaking, makes any and every nation dropping the fight a lost cause with a poison arrow in its back.
Back in the 19th century a book came out that was a revival of Protestantism in America, among others. Here's a point blank statement from it -
"Romanism is now regarded by Protestants with far greater favor than in former years. In those countries where Catholicism is not in the ascendancy, and the papists are taking a conciliatory course in order to gain influence, there is an increasing indifference concerning the doctrines that separate the reformed churches from the papal hierarchy; the opinion is gaining ground that, after all, we do not differ so widely upon vital points as has been supposed, and that a little concession on our part will bring us into a better understanding with Rome. The time was when Protestants placed a high value upon the liberty of conscience which had been so dearly purchased. They taught their children to abhor popery and held that to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God. But how widely different are the sentiments now expressed!
"The defenders of the papacy declare that the church has been maligned, and the Protestant world are inclined to accept the statement. Many urge that it is unjust to judge the church of today by the abominations and absurdities that marked her reign during the centuries of ignorance and darkness. They excuse her horrible cruelty as the result of the barbarism of the times and plead that the influence of modern civilization has changed her sentiments.
"Have these persons forgotten the claim of infallibility put forth for eight hundred years by this haughty power? So far from being relinquished, this claim was affirmed in the nineteenth century with greater positiveness than ever before. As Rome asserts that the “church never erred; nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err” (John L. von Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, book 3, century II, part 2, chapter 2, section 9, note 17), how can she renounce the principles which governed her course in past ages?"
And this passage -
"A prayerful study of the Bible would show Protestants the real character of the papacy and would cause them to abhor and to shun it; but many are so wise in their own conceit that they feel no need of humbly seeking God that they may be led into the truth. Although priding themselves on their enlightenment, they are ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God. They must have some means of quieting their consciences, and they seek that which is least spiritual and humiliating. What they desire is a method of forgetting God which shall pass as a method of remembering Him. The papacy is well adapted to meet the wants of all these. It is prepared for two classes of mankind, embracing nearly the whole world—those who would be saved by their merits, and those who would be saved in their sins. Here is the secret of its power."
The first time I read "The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan," by author Ellen White, I could hardly put it down. It was a mind changing experience, literally. I was 24. I never read books. Maybe magazines, mostly music magazines. Here was a history I was entirely ignorant of; raised Catholic. Being born-again in 1979 and reading the Bible every day and reading literature completely foreign to my upbringing and understanding, was an education that, as you can read, was common at one time. Not any longer. It is not an indictment of faithful Roman Catholics doing the best they can with the light they have. It is an indictment of the system of Roman Catholicism; its Papacy and Vatican.
My parents were taught never to play with Protestant children. My generation knew no such dictum and the same for children raised in Protestant homes. All fought enemies of Americanism on battlefields of Europe. Catholicism was big in Hollywood with more and more movies about "saints," neighborhood priests, a singing nun and a flying nun, too. JFK was elected and assassinated and that cemented Catholicism into the fabric of America for good.
Today, 6 of 9 SCOTUS judges are Catholic. A very imbalanced number of House and Senate members are Catholics, if compared to numbers of Catholic citizenry. It all adds up to a loss of the principles of Protestantism that created this nation. Yes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence was Catholic, a nominal one, to be sure, as history records it. And the principles of Americanism are not against Catholicism per se'. The First Amendment states that. It is the principles of Protestantism that are against the policies of Romanism.
In other volumes White's statement 'to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God' is stated as 'to remain at peace with Rome would be disloyalty to God.' Current evangelicalism is guilty of both. It all paved the way for a weakening and loss of vigilant steadfastness against the wiles of the enemy. It has happened to every nation of Europe that broke away from the Papacy. It has happened to America and indeed, there is not a front and center Protestant nation on Earth to this day. Which is why the Bible states -
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered [admired] after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
From 1870 onward, when papal infallibility became doctrine, nations have become drunk with the wine of their fornication with the Vatican. With its stature as a state power in 1929, the deadly would of 1798 has just kept healing, and despite all its scandals and problems, the Church of Rome continues to regain its former stature and today, with talk of a one world government, there are many voices proclaiming only one man could stand at its head - the pope.
That's why, despite any hardships, I remain a Bible-believing Christian because I know, that I know, the Bible is true and every word shall be fulfilled.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
endtimeheadlines.org/2023/08/barbie-dolls-dressed-as-jesus-and-catholic-saints-cause-outrage/
"Missouri Senior Center Bans Bible Study Because ‘Some Residents Were Offended’
I'm going to post some of the article here for educational purposes -
"Abigail Southerland with American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) says when their client attempted to organize a Bible study for residents of the complex, the facility offered common spaces to be used and reserved one of the common areas for the study.
"After residents held the weekly Bible study over the course of several months “without issue,” Southerland, who serves as senior litigation counsel for ACLJ, said their client was told in June to stop “because some residents were purportedly offended by the Bible study.”
"Management also claimed the study was not allowed since the center was a federally funded building and that Bible studies are prohibited under FHA guidelines.
“This is literally the exact opposite of the law,” said Southerland.
"After the resident contacted the ACLJ, the group sent a demand letter to the facility outlining federal law, which, according to Southerland, states “not only does the FHA allow a Bible study on federally funded property, but it also expressly prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion in regard to providing facility services.”
“The [Department of Justice] has made it clear that ‘someone could not, for example, be excluded from reserving a common room for a prayer meeting when the room may be reserved for various comparable secular uses,’” she explained.
"Southerland pointed to a 2008 case involving a Chicago-area condo association which was found to have violated the rights of Jewish homeowners when the association refused to allow a religious item on their exterior doorpost.
"Despite an association rule against displaying items outside a condo owner’s door, the court found the association acted with discriminatory intent because other homeowners were allowed to keep items on and around their own exterior doors.
"Southerland said if the senior living complex does not “quickly reverse course for our client, we will file a federal lawsuit to protect her religious liberty.”
“Unfortunately, many of the most vulnerable among us, such as our senior citizens, experience violations of the very freedoms that our law is enacted to protect,” she added.
I mentioned before how these cases are piling up, even though the courts have sided with people of faith again and again. Still, there are those ignorant of the First Amendment and how it applies to American daily life who discriminate and harass. It never seems to end, and at one time in America, it never really began. Despite sentiments and physical altercation between Protestants and Catholics at various times, America got beyond its post-Pilgrim era of towns being run by clergymen who demanded everybody tow the line or end up in the stocks. And today, the very antithesis of Christianity, the Church of Satan, is allowed their time and place on school campuses. That is a real sign of the times as to where this nation is at, spiritually speaking. No, it is not a matter of allowing Satanists to do their thing. It's a matter of any Satanists existing to such a level in America, at all. Something caused this rampant explosion of paganism. The failure of the professed Christian faith to have an impact on society is the cause. You can't blame the Beatles. They had an opportunity to develop because of the weak spiritual faith apparent throughout Great Britain. You cannot blame the British Invasion because all those bands found entry into an America that no longer saw the need for Jesus Christ and salvation. The music already existed for decades in America. It was the Rock and Roll attitude of rebellion that ransacked the world and began a slide into darkness the planet has never recovered from. So much so, entire genres seem to exist for the soul purpose of denouncing religion in general and Christianity, specifically.
All debauchery begins as a seed and grows. If there is no equal or stronger force to stop it, it overtakes sinful society and all societies are sinful because humans are fallen. That is why the Bible states this -
1Pet 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pet 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
What is sobriety? It's the opposite of drunkenness. And how does drunkenness fit into prophecy?
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.
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
I would submit the very act of not standing up to Roman Catholcism, Popery and Vatican intrigue, doctrinally, truthfully speaking, makes any and every nation dropping the fight a lost cause with a poison arrow in its back.
Back in the 19th century a book came out that was a revival of Protestantism in America, among others. Here's a point blank statement from it -
"Romanism is now regarded by Protestants with far greater favor than in former years. In those countries where Catholicism is not in the ascendancy, and the papists are taking a conciliatory course in order to gain influence, there is an increasing indifference concerning the doctrines that separate the reformed churches from the papal hierarchy; the opinion is gaining ground that, after all, we do not differ so widely upon vital points as has been supposed, and that a little concession on our part will bring us into a better understanding with Rome. The time was when Protestants placed a high value upon the liberty of conscience which had been so dearly purchased. They taught their children to abhor popery and held that to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God. But how widely different are the sentiments now expressed!
"The defenders of the papacy declare that the church has been maligned, and the Protestant world are inclined to accept the statement. Many urge that it is unjust to judge the church of today by the abominations and absurdities that marked her reign during the centuries of ignorance and darkness. They excuse her horrible cruelty as the result of the barbarism of the times and plead that the influence of modern civilization has changed her sentiments.
"Have these persons forgotten the claim of infallibility put forth for eight hundred years by this haughty power? So far from being relinquished, this claim was affirmed in the nineteenth century with greater positiveness than ever before. As Rome asserts that the “church never erred; nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err” (John L. von Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, book 3, century II, part 2, chapter 2, section 9, note 17), how can she renounce the principles which governed her course in past ages?"
And this passage -
"A prayerful study of the Bible would show Protestants the real character of the papacy and would cause them to abhor and to shun it; but many are so wise in their own conceit that they feel no need of humbly seeking God that they may be led into the truth. Although priding themselves on their enlightenment, they are ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God. They must have some means of quieting their consciences, and they seek that which is least spiritual and humiliating. What they desire is a method of forgetting God which shall pass as a method of remembering Him. The papacy is well adapted to meet the wants of all these. It is prepared for two classes of mankind, embracing nearly the whole world—those who would be saved by their merits, and those who would be saved in their sins. Here is the secret of its power."
The first time I read "The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan," by author Ellen White, I could hardly put it down. It was a mind changing experience, literally. I was 24. I never read books. Maybe magazines, mostly music magazines. Here was a history I was entirely ignorant of; raised Catholic. Being born-again in 1979 and reading the Bible every day and reading literature completely foreign to my upbringing and understanding, was an education that, as you can read, was common at one time. Not any longer. It is not an indictment of faithful Roman Catholics doing the best they can with the light they have. It is an indictment of the system of Roman Catholicism; its Papacy and Vatican.
My parents were taught never to play with Protestant children. My generation knew no such dictum and the same for children raised in Protestant homes. All fought enemies of Americanism on battlefields of Europe. Catholicism was big in Hollywood with more and more movies about "saints," neighborhood priests, a singing nun and a flying nun, too. JFK was elected and assassinated and that cemented Catholicism into the fabric of America for good.
Today, 6 of 9 SCOTUS judges are Catholic. A very imbalanced number of House and Senate members are Catholics, if compared to numbers of Catholic citizenry. It all adds up to a loss of the principles of Protestantism that created this nation. Yes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence was Catholic, a nominal one, to be sure, as history records it. And the principles of Americanism are not against Catholicism per se'. The First Amendment states that. It is the principles of Protestantism that are against the policies of Romanism.
In other volumes White's statement 'to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God' is stated as 'to remain at peace with Rome would be disloyalty to God.' Current evangelicalism is guilty of both. It all paved the way for a weakening and loss of vigilant steadfastness against the wiles of the enemy. It has happened to every nation of Europe that broke away from the Papacy. It has happened to America and indeed, there is not a front and center Protestant nation on Earth to this day. Which is why the Bible states -
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered [admired] after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
From 1870 onward, when papal infallibility became doctrine, nations have become drunk with the wine of their fornication with the Vatican. With its stature as a state power in 1929, the deadly would of 1798 has just kept healing, and despite all its scandals and problems, the Church of Rome continues to regain its former stature and today, with talk of a one world government, there are many voices proclaiming only one man could stand at its head - the pope.
That's why, despite any hardships, I remain a Bible-believing Christian because I know, that I know, the Bible is true and every word shall be fulfilled.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Nature's Drummer
You know when you hear one. What you may not know is that Woodpecker's have some of the same gene structures as song birds. They just communicate by drumming; an absolute marvel of design.
I have written about Woodpecker's before because of stunning designs in their necks and heads. What they do should not be able to be done. But, they do it, anyway. :-)
They, like other birds, are a real headache (pun intended), for Naturalists and Materialists and Darwinian evolution.
I have a design for a bass drum pedal based on the biomimicry of Woodpeckers. It may never be developed but, I know it would make a great pedal.
"According to an article posted on ScienceDaily.com, song birds use complex muscle coordination to produce their songs; they learn their song as young birds. The muscle coordination is controlled by a specialized region of the brain, expressed with a marker gene called parvalbumin (PV). Scientists tested for the PV gene in non-songbirds. The only non-song bird they tested to have the PV gene was a woodpecker.1 Woodpeckers don’t just use their beak to drill into trees, they use it to drum rhythmic communications instead of singing. A study published in the journal PLOS Biology said:
“[Woodpeckers] contained several pallial nuclei with specialized PV up-regulation, which were in regions where song nuclei of vocal learners are located. However, instead of showing activations during vocalization, these regions showed activation during drumming.”2
"For a woodpecker, drumming is their song."
Amazing or what? Woodpeckers have a place that could not develop by time and mutations. As the article states, any song bird that thought about living off of bugs in trees would find itself with a broken beak, massive headache, and likely death from injuries sustained. That means, no evolution into a woodpecker. Such monkey wrenches exist all throughout nature that defy Darwinism. They can disregard design and creation all they want. It isn't going away.
www.icr.org/article/Natures-Drummer/
I have written about Woodpecker's before because of stunning designs in their necks and heads. What they do should not be able to be done. But, they do it, anyway. :-)
They, like other birds, are a real headache (pun intended), for Naturalists and Materialists and Darwinian evolution.
I have a design for a bass drum pedal based on the biomimicry of Woodpeckers. It may never be developed but, I know it would make a great pedal.
"According to an article posted on ScienceDaily.com, song birds use complex muscle coordination to produce their songs; they learn their song as young birds. The muscle coordination is controlled by a specialized region of the brain, expressed with a marker gene called parvalbumin (PV). Scientists tested for the PV gene in non-songbirds. The only non-song bird they tested to have the PV gene was a woodpecker.1 Woodpeckers don’t just use their beak to drill into trees, they use it to drum rhythmic communications instead of singing. A study published in the journal PLOS Biology said:
“[Woodpeckers] contained several pallial nuclei with specialized PV up-regulation, which were in regions where song nuclei of vocal learners are located. However, instead of showing activations during vocalization, these regions showed activation during drumming.”2
"For a woodpecker, drumming is their song."
Amazing or what? Woodpeckers have a place that could not develop by time and mutations. As the article states, any song bird that thought about living off of bugs in trees would find itself with a broken beak, massive headache, and likely death from injuries sustained. That means, no evolution into a woodpecker. Such monkey wrenches exist all throughout nature that defy Darwinism. They can disregard design and creation all they want. It isn't going away.
www.icr.org/article/Natures-Drummer/
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825. The Strongest Natural Fiber - August 12, 2023
You probably know the strongest natural fiber on Earth is spider web silk. What you may not know is that the finest labs and scientists on earth cannot replicate it. Its complexity is beyond man's current ability to reproduce through any man-made means. If man could make web silk the thickness of a pencil it would stop a jet liner in mid-flight. Yeah. Strong.
How can scientists believe in Darwinism, all life evolving from lower life forms, when humans, supposedly at the top of the list, cannot reproduce what something among the smallest of creatures can turn out like modern machinery making yarn? The Golden Orb Weaver makes the strongest silk known, having all 7 of the various glands that can produce silk. The complexity of what takes place naturally, within the spider, is just a big question mark for Naturalists.
That said, the use of natural silk is being experimented with by medical science for nerve repair. It seems nerves will regrow when placed along side of silk strands to climb and follow. At present nerves can be seen to grow 4 cm, max. With silk, 6 cm and more are being attained. Once the proper "medical authorities" grant permission, work on human nerve damage will begin, which may bode very well for people with various nerve damage in their bodies.
How did spiders get this complexity developed? Over time? No. Spiders would starve quickly without nests to capture food. No spider just started developing internal organs and chemicals necessary to produce their silk. They get it right from the beginning or they are gone from the earth. How is that possible through mutations over time? It just is not. Spiders have a Designer and Creator. Denying it is silly.
I guarantee you if a deity existed that made everything but, exacted no standards of living and morality for humans, all science would be happy to proclaim that deity. Standards of thought and actions? Not so much. Science loves to draw a line on morality because morality has never been seen or understood as scientifically understandable. A complete understanding of a human brain would not help because the brain and the mind, the conscience are not the same. What keeps Darwinists from believing in Creation is the same thing that bothered Darwin and his peers to begin with - God did not just create. He exacts a standard of living contained in a simple code known as the Ten Commandments and how it should be understood by all the other portions of Scripture that lay out how human beings should think and speak and act. Darwinists do not want that so, they reject it all.
They have no answers for the world's problems within humanity. My answer to that is, What good are you then? Do you think our lives would stop if we did not know the periodic table?
Right now, according to many voices out there, our civilization is on the verge of decimation back to the dark ages. If that took place through some natural or man-made catastrophe, would humanity survive? Sure, in some number. Every convenience known to mankind created by scientific endeavor would be gone but, life would continue on, as it did before all the science made all the conveniences.
Science will never answer mankind's most pressing questions. Why should they have such a lock on the discussion of origins of everything that exists? It's ridiculous on the face of it. Ask a male scientist how he feels if his wife commits adultery. Is he going to find an answer for that in a test tube or chalk board equation? Hardly.
There is a law that states, you shall not commit adultery. Scientific? No. Moral? Yes. Considering current culture, what is more important? The structure of the family unit in civilization or the position of scientists who claim everything came from nothing, morality is just a social platform for control, and humanity is better off without them or a deity who proclaimed them? If you answer 'science,' I will question your ability to think logically and critically. I'd even question your level of common sense.
There is a reason why the Bible states -
2Ch 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
2Ch 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psa 146:4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
Jer 17:6 For he shall be like the Juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Jer 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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.
These are the principles that maintain the believer. The scientist who chooses not to abide in them cannot be trusted with anything of a moral standard or any standard beyond knowledge of revealed science, which changes all the time.
Getting into car accident and being seriously injured, humans are thankful for medical science that can help the human physical nature to repair itself. Giving answers for why a loved one died, why a spouse leaves, why your life is a walking train wreck that caused you to lose your concentration for just a moment, which caused the accident to begin with? No. Science fails at that point. At best, it can only offer suggestions for explanations.
Trusting in scientists has tremendous limitations, and even dangers.
Trusting in the Creator will never fail.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
How can scientists believe in Darwinism, all life evolving from lower life forms, when humans, supposedly at the top of the list, cannot reproduce what something among the smallest of creatures can turn out like modern machinery making yarn? The Golden Orb Weaver makes the strongest silk known, having all 7 of the various glands that can produce silk. The complexity of what takes place naturally, within the spider, is just a big question mark for Naturalists.
That said, the use of natural silk is being experimented with by medical science for nerve repair. It seems nerves will regrow when placed along side of silk strands to climb and follow. At present nerves can be seen to grow 4 cm, max. With silk, 6 cm and more are being attained. Once the proper "medical authorities" grant permission, work on human nerve damage will begin, which may bode very well for people with various nerve damage in their bodies.
How did spiders get this complexity developed? Over time? No. Spiders would starve quickly without nests to capture food. No spider just started developing internal organs and chemicals necessary to produce their silk. They get it right from the beginning or they are gone from the earth. How is that possible through mutations over time? It just is not. Spiders have a Designer and Creator. Denying it is silly.
I guarantee you if a deity existed that made everything but, exacted no standards of living and morality for humans, all science would be happy to proclaim that deity. Standards of thought and actions? Not so much. Science loves to draw a line on morality because morality has never been seen or understood as scientifically understandable. A complete understanding of a human brain would not help because the brain and the mind, the conscience are not the same. What keeps Darwinists from believing in Creation is the same thing that bothered Darwin and his peers to begin with - God did not just create. He exacts a standard of living contained in a simple code known as the Ten Commandments and how it should be understood by all the other portions of Scripture that lay out how human beings should think and speak and act. Darwinists do not want that so, they reject it all.
They have no answers for the world's problems within humanity. My answer to that is, What good are you then? Do you think our lives would stop if we did not know the periodic table?
Right now, according to many voices out there, our civilization is on the verge of decimation back to the dark ages. If that took place through some natural or man-made catastrophe, would humanity survive? Sure, in some number. Every convenience known to mankind created by scientific endeavor would be gone but, life would continue on, as it did before all the science made all the conveniences.
Science will never answer mankind's most pressing questions. Why should they have such a lock on the discussion of origins of everything that exists? It's ridiculous on the face of it. Ask a male scientist how he feels if his wife commits adultery. Is he going to find an answer for that in a test tube or chalk board equation? Hardly.
There is a law that states, you shall not commit adultery. Scientific? No. Moral? Yes. Considering current culture, what is more important? The structure of the family unit in civilization or the position of scientists who claim everything came from nothing, morality is just a social platform for control, and humanity is better off without them or a deity who proclaimed them? If you answer 'science,' I will question your ability to think logically and critically. I'd even question your level of common sense.
There is a reason why the Bible states -
2Ch 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
2Ch 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psa 146:4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
Jer 17:6 For he shall be like the Juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Jer 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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.
These are the principles that maintain the believer. The scientist who chooses not to abide in them cannot be trusted with anything of a moral standard or any standard beyond knowledge of revealed science, which changes all the time.
Getting into car accident and being seriously injured, humans are thankful for medical science that can help the human physical nature to repair itself. Giving answers for why a loved one died, why a spouse leaves, why your life is a walking train wreck that caused you to lose your concentration for just a moment, which caused the accident to begin with? No. Science fails at that point. At best, it can only offer suggestions for explanations.
Trusting in scientists has tremendous limitations, and even dangers.
Trusting in the Creator will never fail.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Vatican and UFOs
I just came across an interesting interview on YT.
"The Vatican Has Known About Aliens for Decades" | David Grusch, Aliens, & the Vatican"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9ZfMXBgdw
"In this video, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Thigpen, author of "Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith," to discuss whether David Grusch's claim that the Vatican has been keeping the existence of ETI's a secret from humanity holds any water."
The channel is "Capturing Christianity." A man named Cameron Bertuzzi conducts the interview.
I mentioned the Grusch testimony at the Congressional hearing as well as his interview with Ross Coulthart that made big news, etc. when it took place. In that interview he mentioned the Vatican has known about UFOs since the 1930's. For me, that instantly puts the Vatican on a prophetic chart for this subject. Without question. I mentioned, time will tell how this pans out.
Now, watching the interview with Dr. Paul Thigpen, I am reminded it begins with his telling Bertuzzi he is a convert to the Catholic faith. That means he is a gatekeeper for Catholicism. Everything he says must be understood through that prism. His book, his 59th (quite a prolific writer), addresses ET and the RCC. I have not read it, of course, just finding this video, and probably will not because after watching the interview I realize the book is, as noted, more than likely a gatekeeper's book. Everything stated is a protection for the RCC. Thigpen danced around quite a number of questions Bertuzzi posed him. It was obvious to behold.
In the interview, Bertuzzi plays a clip of the Grusch interview on News Nation, specifically about the Vatican, around twelve minutes in.
Bertuzzi then states, when Grusch got to the Vatican in the interview he began to doubt Grusch's veracity because for centuries people have tried to link the RCC with all kinds of conspiracies. He then asks Thigpen how we should evaluate Grusch's claim. I quote Dr. Thigpen -
"But let me say this. As you said, for years people have suggested somehow the Catholic Church was involved with this. You've got pretty way out tales about how this is a set-up for the Antichrist, to get everyone to create a one-world government, and out of fear, if they do, it's the Vatican that's gonna lead the charge and the pope; and of course that's because he's the false prophet or the Antichrist or something and so, um, a lot of way out stuff there."
Well, yeah. I am obviously in that "way out there" camp. And I have zero reasons to leave it, all things considered.
The gatekeeper makes it plain, to consider a pope part of the Antichrist system and whatever world government or big superchurch coming, that a pope would preside over, should be seen as way out there. No. It is way in there, on target and anyone knowing the history of Romanism and Protestantism and the 'Historic' principles of approach to viewing and understanding Bible prophecy can see it coming.
When bells go off, they go off; you know what I mean? Thigpen's position sent the clappers to slamming those bells, big time.
Now look, this is all future stuff. There is nothing in Bible prophecy about how the Papacy specifically regains its past position in society, aside from Satan working false miracles at the hand of the man of sin; and the false prophet, apostate Protestantism, will have its own false revival based on signs and lying wonders, as well. Lots of dog and pony show, supernatural events are coming. It's show time. Satan shall deceive, with "miracles," the whole world. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon - The RCC, Papacy, Vatican/the False Prophet, Harlot daughters of apostate Protestantism/ and the Kings of the Earth - all other nations, groups, religions, tribes, etc. That is the prophetic triad. Mother/Daughters/Nations-religions.
And I reiterate. How can the Devil possibly involve a billion people of Islam in a false movement against God? A billion Hindus? Billions of people in other faiths or no faith; atheists? Eight billion people brought under one umbrella of rebellion against the Law of God and His remnant people? Tell me how. You know Islam and Hinduism are not going to just follow any pope. Far too many professed Christians outside of Romanism are not going to just follow a pope. Atheists? How can Satan get all of humanity under one pragmatic, philosophical roof?
Enter "ET." The whole world stops and intently watches and listens from that moment on. Add to that "spiritualism;" the deceptions based on the false "immortality of a soul" doctrine. Add to all of it "all power, signs and lying wonders" and Satan is going to pull this off through the man of sin, and put the venerabilis dei solis, the venerable day of the Sun - Sunday, right at the top of the flag waving. I do not see Francis as the final pope to pull this off but, why not? He's a philosophical worldling. A friend to all groups and all peoples.
"And when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape," 1 Thes. 5:3.
Will we see it soon? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. Maybe not. My generation may pass away but, I find that highly unlikely, given the way things are going.
The net is being drawn in. It does not matter where the U.S. government stands, with all its alphabet agencies. It does not matter where the world banksters stand. It does not matter where China, Russia, India, Israel or any other nation stands. All that matters is where Lucifer stands and how he is going to use the Papacy, apostate Protestants and the leaders of all other nations. That is all that matters. Not Trump. Not Xi Jinping. Not Putin. Not Schwab. Not any particular world leader, though all will play their parts for the rebellion or for God's kingdom. Remember, most of God's people are in prophetic Babylon and He shall call them out one last time. Many will take a stand and God shall have His remnant people, Rev. 12:17; 14:12.
The world is going to change, my Friends, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The Vatican Has Known About Aliens for Decades" | David Grusch, Aliens, & the Vatican"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9ZfMXBgdw
"In this video, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Thigpen, author of "Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith," to discuss whether David Grusch's claim that the Vatican has been keeping the existence of ETI's a secret from humanity holds any water."
The channel is "Capturing Christianity." A man named Cameron Bertuzzi conducts the interview.
I mentioned the Grusch testimony at the Congressional hearing as well as his interview with Ross Coulthart that made big news, etc. when it took place. In that interview he mentioned the Vatican has known about UFOs since the 1930's. For me, that instantly puts the Vatican on a prophetic chart for this subject. Without question. I mentioned, time will tell how this pans out.
Now, watching the interview with Dr. Paul Thigpen, I am reminded it begins with his telling Bertuzzi he is a convert to the Catholic faith. That means he is a gatekeeper for Catholicism. Everything he says must be understood through that prism. His book, his 59th (quite a prolific writer), addresses ET and the RCC. I have not read it, of course, just finding this video, and probably will not because after watching the interview I realize the book is, as noted, more than likely a gatekeeper's book. Everything stated is a protection for the RCC. Thigpen danced around quite a number of questions Bertuzzi posed him. It was obvious to behold.
In the interview, Bertuzzi plays a clip of the Grusch interview on News Nation, specifically about the Vatican, around twelve minutes in.
Bertuzzi then states, when Grusch got to the Vatican in the interview he began to doubt Grusch's veracity because for centuries people have tried to link the RCC with all kinds of conspiracies. He then asks Thigpen how we should evaluate Grusch's claim. I quote Dr. Thigpen -
"But let me say this. As you said, for years people have suggested somehow the Catholic Church was involved with this. You've got pretty way out tales about how this is a set-up for the Antichrist, to get everyone to create a one-world government, and out of fear, if they do, it's the Vatican that's gonna lead the charge and the pope; and of course that's because he's the false prophet or the Antichrist or something and so, um, a lot of way out stuff there."
Well, yeah. I am obviously in that "way out there" camp. And I have zero reasons to leave it, all things considered.
The gatekeeper makes it plain, to consider a pope part of the Antichrist system and whatever world government or big superchurch coming, that a pope would preside over, should be seen as way out there. No. It is way in there, on target and anyone knowing the history of Romanism and Protestantism and the 'Historic' principles of approach to viewing and understanding Bible prophecy can see it coming.
When bells go off, they go off; you know what I mean? Thigpen's position sent the clappers to slamming those bells, big time.
Now look, this is all future stuff. There is nothing in Bible prophecy about how the Papacy specifically regains its past position in society, aside from Satan working false miracles at the hand of the man of sin; and the false prophet, apostate Protestantism, will have its own false revival based on signs and lying wonders, as well. Lots of dog and pony show, supernatural events are coming. It's show time. Satan shall deceive, with "miracles," the whole world. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon - The RCC, Papacy, Vatican/the False Prophet, Harlot daughters of apostate Protestantism/ and the Kings of the Earth - all other nations, groups, religions, tribes, etc. That is the prophetic triad. Mother/Daughters/Nations-religions.
And I reiterate. How can the Devil possibly involve a billion people of Islam in a false movement against God? A billion Hindus? Billions of people in other faiths or no faith; atheists? Eight billion people brought under one umbrella of rebellion against the Law of God and His remnant people? Tell me how. You know Islam and Hinduism are not going to just follow any pope. Far too many professed Christians outside of Romanism are not going to just follow a pope. Atheists? How can Satan get all of humanity under one pragmatic, philosophical roof?
Enter "ET." The whole world stops and intently watches and listens from that moment on. Add to that "spiritualism;" the deceptions based on the false "immortality of a soul" doctrine. Add to all of it "all power, signs and lying wonders" and Satan is going to pull this off through the man of sin, and put the venerabilis dei solis, the venerable day of the Sun - Sunday, right at the top of the flag waving. I do not see Francis as the final pope to pull this off but, why not? He's a philosophical worldling. A friend to all groups and all peoples.
"And when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape," 1 Thes. 5:3.
Will we see it soon? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. Maybe not. My generation may pass away but, I find that highly unlikely, given the way things are going.
The net is being drawn in. It does not matter where the U.S. government stands, with all its alphabet agencies. It does not matter where the world banksters stand. It does not matter where China, Russia, India, Israel or any other nation stands. All that matters is where Lucifer stands and how he is going to use the Papacy, apostate Protestants and the leaders of all other nations. That is all that matters. Not Trump. Not Xi Jinping. Not Putin. Not Schwab. Not any particular world leader, though all will play their parts for the rebellion or for God's kingdom. Remember, most of God's people are in prophetic Babylon and He shall call them out one last time. Many will take a stand and God shall have His remnant people, Rev. 12:17; 14:12.
The world is going to change, my Friends, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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826. Tranq - August 13, 2023
I am thankful I never got into drugs. Never smoked a joint. Got drunk a few times, got sick, made an ass of myself, that was the end of that.
Every American knows the nation has had a drug "problem" for at least 60 years. Many Americans know the CIA and other Federal alphabet agencies have been part of the problem. We cannot say nothing has changed. That would be incorrect. In 2010, 20,000 people died of overdose. In 2022, 100,000 people died of overdose. Since 1999, about one million people have died from overdose and I believe that number is less than factual. Today, right now, the new demon on the streets across the nation, moving like a fire through a dry, Texas field, is called Tranq: Fentanyl cut with the animal tranquilizer - Xylazine. It has become known as the "zombie" drug. It does not just ruin brain cells, it literally causes necrosis of tissue; flesh eating symptoms.
I never heard of this stuff. Just saw some news about it this morning and thought I would look some things up.
How is it the U.S. government, along with State and Local governments, cannot stop the drug trade? How is it over 100 BILLION dollars of "aid" can be sent to Ukraine to help a despotic regime fight a losing war against Russia, solely for strategic purposes of the increased presence of NATO but, the borders of this nation cannot be protected from drug cartels and incessant flow of drugs into this land? There is only one, logical answer. The Federal government does not want the stoppage of drugs flowing into this nation. Nobody in Congress cares about drugs until one of their kids becomes an addict. Otherwise, they live in a world of a bubble, isolated from the mean streets. The former mayor of D.C. was a cocaine addict. I see headlines every week of some official caught with, arrested for, addicted to some kind of drug out there or influenced by drug use involving other crimes. Congress knows the problem exists. It just isn't their problem. Well, Ukraine is not America's problem, either. Not by a long shot but, American drug labs in Ukraine are a concern for those who run them, profit off them, and buy and sell politicians to keep the money flowing; which we have known for a long time now, involves the non-president and his drug addict son, along with other Ukraine business interests. The Bidens keep trucking along, protected by the corruption of corporate controlled media and criminal minds in Congress. Articles of Impeachment are desired to be drawn up by some Republicans while GOP leaders try to stop it. The Biden administration is the biggest debacle in American history.
With the invention of unmanned drones of all types, there is not a mile of U.S. border that cannot be patrolled. If the National Guards of every state were patrolling borders, using drone technology to watch them, no illegal immigrants, no drugs could come into this nation. Why isn't it done?
We are told it's a complicated issue. No, it isn't. D.C. makes it complicated because of all the self-interest involved. It isn't just drugs. We know that. It's human trafficking, as well.
The only thing that makes a nation, a nation are laws and borders. American borders have become meaningless. American laws are only there for citizens to follow, not politicians.
Based on the inactions of its leaders, America deserves to be overthrown. I don't know if it will be. I would not be surprised if it is, in my lifetime. It has reached critical mass. No nation in history has overcome corruption at these levels.
Imagine a movie about child sex trafficking being slammed by media...Leftist media. They slammed it, it has gone on to open in more and more theaters, making over 150 million dollars last I saw. Americans care. The people who run the nation do not. History shows leaders kill nations, not average citizens.
America is going to die if things are not reversed. Not slowed down. Reversed. Do I see it happening? No. 2020 and the midterms showed us the systemic corruption is embedded now and there are not enough honest politicians and civil servants to reverse it all. The 2024 elections cannot be saved from fraud and criminal activity with nothing being done to stop the criminal avenues of control.
You can believe America can rise again; MAGA and all that. I see no evidence. Corrupt politicians. Corrupt, activist judges, corrupt enforcement of supposed law and order agencies... pick your point of protection. Find me one that can be trusted anymore.
Tragedy happening daily and nothing can stop it. God can, of course but, fewer and fewer people believe and are willing to turn to Him for His power to intervene and change things.
Nineveh, one of the most corrupt, pagan, promiscuous, revolting places in history repented when Jonah walked into that city and began preaching. How is that possible? In Jonah's time, an estimated 150,000 citizens lived there. According to the book of Jonah, from the king on down, people repented of their sins and God did not destroy the city. Here is the second chapter of the book -
Jonah 3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jon 3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jon 3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
Jon 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jon 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Jon 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jon 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jon 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
??? How is that possible? A guy walks into a city one day's journey; starts proclaiming the city has 40 days before destruction comes. The man is believed, people repent, city saved. ???
Many people have claimed the book of Jonah is just a story, not history. It is just designed to teach something. It did not really happen. Jonah could not have been swallowed by a fish. There is nothing 'trustworthy' in the annals of history mentioning the events surrounding the city's experience, etc., etc.
I'd take a different view.
#1. Sailors have been swallowed by whales. Some died and were found when said whale was caught and cut open. Others survived their ordeal and an amazing thing showed the fact. Stomach acids in the whales literally bleached the skin of survivors. Sores, healed, left their scars. A pretty horrific situation many would say, better if the victim died.
So, a man is swallowed by a whale or any huge fish, like a giant Grouper. God protects him from death. If you believe protection stories all throughout the Bible, including circumstances surrounding Christ during His ministry, then God protecting Jonah is no big deal but, Jonah paid a price for his original disobedience. He was saved from death, not the effects of spending that time in the digestive juices of his captor. To the unwary or unknowledgeable he may have appeared the victim of leprosy. To those who knew better, as was common in ancient times, the man who walked into the city with tattered clothing and horrific skin was not a leper. Nobody knew what his problem was and when he walks through the gates he instantly attracts attention and people are following him all through the city until he gets about half way into it. Once he picks his spot, surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands of people, citizens from the other directions in the city see what is happening and come to find out what's going on.
In early America, it is said the "Trumpet of the Lord," George Whitefield, preached to as many as 8,000 people one day, in Boston. All heard him clearly. How? Technically speaking, no one knows. Supernaturally speaking, obviously the work of the Lord.
So, Jonah is surrounded by a multitude of people, looking as strange as anyone has ever seen in that generally affluent city. The Bible does not tell us exactly what Jonah said in that sermon. We are just shown the crux of the matter - In forty days, Nineveh shall be overthrown.
If that is all Jonah said, you know people would have walked away and left the weird guy standing there. Noah is stated to have proclaimed the same basic message and the vast majority of people that heard him over the period of 120 years considered him a fool. Even when the animals began to quietly and in order, walk or crawled up the ramp or flew into the ark, the people still mocked. When the door closed. Nobody moved. When the crust of the earth exploded and water and rocks began to shoot up to the outer atmosphere in power never seen before, then the rain came in torrents never experienced, people reacted in horror, too late.
How did Jonah captivate his audience?
Nineveh was just as sinful as Noah's day. Just as wicked and perverted as the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. What caused the repentance? Obviously, as Jonah preached the message of salvation from sin or destruction in sin, Jehovah was Ruler over all gods and kings, and the history of Hebrew events showed that, and enough hearts were moved and ultimately, the message got to the king. From there, it all fell into place. The king felt conviction of his own sins. He repented in the traditional sackcloth and ashes of the times. He made a decree, common, as well, in those times. The king saved that city from annihilation.
The people will generally never rise higher than its leaders.
If America only has weak, watered down messages of love, love, love spoken to it from religious leaders; nothing will change. Even if Americans show repentance from sins they are convicted of, not much will change. Only if the leaders are changed will America survive.
America's early leaders, though from different religious backgrounds, believed in the Sovereign of the universe and made mention of Him often in their writings. John Adams was a devout Christian. As weak as Abraham Lincoln could be when facing activities skirting the Constitution, he had enough belief and faith in the Almighty to see to it America held together and it cost him his life.
As Washington, D.C. has become more and more godless, so has the nation. Today, the White House, the Congress and the Courts are populated with a godlessness never seen before in the history of this nation. The morality of the nation shows the effect.
Many say they believe in God. So what? "The devils believe, and they tremble." You do not really believe in God if your life is yours, not His, moved by His will. I am not talking about struggling with sin, with self. I am talking about the principle - "Lord, I believe. Help THOU my unbelief."
America will reverse its ship wreck course, only if its leaders reverse their personal courses from spiritual darkness into light. Do I expect that? No more so than Rome's leaders turned from their debauchery. In fact, when emperor Justinian headed to Constantinople he signed a decree leaving the pope as head of all churches and corrector of heretics, and the Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Catholic Church took control of all civil affairs in Rome and the provinces, as well. What came next? Ultimately wars and more wars. Superstitions galore and the Dark Ages. What turned Europe around? The Protestant Reformation and conversion to truth of national leaders. Today? All gone and Europe is a total mess it cannot recover from.
The Bible tells believers to pray for leaders and honor them because order comes from God -
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
1Tim 2:2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
1Tim 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Tim 2:4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
Rom 13:2 Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:
Rom 13:4 for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.
Rom 13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
Rom 13:6 For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
1Pet 2:13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1Pet 2:14 or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.
1Pet 2:15 For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1Pet 2:16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1Pet 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
God wants all men, all leaders to come to a knowledge of the truth and be saved. Leaders are supposed to be a power for good and should do well. That is the ideal. When it is not, the Bible also addresses that, as well -
Act 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
Act 4:17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Act 4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Act 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Act 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Act 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
America is doomed. It really is; as doomed as Nineveh was. It is not yet wholly lost. Time will show whether America's leaders can be brought to repentance and keep this grand experiment going. Many are wicked people. The sincere have an uphill battle, day in, day out.
God can change America's leaders, if they will be.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Every American knows the nation has had a drug "problem" for at least 60 years. Many Americans know the CIA and other Federal alphabet agencies have been part of the problem. We cannot say nothing has changed. That would be incorrect. In 2010, 20,000 people died of overdose. In 2022, 100,000 people died of overdose. Since 1999, about one million people have died from overdose and I believe that number is less than factual. Today, right now, the new demon on the streets across the nation, moving like a fire through a dry, Texas field, is called Tranq: Fentanyl cut with the animal tranquilizer - Xylazine. It has become known as the "zombie" drug. It does not just ruin brain cells, it literally causes necrosis of tissue; flesh eating symptoms.
I never heard of this stuff. Just saw some news about it this morning and thought I would look some things up.
How is it the U.S. government, along with State and Local governments, cannot stop the drug trade? How is it over 100 BILLION dollars of "aid" can be sent to Ukraine to help a despotic regime fight a losing war against Russia, solely for strategic purposes of the increased presence of NATO but, the borders of this nation cannot be protected from drug cartels and incessant flow of drugs into this land? There is only one, logical answer. The Federal government does not want the stoppage of drugs flowing into this nation. Nobody in Congress cares about drugs until one of their kids becomes an addict. Otherwise, they live in a world of a bubble, isolated from the mean streets. The former mayor of D.C. was a cocaine addict. I see headlines every week of some official caught with, arrested for, addicted to some kind of drug out there or influenced by drug use involving other crimes. Congress knows the problem exists. It just isn't their problem. Well, Ukraine is not America's problem, either. Not by a long shot but, American drug labs in Ukraine are a concern for those who run them, profit off them, and buy and sell politicians to keep the money flowing; which we have known for a long time now, involves the non-president and his drug addict son, along with other Ukraine business interests. The Bidens keep trucking along, protected by the corruption of corporate controlled media and criminal minds in Congress. Articles of Impeachment are desired to be drawn up by some Republicans while GOP leaders try to stop it. The Biden administration is the biggest debacle in American history.
With the invention of unmanned drones of all types, there is not a mile of U.S. border that cannot be patrolled. If the National Guards of every state were patrolling borders, using drone technology to watch them, no illegal immigrants, no drugs could come into this nation. Why isn't it done?
We are told it's a complicated issue. No, it isn't. D.C. makes it complicated because of all the self-interest involved. It isn't just drugs. We know that. It's human trafficking, as well.
The only thing that makes a nation, a nation are laws and borders. American borders have become meaningless. American laws are only there for citizens to follow, not politicians.
Based on the inactions of its leaders, America deserves to be overthrown. I don't know if it will be. I would not be surprised if it is, in my lifetime. It has reached critical mass. No nation in history has overcome corruption at these levels.
Imagine a movie about child sex trafficking being slammed by media...Leftist media. They slammed it, it has gone on to open in more and more theaters, making over 150 million dollars last I saw. Americans care. The people who run the nation do not. History shows leaders kill nations, not average citizens.
America is going to die if things are not reversed. Not slowed down. Reversed. Do I see it happening? No. 2020 and the midterms showed us the systemic corruption is embedded now and there are not enough honest politicians and civil servants to reverse it all. The 2024 elections cannot be saved from fraud and criminal activity with nothing being done to stop the criminal avenues of control.
You can believe America can rise again; MAGA and all that. I see no evidence. Corrupt politicians. Corrupt, activist judges, corrupt enforcement of supposed law and order agencies... pick your point of protection. Find me one that can be trusted anymore.
Tragedy happening daily and nothing can stop it. God can, of course but, fewer and fewer people believe and are willing to turn to Him for His power to intervene and change things.
Nineveh, one of the most corrupt, pagan, promiscuous, revolting places in history repented when Jonah walked into that city and began preaching. How is that possible? In Jonah's time, an estimated 150,000 citizens lived there. According to the book of Jonah, from the king on down, people repented of their sins and God did not destroy the city. Here is the second chapter of the book -
Jonah 3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jon 3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jon 3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
Jon 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jon 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Jon 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jon 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jon 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
??? How is that possible? A guy walks into a city one day's journey; starts proclaiming the city has 40 days before destruction comes. The man is believed, people repent, city saved. ???
Many people have claimed the book of Jonah is just a story, not history. It is just designed to teach something. It did not really happen. Jonah could not have been swallowed by a fish. There is nothing 'trustworthy' in the annals of history mentioning the events surrounding the city's experience, etc., etc.
I'd take a different view.
#1. Sailors have been swallowed by whales. Some died and were found when said whale was caught and cut open. Others survived their ordeal and an amazing thing showed the fact. Stomach acids in the whales literally bleached the skin of survivors. Sores, healed, left their scars. A pretty horrific situation many would say, better if the victim died.
So, a man is swallowed by a whale or any huge fish, like a giant Grouper. God protects him from death. If you believe protection stories all throughout the Bible, including circumstances surrounding Christ during His ministry, then God protecting Jonah is no big deal but, Jonah paid a price for his original disobedience. He was saved from death, not the effects of spending that time in the digestive juices of his captor. To the unwary or unknowledgeable he may have appeared the victim of leprosy. To those who knew better, as was common in ancient times, the man who walked into the city with tattered clothing and horrific skin was not a leper. Nobody knew what his problem was and when he walks through the gates he instantly attracts attention and people are following him all through the city until he gets about half way into it. Once he picks his spot, surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands of people, citizens from the other directions in the city see what is happening and come to find out what's going on.
In early America, it is said the "Trumpet of the Lord," George Whitefield, preached to as many as 8,000 people one day, in Boston. All heard him clearly. How? Technically speaking, no one knows. Supernaturally speaking, obviously the work of the Lord.
So, Jonah is surrounded by a multitude of people, looking as strange as anyone has ever seen in that generally affluent city. The Bible does not tell us exactly what Jonah said in that sermon. We are just shown the crux of the matter - In forty days, Nineveh shall be overthrown.
If that is all Jonah said, you know people would have walked away and left the weird guy standing there. Noah is stated to have proclaimed the same basic message and the vast majority of people that heard him over the period of 120 years considered him a fool. Even when the animals began to quietly and in order, walk or crawled up the ramp or flew into the ark, the people still mocked. When the door closed. Nobody moved. When the crust of the earth exploded and water and rocks began to shoot up to the outer atmosphere in power never seen before, then the rain came in torrents never experienced, people reacted in horror, too late.
How did Jonah captivate his audience?
Nineveh was just as sinful as Noah's day. Just as wicked and perverted as the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. What caused the repentance? Obviously, as Jonah preached the message of salvation from sin or destruction in sin, Jehovah was Ruler over all gods and kings, and the history of Hebrew events showed that, and enough hearts were moved and ultimately, the message got to the king. From there, it all fell into place. The king felt conviction of his own sins. He repented in the traditional sackcloth and ashes of the times. He made a decree, common, as well, in those times. The king saved that city from annihilation.
The people will generally never rise higher than its leaders.
If America only has weak, watered down messages of love, love, love spoken to it from religious leaders; nothing will change. Even if Americans show repentance from sins they are convicted of, not much will change. Only if the leaders are changed will America survive.
America's early leaders, though from different religious backgrounds, believed in the Sovereign of the universe and made mention of Him often in their writings. John Adams was a devout Christian. As weak as Abraham Lincoln could be when facing activities skirting the Constitution, he had enough belief and faith in the Almighty to see to it America held together and it cost him his life.
As Washington, D.C. has become more and more godless, so has the nation. Today, the White House, the Congress and the Courts are populated with a godlessness never seen before in the history of this nation. The morality of the nation shows the effect.
Many say they believe in God. So what? "The devils believe, and they tremble." You do not really believe in God if your life is yours, not His, moved by His will. I am not talking about struggling with sin, with self. I am talking about the principle - "Lord, I believe. Help THOU my unbelief."
America will reverse its ship wreck course, only if its leaders reverse their personal courses from spiritual darkness into light. Do I expect that? No more so than Rome's leaders turned from their debauchery. In fact, when emperor Justinian headed to Constantinople he signed a decree leaving the pope as head of all churches and corrector of heretics, and the Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Catholic Church took control of all civil affairs in Rome and the provinces, as well. What came next? Ultimately wars and more wars. Superstitions galore and the Dark Ages. What turned Europe around? The Protestant Reformation and conversion to truth of national leaders. Today? All gone and Europe is a total mess it cannot recover from.
The Bible tells believers to pray for leaders and honor them because order comes from God -
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
1Tim 2:2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
1Tim 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Tim 2:4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
Rom 13:2 Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:
Rom 13:4 for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.
Rom 13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
Rom 13:6 For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
1Pet 2:13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1Pet 2:14 or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.
1Pet 2:15 For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1Pet 2:16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1Pet 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
God wants all men, all leaders to come to a knowledge of the truth and be saved. Leaders are supposed to be a power for good and should do well. That is the ideal. When it is not, the Bible also addresses that, as well -
Act 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
Act 4:17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Act 4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Act 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Act 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Act 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
America is doomed. It really is; as doomed as Nineveh was. It is not yet wholly lost. Time will show whether America's leaders can be brought to repentance and keep this grand experiment going. Many are wicked people. The sincere have an uphill battle, day in, day out.
God can change America's leaders, if they will be.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Where Do We Stand Thus Far?
When it became thousands of medical professionals around the world speaking out about the mRNA technology causing dozens of dangers to people you'd have thought national leaders would have listened. They did not. They listened, rather, to the World Health Organization and subsidiaries stating people must be injected for the good of the planetary population. The results, thus far?
Based on government figures; national and international figures of average percentages of deaths every year, the spikes over previous years show us thus far 20 Million people have died since the roll out of the injections and 2 BILLION people have suffered serious adverse reactions. And those numbers do not reflect still births, which skyrocketed; nor suicides during the lockdowns, etc., etc. And it must be understood these numbers are fluid. The effects of the injections are not over. It's just where the world stands at this juncture. And STILL, most nations in the Western Hemisphere, with these statistics staring them in the face, refuse to place a moratorium on these gene therapy, bioweapon injections. How is that even remotely possible?
According to CDC data, the mortality rate of the 0-24 year-old age bracket is up 45%! The only thing that is different for humanity is the roll out of the "vaccines."
For most of the world, trying to carry on after the lockdowns, their focus has been to look to the future, not the past or present. Most people just want to get on with life and forget about the worst crime against humanity ever attempted. Unfortunately, at some point in the future, it is likely almost every person on Earth will know someone that died or was adversely effected by the injections.
I read a headline that Senator (Dr.) Rand Paul believes enough evidence exists to go after Anthony Fauci for criminal offenses. Senator Ron Johnson has come out and stated the entire "pandemic" was a plot. Yet, as far as we can see, all the perpetrators still walk around free. It is a ghastly reality of where we stand as a species.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-20-million-people-killed-globally-by-covid-vaccines-2-2-billion-seriously-hurt/
www.infowars.com/posts/all-cause-mortality-up-a-whopping-45-in-0-24-age-group-since-covid-vax-rollout-cdc-data-shows/
Based on government figures; national and international figures of average percentages of deaths every year, the spikes over previous years show us thus far 20 Million people have died since the roll out of the injections and 2 BILLION people have suffered serious adverse reactions. And those numbers do not reflect still births, which skyrocketed; nor suicides during the lockdowns, etc., etc. And it must be understood these numbers are fluid. The effects of the injections are not over. It's just where the world stands at this juncture. And STILL, most nations in the Western Hemisphere, with these statistics staring them in the face, refuse to place a moratorium on these gene therapy, bioweapon injections. How is that even remotely possible?
According to CDC data, the mortality rate of the 0-24 year-old age bracket is up 45%! The only thing that is different for humanity is the roll out of the "vaccines."
For most of the world, trying to carry on after the lockdowns, their focus has been to look to the future, not the past or present. Most people just want to get on with life and forget about the worst crime against humanity ever attempted. Unfortunately, at some point in the future, it is likely almost every person on Earth will know someone that died or was adversely effected by the injections.
I read a headline that Senator (Dr.) Rand Paul believes enough evidence exists to go after Anthony Fauci for criminal offenses. Senator Ron Johnson has come out and stated the entire "pandemic" was a plot. Yet, as far as we can see, all the perpetrators still walk around free. It is a ghastly reality of where we stand as a species.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-20-million-people-killed-globally-by-covid-vaccines-2-2-billion-seriously-hurt/
www.infowars.com/posts/all-cause-mortality-up-a-whopping-45-in-0-24-age-group-since-covid-vax-rollout-cdc-data-shows/
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Bowls!
I just watched the most fascinating finals of a game I never heard of. I'm 68 years old. I have been bowling over the years. Duckpins, as well. Played Bocce a time or two. Went golfing a couple times. This is apparently the Scottish version of a boules game. They go back to the Roman Empire. All Bowls games require a lot of skill. In this case, the distances involved and the balls, themselves, are rather unique.
Watching this was quite intense. The distances and angles the balls need to traverse really create some drama. You watch someone bowling, the pros, and how they curl their throws. Everything happens pretty fast with a 16 lb. ball moving at 20mph. The fastest a bowling ball has been clocked is 100mph. I cannot even imagine throwing down such a speed.
In Scottish bowls, things move slower and huge curves are involved. The balls are weighted for angular trajection. When they stop they fall over on their weighted side. It's amazing. This is an Indoor match. I can imagine an Outdoor match, on any natural surface, being much more difficult. Check it out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75DwzmIPzY
Watching this was quite intense. The distances and angles the balls need to traverse really create some drama. You watch someone bowling, the pros, and how they curl their throws. Everything happens pretty fast with a 16 lb. ball moving at 20mph. The fastest a bowling ball has been clocked is 100mph. I cannot even imagine throwing down such a speed.
In Scottish bowls, things move slower and huge curves are involved. The balls are weighted for angular trajection. When they stop they fall over on their weighted side. It's amazing. This is an Indoor match. I can imagine an Outdoor match, on any natural surface, being much more difficult. Check it out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75DwzmIPzY
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Three Strikes. You're Out.
I'm going to write something very open and painfully honest. I'm not sure why, at this point in time. Maybe just the idea of putting something out there that may ring some chimes in another soul's heart and mind; help them to know they are not alone.
From the Christian point of view we are never really alone. The Holy Spirit's work is to make Christ alive in the believer and hard times can create moments of unique and impressive sense of God's presence within us.
I should be existing in a pretty interesting bubble of music files and anticipation of a very important recording, for me, anyway, being released in the near future. I listen to the song files, rough mixed and close to final mixes every week. For music that has not been a part of my life and thought process for decades, it's a pretty enjoyable listen. Yes, that's with the new inclusion of the biblical worldview lyrics and message but, just the music Martin and Janne created, and listening to things I played 45 years later, has made a lasting impression on my soul.
I have mentioned current circumstances in my life made for a very difficult recording process for me. Somewhere between 500 and 600 takes, just trying to get things right; with the mind/brain I have after the strokes back in 2021. I wanted a 5-star performance from me. It isn't but, I'm not complaining. I have lived to do it, and have wanted to do it for almost 20 years. It has become a reality. It should be a time of positive anticipation. It isn't.
So, here goes. From my years in my teens, the only thing I ever really, truly wanted was to be happily married. My parents gave me that desire. For thirty-plus years I beheld two people who loved spending time together, at everything; and I mean everything. They did it all together. Washing dishes, yardwork, renovating and decorating the houses we lived in, cooking together, running a couple restaurants together; my dad even helped my mom lay out patterns for clothes she sowed. That was how I grew up; with that constant living painting of marriage before me. I had my rough, rebellious, defiant years; with all the typical parent/child conflicts but, I never got into any serious trouble. Drums and music kept me in line. I dropped out of high school but, could never drop away from the drum set. And they supported me at every stage of advancement, right into LEGEND.
I have mentioned a girlfriend I had back in school. She was cute, funny, smart and sometimes I think, the one that got away. Rather, the one I pushed away when, for some reason, my life came unglued. I worked at my parent's restaurant, had other odd jobs. Above all, just kept playing and practicing but, just became a sullen soul for reasons that escaped me. Nobody could understand what happened. Not her, nor my parents or friends.
I settled into routines, felt very alone and became a Christian at 24. My life radically changed. I became an evangelist, and for about twenty years I did prophecy seminars and other types of Bible study meetings and seminars, some Bible Health meetings, all self-produced. I never went to school. I just listened to a lot of cassette tape series by various preachers and teachers and then commenced making my own props, found ways to create artwork, overheads and slide shows from a friend's photography talents and my own camera expeditions. I married at 28. We had two, very different girls I love a great deal and rejoice at things they have accomplished in their lives. Unfortunately, they beheld things no child should be exposed to. It was basically a 19-year-long argument. We divorced. It was a soul ripping affair for us all and beyond the family arena, given the ministry and everything I was involved in. I'd have to say, drum set artistry kept me sane and afloat during those years, practically speaking. Nothing else made much sense, save for music.
I married again. It lasted just two and half years. It was an excruciating experience, going from Everest highs to Death Valley in July.
Almost twenty years ago, I wrote a manuscript for a book; Searching for Abigail. She is my favorite Bible character, as far as women in the Bible go. I met someone on-line, my Abigail. It seemed an astounding discovery. Hundreds of hours talking on the phone. Finally meeting.
I married again, to someone I really believed would be my best friend; one I could share everything in life with, like my parents had, even though it was later in life. Seventeen years later, she filed for divorce a few days before I sat down to write this. I was not surprised, per se. It has been, as I have shared with a few souls I am close to, a Twilight Zone experience; something you just can't make sense of.
How did this happen? I'm not writing a book here. I have cried the hottest tears imaginable, leaving puddles of water on the floor below my face a time or few in the last thirty years. I've racked my brain trying to understand how someone who only wanted to be happily married, of all things in life - not a major league ball player; not a busy, working musician; not a successful business owner - just a guy having someone to share life with, together, yet, could end up with... nothing but, some tools, some drums and stuff, some parental mementos from their lives, some books and a few pieces of furniture I'll have nowhere to put in 60 days. Yes, that is the distance to travel for an uncontested divorce in Texas.
How is this possible? For those who have asked that same question, I wonder if what I'll share will make some kind of sense.
I am 68, closing in on 69. I spent my most formative and productive years, physically speaking, preaching and teaching; living by the kindness and donations of others to keep a small ministry going. I learned the trade of carpentry, even built a house in Maine we lived in for fifteen years but, I never did it enough to remember anything and each project has been fraught with struggles, even though I have renovated seven homes and bunch of projects in and out of all these years. I learned to make my own drums but, it is all just DIY stuff. Nothing professional. I have nothing to fall back on with a physical body that no longer can withstand the rigors of that trade.
I left the ministry because of divorce. Some have told me it should give a ministry more depth; to understand the dynamics of how things can go wrong, to help people not fall into the same ditches and canyons. For me, with biblical principle to guide me; if one cannot hold a small family together, how can he hold the larger church family together? There are many jobs one can advertise for. Ministry is not a job. It's a calling from God. The calling ceased, as did the funds to manage things. It all seemed pretty plain, to me.
Now, you are well within logic and common sense to ask, 'What have you done to ruin your marriages? You must have done something.'
I am no "saint." I recognize my own faults and frankly, I am sick and tired of being me. I really am. It has been a life of... failure in my mind. Forty-four years of conflict with church leaders and spouses. Have mercy, if I drop dead typing this; that is not an unpleasant thought for me.
Now, I am going to address something that is an observation; one born of experience. I am not a psychologist. I am an observer of humanity. And don't accuse me of looking for people to blame. I am to blame. I made the choices I made. There is no one else to blame but me. I have no stones to throw; no desire to hurl anyone under a bus. I must own my own failures. They does not mean I cannot see a forest because of the trees.
It is a fact, all three of the women I married were abused. Mentally, emotionally, physically abused to one degree or another; childhood into adulthood; just from previous relationships or both. I have come to learn child and spousal abuse is an epidemic in our society. It has always been there since the earliest times of humanity; the stronger preying upon the weaker, even the absolute helpless but, in these times - when every conceivable convenience for life is affordable to almost everyone - stress levels have reached such for humans that rage can be as common as saying 'Good Morning,' and the human becomes a beast. The number of women you probably know who have been abused would shock you. It may shock you even more for the number of men emasculated and abused in relationships, as well. Most of this, nobody sees outside the home; places that are no longer homes but, battlegrounds. In some cases it is physical warfare. In others, dead silence and distance under one roof, with constant stress and tension threatening to tear lives apart, that enters that zone where lives do begin to shred and unravel.
Even when I was doing some online perusing of "dating" sites, I met women who openly shared they had been abused by parents and/or spouses. It is a rampant, evil and wicked fall of mankind into an abyss of pain, fear and darkness: a darkness the un or non-abused can't really understand. It creates such pain in minds, one can trigger or trip a switch and face a wrath out of nowhere. It becomes a minefield you can step on in an instant and blow apart a day, a week, months, even years of time. Your words are not heard as you speak and mean them. They are heard through a prism of dark and sinister clouds gathered in the mind, filled with torturous memories. From childhood into adulthood it creates an internal warzone women fight through the best they can; and most need help but, they do not seek it. They live with internal memories that bring strife and doubt and fear and anger from angles never expected, that blast out sideways in every direction under the right provocations a man has no idea he just exploded, until it is too late. Things are said that seem like daggers and little by little death from a thousand cuts ensues.
I know God can heal and does heal hearts and minds. That said... even the joy of salvation can find it hard to bury past terrors and struggles with fear and pain. And this situation of reality is everywhere on the globe. Demons get involved and destroy relationships. The enemy of souls delights in wrecking the foundation of all human life - the family order; designed by the Creator to be a blessing; a foretaste of Heaven. "Hell" on Earth is everywhere. It has gotten so sick, adults want the right to have sexual relations with children. People cannot define or are reticent to define what a woman is. Breastfeeding men?!? The world has reached a level of insanity such as no time in human history. Everybody is at each other's throats and passive aggressiveness has become an art form.
Learning this in the last dozen years or so, I have no answers. I know I will not seek marriage again. I have stepped on way too many land mines. I have nothing to offer and no energy left to offer anything I had, if I possessed it.
I remember many years ago sitting with a married couple that asked for my intervention. I had not ever then or since, beheld such animosity, anger, disgust, darkness and vitriol between two people. I walked out of that house that evening, literally in shock. It stayed with me for months. They presented a fair front at church. Her personality, very strong and domineering, as I look back on it, was probably that of a woman abused as a child. She was a bomb waiting to go off. He was a total introvert, seemingly, completely ignorant and incognizant of what was taking place. They ripped each other to shreds in the course of a few hours. I thought to myself, 'I am way out of my league here.' I was dumbfounded and speechless most of the evening. Their daughter spoke with me after that night and apologized that I witnessed what she and her brother were used to. Used to? My life growing up may as well have been on Mars for the distance between the two marriages and family life. I never saw my parents have a single argument. If they argued, it was never in front of me, and I tried to keep that principle intact in my first marriage with the children but, the nature of the conflicts were as such as presenting themselves almost perpetually, and shrapnel was always in the air. And still, my second and now my third marriage has ended. I have failed at bringing to bear principles that should have kept things going. And I point blank said 17 years ago, "Divorce is not in my vocabulary."
So, I have mostly stayed away from thoughts of public ministry.
We did not fight in this marriage. We both had more than our share of conflict and just stayed away from it. I am a communicator. I've been a public performer, a public speaker at live meetings and on radio. I communicate through writing. I'll talk with someone all night long to resolve something but, communication is a two-way street. I have found, women who have been abused find it extremely difficult to communicate and it is made more difficult by what they hear and respond to, when they hear things that are not actually said, in word or spirit. It went from happily married, to being acquaintances, to becoming roommates just occupying space under the same roof, at a distance, rarely speaking to each other and I know our situation is not unique. It is common.
Nineteen hundred years ago the apostle Paul stated it is better to remain single but, if one is burning inside with needs for intimacy and closeness; marry. Nineteen centuries later, when I became a Christian, reading in a volume about Christian marriage and family life, the author stated the fewer marriages contracted, the better. Why? The onslaughts of the enemy to destroy so ruthlessly in our day and age. Simple as that; complicated as that.
People make vows when they marry and they think to themselves, their love can weather any storm; meaning - that which attacks from outside the marriage. Few, myself included, ever expected things to arise from within the marriage to sabotage it from the inside out. Who would get married if they thought long and hard, no matter what they do, if they marry the wrong person for them, or even the right person, their risk of marital destruction from outside and inside forces rises exponentially, especially in this age and time; and if children are involved, as they so commonly are, the next generation is affected in ways that just create cycles of continuance of great pain, sorrow and suffering.
In 60 days I hope to have some idea where I will go and what I will do. Yeah, I'm scared. Yes, I know God knows it all and has a path but, let me tell you, when marriage fails, three times, it is pretty easy to think God is looking down and saying, 'I love you but, I don't like you very much.' I can read the Bible, the history of the Hebrew people; how they wandered from God century after century and when they cried out, He brought them back to reality and sensibility and strove with them to walk in His light and stay vigilant. Well, I'm as lukewarm as anyone out there, trying to keep my head above water. Pain seems to be God's life preserver for me. I do not expect an easy road for the journey ahead.
A movie came out some years ago about a man who set sail by himself. His boat sprung a leak. He struggled and struggled to stay afloat and finally, gave up in frustration and exhaustion and just let himself sink into the darkness of the vastness of the ocean around him. Then, an arm is seen thrusting into the water, grabbing him, pulling him up to the safety of a solid ship. Please, don't blame me if I wonder if that arm will reach down and keep me from drowning in doubt and circumstances, now beyond my intimate and foreseeable control.
I know I am not alone. I know you are not alone. I know God is infinite love, compassion and mercy and the enemy shall bear his weight of guilt upon my shoulders to sink me into the dark unknown. I suppose that reads kind of dramatic, doesn't it? Up until now I have had some safety nets that no longer exist. Years ago, I developed vertigo. It is the sensation you are falling when you are standing still. I have fallen off of two roofs. I know the physical, I know the mental. I am scared. It isn't a denial of faith. It's just reality.
I brought what I had in life to Texas, leaving a lot behind in Virginia. All things considered I will leave Texas with far less than I brought here. I don't know what I shall do with whatever I can leave with, remaining a heavy load of thoughts upon a tired mind.
Some of you reading this will shake your heads that I am sharing it all. I am not writing for you. I write for me; to retain some semblance of balance, purpose and sanity in life and for others who may be blessed or moved or motivated in some way by anything I post on this website. Stone-throwers will always have a bag ready to go. It's their own way of surviving. It's as old as the hills and the Bible is filled with plenty of examples.
I am not trying to advise. I have no answers that can save anything I have been through. I certainly do not propose to offer anything for what you may be going through. I can only share, so someone reading can know they are not alone. Beyond that, my life, my purpose on this Earth is naught but a huge question mark now. I ease a little that my parents are not alive to see all this. Parents can never find comfort in seeing their children make ship wreck of life. I recently spoke with some parents whose two children battle the devils of drugs and crime and worthlessness. Multiply such situations and many more, by billions and you can sense a tiny shred of what God sees and feels every second, of every day. And it will continue and get worse until the cries of "peace and safety" but, then sudden destruction comes.
Humanity is great at hiding things. Children, adolescents, adults... most find ways to cope. Many others do not and succumb to brokenness and pressures that have capsized and sunk millions of human vessels down through the ages. God never meant life to be controlled and maintained by coping mechanisms. Sin changed everything, and six-thousand years later, it's literally breaking the Earth. Broken lives and minds are destroying prospects for life on this planet. That is why the end of all things is at hand. Christ is coming. It cannot be stopped. You can either prepare for it or get blown away by it. There are no in-between choices.
Today, according to Texas law, I must go and have divorce documents notarized or a sheriff will come and serve me. You see, at least before one stranger, a notary, I'll have to expose this phase of my life. They will stamp the papers, I will sign, they will wonder, and honestly, so will I. Why hide it? Of course I'm embarrassed by it. Better I share than let it possess me into some dark place I can't find my way out of.
Three strikes and you're out. I'm out. Back to the bench.
I should be looking forward to the future. I'm not. The only thing that makes sense right now is the return of Christ, based on the evidence and the signs of our times. It is called the "Blessed Hope" in Scripture and for the believer, it is. It shall end up being the only hope believers have - the glorious return and rescue event of the ages: the second coming of the King.
I long for it to happen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
From the Christian point of view we are never really alone. The Holy Spirit's work is to make Christ alive in the believer and hard times can create moments of unique and impressive sense of God's presence within us.
I should be existing in a pretty interesting bubble of music files and anticipation of a very important recording, for me, anyway, being released in the near future. I listen to the song files, rough mixed and close to final mixes every week. For music that has not been a part of my life and thought process for decades, it's a pretty enjoyable listen. Yes, that's with the new inclusion of the biblical worldview lyrics and message but, just the music Martin and Janne created, and listening to things I played 45 years later, has made a lasting impression on my soul.
I have mentioned current circumstances in my life made for a very difficult recording process for me. Somewhere between 500 and 600 takes, just trying to get things right; with the mind/brain I have after the strokes back in 2021. I wanted a 5-star performance from me. It isn't but, I'm not complaining. I have lived to do it, and have wanted to do it for almost 20 years. It has become a reality. It should be a time of positive anticipation. It isn't.
So, here goes. From my years in my teens, the only thing I ever really, truly wanted was to be happily married. My parents gave me that desire. For thirty-plus years I beheld two people who loved spending time together, at everything; and I mean everything. They did it all together. Washing dishes, yardwork, renovating and decorating the houses we lived in, cooking together, running a couple restaurants together; my dad even helped my mom lay out patterns for clothes she sowed. That was how I grew up; with that constant living painting of marriage before me. I had my rough, rebellious, defiant years; with all the typical parent/child conflicts but, I never got into any serious trouble. Drums and music kept me in line. I dropped out of high school but, could never drop away from the drum set. And they supported me at every stage of advancement, right into LEGEND.
I have mentioned a girlfriend I had back in school. She was cute, funny, smart and sometimes I think, the one that got away. Rather, the one I pushed away when, for some reason, my life came unglued. I worked at my parent's restaurant, had other odd jobs. Above all, just kept playing and practicing but, just became a sullen soul for reasons that escaped me. Nobody could understand what happened. Not her, nor my parents or friends.
I settled into routines, felt very alone and became a Christian at 24. My life radically changed. I became an evangelist, and for about twenty years I did prophecy seminars and other types of Bible study meetings and seminars, some Bible Health meetings, all self-produced. I never went to school. I just listened to a lot of cassette tape series by various preachers and teachers and then commenced making my own props, found ways to create artwork, overheads and slide shows from a friend's photography talents and my own camera expeditions. I married at 28. We had two, very different girls I love a great deal and rejoice at things they have accomplished in their lives. Unfortunately, they beheld things no child should be exposed to. It was basically a 19-year-long argument. We divorced. It was a soul ripping affair for us all and beyond the family arena, given the ministry and everything I was involved in. I'd have to say, drum set artistry kept me sane and afloat during those years, practically speaking. Nothing else made much sense, save for music.
I married again. It lasted just two and half years. It was an excruciating experience, going from Everest highs to Death Valley in July.
Almost twenty years ago, I wrote a manuscript for a book; Searching for Abigail. She is my favorite Bible character, as far as women in the Bible go. I met someone on-line, my Abigail. It seemed an astounding discovery. Hundreds of hours talking on the phone. Finally meeting.
I married again, to someone I really believed would be my best friend; one I could share everything in life with, like my parents had, even though it was later in life. Seventeen years later, she filed for divorce a few days before I sat down to write this. I was not surprised, per se. It has been, as I have shared with a few souls I am close to, a Twilight Zone experience; something you just can't make sense of.
How did this happen? I'm not writing a book here. I have cried the hottest tears imaginable, leaving puddles of water on the floor below my face a time or few in the last thirty years. I've racked my brain trying to understand how someone who only wanted to be happily married, of all things in life - not a major league ball player; not a busy, working musician; not a successful business owner - just a guy having someone to share life with, together, yet, could end up with... nothing but, some tools, some drums and stuff, some parental mementos from their lives, some books and a few pieces of furniture I'll have nowhere to put in 60 days. Yes, that is the distance to travel for an uncontested divorce in Texas.
How is this possible? For those who have asked that same question, I wonder if what I'll share will make some kind of sense.
I am 68, closing in on 69. I spent my most formative and productive years, physically speaking, preaching and teaching; living by the kindness and donations of others to keep a small ministry going. I learned the trade of carpentry, even built a house in Maine we lived in for fifteen years but, I never did it enough to remember anything and each project has been fraught with struggles, even though I have renovated seven homes and bunch of projects in and out of all these years. I learned to make my own drums but, it is all just DIY stuff. Nothing professional. I have nothing to fall back on with a physical body that no longer can withstand the rigors of that trade.
I left the ministry because of divorce. Some have told me it should give a ministry more depth; to understand the dynamics of how things can go wrong, to help people not fall into the same ditches and canyons. For me, with biblical principle to guide me; if one cannot hold a small family together, how can he hold the larger church family together? There are many jobs one can advertise for. Ministry is not a job. It's a calling from God. The calling ceased, as did the funds to manage things. It all seemed pretty plain, to me.
Now, you are well within logic and common sense to ask, 'What have you done to ruin your marriages? You must have done something.'
I am no "saint." I recognize my own faults and frankly, I am sick and tired of being me. I really am. It has been a life of... failure in my mind. Forty-four years of conflict with church leaders and spouses. Have mercy, if I drop dead typing this; that is not an unpleasant thought for me.
Now, I am going to address something that is an observation; one born of experience. I am not a psychologist. I am an observer of humanity. And don't accuse me of looking for people to blame. I am to blame. I made the choices I made. There is no one else to blame but me. I have no stones to throw; no desire to hurl anyone under a bus. I must own my own failures. They does not mean I cannot see a forest because of the trees.
It is a fact, all three of the women I married were abused. Mentally, emotionally, physically abused to one degree or another; childhood into adulthood; just from previous relationships or both. I have come to learn child and spousal abuse is an epidemic in our society. It has always been there since the earliest times of humanity; the stronger preying upon the weaker, even the absolute helpless but, in these times - when every conceivable convenience for life is affordable to almost everyone - stress levels have reached such for humans that rage can be as common as saying 'Good Morning,' and the human becomes a beast. The number of women you probably know who have been abused would shock you. It may shock you even more for the number of men emasculated and abused in relationships, as well. Most of this, nobody sees outside the home; places that are no longer homes but, battlegrounds. In some cases it is physical warfare. In others, dead silence and distance under one roof, with constant stress and tension threatening to tear lives apart, that enters that zone where lives do begin to shred and unravel.
Even when I was doing some online perusing of "dating" sites, I met women who openly shared they had been abused by parents and/or spouses. It is a rampant, evil and wicked fall of mankind into an abyss of pain, fear and darkness: a darkness the un or non-abused can't really understand. It creates such pain in minds, one can trigger or trip a switch and face a wrath out of nowhere. It becomes a minefield you can step on in an instant and blow apart a day, a week, months, even years of time. Your words are not heard as you speak and mean them. They are heard through a prism of dark and sinister clouds gathered in the mind, filled with torturous memories. From childhood into adulthood it creates an internal warzone women fight through the best they can; and most need help but, they do not seek it. They live with internal memories that bring strife and doubt and fear and anger from angles never expected, that blast out sideways in every direction under the right provocations a man has no idea he just exploded, until it is too late. Things are said that seem like daggers and little by little death from a thousand cuts ensues.
I know God can heal and does heal hearts and minds. That said... even the joy of salvation can find it hard to bury past terrors and struggles with fear and pain. And this situation of reality is everywhere on the globe. Demons get involved and destroy relationships. The enemy of souls delights in wrecking the foundation of all human life - the family order; designed by the Creator to be a blessing; a foretaste of Heaven. "Hell" on Earth is everywhere. It has gotten so sick, adults want the right to have sexual relations with children. People cannot define or are reticent to define what a woman is. Breastfeeding men?!? The world has reached a level of insanity such as no time in human history. Everybody is at each other's throats and passive aggressiveness has become an art form.
Learning this in the last dozen years or so, I have no answers. I know I will not seek marriage again. I have stepped on way too many land mines. I have nothing to offer and no energy left to offer anything I had, if I possessed it.
I remember many years ago sitting with a married couple that asked for my intervention. I had not ever then or since, beheld such animosity, anger, disgust, darkness and vitriol between two people. I walked out of that house that evening, literally in shock. It stayed with me for months. They presented a fair front at church. Her personality, very strong and domineering, as I look back on it, was probably that of a woman abused as a child. She was a bomb waiting to go off. He was a total introvert, seemingly, completely ignorant and incognizant of what was taking place. They ripped each other to shreds in the course of a few hours. I thought to myself, 'I am way out of my league here.' I was dumbfounded and speechless most of the evening. Their daughter spoke with me after that night and apologized that I witnessed what she and her brother were used to. Used to? My life growing up may as well have been on Mars for the distance between the two marriages and family life. I never saw my parents have a single argument. If they argued, it was never in front of me, and I tried to keep that principle intact in my first marriage with the children but, the nature of the conflicts were as such as presenting themselves almost perpetually, and shrapnel was always in the air. And still, my second and now my third marriage has ended. I have failed at bringing to bear principles that should have kept things going. And I point blank said 17 years ago, "Divorce is not in my vocabulary."
So, I have mostly stayed away from thoughts of public ministry.
We did not fight in this marriage. We both had more than our share of conflict and just stayed away from it. I am a communicator. I've been a public performer, a public speaker at live meetings and on radio. I communicate through writing. I'll talk with someone all night long to resolve something but, communication is a two-way street. I have found, women who have been abused find it extremely difficult to communicate and it is made more difficult by what they hear and respond to, when they hear things that are not actually said, in word or spirit. It went from happily married, to being acquaintances, to becoming roommates just occupying space under the same roof, at a distance, rarely speaking to each other and I know our situation is not unique. It is common.
Nineteen hundred years ago the apostle Paul stated it is better to remain single but, if one is burning inside with needs for intimacy and closeness; marry. Nineteen centuries later, when I became a Christian, reading in a volume about Christian marriage and family life, the author stated the fewer marriages contracted, the better. Why? The onslaughts of the enemy to destroy so ruthlessly in our day and age. Simple as that; complicated as that.
People make vows when they marry and they think to themselves, their love can weather any storm; meaning - that which attacks from outside the marriage. Few, myself included, ever expected things to arise from within the marriage to sabotage it from the inside out. Who would get married if they thought long and hard, no matter what they do, if they marry the wrong person for them, or even the right person, their risk of marital destruction from outside and inside forces rises exponentially, especially in this age and time; and if children are involved, as they so commonly are, the next generation is affected in ways that just create cycles of continuance of great pain, sorrow and suffering.
In 60 days I hope to have some idea where I will go and what I will do. Yeah, I'm scared. Yes, I know God knows it all and has a path but, let me tell you, when marriage fails, three times, it is pretty easy to think God is looking down and saying, 'I love you but, I don't like you very much.' I can read the Bible, the history of the Hebrew people; how they wandered from God century after century and when they cried out, He brought them back to reality and sensibility and strove with them to walk in His light and stay vigilant. Well, I'm as lukewarm as anyone out there, trying to keep my head above water. Pain seems to be God's life preserver for me. I do not expect an easy road for the journey ahead.
A movie came out some years ago about a man who set sail by himself. His boat sprung a leak. He struggled and struggled to stay afloat and finally, gave up in frustration and exhaustion and just let himself sink into the darkness of the vastness of the ocean around him. Then, an arm is seen thrusting into the water, grabbing him, pulling him up to the safety of a solid ship. Please, don't blame me if I wonder if that arm will reach down and keep me from drowning in doubt and circumstances, now beyond my intimate and foreseeable control.
I know I am not alone. I know you are not alone. I know God is infinite love, compassion and mercy and the enemy shall bear his weight of guilt upon my shoulders to sink me into the dark unknown. I suppose that reads kind of dramatic, doesn't it? Up until now I have had some safety nets that no longer exist. Years ago, I developed vertigo. It is the sensation you are falling when you are standing still. I have fallen off of two roofs. I know the physical, I know the mental. I am scared. It isn't a denial of faith. It's just reality.
I brought what I had in life to Texas, leaving a lot behind in Virginia. All things considered I will leave Texas with far less than I brought here. I don't know what I shall do with whatever I can leave with, remaining a heavy load of thoughts upon a tired mind.
Some of you reading this will shake your heads that I am sharing it all. I am not writing for you. I write for me; to retain some semblance of balance, purpose and sanity in life and for others who may be blessed or moved or motivated in some way by anything I post on this website. Stone-throwers will always have a bag ready to go. It's their own way of surviving. It's as old as the hills and the Bible is filled with plenty of examples.
I am not trying to advise. I have no answers that can save anything I have been through. I certainly do not propose to offer anything for what you may be going through. I can only share, so someone reading can know they are not alone. Beyond that, my life, my purpose on this Earth is naught but a huge question mark now. I ease a little that my parents are not alive to see all this. Parents can never find comfort in seeing their children make ship wreck of life. I recently spoke with some parents whose two children battle the devils of drugs and crime and worthlessness. Multiply such situations and many more, by billions and you can sense a tiny shred of what God sees and feels every second, of every day. And it will continue and get worse until the cries of "peace and safety" but, then sudden destruction comes.
Humanity is great at hiding things. Children, adolescents, adults... most find ways to cope. Many others do not and succumb to brokenness and pressures that have capsized and sunk millions of human vessels down through the ages. God never meant life to be controlled and maintained by coping mechanisms. Sin changed everything, and six-thousand years later, it's literally breaking the Earth. Broken lives and minds are destroying prospects for life on this planet. That is why the end of all things is at hand. Christ is coming. It cannot be stopped. You can either prepare for it or get blown away by it. There are no in-between choices.
Today, according to Texas law, I must go and have divorce documents notarized or a sheriff will come and serve me. You see, at least before one stranger, a notary, I'll have to expose this phase of my life. They will stamp the papers, I will sign, they will wonder, and honestly, so will I. Why hide it? Of course I'm embarrassed by it. Better I share than let it possess me into some dark place I can't find my way out of.
Three strikes and you're out. I'm out. Back to the bench.
I should be looking forward to the future. I'm not. The only thing that makes sense right now is the return of Christ, based on the evidence and the signs of our times. It is called the "Blessed Hope" in Scripture and for the believer, it is. It shall end up being the only hope believers have - the glorious return and rescue event of the ages: the second coming of the King.
I long for it to happen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Archbishop Vigano in the News - Again!
In all my life, as far as I can remember, I have never seen a member of the Roman Catholic clergy thrown down on a pope like Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano upon Pope Francis. He is like a South African Savanna pachyderm dumping on the man he generally calls, Bergoglio, the Pope's natural last name.
Catholic Family News has put out a new interview done with the Archbishop, on the 11th, in which Vigano calls Francis a liar, calls into question the 2013 conclave that elected him, and basically paints the reign of Francis as an apostate rogue's mission to destroy the Catholic faith. He also has some things to say about Donald Trump, Biden and other international matters. You have to read it to believe it.
catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/08/11/cfn-interviews-vigano-francis-trump-ukraine-child-trafficking-and-more/
In his opening salvo, Vigano rips right in -
"Beyond all of the individual scandals, I believe that the greatest damage done to the Church by this “pontificate” has been the discredit and dishonor that has been thrown on the Papacy, on the Church, on the clergy, and on the faithful. His hatred for Tradition knows no rest, and this necessarily has repercussions on what is a natural expression of that Tradition: doctrine, morality, liturgy, and spirituality. The demolition is systematic and starts mainly from authority, which is corrupt and subservient to the enemy, abusing its power for the opposite purpose to that which legitimizes it. The democratization of the Church, conciliar “collegiality,” and Bergoglio’s “synodality” are all colossal lies, behind which tyranny hides: the parallel with governments subjected to the globalist elite is evident and confirms a single coordination of the two subversive actions. Both institutions, as we see, are discredited and delegitimized by those who hold positions of authority. In this way, if in the future this crisis should come to an end, restoring trust in the Church and restoring her authority will be almost impossible, humanly speaking."
How does he get away with this? In the history of the Papacy, such a position could get you killed by any number of unsavory characters behind Vatican walls. Vigano is the Energizer Bunny of Romanism.
Well, in essence, the Pope can run but, he cannot hide. The Vatican cannot make Vigano a martyr in the eyes of the exponentially growing flock the archbishop tends - millions of faithful who see him as a champion of truth. What they have tried to do is make him out to be a madman. The Pope's allies have failed miserably with that avenue.
Regarding the question marks raised about the conclave that elected Francis and whether or not the next conclave can be trusted -
"Except for extraordinary interventions by Providence, the College of Cardinals has been largely entirely discredited by Bergoglio: Caligula limited himself to the threat of appointing his horse Incitatus as priest and consul; the present crisis instead creates Cardinals who under Pius IX would have been sent in partibus infidelium. The outcome of the next Conclave therefore seems obvious, rebus sic stantibus. But if evidence were to emerge of some serious irregularity in the 2013 Conclave, this would ipso facto render the outcome of its election null and void, and consequently all the acts of government and magisterium carried out by the one elected. Included among these null and void acts would be, of course, the creation of Cardinals, so that all the Consistories of Bergoglio would be null: we would find ourselves as if by magic back in the situation of 2013, and this would disrupt Bergoglio’s plans, because if the electors of the next Conclave were only those cardinals appointed prior to 2013, they would certainly be less inclined to repeat the mistakes already committed and, strengthened by the experience of the past ten years, they could elect the least bad candidate among them."
In Latin, "in partibus infidelium" means "region of infidels." One must wonder how Vigano has not been consigned there by now, himself.
"Rebus sic Stantibus" basically means "inapplicable based on circumstances." This is a very interesting statement.
The conclave that elected Francis has been called into question. If proven, everything Francis has done becomes, as Vigano states, null and void.
The election that put Biden in the White House has been called into question by dozens of experts in various fields of expertise when it comes to election machines, ballots, laws and application of it all. Donald Trump has been the main proponent of raising those questions. He has now been charged in the most unscrupulous and ridiculous absurdity of election interference for raising those questions. Even Katie Hobbs, election fraud queen of Arizona, is thinking about charging Trump with election interference in her state! You cannot make this stuff up.
A 2013 election called into question. Vigano and supporters.
A 2016 election called into question. Hillary Clinton and supporters.
A 2020 election called into question. Donald Trump and supporters.
A 2022 election called into question. Kari Lake and supporters.
Three champions of the people who care about the rule of law, representing a couple hundred million Americans at this point, Trump and Lake, and the third, an archbishop representing hundreds of millions of Catholics and plenty of professed Christians in other denominations, are facing off with deep state America and deep state Vatican City.
In the hypocrisy of it all, open to view by the entire world, Hillary Clinton, nor Stacy Abrams, in Georgia, have been indicted for calling into question the 2016 election with all their Russian interference propaganda: all now legally proven a hoax. But, Trump? No. He must be destroyed.
I cannot fathom a reason why Vigano would not be the next pope if a serious, microscopic monitoring and observance of the next conclave takes place for a new pope. Unless, of course, this is all church theater and a plan is in place and moving right along, nicely.
Trump, if honest circumstances held sway, will easily be the next President, again. His foes do not care what millions think of them. They have been placed in power by fraud, have an apostate and corrupt press and media, and corrupt justice department insulating them, and are using every possible trick they can think of to create Trump into a felon; thereby removing him from ballots in 2024. They do not care how hypocritical, outlandish and ridiculous they look. They care only to keep Trump from running because if he does, the landslide will be Mt. Everest collapsing on a campsite. BUT, as Vigano says, circumstances have created a corrupt college of cardinals. If it is not cleaned up, no conclave means a thing. If American elections are not cleaned up, no election here means anything, either.
Bear this in mind. Reagan and John Paul II changed the modern world. What would Trump and Vigano do?
Indeed. In the light of prophecy, think about it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Catholic Family News has put out a new interview done with the Archbishop, on the 11th, in which Vigano calls Francis a liar, calls into question the 2013 conclave that elected him, and basically paints the reign of Francis as an apostate rogue's mission to destroy the Catholic faith. He also has some things to say about Donald Trump, Biden and other international matters. You have to read it to believe it.
catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/08/11/cfn-interviews-vigano-francis-trump-ukraine-child-trafficking-and-more/
In his opening salvo, Vigano rips right in -
"Beyond all of the individual scandals, I believe that the greatest damage done to the Church by this “pontificate” has been the discredit and dishonor that has been thrown on the Papacy, on the Church, on the clergy, and on the faithful. His hatred for Tradition knows no rest, and this necessarily has repercussions on what is a natural expression of that Tradition: doctrine, morality, liturgy, and spirituality. The demolition is systematic and starts mainly from authority, which is corrupt and subservient to the enemy, abusing its power for the opposite purpose to that which legitimizes it. The democratization of the Church, conciliar “collegiality,” and Bergoglio’s “synodality” are all colossal lies, behind which tyranny hides: the parallel with governments subjected to the globalist elite is evident and confirms a single coordination of the two subversive actions. Both institutions, as we see, are discredited and delegitimized by those who hold positions of authority. In this way, if in the future this crisis should come to an end, restoring trust in the Church and restoring her authority will be almost impossible, humanly speaking."
How does he get away with this? In the history of the Papacy, such a position could get you killed by any number of unsavory characters behind Vatican walls. Vigano is the Energizer Bunny of Romanism.
Well, in essence, the Pope can run but, he cannot hide. The Vatican cannot make Vigano a martyr in the eyes of the exponentially growing flock the archbishop tends - millions of faithful who see him as a champion of truth. What they have tried to do is make him out to be a madman. The Pope's allies have failed miserably with that avenue.
Regarding the question marks raised about the conclave that elected Francis and whether or not the next conclave can be trusted -
"Except for extraordinary interventions by Providence, the College of Cardinals has been largely entirely discredited by Bergoglio: Caligula limited himself to the threat of appointing his horse Incitatus as priest and consul; the present crisis instead creates Cardinals who under Pius IX would have been sent in partibus infidelium. The outcome of the next Conclave therefore seems obvious, rebus sic stantibus. But if evidence were to emerge of some serious irregularity in the 2013 Conclave, this would ipso facto render the outcome of its election null and void, and consequently all the acts of government and magisterium carried out by the one elected. Included among these null and void acts would be, of course, the creation of Cardinals, so that all the Consistories of Bergoglio would be null: we would find ourselves as if by magic back in the situation of 2013, and this would disrupt Bergoglio’s plans, because if the electors of the next Conclave were only those cardinals appointed prior to 2013, they would certainly be less inclined to repeat the mistakes already committed and, strengthened by the experience of the past ten years, they could elect the least bad candidate among them."
In Latin, "in partibus infidelium" means "region of infidels." One must wonder how Vigano has not been consigned there by now, himself.
"Rebus sic Stantibus" basically means "inapplicable based on circumstances." This is a very interesting statement.
The conclave that elected Francis has been called into question. If proven, everything Francis has done becomes, as Vigano states, null and void.
The election that put Biden in the White House has been called into question by dozens of experts in various fields of expertise when it comes to election machines, ballots, laws and application of it all. Donald Trump has been the main proponent of raising those questions. He has now been charged in the most unscrupulous and ridiculous absurdity of election interference for raising those questions. Even Katie Hobbs, election fraud queen of Arizona, is thinking about charging Trump with election interference in her state! You cannot make this stuff up.
A 2013 election called into question. Vigano and supporters.
A 2016 election called into question. Hillary Clinton and supporters.
A 2020 election called into question. Donald Trump and supporters.
A 2022 election called into question. Kari Lake and supporters.
Three champions of the people who care about the rule of law, representing a couple hundred million Americans at this point, Trump and Lake, and the third, an archbishop representing hundreds of millions of Catholics and plenty of professed Christians in other denominations, are facing off with deep state America and deep state Vatican City.
In the hypocrisy of it all, open to view by the entire world, Hillary Clinton, nor Stacy Abrams, in Georgia, have been indicted for calling into question the 2016 election with all their Russian interference propaganda: all now legally proven a hoax. But, Trump? No. He must be destroyed.
I cannot fathom a reason why Vigano would not be the next pope if a serious, microscopic monitoring and observance of the next conclave takes place for a new pope. Unless, of course, this is all church theater and a plan is in place and moving right along, nicely.
Trump, if honest circumstances held sway, will easily be the next President, again. His foes do not care what millions think of them. They have been placed in power by fraud, have an apostate and corrupt press and media, and corrupt justice department insulating them, and are using every possible trick they can think of to create Trump into a felon; thereby removing him from ballots in 2024. They do not care how hypocritical, outlandish and ridiculous they look. They care only to keep Trump from running because if he does, the landslide will be Mt. Everest collapsing on a campsite. BUT, as Vigano says, circumstances have created a corrupt college of cardinals. If it is not cleaned up, no conclave means a thing. If American elections are not cleaned up, no election here means anything, either.
Bear this in mind. Reagan and John Paul II changed the modern world. What would Trump and Vigano do?
Indeed. In the light of prophecy, think about it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Flash Rob!
We have all seen "flash mobs" in the news: groups of people who show up somewhere to do some unique thing; like a mall to play music or dance, in most cases lately, to do something of a protest nature or worse, commit acts of violence and criminality. Because the frequency of the criminal/violent variety has increased so dramatically, a new term has been coined - Flash Rob.
Groups of youth or adults showing up en masse to rob stores. Los Angeles has seen this trend rise quickly. Another story in the news -
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-los-angeles-flash-rob-swarms-store-swipes-100k-merchandise-rcna100529
You have to see the nature of these acts. This is not looting in a disaster or catastrophe of some kind. These are not shifted into place by riots associated with another event of some social outrage, such as the George Floyd death. These are planned to take place while everybody is just going about, minding their own business; not intently watching events take shape in a certain part of a city, police presence higher, citizens on edge.
They know the store, thy pick a door, a time, and show up by the dozens to enter quickly, take what they can and run. Jewelry stores have seen the "smash and grab" take place in recent years; which can be just a few masked people. When fifty criminals show up in a minute and wreak havoc, it leaves everybody in shock, no time to react. Bank robber gangs, even 200 years ago, had a general half dozen people involved. This is a whole new entity.
People can try, attempt to tell believers their focus on such things as last-day events are nonsensical. Go ahead. Deny the obvious. Yes, robbery is as old as sin, itself. Marauders have existed for ages. These new events are taking place in cities in modern civilization; an age of having more than any previous generation of humans. Kings and queens did not have toys to play with that people consider commonplace, today. Ancient monarchs who ruled vast stretches of territory would have no just conception of a cell phone, a flat screen tv or any kind of computerized device, nor certainly the manufacturing and delivery processes that make them available to us; let alone the modern marketplace where these things are purchased. Cars that can drive a hundred miles an hour, let alone vehicles that constantly break land, sea and air speed records. Admittedly, the general population does not own those but, what we do own makes us far and away the richest generation in human history; even among the poor who just use landline phones. No emperor could imagine such a thing. Couriers were their communication system. Chariots were their cars. Wagons were the vehicles of travel on rutted dirt roads for thousands of years. Think of that.
So, why should we be seeing more and more violence in this current civilization of plenty? Because it is coming more and more under the control of forces of darkness. And it shall grow and continue to the return of Christ. Real. True. Not nonsense. Not myth or fable. Fact based on evidence. Everything rises until the shouts of peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes.
The Bible says both kinds of violence shall be erupting; the smaller criminal acts as well as huge populations rising to take back their freedom and liberties taken by tyranny. I address them here because they are signs of the times; the time of the end. We are people who have lived in freedom and liberty given to us by God, according to the Founders, as well as the pioneers of freedom and liberty in Europe. Kings and queens began to fade away, or remain as social figureheads with no power or control. This is an unprecedented time in human history. In the midst of it all, violence? Constant criminal activity? Corruption everywhere in everything? The "haves" determined to have it all at the expense of free people? What is going on?
The time of the end.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Groups of youth or adults showing up en masse to rob stores. Los Angeles has seen this trend rise quickly. Another story in the news -
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-los-angeles-flash-rob-swarms-store-swipes-100k-merchandise-rcna100529
You have to see the nature of these acts. This is not looting in a disaster or catastrophe of some kind. These are not shifted into place by riots associated with another event of some social outrage, such as the George Floyd death. These are planned to take place while everybody is just going about, minding their own business; not intently watching events take shape in a certain part of a city, police presence higher, citizens on edge.
They know the store, thy pick a door, a time, and show up by the dozens to enter quickly, take what they can and run. Jewelry stores have seen the "smash and grab" take place in recent years; which can be just a few masked people. When fifty criminals show up in a minute and wreak havoc, it leaves everybody in shock, no time to react. Bank robber gangs, even 200 years ago, had a general half dozen people involved. This is a whole new entity.
People can try, attempt to tell believers their focus on such things as last-day events are nonsensical. Go ahead. Deny the obvious. Yes, robbery is as old as sin, itself. Marauders have existed for ages. These new events are taking place in cities in modern civilization; an age of having more than any previous generation of humans. Kings and queens did not have toys to play with that people consider commonplace, today. Ancient monarchs who ruled vast stretches of territory would have no just conception of a cell phone, a flat screen tv or any kind of computerized device, nor certainly the manufacturing and delivery processes that make them available to us; let alone the modern marketplace where these things are purchased. Cars that can drive a hundred miles an hour, let alone vehicles that constantly break land, sea and air speed records. Admittedly, the general population does not own those but, what we do own makes us far and away the richest generation in human history; even among the poor who just use landline phones. No emperor could imagine such a thing. Couriers were their communication system. Chariots were their cars. Wagons were the vehicles of travel on rutted dirt roads for thousands of years. Think of that.
So, why should we be seeing more and more violence in this current civilization of plenty? Because it is coming more and more under the control of forces of darkness. And it shall grow and continue to the return of Christ. Real. True. Not nonsense. Not myth or fable. Fact based on evidence. Everything rises until the shouts of peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes.
The Bible says both kinds of violence shall be erupting; the smaller criminal acts as well as huge populations rising to take back their freedom and liberties taken by tyranny. I address them here because they are signs of the times; the time of the end. We are people who have lived in freedom and liberty given to us by God, according to the Founders, as well as the pioneers of freedom and liberty in Europe. Kings and queens began to fade away, or remain as social figureheads with no power or control. This is an unprecedented time in human history. In the midst of it all, violence? Constant criminal activity? Corruption everywhere in everything? The "haves" determined to have it all at the expense of free people? What is going on?
The time of the end.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Imagine the Corruption
Maui, considered an island paradise, is gone. The worst fire for an American land in almost a century. Everything is ash and rubble. People made homeless and destitute in minutes. North Americans look at it with horror and amazement.
People think about Hawaii and think island paradise for vacation planning. They don't stop to consider generations of families who have watched their island paradise turned into a huge, money-making enterprise. It became a state in 1959, five years after I was born. It's an adolescent state. It's only 64 years old. Eight major islands and 124 islets. Still volcanically active. Just sitting out there in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Exotic fauna, coconuts, pineapples and people who have called it home for 1600 years.
Developers have been ransacking the place for a generation. What kind of people would look at a situation that currently exists in Maui and think money, not mercy? What kind of minds can look at such devastation and instantly begin thinking to buy properties for pennies on the dollar to build more tourist traps, while the families who live there look on in literal pain and physical sorrow? They do not even have a full death toll yet. Hundreds remain missing.
The developers, many foreign, mean no offense. 'It's only business.' The governor has publicly stated plans are already in the minds of public officials to take destroyed land and property and turn it into a "memorial" to lives lost, while at the same time telling these exploitation experts and land developers to stay away. Hm. Islanders are ill at ease for a reason, as Americans try to understand how their "president" has yet to take any serious notice of the disaster, while another billion dollars gets sent to Ukraine.
Corruption on top of corruption, on top of more corruption.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
People think about Hawaii and think island paradise for vacation planning. They don't stop to consider generations of families who have watched their island paradise turned into a huge, money-making enterprise. It became a state in 1959, five years after I was born. It's an adolescent state. It's only 64 years old. Eight major islands and 124 islets. Still volcanically active. Just sitting out there in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Exotic fauna, coconuts, pineapples and people who have called it home for 1600 years.
Developers have been ransacking the place for a generation. What kind of people would look at a situation that currently exists in Maui and think money, not mercy? What kind of minds can look at such devastation and instantly begin thinking to buy properties for pennies on the dollar to build more tourist traps, while the families who live there look on in literal pain and physical sorrow? They do not even have a full death toll yet. Hundreds remain missing.
The developers, many foreign, mean no offense. 'It's only business.' The governor has publicly stated plans are already in the minds of public officials to take destroyed land and property and turn it into a "memorial" to lives lost, while at the same time telling these exploitation experts and land developers to stay away. Hm. Islanders are ill at ease for a reason, as Americans try to understand how their "president" has yet to take any serious notice of the disaster, while another billion dollars gets sent to Ukraine.
Corruption on top of corruption, on top of more corruption.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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827. Once Again: the "Rapture" is Nigh - 7/19/23
Pastor Greg Laurie, of the Harvest Christian Fellowship, in Riverside, California, is in the news about a sermon from August 6 - The End of the World.
Now, before I look at some quotes from the linked article I ask a logical question. What does the word "end" mean? Keep that in mind because, you see, for those who believe in the secret rapture of the church, the definition of "end" radically changes. For them, as you shall see, it is not the end of the world. The rapture is a phase, not a world ending event. After the rapture, seven years continue on, with the rise of their antichrist, mark of the beast, etc. Then, seven years later, Christ returns in power and glory. That must be the end, right? Nope. Then one thousand years of peace commence, where rebuilding takes place. Yes! Christ returns with 150lb. hailstones, and an earthquake to end all earthquakes, and fire that makes Maui and matchstick by comparison and everything is destroyed but, the saints commence to rebuild it all. Then, when the thousand years are finished, the resurrection of the unrighteous takes place, where all souls burning in hell get reunited with their resurrected bodies and suffer final judgment, the lake of fire, and more eternal burning. Nothing ends for anybody. Eternal life is given to all. It's just that, our address changes.
Now, if that scenario seems like a turning of the word "end" on its head, you'd be correct. There is no actual end at any point of that scenario for anybody. Common sense says, 'Wait a minute. Where's the end of the world? Doesn't it happen for at least a week or something?'
Okay, so. Let's look at some things the article states were spoken by Pastor Laurie -
"In the Aug. 6 sermon, Laurie encouraged the congregation and those watching worldwide to "get right with God" before the rapture happens, stressing that it "can happen at any moment."
“The rapture is that moment when Christ descends from Heaven and we're caught up to meet Him," he said. "It is at this moment that we receive our new resurrection bodies, and that's also at this moment that we are reunited with loved ones who have preceded us. The rapture is the first phase of the return of Christ."
First, according to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, events transpire leading up to the second coming of Christ; a one time event Jesus called the end of the world. Christ cannot and will not come, "at any moment." That is the doctrine of Futurism. Again, Futurism is the brainchild of a Spanish Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, back in the 16th century. It was part of "the Counter Reformation;" an attempt by the RCC and Papacy to stop the influence of the Protestant Reformers claiming the RCC, Papacy and Vatican were the beast, the mother harlot, the man of sin, the antichrist of Bible prophecy. The 16th century saw this war take shape in more crucial aspects than had taken place in previous centuries.
Not even dealing with the Old Testament, the word "end" appears in the NT 56 times. It is translated from the Greek words 'teleo' (or other forms of the word), 'sunteleia,' 'akron,' 'opse,' touto,' 'ekbasis,' and 'eschatos.' They all have slight variations of meaning but, they all mean a definitive end of something: to complete, execute, terminate, finish, bring to a final purpose or conclusion, consummation, an extremity, i.e. "one end to another," or "to the end that;" meaning end to the thing or purpose of the thing. They all mean an end to something.
Now, let me copy and paste a section of my word search study tool -
Mat_10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Mat_11:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
Mat_13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Mat_13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Mat_13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
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_24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat_24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mat_24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat_24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat_26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Mat_28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mat_28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Mar_3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Mar_13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mar_13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Luk_1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luk_18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luk_21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luk_22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Joh_13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Joh_18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Nobody, with any understanding of the English language, could confuse the meaning of Christ's use of the word, "end," from the various Greek words in the manuscripts. When Christ returns it is the end of the world: its conclusion, its consummation, termination, execution, etc. Its purpose will reach a finality. Christ said what He meant and meant what He said.
Those account for about one third of the entrees for the word, "end."
Can Luke, Paul, Peter, James or Jude do away with that information? Of course not. It all fits together in harmony. So, when Pastor Laurie uses Paul's writings to speak of the rapture, should it not fit into what Jesus taught? Of course. Does it?
“The Bible says, ‘Prepare to meet your God.’ You want to be ready to meet God. Are you ready to meet God? If Christ were to come back tonight, would you be caught up to meet Him in the air? Or would you be like one of those wicked people living a compromised life that would be left behind?"
#1. He uses 1Thes. 4, the classic passage for Futurism's secret "raptura;" straight from the Latin catalog of concepts -
1Th 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
#1. Sleep. Are the dead actually sleeping? No, they are dead and their bodies have been reduced back to the earth Christ, our Creator made humanity from. What then? "Sleep," "asleep," means what sleep is, literally: a temporary cessation of daily life for however many hours people sleep. Life goes on and they have no idea what is happening. They may wake up to a world at war. They have no knowledge until they are awake again. "Sleep," then, is the biblical analogy of the first death that all experience. We breathe our last, we die - sleep - in our graves until resurrection day. It is precisely why Jesus said, Lazarus is asleep, Lazarus is dead. Jesus went to awaken him from his "sleep" of death. Miss that simple truth and a world of confusion comes into the mind regarding death and last day events.
#2. Watch this closely. Paul stated Jesus died and rose again, therefore all who "sleep"- have died, in Christ; in a living connection to Christ - shall rise again. Did Jesus die? Yes. He was wrapped up and placed in a tomb. He died. If He did not die, He did not pay the price for the sins of the world. "The wages of sin is death." And when the righteous rise from death God will bring them WITH Christ. It does not say God will SEND their disembodied spirits back into their bodies when Christ returns. It states God will resurrect the righteous dead and bring them back to Heaven with Christ; who returns like lightening from East to West. He comes, circles the globe, gets His people and takes them home to the place prepared for them.
#3. Those who are alive and REMAIN. ??? The ONLY people remaining alive when Christ returns are the righteous. The lost shall be destroyed by the power and glory of Christ's return, 2Thes. 1:7-9. The idea that anyone else remains alive is erroneous. It's a falsehood, a lie born of obvious biblical ignorance. People go into the ministry and are taught this stuff and never actually check out the veracity of any of it. It is the accepted understanding. It is wrong. Millions of sincere people believe lies. Tragic but, true. God leads into all truth if people want it. Most are satisfied and accept delusions as a result.
#4. "Caught up." That is the catch phrase for this doctrine. The Greek word is "harpazo." Let me just place Strong's concordance and Thayer's here -
har-pad'-zo
From a derivative of G138; to seize (in various applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
Total KJV occurrences: 13
harpazō
Thayer Definition:
1) to seize, carry off by force
2) to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly
3) to snatch out or away
Part of Speech: verb
The word occurs 13 times in the NT. Let's see a few -
John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Catches = harpazo
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Pluck = harpazo.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Caught up = harpazo.
So, we logically ask ourselves: do wolves catch sheep in secret? No. Do they surprise them? Yes.
Could anyone secretly pluck a believer out of God's hands? No.
Did Jesus secretly return to Heaven, to His throne? No. Paul stated over 500 people saw Him rise into the clouds.
None of the 13 places "harpazo" exists in the Bible shows anything related to something being secret. How can there be a doctrine of a secret rapture of believers just vanishing in a first phase of Christ's return? Some might pin it on little Maggie McDonald. Margaret is said to have claimed to have a vision/dream of this event, back in the 1830's, taking place as such and it caught on, specifically with well known evangelist, John Nelson Darby, who bequeathed it to Cyrus Ingersoll (Ingerson) Scofield (Scofield reference Bible); got squeezed into Scripture and here we are. The history is complicated and in the end, does not matter. The secret rapture doctrine is just erroneous when compared to a totality of Bible teaching on the subject of the second coming of Christ.
#5. Christ returns in power and unimaginable brightness and glory. Does the wording Paul uses imply anything secret? Christ shouts! Imagine a voice that wakes the dead on the whole earth. The trump of God delivers a searing blast and display of power that shakes the planet. The lost are destroyed by the earthquake, the hailstones, the pure, holy righteous Creator power of the King. The righteous dead are resurrected to life. Those remaining alive are changed into immortal beings that rise to meet the Lord in the air and God brings them all back to Heaven. There is no millennium on earth to rebuild what Christ just destroyed into a world-wide Maui. Just curious. What are all these saints going to do with the trillions of tons of rubble? Dump it all into the sea? Yeah, that would take a thousand years and kill everything in the oceans, to boot. The amount of toxins would render everything dead before the thousand years concluded. The righteous GO UP and GO BACK to Heaven. The Lord does not touch the earth, at all. The world comes to an end. For one thousand years the world shall exist as a lifeless rock. Will the tempestuous fire of the Lord evaporate the oceans? Maybe it will even be knocked out of its orbit and Lucifer and his rebels will just move in the darkness of space on a big rock until God is ready to link up and bring about the final END: the second death; the destruction of the globe by a "consuming fire" to turn the planet into nothing but a seething lake of lava that turns it all into ash.
And I ask this again. Common sense. Jesus returns, first phase, grabs His people secretly, planes crash, cars crash, boats crash, there is chaos everywhere. Seven years go by. Christ returns, phase 2, the planet is destroyed and He settles on down and everybody goes to work cleaning up the mess and rebuilding for a thousand years. Then, after rebuilding for one thousand years, the unrighteous are resurrected, meet the final second death judgment, the earth becomes a lake of fire and all the saints look at each other and say, "Hey! Why did we rebuild it all and you are burning it all again!"
Please, do let us have common sense.
"Laurie quoted Paul of Tarsus who wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:13, "We don't want you to be uninformed brothers, about those who have died so that you will grieve as those who have no hope." "
“I want to comfort you and I want to give you a heavenly perspective on what happens to loved ones who believe in Jesus when they die," Laurie said. "You're going to see them again. So I want to establish that fact. And I don't want you to grieve like people who have no hope.”
While that is correct, the practical application of events Laurie lays out is absolutely incorrect.
I have seen Luke 17:34-36 used over and over by various preachers and authors to show the secret rapture. Let me place here the entire passage in context -
Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Luk 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luk 17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 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;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luk 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Luk 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Luk 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luk 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Alright: a simple unpacking.
Is lightening secret? No.
Was the flood a secret? No. Was anybody left behind? No. All destroyed.
Was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah secret? Hardly. All destroyed.
Did Lot's wife turn into a pillar of salt in secret? No. Husband and daughters saw and were warned. Preserved for all humanity who reads the Bible to remember to not look back when you begin your salvation journey.
The critical question to ask about the women and men, taken or left, is what the disciples asked -
"Where Lord?"
We have one of two choices. Where were the three taken or, where where the three left? Christ made it plain. Where bodies are, vultures will gather.
aetos
Thayer Definition:
1) an eagle: since eagles do not usually go in quest of carrion, this may refer to a vulture that resembles an eagle
2) an eagle as a standard (Roman Military)
And should you think eagles are not used in Scripture to indeed, feed on carrion -
Pro 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Those left behind are left in death. There are no people left behind alive when Christ returns. There is no secret rapture. There is no vanishing into the night. There is just the surprise of Christ's return.
The article contains a YouTube video - 'What is the Rapture?' It is a sermon by Greg Laurie. Around two and half minutes in, a statement appears on the screen -
"When a believer dies they go to Heaven because death means separation, not annihilation. Humans do not cease to exist; we simply change our address."
That is a lie. Sorry to be so blunt but, it is. There is not a single place in 4,000 years of Old Testament writings that makes any claim to the righteous who die going to Heaven upon death. I've been asking for that information for 44 years and have yet to have anyone attempt to show it. Worse, show me the passage in the OT that states the unrighteous shall burn forever. I just showed you last week the Bible EMPHATICALLY states, over and over and over again, the unrighteous lost shall cease to exist. "They shall consume; into smoke they shall consume away," Psalm 37:20. In Revelation 20 it says the lost shall be devoured by fire - the presence of God - and the whole world becomes a lake of fire. This world. The one you are standing on right now. Burned to ash. Lucifer, his hosts, lost humanity, the whole world burned out of existence through the purifying fires of God's nature, His character, His being and essence. "Our God is a consuming fire."
"We just change addresses." What a mockery of the truth. The unrighteous lost are not going anywhere. They die here, they shall be resurrected here, they shall be wiped out of existence here. The universe shall be peaceful, harmonious, holy and beyond anything we can imagine. There is not going to be some place where billions are screaming in tormenting, torturous pain and agony, while for some reason Satan and demons get to play with them and torture them, when this is all his and their fault! Lie from Lucifer's pit!
Some denominations and churches teach the truth about this. Most do not. They are, unfortunately, deceived. But, God calls His people out of Babylon. "It ain't over, till it's over."
When the purifying fires go out, then the Creator will recreate this earth out of the ashes, the wonderful Gardener that He is. What a sight it shall be. The home of the redeemed forever.
The reason I go over this so much is simply because it freaks people out, being diametrically opposed to what they have been told and taught for a lifetime. They cannot grasp it. But, they must, to be safe from delusions coming. The Catholic is stunned by the lack of a Purgatory in the Bible, save for one small passage in the Catholic Bible, in the Apocrypha. The Protestant has no problem with that. He trips up over the idea there is no immortal soul that lives forever or burns forever. It's a pagan idea made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's embellishments. The Roman Catholic Church, it's system of salvation, is the Mother of abominations for this reason. Everything it teaches has been messed up with paganism. The entire system is the antithesis of biblical Christianity. There is nothing she can do but claim the Bible is not the final say-so. The living Church, hence the ecclesiastical body of authority of Romanism is the final authority - The Pontifex Maximus, the College of Cardinals, and all the rest of its hierarchical system is the final authority. This is all so easy to see it is staggering to me men in the clergy of all these individual churches out there cannot see it. What actual Protestants are left put it out there; in print form, online and all but, the lies of Romanism have so saturated professed Christendom it is truly Mother and harlot daughters fornicating with the kings of the earth: accepting its teachings. Greek philosophy, pagan traditions, Lucifer's lies... and the world goes to "hell" in a hand basket.
Do you know what that saying implies? It implies a little girl carrying her basket as she sings and skips along, completely unaware of the lethal dangers she is facing ahead.
Greg Laurie is two years older than me. He's been around long enough to study the Word and see its actual truths from the traditions and lies. Maybe God holds his eyes, as He does others because the time is not yet right for them to see it all. Maybe they do and have taken stands against it because it would mean the loss of their ministries and income and lifestyle. I'm sure there are people on both sides of that situation. They are in God's sight and hands. I'm just putting the truth out there. It is true because anyone who allows the Bible to interpret itself, will find the truth and the truth will make them free, indeed.
Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.
Now, before I look at some quotes from the linked article I ask a logical question. What does the word "end" mean? Keep that in mind because, you see, for those who believe in the secret rapture of the church, the definition of "end" radically changes. For them, as you shall see, it is not the end of the world. The rapture is a phase, not a world ending event. After the rapture, seven years continue on, with the rise of their antichrist, mark of the beast, etc. Then, seven years later, Christ returns in power and glory. That must be the end, right? Nope. Then one thousand years of peace commence, where rebuilding takes place. Yes! Christ returns with 150lb. hailstones, and an earthquake to end all earthquakes, and fire that makes Maui and matchstick by comparison and everything is destroyed but, the saints commence to rebuild it all. Then, when the thousand years are finished, the resurrection of the unrighteous takes place, where all souls burning in hell get reunited with their resurrected bodies and suffer final judgment, the lake of fire, and more eternal burning. Nothing ends for anybody. Eternal life is given to all. It's just that, our address changes.
Now, if that scenario seems like a turning of the word "end" on its head, you'd be correct. There is no actual end at any point of that scenario for anybody. Common sense says, 'Wait a minute. Where's the end of the world? Doesn't it happen for at least a week or something?'
Okay, so. Let's look at some things the article states were spoken by Pastor Laurie -
"In the Aug. 6 sermon, Laurie encouraged the congregation and those watching worldwide to "get right with God" before the rapture happens, stressing that it "can happen at any moment."
“The rapture is that moment when Christ descends from Heaven and we're caught up to meet Him," he said. "It is at this moment that we receive our new resurrection bodies, and that's also at this moment that we are reunited with loved ones who have preceded us. The rapture is the first phase of the return of Christ."
First, according to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, events transpire leading up to the second coming of Christ; a one time event Jesus called the end of the world. Christ cannot and will not come, "at any moment." That is the doctrine of Futurism. Again, Futurism is the brainchild of a Spanish Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, back in the 16th century. It was part of "the Counter Reformation;" an attempt by the RCC and Papacy to stop the influence of the Protestant Reformers claiming the RCC, Papacy and Vatican were the beast, the mother harlot, the man of sin, the antichrist of Bible prophecy. The 16th century saw this war take shape in more crucial aspects than had taken place in previous centuries.
Not even dealing with the Old Testament, the word "end" appears in the NT 56 times. It is translated from the Greek words 'teleo' (or other forms of the word), 'sunteleia,' 'akron,' 'opse,' touto,' 'ekbasis,' and 'eschatos.' They all have slight variations of meaning but, they all mean a definitive end of something: to complete, execute, terminate, finish, bring to a final purpose or conclusion, consummation, an extremity, i.e. "one end to another," or "to the end that;" meaning end to the thing or purpose of the thing. They all mean an end to something.
Now, let me copy and paste a section of my word search study tool -
Mat_10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Mat_11:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
Mat_13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Mat_13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Mat_13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
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_24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat_24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mat_24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat_24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat_26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Mat_28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mat_28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Mar_3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Mar_13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mar_13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Luk_1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luk_18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luk_21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luk_22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Joh_13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Joh_18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Nobody, with any understanding of the English language, could confuse the meaning of Christ's use of the word, "end," from the various Greek words in the manuscripts. When Christ returns it is the end of the world: its conclusion, its consummation, termination, execution, etc. Its purpose will reach a finality. Christ said what He meant and meant what He said.
Those account for about one third of the entrees for the word, "end."
Can Luke, Paul, Peter, James or Jude do away with that information? Of course not. It all fits together in harmony. So, when Pastor Laurie uses Paul's writings to speak of the rapture, should it not fit into what Jesus taught? Of course. Does it?
“The Bible says, ‘Prepare to meet your God.’ You want to be ready to meet God. Are you ready to meet God? If Christ were to come back tonight, would you be caught up to meet Him in the air? Or would you be like one of those wicked people living a compromised life that would be left behind?"
#1. He uses 1Thes. 4, the classic passage for Futurism's secret "raptura;" straight from the Latin catalog of concepts -
1Th 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
#1. Sleep. Are the dead actually sleeping? No, they are dead and their bodies have been reduced back to the earth Christ, our Creator made humanity from. What then? "Sleep," "asleep," means what sleep is, literally: a temporary cessation of daily life for however many hours people sleep. Life goes on and they have no idea what is happening. They may wake up to a world at war. They have no knowledge until they are awake again. "Sleep," then, is the biblical analogy of the first death that all experience. We breathe our last, we die - sleep - in our graves until resurrection day. It is precisely why Jesus said, Lazarus is asleep, Lazarus is dead. Jesus went to awaken him from his "sleep" of death. Miss that simple truth and a world of confusion comes into the mind regarding death and last day events.
#2. Watch this closely. Paul stated Jesus died and rose again, therefore all who "sleep"- have died, in Christ; in a living connection to Christ - shall rise again. Did Jesus die? Yes. He was wrapped up and placed in a tomb. He died. If He did not die, He did not pay the price for the sins of the world. "The wages of sin is death." And when the righteous rise from death God will bring them WITH Christ. It does not say God will SEND their disembodied spirits back into their bodies when Christ returns. It states God will resurrect the righteous dead and bring them back to Heaven with Christ; who returns like lightening from East to West. He comes, circles the globe, gets His people and takes them home to the place prepared for them.
#3. Those who are alive and REMAIN. ??? The ONLY people remaining alive when Christ returns are the righteous. The lost shall be destroyed by the power and glory of Christ's return, 2Thes. 1:7-9. The idea that anyone else remains alive is erroneous. It's a falsehood, a lie born of obvious biblical ignorance. People go into the ministry and are taught this stuff and never actually check out the veracity of any of it. It is the accepted understanding. It is wrong. Millions of sincere people believe lies. Tragic but, true. God leads into all truth if people want it. Most are satisfied and accept delusions as a result.
#4. "Caught up." That is the catch phrase for this doctrine. The Greek word is "harpazo." Let me just place Strong's concordance and Thayer's here -
har-pad'-zo
From a derivative of G138; to seize (in various applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
Total KJV occurrences: 13
harpazō
Thayer Definition:
1) to seize, carry off by force
2) to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly
3) to snatch out or away
Part of Speech: verb
The word occurs 13 times in the NT. Let's see a few -
John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Catches = harpazo
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Pluck = harpazo.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Caught up = harpazo.
So, we logically ask ourselves: do wolves catch sheep in secret? No. Do they surprise them? Yes.
Could anyone secretly pluck a believer out of God's hands? No.
Did Jesus secretly return to Heaven, to His throne? No. Paul stated over 500 people saw Him rise into the clouds.
None of the 13 places "harpazo" exists in the Bible shows anything related to something being secret. How can there be a doctrine of a secret rapture of believers just vanishing in a first phase of Christ's return? Some might pin it on little Maggie McDonald. Margaret is said to have claimed to have a vision/dream of this event, back in the 1830's, taking place as such and it caught on, specifically with well known evangelist, John Nelson Darby, who bequeathed it to Cyrus Ingersoll (Ingerson) Scofield (Scofield reference Bible); got squeezed into Scripture and here we are. The history is complicated and in the end, does not matter. The secret rapture doctrine is just erroneous when compared to a totality of Bible teaching on the subject of the second coming of Christ.
#5. Christ returns in power and unimaginable brightness and glory. Does the wording Paul uses imply anything secret? Christ shouts! Imagine a voice that wakes the dead on the whole earth. The trump of God delivers a searing blast and display of power that shakes the planet. The lost are destroyed by the earthquake, the hailstones, the pure, holy righteous Creator power of the King. The righteous dead are resurrected to life. Those remaining alive are changed into immortal beings that rise to meet the Lord in the air and God brings them all back to Heaven. There is no millennium on earth to rebuild what Christ just destroyed into a world-wide Maui. Just curious. What are all these saints going to do with the trillions of tons of rubble? Dump it all into the sea? Yeah, that would take a thousand years and kill everything in the oceans, to boot. The amount of toxins would render everything dead before the thousand years concluded. The righteous GO UP and GO BACK to Heaven. The Lord does not touch the earth, at all. The world comes to an end. For one thousand years the world shall exist as a lifeless rock. Will the tempestuous fire of the Lord evaporate the oceans? Maybe it will even be knocked out of its orbit and Lucifer and his rebels will just move in the darkness of space on a big rock until God is ready to link up and bring about the final END: the second death; the destruction of the globe by a "consuming fire" to turn the planet into nothing but a seething lake of lava that turns it all into ash.
And I ask this again. Common sense. Jesus returns, first phase, grabs His people secretly, planes crash, cars crash, boats crash, there is chaos everywhere. Seven years go by. Christ returns, phase 2, the planet is destroyed and He settles on down and everybody goes to work cleaning up the mess and rebuilding for a thousand years. Then, after rebuilding for one thousand years, the unrighteous are resurrected, meet the final second death judgment, the earth becomes a lake of fire and all the saints look at each other and say, "Hey! Why did we rebuild it all and you are burning it all again!"
Please, do let us have common sense.
"Laurie quoted Paul of Tarsus who wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:13, "We don't want you to be uninformed brothers, about those who have died so that you will grieve as those who have no hope." "
“I want to comfort you and I want to give you a heavenly perspective on what happens to loved ones who believe in Jesus when they die," Laurie said. "You're going to see them again. So I want to establish that fact. And I don't want you to grieve like people who have no hope.”
While that is correct, the practical application of events Laurie lays out is absolutely incorrect.
I have seen Luke 17:34-36 used over and over by various preachers and authors to show the secret rapture. Let me place here the entire passage in context -
Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Luk 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luk 17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 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;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luk 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Luk 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Luk 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luk 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Alright: a simple unpacking.
Is lightening secret? No.
Was the flood a secret? No. Was anybody left behind? No. All destroyed.
Was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah secret? Hardly. All destroyed.
Did Lot's wife turn into a pillar of salt in secret? No. Husband and daughters saw and were warned. Preserved for all humanity who reads the Bible to remember to not look back when you begin your salvation journey.
The critical question to ask about the women and men, taken or left, is what the disciples asked -
"Where Lord?"
We have one of two choices. Where were the three taken or, where where the three left? Christ made it plain. Where bodies are, vultures will gather.
aetos
Thayer Definition:
1) an eagle: since eagles do not usually go in quest of carrion, this may refer to a vulture that resembles an eagle
2) an eagle as a standard (Roman Military)
And should you think eagles are not used in Scripture to indeed, feed on carrion -
Pro 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Those left behind are left in death. There are no people left behind alive when Christ returns. There is no secret rapture. There is no vanishing into the night. There is just the surprise of Christ's return.
The article contains a YouTube video - 'What is the Rapture?' It is a sermon by Greg Laurie. Around two and half minutes in, a statement appears on the screen -
"When a believer dies they go to Heaven because death means separation, not annihilation. Humans do not cease to exist; we simply change our address."
That is a lie. Sorry to be so blunt but, it is. There is not a single place in 4,000 years of Old Testament writings that makes any claim to the righteous who die going to Heaven upon death. I've been asking for that information for 44 years and have yet to have anyone attempt to show it. Worse, show me the passage in the OT that states the unrighteous shall burn forever. I just showed you last week the Bible EMPHATICALLY states, over and over and over again, the unrighteous lost shall cease to exist. "They shall consume; into smoke they shall consume away," Psalm 37:20. In Revelation 20 it says the lost shall be devoured by fire - the presence of God - and the whole world becomes a lake of fire. This world. The one you are standing on right now. Burned to ash. Lucifer, his hosts, lost humanity, the whole world burned out of existence through the purifying fires of God's nature, His character, His being and essence. "Our God is a consuming fire."
"We just change addresses." What a mockery of the truth. The unrighteous lost are not going anywhere. They die here, they shall be resurrected here, they shall be wiped out of existence here. The universe shall be peaceful, harmonious, holy and beyond anything we can imagine. There is not going to be some place where billions are screaming in tormenting, torturous pain and agony, while for some reason Satan and demons get to play with them and torture them, when this is all his and their fault! Lie from Lucifer's pit!
Some denominations and churches teach the truth about this. Most do not. They are, unfortunately, deceived. But, God calls His people out of Babylon. "It ain't over, till it's over."
When the purifying fires go out, then the Creator will recreate this earth out of the ashes, the wonderful Gardener that He is. What a sight it shall be. The home of the redeemed forever.
The reason I go over this so much is simply because it freaks people out, being diametrically opposed to what they have been told and taught for a lifetime. They cannot grasp it. But, they must, to be safe from delusions coming. The Catholic is stunned by the lack of a Purgatory in the Bible, save for one small passage in the Catholic Bible, in the Apocrypha. The Protestant has no problem with that. He trips up over the idea there is no immortal soul that lives forever or burns forever. It's a pagan idea made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's embellishments. The Roman Catholic Church, it's system of salvation, is the Mother of abominations for this reason. Everything it teaches has been messed up with paganism. The entire system is the antithesis of biblical Christianity. There is nothing she can do but claim the Bible is not the final say-so. The living Church, hence the ecclesiastical body of authority of Romanism is the final authority - The Pontifex Maximus, the College of Cardinals, and all the rest of its hierarchical system is the final authority. This is all so easy to see it is staggering to me men in the clergy of all these individual churches out there cannot see it. What actual Protestants are left put it out there; in print form, online and all but, the lies of Romanism have so saturated professed Christendom it is truly Mother and harlot daughters fornicating with the kings of the earth: accepting its teachings. Greek philosophy, pagan traditions, Lucifer's lies... and the world goes to "hell" in a hand basket.
Do you know what that saying implies? It implies a little girl carrying her basket as she sings and skips along, completely unaware of the lethal dangers she is facing ahead.
Greg Laurie is two years older than me. He's been around long enough to study the Word and see its actual truths from the traditions and lies. Maybe God holds his eyes, as He does others because the time is not yet right for them to see it all. Maybe they do and have taken stands against it because it would mean the loss of their ministries and income and lifestyle. I'm sure there are people on both sides of that situation. They are in God's sight and hands. I'm just putting the truth out there. It is true because anyone who allows the Bible to interpret itself, will find the truth and the truth will make them free, indeed.
Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.
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When It Rains It...
Yeah, that saying definitely is not going to work. We haven't had rain in weeks. A couple weeks ago storms went all around us. We got a few drops. No. This is heat. When it's hot you bake. AC? Never really needed it anywhere I have lived before. Well, North Carolina and Tennessee but, even though the same basic latitude as North Texas, no, nothing like this.
I worked outside yesterday. Well, tried to. The shop hit 96 well before noon and by afternoon we hit 111. A record for me. I was up and down a ladder and after a few hours, I reached my limit. And I was in the shade. Thankfully the humidity has been tolerable. It is supposed to be hotter today. AND (here's the "it pours" part), our AC system shut down sometime last night. Right now it is much cooler outside than inside. So, all the windows are open and ceiling fans on. We can only hope whatever company we call can send someone out today. If not, we have a very uncomfortable weekend ahead.
I'm a Northern boy. Born in Connecticut. Three days of 90 degrees and it's a called heatwave. Never had an air conditioner in a window there. Lived in Maine for 15 years, as well. Everybody from Southern N.E. heads to Northern N.E. for a reason every summer. In Virginia, needed no AC 3,000' up. It could get warm but, ceiling fans did just fine. Right now I sit here typing knowing by noon it is going to be an oven in here. It got up to 89 in here yesterday evening. Might be just as well to head to a shopping center and get decent air from stores but, we can't kid ourselves, there, either. All stores have raised their thermostats. You can feel the difference as soon as you walk in. The local Walmart has been downright stuffy inside.
I do not understand living in such a place as this. Before all the asphalt and concrete, more trees and more shade, I still doubt it was tolerable. Especially the flats and grasslands. I have not experienced anything that is inviting about Texas. Sorry, Texans. Just my personal observations. If this state suffers a brownout, like we lost electricity in that 40-year cold snap a few years ago, people here will die, literally. The elderly will be at risk. People will go from uncomfortable to angry to ballistic. I would expect crime to spike, as well as fires. There are always foolish, if not nefarious people at large in a drought. I have had Texans tell me you adapt. Others chime right in and tell me, that's ridiculous. Nobody gets used to heat like this. Here's what I say. You can always add layers of clothing. You can't take off your skin. People say, Well, the winters are mild. Mmm. I have felt less cold in Maine than the wet, frigid air cutting through a jacket here.
Still, looking at a world waxing old as a garment, it could be much worse, couldn't it. Talk to people in Maui. Talk to them all over the globe where things are devastated from natural or man-made disasters. Some guy on the News in Hawaii blamed the fires on "climate change." I wanted to slap his face. And it did not take a day to blame it all on DEWs - Directed Energy Weapons. And you have to admit seeing homes turned to white ash with trees still standing and green in the same neighborhoods is just as odd as the California fires from several years back now. Especially seeing video of trees burning from the inside out. Yeah. Climate change caused that.
I believe natural and man-made disasters will continue to rise because far bigger than anything man-made climate change could bring, and however it may be contributing, the planet has a far larger problem - SIN. We have not left the Earth alone, giving it time to recoup lost natural resources. Ecosystems have been affected. We just strip away; land, sea and air and use and abuse, and when the Bible says the Earth is wearing out like a garment, that is exactly what it means.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I worked outside yesterday. Well, tried to. The shop hit 96 well before noon and by afternoon we hit 111. A record for me. I was up and down a ladder and after a few hours, I reached my limit. And I was in the shade. Thankfully the humidity has been tolerable. It is supposed to be hotter today. AND (here's the "it pours" part), our AC system shut down sometime last night. Right now it is much cooler outside than inside. So, all the windows are open and ceiling fans on. We can only hope whatever company we call can send someone out today. If not, we have a very uncomfortable weekend ahead.
I'm a Northern boy. Born in Connecticut. Three days of 90 degrees and it's a called heatwave. Never had an air conditioner in a window there. Lived in Maine for 15 years, as well. Everybody from Southern N.E. heads to Northern N.E. for a reason every summer. In Virginia, needed no AC 3,000' up. It could get warm but, ceiling fans did just fine. Right now I sit here typing knowing by noon it is going to be an oven in here. It got up to 89 in here yesterday evening. Might be just as well to head to a shopping center and get decent air from stores but, we can't kid ourselves, there, either. All stores have raised their thermostats. You can feel the difference as soon as you walk in. The local Walmart has been downright stuffy inside.
I do not understand living in such a place as this. Before all the asphalt and concrete, more trees and more shade, I still doubt it was tolerable. Especially the flats and grasslands. I have not experienced anything that is inviting about Texas. Sorry, Texans. Just my personal observations. If this state suffers a brownout, like we lost electricity in that 40-year cold snap a few years ago, people here will die, literally. The elderly will be at risk. People will go from uncomfortable to angry to ballistic. I would expect crime to spike, as well as fires. There are always foolish, if not nefarious people at large in a drought. I have had Texans tell me you adapt. Others chime right in and tell me, that's ridiculous. Nobody gets used to heat like this. Here's what I say. You can always add layers of clothing. You can't take off your skin. People say, Well, the winters are mild. Mmm. I have felt less cold in Maine than the wet, frigid air cutting through a jacket here.
Still, looking at a world waxing old as a garment, it could be much worse, couldn't it. Talk to people in Maui. Talk to them all over the globe where things are devastated from natural or man-made disasters. Some guy on the News in Hawaii blamed the fires on "climate change." I wanted to slap his face. And it did not take a day to blame it all on DEWs - Directed Energy Weapons. And you have to admit seeing homes turned to white ash with trees still standing and green in the same neighborhoods is just as odd as the California fires from several years back now. Especially seeing video of trees burning from the inside out. Yeah. Climate change caused that.
I believe natural and man-made disasters will continue to rise because far bigger than anything man-made climate change could bring, and however it may be contributing, the planet has a far larger problem - SIN. We have not left the Earth alone, giving it time to recoup lost natural resources. Ecosystems have been affected. We just strip away; land, sea and air and use and abuse, and when the Bible says the Earth is wearing out like a garment, that is exactly what it means.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Joey Baron
The first time I saw his name was on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine, back in the early 90's, iirc.. He's a Jazz player from NYC. The article claimed he was one of the newer players on the scene. I got the impression he had kind of a 'space cadet' personality, as far as Jazz players go. That was my ignorance of not understanding the language of Jazz playing. He's from the school of players that began approaching Jazz from more than a dotted eighth note tradition, like Bill Stewart. I don't really listen to traditional Jazz. It's that language-thing. I do not understand it well enough to get into it. Big Band I can understand. The more 'out there' Jazz, or 'in there,' depending on your side of the fence, just hits my brain in a way that makes it all kind of painful to listen to.
That said, Baron gained a reputation of being an inventive player. I never saw him until many years later, on YouTube. I was actually shocked at how inventive, musical, playful and passionate his artistry is. His solos are just filled with "stuff." An example of it all can be seen and heard in this linked video I just watched. I had to share it. It's a 13-minute tour de force.
Younger players into all the Gospel Chops style should find this interesting, even though it isn't that style. If you like watching drumists do their thing; meaning - their thing - not everybody else' thing, you'll enjoy this and come away with some ideas to mess around with, too. It's different. I like different.
Joey Baron is a monster musician.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qqSKXTBR8
That said, Baron gained a reputation of being an inventive player. I never saw him until many years later, on YouTube. I was actually shocked at how inventive, musical, playful and passionate his artistry is. His solos are just filled with "stuff." An example of it all can be seen and heard in this linked video I just watched. I had to share it. It's a 13-minute tour de force.
Younger players into all the Gospel Chops style should find this interesting, even though it isn't that style. If you like watching drumists do their thing; meaning - their thing - not everybody else' thing, you'll enjoy this and come away with some ideas to mess around with, too. It's different. I like different.
Joey Baron is a monster musician.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qqSKXTBR8
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Tipoz, Typose,Typos
I hate typos. I really do. When I write a post, I check it over, at least three times. I edit and edit some more. Check everything again and click "publish," is my routine. I come back the next day, see mistakes, close my eyes and just think, 'It must be age. I'm just getting old.' Typos.
The human brain is a marvel, so far past theories of evolution and Darwinism it's stupid. I'm serious. Believing in mutational evolution when considering the human brain, let alone the mind, is just being stupid in the face of evidence that stretches from here to the Moon and back. The brain can see things that are not there. It has seen words and phrases over and over and sometimes, even if a word is misspelled or missing from a sentence, we do not catch it because the brain presents a correction to us, anyway.
That said, yeah, I'm getting old. I make so many mistakes when I type it's an alphabet bomb blast to be dealt with. My mind will take over, literally and I will type the wrong words. Not just misspell them, which instantly places a spell check red line under them but, my brain will see a word it choses to type when it's the wrong word.
Example - my brain will see a world if chooses ot type when its thr wrong world.
I have mentioned before, when people die from "old age" it is actually DNA copying errors. The codes of life in cells just have made too many copying errors to maintain proper cell function and organs begin to break down. Nobody can escape this. We will all age and die, naturally, some day because of copying errors. Simple, complex as that.
Like our brains, we may read typos and glide right past them because we know what an author means to write and state but, no brain will weed through an abundance of typos. Reading becomes a chore, tiresome, frustrating and the communication breaks down. Book editors have a rough job. They do it all day long.
The same thing is happening in the two trillion cells of our bodies when copying errors cease to create new, smooth-running cells. Everything in our bodies is based on information. Everything in the universe is based on information. Everything. In computer language it is all 1's and 0's. Fascinating. Way over my head. Weebly has its own system of function that makes having a website pretty easy to use and maintain. People that have business websites generally need professionals to set them up, and sometimes run them, as well. Information. It is all information. DNA is based on letters of a code regarding some chemicals. Arrangements of these letters would mean nothing to us, trying to read what's written by way of human language. It is a language though. And trying to state this complex language is just some accidental, natural, material, mutationally developed aspect of complexity of communication at the microscopic level? Please. Do let us have common sense.
Draw in the spiritual. Why do you suppose Jesus Christ is called the Word, the Logos of God? Because Christ is the living code of life. All life. Everything in existence. He stepped forward to create the universe. He is the Creator, an Entity of information the human mind cannot comprehend. Could you keep track of even 1,000 cells in your body? Try two trillion. Try 8 billion moving, living lesser entities of the human species and a trillion other species of micro and macro life, from one celled organisms to those containing trillions. The amount of information replicating itself every nanosecond of every day is so huge it cannot be understood by mortal man.
Do you know half of American adults cannot read a book written at the 8th grade level? 34% of Americans have a basic reading level. In the world, at large, 10% of its population remains illiterate. They cannot read at all. 2023. Cell phones that are cameras, computers, organizers and everything else they do and our age still has illiteracy in it. Humanity, in 2023, cannot find a way to have every person on Earth reading. And we think we know what the universe is all about? Seriously?
When people who believe everything came from nothing, by a cosmic accident, which still cannot account for where all the information came from, tell me what I believe is a fairy tale, a myth, some ancient, foolish fable, I feel sorry for them, as they may feel sorry for me. I choose to believe information came from an Informant, a Designer, a Coder, an infinite Creator. They choose to believe all information just came into being by natural, material forces. Which is the greater myth?
When the Naturalists can show me a material force that can just write a book without literacy, without human design, I may give their theory some investigation. Until then, God did it. That is the only logical answer where information came from.
Even so, come, Word of God.
The human brain is a marvel, so far past theories of evolution and Darwinism it's stupid. I'm serious. Believing in mutational evolution when considering the human brain, let alone the mind, is just being stupid in the face of evidence that stretches from here to the Moon and back. The brain can see things that are not there. It has seen words and phrases over and over and sometimes, even if a word is misspelled or missing from a sentence, we do not catch it because the brain presents a correction to us, anyway.
That said, yeah, I'm getting old. I make so many mistakes when I type it's an alphabet bomb blast to be dealt with. My mind will take over, literally and I will type the wrong words. Not just misspell them, which instantly places a spell check red line under them but, my brain will see a word it choses to type when it's the wrong word.
Example - my brain will see a world if chooses ot type when its thr wrong world.
I have mentioned before, when people die from "old age" it is actually DNA copying errors. The codes of life in cells just have made too many copying errors to maintain proper cell function and organs begin to break down. Nobody can escape this. We will all age and die, naturally, some day because of copying errors. Simple, complex as that.
Like our brains, we may read typos and glide right past them because we know what an author means to write and state but, no brain will weed through an abundance of typos. Reading becomes a chore, tiresome, frustrating and the communication breaks down. Book editors have a rough job. They do it all day long.
The same thing is happening in the two trillion cells of our bodies when copying errors cease to create new, smooth-running cells. Everything in our bodies is based on information. Everything in the universe is based on information. Everything. In computer language it is all 1's and 0's. Fascinating. Way over my head. Weebly has its own system of function that makes having a website pretty easy to use and maintain. People that have business websites generally need professionals to set them up, and sometimes run them, as well. Information. It is all information. DNA is based on letters of a code regarding some chemicals. Arrangements of these letters would mean nothing to us, trying to read what's written by way of human language. It is a language though. And trying to state this complex language is just some accidental, natural, material, mutationally developed aspect of complexity of communication at the microscopic level? Please. Do let us have common sense.
Draw in the spiritual. Why do you suppose Jesus Christ is called the Word, the Logos of God? Because Christ is the living code of life. All life. Everything in existence. He stepped forward to create the universe. He is the Creator, an Entity of information the human mind cannot comprehend. Could you keep track of even 1,000 cells in your body? Try two trillion. Try 8 billion moving, living lesser entities of the human species and a trillion other species of micro and macro life, from one celled organisms to those containing trillions. The amount of information replicating itself every nanosecond of every day is so huge it cannot be understood by mortal man.
Do you know half of American adults cannot read a book written at the 8th grade level? 34% of Americans have a basic reading level. In the world, at large, 10% of its population remains illiterate. They cannot read at all. 2023. Cell phones that are cameras, computers, organizers and everything else they do and our age still has illiteracy in it. Humanity, in 2023, cannot find a way to have every person on Earth reading. And we think we know what the universe is all about? Seriously?
When people who believe everything came from nothing, by a cosmic accident, which still cannot account for where all the information came from, tell me what I believe is a fairy tale, a myth, some ancient, foolish fable, I feel sorry for them, as they may feel sorry for me. I choose to believe information came from an Informant, a Designer, a Coder, an infinite Creator. They choose to believe all information just came into being by natural, material forces. Which is the greater myth?
When the Naturalists can show me a material force that can just write a book without literacy, without human design, I may give their theory some investigation. Until then, God did it. That is the only logical answer where information came from.
Even so, come, Word of God.
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Jimmy Vincent
Among Big Band drummers, Jimmy Vincent was a well known name. While I had heard the name, I never heard him or saw him play until just now, through the magic of YouTube. I had no idea what an entertainer that man was, aside from great hands and feet. Check this out -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81VoZhH4KM
He should be much more well known than he is.
There are many like that, down through the decades. That's why I dislike "Best" lists. They are absolute nonsense. You can disagree, of course but, what is the standard such lists go by? There is no objective standard. It is all subjective.
Buddy Rich is called the Greatest all the time. I would ask, by what objective standard? Speed? No. Technique? What is that standard of judgment? How is it applied, through all genres of music? Plenty of players have had the same speed or faster. Plenty have the same hand technique or even better facility. Attitude? He could certainly control and drive a band like few others, maybe like no other. Does that make him the GOAT? I love watching Buddy. He was a force of nature. One of my main influences in playing the instrument. I just try to be realistic.
If people want to induct players into halls of fame because of overall careers in music, so be it. We should all just realize there are musicians out there, unknown, unseen who can play people under a table. They just never "made it," or chose another path in life. That's the reality.
How many young players today are completely ignorant of artists from the early 20th century? Watch some other videos of Vincent and see him tinging and slicing across cymbal edges decades before modern players began doing it.
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81VoZhH4KM
He should be much more well known than he is.
There are many like that, down through the decades. That's why I dislike "Best" lists. They are absolute nonsense. You can disagree, of course but, what is the standard such lists go by? There is no objective standard. It is all subjective.
Buddy Rich is called the Greatest all the time. I would ask, by what objective standard? Speed? No. Technique? What is that standard of judgment? How is it applied, through all genres of music? Plenty of players have had the same speed or faster. Plenty have the same hand technique or even better facility. Attitude? He could certainly control and drive a band like few others, maybe like no other. Does that make him the GOAT? I love watching Buddy. He was a force of nature. One of my main influences in playing the instrument. I just try to be realistic.
If people want to induct players into halls of fame because of overall careers in music, so be it. We should all just realize there are musicians out there, unknown, unseen who can play people under a table. They just never "made it," or chose another path in life. That's the reality.
How many young players today are completely ignorant of artists from the early 20th century? Watch some other videos of Vincent and see him tinging and slicing across cymbal edges decades before modern players began doing it.
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
*****************************
Maui
*This post continues to expand*
I have stayed away from the Maui fires situation because I don't know what happened. The governor is blaming it all on climate change, while a list of government breakdown builds into one of the most shocking testimonies of 'WTF' ever contemplated. The fact is, nobody knows what is going on, literally. Nobody knows the death toll and the missing toll keeps rising, including children sent home from school. Frantic parents want to know what happened to their children while all roads into the worst hit areas are being blocked. Residents are having to get back to their homes by boat, going around road blockades. I had no idea. Something is wrong. Sirens failed. Water was shut off. Fire departments called away. None of it makes sense.
The government's response, Federal, State and Local, has done more to raise a pile of conspiracy theories than ants at a sugar picnic.
Check out this report from an independent reporter on the ground. It will drop your jaw. It did mine.
www.infowars.com/posts/video-deep-state-operative-attempts-to-block-the-press-from-investigating-maui-fires/
Also, any interviews with Jason Jones, check them out.
Where are the children? You would think this would be the biggest story in the news cycle right now, gathering even more time than hurricane Hillary. Of course, adding a 5.1 earthquake to the storm is something unique. When was the last time you heard of an earthquake associated with a hurricane?
The earth waxes old like a garment. And we've a long way to go.
*UPDATE* - Salient facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqrXxi_CSc
There are many more videos on Rumble and YouTube addressing the situation from factual data and information, untampered with by main stream media sources.
Like every other event in America's history where things do not seem to line up correctly according to the "official" story, independent investigation is uncovering and reporting the real stories in Maui.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAQOn3s9fw
The information in videos of or from people who live there, what they saw and heard and experienced is more than revealing. It's alarming. All official stories of this being a "natural" disaster are apparently bogus. The man-made infrastructure and decisions made, even months previously, all contributed and were as much responsible as the wind. Wind does not start fires. The interview link above is from a realtor on the island, who is compiling information from others who have photo or video of the event. Here's his YT channel -
www.youtube.com/@hawaiirealestateorg/videos
The thing is, like 9/11; like the Las Vegas shooting; the California fires; election fraud; January 6; the "pandemic;" like so many other events, what we first see and hear is all controlled information. The real truth trickles in after and because corruption is so profound now, and so many people, millions, tens of millions realize it, official stories are almost instantly rejected and the internet goes to work to get the truth out there but... has any official entity been held to account? No. Despite all the evidence to expose their lies, they walk free, lying, planning, waiting to strike again.
God help us.
*UPDATE* - The Common Sense Show
This guy is a man after my own heart. When I did evangelism and seminars I told the people in attendance, only believe what I can show you, what I can prove from authentic sources. I have been a person who hunts down documentation since I sincerely investigated the Christian faith 44 years ago. I had to. Subject matter being as potentially explosive as it is, I had to have facts.
Dave Hodges is a guy who does his homework. I cannot believe I have not heard of him before. I appreciated the first video I just watched a minute ago and will be watching more. His looking into Maui deserves notice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoKILoTBl0
*UPDATE* - Thankfully, the entire DEW scenario has been brought to a screeching halt by people who detected the pictures being used and put the exact time and place on the photos. Others have been "photoshopped."
That said, if you do a search of house fires and see pictures, you will not see examples of car wheels melted into asphalt. Home fires just cannot get that hot. There is nothing to burn to reach those temperatures, and 65 mile an hour winds which are documented to have gone over Maui during the event, may cause materials to burn faster but, not hot enough to melt alloy wheels or reduce home structures and metallic contents to white ash. Sure, old, wooden structures will, just like dry firewood at 700-900 degrees in a woodstove but, metal appliances? No. So, what caused the extra heat? It is still a theory but, research shows evidence of nano-particles of aluminum and other metals on the ground all over Hawaii BEFORE the fires; a subject that has been a point of contention for islanders for years. I remember watching videos from islanders years ago about their crops looking like they were hit with buck shot. The same conditions happened to me with my gardens in Maine. Acid rain. But, in Hawaii, the incessant spraying of chemtrails, which is no longer a "conspiracy theory," because it is now officially called "climate geoengineering," created a perfect storm for heat. I always had doubts the veracity of the chemtrail issue until I saw video of planes ejecting mists that obviously came from spouts under the wings. No contrail of condensed air. A trail of a mist created by man-made manufacture.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ will give you all the info you can take in. Seriously. The evidence is so profuse it's sickening. Because the main stream media has been able to keep this subject under their favorite category - "conspiracy theory" - no real studies have been done. Those that have, find their evidence but, hit a media wall trying to expose it all.
If Hawaii, does, indeed, have a saturation of aluminum and other metals of nano-particles on their ground, that could easily elevate temperatures hot enough to do the damage we are seeing. It still remains a theory, though. Detecting nano-particles in soil is laborious and difficult.
When fires like this strike, or any such disaster, theories automatically abound from fire departments, police, government agencies and private citizens until actual proof is presented. How many theories abound when a plane crashes? How many theories abound when a murder is committed? That's all anyone has to begin with are theories based on whatever evidence presents itself at the outset of an event. Thorough investigation hones all theories down to facts. A "conspiracy" is either established by facts, i.e. multiple perpetrators of a crime or, a single criminal. This is not rocket science. It's common sense.
Watch this and see what you think. You will drop your jaw -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIqqvNnYYM&t=133s
Until people use critical thinking to understand everything happening in this world, "official" stories will rule the day. The power poles and lines were old and unkept; meaning lots of vegetation growing around them, all known by power companies for years. The sirens did not go off. The water was turned off. Roads of escape were blocked. 12 square miles of area has been cordoned off around Lahaina, with only allowed media in, not all news media. Original efforts by relief agencies were replaced by efforts from islanders getting needed supplies to people because relief agencies were doing nothing, all brought in by offshores boats and water skis. The entire situation cannot possibly be explained away because of cadaver dogs brought in. If fires melted alloy rims and burned appliances to dust, finding charred remains of human bones is unlikely. People should be allowed to return to their homes, not have to sneak in by boat at night. 1000+ people still missing, two weeks in? Ah, yes, the dogs. Slow going. You cannot blame people for being suspicious.
It is all wrong. It just smells wrong. Something is being hidden. It has been the same with every investigation since the JFK assassination. I just hope the islanders can make a stand that ignites a revival of liberty long overdue.
I have stayed away from the Maui fires situation because I don't know what happened. The governor is blaming it all on climate change, while a list of government breakdown builds into one of the most shocking testimonies of 'WTF' ever contemplated. The fact is, nobody knows what is going on, literally. Nobody knows the death toll and the missing toll keeps rising, including children sent home from school. Frantic parents want to know what happened to their children while all roads into the worst hit areas are being blocked. Residents are having to get back to their homes by boat, going around road blockades. I had no idea. Something is wrong. Sirens failed. Water was shut off. Fire departments called away. None of it makes sense.
The government's response, Federal, State and Local, has done more to raise a pile of conspiracy theories than ants at a sugar picnic.
Check out this report from an independent reporter on the ground. It will drop your jaw. It did mine.
www.infowars.com/posts/video-deep-state-operative-attempts-to-block-the-press-from-investigating-maui-fires/
Also, any interviews with Jason Jones, check them out.
Where are the children? You would think this would be the biggest story in the news cycle right now, gathering even more time than hurricane Hillary. Of course, adding a 5.1 earthquake to the storm is something unique. When was the last time you heard of an earthquake associated with a hurricane?
The earth waxes old like a garment. And we've a long way to go.
*UPDATE* - Salient facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqrXxi_CSc
There are many more videos on Rumble and YouTube addressing the situation from factual data and information, untampered with by main stream media sources.
Like every other event in America's history where things do not seem to line up correctly according to the "official" story, independent investigation is uncovering and reporting the real stories in Maui.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAQOn3s9fw
The information in videos of or from people who live there, what they saw and heard and experienced is more than revealing. It's alarming. All official stories of this being a "natural" disaster are apparently bogus. The man-made infrastructure and decisions made, even months previously, all contributed and were as much responsible as the wind. Wind does not start fires. The interview link above is from a realtor on the island, who is compiling information from others who have photo or video of the event. Here's his YT channel -
www.youtube.com/@hawaiirealestateorg/videos
The thing is, like 9/11; like the Las Vegas shooting; the California fires; election fraud; January 6; the "pandemic;" like so many other events, what we first see and hear is all controlled information. The real truth trickles in after and because corruption is so profound now, and so many people, millions, tens of millions realize it, official stories are almost instantly rejected and the internet goes to work to get the truth out there but... has any official entity been held to account? No. Despite all the evidence to expose their lies, they walk free, lying, planning, waiting to strike again.
God help us.
*UPDATE* - The Common Sense Show
This guy is a man after my own heart. When I did evangelism and seminars I told the people in attendance, only believe what I can show you, what I can prove from authentic sources. I have been a person who hunts down documentation since I sincerely investigated the Christian faith 44 years ago. I had to. Subject matter being as potentially explosive as it is, I had to have facts.
Dave Hodges is a guy who does his homework. I cannot believe I have not heard of him before. I appreciated the first video I just watched a minute ago and will be watching more. His looking into Maui deserves notice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoKILoTBl0
*UPDATE* - Thankfully, the entire DEW scenario has been brought to a screeching halt by people who detected the pictures being used and put the exact time and place on the photos. Others have been "photoshopped."
That said, if you do a search of house fires and see pictures, you will not see examples of car wheels melted into asphalt. Home fires just cannot get that hot. There is nothing to burn to reach those temperatures, and 65 mile an hour winds which are documented to have gone over Maui during the event, may cause materials to burn faster but, not hot enough to melt alloy wheels or reduce home structures and metallic contents to white ash. Sure, old, wooden structures will, just like dry firewood at 700-900 degrees in a woodstove but, metal appliances? No. So, what caused the extra heat? It is still a theory but, research shows evidence of nano-particles of aluminum and other metals on the ground all over Hawaii BEFORE the fires; a subject that has been a point of contention for islanders for years. I remember watching videos from islanders years ago about their crops looking like they were hit with buck shot. The same conditions happened to me with my gardens in Maine. Acid rain. But, in Hawaii, the incessant spraying of chemtrails, which is no longer a "conspiracy theory," because it is now officially called "climate geoengineering," created a perfect storm for heat. I always had doubts the veracity of the chemtrail issue until I saw video of planes ejecting mists that obviously came from spouts under the wings. No contrail of condensed air. A trail of a mist created by man-made manufacture.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ will give you all the info you can take in. Seriously. The evidence is so profuse it's sickening. Because the main stream media has been able to keep this subject under their favorite category - "conspiracy theory" - no real studies have been done. Those that have, find their evidence but, hit a media wall trying to expose it all.
If Hawaii, does, indeed, have a saturation of aluminum and other metals of nano-particles on their ground, that could easily elevate temperatures hot enough to do the damage we are seeing. It still remains a theory, though. Detecting nano-particles in soil is laborious and difficult.
When fires like this strike, or any such disaster, theories automatically abound from fire departments, police, government agencies and private citizens until actual proof is presented. How many theories abound when a plane crashes? How many theories abound when a murder is committed? That's all anyone has to begin with are theories based on whatever evidence presents itself at the outset of an event. Thorough investigation hones all theories down to facts. A "conspiracy" is either established by facts, i.e. multiple perpetrators of a crime or, a single criminal. This is not rocket science. It's common sense.
Watch this and see what you think. You will drop your jaw -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIqqvNnYYM&t=133s
Until people use critical thinking to understand everything happening in this world, "official" stories will rule the day. The power poles and lines were old and unkept; meaning lots of vegetation growing around them, all known by power companies for years. The sirens did not go off. The water was turned off. Roads of escape were blocked. 12 square miles of area has been cordoned off around Lahaina, with only allowed media in, not all news media. Original efforts by relief agencies were replaced by efforts from islanders getting needed supplies to people because relief agencies were doing nothing, all brought in by offshores boats and water skis. The entire situation cannot possibly be explained away because of cadaver dogs brought in. If fires melted alloy rims and burned appliances to dust, finding charred remains of human bones is unlikely. People should be allowed to return to their homes, not have to sneak in by boat at night. 1000+ people still missing, two weeks in? Ah, yes, the dogs. Slow going. You cannot blame people for being suspicious.
It is all wrong. It just smells wrong. Something is being hidden. It has been the same with every investigation since the JFK assassination. I just hope the islanders can make a stand that ignites a revival of liberty long overdue.
*****************************
Guess How Many
Do you know how many political parties there are in America? Political parties must register at state levels and when a large enough percentage of any state population becomes members of a registered party that they could produce enough ballots to actually sway an election, they can participate in elections with candidates for office.
How many would you say? Most people know the two big ones; Democrat and Republican. It is not the Democratic Party. It is the Democrat Party; one of the most common mistakes made when referencing that organization.
Many more Americans will know about the Libertarian Party. Still others will also know about the Green Party. I happen to know about the Constitution Party because I once took an online test and by my answers the party I most aligned with was that Party. At the time, I had no idea the Constitution Party existed.
Well, the correct number of state registered political parties is two-hundred and nine. Yes. 209 political parties are registered at state levels but, only 5 can participate in Federal elections -
Republican - functioning in all 50 states.
Democrat - All 50 states
Libertarian - 33 states
Green - 17 states
Constitution - 12 states.
Here's a link that lists parties by election years -
ballotpedia.org/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States
Now, what most Americans do not know, and I have brought this up a couple times in the last year or two when I found out, is that NO political party is part of the Constitutional Republic of the United States. NONE. The Constitution mentions none because they are not a part of the established rule of law and order of the nation. Political parties are political BUSINESSES. They exist to make money. Through donations they run a business: they hire employees, they rent and own property, they function to get employees of their company elected to office; to gain as much ground, as much political territory as they can; AND do what they can to monopolize that territory: meaning - keep all others out.
Political parties decide precincts and border lines for each precinct. They can change them to gain advantages in elections. It is all a fluid business operation that has nothing to do with the actual government of America save for what employees they can get elected to President, Vice-President, Senators and Congressman. Political business employees run the United States of America. American tax dollars pay these employees. When they run, donations pay salaries, and they get as many volunteers as they can to work for them, state to state. Once elected, they appoint more positions of power, paid from tax dollars.
The USA is controlled by two political businesses that do everything they can to maintain their power structures in each state.
Two political businesses work with Federal, State and local employees to control things; meaning - using alphabet agencies to control the nation and lawbreakers of the laws the political businesses make.
None of this has become more clear than the GOP and it's billionaire-chosen candidate for POTUS - Ron DeSantis. Money has so corrupted his campaign, a guy who should be a contender is in a dismal third place, letting staff go, replacing them, losing donors left and right because, as a business, it is a train wreck.
The Republican business did not want Donald Trump to run on their party ticket. They could not stop him at state levels and he became the nominee. So, what did they do? They sabotaged his administration with employees tasked to ruin it by stabbing Trump in the back, time and time again. Democrats were only too happy to help with their own business plan, which is still in effect - destroy Donald Trump by any legal means necessary; even if the law must be set aside or shredded or ignored to do it. Nothing personal. It's just business.
Because all these employees of political businesses are drunk with power, they will allow nothing to derail their control. This is why, historically, before the corruption became systemic, a member candidate of a political business got elected, SERVED his time period in a civil service, then went back to whatever he was doing before he got elected: farmer, private sector business owner, pulpit, teacher, lawyer, doctor, whatever. They knew the Constitution existed for the purpose of controlling the government businesses; keeping the government small as possible, to contain corruption, abuse and overreach. The Founders would vomit if they could see the giant, bloated, corrupt civil governments now in place with 4 million federal employees, including full-time military and part-time reservists. Add to that millions more state and local employees, all paid through tax dollars. Then there are all the private contractors who are hired by governments. Add to that all the other employees of other nations that receive American tax dollars, like Ukraine and its corrupt president. Yeah, it becomes mind boggling.
So, when the possible greatest disaster in American history takes place, the Maui fires, by percentage of deaths per population; and all these federal, state and local political employees do not do a damn thing to help any of the citizens reeling from it all... oh, right; Biden said the fed will give $700 per family to help them with immediate necessities, while Ukraine just got another 20 billion, people can be assured the most corrupt business in the history of the world is in control of the Western hemisphere and beyond. BUT! That is changing. The rest of the world has been awakened from it's dazed and confused relationship with America. 80% of the world does not agree with the West's support of Ukraine. Nations are working to kill the influence of the petro-dollar as the world's base currency for trade. The American empire is going to collapse. The devilish political employees in control, and the global devils in control, are seeing to it.
What can stop it? Elections? Aside from successful impeachment, elections are the only path to firing these political business employees. How's that working out?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
How many would you say? Most people know the two big ones; Democrat and Republican. It is not the Democratic Party. It is the Democrat Party; one of the most common mistakes made when referencing that organization.
Many more Americans will know about the Libertarian Party. Still others will also know about the Green Party. I happen to know about the Constitution Party because I once took an online test and by my answers the party I most aligned with was that Party. At the time, I had no idea the Constitution Party existed.
Well, the correct number of state registered political parties is two-hundred and nine. Yes. 209 political parties are registered at state levels but, only 5 can participate in Federal elections -
Republican - functioning in all 50 states.
Democrat - All 50 states
Libertarian - 33 states
Green - 17 states
Constitution - 12 states.
Here's a link that lists parties by election years -
ballotpedia.org/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States
Now, what most Americans do not know, and I have brought this up a couple times in the last year or two when I found out, is that NO political party is part of the Constitutional Republic of the United States. NONE. The Constitution mentions none because they are not a part of the established rule of law and order of the nation. Political parties are political BUSINESSES. They exist to make money. Through donations they run a business: they hire employees, they rent and own property, they function to get employees of their company elected to office; to gain as much ground, as much political territory as they can; AND do what they can to monopolize that territory: meaning - keep all others out.
Political parties decide precincts and border lines for each precinct. They can change them to gain advantages in elections. It is all a fluid business operation that has nothing to do with the actual government of America save for what employees they can get elected to President, Vice-President, Senators and Congressman. Political business employees run the United States of America. American tax dollars pay these employees. When they run, donations pay salaries, and they get as many volunteers as they can to work for them, state to state. Once elected, they appoint more positions of power, paid from tax dollars.
The USA is controlled by two political businesses that do everything they can to maintain their power structures in each state.
Two political businesses work with Federal, State and local employees to control things; meaning - using alphabet agencies to control the nation and lawbreakers of the laws the political businesses make.
None of this has become more clear than the GOP and it's billionaire-chosen candidate for POTUS - Ron DeSantis. Money has so corrupted his campaign, a guy who should be a contender is in a dismal third place, letting staff go, replacing them, losing donors left and right because, as a business, it is a train wreck.
The Republican business did not want Donald Trump to run on their party ticket. They could not stop him at state levels and he became the nominee. So, what did they do? They sabotaged his administration with employees tasked to ruin it by stabbing Trump in the back, time and time again. Democrats were only too happy to help with their own business plan, which is still in effect - destroy Donald Trump by any legal means necessary; even if the law must be set aside or shredded or ignored to do it. Nothing personal. It's just business.
Because all these employees of political businesses are drunk with power, they will allow nothing to derail their control. This is why, historically, before the corruption became systemic, a member candidate of a political business got elected, SERVED his time period in a civil service, then went back to whatever he was doing before he got elected: farmer, private sector business owner, pulpit, teacher, lawyer, doctor, whatever. They knew the Constitution existed for the purpose of controlling the government businesses; keeping the government small as possible, to contain corruption, abuse and overreach. The Founders would vomit if they could see the giant, bloated, corrupt civil governments now in place with 4 million federal employees, including full-time military and part-time reservists. Add to that millions more state and local employees, all paid through tax dollars. Then there are all the private contractors who are hired by governments. Add to that all the other employees of other nations that receive American tax dollars, like Ukraine and its corrupt president. Yeah, it becomes mind boggling.
So, when the possible greatest disaster in American history takes place, the Maui fires, by percentage of deaths per population; and all these federal, state and local political employees do not do a damn thing to help any of the citizens reeling from it all... oh, right; Biden said the fed will give $700 per family to help them with immediate necessities, while Ukraine just got another 20 billion, people can be assured the most corrupt business in the history of the world is in control of the Western hemisphere and beyond. BUT! That is changing. The rest of the world has been awakened from it's dazed and confused relationship with America. 80% of the world does not agree with the West's support of Ukraine. Nations are working to kill the influence of the petro-dollar as the world's base currency for trade. The American empire is going to collapse. The devilish political employees in control, and the global devils in control, are seeing to it.
What can stop it? Elections? Aside from successful impeachment, elections are the only path to firing these political business employees. How's that working out?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
How Far Can They Push?
I am seeing news on various alt-news sites, that the Biden administration is rolling out new Covid restrictions based on some new variant out there. More mask mandates, more appeals for injections, more fear mongering and all the rest.
The issue in my mind is not the government. I know they are corrupt and only care about control, any way they can achieve it. Destroying the middle class, the buttress of society, is their preferred way now. They want haves and have nots, dependent on them for everything. Anyone would think this has got to be a joke; some kind of sick... well, look at Biden. One day you think he's cognizant. The next, he's obviously mentally impaired. He's sick in the head. Alzheimer's, whatever. He is obviously not all there. That's his condition. That is not the condition of the planners, the controllers trying to gain complete say-so of every decision free people make on a daily basis concerning food, clothing, housing, travel, etc.. There is not a single aspect of life the Federal government and elitist class is not involved in now. And, to watch and listen to on the ground reports from Maui, just like 9/11 onward, we have another official story that is basically a lie, while people are dead from decisions and actions elitists have taken and took before, during and after the outbreak and aftermath of the fires. The term, "conspiracy theory" has become an absolute joke because of its totally ridiculous abuse and overuse.
So, government, we know is not trustworthy. That is no longer an issue. The issue is, the question is how far will Americans allow themselves to be pushed? That is the issue for survival of the Republic.
Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao... take your pick. Pick others. These despotic beasts did not froth at the mouth. MILLIONS heard them gladly as they took control and gradually removed all dissenters. Then, it was too late. Citizens were stuck under abysmal conditions created by those who desired haves and have nots. It's happening in America. The lockdowns proved that. All truth, all logic and common sense were dispensed with. Everything became the "experts," the lead voices, position over practical choice of personal health.
They obviously believe they can do it again. All the same perpetrators have stated another pandemic will come; bio-attacks will come. As one person on Maui put it - everything derives from "emergency" clauses in laws. If a law has an emergency clause, know for a surety freedom, liberty, even life can be lost when an emergency comes. And one may come by accident or, by planned execution.
How far can Americans be pushed, as well as citizens around the world, before they push back with more energy than the globalist elites are pushing at them?
That's the only question. As I type, elitists are moving to deny native Hawaiians there land. Right in front of their faces, no time to hardly process their losses and their grief, the vultures are coming in. It's astounding, the pathological attitudes these elitists have.
Interestingly, it might be suggested the events taking place in our 50th state will decide the fate of the entire Republic. If Hawaiians are able to push back against the takeover of their land, which has been an ongoing process for decades but, now shows the faces of the vultures world-wide, the impetus may rise for the same action to take place on the mainland.
Maui is NOT just a fire stricken island. Maui may be the line in the sand that decides the fate of the entire nation.
May God help them stand strong.
The issue in my mind is not the government. I know they are corrupt and only care about control, any way they can achieve it. Destroying the middle class, the buttress of society, is their preferred way now. They want haves and have nots, dependent on them for everything. Anyone would think this has got to be a joke; some kind of sick... well, look at Biden. One day you think he's cognizant. The next, he's obviously mentally impaired. He's sick in the head. Alzheimer's, whatever. He is obviously not all there. That's his condition. That is not the condition of the planners, the controllers trying to gain complete say-so of every decision free people make on a daily basis concerning food, clothing, housing, travel, etc.. There is not a single aspect of life the Federal government and elitist class is not involved in now. And, to watch and listen to on the ground reports from Maui, just like 9/11 onward, we have another official story that is basically a lie, while people are dead from decisions and actions elitists have taken and took before, during and after the outbreak and aftermath of the fires. The term, "conspiracy theory" has become an absolute joke because of its totally ridiculous abuse and overuse.
So, government, we know is not trustworthy. That is no longer an issue. The issue is, the question is how far will Americans allow themselves to be pushed? That is the issue for survival of the Republic.
Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao... take your pick. Pick others. These despotic beasts did not froth at the mouth. MILLIONS heard them gladly as they took control and gradually removed all dissenters. Then, it was too late. Citizens were stuck under abysmal conditions created by those who desired haves and have nots. It's happening in America. The lockdowns proved that. All truth, all logic and common sense were dispensed with. Everything became the "experts," the lead voices, position over practical choice of personal health.
They obviously believe they can do it again. All the same perpetrators have stated another pandemic will come; bio-attacks will come. As one person on Maui put it - everything derives from "emergency" clauses in laws. If a law has an emergency clause, know for a surety freedom, liberty, even life can be lost when an emergency comes. And one may come by accident or, by planned execution.
How far can Americans be pushed, as well as citizens around the world, before they push back with more energy than the globalist elites are pushing at them?
That's the only question. As I type, elitists are moving to deny native Hawaiians there land. Right in front of their faces, no time to hardly process their losses and their grief, the vultures are coming in. It's astounding, the pathological attitudes these elitists have.
Interestingly, it might be suggested the events taking place in our 50th state will decide the fate of the entire Republic. If Hawaiians are able to push back against the takeover of their land, which has been an ongoing process for decades but, now shows the faces of the vultures world-wide, the impetus may rise for the same action to take place on the mainland.
Maui is NOT just a fire stricken island. Maui may be the line in the sand that decides the fate of the entire nation.
May God help them stand strong.
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Megaregions and 15-Minute Cities
What is the first dystopian movie you can remember? A dystopian society/destruction of civilization could come from disease, atomic war, megacorporation control, computer technology takeover-A.I., alien attack, natural disaster like an asteroid collision, etc., etc.
'Dr. Mabuse' and 'Metropolis,' the German films, 1922 and 1927, were probably the first. They're available to see online. I never have. I'm not much for reading subtitles. The black and white, 1956 film, '1984;' based on George Orwell's novel, is one I began to watch when an adult but, it was boring and really dark, moody and basically as realistic as portraying such a society can be made. I made it about 30-minutes in and had enough.
The original 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' 1956, is one I never saw. Variations on the theme have been made in a dozen different ways over the years; both movies and television programs.
For me, at 10 years old, 1964, I remember the Vincent Price film, 'The Last Man on Earth.' My parents went to see it at the drive-in and that last scene sacred me through the back window of the car. Gave me nightmares for months. It's a disease/zombie theme.
'Colossus, The Forbin Project,' 1970 held my interest all the way through. I've mentioned that film numerous times here. A computer takes control and hooks up with a Russian computer and world domination ensues.
'Soylent Green,' 1973, was a film I remember quite well, especially the closing scenes. The world ends up eating humans made into biscuits.
In the last hundred years around 250 dystopian movies have been produced mostly by American film industry and who knows how many more by other national film industries. The one thing that seems to reside in most of them is sardine-can life in mega-cities. Even if technology can be had by the masses, they live in high-rise cities up into the sky. In some cases, the elites live in the highest cities while the peons live on the ground, outside city walls.
Why is that theme so common?
I have thought, for decades, much of what Hollywood and other nation's film industries put out is an actual future brought on by whatever circumstances could create such a thing. It somehow, someway, went from fantasy to reality yet to take place.
Since the turn of the century; really, even the 1980's and 90's, various government or private "think-tanks" have come up with ways to address population and resource control. Back at the turn of the century the idea of megaregions and some kind of efficient, clean-living city life people can somehow be cajoled or herded into, has been a hot topic.
America, if you look it up, is destined to be populated most densely in eleven megaregions. Megaregions are areas where two or more cities or economics or transportation corridors, etc., are closely joined.
'Dr. Mabuse' and 'Metropolis,' the German films, 1922 and 1927, were probably the first. They're available to see online. I never have. I'm not much for reading subtitles. The black and white, 1956 film, '1984;' based on George Orwell's novel, is one I began to watch when an adult but, it was boring and really dark, moody and basically as realistic as portraying such a society can be made. I made it about 30-minutes in and had enough.
The original 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' 1956, is one I never saw. Variations on the theme have been made in a dozen different ways over the years; both movies and television programs.
For me, at 10 years old, 1964, I remember the Vincent Price film, 'The Last Man on Earth.' My parents went to see it at the drive-in and that last scene sacred me through the back window of the car. Gave me nightmares for months. It's a disease/zombie theme.
'Colossus, The Forbin Project,' 1970 held my interest all the way through. I've mentioned that film numerous times here. A computer takes control and hooks up with a Russian computer and world domination ensues.
'Soylent Green,' 1973, was a film I remember quite well, especially the closing scenes. The world ends up eating humans made into biscuits.
In the last hundred years around 250 dystopian movies have been produced mostly by American film industry and who knows how many more by other national film industries. The one thing that seems to reside in most of them is sardine-can life in mega-cities. Even if technology can be had by the masses, they live in high-rise cities up into the sky. In some cases, the elites live in the highest cities while the peons live on the ground, outside city walls.
Why is that theme so common?
I have thought, for decades, much of what Hollywood and other nation's film industries put out is an actual future brought on by whatever circumstances could create such a thing. It somehow, someway, went from fantasy to reality yet to take place.
Since the turn of the century; really, even the 1980's and 90's, various government or private "think-tanks" have come up with ways to address population and resource control. Back at the turn of the century the idea of megaregions and some kind of efficient, clean-living city life people can somehow be cajoled or herded into, has been a hot topic.
America, if you look it up, is destined to be populated most densely in eleven megaregions. Megaregions are areas where two or more cities or economics or transportation corridors, etc., are closely joined.
brilliantmaps.com/usa-mega-regions/
"The map above shows the Regional Plan Association’s list of 11 Mega-Regions of the United States as part of their America 2050 project."
The Regional Plan Association? Who are these people?
"RPA is an independent non-profit civic organization that develops and promotes ideas to improve the economic health, environmental resiliency, and quality of life of the New York metropolitan area. RPA conducts research on the environment, land use, and good governance, and advises cities, communities, and public agencies."
Needless to say, the map is a bit larger than New York City, ya think?
rpa.org
Lots of stuff to read. Boring stuff. But, it's all in there; in plain site.
Then, within these plans are contained, by the coined-term, "15-minute cities."
www.15minutecity.com/
Living in one of these Hallmark-like, "utopian" communities will get you whatever you could need within a fifteen-minute walk or even shorter bike ride or electric public transportation - sorry, no privately owned vehicles. It is the planed living condition for most Americans. At this point, it isn't hard to see most Americans heading into them. Create disasters, bring disease into the picture, wreck the food supplies, etc., etc. and you will see (I won't be around by 2050), a world controlled by the few elites remaining at the top of the money and food chain. Life in these cities will go from shiny brand new to dismal almost overnight, simply because human beings do not do well crammed into close quarters, just getting "necessities." You can be shown pictures of houses. Forget. Just like now, already, most people in cities live in apartments, not houses. The coming apartments will be built for eating and sleeping, not much else. Call it the universal income scenario. They make it look great. They make it sound quaint. Everything is just a convenience away. Crime? You see, these elites think human beings will stop committing crime if everybody gets their fair share. The problem? Criminals never like what people in control define as "fair share." You don't need guns to rob and kill people. A fork can do that, if nobody has anything to defend themselves. As long as humanity exists, crime will exist. Cram people into close quarters, unless it operates under super-heavy police control, crime will exist, all the easier, too.
All of this garbage is UN, WEF, Gates Foundation, et al barnyard defecation. It's about protecting "Mother Earth" from bad humanity.
It has been on planning boards for years and unless things happen to stop it, it is going to happen. It just is. Look it up. You'll get plenty of hits from sites where it is all just laid out in glowing terms and pretty pictures.
Logically, we'd better hope Christ returns soon or the world population is in for a world of hurt. Well... it's going to hurt one way or another. See? You can either be in trouble with global elites or in trouble with God.
No brainer, right?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The map above shows the Regional Plan Association’s list of 11 Mega-Regions of the United States as part of their America 2050 project."
The Regional Plan Association? Who are these people?
"RPA is an independent non-profit civic organization that develops and promotes ideas to improve the economic health, environmental resiliency, and quality of life of the New York metropolitan area. RPA conducts research on the environment, land use, and good governance, and advises cities, communities, and public agencies."
Needless to say, the map is a bit larger than New York City, ya think?
rpa.org
Lots of stuff to read. Boring stuff. But, it's all in there; in plain site.
Then, within these plans are contained, by the coined-term, "15-minute cities."
www.15minutecity.com/
Living in one of these Hallmark-like, "utopian" communities will get you whatever you could need within a fifteen-minute walk or even shorter bike ride or electric public transportation - sorry, no privately owned vehicles. It is the planed living condition for most Americans. At this point, it isn't hard to see most Americans heading into them. Create disasters, bring disease into the picture, wreck the food supplies, etc., etc. and you will see (I won't be around by 2050), a world controlled by the few elites remaining at the top of the money and food chain. Life in these cities will go from shiny brand new to dismal almost overnight, simply because human beings do not do well crammed into close quarters, just getting "necessities." You can be shown pictures of houses. Forget. Just like now, already, most people in cities live in apartments, not houses. The coming apartments will be built for eating and sleeping, not much else. Call it the universal income scenario. They make it look great. They make it sound quaint. Everything is just a convenience away. Crime? You see, these elites think human beings will stop committing crime if everybody gets their fair share. The problem? Criminals never like what people in control define as "fair share." You don't need guns to rob and kill people. A fork can do that, if nobody has anything to defend themselves. As long as humanity exists, crime will exist. Cram people into close quarters, unless it operates under super-heavy police control, crime will exist, all the easier, too.
All of this garbage is UN, WEF, Gates Foundation, et al barnyard defecation. It's about protecting "Mother Earth" from bad humanity.
It has been on planning boards for years and unless things happen to stop it, it is going to happen. It just is. Look it up. You'll get plenty of hits from sites where it is all just laid out in glowing terms and pretty pictures.
Logically, we'd better hope Christ returns soon or the world population is in for a world of hurt. Well... it's going to hurt one way or another. See? You can either be in trouble with global elites or in trouble with God.
No brainer, right?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Stew Peters Goes Off
So, look. I mentioned Stew Peters a along time ago. He's a powerful guy. He says the information, subject by subject, so often in the last few years of Covid and all the rest, he's a literal steel trap. Razor sharp.
I have been disappointed by things he has said or not said and stated those, as well. Of course, no man is perfect. If we wait for them to come along, we wait in absolute vain. At least now.
I do not subscribe to Peters' take on Bible prophecy and last-day events. He basically follows the Futurist lines. Oddly, enough, he has warned about the influence of Jesuits in political affairs.
He also believes, as most professed Christians do, in a literal, burning "hell" right now. I wonder if anyone has ever challenged him the way he challenges others - "Prove me wrong." Take the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, and find me the place God warned that first individual, that first group of people they'd go straight to flames when they died, if they died without salvation. Find it. Prove me wrong.
Anyway, like millions of others, whatever reasons God has for keeping some blinders on for now, the man, let loose, is THE most unstoppable voice in political and social commentary today. Nobody else comes close. Not that I know of.
In this half-hour interview with Alex Jones he goes off like a bomb; a word bomb; a warning bomb; a Paul Revere on steroids bomb. So, I share it. I cannot say I agree with every statement. I don't follow him every day so, I don't know what evidence he has for some things he said in the interview but, by and large, yeah, prove him wrong.
He speaks for those who love their country, this Constitutional Republic, and the principles of Americanism. No, they aren't original thoughts and statements. You have read many of the same thoughts here in the last three years and in many other places on the web. Hundreds, thousands of individual voices on web sites, social media platforms and channels, magazine articles, books. The voices are everywhere BUT, in Washington, D.C. It's just the overwhelming power and authority Peters speaks with. A righteous force. A John the Baptist-type force. I pray for him to see the whole truth as it is in Jesus. Jones, too. All those taking a stand against the tyranny at hand. It is a battle between good and evil. It just matters who the players really are.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.infowars.com/posts/deep-state-plans-to-kill-trump-stew-peters-warns-the-world/
I have been disappointed by things he has said or not said and stated those, as well. Of course, no man is perfect. If we wait for them to come along, we wait in absolute vain. At least now.
I do not subscribe to Peters' take on Bible prophecy and last-day events. He basically follows the Futurist lines. Oddly, enough, he has warned about the influence of Jesuits in political affairs.
He also believes, as most professed Christians do, in a literal, burning "hell" right now. I wonder if anyone has ever challenged him the way he challenges others - "Prove me wrong." Take the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, and find me the place God warned that first individual, that first group of people they'd go straight to flames when they died, if they died without salvation. Find it. Prove me wrong.
Anyway, like millions of others, whatever reasons God has for keeping some blinders on for now, the man, let loose, is THE most unstoppable voice in political and social commentary today. Nobody else comes close. Not that I know of.
In this half-hour interview with Alex Jones he goes off like a bomb; a word bomb; a warning bomb; a Paul Revere on steroids bomb. So, I share it. I cannot say I agree with every statement. I don't follow him every day so, I don't know what evidence he has for some things he said in the interview but, by and large, yeah, prove him wrong.
He speaks for those who love their country, this Constitutional Republic, and the principles of Americanism. No, they aren't original thoughts and statements. You have read many of the same thoughts here in the last three years and in many other places on the web. Hundreds, thousands of individual voices on web sites, social media platforms and channels, magazine articles, books. The voices are everywhere BUT, in Washington, D.C. It's just the overwhelming power and authority Peters speaks with. A righteous force. A John the Baptist-type force. I pray for him to see the whole truth as it is in Jesus. Jones, too. All those taking a stand against the tyranny at hand. It is a battle between good and evil. It just matters who the players really are.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.infowars.com/posts/deep-state-plans-to-kill-trump-stew-peters-warns-the-world/
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Gentle Giant
Last ight I watched a YT video of a band from the 1970's, Gentle Giant. It was a BBC broadcast show from 1978. As it happens, Kevin, Fred and I went to see them at Woolsey Hall, Yale, New haven, CT back in '77 and they performed that exact set and they even wore the same outfits. Everything about that show stayed in my mind all these years. It was, literally, a stunning experience.
Let me place here what the opening paragraph of the GG website states -
"Welcome to the official Gentle Giant Web Site! Combining diverse elements from rock, classical, jazz, soul, blues, and the avante-garde, and playing more than 30 instruments, Gentle Giant created some of the greatest music of the 1970s progressive rock era. If you are unfamiliar with Gentle Giant, we hope this web site will encourage you to sample their unique music. To old fans and friends: step inside and share some memories of old days."
Unique is putting it mildly. No other band of the era, none, had the incredible musicianship, member to member, that Gentle Giant did. Their compositions had textures and odd times and counterpoint that was mindboggling. I could sit down and play along to any album I had from the various Progressive Rock bands but, not GG. Not without some serious practice breaking down parts. And they thing is, unlike today, when time changes seem to be composed only for the sake of complicated time changes, GG made it all musical and just blew your mind.
I can honestly say I appreciate what they did much more today than back then. I was not musically mature enough to really grasp the extent of their prowess. When we went to see them, Fred and Kevin were more into the band than I was. I had all their albums and all but, didn't listen to them anywhere near as much as ELP, YES, Kansas and other Progressive bands I was into. Plus, I had grown more into Fusion by then, with its Jazzier, Funkier styles and rhythms that made more sense to me, internally.
The night we went to see them at the Hall, I sat closer to the stage than any concert I had been to before or since. Imagine, tickets were 6,7,$8 back then. I distinctly remember lead singer, Derek Shulman, moving round the stage like some medieval Baroque ninja, in his white coveralls. Drummer, John Weathers, wearing his Oakland Athletics uniform, playing a small, 5pc kit with an exciting force of precision that held me tight all evening, and a style such as his was not something I really gravitated to back then. And he played vibes, too, and even guitar on one of the songs. They all exchanged instruments. They all sang. They all showed a competence that was just extraordinary. Ray Shulman is considered one of the most underrated bassists of all time. I distinctly remember sitting there, enthralled with an acoustic number they played and exclaiming, "Beautiful" when they finished it. I sat between Kevin and Fred and I could see them looking at me out of the corners of my eyes. They looked across me at each other and probably thought, "Yep. He's hooked."
If you have never heard Gentle Giant, you really should check them out. The sheer breadth of their music, being so multi-genre, and the expertise they played and sang everything with was just a true musical phenomenon back then that carries, not just into today but, forever. Literally. They executed a joyous complexity unlike any other band from then or now, as far as I know. Perhaps some would compare them, era-wise, to today's Snarky Puppy. They rocked out, they became a chameleon and morphed into a Classical acoustic outfit. They charged ahead, they laid back and exploded. It was a musical adventure like no other. They actually won fans everywhere they played as an opening act for other bands they could easily clean the stage with. When they became headliners, they had diehard fans who just hung on every note. I became one of them. The critics, like most R&R critics who could not understand Progressive Rock, often panned them but, not fans. Watch why -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-yGcpaY_4
Let me place here what the opening paragraph of the GG website states -
"Welcome to the official Gentle Giant Web Site! Combining diverse elements from rock, classical, jazz, soul, blues, and the avante-garde, and playing more than 30 instruments, Gentle Giant created some of the greatest music of the 1970s progressive rock era. If you are unfamiliar with Gentle Giant, we hope this web site will encourage you to sample their unique music. To old fans and friends: step inside and share some memories of old days."
Unique is putting it mildly. No other band of the era, none, had the incredible musicianship, member to member, that Gentle Giant did. Their compositions had textures and odd times and counterpoint that was mindboggling. I could sit down and play along to any album I had from the various Progressive Rock bands but, not GG. Not without some serious practice breaking down parts. And they thing is, unlike today, when time changes seem to be composed only for the sake of complicated time changes, GG made it all musical and just blew your mind.
I can honestly say I appreciate what they did much more today than back then. I was not musically mature enough to really grasp the extent of their prowess. When we went to see them, Fred and Kevin were more into the band than I was. I had all their albums and all but, didn't listen to them anywhere near as much as ELP, YES, Kansas and other Progressive bands I was into. Plus, I had grown more into Fusion by then, with its Jazzier, Funkier styles and rhythms that made more sense to me, internally.
The night we went to see them at the Hall, I sat closer to the stage than any concert I had been to before or since. Imagine, tickets were 6,7,$8 back then. I distinctly remember lead singer, Derek Shulman, moving round the stage like some medieval Baroque ninja, in his white coveralls. Drummer, John Weathers, wearing his Oakland Athletics uniform, playing a small, 5pc kit with an exciting force of precision that held me tight all evening, and a style such as his was not something I really gravitated to back then. And he played vibes, too, and even guitar on one of the songs. They all exchanged instruments. They all sang. They all showed a competence that was just extraordinary. Ray Shulman is considered one of the most underrated bassists of all time. I distinctly remember sitting there, enthralled with an acoustic number they played and exclaiming, "Beautiful" when they finished it. I sat between Kevin and Fred and I could see them looking at me out of the corners of my eyes. They looked across me at each other and probably thought, "Yep. He's hooked."
If you have never heard Gentle Giant, you really should check them out. The sheer breadth of their music, being so multi-genre, and the expertise they played and sang everything with was just a true musical phenomenon back then that carries, not just into today but, forever. Literally. They executed a joyous complexity unlike any other band from then or now, as far as I know. Perhaps some would compare them, era-wise, to today's Snarky Puppy. They rocked out, they became a chameleon and morphed into a Classical acoustic outfit. They charged ahead, they laid back and exploded. It was a musical adventure like no other. They actually won fans everywhere they played as an opening act for other bands they could easily clean the stage with. When they became headliners, they had diehard fans who just hung on every note. I became one of them. The critics, like most R&R critics who could not understand Progressive Rock, often panned them but, not fans. Watch why -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-yGcpaY_4
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YouTube Short - She Said it, not me
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Tucker and Trump
Early this morning, around 5 am, I watched the Tucker/Trump interview which a YT channel posted from streaming it live. Apparently 170,000,000 people watched it so far, on Tucker's program, itself. How many others from other outlets, who knows? Needless to say, more people watched it than the debate between the GOP wannabes, whose only possible hope of becoming the nominee is if Trump gets put in jail. Otherwise, unless the GOP commits suicide by keeping Trump from running as a Republican, he is going to be the nominee.
I found it interesting, though not surprising, FOX had their huge stage set-up - FOX News DEMOCRACY '24. Pitching Democracy, as more and more people wake up to the fact America is a Constitutional Republic, shows where all corporate media is heading - majority rule; not rule of law.
I have mentioned Trump is the de facto candidate. The GOP should not even have a preseason. Trump is actually POTUS. Republicans know it. Democrats know it. All heads of all agencies know it. The entire world of dignitaries know it, even if one third of Americans do not. The other two-thirds know it. Biden is a criminal fraud. A mentally ill criminal fraud. He'll never be arrested for any crimes because his mind is shot. Unless he was tried and sent to a home for mentally ill patients or something. More than likely he would be placed under house arrest the rest of his life. Unfortunately the corruption is way too broad now, even if the whole world sees it. Which brought bout the question from Tucker why wouldn't the Democrats try and steal the next election, too? Trump said they will. He expects it. Expecting it is not the same as stopping it. He offered no way to stop it. It is out of his hands.
To this day, literally, more and more information continues to come in about the fraud perpetuated in the 2020 election. Seriously, only someone willfully blinded by prejudice and hatred of Trump cannot see it or will not see it; refuses to see it.
That said, the interview was Donald Trump. He said nothing new. Trump maintains a consistent message. The only thing "new" he said was that going into D.C. he did not really know what it is like. Now he does so, no more choosing traitors for his administration. He did not state it that way but, it's obvious what he meant. He'll have to start with a VP he can trust. Kristi Noem and Kari Lake seem to be two women of enough principle who would play well off Trump's volatile demeanor. Though, in truth, he was quite calm in the interview as he is in most of them. Get him before a crowd or in a press conference, he's ready to spar.
Noem is calm, peaceful and motherly. Lake is professional, open and deliberate. Maybe another choice is Larry Elder. He seems a principled man. Noem is governor of South Dakota, so, yes, a politician but, for the most part, one who follows the principles of limited government.
After that, don't ask me. I am not a political junkie. I just know when Tucker asked Trump (as well as RFK Jr.), if he thinks about the threat of death, both said they are not afraid of it, and logically, if they were, why run for POTUS?
I predict an assassination attempt on Trump. Engineered or by chance, it will fail and catapult his standing into the stratosphere. Matter of fact, I might even predict, if 2020 fraud truly comes to full light, I might imagine RFK Jr. - being the Dem nominee with the same thrust of popularity Trump now has - would back away from the election and state plainly, Donald Trump is POTUS. Impossible? We live in a day when people think men can menstruate and breastfeed. Nothing is impossible anymore. If men can become women, why can't a politician do something with actual integrity involved? They are both oxymoronic.
One thing that was quite clear in the interview. Trump is no dummy. The man is a smart cookie. He knows a lot. Much more than detractors give him credit for. I just never understood how he could have been so blind and hoodwinked when elected and chose people to surround him. Water under the bridge.
Trump questioned if Biden would make it to the next election. Democrats and leftist pundits are questioning it, too. I did not think he'd make it this far. He has and might surprise everybody. Nah. Not possible. BUT!!! 'Tis the season of possibilities.
Trump 2024 is going to be so saturated throughout the land, well... time will tell what wickedness we have yet to behold. I remain focused on prophecy and last-day events. I'm watching Rome with far more interest than D.C.
I found it interesting, though not surprising, FOX had their huge stage set-up - FOX News DEMOCRACY '24. Pitching Democracy, as more and more people wake up to the fact America is a Constitutional Republic, shows where all corporate media is heading - majority rule; not rule of law.
I have mentioned Trump is the de facto candidate. The GOP should not even have a preseason. Trump is actually POTUS. Republicans know it. Democrats know it. All heads of all agencies know it. The entire world of dignitaries know it, even if one third of Americans do not. The other two-thirds know it. Biden is a criminal fraud. A mentally ill criminal fraud. He'll never be arrested for any crimes because his mind is shot. Unless he was tried and sent to a home for mentally ill patients or something. More than likely he would be placed under house arrest the rest of his life. Unfortunately the corruption is way too broad now, even if the whole world sees it. Which brought bout the question from Tucker why wouldn't the Democrats try and steal the next election, too? Trump said they will. He expects it. Expecting it is not the same as stopping it. He offered no way to stop it. It is out of his hands.
To this day, literally, more and more information continues to come in about the fraud perpetuated in the 2020 election. Seriously, only someone willfully blinded by prejudice and hatred of Trump cannot see it or will not see it; refuses to see it.
That said, the interview was Donald Trump. He said nothing new. Trump maintains a consistent message. The only thing "new" he said was that going into D.C. he did not really know what it is like. Now he does so, no more choosing traitors for his administration. He did not state it that way but, it's obvious what he meant. He'll have to start with a VP he can trust. Kristi Noem and Kari Lake seem to be two women of enough principle who would play well off Trump's volatile demeanor. Though, in truth, he was quite calm in the interview as he is in most of them. Get him before a crowd or in a press conference, he's ready to spar.
Noem is calm, peaceful and motherly. Lake is professional, open and deliberate. Maybe another choice is Larry Elder. He seems a principled man. Noem is governor of South Dakota, so, yes, a politician but, for the most part, one who follows the principles of limited government.
After that, don't ask me. I am not a political junkie. I just know when Tucker asked Trump (as well as RFK Jr.), if he thinks about the threat of death, both said they are not afraid of it, and logically, if they were, why run for POTUS?
I predict an assassination attempt on Trump. Engineered or by chance, it will fail and catapult his standing into the stratosphere. Matter of fact, I might even predict, if 2020 fraud truly comes to full light, I might imagine RFK Jr. - being the Dem nominee with the same thrust of popularity Trump now has - would back away from the election and state plainly, Donald Trump is POTUS. Impossible? We live in a day when people think men can menstruate and breastfeed. Nothing is impossible anymore. If men can become women, why can't a politician do something with actual integrity involved? They are both oxymoronic.
One thing that was quite clear in the interview. Trump is no dummy. The man is a smart cookie. He knows a lot. Much more than detractors give him credit for. I just never understood how he could have been so blind and hoodwinked when elected and chose people to surround him. Water under the bridge.
Trump questioned if Biden would make it to the next election. Democrats and leftist pundits are questioning it, too. I did not think he'd make it this far. He has and might surprise everybody. Nah. Not possible. BUT!!! 'Tis the season of possibilities.
Trump 2024 is going to be so saturated throughout the land, well... time will tell what wickedness we have yet to behold. I remain focused on prophecy and last-day events. I'm watching Rome with far more interest than D.C.
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??? Money For Theaters ???
Here you go. You cannot make this stuff up.
The Small Business Administration gave away - not loans. Gifts - 14.5 BILLION dollars to entertainment venues or places of artistic merit, i.e. theaters, museums, concert halls and other venues, etc., that lost money because of the lockdowns. Tax payer money went to these small businesses.
To make matters worse, apparently many big-name entertainers also received gifts to the tune of millions. Money they do not need because they are all listed multi-millionaires. The lockdowns did not hurt them. They could still sell recordings online.
So, what about all the actual small businesses that not only lost money but, thousands had to close their doors for good - restaurants, clubs, stores and shops of all kinds, a host of service trade businesses, all kinds of full-time but small public entertainment people involved in setting up and/or giving concerts and shows and performances, not to mention a fair number of medical businesses not associated with Covid treatment. Don't their proprietors and businesses get any gifts? No. Apparently not.
The Federal government has borrowed funds from China and elsewhere to turn around and give 150 BILLION dollars to Ukraine but, has no money to give to small businesses in America that were ruined by the lockdowns and, AND, we now see portents come September, the government is going to try and lockdown the nation again against this new "variant" spreading.
If you read the article, prepare to shake your head for the gross corruption that exists in the Federal government of this nation.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/worlds-richest-musicians-gobbled-200-million-taxpayer-covid/
The Small Business Administration gave away - not loans. Gifts - 14.5 BILLION dollars to entertainment venues or places of artistic merit, i.e. theaters, museums, concert halls and other venues, etc., that lost money because of the lockdowns. Tax payer money went to these small businesses.
To make matters worse, apparently many big-name entertainers also received gifts to the tune of millions. Money they do not need because they are all listed multi-millionaires. The lockdowns did not hurt them. They could still sell recordings online.
So, what about all the actual small businesses that not only lost money but, thousands had to close their doors for good - restaurants, clubs, stores and shops of all kinds, a host of service trade businesses, all kinds of full-time but small public entertainment people involved in setting up and/or giving concerts and shows and performances, not to mention a fair number of medical businesses not associated with Covid treatment. Don't their proprietors and businesses get any gifts? No. Apparently not.
The Federal government has borrowed funds from China and elsewhere to turn around and give 150 BILLION dollars to Ukraine but, has no money to give to small businesses in America that were ruined by the lockdowns and, AND, we now see portents come September, the government is going to try and lockdown the nation again against this new "variant" spreading.
If you read the article, prepare to shake your head for the gross corruption that exists in the Federal government of this nation.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/worlds-richest-musicians-gobbled-200-million-taxpayer-covid/
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Ever Wonder?
Have you ever wondered how many Liberals, Leftists, Big Government-types, not directly involved in criminal behavior, really know what's going on? Dr. Michael Savage believes liberalism is a mental illness; neurons not firing in areas of the brain where cognizant reasoning takes place. They cannot exhibit common sense. They are ruled by emotions. They lash out when confronted with opposing views, like cornered animals, literally, even if they are in a pack, threatening individuals.
Over the years we have seen this growing number of videos where Leftists scream in the faces of those they oppose and if they are asked to explain their positions, they cannot do it and it makes them even more angry and venomous. From a Christian worldview, I wonder if they are demon possessed. Seriously. They do not - for they seem unable to - act rationally.
I wonder how many are just acting a part, trying to get under the skin of people and cause them to do something they can exploit. I mean, can people, supposedly educated people, act so ridiculous? Seriously. Gluing yourself to works of art and walls and poles and such. The entire sit-in tactic, 60 years old, that has never done anything more than aggravate people trying to get somewhere in their cars or on foot. All they do is piss people off and make their positions less valid in the minds of those not interested in their histrionics. Because they act out of emotions, rather than sound minds and principle, they cannot see what they do means nothing to opening a door to dialogue. They assume, for whatever reasons, their positions are the only positions that can be taken and because no one is really listening or paying attention to them, they feel the necessity to engage in some kind of physical behavior. Recent videos show common people physically removing Leftists from their sit-ins. Regular folks, with common sense, have had enough.
There's a video floating around showing Obama trying to make a speech and hundreds of voices singing "F- - - Joe Biden..." Obama tries to get people to give him his time but, people are so fed up they can no longer take the jagged thorns of hypocrisy poking them in the eyes, day in and day out from Leftist lunatics.
They have taken mug shots of the President. He has broken no laws, committed no crimes but, for Leftists with no morals or integrity, that makes no difference. Opposition must be stopped. The ends justifies the means.
The Tucker/Trump interview has apparently hit 238 MILLION views. Depending on second views, that is two-thirds of the population of America, and obviously people from outside America are watching it, as well but, still. Two hundred and fourty-eight million views. Musk is dumbfounded. FOX fires Carlson and 248,000,000 people are watching a twitter video interview. Well, I guess it is now "X," the name chosen by Musk for the platform. And it is still censoring people. Why did he hire that Leftist exec to run the thing? Makes no sense, if he wanted freedom of speech to be the rule, not the exception.
How physical will people Center and Right get before things are either completely collapsed or the ship is leveled off before it sinks? We will certainly find out before November 2024.
I must remind you to remember that politics is not the answer. Politicians are not the answer. Elections are not the answer. People, citizens are the answer and more; citizens under the influence of God are the answer. The time has arrived to say 'No' to anything and everything beyond the reach of the authority granted to elected civil servants.
Watch Maui. Lahaina is not the scene of a natural disaster. It is a crime scene. And people around the world are hoping and praying Hawaiians make a stand that shall shake the world.
May God help them remain vigilant, as they grieve and figure out what comes next for them and their island.
Over the years we have seen this growing number of videos where Leftists scream in the faces of those they oppose and if they are asked to explain their positions, they cannot do it and it makes them even more angry and venomous. From a Christian worldview, I wonder if they are demon possessed. Seriously. They do not - for they seem unable to - act rationally.
I wonder how many are just acting a part, trying to get under the skin of people and cause them to do something they can exploit. I mean, can people, supposedly educated people, act so ridiculous? Seriously. Gluing yourself to works of art and walls and poles and such. The entire sit-in tactic, 60 years old, that has never done anything more than aggravate people trying to get somewhere in their cars or on foot. All they do is piss people off and make their positions less valid in the minds of those not interested in their histrionics. Because they act out of emotions, rather than sound minds and principle, they cannot see what they do means nothing to opening a door to dialogue. They assume, for whatever reasons, their positions are the only positions that can be taken and because no one is really listening or paying attention to them, they feel the necessity to engage in some kind of physical behavior. Recent videos show common people physically removing Leftists from their sit-ins. Regular folks, with common sense, have had enough.
There's a video floating around showing Obama trying to make a speech and hundreds of voices singing "F- - - Joe Biden..." Obama tries to get people to give him his time but, people are so fed up they can no longer take the jagged thorns of hypocrisy poking them in the eyes, day in and day out from Leftist lunatics.
They have taken mug shots of the President. He has broken no laws, committed no crimes but, for Leftists with no morals or integrity, that makes no difference. Opposition must be stopped. The ends justifies the means.
The Tucker/Trump interview has apparently hit 238 MILLION views. Depending on second views, that is two-thirds of the population of America, and obviously people from outside America are watching it, as well but, still. Two hundred and fourty-eight million views. Musk is dumbfounded. FOX fires Carlson and 248,000,000 people are watching a twitter video interview. Well, I guess it is now "X," the name chosen by Musk for the platform. And it is still censoring people. Why did he hire that Leftist exec to run the thing? Makes no sense, if he wanted freedom of speech to be the rule, not the exception.
How physical will people Center and Right get before things are either completely collapsed or the ship is leveled off before it sinks? We will certainly find out before November 2024.
I must remind you to remember that politics is not the answer. Politicians are not the answer. Elections are not the answer. People, citizens are the answer and more; citizens under the influence of God are the answer. The time has arrived to say 'No' to anything and everything beyond the reach of the authority granted to elected civil servants.
Watch Maui. Lahaina is not the scene of a natural disaster. It is a crime scene. And people around the world are hoping and praying Hawaiians make a stand that shall shake the world.
May God help them remain vigilant, as they grieve and figure out what comes next for them and their island.
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828.Rationality - August 26, 2023
Is a Grizzly bear rational? Is a shark rational? Is a vulture rational? Is a jellyfish rational? Is a Honey bee rational? Is an earth worm rational? Multiply that question by millions of lifeforms on our planet. Naturalists do not expect all those lifeforms to be rational. What is rationality?
1. the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic
A mother senses her baby is threatened. She charges the threat. All five tons of rage moving at 25mph. Her target, a much smaller lifeform, raises something up in its arms. Long and slender in shape. An unnatural explosion takes place. The elephant is startled but, remains resolved to trample the threat. The next explosion places a metal object into her skull and she drops dead, her baby now an orphan. Did the elephant act rationally?
It seems rational for an adult to protect a baby from a threat, yes? That is reasonable. Is it reasonable to charge a 50 caliber rifle? No.
Nobody denies many animals can communicate with their young. It is also undeniable many more lifeforms cannot. They don't even see their young. They lay eggs which hatch and mother has long since departed. The young are on their own in a deadly world. We ask, why is the world deadly? An elephant, a very intelligent animal, will never be able to warn her young to stay away from other lifeforms holding long, slender things that explode and can kill an elephant. If baby elephant saw its mother killed, she may grow up, have offspring and lead her own young away from lifeforms with those long, slender things riveted in her memory but, she'll never be able to communicate her memory to her offspring.
Is it rational to kill to survive? For humans to kill lower lifeforms? Yes but, I will further that in a bit. Is it rational for humans to kill their own life forms? No. Yet humans kill each other for reasons unassociated with survival all the time. Every day. Humans call it murder. Why? Why have humans decided killing their own species save for defensive reasons is illogical and irrational and immoral? Moreover, at one time in human history, some societies did kill and eat humans for survival. We call them cannibals in the English language, which is derived from the Spanish canibalis or caribalis; meaning "savage." It is said Christopher Columbus used the term to describe some tribes in the Caribbean who practiced the savagery. But, humans also recognize humans who are cannibals are functioning more at an animal level of existence, not exposed to higher ideals. But, wait. Again, why should humans have higher ideals?
Of course, we must ask, why should humans or any lifeform have a desire to live; to survive? Why have a rationale for living; for survival? At what point did a creature with a brain decide life is precious? Why would the brain function in a way to point out the necessity to survive?
If life is the result of a chemical accident; if all lifeforms are just collections of chemicals developed over time by more accidents, how would any kind of decision to survive result? Result from what? Reason? Where did reason come from? At what point did a lifeform make the rational decision or a decision of survival - life must go on?
Please read this -
"The vast majority of species on Earth are single-celled. Most of these languish in obscurity – many have never even been named – but some of the relatively few species that have been studied exhibit remarkable abilities.
"Many of these are physical: some micro-organisms are amazingly strong; others can hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years or thrive in environments so extreme that they would kill off most other life forms in a flash.
"But many bacteria and protists also exhibit behaviour that looks remarkably intelligent. This behaviour isn’t the result of conscious thought – the sort you find in humans and other complex animals – because single-celled organisms don’t have nervous systems, let alone brains.
"A better explanation is that they’re “biological computers” with internal machinery that can process information (see our review of Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell). Here are some of the most striking examples of this “intelligent” behaviour from the New Scientist archive."
www.newscientist.com/article/dn17390-why-microbes-are-smarter-than-you-thought/
Biological computers? There is not a computer in existence that is not designed by a human mind. A natural computer? A single-celled creature, functioning like a computer, exhibits a desire to survive? Seriously? I often wonder if Naturalists truly understand the things they believe and write. And now, scientists are discovering that certain forms of bacteria do not practice survival of the fittest but, survival of the friendliest; working together for group survival. No nervous systems, no brains, no recollection of past, no understanding of future, working together to survive??? Seriously. All by chance, accident, mutations over time? Does time have a brain? Can time plan? Can it design? Time is not intelligent. Time discerns no purpose for existence. Time is not an entity. Time cannot do anything. Time cannot be anything. Time is a construct of a mind.
Morality.
Morality is defined as a code or system of moral rules, principles, values or ethics adhered to by an individual or groups within a culture, society or religion, etc.
Is a Rattlesnake moral? Does a hawk or owl have morality? Does a dolphin care if it eats an adult fish or a baby fish? Do seagulls care if they eat baby turtles struggling to get to the sea?
Why do we call a human being an animal when they murder someone, especially if they kill a human more defenseless or helpless than others? We call them beasts and monsters. They have somehow lost their humanity. But, wait. Why should humans have rationality or morals?
The Naturalist, the Materialist, the Atheist has no concrete answers for such questions. Morality is not scientific. Rationality is not scientific. Studying morality and rationality causes no determined origins of these thought processes. Thus far all scientific study of life has not given an answer how it came to be. They can guess. They can surmise. They can deduce. They cannot accurately explain what life is or how it came to be. They study it after the fact. They cannot explain the origins of rationality or morality. They make assumptions. They cannot claim a mind decided survival was paramount; not when bacteria seek to survive and do so in some strange, observant mode of cooperation.
Albert Einstein said something to the affect that nothing is more irrational than a universe which contains creatures that rationally seek to explain it.
My explanation for everything is a Creator; a rational, moral supreme Being, who stated in an old book that God made man in His image and likeness. Only mankind. Not other lifeforms. Whatever characteristics humanity claims other lifeforms exhibit that seem humanlike, we do not hold them accountable for irrationality or immorality. Why not? Saying humans evolved is no answer. Our brains are not the biggest. Whales have enormous brains. Elephants have larger brains. The difference seems to be size and weight of the brain according to overall creature size. Humans have brains seven times greater than other creatures because of the brain/body equation. Still, humans cannot smell anywhere close to other creatures. Nor can we see anywhere close to other creatures. We are nowhere near as strong or fast as other creatures, nor resilient to demise as others are. Aberrations of accidents and mutations created everything???
To deny design and a common Master Designer is to deny the obvious: every lifeform has massive complexities of design, not just enormity of parts. Just a huge collection of complex parts is no reason to expect reason and logic to develop and certainly not morals; when survival is everything. Why should there be survival? Why should any collection of chemicals determine survival is necessary? To say you do not know but, it happened is not science. It is religion. It is a faith in an unknown, unseen process. It is not natural, thereby it becomes supernatural: above the natural world we observe. Why is that a better explanation than me believing in a Supreme Being who designed and created everything? I can add something the atheist cannot. I have had an experience that changed my life. An old book describes it as being born-again. A book thousands of years old.
Logic and reason cause me to conclude something outside the natural world changed me from an atheist to a believer in the Creator. I was recreated; to love the Creator and my fellow man. That makes all the sense in the world. It is rational and reasonable to make such a conclusion. Why should I accept the religion of the Naturalist and Materialist? They accept the illogical, irrational belief that the universe came into being by itself, when it was no self. It was nothing. No thing. That life came into being by accident, without any natural, material proof whatsoever is a fantasy, not science.
When the issue of suffering comes into play, I would ask, how do you know anything suffers? By what natural, material method or observance do you decide that conclusion? Who said a collection of chemicals should be happy? Who is able to proclaim life should or must be free from "suffering;" to live and love and experience only pleasure? How did "pleasure" even get into the mix? Trace this through far enough and everything an atheist believes is irrational, illogical, and unreasonable and in plenty of cases, immoral.
Prove that wrong.
1Sa 12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1Sa 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Ecc 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: ...
1Pet 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
1Pet 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behaviour in Christ.
1. the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic
A mother senses her baby is threatened. She charges the threat. All five tons of rage moving at 25mph. Her target, a much smaller lifeform, raises something up in its arms. Long and slender in shape. An unnatural explosion takes place. The elephant is startled but, remains resolved to trample the threat. The next explosion places a metal object into her skull and she drops dead, her baby now an orphan. Did the elephant act rationally?
It seems rational for an adult to protect a baby from a threat, yes? That is reasonable. Is it reasonable to charge a 50 caliber rifle? No.
Nobody denies many animals can communicate with their young. It is also undeniable many more lifeforms cannot. They don't even see their young. They lay eggs which hatch and mother has long since departed. The young are on their own in a deadly world. We ask, why is the world deadly? An elephant, a very intelligent animal, will never be able to warn her young to stay away from other lifeforms holding long, slender things that explode and can kill an elephant. If baby elephant saw its mother killed, she may grow up, have offspring and lead her own young away from lifeforms with those long, slender things riveted in her memory but, she'll never be able to communicate her memory to her offspring.
Is it rational to kill to survive? For humans to kill lower lifeforms? Yes but, I will further that in a bit. Is it rational for humans to kill their own life forms? No. Yet humans kill each other for reasons unassociated with survival all the time. Every day. Humans call it murder. Why? Why have humans decided killing their own species save for defensive reasons is illogical and irrational and immoral? Moreover, at one time in human history, some societies did kill and eat humans for survival. We call them cannibals in the English language, which is derived from the Spanish canibalis or caribalis; meaning "savage." It is said Christopher Columbus used the term to describe some tribes in the Caribbean who practiced the savagery. But, humans also recognize humans who are cannibals are functioning more at an animal level of existence, not exposed to higher ideals. But, wait. Again, why should humans have higher ideals?
Of course, we must ask, why should humans or any lifeform have a desire to live; to survive? Why have a rationale for living; for survival? At what point did a creature with a brain decide life is precious? Why would the brain function in a way to point out the necessity to survive?
If life is the result of a chemical accident; if all lifeforms are just collections of chemicals developed over time by more accidents, how would any kind of decision to survive result? Result from what? Reason? Where did reason come from? At what point did a lifeform make the rational decision or a decision of survival - life must go on?
Please read this -
"The vast majority of species on Earth are single-celled. Most of these languish in obscurity – many have never even been named – but some of the relatively few species that have been studied exhibit remarkable abilities.
"Many of these are physical: some micro-organisms are amazingly strong; others can hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years or thrive in environments so extreme that they would kill off most other life forms in a flash.
"But many bacteria and protists also exhibit behaviour that looks remarkably intelligent. This behaviour isn’t the result of conscious thought – the sort you find in humans and other complex animals – because single-celled organisms don’t have nervous systems, let alone brains.
"A better explanation is that they’re “biological computers” with internal machinery that can process information (see our review of Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell). Here are some of the most striking examples of this “intelligent” behaviour from the New Scientist archive."
www.newscientist.com/article/dn17390-why-microbes-are-smarter-than-you-thought/
Biological computers? There is not a computer in existence that is not designed by a human mind. A natural computer? A single-celled creature, functioning like a computer, exhibits a desire to survive? Seriously? I often wonder if Naturalists truly understand the things they believe and write. And now, scientists are discovering that certain forms of bacteria do not practice survival of the fittest but, survival of the friendliest; working together for group survival. No nervous systems, no brains, no recollection of past, no understanding of future, working together to survive??? Seriously. All by chance, accident, mutations over time? Does time have a brain? Can time plan? Can it design? Time is not intelligent. Time discerns no purpose for existence. Time is not an entity. Time cannot do anything. Time cannot be anything. Time is a construct of a mind.
Morality.
Morality is defined as a code or system of moral rules, principles, values or ethics adhered to by an individual or groups within a culture, society or religion, etc.
Is a Rattlesnake moral? Does a hawk or owl have morality? Does a dolphin care if it eats an adult fish or a baby fish? Do seagulls care if they eat baby turtles struggling to get to the sea?
Why do we call a human being an animal when they murder someone, especially if they kill a human more defenseless or helpless than others? We call them beasts and monsters. They have somehow lost their humanity. But, wait. Why should humans have rationality or morals?
The Naturalist, the Materialist, the Atheist has no concrete answers for such questions. Morality is not scientific. Rationality is not scientific. Studying morality and rationality causes no determined origins of these thought processes. Thus far all scientific study of life has not given an answer how it came to be. They can guess. They can surmise. They can deduce. They cannot accurately explain what life is or how it came to be. They study it after the fact. They cannot explain the origins of rationality or morality. They make assumptions. They cannot claim a mind decided survival was paramount; not when bacteria seek to survive and do so in some strange, observant mode of cooperation.
Albert Einstein said something to the affect that nothing is more irrational than a universe which contains creatures that rationally seek to explain it.
My explanation for everything is a Creator; a rational, moral supreme Being, who stated in an old book that God made man in His image and likeness. Only mankind. Not other lifeforms. Whatever characteristics humanity claims other lifeforms exhibit that seem humanlike, we do not hold them accountable for irrationality or immorality. Why not? Saying humans evolved is no answer. Our brains are not the biggest. Whales have enormous brains. Elephants have larger brains. The difference seems to be size and weight of the brain according to overall creature size. Humans have brains seven times greater than other creatures because of the brain/body equation. Still, humans cannot smell anywhere close to other creatures. Nor can we see anywhere close to other creatures. We are nowhere near as strong or fast as other creatures, nor resilient to demise as others are. Aberrations of accidents and mutations created everything???
To deny design and a common Master Designer is to deny the obvious: every lifeform has massive complexities of design, not just enormity of parts. Just a huge collection of complex parts is no reason to expect reason and logic to develop and certainly not morals; when survival is everything. Why should there be survival? Why should any collection of chemicals determine survival is necessary? To say you do not know but, it happened is not science. It is religion. It is a faith in an unknown, unseen process. It is not natural, thereby it becomes supernatural: above the natural world we observe. Why is that a better explanation than me believing in a Supreme Being who designed and created everything? I can add something the atheist cannot. I have had an experience that changed my life. An old book describes it as being born-again. A book thousands of years old.
Logic and reason cause me to conclude something outside the natural world changed me from an atheist to a believer in the Creator. I was recreated; to love the Creator and my fellow man. That makes all the sense in the world. It is rational and reasonable to make such a conclusion. Why should I accept the religion of the Naturalist and Materialist? They accept the illogical, irrational belief that the universe came into being by itself, when it was no self. It was nothing. No thing. That life came into being by accident, without any natural, material proof whatsoever is a fantasy, not science.
When the issue of suffering comes into play, I would ask, how do you know anything suffers? By what natural, material method or observance do you decide that conclusion? Who said a collection of chemicals should be happy? Who is able to proclaim life should or must be free from "suffering;" to live and love and experience only pleasure? How did "pleasure" even get into the mix? Trace this through far enough and everything an atheist believes is irrational, illogical, and unreasonable and in plenty of cases, immoral.
Prove that wrong.
1Sa 12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1Sa 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Ecc 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: ...
1Pet 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
1Pet 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behaviour in Christ.
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829. Two Thirds Believe a Lie About Life - 8/26/23
Recently I came across information from polling which shows fully two-thirds of people surveyed believe scientists have made life in the laboratory, and even one-third believe they have made lifeforms, such as frogs in the lab. How did this come to be? Not the life. That is an absolute falsehood. Nothing remotely close to life has been created in a lab, let alone actual lifeforms like frogs. Science has yet to make the most simple known lifeform of a single cell. With all the grant money and all the labs, filled with the most sophisticated equipment, no scientist, no biologist, no chemist, no group of them has made life. So, how did it come to be that two-thirds of people surveyed believe it has been done? Headlines.
The press takes statements from scientists about their work - its current status, progress, and future hopes and weaves it into headlines that state life has been formed! From there, these headlines move into realms of media like radio and television, as well as school books, while movies, still a fantasyland, create storylines that give people the impression creating life in a lab is old news.
To this date, no scientist even understands what life is! You can define it all day long as a functioning organic entity but, that is practical life. What is the thing that makes anything a functioning organic entity? Chemicals? Seriously? Well, science has been combining chemicals for a 100 years and have not come close to creating life. As any creationist or I.D. proponent knows, you could give a perfectly functioning cell to any group of scientists from any and all fields of endeavor, wait till the cell dies, and ask that group to bring that cell to life again. All the parts are there. Everything is there. Can they do it? No. They cannot even understand how to try, let alone actually do it. If they knew what life is and how to make it, logically they could raise the dead!
While people are so focused on the lies of politicians and government entities these days, a fast one has been pulled with scientific and media slight of hand and millions of people believe a lie far more dangerous than any lie ever told by any politician in history.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
When Christ stated, I am the way, the truth and the life; what is the universal weight of such a statement?
How many 'ways' exist on Earth? Way back to ancient Babylon and the tower of Babel, we have had gateways, bridges, paths, roads and avenues to deity and eternal life. Hundreds, thousands of them in variations untold, in most all societies and civilizations down through time.
The Messiah did not say I am a way, a truth and a life. No. His point blank statement is a shot across the bow of all other "ways," all other "truths," and all other promises to "life." Iesou Christos is the Creator of life. He is the way to all life, physical and spiritual and eternal. He did not say He taught truth. He said He is the truth. Truth comes from Him. He is the great Information storehouse all truth has come from; His mind. As the Son, He stepped forward and created the universe, speaking it into existence. He is the life. He is life and all life comes from Him, and he sustains it all in ways and truth we cannot even come close to grasping how.
Making Jesus out to be some carpenter-preacher; basket of fish filler; who could walk on water and raise the dead just makes Him out to be some ancient, comic book superhero. Christ was GOD become a man; God in human flesh. The Almighty Creator of everything come as a Babe to save His creation in a war more important and real than ten thousand Ukraines.
Science will never understand life because mankind can never fully comprehend God, who is life. We are not deity and will never be deity and any religious philosophy that teaches humans can be divine is not raising humanity up but, lowering God down to levels they do not even realize. Humans partake of the divine nature to cleanse us of sin and all that was lost in the Fall. That will never make us fully divine. Such a premise is preposterous.
You see, this was the line of reasoning Lucifer got lost in. "I would be like the most High." He wanted full divinity. He wanted full autonomy, running all things himself. He rebelled and a third of the angelic host followed him, because they, too, wanted to be like the most High. 'Why can't everyone be like God? We reserve the right to control everything and will not be controlled by anyone or anything! We would be gods, too!'
The word "life" appears 450 times in the King James Bible. It's meaning, from the Hebrew "nephesh" is something breathing and alive. Just look at the opening uses of the word in Genesis.
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
You look at those first two references and can replace the phrases with "that are alive."
The third states the Creator breathed life into the dirt form that was created into Adam, meaning red or dirt man. Life; the breath of life came from the Creator.
The fourth states God made a tree of life. ??? How could the tree of life bring about death? Well, if Adam and Eve had not sinned they could have eaten from that tree, with whatever sustaining properties its fruit had and lived forever. They disobeyed and in one instant, the cells in their bodies changed. DNA copying errors began. They got old. They died. So goes the rotation of all life.
Life comes from God, not chemical combinations. Life is God, not the result of a bolt of lightning on a hot pool of chemical muck.
Christ, the Son, the Messenger between God and all creation, stepped forward and created in a display of power Lucifer saw as fully impossible to pull off. He was lost. His rebels lost with him. All he could do was ruin life God created. He told Eve, you can be as God knowing good and evil. Eat from the tree and you shall raise yourself to another level; the God level.
She ate. Adam ate with her. They were expelled from the garden, forbidden to enter again. And here we are. Everything that was life, now dies. Everything on this world dies in a fateful rotation of futility to try and gain eternal life without the Creator.
What do we see in Revelation? The restoration of the tree of life, with new fruit that appears every month, FOREVER. Now way to get used to it. Each new round must taste better than the previous. An eternal delight and fascination with God's life and mind and love for His creation, His children, never to be lost into infinite eternity. God is infinite. That is what makes Him God. That is what makes the intangible heavenly Trio: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, tangible for all creation. God is not just words. God is life, and gives life and shall give fresh new displays of life from an infinite Mind, forever.
Scientists can make all the claims they want. The Press can convolute and conflate all they want, to give impressions that are false. Hollywood can create all the sci-fi they want to. Laboratories around the world can spend all the money they can get their hands on and factually, if all the money in the world were poured into one lab with thousands of minds working around the clock, a thousand years will go by and mankind will never know what life is, as an active agent because they are not God, who is the Agent of all life.
Yeshua Messiah, Iesou Christos, Jesus Christ; the Son of man, the Son of God is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father, save through Him: His way, His truth and His life. He is the light that shines on every man that comes into the world. The question is, who will choose to walk in that light and be given eternal life, when the program of lies and death is finally over?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The press takes statements from scientists about their work - its current status, progress, and future hopes and weaves it into headlines that state life has been formed! From there, these headlines move into realms of media like radio and television, as well as school books, while movies, still a fantasyland, create storylines that give people the impression creating life in a lab is old news.
To this date, no scientist even understands what life is! You can define it all day long as a functioning organic entity but, that is practical life. What is the thing that makes anything a functioning organic entity? Chemicals? Seriously? Well, science has been combining chemicals for a 100 years and have not come close to creating life. As any creationist or I.D. proponent knows, you could give a perfectly functioning cell to any group of scientists from any and all fields of endeavor, wait till the cell dies, and ask that group to bring that cell to life again. All the parts are there. Everything is there. Can they do it? No. They cannot even understand how to try, let alone actually do it. If they knew what life is and how to make it, logically they could raise the dead!
While people are so focused on the lies of politicians and government entities these days, a fast one has been pulled with scientific and media slight of hand and millions of people believe a lie far more dangerous than any lie ever told by any politician in history.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
When Christ stated, I am the way, the truth and the life; what is the universal weight of such a statement?
How many 'ways' exist on Earth? Way back to ancient Babylon and the tower of Babel, we have had gateways, bridges, paths, roads and avenues to deity and eternal life. Hundreds, thousands of them in variations untold, in most all societies and civilizations down through time.
The Messiah did not say I am a way, a truth and a life. No. His point blank statement is a shot across the bow of all other "ways," all other "truths," and all other promises to "life." Iesou Christos is the Creator of life. He is the way to all life, physical and spiritual and eternal. He did not say He taught truth. He said He is the truth. Truth comes from Him. He is the great Information storehouse all truth has come from; His mind. As the Son, He stepped forward and created the universe, speaking it into existence. He is the life. He is life and all life comes from Him, and he sustains it all in ways and truth we cannot even come close to grasping how.
Making Jesus out to be some carpenter-preacher; basket of fish filler; who could walk on water and raise the dead just makes Him out to be some ancient, comic book superhero. Christ was GOD become a man; God in human flesh. The Almighty Creator of everything come as a Babe to save His creation in a war more important and real than ten thousand Ukraines.
Science will never understand life because mankind can never fully comprehend God, who is life. We are not deity and will never be deity and any religious philosophy that teaches humans can be divine is not raising humanity up but, lowering God down to levels they do not even realize. Humans partake of the divine nature to cleanse us of sin and all that was lost in the Fall. That will never make us fully divine. Such a premise is preposterous.
You see, this was the line of reasoning Lucifer got lost in. "I would be like the most High." He wanted full divinity. He wanted full autonomy, running all things himself. He rebelled and a third of the angelic host followed him, because they, too, wanted to be like the most High. 'Why can't everyone be like God? We reserve the right to control everything and will not be controlled by anyone or anything! We would be gods, too!'
The word "life" appears 450 times in the King James Bible. It's meaning, from the Hebrew "nephesh" is something breathing and alive. Just look at the opening uses of the word in Genesis.
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
You look at those first two references and can replace the phrases with "that are alive."
The third states the Creator breathed life into the dirt form that was created into Adam, meaning red or dirt man. Life; the breath of life came from the Creator.
The fourth states God made a tree of life. ??? How could the tree of life bring about death? Well, if Adam and Eve had not sinned they could have eaten from that tree, with whatever sustaining properties its fruit had and lived forever. They disobeyed and in one instant, the cells in their bodies changed. DNA copying errors began. They got old. They died. So goes the rotation of all life.
Life comes from God, not chemical combinations. Life is God, not the result of a bolt of lightning on a hot pool of chemical muck.
Christ, the Son, the Messenger between God and all creation, stepped forward and created in a display of power Lucifer saw as fully impossible to pull off. He was lost. His rebels lost with him. All he could do was ruin life God created. He told Eve, you can be as God knowing good and evil. Eat from the tree and you shall raise yourself to another level; the God level.
She ate. Adam ate with her. They were expelled from the garden, forbidden to enter again. And here we are. Everything that was life, now dies. Everything on this world dies in a fateful rotation of futility to try and gain eternal life without the Creator.
What do we see in Revelation? The restoration of the tree of life, with new fruit that appears every month, FOREVER. Now way to get used to it. Each new round must taste better than the previous. An eternal delight and fascination with God's life and mind and love for His creation, His children, never to be lost into infinite eternity. God is infinite. That is what makes Him God. That is what makes the intangible heavenly Trio: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, tangible for all creation. God is not just words. God is life, and gives life and shall give fresh new displays of life from an infinite Mind, forever.
Scientists can make all the claims they want. The Press can convolute and conflate all they want, to give impressions that are false. Hollywood can create all the sci-fi they want to. Laboratories around the world can spend all the money they can get their hands on and factually, if all the money in the world were poured into one lab with thousands of minds working around the clock, a thousand years will go by and mankind will never know what life is, as an active agent because they are not God, who is the Agent of all life.
Yeshua Messiah, Iesou Christos, Jesus Christ; the Son of man, the Son of God is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father, save through Him: His way, His truth and His life. He is the light that shines on every man that comes into the world. The question is, who will choose to walk in that light and be given eternal life, when the program of lies and death is finally over?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Carlos Santana
Career question -
What does an electric guitarist, playing in a world-renowned band for 50 years, after his own name, have to do to get himself on the front page of every news site on earth (seemingly)? State your belief that God made men and women and that is all.
Carlos Santana is a huge name in the world of music and electric guitars. His band's appearance at Woodstock, in 1969, made him a household name in that world, and more than that, the featured drum solo by 19 year-old teenager, Michael Shrieve, catapulted him into instant fame, as well.
Carlos Santana's career is set in stone. There is nothing he can do to achieve more success or to be more widely known in the field of guitar playing. How can he be all over the news?
The attack on this man from the Leftist cabal and mob is absolute PROOF you MUST accept their agenda or they will seek to destroy you. It proves free speech is absent from their agenda. They are not Americans, regardless of where they reside in this nation. As far as Leftist influence and control in other nations, I cannot say but, in America, where he hails from, he is now a pariah and the pressure has been so great, he has backed away from the full concept of the statement he made. Please, let us all love one another, get along, peace, love, good times but, no. Until he completely abdicates his position; until he renounces the vile nature of it to the world, they will not leave him alone. Bear in mind. Santana is 76 years old. Still playing, still touring, still making an impact with his Latin flavored Rock. That is amazing enough but, still, life on the road for a 76 year old man? Not easy.
How can a 76 year old guitarist create such an upheaval with a simple statement a few billion people subscribe to? Because Leftists are literally lunatics. Cross them and the radical nature of their agenda and mindset is a bomb waiting to go off. Why should they care what Carlos Santana thinks? He's an electric guitarist in a Rock band with no more influence than any other well-known guitarist. He is playing a concert. He steps to the mic and makes a statement -
“When God made you and me — before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”
I don't know what the attendance number was and it doesn't matter. Hundreds, thousands of cell phones going and in minutes it is all on social media and the bomb explodes.
Now, for me, I do not see a music concert as a place to make such a statement because the audience is not there to hear your social commentary on society unless your actual music has that in its message. Think Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention. Constant social commentary. Most other bands, whether Left, Right or Center, generally do not get into such things in a live setting based on the variety of people in your audience. For whatever reason Carlos stepped to the mic and made his convictions known, I doubt he thought such a firestorm would erupt.
Country star, Jason Aldean, never did, then, had enough and 'Try That in a Small Town' hit the racks and video players and all hell broke loose but, that song has become an anthem for Americans fed up with the barnyard defecation being tossed at America and Americans by lunatics trying to force the world to view and accept life as they do.
An A.I. created performance, Go Woke, Go Broke, called "the video that broke the internet" got almost 16 million views in a day on Spotify. The A.I. generated artist, some claiming is based on Aldean, has a country-style artist "F" bombing the entire "woke" agenda in a live concert setting. Another 8.5 million have watched it on a YT channel; Just Jen Reacts. I imagine it can be found all over the web.
The climax of the ages is coming with the return of Christ. Before that event takes place Jesus said the sea and the waves would be roaring. That does not mean ocean tsunamis (though we can expect them to come). It means oceans of humanity rising up and roaring. So stressful will the clash be, Jesus stated men's hearts would be failing for fear of what is coming upon the earth. I believe it is beginning. It has been underway for years but, is now ratcheting up, seemingly every week now.
The end of all things is at hand, my Friends.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
What does an electric guitarist, playing in a world-renowned band for 50 years, after his own name, have to do to get himself on the front page of every news site on earth (seemingly)? State your belief that God made men and women and that is all.
Carlos Santana is a huge name in the world of music and electric guitars. His band's appearance at Woodstock, in 1969, made him a household name in that world, and more than that, the featured drum solo by 19 year-old teenager, Michael Shrieve, catapulted him into instant fame, as well.
Carlos Santana's career is set in stone. There is nothing he can do to achieve more success or to be more widely known in the field of guitar playing. How can he be all over the news?
The attack on this man from the Leftist cabal and mob is absolute PROOF you MUST accept their agenda or they will seek to destroy you. It proves free speech is absent from their agenda. They are not Americans, regardless of where they reside in this nation. As far as Leftist influence and control in other nations, I cannot say but, in America, where he hails from, he is now a pariah and the pressure has been so great, he has backed away from the full concept of the statement he made. Please, let us all love one another, get along, peace, love, good times but, no. Until he completely abdicates his position; until he renounces the vile nature of it to the world, they will not leave him alone. Bear in mind. Santana is 76 years old. Still playing, still touring, still making an impact with his Latin flavored Rock. That is amazing enough but, still, life on the road for a 76 year old man? Not easy.
How can a 76 year old guitarist create such an upheaval with a simple statement a few billion people subscribe to? Because Leftists are literally lunatics. Cross them and the radical nature of their agenda and mindset is a bomb waiting to go off. Why should they care what Carlos Santana thinks? He's an electric guitarist in a Rock band with no more influence than any other well-known guitarist. He is playing a concert. He steps to the mic and makes a statement -
“When God made you and me — before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”
I don't know what the attendance number was and it doesn't matter. Hundreds, thousands of cell phones going and in minutes it is all on social media and the bomb explodes.
Now, for me, I do not see a music concert as a place to make such a statement because the audience is not there to hear your social commentary on society unless your actual music has that in its message. Think Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention. Constant social commentary. Most other bands, whether Left, Right or Center, generally do not get into such things in a live setting based on the variety of people in your audience. For whatever reason Carlos stepped to the mic and made his convictions known, I doubt he thought such a firestorm would erupt.
Country star, Jason Aldean, never did, then, had enough and 'Try That in a Small Town' hit the racks and video players and all hell broke loose but, that song has become an anthem for Americans fed up with the barnyard defecation being tossed at America and Americans by lunatics trying to force the world to view and accept life as they do.
An A.I. created performance, Go Woke, Go Broke, called "the video that broke the internet" got almost 16 million views in a day on Spotify. The A.I. generated artist, some claiming is based on Aldean, has a country-style artist "F" bombing the entire "woke" agenda in a live concert setting. Another 8.5 million have watched it on a YT channel; Just Jen Reacts. I imagine it can be found all over the web.
The climax of the ages is coming with the return of Christ. Before that event takes place Jesus said the sea and the waves would be roaring. That does not mean ocean tsunamis (though we can expect them to come). It means oceans of humanity rising up and roaring. So stressful will the clash be, Jesus stated men's hearts would be failing for fear of what is coming upon the earth. I believe it is beginning. It has been underway for years but, is now ratcheting up, seemingly every week now.
The end of all things is at hand, my Friends.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Babylon, Oh Babylon
A new A.I. app is taking the world by storm. It allows you to talk with Jesus... and Satan. Now, if you want Jesus and numerous other Bible characters, it is free. Apparently, if you want to talk with Satan, you have to pay for that. ???
So, you program the software with every Bible known to mankind. Ask "Jesus" a question and the A.I. goes to work giving you an answer based on all the information rendered from programming all the four gospels known to exist, or, at least chosen for the reference material.
Now, to a certain degree, if only the Bible is used for reference, you might think the A.I. can and will, in an instant, create an answer from its source material and get things right. Hm. Problem. Jesus told his disciples the Holy Spirit would guide them into all truth and that applies to all Christ's followers down through time. A.I. is most definitely not the Holy Spirit. That means all it can do is take words and try to precisely place them together to create an answer based on words the Bible states Christ spoke and taught. Check out this sentence -
Woman. Without her, man would be a beast.
Make sense? Certainly. Behind every good man, is a good woman: grandmother, mother, sister, wife all have an influence. Well, let's make one little change -
Woman. Without her man, would be a beast.
!!!
Same words. Totally different meaning, based on one, completely significant comma.
Words have meaning. Sentences have meaning. Grammar creates meaning. Context creates meaning. In conversation, voice inflection creates meaning.
A.I. is no Jesus Christ. Nor is it any Bible character and I have and will say the same for all movie and tv productions of the same. The Holy Spirit is not a card carrying member of Hollywood's Screen Actor's Guild or AFTRA. If you are not Peter or Paul, Luke or John, you cannot possibly portray them truthfully. To say a sinner can portray Christ is simply the most outrageous oxymoron known to history.
So, what about conversation with Satan? From the article -
"The app’s most controversial feature: conversations with Satan himself.
Expectations can be deceiving, especially in the world of AI.
Satan, historically the symbol of temptation and deceit, dons a surprisingly mellow avatar in this app. Users anticipating fiery dialogues or cunning deceptions might be left scratching their heads.
Instead, the Prince of Darkness champions love, respect, and understanding — values synonymous with biblical virtues.
As if to ensure a modern flavor, each devilish interaction ends with a “smiling face with horns” emoji.
It’s an odd mix of solemnity and sass, which will undoubtedly spark reactions from traditionalists and tech enthusiasts alike."
nypost.com/2023/08/23/controversial-new-ai-app-allows-you-to-text-with-jesus-and-satan/
Indeed. No particular spark here. It's just nonsense. Pay for nonsense? Millions do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So, you program the software with every Bible known to mankind. Ask "Jesus" a question and the A.I. goes to work giving you an answer based on all the information rendered from programming all the four gospels known to exist, or, at least chosen for the reference material.
Now, to a certain degree, if only the Bible is used for reference, you might think the A.I. can and will, in an instant, create an answer from its source material and get things right. Hm. Problem. Jesus told his disciples the Holy Spirit would guide them into all truth and that applies to all Christ's followers down through time. A.I. is most definitely not the Holy Spirit. That means all it can do is take words and try to precisely place them together to create an answer based on words the Bible states Christ spoke and taught. Check out this sentence -
Woman. Without her, man would be a beast.
Make sense? Certainly. Behind every good man, is a good woman: grandmother, mother, sister, wife all have an influence. Well, let's make one little change -
Woman. Without her man, would be a beast.
!!!
Same words. Totally different meaning, based on one, completely significant comma.
Words have meaning. Sentences have meaning. Grammar creates meaning. Context creates meaning. In conversation, voice inflection creates meaning.
A.I. is no Jesus Christ. Nor is it any Bible character and I have and will say the same for all movie and tv productions of the same. The Holy Spirit is not a card carrying member of Hollywood's Screen Actor's Guild or AFTRA. If you are not Peter or Paul, Luke or John, you cannot possibly portray them truthfully. To say a sinner can portray Christ is simply the most outrageous oxymoron known to history.
So, what about conversation with Satan? From the article -
"The app’s most controversial feature: conversations with Satan himself.
Expectations can be deceiving, especially in the world of AI.
Satan, historically the symbol of temptation and deceit, dons a surprisingly mellow avatar in this app. Users anticipating fiery dialogues or cunning deceptions might be left scratching their heads.
Instead, the Prince of Darkness champions love, respect, and understanding — values synonymous with biblical virtues.
As if to ensure a modern flavor, each devilish interaction ends with a “smiling face with horns” emoji.
It’s an odd mix of solemnity and sass, which will undoubtedly spark reactions from traditionalists and tech enthusiasts alike."
nypost.com/2023/08/23/controversial-new-ai-app-allows-you-to-text-with-jesus-and-satan/
Indeed. No particular spark here. It's just nonsense. Pay for nonsense? Millions do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Tour 60-day Challenge
World-renowned chemist, Dr. James Tour, has issued a 60-day challenge to 10 well-known origin of life research scientists to answer just 1 of 5 questions he poses that must be answered to create life in a prebiotic environment, and he gives them several positions they don't even have to strive for: starters that technically, would be part of the prebiotic process.
I have mentioned James Tour here numerous times. I part company with him on issues like some Bible doctrine, as well as Covid and the injections but, when it comes to chemistry, I have learned a lot from his videos and interviews because I know nothing about chemistry. Why would I comment on it, then? Why not? Origin of life research involves every single professed Christian and theist on Earth. Either Deity created life or, it happened all by itself, by accident.
I would address this issue of "you aren't a chemist or a biological scientist so, shut up."
Can you build a house? No? You live in a house. It rains. Water drips through the ceiling. Do you have to know how to build a house to know something is wrong with the way your house is built?
Can you manufacture an automobile? No? You are driving your car or truck along and it stops by itself. Do you have to know how to manufacture a car or be a mechanic to know something is wrong?
Can you go up into your attic and make observations or read literature about roof structures and determine why your roof is leaking? Do you have to have a contractor's license to be able to determine your roof is not functioning properly?
All those who have no expertise in any given field can read, can watch, can observe and make a determination or draw a conclusion about things they are not "experts" in. Most of the people who deny the existence of God have never read or studied a Bible. Then how did they come to such a conclusion and how can they state with any actual experience or personal observations that believers are wrong in their faith? They were influenced by the writings or talks of others. How can they be influenced by reading or listening or watching but, I cannot be influenced by the same to draw conclusions about origin of life science? I determine OOL science has some serious hurdles to address. Dr. Tour was drawn into this discussion and now, years later, poses this challenge to address just 5 foundation hurdles.
If the 10 can answer just one of his questions/problems that must be solved, and 3 of the 10 are called to be judges; he will stop speaking on the subject and take down all his videos addressing it.
Frankly, Tour believes the subject of how life began will be scientifically explained some day. I do not believe that, as I have posed in previous posts here but, the current debate affects all believers to one degree or another.
If mankind can create life from available products, the position of an all-knowing Creator is certainly not challenged. The challenge for mankind is to create life from what existed BEFORE biologic life began, by current scientific understanding, and there, millions of Bible believers have already denied their conclusions. That said, the discussion is a very important one, especially for school curriculums and text books.
Watch the challenge and see; there are reasons why Dr. Tour is confident the challenge will go unmatched, based on current understanding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmykRoelTzU&t=993s
I have mentioned James Tour here numerous times. I part company with him on issues like some Bible doctrine, as well as Covid and the injections but, when it comes to chemistry, I have learned a lot from his videos and interviews because I know nothing about chemistry. Why would I comment on it, then? Why not? Origin of life research involves every single professed Christian and theist on Earth. Either Deity created life or, it happened all by itself, by accident.
I would address this issue of "you aren't a chemist or a biological scientist so, shut up."
Can you build a house? No? You live in a house. It rains. Water drips through the ceiling. Do you have to know how to build a house to know something is wrong with the way your house is built?
Can you manufacture an automobile? No? You are driving your car or truck along and it stops by itself. Do you have to know how to manufacture a car or be a mechanic to know something is wrong?
Can you go up into your attic and make observations or read literature about roof structures and determine why your roof is leaking? Do you have to have a contractor's license to be able to determine your roof is not functioning properly?
All those who have no expertise in any given field can read, can watch, can observe and make a determination or draw a conclusion about things they are not "experts" in. Most of the people who deny the existence of God have never read or studied a Bible. Then how did they come to such a conclusion and how can they state with any actual experience or personal observations that believers are wrong in their faith? They were influenced by the writings or talks of others. How can they be influenced by reading or listening or watching but, I cannot be influenced by the same to draw conclusions about origin of life science? I determine OOL science has some serious hurdles to address. Dr. Tour was drawn into this discussion and now, years later, poses this challenge to address just 5 foundation hurdles.
If the 10 can answer just one of his questions/problems that must be solved, and 3 of the 10 are called to be judges; he will stop speaking on the subject and take down all his videos addressing it.
Frankly, Tour believes the subject of how life began will be scientifically explained some day. I do not believe that, as I have posed in previous posts here but, the current debate affects all believers to one degree or another.
If mankind can create life from available products, the position of an all-knowing Creator is certainly not challenged. The challenge for mankind is to create life from what existed BEFORE biologic life began, by current scientific understanding, and there, millions of Bible believers have already denied their conclusions. That said, the discussion is a very important one, especially for school curriculums and text books.
Watch the challenge and see; there are reasons why Dr. Tour is confident the challenge will go unmatched, based on current understanding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmykRoelTzU&t=993s
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How Much Evidence is Necessary?
I must share links to two videos I have now seen. One addresses Lahaina and the other the 2020 election.
A real estate agent has taken it upon himself to do anything and everything he can to update islanders and mainlanders about the situation in Maui. Interviewing people, providing all the help he can by phone by any way he and his family and friends can push forward. They have set up a Go Fund Me account, which currently has $300k in it. In this 26-min. video, entitled, The Cover Up Story, he asks, Was this the perfect crime?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvB84424jJ4
The second video is a presentation of evidence, more evidence, of how the 2020 election was stolen; by the data and the facts. No opinions. No surmising. Just facts. It was shown before a live audience which you can tell by the audio acoustics and applause at the end. If all the millions could watch a 1-hour interview by Tucker with Trump, the same number of people should see this video, which easily vindicates Trump's concerns for 2020 fraud. 16 minutes of narration and plenty of snippets and factoids to read at the end.
twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1691831516660154742
Something I mentioned a few posts back is now beginning to take place. In New Hampshire, the AG is looking into whether to keep Trump off the ballot in 2024. In Florida, a lawsuit has been filed in Federal court to keep Trump off the state ballot. Both the GOP and Democrats are about to commit political suicide. Remember, 20-30% of Democrats believe the 2020 election contained fraud.
Such hatred for one man seems impossible but, there it is and will grow.
The Devil is in control in America, as far as the white collars go. Can the blue collars save the Republic? It remains to be seen.
A real estate agent has taken it upon himself to do anything and everything he can to update islanders and mainlanders about the situation in Maui. Interviewing people, providing all the help he can by phone by any way he and his family and friends can push forward. They have set up a Go Fund Me account, which currently has $300k in it. In this 26-min. video, entitled, The Cover Up Story, he asks, Was this the perfect crime?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvB84424jJ4
The second video is a presentation of evidence, more evidence, of how the 2020 election was stolen; by the data and the facts. No opinions. No surmising. Just facts. It was shown before a live audience which you can tell by the audio acoustics and applause at the end. If all the millions could watch a 1-hour interview by Tucker with Trump, the same number of people should see this video, which easily vindicates Trump's concerns for 2020 fraud. 16 minutes of narration and plenty of snippets and factoids to read at the end.
twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1691831516660154742
Something I mentioned a few posts back is now beginning to take place. In New Hampshire, the AG is looking into whether to keep Trump off the ballot in 2024. In Florida, a lawsuit has been filed in Federal court to keep Trump off the state ballot. Both the GOP and Democrats are about to commit political suicide. Remember, 20-30% of Democrats believe the 2020 election contained fraud.
Such hatred for one man seems impossible but, there it is and will grow.
The Devil is in control in America, as far as the white collars go. Can the blue collars save the Republic? It remains to be seen.
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An Astonishing Family Band
I've been meaning to write this for years here. Maybe I even have years ago and forgot but, I don't mind repeating it, at all. My first exposure to Cherryholmes was years ago watching a Gaither Homecoming Video. I was dumbstruck. The talent, all homegrown, is off the charts.
There have been many family bands come and go but, this family band is literally astoundingly good. I mean drop jaw good. Considering the kids were all homeschooled and never had any serious music instruction, the gene pool must be gold.
You might be surprised I am into Bluegrass music. I am into anything that showcases incredible talent and Bluegrass certainly does but, Cherryholmes... they blasted out of the gate and almost as quickly it seemed the kids were getting into their own lives and families of their own and they disbanded after 10 or 12 years.
To close out the day I'm writing this to share something that will truly render some shock and awe for any musician that appreciates fine musicianship. Dad on stand up, Mom on mandolin and guitar, four kids, two boys, two girls: banjo, guitar, violin (fiddle) and they all switch off and sing and they clog/Irish dance, as well. I mean, the talent just does not stop.
There aren't a ton of videos of them on YT but, there's enough to display them over their years together, including a reunion piece I found. Here's one I had not seen yet and it is a barn burner. Man, these people are good. They can light it up like lightening strikes. It's like Bluegrass Jazz Fusion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3rpsEfgJK4
And when they were younger, The Orange Blossom Special. These kids were monster musicians. It's unbelievable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3C41d3TibU
There have been many family bands come and go but, this family band is literally astoundingly good. I mean drop jaw good. Considering the kids were all homeschooled and never had any serious music instruction, the gene pool must be gold.
You might be surprised I am into Bluegrass music. I am into anything that showcases incredible talent and Bluegrass certainly does but, Cherryholmes... they blasted out of the gate and almost as quickly it seemed the kids were getting into their own lives and families of their own and they disbanded after 10 or 12 years.
To close out the day I'm writing this to share something that will truly render some shock and awe for any musician that appreciates fine musicianship. Dad on stand up, Mom on mandolin and guitar, four kids, two boys, two girls: banjo, guitar, violin (fiddle) and they all switch off and sing and they clog/Irish dance, as well. I mean, the talent just does not stop.
There aren't a ton of videos of them on YT but, there's enough to display them over their years together, including a reunion piece I found. Here's one I had not seen yet and it is a barn burner. Man, these people are good. They can light it up like lightening strikes. It's like Bluegrass Jazz Fusion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3rpsEfgJK4
And when they were younger, The Orange Blossom Special. These kids were monster musicians. It's unbelievable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3C41d3TibU
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Maui - Truth Marches Forward
I continue to monitor several different YT channels for information out of Maui and the longer this goes on, the longer the train tracks from D.C. to Hawaii stretch. FEMA reps staying in luxury hotels at $1000 a night. $700 for fire victims. $25,000,000,000 more sought for Ukraine, with stories of corruption coming out that money is being used by corrupt officials for personal desires.
More videos coming out of odd fire damage. All through the Lahaina area, things of a blue color remain unburned. Really weird.
The governor, mayor, police chief, police officers, emergency management personnel: the list of people dropping the ball or carrying the ball, as evidence will determine, continues to grow. Laws were broken. Not maybe; actually broken, flagrantly. Independent investigation should have boots on the ground already but, it's unlikely to take place. This is the era of 9/11. Never forget that.
The number of dead is being withheld. The number of 114 pales in relation to facts which estimate as many as 1000-2000 people could be dead, with fires hot enough to melt alloy wheel covers which means they were cremation hot and it is unlikely remains will be found. The whereabouts or remains, whatever, of all the children sent home from school, alone, to face one of the most terrifying things a human can face - fire.
I have to go outside and work. I can't sit here anymore. The heat of Texas is nothing compared to what Lahaina went through. I pray to God some kind of justice is seen to take place there. Otherwise, we can know beyond any shadow of doubt devils are in control of our nation.
God help us.
More videos coming out of odd fire damage. All through the Lahaina area, things of a blue color remain unburned. Really weird.
The governor, mayor, police chief, police officers, emergency management personnel: the list of people dropping the ball or carrying the ball, as evidence will determine, continues to grow. Laws were broken. Not maybe; actually broken, flagrantly. Independent investigation should have boots on the ground already but, it's unlikely to take place. This is the era of 9/11. Never forget that.
The number of dead is being withheld. The number of 114 pales in relation to facts which estimate as many as 1000-2000 people could be dead, with fires hot enough to melt alloy wheel covers which means they were cremation hot and it is unlikely remains will be found. The whereabouts or remains, whatever, of all the children sent home from school, alone, to face one of the most terrifying things a human can face - fire.
I have to go outside and work. I can't sit here anymore. The heat of Texas is nothing compared to what Lahaina went through. I pray to God some kind of justice is seen to take place there. Otherwise, we can know beyond any shadow of doubt devils are in control of our nation.
God help us.
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Climate Change OR Arson?
North Texas is in a drought, a dangerous drought. With temps around 110 every day, it is not hard to imagine a fire in such an atmosphere.
Because of my online friendship with Manos and Kostas, from Sonic Age Records, in Athens, I tend to notice things about the weather in Greece, especially where they are, seeing they sit about 4 degrees further North, latitude than I sit, here. Greece has had incredible wildfires this summer. It is not something unusual, just like earthquakes in the region but, this summer has been worse than normal. All along, the world news has said 'climate change' is to blame. I have obviously begun to see climate change as the Russian bogeyman pumped by Leftist media for years and foolishly still pushed by some despicable news organizations.
The Blaze has an article showing Greece has arrested 160 people for starting the Grecian wildfires, either on purpose or criminal neglect. One hundred and sixty people starting fires all over the country, which has destroyed property and killed people. It is nothing short of demonic.
www.theblaze.com/news/arson-arrests-greece-wildfires-climate-change-media
"Climate change!!!" the radical Leftist, corporate creeps of fear mongering have pushed for years. Climate change is the Hawaiian governor's claim for Maui; a sickening departure from the reality of a situation so despicable and disgusting nothing less than criminal charges should be hovering over all those whose purposeful neglect, if not yet to be discovered criminal intent, will put them all in prison for the rest of their lives.
Given the animosity of radical Islamists invading Europe, and the constant destruction of property and virtue taken from European girls and women, I wonder if Grecian news will have the balls to tell its citizens exactly who the 160 people are that have been arrested. Would it surprise me to find many are radical, militant Muslims? It would not.
I make no apologies. The record of the last several years in Great Britain, France, Italy, Scandinavia, and elsewhere screams Europe let an enemy through their gates, while Leftists turn their blind eyes and cowardly souls elsewhere. It just makes no sense.
Every single week something in America is blowing up. What the hell is going on? Climate change blowing up buildings and food production plants and other manufacturing facilities and farms and forests? Seriously? Americans are not stupid; at least half of them, anyway. We watch as our nation is purposefully being collapsed and those given responsibility to protect life and property show themselves to be the enemies of the Republic, not its benefactors or protectors.
A clash of civilizations is coming.
God help us.
Because of my online friendship with Manos and Kostas, from Sonic Age Records, in Athens, I tend to notice things about the weather in Greece, especially where they are, seeing they sit about 4 degrees further North, latitude than I sit, here. Greece has had incredible wildfires this summer. It is not something unusual, just like earthquakes in the region but, this summer has been worse than normal. All along, the world news has said 'climate change' is to blame. I have obviously begun to see climate change as the Russian bogeyman pumped by Leftist media for years and foolishly still pushed by some despicable news organizations.
The Blaze has an article showing Greece has arrested 160 people for starting the Grecian wildfires, either on purpose or criminal neglect. One hundred and sixty people starting fires all over the country, which has destroyed property and killed people. It is nothing short of demonic.
www.theblaze.com/news/arson-arrests-greece-wildfires-climate-change-media
"Climate change!!!" the radical Leftist, corporate creeps of fear mongering have pushed for years. Climate change is the Hawaiian governor's claim for Maui; a sickening departure from the reality of a situation so despicable and disgusting nothing less than criminal charges should be hovering over all those whose purposeful neglect, if not yet to be discovered criminal intent, will put them all in prison for the rest of their lives.
Given the animosity of radical Islamists invading Europe, and the constant destruction of property and virtue taken from European girls and women, I wonder if Grecian news will have the balls to tell its citizens exactly who the 160 people are that have been arrested. Would it surprise me to find many are radical, militant Muslims? It would not.
I make no apologies. The record of the last several years in Great Britain, France, Italy, Scandinavia, and elsewhere screams Europe let an enemy through their gates, while Leftists turn their blind eyes and cowardly souls elsewhere. It just makes no sense.
Every single week something in America is blowing up. What the hell is going on? Climate change blowing up buildings and food production plants and other manufacturing facilities and farms and forests? Seriously? Americans are not stupid; at least half of them, anyway. We watch as our nation is purposefully being collapsed and those given responsibility to protect life and property show themselves to be the enemies of the Republic, not its benefactors or protectors.
A clash of civilizations is coming.
God help us.
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Maui - The Current 9/11
Maui is turning into the next Las Vegas shooting; a deadly situation surrounded by a pile of BS coming from "official" sources, same as 9/11 and every other such disastrous event we have beheld in the last 20 years.
This YT channel is putting compilation videos together, and doing so very well; and he recognizes the fact his channel may be shut down. I may have already linked this guy here. Doesn't matter, here are the links to the videos he has produced so far and he promises more to come.
The easiest thing is to just go to his video page and watch the last seven videos produced, which began 10 days ago, which is about Mark Zuckerberg's involvement with Maui.
www.youtube.com/@HustleBitch/videos
It seems obvious as a train wreck Maui is a situation so far removed from a natural disaster it's a horrific joke. NOTHING residents and the world is being told by main stream media is truthful about details surrounding the event. Beyond telling the world a fire burned on Maui that took property and lives, nothing being reported by corporate media is accurate. Those of us on this planet who see the Covid "pandemic" and "vaccines" as the biggest crime against humanity in human history, need to look no father than Maui to see another example of a conspiracy "theory" jumping into a conspiracy fact category day by day.
It is so wrong, just so incredibly satanic. Unless it can all be explained satisfactorily, logically and pass every test of close examination by neutral investigation, I would not trust the main spokesmen for this event as far as I could throw a palm tree. They are obviously and pathetically trying to cover something up.
May God help and bless the Hawaiian people beyond measure to fight this egregious miscarriage of civil service management and potential criminal event of the history of the islands.
This YT channel is putting compilation videos together, and doing so very well; and he recognizes the fact his channel may be shut down. I may have already linked this guy here. Doesn't matter, here are the links to the videos he has produced so far and he promises more to come.
The easiest thing is to just go to his video page and watch the last seven videos produced, which began 10 days ago, which is about Mark Zuckerberg's involvement with Maui.
www.youtube.com/@HustleBitch/videos
It seems obvious as a train wreck Maui is a situation so far removed from a natural disaster it's a horrific joke. NOTHING residents and the world is being told by main stream media is truthful about details surrounding the event. Beyond telling the world a fire burned on Maui that took property and lives, nothing being reported by corporate media is accurate. Those of us on this planet who see the Covid "pandemic" and "vaccines" as the biggest crime against humanity in human history, need to look no father than Maui to see another example of a conspiracy "theory" jumping into a conspiracy fact category day by day.
It is so wrong, just so incredibly satanic. Unless it can all be explained satisfactorily, logically and pass every test of close examination by neutral investigation, I would not trust the main spokesmen for this event as far as I could throw a palm tree. They are obviously and pathetically trying to cover something up.
May God help and bless the Hawaiian people beyond measure to fight this egregious miscarriage of civil service management and potential criminal event of the history of the islands.
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Radical Leftists on Parade
I was just about to go outside and get into yard work when I saw this video on the YT main page. 165k views. This will be 165 million before the week is out. You have to watch it to believe it.
They called themselves "peaceful protestors" blocking traffic on a state highway, that extends for miles, both ways. I mean 10-20 miles of people trying to get to the "Burning" Man festival or leave the area. They chained themselves to a metal trailer rigging of some kind. You have to listen to them to realize their total loss of logic and common sense as more and more people come forward, getting angrier by the minute.
You cannot reason with people who believe their cause has some kind of permission from the universe to make everybody else' life inconvenienced until they understand what they must do to agree with the agenda, even if the typical Burning Man attendee already agrees with their agenda! It is literally insanity on parade. While standing up for a cause that may even have merit, all they did was cause thousands of people to hate their foolishness and radical ideology.
Finally the police show up and some sanity returns because the police got physical. They had to. They had no choice. These radicals would still be there if they were not arrested and physically moved.
Watch it in disbelief -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84
They called themselves "peaceful protestors" blocking traffic on a state highway, that extends for miles, both ways. I mean 10-20 miles of people trying to get to the "Burning" Man festival or leave the area. They chained themselves to a metal trailer rigging of some kind. You have to listen to them to realize their total loss of logic and common sense as more and more people come forward, getting angrier by the minute.
You cannot reason with people who believe their cause has some kind of permission from the universe to make everybody else' life inconvenienced until they understand what they must do to agree with the agenda, even if the typical Burning Man attendee already agrees with their agenda! It is literally insanity on parade. While standing up for a cause that may even have merit, all they did was cause thousands of people to hate their foolishness and radical ideology.
Finally the police show up and some sanity returns because the police got physical. They had to. They had no choice. These radicals would still be there if they were not arrested and physically moved.
Watch it in disbelief -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84
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DEW Back on the Table???
I had consigned stories of DEW - Direct Energy Weapons - to falsehood UNTIL I began seeing videos of evidence that starts presenting anomalies such as, items in Blue left untouched by flame hot enough to melt or powderize alloy wheel covers, roof racks, engine blocks, windshields, and other things.
Videos from the hustlebitch YT channel, Hawaii Real Estate YT channel and many others, including a video of a pastor giving a sermon where he apparently shows America has at least two locations where DEW are set up. One in Colorado and one ... in MAUI, along with military videos explaining how the color Blue escapes destruction.
Check out this drone video. Silent. No conspiracy theory spoken. Just ask yourself how fires, swept by gale force winds, could be so selective in reducing structures and property to ash, while homes and property feet away remain untouched, and ask yourself why almost all the surrounding, untouched structures seem to be a shade of blue. This is supposed to be a "wild" fire, directed by forces of nature. What force of nature drops a fire so hot, on one spot, everything is reduced to ash, while everything around it is left, not just burned and standing but, unscathed, untouched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFDX86pDS4
Every single day this evidence grows. Many are asking, including YT channel creators, themselves, why YT has not begun censoring videos showing the evidence these fires are impossible to be just wildfires. They were wild alright but, not in the sense of nature gone rogue. Something else went rogue. A lawsuit has begin against the power company responsible for the power lines and vegetation surrounding poles not being cut back. The power was left on, the wind dropped old lines to the ground and fires erupted. That was just some locations, though. Other areas saw fires of unknown origin sweep down from the eastern mountains and apparently, a massive oil spill, never properly cleaned up by the military, became an explosive aid to ground fires of invasive grasses never addressed by government that owns land, even though Hawaiian citizens have complained for years.
More evidence is coming out to show the very week Pelletier, the new police chief/coroner, *ex-police chief of Las Vegas,* began his post, the entire atmosphere of the department changed to a dictatorship with some members leaving and others filing complaints.
Oprah Winfrey buys up land all over the place, as well as other billionaires whose property is apparently untouched, while Mark Zuckerberg took Hawaiians to court to seize land. Oprah is now under investigation. Can their billions buy enough legal power to avoid possible incarceration for involvement in the worst fire disaster in a century?
How do embers in the wind cause rings of fire around areas, start fires that burn boats all over the place in the water, as well as people all over the place in the water? Video evidence from passengers in airplanes flying over the area, show anomalies that do not make sense at all for wildfire destruction. And what makes it worse is the mayor and governor warning people not to watch or listen to non-corporate media reports, as the entire area of Lahaina is now encircled with fence and black tarps to stop all outside views of the area; no drones allowed, media blackout, no uplink availability save for tech given by Elon Musk to use with Starlink. Therefore, the message, the anomalies, the Maui citizen's anger, and the truth is getting out, including plans for Maui to begin the UN/WEF plans for Smart Cities/15-minute cities the governor lobbied for. It calls for the removal of old infrastructure so the new can be constructed.
The entire situation is either the absolute worst local, state and federal response to any disaster in history or another preplanned, poorly-thought out and executed grab of rights and liberty from American citizens the idiots cannot cover up fast enough to repel exposure.
Where are the children??? Where are the videos from parents who cannot find their children???
God help the Hawaiians.
Videos from the hustlebitch YT channel, Hawaii Real Estate YT channel and many others, including a video of a pastor giving a sermon where he apparently shows America has at least two locations where DEW are set up. One in Colorado and one ... in MAUI, along with military videos explaining how the color Blue escapes destruction.
Check out this drone video. Silent. No conspiracy theory spoken. Just ask yourself how fires, swept by gale force winds, could be so selective in reducing structures and property to ash, while homes and property feet away remain untouched, and ask yourself why almost all the surrounding, untouched structures seem to be a shade of blue. This is supposed to be a "wild" fire, directed by forces of nature. What force of nature drops a fire so hot, on one spot, everything is reduced to ash, while everything around it is left, not just burned and standing but, unscathed, untouched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFDX86pDS4
Every single day this evidence grows. Many are asking, including YT channel creators, themselves, why YT has not begun censoring videos showing the evidence these fires are impossible to be just wildfires. They were wild alright but, not in the sense of nature gone rogue. Something else went rogue. A lawsuit has begin against the power company responsible for the power lines and vegetation surrounding poles not being cut back. The power was left on, the wind dropped old lines to the ground and fires erupted. That was just some locations, though. Other areas saw fires of unknown origin sweep down from the eastern mountains and apparently, a massive oil spill, never properly cleaned up by the military, became an explosive aid to ground fires of invasive grasses never addressed by government that owns land, even though Hawaiian citizens have complained for years.
More evidence is coming out to show the very week Pelletier, the new police chief/coroner, *ex-police chief of Las Vegas,* began his post, the entire atmosphere of the department changed to a dictatorship with some members leaving and others filing complaints.
Oprah Winfrey buys up land all over the place, as well as other billionaires whose property is apparently untouched, while Mark Zuckerberg took Hawaiians to court to seize land. Oprah is now under investigation. Can their billions buy enough legal power to avoid possible incarceration for involvement in the worst fire disaster in a century?
How do embers in the wind cause rings of fire around areas, start fires that burn boats all over the place in the water, as well as people all over the place in the water? Video evidence from passengers in airplanes flying over the area, show anomalies that do not make sense at all for wildfire destruction. And what makes it worse is the mayor and governor warning people not to watch or listen to non-corporate media reports, as the entire area of Lahaina is now encircled with fence and black tarps to stop all outside views of the area; no drones allowed, media blackout, no uplink availability save for tech given by Elon Musk to use with Starlink. Therefore, the message, the anomalies, the Maui citizen's anger, and the truth is getting out, including plans for Maui to begin the UN/WEF plans for Smart Cities/15-minute cities the governor lobbied for. It calls for the removal of old infrastructure so the new can be constructed.
The entire situation is either the absolute worst local, state and federal response to any disaster in history or another preplanned, poorly-thought out and executed grab of rights and liberty from American citizens the idiots cannot cover up fast enough to repel exposure.
Where are the children??? Where are the videos from parents who cannot find their children???
God help the Hawaiians.
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Idalia and DeSantis
Hurricanes are very political. I sit here watching a live feed of the event and it is just about to hit at Cat 4 size and power this morning. One has apparently never hit this particular area of the Florida coast and it's size and speed will keep it a Cat 2 when it hits Georgia later today and still be a powerful tropical storm when it exits the continent.
As I watch I realize such an event can make or break a governor or a president. Biden is mentally incapable at this point. He is not running the executive office. His wife, Obama and others are running the nation from behind the Oval Office. Florida, on the other hand, has a governor running for president. His campaign has been collapsing, as it should but, he does well, apparently, with hurricane response. Because of Bush Derangement Syndrome (deservedly so on many accounts), the disaster upon New Orleans was used by corporate media to crucify him, FEMA, etc. Of course, FEMA, showing its ass in Maui, only confirms what decades of stories about that agency prove.
For DeSantis, expect a rise in presidential polls and surveys, as he deals with Idalia. Nothing seems to make a difference more for Americans than the response to a crisis, for that is what citizens of any nation want - executive behavior that helps, that stands strong, that remains a voice of hope.
Right now, DeSantis has handlers by the handful trying to tell him how to act and what to say and what to do. He may tell them all to go to hell and get out of his way or, he may turn the event into a campaign commercial and make things way worse. America will see. Idalia is going to cause catastrophic damage. Sixty-thousand customers are already without power and the eye of the storm has not yet hit land (5 am). Major flooding impacts are already being reported.
DeSantis is not a "Climate Change" howler. The media is going to trumpet that 24/7, as it has been, and DeSantis will face mounting enemies on all fronts. This is going to be quite the test.
Will he pass or fail? Doesn't matter for the media. He's already a failure in their plans. How will Republicans see it all?
As I watch I realize such an event can make or break a governor or a president. Biden is mentally incapable at this point. He is not running the executive office. His wife, Obama and others are running the nation from behind the Oval Office. Florida, on the other hand, has a governor running for president. His campaign has been collapsing, as it should but, he does well, apparently, with hurricane response. Because of Bush Derangement Syndrome (deservedly so on many accounts), the disaster upon New Orleans was used by corporate media to crucify him, FEMA, etc. Of course, FEMA, showing its ass in Maui, only confirms what decades of stories about that agency prove.
For DeSantis, expect a rise in presidential polls and surveys, as he deals with Idalia. Nothing seems to make a difference more for Americans than the response to a crisis, for that is what citizens of any nation want - executive behavior that helps, that stands strong, that remains a voice of hope.
Right now, DeSantis has handlers by the handful trying to tell him how to act and what to say and what to do. He may tell them all to go to hell and get out of his way or, he may turn the event into a campaign commercial and make things way worse. America will see. Idalia is going to cause catastrophic damage. Sixty-thousand customers are already without power and the eye of the storm has not yet hit land (5 am). Major flooding impacts are already being reported.
DeSantis is not a "Climate Change" howler. The media is going to trumpet that 24/7, as it has been, and DeSantis will face mounting enemies on all fronts. This is going to be quite the test.
Will he pass or fail? Doesn't matter for the media. He's already a failure in their plans. How will Republicans see it all?
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AGE LIMITS
I'm no spring chicken. I forget where things are, why I am going into another room to get something, and all the other things associated with aging.
I just want to know what kind of hold Biden, Mitchell, Feinstein, Pelosi and others have on their elected civil service seats to be able to fall apart in front of the world's eyes and nobody is seeking to retire them or terminate their positions? How can that be?
I am someone who believes in term limits. Absolutely. No career politicians, period. I am not going to say I believe in age limits but, c'mon. Twice, Mitchell has frozen in public. This man is a powerful member of Congress. He obviously should not be any longer. Biden, when he can actually complete a sentence, is the most natural candidate for the 25th amendment in modern American history. Feinstein is 90 years old, in a wheel chair, obviously no longer sharp and has serious health issues. Pelosi will be 82, garbles her words, seems inebriated at times, and all these specific examples go almost unnoticed by D.C. dwellers when it comes to protecting the serious nature of the civil service they are elected to. It's like a big club to these people. What do these aged members know in cognizant moments? What powers do they have over those who should seek their removal from service?
Biden is part of an uncovered, felonious criminal enterprise yet, in the news this week we have Republican members of Congress who do not see a reason for impeachment hearings. People all over the WOLRD see reasons for his removal from office yet, they do not? Just how insolated from reality are these people in D.C.? It is unbelievable.
The only thing they care about is reelection. All citizens paying attention know that by simple observance. Now, after the entire nation has sat in shock and outrage at the pithy $700 given to Maui residents, while billions go to Ukraine, Biden says, sure I'm open to more going to them as members of Congress okay it. Why was he not open to it BEFORE Congress okays it?
The entire Federal government, I am convinced beyond any and all reasonable doubts, is the most corrupt, worthless organization in America and most of the world, if not, all the world.
I cannot believe my father fought a world war for this. I'm glad he is not alive to see it. He'd be 93 years old if he were still alive. There are people in controlling positions in the U.S. government who are no more able to fulfill their duties than my father could have put the uniform back on and serve in the Marines again.
Well, as frustrating as it is to behold, it is no surprise. God said corruption would overtake the world, and we are living in it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I just want to know what kind of hold Biden, Mitchell, Feinstein, Pelosi and others have on their elected civil service seats to be able to fall apart in front of the world's eyes and nobody is seeking to retire them or terminate their positions? How can that be?
I am someone who believes in term limits. Absolutely. No career politicians, period. I am not going to say I believe in age limits but, c'mon. Twice, Mitchell has frozen in public. This man is a powerful member of Congress. He obviously should not be any longer. Biden, when he can actually complete a sentence, is the most natural candidate for the 25th amendment in modern American history. Feinstein is 90 years old, in a wheel chair, obviously no longer sharp and has serious health issues. Pelosi will be 82, garbles her words, seems inebriated at times, and all these specific examples go almost unnoticed by D.C. dwellers when it comes to protecting the serious nature of the civil service they are elected to. It's like a big club to these people. What do these aged members know in cognizant moments? What powers do they have over those who should seek their removal from service?
Biden is part of an uncovered, felonious criminal enterprise yet, in the news this week we have Republican members of Congress who do not see a reason for impeachment hearings. People all over the WOLRD see reasons for his removal from office yet, they do not? Just how insolated from reality are these people in D.C.? It is unbelievable.
The only thing they care about is reelection. All citizens paying attention know that by simple observance. Now, after the entire nation has sat in shock and outrage at the pithy $700 given to Maui residents, while billions go to Ukraine, Biden says, sure I'm open to more going to them as members of Congress okay it. Why was he not open to it BEFORE Congress okays it?
The entire Federal government, I am convinced beyond any and all reasonable doubts, is the most corrupt, worthless organization in America and most of the world, if not, all the world.
I cannot believe my father fought a world war for this. I'm glad he is not alive to see it. He'd be 93 years old if he were still alive. There are people in controlling positions in the U.S. government who are no more able to fulfill their duties than my father could have put the uniform back on and serve in the Marines again.
Well, as frustrating as it is to behold, it is no surprise. God said corruption would overtake the world, and we are living in it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
830. It's All Connected - August 31, 2023
Living in the age of an information highway that is being manhandled, in even extreme ways and methods; manipulated, subjected to political agendas and narratives, let alone gross ignorance of information available, has put a generation of youth, from children to 20-somethings, grammar school through college, on edge as to the demise of humanity through "climate change." The larger voices to the smaller voices speak out against anyone who "denies" their overall message and especially the agenda building within it: greater control over humanity and human enterprise.
Like the creation versus materialistic origins of the universe, the currently larger voices have been able to control the narration in the press; save for creation ministries and information sources. In the subject of weather and climate, which are two different things (look it up), while in the origins discussion many scientists from all fields are not on board with materialistic origins but stay quiet for fear of career retribution; the same situation exists in the field of weather and climate.
There are voices with sterling careers in their scientific fields; PhDs, authors, public speakers, etc., who will stand up and walk forward to the front of these discussions and state the big message, the big agenda, the supposed "science" is faulty, if not inflated, if not outright falsehoods.
It took awhile before voices in those fields began to speak out against the official story of 9/11.
It took awhile before voices in appropriate fields began to speak out against the Covid/Distancing/Mask/Lockdowns/Vaccine tank that rolled through the earth.
It has not taken that long before prominent voices began questioning the official story in Maui. Because of the speed of those voices speaking out, the speed at which controllers shut down all avenues of fact discovery commenced, making things even worse in the eyes of those looking for answers.
It has taken awhile before voices in fields of weather and climate began to speak out and author books on the climate change agenda. I am just beginning an interview with one such scientist as I type this post: an interview with Steven Koonin on the Hoover Institution YT channel. Just listening to the opening minutes caused me to write this post. And, in the side bar at YT I see other voices willing to speak out and I'm going to check them out, as well, especially an interview with Dr. Judith Curry. The Koonin interview is filled with gems. Watch it to the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l90FpjPGLBE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YUnZIKneY
The Curry interview is really good, too. Apparently, no one wants to debate her.
Please notice the info box YT throws up right under the video window -
"Climate change
United Nations
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels."
You might think that statement is just a definition. Ah. Half of it is. I underlined the half that is not. The second half is a statement of ideology and agenda.
I must add this one. This guy is great. Dr. William Happer. His voice reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8iEEO2UIbA
My first exposure to a voice speaking out about "global warming" was years ago, from the man who started or was instrumental in being involved with the starting of the cable Weather Channel. He created a veritable firestorm and got roundly dismissed with great vitriol by his contemporaries. They do not, because they cannot attack the data. So, they attack the man; which is referred to as an 'ad hominem.' The same is true for every single person who stands up and says, "Hold on. That is not the whole truth. That is actually a falsehood and here are the facts, here's the data, here's the total science, here's what the information source says in full."
In all fields of life - religion, business, politics, finance, sports, all major things that affect society in some way; whistleblowers and researchers are rarely held up as beacons of light and good. Exactly the opposite. This has held true for all of human experience and civilization. Light dispels darkness and darkness does all it can to keep light out. Jesus said it. Every generation shows the struggle. It is culminating in our generation, as the greatest struggle for humanity to be in control of itself, not the beck and call of a handful of controllers, is about to take place.
I can say with full assurance of observation, darkness is winning. The Bible states it - "Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people." Of course, "winning" must be qualified by the truth, the biblical truth and message that light ultimately wins. It will not win over the majority but, it wins nonetheless. Light is going to destroy darkness and do so in the most spectacular fashion ever beheld or heard by human eyes and ears.
The second coming of Christ is going to be the brightest and loudest event in human history. And it is not just the glorious brightness as a matter of lumens. The Bible says -
2Thes 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Those are just two, well-known passages about the effect of the brightness of Christ's return. In the same book, we also have the volume aspect -
1Thes 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
If you have ever heard the phrase, that is loud enough to wake the dead, that is where it comes from. Trumpet blasts associated with Christ's return or major events are found all through Scripture. Anciently, a ram's horn. What angels, millions, billions? of them will be blowing when Christ makes His triumphal entry into Earth's atmosphere, I don't know. I just know it shall be a sound humanity has never heard.
The Old Testament also contributes information -
Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Isa 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isa 66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
I would bring to your attention the last verse of Isaiah 66 -
Isa 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
If you are a student of the Bible you will recognize those words as used by Jesus in his own preaching and teaching. Many will say, 'There it is. The one verse in the Old Testament that proves the lost shall suffer forever.' Does it? What does the first sentence state? "Carcasses." A carcass is a dead body. How long do maggots live in a dead body? Yes; until no more tissue exists to consume. What about a fire that cannot be quenched? NOTHING could be more easy to explain, right now, as you and I watch the news.
What is an unquenchable fire? A fire that cannot be put out by any conventional means. It burns with a ferocity that mankind cannot control or put out. Does it burn forever?
Maui. Regardless of what caused the fires; regardless of whatever incendiaries the fires in Lahaina were propelled by, even if the fire department had an exhaustless water supply to pump onto the flames, those fires could not be put out. They were the epitome of unquenchable fire. Are they still burning? No. Why did they go out? The fires had nothing left to consume. It reached the ocean; the fire went out. Unquenchable fire does not mean it burns without end. All fires reach their consumption limit, naturally, somehow, someway. So, unless you want to state God makes some kind of magical, supernatural fire that burns dead bodies forever (and doesn't burn up the magic maggots), and make such a claim upon His character, making Him out to be the worst despot possible, you need to relook at your understanding of the fate of the lost weighed against the evidence, not popular theology and opinion. I hope you see that horn of dilemma. I am not willing to throw out the entire Bible because of a number of misunderstood texts in the New Testament, and call God a worse monster than Hitler and his ovens.
Many people are crying out in Maui to have people open their eyes. Indeed. I say the same when it comes to erroneous doctrine that has maligned the character of God for ages.
How did I get from climate change to the fate of the lost? Because all lies are all connected in some way, shape or form. They all come from the "father of lies," Lucifer. Interestingly enough, climate change, despite moments of global cooling pronouncements decades ago; current climate change is about the heating of the Earth and the demise of the planet because of it. Last-day events also present the same scenario - the heating of the earth and demise of the world. One is said to be man-made, the other is the judgment of God from His very nature, His presence, His supreme power and glory in which no sin can exist.
Yeah, the world is going to burn up someday. It shall begin with the fires of Christ's return, which will ultimately go out when the fires reach the shores of the continents. It will end with the White Throne judgment and burst of the fullness of God's glory upon a world making one final thrust to gain control. The lake of fire shall consume the planet to ash. The "second death" shall take place. "Our God is a consuming fire." When sin, and all marred by it are consumed, God shall recreate the Earth and eternity shall roll on without sin's presence anywhere in the universe. Thank God. Light and truth shall be victorious. All who stand in them shall be victorious with them.
And people say the Bible is not contemporary enough; just an old book.
Riiiight.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Like the creation versus materialistic origins of the universe, the currently larger voices have been able to control the narration in the press; save for creation ministries and information sources. In the subject of weather and climate, which are two different things (look it up), while in the origins discussion many scientists from all fields are not on board with materialistic origins but stay quiet for fear of career retribution; the same situation exists in the field of weather and climate.
There are voices with sterling careers in their scientific fields; PhDs, authors, public speakers, etc., who will stand up and walk forward to the front of these discussions and state the big message, the big agenda, the supposed "science" is faulty, if not inflated, if not outright falsehoods.
It took awhile before voices in those fields began to speak out against the official story of 9/11.
It took awhile before voices in appropriate fields began to speak out against the Covid/Distancing/Mask/Lockdowns/Vaccine tank that rolled through the earth.
It has not taken that long before prominent voices began questioning the official story in Maui. Because of the speed of those voices speaking out, the speed at which controllers shut down all avenues of fact discovery commenced, making things even worse in the eyes of those looking for answers.
It has taken awhile before voices in fields of weather and climate began to speak out and author books on the climate change agenda. I am just beginning an interview with one such scientist as I type this post: an interview with Steven Koonin on the Hoover Institution YT channel. Just listening to the opening minutes caused me to write this post. And, in the side bar at YT I see other voices willing to speak out and I'm going to check them out, as well, especially an interview with Dr. Judith Curry. The Koonin interview is filled with gems. Watch it to the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l90FpjPGLBE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YUnZIKneY
The Curry interview is really good, too. Apparently, no one wants to debate her.
Please notice the info box YT throws up right under the video window -
"Climate change
United Nations
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels."
You might think that statement is just a definition. Ah. Half of it is. I underlined the half that is not. The second half is a statement of ideology and agenda.
I must add this one. This guy is great. Dr. William Happer. His voice reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8iEEO2UIbA
My first exposure to a voice speaking out about "global warming" was years ago, from the man who started or was instrumental in being involved with the starting of the cable Weather Channel. He created a veritable firestorm and got roundly dismissed with great vitriol by his contemporaries. They do not, because they cannot attack the data. So, they attack the man; which is referred to as an 'ad hominem.' The same is true for every single person who stands up and says, "Hold on. That is not the whole truth. That is actually a falsehood and here are the facts, here's the data, here's the total science, here's what the information source says in full."
In all fields of life - religion, business, politics, finance, sports, all major things that affect society in some way; whistleblowers and researchers are rarely held up as beacons of light and good. Exactly the opposite. This has held true for all of human experience and civilization. Light dispels darkness and darkness does all it can to keep light out. Jesus said it. Every generation shows the struggle. It is culminating in our generation, as the greatest struggle for humanity to be in control of itself, not the beck and call of a handful of controllers, is about to take place.
I can say with full assurance of observation, darkness is winning. The Bible states it - "Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people." Of course, "winning" must be qualified by the truth, the biblical truth and message that light ultimately wins. It will not win over the majority but, it wins nonetheless. Light is going to destroy darkness and do so in the most spectacular fashion ever beheld or heard by human eyes and ears.
The second coming of Christ is going to be the brightest and loudest event in human history. And it is not just the glorious brightness as a matter of lumens. The Bible says -
2Thes 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Those are just two, well-known passages about the effect of the brightness of Christ's return. In the same book, we also have the volume aspect -
1Thes 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
If you have ever heard the phrase, that is loud enough to wake the dead, that is where it comes from. Trumpet blasts associated with Christ's return or major events are found all through Scripture. Anciently, a ram's horn. What angels, millions, billions? of them will be blowing when Christ makes His triumphal entry into Earth's atmosphere, I don't know. I just know it shall be a sound humanity has never heard.
The Old Testament also contributes information -
Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Isa 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isa 66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
I would bring to your attention the last verse of Isaiah 66 -
Isa 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
If you are a student of the Bible you will recognize those words as used by Jesus in his own preaching and teaching. Many will say, 'There it is. The one verse in the Old Testament that proves the lost shall suffer forever.' Does it? What does the first sentence state? "Carcasses." A carcass is a dead body. How long do maggots live in a dead body? Yes; until no more tissue exists to consume. What about a fire that cannot be quenched? NOTHING could be more easy to explain, right now, as you and I watch the news.
What is an unquenchable fire? A fire that cannot be put out by any conventional means. It burns with a ferocity that mankind cannot control or put out. Does it burn forever?
Maui. Regardless of what caused the fires; regardless of whatever incendiaries the fires in Lahaina were propelled by, even if the fire department had an exhaustless water supply to pump onto the flames, those fires could not be put out. They were the epitome of unquenchable fire. Are they still burning? No. Why did they go out? The fires had nothing left to consume. It reached the ocean; the fire went out. Unquenchable fire does not mean it burns without end. All fires reach their consumption limit, naturally, somehow, someway. So, unless you want to state God makes some kind of magical, supernatural fire that burns dead bodies forever (and doesn't burn up the magic maggots), and make such a claim upon His character, making Him out to be the worst despot possible, you need to relook at your understanding of the fate of the lost weighed against the evidence, not popular theology and opinion. I hope you see that horn of dilemma. I am not willing to throw out the entire Bible because of a number of misunderstood texts in the New Testament, and call God a worse monster than Hitler and his ovens.
Many people are crying out in Maui to have people open their eyes. Indeed. I say the same when it comes to erroneous doctrine that has maligned the character of God for ages.
How did I get from climate change to the fate of the lost? Because all lies are all connected in some way, shape or form. They all come from the "father of lies," Lucifer. Interestingly enough, climate change, despite moments of global cooling pronouncements decades ago; current climate change is about the heating of the Earth and the demise of the planet because of it. Last-day events also present the same scenario - the heating of the earth and demise of the world. One is said to be man-made, the other is the judgment of God from His very nature, His presence, His supreme power and glory in which no sin can exist.
Yeah, the world is going to burn up someday. It shall begin with the fires of Christ's return, which will ultimately go out when the fires reach the shores of the continents. It will end with the White Throne judgment and burst of the fullness of God's glory upon a world making one final thrust to gain control. The lake of fire shall consume the planet to ash. The "second death" shall take place. "Our God is a consuming fire." When sin, and all marred by it are consumed, God shall recreate the Earth and eternity shall roll on without sin's presence anywhere in the universe. Thank God. Light and truth shall be victorious. All who stand in them shall be victorious with them.
And people say the Bible is not contemporary enough; just an old book.
Riiiight.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
They MUST Get Trump
I just saw a headline that caused me to stop and think. Why the absolute hatred of Trump? Why the incessant attacks and constant charges, constant court, constant attempts to remove him from office, then from future elections, and from society altogether? It's insanity. Actually, it's necessity.
"Explosive Revelation: Fani Willis Linked To Massive Election Fraud And Money Laundering RICO Enterprise!"
By Chris Gleason August 31, 2023
"In a shocking turn of events, a bombshell investigation has uncovered jaw-dropping connections between Fani Willis and a sprawling web of election fraud and money laundering activities."
www.georgiarecord.com/election-integrity/2023/08/31/explosive-revelation-fani-willis-linked-to-massive-election-fraud-and-money-laundering-rico-enterprise/
Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and other names of people all benefitting from election fraud schemes in several states, have been uncovered through real investigative reporting. Follow the money, find the corruption.
Trump really rocked the apple cart when he began protesting election results. Did he Know? Does he know now?
"Fani Willis's involvement will be sure to send shockwaves through the political landscape.
"The investigation, which spans across multiple states and multiple jurisdictions, has revealed a complex network of illicit operations aimed at undermining the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic and the rule of law. Sources close to the matter suggest that Willis was a massive beneficiary in the Federal and Georgia RICO enterprises. It appears that she is currently playing a key role in orchestrating a systematic scheme to manipulate election outcomes, casting doubt on the integrity of the entire electoral process."
Lawyers can battle all this out. Judges will decide, and the way things are going, activist judges will send Trump to prison. This will go all the way to the SCOTUS. One way or another they will be involved.
I hate to think the fate of Trump is so intrinsically tied to the fate of America and its citizens but, that's how it will play out. If they can put away Trump on junk charges and undue process, they can put away any American on any junk charges and undue process.
Elections no longer have consequences because of who citizens vote into office. The wrong people were voted in already, took control of it all, and no future election will mean anything if procedural changes are not made and fraud not stopped.
Another video has emerged, from a D.C. highway, of radical, ignorant climate change activists sitting down and stopping traffic far as the eye can see. People are screaming at them, taking their banners and signs and throwing them across the highway. They sit there until police come and arrest them. One poor soul attempts to tell us we have five years before climate change kills us all. As one woman shouted, she has children to feed, now. She has to get to work, now. All these protesters did was enrage people to hate them and their message.
No amount of such "protesting," denying fellow citizens their access to travel lanes for work; and the reason it's against the law is because both police and medical transportation must have free access to be able to move. If an ambulance cannot get through such a scene, the criminal codes elevate the infraction. These kinds of ignorant fools and their "peaceful protests" could be the reason a heart attack victim does not get medical attention in time. You cannot claim to be a peaceful protester while breaking the law. Protesting must truly educate. These people are not educating. They are pests. They are making pests of themselves. They are not, they cannot change anyone's mind when people are trying to get to work. It's ridiculous on the face of it.
Trump protests real, criminal election fraud, showing the actual evidence, he gets charged and arrested and kangaroo court trials are established.
People protest erroneous world-ending climate change, get arrested, and then let go, maybe with a fine after causing real havoc.
Minds have been corrupted. It isn't just the activities. It's the minds of people.
Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
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.
Blind minds. Gain control.
Educate minds. Get arrested.
It's coming for all those who love their nation and its Constitution.
Then it will come for those who love Christ's kingdom and His truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Explosive Revelation: Fani Willis Linked To Massive Election Fraud And Money Laundering RICO Enterprise!"
By Chris Gleason August 31, 2023
"In a shocking turn of events, a bombshell investigation has uncovered jaw-dropping connections between Fani Willis and a sprawling web of election fraud and money laundering activities."
www.georgiarecord.com/election-integrity/2023/08/31/explosive-revelation-fani-willis-linked-to-massive-election-fraud-and-money-laundering-rico-enterprise/
Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and other names of people all benefitting from election fraud schemes in several states, have been uncovered through real investigative reporting. Follow the money, find the corruption.
Trump really rocked the apple cart when he began protesting election results. Did he Know? Does he know now?
"Fani Willis's involvement will be sure to send shockwaves through the political landscape.
"The investigation, which spans across multiple states and multiple jurisdictions, has revealed a complex network of illicit operations aimed at undermining the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic and the rule of law. Sources close to the matter suggest that Willis was a massive beneficiary in the Federal and Georgia RICO enterprises. It appears that she is currently playing a key role in orchestrating a systematic scheme to manipulate election outcomes, casting doubt on the integrity of the entire electoral process."
Lawyers can battle all this out. Judges will decide, and the way things are going, activist judges will send Trump to prison. This will go all the way to the SCOTUS. One way or another they will be involved.
I hate to think the fate of Trump is so intrinsically tied to the fate of America and its citizens but, that's how it will play out. If they can put away Trump on junk charges and undue process, they can put away any American on any junk charges and undue process.
Elections no longer have consequences because of who citizens vote into office. The wrong people were voted in already, took control of it all, and no future election will mean anything if procedural changes are not made and fraud not stopped.
Another video has emerged, from a D.C. highway, of radical, ignorant climate change activists sitting down and stopping traffic far as the eye can see. People are screaming at them, taking their banners and signs and throwing them across the highway. They sit there until police come and arrest them. One poor soul attempts to tell us we have five years before climate change kills us all. As one woman shouted, she has children to feed, now. She has to get to work, now. All these protesters did was enrage people to hate them and their message.
No amount of such "protesting," denying fellow citizens their access to travel lanes for work; and the reason it's against the law is because both police and medical transportation must have free access to be able to move. If an ambulance cannot get through such a scene, the criminal codes elevate the infraction. These kinds of ignorant fools and their "peaceful protests" could be the reason a heart attack victim does not get medical attention in time. You cannot claim to be a peaceful protester while breaking the law. Protesting must truly educate. These people are not educating. They are pests. They are making pests of themselves. They are not, they cannot change anyone's mind when people are trying to get to work. It's ridiculous on the face of it.
Trump protests real, criminal election fraud, showing the actual evidence, he gets charged and arrested and kangaroo court trials are established.
People protest erroneous world-ending climate change, get arrested, and then let go, maybe with a fine after causing real havoc.
Minds have been corrupted. It isn't just the activities. It's the minds of people.
Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
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.
Blind minds. Gain control.
Educate minds. Get arrested.
It's coming for all those who love their nation and its Constitution.
Then it will come for those who love Christ's kingdom and His truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
A Billionaire Starts a Maui Fund
Why would I comment on this? As I type... I am not really sure. Something just seems amiss. Well, something more seems amiss.
Oprah Winfrey, billionaire Hollywood business mogul, has started a fund, with Dwayne Johnson, for Maui citizens displaced by the fires. Hm.
She owned 1,000 acres of land on Maui. In the last year she purchased another 1000 acres... well, 870 to be exact, from press reports, as have other billionaires. Her properties were not affected by fire damage. A news story claims she is under investigation for these purchases in light of recent events. She showed up at a survival center, with a CBS news crew, to show her handing out pillows and stuff she bought at a Walmart, to donate to people. Apparently she and Johnson have donated 10 million dollars to begin the new fund.
Call me suspicious, I don't care. A billionaire owns 2000 acres of untouched land on Maui. Stories are everywhere of land grabs; citizens not allowed to return to their properties, or if they are, escorted by police or national guardsmen, or federal agents and only allowed to look through rubble for a short period of time, then escorted out; people being evicted from their properties; 2000 children STILL unaccounted for; the governor lobbying for a Blackrock/Vanguard/State Street 15-minute City project; Biden talks about a Federal agent on the island BEFORE the fires, as his press secretary tells a reporter FEMA had 600 people on the island before the event.
How does this daily, growing web all tie together? As I said earlier, I truly believe Maui is the next 9/11, the new epicenter of globalist intentions, which, if successful, begins on the mainland. They can blame any and all destructive events on climate change, with no investigations.
Black Rock and the power company claim the power was turned off 6 hours before the fires got started. If that is accurate (and video evidence seems to show it is not), then what started the fires? Those three investment firms, as I mentioned last year, own most of the business on Earth. They have investment say-so on so much, it can be said they literally own the Western Hemisphere. They have plans for controlling everything. Between the UN, the WEF, the world banksters, and corrupt governments, the plan is to depopulate the Earth, then put the rest of humanity in controllable cities. Outliers will be few and subject to criminal hordes and activity they will not bother to address. Criminals take, they do not produce. Hence, when supplies reach zero, the criminals will naturally die off. That will leave tremendous swaths of land with only roaming animals surviving. Regions will house humanity, controlled, owning nothing, working for the controllers for their benefit. Indentured servitude. Dystopia a decade away in "sustainable cities."
Common sense tells me Oprah and others like her, are involved, privy to it all, investing in it all, planning for it all. They must tackle "climate change" to save the world. They lie to our faces every, single day.
Former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, recently said, civil war is coming if Trump is found guilty of election tampering.
Everybody knows, if just one, single, professed Conservative commits one, single act of violence, the entire swamp will descend of Conservatives and Christians from any and all denominations and groups almost instantly. You can imagine the asset and fall-guy already chosen for a black flag operation. The government causes conspiracy theories precisely because its representatives lie on a daily basis. The government's reps and agents obfuscate, lie, sandbag, stonewall and do all they can to remain as opaque to truth as possible. Maui is a fit representation of it all, right before our eyes.
Oprah, a billionaire, seems to be attempting to buy her way out of investigation, starting a fund and contributing a hefty donation to it. Should anyone be thought ill of wondering why she would not give back land to islanders needing ways to begin again? I think not. Johnson, as popular as ever, with islander heritage, himself, is a fit partner for her. One now wonders if he has been purchasing land on Maui, as well.
The controllers have gotten sloppy, so sure of their success but, Maui, their point guard, has literally blown up in their faces but, they have the power, don't they? Will enough people rise up to stop their murderous plans?
God knows.
Oprah Winfrey, billionaire Hollywood business mogul, has started a fund, with Dwayne Johnson, for Maui citizens displaced by the fires. Hm.
She owned 1,000 acres of land on Maui. In the last year she purchased another 1000 acres... well, 870 to be exact, from press reports, as have other billionaires. Her properties were not affected by fire damage. A news story claims she is under investigation for these purchases in light of recent events. She showed up at a survival center, with a CBS news crew, to show her handing out pillows and stuff she bought at a Walmart, to donate to people. Apparently she and Johnson have donated 10 million dollars to begin the new fund.
Call me suspicious, I don't care. A billionaire owns 2000 acres of untouched land on Maui. Stories are everywhere of land grabs; citizens not allowed to return to their properties, or if they are, escorted by police or national guardsmen, or federal agents and only allowed to look through rubble for a short period of time, then escorted out; people being evicted from their properties; 2000 children STILL unaccounted for; the governor lobbying for a Blackrock/Vanguard/State Street 15-minute City project; Biden talks about a Federal agent on the island BEFORE the fires, as his press secretary tells a reporter FEMA had 600 people on the island before the event.
How does this daily, growing web all tie together? As I said earlier, I truly believe Maui is the next 9/11, the new epicenter of globalist intentions, which, if successful, begins on the mainland. They can blame any and all destructive events on climate change, with no investigations.
Black Rock and the power company claim the power was turned off 6 hours before the fires got started. If that is accurate (and video evidence seems to show it is not), then what started the fires? Those three investment firms, as I mentioned last year, own most of the business on Earth. They have investment say-so on so much, it can be said they literally own the Western Hemisphere. They have plans for controlling everything. Between the UN, the WEF, the world banksters, and corrupt governments, the plan is to depopulate the Earth, then put the rest of humanity in controllable cities. Outliers will be few and subject to criminal hordes and activity they will not bother to address. Criminals take, they do not produce. Hence, when supplies reach zero, the criminals will naturally die off. That will leave tremendous swaths of land with only roaming animals surviving. Regions will house humanity, controlled, owning nothing, working for the controllers for their benefit. Indentured servitude. Dystopia a decade away in "sustainable cities."
Common sense tells me Oprah and others like her, are involved, privy to it all, investing in it all, planning for it all. They must tackle "climate change" to save the world. They lie to our faces every, single day.
Former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, recently said, civil war is coming if Trump is found guilty of election tampering.
Everybody knows, if just one, single, professed Conservative commits one, single act of violence, the entire swamp will descend of Conservatives and Christians from any and all denominations and groups almost instantly. You can imagine the asset and fall-guy already chosen for a black flag operation. The government causes conspiracy theories precisely because its representatives lie on a daily basis. The government's reps and agents obfuscate, lie, sandbag, stonewall and do all they can to remain as opaque to truth as possible. Maui is a fit representation of it all, right before our eyes.
Oprah, a billionaire, seems to be attempting to buy her way out of investigation, starting a fund and contributing a hefty donation to it. Should anyone be thought ill of wondering why she would not give back land to islanders needing ways to begin again? I think not. Johnson, as popular as ever, with islander heritage, himself, is a fit partner for her. One now wonders if he has been purchasing land on Maui, as well.
The controllers have gotten sloppy, so sure of their success but, Maui, their point guard, has literally blown up in their faces but, they have the power, don't they? Will enough people rise up to stop their murderous plans?
God knows.
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An Arborist Speaks Out!
An arborist, with 48 years of experience, is interviewed and tells why, in details, the Maui/Lahaina fire could not be a natural wild fire enhanced by winds.
He's someone who will be targeted. Watch it now. I suspect it will have to be taken down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3o3z0G8tw
Why is all this information, not in accord with the official story, not being considered misinformation and censored by Google/YouTube? Are they so confident they shall pull off this world-takeover, they no longer care about the exposure of the truth? This particular video was YT homepage. Matter of fact, the first three lines of videos are all Maui videos. Why is that being allowed? The only reason that seems logical is that the controllers believe they have won, already. Nothing, in their minds, will now make a difference.
What will God do?
He's someone who will be targeted. Watch it now. I suspect it will have to be taken down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3o3z0G8tw
Why is all this information, not in accord with the official story, not being considered misinformation and censored by Google/YouTube? Are they so confident they shall pull off this world-takeover, they no longer care about the exposure of the truth? This particular video was YT homepage. Matter of fact, the first three lines of videos are all Maui videos. Why is that being allowed? The only reason that seems logical is that the controllers believe they have won, already. Nothing, in their minds, will now make a difference.
What will God do?
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831. They Finally Got Control of the Web - 9/2/23
If you have been coming here for awhile, you know I have made the observation for the few years: why do the global controllers keep trying to gain control before they get control of the internet? As long as the flow of information exists, nothing they do will remain secretive or demonstrably effective. Free speech is the hallmark of free nations. Liberty to speak one's mind, regardless of who reads or hears and doesn't like it, is a protection that makes any kind of totalitarianism very difficult to dig in and maintain. Down through history the major way despotism takes place is to control the flow of information and prosecute dissenters from stating anything opposed to "official" pronouncements.
Well, on August 25th the European Union passed a law, the Digital Services Act, which they claim is a law that creates a level playing field for all business. From the EU site -
"While there are many benefits of the digital transformation, there are also problems. A core concern is the trade and exchange of illegal goods, services and content online. Online services are also being misused by manipulative algorithmic systems to amplify the spread of disinformation, and for other harmful purposes. These challenges and the way platforms address them have a significant impact on fundamental rights online."
And who decides what disinformation is? The European Commission. Well, you say, that should not affect the USA, right? Wrong.
ANY online platform with over 45 million users, will be regulated. So, any business or profit-making social platform found in the EU, which means any outside platform, MUST conform to codes and rules or be dropped and/or fined by the commission. Platforms like Facebook already censor. Elon Musk's "X" which claims freedom to express, in fact, does not allow it thoroughly, and if anything is stated on the platform the commission deems disinformation that may "hurt" people, a hefty fine can be given. Pay it or be dropped from European access. American platforms will either knuckle under and censor information deemed "disinformation," or constantly pay fines or find their EU access cut-off.
Every platform found on EU servers must comply by January 1, 2024 or the anvil gets dropped on any not complying, found by virtue of complaints. You can be certain all large platforms associated with Google, like YouTube, will begin seriously policing their content. Creators will begin getting dropped like swamp mosquitos in smoke. It will not matter where you hail from. If the platform wants access to Europeans in the Union, they will have to conform.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act-package
The question of backlash seems reasonably controlled because this proposed law has been on the table for well over two years and finally went through. Protest from any and all entities has gone by with no success.
I mentioned yesterday, why is YouTube allowing all these exposure videos of the corruption and criminal activity associated with the Maui fires? Are they confident their grasp of global control is so secure is does not matter? Apparently so. All they have to do is blame it on the EU Commission. The Maui fires have nothing to do with the EU but, "disinformation is disinformation."
Seems a fairly easy move on the globalist's part, doesn't it?
Here's some info from a Reuter's story -
"LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - More than a dozen of the world's biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency.
From Friday, a host of internet giants – including Meta's (META.O) Facebook and Instagram platforms, Apple's online App Store, and a handful of Google (GOOGL.O) services – will face new obligations in the EU, including preventing harmful content from spreading, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers.
The EU is seen as the global leader in tech regulation, with more wide-ranging pieces of legislation – such as the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act – on the way. The bloc's success in implementing such laws will influence the introduction of similar rules around the world.
But researchers have raised questions over whether these companies have done enough to meet lawmakers' expectations.
For now, the rules only apply to 19 of the largest online platforms, those with more than 45 million users in the EU. From mid-February, however, they will apply to a variety of online platforms, regardless of size.
Any firm found in breach of the DSA faces a fine worth up to 6% of its global turnover, and repeat offenders may be banned from operating in Europe altogether."
www.reuters.com/technology/big-tech-braces-roll-out-eus-digital-services-act-2023-08-24/
So, the size of the platform by user numbers, will become insignificant soon enough. All online platforms wanting to do business in Europe will have to conform. Seeing as all the big platforms are Leftist platforms to begin with, the change will be welcomed. One can be certain the U.S. government will not have enough voices to stand in the way, especially with the current administration and cohorts in power.
You will notice companies can be fined for 6% of the GLOBAL turnover, not European turnover. How that gets enforced shows it is all in the bag, already. This was discussed by everyone around the world before it ever came up for a vote by the EU. Compliance was agreed to well before the vote took place. How can the EU confiscate a percentage of profits accrued by companies outside the EU? The only way such a law could be passed is if the big companies already decided to comply, as they would, because they are all part of the same global network of ultimate control over world population. All of them.
August 25th now marks the beginning of the end of all free speech around the world for nations that had been free and granting liberty to a God-given right.
Even though Amazon has filed a lawsuit, which seems odd, given Bezos' penchant for radical Leftism and censorship of authors whose content he does not approve (which is the reason I dropped my Amazon membership years ago), and he portrays himself being the biggest capitalist in the world -
"Over the past few months, the European Commission said it had offered to conduct DSA "stress tests" with the 19 platforms.
Such tests assessed whether these platforms could "detect, address and mitigate systemic risks, such as disinformation," a Commission spokesperson said.
At least five platforms have participated in such tests -- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. In each case, the Commission said more work was needed to prepare for the DSA."
Bezos knows if he must drop all authors, all content that does not conform to EU rules, he'll begin losing members, which means losing sales, losing more money than fines cause. It is not about freedom of speech. It's about money and only money. Ultimately, he will lose the suit and comply and risk the loss of members and sales. And then there is the unfortunate nature of Americans who care more about saving a few dollars over free speech and liberty. Amazon may not lose all the business it should.
"In July, Amazon filed a legal challenge with the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe's second highest, arguing that bigger rivals in these countries had not been designated.
"It has still introduced a number of new features as part of its DSA compliance programme, such as a new channel for users to report incorrect product information."
So, you see that Amazon is already on track to comply.
I'm actually surprised I have not seen more about this on alt news sites. Makes one wonder just how much devotion there really is out there to freedom and liberty.
I have written here, many times, no one has a right not to be offended. Apparently, now, they do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Well, on August 25th the European Union passed a law, the Digital Services Act, which they claim is a law that creates a level playing field for all business. From the EU site -
"While there are many benefits of the digital transformation, there are also problems. A core concern is the trade and exchange of illegal goods, services and content online. Online services are also being misused by manipulative algorithmic systems to amplify the spread of disinformation, and for other harmful purposes. These challenges and the way platforms address them have a significant impact on fundamental rights online."
And who decides what disinformation is? The European Commission. Well, you say, that should not affect the USA, right? Wrong.
ANY online platform with over 45 million users, will be regulated. So, any business or profit-making social platform found in the EU, which means any outside platform, MUST conform to codes and rules or be dropped and/or fined by the commission. Platforms like Facebook already censor. Elon Musk's "X" which claims freedom to express, in fact, does not allow it thoroughly, and if anything is stated on the platform the commission deems disinformation that may "hurt" people, a hefty fine can be given. Pay it or be dropped from European access. American platforms will either knuckle under and censor information deemed "disinformation," or constantly pay fines or find their EU access cut-off.
Every platform found on EU servers must comply by January 1, 2024 or the anvil gets dropped on any not complying, found by virtue of complaints. You can be certain all large platforms associated with Google, like YouTube, will begin seriously policing their content. Creators will begin getting dropped like swamp mosquitos in smoke. It will not matter where you hail from. If the platform wants access to Europeans in the Union, they will have to conform.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act-package
The question of backlash seems reasonably controlled because this proposed law has been on the table for well over two years and finally went through. Protest from any and all entities has gone by with no success.
I mentioned yesterday, why is YouTube allowing all these exposure videos of the corruption and criminal activity associated with the Maui fires? Are they confident their grasp of global control is so secure is does not matter? Apparently so. All they have to do is blame it on the EU Commission. The Maui fires have nothing to do with the EU but, "disinformation is disinformation."
Seems a fairly easy move on the globalist's part, doesn't it?
Here's some info from a Reuter's story -
"LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - More than a dozen of the world's biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency.
From Friday, a host of internet giants – including Meta's (META.O) Facebook and Instagram platforms, Apple's online App Store, and a handful of Google (GOOGL.O) services – will face new obligations in the EU, including preventing harmful content from spreading, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers.
The EU is seen as the global leader in tech regulation, with more wide-ranging pieces of legislation – such as the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act – on the way. The bloc's success in implementing such laws will influence the introduction of similar rules around the world.
But researchers have raised questions over whether these companies have done enough to meet lawmakers' expectations.
For now, the rules only apply to 19 of the largest online platforms, those with more than 45 million users in the EU. From mid-February, however, they will apply to a variety of online platforms, regardless of size.
Any firm found in breach of the DSA faces a fine worth up to 6% of its global turnover, and repeat offenders may be banned from operating in Europe altogether."
www.reuters.com/technology/big-tech-braces-roll-out-eus-digital-services-act-2023-08-24/
So, the size of the platform by user numbers, will become insignificant soon enough. All online platforms wanting to do business in Europe will have to conform. Seeing as all the big platforms are Leftist platforms to begin with, the change will be welcomed. One can be certain the U.S. government will not have enough voices to stand in the way, especially with the current administration and cohorts in power.
You will notice companies can be fined for 6% of the GLOBAL turnover, not European turnover. How that gets enforced shows it is all in the bag, already. This was discussed by everyone around the world before it ever came up for a vote by the EU. Compliance was agreed to well before the vote took place. How can the EU confiscate a percentage of profits accrued by companies outside the EU? The only way such a law could be passed is if the big companies already decided to comply, as they would, because they are all part of the same global network of ultimate control over world population. All of them.
August 25th now marks the beginning of the end of all free speech around the world for nations that had been free and granting liberty to a God-given right.
Even though Amazon has filed a lawsuit, which seems odd, given Bezos' penchant for radical Leftism and censorship of authors whose content he does not approve (which is the reason I dropped my Amazon membership years ago), and he portrays himself being the biggest capitalist in the world -
"Over the past few months, the European Commission said it had offered to conduct DSA "stress tests" with the 19 platforms.
Such tests assessed whether these platforms could "detect, address and mitigate systemic risks, such as disinformation," a Commission spokesperson said.
At least five platforms have participated in such tests -- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. In each case, the Commission said more work was needed to prepare for the DSA."
Bezos knows if he must drop all authors, all content that does not conform to EU rules, he'll begin losing members, which means losing sales, losing more money than fines cause. It is not about freedom of speech. It's about money and only money. Ultimately, he will lose the suit and comply and risk the loss of members and sales. And then there is the unfortunate nature of Americans who care more about saving a few dollars over free speech and liberty. Amazon may not lose all the business it should.
"In July, Amazon filed a legal challenge with the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe's second highest, arguing that bigger rivals in these countries had not been designated.
"It has still introduced a number of new features as part of its DSA compliance programme, such as a new channel for users to report incorrect product information."
So, you see that Amazon is already on track to comply.
I'm actually surprised I have not seen more about this on alt news sites. Makes one wonder just how much devotion there really is out there to freedom and liberty.
I have written here, many times, no one has a right not to be offended. Apparently, now, they do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Let's Summon Some Demons
As America loses its moorings to rational behavior more and more, week by week, we have a story out of Minnesota. On the Babylon front -
"Minnesota Art Museum Holds Family-Friendly Demon Summoning
"Guests were encouraged to create vessels for their own personal demons"
"An art museum in Minneapolis offered an otherworldly weekend activity for families earlier this month.
The Walker Art Center invited parents and children to participate in what the museum described as a totally free “collective and playful demon summoning session,” on August 5.
“Demons have a bad reputation, but maybe we’re just not very good at getting to know them,” an advertisement on the museum’s website read.
"The event, which was hosted by artist Tamar Ettun, was broken into two parts. First, visitors worked with Ettun to design a vessel for "the demon that knows them best," with some examples including the “demon of overthinking” or “the demon of not trusting your gut,” the museum website explained.
"After constructing their vessels, guests were invited to watch Ettun perform a summoning ritual for a spirit named Lilit the Empathic Demon.
“[Lilit] will come from the dark side of the moon to lead you in locating your feelings using ancient Babylonian techniques,” the website said."
An empathic demon. You cannot make this stuff up.
Ancient or modern, spiritual, prophetic Babylon, it's all highly active and increasing influence.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Minnesota Art Museum Holds Family-Friendly Demon Summoning
"Guests were encouraged to create vessels for their own personal demons"
"An art museum in Minneapolis offered an otherworldly weekend activity for families earlier this month.
The Walker Art Center invited parents and children to participate in what the museum described as a totally free “collective and playful demon summoning session,” on August 5.
“Demons have a bad reputation, but maybe we’re just not very good at getting to know them,” an advertisement on the museum’s website read.
"The event, which was hosted by artist Tamar Ettun, was broken into two parts. First, visitors worked with Ettun to design a vessel for "the demon that knows them best," with some examples including the “demon of overthinking” or “the demon of not trusting your gut,” the museum website explained.
"After constructing their vessels, guests were invited to watch Ettun perform a summoning ritual for a spirit named Lilit the Empathic Demon.
“[Lilit] will come from the dark side of the moon to lead you in locating your feelings using ancient Babylonian techniques,” the website said."
An empathic demon. You cannot make this stuff up.
Ancient or modern, spiritual, prophetic Babylon, it's all highly active and increasing influence.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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China: The "Xi" Bible
You may know the Gospel of Jesus Christ is spreading faster in China than anywhere else in the world. Persecution has not caused it to slow down. If anything, as history shows, "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the gospel."
So, what is chairman Xi to do? If you can't beat them, join them. Of course, 'join them' means in Xi's way, not the biblical way. Therefore, a 10-year project has begun to rewrite the Bible and add a new translation; one that places the Communist Party above all.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinese-communist-party-rewriting-bible
The article is written by Congressman Mike Gallagher, of Wisconsin. That's an interesting contributor. He has nothing nice to say about the Vatican and Pope Francis.
"You might expect the Vatican, the leaders of the largest Christian congregation in the world, to be incensed and defiant. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
"In a secret 2018 negotiation, the Vatican agreed to allow the CCP to select Catholic bishops in China, supposedly in exchange for vague reassurances of "safety" for some Catholic congregations which were immediately abrogated.
"The CCP wants the authority to select the next Dalai Lama, a sacred tradition in Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists are attempting to stand up to CCP coercion, but Beijing counters that even Pope Francis, leader of the mighty Catholic Church, accepts their authority over Church leadership." ...
"The CCP is committing genocide, the crime above all crimes, in Xinjiang while some of the world’s religious leaders, like Pope Francis, barely murmur a word in opposition."
It's a good article. You should check it out. Far too many Americans and people in the West, especially leaders, see China in a bizarre light of goods produced and modern, brightly lit cities rather than for the despotic regime that controls it all.
China is a totalitarian nation. It is the enemy of all that is good, China defining "good" as the state and "bad" as that which opposes it. Current U.S. administration elected civil servants and appointed ones, bow to China like it is deity. It's disgusting.
Recent figures and data show the United States is losing people to death and lack of rebirth far too quickly to sustain a stable, national existence. That is especially true among the young, especially since the roll out of the "vaccines," as America now faces another clash of freedom versus dictates as another injection serum is readied to roll out this Autumn; and Biden hopes to make it mandatory for all citizens. It remains to be seen how much noncompliance is demonstrated by the population.
As America declines - financially, militarily, and especially morally, its future is in dire jeopardy of takeover. Whether by one nation or several, dividing the land among the stronger, America is doomed if it does not change course, rapidly.
So, what is chairman Xi to do? If you can't beat them, join them. Of course, 'join them' means in Xi's way, not the biblical way. Therefore, a 10-year project has begun to rewrite the Bible and add a new translation; one that places the Communist Party above all.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinese-communist-party-rewriting-bible
The article is written by Congressman Mike Gallagher, of Wisconsin. That's an interesting contributor. He has nothing nice to say about the Vatican and Pope Francis.
"You might expect the Vatican, the leaders of the largest Christian congregation in the world, to be incensed and defiant. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
"In a secret 2018 negotiation, the Vatican agreed to allow the CCP to select Catholic bishops in China, supposedly in exchange for vague reassurances of "safety" for some Catholic congregations which were immediately abrogated.
"The CCP wants the authority to select the next Dalai Lama, a sacred tradition in Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists are attempting to stand up to CCP coercion, but Beijing counters that even Pope Francis, leader of the mighty Catholic Church, accepts their authority over Church leadership." ...
"The CCP is committing genocide, the crime above all crimes, in Xinjiang while some of the world’s religious leaders, like Pope Francis, barely murmur a word in opposition."
It's a good article. You should check it out. Far too many Americans and people in the West, especially leaders, see China in a bizarre light of goods produced and modern, brightly lit cities rather than for the despotic regime that controls it all.
China is a totalitarian nation. It is the enemy of all that is good, China defining "good" as the state and "bad" as that which opposes it. Current U.S. administration elected civil servants and appointed ones, bow to China like it is deity. It's disgusting.
Recent figures and data show the United States is losing people to death and lack of rebirth far too quickly to sustain a stable, national existence. That is especially true among the young, especially since the roll out of the "vaccines," as America now faces another clash of freedom versus dictates as another injection serum is readied to roll out this Autumn; and Biden hopes to make it mandatory for all citizens. It remains to be seen how much noncompliance is demonstrated by the population.
As America declines - financially, militarily, and especially morally, its future is in dire jeopardy of takeover. Whether by one nation or several, dividing the land among the stronger, America is doomed if it does not change course, rapidly.
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Morality For Thee, Not For Me
An alarmed man, deservedly so, stands up at a school board meeting and begins to read a line from a book in school libraries. "On page One. Who wants my hot wiener."
Instantly the school board chairwoman drops the gavel several times and insists the man be removed from the meeting, which he was, by police.
So, the book is apparently alright for children to read but, not for a parent to read in a meeting composed of adults.
And so goes the story of the demise of America, to drowned immorality and murdered common sense.
www.theblaze.com/news/man-removed-from-school-board-meeting-while-reading-from-sexually-explicit-book-that-had-been-available-in-school-library
Honestly? I am tired of showing these signs of the times. It has become impossible to comprehend the insanity taking place, everywhere.
The days of Noah and Lot are upon us and it's going to get worse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Instantly the school board chairwoman drops the gavel several times and insists the man be removed from the meeting, which he was, by police.
So, the book is apparently alright for children to read but, not for a parent to read in a meeting composed of adults.
And so goes the story of the demise of America, to drowned immorality and murdered common sense.
www.theblaze.com/news/man-removed-from-school-board-meeting-while-reading-from-sexually-explicit-book-that-had-been-available-in-school-library
Honestly? I am tired of showing these signs of the times. It has become impossible to comprehend the insanity taking place, everywhere.
The days of Noah and Lot are upon us and it's going to get worse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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832. Communicating With the Dead - Sept. 2, 2023
Since I began getting into writing about biblical subjects, I have written a lot about the subject of death and the afterlife, from a biblical perspective.
Spiritualism is the communicating with the dead, in a simplistic definition. It goes much deeper, especially regarding who we communicate with and are influenced by among the living but, for this post, information from the PEW research organization -
"Many Americans report interacting with dead relatives in dreams or other ways"
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/23/many-americans-report-interacting-with-dead-relatives-in-dreams-or-other-ways/
Logically, look at that headline. Critically examine it.
How can anyone communicate with someone who is dead? If you are communicating, they must be alive. They are not dead, right? They exist in some, living capacity. That is the only possible explanation.
Once again, look at Genesis, where this entire situation is programmed from, by Lucifer, himself.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
#1. Man BECAME a living soul. He does not have a ghost-like entity living inside him, somehow, some way. Man does not have a soul, he is a soul. Huge difference. From the biblical perspective, the physical perspective, a human is a living, breathing lifeform. From the mental, emotional perspective, man has a 'soul:' his emotional nature and a 'spirit:' an intellectual nature. As Paul stated, we should be sanctified spirit, soul and body. Mind, emotions, physical natures, all sanctified: set apart for a holy use, by the Holy Spirit, through being born-again.
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
#2. "Die." Hebrew - "muth" - to die, literally or figuratively. A simple command. Eat anything BUT from the tree in the middle of the garden. If you eat from that tree you shall die. The statement is plain. The warning is obvious. God did not tell Adam his body would die and some ghostlike entity would leave it. No. If Adam ate, Adam would die - body, soul and spirit. Physical, emotional, intellectual death: nothing to communicate with the living. Life means life. Death means death. The Bible refers to it over and over again, both old and new testament, as a "sleep:" a temporary cessation of existence, awaiting one of two resurrections; when Christ returns for the righteous; and then the unrighteous are resurrected a thousand years later, for their final judgment: the second death in the lake of fire, which shall turn the planet to ashes, from which God shall recreate the world.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
#3. The first lie in the Bible, from "the father of lies." You shall not surely die. You shall become as gods. If you disobey you will not die, you will enter a higher plain of existence and be as gods. That's the second lie. There is one God and only one God. It is Lucifer, the father of lies, who wanted to be like the most High, and rebelled to do it and was cast out of Heaven, who concocted the plethora of gods humanity worships. There are over 3 million deities in the Hindu faith, alone, gods for every possible thought or feeling. Down through time, innumerable deities have been worshipped, all from the mind of the father of lies.
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
#4. Eve ate. Caused Adam to eat, and instantly, they sensed they were different; naked, and covered themselves. Their innocence was gone. They began to die. Age became a reality. Breakdown of DNA code for life would commence a series of errors that would bring about a cessation of physical life through organ failure of some kind. It took 930 years for youthfulness from the hands of the Creator to succumb to death for Adam. What did God tell him? I made you from the dirt, breathed into you the breath of life; you are going to breathe your last breath and go back to the dirt I took you from. You are going to die.
You cannot possibly read anything else from the totality of Scripture.
When the Bible says the spirit returns to God, it can mean only one thing, biblically: spirit, ruach, is breath, movement of air. When someone dies, they take a last breath, expel it, and the breath of life is said to go back to God who gave it. A baby in the womb gets oxygen through the mother's blood stream. It must take its first breath when it leaves the womb. It does not get a ghost to live inside it until it dies and the ghost gets out. That is preposterous and the bedrock of Greek philosophy and all pagan rituals of life and death. It is the hallmark of satanic spiritualism.
Most professed Christians, claiming belief in the truth; the only truth whereby humans can be saved, believe the same pagan nonsense all other religions believe about life after death, when their desired source of truth states, emphatically, when you die, you die and return to the dirt you came from and shall rise again in one of two resurrections. I have placed it all here in these study posts at length. I won't rehearse it here. You can do a search of the site and find them all.
All I can do is warn those who think you can communicate with the dead, you are not communicating with departed loved ones in some ghostlike form. You are communicating with demons, with the father of lies and his rebellious army of deceivers thrust out of Heaven for their warfare against the character of God and His truth.
"Around half of U.S. adults (53%) say they’ve ever been visited by a dead family member in a dream or some other form. And substantial shares say they’ve had interactions with dead relatives in the past 12 months:
34% have “felt the presence” of a dead relative
28% have told a dead relative about their life
15% have had a dead family member communicate with them
In total, 44% of Americans report having at least one of these three experiences in the past year."
This is frightening stuff. The possibilities of satanic deception through these experiences, unguarded by Bible truth, are exponential.
"Overall, 46% of Americans report that they’ve been visited by a dead family member in a dream, while 31% report having been visited by dead relatives in some other form.
"Roughly two-thirds of Catholics (66%) and members of the historically Black Protestant tradition (67%) have ever experienced a visit from a deceased family member in some form. Evangelical Protestants are far less likely to say the same (42%)."
If you read the article, which breaks down the details, you see a gate has been opened for tremendous deceit to take place.
If you believe people have ghosts inside them that get out at death, you not only deny the totality of Scripture, which is your choice but, you open yourself to deception you cannot imagine when Lucifer and his hosts pull off the final dog and pony show at the end of time, which is already under way, living in the time of the end as we are. It is not a sprint. It is an endurance race. "He that endures until the end shall be saved."
Satan plays the long game. He sprints when it can work but, he has watched humanity for thousands of years and knows the easiest and best ways to deceive us. Through the loss of loved ones is a huge entrance gate to the mind. He will use it with more and more force as time moves along towards the final battle.
When I was doing public evangelism and prophecy seminars and looked at this subject, over two nights, I used almost 200 references and passages in the Bible. I would see faces go from incredulous to shock as the truth came alive and you could see the shock and disbelief on their faces. They would leave and pass me at the door, looking confused or shattered. How could I believe what I believe when the Bible is so clear? Why haven't my clergy told me and warned me? How could I believe a few passages of Scripture weighed against dozens and dozens of others?
Some thanked me for the truth. Some with "experiences" chose to go with their experience rather than a thus saith the Lord. So be it. That is the great test of faith: the word of God or what one feels and experiences. We all make that choice every, single day.
Hollywood has its constant refrain, go with your heart. Your will never lead you astray. The Bible? No. The Bible states exactly the opposite -
Jer 17:5 So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.
Jer 17:6 For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust.
Jer 17:8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Our hearts [minds] can lead us astray, quite easily. Only a Thus saith the Lord provides protection.
Many Protestant Reformers saw the truth and proclaimed it. They came to see the "immortality of the soul" doctrine was bequeathed to them from the Roman Catholic Church, borrowing its tenets from paganism. Unfortunately, many of those same churches, which began around the teaching of particular Reformers, no longer believe what their forefathers believed and proclaimed.
When the Bible says there is Mother and she has harlot daughters, it means what it says. Romanism is Mother, apostate Protestantism's churches are the daughters who have all become harlots, fornicating with the kings of the earth; the doctrines of devils, the philosophies of paganism, and even the sophistries of materialism. It all encompasses the greater definition and reach of spiritualism.
Movies and television and, of course, books about life after death, as comedy, as drama, as horror have existed for well over a century now. Stories told by ancients abound, as well. Entire religions are based on it. Lucifer has had ages to perfect this deception and will use it to tremendous effect when the final cunning and craftiness of the arch deceiver swings into gear.
Arm yourself with the truth. It is the ONLY thing that will save us. It is the only thing that cannot be taken from us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Spiritualism is the communicating with the dead, in a simplistic definition. It goes much deeper, especially regarding who we communicate with and are influenced by among the living but, for this post, information from the PEW research organization -
"Many Americans report interacting with dead relatives in dreams or other ways"
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/23/many-americans-report-interacting-with-dead-relatives-in-dreams-or-other-ways/
Logically, look at that headline. Critically examine it.
How can anyone communicate with someone who is dead? If you are communicating, they must be alive. They are not dead, right? They exist in some, living capacity. That is the only possible explanation.
Once again, look at Genesis, where this entire situation is programmed from, by Lucifer, himself.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
#1. Man BECAME a living soul. He does not have a ghost-like entity living inside him, somehow, some way. Man does not have a soul, he is a soul. Huge difference. From the biblical perspective, the physical perspective, a human is a living, breathing lifeform. From the mental, emotional perspective, man has a 'soul:' his emotional nature and a 'spirit:' an intellectual nature. As Paul stated, we should be sanctified spirit, soul and body. Mind, emotions, physical natures, all sanctified: set apart for a holy use, by the Holy Spirit, through being born-again.
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
#2. "Die." Hebrew - "muth" - to die, literally or figuratively. A simple command. Eat anything BUT from the tree in the middle of the garden. If you eat from that tree you shall die. The statement is plain. The warning is obvious. God did not tell Adam his body would die and some ghostlike entity would leave it. No. If Adam ate, Adam would die - body, soul and spirit. Physical, emotional, intellectual death: nothing to communicate with the living. Life means life. Death means death. The Bible refers to it over and over again, both old and new testament, as a "sleep:" a temporary cessation of existence, awaiting one of two resurrections; when Christ returns for the righteous; and then the unrighteous are resurrected a thousand years later, for their final judgment: the second death in the lake of fire, which shall turn the planet to ashes, from which God shall recreate the world.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
#3. The first lie in the Bible, from "the father of lies." You shall not surely die. You shall become as gods. If you disobey you will not die, you will enter a higher plain of existence and be as gods. That's the second lie. There is one God and only one God. It is Lucifer, the father of lies, who wanted to be like the most High, and rebelled to do it and was cast out of Heaven, who concocted the plethora of gods humanity worships. There are over 3 million deities in the Hindu faith, alone, gods for every possible thought or feeling. Down through time, innumerable deities have been worshipped, all from the mind of the father of lies.
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
#4. Eve ate. Caused Adam to eat, and instantly, they sensed they were different; naked, and covered themselves. Their innocence was gone. They began to die. Age became a reality. Breakdown of DNA code for life would commence a series of errors that would bring about a cessation of physical life through organ failure of some kind. It took 930 years for youthfulness from the hands of the Creator to succumb to death for Adam. What did God tell him? I made you from the dirt, breathed into you the breath of life; you are going to breathe your last breath and go back to the dirt I took you from. You are going to die.
You cannot possibly read anything else from the totality of Scripture.
When the Bible says the spirit returns to God, it can mean only one thing, biblically: spirit, ruach, is breath, movement of air. When someone dies, they take a last breath, expel it, and the breath of life is said to go back to God who gave it. A baby in the womb gets oxygen through the mother's blood stream. It must take its first breath when it leaves the womb. It does not get a ghost to live inside it until it dies and the ghost gets out. That is preposterous and the bedrock of Greek philosophy and all pagan rituals of life and death. It is the hallmark of satanic spiritualism.
Most professed Christians, claiming belief in the truth; the only truth whereby humans can be saved, believe the same pagan nonsense all other religions believe about life after death, when their desired source of truth states, emphatically, when you die, you die and return to the dirt you came from and shall rise again in one of two resurrections. I have placed it all here in these study posts at length. I won't rehearse it here. You can do a search of the site and find them all.
All I can do is warn those who think you can communicate with the dead, you are not communicating with departed loved ones in some ghostlike form. You are communicating with demons, with the father of lies and his rebellious army of deceivers thrust out of Heaven for their warfare against the character of God and His truth.
"Around half of U.S. adults (53%) say they’ve ever been visited by a dead family member in a dream or some other form. And substantial shares say they’ve had interactions with dead relatives in the past 12 months:
34% have “felt the presence” of a dead relative
28% have told a dead relative about their life
15% have had a dead family member communicate with them
In total, 44% of Americans report having at least one of these three experiences in the past year."
This is frightening stuff. The possibilities of satanic deception through these experiences, unguarded by Bible truth, are exponential.
"Overall, 46% of Americans report that they’ve been visited by a dead family member in a dream, while 31% report having been visited by dead relatives in some other form.
"Roughly two-thirds of Catholics (66%) and members of the historically Black Protestant tradition (67%) have ever experienced a visit from a deceased family member in some form. Evangelical Protestants are far less likely to say the same (42%)."
If you read the article, which breaks down the details, you see a gate has been opened for tremendous deceit to take place.
If you believe people have ghosts inside them that get out at death, you not only deny the totality of Scripture, which is your choice but, you open yourself to deception you cannot imagine when Lucifer and his hosts pull off the final dog and pony show at the end of time, which is already under way, living in the time of the end as we are. It is not a sprint. It is an endurance race. "He that endures until the end shall be saved."
Satan plays the long game. He sprints when it can work but, he has watched humanity for thousands of years and knows the easiest and best ways to deceive us. Through the loss of loved ones is a huge entrance gate to the mind. He will use it with more and more force as time moves along towards the final battle.
When I was doing public evangelism and prophecy seminars and looked at this subject, over two nights, I used almost 200 references and passages in the Bible. I would see faces go from incredulous to shock as the truth came alive and you could see the shock and disbelief on their faces. They would leave and pass me at the door, looking confused or shattered. How could I believe what I believe when the Bible is so clear? Why haven't my clergy told me and warned me? How could I believe a few passages of Scripture weighed against dozens and dozens of others?
Some thanked me for the truth. Some with "experiences" chose to go with their experience rather than a thus saith the Lord. So be it. That is the great test of faith: the word of God or what one feels and experiences. We all make that choice every, single day.
Hollywood has its constant refrain, go with your heart. Your will never lead you astray. The Bible? No. The Bible states exactly the opposite -
Jer 17:5 So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.
Jer 17:6 For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust.
Jer 17:8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Our hearts [minds] can lead us astray, quite easily. Only a Thus saith the Lord provides protection.
Many Protestant Reformers saw the truth and proclaimed it. They came to see the "immortality of the soul" doctrine was bequeathed to them from the Roman Catholic Church, borrowing its tenets from paganism. Unfortunately, many of those same churches, which began around the teaching of particular Reformers, no longer believe what their forefathers believed and proclaimed.
When the Bible says there is Mother and she has harlot daughters, it means what it says. Romanism is Mother, apostate Protestantism's churches are the daughters who have all become harlots, fornicating with the kings of the earth; the doctrines of devils, the philosophies of paganism, and even the sophistries of materialism. It all encompasses the greater definition and reach of spiritualism.
Movies and television and, of course, books about life after death, as comedy, as drama, as horror have existed for well over a century now. Stories told by ancients abound, as well. Entire religions are based on it. Lucifer has had ages to perfect this deception and will use it to tremendous effect when the final cunning and craftiness of the arch deceiver swings into gear.
Arm yourself with the truth. It is the ONLY thing that will save us. It is the only thing that cannot be taken from us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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833. From God's Point of View - September 2, 2023
When I read stories of people getting run over by the L-Q+ social freight train, or about that ideology trying to destroy people who will not accept it, I wonder why people who require others to accept them or else, find it so necessary.
I've been a Christian for 44 years. Nothing would make me happier than to know everyone I know has been moved by the Lord to turn their lives into His guidance and care. That said, No actual, Christian principle or faith ever attempted to force people to accept Christ and the Kingdom. No, you did not read that wrong. I wrote it correctly. No true establishment of the Christian faith ever tried to force anyone to accept Christ as Lord and Saviour. If they tried, and history has shown plenty, all they showed was they were not following Christ and exhibited anti-Christian behavior and policy which is an embarrassment to the faith, and a mark against it in the eyes of people wanting to be left alone.
What is God's point of view? If that can be seen all misunderstandings should find simple priority, yes?
Did God force Lucifer to comply? Did He stop the archangel from rebelling and waging war in Heaven? No. He gave the highest created being in His realm room to state his case. When the sophistry reached the degrees of warfare in the once joyous and peaceful courts of universal sovereignty, God said, Enough, and Lucifer and a third of the angelic host were not destroyed. They were cast out.
Did God force the innocent pair, Adam and Eve, the mother and father of the human race, to comply? No. He warned them, gave them a choice, and let them decide what they would do with the life they were given and the information given to protect them from deception. Lucifer used the serpent, deceived Eve, who turned around and brought her new found effervescence in sin to Adam, who chose the fate of his wife and God did not step in to stop them from making those choices.
Did God stop Cain from murdering his brother, Abel? No. God tried to instruct Cain and point out his lack of understanding the plan of salvation through the symbolism God installed into their lives in agriculture. Abel got it. God accepted his offerings. Cain rejected it. God rejected his offering. Cain was jealous, ultimately enraged and murdered his brother. God did not stop him. Cain made his choice, knowing it was sin all the way. Abel died with the hope of future redemption from sin, once and for all.
For 120 years God warned the world, through Noah, the end of all things was coming because of the wickedness developed over vast centuries of expired time in the world. 120 years. The ark project became well-known. The message got out. No one knows the number of people gathered by the time they watched the selected kinds of animals to carry on, peacefully, in order, enter the ark. No such scene of animal and man together was ever beheld, save for Adam and Eve, who passed away centuries before and even at that, Adam gave a personal testimony for almost 1000 years of what happened. First hand testimony. His children carried the story on. Others told the gospel story. By Noah's time it was still well known and also roundly rejected.
God chose Noah, gave him instructions, and for 120 years Noah followed them. Only his family entered the ship. The rest of humanity laughed, neglected or rejected the warning. God forced no one to enter the ark. All made their own choices. God destroyed the entire human race, animal kingdom and plant kingdom because of mankind's obstinate rejection of truth and salvation from sin. The Earth became cursed by man's presence upon it. Lest the entire world be totally corrupted and lost, God saved Noah and his family to carry on. Noah could have rejected the call. Earth could have been lost to Lucifer's total control. God knew Noah wouldn't reject His call but, did not force him to engage the century-plus long project. The world's character grew worse. The tensions and pressures grew with it. Noah persevered. The end came. Noah and his family and specific kinds of life were saved to continue on.
Did God stop the rebellion of the masses who began the tower of Babel project by destroying its principle architects and builders? No. God promised no world-wide destruction would come again because of man's sins. God decided to confound the one language into many, and the project died from shock and awe and gathering together with people who understood each other, who carried on, moving to other regions of the globe.
I can sit here and type all day long. This principle is repeated over and over and over for six thousand years of biblical history. God does not force, because God is love and love does not force. That does not mean justice is never commenced. Obviously with Adam and Eve's removal from Eden, the judgment placed upon Cain, and the world-wide deluge, love is not the absence of justice and judgment. Even sinful humanity understands the notion of "tough love" and "intervention."
Ultimately, after centuries of waiting, Messiah came, was rejected by the majority and even those who respected Him, followed Him and loved Him sat quiet when He was taken, scourged and crucified. But, He rose from the dead, as Creator of life, when the Father called Him forth from His tomb. Even then, did He seek vengeance against those who killed Him? No. He could have dropped them into the Earth with a word. No, He instructed and left His followers to carry on, telling them the Holy Spirit would enable them to live and love and continue on till He could return when the world heard the Gospel. Unfortunately, no time in the last 2000 years has heard the Gospel in one generation. That is going to change. That time is coming.
From God's point of view, knowing all before it happens, arranging affairs to plead with all humanity, all people, in whatever capacity He is able, based on whatever light they have, everywhere on this globe, He wants no one to be lost. The Son; Christ, came to show God to humanity. He forced no one to accept Him or follow Him. He was a thorn in the side of the corruption and still, though He spoke straight to them and pointed out their corruption in point blank terms, some among the leaders saw, understood, and accepted salvation in the Messiah after they killed Him. God is patient. That is His nature, His character. He does not force.
Romanism caused corruption of the early church and pagan sophistries took hold and persecution of Christians by other professed Christians took place. Force became the "way" along with superstitions and man-made rules and regulations.
People who force others, against their will, to do their bidding, are evil. It's really as simple as that. It does not matter what title you have. It does not matter who or what you are among the race. Forcing people against their will is evil.
Now, parents have a right from God to train up their children and in love, may have to punish their children for disobedience. God does the same. Punishment is supposed to instruct not break the child's will. I have two grown daughters. Growing up, one was easily instructed and complied with life's tasks, for the most part. The other? She had to learn the hard way. That does not mean I did not surround the wood stove with a barrier, lest she touch it. It does mean when she got past that barrier when no one was looking, and touched the stove, she got burnt and learned. There was a reason for the barrier and, "No. Stay away." She looks back on that incident with great impact of memory.
My children did not have a totally pleasant upbringing. No. Unfortunately. Today, they do not practice the faith they were brought up in. I don't harp on them. God does not harp on me. God warns. Man is free to accept or reject. God does not force people to comply. He punishes in an attempt to keep mankind from destroying themselves and with all that, many make shipwreck of life regardless. I pray for my children. I hope they comply with the whole Bible plan of salvation and walking in the light but, they are adults. I cannot force them nor would I want to. That is pointless.
People who hate God or reject the notion of God see all the suffering and say there cannot be a deity and if there is, he is a despot, a tyrant, a maniacal, sadistic overlord of some kind. I thought that way when I was young and ignorant. The fact is, God did not create the world society we have. Man chose it, and continues to choose it over and over again. God grants freedom to all to choose their fate. In that range of choices and genetic gene pool development, or decline as the case is, we see the fate of sin fall upon children and our hearts are touched and we ask why and do not consider much from God's overall, universal point of view. God would have humanity look upon the effects of sin and take note that the only way out of this situation is obeying God, serving Him and getting this mess finished up ASAP. He has meant for His people to spread the truth over the planet as quickly as possible to allow for a natural progression of evil and good to develop and a final standoff take place, which facilitates the return of Christ, which, in truth, is a rescue mission. The world will be judged and destroyed because it will seek to force and compel God's people to disobey Him. That is the line which God will not allow to be crossed and will rescue His people from world-wide destruction; something that has never existed before.
God is not forcing anyone to join His ranks. He is not forcing anyone into Heaven. Nor, truth in Scripture be seen, is He going force anyone into this place called "hell" against their will. Nay. The Bible says all humanity, lost by their own choices, will suffer the fate of standing in the presence of the literal glory of God's love unleashed in one, final, fateful event called the White Throne judgment, the lake of fire, and the second death. God is not going to torture people forever. What's the point? Sinners, those who clung to their disobedience, will cease to exist. That is the only way the universe can ever have entire, heavenly peace again.
It makes no sense for anyone to force others to accept them or their lifestyle choices or anything else. All that is done is an increase of hatred and division. I do not hate anyone. I am still free to express my biblical worldview. You are free to express your worldview. I may reject it but, would never seek to enslave you to the pressures groups put upon people to conform. That solves nothing. Satan forces. God grants choice. You are free. I am free. Leave it alone. Let each be convinced in their own mind.
I am not going to change my mind just because you may attack me and seek to marginalize any influence I may have. I seek to change minds through discussion and investigation of principles, not policies engrained in society by pressure and force. I don't care what you call yourself. You can call yourself a Christian all day long but, if you seek to force your will upon your fellow man, you are not a Christian. Your are doing the work of the enemy. The same goes for those who choose lifestyles that go against the grain of Judeo-Christian civilization. You can scream, shout, embargo, and use whatever methods to force acceptance and compliance and all you are doing is creating more division that shall explode at some point. The history of the human race shows that over and over again.
I will try and reason with anyone. Give me a starting point and a subject matter and I will seek to educate myself and draw conclusions based on the evidence. If you cannot convince me based on your evidence, what possible good can it do to force me to accept your side? You have not changed my mind. You have just shown your side has no evidence that can change my mind so, you will force me to change but, even if you change my physical movements of daily life, you have not changed my mind. Therefore, I will continue to follow and obey God, not man. That is why Christ was killed. That was all they could do to shut Him up. His influence could not be overcome with sound arguments. They were wrong. They sought to kill Him to silence Him. That is the way of Satan.
You see, for me, God is the final Arbiter of all subjects and discussion. That cannot change. It will never change because God shall always have a people, though a small remnant, who shall accept that calling. You can either look the other way and pay no attention, which is the civil thing to do or, you can scream and shout and force people to accept your lifestyle. You gain nothing except totalitarianism. If you seek to change people through force you are a totalitarian by definition; you are a Marxist, a Communist, a radical minion of despotism no different than exists in North Korea or any other place where force rules.
As an American I believe in the rule of law; Constitutional provisions for civil affairs and daily life and no more than Constitutional provisions. If it is not in there, it is the purpose of States to determine lawful civil conduct. If a State chooses to do or seek something I am not in favor of, which is against principles I hold true, I am free to change minds in some civil way or move to another state, as are you.
If you cannot abide by that, you should leave America and go live in another country. I abide by the principles of Americanism. You seek to destroy them. You say, "That's right and we are winning!" Are you? How? Logically, by observance, America is becoming a lawless place; its cities falling into violence and disrepair. It is setting itself up for totalitarian control and you had better hope those who take over are not regimes that will kill you for your chosen lifestyles. I won't. Others certainly will. When Europe becomes Islamic, the L-Q+ agenda will meet a violent end. The same will happen in all countries where such worldviews hold power.
Did God stop the L-Q+ community in Sodom and Gomorrah? No. He allowed them to continue until it became a total cancer that would corrupt the entire region with sin. God warned Lot, who warned his sons-in-law, who thought he was just fooling around and rejected the warning. He took his wife and daughters out and still, his wife chose to look back and show where her allegiance really was and God judged her actions to warn all humanity in future generations.
Just like parents draw lines and if they are crossed, punishment must come; God has done that since the original rebellion. Love is not weak. Love, true love is strong and holds the line against rebellion against lawlessness.
We reap what we sow, when we disregard God's will. Unfortunately the majority of the population of planet Earth are going to find that out the hard way and it will be too late. God is not mocked. Everything is ultimately in His control.
It is a fact, if God left the world alone, Lucifer and his hosts would destroy it and all life on it. That is hatred in action. The world will be destroyed but, not by Lucifer. He shall suffer the destruction of the consuming fire of God's presence. The redeemed will bask in that presence. The lost will self-ignite in their rebellion and rejection of God's invitation to life.
You can imprison me. You can kill me. You cannot take my choice to live for God's truth and have a place in His kingdom when this mess is finally over. That is mine to cling to or let go of.
God appeals to all to keep marching. Life is a round of battles. Many times nothing will seem to make sense. At those times, we are asked to walk by faith, not sight because we have experienced the love of God, His character can be trusted, so His people keep marching until resurrection morning and the final battle when immortality shall be the reward for those who hung on and believed, when all things seemed to say belief was futile.
Love, God's love, God's truth wins.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I've been a Christian for 44 years. Nothing would make me happier than to know everyone I know has been moved by the Lord to turn their lives into His guidance and care. That said, No actual, Christian principle or faith ever attempted to force people to accept Christ and the Kingdom. No, you did not read that wrong. I wrote it correctly. No true establishment of the Christian faith ever tried to force anyone to accept Christ as Lord and Saviour. If they tried, and history has shown plenty, all they showed was they were not following Christ and exhibited anti-Christian behavior and policy which is an embarrassment to the faith, and a mark against it in the eyes of people wanting to be left alone.
What is God's point of view? If that can be seen all misunderstandings should find simple priority, yes?
Did God force Lucifer to comply? Did He stop the archangel from rebelling and waging war in Heaven? No. He gave the highest created being in His realm room to state his case. When the sophistry reached the degrees of warfare in the once joyous and peaceful courts of universal sovereignty, God said, Enough, and Lucifer and a third of the angelic host were not destroyed. They were cast out.
Did God force the innocent pair, Adam and Eve, the mother and father of the human race, to comply? No. He warned them, gave them a choice, and let them decide what they would do with the life they were given and the information given to protect them from deception. Lucifer used the serpent, deceived Eve, who turned around and brought her new found effervescence in sin to Adam, who chose the fate of his wife and God did not step in to stop them from making those choices.
Did God stop Cain from murdering his brother, Abel? No. God tried to instruct Cain and point out his lack of understanding the plan of salvation through the symbolism God installed into their lives in agriculture. Abel got it. God accepted his offerings. Cain rejected it. God rejected his offering. Cain was jealous, ultimately enraged and murdered his brother. God did not stop him. Cain made his choice, knowing it was sin all the way. Abel died with the hope of future redemption from sin, once and for all.
For 120 years God warned the world, through Noah, the end of all things was coming because of the wickedness developed over vast centuries of expired time in the world. 120 years. The ark project became well-known. The message got out. No one knows the number of people gathered by the time they watched the selected kinds of animals to carry on, peacefully, in order, enter the ark. No such scene of animal and man together was ever beheld, save for Adam and Eve, who passed away centuries before and even at that, Adam gave a personal testimony for almost 1000 years of what happened. First hand testimony. His children carried the story on. Others told the gospel story. By Noah's time it was still well known and also roundly rejected.
God chose Noah, gave him instructions, and for 120 years Noah followed them. Only his family entered the ship. The rest of humanity laughed, neglected or rejected the warning. God forced no one to enter the ark. All made their own choices. God destroyed the entire human race, animal kingdom and plant kingdom because of mankind's obstinate rejection of truth and salvation from sin. The Earth became cursed by man's presence upon it. Lest the entire world be totally corrupted and lost, God saved Noah and his family to carry on. Noah could have rejected the call. Earth could have been lost to Lucifer's total control. God knew Noah wouldn't reject His call but, did not force him to engage the century-plus long project. The world's character grew worse. The tensions and pressures grew with it. Noah persevered. The end came. Noah and his family and specific kinds of life were saved to continue on.
Did God stop the rebellion of the masses who began the tower of Babel project by destroying its principle architects and builders? No. God promised no world-wide destruction would come again because of man's sins. God decided to confound the one language into many, and the project died from shock and awe and gathering together with people who understood each other, who carried on, moving to other regions of the globe.
I can sit here and type all day long. This principle is repeated over and over and over for six thousand years of biblical history. God does not force, because God is love and love does not force. That does not mean justice is never commenced. Obviously with Adam and Eve's removal from Eden, the judgment placed upon Cain, and the world-wide deluge, love is not the absence of justice and judgment. Even sinful humanity understands the notion of "tough love" and "intervention."
Ultimately, after centuries of waiting, Messiah came, was rejected by the majority and even those who respected Him, followed Him and loved Him sat quiet when He was taken, scourged and crucified. But, He rose from the dead, as Creator of life, when the Father called Him forth from His tomb. Even then, did He seek vengeance against those who killed Him? No. He could have dropped them into the Earth with a word. No, He instructed and left His followers to carry on, telling them the Holy Spirit would enable them to live and love and continue on till He could return when the world heard the Gospel. Unfortunately, no time in the last 2000 years has heard the Gospel in one generation. That is going to change. That time is coming.
From God's point of view, knowing all before it happens, arranging affairs to plead with all humanity, all people, in whatever capacity He is able, based on whatever light they have, everywhere on this globe, He wants no one to be lost. The Son; Christ, came to show God to humanity. He forced no one to accept Him or follow Him. He was a thorn in the side of the corruption and still, though He spoke straight to them and pointed out their corruption in point blank terms, some among the leaders saw, understood, and accepted salvation in the Messiah after they killed Him. God is patient. That is His nature, His character. He does not force.
Romanism caused corruption of the early church and pagan sophistries took hold and persecution of Christians by other professed Christians took place. Force became the "way" along with superstitions and man-made rules and regulations.
People who force others, against their will, to do their bidding, are evil. It's really as simple as that. It does not matter what title you have. It does not matter who or what you are among the race. Forcing people against their will is evil.
Now, parents have a right from God to train up their children and in love, may have to punish their children for disobedience. God does the same. Punishment is supposed to instruct not break the child's will. I have two grown daughters. Growing up, one was easily instructed and complied with life's tasks, for the most part. The other? She had to learn the hard way. That does not mean I did not surround the wood stove with a barrier, lest she touch it. It does mean when she got past that barrier when no one was looking, and touched the stove, she got burnt and learned. There was a reason for the barrier and, "No. Stay away." She looks back on that incident with great impact of memory.
My children did not have a totally pleasant upbringing. No. Unfortunately. Today, they do not practice the faith they were brought up in. I don't harp on them. God does not harp on me. God warns. Man is free to accept or reject. God does not force people to comply. He punishes in an attempt to keep mankind from destroying themselves and with all that, many make shipwreck of life regardless. I pray for my children. I hope they comply with the whole Bible plan of salvation and walking in the light but, they are adults. I cannot force them nor would I want to. That is pointless.
People who hate God or reject the notion of God see all the suffering and say there cannot be a deity and if there is, he is a despot, a tyrant, a maniacal, sadistic overlord of some kind. I thought that way when I was young and ignorant. The fact is, God did not create the world society we have. Man chose it, and continues to choose it over and over again. God grants freedom to all to choose their fate. In that range of choices and genetic gene pool development, or decline as the case is, we see the fate of sin fall upon children and our hearts are touched and we ask why and do not consider much from God's overall, universal point of view. God would have humanity look upon the effects of sin and take note that the only way out of this situation is obeying God, serving Him and getting this mess finished up ASAP. He has meant for His people to spread the truth over the planet as quickly as possible to allow for a natural progression of evil and good to develop and a final standoff take place, which facilitates the return of Christ, which, in truth, is a rescue mission. The world will be judged and destroyed because it will seek to force and compel God's people to disobey Him. That is the line which God will not allow to be crossed and will rescue His people from world-wide destruction; something that has never existed before.
God is not forcing anyone to join His ranks. He is not forcing anyone into Heaven. Nor, truth in Scripture be seen, is He going force anyone into this place called "hell" against their will. Nay. The Bible says all humanity, lost by their own choices, will suffer the fate of standing in the presence of the literal glory of God's love unleashed in one, final, fateful event called the White Throne judgment, the lake of fire, and the second death. God is not going to torture people forever. What's the point? Sinners, those who clung to their disobedience, will cease to exist. That is the only way the universe can ever have entire, heavenly peace again.
It makes no sense for anyone to force others to accept them or their lifestyle choices or anything else. All that is done is an increase of hatred and division. I do not hate anyone. I am still free to express my biblical worldview. You are free to express your worldview. I may reject it but, would never seek to enslave you to the pressures groups put upon people to conform. That solves nothing. Satan forces. God grants choice. You are free. I am free. Leave it alone. Let each be convinced in their own mind.
I am not going to change my mind just because you may attack me and seek to marginalize any influence I may have. I seek to change minds through discussion and investigation of principles, not policies engrained in society by pressure and force. I don't care what you call yourself. You can call yourself a Christian all day long but, if you seek to force your will upon your fellow man, you are not a Christian. Your are doing the work of the enemy. The same goes for those who choose lifestyles that go against the grain of Judeo-Christian civilization. You can scream, shout, embargo, and use whatever methods to force acceptance and compliance and all you are doing is creating more division that shall explode at some point. The history of the human race shows that over and over again.
I will try and reason with anyone. Give me a starting point and a subject matter and I will seek to educate myself and draw conclusions based on the evidence. If you cannot convince me based on your evidence, what possible good can it do to force me to accept your side? You have not changed my mind. You have just shown your side has no evidence that can change my mind so, you will force me to change but, even if you change my physical movements of daily life, you have not changed my mind. Therefore, I will continue to follow and obey God, not man. That is why Christ was killed. That was all they could do to shut Him up. His influence could not be overcome with sound arguments. They were wrong. They sought to kill Him to silence Him. That is the way of Satan.
You see, for me, God is the final Arbiter of all subjects and discussion. That cannot change. It will never change because God shall always have a people, though a small remnant, who shall accept that calling. You can either look the other way and pay no attention, which is the civil thing to do or, you can scream and shout and force people to accept your lifestyle. You gain nothing except totalitarianism. If you seek to change people through force you are a totalitarian by definition; you are a Marxist, a Communist, a radical minion of despotism no different than exists in North Korea or any other place where force rules.
As an American I believe in the rule of law; Constitutional provisions for civil affairs and daily life and no more than Constitutional provisions. If it is not in there, it is the purpose of States to determine lawful civil conduct. If a State chooses to do or seek something I am not in favor of, which is against principles I hold true, I am free to change minds in some civil way or move to another state, as are you.
If you cannot abide by that, you should leave America and go live in another country. I abide by the principles of Americanism. You seek to destroy them. You say, "That's right and we are winning!" Are you? How? Logically, by observance, America is becoming a lawless place; its cities falling into violence and disrepair. It is setting itself up for totalitarian control and you had better hope those who take over are not regimes that will kill you for your chosen lifestyles. I won't. Others certainly will. When Europe becomes Islamic, the L-Q+ agenda will meet a violent end. The same will happen in all countries where such worldviews hold power.
Did God stop the L-Q+ community in Sodom and Gomorrah? No. He allowed them to continue until it became a total cancer that would corrupt the entire region with sin. God warned Lot, who warned his sons-in-law, who thought he was just fooling around and rejected the warning. He took his wife and daughters out and still, his wife chose to look back and show where her allegiance really was and God judged her actions to warn all humanity in future generations.
Just like parents draw lines and if they are crossed, punishment must come; God has done that since the original rebellion. Love is not weak. Love, true love is strong and holds the line against rebellion against lawlessness.
We reap what we sow, when we disregard God's will. Unfortunately the majority of the population of planet Earth are going to find that out the hard way and it will be too late. God is not mocked. Everything is ultimately in His control.
It is a fact, if God left the world alone, Lucifer and his hosts would destroy it and all life on it. That is hatred in action. The world will be destroyed but, not by Lucifer. He shall suffer the destruction of the consuming fire of God's presence. The redeemed will bask in that presence. The lost will self-ignite in their rebellion and rejection of God's invitation to life.
You can imprison me. You can kill me. You cannot take my choice to live for God's truth and have a place in His kingdom when this mess is finally over. That is mine to cling to or let go of.
God appeals to all to keep marching. Life is a round of battles. Many times nothing will seem to make sense. At those times, we are asked to walk by faith, not sight because we have experienced the love of God, His character can be trusted, so His people keep marching until resurrection morning and the final battle when immortality shall be the reward for those who hung on and believed, when all things seemed to say belief was futile.
Love, God's love, God's truth wins.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Information: The Foundation of Life
I have shared a lot about the subject of information, as I have learned it. The universe is made up of information. The obvious question; where did information come from? Information that makes up laws and constants necessary for existence and especially life: where did it come from?
I have also mentioned scientist, biologist Dr. Michael Behe numerous times. I believe I have mentioned a series of videos he made, addressing the existence of cells. Linked below is #8; the title of this post.
For those who believe in a Creator, the information shown only makes sense. For those who deny the existence of a Creator, you are faced, not just with questions of origins of life but, the complexity of the mechanics of cell life and the information necessary to make it all work in harmony. The video shows things that are beyond marvelous. Are they the result of mistakes, mutations, random, purposeless, non-designed, unguided accidents over time? If that is what you believe, naturalists, materialists have a whole lot of splainin' to do.
www.discovery.org/v/sotc8-information/
It is stated constantly by Creationists, Intelligent Design proponents, and even many neo-Darwinists who have come to see that model as insufficient to explain what is observed in life: the more that is learned, the farther away man's desire to create life in a laboratory becomes.
If the Creator, the Deity of the Bible, did not produce information about Himself and the world we live in; if humanity had no information to go by, save for what he discovers by observation, what conclusion would a rational mind come to, when electron microscopes comes into play? We know code is not random. It is written by an intelligent mind. All information comes from an intelligent mind. What mind among humankind could design what scientists see in the codes and mechanics of life? What logical conclusion could be drawn? No human mind did it. No human mind could do it. No group of human minds can do it.
Then, what mind did?
I have also mentioned scientist, biologist Dr. Michael Behe numerous times. I believe I have mentioned a series of videos he made, addressing the existence of cells. Linked below is #8; the title of this post.
For those who believe in a Creator, the information shown only makes sense. For those who deny the existence of a Creator, you are faced, not just with questions of origins of life but, the complexity of the mechanics of cell life and the information necessary to make it all work in harmony. The video shows things that are beyond marvelous. Are they the result of mistakes, mutations, random, purposeless, non-designed, unguided accidents over time? If that is what you believe, naturalists, materialists have a whole lot of splainin' to do.
www.discovery.org/v/sotc8-information/
It is stated constantly by Creationists, Intelligent Design proponents, and even many neo-Darwinists who have come to see that model as insufficient to explain what is observed in life: the more that is learned, the farther away man's desire to create life in a laboratory becomes.
If the Creator, the Deity of the Bible, did not produce information about Himself and the world we live in; if humanity had no information to go by, save for what he discovers by observation, what conclusion would a rational mind come to, when electron microscopes comes into play? We know code is not random. It is written by an intelligent mind. All information comes from an intelligent mind. What mind among humankind could design what scientists see in the codes and mechanics of life? What logical conclusion could be drawn? No human mind did it. No human mind could do it. No group of human minds can do it.
Then, what mind did?
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Dr. David Martin - DO NOT FEAR 2.0
I greatly admire David Martin. He is one of the, if not the premier researcher out there, investigating government, big pharma, the "pandemic," conspiracy activities, medical fraud, police state issues, etc., and only researches but, speaks with a power and articulation rarely seen today.
In this interview, based around - "pandemic 2.0," behavior modification program - he opens up details of what is coming that Americans should know and understand. In many ways, we know, and we refuse to bow to the next push for control by the cabal. That said, Martin's voice remains necessary because of the research into details he gets into. To be informed is to be forewarned and forearmed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNtGshlaIg
2024 will be a culmination of everything since 9/11 to gain full control over the populace in America, combining fear of climate change, disease, domestic terrorism, Trump and the 'deplorables,' 'transphobia,' anti-LGBTQ+, and whatever else they can drum up to divide and conquer.
America is divided into three, basically even portions of citizens - Left, Right and Independents. The third group swings elections. It's been that way for a very long time. The cabal is hinging everything for control on making the third category fear more of the program than retain freedom and liberty. The Leftist base, and even some on the Right, are swallowed up in the fear machine. That makes those in the Independent third more necessary then ever to convince of the truth. Can it be done?
I did not agree with every word Martin spoke, especially analogies regarding dying versus death of the great behemoth cabal but, his message of do not fear is greatly needed now because the desperate behemoth is going to do everything it can to gain control in "Fear 2.0."
John 16:33 I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.
1John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Rev 17:14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In this interview, based around - "pandemic 2.0," behavior modification program - he opens up details of what is coming that Americans should know and understand. In many ways, we know, and we refuse to bow to the next push for control by the cabal. That said, Martin's voice remains necessary because of the research into details he gets into. To be informed is to be forewarned and forearmed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNtGshlaIg
2024 will be a culmination of everything since 9/11 to gain full control over the populace in America, combining fear of climate change, disease, domestic terrorism, Trump and the 'deplorables,' 'transphobia,' anti-LGBTQ+, and whatever else they can drum up to divide and conquer.
America is divided into three, basically even portions of citizens - Left, Right and Independents. The third group swings elections. It's been that way for a very long time. The cabal is hinging everything for control on making the third category fear more of the program than retain freedom and liberty. The Leftist base, and even some on the Right, are swallowed up in the fear machine. That makes those in the Independent third more necessary then ever to convince of the truth. Can it be done?
I did not agree with every word Martin spoke, especially analogies regarding dying versus death of the great behemoth cabal but, his message of do not fear is greatly needed now because the desperate behemoth is going to do everything it can to gain control in "Fear 2.0."
John 16:33 I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.
1John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Rev 17:14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Trash Cans and rdavidr
David Raouf has a YouTube channel, rdavidr. I may have mentioned it here before. David is into all things drums. His channel exploded some years back and is a favorite of drummers around the globe as they watch him demonstrate all kinds of drum projects from restoration to room renovation. Drum hacks, hardware innovations, weird drums... it's in there.
Because of my current situation in life, I need to do something with a lot of drum stuff. One morning, I thought of David, sent him an email, and told him about myself and my super-hype of drum shells in the drum manufacturing industry YT series, as well as this website. I mentioned if he was interested, take a look and see if there is anything he'd like to have.
He wrote me back and said he liked the tabletop rig and some other stuff but, what he really thought was cool is the trash can set. How much did I want for them. Well, you know, it's trash cans. How can I sell trash cans made into drums? Yeah, there's hardware and certainly time involved but, I figured, if he should show the set on his channel and mention mine and this site, that's enough for me. So, I boxed them up and sent them out (he paid for shipping), and he is going to wait till the rotation of up-coming videos brings about the unboxing of the set and showing it in a video sometime soon.
Now, to be honest, and I told him this, it is somewhat embarrassing to have such a set shown to the world, save for the fact I made it, and other such non-drum sets, to prove a point. The only reason trash cans can sound like drums, and pretty good drums at that, is because of drum heads under tension. It is certainly not the trash cans as shells, no special "bearing edges," and certainly no special lugs or tension rods. Have mercy, it is a hardware store special; made of the least expensive possible parts. They're trash cans with generic lumber Pine lugs and threaded rod pieces with star nuts for tension! About the only thing that can be said to make them close to "drums are the heads and hoops. Even the floor tom legs and bass drum spurs are non-starters. They function, that's it.
I have no idea how David is going to demonstrate them or comment on them. He states he's excited to get to them and check them out. I know they won't fall apart. I know they sound god because I recorded them for the Concepts 4 recording. And as I said before, my guitarist friend, John Mayes, next door in West Virginia (David lives in the Richmond, Virginia area), who mixed and mastered the recording, said it's his favorite set of the bunch.
So, I am looking forward to seeing how that episode turns out and what kind of impact it has, if any, on my YT channel and this website.
I'll let you know when it's posted.
Because of my current situation in life, I need to do something with a lot of drum stuff. One morning, I thought of David, sent him an email, and told him about myself and my super-hype of drum shells in the drum manufacturing industry YT series, as well as this website. I mentioned if he was interested, take a look and see if there is anything he'd like to have.
He wrote me back and said he liked the tabletop rig and some other stuff but, what he really thought was cool is the trash can set. How much did I want for them. Well, you know, it's trash cans. How can I sell trash cans made into drums? Yeah, there's hardware and certainly time involved but, I figured, if he should show the set on his channel and mention mine and this site, that's enough for me. So, I boxed them up and sent them out (he paid for shipping), and he is going to wait till the rotation of up-coming videos brings about the unboxing of the set and showing it in a video sometime soon.
Now, to be honest, and I told him this, it is somewhat embarrassing to have such a set shown to the world, save for the fact I made it, and other such non-drum sets, to prove a point. The only reason trash cans can sound like drums, and pretty good drums at that, is because of drum heads under tension. It is certainly not the trash cans as shells, no special "bearing edges," and certainly no special lugs or tension rods. Have mercy, it is a hardware store special; made of the least expensive possible parts. They're trash cans with generic lumber Pine lugs and threaded rod pieces with star nuts for tension! About the only thing that can be said to make them close to "drums are the heads and hoops. Even the floor tom legs and bass drum spurs are non-starters. They function, that's it.
I have no idea how David is going to demonstrate them or comment on them. He states he's excited to get to them and check them out. I know they won't fall apart. I know they sound god because I recorded them for the Concepts 4 recording. And as I said before, my guitarist friend, John Mayes, next door in West Virginia (David lives in the Richmond, Virginia area), who mixed and mastered the recording, said it's his favorite set of the bunch.
So, I am looking forward to seeing how that episode turns out and what kind of impact it has, if any, on my YT channel and this website.
I'll let you know when it's posted.
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Eric: Hawaii Real Estate
I don't have a ton of traffic at this website. Mostly, it's obviously drummers that come by and more lately, people interested in the other things I have gotten into since Covid but, whatever influence I have, I'm thankful if information helps someone find some solid ground in life.
I just watched a video that broke my heart. I don't know his last name but, Eric, the Hawaiian real estate agent on Maui, who has made all these videos to try and inform people what is going on, and started a Go Fund Me page for fire victims, has been fired from his job at Keller Williams, received death threats and even wicked people going after his kids with death threats and he has run out of gas, lost all wind in his sails. Apparently, as he tells it, one person put fake information about him and his efforts there on an Instagram Account and it went viral and now, his life is being destroyed as others pile on, NEVER BOTHERING TO GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT, just believing lies and displaying the typical low side of humanity and human nature that I just wrote about here, yesterday; about how humanity blasts God without ever checking out His side of the issue of life on this sick world. And it is sick, too.
I feel for Eric because I can empathize. Not about trying to change a physical disaster situation, no. I just know what it is like to stand up for something and have a few individuals lie about you and all hell breaks loose. People are so ready to believe lies rather than seek truth. Why? Because it makes humans feel good about themselves, just as Jesus stated in his parable about the tax collector and the Pharisee. Tax collectors were hated by the Jews; seen as traitors to their people: Jews who worked for the Romans. Christ brought a realism to that eature of Jewish life.
Luke 18:9 And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:
Luke 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector.
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.
Luke 18:12 I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Luke 18:13 And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
Eric is a Christian. He's clinging to the Lord.
Watching Eric speak, you can see the look of weariness on his face and I thought of the tax collector in this parable. There are differences, of course but, Eric set out to do what he could for the people of Maui and now, because of lies and false information or incomplete information, he's lost his job, his young son, 19, has also lost his job, and as text messages and emails pour in by the hundreds and thousands, filled with hate, Eric has hit the wall. I know it well. Human nature can only take just so much and hate is the battering ram that beats people to literal death.
I can't do anything to help Eric. I can state the situation here. He's appealing for people with various social platform accounts to let people know the good work he's is doing and try to hold back the tide of hate and misunderstanding that evil minds have created. I know there are many families he has interviewed now and many others on the island who will come to his aid but, as the Maui situation begins to hit week four and yesterday's news, and no actual, real, substantial help has arrived, it does not look good for those who have lost everything and want answers and justice.
Eric raised a million dollars for victims of the fires and has to get rid of it asap to avoid legal and tax issues. He's been cornered by lies, and now has to weed his way through thick brush of land he did not expect, and did not really look into carefully enough. That is what generally happens to simple, honest people who try and help in a very convoluted, dishonest, evil world, that does not want its evil exposed.
I hope he is able to hang on. Honestly? I would not be surprised if he ends up coming back to the mainland, leaving Maui. How many death threats can a man get, especially on his children, and weather such storm and tempest? May God hold him up to keep marching.
On the billionaire front, Oprah and Dwayne Johnson have been excoriated on social media for starting a charity for Maui victims when they could both take money, more than any of us will see in a lifetime, from their own accounts, and help people today, right now. I read they began the charity with 10 million dollars donated. If that figure is correct, that is a lot of money. It is nothing compared to what Winfrey could donate, especially owning 2000 acres of Maui land, untouched by the fires. Still, while I am not a fan of Oprah, why the hate? I have never been a fan of wrestling, and have no particular interest in The Rock, in his wrestling days or movie career but, why the hate? What does it accomplish? In Oprah's case, darker reasons may lie behind it all, given the darkness falling upon Maui behind the entire event and aftermath but, until people know for a fact, 10 mil ain't chicken feed. Why wait? Send it, bring it personally, now. And for God's sake, do not give it to any federal or local relief agency. Give it straight to the people who need it. Find out through churches, through other local businesses who need help. But, ah, of course. Like Eric has found out, starting a 501C3 charity comes with all kinds of red tape. For tax reasons, which I imagine Oprah and Johnson care about, they cannot just give the money to people straight away. You can't get a tax deduction without receipts. And there we have the entire reason why taxation in its present form is a task master, a whip in the hands of the powerful to keep everyone in line.
So goes a once great nation.
I just watched a video that broke my heart. I don't know his last name but, Eric, the Hawaiian real estate agent on Maui, who has made all these videos to try and inform people what is going on, and started a Go Fund Me page for fire victims, has been fired from his job at Keller Williams, received death threats and even wicked people going after his kids with death threats and he has run out of gas, lost all wind in his sails. Apparently, as he tells it, one person put fake information about him and his efforts there on an Instagram Account and it went viral and now, his life is being destroyed as others pile on, NEVER BOTHERING TO GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT, just believing lies and displaying the typical low side of humanity and human nature that I just wrote about here, yesterday; about how humanity blasts God without ever checking out His side of the issue of life on this sick world. And it is sick, too.
I feel for Eric because I can empathize. Not about trying to change a physical disaster situation, no. I just know what it is like to stand up for something and have a few individuals lie about you and all hell breaks loose. People are so ready to believe lies rather than seek truth. Why? Because it makes humans feel good about themselves, just as Jesus stated in his parable about the tax collector and the Pharisee. Tax collectors were hated by the Jews; seen as traitors to their people: Jews who worked for the Romans. Christ brought a realism to that eature of Jewish life.
Luke 18:9 And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:
Luke 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector.
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.
Luke 18:12 I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Luke 18:13 And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
Eric is a Christian. He's clinging to the Lord.
Watching Eric speak, you can see the look of weariness on his face and I thought of the tax collector in this parable. There are differences, of course but, Eric set out to do what he could for the people of Maui and now, because of lies and false information or incomplete information, he's lost his job, his young son, 19, has also lost his job, and as text messages and emails pour in by the hundreds and thousands, filled with hate, Eric has hit the wall. I know it well. Human nature can only take just so much and hate is the battering ram that beats people to literal death.
I can't do anything to help Eric. I can state the situation here. He's appealing for people with various social platform accounts to let people know the good work he's is doing and try to hold back the tide of hate and misunderstanding that evil minds have created. I know there are many families he has interviewed now and many others on the island who will come to his aid but, as the Maui situation begins to hit week four and yesterday's news, and no actual, real, substantial help has arrived, it does not look good for those who have lost everything and want answers and justice.
Eric raised a million dollars for victims of the fires and has to get rid of it asap to avoid legal and tax issues. He's been cornered by lies, and now has to weed his way through thick brush of land he did not expect, and did not really look into carefully enough. That is what generally happens to simple, honest people who try and help in a very convoluted, dishonest, evil world, that does not want its evil exposed.
I hope he is able to hang on. Honestly? I would not be surprised if he ends up coming back to the mainland, leaving Maui. How many death threats can a man get, especially on his children, and weather such storm and tempest? May God hold him up to keep marching.
On the billionaire front, Oprah and Dwayne Johnson have been excoriated on social media for starting a charity for Maui victims when they could both take money, more than any of us will see in a lifetime, from their own accounts, and help people today, right now. I read they began the charity with 10 million dollars donated. If that figure is correct, that is a lot of money. It is nothing compared to what Winfrey could donate, especially owning 2000 acres of Maui land, untouched by the fires. Still, while I am not a fan of Oprah, why the hate? I have never been a fan of wrestling, and have no particular interest in The Rock, in his wrestling days or movie career but, why the hate? What does it accomplish? In Oprah's case, darker reasons may lie behind it all, given the darkness falling upon Maui behind the entire event and aftermath but, until people know for a fact, 10 mil ain't chicken feed. Why wait? Send it, bring it personally, now. And for God's sake, do not give it to any federal or local relief agency. Give it straight to the people who need it. Find out through churches, through other local businesses who need help. But, ah, of course. Like Eric has found out, starting a 501C3 charity comes with all kinds of red tape. For tax reasons, which I imagine Oprah and Johnson care about, they cannot just give the money to people straight away. You can't get a tax deduction without receipts. And there we have the entire reason why taxation in its present form is a task master, a whip in the hands of the powerful to keep everyone in line.
So goes a once great nation.
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Fast Food Freak Outs!
Let me tell you a story. My parents ran a couple restaurants. I know what goes into cleaning them for health inspectors. My parents ran a very clean business. Fourteen-hour days and basically got enough profit to take a ride up North to Vermont or New Hampshire on a weekend now and then to hit some antique shops and bring home a piece of Pewter or something. I know restaurants. Hard work, long hours, you have to love people and have a servant's heart.
That is not the desire or character of most of today's teenagers.
I was living in North Carolina around the turn of the century. I was asked to pick up a young person working at the Italian restaurant, Olive Garden. When I went to the back door and looked in the little window I saw an absolute disaster area. There was food everywhere. There was so much food on the floor I literally saw a young guy skate by the door window, sliding on the food. I was shocked beyond words. I ate at Olive Garden a couple times. No thanks.
Around that same time, it hit the news some young kid working in a donut shop was caught masturbating and ejaculating into the cream mixture used for donuts. People who ate donuts from the place were complaining about weird tastes. One can only imagine the sickness they felt when the news story broke.
Around 15 years ago, I was in a well-known chain restaurant. We sat down, waitress came along, gave us menus, and I went to the men's room. A young worker came in, urinated, basically turned on the sink tap and whisked his hand through the water and went back to work. I went back to the booth, asked me wife to get up because we are leaving, NOW. I wrote a letter to the headquarters. Never heard back.
The vast majority of fast food and chain restaurants employ teenagers. Starter jobs. Look at America. Ask yourself how much you trust the majority of teenagers in this nation to care about restaurant cleanliness and food standards.
I had been into natural foods and plant-based diet for 25 years so, I never visited fast food places much, at all. Matter of fact, not long after I changed my dietary habits, I had a fish sandwich at a Burger King and got sick. That was it for me. That's 40+ years ago. Maybe I grabbed some fries if I was on the highway traveling somewhere. Once the Olive Garden on Ice show was displayed, I stayed away from fast food places or chain restaurants like the plague. The only time I violated that risk factor was when the plant based hamburgers hit at BK. At different times and places, I hit a few, found them dry, barely warm, and that was that.
I just watched a video that has 2M views. It was uploaded a couple months ago. It should have 200 million views, if not 2 billion views by now. It's a short, well done expose' on current issues with fast food places.
Here's what's going to happen. Some of you will watch it and make an intelligent decision about where you eat from now on. Some of you will just not watch because it's easier to just "la, la, la, la, la" out loud and not listen or watch it because you love fast food. You do so at your own risk. For those interested -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVjTaR3AIr0
Stay close to a bathroom. Warning. It gets pretty gross.
You had better believe there is a reason why diet and health and loyalty to God is the first chapter of the prophetic book of Daniel. Not a grand vision of future events. No. A situation of the Babylonian brainwashing program for new captives, including diet changes. Daniel was basically a young teenager himself when he and his friends were taken into Babylonian captivity. Food, unhealthy food, was part of the Babylonian campaign to change people into Babylonians. Do you think things are any different for prophetic, spiritual Babylon today?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
But wait! There's more! As an added bonus I'll give you a few dozen reasons to think twice before you consume 20 of some of your your favorite "foods." I believe I have known about 100% of the info on this video and some pretty important stuff was left out, too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1GOLbadEdA
That is not the desire or character of most of today's teenagers.
I was living in North Carolina around the turn of the century. I was asked to pick up a young person working at the Italian restaurant, Olive Garden. When I went to the back door and looked in the little window I saw an absolute disaster area. There was food everywhere. There was so much food on the floor I literally saw a young guy skate by the door window, sliding on the food. I was shocked beyond words. I ate at Olive Garden a couple times. No thanks.
Around that same time, it hit the news some young kid working in a donut shop was caught masturbating and ejaculating into the cream mixture used for donuts. People who ate donuts from the place were complaining about weird tastes. One can only imagine the sickness they felt when the news story broke.
Around 15 years ago, I was in a well-known chain restaurant. We sat down, waitress came along, gave us menus, and I went to the men's room. A young worker came in, urinated, basically turned on the sink tap and whisked his hand through the water and went back to work. I went back to the booth, asked me wife to get up because we are leaving, NOW. I wrote a letter to the headquarters. Never heard back.
The vast majority of fast food and chain restaurants employ teenagers. Starter jobs. Look at America. Ask yourself how much you trust the majority of teenagers in this nation to care about restaurant cleanliness and food standards.
I had been into natural foods and plant-based diet for 25 years so, I never visited fast food places much, at all. Matter of fact, not long after I changed my dietary habits, I had a fish sandwich at a Burger King and got sick. That was it for me. That's 40+ years ago. Maybe I grabbed some fries if I was on the highway traveling somewhere. Once the Olive Garden on Ice show was displayed, I stayed away from fast food places or chain restaurants like the plague. The only time I violated that risk factor was when the plant based hamburgers hit at BK. At different times and places, I hit a few, found them dry, barely warm, and that was that.
I just watched a video that has 2M views. It was uploaded a couple months ago. It should have 200 million views, if not 2 billion views by now. It's a short, well done expose' on current issues with fast food places.
Here's what's going to happen. Some of you will watch it and make an intelligent decision about where you eat from now on. Some of you will just not watch because it's easier to just "la, la, la, la, la" out loud and not listen or watch it because you love fast food. You do so at your own risk. For those interested -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVjTaR3AIr0
Stay close to a bathroom. Warning. It gets pretty gross.
You had better believe there is a reason why diet and health and loyalty to God is the first chapter of the prophetic book of Daniel. Not a grand vision of future events. No. A situation of the Babylonian brainwashing program for new captives, including diet changes. Daniel was basically a young teenager himself when he and his friends were taken into Babylonian captivity. Food, unhealthy food, was part of the Babylonian campaign to change people into Babylonians. Do you think things are any different for prophetic, spiritual Babylon today?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
But wait! There's more! As an added bonus I'll give you a few dozen reasons to think twice before you consume 20 of some of your your favorite "foods." I believe I have known about 100% of the info on this video and some pretty important stuff was left out, too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1GOLbadEdA
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15 Secrets of the Vatican
This is a YT video I came across last night. It's interesting from the perspective of the culture. This presentation is not about Bible prophecy. It's just about information, as the Vatican is an iconic part of Western culture. It's interesting to see how this is handled. Factually hundreds of secrets could have been added, if you want to get serious about it. The Vatican is the largest secret society, or rather, society of secrets on Earth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yek0kebbR4A
One secret, having nothing to do with the video, that turned out to be a hoax, recently discovered, adds a serious dark spot to Canada's current Leftist take-over. Various Catholic schools in three Provinces, supposedly abusing Indigenous children to death, literally, and burying bodies beneath on site buildings or unmarked grave yards, was found to be untrue. Thus far, dozens of Catholic churches have been burned down by radical Leftists, based on these rumors of history, and Trudeau's government basically sat back and watched this gross vandalism take place, even encouraging it; much like U.S. Leftist politicians encouraged riots and destruction over the 99% versus the 1% protests from several years ago and the more recent George Floyd death and aftermath. Trudeau's administration did nothing about the fires throughout the provinces, apparently figuring the RCC deserved what it was getting. The way things are going in Canada, opinions of Trudeau being a monster seem validated by his own actions and inactions.
Just because I am a Protestant does not mean I am going to throw principle and truth out the window. While I abhor popery and have no use to seek peace with Romanism; the fact is, the RCC, as a functioning institution in society, has rights, including property rights. They have been terribly violated solely because of rumors and supposed scientific discovery, now found out to be erroneous. The grounds of two or three of these suspected graveyards of abuse were excavated and no human remains were found.
This began a couple years ago when ground based radar supposedly showed up to 600 "bodies" at one site and over 250 at another. Excavations have proved futile for discovery of supposed human remains.
The stories Indigenous peoples tell of abuse at Catholic schools may be very true. Such stories are legion in many nations. All nuns and priests are not "saints," despite their vows but, just like stories of any and all such horror, things get embellished, then totally fabricated by fallen human nature, as well.
I have mentioned some stories here of abuse rendered to seventh-day Sabbath keepers in the 19th century under heavy-handed Sunday laws and abusive courts. They are on record, not hoaxes.
World history has secrets of abuse of humanity upon humanity; all nations, all peoples. History books may not have engrained them in print but, God knows every single instance and judgment shall come some day, if not from more sensible, righteous humans, definitely from the judgment seat of the Almighty.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yek0kebbR4A
One secret, having nothing to do with the video, that turned out to be a hoax, recently discovered, adds a serious dark spot to Canada's current Leftist take-over. Various Catholic schools in three Provinces, supposedly abusing Indigenous children to death, literally, and burying bodies beneath on site buildings or unmarked grave yards, was found to be untrue. Thus far, dozens of Catholic churches have been burned down by radical Leftists, based on these rumors of history, and Trudeau's government basically sat back and watched this gross vandalism take place, even encouraging it; much like U.S. Leftist politicians encouraged riots and destruction over the 99% versus the 1% protests from several years ago and the more recent George Floyd death and aftermath. Trudeau's administration did nothing about the fires throughout the provinces, apparently figuring the RCC deserved what it was getting. The way things are going in Canada, opinions of Trudeau being a monster seem validated by his own actions and inactions.
Just because I am a Protestant does not mean I am going to throw principle and truth out the window. While I abhor popery and have no use to seek peace with Romanism; the fact is, the RCC, as a functioning institution in society, has rights, including property rights. They have been terribly violated solely because of rumors and supposed scientific discovery, now found out to be erroneous. The grounds of two or three of these suspected graveyards of abuse were excavated and no human remains were found.
This began a couple years ago when ground based radar supposedly showed up to 600 "bodies" at one site and over 250 at another. Excavations have proved futile for discovery of supposed human remains.
The stories Indigenous peoples tell of abuse at Catholic schools may be very true. Such stories are legion in many nations. All nuns and priests are not "saints," despite their vows but, just like stories of any and all such horror, things get embellished, then totally fabricated by fallen human nature, as well.
I have mentioned some stories here of abuse rendered to seventh-day Sabbath keepers in the 19th century under heavy-handed Sunday laws and abusive courts. They are on record, not hoaxes.
World history has secrets of abuse of humanity upon humanity; all nations, all peoples. History books may not have engrained them in print but, God knows every single instance and judgment shall come some day, if not from more sensible, righteous humans, definitely from the judgment seat of the Almighty.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Law, No Law??? Maui Police State
Things on Maui continue to get creepier.
Eric West, citizen journalist on Maui, on his way to a funeral, stops on the roadside by the destroyed car he did a video on earlier. An unmarked police car pulls up and the female officer demands he leave the area, repeatedly. West asks for the law he is in violation of. Finally, she says, an emergency proclamation. He tries to engage her, as well as asking for her name and badge number. She refuses, continuing to demand he leave the area. She calls for back-up. Four more cars arrive and it turns into an obvious police state scene where he is asked for his license and registration, told he is in violation of the emergency proclamation from the governor. The female officer remains aloof, while others are more cordial.
Ultimately, they let him go after telling him to go to the station where the feds are set up, controlling the aftermath of the event, and get the information he requests.
The entire scene is surreal and just adds fuel to the flame of why so much secrecy and attempt to keep things totally controlled as to what citizens can see of the burn zones.
If an emergency proclamation was made, why no signs in the area telling citizens to keep out? All communications remain down: cell service and internet. The people know nothing. West is able to send out info videos via a Starlink set-up donated by Elon Musk. Otherwise, thousands of people remain in the dark as to what is happening to them.
The Oprah/Johnson situation has taken on a life of its own with a backlash rarely seen. Winfrey, Johnson, Tom Hanks and other Hollywood elites now becoming cannon fodder for ticked off people disgusted by their requests for donations for Maui relief. The world is pissed off, rightly so. Things will get worse, as long as the governor, mayor, police chief and obedient officers remain in control, along with FEMA and other federal agencies on site.
Watching this unfold on a daily basis is really quite fascinating, as well as outrageous. If Maui is a test case for the establishment of Smart Cities/15-Minute Cities these rapscallions have really bitten off more than they can chew.
And now we have testimony from people in cars, trying to get out of Lahaina, blocked by police, who ultimately had to run from their cars and jump in the ocean, stating cars were literally blowing up like bombs. How does a wild fire blow up a car sitting on a road? It's not in a tall grass field. It's on pavement.
Well, add fuel to the fire of DEW/microwave weaponry. Ever put something metal into a microwave oven? It instantly begins to spark and crackle and heat up like crazy and will burst into flames and even blow apart the oven if it isn't turned off.
Testimony of houses literally bursting into flames, like bombs going off. How can that be? Houses do not explode from the inside out in a fire. They burn from the outside in. Every nail, every screw, every piece of metal in the home under technology that can blow it apart in overheated flame. This is not to discount the source of gas that a home can run off of. Obviously, that will explode. So will a gasoline tank but, it all seems to have happened so fast, no natural fire could have pushed such envelopes. Even watching the fires caught from airplanes flying above show it moving like a car; just rolling along hundreds of yards a minute. They claim is was the wind. Unfortunately, climate scientists and fire fighting testimony rebukes that explanation. They state it can only happen with some kind of extra accelerant involved. Natural fire moved by winds at the actual speeds that day, seen on replays of various weather websites capturing it all moment by moment, shows the governor has either been lying or is ignorant of the actual speeds the winds were blowing, and it makes a difference.
It reminds me of voices on 9/11 telling people how the buildings collapsed, after they just did. Who were those people? Plants. Obvious plants to begin the official narration and story telling. One guy, in particular, comes to mind. He gave such a detailed explanation you could draw the conclusion he must have been involved.
Maui is not going away. Las Vegas struck when the nation was not reeling from runaway hyper-inflation and the majority of citizens living week to week. Americans from all walks of life and backgrounds are struggling and this event has been a rallying cry against the elites. I told you so. You could feel it. Can it be maintained?
Bear in mind, other such events can burst upon the nation, to keep the news cycle moving at conveyor belt speeds. No chance to think, no chance to critically examine what happened. The cabal is not going away. Until they are literally stopped by forces they realize they cannot fight, they are not going to stop. They are now crazed animals seeking more territory and control.
I'm not being dramatic. This has happened in civilizations all down through history. There comes a point where those in control go mad with power and will destroy anything and everything in their way to gain total control. In the last century we have seen it in Russia/USSR; China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, some African nations, and frankly, the Covid lockdowns almost completely uprooted national economies. The cabal does not care. Power and control is their only motivation.
The clash of civilizations is coming. It's here.
God help us.
Eric West, citizen journalist on Maui, on his way to a funeral, stops on the roadside by the destroyed car he did a video on earlier. An unmarked police car pulls up and the female officer demands he leave the area, repeatedly. West asks for the law he is in violation of. Finally, she says, an emergency proclamation. He tries to engage her, as well as asking for her name and badge number. She refuses, continuing to demand he leave the area. She calls for back-up. Four more cars arrive and it turns into an obvious police state scene where he is asked for his license and registration, told he is in violation of the emergency proclamation from the governor. The female officer remains aloof, while others are more cordial.
Ultimately, they let him go after telling him to go to the station where the feds are set up, controlling the aftermath of the event, and get the information he requests.
The entire scene is surreal and just adds fuel to the flame of why so much secrecy and attempt to keep things totally controlled as to what citizens can see of the burn zones.
If an emergency proclamation was made, why no signs in the area telling citizens to keep out? All communications remain down: cell service and internet. The people know nothing. West is able to send out info videos via a Starlink set-up donated by Elon Musk. Otherwise, thousands of people remain in the dark as to what is happening to them.
The Oprah/Johnson situation has taken on a life of its own with a backlash rarely seen. Winfrey, Johnson, Tom Hanks and other Hollywood elites now becoming cannon fodder for ticked off people disgusted by their requests for donations for Maui relief. The world is pissed off, rightly so. Things will get worse, as long as the governor, mayor, police chief and obedient officers remain in control, along with FEMA and other federal agencies on site.
Watching this unfold on a daily basis is really quite fascinating, as well as outrageous. If Maui is a test case for the establishment of Smart Cities/15-Minute Cities these rapscallions have really bitten off more than they can chew.
And now we have testimony from people in cars, trying to get out of Lahaina, blocked by police, who ultimately had to run from their cars and jump in the ocean, stating cars were literally blowing up like bombs. How does a wild fire blow up a car sitting on a road? It's not in a tall grass field. It's on pavement.
Well, add fuel to the fire of DEW/microwave weaponry. Ever put something metal into a microwave oven? It instantly begins to spark and crackle and heat up like crazy and will burst into flames and even blow apart the oven if it isn't turned off.
Testimony of houses literally bursting into flames, like bombs going off. How can that be? Houses do not explode from the inside out in a fire. They burn from the outside in. Every nail, every screw, every piece of metal in the home under technology that can blow it apart in overheated flame. This is not to discount the source of gas that a home can run off of. Obviously, that will explode. So will a gasoline tank but, it all seems to have happened so fast, no natural fire could have pushed such envelopes. Even watching the fires caught from airplanes flying above show it moving like a car; just rolling along hundreds of yards a minute. They claim is was the wind. Unfortunately, climate scientists and fire fighting testimony rebukes that explanation. They state it can only happen with some kind of extra accelerant involved. Natural fire moved by winds at the actual speeds that day, seen on replays of various weather websites capturing it all moment by moment, shows the governor has either been lying or is ignorant of the actual speeds the winds were blowing, and it makes a difference.
It reminds me of voices on 9/11 telling people how the buildings collapsed, after they just did. Who were those people? Plants. Obvious plants to begin the official narration and story telling. One guy, in particular, comes to mind. He gave such a detailed explanation you could draw the conclusion he must have been involved.
Maui is not going away. Las Vegas struck when the nation was not reeling from runaway hyper-inflation and the majority of citizens living week to week. Americans from all walks of life and backgrounds are struggling and this event has been a rallying cry against the elites. I told you so. You could feel it. Can it be maintained?
Bear in mind, other such events can burst upon the nation, to keep the news cycle moving at conveyor belt speeds. No chance to think, no chance to critically examine what happened. The cabal is not going away. Until they are literally stopped by forces they realize they cannot fight, they are not going to stop. They are now crazed animals seeking more territory and control.
I'm not being dramatic. This has happened in civilizations all down through history. There comes a point where those in control go mad with power and will destroy anything and everything in their way to gain total control. In the last century we have seen it in Russia/USSR; China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, some African nations, and frankly, the Covid lockdowns almost completely uprooted national economies. The cabal does not care. Power and control is their only motivation.
The clash of civilizations is coming. It's here.
God help us.
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Dad Harmony: Mesmerizing
In the midst of all the insanity out there, I come upon this -
www.youtube.com/shorts/c5r1LPHhXe0
It mesmerizing, and the children show it, too.
Just incredible.
Here's their YT channel shorts page -
www.youtube.com/@dadharmony/shorts
www.youtube.com/shorts/c5r1LPHhXe0
It mesmerizing, and the children show it, too.
Just incredible.
Here's their YT channel shorts page -
www.youtube.com/@dadharmony/shorts
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Video Underway with rdavidr
Well, David emailed me today to ask how my name is pronounced and to let me know he's unboxing the drums and will mic them up an give them a whirl for his next video.
He said the drums made it okay; just a small dent in the "floor tom." Looks like the box took a hit at a point where one of the fl. tom leg brackets are affixed. Being so thin, he figures he can pop it out.
I'll update this when he posts the video. I'm looking forward to it (I think).
He said the drums made it okay; just a small dent in the "floor tom." Looks like the box took a hit at a point where one of the fl. tom leg brackets are affixed. Being so thin, he figures he can pop it out.
I'll update this when he posts the video. I'm looking forward to it (I think).
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Where Are The Children?
Where are the 2000 children on Maui? They are not in schools, public or private. They were sent home that day. Where did they go?
The obvious answer is, disintegrated. Bones are cremated at 1300 degrees F. The Maui fires melted aluminum auto wheels. Aluminum melts at 1220 degrees F. In some shown cases, alloys on cars were disintegrated to dust. Auto glass melts at 1300-1500 degrees F, depending on composition. Maui autos scattered everywhere all have melted windows. Fire investigators have testified temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees F took place. How?
The children are horrifically gone.
It's important to remember the Maui fires were not forest fires. They were basically grass fires with some trees involved. Forest fires can rage at upwards of 2,000 degrees F. and leave nothing standing. Obviously, trees are standing all through the fire scenes at Maui. Many trees remain green. Others blackened but, still standing. Yet, houses are reduced to white ash. None of it makes sense, which gives rise to theories of microwave technology weapons being involved. Regardless, the fires burned hot enough to disintegrate human bone. The children will never be found, nor will other victims.
I came upon The Benny Show, a political commentator on YT, with a podcast on Directed-Energy Weapons. he brings the proof of their existence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JlmUXj_5po
The other answer coming forward, which I never realized. The #1 way human traffickers capture children is disaster events. Fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes... children get separated from parents and are gathered up by teams of traffickers. It's a shocking truth of the existence of pure evil.
One month in, as yet, no official stance by officials on Maui or by the State, as to how the fires started. Lawsuits are flying, blame is scattering, and nothing is being told to residents.
The situation on Maui may be another of the worst crimes against humanity ever seen in modern times.
Regardless of the outrage, answers are not forthcoming. All the governor does is tell the world how many relief workers are on the ground, while residents affected by the event remain helpless to fix their lives. They are not allowed into the fire zone in Lahaina to check the remains of homes and businesses without a permit. Drone flights canceled. Black tarp surrounding the area so no one can see it. Pull off the side of a road to get a view and police or national guard seem to instantly show up and tell you to move along. Suspicious anyone?
The level of stupidity, if not wickedness surrounding this event is unparalleled. This is the 50th state. Why is Congress not screaming for answers?
Just like every other such major event of the 20th and 21st century, things will remain a mystery, perpetrators will roam free, citizens will reap nothing.
Thankfully, God knows, and retribution day will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The obvious answer is, disintegrated. Bones are cremated at 1300 degrees F. The Maui fires melted aluminum auto wheels. Aluminum melts at 1220 degrees F. In some shown cases, alloys on cars were disintegrated to dust. Auto glass melts at 1300-1500 degrees F, depending on composition. Maui autos scattered everywhere all have melted windows. Fire investigators have testified temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees F took place. How?
The children are horrifically gone.
It's important to remember the Maui fires were not forest fires. They were basically grass fires with some trees involved. Forest fires can rage at upwards of 2,000 degrees F. and leave nothing standing. Obviously, trees are standing all through the fire scenes at Maui. Many trees remain green. Others blackened but, still standing. Yet, houses are reduced to white ash. None of it makes sense, which gives rise to theories of microwave technology weapons being involved. Regardless, the fires burned hot enough to disintegrate human bone. The children will never be found, nor will other victims.
I came upon The Benny Show, a political commentator on YT, with a podcast on Directed-Energy Weapons. he brings the proof of their existence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JlmUXj_5po
The other answer coming forward, which I never realized. The #1 way human traffickers capture children is disaster events. Fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes... children get separated from parents and are gathered up by teams of traffickers. It's a shocking truth of the existence of pure evil.
One month in, as yet, no official stance by officials on Maui or by the State, as to how the fires started. Lawsuits are flying, blame is scattering, and nothing is being told to residents.
The situation on Maui may be another of the worst crimes against humanity ever seen in modern times.
Regardless of the outrage, answers are not forthcoming. All the governor does is tell the world how many relief workers are on the ground, while residents affected by the event remain helpless to fix their lives. They are not allowed into the fire zone in Lahaina to check the remains of homes and businesses without a permit. Drone flights canceled. Black tarp surrounding the area so no one can see it. Pull off the side of a road to get a view and police or national guard seem to instantly show up and tell you to move along. Suspicious anyone?
The level of stupidity, if not wickedness surrounding this event is unparalleled. This is the 50th state. Why is Congress not screaming for answers?
Just like every other such major event of the 20th and 21st century, things will remain a mystery, perpetrators will roam free, citizens will reap nothing.
Thankfully, God knows, and retribution day will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Fan the Flames
Many people don't know that when you go to the YouTube home page, the videos you can select from are based on previous visits and what you watch: Google algorithms and all that. This morning, my page exploded with Maui videos. I remain surprised YT is allowing these videos to exist and not censoring them as mis or dis or malinformation.
Fan the Flames is the first that I watched and has a good overall view of the event. I was familiar with about half of the info but, some of the interviews and other things brought a lot of insight into the big picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ70c6pERe4
The lady who interviewed the arborist, now has a video interview with a California fireman of 33 years of experience, as well as being a captain of a fire department, Matthew Dakin. Lots of insights into these catastrophic "modern" fires.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyZGWgLWyk
She has a website with a lot of information. She has obviously done her homework.
www.standtogetherhawaii.com/mauifires
A four-minute video showing anomalous buildings that survived, and many videos of this nature exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBuhU7p-MY
A 2-hour meeting held Aug. 29. Public testimony begins at 50 minutes in and it is very emotional and explosive. Once the audio problems are corrected during the first speaker, it is a powerful testimony. The governor, Josh Green left the meeting just before public testimony. ??? The difference between those who have control and those who do not, is on a serious, real public display in this meeting, right to the very end of it. After everything stated by the people, to have the chairwoman finish her remarks with support for the governor was shocking. The people are correct, just by observation of the meeting, let alone decades of corruption.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lziklh5PeK8
The people of Maui, all Hawaiians, really, have been shafted by the U.S. government over and over again. I'll never be able to go to Hawaii. I know people who have been there. Aside from some who said it gets a lot hotter than they thought, 100% of people said it's a gorgeous place. Unfortunately, they also said the commercialization is rampant and everything is very expensive. Yet, most islanders are bound to tourism to maintain modern life and most have no serious voice as to what takes place on their ancient homeland.
It has often been said, when a catastrophe strikes, "All Americans are ______ today," referencing the people of whatever nation affected by disaster or other crisis. The way this is going, "All Americans are Hawaiians and people of Maui today."
**UPDATE**
The logical question now being asked all over the place is not, where are the children but, where are the parents? A thousand children are missing. Dozens and dozens of videos interviewing citizens of Maui and Lahaina and none of them are parents of these missing children? Does that make sense? Where are the parents, who you would think would be shouting louder than anyone for answers.
I just found this video interview with a citizen of Maui, and watching it now -
wethepatriotsusa.org/shelby-thompson-ep-115/
If children were sent home in the morning, why is their video showing a line of school buses leaving Lahaina in the afternoon? Did school buses get used to take survivors to shelters? Or, was there another reason?
Even the coolest heads in punditry are saying, the lack of information and answers, or ridiculous answers are the seeds for conspiracy theories because it certainly looks like the governor, mayor, police chief, military officials, county infrastructure administrators and others were coordinated in the worst possible response to a disaster ever.
The interview has good information in it I had not yet been exposed to. One thing very noticeable. The young woman being interviewed, throughout the conversation, smiles a lot, sits there speaking and looking pretty and you know why. Because what she's saying sounds too out there to be true. She cannot sound disgusted or outraged or angered by what has and is taking place. She stays calm and cool and in some way, while I understand it, it takes away from the revolting nature of what this entire event is. It is not something to smile about. It may just be her personality. I wish she had shown some kind of angst towards it all, especially as her mother was caught in it and escaped. Living there on the island, you would think she would be livid by what has happened and continues to happen but, she is afraid she may be seen as nutcase. I get it.
Her name is Shelby Thompson and is the owner of the Unjected.com site. It's a dating site for people not injected with the mRNA gene therapy shots. Seeing so many voices have vilified and demonized those refusing to take the injections, and understanding the risks associated with those who have, finding someone to have a relationship with has gotten quite difficult.
What would happen if thousands of citizens of Maui showed up and tore down the black fence surrounding the city of Lahaina? They should.
Here's a video taken from a boat well off shore. Clear sunny morning. Clear sunny day. The fires are burning dark gray and black, signs of an oxygen-starved fire. Well, wait a minute, there are white caps on the water, the smoke is obviously being blown by wind; supposedly by gale force winds from a hurricane several hundred miles to the South. But, as you watch the video, see the clouds behind the mountains to the East? Why are the winds not moving them? They sit, while some kind of furious wind storm moves a raging fire through the western side of the island, burning black??? How can you have an oxygen starved fire with gale force winds? Green forests can burn dark because of wet timber. Lahaina is not a forest, especially with all the trees left standing, while houses burnt to the ground in white ash. HOT fire. Black smoke? All we have heard is how dry all the old buildings were. They are said to have exploded with fire by the testimony of people witnessing the event. Nothing burned slowly. NONE of it makes sense according to the "official" story.
He goes ashore on the second day and third day. He shows pictures of what is burned to the ground, cars totally destroyed. TREES WITH LEAVES ON THEM. Buildings obviously burned from the inside out. How do you destroy the contents of a concrete building with a metal roof from a "wildfire?" A fire that reached 2500-3000 degree F burns buildings to ash but, not composite plastic fencing? That is shown just melted and still erect. Fire hot enough to melt auto glass and wheels but, not burn to the ground trees and shrubs?
It is preposterous to call the event a "natural disaster."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXHaQpH0_Q
Here's another UPDATE, 9/8, Nani Medeiros, the Housing Chief of the governor, Josh Green, has resigned. She played a big role in the above video of the meeting held, that did not have the fires on the agenda but, Maui residents showed up and gave the entire committee a fed up attitude, deservedly so. She claims she was verbally abused. Sorry. Goes with the territory when you have a public position in government. Thick skin required. And frankly, if you do not have the compassion and common sense to realize what the fires have caused, what years of dismissal of native Hawaiians has caused, you really have no business being in the public sphere of civil service in the State.
The governor, of course, is all up in arms. He has totally revealed himself in its truest form. He left the meeting just before the people were given time to speak. I found it amazing the phrase, "...allowed to speak" was repeated often in that meeting. The people were allowed to speak.
The governor should resign, as well. Claiming Medeiros was attacked at that meeting he left, is just political BS and he claims he will not allow such things to take place towards his staff members. Really? What will he do? Send police after the people who spoke up and told the truth? Of course. The non-president is doing it. Biden has lowered the bar. Why wouldn't every other politician follow suit? If Biden, if Obama, if Clinton got away with it, if Gretchen Whitmer and her cabinet can get away with it, if other governors have gotten away with it, why wouldn't Green?
Corruption.
Fan the Flames is the first that I watched and has a good overall view of the event. I was familiar with about half of the info but, some of the interviews and other things brought a lot of insight into the big picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ70c6pERe4
The lady who interviewed the arborist, now has a video interview with a California fireman of 33 years of experience, as well as being a captain of a fire department, Matthew Dakin. Lots of insights into these catastrophic "modern" fires.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyZGWgLWyk
She has a website with a lot of information. She has obviously done her homework.
www.standtogetherhawaii.com/mauifires
A four-minute video showing anomalous buildings that survived, and many videos of this nature exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBuhU7p-MY
A 2-hour meeting held Aug. 29. Public testimony begins at 50 minutes in and it is very emotional and explosive. Once the audio problems are corrected during the first speaker, it is a powerful testimony. The governor, Josh Green left the meeting just before public testimony. ??? The difference between those who have control and those who do not, is on a serious, real public display in this meeting, right to the very end of it. After everything stated by the people, to have the chairwoman finish her remarks with support for the governor was shocking. The people are correct, just by observation of the meeting, let alone decades of corruption.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lziklh5PeK8
The people of Maui, all Hawaiians, really, have been shafted by the U.S. government over and over again. I'll never be able to go to Hawaii. I know people who have been there. Aside from some who said it gets a lot hotter than they thought, 100% of people said it's a gorgeous place. Unfortunately, they also said the commercialization is rampant and everything is very expensive. Yet, most islanders are bound to tourism to maintain modern life and most have no serious voice as to what takes place on their ancient homeland.
It has often been said, when a catastrophe strikes, "All Americans are ______ today," referencing the people of whatever nation affected by disaster or other crisis. The way this is going, "All Americans are Hawaiians and people of Maui today."
**UPDATE**
The logical question now being asked all over the place is not, where are the children but, where are the parents? A thousand children are missing. Dozens and dozens of videos interviewing citizens of Maui and Lahaina and none of them are parents of these missing children? Does that make sense? Where are the parents, who you would think would be shouting louder than anyone for answers.
I just found this video interview with a citizen of Maui, and watching it now -
wethepatriotsusa.org/shelby-thompson-ep-115/
If children were sent home in the morning, why is their video showing a line of school buses leaving Lahaina in the afternoon? Did school buses get used to take survivors to shelters? Or, was there another reason?
Even the coolest heads in punditry are saying, the lack of information and answers, or ridiculous answers are the seeds for conspiracy theories because it certainly looks like the governor, mayor, police chief, military officials, county infrastructure administrators and others were coordinated in the worst possible response to a disaster ever.
The interview has good information in it I had not yet been exposed to. One thing very noticeable. The young woman being interviewed, throughout the conversation, smiles a lot, sits there speaking and looking pretty and you know why. Because what she's saying sounds too out there to be true. She cannot sound disgusted or outraged or angered by what has and is taking place. She stays calm and cool and in some way, while I understand it, it takes away from the revolting nature of what this entire event is. It is not something to smile about. It may just be her personality. I wish she had shown some kind of angst towards it all, especially as her mother was caught in it and escaped. Living there on the island, you would think she would be livid by what has happened and continues to happen but, she is afraid she may be seen as nutcase. I get it.
Her name is Shelby Thompson and is the owner of the Unjected.com site. It's a dating site for people not injected with the mRNA gene therapy shots. Seeing so many voices have vilified and demonized those refusing to take the injections, and understanding the risks associated with those who have, finding someone to have a relationship with has gotten quite difficult.
What would happen if thousands of citizens of Maui showed up and tore down the black fence surrounding the city of Lahaina? They should.
Here's a video taken from a boat well off shore. Clear sunny morning. Clear sunny day. The fires are burning dark gray and black, signs of an oxygen-starved fire. Well, wait a minute, there are white caps on the water, the smoke is obviously being blown by wind; supposedly by gale force winds from a hurricane several hundred miles to the South. But, as you watch the video, see the clouds behind the mountains to the East? Why are the winds not moving them? They sit, while some kind of furious wind storm moves a raging fire through the western side of the island, burning black??? How can you have an oxygen starved fire with gale force winds? Green forests can burn dark because of wet timber. Lahaina is not a forest, especially with all the trees left standing, while houses burnt to the ground in white ash. HOT fire. Black smoke? All we have heard is how dry all the old buildings were. They are said to have exploded with fire by the testimony of people witnessing the event. Nothing burned slowly. NONE of it makes sense according to the "official" story.
He goes ashore on the second day and third day. He shows pictures of what is burned to the ground, cars totally destroyed. TREES WITH LEAVES ON THEM. Buildings obviously burned from the inside out. How do you destroy the contents of a concrete building with a metal roof from a "wildfire?" A fire that reached 2500-3000 degree F burns buildings to ash but, not composite plastic fencing? That is shown just melted and still erect. Fire hot enough to melt auto glass and wheels but, not burn to the ground trees and shrubs?
It is preposterous to call the event a "natural disaster."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXHaQpH0_Q
Here's another UPDATE, 9/8, Nani Medeiros, the Housing Chief of the governor, Josh Green, has resigned. She played a big role in the above video of the meeting held, that did not have the fires on the agenda but, Maui residents showed up and gave the entire committee a fed up attitude, deservedly so. She claims she was verbally abused. Sorry. Goes with the territory when you have a public position in government. Thick skin required. And frankly, if you do not have the compassion and common sense to realize what the fires have caused, what years of dismissal of native Hawaiians has caused, you really have no business being in the public sphere of civil service in the State.
The governor, of course, is all up in arms. He has totally revealed himself in its truest form. He left the meeting just before the people were given time to speak. I found it amazing the phrase, "...allowed to speak" was repeated often in that meeting. The people were allowed to speak.
The governor should resign, as well. Claiming Medeiros was attacked at that meeting he left, is just political BS and he claims he will not allow such things to take place towards his staff members. Really? What will he do? Send police after the people who spoke up and told the truth? Of course. The non-president is doing it. Biden has lowered the bar. Why wouldn't every other politician follow suit? If Biden, if Obama, if Clinton got away with it, if Gretchen Whitmer and her cabinet can get away with it, if other governors have gotten away with it, why wouldn't Green?
Corruption.
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Am I a Weatherman?
No. Of course I am not a meteorologist. I am watching hurricane Lee, though. It is apparently the fastest growing hurricane wind speed on record, as well as being the largest Cat 5 storm to develop in that portion of the Atlantic ocean. Very impressive. It apparently has also become, potentially, the most dangerous storm on record, yet, weather patterns currently developing and expected to be here next week may push it out to sea; no American strike.
All the man-made, climate change calamity howlers continue to make fools of themselves by conflating 'weather' with 'climate,' which is how they have hoodwinked the minds of people all over the planet.
As a Bible believing Christian, I already know severe weather is going to ramp up the closer we get to Christ's return. The Bible says so.
Job 38:22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow? Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job 38:23 which I have kept for the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
The phrase, "the time of trouble," is one strongly attached to last-day events. Much like the difference between "the time of the end" from "the end of time," the time of trouble addresses various stresses the world will undergo, leading up to "the time of Jacob's trouble," a period of time the people of God will go through in their final testing period of Satanic pressures upon them; as Jacob did when He wrestled with the angel of God, as Esau and his army approached.
In the time of trouble God mentions cold: snow, and hailstones: a reference to severe weather events and/or the seventh plague, Rev. 16:17-21.
We all know, in America, hail can accompany both hot and cold weather storms. If you have never experienced a winter hurricane, it is a very crazy type of storm. I have experienced them a few times in Maine and down South in Tennessee/Georgia/North Carolina.
This storm, Lee, is open to a lot of conjecture as to where it ends up going. I am not a meteorologist, nor am I a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. That said, would I be surprised if Lee strikes Washington, D.C. as a category 5 storm? I would not. I might even expect it to. I might even expect some very strange events to take place before it targets wherever along the Atlantic coast of this nation.
Greece has been struck by severe drought, then fires (mostly man-made), and now record-breaking, torrential rainfall and flooding. Devastation is all over the place in various European nations. Man-made climate change? No. Just a very big weather year for heat, drought and moisture in various places. That is if one looks at the record keeping of yearly weather, NOT records of ten year stints of climate data. That's the difference Leftists refuse to tell us.
Climate change had as much to do with the Maui fires as Michael Jordan hitting a grand slam. Both are sports. They are not the same, and Jordan had nothing to do with baseball. Yeah, both balls are round. Players wear uniforms. From there, basketball and baseball have little in common.
Can man now change the weather; control it? Yes, to some degree. The science of weather control is very real. Certainly not to the degree the 'Prince of the power of the air' controls it. And obviously not to the extent the Creator controls all in His creation.
Isa 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.
Climate change? No. A world, apart from the sustaining energy of its Creator (Colossians. 1:16,17), wears out, gets old, and dies. By Christ, all things consist or hold together. Nothing is self-forming or self-sustaining. Not without the power and input from the Creator.
So, we watch and wait to see what Lee does. Will it pound America or will it be pushed back into the Atlantic?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
All the man-made, climate change calamity howlers continue to make fools of themselves by conflating 'weather' with 'climate,' which is how they have hoodwinked the minds of people all over the planet.
As a Bible believing Christian, I already know severe weather is going to ramp up the closer we get to Christ's return. The Bible says so.
Job 38:22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow? Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job 38:23 which I have kept for the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
The phrase, "the time of trouble," is one strongly attached to last-day events. Much like the difference between "the time of the end" from "the end of time," the time of trouble addresses various stresses the world will undergo, leading up to "the time of Jacob's trouble," a period of time the people of God will go through in their final testing period of Satanic pressures upon them; as Jacob did when He wrestled with the angel of God, as Esau and his army approached.
In the time of trouble God mentions cold: snow, and hailstones: a reference to severe weather events and/or the seventh plague, Rev. 16:17-21.
We all know, in America, hail can accompany both hot and cold weather storms. If you have never experienced a winter hurricane, it is a very crazy type of storm. I have experienced them a few times in Maine and down South in Tennessee/Georgia/North Carolina.
This storm, Lee, is open to a lot of conjecture as to where it ends up going. I am not a meteorologist, nor am I a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. That said, would I be surprised if Lee strikes Washington, D.C. as a category 5 storm? I would not. I might even expect it to. I might even expect some very strange events to take place before it targets wherever along the Atlantic coast of this nation.
Greece has been struck by severe drought, then fires (mostly man-made), and now record-breaking, torrential rainfall and flooding. Devastation is all over the place in various European nations. Man-made climate change? No. Just a very big weather year for heat, drought and moisture in various places. That is if one looks at the record keeping of yearly weather, NOT records of ten year stints of climate data. That's the difference Leftists refuse to tell us.
Climate change had as much to do with the Maui fires as Michael Jordan hitting a grand slam. Both are sports. They are not the same, and Jordan had nothing to do with baseball. Yeah, both balls are round. Players wear uniforms. From there, basketball and baseball have little in common.
Can man now change the weather; control it? Yes, to some degree. The science of weather control is very real. Certainly not to the degree the 'Prince of the power of the air' controls it. And obviously not to the extent the Creator controls all in His creation.
Isa 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.
Climate change? No. A world, apart from the sustaining energy of its Creator (Colossians. 1:16,17), wears out, gets old, and dies. By Christ, all things consist or hold together. Nothing is self-forming or self-sustaining. Not without the power and input from the Creator.
So, we watch and wait to see what Lee does. Will it pound America or will it be pushed back into the Atlantic?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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OH, COME ON!
Here's something I just learned. Amazon listed a book for sale -
Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change Paperback – August 10, 2023
by Dr Miles Stones (Author)
web.archive.org/web/20230817140935/https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Implications-Climate-Change/dp/B0CFCYXMRX#customerReviews
The link takes you to an archived view of the Amazon page, taken down when people began to see and share it.
Obviously, a book written about the fires, released on August 10, two days after the fires hit? The author, Dr. Miles Stones? Seriously? Here's a milestone for officials of Hawaii. Possibly the most revoltingly dumb group of elected and appointed officials in American history run the 50th State and island of Maui.
Read the advertising text for the book. Make an attempt not to laugh or vomit.
"Fire and Fury: The Story of the Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change is a gripping and eye-opening account of one of the most devastating wildfires in Hawaii's history, and how it reveals the urgent need to address the global climate crisis. The book chronicles the events of August 8-11, 2023, when a massive fire swept across the island of Maui, fueled by drought, heat, and hurricane winds. The book describes the harrowing experiences of the people who lived through the fire, as well as the heroic efforts of the firefighters and rescuers who battled the flames. The book also examines the causes and consequences of the fire, both locally and globally, and how it exposes the vulnerability of our society and our planet to the impacts of climate change. The book draws on scientific research, eyewitness accounts, official reports, and media coverage to provide a comprehensive and compelling narrative of the Maui fire and its implications for climate change. The book also offers practical solutions and recommendations on how we can prevent and prepare for future wildfires, and how we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. Fire and Fury: The Story of the Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change is a must-read for anyone who cares about the environment, the future of humanity, and the fate of our beautiful planet."
And Amazon cannot be left off the hook. What committee or employee at Amazon was foolish enough to allow the listing for this book? Maybe the same A.I. algorithm that wrote the book? Ya think?
And the books rating?
You cannot make this stuff up.
The book has 22 reviews, all 1 star. Would that it were a hoax.
Well, one month in, Americans truly po'd by this yet, nothing is being done to bring out the truth from State, County and Local officials. Tulsi Gabbard was on Joe Rogan and she does not want to go there but, she has to realize what is going on. She skirts it, while being forceful on the absolute farce of response officials have given.
While all America had, yes HAD eyes on Maui, now, hurricane Lee is barreling at the East coast. That will be the new item for the news cycle beginning now into next week and beyond if it hits the coast. The criminals of Hawaii, whether purposeful or negligent, are going to escape the judgment due their crimes. At least, in this life. When they face God some day, that's another story, altogether.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change Paperback – August 10, 2023
by Dr Miles Stones (Author)
web.archive.org/web/20230817140935/https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Implications-Climate-Change/dp/B0CFCYXMRX#customerReviews
The link takes you to an archived view of the Amazon page, taken down when people began to see and share it.
Obviously, a book written about the fires, released on August 10, two days after the fires hit? The author, Dr. Miles Stones? Seriously? Here's a milestone for officials of Hawaii. Possibly the most revoltingly dumb group of elected and appointed officials in American history run the 50th State and island of Maui.
Read the advertising text for the book. Make an attempt not to laugh or vomit.
"Fire and Fury: The Story of the Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change is a gripping and eye-opening account of one of the most devastating wildfires in Hawaii's history, and how it reveals the urgent need to address the global climate crisis. The book chronicles the events of August 8-11, 2023, when a massive fire swept across the island of Maui, fueled by drought, heat, and hurricane winds. The book describes the harrowing experiences of the people who lived through the fire, as well as the heroic efforts of the firefighters and rescuers who battled the flames. The book also examines the causes and consequences of the fire, both locally and globally, and how it exposes the vulnerability of our society and our planet to the impacts of climate change. The book draws on scientific research, eyewitness accounts, official reports, and media coverage to provide a comprehensive and compelling narrative of the Maui fire and its implications for climate change. The book also offers practical solutions and recommendations on how we can prevent and prepare for future wildfires, and how we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. Fire and Fury: The Story of the Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change is a must-read for anyone who cares about the environment, the future of humanity, and the fate of our beautiful planet."
And Amazon cannot be left off the hook. What committee or employee at Amazon was foolish enough to allow the listing for this book? Maybe the same A.I. algorithm that wrote the book? Ya think?
And the books rating?
- Best Sellers Rank: #98 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Natural Disasters (Books)
- #1 in Weather (Books)
- #1 in Environmental Science (Books)
You cannot make this stuff up.
The book has 22 reviews, all 1 star. Would that it were a hoax.
Well, one month in, Americans truly po'd by this yet, nothing is being done to bring out the truth from State, County and Local officials. Tulsi Gabbard was on Joe Rogan and she does not want to go there but, she has to realize what is going on. She skirts it, while being forceful on the absolute farce of response officials have given.
While all America had, yes HAD eyes on Maui, now, hurricane Lee is barreling at the East coast. That will be the new item for the news cycle beginning now into next week and beyond if it hits the coast. The criminals of Hawaii, whether purposeful or negligent, are going to escape the judgment due their crimes. At least, in this life. When they face God some day, that's another story, altogether.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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834. Mikaila - September 8, 2023
I have mentioned I am a vegan many times here, based on the Genesis diet; which was a plant-based diet for all land creatures, not just humans. All land creatures were created to consume a plant-based diet. Fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds. All the nutrients needed for health are in a balanced plant-based diet. Science has backed that up with studies upon studies for decades.
I have mentioned, all beasts of burden are herbivores. Most people don't stop to think about that. From elephants to oxen, the strongest creatures on earth, as well as the biggest land creatures, and ocean dwellers; many whales, for instance, which are mammals, all eat a plant-based diet. With the exception of bears, which will exist on plants when necessary, the strongest animal on Earth, pound for pound, the Mountain Gorilla, is an herbivore. 450 pounds of solid muscle for the Silver Back species. Maintained by a plant-based diet? Yes.
If plants are so good for food, why did God allow people to eat animal flesh? Well, for one thing, the Flood destroyed all vegetation. It would take a growing season to refurbish seed bearing plants and get the cycle started again. So, God gave Noah and his family permission to consume the flesh of only "clean" animals, creatures that are defined by common characteristics. Again, the animals did NOT go onto the ark two by two. The unclean went in just male and female. The clean went in by sevens. Why? Because Noah sacrificed the clean, seventh animal, leaving male and female pairs to procreate. For beasts, whatever has a cloven hoof and chews the cud is considered clean. Most of the creatures God gave Noah permission to consume for food are docile. No predators are on God's list of animals to be used for food.
There is a caveat to this new diet though. When mankind began to consume animal flesh, their ages began to dwindle. God, in His wisdom, worked out mankind's situation in life to no longer live for centuries. Generation by generation, ages dropped until the common age of three score and ten; 70 years of age, became the basic line for human age. Sure, many people live longer, some shorter but, nobody lives to be 120 or 130 anymore. There are stories of Hunzas that live that long. I have read articles and books about them. Their diet consists mostly of plants augmented with mountain stream fish.
When God led His people through the wilderness, what did he give them for food? Manna; a plant-based diet again. His obvious intention was to prepare them to be His holy representatives on Earth; to have the best health of any people alive. Unfortunately, the Hebrews did not give God much cooperation. They craved "the fleshpots of Egypt." One day, with their complaining, he sent in a sky filled with quails that dropped to the ground; the Bible states they were three feet deep. The people gorged themselves. Sickness was seen throughout the camp. Many died. A plague it was. God gave the people what they wanted, along with the potential for disease. The story is found in the book of Numbers 11:31-35.
The vast majority of human beings on Earth do not have to consume animal tissue for health.
I have mentioned all this before, numerous times so, why do it again?
Lately, Jordan Peterson's daughter, Mikaila, has been seen in a Ted Talk, a Joe Rogan interview and others, giving her testimony of years of illness and debility she suffered and the only thing that rescued her health was consumption of animal flesh, which, of course, is animal muscle. That's what humans consume, for the most part. Muscle tissue. Eating organs like liver and kidneys...you cannot imagine the toxins you take in from eating those filters of physiology.
Mikaila is a very beautiful girl, smart, a podcaster and a prime spokesperson for her diet. Her father, as well, endorses the diet for his own health. People ask vegetarians and vegans, 'What about that?' I ask, 'What about it?'
If, for whatever physiological reasons, the Petersons have anatomical necessity to consume animal flesh for health, so be it. Things are not what God created. Much of life on Earth is upside down from God's plans and Heaven's reality. It is certainly not a condemnation of God's original diet and should the Petersons make it through the gates and spend eternity with the Creator, they will not be consuming dead animals for dinner. No one will be. Death and dying are done for all creatures existing with the breath of life, and they are not going to die anymore. That is the point of eternal LIFE. All creatures shall have it. The lion shall lie down with the lamb. Nothing eats another creature ever again. Everything goes back to the way God intended.
There is an obvious point that people also miss: the corruption of the meat production and packaging industry. In the Bible, animals were to be drained of blood before consumption and done in a very specific way. Got the picture? Bloodless animal tissue. "The life is in the blood." That is both spiritual and physical. Spiritual life comes through faith in the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the Messiah; Christ. Physically, blood carries nutrients and oxygen throughout the body. Blood is life. God told His people under no circumstances were they to consume blood. Blood not only carries life; if an animal is sick, the blood also carries sickness and death. Whatever is in the blood goes straight to the person who consumes that rare steak. Most connoisseurs know blood give flesh flavor. What happens when blood is drained from flesh and cooked? It tastes very bland and one ends up covering it with salt, spices and condiments. That's a whole other study in unhealthful practices, and the convenience of it all suck in most of us.
I find it fascinating people will eat raw red meat (tartare), slightly cooked red meat, a rare steak; medium-rare, medium, medium-well and well-done. When it comes to all other animal tissue, uncooked flesh totally grosses people out. Some will eat raw fish. Many more will take a hard pass on that. It makes no sense, at all, though. Somehow, people think uncooked flesh of all other animals is unhealthy and even dangerous but, the flesh of cattle can be eaten raw or hardly cooked at all, and that is okay. Do you honestly think every cow that passes through a slaughterhouse is checked for illness and disease? Plus, all meats are now radiated to kill anything potentially unhealthy. The FDA claims the process is safe. Do you actually trust the Food and Drug administration of the Federal government? Seriously?
Recent dark actions by Federal agencies upon Amish farmers and ranchers is an egregious, obscene powerplay upon a people who just desire to be left alone and go about life as they have for centuries. Just because I am vegan does not mean I want freedom and liberty taken away from people who are not. God gave permission to eat "clean" creatures. It just comes down to what our world has become and the way cattle are fed today, they can hardly be called "clean" anymore. Grass fed beef is the only way to consume cattle and frankly, given slaughtering policy and practice, those who eat red meats of today take a risk even flesh-eating nutritionists state you are better off without.
Whether or not people eat animal flesh for food, clean animals, is a matter of choice but, not necessarily a matter of intelligent choice, given today's constant scandals and corruption of food processing industries. It's industry. Industry is about making money, not keeping people safe. They keep people safe when forced to. They keep people safe to avoid lawsuits. Eating "unclean" creatures that God never stated should be considered food is just plain foolishness. Live by your tastebuds, die by them, too.
The Peterson's are free to eat what they want. However their digestive system is helped, make no mistake, that does not reduce the risk of cumulative gathering of toxins in their system from the blood of animals they consume. It is something to think about.
God's original design, the Creator's original design, was for an herbivore diet and that is what shall exist when eternity arrives. If you expect some angels to be slaughtering cattle for your steaks, think again. Not going going to happen. Fruit from the Tree of Life will sustain the redeemed FOREVER. Tough to grasp? Yep. A lot of things God established, lost and will reestablish, often seem beyond our grasp. Any believer will admit that. They will also tell you God is not keeping anything from His people, that proves a blessing to them. Eternity will be one, eternal blessing for each of His redeemed children without end. Can't picture it? Neither can I. That does not mean the reality of it shall not take place. Bible prophecy proves the Bible can be trusted. It's Author can be trusted.
Spend time with the Creator in His Word. You'll see.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I have mentioned, all beasts of burden are herbivores. Most people don't stop to think about that. From elephants to oxen, the strongest creatures on earth, as well as the biggest land creatures, and ocean dwellers; many whales, for instance, which are mammals, all eat a plant-based diet. With the exception of bears, which will exist on plants when necessary, the strongest animal on Earth, pound for pound, the Mountain Gorilla, is an herbivore. 450 pounds of solid muscle for the Silver Back species. Maintained by a plant-based diet? Yes.
If plants are so good for food, why did God allow people to eat animal flesh? Well, for one thing, the Flood destroyed all vegetation. It would take a growing season to refurbish seed bearing plants and get the cycle started again. So, God gave Noah and his family permission to consume the flesh of only "clean" animals, creatures that are defined by common characteristics. Again, the animals did NOT go onto the ark two by two. The unclean went in just male and female. The clean went in by sevens. Why? Because Noah sacrificed the clean, seventh animal, leaving male and female pairs to procreate. For beasts, whatever has a cloven hoof and chews the cud is considered clean. Most of the creatures God gave Noah permission to consume for food are docile. No predators are on God's list of animals to be used for food.
There is a caveat to this new diet though. When mankind began to consume animal flesh, their ages began to dwindle. God, in His wisdom, worked out mankind's situation in life to no longer live for centuries. Generation by generation, ages dropped until the common age of three score and ten; 70 years of age, became the basic line for human age. Sure, many people live longer, some shorter but, nobody lives to be 120 or 130 anymore. There are stories of Hunzas that live that long. I have read articles and books about them. Their diet consists mostly of plants augmented with mountain stream fish.
When God led His people through the wilderness, what did he give them for food? Manna; a plant-based diet again. His obvious intention was to prepare them to be His holy representatives on Earth; to have the best health of any people alive. Unfortunately, the Hebrews did not give God much cooperation. They craved "the fleshpots of Egypt." One day, with their complaining, he sent in a sky filled with quails that dropped to the ground; the Bible states they were three feet deep. The people gorged themselves. Sickness was seen throughout the camp. Many died. A plague it was. God gave the people what they wanted, along with the potential for disease. The story is found in the book of Numbers 11:31-35.
The vast majority of human beings on Earth do not have to consume animal tissue for health.
I have mentioned all this before, numerous times so, why do it again?
Lately, Jordan Peterson's daughter, Mikaila, has been seen in a Ted Talk, a Joe Rogan interview and others, giving her testimony of years of illness and debility she suffered and the only thing that rescued her health was consumption of animal flesh, which, of course, is animal muscle. That's what humans consume, for the most part. Muscle tissue. Eating organs like liver and kidneys...you cannot imagine the toxins you take in from eating those filters of physiology.
Mikaila is a very beautiful girl, smart, a podcaster and a prime spokesperson for her diet. Her father, as well, endorses the diet for his own health. People ask vegetarians and vegans, 'What about that?' I ask, 'What about it?'
If, for whatever physiological reasons, the Petersons have anatomical necessity to consume animal flesh for health, so be it. Things are not what God created. Much of life on Earth is upside down from God's plans and Heaven's reality. It is certainly not a condemnation of God's original diet and should the Petersons make it through the gates and spend eternity with the Creator, they will not be consuming dead animals for dinner. No one will be. Death and dying are done for all creatures existing with the breath of life, and they are not going to die anymore. That is the point of eternal LIFE. All creatures shall have it. The lion shall lie down with the lamb. Nothing eats another creature ever again. Everything goes back to the way God intended.
There is an obvious point that people also miss: the corruption of the meat production and packaging industry. In the Bible, animals were to be drained of blood before consumption and done in a very specific way. Got the picture? Bloodless animal tissue. "The life is in the blood." That is both spiritual and physical. Spiritual life comes through faith in the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the Messiah; Christ. Physically, blood carries nutrients and oxygen throughout the body. Blood is life. God told His people under no circumstances were they to consume blood. Blood not only carries life; if an animal is sick, the blood also carries sickness and death. Whatever is in the blood goes straight to the person who consumes that rare steak. Most connoisseurs know blood give flesh flavor. What happens when blood is drained from flesh and cooked? It tastes very bland and one ends up covering it with salt, spices and condiments. That's a whole other study in unhealthful practices, and the convenience of it all suck in most of us.
I find it fascinating people will eat raw red meat (tartare), slightly cooked red meat, a rare steak; medium-rare, medium, medium-well and well-done. When it comes to all other animal tissue, uncooked flesh totally grosses people out. Some will eat raw fish. Many more will take a hard pass on that. It makes no sense, at all, though. Somehow, people think uncooked flesh of all other animals is unhealthy and even dangerous but, the flesh of cattle can be eaten raw or hardly cooked at all, and that is okay. Do you honestly think every cow that passes through a slaughterhouse is checked for illness and disease? Plus, all meats are now radiated to kill anything potentially unhealthy. The FDA claims the process is safe. Do you actually trust the Food and Drug administration of the Federal government? Seriously?
Recent dark actions by Federal agencies upon Amish farmers and ranchers is an egregious, obscene powerplay upon a people who just desire to be left alone and go about life as they have for centuries. Just because I am vegan does not mean I want freedom and liberty taken away from people who are not. God gave permission to eat "clean" creatures. It just comes down to what our world has become and the way cattle are fed today, they can hardly be called "clean" anymore. Grass fed beef is the only way to consume cattle and frankly, given slaughtering policy and practice, those who eat red meats of today take a risk even flesh-eating nutritionists state you are better off without.
Whether or not people eat animal flesh for food, clean animals, is a matter of choice but, not necessarily a matter of intelligent choice, given today's constant scandals and corruption of food processing industries. It's industry. Industry is about making money, not keeping people safe. They keep people safe when forced to. They keep people safe to avoid lawsuits. Eating "unclean" creatures that God never stated should be considered food is just plain foolishness. Live by your tastebuds, die by them, too.
The Peterson's are free to eat what they want. However their digestive system is helped, make no mistake, that does not reduce the risk of cumulative gathering of toxins in their system from the blood of animals they consume. It is something to think about.
God's original design, the Creator's original design, was for an herbivore diet and that is what shall exist when eternity arrives. If you expect some angels to be slaughtering cattle for your steaks, think again. Not going going to happen. Fruit from the Tree of Life will sustain the redeemed FOREVER. Tough to grasp? Yep. A lot of things God established, lost and will reestablish, often seem beyond our grasp. Any believer will admit that. They will also tell you God is not keeping anything from His people, that proves a blessing to them. Eternity will be one, eternal blessing for each of His redeemed children without end. Can't picture it? Neither can I. That does not mean the reality of it shall not take place. Bible prophecy proves the Bible can be trusted. It's Author can be trusted.
Spend time with the Creator in His Word. You'll see.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Playing God
How far will the Creator allow man to go before He steps in and says, "Enough."
The headline says it all -
"Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg"
"Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.
"The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.
"It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab."
www.bbc.com/news/health-66715669
As usual, a host of ethical questions arise, with all the "potential" for good stated for these exercises; not the least of which is finding ways to curtail miscarriages.
The world, generally has limits on such research but, as I say, and so many others do; if the news tells you where scientists are, some lab, somewhere, is way ahead of that, doing things under the watchful eyes of no one but, whatever corporation funds such projects.
The idea, ultimately, is to create human beings that can be totally controlled. Transhumanism. They will warp and reject and work their way through hosts of gross failures to get to the ultimate prize - creating man-made babies without genetic defects or code errors in DNA.
Cloning proved a failure. Remember Dolly, the sheep? Hollywood went crazy with sci-fi clone movies. Transhumanism is the next wave.
And yet, through the intervention of the Covid injections, miscarriages are up 3000%. Lunatic social engineers want the world's population reduced to one billion people. The next round of "vaccines" are ready to go, with the next wave of fear mongering, already underway. The WHO, the CDC, regimes ready to make another attempt at enforced injection for all humanity, with appropriate lockdowns. These people are true lunatics. May God bring them down.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The headline says it all -
"Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg"
"Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.
"The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.
"It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab."
www.bbc.com/news/health-66715669
As usual, a host of ethical questions arise, with all the "potential" for good stated for these exercises; not the least of which is finding ways to curtail miscarriages.
The world, generally has limits on such research but, as I say, and so many others do; if the news tells you where scientists are, some lab, somewhere, is way ahead of that, doing things under the watchful eyes of no one but, whatever corporation funds such projects.
The idea, ultimately, is to create human beings that can be totally controlled. Transhumanism. They will warp and reject and work their way through hosts of gross failures to get to the ultimate prize - creating man-made babies without genetic defects or code errors in DNA.
Cloning proved a failure. Remember Dolly, the sheep? Hollywood went crazy with sci-fi clone movies. Transhumanism is the next wave.
And yet, through the intervention of the Covid injections, miscarriages are up 3000%. Lunatic social engineers want the world's population reduced to one billion people. The next round of "vaccines" are ready to go, with the next wave of fear mongering, already underway. The WHO, the CDC, regimes ready to make another attempt at enforced injection for all humanity, with appropriate lockdowns. These people are true lunatics. May God bring them down.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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835.The Bible Trial - 9/9/23
A few years back, when I began to change the range of these thought posts, I mentioned over and over Leftists need to understand no one has a right not to be offended.
Well, all that is changing now. Xi, in China, wants a Chinese Communist Party Bible, because the real one offends the Communists. So, they want to rewrite it.
In India, Hindis continue to persecute Christians because they are offended by the Christian message; even though India has freedom of religion laws.
In Muslim nations it remains a crime to state anything against Allah or Muhammed. Islam gets downright nasty and dangerous when offended.
But, all that is not in the Western hemisphere, bedrock of freedom and liberty of thought, speech and action within the rule of just and civil laws. No, that is all changing in front of our eyes.
In Finland, the last few years have seen a very popular politician, a grandmother of ten, in the crosshairs of radical Leftists for stating some things online and on a radio program interview that Finnish lawmakers refuse to accept. So, they went after her. Brought her to trial. She was found innocent. Then, they went after her again.
It has been called "The Bible Trial," for that is exactly what it is: a nation's rulers putting the Bible, itself, on trial. The book offends people, just as it always has for millennium but, today's offended refuse Western civilization's former codes of freedom and liberty that made Western civilization's progress the envy of the world, bringing hundreds of millions of people from the rest of the globe into the sovereignty of freedom of conscience. That is all changing.
"HELSINKI (1 September 2023) – The Finnish trial of the Bible has concluded before the Helsinki Court of Appeal, where longstanding parliamentarian and former government minister Päivi Räsänen stood trial on charges of “hate speech” on account of three expressions of her Christian faith – in a tweet, in a 2004 church pamphlet, and in a 2019 radio interview. The medical doctor and grandmother of ten was charged for “agitation against a minority group”, a provision that falls under the section of the Finnish Criminal Code titled “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.”
“I’m hopeful that all these charges will be acquitted. It’s a very important verdict for freedom of speech and of religion and Finland, and also has consequences across Europe, but I’m hopeful for a good result,” said Räsänen upon leaving the court.
"Räsänen’s tweet, which began a lengthy police investigation which brought forth three charges, challenged her Church leadership as to their justification for sponsoring a Pride event. She attached a picture of a Bible verse from Romans.
"The court is expected to deliver a verdict by November 30th.
“You can cite the Bible”…but certain “opinions” about it are “criminal”
"The prosecutor commented in her opening statement that “the authors of the Bible are not indicted” today, but those who interpret what he said literally are: “You can cite the Bible, but it is Räsänen’s interpretation and opinion about the Bible verses that are criminal.”
"Throughout her cross-examination this morning, Räsänen was asked multiple times by the prosecutor if she would update or remove what she had said about marriage and sexuality in her 2004 church pamphlet, titled “Male & Female He Created Them”.
“The gist of the State prosecutor’s examination of Päivi was this: would she recant her beliefs? The answer was no – she will not deny the teachings of her faith. Dragging an individual through a grueling criminal trial simply for expressing their religious beliefs is not a marker of democracy and “progress” . We will continue to stand with Päivi and await the decision of the court as to whether expressing Biblical teaching is really a crime in Finland,” commented Paul Coleman, Executive Director of ADF International who are backing Päivi’s legal defense.
"The prosecution further argued that the intent behind the expression of faith was irrelevant. Räsänen should have known, said the state prosecutor, that her words could be offensive to certain people and therefore refrained from speaking. Neither did it matter, according to the prosecutor, if what she had written was “true”; what mattered was that it was insulting."
adfinternational.org/finnish-bible-trial/
And there you have it. The Prosecutor engaged in total word salad. You can site the Bible. You cannot state what it means. If you offend anyone, if you insult anyone, you can be criminalized and put away. Even Communist China allows for certain state approved churches to exist. They do not care who or what group is offended. They just want nothing to interfere with the Communist Party's rule. Do not offend Xi and the Party. On the other hand, China is actually thinking of prohibiting clothes that offend the Party -
news.yahoo.com/china-considers-law-banning-clothes-060742173.html
"China Considers Law Banning Clothes That ‘Hurt Feelings’ of Others"
There is no difference, none, between the Communists and the Finnish government. It is exactly the same thing. It just functions on a different spectrum of insult and offense.
If the trial sides with the government, why would not the same thing spread through the rest of Europe? Then, why would it not spread through the rest of Western civilization where Leftist regimes are in control?
Right now, America is a seething pot. No such case could take hold...yet. As the population ages and dies and the new generation is less and less found to be religious in any way but, guided solely by secularism, this nation, the bastion of freedom and liberty, could become a totalitarian nightmare. Right now the aged, mentally impaired non-president can be made fun of, if not felt sorry for. Trump can be ridiculed to the point of a blood dripping head in the heads of a sick female comedienne. Political cartoons can shred political enemies. All of that can change, is changing, because the world IS GOING TO STAND AGAINST GOD, who gave these freedoms and liberties.
1Co 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1Co 7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
1Co 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1Co 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
1Co 7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
In Finland, you can cite that passage. What does it mean? There, in Finland, you cannot go, if this trial goes the way the State prosecution desires.
Here's what the apostle is obviously stating -
If you are called and you accept the salvation invitation and you are a servant, a slave, abide in your calling of Christianity, regardless.
If you are allowed freedom, use it to proclaim the Gospel.
Regardless of what our condition in life, if we are called and accept the Gospel, we are all servant's of Christ. Everyone is a servant of someone or something. We are bought with the price of the blood of Christ. Our necessity to express the Gospel must not be held back by being servants of men, in any capacity. For if we are called and join to Christ, we are the Lord's freeman. Regardless of life's circumstances, we are to obey God, rather than men -
Act 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Act 22:27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
Act 22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Act 22:29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
The Finnish prosecutor should be afraid to dump her own prejudice and hatred of the Christian faith upon Rasanen. Even a pagan Roman had more sense than this prosecutor. Romans in the empire were free. Are Fins not free to express their faith? Not if the State gets its way.
Psa 119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
Psa 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psa 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Psa 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Read this passage carefully, and see how God responds when He declares freedom and liberty, and man goes back on his covenant with God.
Jer 34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Jer 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jer 34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Jer 34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jer 34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jer 34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jer 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jer 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jer 34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jer 34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Jer 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jer 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Right now, the Finnish government should be shaking in its shoes. It should be cognizant of the fact; to accept the Gospel, which Finland did, and to have God-given freedoms part of society taken away, will bring down the justice of God upon a people as sure as the sun will rise every morning. The entire Christian community of Finland; any and all denominations and faiths, of any and all religions, should be rising with one voice telling the Finnish government it is proclaiming its own doom if it removes the freedom and liberty to live one's faith regardless of who is insulted, offended or has their feelings hurt. The issue is eternal salvation, not hurt feelings. The issue is eternal life, not people offended by the truth.
Rather than Rasanen being on trial, all those offended by the Gospel should be given the freedom and liberty to leave Finland, for the wrath of offended people means nothing next to an offended God.
And there is the line for all people, all nations. It will be God's way, not man's. God is Sovereign, not man. God is in control, not man. The Almighty has a limit whereby He recognizes and knows lines cannot be crossed without gross violation of human rights.
The LORD has watched for ages the persecutions of the strong over the weak, and yet, the Gospel continues on. Why? Because the strong are actually the weak ones; and the weak are actually the strong, the victors, who shall live in eternity, while those who fight against God and His principles of freedom and liberty shall be as the dust; forgotten, lost to memory of a former time when humans thought they could rule.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Gal 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Gal 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
2Pet 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pet 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pet 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pet 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
In love, Finland should be warned. God is not mocked. He changes not. His principles will stand forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Well, all that is changing now. Xi, in China, wants a Chinese Communist Party Bible, because the real one offends the Communists. So, they want to rewrite it.
In India, Hindis continue to persecute Christians because they are offended by the Christian message; even though India has freedom of religion laws.
In Muslim nations it remains a crime to state anything against Allah or Muhammed. Islam gets downright nasty and dangerous when offended.
But, all that is not in the Western hemisphere, bedrock of freedom and liberty of thought, speech and action within the rule of just and civil laws. No, that is all changing in front of our eyes.
In Finland, the last few years have seen a very popular politician, a grandmother of ten, in the crosshairs of radical Leftists for stating some things online and on a radio program interview that Finnish lawmakers refuse to accept. So, they went after her. Brought her to trial. She was found innocent. Then, they went after her again.
It has been called "The Bible Trial," for that is exactly what it is: a nation's rulers putting the Bible, itself, on trial. The book offends people, just as it always has for millennium but, today's offended refuse Western civilization's former codes of freedom and liberty that made Western civilization's progress the envy of the world, bringing hundreds of millions of people from the rest of the globe into the sovereignty of freedom of conscience. That is all changing.
"HELSINKI (1 September 2023) – The Finnish trial of the Bible has concluded before the Helsinki Court of Appeal, where longstanding parliamentarian and former government minister Päivi Räsänen stood trial on charges of “hate speech” on account of three expressions of her Christian faith – in a tweet, in a 2004 church pamphlet, and in a 2019 radio interview. The medical doctor and grandmother of ten was charged for “agitation against a minority group”, a provision that falls under the section of the Finnish Criminal Code titled “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.”
“I’m hopeful that all these charges will be acquitted. It’s a very important verdict for freedom of speech and of religion and Finland, and also has consequences across Europe, but I’m hopeful for a good result,” said Räsänen upon leaving the court.
"Räsänen’s tweet, which began a lengthy police investigation which brought forth three charges, challenged her Church leadership as to their justification for sponsoring a Pride event. She attached a picture of a Bible verse from Romans.
"The court is expected to deliver a verdict by November 30th.
“You can cite the Bible”…but certain “opinions” about it are “criminal”
"The prosecutor commented in her opening statement that “the authors of the Bible are not indicted” today, but those who interpret what he said literally are: “You can cite the Bible, but it is Räsänen’s interpretation and opinion about the Bible verses that are criminal.”
"Throughout her cross-examination this morning, Räsänen was asked multiple times by the prosecutor if she would update or remove what she had said about marriage and sexuality in her 2004 church pamphlet, titled “Male & Female He Created Them”.
“The gist of the State prosecutor’s examination of Päivi was this: would she recant her beliefs? The answer was no – she will not deny the teachings of her faith. Dragging an individual through a grueling criminal trial simply for expressing their religious beliefs is not a marker of democracy and “progress” . We will continue to stand with Päivi and await the decision of the court as to whether expressing Biblical teaching is really a crime in Finland,” commented Paul Coleman, Executive Director of ADF International who are backing Päivi’s legal defense.
"The prosecution further argued that the intent behind the expression of faith was irrelevant. Räsänen should have known, said the state prosecutor, that her words could be offensive to certain people and therefore refrained from speaking. Neither did it matter, according to the prosecutor, if what she had written was “true”; what mattered was that it was insulting."
adfinternational.org/finnish-bible-trial/
And there you have it. The Prosecutor engaged in total word salad. You can site the Bible. You cannot state what it means. If you offend anyone, if you insult anyone, you can be criminalized and put away. Even Communist China allows for certain state approved churches to exist. They do not care who or what group is offended. They just want nothing to interfere with the Communist Party's rule. Do not offend Xi and the Party. On the other hand, China is actually thinking of prohibiting clothes that offend the Party -
news.yahoo.com/china-considers-law-banning-clothes-060742173.html
"China Considers Law Banning Clothes That ‘Hurt Feelings’ of Others"
There is no difference, none, between the Communists and the Finnish government. It is exactly the same thing. It just functions on a different spectrum of insult and offense.
If the trial sides with the government, why would not the same thing spread through the rest of Europe? Then, why would it not spread through the rest of Western civilization where Leftist regimes are in control?
Right now, America is a seething pot. No such case could take hold...yet. As the population ages and dies and the new generation is less and less found to be religious in any way but, guided solely by secularism, this nation, the bastion of freedom and liberty, could become a totalitarian nightmare. Right now the aged, mentally impaired non-president can be made fun of, if not felt sorry for. Trump can be ridiculed to the point of a blood dripping head in the heads of a sick female comedienne. Political cartoons can shred political enemies. All of that can change, is changing, because the world IS GOING TO STAND AGAINST GOD, who gave these freedoms and liberties.
1Co 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1Co 7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
1Co 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1Co 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
1Co 7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
In Finland, you can cite that passage. What does it mean? There, in Finland, you cannot go, if this trial goes the way the State prosecution desires.
Here's what the apostle is obviously stating -
If you are called and you accept the salvation invitation and you are a servant, a slave, abide in your calling of Christianity, regardless.
If you are allowed freedom, use it to proclaim the Gospel.
Regardless of what our condition in life, if we are called and accept the Gospel, we are all servant's of Christ. Everyone is a servant of someone or something. We are bought with the price of the blood of Christ. Our necessity to express the Gospel must not be held back by being servants of men, in any capacity. For if we are called and join to Christ, we are the Lord's freeman. Regardless of life's circumstances, we are to obey God, rather than men -
Act 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Act 22:27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
Act 22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Act 22:29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
The Finnish prosecutor should be afraid to dump her own prejudice and hatred of the Christian faith upon Rasanen. Even a pagan Roman had more sense than this prosecutor. Romans in the empire were free. Are Fins not free to express their faith? Not if the State gets its way.
Psa 119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
Psa 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psa 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Psa 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Read this passage carefully, and see how God responds when He declares freedom and liberty, and man goes back on his covenant with God.
Jer 34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Jer 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jer 34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Jer 34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jer 34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jer 34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jer 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jer 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jer 34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jer 34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Jer 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jer 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Right now, the Finnish government should be shaking in its shoes. It should be cognizant of the fact; to accept the Gospel, which Finland did, and to have God-given freedoms part of society taken away, will bring down the justice of God upon a people as sure as the sun will rise every morning. The entire Christian community of Finland; any and all denominations and faiths, of any and all religions, should be rising with one voice telling the Finnish government it is proclaiming its own doom if it removes the freedom and liberty to live one's faith regardless of who is insulted, offended or has their feelings hurt. The issue is eternal salvation, not hurt feelings. The issue is eternal life, not people offended by the truth.
Rather than Rasanen being on trial, all those offended by the Gospel should be given the freedom and liberty to leave Finland, for the wrath of offended people means nothing next to an offended God.
And there is the line for all people, all nations. It will be God's way, not man's. God is Sovereign, not man. God is in control, not man. The Almighty has a limit whereby He recognizes and knows lines cannot be crossed without gross violation of human rights.
The LORD has watched for ages the persecutions of the strong over the weak, and yet, the Gospel continues on. Why? Because the strong are actually the weak ones; and the weak are actually the strong, the victors, who shall live in eternity, while those who fight against God and His principles of freedom and liberty shall be as the dust; forgotten, lost to memory of a former time when humans thought they could rule.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Gal 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Gal 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
2Pet 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pet 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pet 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pet 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
In love, Finland should be warned. God is not mocked. He changes not. His principles will stand forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Smart Clothes???
"The U.S. government is investing $22 million into developing surveillance clothing that includes shirts, pants, and underwear that can record video and audio"
www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-is-investing-millions-into-surveillance-clothing-2023-9
Hey, don't ask me. I just share this crazy stuff. From cameras on police and first responder clothing to underwear that can record audio and video (???).
Then, when the time is right, it all moves into the clothing of the private sector.
Anyone who thinks the people in control are not control freaks, is just plain blind, head in the sand, readying themselves for abject slavery.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-is-investing-millions-into-surveillance-clothing-2023-9
- The federal government has a $22 million surveillance clothing program, according to The Intercept.
- The initiative will develop shirts, pants, socks, and underwear that can record audio and video.
- If viable, the washable garments will be used by US intelligence employees or those in high-stress environments.
Hey, don't ask me. I just share this crazy stuff. From cameras on police and first responder clothing to underwear that can record audio and video (???).
Then, when the time is right, it all moves into the clothing of the private sector.
Anyone who thinks the people in control are not control freaks, is just plain blind, head in the sand, readying themselves for abject slavery.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND Revisited UPDATE
With all the craziness and catastrophe, literally all around us, in whatever personal upheavals of life we are facing, for those interested, an UPDATE on the album project.
Four songs are mixed and sound really incredible. The fidelity of these new renditions compared to the originals are massive. Drum set, guitars, bass, vocals all have the 21st century crisp and clean nature that the older analogue process, to then specifications of vinyl production, could not capture. That is not to say master tapes from the era cannot be remastered to close to today's specs, using digital equipment but, I have to say, listening to the mixes brings things to a life the original did not have. I guess it is something that has to be heard. But, if you know the differences between 21st century recordings and those from the 60's and 70's, you know what I mean.
I listen to all the mixes; Tom's new ones and Martin's originals, in the line-up they shall appear on the album and I honestly admit, they bring about a sincere, if not overwhelming feeling of musicality, regardless of genre presentations, that I cannot say I ever experienced back in the day. Well, yeah, there was a lot of excitement and satisfaction in composing the material and performing it, to be sure. And as the liner notes for the new album state; none of this could be possible without the talents of Kevin Nugent to arrange so much of the original material. Just bringing a melody and lyrics to the table does not a song make. Far from it. Kevin had an ability to pull things together from my embryonic ideas in a way that made the songs, heavy as they were - genre expressive - a collection of truly musical stories. Martin and Janne have done superb jobs in making the new renditions retain that old vibe but, breathe a freshness into them, which was my hope in starting this project.
Tom is now into mixing the fifth song, the new one, Gideon. We all look forward into how he approaches this new song, with no original to guide him. He's done a spectacular job so far. I want to embellish that. All of us: myself, Martin, Janne, Tom and even Boris on the album artwork, have all taken a road of humility in expressing ourselves with the talents we have. There are no big egos. No adamant attitudes of what must be. Everything has been a really cool spirit of cooperation and giving to an enterprise that has a great deal of meaning and history behind it all; a history I had no idea existed until 2006. From having read so much about the impressions fans around the world have of the original album, I know I tread upon ground that has a lot of heartfelt allegiance all over it.
The inclusion of biblical themes for lyrics is something some might take offense to, given the darker, more aggressive and even violent lyrics I wrote back then but, I must say, when I listen to these new renditions, the new lyrics match well with the music and actually, using snippets of the old lyrics created a connection to the past that is pretty unmistakable and should prove acceptable to old fans. At least, I hope it will, and honestly; I did not pull any punches. The new lyrics are not sugar-coated mush. Not even close. They are a strong presentation of the times we live in, what is needed to be done by all humanity, and what is coming. I stayed as true to that principle as I stayed true to the art of fantasy and legends 45 years ago.
When fans take the new album or CD and put it on the turntables and in their players, each will have a certain impression from whatever they have heard or read about what they will hear. I try not to over blow the horn, if you know what I mean. I'll trumpet but, reality did not take a back seat for this project just because of my passion and excitement for it. While I wish I had given a 5-star performance, and every time I listen to a mix I say to myself, "Why didn't I do this instead of that," I can abide satisfied with the job I did. And hopefully, taking the approach I travelled will reveal things in a different way about the songs, as each one comes into frames of reference over whatever speaker system employed.
Tom readily admits he is not a professional engineer and there may be many avenues and tricks others have to get even better sound and fidelity to everything on the recording. To me, listening to the mixes, not yet mastered, up against things of the same general genres, I can only be impressed at what Tom has done thus far.
It's easy to build something up and thereby let people down. Happens all the time. I'm a realist most of my life. Aside from metaphors and analogies in speaking or writing, I don't make stuff up just to make a point. I think everything sounds amazing thus far. Call it being naïve. So be it. I come to this project having listened to some Fusion and some Jazz and Classical and a lot of Gospel music, hymnody and modern Christian music for the last 44 years. I come to LEGEND, despite memories, with ears not into this genre anymore yet, listening to the mixes sounds so musical, in the context of the messages, I can honestly say I truly enjoy it. How can that be? I really don't know. It's music: a combination of melody, harmony and rhythm. I all sounds like music, to me.
I can only hope old fans and new will enjoy what they hear; in thinking of the past, contemplating the present, and preparing for the future.
Onward>>>
Four songs are mixed and sound really incredible. The fidelity of these new renditions compared to the originals are massive. Drum set, guitars, bass, vocals all have the 21st century crisp and clean nature that the older analogue process, to then specifications of vinyl production, could not capture. That is not to say master tapes from the era cannot be remastered to close to today's specs, using digital equipment but, I have to say, listening to the mixes brings things to a life the original did not have. I guess it is something that has to be heard. But, if you know the differences between 21st century recordings and those from the 60's and 70's, you know what I mean.
I listen to all the mixes; Tom's new ones and Martin's originals, in the line-up they shall appear on the album and I honestly admit, they bring about a sincere, if not overwhelming feeling of musicality, regardless of genre presentations, that I cannot say I ever experienced back in the day. Well, yeah, there was a lot of excitement and satisfaction in composing the material and performing it, to be sure. And as the liner notes for the new album state; none of this could be possible without the talents of Kevin Nugent to arrange so much of the original material. Just bringing a melody and lyrics to the table does not a song make. Far from it. Kevin had an ability to pull things together from my embryonic ideas in a way that made the songs, heavy as they were - genre expressive - a collection of truly musical stories. Martin and Janne have done superb jobs in making the new renditions retain that old vibe but, breathe a freshness into them, which was my hope in starting this project.
Tom is now into mixing the fifth song, the new one, Gideon. We all look forward into how he approaches this new song, with no original to guide him. He's done a spectacular job so far. I want to embellish that. All of us: myself, Martin, Janne, Tom and even Boris on the album artwork, have all taken a road of humility in expressing ourselves with the talents we have. There are no big egos. No adamant attitudes of what must be. Everything has been a really cool spirit of cooperation and giving to an enterprise that has a great deal of meaning and history behind it all; a history I had no idea existed until 2006. From having read so much about the impressions fans around the world have of the original album, I know I tread upon ground that has a lot of heartfelt allegiance all over it.
The inclusion of biblical themes for lyrics is something some might take offense to, given the darker, more aggressive and even violent lyrics I wrote back then but, I must say, when I listen to these new renditions, the new lyrics match well with the music and actually, using snippets of the old lyrics created a connection to the past that is pretty unmistakable and should prove acceptable to old fans. At least, I hope it will, and honestly; I did not pull any punches. The new lyrics are not sugar-coated mush. Not even close. They are a strong presentation of the times we live in, what is needed to be done by all humanity, and what is coming. I stayed as true to that principle as I stayed true to the art of fantasy and legends 45 years ago.
When fans take the new album or CD and put it on the turntables and in their players, each will have a certain impression from whatever they have heard or read about what they will hear. I try not to over blow the horn, if you know what I mean. I'll trumpet but, reality did not take a back seat for this project just because of my passion and excitement for it. While I wish I had given a 5-star performance, and every time I listen to a mix I say to myself, "Why didn't I do this instead of that," I can abide satisfied with the job I did. And hopefully, taking the approach I travelled will reveal things in a different way about the songs, as each one comes into frames of reference over whatever speaker system employed.
Tom readily admits he is not a professional engineer and there may be many avenues and tricks others have to get even better sound and fidelity to everything on the recording. To me, listening to the mixes, not yet mastered, up against things of the same general genres, I can only be impressed at what Tom has done thus far.
It's easy to build something up and thereby let people down. Happens all the time. I'm a realist most of my life. Aside from metaphors and analogies in speaking or writing, I don't make stuff up just to make a point. I think everything sounds amazing thus far. Call it being naïve. So be it. I come to this project having listened to some Fusion and some Jazz and Classical and a lot of Gospel music, hymnody and modern Christian music for the last 44 years. I come to LEGEND, despite memories, with ears not into this genre anymore yet, listening to the mixes sounds so musical, in the context of the messages, I can honestly say I truly enjoy it. How can that be? I really don't know. It's music: a combination of melody, harmony and rhythm. I all sounds like music, to me.
I can only hope old fans and new will enjoy what they hear; in thinking of the past, contemplating the present, and preparing for the future.
Onward>>>
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A Debate Between Design Versus Chance
I'm not really into debates. Regardless of subject matter; they are political, scientific, religious, societal sports matches. Two teams represented, fans of both in the audience. Few are there to really consider the other side of their allegiance.
This particular debate is quite congenial, all things considered. The two gentleman representing Design for origins are not young-earth creationists. The two representing chance for origins are materialists: science will eventually determine everything about life, some day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhD-ag8XWMM&t=2278s
I have a difficult time listening to proponents of naturalism and materialism and everything from nothing, literally. To me, it takes tons more faith to believe in that, than a Creator. That said, listening to the first speaker for the materialist side of things I found things she said to be alarming.
The meeting is held in Poland, the host speaks in Polish and you'll have to just cursor your way forward. One of the two proponents of materialism speaks English well enough. In trying to place here exactly what she said at one point, I believe I have captured her words, beginning around 33 minutes into the video. After stating basic chemicals and environment that existed on the early Earth she makes this statement -
"...life arose from reactions between matter and energy. [Zero empirical proof of such] And those, this climb, is very well documented by numerous experiments, by the atom[?] smasher here, and those atoms produced in the laboratories both basis of nucleic acids but, as well, amino acids; it means the basic molecules in life and in RNA and DNA. [No such experiments have ever been done to the conclusion of creating life] So, they convincingly documented that those molecules could form totally abiotically and this is now the common knowledge now that all living organisms contain nucleic and protein nucleic acids but, as well proteins containing amino acids, and what is very important is what is called the chirality, is that those molecules, both which are synthesized in living organisms synthesize only one enantiomer, which means left-handed..." [If this poor woman sat down with someone truly knowledgeable in non-organic chemistry and conditions of a prebiotic Earth and the chances of life arriving from it, she would fall to pieces and things get much worse when her cohort gets involved].
She goes on to say life is not that complicated and we, as humans are not that special, even though we have minds and self-awareness that can study these things.
I can say, with no background or education in biology, genetics or any other science, this woman has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. With all the information available on YouTube alone, about cells and organic life, the complexities involved, the astronomical numbers of things involved that must get right or no life can happen, the woman is just spouting exactly what world-renowned chemist, Dr. James Tour, has publicly come out against and challenges any and every scientist on Earth to prove otherwise: nobody has made anything close to life, cannot even understand what it actually is, and are completely dishonest in their claims about their own research and what they have done.
It is astounding to listen to people, highly respected in their fields, just spouting things they have read about, or heard about and have no intimate knowledge of. Science has become a 'copy and paste' mentality.
To claim humans are not that special is an ignorance beyond contemplation. But, if you believe everything came from nothing and life is just an accident and all life from that point on, to the incomprehensible thing that a human brain is, is all no big deal: time did it, should keep any such reasoning from entering a laboratory. Such people are dangerous. You call me dangerous for being a believer in a Creator and you think someone telling people nothing on Earth is special, nobody is special, everything is just an accident, somehow lifts life in the ears and minds of her listeners? Are you serious? Talk about an advertisement for The Purge! No wonder these people think reducing the planet's population by 7 billion people is no big deal. Lunacy!
This particular debate is quite congenial, all things considered. The two gentleman representing Design for origins are not young-earth creationists. The two representing chance for origins are materialists: science will eventually determine everything about life, some day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhD-ag8XWMM&t=2278s
I have a difficult time listening to proponents of naturalism and materialism and everything from nothing, literally. To me, it takes tons more faith to believe in that, than a Creator. That said, listening to the first speaker for the materialist side of things I found things she said to be alarming.
The meeting is held in Poland, the host speaks in Polish and you'll have to just cursor your way forward. One of the two proponents of materialism speaks English well enough. In trying to place here exactly what she said at one point, I believe I have captured her words, beginning around 33 minutes into the video. After stating basic chemicals and environment that existed on the early Earth she makes this statement -
"...life arose from reactions between matter and energy. [Zero empirical proof of such] And those, this climb, is very well documented by numerous experiments, by the atom[?] smasher here, and those atoms produced in the laboratories both basis of nucleic acids but, as well, amino acids; it means the basic molecules in life and in RNA and DNA. [No such experiments have ever been done to the conclusion of creating life] So, they convincingly documented that those molecules could form totally abiotically and this is now the common knowledge now that all living organisms contain nucleic and protein nucleic acids but, as well proteins containing amino acids, and what is very important is what is called the chirality, is that those molecules, both which are synthesized in living organisms synthesize only one enantiomer, which means left-handed..." [If this poor woman sat down with someone truly knowledgeable in non-organic chemistry and conditions of a prebiotic Earth and the chances of life arriving from it, she would fall to pieces and things get much worse when her cohort gets involved].
She goes on to say life is not that complicated and we, as humans are not that special, even though we have minds and self-awareness that can study these things.
I can say, with no background or education in biology, genetics or any other science, this woman has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. With all the information available on YouTube alone, about cells and organic life, the complexities involved, the astronomical numbers of things involved that must get right or no life can happen, the woman is just spouting exactly what world-renowned chemist, Dr. James Tour, has publicly come out against and challenges any and every scientist on Earth to prove otherwise: nobody has made anything close to life, cannot even understand what it actually is, and are completely dishonest in their claims about their own research and what they have done.
It is astounding to listen to people, highly respected in their fields, just spouting things they have read about, or heard about and have no intimate knowledge of. Science has become a 'copy and paste' mentality.
To claim humans are not that special is an ignorance beyond contemplation. But, if you believe everything came from nothing and life is just an accident and all life from that point on, to the incomprehensible thing that a human brain is, is all no big deal: time did it, should keep any such reasoning from entering a laboratory. Such people are dangerous. You call me dangerous for being a believer in a Creator and you think someone telling people nothing on Earth is special, nobody is special, everything is just an accident, somehow lifts life in the ears and minds of her listeners? Are you serious? Talk about an advertisement for The Purge! No wonder these people think reducing the planet's population by 7 billion people is no big deal. Lunacy!
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Another Corrupt Governor?
Hawaii has given Americans and the world a view of government corruption unlike any other in recent times, save for tyranny involving Covid, which, according to news reports, is going to make a comeback this month. Fauci is still walking around a free man, and the typical corrupt organizations: WHO, CDC, etc. have begun the fear mongering again. These people never quit.
New Mexico, like Texas and Arizona, are states with a lot of gun owners. Traditionally low crime states, the criminal element must be careful because any citizen, at any time, could be carrying. Democrat run cities always seem to rank the highest in crime.
Current governor, Michelle Grisham, believes it is within her authority to suspend the second amendment of the American Constitution by outlawing guns within a certain range of Albuquerque. Stating the rights of victims supersedes the Constitution and rights of gun owners, we now see the next test for citizens of a state. Hawaii/Maui citizens face a test for literal survival. Citizens of New Mexico now face a test of authority: the people or the governor.
rumble.com/v3g8c86-new-mexicos-governor-issued-an-emergency-public-health-order-that.html
Just the lack of common sense should get her impeached. Criminals don't obey laws. DUH. Taking guns away from law-biding citizens just makes it easier for criminals to commit crime. A ten-year-old can understand that.
"Emergency" orders CANNOT supersede the Constitution and Bill of Rights. That is the highest law of the land and Democrats, as well as Republicans, have forgotten, ignored or fought against that and shown just what kind of unAmericans or nonAmericans they are.
Will the ruling class win again? The sheriff of the county Albuquerque resides in should place Grisham under arrest. Suspension of the Constitution and second amendment should place her in jail and let all others know Mew Mexico and all 50 states are bound by that document, no exceptions. Unfortunately, the video seems to show the Sheriff sitting next to her. The other guy may be the District Attorney.
Her position is so stupid, it is incredible. Her answers to reporter's questions show the woman has no common sense and no understanding of the rights of all citizens, not some over others. If there is an emergency of crime in Albuquerque, that is a task for law enforcement, not taking away citizen's rights to protect themselves and their loved ones. Listening to her is like listening to a climate alarmist. There is just no reasoning with people who believe they can do whatever they think necessary to bring about change, regardless of the rights of others. All they do is piss off law-biding people and make things worse.
New Mexico, like Texas and Arizona, are states with a lot of gun owners. Traditionally low crime states, the criminal element must be careful because any citizen, at any time, could be carrying. Democrat run cities always seem to rank the highest in crime.
Current governor, Michelle Grisham, believes it is within her authority to suspend the second amendment of the American Constitution by outlawing guns within a certain range of Albuquerque. Stating the rights of victims supersedes the Constitution and rights of gun owners, we now see the next test for citizens of a state. Hawaii/Maui citizens face a test for literal survival. Citizens of New Mexico now face a test of authority: the people or the governor.
rumble.com/v3g8c86-new-mexicos-governor-issued-an-emergency-public-health-order-that.html
Just the lack of common sense should get her impeached. Criminals don't obey laws. DUH. Taking guns away from law-biding citizens just makes it easier for criminals to commit crime. A ten-year-old can understand that.
"Emergency" orders CANNOT supersede the Constitution and Bill of Rights. That is the highest law of the land and Democrats, as well as Republicans, have forgotten, ignored or fought against that and shown just what kind of unAmericans or nonAmericans they are.
Will the ruling class win again? The sheriff of the county Albuquerque resides in should place Grisham under arrest. Suspension of the Constitution and second amendment should place her in jail and let all others know Mew Mexico and all 50 states are bound by that document, no exceptions. Unfortunately, the video seems to show the Sheriff sitting next to her. The other guy may be the District Attorney.
Her position is so stupid, it is incredible. Her answers to reporter's questions show the woman has no common sense and no understanding of the rights of all citizens, not some over others. If there is an emergency of crime in Albuquerque, that is a task for law enforcement, not taking away citizen's rights to protect themselves and their loved ones. Listening to her is like listening to a climate alarmist. There is just no reasoning with people who believe they can do whatever they think necessary to bring about change, regardless of the rights of others. All they do is piss off law-biding people and make things worse.
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Whatever You Think of Trump
It is clear the man loves America and the principles of Americanism.
I have not listened to a Trump speech in years. Mostly because he says the same stuff all the time. I listened to this speech, at least the portion the video shows. His collection of problems facing America is pretty exhaustive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zaiuzn_PY&t=22269s
He sounds tired and every American should consider something. Nobody in American history, save for Abraham Lincoln, has undergone attack and pressures this one man has. To say he is a billionaire and isolated from things could be true but, this man has put himself out there as the only spokesperson for the average American in all politics. There is no other voice. No congressman, no senator, no governor, no one has put themselves out there, in defiance of D.C. corruption, like this man has. He is a walking target for everything that is wrong with current America.
People have taken note of a pause he took in the speech, looking contemplative and for him, kind of emotional. I don't know. I didn't see that in the pause but, what I did see and hear is a man who loves the nation, has learned some hard lessons; and even though he most certainly does not have to, against worse odds than any contender for POTUS a man has ever faced, he is running for the most demanding job in America. With all his faults, it seems a job he was made for.
He should not have to run, to campaign. Biden should have been arrested, along with all others involved in the steal and Trump should have been installed as POTUS. It is his office by democratic and republican process. The opposing political party wants him dead. His own party wants him gone, and half of America is showing up at his rallies. If the process were left alone, he won by a landslide. If the process stays honest (totally unlikely) he will win by the biggest landslide and margin in American history. Everybody knows that. They already know it, fear it, and will walk in a desperation that may cost Trump more than the presidency for another four years yet, he carries on.
I mentioned a couple weeks ago Governor Noem or Kari Lake would make an interesting and formidable VP pick. Apparently Noem gave quite a speech at this event, and as Trump hugged her, a huge sign behind them showed Noem and Trump for the '24 ticket. It will be interesting to see what develops, not because of politics. Because of the survival of America, as America. Larger than that, how America fits into Bible prophecy and last-day events.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I came upon Noem's speech. It's pretty cool, though she stayed away from election integrity and the 2020 steal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GAaNVbWTw&t=58s
It's a shame the Forbes channel cut off the introduction by Noem of Trump. If you want to see it, good luck. I could not find a video of it anywhere. All videos cut off the response the crowd gave to Noem's endorsement and Trump's entrance into the arena. And you can imagine the thunderous applause.
Actually, I found a couple on Rumble but, the instant Noem mentions Trump's name the arena PA blasted a distorted version of Lee Greenfield's, Proud to be an American, which drowned out the crowd.
I have not listened to a Trump speech in years. Mostly because he says the same stuff all the time. I listened to this speech, at least the portion the video shows. His collection of problems facing America is pretty exhaustive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zaiuzn_PY&t=22269s
He sounds tired and every American should consider something. Nobody in American history, save for Abraham Lincoln, has undergone attack and pressures this one man has. To say he is a billionaire and isolated from things could be true but, this man has put himself out there as the only spokesperson for the average American in all politics. There is no other voice. No congressman, no senator, no governor, no one has put themselves out there, in defiance of D.C. corruption, like this man has. He is a walking target for everything that is wrong with current America.
People have taken note of a pause he took in the speech, looking contemplative and for him, kind of emotional. I don't know. I didn't see that in the pause but, what I did see and hear is a man who loves the nation, has learned some hard lessons; and even though he most certainly does not have to, against worse odds than any contender for POTUS a man has ever faced, he is running for the most demanding job in America. With all his faults, it seems a job he was made for.
He should not have to run, to campaign. Biden should have been arrested, along with all others involved in the steal and Trump should have been installed as POTUS. It is his office by democratic and republican process. The opposing political party wants him dead. His own party wants him gone, and half of America is showing up at his rallies. If the process were left alone, he won by a landslide. If the process stays honest (totally unlikely) he will win by the biggest landslide and margin in American history. Everybody knows that. They already know it, fear it, and will walk in a desperation that may cost Trump more than the presidency for another four years yet, he carries on.
I mentioned a couple weeks ago Governor Noem or Kari Lake would make an interesting and formidable VP pick. Apparently Noem gave quite a speech at this event, and as Trump hugged her, a huge sign behind them showed Noem and Trump for the '24 ticket. It will be interesting to see what develops, not because of politics. Because of the survival of America, as America. Larger than that, how America fits into Bible prophecy and last-day events.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I came upon Noem's speech. It's pretty cool, though she stayed away from election integrity and the 2020 steal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GAaNVbWTw&t=58s
It's a shame the Forbes channel cut off the introduction by Noem of Trump. If you want to see it, good luck. I could not find a video of it anywhere. All videos cut off the response the crowd gave to Noem's endorsement and Trump's entrance into the arena. And you can imagine the thunderous applause.
Actually, I found a couple on Rumble but, the instant Noem mentions Trump's name the arena PA blasted a distorted version of Lee Greenfield's, Proud to be an American, which drowned out the crowd.
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The BLUE Stuff
Just in case you have not been exposed to the Blue things that did not burn in the Maui fires, here's a list of things I have seen thus far -
Blue T-shirts sitting in rubble
Blue cars surrounded by destroyed vehicles
Blue roofs or houses painted Blue surrounded by destroyed houses or buildings
Blue patron umbrellas outside a destroyed restaurant
Blue plastic 50gal. drum sitting amidst rubble
Blues business or street signs on destroyed buildings or surrounded by destruction
Blue plastic on a truck bed destroyed by the fires
Blue plastic swing-set seat surrounded by destruction
A demonstration video of lasers on various colored cloth (the Blue does not ignite)
Why? Think of a green screen used for television. Put a green screen behind a weatherman and you can portray any kind of digital picture behind him. All kinds of podcasters on YT use green screen technology. It's widely available.
Colors have a type of frequency. Technology can be set to ignore a color by coding for that or other procedures used.
For those who deny the current existence or reality of energy weapons, just go here and watch any number of videos posted -
www.military.com/video/directed-energy-weapons
www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106717
The DOD, Department of Defense, defines a Directed Energy weapon thusly-
"Overview DOD defines DE weapons as those using concentrated electromagnetic energy, rather than kinetic energy, to “incapacitate, damage, disable, or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and/or personnel.”
"Fact check" sites are frantically trying to shout conspiracy theory!!! Sorry. The facts have been there a long time. Consider your microwave oven. Normally, they are designed to only heat organic material, i.e. food and liquids. Minerals, like glassware and dishware, are not meant to get hot, unless the heated food or liquid transfers heat to the container. If someone could put their arm into a microwave oven and close the door, their arm would be cooked to total, shriveled, char if left on long enough. Not all microwave ovens work like that. Some will heat whatever you put in them and you must never put metal into one. Why? Because metals react to microwaves exponentially faster and more violently. New microwave ovens have adjusted technology to place racks in them, upon which metal trays or plates can be used. It is a definitive, controllable technology that has advanced over the years. The same can be said for weaponry, way ahead of household appliances.
Watch this video. The gentleman discusses the 'Blue' issue but, what he does not bring out is a scene where cars are toasted and melted, except a Blue car, which only has damage to the front of the vehicle, being close to the fire across the sidewalk. Obviously incredibly intense heat did that. While the cameraman is walking along the sidewalk, please notice the metal plates in the sidewalk. Whether they are manhole covers for entry to underground electric or plumbing, or just surface covers for the same, ask yourself how the edge of a fire could be hot enough to burn them, in the sidewalk, the way the cars are burned in the parking lot. A forest fire would not even do that. The fire would pass over and maybe some soot would be seen on the metal. Those plates were not burned by a grass fire, a wildfire, or a house fire. What were they burned by? The logical answer is microwave technology.
Common sense draws a conclusion here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_ZWu6NoK8
It seems only local news is now still talking about the Maui fires. The rest of the main stream media has moved on to other topics, like hurricane Lee. Thankfully, residents of Hawaii and Maui, in particular, as well as YT channels, are being relentless in their investigations and exposures of the corruption behind the event and the dozens of unanswered questions.
I'll be honest, the same kind of intense investigation by organizations around the world, with prominent scientists, military leaders, political leaders, demolition experts, building contractors, fire fighters, etc., have documented 9/11, ad infinitum for 22 years now, and what has come of it all? In 2011, Toronto, Canada hosted a mock trial, with a jury of scientists, etc., presented by several witnesses, authors, technology experts, and others, which found the official story a fabrication; and a crime of unimaginable consequence was committed. No such type of meeting could be held in America. It would be relentlessly vilified in the extreme and it is unlikely any venue would host it for fear of government retribution. That did not change the information presented or the conclusion the jury came to. Twenty-two years later, justice has yet to be served. The 9/11 Commission was a farce. Everything government does is a farce.
Unless something radical is done by the residents of Hawaii and Maui, this event will move along as planned. It's just the level of corruption that now exists.
And I state again -
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Blue T-shirts sitting in rubble
Blue cars surrounded by destroyed vehicles
Blue roofs or houses painted Blue surrounded by destroyed houses or buildings
Blue patron umbrellas outside a destroyed restaurant
Blue plastic 50gal. drum sitting amidst rubble
Blues business or street signs on destroyed buildings or surrounded by destruction
Blue plastic on a truck bed destroyed by the fires
Blue plastic swing-set seat surrounded by destruction
A demonstration video of lasers on various colored cloth (the Blue does not ignite)
Why? Think of a green screen used for television. Put a green screen behind a weatherman and you can portray any kind of digital picture behind him. All kinds of podcasters on YT use green screen technology. It's widely available.
Colors have a type of frequency. Technology can be set to ignore a color by coding for that or other procedures used.
For those who deny the current existence or reality of energy weapons, just go here and watch any number of videos posted -
www.military.com/video/directed-energy-weapons
www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106717
The DOD, Department of Defense, defines a Directed Energy weapon thusly-
"Overview DOD defines DE weapons as those using concentrated electromagnetic energy, rather than kinetic energy, to “incapacitate, damage, disable, or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and/or personnel.”
"Fact check" sites are frantically trying to shout conspiracy theory!!! Sorry. The facts have been there a long time. Consider your microwave oven. Normally, they are designed to only heat organic material, i.e. food and liquids. Minerals, like glassware and dishware, are not meant to get hot, unless the heated food or liquid transfers heat to the container. If someone could put their arm into a microwave oven and close the door, their arm would be cooked to total, shriveled, char if left on long enough. Not all microwave ovens work like that. Some will heat whatever you put in them and you must never put metal into one. Why? Because metals react to microwaves exponentially faster and more violently. New microwave ovens have adjusted technology to place racks in them, upon which metal trays or plates can be used. It is a definitive, controllable technology that has advanced over the years. The same can be said for weaponry, way ahead of household appliances.
Watch this video. The gentleman discusses the 'Blue' issue but, what he does not bring out is a scene where cars are toasted and melted, except a Blue car, which only has damage to the front of the vehicle, being close to the fire across the sidewalk. Obviously incredibly intense heat did that. While the cameraman is walking along the sidewalk, please notice the metal plates in the sidewalk. Whether they are manhole covers for entry to underground electric or plumbing, or just surface covers for the same, ask yourself how the edge of a fire could be hot enough to burn them, in the sidewalk, the way the cars are burned in the parking lot. A forest fire would not even do that. The fire would pass over and maybe some soot would be seen on the metal. Those plates were not burned by a grass fire, a wildfire, or a house fire. What were they burned by? The logical answer is microwave technology.
Common sense draws a conclusion here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_ZWu6NoK8
It seems only local news is now still talking about the Maui fires. The rest of the main stream media has moved on to other topics, like hurricane Lee. Thankfully, residents of Hawaii and Maui, in particular, as well as YT channels, are being relentless in their investigations and exposures of the corruption behind the event and the dozens of unanswered questions.
I'll be honest, the same kind of intense investigation by organizations around the world, with prominent scientists, military leaders, political leaders, demolition experts, building contractors, fire fighters, etc., have documented 9/11, ad infinitum for 22 years now, and what has come of it all? In 2011, Toronto, Canada hosted a mock trial, with a jury of scientists, etc., presented by several witnesses, authors, technology experts, and others, which found the official story a fabrication; and a crime of unimaginable consequence was committed. No such type of meeting could be held in America. It would be relentlessly vilified in the extreme and it is unlikely any venue would host it for fear of government retribution. That did not change the information presented or the conclusion the jury came to. Twenty-two years later, justice has yet to be served. The 9/11 Commission was a farce. Everything government does is a farce.
Unless something radical is done by the residents of Hawaii and Maui, this event will move along as planned. It's just the level of corruption that now exists.
And I state again -
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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836. A.I. and Air - September 11, 2023
Picture a scene. It is B.C.; Before Christ; ancient Babylon. Kings have deity-like authority over populations. Religions are based more on imagination and superstitions than reason. The king of ancient Babylon, upset that a teenage Hebrew kid gave him an interpretation of a dream he was repeatedly having, messed up his whole idea of power and control. He would be replaced by kingdoms portrayed by metals as inferior to him: Gold, silver, brass, iron, iron mixed with clay.
The king decides to make an enormous image standing around 90 feet tall, on a big pedestal, overlaid with gold. There shall come no kingdom beyond his. Babylon will rule forever. And he makes a proclamation; a mandate -
Dan 3:4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
Dan 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Dan 3:6 And whoso falls not down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Dan 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
The story goes on with the great defiance of the three Hebrew young men to not bow down, they get thrown into the furnace, and are delivered by God; the king flips out and makes a decree that the God of the Hebrews is #1 and must be worshipped. Nebuchadnezzar meant well but, religious decrees are always dangerous, as they prove to be in other chapters of the book of Daniel. And in chapter four, the king's pride and arrogance, his self-centered attitude is struck down by God in a very creative way (lycanthropy), and the king is actually converted. But, that is not the feature of this post. No. I used Daniel to open with the thought of sound. When people heard the sound of the musical instruments they were to bow down. Ancient Babylon used sound to herald obedience.
As we have looked at in previous posts, sound is also a motivating factor with modern, spiritual, prophetic Babylon -
Rev 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Rev 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Rev 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
One of the many judgments God pronounces on Babylon is the stoppage of music to influence people. Is music used in religion today to influence people? In some respects, music has become religion; churches have become entertainment centers, not centers of study to learn absolute biblical truth. Consider something.
Recently someone related to me their take on A.I. in music. For them, as long as there is air, there will always be human production of music through singing and playing of instruments.
In a sense, that cannot be argued with. Birds, obviously, and certain kinds of other animals communicate through the air, and as long as it's there, their songs will be, too.
The old saying, If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?, is not a question of science. As long as air is there, it makes a sound. Sound is creation of movement of vibrations and waves in air: particles that have a medium to move in: atmosphere, water or underground. Unless a tree falls in a perfect vacuum, it makes a sound.
A.I. does not consider air, per se'. A.I. has perfect pitch, based on the science of sound; the Hertz factor, the speed of vibrations. It's all on paper, as fact: information. A.I. does not need to hear sound to create the basis for sound. That means, no rehearsals. Everything to A.I. is a 1 or 0. Sound does not involve air, it involves digitization, computerization, information, that's all. That makes A.I. a potential creator of "music" - melody, harmony and rhythm - of any conceivable kind of combinations. As it gets more sophisticated in computation of it all, there is no genre A.I. will not take over because it will produce far more than the human mind and physical anatomy is capable of.
Add to that the science of holography; holograms, and there will be nothing A.I. cannot portray. And it shall logically go well beyond entertainment into areas of mental influence and control through frequencies.
When I used that picture above as a comical allegory to portray the actions of a drummer proficient with 4-way independence, on the Concepts for Solo Drum Set #1 page; A.I. will create a virtual octopus playing drums, a cuttlefish playing guitar, a squid playing bass, and a starfish playing keyboards and it will look absolutely real. Ask yourself what young people will find more entertaining: that or some old guys on a stage? See what I mean?
The fact is, right now, robots can play basic rock and roll songs. The more sophisticated robotics become, the greater the ability to play more difficult types of music. Right now, it is questioned if robotics could ever have the dexterity of those seen in Animusic. Will that always be the case? If time continues on and mankind does not destroy itself, certainly that will be the case. Animusic will become a physical reality. Rube Goldberg/chain reaction machines have existed for a century. A.I. will create information chain reaction machines.
That sector of humanity cannot seem to live with the barriers and lines humanity exists in. It's the same as speed. Humans, some humans, have a need to go faster and faster. Humanity broke the speed of sound barrier. Humanity will strive to gain speed of light travel, some way, some how.
The unfortunate reality is, fantasy will become everyone's accepted reality. Especially is that the case because of the stress of daily life for all humanity, getting worse every year. Circumstances and conditions worsen; humans need a break; A.I. will create it.
Like Hollywood, dystopian movies, where some people live inside a city providing everything, and people barely surviving life outside the walls, there will always be humans with instruments to create sound among the peasantry, to make music but, in a world being engulfed, controlled by technology, musicians are fooling themselves if they think their place in music is a necessary one or even a wanted one, considering how much money is spent on musicians making music, recorded or live. When A.I. can do it, the suits will choose A.I. over humans at the drop of a dime on a dish. Dollar signs are all they will see.
I'm glad I won't be around to see it all. While it is fascinating to me - and it all began with CGI - after awhile it reaches it's own barrier; for me, anyway. I am nowhere near as curious and fascinated about CGI animation as I once was. Today, the number of movies using CGI to create background scenery and foreground characters is common place. There is always a constant struggle for people in entertainment to deal with boredom of both entertainers and especially an audience. The use of synthesizers changed music. The ever growing realism of a synthesized orchestra or any instrument in one, and instruments known around the world, replaced the use of them. There are still aspects of touch upon physical acoustic instruments that cannot yet be replaced but, who would be naive enough to think it cannot happen?
Reality check. Humans will be come unnecessary. The Matrix may become reality far more soon than we imagine.
I obviously hope Christ returns before that happens. One would think He will. The salvation of humanity, in the Bible, is based on the removal of sin from human minds and actions. The very existence of humans will be threatened by technology, where sin is not an issue of 1's and 0's. It just information to be negated by technology. It's called, transhumanism.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The king decides to make an enormous image standing around 90 feet tall, on a big pedestal, overlaid with gold. There shall come no kingdom beyond his. Babylon will rule forever. And he makes a proclamation; a mandate -
Dan 3:4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
Dan 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Dan 3:6 And whoso falls not down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Dan 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
The story goes on with the great defiance of the three Hebrew young men to not bow down, they get thrown into the furnace, and are delivered by God; the king flips out and makes a decree that the God of the Hebrews is #1 and must be worshipped. Nebuchadnezzar meant well but, religious decrees are always dangerous, as they prove to be in other chapters of the book of Daniel. And in chapter four, the king's pride and arrogance, his self-centered attitude is struck down by God in a very creative way (lycanthropy), and the king is actually converted. But, that is not the feature of this post. No. I used Daniel to open with the thought of sound. When people heard the sound of the musical instruments they were to bow down. Ancient Babylon used sound to herald obedience.
As we have looked at in previous posts, sound is also a motivating factor with modern, spiritual, prophetic Babylon -
Rev 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Rev 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Rev 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
One of the many judgments God pronounces on Babylon is the stoppage of music to influence people. Is music used in religion today to influence people? In some respects, music has become religion; churches have become entertainment centers, not centers of study to learn absolute biblical truth. Consider something.
Recently someone related to me their take on A.I. in music. For them, as long as there is air, there will always be human production of music through singing and playing of instruments.
In a sense, that cannot be argued with. Birds, obviously, and certain kinds of other animals communicate through the air, and as long as it's there, their songs will be, too.
The old saying, If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?, is not a question of science. As long as air is there, it makes a sound. Sound is creation of movement of vibrations and waves in air: particles that have a medium to move in: atmosphere, water or underground. Unless a tree falls in a perfect vacuum, it makes a sound.
A.I. does not consider air, per se'. A.I. has perfect pitch, based on the science of sound; the Hertz factor, the speed of vibrations. It's all on paper, as fact: information. A.I. does not need to hear sound to create the basis for sound. That means, no rehearsals. Everything to A.I. is a 1 or 0. Sound does not involve air, it involves digitization, computerization, information, that's all. That makes A.I. a potential creator of "music" - melody, harmony and rhythm - of any conceivable kind of combinations. As it gets more sophisticated in computation of it all, there is no genre A.I. will not take over because it will produce far more than the human mind and physical anatomy is capable of.
Add to that the science of holography; holograms, and there will be nothing A.I. cannot portray. And it shall logically go well beyond entertainment into areas of mental influence and control through frequencies.
When I used that picture above as a comical allegory to portray the actions of a drummer proficient with 4-way independence, on the Concepts for Solo Drum Set #1 page; A.I. will create a virtual octopus playing drums, a cuttlefish playing guitar, a squid playing bass, and a starfish playing keyboards and it will look absolutely real. Ask yourself what young people will find more entertaining: that or some old guys on a stage? See what I mean?
The fact is, right now, robots can play basic rock and roll songs. The more sophisticated robotics become, the greater the ability to play more difficult types of music. Right now, it is questioned if robotics could ever have the dexterity of those seen in Animusic. Will that always be the case? If time continues on and mankind does not destroy itself, certainly that will be the case. Animusic will become a physical reality. Rube Goldberg/chain reaction machines have existed for a century. A.I. will create information chain reaction machines.
That sector of humanity cannot seem to live with the barriers and lines humanity exists in. It's the same as speed. Humans, some humans, have a need to go faster and faster. Humanity broke the speed of sound barrier. Humanity will strive to gain speed of light travel, some way, some how.
The unfortunate reality is, fantasy will become everyone's accepted reality. Especially is that the case because of the stress of daily life for all humanity, getting worse every year. Circumstances and conditions worsen; humans need a break; A.I. will create it.
Like Hollywood, dystopian movies, where some people live inside a city providing everything, and people barely surviving life outside the walls, there will always be humans with instruments to create sound among the peasantry, to make music but, in a world being engulfed, controlled by technology, musicians are fooling themselves if they think their place in music is a necessary one or even a wanted one, considering how much money is spent on musicians making music, recorded or live. When A.I. can do it, the suits will choose A.I. over humans at the drop of a dime on a dish. Dollar signs are all they will see.
I'm glad I won't be around to see it all. While it is fascinating to me - and it all began with CGI - after awhile it reaches it's own barrier; for me, anyway. I am nowhere near as curious and fascinated about CGI animation as I once was. Today, the number of movies using CGI to create background scenery and foreground characters is common place. There is always a constant struggle for people in entertainment to deal with boredom of both entertainers and especially an audience. The use of synthesizers changed music. The ever growing realism of a synthesized orchestra or any instrument in one, and instruments known around the world, replaced the use of them. There are still aspects of touch upon physical acoustic instruments that cannot yet be replaced but, who would be naive enough to think it cannot happen?
Reality check. Humans will be come unnecessary. The Matrix may become reality far more soon than we imagine.
I obviously hope Christ returns before that happens. One would think He will. The salvation of humanity, in the Bible, is based on the removal of sin from human minds and actions. The very existence of humans will be threatened by technology, where sin is not an issue of 1's and 0's. It just information to be negated by technology. It's called, transhumanism.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Reality
Reality - a certain group of people on Earth are seeking to control humanity.
Reality - such a group has always existed. Humanity called them Caesars, kings, queens, emperors, monarchs, shahs, khans, czars... pick one. They have always existed and will always exist until Christ returns to end it all.
In one small patch of time something happened that shocked and shook the world -
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ~ That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
That was reality in 1776. That is still reality in 2023. The 50 states may not be united anymore, which provides even more reason for free people to make decisions to abolish old governments and provide new ones to no longer abuse, usurp, pursue despotism, and to produce ones who establish security for its citizens. Americans have reached a place where they no longer consent to be governed by wannabe kings and queens.
Politicians can only get away with what citizens allow them to. The Framers were correct. History shows "that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." But, when the "long train" forms, enough is enough.
A great example of this is the movement to create a larger Idaho and smaller Oregon. I hope they succeed. Why should they not? The Leftist government in control in Oregon has made life reach that stage of insufferable existence that causes the rising up for abolishment and change.
The same is on the table in Hawaii and now New Mexico. Arizona, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Georgia; the list grows ever longer where corruption and criminal actions by these "servants" began when servitude became akin to 'the divine right of kings' in their minds. The same can be said for states throughout America. The nation has reached that stage of insufferable actions upon citizens by elected or worse, appointed civil servants to cause constant upheaval of Americanism - life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, to which nature's God entitles them. It stands in plain English - we are endowed by our Creator with certain INALIENABLE RIGHTS. We cannot be alienated from these rights granted, given to us by the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe. We can only have them stripped away by idiocy or despotism masquerading as civil servants.
America has reached a stage of revolution or worse, civil war. We have been in a civil war for many decades through a cultural war. The cultural war now shows us what the result is - riots, theft, civil disobedience based on lies, not facts or truth, which is ruining cities and spreading out to farmlands, where drugs cannot be stopped and illegal immigrants are changing the entire economy of America. The lack of critical thinking has destroyed a whole generation of youth who have lost, if they had it, common sense. The same can be said for previous generations before this one.
After the 2020 election steal, many proclaimed 1776 but, nothing resulted. Now, some of the very people who proclaimed 1776 are going on trial for having the courage to speak out about the 2020 election. The CORRUPTION of American civil service has reached a place beyond what King George III ignited 247 years ago and people expected kings to be corrupt. American politicians? Yes, even there Americans have grown accustomed to lying demigods in D.C. but, now, it has reached that place where citizens have had enough.
What happens next? You can be sure, totally certain, Leftists are about to play hardball, no Rollerball. Americans who prize freedom, liberty and life with pursuit of happiness will have to decide how willing they are to stand against the tyranny. Elections can no longer be the vehicle for change. The system is now part of the corruption.
Time is swiftly running out for the principles of Americanism to remain intact; what's left of them.
Reality - such a group has always existed. Humanity called them Caesars, kings, queens, emperors, monarchs, shahs, khans, czars... pick one. They have always existed and will always exist until Christ returns to end it all.
In one small patch of time something happened that shocked and shook the world -
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ~ That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
That was reality in 1776. That is still reality in 2023. The 50 states may not be united anymore, which provides even more reason for free people to make decisions to abolish old governments and provide new ones to no longer abuse, usurp, pursue despotism, and to produce ones who establish security for its citizens. Americans have reached a place where they no longer consent to be governed by wannabe kings and queens.
Politicians can only get away with what citizens allow them to. The Framers were correct. History shows "that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." But, when the "long train" forms, enough is enough.
A great example of this is the movement to create a larger Idaho and smaller Oregon. I hope they succeed. Why should they not? The Leftist government in control in Oregon has made life reach that stage of insufferable existence that causes the rising up for abolishment and change.
The same is on the table in Hawaii and now New Mexico. Arizona, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Georgia; the list grows ever longer where corruption and criminal actions by these "servants" began when servitude became akin to 'the divine right of kings' in their minds. The same can be said for states throughout America. The nation has reached that stage of insufferable actions upon citizens by elected or worse, appointed civil servants to cause constant upheaval of Americanism - life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, to which nature's God entitles them. It stands in plain English - we are endowed by our Creator with certain INALIENABLE RIGHTS. We cannot be alienated from these rights granted, given to us by the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe. We can only have them stripped away by idiocy or despotism masquerading as civil servants.
America has reached a stage of revolution or worse, civil war. We have been in a civil war for many decades through a cultural war. The cultural war now shows us what the result is - riots, theft, civil disobedience based on lies, not facts or truth, which is ruining cities and spreading out to farmlands, where drugs cannot be stopped and illegal immigrants are changing the entire economy of America. The lack of critical thinking has destroyed a whole generation of youth who have lost, if they had it, common sense. The same can be said for previous generations before this one.
After the 2020 election steal, many proclaimed 1776 but, nothing resulted. Now, some of the very people who proclaimed 1776 are going on trial for having the courage to speak out about the 2020 election. The CORRUPTION of American civil service has reached a place beyond what King George III ignited 247 years ago and people expected kings to be corrupt. American politicians? Yes, even there Americans have grown accustomed to lying demigods in D.C. but, now, it has reached that place where citizens have had enough.
What happens next? You can be sure, totally certain, Leftists are about to play hardball, no Rollerball. Americans who prize freedom, liberty and life with pursuit of happiness will have to decide how willing they are to stand against the tyranny. Elections can no longer be the vehicle for change. The system is now part of the corruption.
Time is swiftly running out for the principles of Americanism to remain intact; what's left of them.
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Nick
I post this with some trepidation. Those of you who have followed the progress of LEGEND projects since 2019, with the reissue of From the Fjords, will recognize the name Lou, being Lou D'Onofrio, Kevin's younger cousin. Lou was a real fan of the band, and aspects of the reissue of the album were integral to his involvement.
Lou's son, Nick, a student at South Carolina University, was involved in a tragic accident on the 28th of August. Lou had told me how he took his son down there (from Connecticut), to situate him, and visit with him. He obviously loved his son very much.
Nick was going home to his new frat house at 2 a.m. and walked up to the wrong house and upon trying to enter, was mistaken for a robber, shot and killed by the home's occupant.
A tragedy like this, we have read of them before, changes perspective when it's someone we know. I never met Nick. I have only seen pictures in news reports but, a life lost so young, under such circumstances... I cannot imagine the grief and suffering of soul and spirit the family must be going through. The hole that death of a loved one, so young brings, is very deep.
Remember them in your thoughts and prayers.
I hope the day is not far off when that family and all families who love God will be reunited again; all sorrow and suffering past, forever, and things return to the way they were meant to be.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Lou's son, Nick, a student at South Carolina University, was involved in a tragic accident on the 28th of August. Lou had told me how he took his son down there (from Connecticut), to situate him, and visit with him. He obviously loved his son very much.
Nick was going home to his new frat house at 2 a.m. and walked up to the wrong house and upon trying to enter, was mistaken for a robber, shot and killed by the home's occupant.
A tragedy like this, we have read of them before, changes perspective when it's someone we know. I never met Nick. I have only seen pictures in news reports but, a life lost so young, under such circumstances... I cannot imagine the grief and suffering of soul and spirit the family must be going through. The hole that death of a loved one, so young brings, is very deep.
Remember them in your thoughts and prayers.
I hope the day is not far off when that family and all families who love God will be reunited again; all sorrow and suffering past, forever, and things return to the way they were meant to be.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Official Stories
Yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, New Yok City, New York; the Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, and the crash of United Airlines, flight 93, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In 2009 I was exposed to numerous video documentaries as well as reading materials from various organizations online, which showed evidence refuting the "official" story of what happened that day. Subsequent videos and reading material of review of the 9/11 Commission hearings and their final report, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST report of a given explanation of what brought down the two towers and building #7 that day, have greatly impacted my understanding of what actually took place before, during and after that day.
I suppose from the first week of watching and reading to the amount of material I have watched and read over the years would amount to a good two weeks of solid, 24/7 exposure to other elements of evidence and problems with the official story. I am no expert of steel building construction or demolition. I am no expert of airplanes, jetliners, piloting the same, fuel capacities, temperature and burn rates, melting points, incendiary devices, or any other aspect of research and investigation done by dozens of various entities since that fateful day. That said, 2009 changed my life. Based on the evidence, I became a strong proponent of the necessity for another, serious investigation of the all events of the previous years and months leading up to the 11th, and following months and years after it. It is not just improbable, that the official explanation is accurate and correct; it is IMPOSSIBLE to be so. Worse, the evidence indicates American knowledge of the event, prior to its taking place, and even being involved in the event.
I do not care if anyone refers to me as a 9/11 "Truther," or any kind of "conspiracy theorist." No serious investigation of the Trade Center collapse; the largest crime scene in American history, was ever done, as all rubble was moved away and shipped away as soon as the heat of the remains of the building's collapse allowed people in for purposes of excavation.
I recently mentioned the mock trial that took place in Toronto, Canada, in 2011, the tenth anniversary of the event. Various experts from various fields gave testimony before a panel of judges, also experts in various fields of science and technology, over a period of 4 days. The panel then took time to access all the information given and write their own report, based on the evidence.
The video linked below, is a documentary based on the weekend of testimony, Q&A and discussions that took place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XJ7EpOrJk&list=PLNMSFS8b5WIoaxSto1pK4mjaANBOWt2Ws&index=24
It should be remembered, many other videos have been produced which get into the official stories of the Pentagon and flight 93 episodes, as well. And other possible explanations exist, aside from those given in the above video, for what happened to the Towers that day. Given recent events in California and Maui, those explanations take on greater meaning.
The legislatures of various nations, who had citizens lost that day, have asked for further investigation. To this date, the Federal government refuses to comply with any domestic or foreign/international request.
9/11 changed the United States, it changed the world, and continues to have an impact. Every American should understand why there are opposing views to the official story. Americans and citizens of other nations are dying, literally thousands of American servicemen and women, and millions of non-combatants in other lands engulfed in American/Allied wars against "terror."
Why?
In 2009 I was exposed to numerous video documentaries as well as reading materials from various organizations online, which showed evidence refuting the "official" story of what happened that day. Subsequent videos and reading material of review of the 9/11 Commission hearings and their final report, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST report of a given explanation of what brought down the two towers and building #7 that day, have greatly impacted my understanding of what actually took place before, during and after that day.
I suppose from the first week of watching and reading to the amount of material I have watched and read over the years would amount to a good two weeks of solid, 24/7 exposure to other elements of evidence and problems with the official story. I am no expert of steel building construction or demolition. I am no expert of airplanes, jetliners, piloting the same, fuel capacities, temperature and burn rates, melting points, incendiary devices, or any other aspect of research and investigation done by dozens of various entities since that fateful day. That said, 2009 changed my life. Based on the evidence, I became a strong proponent of the necessity for another, serious investigation of the all events of the previous years and months leading up to the 11th, and following months and years after it. It is not just improbable, that the official explanation is accurate and correct; it is IMPOSSIBLE to be so. Worse, the evidence indicates American knowledge of the event, prior to its taking place, and even being involved in the event.
I do not care if anyone refers to me as a 9/11 "Truther," or any kind of "conspiracy theorist." No serious investigation of the Trade Center collapse; the largest crime scene in American history, was ever done, as all rubble was moved away and shipped away as soon as the heat of the remains of the building's collapse allowed people in for purposes of excavation.
I recently mentioned the mock trial that took place in Toronto, Canada, in 2011, the tenth anniversary of the event. Various experts from various fields gave testimony before a panel of judges, also experts in various fields of science and technology, over a period of 4 days. The panel then took time to access all the information given and write their own report, based on the evidence.
The video linked below, is a documentary based on the weekend of testimony, Q&A and discussions that took place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XJ7EpOrJk&list=PLNMSFS8b5WIoaxSto1pK4mjaANBOWt2Ws&index=24
It should be remembered, many other videos have been produced which get into the official stories of the Pentagon and flight 93 episodes, as well. And other possible explanations exist, aside from those given in the above video, for what happened to the Towers that day. Given recent events in California and Maui, those explanations take on greater meaning.
The legislatures of various nations, who had citizens lost that day, have asked for further investigation. To this date, the Federal government refuses to comply with any domestic or foreign/international request.
9/11 changed the United States, it changed the world, and continues to have an impact. Every American should understand why there are opposing views to the official story. Americans and citizens of other nations are dying, literally thousands of American servicemen and women, and millions of non-combatants in other lands engulfed in American/Allied wars against "terror."
Why?
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837. See How Climate Change Works? - 9/13/23
I am looking at a story on Yahoo News about flooding events around the world in the last week and a half. Yahoo, being far Left, as well as NBC News, where they sourced the story, one would expect to see a common reason given for these events and it appeared quickly in the article.
"Eight catastrophic floods in 11 days: What’s behind intense rainfall around the world?
"As with many other forms of extreme weather, scientists say climate change is most likely having an impact on rainfall and flooding, but understanding precisely what that relationship is can be tricky.
"In general, studies have shown that global warming is intensifying the planet’s water cycle. Warmer temperatures increase evaporation, which means a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. As a result, when storms can unleash more intense precipitation and thus cause severe flooding."
And there is the general reason now given for all weather events, as well as fires, earthquakes, volcanoes and Russia invading Ukraine: Climate change!
Is it really that simple? Well, no, and the article then gets into that, after making the climate change agenda take its place in the pantheon of Leftist reasons the world is a mess.
"However, a number of factors can influence flooding events and their severity, and teasing out the fingerprints of climate change when they all interact can be challenging, Hoell said.
“From a 1,000-foot view, it’s definitely true that if you have higher temperatures, you have more water vapor, and therefore you can have more precipitation fall from the sky,” he said. “But when you look at a specific event and the specific set of physical processes relevant to that event, it then becomes difficult to attribute every single process in that causal chain.”
"For one thing, the types of extreme weather that caused each of the eight catastrophic flooding events this month had different origins."
"With certain types of extreme flooding events, such as those associated with Mediterranean cyclones like Daniel, there simply isn't enough data to observe shifts over time.
“We really don’t have a long enough sample or record to be able to detect a change, because they’re not really that common of an occurrence,” Hoell said."In other cases, local factors, such as how wet or dry the ground is or an area’s basic topography, can have enormous influences on how floods develop — and their consequences."
And so goes the ever expanding truth about 'global cooling," "global warming" and the easier to mask, generalized nature of "climate change." It's complicated. Weather is complicated. Studying climate changes over decades is complicated.
When I was younger, back in the 1970's, global cooling was constantly being touted as a harbinger for the end of the world. An ice age was going to burst upon us. Then it became global warming. To keep from being seen as the calamity howling extremists the world began to see them as, climate change became the mantra. Everything can fit into the inconvenient "truth" of climate change.
Seeing as how the planet's climate does change, severely at times, why is the change of climate such a warning mechanism for Leftists to constantly, CONSTANTLY tell us we are doomed if we do not stop using "fossil fuels" - oil, gas and coal - for energy needs? Because there is a group of elites that want to reduce and control the population of the world. It is not about weather and climate. It is about control. So, if you show valid scientific reasons to deny these elitists their shell game you are branded a climate denier, which is so stupid as to be moronic. Nobody denies climate change. Everybody knows the climate changes. What people deny is man-made climate change that is going to wipe out all life on Earth and all the calamity howling about carbon footprints. It is not only far too complicated an issue to blame on fossil fuel use, everybody reverting to a solely electric society and civilization is fraught with man-made problems, itself.
As it is, China produces around a third of all this carbon footprint that's going to kill us all but, do you see Leftist media raging at China for their polluting ways? No. It is all America's fault. Add to that India's ever growing manufacturing base and you now have a huge portion of "climate change" sitting at their front doors on the other side of the earth but, Americans have to buy electric cars and the trucking industry has to be forced to only drive electric trucks which will drive up the prices of goods through the roof, worse than man-made inflation is already doing.
The schemes of the wicked never end. Those who crave power and control will attempt to gain it any way they can get away with. UN, WEF, WMF, WHO and the rest of them with their plans for control; these model plans they come up with by a certain date, the latest is 2030 and Smart Cities, 15-Minute Cities, all electric run communities where citizens own nothing and are happy...
Radical Leftists are, right now, mankind's worst enemy, not the climate. That is not to do away with radical greed seen by capitalists who use the system to control things. The Bible makes its claim about them -
James 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Jas 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth [armies].
Jas 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
The perfect "for instance" is the enormous backlash of anger towards Oprah and Dwayne Johnson starting their charity for Maui fire victims. Leftist media instantly surrounded them, to protect them and coddle them, while the middle and poor classes struggling to live week to week taking to the Web, voicing their shock and displeasure that a billionaire who owns 2,000 acres of land on Maui, untouched by the fires; who hired her own squad of fire fighters to protect it all, should things not have gone as planned, and a multi-millionaire Hollywood mogul, would dare to ask struggling people to send money to their charity. Yes they contributed $10 million to start things off. What people see is they are of a category of people who could have finished things off, as well, and just gone to Maui and start writing checks to get victims back on their feet.
People see a governor, who hardly waited for the fires to go out and victims to be found and buried, before he publicly stated the land would be used to create a memorial, mysteriously blocking out the view of the world on the catastrophic scene, while he blames climate change for the event.
So, in the last days the greed of the rich and powerful will be an issue to see as a harbinger for the end of the world. Choices made by a small sector of mankind to gain more wealth has more to do with what is bringing the end of the world to a head than "climate change." These are not reasons to deny the successful use of a free- market system. Socialism and Communism can only make things worse. Having anything in the power and control of politicians will always make things worse. These elites just show the perversion of the capitalist system being a problem.
Not to mention climate geoengineering being used in an attempt by the control freaks to control the weather.
So, is it man-made climate change because of fossil fuels, or man-made climate change because of control freaks and their world agenda?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Eight catastrophic floods in 11 days: What’s behind intense rainfall around the world?
"As with many other forms of extreme weather, scientists say climate change is most likely having an impact on rainfall and flooding, but understanding precisely what that relationship is can be tricky.
"In general, studies have shown that global warming is intensifying the planet’s water cycle. Warmer temperatures increase evaporation, which means a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. As a result, when storms can unleash more intense precipitation and thus cause severe flooding."
And there is the general reason now given for all weather events, as well as fires, earthquakes, volcanoes and Russia invading Ukraine: Climate change!
Is it really that simple? Well, no, and the article then gets into that, after making the climate change agenda take its place in the pantheon of Leftist reasons the world is a mess.
"However, a number of factors can influence flooding events and their severity, and teasing out the fingerprints of climate change when they all interact can be challenging, Hoell said.
“From a 1,000-foot view, it’s definitely true that if you have higher temperatures, you have more water vapor, and therefore you can have more precipitation fall from the sky,” he said. “But when you look at a specific event and the specific set of physical processes relevant to that event, it then becomes difficult to attribute every single process in that causal chain.”
"For one thing, the types of extreme weather that caused each of the eight catastrophic flooding events this month had different origins."
"With certain types of extreme flooding events, such as those associated with Mediterranean cyclones like Daniel, there simply isn't enough data to observe shifts over time.
“We really don’t have a long enough sample or record to be able to detect a change, because they’re not really that common of an occurrence,” Hoell said."In other cases, local factors, such as how wet or dry the ground is or an area’s basic topography, can have enormous influences on how floods develop — and their consequences."
And so goes the ever expanding truth about 'global cooling," "global warming" and the easier to mask, generalized nature of "climate change." It's complicated. Weather is complicated. Studying climate changes over decades is complicated.
When I was younger, back in the 1970's, global cooling was constantly being touted as a harbinger for the end of the world. An ice age was going to burst upon us. Then it became global warming. To keep from being seen as the calamity howling extremists the world began to see them as, climate change became the mantra. Everything can fit into the inconvenient "truth" of climate change.
Seeing as how the planet's climate does change, severely at times, why is the change of climate such a warning mechanism for Leftists to constantly, CONSTANTLY tell us we are doomed if we do not stop using "fossil fuels" - oil, gas and coal - for energy needs? Because there is a group of elites that want to reduce and control the population of the world. It is not about weather and climate. It is about control. So, if you show valid scientific reasons to deny these elitists their shell game you are branded a climate denier, which is so stupid as to be moronic. Nobody denies climate change. Everybody knows the climate changes. What people deny is man-made climate change that is going to wipe out all life on Earth and all the calamity howling about carbon footprints. It is not only far too complicated an issue to blame on fossil fuel use, everybody reverting to a solely electric society and civilization is fraught with man-made problems, itself.
As it is, China produces around a third of all this carbon footprint that's going to kill us all but, do you see Leftist media raging at China for their polluting ways? No. It is all America's fault. Add to that India's ever growing manufacturing base and you now have a huge portion of "climate change" sitting at their front doors on the other side of the earth but, Americans have to buy electric cars and the trucking industry has to be forced to only drive electric trucks which will drive up the prices of goods through the roof, worse than man-made inflation is already doing.
The schemes of the wicked never end. Those who crave power and control will attempt to gain it any way they can get away with. UN, WEF, WMF, WHO and the rest of them with their plans for control; these model plans they come up with by a certain date, the latest is 2030 and Smart Cities, 15-Minute Cities, all electric run communities where citizens own nothing and are happy...
Radical Leftists are, right now, mankind's worst enemy, not the climate. That is not to do away with radical greed seen by capitalists who use the system to control things. The Bible makes its claim about them -
James 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Jas 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth [armies].
Jas 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
The perfect "for instance" is the enormous backlash of anger towards Oprah and Dwayne Johnson starting their charity for Maui fire victims. Leftist media instantly surrounded them, to protect them and coddle them, while the middle and poor classes struggling to live week to week taking to the Web, voicing their shock and displeasure that a billionaire who owns 2,000 acres of land on Maui, untouched by the fires; who hired her own squad of fire fighters to protect it all, should things not have gone as planned, and a multi-millionaire Hollywood mogul, would dare to ask struggling people to send money to their charity. Yes they contributed $10 million to start things off. What people see is they are of a category of people who could have finished things off, as well, and just gone to Maui and start writing checks to get victims back on their feet.
People see a governor, who hardly waited for the fires to go out and victims to be found and buried, before he publicly stated the land would be used to create a memorial, mysteriously blocking out the view of the world on the catastrophic scene, while he blames climate change for the event.
So, in the last days the greed of the rich and powerful will be an issue to see as a harbinger for the end of the world. Choices made by a small sector of mankind to gain more wealth has more to do with what is bringing the end of the world to a head than "climate change." These are not reasons to deny the successful use of a free- market system. Socialism and Communism can only make things worse. Having anything in the power and control of politicians will always make things worse. These elites just show the perversion of the capitalist system being a problem.
Not to mention climate geoengineering being used in an attempt by the control freaks to control the weather.
So, is it man-made climate change because of fossil fuels, or man-made climate change because of control freaks and their world agenda?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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838. And He Added No More - September 13, 2023
The Creator and Sustainer of the universe must have an enormous catalog of laws written down for everybody to follow. That would seem to make sense. Lots of laws. Hundreds, thousands, millions of them. Lots to watch over and keep under control. Laws for everything. Eminently necessary.
Yet, for all reasoning life on Earth, God has just ten, simple, yet very deep laws for mankind to follow. Think about that. After Moses repeated the Ten Commandments to the people, it is even stated thus -
Deut 5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
The other 613 stipulated "laws" we read in the "law of Moses," regarding the theocracy and the Hebrew nation - the sanctuary services and priesthood, the statutes and judgments, health laws, calendar, etc., did, indeed, guide a nation of 2 million people out of Egypt. Again, 613 of them. That seems a lot.
As I have posted before, do you know how many laws the Federal government has written? I don't. In fact, do a search. No one in Washington, D.C. can tell you. There are thousands, just in the criminal codes alone. Nobody in the Capitol of the United States of America knows how many laws are on its books. Add to that State, County, City and Town laws and the number exponentially increases into a literal flood and explosion of laws to control life in America.
God runs a universe with Laws, like gravity, thermodynamics, etc. Do you know how many laws of nature man has discovered? Depending on who you ask, up to 19. The universe is run and held together by less than two dozen laws. Now, an astronomical amount of information is contained in those laws. It is no different than humans having 78 organs in our bodies but, a few trillion cells that make them all up. Each cell is an entire library of information and processes; claimed to be like microscopic factories or even cities. Still, think of the basic laws that run everything.
Why does mankind have to make so many laws, when God runs everything with so few? Because mankind has a problem. Self. We lack self-control and thereby find it easier to control others. We lack self-control because we are fallen, sinful creatures. Our heads house the most complicated thing in the universe; the human brain. Add to that the mind, and you have such incomplete comprehension of what life is, we just hurt ourselves trying to figure it all out. I mean that literally. Because mankind cannot control itself, it is controlled by one of two great powers - the Creator or the Adversary. All humanity is controlled by one or the other, and generally, because of our lack of self-control and decision-making, we go back and forth. In that process, fallen mankind has this innate desire to be in control. If we cannot control ourselves, we attempt to control others. Beyond that, those who seem to have great self-control can end up being the worst despots and tyrants imaginable. Why? Again, self. Self-importance, self-righteous, self-centered, self-deceived, self-indulgent, self-willed...
Mankind is a mess. We think by being in control of everything we make life better. No. All we do is make life more complicated for ourselves and everybody else around us. If humanity practiced self-control, just that one aspect of life, based on principles and laws provided by the Creator, life would be a veritable utopia on this world. Unfortunately, fallen mankind's tendency is not self-control but, self-indulgence. In that self-indulgence - control of others, the love of money, power - causes problems for humanity; exponentially displayed year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium.
God does not blame me for being fallen. He holds me accountable for not taking hold of the process He installed to gain the only kind of self-control that is not harmful to us - "you must be born again."
That does not end battles with self. The battles of human nature remain. We are just promised ultimate victory if we abide in Christ; if we choose to stay connected to Him and have Him live in us, through the influence of the Holy Spirit. If everybody had that experience, the dramatic change of life on earth would be so spellbinding it would shock us. We get used to darkness and the tragedy that can come with it; worst of all, death. Yet, even death can be a release from things far worse upon body and mind perpetuated by humanity under the control of the Adversary. You see, this war between the two sides will never end until humanity divides into two camps: those under the complete control of God and those under the complete control of Satan. When that situation finally develops, the world will end. That is the simple explanation for everything. Sin, self, and God's process of fighting it and overcoming it.
Jesus Christ, the Creator become man, overcame our sinful nature. The Bible says it quite plainly -
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The Creator became a man, a baby, a baby with a fallen human nature. Connected to His Father, not Joseph but, His Father in Heaven, Christ overcame fallen human nature and the way is provided for us to do the same. There is an element that must be acquired. You must be born again. What does that give?
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The mind of Christ. Think this way. Have your mind changed by being born again and live according to love of God, not love of self.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 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:
2Pe 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.
Arm yourself? Yes. Because it is a war. A very real war. The battle with self is the most real war any human can ever face. It never goes away but, God has given a way to win the battles and ultimately, the war.
If we choose to become partakers of the divine nature, we can escape the corruptions in this world that exist through lust, which is desire; which can even be healthy desire that can be corrupted by self-indulgence.
NOBODY escapes this war. We can only escape the personal corruptions the war lays upon us. It is our choice.
God cannot be blamed for anything save for taking the ultimate responsibility for providing humanity with a way out of his situation of being controlled by self.
We either follow the will of God, controlled by the choice of allowing Christ to live in us or, we remain controlled by Lucifer, the father of lies, murderer, god of this world, through the deceptions of self.
The world says, with flowery concepts, follow your heart, meaning; your deepest feelings. What does God say?
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Well, possibly can know our hearts. We definitely cannot trust them. God has warned us, as offensive to our minds the truth may be. We must trust in the mind of Christ and think correctly, based on God's principles and His simple laws. That is the only path to real peace and eternal life.
Many, most, will choose money, power, the pleasures of sin for a short time, rather than the righteousness of God. Why? The deceitfulness of sin and self.
I hate myself. I am tired of being who I am. Some will think, But you can write to people, you can speak to people, you can play the drums, and sing, and have artistic talents, you can build things... and you know what? All those things have been pointed out to me all my life and so what? If I am held captive by self, all of that other stuff is worthless. The more your mind is enlightened by the truth, the more you see yourself and you will not like what you see, and a whole lot less of what you do.
We all find, the more simple we live, the more our lives are freed from the demands of self. Still, it is a spiritual battle; one that Satan fights against more than anything. What does He do?
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.
How does Lucifer blind minds? Confusion. That has been his major weapon since the fall. Lie and confuse things. That is why spiritual, prophetic Babylon has such an intrinsic place in last-day events. The world becomes drunk with the wine of Babylon.
It is all about the mind, something so mysterious science cannot explain it. Science can hardly explain the brain, let alone the mind but, God says, Let Christ's mind be in you. Think the way He thought. Be born again, and take in the divine nature and escape the corruptions of the lusts of this world.
It really is not difficult. It's making choices. It is as I have stated for 44 years to people. Choose to think for yourself because, if you do not, someone is happy to think for you and the players are many - friends, family, organizations and their leaders; like churches, business, government and its members, scientists, and an army of others under the control of self and the Adversary of souls, not God. Yes, that includes churches, too. Some of the worst control freaks in history have been religious leaders and "believers." All kinds of people and elements exist to think for you. And now, it is getting more confusing with the influence of artificial intelligence. We must learn to think for ourselves. Must learn to choose God's path moment by moment. We must choose to connect and stay connected to God, through Christ, through the Spirit, through the Word.
All of man's laws just keep multiplying like weeds. And look at the world. It is struggling. Why? Confusion.
It's your mind. Guard it well, with truth.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Yet, for all reasoning life on Earth, God has just ten, simple, yet very deep laws for mankind to follow. Think about that. After Moses repeated the Ten Commandments to the people, it is even stated thus -
Deut 5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
The other 613 stipulated "laws" we read in the "law of Moses," regarding the theocracy and the Hebrew nation - the sanctuary services and priesthood, the statutes and judgments, health laws, calendar, etc., did, indeed, guide a nation of 2 million people out of Egypt. Again, 613 of them. That seems a lot.
As I have posted before, do you know how many laws the Federal government has written? I don't. In fact, do a search. No one in Washington, D.C. can tell you. There are thousands, just in the criminal codes alone. Nobody in the Capitol of the United States of America knows how many laws are on its books. Add to that State, County, City and Town laws and the number exponentially increases into a literal flood and explosion of laws to control life in America.
God runs a universe with Laws, like gravity, thermodynamics, etc. Do you know how many laws of nature man has discovered? Depending on who you ask, up to 19. The universe is run and held together by less than two dozen laws. Now, an astronomical amount of information is contained in those laws. It is no different than humans having 78 organs in our bodies but, a few trillion cells that make them all up. Each cell is an entire library of information and processes; claimed to be like microscopic factories or even cities. Still, think of the basic laws that run everything.
Why does mankind have to make so many laws, when God runs everything with so few? Because mankind has a problem. Self. We lack self-control and thereby find it easier to control others. We lack self-control because we are fallen, sinful creatures. Our heads house the most complicated thing in the universe; the human brain. Add to that the mind, and you have such incomplete comprehension of what life is, we just hurt ourselves trying to figure it all out. I mean that literally. Because mankind cannot control itself, it is controlled by one of two great powers - the Creator or the Adversary. All humanity is controlled by one or the other, and generally, because of our lack of self-control and decision-making, we go back and forth. In that process, fallen mankind has this innate desire to be in control. If we cannot control ourselves, we attempt to control others. Beyond that, those who seem to have great self-control can end up being the worst despots and tyrants imaginable. Why? Again, self. Self-importance, self-righteous, self-centered, self-deceived, self-indulgent, self-willed...
Mankind is a mess. We think by being in control of everything we make life better. No. All we do is make life more complicated for ourselves and everybody else around us. If humanity practiced self-control, just that one aspect of life, based on principles and laws provided by the Creator, life would be a veritable utopia on this world. Unfortunately, fallen mankind's tendency is not self-control but, self-indulgence. In that self-indulgence - control of others, the love of money, power - causes problems for humanity; exponentially displayed year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium.
God does not blame me for being fallen. He holds me accountable for not taking hold of the process He installed to gain the only kind of self-control that is not harmful to us - "you must be born again."
That does not end battles with self. The battles of human nature remain. We are just promised ultimate victory if we abide in Christ; if we choose to stay connected to Him and have Him live in us, through the influence of the Holy Spirit. If everybody had that experience, the dramatic change of life on earth would be so spellbinding it would shock us. We get used to darkness and the tragedy that can come with it; worst of all, death. Yet, even death can be a release from things far worse upon body and mind perpetuated by humanity under the control of the Adversary. You see, this war between the two sides will never end until humanity divides into two camps: those under the complete control of God and those under the complete control of Satan. When that situation finally develops, the world will end. That is the simple explanation for everything. Sin, self, and God's process of fighting it and overcoming it.
Jesus Christ, the Creator become man, overcame our sinful nature. The Bible says it quite plainly -
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The Creator became a man, a baby, a baby with a fallen human nature. Connected to His Father, not Joseph but, His Father in Heaven, Christ overcame fallen human nature and the way is provided for us to do the same. There is an element that must be acquired. You must be born again. What does that give?
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The mind of Christ. Think this way. Have your mind changed by being born again and live according to love of God, not love of self.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 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:
2Pe 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.
Arm yourself? Yes. Because it is a war. A very real war. The battle with self is the most real war any human can ever face. It never goes away but, God has given a way to win the battles and ultimately, the war.
If we choose to become partakers of the divine nature, we can escape the corruptions in this world that exist through lust, which is desire; which can even be healthy desire that can be corrupted by self-indulgence.
NOBODY escapes this war. We can only escape the personal corruptions the war lays upon us. It is our choice.
God cannot be blamed for anything save for taking the ultimate responsibility for providing humanity with a way out of his situation of being controlled by self.
We either follow the will of God, controlled by the choice of allowing Christ to live in us or, we remain controlled by Lucifer, the father of lies, murderer, god of this world, through the deceptions of self.
The world says, with flowery concepts, follow your heart, meaning; your deepest feelings. What does God say?
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Well, possibly can know our hearts. We definitely cannot trust them. God has warned us, as offensive to our minds the truth may be. We must trust in the mind of Christ and think correctly, based on God's principles and His simple laws. That is the only path to real peace and eternal life.
Many, most, will choose money, power, the pleasures of sin for a short time, rather than the righteousness of God. Why? The deceitfulness of sin and self.
I hate myself. I am tired of being who I am. Some will think, But you can write to people, you can speak to people, you can play the drums, and sing, and have artistic talents, you can build things... and you know what? All those things have been pointed out to me all my life and so what? If I am held captive by self, all of that other stuff is worthless. The more your mind is enlightened by the truth, the more you see yourself and you will not like what you see, and a whole lot less of what you do.
We all find, the more simple we live, the more our lives are freed from the demands of self. Still, it is a spiritual battle; one that Satan fights against more than anything. What does He do?
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.
How does Lucifer blind minds? Confusion. That has been his major weapon since the fall. Lie and confuse things. That is why spiritual, prophetic Babylon has such an intrinsic place in last-day events. The world becomes drunk with the wine of Babylon.
It is all about the mind, something so mysterious science cannot explain it. Science can hardly explain the brain, let alone the mind but, God says, Let Christ's mind be in you. Think the way He thought. Be born again, and take in the divine nature and escape the corruptions of the lusts of this world.
It really is not difficult. It's making choices. It is as I have stated for 44 years to people. Choose to think for yourself because, if you do not, someone is happy to think for you and the players are many - friends, family, organizations and their leaders; like churches, business, government and its members, scientists, and an army of others under the control of self and the Adversary of souls, not God. Yes, that includes churches, too. Some of the worst control freaks in history have been religious leaders and "believers." All kinds of people and elements exist to think for you. And now, it is getting more confusing with the influence of artificial intelligence. We must learn to think for ourselves. Must learn to choose God's path moment by moment. We must choose to connect and stay connected to God, through Christ, through the Spirit, through the Word.
All of man's laws just keep multiplying like weeds. And look at the world. It is struggling. Why? Confusion.
It's your mind. Guard it well, with truth.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
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839. The Highways of Our Brains - 9/13/23
First, this post is not about the September 1, 2001 event.
That stated, I would like to share something with you that comes from the transcript read-out on YouTube, from a lecture given by Laurie Manwell, on Day 4 of the '2011 Toronto Hearings on 9/11.'
Laurie A. Manwell · Instructor, Faculty of Science, Departments of Biology, Health Sciences, Psychology and Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
You can watch speakers from all four days of the hearings on YT if you like but, what I am going to focus in on is something unrelated to 9/11. Ms. Manwell spoke on the effects of various neuro-mechanisms on the mind. I wrote some about this subject yesterday. I found her lecture to be fascinating (though I did not side with some of her takes on politics and "democracy") but, for the sake of this post, I am going to ask some questions Materialists, Naturalists, Macro-Evolutionists, Atheists and others really need to delve into if they want all reasoning, thinking people to accept their position on everything pertaining to life on earth.
The transcript comes out in lines, as spoken, with time stamps. I have removed the time stamps and based on her spoken words, tried to punctuate things, as well. You can go to the YT video itself and read the transcript to make sure I have accurately done this, though doing it really can't change the meaning of what I'm posting.
This is very small portion of her lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WE9nlWTLWY&list=PLNMSFS8b5WIoaxSto1pK4mjaANBOWt2Ws&index=20
"It is neither valid nor accurate to claim that just because a person will not examine evidence that the official account is false, that they are simply in denial. The human brain is the most complex organism in the body and thus the mechanisms by which the Mind processes, interprets and responds to information is equally complex.
"For example; the human brain is composed of hundreds of billions of neurons, each with thousands of synapses, creating a vastly complex and intricate neural network, consisting of up to a hundred trillion, to up to a quadrillion synaptic connections. At any one time this organ is processing an infinite amount of information both from its internal and external environment, most of which we are unconscious of. However, it is often that, information of which we are largely unaware, that has the most significant influence over our thoughts, feelings and behaviors; even those thoughts, feelings and behaviors that we adamantly believe to be consciously determined.
"Evidence from Neuroscience tells us, as it is for example; we assume that when we are looking at something we are consciously analyzing it based upon the visual information that is entering the brain from the eyes but, this is not entirely accurate. In fact, visual stimuli transduced by the rods and cones in the eyes and sent by electrochemical signals to the central nervous system, via the optic nerves, does not go directly to the occipital cortex - which is the primary region responsible for processing visual information. Instead, it first goes to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus; another region of the brain that is a part of the limbic system and important to emotional arousal. Put this in simpler terms; this means that you can experience an emotional reaction to something before you are consciously aware that you have even seen it, which in turn then affects how you see it.
"Perhaps one of the most elegant examples is the discovery of what is commonly known by neuroscientists as mirror neurons. A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires in the brain, both when an organism performs an action itself - such as reaching or grasping for an object - and it also fires when that organism observes the same action performed by another organism.
"Research by psychologists in this area also suggests that this may be one mechanism by which people come to internalize not only the behaviors of others but, their emotions and ideas, as well.
"Since this is a relatively new area of research, I will instead focus on some of the more established social - psychological mechanisms that may later be shown by neuroscientists to have a very biologically-based origin."
She will obviously move onto aspects of people making determinations about 9/11 based on preconceived ideas the brain was already processing while they were seeing what took place. That is all her lecture, though. I want to look at what she stated about the brain and ask some logical questions.
The very fact a human being, supposedly evolved from an accident creating a single-celled organism that somehow split into more organisms and eventually became a brain inside a human being a couple hundred thousand years ago, 4 billion years later, begs the question, How much time would humans need to create a brain in a laboratory to function as Ms. Manwell describes? At this point, intelligent man cannot create a single cell. We could not bring to life a cell, if scientists had all the parts of a dead cell.
Ms. Manwell states the brain is the most complex thing in a human's body, and performs "infinite" amounts of processing of information all the time, on up to a quadrillion amount of connections.
How long would it take to count up to 1 quadrillion? Look it up. Approximately 30 million, 700 thousand years. 30,700,000 years of non-stop speaking. That would be to just verbally count the numbers. Almost 31 million years. Not to produce one cell. Not to produce a million of them or a billion but, up to 1 quadrillion synaptic connections inside an object weighing around 3 pounds, in 73 cubic inches of space, male to female average. That is not including all other parts and functions of a brain. Not including the trillions of cells that make up everything else in a human being.
No, single human being can count to 1 quadrillion. It is a fact no human can count to a billion. One person decided to count to one million, for charity, an it took him 89 days. To count to a billion would take 89,000 days. An 80 year old person gets 29,200 days. They'd only get a third of the way there. We are just talking counting out numbers in speech, not creating the most complex organ in our bodies, and for that matter, in the universe, that we know of (I won't venture to think about the brains of angels).
Is it just me, or does it seem totally illogical to believe a human brain could develop by a series of accidents, mutations, which the vast amount take away information, not gain any? I mean, seriously. Information and emotions, reasoning and memories, decision-making, all triggering at terrific speeds on the brain's synaptic highways, are all just a series of accidents that took place over 3.8 billion years, when a single human cannot live long enough to count to a billion??? Humans live the longest for land mammals. The Bowhead whale can live 200 years. According to the Bible, humans lived centuries at the beginning. Almost 10 of them. Now, an average lifespan is 60-80 years and that is a big advance from recent, previous centuries. Most of that has to do with medical health advancements and overcoming disease.
I cannot accept the story that life originated by an accident and slowly turned into a human being, while there are many creatures that have far better sight, far better sense of smell, more strength, speed, and survivability skills, including lowly bacteria, which supposedly are types of cells that started all this off... by accident, in a universe that came from nothing, by an accident.
I do not need to have a PhD to work my way through this accidental conundrum.
You can call me anything you want. Asking me to accept Materialist, Naturalist, cosmic accidents for the existence of everything and random mutation explanations for everything alive is just a bridge way too far for logic and common sense to have me even take one step to cross, let alone get to the other side. Not happening.
It astounds me that I actually believed this myth, this story, this actual fairytale at one time. The existence of Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny make more sense and that is what Materialists say to those of us who believe in Creation by Deity.
So, if I believe all the variety seen in CREATION is an act of Deity; the act of an Infinite Mind, I believe a myth, a fairytale. But, if I believe everything came from nothing, by accident, into material existence and a succession of mistakes: no mind, no direction, no purpose, no planning, no mind, I am accepting science?
Seriously? How is that science, not religious faith? I have faith in God. They have faith in Time. The Time-god.
Sorry. I'll stick with the Creator story. Plus, He has detailed prophecies of future events come to pass in His book. I'd like to see random time figure that one out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
That stated, I would like to share something with you that comes from the transcript read-out on YouTube, from a lecture given by Laurie Manwell, on Day 4 of the '2011 Toronto Hearings on 9/11.'
Laurie A. Manwell · Instructor, Faculty of Science, Departments of Biology, Health Sciences, Psychology and Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
You can watch speakers from all four days of the hearings on YT if you like but, what I am going to focus in on is something unrelated to 9/11. Ms. Manwell spoke on the effects of various neuro-mechanisms on the mind. I wrote some about this subject yesterday. I found her lecture to be fascinating (though I did not side with some of her takes on politics and "democracy") but, for the sake of this post, I am going to ask some questions Materialists, Naturalists, Macro-Evolutionists, Atheists and others really need to delve into if they want all reasoning, thinking people to accept their position on everything pertaining to life on earth.
The transcript comes out in lines, as spoken, with time stamps. I have removed the time stamps and based on her spoken words, tried to punctuate things, as well. You can go to the YT video itself and read the transcript to make sure I have accurately done this, though doing it really can't change the meaning of what I'm posting.
This is very small portion of her lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WE9nlWTLWY&list=PLNMSFS8b5WIoaxSto1pK4mjaANBOWt2Ws&index=20
"It is neither valid nor accurate to claim that just because a person will not examine evidence that the official account is false, that they are simply in denial. The human brain is the most complex organism in the body and thus the mechanisms by which the Mind processes, interprets and responds to information is equally complex.
"For example; the human brain is composed of hundreds of billions of neurons, each with thousands of synapses, creating a vastly complex and intricate neural network, consisting of up to a hundred trillion, to up to a quadrillion synaptic connections. At any one time this organ is processing an infinite amount of information both from its internal and external environment, most of which we are unconscious of. However, it is often that, information of which we are largely unaware, that has the most significant influence over our thoughts, feelings and behaviors; even those thoughts, feelings and behaviors that we adamantly believe to be consciously determined.
"Evidence from Neuroscience tells us, as it is for example; we assume that when we are looking at something we are consciously analyzing it based upon the visual information that is entering the brain from the eyes but, this is not entirely accurate. In fact, visual stimuli transduced by the rods and cones in the eyes and sent by electrochemical signals to the central nervous system, via the optic nerves, does not go directly to the occipital cortex - which is the primary region responsible for processing visual information. Instead, it first goes to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus; another region of the brain that is a part of the limbic system and important to emotional arousal. Put this in simpler terms; this means that you can experience an emotional reaction to something before you are consciously aware that you have even seen it, which in turn then affects how you see it.
"Perhaps one of the most elegant examples is the discovery of what is commonly known by neuroscientists as mirror neurons. A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires in the brain, both when an organism performs an action itself - such as reaching or grasping for an object - and it also fires when that organism observes the same action performed by another organism.
"Research by psychologists in this area also suggests that this may be one mechanism by which people come to internalize not only the behaviors of others but, their emotions and ideas, as well.
"Since this is a relatively new area of research, I will instead focus on some of the more established social - psychological mechanisms that may later be shown by neuroscientists to have a very biologically-based origin."
She will obviously move onto aspects of people making determinations about 9/11 based on preconceived ideas the brain was already processing while they were seeing what took place. That is all her lecture, though. I want to look at what she stated about the brain and ask some logical questions.
The very fact a human being, supposedly evolved from an accident creating a single-celled organism that somehow split into more organisms and eventually became a brain inside a human being a couple hundred thousand years ago, 4 billion years later, begs the question, How much time would humans need to create a brain in a laboratory to function as Ms. Manwell describes? At this point, intelligent man cannot create a single cell. We could not bring to life a cell, if scientists had all the parts of a dead cell.
Ms. Manwell states the brain is the most complex thing in a human's body, and performs "infinite" amounts of processing of information all the time, on up to a quadrillion amount of connections.
How long would it take to count up to 1 quadrillion? Look it up. Approximately 30 million, 700 thousand years. 30,700,000 years of non-stop speaking. That would be to just verbally count the numbers. Almost 31 million years. Not to produce one cell. Not to produce a million of them or a billion but, up to 1 quadrillion synaptic connections inside an object weighing around 3 pounds, in 73 cubic inches of space, male to female average. That is not including all other parts and functions of a brain. Not including the trillions of cells that make up everything else in a human being.
No, single human being can count to 1 quadrillion. It is a fact no human can count to a billion. One person decided to count to one million, for charity, an it took him 89 days. To count to a billion would take 89,000 days. An 80 year old person gets 29,200 days. They'd only get a third of the way there. We are just talking counting out numbers in speech, not creating the most complex organ in our bodies, and for that matter, in the universe, that we know of (I won't venture to think about the brains of angels).
Is it just me, or does it seem totally illogical to believe a human brain could develop by a series of accidents, mutations, which the vast amount take away information, not gain any? I mean, seriously. Information and emotions, reasoning and memories, decision-making, all triggering at terrific speeds on the brain's synaptic highways, are all just a series of accidents that took place over 3.8 billion years, when a single human cannot live long enough to count to a billion??? Humans live the longest for land mammals. The Bowhead whale can live 200 years. According to the Bible, humans lived centuries at the beginning. Almost 10 of them. Now, an average lifespan is 60-80 years and that is a big advance from recent, previous centuries. Most of that has to do with medical health advancements and overcoming disease.
I cannot accept the story that life originated by an accident and slowly turned into a human being, while there are many creatures that have far better sight, far better sense of smell, more strength, speed, and survivability skills, including lowly bacteria, which supposedly are types of cells that started all this off... by accident, in a universe that came from nothing, by an accident.
I do not need to have a PhD to work my way through this accidental conundrum.
You can call me anything you want. Asking me to accept Materialist, Naturalist, cosmic accidents for the existence of everything and random mutation explanations for everything alive is just a bridge way too far for logic and common sense to have me even take one step to cross, let alone get to the other side. Not happening.
It astounds me that I actually believed this myth, this story, this actual fairytale at one time. The existence of Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny make more sense and that is what Materialists say to those of us who believe in Creation by Deity.
So, if I believe all the variety seen in CREATION is an act of Deity; the act of an Infinite Mind, I believe a myth, a fairytale. But, if I believe everything came from nothing, by accident, into material existence and a succession of mistakes: no mind, no direction, no purpose, no planning, no mind, I am accepting science?
Seriously? How is that science, not religious faith? I have faith in God. They have faith in Time. The Time-god.
Sorry. I'll stick with the Creator story. Plus, He has detailed prophecies of future events come to pass in His book. I'd like to see random time figure that one out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
840. Under Every Rock - 9/14/23
There are researchers and investigators in this world who are not satisfied until they have looked under every rock to find pertinent information for whatever subject they are searching for solid answers to nagging questions. They dig and dig until they uncover the truth. The United States Press used to be that way, at least to a far greater degree than the copy and paste swill pushed today.
In the field of people looking for answers to questions about 9/11, one of the people whose research is a thorough nightmare for the promoters of the "official" story is Barbara Honegger. Working in the White House, knowing many of the players, has given her an inside track on finding things out that many investigators have no access to.
The video linked below is one I had not seen since 2009; when my own journey began into finding out what really happened on 9/11 and why. Sceptics have their reasons for not looking into all the information surrounding the event. Many of those reasons, maybe all of them have been addressed by research into how and why people react to information and events in the ways they do. They believe and maintain the first official story they hear or read because, certainly the government would not lie or harm us. That sentiment is only found in the United States of America because every other nation in the world has suffered under governments in their history that lied and harmed its citizens. That is why dozens of governments would like to see another investigation take place into 9/11, overseen by people from other nations who lost citizens that day. If the official story is sound, why wouldn't the American government say, "Sure. That's fine," and rest assured the truth of the official story will stand firm?
Most of the research into 9/11 has dealt with the Twin Towers and Building #7. Because the FBI confiscated all known videos about the Pentagon attack, not as much intense research and investigation could be done but, enough existed to draw conclusions that differ sharply with the official explanation of the day's events. Because of the position Honegger had, she has been able to dig and research and interview integral people and put together a presentation (and book) that is actually quite difficult to find. Most posts of this presentation have been scrubbed from the internet. I did find one, and share it here. It is 3 hours long. Not a minute of it drags or is boring.
It makes me think, if such investigation were done on all events and stories that pour out of D.C., our nation might actually be able to trust its government representatives because none would be foolish enough to get involved with corruption or criminal activity because they would be found out. Alas, that is not the situation. Corporate controlled news media is bought and paid for. Those involved in corruption and crimes, even "high crimes" and treason, are given shelter if they are activated in the globalist agenda. Trump is not. He is "America First," and that makes him an enemy of the current elitist empire builders.
When people reject the notion there is an elite group of leaders in business and government seeking to control the world, a recent statement I came upon looks at that situation square in the face -
"Memoirs (2003)
"ISBN-13: 978-0812969733
David Rockefeller
"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
"The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. "Populists" believe in conspiracies and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of "conspirator in chief" from some of these people.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted in our active international role during the past half-century. Not only was the very real threat posed by Soviet Communism overcome, but there have been fundamental improvements in societies around the world, particularly in the United States, as a result of global trade, improved communications, and the heightened interaction of people from different cultures. Populists rarely mention these positive consequences, nor can they cogently explain how they would have sustained American economic growth and expansion of our political power without them."
"Ch. 27 : Proud Internationalist, p. 406"
I saw that first paragraph for the first time, in Barbara Honegger's presentation, found it astonishing and began my search to look it up, finding the second two along with it here -
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
"Populism" is defined this way in Brittanica-
"populism, political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, usually by favourable contrast with a real or perceived elite or establishment. Populism usually combines elements of the left and the right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established liberal, socialist, and labour parties."
Populists do not "believe in conspiracies." They uncover them; they expose them; they seek to educate citizens about corruption in government and extending tentacles of control.
Look at the way populism is described on this website -
"About The Global Populisms Project"Global populism is on the rise. Initially associated with Latin America in the 1990s and new post-communist democracies in the 2000s, populist parties and politicians have now gained support—and power—in established democracies as well. The United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Hungary have all seen populist surges in the last few years — with the election of Donald Trump in the United States as perhaps the most striking of these gains.
"This surge demands explanation, and requires careful thinking. Populist parties are a threat to liberal democracy. Their defining characteristic is a claim to represent an “organic” people or nation, rather than specific interests or groups. Such representation has two worrying implications: first, the nation has to be defined, usually in terms that exclude vulnerable groups from the definition of the “people.” This is majority rule without minority rights. Second, those who disagree with populist representation of “the people” are obviously not the “real” nation. The opposition (whether elite or popular) is considered treasonous and treacherous.
"Among most dangerous of populism’s consequences is the erosion of formal democratic rules and liberal institutions. These destructive effects of populist rule include the takeover and taming of courts and oversight institutions, and new laws that limit the freedom of the media and civil society. These legal and formal maneuvers erode public criticism, transparency, and accountability."
fsi.stanford.edu/global-populisms/global-populism-about
While the writers of those opinions attempt to expose what they see as the dangers of populism, they unmask their own, dangerous agenda -
"with the election of Donald Trump in the United States as perhaps the most striking of these gains."
"Populist parties are a threat to liberal democracy."
"rather than specific interests or groups."
"This is majority rule without minority rights"
"the erosion of formal democratic rules and liberal institutions"
Just flip those statements to understand how current, elitist power structures seek dominion.
The removal of Donald Trump.
Elitism is a boost to liberal [Leftist] democracy. And remember that "democracy" is defined as rule of the majority. That is why the Founders and Framers of the USA formed a Constitutional Republic and members of both political dominant parties in America currently seek to remove Constitutional provisions for the restrictions of government control over American's lives. The Founders premise was All are equal under the law. Today, an obvious "rules for thee but, not for me" situation grossly exists and is exhibited daily in the news.
They guard specific [special] interests and groups. Rather than everyone being equal under the law, current American government functions as an engine to protect special interest groups, be they bankers, billionaires or paupers in areas of moral, social, educational and financial degradation. Joe and Hunter Biden being a perfect example. If Joe and Hunter Biden were a conservatives, they'd have been put away long ago.
The minority rule without majority rights. Once the system can just go by majority votes, and removal or corruption of the system of the electoral college, a minority take control, and to hell with the majority of Americans who vote. In the case of 2020, the elites constructed a scam well before the election and criminally changed the outcome of the election.
The enhancement and expansion of formal, "democratic" rules and "liberal" [Leftist] institutions. One would be hard pressed to find an institution of higher learning in America that is not controlled by Leftists. Democratic rules allow Congress to borrow more money than any American can fully contemplate and comprehend, sending the nation into a spiral of debt destruction it can never recover from. World bankers OWN America. America borrows money to send to Ukraine. It is all borrowed money from the central banks, China and other holders of American debt.
Going back to statements made by Rockefeller, if such globalist agendas are so good, why have Americans lost so many jobs to overseas sourcing and manufacturing? Why have illegal immigrants pouring into America literally changed the wage base in states all throughout the nation? Why was the entire world locked down over basically, the Flu? It destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses and put all citizens of the world under restrictions never seen since abominable internment camps in WW2. The only "improvements" in America have been the rich getting richer and the middle class getting crushed out more and more, with an expansion of the poor depending on government for survival. There is no question of an expansion of American power around the world but, now, that is coming to an abrupt end. The corruption of the chickens is coming home to roost. China ascends. Russia and other nations joining together may shatter the petro-dollar and the American economy. The fools of the American empire crowd have misplayed their hand, or, have they just worked towards making a New World Order all along? Of course they have. Enemies are not really enemies among the world's elitists. It's all a stage play. Political theater. Millions die. That does not matter. Humanity are just cannon fodder for greater goals.
September 11, 2001 was a planned event to remove populism, the principles of Americanism, and the rule of law, by creating an enemy of the American empire builders and removing more rights of any and all Americans who would stand up and fight the expansion of government powers.
That statement is not bold. Watch the video. It's just fact.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb7UEOUsm30
In the field of people looking for answers to questions about 9/11, one of the people whose research is a thorough nightmare for the promoters of the "official" story is Barbara Honegger. Working in the White House, knowing many of the players, has given her an inside track on finding things out that many investigators have no access to.
The video linked below is one I had not seen since 2009; when my own journey began into finding out what really happened on 9/11 and why. Sceptics have their reasons for not looking into all the information surrounding the event. Many of those reasons, maybe all of them have been addressed by research into how and why people react to information and events in the ways they do. They believe and maintain the first official story they hear or read because, certainly the government would not lie or harm us. That sentiment is only found in the United States of America because every other nation in the world has suffered under governments in their history that lied and harmed its citizens. That is why dozens of governments would like to see another investigation take place into 9/11, overseen by people from other nations who lost citizens that day. If the official story is sound, why wouldn't the American government say, "Sure. That's fine," and rest assured the truth of the official story will stand firm?
Most of the research into 9/11 has dealt with the Twin Towers and Building #7. Because the FBI confiscated all known videos about the Pentagon attack, not as much intense research and investigation could be done but, enough existed to draw conclusions that differ sharply with the official explanation of the day's events. Because of the position Honegger had, she has been able to dig and research and interview integral people and put together a presentation (and book) that is actually quite difficult to find. Most posts of this presentation have been scrubbed from the internet. I did find one, and share it here. It is 3 hours long. Not a minute of it drags or is boring.
It makes me think, if such investigation were done on all events and stories that pour out of D.C., our nation might actually be able to trust its government representatives because none would be foolish enough to get involved with corruption or criminal activity because they would be found out. Alas, that is not the situation. Corporate controlled news media is bought and paid for. Those involved in corruption and crimes, even "high crimes" and treason, are given shelter if they are activated in the globalist agenda. Trump is not. He is "America First," and that makes him an enemy of the current elitist empire builders.
When people reject the notion there is an elite group of leaders in business and government seeking to control the world, a recent statement I came upon looks at that situation square in the face -
"Memoirs (2003)
"ISBN-13: 978-0812969733
David Rockefeller
"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
"The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. "Populists" believe in conspiracies and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of "conspirator in chief" from some of these people.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted in our active international role during the past half-century. Not only was the very real threat posed by Soviet Communism overcome, but there have been fundamental improvements in societies around the world, particularly in the United States, as a result of global trade, improved communications, and the heightened interaction of people from different cultures. Populists rarely mention these positive consequences, nor can they cogently explain how they would have sustained American economic growth and expansion of our political power without them."
"Ch. 27 : Proud Internationalist, p. 406"
I saw that first paragraph for the first time, in Barbara Honegger's presentation, found it astonishing and began my search to look it up, finding the second two along with it here -
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
"Populism" is defined this way in Brittanica-
"populism, political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, usually by favourable contrast with a real or perceived elite or establishment. Populism usually combines elements of the left and the right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established liberal, socialist, and labour parties."
Populists do not "believe in conspiracies." They uncover them; they expose them; they seek to educate citizens about corruption in government and extending tentacles of control.
Look at the way populism is described on this website -
"About The Global Populisms Project"Global populism is on the rise. Initially associated with Latin America in the 1990s and new post-communist democracies in the 2000s, populist parties and politicians have now gained support—and power—in established democracies as well. The United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Hungary have all seen populist surges in the last few years — with the election of Donald Trump in the United States as perhaps the most striking of these gains.
"This surge demands explanation, and requires careful thinking. Populist parties are a threat to liberal democracy. Their defining characteristic is a claim to represent an “organic” people or nation, rather than specific interests or groups. Such representation has two worrying implications: first, the nation has to be defined, usually in terms that exclude vulnerable groups from the definition of the “people.” This is majority rule without minority rights. Second, those who disagree with populist representation of “the people” are obviously not the “real” nation. The opposition (whether elite or popular) is considered treasonous and treacherous.
"Among most dangerous of populism’s consequences is the erosion of formal democratic rules and liberal institutions. These destructive effects of populist rule include the takeover and taming of courts and oversight institutions, and new laws that limit the freedom of the media and civil society. These legal and formal maneuvers erode public criticism, transparency, and accountability."
fsi.stanford.edu/global-populisms/global-populism-about
While the writers of those opinions attempt to expose what they see as the dangers of populism, they unmask their own, dangerous agenda -
"with the election of Donald Trump in the United States as perhaps the most striking of these gains."
"Populist parties are a threat to liberal democracy."
"rather than specific interests or groups."
"This is majority rule without minority rights"
"the erosion of formal democratic rules and liberal institutions"
Just flip those statements to understand how current, elitist power structures seek dominion.
The removal of Donald Trump.
Elitism is a boost to liberal [Leftist] democracy. And remember that "democracy" is defined as rule of the majority. That is why the Founders and Framers of the USA formed a Constitutional Republic and members of both political dominant parties in America currently seek to remove Constitutional provisions for the restrictions of government control over American's lives. The Founders premise was All are equal under the law. Today, an obvious "rules for thee but, not for me" situation grossly exists and is exhibited daily in the news.
They guard specific [special] interests and groups. Rather than everyone being equal under the law, current American government functions as an engine to protect special interest groups, be they bankers, billionaires or paupers in areas of moral, social, educational and financial degradation. Joe and Hunter Biden being a perfect example. If Joe and Hunter Biden were a conservatives, they'd have been put away long ago.
The minority rule without majority rights. Once the system can just go by majority votes, and removal or corruption of the system of the electoral college, a minority take control, and to hell with the majority of Americans who vote. In the case of 2020, the elites constructed a scam well before the election and criminally changed the outcome of the election.
The enhancement and expansion of formal, "democratic" rules and "liberal" [Leftist] institutions. One would be hard pressed to find an institution of higher learning in America that is not controlled by Leftists. Democratic rules allow Congress to borrow more money than any American can fully contemplate and comprehend, sending the nation into a spiral of debt destruction it can never recover from. World bankers OWN America. America borrows money to send to Ukraine. It is all borrowed money from the central banks, China and other holders of American debt.
Going back to statements made by Rockefeller, if such globalist agendas are so good, why have Americans lost so many jobs to overseas sourcing and manufacturing? Why have illegal immigrants pouring into America literally changed the wage base in states all throughout the nation? Why was the entire world locked down over basically, the Flu? It destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses and put all citizens of the world under restrictions never seen since abominable internment camps in WW2. The only "improvements" in America have been the rich getting richer and the middle class getting crushed out more and more, with an expansion of the poor depending on government for survival. There is no question of an expansion of American power around the world but, now, that is coming to an abrupt end. The corruption of the chickens is coming home to roost. China ascends. Russia and other nations joining together may shatter the petro-dollar and the American economy. The fools of the American empire crowd have misplayed their hand, or, have they just worked towards making a New World Order all along? Of course they have. Enemies are not really enemies among the world's elitists. It's all a stage play. Political theater. Millions die. That does not matter. Humanity are just cannon fodder for greater goals.
September 11, 2001 was a planned event to remove populism, the principles of Americanism, and the rule of law, by creating an enemy of the American empire builders and removing more rights of any and all Americans who would stand up and fight the expansion of government powers.
That statement is not bold. Watch the video. It's just fact.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb7UEOUsm30
*****************************
The Attack on RFK
I watched two interviews with RFK. I am not a Democrat. I'm a registered Independent. I know most of RFK's political positions. He's like his father and uncle John. He bears little resemblance, near as I can tell, to his uncle Teddy, though he generally speaks highly of him, which seems suspicious to me.
Anyway, Lex Friedman interviewed him. And some YT channel called Reason TV interviewed him. The differences were startling. I only watched portions of each interview, not the entire length of each.
Lex asked a question and allowed the man to answer it, however he wanted to, then asked the next question, maybe interspersing some questions within RFK's answers.
The two guys from Reason TV interrupted the man consistently, becoming, for me, very unreasonable, and I quit watching.
Kennedy basically remained the same in both interviews. Animated, patient, spoke with convictions based on whatever evidence he believes exists to draw conclusions from, based on facts, not political agenda.
The Reason TV interview drew 10,000+ comments and all of them down as far as I chose to read, were positive of Kennedy and negative of the interviewers; whom most said were just conducting a type of hit piece.
A third interview I watched, hosted by the YT channel for Forbes magazine, went well. Both were polite and RFK remained his usual self, per the interviews I have seen him in thus far.
In the YT side bar there are many interviews asking Kennedy about, basically dirty politics and efforts to keep him from the primary winner's circle.
The thing that seems obvious to me is the position of RFK in the Democrat Party is the same as Trump's in the GOP. These guys are being attacked by sources that should be supporting them. Why is Kennedy so disliked by the D.C. establishment? For the same reasons Trump is, which Kennedy readily comments upon: Trump is not a D.C. fixture, not a career politician, and wants to put American and Americans first, before other nations, business conglomerates; both public and private; and just wants things to be done fair and square. Neither party seems happy to cooperate with that simple process for either candidate.
Both of these men must be defeated in the primary process of each party. The jig is up if this comes down to Trump and RFK in the election. What will the Dems do? Try and steal another election so someone they hate will win? It's really kind of humorous to watch.
The entire nation, basically, expects another burst of crap thrown at it before the election. The tail must be allowed to wag the dog. Any kind of distraction possible will be thrust before the American populace, 24/7. The rankles of war, more disease, more lockdowns, more of D.C. showing its ass to the entire world. They want a man to be president who falls asleep before the world, shakes hands with air before the world, tells the world it's time for him to go to bed, looks off into space during speeches, produces word salad before the world, lies about his life on almost a daily basis, and just embarrasses the nation before the entire globe. Why? Because Joe Biden is not running the White House. He's a perfect puppet.
I never expected to see anything like this in my lifetime. Two political parties trying to stop two obvious winners, if they put full support behind them. The election, if left alone from fraud and criminal activity, would be very close. BUT, these two guys will not play D.C. corruption games. Both men may come into the sights of assassins before this is over. The stakes for control are too high.
May God protect each of them.
Anyway, Lex Friedman interviewed him. And some YT channel called Reason TV interviewed him. The differences were startling. I only watched portions of each interview, not the entire length of each.
Lex asked a question and allowed the man to answer it, however he wanted to, then asked the next question, maybe interspersing some questions within RFK's answers.
The two guys from Reason TV interrupted the man consistently, becoming, for me, very unreasonable, and I quit watching.
Kennedy basically remained the same in both interviews. Animated, patient, spoke with convictions based on whatever evidence he believes exists to draw conclusions from, based on facts, not political agenda.
The Reason TV interview drew 10,000+ comments and all of them down as far as I chose to read, were positive of Kennedy and negative of the interviewers; whom most said were just conducting a type of hit piece.
A third interview I watched, hosted by the YT channel for Forbes magazine, went well. Both were polite and RFK remained his usual self, per the interviews I have seen him in thus far.
In the YT side bar there are many interviews asking Kennedy about, basically dirty politics and efforts to keep him from the primary winner's circle.
The thing that seems obvious to me is the position of RFK in the Democrat Party is the same as Trump's in the GOP. These guys are being attacked by sources that should be supporting them. Why is Kennedy so disliked by the D.C. establishment? For the same reasons Trump is, which Kennedy readily comments upon: Trump is not a D.C. fixture, not a career politician, and wants to put American and Americans first, before other nations, business conglomerates; both public and private; and just wants things to be done fair and square. Neither party seems happy to cooperate with that simple process for either candidate.
Both of these men must be defeated in the primary process of each party. The jig is up if this comes down to Trump and RFK in the election. What will the Dems do? Try and steal another election so someone they hate will win? It's really kind of humorous to watch.
The entire nation, basically, expects another burst of crap thrown at it before the election. The tail must be allowed to wag the dog. Any kind of distraction possible will be thrust before the American populace, 24/7. The rankles of war, more disease, more lockdowns, more of D.C. showing its ass to the entire world. They want a man to be president who falls asleep before the world, shakes hands with air before the world, tells the world it's time for him to go to bed, looks off into space during speeches, produces word salad before the world, lies about his life on almost a daily basis, and just embarrasses the nation before the entire globe. Why? Because Joe Biden is not running the White House. He's a perfect puppet.
I never expected to see anything like this in my lifetime. Two political parties trying to stop two obvious winners, if they put full support behind them. The election, if left alone from fraud and criminal activity, would be very close. BUT, these two guys will not play D.C. corruption games. Both men may come into the sights of assassins before this is over. The stakes for control are too high.
May God protect each of them.
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UNBELIEVABLE
How is this even possible? It has to be a comedy routine. But, apparently, it is not. A man on the street asking questions. The answers should shock you. I was.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9ZpZJPgSA
And that guy's YT channel is filled with these.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9ZpZJPgSA
And that guy's YT channel is filled with these.
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Aliens Before Parliament?
Two, unearthed, fossilized remains, discovered in diatomaceous earth in Peru, stated to be tested to be 1,000 years old, claimed to be alien figures by Mexican UFOlogist, Jaime Maussan, were displayed for the Mexican parliament yesterday, in glass covered cases. The forms are childlike in size. They obviously do not look like human skeletons, and have caused quite the stir in the world news wires. Mainstream news websites immediately began their ad hominem attacks on Maussan, and claimed the entire ufologist community is one of "conspiracy theories," and obviously provided no scientific evidence the remains are not what Maussan claims. Nor has Maussan provided any scientific forensic evidence the remains are what he claims. Not that I have seen. The only thing I have seen mentioned is the dating of the remains.
Reactions were serious. Mexico's congressional representatives seemed pretty blown away, while some were skeptical. Well, logically, everyone should be skeptical. Just because they look weird does not mean they are cosmic aliens. Still, the subject is not going away. Do not expect it to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiGO00Tvozc&t=80s
I saw at least 10 videos on the subject in the YT feed.
Steven Greer, UFO documentarian and leader of the Disclosure Project, claims to have been asked by the Congressional committee looking into UFOs/UAP, to help them utilize his accrued whistleblowers in locating all known sites, public/military/private corporation where all objects, craft, bodies, etc. are stored. A law is being formulated, apparently with unified support, to force all public, private and military sources to reveal everything they have by a whatever date, six-months from passage of the law, under national security concerns. If these entities refuse, Greer claims a team is being put together to take physical measures to force compliance.
An interview with Greer is linked here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw36A3ZlbCA
Now, let me be clear. I obviously take everything stated by Mr. Greer looking over the top of my glasses, with a grain of salt, etc. He most definitely does not speak for the entire ufology community. He speaks against the Christian worldview and pretty much all religions. Whatever his place is in the whole UFO subject and how he may be used by the Adversary in last-day events - which also goes for all the major spokespeople for that community, as well as the "new age" community and others, who believe "E.T." will appear soon - it's all going to be deception. For those who believe in "the universe;" some sort of flow of energy that has determination and causality, whatever situation develops over God's law versus man's laws; they won't have much concern. They'll be waiting for "ET" to intervene, which I believe is very likely to happen. They have no armor to ward off deceptions. That shall make them quite useful in the Enemies plans.
If you think the United States is divided and fragmented, you should see ufology. And it's constant.
Greer is often touted as being a carnival barker that makes documentaries and has an entire UFO/New Age industry going. He's rarely asked any logical or probing questions about things he brings up. He just starts talking about his beliefs about Aliens, alien tech, and man-made tech that could destroy the world if these dark agency, black budget groups are not reigned in. It has been his speech for 30 years and he has it down. I have no doubt such groups exist. Whether they have the technology to do things that Greer states, no. Unless I witness proof of that, I put little stock in it all.
It's all a distraction and side show. Keep your eyes on it.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Reactions were serious. Mexico's congressional representatives seemed pretty blown away, while some were skeptical. Well, logically, everyone should be skeptical. Just because they look weird does not mean they are cosmic aliens. Still, the subject is not going away. Do not expect it to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiGO00Tvozc&t=80s
I saw at least 10 videos on the subject in the YT feed.
Steven Greer, UFO documentarian and leader of the Disclosure Project, claims to have been asked by the Congressional committee looking into UFOs/UAP, to help them utilize his accrued whistleblowers in locating all known sites, public/military/private corporation where all objects, craft, bodies, etc. are stored. A law is being formulated, apparently with unified support, to force all public, private and military sources to reveal everything they have by a whatever date, six-months from passage of the law, under national security concerns. If these entities refuse, Greer claims a team is being put together to take physical measures to force compliance.
An interview with Greer is linked here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw36A3ZlbCA
Now, let me be clear. I obviously take everything stated by Mr. Greer looking over the top of my glasses, with a grain of salt, etc. He most definitely does not speak for the entire ufology community. He speaks against the Christian worldview and pretty much all religions. Whatever his place is in the whole UFO subject and how he may be used by the Adversary in last-day events - which also goes for all the major spokespeople for that community, as well as the "new age" community and others, who believe "E.T." will appear soon - it's all going to be deception. For those who believe in "the universe;" some sort of flow of energy that has determination and causality, whatever situation develops over God's law versus man's laws; they won't have much concern. They'll be waiting for "ET" to intervene, which I believe is very likely to happen. They have no armor to ward off deceptions. That shall make them quite useful in the Enemies plans.
If you think the United States is divided and fragmented, you should see ufology. And it's constant.
Greer is often touted as being a carnival barker that makes documentaries and has an entire UFO/New Age industry going. He's rarely asked any logical or probing questions about things he brings up. He just starts talking about his beliefs about Aliens, alien tech, and man-made tech that could destroy the world if these dark agency, black budget groups are not reigned in. It has been his speech for 30 years and he has it down. I have no doubt such groups exist. Whether they have the technology to do things that Greer states, no. Unless I witness proof of that, I put little stock in it all.
It's all a distraction and side show. Keep your eyes on it.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
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841. Would Jesus Christ Be 'Cancelled' Today? - September 15, 2023
First, take a look at a short passage from the sermon on the mount -
Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Jesus taught we should seek peace with all men. We should be peacemakers not, discord makers.
But wait. There's more.
How is it peacemakers get persecuted? They proclaim righteousness and they get persecuted for it? Yes. Why? Obviously, because people want to live in unrighteousness.
But wait. There's more.
If people revile you, say all manner of evil against you falsely... wait. Falsely? People can be persecuted falsely? Yes. Christ said they are blessed! They should rejoice and be exceedingly glad!
So. What is the basis for this string of events? Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to proclaim whatever ideas make sense to you, as a follower of Christ. Without such freedom, no persecution would take place, would it? There would be nothing said to offend anyone. And remember, Christ did not just speak in synagogues. Most of His teaching was done out in the public sphere. So it has been for most of the last 2000 years, save for when Romanism stepped in to stop it. And by Romanism I mean both pagan Rome and papal Rome, and you can add to that, ignorant Protestantism that held too many apron strings to Mother, in Europe and in early American society. And of course, in lands where Christ is not accepted because of varying factors of other religions or powers of the State.
What made sense to Jesus Christ?
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Uh, oh. Jesus insulted and offended the religious and national leaders of his day. He exposed the unrighteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. He would be censored today. Cancelled. Marginalized.
Mat 5:43 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.
Mat 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Mat 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Mat 5:46 For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same?
Mat 5:47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Mat 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
So, we should not be too concerned who curses us, hates us, despitefully uses us, and persecutes us. Then, He insults and offends another group, the publicans. The publicans were tax collectors for the Romans and to get along with both Romans and Jews, basically spoke out of both sides of their mouth. Quite an insult. Hypocrites! That is a word Christ used a lot. He called a lot of people hypocrites, which is a word, in the Greek, that literally means an actor, a fake, someone playing a part.
So, Christ would have added more reasons to get Himself cancelled today. Too many insults. Too much offense and hurt and stress placed upon people groups He spoke against.
But, wait! There's more!
Mat 6:2 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:5 And when you pray, you shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:16 Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
!!!!!
Mat 7:3 And why behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then you shall see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
?????
So, we have plenty of definition of what a hypocrite is in Christ's eyes and teaching; including people who like to make a scene of themselves when they give money to something or when they pray or use vain repetitions to pray or make a big scene when they fast or when they judge others when their own lives are a mess.
Wait. Did Jesus insult Roman Catholics, Episcopals and any and all other groups and religions who pray using empty or worthless repetitive words and phrases? Who does He think He is!? He is grossly offensive! Cancel Him! He's hurtful!
He insulted all non-Jews as dogs, swine and heathens [Gentiles].
After telling everybody to be peacemakers He says He did not come to bring peace, He came with a sword to divide the world and set, even family members at variance and make enemies of them.
Be a peacemaker, create enemies? Huh?
This man must be shut down, cancelled, marginalized, locked up! He's ridiculous.
Then, He attacked entire cities!
Mat 11:20 Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Mat 11:21 Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Mat 11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Mat 11:23 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Mat 11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
Sodom? Why was Sodom no longer around in Christ's day? Sodomy, i.e. Sodomites: homosexuals.
!!!!! Away with Him!
And He added fuel to that fire -
Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just two genders?
That's it! Stop Him! Destroy Him! Render Him as moot as can be done!
Everybody has a decision to make. It cannot be avoided. Christ, Messiah claimed to be "I AM." That is what God referred to Himself as to Moses. Christ claimed to be the Deity who spoke to Moses. They tried to stone Him at that point but, He was enabled to get away. His time had not yet come. If Christ is who He said He is, His teachings are the Word of God. God is a unit of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just like someone yelling, "Hey, Frigon!" and I or a family member would turn around; God is a family of One. Jesus said, I and My Father are One. Same Person? No. One in every other possible way of thought and action; same as the Holy Spirit. Hard to grasp? Sure. Regardless, if Christ is who He said He is, there are no options for not regarding His teachings, no matter how much they offend or hurt or insult our egos and minds.
I consider myself a Bible believing Christian yet, I struggle with the implications and outright plain statements of Christ every day, in the nature of self I struggle with. No one escapes that struggle, and that struggle cannot and will not change Christ or His teachings.
Were He here today, He would be as readily thrust out and killed as He was 2,000 years ago. I dare say, more so and more quickly, for the world is crazier now than it was then. Well, take that with a grain of subjectiveness. Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman society were pretty corrupt, morally speaking. In many ways, today is just a carbon copy of everything Christ spoke against and more in His time and previous to it. And the Gospels are filled with this kind of speech.
Peace is only peace when people abide by the principles of peace the Peace-giver's mandates. Security only exists when people abide by just laws. Otherwise, like there was war in Heaven, there can only be war on earth.
I watched a video a few days ago, well, a few different ones from various commentators about Leftism and drag queens and climate alarmists, etc. These commentators, all pretty well known, obviously see Leftism, radical Liberalism, "woke" society as mentally unstable and an illness: a complete lack of common sense and propriety humans have lived by for a thousand years and more, and frankly, throughout most of the current modern world, as well.
People on the Left see people on the Right the same way: stupid, crazy, etc., etc.. Even Piers Morgan, British Leftist, believer in man-made climate change, sees climate alarmists who think nothing of inconveniencing thousands of people lined up on highways because these "peaceful protestors" are sitting on those highways, or blocking doorways or gluing themselves to paintings and statues as completely shooting themselves in the foot. He states "wokeism" has got to end. In many cases they are breaking laws BUT, because man-made climate change is going to end the world!, they feel compelled to do whatever they must to wake up humanity and save the planet and its population. It does not matter how 99% of people rage at their nonsensical approach. It does not matter very intelligent, professional, educated, knowledgeable people in areas of meteorology emphatically disagree with all of their calamity howling, based on data and evidence. They are not considered. They are not with the agenda, the program, and must be ignored, if not shut up.
To me, Leftists are radicals. To them, I am a radical. To me, I say, Okay. Free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of ideas, freedom to produce evidence that stakes your claim. Let people decide. Just do not corrupt the minds of children.
To them, NO. I must accept their morality, their science, their convictions, their language demands, their societal groups and lawlessness, their new laws, and shut up and allow children to be exposed to it all!
The only hope is true freedom and liberty in the arena of the rule of law based on Judeo/Christian principles, as all Western civilization has been based. Frankly, if they travel East they hit Islam, Hinduism, Communism that readily denies their culture and would persecute them as much as they will atheists, Christians and Jews. So, what must Leftists do? Change America. Change Western civilization. That is their only option. That is their battle cry and they will allow nothing to stand in their way. The ONLY thing that will stop them is a stand of people who see their culture as destructive and set out to stop them; lawfully and forcefully.
And in the midst of it all, Christ stands waiting for a people who shall prepare themselves for His return because then, only His kingdom remains standing. All others are destroyed. Only His laws will matter. So, no options. We are either with Him or against Him, based on Him and His teachings; so He said. Not Him "Hollywoodized" or His teachings merged with that of lost, sinful mankind. No. As much as it offends, as much as it hurts, as much as it insults, as much as it may turn our worldview upside down, mixing Christ with the world is Babylon and Babylon is going to be destroyed, regardless of man's "wokeness," or "conservativeness." It's all, ultimately, a confusing cauldron of man-made opinions that creates sides. Christ knew His teachings created sides. Everybody chooses which side they stand on, and everybody stands on a side, whether they want to or not.
In the end, it is not believers in God against the non-believing world. No. It is truth against error. It is always truth against error and always has been. What everyone must do, MUST do is decide what the truth is. From there, a final battle develops. Then the end will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Jesus taught we should seek peace with all men. We should be peacemakers not, discord makers.
But wait. There's more.
How is it peacemakers get persecuted? They proclaim righteousness and they get persecuted for it? Yes. Why? Obviously, because people want to live in unrighteousness.
But wait. There's more.
If people revile you, say all manner of evil against you falsely... wait. Falsely? People can be persecuted falsely? Yes. Christ said they are blessed! They should rejoice and be exceedingly glad!
So. What is the basis for this string of events? Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to proclaim whatever ideas make sense to you, as a follower of Christ. Without such freedom, no persecution would take place, would it? There would be nothing said to offend anyone. And remember, Christ did not just speak in synagogues. Most of His teaching was done out in the public sphere. So it has been for most of the last 2000 years, save for when Romanism stepped in to stop it. And by Romanism I mean both pagan Rome and papal Rome, and you can add to that, ignorant Protestantism that held too many apron strings to Mother, in Europe and in early American society. And of course, in lands where Christ is not accepted because of varying factors of other religions or powers of the State.
What made sense to Jesus Christ?
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Uh, oh. Jesus insulted and offended the religious and national leaders of his day. He exposed the unrighteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. He would be censored today. Cancelled. Marginalized.
Mat 5:43 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.
Mat 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Mat 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Mat 5:46 For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same?
Mat 5:47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Mat 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
So, we should not be too concerned who curses us, hates us, despitefully uses us, and persecutes us. Then, He insults and offends another group, the publicans. The publicans were tax collectors for the Romans and to get along with both Romans and Jews, basically spoke out of both sides of their mouth. Quite an insult. Hypocrites! That is a word Christ used a lot. He called a lot of people hypocrites, which is a word, in the Greek, that literally means an actor, a fake, someone playing a part.
So, Christ would have added more reasons to get Himself cancelled today. Too many insults. Too much offense and hurt and stress placed upon people groups He spoke against.
But, wait! There's more!
Mat 6:2 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:5 And when you pray, you shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:16 Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
!!!!!
Mat 7:3 And why behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then you shall see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
?????
So, we have plenty of definition of what a hypocrite is in Christ's eyes and teaching; including people who like to make a scene of themselves when they give money to something or when they pray or use vain repetitions to pray or make a big scene when they fast or when they judge others when their own lives are a mess.
Wait. Did Jesus insult Roman Catholics, Episcopals and any and all other groups and religions who pray using empty or worthless repetitive words and phrases? Who does He think He is!? He is grossly offensive! Cancel Him! He's hurtful!
He insulted all non-Jews as dogs, swine and heathens [Gentiles].
After telling everybody to be peacemakers He says He did not come to bring peace, He came with a sword to divide the world and set, even family members at variance and make enemies of them.
Be a peacemaker, create enemies? Huh?
This man must be shut down, cancelled, marginalized, locked up! He's ridiculous.
Then, He attacked entire cities!
Mat 11:20 Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Mat 11:21 Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Mat 11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Mat 11:23 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Mat 11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
Sodom? Why was Sodom no longer around in Christ's day? Sodomy, i.e. Sodomites: homosexuals.
!!!!! Away with Him!
And He added fuel to that fire -
Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just two genders?
That's it! Stop Him! Destroy Him! Render Him as moot as can be done!
Everybody has a decision to make. It cannot be avoided. Christ, Messiah claimed to be "I AM." That is what God referred to Himself as to Moses. Christ claimed to be the Deity who spoke to Moses. They tried to stone Him at that point but, He was enabled to get away. His time had not yet come. If Christ is who He said He is, His teachings are the Word of God. God is a unit of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just like someone yelling, "Hey, Frigon!" and I or a family member would turn around; God is a family of One. Jesus said, I and My Father are One. Same Person? No. One in every other possible way of thought and action; same as the Holy Spirit. Hard to grasp? Sure. Regardless, if Christ is who He said He is, there are no options for not regarding His teachings, no matter how much they offend or hurt or insult our egos and minds.
I consider myself a Bible believing Christian yet, I struggle with the implications and outright plain statements of Christ every day, in the nature of self I struggle with. No one escapes that struggle, and that struggle cannot and will not change Christ or His teachings.
Were He here today, He would be as readily thrust out and killed as He was 2,000 years ago. I dare say, more so and more quickly, for the world is crazier now than it was then. Well, take that with a grain of subjectiveness. Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman society were pretty corrupt, morally speaking. In many ways, today is just a carbon copy of everything Christ spoke against and more in His time and previous to it. And the Gospels are filled with this kind of speech.
Peace is only peace when people abide by the principles of peace the Peace-giver's mandates. Security only exists when people abide by just laws. Otherwise, like there was war in Heaven, there can only be war on earth.
I watched a video a few days ago, well, a few different ones from various commentators about Leftism and drag queens and climate alarmists, etc. These commentators, all pretty well known, obviously see Leftism, radical Liberalism, "woke" society as mentally unstable and an illness: a complete lack of common sense and propriety humans have lived by for a thousand years and more, and frankly, throughout most of the current modern world, as well.
People on the Left see people on the Right the same way: stupid, crazy, etc., etc.. Even Piers Morgan, British Leftist, believer in man-made climate change, sees climate alarmists who think nothing of inconveniencing thousands of people lined up on highways because these "peaceful protestors" are sitting on those highways, or blocking doorways or gluing themselves to paintings and statues as completely shooting themselves in the foot. He states "wokeism" has got to end. In many cases they are breaking laws BUT, because man-made climate change is going to end the world!, they feel compelled to do whatever they must to wake up humanity and save the planet and its population. It does not matter how 99% of people rage at their nonsensical approach. It does not matter very intelligent, professional, educated, knowledgeable people in areas of meteorology emphatically disagree with all of their calamity howling, based on data and evidence. They are not considered. They are not with the agenda, the program, and must be ignored, if not shut up.
To me, Leftists are radicals. To them, I am a radical. To me, I say, Okay. Free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of ideas, freedom to produce evidence that stakes your claim. Let people decide. Just do not corrupt the minds of children.
To them, NO. I must accept their morality, their science, their convictions, their language demands, their societal groups and lawlessness, their new laws, and shut up and allow children to be exposed to it all!
The only hope is true freedom and liberty in the arena of the rule of law based on Judeo/Christian principles, as all Western civilization has been based. Frankly, if they travel East they hit Islam, Hinduism, Communism that readily denies their culture and would persecute them as much as they will atheists, Christians and Jews. So, what must Leftists do? Change America. Change Western civilization. That is their only option. That is their battle cry and they will allow nothing to stand in their way. The ONLY thing that will stop them is a stand of people who see their culture as destructive and set out to stop them; lawfully and forcefully.
And in the midst of it all, Christ stands waiting for a people who shall prepare themselves for His return because then, only His kingdom remains standing. All others are destroyed. Only His laws will matter. So, no options. We are either with Him or against Him, based on Him and His teachings; so He said. Not Him "Hollywoodized" or His teachings merged with that of lost, sinful mankind. No. As much as it offends, as much as it hurts, as much as it insults, as much as it may turn our worldview upside down, mixing Christ with the world is Babylon and Babylon is going to be destroyed, regardless of man's "wokeness," or "conservativeness." It's all, ultimately, a confusing cauldron of man-made opinions that creates sides. Christ knew His teachings created sides. Everybody chooses which side they stand on, and everybody stands on a side, whether they want to or not.
In the end, it is not believers in God against the non-believing world. No. It is truth against error. It is always truth against error and always has been. What everyone must do, MUST do is decide what the truth is. From there, a final battle develops. Then the end will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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842. Perceptions - September 16, 2023
Perceptions.
What possible connection could exist between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the world of drumming? Perceptions.
I have favorite players. Well all do: those who have influenced our drumming minds and bodies and set-ups and approach to the instruments involved in drum set artistry and performance.
As anyone knows, who comes here to read things posted, I have staged a sort of, mini-war against super-hype and ultra-hype pumped by drum manufacturers of proprietary, plywood drum shells. In principle the same can be stated against custom manufacturers of more complex or at least different types of drum shells. Why should I even begin such a war against the fraudulent claims of manufacturers?
Jump back to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States. I was just a young boy of 8 or 9 when that terrible event took place. In the 60 years since that event, the channels of Federal government that control the legal storehouse of information on that event, refuse to release it all to the general public, even though all people who could have participated are all deceased. What they have chosen to release is heavily redacted, etc., etc., etc.
Why do people still believe a lone gunman was responsible for the death of John Kennedy and one bullet, the "magic bullet," created 6 or 7 holes in two people? The number of books written, documentaries made, Hollywood feature films produced, number into the hundreds all together. They show errors in the official story of what took place that day. If citizens may not know exactly who and what was responsible for Kennedy's assassination, we can know, without any doubt, the official story of what happened that day is not the truth. Robert Kennedy Jr. stakes a claim on the CIA killing his uncle and explains why. Why, then, do people believe the official story, considering most of the people alive during that event, are deceased, as well? New generations do not have the prejudice older generations had. They have not been exposed to the bewildering pile of disinformation that government covered up the real truth with. Why is common sense not exercised by a populace who must come to terms with and face a fact: if elements of the Federal government and other actors could conspire to assassinate a president, what would stop them from killing citizens holding to the same political framework that president held to?
Why is there a mental numbness upon tens of millions of Americans and billions of people around the world? The reason is the science of mind manipulation. Neurosciences, like Neuro-linguistic programming; Cognitive sciences, like Cognitive dissonance programming; Psychology sciences, like the study of catastrophe, fear, and the unknown upon the human mind, and various exercises developed from all these fields, have all been used on the American and other populations for 80 years.
The CIA has been involved with these exercises for generations now. The term "conspiracy theory" is a product of CIA mis and disinformation about opposing views of the official story of the Kennedy assassination. In regards to the subject of UFOs, which began 20 years before, the same techniques have been applied. It is entirely truthful that the entire 20th century; all its wars, all its major events have been overshadowed by fraudulent information, falsehoods, fabrications and out and out lies to cover them up by causing citizens to think in certain ways about these events, using these scientific techniques of manipulating how information is perceived by the human mind. It is not just the information involved but, the way the information is relayed, the frequency of it, the constant surveying and poll-taking to see how the general pubic is responding to it and what modifications are necessary to keep citizens in line with any official story.
Not all cases involve purposeful dissemination of lies by all people involved in certain events. Hierarchies are put in place to control intent. Gossip works that way. One person says something about a third person. Person two shares it and by the time the information reaches person 20, all kinds of information is distorted or unequivocally wrong. Many of those people who work for intelligence agencies have no idea what they are disseminating are falsehoods. They come under the same manipulative influences the top tiers of the hierarchy construct.
The premise of "in plain sight" is a way to manipulate people. Two friends are walking down a street. A asks B what he did that day. B says, he robbed a bank. A laughs because he knows his friend would never do such a thing. B laughs because it is exactly what he did and can get away with it because of the perception A has of him. Short-term or long-term scammers work that way all the time. Perceptions are everything and information is a collection of perceptions one can place on another mind. If A finds out the truth, he rejects it because he knows his friend, when, in fact, he only thinks he knows his friend. B has given him distortions of information about himself for whatever length of time necessary to pull of the crime.
People of prior American generations have seen the Federal government as something above corruptions seen in organized crime. Members and elements of the U.S. government would never assassinate a president, they think. Our government would never ask us to be injected with a harmful serum. Inject children with it? No way. Cognitive dissonance takes place, all based on mis or disinformation or, today, malinformation - malicious information. Confusion results. People get motivated by all the wrong things - money, fear, being liked, everything but, the one thing that matters most - truth.
So, I jump from theories of reasons for different events to drum shells and drum manufacturers.
We all know the premise of a person who tells themselves a lie long enough, will eventually believe it is true. Why? It's the way information is processed and stored in the human brain with millions, billions, trillions of connections and pathways all working at once to gather information, store it, and push it out for use to gather more and store more, and this repeats 24/7, even while we sleep. It is not a 100% knowledgeable science but, people know enough to understand how to manipulate the process.
Why do drum companies state their different drum shells create dramatically different sounds? I mean, it is all advertised that way, in very specific marketing plans, that also get into manipulation of the mind. Advertising and marketing companies have looked at ways to sell products through mind manipulation for a century. It is not necessarily the product but, the way consumers can be manipulated to perceive the product. It is done with everything people purchase, from toys, to food, to cars, to pharmaceuticals.
With all that drum companies state about their product, not one has ever taken a drum from every line; placed upon a demonstration the same parameters for all the drums; same size shells, same heads, pitch, sticks, demonstrator, mics, room, etc. and struck each one and displayed the differences that could make their way through the sound field of a full kit surrounded by a band. Nuances and subtleties of sound differences? Maybe. Really serious differences? They do not do the test; the demonstration because they know it will not work to sell more expensive lines of drums. If they just hyped up better hardware per line, nicer finishes... there would be no conflict but, they go ahead and make a drum shell the most important element of the sound, when that is a demonstrable falsehood.
Why do people believe the manipulation of marketing? Why do they believe the claims of manufacturers and disbelieve any kind of manipulative marketing is involved? Many will claim these dramatic differences exist. Anyone who sets out to prove that, runs into the wall of fact. There are no differences that anyone can call major, based on drum shells. Sonic evidence proves it, time and time again. Some will claim these drums have a deeper tone than those drums. Moot. Can it be heard in the context of a band? A little EQ changes that instantly.
Some will claim drum A is louder then drum B. Moot. Just raise the gain in recording or volume of a channel in a PA, and that instantly changes.
Some people cannot even state in English what the differences are, they just hear them. And that mystery difference will make itself known surrounded by a band? Really?
Drums are talked about like pianos. They are pictured with gorgeous full color photography. Then they employ endorsers to sit with them, behind them and surely these heroes in the drum world would not fabricate impressions about the sound. Probably not but, fudge the truth a little? For the company to keep providing drums for them on tours? Why not? And year after year drummers of all ages have become numb to fabrications of claims about drum shells and sound.
I have been making drums for over 30 years now. I have proven this truth to myself over and over again. I have made videos and recordings people can watch and listen to of different drums and sets of all kinds of materials to show that the sound of a drum is something so simple, surrounded by electric music and in most cases, acoustic music, no dramatic differences exist because of a drum shell.
The aspect of practicing critical thinking is not something taught by parents or schools, by and large. Parents tell children what to think. Churches tell members what to think. Schools tell students what to think. Companies tell consumers what to think. Government tells citizens what to think. Few tell anyone how to think, critically. Certainly not government; nor public, nor plenty of private schools. Companies? No way. Churches? Some. Parents? Some.
The human race is being set-up and taught to accept the greatest hoax, the greatest charade, the greatest imposter and collection of lies in human history. Methods are being used to lure humanity into pots of water, slowly heated up, rendering those within them unable to discern truth and what is happening to them. Many will find out too late. Right now, millions are waking up to some degree. And let me be honest. Just because you know what the government or some elitist, totalitarian body is up to, does not mean you know what Lucifer is up to. Far from it. And none on Earth are greater mind manipulators than he is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
What possible connection could exist between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the world of drumming? Perceptions.
I have favorite players. Well all do: those who have influenced our drumming minds and bodies and set-ups and approach to the instruments involved in drum set artistry and performance.
As anyone knows, who comes here to read things posted, I have staged a sort of, mini-war against super-hype and ultra-hype pumped by drum manufacturers of proprietary, plywood drum shells. In principle the same can be stated against custom manufacturers of more complex or at least different types of drum shells. Why should I even begin such a war against the fraudulent claims of manufacturers?
Jump back to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States. I was just a young boy of 8 or 9 when that terrible event took place. In the 60 years since that event, the channels of Federal government that control the legal storehouse of information on that event, refuse to release it all to the general public, even though all people who could have participated are all deceased. What they have chosen to release is heavily redacted, etc., etc., etc.
Why do people still believe a lone gunman was responsible for the death of John Kennedy and one bullet, the "magic bullet," created 6 or 7 holes in two people? The number of books written, documentaries made, Hollywood feature films produced, number into the hundreds all together. They show errors in the official story of what took place that day. If citizens may not know exactly who and what was responsible for Kennedy's assassination, we can know, without any doubt, the official story of what happened that day is not the truth. Robert Kennedy Jr. stakes a claim on the CIA killing his uncle and explains why. Why, then, do people believe the official story, considering most of the people alive during that event, are deceased, as well? New generations do not have the prejudice older generations had. They have not been exposed to the bewildering pile of disinformation that government covered up the real truth with. Why is common sense not exercised by a populace who must come to terms with and face a fact: if elements of the Federal government and other actors could conspire to assassinate a president, what would stop them from killing citizens holding to the same political framework that president held to?
Why is there a mental numbness upon tens of millions of Americans and billions of people around the world? The reason is the science of mind manipulation. Neurosciences, like Neuro-linguistic programming; Cognitive sciences, like Cognitive dissonance programming; Psychology sciences, like the study of catastrophe, fear, and the unknown upon the human mind, and various exercises developed from all these fields, have all been used on the American and other populations for 80 years.
The CIA has been involved with these exercises for generations now. The term "conspiracy theory" is a product of CIA mis and disinformation about opposing views of the official story of the Kennedy assassination. In regards to the subject of UFOs, which began 20 years before, the same techniques have been applied. It is entirely truthful that the entire 20th century; all its wars, all its major events have been overshadowed by fraudulent information, falsehoods, fabrications and out and out lies to cover them up by causing citizens to think in certain ways about these events, using these scientific techniques of manipulating how information is perceived by the human mind. It is not just the information involved but, the way the information is relayed, the frequency of it, the constant surveying and poll-taking to see how the general pubic is responding to it and what modifications are necessary to keep citizens in line with any official story.
Not all cases involve purposeful dissemination of lies by all people involved in certain events. Hierarchies are put in place to control intent. Gossip works that way. One person says something about a third person. Person two shares it and by the time the information reaches person 20, all kinds of information is distorted or unequivocally wrong. Many of those people who work for intelligence agencies have no idea what they are disseminating are falsehoods. They come under the same manipulative influences the top tiers of the hierarchy construct.
The premise of "in plain sight" is a way to manipulate people. Two friends are walking down a street. A asks B what he did that day. B says, he robbed a bank. A laughs because he knows his friend would never do such a thing. B laughs because it is exactly what he did and can get away with it because of the perception A has of him. Short-term or long-term scammers work that way all the time. Perceptions are everything and information is a collection of perceptions one can place on another mind. If A finds out the truth, he rejects it because he knows his friend, when, in fact, he only thinks he knows his friend. B has given him distortions of information about himself for whatever length of time necessary to pull of the crime.
People of prior American generations have seen the Federal government as something above corruptions seen in organized crime. Members and elements of the U.S. government would never assassinate a president, they think. Our government would never ask us to be injected with a harmful serum. Inject children with it? No way. Cognitive dissonance takes place, all based on mis or disinformation or, today, malinformation - malicious information. Confusion results. People get motivated by all the wrong things - money, fear, being liked, everything but, the one thing that matters most - truth.
So, I jump from theories of reasons for different events to drum shells and drum manufacturers.
We all know the premise of a person who tells themselves a lie long enough, will eventually believe it is true. Why? It's the way information is processed and stored in the human brain with millions, billions, trillions of connections and pathways all working at once to gather information, store it, and push it out for use to gather more and store more, and this repeats 24/7, even while we sleep. It is not a 100% knowledgeable science but, people know enough to understand how to manipulate the process.
Why do drum companies state their different drum shells create dramatically different sounds? I mean, it is all advertised that way, in very specific marketing plans, that also get into manipulation of the mind. Advertising and marketing companies have looked at ways to sell products through mind manipulation for a century. It is not necessarily the product but, the way consumers can be manipulated to perceive the product. It is done with everything people purchase, from toys, to food, to cars, to pharmaceuticals.
With all that drum companies state about their product, not one has ever taken a drum from every line; placed upon a demonstration the same parameters for all the drums; same size shells, same heads, pitch, sticks, demonstrator, mics, room, etc. and struck each one and displayed the differences that could make their way through the sound field of a full kit surrounded by a band. Nuances and subtleties of sound differences? Maybe. Really serious differences? They do not do the test; the demonstration because they know it will not work to sell more expensive lines of drums. If they just hyped up better hardware per line, nicer finishes... there would be no conflict but, they go ahead and make a drum shell the most important element of the sound, when that is a demonstrable falsehood.
Why do people believe the manipulation of marketing? Why do they believe the claims of manufacturers and disbelieve any kind of manipulative marketing is involved? Many will claim these dramatic differences exist. Anyone who sets out to prove that, runs into the wall of fact. There are no differences that anyone can call major, based on drum shells. Sonic evidence proves it, time and time again. Some will claim these drums have a deeper tone than those drums. Moot. Can it be heard in the context of a band? A little EQ changes that instantly.
Some will claim drum A is louder then drum B. Moot. Just raise the gain in recording or volume of a channel in a PA, and that instantly changes.
Some people cannot even state in English what the differences are, they just hear them. And that mystery difference will make itself known surrounded by a band? Really?
Drums are talked about like pianos. They are pictured with gorgeous full color photography. Then they employ endorsers to sit with them, behind them and surely these heroes in the drum world would not fabricate impressions about the sound. Probably not but, fudge the truth a little? For the company to keep providing drums for them on tours? Why not? And year after year drummers of all ages have become numb to fabrications of claims about drum shells and sound.
I have been making drums for over 30 years now. I have proven this truth to myself over and over again. I have made videos and recordings people can watch and listen to of different drums and sets of all kinds of materials to show that the sound of a drum is something so simple, surrounded by electric music and in most cases, acoustic music, no dramatic differences exist because of a drum shell.
The aspect of practicing critical thinking is not something taught by parents or schools, by and large. Parents tell children what to think. Churches tell members what to think. Schools tell students what to think. Companies tell consumers what to think. Government tells citizens what to think. Few tell anyone how to think, critically. Certainly not government; nor public, nor plenty of private schools. Companies? No way. Churches? Some. Parents? Some.
The human race is being set-up and taught to accept the greatest hoax, the greatest charade, the greatest imposter and collection of lies in human history. Methods are being used to lure humanity into pots of water, slowly heated up, rendering those within them unable to discern truth and what is happening to them. Many will find out too late. Right now, millions are waking up to some degree. And let me be honest. Just because you know what the government or some elitist, totalitarian body is up to, does not mean you know what Lucifer is up to. Far from it. And none on Earth are greater mind manipulators than he is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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843. In Case You Aren't Paying Attention - 9/16/23
"Daniel," the storm that wreaked havoc in the Mediterranean, thus far has killed 11,000 Libyans, with 10,000 still missing, in one of the worst man-made/natural disasters in that nation's history.
In America, another record was broken of catastrophic loss. As of August, there have been 23 "weather" or catastrophic events, costing almost 58 billion dollars worth of damage. With the death toll in Maui still being withheld for accurate figures, and with four months yet to go, 2020 had been the biggest catastrophic year but, 2023 will eclipse it.
Does it matter if "climate change" is to blame, or other sources of breakdown and attack on Earth are responsible? 2,000 years ago, Christ said disasters will rise to global levels people should recognize as a sign of the coming end. The earth is wearing out like a garment.
Multitudes of Christians have been persecuted and killed in foreign lands, with destruction of homes and churches in the hundreds. Western news agencies are not reporting much of it, obviously because of Leftist Corporate-controlled agendas which have no use for religion of any kind, and the Christian faith in particular.
While humanity watches Ukraine, it is a fact, that "war" would have been over as soon as it began, if the West were not supplying financial and military aid to Ukraine; fighting a proxy war with Russia. What would have been the result?
The reason for the war, to begin with, was Zelenskyy's government persecuting Ukraine regions in the Southeast of the nation, regions which voted to leave Ukraine and become Russian. Zelenskyy has practiced atrocities, taken control of all banks and churches, and shut down anything and anyone who dissents from his leadership. Russia, after years of watching this, and the Southeast region pleading with him for help, warned Zelenskyy, then invaded.
If NATO did not jump in, what would have resulted? Zelenskyy would have been removed from power, along with other avenues of corruption in the regime, including the neo-Nazi armed forces, the Azov battalion, plaguing the region, and agreements and documents signed, that went ignored, would have been reinstated, and that would have been basically it.
Trillions of international dollars have gone into a conflict, Ukrainians have been made refugees, and this "war" will continue until Zelenskyy dies or nations rise up in protest of all the money being spent, to the degrading of their own countries, America included. Unless, of course, fools go where angels fear to tread and start a nuclear conflict, WW3, and that's it. The elites head underground, the rest of civilization gets destroyed and what will have been attained? Nothing. The losses will be far more than biblical.
"Wars and rumors of wars," is what Christ said. But, "the end is not yet." Which shows us WW3 will not happen to the imaginations of what would happen through such a modern conflict. The potential is certainly there but, God has another plan in mind.
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Notice, again, Christ did not state the world will be converted. He just said the Gospel shall be preached as a witness to all nations. That includes the everlasting Gospel found in Revelation 14 -
Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
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.
Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
1. Reverence God.
2. Give glory to God.
3. His Judgment hour has arrived.
4. Worship the Creator, according to the Creator's way.
5. The fall of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: Mother Rome. Apostate Protestant Daughters. Kings of the Earth (all other groups, faiths, philosophies and powers.
6. Warning - Do Not worship the Beast [RCC], his image [apostate America], or receive Rome's mark of authority [change of God's law from Sabbath to Sunday], in the forehead or in the hand - in intellectual belief or for the sake of expedience - go along, to get along.
7. Warning of the seven last plagues and final tribulation on Earth, and final judgment upon the lost.
8. While the world cried peace and safety, when human probation closes, all cases decided, the lost will have no rest, day or night, for as long as they live. Eternal life is promised to the saved, not the lost. Remember that. Ultimately, the lost from all ages shall face the second death of the White Throne Judgment, at the end of the thousand years. "Our God is a consuming fire."
9. The endurance of the sanctified ones, who keep [guard] God's commandments and have the faith of Jesus Christ. They will be victorious.
Always remember, a warning is a good thing. It may contain elements of shock but, better to be warned than destroyed. The everlasting Gospel is not just the birth, life, death and resurrection of Christ. It is whatever good news God sends us to separate us and save us from a world gone rogue.
We all have decisions, eternal decisions to make. Time is relentless. No one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return but, prophecy provides information, a map that lets us know how close it is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In America, another record was broken of catastrophic loss. As of August, there have been 23 "weather" or catastrophic events, costing almost 58 billion dollars worth of damage. With the death toll in Maui still being withheld for accurate figures, and with four months yet to go, 2020 had been the biggest catastrophic year but, 2023 will eclipse it.
Does it matter if "climate change" is to blame, or other sources of breakdown and attack on Earth are responsible? 2,000 years ago, Christ said disasters will rise to global levels people should recognize as a sign of the coming end. The earth is wearing out like a garment.
Multitudes of Christians have been persecuted and killed in foreign lands, with destruction of homes and churches in the hundreds. Western news agencies are not reporting much of it, obviously because of Leftist Corporate-controlled agendas which have no use for religion of any kind, and the Christian faith in particular.
While humanity watches Ukraine, it is a fact, that "war" would have been over as soon as it began, if the West were not supplying financial and military aid to Ukraine; fighting a proxy war with Russia. What would have been the result?
The reason for the war, to begin with, was Zelenskyy's government persecuting Ukraine regions in the Southeast of the nation, regions which voted to leave Ukraine and become Russian. Zelenskyy has practiced atrocities, taken control of all banks and churches, and shut down anything and anyone who dissents from his leadership. Russia, after years of watching this, and the Southeast region pleading with him for help, warned Zelenskyy, then invaded.
If NATO did not jump in, what would have resulted? Zelenskyy would have been removed from power, along with other avenues of corruption in the regime, including the neo-Nazi armed forces, the Azov battalion, plaguing the region, and agreements and documents signed, that went ignored, would have been reinstated, and that would have been basically it.
Trillions of international dollars have gone into a conflict, Ukrainians have been made refugees, and this "war" will continue until Zelenskyy dies or nations rise up in protest of all the money being spent, to the degrading of their own countries, America included. Unless, of course, fools go where angels fear to tread and start a nuclear conflict, WW3, and that's it. The elites head underground, the rest of civilization gets destroyed and what will have been attained? Nothing. The losses will be far more than biblical.
"Wars and rumors of wars," is what Christ said. But, "the end is not yet." Which shows us WW3 will not happen to the imaginations of what would happen through such a modern conflict. The potential is certainly there but, God has another plan in mind.
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Notice, again, Christ did not state the world will be converted. He just said the Gospel shall be preached as a witness to all nations. That includes the everlasting Gospel found in Revelation 14 -
Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
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.
Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
1. Reverence God.
2. Give glory to God.
3. His Judgment hour has arrived.
4. Worship the Creator, according to the Creator's way.
5. The fall of spiritual, prophetic Babylon: Mother Rome. Apostate Protestant Daughters. Kings of the Earth (all other groups, faiths, philosophies and powers.
6. Warning - Do Not worship the Beast [RCC], his image [apostate America], or receive Rome's mark of authority [change of God's law from Sabbath to Sunday], in the forehead or in the hand - in intellectual belief or for the sake of expedience - go along, to get along.
7. Warning of the seven last plagues and final tribulation on Earth, and final judgment upon the lost.
8. While the world cried peace and safety, when human probation closes, all cases decided, the lost will have no rest, day or night, for as long as they live. Eternal life is promised to the saved, not the lost. Remember that. Ultimately, the lost from all ages shall face the second death of the White Throne Judgment, at the end of the thousand years. "Our God is a consuming fire."
9. The endurance of the sanctified ones, who keep [guard] God's commandments and have the faith of Jesus Christ. They will be victorious.
Always remember, a warning is a good thing. It may contain elements of shock but, better to be warned than destroyed. The everlasting Gospel is not just the birth, life, death and resurrection of Christ. It is whatever good news God sends us to separate us and save us from a world gone rogue.
We all have decisions, eternal decisions to make. Time is relentless. No one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return but, prophecy provides information, a map that lets us know how close it is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Separation of Church and State?
A firestorm... another firestorm created by a misunderstanding of the principle of separation of church and state.
www.faithwire.com/2023/09/15/california-school-board-president-under-fire-for-calling-christ-centered-parents-to-get-plugged-in/
"Julie Leavens Hupp - Rocklin School Board Trustee
about 3 weeks agoRocklin Friends,
As your school board we have worked very hard to insist that important decisions (such as new curriculum) involve our parents. Now we need you. The advisory committee sign ups went out today. We need as many Christ centered, family focused parents as we can get on those committees. PLEASE take a look and see what you can commit to for the year. Thank you for your love and support! Together, we will keep our children safe and thriving!"❤️❤️
Right away, charges of violating separation of church and state were being hurled at her from all directions. But, did she?
"Congress shall make no law..." That is what the first amendment to the Bill of Rights states. Law. Force of law regarding an establishment of religion.
Obviously the school is a public school. Does that mean an individual cannot proclaim her positions on society involved with public schools? She cannot make a law. No law exists, and should not exist. That does not mean Abraham Lincoln violated the principle of separation of church and state by telling Americans he appreciated the Bible and read it all the time, and advised Americans to do the same.
There are aspects of public life that contain social and moral issues. Public schools do not and cannot exist in a vacuum. Leftists certainly do not consider it wrong to promote their social standards to children, and making sure parents do not find out. States are engaging laws that now prohibit such activity. Just because a school is public does not mean its employees can promote whatever they want without notifying parents so, what is wrong with someone asking for Christian parents, and in principle, parents from any faith, to be involved in the schooling of their children? There is no violation of church and state in this request. It is preposterous to claim there is.
www.christianpost.com/news/why-four-states-are-cutting-ties-with-the-american-library-assoc.html
America was not established as a godless nation. The founding document of the Declaration of Independence and writings of the Founders, as well as almost all Preambles to State Constitutions show that fact; each State thanking God for the provisions of freedom and liberty He granted.
Secularists need to be educated and told, point blank, they are wrong and need to back off. Separation of church and state does not mean separation of God from state. No Founder of this nation or Framer of its guiding documents, came close to such a premise now demand by secularists in America.
While true, George Washington stated the government of the United States of America is not founded on the Christian religion, it certainly was Founded on the understanding there is a Sovereign of the Universe that grants inalienable rights. Freedom, liberty of religion and conscience, and freedom of speech are two of them.
I hope Ms. Hupp remains strong in the freedom of America's principles and spirit of its rule of law.
Ron DeSantis recently gave a speech where he said he did not know how any leader could exist without faith in God.
www.christianpost.com/news/ron-desantis-vows-to-restore-full-religious-freedom-in-the-us.html
As governor of Florida and candidate for POTUS, was he violating principles of separation of church and state? Of course not. Any member of any religion could state the same thing, as a matter of personal conviction. In a majority professed Christian populace in America, if someone stated they had belief in Allah and how could any leader be so without faith in Allah, he is free to state that, violates no provisions of church and state separation. Whether his convictions strike of chord with all Americans to have him elected POTUS, is another matter. The law says no one can be granted or kept out of office because of their religious faith. It is not a test of office. That does not mean it is not a test of what Americans are comfortable with. No avowed atheist has been POTUS. I seriously doubt if a professed atheist could get elected. How could he or she subscribe to the Declaration or their own State Preamble? Still, in a state which disregards its own history, an atheist could certainly gain an avenue to get elected.
If you read the article, which is a pretty sound one for what DeSantis stated in his speech - and I would like to red the full transcript of it - the content of the speech was an open attack towards secularist pressures that have changed America from what it was to what it is: a confused mess of moral ambiguity and lawlessness.
And here's another one, from the State of Washington -
www.christianpost.com/news/christians-protest-plans-to-censure-spokane-mayor.html
The Mayor of Spokane, WA went to an event held by evangelist Sean Feucht. Feucht is a Christian Nationalist. I have written about him before and reject his religious/political positions. Another person on the stage was a former state legislator who became a pastor with a history that people question. The mayor was invited to go, she went, took part in a prayer for whatever local and national concerns people have, and that was it. The city council wants to censure her for going and taking part. Even is she was there in an official capacity, the city council has no business judging her aspects of faith. Maybe the council would bring to her attention Feucht's positions and ask her what her political positions are in relation to his but, even if she said she was in harmony with them, "hate" cannot be allowed to be defined solely by Leftists who have their own "hate" to deal with and the Mayor broke no laws or stated restrictions. This is what freedom and liberty of faith and conscience are all about: premises and principles granted by God and protected by law as inalienable rights: rights you cannot be alienated from.
A clash is here and will grow more fierce. There is no getting around it.
www.faithwire.com/2023/09/15/california-school-board-president-under-fire-for-calling-christ-centered-parents-to-get-plugged-in/
"Julie Leavens Hupp - Rocklin School Board Trustee
about 3 weeks agoRocklin Friends,
As your school board we have worked very hard to insist that important decisions (such as new curriculum) involve our parents. Now we need you. The advisory committee sign ups went out today. We need as many Christ centered, family focused parents as we can get on those committees. PLEASE take a look and see what you can commit to for the year. Thank you for your love and support! Together, we will keep our children safe and thriving!"❤️❤️
Right away, charges of violating separation of church and state were being hurled at her from all directions. But, did she?
"Congress shall make no law..." That is what the first amendment to the Bill of Rights states. Law. Force of law regarding an establishment of religion.
Obviously the school is a public school. Does that mean an individual cannot proclaim her positions on society involved with public schools? She cannot make a law. No law exists, and should not exist. That does not mean Abraham Lincoln violated the principle of separation of church and state by telling Americans he appreciated the Bible and read it all the time, and advised Americans to do the same.
There are aspects of public life that contain social and moral issues. Public schools do not and cannot exist in a vacuum. Leftists certainly do not consider it wrong to promote their social standards to children, and making sure parents do not find out. States are engaging laws that now prohibit such activity. Just because a school is public does not mean its employees can promote whatever they want without notifying parents so, what is wrong with someone asking for Christian parents, and in principle, parents from any faith, to be involved in the schooling of their children? There is no violation of church and state in this request. It is preposterous to claim there is.
www.christianpost.com/news/why-four-states-are-cutting-ties-with-the-american-library-assoc.html
America was not established as a godless nation. The founding document of the Declaration of Independence and writings of the Founders, as well as almost all Preambles to State Constitutions show that fact; each State thanking God for the provisions of freedom and liberty He granted.
Secularists need to be educated and told, point blank, they are wrong and need to back off. Separation of church and state does not mean separation of God from state. No Founder of this nation or Framer of its guiding documents, came close to such a premise now demand by secularists in America.
While true, George Washington stated the government of the United States of America is not founded on the Christian religion, it certainly was Founded on the understanding there is a Sovereign of the Universe that grants inalienable rights. Freedom, liberty of religion and conscience, and freedom of speech are two of them.
I hope Ms. Hupp remains strong in the freedom of America's principles and spirit of its rule of law.
Ron DeSantis recently gave a speech where he said he did not know how any leader could exist without faith in God.
www.christianpost.com/news/ron-desantis-vows-to-restore-full-religious-freedom-in-the-us.html
As governor of Florida and candidate for POTUS, was he violating principles of separation of church and state? Of course not. Any member of any religion could state the same thing, as a matter of personal conviction. In a majority professed Christian populace in America, if someone stated they had belief in Allah and how could any leader be so without faith in Allah, he is free to state that, violates no provisions of church and state separation. Whether his convictions strike of chord with all Americans to have him elected POTUS, is another matter. The law says no one can be granted or kept out of office because of their religious faith. It is not a test of office. That does not mean it is not a test of what Americans are comfortable with. No avowed atheist has been POTUS. I seriously doubt if a professed atheist could get elected. How could he or she subscribe to the Declaration or their own State Preamble? Still, in a state which disregards its own history, an atheist could certainly gain an avenue to get elected.
If you read the article, which is a pretty sound one for what DeSantis stated in his speech - and I would like to red the full transcript of it - the content of the speech was an open attack towards secularist pressures that have changed America from what it was to what it is: a confused mess of moral ambiguity and lawlessness.
And here's another one, from the State of Washington -
www.christianpost.com/news/christians-protest-plans-to-censure-spokane-mayor.html
The Mayor of Spokane, WA went to an event held by evangelist Sean Feucht. Feucht is a Christian Nationalist. I have written about him before and reject his religious/political positions. Another person on the stage was a former state legislator who became a pastor with a history that people question. The mayor was invited to go, she went, took part in a prayer for whatever local and national concerns people have, and that was it. The city council wants to censure her for going and taking part. Even is she was there in an official capacity, the city council has no business judging her aspects of faith. Maybe the council would bring to her attention Feucht's positions and ask her what her political positions are in relation to his but, even if she said she was in harmony with them, "hate" cannot be allowed to be defined solely by Leftists who have their own "hate" to deal with and the Mayor broke no laws or stated restrictions. This is what freedom and liberty of faith and conscience are all about: premises and principles granted by God and protected by law as inalienable rights: rights you cannot be alienated from.
A clash is here and will grow more fierce. There is no getting around it.
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Just a Quick Thought
Did you know that surveys show 95% of biologists in the National Academy of Scientists, describe themselves as atheists or agnostics? In another survey conducted by Cornell University, of scientists in fields of evolution, in 2003, 87% deny the existence of God; and 90% reject the idea that evolution is directed towards an ultimate purpose.
In former times, most scientists and mathematicians believed their fields of endeavor were avenues to understand the mind of God; that everything has a purpose and it was a gift of the Creator to be able to think and reason and explore to find out what the purposes for space, time, matter and life are.
A dramatic change based on observable, testable, repeatable, predictable science? Nope. Just a story called the Big Bang. And the reason for that is red shift; seeing things moving away from us. The obvious conclusion must be that at one time everything must have been compressed into a dot a matter, which burst, inflated, spread out and here we are.
That's a hypothesis that has turned into a dogma of religious faith far more fierce than most anything creationists stand for.
In former times, most scientists and mathematicians believed their fields of endeavor were avenues to understand the mind of God; that everything has a purpose and it was a gift of the Creator to be able to think and reason and explore to find out what the purposes for space, time, matter and life are.
A dramatic change based on observable, testable, repeatable, predictable science? Nope. Just a story called the Big Bang. And the reason for that is red shift; seeing things moving away from us. The obvious conclusion must be that at one time everything must have been compressed into a dot a matter, which burst, inflated, spread out and here we are.
That's a hypothesis that has turned into a dogma of religious faith far more fierce than most anything creationists stand for.
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David Berlinski
I have mentioned David Berlinski before on these pages. He is a very interesting man, with a brilliant mind and incredible oration skills. He's a mathematician, educator, author, public speaker that has world-wide acclaim, as well as denunciation. Why? He openly questions Darwinism and the modern scientific community.
I happened upon this playlist on Stephen Meyer's YT channel and post if here. Watching Berlinski is like watching a golden, space age lawn mower out of control. There is nothing he will not mow over if it does not meet the scientific measures always understood for claiming objective truth, and he does it with a grace and wit that is really quite stunning and entertaining to behold. I have watched all these videos over the years but, finding them in one place is very convenient.
He is a secular Jew, with, I suppose, agnostic leanings. He's very honest about... well, everything.
The playlist begins with a short interview with political commentator Mark Levin -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJVGV8zAS4&list=PL7Wwl5TzliiFc8rMhA1e2M6lWe4L6ltd3&pp=iAQB
I happened upon this playlist on Stephen Meyer's YT channel and post if here. Watching Berlinski is like watching a golden, space age lawn mower out of control. There is nothing he will not mow over if it does not meet the scientific measures always understood for claiming objective truth, and he does it with a grace and wit that is really quite stunning and entertaining to behold. I have watched all these videos over the years but, finding them in one place is very convenient.
He is a secular Jew, with, I suppose, agnostic leanings. He's very honest about... well, everything.
The playlist begins with a short interview with political commentator Mark Levin -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJVGV8zAS4&list=PL7Wwl5TzliiFc8rMhA1e2M6lWe4L6ltd3&pp=iAQB
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RDAVIDR Does Trash Cans
David posted the video today. It looks like the two bigger drums took a beating in transit. Still, they performed okay.
There's over 200 comments and 99% of them are very positive. I love it when the point is proved.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDGOZIPPas
I know I can make drums out of anything round. If I can seat the heads correctly, they'll sound fine. Sound is subjective but, when it comes to drums, it's really all about heads, tension/tuning, sound gear and engineers.
I don't know if David applied a lot of processing. There's obviously no processing on my videos of the kit. Just the ZOOM Q8 camera. That said, however John Mayes processed the set for the Concepts recording, I'd use that set on any Rock recording made. It's a little too beefy sounding for Fusion or Jazz. For genres of Rock or Metal? I'd use it. And I think I got a slightly higher tuning out of them on the latest recording.
Thanks, David, for showing it on your channel. :-)
There's over 200 comments and 99% of them are very positive. I love it when the point is proved.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDGOZIPPas
I know I can make drums out of anything round. If I can seat the heads correctly, they'll sound fine. Sound is subjective but, when it comes to drums, it's really all about heads, tension/tuning, sound gear and engineers.
I don't know if David applied a lot of processing. There's obviously no processing on my videos of the kit. Just the ZOOM Q8 camera. That said, however John Mayes processed the set for the Concepts recording, I'd use that set on any Rock recording made. It's a little too beefy sounding for Fusion or Jazz. For genres of Rock or Metal? I'd use it. And I think I got a slightly higher tuning out of them on the latest recording.
Thanks, David, for showing it on your channel. :-)
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Straw Poll - Trump by 35 Points???
I did not read a transcript of Ron DeSantis' speech from the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit but, I did read news articles quoting from it. A strong speech on all hot button issues. Nor did I read a transcript of Trump's speech and just saw some snippets he would form a task force to look into Biden's "political prisoners," which just means he would end up pardoning them all and letting them finally go home; after the debacle called the J6 Hearings, one of the most embarrassing collection of corrupt politicians ever assembled.
My question is, why are all these GOP candidates continuing on? Trump beat DeSantis in the straw poll by 35 points. Unless Donald Trump keels over, the primary season will obviously choose him for the GOP candidate. These people polling at less than 3% cannot even get a decent vote for a choice as VP.
Trump will only get stronger as the hatred against him ramps up week by week. The more corrupt DC shows itself, the more disgusted citizens get, the more worn out with war and waste, the more popular Trump's rhetoric to drain the swamp will become.
The very nature of the GOP is so colored in hues for hatred of Trump, they may end up dissolving into a pool of political goop meant for the trash piles of history. Especially will that be the case if Trump chooses Kari Lake or Kristi Noem for VP. That ticket will rocket to Mars. I'd imagine it to be the most popular ticket in American political history.
You want a stronger one? Trump and RFK. Trump gets his final term, RFK, depending on how he shows himself, gets the next 8 years. Done deal. Massive landslide of historical proportions. Would RFK do that? If the Democrats continue their assault on him... why not? Both sit at the table, work some details out, emerge winners of stratospheric heights before the election even takes place. Biden go home. Everybody just take your political footballs and go home and let the adults with common sense take their places in history.
Nothing would surprise me anymore.
Would that save America? No. It will only slow down the nation's demise. Why? Because evil is always more determined than righteousness. Hence, the end of all things being at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
My question is, why are all these GOP candidates continuing on? Trump beat DeSantis in the straw poll by 35 points. Unless Donald Trump keels over, the primary season will obviously choose him for the GOP candidate. These people polling at less than 3% cannot even get a decent vote for a choice as VP.
Trump will only get stronger as the hatred against him ramps up week by week. The more corrupt DC shows itself, the more disgusted citizens get, the more worn out with war and waste, the more popular Trump's rhetoric to drain the swamp will become.
The very nature of the GOP is so colored in hues for hatred of Trump, they may end up dissolving into a pool of political goop meant for the trash piles of history. Especially will that be the case if Trump chooses Kari Lake or Kristi Noem for VP. That ticket will rocket to Mars. I'd imagine it to be the most popular ticket in American political history.
You want a stronger one? Trump and RFK. Trump gets his final term, RFK, depending on how he shows himself, gets the next 8 years. Done deal. Massive landslide of historical proportions. Would RFK do that? If the Democrats continue their assault on him... why not? Both sit at the table, work some details out, emerge winners of stratospheric heights before the election even takes place. Biden go home. Everybody just take your political footballs and go home and let the adults with common sense take their places in history.
Nothing would surprise me anymore.
Would that save America? No. It will only slow down the nation's demise. Why? Because evil is always more determined than righteousness. Hence, the end of all things being at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Sky News - Rita Panahai - Lefties Losing It
Sky News is broadcast from Australia. Since the Biden administration took control, they have laughed at America with an ever increasing proof of the embarrassment America has become. This is certainly not to excuse Australia's Draconian Covid lockdowns in the extreme and the rest of its own Marxist problems. It just shows the lunacy in action is not going unnoticed on the other side of the globe.
Rita's segment is a shake-your-head hilarity fest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcannz2iAjc
The issue is just common sense. Radical, Leftist Marxists just do not have any. At least, they rarely exhibit it, if they do have it.
I happen to believe common sense is the most vital aspect of human living and survival in a fallen world. Very intelligent people can be void of common sense. Examples of that exist everywhere on Earth where Marxists and radical Leftists abide and are in control. It has trickled down to the new generations in such absurdity it's jaw dropping.
Some studies point to genetic issues related to common sense. Not much people can do if that is the case. But, I wouldn't want people to get the impression it's a common genetic imprint. Common sense is learned behavior against a stable social construct. If young people seem dumber than previous generations, and lack common sense, that's upbringing and school system degradation.
Critical thinking and common sense are worth their weight in gold for everyday people who shall never have their weight in gold, and that is 99% of the human population.
Think about it.
Rita's segment is a shake-your-head hilarity fest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcannz2iAjc
The issue is just common sense. Radical, Leftist Marxists just do not have any. At least, they rarely exhibit it, if they do have it.
I happen to believe common sense is the most vital aspect of human living and survival in a fallen world. Very intelligent people can be void of common sense. Examples of that exist everywhere on Earth where Marxists and radical Leftists abide and are in control. It has trickled down to the new generations in such absurdity it's jaw dropping.
Some studies point to genetic issues related to common sense. Not much people can do if that is the case. But, I wouldn't want people to get the impression it's a common genetic imprint. Common sense is learned behavior against a stable social construct. If young people seem dumber than previous generations, and lack common sense, that's upbringing and school system degradation.
Critical thinking and common sense are worth their weight in gold for everyday people who shall never have their weight in gold, and that is 99% of the human population.
Think about it.
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844.I AM NOT WHITE - 9/18/23
Yes, the title of this post is in CAPITALS. That once began as a web way of shouting or showing anger. Today, for some it still is. For others, it's a way to emphasize something.
All over the web I am seeing this - White people are bad, dangerous, two-faced hypocrites, have a "savior complex," and are RACISTS! Some "people of color" would like to see "whites" rounded up and killed! A whole lot more is out there but, that will suffice.
Now, as you know, if you come here often, I do not subscribe to the social engineering of "races," by virtue of melanin in skin cells. Nor do I subscribe to "races" by virtue of geographical location on Earth. I believe there is ONE race - the HUMAN RACE. That's it. The rest is old, radical social engineering done by ignorant people, like Charles Darwin - considered the progenitor of Darwinism or macro-evolution; one kind of creature changing into another by small changes, mutations, over time. LOTS of time.
Again, the title of Darwin's most famous book -
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Darwin, like many of his day, was a true racist - one who believes certain races are favored over others: more intelligent, etc., etc. Today, all you have to do is disagree with modern, radical, Leftist Marxism and you are called a "racist." Melanin and geographic location have nothing to do with the new "racism." It's stock and trade for ignorant people.
A couple photographs. Over the years of renovating houses, a fairly large collection of paint chips from Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart and hardware stores have been amassed. I just pulled some out for example. Take a look at the photograph.
All over the web I am seeing this - White people are bad, dangerous, two-faced hypocrites, have a "savior complex," and are RACISTS! Some "people of color" would like to see "whites" rounded up and killed! A whole lot more is out there but, that will suffice.
Now, as you know, if you come here often, I do not subscribe to the social engineering of "races," by virtue of melanin in skin cells. Nor do I subscribe to "races" by virtue of geographical location on Earth. I believe there is ONE race - the HUMAN RACE. That's it. The rest is old, radical social engineering done by ignorant people, like Charles Darwin - considered the progenitor of Darwinism or macro-evolution; one kind of creature changing into another by small changes, mutations, over time. LOTS of time.
Again, the title of Darwin's most famous book -
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Darwin, like many of his day, was a true racist - one who believes certain races are favored over others: more intelligent, etc., etc. Today, all you have to do is disagree with modern, radical, Leftist Marxism and you are called a "racist." Melanin and geographic location have nothing to do with the new "racism." It's stock and trade for ignorant people.
A couple photographs. Over the years of renovating houses, a fairly large collection of paint chips from Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart and hardware stores have been amassed. I just pulled some out for example. Take a look at the photograph.
You will obviously notice the cardstock used to show the colors is white. Not a single person on planet earth is that shade of colorlessness, a lack a melanin. That is white. Interestingly enough, when it comes to light and how the brain sees colors, mixing the primary colors together, produces white light, or that which the color of the sun seems, directly looking at it; how our brains interpret that light and creates a color.
You'll notice some shades of "off-white." Nobody shows those colors of skin, either. You do not begin seeing the color of Northern European ancestry until you get into shades of Beige. Beige is a shade of BROWN. EVERYBODY on planet Earth is a shade of brown. Nobody is white. Nobody is black. Nobody is red and nobody is yellow. We are all, by virtue of melanin, from the Creator's mind and His physical creation, a shade of brown. Everybody is a person of color.
I took a picture of my arm as I sit here.
You'll notice some shades of "off-white." Nobody shows those colors of skin, either. You do not begin seeing the color of Northern European ancestry until you get into shades of Beige. Beige is a shade of BROWN. EVERYBODY on planet Earth is a shade of brown. Nobody is white. Nobody is black. Nobody is red and nobody is yellow. We are all, by virtue of melanin, from the Creator's mind and His physical creation, a shade of brown. Everybody is a person of color.
I took a picture of my arm as I sit here.
In what universe is that white? Even when Winter sets in and skin cells develop back in lighter shades, I will never be "white." No "Caucasian" is white. A paper towel is white. Nobody has skin tone like that.
And here is the kicker. Europe? Europeans are white? Give me a break. Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Southern Italy, Greece all have people with "olive-toned" skin, as they call it. But, the Spaniards are people of color and Western Euros are "white." I have seen Europeans with darker skin than lighter skinned "black" people. I have seen people from India a darker shade of brown than any person from Africa.
Speaking of Africa. African slave traders captured Mediterranean people along the national Southern borders of Europe for centuries and placed them in slavery in Northern African nations. You don't hear much about that history, do you? I wonder why?
This entire subject of race is a con-job. It's a foundation for manipulation of social strata; a point of contention created by true racists.
It doesn't matter what shade of brown your skin is. You can be a low life or a respectable, responsible person. Nobody is good or bad by virtue of skin tone or geographic location for heritage. If you act like a moron, you are a moron, regardless of the shade of your skin.
My heritage is France, both sides of my family. France, to Canada, to America. I happen to believe the French President, Emmanuel Macron, is a globalist pawn and snake in the grass. I would not trust him as far as I could throw the Eiffel Tower. May God convert and change him before it's too late. Thomas Sowell, a brilliant thinker, economist, social commentator and author, here in America, considered a "Black" man, could run a nation in circles around Macron.
Ignorant people, the "useful idiots" of social manipulators, cause more strife on a daily basis than all the cabal think-tanks put together, in a year. Ignorance is a curse, regardless of skin tone.
Will humanity grow up and deal with reality? No. It will destroy itself in its ignorance.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
And here is the kicker. Europe? Europeans are white? Give me a break. Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Southern Italy, Greece all have people with "olive-toned" skin, as they call it. But, the Spaniards are people of color and Western Euros are "white." I have seen Europeans with darker skin than lighter skinned "black" people. I have seen people from India a darker shade of brown than any person from Africa.
Speaking of Africa. African slave traders captured Mediterranean people along the national Southern borders of Europe for centuries and placed them in slavery in Northern African nations. You don't hear much about that history, do you? I wonder why?
This entire subject of race is a con-job. It's a foundation for manipulation of social strata; a point of contention created by true racists.
It doesn't matter what shade of brown your skin is. You can be a low life or a respectable, responsible person. Nobody is good or bad by virtue of skin tone or geographic location for heritage. If you act like a moron, you are a moron, regardless of the shade of your skin.
My heritage is France, both sides of my family. France, to Canada, to America. I happen to believe the French President, Emmanuel Macron, is a globalist pawn and snake in the grass. I would not trust him as far as I could throw the Eiffel Tower. May God convert and change him before it's too late. Thomas Sowell, a brilliant thinker, economist, social commentator and author, here in America, considered a "Black" man, could run a nation in circles around Macron.
Ignorant people, the "useful idiots" of social manipulators, cause more strife on a daily basis than all the cabal think-tanks put together, in a year. Ignorance is a curse, regardless of skin tone.
Will humanity grow up and deal with reality? No. It will destroy itself in its ignorance.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Why Speak Out?
It may be taking place that more non-drummers come to this site than drummers do. Why? Because of the Bible studies and taking a stand for things society used to see as "normal." Not everything we see today that we disagree with is "abnormal." Some of it is just colorful variety of life that appeals to some people. Yes, I'm being kind.
Music has always been a field and stage for the bizarre. It goes back millennia. It has always been about expression and free thinkers. That said, we are way past stage and "colorful" entertainers.
No, I have gotten into issues far beyond drums and drumming, starting out never intending to, because I am watching the land my father fought a world war to protect and my mother worked hard in all her life, turning into an absolute hell-hole. And by that I mean, run by Satan.
I don't know how often Rita Panahi is on Sky News. I don't know if her segment, 'Lefties Losing It,' is nightly or weekly. What I can see is, she has no lack of material to comment on.
This particular segment collects a number of videos that showcases radical Leftism in extremes yet, this is all normal behavior for them. In any other decade, people in these videos would have been arrested for indecent exposure, starting riots, endangerment, accosting people, threatening and intimidation and literal violence. Today, police stand within feet of these events and do nothing, told to stand down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRpmoA9kOOs
And let me be clear. Just because someone does not like these displays of immorality, if not amorality and law-breaking does not necessarily place you on the right side of the issues. Please remember the words of Christ -
Mat 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name we cast out demons, and in Your name we did many mighty works?'
Mat 7:23 "And then I will confess to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who work iniquity!'
I am not saying every believer has to make public stands against evil. Maybe they make private stands with family, friends, co-workers, etc. but, stand we must. There is no running and hiding in the Lord's army.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
I chose that particular translation because many say, "wiles of the devil." It's not an oft used word today. Want to know the Greek word written there? "Methodeia," yes; where we get our English word "method," from.
Stand against the methods, strategies, deceits, schemes and wiles of the devil. We are watching it all play out in front of our faces every week now, indeed, every day.
Personally, I feel the compelling burden to state the situation as God sees it, according to His Word. So be it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Music has always been a field and stage for the bizarre. It goes back millennia. It has always been about expression and free thinkers. That said, we are way past stage and "colorful" entertainers.
No, I have gotten into issues far beyond drums and drumming, starting out never intending to, because I am watching the land my father fought a world war to protect and my mother worked hard in all her life, turning into an absolute hell-hole. And by that I mean, run by Satan.
I don't know how often Rita Panahi is on Sky News. I don't know if her segment, 'Lefties Losing It,' is nightly or weekly. What I can see is, she has no lack of material to comment on.
This particular segment collects a number of videos that showcases radical Leftism in extremes yet, this is all normal behavior for them. In any other decade, people in these videos would have been arrested for indecent exposure, starting riots, endangerment, accosting people, threatening and intimidation and literal violence. Today, police stand within feet of these events and do nothing, told to stand down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRpmoA9kOOs
And let me be clear. Just because someone does not like these displays of immorality, if not amorality and law-breaking does not necessarily place you on the right side of the issues. Please remember the words of Christ -
Mat 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name we cast out demons, and in Your name we did many mighty works?'
Mat 7:23 "And then I will confess to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who work iniquity!'
I am not saying every believer has to make public stands against evil. Maybe they make private stands with family, friends, co-workers, etc. but, stand we must. There is no running and hiding in the Lord's army.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
I chose that particular translation because many say, "wiles of the devil." It's not an oft used word today. Want to know the Greek word written there? "Methodeia," yes; where we get our English word "method," from.
Stand against the methods, strategies, deceits, schemes and wiles of the devil. We are watching it all play out in front of our faces every week now, indeed, every day.
Personally, I feel the compelling burden to state the situation as God sees it, according to His Word. So be it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Maui is Already Fading Away
I mentioned in he last couple weeks the Maui fires would succumb to the fast news cycle that controls daily news and awareness of anything seriously important. The main stream media, as corrupt as it is, carrying water for corrupt government, never looks into anything that can derail globalist desires and push for control.
I share this link to another hustlebitch (I know, weird name for a YT channel), video that shows things that can only drop your heart into a hole. The governor has to be one of the most corrupt people ever to occupy a civil servant seat in the fiftieth state of the Union. The news is now claiming disinformation about the fires is coming from Russia and China. Nobody who prizes liberty has any use or desire to protect China and the CCP but, seriously? The truth reached enough heights in people's awareness the sh_t shovelers got desperate and blamed China and Russia. They not only show their abject foolishness and obstinance, they show their complete disregard for the people of Maui. Their words are worthless and meaningless. Not since 9/11 have I seen such a disgusting display of lies weighed against the evidence.
The people of Maui may never receive justice in this life but, none of these criminal minds, that have perpetrated this atrocity, will escape the judgment of God.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8dKukwC3c
More from Eric West of Hawaii Real Estate.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWtCL6S7cs
I am not on board with everything this man states about life after death but, he still hits the nail on the head for Maui being a crime scene and the need for investigation, which the Council cannot sidestep in their duties as elected or appointed civil servants just because they are now lawmakers. They should be guardians of law and order, which includes recommendations for investigations into any situation that warrants it. Just as citizens they should be informed enough to be outraged and doing all they can to see those responsible are held accountable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXjYI-Rz0g
I share this link to another hustlebitch (I know, weird name for a YT channel), video that shows things that can only drop your heart into a hole. The governor has to be one of the most corrupt people ever to occupy a civil servant seat in the fiftieth state of the Union. The news is now claiming disinformation about the fires is coming from Russia and China. Nobody who prizes liberty has any use or desire to protect China and the CCP but, seriously? The truth reached enough heights in people's awareness the sh_t shovelers got desperate and blamed China and Russia. They not only show their abject foolishness and obstinance, they show their complete disregard for the people of Maui. Their words are worthless and meaningless. Not since 9/11 have I seen such a disgusting display of lies weighed against the evidence.
The people of Maui may never receive justice in this life but, none of these criminal minds, that have perpetrated this atrocity, will escape the judgment of God.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8dKukwC3c
More from Eric West of Hawaii Real Estate.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWtCL6S7cs
I am not on board with everything this man states about life after death but, he still hits the nail on the head for Maui being a crime scene and the need for investigation, which the Council cannot sidestep in their duties as elected or appointed civil servants just because they are now lawmakers. They should be guardians of law and order, which includes recommendations for investigations into any situation that warrants it. Just as citizens they should be informed enough to be outraged and doing all they can to see those responsible are held accountable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXjYI-Rz0g
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*The Influence of RDAVIDR*
Just to give you an idea of how influential YouTube can be.
I contacted David Raouf, the developer of the channel rdavidr, and asked him to visit my site and YT channel and see if there's anything he might like to have. He chose the Trash Can set. I boxed them up, sent them out, and on September 16th, he showed the video he made of the set. I just logged into my site here and my eyes opened wide to see my page views went up 2,790% and my unique visits (first time visits), went up 1,710%.
I had some big spikes when Cult Rock Records (Sonic Age Records), released the reissue of From the Fjords, back in 2019.
I have no idea how much influence this site has on people. I don't get very many contact messages. I do know the spike is obviously drummers who have seen David's video, and there's plenty of things here to see and read about drums and drumming.
I also know every drummer is a soul that God loves and wants in eternity with Him, and whatever motivated me to begin posting Bible studies, especially about last-day events and the second coming of Christ, I abide satisfied the Holy Spirit will lead eyes and minds as He determines. I just share. That's really all I have ever wanted to do with drum set artistry, with my Christian experience through evangelism and seminars or, writing things on my site. I just share. People can think about things and go from there.
Yeah, whether drums and drumming, principles of Americanism or, my Christian world-view I share things that many find controversial or way out there, if not crazy. That's fine. I know what I believe and why, and what I have observed in 68 years wandering this nation (and a touch of Canada), and have no problem standing up for things I am convicted about, based on the weight of evidence.
I won't know until eternity if anything written here made a difference in someone's life, beyond aspects of drums and drumming; unless, of course, someone contacts me to further some discussion about things beyond those parameters.
Just think of this. Seriously. If a stepping stone to the Creator developed from someone watching a video about a set of drums made from trash cans... how incredible is that? Well, God is pretty incredible and has ten thousand ways to draw people to Him that we know not. Pretty cool.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I contacted David Raouf, the developer of the channel rdavidr, and asked him to visit my site and YT channel and see if there's anything he might like to have. He chose the Trash Can set. I boxed them up, sent them out, and on September 16th, he showed the video he made of the set. I just logged into my site here and my eyes opened wide to see my page views went up 2,790% and my unique visits (first time visits), went up 1,710%.
I had some big spikes when Cult Rock Records (Sonic Age Records), released the reissue of From the Fjords, back in 2019.
I have no idea how much influence this site has on people. I don't get very many contact messages. I do know the spike is obviously drummers who have seen David's video, and there's plenty of things here to see and read about drums and drumming.
I also know every drummer is a soul that God loves and wants in eternity with Him, and whatever motivated me to begin posting Bible studies, especially about last-day events and the second coming of Christ, I abide satisfied the Holy Spirit will lead eyes and minds as He determines. I just share. That's really all I have ever wanted to do with drum set artistry, with my Christian experience through evangelism and seminars or, writing things on my site. I just share. People can think about things and go from there.
Yeah, whether drums and drumming, principles of Americanism or, my Christian world-view I share things that many find controversial or way out there, if not crazy. That's fine. I know what I believe and why, and what I have observed in 68 years wandering this nation (and a touch of Canada), and have no problem standing up for things I am convicted about, based on the weight of evidence.
I won't know until eternity if anything written here made a difference in someone's life, beyond aspects of drums and drumming; unless, of course, someone contacts me to further some discussion about things beyond those parameters.
Just think of this. Seriously. If a stepping stone to the Creator developed from someone watching a video about a set of drums made from trash cans... how incredible is that? Well, God is pretty incredible and has ten thousand ways to draw people to Him that we know not. Pretty cool.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Some Important Observations by Robert F. Kennedy
The reason I logged in this morning...RFK has been causing a stir since he announced his campaign for POTUS. He often sounds like a mix of past generation Democrats and Republicans, with some Libertarian thrown in there for good measure.
This portion of a speech gets into some very important issues of one of the major foundations of the principles of Americanism: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which the Founders saw as private property ownership.
Quite a ways back, I think before Covid hit, I mentioned this group, led by women, who posted things about two major companies that basically own everything in the world. I kid you not. Look it up. These two financial institutions; Black Rock and Vanguard, and lately State Street, are literally trying to buy up or have controlling financial interests of the Western Hemisphere.
I do not think I have seen anywhere, in modern American history, where a politician, let alone one running for POTUS, has had the guts to come out and tell Americans what their fate will be if these companies triumph in what they want. If they get their way, 99% of Americans will end up renting homes from these giant corporations. They are swallowing up mortgage companies. They will end up owning the mortgage of every home in America. Those who have no interest in selling their homes, will find themselves paying property taxes to crush them and force them to sell.
This is no joke. This is reality.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3TVUgPJ3nA
This portion of a speech gets into some very important issues of one of the major foundations of the principles of Americanism: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which the Founders saw as private property ownership.
Quite a ways back, I think before Covid hit, I mentioned this group, led by women, who posted things about two major companies that basically own everything in the world. I kid you not. Look it up. These two financial institutions; Black Rock and Vanguard, and lately State Street, are literally trying to buy up or have controlling financial interests of the Western Hemisphere.
I do not think I have seen anywhere, in modern American history, where a politician, let alone one running for POTUS, has had the guts to come out and tell Americans what their fate will be if these companies triumph in what they want. If they get their way, 99% of Americans will end up renting homes from these giant corporations. They are swallowing up mortgage companies. They will end up owning the mortgage of every home in America. Those who have no interest in selling their homes, will find themselves paying property taxes to crush them and force them to sell.
This is no joke. This is reality.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3TVUgPJ3nA
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An AMAZING YT Channel
'Audit the Audit' is a fascinating channel addressing citizens rights. I have seen various videos of police actions against citizens that were violations of plain codes of law addressing officer rights and privileges. Citizens rights were violated and officers were fired as a result.
Logically, you would think every single police officer in America would learn the codes that protect citizens from harassment or harm, and the rights citizens have under the 1st and 4th amendments.
The channel is not just enlightening of what happens out there but, educational by showing screen shots of statutory law in the various states where these infractions take place.
It's an amazing channel and one, given the current atmosphere, especially in cities, citizens should take note of. Millions have already, given the videos I have watched thus far have a good 8 million views.
www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
Logically, you would think every single police officer in America would learn the codes that protect citizens from harassment or harm, and the rights citizens have under the 1st and 4th amendments.
The channel is not just enlightening of what happens out there but, educational by showing screen shots of statutory law in the various states where these infractions take place.
It's an amazing channel and one, given the current atmosphere, especially in cities, citizens should take note of. Millions have already, given the videos I have watched thus far have a good 8 million views.
www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
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845. Mob Mentality - 9/21/2023
The news repeats like clockwork. A conservative shows up to speak at an "education" institution, invited by students, or to another type of venue, by people associated with it, or renting it.
A group of people show up to protest the event. Because they cannot actually articulate the reasons for their protest when confronted, the protest group turns into a mob and gets threatening to any supporters of the speaker, or event venue administrators or, as we have far too often seen, even police officers who attempt to keep things calm. Mob mentality takes control. People get hurt. It's a scene that has played over and over again in American life. Is it American?
America is a Constitutional Republic that has elements of democracy in its system of government via a representative system, where citizens vote for people who take an oath to uphold the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Constitution is paramount. The rule of law. The Constitution - NOT the desires of citizens, NOT the desires of elected representatives of the citizens - is to be kept front and center.
Attached to the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. The Founders considered the original Rights to be granted by God, not government. The First Amendment to the Constitution was proposed because the Constitution addresses the function of the government. It restricts the representatives, voted in by the citizens of each state, to abide by the limits contained in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights shifts to Citizen's rights. The First Amendment states the bottom line, foundational rights citizens have to keep things balanced; that no government abuse or tryanny develops.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
1. Separation of church and state. Congress, which makes the laws of the land, shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion. That means any establishment of any religion. A 'for instance' I often use is legislation regarding Sunday. Blue laws, as they have been called. Congress may not make any laws addressing Sunday as an establishment of religion; which the entire world history of Sunday shows it to be. Another would be legislation regarding churches and their meetings - the place, the service, the congregants, the ministry, the doctrines... Congress is told by the Constitution; hands off. It cannot promote, by law, any establishment of religion NOR prohibit the free exercise of citizens involved in one. Unless an establishment of a church is insurrection towards a Constitutionally functioning government, government is restricted from involving itself by law in prohibiting a citizen's rights, from God, to religious freedom and liberty of conscience.
2. Congress cannot make a law prohibiting or abridging (blocking) free speech, controlling speech or influencing speech. It is bound by the text of the Constitution to butt out of the people's business to exercise rights of speech. That means any speech, whether other citizens like it or not. This one provision has faced more court cases than you can imagine. That aspect of freedom and liberty is constantly attacked by citizens or their representatives. It is shocking, the ignorance or hatred people have towards that freedom.
3. Government cannot, by law, make laws restricting or blocking the press; the function of journalism, to gather facts to proclaim news affecting Americans - nationally or locally.
4. The God-given right of people to peaceably assemble. The Founders understood well the function of mobs. Citizens may peaceably assemble for whatever reason protected by law. If they choose to assemble to protest the government, i.e. the Representatives of government: elected civil servants who work for the citizens, to represent the citizens in protecting their rights from God, they may do so in any number they can pull together. As long as they remain peaceable. Mobs, by definition, are not peaceable.
Why does it seem all current mobs are radical Democrats?
Democracy
"government by the people, system of government in which the sovereign power is vested in the people as a whole exercising power directly or by elected officials; a state so governed," 1570s, from French démocratie (14c.), from Medieval Latin democratia (13c.), from Greek dēmokratia "popular government," from dēmos "common people," originally "district" (see demotic), + kratos "rule, strength" (see -cracy)."
"The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people."
Now, you should see a problem inherent in a democracy. Power of the people. What happens if all you have is a democracy and the people decide to to kill someone, a ruler they do not like? It has happened plenty of times in human history. What keeps a democracy from getting dangerous; from turning into mob rule? A Constitutional Republic - The rule, the sovereignty of Law. What keeps Laws from drifting into tyranny made by corrupt elected civil servants? A democracy. It is two oars in the boat. You vote them out and vote others in to represent you. They are civil servants. They are not rulers by self-willed agenda. They are not wannabe kings or queens. They are not sovereign in any way, shape or form. They are servants; elected to serve the interests of the citizens to keep them protected to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
In this Republic we have three branches of order. The executive, the legislative, the judicial. Those three ropes hold up the tent of this nation's existence as a nation that protects freedom and grants liberty by virtue of God's authority over mankind. If you begin messing with those three ropes and the principles under which they tightly hold the nation together; collapse is the only prospect.
All the amendments in the Bill of Rights are there to protect freedom and liberty. Every American, every reasonable age, should know these facts of citizenship and the nation they are a citizen of. I admit, I did not pay attention to this subject in school. Few of us did, few of us do, and America has come under assault of democracy, rule of a majority, made dangerous by the removal of the authority of law.
If you disagree with me on any subject, you may but, you cannot break the law of the land to do it. You must remain civil.
Democrats believe in the power of the people. That's fine. Removed from the constraints and rule of law, they turn into mobs that refuse to allow others their freedom and liberty granted by God. They deny God. They deny other's freedom and liberties which rights, not permissions.
They have no decent ideas to back their motivations and ideology so, they get ugly. They get frustrated and do not allow the rule of law to restrain them. They reject God, they reject law, they reject common decency and civility end up exhibiting a lack of common sense. They get abusive and destructive. History is saturated with this process, over and over, and the Founders of this nation knew it and saw enough of it to establish a different form of government. No kings, no queens, no military rule, no arbitrary rule from anyone in a position of authority granted by law. No one in a role of civil service may abuse law-biding citizens. No one in a role of protection of law and order may abuse law-biding citizens and even citizens accused of breaking the law, unless they show clear intent to harm, and even then, laws exist to restrain and immobilize, not abuse. All are given a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law; not by police, whose function exists solely to protect the rights of all citizens. And citizens may not abuse other law-biding citizens. They system the Founders constructed is brilliant. If it is followed, streams of decency, even wealth are promoted through free-market enterprise. If it is not followed, chaos can erupt, which it has and does on a daily basis now.
America's cities are rife with crime and violence. All of America is riddled with drugs and trafficking. The nation's borders are no longer protected and millions of military age men, from all over the Earth, enter this nation at will. If not every, single day, every week in America an illegal immigrant is arrested for a crime committed against an American citizen, including children.
What have Democrats done? They have erected mob mentality and the denial of the rule of laws they took oaths to protect from all enemies, foreign AND domestic. They have become enemies of the rule of law, and so have Republicans in the business of politics.
The breakdown of America, the dumbing down of Americans, the pollution of its children with godless, immoral ideology is the only possible result when the system the Founders constructed is ignored and put aside for the role of raw power.
Charlie Kirk is a young Conservative with a following throughout the nation. He gets invited to speak somewhere. A mob shows up to protest and stand against his positions about life in America. I do not agree with everything he speaks about and he seems a little arrogant at times but, the fact is he has a RIGHT from God to speak anywhere he is invited. In this current situation in the news this morning, a mob encircles him and members of his team. He tries to communicate, to reason with people but, a mob is not reasonable. That's why it's a mob. He has to have paid protection around him. Why do Republicans not fall into this kind of scene? Generally, because Republicans believe in God, the Constitution and the rule of law. You say, "Wait a minute. What about January 6th?!" Ah, yes. The "great insurrection" of people peacefully protesting, that the current vice-president stated was akin to Pearl Harbor. She is, unfortuneately, not the sharpest knife in the drawer and is prone to stating very ridiculous things, pretty much on a daily basis. I believe the popular term for her speeches, invented because of her speeches, is "word salad."
January 6th has been shown by, again, a mountain of evidence, to prove the destructive elements of that event were propelled by actors sent in by the FBI, including their own agents or directed by powers from upper levels of the D.C. tower of tyranny. Even the former chief of the Capitol police has come out against the actions taken by government officials that day. Corruption on parade.
Yes, some protestors, every crowd has them, violated their citizen's rights and committed, what would normally be misdemeanors, and have been sentenced and thrown in prison for, literally, decades. Some were not in the building, and some were not even there that day. Others, hundreds, just walked in, as they were invited in by police, and walked around taking pictures, as citizens, and because of cell phone technology, could be placed on the scene that day, were arrested, tried, convicted and given years of prison time. Hundreds await in prison cells, literally physically, brutally harmed by prison guards - one man even losing sight in one eye - in the corruption that is Washington, D.C. and the only reason, the ONLY reason this has been done is because of their hatred for Donald Trump. If the same event took place while Obama was in office, no such proceedings of misjustice would have taken place. But, evidence now shows elected civil servants engaged in a plot to make any protest that day seem an insurrection; one without firearms, mind you, or the numbers to take control of the government. But, you see, the system the Founders constructed no longer functions because of corruption developed over time of moving away from its principles.
Estimates have claimed up to 1,000,000 citizens assembled to protest the stolen election of 2020. 80,000 of them peaceably moved towards the Capitol building. President Trump told them to stay peaceable. [Yet, he has been charged with interfering with an election by showing evidence at post-election rallies.] Then, the plot to create a fake insurrection was unleashed by federal agencies tasked for the job, including in it members of radical Left wing groups, Antifa, Capitol police, the FBI, and others.
The Democrat Party, with useless idiocy from the GOP, are destroying our Republic. People who say they are destroying our "democracy" are wrong. They are using democracy, power of the majority, mob mentality, to destabilize the nation. The Founders knew all the ramifications of what could go wrong with the new system and many of them predicted what is now happening; has been happening for decades.
America cannot survive. It is going to collapse, by design, unless God steps in. Will He? Personally, as I have stated here many times, I doubt it. I don't know, of course but, I doubt it. America is going to reap what it has sown. It has sown pure democracy. It will reap pure tyranny.
A new, long article placed today by The Gateway Pundit, with videos regarding data collection of people and moment by moment events that took place on January 6, 2021, finishes with this information -
"WE WILL BE POSTING MORE exposing the ‘SEDITION HUNTER’ government operation and the government’s persecution of January 6th protesters for the crime of having the wrong political opinions.
More news continues to develop EACH DAY about the January 6th setup and the 1,000 men and women suffering political persecution for the past few years.
Just today: The FBI was caught lying to Congress about how many undercover agents were in the crowd at January 6th.
The FBI now admits they have “lost count” of how many agents they had at January 6th.
Nancy Pelosi’s lies about not speaking to the Capitol Police on January 6th have been confirmed with testimony under oath.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/here-you-go-america-gateway-pundit-uncovers-troves/
If naked democracy gains control, the rights of people will be infringed and ultimately outlawed.
God help us. May God help patriots to stand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A group of people show up to protest the event. Because they cannot actually articulate the reasons for their protest when confronted, the protest group turns into a mob and gets threatening to any supporters of the speaker, or event venue administrators or, as we have far too often seen, even police officers who attempt to keep things calm. Mob mentality takes control. People get hurt. It's a scene that has played over and over again in American life. Is it American?
America is a Constitutional Republic that has elements of democracy in its system of government via a representative system, where citizens vote for people who take an oath to uphold the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Constitution is paramount. The rule of law. The Constitution - NOT the desires of citizens, NOT the desires of elected representatives of the citizens - is to be kept front and center.
Attached to the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. The Founders considered the original Rights to be granted by God, not government. The First Amendment to the Constitution was proposed because the Constitution addresses the function of the government. It restricts the representatives, voted in by the citizens of each state, to abide by the limits contained in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights shifts to Citizen's rights. The First Amendment states the bottom line, foundational rights citizens have to keep things balanced; that no government abuse or tryanny develops.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
1. Separation of church and state. Congress, which makes the laws of the land, shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion. That means any establishment of any religion. A 'for instance' I often use is legislation regarding Sunday. Blue laws, as they have been called. Congress may not make any laws addressing Sunday as an establishment of religion; which the entire world history of Sunday shows it to be. Another would be legislation regarding churches and their meetings - the place, the service, the congregants, the ministry, the doctrines... Congress is told by the Constitution; hands off. It cannot promote, by law, any establishment of religion NOR prohibit the free exercise of citizens involved in one. Unless an establishment of a church is insurrection towards a Constitutionally functioning government, government is restricted from involving itself by law in prohibiting a citizen's rights, from God, to religious freedom and liberty of conscience.
2. Congress cannot make a law prohibiting or abridging (blocking) free speech, controlling speech or influencing speech. It is bound by the text of the Constitution to butt out of the people's business to exercise rights of speech. That means any speech, whether other citizens like it or not. This one provision has faced more court cases than you can imagine. That aspect of freedom and liberty is constantly attacked by citizens or their representatives. It is shocking, the ignorance or hatred people have towards that freedom.
3. Government cannot, by law, make laws restricting or blocking the press; the function of journalism, to gather facts to proclaim news affecting Americans - nationally or locally.
4. The God-given right of people to peaceably assemble. The Founders understood well the function of mobs. Citizens may peaceably assemble for whatever reason protected by law. If they choose to assemble to protest the government, i.e. the Representatives of government: elected civil servants who work for the citizens, to represent the citizens in protecting their rights from God, they may do so in any number they can pull together. As long as they remain peaceable. Mobs, by definition, are not peaceable.
Why does it seem all current mobs are radical Democrats?
Democracy
"government by the people, system of government in which the sovereign power is vested in the people as a whole exercising power directly or by elected officials; a state so governed," 1570s, from French démocratie (14c.), from Medieval Latin democratia (13c.), from Greek dēmokratia "popular government," from dēmos "common people," originally "district" (see demotic), + kratos "rule, strength" (see -cracy)."
"The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people."
Now, you should see a problem inherent in a democracy. Power of the people. What happens if all you have is a democracy and the people decide to to kill someone, a ruler they do not like? It has happened plenty of times in human history. What keeps a democracy from getting dangerous; from turning into mob rule? A Constitutional Republic - The rule, the sovereignty of Law. What keeps Laws from drifting into tyranny made by corrupt elected civil servants? A democracy. It is two oars in the boat. You vote them out and vote others in to represent you. They are civil servants. They are not rulers by self-willed agenda. They are not wannabe kings or queens. They are not sovereign in any way, shape or form. They are servants; elected to serve the interests of the citizens to keep them protected to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
In this Republic we have three branches of order. The executive, the legislative, the judicial. Those three ropes hold up the tent of this nation's existence as a nation that protects freedom and grants liberty by virtue of God's authority over mankind. If you begin messing with those three ropes and the principles under which they tightly hold the nation together; collapse is the only prospect.
All the amendments in the Bill of Rights are there to protect freedom and liberty. Every American, every reasonable age, should know these facts of citizenship and the nation they are a citizen of. I admit, I did not pay attention to this subject in school. Few of us did, few of us do, and America has come under assault of democracy, rule of a majority, made dangerous by the removal of the authority of law.
If you disagree with me on any subject, you may but, you cannot break the law of the land to do it. You must remain civil.
Democrats believe in the power of the people. That's fine. Removed from the constraints and rule of law, they turn into mobs that refuse to allow others their freedom and liberty granted by God. They deny God. They deny other's freedom and liberties which rights, not permissions.
They have no decent ideas to back their motivations and ideology so, they get ugly. They get frustrated and do not allow the rule of law to restrain them. They reject God, they reject law, they reject common decency and civility end up exhibiting a lack of common sense. They get abusive and destructive. History is saturated with this process, over and over, and the Founders of this nation knew it and saw enough of it to establish a different form of government. No kings, no queens, no military rule, no arbitrary rule from anyone in a position of authority granted by law. No one in a role of civil service may abuse law-biding citizens. No one in a role of protection of law and order may abuse law-biding citizens and even citizens accused of breaking the law, unless they show clear intent to harm, and even then, laws exist to restrain and immobilize, not abuse. All are given a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law; not by police, whose function exists solely to protect the rights of all citizens. And citizens may not abuse other law-biding citizens. They system the Founders constructed is brilliant. If it is followed, streams of decency, even wealth are promoted through free-market enterprise. If it is not followed, chaos can erupt, which it has and does on a daily basis now.
America's cities are rife with crime and violence. All of America is riddled with drugs and trafficking. The nation's borders are no longer protected and millions of military age men, from all over the Earth, enter this nation at will. If not every, single day, every week in America an illegal immigrant is arrested for a crime committed against an American citizen, including children.
What have Democrats done? They have erected mob mentality and the denial of the rule of laws they took oaths to protect from all enemies, foreign AND domestic. They have become enemies of the rule of law, and so have Republicans in the business of politics.
The breakdown of America, the dumbing down of Americans, the pollution of its children with godless, immoral ideology is the only possible result when the system the Founders constructed is ignored and put aside for the role of raw power.
Charlie Kirk is a young Conservative with a following throughout the nation. He gets invited to speak somewhere. A mob shows up to protest and stand against his positions about life in America. I do not agree with everything he speaks about and he seems a little arrogant at times but, the fact is he has a RIGHT from God to speak anywhere he is invited. In this current situation in the news this morning, a mob encircles him and members of his team. He tries to communicate, to reason with people but, a mob is not reasonable. That's why it's a mob. He has to have paid protection around him. Why do Republicans not fall into this kind of scene? Generally, because Republicans believe in God, the Constitution and the rule of law. You say, "Wait a minute. What about January 6th?!" Ah, yes. The "great insurrection" of people peacefully protesting, that the current vice-president stated was akin to Pearl Harbor. She is, unfortuneately, not the sharpest knife in the drawer and is prone to stating very ridiculous things, pretty much on a daily basis. I believe the popular term for her speeches, invented because of her speeches, is "word salad."
January 6th has been shown by, again, a mountain of evidence, to prove the destructive elements of that event were propelled by actors sent in by the FBI, including their own agents or directed by powers from upper levels of the D.C. tower of tyranny. Even the former chief of the Capitol police has come out against the actions taken by government officials that day. Corruption on parade.
Yes, some protestors, every crowd has them, violated their citizen's rights and committed, what would normally be misdemeanors, and have been sentenced and thrown in prison for, literally, decades. Some were not in the building, and some were not even there that day. Others, hundreds, just walked in, as they were invited in by police, and walked around taking pictures, as citizens, and because of cell phone technology, could be placed on the scene that day, were arrested, tried, convicted and given years of prison time. Hundreds await in prison cells, literally physically, brutally harmed by prison guards - one man even losing sight in one eye - in the corruption that is Washington, D.C. and the only reason, the ONLY reason this has been done is because of their hatred for Donald Trump. If the same event took place while Obama was in office, no such proceedings of misjustice would have taken place. But, evidence now shows elected civil servants engaged in a plot to make any protest that day seem an insurrection; one without firearms, mind you, or the numbers to take control of the government. But, you see, the system the Founders constructed no longer functions because of corruption developed over time of moving away from its principles.
Estimates have claimed up to 1,000,000 citizens assembled to protest the stolen election of 2020. 80,000 of them peaceably moved towards the Capitol building. President Trump told them to stay peaceable. [Yet, he has been charged with interfering with an election by showing evidence at post-election rallies.] Then, the plot to create a fake insurrection was unleashed by federal agencies tasked for the job, including in it members of radical Left wing groups, Antifa, Capitol police, the FBI, and others.
The Democrat Party, with useless idiocy from the GOP, are destroying our Republic. People who say they are destroying our "democracy" are wrong. They are using democracy, power of the majority, mob mentality, to destabilize the nation. The Founders knew all the ramifications of what could go wrong with the new system and many of them predicted what is now happening; has been happening for decades.
America cannot survive. It is going to collapse, by design, unless God steps in. Will He? Personally, as I have stated here many times, I doubt it. I don't know, of course but, I doubt it. America is going to reap what it has sown. It has sown pure democracy. It will reap pure tyranny.
A new, long article placed today by The Gateway Pundit, with videos regarding data collection of people and moment by moment events that took place on January 6, 2021, finishes with this information -
"WE WILL BE POSTING MORE exposing the ‘SEDITION HUNTER’ government operation and the government’s persecution of January 6th protesters for the crime of having the wrong political opinions.
More news continues to develop EACH DAY about the January 6th setup and the 1,000 men and women suffering political persecution for the past few years.
Just today: The FBI was caught lying to Congress about how many undercover agents were in the crowd at January 6th.
The FBI now admits they have “lost count” of how many agents they had at January 6th.
Nancy Pelosi’s lies about not speaking to the Capitol Police on January 6th have been confirmed with testimony under oath.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/here-you-go-america-gateway-pundit-uncovers-troves/
If naked democracy gains control, the rights of people will be infringed and ultimately outlawed.
God help us. May God help patriots to stand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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846. Deception - September 23, 2023
Yesterday I found out some information; information quite vital to my daily, weekly or monthly activity. I will not get into specifics but, the underlying principles of honesty and integrity, and if you are a professed believer; the basic principles of loving your brother in Christ, are principles necessary for the decent function of society. And that principle, broadened and widened in the basic principle of doing unto others what you would want people to do to you, is one of the oldest principles known to mankind; and currently one that is at the foundation of Western civilization, when Western civilization has followed the tenets of Judeo/Christian ethics and justice. All of that is reaching a bottoming out that is going to bring about the end of the world, and, amazingly enough, do so in the name of God. Deception in the name of God, in the supposed carriage of God's deliberate will.
Deception's origins began in Heaven. Lucifer laid down sophistries of deception about God's character and rule to the Heavenly host of innumerable angels and one third of them believed the lies and war broke out in the greatest region of the universe. An impossible scene for humanity to actually conceive took place. Our wars, endless wars were unknown in a peaceful universe filled with harmony. Deception broke that peace. At the end of time, what are we warned?
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.
If Satan deceives the whole world, that leaves no room for error on this subject when it comes to humanity understanding deception and staying away from it.
Deception. Deceit. To deceive.
"Deception refers to the act—big or small, cruel or kind—of encouraging people to believe information that is not true. Lying is a common form of deception—stating something known to be untrue with the intent to deceive."
From my Brave web browser search result page -
"Lying by omission is a form of deception where someone intentionally withholds important information that would change the perception or understanding of a situation. It is a tricky form of lying because the person doesn't say anything false but leaves out the truth.1 Research has shown that people are more willing to lie by omission than they are to tell an outright falsehood, and to the teller, it feels more ethical, like something between the truth and a total lie.0 Omission lying is a common tactic used by toxic personality disordered people, including psychopaths, narcissists, and borderlines, who are very good at weaving narratives and spinning stories in a way that either benefits them or undermines someone else.2"
Believe it or not, I wrote this entire article without the use of the web, it being down all day. When it came back on I looked up the common definition of 'deception' and noticed the Wikipedia entry in the side margin. Clicking on it for the full text, this is what is there -
"Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage.[1][2] Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight of hand as well as distraction, camouflage or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
"Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations."
Wiki practices deception as a rule when it comes to anything or anyone Conservative. The use of the terms "conspiracy theorist" or "conspiracy theory" is so common on that site it would be a joke were it not such a grievous and egregious use of deception to placate a political and social agenda contributors to Wiki subscribe to. And there you go. Using deception, exactly as they define.
In the Bible, the Hebrew and Greek words translated 'deceive' mean and are translated in other terms such as: to educe, seduce, mislead, delude, lie, cheat, to wander or go away from truth, beguile, fraudulence, to catch by a bait, double-tongued (two-faced), to play with to deceive, to reckon wrong or miscount, circumvent, to use false reasoning, of heretics, deliberate falsehoods.
From a spiritual point of view, God's point of view; that such intent or actions should be named among His professed people is enough to cause someone to choke on their food. Among those who make no profession of faith it should be expected, in this world growing darker by the week. Every single minute, somewhere on this dying world, someone is being deceived and if I had to guess, I'd say millions were being deceived at any given moment. It's a way of life for so many, the Bible states it this way -
Mic 7:2 The pious has perished from the earth, and the upright is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Mic 7:3 Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.
Mic 7:4 The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchers, your visitation is coming; now their shame shall be.
Mic 7:5 Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
Mic 7:6 for a son despises his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his house.
Mic 7:7 But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Mic 7:8 Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.
The trust factor shall be shattered. You just cannot truly know who you can trust anymore. Acts of commission and acts of omission gather a web of deceit that destroys lives and at the very least can make them complicated, often terribly so.
People practice deceit for various reasons. To gain advantage is an obvious one, built into the definition. Some do it out of fear, as a lower foundation undergirding their deceptive activity and speech. They believe they are protecting themselves. Not others. Themselves. But, what does the commandment of God state?
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor."
Pro 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Causality. That is the thing that ends up in court more than anything in our society. Was there, is there a legitimate, lawful, righteous, honest cause for anyone to say or do something against someone else? If any kind of deception gets involved in discovery, "cause" comes under instant suspicion.
The greater depth of God's commandment reaches beyond lying in speech. Even in man's law, signing a document of legal consequence, when someone knows information provided on it is deceitful or wrong; able to construe a positive factor for the signer, is a crime.
In God's eyes, a conceived but, deceitful look can be held to account in God's court of justice. If that look starts a cascade of events that causes harm, the one who gave the look to start it all will be held accountable. God's law is much deeper than shallow humans perceive it to be. That is why the law is not just the writing of God's finger on tables of stone. It is meant, in the connection people make with their Creator, to be written in the minds and hearts of His born-gain representatives of His kingdom -
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
The ultimate object for God is recreating human minds and hearts; that obedience to His law, which is a transcript of His character, will be actions of internal change that work outward in life: not external law that keeps them from committing sinful acts from fear of judgment. While that may be a premise or policy people go with in life, it is not what God is ultimately after. There is a huge difference there. A fruit tree does not produce fruit because it has to and if it doesn't it will be chopped down. A fruit tree produces fruit because it's a fruit tree. God's people are not to obey because if they don't they will go to "hell." God's people are to obey because they have been recreated to love and obey; to produce fruits of righteousness, naturally: supernaturally, via the work of the Holy Spirit in their life - their body (physical nature), soul (emotional nature), and spirit (intellectual nature) captured in love and obedience to truth. The Christian obeys because they are Christians; not trying to be Christians by obeying.
I was communicating with a musician (A) recently who said another musician (B) asked him to play on a recording he was making. He said, Sure. "B" even made mention of it on his social media. To "A's" surprise, hurt and disgust, the recording was released with another musician's (C) work and "A" was never told he was replaced, saving space in his schedule for working on the recording. That is a sin of omission. If a contract was signed, it's a case for a court of law. Then it's an act, a crime of commission, as well. "B" committed an act of omission by not telling "A" he was replaced, which caused undo hardship for "A." For professional musicians, even semi-professional musicians, time is or can be money. If "A" sued, he could have possibly been awarded the proceeds due if he recorded work on the album. There was no contract. It was the word of "B" that set the process along. A "gentlemen's agreement." Suffice to say, "A" learned a hard lesson he carries with him to protect him from any further such acts. Our world seems to revolve in a factor of constant deception and deceit and people think nothing of it. God does, and His words are always important -
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.
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Yes, man's courts of justice, such as they currently operate, can be used to right wrongs but, God's court of justice is beyond us all and the Sovereign of the universe cannot be deceived and certainly will not be mocked without due retribution. It should also be remembered God is love and all acts of His are prompted by love for His people, as well as love for the deceivers who need to understand their path is one of death. "The wages of sin is death." God warns. God entreats. God then acts; in His time, in His way. He wants all to come to repentance. Unfortunately, most will not. People bring down the judgment of God upon themselves. God does not change. He was the same yesterday, as He is today and will be tomorrow and forever. His principles change not. His law is like the law of gravity. You cannot jump out of a tree and break the law of gravity. It shall break you. Gravity did not seek to break me when I walked off a roof, not paying attention to the placement of my feet. God does not seek to harm people because we fall. God rains down judgment in necessary degrees when we seek to do wrong and think we can get away with it. It matters not if it is human relations or business or anything else. Deception to protect oneself is wrong.
In the case of God's law and the case of Rahab (Joshua 2:1-24), who hid the Hebrew spies on her roof; she did not bear a false witness to protect herself. She bore it to protect the spies. Having worked out an agreement that if their God could bring about His will upon the city, to please protect her family. Notice the levels there. She put her faith in the God of the Hebrew spies for the protection of her family, she bore a false witness to the soldiers to protect the spies. She did not do it against her neighbor, nor for herself. She did it FOR her neighbors and for her family. There is a huge difference there. Rahab, mind you, a prostitute, is mentioned in the lineage of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah (Matt. 1:5). Imagine that. A prostitute, converted, marries a man and delivers a son who shall be of the lineage of the Messiah. Quite an honor. God is not against anyone who will receive the gift of repentance. Yes, sorrow for sin is a gift from God; He leads people to repentance. Mankind would never seek sorrow for sin if left alone. Were it not for the impress of the Holy Spirit upon human minds the entire planet would be filled with nothing but lies and deception of the Enemy; bent on destroying all humanity and all life on earth.
The Jewish leaders looked at Christ and said, 'Well, we were not born of fornication:' an illusion to Mary not being married when she became pregnant. The fact is, Yeshua, their Messiah, came from a lineage of a former prostitute and two women who committed adultery. Jesus came in the likeness of "sinful flesh," fallen humanity. His mind was connected to His Father and He maintained that connection, unbroken, and sinned not by a thought, word or action; that God's children, when converted and connected to Him through a living connection to Christ, the "Vine" and His people the "branches," can have the same experience of victory, overcoming the world. We marvel at God's grace to change people and involve them in the most righteous acts in history.
Deceit, bearing a false witness, lying, either by commission or omission, is a sin in the eyes of God. And you should be aware, sin is a far greater act of responsibility and accountability than any breaking of man's laws. Breaking man's law can get you life in prison without parole or the death penalty. What is worse than that? An eternal death sentence from the judgment bar of God because dying once is not the end. Those who die shall rise again to face the executive judgment of God for whatever lifetime of sins they committed without remorse or repentance. Then the "second death" takes place. God does not deceive anyone. He plainly states in His Word what was, what is and what is coming. No one can ever have an excuse. Whatever reasons they may present, they cannot have any excuses. Christ is the light that shines on every person that comes into the world. What is that light? Conscience. Conscience bound by the Word. Lose that; lose reality, no matter how much someone self-deceives themselves what they are committing or omitting in deceit is okay.
Many will say, as I mentioned in a previous post, 'My heart tells me I am doing the right thing.' What does the Bible state?
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.
People who practice deceit, deception, by commission or omission show they have no living faith in God. They are trusting in lies against their "neighbor" to protect themselves. In the case of marriage, it is called "treacherous" behavior. A husband who practiced treachery against His wife and then divorced her had a 'hard heart,' which Jesus mentioned, when asked about divorce. A hard heart. Stone. A heart of stone. The premise is so common, songs have been written using the term. Men and women, both are guilty. Do you think Judas thought he had a hard heart to sell out Christ for 30 pieces of silver? He practiced an ultimate deception and betrayed His Lord with a kiss. The guilt that ultimately came upon his soul caused him to commit suicide. Think you conscience is not a powerful reaction factory in the human species? You deceive yourself.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour. Hiding behind desire or fear or anything else, including profession of faith and salvation; to commit deception or deceit, to gain advantage, is a path to destruction people try to avoid by practicing deceit!
Such is the confusion of spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Deception's origins began in Heaven. Lucifer laid down sophistries of deception about God's character and rule to the Heavenly host of innumerable angels and one third of them believed the lies and war broke out in the greatest region of the universe. An impossible scene for humanity to actually conceive took place. Our wars, endless wars were unknown in a peaceful universe filled with harmony. Deception broke that peace. At the end of time, what are we warned?
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.
If Satan deceives the whole world, that leaves no room for error on this subject when it comes to humanity understanding deception and staying away from it.
Deception. Deceit. To deceive.
"Deception refers to the act—big or small, cruel or kind—of encouraging people to believe information that is not true. Lying is a common form of deception—stating something known to be untrue with the intent to deceive."
From my Brave web browser search result page -
"Lying by omission is a form of deception where someone intentionally withholds important information that would change the perception or understanding of a situation. It is a tricky form of lying because the person doesn't say anything false but leaves out the truth.1 Research has shown that people are more willing to lie by omission than they are to tell an outright falsehood, and to the teller, it feels more ethical, like something between the truth and a total lie.0 Omission lying is a common tactic used by toxic personality disordered people, including psychopaths, narcissists, and borderlines, who are very good at weaving narratives and spinning stories in a way that either benefits them or undermines someone else.2"
Believe it or not, I wrote this entire article without the use of the web, it being down all day. When it came back on I looked up the common definition of 'deception' and noticed the Wikipedia entry in the side margin. Clicking on it for the full text, this is what is there -
"Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage.[1][2] Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight of hand as well as distraction, camouflage or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
"Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations."
Wiki practices deception as a rule when it comes to anything or anyone Conservative. The use of the terms "conspiracy theorist" or "conspiracy theory" is so common on that site it would be a joke were it not such a grievous and egregious use of deception to placate a political and social agenda contributors to Wiki subscribe to. And there you go. Using deception, exactly as they define.
In the Bible, the Hebrew and Greek words translated 'deceive' mean and are translated in other terms such as: to educe, seduce, mislead, delude, lie, cheat, to wander or go away from truth, beguile, fraudulence, to catch by a bait, double-tongued (two-faced), to play with to deceive, to reckon wrong or miscount, circumvent, to use false reasoning, of heretics, deliberate falsehoods.
From a spiritual point of view, God's point of view; that such intent or actions should be named among His professed people is enough to cause someone to choke on their food. Among those who make no profession of faith it should be expected, in this world growing darker by the week. Every single minute, somewhere on this dying world, someone is being deceived and if I had to guess, I'd say millions were being deceived at any given moment. It's a way of life for so many, the Bible states it this way -
Mic 7:2 The pious has perished from the earth, and the upright is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Mic 7:3 Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.
Mic 7:4 The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchers, your visitation is coming; now their shame shall be.
Mic 7:5 Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
Mic 7:6 for a son despises his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his house.
Mic 7:7 But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Mic 7:8 Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.
The trust factor shall be shattered. You just cannot truly know who you can trust anymore. Acts of commission and acts of omission gather a web of deceit that destroys lives and at the very least can make them complicated, often terribly so.
People practice deceit for various reasons. To gain advantage is an obvious one, built into the definition. Some do it out of fear, as a lower foundation undergirding their deceptive activity and speech. They believe they are protecting themselves. Not others. Themselves. But, what does the commandment of God state?
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor."
Pro 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Causality. That is the thing that ends up in court more than anything in our society. Was there, is there a legitimate, lawful, righteous, honest cause for anyone to say or do something against someone else? If any kind of deception gets involved in discovery, "cause" comes under instant suspicion.
The greater depth of God's commandment reaches beyond lying in speech. Even in man's law, signing a document of legal consequence, when someone knows information provided on it is deceitful or wrong; able to construe a positive factor for the signer, is a crime.
In God's eyes, a conceived but, deceitful look can be held to account in God's court of justice. If that look starts a cascade of events that causes harm, the one who gave the look to start it all will be held accountable. God's law is much deeper than shallow humans perceive it to be. That is why the law is not just the writing of God's finger on tables of stone. It is meant, in the connection people make with their Creator, to be written in the minds and hearts of His born-gain representatives of His kingdom -
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
The ultimate object for God is recreating human minds and hearts; that obedience to His law, which is a transcript of His character, will be actions of internal change that work outward in life: not external law that keeps them from committing sinful acts from fear of judgment. While that may be a premise or policy people go with in life, it is not what God is ultimately after. There is a huge difference there. A fruit tree does not produce fruit because it has to and if it doesn't it will be chopped down. A fruit tree produces fruit because it's a fruit tree. God's people are not to obey because if they don't they will go to "hell." God's people are to obey because they have been recreated to love and obey; to produce fruits of righteousness, naturally: supernaturally, via the work of the Holy Spirit in their life - their body (physical nature), soul (emotional nature), and spirit (intellectual nature) captured in love and obedience to truth. The Christian obeys because they are Christians; not trying to be Christians by obeying.
I was communicating with a musician (A) recently who said another musician (B) asked him to play on a recording he was making. He said, Sure. "B" even made mention of it on his social media. To "A's" surprise, hurt and disgust, the recording was released with another musician's (C) work and "A" was never told he was replaced, saving space in his schedule for working on the recording. That is a sin of omission. If a contract was signed, it's a case for a court of law. Then it's an act, a crime of commission, as well. "B" committed an act of omission by not telling "A" he was replaced, which caused undo hardship for "A." For professional musicians, even semi-professional musicians, time is or can be money. If "A" sued, he could have possibly been awarded the proceeds due if he recorded work on the album. There was no contract. It was the word of "B" that set the process along. A "gentlemen's agreement." Suffice to say, "A" learned a hard lesson he carries with him to protect him from any further such acts. Our world seems to revolve in a factor of constant deception and deceit and people think nothing of it. God does, and His words are always important -
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.
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Yes, man's courts of justice, such as they currently operate, can be used to right wrongs but, God's court of justice is beyond us all and the Sovereign of the universe cannot be deceived and certainly will not be mocked without due retribution. It should also be remembered God is love and all acts of His are prompted by love for His people, as well as love for the deceivers who need to understand their path is one of death. "The wages of sin is death." God warns. God entreats. God then acts; in His time, in His way. He wants all to come to repentance. Unfortunately, most will not. People bring down the judgment of God upon themselves. God does not change. He was the same yesterday, as He is today and will be tomorrow and forever. His principles change not. His law is like the law of gravity. You cannot jump out of a tree and break the law of gravity. It shall break you. Gravity did not seek to break me when I walked off a roof, not paying attention to the placement of my feet. God does not seek to harm people because we fall. God rains down judgment in necessary degrees when we seek to do wrong and think we can get away with it. It matters not if it is human relations or business or anything else. Deception to protect oneself is wrong.
In the case of God's law and the case of Rahab (Joshua 2:1-24), who hid the Hebrew spies on her roof; she did not bear a false witness to protect herself. She bore it to protect the spies. Having worked out an agreement that if their God could bring about His will upon the city, to please protect her family. Notice the levels there. She put her faith in the God of the Hebrew spies for the protection of her family, she bore a false witness to the soldiers to protect the spies. She did not do it against her neighbor, nor for herself. She did it FOR her neighbors and for her family. There is a huge difference there. Rahab, mind you, a prostitute, is mentioned in the lineage of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah (Matt. 1:5). Imagine that. A prostitute, converted, marries a man and delivers a son who shall be of the lineage of the Messiah. Quite an honor. God is not against anyone who will receive the gift of repentance. Yes, sorrow for sin is a gift from God; He leads people to repentance. Mankind would never seek sorrow for sin if left alone. Were it not for the impress of the Holy Spirit upon human minds the entire planet would be filled with nothing but lies and deception of the Enemy; bent on destroying all humanity and all life on earth.
The Jewish leaders looked at Christ and said, 'Well, we were not born of fornication:' an illusion to Mary not being married when she became pregnant. The fact is, Yeshua, their Messiah, came from a lineage of a former prostitute and two women who committed adultery. Jesus came in the likeness of "sinful flesh," fallen humanity. His mind was connected to His Father and He maintained that connection, unbroken, and sinned not by a thought, word or action; that God's children, when converted and connected to Him through a living connection to Christ, the "Vine" and His people the "branches," can have the same experience of victory, overcoming the world. We marvel at God's grace to change people and involve them in the most righteous acts in history.
Deceit, bearing a false witness, lying, either by commission or omission, is a sin in the eyes of God. And you should be aware, sin is a far greater act of responsibility and accountability than any breaking of man's laws. Breaking man's law can get you life in prison without parole or the death penalty. What is worse than that? An eternal death sentence from the judgment bar of God because dying once is not the end. Those who die shall rise again to face the executive judgment of God for whatever lifetime of sins they committed without remorse or repentance. Then the "second death" takes place. God does not deceive anyone. He plainly states in His Word what was, what is and what is coming. No one can ever have an excuse. Whatever reasons they may present, they cannot have any excuses. Christ is the light that shines on every person that comes into the world. What is that light? Conscience. Conscience bound by the Word. Lose that; lose reality, no matter how much someone self-deceives themselves what they are committing or omitting in deceit is okay.
Many will say, as I mentioned in a previous post, 'My heart tells me I am doing the right thing.' What does the Bible state?
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.
People who practice deceit, deception, by commission or omission show they have no living faith in God. They are trusting in lies against their "neighbor" to protect themselves. In the case of marriage, it is called "treacherous" behavior. A husband who practiced treachery against His wife and then divorced her had a 'hard heart,' which Jesus mentioned, when asked about divorce. A hard heart. Stone. A heart of stone. The premise is so common, songs have been written using the term. Men and women, both are guilty. Do you think Judas thought he had a hard heart to sell out Christ for 30 pieces of silver? He practiced an ultimate deception and betrayed His Lord with a kiss. The guilt that ultimately came upon his soul caused him to commit suicide. Think you conscience is not a powerful reaction factory in the human species? You deceive yourself.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour. Hiding behind desire or fear or anything else, including profession of faith and salvation; to commit deception or deceit, to gain advantage, is a path to destruction people try to avoid by practicing deceit!
Such is the confusion of spiritual, prophetic Babylon.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Can Maui Truth Be Forced?
Eric West, Hawaii Real Estate, is still putting out information and videos to share with people of what happened, what is happening, and what will happen if people in positions of responsibility are not held accountable for what took place, what is taking place, and what will take place.
I believe millions of people here on the mainland just feel rather helpless. We can post links on our social media. Those who are able can send donations to charities, etc. but, all in all, the blackout of information, the misinformation, disinformation, and even malicious - malinformation being disseminated by government and media agents shows, once again, who truly is in control. Given the list of absurdities involved in the event - a list that West goes through in the linked video - how can there not be some kind of intense scrutiny beyond private citizens compiling it all? How is that possible? The only logical explanation is evil and corruption. No just or righteous person in a position of responsibility could look the other way against a fact sheet that reads like the evil side of a James Bond novel.
Can truth be forced in Maui? Time will tell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFG8n3jsU6A
I continue to watch videos by private parties doing their own investigations, recording their own videos, flying their own drones over the Lahaina area. It's just squint your eyes, drop your jaw - How is that possible? - over and over again questioning. The visible anomalies go into the dozens.
I hope the people of Maui can get true justice and real help to go on with their battered lives.
May God help them.
I believe millions of people here on the mainland just feel rather helpless. We can post links on our social media. Those who are able can send donations to charities, etc. but, all in all, the blackout of information, the misinformation, disinformation, and even malicious - malinformation being disseminated by government and media agents shows, once again, who truly is in control. Given the list of absurdities involved in the event - a list that West goes through in the linked video - how can there not be some kind of intense scrutiny beyond private citizens compiling it all? How is that possible? The only logical explanation is evil and corruption. No just or righteous person in a position of responsibility could look the other way against a fact sheet that reads like the evil side of a James Bond novel.
Can truth be forced in Maui? Time will tell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFG8n3jsU6A
I continue to watch videos by private parties doing their own investigations, recording their own videos, flying their own drones over the Lahaina area. It's just squint your eyes, drop your jaw - How is that possible? - over and over again questioning. The visible anomalies go into the dozens.
I hope the people of Maui can get true justice and real help to go on with their battered lives.
May God help them.
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847. Auditors and Audits
Normally, I began to save these numbered, sequential posts for subjects involving Bible study but, in this case, like a few others, this subject is incredibly important.
First; definitions -
Audit - noun
1
a
: a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
The audit showed that the company had misled investors.
b
: the final report of an audit
2
: a methodical examination and review
an energy audit of the house
A methodical examination and review. A bunch of these "auditors" have YouTube channels where they specifically examine police departments for their failure to apply Constitutional protections to independent journalists who audit them on camera. It is a fascinating thing to watch dozens of these videos, of which there are hundreds, if not thousands, collectively, watched by millions of people, beholding public servants harass and attempt to intimidate free citizens on public property. The displayed ignorance of public civil servants all the way up the chain of command is literally breathtaking. Whether elected or appointed, the violations of rights is stunning. The lawsuits, the arrests and firing of one after another of these employees of the people to protect and serve has led me to believe things I would never have believed did I not watch it in real time as events took place, on both private and police cameras.
These auditors have respect for police, in general. They understand the difficult nature of their jobs and they also know the corruption of power and authority that police departments function under and with. I mentioned one of these auditors in a previous post, where he takes the time to actually look at and read public law and codes that are there to make a difference between principles of freedom and liberty with criminal activity and policies in violation of Constitutional freedoms and liberties. The "Karens" that exist among females in blue is frightening. I mean that literally but, both sexes display attitudes that reflect "police state" mentality.
Small town police, to large city departments, to state police, county sheriff departments, the ignorance is jaw-dropping. How did this get to this stage of function... rather, disfunction? Individuals walking around with a phone, recording what they see and experience in the process of filming public buildings and their employees and the nature of fright that brings on public civil servants is incredible. All these servants would have to do is respect the Constitutional rights of citizens and act cordial and professional and nothing would be done to expose them. If anything, all things considered, they would be hailed as role models and examples of an educated police presence. Many of these independent, citizen journalists commend officers, in real time, who "get it."
In one video, a police officer questioned the journalist if he was one of those people on YouTube that goes around trying to shame police. The journalist informed him there would be no negative reactions if police acted exactly as they should be trained to. They are obviously not. And many of these people exposed should not be civil servants. They have issues that spring forth like lions and tigers under no provocation. All it takes is a camera to expose their ignorance of true law and order. They respond like their world is being turned upside down, which, in fact, it is, because their world is not right side up.
Why is all of this important and vital? The Maui fires aftermath opened my eyes to some things I had only placed upon significant enormous events, like the NYC Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, and Shanksville crash on 9/11 or the Las Vegas shooting, etc. The depth of secrecy that exists in those types of events must be exposed. When it comes to police officer on free citizens, in miniature, this is happening every day in America. We are exposed to some things in a George Floyd-type event, and the cries of people sick and tired of police brutality. In my mind, those types of events were exceptional but, not the rule. Watching these auditors changes that. One begins to realize this happens on a daily basis in regions all over America, and the world. In nations not monitored by a type of rule of law America has; should have and at one time did have, we might expect to see corruption in action. In America? No. I never expected to see such things so wide-spread.
I spoke with someone who has had some run-ins with the law in their past life and they said maybe a handful of police officers displayed respectful attitudes. All others displayed tyrannical attitudes: police power, and I was told female officers are the absolute worst. We might consider the role of female officers in a generally male world and realize their struggle for acceptance since the entire female movement into normally male jobs began but, watching these officers of the law escalate situations is unreal, when they are supposed to be trained to de-escalate situations they encounter.
What are these public servants learning in academies and training? How can they be so ignorant of things so simple? To not even know the difference between public and private property is truly unnerving to watch. To not understand the basic principles of the First and Fourth Amendments in their roles as officers of the law is a terrible thing to watch, and millions are watching, with more and more all the time.
Here's why this is so important. Anyone watching world events knows a cabal of globalists - elitist controllers in finance and government - are attempting to gain control of planet Earth. It's as obvious as a train wreck and billions of people around the world now see it. Unfortunately, more billions do not. As the power and influence of this cabal grows, so does 'police state' activity. Left unchecked and unexposed, a total reversal of God-given life and liberty is undermined and slowly evaporated. Call it dystopian, call it '1984,' call it 'Animal Farm,' whatever you like, it's a reality that begins to leap from the pages of novels.
Taken one step further, there is Bible prophecy and last-day events; where God's people shall be harassed, oppressed and ultimately persecuted for their beliefs. Citizens must know their rights and these independent journalists are performing a huge public service in exposing police ignorance of their own state and local laws, and especially inalienable Constitutional rights and liberties. Even watching private security guards on public property displaying corruption of power and authority is shocking.
One begins to realize the nature of the role of police in America is changing. Many departments have taken action to reverse this ignorance and attitude. Police can be as strong as they are lawfully allowed, to perform their duties. They cannot violate citizen's rights in that process. It seems really uncomplicated. Without doubt, crime is rising. Criminal activity, open and bold, is in so many large cities now it will only be stopped with serious resolve.
While it may seem only biblical, two principles jump out -
Pro 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
Pro 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
If all officers of the law just practiced that one principle, the change would be dramatic. They have to be knowledgeable, though. If not, the foolishness they pour out will continue to be exposed by all these independent citizen journalists growing like weeds.
Here's another principle -
Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.
The serpent used sophistry to beguile Eve in the garden. He watched the youthful pair and chose a tactic he felt would work to deceive. He studied them, he acted, he was victorious because Eve strayed from the principles and warnings she was given to stay safe.
Christ spoke those words to His disciples for their work in ministry but, the principles are broad in their possible application.
Christ was telling His disciples to study people they come in contact with. Different minds need a different approach to successfully administer the Gospel to save lives. Be wise as serpents, be harmless as doves. Do not study to deceive. Study to save. Police officers should study those they come in contact with in all situations. If they start off confrontational, they will reap results that are ruining police careers everywhere. Imagine driving a car and being pulled over. The officer demands you exit the vehicle with no information as to why you were stopped. You refuse to exit and the officer opens the door, another violation, and pulls the driver out and sends him to his knees, another violation. He then escalates the situation and in the confusion of the driver's mind, tases the driver for 26 seconds. The driver drops, clinically dead for eight minutes. The officer literally drags the driver across the pavement and drops him like a sack of dirt on the curb. The driver is barely conscious. By the time another officer shows up, then paramedics, the driver has multiple injuries and brain damage. 6.5 million dollars later from the filed lawsuit against the officer and police department and city and the officer fired and arrested, how did such a thing happen? The officer stopped a vehicle he thought had a warrant on the owner. He was wrong.
That is an extreme example of police brutality but, the nature of the infraction has a common similarity: lack of correct information and officer ignorance of proper procedures.
On video after video the ignorance of officers of the law is truly stunning, and the attitudes and egos of officers in the wrong is worse. They do not apologize, they do not admit errors in judgment; they walk off in a huff, they try and tell citizens they are letting them off with a warning. And you can often see other officers standing around, shaking their heads or smiling like they know exactly what is happening and choose to stay out of it because they know these journalists are well within their rights.
Every American should be aware of these journalists and the work they do. They educate police. It's a very bitter pill for them to swallow but, it has to be done. The situation, unattended to, will only get worse and as ignorance and corruption grows, lawlessness follows and falls upon the innocent.
The entire phenomenon is a classroom in action.
Audit the Audit
Long Island Audit
Audit Rewind
The Real News Network - I just watched a video where the channel explains their purpose well -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3Qpmx1dDQ
Dr. Insanity and others have channels on YouTube.
They are not perfect. They don't necessarily have attorney-like oration skills but, they get the job done in whatever human failings they may have. They should not have to do what they do.
More power to them.
**In an update on this subject, while I am new to these journalists and their work, police departments have come to know them well, and some have even gone so far as to post signs in doorways that everyone is welcome, except First Amendment Auditors. They are willing to violate Constitutional rights they take oaths to protect to maintain their policies and basically what amounts to private club attitudes and practices. The oaths to their fraternity is higher than the rule of law and their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It just makes no sense. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I would add this. These videos become depressing after awhile. To think police departments coast to coast function like this is worse than a shame. It's a blight on the principles of Americanism, law and order.
In the last video I watched a man in Montana was stopped and immediately held at gun point. In the course of three hours, 18 officers descended on the scene, including two snipers. Ultimately, because the driver of the vehicle held his ground on his rights, and never exited the vehicle, the entire group of officers departed, promising to leave him alone while they went back to their statin to fill out reports and get an arrest warrant. The man took the time to depart the area.
In America? Yes.
God help Americans who love their country, their Constitution and their God-given inalienable rights.
First; definitions -
Audit - noun
1
a
: a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
The audit showed that the company had misled investors.
b
: the final report of an audit
2
: a methodical examination and review
an energy audit of the house
A methodical examination and review. A bunch of these "auditors" have YouTube channels where they specifically examine police departments for their failure to apply Constitutional protections to independent journalists who audit them on camera. It is a fascinating thing to watch dozens of these videos, of which there are hundreds, if not thousands, collectively, watched by millions of people, beholding public servants harass and attempt to intimidate free citizens on public property. The displayed ignorance of public civil servants all the way up the chain of command is literally breathtaking. Whether elected or appointed, the violations of rights is stunning. The lawsuits, the arrests and firing of one after another of these employees of the people to protect and serve has led me to believe things I would never have believed did I not watch it in real time as events took place, on both private and police cameras.
These auditors have respect for police, in general. They understand the difficult nature of their jobs and they also know the corruption of power and authority that police departments function under and with. I mentioned one of these auditors in a previous post, where he takes the time to actually look at and read public law and codes that are there to make a difference between principles of freedom and liberty with criminal activity and policies in violation of Constitutional freedoms and liberties. The "Karens" that exist among females in blue is frightening. I mean that literally but, both sexes display attitudes that reflect "police state" mentality.
Small town police, to large city departments, to state police, county sheriff departments, the ignorance is jaw-dropping. How did this get to this stage of function... rather, disfunction? Individuals walking around with a phone, recording what they see and experience in the process of filming public buildings and their employees and the nature of fright that brings on public civil servants is incredible. All these servants would have to do is respect the Constitutional rights of citizens and act cordial and professional and nothing would be done to expose them. If anything, all things considered, they would be hailed as role models and examples of an educated police presence. Many of these independent, citizen journalists commend officers, in real time, who "get it."
In one video, a police officer questioned the journalist if he was one of those people on YouTube that goes around trying to shame police. The journalist informed him there would be no negative reactions if police acted exactly as they should be trained to. They are obviously not. And many of these people exposed should not be civil servants. They have issues that spring forth like lions and tigers under no provocation. All it takes is a camera to expose their ignorance of true law and order. They respond like their world is being turned upside down, which, in fact, it is, because their world is not right side up.
Why is all of this important and vital? The Maui fires aftermath opened my eyes to some things I had only placed upon significant enormous events, like the NYC Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, and Shanksville crash on 9/11 or the Las Vegas shooting, etc. The depth of secrecy that exists in those types of events must be exposed. When it comes to police officer on free citizens, in miniature, this is happening every day in America. We are exposed to some things in a George Floyd-type event, and the cries of people sick and tired of police brutality. In my mind, those types of events were exceptional but, not the rule. Watching these auditors changes that. One begins to realize this happens on a daily basis in regions all over America, and the world. In nations not monitored by a type of rule of law America has; should have and at one time did have, we might expect to see corruption in action. In America? No. I never expected to see such things so wide-spread.
I spoke with someone who has had some run-ins with the law in their past life and they said maybe a handful of police officers displayed respectful attitudes. All others displayed tyrannical attitudes: police power, and I was told female officers are the absolute worst. We might consider the role of female officers in a generally male world and realize their struggle for acceptance since the entire female movement into normally male jobs began but, watching these officers of the law escalate situations is unreal, when they are supposed to be trained to de-escalate situations they encounter.
What are these public servants learning in academies and training? How can they be so ignorant of things so simple? To not even know the difference between public and private property is truly unnerving to watch. To not understand the basic principles of the First and Fourth Amendments in their roles as officers of the law is a terrible thing to watch, and millions are watching, with more and more all the time.
Here's why this is so important. Anyone watching world events knows a cabal of globalists - elitist controllers in finance and government - are attempting to gain control of planet Earth. It's as obvious as a train wreck and billions of people around the world now see it. Unfortunately, more billions do not. As the power and influence of this cabal grows, so does 'police state' activity. Left unchecked and unexposed, a total reversal of God-given life and liberty is undermined and slowly evaporated. Call it dystopian, call it '1984,' call it 'Animal Farm,' whatever you like, it's a reality that begins to leap from the pages of novels.
Taken one step further, there is Bible prophecy and last-day events; where God's people shall be harassed, oppressed and ultimately persecuted for their beliefs. Citizens must know their rights and these independent journalists are performing a huge public service in exposing police ignorance of their own state and local laws, and especially inalienable Constitutional rights and liberties. Even watching private security guards on public property displaying corruption of power and authority is shocking.
One begins to realize the nature of the role of police in America is changing. Many departments have taken action to reverse this ignorance and attitude. Police can be as strong as they are lawfully allowed, to perform their duties. They cannot violate citizen's rights in that process. It seems really uncomplicated. Without doubt, crime is rising. Criminal activity, open and bold, is in so many large cities now it will only be stopped with serious resolve.
While it may seem only biblical, two principles jump out -
Pro 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
Pro 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
If all officers of the law just practiced that one principle, the change would be dramatic. They have to be knowledgeable, though. If not, the foolishness they pour out will continue to be exposed by all these independent citizen journalists growing like weeds.
Here's another principle -
Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.
The serpent used sophistry to beguile Eve in the garden. He watched the youthful pair and chose a tactic he felt would work to deceive. He studied them, he acted, he was victorious because Eve strayed from the principles and warnings she was given to stay safe.
Christ spoke those words to His disciples for their work in ministry but, the principles are broad in their possible application.
Christ was telling His disciples to study people they come in contact with. Different minds need a different approach to successfully administer the Gospel to save lives. Be wise as serpents, be harmless as doves. Do not study to deceive. Study to save. Police officers should study those they come in contact with in all situations. If they start off confrontational, they will reap results that are ruining police careers everywhere. Imagine driving a car and being pulled over. The officer demands you exit the vehicle with no information as to why you were stopped. You refuse to exit and the officer opens the door, another violation, and pulls the driver out and sends him to his knees, another violation. He then escalates the situation and in the confusion of the driver's mind, tases the driver for 26 seconds. The driver drops, clinically dead for eight minutes. The officer literally drags the driver across the pavement and drops him like a sack of dirt on the curb. The driver is barely conscious. By the time another officer shows up, then paramedics, the driver has multiple injuries and brain damage. 6.5 million dollars later from the filed lawsuit against the officer and police department and city and the officer fired and arrested, how did such a thing happen? The officer stopped a vehicle he thought had a warrant on the owner. He was wrong.
That is an extreme example of police brutality but, the nature of the infraction has a common similarity: lack of correct information and officer ignorance of proper procedures.
On video after video the ignorance of officers of the law is truly stunning, and the attitudes and egos of officers in the wrong is worse. They do not apologize, they do not admit errors in judgment; they walk off in a huff, they try and tell citizens they are letting them off with a warning. And you can often see other officers standing around, shaking their heads or smiling like they know exactly what is happening and choose to stay out of it because they know these journalists are well within their rights.
Every American should be aware of these journalists and the work they do. They educate police. It's a very bitter pill for them to swallow but, it has to be done. The situation, unattended to, will only get worse and as ignorance and corruption grows, lawlessness follows and falls upon the innocent.
The entire phenomenon is a classroom in action.
Audit the Audit
Long Island Audit
Audit Rewind
The Real News Network - I just watched a video where the channel explains their purpose well -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3Qpmx1dDQ
Dr. Insanity and others have channels on YouTube.
They are not perfect. They don't necessarily have attorney-like oration skills but, they get the job done in whatever human failings they may have. They should not have to do what they do.
More power to them.
**In an update on this subject, while I am new to these journalists and their work, police departments have come to know them well, and some have even gone so far as to post signs in doorways that everyone is welcome, except First Amendment Auditors. They are willing to violate Constitutional rights they take oaths to protect to maintain their policies and basically what amounts to private club attitudes and practices. The oaths to their fraternity is higher than the rule of law and their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It just makes no sense. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I would add this. These videos become depressing after awhile. To think police departments coast to coast function like this is worse than a shame. It's a blight on the principles of Americanism, law and order.
In the last video I watched a man in Montana was stopped and immediately held at gun point. In the course of three hours, 18 officers descended on the scene, including two snipers. Ultimately, because the driver of the vehicle held his ground on his rights, and never exited the vehicle, the entire group of officers departed, promising to leave him alone while they went back to their statin to fill out reports and get an arrest warrant. The man took the time to depart the area.
In America? Yes.
God help Americans who love their country, their Constitution and their God-given inalienable rights.
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R.I.P. Dom Famularo
I just saw that Dom Famularo, known as drumming's ambassador around the world, passed away on the 27th, at 70 years of age. Cancer.
If you took a look at the Influences page here, you'll see his name. I was a fan for many years. Technique to spare, incredible personality in his playing, as well as his humanity, made him an icon for young and old. He departs this life way too early and will be missed greatly by those who loved him.
He hosted drum clinics and festivals around the globe; played and recorded with great names in Jazz and Big Band; was an author, a podcaster, a motivational speaker and a man that exuded tremendous positivity wherever he went, through whatever he did. He was truly one-of-a-kind in the world of drum set artistry. He leaves behind a deep hole. No one could take his place in promoting the art of drumming like he did.
His playing was incredibly dynamic and energetic. He was always reaching for the next level. It never stopped for him. I remember seeing him on a festival video where he literally knocked his glasses off and cut his nose doing it and he just kept on driving it home.
His huge smile and welcoming laugh will be profoundly missed.
R.I.P. Dom Famularo.
If you took a look at the Influences page here, you'll see his name. I was a fan for many years. Technique to spare, incredible personality in his playing, as well as his humanity, made him an icon for young and old. He departs this life way too early and will be missed greatly by those who loved him.
He hosted drum clinics and festivals around the globe; played and recorded with great names in Jazz and Big Band; was an author, a podcaster, a motivational speaker and a man that exuded tremendous positivity wherever he went, through whatever he did. He was truly one-of-a-kind in the world of drum set artistry. He leaves behind a deep hole. No one could take his place in promoting the art of drumming like he did.
His playing was incredibly dynamic and energetic. He was always reaching for the next level. It never stopped for him. I remember seeing him on a festival video where he literally knocked his glasses off and cut his nose doing it and he just kept on driving it home.
His huge smile and welcoming laugh will be profoundly missed.
R.I.P. Dom Famularo.
drummerworld.com
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848. Babylon Sinks Further Down -
9/30/'23
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/halloween-display-showing-jesus-decapitated-sparks-protests-new/
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/naked-attraction-nude-dating-show-max-1235597729/
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9338713/Kids-TV-featuring-nude-adults-answering-questions-human-body-sparks-fury-Holland.html
www.wnd.com/2023/09/isnt-1984-2023-christian-arrested-silent-prayer-learns-fate/
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/22/zelensky-asks-marina-abramovic-ambassador-ukraine/
Just reading the five links will give you an idea of the stories. Prophetic, spiritual Babylon is a main character in Bible prophecy. Babylon is portrayed as a woman, as well as a trio of forces. The Whore of Babylon who fornicates with 'the kings of the Earth;' she is 'the Mother of Harlots and the abominations of the Earth;' and the third character in the trio are the daughters of the Whore.
The book of Revelation is stated to reveal Jesus Christ: the revelation of Jesus Christ. He reveals things about Himself, history of His church, and the circumstances surrounding last-day events and His final group of adherents and warriors in His body/His church. He is the Head of the church. No other can be. That should seem obvious but, centuries ago, millennia, another "Head of the Church" was developed: "Papa;" the heads of the Roman Church, which ultimately gained control of Western civilization. The Roman Pontiffs, sitting in the chair of Peter (the apostle), the "seat" of central power in this colossal organization, the "Holy See;" the Roman Catholic Church, the Papacy, the Vatican. That system, that organization, that apostasy from truth is the great Mother Whore.
Well before the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, Christians who followed the Bible, hand-written and treasured by peoples in the European mountains and forests, knew the Roman Church was Babylon, the Beast, the power of "anti-Christ," from the Greek - antechristos - which means "in place of Christ." The RCC, the Papacy, the Vatican put itself in place of Christ: stated so in her doctrines, in her polity, throughout her system. Believers knew it, separated from her, and lived in wilderness areas to protect themselves from her treachery.
When the 16th century came along and the Protestant Reformation burst in Europe, all these things became honed down to printed works and spread like dandelion seeds everywhere. Entire nations saw war between Catholics and Protestants, as they left the ranks of the Papacy. Various churches developed, following the teachings of various Reformers. When on fire, they were a spearhead of history to propel the people of God back to the pinnacles of truth but, over proceeding centuries, zeal waned, things watered down, new sects arose to carry on simple biblical truth and leave man-made doctrines and traditions behind. The daughters of the Mother Whore became those churches who persisted in keeping hold of Roman Catholic traditions and doctrines opposed to the full testimony of the Scriptures and a Thus Saith the LORD.
You will logically ask, what does all that have to do with the above links of things opposed, even to the teachings of the RCC? It's quite simple.
The reason those headlines exist is because of the complete weakness of the Whore and her daughters to influence and hold society together and advance a culture of righteousness. Many professed Christian churches have nothing to say against some or all of those headlines and the stories behind them, with the probable exception of the first. But, you must ask yourself, Why would western civilization give rise to these types of things? From the 1980's and 90's; with things like sculptures of Christ on a cross with breasts to a crucifix in a glass of urine, artists have taken shots at Romanism's and Protestantism's place in society with a hatred that is seemingly unmatched in former times in modern civilization. It stems from, not just an ignorant hatred of God but, hypocrisy found in those bodies. The world watches Christianity weaken because of its own lack of resolve to hold the lines. Romanism's constant leaning on traditions paved the way for superstitions, persecution of dissenters, "holy wars" and debauchery in its own ranks for centuries. Today, the current pope wanders from Catholic doctrine I was raised with. My father and father left the RCC when Vatican 2 began to water down Catholic teachings. They stayed traditional Catholics. I became an atheist.
Secular culture - the kings of the Earth - invaded Europe and America and almost all of professed Christianity has been weakened by it. Churches supporting L-Q+ culture, holding drag shows in their sanctuaries and church confines, supporting abortion, supporting wars, supporting corrupt politicians...BECOMING corrupt politicians... it's a never ending trail of corruption in the professed Christian church. IT IS BABYLON.
Separated from it all exists a "remnant," which keeps the commandments of God and has the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, Rev 12:17 & 14:12. It is a constant spiritual war between forces of light and forces of darkness. The remnant shall rise in exposure and the final war will take place.
Professed Christians in New Orleans and elsewhere protest a scene of gruesome "art" - a headless Christ on a cross - while accepting things Christ abhors and God condemns as abominations.
Ask yourself if you ever, in your lifetime, expected to see television programs with full frontal nudity made for children. I honestly admit, even being a Christian for 44 years now, knowing what I know and believe about last day events, never expected to see such a thing in Western civilization but, you see, the depths at which Sodom and Gomorrah dropped, in ancient times, is why Christ used those cities to address what things will be like before He returns. The entire culture, including children, is going to become an abomination. The spiritual warfare between light and darkness, CONFUSED light and darkness will remain until the end. Babylon, Bab-el is confusion of the Lord. Spiritual confusion. It exists everywhere now. Global confusion. God confused the languages during the Tower building project, and scattered the people which became the nations and cultures of our world, Gen. 11:1-9.
While a woman can be arrested for silently praying beside an abortion clinic should shock a nation, all nations, it did not. She was freed. Courts found her "innocent" of breaking laws protecting the abortion industry and L-Q+ movement. She still got arrested for silently praying. I would like to suggest the world cannot stand to see people praying and the time will come when some countries will outlaw public prayer of any kind, even if standing outside a church building. The world does not want its collective conscience pricked by the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin. The world is committing the unpardonable sin: the pushing away of the Holy Spirit and His work upon the conscience. That includes a huge chunk of professed Christianity.
Lastly, Ukraine's corrupt leader, Zelenskyy, chooses a well-known pagan witch to be his ambassador. That's all anyone needs to know about him, his regime, and why he is involved in a war: because of his own corruption and evil machinations towards his own citizens. The world's corrupt, corporate-controlled news media will not tell the truth about the reasons for this war. They just harp on Putin. Putin himself sees the corruption of the West from its Christian foundations and moorings and chides the West and leaves it behind as he works with other nations to fortify an economy freed from the corruption that has become Washington, D.C. and the rest of the nations caught in abominations of the apostate culture.
Again, Isaiah - Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people. Darkness is growing exponentially, as fast as knowledge is growing. The faster knowledge and science grows, the faster godlessness grows as science becomes god. More and more scientists are having to take stands which side of the culture they will support. They cannot hide much longer if they are believers trying to stay in shadows. All of God's true people will stand in His light and be a hated group destined for persecution and final rescue by Christ in the greatest event in human history.
We have seen an elite group of deranged control freaks launch a world wide pandemic and come right out and tell us another will come. They will not stop their march to domination until they are stopped by collective forces stronger than them. If that does not take place, the globe is in for a literal, dystopian Hunger Games, et al future. But, Scripture throws up some roadblocks -
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Rev 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Right now the majority of professed Christians - influenced by Roman Catholic theology and Jesuit doctrines and theories designed to stop the Reformation from pointing the RCC out as the Beast of Rev. 13 - are expecting a man, be he a Jew or Arab or some globalist atheist, to become the antichrist. They have been made ignorant by Jesuit machinations fostered by their apostate leaders. The Papacy has yet to pull off its final dog and pony show, guided by the "dragon," Satan, to deceive the whole world with a miracle-working revival, a false revival that shall join Romanism with Protestantism with the nations of the Earth together in a movement that shall proclaim peace and safety -
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
2Thes. 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.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
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.
Expect an enormous rise of the Christian faith in all areas of life, not just religion. Expect a false, miracle-working revival that uplifts the Papacy as a heroic influence upon the world. Expect a world caught in disasters and upheaval to shout peace and safety [security] and then sudden destruction shall come and if you are in the crowd shouting peace and safety, you are lost. If you are in that group keeping the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ guiding and fortifying your mind and heart, you'll go through hell before heaven but, by God's grace and sanctifying power, you'll make it through the final tribulation.
It's coming. Get ready, get ready, get ready! I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/naked-attraction-nude-dating-show-max-1235597729/
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9338713/Kids-TV-featuring-nude-adults-answering-questions-human-body-sparks-fury-Holland.html
www.wnd.com/2023/09/isnt-1984-2023-christian-arrested-silent-prayer-learns-fate/
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/22/zelensky-asks-marina-abramovic-ambassador-ukraine/
Just reading the five links will give you an idea of the stories. Prophetic, spiritual Babylon is a main character in Bible prophecy. Babylon is portrayed as a woman, as well as a trio of forces. The Whore of Babylon who fornicates with 'the kings of the Earth;' she is 'the Mother of Harlots and the abominations of the Earth;' and the third character in the trio are the daughters of the Whore.
The book of Revelation is stated to reveal Jesus Christ: the revelation of Jesus Christ. He reveals things about Himself, history of His church, and the circumstances surrounding last-day events and His final group of adherents and warriors in His body/His church. He is the Head of the church. No other can be. That should seem obvious but, centuries ago, millennia, another "Head of the Church" was developed: "Papa;" the heads of the Roman Church, which ultimately gained control of Western civilization. The Roman Pontiffs, sitting in the chair of Peter (the apostle), the "seat" of central power in this colossal organization, the "Holy See;" the Roman Catholic Church, the Papacy, the Vatican. That system, that organization, that apostasy from truth is the great Mother Whore.
Well before the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, Christians who followed the Bible, hand-written and treasured by peoples in the European mountains and forests, knew the Roman Church was Babylon, the Beast, the power of "anti-Christ," from the Greek - antechristos - which means "in place of Christ." The RCC, the Papacy, the Vatican put itself in place of Christ: stated so in her doctrines, in her polity, throughout her system. Believers knew it, separated from her, and lived in wilderness areas to protect themselves from her treachery.
When the 16th century came along and the Protestant Reformation burst in Europe, all these things became honed down to printed works and spread like dandelion seeds everywhere. Entire nations saw war between Catholics and Protestants, as they left the ranks of the Papacy. Various churches developed, following the teachings of various Reformers. When on fire, they were a spearhead of history to propel the people of God back to the pinnacles of truth but, over proceeding centuries, zeal waned, things watered down, new sects arose to carry on simple biblical truth and leave man-made doctrines and traditions behind. The daughters of the Mother Whore became those churches who persisted in keeping hold of Roman Catholic traditions and doctrines opposed to the full testimony of the Scriptures and a Thus Saith the LORD.
You will logically ask, what does all that have to do with the above links of things opposed, even to the teachings of the RCC? It's quite simple.
The reason those headlines exist is because of the complete weakness of the Whore and her daughters to influence and hold society together and advance a culture of righteousness. Many professed Christian churches have nothing to say against some or all of those headlines and the stories behind them, with the probable exception of the first. But, you must ask yourself, Why would western civilization give rise to these types of things? From the 1980's and 90's; with things like sculptures of Christ on a cross with breasts to a crucifix in a glass of urine, artists have taken shots at Romanism's and Protestantism's place in society with a hatred that is seemingly unmatched in former times in modern civilization. It stems from, not just an ignorant hatred of God but, hypocrisy found in those bodies. The world watches Christianity weaken because of its own lack of resolve to hold the lines. Romanism's constant leaning on traditions paved the way for superstitions, persecution of dissenters, "holy wars" and debauchery in its own ranks for centuries. Today, the current pope wanders from Catholic doctrine I was raised with. My father and father left the RCC when Vatican 2 began to water down Catholic teachings. They stayed traditional Catholics. I became an atheist.
Secular culture - the kings of the Earth - invaded Europe and America and almost all of professed Christianity has been weakened by it. Churches supporting L-Q+ culture, holding drag shows in their sanctuaries and church confines, supporting abortion, supporting wars, supporting corrupt politicians...BECOMING corrupt politicians... it's a never ending trail of corruption in the professed Christian church. IT IS BABYLON.
Separated from it all exists a "remnant," which keeps the commandments of God and has the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, Rev 12:17 & 14:12. It is a constant spiritual war between forces of light and forces of darkness. The remnant shall rise in exposure and the final war will take place.
Professed Christians in New Orleans and elsewhere protest a scene of gruesome "art" - a headless Christ on a cross - while accepting things Christ abhors and God condemns as abominations.
Ask yourself if you ever, in your lifetime, expected to see television programs with full frontal nudity made for children. I honestly admit, even being a Christian for 44 years now, knowing what I know and believe about last day events, never expected to see such a thing in Western civilization but, you see, the depths at which Sodom and Gomorrah dropped, in ancient times, is why Christ used those cities to address what things will be like before He returns. The entire culture, including children, is going to become an abomination. The spiritual warfare between light and darkness, CONFUSED light and darkness will remain until the end. Babylon, Bab-el is confusion of the Lord. Spiritual confusion. It exists everywhere now. Global confusion. God confused the languages during the Tower building project, and scattered the people which became the nations and cultures of our world, Gen. 11:1-9.
While a woman can be arrested for silently praying beside an abortion clinic should shock a nation, all nations, it did not. She was freed. Courts found her "innocent" of breaking laws protecting the abortion industry and L-Q+ movement. She still got arrested for silently praying. I would like to suggest the world cannot stand to see people praying and the time will come when some countries will outlaw public prayer of any kind, even if standing outside a church building. The world does not want its collective conscience pricked by the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin. The world is committing the unpardonable sin: the pushing away of the Holy Spirit and His work upon the conscience. That includes a huge chunk of professed Christianity.
Lastly, Ukraine's corrupt leader, Zelenskyy, chooses a well-known pagan witch to be his ambassador. That's all anyone needs to know about him, his regime, and why he is involved in a war: because of his own corruption and evil machinations towards his own citizens. The world's corrupt, corporate-controlled news media will not tell the truth about the reasons for this war. They just harp on Putin. Putin himself sees the corruption of the West from its Christian foundations and moorings and chides the West and leaves it behind as he works with other nations to fortify an economy freed from the corruption that has become Washington, D.C. and the rest of the nations caught in abominations of the apostate culture.
Again, Isaiah - Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people. Darkness is growing exponentially, as fast as knowledge is growing. The faster knowledge and science grows, the faster godlessness grows as science becomes god. More and more scientists are having to take stands which side of the culture they will support. They cannot hide much longer if they are believers trying to stay in shadows. All of God's true people will stand in His light and be a hated group destined for persecution and final rescue by Christ in the greatest event in human history.
We have seen an elite group of deranged control freaks launch a world wide pandemic and come right out and tell us another will come. They will not stop their march to domination until they are stopped by collective forces stronger than them. If that does not take place, the globe is in for a literal, dystopian Hunger Games, et al future. But, Scripture throws up some roadblocks -
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Rev 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Right now the majority of professed Christians - influenced by Roman Catholic theology and Jesuit doctrines and theories designed to stop the Reformation from pointing the RCC out as the Beast of Rev. 13 - are expecting a man, be he a Jew or Arab or some globalist atheist, to become the antichrist. They have been made ignorant by Jesuit machinations fostered by their apostate leaders. The Papacy has yet to pull off its final dog and pony show, guided by the "dragon," Satan, to deceive the whole world with a miracle-working revival, a false revival that shall join Romanism with Protestantism with the nations of the Earth together in a movement that shall proclaim peace and safety -
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
2Thes. 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.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
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.
Expect an enormous rise of the Christian faith in all areas of life, not just religion. Expect a false, miracle-working revival that uplifts the Papacy as a heroic influence upon the world. Expect a world caught in disasters and upheaval to shout peace and safety [security] and then sudden destruction shall come and if you are in the crowd shouting peace and safety, you are lost. If you are in that group keeping the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ guiding and fortifying your mind and heart, you'll go through hell before heaven but, by God's grace and sanctifying power, you'll make it through the final tribulation.
It's coming. Get ready, get ready, get ready! I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Strange Happenings
Drought, fires, floods, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes/cyclones, earthquakes in different places, plus crime waves, international upheaval... the natural and man-made order of things is seemingly going crazy, or at least weird. Add to that the advancing phenomenon of UFOs, etc. We all see it happening. Believers in Bible prophecy, even though serious disagreements exist as to how things play out, see things ramping up.
Let me add a couple things. We have seen the strange happenings of animals walking in circles, flocks of birds falling out of the sky, an increase in oceanic life dying, forests being killed by pests, creatures disfigured at birth. Call it all spooky or call it all man-made pollution problems, call it all "climate change" or call it all acts of God, literally. It's happening.
In some places, night creatures, crickets and other insects are sounding in daylight hours. In my yard, I am hearing birds chirping at 1 and 2 a.m. The only reason I know that is because my sleep cycles have been messed up for a couple years now. I'm awake through the night.
What is going on? Some say the Earth's electromagnetic field is changing and it's affecting wildlife. Some scientists say the planet is in line for a pole shift. Beats me.
I know God is in control. I know He is going to let things happen to try and wake people up. I know He will cause things to happen to try and wake humanity from its slumber. I know the prince of the power of the air, the ruler and god of this world will be given more and more opportunity and leeway to take control.
Everything is going to go out of whack, everything but, one thing. The Word of God. It has withstood thousands of years of attack, even from professed believers down through time and today. It has stood while detractors have fallen into the dust of the Earth and shadows of time. The Bible will continue to stand, right to the sound of the trumpet and voice of Christ saying, "It is finished." Then the world cracks from the approach of the King of kings and the most massive army every assembled: the angelic host blowing trumpets that shall wake the dead and shake the planet. Ever see anyone resurrected from death and the grave? Ever see anyone fly? It's coming -
1Thes 4:13 But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
1Th 4:15 For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
You say, 'Oh, please. Fairytale. Scientifically impossible.'
Good luck with that.
I certainly hope I am alive to see and experience it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Let me add a couple things. We have seen the strange happenings of animals walking in circles, flocks of birds falling out of the sky, an increase in oceanic life dying, forests being killed by pests, creatures disfigured at birth. Call it all spooky or call it all man-made pollution problems, call it all "climate change" or call it all acts of God, literally. It's happening.
In some places, night creatures, crickets and other insects are sounding in daylight hours. In my yard, I am hearing birds chirping at 1 and 2 a.m. The only reason I know that is because my sleep cycles have been messed up for a couple years now. I'm awake through the night.
What is going on? Some say the Earth's electromagnetic field is changing and it's affecting wildlife. Some scientists say the planet is in line for a pole shift. Beats me.
I know God is in control. I know He is going to let things happen to try and wake people up. I know He will cause things to happen to try and wake humanity from its slumber. I know the prince of the power of the air, the ruler and god of this world will be given more and more opportunity and leeway to take control.
Everything is going to go out of whack, everything but, one thing. The Word of God. It has withstood thousands of years of attack, even from professed believers down through time and today. It has stood while detractors have fallen into the dust of the Earth and shadows of time. The Bible will continue to stand, right to the sound of the trumpet and voice of Christ saying, "It is finished." Then the world cracks from the approach of the King of kings and the most massive army every assembled: the angelic host blowing trumpets that shall wake the dead and shake the planet. Ever see anyone resurrected from death and the grave? Ever see anyone fly? It's coming -
1Thes 4:13 But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
1Th 4:15 For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
You say, 'Oh, please. Fairytale. Scientifically impossible.'
Good luck with that.
I certainly hope I am alive to see and experience it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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849. Dreams and Hopes - September 30, 2023
"What about the dreams that leave you crying when you aren't asleep?" Cherryholmes, Don't Believe
Every once in awhile I hear a line in a song or other media that strikes me, personally. Being a lyricist, one might think my favorite music would be that with lyrics but, for the most part my favorite music is instrumental. There are Christian groups that have thrilled me with songs and lyrics about Christ's second coming in glory. I tend to be moved more by those than other subjects. I suppose because the second coming of Christ is what captured my mind to pay attention to the Bible almost 45 years ago.
Like most of us, I have had my dreams for this life. I have had my hopes. Not a single one has come to pass. Being a "prisoner of hope" I continue to march along, day by day, moment by moment, needing Christ and grace and sanctification of body, soul and spirit more than ever. Marching for 45 years I feel farther away from the destination than ever, as well.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.
Hope is a word defined as anticipation, expectation, confidence in something to come. Why do we have hopes and dreams of things more than likely never to come to fruition and reality? Is God against us in having these hopes come to pass? That depends on the hope and also our daily walk with Christ and following where He leads.
Rom 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Rom 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
And there it is. When our lives center on us, our hopes are about us. Our dreams are about us. But that is not the Christian faith. Christ did not please Himself. He lived to please His Father in Heaven. Do our hopes and dreams reflect our constant desire to please the Father and His Son, our Saviour? May I be so bold as to say, Normally, No. Our hopes and dreams are about us and our happiness based on what we believe will make us the most happy and satisfied with life. Yes, the entire cycle of salvation is a difficult lesson to learn and abide by.
Rom 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Abound in hope. So, what is the foundation of this hope we are to abound in? Believing. Believing in the truths of God and His salvation and ultimately, in everlasting life. But that's tough, isn't it? Hundreds of millions, perhaps a couple billion people since Christ was here, and many more who waited for the Messiah to come, lived life hoping Christ would come the first time or the second and they never experienced either event. That gap in reality leaves humans to desire things far more practical in the affairs of life; things that seem more reasonably attainable and yet, for most of us with "big" dreams and hopes, they'll never be realized yet, we hope anyway.
1Cor 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?
1Cor 9:10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
1Cor 9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Paul speaks of support from believers to those in ministry, like himself but, the principle applies for the practical application Paul writes down. None of us understand life in seeds. We know it exists. No man can make a seed. No group of men in any laboratory on Earth can make a seed. The amount of information in a seed would fill a library. We just hope and believe if we plow and break up solid ground, plant seeds, water, weed, mulch and watch for pest control will reap a harvest. Few of us plant for survival. Most of us shop in stores. Farmers plant for survival. They hope for good harvests. They need rain but, not too much. They need sun but, not blistering temperatures. They need fertile soil but, not too sandy or too much clay. In ancient times a lot rested upon oxen or other beasts of burden. Their health was paramount. Today, it's all heavy equipment. Massive machines that need to run efficiently. A lot goes into farming. At the end of the day, in fact, it is out of our hands and in God's. His life in His seeds, His information planted in tiny packages in the ground that will only grow if the conditions are right and will only produce fruit of the Earth if conditions remain right. Farmers function with a lot of hope. We hardly think about it, when it comes to food. We may garden. I used to and enjoyed it. I haven't found Texas conducive to that enjoyment. People that do, hope a lot.
As I look through my word search in order of appearance, I come upon this verse -
1Cor 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Man, that is more true a statement than almost any other in the Bible. If there were no everlasting, eternal life; if believers went through what they go through following Christ wherever He leads, many, hundreds of millions, suffering persecution and death for their faith and no everlasting life was there, indeed we would be, of all mankind, most miserable. Some would say following Christ would still be worth it. The jury of my mind is still out on that point. None of us can know how life would have gone, day to day, if we did not accept God's offer of salvation. Some would say they would have died as drug addicts, alcoholics or criminals. The trend of a life may seem destined for one end but, we really cannot know what the next day will bring. Of course, Paul's suggestion is not the truth in a reality. This life is not all there is so, we have hope for the next life God is waiting to bestow on His children. Christians could be seen as masochists if they lived a life headed for trouble with fallen man, harassment, oppression, persecution, maybe even death and that was it. The entire base and principle of love would be lost and for certain, survival would be the only thing that mattered from bacteria to bags of bones called humans.
We dream and hope precisely because life is hard.
Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Righteousness by faith. Grace, through faith, unto good works. Righteousness: right thinking, right speaking, right doing, right living; all by faith: Christ's faith in us. People say I have my faith, you have your faith but, no. That is actually incorrect, as far as God's salvation goes. The Bible says this -
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
It's the faith of Jesus, the belief of Jesus in His Father's control of our lives that we need and should want. My faith will fail. My trust in God will fail. That's why the Bible says -
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
The pattern, the model, the stature of the fulness of Christ is the character goal. Christ in us, the hope of glory is the path to perfection of character in Christ.
I saw a title of a video on YouTube last night - You Cannot be perfect - something to that effect. That is a lie. I didn't need to hear it or watch it. Dozens of verses address the topic of character refinement in Christ, through Christ. Perfection of character is the entire goal of God through salvation. A final generation of believers who live through the final events to the coming of Christ will attain complete, full, final, ended, perfection of character in Christ or they will not stand, simply because right now, Christ is High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary, ministering for us, to sanctify His people. I have no idea how many down through time became Christlike in thought, word and deed, victorious over the sins that so easily beset them. What I do know is that perfection of character in Christ must be attained by the final remnant because, when Christ says, 'It is finished' and takes off His priestly robes and leaves the sanctuary and puts on the robes of a conquering King and prepares to rescue His people, the seven last plagues shall begin. Human probation closes. That's it. All cases decided. Those who go through the final stages of the battle must have Christ's faith complete in them to make it through and stand before the King in all His glory or they will get blown away with the rest of lost humanity. That's a reality. The glory of Christ shall destroy this planet. Only those readied for that event will make it through that event.
People that say, 'You can have victory over some sins but, not all sins,' are not just shortchanging God's hope, His grace and power to overcome but, just plain lying or speaking in ignorance of the truth. We are saved by hope. We do not see Heaven in reality. We see it by faith. I may not see complete sanctification of my fallen life but, by faith, Christ's faith, I believe God can do it. Christ can do it in me, not just as a gift but, as a necessity if I am to live through the final events to His glorious return.
His return will seem like basking in the warm sun on a Spring day for the righteous. To the world, to the lost, it will be like a billion megawatt heat lamps. Everything goes up in flames and cracks, and crushes, and falls, collapses, drops to the ground, into the ground. Mountains melt, swallowed up in the final, great earthquake. If His people did not reflect His stature and fullness of character, they would go up in flame with everything else. It is all the supernatural power of Christ in His people. It was the supernatural power of God that kept the Hebrew firstborn alive in the final plague in Egypt. It will be the supernatural power of God that shall keep the righteous alive through the final events and the seven last plagues. The very kingdom of God depends on it or Lucifer's lies about God's character and government become true. If we want a character that is the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ we may have it, by Christ's faith working in us - the hope of glory.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a special people, zealous of good works.
Tit 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.
The Blessed Hope. I confess, it keeps me going. All other hopes and dreams have not come to pass. I know that one cannot fail.
Whatever hopes and dreams you may have, only one really counts and encapsulates and engulfs all others. I mean sure, I hope the new album does well. I hope I can weave my way through divorce and life alone, in less than ideal circumstances. I hope I can get myself into better shape and health. I hope my van can hang on with 350,000 miles on it. I could hope I trip over a bag of gold coins but, reality? Not happening.
Hope in Christ: for us, over us us, under us, behind us, in front of us, hoping for His life in us, taking us into eternity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Every once in awhile I hear a line in a song or other media that strikes me, personally. Being a lyricist, one might think my favorite music would be that with lyrics but, for the most part my favorite music is instrumental. There are Christian groups that have thrilled me with songs and lyrics about Christ's second coming in glory. I tend to be moved more by those than other subjects. I suppose because the second coming of Christ is what captured my mind to pay attention to the Bible almost 45 years ago.
Like most of us, I have had my dreams for this life. I have had my hopes. Not a single one has come to pass. Being a "prisoner of hope" I continue to march along, day by day, moment by moment, needing Christ and grace and sanctification of body, soul and spirit more than ever. Marching for 45 years I feel farther away from the destination than ever, as well.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.
Hope is a word defined as anticipation, expectation, confidence in something to come. Why do we have hopes and dreams of things more than likely never to come to fruition and reality? Is God against us in having these hopes come to pass? That depends on the hope and also our daily walk with Christ and following where He leads.
Rom 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Rom 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
And there it is. When our lives center on us, our hopes are about us. Our dreams are about us. But that is not the Christian faith. Christ did not please Himself. He lived to please His Father in Heaven. Do our hopes and dreams reflect our constant desire to please the Father and His Son, our Saviour? May I be so bold as to say, Normally, No. Our hopes and dreams are about us and our happiness based on what we believe will make us the most happy and satisfied with life. Yes, the entire cycle of salvation is a difficult lesson to learn and abide by.
Rom 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Abound in hope. So, what is the foundation of this hope we are to abound in? Believing. Believing in the truths of God and His salvation and ultimately, in everlasting life. But that's tough, isn't it? Hundreds of millions, perhaps a couple billion people since Christ was here, and many more who waited for the Messiah to come, lived life hoping Christ would come the first time or the second and they never experienced either event. That gap in reality leaves humans to desire things far more practical in the affairs of life; things that seem more reasonably attainable and yet, for most of us with "big" dreams and hopes, they'll never be realized yet, we hope anyway.
1Cor 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?
1Cor 9:10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
1Cor 9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Paul speaks of support from believers to those in ministry, like himself but, the principle applies for the practical application Paul writes down. None of us understand life in seeds. We know it exists. No man can make a seed. No group of men in any laboratory on Earth can make a seed. The amount of information in a seed would fill a library. We just hope and believe if we plow and break up solid ground, plant seeds, water, weed, mulch and watch for pest control will reap a harvest. Few of us plant for survival. Most of us shop in stores. Farmers plant for survival. They hope for good harvests. They need rain but, not too much. They need sun but, not blistering temperatures. They need fertile soil but, not too sandy or too much clay. In ancient times a lot rested upon oxen or other beasts of burden. Their health was paramount. Today, it's all heavy equipment. Massive machines that need to run efficiently. A lot goes into farming. At the end of the day, in fact, it is out of our hands and in God's. His life in His seeds, His information planted in tiny packages in the ground that will only grow if the conditions are right and will only produce fruit of the Earth if conditions remain right. Farmers function with a lot of hope. We hardly think about it, when it comes to food. We may garden. I used to and enjoyed it. I haven't found Texas conducive to that enjoyment. People that do, hope a lot.
As I look through my word search in order of appearance, I come upon this verse -
1Cor 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Man, that is more true a statement than almost any other in the Bible. If there were no everlasting, eternal life; if believers went through what they go through following Christ wherever He leads, many, hundreds of millions, suffering persecution and death for their faith and no everlasting life was there, indeed we would be, of all mankind, most miserable. Some would say following Christ would still be worth it. The jury of my mind is still out on that point. None of us can know how life would have gone, day to day, if we did not accept God's offer of salvation. Some would say they would have died as drug addicts, alcoholics or criminals. The trend of a life may seem destined for one end but, we really cannot know what the next day will bring. Of course, Paul's suggestion is not the truth in a reality. This life is not all there is so, we have hope for the next life God is waiting to bestow on His children. Christians could be seen as masochists if they lived a life headed for trouble with fallen man, harassment, oppression, persecution, maybe even death and that was it. The entire base and principle of love would be lost and for certain, survival would be the only thing that mattered from bacteria to bags of bones called humans.
We dream and hope precisely because life is hard.
Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Righteousness by faith. Grace, through faith, unto good works. Righteousness: right thinking, right speaking, right doing, right living; all by faith: Christ's faith in us. People say I have my faith, you have your faith but, no. That is actually incorrect, as far as God's salvation goes. The Bible says this -
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
It's the faith of Jesus, the belief of Jesus in His Father's control of our lives that we need and should want. My faith will fail. My trust in God will fail. That's why the Bible says -
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
The pattern, the model, the stature of the fulness of Christ is the character goal. Christ in us, the hope of glory is the path to perfection of character in Christ.
I saw a title of a video on YouTube last night - You Cannot be perfect - something to that effect. That is a lie. I didn't need to hear it or watch it. Dozens of verses address the topic of character refinement in Christ, through Christ. Perfection of character is the entire goal of God through salvation. A final generation of believers who live through the final events to the coming of Christ will attain complete, full, final, ended, perfection of character in Christ or they will not stand, simply because right now, Christ is High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary, ministering for us, to sanctify His people. I have no idea how many down through time became Christlike in thought, word and deed, victorious over the sins that so easily beset them. What I do know is that perfection of character in Christ must be attained by the final remnant because, when Christ says, 'It is finished' and takes off His priestly robes and leaves the sanctuary and puts on the robes of a conquering King and prepares to rescue His people, the seven last plagues shall begin. Human probation closes. That's it. All cases decided. Those who go through the final stages of the battle must have Christ's faith complete in them to make it through and stand before the King in all His glory or they will get blown away with the rest of lost humanity. That's a reality. The glory of Christ shall destroy this planet. Only those readied for that event will make it through that event.
People that say, 'You can have victory over some sins but, not all sins,' are not just shortchanging God's hope, His grace and power to overcome but, just plain lying or speaking in ignorance of the truth. We are saved by hope. We do not see Heaven in reality. We see it by faith. I may not see complete sanctification of my fallen life but, by faith, Christ's faith, I believe God can do it. Christ can do it in me, not just as a gift but, as a necessity if I am to live through the final events to His glorious return.
His return will seem like basking in the warm sun on a Spring day for the righteous. To the world, to the lost, it will be like a billion megawatt heat lamps. Everything goes up in flames and cracks, and crushes, and falls, collapses, drops to the ground, into the ground. Mountains melt, swallowed up in the final, great earthquake. If His people did not reflect His stature and fullness of character, they would go up in flame with everything else. It is all the supernatural power of Christ in His people. It was the supernatural power of God that kept the Hebrew firstborn alive in the final plague in Egypt. It will be the supernatural power of God that shall keep the righteous alive through the final events and the seven last plagues. The very kingdom of God depends on it or Lucifer's lies about God's character and government become true. If we want a character that is the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ we may have it, by Christ's faith working in us - the hope of glory.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a special people, zealous of good works.
Tit 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.
The Blessed Hope. I confess, it keeps me going. All other hopes and dreams have not come to pass. I know that one cannot fail.
Whatever hopes and dreams you may have, only one really counts and encapsulates and engulfs all others. I mean sure, I hope the new album does well. I hope I can weave my way through divorce and life alone, in less than ideal circumstances. I hope I can get myself into better shape and health. I hope my van can hang on with 350,000 miles on it. I could hope I trip over a bag of gold coins but, reality? Not happening.
Hope in Christ: for us, over us us, under us, behind us, in front of us, hoping for His life in us, taking us into eternity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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850. Thankful for the Kat and a Bear - 10/7/23
George Barna, well-known Christian poll-taker/surveyor/researcher/societal commentator came out with a new report that the numbers of Christians parents of preteens, with a Christian/Biblical worldview has dwindled, yet again -
www.faithwire.com/2023/10/06/christian-worldview-crisis-dr-george-barna-reveals-disturbing-reality-behind-shocking-faith-stats/
That said, for the Kat and a Bear things are looking as the apostle Paul wrote - 'old things have passed away, all things become new.'
Kat Von Drachenberg, famous tattoo artist and former occultist, was baptized in a packed church with friends looking as happy for her as they could possibly be. I think I recognized one or two.
The Kat became a Christian? One year after renouncing witchcraft her journey led her into a very beautiful baptismal tank (must be a very talented artist in that congregation), to surrender her life into her Heavenly Father's care and leading; dying to self and rising from the watery grave showing new life and new commitment's to a higher calling.
www.instagram.com/p/Cx8NGK2sp8E/
www.christianpost.com/news/kat-von-d-gets-baptized-1-year-after-renouncing-witchcraft.html
She was raised in a Seventh-day Adventist home by missionary parents. I would not characterize the denomination as she did in the article, having been a member of it for 12 years and knowing it's doctrines well. If her parents are still living they are rejoicing, I'm sure, and remembering the promise -
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Many a parent has leaned on that one.
Bear Grylls, television's world adventurer and outrageous survivalist, was baptized in Israel's famous Jordan river, to fulfill a dream for him. I've only seen his program a couple times; both times getting some famous person to do things that would give a mother a coronary, let alone pounding their own hearts out of their chests.
www.christiantoday.com/article/bear.grylls.fulfils.dream.of.being.baptised.in.jordan.river/140840.htm
Another story this week addresses all the baptisms taking place at revivals around the nation. Is it a true revival? Time will tell. You see, "Christianity's" most well-known "leader," Pope Francis, is yet again, challenging the traditional teachings of his church.
"VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda."
www.npr.org/2023/10/03/1203170334/pope-suggests-blessings-for-same-sex-unions-may-be-possible
There's a passage in the Bible, from the prophet Isaiah, that plays into things happening in this world; the professed believing world -
Isa 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isa 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isa 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isa 24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isa 24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Isa 24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
Isa 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
Isa 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isa 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isa 24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isa 24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isa 24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Isa 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Things will get so bad in the world, the moon will seem confused; the Sun ashamed of itself. Imagine, the brightest thing we can see for lightyears around us, ashamed of its light. I write a lot about confusion: spiritual, prophetic Babylon. The Bible speaks of a shaking. Olive trees were shaken when the berries became ripe. God's people are pictured as shaken and only some berries left on the tree. Most shaken off, in this case, ripe for destruction. Jesus told His disciples to shake the dust off their feet when people rejected the Gospel; the truth. These were people with centuries of believing they were God's chosen people because He gave them the truth but, constantly they wandered from it. Consistently, century after century they apostatized. The shaking is symbolized by Paul in this passage -
Act 18:5 And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
Act 18:6 And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.
The Jews should have received their Messiah. They crucified Him. The persecuted the early Christians; Paul being a major actor in that fact. He was converted and in his joy of salvation he longed for his brethren to receive the good news but, year after year they rejected it and finally, Paul shook his robe and told them, 'Your blood be on your heads. I'm going to bring the good news to the Gentiles.' He did and before he died he said the known world had heard the Gospel, Col. 1:23. That will always bring shaking -
Hag 2:7 And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.
The Jews had revivals, too. Centuries of them yet, they killed the Messiah. How can that be? Confusion. Spiritual confusion telling you, you are right when you are so wrong. How can anyone know? A full study of the Word, not just a cursory reading of it. The Book is meant to be studied. It is meant to mine, digging out precious gems of truth. Most get excited. Is that not what Jesus taught?
Mat 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
Mat 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Mat 13:3 And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mat 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mat 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Mat 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mat 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Mat 13:19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
Mat 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and anon with joy receives it;
Mat 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Mat 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
According to the parable, three fourths of people exposed to the good news do not stay with it. Some do not immediately understand the truth and Satan comes and takes its influence away as quickly as possible. Others have hard hearts, hardened minds; though they receive the truth with joy at first, the hard ground of their hearts and minds cannot allow the seed to sprout and develop roots. When problems arise because of the Word, friends, family, co-workers assail them, they are not strong enough to withstand the pressure and wither away. Others start their journey but, the thorns of problems of the world, or chasing after riches becomes more important, entangles them, chokes the Word in their minds and they cannot bear fruit: the young plant dies.
True revival is not about a beginning; all the excitement. It's about the journey and who stays with it. Who truly wants to be like Christ in thought, word and deed. Who walks the walk? It's a hard lesson to learn. Most are not prepared for the war. They are not made well-enough aware that they shall be in the fight of their life, the rest of their life. The closer they get to the sanctifying truth of Christ, the closer they get to Him, the more Satan bears down to crush the believer with doubts with guilt, with pressures, with wedges designed to separate the believer from God and often we hardly perceive it is happening.
Those who teach once you are saved you cannot be lost need to ask the Devil why he bothers spending so much time trying to get believers to backslide, to apostatize, to give up? Just how stupid do they think he is? If someone "saved" cannot be lost, why spend time and energy on a quest you cannot succeed with? There are 8 billion people in the world. All energy would be placed upon those who are not "saved," to keep them that way. Sometimes the lack of common sense, even among believers, is devastating.
Consider the Roman church. Paul stated their faith was known throughout the world -
Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
History shows the capital of the empire and its power and lusts and corruption brought the Roman church to compromise, to "sand the edges," and finally to apostatize and curse and persecute all those who disagreed with her. The church of Christ in Rome became the most feared killing machine in the Western world.
Everyone hopes the sincerity of faith displayed by Kat and Bear carries them into the eternal kingdom when Christ returns. Everyone would love to see real, strong, lasting revival taking place that could usher in the second coming of Christ but, prophecy declares a false revival before the true. Prophecy declares the Roman antichrist, the beast, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, shall lead a final war against God's law and His remnant people. "Peace and safety" will ring out. Sudden destruction will then come.
Truth sanctifies, changes people. Error cannot. One drop of poison in a glass of orange juice can kill us. One chink in the armor, one opening, can let in all the arrows of death Satan needs to kill our spiritual walk, and he does it in a way that convinces us we are okay, nothing is wrong.
Rev 3:14 And to the angel of the church of the Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Head of the creation of God, says these things:
Rev 3:15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.
Rev 3:16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Rev 3:17 Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
The Pope is an apostate, not from just the truth but, from the doctrines of his own church, containing over a billion professed believers! The Dragon is not playing games. Rome is his seat. Rome is his command center. Mother and daughters have their roles to play in all the confusion. God says to come out of her; out of confusion; out of Babylon onto the platform of eternal truth. None of us are safe without a thus saith the Lord, cover to cover.
2Tim 2:15 Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
It is so easy to study the Word of God today. Bibles are printed in almost all languages. It's on the web. You can download free software. God will look at the world when Jesus returns and tell it, NO ONE has any excuse. The truth was everywhere like the leaves of Autumn. You knew My will, you could have known. You neglected, you rejected My truth. You cannot come into my everlasting kingdom.
Look at that passage in other translations -
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
Make every effort to present yourself before God as one who is worthy of his approval, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, but who imparts the word of truth without any alteration. [That is the New Catholic Bible translation].
Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.
The ancient languages have slight variations to them and bringing things into English is a serious endeavor; an artform. Different facets of the gems shine in the light.
Dozens of Bible translations from down through time can be seen at this website -
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy+2%3A15&version=AMP
There are no excuses, my Friends. There are no mitigating circumstances for half of the planet's population: the entire free world. Soon it will be 100% of the world's population. All will hear. All will make final decisions for truth or lies. Those who choose the truth and fight the good fight of faith in Christ will receive everlasting life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.faithwire.com/2023/10/06/christian-worldview-crisis-dr-george-barna-reveals-disturbing-reality-behind-shocking-faith-stats/
That said, for the Kat and a Bear things are looking as the apostle Paul wrote - 'old things have passed away, all things become new.'
Kat Von Drachenberg, famous tattoo artist and former occultist, was baptized in a packed church with friends looking as happy for her as they could possibly be. I think I recognized one or two.
The Kat became a Christian? One year after renouncing witchcraft her journey led her into a very beautiful baptismal tank (must be a very talented artist in that congregation), to surrender her life into her Heavenly Father's care and leading; dying to self and rising from the watery grave showing new life and new commitment's to a higher calling.
www.instagram.com/p/Cx8NGK2sp8E/
www.christianpost.com/news/kat-von-d-gets-baptized-1-year-after-renouncing-witchcraft.html
She was raised in a Seventh-day Adventist home by missionary parents. I would not characterize the denomination as she did in the article, having been a member of it for 12 years and knowing it's doctrines well. If her parents are still living they are rejoicing, I'm sure, and remembering the promise -
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Many a parent has leaned on that one.
Bear Grylls, television's world adventurer and outrageous survivalist, was baptized in Israel's famous Jordan river, to fulfill a dream for him. I've only seen his program a couple times; both times getting some famous person to do things that would give a mother a coronary, let alone pounding their own hearts out of their chests.
www.christiantoday.com/article/bear.grylls.fulfils.dream.of.being.baptised.in.jordan.river/140840.htm
Another story this week addresses all the baptisms taking place at revivals around the nation. Is it a true revival? Time will tell. You see, "Christianity's" most well-known "leader," Pope Francis, is yet again, challenging the traditional teachings of his church.
"VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda."
www.npr.org/2023/10/03/1203170334/pope-suggests-blessings-for-same-sex-unions-may-be-possible
There's a passage in the Bible, from the prophet Isaiah, that plays into things happening in this world; the professed believing world -
Isa 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isa 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isa 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isa 24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isa 24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Isa 24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
Isa 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
Isa 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isa 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isa 24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isa 24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isa 24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Isa 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Things will get so bad in the world, the moon will seem confused; the Sun ashamed of itself. Imagine, the brightest thing we can see for lightyears around us, ashamed of its light. I write a lot about confusion: spiritual, prophetic Babylon. The Bible speaks of a shaking. Olive trees were shaken when the berries became ripe. God's people are pictured as shaken and only some berries left on the tree. Most shaken off, in this case, ripe for destruction. Jesus told His disciples to shake the dust off their feet when people rejected the Gospel; the truth. These were people with centuries of believing they were God's chosen people because He gave them the truth but, constantly they wandered from it. Consistently, century after century they apostatized. The shaking is symbolized by Paul in this passage -
Act 18:5 And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
Act 18:6 And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.
The Jews should have received their Messiah. They crucified Him. The persecuted the early Christians; Paul being a major actor in that fact. He was converted and in his joy of salvation he longed for his brethren to receive the good news but, year after year they rejected it and finally, Paul shook his robe and told them, 'Your blood be on your heads. I'm going to bring the good news to the Gentiles.' He did and before he died he said the known world had heard the Gospel, Col. 1:23. That will always bring shaking -
Hag 2:7 And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.
The Jews had revivals, too. Centuries of them yet, they killed the Messiah. How can that be? Confusion. Spiritual confusion telling you, you are right when you are so wrong. How can anyone know? A full study of the Word, not just a cursory reading of it. The Book is meant to be studied. It is meant to mine, digging out precious gems of truth. Most get excited. Is that not what Jesus taught?
Mat 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
Mat 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Mat 13:3 And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Mat 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Mat 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Mat 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Mat 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Mat 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Mat 13:19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
Mat 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and anon with joy receives it;
Mat 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Mat 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
According to the parable, three fourths of people exposed to the good news do not stay with it. Some do not immediately understand the truth and Satan comes and takes its influence away as quickly as possible. Others have hard hearts, hardened minds; though they receive the truth with joy at first, the hard ground of their hearts and minds cannot allow the seed to sprout and develop roots. When problems arise because of the Word, friends, family, co-workers assail them, they are not strong enough to withstand the pressure and wither away. Others start their journey but, the thorns of problems of the world, or chasing after riches becomes more important, entangles them, chokes the Word in their minds and they cannot bear fruit: the young plant dies.
True revival is not about a beginning; all the excitement. It's about the journey and who stays with it. Who truly wants to be like Christ in thought, word and deed. Who walks the walk? It's a hard lesson to learn. Most are not prepared for the war. They are not made well-enough aware that they shall be in the fight of their life, the rest of their life. The closer they get to the sanctifying truth of Christ, the closer they get to Him, the more Satan bears down to crush the believer with doubts with guilt, with pressures, with wedges designed to separate the believer from God and often we hardly perceive it is happening.
Those who teach once you are saved you cannot be lost need to ask the Devil why he bothers spending so much time trying to get believers to backslide, to apostatize, to give up? Just how stupid do they think he is? If someone "saved" cannot be lost, why spend time and energy on a quest you cannot succeed with? There are 8 billion people in the world. All energy would be placed upon those who are not "saved," to keep them that way. Sometimes the lack of common sense, even among believers, is devastating.
Consider the Roman church. Paul stated their faith was known throughout the world -
Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
History shows the capital of the empire and its power and lusts and corruption brought the Roman church to compromise, to "sand the edges," and finally to apostatize and curse and persecute all those who disagreed with her. The church of Christ in Rome became the most feared killing machine in the Western world.
Everyone hopes the sincerity of faith displayed by Kat and Bear carries them into the eternal kingdom when Christ returns. Everyone would love to see real, strong, lasting revival taking place that could usher in the second coming of Christ but, prophecy declares a false revival before the true. Prophecy declares the Roman antichrist, the beast, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, shall lead a final war against God's law and His remnant people. "Peace and safety" will ring out. Sudden destruction will then come.
Truth sanctifies, changes people. Error cannot. One drop of poison in a glass of orange juice can kill us. One chink in the armor, one opening, can let in all the arrows of death Satan needs to kill our spiritual walk, and he does it in a way that convinces us we are okay, nothing is wrong.
Rev 3:14 And to the angel of the church of the Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Head of the creation of God, says these things:
Rev 3:15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.
Rev 3:16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Rev 3:17 Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
The Pope is an apostate, not from just the truth but, from the doctrines of his own church, containing over a billion professed believers! The Dragon is not playing games. Rome is his seat. Rome is his command center. Mother and daughters have their roles to play in all the confusion. God says to come out of her; out of confusion; out of Babylon onto the platform of eternal truth. None of us are safe without a thus saith the Lord, cover to cover.
2Tim 2:15 Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
It is so easy to study the Word of God today. Bibles are printed in almost all languages. It's on the web. You can download free software. God will look at the world when Jesus returns and tell it, NO ONE has any excuse. The truth was everywhere like the leaves of Autumn. You knew My will, you could have known. You neglected, you rejected My truth. You cannot come into my everlasting kingdom.
Look at that passage in other translations -
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
Make every effort to present yourself before God as one who is worthy of his approval, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, but who imparts the word of truth without any alteration. [That is the New Catholic Bible translation].
Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.
The ancient languages have slight variations to them and bringing things into English is a serious endeavor; an artform. Different facets of the gems shine in the light.
Dozens of Bible translations from down through time can be seen at this website -
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy+2%3A15&version=AMP
There are no excuses, my Friends. There are no mitigating circumstances for half of the planet's population: the entire free world. Soon it will be 100% of the world's population. All will hear. All will make final decisions for truth or lies. Those who choose the truth and fight the good fight of faith in Christ will receive everlasting life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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851. Saint Faustina - October 7, 2023
With the previous post in mind, check out this article from the Catholic News Agency -
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249183/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-st-faustina-and-her-vision-of-hell
It's a short article. I post the crux of the matter here -
"4. She saw a vision of hell.
In October 1936, during an eight-day retreat, she was led by an angel to what she called the “chasms of hell,” which she described in her diary as a place of “great torture” and “fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it — a terrible suffering.” This hell was filled with darkness, and, despite that darkness, “the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.”
5. She was shown different levels of hell.
According to Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College and a National Catholic Register contributor, Faustina “observed Dante-like sections of hell reserved for specific agonies earned in this fallen world.”
“There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another,” Faustina recorded in her diary. ”There are special tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned.”
6. Most of the damned hadn’t believed in hell.
Faustina said that what she was sharing was merely ”a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.” She testified in her diary: “I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence.”
7. Her vision was meant to save souls.
Kengor said that ”scary as they are, [these visions] also echo a positive urgency to mercy. Through these visions and their messengers, the divine is giving us yet another chance. We’re being warned to get ourselves in order, to stop sinning, and to seek conversion and redemption, before it’s too late.”
This article was originally published on CNA on Oct. 5, 2021, and was updated Oct. 4, 2023."
NONE of what you just read is true. NONE of it. Not if you go by the Bible. That shocks the devoted Catholic.
The article picture shows a figure of the Catholic "saint" holding a book, and pointing to a painting created to show what she saw in her vision, a Catholic version of Christ, that "Jesus" said to venerate; the pagan three-fingered hail (ruler of heaven, earth and the underworld); the pagan heart with rays of light coming from it. The imagery can be seen throughout the ancient pagan world. Romanism borrows and repurposes, regardless of what God, point blank, said in His Word -
Deut 12:29 When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,
Deut 12:30 take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?
Deut 12:31 You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.
Deut 12:32 All the things I command you, be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
Point blank. DO NOT DO what the heathens do to serve Me. That's about all Romanism has done.
The Faustina website has a live cam you can watch services with, showing the full inside of the shrine. There is really quite little that can compare to Roman Catholic construction interiors of their churches. The senses must be impressed, if the mind cannot be impressed with the truth.
www.saint-faustina.org/online-transmission/
To think the early Christians met in homes for centuries until the Roman church began to use pagan temples as the empire supposedly accepted Christianity through their pagan emperor, Constantine.
So, Faustina had visions of "hell." I have been over this many times over the years. It is up to each person to search and study the Word of God, all of it, cover to cover, to find the truth on any given subject. It may be time consuming. And there is the heart of the matter. Time for studying the Word of God or time to pursue the things of this world? Which is more important to you? Being Christlike, through sanctification of the truth, or being lukewarm, assured all is well when all is most definitely not. For others, religion is just a waste of time. Would that they understood the truth.
We must ask ourselves, what is God's purpose in torturing people with fire that does not burn things up but, perpetuates terrible suffering FOREVER? If you lived to be the age of the oldest man in the Bible, Methuselah, at 986 years, and sinned, knowingly, for all 359,890 days and rejected God's salvation, how is burning that person forever a just sentence? What does that state about the character of God? Man kills a murderer in a chair, in gas, in lethal injection for the most heinous crimes ever committed. Sinful man says, justice is satisfied. A Holy righteous, God of love, who is love says, 'No. Not enough. They must burn forever.' Yeah, if you are shaking your head, you should. Mankind is apparently more considerate than God. God's vengeance against sin and sinners. His judgment and justice is infinite but, Gods mercy is just as infinite. The two must be combined in a balanced way.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I have no delight in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Jehovah. Therefore turn and live.
Eze 33:11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
God has no pleasure in death. You think He has pleasure in torturing people??? The entire nature of the plan of salvation is to terminate death that came through sin. If sin is finally removed so shall the lost who cling to it be removed from existence. That is justice; not keeping the lost around, somewhere in the universe, with "caverns and pits," to scream in agony forever. I wonder just how few people actually think this through. They claim to believe something they have never actually considered from the different angles that make it an atrocity. I have spoken to clergy from different churches who look at me like deer in the headlights. It's obvious they have never stopped to think about what they believe and teach and proclaim from the pulpits they occupied every week.
The Bible says the wages of sin is death. DEATH, not... well, it is not even dying forever. The popular version of "hell" teaches you are tortured forever. No death. No dying. LIFE in torture. But, the Bible states only the righteous get everlasting life. The unrighteous get death. Nothing is more plain in Scripture.
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.
What did Faustina see? She saw visions from the enemy. She had no safeguard from the Word. The Catholic Church chooses traditions of the living church more than truth from the living God. Nuns, the order itself, has no relation to the Bible and early church. Faustina existed in a corruption of traditions God bids no woman to endure by some distinct command or even by invitation. The same goes for Catholic priests. It is all man-made traditions or embellishments, twisting of biblical information.
Just read what Faustina saw! Levels of hell, levels of torture, levels of indescribable pain and suffering. God must be a sadist. There is no other logical conclusion. He has levels of torture for various sins. There is not a single statement of any such thing in the Bible. Even the Greek, pagan Hades was more a place where "shades" went and existed in fog and loneliness. The pagan Greeks were nicer to the lost than the Sovereign merciful Creator of the universe!
She said most of those in hell did not believe in the place. I can tell you with confidence for 4000 years of history NO Hebrew, no human in the old testament times ever heard of such a place to believe in it or not, unless it came from pagan mythology, and pagans were not so gross about judgment as the God of the Bible, if Faustina is to be believed.
"I warn you. I give you chances. Repent or I will burn you forever!"
Good grief, you can have that deity. He's a tyrant. An absolute despot. He makes Hitler look like Santa Claus.
There is no warning from God in all the old testament of such a place as Faustina saw. Not one verse. Is that justice, to send "souls" to a place they were never warned of? It is the worst kind of injustice.
Where are these caverns and pits? Think. Popular theology teaches disembodied spirits, souls go to hell, right now. How do 'souls' feel anything? They have no senses. They have no nerves in their nothingness bodies. It is all a tragic, disgusting warpage of minds that created such things. It all comes from Lucifer to mangle the character of God before humanity. I fell into that trap. I spent my young life as an atheist because of the popular doctrine of hell. It's ridiculous but, nobody in the Catholic church I was raised in taught me otherwise. And frankly, few in the Protestant churches can teach the truth because they all believe Mother's lies!
"Kengor said that ”scary as they are, [these visions] also echo a positive urgency to mercy. Through these visions and their messengers, the divine is giving us yet another chance. We’re being warned to get ourselves in order, to stop sinning, and to seek conversion and redemption, before it’s too late.”"
Mercy?!?!? Really? Mankind will kill a criminal and remove his life from the living. The merciful God will then take His "soul" and say, "Not enough. Now, you burn." My God, it is hard to type such barnyard defecation.
On my radio program, teaching this subject, I read things from various Roman Catholic children's lessons and books about Purgatory and "Hell." Later, a father told me his young 10 year-old son was scared out of his mind, listening to the program. Indeed. That is what Romanism aims to to. Scare people into righteousness.
Yes, God warns. God does not intimidate through fear or, threaten. Sinful parents who love their children will not intimidate them or threaten them with corporal punishment. God will? Not the God of the Bible. You have to twist it to state something it absolutely does not, to come away with this Character assassination.
The human mind is not the mind of God. Yesterday, while on my walk, I saw a dog killed, getting hit by a car. It was in the front yard and I saw this look on his face, like he was going for it. I saw a car coming. The dog took off and raced across the road, meeting the car head on. He was dead in an instant. The neighbor began screaming and crying. I walked over in the road as her boyfriend came out and asked me if it was dead. Mercifully, it was. A dog. It disobeyed and ran into the road. A dog. Dead. But, false Christianity says, if you disobey and run into the road you will not die. God will torture you forever. What human being could watch a dog get hit by a car over and over and over again. Such an act, such a scene could only be repeated by a pathologically disturbed monster; a mind so warped, no humanity could be seen in it. But, Faustina somehow believed what she saw was a vision given her by God, of what God is going to do to sinners forever. Such spiritual blindness is frightening, in and of itself. That millions, tens, hundreds of millions, a billion people could believe such nonsense is truly incredible; defying common sense, and the plain teachings of Scripture. "Our God is a CONSUMING fire." The lost will suffer the second death, not dying forever. Not tortured forever.
"Forever" is used at least 63 times in the Bible as a hyperbole to make a point. It is no different than someone saying, "It will take me forever to do that." It doesn't. It just seemed that way. I thought it every time I split and stacked firewood. The righteous will live forever. The lost will die.
Again, Bible study will show this truth. Different groups down through the last 2000 years, from the early Christian church to the Reformation and beyond taught this truth that the lost shall be destroyed by the consuming fire of God; his fully unleashed glory at the end of time. Today, I know Jehovah's Witnesses, some Pentecostal churches, Seventh-day Adventists and other Sabbath-keeping groups teach it. Even a small group of Roman Catholics teach it! I can only wonder why they remain Catholics.
God is not scaring anyone into Heaven. God is not threatening anyone into Heaven. Nor is He intimidating anyone into Heaven. God is love. He loves people into salvation, and hope of eternal life realized when Christ returns.
"Saint" Faustina... she believed what she saw. Better she believed what the Bible actually teaches.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249183/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-st-faustina-and-her-vision-of-hell
It's a short article. I post the crux of the matter here -
"4. She saw a vision of hell.
In October 1936, during an eight-day retreat, she was led by an angel to what she called the “chasms of hell,” which she described in her diary as a place of “great torture” and “fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it — a terrible suffering.” This hell was filled with darkness, and, despite that darkness, “the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.”
5. She was shown different levels of hell.
According to Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College and a National Catholic Register contributor, Faustina “observed Dante-like sections of hell reserved for specific agonies earned in this fallen world.”
“There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another,” Faustina recorded in her diary. ”There are special tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned.”
6. Most of the damned hadn’t believed in hell.
Faustina said that what she was sharing was merely ”a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.” She testified in her diary: “I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence.”
7. Her vision was meant to save souls.
Kengor said that ”scary as they are, [these visions] also echo a positive urgency to mercy. Through these visions and their messengers, the divine is giving us yet another chance. We’re being warned to get ourselves in order, to stop sinning, and to seek conversion and redemption, before it’s too late.”
This article was originally published on CNA on Oct. 5, 2021, and was updated Oct. 4, 2023."
NONE of what you just read is true. NONE of it. Not if you go by the Bible. That shocks the devoted Catholic.
The article picture shows a figure of the Catholic "saint" holding a book, and pointing to a painting created to show what she saw in her vision, a Catholic version of Christ, that "Jesus" said to venerate; the pagan three-fingered hail (ruler of heaven, earth and the underworld); the pagan heart with rays of light coming from it. The imagery can be seen throughout the ancient pagan world. Romanism borrows and repurposes, regardless of what God, point blank, said in His Word -
Deut 12:29 When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,
Deut 12:30 take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?
Deut 12:31 You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.
Deut 12:32 All the things I command you, be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
Point blank. DO NOT DO what the heathens do to serve Me. That's about all Romanism has done.
The Faustina website has a live cam you can watch services with, showing the full inside of the shrine. There is really quite little that can compare to Roman Catholic construction interiors of their churches. The senses must be impressed, if the mind cannot be impressed with the truth.
www.saint-faustina.org/online-transmission/
To think the early Christians met in homes for centuries until the Roman church began to use pagan temples as the empire supposedly accepted Christianity through their pagan emperor, Constantine.
So, Faustina had visions of "hell." I have been over this many times over the years. It is up to each person to search and study the Word of God, all of it, cover to cover, to find the truth on any given subject. It may be time consuming. And there is the heart of the matter. Time for studying the Word of God or time to pursue the things of this world? Which is more important to you? Being Christlike, through sanctification of the truth, or being lukewarm, assured all is well when all is most definitely not. For others, religion is just a waste of time. Would that they understood the truth.
We must ask ourselves, what is God's purpose in torturing people with fire that does not burn things up but, perpetuates terrible suffering FOREVER? If you lived to be the age of the oldest man in the Bible, Methuselah, at 986 years, and sinned, knowingly, for all 359,890 days and rejected God's salvation, how is burning that person forever a just sentence? What does that state about the character of God? Man kills a murderer in a chair, in gas, in lethal injection for the most heinous crimes ever committed. Sinful man says, justice is satisfied. A Holy righteous, God of love, who is love says, 'No. Not enough. They must burn forever.' Yeah, if you are shaking your head, you should. Mankind is apparently more considerate than God. God's vengeance against sin and sinners. His judgment and justice is infinite but, Gods mercy is just as infinite. The two must be combined in a balanced way.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I have no delight in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Jehovah. Therefore turn and live.
Eze 33:11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
God has no pleasure in death. You think He has pleasure in torturing people??? The entire nature of the plan of salvation is to terminate death that came through sin. If sin is finally removed so shall the lost who cling to it be removed from existence. That is justice; not keeping the lost around, somewhere in the universe, with "caverns and pits," to scream in agony forever. I wonder just how few people actually think this through. They claim to believe something they have never actually considered from the different angles that make it an atrocity. I have spoken to clergy from different churches who look at me like deer in the headlights. It's obvious they have never stopped to think about what they believe and teach and proclaim from the pulpits they occupied every week.
The Bible says the wages of sin is death. DEATH, not... well, it is not even dying forever. The popular version of "hell" teaches you are tortured forever. No death. No dying. LIFE in torture. But, the Bible states only the righteous get everlasting life. The unrighteous get death. Nothing is more plain in Scripture.
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.
What did Faustina see? She saw visions from the enemy. She had no safeguard from the Word. The Catholic Church chooses traditions of the living church more than truth from the living God. Nuns, the order itself, has no relation to the Bible and early church. Faustina existed in a corruption of traditions God bids no woman to endure by some distinct command or even by invitation. The same goes for Catholic priests. It is all man-made traditions or embellishments, twisting of biblical information.
Just read what Faustina saw! Levels of hell, levels of torture, levels of indescribable pain and suffering. God must be a sadist. There is no other logical conclusion. He has levels of torture for various sins. There is not a single statement of any such thing in the Bible. Even the Greek, pagan Hades was more a place where "shades" went and existed in fog and loneliness. The pagan Greeks were nicer to the lost than the Sovereign merciful Creator of the universe!
She said most of those in hell did not believe in the place. I can tell you with confidence for 4000 years of history NO Hebrew, no human in the old testament times ever heard of such a place to believe in it or not, unless it came from pagan mythology, and pagans were not so gross about judgment as the God of the Bible, if Faustina is to be believed.
"I warn you. I give you chances. Repent or I will burn you forever!"
Good grief, you can have that deity. He's a tyrant. An absolute despot. He makes Hitler look like Santa Claus.
There is no warning from God in all the old testament of such a place as Faustina saw. Not one verse. Is that justice, to send "souls" to a place they were never warned of? It is the worst kind of injustice.
Where are these caverns and pits? Think. Popular theology teaches disembodied spirits, souls go to hell, right now. How do 'souls' feel anything? They have no senses. They have no nerves in their nothingness bodies. It is all a tragic, disgusting warpage of minds that created such things. It all comes from Lucifer to mangle the character of God before humanity. I fell into that trap. I spent my young life as an atheist because of the popular doctrine of hell. It's ridiculous but, nobody in the Catholic church I was raised in taught me otherwise. And frankly, few in the Protestant churches can teach the truth because they all believe Mother's lies!
"Kengor said that ”scary as they are, [these visions] also echo a positive urgency to mercy. Through these visions and their messengers, the divine is giving us yet another chance. We’re being warned to get ourselves in order, to stop sinning, and to seek conversion and redemption, before it’s too late.”"
Mercy?!?!? Really? Mankind will kill a criminal and remove his life from the living. The merciful God will then take His "soul" and say, "Not enough. Now, you burn." My God, it is hard to type such barnyard defecation.
On my radio program, teaching this subject, I read things from various Roman Catholic children's lessons and books about Purgatory and "Hell." Later, a father told me his young 10 year-old son was scared out of his mind, listening to the program. Indeed. That is what Romanism aims to to. Scare people into righteousness.
Yes, God warns. God does not intimidate through fear or, threaten. Sinful parents who love their children will not intimidate them or threaten them with corporal punishment. God will? Not the God of the Bible. You have to twist it to state something it absolutely does not, to come away with this Character assassination.
The human mind is not the mind of God. Yesterday, while on my walk, I saw a dog killed, getting hit by a car. It was in the front yard and I saw this look on his face, like he was going for it. I saw a car coming. The dog took off and raced across the road, meeting the car head on. He was dead in an instant. The neighbor began screaming and crying. I walked over in the road as her boyfriend came out and asked me if it was dead. Mercifully, it was. A dog. It disobeyed and ran into the road. A dog. Dead. But, false Christianity says, if you disobey and run into the road you will not die. God will torture you forever. What human being could watch a dog get hit by a car over and over and over again. Such an act, such a scene could only be repeated by a pathologically disturbed monster; a mind so warped, no humanity could be seen in it. But, Faustina somehow believed what she saw was a vision given her by God, of what God is going to do to sinners forever. Such spiritual blindness is frightening, in and of itself. That millions, tens, hundreds of millions, a billion people could believe such nonsense is truly incredible; defying common sense, and the plain teachings of Scripture. "Our God is a CONSUMING fire." The lost will suffer the second death, not dying forever. Not tortured forever.
"Forever" is used at least 63 times in the Bible as a hyperbole to make a point. It is no different than someone saying, "It will take me forever to do that." It doesn't. It just seemed that way. I thought it every time I split and stacked firewood. The righteous will live forever. The lost will die.
Again, Bible study will show this truth. Different groups down through the last 2000 years, from the early Christian church to the Reformation and beyond taught this truth that the lost shall be destroyed by the consuming fire of God; his fully unleashed glory at the end of time. Today, I know Jehovah's Witnesses, some Pentecostal churches, Seventh-day Adventists and other Sabbath-keeping groups teach it. Even a small group of Roman Catholics teach it! I can only wonder why they remain Catholics.
God is not scaring anyone into Heaven. God is not threatening anyone into Heaven. Nor is He intimidating anyone into Heaven. God is love. He loves people into salvation, and hope of eternal life realized when Christ returns.
"Saint" Faustina... she believed what she saw. Better she believed what the Bible actually teaches.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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852. Krauss, Meyer, Lamoureux "Discussion" - October 7, 2023
I was just watching a debate, supposedly a discussion between PhDs Lawrence Krauss , Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux. I'll just post the info on each speaker shown in the info box for the YT video:
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
PROF. DR. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS, is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe. He was born in New York City and moved shortly thereafter to Toronto, Canada, where he grew up. He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982), then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows (1982-85).
DR. STEPHEN C. MEYER, Intelligent Design advocate, received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He has authored the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013) as well as Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009. In his first book on intelligent design, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009) Meyer examined the mystery of the origin of the first life. With Darwin’s Doubt, he has expanded the scope of the case for intelligent design to the whole sweep of life’s history.
DR. DENIS O. LAMOUREUX, received three earned doctorates: a Ph.D. in Oral Biology-Dental Development and Evolution (University of Alberta), a Doctor of Dental Surgery, DDS, (University of Alberta), and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Theology-Science and Religion (University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto). An award winning teacher, Dr. Lamoureux is an Associate Professor of Science and Religion at St. Joseph's College in the University of Alberta. His appointment is the first tenure-track position in Canada dedicated to teaching and research on the relationship between scientific discovery and Christian faith. Lamoureux's academic specialty focuses on the modern origins controversy. Previous to this he was a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Alberta from 1991 to 1996, had a private dental practice, and served as a Canadian Armed Forces Dental Officer (he received United Nations & Canadian Peace Keeping Medals in 1980 and 2003).
ABOUT THE SERIES:
The Religion and Society Series is a movement to generate conversations on the ultimate questions of life. The purpose of the Series is to play a catalytic role in helping community groups and churches across Canada to engage people in topics that deeply matter to individuals and society.
The series and the debate was hosted by Wycliffe College. John Wycliffe was a 14th century priest, scholar, professor and Bible translator. He is often referred to as "The Morning Star of the Reformation." I tremble to think what he may have thought of this "discussion."
Krauss spoke first. His instantaneous character attack upon Meyer was so offensive I just shuffled ahead to Meyer's time. I watched Meyer and I am used to his presentations, by and large, in the field of Intelligent Design. Then came Lamoureux. He considers himself something his opening words betrayed, though in his mind it all works in harmony. I could only hear confusion, which is par for the course of those who claim to be able to mix and match creation and macro evolution. But the thing that caused me to just turn him off was something he said within the first couple minutes. He'll believe in young Earth creation when someone finds a tooth in the Cambrian layer.
I am not a debater. I am not an expert in anything. Yet, even I know the reason a human tooth will never be found in the Cambrian layer is simply because, in the Flood, lifeforms at or towards the bottom of seas and oceans would be the first to become entrapped by sediments, fossilizing them. Mammals and ground dwelling birds would run to highest ground, swim, hang on to debris, whatever and ultimately perish and be covered by higher sedimentary layers. Humans would use better ingenuity and stay around the longest until death overcame them and predatory creatures in the waters would consume them and at best, parts of human remains would sink. Birds would ultimately run out of energy, hit the water and be consumed. Variables of land mass and locations and how the Earth burst forth and the swirling mass of it all trapped creatures in sediments and variations of almost all current lifeforms are found in the fossil record, and done so in various layers like fossilized trees found around the world standing up in these different layers of sediment. Lots of fossils are found in layers they should not be found in, going by modern geology. They don't tell you that, though.
Why would a professed believing PhD make such a remark about lack of teeth in the Cambrian layer? He professes to believe the Bible but, obviously denies the Genesis, catastrophic, world-wide water and earth judgment of God upon the sinful, corrupt, violent, unrepentant race.
I shook my head and decided to write a post. Just because someone professes to be a Christian does not mean he or she is. I'm not being rude. It's just a fact based on human history.
A good example is Ananias and Sapphira, Acts 5. Chapter 4 closes out this way -
Acts 4:32 And of the multitude of those who believed, the heart and the soul were one. And no one said any of the possessions to be his own, but all things were common to them.
Act 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
Act 4:34 For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, they bore the value of the things being sold,
Act 4:35 and laid them at the feet of the apostles. And it was distributed to each according as any had need.
Then chapter 5 opens up -
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a property,
Act 5:2 and kept back from the price, his wife also aware of it, and bringing a certain part, he put it at the feet of the apostles.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit and to secretly keep back from the price of the land?
Act 5:4 Remaining, did it not remain yours? And being sold, was it not in your authority? Why is it that this action was put into your heart? You did not lie to men, but to God!
Act 5:5 And hearing these words, Ananias fell down and expired. And great fear came on all those hearing these things.
Act 5:6 And rising up the younger ones wrapped him, and carrying out, they buried him.
Act 5:7 And about three hours afterwards, his wife also entered, not knowing that happening.
Act 5:8 And Peter answered her, Tell me if you gave over the land for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.
Act 5:9 And Peter said to her, Why was it that it was agreed with you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those burying your husband at the door! Yea, they will carry you out.
Act 5:10 And she immediately fell at his feet and expired. And entering, the younger ones found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her husband.
Act 5:11 And great fear came to be on all the assembly and on all those hearing these things.
The story is as plain as any story in the Bible can be. The church was underway with tremendous blessing from God. Hearts and minds were one in such a way as has never been seen again in the last 2000 years but, will be before Christ returns, among His remnant people. With all the love, sacrificial personal commitments being made, Ananias and Sapphira were not so committed but, did not want anyone else to know. They claimed to sell and give all. They lied. God took their lives in no small display of authority and judgment. No such attitudes would be allowed to poison minds at the birth of the new movement. Great fear (reverence) came upon all. This was not playing church. This was not a game. This was life and death as many would find out when persecution broke out and scattered the early believers throughout the eastern empire.
Would anyone know Ananias and his wife were not true, committed believers had not God spoke to Peter in some way to unmask their duplicity? They would be seen as upstanding members of the body, having pulled off their little charade.
I cannot know the number of true believers that exist in the religion of Christianity. God knows and the shaking and sifting will take care of that when the time comes. People are shaken and sifted like wheat all the time but, an event is coming to separate the wheat from the weeds just as Christ taught would come at the end of the world.
I would not say a thing about Mr. Lamoureux were he just a regular guy on that stage but, the man has three PhDs and all the other references to accomplishments above and stating something so sophomoric right at the beginning of his talk just floored me. I don't know him. I cannot speak to his connection to God. I can speak to his connection to the Bible.
I may go back and watch the Q&A period. I admittedly find Mr. Krauss of such a character and personality it just temps me to feel ill-will towards him. Better I not watch the man.
Why is it so many "educated" atheists are so arrogant, condescending and spiteful? Not believing in God, or in any type of social graces from an authoritative source, it's no skin off their nose to be polite and gracious. Meyer opened with an interesting quip. I'll let you watch it. It struck home to Krauss, I'm sure but, he has been in these debates before and always acts the same. He is one of the junkyard dogs of atheism. Many are more civil and courteous than he is. And look, I am not hiding those in professed Christianity that act like junkyard dogs. It is wrong and reprehensible regardless. It is one thing to be confident of what you believe in. It is altogether something else to be rude about it, especially in public in an event stating civil discourse is going to take place.
You shall know them by their fruits. That is what Jesus taught.
Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
Calling Meyer a liar within the first minute and hearing it descend from there... Meyer is a pretty mellow guy. Considering his migraine and fighting to concentrate, after hearing Krauss beat on him for 20 minutes, would anyone have been surprised if Meyer lost it? He did not, and maintained civility and most comments below the video reflect that. He portrayed good character and grace under fire.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
PROF. DR. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS, is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe. He was born in New York City and moved shortly thereafter to Toronto, Canada, where he grew up. He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982), then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows (1982-85).
DR. STEPHEN C. MEYER, Intelligent Design advocate, received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He has authored the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013) as well as Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009. In his first book on intelligent design, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009) Meyer examined the mystery of the origin of the first life. With Darwin’s Doubt, he has expanded the scope of the case for intelligent design to the whole sweep of life’s history.
DR. DENIS O. LAMOUREUX, received three earned doctorates: a Ph.D. in Oral Biology-Dental Development and Evolution (University of Alberta), a Doctor of Dental Surgery, DDS, (University of Alberta), and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Theology-Science and Religion (University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto). An award winning teacher, Dr. Lamoureux is an Associate Professor of Science and Religion at St. Joseph's College in the University of Alberta. His appointment is the first tenure-track position in Canada dedicated to teaching and research on the relationship between scientific discovery and Christian faith. Lamoureux's academic specialty focuses on the modern origins controversy. Previous to this he was a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Alberta from 1991 to 1996, had a private dental practice, and served as a Canadian Armed Forces Dental Officer (he received United Nations & Canadian Peace Keeping Medals in 1980 and 2003).
ABOUT THE SERIES:
The Religion and Society Series is a movement to generate conversations on the ultimate questions of life. The purpose of the Series is to play a catalytic role in helping community groups and churches across Canada to engage people in topics that deeply matter to individuals and society.
The series and the debate was hosted by Wycliffe College. John Wycliffe was a 14th century priest, scholar, professor and Bible translator. He is often referred to as "The Morning Star of the Reformation." I tremble to think what he may have thought of this "discussion."
Krauss spoke first. His instantaneous character attack upon Meyer was so offensive I just shuffled ahead to Meyer's time. I watched Meyer and I am used to his presentations, by and large, in the field of Intelligent Design. Then came Lamoureux. He considers himself something his opening words betrayed, though in his mind it all works in harmony. I could only hear confusion, which is par for the course of those who claim to be able to mix and match creation and macro evolution. But the thing that caused me to just turn him off was something he said within the first couple minutes. He'll believe in young Earth creation when someone finds a tooth in the Cambrian layer.
I am not a debater. I am not an expert in anything. Yet, even I know the reason a human tooth will never be found in the Cambrian layer is simply because, in the Flood, lifeforms at or towards the bottom of seas and oceans would be the first to become entrapped by sediments, fossilizing them. Mammals and ground dwelling birds would run to highest ground, swim, hang on to debris, whatever and ultimately perish and be covered by higher sedimentary layers. Humans would use better ingenuity and stay around the longest until death overcame them and predatory creatures in the waters would consume them and at best, parts of human remains would sink. Birds would ultimately run out of energy, hit the water and be consumed. Variables of land mass and locations and how the Earth burst forth and the swirling mass of it all trapped creatures in sediments and variations of almost all current lifeforms are found in the fossil record, and done so in various layers like fossilized trees found around the world standing up in these different layers of sediment. Lots of fossils are found in layers they should not be found in, going by modern geology. They don't tell you that, though.
Why would a professed believing PhD make such a remark about lack of teeth in the Cambrian layer? He professes to believe the Bible but, obviously denies the Genesis, catastrophic, world-wide water and earth judgment of God upon the sinful, corrupt, violent, unrepentant race.
I shook my head and decided to write a post. Just because someone professes to be a Christian does not mean he or she is. I'm not being rude. It's just a fact based on human history.
A good example is Ananias and Sapphira, Acts 5. Chapter 4 closes out this way -
Acts 4:32 And of the multitude of those who believed, the heart and the soul were one. And no one said any of the possessions to be his own, but all things were common to them.
Act 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
Act 4:34 For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, they bore the value of the things being sold,
Act 4:35 and laid them at the feet of the apostles. And it was distributed to each according as any had need.
Then chapter 5 opens up -
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a property,
Act 5:2 and kept back from the price, his wife also aware of it, and bringing a certain part, he put it at the feet of the apostles.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit and to secretly keep back from the price of the land?
Act 5:4 Remaining, did it not remain yours? And being sold, was it not in your authority? Why is it that this action was put into your heart? You did not lie to men, but to God!
Act 5:5 And hearing these words, Ananias fell down and expired. And great fear came on all those hearing these things.
Act 5:6 And rising up the younger ones wrapped him, and carrying out, they buried him.
Act 5:7 And about three hours afterwards, his wife also entered, not knowing that happening.
Act 5:8 And Peter answered her, Tell me if you gave over the land for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.
Act 5:9 And Peter said to her, Why was it that it was agreed with you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those burying your husband at the door! Yea, they will carry you out.
Act 5:10 And she immediately fell at his feet and expired. And entering, the younger ones found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her husband.
Act 5:11 And great fear came to be on all the assembly and on all those hearing these things.
The story is as plain as any story in the Bible can be. The church was underway with tremendous blessing from God. Hearts and minds were one in such a way as has never been seen again in the last 2000 years but, will be before Christ returns, among His remnant people. With all the love, sacrificial personal commitments being made, Ananias and Sapphira were not so committed but, did not want anyone else to know. They claimed to sell and give all. They lied. God took their lives in no small display of authority and judgment. No such attitudes would be allowed to poison minds at the birth of the new movement. Great fear (reverence) came upon all. This was not playing church. This was not a game. This was life and death as many would find out when persecution broke out and scattered the early believers throughout the eastern empire.
Would anyone know Ananias and his wife were not true, committed believers had not God spoke to Peter in some way to unmask their duplicity? They would be seen as upstanding members of the body, having pulled off their little charade.
I cannot know the number of true believers that exist in the religion of Christianity. God knows and the shaking and sifting will take care of that when the time comes. People are shaken and sifted like wheat all the time but, an event is coming to separate the wheat from the weeds just as Christ taught would come at the end of the world.
I would not say a thing about Mr. Lamoureux were he just a regular guy on that stage but, the man has three PhDs and all the other references to accomplishments above and stating something so sophomoric right at the beginning of his talk just floored me. I don't know him. I cannot speak to his connection to God. I can speak to his connection to the Bible.
I may go back and watch the Q&A period. I admittedly find Mr. Krauss of such a character and personality it just temps me to feel ill-will towards him. Better I not watch the man.
Why is it so many "educated" atheists are so arrogant, condescending and spiteful? Not believing in God, or in any type of social graces from an authoritative source, it's no skin off their nose to be polite and gracious. Meyer opened with an interesting quip. I'll let you watch it. It struck home to Krauss, I'm sure but, he has been in these debates before and always acts the same. He is one of the junkyard dogs of atheism. Many are more civil and courteous than he is. And look, I am not hiding those in professed Christianity that act like junkyard dogs. It is wrong and reprehensible regardless. It is one thing to be confident of what you believe in. It is altogether something else to be rude about it, especially in public in an event stating civil discourse is going to take place.
You shall know them by their fruits. That is what Jesus taught.
Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
Calling Meyer a liar within the first minute and hearing it descend from there... Meyer is a pretty mellow guy. Considering his migraine and fighting to concentrate, after hearing Krauss beat on him for 20 minutes, would anyone have been surprised if Meyer lost it? He did not, and maintained civility and most comments below the video reflect that. He portrayed good character and grace under fire.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Hamas vs. Israel
One thousand people are dead from surprise attacks by Hamas. Israel had already fired into Gaza to cause the Hamas retaliation and this has been going on for literally, thousands of years. It is why many people of socio/political minds see all efforts to bring the two factions together as almost worthless. Until a generation of Jews die and young take their places that may not have the same animus towards Arabs and will not be controlled by Zionism, and may finally bring peace, I would not wait for it in my lifetime. Fighting will continue.
Being a Christian, you might expect I would have absolute allegiance to Israel. That would be false. I do not. I do not have much allegiance to Israel, at all, nor do I have any allegiance to Gaza and Hamas. I remember the Palestinian Liberation Army and it's commander, Yasser Arafat back in the 60's and 70's. Liberator? Terrorist? The Achille Lauro hijacking incident... it has been never ending, despite hails of agreements between these various, name-changing factions.
The State of Israel is not the biblical theocracy of the Bible. Not even close. It bears no resemblance at all, really. Misguided Christians, believing in Futurism and its characters in Bible prophecy, have an allegiance to Israel they believe is sacred and mandated by God. I have never seen anyone prove that from the Bible, without twisting some very important facts and history.
The State of Israel has waffled on distinct accords and treaties it has signed, and constantly attempts to advance it borders, while keeping the Gaza strip an ever small, postage stamp piece of land, containing over two million people. Tension is life for them. Reporters writing of Israeli soldiers on the border sniping, shooting "Palestinians," even children, is well documented. Palestine has been lobbing rockets into Israel for decades. The current event is just the last in a long line of them, in my lifetime. Go back millennia and see the fighting is a ceaseless thing that cannot be stopped until the current generation is dead and gone. Even then; the hatred, the reviling, the animosity between Jews and Arabs is almost genetic in nature. Yes, some dogs will play with cats; some cats will snuggle with birds; a fox may actually guard a henhouse but, those are aberrations of normality.
There are Jews and Arabs that want to put the past behind them. Others are far too angry and wired for war. So, the fighting continues. I do not see it ceasing before my time on Earth is over.
I don't support Israel when it violates agreements and treaties and commits acts of genocide. I do not support Arab terrorism, either. It has been a boiling cauldron for ages.
You can read history of the region where Jews and Arabs got along decently in trade, in daily life, intermarrying, etc. Once politics and politicians get involved it all falls into disarray and the blame-game.
Kidnapping and killing civilians. That is just a violation of every human right known to mankind.
Islam, Muslim Brotherhood Islam, is determined to wipe Israel of the map. Zionism is also determined to gain control of all land in that region they believe God anciently gave them, and frankly, world-wide Zionism is no different than any other totalitarian, control-freak organization.
This current situation is just another "wars and rumors of wars" to watch, and hope nothing escalates to nuclear stupidity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Being a Christian, you might expect I would have absolute allegiance to Israel. That would be false. I do not. I do not have much allegiance to Israel, at all, nor do I have any allegiance to Gaza and Hamas. I remember the Palestinian Liberation Army and it's commander, Yasser Arafat back in the 60's and 70's. Liberator? Terrorist? The Achille Lauro hijacking incident... it has been never ending, despite hails of agreements between these various, name-changing factions.
The State of Israel is not the biblical theocracy of the Bible. Not even close. It bears no resemblance at all, really. Misguided Christians, believing in Futurism and its characters in Bible prophecy, have an allegiance to Israel they believe is sacred and mandated by God. I have never seen anyone prove that from the Bible, without twisting some very important facts and history.
The State of Israel has waffled on distinct accords and treaties it has signed, and constantly attempts to advance it borders, while keeping the Gaza strip an ever small, postage stamp piece of land, containing over two million people. Tension is life for them. Reporters writing of Israeli soldiers on the border sniping, shooting "Palestinians," even children, is well documented. Palestine has been lobbing rockets into Israel for decades. The current event is just the last in a long line of them, in my lifetime. Go back millennia and see the fighting is a ceaseless thing that cannot be stopped until the current generation is dead and gone. Even then; the hatred, the reviling, the animosity between Jews and Arabs is almost genetic in nature. Yes, some dogs will play with cats; some cats will snuggle with birds; a fox may actually guard a henhouse but, those are aberrations of normality.
There are Jews and Arabs that want to put the past behind them. Others are far too angry and wired for war. So, the fighting continues. I do not see it ceasing before my time on Earth is over.
I don't support Israel when it violates agreements and treaties and commits acts of genocide. I do not support Arab terrorism, either. It has been a boiling cauldron for ages.
You can read history of the region where Jews and Arabs got along decently in trade, in daily life, intermarrying, etc. Once politics and politicians get involved it all falls into disarray and the blame-game.
Kidnapping and killing civilians. That is just a violation of every human right known to mankind.
Islam, Muslim Brotherhood Islam, is determined to wipe Israel of the map. Zionism is also determined to gain control of all land in that region they believe God anciently gave them, and frankly, world-wide Zionism is no different than any other totalitarian, control-freak organization.
This current situation is just another "wars and rumors of wars" to watch, and hope nothing escalates to nuclear stupidity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Why is There Distrust of Government?
The simple answer to that question is corruption. "Government" is not a living, breathing entity. The American government, most governments, are a collection of individual representatives; politicians, most of whom become corrupted by power and money and no longer represent their constituents. They represent their political party and their control on things, individually and collectively in the business of political parties in government.
That's a generalization. It should be understood, though, that when Robert F. Kennedy, running for POTUS, states the Democrat party of his father and uncle is no longer the party Americans see today, such a statement should carry some weight.
This post is not about that, though. This post is about corruption so deep and egregious... well, why should Americans expect anything else? Look at the Democrat Rep who pulled the fire alarm to stop a vote on the House floor. If an aid did that, if a janitor did that, if a Republican did that, if anyone else did that, they'd have been arrested but, the man's business, his political party, likes him and concocted a story for him. The news media thought it was okay, if not ridiculous, and gave it all a pass. The news cycle continues along.
This post is about a new discovery of IRS documents which mention 350,000 times terms like, "Word of God," "Christian," "Bible" and "prayer." Confused? Don't be. The United States government, commandeered by the Democrat Party, with no particular protest from Republicans, is at 'war' with believers over those things. The more the American empire falls into the corruptions of the Roman empire, the more persecution of Christians is more close at hand. Many have already been persecuted for their faith and not just in the 21st century. When I say persecuted, I mean more than harassment or oppression. Persecution is threat to or of mental and/or physical harm. Many J6ers are in jail for no other reason than walking into the Capitol building and singing patriotic songs and Christian hymns. They posed no threat to anyone. They harmed no one. Many had no intention of going into the building. They were caught in the flow of people, yet they are seen as insurrectionists by corrupt politicians with more power than the Founders ever intended them to have. But, it's more than that.
All the business owners that are Christians being drawn into court for their faith, in frivolous lawsuits. Islam takes a much more serious view of homosexuality than Christians. Nobody is hauling Muslims into court.
This story should outrage all Americans. The nation has radically changed, seemingly overnight but, it has been a long time of transferring ideology in the political party businesses. No president since Ronald Regan has really attempted to warn against the tide flowing the way it has since his last term in office. Under Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and now Biden the attitude of government towards Christianity has been abysmal. Trump gave it all a breather. Biden has put it all back on track or, I should say, whoever controls Biden. No one could convince millions and millions of us that man can think for himself any longer.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/we-unearthed-bombshell-revelations-serious-irs-move-against/
The IRS has been weaponized with firearms and boatloads of ammunition. Why? Because government is no longer to be trusted. The American government is mimicking the downfall of the Roman empire.
War mongers in Congress are clamoring for war with Iran. That has been a desire for a long time; war with Iran. The current affairs in Israel have the war mongers hopping. War makes money. More wars, please.
And now we see Muslim groups in Afghanistan are offering support to Palestinians and why not, with 80 billion dollars worth of military might left behind by Biden: Commander-in-Chief. Joe Biden.
Wars and rumors of wars. Physical and spiritual.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
That's a generalization. It should be understood, though, that when Robert F. Kennedy, running for POTUS, states the Democrat party of his father and uncle is no longer the party Americans see today, such a statement should carry some weight.
This post is not about that, though. This post is about corruption so deep and egregious... well, why should Americans expect anything else? Look at the Democrat Rep who pulled the fire alarm to stop a vote on the House floor. If an aid did that, if a janitor did that, if a Republican did that, if anyone else did that, they'd have been arrested but, the man's business, his political party, likes him and concocted a story for him. The news media thought it was okay, if not ridiculous, and gave it all a pass. The news cycle continues along.
This post is about a new discovery of IRS documents which mention 350,000 times terms like, "Word of God," "Christian," "Bible" and "prayer." Confused? Don't be. The United States government, commandeered by the Democrat Party, with no particular protest from Republicans, is at 'war' with believers over those things. The more the American empire falls into the corruptions of the Roman empire, the more persecution of Christians is more close at hand. Many have already been persecuted for their faith and not just in the 21st century. When I say persecuted, I mean more than harassment or oppression. Persecution is threat to or of mental and/or physical harm. Many J6ers are in jail for no other reason than walking into the Capitol building and singing patriotic songs and Christian hymns. They posed no threat to anyone. They harmed no one. Many had no intention of going into the building. They were caught in the flow of people, yet they are seen as insurrectionists by corrupt politicians with more power than the Founders ever intended them to have. But, it's more than that.
All the business owners that are Christians being drawn into court for their faith, in frivolous lawsuits. Islam takes a much more serious view of homosexuality than Christians. Nobody is hauling Muslims into court.
This story should outrage all Americans. The nation has radically changed, seemingly overnight but, it has been a long time of transferring ideology in the political party businesses. No president since Ronald Regan has really attempted to warn against the tide flowing the way it has since his last term in office. Under Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and now Biden the attitude of government towards Christianity has been abysmal. Trump gave it all a breather. Biden has put it all back on track or, I should say, whoever controls Biden. No one could convince millions and millions of us that man can think for himself any longer.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/we-unearthed-bombshell-revelations-serious-irs-move-against/
The IRS has been weaponized with firearms and boatloads of ammunition. Why? Because government is no longer to be trusted. The American government is mimicking the downfall of the Roman empire.
War mongers in Congress are clamoring for war with Iran. That has been a desire for a long time; war with Iran. The current affairs in Israel have the war mongers hopping. War makes money. More wars, please.
And now we see Muslim groups in Afghanistan are offering support to Palestinians and why not, with 80 billion dollars worth of military might left behind by Biden: Commander-in-Chief. Joe Biden.
Wars and rumors of wars. Physical and spiritual.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Sad, Happy Day
Today was a sad day. My divorce was final. The judge was very nice. The bailiff was very nice. The clerk. Everybody was really nice. I was numb. Seventeen years. It has been a Twilight Zone and people tell me they know exactly what I am talking about. Anyway, I wrote about this a couple months ago so, somehow I look to the Lord and must move onward with life, such as it is.
That was the sad part of the day.
The happy part is, I just got off the phone with a guy I have not spoken to in 45 years. We hung out together as children, through school and I dropped out, as he did, and the last time I saw him was one of the LEGEND concerts at the Oxford Ale House in New Haven, CT. I forget the year. '77, '78? Bruce plays drums, too. Needless to say we talked drums, drummers and drumming. We relived a bunch of memories, and it dawned on me: I am still vertical and ventilating, trying to get back to health I had, not that long ago; and while it's tougher, it's doable. We have two acres here and I began walking the perimeter 1 to 2 miles a day. Did three once but, really felt it the next day. Walking uneven ground, keeping my head down for every step, gets kind of tedious after awhile. Still, I'm losing some quite unnecessary weight and will keep at it as long as I can.
I didn't look at my phone to see how long we talked. Must have been at least a couple hours. I recognized his deep voice instantly. It's deeper than it was when we were young. The process of old age upon vocal pipes. I could never hope to sing some of the background vocals I sang in LEGEND back then. Not happening.
I turned Bruce on to the DIY drum gig. He was unaware merchants are out there that sell all the component parts necessary to make your own kit. They sound as good as anything out there, too and you'll more than likely get a bigger choice of wraps than any drum company sells these days. There are different merchants out there now that sell nothing but, computerized wraps that look like anything from real wood to... well, whatever you can think of, they can make it. It's all 1's and 0's.
We talked about the 60's and 70's and are glad we experienced the music of that era. It was not just the idea of what music you grew up with. No. It was the entire nature of experimenting with music unlike any era before it. We lived in a special time.
It was a great conversation. We'll definitely keep in touch.
I don't know what happens now. I pray and ask God to keep me going: there must be a purpose and plan for me. I hope the new album is part of that plan.
I could not tell you what life is about, aside from giving glory and honor to our Creator and Redeemer. Twists, turns, solitary darkness... some bright spots here and there, a nice sunset, a glorious sunrise and the next day arrives. We have absolutely no idea exactly what the next day can bring. So... we march on. God is on His throne. He's in control. No matter the question, He has answers. Patience, perseverance, endurance. There are no sprints in the Christian race to the finish line. It's one day at a time.
Matt 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than clothing?
Matt 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matt 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Matt 6:28 And why take thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Matt 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matt 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matt 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?
Matt 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
Matt 6:33 But you seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matt 6:34 Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil therein.
Onward>>>
That was the sad part of the day.
The happy part is, I just got off the phone with a guy I have not spoken to in 45 years. We hung out together as children, through school and I dropped out, as he did, and the last time I saw him was one of the LEGEND concerts at the Oxford Ale House in New Haven, CT. I forget the year. '77, '78? Bruce plays drums, too. Needless to say we talked drums, drummers and drumming. We relived a bunch of memories, and it dawned on me: I am still vertical and ventilating, trying to get back to health I had, not that long ago; and while it's tougher, it's doable. We have two acres here and I began walking the perimeter 1 to 2 miles a day. Did three once but, really felt it the next day. Walking uneven ground, keeping my head down for every step, gets kind of tedious after awhile. Still, I'm losing some quite unnecessary weight and will keep at it as long as I can.
I didn't look at my phone to see how long we talked. Must have been at least a couple hours. I recognized his deep voice instantly. It's deeper than it was when we were young. The process of old age upon vocal pipes. I could never hope to sing some of the background vocals I sang in LEGEND back then. Not happening.
I turned Bruce on to the DIY drum gig. He was unaware merchants are out there that sell all the component parts necessary to make your own kit. They sound as good as anything out there, too and you'll more than likely get a bigger choice of wraps than any drum company sells these days. There are different merchants out there now that sell nothing but, computerized wraps that look like anything from real wood to... well, whatever you can think of, they can make it. It's all 1's and 0's.
We talked about the 60's and 70's and are glad we experienced the music of that era. It was not just the idea of what music you grew up with. No. It was the entire nature of experimenting with music unlike any era before it. We lived in a special time.
It was a great conversation. We'll definitely keep in touch.
I don't know what happens now. I pray and ask God to keep me going: there must be a purpose and plan for me. I hope the new album is part of that plan.
I could not tell you what life is about, aside from giving glory and honor to our Creator and Redeemer. Twists, turns, solitary darkness... some bright spots here and there, a nice sunset, a glorious sunrise and the next day arrives. We have absolutely no idea exactly what the next day can bring. So... we march on. God is on His throne. He's in control. No matter the question, He has answers. Patience, perseverance, endurance. There are no sprints in the Christian race to the finish line. It's one day at a time.
Matt 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than clothing?
Matt 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matt 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Matt 6:28 And why take thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Matt 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matt 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matt 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?
Matt 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
Matt 6:33 But you seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matt 6:34 Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil therein.
Onward>>>
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1 in 800
While the world has attempted to move on from "Covid" and the plot surrounding it, others have a job to do. They are the researchers looking at the aftereffect and statistics. I mentioned one such study that found 1 in 2500 people injected were dying and developing serious medical reactions, debilitating their lives.
A recent study has now been concluded on the Southern Hemisphere which shows 1 in 800 people injected are dying from them. 1 in 800 people of the billions given the injections. Multiplied millions are dying and the only statistical bridge is the rollout of the injections.
I would ask this question. What is worse? Hamas terrorists killing babies or the cabal that planned and perpetrated the "pandemic" and "vaccines" killing 1 out of every 800 people with these "safe and effective" shots?
As horrific as war and its atrocities always are, there is just no comparison there. It is not even close. The devils who perpetuated this continuing crime against humanity that shall drag on for years should be rounded up, tried and executed. There can be no other just sentence. Those who aided and abetted should be locked away for the rest of their life.
vigilantnews.com/post/author-of-bombshell-report-covid-shots-kill-1-person-per-800-injections
A recent study has now been concluded on the Southern Hemisphere which shows 1 in 800 people injected are dying from them. 1 in 800 people of the billions given the injections. Multiplied millions are dying and the only statistical bridge is the rollout of the injections.
I would ask this question. What is worse? Hamas terrorists killing babies or the cabal that planned and perpetrated the "pandemic" and "vaccines" killing 1 out of every 800 people with these "safe and effective" shots?
As horrific as war and its atrocities always are, there is just no comparison there. It is not even close. The devils who perpetuated this continuing crime against humanity that shall drag on for years should be rounded up, tried and executed. There can be no other just sentence. Those who aided and abetted should be locked away for the rest of their life.
vigilantnews.com/post/author-of-bombshell-report-covid-shots-kill-1-person-per-800-injections
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853. A Word About War and Babies - October 13, 2023
When I became a Christian 44 years ago, I began to compose melodies around Scripture and write songs. One of those songs, Gideon, will be on the coming LEGEND Revisited recording. Another one, should the opportunity and request for another recording come forth for Martin, Janne and me, will be "By the Rivers of Babylon," based on Psalm 137.
The song is about the Hebrews in captivity in Babylon and how their captors required them to sing songs they sang back in Zion. They had no desire or motivation. The song says, in fact, God would bring down on Babylon everything they perpetuated on the Hebrews and more. Babylon ruled the then known world. The first great empire in prophecy. It was a ruthless empire.
Take a look at the last few verses -
Psa 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundations.
Psa 137:8 Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.
Psa 137:9 Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.
A strange, solemn and morose ending to a song, yes? Consider that, in ancient times among pagan peoples, life was not valued very high. Yes, indeed, much like today. Children were sacrificed to fake deities. When pagan armies fought, for the most part all men were killed, save for those who would be used as slaves and the same for women. Children, babies grow up to be enemies, influenced by their parents or others left behind so, they were of no use to to the victors. The babies were just grabbed by the feet and swung and slammed against a stone wall or rocks, whatever surface for the task and killed on the spot. A practice so brutal and horrific, so disgusting and revolting it is hard to imagine and yet, this week the news was filled with stories of Hamas soldiers killing babies, even beheading them. Savagery.
What kind of hatred can elicit such a ghastly thing? For ancient pagans it was just war as usual. For Hamas, it is founded on thousands of years of back and forth between Jews and Arabs. Nobody should think for a moment Israel is innocent in anything regarding circumstances in the region. They have their share of blame in all these events but, the Hebrew is taught in Scripture that life is precious. Those who follow that principle and believe that Yehovah honors life, stand back, aghast at such behavior and for them, it's a line crossed. Killing young people, children, taking civilian hostages... Israel will now obliterate Gaza. Arab nations may unite to once and for all, seek to wipe Israel off the map. It is a feud between peoples that is genetic to the cultures. It is Hatfield vs. McCoy on millennium of steroids. Only those involved truly understand it. The West, in general, shakes its head and cannot figure out why people will just not stop and bury all hatchets and move on with life.
The Bible has quite a number of incidents that show cultures foreign to the Western Hemisphere's.
Moloch, the bull god, and sacrificial offerings of children to him. When the Jews apostatized they actually fell into to that unbelievable practice.
Do not forget how Herod had all the male children two and under, slaughtered when he found out about the Christ child and perceived threat to his throne.
God, the Giver of life, saw the absolute corruption of the Amalekite people; beyond redemption, completely controlled by sin and ordered King Saul to destroy them, as well as their flocks and herds. Nothing was to be kept alive -
1Sam 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
In reality, the same principle was found throughout the Earth when God destroyed everyone and everything alive in the Deluge, save for what was preserved on the Ark, and of course, life in the great bodies of water.
And so shall the same loss of life be realized again when Christ returns.
We look upon such things without the full perspective and knowledge God has of everything and everyone. He does not destroy out of hatred for His creation. He removes the cancer of sin lest it spread and continue to corrupt and kill young and old. Better to have a child die and safely saved, than have it grow up and ultimately lost to sin and cultures that can only lead to eternal death.
It is one thing for the Creator to pass sentence such as He has, knowing every detail involved. It is all together another thing for mankind to attempt to do so and expect God will not bring retribution upon those who think they know best. Of course, with Islam, death to infidels is a basic premise in the religion. Tax them. If they refuse to pay; kill them. If they convert, fine. If not, they are unworthy of life. "Allah" takes a different view than Yahweh, the true and only Deity. God wants all to come to repentance and experience the joy of salvation. Jesus, our Creator, came as a Babe; lived, grew, died and rose again to save mankind. All mankind who will choose salvation.
Jews mistake their place in the world. They are no longer the chosen people. As a people they rejected their Messiah. Anyone who accepts Christ as Saviour and Lord, is accepted in the Beloved and is now "Israel." That being the case, no, I would not be surprised if God allowed Israel to fall, and fall hard. Nor would I be surprised if Israel wiped out some of its most dangerous national enemies. It's just all wars and rumors of war, as Christ taught about the last days.
Because of my belief in Bible prophecy, the principles of Historicism, I am not expecting the end of the world in some WW3 nuclear confrontation because of this situation. Futurists are. Arab nations do not have the firepower that Israel has. They would have to get it from Russia or China. I seriously doubt Russia will give them what they'd need, same as China. Why? Because that would lead to a nuclear, world-wide conflict and China and Russia are much too smart for that.
Do I expect Israel to get wiped out? No. Nor do I expect the Arab world to get involved save for the militant organizations that already exist and maybe some new ones, backed by money from wealthy Arab nations. The Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, has threatened Israel AND the U.S. but, that does not produce an army. It produces rogue elements fighting stealth war, hit and run tactics, and may induce current minds to use chemical weapons and/or dirty bombs; suitcase nukes. That just brings on the big bombs and Israel will use them. Thousands of years of this conflict will easily motivate them to use them.
Again, the Military Industrial Complex has wanted war with Iran for years. Iranian involvement in this confrontation would set the stage for Air involvement, at least, with support from sea. I'll never be surprised to see boots on the ground either because to those in charge, war is business, and life is as meaningless as to any group of pagans who ever walked the Earth.
The Pope has offered to sit down and mediate the two factions. Do not discount Francis' involvement. Nor should you discount the most out of the box possibility... Satan using the "ET" gig. I suspect that would stop any war, anywhere. The world would stop on that one. Things would then change forever and the final events will be rapid ones.
Who knows? God does. It is, in fact, in His hands to allow, to slow things down, to stop things, to intervene in ways we could never fathom.
All we can do is watch and pray that minds remain lucid and open.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*edited*
The song is about the Hebrews in captivity in Babylon and how their captors required them to sing songs they sang back in Zion. They had no desire or motivation. The song says, in fact, God would bring down on Babylon everything they perpetuated on the Hebrews and more. Babylon ruled the then known world. The first great empire in prophecy. It was a ruthless empire.
Take a look at the last few verses -
Psa 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundations.
Psa 137:8 Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.
Psa 137:9 Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.
A strange, solemn and morose ending to a song, yes? Consider that, in ancient times among pagan peoples, life was not valued very high. Yes, indeed, much like today. Children were sacrificed to fake deities. When pagan armies fought, for the most part all men were killed, save for those who would be used as slaves and the same for women. Children, babies grow up to be enemies, influenced by their parents or others left behind so, they were of no use to to the victors. The babies were just grabbed by the feet and swung and slammed against a stone wall or rocks, whatever surface for the task and killed on the spot. A practice so brutal and horrific, so disgusting and revolting it is hard to imagine and yet, this week the news was filled with stories of Hamas soldiers killing babies, even beheading them. Savagery.
What kind of hatred can elicit such a ghastly thing? For ancient pagans it was just war as usual. For Hamas, it is founded on thousands of years of back and forth between Jews and Arabs. Nobody should think for a moment Israel is innocent in anything regarding circumstances in the region. They have their share of blame in all these events but, the Hebrew is taught in Scripture that life is precious. Those who follow that principle and believe that Yehovah honors life, stand back, aghast at such behavior and for them, it's a line crossed. Killing young people, children, taking civilian hostages... Israel will now obliterate Gaza. Arab nations may unite to once and for all, seek to wipe Israel off the map. It is a feud between peoples that is genetic to the cultures. It is Hatfield vs. McCoy on millennium of steroids. Only those involved truly understand it. The West, in general, shakes its head and cannot figure out why people will just not stop and bury all hatchets and move on with life.
The Bible has quite a number of incidents that show cultures foreign to the Western Hemisphere's.
Moloch, the bull god, and sacrificial offerings of children to him. When the Jews apostatized they actually fell into to that unbelievable practice.
Do not forget how Herod had all the male children two and under, slaughtered when he found out about the Christ child and perceived threat to his throne.
God, the Giver of life, saw the absolute corruption of the Amalekite people; beyond redemption, completely controlled by sin and ordered King Saul to destroy them, as well as their flocks and herds. Nothing was to be kept alive -
1Sam 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
In reality, the same principle was found throughout the Earth when God destroyed everyone and everything alive in the Deluge, save for what was preserved on the Ark, and of course, life in the great bodies of water.
And so shall the same loss of life be realized again when Christ returns.
We look upon such things without the full perspective and knowledge God has of everything and everyone. He does not destroy out of hatred for His creation. He removes the cancer of sin lest it spread and continue to corrupt and kill young and old. Better to have a child die and safely saved, than have it grow up and ultimately lost to sin and cultures that can only lead to eternal death.
It is one thing for the Creator to pass sentence such as He has, knowing every detail involved. It is all together another thing for mankind to attempt to do so and expect God will not bring retribution upon those who think they know best. Of course, with Islam, death to infidels is a basic premise in the religion. Tax them. If they refuse to pay; kill them. If they convert, fine. If not, they are unworthy of life. "Allah" takes a different view than Yahweh, the true and only Deity. God wants all to come to repentance and experience the joy of salvation. Jesus, our Creator, came as a Babe; lived, grew, died and rose again to save mankind. All mankind who will choose salvation.
Jews mistake their place in the world. They are no longer the chosen people. As a people they rejected their Messiah. Anyone who accepts Christ as Saviour and Lord, is accepted in the Beloved and is now "Israel." That being the case, no, I would not be surprised if God allowed Israel to fall, and fall hard. Nor would I be surprised if Israel wiped out some of its most dangerous national enemies. It's just all wars and rumors of war, as Christ taught about the last days.
Because of my belief in Bible prophecy, the principles of Historicism, I am not expecting the end of the world in some WW3 nuclear confrontation because of this situation. Futurists are. Arab nations do not have the firepower that Israel has. They would have to get it from Russia or China. I seriously doubt Russia will give them what they'd need, same as China. Why? Because that would lead to a nuclear, world-wide conflict and China and Russia are much too smart for that.
Do I expect Israel to get wiped out? No. Nor do I expect the Arab world to get involved save for the militant organizations that already exist and maybe some new ones, backed by money from wealthy Arab nations. The Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, has threatened Israel AND the U.S. but, that does not produce an army. It produces rogue elements fighting stealth war, hit and run tactics, and may induce current minds to use chemical weapons and/or dirty bombs; suitcase nukes. That just brings on the big bombs and Israel will use them. Thousands of years of this conflict will easily motivate them to use them.
Again, the Military Industrial Complex has wanted war with Iran for years. Iranian involvement in this confrontation would set the stage for Air involvement, at least, with support from sea. I'll never be surprised to see boots on the ground either because to those in charge, war is business, and life is as meaningless as to any group of pagans who ever walked the Earth.
The Pope has offered to sit down and mediate the two factions. Do not discount Francis' involvement. Nor should you discount the most out of the box possibility... Satan using the "ET" gig. I suspect that would stop any war, anywhere. The world would stop on that one. Things would then change forever and the final events will be rapid ones.
Who knows? God does. It is, in fact, in His hands to allow, to slow things down, to stop things, to intervene in ways we could never fathom.
All we can do is watch and pray that minds remain lucid and open.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*edited*
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Jack Philipps - Cakes for Me, Not for Thee
I forget how long ago I posted something about the whole homosexual taking people to court gig because they have angst for people who will not accept their chosen lifestyles.
Christians are often perceived as "haters" by those on the Left because they refuse to make cakes, or photograph or paint or whatever images of things they reject as part of their faith and freedom of conscience. The issue is not homosexuality or transgenderism, etc. It is the objection to the objectification of those lifestyles these artists refuse to capture. They are happy to do business with anyone. Just do not ask them to violate their faith or conscience objectifying something they stand against. For them, well... look at it this way. A Hamas supporter asks a Jewish baker to make a cake that says "Death to Jewish Babies" on it. Get the picture? There is no difference for the Christian artist and something they reject as a matter of conscience.
The Supreme Court has ruled you cannot force an artist to create art. The logic of that is so simple and obvious to see, you would think all reasonable people would move on to the next cake maker, photographer, painter, etc., to do business with but, those in the L-Q community will not accept Philipps' lifestyle choice and conscientious adherence to the principles involved. Policy might give sway to making whatever cake he's asked to make. Principle declares he must not violate his conscience regarding his faith.
Would a Satanist take someone to court if they could not get a Christian artist to portray Lucifer in some way? I have never seen it happen, probably because no Satanist has made the request. At that level of extremity, I doubt such a case would even be heard, making it into a courtroom. Yet, when confronted by Leftists of the L-Q community, Jack Philipps is eleven years into this. People know who he is and why not just target him? Sooner or later, he'll lose in court, they figure. Even if they expect him to win, they pursue their agendas for notoriety and a headline for their "cause."
This time around a transgender Lawyer is suing him. Now that is amusing, right there. This person knows Philipps, knows the history, knows the SCOTUS decision but, Colorado is a state that has laws against denying L-Q people what they want so, back to court Philipps goes and this Lawyer has stated, if he loses, he'll come up with another cake and another lawsuit. One he suggested? Satan smoking a joint.
The Colorado Supreme Court is likely to do it's Leftist thing and just throw it back to SCOTUS, which will remind the nation of its previous decision and this boat will drift and drift and drift.
Why? Why must those in the L-Q community feel everyone must accept their lifestyle choices? It is never going to happen. So, they will attempt to financially harass, oppress and destroy all the lives who reject their lifestyle choices.
"You shall know them by their fruits."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Christians are often perceived as "haters" by those on the Left because they refuse to make cakes, or photograph or paint or whatever images of things they reject as part of their faith and freedom of conscience. The issue is not homosexuality or transgenderism, etc. It is the objection to the objectification of those lifestyles these artists refuse to capture. They are happy to do business with anyone. Just do not ask them to violate their faith or conscience objectifying something they stand against. For them, well... look at it this way. A Hamas supporter asks a Jewish baker to make a cake that says "Death to Jewish Babies" on it. Get the picture? There is no difference for the Christian artist and something they reject as a matter of conscience.
The Supreme Court has ruled you cannot force an artist to create art. The logic of that is so simple and obvious to see, you would think all reasonable people would move on to the next cake maker, photographer, painter, etc., to do business with but, those in the L-Q community will not accept Philipps' lifestyle choice and conscientious adherence to the principles involved. Policy might give sway to making whatever cake he's asked to make. Principle declares he must not violate his conscience regarding his faith.
Would a Satanist take someone to court if they could not get a Christian artist to portray Lucifer in some way? I have never seen it happen, probably because no Satanist has made the request. At that level of extremity, I doubt such a case would even be heard, making it into a courtroom. Yet, when confronted by Leftists of the L-Q community, Jack Philipps is eleven years into this. People know who he is and why not just target him? Sooner or later, he'll lose in court, they figure. Even if they expect him to win, they pursue their agendas for notoriety and a headline for their "cause."
This time around a transgender Lawyer is suing him. Now that is amusing, right there. This person knows Philipps, knows the history, knows the SCOTUS decision but, Colorado is a state that has laws against denying L-Q people what they want so, back to court Philipps goes and this Lawyer has stated, if he loses, he'll come up with another cake and another lawsuit. One he suggested? Satan smoking a joint.
The Colorado Supreme Court is likely to do it's Leftist thing and just throw it back to SCOTUS, which will remind the nation of its previous decision and this boat will drift and drift and drift.
Why? Why must those in the L-Q community feel everyone must accept their lifestyle choices? It is never going to happen. So, they will attempt to financially harass, oppress and destroy all the lives who reject their lifestyle choices.
"You shall know them by their fruits."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Current Condition?
I'm showing the copy and paste of a section of a Christian News site; the Christian Post -
Pastors say there's a dire need for forgiveness, lament some Christians not in ‘forgiving mood’
By Nicole Alcindor
When some Christians hear the words “forgive” or “forgiveness,” it might bring up feelings of grief, painful memories or bitterness and resentment toward others.
The Christian church is not in a good place. The current condition is weak. That seems quite obvious. Its influence has waned, decade by decade. Current circumstances of "revivals" associated with college campuses notwithstanding, the prevailing American culture is not much interested in religion, at all, let alone the Christian faith. While I have commented on this for years in seminars going back into the 1980's, it is still sad to see because the American nation was founded on principles of faith common to the Protestant Reformation of Europe and especially Great Britain. But this lack of fervor shows one, sure thing - "revival" may be upon us.
Now remember, Revelation predicts a "revival" which will see great "miracle-working" power claimed to be from God. It will change the face of America and ultimately the entire world will be scooped up into the delusion. Along with that, the growth of spiritualism will catapult along side this "revival." More and more shall visitations from "the other side" be experienced by the populace. Ultimately, the growth and influence of the Papacy will exponentially develop. As well, at some point, Satan shall personate Christ as an "angel of light;" a Christ presence teaching the same things as the Gospels show us and hails of "peace and safety" shall arise. The one, big difference? No adherence to the Law of God concerning the Fourth commandment. The false Christ shall proclaim the Law has been changed.
In all of this taking place the Law of God shall become a pivotal point of reference for the entire world. Ultimately God's law versus man's law will stage the final split between humanity: sheep and goats, Mother/Daughters/Kings of the Earth at odds with the "Remnant" which keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. Can it actually come down to a day of the week? Indeed. Simple, yet completely thorough to show who stands on which side of the controversy. God's Word or mankind's traditions?
Satan has brought about conditions that have set up this coming "revival." I place the word in quotes because it shall be a revival without the necessary element of true revival: reformation. Revival without reformation - reformed lives that give examples of Christ within, the hope of glory; sanctification of body, soul and spirit: physical, emotional and intellectual reformation changing lives to live by a thus saith the Lord - is not God's revival. It is the enemy's. It's all about emotions and "highs," unequipped to deal with the lows of battling self.
When will this false revival take place? I don't know. God knows. He asks us to be watchful. When it hits, we'll know. It will not remain focused upon campuses of educational institutions or local church confines. No, this will go coast to coast, like fire through a dry, summer field. It will not be about preachers. It will be about supernatural occurrences: "all power, signs and lying wonders." It will be time for Satan to pull out every trick in his bag, every illusion and delusion in his trunk of deceptions.
The current situation in the Mid-East plays into the hands of futurist commentators. Everything is a Satanic manipulation of events to set up more events. As the devilish dominoes fall, it all leads to the final showdown.
No joke. This could be the beginning of the end.
The armor of God is essential now, more than ever -
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Pastors say there's a dire need for forgiveness, lament some Christians not in ‘forgiving mood’
By Nicole Alcindor
When some Christians hear the words “forgive” or “forgiveness,” it might bring up feelings of grief, painful memories or bitterness and resentment toward others.
- Pastors, churches still struggling in throes of ‘uncertainty and unsettledness’ post-pandemic: study
- As pastors age, majority struggle to find mature young Christian successors: study
- Nearly 70% of churchgoers have 'a growing sense of fear': Lifeway Research
The Christian church is not in a good place. The current condition is weak. That seems quite obvious. Its influence has waned, decade by decade. Current circumstances of "revivals" associated with college campuses notwithstanding, the prevailing American culture is not much interested in religion, at all, let alone the Christian faith. While I have commented on this for years in seminars going back into the 1980's, it is still sad to see because the American nation was founded on principles of faith common to the Protestant Reformation of Europe and especially Great Britain. But this lack of fervor shows one, sure thing - "revival" may be upon us.
Now remember, Revelation predicts a "revival" which will see great "miracle-working" power claimed to be from God. It will change the face of America and ultimately the entire world will be scooped up into the delusion. Along with that, the growth of spiritualism will catapult along side this "revival." More and more shall visitations from "the other side" be experienced by the populace. Ultimately, the growth and influence of the Papacy will exponentially develop. As well, at some point, Satan shall personate Christ as an "angel of light;" a Christ presence teaching the same things as the Gospels show us and hails of "peace and safety" shall arise. The one, big difference? No adherence to the Law of God concerning the Fourth commandment. The false Christ shall proclaim the Law has been changed.
In all of this taking place the Law of God shall become a pivotal point of reference for the entire world. Ultimately God's law versus man's law will stage the final split between humanity: sheep and goats, Mother/Daughters/Kings of the Earth at odds with the "Remnant" which keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. Can it actually come down to a day of the week? Indeed. Simple, yet completely thorough to show who stands on which side of the controversy. God's Word or mankind's traditions?
Satan has brought about conditions that have set up this coming "revival." I place the word in quotes because it shall be a revival without the necessary element of true revival: reformation. Revival without reformation - reformed lives that give examples of Christ within, the hope of glory; sanctification of body, soul and spirit: physical, emotional and intellectual reformation changing lives to live by a thus saith the Lord - is not God's revival. It is the enemy's. It's all about emotions and "highs," unequipped to deal with the lows of battling self.
When will this false revival take place? I don't know. God knows. He asks us to be watchful. When it hits, we'll know. It will not remain focused upon campuses of educational institutions or local church confines. No, this will go coast to coast, like fire through a dry, summer field. It will not be about preachers. It will be about supernatural occurrences: "all power, signs and lying wonders." It will be time for Satan to pull out every trick in his bag, every illusion and delusion in his trunk of deceptions.
The current situation in the Mid-East plays into the hands of futurist commentators. Everything is a Satanic manipulation of events to set up more events. As the devilish dominoes fall, it all leads to the final showdown.
No joke. This could be the beginning of the end.
The armor of God is essential now, more than ever -
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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ETs: Have You Ever Noticed?
While I watch the Annular Eclipse (using 6 pairs of sunglasses stacked together), I was thinking about the entire UFO phenomena and all it encompasses: the researchers all these decades, Hollywood, the "experiencers," and all the rest; with the BIG question before humanity - Are We Alone in the Universe? Then all the current things going on with NASA and the Navy; private and public airlines; Congress, all of it... do you believe we are alone?
I am a Bible-believing Christian. I believe, based on the Bible, we are not alone. I have gotten into that at length so, I won't rehearse it all here but, for those who do not believe in the Creator, and believe life was either seeded by an alien race of some kind or, life arose by accident, without purpose, without reason, without design, as you believe it has around the universe; how is it "aliens" generally are portrayed with 1 head, 2 eyes, 1 mouth 1 nose, 2 ears, 1 torso, 2 arms, 2 hands, 2 legs and 2 feet? The number of fingers and toes may vary but, all the people, thousands of them now, that have come forward in the last century around the world, who have supposedly had first hand contact with "aliens," abductions and all, all depict them with that same general physical form?
If life from nothing is true, what do you suppose the mathematical odds are that blind, purposeless, unguided, undirected and non-designed life could form into the same basic creatures all over the galaxy; all around the universe? Even if you make a distinction between bipedal and quadruped creatures, it is still 4 limbs, 2 feet/ 2 wings whatever. Insects are divided by 6 and 8 limbs. Then there are the centi and milli-creatures.
How did we get from a single cell to what we see today, by accidents? I am not a mathematician. I don't need to be. Others are and have worked out the chances of what we see being a series of mutations over time and frankly, not enough time to address all the aspects of systems and symbiotic relationships that exist for survival within and between creatures with plant lifeforms. The numbers have more zeros than materialists care to address for their survival.
I do not believe extraterrestrials visit Earth, aside from members of the angelic hosts of God or Lucifer and his hosts; cast down to Earth and shall be destroyed here but, ask 100 people today if they believe life exists beyond Earth and the percentages are well above 50% and some surveys put it at 80%. How things have changed in 70 years.
Hollywood has gotten into some greater variations with special effects and CGI but, for the most part, even the most grotesque aliens are the same body type as humanity. They just change head shapes, stuff a thousand teeth into their mouths and have them drool like tired St. Bernard's and offer variations like that. Superman gets to be massively handsome, buffed and stronger than ten thousand elephants, with the rest of his extraterrestrial package. And with all that some green rocks can kill him.
I have no idea what lifeforms are like that God has created out there. We get a glimpse in visions prophets have had. I do not deny the symbolism in such visions, nor do I deny the absolute possibility God has created creatures just as they are depicted -
Eze 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
Eze 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Eze 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Eze 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Eze 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Eze 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Rev 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Rev 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Rev 4:9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Rev 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
There are those who see such things as no different than anything that Hollywood dreams up. Then there are those who proclaim that Hollywood could never change their lives the way God has, and they trust His word far more than they would ever trust a Hollywood script. No Hollywood script has ever or will ever predict future events centuries in advance. God can, has and lets us know the end of all things is drawing closer.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I am a Bible-believing Christian. I believe, based on the Bible, we are not alone. I have gotten into that at length so, I won't rehearse it all here but, for those who do not believe in the Creator, and believe life was either seeded by an alien race of some kind or, life arose by accident, without purpose, without reason, without design, as you believe it has around the universe; how is it "aliens" generally are portrayed with 1 head, 2 eyes, 1 mouth 1 nose, 2 ears, 1 torso, 2 arms, 2 hands, 2 legs and 2 feet? The number of fingers and toes may vary but, all the people, thousands of them now, that have come forward in the last century around the world, who have supposedly had first hand contact with "aliens," abductions and all, all depict them with that same general physical form?
If life from nothing is true, what do you suppose the mathematical odds are that blind, purposeless, unguided, undirected and non-designed life could form into the same basic creatures all over the galaxy; all around the universe? Even if you make a distinction between bipedal and quadruped creatures, it is still 4 limbs, 2 feet/ 2 wings whatever. Insects are divided by 6 and 8 limbs. Then there are the centi and milli-creatures.
How did we get from a single cell to what we see today, by accidents? I am not a mathematician. I don't need to be. Others are and have worked out the chances of what we see being a series of mutations over time and frankly, not enough time to address all the aspects of systems and symbiotic relationships that exist for survival within and between creatures with plant lifeforms. The numbers have more zeros than materialists care to address for their survival.
I do not believe extraterrestrials visit Earth, aside from members of the angelic hosts of God or Lucifer and his hosts; cast down to Earth and shall be destroyed here but, ask 100 people today if they believe life exists beyond Earth and the percentages are well above 50% and some surveys put it at 80%. How things have changed in 70 years.
Hollywood has gotten into some greater variations with special effects and CGI but, for the most part, even the most grotesque aliens are the same body type as humanity. They just change head shapes, stuff a thousand teeth into their mouths and have them drool like tired St. Bernard's and offer variations like that. Superman gets to be massively handsome, buffed and stronger than ten thousand elephants, with the rest of his extraterrestrial package. And with all that some green rocks can kill him.
I have no idea what lifeforms are like that God has created out there. We get a glimpse in visions prophets have had. I do not deny the symbolism in such visions, nor do I deny the absolute possibility God has created creatures just as they are depicted -
Eze 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
Eze 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Eze 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Eze 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Eze 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Eze 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Rev 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Rev 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Rev 4:9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Rev 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
There are those who see such things as no different than anything that Hollywood dreams up. Then there are those who proclaim that Hollywood could never change their lives the way God has, and they trust His word far more than they would ever trust a Hollywood script. No Hollywood script has ever or will ever predict future events centuries in advance. God can, has and lets us know the end of all things is drawing closer.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Here We Go.
Question The Official Narrative.
Only because the general professed Christian church gives unwavering, unquestioned support to Israel am I going to get into this.
My theological positions on Israel are sound. My political positions do not support Israel because of things I have read over the years about Zionism; which is not necessarily the same as the beliefs of the general Israeli population.
It's the same basic premise with the Muslim Brotherhood and the general population of Islam around the world. Many Muslims, following the early teachings of Muhammed, desire to live in peace. To them, Jihad is a battle with self, the same as Christians battle with the lower nature and sinful desires. To others, Islam is a religion that follows the later teachings of Muhammed after his time in Medina, after which he then became a warlord. Jihad for them is war against infidels.
Zionism is a radical Judaism. The Muslim Brotherhood wants a world-wide Caliphate in control of the planet. Zionism's leaders want the same for Jews: world-wide control, a mandate from "God." The Vatican's doctrine, older than them all, is world-wide domination, as well; another mandate from "God." Central players in the American empire seek the same for the U.S. Everything is a game of power and powers seeking dominance and control. Throw in the world bankers, the huge investment firms, and China and you have a global game board in constant motion and activity.
That said, I question all news that comes out of Israel from "official" channels. As the story unfolds, these initial attacks against Israel by Hamas lasted 6 HOURS before any kind of response or defensive actions were taken. Do you know the size of Israel? Israel is the size of Vermont or New Hampshire. It's population is around 10 million. The population of New Hampshire is 1.4 million. Israel's borders are the most protected borders on Earth. Especially is that the case with the border of the Gaza strip; a postage stamp area on the Mediterranean sea. The small state of Rhode Island is 11 times bigger than the Gaza strip and has half the population. Every adult in Israel has military training. That is the law. Everyone is always on guard. Semi-automatic or automatic weapons are everywhere. It is a common-place sight. How did Hamas pull off such an attack for six hours before Israel got defensive with it? Sending rockets in, sure, if Hamas has them. Crossing the border and murdering and kidnapping Israelis? Say what? It makes no sense. None. Six hours? The only way such an event takes place is if the military is asleep. The Israeli military does not sleep. It is the hotspot of planet Earth, surrounded by enemies constantly threatening their existence, 24/7.
What is the answer to this question? Logically, as people are now asking it, was the military told to stand down so a war could be started and deal with the Gaza strip once and for all? Military leaders are now stating Gaza has no citizens that are not Hamas; therefore all people in Gaza are targets for Israeli occupation and death. And anybody wonders why protests against Israel are taking place around the world? I DO NOT SUPPORT HAMAS. Nor do I support the State of Israel. Christians treat Israel like it is a mandate from God. They look at the State of Israel as though Moses or King David were in charge. Israel is not the Old Testament theocracy. It is not the chosen people. It is just another State power on Earth with some citizens that have a unique history. There is no High Priest or priesthood. There is no king. There are no judges. There is nothing biblical about the modern nation save for the ground it is on. And THAT is the issue for the State. God gave ancient Israel land. Modern Israeli State machinations want all that land. They seem to annex land and Arab neighborhoods with abandon and cry "Poor Us, Jewish victims" as soon as people say, "Hey, hey, hey. You can't do that."
The Israeli military, backed and supported by American money and arms, is the most powerful in the region. Arab nations hate Israel. Arab nations want Israel wiped off the face of the Earth but, they have no way to do it. Israel has been losing influence in America. The American military industrial complex loves war. Israel starts a war. America instantly backs it.
There is just no believable way Hamas pulls off six hours of ground movement on Israeli territory without notice. Israeli war planes should have been in the air within 15 minutes or less of the initial attack. We are talking about postage stamp-sized territory.
It has become a fact of life. No State official story can be believed anymore. Corruption is just too deep and wide.
Believe what you will. For me, if it isn't logical, if it exists outside known facts, if it challenges common sense, I am not on board until absolute proof is offered. September 11, 2001 taught me that hard lesson. America knew ahead of time. American interests used the event, just like Pearl Harbor was known and used as a pretext for war.
America has been in military conflict with someone, somewhere for all but 15 years of its existence. It can be called the most warlike nation in modern history. With its principles of freedom and liberty, it remains an enigma to the world; questioned, hated and yet, sought after for the whole planet's suffering populations.
Now, America stands on the precipice of a major war once again. After 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia (which should be an ally and would be if Trump were in office), it now is going to enter armed conflict with Iran and terrorist factions supported by Arab nations, on Arab soil again? MADNESS. Absolute, unequivocal madness.
America is supposed to enter war if attacked, with a vote from Congress. Not anymore. The rule of law be damned. The American government lives for war. Kickbacks from the M.I.A. for the war chests of politicians and their state projects. The constant corruption is inestimable.
The nation is just borrowing money from China to fight wars. If China calls on the debt? There is only one power that could bail it out - the Vatican; the nation state of the Roman Catholic Church. And what price would America give in exchange for that bailout? Codifying Rome's mark of ecclesiastical authority.
Way too far out, you say? We'll see.
God help us.
My theological positions on Israel are sound. My political positions do not support Israel because of things I have read over the years about Zionism; which is not necessarily the same as the beliefs of the general Israeli population.
It's the same basic premise with the Muslim Brotherhood and the general population of Islam around the world. Many Muslims, following the early teachings of Muhammed, desire to live in peace. To them, Jihad is a battle with self, the same as Christians battle with the lower nature and sinful desires. To others, Islam is a religion that follows the later teachings of Muhammed after his time in Medina, after which he then became a warlord. Jihad for them is war against infidels.
Zionism is a radical Judaism. The Muslim Brotherhood wants a world-wide Caliphate in control of the planet. Zionism's leaders want the same for Jews: world-wide control, a mandate from "God." The Vatican's doctrine, older than them all, is world-wide domination, as well; another mandate from "God." Central players in the American empire seek the same for the U.S. Everything is a game of power and powers seeking dominance and control. Throw in the world bankers, the huge investment firms, and China and you have a global game board in constant motion and activity.
That said, I question all news that comes out of Israel from "official" channels. As the story unfolds, these initial attacks against Israel by Hamas lasted 6 HOURS before any kind of response or defensive actions were taken. Do you know the size of Israel? Israel is the size of Vermont or New Hampshire. It's population is around 10 million. The population of New Hampshire is 1.4 million. Israel's borders are the most protected borders on Earth. Especially is that the case with the border of the Gaza strip; a postage stamp area on the Mediterranean sea. The small state of Rhode Island is 11 times bigger than the Gaza strip and has half the population. Every adult in Israel has military training. That is the law. Everyone is always on guard. Semi-automatic or automatic weapons are everywhere. It is a common-place sight. How did Hamas pull off such an attack for six hours before Israel got defensive with it? Sending rockets in, sure, if Hamas has them. Crossing the border and murdering and kidnapping Israelis? Say what? It makes no sense. None. Six hours? The only way such an event takes place is if the military is asleep. The Israeli military does not sleep. It is the hotspot of planet Earth, surrounded by enemies constantly threatening their existence, 24/7.
What is the answer to this question? Logically, as people are now asking it, was the military told to stand down so a war could be started and deal with the Gaza strip once and for all? Military leaders are now stating Gaza has no citizens that are not Hamas; therefore all people in Gaza are targets for Israeli occupation and death. And anybody wonders why protests against Israel are taking place around the world? I DO NOT SUPPORT HAMAS. Nor do I support the State of Israel. Christians treat Israel like it is a mandate from God. They look at the State of Israel as though Moses or King David were in charge. Israel is not the Old Testament theocracy. It is not the chosen people. It is just another State power on Earth with some citizens that have a unique history. There is no High Priest or priesthood. There is no king. There are no judges. There is nothing biblical about the modern nation save for the ground it is on. And THAT is the issue for the State. God gave ancient Israel land. Modern Israeli State machinations want all that land. They seem to annex land and Arab neighborhoods with abandon and cry "Poor Us, Jewish victims" as soon as people say, "Hey, hey, hey. You can't do that."
The Israeli military, backed and supported by American money and arms, is the most powerful in the region. Arab nations hate Israel. Arab nations want Israel wiped off the face of the Earth but, they have no way to do it. Israel has been losing influence in America. The American military industrial complex loves war. Israel starts a war. America instantly backs it.
There is just no believable way Hamas pulls off six hours of ground movement on Israeli territory without notice. Israeli war planes should have been in the air within 15 minutes or less of the initial attack. We are talking about postage stamp-sized territory.
It has become a fact of life. No State official story can be believed anymore. Corruption is just too deep and wide.
Believe what you will. For me, if it isn't logical, if it exists outside known facts, if it challenges common sense, I am not on board until absolute proof is offered. September 11, 2001 taught me that hard lesson. America knew ahead of time. American interests used the event, just like Pearl Harbor was known and used as a pretext for war.
America has been in military conflict with someone, somewhere for all but 15 years of its existence. It can be called the most warlike nation in modern history. With its principles of freedom and liberty, it remains an enigma to the world; questioned, hated and yet, sought after for the whole planet's suffering populations.
Now, America stands on the precipice of a major war once again. After 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia (which should be an ally and would be if Trump were in office), it now is going to enter armed conflict with Iran and terrorist factions supported by Arab nations, on Arab soil again? MADNESS. Absolute, unequivocal madness.
America is supposed to enter war if attacked, with a vote from Congress. Not anymore. The rule of law be damned. The American government lives for war. Kickbacks from the M.I.A. for the war chests of politicians and their state projects. The constant corruption is inestimable.
The nation is just borrowing money from China to fight wars. If China calls on the debt? There is only one power that could bail it out - the Vatican; the nation state of the Roman Catholic Church. And what price would America give in exchange for that bailout? Codifying Rome's mark of ecclesiastical authority.
Way too far out, you say? We'll see.
God help us.
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LEGEND Update
Ah, something much more pleasant to post about. Here it is, October 15th already but, with a couple tweaks, song #6 will be finished; Against the Beast. That leaves two to go.
It is impossible for me to convey my feelings in listening to these songs every week. The masterful jobs Martin, Janne and now Tom is doing literally creates in me a satisfaction I have not felt in a very long time. So many little things to listen to; so different from the original recording, yet it spans the decades with a familiarity that is so cool it brings tears to these tired eyes.
I realize the nature of the entire project is odd for some people who know me or, have known me. Fans that know about the project, and will know about it before its release may wonder with, hopefully energetic interest. And I certainly hope all who hear it are moved by the results.
The next song is in place of The Iron Horse. It's now The Gospel Train and still contains a drum solo, albeit different from the original. I did that one then. I saw no need to try and replicate it now. I'm different now, playing a different drum set in a totally different environment and time of life. As with all the songs, the arrangements stay the same but, details enter the flow that are just different because of all the circumstances involved.
I have left all elements of "humanity" injected into my tracks. You'll hear them. I saw no need to mask anything. Reality is reality and given the nature of what I went through to pull this off, every wrinkle is a badge of honor. I'm still vertical and ventilating.
I don't know why but, the songs strike me as more than multi-genre this time around. It all sounds more musical somehow, and I can't really explain that. I listen to the mixes the same as I'd listen to Classical music or Jazz. Despite the Rock foundation I hear melody, harmony and rhythm. Music.
Tom is doing an excellent job. I knew he would when he found his zone and groove with it all. I definitely look forward to hearing the fidelity of this next song.
Onward>>>
It is impossible for me to convey my feelings in listening to these songs every week. The masterful jobs Martin, Janne and now Tom is doing literally creates in me a satisfaction I have not felt in a very long time. So many little things to listen to; so different from the original recording, yet it spans the decades with a familiarity that is so cool it brings tears to these tired eyes.
I realize the nature of the entire project is odd for some people who know me or, have known me. Fans that know about the project, and will know about it before its release may wonder with, hopefully energetic interest. And I certainly hope all who hear it are moved by the results.
The next song is in place of The Iron Horse. It's now The Gospel Train and still contains a drum solo, albeit different from the original. I did that one then. I saw no need to try and replicate it now. I'm different now, playing a different drum set in a totally different environment and time of life. As with all the songs, the arrangements stay the same but, details enter the flow that are just different because of all the circumstances involved.
I have left all elements of "humanity" injected into my tracks. You'll hear them. I saw no need to mask anything. Reality is reality and given the nature of what I went through to pull this off, every wrinkle is a badge of honor. I'm still vertical and ventilating.
I don't know why but, the songs strike me as more than multi-genre this time around. It all sounds more musical somehow, and I can't really explain that. I listen to the mixes the same as I'd listen to Classical music or Jazz. Despite the Rock foundation I hear melody, harmony and rhythm. Music.
Tom is doing an excellent job. I knew he would when he found his zone and groove with it all. I definitely look forward to hearing the fidelity of this next song.
Onward>>>
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854. Just What Is Free Speech? - October 17, 2023
Free speech, what it is or perceived to be, is not "free." Millions, hundreds of millions have died trying to maintain it down through time. Actually, the number would be much more than that. 200 million people were killed in the 20th century, alone, trying to get or keep freedom of speech. They gave their lives to keep free speech as a part of society's way of guarding against tyranny. Very tough to do when kings, queens, emperors, and other top-dog heads of state had total say of what happens within their domain. History shows all efforts to contain speech or keep it within official boundaries always involved or led to tyranny and totalitarianism.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
Those words from the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, mention powerful principles.
"Self-evident." Obvious. Cannot mistake or miss it. Clear. Requiring no proof or explanation.
Mankind is "created."
The Creator has "endowed" mankind "with certain inalienable rights" - rights you cannot be alienated or separated from.
"Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness." I have mentioned the differences between freedom and liberty before. Freedom is what you think, say and do. Liberty is the legal power and authority to do it. The Declaration, written before the Constitution and Bill of Rights, states that liberty, legal authority and right to think, speak and do, comes from the authority of the Creator and His code of law, His government, His divine will. Our Founders recognized a fact that cannot be put aside for any form of government. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness for each individual, cannot be put aside for the majority or any portion thereof, if the individual's rights place no other free person in harm's way; i.e. yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Civil liberty cannot infringe upon the civil liberty of others. Even more so when it comes to morality. Religion deals with morality. Civil Government deals with civil liberty. And government is established to secure these rights, NOT take them away.
This is why civil servants swear allegiance to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. If civil servants seek to take away rights; inalienable rights granted by the Creator, they run grossly afoul of their entire reliance on "the providence of divine protection" and must be removed from civil service. The only protection Americans have is the Constitution; the rule of law, not kings, not rulers of any kind and the Founders understood that, keenly. They dealt with kings and tyranny. They said, No More.
The first Amendment to the Constitution protects essential rights that must never be infringed -
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
That amendment addresses bottom-line, foundational principles that must remain strong and intact or tyranny is not long from the point it is challenged and done away with.
Covid saw the removal of the first amendment from American life. Government representatives, swearing allegiance to the Constitution, shut down churches; shut down everything. To make matters worse, they decided what truth is and began censoring, removing, through their various supportive entities in social media, anything that was at variance with the "official" pronouncements of the illness and how to treat it. There is NO EMERGENCY clause in the Constitution. There is no, 'It shall be this way UNLESS...' There is no "Government has the right to nullify the Constitution" if circumstances, decided by government representatives, warrant it.
Freedom of speech; LIBERTY of speech was openly attacked, both legally and morally by those who felt freedom, liberty to speak one's mind, should be stopped for the good of the nation and the world. BS. Total, absolute, unbridled BS. Evidence showed and continues to show it was all about control; an experiment of control and worse.
That is Covid and the Plandemic and hopefully the ignorance of the majority of the world's population has open eyes about that tyranny now and have been educated by observance and experience on that matter. They will not stop the death of death and disability deriving from the injections. That will manifest itself for years to come.
Freedom of speech was seen by the Founders as an inalienable right granted by God. All they did was make it legally protected by the new American code of national law. What is freedom of speech? It is the right to utter hard speech, negative speech, unpopular speech, uncouth speech, frightening speech, humorous speech, immoral speech, any speech that does not cause potential physical harm: and who decides what is potential harm? NOT government. God forbid. In the American system, the courts are established to address civil harm among citizens. Government civil servants are not to be arbiters of information correctness. If they get that power they are then one step away from tyranny and totalitarian control.
If someone promotes a remedy for Covid that is unhealthful, individual Americans have the right to try whatever they want and if they are harmed, if they think they are harmed by a type of medication being promoted by someone as safe and effective, they can take that someone to court and battle out the facts of the matter before a judge and jury. Government reps in Congress, the courts, the executive branch are not to tell Americans what they can and cannot do for their health but, all of that has now been breached.
It is a fact that through the influence of Fauci and company, the drug companies have been removed from legal recourse by laws made in the 1980s, when it comes to vaccines. Why? A hundred different reasons surrounding money in politics and corruption in the companies. Fauci has a history Americans have not been made privy to until very recently. Trump should have known that history. Trump should have known a lot more than he did and if he knew it, he is as guilty as Fauci and company: the CDC, the WHO, the AMA and others. Again, this is against the background of Covid.
My point of this post is liberty. For America to stay America, citizens must have the inalienable right to free speech protected or it is no longer America.
I state things here regarding religion and prophecy that could certainly offend Catholics, Protestants, atheists, agnostics, materialists, naturalists, pagans and others. Up until recent times no one had a right not to be offended. Now, you can be sued and in some "free" nations even arrested for offending people by something you say or write. It may be true as the needle to the pole but, if someone is upset by it a person can be placed in incarceration. HOW is that possible in a nation with citizen's rights to speak and write freely? You cannot slander someone. You cannot libel someone; cause harm to their life or employment or business without absolute proof. But proof no longer means much. Feelings are the thing today. How does something make you feel? It is the dumbing down of the population against what is far more important - the rule of law and what is right and what is wrong: scientifically, medically, historically, biblically, factually. Nobody's feelings are more important than the Constitution's provisions for protection from government tyranny. It is the foundation. Crack it and the entire structure falls. That is why it is being attacked, at least ignored by almost the entire Washington, D.C. establishment. They want total control. They can never have it if the Constitution remains the most powerful influence in government.
Free speech is not about what everyone agrees with. Who needs a right to agree with everyone? A right to disagree is what is absolutely necessary to maintain the safety and security of the Republic. That protects the small from the big, the weak from the strong, the poor from the rich, those with no influence from those with much.
I am disgusted by what Leftists did all during Trump's presidency. The established n lower depths of gross than ever in American history. Disgusted, yes but, understanding their right to do or say or write what they wanted about the man. If they crossed a line, it was up to Trump to take people to court for redress of grievances.
Obama once said, 'Say what you want about me but, my kids are off-limits.' No, they are not. The moment he entered public life his family became citizens of interest. Children are not exempt from public examination. Out of courtesy they generally are but, in the case of Joe Biden and his son, that sorrowful soul could and should be the lynch pin that topples Biden's presidency for high crimes and misdemeanors. Courtesy is way past credulity. The Biden family has been shown to have committed felonies as public and private citizens. Why are they not prosecuted? Because D.C. no longer functions under the rule of law and the Constitution. It functions under money; corporate, world money. Everybody is bought and sold and beholding to money: international corporation money. And that means the end of the United States of America.
When? I don't know. Logically, soon. Inevitable. If God does not intervene, I see little hope for survival of the Republic. Truly. And I say again, no politician, no public servant can save America now. Only the Creator can.
God help us.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
Those words from the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, mention powerful principles.
"Self-evident." Obvious. Cannot mistake or miss it. Clear. Requiring no proof or explanation.
Mankind is "created."
The Creator has "endowed" mankind "with certain inalienable rights" - rights you cannot be alienated or separated from.
"Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness." I have mentioned the differences between freedom and liberty before. Freedom is what you think, say and do. Liberty is the legal power and authority to do it. The Declaration, written before the Constitution and Bill of Rights, states that liberty, legal authority and right to think, speak and do, comes from the authority of the Creator and His code of law, His government, His divine will. Our Founders recognized a fact that cannot be put aside for any form of government. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness for each individual, cannot be put aside for the majority or any portion thereof, if the individual's rights place no other free person in harm's way; i.e. yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Civil liberty cannot infringe upon the civil liberty of others. Even more so when it comes to morality. Religion deals with morality. Civil Government deals with civil liberty. And government is established to secure these rights, NOT take them away.
This is why civil servants swear allegiance to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. If civil servants seek to take away rights; inalienable rights granted by the Creator, they run grossly afoul of their entire reliance on "the providence of divine protection" and must be removed from civil service. The only protection Americans have is the Constitution; the rule of law, not kings, not rulers of any kind and the Founders understood that, keenly. They dealt with kings and tyranny. They said, No More.
The first Amendment to the Constitution protects essential rights that must never be infringed -
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
That amendment addresses bottom-line, foundational principles that must remain strong and intact or tyranny is not long from the point it is challenged and done away with.
Covid saw the removal of the first amendment from American life. Government representatives, swearing allegiance to the Constitution, shut down churches; shut down everything. To make matters worse, they decided what truth is and began censoring, removing, through their various supportive entities in social media, anything that was at variance with the "official" pronouncements of the illness and how to treat it. There is NO EMERGENCY clause in the Constitution. There is no, 'It shall be this way UNLESS...' There is no "Government has the right to nullify the Constitution" if circumstances, decided by government representatives, warrant it.
Freedom of speech; LIBERTY of speech was openly attacked, both legally and morally by those who felt freedom, liberty to speak one's mind, should be stopped for the good of the nation and the world. BS. Total, absolute, unbridled BS. Evidence showed and continues to show it was all about control; an experiment of control and worse.
That is Covid and the Plandemic and hopefully the ignorance of the majority of the world's population has open eyes about that tyranny now and have been educated by observance and experience on that matter. They will not stop the death of death and disability deriving from the injections. That will manifest itself for years to come.
Freedom of speech was seen by the Founders as an inalienable right granted by God. All they did was make it legally protected by the new American code of national law. What is freedom of speech? It is the right to utter hard speech, negative speech, unpopular speech, uncouth speech, frightening speech, humorous speech, immoral speech, any speech that does not cause potential physical harm: and who decides what is potential harm? NOT government. God forbid. In the American system, the courts are established to address civil harm among citizens. Government civil servants are not to be arbiters of information correctness. If they get that power they are then one step away from tyranny and totalitarian control.
If someone promotes a remedy for Covid that is unhealthful, individual Americans have the right to try whatever they want and if they are harmed, if they think they are harmed by a type of medication being promoted by someone as safe and effective, they can take that someone to court and battle out the facts of the matter before a judge and jury. Government reps in Congress, the courts, the executive branch are not to tell Americans what they can and cannot do for their health but, all of that has now been breached.
It is a fact that through the influence of Fauci and company, the drug companies have been removed from legal recourse by laws made in the 1980s, when it comes to vaccines. Why? A hundred different reasons surrounding money in politics and corruption in the companies. Fauci has a history Americans have not been made privy to until very recently. Trump should have known that history. Trump should have known a lot more than he did and if he knew it, he is as guilty as Fauci and company: the CDC, the WHO, the AMA and others. Again, this is against the background of Covid.
My point of this post is liberty. For America to stay America, citizens must have the inalienable right to free speech protected or it is no longer America.
I state things here regarding religion and prophecy that could certainly offend Catholics, Protestants, atheists, agnostics, materialists, naturalists, pagans and others. Up until recent times no one had a right not to be offended. Now, you can be sued and in some "free" nations even arrested for offending people by something you say or write. It may be true as the needle to the pole but, if someone is upset by it a person can be placed in incarceration. HOW is that possible in a nation with citizen's rights to speak and write freely? You cannot slander someone. You cannot libel someone; cause harm to their life or employment or business without absolute proof. But proof no longer means much. Feelings are the thing today. How does something make you feel? It is the dumbing down of the population against what is far more important - the rule of law and what is right and what is wrong: scientifically, medically, historically, biblically, factually. Nobody's feelings are more important than the Constitution's provisions for protection from government tyranny. It is the foundation. Crack it and the entire structure falls. That is why it is being attacked, at least ignored by almost the entire Washington, D.C. establishment. They want total control. They can never have it if the Constitution remains the most powerful influence in government.
Free speech is not about what everyone agrees with. Who needs a right to agree with everyone? A right to disagree is what is absolutely necessary to maintain the safety and security of the Republic. That protects the small from the big, the weak from the strong, the poor from the rich, those with no influence from those with much.
I am disgusted by what Leftists did all during Trump's presidency. The established n lower depths of gross than ever in American history. Disgusted, yes but, understanding their right to do or say or write what they wanted about the man. If they crossed a line, it was up to Trump to take people to court for redress of grievances.
Obama once said, 'Say what you want about me but, my kids are off-limits.' No, they are not. The moment he entered public life his family became citizens of interest. Children are not exempt from public examination. Out of courtesy they generally are but, in the case of Joe Biden and his son, that sorrowful soul could and should be the lynch pin that topples Biden's presidency for high crimes and misdemeanors. Courtesy is way past credulity. The Biden family has been shown to have committed felonies as public and private citizens. Why are they not prosecuted? Because D.C. no longer functions under the rule of law and the Constitution. It functions under money; corporate, world money. Everybody is bought and sold and beholding to money: international corporation money. And that means the end of the United States of America.
When? I don't know. Logically, soon. Inevitable. If God does not intervene, I see little hope for survival of the Republic. Truly. And I say again, no politician, no public servant can save America now. Only the Creator can.
God help us.
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No Drums, Anymore?
Throughout the course of life, many players stop playing their chosen instrument, regardless of what it is, and those who play a drum set are no different. It has been that way for ever, really. We know that by all the buyers of vintage drums who come upon "treasures" in basements, attics, garages, storage sheds, closets and the like.
Marriage, children, moves, job changes, just time elements involved and people who love playing just make other choices for their time. I did it when I became a Christian. I sold everything to pay the debt on the album project, and I went into ministry and bought evangelistic equipment for doing seminars. I bought a couple small sets and sold them to buy more stuff for seminars. I always had sticks and pads around.
When the bug hit me to play again more seriously because of ideas I had for a band, I didn't just get back into it; I began making my own drums and never looked back.
Once the new album was in Tom's hands for mixing, circumstances here changed enough that I just took it all down and packed it all up. It's been months now. I have so many plates spinning on just basic aspects of life, I have no time to sit down and play with the kind of motivation necessary to enjoy it but, yeah, I miss playing. The way things have worked out in my life, I may never have the environment to play again. I'll be in a literal survival mode and maybe have the room for my Trapkat somewhere, or not. It needs repairs. That is not in the budget right now so, for the foreseeable future, no drums.
For those of you who want to play but, do not have the circumstances or environment to do it, "I feel your pain." I hope your circumstances change. I know for both physical and mental reasons, I need to play. The possibilities of a recurring stroke generally sit in the 80 percentile of former victims. I need to cut that back; way back, and playing is something that enhances brain power. A number of studies have shown that. It's quite fascinating, actually. Drummers have a lot of neuro-activity that takes place and it all goes to enhance critical thinking, if the player chooses to use their brain power in that avenue. It isn't magic. It is all tied into choices we make, like everything else in life.
I hope I can have the environment to play again because, should the album do well enough for another project, I'll need a space to record. I have to leave it all in God's hands. There's nothing else I can do.
Play on.
Marriage, children, moves, job changes, just time elements involved and people who love playing just make other choices for their time. I did it when I became a Christian. I sold everything to pay the debt on the album project, and I went into ministry and bought evangelistic equipment for doing seminars. I bought a couple small sets and sold them to buy more stuff for seminars. I always had sticks and pads around.
When the bug hit me to play again more seriously because of ideas I had for a band, I didn't just get back into it; I began making my own drums and never looked back.
Once the new album was in Tom's hands for mixing, circumstances here changed enough that I just took it all down and packed it all up. It's been months now. I have so many plates spinning on just basic aspects of life, I have no time to sit down and play with the kind of motivation necessary to enjoy it but, yeah, I miss playing. The way things have worked out in my life, I may never have the environment to play again. I'll be in a literal survival mode and maybe have the room for my Trapkat somewhere, or not. It needs repairs. That is not in the budget right now so, for the foreseeable future, no drums.
For those of you who want to play but, do not have the circumstances or environment to do it, "I feel your pain." I hope your circumstances change. I know for both physical and mental reasons, I need to play. The possibilities of a recurring stroke generally sit in the 80 percentile of former victims. I need to cut that back; way back, and playing is something that enhances brain power. A number of studies have shown that. It's quite fascinating, actually. Drummers have a lot of neuro-activity that takes place and it all goes to enhance critical thinking, if the player chooses to use their brain power in that avenue. It isn't magic. It is all tied into choices we make, like everything else in life.
I hope I can have the environment to play again because, should the album do well enough for another project, I'll need a space to record. I have to leave it all in God's hands. There's nothing else I can do.
Play on.
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I'm Glad I am Not a Republican
I have read some things this afternoon that just makes me sad, if not angry.
I am not a Democrat, nor am I a Republican. I am a registered Independent.
It is my understanding Jim Jordan is the most popular and well-liked Republican in the House of Representatives. Americans like the man. He is one of the few straight shooters in D.C. who seems to truly care about how to govern, based on the Constitution. Why his fellows in the Party stabbed him in the back shows me the absolute nature of politics in D.C. is all about business, not governance. It's a sad day.
I can look past Nancy Pelosi's ridiculous comments about the speaker process and her ad hominem attacks on Jordan. There is zip about her that shows me she is an actual, bona fide American. But, to see how Jordan got shafted by members of his own Party in some secret meeting before the third vote... junk politics. It is why both parties are scared to death about Trump and Kennedy. Those men care about more than the business of politics.
I consider current Democrats traitors to their oaths. I consider Republicans; most of them, cowards. America is a mess because leaders could care less about the desires of their constituents who voted them in and everything is about getting re-elected and keeping the status quo intact. It is not just a swamp. It's a cesspool.
America is doomed because of it.
I am not a Democrat, nor am I a Republican. I am a registered Independent.
It is my understanding Jim Jordan is the most popular and well-liked Republican in the House of Representatives. Americans like the man. He is one of the few straight shooters in D.C. who seems to truly care about how to govern, based on the Constitution. Why his fellows in the Party stabbed him in the back shows me the absolute nature of politics in D.C. is all about business, not governance. It's a sad day.
I can look past Nancy Pelosi's ridiculous comments about the speaker process and her ad hominem attacks on Jordan. There is zip about her that shows me she is an actual, bona fide American. But, to see how Jordan got shafted by members of his own Party in some secret meeting before the third vote... junk politics. It is why both parties are scared to death about Trump and Kennedy. Those men care about more than the business of politics.
I consider current Democrats traitors to their oaths. I consider Republicans; most of them, cowards. America is a mess because leaders could care less about the desires of their constituents who voted them in and everything is about getting re-elected and keeping the status quo intact. It is not just a swamp. It's a cesspool.
America is doomed because of it.
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855. Why So Much Antisemitism? 10/21/23
In Dearborn, Michigan, where a very large Muslim population lives, thousands of students have walked out of classes to protest Israel and stand for Hamas and the Palestinians. The same is happening around the nation and around the world. Of course, one would expect this reaction where Muslim populations reside. As I mentioned previously, this antagonism and hatred between Arabs and Jews, generally, is thousands of years old. Any Westerners who come along thinking they can heal this and see the two groups stay perpetually calm towards each other - with agreements and concords and treaties and whatever other pen on paper documents get signed - has little understanding of what drives the madness. Especially is that the case when you add in the religion of Islam. That just makes things even more tense and explosive. And when I say "explosive" that is exactly what I mean.
This bomb that was supposedly dropped onto a hospital that killed 500 people, including children. Due diligence by reporters on the ground showed an explosion took place in the hospital parking lot. No missile from Israel hit the hospital. It hit the parking lot. What then? That remains mysteriously unknown but, seeing as Hamas and other terrorist organizations have used children as shields and have so little regard for life, the possibility emerges that some other entity blew up the hospital and is using that effort to cause an uprising among Islam against Jews, against Israel, against any people supporting them. Now that Joe Biden has declared he sides with Israel, after sending money to Palestinians, to Iran and leaving behind 80 billion dollars worth of military hardware for terrorists in Afghanistan to use, it is no wonder the world sees this "leader" as a totally mixed-up, mentally challenged old man causing confusion everywhere he goes, with everything he says. And now, America remains on the list of potential targets for terrorist activity. Not that it was ever off the list but, his demeaning of America's response to 9/11 in his speech the other night was a red flag for anyone listening. Especially those who care about 9/11 truth.
So, the water is boiling, we stand on the precipice of WW3, and there is this antisemitism roiling in the pot. What's going on?
Let me give you my take. It's quite simple.
This is not about Arabs and Jews. This is not about oil, the military industrial complex, the world bankers, the new world order or any other human plot for control. This is between God and Lucifer. Those who doubt Historicism as the correct path to understanding Bible prophecy and the war between Christ and Satan are watching events from the two other prominent, Jesuit inspired pathways - Futurism and Preterism - and waiting for an anti-Christ to arise out of Jewry or Islam, or the WEF or some other organization. Historicism states anti-Christ, he who stands in the place of Christ, has been here for for over 1500 years - the Papacy and Vatican of the Roman Catholic religious system. Rome is declared in Revelation to be Satan's seat of power. He is ever working towards a final control factor to take the stand against God's law. There are over 500 different seventh-day Sabbath keeping groups in the world yet, Jews are considered the banner carriers for the Sabbath. If hatred for the Sabbath truth must be ignited, hatred towards Jews must be ignited, and any other group keeping the Sabbath will catch the hatred spilling over.
Protestants generally side with Israel no matter what. Let that kindled world hatred spill onto their groups and people and watch a reversal take place that will spin heads. I have met Baptists who have such an angst towards Sabbath keepers it was shocking. It did not matter that Christ is Lord, that His ministry is everything to salvation and that most Sabbath keeping groups will generally be in harmony with 15 of the 18 common doctrines in Baptist statements/articles of faith. The Sabbath is anathema to many Protestants and they rage against it in literature and online.
The Sabbath shall be the final dividing line for the world: God's law versus man's law - the Sunday.
People may have whatever historic reasons for disliking Jews but, today, on college campuses and university classrooms, Israel is a target and young minds have been steadily turned against it. I do not reject the premise of the nature of Zionism's efforts to gain control of the Mideast, the West and ultimately the world. It is as maniacal as Islam, Communism or any other ism or group bent on world domination. Yet Zionism ranks first among Leftists to attack, while communist China is extolled. How can that be? Islam stands against every tenet of cultural, social Leftism but, one will not hear professors railing against that religion. Jews and Christians? Yes. Islam or some other determined-to-run-the-world entity? No. Why? Because Satan is working in humanity to achieve a final goal - a planetary population that stands against the law of God and God's memorial of creation: the seventh-day Sabbath.
You will see this develop, most probably in my lifetime. God's law wins. That's a fact.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Has the sky and earth passed away? Then God's commandments are still valid and in effect; including the fourth about God's holy time to be remembered -
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Nowhere in the Bible is the same terminology used for the first day of the week: Sunday. Some countries in the 20th century changed their calendars to make Sunday the seventh-day of the week. Yet Jews in those countries stand against those changes and remember the Sabbath day, as well as other Sabbath keeping groups.
The war was established in Heaven and is playing out on Earth. It is a battle between Christ and Lucifer. For God, it is one of truth and principles. For Lucifer, it is one of lies and policies designed in deception.
If you believe God can write in stone and have some pope come along and undo that with his own signature on some religious document, you are deceived.
Pro 24:21 My son, reverence the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Pro 24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
1Thes 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
1Thes 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
1Thes 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have changed prophetic time through Jesuit authors of Futurism and Preterism and have made the claim to be Christ on earth with the authority to change God's law. Great words against - in place of - the most High. They have persecuted God's people down through time and shall, again, when the law sides with them in the coming days of America and all nations making an image to them, a spitting image of Mother: daughters and kings of the earth - declaring Sunday a day of lawful rest.
I know it sounds impossible. I leave that with God. He declares the end from the beginning so we can learn to trust Him and know that He, alone, is God.
Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Heb 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
I make no claims to being a scholar nor, certainly, a prophet but, in the last 44 years of studying the Bible and comparing Scripture with Scripture, as well as comparing the various systems of understanding last-day events; Historicism makes the most sense to me because it establishes foundation principles that undergird everything the building stands on - God's character, government and purposes. God is not trying to keep anyone from eternal life. If we will cooperate with His leading, we shall have all the information we need to make vital decisions for our earthly sojourn and everlasting life.
This information was once only taught in books and by preachers in meetings and seminars. Today, the internet is filled with it all. Nothing is in a corner or under a rock. Nothing is dependent on mankind. God will always guide the seeker into truth, if they want the truth, in ways mankind rarely understands; for God's ways are not man's ways. God's thoughts are not man's thoughts and certainly God's power to get things accomplished is not man's.
Truth shall triumph and those who believe and practice it, shall triumph with it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
This bomb that was supposedly dropped onto a hospital that killed 500 people, including children. Due diligence by reporters on the ground showed an explosion took place in the hospital parking lot. No missile from Israel hit the hospital. It hit the parking lot. What then? That remains mysteriously unknown but, seeing as Hamas and other terrorist organizations have used children as shields and have so little regard for life, the possibility emerges that some other entity blew up the hospital and is using that effort to cause an uprising among Islam against Jews, against Israel, against any people supporting them. Now that Joe Biden has declared he sides with Israel, after sending money to Palestinians, to Iran and leaving behind 80 billion dollars worth of military hardware for terrorists in Afghanistan to use, it is no wonder the world sees this "leader" as a totally mixed-up, mentally challenged old man causing confusion everywhere he goes, with everything he says. And now, America remains on the list of potential targets for terrorist activity. Not that it was ever off the list but, his demeaning of America's response to 9/11 in his speech the other night was a red flag for anyone listening. Especially those who care about 9/11 truth.
So, the water is boiling, we stand on the precipice of WW3, and there is this antisemitism roiling in the pot. What's going on?
Let me give you my take. It's quite simple.
This is not about Arabs and Jews. This is not about oil, the military industrial complex, the world bankers, the new world order or any other human plot for control. This is between God and Lucifer. Those who doubt Historicism as the correct path to understanding Bible prophecy and the war between Christ and Satan are watching events from the two other prominent, Jesuit inspired pathways - Futurism and Preterism - and waiting for an anti-Christ to arise out of Jewry or Islam, or the WEF or some other organization. Historicism states anti-Christ, he who stands in the place of Christ, has been here for for over 1500 years - the Papacy and Vatican of the Roman Catholic religious system. Rome is declared in Revelation to be Satan's seat of power. He is ever working towards a final control factor to take the stand against God's law. There are over 500 different seventh-day Sabbath keeping groups in the world yet, Jews are considered the banner carriers for the Sabbath. If hatred for the Sabbath truth must be ignited, hatred towards Jews must be ignited, and any other group keeping the Sabbath will catch the hatred spilling over.
Protestants generally side with Israel no matter what. Let that kindled world hatred spill onto their groups and people and watch a reversal take place that will spin heads. I have met Baptists who have such an angst towards Sabbath keepers it was shocking. It did not matter that Christ is Lord, that His ministry is everything to salvation and that most Sabbath keeping groups will generally be in harmony with 15 of the 18 common doctrines in Baptist statements/articles of faith. The Sabbath is anathema to many Protestants and they rage against it in literature and online.
The Sabbath shall be the final dividing line for the world: God's law versus man's law - the Sunday.
People may have whatever historic reasons for disliking Jews but, today, on college campuses and university classrooms, Israel is a target and young minds have been steadily turned against it. I do not reject the premise of the nature of Zionism's efforts to gain control of the Mideast, the West and ultimately the world. It is as maniacal as Islam, Communism or any other ism or group bent on world domination. Yet Zionism ranks first among Leftists to attack, while communist China is extolled. How can that be? Islam stands against every tenet of cultural, social Leftism but, one will not hear professors railing against that religion. Jews and Christians? Yes. Islam or some other determined-to-run-the-world entity? No. Why? Because Satan is working in humanity to achieve a final goal - a planetary population that stands against the law of God and God's memorial of creation: the seventh-day Sabbath.
You will see this develop, most probably in my lifetime. God's law wins. That's a fact.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Has the sky and earth passed away? Then God's commandments are still valid and in effect; including the fourth about God's holy time to be remembered -
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Nowhere in the Bible is the same terminology used for the first day of the week: Sunday. Some countries in the 20th century changed their calendars to make Sunday the seventh-day of the week. Yet Jews in those countries stand against those changes and remember the Sabbath day, as well as other Sabbath keeping groups.
The war was established in Heaven and is playing out on Earth. It is a battle between Christ and Lucifer. For God, it is one of truth and principles. For Lucifer, it is one of lies and policies designed in deception.
If you believe God can write in stone and have some pope come along and undo that with his own signature on some religious document, you are deceived.
Pro 24:21 My son, reverence the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Pro 24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
1Thes 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
1Thes 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
1Thes 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have changed prophetic time through Jesuit authors of Futurism and Preterism and have made the claim to be Christ on earth with the authority to change God's law. Great words against - in place of - the most High. They have persecuted God's people down through time and shall, again, when the law sides with them in the coming days of America and all nations making an image to them, a spitting image of Mother: daughters and kings of the earth - declaring Sunday a day of lawful rest.
I know it sounds impossible. I leave that with God. He declares the end from the beginning so we can learn to trust Him and know that He, alone, is God.
Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Heb 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
I make no claims to being a scholar nor, certainly, a prophet but, in the last 44 years of studying the Bible and comparing Scripture with Scripture, as well as comparing the various systems of understanding last-day events; Historicism makes the most sense to me because it establishes foundation principles that undergird everything the building stands on - God's character, government and purposes. God is not trying to keep anyone from eternal life. If we will cooperate with His leading, we shall have all the information we need to make vital decisions for our earthly sojourn and everlasting life.
This information was once only taught in books and by preachers in meetings and seminars. Today, the internet is filled with it all. Nothing is in a corner or under a rock. Nothing is dependent on mankind. God will always guide the seeker into truth, if they want the truth, in ways mankind rarely understands; for God's ways are not man's ways. God's thoughts are not man's thoughts and certainly God's power to get things accomplished is not man's.
Truth shall triumph and those who believe and practice it, shall triumph with it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Baffling Antagonistic Design Denier
I just read a delightfully logical article by a young writer named Tova Forman. She lays out her own questioning of Origin of Life (OOL) researchers who continually come up with 'possible' ways to explain life from non-living chemicals in a primordial soup. Even OOL researchers who have no affinity for Creation or Design take aim at these new, preposterous postulations.
"The paper claims that an idea called assembly theory (AT) ‘explains selection and evolution’. This has drawn a clamour of responses from scientists on social media – many of them offended, some baffled — and prompted unusually vigorous debate in the online ‘comments’ section of the Nature site. Evolutionary biologists in particular have expressed outrage — denouncing the paper as nonsense, and even a Trojan horse for creationism.
"It’s not hard to see why. From the first sentence of the abstract, the paper seems to imply that the authors have cracked a foundational problem for biology: ‘Scientists have grappled with reconciling biological evolution with the immutable laws of the Universe defined by physics.’ No we haven’t, biologists respond – we have never found the slightest contradiction between them, and to suggest otherwise opens the door to intelligent design." - Philipp Ball, Chemistry World, 10/13/23.
Oops. Can't have an open door to intelligent design. No possible scientific study could ever see that as an explanation for life so, it must be given no open door for serious assessment.
Well, you know, deniers will be deniers. You see, all sides of an issue has deniers. The ultimate question is what happens to those who deny one side or the other? The article doesn't get into that but, it's an enjoyable read, nonetheless.
evolutionnews.org/2023/10/im-baffled-by-lee-cronin-and-im-not-alone/
"The paper claims that an idea called assembly theory (AT) ‘explains selection and evolution’. This has drawn a clamour of responses from scientists on social media – many of them offended, some baffled — and prompted unusually vigorous debate in the online ‘comments’ section of the Nature site. Evolutionary biologists in particular have expressed outrage — denouncing the paper as nonsense, and even a Trojan horse for creationism.
"It’s not hard to see why. From the first sentence of the abstract, the paper seems to imply that the authors have cracked a foundational problem for biology: ‘Scientists have grappled with reconciling biological evolution with the immutable laws of the Universe defined by physics.’ No we haven’t, biologists respond – we have never found the slightest contradiction between them, and to suggest otherwise opens the door to intelligent design." - Philipp Ball, Chemistry World, 10/13/23.
Oops. Can't have an open door to intelligent design. No possible scientific study could ever see that as an explanation for life so, it must be given no open door for serious assessment.
Well, you know, deniers will be deniers. You see, all sides of an issue has deniers. The ultimate question is what happens to those who deny one side or the other? The article doesn't get into that but, it's an enjoyable read, nonetheless.
evolutionnews.org/2023/10/im-baffled-by-lee-cronin-and-im-not-alone/
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856. The Human Soul - 10/21/23
"Denyse and I have been working on a book that will be published by Worthy next year titled, The Human Soul: What Neuroscience Shows Us about the Brain, the Mind, and the Difference Between the Two, in which we explore the abundant evidence from neuroscience for the immaterial human soul."
evolutionnews.org/2023/10/my-question-for-p-z-myers-how-did-human-consciousness-evolve/
That paragraph, to start off the article, really caught my eye. Evidence from neuroscience for the immaterial human soul? If the "soul" is immaterial, what possible observational science can determine it exists? It is immaterial. It has no physical existence.
If by soul we mean 'consciousness,' the mind, then science, as well, cannot determine its literal existence. We experience it. Science may as well try to determine the existence of the Holy Spirit. Even Nicodemus struggled with that one -
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 3:2 This man came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."
John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"
Well, today we know what air is, how it moves, where it comes from but, to all human senses we may hear its impact and feel its movement yet, it is quite invisible to our eyes.
You know I do not believe in such a thing as the "soul;" meaning an immaterial, ghostlike entity that lives inside a human being. That is a philosophy of Greek thinkers ages ago. Bad, evil body. Good, immortal soul released by death. Thank Plato for that. It is a foreign concept to the Bible.
Consciousness, yes. Ghosts? No. Now, many Christians will agree with that. They do not believe in ghosts because all souls leaving a body at death go to Heaven or "Hell." They don't hang around giving good information to living loved ones or terrifying others. God condemns it -
Lev. 19:31 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Lev 20:6 And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
What is a soul in that verse? A disembodied spirit/ghost seeking after a necromancer to find out its situation??? Indeed. Silly, yes? No, the soul in that verse is a person; a living person.
Deut 18:9 When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
Deut 18:10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch,
Deut 18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or one who calls to the dead.
Deut 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.
Deut 18:13 You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God.
Deut 18:14 For these nations whom you shall possess listened to observers of clouds and to diviners. But as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.
There are dozens of passages that give these warnings to stay away from the darkness of necromancy.
The word "soul" appears in Bibles interpreting the common Hebrew and Greek words translated soul, over 450 times. That's a lot of presence.
Nephesh - Hebrew - any breathing creature. But the word, nephesh appears in the KJV 753 times. It is translated in a variety of ways:
"properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Total KJV occurrences: 753
Ghost? Hm. Let's take a look at that one.
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
How about a different translation of that verse; The Jewish Publication Society Old Testament.
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth; her spirit droopeth; her sun is gone down while it was yet day, she is ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.'
Wait. "Spirit?" Where did that come from? And here it says her spirit droops. When a plant droops it is either close to death or dead. How about another translation? This time Brenton's Septuagint; the Greek OT translated into English -
Jer 15:9 She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.
Her soul has fainted under trouble. Could go along with drooping. How about a more modern translation, the Literal Version?
Jer 15:9 She who bore seven now languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while it was still day. She has been ashamed and humiliated, and I will give the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says Jehovah.
Ah. She has died; breathed her last breath and expelled it. Another? The Literal Standard Version -
Jer 15:9 The bearer of seven has languished, She has breathed out her spirit, Her sun has gone in while yet day, It has been ashamed and confounded, And I give up their remnant to the sword before their enemies,” A declaration of YHWH.
Young's Literal Translation is the same -
Jer 15:9 Languished hath the bearer of seven, She hath breathed out her spirit, Gone in hath her sun while yet day, It hath been ashamed and confounded, And their residue to the sword I give up before their enemies, An affirmation of Jehovah.
The she, here, that God is condemning, is His people under the gross and revolting rule of King Manasseh. The LORD is telling Jeremiah what is coming because of his apostasy; along with the prophets, the priesthood and the people.
The word "spirit" comes into play here, doesn't it? It's translated from Nephesh. Soul/spirit both equal breathing, living things. Soul can also mean a dead person; once breathing and living.
Let me take you back to the King James Version again -
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
'Given up' is translated from the Hebrew word "naphach." Its meaning and ways it is translated to English?
nâphach
naw-fakh'
A primitive root; to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem): - blow, breath, give up, cause to lose [life], seething, snuff.
Taken literally, Jerusalem, its inhabitants, were dead.
Seen allegorically, the inhabitants of Jerusalem were seen as good as dead to God. 'Do not bother to fast or pray or seek Me. I am done with you.' Jeremiah flipped out. It was as serious a situation as God's people ever fell into, and that happened over and over and over again through the centuries.
The point is, the King James translators placed their own cultural understanding of 'ghosts' upon the ancient Hebrew. It happens. Literal translations are not very pretty, prosy or dynamic. They aren't meant to be. They are a tool that conveys a message as close to the meaning of the original words written down as possible; with the knowledge of the ancient languages modern mankind has. The thing is, all languages can have different meanings for words. English is the same way. English, itself, is taken from other languages. English is adapted from Greek, Latin, Germanic, French and other languages, which they also came from. All languages morph and change, adapt and conflate. That's just a fact so, interpreting ancient languages is a very deep, grueling activity.
This is why studying the Bible is important. It's fine to read it and gain all its overt knowledge for life and God's plan of salvation but, sooner or later you'll come across something that seems confusing. That's when digging comes in, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and the tools to do this are ubiquitous from physical bookstores and online for purchase or free use.
When someone spends time with the Word, God is in their mind: working, maneuvering, changing, sanctifying the person who cooperates with the process. They may not even realize it but, at some point, some day, they realize they are not the same anymore. They have been changed, born-again; receiving the actions and work of the Holy Spirit in them. It's an amazing journey. It may be different, person to person in the details but, the end results are the same: new life in Christ. Old things are passed away, all things become new. You literally see with "new eyes," even though your glasses will still be in use. Actually, I take that back. Some people entering the journey, cooperating with God in all aspects of life, including diet and health, have found their need for glasses gone or at least their prescriptions lessened. No joke. I know people it has happend to.
Not too long ago I came upon the article of a Creationist astronomer commenting on Dark Matter. Everyone agrees you cannot detect it through any known scientific means but, it's effect on galaxies can be detected. In studying galaxies: their size, dimensions, weight, luminosity and other factors can be observed to change. By what? That, they claim, is dark matter. The changes can be measured. What is causing it cannot but, a reasonable hypothesis can be put together.
For me, this was quite new. I had only read that dark matter was something of a rescuing device for materialists. It cannot be measured or detected yet, it exists? Well, like we cannot see air, we can see what it does. Now, I find it pretty cool that Christ created something that coincides with what He told to Nicodemus and here, at the end of time, we discover it. Come on. That is really, pretty amazing.
The Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as the 'Holy Ghost' in some translations. Poor translation of the Greek words used. BTW, the same searching through Greek terms and English translation nets the same understanding, cover to cover. 'Soul' means, mostly - a life; 'spirit' means, mostly, air or a movement of air. In symbolic terms soul means the emotional nature of a person; spirit means the intellectual nature of a person and we have physical bodies in a physical world.
God is not invisible. He is obviously above His creation but, the Bible shows He takes physical form. After all, angels are physical creatures, even though they have supernatural capabilities. Imagine the multitudes of angels first created, standing in a physical place, with minds, consciences wondering what was going on and no voice, no manifestation of anything they could detect or understand, directing them what was happening? Well, God is not the Author of confusion. He takes a physical form for all His creation to relate with.
When Jesus stated God is a Spirit, John 4:24, He was not saying God is invisible. He was stating God is intelligent and all those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth: intelligently within truth.
There is no such thing as an invisible entity that lives in us. There are no invisible entities that leave our bodies at death. There are no such things as ghosts, unless they are the deceptions of evil angels. That is recorded in Scripture. It's found in the book of first Samuel, chapter 28 -
1Sam 28:6 And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1Sam 28:7 And Saul said to his servants, Seek me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servant said to him, Behold, there is a woman who is a medium, at Endor.
#1. Saul violated God's instructions to His people by seeking out a medium for information. Disobedient and quite stupid. Desperate men do foolish things.
1Sam 28:8 And Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing. And he went. And two men went with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, Please divine for me calling up the dead, and bring me up the man whom I shall name to you.
Necromancy is condemned by God. The Bible says the dead do not know anything, Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10. For Saul to ask this woman to "bring up" Samuel is a direct violation of God's will. That and, for most modern believers, isn't the soul of Samuel in Heaven? If Saul knew that, would he not have asked the woman to bring Samuel's soul down from Heaven? Think about it.
Now, watch this scene play out -
1Sa 28:9 And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off mediums, and the spirit-knowers, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
1Sa 28:10 And Saul swore to her by Jehovah, saying, As Jehovah lives, there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.
Whoah. Saul speaks for God and tells the witch not to worry about it. She can openly violate God's will and nothing will happen to her. He's not only a hypocrite but, a liar at this point, twice: disguising himself and telling a lie to the woman, who already knows what she does is condemned by Jehovah.
1Sa 28:11 And the woman said, Whom shall I bring up to you? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
1Sa 28:12 And the woman saw Samuel, and cried with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!
Notice. The Bible states the woman saw "Samuel." Well, she lives under constant deception, being involved in necromancy. Satan would influence her any way he deemed necessary. And she learns that Saul deceived her. Saul never saw "Samuel." Watch.
1Sa 28:13 And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. For what did you see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth.
Seriously? Saul listens to this woman speak nonsense and heresy and expects a good outcome?
1Sa 28:14 And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up, and he is covered with a cloak. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and he bowed his face to the ground, and prostrated himself.
The séance produces a ghostly image and the woman sees an old man with a cloak and Saul believes it to be Samuel when it was the Devil or one of his angels; and Saul bows down to it! The Devil need not be clairvoyant to figure out Saul's future.
1Sa 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am grievously distressed, for the Philistines are warring against me. And God has left me and does not answer me any more, neither by prophets nor by dreams. And I have called you so that you may make known to me what I should do.
Samuel, popularly believed to be in Heaven, says, Why did you bring me up? The very next thing he said would have been, 'What are you doing in the presence of this witch?! Are you crazy?'
Samuel??? Samuel awakes from the dead at the hands of a witch? Even Satan knows when you die, you go back to the ground Adam was made from and no witch can raise the dead and no witch would raise Samuel up for her own condemnation. No "souls" go to Heaven or "Hell" at death. Lucifer can have all the fun with Saul he wants to now. Saul has totally left sanctified reasoning and kneels on poisoned ground.
1Sa 28:16 And Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, since Jehovah has left you and has become your enemy?
1Sa 28:17 And Jehovah has done for Himself as He spoke by me. For Jehovah has torn the kingdom out of your hand and is giving it to your neighbor, to David.
1Sa 28:18 Because you did not obey the voice of Jehovah, nor execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Jehovah has done this thing to you now.
1Sa 28:19 And, Jehovah will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. Jehovah also shall deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
1Sa 28:20 And Saul immediately fell headlong on the earth, and was sorely afraid because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day nor all night.
Lucifer knows what's going on between Saul and David; knows where David is and what is happening with him; and it is all obvious where this gig ends up. The evil spirit told Saul what was obvious. Saul was doomed and so were his sons for their sinful ways. But, if that was really Samuel, the plan of salvation begins with a chance for repentance. A dead and buried Samuel could not know Saul's heart and mind. There would be no conversation between the two about anything but, Saul's need for repentance for his gross violation of God's commands. No repentance was offered because Satan is not in the business of salvation. He is in the business of destruction of life.
The witch of Endor is the last story believers in the immortal soul doctrine should use to make a stand upon.
Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He's a murderer. Death and destruction are his only concerns, and how much time he has left to deceive the world. That is all he cares about: trashing God, deceiving and killing life.
His end will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
evolutionnews.org/2023/10/my-question-for-p-z-myers-how-did-human-consciousness-evolve/
That paragraph, to start off the article, really caught my eye. Evidence from neuroscience for the immaterial human soul? If the "soul" is immaterial, what possible observational science can determine it exists? It is immaterial. It has no physical existence.
If by soul we mean 'consciousness,' the mind, then science, as well, cannot determine its literal existence. We experience it. Science may as well try to determine the existence of the Holy Spirit. Even Nicodemus struggled with that one -
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 3:2 This man came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."
John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"
Well, today we know what air is, how it moves, where it comes from but, to all human senses we may hear its impact and feel its movement yet, it is quite invisible to our eyes.
You know I do not believe in such a thing as the "soul;" meaning an immaterial, ghostlike entity that lives inside a human being. That is a philosophy of Greek thinkers ages ago. Bad, evil body. Good, immortal soul released by death. Thank Plato for that. It is a foreign concept to the Bible.
Consciousness, yes. Ghosts? No. Now, many Christians will agree with that. They do not believe in ghosts because all souls leaving a body at death go to Heaven or "Hell." They don't hang around giving good information to living loved ones or terrifying others. God condemns it -
Lev. 19:31 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Lev 20:6 And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
What is a soul in that verse? A disembodied spirit/ghost seeking after a necromancer to find out its situation??? Indeed. Silly, yes? No, the soul in that verse is a person; a living person.
Deut 18:9 When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
Deut 18:10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch,
Deut 18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or one who calls to the dead.
Deut 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.
Deut 18:13 You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God.
Deut 18:14 For these nations whom you shall possess listened to observers of clouds and to diviners. But as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.
There are dozens of passages that give these warnings to stay away from the darkness of necromancy.
The word "soul" appears in Bibles interpreting the common Hebrew and Greek words translated soul, over 450 times. That's a lot of presence.
Nephesh - Hebrew - any breathing creature. But the word, nephesh appears in the KJV 753 times. It is translated in a variety of ways:
"properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Total KJV occurrences: 753
Ghost? Hm. Let's take a look at that one.
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
How about a different translation of that verse; The Jewish Publication Society Old Testament.
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth; her spirit droopeth; her sun is gone down while it was yet day, she is ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.'
Wait. "Spirit?" Where did that come from? And here it says her spirit droops. When a plant droops it is either close to death or dead. How about another translation? This time Brenton's Septuagint; the Greek OT translated into English -
Jer 15:9 She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.
Her soul has fainted under trouble. Could go along with drooping. How about a more modern translation, the Literal Version?
Jer 15:9 She who bore seven now languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while it was still day. She has been ashamed and humiliated, and I will give the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says Jehovah.
Ah. She has died; breathed her last breath and expelled it. Another? The Literal Standard Version -
Jer 15:9 The bearer of seven has languished, She has breathed out her spirit, Her sun has gone in while yet day, It has been ashamed and confounded, And I give up their remnant to the sword before their enemies,” A declaration of YHWH.
Young's Literal Translation is the same -
Jer 15:9 Languished hath the bearer of seven, She hath breathed out her spirit, Gone in hath her sun while yet day, It hath been ashamed and confounded, And their residue to the sword I give up before their enemies, An affirmation of Jehovah.
The she, here, that God is condemning, is His people under the gross and revolting rule of King Manasseh. The LORD is telling Jeremiah what is coming because of his apostasy; along with the prophets, the priesthood and the people.
The word "spirit" comes into play here, doesn't it? It's translated from Nephesh. Soul/spirit both equal breathing, living things. Soul can also mean a dead person; once breathing and living.
Let me take you back to the King James Version again -
Jer 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
'Given up' is translated from the Hebrew word "naphach." Its meaning and ways it is translated to English?
nâphach
naw-fakh'
A primitive root; to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem): - blow, breath, give up, cause to lose [life], seething, snuff.
Taken literally, Jerusalem, its inhabitants, were dead.
Seen allegorically, the inhabitants of Jerusalem were seen as good as dead to God. 'Do not bother to fast or pray or seek Me. I am done with you.' Jeremiah flipped out. It was as serious a situation as God's people ever fell into, and that happened over and over and over again through the centuries.
The point is, the King James translators placed their own cultural understanding of 'ghosts' upon the ancient Hebrew. It happens. Literal translations are not very pretty, prosy or dynamic. They aren't meant to be. They are a tool that conveys a message as close to the meaning of the original words written down as possible; with the knowledge of the ancient languages modern mankind has. The thing is, all languages can have different meanings for words. English is the same way. English, itself, is taken from other languages. English is adapted from Greek, Latin, Germanic, French and other languages, which they also came from. All languages morph and change, adapt and conflate. That's just a fact so, interpreting ancient languages is a very deep, grueling activity.
This is why studying the Bible is important. It's fine to read it and gain all its overt knowledge for life and God's plan of salvation but, sooner or later you'll come across something that seems confusing. That's when digging comes in, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and the tools to do this are ubiquitous from physical bookstores and online for purchase or free use.
When someone spends time with the Word, God is in their mind: working, maneuvering, changing, sanctifying the person who cooperates with the process. They may not even realize it but, at some point, some day, they realize they are not the same anymore. They have been changed, born-again; receiving the actions and work of the Holy Spirit in them. It's an amazing journey. It may be different, person to person in the details but, the end results are the same: new life in Christ. Old things are passed away, all things become new. You literally see with "new eyes," even though your glasses will still be in use. Actually, I take that back. Some people entering the journey, cooperating with God in all aspects of life, including diet and health, have found their need for glasses gone or at least their prescriptions lessened. No joke. I know people it has happend to.
Not too long ago I came upon the article of a Creationist astronomer commenting on Dark Matter. Everyone agrees you cannot detect it through any known scientific means but, it's effect on galaxies can be detected. In studying galaxies: their size, dimensions, weight, luminosity and other factors can be observed to change. By what? That, they claim, is dark matter. The changes can be measured. What is causing it cannot but, a reasonable hypothesis can be put together.
For me, this was quite new. I had only read that dark matter was something of a rescuing device for materialists. It cannot be measured or detected yet, it exists? Well, like we cannot see air, we can see what it does. Now, I find it pretty cool that Christ created something that coincides with what He told to Nicodemus and here, at the end of time, we discover it. Come on. That is really, pretty amazing.
The Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as the 'Holy Ghost' in some translations. Poor translation of the Greek words used. BTW, the same searching through Greek terms and English translation nets the same understanding, cover to cover. 'Soul' means, mostly - a life; 'spirit' means, mostly, air or a movement of air. In symbolic terms soul means the emotional nature of a person; spirit means the intellectual nature of a person and we have physical bodies in a physical world.
God is not invisible. He is obviously above His creation but, the Bible shows He takes physical form. After all, angels are physical creatures, even though they have supernatural capabilities. Imagine the multitudes of angels first created, standing in a physical place, with minds, consciences wondering what was going on and no voice, no manifestation of anything they could detect or understand, directing them what was happening? Well, God is not the Author of confusion. He takes a physical form for all His creation to relate with.
When Jesus stated God is a Spirit, John 4:24, He was not saying God is invisible. He was stating God is intelligent and all those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth: intelligently within truth.
There is no such thing as an invisible entity that lives in us. There are no invisible entities that leave our bodies at death. There are no such things as ghosts, unless they are the deceptions of evil angels. That is recorded in Scripture. It's found in the book of first Samuel, chapter 28 -
1Sam 28:6 And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1Sam 28:7 And Saul said to his servants, Seek me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servant said to him, Behold, there is a woman who is a medium, at Endor.
#1. Saul violated God's instructions to His people by seeking out a medium for information. Disobedient and quite stupid. Desperate men do foolish things.
1Sam 28:8 And Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing. And he went. And two men went with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, Please divine for me calling up the dead, and bring me up the man whom I shall name to you.
Necromancy is condemned by God. The Bible says the dead do not know anything, Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10. For Saul to ask this woman to "bring up" Samuel is a direct violation of God's will. That and, for most modern believers, isn't the soul of Samuel in Heaven? If Saul knew that, would he not have asked the woman to bring Samuel's soul down from Heaven? Think about it.
Now, watch this scene play out -
1Sa 28:9 And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off mediums, and the spirit-knowers, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
1Sa 28:10 And Saul swore to her by Jehovah, saying, As Jehovah lives, there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.
Whoah. Saul speaks for God and tells the witch not to worry about it. She can openly violate God's will and nothing will happen to her. He's not only a hypocrite but, a liar at this point, twice: disguising himself and telling a lie to the woman, who already knows what she does is condemned by Jehovah.
1Sa 28:11 And the woman said, Whom shall I bring up to you? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
1Sa 28:12 And the woman saw Samuel, and cried with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!
Notice. The Bible states the woman saw "Samuel." Well, she lives under constant deception, being involved in necromancy. Satan would influence her any way he deemed necessary. And she learns that Saul deceived her. Saul never saw "Samuel." Watch.
1Sa 28:13 And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. For what did you see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth.
Seriously? Saul listens to this woman speak nonsense and heresy and expects a good outcome?
1Sa 28:14 And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up, and he is covered with a cloak. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and he bowed his face to the ground, and prostrated himself.
The séance produces a ghostly image and the woman sees an old man with a cloak and Saul believes it to be Samuel when it was the Devil or one of his angels; and Saul bows down to it! The Devil need not be clairvoyant to figure out Saul's future.
1Sa 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am grievously distressed, for the Philistines are warring against me. And God has left me and does not answer me any more, neither by prophets nor by dreams. And I have called you so that you may make known to me what I should do.
Samuel, popularly believed to be in Heaven, says, Why did you bring me up? The very next thing he said would have been, 'What are you doing in the presence of this witch?! Are you crazy?'
Samuel??? Samuel awakes from the dead at the hands of a witch? Even Satan knows when you die, you go back to the ground Adam was made from and no witch can raise the dead and no witch would raise Samuel up for her own condemnation. No "souls" go to Heaven or "Hell" at death. Lucifer can have all the fun with Saul he wants to now. Saul has totally left sanctified reasoning and kneels on poisoned ground.
1Sa 28:16 And Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, since Jehovah has left you and has become your enemy?
1Sa 28:17 And Jehovah has done for Himself as He spoke by me. For Jehovah has torn the kingdom out of your hand and is giving it to your neighbor, to David.
1Sa 28:18 Because you did not obey the voice of Jehovah, nor execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Jehovah has done this thing to you now.
1Sa 28:19 And, Jehovah will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. Jehovah also shall deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
1Sa 28:20 And Saul immediately fell headlong on the earth, and was sorely afraid because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day nor all night.
Lucifer knows what's going on between Saul and David; knows where David is and what is happening with him; and it is all obvious where this gig ends up. The evil spirit told Saul what was obvious. Saul was doomed and so were his sons for their sinful ways. But, if that was really Samuel, the plan of salvation begins with a chance for repentance. A dead and buried Samuel could not know Saul's heart and mind. There would be no conversation between the two about anything but, Saul's need for repentance for his gross violation of God's commands. No repentance was offered because Satan is not in the business of salvation. He is in the business of destruction of life.
The witch of Endor is the last story believers in the immortal soul doctrine should use to make a stand upon.
Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He's a murderer. Death and destruction are his only concerns, and how much time he has left to deceive the world. That is all he cares about: trashing God, deceiving and killing life.
His end will come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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She said, "Yes"
A wonderfully, amazing photograph.
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857. John MacArthur and the Sabbath - 10/21/23
This is a long one, too, by default. Take your time. Come back. Take it in as you can.
"The Sabbath command is never repeated in the New Testament" - John MacArthur, Grace Community Church.
I came upon a "short" video just now, with a statement on it that says, "There is no command in the New Testament to Keep The Sabbath."
The opening comment above is all I watched. Been there. Done that.
So, without further a do, let me show you what John MacArthur, well-known preacher in America for 50 years, apparently missed.
Let me begin by asking if there is a command in the New testament not to take acid or meth or angel dust or... fill in the blank. Nope. No such commandment. Can you name me a church in America, MacArthur's included, that states it is okay for congregants, members to do drugs? No. Nor can you find that commandment in the Decalogue, the Moral Law, the royal law, the law of liberty, the Ten Commandments. So, wait, then. Where is the authority for churches, for ministries to tell people not to take drugs? Well, it is based on biblical principles, not a direct statement. And ancient societies had drugs, as I have stated here before. The Greek words in Revelation, translated sorcerer or sorceries, beginning with "pharma" - pharmakos, pharmakeus, pharmakeia, is where we get our English word "pharamacy" from. Drugs. Users of drugs. Each statement is a condemnation. Nobody knowingly using pharmakos inherits the kingdom of Heaven. Serious injunction.
That is not "magic," either. That's from the Greek word "mageia" or "magos." It is translated sorcerer, as well but, the pharma words are obvious enough in their intent. Now, it seems logical, because there is no direct statement in the Ten Commandments about using drugs that someone could say to people - "There is not one word in the Law of God or the New Testament against using drugs" but, wait! There certainly is. Not in the Ten Commandments but, is that the only source of obedience found in the Bible? Of course not. The Bible offers principles connected to each other that provide all the information anyone needs to be in harmony with the will of God.
1Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Cor 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1Cor 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1Cor 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1Cor 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1Cor 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1Cor 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
3John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
I never met a person or heard of a person who took harmful drugs to the glory of God.
I'm going to add an edit* right here. The principle is simple. If it is in the Old Testament, which was the religious manual for the early New Testament church, before any Gospels or epistles were written, and it is not specifically abrogated by direct command from God, it remains valid truth for believers to live in. There is no command from God in the NT that removes the fourth commandment. Nor is there one to replace it with the first day of the week. Therefore, the seventh-day Sabbath, the fourth commandment remains intact, regardless of what centuries of tradition has done or claimed to be truth.
Second, the word Sabbath is found 60 times in the KJV New Testament, historically a translation of the Scriptures accomplished by Sunday keepers in the 17th century. They just translated what they saw in the Greek manuscripts. Sixty times the word appears. NONE of those times, that I am aware of, is the Sabbath spoken of negatively. The way the Jews kept the Sabbath was spoken against but, the fourth commandment, itself, is only given the high regard of a moral law, a commandment from God.
You can just go through any electronic search engine/Bible tool and see them all -
Mat_12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat_12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Mat_12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
*Mat_12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
*Mat_12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
*Mat_12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
*Mat_12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
*Mat_24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Mat_28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mar_1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mar_2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
Mar_2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
*Mar_2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
*Mar_2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Mar_3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
*Mar_3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
*Mar_6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
*Mar_15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
*Mar_16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
*Luk_4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luk_4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luk_6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luk_6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
*Luk_6:5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luk_6:6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luk_6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
*Luk_6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luk_13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Luk_13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Luk_13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
*Luk_13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luk_14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Luk_14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
*Luk_14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luk_23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
*Luk_23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Joh_5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Joh_5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
*Joh_5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
*Joh_5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
*Joh_7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
*Joh_7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
*Joh_9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
*Joh_9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
Joh_19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Act_1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
*Act_13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
*Act_13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
*Act_13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
*Act_13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Act_15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
*Act_16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
*Act_17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
*Act_18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
**Col_2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
I put an asterisk on the hits that show a positive reinforcement of the commandment in Christ's life (and He is the Creator); the apostle's and disciple's lives during Christ's ministry, at the time of His death, after His death; even forty years after His resurrection (Matt. 24:20). For anyone in capacity as a teacher of the Bible to dismiss all that information because no distinct command is there - when 4000 years of previous biblical history makes it a Rock no human being will ever move - is a crime against Heaven. Ignorance, maybe but, still a crime. Which is why Jesus stated it strongly enough -
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
I'll even throw in one more -
Act 4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Act 4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
The people, grateful and happy to see the apostles alive and well, begin a refrain that starts with a reference to the fourth commandment.
Personally, I know there is not a single verse in the New Testament that undoes the fourth commandment. Nay. That has been the work of the man of sin, the popes and prelates of the Roman Catholic Church who claim title to the authority required to change the law of God. "We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty" - Pope Leo XIII. I deny any such authority and I shall not regard the child of the papacy as God's final word on the subject. Far from it.
John MacArthur can preach to his heart's content on this subject and claim the fourth commandment is no longer in effect. I believe God spoke and wrote ten commandments with his own hand and all ten remain valid and enforced and Revelation makes it plain who regards them with honor -
Rev 12:17 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.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Some newer translations state "wash their robes." Why such a difference? As I understand it, those Bibles translated from the Textus Receptus; the "received text," that make up the majority of manuscripts remaining from ancient times to translate from, have written "do his commandments." Those translated from the manuscripts owned by the Vatican; the vaticanus, translate it "wash their robes." You decide which ones you'll go by.
To the matter of Colossians 2:16 -
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Two laws exist in the Bible. The Ten Commandments and that which is called the Law of Moses: the statutes, judgments, priesthood and sanctuary services, etc., that ruled the theocracy. Moses wrote them in book. The handwriting of ordinances. Why would Paul state it is against us? Because killing animals, and the entire round of sanctuary services, the entire judgment system and statutes could only become a "how to" system to gain salvation by your own good works. A living connection to God, a life of true faith, trust; justification and sanctification from sin was just not understood by the vast majority of people among the chosen group to be God's messengers to the world. It was all a shadow of the true and real ministry of the Messiah on behalf of humanity. The Hebrews looked forward to a Messiah to come. We look back on the Messiah who came. The Ten Commandments existed before any Hebrew nation was called into existence. How was Cain guilty of murdering his brother without an understood commandment not to kill? How could the antediluvians be guilty of their sins that brought about the end of the world with the flood if the moral law did not exist in understood form? How could the tower of Babel builders be guilty of having other gods before Jehovah if no commandment to worship only God, the Creator, was understood? It is foolhardy to state the commandments did not exist before Moses and Mt. Sinai. The Jews were commanded to keep the Sabbath before they got to Sinai! It's recorded in Exodus 16.
Notice Paul's words in Colossians. Is there anything about food, drink, new moons, or the yearly feast day Sabbaths in the Ten Commandments? No. What is Paul talking about then? The handwritten ordinances meant for the theocracy. When Christ died and rose and went back to Heaven the theocracy ended. Ultimately, Gentiles coming in far outnumbered converted Jews. The theocracy only worked for a group of people in a particular area, having to be close enough to visit the sanctuary at appointed times. Non-Jews were coming in from all over the Asiatic world as the Gospel went forth. The shadows of what was to come has nothing to do with the fourth commandment that begins "Remember." It does not point you forward like a shadow dismissed by the light. It points you back to creation. The Sabbath is a memorial of God's creating the world and its life forms, the solar system, the stars and the galaxies. It is not a shadow of anything to come. It never went away and shall exist forever. The seventh-day Sabbath shall be kept in the New Earth -
Isa 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Talk about a Sabbath congregation! How many millions, billions of worshipers gathered to praise and honor the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Do not miss that event.
No disrespect to John MacArthur but, he is not just wrong. He is emphatically wrong.
But, you watch the short and decide for yourself -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nL9HKYUyrhU
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The Sabbath command is never repeated in the New Testament" - John MacArthur, Grace Community Church.
I came upon a "short" video just now, with a statement on it that says, "There is no command in the New Testament to Keep The Sabbath."
The opening comment above is all I watched. Been there. Done that.
So, without further a do, let me show you what John MacArthur, well-known preacher in America for 50 years, apparently missed.
Let me begin by asking if there is a command in the New testament not to take acid or meth or angel dust or... fill in the blank. Nope. No such commandment. Can you name me a church in America, MacArthur's included, that states it is okay for congregants, members to do drugs? No. Nor can you find that commandment in the Decalogue, the Moral Law, the royal law, the law of liberty, the Ten Commandments. So, wait, then. Where is the authority for churches, for ministries to tell people not to take drugs? Well, it is based on biblical principles, not a direct statement. And ancient societies had drugs, as I have stated here before. The Greek words in Revelation, translated sorcerer or sorceries, beginning with "pharma" - pharmakos, pharmakeus, pharmakeia, is where we get our English word "pharamacy" from. Drugs. Users of drugs. Each statement is a condemnation. Nobody knowingly using pharmakos inherits the kingdom of Heaven. Serious injunction.
That is not "magic," either. That's from the Greek word "mageia" or "magos." It is translated sorcerer, as well but, the pharma words are obvious enough in their intent. Now, it seems logical, because there is no direct statement in the Ten Commandments about using drugs that someone could say to people - "There is not one word in the Law of God or the New Testament against using drugs" but, wait! There certainly is. Not in the Ten Commandments but, is that the only source of obedience found in the Bible? Of course not. The Bible offers principles connected to each other that provide all the information anyone needs to be in harmony with the will of God.
1Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Cor 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1Cor 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1Cor 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1Cor 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1Cor 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1Cor 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
3John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
I never met a person or heard of a person who took harmful drugs to the glory of God.
I'm going to add an edit* right here. The principle is simple. If it is in the Old Testament, which was the religious manual for the early New Testament church, before any Gospels or epistles were written, and it is not specifically abrogated by direct command from God, it remains valid truth for believers to live in. There is no command from God in the NT that removes the fourth commandment. Nor is there one to replace it with the first day of the week. Therefore, the seventh-day Sabbath, the fourth commandment remains intact, regardless of what centuries of tradition has done or claimed to be truth.
Second, the word Sabbath is found 60 times in the KJV New Testament, historically a translation of the Scriptures accomplished by Sunday keepers in the 17th century. They just translated what they saw in the Greek manuscripts. Sixty times the word appears. NONE of those times, that I am aware of, is the Sabbath spoken of negatively. The way the Jews kept the Sabbath was spoken against but, the fourth commandment, itself, is only given the high regard of a moral law, a commandment from God.
You can just go through any electronic search engine/Bible tool and see them all -
Mat_12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat_12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Mat_12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
*Mat_12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
*Mat_12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
*Mat_12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
*Mat_12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
*Mat_24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Mat_28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mar_1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mar_2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
Mar_2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
*Mar_2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
*Mar_2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Mar_3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
*Mar_3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
*Mar_6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
*Mar_15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
*Mar_16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
*Luk_4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luk_4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luk_6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luk_6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
*Luk_6:5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luk_6:6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luk_6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
*Luk_6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luk_13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Luk_13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Luk_13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
*Luk_13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luk_14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Luk_14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
*Luk_14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luk_23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
*Luk_23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Joh_5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Joh_5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
*Joh_5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
*Joh_5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
*Joh_7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
*Joh_7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
*Joh_9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
*Joh_9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
Joh_19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Act_1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
*Act_13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
*Act_13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
*Act_13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
*Act_13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Act_15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
*Act_16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
*Act_17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
*Act_18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
**Col_2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
I put an asterisk on the hits that show a positive reinforcement of the commandment in Christ's life (and He is the Creator); the apostle's and disciple's lives during Christ's ministry, at the time of His death, after His death; even forty years after His resurrection (Matt. 24:20). For anyone in capacity as a teacher of the Bible to dismiss all that information because no distinct command is there - when 4000 years of previous biblical history makes it a Rock no human being will ever move - is a crime against Heaven. Ignorance, maybe but, still a crime. Which is why Jesus stated it strongly enough -
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
I'll even throw in one more -
Act 4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Act 4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
The people, grateful and happy to see the apostles alive and well, begin a refrain that starts with a reference to the fourth commandment.
Personally, I know there is not a single verse in the New Testament that undoes the fourth commandment. Nay. That has been the work of the man of sin, the popes and prelates of the Roman Catholic Church who claim title to the authority required to change the law of God. "We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty" - Pope Leo XIII. I deny any such authority and I shall not regard the child of the papacy as God's final word on the subject. Far from it.
John MacArthur can preach to his heart's content on this subject and claim the fourth commandment is no longer in effect. I believe God spoke and wrote ten commandments with his own hand and all ten remain valid and enforced and Revelation makes it plain who regards them with honor -
Rev 12:17 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.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Some newer translations state "wash their robes." Why such a difference? As I understand it, those Bibles translated from the Textus Receptus; the "received text," that make up the majority of manuscripts remaining from ancient times to translate from, have written "do his commandments." Those translated from the manuscripts owned by the Vatican; the vaticanus, translate it "wash their robes." You decide which ones you'll go by.
To the matter of Colossians 2:16 -
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Two laws exist in the Bible. The Ten Commandments and that which is called the Law of Moses: the statutes, judgments, priesthood and sanctuary services, etc., that ruled the theocracy. Moses wrote them in book. The handwriting of ordinances. Why would Paul state it is against us? Because killing animals, and the entire round of sanctuary services, the entire judgment system and statutes could only become a "how to" system to gain salvation by your own good works. A living connection to God, a life of true faith, trust; justification and sanctification from sin was just not understood by the vast majority of people among the chosen group to be God's messengers to the world. It was all a shadow of the true and real ministry of the Messiah on behalf of humanity. The Hebrews looked forward to a Messiah to come. We look back on the Messiah who came. The Ten Commandments existed before any Hebrew nation was called into existence. How was Cain guilty of murdering his brother without an understood commandment not to kill? How could the antediluvians be guilty of their sins that brought about the end of the world with the flood if the moral law did not exist in understood form? How could the tower of Babel builders be guilty of having other gods before Jehovah if no commandment to worship only God, the Creator, was understood? It is foolhardy to state the commandments did not exist before Moses and Mt. Sinai. The Jews were commanded to keep the Sabbath before they got to Sinai! It's recorded in Exodus 16.
Notice Paul's words in Colossians. Is there anything about food, drink, new moons, or the yearly feast day Sabbaths in the Ten Commandments? No. What is Paul talking about then? The handwritten ordinances meant for the theocracy. When Christ died and rose and went back to Heaven the theocracy ended. Ultimately, Gentiles coming in far outnumbered converted Jews. The theocracy only worked for a group of people in a particular area, having to be close enough to visit the sanctuary at appointed times. Non-Jews were coming in from all over the Asiatic world as the Gospel went forth. The shadows of what was to come has nothing to do with the fourth commandment that begins "Remember." It does not point you forward like a shadow dismissed by the light. It points you back to creation. The Sabbath is a memorial of God's creating the world and its life forms, the solar system, the stars and the galaxies. It is not a shadow of anything to come. It never went away and shall exist forever. The seventh-day Sabbath shall be kept in the New Earth -
Isa 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Talk about a Sabbath congregation! How many millions, billions of worshipers gathered to praise and honor the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Do not miss that event.
No disrespect to John MacArthur but, he is not just wrong. He is emphatically wrong.
But, you watch the short and decide for yourself -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nL9HKYUyrhU
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Israel Will Not Come Around
I feel the need to make something crystal clear here. I do not support Israel. I do not support Hamas or "Palestinians." To me, they are just two groups of people with a bad history that shall never be rectified.
I believe all nations have a right to defend themselves, as I believe all people have a right to defend themselves.
Aside from the possibility of the mess creating WW3, I have no real interest, anymore than I have an interest into Russia/Ukraine. I believe Biden will naturally botch things up, being mentally impaired as he is but, asking me to side with any other nation in a territorial squabble is not my concern or interest unless it cots American's lives; and with 12,000 military personnel on their way to the Mideast, yeah, that's a concern. With Biden settling Palestinian "refugees" in America, is a concern. While I believe many Palestinians are peaceful, I do not come close to believing all Palestinians have peaceful intent. No way.
57% of US Muslims Believe Hamas Atrocities Justified
America, we have a problem.
www.frontpagemag.com/57-of-us-muslims-believe-hamas-atrocities-justified/
That is not the intent of this post.
Jews crucified their Messiah. Their leaders, supported by the population rejected their Saviour. They rejected His message and His disciples. Why are professed Christians so enamored with Israel? They are not in last-day event prophecy. No, they are not. All prophecies mentioning the Jews returning to their homeland address them returning from ancient captivity in Babylon and Persia. The State of Israel is not the theocracy of the Old Testament. No magical pulling theological rabbits out of theological hats can change that fact.
Many Christians say Israel will come around. No, it will not. Many individual Jews may be converted and accept Yeshua as their Messiah but, the nation, the State of Israel is not coming around. They said they had no king but, Caesar and that Christ's blood should be on their heads, and so it has been. I have addressed that in previous Bible studies but, I repeat it here because I take no sides in this current crisis. I am against the guilty of both sides and for the innocent on both sides. No side is better than the other.
All human life comes down to individuals in God's eyes. We are judged as individuals when it comes to eternal salvation or destruction; not groups, not families, not nations. That is not to say groups, families and nations have not been judged, found wanting and sentenced by Divine justice before. The Bible shows it all and the nations shall be judged again but, salvation is a one to One issue. Is the individual connected to the vine stock or not? Do they have a living connection to Christ or not? If the Gaza strip is obliterated; if Israel is wiped off the map, tell me, what would that change for the world? Nothing, save for what some individuals in the two groups may have brought to the world in a positive way. The entire history of the world is filled with obliterations. The 20th century is filled with obliterations. Pick any nation in the world and wipe it out. China and India have the biggest populations. If they wiped each other out, yes, a third of the world's population would be gone. Chaos would erupt in world civilization centers. Then, somehow, some way, life would go on, even as very rural areas would not notice much of anything different.
That is why Jesus said, 'Wars and rumors of war but, the end is not yet.' Bigger issues than nations at war remain on the tables of concern for all humanity. Even a WW3 could not totally wipe out life on Earth because life is spread out farther than strategical nuclear strikes would fall. Nuclear fall out, a nuclear winter would not be universal. God shall always have a people to represent Him, regardless of the circumstances. Whether it be a Noah and his family, a David and Jonathan, an Elijah and 7,000 that have not bowed the knee to apostasy, a Daniel and his three friends, 12 disciples or a remnant in the last days, God will always have a human voice to speak to humanity through. That is not going to change and Israel is not that voice. Israel needs that voice but, nothing in the Bible states a re-established nation of Israel is going to accept its Messiah. Not happening. Not from a biblical reference, anyway.
So, again, I shall not be trapped between picking Israel or Palestinians in the Gaza strip and certainly not a terrorist organization like Hamas. Get real. Current American politicians choosing to side with Hamas should be immediately impeached and removed from office. That is not a slap on the back for Israel. Hamas just went way past the point of no return with this last attack. And questions remain how they even got past border control to pull it all off. They did and it's devilish what was done. Now it is war. Innocents get killed in war. Collateral damage is a fact of war. It is going to happen, has happened already. It cannot be avoided with either missiles or ground forces. War is death. The death of those not involved, as well. Nor is that an attack on free speech. American elected civil servants take oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They cannot fulfill their roll while they openly support an organization that would love to see America brought down. That is preposterous.
I am on the side of truth; God's truth, stated in His Word. That war against evil is everything. Neither Israel or Gaza has God's truth. That's the bottom line for me.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I believe all nations have a right to defend themselves, as I believe all people have a right to defend themselves.
Aside from the possibility of the mess creating WW3, I have no real interest, anymore than I have an interest into Russia/Ukraine. I believe Biden will naturally botch things up, being mentally impaired as he is but, asking me to side with any other nation in a territorial squabble is not my concern or interest unless it cots American's lives; and with 12,000 military personnel on their way to the Mideast, yeah, that's a concern. With Biden settling Palestinian "refugees" in America, is a concern. While I believe many Palestinians are peaceful, I do not come close to believing all Palestinians have peaceful intent. No way.
57% of US Muslims Believe Hamas Atrocities Justified
America, we have a problem.
www.frontpagemag.com/57-of-us-muslims-believe-hamas-atrocities-justified/
That is not the intent of this post.
Jews crucified their Messiah. Their leaders, supported by the population rejected their Saviour. They rejected His message and His disciples. Why are professed Christians so enamored with Israel? They are not in last-day event prophecy. No, they are not. All prophecies mentioning the Jews returning to their homeland address them returning from ancient captivity in Babylon and Persia. The State of Israel is not the theocracy of the Old Testament. No magical pulling theological rabbits out of theological hats can change that fact.
Many Christians say Israel will come around. No, it will not. Many individual Jews may be converted and accept Yeshua as their Messiah but, the nation, the State of Israel is not coming around. They said they had no king but, Caesar and that Christ's blood should be on their heads, and so it has been. I have addressed that in previous Bible studies but, I repeat it here because I take no sides in this current crisis. I am against the guilty of both sides and for the innocent on both sides. No side is better than the other.
All human life comes down to individuals in God's eyes. We are judged as individuals when it comes to eternal salvation or destruction; not groups, not families, not nations. That is not to say groups, families and nations have not been judged, found wanting and sentenced by Divine justice before. The Bible shows it all and the nations shall be judged again but, salvation is a one to One issue. Is the individual connected to the vine stock or not? Do they have a living connection to Christ or not? If the Gaza strip is obliterated; if Israel is wiped off the map, tell me, what would that change for the world? Nothing, save for what some individuals in the two groups may have brought to the world in a positive way. The entire history of the world is filled with obliterations. The 20th century is filled with obliterations. Pick any nation in the world and wipe it out. China and India have the biggest populations. If they wiped each other out, yes, a third of the world's population would be gone. Chaos would erupt in world civilization centers. Then, somehow, some way, life would go on, even as very rural areas would not notice much of anything different.
That is why Jesus said, 'Wars and rumors of war but, the end is not yet.' Bigger issues than nations at war remain on the tables of concern for all humanity. Even a WW3 could not totally wipe out life on Earth because life is spread out farther than strategical nuclear strikes would fall. Nuclear fall out, a nuclear winter would not be universal. God shall always have a people to represent Him, regardless of the circumstances. Whether it be a Noah and his family, a David and Jonathan, an Elijah and 7,000 that have not bowed the knee to apostasy, a Daniel and his three friends, 12 disciples or a remnant in the last days, God will always have a human voice to speak to humanity through. That is not going to change and Israel is not that voice. Israel needs that voice but, nothing in the Bible states a re-established nation of Israel is going to accept its Messiah. Not happening. Not from a biblical reference, anyway.
So, again, I shall not be trapped between picking Israel or Palestinians in the Gaza strip and certainly not a terrorist organization like Hamas. Get real. Current American politicians choosing to side with Hamas should be immediately impeached and removed from office. That is not a slap on the back for Israel. Hamas just went way past the point of no return with this last attack. And questions remain how they even got past border control to pull it all off. They did and it's devilish what was done. Now it is war. Innocents get killed in war. Collateral damage is a fact of war. It is going to happen, has happened already. It cannot be avoided with either missiles or ground forces. War is death. The death of those not involved, as well. Nor is that an attack on free speech. American elected civil servants take oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They cannot fulfill their roll while they openly support an organization that would love to see America brought down. That is preposterous.
I am on the side of truth; God's truth, stated in His Word. That war against evil is everything. Neither Israel or Gaza has God's truth. That's the bottom line for me.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Clump of Cells?
Why do those in favor of abortion constantly say a baby in a womb is just a clump or blob or bunch of cells? Ignorance, mostly.
A cell is a microscopic factory. It is a micro-city that functions at levels so complex all of it is still not understood by biologists and the rest of the scientific community involved in research. Mankind does not and probably will not understand, scientifically, how a cell, factually, came into being; for even the most simple cell is more complex than any "clump" or bunch of computers stacked in rooms from coast to coast.
It is not just the fact of what a cell is, just one cell. You have to figure out how these micro factories, that first micro-factory duplicated the information for all it parts and functions and made another cell.
The fact is, we are all just a clump of cells. There's just more of them in a child and adolescent and teenager and adult than a baby in the womb. Even at that, a human embryo, at one week old, has around 125 cells. How? From 2 to 125 micro-factories working round the clock. Cells will die, too and their place filled by new cells. Tremendous amounts of information constantly splitting off until a baby with hundreds of billions of cells waits to come into the world. Growing into adulthood it will attain an estimated 2 trillion cells, all with internal instruction for producing new cells when old ones die: thousands of different cell categories, performing different functions for every organ and object in our bodies.
Everything that lives is a clump or bunch or blob or tissue bag of cells. The difference for high level life forms? The mind, which science has no idea how or when or why the mind, not the brain, the mind came into being. Cells produce information. Where did reasoning come from? Why is a baby interested in its environment? It's just a bag of cells. Mankind has yet to fully figure out how babies learn language. If you are an adult, learning a second language is a chore with a lot of concentration necessary. Babies just do it. The child's mind is processing enormous amounts of information at incredible speeds. Just a bunch of cells?
Please. Do let us have common sense.
If you were walking through a mountainous desert and came upon a huge mound of books; would you think they just came into form through natural means? No reasoning person would. A reasonable person would wonder who produced them all. All the information, the paper, the ink, artwork, photographs, the covers... well, there's your "bunch of cells." A literal mountain of books with so much information it is mind boggling. Who wrote it all? Who developed the language(s). Who developed paper, ink, printing, tools for artwork, all the parts for cameras... .
Saying a baby in the womb is just a bunch or blob of cells is so ignorant of the practical truth of the matter it is stunning, and youth in colleges and universities all across America and the world believe that falsehood and unbelievable misconception.
It should also be noted, one does not have to have a degree in biology or any field of science to know these things. One must only have an ability to read and a desire to learn. The information is ubiquitous online.
God help us and save us from chosen ignorance.
A cell is a microscopic factory. It is a micro-city that functions at levels so complex all of it is still not understood by biologists and the rest of the scientific community involved in research. Mankind does not and probably will not understand, scientifically, how a cell, factually, came into being; for even the most simple cell is more complex than any "clump" or bunch of computers stacked in rooms from coast to coast.
It is not just the fact of what a cell is, just one cell. You have to figure out how these micro factories, that first micro-factory duplicated the information for all it parts and functions and made another cell.
The fact is, we are all just a clump of cells. There's just more of them in a child and adolescent and teenager and adult than a baby in the womb. Even at that, a human embryo, at one week old, has around 125 cells. How? From 2 to 125 micro-factories working round the clock. Cells will die, too and their place filled by new cells. Tremendous amounts of information constantly splitting off until a baby with hundreds of billions of cells waits to come into the world. Growing into adulthood it will attain an estimated 2 trillion cells, all with internal instruction for producing new cells when old ones die: thousands of different cell categories, performing different functions for every organ and object in our bodies.
Everything that lives is a clump or bunch or blob or tissue bag of cells. The difference for high level life forms? The mind, which science has no idea how or when or why the mind, not the brain, the mind came into being. Cells produce information. Where did reasoning come from? Why is a baby interested in its environment? It's just a bag of cells. Mankind has yet to fully figure out how babies learn language. If you are an adult, learning a second language is a chore with a lot of concentration necessary. Babies just do it. The child's mind is processing enormous amounts of information at incredible speeds. Just a bunch of cells?
Please. Do let us have common sense.
If you were walking through a mountainous desert and came upon a huge mound of books; would you think they just came into form through natural means? No reasoning person would. A reasonable person would wonder who produced them all. All the information, the paper, the ink, artwork, photographs, the covers... well, there's your "bunch of cells." A literal mountain of books with so much information it is mind boggling. Who wrote it all? Who developed the language(s). Who developed paper, ink, printing, tools for artwork, all the parts for cameras... .
Saying a baby in the womb is just a bunch or blob of cells is so ignorant of the practical truth of the matter it is stunning, and youth in colleges and universities all across America and the world believe that falsehood and unbelievable misconception.
It should also be noted, one does not have to have a degree in biology or any field of science to know these things. One must only have an ability to read and a desire to learn. The information is ubiquitous online.
God help us and save us from chosen ignorance.
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857. Lesser Charges - October 25, 2023
If you are one of the millions of Americans confused about what is happening in Georgia, I am one of you.
I had written about attorney Sidney Powell, when she openly took a stand for election integrity and began her own investigation of corruptions in the 2020 presidential election. She came with the goods; the "receipts" as they say today; the evidence. Like literally dozens of other such investigators and their teams, MOUNTAINS of evidence, hard facts, were compiled to expose one of the most daring, corrupt proceedings in American history. Dozens and dozens of video evidence showing the criminal activity, the felonies, the corruption right to the top of state administrators, Georgia being one of those states.
How, then, do dozens of people: Donald Trump, attorneys and many others get slammed with grand jury counts of racketeering and interfering with an election? How is this possible? Because they had no evidence? Far, far from it. No judge was willing to hold such a case to see the evidence. No state involved wanted to drag out exposed corruption at such high levels and think about overturning an election. The Supreme Court never saw any evidence because they claimed one party did not have "standing" and refused to hear the case. In a federal election, how can one state not have standing? It's a national election, with an outcome that affects all 50 states? Every American is now feeling that outcome at gas pumps, grocery stores, with the Southern border states literally being invaded by illegal immigrants; mostly male, of military ages, from all over the world.
Elections have consequences.
Georgia prosecutor, Fani Willis, is somehow causing upright, God-fearing citizens, attorneys and political aids to plead guilty to lesser charges of election interference to stay out of prison, while millions look on wondering if these same people who fought for election integrity will now turn on Donald Trump and see to it Trump is removed from any possibility to run for office, being criminally convicted of felony charges of election interference. If Georgia is successful, the bus stops there. Even at that, logically, other states involved in the worst corruption activity will place their own state prosecutors in the position of piling on, just to make sure Trump is brought down and no one ever questions election results again.
None have pleaded guilty to RICO charges. Millions see the only racketeering taking place is in the Georgia prosecutor's office. HOW can this be happening? Commentators say the charges brought by Willis are the most convoluted mess ever seen; a weed field of legal briars anyone thrown into cannot possibly escape getting stuck in some way.
Has the corruption of American politics and courts gotten so dark, thick, and impossible to overturn that these American patriots, to stay out of jail, will all plead to "lesser charges" and admit they were wrong to fight a stolen election, that tens of millions, if not a hundred million Americans, even among Democrat citizens believe took place, based on the evidence?
Do not wonder, in any small degree, why the Bible says -
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.
Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and ruin are in their paths.
Isa 59:8 They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Isa 59:9 Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isa 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
Isa 59:11 We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isa 59:13 in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.
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.
Isa 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples;
Darkness, spiritual darkness shall cover the earth. It is happening again. It happened in the days of Noah. It is happening again now, just as Christ predicted. Corruption is winning. That does not mean it shall ultimately win. Not even close. The second half of the verse states that plainly enough.
but Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.
There shall be a people, a remnant of humanity who will not plead guilty to any kind of lesser charges when the world-wide apostasy grows into one final war against the truth, the kingdom of God and His law.
That said, it must be admitted what we are watching take place in Georgia is a frightening reality of where things are when it comes to truth and justice. World War 3 is actually a possibility few would have ever believed could be a reality again in our lifetimes. It is a possibility because the now mentally impaired, head of a crime family is in the White House. One of the most corrupt politicians in American history is president, via a stolen election involving hundreds and thousands of people in the collection of swing states involved, and those who have risen up to protest it are facing jail. Those Americans who protested on January 6th, 2021 are in jail; have been for years now, and face corrupt judges, corrupt prosecutors, and corrupt prison administrations and employees, facing gulag-type treatment. In America. Early morning hour, heavily armed police-state patrons of darkness hauling citizens away; not in communist Cuba, North Korea or China but, America.
Elections have consequences.
I hold out no hope it can be stopped and turned around anymore; not in the spirit of truth and justice and principles of Americanism. The only thing that now awaits is the final Satanic dog and pony show "revival" to claim a reversal is taking place. "Peace and safety." How long until that takes place, I have no idea. Could be very soon. Could be years and years, as the darkness spreads.
Anyone who has doubts Christ is returning is just not paying attention to the bigger picture. Open your eyes. Fani Willis and these other prosecutors going after Trump are pawns in a much bigger scenario. Trump is no messiah. He cannot change the world for any length of time. No politician can. No politician was ever meant to. The only Personage who can change anything for longevity is the Creator, and fewer and fewer people care what He has to say.
When the darkness reaches its blackest midnight point and the light of truth shines, millions will see and stand for up for it.
So be it.
Until then, pray. It's going to get darker.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I had written about attorney Sidney Powell, when she openly took a stand for election integrity and began her own investigation of corruptions in the 2020 presidential election. She came with the goods; the "receipts" as they say today; the evidence. Like literally dozens of other such investigators and their teams, MOUNTAINS of evidence, hard facts, were compiled to expose one of the most daring, corrupt proceedings in American history. Dozens and dozens of video evidence showing the criminal activity, the felonies, the corruption right to the top of state administrators, Georgia being one of those states.
How, then, do dozens of people: Donald Trump, attorneys and many others get slammed with grand jury counts of racketeering and interfering with an election? How is this possible? Because they had no evidence? Far, far from it. No judge was willing to hold such a case to see the evidence. No state involved wanted to drag out exposed corruption at such high levels and think about overturning an election. The Supreme Court never saw any evidence because they claimed one party did not have "standing" and refused to hear the case. In a federal election, how can one state not have standing? It's a national election, with an outcome that affects all 50 states? Every American is now feeling that outcome at gas pumps, grocery stores, with the Southern border states literally being invaded by illegal immigrants; mostly male, of military ages, from all over the world.
Elections have consequences.
Georgia prosecutor, Fani Willis, is somehow causing upright, God-fearing citizens, attorneys and political aids to plead guilty to lesser charges of election interference to stay out of prison, while millions look on wondering if these same people who fought for election integrity will now turn on Donald Trump and see to it Trump is removed from any possibility to run for office, being criminally convicted of felony charges of election interference. If Georgia is successful, the bus stops there. Even at that, logically, other states involved in the worst corruption activity will place their own state prosecutors in the position of piling on, just to make sure Trump is brought down and no one ever questions election results again.
None have pleaded guilty to RICO charges. Millions see the only racketeering taking place is in the Georgia prosecutor's office. HOW can this be happening? Commentators say the charges brought by Willis are the most convoluted mess ever seen; a weed field of legal briars anyone thrown into cannot possibly escape getting stuck in some way.
Has the corruption of American politics and courts gotten so dark, thick, and impossible to overturn that these American patriots, to stay out of jail, will all plead to "lesser charges" and admit they were wrong to fight a stolen election, that tens of millions, if not a hundred million Americans, even among Democrat citizens believe took place, based on the evidence?
Do not wonder, in any small degree, why the Bible says -
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.
Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and ruin are in their paths.
Isa 59:8 They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Isa 59:9 Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isa 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
Isa 59:11 We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isa 59:13 in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.
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.
Isa 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples;
Darkness, spiritual darkness shall cover the earth. It is happening again. It happened in the days of Noah. It is happening again now, just as Christ predicted. Corruption is winning. That does not mean it shall ultimately win. Not even close. The second half of the verse states that plainly enough.
but Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.
There shall be a people, a remnant of humanity who will not plead guilty to any kind of lesser charges when the world-wide apostasy grows into one final war against the truth, the kingdom of God and His law.
That said, it must be admitted what we are watching take place in Georgia is a frightening reality of where things are when it comes to truth and justice. World War 3 is actually a possibility few would have ever believed could be a reality again in our lifetimes. It is a possibility because the now mentally impaired, head of a crime family is in the White House. One of the most corrupt politicians in American history is president, via a stolen election involving hundreds and thousands of people in the collection of swing states involved, and those who have risen up to protest it are facing jail. Those Americans who protested on January 6th, 2021 are in jail; have been for years now, and face corrupt judges, corrupt prosecutors, and corrupt prison administrations and employees, facing gulag-type treatment. In America. Early morning hour, heavily armed police-state patrons of darkness hauling citizens away; not in communist Cuba, North Korea or China but, America.
Elections have consequences.
I hold out no hope it can be stopped and turned around anymore; not in the spirit of truth and justice and principles of Americanism. The only thing that now awaits is the final Satanic dog and pony show "revival" to claim a reversal is taking place. "Peace and safety." How long until that takes place, I have no idea. Could be very soon. Could be years and years, as the darkness spreads.
Anyone who has doubts Christ is returning is just not paying attention to the bigger picture. Open your eyes. Fani Willis and these other prosecutors going after Trump are pawns in a much bigger scenario. Trump is no messiah. He cannot change the world for any length of time. No politician can. No politician was ever meant to. The only Personage who can change anything for longevity is the Creator, and fewer and fewer people care what He has to say.
When the darkness reaches its blackest midnight point and the light of truth shines, millions will see and stand for up for it.
So be it.
Until then, pray. It's going to get darker.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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858. Lewiston, Maine Shooting - October 26, 2023
I lived in Maine for 15 years. Fryeburg, to be exact. Nice little town. The Fryeburg Fair, maple syrup, lots of firewood every year, 100" of snow to deal with, and the most dreaded memory of the place I have - BUGS. Billions of bugs. Mosquitoes, Black flies, Deer flies, Noseeums... a collection of blood sucking, mini-demons let loose every Spring. They even have snow flies that come to the surface in February. The bugs get so bad even the forest creatures get out of the woods as much as possible. I'd go through a dozen cans of Deep Woods OFF every year. Even people who lived in Maine all their lives never saw bugs like our area. You literally had to run to your car and try to keep the bugs out when you got in, then kill as many as you could when you drove along. Regardless of the weather or temperature, you opened your window and tried to suck them out as they drew close. It was a nightmare.
Despite the bugs, Maine is a pretty laid back state. I had two radio programs over the years. A pre-recorded program and a live program. I preached around the state. New many people from the South to the North. Reading about the Lewiston shooting brings back memories of the city. Meetings I held in the area. Other types of meetings I attended in Lewiston. At this point the news says 16 people were killed but, that number will probably rise. A grainy photo of the shooter has been posted. A firearms instructor with mental health issues. And there it is.
The firearm he used was not the problem. His mind was and is the problem; another mentally impaired person slipping through cracks or just ignored and then... tragedy.
Typical calls for more gun laws, regardless of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Constitutionalists speaking out for firearm liberty by law, and those fighting against that liberty saying removal of more types of guns will limit deaths and more tragedy. Tell THAT to the citizens of Chicago.
People like to show how America has so many gun deaths compared to other nations of the world. What they do not tell you is, if you take out the Democrat run cities, with strict gun laws but, ridiculously abundant crime and criminal elements, America drops way down towards the bottom of the list. Rather than allow law-biding citizens to arm and defend themselves, these cities take all the guns away but, obviously the criminals get them, and use them on a public unable to defend themselves. It is one of the most stupid things on the planet but, always on the agenda of totalitarians. Take firearms away from the populace so they are easier to control. Democrats are totalitarians and so are RINOs and weak-minded Independents that make it into office.
The death toll from gun violence in Israel is 0.6% per 100,000 people. Every adult must serve time in the military. Every adult is trained to use firearms.
The death toll from gun violence in Switzerland is almost 0. Two million guns are owned among the nation's 8.3 million people. Every year the nation holds a shooting contest for all children 13-17 years of age. The Swiss know firearms. The Swiss own firearms. The Swiss are obsessed with firearm knowledge and use. The Swiss have not had a mass shooting in two decades.
Guns are never the problem. Minds are the problem.
In Europe - where heavy gun laws exist, nation to nation, generally - mass murders are committed by knives, tools, heavy objects, cars and trucks, fire, bombs, you name it. A madman with a hammer running into a crowd can do a lot of damage before he's taken down. But, still, guns get into the hands of criminal minds. You cannot stop gun trade. Even if you stopped firearm manufacture, elements in other nations would make fortunes making and selling weapons to whoever wants to buy them. They would still encircle the globe.
America would be almost free of attempted and completed murders if citizens were armed and ready to intelligently defend themselves and their neighbors. Criminals don't commit crime if they know someone will shoot back.
Politicians ignorantly talk about America turning into the Wild West if guns were just allowed, no matter what. After all, weren't there gun fights every five minutes, bank robberies every ten minutes and train robberies every half hour in the Wild West? No. That's Hollywood. That's sensationalizing stories by authors of tabloid tracts and magazines and books in the latter 19th century. Some well-known cities: Dodge City, Tombstone, San Francisco for example, had more saloons and gambling halls than others, which set a table for gunfights and gun violence. Still, Chicago has hundreds of murders every year at a rate of 46.5 per 100k. People often cite Chicago because of its gun laws. Criminals are still shooting people, including innocent children caught in gang related shootings and cross fires.
I mean, researchers and authors have been writing on this subject for decades and still, Leftists push hard for gun laws, disarming the law-biding citizenry while criminal elements armed to the teeth exist and the police always showing up after someone is dead. That is the same in all cities and towns. If 911 did not exist, think of how much worse things would be because minds are moving farther and farther from their Creator and closer and closer to the Adversary of souls. No amount of human laws will change that. Humanity is naturally dividing.
We live in a modern age, where technology should be giving all humanity advantages. It is not. The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer, regardless of the financial levels all classes of people live at today. It does not matter if you make a thousand times more per year than someone living in the 19th century if what you make can only take you week to week with no ability to save or get ahead. Aside from those on government assistance to survive, the middle class is losing more and more money to taxes and cost of living every year. Living paycheck to paycheck, both parents working. I watched my mother work all her life. Together they provided an average living condition for their small family. If every family in America were millionaires, that would not stop gun violence because money certainly does not stop minds from evil thoughts. Exactly the opposite!
1Tim 6:9 But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Gun laws are not the answer. They never will be. Job security, wealth is not the answer, either. It never will be. Connection to Christ, in truth, is the only sure answer. Sadly, few there be which find it. And those who do find the war between good and evil really exists and they are part of it. Reality check, 2023.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Despite the bugs, Maine is a pretty laid back state. I had two radio programs over the years. A pre-recorded program and a live program. I preached around the state. New many people from the South to the North. Reading about the Lewiston shooting brings back memories of the city. Meetings I held in the area. Other types of meetings I attended in Lewiston. At this point the news says 16 people were killed but, that number will probably rise. A grainy photo of the shooter has been posted. A firearms instructor with mental health issues. And there it is.
The firearm he used was not the problem. His mind was and is the problem; another mentally impaired person slipping through cracks or just ignored and then... tragedy.
Typical calls for more gun laws, regardless of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Constitutionalists speaking out for firearm liberty by law, and those fighting against that liberty saying removal of more types of guns will limit deaths and more tragedy. Tell THAT to the citizens of Chicago.
People like to show how America has so many gun deaths compared to other nations of the world. What they do not tell you is, if you take out the Democrat run cities, with strict gun laws but, ridiculously abundant crime and criminal elements, America drops way down towards the bottom of the list. Rather than allow law-biding citizens to arm and defend themselves, these cities take all the guns away but, obviously the criminals get them, and use them on a public unable to defend themselves. It is one of the most stupid things on the planet but, always on the agenda of totalitarians. Take firearms away from the populace so they are easier to control. Democrats are totalitarians and so are RINOs and weak-minded Independents that make it into office.
The death toll from gun violence in Israel is 0.6% per 100,000 people. Every adult must serve time in the military. Every adult is trained to use firearms.
The death toll from gun violence in Switzerland is almost 0. Two million guns are owned among the nation's 8.3 million people. Every year the nation holds a shooting contest for all children 13-17 years of age. The Swiss know firearms. The Swiss own firearms. The Swiss are obsessed with firearm knowledge and use. The Swiss have not had a mass shooting in two decades.
Guns are never the problem. Minds are the problem.
In Europe - where heavy gun laws exist, nation to nation, generally - mass murders are committed by knives, tools, heavy objects, cars and trucks, fire, bombs, you name it. A madman with a hammer running into a crowd can do a lot of damage before he's taken down. But, still, guns get into the hands of criminal minds. You cannot stop gun trade. Even if you stopped firearm manufacture, elements in other nations would make fortunes making and selling weapons to whoever wants to buy them. They would still encircle the globe.
America would be almost free of attempted and completed murders if citizens were armed and ready to intelligently defend themselves and their neighbors. Criminals don't commit crime if they know someone will shoot back.
Politicians ignorantly talk about America turning into the Wild West if guns were just allowed, no matter what. After all, weren't there gun fights every five minutes, bank robberies every ten minutes and train robberies every half hour in the Wild West? No. That's Hollywood. That's sensationalizing stories by authors of tabloid tracts and magazines and books in the latter 19th century. Some well-known cities: Dodge City, Tombstone, San Francisco for example, had more saloons and gambling halls than others, which set a table for gunfights and gun violence. Still, Chicago has hundreds of murders every year at a rate of 46.5 per 100k. People often cite Chicago because of its gun laws. Criminals are still shooting people, including innocent children caught in gang related shootings and cross fires.
I mean, researchers and authors have been writing on this subject for decades and still, Leftists push hard for gun laws, disarming the law-biding citizenry while criminal elements armed to the teeth exist and the police always showing up after someone is dead. That is the same in all cities and towns. If 911 did not exist, think of how much worse things would be because minds are moving farther and farther from their Creator and closer and closer to the Adversary of souls. No amount of human laws will change that. Humanity is naturally dividing.
We live in a modern age, where technology should be giving all humanity advantages. It is not. The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer, regardless of the financial levels all classes of people live at today. It does not matter if you make a thousand times more per year than someone living in the 19th century if what you make can only take you week to week with no ability to save or get ahead. Aside from those on government assistance to survive, the middle class is losing more and more money to taxes and cost of living every year. Living paycheck to paycheck, both parents working. I watched my mother work all her life. Together they provided an average living condition for their small family. If every family in America were millionaires, that would not stop gun violence because money certainly does not stop minds from evil thoughts. Exactly the opposite!
1Tim 6:9 But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Gun laws are not the answer. They never will be. Job security, wealth is not the answer, either. It never will be. Connection to Christ, in truth, is the only sure answer. Sadly, few there be which find it. And those who do find the war between good and evil really exists and they are part of it. Reality check, 2023.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Tipping the Scales
Let me start with this. My mother was a waitress all her life. She was fast, balanced and so friendly people took their vacations to one place she worked at just to see her during breakfast hours. That is the literal truth and when she retired, she was told the number of guests who seriously missed her presence was shocking. It was like that wherever she worked. She just had one of those winsome personalities. And I will say, watching her in action, for she and my dad ran two small restaurants together, was my baseline for wait service. She cooked a mean lasagna, too. The Italian guys coming over for lunch from Coca Cola told her it was better than their wives made. Mom was French. She knew how to cook just about anything.
Alright, so, there's my baseline. My mom was a hard working waitress that actually helped the business make business wherever she worked because, she worked.
My daughter is on another cross country bike trip on her way to Florida to work at the Everglades NP. She first went out to Utah and made her way through Texas and stopped here to visit. Being in between jobs and me on a very specifically strict diet at the moment, I took her out to eat the first night she was here. We went to a Mooyah. If you aren't familiar, (and she wasn't), it's a well-known burger place down here. They make a veggie burger: black beans and whatever else, and they have gluten-free buns, which also helps, for me. Their fries are incredible; not oily or greasy, at all. We both had the veggie burger and fries, regular and I tried the sweet potato fries, as well.
When I got the receipt I really did not look at it, save to look at the call number when the order was ready. The next day, after adding up the order in my head I looked at the receipt and saw they added a 20% tip to the order. THEY did that, not me. An automatic tip. Not by my choice. Their mandate. I will NEVER AGAIN eat at a Mooyah's. Why? Let me back up.
We walk in and look up at the menu and I make my decision. The absolute dead-on-his-feet kid behind the register was either stoned or just on a very low burner. He was so non-hospitable my daughter actually asked him if the food there was any good because he did not seem too excited to serve it to us. He answered, "Yeah, no, it's good," in a thoroughly unconvincing way. She ordered the same as I did and he gave us a couple small cups for water and we hit the beverage machine and sat down.
When the order was ready, they did not call out the number, the kid basically dragged himself across the floor to placed the trays in front of us, convoluted. My burger was with her fries, her burger with mine. Now, there is only one other couple in the place. No rush hour. No nothing. There's five people working back there and they could not get two orders correct? Seriously? We looked at each other and then him as he walked away saying it was all there, just a little mixed up. ?!?!? Say what???
I was shocked enough, because I have not eaten out in a longggg time, to see the bill for two veggie burgers and three small orders of fries but, to see that tip automatically added on hit every restaurant buzzer in my brain and I hit the roof. I was going to write to the company but, I have come to realize wherever young people work it is the same basic thing nowadays. Few of them understand the meaning of work and having a job working for someone else; their business, where you are hired to do your best to make customers feel welcomed and served in your employer's business.
Now, I realize there are Mooyah's all over the place down here and I imagine many have competent employees. This one, not so much. I cannot say I have ever been to one that exuded service but, nothing as bad as this one. And I will not be returning to any of them. Nobody should be forced to place a tip in the hands of people who do not deserve it, period. A tip is a gratuity rendered for good service that makes your time in the restaurant enjoyable. Step on that in any way(s) and that tip drops down exponentially if the service is poor, meaning, I would not have left a tip for that ridiculous "service" if they held a gun to my head. I was made to feel they could have cared less if I ate there or not. It was a mockery of everything I ever saw my mom say and do. Plus, the booth seats were flat, bare wood and there was nothing comfortable about them. Leaving the place was the only thing I wanted to do when I finished the meal. Yes, the burger was pretty good and the fries always good; whatever they do to them. The service? Give me the choice on a tip and I may return someday. Force me to pay a tip; I'll stay home. And 20%? A forced 20%??? Seriously? And I am told some places expect 25 or even 30%! A third of my bill for food that you bring to my seat and refill my water glass, even if it doesn't need it? Have you lost your mind?
Waiters and waitresses work hard? Hey, that is between them and their employers, how many customers they may have to serve in their sections and hustle to do it. Don't put that on the customers. This kid had NO customers to serve in the whole building. He never came back to ask how the food was, if we wanted anything else or anything else! Never saw him again. He was the epitome of a walking dud. Lifeless, off in the clouds somewhere. My mother would be rolling over in her grave. And to think these kids just tap a picture on a computer screen when people order. You could train a horse to do the same thing with a stick in its teeth.
Not impressed. Well, yeah, with a horse, sure. This young, male, hired help? No.
And by way of mandates and comparison; God, the Creator of the universe, that we all live and breathe and eat in, only asks for a tithe, 10% of a person's gain. Some disinterested, mopey, lackadaisical 16 year old? Yeah, no.
Alright, so, there's my baseline. My mom was a hard working waitress that actually helped the business make business wherever she worked because, she worked.
My daughter is on another cross country bike trip on her way to Florida to work at the Everglades NP. She first went out to Utah and made her way through Texas and stopped here to visit. Being in between jobs and me on a very specifically strict diet at the moment, I took her out to eat the first night she was here. We went to a Mooyah. If you aren't familiar, (and she wasn't), it's a well-known burger place down here. They make a veggie burger: black beans and whatever else, and they have gluten-free buns, which also helps, for me. Their fries are incredible; not oily or greasy, at all. We both had the veggie burger and fries, regular and I tried the sweet potato fries, as well.
When I got the receipt I really did not look at it, save to look at the call number when the order was ready. The next day, after adding up the order in my head I looked at the receipt and saw they added a 20% tip to the order. THEY did that, not me. An automatic tip. Not by my choice. Their mandate. I will NEVER AGAIN eat at a Mooyah's. Why? Let me back up.
We walk in and look up at the menu and I make my decision. The absolute dead-on-his-feet kid behind the register was either stoned or just on a very low burner. He was so non-hospitable my daughter actually asked him if the food there was any good because he did not seem too excited to serve it to us. He answered, "Yeah, no, it's good," in a thoroughly unconvincing way. She ordered the same as I did and he gave us a couple small cups for water and we hit the beverage machine and sat down.
When the order was ready, they did not call out the number, the kid basically dragged himself across the floor to placed the trays in front of us, convoluted. My burger was with her fries, her burger with mine. Now, there is only one other couple in the place. No rush hour. No nothing. There's five people working back there and they could not get two orders correct? Seriously? We looked at each other and then him as he walked away saying it was all there, just a little mixed up. ?!?!? Say what???
I was shocked enough, because I have not eaten out in a longggg time, to see the bill for two veggie burgers and three small orders of fries but, to see that tip automatically added on hit every restaurant buzzer in my brain and I hit the roof. I was going to write to the company but, I have come to realize wherever young people work it is the same basic thing nowadays. Few of them understand the meaning of work and having a job working for someone else; their business, where you are hired to do your best to make customers feel welcomed and served in your employer's business.
Now, I realize there are Mooyah's all over the place down here and I imagine many have competent employees. This one, not so much. I cannot say I have ever been to one that exuded service but, nothing as bad as this one. And I will not be returning to any of them. Nobody should be forced to place a tip in the hands of people who do not deserve it, period. A tip is a gratuity rendered for good service that makes your time in the restaurant enjoyable. Step on that in any way(s) and that tip drops down exponentially if the service is poor, meaning, I would not have left a tip for that ridiculous "service" if they held a gun to my head. I was made to feel they could have cared less if I ate there or not. It was a mockery of everything I ever saw my mom say and do. Plus, the booth seats were flat, bare wood and there was nothing comfortable about them. Leaving the place was the only thing I wanted to do when I finished the meal. Yes, the burger was pretty good and the fries always good; whatever they do to them. The service? Give me the choice on a tip and I may return someday. Force me to pay a tip; I'll stay home. And 20%? A forced 20%??? Seriously? And I am told some places expect 25 or even 30%! A third of my bill for food that you bring to my seat and refill my water glass, even if it doesn't need it? Have you lost your mind?
Waiters and waitresses work hard? Hey, that is between them and their employers, how many customers they may have to serve in their sections and hustle to do it. Don't put that on the customers. This kid had NO customers to serve in the whole building. He never came back to ask how the food was, if we wanted anything else or anything else! Never saw him again. He was the epitome of a walking dud. Lifeless, off in the clouds somewhere. My mother would be rolling over in her grave. And to think these kids just tap a picture on a computer screen when people order. You could train a horse to do the same thing with a stick in its teeth.
Not impressed. Well, yeah, with a horse, sure. This young, male, hired help? No.
And by way of mandates and comparison; God, the Creator of the universe, that we all live and breathe and eat in, only asks for a tithe, 10% of a person's gain. Some disinterested, mopey, lackadaisical 16 year old? Yeah, no.
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Fast Food Fallout
You may think those into making and/or playing a drum set would not be interested in other things I post about here; whether Bible prophecy, American history, our Constitutional Republic and rule of law, the UFO phenomena and other things that interest me at this stage of my life but, you'd be wrong. Those who engage in drum set artistry are gaining benefits they may not even realize, when it comes to brain function and effects on neurological information pathways. Studies show those who engage in the thinking and physical coordination of playing a drum set enhance a lot of what is happening in our 'grey matter.'
Drummers should really care about their health and how it affects longevity. Unfortunately musicians, in general, do not. Alcohol and drug abuse is common. Life on the road for touring musicians can mean a lot of "fast food."
A new study, promoted by Moms Across America, and the report it has revealed, contains seriously shocking information.
Animal Contraceptive & Antibiotics Found In Most Popular Fast Foods
Whatever livestock is given these days is NOT being removed by any means of blood letting or processing now used for preparing animal foods for market. No, it's going into your blood stream and accumulation of these toxins can only lead to problems, especially for children and youth who frequent fast food eateries the most.
Read the article and see. This is a serious issue.
thepeoplesvoice.tv/animal-contraceptive-antibiotics-found-in-most-popular-fast-foods/
Why are Americans so high on the lists of all health concerns among nations? Because of SAD: the Standard American Diet. Obesity is epidemic, even among children, especially among children and with it diabetes, liver problems, blood borne illnesses and the list keeps growing. Why? Because of what American children and youth consume for "food." Most of it has zip for natural nutritional value. Chemical and "vitamin" additives are a literal bad joke but, animal contraceptives and antibiotics? Yikes. Sound the alarm.
This is why I tell people the first chapter of the book of Daniel is not about some great, far reaching time prophecy or clash of nations. No, no. It's about loyalty to God and His health laws. It is also why the last book of the Bible, Revelation, states so much about "sorcery," which in the Greek language is interpreted from the "pharma" words; words about drug use. Here we have been under the gun of oppression for two years of a man-made "pandemic" that attempted to force people to take injections from pharmaceutical companies who knew the side effects, new the dangers, never did proper time-span studies and now, people are just dying suddenly, all ages: children, youth, adults, people in terrific condition otherwise, like athletes, just dropping dead from heart conditions dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of physicians around the world have been warning about for three years now.
With the seeking of entities like Bill Gates and others, attempting to put the "vaccine" ingredients into the food supply, the Bible is spot on in its final judgments pronounced on those who create and use drugs, rather than look to their Creator and His plan for health.
God is always way ahead of the curve, my Friends. Way ahead of what man thinks he is ahead on.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Drummers should really care about their health and how it affects longevity. Unfortunately musicians, in general, do not. Alcohol and drug abuse is common. Life on the road for touring musicians can mean a lot of "fast food."
A new study, promoted by Moms Across America, and the report it has revealed, contains seriously shocking information.
Animal Contraceptive & Antibiotics Found In Most Popular Fast Foods
Whatever livestock is given these days is NOT being removed by any means of blood letting or processing now used for preparing animal foods for market. No, it's going into your blood stream and accumulation of these toxins can only lead to problems, especially for children and youth who frequent fast food eateries the most.
Read the article and see. This is a serious issue.
thepeoplesvoice.tv/animal-contraceptive-antibiotics-found-in-most-popular-fast-foods/
Why are Americans so high on the lists of all health concerns among nations? Because of SAD: the Standard American Diet. Obesity is epidemic, even among children, especially among children and with it diabetes, liver problems, blood borne illnesses and the list keeps growing. Why? Because of what American children and youth consume for "food." Most of it has zip for natural nutritional value. Chemical and "vitamin" additives are a literal bad joke but, animal contraceptives and antibiotics? Yikes. Sound the alarm.
This is why I tell people the first chapter of the book of Daniel is not about some great, far reaching time prophecy or clash of nations. No, no. It's about loyalty to God and His health laws. It is also why the last book of the Bible, Revelation, states so much about "sorcery," which in the Greek language is interpreted from the "pharma" words; words about drug use. Here we have been under the gun of oppression for two years of a man-made "pandemic" that attempted to force people to take injections from pharmaceutical companies who knew the side effects, new the dangers, never did proper time-span studies and now, people are just dying suddenly, all ages: children, youth, adults, people in terrific condition otherwise, like athletes, just dropping dead from heart conditions dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of physicians around the world have been warning about for three years now.
With the seeking of entities like Bill Gates and others, attempting to put the "vaccine" ingredients into the food supply, the Bible is spot on in its final judgments pronounced on those who create and use drugs, rather than look to their Creator and His plan for health.
God is always way ahead of the curve, my Friends. Way ahead of what man thinks he is ahead on.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
859. Which War is More Important? - 10/28/2023
War is everywhere. In fact, it always has been. Think of a time in your lifetime when a war was not being fought somewhere on Earth. I cannot. Not in my lifetime. "Wars and rumors of wars" is a constant of modern life. It seems as common as gravity and the orbits of stars and planets. Some nations you can count on to be involved in wars. The United States is one such nation. Its history is one filled with wars. According to historians; all but 15 years of its young life, comparatively speaking, has been involved in wars.
With war so ubiquitous in modern times, can anyone actually pick the most important? Right now non-president and the war mongers in Congress want to continue dumping billions into the Ukraine conflict, adding billions into the current Israeli/Hamas-Gaza war, even putting American boots on the ground of each. It is insanity.
I will tell you the most important war humans face. The war between good and evil; truth and lies; righteousness & justice and sin & blasphemy. No war is greater than it because the results of victory or defeat rests on each and every person born into this world. The consequences surrounding this war are eternal.
All human wars generally have victors but, all human wars never really end because leaders die, new leaders get involved in new wars and the drunkenness of power never reaches enough height to satisfy souls locked in its grip. Plus, bankers know war is money. Nations borrow money to fight wars. Then they end up paying back loans, with interest, forever. America is a prime example. Add to that the money-making of arms manufacturers and the whole thing becomes a perpetual industry. And it is called "the Military Industrial Complex."
The spiritual war raging is also perpetual and been going on for ages unknown. As long as Lucifer exists, with his hordes and minions, battles between good and evil will not only not go away, they will increase and intensify.
The Bible states the fallen angel, Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, the Dragon, the ruler of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the murderer and father of lies is as real as the chair you are sitting in right now; as real as your laptop; as real as that bottle of water you are drinking from. He masks himself with various sophistries, organizations, cultures and human endeavors. Religion is one of those masks he wages his war against God and Christ with. As such, for ages, confusion has been associated with religion and it is called "Babylon" in Scripture. The worst of it is not that which is "pagan." Up against true Christianity the differences are too obvious to confuse and deceive minds. Therefore Lucifer has seen the best way to deceive the world is to join the church, mess it up with things foreign to the true faith of Christ, and not only confuse the aspect of Christianity but, confuse the "kings of the earth" with it all, as well.
People get upset with me, with any Protestant, for seeing the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy and Vatican as this arch enemy confusion factory Satan uses to fulfill his needs for deception. It is filled with millions of normal, everyday "good" people. Its many levels of administration contain people devoted to Christ and truth as they have come to understand it. Over 1 billion people make up its membership and it has been around for longer than any other church on Earth, accept the true body of Christ. It has been engaged in both spiritual and physical wars for ages. Regardless of its scandals it keeps on truckin.' Why? How? Because Satan chose it to be his "seat" of power, Rev 13:2. She is "Mother" of abominations.
Regardless of what you may think, some entity on Earth is antichrist, the Beast, the Mother of harlots, the great apostasy, the Little Horn power of Daniel 7, etc. You are confused if you think all professed Christianity will unite against it. That is one of Satan's greatest lies of confusion in professed Christianity: a powerful person who shall rise and take control of the Earth and tattoo or mark everyone with a 666 and all those who do not take the mark shall be his enemies. Now that is a comic book story. It is based on Roman Catholic writers of the 16th century who fought a tremendous spiritual and physical war against Protestants who rose up in shock to realize and to proclaim the very church they were members of was antichrist and the great mother whore of Revelation; the great apostasy in the warnings of the apostle Paul.
I and others in the Protestant persuasion are not new. None of this is written in obtuse corners on the "dark web." It's just that apostasy within the ranks of Protestantism has watered down the truth and tried to make it disappear altogether. It leaves people thinking true Protestantism is nothing but, hate and caustic opinions of religious fanaticism.
Let me place before you two stories, both from the Catholic News Agency website.
"Bishop Barron: Church should engage culture with more ‘energy, panache, and confidence’
Oct 26, 2023
"Bishop Robert Barron said he regrets the Catholic Church’s “hand-wringing” in recent decades over how to share the Christian message with a secular culture."
I found this rather amazing. The definition of "panache," a French word not commonly in use anymore, is -
1. flamboyant confidence of style or manner
a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair:
1. a stylish, original, and very confident way of doing things that makes people admire you:
Rev 13:3 AndG2532 I sawG1492 oneG3391 of hisG848 headsG2776 as it wereG5613 woundedG4969 toG1519 death;G2288 andG2532 hisG848 deadlyG2288 woundG4127 was healed:G2323 andG2532 allG3650 theG3588 worldG1093 wonderedG2296 afterG3694 theG3588 beast.G2342
What you are looking at there is the King James Version with correlating numbers from Strong's Concordance of the Bible. It's a great tool for study and comes with Esword; a free software put together by an incredible guy who only asks for donations to help out, if you be so moved. It contains dozens of Bible translations and other types of study books, maps, commentaries, you name it. I have mentioned it here many times before.
See the word "wondered?" The number associated with it is G2296. That is the Greek word... well, click on it, click on dictionaries and this pops up from Strong's -
thaumazō
thou-mad'-zo
From G2295; to wonder; by implication to admire: - admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.
Total KJV occurrences: 46
You can also click on Thayer's concordance -
thaumazō
Thayer Definition:
1) to wonder, wonder at, marvel
2) to be wondered at, to be had in admiration
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G2295
To admire, to be had in admiration. So, Bishop Robert Barron wants the RCC to be admired and wants Catholics out there showing some flamboyant flair to witness to that effect. Little may he realize the church to which he belongs already fulfills that claim to "fame." Though, it will be realized the last century of Romanism has had its problems, not the least of which is its current Pope. Anyway, compare that headline to this story, on the same web page -
"Cardinal at Synod on Synodality: ‘Clericalizing women’ will not solve problems
Oct 26, 2023
"Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost noted that the Catholic Church is not a mirror image of society and “needs to be different.”
So, we see confusion here. What shall it be? A more flamboyant look or black with stiff, white collars and all the rest of the things that make the Roman Catholic Church "different?" Bear in mind, now, the list of things that make the RCC different from secular society also makes it different from anything the early Christian church in the Bible was and did and showed itself to be -
There were no priests, nuns, cardinals or popes. There were no rosary beads, word for word prayers, special "saints," adorned statues, crucifixes, candles, chants, indulgences, Purgatory, a constantly burning, ever filled "Hell," nor ghostlike "souls" ascending to Heaven round the clock of death. There were no fine church buildings, no robes, no rote anything. The entire system of Romanism is just that: borrowed from pagan Rome and other cultures and religions common to the ancient world. It was all adopted and adapted to make it easier for pagans to join the new religion, as it all corrupted the new religion, and a war broke out between those paganizing the church and those staying true to the simple teachings of Christ and the apostles.
In the book The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan, the writer of the history of the Christian church states it this way -
"It required a desperate struggle for those who would be faithful to stand firm against the deceptions and abominations which were disguised in sacerdotal garments and introduced into the church. The Bible was not accepted as the standard of faith. The doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy, and its upholders were hated and proscribed.
"After a long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry. They saw that separation was an absolute necessity if they would obey the Word of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set an example which would imperil the faith of their children and children's children. To secure peace and unity they were ready to make any concession consistent with fidelity to God; but they felt that even peace would be too dearly purchased at the sacrifice of principle. If unity could be secured only by the compromise of truth and righteousness, then let there be difference, and even war.
"Well would it be for the church and the world if the principles that actuated those steadfast souls were revived in the hearts of God's professed people. There is an alarming indifference in regard to the doctrines which are the pillars of the Christian faith. The opinion is gaining ground, that, after all, these are not of vital importance. This degeneracy is strengthening the hands of the agents of Satan, so that false theories and fatal delusions which the faithful in ages past imperiled their lives to resist and expose, are now regarded with favor by thousands who claim to be followers of Christ." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, 1888, pg. 45
What we see today is ecumenism: the desire for everyone to get along, put differences aside, with doctrinal standards among them. Join on those things all the churches have in common. The world is in turmoil. The world needs to see a united church front with answers to meet the questions of the era. How can questions of the era be answered when the professed churches of Christ are as confused as the world on questions of the era?
One Catholic says the church must show panache; another says the church must be different and maintain its traditions.
She is Mother, Babylon: confusion and she has harlot daughters; those Protestant Churches who continue to follow those traditions and doctrines to one degree or another and they all do, to one degree or another. That is why the book of Revelation states God will have a remnant that shall maintain His truth in the final throes of worldwide apostasy and Satan makes war against them -
Rev 12:17 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.
Even if a nuclear war develops and breaks out, it bears no weight upon the war Lucifer is waging against the people of God; keeping His commandments and the testimony of Jesus. No nuclear war can have eternal results. Dust settles. Life goes on, even if it be life after nuclear fall-out. The war between Christ and Satan does bear weight; eternal weight and every person is involved, every person on one side or the other; no in between, no neutral observers, no other flags of intent.
Will war break out between all nuclear nations? I don't know. God will decide what humanity has sown and should reap. Hollywood has addressed the matter numerous times in the last couple generations. What is really indignantly amusing is that the war between Christ and Satan; last-day events, from Hollywood, are considered "B" movies. Just as well because they are all based on Roman Catholic-inspired, Jesuit Futurism, which is Babylonian confusion.
War is here. It shall remain and get worse until Christ returns and ends it all with His final military thrust: as real as any bomb going off anywhere on Earth, right now.
The end of all things shall come. And the new shall begin.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
With war so ubiquitous in modern times, can anyone actually pick the most important? Right now non-president and the war mongers in Congress want to continue dumping billions into the Ukraine conflict, adding billions into the current Israeli/Hamas-Gaza war, even putting American boots on the ground of each. It is insanity.
I will tell you the most important war humans face. The war between good and evil; truth and lies; righteousness & justice and sin & blasphemy. No war is greater than it because the results of victory or defeat rests on each and every person born into this world. The consequences surrounding this war are eternal.
All human wars generally have victors but, all human wars never really end because leaders die, new leaders get involved in new wars and the drunkenness of power never reaches enough height to satisfy souls locked in its grip. Plus, bankers know war is money. Nations borrow money to fight wars. Then they end up paying back loans, with interest, forever. America is a prime example. Add to that the money-making of arms manufacturers and the whole thing becomes a perpetual industry. And it is called "the Military Industrial Complex."
The spiritual war raging is also perpetual and been going on for ages unknown. As long as Lucifer exists, with his hordes and minions, battles between good and evil will not only not go away, they will increase and intensify.
The Bible states the fallen angel, Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, the Dragon, the ruler of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the murderer and father of lies is as real as the chair you are sitting in right now; as real as your laptop; as real as that bottle of water you are drinking from. He masks himself with various sophistries, organizations, cultures and human endeavors. Religion is one of those masks he wages his war against God and Christ with. As such, for ages, confusion has been associated with religion and it is called "Babylon" in Scripture. The worst of it is not that which is "pagan." Up against true Christianity the differences are too obvious to confuse and deceive minds. Therefore Lucifer has seen the best way to deceive the world is to join the church, mess it up with things foreign to the true faith of Christ, and not only confuse the aspect of Christianity but, confuse the "kings of the earth" with it all, as well.
People get upset with me, with any Protestant, for seeing the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy and Vatican as this arch enemy confusion factory Satan uses to fulfill his needs for deception. It is filled with millions of normal, everyday "good" people. Its many levels of administration contain people devoted to Christ and truth as they have come to understand it. Over 1 billion people make up its membership and it has been around for longer than any other church on Earth, accept the true body of Christ. It has been engaged in both spiritual and physical wars for ages. Regardless of its scandals it keeps on truckin.' Why? How? Because Satan chose it to be his "seat" of power, Rev 13:2. She is "Mother" of abominations.
Regardless of what you may think, some entity on Earth is antichrist, the Beast, the Mother of harlots, the great apostasy, the Little Horn power of Daniel 7, etc. You are confused if you think all professed Christianity will unite against it. That is one of Satan's greatest lies of confusion in professed Christianity: a powerful person who shall rise and take control of the Earth and tattoo or mark everyone with a 666 and all those who do not take the mark shall be his enemies. Now that is a comic book story. It is based on Roman Catholic writers of the 16th century who fought a tremendous spiritual and physical war against Protestants who rose up in shock to realize and to proclaim the very church they were members of was antichrist and the great mother whore of Revelation; the great apostasy in the warnings of the apostle Paul.
I and others in the Protestant persuasion are not new. None of this is written in obtuse corners on the "dark web." It's just that apostasy within the ranks of Protestantism has watered down the truth and tried to make it disappear altogether. It leaves people thinking true Protestantism is nothing but, hate and caustic opinions of religious fanaticism.
Let me place before you two stories, both from the Catholic News Agency website.
"Bishop Barron: Church should engage culture with more ‘energy, panache, and confidence’
Oct 26, 2023
"Bishop Robert Barron said he regrets the Catholic Church’s “hand-wringing” in recent decades over how to share the Christian message with a secular culture."
I found this rather amazing. The definition of "panache," a French word not commonly in use anymore, is -
1. flamboyant confidence of style or manner
a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair:
1. a stylish, original, and very confident way of doing things that makes people admire you:
Rev 13:3 AndG2532 I sawG1492 oneG3391 of hisG848 headsG2776 as it wereG5613 woundedG4969 toG1519 death;G2288 andG2532 hisG848 deadlyG2288 woundG4127 was healed:G2323 andG2532 allG3650 theG3588 worldG1093 wonderedG2296 afterG3694 theG3588 beast.G2342
What you are looking at there is the King James Version with correlating numbers from Strong's Concordance of the Bible. It's a great tool for study and comes with Esword; a free software put together by an incredible guy who only asks for donations to help out, if you be so moved. It contains dozens of Bible translations and other types of study books, maps, commentaries, you name it. I have mentioned it here many times before.
See the word "wondered?" The number associated with it is G2296. That is the Greek word... well, click on it, click on dictionaries and this pops up from Strong's -
thaumazō
thou-mad'-zo
From G2295; to wonder; by implication to admire: - admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.
Total KJV occurrences: 46
You can also click on Thayer's concordance -
thaumazō
Thayer Definition:
1) to wonder, wonder at, marvel
2) to be wondered at, to be had in admiration
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G2295
To admire, to be had in admiration. So, Bishop Robert Barron wants the RCC to be admired and wants Catholics out there showing some flamboyant flair to witness to that effect. Little may he realize the church to which he belongs already fulfills that claim to "fame." Though, it will be realized the last century of Romanism has had its problems, not the least of which is its current Pope. Anyway, compare that headline to this story, on the same web page -
"Cardinal at Synod on Synodality: ‘Clericalizing women’ will not solve problems
Oct 26, 2023
"Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost noted that the Catholic Church is not a mirror image of society and “needs to be different.”
So, we see confusion here. What shall it be? A more flamboyant look or black with stiff, white collars and all the rest of the things that make the Roman Catholic Church "different?" Bear in mind, now, the list of things that make the RCC different from secular society also makes it different from anything the early Christian church in the Bible was and did and showed itself to be -
There were no priests, nuns, cardinals or popes. There were no rosary beads, word for word prayers, special "saints," adorned statues, crucifixes, candles, chants, indulgences, Purgatory, a constantly burning, ever filled "Hell," nor ghostlike "souls" ascending to Heaven round the clock of death. There were no fine church buildings, no robes, no rote anything. The entire system of Romanism is just that: borrowed from pagan Rome and other cultures and religions common to the ancient world. It was all adopted and adapted to make it easier for pagans to join the new religion, as it all corrupted the new religion, and a war broke out between those paganizing the church and those staying true to the simple teachings of Christ and the apostles.
In the book The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan, the writer of the history of the Christian church states it this way -
"It required a desperate struggle for those who would be faithful to stand firm against the deceptions and abominations which were disguised in sacerdotal garments and introduced into the church. The Bible was not accepted as the standard of faith. The doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy, and its upholders were hated and proscribed.
"After a long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry. They saw that separation was an absolute necessity if they would obey the Word of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set an example which would imperil the faith of their children and children's children. To secure peace and unity they were ready to make any concession consistent with fidelity to God; but they felt that even peace would be too dearly purchased at the sacrifice of principle. If unity could be secured only by the compromise of truth and righteousness, then let there be difference, and even war.
"Well would it be for the church and the world if the principles that actuated those steadfast souls were revived in the hearts of God's professed people. There is an alarming indifference in regard to the doctrines which are the pillars of the Christian faith. The opinion is gaining ground, that, after all, these are not of vital importance. This degeneracy is strengthening the hands of the agents of Satan, so that false theories and fatal delusions which the faithful in ages past imperiled their lives to resist and expose, are now regarded with favor by thousands who claim to be followers of Christ." E.G. White, The Great Controversy, 1888, pg. 45
What we see today is ecumenism: the desire for everyone to get along, put differences aside, with doctrinal standards among them. Join on those things all the churches have in common. The world is in turmoil. The world needs to see a united church front with answers to meet the questions of the era. How can questions of the era be answered when the professed churches of Christ are as confused as the world on questions of the era?
One Catholic says the church must show panache; another says the church must be different and maintain its traditions.
She is Mother, Babylon: confusion and she has harlot daughters; those Protestant Churches who continue to follow those traditions and doctrines to one degree or another and they all do, to one degree or another. That is why the book of Revelation states God will have a remnant that shall maintain His truth in the final throes of worldwide apostasy and Satan makes war against them -
Rev 12:17 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.
Even if a nuclear war develops and breaks out, it bears no weight upon the war Lucifer is waging against the people of God; keeping His commandments and the testimony of Jesus. No nuclear war can have eternal results. Dust settles. Life goes on, even if it be life after nuclear fall-out. The war between Christ and Satan does bear weight; eternal weight and every person is involved, every person on one side or the other; no in between, no neutral observers, no other flags of intent.
Will war break out between all nuclear nations? I don't know. God will decide what humanity has sown and should reap. Hollywood has addressed the matter numerous times in the last couple generations. What is really indignantly amusing is that the war between Christ and Satan; last-day events, from Hollywood, are considered "B" movies. Just as well because they are all based on Roman Catholic-inspired, Jesuit Futurism, which is Babylonian confusion.
War is here. It shall remain and get worse until Christ returns and ends it all with His final military thrust: as real as any bomb going off anywhere on Earth, right now.
The end of all things shall come. And the new shall begin.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
Babylon on Flags
Here's a headline I saw that shows some confusion of spiritual, prophetic Babylon. It is based on the four horsemen of Rev. 6:1-8.
The horses and they who ride them are pictured as white, red, black and "pale." Two very different interpretations are placed upon them, depending on your theological foundation. Here is an aspect of Futurism -
"Is It Just A Coincidence That The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Are The Same Colors As The Palestinian Flag?
October 24, 2023
"I am going to share something with you that social media is really buzzing about right now. If you go to Revelation chapter 6, you will find that the colors of the horses that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are riding are white, red, black and “pale”. But the ancient Greek word that is translated as “pale” in Revelation 6:8 is more commonly translated as “green”. In fact, the other three times that “khlōros” is found in the New Testament it is translated as “green” in the King James Version. So if the most accurate translation of “khlōros” in Revelation 6:8 is “green”, that would give us horses that are white, red, black and “green”, and it turns out that those are the exact same four colors that we find on the Palestinian flag.
"Of course I do not believe that Revelation chapter 6 is talking about the Palestinians.
"But I do think that this is a really weird “coincidence”.
"And it has also been pointed out that these four colors are used on flags throughout the entire Islamic world.
pic.twitter.com/iSezsDRj5Z
— Christ Alone Podcast | Stevens (@ChristAlonePod) October 15, 2023
"That is pretty amazing."
themostimportantnews.com/archives/is-it-just-a-coincidence-that-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-are-the-same-colors-as-the-palestinian-flag#google_vignette
Now, I want you to know I have a lot of respect for Michael Snyder. He keeps a watch on world events on all fronts. He is letting people know what is developing and soon to be upon us in areas of technology, finance, military conflagration, health matters and of course, Bible prophecy. He is a Futurist and that slant is in all his reporting. I am a Historicist and take all his prophetic commentary with a grain of salt. But, you see, when Futurism is your foundation, constant "coincidences" become probable, possible or definite fulfillments of prophecy.
For the futurist, Israel is key. Israel involved in a tremendous war in the Middle-East is key. The antichrist arising out of the Middle East is key. Or maybe Europe or Russia or... pick a spot on Earth. It is all based on guesswork of what might be, which is why writers and preachers have predicted the "Rapture" happening for a hundred years and it has not happened yet and will not happen, because it is a false doctrine. There is no secret coming of Christ invisibly snatching people away and then a 7-year tribulation begins and then Christ returns in power and glory and a thousand years of peace and rebuilding on Earth happens. The horsemen represent the antichrist, war and bloodshed, famine, then death; all transpiring in the time of tribulation coming. Some base this on Christ's sermon on last-day events in Matthew 24:4-8. They conflate the two.
The Historicist sees the White horseman as Christ; His church going forth conquering and to conquer the spiritual darkness.
The Red horseman is persecution; the martyrdom of early believers.
The Black horseman then represents apostasy, compromise and infiltration: the rise and control of the Roman Church, its man of sin Papacy and Mother Vatican religious system corrupting everything in the faith once delivered unto the saints.
The Pale horse represents the death of Christianity and absolute need for revival and reformation in the dark ages of Catholic superstitions and paganism, which ultimately came and changed the world, yet even that compromised and fell away and ultimately Christ returns and destruction comes with Him as He rescues His remnant and resurrects the loyal down through the ages and leaves the world in a heap for Lucifer and his angels to sit upon for a millennium, pondering the futility and stupidity of their rebellion. That is Revelation 6 in a nutshell.
The Historicist position always has a starting point somewhere in history and then moves logically forward, seeing predicted events fulfilled with startling accuracy; including dates and times stated so far in advance only God could have made these pronouncements through His chosen messengers, the prophets. It is a reason based on truth that God states He is the only true God, telling the end from the beginning: things that have not come to pass but, will because He is Almighty. He is truth. He is life.
The current events do have social media all abuzz, based on Futurism. When it all collapses, what will its inherent believers do? Hopefully rise out of confusion and stand on the eternal platform of truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The horses and they who ride them are pictured as white, red, black and "pale." Two very different interpretations are placed upon them, depending on your theological foundation. Here is an aspect of Futurism -
"Is It Just A Coincidence That The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Are The Same Colors As The Palestinian Flag?
October 24, 2023
"I am going to share something with you that social media is really buzzing about right now. If you go to Revelation chapter 6, you will find that the colors of the horses that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are riding are white, red, black and “pale”. But the ancient Greek word that is translated as “pale” in Revelation 6:8 is more commonly translated as “green”. In fact, the other three times that “khlōros” is found in the New Testament it is translated as “green” in the King James Version. So if the most accurate translation of “khlōros” in Revelation 6:8 is “green”, that would give us horses that are white, red, black and “green”, and it turns out that those are the exact same four colors that we find on the Palestinian flag.
"Of course I do not believe that Revelation chapter 6 is talking about the Palestinians.
"But I do think that this is a really weird “coincidence”.
"And it has also been pointed out that these four colors are used on flags throughout the entire Islamic world.
pic.twitter.com/iSezsDRj5Z
— Christ Alone Podcast | Stevens (@ChristAlonePod) October 15, 2023
"That is pretty amazing."
themostimportantnews.com/archives/is-it-just-a-coincidence-that-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-are-the-same-colors-as-the-palestinian-flag#google_vignette
Now, I want you to know I have a lot of respect for Michael Snyder. He keeps a watch on world events on all fronts. He is letting people know what is developing and soon to be upon us in areas of technology, finance, military conflagration, health matters and of course, Bible prophecy. He is a Futurist and that slant is in all his reporting. I am a Historicist and take all his prophetic commentary with a grain of salt. But, you see, when Futurism is your foundation, constant "coincidences" become probable, possible or definite fulfillments of prophecy.
For the futurist, Israel is key. Israel involved in a tremendous war in the Middle-East is key. The antichrist arising out of the Middle East is key. Or maybe Europe or Russia or... pick a spot on Earth. It is all based on guesswork of what might be, which is why writers and preachers have predicted the "Rapture" happening for a hundred years and it has not happened yet and will not happen, because it is a false doctrine. There is no secret coming of Christ invisibly snatching people away and then a 7-year tribulation begins and then Christ returns in power and glory and a thousand years of peace and rebuilding on Earth happens. The horsemen represent the antichrist, war and bloodshed, famine, then death; all transpiring in the time of tribulation coming. Some base this on Christ's sermon on last-day events in Matthew 24:4-8. They conflate the two.
The Historicist sees the White horseman as Christ; His church going forth conquering and to conquer the spiritual darkness.
The Red horseman is persecution; the martyrdom of early believers.
The Black horseman then represents apostasy, compromise and infiltration: the rise and control of the Roman Church, its man of sin Papacy and Mother Vatican religious system corrupting everything in the faith once delivered unto the saints.
The Pale horse represents the death of Christianity and absolute need for revival and reformation in the dark ages of Catholic superstitions and paganism, which ultimately came and changed the world, yet even that compromised and fell away and ultimately Christ returns and destruction comes with Him as He rescues His remnant and resurrects the loyal down through the ages and leaves the world in a heap for Lucifer and his angels to sit upon for a millennium, pondering the futility and stupidity of their rebellion. That is Revelation 6 in a nutshell.
The Historicist position always has a starting point somewhere in history and then moves logically forward, seeing predicted events fulfilled with startling accuracy; including dates and times stated so far in advance only God could have made these pronouncements through His chosen messengers, the prophets. It is a reason based on truth that God states He is the only true God, telling the end from the beginning: things that have not come to pass but, will because He is Almighty. He is truth. He is life.
The current events do have social media all abuzz, based on Futurism. When it all collapses, what will its inherent believers do? Hopefully rise out of confusion and stand on the eternal platform of truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A.I. Goes to Church
Let's ask a question. When Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life, did He mean Himself or also a technological representation of the way, the truth and the life?
In South Korea, a very tech-savvy society, Artificial Intelligence is leading out in worship services and young adults are drinking it up with great enthusiasm.
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-goes-to-church-in-south-korea-and-sparks-controversy
You can imagine the controversy. Lots of it, too. You can read the article but, I would pose an interesting possibility.
If an A.I. source was programmed with ancient Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek and Aramaic languages, the languages of Scripture; along with every translation of the Bible known to man and only the Bible, in all known languages it has been translated into; no human commentaries, and you asked it a question and the answer was based on just what the Bible collectively states, could you be guaranteed the truth?
If you placed commentaries in the data base you would confuse the issue from its foundation. You only want a thus saith the Bible, Genesis to Revelation. Without some history in its data base, world events and such, answers about prophecy would lack necessary matter but, other subjects, needing no outside sources to define a collective message, would certainly be accurate, no? What does the Bible state about __________? is the prompt. The Bible states this ___________. is the response. Truthful?
Watch and see. Someone will do it and post the results. I guarantee it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In South Korea, a very tech-savvy society, Artificial Intelligence is leading out in worship services and young adults are drinking it up with great enthusiasm.
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-goes-to-church-in-south-korea-and-sparks-controversy
You can imagine the controversy. Lots of it, too. You can read the article but, I would pose an interesting possibility.
If an A.I. source was programmed with ancient Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek and Aramaic languages, the languages of Scripture; along with every translation of the Bible known to man and only the Bible, in all known languages it has been translated into; no human commentaries, and you asked it a question and the answer was based on just what the Bible collectively states, could you be guaranteed the truth?
If you placed commentaries in the data base you would confuse the issue from its foundation. You only want a thus saith the Bible, Genesis to Revelation. Without some history in its data base, world events and such, answers about prophecy would lack necessary matter but, other subjects, needing no outside sources to define a collective message, would certainly be accurate, no? What does the Bible state about __________? is the prompt. The Bible states this ___________. is the response. Truthful?
Watch and see. Someone will do it and post the results. I guarantee it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Need of Spines
I just read an article, a very good article, that caught my eye -
The scandal of the Evangelical spine: Unelected 'evangellyfish'
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-scandal-of-the-evangelical-spine-unelected-evangellyfish.html
Here is the original source, as well -
www.standingforfreedom.com/2023/10/the-necessity-of-courage-for-the-christian-life-reflections-on-growing-a-spine/
The article states principles I have posted for years here and I was very convicted by it, myself. We are all sinners in need of a Savior. Nobody escapes the inner workings and examinations of the Holy Spirit, unless they choose not to be examined. That is not an easy roadblock to erect. It is the Spirit's work; His ministry to convict of sin, righteousness and judgement, John 16:8.
We are sinners. We have all broken God's moral law; His standard of life with Him and our fellow man.
Righteousness is available through a living connection to Christ.
If we refuse, neglect, reject so great a salvation, judgment shall take place and the fault will lie at our own door.
America is a mess because the churches have been overcome, overwhelmed by the current culture. It's been going on for a very long time.
The article lays out the truth. We all need a spine or we collapse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The scandal of the Evangelical spine: Unelected 'evangellyfish'
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-scandal-of-the-evangelical-spine-unelected-evangellyfish.html
Here is the original source, as well -
www.standingforfreedom.com/2023/10/the-necessity-of-courage-for-the-christian-life-reflections-on-growing-a-spine/
The article states principles I have posted for years here and I was very convicted by it, myself. We are all sinners in need of a Savior. Nobody escapes the inner workings and examinations of the Holy Spirit, unless they choose not to be examined. That is not an easy roadblock to erect. It is the Spirit's work; His ministry to convict of sin, righteousness and judgement, John 16:8.
We are sinners. We have all broken God's moral law; His standard of life with Him and our fellow man.
Righteousness is available through a living connection to Christ.
If we refuse, neglect, reject so great a salvation, judgment shall take place and the fault will lie at our own door.
America is a mess because the churches have been overcome, overwhelmed by the current culture. It's been going on for a very long time.
The article lays out the truth. We all need a spine or we collapse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The Other Side of Dracula
You will not believe this article. I state that with hyperbole, of course. You should believe it. You will believe it because it actually makes sense.
Vlad the Impaler. Dracula. A Christian war hero. Not kidding. Read -
www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html
When the author states 'Christian' it historically means Roman Catholic. I state that because, again, the fact I stand against the system of the RCC, Papacy and Vatican does not mean I condemn Roman Catholics, at all. Time and place, conditions and circumstances must always be considered.
By sheer numbers alone, it is logical to believe more Roman Catholics are closer to God in what light they have, than Protestants with far more light in their hands, yet living in the darkness of the current culture.
The 15th century Romanian prince, Vlad Tepes. Quite the story.
Vlad the Impaler. Dracula. A Christian war hero. Not kidding. Read -
www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html
When the author states 'Christian' it historically means Roman Catholic. I state that because, again, the fact I stand against the system of the RCC, Papacy and Vatican does not mean I condemn Roman Catholics, at all. Time and place, conditions and circumstances must always be considered.
By sheer numbers alone, it is logical to believe more Roman Catholics are closer to God in what light they have, than Protestants with far more light in their hands, yet living in the darkness of the current culture.
The 15th century Romanian prince, Vlad Tepes. Quite the story.
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Uh Oh. The Rapture Has Happened!
I just watched a video of people disappearing from a hospital. It's very well done, assuming it's fake.
I wondered if others existed so I did a search for "people disappear from hospital" and clicked on the video tab and at least three videos are out there: the hospital, an airport and a restaurant. I doubt their reality for a couple reasons. As far as the "rapture;" Christ took them with their earthly clothes? Hmm.
The other thing is the simple lack of any kind of time stamp on the CCTV videos. None of the videos have any identification with them. People are just posting and reposting them.
Assuming someone is trying to replicate what the rapture will be like, I'd expect more of these to pop up.
If they are meant to replicate people being abducted by aliens... well, being days old now, seems to me every news channel on the planet would be showing them, from the nation it took place in to the rest of the world's media outlets if they were real events. I'd expect interviews with every single person not taken to be on a news program, etc. Here are the videos I know of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObBLySzCXs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH9oT4C9AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odICpqjgsvM
The last link, of the airport scene, is interesting because each camera records the girl screaming. Each of the videos shows the different reactions of people so, it is not just camera trickery or CGI. The events are staged, somehow, with the cooperation, paid or otherwise, of many other people in the scenes.
Things just dropping from people's hands as they vanish is pretty cool, a restaurant tray, a cell phone, luggage. Quite well done. There is the aspect of forward motion, like being in a car and stopping and everything in the car keeps moving forward. The waiter with the tray, walking quickly: the tray would keep moving forward slightly before falling. In the video it just drops.
At some point the videos will be declared by their creator(s). I still expect more to come; possibly outside scenes.
Videos with individuals vanishing have been around for awhile now.
With the world of technology at their finger tips, do not doubt it will all be used for nefarious purposes by those seeking to gain more and more control. Deep fakes are here, both visual and audio and far too many possibilities exist to stage events to cause entire nations to react in ways that shall benefit others.
It's an evil world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Here's another, said to be at a restaurant in the Bronx, NY. Why these are on a UFO channel ups the suspicion, being three weeks since posting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GL8kLWyOK0
Especially when the channel, UFOmania, states this about the channel -
"Ufomania" is an entertainment Youtube Channel.
Mystery solved? I'd say so.
Ah but, wait. There's more.
And here's the group making the staged videos -
www.perhapstoday.org/rapture-pre-enactments/about
Yep. All about the "Rapture."
The deceptions of this false doctrine, with other false doctrines stuck to it, will leave so many people confused, disgusted and unaware of what is really going to take place, it is a spiritual crime against Heaven. It takes away any sense of necessary, spiritual preparation and robs the Gospel of its power to save no matter what the circumstances. Telling people Christ is going to secretly come and whisk people away is a sacrilege to His triumphant return once, a second time; not twice - rapture, then the big event. When the rapture does not happen, millions will be in absolute shock and denial, and the closing events will not wait for them to catch up to reality.
God, help them.
I wondered if others existed so I did a search for "people disappear from hospital" and clicked on the video tab and at least three videos are out there: the hospital, an airport and a restaurant. I doubt their reality for a couple reasons. As far as the "rapture;" Christ took them with their earthly clothes? Hmm.
The other thing is the simple lack of any kind of time stamp on the CCTV videos. None of the videos have any identification with them. People are just posting and reposting them.
Assuming someone is trying to replicate what the rapture will be like, I'd expect more of these to pop up.
If they are meant to replicate people being abducted by aliens... well, being days old now, seems to me every news channel on the planet would be showing them, from the nation it took place in to the rest of the world's media outlets if they were real events. I'd expect interviews with every single person not taken to be on a news program, etc. Here are the videos I know of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObBLySzCXs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH9oT4C9AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odICpqjgsvM
The last link, of the airport scene, is interesting because each camera records the girl screaming. Each of the videos shows the different reactions of people so, it is not just camera trickery or CGI. The events are staged, somehow, with the cooperation, paid or otherwise, of many other people in the scenes.
Things just dropping from people's hands as they vanish is pretty cool, a restaurant tray, a cell phone, luggage. Quite well done. There is the aspect of forward motion, like being in a car and stopping and everything in the car keeps moving forward. The waiter with the tray, walking quickly: the tray would keep moving forward slightly before falling. In the video it just drops.
At some point the videos will be declared by their creator(s). I still expect more to come; possibly outside scenes.
Videos with individuals vanishing have been around for awhile now.
With the world of technology at their finger tips, do not doubt it will all be used for nefarious purposes by those seeking to gain more and more control. Deep fakes are here, both visual and audio and far too many possibilities exist to stage events to cause entire nations to react in ways that shall benefit others.
It's an evil world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Here's another, said to be at a restaurant in the Bronx, NY. Why these are on a UFO channel ups the suspicion, being three weeks since posting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GL8kLWyOK0
Especially when the channel, UFOmania, states this about the channel -
"Ufomania" is an entertainment Youtube Channel.
Mystery solved? I'd say so.
Ah but, wait. There's more.
And here's the group making the staged videos -
www.perhapstoday.org/rapture-pre-enactments/about
Yep. All about the "Rapture."
The deceptions of this false doctrine, with other false doctrines stuck to it, will leave so many people confused, disgusted and unaware of what is really going to take place, it is a spiritual crime against Heaven. It takes away any sense of necessary, spiritual preparation and robs the Gospel of its power to save no matter what the circumstances. Telling people Christ is going to secretly come and whisk people away is a sacrilege to His triumphant return once, a second time; not twice - rapture, then the big event. When the rapture does not happen, millions will be in absolute shock and denial, and the closing events will not wait for them to catch up to reality.
God, help them.
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The Borders
Many Americans do not know that the borders of this nation are not under the control of the specific States on the edges of our country but, under the control of the Federal government. Because of that, here in Texas, governor Abbott had to violate federal law to do something to attempt to keep the flow of illegal immigrants to a controllable minimum.
Now, Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton is trying to get an injunction against the Biden administration for actually, literally cutting border fencing to allow even more illegals to pass into our nation. Federal border agents are being commanded to cut razor wire fencing and open gaps for illegals to pass through. That is a literal crime. The Biden administration is breaking federal laws. How is this possible? Because the federal justice department is nothing more than a Democrat cheerleading section being used by the administration as a tool, a weapon, against the Constitution, the rule of law, American citizens and every principle of right, common sense and logic upheld by these principles.
Given the current condition of hatred that exists towards this nation around the world, no reasonable person could conclude enemies of America are not passing through these open borders, just as they have passed our closed borders, where they still exist. And while most media attention is at the Southern border; with Justin Trudeau, a New World Order pawn, in charge of Canada, it is entirely reasonable to believe agents who mean harm to America are passing down through our Northern border, as well. There is no possible way logic and common sense could conclude terrorists are not in our land plotting against the nation.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), posted on his X account this recent factoid -
"In the last 4 weeks alone (since the beginning of FY2024), the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Sector has apprehended 5 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, 19 from Syria, and 75 from China. It’s not a stretch—in fact, it’s putting it mildly—to say “they might not mean us well.” 6:13 PM · Oct 27, 2023 18.7K Views
Every wide angle photograph of these border crossing, waves of humanity show mostly military-age males.
Federal and even international laws are being broken by this situation and only citizens seem to care, along with some of the elected civil servants operating in the Southern border states.
Both Republicans and Democrats, as well as registered Independents live in these border regions. They are threatened; their families, their livestock, their properties all threatened by this situation. Murders and ruthless destruction by drug cartels, as well as wanton trashing of property takes place every day down there. Illegals, themselves, face dangers coming this way and by international law, actual "refugees," by legal definition, from one nation into another are to be stopped and addressed by whatever nation they cross into. America is not receiving Mexican refugees. Mexico should be handling this wave from below its borders, not America.
Those blind and/or ignorant enough to believe politicians in Washington, D.C. and border states do not mean to harm this nation have their heads in sand. Europe is now reeling, trying to undo the repercussions of their border policies, allowing millions of "Muslim" refugees into their nations; especially as Islam rises up in these nations with violent protesting of the Israeli/Gaza war.
Here, in America, college campuses are exploding with protests against Israel. For all Israel has done, and people in the world know it, Hamas is still a terrorist organization that uses human shields to protect themselves when they deem it advantageous. They murdered over 1,000 civilians to instigate this current conflict. Whatever they blame the State of Israel for, murdering civilians is a gross violation of all principles of armed engagement but, for them, each Jew is a trophy they announce on their social media platforms. Insanity.
The only thing keeping Israel from nuking Gaza is the obvious effect of Mediterranean winds blowing fallout back on Israel. There is no way around that.
Nothing good can come out of this situation. All blustery saber rattling is nonsense. Only a pyrrhic victory can come from it all. It's a mess generations have seen coming and it's here and no one has any lasting answers because there are none, when both sides believe their deity is on their side to win. That is an ancient policy still alive and not so well in the Middle East.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now, Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton is trying to get an injunction against the Biden administration for actually, literally cutting border fencing to allow even more illegals to pass into our nation. Federal border agents are being commanded to cut razor wire fencing and open gaps for illegals to pass through. That is a literal crime. The Biden administration is breaking federal laws. How is this possible? Because the federal justice department is nothing more than a Democrat cheerleading section being used by the administration as a tool, a weapon, against the Constitution, the rule of law, American citizens and every principle of right, common sense and logic upheld by these principles.
Given the current condition of hatred that exists towards this nation around the world, no reasonable person could conclude enemies of America are not passing through these open borders, just as they have passed our closed borders, where they still exist. And while most media attention is at the Southern border; with Justin Trudeau, a New World Order pawn, in charge of Canada, it is entirely reasonable to believe agents who mean harm to America are passing down through our Northern border, as well. There is no possible way logic and common sense could conclude terrorists are not in our land plotting against the nation.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), posted on his X account this recent factoid -
"In the last 4 weeks alone (since the beginning of FY2024), the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Sector has apprehended 5 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, 19 from Syria, and 75 from China. It’s not a stretch—in fact, it’s putting it mildly—to say “they might not mean us well.” 6:13 PM · Oct 27, 2023 18.7K Views
Every wide angle photograph of these border crossing, waves of humanity show mostly military-age males.
Federal and even international laws are being broken by this situation and only citizens seem to care, along with some of the elected civil servants operating in the Southern border states.
Both Republicans and Democrats, as well as registered Independents live in these border regions. They are threatened; their families, their livestock, their properties all threatened by this situation. Murders and ruthless destruction by drug cartels, as well as wanton trashing of property takes place every day down there. Illegals, themselves, face dangers coming this way and by international law, actual "refugees," by legal definition, from one nation into another are to be stopped and addressed by whatever nation they cross into. America is not receiving Mexican refugees. Mexico should be handling this wave from below its borders, not America.
Those blind and/or ignorant enough to believe politicians in Washington, D.C. and border states do not mean to harm this nation have their heads in sand. Europe is now reeling, trying to undo the repercussions of their border policies, allowing millions of "Muslim" refugees into their nations; especially as Islam rises up in these nations with violent protesting of the Israeli/Gaza war.
Here, in America, college campuses are exploding with protests against Israel. For all Israel has done, and people in the world know it, Hamas is still a terrorist organization that uses human shields to protect themselves when they deem it advantageous. They murdered over 1,000 civilians to instigate this current conflict. Whatever they blame the State of Israel for, murdering civilians is a gross violation of all principles of armed engagement but, for them, each Jew is a trophy they announce on their social media platforms. Insanity.
The only thing keeping Israel from nuking Gaza is the obvious effect of Mediterranean winds blowing fallout back on Israel. There is no way around that.
Nothing good can come out of this situation. All blustery saber rattling is nonsense. Only a pyrrhic victory can come from it all. It's a mess generations have seen coming and it's here and no one has any lasting answers because there are none, when both sides believe their deity is on their side to win. That is an ancient policy still alive and not so well in the Middle East.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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860. Speaker Mike Johnson - 10/31/23
I never heard of him before the House elected him as Speaker. New nothing about him until I saw things he said in his first speech as Speaker of the House. I only knew whoever got voted into the position is 3rd in line to the presidency.
Turns out Mike Johnson is an actual Christian; not just a political one who says, "God bless America," like most of them. He says the Bible is his worldview. Well, it's mine so, at least I know where he stands on that issue and some obvious, other issues, like being pro-life. After his election he was asked about homosexuality and he declined to comment, even though, apparently he has stated his personal belief, it is a sin but, the Federal government is not in place to stop people from sinning; which is quite true. It's the civil government, not the moral government according to the Bible or any other religious text. The man seems pretty balanced. How is it he is not a much more well-known person in the House of Representatives? Probably because he does not go out of his way to gain a microphone or camera the way far too many elected civil servants do.
So, here is a man who truly believes in God and believes the Bible is the Word of God, about the most common position any American could take in the last 250 years BUT, those on the Left in politics are not happy, at all. They could not hold themselves together long enough to let the moisture in Johnson's mouth dry out after his speech before they went apoplectic on it.
In his speech, Johnson mentioned one of the most commonly understood doctrines in the entire Bible - God either sets up rulers or allows them their positions.
Dan 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the basest of men.
Dan 4:25 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
Dan 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from you.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.
The Babylonian king had quite an experience, all for him to learn the fact that God is in total control over the kingdoms of mankind. He sets people up. He takes people down. He puts righteous men in positions of responsibility or he lets the worst men possible get into positions of authority to humble mankind if they wander from His will. Logically, that is what he's been doing with America for years in Washington, D.C. The nation has wandered far from its original moorings and God has allowed people into elected office who are bringing the nation to the dust in their arrogance and disbelief. If you have any spiritual sense at all, you can see it quite plainly.
Rom 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Rom 13:2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
Rom 13:4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Rom 13:5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Rom 13:6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
God has established authority on Earth through earthly leaders and rulers. They can be righteous or wicked and God's sovereignty is in control of it all, for mankind's good, even if He must allow them to suffer under the hands of persecution that the Gospel may move forward. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel."
What Leftists demonstrate, and even people on the Right, time and time again, is their complete ignorance of what the Bible teaches about God's character, government and purposes. That is why Leftist news media tore into Johnson when he applied the above principles to his own election as Speaker of the House. Johnson knows he is not special but, there is a reason he is now in the position of authority he is in. It is by God's ultimate sovereignty. Christianity 101.
The msm went nuts and instantly began to attempt to make Johnson look like a religious fanatic. One article honed in on MSNBC's political analyst, former Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki.
"Jen Psaki: At first glance, Mike Johnson does seem fine. Fineish? Conservative, yes. But he once started a civility caucus with a Democrat. And, I mean, if nothing else, he wears a suit and has glasses. How threatening can this guy actually be? Well, he gave us all a little clue as to how he would govern in an interview this week.
Video clip of Speaker Mike Johnson: I am a Bible believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, it’s curious, people are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? I said, well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.
"Jen Psaki: You heard that, right. The Bible doesn’t just inform his worldview. It is his worldview. In fact, during his first speech in his new job, Johnson suggested that his election as speaker was an act of God. Talk about a bit of a humble brag there! So what exactly has God apparently called on Mike Johnson to do? Well, his views on policy are essentially what you’d expect from a religious fundamentalist. They’re more divisive than they are divine."
Johnson feels confident to comment on Scripture. Psaki feels confident to comment on God's sovereignty through His Word. Not a wise move.
The Left has no use for God's Word. Even professed Leftist clergy in the Christian faith constantly choose feelings over biblical fact when it comments on their social policies and morality.
No, I am not saying "religious fundamentalists" are always right. Far from it. I am saying individuals have a God-given, inalienable right to have their personal religious beliefs that will guide their elected civil service. When a clash takes place, the Bible says believers must obey God rather than men. Or, in the case of Islam, where the place of Islamic laws stand against the U.S. Constitution and American history, said traditions have no place in the role of authority in American law or political authoritative practice in elected civil service.
The Constitution states religious faith cannot be a test of civil service but, what if religious faith stands against the Constitution? An elected civil servant cannot take their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic very seriously if their religion stands opposed to the nation's highest code of man-made law. That law guarantees freedom of conscience and worship. Johnson is no different than Abraham Lincoln in this regard. Lincoln honored the Bible, as have many presidents from George Washington onward through American history. Jen Psaki is way off bounds and outside the history of the Founding and practice of this nation. Par for the course for today's Leftist, corporate controlled news media.
I am actually surprised Republicans elected Johnson for Speaker of the House. He must be a pretty low-key kind of guy for them to go with a seriously professed Christian. Most of them give lip service to the faith.
Time will tell if Johnson's profession of faith and biblical worldview enhance or detract from civil service in his new role. There are voices on the Right who believe all government civil servants should be believer's to those voices' standards of belief. Slippery slope, that one: which always brings about persecution sooner or later. Always. "Good" people attempting to make "bad" people good, through law influenced by religion, always end up persecuting others who just don't follow the path they believe is the only true path.
Now, while I believe an atheist can be a civil servant, I challenge the notion they can guard the premise that American's rights come from the Creator, not men, if they do not believe in the Creator. That's just common sense. This where religion is attached to American history and law like a welded nut on a threaded pipe. The principle of the separation of church and state is very real. The policy of separation of God from state is not an American principle. It's a Marxist policy. It has gained a great deal of ground over the decades, which makes it easy for Leftists to make snide comments about Mike Johnson. I tend to think Johnson can weather such storms.
At the very least, he is lightyears ahead, in matters of American principles, than Nancy Pelosi.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Turns out Mike Johnson is an actual Christian; not just a political one who says, "God bless America," like most of them. He says the Bible is his worldview. Well, it's mine so, at least I know where he stands on that issue and some obvious, other issues, like being pro-life. After his election he was asked about homosexuality and he declined to comment, even though, apparently he has stated his personal belief, it is a sin but, the Federal government is not in place to stop people from sinning; which is quite true. It's the civil government, not the moral government according to the Bible or any other religious text. The man seems pretty balanced. How is it he is not a much more well-known person in the House of Representatives? Probably because he does not go out of his way to gain a microphone or camera the way far too many elected civil servants do.
So, here is a man who truly believes in God and believes the Bible is the Word of God, about the most common position any American could take in the last 250 years BUT, those on the Left in politics are not happy, at all. They could not hold themselves together long enough to let the moisture in Johnson's mouth dry out after his speech before they went apoplectic on it.
In his speech, Johnson mentioned one of the most commonly understood doctrines in the entire Bible - God either sets up rulers or allows them their positions.
Dan 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the basest of men.
Dan 4:25 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
Dan 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from you.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.
The Babylonian king had quite an experience, all for him to learn the fact that God is in total control over the kingdoms of mankind. He sets people up. He takes people down. He puts righteous men in positions of responsibility or he lets the worst men possible get into positions of authority to humble mankind if they wander from His will. Logically, that is what he's been doing with America for years in Washington, D.C. The nation has wandered far from its original moorings and God has allowed people into elected office who are bringing the nation to the dust in their arrogance and disbelief. If you have any spiritual sense at all, you can see it quite plainly.
Rom 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Rom 13:2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
Rom 13:4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Rom 13:5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Rom 13:6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
God has established authority on Earth through earthly leaders and rulers. They can be righteous or wicked and God's sovereignty is in control of it all, for mankind's good, even if He must allow them to suffer under the hands of persecution that the Gospel may move forward. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel."
What Leftists demonstrate, and even people on the Right, time and time again, is their complete ignorance of what the Bible teaches about God's character, government and purposes. That is why Leftist news media tore into Johnson when he applied the above principles to his own election as Speaker of the House. Johnson knows he is not special but, there is a reason he is now in the position of authority he is in. It is by God's ultimate sovereignty. Christianity 101.
The msm went nuts and instantly began to attempt to make Johnson look like a religious fanatic. One article honed in on MSNBC's political analyst, former Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki.
"Jen Psaki: At first glance, Mike Johnson does seem fine. Fineish? Conservative, yes. But he once started a civility caucus with a Democrat. And, I mean, if nothing else, he wears a suit and has glasses. How threatening can this guy actually be? Well, he gave us all a little clue as to how he would govern in an interview this week.
Video clip of Speaker Mike Johnson: I am a Bible believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, it’s curious, people are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? I said, well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.
"Jen Psaki: You heard that, right. The Bible doesn’t just inform his worldview. It is his worldview. In fact, during his first speech in his new job, Johnson suggested that his election as speaker was an act of God. Talk about a bit of a humble brag there! So what exactly has God apparently called on Mike Johnson to do? Well, his views on policy are essentially what you’d expect from a religious fundamentalist. They’re more divisive than they are divine."
Johnson feels confident to comment on Scripture. Psaki feels confident to comment on God's sovereignty through His Word. Not a wise move.
The Left has no use for God's Word. Even professed Leftist clergy in the Christian faith constantly choose feelings over biblical fact when it comments on their social policies and morality.
No, I am not saying "religious fundamentalists" are always right. Far from it. I am saying individuals have a God-given, inalienable right to have their personal religious beliefs that will guide their elected civil service. When a clash takes place, the Bible says believers must obey God rather than men. Or, in the case of Islam, where the place of Islamic laws stand against the U.S. Constitution and American history, said traditions have no place in the role of authority in American law or political authoritative practice in elected civil service.
The Constitution states religious faith cannot be a test of civil service but, what if religious faith stands against the Constitution? An elected civil servant cannot take their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic very seriously if their religion stands opposed to the nation's highest code of man-made law. That law guarantees freedom of conscience and worship. Johnson is no different than Abraham Lincoln in this regard. Lincoln honored the Bible, as have many presidents from George Washington onward through American history. Jen Psaki is way off bounds and outside the history of the Founding and practice of this nation. Par for the course for today's Leftist, corporate controlled news media.
I am actually surprised Republicans elected Johnson for Speaker of the House. He must be a pretty low-key kind of guy for them to go with a seriously professed Christian. Most of them give lip service to the faith.
Time will tell if Johnson's profession of faith and biblical worldview enhance or detract from civil service in his new role. There are voices on the Right who believe all government civil servants should be believer's to those voices' standards of belief. Slippery slope, that one: which always brings about persecution sooner or later. Always. "Good" people attempting to make "bad" people good, through law influenced by religion, always end up persecuting others who just don't follow the path they believe is the only true path.
Now, while I believe an atheist can be a civil servant, I challenge the notion they can guard the premise that American's rights come from the Creator, not men, if they do not believe in the Creator. That's just common sense. This where religion is attached to American history and law like a welded nut on a threaded pipe. The principle of the separation of church and state is very real. The policy of separation of God from state is not an American principle. It's a Marxist policy. It has gained a great deal of ground over the decades, which makes it easy for Leftists to make snide comments about Mike Johnson. I tend to think Johnson can weather such storms.
At the very least, he is lightyears ahead, in matters of American principles, than Nancy Pelosi.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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861. I Never Knew You - November 1, 2023
As I awake and look to the requirements of this day, I don't know why but, I feel moved, even compelled to write this down.
Anybody with a reasonable mind will be convicted to realize Bible prophecy places upon the subject of religion a much different purpose to pay attention to the Word of the Creator. Despite the surplus of entertainment "magicians" doing things in their acts that defy logic and physics these days, Bible prophecy: the stating of future events centuries, millennia before they come to pass is no act. There are no tricks involved. No sleight of hand. No distractions. There is only Divine foreknowledge that no human being has or will ever have. The prophets were given a spiritual gift that brought them into the divine presence at times, to hear from God what things would come to pass, even if all circumstances and conditions looked to make it more than impossible.
The book of Daniel is the starting place. It not only lays out long-range, international events, it also gives clues and specifics as to who the parties shall be. Daniel entered Babylon, a captive of one of its onslaughts, when he was a teenager. The book ends with Daniel in old age, decades behind him, under new regimes, not of Babylon but, an entirely different nation; just as the prophecies from God given him, which he wrote down, were fulfilled.
I have placed it all before my readers here and books have been written, sermons preached, seminars given for five centuries around the world, and the internet is buzzing with the same information as we behold a dying world gasping for its last breaths in defiance of its Creator's desires and will for its salvation.
Most people coming to this site and taking the time to read about all this in the posts I have put up about the subject, may think time is on their side; that these issues are not that pressing because the world just continues on regardless of what happens.
2Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Peter 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.
Peter goes on to say, 'Yeah, well, you forgot about the Flood, did you?'
God ended the world then. He's going to end it again.
1. The world now has the capacity to extinguish most human life on the globe through nuclear arms.
2. Whatever you think of them, climate protestors against the use of oil are everywhere now, causing people a lot of headaches with their tactics, solely because they believe pollution is killing the atmosphere and the ground and the waters. You may think them crazy but, all of their "evidence" for this cannot be cast aside so easily.
3. Yes, there are minds telling another side of the story but, anyone who drinks treated water from a municipal tap knows the difference between water that is fairly pure and that which is most definitely not. People know the difference between breathing in clean air and breathing in air that hurts your chest after a while. People know the difference between real earth filled with organic compounds and that which is almost just sand and chemicals. The Earth is literally under assault for man-made reasons. It will not sustain life indefinitely.
4. Technology threatens human existence, not in some Hollywood movie scenario (yet) but, the real nature of technology is removing the need for a human workforce. Out of 8 billion people on the globe and estimated 3 billion are in the global workforce. That number will begin to shrink exponentially as technology gains more advancements. What will the global controllers do with 8, 9 or 10 billion people in the ensuing years of tech development, forcing complicated issues and strife in all developed nations?
5. You may not live to see the fulfillment of these scenarios. Your children and certainly your grandchildren will. And with these problems for humanity will come a surge of sin: the breaking of God's laws in neglect, outright rejection, desperation, depression, hopelessness and stress. All this, predicted by the prophets. No not robotics but, knowledge, Daniel 12:4. An increase in knowledge generally, and an increase of knowledge in the prophecies of Daniel, Revelation and other books of the Bible addressing what has come and what is yet to come in last-day events. Events foretold that cannot be gainsaid by detractors of any stripe, shall make for a paper thin floor to stand on. Collapse is definitive.
Now, to my subject on my mind. Very simply, a putting together of just two passages of Scripture. The first, found in the book of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was a captive of Babylon's intrusion, like Daniel. His visions took place in that time period, far from home, before Daniel set foot in that nation; a circumstance developing from an earlier siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. His name means "God will strengthen." He lived a hard life.
In an incredible moment, a day of horror, found in chapter 24, Ezekiel was told the king of Babylon was going to lay Jerusalem in the dust and by evening, his wife was dead. He was told not to mourn or weep and let no tears run down his cheeks but, go to the people and tell them they too shall suffer death of wives, sons and daughters and not to mourn or weep and have tears run down their faces because they brought it on themselves by their constant apostasy. They reaped what they sowed. "God will strengthen." What internal strength must a man have to follow such directions; not to mourn or weep and let tears fill his eyes and run down his cheeks at the death of his wife he so greatly loved. Ezekiel was aptly named.
The land was run by fools who lived in sinful, treacherous ways and God allowed the Babylonians to come in and ransack their land and it happened more than once. In the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel the prophet was told to say this to the people -
Eze 33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’
Eze 33:11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
Eze 33:13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.
Eze 33:14 Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Eze 33:15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Eze 33:16 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
The principle is sure. If you sin and repent and turn away from your sins, God will forget all your sins. If you live righteously and start sinning and refuse to repent, all your righteousness previous to your choices to sin will be forgotten. And you cannot appeal to the righteous life of anyone else, either. It's on each of us, alone. The Jews cried out, 'That's not fair!' God said, 'Really? Why not?'
Eze 33:17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.
Eze 33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
Eze 33:19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
Eze 33:20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
That principle was stated by Christ in His sermon on the Mount. Read closely -
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 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?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [lawlessness].
There will be people, many, a multitude from down through history, who will stand before the Lord in the day of judgment and say, 'I/we did all these things in your name. Why can't we come in? We deserve to be let in because of all these things we did in your name!' And what will Christ reply? I NEVER KNEW YOU. All their righteous acts shall be forgotten and they shall stand before God as though they never had a moment's connection to Heaven. They shall be judged by the direction of their life when it ended. They shall be judged by their obedience to the Father's will, when Christ returns. Living unrighteously; refusing to obey the revealed will of God in some portion of your life? All previous connection to God vanishes. You shall be considered a worker of iniquity, an enemy of the kingdom regardless of anything you might do or have done to build it up at one time. NOBODY is once saved, always saved. NOBODY is saved by some collection of good works weighed against sins in the life on some divine scales of self-righteousness. We are saved by grace, through faith, to the effect of good works in the life and the obvious direction a believer is traveling when death takes them to sleep in the dust of the Earth; to raise in one of two resurrections: of the just at Christ's return, or the unjust a thousand years later.
If alive when Christ returns, it is because you lived in harmony with God's will, otherwise you shall be destroyed by the brightness, the glory, the impact of Christ's return upon the Earth and its inhabitants living in rebellion, regardless of the "peace and safety" message that circled the globe in its apostasy from truth. A totally false peace, a complete lie of safety. A full delusion upon the inhabitants of the earth who refused to believe the truth because it was too inconvenient to comply with. The laws of man were easier to follow than the law of God. The fault in destruction shall lie at their own door. Nobody to blame. Nobody to point fingers at, regardless of all the preachers of unrighteousness; ministers of ungodliness working under the influence of the "angel of light." No, the fault for loss of eternal life shall lie at the feet of each person who chooses to disobey a plain 'thus saith the LORD.'
Yes, drums and music are enjoyable pastimes. Hundreds of enjoyable pastimes exist but, there are no options to obedience by grace through faith for eternal life. Are you walking closer towards God or farther away? Maybe no one else knows but, God does. You do.
It's your choice. Make the right one and by God's grace, stick with it. Never stop marching. In every doubt, remember prophecy. God has told us the end from the beginning that we can trust Him with our lives no matter what the circumstances that surround us. God is good. God is just. God is going to end this world again and bring about the final phase of life on this globe which shall exist forever.
Be there, my Friend. Do not miss it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Anybody with a reasonable mind will be convicted to realize Bible prophecy places upon the subject of religion a much different purpose to pay attention to the Word of the Creator. Despite the surplus of entertainment "magicians" doing things in their acts that defy logic and physics these days, Bible prophecy: the stating of future events centuries, millennia before they come to pass is no act. There are no tricks involved. No sleight of hand. No distractions. There is only Divine foreknowledge that no human being has or will ever have. The prophets were given a spiritual gift that brought them into the divine presence at times, to hear from God what things would come to pass, even if all circumstances and conditions looked to make it more than impossible.
The book of Daniel is the starting place. It not only lays out long-range, international events, it also gives clues and specifics as to who the parties shall be. Daniel entered Babylon, a captive of one of its onslaughts, when he was a teenager. The book ends with Daniel in old age, decades behind him, under new regimes, not of Babylon but, an entirely different nation; just as the prophecies from God given him, which he wrote down, were fulfilled.
I have placed it all before my readers here and books have been written, sermons preached, seminars given for five centuries around the world, and the internet is buzzing with the same information as we behold a dying world gasping for its last breaths in defiance of its Creator's desires and will for its salvation.
Most people coming to this site and taking the time to read about all this in the posts I have put up about the subject, may think time is on their side; that these issues are not that pressing because the world just continues on regardless of what happens.
2Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Peter 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.
Peter goes on to say, 'Yeah, well, you forgot about the Flood, did you?'
God ended the world then. He's going to end it again.
1. The world now has the capacity to extinguish most human life on the globe through nuclear arms.
2. Whatever you think of them, climate protestors against the use of oil are everywhere now, causing people a lot of headaches with their tactics, solely because they believe pollution is killing the atmosphere and the ground and the waters. You may think them crazy but, all of their "evidence" for this cannot be cast aside so easily.
3. Yes, there are minds telling another side of the story but, anyone who drinks treated water from a municipal tap knows the difference between water that is fairly pure and that which is most definitely not. People know the difference between breathing in clean air and breathing in air that hurts your chest after a while. People know the difference between real earth filled with organic compounds and that which is almost just sand and chemicals. The Earth is literally under assault for man-made reasons. It will not sustain life indefinitely.
4. Technology threatens human existence, not in some Hollywood movie scenario (yet) but, the real nature of technology is removing the need for a human workforce. Out of 8 billion people on the globe and estimated 3 billion are in the global workforce. That number will begin to shrink exponentially as technology gains more advancements. What will the global controllers do with 8, 9 or 10 billion people in the ensuing years of tech development, forcing complicated issues and strife in all developed nations?
5. You may not live to see the fulfillment of these scenarios. Your children and certainly your grandchildren will. And with these problems for humanity will come a surge of sin: the breaking of God's laws in neglect, outright rejection, desperation, depression, hopelessness and stress. All this, predicted by the prophets. No not robotics but, knowledge, Daniel 12:4. An increase in knowledge generally, and an increase of knowledge in the prophecies of Daniel, Revelation and other books of the Bible addressing what has come and what is yet to come in last-day events. Events foretold that cannot be gainsaid by detractors of any stripe, shall make for a paper thin floor to stand on. Collapse is definitive.
Now, to my subject on my mind. Very simply, a putting together of just two passages of Scripture. The first, found in the book of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was a captive of Babylon's intrusion, like Daniel. His visions took place in that time period, far from home, before Daniel set foot in that nation; a circumstance developing from an earlier siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. His name means "God will strengthen." He lived a hard life.
In an incredible moment, a day of horror, found in chapter 24, Ezekiel was told the king of Babylon was going to lay Jerusalem in the dust and by evening, his wife was dead. He was told not to mourn or weep and let no tears run down his cheeks but, go to the people and tell them they too shall suffer death of wives, sons and daughters and not to mourn or weep and have tears run down their faces because they brought it on themselves by their constant apostasy. They reaped what they sowed. "God will strengthen." What internal strength must a man have to follow such directions; not to mourn or weep and let tears fill his eyes and run down his cheeks at the death of his wife he so greatly loved. Ezekiel was aptly named.
The land was run by fools who lived in sinful, treacherous ways and God allowed the Babylonians to come in and ransack their land and it happened more than once. In the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel the prophet was told to say this to the people -
Eze 33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’
Eze 33:11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
Eze 33:13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.
Eze 33:14 Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Eze 33:15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Eze 33:16 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
The principle is sure. If you sin and repent and turn away from your sins, God will forget all your sins. If you live righteously and start sinning and refuse to repent, all your righteousness previous to your choices to sin will be forgotten. And you cannot appeal to the righteous life of anyone else, either. It's on each of us, alone. The Jews cried out, 'That's not fair!' God said, 'Really? Why not?'
Eze 33:17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.
Eze 33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
Eze 33:19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
Eze 33:20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
That principle was stated by Christ in His sermon on the Mount. Read closely -
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 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?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [lawlessness].
There will be people, many, a multitude from down through history, who will stand before the Lord in the day of judgment and say, 'I/we did all these things in your name. Why can't we come in? We deserve to be let in because of all these things we did in your name!' And what will Christ reply? I NEVER KNEW YOU. All their righteous acts shall be forgotten and they shall stand before God as though they never had a moment's connection to Heaven. They shall be judged by the direction of their life when it ended. They shall be judged by their obedience to the Father's will, when Christ returns. Living unrighteously; refusing to obey the revealed will of God in some portion of your life? All previous connection to God vanishes. You shall be considered a worker of iniquity, an enemy of the kingdom regardless of anything you might do or have done to build it up at one time. NOBODY is once saved, always saved. NOBODY is saved by some collection of good works weighed against sins in the life on some divine scales of self-righteousness. We are saved by grace, through faith, to the effect of good works in the life and the obvious direction a believer is traveling when death takes them to sleep in the dust of the Earth; to raise in one of two resurrections: of the just at Christ's return, or the unjust a thousand years later.
If alive when Christ returns, it is because you lived in harmony with God's will, otherwise you shall be destroyed by the brightness, the glory, the impact of Christ's return upon the Earth and its inhabitants living in rebellion, regardless of the "peace and safety" message that circled the globe in its apostasy from truth. A totally false peace, a complete lie of safety. A full delusion upon the inhabitants of the earth who refused to believe the truth because it was too inconvenient to comply with. The laws of man were easier to follow than the law of God. The fault in destruction shall lie at their own door. Nobody to blame. Nobody to point fingers at, regardless of all the preachers of unrighteousness; ministers of ungodliness working under the influence of the "angel of light." No, the fault for loss of eternal life shall lie at the feet of each person who chooses to disobey a plain 'thus saith the LORD.'
Yes, drums and music are enjoyable pastimes. Hundreds of enjoyable pastimes exist but, there are no options to obedience by grace through faith for eternal life. Are you walking closer towards God or farther away? Maybe no one else knows but, God does. You do.
It's your choice. Make the right one and by God's grace, stick with it. Never stop marching. In every doubt, remember prophecy. God has told us the end from the beginning that we can trust Him with our lives no matter what the circumstances that surround us. God is good. God is just. God is going to end this world again and bring about the final phase of life on this globe which shall exist forever.
Be there, my Friend. Do not miss it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Geoengineering?
Geoengineering. Once a "conspiracy theory" is now a international term for trying to control the weather and the atmospheric conditions of planet Earth to stop the effects of "climate change."
Geo means, stands for - earth, ground, soil, land. Geoengineering means engineering the Earth; controlling Earth's natural activities; land, sea and air.
When Lyndon Johnson was Vice President, he gave a commencement speech back in 1962, speaking about the future of technology; in which he stated - "He who controls the weather will control the world."
archive.org/details/he-who-controls-the-weather-will-control-the-world-lyndon-b-johnson
Such a statement seemed like absolute nonsense to the average American student or citizen on the street. Today? It is happening. The technology to seed clouds for rain or disintegrate clouds to stop rain: floods or droughts; to manifest storms, to move storms; technically all from space or within the atmosphere, is a reality.
The evidence for directed energy weapons used in California and Maui, Hawaii fires, and now, the literal meteoric rise of a tropical storm into a category 5 hurricane that wiped out Acapulco, Mexico is showing the world the Controllers do have control of that which only God or the prince of the power of the air had control over.
Of course, theories abound. For instance. One theory states; the cartels basically bought and own everything in Acapulco. Hundreds of millions of dollars from profits through guest and permanent living housing along the coast line. Acapulco is considered one of the beginning 15-minute cities on the United Nations 2030 plan. The cartels said, 'Sorry. We own this now.' The Controllers said, 'Do you?' And then wiped out their hundreds of millions of dollars in investments with one storm. The cartels run Mexico. They are now an international power. The world controllers said, ' No. Don't think so.' Tens of thousands of people have nowhere to go. The rich fly to another house somewhere. The middle class and poor are totally devastated, just like residents of Maui/Lahaina, and face the task of trying to keep their homes and land from the grabbers who want it all. No joke. No theory. Reality. Everyone in Hawaii knows this. Everyone also knows there is nothing they can do to stop this horrific and satanic takeover.
What can stop those who control the world? Mankind? Through revolt? Through the voting booth? Through what, exactly? These are people controlled by the worst elements of the Deceiver's influence upon the mind. They are pure evil; conscience seared with a hot iron. Money, power, control. That is all they think about. That is all they care about. Human life means nothing. They are involved in a concerted effort of democide through the entire Covid scheme.
What next, then? I repeat it again because I need to keep it before you: reality check.
Either God steps in and stops them someway, or He allows the civilized world to go into a dystopian nightmare.
Satan brings about his false revival which will ignite the final events.
Satan uses the whole UFO/ET scenario to stop the world in its tracks, cool it down and gain more time to acquire full control over the planetary populace.
Those are the only scenarios I see that create any logical conclusion of what happens. Some would put WW3 on the list. I will not but, will not totally rule it out. Only God is in control, and knows the end from the beginning. Satan does nothing but that the Creator allows it. God waits for a people to be ready to let the 4 winds blow.
How long, O Lord? How long?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Geo means, stands for - earth, ground, soil, land. Geoengineering means engineering the Earth; controlling Earth's natural activities; land, sea and air.
When Lyndon Johnson was Vice President, he gave a commencement speech back in 1962, speaking about the future of technology; in which he stated - "He who controls the weather will control the world."
archive.org/details/he-who-controls-the-weather-will-control-the-world-lyndon-b-johnson
Such a statement seemed like absolute nonsense to the average American student or citizen on the street. Today? It is happening. The technology to seed clouds for rain or disintegrate clouds to stop rain: floods or droughts; to manifest storms, to move storms; technically all from space or within the atmosphere, is a reality.
The evidence for directed energy weapons used in California and Maui, Hawaii fires, and now, the literal meteoric rise of a tropical storm into a category 5 hurricane that wiped out Acapulco, Mexico is showing the world the Controllers do have control of that which only God or the prince of the power of the air had control over.
Of course, theories abound. For instance. One theory states; the cartels basically bought and own everything in Acapulco. Hundreds of millions of dollars from profits through guest and permanent living housing along the coast line. Acapulco is considered one of the beginning 15-minute cities on the United Nations 2030 plan. The cartels said, 'Sorry. We own this now.' The Controllers said, 'Do you?' And then wiped out their hundreds of millions of dollars in investments with one storm. The cartels run Mexico. They are now an international power. The world controllers said, ' No. Don't think so.' Tens of thousands of people have nowhere to go. The rich fly to another house somewhere. The middle class and poor are totally devastated, just like residents of Maui/Lahaina, and face the task of trying to keep their homes and land from the grabbers who want it all. No joke. No theory. Reality. Everyone in Hawaii knows this. Everyone also knows there is nothing they can do to stop this horrific and satanic takeover.
What can stop those who control the world? Mankind? Through revolt? Through the voting booth? Through what, exactly? These are people controlled by the worst elements of the Deceiver's influence upon the mind. They are pure evil; conscience seared with a hot iron. Money, power, control. That is all they think about. That is all they care about. Human life means nothing. They are involved in a concerted effort of democide through the entire Covid scheme.
What next, then? I repeat it again because I need to keep it before you: reality check.
Either God steps in and stops them someway, or He allows the civilized world to go into a dystopian nightmare.
Satan brings about his false revival which will ignite the final events.
Satan uses the whole UFO/ET scenario to stop the world in its tracks, cool it down and gain more time to acquire full control over the planetary populace.
Those are the only scenarios I see that create any logical conclusion of what happens. Some would put WW3 on the list. I will not but, will not totally rule it out. Only God is in control, and knows the end from the beginning. Satan does nothing but that the Creator allows it. God waits for a people to be ready to let the 4 winds blow.
How long, O Lord? How long?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
862. The Rainbow - Nov. 1, 2023
If you have ever seen a truly vivid rainbow, what have you seen? I don't mean the biblical reason: God's bow of promise after the Flood. I mean, the colors. What colors do you see? Well, there are blends that take shape, of course but, normally they are dedicated to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Seven distinct shades. Weaker rainbows display hints of it all. Just depends on the amount of moisture in the sky and angle of the sun's rays moving through it. Some of us have been fortunate enough to see a double rainbow and a lesser group, triple rainbows. Some, from airplanes, have seen totally circular rainbows, which is what they normally are, we just don't see past the horizon but, rainbows can take shape in any mist in the air, from a garden hose or lawn sprinkler.
So, seven colors. Some years ago I decided to cover my drum set with a really exceptional wood veneer: heavily figured Eucalyptus, a species from Australia. I decided I wanted something different and dyed them the color of God's bow of promise. They came out okay. My first time using dyes. I had more than seven drums in the set so, made some variations to fill in the 11 drums. When they were dyed the colors I wanted I put 12 coats of lacquer on them. They looked really beautiful. Unfortunately, they did not cure correctly and one day, with my readers on, I noticed cracks in one tom. Further inspection revealed all the drums had cracks in the finish. Oh, well. I took the veneer off of them and decided to do something very different again: I put real tooled leather on them, and they remain that way to this day. Pictures of it all can be seen on the Pics page, along with other sets I have used and made over the years.
Anyway, that rainbow of God's. Pretty spectacular and everyone loves to see them, as magical as they seem. Science can explain it. I wonder, can science explain this...
So, seven colors. Some years ago I decided to cover my drum set with a really exceptional wood veneer: heavily figured Eucalyptus, a species from Australia. I decided I wanted something different and dyed them the color of God's bow of promise. They came out okay. My first time using dyes. I had more than seven drums in the set so, made some variations to fill in the 11 drums. When they were dyed the colors I wanted I put 12 coats of lacquer on them. They looked really beautiful. Unfortunately, they did not cure correctly and one day, with my readers on, I noticed cracks in one tom. Further inspection revealed all the drums had cracks in the finish. Oh, well. I took the veneer off of them and decided to do something very different again: I put real tooled leather on them, and they remain that way to this day. Pictures of it all can be seen on the Pics page, along with other sets I have used and made over the years.
Anyway, that rainbow of God's. Pretty spectacular and everyone loves to see them, as magical as they seem. Science can explain it. I wonder, can science explain this...
Those are the colors as they appear on the flags of the homosexual movement. To be honest, I never really noticed the difference between God's rainbow, and theirs. Do you see it? Yes. Only six colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. No seventh shade, the Indigo.
Despite what they claim, homosexuals know the Bible condemns the practice of homosexuality. They have tried to make it all seem God is not really talking about sex between men or between women. It's all about ancient cults and the like. Sorry. That boat has never and will never float. The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is very specific and plain about the matter. There is no way to rearrange what any 10 yr. old can see.
So, why does the LGB flag have only six colors? Take a guess. God placed seven colors in his bow of promise and seven is a special number in the Bible. It is the number of the days of God's weekly cycle. It is also the number of completeness and perfection of God's ways.
Six? Six is the number of man, made on the 6th day. That's why the number 666 is the number of the man of sin, the head of the beast power in Revelation 13. It symbolizes the power of man, always less than the authority and power of God; the Creator and Sovereign of the universe.
You might wonder how many LGB people realize this difference and why it exists. They say it is for simplicity. The original LGB flag had 8 colors, including hot pink. Then they took out the pink and the turquoise, and put a blue stripe in there. They can believe what they want, of course. So can I. I choose to believe their lifestyle is just part of the bigger battle between Christ and Satan; between true love and false love; between God's will and laws and Lucifer's deceptions and lies; between God is love and the Devil as a liar and father of it.
If the bigger picture is understood, the difference in numbers of stripes becomes significant.
You may know the various sub-groups in the L-Q+ movement all have their own flags, as well. They all have some kind of meaning in their stripes.
The homosexual movement asks, what is wrong with love? The answer, of course, is nothing. Then, they ask, why cannot women "love" women and men "love" men? Well, they obviously can when in the realm of fatherly, brotherly, friendship love. Sexual love? Romantic, intimacy? Now you have redefined what God has established in His order of life between males and females. God is love, 1 John 4:7,8. The apostle John is often called the apostle of love because he wrote so much about it in his Gospel and letters to the churches scattered over Asia minor and the Roman empire. Nowhere does the Bible state any acceptance of sexual love between men and between women and such was quite common in the Greek and Roman empires.
People may ask, do ask, what are those who feel this way supposed to do? It's an honest and excellent question. It is one any honest believer will answer only one way -
1John 4:9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1Jn 4:10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1Jn 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1Jn 4:12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1Jn 4:16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1Jn 4:17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
1Jn 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1Jn 4:21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Jn 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1Jn 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1Jn 5:5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
That's a whole lot of love (no Led Zeppelin pun intended). There is plenty of room for men to love men and women to love women. Spiritual, brotherly, familial love, not sexual intimacy. The test may be severe but, God gives grace to endure any trial, any doubt, any questioning and pain to walk before Him in obedience because God is God, not a man, not the "big guy in the sky." The Almighty is the Creator of the universe. You can disbelieve that if you will. You will have no excuses in the day of judgement. No one will have any excuses for any sin on the day of judgment. Plenty of reasons but, no excuses. Either give it all to Christ, our Savior and Redeemer and Judge, now or face the judgment on our own authority to live life as we choose, rather than how the Creator establishes the parameters and boundaries of life to be. Those who choose self-interest will not be a citizen of the kingdom of God now or through eternity. It's really very simple.
I cannot know the perplexity and inner turmoil a homosexual has. I struggle with things they could not understand. We each have sins that so easily beset us. Nobody is left out of the struggle humanity has with self and sin. Nobody escapes fallen human nature.
Many homosexuals have been spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically changed by their Creator and have married members of the opposite sex, had children and press on to know the Lord. Others retain sexual desires for members of their own sex but, live in the grace of God to overcome them; trusting in Christ to get them through all trials and tests of true faith: Christ's faith in us, not something perverted by the desires of mankind claiming adherence to Christ.
That is why spiritual, prophetic Babylon is in prophecy. She fornicates with the kings of the Earth. Her religion is warped and corrupted by the influences of the world. She professes Christ, yet is controlled by the enemy of souls placing His seat of power in her empire of corruption of the faith.
Humans do not get to decide right and wrong. God does. Humanity does not get to change the will of God by majority vote in any legislature or on any court. People do not get to tell God what shall be, as though the clay can tell the potter the way things shall be. Not happening. The Potter decides what He molds clay into. Our decision is to allow God to make us warm-hearted, soft and moldable in His hands. He shall stamp the image of His Son upon our characters only if we allow and cooperate. It is not going to happen if we choose to disobey in any way we know is not right. Ignorance shall not be an excuse in a world so saturated with Bibles, and ministries and information coast to coast in almost every society on Earth. Even atheistic societies do not give homosexuality a pass. Islam certainly does not. How can it be America and the Christian faith here and in Europe has so radically changed? Apostasy from the truth. The choice to allow the culture to change things, not the churches influencing the culture to change, is what has taken place, decade by decade.
God is God. Sovereign. He changes not. He is not going to accept homosexuality in the name of "love." Better to just cast off the Bible and its Author than be found guilty of grave compromise and corruption of the faith once delivered unto the saints.
You will remember, Sodom and Gomorrah became overwhelmed and overcome by homosexuality. Violent homosexuals, Genesis 19. Christ said, such as it was in Sodom, so shall it be when He returns. The LGBTQ+ movement is perhaps, the biggest sign of the times that Christ is returning SOON to put an end to sin and rebellion and man's sick, sorrowful and perverted ways.
As the old generations die off, the young, far too many confused by current culture, shall make things worse, exponentially so, when it comes to morality. We have seen it happening for decades. Many of my generation were part of that miasma of change. Just products of our environment; an environment of wanton sexual activity. I was no saint. I was a sinner in need of a Savior and still am a sinner in need of my Savior and Lord. It is easy to sin, my friend. It is in us to sin. Iniquity, transgression and sin is what is in us. Those who say Christianity is for wimps are ignorant of reality. The strongest people down through history have been those who chose and choose to walk with Christ against a tide of destruction of the high ideals Christ brought to this world. No man or group of men can ever stop the ever growing and building tide of sin. It will eventually destroy this world and everyone on it not connected to it's Creator.
That is the truth that every single reasoning person on Earth must accept and address in their lives. Christ, the way, the truth, the life or this world.
1John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Despite what they claim, homosexuals know the Bible condemns the practice of homosexuality. They have tried to make it all seem God is not really talking about sex between men or between women. It's all about ancient cults and the like. Sorry. That boat has never and will never float. The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is very specific and plain about the matter. There is no way to rearrange what any 10 yr. old can see.
So, why does the LGB flag have only six colors? Take a guess. God placed seven colors in his bow of promise and seven is a special number in the Bible. It is the number of the days of God's weekly cycle. It is also the number of completeness and perfection of God's ways.
Six? Six is the number of man, made on the 6th day. That's why the number 666 is the number of the man of sin, the head of the beast power in Revelation 13. It symbolizes the power of man, always less than the authority and power of God; the Creator and Sovereign of the universe.
You might wonder how many LGB people realize this difference and why it exists. They say it is for simplicity. The original LGB flag had 8 colors, including hot pink. Then they took out the pink and the turquoise, and put a blue stripe in there. They can believe what they want, of course. So can I. I choose to believe their lifestyle is just part of the bigger battle between Christ and Satan; between true love and false love; between God's will and laws and Lucifer's deceptions and lies; between God is love and the Devil as a liar and father of it.
If the bigger picture is understood, the difference in numbers of stripes becomes significant.
You may know the various sub-groups in the L-Q+ movement all have their own flags, as well. They all have some kind of meaning in their stripes.
The homosexual movement asks, what is wrong with love? The answer, of course, is nothing. Then, they ask, why cannot women "love" women and men "love" men? Well, they obviously can when in the realm of fatherly, brotherly, friendship love. Sexual love? Romantic, intimacy? Now you have redefined what God has established in His order of life between males and females. God is love, 1 John 4:7,8. The apostle John is often called the apostle of love because he wrote so much about it in his Gospel and letters to the churches scattered over Asia minor and the Roman empire. Nowhere does the Bible state any acceptance of sexual love between men and between women and such was quite common in the Greek and Roman empires.
People may ask, do ask, what are those who feel this way supposed to do? It's an honest and excellent question. It is one any honest believer will answer only one way -
1John 4:9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1Jn 4:10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1Jn 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1Jn 4:12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1Jn 4:16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1Jn 4:17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
1Jn 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1Jn 4:21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Jn 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1Jn 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1Jn 5:5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
That's a whole lot of love (no Led Zeppelin pun intended). There is plenty of room for men to love men and women to love women. Spiritual, brotherly, familial love, not sexual intimacy. The test may be severe but, God gives grace to endure any trial, any doubt, any questioning and pain to walk before Him in obedience because God is God, not a man, not the "big guy in the sky." The Almighty is the Creator of the universe. You can disbelieve that if you will. You will have no excuses in the day of judgement. No one will have any excuses for any sin on the day of judgment. Plenty of reasons but, no excuses. Either give it all to Christ, our Savior and Redeemer and Judge, now or face the judgment on our own authority to live life as we choose, rather than how the Creator establishes the parameters and boundaries of life to be. Those who choose self-interest will not be a citizen of the kingdom of God now or through eternity. It's really very simple.
I cannot know the perplexity and inner turmoil a homosexual has. I struggle with things they could not understand. We each have sins that so easily beset us. Nobody is left out of the struggle humanity has with self and sin. Nobody escapes fallen human nature.
Many homosexuals have been spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically changed by their Creator and have married members of the opposite sex, had children and press on to know the Lord. Others retain sexual desires for members of their own sex but, live in the grace of God to overcome them; trusting in Christ to get them through all trials and tests of true faith: Christ's faith in us, not something perverted by the desires of mankind claiming adherence to Christ.
That is why spiritual, prophetic Babylon is in prophecy. She fornicates with the kings of the Earth. Her religion is warped and corrupted by the influences of the world. She professes Christ, yet is controlled by the enemy of souls placing His seat of power in her empire of corruption of the faith.
Humans do not get to decide right and wrong. God does. Humanity does not get to change the will of God by majority vote in any legislature or on any court. People do not get to tell God what shall be, as though the clay can tell the potter the way things shall be. Not happening. The Potter decides what He molds clay into. Our decision is to allow God to make us warm-hearted, soft and moldable in His hands. He shall stamp the image of His Son upon our characters only if we allow and cooperate. It is not going to happen if we choose to disobey in any way we know is not right. Ignorance shall not be an excuse in a world so saturated with Bibles, and ministries and information coast to coast in almost every society on Earth. Even atheistic societies do not give homosexuality a pass. Islam certainly does not. How can it be America and the Christian faith here and in Europe has so radically changed? Apostasy from the truth. The choice to allow the culture to change things, not the churches influencing the culture to change, is what has taken place, decade by decade.
God is God. Sovereign. He changes not. He is not going to accept homosexuality in the name of "love." Better to just cast off the Bible and its Author than be found guilty of grave compromise and corruption of the faith once delivered unto the saints.
You will remember, Sodom and Gomorrah became overwhelmed and overcome by homosexuality. Violent homosexuals, Genesis 19. Christ said, such as it was in Sodom, so shall it be when He returns. The LGBTQ+ movement is perhaps, the biggest sign of the times that Christ is returning SOON to put an end to sin and rebellion and man's sick, sorrowful and perverted ways.
As the old generations die off, the young, far too many confused by current culture, shall make things worse, exponentially so, when it comes to morality. We have seen it happening for decades. Many of my generation were part of that miasma of change. Just products of our environment; an environment of wanton sexual activity. I was no saint. I was a sinner in need of a Savior and still am a sinner in need of my Savior and Lord. It is easy to sin, my friend. It is in us to sin. Iniquity, transgression and sin is what is in us. Those who say Christianity is for wimps are ignorant of reality. The strongest people down through history have been those who chose and choose to walk with Christ against a tide of destruction of the high ideals Christ brought to this world. No man or group of men can ever stop the ever growing and building tide of sin. It will eventually destroy this world and everyone on it not connected to it's Creator.
That is the truth that every single reasoning person on Earth must accept and address in their lives. Christ, the way, the truth, the life or this world.
1John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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In Case You Were Wondering
Boy, did I ever mess this place up. Somehow, someway, my numbered posts became a math salad. Took me an hour to figure it all out and correct it. Caught it by accident, too. Glad I did. Just gettin' old, I guess. I apologize to my Readers who must have been all over the map trying to figure out what I did here. Hey, if you see any mistakes around here, let me know. That includes you, Bert.
I began numbering posts that are longer and more involved and contain a fair amount of Bible study in them.
Some day, hopefully before I reach three score and ten, I'll learn to count, too.
Thank you for hanging in there. I appreciate it.
I began numbering posts that are longer and more involved and contain a fair amount of Bible study in them.
Some day, hopefully before I reach three score and ten, I'll learn to count, too.
Thank you for hanging in there. I appreciate it.
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Rogan/Musk
The Joe Rogan podcast continues to make waves; this time via another interview with Elon Musk.
When I was on Facebook years ago, I had people coming to the page who knew me through LEGEND and mostly people who knew me through Christian ministry and public speaking. They all wondered why I left the platform.
I don't remember where I read it. Possibly World Net Daily but, I read it somewhere, with evidence placed before readers, that Facebook was little more than an extension of the NSA, Homeland Security, the FBI and other alphabet agencies. It made sense to me and I stopped using the platform and took my name out of their system, although no one ever really gets deleted from their system.
This was many years ago now. To hear Elon Musk say that Twitter/X was basically an arm of the government for information collection and control of information was old news for me and who knows how many other citizens of America.
Musk and Rogan seemed to give the impression this is a shocking revelation. The Far Left in America run these platforms and to them everything is to the right side of the political spectrum. There is no moderate to a far left thinker. Everything is right. The same is not true for the "far right." We know that just by listening to talk radio, which is 99% Conservative radio voices, and they all make a difference between far right, right, center/moderate/independent, left and far, radical left.
Marxists are running the White House. Communist/wealth redistributionist Democrats have been running the White House for almost a hundred years and Republicans have become the same basic kettle of fish. Hence, the "uniparty."
I hate politics because I cannot stand politicians. The thing is, again, there is not a single aspect of life in America these people do not butt their noses into and tell a supposedly free people with God-given liberty what they can and cannot do and it all filters down to State and Local levels. The corruption of power. If they are not stopped somehow, America is going to become a full-blown Marxist nation which these political beasts think they can do it right this time, despite the abject failure of Communism around the world. Even China, now a superpower, had to bring in capitalism to gain their world standing. They still employ force, not freedom, to keep things running. Nobody really believed, at least among the average American citizen, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. would leave China to grow into a totalitarian behemoth it now is.
Our world is literally controlled by a small handful of money conglomerates and players. It affects the price of goods and the availability of those goods and that affects us all; all people on the planet living in modern societies.
I keep asking, What comes next? At the very least expect trouble. A lot more trouble. Natural and man-made disasters, terrorism strikes, more war, more disease, more suffering with less and less financial security for more and more people. Reality check. There are no Yellow Brick Roads.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
When I was on Facebook years ago, I had people coming to the page who knew me through LEGEND and mostly people who knew me through Christian ministry and public speaking. They all wondered why I left the platform.
I don't remember where I read it. Possibly World Net Daily but, I read it somewhere, with evidence placed before readers, that Facebook was little more than an extension of the NSA, Homeland Security, the FBI and other alphabet agencies. It made sense to me and I stopped using the platform and took my name out of their system, although no one ever really gets deleted from their system.
This was many years ago now. To hear Elon Musk say that Twitter/X was basically an arm of the government for information collection and control of information was old news for me and who knows how many other citizens of America.
Musk and Rogan seemed to give the impression this is a shocking revelation. The Far Left in America run these platforms and to them everything is to the right side of the political spectrum. There is no moderate to a far left thinker. Everything is right. The same is not true for the "far right." We know that just by listening to talk radio, which is 99% Conservative radio voices, and they all make a difference between far right, right, center/moderate/independent, left and far, radical left.
Marxists are running the White House. Communist/wealth redistributionist Democrats have been running the White House for almost a hundred years and Republicans have become the same basic kettle of fish. Hence, the "uniparty."
I hate politics because I cannot stand politicians. The thing is, again, there is not a single aspect of life in America these people do not butt their noses into and tell a supposedly free people with God-given liberty what they can and cannot do and it all filters down to State and Local levels. The corruption of power. If they are not stopped somehow, America is going to become a full-blown Marxist nation which these political beasts think they can do it right this time, despite the abject failure of Communism around the world. Even China, now a superpower, had to bring in capitalism to gain their world standing. They still employ force, not freedom, to keep things running. Nobody really believed, at least among the average American citizen, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. would leave China to grow into a totalitarian behemoth it now is.
Our world is literally controlled by a small handful of money conglomerates and players. It affects the price of goods and the availability of those goods and that affects us all; all people on the planet living in modern societies.
I keep asking, What comes next? At the very least expect trouble. A lot more trouble. Natural and man-made disasters, terrorism strikes, more war, more disease, more suffering with less and less financial security for more and more people. Reality check. There are no Yellow Brick Roads.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Frightening Expose'
Deagel.com. I have mentioned that site here once before, iirc. Deagel is a global intelligence and consulting firm. The are into data. Lots of data. They research, investigate, consult and advise on the data they accumulate.
In 2021 they made predictions for the depopulation of various nations. The Plandemic was underway. Such an explosion of interest and argument took place from those predictions, they removed them from their website. They were not lost, though. Various entities preserved them before they disappeared. They have now reappeared because of the incredibly ominous nature of them, that humanity must be made aware of.
The Expose' is a news website; an investigative news website. They have exposed a great deal of important information over their time on the web; certainly things I never heard of; happening in plain sight and behind the scenes. Check out their article on Deagel's predictions and catch your jaw before it hits your lap. The only possible thing their numbers have in common with reality is the case against the Covid vaccines and their impact on humanity. The data is in. The world is in for a shock by 2025 that will resonate on all continents but, some much more significantly than others; like America, the UK and Germany.
Voices, so many voices ignored or censored. If the data is correct, America will not recover from this.
expose-news.com/2023/10/31/is-deagels-2025-depopulation-nightmare-unfolding/
God help us.
In 2021 they made predictions for the depopulation of various nations. The Plandemic was underway. Such an explosion of interest and argument took place from those predictions, they removed them from their website. They were not lost, though. Various entities preserved them before they disappeared. They have now reappeared because of the incredibly ominous nature of them, that humanity must be made aware of.
The Expose' is a news website; an investigative news website. They have exposed a great deal of important information over their time on the web; certainly things I never heard of; happening in plain sight and behind the scenes. Check out their article on Deagel's predictions and catch your jaw before it hits your lap. The only possible thing their numbers have in common with reality is the case against the Covid vaccines and their impact on humanity. The data is in. The world is in for a shock by 2025 that will resonate on all continents but, some much more significantly than others; like America, the UK and Germany.
Voices, so many voices ignored or censored. If the data is correct, America will not recover from this.
expose-news.com/2023/10/31/is-deagels-2025-depopulation-nightmare-unfolding/
God help us.
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"A Whole Other Level"
If anyone thinks there is even a modicum of common sense in Washington, D.C. please, explain this -
"FBI says terrorism threat hits ‘a whole other level’ after Hamas attack"
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/31/fbi-says-terrorism-threat-hits-whole-other-level-a/
FBI Director, Christopher Wray spoke before Congress this week and said -
“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of attack on Americans to a whole other level,” Mr. Wray said.
So, why is the Biden administration and its minions allowing thousands of people to cross the American border, every day, illegally; and lying to the American people that the border is secure? Border patrol officers are quitting in turnover numbers never seen before (a very tough job made all the worse by Washington's refusal to protect the U.S. Southern border from illegal entry and commanding officers to let people in; even help them get in by cutting fences).
You cannot make this stuff up. It fries all contemplation of common sense and logic. The number of potential militant Islamic terrorists that have crossed the border illegally in just the last few years could easily number in the thousands. Add to that potential communist Chinese infiltrators. Spread them around in just 50 states and tell me, what is the potential for terrorist attacks in all 50 of them?
More Americans than ever are turning into "preppers." It isn't just the threat of blowing up buildings and human lives. It's the threat of attacks on infrastructure and municipal utilities: things that can take months to fix and put back in order.
It just seems to be getting worse by the day. It is.
I just saw a headline that a super-volcano/caldera in Italy is rumbling and half a million people are nervous.
The Bible predicts last-day events out of the ordinary order of nature and man-made disasters humanity has seen down through time. A quick succession of various catastrophic events as God attempts to wake people up to the realities of a far more serious ongoing war coming to a climax.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"FBI says terrorism threat hits ‘a whole other level’ after Hamas attack"
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/31/fbi-says-terrorism-threat-hits-whole-other-level-a/
FBI Director, Christopher Wray spoke before Congress this week and said -
“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of attack on Americans to a whole other level,” Mr. Wray said.
So, why is the Biden administration and its minions allowing thousands of people to cross the American border, every day, illegally; and lying to the American people that the border is secure? Border patrol officers are quitting in turnover numbers never seen before (a very tough job made all the worse by Washington's refusal to protect the U.S. Southern border from illegal entry and commanding officers to let people in; even help them get in by cutting fences).
You cannot make this stuff up. It fries all contemplation of common sense and logic. The number of potential militant Islamic terrorists that have crossed the border illegally in just the last few years could easily number in the thousands. Add to that potential communist Chinese infiltrators. Spread them around in just 50 states and tell me, what is the potential for terrorist attacks in all 50 of them?
More Americans than ever are turning into "preppers." It isn't just the threat of blowing up buildings and human lives. It's the threat of attacks on infrastructure and municipal utilities: things that can take months to fix and put back in order.
It just seems to be getting worse by the day. It is.
I just saw a headline that a super-volcano/caldera in Italy is rumbling and half a million people are nervous.
The Bible predicts last-day events out of the ordinary order of nature and man-made disasters humanity has seen down through time. A quick succession of various catastrophic events as God attempts to wake people up to the realities of a far more serious ongoing war coming to a climax.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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863. Noah's Ark? - November3, 2023
Being a Bible-believing Christian and seeing the differences between straight history, allegorical or metaphorical literature, poetic literature and prophetic/symbolic literature in the Bible, and reading and watching dozens of books and hundreds of hours of video over the last 4 decades, I have zero doubt the world-wide flood took place around 4500 years ago. Even if physical evidence of the deluge could not be seen around the globe, I would still believe it simply because of the writers, both Old and New Testaments, who wrote about the event, and that includes Christ, Himself, who spoke of the event in terms of reality not, symbolism.
My first exposure to modern articles and discoveries of the Ark was back in the mid-1980's and a Seventh-day Adventist explorer, Ron Wyatt. I saw him back then, in one of his seminars. He claimed to have found the site the Ark ended up: a site on the border of Turkey and Iran. The formation bears the length and width size of the biblical Ark.
From time to time stories appear in news articles about the site, like this one -
nypost.com/2023/10/28/news/noahs-ark-site-rock-samples-reveal-human-activity-dating-back-thousands-of-years/
My first exposure to modern articles and discoveries of the Ark was back in the mid-1980's and a Seventh-day Adventist explorer, Ron Wyatt. I saw him back then, in one of his seminars. He claimed to have found the site the Ark ended up: a site on the border of Turkey and Iran. The formation bears the length and width size of the biblical Ark.
From time to time stories appear in news articles about the site, like this one -
nypost.com/2023/10/28/news/noahs-ark-site-rock-samples-reveal-human-activity-dating-back-thousands-of-years/
The photo shows a 1961 overhead view of the site. Since that time many besides Ron Wyatt have been to the site and done all kinds of sonic tests, etc. on the ground and some believe it is the actual Ark. Others believe it is the remains of a replica built by ancients well after the flood, and still more believe it is just a natural earth formation; which has changed over the decades.
Forensic testing certainly seems to give the area the appearance of a large vessel.
The claim is made the sonic images show various types of chambers and a mixture of earth and iron elements, as well as petrified wood that has been taken from the site and forensically investigated back in laboratories.
The photo shows Ron Wyatt with various government reps shoveling out some concrete for the proposed Noah's Ark visitors center which stands to this day -
So, what do I believe about the site? The area is interesting because enormous, ancient stone "ship drags" or anchors stand upright farther away in the area. It hardly looks like a spot you could sail a ship, does it? Yet fossilized oceanic life has been found in sediments there, as well.
I tend to believe it is a fossilized or remains of an ancient, life size replica of the famous ship, built by ancient people in the area; as the world began repopulation. Centuries after the flood it would have been erected. The area is prone to earthquakes and the entire "temple" or shrine or place of remembrance and worship may have just collapsed in on itself on site.
The Bible is silent on the matter but, I have mentioned here in the past, I believe Noah's Ark will be found someday. Not some ancient earth mound but, an obvious ship, a vessel only one explanation could answer to, as a witness from God the world ended once and it is going to end again. It may be covered in glacier ice now. Global warming may unearth it for display to the world. I believe the same thing about the Ark of the Covenant, the chest containing the ten commandments, which Jeremiah buried and hid somewhere outside Jerusalem when the Babylonian siege took place. I believe both will be discovered and shock the world.
But, look. According to the event of the flood itself, an untold gathering of humanity stood around the Ark and watched hundreds of kinds of animals calmly walk, fly or crawl into the Ark and you would think an astonished multitude would have exclaimed to themselves: "Noah speaks the truth! Get on that ship!" But... no. Regardless of the mystifying circumstances of creatures moving calmly into the ark by twos and by sevens - unclean and clean creatures - the multitude just waved it off in some way. Called it a trick of some kind. Called it an illusion when, in fact, the multitude were deluded in their sins and 'Certainly the Creator would never destroy the world He made just because of the way we were living our lives day in and day out. Our "sins" cannot be so offensive to God. Noah is just a religious fanatic.'
They laughed. They partied. They mocked. Until the day the clouds gathered, the skies burst open, the earth burst forth and the end came upon them and 40 days later they were all gone or hopelessly lost on a rage of water so fierce, all nature seemed to be screaming in agony, and the fault of their demise lay at their own feet. They stood still, when they should have walked up that ramp and been saved; by grace, through faith, unto obedience.
We are told Noah's building project took 120 years and he preached that entire time, as well. The Bible calls him a preacher of righteousness. He wasn't special. He was just willing, as were his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law. The multitudes who gathered around and watched and listened all those years, were not. They were unwilling to let go of their sins and they were destroyed by the deluge and breaking apart of the planet.
Such as it was then, so shall it be now. A tragedy of unprecedented measure. A catastrophe beyond human comprehension but, geologists point out the scars it left on the planet, all over the world. It shall again bears the catastrophic marks of the Kings of kings approaching the Earth in power never seen before and the planet will heave and tear and bust apart and the slain of the Lord shall be hundreds of millions; billions.
Those who claim it was just a local flood miss so many salient points in Scripture about the event it is embarrassing to have them call themselves believers in the Bible. Most of the professed Christian world doubt the event happened as written in Genesis. I do not. I believe it happened as briefly described and I believe the second coming of Christ shall also take place as described: the end of the world as we know it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I tend to believe it is a fossilized or remains of an ancient, life size replica of the famous ship, built by ancient people in the area; as the world began repopulation. Centuries after the flood it would have been erected. The area is prone to earthquakes and the entire "temple" or shrine or place of remembrance and worship may have just collapsed in on itself on site.
The Bible is silent on the matter but, I have mentioned here in the past, I believe Noah's Ark will be found someday. Not some ancient earth mound but, an obvious ship, a vessel only one explanation could answer to, as a witness from God the world ended once and it is going to end again. It may be covered in glacier ice now. Global warming may unearth it for display to the world. I believe the same thing about the Ark of the Covenant, the chest containing the ten commandments, which Jeremiah buried and hid somewhere outside Jerusalem when the Babylonian siege took place. I believe both will be discovered and shock the world.
But, look. According to the event of the flood itself, an untold gathering of humanity stood around the Ark and watched hundreds of kinds of animals calmly walk, fly or crawl into the Ark and you would think an astonished multitude would have exclaimed to themselves: "Noah speaks the truth! Get on that ship!" But... no. Regardless of the mystifying circumstances of creatures moving calmly into the ark by twos and by sevens - unclean and clean creatures - the multitude just waved it off in some way. Called it a trick of some kind. Called it an illusion when, in fact, the multitude were deluded in their sins and 'Certainly the Creator would never destroy the world He made just because of the way we were living our lives day in and day out. Our "sins" cannot be so offensive to God. Noah is just a religious fanatic.'
They laughed. They partied. They mocked. Until the day the clouds gathered, the skies burst open, the earth burst forth and the end came upon them and 40 days later they were all gone or hopelessly lost on a rage of water so fierce, all nature seemed to be screaming in agony, and the fault of their demise lay at their own feet. They stood still, when they should have walked up that ramp and been saved; by grace, through faith, unto obedience.
We are told Noah's building project took 120 years and he preached that entire time, as well. The Bible calls him a preacher of righteousness. He wasn't special. He was just willing, as were his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law. The multitudes who gathered around and watched and listened all those years, were not. They were unwilling to let go of their sins and they were destroyed by the deluge and breaking apart of the planet.
Such as it was then, so shall it be now. A tragedy of unprecedented measure. A catastrophe beyond human comprehension but, geologists point out the scars it left on the planet, all over the world. It shall again bears the catastrophic marks of the Kings of kings approaching the Earth in power never seen before and the planet will heave and tear and bust apart and the slain of the Lord shall be hundreds of millions; billions.
Those who claim it was just a local flood miss so many salient points in Scripture about the event it is embarrassing to have them call themselves believers in the Bible. Most of the professed Christian world doubt the event happened as written in Genesis. I do not. I believe it happened as briefly described and I believe the second coming of Christ shall also take place as described: the end of the world as we know it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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What Did Hamas Expect?
American cities and college campuses are raging at Israel and chanting slogans of destruction towards that nation. As I look at news sites and see the headlines I sit here and ask myself, 'What did Hamas expect?'
You pull off a terrorism stunt killing 1400 people and taking more hostage, including Americans and others from other Western nations. Our news is telling us over 500 Americans are in Gaza and you will not let them go. You behead people, including young people and babies! You shout victory when there was no victory and will be no victory.
You shall be destroyed.
What were you thinking?
Who told you such an act would be okay; be successful? Allah? Some heads of state as foolish as you? You attack in terroristic fashion a nuclear nation. You did not move like a siege from an army bent on destroying a national enemy. You poked a bear and kicked it's legs and you thought, what? It was going to scamper away, yelping in fear? Seriously? How stupid can a group be?
Maybe you expected the entire Arab world to pounce on Israel. Fools! Money is their god, not Allah. They are not going to risk losing customers in the West and see themselves brought to nothing for you. What did they tell you? Did you even confer with anyone outside your postage stamp domain?
It is one thing to be a terrorist from another nation around the world and pull off a bombing or whatever. Doing what you did being the next door neighbor to the nation you attacked? How imbecilic can a planned event turn out?
Unless you had the capacity to drop Jerusalem and Tel Aviv into the Earth, which you do not, you have brought upon yourself exactly what you deserve - attacking forces of strength far beyond anything you can imagine.
Did you plan on attempting to start World War 3? Is that the level of your desperation? Perhaps so.
I don't know how long you planned this but, I do not know as I have ever seen such a miscalculation in my lifetime. Two and a half million people stand to be obliterated because of what you did. It does not matter what Israel has done in the past. All that matters is what Israel is about to do, to you and the citizens of Gaza; who cannot get out, even as stories persist that you are doing all you can to keep citizens in.
However evil Israeli Zionism can get, your evil is beyond the thinking of rational people, as most terrorism, all terrorism is. College students and hard Left Marxists cannot help you. Rashida Tlaib certainly cannot help you. Actors and actresses cannot help you. Sports figures cannot help you. No collection of Islamic clergy can help you. Unless Israel relents you are going to be destroyed and the fault lies with you and you, alone.
What a mess.
You pull off a terrorism stunt killing 1400 people and taking more hostage, including Americans and others from other Western nations. Our news is telling us over 500 Americans are in Gaza and you will not let them go. You behead people, including young people and babies! You shout victory when there was no victory and will be no victory.
You shall be destroyed.
What were you thinking?
Who told you such an act would be okay; be successful? Allah? Some heads of state as foolish as you? You attack in terroristic fashion a nuclear nation. You did not move like a siege from an army bent on destroying a national enemy. You poked a bear and kicked it's legs and you thought, what? It was going to scamper away, yelping in fear? Seriously? How stupid can a group be?
Maybe you expected the entire Arab world to pounce on Israel. Fools! Money is their god, not Allah. They are not going to risk losing customers in the West and see themselves brought to nothing for you. What did they tell you? Did you even confer with anyone outside your postage stamp domain?
It is one thing to be a terrorist from another nation around the world and pull off a bombing or whatever. Doing what you did being the next door neighbor to the nation you attacked? How imbecilic can a planned event turn out?
Unless you had the capacity to drop Jerusalem and Tel Aviv into the Earth, which you do not, you have brought upon yourself exactly what you deserve - attacking forces of strength far beyond anything you can imagine.
Did you plan on attempting to start World War 3? Is that the level of your desperation? Perhaps so.
I don't know how long you planned this but, I do not know as I have ever seen such a miscalculation in my lifetime. Two and a half million people stand to be obliterated because of what you did. It does not matter what Israel has done in the past. All that matters is what Israel is about to do, to you and the citizens of Gaza; who cannot get out, even as stories persist that you are doing all you can to keep citizens in.
However evil Israeli Zionism can get, your evil is beyond the thinking of rational people, as most terrorism, all terrorism is. College students and hard Left Marxists cannot help you. Rashida Tlaib certainly cannot help you. Actors and actresses cannot help you. Sports figures cannot help you. No collection of Islamic clergy can help you. Unless Israel relents you are going to be destroyed and the fault lies with you and you, alone.
What a mess.
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Arron Spears - R.I.P.
I had no idea Aaron Spears was 47 years old. Still such a young man. I was first exposed to his great talent through watching a video of a Modern Drummer Festival.
I cannot say Aaron was an influence on my playing; for the most part my "voice" at the instrument pretty much settled in about the time he was born. The Gospel Chops style is something I find interesting to watch now and then but, not something that really fills any internal musical categories for me. Aaron was, of course, a master at it. You could watch as closely as you want and still shake your head, wondering where the notes are coming from. He made it all look so easy, too.
Aaron had a life and reputation as a humble, very likeable guy, family man, good brother to his fellow drumists, and a favorite player of many well-known artists who utilized his talents live and in the studio.
That's about all I know about the man. I know many, many young players adored him, as well as his contemporaries and he shall be missed by them all. It's a shocking and tragic loss to the drumming community.
Aaron Spears; rest in peace.
I cannot say Aaron was an influence on my playing; for the most part my "voice" at the instrument pretty much settled in about the time he was born. The Gospel Chops style is something I find interesting to watch now and then but, not something that really fills any internal musical categories for me. Aaron was, of course, a master at it. You could watch as closely as you want and still shake your head, wondering where the notes are coming from. He made it all look so easy, too.
Aaron had a life and reputation as a humble, very likeable guy, family man, good brother to his fellow drumists, and a favorite player of many well-known artists who utilized his talents live and in the studio.
That's about all I know about the man. I know many, many young players adored him, as well as his contemporaries and he shall be missed by them all. It's a shocking and tragic loss to the drumming community.
Aaron Spears; rest in peace.
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864. A Paradigm Shift - November 4, 2023
From the tragic loss of a fellow drumist to the subject of Bible prophecy on this Sabbath morning. A sign of the times has marched its way into this past week.
Why is the Catholic Church referred to as the Great Mother whore of Babylon, that confuses the earth with the drunkenness of her wine of doctrine? It's a very serious charge; one that Protestants have made with through examination and proclamation in past centuries. I must concur with that position. It is obviously not popular but, truth cares not for popularity. Truth cares only for establishing the will of God in salvation among the lost human race.
I believe, beyond things I have posted here in the last few years, a perfect example of this perfect description of Babylon in prophecy can be found in two separate items, seven years apart. One, a YT video that just came my way last night, along with a letter penned by Pope Francis this past week.
Once again, let me place the pertinent Scripture passages here to begin -
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.
Unpack the wording. Babylon - religious confusion, self-importance - is fallen TWICE. She is the great city, the enmy of the New Jerusalem. She made all nations drink and get drunk from her wine and she did it in wrath; she is angry, furious. Why?
1. The Roman Catholic Church is a conglomeration of doctrines and policies from different cultures prominent in ancient times and at the beginning of the first millennium of the Christian era.
Notice again -
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
I focus on one part of this description, having addressed the rest in previous posts. She has fornicated with the kings of the Earth. She is a mother of harlots. The lost nations speak for themselves. Who are the harlot daughter offspring?
Spiritual, prophetic Babylon fell ages ago, in the great falling away the apostle Paul wrote about. The man of sin... all the information in Daniel, throughout the Old Testament pertaining to ancient, literal Babylon put together with all the information in the New Testament and only one power in history meets all the marks of apostasy - The RCC, its Papacy and Vatican. That is fall #1.
Fall #2 addresses the harlot daughters. They are all the Protestant organizations that did not "press on to know the truth" but, stalled in compromise and their own backsliding and retain doctrines of Mother. Their fall took place over time in their own ways of rejection of further truth with light coming out of the dark ages of Roman Catholic control. From the highly liturgical and tradition-laced Anglican/Episcopal church to the more biblically focused churches, like the Baptist denominations; from the Seventh-day Baptist church to the Southern Baptist denomination, all retain aspects of Mother that are hers, alone. They are not found in Scripture. And others may not foster a traditional Roman Catholic doctrine but, nevertheless abide in errors not found in the Bible. It is all the influence of "Mother." Babylon. Confusion. The mixing of the sacred with the pagan. Fall comes after that.
But Rome received a deadly wound in her history, did she not? 1798 and the capture of the Pope by Napoleon's forces, and he died in exile. Newspapers across Europe had headlines about the papacy receiving its "deadly wound." Yet, in two years another pope was on the Catholic throne and the "healing" began (Rev 13:3), and is underway today. She lost her control over the West. She is angry and wants her domination back. She no longer supports physical wars, like the Crusades. Her war is now stealth, behind the scenes; changes made in how the world perceives her. She became an actual 9 acre nation. Vatican 1 in the 1870s and Vatican 2 in the 1960s brought about changes that allowed Romanism into the very Protestant culture of America and Western Protestant nations.
It is not a matter of faithful Roman Catholics who fought wars along side Protestants in conflagrations against world enemies. The faithful Roman Catholic, loved by God, must be made aware of the truth, as do the members of 'daughter' organizations slipping into man-made traditions and Mother's doctrines. I have stated it before: most of God's people are out in Babylon and will take their stand when the final call to come out of Babylon goes forth. The preaching of the Three Angel's Messages of Rev. 14:6-12, and the fourth angel of Rev. 18 shall continue to go forth as it has for almost two centuries of church history. It shall grow into a world-wide voice; the final warning before Christ returns. It shall ultimately lighten the whole world with its glory and power, which shall trigger a final attempt to route out and destroy the remnant of God's people.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen. She makes all nations drink her wine of confusion and gets the world drunk, unable to see and perceive the truth. Protestants no longer protest. Yet, Rome has not changed her doctrines men and women died by the hundreds of thousands rejecting her during the centuries leading up to the Reformation. The Inquisition was no "conspiracy theory." Some historians state one hundred million people perished at the hands of the Vatican's control of Europe. Wars were fought against nations that joined the Reformation. The dungeon, the rack, the most horrifying tortures known to man were used on "heretics" to turn them back to Mother. This history is not hidden. Many authors captured the horrors by quill pens during those terrifying centuries. She became drunk with the blood of the martyrs. All her temples, shrines, popes and finery were covered with gold, silver and gems. To this day her museums display it all. She tones down the finery for the sake of public policy and societal attitudes today but, her churches are still standing, adorned with the most incredible designs and architecture to create an awe in those who look upon it all. She is MOTHER. She sits a queen, "I am no widow. I shall see no sorrow." Yet, she shall come down for her sins and corruptions when Jesus returns.
Now, confusion. How does she pull off confusion to get the world drunk?
This is a link to a YT video from seven years ago, from Pope Francis. It is not a Protestant version of the subject. It is a Roman Catholic version of how to join the world together. It is short - a minute and a half - to the point, and shocking to millions of Catholics trying to understand where their Pope is taking the church. For other Catholics it is great news. Put all differences aside and believe in "love." The video makes it obvious where the papacy is taking the RCC. She is "the Mother of all churches." She wants the world coming home to her. She is the mother of abominations, things so dark only God knows the truth of it all. Watch the stealth in the video. It is the epitome of Babylonian confusion and all the world joining together under a banner of compromise and false doctrine, all in the name of "love."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dPzM5q43c
You can see the policy Rome is working on. Put aside differences. Everybody sings Kumbaya and truth means nothing anymore. All that matters is togetherness and being "one." The martyrs for Christ turn in their graves. BTW, you will notice the absence of Protestants being shown in the video. They are already joined to Mother. They are already under the spell of her wine. It is has been that way, increasingly so, for almost two centuries. One by one, each Protestant church going home to Mother; no longer protesting Romanism's false doctrines and influence. No. Time to join together to save America and other Western nations falling into an abyss of sin. It all seems so right when it is all so wrong in the eyes of Heaven, looking on, warning the world Babylon is fallen, is fallen and "become the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" - a reference to becoming predators; falling upon those who rise up against the great apostasy.
Now, this week, Francis wrote a document in which he declared the need for a "paradigm shift" in Catholicism to meet the needs of all the various cultures in the world. The chameleon, once again, changes to make it easier for the world to accept her and her lost dominance in world affairs.
Do not doubt this, my Friends. While the world is literally drowning in Roman Catholic, Jesuit theology of Futurism regarding last-day events, the net is being drawn in to capture the world in its errors.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255887/pope-francis-calls-for-paradigm-shift-in-theology-for-world-of-today
"Pope Francis has called for a “paradigm shift” in Catholic theology that takes widespread engagement with contemporary science, culture, and people’s lived experience as an essential starting point.
"Citing the need to deal with “profound cultural transformations,” the pope presented his dramatic vision for the future of Catholic theology in a new motu proprio issued earlier today.
"Titled Ad Theologiam Promovendam, or “to promote theology,” the document revises the statutes of the Pontifical Academy of Theology (PATH) “to make them more suitable for the mission that our time imposes on theology.”
“Theology can only develop in a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and different knowledge, between different Christian confessions and different religions, openly engaging with everyone, believers and nonbelievers,” the pope wrote in the apostolic letter."
Reading the word salad of this 'apostolic letter' is typical of such documents from the Vatican but, the author of the article opens it up with these choices -
"To achieve this “‘outgoing’ theology,” Pope Francis wrote that theology must become “transdisciplinary,” part of a “web of relationships, first of all with other disciplines and other knowledge.” This engagement, he wrote, leads to “the arduous task” of theologians making use of “new categories developed by other knowledge” in order to “penetrate and communicate the truths of faith and transmit the teaching of Jesus in today’s languages, with originality and critical awareness.”
"Pope Francis also wrote that priority must be given to “the knowledge of people’s ‘common sense,’” which he described as a “theological source in which many images of God live, often not corresponding to the Christian face of God, only and always love.”
In a world where "trans" is everywhere, make no mistake the Pope used it to effect. Transdisciplinary. Transsexual means moving, transiting from one sex to the other. Transdisciplinary means transiting from one discipline to the other. Making everything work together.
BABYLON. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion.
"The pope said that this “pastoral stamp” must be placed upon all of Catholic theology. Described as “popular theology,” by starting from “the different contexts and concrete situations in which people are inserted” and allowing itself “to be seriously challenged by reality,” theological reflection can aid in the discernment of the “signs of the times,” the pope wrote.
“Theology places itself at the service of the evangelization of the Church and the transmission of faith, so that faith becomes culture; that is, the wise ethos of the people of God, a proposal of human and humanizing beauty for all,” the pope wrote."
So, theology, truth no longer changes people. People change theology with their common sense. I am a great proponent of common sense. Would that elected civil servants had it. Would that political Leftists had it. But, no amount of human common sense can determine truth. Truth is determined by comparing the Word of God with itself. The Bible interprets itself when it is studied, cover to cover. God does not require human common sense to determine truth. To the modern human mind, the very notion of a Creator God lacks all possible content of common sense. The entire materialistic, naturalist, everything from nothing atheist considers himself a person of common sense and science, which is why he rejects God. Common sense does not convict us of sin. The Holy Spirit does and the Holy Spirit is a mystery beyond man's ability to fully understand. There is no common sense involved.
Common sense told the multitude Christ must not have been the Messiah, nailed to a cross, dying a criminal's death in the ancient Roman justice system. Today, Christians who truly love the Bible and make it their worldview are considered crazy. Just read what was written about Mike Johnson, new Speaker of the House when he was elected. He considers the Bible his worldview and was excoriated by Leftist news outlets.
Common sense is great for common things. Salvation is not a common thing. Salvation is THE ONLY thing that truly matters and salvation from the effects of sin exists in a realm of supernatural influence upon the human conscience. Being born-again is not a common sense experience. It is a supernatural change that can shock people for what happens to them; changing them, turning them into saints when they walked as proud, egocentric sinners before they asked Christ into their lives and were made humble, teachable, loving people.
"The pope’s shift in emphasis in Catholic theology was reflected in the new statutes issued for the Pontifical Academy of Theology. Ad Theologiam Promovendam shifted the 200-year-old institute’s focus from “promoting the dialogue between reason and faith” to promoting “transdisciplinary dialogue with philosophies, sciences, arts, and all other knowledge.” The new statutes place PATH “at the service of academic institutions dedicated to theology and other cultural and knowledge development centers interested in reaching the human person in his context of life and thought.”
Meeting people where they are is the Gospel. Christ met all people where they were. He ministered to their needs body, soul and spirit. He did not change a word of the theology of truth; God's truth found in His Word, to change people. No. Never is there a need to transanything when it comes to the truth. The truth stands firm. People waffle. Cultures change. Culture has changed religion. Roman culture caused the once renowned church in Rome to apostatize. Culture has caused the professed Protestant world in the West to backslide and apostatize. Truth is to change culture; not culture changing the church but, that is what happens century after century. The church is changed by an ever descending culture. The only trans that means something is transiting from sin to righteousness through Christ in us, the hope of glory.
This new paradigm shift of Francis is another major step in the drunkenness of the nations and her daughters to make the world "one." It is called "love." It shall be nothing short of the final apostasy against the truth and Gods law.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
1John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
John 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: you continue in my love.
Joh 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
You cannot separate love from obedience to God's commandments, to Christ's commandments. It is impossible, unless confusion comes in; unless compromise and apostasy comes in and changes the true affect of God's love upon the conscience. Love is the fulfilling, the filling full of God's law.
Rome has thought to change God's law; to modify, to adapt, to compromise biblical truth in favor of traditions foreign to the Word of God: and thus to apostatize from the truth. She is antichrist. She has put herself "in place of Christ." Satan intends to deceive the world through her. I suspect we have not long to go.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Why is the Catholic Church referred to as the Great Mother whore of Babylon, that confuses the earth with the drunkenness of her wine of doctrine? It's a very serious charge; one that Protestants have made with through examination and proclamation in past centuries. I must concur with that position. It is obviously not popular but, truth cares not for popularity. Truth cares only for establishing the will of God in salvation among the lost human race.
I believe, beyond things I have posted here in the last few years, a perfect example of this perfect description of Babylon in prophecy can be found in two separate items, seven years apart. One, a YT video that just came my way last night, along with a letter penned by Pope Francis this past week.
Once again, let me place the pertinent Scripture passages here to begin -
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.
Unpack the wording. Babylon - religious confusion, self-importance - is fallen TWICE. She is the great city, the enmy of the New Jerusalem. She made all nations drink and get drunk from her wine and she did it in wrath; she is angry, furious. Why?
1. The Roman Catholic Church is a conglomeration of doctrines and policies from different cultures prominent in ancient times and at the beginning of the first millennium of the Christian era.
Notice again -
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
I focus on one part of this description, having addressed the rest in previous posts. She has fornicated with the kings of the Earth. She is a mother of harlots. The lost nations speak for themselves. Who are the harlot daughter offspring?
Spiritual, prophetic Babylon fell ages ago, in the great falling away the apostle Paul wrote about. The man of sin... all the information in Daniel, throughout the Old Testament pertaining to ancient, literal Babylon put together with all the information in the New Testament and only one power in history meets all the marks of apostasy - The RCC, its Papacy and Vatican. That is fall #1.
Fall #2 addresses the harlot daughters. They are all the Protestant organizations that did not "press on to know the truth" but, stalled in compromise and their own backsliding and retain doctrines of Mother. Their fall took place over time in their own ways of rejection of further truth with light coming out of the dark ages of Roman Catholic control. From the highly liturgical and tradition-laced Anglican/Episcopal church to the more biblically focused churches, like the Baptist denominations; from the Seventh-day Baptist church to the Southern Baptist denomination, all retain aspects of Mother that are hers, alone. They are not found in Scripture. And others may not foster a traditional Roman Catholic doctrine but, nevertheless abide in errors not found in the Bible. It is all the influence of "Mother." Babylon. Confusion. The mixing of the sacred with the pagan. Fall comes after that.
But Rome received a deadly wound in her history, did she not? 1798 and the capture of the Pope by Napoleon's forces, and he died in exile. Newspapers across Europe had headlines about the papacy receiving its "deadly wound." Yet, in two years another pope was on the Catholic throne and the "healing" began (Rev 13:3), and is underway today. She lost her control over the West. She is angry and wants her domination back. She no longer supports physical wars, like the Crusades. Her war is now stealth, behind the scenes; changes made in how the world perceives her. She became an actual 9 acre nation. Vatican 1 in the 1870s and Vatican 2 in the 1960s brought about changes that allowed Romanism into the very Protestant culture of America and Western Protestant nations.
It is not a matter of faithful Roman Catholics who fought wars along side Protestants in conflagrations against world enemies. The faithful Roman Catholic, loved by God, must be made aware of the truth, as do the members of 'daughter' organizations slipping into man-made traditions and Mother's doctrines. I have stated it before: most of God's people are out in Babylon and will take their stand when the final call to come out of Babylon goes forth. The preaching of the Three Angel's Messages of Rev. 14:6-12, and the fourth angel of Rev. 18 shall continue to go forth as it has for almost two centuries of church history. It shall grow into a world-wide voice; the final warning before Christ returns. It shall ultimately lighten the whole world with its glory and power, which shall trigger a final attempt to route out and destroy the remnant of God's people.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen. She makes all nations drink her wine of confusion and gets the world drunk, unable to see and perceive the truth. Protestants no longer protest. Yet, Rome has not changed her doctrines men and women died by the hundreds of thousands rejecting her during the centuries leading up to the Reformation. The Inquisition was no "conspiracy theory." Some historians state one hundred million people perished at the hands of the Vatican's control of Europe. Wars were fought against nations that joined the Reformation. The dungeon, the rack, the most horrifying tortures known to man were used on "heretics" to turn them back to Mother. This history is not hidden. Many authors captured the horrors by quill pens during those terrifying centuries. She became drunk with the blood of the martyrs. All her temples, shrines, popes and finery were covered with gold, silver and gems. To this day her museums display it all. She tones down the finery for the sake of public policy and societal attitudes today but, her churches are still standing, adorned with the most incredible designs and architecture to create an awe in those who look upon it all. She is MOTHER. She sits a queen, "I am no widow. I shall see no sorrow." Yet, she shall come down for her sins and corruptions when Jesus returns.
Now, confusion. How does she pull off confusion to get the world drunk?
This is a link to a YT video from seven years ago, from Pope Francis. It is not a Protestant version of the subject. It is a Roman Catholic version of how to join the world together. It is short - a minute and a half - to the point, and shocking to millions of Catholics trying to understand where their Pope is taking the church. For other Catholics it is great news. Put all differences aside and believe in "love." The video makes it obvious where the papacy is taking the RCC. She is "the Mother of all churches." She wants the world coming home to her. She is the mother of abominations, things so dark only God knows the truth of it all. Watch the stealth in the video. It is the epitome of Babylonian confusion and all the world joining together under a banner of compromise and false doctrine, all in the name of "love."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dPzM5q43c
You can see the policy Rome is working on. Put aside differences. Everybody sings Kumbaya and truth means nothing anymore. All that matters is togetherness and being "one." The martyrs for Christ turn in their graves. BTW, you will notice the absence of Protestants being shown in the video. They are already joined to Mother. They are already under the spell of her wine. It is has been that way, increasingly so, for almost two centuries. One by one, each Protestant church going home to Mother; no longer protesting Romanism's false doctrines and influence. No. Time to join together to save America and other Western nations falling into an abyss of sin. It all seems so right when it is all so wrong in the eyes of Heaven, looking on, warning the world Babylon is fallen, is fallen and "become the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" - a reference to becoming predators; falling upon those who rise up against the great apostasy.
Now, this week, Francis wrote a document in which he declared the need for a "paradigm shift" in Catholicism to meet the needs of all the various cultures in the world. The chameleon, once again, changes to make it easier for the world to accept her and her lost dominance in world affairs.
Do not doubt this, my Friends. While the world is literally drowning in Roman Catholic, Jesuit theology of Futurism regarding last-day events, the net is being drawn in to capture the world in its errors.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255887/pope-francis-calls-for-paradigm-shift-in-theology-for-world-of-today
"Pope Francis has called for a “paradigm shift” in Catholic theology that takes widespread engagement with contemporary science, culture, and people’s lived experience as an essential starting point.
"Citing the need to deal with “profound cultural transformations,” the pope presented his dramatic vision for the future of Catholic theology in a new motu proprio issued earlier today.
"Titled Ad Theologiam Promovendam, or “to promote theology,” the document revises the statutes of the Pontifical Academy of Theology (PATH) “to make them more suitable for the mission that our time imposes on theology.”
“Theology can only develop in a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and different knowledge, between different Christian confessions and different religions, openly engaging with everyone, believers and nonbelievers,” the pope wrote in the apostolic letter."
Reading the word salad of this 'apostolic letter' is typical of such documents from the Vatican but, the author of the article opens it up with these choices -
"To achieve this “‘outgoing’ theology,” Pope Francis wrote that theology must become “transdisciplinary,” part of a “web of relationships, first of all with other disciplines and other knowledge.” This engagement, he wrote, leads to “the arduous task” of theologians making use of “new categories developed by other knowledge” in order to “penetrate and communicate the truths of faith and transmit the teaching of Jesus in today’s languages, with originality and critical awareness.”
"Pope Francis also wrote that priority must be given to “the knowledge of people’s ‘common sense,’” which he described as a “theological source in which many images of God live, often not corresponding to the Christian face of God, only and always love.”
In a world where "trans" is everywhere, make no mistake the Pope used it to effect. Transdisciplinary. Transsexual means moving, transiting from one sex to the other. Transdisciplinary means transiting from one discipline to the other. Making everything work together.
BABYLON. Spiritual, prophetic Babylon: confusion.
"The pope said that this “pastoral stamp” must be placed upon all of Catholic theology. Described as “popular theology,” by starting from “the different contexts and concrete situations in which people are inserted” and allowing itself “to be seriously challenged by reality,” theological reflection can aid in the discernment of the “signs of the times,” the pope wrote.
“Theology places itself at the service of the evangelization of the Church and the transmission of faith, so that faith becomes culture; that is, the wise ethos of the people of God, a proposal of human and humanizing beauty for all,” the pope wrote."
So, theology, truth no longer changes people. People change theology with their common sense. I am a great proponent of common sense. Would that elected civil servants had it. Would that political Leftists had it. But, no amount of human common sense can determine truth. Truth is determined by comparing the Word of God with itself. The Bible interprets itself when it is studied, cover to cover. God does not require human common sense to determine truth. To the modern human mind, the very notion of a Creator God lacks all possible content of common sense. The entire materialistic, naturalist, everything from nothing atheist considers himself a person of common sense and science, which is why he rejects God. Common sense does not convict us of sin. The Holy Spirit does and the Holy Spirit is a mystery beyond man's ability to fully understand. There is no common sense involved.
Common sense told the multitude Christ must not have been the Messiah, nailed to a cross, dying a criminal's death in the ancient Roman justice system. Today, Christians who truly love the Bible and make it their worldview are considered crazy. Just read what was written about Mike Johnson, new Speaker of the House when he was elected. He considers the Bible his worldview and was excoriated by Leftist news outlets.
Common sense is great for common things. Salvation is not a common thing. Salvation is THE ONLY thing that truly matters and salvation from the effects of sin exists in a realm of supernatural influence upon the human conscience. Being born-again is not a common sense experience. It is a supernatural change that can shock people for what happens to them; changing them, turning them into saints when they walked as proud, egocentric sinners before they asked Christ into their lives and were made humble, teachable, loving people.
"The pope’s shift in emphasis in Catholic theology was reflected in the new statutes issued for the Pontifical Academy of Theology. Ad Theologiam Promovendam shifted the 200-year-old institute’s focus from “promoting the dialogue between reason and faith” to promoting “transdisciplinary dialogue with philosophies, sciences, arts, and all other knowledge.” The new statutes place PATH “at the service of academic institutions dedicated to theology and other cultural and knowledge development centers interested in reaching the human person in his context of life and thought.”
Meeting people where they are is the Gospel. Christ met all people where they were. He ministered to their needs body, soul and spirit. He did not change a word of the theology of truth; God's truth found in His Word, to change people. No. Never is there a need to transanything when it comes to the truth. The truth stands firm. People waffle. Cultures change. Culture has changed religion. Roman culture caused the once renowned church in Rome to apostatize. Culture has caused the professed Protestant world in the West to backslide and apostatize. Truth is to change culture; not culture changing the church but, that is what happens century after century. The church is changed by an ever descending culture. The only trans that means something is transiting from sin to righteousness through Christ in us, the hope of glory.
This new paradigm shift of Francis is another major step in the drunkenness of the nations and her daughters to make the world "one." It is called "love." It shall be nothing short of the final apostasy against the truth and Gods law.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
1John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
John 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: you continue in my love.
Joh 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
You cannot separate love from obedience to God's commandments, to Christ's commandments. It is impossible, unless confusion comes in; unless compromise and apostasy comes in and changes the true affect of God's love upon the conscience. Love is the fulfilling, the filling full of God's law.
Rome has thought to change God's law; to modify, to adapt, to compromise biblical truth in favor of traditions foreign to the Word of God: and thus to apostatize from the truth. She is antichrist. She has put herself "in place of Christ." Satan intends to deceive the world through her. I suspect we have not long to go.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A Couple Questions to Ponder
A couple questions to ponder.
Why is it those on the Left believe people have a right to a job; a right to receive a living wage for a general, teenage starter job; a right to a home; a right to medical care; a right to have a cell phone; a right to transportation and other privileges of American society they deem as necessary but -
They do not believe Americans who disagree with them have a right to free speech; have a right to free assembly and a right to physically worship the Creator apart from any laws to deny that practice; have a right to defend themselves from potential human dangers with any firearm they deem necessary; and most of all, do not believe babies growing in mother's wombs have a right to life and the only thing stopping them from taking away speech rights, assembly rights, freedom of conscience rights; firearm rights, and life rights are legislatures that have more Constitutionally minded elected civil servants than them. Otherwise, the Bill of Rights would be abrogated by Leftists who hate it.
Right?
Why is it those on the Left believe people have a right to a job; a right to receive a living wage for a general, teenage starter job; a right to a home; a right to medical care; a right to have a cell phone; a right to transportation and other privileges of American society they deem as necessary but -
They do not believe Americans who disagree with them have a right to free speech; have a right to free assembly and a right to physically worship the Creator apart from any laws to deny that practice; have a right to defend themselves from potential human dangers with any firearm they deem necessary; and most of all, do not believe babies growing in mother's wombs have a right to life and the only thing stopping them from taking away speech rights, assembly rights, freedom of conscience rights; firearm rights, and life rights are legislatures that have more Constitutionally minded elected civil servants than them. Otherwise, the Bill of Rights would be abrogated by Leftists who hate it.
Right?
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865. Another Question to Ponder - November 4, 2023
Can I know the Truth?
It's a simple question. Consider the options weighed against it:
Humanity, regardless of the caste, regardless of the societal groups and parameters, always seems divided by those on the Right, those on the Left and those in the middle of any subject; some would say the uncommitted.
You have seen the graphs and slide rules of surveys. Do you Strongly Agree? Agree somewhat? Have no position? Disagree somewhat? Strongly Disagree?
No matter how you slice up categories it always seems to come down to three positions: Right, Left, Center/uncommitted. But, catch the uncommitted in a conversation and they generally have an opinion; it's just one they will not commit to.
Look at the subject of Origins.
We have Biblical/Quran Creationists; Intelligent Design proponents; Theistic Evolutionists; and Materialist/ Naturalist/Darwinian Evolutionists. People from all walks of life fit into these categories, and if you take account of all the world's religions, all with origins stories, the field widens exponentially.
How can someone on the outside looking in possibly get to the truth of a matter so intrinsic to life as origins?
Then, take the Bible. In Christ's day you have the Pharisees and rabbinical thinkers; the Sadducees and Hellenistic thinkers; and those who just cared about money and getting by in life - the uncommitted and then came Yeshua, the son of Joseph saying, if you will do the father's will you will know whether or not He spoke truth. He said He is the way, the truth and the life. He said, Before Abraham was, I AM. He claimed to be Elohim, God the Creator, the One who spoke to Moses. Now, either He was who He said He was or He was completely insane, literally.
There shall never, ever be a time in this world's existence where truth is something you just trip over. Some people cannot even decide if such a thing as evil exists. They see no battle between good and evil. It is all just the flow of the universe. All of it or none of it proves absolute truth does or does not exist.
If you were God, how would you attempt to convince a very confused world what the truth is. How would you get the world's attention? Some would say, 'Show yourself. Walk among mankind. Do something to how us you exist.'
If I may say so, that is exactly what the Father did, sending His Son to earth, via an earthly mother; joining humanity and divinity together for the sake of humanity. He came to show God. He disappointed a lot of people who saw Yah as only a warrior ready to destroy the Roman armies and their false gods. The wealthy were disappointed the Messiah should come from such a humble background? That didn't work for them. The Romans saw Him as just another preacher with a Messiah complex. The Bible says the common people heard Him gladly. yet, even they were disappointed when He was taken and crucified, even though He told them exactly what was going to happen to Him. How does someone prophecy accurately their own death? You can get away with that through suicide. You cannot do it via being taken by your enemies. Unless, of course, you know the end from the beginning. And hen to tell your listeners you shall rise from your grave? Yeah. We are back to room in the insane asylum again OR, Christ was God on Earth.
There is another side to this issue of the supernatural, though: of the big reveal in the atmosphere. There is a powerful enemy termed 'the ruler of this world,' 'the prince of the power of the air' who has control of the elements of nature. If mankind can whip up a holograph or deep fake of some kind to fool people, what do you suppose this mighty fallen angel can whip up and, in fact will whip up when the time presents itself? So, humans can forget the big power show in the sky. It would prove nothing to skeptics. Even more so in an age of technological marvels.
Let's take a look at the passage mentioned but first, the setup -
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.
Mar 1:22 And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.
Mar 1:23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,
Mar 1:24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
Mar 1:25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”
Mar 1:26 And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.
Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
Mar 1:28 And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.
The people were astonished at Christ's teachings; His doctrine. He taught with full authority, like what we taught was so sound nothing else could make sense but, it seemed shrouded in a mystery; for they never heard anything like it in their lives. That was the setting Messiah came into. An age of confusion because of the weak, vacillating, man-made hodgepodge of the religious leaders of the day.
John 7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
Joh 7:16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Joh 7:17 If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
Joh 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Hmm. We now see the subject entails the matter of character. The one who teaches to honor someone other than himself is true; for the Bible states Jesus "made of himself no reputation." He did not seek notoriety, did not seek fame, had no interest in being a "name." He only sought to make known the character and desires of His Heavenly Father. The religious leaders sought a name for themselves: rabbi so and so says so. That was the big deal around the nation. Rabbi so and so.
But, even this is shrouded in things that only work if people are seeking truth in the Judeo/Christian realm of thought. What about the multitudes who worship other gods or no gods? They do not seek. They do not care. Day in, day out, habits, rounds of errands and chores and things to do. Life comes, life goes. New people carry on. The "smartest," most educated people on Earth think that way. Some agrarian peoples, connected to the soil and it's produce think that way but, so do the most intelligent people on Earth. There is no God. There is only matter and science to figure it all out. That is their daily thought process.
And herein comes the really cool part of this subject, to my mind. The Creator, who, indeed, is Jesus Christ, himself (all things were made by Him and without Him nothing was made that exists), works with His Father and the Holy Spirit to do something only Deity could do: tell the future and do so through human instruments, and do it centuries in advance. Then, ask humans to step out and share this information with others. No big chalkboard in the sky. No horizon to horizon digital display. No; just humans like everybody else, telling others what has (before it did) and what will come to pass.
You see, people can fake it. They can act pious and righteous. They can pose themselves as servants of God. Deceivers. They do it all the time and live large in the process and give a bad name to the Deity they claim to represent. Or they say repulsive things like 'Kill all Jews' and turn away any reasonable, thinking mind. People in religion can be really off the wall but, Bible prophecy has nothing to do with fakes, facades and forgers. It can stand alone and only needs people to check it out and weigh it against history and current events.
You say, 'Well, Ray, there are a host of people online and on television claiming they teach true commentary on prophecy and they all do not agree with each other.'
Like I said, truth is not up to them. Truth is up to you. Christ gave the process. If you will do the Father's will you can know the truth and the truth will make you free.
Consider this, take a look at a timeline of religious figures down through history. Ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, China, wherever. Have you ever done that? Only one Person who actually walked among humanity claimed to be Divine, Deity. Plenty of persons claimed to have experiences with the divine. Plenty of myths of persons can be found with no authoritative sources for their actual, human existence. Humans claim to have found divinity through various religious exercises and contemplation. Only One Person in religion claimed to be One with God because He is God, the Son: Yeshua Messiah, Jesus Christ. Only one beat death and resurrected and was seen by hundreds of people testifying to the event including Roman soldiers, enemies of His faith and religious principles: Jesus of Nazareth.
The Gospels have all kinds of historic proofs for their existence as letters written by the actual people who saw Christ or knew those who saw Him and lived with Him. People who claim the Bible is just a story book are grossly ignorant of history and archaeology. Nobody needs to be an expert in anything to read the evidence that exists for the life of Christ. Skeptics have written books, set out to write books debunking it all and ended up converted through their research. Christ is not just some historic figure. He was God, the Creator, on earth, from a babe to adult, to show mankind the character, government and purposes of God's kingdom. To display for the world the reality of creation and recreation, through being born-again.
I was an atheist. Why, how did I become a Christian? Through the pathway of Bible Prophecy. You cannot gainsay what is written over millennia of events happening centuries, a thousand years later. And the archaeologist's shovels and spades continue to prove it all factual and true.
How can you know the truth? I say, study the prophecies. Daniel. Start there. In my mind, when a young man can tell the most powerful potentate in the known world what kingdoms will come after him and it happens that way over centuries, just Daniel chapter 2 will make a dent in anyone's skepticism. And the book, itself tells proceeding powers in the march of history. Babylon starts it off. Chapter 5 shows the event of Babylon's downfall and the next empire - The Medo-Persian. Chapter 8 states the Greek empire would come after the Persians. The Gospels mention the next power after the Greeks: the Roman empire. But, the prophecy states that empire would be divided, not destroyed, not taken down. Divided and that is exactly what took place. The Roman empire was divided by the barbaric tribes that ended up becoming Europe - the ten toes of the image in Daniel 2 and each chapter adds more and more detail to this march of empires and nations right to the coming of Christ to destroy them all. It is a phenomenal display of stating the end from the beginning. No human being, no group of human beings could ever tell of such a march and get it right. It is preposterous to even suggest such a thing. Twenty-five hundred years of time told in detail of empires and ruling nations? C'mon. Daniel 7 mops the floor with any such book of future events told through "prophets." Daniel 11 and 12 get so detailed in the march of those nations it is staggering but, you must have the foundation and Daniel 2 is that foundation.
Remember the bottom line. If you will do God's will, you will know whether the doctrine is true or is just man-made stuff for profit and making a name for themselves.
God be with you in your honest and sincere search for truth. He will not let you down, in His good time, in His good way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It's a simple question. Consider the options weighed against it:
Humanity, regardless of the caste, regardless of the societal groups and parameters, always seems divided by those on the Right, those on the Left and those in the middle of any subject; some would say the uncommitted.
You have seen the graphs and slide rules of surveys. Do you Strongly Agree? Agree somewhat? Have no position? Disagree somewhat? Strongly Disagree?
No matter how you slice up categories it always seems to come down to three positions: Right, Left, Center/uncommitted. But, catch the uncommitted in a conversation and they generally have an opinion; it's just one they will not commit to.
Look at the subject of Origins.
We have Biblical/Quran Creationists; Intelligent Design proponents; Theistic Evolutionists; and Materialist/ Naturalist/Darwinian Evolutionists. People from all walks of life fit into these categories, and if you take account of all the world's religions, all with origins stories, the field widens exponentially.
How can someone on the outside looking in possibly get to the truth of a matter so intrinsic to life as origins?
Then, take the Bible. In Christ's day you have the Pharisees and rabbinical thinkers; the Sadducees and Hellenistic thinkers; and those who just cared about money and getting by in life - the uncommitted and then came Yeshua, the son of Joseph saying, if you will do the father's will you will know whether or not He spoke truth. He said He is the way, the truth and the life. He said, Before Abraham was, I AM. He claimed to be Elohim, God the Creator, the One who spoke to Moses. Now, either He was who He said He was or He was completely insane, literally.
There shall never, ever be a time in this world's existence where truth is something you just trip over. Some people cannot even decide if such a thing as evil exists. They see no battle between good and evil. It is all just the flow of the universe. All of it or none of it proves absolute truth does or does not exist.
If you were God, how would you attempt to convince a very confused world what the truth is. How would you get the world's attention? Some would say, 'Show yourself. Walk among mankind. Do something to how us you exist.'
If I may say so, that is exactly what the Father did, sending His Son to earth, via an earthly mother; joining humanity and divinity together for the sake of humanity. He came to show God. He disappointed a lot of people who saw Yah as only a warrior ready to destroy the Roman armies and their false gods. The wealthy were disappointed the Messiah should come from such a humble background? That didn't work for them. The Romans saw Him as just another preacher with a Messiah complex. The Bible says the common people heard Him gladly. yet, even they were disappointed when He was taken and crucified, even though He told them exactly what was going to happen to Him. How does someone prophecy accurately their own death? You can get away with that through suicide. You cannot do it via being taken by your enemies. Unless, of course, you know the end from the beginning. And hen to tell your listeners you shall rise from your grave? Yeah. We are back to room in the insane asylum again OR, Christ was God on Earth.
There is another side to this issue of the supernatural, though: of the big reveal in the atmosphere. There is a powerful enemy termed 'the ruler of this world,' 'the prince of the power of the air' who has control of the elements of nature. If mankind can whip up a holograph or deep fake of some kind to fool people, what do you suppose this mighty fallen angel can whip up and, in fact will whip up when the time presents itself? So, humans can forget the big power show in the sky. It would prove nothing to skeptics. Even more so in an age of technological marvels.
Let's take a look at the passage mentioned but first, the setup -
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.
Mar 1:22 And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.
Mar 1:23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,
Mar 1:24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
Mar 1:25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”
Mar 1:26 And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.
Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
Mar 1:28 And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.
The people were astonished at Christ's teachings; His doctrine. He taught with full authority, like what we taught was so sound nothing else could make sense but, it seemed shrouded in a mystery; for they never heard anything like it in their lives. That was the setting Messiah came into. An age of confusion because of the weak, vacillating, man-made hodgepodge of the religious leaders of the day.
John 7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
Joh 7:16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Joh 7:17 If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
Joh 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
Hmm. We now see the subject entails the matter of character. The one who teaches to honor someone other than himself is true; for the Bible states Jesus "made of himself no reputation." He did not seek notoriety, did not seek fame, had no interest in being a "name." He only sought to make known the character and desires of His Heavenly Father. The religious leaders sought a name for themselves: rabbi so and so says so. That was the big deal around the nation. Rabbi so and so.
But, even this is shrouded in things that only work if people are seeking truth in the Judeo/Christian realm of thought. What about the multitudes who worship other gods or no gods? They do not seek. They do not care. Day in, day out, habits, rounds of errands and chores and things to do. Life comes, life goes. New people carry on. The "smartest," most educated people on Earth think that way. Some agrarian peoples, connected to the soil and it's produce think that way but, so do the most intelligent people on Earth. There is no God. There is only matter and science to figure it all out. That is their daily thought process.
And herein comes the really cool part of this subject, to my mind. The Creator, who, indeed, is Jesus Christ, himself (all things were made by Him and without Him nothing was made that exists), works with His Father and the Holy Spirit to do something only Deity could do: tell the future and do so through human instruments, and do it centuries in advance. Then, ask humans to step out and share this information with others. No big chalkboard in the sky. No horizon to horizon digital display. No; just humans like everybody else, telling others what has (before it did) and what will come to pass.
You see, people can fake it. They can act pious and righteous. They can pose themselves as servants of God. Deceivers. They do it all the time and live large in the process and give a bad name to the Deity they claim to represent. Or they say repulsive things like 'Kill all Jews' and turn away any reasonable, thinking mind. People in religion can be really off the wall but, Bible prophecy has nothing to do with fakes, facades and forgers. It can stand alone and only needs people to check it out and weigh it against history and current events.
You say, 'Well, Ray, there are a host of people online and on television claiming they teach true commentary on prophecy and they all do not agree with each other.'
Like I said, truth is not up to them. Truth is up to you. Christ gave the process. If you will do the Father's will you can know the truth and the truth will make you free.
Consider this, take a look at a timeline of religious figures down through history. Ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, China, wherever. Have you ever done that? Only one Person who actually walked among humanity claimed to be Divine, Deity. Plenty of persons claimed to have experiences with the divine. Plenty of myths of persons can be found with no authoritative sources for their actual, human existence. Humans claim to have found divinity through various religious exercises and contemplation. Only One Person in religion claimed to be One with God because He is God, the Son: Yeshua Messiah, Jesus Christ. Only one beat death and resurrected and was seen by hundreds of people testifying to the event including Roman soldiers, enemies of His faith and religious principles: Jesus of Nazareth.
The Gospels have all kinds of historic proofs for their existence as letters written by the actual people who saw Christ or knew those who saw Him and lived with Him. People who claim the Bible is just a story book are grossly ignorant of history and archaeology. Nobody needs to be an expert in anything to read the evidence that exists for the life of Christ. Skeptics have written books, set out to write books debunking it all and ended up converted through their research. Christ is not just some historic figure. He was God, the Creator, on earth, from a babe to adult, to show mankind the character, government and purposes of God's kingdom. To display for the world the reality of creation and recreation, through being born-again.
I was an atheist. Why, how did I become a Christian? Through the pathway of Bible Prophecy. You cannot gainsay what is written over millennia of events happening centuries, a thousand years later. And the archaeologist's shovels and spades continue to prove it all factual and true.
How can you know the truth? I say, study the prophecies. Daniel. Start there. In my mind, when a young man can tell the most powerful potentate in the known world what kingdoms will come after him and it happens that way over centuries, just Daniel chapter 2 will make a dent in anyone's skepticism. And the book, itself tells proceeding powers in the march of history. Babylon starts it off. Chapter 5 shows the event of Babylon's downfall and the next empire - The Medo-Persian. Chapter 8 states the Greek empire would come after the Persians. The Gospels mention the next power after the Greeks: the Roman empire. But, the prophecy states that empire would be divided, not destroyed, not taken down. Divided and that is exactly what took place. The Roman empire was divided by the barbaric tribes that ended up becoming Europe - the ten toes of the image in Daniel 2 and each chapter adds more and more detail to this march of empires and nations right to the coming of Christ to destroy them all. It is a phenomenal display of stating the end from the beginning. No human being, no group of human beings could ever tell of such a march and get it right. It is preposterous to even suggest such a thing. Twenty-five hundred years of time told in detail of empires and ruling nations? C'mon. Daniel 7 mops the floor with any such book of future events told through "prophets." Daniel 11 and 12 get so detailed in the march of those nations it is staggering but, you must have the foundation and Daniel 2 is that foundation.
Remember the bottom line. If you will do God's will, you will know whether the doctrine is true or is just man-made stuff for profit and making a name for themselves.
God be with you in your honest and sincere search for truth. He will not let you down, in His good time, in His good way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Thoughts/OpEd
I tend to be a lightning rod-type person. I have been that way my entire life. People like me or do not, no in between. I have learned to live with it. I hasten to Abraham Lincoln in my mind -
You can please some of the people, all time and all the people, some of the time but, you can never please all the people, all the time.
That applies to everybody, really but, for some people it just seems to be something that causes splits. You can try to avoid it and it happens, anyway. The Bible is filled with such characters: Christ, especially. He was thronged by people drawn to Him and considered a bane upon society by others. There was no ambivalence with Messiah. The same with John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, the prophets. All lightning rods in their days and times.
I know this website contains information that is going to turn off people. As I look at statistics for the page I can see the ebb and flow and how it tends to settle down to the same numbers after awhile.
I know there isn't much anyone can state about drumming, as an art form, that would knock over anyone's applecart but, when it comes to the subject of the importance of drum shells, therein wars can be ignited. I know. I make my owns drums, play many different brands of cymbals, use all kinds of hardware and have no allegiance to any particular manufacturers. In some ways, drumming has become all about brands and physical labels on instruments. I remember one year reading stories about NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchants) and one company only showing up with a new logo for their products (cymbals), like that was important to the industry. Many took note of the inadequacy of such a position for an instrument manufacturer.
When it comes to the matters of State, political opinions and culture, sure, a lot more people may become upset, especially today with things so widely divided in our Western culture. I am a "conservative" by experience and thought, not political choice. I do not side with Marxist, Leftist, radical Liberals on much of anything. I find their positions lacking in logic and common sense and reality. They feel the same about those on the other side of issues.
When it comes to religion, which I now post a lot about - especially in reference to Bible prophecy and the second coming of Christ - it's the same as politics and culture. I know people will be turned off and get upset. These are issues that mean nothing to some people and everything to others. For them, I may as well be staging a home invasion in dark of night. They may agree with things I write about politics and freak out over things I write about religion and draw the lines and never come back. I understand that, too. I would make and have made the same decisions. One particular channel on YT that has a lot of useful information about recording, gets into some hardline, atheist, anti-Christian rhetoric and once I heard it, I lost interest and use of any information shared about recording and the pertinent tools to do it with. It's just the way I'm wired.
What I do hope is to engage in seed planting. I just share, desire and wish to induce thought and contemplation, personal investigation and plant seeds and can only hope they sprout and grow and produce fruit some day.
Some people see this as a weird website. Others see it as rather eclectic and they find the variation interesting enough to stick around and check the place out, however frequently or infrequently so. It's all good with me.
I do not mean to purposefully offend anyone. I know I do and shall, especially as the times get more intense. And they will get more acute and more intense. The nature of the changes developing will naturally cause that, as all humanity divides into just two final classes - those connected to God through Christ and those not connected. At that point drums, music; politics as well becomes moot. The only thing that will matter for the entire human race is which side are they on? The side of truth, as defined by God's Word or, the side of man-made traditions opposed to the Word of God. The Bible calls them sheep and goats, etc.
For me, I have much more change coming in my life. Drastic changes, already underway. It's going to be... a rocky road, at best, I figure.
One day, one moment at a time. Nothing else we can do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
You can please some of the people, all time and all the people, some of the time but, you can never please all the people, all the time.
That applies to everybody, really but, for some people it just seems to be something that causes splits. You can try to avoid it and it happens, anyway. The Bible is filled with such characters: Christ, especially. He was thronged by people drawn to Him and considered a bane upon society by others. There was no ambivalence with Messiah. The same with John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, the prophets. All lightning rods in their days and times.
I know this website contains information that is going to turn off people. As I look at statistics for the page I can see the ebb and flow and how it tends to settle down to the same numbers after awhile.
I know there isn't much anyone can state about drumming, as an art form, that would knock over anyone's applecart but, when it comes to the subject of the importance of drum shells, therein wars can be ignited. I know. I make my owns drums, play many different brands of cymbals, use all kinds of hardware and have no allegiance to any particular manufacturers. In some ways, drumming has become all about brands and physical labels on instruments. I remember one year reading stories about NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchants) and one company only showing up with a new logo for their products (cymbals), like that was important to the industry. Many took note of the inadequacy of such a position for an instrument manufacturer.
When it comes to the matters of State, political opinions and culture, sure, a lot more people may become upset, especially today with things so widely divided in our Western culture. I am a "conservative" by experience and thought, not political choice. I do not side with Marxist, Leftist, radical Liberals on much of anything. I find their positions lacking in logic and common sense and reality. They feel the same about those on the other side of issues.
When it comes to religion, which I now post a lot about - especially in reference to Bible prophecy and the second coming of Christ - it's the same as politics and culture. I know people will be turned off and get upset. These are issues that mean nothing to some people and everything to others. For them, I may as well be staging a home invasion in dark of night. They may agree with things I write about politics and freak out over things I write about religion and draw the lines and never come back. I understand that, too. I would make and have made the same decisions. One particular channel on YT that has a lot of useful information about recording, gets into some hardline, atheist, anti-Christian rhetoric and once I heard it, I lost interest and use of any information shared about recording and the pertinent tools to do it with. It's just the way I'm wired.
What I do hope is to engage in seed planting. I just share, desire and wish to induce thought and contemplation, personal investigation and plant seeds and can only hope they sprout and grow and produce fruit some day.
Some people see this as a weird website. Others see it as rather eclectic and they find the variation interesting enough to stick around and check the place out, however frequently or infrequently so. It's all good with me.
I do not mean to purposefully offend anyone. I know I do and shall, especially as the times get more intense. And they will get more acute and more intense. The nature of the changes developing will naturally cause that, as all humanity divides into just two final classes - those connected to God through Christ and those not connected. At that point drums, music; politics as well becomes moot. The only thing that will matter for the entire human race is which side are they on? The side of truth, as defined by God's Word or, the side of man-made traditions opposed to the Word of God. The Bible calls them sheep and goats, etc.
For me, I have much more change coming in my life. Drastic changes, already underway. It's going to be... a rocky road, at best, I figure.
One day, one moment at a time. Nothing else we can do.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Why Am I Pessimistic?
I get that a lot. People tend to see me as negative. On the negative, glass half empty side. I could say I get it from my father. My mother was a glass half full, optimistic all the time-type person. Not my dad. He was a definite pessimist.
I cannot blame it on my father, though. Attitudes in life are not necessarily genetic. Behavioral science has no
concrete explanations for human behavior because it's a very complex subject. Genes are said to play a part but, not enough is yet known how much.
No, I am a realist, even though I believe in God and miracles and prophecy and a totally positive end for what we call life on Earth. Getting there is another story.
I am pessimistic by the weight of evidence. There are voices among patriots telling their fellows to hold the line, do not be swayed by any walls of Marxism or radical Leftism to arduously climb or topple. Be not dismayed nor discouraged. If we hang tough things can be turned around.
Well, sure, things can be turned around. Can things be turned around? Like genes in humanity and their results in human behavior, potential for positive change is up against other more serious facts.
Fact 1. All humans die because of accumulated copying errors in DNA which tends to weaken organs and body systems, until ultimate failure takes place "Dying, you shall die." That is what God told Adam and Eve. It took 930 years for that debilitating process to bring the Father of the race to death and back to the dirt he was made from. Today? Every week I seem to be reading news of contemporaries dying. The Bible generalizes it by saying man has threescore and ten: 70 years now. You may get more. You may live a lot less. Few make it to one century.
For a nation, its genes can be seen in it citizens, its economy, its military, and the rest of its total culture. America is engaged in a civil war - a cultural civil war; an economic war, with a military that has gone "woke," with a Washington, D.C. going into astronomical debt to pay for physical wars, not even ours! A criminal president was installed through criminal activity in a criminal election enterprise no one has paid any kind of price for yet, save for American citizens caught in the crossfire and outright destruction modes of current radical Democrats and cowardly, worthless Republicans in control. With just a two-party system, held together by money and power, the chances of changing a systemically corrupt elected civil service pool is slim to none. Corrupted voting systems have not been changed. Aside from a few people in a few states, rather meaningless minions to changing anything; caught and arrested for felonious election fraud schemes, no single major felon in the steal has been outed by the press and held accountable. That's because the press is now part of the systemic corruption.
I'd sing the anthem plenty loud if the current race to destruction could be turned around. All I see are possibilities to slow it down but, like all empires in history, they do not last forever. The demise of America is pegged in prophecy by its own decisions. Prophecy does not determine downfall. Lack of repentance does. Prophecy just shows the ultimate results of apostasy, backsliding, corruption and mankind refusing God His place in the fabric of a nation. The Bible is filled with the instances of Israel about to be wiped out but, through repentance, God intervened and the nation went forward until the day - more prophetically particular - until three and a half years beyond the death of Christ; the stoning of Stephen and general persecution of early Christians by the Jewish nation; and the 490 years of Daniel 9 were fulfilled. The Gospel went to the Gentiles and the world was changed. Jerusalem fell to the Romans, the church was scattered abroad, and the Gospel went across the then known world. The current State of Israel is not even a faint shadow of its former theocracy and the professed Christian church is sucked into its current quagmire. If it destroys Gaza, so what? What is Hamas? It is terrorist club. There are dozens of others bent on the destruction of Israel.
If God could not save the Jewish nation when Messiah was present in it, what makes Americans think America can be saved when more and more people are becoming godless? Despite proclaimed revivals on some college or church campuses, godlessness is growing exponentially in our culture.
Why do sincere people think Trump will logically be elected in 2024 when his own Party is against him, working against him; Democrats and GOP frauds have changed nothing so to continue their criminal election activity; the Press is with them; the Justice Department is with them; the military is with them; federal law enforcement agencies are with them and nothing has been done to prevent political criminals from committing political crimes. Hundreds of American patriots rot in jail. I mean, show me the evidence otherwise, on the precipice of the 2024 election year.
I'm not a pessimist by choice. I'm a pessimist by the weight of evidence. Mountains of evidence show the election was stolen. Mountains of corruption has stopped it all from making a legal difference and Trump is on trial for election interference!!! You cannot make this up.
Forgive my logic and realism but, I'm sorry, I see no reason for optimism without the direct intervention of God.
National repentance is the only thing that can save America. I'm not holding my breath. It would be great. It would also be rare.5
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I cannot blame it on my father, though. Attitudes in life are not necessarily genetic. Behavioral science has no
concrete explanations for human behavior because it's a very complex subject. Genes are said to play a part but, not enough is yet known how much.
No, I am a realist, even though I believe in God and miracles and prophecy and a totally positive end for what we call life on Earth. Getting there is another story.
I am pessimistic by the weight of evidence. There are voices among patriots telling their fellows to hold the line, do not be swayed by any walls of Marxism or radical Leftism to arduously climb or topple. Be not dismayed nor discouraged. If we hang tough things can be turned around.
Well, sure, things can be turned around. Can things be turned around? Like genes in humanity and their results in human behavior, potential for positive change is up against other more serious facts.
Fact 1. All humans die because of accumulated copying errors in DNA which tends to weaken organs and body systems, until ultimate failure takes place "Dying, you shall die." That is what God told Adam and Eve. It took 930 years for that debilitating process to bring the Father of the race to death and back to the dirt he was made from. Today? Every week I seem to be reading news of contemporaries dying. The Bible generalizes it by saying man has threescore and ten: 70 years now. You may get more. You may live a lot less. Few make it to one century.
For a nation, its genes can be seen in it citizens, its economy, its military, and the rest of its total culture. America is engaged in a civil war - a cultural civil war; an economic war, with a military that has gone "woke," with a Washington, D.C. going into astronomical debt to pay for physical wars, not even ours! A criminal president was installed through criminal activity in a criminal election enterprise no one has paid any kind of price for yet, save for American citizens caught in the crossfire and outright destruction modes of current radical Democrats and cowardly, worthless Republicans in control. With just a two-party system, held together by money and power, the chances of changing a systemically corrupt elected civil service pool is slim to none. Corrupted voting systems have not been changed. Aside from a few people in a few states, rather meaningless minions to changing anything; caught and arrested for felonious election fraud schemes, no single major felon in the steal has been outed by the press and held accountable. That's because the press is now part of the systemic corruption.
I'd sing the anthem plenty loud if the current race to destruction could be turned around. All I see are possibilities to slow it down but, like all empires in history, they do not last forever. The demise of America is pegged in prophecy by its own decisions. Prophecy does not determine downfall. Lack of repentance does. Prophecy just shows the ultimate results of apostasy, backsliding, corruption and mankind refusing God His place in the fabric of a nation. The Bible is filled with the instances of Israel about to be wiped out but, through repentance, God intervened and the nation went forward until the day - more prophetically particular - until three and a half years beyond the death of Christ; the stoning of Stephen and general persecution of early Christians by the Jewish nation; and the 490 years of Daniel 9 were fulfilled. The Gospel went to the Gentiles and the world was changed. Jerusalem fell to the Romans, the church was scattered abroad, and the Gospel went across the then known world. The current State of Israel is not even a faint shadow of its former theocracy and the professed Christian church is sucked into its current quagmire. If it destroys Gaza, so what? What is Hamas? It is terrorist club. There are dozens of others bent on the destruction of Israel.
If God could not save the Jewish nation when Messiah was present in it, what makes Americans think America can be saved when more and more people are becoming godless? Despite proclaimed revivals on some college or church campuses, godlessness is growing exponentially in our culture.
Why do sincere people think Trump will logically be elected in 2024 when his own Party is against him, working against him; Democrats and GOP frauds have changed nothing so to continue their criminal election activity; the Press is with them; the Justice Department is with them; the military is with them; federal law enforcement agencies are with them and nothing has been done to prevent political criminals from committing political crimes. Hundreds of American patriots rot in jail. I mean, show me the evidence otherwise, on the precipice of the 2024 election year.
I'm not a pessimist by choice. I'm a pessimist by the weight of evidence. Mountains of evidence show the election was stolen. Mountains of corruption has stopped it all from making a legal difference and Trump is on trial for election interference!!! You cannot make this up.
Forgive my logic and realism but, I'm sorry, I see no reason for optimism without the direct intervention of God.
National repentance is the only thing that can save America. I'm not holding my breath. It would be great. It would also be rare.5
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
Maui is Still a Mystery
Eric West, of the Hawaii Real Estate YT channel, is still showing the world anomalies around the city of Lahaina that just make no sense.
How do metal buildings allow fire inside to completely destroy an interior? The entire point of metal buildings, especially with insurance companies, is the lessened nature of fire destruction, including lone cars and trucks by themselves in lots with unscathed surroundings.
Can any kind of truth and justice come from "official" sources there? Unlikely; and even if people keep the story, the event alive, it was dead for official sources the first week after. Official story in the bucket; news services run with it; elected civil servants and appointed servants stick with the official story and life goes on for everyone except those whos lives were ruined by the event; still without daily sustenance; losing hope with every day that passes by. It is unthinkable such a thing can happen to an American state. And to make matters worse, those who point out the inconsistencies, the anomalies, the corruption are made pariahs, enemies of the state.
America deserves to be brought down, and done so by a power that will hold corrupt politicians accountable and responsible for their hideous corruptions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uTeolOxDg
As an UPDATE, if you are not familiar with Greg Reese and his point blank reports or, have not seen anything he has done on the Maui fires, I highly recommend you watch them. Being a rabbit-hole investigator/news producer, it is rather amazing what he can cram into a 4 minute report. His latest on Maui is, like the rest of them, an eye-opener. The Maui fires are such a black mark on American history, such evil is generally only seen in the most despotic of totalitarian regimes. That such an event should be staged for the world to see is so reprehensible it's sickening.
rumble.com/v3tn8ss-lahaina-reopens-and-new-questions-arise.html
He has six reports on the Maui fires thus far, which can be seen on his Rumble page, along with dozens of other shock and awe reports. I will not say I agree with 100% of what he puts out there but, 98% is close enough to give the man as much exposure as I can.
rumble.com/c/c-659545
How do metal buildings allow fire inside to completely destroy an interior? The entire point of metal buildings, especially with insurance companies, is the lessened nature of fire destruction, including lone cars and trucks by themselves in lots with unscathed surroundings.
Can any kind of truth and justice come from "official" sources there? Unlikely; and even if people keep the story, the event alive, it was dead for official sources the first week after. Official story in the bucket; news services run with it; elected civil servants and appointed servants stick with the official story and life goes on for everyone except those whos lives were ruined by the event; still without daily sustenance; losing hope with every day that passes by. It is unthinkable such a thing can happen to an American state. And to make matters worse, those who point out the inconsistencies, the anomalies, the corruption are made pariahs, enemies of the state.
America deserves to be brought down, and done so by a power that will hold corrupt politicians accountable and responsible for their hideous corruptions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uTeolOxDg
As an UPDATE, if you are not familiar with Greg Reese and his point blank reports or, have not seen anything he has done on the Maui fires, I highly recommend you watch them. Being a rabbit-hole investigator/news producer, it is rather amazing what he can cram into a 4 minute report. His latest on Maui is, like the rest of them, an eye-opener. The Maui fires are such a black mark on American history, such evil is generally only seen in the most despotic of totalitarian regimes. That such an event should be staged for the world to see is so reprehensible it's sickening.
rumble.com/v3tn8ss-lahaina-reopens-and-new-questions-arise.html
He has six reports on the Maui fires thus far, which can be seen on his Rumble page, along with dozens of other shock and awe reports. I will not say I agree with 100% of what he puts out there but, 98% is close enough to give the man as much exposure as I can.
rumble.com/c/c-659545
*****************************
866. What Drives You? - 11/8/2023
What drives you? What motivates you, compels you, pushes you? For most Americans these days, things put out by Hollywood are more important to their notice and attention that what Washington, D.C. puts out into our lives. Americans are reaping the results of generations of not paying attention to the people elected or appointed to run the Federal government, let alone State and Local governments.
What drives me? Well, obviously God, Christ, the Holy Spirit; my reason for caring about much of anything. My Creator, Redeemer and Lord, through His Word and through the talents and gifts given to His servants and messengers, may constantly slap me upside the head but, looking at my life, it is apparently what I need to keep me going towards the gates of Heaven.
Yesterday I received an email from my young LEGEND fan in China. He is greatly stressed out by his existence there. To cope, he listens to the darkest "music" on Earth: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal and other variations in the genre. He says they give him comfort and hope. Yes, you reading in the West are squinting your eyes and furrowing your eye brows, and dropping your mouth open at such a thing. Yeah, I did, too. "Music" created out of darkness and anger, open revolt against God and Christ and God's law and standards of life and morality; "entertainment" delivered by the father of lies; the ruler of this world comforts this 18 year old who sees his life as meaningless. Well someone would feel that way in the society that is totalitarian China, where life is meaningless, and only control is the main factor that drives Chinese officials in the government. That and wealth that comes from manufacturing goods for the world. The one nation the free world should not buy anything from is the one nation that manufactures most of the goods we have in our homes, in our garages, in our sheds and shops, in businesses, in everything we know and use in life. This kid mentally survives by listening to the darkness inherent in Metal genres that sit at the doorstep of Satanic delusions and evil. Today's Metal makes Black Sabbath, back in my youth, seem like choir boys.
All I could do was write back and appeal to him to check out God and Christ and a Bible in his language and realize the fastest growing body of believers on Earth is in China. Millions turn to God every year there: in underground churches, secretly attempting to carry out their faith in what little peace they can savor, and they do so with more courage than 90% of the rest of the world's professed believers. Those 10% of Chinese, North Koreans, Indians, Sudanese and from other African nations; those in Iran and other nations run by militant Islam... we in the West know little to nothing of what they have to go through on a daily basis in these incredibly dangerous places for Christians. Even if you read this as an atheist, having no care for or belief in any deity, human beings just trying to live within the confines of conscience are treated worse than animals in some of these nations: women and girls made slaves. Children made into little criminals and terrorists. All the while we are more driven by pursuits of happiness; what drives us in free lands. In a sense, the delusion of materialism keeps us from sinking below waters of despair.
Well, realistically, the entire world is becoming a slave globe, with billions of indentured servants under the control of wannabe tyrants, even and especially here in the U.S.A. Despite all the warnings from those touted as "conspiracy theorists," we saw it all commence during Covid. The entire civilized world was locked down save for places with common sense like South Dakota, here in America.
I have been driven by drum set artistry and right now the current album project is literally about the only practical hope I have for any kind of endeavor that makes life worthwhile. That is not being overly dramatic. It's just the current fact of my current life circumstances. And at the same time, those circumstances had me take down my drum set and store it all away because I have to consider more important matters like where to live, how to live, and what to do with my aging existence: things literally more important than playing drums.
My young friend in China faces a government that will either send him to a detention/re-education camp, a prison camp or a death camp for practicing a true religion of peace with the Head of the religion called the Prince of peace: should he choose to follow Christ and live the life placed before him and within him by the work of the Holy Spirit. Nobody is out to put me away because of my allegiance to God and Christ and His kingdom. In dozens of various countries, that is a fact of daily life. In the entire world, that reality is coming.
I mentioned Greg Reese and his reports at the end of the previous post. One of his recent reports was "545 vs. 300,000,000." 545 people elected to serve the American people, actually control the American people and are responsible for everything wrong, everything falling apart, everything messed up in this nation. And because they could change things, it can only be concluded; the way things are is the way they want them to be. In every sector of society they either do nothing or make laws that contributes to the mess America is in, and then lie, like the current non-President, that everything is good, when everything is an obvious mess of gargantuan proportion.
rumble.com/v36nnua-545-vs-300-million.html
The apostle Paul wrote an encapsulation of what things will be like at the end of time -
2Tim 3:1 You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult [perilous] times will come.
2Tim 3:2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant [proud], abusive [blasphemers], disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Tim 3:3 unfeeling [without natural affection], uncooperative [trucebreakers], slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
2Tim 3:4 traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather [more] than lovers of God.
2Tim 3:5 They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.
2Tim 3:10 But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
2Tim 3:11 and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
2Tim 3:12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.
2Tim 3:13 But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.
Within that particular translation, I added some variants from another translation in the brackets just to broaden the intent of the Greek words Paul wrote with.
Some people will say it has always been that way; a dregs of character seen throughout humanity. I would only say, even despite paganism that surrounded Paul, and all the problems the Christian church faced in his time and would yet face, he saw his day as more congenial than what would exist at the end of time, and truthfully, what do we see? In the physical world, in the human world, even in the animal kingdom we see things so far out of order we can only try and get through a day without trouble. Without natural affection. What is natural affection? Men loving women. And what do we see today? People cannot even decide what a woman is, while society crumbles under the weight of absolute nonsense and stupidity. Add to that the growth of the homosexual movement in America and around the world and everything Jesus said and Paul wrote about ages ago, is coming back at the end of time, just as they stated, and makes it one of the largest signs of the times that can be seen.
Most people on Earth live paycheck to paycheck or worse, much worse. In America, where half the world wants to come for a better life, legal American citizen's lives are being impacted by the influx of multiplied millions of illegal immigrants in the last 30 years. American streets in major cities are literally worse than the wild, wild West. Open daylight robberies of stores. Riots, corruption. Death, constant death, in the most worthless, empty ways. I have written about it all before. If you cannot see it, God have mercy, open your eyes. If you do see it, you know you feel helpless to stop it because you have not been given the place, the voice to do or say anything to change it. You can write to your representative. You can call their office. You could run for office yourself and find a corruption in your face you never dreamed existed. A nightmare of corruption exists. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it is in the days before Christ returns. Evil.
What drives you? What motivates you, compels you, pushes you? It better be more than money. It better be more than being popular on social media. It better be more than any possession you own. If that's all that drives you, you are toast.
In looking for a place to live, an apartment complex manager informed me that the government no longer grants money to places that provide subsidized housing. Hasn't since 2011. Subsidized housing exists only because of various types of tax breaks, incentives and shelters. The IRS has more to do with Medicare than Congress. And I was informed the entire system is going to change and is changing. Millions of seniors living in subsidized housing are living in a time-bomb of change because most of these places are going straight street rent pricing. They will make more money that way. Seniors living in these places will be given 90 days to come up with street pricing rents or have to leave. Millions of seniors will face life on the streets, literally, in America, because they will have no place to go. It will make the Great Depression seem a picnic. 501C3 places, operating on various plans of donations and business ventures will continue to operate as long as they can. But American's Social Security will not be enough in straight street rental pricing for housing. Few have any kind of retirement plans. It is a nightmare coming of epic, biblical proportions. And it is exactly what Paul wrote: lovers of money are going to control the world. They already do, and it shall get worse, as they deceive others and are actually deceived themselves.
I literally have no idea where I will be living by the end of this month. No joke. That said, at least I believe God loves me and will open a way for something.
What drives me is the truth. And the truth is, the end of all things is at hand. The world is cracking; physically, mentally, emotionally and the only thing people can do is hang on because Iesou Christos is returning.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
What drives me? Well, obviously God, Christ, the Holy Spirit; my reason for caring about much of anything. My Creator, Redeemer and Lord, through His Word and through the talents and gifts given to His servants and messengers, may constantly slap me upside the head but, looking at my life, it is apparently what I need to keep me going towards the gates of Heaven.
Yesterday I received an email from my young LEGEND fan in China. He is greatly stressed out by his existence there. To cope, he listens to the darkest "music" on Earth: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal and other variations in the genre. He says they give him comfort and hope. Yes, you reading in the West are squinting your eyes and furrowing your eye brows, and dropping your mouth open at such a thing. Yeah, I did, too. "Music" created out of darkness and anger, open revolt against God and Christ and God's law and standards of life and morality; "entertainment" delivered by the father of lies; the ruler of this world comforts this 18 year old who sees his life as meaningless. Well someone would feel that way in the society that is totalitarian China, where life is meaningless, and only control is the main factor that drives Chinese officials in the government. That and wealth that comes from manufacturing goods for the world. The one nation the free world should not buy anything from is the one nation that manufactures most of the goods we have in our homes, in our garages, in our sheds and shops, in businesses, in everything we know and use in life. This kid mentally survives by listening to the darkness inherent in Metal genres that sit at the doorstep of Satanic delusions and evil. Today's Metal makes Black Sabbath, back in my youth, seem like choir boys.
All I could do was write back and appeal to him to check out God and Christ and a Bible in his language and realize the fastest growing body of believers on Earth is in China. Millions turn to God every year there: in underground churches, secretly attempting to carry out their faith in what little peace they can savor, and they do so with more courage than 90% of the rest of the world's professed believers. Those 10% of Chinese, North Koreans, Indians, Sudanese and from other African nations; those in Iran and other nations run by militant Islam... we in the West know little to nothing of what they have to go through on a daily basis in these incredibly dangerous places for Christians. Even if you read this as an atheist, having no care for or belief in any deity, human beings just trying to live within the confines of conscience are treated worse than animals in some of these nations: women and girls made slaves. Children made into little criminals and terrorists. All the while we are more driven by pursuits of happiness; what drives us in free lands. In a sense, the delusion of materialism keeps us from sinking below waters of despair.
Well, realistically, the entire world is becoming a slave globe, with billions of indentured servants under the control of wannabe tyrants, even and especially here in the U.S.A. Despite all the warnings from those touted as "conspiracy theorists," we saw it all commence during Covid. The entire civilized world was locked down save for places with common sense like South Dakota, here in America.
I have been driven by drum set artistry and right now the current album project is literally about the only practical hope I have for any kind of endeavor that makes life worthwhile. That is not being overly dramatic. It's just the current fact of my current life circumstances. And at the same time, those circumstances had me take down my drum set and store it all away because I have to consider more important matters like where to live, how to live, and what to do with my aging existence: things literally more important than playing drums.
My young friend in China faces a government that will either send him to a detention/re-education camp, a prison camp or a death camp for practicing a true religion of peace with the Head of the religion called the Prince of peace: should he choose to follow Christ and live the life placed before him and within him by the work of the Holy Spirit. Nobody is out to put me away because of my allegiance to God and Christ and His kingdom. In dozens of various countries, that is a fact of daily life. In the entire world, that reality is coming.
I mentioned Greg Reese and his reports at the end of the previous post. One of his recent reports was "545 vs. 300,000,000." 545 people elected to serve the American people, actually control the American people and are responsible for everything wrong, everything falling apart, everything messed up in this nation. And because they could change things, it can only be concluded; the way things are is the way they want them to be. In every sector of society they either do nothing or make laws that contributes to the mess America is in, and then lie, like the current non-President, that everything is good, when everything is an obvious mess of gargantuan proportion.
rumble.com/v36nnua-545-vs-300-million.html
The apostle Paul wrote an encapsulation of what things will be like at the end of time -
2Tim 3:1 You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult [perilous] times will come.
2Tim 3:2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant [proud], abusive [blasphemers], disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Tim 3:3 unfeeling [without natural affection], uncooperative [trucebreakers], slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
2Tim 3:4 traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather [more] than lovers of God.
2Tim 3:5 They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.
2Tim 3:10 But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
2Tim 3:11 and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
2Tim 3:12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.
2Tim 3:13 But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.
Within that particular translation, I added some variants from another translation in the brackets just to broaden the intent of the Greek words Paul wrote with.
Some people will say it has always been that way; a dregs of character seen throughout humanity. I would only say, even despite paganism that surrounded Paul, and all the problems the Christian church faced in his time and would yet face, he saw his day as more congenial than what would exist at the end of time, and truthfully, what do we see? In the physical world, in the human world, even in the animal kingdom we see things so far out of order we can only try and get through a day without trouble. Without natural affection. What is natural affection? Men loving women. And what do we see today? People cannot even decide what a woman is, while society crumbles under the weight of absolute nonsense and stupidity. Add to that the growth of the homosexual movement in America and around the world and everything Jesus said and Paul wrote about ages ago, is coming back at the end of time, just as they stated, and makes it one of the largest signs of the times that can be seen.
Most people on Earth live paycheck to paycheck or worse, much worse. In America, where half the world wants to come for a better life, legal American citizen's lives are being impacted by the influx of multiplied millions of illegal immigrants in the last 30 years. American streets in major cities are literally worse than the wild, wild West. Open daylight robberies of stores. Riots, corruption. Death, constant death, in the most worthless, empty ways. I have written about it all before. If you cannot see it, God have mercy, open your eyes. If you do see it, you know you feel helpless to stop it because you have not been given the place, the voice to do or say anything to change it. You can write to your representative. You can call their office. You could run for office yourself and find a corruption in your face you never dreamed existed. A nightmare of corruption exists. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it is in the days before Christ returns. Evil.
What drives you? What motivates you, compels you, pushes you? It better be more than money. It better be more than being popular on social media. It better be more than any possession you own. If that's all that drives you, you are toast.
In looking for a place to live, an apartment complex manager informed me that the government no longer grants money to places that provide subsidized housing. Hasn't since 2011. Subsidized housing exists only because of various types of tax breaks, incentives and shelters. The IRS has more to do with Medicare than Congress. And I was informed the entire system is going to change and is changing. Millions of seniors living in subsidized housing are living in a time-bomb of change because most of these places are going straight street rent pricing. They will make more money that way. Seniors living in these places will be given 90 days to come up with street pricing rents or have to leave. Millions of seniors will face life on the streets, literally, in America, because they will have no place to go. It will make the Great Depression seem a picnic. 501C3 places, operating on various plans of donations and business ventures will continue to operate as long as they can. But American's Social Security will not be enough in straight street rental pricing for housing. Few have any kind of retirement plans. It is a nightmare coming of epic, biblical proportions. And it is exactly what Paul wrote: lovers of money are going to control the world. They already do, and it shall get worse, as they deceive others and are actually deceived themselves.
I literally have no idea where I will be living by the end of this month. No joke. That said, at least I believe God loves me and will open a way for something.
What drives me is the truth. And the truth is, the end of all things is at hand. The world is cracking; physically, mentally, emotionally and the only thing people can do is hang on because Iesou Christos is returning.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
We Told You So
I don't read much political commentary but, I know what's out there. I know many voices have warned Americans not to get too excited about any elections, anywhere because the criminal voting fraud is not taken care of. Thus, it will not stop. The current crop of elected civil servants and their minions will stop at nothing to secure victories.
As the Bible says, "Conscience seared with a hot iron."
Some headlines after Tuesday's shellacking of the GOP: governor races, etc. -
Sophisticated Voter Fraud? Election Offices in King, Pierce, Spokane Counties [Democrat-Ruled Washington State] Evacuated for White Powder
Voting Machine Company That ‘Flipped’ Votes in Pennsylvania Admits ‘Someone Programmed the Election’
‘Recurring Nightmare’ – Maricopa County’s Latest Election Interference: CAMERAS OFF, Voting Locations Close Early, Voters Who Called Maricopa Sent to CLOSED Locations in Jurisdictional Election
Have mercy, Maricopa County, Arizona must be more corrupt than NYC or Chicago. Dems, GOP, they are all corrupt. Kari Lake didn't stand a chance.
If you think 2024 will be any different in the important swing states, and maybe every state, please, wake up.
As the Bible says, "Conscience seared with a hot iron."
Some headlines after Tuesday's shellacking of the GOP: governor races, etc. -
Sophisticated Voter Fraud? Election Offices in King, Pierce, Spokane Counties [Democrat-Ruled Washington State] Evacuated for White Powder
Voting Machine Company That ‘Flipped’ Votes in Pennsylvania Admits ‘Someone Programmed the Election’
‘Recurring Nightmare’ – Maricopa County’s Latest Election Interference: CAMERAS OFF, Voting Locations Close Early, Voters Who Called Maricopa Sent to CLOSED Locations in Jurisdictional Election
Have mercy, Maricopa County, Arizona must be more corrupt than NYC or Chicago. Dems, GOP, they are all corrupt. Kari Lake didn't stand a chance.
If you think 2024 will be any different in the important swing states, and maybe every state, please, wake up.
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867. "50 in 5" - 11/9/23
Another United Nations plan, along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and other elitist control-freak wannabes, have devised a plan that will put 50 nations together in 5 years, running an "interoperable" "Digital Goods Plan" with a Central Bank Digital Currency they claim will be the best thing since sliced bread. It apparently also includes a digital I.D. for every person in those 50 nations, as yet unnamed but, considered nations on the cutting edge of digital technology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM95cxgHDhY&t=43s
sociable.co/government-and-policy/un-gates-foundation-50-in-5-digital-public-infrastructure/
Digital Public Infrastructure. Smart Cities. 15-Minute Cities and all the rest of the things various "agendas" proposed by the U.N. over the last couple decades are finally coming to fruition. Every major event we have seen in the last 25 years have been preliminary experiments to see how humanity will react; every "official" response to each event laid out to see if public consumption can be guaranteed. Two-thirds of the human race has now been "vaccinated." Studies interrupt the head-in-the-sand peace in showing the disastrous effects of these injection death serums on millions of people left debilitated or dead or probably so within a few years. It is, all of it, in fact a conspiracy. Not a theory. Not anymore, not that it ever was for those who watch and investigate and research and compile information to draw sensible logical conclusions based on the evidence. It is a conspiracy fact. It was a man-made virus unleashed on the planet and all elements of control were planned many years ago.
Now, people will tell me, "Ray, c'mon. These are prophetic events. The mark of the beast is coming."
As I have shared, at length, mankind does not get to pick and choose, cafeteria-style, what to believe from the Bible and its prophetic messages. Everything in its pages: all marks and identifiers of current and future characters must be used to learn the truth. The world controllers may yet, in fact, control technology and currency and even control what humanity is allowed to do on a daily basis. What does that have to do with the Law of God and mankind's relation and connection to God, through sanctifying truth?
Think. Aside from a prohibition in Leviticus about marking our bodies (tattoos), what will having a digital I.D. on me or even in me do to change my relationship and connection to my Creator? Medical danger? Yeah, sure. I don't want an electronic device inside me, though pacemakers have been around for half a century, people have been wearing battery powered watches for decades and other medical devices for the same. Nobody seems to be dropping dead from them.
No Historicist will deny there is not a concerted effort by entities on Earth to control it through various means, including depopulating the planet by several billion people. None of it forces me to disobey God.
All kinds of tests come to God's people throughout life. Two thousand years ago the leaders told the disciples to shut up about Yeshua, their supposed Messiah. Christ said, proclaim the good news everywhere. The choice? "We must obey God, rather than men." The Romans declared all citizens in the empire had to place some incense in a burning bowl entering or leaving a province or town or city or some building as an offering to a pagan deity. The Law of God says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Christians and many Jews refused to comply and were sent to camps for punishment or to death for the entertainment of Romans in their arenas.
Deity is not even an issue with today's controllers. They are all humanist atheists as far as I am aware. They don't care about God. To them religion is a weakness. They know by observance most professed Christians will do whatever they are told, especially when it is proposed to be something good and helpful for mankind. They know professed Christians can be quite naive and gullible. The controllers are not the Communist Chinese. They do not use armies to control people. They use deceit through technology and proposals for human advancement: inducements to convenience. Humanity loves convenience. One central bank for one central currency for one new world order makes sense to billions of people. Stop wars, stop disease, stop poverty, stop whatever and have a utopia based on everybody owning nothing but, having everything at their disposal and everybody is happy. What, in such a proposal is against the commandments of God? Think it through.
Every chapter in the book of Daniel addresses, in some way, the law of God and obedience to it. Revelation mentions the commandments of God over and over, beginning to end. The Law of God shall be a central component of last-day events. An attack on the Law of God by a false religious entity is central to the Devil's plan for control in the war between good and evil. Remove those two central elements and everything else becomes a side show, a distraction, a ruse to keep people unaware of what is actually happening and shall take place. Futurism is one of those distractions.
Sleight of hand, distractions are the magician's way of handling cards, balls, any device or item used in tricks; to keep an audience from seeing what is actually taking place. You saw someone in half by placing two bodies in small containment quarters. Everything is some kind of trick. Today, it has become apparent that supernatural aid comes into play from the father of lies and his host of fallen angels. The closer we get to the end, the more Satan will use the supernatural to deceive. The U.N., Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Klaus Schwab, all of them, though tools of Satan, propose no worship of themselves as deity or that they are in the place of deity, which is what antichrist means - in place of Christ. These tools say nothing about the supernatural. If anything, it all about the joining of humanity with technology; something very earthly and man-made. Antichrist proclaims supernatural occurrence as testimony to God's approbation. God is with antichrist because of supernatural events. Major case in point; the events of our Lady of Fatima, one of many "miracles" Rome claims as her banner of being the only true church.
If professed Christians will not use some common sense, logic and spiritual discernment they will be deceived and left unprepared for the final events. They will find themselves fighting against God, under delusions, and the fault will lie at their own doors for believing lies in a piecemeal hodgepodge of Futurism's broken wheel of prophetic events, not the least of which is the secret rapture; which has missed happening for as long as Christians have prosed it should have taken place by now. They don't pick dates anymore. Too many failures. They just claim it could be anytime, any moment when that is complete and utter nonsense in the greater scene of last-day events yet to happen that Christians will go through. Christians are not saved from persecution. They are sustained in persecution. "All they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
All that can be stated is believers must "study to show themselves approved unto God; workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
Watch. Pray. Prepare. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM95cxgHDhY&t=43s
sociable.co/government-and-policy/un-gates-foundation-50-in-5-digital-public-infrastructure/
Digital Public Infrastructure. Smart Cities. 15-Minute Cities and all the rest of the things various "agendas" proposed by the U.N. over the last couple decades are finally coming to fruition. Every major event we have seen in the last 25 years have been preliminary experiments to see how humanity will react; every "official" response to each event laid out to see if public consumption can be guaranteed. Two-thirds of the human race has now been "vaccinated." Studies interrupt the head-in-the-sand peace in showing the disastrous effects of these injection death serums on millions of people left debilitated or dead or probably so within a few years. It is, all of it, in fact a conspiracy. Not a theory. Not anymore, not that it ever was for those who watch and investigate and research and compile information to draw sensible logical conclusions based on the evidence. It is a conspiracy fact. It was a man-made virus unleashed on the planet and all elements of control were planned many years ago.
Now, people will tell me, "Ray, c'mon. These are prophetic events. The mark of the beast is coming."
As I have shared, at length, mankind does not get to pick and choose, cafeteria-style, what to believe from the Bible and its prophetic messages. Everything in its pages: all marks and identifiers of current and future characters must be used to learn the truth. The world controllers may yet, in fact, control technology and currency and even control what humanity is allowed to do on a daily basis. What does that have to do with the Law of God and mankind's relation and connection to God, through sanctifying truth?
Think. Aside from a prohibition in Leviticus about marking our bodies (tattoos), what will having a digital I.D. on me or even in me do to change my relationship and connection to my Creator? Medical danger? Yeah, sure. I don't want an electronic device inside me, though pacemakers have been around for half a century, people have been wearing battery powered watches for decades and other medical devices for the same. Nobody seems to be dropping dead from them.
No Historicist will deny there is not a concerted effort by entities on Earth to control it through various means, including depopulating the planet by several billion people. None of it forces me to disobey God.
All kinds of tests come to God's people throughout life. Two thousand years ago the leaders told the disciples to shut up about Yeshua, their supposed Messiah. Christ said, proclaim the good news everywhere. The choice? "We must obey God, rather than men." The Romans declared all citizens in the empire had to place some incense in a burning bowl entering or leaving a province or town or city or some building as an offering to a pagan deity. The Law of God says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Christians and many Jews refused to comply and were sent to camps for punishment or to death for the entertainment of Romans in their arenas.
Deity is not even an issue with today's controllers. They are all humanist atheists as far as I am aware. They don't care about God. To them religion is a weakness. They know by observance most professed Christians will do whatever they are told, especially when it is proposed to be something good and helpful for mankind. They know professed Christians can be quite naive and gullible. The controllers are not the Communist Chinese. They do not use armies to control people. They use deceit through technology and proposals for human advancement: inducements to convenience. Humanity loves convenience. One central bank for one central currency for one new world order makes sense to billions of people. Stop wars, stop disease, stop poverty, stop whatever and have a utopia based on everybody owning nothing but, having everything at their disposal and everybody is happy. What, in such a proposal is against the commandments of God? Think it through.
Every chapter in the book of Daniel addresses, in some way, the law of God and obedience to it. Revelation mentions the commandments of God over and over, beginning to end. The Law of God shall be a central component of last-day events. An attack on the Law of God by a false religious entity is central to the Devil's plan for control in the war between good and evil. Remove those two central elements and everything else becomes a side show, a distraction, a ruse to keep people unaware of what is actually happening and shall take place. Futurism is one of those distractions.
Sleight of hand, distractions are the magician's way of handling cards, balls, any device or item used in tricks; to keep an audience from seeing what is actually taking place. You saw someone in half by placing two bodies in small containment quarters. Everything is some kind of trick. Today, it has become apparent that supernatural aid comes into play from the father of lies and his host of fallen angels. The closer we get to the end, the more Satan will use the supernatural to deceive. The U.N., Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Klaus Schwab, all of them, though tools of Satan, propose no worship of themselves as deity or that they are in the place of deity, which is what antichrist means - in place of Christ. These tools say nothing about the supernatural. If anything, it all about the joining of humanity with technology; something very earthly and man-made. Antichrist proclaims supernatural occurrence as testimony to God's approbation. God is with antichrist because of supernatural events. Major case in point; the events of our Lady of Fatima, one of many "miracles" Rome claims as her banner of being the only true church.
If professed Christians will not use some common sense, logic and spiritual discernment they will be deceived and left unprepared for the final events. They will find themselves fighting against God, under delusions, and the fault will lie at their own doors for believing lies in a piecemeal hodgepodge of Futurism's broken wheel of prophetic events, not the least of which is the secret rapture; which has missed happening for as long as Christians have prosed it should have taken place by now. They don't pick dates anymore. Too many failures. They just claim it could be anytime, any moment when that is complete and utter nonsense in the greater scene of last-day events yet to happen that Christians will go through. Christians are not saved from persecution. They are sustained in persecution. "All they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
All that can be stated is believers must "study to show themselves approved unto God; workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
Watch. Pray. Prepare. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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World News Ignored
I have believed, all my adult life, that Joe Biden is a political gangster, for all intents and purposes; a totally untrustworthy man. Every time he was in the news, just listening to him gave me the creeps and I knew next to nothing about national political affairs. The guy exudes corruption. No, he's no worse than any other sinner in need of the Savior. But all the rest of us have not been in a controlling position of responsibility in American governance for 50 years of their lives.
Right now, if the world is reading actual, worthy news, being ignored by American corporate controlled media, they know all the rumors, then exposed evidence and now facts proving Joe Biden took money from the Communist Chinese in deals he brokered for his son and brother in their Biden crime family. The President of the United States of America, the world's first superpower, the nation of freedom and liberty the world wants to get into, and is now doing so, illegally, by the thousands every single day across our Southern border, helped by criminal Joe Biden to do so, is shown to be a traitor, a literal traitor. The world knows. The man can hardly walk straight line or finish a logical sentence anymore. He is mentally impaired and everybody watching the man knows it yet, is that the reason this criminal is not being impeached? Do they feel sorry for him and therefore, his crimes should be ignored while they pounce on every single thing they can find or make up about Donald Trump?
I do not expect Trump to be elected president in 2024. Too much corruption to keep him out. He should be. He should be in the White House now and what a different world this might be but no, Biden, involved in exposed treasonous behavior, sits in the most powerful seat in America, while Trump deals with nonsensical charges of election interference. Certainly Hollywood must make a movie of this some day. It is unlike any story in American history. One would think it's a sketch from a comedy program, a satire. It cannot possibly be true. Yet, it is.
The United States Federal government and its agencies are so corrupt, so negligent, so nefarious it should make Americans outraged to an extent never seen since breaking away from England and declaring Independence from British tyranny 247 years ago.
The entire world knows Joe Biden is a criminal. In America, he gets to be president.
What an unbelievable display of barnyard defecation.
Right now, if the world is reading actual, worthy news, being ignored by American corporate controlled media, they know all the rumors, then exposed evidence and now facts proving Joe Biden took money from the Communist Chinese in deals he brokered for his son and brother in their Biden crime family. The President of the United States of America, the world's first superpower, the nation of freedom and liberty the world wants to get into, and is now doing so, illegally, by the thousands every single day across our Southern border, helped by criminal Joe Biden to do so, is shown to be a traitor, a literal traitor. The world knows. The man can hardly walk straight line or finish a logical sentence anymore. He is mentally impaired and everybody watching the man knows it yet, is that the reason this criminal is not being impeached? Do they feel sorry for him and therefore, his crimes should be ignored while they pounce on every single thing they can find or make up about Donald Trump?
I do not expect Trump to be elected president in 2024. Too much corruption to keep him out. He should be. He should be in the White House now and what a different world this might be but no, Biden, involved in exposed treasonous behavior, sits in the most powerful seat in America, while Trump deals with nonsensical charges of election interference. Certainly Hollywood must make a movie of this some day. It is unlike any story in American history. One would think it's a sketch from a comedy program, a satire. It cannot possibly be true. Yet, it is.
The United States Federal government and its agencies are so corrupt, so negligent, so nefarious it should make Americans outraged to an extent never seen since breaking away from England and declaring Independence from British tyranny 247 years ago.
The entire world knows Joe Biden is a criminal. In America, he gets to be president.
What an unbelievable display of barnyard defecation.
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868. A Mournful Journey - November 10, 2023
Yesterday, I had a conversation with a couple neighboring family members who lost their son/grandson in a tragic accident. This family has suffered more tragedy and loss and misfortune than any family I have known. It's a dumbfounding list and string of events that just takes your breath away.
Even at that, I am reminded there is always a family that is worse off; always another person worse off than our own circumstances drop us into. Even though true, that isn't much comfort when sorrow comes. It is also short on comfort to know the time shall come when all sorrow and tears and pain shall be wiped away. It is called hope and hope is important to have. That's why the return of Christ is called the Blessed Hope. He came, lived, died, rose and now ministers His grace and strength and peace and courage to us as High Priest in the services taking place in the Heavenly Sanctuary. One cannot imagine how busy Heaven is, as humanity gets larger and along with that; pain and suffering. Angels, called ministering spirits, wing their way, in some kind of supernatural, travel by speed of thought, protecting and guiding God's people around the globe; while doing battle with forces of evil we cannot see or hear; in a war more intense and real than any armed conflict on Earth. In the horrors of earthly, physical war, especially modern war, suffering is created that is mind-numbing. We can believe and accept, by faith, that God's Word is true and someday He shall make all things right but, the realities of life can be extremely difficult to bear.
In talking with these neighbors, as they asked questions of Why?, I felt so limited inside. The Bible, with all its promises and information on life and death, remains vastly empty of answers when the loss of a loved one, especially in their young age, takes place. In such inner turmoil people are going through, I have often gone to the book of Isaiah, chapter 57, verses 1 and 2:
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.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
If the evil perish, it is often considered justice. It may still be an acutely felt loss for family members but, general society sees such death as a finality society needed to bring peace and a semblance of normality back to life. When the righteous, the honest, the helpful die, especially when young, it creates a void no one understands. Why take away people that make society better? The hateful live on and the merciful die young? How can that possibly be fair? It isn't fair. Life is not fair. Life has never been fair since Adam and Eve fell. We live in a fallen world, not a perfect one. We survive in this world. There may be moments of thriving but, for most of humanity, life is a struggle. Too many questions, not enough answers. Life is hard.
Yet, in the passage, an answer that can change the way we look at things exists. People don't stop to consider that when the righteous are taken away, maybe they are taken away from evil to come: things much worse than what took them in death. We cannot see past this day, this hour, this moment. God sees everything, including what will come. In mercy He allows death to strike when life should be flowering in fruitful strength because He knows what will come for someone would be far more painful for them and thereby far more painful then death. Humans do learn that there can be things worse than death; far worse.
How many would trade places with a child in pain and suffering? How many long to see the fight against a terminal illness finally over? In all his sufferings, Job yearned for the grave, the dusty bed all humanity will someday enter. He longed for the peace of sleep. The Bible calls death a sleep, a temporary cessation of life because some day a resurrection and waking to new life, eternal life, shall come; and to those sleeping in death it shall seem but the blink of an eye has taken place; just a moment of time has passed, when it might have been thousands of years on calendars.
Isaiah wrote that the righteous die and enter into peace, "sleeping" in the death of their beds in the earth, just as God told Adam. He was created from the dirt and he would return to the dirt again. Before the use of concrete boxes coffins are lowered into, all graves would succumb to the earth again. Everything organically brought back to the earth man was made from and God knows every, single molecule, of every single person ever born and where every single molecule resides. Ashes scattered, oceans covered and drifted about in currents; regardless of the circumstances and events, on resurrection morning the Creator shall pull together every single molecule, each and every atom and recreate the righteous into eternally youthful creatures fresh from God's mind and power, and a joy and excitement shall be experienced by the reuniting of families, never felt before; never dreamed possible.
God says He sees His righteous ones "walking in their uprightness." We all have memories of loved ones as they lived with us. God sees the righteous as still living. In the mind of God time is not a restriction. God exists in past, present and future. It is beyond our comprehension and understanding. God is eternal; always has been, always shall be. He sees everything in the present. The capacity for the Creator to think, to perceive, to see is greater than an infinite number of supercomputers. He sees the end of the righteous existing in eternal life, while time passes slowly for us. He sees their eternal joy; the reward of living in upright obedience to God's will.
Grace is power. God's character in us is power to continue on in a world so broken it becomes more and more difficult to understand. Made in God's image, man's inhumanity to man continues to stun us and the righteous of all ages seemingly cry out from their graves, 'How long, O Lord? How long?'
1Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Cor 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1Cor 15:24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Cor 15:25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
1Cor 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
I am reaching the shores of sunset years now. I cannot say I feel different than when I was 29 and it is 40 years later. Where did a lifetime go? Memories. For God, He sees me in eternal existence. If I fight the good fight; if I stay connected to the Vine; if I keep marching even though body and mind are so tired, worn and weary one more step feels like the last; God sees us in the eternal youth His grace has in store for each of us who love Him and desire to live with Him for eternity.
I pray for my neighboring family. It has been a very mournful journey for them. May God's peace and grace and hope be ever more real for them as they continue on without the presence of their lost one. May they be reunited again in joy, very soon.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Even at that, I am reminded there is always a family that is worse off; always another person worse off than our own circumstances drop us into. Even though true, that isn't much comfort when sorrow comes. It is also short on comfort to know the time shall come when all sorrow and tears and pain shall be wiped away. It is called hope and hope is important to have. That's why the return of Christ is called the Blessed Hope. He came, lived, died, rose and now ministers His grace and strength and peace and courage to us as High Priest in the services taking place in the Heavenly Sanctuary. One cannot imagine how busy Heaven is, as humanity gets larger and along with that; pain and suffering. Angels, called ministering spirits, wing their way, in some kind of supernatural, travel by speed of thought, protecting and guiding God's people around the globe; while doing battle with forces of evil we cannot see or hear; in a war more intense and real than any armed conflict on Earth. In the horrors of earthly, physical war, especially modern war, suffering is created that is mind-numbing. We can believe and accept, by faith, that God's Word is true and someday He shall make all things right but, the realities of life can be extremely difficult to bear.
In talking with these neighbors, as they asked questions of Why?, I felt so limited inside. The Bible, with all its promises and information on life and death, remains vastly empty of answers when the loss of a loved one, especially in their young age, takes place. In such inner turmoil people are going through, I have often gone to the book of Isaiah, chapter 57, verses 1 and 2:
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.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
If the evil perish, it is often considered justice. It may still be an acutely felt loss for family members but, general society sees such death as a finality society needed to bring peace and a semblance of normality back to life. When the righteous, the honest, the helpful die, especially when young, it creates a void no one understands. Why take away people that make society better? The hateful live on and the merciful die young? How can that possibly be fair? It isn't fair. Life is not fair. Life has never been fair since Adam and Eve fell. We live in a fallen world, not a perfect one. We survive in this world. There may be moments of thriving but, for most of humanity, life is a struggle. Too many questions, not enough answers. Life is hard.
Yet, in the passage, an answer that can change the way we look at things exists. People don't stop to consider that when the righteous are taken away, maybe they are taken away from evil to come: things much worse than what took them in death. We cannot see past this day, this hour, this moment. God sees everything, including what will come. In mercy He allows death to strike when life should be flowering in fruitful strength because He knows what will come for someone would be far more painful for them and thereby far more painful then death. Humans do learn that there can be things worse than death; far worse.
How many would trade places with a child in pain and suffering? How many long to see the fight against a terminal illness finally over? In all his sufferings, Job yearned for the grave, the dusty bed all humanity will someday enter. He longed for the peace of sleep. The Bible calls death a sleep, a temporary cessation of life because some day a resurrection and waking to new life, eternal life, shall come; and to those sleeping in death it shall seem but the blink of an eye has taken place; just a moment of time has passed, when it might have been thousands of years on calendars.
Isaiah wrote that the righteous die and enter into peace, "sleeping" in the death of their beds in the earth, just as God told Adam. He was created from the dirt and he would return to the dirt again. Before the use of concrete boxes coffins are lowered into, all graves would succumb to the earth again. Everything organically brought back to the earth man was made from and God knows every, single molecule, of every single person ever born and where every single molecule resides. Ashes scattered, oceans covered and drifted about in currents; regardless of the circumstances and events, on resurrection morning the Creator shall pull together every single molecule, each and every atom and recreate the righteous into eternally youthful creatures fresh from God's mind and power, and a joy and excitement shall be experienced by the reuniting of families, never felt before; never dreamed possible.
God says He sees His righteous ones "walking in their uprightness." We all have memories of loved ones as they lived with us. God sees the righteous as still living. In the mind of God time is not a restriction. God exists in past, present and future. It is beyond our comprehension and understanding. God is eternal; always has been, always shall be. He sees everything in the present. The capacity for the Creator to think, to perceive, to see is greater than an infinite number of supercomputers. He sees the end of the righteous existing in eternal life, while time passes slowly for us. He sees their eternal joy; the reward of living in upright obedience to God's will.
Grace is power. God's character in us is power to continue on in a world so broken it becomes more and more difficult to understand. Made in God's image, man's inhumanity to man continues to stun us and the righteous of all ages seemingly cry out from their graves, 'How long, O Lord? How long?'
1Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Cor 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1Cor 15:24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Cor 15:25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
1Cor 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
I am reaching the shores of sunset years now. I cannot say I feel different than when I was 29 and it is 40 years later. Where did a lifetime go? Memories. For God, He sees me in eternal existence. If I fight the good fight; if I stay connected to the Vine; if I keep marching even though body and mind are so tired, worn and weary one more step feels like the last; God sees us in the eternal youth His grace has in store for each of us who love Him and desire to live with Him for eternity.
I pray for my neighboring family. It has been a very mournful journey for them. May God's peace and grace and hope be ever more real for them as they continue on without the presence of their lost one. May they be reunited again in joy, very soon.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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869. Was Jesus an Evolutionist? - November 11, 2023
I believe that's a fair question. Materialists, Naturalists, Macro-Evolutionists want us to believe that everything came from nothing; a cosmic burp of some kind: a tiny dot a matter expanded into the vast universe we remain so ignorant of today. Cosmologists, as I have shown many times here, use "evospeak" when explaining things in our universe. Evospeak is my term for words showing scientists have less than complete knowledge of things they claim and comment upon, as though what they claim is written in stone about time, space and matter. If you visit here often, you have seen my list of terms I have seen used over and over again in articles explaining... well, everything.
"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, etc., with the word "quite" placed before some of these words, quite often."
Those words imply a tremendous amount of faith, not fact.
Scientists often claim their realm cannot really get into religion, faith and deity. You cannot observe and test and repeat concepts of God. Of course, the exact same thing can be stated about the Big Bang. Science cannot repeat it, nor can they test it from that perspective and nobody was there to observe it to begin with. Assumptions are made through various forensic methods, and that's fine. Forensics still have to go before a judge and jury in a trial. The Materialist will claim, indeed, that is the process of peer reviewed papers and books. Yet in the matter of origins, the growing number of biologists and others in science, who deny Darwinism is the correct answer for life, are treated as fools and enemies of the faith.
So, I leave secularism behind. It has no place in my life to answer life's important questions and serious situations that arise. Arithmetic on a blackboard cannot answer pressing inquiry into making important decisions in life that have moral consequences. Evospeak cannot offer comfort in war, any kind of war, physical, spiritual or otherwise. Other than science coming up with ideas for destroying life in war, it cannot solve war and why they develop nor, how they end. The atom bomb did not stop WW2. Humans made a decision to stop fighting based on the destructive power of that bomb and what nation had that power in hand.
So, to those in religion who believe God is an Evolutionist, we must ask the question, 'Was Jesus Christ, the Messiah, God with us, the great I AM an evolutionist?' What does the Bible say?
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
In speaking about events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem, Christ taught an essential truth. He stated His own belief in creation and that God created time and matter. And you should notice something that connects to that verse, found in Matthew's Gospel -
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
God made the Sabbath for mankind (Mark 2:27,28), to be a blessing of peace and reflection on God's creation, His creative power, and thereby His power to recreate a person in being born-again. The Sabbath was not made for man to flee danger upon. Christ told His disciples to pray that when Jerusalem was encompassed with armies, pray it not be in winter, an obvious time you do not want to be caught in, and neither on the seventh-day of week, God's fourth commandment; His day of remembrance of creation, and His provided peace and rest from six days of labor and work every week of our lives. Do not miss the point. The Sabbath is a memorial of CREATION, not evolution over eons of time. It is a memorial of this biblical fact -
Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalm 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
The Creator spoke everything into existence. The Sabbath is a memorial of the Creator speaking things into existence and everything stood fast; was in it's place, and to this day orbits are so concise you can run a clock off it all; which is done. The same people who say we must trust them and the mathematics they come up with about the Big Bang, also use the movement of the heavenly bodies to put their mathematics on a board! Do they have any kind of answer for the question how such precise movement can develop out of chaos? They claim it is all gravity. Claiming gas and gravity made the first star is a claim other cosmologists have stood against in flat-out defiance as nothing more than a wish. What does the Bible state?
Col 1:15 Who [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn [most important] of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
That is one of the most incredible passages of Scripture in the whole Bible; in the whole universe.
Christ is God. Christ is Creator God. He stepped forward for the Heavenly Trio and created everything by speaking it all into existence and, AND by Him all things consist - hold together. Jesus Christ is gravity; is all the forces and constants and parameters of space, time and matter. The truth of this is so extreme, so huge, so phenomenal humans can only accept it by faith. It cannot be conceptualized into any form of reality we experience. We cannot speak a pencil point into existence. The vastness of the universe; it boundaries still unknown, is under the constant control of the Savior of mankind. The Creator of all came to this speck of dust in His universe to save us from the power and penalty of sin; fallen creatures that we are. Why? Why become a man, subject to the temptations, trials and hatred of mankind? God died for mankind? The Creator died for you and for me? Yes. He gave His life in the darkness of the second death, which no one resurrects from. Why? Why do this for a dot in the universe and its inhabitants? Love. Astounding, incomprehensible love. Agape' in the Greek: a pure form of allegiance and connection to something or someone. Agapao is a form of love that transcends parental, brotherly, sexual intimacy and connection between husband and wife. It is the highest form of love there can be.
Everything hinges on creation. The Gospel hinges on the truth of God creating the universe, creating life, and becoming human life to save humanity through the creation act of being born-again; spiritual re-creation, which Christ said MUST happen to each of us to be able to see and enter His kingdom. "[We] must be born again," John 3:7. That is NOT an act of evolution. That is an act of creation, re-creation, newness of life - old things passed away, all things become new, 2 Cor. 5:17.
Theistic evolutionists, however sincere, cannot bridge this truth with long ages of time. When humans are born-again, it is an act of Divinity to re-create someone's mind, someone's thoughts and feelings about God and their fellowman. No human can change another person's character. That is an act of God. That is why Christ said we cannot judge a person's character, or their motives deep inside them. Sins we must judge in righteous judgement, John 7:24. Character? We cannot change it, therefore we cannot judge it. Only God can, because He can re-create someone's character and motives. Unless they tell us, we cannot know a person's motives. God knows. God can change them, in their mind; in their deepest thoughts and we read of it happening every day. Somewhere in the world a person is born-again and taken from the darkest forms of evil known to man and put on a new pathway of light and love. It is a miracle; a creative miracle: not some kind of accident over time. It is not a mutation of anything. It is not selective by any natural means. It is directed, designed and created by the Infinite Mind. It is the highest form of existence a human being can experience this side of eternity.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
When Christ spoke of creation, He spoke of His own work before He became a Babe in the womb of Mary. Think of the consequences of that. He became a human, like that which He created, and not just a human. The Bible states He came with the nature of mankind AFTER the fall; not the nature of Adam and Eve before their fall -
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
One of the greatest theological statements and concepts ever penned is found in that passage. God sent His Son in the likeness of SINFUL flesh, a fallen human nature. He came with the nature of His Heavenly Father and the nature of His fallen, earthly Mother, and in that nature gained the victory over every thought, every word, every action to disobey that came into His life: tempted in all points like as we are yet, without sin. And He offers this recreation to us, that we can live a life of victory over the sins that so easily beset us.
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.
There is no other religion on Earth with a framework like Christianity. All it involves. All it hinges on. All that was and is at stake. All that can be comprehended is found in the religion of the God of the Bible.
Iesou Christos was no evolutionist. He believed in a six-day creation and a rest on the seventh-day because HE made it all and made it that way for a very distinct purpose in expanding our minds to what the battle of good and evil is all about. It is about God's authority, God's commandments, Gods kingdom and the fate of the entire universe.
Lucifer challenged the Creator. He rebelled. Chaos became reality. What would God do to bring things back to peace and harmony? Implement the plan of salvation and the re-creation of those fallen from grace, if they will choose it.
Jesus Christ, the firstborn of all creation, again, meaning the preeminent Person in all creation, is our Creator and believed in fiat creation; not millions, not billions of years to make this world and its lifeforms. Far from it. He just spoke, and the elements under His control came into being and this world was formed and life spoken out of it. No primordial soup. No lightning strike on a hot pool of random chemicals. THAT is a story requiring more faith to believe in then God creating everything by thinking and speaking it into existence. At least that has some form and logic. An accidental lightning strike on an accidental pool of accidental chemicals on an accidental planet made in an accidental universe from some accidental big bang? Oh, man. What a story. But, you see, it keeps us from having to be born-again, changed, made righteous by a Creator desiring to save us from sin and from ourselves: our egos, our self, our confusion, our pomp and pride and from the worst fate of all - death.
Christ was a creationist. You cannot weave any displacement of Scripture to prove otherwise, lest you dismantle the entire premise of the war in Heaven, the war on Earth, and the plan of salvation to save mankind from itself.
Creation is not science. It is far, far more than science. It is far greater than science. The science of salvation is necessary for every human being on Earth. Equations on a blackboard? Not so much. Science has its place. Taking the place of the Creator? No. That is folly in the extreme.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"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, etc., with the word "quite" placed before some of these words, quite often."
Those words imply a tremendous amount of faith, not fact.
Scientists often claim their realm cannot really get into religion, faith and deity. You cannot observe and test and repeat concepts of God. Of course, the exact same thing can be stated about the Big Bang. Science cannot repeat it, nor can they test it from that perspective and nobody was there to observe it to begin with. Assumptions are made through various forensic methods, and that's fine. Forensics still have to go before a judge and jury in a trial. The Materialist will claim, indeed, that is the process of peer reviewed papers and books. Yet in the matter of origins, the growing number of biologists and others in science, who deny Darwinism is the correct answer for life, are treated as fools and enemies of the faith.
So, I leave secularism behind. It has no place in my life to answer life's important questions and serious situations that arise. Arithmetic on a blackboard cannot answer pressing inquiry into making important decisions in life that have moral consequences. Evospeak cannot offer comfort in war, any kind of war, physical, spiritual or otherwise. Other than science coming up with ideas for destroying life in war, it cannot solve war and why they develop nor, how they end. The atom bomb did not stop WW2. Humans made a decision to stop fighting based on the destructive power of that bomb and what nation had that power in hand.
So, to those in religion who believe God is an Evolutionist, we must ask the question, 'Was Jesus Christ, the Messiah, God with us, the great I AM an evolutionist?' What does the Bible say?
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
In speaking about events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem, Christ taught an essential truth. He stated His own belief in creation and that God created time and matter. And you should notice something that connects to that verse, found in Matthew's Gospel -
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
God made the Sabbath for mankind (Mark 2:27,28), to be a blessing of peace and reflection on God's creation, His creative power, and thereby His power to recreate a person in being born-again. The Sabbath was not made for man to flee danger upon. Christ told His disciples to pray that when Jerusalem was encompassed with armies, pray it not be in winter, an obvious time you do not want to be caught in, and neither on the seventh-day of week, God's fourth commandment; His day of remembrance of creation, and His provided peace and rest from six days of labor and work every week of our lives. Do not miss the point. The Sabbath is a memorial of CREATION, not evolution over eons of time. It is a memorial of this biblical fact -
Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalm 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
The Creator spoke everything into existence. The Sabbath is a memorial of the Creator speaking things into existence and everything stood fast; was in it's place, and to this day orbits are so concise you can run a clock off it all; which is done. The same people who say we must trust them and the mathematics they come up with about the Big Bang, also use the movement of the heavenly bodies to put their mathematics on a board! Do they have any kind of answer for the question how such precise movement can develop out of chaos? They claim it is all gravity. Claiming gas and gravity made the first star is a claim other cosmologists have stood against in flat-out defiance as nothing more than a wish. What does the Bible state?
Col 1:15 Who [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn [most important] of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
That is one of the most incredible passages of Scripture in the whole Bible; in the whole universe.
Christ is God. Christ is Creator God. He stepped forward for the Heavenly Trio and created everything by speaking it all into existence and, AND by Him all things consist - hold together. Jesus Christ is gravity; is all the forces and constants and parameters of space, time and matter. The truth of this is so extreme, so huge, so phenomenal humans can only accept it by faith. It cannot be conceptualized into any form of reality we experience. We cannot speak a pencil point into existence. The vastness of the universe; it boundaries still unknown, is under the constant control of the Savior of mankind. The Creator of all came to this speck of dust in His universe to save us from the power and penalty of sin; fallen creatures that we are. Why? Why become a man, subject to the temptations, trials and hatred of mankind? God died for mankind? The Creator died for you and for me? Yes. He gave His life in the darkness of the second death, which no one resurrects from. Why? Why do this for a dot in the universe and its inhabitants? Love. Astounding, incomprehensible love. Agape' in the Greek: a pure form of allegiance and connection to something or someone. Agapao is a form of love that transcends parental, brotherly, sexual intimacy and connection between husband and wife. It is the highest form of love there can be.
Everything hinges on creation. The Gospel hinges on the truth of God creating the universe, creating life, and becoming human life to save humanity through the creation act of being born-again; spiritual re-creation, which Christ said MUST happen to each of us to be able to see and enter His kingdom. "[We] must be born again," John 3:7. That is NOT an act of evolution. That is an act of creation, re-creation, newness of life - old things passed away, all things become new, 2 Cor. 5:17.
Theistic evolutionists, however sincere, cannot bridge this truth with long ages of time. When humans are born-again, it is an act of Divinity to re-create someone's mind, someone's thoughts and feelings about God and their fellowman. No human can change another person's character. That is an act of God. That is why Christ said we cannot judge a person's character, or their motives deep inside them. Sins we must judge in righteous judgement, John 7:24. Character? We cannot change it, therefore we cannot judge it. Only God can, because He can re-create someone's character and motives. Unless they tell us, we cannot know a person's motives. God knows. God can change them, in their mind; in their deepest thoughts and we read of it happening every day. Somewhere in the world a person is born-again and taken from the darkest forms of evil known to man and put on a new pathway of light and love. It is a miracle; a creative miracle: not some kind of accident over time. It is not a mutation of anything. It is not selective by any natural means. It is directed, designed and created by the Infinite Mind. It is the highest form of existence a human being can experience this side of eternity.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
When Christ spoke of creation, He spoke of His own work before He became a Babe in the womb of Mary. Think of the consequences of that. He became a human, like that which He created, and not just a human. The Bible states He came with the nature of mankind AFTER the fall; not the nature of Adam and Eve before their fall -
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
One of the greatest theological statements and concepts ever penned is found in that passage. God sent His Son in the likeness of SINFUL flesh, a fallen human nature. He came with the nature of His Heavenly Father and the nature of His fallen, earthly Mother, and in that nature gained the victory over every thought, every word, every action to disobey that came into His life: tempted in all points like as we are yet, without sin. And He offers this recreation to us, that we can live a life of victory over the sins that so easily beset us.
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.
There is no other religion on Earth with a framework like Christianity. All it involves. All it hinges on. All that was and is at stake. All that can be comprehended is found in the religion of the God of the Bible.
Iesou Christos was no evolutionist. He believed in a six-day creation and a rest on the seventh-day because HE made it all and made it that way for a very distinct purpose in expanding our minds to what the battle of good and evil is all about. It is about God's authority, God's commandments, Gods kingdom and the fate of the entire universe.
Lucifer challenged the Creator. He rebelled. Chaos became reality. What would God do to bring things back to peace and harmony? Implement the plan of salvation and the re-creation of those fallen from grace, if they will choose it.
Jesus Christ, the firstborn of all creation, again, meaning the preeminent Person in all creation, is our Creator and believed in fiat creation; not millions, not billions of years to make this world and its lifeforms. Far from it. He just spoke, and the elements under His control came into being and this world was formed and life spoken out of it. No primordial soup. No lightning strike on a hot pool of random chemicals. THAT is a story requiring more faith to believe in then God creating everything by thinking and speaking it into existence. At least that has some form and logic. An accidental lightning strike on an accidental pool of accidental chemicals on an accidental planet made in an accidental universe from some accidental big bang? Oh, man. What a story. But, you see, it keeps us from having to be born-again, changed, made righteous by a Creator desiring to save us from sin and from ourselves: our egos, our self, our confusion, our pomp and pride and from the worst fate of all - death.
Christ was a creationist. You cannot weave any displacement of Scripture to prove otherwise, lest you dismantle the entire premise of the war in Heaven, the war on Earth, and the plan of salvation to save mankind from itself.
Creation is not science. It is far, far more than science. It is far greater than science. The science of salvation is necessary for every human being on Earth. Equations on a blackboard? Not so much. Science has its place. Taking the place of the Creator? No. That is folly in the extreme.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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870. This Brings Up Another Question - 11/11/23
If Jesus Christ, Creator God, is obviously a creationist, why does Theistic-evolution exist?
Theistic-evolution is the belief, God used evolution in the process of making everything. God used tiny mutations, used errors in DNA code, to develop life into what we behold today. Genesis 1 is not literal history. It is poetry or allegory or metaphor. The same goes for other portions of Genesis. It places Moses in the position of being just an ignorant nomad of his times. Not his fault. Just the way it was. Please notice something -
"Theistic evolution, also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution, is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. It posits that the concept of God is compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution. The concept of theistic evolution includes a range of views about how science relates to religious beliefs and the extent to which God intervenes.0 It is one of three major origin-of-life worldviews, the other two being atheistic evolution (also known as Darwinian evolution and naturalistic evolution) and special creation. Versions of theistic evolution come somewhere between one of two extremes.1 The concept of theistic evolution makes God a bumbling, incompetent Creator and the author of death and suffering, calling into question the truth of God's Word and his character as an all-powerful, loving God.2"
What you are looking at there is just an A.I. collection of things written about Theistic evolution around the web. My web browser, Brave, utilizes this software. That last entry comes from the Answers in Genesis website.
The position that God acts through the laws of nature is only half true. God created the laws of nature and in the Bible directly acts well above them to get things done that He wants done. Genesis contains such events. The entire Bible contains such events.
Jesus did not take time to heal people. He consulted with no medical scientists of His day. There were no mutations that had to microscopically take place to heal other mutations making people sick, deformed or lunatic. Jesus spoke, Jesus touched, and people were healed. Entire villages were healed of the various diseases and maladies prevalent in that age, including leprosy.
Theistic evolutionists try and bridge a needless, unnecessary gap between fiat creation and endless ages of time and change. If people choose to disregard God and His Word, that is on them. That is their choice. They will have to live with those decisions to neglect or outright reject such great salvation -
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Christ spoke and raised up His church, His assembly of those called out of the world to stand on the platform of eternal truth. His disciples followed Him. Others followed them; God giving testimony and His own witness to this procession of faith by signs, wonders and miracles at the hands of these messengers. The gifts of the Holy Spirit were dispensed among the believers baptized in the Holy Spirit and the church grew, exponentially. You have to notice the obvious. A whole lot of supernatural stuff happened in Christ's life and ministry and those of His apostles and disciples. Four thousand years of miracles proceeded them. If professed Christians accept that, why entertain "science" from disbelievers; among which are many whose entire premise of science is to wipe out Christianity and all other religions, as well? How that can make sense to theistic evolutionists is truly beyond me and cannot be termed common sense. Materialist, naturalist evolutionists look upon Theistic evolutionists with pity. Both creationists and diehard evolutionists see Theistic evolutionists as a quagmire of problems with horns of dilemma all over the place.
Logically, the purpose of theistic evolution is to say, 'Hey, we don't have to believe exactly what the Bible literally teaches because science helps us to see the Bible in a different light. Some of it is literal. Some of it is poetic. Some of it is symbolic. The history of the earth and solar system and universe is in the symbolic category in Genesis. Days actually mean ages of time.'
So, Christ taught a literal Genesis. His people for thousands of years kept the fourth commandment based on the seventh-day of the literal week, after the literal six days of creation in that first week. And theosophy, regardless of how sincere, comes along and tells us materialist, naturalist, evolutionary science is correct and we must adhere to it, and look, here is how we can do it.
It logically seems to me, a compromise. A dangerous compromise.
Many atheists like to bring up Thomas Jefferson, noted early American statesman and author of the Declaration of Independence. He had his own Bible, as it were, where He took out all the miracles in the common Bible because He did not believe in miracles, all the supernatural events were erroneous to him. For him, logic and human discussion and decisions based on human knowledge were all that is necessary in life. The same kind of thing is what Benjamin Franklin believed and others in the era. No need to believe in miracles. Jesus taught great principles. Abide by them. Leave the miracles out of it.
Is Thomas Jefferson, great American as he was, my example in matters of faith and trust and belief in God, and my connection to Him? No. Many make the same types of claims for Isaac Newton and other luminaries in science who did not have a fundamentalist view of the Bible. So what? The only view that matters for each of us is the one we shall face God with on the day of judgement. What you believe has nothing to do with what I shall have to answer for when I stand at the judgment seat of Christ. What did Jesus Christ believe? What did He teach, comparing Scripture with Scripture? What does the history recorded in the Bible state He did? That is what matters.
Messiah was a creationist. Yeshua believed in the supernatural. He created new human anatomy in an instant. He raised dead humanity back to life. Do I believe it? Of course I do. Why? Because He recreated me, a former atheist; into someone who not only believes but, proclaims to others what I believe; when I would spend hours trying to get friends to disbelieve. What made this change? And it happened within a literal minute. A dramatic change swept over my entire being and changed me. Nobody could believe it. Not my parents, not my friends, not the guys in the band, nobody. I knew nobody who had such an experience save for the Bible worker who studied with me and people he fellowshipped with. Even the Bible worker was shocked at my change. Eleven days after I met him I was changed, in a moment; totally unaware of what happened to me until I read about being born again in a book the bible worker gave me to read. I gave my life to Jesus Christ, to God's care and direction, and I was born-again. It was a supernatural moment. A miracle. No such joy or peace or wholeness ever entered my mind or body such as happened that night. And it is what happened when God spoke the universe into existence and continues to speak people into new life in Christ. It is miraculous, supernatural power.
Why on Earth would God choose to "create" over billions of years? What is the point? God created everything without sin, meaning, without death. Theistic evolution has to grapple with death before mankind, before Adam and Eve - two very real human beings; not poetic characters in some Mosaic epic of beginnings - sinned and brought sorrow and death upon their offspring and all humankind, and all the rest of life, as well. A gargantuan moment, that means everything to the plan of salvation; when they covered themselves with leaves and God covered them with the skin of a dead sacrifice to save them from their sin: a token of the Lamb of God who would come and save them and the race, if they would choose to be saved. They looked forward by faith. His day looked at Him in front of them, as the Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." We look back, by faith, at the Lamb who came and taught, and showed how to live and provides miraculous power to do so because He raised from the tomb. In Divine power He conquered sin and death. He defeated Satan and his hosts. He is the living Victory for all who will believe in His miraculous power to save.
A day is a day, Yom, a 24-hour period in the context of Genesis 1. That is the natural reading of it. Am I being told by Theistic evolutionists I must now trust them to tell me how to understand what I am reading? Is that the path of salvation now? Is science and being a scientist one of the Holy Spirit's gifts to the church? Let us see -
Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;
Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.
Nothing about science in that list.
Eph 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Unity of the faith. Should we find it odd that Theistic evolution has caused great confusion and division in the body of Christ? Minds certainly greater than mine have written extensively on the errors of Theistic evolution and its confused teachers. No one wants to judge another believer's experience or profession of faith. If fruits are what we are to inspect, if righteous judgment exposes erroneous positions based on "science," not the Bible, what then can be done except to expose the errant and hope they open their eyes and repent? Even if creationists were totally wrong, God cannot judge us for reading the Bible just as it states something, in its own context. I believe what I read, in its context. God was there. God told us what He did and He did it in six days and rested the seventh. Why should I doubt that? Charles Darwin? Seriously? Biologos? Really? I see no gifts of being a scientist in that list in Ephesians 4.
1Cor 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1Co 12:2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.
1Co 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
1Co 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co 12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.
1Co 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1Co 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1Co 12:11 But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Why does Paul write the well-known warning of not being swerved by "science, falsely so-called," 1 Timothy 6:20? Modern translations state "false knowledge." There being no such thing as the gift of science or being a scientist, but, there is the gift of knowledge; talented or knowledgeable someone might be; we can know science and knowledge is under the authority of the Bible and the operations of Christ's body, His church; which He is the Head of. If He taught creation; if the disciples taught creation, all of His body should believe and teach creation, as well, and not come close to being swayed by anything called "science" or knowledge."
Especially is that important when every civilized nation on Earth has scientists who believe the planet shows signs of a planetary deluge, and even more: signs in the rocks of swift, almost instant creation. Creationists are all over the globe, even in China (though obviously they stay under the radar about that).
Design and creation are all around us. Christians cannot be blamed for those who refuse to see what is right in front of them, and they cannot blame Christians for using observance and common sense to believe everything has been created by a Creator. If they want to believe in cosmic and biological accidents, so be it. That makes everything an accident, which makes everything out of the reach of responsibility and accountability for actions, because, after all, humans are then just a bag of chemicals; not morally bound creatures. Humans are just accidents in a very long line of accidents not yet completed. More accidents are coming, say they. And Theistic evolutionists muddy the water by claiming God used accidents to make this world and everything in it.
I am not going to be swayed by "scientists" claiming we are all, literally, star dust. Give me a break. Nor are we dirt, just because Adam was created from it. We are creations that were made in the image and likeness of our Creator. Sin has marred that image, His character in mankind. A miracle of recreation brings it back to us. Though we may struggle because of battles between a re-created mind and temptations of the flesh, we can have the victory, and the day comes when Christ shall change it all, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet blast when He returns.
Why professed Christians would be affected or influenced by such premises of mutations and accidents to make everything is beyond all logic and common sense. If you state such accidents were not really accidents but, designs of God, you fall into a mud pit that leaves all common sense behind because almost 100% of mutations are harmful to DNA code and life. Just because a mutation can give a fly four wings, what good it is if the fly can no longer fly with them? But, deceptions abound. Delusions keep building. It is the last days. Lucifer does not care if you call yourself a Christian. He only cares about influencing and distracting people from following a plain Thus Saith The LORD that can truly impact society for Christ and obedience to His will. Millions of Christians are so in name only. The coming shaking and sifting; trials, harassment, oppression and world-wide persecution will reveal still more of those who profess Christ but, deny Him when the final test of allegiance and obedience is brought before the planet's population.
We must be born again. Being born-again is not an evolutionary process. Nor was the original creation. It was and is a supernatural act of the supernatural Deity who calls Himself the great I AM.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Theistic-evolution is the belief, God used evolution in the process of making everything. God used tiny mutations, used errors in DNA code, to develop life into what we behold today. Genesis 1 is not literal history. It is poetry or allegory or metaphor. The same goes for other portions of Genesis. It places Moses in the position of being just an ignorant nomad of his times. Not his fault. Just the way it was. Please notice something -
"Theistic evolution, also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution, is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. It posits that the concept of God is compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution. The concept of theistic evolution includes a range of views about how science relates to religious beliefs and the extent to which God intervenes.0 It is one of three major origin-of-life worldviews, the other two being atheistic evolution (also known as Darwinian evolution and naturalistic evolution) and special creation. Versions of theistic evolution come somewhere between one of two extremes.1 The concept of theistic evolution makes God a bumbling, incompetent Creator and the author of death and suffering, calling into question the truth of God's Word and his character as an all-powerful, loving God.2"
What you are looking at there is just an A.I. collection of things written about Theistic evolution around the web. My web browser, Brave, utilizes this software. That last entry comes from the Answers in Genesis website.
The position that God acts through the laws of nature is only half true. God created the laws of nature and in the Bible directly acts well above them to get things done that He wants done. Genesis contains such events. The entire Bible contains such events.
Jesus did not take time to heal people. He consulted with no medical scientists of His day. There were no mutations that had to microscopically take place to heal other mutations making people sick, deformed or lunatic. Jesus spoke, Jesus touched, and people were healed. Entire villages were healed of the various diseases and maladies prevalent in that age, including leprosy.
Theistic evolutionists try and bridge a needless, unnecessary gap between fiat creation and endless ages of time and change. If people choose to disregard God and His Word, that is on them. That is their choice. They will have to live with those decisions to neglect or outright reject such great salvation -
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Christ spoke and raised up His church, His assembly of those called out of the world to stand on the platform of eternal truth. His disciples followed Him. Others followed them; God giving testimony and His own witness to this procession of faith by signs, wonders and miracles at the hands of these messengers. The gifts of the Holy Spirit were dispensed among the believers baptized in the Holy Spirit and the church grew, exponentially. You have to notice the obvious. A whole lot of supernatural stuff happened in Christ's life and ministry and those of His apostles and disciples. Four thousand years of miracles proceeded them. If professed Christians accept that, why entertain "science" from disbelievers; among which are many whose entire premise of science is to wipe out Christianity and all other religions, as well? How that can make sense to theistic evolutionists is truly beyond me and cannot be termed common sense. Materialist, naturalist evolutionists look upon Theistic evolutionists with pity. Both creationists and diehard evolutionists see Theistic evolutionists as a quagmire of problems with horns of dilemma all over the place.
Logically, the purpose of theistic evolution is to say, 'Hey, we don't have to believe exactly what the Bible literally teaches because science helps us to see the Bible in a different light. Some of it is literal. Some of it is poetic. Some of it is symbolic. The history of the earth and solar system and universe is in the symbolic category in Genesis. Days actually mean ages of time.'
So, Christ taught a literal Genesis. His people for thousands of years kept the fourth commandment based on the seventh-day of the literal week, after the literal six days of creation in that first week. And theosophy, regardless of how sincere, comes along and tells us materialist, naturalist, evolutionary science is correct and we must adhere to it, and look, here is how we can do it.
It logically seems to me, a compromise. A dangerous compromise.
Many atheists like to bring up Thomas Jefferson, noted early American statesman and author of the Declaration of Independence. He had his own Bible, as it were, where He took out all the miracles in the common Bible because He did not believe in miracles, all the supernatural events were erroneous to him. For him, logic and human discussion and decisions based on human knowledge were all that is necessary in life. The same kind of thing is what Benjamin Franklin believed and others in the era. No need to believe in miracles. Jesus taught great principles. Abide by them. Leave the miracles out of it.
Is Thomas Jefferson, great American as he was, my example in matters of faith and trust and belief in God, and my connection to Him? No. Many make the same types of claims for Isaac Newton and other luminaries in science who did not have a fundamentalist view of the Bible. So what? The only view that matters for each of us is the one we shall face God with on the day of judgement. What you believe has nothing to do with what I shall have to answer for when I stand at the judgment seat of Christ. What did Jesus Christ believe? What did He teach, comparing Scripture with Scripture? What does the history recorded in the Bible state He did? That is what matters.
Messiah was a creationist. Yeshua believed in the supernatural. He created new human anatomy in an instant. He raised dead humanity back to life. Do I believe it? Of course I do. Why? Because He recreated me, a former atheist; into someone who not only believes but, proclaims to others what I believe; when I would spend hours trying to get friends to disbelieve. What made this change? And it happened within a literal minute. A dramatic change swept over my entire being and changed me. Nobody could believe it. Not my parents, not my friends, not the guys in the band, nobody. I knew nobody who had such an experience save for the Bible worker who studied with me and people he fellowshipped with. Even the Bible worker was shocked at my change. Eleven days after I met him I was changed, in a moment; totally unaware of what happened to me until I read about being born again in a book the bible worker gave me to read. I gave my life to Jesus Christ, to God's care and direction, and I was born-again. It was a supernatural moment. A miracle. No such joy or peace or wholeness ever entered my mind or body such as happened that night. And it is what happened when God spoke the universe into existence and continues to speak people into new life in Christ. It is miraculous, supernatural power.
Why on Earth would God choose to "create" over billions of years? What is the point? God created everything without sin, meaning, without death. Theistic evolution has to grapple with death before mankind, before Adam and Eve - two very real human beings; not poetic characters in some Mosaic epic of beginnings - sinned and brought sorrow and death upon their offspring and all humankind, and all the rest of life, as well. A gargantuan moment, that means everything to the plan of salvation; when they covered themselves with leaves and God covered them with the skin of a dead sacrifice to save them from their sin: a token of the Lamb of God who would come and save them and the race, if they would choose to be saved. They looked forward by faith. His day looked at Him in front of them, as the Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." We look back, by faith, at the Lamb who came and taught, and showed how to live and provides miraculous power to do so because He raised from the tomb. In Divine power He conquered sin and death. He defeated Satan and his hosts. He is the living Victory for all who will believe in His miraculous power to save.
A day is a day, Yom, a 24-hour period in the context of Genesis 1. That is the natural reading of it. Am I being told by Theistic evolutionists I must now trust them to tell me how to understand what I am reading? Is that the path of salvation now? Is science and being a scientist one of the Holy Spirit's gifts to the church? Let us see -
Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;
Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.
Nothing about science in that list.
Eph 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Unity of the faith. Should we find it odd that Theistic evolution has caused great confusion and division in the body of Christ? Minds certainly greater than mine have written extensively on the errors of Theistic evolution and its confused teachers. No one wants to judge another believer's experience or profession of faith. If fruits are what we are to inspect, if righteous judgment exposes erroneous positions based on "science," not the Bible, what then can be done except to expose the errant and hope they open their eyes and repent? Even if creationists were totally wrong, God cannot judge us for reading the Bible just as it states something, in its own context. I believe what I read, in its context. God was there. God told us what He did and He did it in six days and rested the seventh. Why should I doubt that? Charles Darwin? Seriously? Biologos? Really? I see no gifts of being a scientist in that list in Ephesians 4.
1Cor 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1Co 12:2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.
1Co 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
1Co 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co 12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.
1Co 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1Co 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1Co 12:11 But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Why does Paul write the well-known warning of not being swerved by "science, falsely so-called," 1 Timothy 6:20? Modern translations state "false knowledge." There being no such thing as the gift of science or being a scientist, but, there is the gift of knowledge; talented or knowledgeable someone might be; we can know science and knowledge is under the authority of the Bible and the operations of Christ's body, His church; which He is the Head of. If He taught creation; if the disciples taught creation, all of His body should believe and teach creation, as well, and not come close to being swayed by anything called "science" or knowledge."
Especially is that important when every civilized nation on Earth has scientists who believe the planet shows signs of a planetary deluge, and even more: signs in the rocks of swift, almost instant creation. Creationists are all over the globe, even in China (though obviously they stay under the radar about that).
Design and creation are all around us. Christians cannot be blamed for those who refuse to see what is right in front of them, and they cannot blame Christians for using observance and common sense to believe everything has been created by a Creator. If they want to believe in cosmic and biological accidents, so be it. That makes everything an accident, which makes everything out of the reach of responsibility and accountability for actions, because, after all, humans are then just a bag of chemicals; not morally bound creatures. Humans are just accidents in a very long line of accidents not yet completed. More accidents are coming, say they. And Theistic evolutionists muddy the water by claiming God used accidents to make this world and everything in it.
I am not going to be swayed by "scientists" claiming we are all, literally, star dust. Give me a break. Nor are we dirt, just because Adam was created from it. We are creations that were made in the image and likeness of our Creator. Sin has marred that image, His character in mankind. A miracle of recreation brings it back to us. Though we may struggle because of battles between a re-created mind and temptations of the flesh, we can have the victory, and the day comes when Christ shall change it all, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet blast when He returns.
Why professed Christians would be affected or influenced by such premises of mutations and accidents to make everything is beyond all logic and common sense. If you state such accidents were not really accidents but, designs of God, you fall into a mud pit that leaves all common sense behind because almost 100% of mutations are harmful to DNA code and life. Just because a mutation can give a fly four wings, what good it is if the fly can no longer fly with them? But, deceptions abound. Delusions keep building. It is the last days. Lucifer does not care if you call yourself a Christian. He only cares about influencing and distracting people from following a plain Thus Saith The LORD that can truly impact society for Christ and obedience to His will. Millions of Christians are so in name only. The coming shaking and sifting; trials, harassment, oppression and world-wide persecution will reveal still more of those who profess Christ but, deny Him when the final test of allegiance and obedience is brought before the planet's population.
We must be born again. Being born-again is not an evolutionary process. Nor was the original creation. It was and is a supernatural act of the supernatural Deity who calls Himself the great I AM.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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871. Is Creationism Science? - November 11, 2023
Let's ask another question. Is a belief in Creationism science? Is the theory of Intelligent Design science?
Ask these scientists about their position on things being intelligently designed -
youtu.be/cEps6lzWUKk
First, we should define 'science.' Once again, a small compendium of info brought forth by the A.I. system in the Brave web browser -
Summarizer
Science is a system of knowledge that involves the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.1 It involves unbiased observations and systematic experimentation, covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.3 Science is a way of asking questions about the natural world that can be answered through observations or experiences that can be replicated. Natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and social sciences, like economics, are all under the umbrella of science.0 Scientists use scientific practices to gather and interpret information.2
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britannica.com
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The first definition certainly meets the necessary criteria for Creationism and Intelligent Design. They all follow the same path to evidence everybody else does.
Hmm. #2 is suspicious. Unbiased? Creationism and ID are certainly biased but, so is Materialism, Naturalism, Big Bang cosmology and biologic evolution. Every branch of science exists within a worldview. Methodology may change one's worldview and bias but, everybody begins with one, whether or not they should or admit it. Nobody goes into any branch of science with a blank slate. All sides have adherents stating their minds were changed by looking at evidence in an unbiased way. They could not ignore the unvarnished truth the evidence presented. I have seen and/or heard people from all sides, change sides. How should we regard this?
Being unbiased is certainly the mature ideal. Many in the Creationist camp were atheists and Big Bang proponents. When confronted with evidence that ran contrary to their faith, and yes, all branches of origin science operate on faith because when it comes to origins, nobody was there to observe it and you cannot create origins in a lab: you cannot test it. You cannot place it in a methodology of current science. You cannot disprove creation by science. Science cannot prove beyond any doubt a Deity created the universe; not by using scientific methodology. You can certainly come up with a hypothesis based on evidence. Evidence is not scientific proof. You'll see why in a minute.
Consensus does not make something true, either. It just makes it acceptable to a majority. A majority can be wrong. History shows that easily enough. So, all the camps are weak when it comes to bias but, if they believe what they believe based on evidence, bias is just a natural conclusion that comes from the systems of science as humanity understands it and works within it.
Well, obviously anyone in all the main branches of origins science can ask questions. They can experiment about everything BUT 'everything from nothing.' You cannot replicate that belief in a laboratory. So, any creationist can be a scientist. Any proponent of Intelligent Design can be a scientist. Any adherent to Materialism can be a scientist UNTIL it comes to origins, based on the definition of science. Sorry. Good for the goose is good for the gander. No scientific fact can be established for any hypothesis of origins. That is why creationists do not attempt to use science to prove creation. They may see scientific evidence for its being a credible model for origins. The same applies to all others, as well. Creationists will use other aspects of knowledge to promote the absolute nature of creation and a Creator, such as logic and information. Until you get to replicating origins, anything is fair game, or should be, by the definition of science. A creationist, an ID proponent and a Naturalist can all study birds and draw scientific conclusions about them. Stating you have observable, repeatable laboratory facts as to their origins is a falsehood. Don't let anyone's bias alter that fact. When someone can make a cell and make a bird from it in a lab, then talk to me. Otherwise, let science tell us how birds fly, how they procreate, how they sing, how they socialize, whatever. How they came into being? That's another matter. Just because we can be challenged how a Platypus came into being, does not prove a Deity created it. I can believe it. Makes sense to me. Evidence shows it has no provable ancestors. Just the same, we can study it. If we cannot make one, we cannot lay claim to fact how it came into being. And even if you could create one, that does not mean your avenue of creation is the one that produced the first Platypus.
The fourth definition applies to all scientists under all umbrellas of bias, worldview and belief - outside of origins. Anybody involved in gathering and interpreting information... uh oh. Interpreting information? Hmm. Suspicious. "Scientists" interpret information in the context of their biases.
For instance, I watched an interview with a creationist, a geologist. That is his scientific field of study. He studies the Earth. In the interview he mentioned how another geologist took a sample rock of lava flow from Mount Saint Helens, Washington's infamous 1980 top blower; that rock being ten years old. He sent chunks of it to various labs for testing and dating. Much to his shock and surprise, current, modern dating methods placed the age of the pieces of rock at 200,000, 900,000 and 2.8 million years old! How can a ten year old rock be dated so ridiculously wrong? Well, the interviewed geologist got into all that; the less than perfected methods of dating things and the unfortunate bias that exists in laboratories world-wide.
Collecting data, gathering information is something all scientists in all branches can do, regardless of their beliefs in origins. Interpreting the data, the information is another matter altogether.
When Materialists state Creationists or ID proponents are not scientists they is blowing smoke. They are ignorant of something or they are lying and know better, based on accepted definitions of "science." They print falsehoods that they know are scientifically inaccurate in school textbooks at all levels of education. Their bias is truly scientific criminality. Scams. Negligence and immoral. At least a science book published by a creationist author or publishing house will state what they outright believe as a matter of faith and scientific hypothesis based on evidence. They do not try and remove the Bible from scientific investigation and discovery. They believe the Creator made science possible. The Creator made mathematics. The Creator made the mind. They consider removing Him and His Word from scientific investigation just as foolish as someone would be removing "The Art of the Deal," by Donald Trump, from a discussion about economics or removing Abner Doubleday from a discussion about baseball.
Incredibly biased and censorious, totalitarian scientists will go to any lengths to shut down any discussion of science promoted by Creationists or Intelligent Design proponents in institutions of learning when they, themselves are the greatest hypocrites alive when addressing the subject of science, based on acceptable definitions of what science is and does.
Don't be fooled by all their saber rattling. Just ask them, "Were you there to observe it? Can you replicate it in a lab? Then stand back. You have no stones to throw."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Addendum - These thoughts should be understood to not, in any way, encapsulate all people in any branch of science into the same mode of how they react to each other category. Not every scientist in every field thinks alike on these matters and if all truth were openly espoused, many in the Darwinian category would vocalize their disdain for the theory but, the more vocal protagonists that control salaries and positions have enough influence to keep thoughts of agreeance with any other possible model of origins, quiet.
I think of the 1980's and the Moral Majority organization. Not every voice in that organization had the character of Christ in their vibe. No, far more were like Pharisees and Sadducees, the very leaders of the enemies against Christ in the Jewish system. Let's face it. A rough, Roman centurion accepted Christ, while the Jewish leaders plotted to kill Him. At the same time, Joseph of Arimathaea, a wealthy Jewish counselor, was honest and honorable enough to believe in Messiah but, went secretly to Pilate to ask for His body because he feared the Jewish leaders. Joseph placed Christ in his own, new tomb. Many people are caught between rocks and hard places when it comes to standing up for an issue.
When the time is right, on any matter, the true rise and shine. Generally, because of circumstances, it is either that or shrink away in fear; a sign conversion to a matter has really not taken hold as truth. And Christ spoke of the four categories of people and only one bore the fruit of the Gospel in their lives. Of course many might say, "Oh, I believe creation is true. I believe Intelligent Design is valid. I just don't see it as a necessary battle to get into because I can practice science all day long, all week long, all month and all year long and never get anywhere near the subject with fellow scientists." It's just a matter of pragmatism for them.
Every onion has many layers. Humans are the same way.
Ask these scientists about their position on things being intelligently designed -
youtu.be/cEps6lzWUKk
First, we should define 'science.' Once again, a small compendium of info brought forth by the A.I. system in the Brave web browser -
Summarizer
Science is a system of knowledge that involves the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.1 It involves unbiased observations and systematic experimentation, covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.3 Science is a way of asking questions about the natural world that can be answered through observations or experiences that can be replicated. Natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and social sciences, like economics, are all under the umbrella of science.0 Scientists use scientific practices to gather and interpret information.2
su.se
0
sciencecouncil.org
1
generationgenius.com
2
britannica.com
3
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The first definition certainly meets the necessary criteria for Creationism and Intelligent Design. They all follow the same path to evidence everybody else does.
Hmm. #2 is suspicious. Unbiased? Creationism and ID are certainly biased but, so is Materialism, Naturalism, Big Bang cosmology and biologic evolution. Every branch of science exists within a worldview. Methodology may change one's worldview and bias but, everybody begins with one, whether or not they should or admit it. Nobody goes into any branch of science with a blank slate. All sides have adherents stating their minds were changed by looking at evidence in an unbiased way. They could not ignore the unvarnished truth the evidence presented. I have seen and/or heard people from all sides, change sides. How should we regard this?
Being unbiased is certainly the mature ideal. Many in the Creationist camp were atheists and Big Bang proponents. When confronted with evidence that ran contrary to their faith, and yes, all branches of origin science operate on faith because when it comes to origins, nobody was there to observe it and you cannot create origins in a lab: you cannot test it. You cannot place it in a methodology of current science. You cannot disprove creation by science. Science cannot prove beyond any doubt a Deity created the universe; not by using scientific methodology. You can certainly come up with a hypothesis based on evidence. Evidence is not scientific proof. You'll see why in a minute.
Consensus does not make something true, either. It just makes it acceptable to a majority. A majority can be wrong. History shows that easily enough. So, all the camps are weak when it comes to bias but, if they believe what they believe based on evidence, bias is just a natural conclusion that comes from the systems of science as humanity understands it and works within it.
Well, obviously anyone in all the main branches of origins science can ask questions. They can experiment about everything BUT 'everything from nothing.' You cannot replicate that belief in a laboratory. So, any creationist can be a scientist. Any proponent of Intelligent Design can be a scientist. Any adherent to Materialism can be a scientist UNTIL it comes to origins, based on the definition of science. Sorry. Good for the goose is good for the gander. No scientific fact can be established for any hypothesis of origins. That is why creationists do not attempt to use science to prove creation. They may see scientific evidence for its being a credible model for origins. The same applies to all others, as well. Creationists will use other aspects of knowledge to promote the absolute nature of creation and a Creator, such as logic and information. Until you get to replicating origins, anything is fair game, or should be, by the definition of science. A creationist, an ID proponent and a Naturalist can all study birds and draw scientific conclusions about them. Stating you have observable, repeatable laboratory facts as to their origins is a falsehood. Don't let anyone's bias alter that fact. When someone can make a cell and make a bird from it in a lab, then talk to me. Otherwise, let science tell us how birds fly, how they procreate, how they sing, how they socialize, whatever. How they came into being? That's another matter. Just because we can be challenged how a Platypus came into being, does not prove a Deity created it. I can believe it. Makes sense to me. Evidence shows it has no provable ancestors. Just the same, we can study it. If we cannot make one, we cannot lay claim to fact how it came into being. And even if you could create one, that does not mean your avenue of creation is the one that produced the first Platypus.
The fourth definition applies to all scientists under all umbrellas of bias, worldview and belief - outside of origins. Anybody involved in gathering and interpreting information... uh oh. Interpreting information? Hmm. Suspicious. "Scientists" interpret information in the context of their biases.
For instance, I watched an interview with a creationist, a geologist. That is his scientific field of study. He studies the Earth. In the interview he mentioned how another geologist took a sample rock of lava flow from Mount Saint Helens, Washington's infamous 1980 top blower; that rock being ten years old. He sent chunks of it to various labs for testing and dating. Much to his shock and surprise, current, modern dating methods placed the age of the pieces of rock at 200,000, 900,000 and 2.8 million years old! How can a ten year old rock be dated so ridiculously wrong? Well, the interviewed geologist got into all that; the less than perfected methods of dating things and the unfortunate bias that exists in laboratories world-wide.
Collecting data, gathering information is something all scientists in all branches can do, regardless of their beliefs in origins. Interpreting the data, the information is another matter altogether.
When Materialists state Creationists or ID proponents are not scientists they is blowing smoke. They are ignorant of something or they are lying and know better, based on accepted definitions of "science." They print falsehoods that they know are scientifically inaccurate in school textbooks at all levels of education. Their bias is truly scientific criminality. Scams. Negligence and immoral. At least a science book published by a creationist author or publishing house will state what they outright believe as a matter of faith and scientific hypothesis based on evidence. They do not try and remove the Bible from scientific investigation and discovery. They believe the Creator made science possible. The Creator made mathematics. The Creator made the mind. They consider removing Him and His Word from scientific investigation just as foolish as someone would be removing "The Art of the Deal," by Donald Trump, from a discussion about economics or removing Abner Doubleday from a discussion about baseball.
Incredibly biased and censorious, totalitarian scientists will go to any lengths to shut down any discussion of science promoted by Creationists or Intelligent Design proponents in institutions of learning when they, themselves are the greatest hypocrites alive when addressing the subject of science, based on acceptable definitions of what science is and does.
Don't be fooled by all their saber rattling. Just ask them, "Were you there to observe it? Can you replicate it in a lab? Then stand back. You have no stones to throw."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Addendum - These thoughts should be understood to not, in any way, encapsulate all people in any branch of science into the same mode of how they react to each other category. Not every scientist in every field thinks alike on these matters and if all truth were openly espoused, many in the Darwinian category would vocalize their disdain for the theory but, the more vocal protagonists that control salaries and positions have enough influence to keep thoughts of agreeance with any other possible model of origins, quiet.
I think of the 1980's and the Moral Majority organization. Not every voice in that organization had the character of Christ in their vibe. No, far more were like Pharisees and Sadducees, the very leaders of the enemies against Christ in the Jewish system. Let's face it. A rough, Roman centurion accepted Christ, while the Jewish leaders plotted to kill Him. At the same time, Joseph of Arimathaea, a wealthy Jewish counselor, was honest and honorable enough to believe in Messiah but, went secretly to Pilate to ask for His body because he feared the Jewish leaders. Joseph placed Christ in his own, new tomb. Many people are caught between rocks and hard places when it comes to standing up for an issue.
When the time is right, on any matter, the true rise and shine. Generally, because of circumstances, it is either that or shrink away in fear; a sign conversion to a matter has really not taken hold as truth. And Christ spoke of the four categories of people and only one bore the fruit of the Gospel in their lives. Of course many might say, "Oh, I believe creation is true. I believe Intelligent Design is valid. I just don't see it as a necessary battle to get into because I can practice science all day long, all week long, all month and all year long and never get anywhere near the subject with fellow scientists." It's just a matter of pragmatism for them.
Every onion has many layers. Humans are the same way.
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Iona
Iona is a progressive rock band from the 80s and 90's based in the UK. I had seen the name a few times over the years but, never heard the band. I thought I'd type in a search for Christian Progressive Rocks bands and see what came up. One of the hits was a playlist and one of the bands was Iona. I didn't know they are considered a "Christian" band. By that I mean, a message or lyrics with a Christian worldview. Whoever created the playlist believes so.
The song in the playlist was from a concert they played in a club in London. I hunted that down and the link is to that entire concert. The audience was very appreciative for their performance. I didn't hear anything that sounded biblical in nature until one song at the end got into some things from the Gospels and Christ's teaching. A good song, too. What I mostly heard was excellent music played by excellent musicians and songs sung by a lovely female with a wonderful, very pleasant voice, with some backup by the woodwind player.
What does Iona sound like? Oh, I believe I heard hints of Yes, a smoother sounding Gentle Giant, maybe some Kansas, certainly some Renaissance and Riverdance music, but, they have their own sound: a Celtic sound, with plenty of great, intricate Celtic-sounding riffs that will blow your mind.
Like GG, they are a multi-talented band. Was very surprised to see a drummer play violin. One of the guitarists plays Eulean pipes, which I love to hear. He also plays woodwinds. The lead also has stuff going on keyboards. Just a really enjoyable concert. If you are into UK Prog, Iona will satisfy some yearning for something a little different.
They are still active, though not as Iona. The website has all the pertinent info about the band members. It has seen quite a list of them over their years.
Check them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqdPOPS1zI
http://www.iona.uk.com/
The song in the playlist was from a concert they played in a club in London. I hunted that down and the link is to that entire concert. The audience was very appreciative for their performance. I didn't hear anything that sounded biblical in nature until one song at the end got into some things from the Gospels and Christ's teaching. A good song, too. What I mostly heard was excellent music played by excellent musicians and songs sung by a lovely female with a wonderful, very pleasant voice, with some backup by the woodwind player.
What does Iona sound like? Oh, I believe I heard hints of Yes, a smoother sounding Gentle Giant, maybe some Kansas, certainly some Renaissance and Riverdance music, but, they have their own sound: a Celtic sound, with plenty of great, intricate Celtic-sounding riffs that will blow your mind.
Like GG, they are a multi-talented band. Was very surprised to see a drummer play violin. One of the guitarists plays Eulean pipes, which I love to hear. He also plays woodwinds. The lead also has stuff going on keyboards. Just a really enjoyable concert. If you are into UK Prog, Iona will satisfy some yearning for something a little different.
They are still active, though not as Iona. The website has all the pertinent info about the band members. It has seen quite a list of them over their years.
Check them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqdPOPS1zI
http://www.iona.uk.com/
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And the Betrayal Begins
The corruption in Washington, D.C. knows no end.
For years questions have existed about Joe Biden, his son, brother and their international business interests. In the case of Joe Biden as Vice President such interests carry grave consequences if proven to be seen as federal crimes. Then came the 2020 election and Hunter Biden as father's Achille's heel. The msm stayed clear of investigating anything about the son and his business dealings and his father's activity in it all. Then the fiasco of the laptop from Hell, the FBI's burying the unit and its evidence of corruption.
Those investigators with zeal and principle continued looking into things and ultimately we learned what we already knew - Joe Biden is involved with a crime family - his; and has taken money from at least China, if not other other nations, and don't quote me there. For all I know the evidence is there that Biden has taken money from Ukraine and who knows who else. I don't follow this stuff like a 'political news junky' would.
Now I see stories everywhere that Mike Johnson, professed Christian with a biblical worldview; new Speaker of the House of Representatives, claims there is not enough evidence to impeach Joe Biden. ???
Maybe the headlines are wrong. Maybe Johnson has been misquoted or misunderstood. Happens all the time, as a rule, in D.C.
I doubt it.
You can imagine, or not, the astonishment and disgust in those researcher's hearts, who dug up all the evidence necessary, which they covered on their news sites for all the world to see and somehow, this information has flown past Johnson with nary a head turn from him.
You see, my friends. It is not a government of elected civil SERVANTS. It is a country club of businessmen and women (women? something in between? Who has the guts to say these days?), and everything is about money, status quo, and just keeping things the swamp and cesspool it is.
No, I have not read the articles with the Johnson headlines. I don't care. I have seen the evidence. He has no excuse. He has not only let the country down, he has defamed the Lord and Sovereign of the universe by allowing such a notion past his lips in the face of so much evidence of what the Biden crime family is, is not; what Washington, D.C. is and is not, I'd not have the nerve to show my face in public again. His profession of faith, which means truth and abiding by God's will and commandments, becomes weak and mushy and moot.
Do not tell me my disgust of the Federal government is wrong, in any way, as an American who loves his country and its Constitution and the principles of Americanism.
Johnson should be totally ashamed of himself. Maybe he is, and now has to keep face. Maybe he and his family have been threatened. No surprise there but, even with that; a Christian lives with a higher principle and covenant of loyalty to God over country and its mechanisms, however evil they may be. You tell the truth and leave the results with God. That is the Christian faith.
Johnson cooked his own rear end by making an issue of his Christian faith and biblical worldview. God cannot be pleased with such an endorsement. Better he never said a word about his faith or worldview at all, then to make it an issue and then waffle on its principles.
May God have mercy on his recalcitrance.
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Well, I decided to read one of those articles and it is actually worse than I thought. Johnson had things to say back in July, quoted in this article -
"This represents a major about-face from Johnson’s posture in July, when he claimed that evidence “proves” the Biden family is “hopelessly corrupt.”
“The evidence now shows — it proves — that the First Family is hopelessly corrupt. They’ve been involved in extortion, bribery schemes and tax fraud and incredible abuses of power,” Johnson said.
What, then, do we have here? An unprecedented 180. Just playing politics? Savvy head fakes and planning for the 2024 election? Or, just plain, old, typical GOP cowardice?
I hate politics because I cannot stand politicians. It is not governance. It's a game.
For years questions have existed about Joe Biden, his son, brother and their international business interests. In the case of Joe Biden as Vice President such interests carry grave consequences if proven to be seen as federal crimes. Then came the 2020 election and Hunter Biden as father's Achille's heel. The msm stayed clear of investigating anything about the son and his business dealings and his father's activity in it all. Then the fiasco of the laptop from Hell, the FBI's burying the unit and its evidence of corruption.
Those investigators with zeal and principle continued looking into things and ultimately we learned what we already knew - Joe Biden is involved with a crime family - his; and has taken money from at least China, if not other other nations, and don't quote me there. For all I know the evidence is there that Biden has taken money from Ukraine and who knows who else. I don't follow this stuff like a 'political news junky' would.
Now I see stories everywhere that Mike Johnson, professed Christian with a biblical worldview; new Speaker of the House of Representatives, claims there is not enough evidence to impeach Joe Biden. ???
Maybe the headlines are wrong. Maybe Johnson has been misquoted or misunderstood. Happens all the time, as a rule, in D.C.
I doubt it.
You can imagine, or not, the astonishment and disgust in those researcher's hearts, who dug up all the evidence necessary, which they covered on their news sites for all the world to see and somehow, this information has flown past Johnson with nary a head turn from him.
You see, my friends. It is not a government of elected civil SERVANTS. It is a country club of businessmen and women (women? something in between? Who has the guts to say these days?), and everything is about money, status quo, and just keeping things the swamp and cesspool it is.
No, I have not read the articles with the Johnson headlines. I don't care. I have seen the evidence. He has no excuse. He has not only let the country down, he has defamed the Lord and Sovereign of the universe by allowing such a notion past his lips in the face of so much evidence of what the Biden crime family is, is not; what Washington, D.C. is and is not, I'd not have the nerve to show my face in public again. His profession of faith, which means truth and abiding by God's will and commandments, becomes weak and mushy and moot.
Do not tell me my disgust of the Federal government is wrong, in any way, as an American who loves his country and its Constitution and the principles of Americanism.
Johnson should be totally ashamed of himself. Maybe he is, and now has to keep face. Maybe he and his family have been threatened. No surprise there but, even with that; a Christian lives with a higher principle and covenant of loyalty to God over country and its mechanisms, however evil they may be. You tell the truth and leave the results with God. That is the Christian faith.
Johnson cooked his own rear end by making an issue of his Christian faith and biblical worldview. God cannot be pleased with such an endorsement. Better he never said a word about his faith or worldview at all, then to make it an issue and then waffle on its principles.
May God have mercy on his recalcitrance.
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Well, I decided to read one of those articles and it is actually worse than I thought. Johnson had things to say back in July, quoted in this article -
"This represents a major about-face from Johnson’s posture in July, when he claimed that evidence “proves” the Biden family is “hopelessly corrupt.”
“The evidence now shows — it proves — that the First Family is hopelessly corrupt. They’ve been involved in extortion, bribery schemes and tax fraud and incredible abuses of power,” Johnson said.
What, then, do we have here? An unprecedented 180. Just playing politics? Savvy head fakes and planning for the 2024 election? Or, just plain, old, typical GOP cowardice?
I hate politics because I cannot stand politicians. It is not governance. It's a game.
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J6 Confinement
Just a headline and byline says it all -
"Absolute Torture": Jan. 6 Inmates Put Renewed Spotlight On Use Of Solitary Confinement
"The walls of the rooms had residue of human feces, bodily fluids, blood, dirt, and mold..."
Ask yourself how, in any possible scenario, people who just walked into the Capitol building, walked around and walked out, should be put through such a depraved, disgusting incarceration, without due process almost three years later? If Democrats held such an "insurrection" and people were placed in such incarceration, news would keep at it, 24/7 with every imaginable image placed before Americans. Patriots? Common, every day Americans, veterans, retired law enforcement, who love their country and hate the corruption? They get treated like animals and Reps in DC could care less.
Only enemies of America could do such a thing, and that is what the Federal government and its agencies have become. Our nation is run by despots no different than third world hellholes. Why? That's American's fault. They keep voting these pirates and scallywags into office. What does that say about them?
For me? Secession. It is the only answer. But Club D.C. will never allow it. Maybe some states will make it out before everything collapses. Maybe Texas will be one of them but, looking at Austin, I doubt it.
"Absolute Torture": Jan. 6 Inmates Put Renewed Spotlight On Use Of Solitary Confinement
"The walls of the rooms had residue of human feces, bodily fluids, blood, dirt, and mold..."
Ask yourself how, in any possible scenario, people who just walked into the Capitol building, walked around and walked out, should be put through such a depraved, disgusting incarceration, without due process almost three years later? If Democrats held such an "insurrection" and people were placed in such incarceration, news would keep at it, 24/7 with every imaginable image placed before Americans. Patriots? Common, every day Americans, veterans, retired law enforcement, who love their country and hate the corruption? They get treated like animals and Reps in DC could care less.
Only enemies of America could do such a thing, and that is what the Federal government and its agencies have become. Our nation is run by despots no different than third world hellholes. Why? That's American's fault. They keep voting these pirates and scallywags into office. What does that say about them?
For me? Secession. It is the only answer. But Club D.C. will never allow it. Maybe some states will make it out before everything collapses. Maybe Texas will be one of them but, looking at Austin, I doubt it.
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40% Believe in Divine Creation
I saw a new survey stating 40% of people surveyed believe humans were created, not part of an evolutionary, Darwinian tree; a descendant of some apelike creature, itself descended from a "common ancestor" of some kind.
news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx
Some people hail that as a good thing. I don't know. The number used to be much higher, obviously and it shows a descent of belief that turns humans into nothing more than animals made in the image and likeness of animals, which were made, by the accidents and purposelessness of natural selection and constant series of mutations, which is not yet finished; according to the voices of influence assured their belief system of everything from nothing - "naturally" - is true. That does not sound like a good place for society to be, in my observations of where humanity is today.
If you believe in an all powerful Deity, above the natural elements of the universe, who created those natural elements, everything from nothing may be hard to wrap your head around but, obviously doable for such an Entity. Everything from just nothing? As in no thing? Yeah, no. That's just plain nonsense to any reasonable logically thinking person with common sense. I have a hard time believing anyone with intelligence can believe such a thing just because they can put some equation on a chalkboard.
So, that means 60% of people surveyed do not have much common sense, logical, critical thinking or reasonable processing of information they are given. They just believe it because they have been told it's the truth by "scientists" who have it placed in school books, as well as all kinds of entertainment media for all ages.
It's a ruse. And the majority believe it.
How is that good?
news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx
Some people hail that as a good thing. I don't know. The number used to be much higher, obviously and it shows a descent of belief that turns humans into nothing more than animals made in the image and likeness of animals, which were made, by the accidents and purposelessness of natural selection and constant series of mutations, which is not yet finished; according to the voices of influence assured their belief system of everything from nothing - "naturally" - is true. That does not sound like a good place for society to be, in my observations of where humanity is today.
If you believe in an all powerful Deity, above the natural elements of the universe, who created those natural elements, everything from nothing may be hard to wrap your head around but, obviously doable for such an Entity. Everything from just nothing? As in no thing? Yeah, no. That's just plain nonsense to any reasonable logically thinking person with common sense. I have a hard time believing anyone with intelligence can believe such a thing just because they can put some equation on a chalkboard.
So, that means 60% of people surveyed do not have much common sense, logical, critical thinking or reasonable processing of information they are given. They just believe it because they have been told it's the truth by "scientists" who have it placed in school books, as well as all kinds of entertainment media for all ages.
It's a ruse. And the majority believe it.
How is that good?
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SHOT DEAD
SHOT DEAD is a new documentary put out by the group - We The Patriots USA.
Documentaries about the Plandemic and injections... I have placed links for a bunch of them here and many more exist; all having their own angle on what they want to address about the greatest criminal conspiracy in human history. SHOT DEAD addresses three families, and some medical personnel: a few outspoken, renowned doctors and one very brave nurse.
Most Americans, even those aware of this conspiracy, like myself and so many I know, are unaware of the facts building into the most horrific assembly of data ever retrieved in America for a medical emergency. I could only shake my head at the facts, as though they could not possibly be accurate.
I was especially moved by the plight of one family but, the video will make you cry, make you angry, outrage your sense of dignity and justice and leave you feeling when God has His say, the retribution of divine wrath of guilt will be surgically sharp and megaton heavy on the perpetrators of this most deliberate, heinous and evil situation which has plagued millions and will yet plague millions more.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2023/11/shot-dead-the-covid-jab-documentary-they-dont-want-you-to-see-full-video/?utm_source=daily-email&utm_medium=email
Documentaries about the Plandemic and injections... I have placed links for a bunch of them here and many more exist; all having their own angle on what they want to address about the greatest criminal conspiracy in human history. SHOT DEAD addresses three families, and some medical personnel: a few outspoken, renowned doctors and one very brave nurse.
Most Americans, even those aware of this conspiracy, like myself and so many I know, are unaware of the facts building into the most horrific assembly of data ever retrieved in America for a medical emergency. I could only shake my head at the facts, as though they could not possibly be accurate.
I was especially moved by the plight of one family but, the video will make you cry, make you angry, outrage your sense of dignity and justice and leave you feeling when God has His say, the retribution of divine wrath of guilt will be surgically sharp and megaton heavy on the perpetrators of this most deliberate, heinous and evil situation which has plagued millions and will yet plague millions more.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2023/11/shot-dead-the-covid-jab-documentary-they-dont-want-you-to-see-full-video/?utm_source=daily-email&utm_medium=email
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A Very Cool Cymbal Manufacturing Video
A video of the process of how this Japanese company, KOIDE; the only one in that nation, makes cymbals.
Watching this video, calling cymbals "pies" make a lot of sense, as in pizza pies. You'll see.
Not a huge operation. The final product looks and sounds very nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9nsvYvMWo
Having messed around with lathing cymbals; in the most archaic way imaginable (but, it works), I found the lathing process very interesting. If I had a rig like that one, I'd be fooling around with all kinds of cymbals all the time.
Watching this video, calling cymbals "pies" make a lot of sense, as in pizza pies. You'll see.
Not a huge operation. The final product looks and sounds very nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9nsvYvMWo
Having messed around with lathing cymbals; in the most archaic way imaginable (but, it works), I found the lathing process very interesting. If I had a rig like that one, I'd be fooling around with all kinds of cymbals all the time.
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872. The Benefits of Passion and Honesty - 11/15/2023
I am an honest person. I have learned the benefits of honesty from others and through life. If you ask me a question, expect an honest answer. I may be blunt. I may be more diplomatic but, I am honest because that is how I was raised, number one; even if I did not practice the character trait of honesty as my parents taught me. Guilt from being dishonest is also a mighty teacher.
Number two, when I became a Christian, honesty came with a direct commandment from God so, there is no questioning the principle. The Bible says, Of some have compassion, making a difference. Others, pull them right out of the fire, hating even the garments spotted by the flesh (their fallen nature and results), Jude 1:22,23.
Jude's hyperbolic treatment of the principle: hating clothes lowered by the wearer's character, is a passionate plea for being honest with people when it comes to sin. All our behavior and speech is to be guided and moved by the Holy Spirit when one comes under the tutelage of God. Every person who hears us notices how we act and speak, especially when you claim the Christian faith. Someone is always looking for us to trip and use it against us. Just goes with the territory. Can't be avoided, save for living in perfect harmony with God. Of course, if believers do that... well, Paul wrote ''all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." The closer you get to God, the more you obey Him; the more you anger, if not enrage the enemy and his followers.
So, moving into the world of practical living, today - especially with all the reviews and reviewers on the web of every product known to mankind - honesty is a premium. Without it, reviews are worthless. If you cannot trust what you are hearing, a review is a waste of time. That's just common sense. But, we all know reviews are often skewed by people connected to a product or a competitor to a product. Honesty is not important; only business and making money is.
Personality may affect the way we listen to reviewers. Some work for us. Others do not. Personality goes a long way with people but, you may miss important information if you can look past someone's personality that irks you in some way.
Some people, more than you might think, cannot handle people who are passionate about something. To ears that want everything low key and laid back - Kumbaya - passion sounds like anger. To me, passion shows commitment to something, if it is linked together with honesty. Otherwise passionate people can just be big- mouths. As the saying goes, an empty truck makes the most noise. I can personally attest to that because the sound of semis going by South, with full loads, is different than trucks going North to get another load. It's a dump truck, yeah, lots of noise with an empty one. If people are empty of principle and honesty and passion for things important to them, reviews are nothing more than we can read and draw whatever useful information they may state. Of course, written reviews can lie more severely than spoken ones. No camera to face.
Because of my circumstances I have been getting into headphone technology over the months. I have the purpose of listening to mixes Tom is sending for the LEGEND album. I have speaker monitors; that Tom gave me, actually, which match his so we could listen to mixes of Miledge Muzic on the same devices. What I do not have, and never have had, is a proper room for the speakers to exist and work within. Rooms matter just as much as the speakers. Where and how you place them, where you sit to listen to them, all comes into play for proper assessment of frequency ranges and dynamics and other facets of a recording. So, headphones have become the necessary alternative and then, watching dozens and dozens of videos on YouTube, I come to find headphones are becoming the norm for many professional engineers, not speaker monitors.
Headphones can cost anywhere from $10 to $59,000. I kid you not. Audiophiles are well aware of the Sennheiser HE-1 Headphones/tube amp, marble housing unit, shipped in a crate and lodged in a box an armored tank could not crush. If I had money to burn, and a harbor filled with yachts, I would not spend $59k on headphones. I mean, seriously?
Now, more to the point of this post. There is a guy's YT channel I came across, "Oluv's gadgets." Oluv's accent sounds Scandinavian, to me. Oluv is kind of laid back until he begins to delve into headphones and other audio devices. His channel has been up 12 years. Took him 6 years before he even got into headphones; then another year to begin digging in and almost another year before he began posting regular videos about them. The man is just a no-BS kind-of-guy. He's not crude; not at all. He just tells it like it is and sets up so you can hear what he hears - binaural mics, then binaural in-ear mics - be it on whatever device you may be listening to YT with. I wish all reviewers did this. I have found a few that do. Others just tell you verbally what their impressions are. The difference between that and actually hearing differences between headphones is like someone telling you what an earthquake is like compared to standing in one, or someone explaining snow vs. standing in a quiet January snowfall or a March blizzard. I have heard and learned a great deal from these audio comparison videos, way more than reading or listening to reviews.
Oluv's passion for this subject just grabs you. His determination to find the most realistic sounding, neutral, uncolored pair of headphones may seem over the top for some but, for him and for audiophiles in general, well, think golfers and their golf clubs. Think fisherman and their rods, reels and lures. Think tech nerds and their computers. Think women and their shoes.
People render their ad hominem attacks on the guy. All worthless. He takes them to heart, though. Anyone who has ever had their personality and character attacked can feel for the man. Still, he marches along, the ever constant search before him and after watching 99% of his videos on headphones, he came to the place where he felt the only thing left to do is somehow make his own and offer it to consumers for a decent price, not close to the price tags hifi headphones can demand. I wish him well in that endeavor.
Oluv's honesty is an imperative to his reviews. His passion, for me, is also an imperative ingredient, if not at least an icing on the cake. He's not honest to be mean. His honesty reflects his frustration with the headphone manufacturing industry. "Ray, kind of sounds like you with manufactured drum shells." Yeah, pretty much the same avenue but, honestly, I am nowhere near as passionate about the sound of drums as Oluv is with headphones. Drums are drums, far as I'm concerned. Whatever sets them apart, if anything at all, are nuances and subtleties all masked or covered over in the context of a band. Talk to me about drum heads, hardware, finishes, microphones and stuff. Drum shells? No. No testable, observable, impartial, empirical evidence will ever convince me drum shells are important to the overall sound of a drum in some significant way that a player must have to sound their best. It is all manufactured marketing for sales and nothing much more than that. In some cases, it is all just demonstrably terrible fabrications and falsehoods. It's an embarrassment, and that is obviously how Oluv feels about audio. It's embarrassing to him to make videos about things he promises to review and then finds out the devices do not come close to all the hype about them. He refuses to lie and does so with passion. I find it refreshing.
If the entire world population just practiced honesty; just that one character trait, think of how different our world would be. Even though fallen and sinful as we are, if honesty was important to people and everyone functioned within it... well, of course the father of lies sees to it more and more people lie about pretty much everything, and that is screwing up the world to its coming end. Delusions are what God says is coming. Lies in various forms slated to deceive, if possible, even the very elect.
Heaven is a place of honesty and integrity. All who live there shall love honesty in all things. No more lies. No more illusions or delusions. No more skewing things for the sake of money and business. Everyone can trust everyone. Hard to wrap our heads around, isn't it. Well, it shall be. Righteous shall be because it is the best way to function. The only way to function and have happiness flow through the universe in one harmonious chord.
To those who maintain honesty, more power to you.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Number two, when I became a Christian, honesty came with a direct commandment from God so, there is no questioning the principle. The Bible says, Of some have compassion, making a difference. Others, pull them right out of the fire, hating even the garments spotted by the flesh (their fallen nature and results), Jude 1:22,23.
Jude's hyperbolic treatment of the principle: hating clothes lowered by the wearer's character, is a passionate plea for being honest with people when it comes to sin. All our behavior and speech is to be guided and moved by the Holy Spirit when one comes under the tutelage of God. Every person who hears us notices how we act and speak, especially when you claim the Christian faith. Someone is always looking for us to trip and use it against us. Just goes with the territory. Can't be avoided, save for living in perfect harmony with God. Of course, if believers do that... well, Paul wrote ''all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." The closer you get to God, the more you obey Him; the more you anger, if not enrage the enemy and his followers.
So, moving into the world of practical living, today - especially with all the reviews and reviewers on the web of every product known to mankind - honesty is a premium. Without it, reviews are worthless. If you cannot trust what you are hearing, a review is a waste of time. That's just common sense. But, we all know reviews are often skewed by people connected to a product or a competitor to a product. Honesty is not important; only business and making money is.
Personality may affect the way we listen to reviewers. Some work for us. Others do not. Personality goes a long way with people but, you may miss important information if you can look past someone's personality that irks you in some way.
Some people, more than you might think, cannot handle people who are passionate about something. To ears that want everything low key and laid back - Kumbaya - passion sounds like anger. To me, passion shows commitment to something, if it is linked together with honesty. Otherwise passionate people can just be big- mouths. As the saying goes, an empty truck makes the most noise. I can personally attest to that because the sound of semis going by South, with full loads, is different than trucks going North to get another load. It's a dump truck, yeah, lots of noise with an empty one. If people are empty of principle and honesty and passion for things important to them, reviews are nothing more than we can read and draw whatever useful information they may state. Of course, written reviews can lie more severely than spoken ones. No camera to face.
Because of my circumstances I have been getting into headphone technology over the months. I have the purpose of listening to mixes Tom is sending for the LEGEND album. I have speaker monitors; that Tom gave me, actually, which match his so we could listen to mixes of Miledge Muzic on the same devices. What I do not have, and never have had, is a proper room for the speakers to exist and work within. Rooms matter just as much as the speakers. Where and how you place them, where you sit to listen to them, all comes into play for proper assessment of frequency ranges and dynamics and other facets of a recording. So, headphones have become the necessary alternative and then, watching dozens and dozens of videos on YouTube, I come to find headphones are becoming the norm for many professional engineers, not speaker monitors.
Headphones can cost anywhere from $10 to $59,000. I kid you not. Audiophiles are well aware of the Sennheiser HE-1 Headphones/tube amp, marble housing unit, shipped in a crate and lodged in a box an armored tank could not crush. If I had money to burn, and a harbor filled with yachts, I would not spend $59k on headphones. I mean, seriously?
Now, more to the point of this post. There is a guy's YT channel I came across, "Oluv's gadgets." Oluv's accent sounds Scandinavian, to me. Oluv is kind of laid back until he begins to delve into headphones and other audio devices. His channel has been up 12 years. Took him 6 years before he even got into headphones; then another year to begin digging in and almost another year before he began posting regular videos about them. The man is just a no-BS kind-of-guy. He's not crude; not at all. He just tells it like it is and sets up so you can hear what he hears - binaural mics, then binaural in-ear mics - be it on whatever device you may be listening to YT with. I wish all reviewers did this. I have found a few that do. Others just tell you verbally what their impressions are. The difference between that and actually hearing differences between headphones is like someone telling you what an earthquake is like compared to standing in one, or someone explaining snow vs. standing in a quiet January snowfall or a March blizzard. I have heard and learned a great deal from these audio comparison videos, way more than reading or listening to reviews.
Oluv's passion for this subject just grabs you. His determination to find the most realistic sounding, neutral, uncolored pair of headphones may seem over the top for some but, for him and for audiophiles in general, well, think golfers and their golf clubs. Think fisherman and their rods, reels and lures. Think tech nerds and their computers. Think women and their shoes.
People render their ad hominem attacks on the guy. All worthless. He takes them to heart, though. Anyone who has ever had their personality and character attacked can feel for the man. Still, he marches along, the ever constant search before him and after watching 99% of his videos on headphones, he came to the place where he felt the only thing left to do is somehow make his own and offer it to consumers for a decent price, not close to the price tags hifi headphones can demand. I wish him well in that endeavor.
Oluv's honesty is an imperative to his reviews. His passion, for me, is also an imperative ingredient, if not at least an icing on the cake. He's not honest to be mean. His honesty reflects his frustration with the headphone manufacturing industry. "Ray, kind of sounds like you with manufactured drum shells." Yeah, pretty much the same avenue but, honestly, I am nowhere near as passionate about the sound of drums as Oluv is with headphones. Drums are drums, far as I'm concerned. Whatever sets them apart, if anything at all, are nuances and subtleties all masked or covered over in the context of a band. Talk to me about drum heads, hardware, finishes, microphones and stuff. Drum shells? No. No testable, observable, impartial, empirical evidence will ever convince me drum shells are important to the overall sound of a drum in some significant way that a player must have to sound their best. It is all manufactured marketing for sales and nothing much more than that. In some cases, it is all just demonstrably terrible fabrications and falsehoods. It's an embarrassment, and that is obviously how Oluv feels about audio. It's embarrassing to him to make videos about things he promises to review and then finds out the devices do not come close to all the hype about them. He refuses to lie and does so with passion. I find it refreshing.
If the entire world population just practiced honesty; just that one character trait, think of how different our world would be. Even though fallen and sinful as we are, if honesty was important to people and everyone functioned within it... well, of course the father of lies sees to it more and more people lie about pretty much everything, and that is screwing up the world to its coming end. Delusions are what God says is coming. Lies in various forms slated to deceive, if possible, even the very elect.
Heaven is a place of honesty and integrity. All who live there shall love honesty in all things. No more lies. No more illusions or delusions. No more skewing things for the sake of money and business. Everyone can trust everyone. Hard to wrap our heads around, isn't it. Well, it shall be. Righteous shall be because it is the best way to function. The only way to function and have happiness flow through the universe in one harmonious chord.
To those who maintain honesty, more power to you.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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873. Sheep and Goats? - 11/16/2023
Something to consider. Depending on your worldview, and especially your prophetic view of current events and what is happening in our world, you are either shaking your head in disbelief or nodding your head in expectancy. What I mean is simply this. Every single week, for several years, we have been witnessing the kind of things citizens of any free, sovereign, nation of laws-type country cannot believe their eyes.
For instance, this young guy who got arrested seven days after Biden's inauguration for something he posted on his Twitter page about Hillary Clinton four years before. An obvious joke, a meme, call it what you will, about just texting in a vote for Clinton, was seen by the justice department as an actual dismissal of Federal voting laws and deemed election interference. Arrested, tried, found guilty and facing ten years in prison, this guy has been put through a ringer of corruption never dreamed possible. In America, you can now be locked up for telling a joke; for politically, comically putting down a politician you do not agree with.
Mind you, the prosecution could not produce one, single witness who thought that poster displayed truthful information and hindered their ability to vote. The jury pronounced the man guilty because the prosecution produced a witness who claimed to know the man and plotted with the man to do this. The two never met, live a thousand miles apart, and because they both used the same joke, they were deemed partners by the justice department and the other guy turned state witness against this young man from Vermont, if I recall correctly.
One cannot imagine the inept attorney skills of whoever was this man's legal counsel or the intelligence level of the 12 jurors bamboozled into believing the first amendment got shelved and trashed somewhere as this guy supposedly plotted to ruin an election from his Twitter page. We think, 'You cannot make this stuff up' but, it is happening. A former President is on trial for election interference for pointing out, with reams of evidence, how his opponents interfered with his election! Corruption so deep and wide it seems a Hollywood movie. It's reality.
In broad daylight shocking crimes of a nature of humans under the control of demons is regularly displayed. Leaders of nations toying with nuclear conflict and "My bombs are bigger than yours" childlike behavior.
Corruptions and criminal behavior costing citizens, not thousands or tens of thousands of dollars but, millions and BILLIONS of dollars.
The lunatic perpetration of the biggest scheme in history, against the entire world; including killing off the population of "mother earth," too crowded by humanity. It has been factually proven by amassing documentation from previous decades that Covid was a planned event, hence, the "Plandemic." Right now, Australia, the most heavily "vaccinated" nation on Earth, is undergoing a new wave of Covid and forcing masks upon their population. Why? Because the vaccines do not work and were not intended to work. They were intended to promote genetic change in the recipients, leading to, not dozens of possible side effects but, hundreds of them. The drug companies, obtaining a pass from Congress, knew it all before the release of the injections. Whistleblowers who could not take the pressure anymore, came forward and nothing has been done to bring the world's most despotic criminals to justice, while millions suffer tragic side effects and death and before long, it will be billions.
I could sit here and type till sunrise on the nature of the fall of humanity taking place before our eyes.
There is something you should consider.
Why did Christ choose to divide humanity into the categories of sheep and goats? Sheep are the redeemed. Goats are the lost. For many people, sheep and goats are interchangeable. Even though they look like the same kind of animal, aside from their coats, they have differences in genetic makeup. But, like wheat and tares (lookalike weeds), until the harvest is ripe, the plants basically look the same.
In looking the subject up, theologians and students of the Bible down through time have seen the differences between the two creatures and in doing so, for me, one stands out. The way they eat and what results.
Sheep are grazers. They stick together in their herds and slowly move along, eating vegetation close down to the ground.
Goats tend to browse, walking around checking out various plants and just about anything they can chew down and swallow, including things not in a goat's diet, or any animal's diet, for that matter and in doing so, they can wander away from the group and get into some real trouble.
God's sheep hear the Shepherd's voice and stay close and follow Him. Goats on the other hand are far more independent of any master's voice and can be led astray. The Deceiver takes advantage of the wanderers and without the Shepherd's constant watchcare and guidance, the goats just walk into danger.
What kind of world do we live in, supposedly the most sophisticated age humanity has ever known, when some teenagers will brutally kick one teen, not of their "group" to death and brag about it. Human life is becoming nothing. Abortion has reduced humanity to useless tissue or tissue to be used for all kinds of other things, like cosmetics. Murders are committed and posted on social media. People are murdered by literally mindless individuals and let go, only to commit the same crime again.
A man with cognitive problems shoots at a car with two young children in it. He is deemed by testimony from three doctors to not be able to stand trial. The judge let's him go. He then turns around and shoots a teenager, out walking and jogging in a park, right next to her school. She is dead. A family torn to shreds at the loss. This kind of thing is happening more and more every day across America. Criminals are being let go. It seems I read of it nearly every day now. Illegal immigrants raping, killing with abandon. Police departments hampered by red tape or worse, cowardice to intervene, or worse than that: open war upon police departments by gangs, cartels, Antifa-type groups and governments seem paralyzed to stop it. What is happening?
The world is dividing into two camps. The battle between good and evil will continue to expand and delineate people who love and obey God and those who do not, regardless of profession. By their fruits you shall know them. Their lives shall testify to righteousness while the world is going, literally insane. Some in the throngs and waves of humanity will remain loyal to their Creator and Savior in every Thus saith the Lord. They will stick out, as Christ did; as believers in truth have done for ages but, here at the end of time, humanity is separating into the two final camps. The heavenly host gaze the scene and take note. Judgment is underway.
I don't know how many angels there are. I believe the number in Scripture, in Daniel 7:10; one hundred million, is not meant to be an accurate head count. It's just an enormous number the prophet used to describe what he beheld: ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. No, I believe far more angels exist than the population of the Earth right now, a shockingly huge number that will fully reveal itself when Christ returns with the entire army of Heaven following Him, gathering up the Lord's redeemed from all ages and those alive on the Earth when the triumph takes place in the battle between good and evil.
It's not a fantasy. It is not a man-made story. It is based on prophecy; God telling the end from the beginning and informing us what shall be so that we can have confidence and courage to press on to know the Lord, as the rest of the world wanders from Him and becomes entangled in the enemy's snares, deceptions and overmastering delusions.
Things are going to get worse and do so in greater numbers. The entire world will call for the death of God's faithful when the division is complete. That's what the Bible states and backs it up with prophetic information of history before it happened so we can trust the Word and its Author.
No, I don't know how long the division will take, nor do I know what God is going to do with new births constantly adding to humanity's numbers. That is not the believer's concern. What God asks of His people is to learn of Him, follow Him, even unto death and He shall give a crown of life to His loyal ones who love Him and obey, because it is always the right thing to do and they have learned by experience that is the only way to live and have peace and happiness in a world going mad.
A division of humanity is taking place. Which side will you stand with?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
And keep your eyes on Iceland and the world's fault lines. The division of the Earth means more than among people.
For instance, this young guy who got arrested seven days after Biden's inauguration for something he posted on his Twitter page about Hillary Clinton four years before. An obvious joke, a meme, call it what you will, about just texting in a vote for Clinton, was seen by the justice department as an actual dismissal of Federal voting laws and deemed election interference. Arrested, tried, found guilty and facing ten years in prison, this guy has been put through a ringer of corruption never dreamed possible. In America, you can now be locked up for telling a joke; for politically, comically putting down a politician you do not agree with.
Mind you, the prosecution could not produce one, single witness who thought that poster displayed truthful information and hindered their ability to vote. The jury pronounced the man guilty because the prosecution produced a witness who claimed to know the man and plotted with the man to do this. The two never met, live a thousand miles apart, and because they both used the same joke, they were deemed partners by the justice department and the other guy turned state witness against this young man from Vermont, if I recall correctly.
One cannot imagine the inept attorney skills of whoever was this man's legal counsel or the intelligence level of the 12 jurors bamboozled into believing the first amendment got shelved and trashed somewhere as this guy supposedly plotted to ruin an election from his Twitter page. We think, 'You cannot make this stuff up' but, it is happening. A former President is on trial for election interference for pointing out, with reams of evidence, how his opponents interfered with his election! Corruption so deep and wide it seems a Hollywood movie. It's reality.
In broad daylight shocking crimes of a nature of humans under the control of demons is regularly displayed. Leaders of nations toying with nuclear conflict and "My bombs are bigger than yours" childlike behavior.
Corruptions and criminal behavior costing citizens, not thousands or tens of thousands of dollars but, millions and BILLIONS of dollars.
The lunatic perpetration of the biggest scheme in history, against the entire world; including killing off the population of "mother earth," too crowded by humanity. It has been factually proven by amassing documentation from previous decades that Covid was a planned event, hence, the "Plandemic." Right now, Australia, the most heavily "vaccinated" nation on Earth, is undergoing a new wave of Covid and forcing masks upon their population. Why? Because the vaccines do not work and were not intended to work. They were intended to promote genetic change in the recipients, leading to, not dozens of possible side effects but, hundreds of them. The drug companies, obtaining a pass from Congress, knew it all before the release of the injections. Whistleblowers who could not take the pressure anymore, came forward and nothing has been done to bring the world's most despotic criminals to justice, while millions suffer tragic side effects and death and before long, it will be billions.
I could sit here and type till sunrise on the nature of the fall of humanity taking place before our eyes.
There is something you should consider.
Why did Christ choose to divide humanity into the categories of sheep and goats? Sheep are the redeemed. Goats are the lost. For many people, sheep and goats are interchangeable. Even though they look like the same kind of animal, aside from their coats, they have differences in genetic makeup. But, like wheat and tares (lookalike weeds), until the harvest is ripe, the plants basically look the same.
In looking the subject up, theologians and students of the Bible down through time have seen the differences between the two creatures and in doing so, for me, one stands out. The way they eat and what results.
Sheep are grazers. They stick together in their herds and slowly move along, eating vegetation close down to the ground.
Goats tend to browse, walking around checking out various plants and just about anything they can chew down and swallow, including things not in a goat's diet, or any animal's diet, for that matter and in doing so, they can wander away from the group and get into some real trouble.
God's sheep hear the Shepherd's voice and stay close and follow Him. Goats on the other hand are far more independent of any master's voice and can be led astray. The Deceiver takes advantage of the wanderers and without the Shepherd's constant watchcare and guidance, the goats just walk into danger.
What kind of world do we live in, supposedly the most sophisticated age humanity has ever known, when some teenagers will brutally kick one teen, not of their "group" to death and brag about it. Human life is becoming nothing. Abortion has reduced humanity to useless tissue or tissue to be used for all kinds of other things, like cosmetics. Murders are committed and posted on social media. People are murdered by literally mindless individuals and let go, only to commit the same crime again.
A man with cognitive problems shoots at a car with two young children in it. He is deemed by testimony from three doctors to not be able to stand trial. The judge let's him go. He then turns around and shoots a teenager, out walking and jogging in a park, right next to her school. She is dead. A family torn to shreds at the loss. This kind of thing is happening more and more every day across America. Criminals are being let go. It seems I read of it nearly every day now. Illegal immigrants raping, killing with abandon. Police departments hampered by red tape or worse, cowardice to intervene, or worse than that: open war upon police departments by gangs, cartels, Antifa-type groups and governments seem paralyzed to stop it. What is happening?
The world is dividing into two camps. The battle between good and evil will continue to expand and delineate people who love and obey God and those who do not, regardless of profession. By their fruits you shall know them. Their lives shall testify to righteousness while the world is going, literally insane. Some in the throngs and waves of humanity will remain loyal to their Creator and Savior in every Thus saith the Lord. They will stick out, as Christ did; as believers in truth have done for ages but, here at the end of time, humanity is separating into the two final camps. The heavenly host gaze the scene and take note. Judgment is underway.
I don't know how many angels there are. I believe the number in Scripture, in Daniel 7:10; one hundred million, is not meant to be an accurate head count. It's just an enormous number the prophet used to describe what he beheld: ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. No, I believe far more angels exist than the population of the Earth right now, a shockingly huge number that will fully reveal itself when Christ returns with the entire army of Heaven following Him, gathering up the Lord's redeemed from all ages and those alive on the Earth when the triumph takes place in the battle between good and evil.
It's not a fantasy. It is not a man-made story. It is based on prophecy; God telling the end from the beginning and informing us what shall be so that we can have confidence and courage to press on to know the Lord, as the rest of the world wanders from Him and becomes entangled in the enemy's snares, deceptions and overmastering delusions.
Things are going to get worse and do so in greater numbers. The entire world will call for the death of God's faithful when the division is complete. That's what the Bible states and backs it up with prophetic information of history before it happened so we can trust the Word and its Author.
No, I don't know how long the division will take, nor do I know what God is going to do with new births constantly adding to humanity's numbers. That is not the believer's concern. What God asks of His people is to learn of Him, follow Him, even unto death and He shall give a crown of life to His loyal ones who love Him and obey, because it is always the right thing to do and they have learned by experience that is the only way to live and have peace and happiness in a world going mad.
A division of humanity is taking place. Which side will you stand with?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
And keep your eyes on Iceland and the world's fault lines. The division of the Earth means more than among people.
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874. Comparatively Speaking - 11/16/2023
Before purchasing something out of the ordinary for you, do you comparison shop? Do you compare prices of goods, read reviews, compare features and get into other categories of comparison before you put down your hard earned financial gratuity to the store and company you purchase from? Yes, it is all a gratuity. No one is forced to buy something. We get to choose which company and merchant shall get our money. We do a favor to merchants and companies by purchasing their wares.
Some things, though, are difficult to compare, especially online. You can go into a shoe store and try on shoes and see what fits best. Can't do that online. Online merchants offer expansive return policies to try and placate the necessities of the circumstances. If it doesn't fit, you send it back. If the condition is brand new, they just sell it to another customer. Many companies resell items in not so brand new condition, as brand new. Not a smart thing to do but, in these days of pinching pennies for just about everyone, even businesses try and restock what they can get away with. If I see a lot of packing tape all over the place, I don't even put it in my cart. I assume, right or wrong, it has been purchased, box opened, things tried out, didn't fit the bill, put back in the box, not very neatly, and the item is just put back on a shelf.
Now, what about something like electronics? Many merchants will not allow electronic devices to be returned. Too many variables of how something can be messed up by a consumer. We have all heard of those who buy big screen TVs just for their Super Bowl party and then return them. Yeah, immoral but, today? Fewer and fewer people care about morality residing in honesty. What can a store do? A customer may, indeed, purchase something that performs differently at home than in the store. Especially is that the case for anything with visual necessity in stores all using florescent lighting and when people get home, colors are different in the incandescent or LED lighting in their living areas.
Recently, I have been doing a lot of reading and research about and into headphones. The headphone industry is filled with just as much snake oil advertising as any other. You know my beliefs about drum manufacturers and their super-hype about proprietary drum shells and sound. Headphone manufacturers are no different, and frankly, all industries are caught in cyclones of ultra-hype today. Competition is fierce. All kinds of goods come from nations all over the globe, mostly China, and when I was a kid, everything was American made, with Germany, Japan and Great Britain supplying their share. Today? Forget it. It's global competition.
In watching this one YouTuber compare headphones, his shock at prices, compared to sound quality, is very revealing. He compares and 98% of the time is very disappointed, if not disgusted.
For drummers, comparing is much more difficult. You can read a lot of frustration on forums devoted to asking questions about drum shells and what should they purchase? Like headphones, people have their favorite brands and models. It gets pretty confusing for anyone of any age, if they want answers from forums. Drummers cannot buy a set and send it back, buy another and send it back and repeat because they don't like the sound. Talk about a dichotomy. All the marketing hype and you do not like the sound? What does that even mean" They're drums. What do you want them to sound like, and merchants will treat you like you must live on another planet or something.
Nor can many customers find their way into drum shops, mostly located in big cities, and compare. Do you know why? Drum shops, I have found, rarely tune their drums well. In many cases, drum heads are barely tensioned. Do you know why? They don't want kids coming in all day long and slamming away on drum sets when they know 99% of them are not going to purchase anything. Many shops have cymbal "rooms" dedicated to trying out cymbals. Drum sets? Not so much. And like I say, if they did tune all drums to the same basic pitches, drum to drum, size to size, company to company, most everything would sound so close to each other, higher end drums would never sell. Different type heads would add their coloration to the sound but, consumers expecting to hear what advertisers place all over magazine ads? Yeah, not happening. So, then it comes down to price, hardware and finish. Which, logically, should have been the parameters they entered the search to begin with. Ah, but, all that super-hype about shells and sound...
The way many are now demonstrating the sound of headphones, through binaural microphones of some kind, we can actually hear differences, albeit through whatever devices we listen through but, at least differences are consistent. When you begin to see that headphones costing thousands of dollars do not sound any better, and in many cases worse than units costing so much less you begin to think people in the headphone industry are crazy, and you begin to get a sense of what this world has come to. Talk. Hyped up words, and even in religion, words can be deceptive.
So, let's dig in, shall we?
You can compare various theologies and speakers of them, on television and YouTube all day long and pick a favorite when, in fact, the nicest, most articulate, poetic sounding preachers may be the biggest fakes out there.
Bottom line? When it comes to Christianity there is one answer and one answer alone. Compare Scripture with Scripture. Compare the Bible with itself. Even among translations that vary you will discover threads of truth that maintain consistency throughout the Book. If you want to know what the Bible says about any subject, just use a concordance and start looking up words from Genesis to Revelation and truth will emerge.
Don't get me wrong. Teachers employ, may, should employ a gift of the Spirit. That does not mean they do. It just means, in the context of the body of Christ, His church, teachers should be working within that spiritual gift, the same as all the others. Personality may become a matter of personal expression and how we hear things in heart and mind but, if the Word is solid, personality can be put aside rather easily.
Some Scriptures to help with understanding the principle of comparing the Bible with itself, and those who proclaim its information:
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
You read that and realize even God's people need to grow up, regardless of age, when presented with the truth. In Isaiah's day the people stood back like it was poison or something. It cannot be true, even when precept and lines of truth all stack on top of each other and create a building that storm and tempest will not bring down. God sent rest and refreshing but, people would not hear. Everything fit in place. Everything made sense but, not to the minds of those refusing to hear the truth. When people think everything is alright when everything is all wrong, decisions have to be made. Repent and retrace steps that went off the straight and narrow way or -
2Tim 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;
2Tim 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall turn to fables.
Itching ears. Scratch them! Take this nagging, infernal itch away! Find us teachers who will preach smooth things and prophecy deceit. We would rather believe nice stories to entertain us, not doctrine admonishing and demanding we change our lives.
Isa 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isa 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Isa 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isa 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Every age has this kind of attitude and today is not only no different, it is magnified by a thousand fold because all the confusion on Earth can be sampled at the click of a mouse and typing on a keyboard. Our minds can be saturated and filled to the brim with junk food for doctrine. No nutritive value whatsoever. Millions do not know because they trust those they see and hear rather than search for truth themselves and allow the Holy Spirit to guide them in their search.
Act 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Act 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.
Act 17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
The "noble Bereans" did not trust any speaker, even though they appreciated their message. No, they went home and checked out everything the apostle told them. That is line upon line research. It is not Paul that matters. It is harmony and consistency in the Word of God that matters. Do not tell me what the Bible means so much as show me what it says. I'll figure out what it means through communion with the Holy Spirit and time in the Word. The Bible interprets itself. No single principle is more important to the believer.
2Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given to him has written to you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
People twisted the meaning of Paul's words 2,000 years ago. You think the same is not done today? Christianity is not a religious faith dependent on human leaders. It is a faith dependent on Christ, the Head of the body, and the Holy Spirit -
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Christ said the Holy Spirit will guide the believer into all truth. The Father does not speak of Himself. He uplifts Christ. Christ did not uplift Himself. He uplifted the Father. The Holy Spirit does not witness to Himself but, glorifies, makes things bright and obvious about Christ. Speakers glorifying themselves, making a show, a display of themselves, is a warning. Take that for what it is worth. Deceptions abound. Satan is angry, deceiving the whole world, because he knows he has but a short time left to work his deceptions and delusions. They are deceptions. They may look and sound good and be dangerously poisonous.
Last night I saw an article headline about a statue of the Roman Catholic version of Mary, the mother of Christ, weeping. A picture with the headline showed some fluid coming out of the eye. Think you it is difficult for Lucifer, the father of lies, prince of the power of the air, to make it appear water, liquid, fluid of some kind can protrude from a statue? What do you think he did when Pharaoh's servants turned their rods into serpents? Illusions. Yet people flock to these displays of the supernatural. What does the Bible state?
Mar 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Signs follow believers. Believers are not asked to follow after signs. There is a grave difference.
2Thes 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he [God] who now lets will let, until he [man of sin] be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Serpents did not and do not talk. Satan made it appear the serpent spoke to her and she became entranced in the display. When Satan goes to work through the man of sin with all power, signs and lying wonders the world's media will surround it all 24/7. Will you believe your eyes or will you believe God's Word to decide what is true from what is false?
2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Do you see the necessity of believing the Word; line upon line, precept upon precept, allowing the Bible to interpret itself? These dangers exist in that which is called Christianity. They Devil joins the church, sits in the front pew and nobody knows he's there!
The gifts of the Spirit, all of them, are meant to build up believers in the faith. To think Lucifer just sits around watching it happen with no recourse to deceive, is foolishness. Our only safeguard is the truth. The truth is discovered by comparing Scripture with Scripture, allowing the Bible to interpret itself. There is no other way God has given mankind to know the truth, that can make us free. No preacher, no teacher, no church leader, no group of leaders are the last word on truth. A Thus saith the Lord, cover to cover, speaks for itself. Let all preachers, teachers and leaders depend on that, and proclaim that, alone.
Even so come, Lord Jesus.
UPDATE - The statue in Mexico claimed to be weeping has been declared by the RCC as no miracle.
Some things, though, are difficult to compare, especially online. You can go into a shoe store and try on shoes and see what fits best. Can't do that online. Online merchants offer expansive return policies to try and placate the necessities of the circumstances. If it doesn't fit, you send it back. If the condition is brand new, they just sell it to another customer. Many companies resell items in not so brand new condition, as brand new. Not a smart thing to do but, in these days of pinching pennies for just about everyone, even businesses try and restock what they can get away with. If I see a lot of packing tape all over the place, I don't even put it in my cart. I assume, right or wrong, it has been purchased, box opened, things tried out, didn't fit the bill, put back in the box, not very neatly, and the item is just put back on a shelf.
Now, what about something like electronics? Many merchants will not allow electronic devices to be returned. Too many variables of how something can be messed up by a consumer. We have all heard of those who buy big screen TVs just for their Super Bowl party and then return them. Yeah, immoral but, today? Fewer and fewer people care about morality residing in honesty. What can a store do? A customer may, indeed, purchase something that performs differently at home than in the store. Especially is that the case for anything with visual necessity in stores all using florescent lighting and when people get home, colors are different in the incandescent or LED lighting in their living areas.
Recently, I have been doing a lot of reading and research about and into headphones. The headphone industry is filled with just as much snake oil advertising as any other. You know my beliefs about drum manufacturers and their super-hype about proprietary drum shells and sound. Headphone manufacturers are no different, and frankly, all industries are caught in cyclones of ultra-hype today. Competition is fierce. All kinds of goods come from nations all over the globe, mostly China, and when I was a kid, everything was American made, with Germany, Japan and Great Britain supplying their share. Today? Forget it. It's global competition.
In watching this one YouTuber compare headphones, his shock at prices, compared to sound quality, is very revealing. He compares and 98% of the time is very disappointed, if not disgusted.
For drummers, comparing is much more difficult. You can read a lot of frustration on forums devoted to asking questions about drum shells and what should they purchase? Like headphones, people have their favorite brands and models. It gets pretty confusing for anyone of any age, if they want answers from forums. Drummers cannot buy a set and send it back, buy another and send it back and repeat because they don't like the sound. Talk about a dichotomy. All the marketing hype and you do not like the sound? What does that even mean" They're drums. What do you want them to sound like, and merchants will treat you like you must live on another planet or something.
Nor can many customers find their way into drum shops, mostly located in big cities, and compare. Do you know why? Drum shops, I have found, rarely tune their drums well. In many cases, drum heads are barely tensioned. Do you know why? They don't want kids coming in all day long and slamming away on drum sets when they know 99% of them are not going to purchase anything. Many shops have cymbal "rooms" dedicated to trying out cymbals. Drum sets? Not so much. And like I say, if they did tune all drums to the same basic pitches, drum to drum, size to size, company to company, most everything would sound so close to each other, higher end drums would never sell. Different type heads would add their coloration to the sound but, consumers expecting to hear what advertisers place all over magazine ads? Yeah, not happening. So, then it comes down to price, hardware and finish. Which, logically, should have been the parameters they entered the search to begin with. Ah, but, all that super-hype about shells and sound...
The way many are now demonstrating the sound of headphones, through binaural microphones of some kind, we can actually hear differences, albeit through whatever devices we listen through but, at least differences are consistent. When you begin to see that headphones costing thousands of dollars do not sound any better, and in many cases worse than units costing so much less you begin to think people in the headphone industry are crazy, and you begin to get a sense of what this world has come to. Talk. Hyped up words, and even in religion, words can be deceptive.
So, let's dig in, shall we?
You can compare various theologies and speakers of them, on television and YouTube all day long and pick a favorite when, in fact, the nicest, most articulate, poetic sounding preachers may be the biggest fakes out there.
Bottom line? When it comes to Christianity there is one answer and one answer alone. Compare Scripture with Scripture. Compare the Bible with itself. Even among translations that vary you will discover threads of truth that maintain consistency throughout the Book. If you want to know what the Bible says about any subject, just use a concordance and start looking up words from Genesis to Revelation and truth will emerge.
Don't get me wrong. Teachers employ, may, should employ a gift of the Spirit. That does not mean they do. It just means, in the context of the body of Christ, His church, teachers should be working within that spiritual gift, the same as all the others. Personality may become a matter of personal expression and how we hear things in heart and mind but, if the Word is solid, personality can be put aside rather easily.
Some Scriptures to help with understanding the principle of comparing the Bible with itself, and those who proclaim its information:
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
You read that and realize even God's people need to grow up, regardless of age, when presented with the truth. In Isaiah's day the people stood back like it was poison or something. It cannot be true, even when precept and lines of truth all stack on top of each other and create a building that storm and tempest will not bring down. God sent rest and refreshing but, people would not hear. Everything fit in place. Everything made sense but, not to the minds of those refusing to hear the truth. When people think everything is alright when everything is all wrong, decisions have to be made. Repent and retrace steps that went off the straight and narrow way or -
2Tim 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;
2Tim 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall turn to fables.
Itching ears. Scratch them! Take this nagging, infernal itch away! Find us teachers who will preach smooth things and prophecy deceit. We would rather believe nice stories to entertain us, not doctrine admonishing and demanding we change our lives.
Isa 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isa 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Isa 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isa 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Every age has this kind of attitude and today is not only no different, it is magnified by a thousand fold because all the confusion on Earth can be sampled at the click of a mouse and typing on a keyboard. Our minds can be saturated and filled to the brim with junk food for doctrine. No nutritive value whatsoever. Millions do not know because they trust those they see and hear rather than search for truth themselves and allow the Holy Spirit to guide them in their search.
Act 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Act 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.
Act 17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
The "noble Bereans" did not trust any speaker, even though they appreciated their message. No, they went home and checked out everything the apostle told them. That is line upon line research. It is not Paul that matters. It is harmony and consistency in the Word of God that matters. Do not tell me what the Bible means so much as show me what it says. I'll figure out what it means through communion with the Holy Spirit and time in the Word. The Bible interprets itself. No single principle is more important to the believer.
2Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given to him has written to you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
People twisted the meaning of Paul's words 2,000 years ago. You think the same is not done today? Christianity is not a religious faith dependent on human leaders. It is a faith dependent on Christ, the Head of the body, and the Holy Spirit -
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Christ said the Holy Spirit will guide the believer into all truth. The Father does not speak of Himself. He uplifts Christ. Christ did not uplift Himself. He uplifted the Father. The Holy Spirit does not witness to Himself but, glorifies, makes things bright and obvious about Christ. Speakers glorifying themselves, making a show, a display of themselves, is a warning. Take that for what it is worth. Deceptions abound. Satan is angry, deceiving the whole world, because he knows he has but a short time left to work his deceptions and delusions. They are deceptions. They may look and sound good and be dangerously poisonous.
Last night I saw an article headline about a statue of the Roman Catholic version of Mary, the mother of Christ, weeping. A picture with the headline showed some fluid coming out of the eye. Think you it is difficult for Lucifer, the father of lies, prince of the power of the air, to make it appear water, liquid, fluid of some kind can protrude from a statue? What do you think he did when Pharaoh's servants turned their rods into serpents? Illusions. Yet people flock to these displays of the supernatural. What does the Bible state?
Mar 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Signs follow believers. Believers are not asked to follow after signs. There is a grave difference.
2Thes 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he [God] who now lets will let, until he [man of sin] be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Serpents did not and do not talk. Satan made it appear the serpent spoke to her and she became entranced in the display. When Satan goes to work through the man of sin with all power, signs and lying wonders the world's media will surround it all 24/7. Will you believe your eyes or will you believe God's Word to decide what is true from what is false?
2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Do you see the necessity of believing the Word; line upon line, precept upon precept, allowing the Bible to interpret itself? These dangers exist in that which is called Christianity. They Devil joins the church, sits in the front pew and nobody knows he's there!
The gifts of the Spirit, all of them, are meant to build up believers in the faith. To think Lucifer just sits around watching it happen with no recourse to deceive, is foolishness. Our only safeguard is the truth. The truth is discovered by comparing Scripture with Scripture, allowing the Bible to interpret itself. There is no other way God has given mankind to know the truth, that can make us free. No preacher, no teacher, no church leader, no group of leaders are the last word on truth. A Thus saith the Lord, cover to cover, speaks for itself. Let all preachers, teachers and leaders depend on that, and proclaim that, alone.
Even so come, Lord Jesus.
UPDATE - The statue in Mexico claimed to be weeping has been declared by the RCC as no miracle.
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875. Study a Mind - November 17, 2023
Psychology. Psychology is the study of the mind of man. It goes back to ancient times with Greeks, Egyptians and other cultures. Trying to figure out why humans think the way they do has been a fascination for ages. Today, those who attend college and university have a great deal of interest and material to get into on the subject.
Since the 19th century hundreds of studies, thousands of papers, articles and books have been done and written and many changes in thoughts on the subject have taken place, as more is understood.
Modern entertainment has used the subject as the foundation for many movies and television programs, generally involving crime stories. A well known program about criminal profilers, Criminal Minds, had a very long run. It might still be on the air, I don't know. I'm certain it's in rerun-mode on various stations around the world. Looking into the criminal mind. The departure from reason and morality; from empathy and humanity. Why? Is it just broken neuron connections? Is it how the criminal mind was raised as a child? Neglect? Abuse? Hovering, over protection? Spoiling? Combinations of some or all the above?
Since becoming a Christian, almost 45 years ago, not really being into psychology, I developed another position on the subject of studying the mind of man. There is a passage of Scripture that opened my eyes to another avenue on this. It seems rather plain to me, and definitely stands against the common thought posed by modern or even ancient interest and education; though ancients could not have this principle to act upon, in a Person.
In the epistle to the church at Philippi, the apostle Paul wrote this -
Php 2:2 Fulfil my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
Php 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The amount of theology and practical counsel and admonition in that passage is like a packed stadium. It roars with thought and emotion.
#1. Paul's overwhelming concern: unity among believers. His joy is to know believers are likeminded; of one mind. This concerns the things of God, of course. It is not about personality or styles or colors or music or employment or other matters of daily life. It is being likeminded, thinking the same about God - His character, His mind on all matters pertaining to truth and salvation. Considering the divisions in that which is called Christianity; that joy of his lost presence a very long time ago. Why? How?
#2. Nothing should be done; nothing, through strife. Personalities and character differences can easily clash among believers - the most sincere of believers - because we are all sinners in need of the Saviour. None of us thinks perfectly. I'd go so far as to say none of us hear perfectly, and certainly none of us speaks perfectly, either. That's the outcome of not thinking perfectly. Therefore, interaction between other people, even in the body of Christ, can become volatile.
Let nothing be done through vanity, vainglory; a word meaning 'empty conceit.' All arrogance and conceit is empty of anything good. There's a difference between being sure of oneself and being conceited and/or arrogant. Nothing should be done because a group of people are enamored with a preacher or someone in a leadership position in the body of Christ, His church. We are not to follow men. Leaning on "the arm of flesh" can bring disaster to a congregation; to an entire denomination and it happens. All the time. An eloquent speaker comes along and people hang on his every word, not because it is true but, because the speaker sounds good. Case in point; Barack Obama.
I remember the current man in the Oval Office, Joe Biden, commenting on how good Barack Obama sounded when he spoke. Nobody argues that. The thing is, in America; a nation with certain principles at its core, Obama is someone who believes in wealth redistribution. That is the foundation of communism. Barack Obama is not a foundational American. His policies are not rooted in things not associated with the principles of Americanism. He became president with hardly any experience of any kind of leadership position in his life. But, he sounded good. And he came right out and said he wanted to fundamentally change America. He accomplished far too much of that task. The same, exact thing can take place in a church, and it happens all the time. History shows it has happened to every major denomination, every movement, every organization not remaining true to fundamental, foundational principles but, following men, looking to men, adhering to men, not God and His Word. The entire Roman Catholic system is built on looking to men: a pope, cardinals and all the rest of that man-made system. It is the largest and longest apostasy in history, all based on the position of men.
#3. Lowliness of mind. Think humility. Think need of more knowledge, understanding and personal experience. Think of others as more important than yourself, better than yourself. In a world literally dedicated to self; the portrayal of self on social platforms; being "liked" and being a thumbs up and popular to as many people as possible, is built into the current culture. Paul said, No, exactly the opposite. Don't concern yourself with yourself, don't worry about you. Concern yourself with others and be sure they are doing okay. My, what a changed world we would have if that one principle played out in all lives.
It goes with something that came to my mind many, many years ago when I began preaching. If there are sports in Heaven, the point is to get the other team, the other player to win.
Remember the story of the new person who enters Heaven? He is in shock about something and when he sits down to eat with all the redeemed at that tremendous Heavenly table as far as the eye can see, like him, he sees everyone else has forearms much longer than in their earthly life. It seems a terrible disformation; a malformation. He has difficulty getting his food on a fork. He finds it impossible to get the food into his mouth. His arms are just too long. Then he stops for a moment and looks around. Everyone at the table is smiling, filled with happiness and joy, enjoying their meal, as they feed the person across from them.
A hyperbolic scene but, the point is made, is it not?
#4. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. In other words, Think this way, like Jesus thought.
He was in the form of God; He was, is God, clothed in human flesh; a human body, after 4,000 years of sin had worn the race down. He had no physical advantages yet, He lived a perfect life of victory over all temptations; "tempted like as we are," tempted the same way as everyone else with a fallen human nature.
Christ was God on Earth yet, even though He could claim to be equal with God, He did not. To the contrary. He did not go out of His way to make His divinity known. He asked for no special treatment or considerations. He made no demands. He had no air of superiority. He became a servant to mankind all around Him. He cared for others, not Himself. He humbled Himself in ways we cannot understand because He sat on the throne of God in glory we cannot conceive. We have never seen such unimaginable glory. He came a baby and grew into a man, and humbled Himself, even to the death of the cross; the most treacherous, horrifying death conceived in that age and time. A death of pain and suffering it could take weeks to complete. A spectacle of Roman power over all mankind. Crosses erected like trees in a forest when entering and leaving Rome and other cities in the empire, including Jerusalem. Criminals on display for everyone to see; Rome is in charge. Rome is the final word. Rome is all in all.
Christ humbled Himself to a level that stunned all Heaven and made angels weep with pained hearts and minds. One angel could have come and obliterated the Roman empire in a day but, no. No angel could take Christ's place or save Him from the penalty for taking on the sins of the world. What a scene to contemplate. All Heaven in shock. All devils on Earth cheering and watching closely for the death of the Son of God. Humanity feeling confused and crushed; others feeling arrogant and victorious.
The Saviour of the world says, "It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit my life." And the Messiah dropped his head and breathed His last. Notice. A person in that position would normally breathe their last and drop their head in death. Jesus gave His life. He dropped His head in humble submission to the Father's will for the plan of salvation and then breathed His last breath.
A Roman soldier thought to hasten the process by thrusting a spear into Christ's side and heart. God gave His life for us. No, God cannot die but, Christ's humanity did. The mystery of the incarnation; the mystery of His death, more real than any human has ever experienced because Yeshua experienced the second death; the death the lost shall suffer at the very close of time, at the end of the millennium. The second death. Removal of existence. Christ, the Creator suffered that darkness. The Author of life, experienced the darkness of sin in its fullest extent of sin and its penalty: absolute darkness of nothing; no life, no existence. How? I don't know. I only know the Bible says it happened. From all eternity the Father and Son had joyous communion together. One fateful day, it all ended, totally.
Christ did not die from crucifixion. Christ died of a broken heart, a massive coronary. We know that because when the soldier thrust in His spear John wrote that blood and water seeped out. The fluids separated. A sign of death by massive heart attack. I did not believe that, when I first heard it in a sermon one day after my conversion. I had to look it up to believe it. I was stunned to see the Bible so distinctly portrays the death of the Saviour of the world.
Studying the mind of man... the Bible says study the mind of Christ. Whatever is benefitted to criminologists to solve crimes, God appeals to us to not study mankind but, study Christ, the God-man.
It isn't just about forgiveness of sin. It's about living the life of Christ among our fellowman. Being Christlike is the goal for God to set up the return of Messiah to this world in triumphant glory. The triumph is not so much the glorious scenes of Christ and a massive army of angels blowing trumpets loud enough to wake the dead. The triumph is that God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - have perfected the character of Christ in a final generation of believers to show the world, in the war: the controversy between God and Lucifer and charges against God and His government he brought: God is just. God is good. God is right. God is power, and not so much power to destroy but, power to change sinners into saints who serve God; not because they have to but, because they want to and love to.
What's going on is tremendously bigger than all of us. A battle rages between good and evil. Unseen forces battle for ascendency every hour of every day. We have a place in it all. The great battlefield is the mind. We have the privilege of aligning with God and showing His character, government and purposes are righteous and holy, just and good.
For those who align with Christ, and fight the good fight of faith, triumph is assured.
He that endures unto the end; the same shall be saved.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Since the 19th century hundreds of studies, thousands of papers, articles and books have been done and written and many changes in thoughts on the subject have taken place, as more is understood.
Modern entertainment has used the subject as the foundation for many movies and television programs, generally involving crime stories. A well known program about criminal profilers, Criminal Minds, had a very long run. It might still be on the air, I don't know. I'm certain it's in rerun-mode on various stations around the world. Looking into the criminal mind. The departure from reason and morality; from empathy and humanity. Why? Is it just broken neuron connections? Is it how the criminal mind was raised as a child? Neglect? Abuse? Hovering, over protection? Spoiling? Combinations of some or all the above?
Since becoming a Christian, almost 45 years ago, not really being into psychology, I developed another position on the subject of studying the mind of man. There is a passage of Scripture that opened my eyes to another avenue on this. It seems rather plain to me, and definitely stands against the common thought posed by modern or even ancient interest and education; though ancients could not have this principle to act upon, in a Person.
In the epistle to the church at Philippi, the apostle Paul wrote this -
Php 2:2 Fulfil my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
Php 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The amount of theology and practical counsel and admonition in that passage is like a packed stadium. It roars with thought and emotion.
#1. Paul's overwhelming concern: unity among believers. His joy is to know believers are likeminded; of one mind. This concerns the things of God, of course. It is not about personality or styles or colors or music or employment or other matters of daily life. It is being likeminded, thinking the same about God - His character, His mind on all matters pertaining to truth and salvation. Considering the divisions in that which is called Christianity; that joy of his lost presence a very long time ago. Why? How?
#2. Nothing should be done; nothing, through strife. Personalities and character differences can easily clash among believers - the most sincere of believers - because we are all sinners in need of the Saviour. None of us thinks perfectly. I'd go so far as to say none of us hear perfectly, and certainly none of us speaks perfectly, either. That's the outcome of not thinking perfectly. Therefore, interaction between other people, even in the body of Christ, can become volatile.
Let nothing be done through vanity, vainglory; a word meaning 'empty conceit.' All arrogance and conceit is empty of anything good. There's a difference between being sure of oneself and being conceited and/or arrogant. Nothing should be done because a group of people are enamored with a preacher or someone in a leadership position in the body of Christ, His church. We are not to follow men. Leaning on "the arm of flesh" can bring disaster to a congregation; to an entire denomination and it happens. All the time. An eloquent speaker comes along and people hang on his every word, not because it is true but, because the speaker sounds good. Case in point; Barack Obama.
I remember the current man in the Oval Office, Joe Biden, commenting on how good Barack Obama sounded when he spoke. Nobody argues that. The thing is, in America; a nation with certain principles at its core, Obama is someone who believes in wealth redistribution. That is the foundation of communism. Barack Obama is not a foundational American. His policies are not rooted in things not associated with the principles of Americanism. He became president with hardly any experience of any kind of leadership position in his life. But, he sounded good. And he came right out and said he wanted to fundamentally change America. He accomplished far too much of that task. The same, exact thing can take place in a church, and it happens all the time. History shows it has happened to every major denomination, every movement, every organization not remaining true to fundamental, foundational principles but, following men, looking to men, adhering to men, not God and His Word. The entire Roman Catholic system is built on looking to men: a pope, cardinals and all the rest of that man-made system. It is the largest and longest apostasy in history, all based on the position of men.
#3. Lowliness of mind. Think humility. Think need of more knowledge, understanding and personal experience. Think of others as more important than yourself, better than yourself. In a world literally dedicated to self; the portrayal of self on social platforms; being "liked" and being a thumbs up and popular to as many people as possible, is built into the current culture. Paul said, No, exactly the opposite. Don't concern yourself with yourself, don't worry about you. Concern yourself with others and be sure they are doing okay. My, what a changed world we would have if that one principle played out in all lives.
It goes with something that came to my mind many, many years ago when I began preaching. If there are sports in Heaven, the point is to get the other team, the other player to win.
Remember the story of the new person who enters Heaven? He is in shock about something and when he sits down to eat with all the redeemed at that tremendous Heavenly table as far as the eye can see, like him, he sees everyone else has forearms much longer than in their earthly life. It seems a terrible disformation; a malformation. He has difficulty getting his food on a fork. He finds it impossible to get the food into his mouth. His arms are just too long. Then he stops for a moment and looks around. Everyone at the table is smiling, filled with happiness and joy, enjoying their meal, as they feed the person across from them.
A hyperbolic scene but, the point is made, is it not?
#4. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. In other words, Think this way, like Jesus thought.
He was in the form of God; He was, is God, clothed in human flesh; a human body, after 4,000 years of sin had worn the race down. He had no physical advantages yet, He lived a perfect life of victory over all temptations; "tempted like as we are," tempted the same way as everyone else with a fallen human nature.
Christ was God on Earth yet, even though He could claim to be equal with God, He did not. To the contrary. He did not go out of His way to make His divinity known. He asked for no special treatment or considerations. He made no demands. He had no air of superiority. He became a servant to mankind all around Him. He cared for others, not Himself. He humbled Himself in ways we cannot understand because He sat on the throne of God in glory we cannot conceive. We have never seen such unimaginable glory. He came a baby and grew into a man, and humbled Himself, even to the death of the cross; the most treacherous, horrifying death conceived in that age and time. A death of pain and suffering it could take weeks to complete. A spectacle of Roman power over all mankind. Crosses erected like trees in a forest when entering and leaving Rome and other cities in the empire, including Jerusalem. Criminals on display for everyone to see; Rome is in charge. Rome is the final word. Rome is all in all.
Christ humbled Himself to a level that stunned all Heaven and made angels weep with pained hearts and minds. One angel could have come and obliterated the Roman empire in a day but, no. No angel could take Christ's place or save Him from the penalty for taking on the sins of the world. What a scene to contemplate. All Heaven in shock. All devils on Earth cheering and watching closely for the death of the Son of God. Humanity feeling confused and crushed; others feeling arrogant and victorious.
The Saviour of the world says, "It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit my life." And the Messiah dropped his head and breathed His last. Notice. A person in that position would normally breathe their last and drop their head in death. Jesus gave His life. He dropped His head in humble submission to the Father's will for the plan of salvation and then breathed His last breath.
A Roman soldier thought to hasten the process by thrusting a spear into Christ's side and heart. God gave His life for us. No, God cannot die but, Christ's humanity did. The mystery of the incarnation; the mystery of His death, more real than any human has ever experienced because Yeshua experienced the second death; the death the lost shall suffer at the very close of time, at the end of the millennium. The second death. Removal of existence. Christ, the Creator suffered that darkness. The Author of life, experienced the darkness of sin in its fullest extent of sin and its penalty: absolute darkness of nothing; no life, no existence. How? I don't know. I only know the Bible says it happened. From all eternity the Father and Son had joyous communion together. One fateful day, it all ended, totally.
Christ did not die from crucifixion. Christ died of a broken heart, a massive coronary. We know that because when the soldier thrust in His spear John wrote that blood and water seeped out. The fluids separated. A sign of death by massive heart attack. I did not believe that, when I first heard it in a sermon one day after my conversion. I had to look it up to believe it. I was stunned to see the Bible so distinctly portrays the death of the Saviour of the world.
Studying the mind of man... the Bible says study the mind of Christ. Whatever is benefitted to criminologists to solve crimes, God appeals to us to not study mankind but, study Christ, the God-man.
It isn't just about forgiveness of sin. It's about living the life of Christ among our fellowman. Being Christlike is the goal for God to set up the return of Messiah to this world in triumphant glory. The triumph is not so much the glorious scenes of Christ and a massive army of angels blowing trumpets loud enough to wake the dead. The triumph is that God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - have perfected the character of Christ in a final generation of believers to show the world, in the war: the controversy between God and Lucifer and charges against God and His government he brought: God is just. God is good. God is right. God is power, and not so much power to destroy but, power to change sinners into saints who serve God; not because they have to but, because they want to and love to.
What's going on is tremendously bigger than all of us. A battle rages between good and evil. Unseen forces battle for ascendency every hour of every day. We have a place in it all. The great battlefield is the mind. We have the privilege of aligning with God and showing His character, government and purposes are righteous and holy, just and good.
For those who align with Christ, and fight the good fight of faith, triumph is assured.
He that endures unto the end; the same shall be saved.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND Revisited UPDATE
I haven't written a LEGEND Revisited Update in awhile so, here it is.
We have reached the final song, #8, The Battle of Armageddon, and Tom is currently working on his processed mix. A processed mix differentiates from a "dry" mix he sends me, just to make sure all music and vocal tracks are synced up correctly. There's no reverb, no EQ or filters, etc. on anything yet. Just the dry, recorded raw tracks, used to put everything in place.
Under normal, modern recording parameters these would all line up based on a starting point determined in the recording software. In this case, drum tracks first; bass starts with those points, then guitars and vocals, or in this case vocals and guitars because Martin likes to hear lyrics to create his guitar parts. Because I played and sang to the From the Fjords CD, some logistical problems necessarily emerge. Not using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) my starting points for any drum track are whenever I hit record on my hardware recorder. Tom has to sync them up with guitar and bass tracks. Despite everything being a digital file, easily moved around in a DAW, literal milliseconds can be involved in putting things together.
With everything synced up, Tom is now into the processing stage; making each instrument and vocals sound their best in the context of each song. So, we await the first processed mix with a lot of anticipation. The song has a lot going on. It's a great deal of time to listen to everything and place it all in a framework we all agree upon. That means how the drums and cymbals sound, how the bass sounds, how the guitar tracks sound and how the vocals sound in their given frequency ranges. Everything is a "Three Bears" situation - not enough, too much, just right in regards to reverb, delays, and other effects that can slightly to greatly affect how each raw track sounds in a finished product.
I state this often but, it's true. Each week I listen to the songs as a finished album will be, one after another in their order of placement on the original recording. I began with Martin's rough mixes and each finished mix from Tom becomes the listening list. Since the beginning of that process months ago, I have listened to them, beginning with Martin's rough mixes till now, with Tom's, many dozens of times. After all this time, I am still getting "goosebumps" in places where the dynamic energy ramps up or the lyrics combined just ring some bells inside me. I can only hope and pray it shall affect others in the same way when they hear it all. I remain so thankful and pleased with the way this project has come together. Martin and Janne's playing remains a joy to listen to and while I am never satisfied with a performance of mine, I can say "I'll take it," with the performance on each song, made better by Tom's work upon them.
I would make changes next time around, if a second LEGEND recording should arise. I'd record in a different room, with different acoustics. I would do more experimentation with bass drum acoustics/muffling/dampening of heads, as well as mic techniques to capture its sound. I'd definitely have a better set-up for recording vocals and I'd invest in a better mic for the purpose. And, most of all, I'd have room for a computer and use of a DAW to record it all. Using the recorder I did was fine but, recording to the CD and finding correct starting points was a chore and a half. Never again.
If you have been following the recording process on the Recording Blog, you know of the challenges, frustrations and successes along the way. I post it all for the novice, like myself, who can read of some of the cliffs and rough trails one journeys on when you get into things. I have learned a great deal, that's for sure. It has been an education in more ways than one.
Once Tom has completed mixing #8, he'll then go back over each song and see if any "tweaking" needs to be accomplished. I hear things that need slight adjustments. Then the "mastering" of the joined song files takes place, then physical manufacturing of vinyl and CDs.
In total, I never dreamed I am coming up on a year since the idea to rerecord Fjords sparked a final "do it" in my mind. It will be a year gone by to see the finished raw recording tracks from each of us in album form, ready for fans and others to check out. I never thought it would take that long. But, in fact, other than Manos and Kostas, in Greece, no one else in this project is a full-time musician or recording engineer or business. We are all recording engineers, each recording our own raw tracks in our own environments, with Tom doing the lion's share of work on everything thereafter.
Despite the trials of life we have all faced or are facing; for me, this project has helped to get through some of those pressures and stressors and I look forward to holding the end results in my hands when it's finally a completely finished product.
LEGEND Revisited - From the Lord, is reaching its final leg of the journey.
Onward>>>
We have reached the final song, #8, The Battle of Armageddon, and Tom is currently working on his processed mix. A processed mix differentiates from a "dry" mix he sends me, just to make sure all music and vocal tracks are synced up correctly. There's no reverb, no EQ or filters, etc. on anything yet. Just the dry, recorded raw tracks, used to put everything in place.
Under normal, modern recording parameters these would all line up based on a starting point determined in the recording software. In this case, drum tracks first; bass starts with those points, then guitars and vocals, or in this case vocals and guitars because Martin likes to hear lyrics to create his guitar parts. Because I played and sang to the From the Fjords CD, some logistical problems necessarily emerge. Not using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) my starting points for any drum track are whenever I hit record on my hardware recorder. Tom has to sync them up with guitar and bass tracks. Despite everything being a digital file, easily moved around in a DAW, literal milliseconds can be involved in putting things together.
With everything synced up, Tom is now into the processing stage; making each instrument and vocals sound their best in the context of each song. So, we await the first processed mix with a lot of anticipation. The song has a lot going on. It's a great deal of time to listen to everything and place it all in a framework we all agree upon. That means how the drums and cymbals sound, how the bass sounds, how the guitar tracks sound and how the vocals sound in their given frequency ranges. Everything is a "Three Bears" situation - not enough, too much, just right in regards to reverb, delays, and other effects that can slightly to greatly affect how each raw track sounds in a finished product.
I state this often but, it's true. Each week I listen to the songs as a finished album will be, one after another in their order of placement on the original recording. I began with Martin's rough mixes and each finished mix from Tom becomes the listening list. Since the beginning of that process months ago, I have listened to them, beginning with Martin's rough mixes till now, with Tom's, many dozens of times. After all this time, I am still getting "goosebumps" in places where the dynamic energy ramps up or the lyrics combined just ring some bells inside me. I can only hope and pray it shall affect others in the same way when they hear it all. I remain so thankful and pleased with the way this project has come together. Martin and Janne's playing remains a joy to listen to and while I am never satisfied with a performance of mine, I can say "I'll take it," with the performance on each song, made better by Tom's work upon them.
I would make changes next time around, if a second LEGEND recording should arise. I'd record in a different room, with different acoustics. I would do more experimentation with bass drum acoustics/muffling/dampening of heads, as well as mic techniques to capture its sound. I'd definitely have a better set-up for recording vocals and I'd invest in a better mic for the purpose. And, most of all, I'd have room for a computer and use of a DAW to record it all. Using the recorder I did was fine but, recording to the CD and finding correct starting points was a chore and a half. Never again.
If you have been following the recording process on the Recording Blog, you know of the challenges, frustrations and successes along the way. I post it all for the novice, like myself, who can read of some of the cliffs and rough trails one journeys on when you get into things. I have learned a great deal, that's for sure. It has been an education in more ways than one.
Once Tom has completed mixing #8, he'll then go back over each song and see if any "tweaking" needs to be accomplished. I hear things that need slight adjustments. Then the "mastering" of the joined song files takes place, then physical manufacturing of vinyl and CDs.
In total, I never dreamed I am coming up on a year since the idea to rerecord Fjords sparked a final "do it" in my mind. It will be a year gone by to see the finished raw recording tracks from each of us in album form, ready for fans and others to check out. I never thought it would take that long. But, in fact, other than Manos and Kostas, in Greece, no one else in this project is a full-time musician or recording engineer or business. We are all recording engineers, each recording our own raw tracks in our own environments, with Tom doing the lion's share of work on everything thereafter.
Despite the trials of life we have all faced or are facing; for me, this project has helped to get through some of those pressures and stressors and I look forward to holding the end results in my hands when it's finally a completely finished product.
LEGEND Revisited - From the Lord, is reaching its final leg of the journey.
Onward>>>
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Where Are We At?
Reading the news has become a depressing affair. I have watched for signs of the times in the general news for almost 45 years now and watching things ramp up and gain momentum is not a "happy place." Nobody likes sitting in a dentist chair and hearing the drill whizz and feeling that odd, numbed sensation of its turning your teeth into dust fragments sucked out by gurgling tubes rummaged around your mouth by an assistant; both looking into your mouth like a science experiment gone wrong. To me, that is what signs of the times are like. Yeah, it's nice to have your teeth looking better and all but, getting there ain't no fun. That's how I see where we are at.
The Blessed Hope, the return of Christ in power and glory and triumph is a wonderful thought. Going through everything happening and what's coming? Not so much.
I saw a headline that more than a dozen volcanoes exploded around the world in one week. Iceland is facing catastrophe, it's people in one town hoping their domain is not obliterated by "mother nature." Some scientists believe the entire Earth is entering a century of upheaval. Indeed. They come late to the party. Bible students watching things have known that for a long time, like, well over a century.
Crime, unimaginable demonic activity from supposed human beings, acting more like animals, is taking place in broad daylight. Worse, the perpetrators are crazy enough to put their behavior on social media for the world to see. Animals are not so stupid, all things considered. When humans begin hunting in packs, we can know humanity is drawing its final, desperate breaths for "survival of the fittest." Yes, I definitely connect it all to Darwinism. Mobs have always existed. Mobs always do dumb things. The react before they think things through and generally leave the rule of law on a shelf somewhere while they go forward to make things right. Explain, please, how a gang of animals literally stomping or beating another kid to death makes anything right?
One couple was found having totally naked sex in front of children and adult passersby; just as much animalistic behavior as violence. Teachers continue to have sexual relations with minors. Seemingly, not a week goes by that another story is added to the list.
In the 21st century, a Roman Catholic statue of Mary, the mother of Christ, was claimed to be weeping. Hundreds were flocking to its location in Mexico to witness the "miracle." Turns out a bead or line of silicone was placed on the statue to make it look like it was crying. News agencies I have trust to get their facts straight posted the headline as an actual miracle. I suspect their editors are Roman Catholics. Even the modern RCC, itself, takes time to investigate things before declaring something a "miracle." But, we see the age, despite technology and advancements, can still be affected by claims of the supernatural.
Of course, I am not dismissing the supernatural. The battle in those realms between Christ and Lucifer rages on. That stated, knowing "all power, signs, lying wonders and false "miracles" are coming, time to assess is paramount. Satan is going to have a field day with the human race because it is so confident the supernatural does not exist or, people remain less than logical in determining supernatural intervention in our natural order of things.
Wars and rumors of wars now gain the attention of the entire world wondering who will launch the first nuclear warhead across land or sea. I suppose by watching via satellite, Russia was seen loading a missile into a silo that carries another device with nuclear capabilities. China is enlarging its nuclear capabilities, with as much speed as possible. Xi comes to San Francisco to meet with our non-president, who goes off script and calls him a dictator, while the city cleaned up its mess of homeless, garbage and defecation on their streets, yet, when Xi leaves, it will all go back to the literal wasteland it has become through the negligence of elected civil servants.
"Are you for Hamas or Israel?" is the most stupid question on the planet right now, as literally millions of people around the globe takes sides and protest events building to a no-turning-back situation in the Middle East. Debates rage. People on the same sides, generally, are infighting. I cannot say I have ever seen anything like it in my life. And "God forbid" you take a position that says, 'It is not our business. We have more important needs at home, in our own nations.' That turns you into an instant genocidal maniac.
Honestly? Remember when your parents looked at you and your siblings or cousins and said, "Work it out. Just don't draw blood and kill each other, Okay?" In my mind, the situation between Jews and Arabs is thousands of years old. Let them work it out and if they annihilate each other in the process, so be it. Yes, colossally terrible but, nobody, no leader, no nation is going to intervene and create lasting change in a situation deeply filled with genetic hatred at this point (I hyperbolize). And the world still questions how this entire particular situation took place to begin with. Something was manipulated and manufactured. None of this seems logical, even with thousands of years of battles between the two forces. And both sides say God is on their side with zero evidence they can even bring God into it, at all!
The world is going mad. It's prophetic. It's happening. And worse is coming. God is shouting for humanity to wake up! It's hard to pay attention to spiritual matters, be they matters of eternal life or death, when just trying to feed a family and put gas in the tank controls daily life. Yet Christ said all these things shall be added unto us if we shall seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. That is God's promise. That is God's Word of truth. We must abide in it if we shall endure unto the end and be saved.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Blessed Hope, the return of Christ in power and glory and triumph is a wonderful thought. Going through everything happening and what's coming? Not so much.
I saw a headline that more than a dozen volcanoes exploded around the world in one week. Iceland is facing catastrophe, it's people in one town hoping their domain is not obliterated by "mother nature." Some scientists believe the entire Earth is entering a century of upheaval. Indeed. They come late to the party. Bible students watching things have known that for a long time, like, well over a century.
Crime, unimaginable demonic activity from supposed human beings, acting more like animals, is taking place in broad daylight. Worse, the perpetrators are crazy enough to put their behavior on social media for the world to see. Animals are not so stupid, all things considered. When humans begin hunting in packs, we can know humanity is drawing its final, desperate breaths for "survival of the fittest." Yes, I definitely connect it all to Darwinism. Mobs have always existed. Mobs always do dumb things. The react before they think things through and generally leave the rule of law on a shelf somewhere while they go forward to make things right. Explain, please, how a gang of animals literally stomping or beating another kid to death makes anything right?
One couple was found having totally naked sex in front of children and adult passersby; just as much animalistic behavior as violence. Teachers continue to have sexual relations with minors. Seemingly, not a week goes by that another story is added to the list.
In the 21st century, a Roman Catholic statue of Mary, the mother of Christ, was claimed to be weeping. Hundreds were flocking to its location in Mexico to witness the "miracle." Turns out a bead or line of silicone was placed on the statue to make it look like it was crying. News agencies I have trust to get their facts straight posted the headline as an actual miracle. I suspect their editors are Roman Catholics. Even the modern RCC, itself, takes time to investigate things before declaring something a "miracle." But, we see the age, despite technology and advancements, can still be affected by claims of the supernatural.
Of course, I am not dismissing the supernatural. The battle in those realms between Christ and Lucifer rages on. That stated, knowing "all power, signs, lying wonders and false "miracles" are coming, time to assess is paramount. Satan is going to have a field day with the human race because it is so confident the supernatural does not exist or, people remain less than logical in determining supernatural intervention in our natural order of things.
Wars and rumors of wars now gain the attention of the entire world wondering who will launch the first nuclear warhead across land or sea. I suppose by watching via satellite, Russia was seen loading a missile into a silo that carries another device with nuclear capabilities. China is enlarging its nuclear capabilities, with as much speed as possible. Xi comes to San Francisco to meet with our non-president, who goes off script and calls him a dictator, while the city cleaned up its mess of homeless, garbage and defecation on their streets, yet, when Xi leaves, it will all go back to the literal wasteland it has become through the negligence of elected civil servants.
"Are you for Hamas or Israel?" is the most stupid question on the planet right now, as literally millions of people around the globe takes sides and protest events building to a no-turning-back situation in the Middle East. Debates rage. People on the same sides, generally, are infighting. I cannot say I have ever seen anything like it in my life. And "God forbid" you take a position that says, 'It is not our business. We have more important needs at home, in our own nations.' That turns you into an instant genocidal maniac.
Honestly? Remember when your parents looked at you and your siblings or cousins and said, "Work it out. Just don't draw blood and kill each other, Okay?" In my mind, the situation between Jews and Arabs is thousands of years old. Let them work it out and if they annihilate each other in the process, so be it. Yes, colossally terrible but, nobody, no leader, no nation is going to intervene and create lasting change in a situation deeply filled with genetic hatred at this point (I hyperbolize). And the world still questions how this entire particular situation took place to begin with. Something was manipulated and manufactured. None of this seems logical, even with thousands of years of battles between the two forces. And both sides say God is on their side with zero evidence they can even bring God into it, at all!
The world is going mad. It's prophetic. It's happening. And worse is coming. God is shouting for humanity to wake up! It's hard to pay attention to spiritual matters, be they matters of eternal life or death, when just trying to feed a family and put gas in the tank controls daily life. Yet Christ said all these things shall be added unto us if we shall seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. That is God's promise. That is God's Word of truth. We must abide in it if we shall endure unto the end and be saved.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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876. Oh Beans! - November 18, 2023
Beans, beans, the musical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So, eat your beans at every meal.
A lyric the ever flatulent Shrek would love.
This is a public service announcement for those whose consumption of legumes turns their stomach into an internal combustion engine cataclysm of volcanic gas production and painful Boa constriction cramping.
Oh, yes, I have known it well, all my life. One of my favorite meals is what is called, Taco salad or "haystacks." Different people make them differently. I my neck of the woods you begin by stacking some broken corn or tortilla chips, then (for vegetarians) add on a meat substitute, then beans, then chopped lettuce, cucumbers, red or green peppers, tomatoes, olives, maybe avocados, onions (agh!), or whatever else you like. Some will just put all of that in a huge bowl and mix it all up and serve it with big spoons or tongs to grab it all. That tends to make the chips soggy, though. I prefer building one from scratch. In any event, baked beans (traditional Navy beans), adds a lot to the texture and flavor of it all but, the impending impact of intestinal war takes away any lingering enjoyment of the meal.
Navy beans are pretty much the only beans I have ever liked, save for peanuts, which, yes, are legumes, not nuts. Beans don't have much flavor in and of themselves, not to my taste buds, anyway. The method people make "Boston" baked beans up North adds a lot of flavor. But, I will suffer from the enzymic conflagration that begins to take place once digestion sets in.
So, I just leave it all alone or put up with it and take a bunch of charcoal capsules to address the forest fire inside my gut.
In the last few years because of domestic changes and the threat of world-wide, global problems, I began storing food, canned goods and such, which, for better or worse, contained bags of brown rice and dried soup beans. Rice and beans together make a healthy, complete protein. Because of impending date notices for freshness, I'd consume and rotate and add stock. When Covid struck and the world shut down, it wasn't the event I expected but, I began consuming the "emergency" food to save money on the grocery bill. Other concerns developed and I began eating beans and rice pretty exclusively since January. Yep, civil war in the belly and I had to stop because living with the pains was just too much but, inflation rising the grocery bill through the roof caused me to go back to beans and rice and I had to find a way to tone down the battle in the belly. Here's what works for me.
Many people soak their beans first, before cooking. I soak beans in hot water and salt for at least 8 hours, generally 12. The hot water reaches room temperature and I let it be. I've soaked the beans longer but, noticed they begin to taste a little rancid from being in the water too long, which is why I began to add the salt. How much? I never measure. I just take the container, flip down the spout and shake some in there. I don't go crazy with it.
Once the beans have soaked, I drain, cover them with hot water and stir them around and drain, at least 5 times, until the water turns clear.
Then for cooking, I just cover them with a half inch of water, put a heaping layer of dried parsley on top and stir it in. How much? Again, I don't measure. I just look to see I cover sight of the beans below the water's surface. I put the burner on just a bit over medium and let them cook for a 60-90 minutes. When that foam begins to build up, which a lot of cooks say not to worry about (and adding the parsley seems to lessen it), I take a small dipping screen, like used for tea leaves, and take all that foam out of there.
When the beans are cooked, and I don't fuss about how soft or el dente' they are, I add my flavorings (no onions or garlic!). When I eat the beans with rice, it's generally with a little more rice than beans and while I may get a touch of gun fights at the O.K. Corral, it is nothing like the Battle of the Bulge, WW2 I used to get.
A lot of people will take Beano after they eat legumes. The main ingredient in Beano is the enzyme, alpha-galactosidase, which breaks down and catalyzes various chemical carbohydrates, fats and sugars which can cause indigestion, such as those present in legumes.
Digestive enzymes exist in our small intestines to break down "food" into chemical parts our bodies need for nutrition and good blood. Some of us do not naturally produce enough in our digestive systems. A number of foods, themselves, contain heaping compounds of digestive enzymes; like Pineapple, Papaya, Mango, Kiwi, Banana and Avocado. Add to that natural Honey, Ginger root, and other natural sources which can be added to beans after cooking, can all add flavor (to taste), and help in dealing with the chemical warfare associated with eating legumes.
It's an experiment for your taste buds, no doubt but, my stomach thanks me for the time I have messed around with this gig, to keep the volcanic eruptions to a minimum, at least, and gone at best. And BTW, grains containing gluten, can also cause the same kind of pain and discomfort. Yes, I know by experience. I do not have Celiac disease but, am gluten intolerant. Been gluten free since 2003. A lot of years in pain and other negative symptoms not knowing the facts. I was amazed at the difference when I learned the truth and stopped consuming gluten, which is a protein found mostly in grains but, also gets added to processed foods for reasons of texture. Gluten is a sticky, stretchy substance that gives bread its more chewy texture.
Sure, I miss breads containing or made from wheat and Rye, I can't say I have eaten much Barley bread in my life and Barley is a biblical mainstay in diets in that region of the world. A principle is involved with all this. I do not live to eat. I eat to live. Big difference. Our society shows people who live to eat, and generally do not eat healthfully. They have become human trash cans putting anything perverted taste buds crave into their systems. You cannot do harm to your body and not pay a price. It's as much a law as the law of gravity. The laws of our being are as immutable as the orbits of the heavenly bodies. What we sow, we reap. And most of us learn the hard way.
Pro 23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Pro 23:2 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Pro 23:3 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
Pro 23:20 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
Pro 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Sounds rather like Thanksgiving in America and the aftermath of gluttony, doesn't it? Yeah, I've been there. Carb City. Everybody hits the couches, recliners, chairs and even bed to take a nap. Then they do it all over again later. The Bible says eat for strength, not gluttony.
Ecc 10:17 Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might [strength], and not for drunkenness [gluttony].
The classroom of life is a tough education. Follow God's Word and principles contained therein, and life will go much better for us where our health is concerned.
Someday, God's people from all ages, that consumed all kinds of negligent diets, suffering the consequences of ignorance, will be changed -
1Cor 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Cor 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Cor 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Cor 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Cor 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Once someone knows the truth, God expects adherence to His principles, for us, our sakes, not for Him. It is love for us that stands behind every principle God asks us to follow and obey.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So, eat your beans at every meal.
A lyric the ever flatulent Shrek would love.
This is a public service announcement for those whose consumption of legumes turns their stomach into an internal combustion engine cataclysm of volcanic gas production and painful Boa constriction cramping.
Oh, yes, I have known it well, all my life. One of my favorite meals is what is called, Taco salad or "haystacks." Different people make them differently. I my neck of the woods you begin by stacking some broken corn or tortilla chips, then (for vegetarians) add on a meat substitute, then beans, then chopped lettuce, cucumbers, red or green peppers, tomatoes, olives, maybe avocados, onions (agh!), or whatever else you like. Some will just put all of that in a huge bowl and mix it all up and serve it with big spoons or tongs to grab it all. That tends to make the chips soggy, though. I prefer building one from scratch. In any event, baked beans (traditional Navy beans), adds a lot to the texture and flavor of it all but, the impending impact of intestinal war takes away any lingering enjoyment of the meal.
Navy beans are pretty much the only beans I have ever liked, save for peanuts, which, yes, are legumes, not nuts. Beans don't have much flavor in and of themselves, not to my taste buds, anyway. The method people make "Boston" baked beans up North adds a lot of flavor. But, I will suffer from the enzymic conflagration that begins to take place once digestion sets in.
So, I just leave it all alone or put up with it and take a bunch of charcoal capsules to address the forest fire inside my gut.
In the last few years because of domestic changes and the threat of world-wide, global problems, I began storing food, canned goods and such, which, for better or worse, contained bags of brown rice and dried soup beans. Rice and beans together make a healthy, complete protein. Because of impending date notices for freshness, I'd consume and rotate and add stock. When Covid struck and the world shut down, it wasn't the event I expected but, I began consuming the "emergency" food to save money on the grocery bill. Other concerns developed and I began eating beans and rice pretty exclusively since January. Yep, civil war in the belly and I had to stop because living with the pains was just too much but, inflation rising the grocery bill through the roof caused me to go back to beans and rice and I had to find a way to tone down the battle in the belly. Here's what works for me.
Many people soak their beans first, before cooking. I soak beans in hot water and salt for at least 8 hours, generally 12. The hot water reaches room temperature and I let it be. I've soaked the beans longer but, noticed they begin to taste a little rancid from being in the water too long, which is why I began to add the salt. How much? I never measure. I just take the container, flip down the spout and shake some in there. I don't go crazy with it.
Once the beans have soaked, I drain, cover them with hot water and stir them around and drain, at least 5 times, until the water turns clear.
Then for cooking, I just cover them with a half inch of water, put a heaping layer of dried parsley on top and stir it in. How much? Again, I don't measure. I just look to see I cover sight of the beans below the water's surface. I put the burner on just a bit over medium and let them cook for a 60-90 minutes. When that foam begins to build up, which a lot of cooks say not to worry about (and adding the parsley seems to lessen it), I take a small dipping screen, like used for tea leaves, and take all that foam out of there.
When the beans are cooked, and I don't fuss about how soft or el dente' they are, I add my flavorings (no onions or garlic!). When I eat the beans with rice, it's generally with a little more rice than beans and while I may get a touch of gun fights at the O.K. Corral, it is nothing like the Battle of the Bulge, WW2 I used to get.
A lot of people will take Beano after they eat legumes. The main ingredient in Beano is the enzyme, alpha-galactosidase, which breaks down and catalyzes various chemical carbohydrates, fats and sugars which can cause indigestion, such as those present in legumes.
Digestive enzymes exist in our small intestines to break down "food" into chemical parts our bodies need for nutrition and good blood. Some of us do not naturally produce enough in our digestive systems. A number of foods, themselves, contain heaping compounds of digestive enzymes; like Pineapple, Papaya, Mango, Kiwi, Banana and Avocado. Add to that natural Honey, Ginger root, and other natural sources which can be added to beans after cooking, can all add flavor (to taste), and help in dealing with the chemical warfare associated with eating legumes.
It's an experiment for your taste buds, no doubt but, my stomach thanks me for the time I have messed around with this gig, to keep the volcanic eruptions to a minimum, at least, and gone at best. And BTW, grains containing gluten, can also cause the same kind of pain and discomfort. Yes, I know by experience. I do not have Celiac disease but, am gluten intolerant. Been gluten free since 2003. A lot of years in pain and other negative symptoms not knowing the facts. I was amazed at the difference when I learned the truth and stopped consuming gluten, which is a protein found mostly in grains but, also gets added to processed foods for reasons of texture. Gluten is a sticky, stretchy substance that gives bread its more chewy texture.
Sure, I miss breads containing or made from wheat and Rye, I can't say I have eaten much Barley bread in my life and Barley is a biblical mainstay in diets in that region of the world. A principle is involved with all this. I do not live to eat. I eat to live. Big difference. Our society shows people who live to eat, and generally do not eat healthfully. They have become human trash cans putting anything perverted taste buds crave into their systems. You cannot do harm to your body and not pay a price. It's as much a law as the law of gravity. The laws of our being are as immutable as the orbits of the heavenly bodies. What we sow, we reap. And most of us learn the hard way.
Pro 23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Pro 23:2 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Pro 23:3 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
Pro 23:20 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
Pro 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Sounds rather like Thanksgiving in America and the aftermath of gluttony, doesn't it? Yeah, I've been there. Carb City. Everybody hits the couches, recliners, chairs and even bed to take a nap. Then they do it all over again later. The Bible says eat for strength, not gluttony.
Ecc 10:17 Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might [strength], and not for drunkenness [gluttony].
The classroom of life is a tough education. Follow God's Word and principles contained therein, and life will go much better for us where our health is concerned.
Someday, God's people from all ages, that consumed all kinds of negligent diets, suffering the consequences of ignorance, will be changed -
1Cor 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Cor 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Cor 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Cor 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Cor 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Once someone knows the truth, God expects adherence to His principles, for us, our sakes, not for Him. It is love for us that stands behind every principle God asks us to follow and obey.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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40 Failed Predictions
You know I am a creationist. I believe the biblical Deity created everything and did so with power we cannot fathom. He spoke, it is came into being. If you find that silly, consider the alternative, which is also a miracle: everything came from nothing, somehow, some way, by some mathematical equation remaining totally unobserved by human minds and methods.
Darwinism is the premise, and not his original thought; for others had it before him, that long geological ages existed and life came out of some hot, soupy, primordial pond, struck by lightning or something and biological life came into being as a single cell of microscopic, plasma-type jelly. From there, tiny changes over time developed a tree of life and everything emerged from a single ancestor, humans being at the top of the tree, thus far. One might tell that to house cats and pet dogs, as humans kill each other for nothing more than the amount of melanin in their skin or the religion they chose to follow. Will the real animal, please, stand up?
Anyway... science, methodological science, tests things, observes things, and makes predictions based on those tests and observations. I just read a good article listing 40 predictions cosmic and biological evolutionists have made that have failed to prove true, yet... they continue on with the sole premise that someday they will put it all together correctly, and they do so with constantly changing goal posts and rescuing devices for each proven wrong prediction. It's really quite sad and pitiful. Their tenacity is almost admirable but, their choice to deny evidence, because they cannot allow God to get a foot in the door, remains in concrete. So be it.
creation.com/evolution-40-failed-predictions
Make sure you read the comments and replies from Dr. Batten, as well. Lots of extra, pertinent information.
The article concludes with a quote -
"Leading evolutionary population geneticist D.M.S. Watson (1886–1973) commented years ago:
“evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” Watson, D.M.S., Nature 124:233, 1929.
Indeed, everything from nothing is quite incredible. But, everything has a source and a cause. I choose to believe the Creator is the Source and Cause of the miracle, not an unproven mathematical sequence on a chalkboard of a totally unobserved accident of... nothing. Now that strikes me as a lot more incredible than God creating everything.
Darwinism is the premise, and not his original thought; for others had it before him, that long geological ages existed and life came out of some hot, soupy, primordial pond, struck by lightning or something and biological life came into being as a single cell of microscopic, plasma-type jelly. From there, tiny changes over time developed a tree of life and everything emerged from a single ancestor, humans being at the top of the tree, thus far. One might tell that to house cats and pet dogs, as humans kill each other for nothing more than the amount of melanin in their skin or the religion they chose to follow. Will the real animal, please, stand up?
Anyway... science, methodological science, tests things, observes things, and makes predictions based on those tests and observations. I just read a good article listing 40 predictions cosmic and biological evolutionists have made that have failed to prove true, yet... they continue on with the sole premise that someday they will put it all together correctly, and they do so with constantly changing goal posts and rescuing devices for each proven wrong prediction. It's really quite sad and pitiful. Their tenacity is almost admirable but, their choice to deny evidence, because they cannot allow God to get a foot in the door, remains in concrete. So be it.
creation.com/evolution-40-failed-predictions
Make sure you read the comments and replies from Dr. Batten, as well. Lots of extra, pertinent information.
The article concludes with a quote -
"Leading evolutionary population geneticist D.M.S. Watson (1886–1973) commented years ago:
“evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” Watson, D.M.S., Nature 124:233, 1929.
Indeed, everything from nothing is quite incredible. But, everything has a source and a cause. I choose to believe the Creator is the Source and Cause of the miracle, not an unproven mathematical sequence on a chalkboard of a totally unobserved accident of... nothing. Now that strikes me as a lot more incredible than God creating everything.
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That One, Single Moment
I just finished watching an interview with Jeff Beck, done in 2013 at Abbey Road studios. I was watching something completely different on YouTube and you know how it throws up a bunch of different things in the side bar to watch and I saw the picture of Jeff; and having been watching some things about Allan Holdsworth lately, I guess the algorithms at YT just saw fit to pop that interview in there.
I did not expect to watch the entire interview but, I did. Jeff Beck was always one of my favorite guitarists; a very unique, recognizable voice at the instrument. Easy to follow while one of my other favorite players, Holdsworth, was impossible for me to understand but, his singular voice at the instrument was unlike any other player in my generation. He could just strike one chord and you knew it was him. It was the same with Beck.
But this post is not about guitarists. No. The last question Jeff was asked in the interview was to name the single event that changed his life forever. For him, it was walking into a music shop and noodling around on a guitar and being asked by a stranger, a lounge pianist, to join his band, giving him his card; which began his music career journey.
As I heard the question and listened to Beck's answer, the question became personal and instantly the moment that changed me life came into my mind. I didn't think about it for a minute. It was just there, instantly.
I was involved with the LEGEND album. Everything was recorded. The two guys running the studio were fighting. Nothing was happening with mixing and mastering. They kept putting Kevin and me off, saying it would get done but, they had loaned money from a bank with huge monthly payments for that short-term loan my parents co-signed for. They were getting nervous. I had no close friends other than Kevin. No girlfriend. No one to counsel with. No one to just figure things out with and one day, in the mailbox, sat this piece of literature: a religious pamphlet of some kind in an envelope. The return address was meaningless. SDA Church, on some street in New Haven. Never heard of it. Amazing Facts. Oldish-type artwork; like something from the 1940's or 50's. The tracts kept coming. They just seemed nonsensical to me. Then came one tract that changed everything: a Bible study about the second coming of Christ. As I recall, I was standing outside, looking at it when one sentence in the study seemed to jump off the page into my brain: This will be the last generation of people living on planet Earth.
I stood there, stunned at the audacity of such a statement; the absolute ridiculous nature of it. Outrageously dumb. But, it gripped my soul and that moment began my journey towards the Christian faith. My life was drums, music, LEGEND and little else and this silly looking religious tract stopped me in my tracks. Reading it all did not really make sense to me and I ended up writing a long letter to the return address on the envelope, and I have mentioned the story before and will not here but, that moment: that single moment changed my life forever.
Forty-five years have gone by since that moment. My generation is passing away. I have not accomplished much of anything that will be left behind when my time comes. Yes, it is quite possible Christ will return to this sick, dying, dark world before I pass away; before my entire generation passes away. The Bible is pointed. The signs are clear, definitive, taking place with more to come, line up and drop like dominoes ushering in the end of this world as we know it. Audacious? Certainly. Fantastically so. Ridiculous? No. Not a chance. The Judgment of Almighty God is coming upon this rebellious ball floating around our solar system. A speck in space. Less than a dot in the vastness of the universe plays out a battle most will never understand because they refuse to take the time to check it out, in the only Book on Earth that has answers to life's most pressing questions and what is coming.
Time hastens along so quickly. Where has 2023 gone? Predictions for 2024 are bleak, at best. The prophetic statement from Christ - the sea and the waves roaring and men's hearts failing them for fear of what is to come on the Earth, rings true today. The sea, the waves; waters being prophetic symbolism for humanity; with the populations of six of seven continent's angry and rising up against one thing or another: disgusted, had enough, tired, worn out, ready to crash all gates. War, rumors of war. Famines, diseases, natural disasters mounting; strife and stress everywhere.
What's going on?
"This will be the last generation to live on planet Earth."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I did not expect to watch the entire interview but, I did. Jeff Beck was always one of my favorite guitarists; a very unique, recognizable voice at the instrument. Easy to follow while one of my other favorite players, Holdsworth, was impossible for me to understand but, his singular voice at the instrument was unlike any other player in my generation. He could just strike one chord and you knew it was him. It was the same with Beck.
But this post is not about guitarists. No. The last question Jeff was asked in the interview was to name the single event that changed his life forever. For him, it was walking into a music shop and noodling around on a guitar and being asked by a stranger, a lounge pianist, to join his band, giving him his card; which began his music career journey.
As I heard the question and listened to Beck's answer, the question became personal and instantly the moment that changed me life came into my mind. I didn't think about it for a minute. It was just there, instantly.
I was involved with the LEGEND album. Everything was recorded. The two guys running the studio were fighting. Nothing was happening with mixing and mastering. They kept putting Kevin and me off, saying it would get done but, they had loaned money from a bank with huge monthly payments for that short-term loan my parents co-signed for. They were getting nervous. I had no close friends other than Kevin. No girlfriend. No one to counsel with. No one to just figure things out with and one day, in the mailbox, sat this piece of literature: a religious pamphlet of some kind in an envelope. The return address was meaningless. SDA Church, on some street in New Haven. Never heard of it. Amazing Facts. Oldish-type artwork; like something from the 1940's or 50's. The tracts kept coming. They just seemed nonsensical to me. Then came one tract that changed everything: a Bible study about the second coming of Christ. As I recall, I was standing outside, looking at it when one sentence in the study seemed to jump off the page into my brain: This will be the last generation of people living on planet Earth.
I stood there, stunned at the audacity of such a statement; the absolute ridiculous nature of it. Outrageously dumb. But, it gripped my soul and that moment began my journey towards the Christian faith. My life was drums, music, LEGEND and little else and this silly looking religious tract stopped me in my tracks. Reading it all did not really make sense to me and I ended up writing a long letter to the return address on the envelope, and I have mentioned the story before and will not here but, that moment: that single moment changed my life forever.
Forty-five years have gone by since that moment. My generation is passing away. I have not accomplished much of anything that will be left behind when my time comes. Yes, it is quite possible Christ will return to this sick, dying, dark world before I pass away; before my entire generation passes away. The Bible is pointed. The signs are clear, definitive, taking place with more to come, line up and drop like dominoes ushering in the end of this world as we know it. Audacious? Certainly. Fantastically so. Ridiculous? No. Not a chance. The Judgment of Almighty God is coming upon this rebellious ball floating around our solar system. A speck in space. Less than a dot in the vastness of the universe plays out a battle most will never understand because they refuse to take the time to check it out, in the only Book on Earth that has answers to life's most pressing questions and what is coming.
Time hastens along so quickly. Where has 2023 gone? Predictions for 2024 are bleak, at best. The prophetic statement from Christ - the sea and the waves roaring and men's hearts failing them for fear of what is to come on the Earth, rings true today. The sea, the waves; waters being prophetic symbolism for humanity; with the populations of six of seven continent's angry and rising up against one thing or another: disgusted, had enough, tired, worn out, ready to crash all gates. War, rumors of war. Famines, diseases, natural disasters mounting; strife and stress everywhere.
What's going on?
"This will be the last generation to live on planet Earth."
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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The George Floyd Saga Continues
I have seen headlines for this information but, this video clip from Jesse Waters encapsulates it all very well.
I just saw this video option on my YT home page. Thought I'd check it out. It's another one that 300,000,000 Americans should watch. At present, it appears 487,000 have. That's a shame because our nation was changed and lives ruined and taken, and all of it based on lies. Will the liars be prosecuted? I doubt it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VL80tu-4Y
When a nation functions on lies, it falls. That's history. It's happening to America.
I just saw this video option on my YT home page. Thought I'd check it out. It's another one that 300,000,000 Americans should watch. At present, it appears 487,000 have. That's a shame because our nation was changed and lives ruined and taken, and all of it based on lies. Will the liars be prosecuted? I doubt it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VL80tu-4Y
When a nation functions on lies, it falls. That's history. It's happening to America.
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877. Thankful? - November 22, 2023
"Study to show yourself approved by God, a workmen that needs not to be ashamed; rightly dividing the word of truth."
The Bible bids us, if not demands from believers, for their own good, betterment and protection, to study the Word of God and to work for the salvation of others; being able to correctly divide or handle its contents. Some translations state to be diligent or to do our best to be approved of God.
One of the things you will experience when you do this is an inner feeling of accomplishment that few things in life can afford such effort. There is no failure in the pursuit of biblical knowledge. Any mind deciding to learn, shall learn and grow in their understanding. There is no classroom that can ennoble the mind and enhance your thinking skills better than diligent study of God's Word. It is literally life changing.
The other experience, perhaps more powerful, is what happens when you connect with others who have not made such a commitment. It is important you know this, even if it hurts, which it will.
Someone close to me, pretty much my entire life, who became a Christian around the time I did, stays in touch with me and we share things back and forth about signs of the times, various activities and people under the umbrella of profession of the faith; and he'll ask my opinion or beliefs about things from time to time. Sometimes I plague him with my own doubts and failings. Recently he shared with me - considering my own current circumstances - when he gave his life to Christ his entire world seemed to come unglued. His wife left him, he lost his children, his own family members questioned everything about him as though he had gone mad, people lied about him, cost him his property, employment opportunities... I could go on, and I remember some of those instances he went through. He is definitely not a poster-boy for how great it is to become a Christian: some pie in the sky, float through Happiness City time of constant rejoicing. The journey may begin that way. For many, it certainly does. It did for me. Everything seems new, fresh, hopeful, dynamic and the enemy leaves you alone for a time, seeing the experience is too strong to topple. He waits, he watches, then he begins his strikes.
It is at that point, diligence to study to show you approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly handling the world of truth [my deliberate change of wording], is a defense that is worth its weight in gold. Your family, your friends, your acquaintances, your co-workers, your world will divide into those who want truth and those who do not. That is not even the most dangerous or hurtful part. Those you fellowship with in the faith will also divide over you and your experience and your stand of and defense of the Word of truth. You can just ask questions that will start a war. Why? Because the Bible, through Christ, states the last age of Christianity is a lukewarm age, Rev 3:14-22. If it were hot and on fire, it would be connected to Christ in more than name only. It would have that unity Christ talked of and desires for His people. If it were cold, God could arrange affairs of various situations where the Holy Spirit could ignite some fires and bring revival but, the age is lukewarm, thinking all is well, believing everything is all right when everything is all wrong; and Christ is made sick enough to vomit out every impurity in His body. Is that not what happens naturally when we get sick with something that disturbs our digestive system and therefore other body systems, somehow? The body purges the invading force and everything else that has been contaminated by it.
Christ is going to vomit out all lukewarm people in His church. It's called the process of shaking and sifting: an age old practice of throwing grain up into the wind and the wind blows away the chaff and the heavier seeds of grain fall back into the bin or barrel or tray of useful food. It shall be a terrible but, very necessary process. It has happened at various times down through history. The winds of persecution have separated chaff from the grain through that most prevalent means. Painful, yes, whether it comes against the entire faith or just an individual or a family, a town, a region or country. It shall eventually come upon the entire Christian world.
The apostle Peter had things to say about such times, as they were happening in his own day -
1Pet 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1Pet 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
1Pet 3:14 But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1Pet 3:15 But sanctify [set apart] the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear:
1Pet 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation [behavior] in Christ.
1Pet 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
As you read that passage, you realize the simple fact; it is better to be good, than bad. Simple as that but, the necessity of having an understanding of why is very important. It is why God, through His Word, divides the world into truth and error, light and dark, sheep and goats, grain and weeds, and other such effective means of getting His point across that life is hard, following Him may be, will be hard at times and the difference is paramount. Sin ends in death. Righteousness ends in everlasting, eternal, immortal life with God, the redeemed of all ages, the angelic host and an entire universe to explore forever.
When the believer is set upon by a web of lies, being misunderstood by those who have not the decency to ask before they speak or act, or do ask, and hate you for your answers which open up their own darkness inside; as the Holy Spirit convicts them of it and their need for Christ; and they fight, they wrestle, they attempt to tear away from all influence of God upon their minds and attack the believer as the reason for their own despondency inside... it is a given of life in Christ that His people shall suffer persecution, or at least harassment or oppression at some point in their marching to Zion. The Bible claims it is a war for good reason. Fighting, battling, war... it is more real than anything happening in Ukraine or Israel/Gaza right now. Those wars shall end, eventually. The war between good and evil is perpetual and shall not end until Christ returns and shuts it down for good. Even at that, the Bible says 1000 years from now the unrighteous shall be resurrected for final judgment and execution of it and Lucifer will gather together hosts of the living dead, as many as the sands of the seas, who shall surround the City of life everlasting and seek to take control; and the scope of the final conflagration cannot be envisioned by any human mind. Our God is a consuming fire. The consumption of everything will challenge the minds of all who behold it but, the end shall come and total peace will reign at last. A new heaven, a new Earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
You might think to yourself - "Better I not learn the Word and become a bright light shining in someone's eyes and they blame me for their blindness. Better I just accept Christ and stay in the shadows." Many do that and portray the very things Christ said happens in the parable of the Sower and what happens to the seed, which is His Word. Four groups of people. Only one makes it through to harvest of eternal life. The others are ruined by birds taking the seed off ground by the wayside, or too hard for roots to grow or young plants being killed by weeds and thickets of thorns growing all around. Only good ground, and attention to development of seed to plant to fruit brings forth a harvest. Lack of attention; persecution; the cares of this life take their harvest of destruction of well intentioned people who start the journey but, do not finish it in eternal life with Christ.
Study of the Word builds a fortress in the mind. Having answers for those who question or attack you may bring on their hatred of you thinking you know it all, of being unable to associate with people, being contrary, of being thought of poorly by associates who do not study the word and do not understand the times we live in and refuse to acknowledge the saving, sanctifying truth of God but, that is on them, while the believer knows that they are not alone because all Heaven stands behind them. An entire church may drop their bombs of disdain upon one believer of the whole Word of God but, against the throne of God, His Son, the Holy Spirit and an army of angels humanity could not number?
This is not permission to display a poor, unchristlike character or sour personality. Christ can, will and must change that for His service through the believer. It is reason to see how the world is truly divided despite all treaties, all concords, all agreements that bring people together. If the whole world sings Kumbaya, in God's eyes, under Heaven's parameters, it is still at war.
God knows our pains. He collects every tear in His bottle, Psalm 56:8. Everything we go through is written down in His books. His data file is infinitely incomprehensible. Every thought, word and deed is written down in a database mankind cannot fathom. Whatever we go through for our Lord and Saviour is not only not unknown or known and forgotten; it is treasured as though it were priceless artifacts of a life lived for something unseen but, totally believed in because of what their experience inside them has afforded their faith and trust and hope of something precious and better to come.
In America, the holiday, Thanksgiving, arrives tomorrow. Millions of people are travelling to be with friends and family. Millions will sit down at tables with more food than any other time of the year. Millions will make the day about food and football while millions of others will remember why the day is commemorated: God can change things, save us, make provisions for us, join humans in thanksgiving for His bounty and gifts to a speck in His universe that He loves and cares for and offers promise of better things to come, someday, when sin shall be put down and removed forever, and peace and righteousness shall reign throughout every atom of space and time.
I hope you have a peaceful and grateful Thanksgiving. To those from other lands, reading from areas of great stress and strain; Americans know it and the fact is, our own time is upon us. We cannot be left unscathed for long. This may be the last free Thanksgiving we experience if the ship of freedom and liberty is capsized by radical minds bent on totalitarian control. May we be thankful for the freedoms and liberty we currently yet have. Beyond that, the struggle of all time is about to burst upon us all.
Read the 12th chapter of the book of Hebrews today. It's scope is wide. What it teaches is deeply necessary. God knows. He cares. He loves you, despite the way things may look right at this moment, and He is going to deal with this planet's population as it deserves, some day soon.
Know the Word, at whatever place in the journey you are. Believe in it. It is alive, sharp, cutting, penetrating, healing, life giving. It truly is.
Hang in there. I hear the steps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Bible bids us, if not demands from believers, for their own good, betterment and protection, to study the Word of God and to work for the salvation of others; being able to correctly divide or handle its contents. Some translations state to be diligent or to do our best to be approved of God.
One of the things you will experience when you do this is an inner feeling of accomplishment that few things in life can afford such effort. There is no failure in the pursuit of biblical knowledge. Any mind deciding to learn, shall learn and grow in their understanding. There is no classroom that can ennoble the mind and enhance your thinking skills better than diligent study of God's Word. It is literally life changing.
The other experience, perhaps more powerful, is what happens when you connect with others who have not made such a commitment. It is important you know this, even if it hurts, which it will.
Someone close to me, pretty much my entire life, who became a Christian around the time I did, stays in touch with me and we share things back and forth about signs of the times, various activities and people under the umbrella of profession of the faith; and he'll ask my opinion or beliefs about things from time to time. Sometimes I plague him with my own doubts and failings. Recently he shared with me - considering my own current circumstances - when he gave his life to Christ his entire world seemed to come unglued. His wife left him, he lost his children, his own family members questioned everything about him as though he had gone mad, people lied about him, cost him his property, employment opportunities... I could go on, and I remember some of those instances he went through. He is definitely not a poster-boy for how great it is to become a Christian: some pie in the sky, float through Happiness City time of constant rejoicing. The journey may begin that way. For many, it certainly does. It did for me. Everything seems new, fresh, hopeful, dynamic and the enemy leaves you alone for a time, seeing the experience is too strong to topple. He waits, he watches, then he begins his strikes.
It is at that point, diligence to study to show you approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly handling the world of truth [my deliberate change of wording], is a defense that is worth its weight in gold. Your family, your friends, your acquaintances, your co-workers, your world will divide into those who want truth and those who do not. That is not even the most dangerous or hurtful part. Those you fellowship with in the faith will also divide over you and your experience and your stand of and defense of the Word of truth. You can just ask questions that will start a war. Why? Because the Bible, through Christ, states the last age of Christianity is a lukewarm age, Rev 3:14-22. If it were hot and on fire, it would be connected to Christ in more than name only. It would have that unity Christ talked of and desires for His people. If it were cold, God could arrange affairs of various situations where the Holy Spirit could ignite some fires and bring revival but, the age is lukewarm, thinking all is well, believing everything is all right when everything is all wrong; and Christ is made sick enough to vomit out every impurity in His body. Is that not what happens naturally when we get sick with something that disturbs our digestive system and therefore other body systems, somehow? The body purges the invading force and everything else that has been contaminated by it.
Christ is going to vomit out all lukewarm people in His church. It's called the process of shaking and sifting: an age old practice of throwing grain up into the wind and the wind blows away the chaff and the heavier seeds of grain fall back into the bin or barrel or tray of useful food. It shall be a terrible but, very necessary process. It has happened at various times down through history. The winds of persecution have separated chaff from the grain through that most prevalent means. Painful, yes, whether it comes against the entire faith or just an individual or a family, a town, a region or country. It shall eventually come upon the entire Christian world.
The apostle Peter had things to say about such times, as they were happening in his own day -
1Pet 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1Pet 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
1Pet 3:14 But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1Pet 3:15 But sanctify [set apart] the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear:
1Pet 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation [behavior] in Christ.
1Pet 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
As you read that passage, you realize the simple fact; it is better to be good, than bad. Simple as that but, the necessity of having an understanding of why is very important. It is why God, through His Word, divides the world into truth and error, light and dark, sheep and goats, grain and weeds, and other such effective means of getting His point across that life is hard, following Him may be, will be hard at times and the difference is paramount. Sin ends in death. Righteousness ends in everlasting, eternal, immortal life with God, the redeemed of all ages, the angelic host and an entire universe to explore forever.
When the believer is set upon by a web of lies, being misunderstood by those who have not the decency to ask before they speak or act, or do ask, and hate you for your answers which open up their own darkness inside; as the Holy Spirit convicts them of it and their need for Christ; and they fight, they wrestle, they attempt to tear away from all influence of God upon their minds and attack the believer as the reason for their own despondency inside... it is a given of life in Christ that His people shall suffer persecution, or at least harassment or oppression at some point in their marching to Zion. The Bible claims it is a war for good reason. Fighting, battling, war... it is more real than anything happening in Ukraine or Israel/Gaza right now. Those wars shall end, eventually. The war between good and evil is perpetual and shall not end until Christ returns and shuts it down for good. Even at that, the Bible says 1000 years from now the unrighteous shall be resurrected for final judgment and execution of it and Lucifer will gather together hosts of the living dead, as many as the sands of the seas, who shall surround the City of life everlasting and seek to take control; and the scope of the final conflagration cannot be envisioned by any human mind. Our God is a consuming fire. The consumption of everything will challenge the minds of all who behold it but, the end shall come and total peace will reign at last. A new heaven, a new Earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
You might think to yourself - "Better I not learn the Word and become a bright light shining in someone's eyes and they blame me for their blindness. Better I just accept Christ and stay in the shadows." Many do that and portray the very things Christ said happens in the parable of the Sower and what happens to the seed, which is His Word. Four groups of people. Only one makes it through to harvest of eternal life. The others are ruined by birds taking the seed off ground by the wayside, or too hard for roots to grow or young plants being killed by weeds and thickets of thorns growing all around. Only good ground, and attention to development of seed to plant to fruit brings forth a harvest. Lack of attention; persecution; the cares of this life take their harvest of destruction of well intentioned people who start the journey but, do not finish it in eternal life with Christ.
Study of the Word builds a fortress in the mind. Having answers for those who question or attack you may bring on their hatred of you thinking you know it all, of being unable to associate with people, being contrary, of being thought of poorly by associates who do not study the word and do not understand the times we live in and refuse to acknowledge the saving, sanctifying truth of God but, that is on them, while the believer knows that they are not alone because all Heaven stands behind them. An entire church may drop their bombs of disdain upon one believer of the whole Word of God but, against the throne of God, His Son, the Holy Spirit and an army of angels humanity could not number?
This is not permission to display a poor, unchristlike character or sour personality. Christ can, will and must change that for His service through the believer. It is reason to see how the world is truly divided despite all treaties, all concords, all agreements that bring people together. If the whole world sings Kumbaya, in God's eyes, under Heaven's parameters, it is still at war.
God knows our pains. He collects every tear in His bottle, Psalm 56:8. Everything we go through is written down in His books. His data file is infinitely incomprehensible. Every thought, word and deed is written down in a database mankind cannot fathom. Whatever we go through for our Lord and Saviour is not only not unknown or known and forgotten; it is treasured as though it were priceless artifacts of a life lived for something unseen but, totally believed in because of what their experience inside them has afforded their faith and trust and hope of something precious and better to come.
In America, the holiday, Thanksgiving, arrives tomorrow. Millions of people are travelling to be with friends and family. Millions will sit down at tables with more food than any other time of the year. Millions will make the day about food and football while millions of others will remember why the day is commemorated: God can change things, save us, make provisions for us, join humans in thanksgiving for His bounty and gifts to a speck in His universe that He loves and cares for and offers promise of better things to come, someday, when sin shall be put down and removed forever, and peace and righteousness shall reign throughout every atom of space and time.
I hope you have a peaceful and grateful Thanksgiving. To those from other lands, reading from areas of great stress and strain; Americans know it and the fact is, our own time is upon us. We cannot be left unscathed for long. This may be the last free Thanksgiving we experience if the ship of freedom and liberty is capsized by radical minds bent on totalitarian control. May we be thankful for the freedoms and liberty we currently yet have. Beyond that, the struggle of all time is about to burst upon us all.
Read the 12th chapter of the book of Hebrews today. It's scope is wide. What it teaches is deeply necessary. God knows. He cares. He loves you, despite the way things may look right at this moment, and He is going to deal with this planet's population as it deserves, some day soon.
Know the Word, at whatever place in the journey you are. Believe in it. It is alive, sharp, cutting, penetrating, healing, life giving. It truly is.
Hang in there. I hear the steps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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878. It's Getting Warmer... - November 23, 2023
I'm posting this, this morning, just in caser anyone wanders in here this Thanksgiving Day and would like to read something new. I felt this was appropriate given the post that follows it, containing a video I just watched a couple minutes ago. It's getting warmer...
One of the reasons I happen to believe the UFO/ET phenomenon is going to unite the world under totally false pretenses is because it presents itself as the only possible thing that could unite the world and bypass all its moral and political objections and divisions, squabbles and wars and stop it in its tracks and take hold of it in ways never before seen by mankind. Satan will use the entire show to gather into his net all but, God's remnant people who shall see the charade for what it is.
Consider this. In the last couple years the Satanic Temple went to court here in Texas to fight abortion laws on the grounds an abortion is a religious ritual of theirs that must be protected by separation of church and state. The folly of the premise has taken hold, legally, in New Mexico.
Cosmopolitan magazine has uplifted the ST worldview with an article on how a ST associated abortion clinic can mail abortion pills to "patient"/consumers, and do so to any address one chooses, in case your state has laws against the practice. Their "ritual" is contained in the article.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/cosmopolitan-magazine-promotes-satanic-abortion-ritual-demonic-thing/
If you go to the link and read the article; if you know your Bible, you will read things diametrically opposed to, exact opposites of biblical principles. Herein creates the most dramatic of standoffs moving towards moral, cultural, open war.
Ask yourself, what could possibly unite abortionists with people who believe abortion is a criminal action? What could possibly unite Jews and Arabs? What could possibly unite Communists and Capitalists? What could possibly unite political, moral subjectivists on Left and Right?
Current religions are split. Doesn't matter which one you pick. Catholics, Protestants, Hindu, Muslims, they all have divisions in them. Atheists are even divided over many issues. What could unite objective differences between literally hundreds, if not thousands of different ideas and groups around the globe? What could bring the entire world to the table and discuss getting along for the good of the planet, when its population is reeling in stress, highly motivated to protest anything and everything, even to violence?
Right now, environmental protesters are sitting on highways, stopping morning traffic, acting the fools because they believe the world is going to end soon because of pollution. People have begun saying 'Enough' and just get out of their cars and pull these poor souls off the roads, spray them with various repellants, even drive by them, or on them to get past them. They are NOT peaceful protesters. They are agitants to peace. They are disturbing the peace with their physical activity of their worldview. Who but, their own adherents could be in unity with them? Even those who believe their views and motives disagree with their tactics. The world is grossly, irrevocably divided, like never before in human history.
Futurists believe a man of influence in Europe is going to usher in the time of trouble as the antichrist. Believe it or not, I began watching a video claiming Emmanuelle Macron, president of France, is that man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2sbT8VAoQ
I shook my head. I stopped watching. I will remove every post on this website about last-day events if anyone can show me from the book of Daniel, the antichrist/beast power comes out of France. Not happening. But, you see, Futurism stands on no decent foundation. It picks and chooses whoever may fit a temporary axle. Wheels constantly fall off because they are erroneous. They don't fit the truth. They are grasping at straws. No such straws can stay afloat with the weight of error pulling them down.
Those who disbelieve in life beyond Earth are going to have their heads turned inside out when "ET" makes themselves known because they will show from the Bible (just as millions of Christians and Jews already believe from the Bible), life beyond Earth exists; at the very least in the presence of God's angelic host but, also in the 'principle of the 99 sheep,' 'the "sons of God",' and 'those who "reign with Christ".'
Who are the 99?
Who and what are the sons of God in Job, who sang for joy when God created the Earth?
Who shall the redeemed reign over, with Christ? You can't reign if there's no one to reign over. Angels? No. Man was made a little lower than the angels. Getting back to what Adam had before he fell is not going to make the redeemed superior to angels. Who then? Logically, other citizens of this vast universe who did not fall to Lucifer's lies and delusions. It is rocket science. I have posted on this extensively because it is the most simple of possible delusions for Satan to use.
If "ET" points out these biblical realities, walls of rejection are going to be broken down and deniers of life beyond Earth will join the world in their fascination and acceptance of the galaxian/universal travelers. And these travelers, these visitants, these ambassadors from beyond will choose the Pope to represent them. From there the dominoes will fall to completion.
I bring this up from time to time because foolishness in Futurism adds incessant, constant, unending confusion to the subject of last-day events. Futurists, themselves, are sharply divided over some aspects of their charts for final events.
I have seen Prince - now King Charles, Barack Obama, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other world-known people is the antichrist, gaining power and control. (sigh) 666 tattoos, then computer chips or some other technological implanting/imprinting of the number on or in people. The guessing never ends, regardless of how sure people are.
Nope. Not those named. Not any particular man. The biblical power that shall have the final influence on mankind's war against God's law has been and whoever is sitting in the "Chair of Peter," in the Vatican, Rome's seat of power over the Catholic Church world, the Dragon's seat of power among mankind. The man of sin, son of perdition, who thinks he sits in that position of God on Earth is the one who tips the final dominoes of rebellion against the Ten Commandment law of God. Certainly JP2 was a possibility, the most powerful pope in a thousand years. Benedict? No. Francis? Hardly. He cannot join anything together. He's a Communist and he's splitting his church wide open. The next pope? I cannot know. No one can. When the one comes along that Lucifer shall use, expect to see miracles; unprecedented supernatural events at his hands. It shall be be the final dog and pony show. Satan shall make it an overmastering delusion. Save for those grounded and rooted in the Word of God.
If I am wrong about the whole "ET" intervention aspect, so be it. It just an educated guess looking pragmatically at what currently exists on Earth. No current or typical future pope could have the influence to stop the world in its tracks, unless, of course, he travels around the world; the Devil bringing "miracles" with the man of sin to shock the world into stopping everything because the great power of God has come down unto mankind. Of course, that is going to happen regardless of any possible opening gate to that eventuality. I am interested in the gate that opens the way. How will Satan come as an angel of light? "ET" seems the logical conclusion.
Think: the planet is ending, biblically speaking. Some think by pollution. Some think by world war. Some think by an asteroid or natural disaster of some kind. Some think by a totalitarian Artificial Intelligence. Something must take place to get billions of people to the table of cooperation and affinity to address all of it and sing Kumbaya: "peace and safety," under a delusion that shall bring about the end of the world as we know it, prophetically speaking.
My two cents says Satan will use the UFO/ET phenomena. And remember, I do not believe "ET" shall be anything more than Satanic activity. Current objects seen in the atmosphere or outer space may be military craft, multinational corporation craft, or Satanic illusion or physical presentation beyond our understanding. Given he is termed "prince of the power of the air" (Ephesians 2:2), it is only common sense to realize the abilities for deception Lucifer has in the atmosphere.
When the Bible says the Devil will work through the man of sin with ALL power, signs and lying WONDERS, it is not addressing crying statues or "holy water" turning into "blood" or whatever. No. Think way beyond that into realms of supernatural events that can shake and shock every person on the planet not prepared for what is coming. That could include a possible fake resurrection of prominent dead people: evil angels posing as these personages. We have no idea what Satan is actually going to pull off to pull together the entire world into his final deceptions.
We'll see.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Addendum. Let's look at Ephesians 2:2 for a minute -
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Why would the apostle use such a term to describe Lucifer? Well, we know and Paul knew that Lucifer used the atmosphere to ruin Job.
Job 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Two of the events that fell upon Job's flocks and his children were atmosphere related. The first may have been a meteorite or small asteroid. The second, a tornado. Whatever abilities God created Lucifer with, they are great enough to control the atmosphere and grabbing a chunk of rock from outer space is no small feat either. In the next post, prepare to be stunned. Satan is at work, and shall continue to ramp up his delusions.
One of the reasons I happen to believe the UFO/ET phenomenon is going to unite the world under totally false pretenses is because it presents itself as the only possible thing that could unite the world and bypass all its moral and political objections and divisions, squabbles and wars and stop it in its tracks and take hold of it in ways never before seen by mankind. Satan will use the entire show to gather into his net all but, God's remnant people who shall see the charade for what it is.
Consider this. In the last couple years the Satanic Temple went to court here in Texas to fight abortion laws on the grounds an abortion is a religious ritual of theirs that must be protected by separation of church and state. The folly of the premise has taken hold, legally, in New Mexico.
Cosmopolitan magazine has uplifted the ST worldview with an article on how a ST associated abortion clinic can mail abortion pills to "patient"/consumers, and do so to any address one chooses, in case your state has laws against the practice. Their "ritual" is contained in the article.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/cosmopolitan-magazine-promotes-satanic-abortion-ritual-demonic-thing/
If you go to the link and read the article; if you know your Bible, you will read things diametrically opposed to, exact opposites of biblical principles. Herein creates the most dramatic of standoffs moving towards moral, cultural, open war.
Ask yourself, what could possibly unite abortionists with people who believe abortion is a criminal action? What could possibly unite Jews and Arabs? What could possibly unite Communists and Capitalists? What could possibly unite political, moral subjectivists on Left and Right?
Current religions are split. Doesn't matter which one you pick. Catholics, Protestants, Hindu, Muslims, they all have divisions in them. Atheists are even divided over many issues. What could unite objective differences between literally hundreds, if not thousands of different ideas and groups around the globe? What could bring the entire world to the table and discuss getting along for the good of the planet, when its population is reeling in stress, highly motivated to protest anything and everything, even to violence?
Right now, environmental protesters are sitting on highways, stopping morning traffic, acting the fools because they believe the world is going to end soon because of pollution. People have begun saying 'Enough' and just get out of their cars and pull these poor souls off the roads, spray them with various repellants, even drive by them, or on them to get past them. They are NOT peaceful protesters. They are agitants to peace. They are disturbing the peace with their physical activity of their worldview. Who but, their own adherents could be in unity with them? Even those who believe their views and motives disagree with their tactics. The world is grossly, irrevocably divided, like never before in human history.
Futurists believe a man of influence in Europe is going to usher in the time of trouble as the antichrist. Believe it or not, I began watching a video claiming Emmanuelle Macron, president of France, is that man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2sbT8VAoQ
I shook my head. I stopped watching. I will remove every post on this website about last-day events if anyone can show me from the book of Daniel, the antichrist/beast power comes out of France. Not happening. But, you see, Futurism stands on no decent foundation. It picks and chooses whoever may fit a temporary axle. Wheels constantly fall off because they are erroneous. They don't fit the truth. They are grasping at straws. No such straws can stay afloat with the weight of error pulling them down.
Those who disbelieve in life beyond Earth are going to have their heads turned inside out when "ET" makes themselves known because they will show from the Bible (just as millions of Christians and Jews already believe from the Bible), life beyond Earth exists; at the very least in the presence of God's angelic host but, also in the 'principle of the 99 sheep,' 'the "sons of God",' and 'those who "reign with Christ".'
Who are the 99?
Who and what are the sons of God in Job, who sang for joy when God created the Earth?
Who shall the redeemed reign over, with Christ? You can't reign if there's no one to reign over. Angels? No. Man was made a little lower than the angels. Getting back to what Adam had before he fell is not going to make the redeemed superior to angels. Who then? Logically, other citizens of this vast universe who did not fall to Lucifer's lies and delusions. It is rocket science. I have posted on this extensively because it is the most simple of possible delusions for Satan to use.
If "ET" points out these biblical realities, walls of rejection are going to be broken down and deniers of life beyond Earth will join the world in their fascination and acceptance of the galaxian/universal travelers. And these travelers, these visitants, these ambassadors from beyond will choose the Pope to represent them. From there the dominoes will fall to completion.
I bring this up from time to time because foolishness in Futurism adds incessant, constant, unending confusion to the subject of last-day events. Futurists, themselves, are sharply divided over some aspects of their charts for final events.
I have seen Prince - now King Charles, Barack Obama, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other world-known people is the antichrist, gaining power and control. (sigh) 666 tattoos, then computer chips or some other technological implanting/imprinting of the number on or in people. The guessing never ends, regardless of how sure people are.
Nope. Not those named. Not any particular man. The biblical power that shall have the final influence on mankind's war against God's law has been and whoever is sitting in the "Chair of Peter," in the Vatican, Rome's seat of power over the Catholic Church world, the Dragon's seat of power among mankind. The man of sin, son of perdition, who thinks he sits in that position of God on Earth is the one who tips the final dominoes of rebellion against the Ten Commandment law of God. Certainly JP2 was a possibility, the most powerful pope in a thousand years. Benedict? No. Francis? Hardly. He cannot join anything together. He's a Communist and he's splitting his church wide open. The next pope? I cannot know. No one can. When the one comes along that Lucifer shall use, expect to see miracles; unprecedented supernatural events at his hands. It shall be be the final dog and pony show. Satan shall make it an overmastering delusion. Save for those grounded and rooted in the Word of God.
If I am wrong about the whole "ET" intervention aspect, so be it. It just an educated guess looking pragmatically at what currently exists on Earth. No current or typical future pope could have the influence to stop the world in its tracks, unless, of course, he travels around the world; the Devil bringing "miracles" with the man of sin to shock the world into stopping everything because the great power of God has come down unto mankind. Of course, that is going to happen regardless of any possible opening gate to that eventuality. I am interested in the gate that opens the way. How will Satan come as an angel of light? "ET" seems the logical conclusion.
Think: the planet is ending, biblically speaking. Some think by pollution. Some think by world war. Some think by an asteroid or natural disaster of some kind. Some think by a totalitarian Artificial Intelligence. Something must take place to get billions of people to the table of cooperation and affinity to address all of it and sing Kumbaya: "peace and safety," under a delusion that shall bring about the end of the world as we know it, prophetically speaking.
My two cents says Satan will use the UFO/ET phenomena. And remember, I do not believe "ET" shall be anything more than Satanic activity. Current objects seen in the atmosphere or outer space may be military craft, multinational corporation craft, or Satanic illusion or physical presentation beyond our understanding. Given he is termed "prince of the power of the air" (Ephesians 2:2), it is only common sense to realize the abilities for deception Lucifer has in the atmosphere.
When the Bible says the Devil will work through the man of sin with ALL power, signs and lying WONDERS, it is not addressing crying statues or "holy water" turning into "blood" or whatever. No. Think way beyond that into realms of supernatural events that can shake and shock every person on the planet not prepared for what is coming. That could include a possible fake resurrection of prominent dead people: evil angels posing as these personages. We have no idea what Satan is actually going to pull off to pull together the entire world into his final deceptions.
We'll see.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Addendum. Let's look at Ephesians 2:2 for a minute -
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Why would the apostle use such a term to describe Lucifer? Well, we know and Paul knew that Lucifer used the atmosphere to ruin Job.
Job 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Two of the events that fell upon Job's flocks and his children were atmosphere related. The first may have been a meteorite or small asteroid. The second, a tornado. Whatever abilities God created Lucifer with, they are great enough to control the atmosphere and grabbing a chunk of rock from outer space is no small feat either. In the next post, prepare to be stunned. Satan is at work, and shall continue to ramp up his delusions.
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The Delusions Are Ramping Up
I mentioned in the previous post a video I watched. It's from Greg Reese/Info Wars, and it's going to stun you. It definitely looks like Satan is ramping up his delusions. And this happened 9 years ago. Keep that in mind.
You are about to see an airliner disappear in flight, surrounded by what have been called "Foo Fighters" since World War 2. Glowing orbs. No means of visible propulsion. The military has known about them for decades, and lied, and lied, and lied and all of a sudden are willing to admit UFOs (UAP) are real? What gives?
www.infowars.com/posts/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-captured-by-unknown-forces/
banned.video/watch?id=655e5869bd234d5f1ac1f43d
Regardless of the source - military, corporation or supernatural - I remain convinced the UFO phenomena is going to play a part in prophetic last-day events.
Time will tell.
You are about to see an airliner disappear in flight, surrounded by what have been called "Foo Fighters" since World War 2. Glowing orbs. No means of visible propulsion. The military has known about them for decades, and lied, and lied, and lied and all of a sudden are willing to admit UFOs (UAP) are real? What gives?
www.infowars.com/posts/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-captured-by-unknown-forces/
banned.video/watch?id=655e5869bd234d5f1ac1f43d
Regardless of the source - military, corporation or supernatural - I remain convinced the UFO phenomena is going to play a part in prophetic last-day events.
Time will tell.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
Aside from his name, and until recently I didn't even know the spelling or pronunciation very well, I knew literally nothing about the man. I had seen some headlines. It's obvious he has an Indian heritage. I had no idea his length of time in America, though assuming he was born here and had parents who are/were citizens; to follow the Constitution for permission to run for POTUS: Natural Born Citizen, etc.
Well, because I was at Infowars Banned video site watching the Greg Reese video I previously posted to this one, I decided to watch the interview Jones had with Mr. Ramaswamy. I was very impressed. His articulation of the principles of Americanism are acute; in my opinion far better than Donald Trump can enunciate. Why he is so far behind Trump in the polls is somewhat of a mystery to me. It may come down to simple exposure. Trump gets it all when it comes to most Conservative news outlets online. That said, I have seen headlines where he gets interviewed a lot so, why is he not running neck and neck with Trump? Allegiance to Trump, given the circumstances surrounding him for the last 7 years, keeps building and maybe it just isn't Ramaswamy's time. Or, given Alex Jones' online presence and popularity, Ramaswamy may get a vault with voters looking for someone younger and more vibrant and less pugilistic than Trump.
All we can know is that America, without turning around and changing course, is literally, morally, ethically, financially and militarily doomed. You might not think America's highest world budget for military might could put the military on that list but, the military leadership has gone Left and woke and seemingly could not lead an army of Doritos lovers to visit a Frito-Lay factory in an orderly fashion.
I just saw a headline that the world is going to hell in a handbasket while it asks Congress for ONE HUNDRED and FOURTEEN MILLION dollars for Gender and Diversity Inclusion training into its budget. Armies exist to crush enemies and bring the enemy nation to its knees. America, for all its modern wars, has not done that since WW2. It is doubtful now, if it could ever do it again because it has gone weird, and I would have to believe it has become an embarrassment to its enlisted troops. Yeah, Saddam Hussein was brought down. Beyond that, America achieved little to nothing fighting that war. Afghanistan was a total epic fail. Two hundred billion dollars have been absolutely wasted in Ukraine. More money going to Israel and/or Gaza is more than wasted. From the Korean war till now, the military has been coopted by the military industrial complex and world banking complex. They are exercises to make money, nothing more.
Anyway, Vivek Ramaswamy would be a very interesting Commander in Chief. For one thing, he says he will end America being involved in foreign wars and stay out of everybody's business. The CIA will love that. (Not).
He seems an 'America First' patriot, not a politician: right out of the Trump playbook; just younger and more articulate. He even stated if he becomes the Republican nominee and wins the election, his first top advisor would be Donald Trump for his guidance and "to know where all the bodies are buried." He pulls no punches and is swiftly becoming the candidate the media loves to hate. They have begun digging up all the dirt they can on the man and frankly, it just seems like more Trump salad.
Assuming Trump gets the nomination, he'd do well to consider Ramaswamy for VP, without question, within a heartbeat. Two non-politicians in the Oval Office. Sounds good for America, to me.
banned.video/watch?id=655d1c6d165be0e14755f1d6
Do not misplace my comments into a vat of hope a president can change the course America is on. It has far too many internal "domestic" enemies for that to happen. Only God can save America through the sincere seeking and repentance of its citizens. Otherwise, powers greater than any American president will bring it down. Events in European and South American elections seem to offer some hope, which Jones and Ramaswamy talk about. I doubt any of those countries has a "Deep State" problem and power such as America has. You may as well try to pull out a Hickory tree taproot with a spoon and tweezers.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Well, because I was at Infowars Banned video site watching the Greg Reese video I previously posted to this one, I decided to watch the interview Jones had with Mr. Ramaswamy. I was very impressed. His articulation of the principles of Americanism are acute; in my opinion far better than Donald Trump can enunciate. Why he is so far behind Trump in the polls is somewhat of a mystery to me. It may come down to simple exposure. Trump gets it all when it comes to most Conservative news outlets online. That said, I have seen headlines where he gets interviewed a lot so, why is he not running neck and neck with Trump? Allegiance to Trump, given the circumstances surrounding him for the last 7 years, keeps building and maybe it just isn't Ramaswamy's time. Or, given Alex Jones' online presence and popularity, Ramaswamy may get a vault with voters looking for someone younger and more vibrant and less pugilistic than Trump.
All we can know is that America, without turning around and changing course, is literally, morally, ethically, financially and militarily doomed. You might not think America's highest world budget for military might could put the military on that list but, the military leadership has gone Left and woke and seemingly could not lead an army of Doritos lovers to visit a Frito-Lay factory in an orderly fashion.
I just saw a headline that the world is going to hell in a handbasket while it asks Congress for ONE HUNDRED and FOURTEEN MILLION dollars for Gender and Diversity Inclusion training into its budget. Armies exist to crush enemies and bring the enemy nation to its knees. America, for all its modern wars, has not done that since WW2. It is doubtful now, if it could ever do it again because it has gone weird, and I would have to believe it has become an embarrassment to its enlisted troops. Yeah, Saddam Hussein was brought down. Beyond that, America achieved little to nothing fighting that war. Afghanistan was a total epic fail. Two hundred billion dollars have been absolutely wasted in Ukraine. More money going to Israel and/or Gaza is more than wasted. From the Korean war till now, the military has been coopted by the military industrial complex and world banking complex. They are exercises to make money, nothing more.
Anyway, Vivek Ramaswamy would be a very interesting Commander in Chief. For one thing, he says he will end America being involved in foreign wars and stay out of everybody's business. The CIA will love that. (Not).
He seems an 'America First' patriot, not a politician: right out of the Trump playbook; just younger and more articulate. He even stated if he becomes the Republican nominee and wins the election, his first top advisor would be Donald Trump for his guidance and "to know where all the bodies are buried." He pulls no punches and is swiftly becoming the candidate the media loves to hate. They have begun digging up all the dirt they can on the man and frankly, it just seems like more Trump salad.
Assuming Trump gets the nomination, he'd do well to consider Ramaswamy for VP, without question, within a heartbeat. Two non-politicians in the Oval Office. Sounds good for America, to me.
banned.video/watch?id=655d1c6d165be0e14755f1d6
Do not misplace my comments into a vat of hope a president can change the course America is on. It has far too many internal "domestic" enemies for that to happen. Only God can save America through the sincere seeking and repentance of its citizens. Otherwise, powers greater than any American president will bring it down. Events in European and South American elections seem to offer some hope, which Jones and Ramaswamy talk about. I doubt any of those countries has a "Deep State" problem and power such as America has. You may as well try to pull out a Hickory tree taproot with a spoon and tweezers.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Do I Reject "Hell"?
I saw a headline for a preacher; someone in ministry, well known enough to be in the news for his recent death. Apparently he denied the existence of "Hell" and believed in "universalism." That's a doctrine proposing everyone shall be saved. God's love, mercy and salvation is too great to lose anyone. How people come to such conclusions and error is really quite simple. They do not study the entire Bible on a subject and allow it to interpret itself.
Given all the studies and info I have placed here on my beliefs about the subject of "Hell," such a question should not be conjectured or deduced or calculated upon me. Such a position would be a gross mistake.
What do you mean by "Hell"? Presumably, a place, somewhere, no one knows where, that "souls" leaving their bodies at death, go to begin an eternal punishing of unimaginable, torturous fire and pain; as demons poke, prod, strike and otherwise torment the lost in their endless, everlasting agonies. With Satan master over it all. Is that what you mean?
Yes, I absolutely, categorically, unequivocally reject that doctrine and monstrosity of an idea as having anything to do with God's character, government or purposes: is foreign to the totality of Scripture teaching and truth, and is just plain disgustingly stupid, impossibly unjust, and one of the biggest lies ever told by Lucifer to an ignorant class of professed Christians ages ago who have taken it and made it worse than just about all pagan doctrines of what happens to lost humans after death.
Is that plain enough for those who question my beliefs about "Hell"?
That does not mean, in any way, shape or form, I do not believe the Bible is silent or does not teach the lost of humanity will not suffer a punishment for rejecting God and the gift of salvation: choosing rather to live their lives in whatever way, manner or fashion they please; regardless of responsibility and accountability upon a lifetime of sin and rebellion. No. Punishment is as sure as the Earth circles around the Sun.
The issue is not punishment. It is "punishing." Those who believe punishment shall come, see the Bible pointedly and clearly makes it plain the lost shall suffer the judgment of God's full, unleashed character, glory and presence upon the earth and all its resurrected inhabitants, to meet that final judgment. "Our God is a consuming fire." The lost shall be consumed, burnt to ashes, as shall the Earth. Their sins will cause them to self-ignite in the presence of Holiness, in their hatred for God and His people. They shall "burn" in a torment that is self-inflicted by their own rejection of God and with the entire earth, shall be reduced to nothing. For some, instant evaporation. For others, a longer time frame in their defiance of righteousness. All shall ultimately consume. Everything shall consume into smoke. Everything that is the surface of the Earth shall be no more. The glory of God shall burn it clean, and purify it for its next and final phase.
God created a wondrous, gorgeous Earth, originally. He then destroyed it with the world-wide deluge and reeling of the planet in the judgment against the antediluvians. The Earth will be reduced to rubble at the second coming of Christ and lie waste for a thousand years; Lucifer and his hosts in the darkness of a dead solar system to ponder their rebellion, it's morbid and rank uselessness, and their final judgement to come: the lake of fire and the "second death."
I have shared dozens of passages of Scripture - Genesis to Revelation - to show the truth, logic and common sense of this subject. Take the whole Bible, not just a few texts here and there but, the entire testimony of Scripture on this subject and only one possible truth emerges. The Earth and the lost shall be burnt out of existence. Then the Creator shall recreate a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwells righteousness, peace, harmony and eternal beauty in its landscape and structures and inhabitants: man, beast, plant life: all things made new. There is no other possible conclusion a student of the Bible can come to if the Bible is allowed to interpret itself.
So, yes. I reject the "popular" doctrine of "Hell." I do not reject a physical judgment of fire upon the lost and the Earth, itself.
If you can show me proof otherwise, please, do so.
Wonder of wonders, many months ago I came upon a conversation between one of the program hosts at Infowars and a Bible teacher who laid out the basic premises explained here on this subject. I may have already shared this link with my Readers but, will do so again, if that be the case. I never expected to find such a conversation on Alex Jones' website, now attached to his banned video site but, here it is -
www.banned.video/watch?id=6465501aa9ffe2a55aab2879
Every person who does evangelism or gives Bible studies will do so in their own way. No two people state things or present things the same. It is not an exhaustive look at the subject but, it's well done, biblical, logical and employs a fair amount of common sense, as well; always an added bonus in my book. Check it out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Given all the studies and info I have placed here on my beliefs about the subject of "Hell," such a question should not be conjectured or deduced or calculated upon me. Such a position would be a gross mistake.
What do you mean by "Hell"? Presumably, a place, somewhere, no one knows where, that "souls" leaving their bodies at death, go to begin an eternal punishing of unimaginable, torturous fire and pain; as demons poke, prod, strike and otherwise torment the lost in their endless, everlasting agonies. With Satan master over it all. Is that what you mean?
Yes, I absolutely, categorically, unequivocally reject that doctrine and monstrosity of an idea as having anything to do with God's character, government or purposes: is foreign to the totality of Scripture teaching and truth, and is just plain disgustingly stupid, impossibly unjust, and one of the biggest lies ever told by Lucifer to an ignorant class of professed Christians ages ago who have taken it and made it worse than just about all pagan doctrines of what happens to lost humans after death.
Is that plain enough for those who question my beliefs about "Hell"?
That does not mean, in any way, shape or form, I do not believe the Bible is silent or does not teach the lost of humanity will not suffer a punishment for rejecting God and the gift of salvation: choosing rather to live their lives in whatever way, manner or fashion they please; regardless of responsibility and accountability upon a lifetime of sin and rebellion. No. Punishment is as sure as the Earth circles around the Sun.
The issue is not punishment. It is "punishing." Those who believe punishment shall come, see the Bible pointedly and clearly makes it plain the lost shall suffer the judgment of God's full, unleashed character, glory and presence upon the earth and all its resurrected inhabitants, to meet that final judgment. "Our God is a consuming fire." The lost shall be consumed, burnt to ashes, as shall the Earth. Their sins will cause them to self-ignite in the presence of Holiness, in their hatred for God and His people. They shall "burn" in a torment that is self-inflicted by their own rejection of God and with the entire earth, shall be reduced to nothing. For some, instant evaporation. For others, a longer time frame in their defiance of righteousness. All shall ultimately consume. Everything shall consume into smoke. Everything that is the surface of the Earth shall be no more. The glory of God shall burn it clean, and purify it for its next and final phase.
God created a wondrous, gorgeous Earth, originally. He then destroyed it with the world-wide deluge and reeling of the planet in the judgment against the antediluvians. The Earth will be reduced to rubble at the second coming of Christ and lie waste for a thousand years; Lucifer and his hosts in the darkness of a dead solar system to ponder their rebellion, it's morbid and rank uselessness, and their final judgement to come: the lake of fire and the "second death."
I have shared dozens of passages of Scripture - Genesis to Revelation - to show the truth, logic and common sense of this subject. Take the whole Bible, not just a few texts here and there but, the entire testimony of Scripture on this subject and only one possible truth emerges. The Earth and the lost shall be burnt out of existence. Then the Creator shall recreate a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwells righteousness, peace, harmony and eternal beauty in its landscape and structures and inhabitants: man, beast, plant life: all things made new. There is no other possible conclusion a student of the Bible can come to if the Bible is allowed to interpret itself.
So, yes. I reject the "popular" doctrine of "Hell." I do not reject a physical judgment of fire upon the lost and the Earth, itself.
If you can show me proof otherwise, please, do so.
Wonder of wonders, many months ago I came upon a conversation between one of the program hosts at Infowars and a Bible teacher who laid out the basic premises explained here on this subject. I may have already shared this link with my Readers but, will do so again, if that be the case. I never expected to find such a conversation on Alex Jones' website, now attached to his banned video site but, here it is -
www.banned.video/watch?id=6465501aa9ffe2a55aab2879
Every person who does evangelism or gives Bible studies will do so in their own way. No two people state things or present things the same. It is not an exhaustive look at the subject but, it's well done, biblical, logical and employs a fair amount of common sense, as well; always an added bonus in my book. Check it out.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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One Week on Earth
The week in signs.
Disease - China dealing with an odd pneumonia striking children; filling hospitals. A fungus "superbug" has broken loose in Nevada and is spreading. Peaches, Plums and Nectarines are being recalled from a Listeria outbreak. Over 2 million chickens destroyed in Minnesota because of bird flu. Asian "long horned" ticks have now been discovered in 19 U.S. states; found on wildlife, livestock, pets and humans, killing cows as it moves West. A mystery illness is killing dogs. All throughout the Northeast and seven other states, man's best friend is dying and veterinarians are feverishly working to understand why.
Violence - An Arab immigrant in Ireland causes riots to erupt after stabbing three young children.
A gunman opened fire in an Ohio Walmart, killing four then taking his own life, as a copy cat killer threatens to kill white children based on the Nashville shooter's manifesto.
A masked mob in Los Angeles ransacks a Nike store and steals thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.
The Hamas charter was exposed, showing they have not just declared "Jihad" on Jews but, all religions, societies and groups not under the control of Hamas/Islam. The FBI director claims they have ramped up investigation of the group's presence in America: to stop any attacks and cut off any flow of money to them.
It has yet to be precisely determined if the car explosion at Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls was a terrorist attack meant for a much larger strike upon citizens.
Individuals in Federal and State governments arrested for involvement with child pornography and child trafficking.
It should be remembered, Thanksgiving to New Years is a time when America and the West, in general, are not diligently looking for problems; when thoughts of 'peace, good will towards men' is upon millions of minds. It then becomes a prime time to target such an unsuspecting atmosphere. Millions are out shopping, filling city streets and stores. No one should be surprised if attacks take place. America's porous Southern border has allowed tens of millions of people into the nation illegally. No one should be foolish or ignorant enough to believe among those millions are not avowed enemies of America and Americans.
Knowledge increased - Elon Musk says Open A.I., the most advanced and powerful R&D company on Earth right now, as far as Artificial Intelligence is concerned, says the company must inform the world why it fired CEO, Sam Altman. Altman claims A.I. is going too far, too fast and poses imminent danger to the planet's population. Musk agrees.
When the Bible addresses last-day events, it does so on a planetary scale, not just the Bible lands, not just a nation like America, a nation in prophecy but, events taking place that are stressing mankind's existence with problems too big to solve. Put one fire out, three more erupt somewhere else.
While Historicists, such as myself, hold a different view of last-day events than Futurists or Preterists, anyone watching what is happening can see things are no longer in a completely natural order of things. Nature is shouting. Man-made things are shouting. All that is missing are the final movements of human decisions that shall place the Whore, her daughters and the kings of the Earth against God's remnant scattered people, taking a final stand around the globe. Whether it delays longer or not, it is coming. It cannot possibly be escaped. Regardless of our circumstances, God will place each of us in positions to choose to stand for Him or stand for apostasy, rebellion and lawlessness.
Think not that lawlessness means Antifa or flash mobs breaking and stealing, or people protesting things in various, extensive and caustic ways. Riots have always existed. Earthquakes have existed. Floods and fires have existed. All over the globe? At the same time? Perplexing humanity as humanity, all humanity takes a stand against God and His Law and sovereignty contained in it? Only one other time in history has such a rebellion happened and He destroyed the world and all life on land with a cracking of the crust of the earth and a 40-day deluge that ravaged the planet for 150 days and for months longer as the great waters receded, planing, gouging, scoring the planet's land with scars still seen today. This time, the triumphant return/rescue mission of Jesus Christ and more angels than a human could count in a hundred lifetimes is what will end this world as we know it. The biggest, grandest, most glorious, terrifying day in human history is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Disease - China dealing with an odd pneumonia striking children; filling hospitals. A fungus "superbug" has broken loose in Nevada and is spreading. Peaches, Plums and Nectarines are being recalled from a Listeria outbreak. Over 2 million chickens destroyed in Minnesota because of bird flu. Asian "long horned" ticks have now been discovered in 19 U.S. states; found on wildlife, livestock, pets and humans, killing cows as it moves West. A mystery illness is killing dogs. All throughout the Northeast and seven other states, man's best friend is dying and veterinarians are feverishly working to understand why.
Violence - An Arab immigrant in Ireland causes riots to erupt after stabbing three young children.
A gunman opened fire in an Ohio Walmart, killing four then taking his own life, as a copy cat killer threatens to kill white children based on the Nashville shooter's manifesto.
A masked mob in Los Angeles ransacks a Nike store and steals thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.
The Hamas charter was exposed, showing they have not just declared "Jihad" on Jews but, all religions, societies and groups not under the control of Hamas/Islam. The FBI director claims they have ramped up investigation of the group's presence in America: to stop any attacks and cut off any flow of money to them.
It has yet to be precisely determined if the car explosion at Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls was a terrorist attack meant for a much larger strike upon citizens.
Individuals in Federal and State governments arrested for involvement with child pornography and child trafficking.
It should be remembered, Thanksgiving to New Years is a time when America and the West, in general, are not diligently looking for problems; when thoughts of 'peace, good will towards men' is upon millions of minds. It then becomes a prime time to target such an unsuspecting atmosphere. Millions are out shopping, filling city streets and stores. No one should be surprised if attacks take place. America's porous Southern border has allowed tens of millions of people into the nation illegally. No one should be foolish or ignorant enough to believe among those millions are not avowed enemies of America and Americans.
Knowledge increased - Elon Musk says Open A.I., the most advanced and powerful R&D company on Earth right now, as far as Artificial Intelligence is concerned, says the company must inform the world why it fired CEO, Sam Altman. Altman claims A.I. is going too far, too fast and poses imminent danger to the planet's population. Musk agrees.
When the Bible addresses last-day events, it does so on a planetary scale, not just the Bible lands, not just a nation like America, a nation in prophecy but, events taking place that are stressing mankind's existence with problems too big to solve. Put one fire out, three more erupt somewhere else.
While Historicists, such as myself, hold a different view of last-day events than Futurists or Preterists, anyone watching what is happening can see things are no longer in a completely natural order of things. Nature is shouting. Man-made things are shouting. All that is missing are the final movements of human decisions that shall place the Whore, her daughters and the kings of the Earth against God's remnant scattered people, taking a final stand around the globe. Whether it delays longer or not, it is coming. It cannot possibly be escaped. Regardless of our circumstances, God will place each of us in positions to choose to stand for Him or stand for apostasy, rebellion and lawlessness.
Think not that lawlessness means Antifa or flash mobs breaking and stealing, or people protesting things in various, extensive and caustic ways. Riots have always existed. Earthquakes have existed. Floods and fires have existed. All over the globe? At the same time? Perplexing humanity as humanity, all humanity takes a stand against God and His Law and sovereignty contained in it? Only one other time in history has such a rebellion happened and He destroyed the world and all life on land with a cracking of the crust of the earth and a 40-day deluge that ravaged the planet for 150 days and for months longer as the great waters receded, planing, gouging, scoring the planet's land with scars still seen today. This time, the triumphant return/rescue mission of Jesus Christ and more angels than a human could count in a hundred lifetimes is what will end this world as we know it. The biggest, grandest, most glorious, terrifying day in human history is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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879. HGE - November 25, 2023
Human Gene Editing.
Remember when "test tube babies" was the most controversial subject in America? Dolly, the sheep, came along and cloning became the big subject. Hollywood sci-fi followed suit with television and movies dedicated to stories about cloning humans.
Before test tube babies and since Dolly these scientific "marvels" continue to beset humanity with moral issues, cultural disintegration, and the continued battle between Naturalism and Creationism/Intelligent Design.
Now we have Human Gene Editing (HGE). It's what is sounds like. Add or take out of the code for genetic information that which can make humans deformed or sick, or make babies "superhumans." Superhuman is obviously hyperbolic in intent. Or, is it?
Obviously the Bible says nothing about such things because no such things existed in biblical times and prophecy, addressing the end times, really does not delve into it. At whatever age in time during the last 2000 years such information, if known, would have caused such upheaval the very place of the Christian church in history may have been threatened. Humans able to change humans through... what could the Holy Spirit even move upon an ancient human mind to write about such a thing. But, here we are.
Imagine ancient kings doing all they could, every piece of gold, silver and jewel to the scientist who could make them immortal or make their offspring so. Is that not what this is all about? Immortality?
Science has come upon the ability to modify a person's genetic code. One could see such an act as helping babies in the womb or newly born with various physical problems that could heal or correct themselves. Quite a marvel but, what about "designer babies?" What about parents choosing distinct physical traits or mental acuity by gene editing? What about the military aiming at creating "super soldiers?" Do not forget, man has already created embryonic chimeras; a way to join the genes of humans and animals. I reported on that quite some time ago. People said, "No way. Impossible." Way. Possible. A science still in it's infancy, to be sure, as far as humanity knows. I generally believe whatever is released to mankind, science is well beyond that and does not reveal it until it is sure it can get away with it in the population at large. So, where it all is with this is beyond what is being told.
Given the rate of birth defects today, what parents would not want some assurances their child in the womb is developing just right, regardless of parental gene pools and family history.
Well, from a biblical perspective, what might we use to understand the position of the Bible-believing Christian under such modern day, scientific influences?
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
There's an awful lot the Creator is willing to bestow upon His people to get us through life. Becoming co-creators with God is not one of them. We have been given the ability to procreate within our kind; that is humanity. It then seems logical to believe God has not given man permission to mess around with the animal kingdom or certainly not a joining of human and animal in any capacity. That is one of the reasons why many believers denounce using pig organs in humans. Some will say, by the time that organ is treated and made ready for use inside a human, it may as well be a composite plastic material or something. It is no longer, in essence, a pig's organ. Others say, with confidence, regardless of how you clean it, how you modify it, how you dress it up, it is still a pig organ, not human, not synthetic, not metal or plastic. It's a pig's organ: the organ of a creature God has stated more condemnation about than any other. It is nature's garbage disposal. It is filled with a blood stream saturated in toxins. Why are men called "swine"? It's a very low tier for a human to stand on in the mind of his fellowman. "You swine." And yet pigs are one of mankind's favorite animals to eat. The ignorance on this subject is truly breathtaking.
I remember when a Baboon heart was placed inside a baby. The baby died much to the unfortunate surprise of the doctors and medical staff but, not those taking a biblical stand on the procedure from the beginning. Well, advancements in medical science keep developing new techniques and avenues to work in. They are looking past animal organs to robotic organs now. Making all humanity virtual "Robocops."
Just look at what Paul writes about the age of rebellion that perished in the Flood -
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Rom 1:27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Rom 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
They were not ignorant of the Creator. They chose not to honor Him, nor respect Him, nor serve Him and God gave them up to every imaginable corruption. And we see it in the artwork that still remains in Egypt. Half human half some animal. In Greece and Rome, the same kind of creatures: Minotaurs and Centaurs. Other half man, half animal creatures. They became totally foolish. Then faithless, heartless and ruthless. The descension of the human race is inevitable when it refuses to acknowledge the Creator. You will notice homosexuality is part of the descension into darkness Paul wrote of. So, today, removed from fantastic and fanciful myths and legends, science seeks to actually unite humans and animals, and remake humans into something God never intended.
It should be mentioned here that Adam, as well as Eve, would be in the superhero class today. Much taller, stronger and more intelligent than people living today, still, they fell. They were judged and cursed with aging and finally death. There is no room in God's plan for mankind to attempt to bring back what Adam and Eve had before they fell.
Here' a great passage from Isaiah about King Cyrus, of the Persian empire.
Isa 45:9 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
Isa 45:10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
Isa 45:11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
Isa 45:12 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
Isa 45:13 I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.
God says, 'I am the Creator. I am Maker of all. Do not tell Me what I can or cannot do. I call Cyrus. I do so a hundred years before he is born and he shall build My city and he shall set my people free.'
Quite a prediction and seeing we are like clay in God's eyes, in His sphere, He has not given us the Potter's understanding and skills to be messing around with His sphere of knowledge and skill.
One must wonder how many humans will suffer through experiments of gene editing before things could be close to truly successful. Rearrange genes now and find out in one year, five years, ten, that the pseudo-makers got something wrong, something twisted, something distorted in their rearranging microscopic codes in genes? How much suffering will come as they experiment because, you see, humans, to them, are just evolutionary progress from one ancestral thing; some primordial lifeform. Not made in the image of God. Made in the image of accidents and mutations. So, no big deal if more accidents happen. They are driven to make mankind in their image, not God's. They are driven by love of money in the form of grants and contracts worth billions to whoever can successfully pull this off. It is not giving glory to God. It is attempting to take glory from the Creator.
In principle, the one with a biblical world view at least says, Caution. At least says, Think before you act. Warns that mankind is hardly more than a clay pot in God's eyes. And no pot can tell the potter what to do with the clay.
And then there are the grave possibilities of madmen doing things with genes that no parent gave permission for, or signed any document or waiver to perform or execute. What of those children? Walking experiments, much like humanity walking around with gene modification therapies in them right now from the injection fluids killing people every single day, maiming them, ruining their lives. Has anyone paid the price of this known crime against humanity? No. What makes anyone think medical scientists messing around with gene editing will do or be any different?
Jer 33:2 “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name:
Jer 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
The Bible lays out a principle that God has great and hidden things to share with those who call upon His name. Those who do not? No. Not much of anything to share with them. They are on their own. God warns them. If man cannot make a cell, a simple cell (though there is no such thing), or bring a dead cell back to life, what makes men think they can edit genes inside cells? Mercy. What could possibly go wrong?
Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
Heb 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb 11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Heb 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Christians would have to decide where faith comes in for them. Children are the heritage of the Lord. The seed of life, the egg it is implanted in are marvels man has no real control over so, he seeks that control. He can make a baby from test tube mixture of sperm and egg, which he had nothing to do in creating them, nor how they can work together; where all the information and instructions come from but, that is not enough. Man wants to control what the human becomes by science, not by faith in the Maker and Creator of all life, so complex mankind does not have a speck of the information necessary to have a basic understanding of what life is, let alone create it and control it.
It seems logical to me the believer would want to put their faith, trust and hopes in a faithful Creator, who loves them, and knows the end from the beginning. If we will seek for Him and His kingdom first the very purpose of having children and the time to procreate one, and the health of the mother and child in the womb being His process, to be honored and respected and truly stand in awe of... do believers need medical doctors to provide their assurances all will be well, and not just well. Better than well. Perfect by man's design.
I think not.
Remember when "test tube babies" was the most controversial subject in America? Dolly, the sheep, came along and cloning became the big subject. Hollywood sci-fi followed suit with television and movies dedicated to stories about cloning humans.
Before test tube babies and since Dolly these scientific "marvels" continue to beset humanity with moral issues, cultural disintegration, and the continued battle between Naturalism and Creationism/Intelligent Design.
Now we have Human Gene Editing (HGE). It's what is sounds like. Add or take out of the code for genetic information that which can make humans deformed or sick, or make babies "superhumans." Superhuman is obviously hyperbolic in intent. Or, is it?
Obviously the Bible says nothing about such things because no such things existed in biblical times and prophecy, addressing the end times, really does not delve into it. At whatever age in time during the last 2000 years such information, if known, would have caused such upheaval the very place of the Christian church in history may have been threatened. Humans able to change humans through... what could the Holy Spirit even move upon an ancient human mind to write about such a thing. But, here we are.
Imagine ancient kings doing all they could, every piece of gold, silver and jewel to the scientist who could make them immortal or make their offspring so. Is that not what this is all about? Immortality?
Science has come upon the ability to modify a person's genetic code. One could see such an act as helping babies in the womb or newly born with various physical problems that could heal or correct themselves. Quite a marvel but, what about "designer babies?" What about parents choosing distinct physical traits or mental acuity by gene editing? What about the military aiming at creating "super soldiers?" Do not forget, man has already created embryonic chimeras; a way to join the genes of humans and animals. I reported on that quite some time ago. People said, "No way. Impossible." Way. Possible. A science still in it's infancy, to be sure, as far as humanity knows. I generally believe whatever is released to mankind, science is well beyond that and does not reveal it until it is sure it can get away with it in the population at large. So, where it all is with this is beyond what is being told.
Given the rate of birth defects today, what parents would not want some assurances their child in the womb is developing just right, regardless of parental gene pools and family history.
Well, from a biblical perspective, what might we use to understand the position of the Bible-believing Christian under such modern day, scientific influences?
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
There's an awful lot the Creator is willing to bestow upon His people to get us through life. Becoming co-creators with God is not one of them. We have been given the ability to procreate within our kind; that is humanity. It then seems logical to believe God has not given man permission to mess around with the animal kingdom or certainly not a joining of human and animal in any capacity. That is one of the reasons why many believers denounce using pig organs in humans. Some will say, by the time that organ is treated and made ready for use inside a human, it may as well be a composite plastic material or something. It is no longer, in essence, a pig's organ. Others say, with confidence, regardless of how you clean it, how you modify it, how you dress it up, it is still a pig organ, not human, not synthetic, not metal or plastic. It's a pig's organ: the organ of a creature God has stated more condemnation about than any other. It is nature's garbage disposal. It is filled with a blood stream saturated in toxins. Why are men called "swine"? It's a very low tier for a human to stand on in the mind of his fellowman. "You swine." And yet pigs are one of mankind's favorite animals to eat. The ignorance on this subject is truly breathtaking.
I remember when a Baboon heart was placed inside a baby. The baby died much to the unfortunate surprise of the doctors and medical staff but, not those taking a biblical stand on the procedure from the beginning. Well, advancements in medical science keep developing new techniques and avenues to work in. They are looking past animal organs to robotic organs now. Making all humanity virtual "Robocops."
Just look at what Paul writes about the age of rebellion that perished in the Flood -
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Rom 1:27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Rom 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
They were not ignorant of the Creator. They chose not to honor Him, nor respect Him, nor serve Him and God gave them up to every imaginable corruption. And we see it in the artwork that still remains in Egypt. Half human half some animal. In Greece and Rome, the same kind of creatures: Minotaurs and Centaurs. Other half man, half animal creatures. They became totally foolish. Then faithless, heartless and ruthless. The descension of the human race is inevitable when it refuses to acknowledge the Creator. You will notice homosexuality is part of the descension into darkness Paul wrote of. So, today, removed from fantastic and fanciful myths and legends, science seeks to actually unite humans and animals, and remake humans into something God never intended.
It should be mentioned here that Adam, as well as Eve, would be in the superhero class today. Much taller, stronger and more intelligent than people living today, still, they fell. They were judged and cursed with aging and finally death. There is no room in God's plan for mankind to attempt to bring back what Adam and Eve had before they fell.
Here' a great passage from Isaiah about King Cyrus, of the Persian empire.
Isa 45:9 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
Isa 45:10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
Isa 45:11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
Isa 45:12 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
Isa 45:13 I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.
God says, 'I am the Creator. I am Maker of all. Do not tell Me what I can or cannot do. I call Cyrus. I do so a hundred years before he is born and he shall build My city and he shall set my people free.'
Quite a prediction and seeing we are like clay in God's eyes, in His sphere, He has not given us the Potter's understanding and skills to be messing around with His sphere of knowledge and skill.
One must wonder how many humans will suffer through experiments of gene editing before things could be close to truly successful. Rearrange genes now and find out in one year, five years, ten, that the pseudo-makers got something wrong, something twisted, something distorted in their rearranging microscopic codes in genes? How much suffering will come as they experiment because, you see, humans, to them, are just evolutionary progress from one ancestral thing; some primordial lifeform. Not made in the image of God. Made in the image of accidents and mutations. So, no big deal if more accidents happen. They are driven to make mankind in their image, not God's. They are driven by love of money in the form of grants and contracts worth billions to whoever can successfully pull this off. It is not giving glory to God. It is attempting to take glory from the Creator.
In principle, the one with a biblical world view at least says, Caution. At least says, Think before you act. Warns that mankind is hardly more than a clay pot in God's eyes. And no pot can tell the potter what to do with the clay.
And then there are the grave possibilities of madmen doing things with genes that no parent gave permission for, or signed any document or waiver to perform or execute. What of those children? Walking experiments, much like humanity walking around with gene modification therapies in them right now from the injection fluids killing people every single day, maiming them, ruining their lives. Has anyone paid the price of this known crime against humanity? No. What makes anyone think medical scientists messing around with gene editing will do or be any different?
Jer 33:2 “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name:
Jer 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
The Bible lays out a principle that God has great and hidden things to share with those who call upon His name. Those who do not? No. Not much of anything to share with them. They are on their own. God warns them. If man cannot make a cell, a simple cell (though there is no such thing), or bring a dead cell back to life, what makes men think they can edit genes inside cells? Mercy. What could possibly go wrong?
Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
Heb 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb 11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Heb 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Christians would have to decide where faith comes in for them. Children are the heritage of the Lord. The seed of life, the egg it is implanted in are marvels man has no real control over so, he seeks that control. He can make a baby from test tube mixture of sperm and egg, which he had nothing to do in creating them, nor how they can work together; where all the information and instructions come from but, that is not enough. Man wants to control what the human becomes by science, not by faith in the Maker and Creator of all life, so complex mankind does not have a speck of the information necessary to have a basic understanding of what life is, let alone create it and control it.
It seems logical to me the believer would want to put their faith, trust and hopes in a faithful Creator, who loves them, and knows the end from the beginning. If we will seek for Him and His kingdom first the very purpose of having children and the time to procreate one, and the health of the mother and child in the womb being His process, to be honored and respected and truly stand in awe of... do believers need medical doctors to provide their assurances all will be well, and not just well. Better than well. Perfect by man's design.
I think not.
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880. The Case of Unbelievers With Believers - November 25, 2023
I want to share something with you that comes to my mind this Sabbath day, via doing a search online about music and the history of some things.
I know there are those out there who may be questioning an album project, upheld by a professing Christian, with a lyrical message decidedly holding to a biblical worldview, and my use of and/or promotion of musicians who are not professing believers. I have addressed this subject before, when I started the project almost a year ago now but, with time comes more information and knowledge and possible, if not necessary commentary on the situation.
I opened the door to secular musicians for a couple reasons. #1 is really common sense to me. There is no such thing as "Christian" music. There are no Christian music scales or modes. There are no instructions in the Word of God for what is "music" to God's "eyes and ears" as to what music is or is not. If anything, sound and music are far more scientific in nature, than religious. The science explains the nature of sound and common knowledge in all cultures describes the nature of melody, harmony and rhythm. There are things called music I do not care for, sonically speaking, as there are things you do not care for. Further, there are things called music that I, by definition, would term "noise:" rhythm without any decent melody or harmony. But, when it comes to music: to each his own.
When music, the sound that creates melody, harmony and rhythm, is joined to words, to rhyming lyrics, etc., then you have a message contained in or with the music, with the sounds. At that point, music can have a Christian message. People call that Christian music because of the marriage between the sounds and the words but, technically, there is no such thing as Christian music. Music without words is still music. Instrumental music, defined by lack of words or lyrics, save for song titles, is music, by definition. If you look up Christian instrumental music you will get instrumental versions of well known hymns and melody lines associated with the words in the hymns. You cannot be describing the music as Christian. You can but, have no technical basis for that. I have seen or heard music decribed as Christian, instrumental music, that has not one iota of evidence as to being such. It sounds no different, regardless of genre, than other type of music in secular culture. It's performed by professed Christians, believers in the Gospel but, how does that make the sounds or the instruments "Christian?"
The music King David composed, being from ancient Middle Eastern culture, would sound nothing like European compositions created by hymnists like Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley. There would be nothing similar to Martin Luther's "A Mighty Fortress." Nothing remotely close to anything of the great Western civilization composer's of hymns known and sung by hundreds of millions of people in the last seven centuries. It is an entirely different scale structure and mode. Some Western minds would find David's music closer to some kind of Avant-garde Jazz than Western Euro or American folk hymns or melodies influenced by Western country music. I hope you see that distinction.
With that in mind, again, I chose to open the door to "secular" musicians: musicians who are not associated with any religion or faith or worldview in particular to play what is essentially "secular" music composed by secular people, myself and Kevin, 45 years ago. For the LEGEND Revisited album, it would have been nice to have partnered with people who believe in Christ as Lord and Saviour and coming King. Those who had some interest, did not follow through for whatever reasons given or not given.
In asking Martin Andersen and auditioning several bassists and choosing Janne Stark to think about playing guitar and bass, in essence, religious affiliation or belief could not really be a bottom line purpose. They both have respect and admiration for LEGEND's music and the original album. They had no opposition to the new lyrics or premise for the rerecording of the album, and I would add this -
Martin and Janne have been perfect gentlemen towards me. They are two of the nicest men I have met online. They have been thoughtful, patient, instructive, encouraging, seminal and very enthusiastic about the project. They have performed incredibly well in a process where it is all digital information. I have never spoken to either of them. I know them only through emails or watching YT videos or recordings of them performing. In Tom's mind, he told me today such a project as this, with such an outcome, is "astounding." And he, as well, is not a believer in the Christian God and has performed so well in the mixing of these digital tracks of information, with this biblical world view message. The need for believers in the Bible's message about God and His character, government and purposes, is not an essential element to making music.
I honestly, if I could not sing a lick, would not have chosen a non-believer to sing the lyrics, to convey the message of the biblical worldview as each song portrays some aspect of it. There I would draw the line. Lyrics are either Christian (or some other religious influence), or secular in nature. I'd want a believer to sing such a message from heart and mind, not just voice box and throat; whatever interpretation such a singer could musically place upon the words. A principle is involved there. An understanding that goes beyond mere words.
Now, let me add one more thing: something biblical. Something anyone can see. It regards a man named Simon. A total newcomer to the Gospels, in and gone, just like that.
Jesus, Yeshua, the Christ, the Messiah, God among mankind, innocent Lamb of God being slain for the sins of the world, causing the angelic host to look on in horror, desiring to annihilate the demons hovering above the Saviour; bruised, literally torn by tortuous beatings, crown of thorns on his head, bleeding, weak, exhausted, struggling to bear the weight of His cross, walking past thousands of people in Jerusalem for the feast, crowding the sides of the road to catch a glimpse of this "Messiah" the entire city is talking about, and someone enters the scene -
Matt 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Mark 15:21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Luke 23:26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Notice the information in each passage. Cyrene. An ancient Greek/Roman city in Northern Africa, near modern Libya, West of Egypt. An African man is in Jerusalem. He has been out in the country, comes into the city and is just passing by, wondering about this man causing all this commotion and clamor. He is the father of Alexander and Rufus.
Now, the name 'Alexander' is mentioned several times in the NT.
Act 4:6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
Act 19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense to the people.
1Tim 1:18 This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare;
1Tim 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1Tim 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2Tim 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
2Tim 4:15 Of whom be aware also; for he has greatly withstood our words.
If this is all referring to the same man, we have an incredible story in just a few passages. He is the son of the man who helped carry Christ's cross. He was a member of the Great Council, which may not apply to the Alexander in question, considering his probable young age; and rather refers to Alexander Lysimacus, a very wealthy and powerful Jew of that time. Simon's Alexander became a believer, and was pulled forward in a riot caused by the apostle Paul's presence in Ephesus, to answer for the situation at hand. He is a coppersmith by trade, like Paul was a tent maker. All priests and members of the ruling religious class had to have a trade. Would that the policy still existed among politicians today. Then Alexander becomes an enemy of Paul, an apostate to the faith, doing all he can to withstand Paul's ministry. Wow. Same man? The same Alexander? I don't know. The probability is very likely. He is the brother of Rufus -
Rom 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
What a story of a father and two brothers. And you will notice the father is not asked to carry the cross. The Roman guard laid hold of Simon, and compelled him to carry the cross, after Jesus. Simon is instantly shocked and thrown into the midst of a scene he could never imagine. The Man called the Messiah is dragging his instrument of death, collapsing under the strain and Simon is grabbed, yanked out of the crowd and told to pick up the back end of the cross and help Christ carry it along. Can you imagine such a scene to be thrust into? What would go through your mind? Shock? Horror? Fear? Confusion?
Simon gets to Golgotha and the guards push Him away. He's done his job. Does Christ look at him with eyes of thankfulness? Simon is transfixed to stand there and watch the entire scene play out. He watches, he listens. He takes it all in. He tells his sons, and they all become believers? Should I doubt such a thing? I do not. Simon was given a singular privilege only one person in the entire history of mankind was given. He was not a believer, and you can believe in the purposes and mechanics of the Most High God in handling the human race; choosing Simon was no accident. A non-believer. Curious about Christ, at best. Just watching from the crowd, suddenly, you are about to be emblazoned in the most read book in the Western hemisphere, if not the world.
God did not have one of the Disciples help Christ carry the cross. He created circumstances that used a simple man of integrity to perform the task and then, in God's time, monumental changes came for him and for his family.
Why would any believer deny a person of talent to assist them in whatever project they may have? Do believers only hire and allow believers into their homes to fix things broken? Do they only allow professed believers to repair their cars and trucks? Do they only place their money in banks run by professed Christian CEOs with biblical principles? Do they only interest themselves in sports teams that have only professed Christians on them? Is there any aspect in their lives, outside of attending church services, where only professed believers are who they associate with? Then why would anyone assume or presume I must only ask believers to play on this album? Sorry. You have no biblical principle to propose such a thing.
I know what the Bible says about being yoked together with unbelievers. I have no binding contracts with anyone. I am yoked with them only by a love for music and the possibilities of recording it together. I am certainly not married to them. So, I fail to see how 2 Cor. 6:14-18 applies but, here it is. You be the judge.
2Cor 6:14 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
2Cor 6:15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?
2Cor 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has 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 separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
The key here is obviously "yoked," as in unable to break free. If you have seen yokes that oxen wear, they are basically neck-cuffed together and often an older, more experienced ox is paired with a younger one, to keep it in line; lest two young oxen get ornery and uncooperative. I am not yoked together, in some stuck way I cannot get out of, to be pulled along in a bad direction, whether I like it or not. Such situations certainly exist in life and God bids us to beware of such associations and stay away from them.
To the contrary, all involved tell me repeatedly I am the boss, final decisions are mine. They have all been totally professional and as easy to work with as one could hope for. Would that I have had the same experiences in life with churches and professed Christians. Don't get me started.
I carry on, knowing, believing Martin & Janne, and Tom & Boris, and Manos & Kostas, whatever their individual beliefs and faiths, are the right team for this project. They have been wonderful to work with. I find no fault in them and I also have no reason to pry into their lives to find any, either. I have no stones to throw. What I have experienced has been worthy of honor and praise.
Hopefully this settles all issues of "only believers" being involved in the lives of professed Christians and their music.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I know there are those out there who may be questioning an album project, upheld by a professing Christian, with a lyrical message decidedly holding to a biblical worldview, and my use of and/or promotion of musicians who are not professing believers. I have addressed this subject before, when I started the project almost a year ago now but, with time comes more information and knowledge and possible, if not necessary commentary on the situation.
I opened the door to secular musicians for a couple reasons. #1 is really common sense to me. There is no such thing as "Christian" music. There are no Christian music scales or modes. There are no instructions in the Word of God for what is "music" to God's "eyes and ears" as to what music is or is not. If anything, sound and music are far more scientific in nature, than religious. The science explains the nature of sound and common knowledge in all cultures describes the nature of melody, harmony and rhythm. There are things called music I do not care for, sonically speaking, as there are things you do not care for. Further, there are things called music that I, by definition, would term "noise:" rhythm without any decent melody or harmony. But, when it comes to music: to each his own.
When music, the sound that creates melody, harmony and rhythm, is joined to words, to rhyming lyrics, etc., then you have a message contained in or with the music, with the sounds. At that point, music can have a Christian message. People call that Christian music because of the marriage between the sounds and the words but, technically, there is no such thing as Christian music. Music without words is still music. Instrumental music, defined by lack of words or lyrics, save for song titles, is music, by definition. If you look up Christian instrumental music you will get instrumental versions of well known hymns and melody lines associated with the words in the hymns. You cannot be describing the music as Christian. You can but, have no technical basis for that. I have seen or heard music decribed as Christian, instrumental music, that has not one iota of evidence as to being such. It sounds no different, regardless of genre, than other type of music in secular culture. It's performed by professed Christians, believers in the Gospel but, how does that make the sounds or the instruments "Christian?"
The music King David composed, being from ancient Middle Eastern culture, would sound nothing like European compositions created by hymnists like Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley. There would be nothing similar to Martin Luther's "A Mighty Fortress." Nothing remotely close to anything of the great Western civilization composer's of hymns known and sung by hundreds of millions of people in the last seven centuries. It is an entirely different scale structure and mode. Some Western minds would find David's music closer to some kind of Avant-garde Jazz than Western Euro or American folk hymns or melodies influenced by Western country music. I hope you see that distinction.
With that in mind, again, I chose to open the door to "secular" musicians: musicians who are not associated with any religion or faith or worldview in particular to play what is essentially "secular" music composed by secular people, myself and Kevin, 45 years ago. For the LEGEND Revisited album, it would have been nice to have partnered with people who believe in Christ as Lord and Saviour and coming King. Those who had some interest, did not follow through for whatever reasons given or not given.
In asking Martin Andersen and auditioning several bassists and choosing Janne Stark to think about playing guitar and bass, in essence, religious affiliation or belief could not really be a bottom line purpose. They both have respect and admiration for LEGEND's music and the original album. They had no opposition to the new lyrics or premise for the rerecording of the album, and I would add this -
Martin and Janne have been perfect gentlemen towards me. They are two of the nicest men I have met online. They have been thoughtful, patient, instructive, encouraging, seminal and very enthusiastic about the project. They have performed incredibly well in a process where it is all digital information. I have never spoken to either of them. I know them only through emails or watching YT videos or recordings of them performing. In Tom's mind, he told me today such a project as this, with such an outcome, is "astounding." And he, as well, is not a believer in the Christian God and has performed so well in the mixing of these digital tracks of information, with this biblical world view message. The need for believers in the Bible's message about God and His character, government and purposes, is not an essential element to making music.
I honestly, if I could not sing a lick, would not have chosen a non-believer to sing the lyrics, to convey the message of the biblical worldview as each song portrays some aspect of it. There I would draw the line. Lyrics are either Christian (or some other religious influence), or secular in nature. I'd want a believer to sing such a message from heart and mind, not just voice box and throat; whatever interpretation such a singer could musically place upon the words. A principle is involved there. An understanding that goes beyond mere words.
Now, let me add one more thing: something biblical. Something anyone can see. It regards a man named Simon. A total newcomer to the Gospels, in and gone, just like that.
Jesus, Yeshua, the Christ, the Messiah, God among mankind, innocent Lamb of God being slain for the sins of the world, causing the angelic host to look on in horror, desiring to annihilate the demons hovering above the Saviour; bruised, literally torn by tortuous beatings, crown of thorns on his head, bleeding, weak, exhausted, struggling to bear the weight of His cross, walking past thousands of people in Jerusalem for the feast, crowding the sides of the road to catch a glimpse of this "Messiah" the entire city is talking about, and someone enters the scene -
Matt 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Mark 15:21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Luke 23:26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Notice the information in each passage. Cyrene. An ancient Greek/Roman city in Northern Africa, near modern Libya, West of Egypt. An African man is in Jerusalem. He has been out in the country, comes into the city and is just passing by, wondering about this man causing all this commotion and clamor. He is the father of Alexander and Rufus.
Now, the name 'Alexander' is mentioned several times in the NT.
Act 4:6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
Act 19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense to the people.
1Tim 1:18 This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare;
1Tim 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1Tim 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2Tim 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
2Tim 4:15 Of whom be aware also; for he has greatly withstood our words.
If this is all referring to the same man, we have an incredible story in just a few passages. He is the son of the man who helped carry Christ's cross. He was a member of the Great Council, which may not apply to the Alexander in question, considering his probable young age; and rather refers to Alexander Lysimacus, a very wealthy and powerful Jew of that time. Simon's Alexander became a believer, and was pulled forward in a riot caused by the apostle Paul's presence in Ephesus, to answer for the situation at hand. He is a coppersmith by trade, like Paul was a tent maker. All priests and members of the ruling religious class had to have a trade. Would that the policy still existed among politicians today. Then Alexander becomes an enemy of Paul, an apostate to the faith, doing all he can to withstand Paul's ministry. Wow. Same man? The same Alexander? I don't know. The probability is very likely. He is the brother of Rufus -
Rom 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
What a story of a father and two brothers. And you will notice the father is not asked to carry the cross. The Roman guard laid hold of Simon, and compelled him to carry the cross, after Jesus. Simon is instantly shocked and thrown into the midst of a scene he could never imagine. The Man called the Messiah is dragging his instrument of death, collapsing under the strain and Simon is grabbed, yanked out of the crowd and told to pick up the back end of the cross and help Christ carry it along. Can you imagine such a scene to be thrust into? What would go through your mind? Shock? Horror? Fear? Confusion?
Simon gets to Golgotha and the guards push Him away. He's done his job. Does Christ look at him with eyes of thankfulness? Simon is transfixed to stand there and watch the entire scene play out. He watches, he listens. He takes it all in. He tells his sons, and they all become believers? Should I doubt such a thing? I do not. Simon was given a singular privilege only one person in the entire history of mankind was given. He was not a believer, and you can believe in the purposes and mechanics of the Most High God in handling the human race; choosing Simon was no accident. A non-believer. Curious about Christ, at best. Just watching from the crowd, suddenly, you are about to be emblazoned in the most read book in the Western hemisphere, if not the world.
God did not have one of the Disciples help Christ carry the cross. He created circumstances that used a simple man of integrity to perform the task and then, in God's time, monumental changes came for him and for his family.
Why would any believer deny a person of talent to assist them in whatever project they may have? Do believers only hire and allow believers into their homes to fix things broken? Do they only allow professed believers to repair their cars and trucks? Do they only place their money in banks run by professed Christian CEOs with biblical principles? Do they only interest themselves in sports teams that have only professed Christians on them? Is there any aspect in their lives, outside of attending church services, where only professed believers are who they associate with? Then why would anyone assume or presume I must only ask believers to play on this album? Sorry. You have no biblical principle to propose such a thing.
I know what the Bible says about being yoked together with unbelievers. I have no binding contracts with anyone. I am yoked with them only by a love for music and the possibilities of recording it together. I am certainly not married to them. So, I fail to see how 2 Cor. 6:14-18 applies but, here it is. You be the judge.
2Cor 6:14 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
2Cor 6:15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?
2Cor 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has 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 separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
The key here is obviously "yoked," as in unable to break free. If you have seen yokes that oxen wear, they are basically neck-cuffed together and often an older, more experienced ox is paired with a younger one, to keep it in line; lest two young oxen get ornery and uncooperative. I am not yoked together, in some stuck way I cannot get out of, to be pulled along in a bad direction, whether I like it or not. Such situations certainly exist in life and God bids us to beware of such associations and stay away from them.
To the contrary, all involved tell me repeatedly I am the boss, final decisions are mine. They have all been totally professional and as easy to work with as one could hope for. Would that I have had the same experiences in life with churches and professed Christians. Don't get me started.
I carry on, knowing, believing Martin & Janne, and Tom & Boris, and Manos & Kostas, whatever their individual beliefs and faiths, are the right team for this project. They have been wonderful to work with. I find no fault in them and I also have no reason to pry into their lives to find any, either. I have no stones to throw. What I have experienced has been worthy of honor and praise.
Hopefully this settles all issues of "only believers" being involved in the lives of professed Christians and their music.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND UPDATE
We have hit the homestretch. Tom finished mixing down song #8 and it sounds magnificent, to my ears. It really does. I sent a mix to Manos, and he agrees. It is literally epic. "From the Fjords" is now "The Battle of Armageddon" and it's ability to cause some serious horripilation is not to be downplayed.
I asked Janne to play some particular "fills" and he hit it out of the park. I asked Martin the same and both of them made the arrangement a lot more interesting and energized. Martin's solo will place right right in the middle of the seven last plagues. It's a tremendous coloration of music to message, a solo unlike he has ever played, as he has commented about it. Fans will notice right away.
Tom and I got into some little details added to the mix that keep the song changing textures here and there. I just keep clicking on "Play Again," listening to the song, over and over. Matter of fact, let me share with you a comment from Manos -
"Hello Ray,
wow!!! I just listened to ARMAGEDDON for the third time in a row...it's a masterpiece of epic proportions!! Having listened to the original album so many times, I find it amazing that I can still listen to so many subtle novelties in this version too, certain arrangements that further add up to the magic of the original creation. ... I really pray that people will pay attention and understand what's going on here, that there is still multilayered music that grows on you and gets you to discover new things every time you listen to it...simply great!!!"
Manos has been a wonderful encouragement since the inception of this project. To go from reissuing the original recording in 2019 to this place in the journey of all things LEGEND has been, continues to be rather mind blowing for me. I don't know what the future holds but, it's been an important experience for me thus far, and hopefully for all involved, as well.
A little fine tuning here and there as Tom finishes up the songs, and then the Mastering begins. Tom will handle mastering for CD and Digital platforms, and Manos, et al, will handle the mastering for vinyl.
It's coming up on one year since I had the compelling notion to start this project. Hard to believe it has been a year since I began this gig but, light at the end of tunnel can now be seen.
I really shouldn't use that phrase to describe this journey. It hasn't been a dark tunnel. Aside from my own circumstances and things that made my tracking difficult for me, I got through it and all in all, while I am not totally satisfied with my own performance, Martin and Janne and Tom's hard work have made this journey one of amazing vistas to look out over. If music can have the influence of getting people through hard times, I have had some high soaring over the months. Add to that the artwork of Boris and it has been a pleasure of both sight and sound.
'LEGEND Revisited: From the Lord.' All told, a release in the Spring may be the fastest this will hit the streets. We'll see.
The world is changing so quickly. All around the globe tensions are high, if not exploding on many compass points. It is impossible for me not to consider the bigger picture of what is taking place. We'll see if this project attains to a tiny piece of the pie in getting a message out to hopefully make a difference in some way. I can honestly say, the songs have kept me going in the midst of a lot of "stuff" happening in my own life. That is the power of truth. No, I could never call these songs "hymns." I will call them messages that contain pivotal matter associated with the times we live in.
Ultimately, it is all in God's hands.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I asked Janne to play some particular "fills" and he hit it out of the park. I asked Martin the same and both of them made the arrangement a lot more interesting and energized. Martin's solo will place right right in the middle of the seven last plagues. It's a tremendous coloration of music to message, a solo unlike he has ever played, as he has commented about it. Fans will notice right away.
Tom and I got into some little details added to the mix that keep the song changing textures here and there. I just keep clicking on "Play Again," listening to the song, over and over. Matter of fact, let me share with you a comment from Manos -
"Hello Ray,
wow!!! I just listened to ARMAGEDDON for the third time in a row...it's a masterpiece of epic proportions!! Having listened to the original album so many times, I find it amazing that I can still listen to so many subtle novelties in this version too, certain arrangements that further add up to the magic of the original creation. ... I really pray that people will pay attention and understand what's going on here, that there is still multilayered music that grows on you and gets you to discover new things every time you listen to it...simply great!!!"
Manos has been a wonderful encouragement since the inception of this project. To go from reissuing the original recording in 2019 to this place in the journey of all things LEGEND has been, continues to be rather mind blowing for me. I don't know what the future holds but, it's been an important experience for me thus far, and hopefully for all involved, as well.
A little fine tuning here and there as Tom finishes up the songs, and then the Mastering begins. Tom will handle mastering for CD and Digital platforms, and Manos, et al, will handle the mastering for vinyl.
It's coming up on one year since I had the compelling notion to start this project. Hard to believe it has been a year since I began this gig but, light at the end of tunnel can now be seen.
I really shouldn't use that phrase to describe this journey. It hasn't been a dark tunnel. Aside from my own circumstances and things that made my tracking difficult for me, I got through it and all in all, while I am not totally satisfied with my own performance, Martin and Janne and Tom's hard work have made this journey one of amazing vistas to look out over. If music can have the influence of getting people through hard times, I have had some high soaring over the months. Add to that the artwork of Boris and it has been a pleasure of both sight and sound.
'LEGEND Revisited: From the Lord.' All told, a release in the Spring may be the fastest this will hit the streets. We'll see.
The world is changing so quickly. All around the globe tensions are high, if not exploding on many compass points. It is impossible for me not to consider the bigger picture of what is taking place. We'll see if this project attains to a tiny piece of the pie in getting a message out to hopefully make a difference in some way. I can honestly say, the songs have kept me going in the midst of a lot of "stuff" happening in my own life. That is the power of truth. No, I could never call these songs "hymns." I will call them messages that contain pivotal matter associated with the times we live in.
Ultimately, it is all in God's hands.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Circumstances
As my life radically changes, so too will my ability to post things here on the site. I'll more than likely be absent for awhile. I'll be living the tent life for the foreseeable future. I suppose my cell phone's hot spot will afford me some web time but, not to the extent I have had to research and post things here. I try to post new things every week, generally around the weekend. Things are going to change.
I haven't been camping in a good 30 years. I certainly never thought I'd have to do it again for a roof over my head but, you know, walking around a state park last week, the peace and quiet was food for my soul. Like many, if not all of you reading this, stress in life is brutal on the entire physical, mental and emotional well-being. If Heaven means anything, it means eternal peace and I have written before, I don't need a mansion in God's "house." Give me a tent on the outskirts of the City but, give me peace, and I'll be happy.
I hope and pray the time apart from sharing with you shall not be long. I have no control over that, presently. I appreciate all of you who stop bye and check things out here. I don't know who you all are. Everything is just tabulation of numbers but, those numbers represent new people stopping by and pages viewed and all, and while this is not a big site or a really busy one, it is one that has made a small place for itself in the world wide web.
I kindly ask you might remember me in your thoughts and prayers. I have no idea what my future holds, like all of you. We walk by faith, not by sight. And you all know the saying - "Want to make God laugh? Make plans."
Some circumstances brought me to this place and others may be developing to keep me "housed" under more than fabric. I hope so. We'll see.
As I walk the perimeter of the property every afternoon, looking down, watching my steps; one, two, three miles worth, I do a l-o-t of thinking. Circumstances. Twists, turns... red flags. White flags. I certainly did not see myself on this doorstep at 68. There's absolutely nothing I can do but, walk through this next door and see what happens.
All I know is, the world waxes old like a garment; the love of many waxes cold; it has become as the days of Noah and Sodom; the sea and the waves are roaring; the signs of the times are shouting; the rocks and stones are ready to cry out; and the return of the Lord draweth nigh.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I haven't been camping in a good 30 years. I certainly never thought I'd have to do it again for a roof over my head but, you know, walking around a state park last week, the peace and quiet was food for my soul. Like many, if not all of you reading this, stress in life is brutal on the entire physical, mental and emotional well-being. If Heaven means anything, it means eternal peace and I have written before, I don't need a mansion in God's "house." Give me a tent on the outskirts of the City but, give me peace, and I'll be happy.
I hope and pray the time apart from sharing with you shall not be long. I have no control over that, presently. I appreciate all of you who stop bye and check things out here. I don't know who you all are. Everything is just tabulation of numbers but, those numbers represent new people stopping by and pages viewed and all, and while this is not a big site or a really busy one, it is one that has made a small place for itself in the world wide web.
I kindly ask you might remember me in your thoughts and prayers. I have no idea what my future holds, like all of you. We walk by faith, not by sight. And you all know the saying - "Want to make God laugh? Make plans."
Some circumstances brought me to this place and others may be developing to keep me "housed" under more than fabric. I hope so. We'll see.
As I walk the perimeter of the property every afternoon, looking down, watching my steps; one, two, three miles worth, I do a l-o-t of thinking. Circumstances. Twists, turns... red flags. White flags. I certainly did not see myself on this doorstep at 68. There's absolutely nothing I can do but, walk through this next door and see what happens.
All I know is, the world waxes old like a garment; the love of many waxes cold; it has become as the days of Noah and Sodom; the sea and the waves are roaring; the signs of the times are shouting; the rocks and stones are ready to cry out; and the return of the Lord draweth nigh.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Thankful
When faced with conditions that turn your life upside down, the believer turns to God and begins the time tested procedure of asking questions and hoping, waiting for answers. Much of the time what we think we know proves untrue or not critical to our situations. You can thread the eye of that needle of the unknown future every day and night and you just feel you're "a ship floating on a sea without chart or compass." Days turn into weeks. Weeks into months. Months may even turn into years with no answers and faith is sorely tested.
If you have been a reader here for a while, you know I state it regularly. With God, it is not about money or job or career. It's about character; the development of character; a Christlike character. That is the only thing, literally, you can take from this life into the next. God's method of developing character is trials and tests; walking by faith, not by sight.
You can kick yourself around the barn till the cows come home but, that will not change your character. Anger will not change it for the better. Thoughts of vengeance certainly will not. Nor, for that matter, will doubt; as common as doubt is to the mind of the believer at times. Maintaining a positive stream of thoughts is no easy task for humans; most of us anyway. What changes character is childlike faith. That does not mean childlike faith is for children. They have it by default. Adults need to learn it through trials and tests. Children of loving parents do not concern themselves with bills, with the cares of this life. They just believe food will be there, clothes will be their, as will a roof and bed at night. But, what of millions of children and adults now without promise of any of those things? Even then, the child trusts mommy and daddy will work it out, and they will hold on to that right to the end of childhood. Adults? No, adults feel the weight of the world on their shoulders and yet, the believer who feels that way as well, has been told by God He cares for us and knows our needs more than we do, and knew them well before we needed them. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto us. And bear in mind, the apostle Paul wrote - food and clothing, therewith be content. Wait, no roof over our head? Well, what did Jesus state? If you connect with Him you have houses and lands and everything else we need. How can that be? Because in God's family on Earth, His people through conversion and choice to serve Him, everyone is a member of the household of God. Somehow, some way, God provides through ten thousand channels we cannot conceive and takes care of His own. The issue is, will we hang on and live according to God's timetable, not ours?
My time table literally came within the hour of my leaving my home and heading to the park for residence. One phone call changed everything.
Several of you out there know some details of my personal circumstances right now. I thank you for your thoughts and prayers. They've been answered. Looks like I'm going to have a solid roof over my head. Given what millions may not have tonight, I am extremely thankful and grateful. God is good.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
If you have been a reader here for a while, you know I state it regularly. With God, it is not about money or job or career. It's about character; the development of character; a Christlike character. That is the only thing, literally, you can take from this life into the next. God's method of developing character is trials and tests; walking by faith, not by sight.
You can kick yourself around the barn till the cows come home but, that will not change your character. Anger will not change it for the better. Thoughts of vengeance certainly will not. Nor, for that matter, will doubt; as common as doubt is to the mind of the believer at times. Maintaining a positive stream of thoughts is no easy task for humans; most of us anyway. What changes character is childlike faith. That does not mean childlike faith is for children. They have it by default. Adults need to learn it through trials and tests. Children of loving parents do not concern themselves with bills, with the cares of this life. They just believe food will be there, clothes will be their, as will a roof and bed at night. But, what of millions of children and adults now without promise of any of those things? Even then, the child trusts mommy and daddy will work it out, and they will hold on to that right to the end of childhood. Adults? No, adults feel the weight of the world on their shoulders and yet, the believer who feels that way as well, has been told by God He cares for us and knows our needs more than we do, and knew them well before we needed them. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto us. And bear in mind, the apostle Paul wrote - food and clothing, therewith be content. Wait, no roof over our head? Well, what did Jesus state? If you connect with Him you have houses and lands and everything else we need. How can that be? Because in God's family on Earth, His people through conversion and choice to serve Him, everyone is a member of the household of God. Somehow, some way, God provides through ten thousand channels we cannot conceive and takes care of His own. The issue is, will we hang on and live according to God's timetable, not ours?
My time table literally came within the hour of my leaving my home and heading to the park for residence. One phone call changed everything.
Several of you out there know some details of my personal circumstances right now. I thank you for your thoughts and prayers. They've been answered. Looks like I'm going to have a solid roof over my head. Given what millions may not have tonight, I am extremely thankful and grateful. God is good.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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881. Who is a Jew? - December 1, 2023
Who is a "Jew?" What is a "Jew?"
As the situation in Israel/Gaza continues to take lives on both sides, and by that I mean civilian lives; which also is confusing to the matter because there is no Gaza army. There are only terrorist organizations fighting. They may hoist a flag but, even there, most of those organizations do not lift a Palestinian flag. They raise flags prominent to the terrorist group.
Be that as it may, the central aspect of the conflict is Jews against Arabs, which I have already noted is a battle thousands of years old and is almost genetic now; like cats and dogs, dogs and squirrels, cats and your fishbowl, killer whales and seals, seals and penguins. Just name the age old nemesis combatants and the Israel/Arab conflict is the same, in the human sphere. Like all such human conflicts they are based on territory. Yankees and Red Sox. It's New England, North-Eastern American-thing. Jets or Giants? It's a New York-thing.
At the crux of the matter is the claim, Jews were given the land by Yahweh, Yehovah, pick your spelling and pronunciation of many variations on the Biblical name for God, based on the consonants YHWH or YHVH. The linguist "experts" have their reasons for these variations. I don't get into that. What matters in this constant conflict is the belief Jews have; that God gave them the land via the twelve tribes, the sons of the Old Testament patriarch, Israel. Unfortunately, that is not biblical; not quite.
#1. God told His people, the refugees of Egypt, which contained Hebrews by blood and also others from Egypt who joined them and converted to belief in the God of the Hebrews, to obey His law. If things are a matter of religious faith, not physical heritage and genetics, Rahab, Ruth and many others in the lineage of Hebrew history and of the Messiah in particular, are just as much Hebrews as a blood descendant of the tribes.
#2. Ten of the tribes apostatized. That left Judah and Benjamin and some Levites to maintain the priesthood but, the Levites, being the chosen priest caste, did not receive an inheritance of land. The term "Jew" is from Yahudah; the tribe of Judah, which became the majority ruling tribe. Those ten tribes scattered, intermarried, and bloodlines have become moot.
#3. The obvious history of intermarriage is foundational. It became such an issue God told the refugees from Babylon and Persia to send all the unconverted Babylonian wives and the children back to Babylon. Talk about a tough decision. The corruption of the entire faith was at stake. Maybe the most critical decision a Jewish leader, Ezra the priest, ever had to make in biblical times.
Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying: 'The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands; yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been first in this faithlessness.'
Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down appalled.
Read all of Ezra chapters 9 and 10. Even those in the priesthood violated the law of God on this matter. What was established in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah did not last. None of it lasted; hence the Jews overtaken by the Grecian empire and the Roman empire. Centuries of pagan control over them. Then 2,000 more years of control in the Christian era. They still have no control over the temple site. Arab Muslims have that. And the same holds true for professed Muslims and intermarriage. The same for professed Christians. There is no "pure blood" by virtue of original land acquisition in the Western hemisphere. Christians have no said physical land inheritance. Whatever Muslims believe they have from their deity, is also meaningless in the grand scheme of things but, to them, it is just as big a deal as what Jews believe.
#4. It is also important to remember the history of the Hebrews and Jews was one of constant backsliding, apostasy, repentance, and then backsliding and apostasy and repentance, over and over for centuries. Even in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah there was apostasy, when the Jews were let out of Babylon and Persia to rebuild their temple and land and live in the law of Moses.
And this is also a fact, most of the Jews in Babylonian and Persian captivity stayed in Babylon. Those who left were a fraction of the people in captivity. The people of God became Babylonians. What was more important to God; blood descendance or complete adherence to principle, not apostasy?
By the time Messiah came, Jerusalem was a Roman controlled city and no Jews ever controlled the city again. The Crusades went on and on, back and forth between "Christians" and Arabs. "Jews" were scattered in every direction. Jews farmed the land, which, it must be pointed out, is anything BUT holy today. Jerusalem is occupied by Jews, of various convictions; by Arabs/Muslims of various convictions; and by Christians of various convictions. Jews run the government but, that government is not a theocracy. There is no theocracy. There is no priesthood. There are no sanctuary services. There is no acceptance of Yeshua of Nazareth as the Messiah and coming King. Either Christianity is wrong or Israel/Jews are wrong. It's a matter of religious faith. It is not a matter of theocratic rule in Israel. It does not exist and the State of Israel has no theocratic inheritance. They rejected their Messiah and God said everything they had, as the chosen people, was left desolate.
The return of "Jews" to Israel and the accomplishment of a Jewish State, in 1947, has nothing to do with Bible prophecy. The only exodus spoken of in Scripture is that which took place when Jews left Babylon and Persia to rebuild the city and carry on as a people with some autocracy but, under the Persian umbrella of rule. Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes held pivotal places in Jewish history but, none of them could help the Jews spiritually in their connection to their Creator and true and only King.
It is a fact that professed Christians who accept the premise of prophetic interpretation known as Futurism have made this situation worse by their erroneous beliefs, inspired by Roman Catholic Jesuit authors of the original premise. I've gone over that at length, and do so constantly because the point cannot be overstated. Professed Christianity is split over this crisis. Support for both Israel and Gaza appears throughout "Christendom."
What is a "Jew?" Forget the whole, entire, blood lineage issue. That is simply moot by the fact of constant intermarriage over centuries. The fact is Christ was not a "pure" Jew by blood because of ancestors in His own lineage. Yes, both Mary and Joseph were from the tribe of Judah but, again, Rahab and Ruth were converts to the faith. The blood of Adam and Eve flows through all humanity. The blood of Noah and his wife, as well. The blood of the later patriarchs? Not so much.
For the original Jews, conversion, as well as genetic lineage made someone a Jew. When the Jews conquered a land and servants were made, they could convert and would be Hebrews in the eyes of God and His people. At least, they should have been.
The New Testament is plain enough. Paul wrote in Romans, just because Jews say, 'We have the law' means nothing; for if the heathen does that which is contained in the law, and connect spiritually with their Creator, while Jews neglect it all, the "non-Jews" are accepted by God because of faith, not blood. Ultimately, Paul wrote -
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
With God, the flesh and blood; genetics is not the issue. Becoming a new person in Christ; being born again by faith and trust in God's plan of salvation and spiritual life brought to someone through the work of the Holy Spirit is the thing that gives someone land: in a future eternal life on the New Earth. Land in Israel, land in the Mid-East is meaningless to God. But, Jews have a veil in front of them; their blindness keeps them in the dark. They have no inheritance on Earth that means anything to God and they have no inheritance in Heaven if they reject their Messiah, which they still do, save for converts down through time. Again, conversion is the issue, not genetics.
It is a fact that mixed blood of "Palestinians" contains Jewish blood through centuries of intermarriage and vice versa. Arabs fighting "Jews" means as much as cats fighting with dogs. It's nonsense, regardless of how vicious things can get. And we have all seen vicious dog fights. Jews call non-Jews dogs. Muslims call infidels dogs. The entire Earth is plagued with sin, and therefore suffering wars, suffering bloodshed, suffering pain, loss, grief, fear, lack of trust and broken humanity. Jews and Arabs need Christ, need His salvation and peace. Without that, this warfare will never cease, and we can see how it affects the rest of Western civilization. Upheaval is everywhere in North America and Europe. The sea and the waves are roaring.
The bottom line? Are you a Jew, an Israelite by new life in Christ? That's the most important aspect of all this. Whatever happens in this temporary sphere, eternity awaits. Decisions for that inheritance is the crucial thing humanity needs to get straight.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
As the situation in Israel/Gaza continues to take lives on both sides, and by that I mean civilian lives; which also is confusing to the matter because there is no Gaza army. There are only terrorist organizations fighting. They may hoist a flag but, even there, most of those organizations do not lift a Palestinian flag. They raise flags prominent to the terrorist group.
Be that as it may, the central aspect of the conflict is Jews against Arabs, which I have already noted is a battle thousands of years old and is almost genetic now; like cats and dogs, dogs and squirrels, cats and your fishbowl, killer whales and seals, seals and penguins. Just name the age old nemesis combatants and the Israel/Arab conflict is the same, in the human sphere. Like all such human conflicts they are based on territory. Yankees and Red Sox. It's New England, North-Eastern American-thing. Jets or Giants? It's a New York-thing.
At the crux of the matter is the claim, Jews were given the land by Yahweh, Yehovah, pick your spelling and pronunciation of many variations on the Biblical name for God, based on the consonants YHWH or YHVH. The linguist "experts" have their reasons for these variations. I don't get into that. What matters in this constant conflict is the belief Jews have; that God gave them the land via the twelve tribes, the sons of the Old Testament patriarch, Israel. Unfortunately, that is not biblical; not quite.
#1. God told His people, the refugees of Egypt, which contained Hebrews by blood and also others from Egypt who joined them and converted to belief in the God of the Hebrews, to obey His law. If things are a matter of religious faith, not physical heritage and genetics, Rahab, Ruth and many others in the lineage of Hebrew history and of the Messiah in particular, are just as much Hebrews as a blood descendant of the tribes.
#2. Ten of the tribes apostatized. That left Judah and Benjamin and some Levites to maintain the priesthood but, the Levites, being the chosen priest caste, did not receive an inheritance of land. The term "Jew" is from Yahudah; the tribe of Judah, which became the majority ruling tribe. Those ten tribes scattered, intermarried, and bloodlines have become moot.
#3. The obvious history of intermarriage is foundational. It became such an issue God told the refugees from Babylon and Persia to send all the unconverted Babylonian wives and the children back to Babylon. Talk about a tough decision. The corruption of the entire faith was at stake. Maybe the most critical decision a Jewish leader, Ezra the priest, ever had to make in biblical times.
Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying: 'The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands; yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been first in this faithlessness.'
Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down appalled.
Read all of Ezra chapters 9 and 10. Even those in the priesthood violated the law of God on this matter. What was established in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah did not last. None of it lasted; hence the Jews overtaken by the Grecian empire and the Roman empire. Centuries of pagan control over them. Then 2,000 more years of control in the Christian era. They still have no control over the temple site. Arab Muslims have that. And the same holds true for professed Muslims and intermarriage. The same for professed Christians. There is no "pure blood" by virtue of original land acquisition in the Western hemisphere. Christians have no said physical land inheritance. Whatever Muslims believe they have from their deity, is also meaningless in the grand scheme of things but, to them, it is just as big a deal as what Jews believe.
#4. It is also important to remember the history of the Hebrews and Jews was one of constant backsliding, apostasy, repentance, and then backsliding and apostasy and repentance, over and over for centuries. Even in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah there was apostasy, when the Jews were let out of Babylon and Persia to rebuild their temple and land and live in the law of Moses.
And this is also a fact, most of the Jews in Babylonian and Persian captivity stayed in Babylon. Those who left were a fraction of the people in captivity. The people of God became Babylonians. What was more important to God; blood descendance or complete adherence to principle, not apostasy?
By the time Messiah came, Jerusalem was a Roman controlled city and no Jews ever controlled the city again. The Crusades went on and on, back and forth between "Christians" and Arabs. "Jews" were scattered in every direction. Jews farmed the land, which, it must be pointed out, is anything BUT holy today. Jerusalem is occupied by Jews, of various convictions; by Arabs/Muslims of various convictions; and by Christians of various convictions. Jews run the government but, that government is not a theocracy. There is no theocracy. There is no priesthood. There are no sanctuary services. There is no acceptance of Yeshua of Nazareth as the Messiah and coming King. Either Christianity is wrong or Israel/Jews are wrong. It's a matter of religious faith. It is not a matter of theocratic rule in Israel. It does not exist and the State of Israel has no theocratic inheritance. They rejected their Messiah and God said everything they had, as the chosen people, was left desolate.
The return of "Jews" to Israel and the accomplishment of a Jewish State, in 1947, has nothing to do with Bible prophecy. The only exodus spoken of in Scripture is that which took place when Jews left Babylon and Persia to rebuild the city and carry on as a people with some autocracy but, under the Persian umbrella of rule. Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes held pivotal places in Jewish history but, none of them could help the Jews spiritually in their connection to their Creator and true and only King.
It is a fact that professed Christians who accept the premise of prophetic interpretation known as Futurism have made this situation worse by their erroneous beliefs, inspired by Roman Catholic Jesuit authors of the original premise. I've gone over that at length, and do so constantly because the point cannot be overstated. Professed Christianity is split over this crisis. Support for both Israel and Gaza appears throughout "Christendom."
What is a "Jew?" Forget the whole, entire, blood lineage issue. That is simply moot by the fact of constant intermarriage over centuries. The fact is Christ was not a "pure" Jew by blood because of ancestors in His own lineage. Yes, both Mary and Joseph were from the tribe of Judah but, again, Rahab and Ruth were converts to the faith. The blood of Adam and Eve flows through all humanity. The blood of Noah and his wife, as well. The blood of the later patriarchs? Not so much.
For the original Jews, conversion, as well as genetic lineage made someone a Jew. When the Jews conquered a land and servants were made, they could convert and would be Hebrews in the eyes of God and His people. At least, they should have been.
The New Testament is plain enough. Paul wrote in Romans, just because Jews say, 'We have the law' means nothing; for if the heathen does that which is contained in the law, and connect spiritually with their Creator, while Jews neglect it all, the "non-Jews" are accepted by God because of faith, not blood. Ultimately, Paul wrote -
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
With God, the flesh and blood; genetics is not the issue. Becoming a new person in Christ; being born again by faith and trust in God's plan of salvation and spiritual life brought to someone through the work of the Holy Spirit is the thing that gives someone land: in a future eternal life on the New Earth. Land in Israel, land in the Mid-East is meaningless to God. But, Jews have a veil in front of them; their blindness keeps them in the dark. They have no inheritance on Earth that means anything to God and they have no inheritance in Heaven if they reject their Messiah, which they still do, save for converts down through time. Again, conversion is the issue, not genetics.
It is a fact that mixed blood of "Palestinians" contains Jewish blood through centuries of intermarriage and vice versa. Arabs fighting "Jews" means as much as cats fighting with dogs. It's nonsense, regardless of how vicious things can get. And we have all seen vicious dog fights. Jews call non-Jews dogs. Muslims call infidels dogs. The entire Earth is plagued with sin, and therefore suffering wars, suffering bloodshed, suffering pain, loss, grief, fear, lack of trust and broken humanity. Jews and Arabs need Christ, need His salvation and peace. Without that, this warfare will never cease, and we can see how it affects the rest of Western civilization. Upheaval is everywhere in North America and Europe. The sea and the waves are roaring.
The bottom line? Are you a Jew, an Israelite by new life in Christ? That's the most important aspect of all this. Whatever happens in this temporary sphere, eternity awaits. Decisions for that inheritance is the crucial thing humanity needs to get straight.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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882. A Cardinal Gets Evicted - 12/2/2023
Ray, why would you take the position Archbishop Carlo Vigano is a Roman Catholic "plant" or Pied Piper to lead unwary Protestants back to Mother or, at least to add to their confusion?
Today I see a headline that tends to convince me I am correct and it concerns a retired Vatican Cardinal.
Pope Francis reportedly strips US Cardinal Burke of salary, evicts him from apartment
www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-reportedly-strips-us-cardinal-of-salary-apartment.html
"Pope Francis is reportedly stripping conservative U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke of his salary and Vatican apartment as punishment for fomenting "disunity" in the Roman Catholic Church.
"Francis announced he was taking such actions against the conservative American prelate during a Nov. 20 meeting of the heads of Vatican offices, according to two sources who attended the meeting and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
"One source told the outlet that Francis was evicting Burke from his subsidized Vatican apartment and stopping his retired cardinal's salary because he was using such privileges against the church. Another source claimed the pontiff accused Burke of sowing "disunity."
"Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I take away his apartment and his salary," the pope said, according to an anonymous source at the meeting who spoke to conservative Italian newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, as noted by Catholic News Agency."
What did this Cardinal state that would make him an enemy of Francis and invoke such wrath against him?
"Burke, who was made a cardinal in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, has attracted support from traditionalist Catholics amid his outspoken criticism of Francis, whose leadership he said in 2014 has given some Catholics "a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a rudder."
"It is unfortunately very clear that the invocation of the Holy Spirit by some has for its purpose the advancement of an agenda that is more political and human than ecclesial and divine," Burke said."
Seriously? That gets him kicked out of his apartment and loss of retirement salary? If that makes Burke an enemy of Francis, sowing seeds of disunity, Vigano is the devil himself trying to take down the entire Vatican and RCC for the multiple lengthy treatises he has put out there showing Francis is an apostate. How can Vigano even be standing? How can he have any possible ministry inside the RCC anymore? Because his job is to sow seeds that shall bear dried or rotten fruit of weakness towards Rome by evangelicals and apostate Protestants who no longer protest Mother Rome.
I imagine the next pope will a be more traditional pontiff, attempting to draw closer to the departed daughters of Rome, like JP2; turning the ship around before it hits the rocks. Rome plays parts. Rome is all about deception. Again, notice this passage of the Jesuit oath -
"My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope."
www.alamoministries.com/content/english/Antichrist/jesuitoath.html
It isn't just Jesuits who use these tactics. Any agent of Rome can use them. Vigano has opened doors to millions of evangelicals and political Conservatives who see him as a champion of their cause. He points out everything, word for word, they speak and place in print about a New World order, elitism, totalitarian groups and their schemes. He even does it in more detail. They call Trump their leader. He calls Trump a true patriot. He calls Francis a Communist. He claims the devil is in the Vatican. Sow seeds of disunity anyone?
If Burke can be called the Pope's enemy by the Pope, himself, Vigano should be seen as Satan's right hand man but, no. We see no retribution towards Vigano. It makes no sense, at all, unless it is all part of the world stage play Romanism engages in; gathering information about Rome's true enemies... true Protestants, wherever they can be seen to proclaim the everlasting Gospel and the Three Angel's Messages of Rev 14:6-12, and 18:1-5.
I would add, I hope and pray both faithful Roman Catholics and those in the daughter organizations in Protestantism come back to the position of the Fathers of their churches before apostasy entered. Remember the words of Peter and Jude 2000 years ago -
2Pet 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pet 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pet 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have seen down through history, the empire the church in Rome built for itself as time went on. The riches of the world came into its coffers. We have seen today's big-name preachers in the most expensive cars, living in mansions, flying around in private jets. They have made merchandise of the faith through believers, just as predicted.
It is high time sincere believers wake up and take a stand against this invasion of lasciviousness into the realm of professed Christianity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Today I see a headline that tends to convince me I am correct and it concerns a retired Vatican Cardinal.
Pope Francis reportedly strips US Cardinal Burke of salary, evicts him from apartment
www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-reportedly-strips-us-cardinal-of-salary-apartment.html
"Pope Francis is reportedly stripping conservative U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke of his salary and Vatican apartment as punishment for fomenting "disunity" in the Roman Catholic Church.
"Francis announced he was taking such actions against the conservative American prelate during a Nov. 20 meeting of the heads of Vatican offices, according to two sources who attended the meeting and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
"One source told the outlet that Francis was evicting Burke from his subsidized Vatican apartment and stopping his retired cardinal's salary because he was using such privileges against the church. Another source claimed the pontiff accused Burke of sowing "disunity."
"Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I take away his apartment and his salary," the pope said, according to an anonymous source at the meeting who spoke to conservative Italian newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, as noted by Catholic News Agency."
What did this Cardinal state that would make him an enemy of Francis and invoke such wrath against him?
"Burke, who was made a cardinal in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, has attracted support from traditionalist Catholics amid his outspoken criticism of Francis, whose leadership he said in 2014 has given some Catholics "a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a rudder."
"It is unfortunately very clear that the invocation of the Holy Spirit by some has for its purpose the advancement of an agenda that is more political and human than ecclesial and divine," Burke said."
Seriously? That gets him kicked out of his apartment and loss of retirement salary? If that makes Burke an enemy of Francis, sowing seeds of disunity, Vigano is the devil himself trying to take down the entire Vatican and RCC for the multiple lengthy treatises he has put out there showing Francis is an apostate. How can Vigano even be standing? How can he have any possible ministry inside the RCC anymore? Because his job is to sow seeds that shall bear dried or rotten fruit of weakness towards Rome by evangelicals and apostate Protestants who no longer protest Mother Rome.
I imagine the next pope will a be more traditional pontiff, attempting to draw closer to the departed daughters of Rome, like JP2; turning the ship around before it hits the rocks. Rome plays parts. Rome is all about deception. Again, notice this passage of the Jesuit oath -
"My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope."
www.alamoministries.com/content/english/Antichrist/jesuitoath.html
It isn't just Jesuits who use these tactics. Any agent of Rome can use them. Vigano has opened doors to millions of evangelicals and political Conservatives who see him as a champion of their cause. He points out everything, word for word, they speak and place in print about a New World order, elitism, totalitarian groups and their schemes. He even does it in more detail. They call Trump their leader. He calls Trump a true patriot. He calls Francis a Communist. He claims the devil is in the Vatican. Sow seeds of disunity anyone?
If Burke can be called the Pope's enemy by the Pope, himself, Vigano should be seen as Satan's right hand man but, no. We see no retribution towards Vigano. It makes no sense, at all, unless it is all part of the world stage play Romanism engages in; gathering information about Rome's true enemies... true Protestants, wherever they can be seen to proclaim the everlasting Gospel and the Three Angel's Messages of Rev 14:6-12, and 18:1-5.
I would add, I hope and pray both faithful Roman Catholics and those in the daughter organizations in Protestantism come back to the position of the Fathers of their churches before apostasy entered. Remember the words of Peter and Jude 2000 years ago -
2Pet 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pet 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pet 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have seen down through history, the empire the church in Rome built for itself as time went on. The riches of the world came into its coffers. We have seen today's big-name preachers in the most expensive cars, living in mansions, flying around in private jets. They have made merchandise of the faith through believers, just as predicted.
It is high time sincere believers wake up and take a stand against this invasion of lasciviousness into the realm of professed Christianity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Are You Sure There's No Creator?
If you look at things logically, you have to make a decision. Can blind, unguided, undirected, mindless, purposeless Naturalism do what the greatest minds in science cannot do with all the technology available today? How can any common sense be seen in such a position? Why would intelligent minds seek to make mechanical versions of natural wonders of obvious design from a mind? Case in point? The Dragonfly. The insect kingdom's reigning master of flight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2g64-gvWM
The title of the video is - You CANNOT Deny God's Existence Once You See This.
Well, actually, you can. You can deny anything you want. Whether or not the evidence makes that an intelligent decision is the issue. In the case of the Dragonfly (among millions of examples in nature), logic would decree it did not, because it could not happen by small mutations over time. Nobody believes an engineering marvel creates itself, let alone by mistakes or "natural selection" of a myriad of parts gathered together over time. Great minds design and create great marvels in our world. To believe great marvels in nature came into being by a series of accidents is not a very intelligent conclusion to come to, based on the evidence; including huge dragonflies laid down in sedimentary fossils, fully intact, as we see them today.
Logic and common sense moves me to side with, not 'time did it' but, the Creator of time, space, matter and millions of creatures in our world that testify to that fact by their design, did it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2g64-gvWM
The title of the video is - You CANNOT Deny God's Existence Once You See This.
Well, actually, you can. You can deny anything you want. Whether or not the evidence makes that an intelligent decision is the issue. In the case of the Dragonfly (among millions of examples in nature), logic would decree it did not, because it could not happen by small mutations over time. Nobody believes an engineering marvel creates itself, let alone by mistakes or "natural selection" of a myriad of parts gathered together over time. Great minds design and create great marvels in our world. To believe great marvels in nature came into being by a series of accidents is not a very intelligent conclusion to come to, based on the evidence; including huge dragonflies laid down in sedimentary fossils, fully intact, as we see them today.
Logic and common sense moves me to side with, not 'time did it' but, the Creator of time, space, matter and millions of creatures in our world that testify to that fact by their design, did it.
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883. Critical Thinking on Aliens and UFOs? - 12/2/2023
After watching the above video I began to look through other videos on that channel, which is an Answers in Genesis - Canada ministry. All the newer videos are hosted by Calvin Smith, who you might recognize from Creation Ministries International videos, Creation Magazine Live, which he co-hosted with Richard Fangrad.
After the newer videos comes a series of short videos on the subject of critical thinking, presented by Patricia Engler - "Speaker, Writer and Youth Outreach Coordinator." This delightfully sharp and well-spoken young woman breaks things down subject by subject, and does a great job at it.
Critical thinking seems all but lost in modern society. Voices of "experts" and those in positions of authority of some kind, have been controlling what people think for over a century (actually, throughout all history), and it gets worse by the year. You only have to consider one phrase to understand the nature of the war for minds. If you disagree with any "official" story or explanation you are a "conspiracy theorist" and millions accept that without any evidence except the official story. Trust the experts. Trust those in positions of authority. They would not lie for any nefarious purposes. With all due respect to a Constitutionally protected free press, they have been calling Republicans liars for decades, regardless of their positions of authority. And forget any voice in any field of science. If they stand up and speak out against an official story they are not just labeled a conspiracy theorist, they are put upon by forces to ruin their lives.
There has never been a time in human history when critical thinking has been more important, given the age of technology and constant stream of voices telling humanity to listen to them. And that includes Artificial Intelligence. Believe it. A.I. chatbots are replacing human ministry in pulpits around the world. The fascination people have is the most concerning thing happening for many in the industry. Elon Musk recently stated an A.I "God" could control the world indefinitely. Human despots die. A.I. would not.
In looking at the title of all of Ms. Engler's videos, starting from her first, one of the last caught my eyes - Aliens and UFOs (episode 97).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHZOPcVnUE
Having seen many such videos by evangelical ministries, I knew what would be said but, in this case, under a heading of using critical thinking skills - ability to break things down and come to conclusions based on evidence - this became a subject I felt compelled to comment upon. I won't offer any new biblical evidence, if you have read previous posts on the subject but, in this case, let us see how critical thinking breaks down this subject from her perspective and mine.
As far as life on other planets, she begins by stating Naturalists figure, if life could spontaneously develop on Earth, then it must have elsewhere because of the sheer number of bodies in the vast universe. She states you would not get this idea from Scripture but, from evolutionary assumptions. (???)
She does not believe in Naturalism and then uses the classic text in Isaiah to show God only created life on Earth -
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Her take on the verse is that God created the Earth to be inhabited while Genesis states all other bodies in space are for signs and seasons and in Psalms, to declare God's glory.
Let's take a look at the context of Isaiah 44 and 45.
Isa 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb, I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad the earth by myself;
Isa 44:25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isa 44:26 That confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; that says to Jerusalem, You shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isa 44:27 That says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers:
Isa 44:28 That says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shalt be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
Isa 45:1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Isa 45:2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isa 45:3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, which call you by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Isa 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me:
Isa 45:11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me.
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 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
The context is the calling of king Cyrus, more than a century before he is born. God would use him to free His people from captivity, to rebuild Jerusalem after it was destroyed, and bring back the land from desolation; an event yet well into the future, as far as Babylon was concerned. God wanted His people to know they can trust Him, and wanted Cyrus to know God called Him. It is said when Cyrus was shown this portion of Isaiah, he was greatly moved and motivated to let the Jews return to their homeland.
Even though God's people and promised land suffered destruction by the Assyrians, and the coming Babylonians and Persians, it would not lay waste because God created the Earth to be inhabited. He is in control of everything. His people would come back to their land and inhabit it. Verse 18 is not some isolated statement about life in the universe. It has a context, and critical thinking will always take that context into account. Any verse in question: what is stated before it and after it? Most explanations are found in that context, alone.
Isaiah 45:18 is not stating the only place God created life is on Earth. How do we know that? Job 38:3-8
Job 38:3 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Job 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Job 38:5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
At the very least, before the Earth was created, the morning stars and sons of God were present to sing and shout at the pageantry of creation week.
Angels are referred to as stars -
Isa 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star [Lucifer], son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Rev 1:20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
An angel is a messenger. In symbolic language they are referred to as stars, bringers of messages of light in darkness. Lucifer is called the day star, the first of God's creation of the angelic host. He wanted to rule all the other 'stars' in the realm. And he wanted to rule God's people from the sides of the North, a reference to the sanctuary and placement of the sacred furniture inside and what it all means. In the North stood a table with a stack of bread loaves (think pita bread) on it; showing God is the provider and sustainer of His people. Lucifer wanted to control God's assembly, His people on Earth.
The morning stars are the first forms of sentient life God created. And the sons of God?
They are seen gathered in a great heavenly convocation in Job 1 and 2. If you look up all the places in the Bible where the term is found, you will see it refers to those who maintained loyalty to God, be they angels or people, sons and daughters of God by spiritual connection. Adam is called the son of God. From him came all other sons of God, those of his lineage loyal to God. Consider what you just read in Isaiah, verse 11. God calls His people, "My sons." But, Adam fell and lost his position as head or ruler of his domain. Satan became "the god of this world," "the ruler of the world," and hence, attended the great convocation in Heaven. The other sons of God? Critical thinking causes me to conclude they are representatives of other worlds, gathered to understand and discuss with their Creator how the situation with the rebellion and sin and plan of salvation were progressing on Earth. The "Adams" of other worlds. Satan challenges God. God replies, 'Watch Job.' And the story advances from there.
I have also addressed the 99 sheep in Christ's parable. He is the Shepherd, we are the lost sheep, the 99 need no salvation. Well, that means they are not of this fold, this Earth because on Earth, "all have sinned and come short of the glory (character) of God." Logically they are people of other worlds, safe from storm, tempest and satanic onslaught.
Also, the redeemed "reign" with Christ. Over who? Not the angels. Man was "made a little lower than the angels." Well, they reign over some body of sentient beings. Logically, the citizens of other worlds. The redeemed have passed through an experience no other beings in God's universe have. They reign with Christ and follow the Lamb wherever He goes; in my mind implying travelling the universe to give firsthand testimony of what he and his flock had been through. How many multiplied billions, trillions of worlds will hear the story of redemption from the lips of those who lived through the rebellion of sin and came out victors in Christ.
Patricia then hits common explanation #2, that the fall of Adam caused all creation to fall, and therefore the plan of salvation was put in place to save humankind on Earth, which would leave any other life in the universe out. For her, it makes no sense if other sentient beings "with souls" exist, not descendants of Adam, who would be left out of the plan.
You know I deny the Bible says not a word about invisible life forms or supernatural entities that exist inside us and get out at death. Such "souls" are an invention of Greek philosophy, not Scriptural teaching about what human beings and animals are, in their existent natures.
First, Romans 8:22 -
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Assuming that common text is the one Patricia refers to, does that verse mean the entire universe? Well, no. The loyal angels are not physically nor spiritually affected by Adam's fall. They may experience a type of sorrow or grief to see things happening on Earth; to be engaged with things happening on Earth but, they need no salvation. Why should I think any sentient beings on other worlds fell because of Adam's sin and need salvation? They remain loyal to the Creator. They are the 99 that need no rescuing.
Did the entire universe change because Adam sinned? What observable evidence, based on critical thinking, would Patricia provide for that conclusion? Nothing in the video, and frankly, near as I have seen - and I claim no exhaustive effort to see everything evangelicals provide for thinking this way - no observable, empirical evidence exists for such a conclusion. I have no reason to believe Rom. 8:22 is talking about anything in creation beyond Earth and the future deluge would figure into those changes. What could have changed when Adam and Eve sinned? The garden did not change. If it fell into corruption, why did God place an angel with a flaming sword at the entrance to keep Adam and Eve from entering it again, once told to leave? Some Christians believe a chill came into the air; the atmosphere changed or, the physiology of Adam and Eve changed and pain, cold, sweat and other discomforts befell on them through God's judgment. We cannot empirically know.
Because one of her principles for critical thinking is - does the information conflict with foundational doctrines of Scripture - life beyond Earth cannot be true; I obviously agree with that principle but, obviously not the conclusion she draws based on her understanding of Scripture. I consider that incomplete. Therefore her conclusion is incomplete.
Her third point is - consider the source. Logically, people who claim contact with "aliens" may have more personal motives for their claim. I took that to mean they want their 15 minutes of fame-kind-of-thing. If I cannot know anyone's motives if they do not tell me, I have no reason to judge anyone's motives, or their character. I have no idea what happened to the thousands or many more who claim "abductions by aliens." They experienced something. While I believe in life beyond Earth; based on Job 1 and 2, I have no reason to believe they would travel here but, instead, gather through representatives and then communicate to their own worlds how things are going on Earth, and let's be real. If humanity has back and forth communication from any place on the planet and the moon, and certainly other places in the solar system, should the space program get that far; what kind of communication would unfallen beings have? I have no reason to believe they need anything more than connection to God to know any information the Creator wants them to know. All believers believe they sometimes hear the voice of God. Not an audible voice but, the impression of information placed upon their minds. We are fallen, with imperfect connection to God. What kind of connection, and thereby communication would unfallen beings have? You think the angels carry Heavenly cell phones? I think not.
Her fourth point is to check definitions. If people mean 'aliens from other planets,' that contradicts what Scripture says about life beyond Earth (in her view). Obviously, I believe life beyond Earth exists, Scripturally speaking. That does not mean I believe said life visits Earth, and certainly would not harm Earthlings if they did. No prodding, probing and all the rest of that stuff. Who and what, then? Obviously, the evidence from Scripture would point to Lucifer and the angels who followed him in his rebellion. The Devil and His demons. supernatural agencies. "The Prince of the power of the air" would be responsible for such events as abductions in any dimension or realm he has existence in and can pull them off with. Aliens, meaning, not from here, can mean a visitor to America, or those not from America. Hence, fallen angels, not born on Earth or from Earth, meet the definition. They are stuck here. They shall be destroyed here. But, they are, indeed, by definition, aliens.
Check for propaganda is next on her list; who is delivering the message? If it comes from those who claim things we cannot explain, must come from aliens; clearly that is something not provable by empirical evidence, which falls into category seven - check the interpretations. What things come from observable science and what things from historical science. Historical science is forensic science. You do not observe the crime but, putting pieces of evidence together, off an explanation of the crime. Many UFOlogists have taken information from hundreds of sources, in some cases, literally decades and thousands of sources, to put a conclusion together about aliens and UFOs. It may seem profound and true but, it is all historic evidence. Experts analyze pictures, film and video and claim what is authentic but, until that UFO lands and makes itself visible to the world at the same time, all the world has no observable evidence of "alien" existence. And today, with real time, A.I. interference; even what we see on a television or the internet, can be a deep fake; not real. So the fence for everyone seeing into the yard of truth is quite high.
I agree, of course, with this principle of observable vs. historic science. Just because we cannot explain what we see in the skies, does not mean it is visitors from other planets. Anecdotal evidence is worthy for those who experience things but, even there; their experience is not necessarily explained by their understanding of anything. Observation is necessary, and only observational science meets a standard of acceptance. Right now, this week, information has come forward, supposedly from CIA whistleblowers, that the government has crafts, has bodies and has living "aliens" in its possession. To what length Lucifer and his angels would go to deceive the world is self-explanatory. For those who do not believe in God, they would see no other alternative but, they have "alien" craft, bodies and beings on their hands: EBs by title - Extraterrestrial Beings.
She then gets into "observable" scientific reasons life beyond Earth, civilizations sending out communication from such distances, would potentially cease to exist before such communications reached Earth. Yeah, hang on to that one because she just shot herself in the foot about SETI, et al., as well as all known science for methods of transportation. Claiming speculation and blind faith is involved, is sheer lack of critical thinking on her part.
The key to this rejection is obviously known science, known physics, known understood realities of anything beyond Earth. Earthlings do not yet understand much of anything about or on earth, including how life got here. Trying to tell us life beyond Earth, with who knows how many millions of years of advancement they might have (from their perspective of time, etc.), is sheer story telling, to say they could not communicate with Earth or travel to it because of the vast distances. Mankind does not know anywhere near enough to make such a thing dogmatic. And common science does not, even based on what is understood, yet evangelicals, with the same lack of complete knowledge, make it dogmatic. Critical thinking? I think not. Sure, many theories on space travel exist, as theories. Just theories, not fact. But, ask creationists what they knew about things regarded as common knowledge today, a few centuries ago. Just because we have a bible and believe God spoke everything into existence, does not mean Laws and Constants exist in exhaustive understanding by science. Again, I do not believe sentient beings from out in the universe visit here. I could never state they'd have no way to do so because of what humanity believes about the Laws of nature and physics. Tell me how Christ walked through a wall to get into the upper room after His resurrection? Please, do let us have common sense. Christians who deny life beyond earth with such tenacity need to open their minds to realities we do not understand.
Angels, we have readily seen in Scripture, and Ms. Engle should know this, travel by speed of thought. Not their wings. Not Heavenly space craft. By thought. We see that just by reading Daniel 9. Let our lovely Miss of critical thinking skills explain that one. Wherever the throne of God is, Gabriel got to Daniel in the two minutes it took Daniel to pray. I would conclude it was instantaneous but, that is just my assessment. To say no alien life could come to Earth, based on our understanding of space and time, is like saying a two year old can determine the best way to build a bridge. It's nonsense. It is moot. And again, I do not believe Earth is visited by any lifeforms beyond Earth save for good and evil angels.
Closing with a comment about the nature of abduction claims, which also contradict the Bible, was not very well-thought out for a simple reason. Only God and Satan know exactly what takes place in the supernatural realms and/or dimensions of space and time that exist. Sectors of mankind know what they have, what they made, how they made it and what they do with it. Military black budget production; multinational corporation budget productions and/or satanic activity, take your pick. Something is obviously happening. Every single week new videos appear on various YT channels devoted to the subject. Things are whizzing past pilots, trailing and following pilots who more and more refuse to stay silent about it. Millions of people worldwide have now seen things in the sky that defy known physics.
People have been abducted. While their own testimony is anecdotal, other cases where witnesses saw the event challenge the notion abductions are not real. What then? Draw your own conclusions but, do so with critical thinking of all sources of information, options and evidence available.
I continue to believe Satan is going to use this phenomena to deceive the world. Miss Engle may agree.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I should add something here. Some may say, "Christians, if you don't understand something, just say God or the Devil did it." I would say, that is no more or less than saying, "If you don't understand it, you just say time and natural selection did it or, we'll understand better some day." Both are unacceptable positions to be so pompous about a theory Darwin, himself, would have rejected if he could see what microscopes show today. In the realm of this particular subject, Christians do have an authoritative source of foundational material to guide them. We are not letting go of that. Everything falls under it. Why? Because of Bible prophecy. Telling the end from the beginning is what God uses to show there is no other God but, Him. His Word can be trusted. Therefore "science" is not our final word on anything, especially seeing how often science has to change it's positions. You can state that is the self-policing nature of science but, you reject any objective science that denies your Darwinian position; and plenty of scientific studies demonstrate Darwinism is not just wrong but, impossible. Therefore, Darwinism for some is just as much a religion based on faith as any other religion on Earth but, Christianity has prophecy fulfilled. That is a wall that cannot be pushed down. And that is a fascinating thing.
Atheists, the Darwinian, will state true science can make predictions. Yet biblical predictions made centuries, millennia before major events took place, mean nothing to them. I'd have to call that hypocrisy, at least on the subject of predictions.
We are reminded when it comes to science and predictions from it, climate change proponents have predicted the end of the world as we know it, should have happened already. I remember public predictions we had twelve years left. Here we are, still vertical and ventilating. Current 'Just Stop Oil' protesters believe and predict we have five years and then - the end. So, making predictions from "science" is obviously no exact science.
Here's an "inconvenient truth." The end of the world as we know it is coming and the climate is not going to bring it about. Iesou Christos is. Prophecy predicts it. You'll know it, when you see it.
After the newer videos comes a series of short videos on the subject of critical thinking, presented by Patricia Engler - "Speaker, Writer and Youth Outreach Coordinator." This delightfully sharp and well-spoken young woman breaks things down subject by subject, and does a great job at it.
Critical thinking seems all but lost in modern society. Voices of "experts" and those in positions of authority of some kind, have been controlling what people think for over a century (actually, throughout all history), and it gets worse by the year. You only have to consider one phrase to understand the nature of the war for minds. If you disagree with any "official" story or explanation you are a "conspiracy theorist" and millions accept that without any evidence except the official story. Trust the experts. Trust those in positions of authority. They would not lie for any nefarious purposes. With all due respect to a Constitutionally protected free press, they have been calling Republicans liars for decades, regardless of their positions of authority. And forget any voice in any field of science. If they stand up and speak out against an official story they are not just labeled a conspiracy theorist, they are put upon by forces to ruin their lives.
There has never been a time in human history when critical thinking has been more important, given the age of technology and constant stream of voices telling humanity to listen to them. And that includes Artificial Intelligence. Believe it. A.I. chatbots are replacing human ministry in pulpits around the world. The fascination people have is the most concerning thing happening for many in the industry. Elon Musk recently stated an A.I "God" could control the world indefinitely. Human despots die. A.I. would not.
In looking at the title of all of Ms. Engler's videos, starting from her first, one of the last caught my eyes - Aliens and UFOs (episode 97).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHZOPcVnUE
Having seen many such videos by evangelical ministries, I knew what would be said but, in this case, under a heading of using critical thinking skills - ability to break things down and come to conclusions based on evidence - this became a subject I felt compelled to comment upon. I won't offer any new biblical evidence, if you have read previous posts on the subject but, in this case, let us see how critical thinking breaks down this subject from her perspective and mine.
As far as life on other planets, she begins by stating Naturalists figure, if life could spontaneously develop on Earth, then it must have elsewhere because of the sheer number of bodies in the vast universe. She states you would not get this idea from Scripture but, from evolutionary assumptions. (???)
She does not believe in Naturalism and then uses the classic text in Isaiah to show God only created life on Earth -
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Her take on the verse is that God created the Earth to be inhabited while Genesis states all other bodies in space are for signs and seasons and in Psalms, to declare God's glory.
Let's take a look at the context of Isaiah 44 and 45.
Isa 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb, I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad the earth by myself;
Isa 44:25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isa 44:26 That confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; that says to Jerusalem, You shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isa 44:27 That says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers:
Isa 44:28 That says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shalt be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
Isa 45:1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Isa 45:2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isa 45:3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, which call you by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Isa 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me:
Isa 45:11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me.
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 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
The context is the calling of king Cyrus, more than a century before he is born. God would use him to free His people from captivity, to rebuild Jerusalem after it was destroyed, and bring back the land from desolation; an event yet well into the future, as far as Babylon was concerned. God wanted His people to know they can trust Him, and wanted Cyrus to know God called Him. It is said when Cyrus was shown this portion of Isaiah, he was greatly moved and motivated to let the Jews return to their homeland.
Even though God's people and promised land suffered destruction by the Assyrians, and the coming Babylonians and Persians, it would not lay waste because God created the Earth to be inhabited. He is in control of everything. His people would come back to their land and inhabit it. Verse 18 is not some isolated statement about life in the universe. It has a context, and critical thinking will always take that context into account. Any verse in question: what is stated before it and after it? Most explanations are found in that context, alone.
Isaiah 45:18 is not stating the only place God created life is on Earth. How do we know that? Job 38:3-8
Job 38:3 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Job 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Job 38:5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
At the very least, before the Earth was created, the morning stars and sons of God were present to sing and shout at the pageantry of creation week.
Angels are referred to as stars -
Isa 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star [Lucifer], son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Rev 1:20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
An angel is a messenger. In symbolic language they are referred to as stars, bringers of messages of light in darkness. Lucifer is called the day star, the first of God's creation of the angelic host. He wanted to rule all the other 'stars' in the realm. And he wanted to rule God's people from the sides of the North, a reference to the sanctuary and placement of the sacred furniture inside and what it all means. In the North stood a table with a stack of bread loaves (think pita bread) on it; showing God is the provider and sustainer of His people. Lucifer wanted to control God's assembly, His people on Earth.
The morning stars are the first forms of sentient life God created. And the sons of God?
They are seen gathered in a great heavenly convocation in Job 1 and 2. If you look up all the places in the Bible where the term is found, you will see it refers to those who maintained loyalty to God, be they angels or people, sons and daughters of God by spiritual connection. Adam is called the son of God. From him came all other sons of God, those of his lineage loyal to God. Consider what you just read in Isaiah, verse 11. God calls His people, "My sons." But, Adam fell and lost his position as head or ruler of his domain. Satan became "the god of this world," "the ruler of the world," and hence, attended the great convocation in Heaven. The other sons of God? Critical thinking causes me to conclude they are representatives of other worlds, gathered to understand and discuss with their Creator how the situation with the rebellion and sin and plan of salvation were progressing on Earth. The "Adams" of other worlds. Satan challenges God. God replies, 'Watch Job.' And the story advances from there.
I have also addressed the 99 sheep in Christ's parable. He is the Shepherd, we are the lost sheep, the 99 need no salvation. Well, that means they are not of this fold, this Earth because on Earth, "all have sinned and come short of the glory (character) of God." Logically they are people of other worlds, safe from storm, tempest and satanic onslaught.
Also, the redeemed "reign" with Christ. Over who? Not the angels. Man was "made a little lower than the angels." Well, they reign over some body of sentient beings. Logically, the citizens of other worlds. The redeemed have passed through an experience no other beings in God's universe have. They reign with Christ and follow the Lamb wherever He goes; in my mind implying travelling the universe to give firsthand testimony of what he and his flock had been through. How many multiplied billions, trillions of worlds will hear the story of redemption from the lips of those who lived through the rebellion of sin and came out victors in Christ.
Patricia then hits common explanation #2, that the fall of Adam caused all creation to fall, and therefore the plan of salvation was put in place to save humankind on Earth, which would leave any other life in the universe out. For her, it makes no sense if other sentient beings "with souls" exist, not descendants of Adam, who would be left out of the plan.
You know I deny the Bible says not a word about invisible life forms or supernatural entities that exist inside us and get out at death. Such "souls" are an invention of Greek philosophy, not Scriptural teaching about what human beings and animals are, in their existent natures.
First, Romans 8:22 -
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Assuming that common text is the one Patricia refers to, does that verse mean the entire universe? Well, no. The loyal angels are not physically nor spiritually affected by Adam's fall. They may experience a type of sorrow or grief to see things happening on Earth; to be engaged with things happening on Earth but, they need no salvation. Why should I think any sentient beings on other worlds fell because of Adam's sin and need salvation? They remain loyal to the Creator. They are the 99 that need no rescuing.
Did the entire universe change because Adam sinned? What observable evidence, based on critical thinking, would Patricia provide for that conclusion? Nothing in the video, and frankly, near as I have seen - and I claim no exhaustive effort to see everything evangelicals provide for thinking this way - no observable, empirical evidence exists for such a conclusion. I have no reason to believe Rom. 8:22 is talking about anything in creation beyond Earth and the future deluge would figure into those changes. What could have changed when Adam and Eve sinned? The garden did not change. If it fell into corruption, why did God place an angel with a flaming sword at the entrance to keep Adam and Eve from entering it again, once told to leave? Some Christians believe a chill came into the air; the atmosphere changed or, the physiology of Adam and Eve changed and pain, cold, sweat and other discomforts befell on them through God's judgment. We cannot empirically know.
Because one of her principles for critical thinking is - does the information conflict with foundational doctrines of Scripture - life beyond Earth cannot be true; I obviously agree with that principle but, obviously not the conclusion she draws based on her understanding of Scripture. I consider that incomplete. Therefore her conclusion is incomplete.
Her third point is - consider the source. Logically, people who claim contact with "aliens" may have more personal motives for their claim. I took that to mean they want their 15 minutes of fame-kind-of-thing. If I cannot know anyone's motives if they do not tell me, I have no reason to judge anyone's motives, or their character. I have no idea what happened to the thousands or many more who claim "abductions by aliens." They experienced something. While I believe in life beyond Earth; based on Job 1 and 2, I have no reason to believe they would travel here but, instead, gather through representatives and then communicate to their own worlds how things are going on Earth, and let's be real. If humanity has back and forth communication from any place on the planet and the moon, and certainly other places in the solar system, should the space program get that far; what kind of communication would unfallen beings have? I have no reason to believe they need anything more than connection to God to know any information the Creator wants them to know. All believers believe they sometimes hear the voice of God. Not an audible voice but, the impression of information placed upon their minds. We are fallen, with imperfect connection to God. What kind of connection, and thereby communication would unfallen beings have? You think the angels carry Heavenly cell phones? I think not.
Her fourth point is to check definitions. If people mean 'aliens from other planets,' that contradicts what Scripture says about life beyond Earth (in her view). Obviously, I believe life beyond Earth exists, Scripturally speaking. That does not mean I believe said life visits Earth, and certainly would not harm Earthlings if they did. No prodding, probing and all the rest of that stuff. Who and what, then? Obviously, the evidence from Scripture would point to Lucifer and the angels who followed him in his rebellion. The Devil and His demons. supernatural agencies. "The Prince of the power of the air" would be responsible for such events as abductions in any dimension or realm he has existence in and can pull them off with. Aliens, meaning, not from here, can mean a visitor to America, or those not from America. Hence, fallen angels, not born on Earth or from Earth, meet the definition. They are stuck here. They shall be destroyed here. But, they are, indeed, by definition, aliens.
Check for propaganda is next on her list; who is delivering the message? If it comes from those who claim things we cannot explain, must come from aliens; clearly that is something not provable by empirical evidence, which falls into category seven - check the interpretations. What things come from observable science and what things from historical science. Historical science is forensic science. You do not observe the crime but, putting pieces of evidence together, off an explanation of the crime. Many UFOlogists have taken information from hundreds of sources, in some cases, literally decades and thousands of sources, to put a conclusion together about aliens and UFOs. It may seem profound and true but, it is all historic evidence. Experts analyze pictures, film and video and claim what is authentic but, until that UFO lands and makes itself visible to the world at the same time, all the world has no observable evidence of "alien" existence. And today, with real time, A.I. interference; even what we see on a television or the internet, can be a deep fake; not real. So the fence for everyone seeing into the yard of truth is quite high.
I agree, of course, with this principle of observable vs. historic science. Just because we cannot explain what we see in the skies, does not mean it is visitors from other planets. Anecdotal evidence is worthy for those who experience things but, even there; their experience is not necessarily explained by their understanding of anything. Observation is necessary, and only observational science meets a standard of acceptance. Right now, this week, information has come forward, supposedly from CIA whistleblowers, that the government has crafts, has bodies and has living "aliens" in its possession. To what length Lucifer and his angels would go to deceive the world is self-explanatory. For those who do not believe in God, they would see no other alternative but, they have "alien" craft, bodies and beings on their hands: EBs by title - Extraterrestrial Beings.
She then gets into "observable" scientific reasons life beyond Earth, civilizations sending out communication from such distances, would potentially cease to exist before such communications reached Earth. Yeah, hang on to that one because she just shot herself in the foot about SETI, et al., as well as all known science for methods of transportation. Claiming speculation and blind faith is involved, is sheer lack of critical thinking on her part.
The key to this rejection is obviously known science, known physics, known understood realities of anything beyond Earth. Earthlings do not yet understand much of anything about or on earth, including how life got here. Trying to tell us life beyond Earth, with who knows how many millions of years of advancement they might have (from their perspective of time, etc.), is sheer story telling, to say they could not communicate with Earth or travel to it because of the vast distances. Mankind does not know anywhere near enough to make such a thing dogmatic. And common science does not, even based on what is understood, yet evangelicals, with the same lack of complete knowledge, make it dogmatic. Critical thinking? I think not. Sure, many theories on space travel exist, as theories. Just theories, not fact. But, ask creationists what they knew about things regarded as common knowledge today, a few centuries ago. Just because we have a bible and believe God spoke everything into existence, does not mean Laws and Constants exist in exhaustive understanding by science. Again, I do not believe sentient beings from out in the universe visit here. I could never state they'd have no way to do so because of what humanity believes about the Laws of nature and physics. Tell me how Christ walked through a wall to get into the upper room after His resurrection? Please, do let us have common sense. Christians who deny life beyond earth with such tenacity need to open their minds to realities we do not understand.
Angels, we have readily seen in Scripture, and Ms. Engle should know this, travel by speed of thought. Not their wings. Not Heavenly space craft. By thought. We see that just by reading Daniel 9. Let our lovely Miss of critical thinking skills explain that one. Wherever the throne of God is, Gabriel got to Daniel in the two minutes it took Daniel to pray. I would conclude it was instantaneous but, that is just my assessment. To say no alien life could come to Earth, based on our understanding of space and time, is like saying a two year old can determine the best way to build a bridge. It's nonsense. It is moot. And again, I do not believe Earth is visited by any lifeforms beyond Earth save for good and evil angels.
Closing with a comment about the nature of abduction claims, which also contradict the Bible, was not very well-thought out for a simple reason. Only God and Satan know exactly what takes place in the supernatural realms and/or dimensions of space and time that exist. Sectors of mankind know what they have, what they made, how they made it and what they do with it. Military black budget production; multinational corporation budget productions and/or satanic activity, take your pick. Something is obviously happening. Every single week new videos appear on various YT channels devoted to the subject. Things are whizzing past pilots, trailing and following pilots who more and more refuse to stay silent about it. Millions of people worldwide have now seen things in the sky that defy known physics.
People have been abducted. While their own testimony is anecdotal, other cases where witnesses saw the event challenge the notion abductions are not real. What then? Draw your own conclusions but, do so with critical thinking of all sources of information, options and evidence available.
I continue to believe Satan is going to use this phenomena to deceive the world. Miss Engle may agree.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I should add something here. Some may say, "Christians, if you don't understand something, just say God or the Devil did it." I would say, that is no more or less than saying, "If you don't understand it, you just say time and natural selection did it or, we'll understand better some day." Both are unacceptable positions to be so pompous about a theory Darwin, himself, would have rejected if he could see what microscopes show today. In the realm of this particular subject, Christians do have an authoritative source of foundational material to guide them. We are not letting go of that. Everything falls under it. Why? Because of Bible prophecy. Telling the end from the beginning is what God uses to show there is no other God but, Him. His Word can be trusted. Therefore "science" is not our final word on anything, especially seeing how often science has to change it's positions. You can state that is the self-policing nature of science but, you reject any objective science that denies your Darwinian position; and plenty of scientific studies demonstrate Darwinism is not just wrong but, impossible. Therefore, Darwinism for some is just as much a religion based on faith as any other religion on Earth but, Christianity has prophecy fulfilled. That is a wall that cannot be pushed down. And that is a fascinating thing.
Atheists, the Darwinian, will state true science can make predictions. Yet biblical predictions made centuries, millennia before major events took place, mean nothing to them. I'd have to call that hypocrisy, at least on the subject of predictions.
We are reminded when it comes to science and predictions from it, climate change proponents have predicted the end of the world as we know it, should have happened already. I remember public predictions we had twelve years left. Here we are, still vertical and ventilating. Current 'Just Stop Oil' protesters believe and predict we have five years and then - the end. So, making predictions from "science" is obviously no exact science.
Here's an "inconvenient truth." The end of the world as we know it is coming and the climate is not going to bring it about. Iesou Christos is. Prophecy predicts it. You'll know it, when you see it.
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884.Opinionated People - December 5, 2023
"Ray, you're a very opinionated person."
Not the first time anyone has made that observation. I could begin by looking at a definition of the word -
Opinionated
adjective
1. assertively dogmatic in expressing opinions
Example: an arrogant and opinionated man
dogmatic
of fixed views
of preconceived ideas
pontifical
Interesting. The common usage of the word seems to negatively harness itself with being assertive and arrogant. Notice the last expression it is a synonym with. Watching the news about Pontiffs in Rome for 60 years, being raised Catholic, I don't know as any of the popes in my lifetime would be seen as arrogant. I suppose some would be more assertive than others. John Paul 1 never really had the chance to show himself in any particular way other than humble. JP2, on the other hand, showed himself to be plenty assertive at times but, arrogant? He had plenty of opinions. He was an opinionated man. He had two decades to show what kind of person he was, all around the world and handed out plenty of opinions. He was dogmatic; for obvious reasons. He had fixed views. He certainly had preconceived ideas. All Catholics do. In fact, most all people develop in life, from childhood to adult, with preconceived ideas. And most share opinions based on those ideas.
None of us really see ourselves as others do. I do not see myself as arrogant. Others do. Why? I believe what I stand for, and stand for things I try to base on fact. I can be assertive but, life has taught me to choose my battles wisely. Christianity has taught me to be mindful of being Christlike in all things. Ahh. Tell me, Dear Reader. Was Christ opinionated? Undoubtedly. Was He assertive? Ask the priests in the temple when he turned over the tables and thrust them out with a small rope. Today, He'd be considered violent, get sued or locked up or both! But, was Christ arrogant? Hardly. He is called the Prince of peace for a reason. A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Ever merciful. Multitudes found Him highly approachable. How does one capture His character and personality in a sentence?
He was the Lamb of God and the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
The reason I bring this up is because of a story I saw today on the website The Gateway Pundit. It's a conservative news site that has built up a large following over the last several years. Many politicians in DC and around the nation keep tabs on it. So do, apparently, people in the Pentagon. Both the Pentagon ISP and the House of Representatives ISP have blocked the TGP from access for those trying to get in.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/pentagon-joins-us-house-blocking-access-gateway-pundit/
In a transcript of Congressman Matt Gaetz' podcast he stated this -
"The Gateway Pundit, a website that I read; they do breaking news, they do investigative reporting, they do opinion pieces, they publish op-eds. The Gateway Pundit is a great website. It’s a great source for analysis, and information, and opinion. Well, we went back to harvest the clip to show you on this program from the Gateway Pundit, and I have breaking news for you. The United States House of Representatives has blocked access for congressmen and congressional staff to the Gateway Pundit."
You will notice Gaetz used the term "opinion" three times. An op-ed, as Gaetz showed it, is an opinion - editorial. Lots of opinions on TGP. Opinions people in government do not appreciate.
I thought to myself, why, in a land with a foundation of free speech, would people be so upset about opinions? What is an opinion?
Opinion
noun
1. a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge
Example: that, in my opinion, is right
belief
judgement
thought(s)
school of thought
thinking
Opinions are not necessarily based on facts. They are judgments formed by whatever influences people; whatever they experience. Well, what if facts influence an opinion? What if an opinion is based on facts; not just beliefs, thoughts, experiences or thinking about things? Then they surely might have the potential to upset people. Facts bother people if facts stand against their opinions not based on facts but, suppositions and assumptions and schools of thought not backed up by facts.
Everybody fits into categories. Some people have no opinions. Others have some opinions. People have a lot of opinions. Still others never shut up. Highly opinionated. I have met a few of those types of people down through the years.
Where do I fit in? I cannot decide that. I have opinions. I have them on music, drums and drumming, the Bible and religion and culture, government and life, in general. Are they based on facts? I believe so, if not in the very least, based on principles. Those I base on culture, world culture, Western culture or American culture are obviously fluid because cultures change. We are witnessing the change of Western and American culture. It's been going on for well over a century and for the entire lifetime of this civilization and nation whatever culture settled into place at their beginnings has seen their moments of change. Massive changes or small, seemingly insignificant changes that have amounted to the coming collapse of what was once considered a "normal," relatively "healthy" Judeo/Christian culture. Not perfect but, very functional, seeing its history shows it has worked out many problems and "opinions" not healthy for the nation.
I certainly do not see myself changing the culture. I may change a few minds about certain subjects. I may "preach to the choir" about others. I know I'll have my share of readers who get upset at things I share. Thus far, though, no one has gotten truly ugly with me. In fact, not very many people contact me and those that have give me their opinions on music, mostly. I would state the same for my YT channel; which is all drums and drumming. The majority of comments to videos are positive and encouraging. Those that are negative; I am always open to discussion and communication. Is that not the principle of American culture? Free speech and open communication? Well, no, not anymore. Free speech, guaranteed by the nation's Constitution, it's highest rule of law, is under attack. Why? Because more and more minds are coming under the control of darkness.
Whatever may be the content or context of an opinion about music, politics, religion, culture or any other subject, more and more minds are not able to allow things that upset them. Rational behavior is losing influence. Why? Because the bottom line is that all of this constitutes a spiritual war and darkness is building. That is the foundation for all ascendance or descendance of freedom and liberty: it is a battle between forces of light and forces of darkness. It's scope is not Republican or Democrat. It is not American or EU Parliament or Communism or tribalism. It is not Christians against a New World Order, even if all of that is true and factual in some ways.
No, this is a conflict between Christ and Satan and unseen forces waging a war for minds. Everything stems from that. Everything branches out from that trunk. All things flow from that original conflict which shall wage until Lucifer and those who follow him are eradicated from the universe forever at the final, White throne judgment and lake of fire.
My opinion is that God has no opinions. God is truth. God is facts. God is the ultimate Source of all information, however it is perverted by Lucifer - the father of lies. God is love. God wants peace and harmony and unity based on ultimate freedom and liberty of people wedded to the principle that law and justice, principle and constants, and the indwelling life of Christ in each citizen of the universe will bring all good, to all people, to all living things, through the entire creation.
Those who do not care about factual opinion are going to ultimately make up the vast majority of the human population. That is prophesied. That is happening. That will ultimately be the final tally and then, Jesus Christ will return and end the nightmare that is coming.
That is not my opinion. That is prophecy, which is history in advance; fact in advance: the end from the beginning; which makes Him Sovereign, the one and only Creator and Sustainer of life and all matter in the cosmos.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Not the first time anyone has made that observation. I could begin by looking at a definition of the word -
Opinionated
adjective
1. assertively dogmatic in expressing opinions
Example: an arrogant and opinionated man
dogmatic
of fixed views
of preconceived ideas
pontifical
Interesting. The common usage of the word seems to negatively harness itself with being assertive and arrogant. Notice the last expression it is a synonym with. Watching the news about Pontiffs in Rome for 60 years, being raised Catholic, I don't know as any of the popes in my lifetime would be seen as arrogant. I suppose some would be more assertive than others. John Paul 1 never really had the chance to show himself in any particular way other than humble. JP2, on the other hand, showed himself to be plenty assertive at times but, arrogant? He had plenty of opinions. He was an opinionated man. He had two decades to show what kind of person he was, all around the world and handed out plenty of opinions. He was dogmatic; for obvious reasons. He had fixed views. He certainly had preconceived ideas. All Catholics do. In fact, most all people develop in life, from childhood to adult, with preconceived ideas. And most share opinions based on those ideas.
None of us really see ourselves as others do. I do not see myself as arrogant. Others do. Why? I believe what I stand for, and stand for things I try to base on fact. I can be assertive but, life has taught me to choose my battles wisely. Christianity has taught me to be mindful of being Christlike in all things. Ahh. Tell me, Dear Reader. Was Christ opinionated? Undoubtedly. Was He assertive? Ask the priests in the temple when he turned over the tables and thrust them out with a small rope. Today, He'd be considered violent, get sued or locked up or both! But, was Christ arrogant? Hardly. He is called the Prince of peace for a reason. A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Ever merciful. Multitudes found Him highly approachable. How does one capture His character and personality in a sentence?
He was the Lamb of God and the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
The reason I bring this up is because of a story I saw today on the website The Gateway Pundit. It's a conservative news site that has built up a large following over the last several years. Many politicians in DC and around the nation keep tabs on it. So do, apparently, people in the Pentagon. Both the Pentagon ISP and the House of Representatives ISP have blocked the TGP from access for those trying to get in.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/pentagon-joins-us-house-blocking-access-gateway-pundit/
In a transcript of Congressman Matt Gaetz' podcast he stated this -
"The Gateway Pundit, a website that I read; they do breaking news, they do investigative reporting, they do opinion pieces, they publish op-eds. The Gateway Pundit is a great website. It’s a great source for analysis, and information, and opinion. Well, we went back to harvest the clip to show you on this program from the Gateway Pundit, and I have breaking news for you. The United States House of Representatives has blocked access for congressmen and congressional staff to the Gateway Pundit."
You will notice Gaetz used the term "opinion" three times. An op-ed, as Gaetz showed it, is an opinion - editorial. Lots of opinions on TGP. Opinions people in government do not appreciate.
I thought to myself, why, in a land with a foundation of free speech, would people be so upset about opinions? What is an opinion?
Opinion
noun
1. a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge
Example: that, in my opinion, is right
belief
judgement
thought(s)
school of thought
thinking
Opinions are not necessarily based on facts. They are judgments formed by whatever influences people; whatever they experience. Well, what if facts influence an opinion? What if an opinion is based on facts; not just beliefs, thoughts, experiences or thinking about things? Then they surely might have the potential to upset people. Facts bother people if facts stand against their opinions not based on facts but, suppositions and assumptions and schools of thought not backed up by facts.
Everybody fits into categories. Some people have no opinions. Others have some opinions. People have a lot of opinions. Still others never shut up. Highly opinionated. I have met a few of those types of people down through the years.
Where do I fit in? I cannot decide that. I have opinions. I have them on music, drums and drumming, the Bible and religion and culture, government and life, in general. Are they based on facts? I believe so, if not in the very least, based on principles. Those I base on culture, world culture, Western culture or American culture are obviously fluid because cultures change. We are witnessing the change of Western and American culture. It's been going on for well over a century and for the entire lifetime of this civilization and nation whatever culture settled into place at their beginnings has seen their moments of change. Massive changes or small, seemingly insignificant changes that have amounted to the coming collapse of what was once considered a "normal," relatively "healthy" Judeo/Christian culture. Not perfect but, very functional, seeing its history shows it has worked out many problems and "opinions" not healthy for the nation.
I certainly do not see myself changing the culture. I may change a few minds about certain subjects. I may "preach to the choir" about others. I know I'll have my share of readers who get upset at things I share. Thus far, though, no one has gotten truly ugly with me. In fact, not very many people contact me and those that have give me their opinions on music, mostly. I would state the same for my YT channel; which is all drums and drumming. The majority of comments to videos are positive and encouraging. Those that are negative; I am always open to discussion and communication. Is that not the principle of American culture? Free speech and open communication? Well, no, not anymore. Free speech, guaranteed by the nation's Constitution, it's highest rule of law, is under attack. Why? Because more and more minds are coming under the control of darkness.
Whatever may be the content or context of an opinion about music, politics, religion, culture or any other subject, more and more minds are not able to allow things that upset them. Rational behavior is losing influence. Why? Because the bottom line is that all of this constitutes a spiritual war and darkness is building. That is the foundation for all ascendance or descendance of freedom and liberty: it is a battle between forces of light and forces of darkness. It's scope is not Republican or Democrat. It is not American or EU Parliament or Communism or tribalism. It is not Christians against a New World Order, even if all of that is true and factual in some ways.
No, this is a conflict between Christ and Satan and unseen forces waging a war for minds. Everything stems from that. Everything branches out from that trunk. All things flow from that original conflict which shall wage until Lucifer and those who follow him are eradicated from the universe forever at the final, White throne judgment and lake of fire.
My opinion is that God has no opinions. God is truth. God is facts. God is the ultimate Source of all information, however it is perverted by Lucifer - the father of lies. God is love. God wants peace and harmony and unity based on ultimate freedom and liberty of people wedded to the principle that law and justice, principle and constants, and the indwelling life of Christ in each citizen of the universe will bring all good, to all people, to all living things, through the entire creation.
Those who do not care about factual opinion are going to ultimately make up the vast majority of the human population. That is prophesied. That is happening. That will ultimately be the final tally and then, Jesus Christ will return and end the nightmare that is coming.
That is not my opinion. That is prophecy, which is history in advance; fact in advance: the end from the beginning; which makes Him Sovereign, the one and only Creator and Sustainer of life and all matter in the cosmos.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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New Life, Next Life?
Today, I begin my new life, or is it next life? An efficiency apartment, in a quiet complex on the edge of town; with two different, straight directions to get in a couple miles of walking each evening; and a hospital, two of them, actually, within a couple miles. Not that I'm expecting to need one but, you know, you have a stroke and it is impossible not to think what's happening inside you to give you another one. Statistics show... well, forget statistics. God is my health practitioner, and January 29, 2021 was a warning shot across my bow. I don't bother weighing myself but, I'd say 30 pounds down, 30 to go. Maybe more. Doesn't matter. I will get there, wherever "there" is.
I take time to write, before I load the van, because it's in the 30s with thick frost on the windshield and I have some time before a 10 a.m. signing with the complex manager; and headlines you'll see at news sites that actually care about informing you of news; not creating news, not dumbing you down, not playing the dis, mis, and malinformation game, and thought sharing is compelling.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) FL, put out a warning that deep state is planning to take out Trump before the election to keep him from becoming a dictator. This, after Democrats and Republicans shut down America, forced millions of people to accept a dangerous, if not lethal injection to keep them safe from a virus that we now have proof began in labs here in America, and was sent to be further worked on in China, where the spread began. All while China is sending illegal immigrants across the border, now known to be military age males of the CCP Secret Police. China is buying up so much land, the government of Arkansas has placed a moratorium upon China. All states should. Do you think China sells land to other nations and national entities? China is not stupid. American elected civil servants are or, at the very worst, traitors bent on seeing America ruined.
Voices out there, mine included, have spoken about the possibility of Trump being killed for years now. Voices have spoken out about our porous borders. Voices spoke out and continue to do so about Covid and now, guess what? A New illness coming from... you guessed it, CHINA, all while a new, weird type of pneumonia is plaguing children in various nations, America now one of them.
So, while the world looks to be a growing, dangerous place to live, I am about to shut down this LT and pack the van and head on to a new, next, 'nother life in a small Texas town, named after a Civil War hero, that happens to be the name of one of the most beloved drummers in music, as well... Bonham.
I'll be as busy as one can be for the next few days. Lots of van loads. Lots of boxes. Lots of keen sq' plotting to get stuff into 200 of them.
Later...
I take time to write, before I load the van, because it's in the 30s with thick frost on the windshield and I have some time before a 10 a.m. signing with the complex manager; and headlines you'll see at news sites that actually care about informing you of news; not creating news, not dumbing you down, not playing the dis, mis, and malinformation game, and thought sharing is compelling.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) FL, put out a warning that deep state is planning to take out Trump before the election to keep him from becoming a dictator. This, after Democrats and Republicans shut down America, forced millions of people to accept a dangerous, if not lethal injection to keep them safe from a virus that we now have proof began in labs here in America, and was sent to be further worked on in China, where the spread began. All while China is sending illegal immigrants across the border, now known to be military age males of the CCP Secret Police. China is buying up so much land, the government of Arkansas has placed a moratorium upon China. All states should. Do you think China sells land to other nations and national entities? China is not stupid. American elected civil servants are or, at the very worst, traitors bent on seeing America ruined.
Voices out there, mine included, have spoken about the possibility of Trump being killed for years now. Voices have spoken out about our porous borders. Voices spoke out and continue to do so about Covid and now, guess what? A New illness coming from... you guessed it, CHINA, all while a new, weird type of pneumonia is plaguing children in various nations, America now one of them.
So, while the world looks to be a growing, dangerous place to live, I am about to shut down this LT and pack the van and head on to a new, next, 'nother life in a small Texas town, named after a Civil War hero, that happens to be the name of one of the most beloved drummers in music, as well... Bonham.
I'll be as busy as one can be for the next few days. Lots of van loads. Lots of boxes. Lots of keen sq' plotting to get stuff into 200 of them.
Later...
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885.The Tipping Point - 12/9/2023
There are different ways I can begin this post. Let's try a few scenarios.
You are the Messiah and you are speaking about events that shall be harbingers of your climactic, glorious return to Earth. The events seem somewhat innocuous to a casual observer. Earthquakes, wars, disease, etc., etc. Things that have always existed in this world under the curse of sin and falling from the paradise the Creator intended, have always been around and the apostle Peter even made mention of it -
2Pet 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2Pet 3:2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
2Pet 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pet 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.
2Pet 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:
2Pet 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pet 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.
Being "willingly ignorant" is a very dangerous position to put oneself in. It does not change eventualities. It may hasten them but, is it not true if someone breaks a law they were not aware of, they are still held accountable? Citizens of a nation should know it's laws. Of course, America now has so many laws NOBODY in Washington, D.C. knows, even how many there are on the books, let alone what they all state. In God's kingdom there are TEN laws everyone shall be weighed against; held accountable for not keeping; and sentenced for it. The great Judge of all the Earth knows how to take circumstances into account and will. Nonetheless, ignorance that is willingly obtained, offers no excuses.
Turn the scenario around. You are someone listening to Messiah; hearing this list of events that have been general plagues upon the human race at various times.
Perhaps you are reading a Bible and get to Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21, or other books of the New Testament that address various events, problems, or catastrophes Earth is going to go through. How do you know what you are beholding is something Christ was addressing that had a general but, more extreme element to it?
Certainly things that happen around the globe would tip you off. Of course, Christ knew technology would put the whole planet on the same page of receiving information quickly. No more isolation. Now, everybody that has the technology on all continents can know what is happening on a continent that do not live on. So, a string of events would have to take place to shock the world for humanity's reality check to show all the technology man can invent and use is nothing compared to the power of nature to make a point.
"Climate change" is an arguable subject from both sides of 'man has done it;' to the Sun is causing it, to other significant natural occurrences to create "perfect storms" of natural disasters. As "experts" claim the world is doomed because of man-made climate change; others protest the world is doomed because of what man is doing to stop climate change.
My point is prophecy. What causes this problem of climate change is immaterial. The planet is doomed because of sin. It is spiraling into demise at an ever increasing speed. The Bible states the world will grow old like a garment. I have a pair of jeans that is growing old and developing worn places of fabric at various points of friction and wear. Of course, today, people buy jeans that have man-made rips and holes in them. Go figure.
Anyway, science is now claiming we have reached a place in time where an event - they call a tipping point -could begin a cascade of dominoes to start falling. There would be no return from this series pf cataclysms. Sound prophetic to you?
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/planet-tipping-points-pose-unprecedented-threat-to-humanity-report/ar-AA1l3KML
"Planet tipping points pose 'unprecedented' threat to humanity: report
"Humanity faces an "unprecedented" risk from tipping points that could unleash a domino effect of irreversible catastrophes across the planet, researchers warned Wednesday.
"The most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of Earth's invisible tripwires was released as leaders meet for UN climate talks in Dubai with 2023 set to smash all heat records.
"While many of the 26 tipping points laid out in the report -- such as melting ice sheets -- are linked to global warming, other human activities like razing swathes of the Amazon rainforest could also push Earth's ecosystems to the brink."
Bear in mind, again, the experts who snarl at this term - global warming - point to record breaking cold on the planet, as well. Which is why the term "climate change" came into vogue. It's just an all inclusive problem. Well, say the "deniers," the planet's climate is always changing and has nothing to do with humans and humans cannot stop it. Back and forth they go but, Christ took the opportunity just state what mankind would see and then some. The story claims the report has 26 tipping points that could start the dominoes to fall. Jesus stated at least 15 different things mankind would experience as signs leading up to the end. Other authors of the Bible state more.
You see, the world is coming to an end regardless of scientific prognostications. There is no hope for this present age. There is nothing man can do to stop what is taking place. Mankind thinks it can stop it. How? Transhumanism. If sin is the problem, create humans that can be programmed to not sin. The people involved in these schemes are not unaware of the Bible. They can claim they are ignorant of this religious collection of books but, Lucifer is not. The Devil knows every word, and seeks to lengthen his position as the god of this world.
He is both seen as the destroyer and benefactor of the race. Humanity is under his control: those not under the control of God. The planet is under his control, where God lets him hang himself. Because, you see, there is nothing Satan can do to undo what is happening. It cannot be stopped. It is not an approaching meteor. It is not the rise of the oceans. It is not nuclear war; even of all these things portend to show Earth and it's inhabitants are in trouble: BIG TROUBLE. It is sin and the natural progression of what it causes. Only stopping sin can mankind stop the inevitable and mankind's march to try and control everything is what is the problem that shall stop everything from existing. "The God factor" is in play. Whether religious ascendancy or technological or a combination of both; mankind thinks it can control everything somehow, some way. Science is the answer, Dear Subjects of Earth. Nope. Won't do it. Can't do it. Fallen mankind is fallen mankind and it is rushing towards a point of no return; whether it sees that or not. Willing ignorance is going to destroy the world.
God has given warning signs. God has given all the information necessary to be prepared. No, not "preppers." I just saw a headline for an article about an abandoned military base in South Dakota that has been taken for use by people getting ready for doomsday; an apparent calling for as many as ten thousand people to inhabitant these underground facilities.
Earth is a very complex, fragile collection of ecosystems, stabilizers and tent ropes holding everything up and together. Regardless of whether or not mankind is wrecking the place, pollution is not going to kill humanity. Sin is. Pollution may be a consequence of sin; like all other problems on this planet but, the foundation of evil is self - selfwill.
2Pet 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2Pet 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Selfwilled, not God-willed. The end is coming because mankind cares about self more than the kingdom of God. Jesus knows this. Knew since the fall of Adam and Eve. To them and to us, and to all the human race He says -
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
You are the Messiah and you are speaking about events that shall be harbingers of your climactic, glorious return to Earth. The events seem somewhat innocuous to a casual observer. Earthquakes, wars, disease, etc., etc. Things that have always existed in this world under the curse of sin and falling from the paradise the Creator intended, have always been around and the apostle Peter even made mention of it -
2Pet 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2Pet 3:2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
2Pet 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pet 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.
2Pet 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:
2Pet 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pet 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.
Being "willingly ignorant" is a very dangerous position to put oneself in. It does not change eventualities. It may hasten them but, is it not true if someone breaks a law they were not aware of, they are still held accountable? Citizens of a nation should know it's laws. Of course, America now has so many laws NOBODY in Washington, D.C. knows, even how many there are on the books, let alone what they all state. In God's kingdom there are TEN laws everyone shall be weighed against; held accountable for not keeping; and sentenced for it. The great Judge of all the Earth knows how to take circumstances into account and will. Nonetheless, ignorance that is willingly obtained, offers no excuses.
Turn the scenario around. You are someone listening to Messiah; hearing this list of events that have been general plagues upon the human race at various times.
Perhaps you are reading a Bible and get to Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21, or other books of the New Testament that address various events, problems, or catastrophes Earth is going to go through. How do you know what you are beholding is something Christ was addressing that had a general but, more extreme element to it?
Certainly things that happen around the globe would tip you off. Of course, Christ knew technology would put the whole planet on the same page of receiving information quickly. No more isolation. Now, everybody that has the technology on all continents can know what is happening on a continent that do not live on. So, a string of events would have to take place to shock the world for humanity's reality check to show all the technology man can invent and use is nothing compared to the power of nature to make a point.
"Climate change" is an arguable subject from both sides of 'man has done it;' to the Sun is causing it, to other significant natural occurrences to create "perfect storms" of natural disasters. As "experts" claim the world is doomed because of man-made climate change; others protest the world is doomed because of what man is doing to stop climate change.
My point is prophecy. What causes this problem of climate change is immaterial. The planet is doomed because of sin. It is spiraling into demise at an ever increasing speed. The Bible states the world will grow old like a garment. I have a pair of jeans that is growing old and developing worn places of fabric at various points of friction and wear. Of course, today, people buy jeans that have man-made rips and holes in them. Go figure.
Anyway, science is now claiming we have reached a place in time where an event - they call a tipping point -could begin a cascade of dominoes to start falling. There would be no return from this series pf cataclysms. Sound prophetic to you?
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/planet-tipping-points-pose-unprecedented-threat-to-humanity-report/ar-AA1l3KML
"Planet tipping points pose 'unprecedented' threat to humanity: report
"Humanity faces an "unprecedented" risk from tipping points that could unleash a domino effect of irreversible catastrophes across the planet, researchers warned Wednesday.
"The most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of Earth's invisible tripwires was released as leaders meet for UN climate talks in Dubai with 2023 set to smash all heat records.
"While many of the 26 tipping points laid out in the report -- such as melting ice sheets -- are linked to global warming, other human activities like razing swathes of the Amazon rainforest could also push Earth's ecosystems to the brink."
Bear in mind, again, the experts who snarl at this term - global warming - point to record breaking cold on the planet, as well. Which is why the term "climate change" came into vogue. It's just an all inclusive problem. Well, say the "deniers," the planet's climate is always changing and has nothing to do with humans and humans cannot stop it. Back and forth they go but, Christ took the opportunity just state what mankind would see and then some. The story claims the report has 26 tipping points that could start the dominoes to fall. Jesus stated at least 15 different things mankind would experience as signs leading up to the end. Other authors of the Bible state more.
You see, the world is coming to an end regardless of scientific prognostications. There is no hope for this present age. There is nothing man can do to stop what is taking place. Mankind thinks it can stop it. How? Transhumanism. If sin is the problem, create humans that can be programmed to not sin. The people involved in these schemes are not unaware of the Bible. They can claim they are ignorant of this religious collection of books but, Lucifer is not. The Devil knows every word, and seeks to lengthen his position as the god of this world.
He is both seen as the destroyer and benefactor of the race. Humanity is under his control: those not under the control of God. The planet is under his control, where God lets him hang himself. Because, you see, there is nothing Satan can do to undo what is happening. It cannot be stopped. It is not an approaching meteor. It is not the rise of the oceans. It is not nuclear war; even of all these things portend to show Earth and it's inhabitants are in trouble: BIG TROUBLE. It is sin and the natural progression of what it causes. Only stopping sin can mankind stop the inevitable and mankind's march to try and control everything is what is the problem that shall stop everything from existing. "The God factor" is in play. Whether religious ascendancy or technological or a combination of both; mankind thinks it can control everything somehow, some way. Science is the answer, Dear Subjects of Earth. Nope. Won't do it. Can't do it. Fallen mankind is fallen mankind and it is rushing towards a point of no return; whether it sees that or not. Willing ignorance is going to destroy the world.
God has given warning signs. God has given all the information necessary to be prepared. No, not "preppers." I just saw a headline for an article about an abandoned military base in South Dakota that has been taken for use by people getting ready for doomsday; an apparent calling for as many as ten thousand people to inhabitant these underground facilities.
Earth is a very complex, fragile collection of ecosystems, stabilizers and tent ropes holding everything up and together. Regardless of whether or not mankind is wrecking the place, pollution is not going to kill humanity. Sin is. Pollution may be a consequence of sin; like all other problems on this planet but, the foundation of evil is self - selfwill.
2Pet 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2Pet 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Selfwilled, not God-willed. The end is coming because mankind cares about self more than the kingdom of God. Jesus knows this. Knew since the fall of Adam and Eve. To them and to us, and to all the human race He says -
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
886. More A.I. as the Beast System - December 15, 2023
"Paving the way for the Image of the Beast? Real-Time AI analysis could soon fulfill Bible Prophecy"
"The Bible describes a time in the future where an image of the Antichrist is given life to speak on his behalf. This has been a challenging passage for scholars to try and understand... until now. While we can only speculate as to just what type of technology John saw when being revealed almost 2,000 years ago - the advances of AI technology may be progressing to where an all powerful world leader incorporates AI in some fashion that allows him to be present worldwide (an attempt to copy God's omnipresence) through AI technology in real time."
"The image of the beast, as described in the Book of Revelation, is a symbol of the end times, representing a powerful and manipulative force that deceives and controls people. In today's world, chatbots and other artificial intelligence programs are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, raising the question of whether they could potentially fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast."
www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6557
The reason I keep referring to these types of articles is simply to show the ubiquitous nature of Futurism's impact on Christian religious society, far more than Preterism and certainly more than Historicism. Futurism is popular, I believe, for one simple reason. Regardless of how any particular church, ministry or individual interprets last-day events, most of them proclaim the "secret rapture" of true believers, the entire body of them invisibly taken out of the world and I am not aware of any of these teaching entities which state there is any kind of spiritual preparation necessary to meet the Lord is peace when He returns in this proposed event. One must only profess faith and will then be saved. If you add in those bodies and ministries which teach eternal security - once you accept Christ you can not be lost regardless of any choices you make - you have a two-pronged attack on biblical truth that is leaving multiplied millions in a deception of no mean force upon the mind.
So, while artificial intelligence is now being seen as the central power in some "beast" system to arise, the historic characters of prophecy continue to fulfill their roles - Mother, Harlot Daughters, Kings of the Earth. It is exceptional to watch it play out. The Papacy continues to draw in her runaway Protestant daughters; albeit the current "Papa" is no JP2 but, that's all in the works. He's coming.
The Harlots continue to be captured by Mother and the culture, even ancient culture; which retains its hold over the planet's modern populace.
The Kings of the Earth continue to attempt gains in control over others yet, what do we keep seeing? Things are draining national finances and economies are failing. China is nearing economic disaster because of its odd real estate practices; ghost cities and all that. Russia is being drained by war. America was drained by wars long ago and now literally lives on borrowed money and borrowed time. Argentina has an inflation rate of 143%. Other S.A. nations are falling apart. If you look closely, there is not a single nation on Earth doing well, simply because of a global economy where too many strings are attached to too many off shore entities. The world's banksters have a death grip on all nations through central banking systems. If everything turns to digital currency, the control of buying and selling in all modern nations is assured. The thing is, the Futurists see these secular entities as the beast system. In the centuries of papal dominance, banksters existed, as well. The papacy just had to pronounce anathema and curse one and all the rest fell into line. If they did not, Mother Rome had many other ways to bring them into line: the Jesuits being the most efficacious for the task.
"Peace and safety" can come out of all this chaos? Of course. Because God said it. He tells the end from the beginning to show humanity He is God and there is no other. He has done it all through human history and now, the final events are ramping up.
Just remember, despite wars and rumors of wars, despite disease and man-made and natural disasters, etc., the time will come when "peace and safety" will be declared by a world caught up in Satan's final net of deceptions. Right now, that all seems impossible.
The Bible states things roll along in waves.
Join the great "miracle-working" revival.
Next, embargoes against God's Sabbath-keeping remnant to put some weight behind the desires and displeasure of leaders under the control of the Devil; the people of the Lord will not be allowed to buy or sell.
Lastly, a death decree placed upon those refusing to go with the collective program and accept the mark of papal authority adopted by the governments of the world: Sunday - shut down to save energy, to support necessary family time and worship, and bring the world under one umbrella of "kumbaya." It will seem to work flawlessly.
The Beast of Revelation has been understood as the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican for centuries by Protestant students of the Bible. Once the Bible became available through printing, this position was maintained with obvious reasoning for centuries. Things changed, though. The inception and growth of Jesuit inspired Futurism has contaminated almost all commentary on prophecy. If the Bible is allowed to interpret itself, with its won historic timeline of events, the Image to the Beast can only be a nation that arose around the time of the Beast's "deadly wound," in 1798. America was founded as a nation, ratifying its Constitution in 1789. It, alone, matches the descriptive marks given it in Revelation chapter 13, as the second beast of the chapter. And those marks have yet to be completely fulfilled. It began as a lamb, a professed Christian nation. Then, it speaks as a dragon. The current secular America, persecuting churches during the Plandemic; as leaders waffled on their responsibility to stand firm on the Bill of Rights and First Amendment; waging constant wars that have killed tens of millions of non-combatant peoples through the agencies of the military industrial complex, have breathed its fire all across the globe. I am not speaking of WW1 & 2, though each has their nefarious drafting of America into them. No nation has declared war on America in 80 years. Why does it fight all these constant wars? It now speaks as a dragon. But, that shall change as a Pope of tremendous power and influence arises and a false revival enters the scene with claimed miracle working power from on High.
Once human probation closes, all cases decided, sides chosen; the seven last plagues shall begin; and the anger of the planet's population will seethe like a boiling cauldron of hatred towards anything that is thought to be responsible. The apostate, King Ahab, blamed God's prophet, Elijah. In the last days the Kings of the Earth, scolded by apostate professed religious leaders caught up in the delusions, will blame God's remnant people. Once the dominoes start falling, the end will come quickly.
Time frame? No one knows but, the Sovereign of the universe. I cannot say when all these things happen. Some have been happening for a century. Others, for decades. Still others in the last several years. Other things will continue to show themselves as only two sides develop: those on God's side of biblical truth and sanctification of its power in their lives; and those on the side of apostasy, laxity and neglect, deluded and deceived. Sheep and goats. The remnant vs. the world.
Keep watching. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning and filled with the oil of the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The Bible describes a time in the future where an image of the Antichrist is given life to speak on his behalf. This has been a challenging passage for scholars to try and understand... until now. While we can only speculate as to just what type of technology John saw when being revealed almost 2,000 years ago - the advances of AI technology may be progressing to where an all powerful world leader incorporates AI in some fashion that allows him to be present worldwide (an attempt to copy God's omnipresence) through AI technology in real time."
"The image of the beast, as described in the Book of Revelation, is a symbol of the end times, representing a powerful and manipulative force that deceives and controls people. In today's world, chatbots and other artificial intelligence programs are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, raising the question of whether they could potentially fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast."
www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6557
The reason I keep referring to these types of articles is simply to show the ubiquitous nature of Futurism's impact on Christian religious society, far more than Preterism and certainly more than Historicism. Futurism is popular, I believe, for one simple reason. Regardless of how any particular church, ministry or individual interprets last-day events, most of them proclaim the "secret rapture" of true believers, the entire body of them invisibly taken out of the world and I am not aware of any of these teaching entities which state there is any kind of spiritual preparation necessary to meet the Lord is peace when He returns in this proposed event. One must only profess faith and will then be saved. If you add in those bodies and ministries which teach eternal security - once you accept Christ you can not be lost regardless of any choices you make - you have a two-pronged attack on biblical truth that is leaving multiplied millions in a deception of no mean force upon the mind.
So, while artificial intelligence is now being seen as the central power in some "beast" system to arise, the historic characters of prophecy continue to fulfill their roles - Mother, Harlot Daughters, Kings of the Earth. It is exceptional to watch it play out. The Papacy continues to draw in her runaway Protestant daughters; albeit the current "Papa" is no JP2 but, that's all in the works. He's coming.
The Harlots continue to be captured by Mother and the culture, even ancient culture; which retains its hold over the planet's modern populace.
The Kings of the Earth continue to attempt gains in control over others yet, what do we keep seeing? Things are draining national finances and economies are failing. China is nearing economic disaster because of its odd real estate practices; ghost cities and all that. Russia is being drained by war. America was drained by wars long ago and now literally lives on borrowed money and borrowed time. Argentina has an inflation rate of 143%. Other S.A. nations are falling apart. If you look closely, there is not a single nation on Earth doing well, simply because of a global economy where too many strings are attached to too many off shore entities. The world's banksters have a death grip on all nations through central banking systems. If everything turns to digital currency, the control of buying and selling in all modern nations is assured. The thing is, the Futurists see these secular entities as the beast system. In the centuries of papal dominance, banksters existed, as well. The papacy just had to pronounce anathema and curse one and all the rest fell into line. If they did not, Mother Rome had many other ways to bring them into line: the Jesuits being the most efficacious for the task.
"Peace and safety" can come out of all this chaos? Of course. Because God said it. He tells the end from the beginning to show humanity He is God and there is no other. He has done it all through human history and now, the final events are ramping up.
Just remember, despite wars and rumors of wars, despite disease and man-made and natural disasters, etc., the time will come when "peace and safety" will be declared by a world caught up in Satan's final net of deceptions. Right now, that all seems impossible.
The Bible states things roll along in waves.
Join the great "miracle-working" revival.
Next, embargoes against God's Sabbath-keeping remnant to put some weight behind the desires and displeasure of leaders under the control of the Devil; the people of the Lord will not be allowed to buy or sell.
Lastly, a death decree placed upon those refusing to go with the collective program and accept the mark of papal authority adopted by the governments of the world: Sunday - shut down to save energy, to support necessary family time and worship, and bring the world under one umbrella of "kumbaya." It will seem to work flawlessly.
The Beast of Revelation has been understood as the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican for centuries by Protestant students of the Bible. Once the Bible became available through printing, this position was maintained with obvious reasoning for centuries. Things changed, though. The inception and growth of Jesuit inspired Futurism has contaminated almost all commentary on prophecy. If the Bible is allowed to interpret itself, with its won historic timeline of events, the Image to the Beast can only be a nation that arose around the time of the Beast's "deadly wound," in 1798. America was founded as a nation, ratifying its Constitution in 1789. It, alone, matches the descriptive marks given it in Revelation chapter 13, as the second beast of the chapter. And those marks have yet to be completely fulfilled. It began as a lamb, a professed Christian nation. Then, it speaks as a dragon. The current secular America, persecuting churches during the Plandemic; as leaders waffled on their responsibility to stand firm on the Bill of Rights and First Amendment; waging constant wars that have killed tens of millions of non-combatant peoples through the agencies of the military industrial complex, have breathed its fire all across the globe. I am not speaking of WW1 & 2, though each has their nefarious drafting of America into them. No nation has declared war on America in 80 years. Why does it fight all these constant wars? It now speaks as a dragon. But, that shall change as a Pope of tremendous power and influence arises and a false revival enters the scene with claimed miracle working power from on High.
Once human probation closes, all cases decided, sides chosen; the seven last plagues shall begin; and the anger of the planet's population will seethe like a boiling cauldron of hatred towards anything that is thought to be responsible. The apostate, King Ahab, blamed God's prophet, Elijah. In the last days the Kings of the Earth, scolded by apostate professed religious leaders caught up in the delusions, will blame God's remnant people. Once the dominoes start falling, the end will come quickly.
Time frame? No one knows but, the Sovereign of the universe. I cannot say when all these things happen. Some have been happening for a century. Others, for decades. Still others in the last several years. Other things will continue to show themselves as only two sides develop: those on God's side of biblical truth and sanctification of its power in their lives; and those on the side of apostasy, laxity and neglect, deluded and deceived. Sheep and goats. The remnant vs. the world.
Keep watching. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning and filled with the oil of the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
Let Me Get This Straight
religion
rĭ-lĭj′ən
noun
So, how is the Satanic Temple regarded as a religion? Yeah, they are in the news again, all excited about getting a spot in the state capitol of Iowa for their "holiday display"? Just what holiday would that be? Hanukah? Ramadan? Christmas???
www.kcci.com/article/des-moines-satanic-temple-display-inside-iowa-state-capitol-building/46057210
The ST does not believe in a supernatural deity. They do not believe in the fallen angel Lucifer. While all religions that consider themselves worshipers of Lucifer, Baphomet, etc., etc., do regard the supernatural nature of the Devil, the ST does not. They claim to use the imagery to make points about their philosophy of humanism. How and why the Federal or any state government gives this group religion status is not a joke. It's a departure from Western civilization and Judeo/Christian/Protestant religious philosophy and culture that founded this nation. It's an apostasy from those principles.
No, I am not stating America is a Christian nation. It is not. It is a nation with a Christian culture in its citizenry, that has been waning for well over a century now. "Jesus Christ" is not in an American document of law and order. Some of the early Founders attempted that but, were consistently challenged and voted down. Plus, again, Jesus, Himself stated His kingdom IS NOT o this world. It is impossible for a nation of this world to be a "Christian nation."
Having gotten into much of the history of pagan festivals that were "Christianized" by the Roman Catholic Church, on this site; trying to put Christ back into Christmas is a somewhat futile enterprise. He was only placed there, originally, to make it easier for pagans to join the church; much like dozens of other traditions the Roman church instituted. So, in the news clip, the sincere Christians gathering for prayer around the tree, against the ST display, is not really something that will open the ears of the Lord anymore than standing anywhere else in the building. I mean, why not stand right in front of the display and pray for the Lord to intervene in some way and bring some sanity back into the legislature. Well, you know. Lawsuits are expensive and the ST has plenty of backers to start and sustain them.
Professed Christians MUST ask themselves how America can be considered a Christian NATION when its legal avenues are falling to secularism more and more; as more and more abominations (as God refers to them), are being hoisted on the populace; a populace it must be maintained, is no longer much interested in Jesus Christ or things of a Divine nature. CHRISTmas, yes. Christ? No. Well, a Roman mass for Christ is something I care not to endorse, nor a pagan day set aside to remember His birth when God never said a word about it. To the contrary, only one day of seven was named; that being His Sabbath; and aside from the fourth commandment, the weekly day of rest, established in perpetuity; the yearly feasts, part of the Jewish theocratic national system, ended with the death of the Messiah. God said not to add to His religion or take away from it. Why people feel so free to reject that is beyond me.
Lucian Greaves, one of the leaders of the ST, claims the display shows their right to religious freedom. By definition of how the concept and word has been understood and used for centuries, they are not a religion. They should not have religious freedom. They can have freedom of speech. Having a holiday display is just poking a bear; which is why one man from Mississippi took it upon himself to tear the display down. He was charged with vandalization. Plenty of people consider him a hero.
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-navy-veteran-topples-satanic-display-in-iowa-capitol.html
On the other hand, the history of antiquity considered, the ST display has as much to do with December 25th as the trees with all the lights and ornaments on them. Saturnalia. Look it up.
Which actually brings up a headline and picture I saw of a professed Christian church with a Christmas tree in it with ornaments dedicated to drag queens. Unfortunate enough to see creche scenes, which are totally unbiblical and have nothing to do with December 25th but, to see a tree supposedly dedicated to the birth of Jesus Christ covered with ornaments of drag queens... mockery seems to gain new ground every Autumn and Winter season.
The sad thing is that millions of Americans think all of this is a joke. They think the ST is a joke, yet it is gaining more and more presence in public schools; Grammar schools, and influencing children in the philosophy of humanism. More reason for parents to homeschool or send their children to schools where policies that uphold founding principles of Americanism are strong, through courageous leadership and people in positions of responsibility; as we watch and behold with sadness more and more leaders acquiesce and bow to everything and anything opposed to the living God.
Things will get worse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
rĭ-lĭj′ən
noun
- The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe.
- A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice.
- A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
So, how is the Satanic Temple regarded as a religion? Yeah, they are in the news again, all excited about getting a spot in the state capitol of Iowa for their "holiday display"? Just what holiday would that be? Hanukah? Ramadan? Christmas???
www.kcci.com/article/des-moines-satanic-temple-display-inside-iowa-state-capitol-building/46057210
The ST does not believe in a supernatural deity. They do not believe in the fallen angel Lucifer. While all religions that consider themselves worshipers of Lucifer, Baphomet, etc., etc., do regard the supernatural nature of the Devil, the ST does not. They claim to use the imagery to make points about their philosophy of humanism. How and why the Federal or any state government gives this group religion status is not a joke. It's a departure from Western civilization and Judeo/Christian/Protestant religious philosophy and culture that founded this nation. It's an apostasy from those principles.
No, I am not stating America is a Christian nation. It is not. It is a nation with a Christian culture in its citizenry, that has been waning for well over a century now. "Jesus Christ" is not in an American document of law and order. Some of the early Founders attempted that but, were consistently challenged and voted down. Plus, again, Jesus, Himself stated His kingdom IS NOT o this world. It is impossible for a nation of this world to be a "Christian nation."
Having gotten into much of the history of pagan festivals that were "Christianized" by the Roman Catholic Church, on this site; trying to put Christ back into Christmas is a somewhat futile enterprise. He was only placed there, originally, to make it easier for pagans to join the church; much like dozens of other traditions the Roman church instituted. So, in the news clip, the sincere Christians gathering for prayer around the tree, against the ST display, is not really something that will open the ears of the Lord anymore than standing anywhere else in the building. I mean, why not stand right in front of the display and pray for the Lord to intervene in some way and bring some sanity back into the legislature. Well, you know. Lawsuits are expensive and the ST has plenty of backers to start and sustain them.
Professed Christians MUST ask themselves how America can be considered a Christian NATION when its legal avenues are falling to secularism more and more; as more and more abominations (as God refers to them), are being hoisted on the populace; a populace it must be maintained, is no longer much interested in Jesus Christ or things of a Divine nature. CHRISTmas, yes. Christ? No. Well, a Roman mass for Christ is something I care not to endorse, nor a pagan day set aside to remember His birth when God never said a word about it. To the contrary, only one day of seven was named; that being His Sabbath; and aside from the fourth commandment, the weekly day of rest, established in perpetuity; the yearly feasts, part of the Jewish theocratic national system, ended with the death of the Messiah. God said not to add to His religion or take away from it. Why people feel so free to reject that is beyond me.
Lucian Greaves, one of the leaders of the ST, claims the display shows their right to religious freedom. By definition of how the concept and word has been understood and used for centuries, they are not a religion. They should not have religious freedom. They can have freedom of speech. Having a holiday display is just poking a bear; which is why one man from Mississippi took it upon himself to tear the display down. He was charged with vandalization. Plenty of people consider him a hero.
www.christianpost.com/news/christian-navy-veteran-topples-satanic-display-in-iowa-capitol.html
On the other hand, the history of antiquity considered, the ST display has as much to do with December 25th as the trees with all the lights and ornaments on them. Saturnalia. Look it up.
Which actually brings up a headline and picture I saw of a professed Christian church with a Christmas tree in it with ornaments dedicated to drag queens. Unfortunate enough to see creche scenes, which are totally unbiblical and have nothing to do with December 25th but, to see a tree supposedly dedicated to the birth of Jesus Christ covered with ornaments of drag queens... mockery seems to gain new ground every Autumn and Winter season.
The sad thing is that millions of Americans think all of this is a joke. They think the ST is a joke, yet it is gaining more and more presence in public schools; Grammar schools, and influencing children in the philosophy of humanism. More reason for parents to homeschool or send their children to schools where policies that uphold founding principles of Americanism are strong, through courageous leadership and people in positions of responsibility; as we watch and behold with sadness more and more leaders acquiesce and bow to everything and anything opposed to the living God.
Things will get worse.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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You Can't Make Sense of Nonsense
All over the world men claiming to be women are winning female competitions in sports and this morning I see a transgender has won an Irish dancing contest in the female category.
The article states the girls, the parents, those who love Irish dance are angry, heartbroken, as well they should be yet, somehow, the world, at least those in positions of elected civil service and responsibility, have gone mad or cowardly or both, and a tiny segment of the human race, a very confused segment, is controlling the social fabric of nations. No, obviously it does not make sense. It cannot make sense. Nothing is sensible about a man claiming he is a woman. If he wants to portray himself as female; if he wants to act like a woman; if he thinks he is a woman so be it. Expecting everyone else to accept that is ridiculous on the face of it. To expect anything beyond that line to be so disprupted as sports programs or other contests set apart for females is reprehensible to civil society.
The competition took place here, in Dallas, and the boy, 14, had already competed as a boy before, and came in 11th. Competing as a girl, he took 1st place and a chance at the world competition.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/parents-upset-after-trans-athlete-wins-girls-dance-competition.html
Another boy allegedly failed a quiz in his Seattle school because he answered True, that only women can have babies and only men have a penis. What do you suppose the percentage of human beings would be who would also answer 'true' to those questions? It is obvious the school is not teaching biology. It is teaching culture as fact in place of biological fact.
Anybody old enough remembers when biological fact, medical science and society, in general, all understood that sex and gender are two facets of the same thing. Today, society is being forced to accept that sex and gender are not the same thing to address one single fact. A male is a male and a female is a female.
In women's cycling, two men identifying as women took the two top spots on the podium. It is sports organization leaders and school boards allowing this nonsense to begin, continue, and ravage young minds and lives.
As someone who has played drum set for 60 years, I wonder how long it will be before a male, identifying as a female, enters the "Hit Like a Girl" contest for female drummers. Frankly, having already posted my thoughts on "female" drummers being a foolish distinction in this day and age, a male dominated activity making that distinction needs to put stereotypes aside and just see people as musicians, not male or female. Classical music has done that long ago. Why should other genres be any different? Be that as it may, if the HLG finds itself facing a transgender entering the competition, what will it do? Males have more endurance and play faster than females. If speed and endurance are part of the contest's parameters, like any other physical activity, the biological male has an advantage.
Society is always changing like the weather. Styles, fashion, entertainment evolving, devolving, showing the downward trend towards human futility of addressing what it needs more than anything: a living connection to its Creator.
Just because I am a Christian and love all people because Jesus died for all people, does not mean I have to accept what all people think or do. I don't. Christians are supposed to think for themselves, act as ambassadors for Christ and His kingdom, and follow every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The Lord never said or implied it would always be easy. To the contrary. The Bible states it often that those who follow Father, Son and Holy Spirit will be at odds with the general flow of society, pretty much all the time. In this case, even atheists see the obvious nature of this situation. Science is not male or female. It just states what is male or female.
God made humans male and female. What makes humans attempt to blur all that is on us, not the Creator.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The article states the girls, the parents, those who love Irish dance are angry, heartbroken, as well they should be yet, somehow, the world, at least those in positions of elected civil service and responsibility, have gone mad or cowardly or both, and a tiny segment of the human race, a very confused segment, is controlling the social fabric of nations. No, obviously it does not make sense. It cannot make sense. Nothing is sensible about a man claiming he is a woman. If he wants to portray himself as female; if he wants to act like a woman; if he thinks he is a woman so be it. Expecting everyone else to accept that is ridiculous on the face of it. To expect anything beyond that line to be so disprupted as sports programs or other contests set apart for females is reprehensible to civil society.
The competition took place here, in Dallas, and the boy, 14, had already competed as a boy before, and came in 11th. Competing as a girl, he took 1st place and a chance at the world competition.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/parents-upset-after-trans-athlete-wins-girls-dance-competition.html
Another boy allegedly failed a quiz in his Seattle school because he answered True, that only women can have babies and only men have a penis. What do you suppose the percentage of human beings would be who would also answer 'true' to those questions? It is obvious the school is not teaching biology. It is teaching culture as fact in place of biological fact.
Anybody old enough remembers when biological fact, medical science and society, in general, all understood that sex and gender are two facets of the same thing. Today, society is being forced to accept that sex and gender are not the same thing to address one single fact. A male is a male and a female is a female.
In women's cycling, two men identifying as women took the two top spots on the podium. It is sports organization leaders and school boards allowing this nonsense to begin, continue, and ravage young minds and lives.
As someone who has played drum set for 60 years, I wonder how long it will be before a male, identifying as a female, enters the "Hit Like a Girl" contest for female drummers. Frankly, having already posted my thoughts on "female" drummers being a foolish distinction in this day and age, a male dominated activity making that distinction needs to put stereotypes aside and just see people as musicians, not male or female. Classical music has done that long ago. Why should other genres be any different? Be that as it may, if the HLG finds itself facing a transgender entering the competition, what will it do? Males have more endurance and play faster than females. If speed and endurance are part of the contest's parameters, like any other physical activity, the biological male has an advantage.
Society is always changing like the weather. Styles, fashion, entertainment evolving, devolving, showing the downward trend towards human futility of addressing what it needs more than anything: a living connection to its Creator.
Just because I am a Christian and love all people because Jesus died for all people, does not mean I have to accept what all people think or do. I don't. Christians are supposed to think for themselves, act as ambassadors for Christ and His kingdom, and follow every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The Lord never said or implied it would always be easy. To the contrary. The Bible states it often that those who follow Father, Son and Holy Spirit will be at odds with the general flow of society, pretty much all the time. In this case, even atheists see the obvious nature of this situation. Science is not male or female. It just states what is male or female.
God made humans male and female. What makes humans attempt to blur all that is on us, not the Creator.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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887. The Bible. A Flat Earth? - December 16, 2023
I'd like to pose a biblical position here on a subject that is apparently causing great upheaval in Christendom: the Flat Earth theory. I have written on this previously but, thought I'd dig a bit deeper on the subject. Yes, books have been written on the subject, from both sides. A book acknowledging a flat Earth or rejecting a flat Earth would not see me reaching for my debit card.
I'm not going to get into the scientific areas of this debate because for me, they are moot. There is a business, a flight business, that for around $12,000 (iirc), will take you on a ride to the edge of space. Watching a video of one man's experience from inside the jet, the curvature of the Earth is rather obvious.
I have no problem believing NASA lies. I do have a problem with the notion that is all NASA does, after billions spent on missions to outer space for 6 decades. All pictures of Earth are fake? Everything else in our solar system is spherical but, Earth is a disk? If God made Earth a disk, I'd expect the Bible to state that fact or, at least allude to it somehow. God knew the rate of expansion of knowledge at the end of time, Dan 12:4. That includes the rate of exploration. Knowing such a debate would exist, why not state something that settles the question, from His Word?
A popular text in this debate is Isaiah 40:22 -
Isa 40:22 It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
From Strong's concordance -
chûg
khoog
From H2328; a circle: - circle, circuit, compassive [compass]
Total KJV occurrences: 3
The word appears 3 times in the King James Bible, from the ancient manuscripts. The first appearance is here -
Job 22:14 Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks in the circuit of Heaven.
We often think of a circuit as something electrical. Power moves from point A to B and other points in that circuit. Or we think of a circuit as a series of places someone travels or performs in, point A to B to C to D and ultimately back again to A to repeat the process.
The text in Job. Those looking at the stars since the beginning of mankind have noticed they move in a circuit. Earth rotates on an axis. Earth moves in a circuit. The solar system moves in a circuit. The galaxy moves in a circuit. Everything in the universe is moving in circuits. God does not move in a circuit. God is said to walk in the circuit, coming and going where He pleases. He is not bound by the force of gravity. He is the force of gravity. By Christ, all things were created and consist; hold together, Col. 1:16,17.
The third place chug is found is Proverbs -
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Most translations use the English word "circle" in that text. It's what a compass does: it draws a two-dimensional circle. God established the circle the Earth travels in, its orbit; as well as the rest of the known universe. But, the text states God set a compass upon the face of the deep. That brings up Genesis 1 -
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
God began with water. The water was not a sheet of paper. It was an abyss, as the Hebrew word, tehome, means. Deep, very deep.
God set a compass upon the abyss. The dimensions of the waters of this planet are not flat. They run 2 to almost 7 miles deep in places. The compass can only increase or decrease two-dimensional diameter of circles. So, the imagery used is that of a compass creating circles into the sphere the Earth is, to create depth. Take a compass and place the point and you get a typical circle but, to create depth the compass needs to run North and South, as well as East and West. Once North and South, East and West are established, keep changing those points and you create a sphere.
Those who believe the Earth is a disk often point to Isaiah 22 -
Isa 22:18 He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the lord's house.
The Hebrew word translated 'ball' is 'dur;' which means -
dûr
dure
From H1752; a circle, ball or pile: - ball, turn, round about.
They say, if Isaiah wanted to create the image of God walking above a sphere, he'd have used the word 'dur.' But, as you can see the word can mean a circle or just a pile, and in this next text the image of a circle is obvious -
Isa 29:3 And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
"All around" is 'dur.' Some Bibles translate it 'circle.' Here's the English Septuagint translation (Hebrew to Greek to English) -
Isa 29:3 And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.
Compass/circle. But notice. A mound. Towers. Height is interjected into the imagery. Looking down from towers. Increase that looking down from the heavens. The imagery is North and South, as well as East and West.
Take a look at another text in the book of Job -
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job 26:10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Job 26:10 He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
The word 'chug' is translated compassed, circle, and boundary in those different Bibles. The boundary is defined by light and darkness: the atmosphere, to the limit where space begins. Gravity from within the core of the planet to the weight of atmospheric pressures above keep the waters of Earth in place. That is something an ancient mind could not grasp, yet there it is, from the pen of an ancient prophet in the Creator's Word.
If the earth were a disk with an arch of atmosphere over it, the atmospheric pressure and force of gravity would be very different at the edges of the disk, than the center. It is my understanding planes are enabled to fly across the globe because of consistent atmospheric pressures, pockets of turbulence notwithstanding. I have not looked into it but, it seems a disk with an arch would not allow that consistency. A simple test of this effect was pointed out to me many years ago at a fellowship dinner. A airplane aficionado asked me to blow across the top of a napkin. As I did, the napkin rose up, like magic. Not magic. My stream of breath removed the atmospheric pressure on top and allowed remaining pressures from below to raise the napkin. Pretty cool demonstration. That all changes with airplanes, a disk, and an arch of atmosphere that thins out the closer you get to the edge of the disk. There is nowhere on the planet planes have not flown.
Something else to notice. The Hebrew word 'chug' is generally thought of as a two-dimensional circle yet, according to some Hebrew English lexicons it can also mean the vault of the atmosphere -
Brown-Driver-Briggs
חוּג noun [masculine] vault; — only of vault of the heavens חוּג שׁמים התהלך Job 22:14; בְּחֻקֿוֺ חוּג עלֿ תהום ׳פנ Proverbs 8:27; הישֵׁב עַלחֿוּג הארץ Isaiah 40:22.
It can also mean the horizon, the place where Earth and the atmosphere meet, and, if one does some searching, a sphere -
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary
חוּג to describe a circle, to draw a circle, as with compasses. Job 26:10. (Syr. ܚܳܓ to go in a circle, ܚܘܽܓܬܐܳ a circle. Kindred roots are חָגַג and עוּג). Hence מְהוּגָה and
חוּג m. a circle, sphere, used of the arch or vault of the sky, Proverbs 8:27; Job 22:14 of the world, Isaiah 40:22.
It is an obvious fact, whether the Earth is a disk or a sphere, the vault of the heavens encircles Earth. The solar system, the galaxy, the universe, space is all around us. Space is not flat. Space goes in every direction. Why should I believe the planet does not go from a center core outward to all directions to the boundaries God has placed upon it?
I have seen some of the reasons those who believe in a flat or disk Earth believe as they do. I have not seen a reason why professed Christians believe God would create a disk as opposed to everything else in the universe being an orb, as far as we know, which brings up another point.
Why are kings, emperors, popes and other supposed rulers of the world depicted in art forms holding orbs to represent they ruled the world before science brought about the evidence the planet is, in fact, a globe? Just something to think about.
There is a verse in the book of Ecclesiastes that gets into more about the atmosphere -
Ecc 1:6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
The word here, translated 'circuit' is 'sabiyb,' which means a 'circle' or 'around,' translated 'compass' as well.
The imagery here is important. It says nothing directly related to the physical shape or features of the earth but, one must see the process mentioned about Earth's atmosphere.
On a disk with an atmospheric dome, wind could easily go East to West in a circuit. North to South? How? If the wind went South it would strike the bottom edge of the dome and stop. It could not create a circuit to the North and come back South. Only a globe allows for the imagery.
One last thing, though more can be related here. I just kind of grow weary with the subject. It lacks common sense, to me. I find little common sense to the Flat Earth position. Especially when things like this exist. I have mentioned this in a previous post. Below is a photo from two points on the planet; the Northern hemisphere and the Southern. If the Earth was flat, everyone would see the moon pretty much the same on a disk. Why then do people in the Northern hemisphere see this and the people in the Southern hemisphere see this -
I'm not going to get into the scientific areas of this debate because for me, they are moot. There is a business, a flight business, that for around $12,000 (iirc), will take you on a ride to the edge of space. Watching a video of one man's experience from inside the jet, the curvature of the Earth is rather obvious.
I have no problem believing NASA lies. I do have a problem with the notion that is all NASA does, after billions spent on missions to outer space for 6 decades. All pictures of Earth are fake? Everything else in our solar system is spherical but, Earth is a disk? If God made Earth a disk, I'd expect the Bible to state that fact or, at least allude to it somehow. God knew the rate of expansion of knowledge at the end of time, Dan 12:4. That includes the rate of exploration. Knowing such a debate would exist, why not state something that settles the question, from His Word?
A popular text in this debate is Isaiah 40:22 -
Isa 40:22 It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
From Strong's concordance -
chûg
khoog
From H2328; a circle: - circle, circuit, compassive [compass]
Total KJV occurrences: 3
The word appears 3 times in the King James Bible, from the ancient manuscripts. The first appearance is here -
Job 22:14 Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks in the circuit of Heaven.
We often think of a circuit as something electrical. Power moves from point A to B and other points in that circuit. Or we think of a circuit as a series of places someone travels or performs in, point A to B to C to D and ultimately back again to A to repeat the process.
The text in Job. Those looking at the stars since the beginning of mankind have noticed they move in a circuit. Earth rotates on an axis. Earth moves in a circuit. The solar system moves in a circuit. The galaxy moves in a circuit. Everything in the universe is moving in circuits. God does not move in a circuit. God is said to walk in the circuit, coming and going where He pleases. He is not bound by the force of gravity. He is the force of gravity. By Christ, all things were created and consist; hold together, Col. 1:16,17.
The third place chug is found is Proverbs -
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Most translations use the English word "circle" in that text. It's what a compass does: it draws a two-dimensional circle. God established the circle the Earth travels in, its orbit; as well as the rest of the known universe. But, the text states God set a compass upon the face of the deep. That brings up Genesis 1 -
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
God began with water. The water was not a sheet of paper. It was an abyss, as the Hebrew word, tehome, means. Deep, very deep.
God set a compass upon the abyss. The dimensions of the waters of this planet are not flat. They run 2 to almost 7 miles deep in places. The compass can only increase or decrease two-dimensional diameter of circles. So, the imagery used is that of a compass creating circles into the sphere the Earth is, to create depth. Take a compass and place the point and you get a typical circle but, to create depth the compass needs to run North and South, as well as East and West. Once North and South, East and West are established, keep changing those points and you create a sphere.
Those who believe the Earth is a disk often point to Isaiah 22 -
Isa 22:18 He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the lord's house.
The Hebrew word translated 'ball' is 'dur;' which means -
dûr
dure
From H1752; a circle, ball or pile: - ball, turn, round about.
They say, if Isaiah wanted to create the image of God walking above a sphere, he'd have used the word 'dur.' But, as you can see the word can mean a circle or just a pile, and in this next text the image of a circle is obvious -
Isa 29:3 And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
"All around" is 'dur.' Some Bibles translate it 'circle.' Here's the English Septuagint translation (Hebrew to Greek to English) -
Isa 29:3 And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.
Compass/circle. But notice. A mound. Towers. Height is interjected into the imagery. Looking down from towers. Increase that looking down from the heavens. The imagery is North and South, as well as East and West.
Take a look at another text in the book of Job -
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job 26:10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Job 26:10 He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
The word 'chug' is translated compassed, circle, and boundary in those different Bibles. The boundary is defined by light and darkness: the atmosphere, to the limit where space begins. Gravity from within the core of the planet to the weight of atmospheric pressures above keep the waters of Earth in place. That is something an ancient mind could not grasp, yet there it is, from the pen of an ancient prophet in the Creator's Word.
If the earth were a disk with an arch of atmosphere over it, the atmospheric pressure and force of gravity would be very different at the edges of the disk, than the center. It is my understanding planes are enabled to fly across the globe because of consistent atmospheric pressures, pockets of turbulence notwithstanding. I have not looked into it but, it seems a disk with an arch would not allow that consistency. A simple test of this effect was pointed out to me many years ago at a fellowship dinner. A airplane aficionado asked me to blow across the top of a napkin. As I did, the napkin rose up, like magic. Not magic. My stream of breath removed the atmospheric pressure on top and allowed remaining pressures from below to raise the napkin. Pretty cool demonstration. That all changes with airplanes, a disk, and an arch of atmosphere that thins out the closer you get to the edge of the disk. There is nowhere on the planet planes have not flown.
Something else to notice. The Hebrew word 'chug' is generally thought of as a two-dimensional circle yet, according to some Hebrew English lexicons it can also mean the vault of the atmosphere -
Brown-Driver-Briggs
חוּג noun [masculine] vault; — only of vault of the heavens חוּג שׁמים התהלך Job 22:14; בְּחֻקֿוֺ חוּג עלֿ תהום ׳פנ Proverbs 8:27; הישֵׁב עַלחֿוּג הארץ Isaiah 40:22.
It can also mean the horizon, the place where Earth and the atmosphere meet, and, if one does some searching, a sphere -
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary
חוּג to describe a circle, to draw a circle, as with compasses. Job 26:10. (Syr. ܚܳܓ to go in a circle, ܚܘܽܓܬܐܳ a circle. Kindred roots are חָגַג and עוּג). Hence מְהוּגָה and
חוּג m. a circle, sphere, used of the arch or vault of the sky, Proverbs 8:27; Job 22:14 of the world, Isaiah 40:22.
It is an obvious fact, whether the Earth is a disk or a sphere, the vault of the heavens encircles Earth. The solar system, the galaxy, the universe, space is all around us. Space is not flat. Space goes in every direction. Why should I believe the planet does not go from a center core outward to all directions to the boundaries God has placed upon it?
I have seen some of the reasons those who believe in a flat or disk Earth believe as they do. I have not seen a reason why professed Christians believe God would create a disk as opposed to everything else in the universe being an orb, as far as we know, which brings up another point.
Why are kings, emperors, popes and other supposed rulers of the world depicted in art forms holding orbs to represent they ruled the world before science brought about the evidence the planet is, in fact, a globe? Just something to think about.
There is a verse in the book of Ecclesiastes that gets into more about the atmosphere -
Ecc 1:6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
The word here, translated 'circuit' is 'sabiyb,' which means a 'circle' or 'around,' translated 'compass' as well.
The imagery here is important. It says nothing directly related to the physical shape or features of the earth but, one must see the process mentioned about Earth's atmosphere.
On a disk with an atmospheric dome, wind could easily go East to West in a circuit. North to South? How? If the wind went South it would strike the bottom edge of the dome and stop. It could not create a circuit to the North and come back South. Only a globe allows for the imagery.
One last thing, though more can be related here. I just kind of grow weary with the subject. It lacks common sense, to me. I find little common sense to the Flat Earth position. Especially when things like this exist. I have mentioned this in a previous post. Below is a photo from two points on the planet; the Northern hemisphere and the Southern. If the Earth was flat, everyone would see the moon pretty much the same on a disk. Why then do people in the Northern hemisphere see this and the people in the Southern hemisphere see this -
Dozens of examples of this view can be seen. This seems such a common sense, authoritative answer to this subject I fail to see why it even exists with such veracity. Why would all countries, on all continents take a similar position of it were it not so? That is why I reject the notion man did not travel and land on the moon. If it was a hoax, in the middle of a cold war, Russia would have trumpeted the truth all across every airwave they could. Embarrassing the USA would have been such a triumph for the USSR it would have made waves that shook the world. So would any other nation antithetical to America, with ability to keep tabs on the ship, shouted it from the highest radio towers, if that ship never made it to the moon and back. Common sense.
It may be that the Bible does not state either way, the shape of the Earth directly but, it certainly alludes to one view - the globe view.
I have now seen church congregations have divided over this subject and even marriages bickering and ending. Have mercy. Some seem to have made it an article of faith and even salvation. A bridge way too far.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It may be that the Bible does not state either way, the shape of the Earth directly but, it certainly alludes to one view - the globe view.
I have now seen church congregations have divided over this subject and even marriages bickering and ending. Have mercy. Some seem to have made it an article of faith and even salvation. A bridge way too far.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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888. Chimp/Human Hybrid? - 12/17/23
I claim ignorance here. I had no idea science has been experimenting with creating a chimpanzee/human being hybrid creature; a humanzee, for years. Why, you ask? Indeed. Apparently to show the world religion is wrong. Humans are not superior or special in any way. Humans are, in fact, just the next step in evolution history; relatives of previous species in the tree of life. A humanzee would dethrone the influence of religion for good.
www.discovery.org/a/why-does-the-proposal-for-chimp-human-hybrids-keep-coming-back/
You should read the article. I found it mind blowing but, here are some closing paragraphs -
"Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon writes to suggest that there may be an underlying cultural trend here: When ridiculous inhumane ideas are routinely aired without pushback, we become more willing to accept inhumane ideas that are in fact quite viable:
"It’s like an artillery barrage before the infantry go over the wire. The intent isn’t to be taken seriously, the intent is to make the next move seem innocuous.
"The basic idea is the constant exposure to “shocking” material until it stops being shocking. And this response is entirely normal. We couldn’t function as humans without a brain circuit that filters out repetitive stimuli. Anything that happens repetitively gets ignored eventually.
"He offers some examples:
"The hybridization of animal-human embryos allowed to develop past the 14 day “ethical threshold”. The introduction of animal genes to “improve” the human genetic stock. And of course, the Holy Grail — extending the life of humans.
"Once we remove the ethical barriers between humans and animals, we can then experiment on humans with all the tools we’ve perfected for animals."
If that seems like Dr. Frankenstein territory to you, join Club Rational. But, I hasten to add, there is another reason behind this march: the idea of the human "soul." Religion teaches humans have "souls," which makes us different from animals. That, then, allows humans to abuse animals in aspects of vivisection and remain conscience free. Like the author of the article, I tend to not believe humanists have any real care for animals when they are willing to experiment on humans; in their eyes, just another animal. That said, consider what religion has done with this proposal: humans have ghostlike entities living inside them. Biblical? Hardly. Greek philosophy and ancient ideas before Plato are the seeds and fathers of this perpetual erroneous view. Bad physical human/good soul dying to get out and when one dies, it does get out and goes to a better place. The problem with that philosophy? Well, let the Bible throw the monkey wrench into the philosophical gears. Read carefully -
Ecc 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecc 3:17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Ecc 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
Ecc 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
For religionists in general, spirit and soul are basically the same thing. Biblically, nay. Humans are body, soul and spirit. Animals are body and soul. The difference? Animals are never stated to have spirits. Why? Because biblically, as I have shared here numerous times with all the biblical evidence; humans have a physical nature, have an emotional nature and have an intellectual/reasoning nature; body, soul and spirit. Therefore humans are responsible and accountable for the lives before their Creator. Animals are physical and emotional. They think but, they are not held accountable for moral decisions. They do not reason. They act on instincts. Yes, a dog may bite someone and be euthanized. Any other animal may harm humans and be euthanized but, that is a pragmatic decision made to make sure the animal cannot harm anyone again. It is not a judgment on the animal's morality.
So, we have Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, saying people can be beasts just like animals. There's no difference. They act the same far too often. And who knows if the "ruach" of the human goes upward (to heaven) and the "ruach" of the beast goes down into the netherworld? That Hebrew word, "ruach" means breath, a movement of air. When we die, both the human and the animal takes a last breath. Who can prove some kind of lifeforce pagans believe in gets out and goes to heaven and that of the animal goes down into the ground? All are made from the dirt by the Creator. Per His judgment, all return to the dirt again, when they die. Nothing goes to heaven at death. Nothing goes to a netherworld. Everything goes back to the ground, a just sentence. So, enjoy life while you have it, doing what you love -
Ecc 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.
There are no ghostlike entities living inside humans that get out at death. That is a pagan concept, and Solomon says it is vanity; emptiness.
In essence, professed believers have caused a great deal of confusion and blowback with their faulty view of life after death: "souls" that live on; which supposedly then makes humans different than animals. Solomon says, Sorry. No difference. Mankind was made in the image and likeness of God, fell from their position, act like beasts and suffer the same fate of death that all life suffers. It takes the plan of salvation and the return of Messiah to end this world of corruption and bring back to Heaven with Him the immortal body, souls and spirits of the redeemed down through the ages, sanctified by the influence of the Word and the Holy Spirit in their lives.
This is not rocket science. It is just allowing the Bible to interpret itself. The information is there. Far too few study the Bible enough to see the simple truth of the matter. How did this happen? In Old Testament times? The corruption of pagan society upon God's people who dabbled with it. In New Testament times? The corruption of the church in Rome, by a pagan empire, as Christians in Rome were gradually absorbed into the pagan culture. The same has held true and happened in all generations since, including our own, today.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.discovery.org/a/why-does-the-proposal-for-chimp-human-hybrids-keep-coming-back/
You should read the article. I found it mind blowing but, here are some closing paragraphs -
"Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon writes to suggest that there may be an underlying cultural trend here: When ridiculous inhumane ideas are routinely aired without pushback, we become more willing to accept inhumane ideas that are in fact quite viable:
"It’s like an artillery barrage before the infantry go over the wire. The intent isn’t to be taken seriously, the intent is to make the next move seem innocuous.
"The basic idea is the constant exposure to “shocking” material until it stops being shocking. And this response is entirely normal. We couldn’t function as humans without a brain circuit that filters out repetitive stimuli. Anything that happens repetitively gets ignored eventually.
"He offers some examples:
"The hybridization of animal-human embryos allowed to develop past the 14 day “ethical threshold”. The introduction of animal genes to “improve” the human genetic stock. And of course, the Holy Grail — extending the life of humans.
"Once we remove the ethical barriers between humans and animals, we can then experiment on humans with all the tools we’ve perfected for animals."
If that seems like Dr. Frankenstein territory to you, join Club Rational. But, I hasten to add, there is another reason behind this march: the idea of the human "soul." Religion teaches humans have "souls," which makes us different from animals. That, then, allows humans to abuse animals in aspects of vivisection and remain conscience free. Like the author of the article, I tend to not believe humanists have any real care for animals when they are willing to experiment on humans; in their eyes, just another animal. That said, consider what religion has done with this proposal: humans have ghostlike entities living inside them. Biblical? Hardly. Greek philosophy and ancient ideas before Plato are the seeds and fathers of this perpetual erroneous view. Bad physical human/good soul dying to get out and when one dies, it does get out and goes to a better place. The problem with that philosophy? Well, let the Bible throw the monkey wrench into the philosophical gears. Read carefully -
Ecc 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecc 3:17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Ecc 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
Ecc 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
For religionists in general, spirit and soul are basically the same thing. Biblically, nay. Humans are body, soul and spirit. Animals are body and soul. The difference? Animals are never stated to have spirits. Why? Because biblically, as I have shared here numerous times with all the biblical evidence; humans have a physical nature, have an emotional nature and have an intellectual/reasoning nature; body, soul and spirit. Therefore humans are responsible and accountable for the lives before their Creator. Animals are physical and emotional. They think but, they are not held accountable for moral decisions. They do not reason. They act on instincts. Yes, a dog may bite someone and be euthanized. Any other animal may harm humans and be euthanized but, that is a pragmatic decision made to make sure the animal cannot harm anyone again. It is not a judgment on the animal's morality.
So, we have Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, saying people can be beasts just like animals. There's no difference. They act the same far too often. And who knows if the "ruach" of the human goes upward (to heaven) and the "ruach" of the beast goes down into the netherworld? That Hebrew word, "ruach" means breath, a movement of air. When we die, both the human and the animal takes a last breath. Who can prove some kind of lifeforce pagans believe in gets out and goes to heaven and that of the animal goes down into the ground? All are made from the dirt by the Creator. Per His judgment, all return to the dirt again, when they die. Nothing goes to heaven at death. Nothing goes to a netherworld. Everything goes back to the ground, a just sentence. So, enjoy life while you have it, doing what you love -
Ecc 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.
There are no ghostlike entities living inside humans that get out at death. That is a pagan concept, and Solomon says it is vanity; emptiness.
In essence, professed believers have caused a great deal of confusion and blowback with their faulty view of life after death: "souls" that live on; which supposedly then makes humans different than animals. Solomon says, Sorry. No difference. Mankind was made in the image and likeness of God, fell from their position, act like beasts and suffer the same fate of death that all life suffers. It takes the plan of salvation and the return of Messiah to end this world of corruption and bring back to Heaven with Him the immortal body, souls and spirits of the redeemed down through the ages, sanctified by the influence of the Word and the Holy Spirit in their lives.
This is not rocket science. It is just allowing the Bible to interpret itself. The information is there. Far too few study the Bible enough to see the simple truth of the matter. How did this happen? In Old Testament times? The corruption of pagan society upon God's people who dabbled with it. In New Testament times? The corruption of the church in Rome, by a pagan empire, as Christians in Rome were gradually absorbed into the pagan culture. The same has held true and happened in all generations since, including our own, today.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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I am adding a new post here but, it's actually an addendum to the previous post. I am adding something to make the essence of the subject matter, hopefully more vivid.
Students of the Bible know there are numbers in the various books within it that are found over and over. 7, of course. 40. 12. And 3 is a number that means much to our understanding of our physical universe and life experience -
The Biblical Deity is 3 in 1; a mysterious unity that often defies simple explanation. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are God. They are God. Each can be He is God. Not Gods. The unity of this mysterious fact is far deeper than that but, the Creator has given us some examples to think about. Aside from the nature of God often being described as omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent: all-knowing, everywhere present and all powerful we have -
Space, matter and time.
Space is filled with 3 dimensional objects described as height, width and depth.
Matter is delineated as gas, liquid or solid.
Time is delineated as past, present and future.
Animal, vegetable or mineral is what we see in our world.
A human is explained in the Bible as a unified combination of body, soul and spirit. All represent lifeforce in some capacity: physical, emotional, and intellectual. The necessity of those three natures functioning in balance is extremely important. While Hebrew and Greek words translated into soul and spirit come from ideas of life, being alive, breathing; further study of the use of the terms soul and spirit shows their deeper meaning of emotions and mental capacity, as I have posted here at length. The spiritual dimension humans can have is something attained when connected to God.
While all these things are separate they function in unities that are integral to our universe and everything in it, and much more can be placed here. Books have been written on the subject.
Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
Life, flesh, blood is repeated in both Old and New Testaments -
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
I won't get into the Roman Catholic versus Protestant understanding of this concept Christ was getting into but, you can see three distinct things that work together to make up life in humans; flesh and blood. Flesh with no blood, no life. Blood with no flesh, no human life. Blood can be seen carrying oxygen and nutrients throughout our bodies. All kinds of such combinations of action make up life.
A key verse to all this is found in Genesis -
Gen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:7 the Lord God formed the human[d] from the topsoil of the fertile land[e] and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life. CEB - Common English Bible
That really sets the tone for understanding what "soul" is. A human does not have a soul. A human is a soul; a living, breathing lifeform. That is the biblical concept; not the Greek philosophic concept of a ghostlike entity that lives within us that gets out at death. Why the majority of the professed Christian world accepts that Greek concept is a mystery. The Bible is plain enough. If the Bible is allowed to interpret itself so many conflicting, erroneous doctrines would be swept away. But, as the Bible portrays; spiritual, prophetic Babylon - confusion - exists in our world, growing exponentially.
The Bible, for all the angst, worthlessness and ambivalence heaped upon it, is the one source of information on Earth that preserves God's consistent message and vital information to humankind. It is not just another religious book. It is the most important book ever written: a book with many books within it describing the merits and needs, responsibilities and accountability of all facets of life. It offers protection from the myriad of deceptions in our world and shows the battle that rages between good and evil within all levels of human life; including the battle with self that engages in our own thoughts and feelings; our character.
It changed my life. It can change yours, as well.
The subject of the "soul" is going to get bigger and bigger as the subject of spiritualism grows: communication with the dead. Hollywood has taken advantage of the false concept and spent decades making movies and producing television programs depicting it. More and more humanity is being groomed to accept the ability to communicate with the dead and Satan is going to use this deception to mind blowing degrees as we reach the end of time. Only the truth will protect people from the overmastering delusions coming.
Even so, come, lord Jesus.
Students of the Bible know there are numbers in the various books within it that are found over and over. 7, of course. 40. 12. And 3 is a number that means much to our understanding of our physical universe and life experience -
The Biblical Deity is 3 in 1; a mysterious unity that often defies simple explanation. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are God. They are God. Each can be He is God. Not Gods. The unity of this mysterious fact is far deeper than that but, the Creator has given us some examples to think about. Aside from the nature of God often being described as omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent: all-knowing, everywhere present and all powerful we have -
Space, matter and time.
Space is filled with 3 dimensional objects described as height, width and depth.
Matter is delineated as gas, liquid or solid.
Time is delineated as past, present and future.
Animal, vegetable or mineral is what we see in our world.
A human is explained in the Bible as a unified combination of body, soul and spirit. All represent lifeforce in some capacity: physical, emotional, and intellectual. The necessity of those three natures functioning in balance is extremely important. While Hebrew and Greek words translated into soul and spirit come from ideas of life, being alive, breathing; further study of the use of the terms soul and spirit shows their deeper meaning of emotions and mental capacity, as I have posted here at length. The spiritual dimension humans can have is something attained when connected to God.
While all these things are separate they function in unities that are integral to our universe and everything in it, and much more can be placed here. Books have been written on the subject.
Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
Life, flesh, blood is repeated in both Old and New Testaments -
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
I won't get into the Roman Catholic versus Protestant understanding of this concept Christ was getting into but, you can see three distinct things that work together to make up life in humans; flesh and blood. Flesh with no blood, no life. Blood with no flesh, no human life. Blood can be seen carrying oxygen and nutrients throughout our bodies. All kinds of such combinations of action make up life.
A key verse to all this is found in Genesis -
Gen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 2:7 the Lord God formed the human[d] from the topsoil of the fertile land[e] and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life. CEB - Common English Bible
That really sets the tone for understanding what "soul" is. A human does not have a soul. A human is a soul; a living, breathing lifeform. That is the biblical concept; not the Greek philosophic concept of a ghostlike entity that lives within us that gets out at death. Why the majority of the professed Christian world accepts that Greek concept is a mystery. The Bible is plain enough. If the Bible is allowed to interpret itself so many conflicting, erroneous doctrines would be swept away. But, as the Bible portrays; spiritual, prophetic Babylon - confusion - exists in our world, growing exponentially.
The Bible, for all the angst, worthlessness and ambivalence heaped upon it, is the one source of information on Earth that preserves God's consistent message and vital information to humankind. It is not just another religious book. It is the most important book ever written: a book with many books within it describing the merits and needs, responsibilities and accountability of all facets of life. It offers protection from the myriad of deceptions in our world and shows the battle that rages between good and evil within all levels of human life; including the battle with self that engages in our own thoughts and feelings; our character.
It changed my life. It can change yours, as well.
The subject of the "soul" is going to get bigger and bigger as the subject of spiritualism grows: communication with the dead. Hollywood has taken advantage of the false concept and spent decades making movies and producing television programs depicting it. More and more humanity is being groomed to accept the ability to communicate with the dead and Satan is going to use this deception to mind blowing degrees as we reach the end of time. Only the truth will protect people from the overmastering delusions coming.
Even so, come, lord Jesus.
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Will Trump Survive?
It has become very odd and macabre to hear people discussing the assassination of Donald Trump like people talk about some sports loss. It seems to be a forgone conclusion Trump will never make it to the election if "Deep State" forces get their way. He gains in popularity. He gains funds in his political war chest. The crowds coming out to support and hear him continually increase. Leftists and rumblings that emerge from voices within deep state players: FBI, CIA, all the alphabet agencies, etc., are not going to allow Trump to live if he is not jailed from all these corrupt, illegitimate charges and pseudo-trials they are attempting to bring him down with.
To hear Leftists wanting him dead is nothing new. To hear conservatives speak of his likely future demise is pretty weird. Conservatives generally believe in God, to varying degrees yes, but, at least realize God is in control, whether humanity recognizes it or not. If God wants Trump to live, Trump lives, period. If whatever purpose he has played in the overall plan of God is finished, then his time shall come but, deep state has no say-so in this. Nobody has any say-so in anything God does not allow; for whatever reasons He understands from His vantage point of omniscience.
Just because forces are bent on bringing Trump down means next to nothing, save for how they may hang themselves in their own plots of hatred against the man. It's a sickness, a mental aberration unlike anything I have ever seen in my life. It's demonic. People just come right out and call for the man's death. Not people off the street or in Hollywood. People in positions of responsibility in education, business and government. Under normal circumstances such comments would get you a visit from the FBI. Now, we have learned over the months the FBI has been plotting against Trump since 2015.
America can never survive such dichotomy in the highest halls of power in the nation. No nation can survive such duplicity and corruption. Congress has hearings. Exposes corruption. Nothing happens. Nothing will happen; for Congress, itself, is an animal caught in a trap, chewing on its own leg.
How long, O Lord? How long?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
To hear Leftists wanting him dead is nothing new. To hear conservatives speak of his likely future demise is pretty weird. Conservatives generally believe in God, to varying degrees yes, but, at least realize God is in control, whether humanity recognizes it or not. If God wants Trump to live, Trump lives, period. If whatever purpose he has played in the overall plan of God is finished, then his time shall come but, deep state has no say-so in this. Nobody has any say-so in anything God does not allow; for whatever reasons He understands from His vantage point of omniscience.
Just because forces are bent on bringing Trump down means next to nothing, save for how they may hang themselves in their own plots of hatred against the man. It's a sickness, a mental aberration unlike anything I have ever seen in my life. It's demonic. People just come right out and call for the man's death. Not people off the street or in Hollywood. People in positions of responsibility in education, business and government. Under normal circumstances such comments would get you a visit from the FBI. Now, we have learned over the months the FBI has been plotting against Trump since 2015.
America can never survive such dichotomy in the highest halls of power in the nation. No nation can survive such duplicity and corruption. Congress has hearings. Exposes corruption. Nothing happens. Nothing will happen; for Congress, itself, is an animal caught in a trap, chewing on its own leg.
How long, O Lord? How long?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Oh, Colorado! What have You Done?
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ICELAND!
1,000 earthquakes, deep beneath the surface, in 24 hours and then a 2 mile crack shot lava 300' in the air. Most volcanoes are seen as mountains blowing their tops. Not this one.
As hundreds of photos and videos flood the web and people drive towards the crack to watch the event, I thought this one had some real vibrancy and intensity to the heat of the lava emerging.
As hundreds of photos and videos flood the web and people drive towards the crack to watch the event, I thought this one had some real vibrancy and intensity to the heat of the lava emerging.
As lava continues to ooze out, needless to say, citizens wonder how far the crack will advance. A town was already split in two and scientists are trying to keep people calm. Nobody wants to make predictions. I certainly wouldn't want to, were I in Iceland and people looked to me to give them "expert" information.
What does it mean? Earthquakes are always happening. That said, major earthquakes have been increasing over the decades. Volcanoes certainly seem to be.
Bible students are not alarmed. Christ said natural disasters will increase. The earth is growing old like a garment. Bear in mind, as a creationist believing the planet is less than 10,000 years old, Christ could only mean events transpiring at a rate that would grab the attention of the world as something quite out of the ordinary.
More is coming. A lot more.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
What does it mean? Earthquakes are always happening. That said, major earthquakes have been increasing over the decades. Volcanoes certainly seem to be.
Bible students are not alarmed. Christ said natural disasters will increase. The earth is growing old like a garment. Bear in mind, as a creationist believing the planet is less than 10,000 years old, Christ could only mean events transpiring at a rate that would grab the attention of the world as something quite out of the ordinary.
More is coming. A lot more.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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889. The Mouth of God? - 12/22/2023
I have pretty much stayed out of the Roman Catholic Pope's determination priests can offer "blessings" for homosexual couples. This pope is just a political pawn, for all intents and purposes; to drive a wedge between the true Catholic and the false.
Now, I am a committed Protestant but, what happens in the RCC is almost always prophetic in nature these days, and spiritual, prophetic Mother of Babylon and harlots, fornicating with the kings of the earth, shows she is far more political in nature than anything close to real Christianity: the teachings of Christ. She has always been a political force, a union of church and state, and continues that trend and agenda; only now, on the side of Leftists. This sets up the next pope to be hard right, I'd expect.
Anyway, we have an archbishop from Kazahkstan standing against the Pope's decree of blessings for homosexuals. I noticed that right away because the artist for the coming LEGEND album, Boris Bashirov, is from Kazahkstan.
This archbishop, Tomash Peta, has forbidden any priests in his diocese to administer such blessings and there is a sleight of hand involved in it all. Notice the process outlined in this article and pay attention to the last sentence -
"The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration Monday titled "Fiducia Supplicans," which provided "a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings, which is closely linked to a liturgical perspective."
"The declaration allows "spontaneous pastoral blessing" for "same-sex couples" and other couples in "irregular situations," though it clarified that the blessing is not akin to marriage and that such relationships are still sinful.
"It is precisely in this context that one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church's perennial teaching on marriage," the guidance says.
"This Declaration is also intended as a tribute to the faithful People of God, who worship the Lord with so many gestures of deep trust in his mercy and who, with this confidence, constantly come to seek a blessing from Mother Church." "
Christ said, Man shall not live by bread alone but, by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
What is the mouth of God? For the Roman Catholic, the Pope, the College of cardinals, the entire ecclesiastic system is the mouth of God.
For the Protestant; and by that term I mean that which protests the system of Romanism: its hierarchy, its doctrines, its traditions, etc., the mouth of God is His Word: the inspired writings of the Bible and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to Christ's born-again body of believers, in harmony with His written Word.
So, after the Pope pronounced that priests can offer a blessing upon homosexual unions, he then proclaimed a couple days later -
“Let us remain vigilant against rigid ideological positions that often, under the guise of good intentions, separate us from reality and prevent us from moving forward," the pope said. “We are called instead to set out and journey, like the Magi, following the light that always desires to lead us on, at times along unexplored paths and new roads.”
Well, the Bible is very rigid in many areas of life, including homosexuality. Plenty of Roman Catholics understand that. It is a rigid doctrine of the RCC. Is the Pope the Word of God? Can the Pope change the Word of God? YES! according to the historical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. It can change God's Word, it can change His laws, and popes have the power and authority to even excommunicate angels out of Heaven should they err in the faith. That is Romanism.
Just like Leftism in America seeks to divide Americans and even bring about another civil war in some capacity; this pope seems to be on the same train at the Vatican. The purpose? To root out all Conservatives, of course. To fortify Leftism to the degree it can forthwith control everything without anyone of opposite beliefs getting in the way.
Things are not a mess in this world by accident. Nothing is by accident. Everything is a plan from Lucifer down through his ranks of angels, down through his ranks of humanity. Nothing happens by chance. All is part of an agenda.
Thankfully, God knows every move from infinity. Lucifer cannot win. He knows he cannot win. He satisfies himself to cause as many people as possible to be lost. Tragically, more and more people reject he even exists.
So, the whole thing is really a sham: this "Mother Church" and she has been into this kind of thing for centuries. She is a gargantuan imposter: a collection of pagan and biblical concepts, mixed together for the purpose of drawing in and controlling the world. Only God can bring her down, and will, when Christ returns. Until then, the political intrigue of the Vatican in world affairs will continue to grow and build. It is prophesied, it has and will happen, and only a message from Christ - the Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14:6-12 - will be the wedge that draws the attention of the masses away from her to the Bible, along with Rev. 18:1-5 and onward. Babylonian confusion reigns but, God shall have His remnant rise up and give notice to the world: the end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now, I am a committed Protestant but, what happens in the RCC is almost always prophetic in nature these days, and spiritual, prophetic Mother of Babylon and harlots, fornicating with the kings of the earth, shows she is far more political in nature than anything close to real Christianity: the teachings of Christ. She has always been a political force, a union of church and state, and continues that trend and agenda; only now, on the side of Leftists. This sets up the next pope to be hard right, I'd expect.
Anyway, we have an archbishop from Kazahkstan standing against the Pope's decree of blessings for homosexuals. I noticed that right away because the artist for the coming LEGEND album, Boris Bashirov, is from Kazahkstan.
This archbishop, Tomash Peta, has forbidden any priests in his diocese to administer such blessings and there is a sleight of hand involved in it all. Notice the process outlined in this article and pay attention to the last sentence -
"The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration Monday titled "Fiducia Supplicans," which provided "a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings, which is closely linked to a liturgical perspective."
"The declaration allows "spontaneous pastoral blessing" for "same-sex couples" and other couples in "irregular situations," though it clarified that the blessing is not akin to marriage and that such relationships are still sinful.
"It is precisely in this context that one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church's perennial teaching on marriage," the guidance says.
"This Declaration is also intended as a tribute to the faithful People of God, who worship the Lord with so many gestures of deep trust in his mercy and who, with this confidence, constantly come to seek a blessing from Mother Church." "
Christ said, Man shall not live by bread alone but, by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
What is the mouth of God? For the Roman Catholic, the Pope, the College of cardinals, the entire ecclesiastic system is the mouth of God.
For the Protestant; and by that term I mean that which protests the system of Romanism: its hierarchy, its doctrines, its traditions, etc., the mouth of God is His Word: the inspired writings of the Bible and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to Christ's born-again body of believers, in harmony with His written Word.
So, after the Pope pronounced that priests can offer a blessing upon homosexual unions, he then proclaimed a couple days later -
“Let us remain vigilant against rigid ideological positions that often, under the guise of good intentions, separate us from reality and prevent us from moving forward," the pope said. “We are called instead to set out and journey, like the Magi, following the light that always desires to lead us on, at times along unexplored paths and new roads.”
Well, the Bible is very rigid in many areas of life, including homosexuality. Plenty of Roman Catholics understand that. It is a rigid doctrine of the RCC. Is the Pope the Word of God? Can the Pope change the Word of God? YES! according to the historical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. It can change God's Word, it can change His laws, and popes have the power and authority to even excommunicate angels out of Heaven should they err in the faith. That is Romanism.
Just like Leftism in America seeks to divide Americans and even bring about another civil war in some capacity; this pope seems to be on the same train at the Vatican. The purpose? To root out all Conservatives, of course. To fortify Leftism to the degree it can forthwith control everything without anyone of opposite beliefs getting in the way.
Things are not a mess in this world by accident. Nothing is by accident. Everything is a plan from Lucifer down through his ranks of angels, down through his ranks of humanity. Nothing happens by chance. All is part of an agenda.
Thankfully, God knows every move from infinity. Lucifer cannot win. He knows he cannot win. He satisfies himself to cause as many people as possible to be lost. Tragically, more and more people reject he even exists.
So, the whole thing is really a sham: this "Mother Church" and she has been into this kind of thing for centuries. She is a gargantuan imposter: a collection of pagan and biblical concepts, mixed together for the purpose of drawing in and controlling the world. Only God can bring her down, and will, when Christ returns. Until then, the political intrigue of the Vatican in world affairs will continue to grow and build. It is prophesied, it has and will happen, and only a message from Christ - the Three Angel's Messages of Revelation 14:6-12 - will be the wedge that draws the attention of the masses away from her to the Bible, along with Rev. 18:1-5 and onward. Babylonian confusion reigns but, God shall have His remnant rise up and give notice to the world: the end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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890. Wise Men? - December 25, 2023
Someone asked me the other day, what am I doing for Christmas. I said nothing. I had not been observing the day for around 30 years. They asked why not, and after I explained why, they understood.
I make no big deal about it. Personally, I think the lights are pretty and add a touch of life to otherwise dark neighborhoods and streets. If the 25th came and went without any notice, like any other day, it would make no difference to me. That said, for those who have not read what I have shared on the subject, a quick refresher.
Why is December 25th the chosen day for Christ's birth? He was not born on that day. Other deities of antiquity were. Sons of Sun gods, like Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14), were said to be born then, which is around the time of the equinox, when days begin to get longer again. Longer days, new life, which moves into Spring, which gives us all these ancient fertility gods and rituals, etc., etc., etc.
The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the birth of Christ in January 10. When you get into prophecy you can reckon Christ's birth closer to sometime in October but, the fact is, the Bible is silent on the date of the birth of the Son of God to Mary. The 25th of December is a Roman Catholic Church decision. Why Protestants follow it is beyond me. God never told anyone to honor the day Christ was born. Despite the significance of His birth, as an event in human history, God is silent on its supposed sanctity. It can be a good time of year to witness the Gospel to people but, for the most part we all can observe the festivities reflect more perfectly with the ancient feast of Saturnalia and ancient pagan deities known in the Greek and Roman cultures. Most people singing "Christmas Carols" have no idea what they are actually singing about. They are melodies and words that are part of the culture, not the personal daily commitments of people singing them one time a year.
I don't harangue people for observing the day. I just prefer to try and leave paganism out of my daily life. I don't go crazy about the days of the week, all named after pagan deities and the Sun and Moon. But, with Christmas, named after a special Roman Catholic Mass for the day, yeah, I just prefer to leave it to the pagan history it evolved from.
Many people do not realize the nature of tradition when it comes to this day. For instance; the previous post mentions the Pope talking about the Magi, the "wise men" from the East, following a star to meet the Savior. Hence, we have manger scenes - babe in hay, animals in the barn, Mary, Joseph, one or two shepherds, and three men wearing Persian clothing with gifts for the baby. Now, did you know when the Magi came the babe was more than likely a year and half old, living in a house?
Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Mat 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Mat 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Mat 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Mat 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Mat 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Mat 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Many ask, what was the star? Was it a special celestial orb God created for the occasion? Was it a comet? Well, stars do not stop, nor do comets. This light stopped over where the child was. No star, nor comet shines light down on earth in any such pin point. What made the light? Those who have claimed it was a retinue of angels guiding the astronomers from the East, shining their collective light down on the house the child was in makes a whole lot more sense. Lest we forget, angels are supernatural beings, with an aura of light surrounding them that can blind a person. Gather some together - being angels not a sun, not a comet - their collective size may look like a star in the night.
Now, if you can read, you have to notice what is stated in the passage. The light rested over where the child was. They went into a house, not a barn. They saw the young child, not a baby.
Why did Herod order all the male children two years and younger to be slain?
He obviously understood this child was not a baby but, closer to two years of age. Just to be sure this "king" would not interfere with his own rule, he ordered the age whereby the males should be slain.
Mat 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
These astronomers from the East did not round a corner. They traveled a long time to reach Jerusalem.
Why do "manger scenes" portray the wise men as part of it? Tradition. Unbiblical, non-historical tradition. The "Magi" should not be part of any manger scene. Imagine if little pottery and figurine scenes became available where the Child is 18 months old, in a house, standing there looking up at the wise men come to worship Him?
For those who say it's an innocent mistake and no big deal, I would say this. The nation of America, its institutions; a denomination, it's congregations; a family, its members do not change from founding principles overnight. Little changes take place. Little decisions are made that do not create big problems but, over time, the little decisions become big problems and nations split, churches split, families split and life begins to come unglued. What do we see regarding Christmas? Black Friday, with millions lining up for hours before stores open their doors, rushing into those stores, pushing, shoving, grabbing, and even assaulting other shoppers over products crammed onto skids in the isles, marked down to prices they must have as gifts or for their own enjoyment. They are scenes of chaos that have nothing to do with the birth of a Savior from sin come to this pathetic, lost world.
America has dropped lower and lower into a quagmire it cannot escape, as have churches which no longer go by a Thus Saith the Lord but, thus saith men. And obviously families are falling apart for all kinds of reasons no two people expected when they got married. Choices over small things gave results for large problems.
America is 70 years removed from singers like Andy Williams, Mel Torme, Johnny Mathis, Gene Autry, Burl Ives, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole and so many others chiseled into the music culture of this time of year, as the culture dramatically changes with each passing decade.
You cannot put "Christ back into Christmas" because the Mass established for the day, at midnight, was established by an apostate organization saturated with paganism to make it easier for pagans to join their ancient church. Christ was not in that mass. Christ is not in that church; that Mother of abominations and harlots. Yes, a tough thing to write at this time of year but, what? Will people during the new year and beyond show the next Christmas they decide to leave off the pagan culture they have been sucked into by materialism, mass marketing campaigns, and empty church traditions? Unlikely. Things get worse, not better.
Many families have made decisions to leave off the credit card burdens and turn the time towards those in true need. Personal decisions such as that can be incredibly difficult because of children and societal pressures all around them. I feel for those parents making decisions based on principle, not culture. Every continent has some kind of various celebrations and observances for this time of year and they have for millennia, time immemorial, having nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The adoption of Christian culture, the adaptation and modification with Christian culture has taken place the world over. Saint Klaus/Santa Claus. It's actually a stunning historical switch to go from a babe in a manger, to trees and gifts galore, and financial burdens that come with it all, for the sake of the children but, if it is Christ's birthday, why do people give gifts to each other? Should not Christ receive birthday gifts? It's supposedly His birthday.
People get it. They are just trapped by a 'thus saith the culture,' not committed to a 'Thus saith the Lord.' Of course it's nice to give gifts to those you love. Then there is all the tension of buying gifts for those you do not and hardly ever see throughout the year but, they are relatives, they are co-workers and bosses and all the rest and everybody says Thank you, when they really wish it would all go away. This supposed time of the celebration of the birth of the Savior of the world is a time of incredible stress and loneliness and people have to be reminded of this time of 'peace on earth, good will towards men' by movies made to give stories to that effect. Otherwise, what they see is parties on top of parties on top of dinners and guests and are totally worn out by the time the 26th comes and all the stuff, the paper, boxes, and all the rest of the trash has to be thrown away; gifts returned; cringing at the money spent for it all, and dread its coming a year from now. Be honest. You know that is the truth. I experienced it myself for decades. Now, I can stand in line at the store and whistle a tune, not involved with the chaos and have people turn around and look at me with worn out, tired faces like I am some weirdo. How can I not be stressed out like them? I feel for these dear souls just trying to keep up with the culture they live in. They have brought it on themselves.
The first commandment raises it place before us at this time of year.
Exo 20:2 I am the LORD your God, which has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.
How many children feel their life will collapse if they do not get that special toy parents are feverishly looking for, as they fly off the store shelves?
Yeah, I'd say another god is in play in all this holiday stuff. Holiday. Holy Day. The second does not apply. Humans cannot make a day holy. Only God can do that. He never made December 25th holy. That leaves holiday. In essence no better than any other secular/religious holiday.
How did we get here?
One choice at a time.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I make no big deal about it. Personally, I think the lights are pretty and add a touch of life to otherwise dark neighborhoods and streets. If the 25th came and went without any notice, like any other day, it would make no difference to me. That said, for those who have not read what I have shared on the subject, a quick refresher.
Why is December 25th the chosen day for Christ's birth? He was not born on that day. Other deities of antiquity were. Sons of Sun gods, like Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14), were said to be born then, which is around the time of the equinox, when days begin to get longer again. Longer days, new life, which moves into Spring, which gives us all these ancient fertility gods and rituals, etc., etc., etc.
The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the birth of Christ in January 10. When you get into prophecy you can reckon Christ's birth closer to sometime in October but, the fact is, the Bible is silent on the date of the birth of the Son of God to Mary. The 25th of December is a Roman Catholic Church decision. Why Protestants follow it is beyond me. God never told anyone to honor the day Christ was born. Despite the significance of His birth, as an event in human history, God is silent on its supposed sanctity. It can be a good time of year to witness the Gospel to people but, for the most part we all can observe the festivities reflect more perfectly with the ancient feast of Saturnalia and ancient pagan deities known in the Greek and Roman cultures. Most people singing "Christmas Carols" have no idea what they are actually singing about. They are melodies and words that are part of the culture, not the personal daily commitments of people singing them one time a year.
I don't harangue people for observing the day. I just prefer to try and leave paganism out of my daily life. I don't go crazy about the days of the week, all named after pagan deities and the Sun and Moon. But, with Christmas, named after a special Roman Catholic Mass for the day, yeah, I just prefer to leave it to the pagan history it evolved from.
Many people do not realize the nature of tradition when it comes to this day. For instance; the previous post mentions the Pope talking about the Magi, the "wise men" from the East, following a star to meet the Savior. Hence, we have manger scenes - babe in hay, animals in the barn, Mary, Joseph, one or two shepherds, and three men wearing Persian clothing with gifts for the baby. Now, did you know when the Magi came the babe was more than likely a year and half old, living in a house?
Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Mat 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Mat 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Mat 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Mat 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Mat 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Mat 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Many ask, what was the star? Was it a special celestial orb God created for the occasion? Was it a comet? Well, stars do not stop, nor do comets. This light stopped over where the child was. No star, nor comet shines light down on earth in any such pin point. What made the light? Those who have claimed it was a retinue of angels guiding the astronomers from the East, shining their collective light down on the house the child was in makes a whole lot more sense. Lest we forget, angels are supernatural beings, with an aura of light surrounding them that can blind a person. Gather some together - being angels not a sun, not a comet - their collective size may look like a star in the night.
Now, if you can read, you have to notice what is stated in the passage. The light rested over where the child was. They went into a house, not a barn. They saw the young child, not a baby.
Why did Herod order all the male children two years and younger to be slain?
He obviously understood this child was not a baby but, closer to two years of age. Just to be sure this "king" would not interfere with his own rule, he ordered the age whereby the males should be slain.
Mat 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
These astronomers from the East did not round a corner. They traveled a long time to reach Jerusalem.
Why do "manger scenes" portray the wise men as part of it? Tradition. Unbiblical, non-historical tradition. The "Magi" should not be part of any manger scene. Imagine if little pottery and figurine scenes became available where the Child is 18 months old, in a house, standing there looking up at the wise men come to worship Him?
For those who say it's an innocent mistake and no big deal, I would say this. The nation of America, its institutions; a denomination, it's congregations; a family, its members do not change from founding principles overnight. Little changes take place. Little decisions are made that do not create big problems but, over time, the little decisions become big problems and nations split, churches split, families split and life begins to come unglued. What do we see regarding Christmas? Black Friday, with millions lining up for hours before stores open their doors, rushing into those stores, pushing, shoving, grabbing, and even assaulting other shoppers over products crammed onto skids in the isles, marked down to prices they must have as gifts or for their own enjoyment. They are scenes of chaos that have nothing to do with the birth of a Savior from sin come to this pathetic, lost world.
America has dropped lower and lower into a quagmire it cannot escape, as have churches which no longer go by a Thus Saith the Lord but, thus saith men. And obviously families are falling apart for all kinds of reasons no two people expected when they got married. Choices over small things gave results for large problems.
America is 70 years removed from singers like Andy Williams, Mel Torme, Johnny Mathis, Gene Autry, Burl Ives, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole and so many others chiseled into the music culture of this time of year, as the culture dramatically changes with each passing decade.
You cannot put "Christ back into Christmas" because the Mass established for the day, at midnight, was established by an apostate organization saturated with paganism to make it easier for pagans to join their ancient church. Christ was not in that mass. Christ is not in that church; that Mother of abominations and harlots. Yes, a tough thing to write at this time of year but, what? Will people during the new year and beyond show the next Christmas they decide to leave off the pagan culture they have been sucked into by materialism, mass marketing campaigns, and empty church traditions? Unlikely. Things get worse, not better.
Many families have made decisions to leave off the credit card burdens and turn the time towards those in true need. Personal decisions such as that can be incredibly difficult because of children and societal pressures all around them. I feel for those parents making decisions based on principle, not culture. Every continent has some kind of various celebrations and observances for this time of year and they have for millennia, time immemorial, having nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The adoption of Christian culture, the adaptation and modification with Christian culture has taken place the world over. Saint Klaus/Santa Claus. It's actually a stunning historical switch to go from a babe in a manger, to trees and gifts galore, and financial burdens that come with it all, for the sake of the children but, if it is Christ's birthday, why do people give gifts to each other? Should not Christ receive birthday gifts? It's supposedly His birthday.
People get it. They are just trapped by a 'thus saith the culture,' not committed to a 'Thus saith the Lord.' Of course it's nice to give gifts to those you love. Then there is all the tension of buying gifts for those you do not and hardly ever see throughout the year but, they are relatives, they are co-workers and bosses and all the rest and everybody says Thank you, when they really wish it would all go away. This supposed time of the celebration of the birth of the Savior of the world is a time of incredible stress and loneliness and people have to be reminded of this time of 'peace on earth, good will towards men' by movies made to give stories to that effect. Otherwise, what they see is parties on top of parties on top of dinners and guests and are totally worn out by the time the 26th comes and all the stuff, the paper, boxes, and all the rest of the trash has to be thrown away; gifts returned; cringing at the money spent for it all, and dread its coming a year from now. Be honest. You know that is the truth. I experienced it myself for decades. Now, I can stand in line at the store and whistle a tune, not involved with the chaos and have people turn around and look at me with worn out, tired faces like I am some weirdo. How can I not be stressed out like them? I feel for these dear souls just trying to keep up with the culture they live in. They have brought it on themselves.
The first commandment raises it place before us at this time of year.
Exo 20:2 I am the LORD your God, which has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.
How many children feel their life will collapse if they do not get that special toy parents are feverishly looking for, as they fly off the store shelves?
Yeah, I'd say another god is in play in all this holiday stuff. Holiday. Holy Day. The second does not apply. Humans cannot make a day holy. Only God can do that. He never made December 25th holy. That leaves holiday. In essence no better than any other secular/religious holiday.
How did we get here?
One choice at a time.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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It's Viral!
You've probably seen it by now. It's gone viral. Air Force One flying over LAX, guided by a couple F-35s. All of a sudden, on live camera, a white object of some kind zips past AF1, out of sight. A UFO: an unidentified flying object.
For those who remain skeptical of these objects; videos, film and photos have captured them by the thousands over the decades. As everyone involved in UFOlogy states, if only 5 or 10% are legitimate; not faked in some way by some means, that still leaves thousands that are real. What are they? Alien craft? Demonic activity? Those are the two general options because most people say the military or private corporations could not have craft that can do what these things do, and certainly no human pilots undergoing G-forces these things would create could survive but... that cannot leave military or private corporations out of the equation for all unidentified objects zipping around in the atmosphere or in space.
As far as aliens, I say No, purely from a biblical worldview. Demons, which in fact, are aliens to our world, having been created for occupancy in Heaven, are the only logical conclusion for the Bible believer. The thing is, fewer and fewer people believe in the biblical God and His creation so, until they see something in real time themselves, they remain skeptical.
Anyway, check out the video and see for yourself, it was not a plane the zipped past AF1. Some are saying it was a stationary balloon, as the aircraft flew past it. Given AF1 is one of the, if not the biggest plane in the world, that had to be one enormous balloon.
The object is seen at the 2 hour, 24 minute mark of the 9+ hour video.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886827/UFO-Air-Force-1-Joe-Biden-Los-Angeles-LAX.html
For those who remain skeptical of these objects; videos, film and photos have captured them by the thousands over the decades. As everyone involved in UFOlogy states, if only 5 or 10% are legitimate; not faked in some way by some means, that still leaves thousands that are real. What are they? Alien craft? Demonic activity? Those are the two general options because most people say the military or private corporations could not have craft that can do what these things do, and certainly no human pilots undergoing G-forces these things would create could survive but... that cannot leave military or private corporations out of the equation for all unidentified objects zipping around in the atmosphere or in space.
As far as aliens, I say No, purely from a biblical worldview. Demons, which in fact, are aliens to our world, having been created for occupancy in Heaven, are the only logical conclusion for the Bible believer. The thing is, fewer and fewer people believe in the biblical God and His creation so, until they see something in real time themselves, they remain skeptical.
Anyway, check out the video and see for yourself, it was not a plane the zipped past AF1. Some are saying it was a stationary balloon, as the aircraft flew past it. Given AF1 is one of the, if not the biggest plane in the world, that had to be one enormous balloon.
The object is seen at the 2 hour, 24 minute mark of the 9+ hour video.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886827/UFO-Air-Force-1-Joe-Biden-Los-Angeles-LAX.html
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891. The Pope is Wrong - December 22, 2023
More news agencies are coming to my notice on the Pope's recent week of causing some big commotion amongst his flock and beyond with his statements on giving blessings to homosexuals, etc. I want to address somethings not yet posted in the previous opinions I put up.
apnews.com/article/vatican-lgbtq-pope-bfa5b71fa79055626e362936e739d1d8
In that particular article we find this -
"But while the Vatican statement was heralded by some as a step toward breaking down discrimination in the Catholic Church, some LGBTQ+ advocates warned it underscored the church’s idea that gay couples remain inferior to heterosexual partnerships."
Inferior. How does one interpret that statement by Nicole Winfield and David Crary, authors of the article?
If sin is inferior to righteousness than yes, a homosexual relationship is gravely inferior to God's established union of marriage, founded in Eden. But all people sin. Is homosexuality worse than fornication outside of marriage, in a day and age when people change sex partners every weekend? God took the time to move upon the author of Proverbs to state this -
Pro 6:16 These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
Does anyone read homosexuality in those verses? Here's another passage of things the LORD hates -
Amo 5:21 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Amo 5:22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
Amo 5:23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
Amo 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amo 5:25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Amo 5:26 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,
Amo 5:27 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
The people of God so lowered their lives in unrighteousness and apostasy everything that was part of God's declared and arranged system to eliminate and extirpate sin, He hated. They polluted all of it with their unholy and sinful lives and God told them it was all worthless. Homosexuality is not in there. Not to say it was not part of whatever the Jews got into but, it is not declared as such.
Zec 8:17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”
God hates dishonesty.
This one hits home to most of us today -
Mal 2:16 For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Many translations state "putting away," the common term for divorce. Putting away one's wife in treacherous behavior towards her is something God hates.
Rev 2:6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
The Nicolaitans were a group of apostates that twisted the Word of God to suit their own lusts and practices. Now, that one text can easily be used to point out so many churches and leaders in professed Christianity today who have twisted the words of God to make homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle. Well, the Nicolaitans could say, today's twisters of truth are late to the party. God condemns the practice of homosexuality. He changes not. No man, no group of men, no woman, no group of women can change that.
"The new document repeats that condition and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings in question must not be tied to any specific Catholic celebration or religious service and should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union ceremony. Moreover, the blessings cannot use set rituals or even involve the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding."
That is all gobbledygook. It religious rabbits out of hats. It's splitting hairs under religious microscopes. You cannot bless what God has cursed. It's nonsense. It is apostasy.
"But it says requests for such blessings for same-sex couples should not be denied. It offers an extensive and broad definition of the term “blessing” in Scripture to insist that people seeking a transcendent relationship with God and looking for his love and mercy shouldn’t be held up to an impossible moral standard to receive it."
Impossible moral standard?!? What, then, do we say for all the practicing homosexuals who have been changed by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives to leave off that lifestyle, and marry members of the opposite sex and have families?
You cannot have a transcendent relationship with God if you practice sin without sorrow for it, and repentance from it. Such a thing turns the Gospel on its head. You cannot make right, wrong with any kind of supposed blessing from God. Sin is sin. It cannot be blessed.
“For, those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection,” it said.
“There is no intention to legitimize anything, but rather to open one’s life to God, to ask for his help to live better, and also to invoke the Holy Spirit so that the values of the Gospel may be lived with greater faithfulness,” it added.
So, wait a minute. Is the Pope stating priests can bless homosexuals seeking to repent and leave the lifestyle? Prior moral perfection??? Is that what the Pope calls Christ telling people, "Go and sin no more"?
There is a box in the article that states this -
The Catholic Church and LGBTQ+ rights
This is not the first time Pope Francis has worked to open the Church to the LGBTQ+ community. Some say it’s too much, and others say that it’s not enough.
That is perfect Babylon, confusion, Mother of abominations and harlots. Is homosexuality a sin? Practiced? Yes! Having those internal feelings and thoughts? We all struggle with thoughts. Dwell on them, practice your thoughts, you sin. The entire point of righteousness is to bring God's people into perfection of Christlike character and not sin in thought, word or deed. That is a finished sanctification upon the believer. That is the goal. That is the war. That is the ultimate victory of Christ in us. The hope of Glory. Presenting every man perfect: complete, finished, whole and holy in Christ Jesus.
But, you see, as Pope Leo XIII stated - "We hold upon this Earth the place of God Almighty."
Popes can do what they want, as long as they cage their confusion in words and dialogue that causes people to question where they actually stand.
In 1871, the doctrine of Infallibility was made law in Vatican 1. Look it up. Do so in RCC books. It caused a ruckus then, they are still causing a ruckus now. It is all an agenda to reclaim the throne of the world, whichever way the Vatican sees the winds of change blowing.
The Pope is wrong. The Papacy is dangerous. The Vatican is a power not to be trusted, ever. Never, ever think to yourself it can be. Catholicism does not change. Protestantism has. Rome's daughters have made as much confusion as Mother has. Faithful, sincere Protestants and Roman Catholics need to understand that. History has been walled in. The faith of hundreds of millions in the dark ages, painted over with ecumenical intentions. It is all apostasy. It is all prophesied in last-day events.
God has given His warnings.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
apnews.com/article/vatican-lgbtq-pope-bfa5b71fa79055626e362936e739d1d8
In that particular article we find this -
"But while the Vatican statement was heralded by some as a step toward breaking down discrimination in the Catholic Church, some LGBTQ+ advocates warned it underscored the church’s idea that gay couples remain inferior to heterosexual partnerships."
Inferior. How does one interpret that statement by Nicole Winfield and David Crary, authors of the article?
If sin is inferior to righteousness than yes, a homosexual relationship is gravely inferior to God's established union of marriage, founded in Eden. But all people sin. Is homosexuality worse than fornication outside of marriage, in a day and age when people change sex partners every weekend? God took the time to move upon the author of Proverbs to state this -
Pro 6:16 These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
Does anyone read homosexuality in those verses? Here's another passage of things the LORD hates -
Amo 5:21 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Amo 5:22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
Amo 5:23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
Amo 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amo 5:25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Amo 5:26 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,
Amo 5:27 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
The people of God so lowered their lives in unrighteousness and apostasy everything that was part of God's declared and arranged system to eliminate and extirpate sin, He hated. They polluted all of it with their unholy and sinful lives and God told them it was all worthless. Homosexuality is not in there. Not to say it was not part of whatever the Jews got into but, it is not declared as such.
Zec 8:17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”
God hates dishonesty.
This one hits home to most of us today -
Mal 2:16 For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Many translations state "putting away," the common term for divorce. Putting away one's wife in treacherous behavior towards her is something God hates.
Rev 2:6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
The Nicolaitans were a group of apostates that twisted the Word of God to suit their own lusts and practices. Now, that one text can easily be used to point out so many churches and leaders in professed Christianity today who have twisted the words of God to make homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle. Well, the Nicolaitans could say, today's twisters of truth are late to the party. God condemns the practice of homosexuality. He changes not. No man, no group of men, no woman, no group of women can change that.
"The new document repeats that condition and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings in question must not be tied to any specific Catholic celebration or religious service and should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union ceremony. Moreover, the blessings cannot use set rituals or even involve the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding."
That is all gobbledygook. It religious rabbits out of hats. It's splitting hairs under religious microscopes. You cannot bless what God has cursed. It's nonsense. It is apostasy.
"But it says requests for such blessings for same-sex couples should not be denied. It offers an extensive and broad definition of the term “blessing” in Scripture to insist that people seeking a transcendent relationship with God and looking for his love and mercy shouldn’t be held up to an impossible moral standard to receive it."
Impossible moral standard?!? What, then, do we say for all the practicing homosexuals who have been changed by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives to leave off that lifestyle, and marry members of the opposite sex and have families?
You cannot have a transcendent relationship with God if you practice sin without sorrow for it, and repentance from it. Such a thing turns the Gospel on its head. You cannot make right, wrong with any kind of supposed blessing from God. Sin is sin. It cannot be blessed.
“For, those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection,” it said.
“There is no intention to legitimize anything, but rather to open one’s life to God, to ask for his help to live better, and also to invoke the Holy Spirit so that the values of the Gospel may be lived with greater faithfulness,” it added.
So, wait a minute. Is the Pope stating priests can bless homosexuals seeking to repent and leave the lifestyle? Prior moral perfection??? Is that what the Pope calls Christ telling people, "Go and sin no more"?
There is a box in the article that states this -
The Catholic Church and LGBTQ+ rights
This is not the first time Pope Francis has worked to open the Church to the LGBTQ+ community. Some say it’s too much, and others say that it’s not enough.
- Last month, the Vatican said it is permissible under certain circumstances for trans people to be baptized as Catholics and serve as godparents.
- “Being homosexual isn’t a crime” — Earlier this year, the pope said these words in an interview with The AP, criticizing laws that criminalize homosexuality.
- Months after becoming pope, Francis said “who am I to judge” when it comes to the sexual orientation of priests.
That is perfect Babylon, confusion, Mother of abominations and harlots. Is homosexuality a sin? Practiced? Yes! Having those internal feelings and thoughts? We all struggle with thoughts. Dwell on them, practice your thoughts, you sin. The entire point of righteousness is to bring God's people into perfection of Christlike character and not sin in thought, word or deed. That is a finished sanctification upon the believer. That is the goal. That is the war. That is the ultimate victory of Christ in us. The hope of Glory. Presenting every man perfect: complete, finished, whole and holy in Christ Jesus.
But, you see, as Pope Leo XIII stated - "We hold upon this Earth the place of God Almighty."
Popes can do what they want, as long as they cage their confusion in words and dialogue that causes people to question where they actually stand.
In 1871, the doctrine of Infallibility was made law in Vatican 1. Look it up. Do so in RCC books. It caused a ruckus then, they are still causing a ruckus now. It is all an agenda to reclaim the throne of the world, whichever way the Vatican sees the winds of change blowing.
The Pope is wrong. The Papacy is dangerous. The Vatican is a power not to be trusted, ever. Never, ever think to yourself it can be. Catholicism does not change. Protestantism has. Rome's daughters have made as much confusion as Mother has. Faithful, sincere Protestants and Roman Catholics need to understand that. History has been walled in. The faith of hundreds of millions in the dark ages, painted over with ecumenical intentions. It is all apostasy. It is all prophesied in last-day events.
God has given His warnings.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
892. Begotten - December 25, 2023
On December 25th a good portion of the world's populace regards the birth of Jesus Christ. Regardless of what one believes about Christmas, the fact is, a Son was born to Mary. Mary carried a miraculous child inside her. A virgin conception. Mary was His mother. God was His Father. Joseph held a unique place in all this. He was not the child's natural father and he cannot correctly be called a step-father. Surely he was the Son's father in the son's eyes until that moment the Son realized His existence was far deeper than any human relationship.
The Bible states Christ was the only begotten Son of God. The term "begotten," in the NT comes from a couple Greek words. I'll show them here -
Strong's
G3439
μονογενής
monogenēs
mon-og-en-ace
From G3441 and G1096; only born, that is, sole: - only (begotten, child).
Total KJV occurrences: 9
Thayer
1) single of its kind, only
1a) used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents)
1b) used of Christ, denotes the only begotten son of God
Part of Speech: adjective
Our first word, monogenes, means only born, in the sense of physical birth from union of male and female. In the case of Christ, the miraculous intervention of God through Mary.
The far more prevalent and common term is this-
G1080
γεννάω
gennaō
ghen-nah'-o
From a variation of G1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate: - bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Total KJV occurrences: 97
Thayer Definition:
1) of men who fathered children
1a) to be born
1b) to be begotten
1b1) of women giving birth to children
2) metaphorically
2a) to engender, cause to arise, excite
2b) in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone
2c) of God making Christ his son
2d) of God making men his sons through faith in Christ’s work
Physically speaking, same definition. Spiritually speaking, another dimension is also present - REgeneration: conversion; being born-again; new life from death: death being the symbolic state all people are in until being born-again because the wages of sin is death. We are all bound for a physical death there is no hope from without the grace of God to intervene and grant us new life in Christ.
Christmas generally brings to mind a baby. The manger scene. As pointed out previously, the coming of the wise men when the child was around a year or two old is the truth. The thing is, the Bible uses both terms to describe the Messiah's relationship to His Heavenly Father -
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten [monogenes] of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten [monogenes] Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten [monogenes] Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Even though Adam is called the son of God, his "birth" was a creation from dirt to humanity. Christ is the Son of God by natural (supernatural impregnation) and birth. The only Son of God begotten that way.
The Bible states God "gave" His Son. Most see that as giving His son to die for mankind. He gave a Baby, who grew up to be the long awaited Master Teacher, the Messiah; who gave His sinless life for the sins of humanity. Make sure to see the theology there.
God gave His sinless Son: His Son who lived a sinless life to make a sacrifice, an offering worthy of atoning for the sins of the entire populace of planet Earth from Abel down through the lives of every, single person ever born. The atonement is worthy. Who shall accept that gift and allow it influence and change their life is another matter.
Like ancient religions, Catholicism often depicts a Madonna; a mother and child. Of them can be seen depictions of the Baby/Child in royal garments. No such thing could ever be seen in the life of the Savior and He did not stay a Baby. He grew into a Man and lived a life of constant service to mankind and to His Heavenly Father. He lived a life of example for all humanity to follow. His coming was obviously important. His death was obviously important but, the life He lived made His birth and death efficacious. A Baby did not save the human race. Nor did the crucifixion. Were it not for His sinless life, His death would have been a horrible tragedy and not much more.
John states we must believe in the name of the only begotten Son. Now, the transliterated name - Jesus - was not the actual name of Christ. Nor was Iesou; the Greek counterpart of the Hebrew, Yeshua or Yehoshua - which mean 'Yahweh saves.' We must believe in the name of the Son; meaning what the name means.
Matt 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. KJV
Matt. 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means ‘Adonai saves,’] because he will save his people from their sins.” CJB (Complete Jewish Bible)
Christ saves His people from the penalty and the power of sin. We are saved by grace to be forgiven, cleansed of the penalty of sin and its power; to live a righteous life in Christ.
John also used the term begotten, as did other writers, to speak of Christ as regenerated by the Father, as we too must be regenerated to have eternal life; which is another regeneration to immortality -
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
1Jn 4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
1Jn 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1John 5:1 Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten [gennao] of him.
1John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten [gennao] of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Act 13:33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten [gennao] you.
Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1Pet 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Christ being the only begotten Son of God means much more than a Babe born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. The birth, life, death, resurrection, ministry and return of Christ in power and glory means everything to us, who are to follow His example in all things - born again, living for Christ, dying to self moment by moment and dying for others if God calls us to that end, for that is not the end. As Christ rose from the dead so shall He raise all those who lived by faith in the name - the authority and power and character - of the only begotten Son of God; Yeshua Messiah; Iesou Christos; Jesus Christ.
Yes, He Came as a Babe born to a woman. He died the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world but, lived a life of victory over fallen human nature that we, too, can have the victory in Christ and rise or be changed to immortal life when he comes again.
And all the people said, Amen and Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Bible states Christ was the only begotten Son of God. The term "begotten," in the NT comes from a couple Greek words. I'll show them here -
Strong's
G3439
μονογενής
monogenēs
mon-og-en-ace
From G3441 and G1096; only born, that is, sole: - only (begotten, child).
Total KJV occurrences: 9
Thayer
1) single of its kind, only
1a) used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents)
1b) used of Christ, denotes the only begotten son of God
Part of Speech: adjective
Our first word, monogenes, means only born, in the sense of physical birth from union of male and female. In the case of Christ, the miraculous intervention of God through Mary.
The far more prevalent and common term is this-
G1080
γεννάω
gennaō
ghen-nah'-o
From a variation of G1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate: - bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Total KJV occurrences: 97
Thayer Definition:
1) of men who fathered children
1a) to be born
1b) to be begotten
1b1) of women giving birth to children
2) metaphorically
2a) to engender, cause to arise, excite
2b) in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone
2c) of God making Christ his son
2d) of God making men his sons through faith in Christ’s work
Physically speaking, same definition. Spiritually speaking, another dimension is also present - REgeneration: conversion; being born-again; new life from death: death being the symbolic state all people are in until being born-again because the wages of sin is death. We are all bound for a physical death there is no hope from without the grace of God to intervene and grant us new life in Christ.
Christmas generally brings to mind a baby. The manger scene. As pointed out previously, the coming of the wise men when the child was around a year or two old is the truth. The thing is, the Bible uses both terms to describe the Messiah's relationship to His Heavenly Father -
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten [monogenes] of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten [monogenes] Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten [monogenes] Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Even though Adam is called the son of God, his "birth" was a creation from dirt to humanity. Christ is the Son of God by natural (supernatural impregnation) and birth. The only Son of God begotten that way.
The Bible states God "gave" His Son. Most see that as giving His son to die for mankind. He gave a Baby, who grew up to be the long awaited Master Teacher, the Messiah; who gave His sinless life for the sins of humanity. Make sure to see the theology there.
God gave His sinless Son: His Son who lived a sinless life to make a sacrifice, an offering worthy of atoning for the sins of the entire populace of planet Earth from Abel down through the lives of every, single person ever born. The atonement is worthy. Who shall accept that gift and allow it influence and change their life is another matter.
Like ancient religions, Catholicism often depicts a Madonna; a mother and child. Of them can be seen depictions of the Baby/Child in royal garments. No such thing could ever be seen in the life of the Savior and He did not stay a Baby. He grew into a Man and lived a life of constant service to mankind and to His Heavenly Father. He lived a life of example for all humanity to follow. His coming was obviously important. His death was obviously important but, the life He lived made His birth and death efficacious. A Baby did not save the human race. Nor did the crucifixion. Were it not for His sinless life, His death would have been a horrible tragedy and not much more.
John states we must believe in the name of the only begotten Son. Now, the transliterated name - Jesus - was not the actual name of Christ. Nor was Iesou; the Greek counterpart of the Hebrew, Yeshua or Yehoshua - which mean 'Yahweh saves.' We must believe in the name of the Son; meaning what the name means.
Matt 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. KJV
Matt. 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means ‘Adonai saves,’] because he will save his people from their sins.” CJB (Complete Jewish Bible)
Christ saves His people from the penalty and the power of sin. We are saved by grace to be forgiven, cleansed of the penalty of sin and its power; to live a righteous life in Christ.
John also used the term begotten, as did other writers, to speak of Christ as regenerated by the Father, as we too must be regenerated to have eternal life; which is another regeneration to immortality -
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
1Jn 4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
1Jn 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1John 5:1 Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten [gennao] of him.
1John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten [gennao] of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Act 13:33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten [gennao] you.
Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1Pet 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Christ being the only begotten Son of God means much more than a Babe born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. The birth, life, death, resurrection, ministry and return of Christ in power and glory means everything to us, who are to follow His example in all things - born again, living for Christ, dying to self moment by moment and dying for others if God calls us to that end, for that is not the end. As Christ rose from the dead so shall He raise all those who lived by faith in the name - the authority and power and character - of the only begotten Son of God; Yeshua Messiah; Iesou Christos; Jesus Christ.
Yes, He Came as a Babe born to a woman. He died the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world but, lived a life of victory over fallen human nature that we, too, can have the victory in Christ and rise or be changed to immortal life when he comes again.
And all the people said, Amen and Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
The 26th
Well, the 26th has arrived and life goes back to "normal," whatever ever that means for people. Well, the New Year still comes and the "season" has that to go through yet but, we'll cross the midnight line and not much will change, if anything at all.
I was invited over to have dinner with some tenants here last evening. Good food, good conversation, laughs and uplifted spirits. Some people may think I hold some kind of religious animosity towards Christmas. Nope. I just share information about it in the context of the times we live in and let people decide for themselves what they want to do with it all. Much good is done this time of year. That cannot be denied. Despite the other aspects of the season that make life difficult for some, if not many, if not most, to one degree or another; "peace on Earth, good will towards men" is an aspiration we all can endorse and should strive for.
I am not someone who holds a grudge. That said, I am not one who stands with Israel and Netanyahu at this time and their onslaught upon Gaza. Gaza has no army; is not some nation that made a declaration of war upon Israel. They made a disgusting and reprehensible terrorist attack upon Israel. Over a thousand people died. Israel retaliated. Many more have died in its retaliation. Let it be. Call it an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth, whether Christ condemned that ethic or not. The Jews rejected their Messiah 2,000 years ago. Their history is on them. That is just pragmatic, biblical fact. Too many non-combatants have perished in this insane exchange. Property obliterated. Lives, families ruined. Stop. Same with Russia/Ukraine. Stop. It has become glaringly stupid.
We head into 2024 with not a single positive prognostication from anyone in finance, geo-political commentary or social commentary. Everything and everyone is stating and expects big troubles ahead. Corruption is global. Pain and suffering is global. Totalitarians continue to gear up for global control while everyday citizens try and keep their heads above financial water. Washington, D.C. remains an incredibly corrupt city that is only going to get worse. Expect nothing close to fairness or righteousness or legal or heroic from anyone in a position of responsibility in that city. It is not coming. It cannot come. Up is down. Back is front. Right is wrong, cowards are in control in that city. Expect chaos. Expect the worst. If it doesn't happen, Americans stay just barely ahead in the global game for control.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I was invited over to have dinner with some tenants here last evening. Good food, good conversation, laughs and uplifted spirits. Some people may think I hold some kind of religious animosity towards Christmas. Nope. I just share information about it in the context of the times we live in and let people decide for themselves what they want to do with it all. Much good is done this time of year. That cannot be denied. Despite the other aspects of the season that make life difficult for some, if not many, if not most, to one degree or another; "peace on Earth, good will towards men" is an aspiration we all can endorse and should strive for.
I am not someone who holds a grudge. That said, I am not one who stands with Israel and Netanyahu at this time and their onslaught upon Gaza. Gaza has no army; is not some nation that made a declaration of war upon Israel. They made a disgusting and reprehensible terrorist attack upon Israel. Over a thousand people died. Israel retaliated. Many more have died in its retaliation. Let it be. Call it an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth, whether Christ condemned that ethic or not. The Jews rejected their Messiah 2,000 years ago. Their history is on them. That is just pragmatic, biblical fact. Too many non-combatants have perished in this insane exchange. Property obliterated. Lives, families ruined. Stop. Same with Russia/Ukraine. Stop. It has become glaringly stupid.
We head into 2024 with not a single positive prognostication from anyone in finance, geo-political commentary or social commentary. Everything and everyone is stating and expects big troubles ahead. Corruption is global. Pain and suffering is global. Totalitarians continue to gear up for global control while everyday citizens try and keep their heads above financial water. Washington, D.C. remains an incredibly corrupt city that is only going to get worse. Expect nothing close to fairness or righteousness or legal or heroic from anyone in a position of responsibility in that city. It is not coming. It cannot come. Up is down. Back is front. Right is wrong, cowards are in control in that city. Expect chaos. Expect the worst. If it doesn't happen, Americans stay just barely ahead in the global game for control.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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LEGEND UPDATE, December 29, 2023
One year ago, today, I woke up and decided to go ahead with the LEGEND Revisited project. It's hard to believe a very interesting and rather disjointed year has gone by since I decided to forge ahead.
The process has taken much longer than I imagined; though, in reality, recording projects can take a lot longer than this one has moved along. Regardless of its pace, the playing and involvement of Martin, Janne and Tom, as well as Boris, and of course, the encouragement of Manos and Kostas in this international venture, has been over-the-top fantastic. Their patience and help has been truly heartfelt by me. Tom has produced some wonderful mixes of these songs and now they will go into the capable hands of Janne for mastering of the files. Once we're all on board with what he puts together, it's on to Manos and Kostas, at Sonic Age, et al., for the physical production.
My life is in a somewhat settled whirlwind at the moment; frankly, no different than multiplied billions of people facing various crises and upheavals in a world, only God knows the process to eventual end of. Reading news headlines is like reading the kind of thing you'd see on high school walls. I mean that literally, to see the Pennsylvania legislature passed a resolution claiming 2023 as "the Taylor Swift era." Yeah, I kid you not. America is facing collapse and somehow the majority Democrat legislature felt it necessary to make such a proclamation.
Where does music fit into everything? I think about that every day. People will always need music, especially in times of trouble. It helps the mind to cope. Even king Saul recognized that in the music of the young David. Music with a message with some teeth to it; beyond the empty pabulum that so much music contains these days, and maybe always has in modern popular music, is an important element of a balanced society. Of course, in times of such imbalance, who decides what balance is?
A very vital, short conversation took place between Pontius Pilate and Christ in a pivotal moment towards the end of the Lord's ministry and life.
"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.
Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.
Pilate said to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I find in him no fault at all." John 18:36-38
It's interesting Pilate did not wait for an answer to his question, What is truth?
Billions of people ask that question today. What is truth? Who has it? Who speaks it? Who stands up for it? Who is willing to die for it? To put answers to those questions in music has been a practice for humanity for ceaseless ages down through time. I have attempted to do it within this recording project. Each listener will decide for themselves what they believe about truth, from a large assessment of information we all collect in a lifetime. For those whose lives are tragically cut short, eternity will tell what conclusions they came to, and all the world is in a process of deciding what truth is and what it means and what to do with it.
Lyrics and music go through stages towards completion, just like people do. I'm at a fairly precarious stage of life right now and I'm glad I have the truth to keep me going. For me, it is not my truth. It is the truth. It's not mine. It's God's. I can only avail myself of it and allow it to work in me to change me, as it will anyone who subscribes to it.
My life changed radically this year. I am incredibly grateful for the circumstances that allowed this recording project to go forward, reach this phase and hopefully see completion soon.
"LEGEND Revisited: From The Lord" has been a true labor of love for me, and I know, regardless of the varying beliefs of those involved, it has been a labor of love and respect, as well: for the music and for each other. It's a wonderful group of people who have been involved. Top notch. I am so thankful to have marched forward with this gig and to have worked with such talented individuals. It is a privilege and experience not many get to be involved with in life.
Despite the year it's been and what is coming for us all, some music in the mix is a good thing.
Onward>>>
The process has taken much longer than I imagined; though, in reality, recording projects can take a lot longer than this one has moved along. Regardless of its pace, the playing and involvement of Martin, Janne and Tom, as well as Boris, and of course, the encouragement of Manos and Kostas in this international venture, has been over-the-top fantastic. Their patience and help has been truly heartfelt by me. Tom has produced some wonderful mixes of these songs and now they will go into the capable hands of Janne for mastering of the files. Once we're all on board with what he puts together, it's on to Manos and Kostas, at Sonic Age, et al., for the physical production.
My life is in a somewhat settled whirlwind at the moment; frankly, no different than multiplied billions of people facing various crises and upheavals in a world, only God knows the process to eventual end of. Reading news headlines is like reading the kind of thing you'd see on high school walls. I mean that literally, to see the Pennsylvania legislature passed a resolution claiming 2023 as "the Taylor Swift era." Yeah, I kid you not. America is facing collapse and somehow the majority Democrat legislature felt it necessary to make such a proclamation.
Where does music fit into everything? I think about that every day. People will always need music, especially in times of trouble. It helps the mind to cope. Even king Saul recognized that in the music of the young David. Music with a message with some teeth to it; beyond the empty pabulum that so much music contains these days, and maybe always has in modern popular music, is an important element of a balanced society. Of course, in times of such imbalance, who decides what balance is?
A very vital, short conversation took place between Pontius Pilate and Christ in a pivotal moment towards the end of the Lord's ministry and life.
"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.
Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.
Pilate said to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I find in him no fault at all." John 18:36-38
It's interesting Pilate did not wait for an answer to his question, What is truth?
Billions of people ask that question today. What is truth? Who has it? Who speaks it? Who stands up for it? Who is willing to die for it? To put answers to those questions in music has been a practice for humanity for ceaseless ages down through time. I have attempted to do it within this recording project. Each listener will decide for themselves what they believe about truth, from a large assessment of information we all collect in a lifetime. For those whose lives are tragically cut short, eternity will tell what conclusions they came to, and all the world is in a process of deciding what truth is and what it means and what to do with it.
Lyrics and music go through stages towards completion, just like people do. I'm at a fairly precarious stage of life right now and I'm glad I have the truth to keep me going. For me, it is not my truth. It is the truth. It's not mine. It's God's. I can only avail myself of it and allow it to work in me to change me, as it will anyone who subscribes to it.
My life changed radically this year. I am incredibly grateful for the circumstances that allowed this recording project to go forward, reach this phase and hopefully see completion soon.
"LEGEND Revisited: From The Lord" has been a true labor of love for me, and I know, regardless of the varying beliefs of those involved, it has been a labor of love and respect, as well: for the music and for each other. It's a wonderful group of people who have been involved. Top notch. I am so thankful to have marched forward with this gig and to have worked with such talented individuals. It is a privilege and experience not many get to be involved with in life.
Despite the year it's been and what is coming for us all, some music in the mix is a good thing.
Onward>>>
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892. The Conflict of Rights - December 30, 2023
Denmark recently changed part of its penal code; law L-65; which criminalizes public or more widely influencing undue “inappropriate treatment of a text that has a significant religious importance to a recognized religious community, or an object, that appears to be such a text.”
www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2023-12-14/denmark-parliament-approves-government-amendment-of-penal-code-criminalizing-inappropriate-treatment-of-holy-texts/
The change in the code is being called a "blasphemy law." Blasphemy laws are contained in the criminal codes of dozens of nations which prohibit any kind of denunciation of religion; especially in the nations where Islam is a or the ruling factor of right and wrong. In those nations; arrest, fines, imprisonment or death can be the punishment for physical or verbal harm and/or denunciation of the Quran, Islam's prophet Muhammed or the religion, itself. Nations such as Spain have blasphemy laws which protect Catholicism.
The clash here is obvious. While Denmark seeks to protect itself from Islamic retribution for recent Quran burnings among its citizens, the religion of Islam, as understood by many of its practitioners, compels adherents to denounce and subjugate other religions and their adherents. In practical policy, militant Islamists function according to the Quran and Sharia law over stated national laws. Europe is the the throws of that subjugation.
The vote in the Denmark Parliament went 94 in favor and 77 against, with 8 not present. A clear majority won. What is not clear is a law that was put in place solely for the protection of a particular religion and retribution from it, done so for the sake of "national security." Do not insult Muslims. By extension, the law should protect any religious class from insult or defamation but, that then flies in the face of freedom of religion, freedom of speech rights and accepted international rights and laws protecting freedom of religion and speech and freedom from government interference.
If the code is carried out, a Protestant could not say or do anything against the Catholic religion or an emblem of that religion privately owned. Vandalism remains against the law regardless of religious or any public or privately owned property. Obviously, civil discourse and the very spirit of the Christian faith would not burn or destroy something associated with another religion. Defense of faith or promotion of the faith is to be one of public or private sway with principles, doctrines and discourse, not violence.
Consider ancient times Christ lived in. He turned over tables and drove out the corruption taking place in the temple. The Jews had blasphemy laws. The Jewish leaders wanted Christ dead but, Roman law prohibited capital punishment outside its jurisdiction. If the Jewish leaders went to Roman authorities about the temple incidents, Rome would have said, 'That's an internal matter of your religion, not the Roman state. You deal with it,' within the confines of Roman law. To see Christ killed, the Jewish leaders had to portray Him as a threat to Roman jurisdiction and law. When Pilate interviewed Christ he plainly said he found no fault in Him. He offered to scourge Him and let it be but, the Jews cried out to crucify Him. When Christ and an avowed criminal were offered as a choice, according to tradition, the leaders moved the people to choose Barabbas to be freed. To show the Jews a favor and keep a riot from taking place, Christ was killed: a totally innocent Man, as far as Roman law was concerned. The entire thing took place because of corruption and a conflating of conflicting legal procedure.
Which is it to be? Freedom of religion or government protection from censure of one religion and its adherents towards another? The Denmark Parliament favored the premise of criminalizing public mockery of a religion and its adherents. Before, the burning of a Quran was not illegal unless an active physical threat against Muslims was part of the burning. Now, nothing can be said or done to offend or defame another faith, and who decides that? The secular courts and right there the failure of the law is to be expected as "politics" gets involved.
Ultimately, the Bible predicts a time coming when laws will be made to denounce and punish religion that stands against the secularization of the Christian faith dominated by the Vatican. How? Satan has his machinations. False revivals, "miracles," "all power, signs and lying wonders." The world shall be deceived by it all. Make no mistake. Hold no doubts. It shall happen exactly as the Bible states it will. All the world shall be caught up into a "peace and safety" movement that shall grip the planet's population and stand opposed to anything that warns of its influence. Nothing could be more clear in Bible prophecy. While the world seems to be drifting away from religion it will ultimately become the worst time in human history as religion, false religion, holds sway over the entire human race; save for those who stand on a Thus saith the Lord.
Sheep and goats. God's true church vs. the false church: the Mother Whore, her harlot daughters and the kings of the Earth. It cannot be stopped. It will not be stopped, no matter what kind of laws are made to control populations and the influence of any and all faiths in deity. The predicted events will take place.
Secularism is a smoke screen, a ruse; propped up by Satan to keep the real deceptions from critical examination. It is a battle for our minds and our lives: our eternal destinies.
God tells the end, from the beginning; so humanity can know He is God, and there is no other.
Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2023-12-14/denmark-parliament-approves-government-amendment-of-penal-code-criminalizing-inappropriate-treatment-of-holy-texts/
The change in the code is being called a "blasphemy law." Blasphemy laws are contained in the criminal codes of dozens of nations which prohibit any kind of denunciation of religion; especially in the nations where Islam is a or the ruling factor of right and wrong. In those nations; arrest, fines, imprisonment or death can be the punishment for physical or verbal harm and/or denunciation of the Quran, Islam's prophet Muhammed or the religion, itself. Nations such as Spain have blasphemy laws which protect Catholicism.
The clash here is obvious. While Denmark seeks to protect itself from Islamic retribution for recent Quran burnings among its citizens, the religion of Islam, as understood by many of its practitioners, compels adherents to denounce and subjugate other religions and their adherents. In practical policy, militant Islamists function according to the Quran and Sharia law over stated national laws. Europe is the the throws of that subjugation.
The vote in the Denmark Parliament went 94 in favor and 77 against, with 8 not present. A clear majority won. What is not clear is a law that was put in place solely for the protection of a particular religion and retribution from it, done so for the sake of "national security." Do not insult Muslims. By extension, the law should protect any religious class from insult or defamation but, that then flies in the face of freedom of religion, freedom of speech rights and accepted international rights and laws protecting freedom of religion and speech and freedom from government interference.
If the code is carried out, a Protestant could not say or do anything against the Catholic religion or an emblem of that religion privately owned. Vandalism remains against the law regardless of religious or any public or privately owned property. Obviously, civil discourse and the very spirit of the Christian faith would not burn or destroy something associated with another religion. Defense of faith or promotion of the faith is to be one of public or private sway with principles, doctrines and discourse, not violence.
Consider ancient times Christ lived in. He turned over tables and drove out the corruption taking place in the temple. The Jews had blasphemy laws. The Jewish leaders wanted Christ dead but, Roman law prohibited capital punishment outside its jurisdiction. If the Jewish leaders went to Roman authorities about the temple incidents, Rome would have said, 'That's an internal matter of your religion, not the Roman state. You deal with it,' within the confines of Roman law. To see Christ killed, the Jewish leaders had to portray Him as a threat to Roman jurisdiction and law. When Pilate interviewed Christ he plainly said he found no fault in Him. He offered to scourge Him and let it be but, the Jews cried out to crucify Him. When Christ and an avowed criminal were offered as a choice, according to tradition, the leaders moved the people to choose Barabbas to be freed. To show the Jews a favor and keep a riot from taking place, Christ was killed: a totally innocent Man, as far as Roman law was concerned. The entire thing took place because of corruption and a conflating of conflicting legal procedure.
Which is it to be? Freedom of religion or government protection from censure of one religion and its adherents towards another? The Denmark Parliament favored the premise of criminalizing public mockery of a religion and its adherents. Before, the burning of a Quran was not illegal unless an active physical threat against Muslims was part of the burning. Now, nothing can be said or done to offend or defame another faith, and who decides that? The secular courts and right there the failure of the law is to be expected as "politics" gets involved.
Ultimately, the Bible predicts a time coming when laws will be made to denounce and punish religion that stands against the secularization of the Christian faith dominated by the Vatican. How? Satan has his machinations. False revivals, "miracles," "all power, signs and lying wonders." The world shall be deceived by it all. Make no mistake. Hold no doubts. It shall happen exactly as the Bible states it will. All the world shall be caught up into a "peace and safety" movement that shall grip the planet's population and stand opposed to anything that warns of its influence. Nothing could be more clear in Bible prophecy. While the world seems to be drifting away from religion it will ultimately become the worst time in human history as religion, false religion, holds sway over the entire human race; save for those who stand on a Thus saith the Lord.
Sheep and goats. God's true church vs. the false church: the Mother Whore, her harlot daughters and the kings of the Earth. It cannot be stopped. It will not be stopped, no matter what kind of laws are made to control populations and the influence of any and all faiths in deity. The predicted events will take place.
Secularism is a smoke screen, a ruse; propped up by Satan to keep the real deceptions from critical examination. It is a battle for our minds and our lives: our eternal destinies.
God tells the end, from the beginning; so humanity can know He is God, and there is no other.
Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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893. The UAP Debacle - 12/30/23
For those who keep tabs on the subject of UFOs and more newly touted, UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), nothing has shown them and other Americans and people from other nations just how much the military industrial complex and defense contractors control the Federal government than attempts to gain all information regarding said phenomena. Recent credible Bills to become laws have been gutted of any strength by the efforts of just a few individuals linked to these entities. President, Senators, Congressmen... means nothing to this incredibly interesting battle for disclosure. Rumors, documents, witnesses and their testimony, both public and private all becomes moot and still, almost a century later, at least 80 years of information has yet to drive a stake into the heart of non-elected gate keepers who control the whole cache of illumination Americans seek on the matter.
Does the military have downed craft of non-human origin? Does the government have EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biologic Entities), live or on ice? Are there black budgets operating reverse engineering programs? How can "national security" be endangered if no such affirmative answers can be given to these questions?
More recently, even among those professing no belief in God, the subject of ET being demons grows in discussion. For those, "demons" can mean any non-human dark, dangerous, evil entity, and often the paranormal enters the conversation. Logically, if you do not believe in God: the Creator, "demons" seems rather moot. No life has been detected anywhere else in the universe. What we observe is what there is to base factual information upon. Therefore, there are no "demons." There are no ETs. So, what is the point of all the lies being told by one side of this matter or the other? The era of secular humanism offers no help whatsoever.
Now that the military has released information of encounters with UAP, to a stunningly minute degree, if all 80 years of reports were taken into account, the stonewalling can only mean something exists and something is in hand and if the U.S. military can figure it out, the U.S.A. becomes the dominant and only dominant nation on Earth, militarily speaking.
Wars are being planned for drones and machines to fight. SciFi is meant to become reality. "Wars and rumors of wars" takes more space in headlines than any time in my generation. Nobody wins a nuclear war. If craft can marshal the skies, able to take anything down that is fired at the U.S., defense becomes complete. So, it seems obvious whatever the military has, and whoever their allies are in the Federal government; the truth of all this will never come out for total public consumption, here and abroad. It's foolish to expect it.
This does not mean the subject is closed. Not even close. Given what is coming, from a biblical perspective, supernatural events are going to bring the world to a proverbial standstill in the final stream of deceptions the ruler of this world is about to unleash.
Expecting truth from the Federal government is rather nonsensical, to begin with. That ship sailed a long time ago. The only thing to expect is phenomena to increase to a display of a final showdown between forces of darkness against forces of light.
From a political standpoint, Liberation Times keeps up with the week to week progress or regress of the subject. From the perspective of how Heaven views it all? The Bible does not get into specifics very much but, enough is given to help us prepare for coming deceptions of unnatural origin.
Matt 24:23 Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
2Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Cor 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2Thes 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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 to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
While details are not given, the obvious nature of supernatural events coming is undeniable. We have been warned. Demonic power, signs, wonders, miracles, all denoting supernatural intervention into the tough reality human existence is going to be thrust upon the human race.
Power. From the Greek word "dunamis," where the English word 'dynamite' comes from. Explosive displays of things no human can naturally perform.
Signs. From the Greek word "semeion," also translated 'wonder' and 'miracle;' it means an indication. An indication - this is the way, walk in it. Signs that will seem to say, "God is here. Join us."
Wonders. From the Greek word "teras" meaning an omen or prodigy; something sensational, a spectacle, a phenomenon.
Miracles. Again, from the Greek word semeion; an occurrence of something beyond the common course of nature.
Deceptions are always with us but, in the last days; the prophetic time period upon us, deceptions are planned to deceive the entire world. How to know what is real and what is fake? Forget it. These shall not be magic tricks. They will not be fake. They will be actual, observable, supernatural events meant to deceive. They shall be used to advance a message, to thwart the truth, to convince humanity - following this message is the way to "peace and safety."
The Bible does not mention the word "spiritualism." It condemns the practice of communicating with the dead because those died are indeed, dead, not alive in another form. Communicating with the dead is communicating with demons; a grievous deception working upon the emotions of people who have lost loved ones.
Consider the aspect of deceptions that fake a resurrection of the dead. How many fallen angels are at Lucifer's command? We are not told. We are only told a third of the heavenly host followed him in his rebellion. Imagine, if you will, some of the most well-known people in modern human history standing before humanity, resurrected from the dead, telling people this angel of light, this "Christ" is the One all religions have waited for - Jews, Christians, Muslims, all faiths rolled into one, with reasoning that shall defy adversarial response. What if your father, mother, brother, sister, grandparent, beloved friend passed away comes to you to seek your place in this world-wide revival? They know your lifelong secrets. They show you signs, indications you can trust them. They display power, wonders, miracles to convince you of their gracious and heavenly intent. All over the globe this phenomena is taking place. You are literally blown away by these events. What defense can you possibly have against such deceptions? The truth and only the truth of God's word. That's it. All else will be engulfed in a world saturated with things happening that defy logical explanation.
An entrance for this time period needs a door. In my mind, ET and UAP is that door. I cannot be dogmatic. I can use some logic and common sense based on what we are observing. A subject matter once thought to be total nonsense is being discussed in the halls of Congress. Some of the most logical people we know of in media, speak of it all in terms of being convinced this subject is not a fairytale. It's reality, Americans and all the world need to know the truth about.
No joke. "ET," "EBE," "aliens," entities from beyond our world are now a reality in the minds of billions. It is not just Hollywood anymore. It's military and government acknowledgment, from most other nations in modern civilization, as well.
Only those who cling to a Thus saith the Lord will make it through this war of the supernatural coming. And just because you know what the Bible says, does not protect you, either. What did the above scripture state?
2Thes 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
A recent survey indicated far more people consider themselves "spiritual," than religious. What does that mean? Religion is a worship of deity and following some kind of text or information from said deity. What does "spiritual" mean in our modern society?
"In modern times, the term both spread to other religious traditions and broadened to refer to a wider range of experiences, including a range of esoteric and religious traditions. Modern usages tend to refer to a subjective experience of a sacred dimension, and the "deepest values and meanings by which people live", often in a context separate from organized religious institutions. This may involve belief in a supernatural realm beyond the ordinarily observable world, personal growth, a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning, religious experience, or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension".
Spiritual
adjective
1. relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things
About as open-ended as it can be put. Being spiritual is so subjective it can be a great deception, in and of itself. As more people reject the forms of religion that have proved worthless to change the world, they seek something deeper without realizing they leave a place of critical thinking and walk into a void of human devising easily led and worked by the Enemy of souls. My use of the term "soul" is not the use of the term above. The belief in an entity of some kind that resides in a human being and gets out at death is a central deception in Satan's warfare against the truth. Make no mistake about that subject. Only the full truth of God's Word; loving it and being changed by it, will save people from this gargantuan snare taking the world captive.
This is war. A war for the mind. It is the only war that has eternal consequences. God has told us the armor we need (Ephesians 6:10-18). It is our choice to wear it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Does the military have downed craft of non-human origin? Does the government have EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biologic Entities), live or on ice? Are there black budgets operating reverse engineering programs? How can "national security" be endangered if no such affirmative answers can be given to these questions?
More recently, even among those professing no belief in God, the subject of ET being demons grows in discussion. For those, "demons" can mean any non-human dark, dangerous, evil entity, and often the paranormal enters the conversation. Logically, if you do not believe in God: the Creator, "demons" seems rather moot. No life has been detected anywhere else in the universe. What we observe is what there is to base factual information upon. Therefore, there are no "demons." There are no ETs. So, what is the point of all the lies being told by one side of this matter or the other? The era of secular humanism offers no help whatsoever.
Now that the military has released information of encounters with UAP, to a stunningly minute degree, if all 80 years of reports were taken into account, the stonewalling can only mean something exists and something is in hand and if the U.S. military can figure it out, the U.S.A. becomes the dominant and only dominant nation on Earth, militarily speaking.
Wars are being planned for drones and machines to fight. SciFi is meant to become reality. "Wars and rumors of wars" takes more space in headlines than any time in my generation. Nobody wins a nuclear war. If craft can marshal the skies, able to take anything down that is fired at the U.S., defense becomes complete. So, it seems obvious whatever the military has, and whoever their allies are in the Federal government; the truth of all this will never come out for total public consumption, here and abroad. It's foolish to expect it.
This does not mean the subject is closed. Not even close. Given what is coming, from a biblical perspective, supernatural events are going to bring the world to a proverbial standstill in the final stream of deceptions the ruler of this world is about to unleash.
Expecting truth from the Federal government is rather nonsensical, to begin with. That ship sailed a long time ago. The only thing to expect is phenomena to increase to a display of a final showdown between forces of darkness against forces of light.
From a political standpoint, Liberation Times keeps up with the week to week progress or regress of the subject. From the perspective of how Heaven views it all? The Bible does not get into specifics very much but, enough is given to help us prepare for coming deceptions of unnatural origin.
Matt 24:23 Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
2Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Cor 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2Thes 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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 to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
While details are not given, the obvious nature of supernatural events coming is undeniable. We have been warned. Demonic power, signs, wonders, miracles, all denoting supernatural intervention into the tough reality human existence is going to be thrust upon the human race.
Power. From the Greek word "dunamis," where the English word 'dynamite' comes from. Explosive displays of things no human can naturally perform.
Signs. From the Greek word "semeion," also translated 'wonder' and 'miracle;' it means an indication. An indication - this is the way, walk in it. Signs that will seem to say, "God is here. Join us."
Wonders. From the Greek word "teras" meaning an omen or prodigy; something sensational, a spectacle, a phenomenon.
Miracles. Again, from the Greek word semeion; an occurrence of something beyond the common course of nature.
Deceptions are always with us but, in the last days; the prophetic time period upon us, deceptions are planned to deceive the entire world. How to know what is real and what is fake? Forget it. These shall not be magic tricks. They will not be fake. They will be actual, observable, supernatural events meant to deceive. They shall be used to advance a message, to thwart the truth, to convince humanity - following this message is the way to "peace and safety."
The Bible does not mention the word "spiritualism." It condemns the practice of communicating with the dead because those died are indeed, dead, not alive in another form. Communicating with the dead is communicating with demons; a grievous deception working upon the emotions of people who have lost loved ones.
Consider the aspect of deceptions that fake a resurrection of the dead. How many fallen angels are at Lucifer's command? We are not told. We are only told a third of the heavenly host followed him in his rebellion. Imagine, if you will, some of the most well-known people in modern human history standing before humanity, resurrected from the dead, telling people this angel of light, this "Christ" is the One all religions have waited for - Jews, Christians, Muslims, all faiths rolled into one, with reasoning that shall defy adversarial response. What if your father, mother, brother, sister, grandparent, beloved friend passed away comes to you to seek your place in this world-wide revival? They know your lifelong secrets. They show you signs, indications you can trust them. They display power, wonders, miracles to convince you of their gracious and heavenly intent. All over the globe this phenomena is taking place. You are literally blown away by these events. What defense can you possibly have against such deceptions? The truth and only the truth of God's word. That's it. All else will be engulfed in a world saturated with things happening that defy logical explanation.
An entrance for this time period needs a door. In my mind, ET and UAP is that door. I cannot be dogmatic. I can use some logic and common sense based on what we are observing. A subject matter once thought to be total nonsense is being discussed in the halls of Congress. Some of the most logical people we know of in media, speak of it all in terms of being convinced this subject is not a fairytale. It's reality, Americans and all the world need to know the truth about.
No joke. "ET," "EBE," "aliens," entities from beyond our world are now a reality in the minds of billions. It is not just Hollywood anymore. It's military and government acknowledgment, from most other nations in modern civilization, as well.
Only those who cling to a Thus saith the Lord will make it through this war of the supernatural coming. And just because you know what the Bible says, does not protect you, either. What did the above scripture state?
2Thes 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
A recent survey indicated far more people consider themselves "spiritual," than religious. What does that mean? Religion is a worship of deity and following some kind of text or information from said deity. What does "spiritual" mean in our modern society?
"In modern times, the term both spread to other religious traditions and broadened to refer to a wider range of experiences, including a range of esoteric and religious traditions. Modern usages tend to refer to a subjective experience of a sacred dimension, and the "deepest values and meanings by which people live", often in a context separate from organized religious institutions. This may involve belief in a supernatural realm beyond the ordinarily observable world, personal growth, a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning, religious experience, or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension".
Spiritual
adjective
1. relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things
About as open-ended as it can be put. Being spiritual is so subjective it can be a great deception, in and of itself. As more people reject the forms of religion that have proved worthless to change the world, they seek something deeper without realizing they leave a place of critical thinking and walk into a void of human devising easily led and worked by the Enemy of souls. My use of the term "soul" is not the use of the term above. The belief in an entity of some kind that resides in a human being and gets out at death is a central deception in Satan's warfare against the truth. Make no mistake about that subject. Only the full truth of God's Word; loving it and being changed by it, will save people from this gargantuan snare taking the world captive.
This is war. A war for the mind. It is the only war that has eternal consequences. God has told us the armor we need (Ephesians 6:10-18). It is our choice to wear it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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What a Year
What a year it has been. Not much but, bad news. In my lifetime I have seen enough corruption to last ten lifetimes. Government, religion, you name it but, in the past year so many people in the public eye have lied into cameras it's sickeningly insane. About all one can do is pray they have their eyes opened before it's too late for them and whatever, whoever they are connected to that they have influence and authority over.
For me, radical changes this past year but, I cannot complain because I know, I always know, there are those so much worse off than I am. This world is an angry, hurting place. We have all watched and seen in bold relief that those elected to positions of civil service, serve themselves and have no concern for the Constitution or the nation's citizens. It's probably been that way most of my lifetime but, I just never paid attention like the last several years. Now it is just more open and bold.
Christians know there is a day of judgment coming. Nobody escapes the scrolls of record in Heaven; all things thought, spoken and done are written down for each to face someday. How absolutely void and worthless it will all seem when they have to face the reality of a life spent so solely on self, that is all that mattered. But, how many, even of those who take wealth and spend it on others, that seem to bless humanity, have dark secrets only God knows and some day, all of it shall be known unless they repent and walk with God, not away from Him.
For those who walk with God, new this past year or for many decades, the Heavenly Father knows every tear, every pain and sorrow and every question and doubt. His people march along, day by day, moment by moment, struggling to be freed from sin, from the power of self, to walk ever closer to Christ and His righteousness. In a world saturated with entertainment; with things to take our minds off of reality, God's people see a greater reality developing with each and every day.
We all have our daily lives. We all have our hopes and dreams. We all have our deep chasms to cross and mountains to climb; as Christ said, our crosses to bear.
The world's well-known prognosticators have little to predict but a very difficult year ahead for the average American and for the nation, itself: that we should prepare ourselves to see some very dark things take place. Well, again for the believer, we know darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness the people. Not much can surprise the one who is in the Word, watching and praying, as Christ bid us. We can see the end of all things is at hand. Still, each year comes and goes, on and on. Things get ever worse, and fewer people seem to see it.
So, what will we see? We shall see exactly what Christ and the prophets said we'd see. War, disease, famine, violence, corruption, ever more building, with more man-made and natural disasters. Ever more coldness in humanity, that even small acts of kindness will seem like lifesaving. We shall see a world collapsing from all its weight of sin, one event at a time.
In it all the calls of God to go to Him who saves will continue to go forward -
Matt 11:28 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.
Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
One can imagine Christ speaking, teaching, as some oxen were plowing in a field within view. Two oxen fixed in a yoke, dragging a plow, tethered to a handler trying to keep them moving in a straight line. A practice almost as old as time, and as the people listened and looked, Christ told them to wear His yoke; to walk with Him, gaining His character, His strength, His purpose, His goals of saving all who will go to Him to find rest for their weary souls. Finding that rest is not hard. When one discovers it and yokes up, His burden is light. In many ways it is harder to neglect so great a salvation than to accept such a priceless gift. Millions, billions are doing so; blindly following blind leaders but, the Holy Spirit works to bring conviction and need upon souls lying to themselves and seeking things that are harmful or worthless to fill voids only God can fill.
I hope you have a good year, despite whatever is coming upon this world. I hope you stay safe, healthy, and relatively happy and hopeful in the midst of surely coming misfortune and problems.
Once again it is incumbent upon us to remember there is one thing above all others that God seeks in this world: developing a Christlike character in people who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
For me, radical changes this past year but, I cannot complain because I know, I always know, there are those so much worse off than I am. This world is an angry, hurting place. We have all watched and seen in bold relief that those elected to positions of civil service, serve themselves and have no concern for the Constitution or the nation's citizens. It's probably been that way most of my lifetime but, I just never paid attention like the last several years. Now it is just more open and bold.
Christians know there is a day of judgment coming. Nobody escapes the scrolls of record in Heaven; all things thought, spoken and done are written down for each to face someday. How absolutely void and worthless it will all seem when they have to face the reality of a life spent so solely on self, that is all that mattered. But, how many, even of those who take wealth and spend it on others, that seem to bless humanity, have dark secrets only God knows and some day, all of it shall be known unless they repent and walk with God, not away from Him.
For those who walk with God, new this past year or for many decades, the Heavenly Father knows every tear, every pain and sorrow and every question and doubt. His people march along, day by day, moment by moment, struggling to be freed from sin, from the power of self, to walk ever closer to Christ and His righteousness. In a world saturated with entertainment; with things to take our minds off of reality, God's people see a greater reality developing with each and every day.
We all have our daily lives. We all have our hopes and dreams. We all have our deep chasms to cross and mountains to climb; as Christ said, our crosses to bear.
The world's well-known prognosticators have little to predict but a very difficult year ahead for the average American and for the nation, itself: that we should prepare ourselves to see some very dark things take place. Well, again for the believer, we know darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness the people. Not much can surprise the one who is in the Word, watching and praying, as Christ bid us. We can see the end of all things is at hand. Still, each year comes and goes, on and on. Things get ever worse, and fewer people seem to see it.
So, what will we see? We shall see exactly what Christ and the prophets said we'd see. War, disease, famine, violence, corruption, ever more building, with more man-made and natural disasters. Ever more coldness in humanity, that even small acts of kindness will seem like lifesaving. We shall see a world collapsing from all its weight of sin, one event at a time.
In it all the calls of God to go to Him who saves will continue to go forward -
Matt 11:28 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.
Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
One can imagine Christ speaking, teaching, as some oxen were plowing in a field within view. Two oxen fixed in a yoke, dragging a plow, tethered to a handler trying to keep them moving in a straight line. A practice almost as old as time, and as the people listened and looked, Christ told them to wear His yoke; to walk with Him, gaining His character, His strength, His purpose, His goals of saving all who will go to Him to find rest for their weary souls. Finding that rest is not hard. When one discovers it and yokes up, His burden is light. In many ways it is harder to neglect so great a salvation than to accept such a priceless gift. Millions, billions are doing so; blindly following blind leaders but, the Holy Spirit works to bring conviction and need upon souls lying to themselves and seeking things that are harmful or worthless to fill voids only God can fill.
I hope you have a good year, despite whatever is coming upon this world. I hope you stay safe, healthy, and relatively happy and hopeful in the midst of surely coming misfortune and problems.
Once again it is incumbent upon us to remember there is one thing above all others that God seeks in this world: developing a Christlike character in people who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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894. Can We Please Have Some Honesty? - 1/1/24
I just read something I believe all Americans should read. It's a list of just some of what this nation has seen in the last several years to dismantle every principle of Americanism and the rule of law this nation is based on. I could just place the link here. I'm copying and pasting the article, itself, as well. We begin this year with less hope than ever this ship can be diverted from the rocks of collapse to continue being a Constitutional Republic guided by the hand of God to keep freedom and liberty alive.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/challenge-victor-davis-hanson-can-we-please-be/
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It’s 2024. Can we please be honest?
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the legendary conservative thinkers of our time, released Part 1 of his series – “Who are the Real Insurrectionists?” on his X account at 10:31 PM on Sunday night as the clock winded down on 2023.
Victor starts his series by describing the latest actions by Maine Secretary of State and former ACLU activist Shenna Bellows.
"Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just ordered Trump’s name removed from the primary ballot in May. She claimed he is guilty in her view of “insurrection” — a crime Trump has never been charged with, much less convicted of.
Her evidence, mostly gleaned from popular news accounts and video reports, would not stand up in a court of law.
Bellows has no law degree. She was appointed by a majority vote of the Democratic-controlled Maine legislature, not through a popular ballot. Her legal expertise seems to be derived from years of political activism with the ACLU.
We can see where the ultimate trajectory of this usurpation is going—once a single official decides to remove the leading primary and general election candidate of the opposition from the ballot by fiat. Tit-for-tat will likely follow and would unwind the republic.
Take Bellows’ action and then apply it to any future candidacy of Hillary Clinton…"
Maybe Victor forgot what year this is and what we just all witnessed in 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, and the last four years before that.
We are not witnessing a “tit-for-tat.” That is NOT the reality of our American lives today.
How we WISH there was a tit-for-tat! That would be a step up from where we are and have been!
Victor, what we are actually living through is all ‘tit’ and no ‘tat.’
** When the deep state Obama leftovers in the FBI and DOJ spied on President Trump, his family, his daughter, his campaign, his administration, all based on a lie they knew was a lie, nothing happened to the perpetrators. No one went to jail. No one went bankrupt. No one was locked up for 1,000 days without trial. Not one person suffered for this historic criminal act. Many of the perpetrators hold regular gigs on cable “news.” And the Washington Post and New York Times have not even returned their glorious Pulitzers for lying to the American public for three years straight – and counting!
** When the battleground states all colluded and announced they would stop counting ballots on election night in 2020 – and then mysteriously produced hundreds of thousands of Joe Biden votes in the middle of the night. Nothing happened. There were no arrests. Bill Barr did not lift a finger to investigate.
** When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 18 states filed the Texas vs. Pennsylvania lawsuit against the four battleground states that violated the United States Constitution by changing election procedures through non-legislative means, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. SCOTUS said Texas lacked standing when this was clearly not accurate. There was no tit-for-tat.
** When GOP observers were locked out of the ballot counting rooms in every major city in the battleground states, did Chris Wray send in the FBI? No, of course not. The Democrats locked the rooms, blocked the view, and continued to count suspect ballots until Joe Biden pulled ahead, and they called the state for Old Joe. They even “overcame” a 800,000 Trump lead in Pennsylvania on election night! This was NEVER investigated. Chris Wray did not lift a finger.
** When USPS contract drivers reported trailers filled with completed ballots were moved from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, Bill Barr called off the investigation.
** When Georgia election workers were caught running stacks of ballots through the voting machines up to 4 times each after they sent the GOP observers home — they sued the reporters who broke the story (Gateway Pundit) and got a corrupt DC court to award them $148 million from Rudy Giuliani! Did ANY Republican dare to lift a finger to help Rudy Giuliani? Hell no!
** When Democrats, Antifa, Marxists and BLM rioted in cities across the United States in 2020 causing up to $2 billion damage — hundreds of those same rioters got paid!
** When Trump supporters were fired on by police without any warning with rubber bullets, smoke bombs, sound grenades and gallons of pepper spray were there later arrested, many were held in prison for 1,000 days without trial!
** Grandmas and doctors had their doors broke down.
** Hundreds of patriotic Americans had their homes raided at 6 AM by armed FBI agents for walking inside the open doors of the US Capitol. Most Republicans were TOO EMBARRASSED to speak out for over a year. Some still are. They let these men and women rot in prison. They allowed them to sit in kangaroo courts and to be sentenced with YEARS in prison for the events that day. Most are bankrupt. Families are shattered, 6 Trump supporters are dead – at least. Four were killed that day and were not even mentioned in the flagrantly dishonest January 6 Committee Report… Where was the pushback? THERE WASN’T ANY! This abuse is still taking place today. And the state media is still pushing the lies to this day!
** When Chris Wray was questioned about FBI agents infiltrating the Trump crowds on January 6, he lied. When will he be held to account? He won’t!
** When news broke (many reports on this website) of extreme abuse of the Trump supporters in prison today what was the response? Not a peep.
** When the government- leftist groups – and the tech giants colluded to silence and destroy conservative news outlets, what happened? The conservative news outlets went out of business. Many of these outlets that were left learned to not report on touchy subjects like election fraud, COVID, or Donald Trump = or lose their ads and social media traffic.
** In 2016, this website ranked as the 4th most influential conservative media outlet on Facebook and Twitter. So the tech giants targeted us and today our social media traffic is negligible. Thank God our traffic keeps growing anyway. We spoke out about this in 2017. We spoke before Congress in 2018. It was only in 2022 that brave Republican leaders, Missouri Senator, then Attorney General, Eric Schmitt and Louisiana governor elect and current Attorney General Jeff Landry, along with The Gateway Pundit and others, filed a lawsuit that the government and tech giants, and leftist organizations were finally called out for their unconstitutional behavior. Where was the tit-for-tat? THERE WASN’T ANY!
** When President Trump’s home was raided for taking home classified documents and Melania’s underwear drawer was searched by FBI heavies, where was the tit-for-tat? Only a few hundred protesters met outside his home. And now we know that Joe Biden held classified documents for decades, even in an open garage! But Joe gets a hard pass.
** When Joe Biden’s criminal actions were found in his son’s laptop along with hundreds of porn images and illicit pay-for-play business deals where was the tit-for-tat? Republicans still haven’t held a single impeachment hearing. They even went on vacation after Hunter Biden skipped his deposition and mocked them at the US Senate building.
** When a crazy, homely woman said President Trump bought her lingerie at New York City department store and then raped her sometime around 30 years ago, Trump was hauled into court and charged with rape! Where was the outrage, the mass protests, the property damage? Nothing happened.
** President Trump is currently being harassed by a crazed New York Attorney General for charges that never should have been filed and never should have seen a day in court. Yet, this ongoing showtrial is still making headlines and Trump is still being dragged in to prove he is innocent – the burden is on him – not the criminal and unimpressive AG.
We could go on and on and on and on…
So when intelligent and respected Republicans and conservatives warn that the current Marxist takeover of America could bring on a ‘tit-for-tat,’ we beg to differ.
It’s 2024. Can we please be honest and quit fooling ourselves?
Our lives are too important to continue to play these pretend games.
We love you, Victor. Can we please be honest?
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One wonders how millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of Americans could celebrate a New Year last night when the previous year was filled with so much hell and looks to be passing into this year and worse. Today will be more celebrations and gatherings for all-day football games and tons of food and shouting for sports teams and the very freedoms and liberty that Americans have to do all that is being threatened by forces within; "...enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC," bent of destroying this nation.
I wonder what the Founders would say if they could see this "great experiment" today? Again, I quote Thomas Jefferson -
"But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence 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."
God help us.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/challenge-victor-davis-hanson-can-we-please-be/
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It’s 2024. Can we please be honest?
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the legendary conservative thinkers of our time, released Part 1 of his series – “Who are the Real Insurrectionists?” on his X account at 10:31 PM on Sunday night as the clock winded down on 2023.
Victor starts his series by describing the latest actions by Maine Secretary of State and former ACLU activist Shenna Bellows.
"Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just ordered Trump’s name removed from the primary ballot in May. She claimed he is guilty in her view of “insurrection” — a crime Trump has never been charged with, much less convicted of.
Her evidence, mostly gleaned from popular news accounts and video reports, would not stand up in a court of law.
Bellows has no law degree. She was appointed by a majority vote of the Democratic-controlled Maine legislature, not through a popular ballot. Her legal expertise seems to be derived from years of political activism with the ACLU.
We can see where the ultimate trajectory of this usurpation is going—once a single official decides to remove the leading primary and general election candidate of the opposition from the ballot by fiat. Tit-for-tat will likely follow and would unwind the republic.
Take Bellows’ action and then apply it to any future candidacy of Hillary Clinton…"
Maybe Victor forgot what year this is and what we just all witnessed in 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, and the last four years before that.
We are not witnessing a “tit-for-tat.” That is NOT the reality of our American lives today.
How we WISH there was a tit-for-tat! That would be a step up from where we are and have been!
Victor, what we are actually living through is all ‘tit’ and no ‘tat.’
** When the deep state Obama leftovers in the FBI and DOJ spied on President Trump, his family, his daughter, his campaign, his administration, all based on a lie they knew was a lie, nothing happened to the perpetrators. No one went to jail. No one went bankrupt. No one was locked up for 1,000 days without trial. Not one person suffered for this historic criminal act. Many of the perpetrators hold regular gigs on cable “news.” And the Washington Post and New York Times have not even returned their glorious Pulitzers for lying to the American public for three years straight – and counting!
** When the battleground states all colluded and announced they would stop counting ballots on election night in 2020 – and then mysteriously produced hundreds of thousands of Joe Biden votes in the middle of the night. Nothing happened. There were no arrests. Bill Barr did not lift a finger to investigate.
** When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 18 states filed the Texas vs. Pennsylvania lawsuit against the four battleground states that violated the United States Constitution by changing election procedures through non-legislative means, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. SCOTUS said Texas lacked standing when this was clearly not accurate. There was no tit-for-tat.
** When GOP observers were locked out of the ballot counting rooms in every major city in the battleground states, did Chris Wray send in the FBI? No, of course not. The Democrats locked the rooms, blocked the view, and continued to count suspect ballots until Joe Biden pulled ahead, and they called the state for Old Joe. They even “overcame” a 800,000 Trump lead in Pennsylvania on election night! This was NEVER investigated. Chris Wray did not lift a finger.
** When USPS contract drivers reported trailers filled with completed ballots were moved from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, Bill Barr called off the investigation.
** When Georgia election workers were caught running stacks of ballots through the voting machines up to 4 times each after they sent the GOP observers home — they sued the reporters who broke the story (Gateway Pundit) and got a corrupt DC court to award them $148 million from Rudy Giuliani! Did ANY Republican dare to lift a finger to help Rudy Giuliani? Hell no!
** When Democrats, Antifa, Marxists and BLM rioted in cities across the United States in 2020 causing up to $2 billion damage — hundreds of those same rioters got paid!
** When Trump supporters were fired on by police without any warning with rubber bullets, smoke bombs, sound grenades and gallons of pepper spray were there later arrested, many were held in prison for 1,000 days without trial!
** Grandmas and doctors had their doors broke down.
** Hundreds of patriotic Americans had their homes raided at 6 AM by armed FBI agents for walking inside the open doors of the US Capitol. Most Republicans were TOO EMBARRASSED to speak out for over a year. Some still are. They let these men and women rot in prison. They allowed them to sit in kangaroo courts and to be sentenced with YEARS in prison for the events that day. Most are bankrupt. Families are shattered, 6 Trump supporters are dead – at least. Four were killed that day and were not even mentioned in the flagrantly dishonest January 6 Committee Report… Where was the pushback? THERE WASN’T ANY! This abuse is still taking place today. And the state media is still pushing the lies to this day!
** When Chris Wray was questioned about FBI agents infiltrating the Trump crowds on January 6, he lied. When will he be held to account? He won’t!
** When news broke (many reports on this website) of extreme abuse of the Trump supporters in prison today what was the response? Not a peep.
** When the government- leftist groups – and the tech giants colluded to silence and destroy conservative news outlets, what happened? The conservative news outlets went out of business. Many of these outlets that were left learned to not report on touchy subjects like election fraud, COVID, or Donald Trump = or lose their ads and social media traffic.
** In 2016, this website ranked as the 4th most influential conservative media outlet on Facebook and Twitter. So the tech giants targeted us and today our social media traffic is negligible. Thank God our traffic keeps growing anyway. We spoke out about this in 2017. We spoke before Congress in 2018. It was only in 2022 that brave Republican leaders, Missouri Senator, then Attorney General, Eric Schmitt and Louisiana governor elect and current Attorney General Jeff Landry, along with The Gateway Pundit and others, filed a lawsuit that the government and tech giants, and leftist organizations were finally called out for their unconstitutional behavior. Where was the tit-for-tat? THERE WASN’T ANY!
** When President Trump’s home was raided for taking home classified documents and Melania’s underwear drawer was searched by FBI heavies, where was the tit-for-tat? Only a few hundred protesters met outside his home. And now we know that Joe Biden held classified documents for decades, even in an open garage! But Joe gets a hard pass.
** When Joe Biden’s criminal actions were found in his son’s laptop along with hundreds of porn images and illicit pay-for-play business deals where was the tit-for-tat? Republicans still haven’t held a single impeachment hearing. They even went on vacation after Hunter Biden skipped his deposition and mocked them at the US Senate building.
** When a crazy, homely woman said President Trump bought her lingerie at New York City department store and then raped her sometime around 30 years ago, Trump was hauled into court and charged with rape! Where was the outrage, the mass protests, the property damage? Nothing happened.
** President Trump is currently being harassed by a crazed New York Attorney General for charges that never should have been filed and never should have seen a day in court. Yet, this ongoing showtrial is still making headlines and Trump is still being dragged in to prove he is innocent – the burden is on him – not the criminal and unimpressive AG.
We could go on and on and on and on…
So when intelligent and respected Republicans and conservatives warn that the current Marxist takeover of America could bring on a ‘tit-for-tat,’ we beg to differ.
It’s 2024. Can we please be honest and quit fooling ourselves?
Our lives are too important to continue to play these pretend games.
We love you, Victor. Can we please be honest?
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One wonders how millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of Americans could celebrate a New Year last night when the previous year was filled with so much hell and looks to be passing into this year and worse. Today will be more celebrations and gatherings for all-day football games and tons of food and shouting for sports teams and the very freedoms and liberty that Americans have to do all that is being threatened by forces within; "...enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC," bent of destroying this nation.
I wonder what the Founders would say if they could see this "great experiment" today? Again, I quote Thomas Jefferson -
"But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence 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."
God help us.
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895. Babylon Marches Backwards - January 1, 2024
If people ask me how do I believe we got to this place in time, I answer; spiritual, prophetic Babylon: Confusion.
Most people have no idea what I'm speaking of, even among professed Christians. That's simply because they don't study their Bibles and look at where things were, to see where things are.
Religious confusion is so rampant today, billions of people do not know what they really believe or why. They are floating on a sea of confusion without chart or compass.
I open the new year with the Methodist Church. If John and Charles Wesley could see the condition of the movement that began around their teachings and ministry three centuries ago, I believe they'd be so sick they'd drop to the ground.
The Methodist Church has released an Inclusive Language Guide -
www.methodist.org.uk/media/31380/ilg-designed-update-december-2023.pdf
Statistics claim 80 million people make up the rolls of the Methodist Church around the world. Methodists are generally pretty down to earth people, practical people with common sense. This new guide betrays that and tosses it to the wind. It is often the historic case that leaders cause splits in churches. The Methodists have certainly had their share of splits we can all read about in the news; brought on by constant decisions betraying a sacred trust to be true to Scripture as their forefathers laid out the doctrines of the movement and ultimate denomination that began after Wesley died. This new guide... well, you can read it yourself.
It begins with a verse from the book of Galatians, third chapter, 26th verse. I'm going to give it context -
Gal 3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
The language guide begins by stating, via the verse, that some category of people, contained in "all," are children of God.
First, Galatians is a very troubled letter by Paul to the church in Galatia. Lots of problems there, brought on by leaders who were Judaizers: those who added aspects of the Old Testament system, what is generally called the "Law of Moses," to the New Testament faith. Huge problems developed wherever this position settled in. It wreaked havoc. Paul addressed it in numerous letters he wrote.
The third chapter opens up with this -
Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
Gal 3:4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
You can easily see there is confusion in the assembly of believers in Galatia. So, if we take the previous passage in context, who are the "all" Paul wrote of? Well, look at the passage again -
Gal 3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
"All" is defined by faith in Christ Jesus, being baptized into Christ Jesus (not a man-made denomination, whatever good it may do), and the implications of - "IF" you are Christ's. A profession of faith can be made. That does not automatically mean someone belongs to Jesus Christ by faith.
Remember the old saying - The day you walk into a church and become a Christian, is the day you can walk into a barn and become a horse.
What building you walk into, what group you worship with has nothing to do with your personal connection to God. It should. It cannot mean it does, all things considered.
Paul is not addressing humanity in general. The "all" he writes of are those in a living connection to Christ, members of His body, His church, by faith. Believers sin because we are sinners. Believers seek to stop sinning because Christ said, "Go and sin no more," through the influence of Christ and the Holy Spirit working in their lives. Claiming faith in Christ and defying the Word of God is a delusion. No one can sin with impunity.
When you begin to read the guide, you begin to see a wider application of the confusion contained in it. I am going to hone in on one thing I saw in a news story about this guide. First, the opening paragraphs -
"Why do we offer this guide?
"As Christians, we need to have the courage for conversations that can sometimes be difficult, to recognise that we sometimes exclude people, to listen with humility, to repent of any hurtful language and to take care with how we listen and what we say or write, in the Spirit of Christ. Good, open, encouraging conversations, based on careful listening, are central to all positive relationships, including those within the Church. Using careful and positive language is key to effective ministry and mission.
"What is meant by inclusive language?
"Speaking, worshipping and writing in an inclusive way is about engaging positively with as many people as possible. At times we might find that people feel excluded or harmed by something we say, not because we have any bad intentions, but simply because our turn of phrase was automatic, or unconscious. When we make an effort to use inclusive language, we are simply trying to be more aware.
"God has created all human beings as unique and diverse from one another. We can expect our congregations and communities to be made up of many, many different expressions of individuality rather than assume, or expect, anyone to be ‘just like us’. This guide signposts organisations with specific knowledge and experience of including particular groups of people who have been, or still sometimes find themselves, marginalised or left out of mainstream language. Though general guidance will be provided here, it’s a good idea to consult with people who have often been marginalised or excluded for whatever reason, to see what they say about how they would like to be addressed and included in language..."
Now, some could say, "Ray, you aren't a Methodist. Why get into this?" Simply because of the opening statement -
"As Christians." It does not begin, "As Methodists." Even then, what this document is, is prophetic in nature because of its confusion. I don't deny the sincerity its authors were motivated by. I absolutely deny their reasoning and conclusions on important matters of the faith.
The first paragraph. How many "encouraging conversations" did John the Baptist concern himself with? How many did his Cousin, Yeshua the Messiah, concern Himself with? How many did Peter and Paul, James and John and Jude concern themselves with? I wonder how encouraged the Jewish leaders felt when the Baptist and Christ tore into their apostasy and called them blind and a den of vipers and thieves? Tears may have been in Christ's voice. In no way could it be said everything these men, inspired of God, wrote or spoke only considered the importance of encouraging those they came in contact with; concerned about hurting people's feelings. Christ never needlessly hurt anyone's feelings but, He constantly hurt people's feelings by pointing out sin. He did not pet people. The disciples did not pet believers about their hurt feelings. Frankly, John Wesley certainly did not pet the feelings of those who heard him speak. Where does this emphasis on not hurting people's feelings come from? Not the teachings of Christ. Not the teachings of the Bible. Not the teachings of John and Charles Wesley and certainly not the teachings of early Methodists. What has changed? The Methodist Church. What has changed it? A corrupt culture.
Just how "unique and diverse" do the authors of the guide believe God has made people? Why do they feel "left out" of "mainstream language?"
"You may be producing a document to be circulated to a church audience and want to ensure you represent the Church as well as possible.
"As our understanding of one another evolves, so should the language we use to communicate. We are all certain to make mistakes at some point if we are brave enough to have honest conversations. This guide may be helpful as a tool of reference, or as a starting point for conversations within the Church on how language can be a part of living out Our Calling as Methodists."
So, for the leaders, and whatever number of members in the Methodist Church involved, their understanding of each other's uniqueness and diversity means their language should change. If you have any common sense and critical thinking, you know where this entire document is going: transgenderism and sexuality. They call it evolution. The Bible says, God created them male and female. That is not John Wesley. That is Jesus Christ. That is an honest statement from a biblical perspective. It may hurt feelings. Needfully so.
Ultimately the guide works its way into "inclusive" and "exclusive" language.
"Human relationships come in many varied expressions
"There is infinite variety in the way that God’s creation is expressed in human life. This is worth bearing in mind as we speak and write. Terminology such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ may sound inoffensive but it makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people.
"The words ‘parent’, ‘partner’ and ‘child’ are a good place to start. ‘Carer’ is also a neutral yet understandable way to refer to the primary carer of a child, who may or may not be their parent."
No, there is not infinite variety in the way humanity is expressed as God created them. Male. Female. Male with Female. That is God's expressed creation and divine order. Three expressed ways are not infinite.
Ageism, Anti-racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Disabled and Neurodiverse people, Gender, Mental Illness and Sexuality fall into these categories people need to be more language inclusive about.
Everybody puts their foot in their mouth at some time or other. It's the lot of being human, a fallen human. That said, no one, no group has the right to force or even suggest an entire civilization change their language for the benefit of those living well outside the standards civilization has wrought through language; let alone a church that defies the language of the Bible, God's Word, itself. An entire civilization may turn from the Word of God, as we are watching take place. It does so at its own peril. For a church to follow a culture, rather than lead it to the Word of God, in the name of God? That is a betrayal of sacred trust bringing absolute disaster upon itself.
The word "husband" appears in the King James Bible 126 times. The word "wife" appears 407 times. "Wives" appears 133 times. If that does not work for the Methodists, that is a problem for Methodists; not the Bible and not those who go by it for a worldview and daily living.
We live in a world filled with conflict. It has been that way since the beginning and shall remain that way until Christ returns and puts an end to it. Everybody should learn to chose their battles. When an entity claiming adherence to the Word of God boldly takes a stand against it, supporting sin and supporting confusion, that's a hill to die on or else the religion of Christ will be polluted with more and more apostasy and things making Him nauseous. He is going to vomit. He is going to purge what is making Him sick in this lukewarm age, Rev 3:14-22. That is going to take place in a dramatic way as we near the close of time. How Christians decide to contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints is up to each of us. Nothing could be more clear -
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
AntiChrist puts itself "in place of Christ." It is not only the Roman Catholic system of religion that has done this. Jesus looked away from Peter and said "Get thee behind me Satan." Peter's ignorance in the moment was doing the work of the Devil. And so it has been for ages. While Methodists want to be inclusive, they are excluding many things that are a plain "Thus saith the Lord." That is spiritual, prophetic Babylon. Confusion. It is fallen. It shall get worse.
God save us from it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Most people have no idea what I'm speaking of, even among professed Christians. That's simply because they don't study their Bibles and look at where things were, to see where things are.
Religious confusion is so rampant today, billions of people do not know what they really believe or why. They are floating on a sea of confusion without chart or compass.
I open the new year with the Methodist Church. If John and Charles Wesley could see the condition of the movement that began around their teachings and ministry three centuries ago, I believe they'd be so sick they'd drop to the ground.
The Methodist Church has released an Inclusive Language Guide -
www.methodist.org.uk/media/31380/ilg-designed-update-december-2023.pdf
Statistics claim 80 million people make up the rolls of the Methodist Church around the world. Methodists are generally pretty down to earth people, practical people with common sense. This new guide betrays that and tosses it to the wind. It is often the historic case that leaders cause splits in churches. The Methodists have certainly had their share of splits we can all read about in the news; brought on by constant decisions betraying a sacred trust to be true to Scripture as their forefathers laid out the doctrines of the movement and ultimate denomination that began after Wesley died. This new guide... well, you can read it yourself.
It begins with a verse from the book of Galatians, third chapter, 26th verse. I'm going to give it context -
Gal 3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
The language guide begins by stating, via the verse, that some category of people, contained in "all," are children of God.
First, Galatians is a very troubled letter by Paul to the church in Galatia. Lots of problems there, brought on by leaders who were Judaizers: those who added aspects of the Old Testament system, what is generally called the "Law of Moses," to the New Testament faith. Huge problems developed wherever this position settled in. It wreaked havoc. Paul addressed it in numerous letters he wrote.
The third chapter opens up with this -
Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
Gal 3:4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
You can easily see there is confusion in the assembly of believers in Galatia. So, if we take the previous passage in context, who are the "all" Paul wrote of? Well, look at the passage again -
Gal 3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
"All" is defined by faith in Christ Jesus, being baptized into Christ Jesus (not a man-made denomination, whatever good it may do), and the implications of - "IF" you are Christ's. A profession of faith can be made. That does not automatically mean someone belongs to Jesus Christ by faith.
Remember the old saying - The day you walk into a church and become a Christian, is the day you can walk into a barn and become a horse.
What building you walk into, what group you worship with has nothing to do with your personal connection to God. It should. It cannot mean it does, all things considered.
Paul is not addressing humanity in general. The "all" he writes of are those in a living connection to Christ, members of His body, His church, by faith. Believers sin because we are sinners. Believers seek to stop sinning because Christ said, "Go and sin no more," through the influence of Christ and the Holy Spirit working in their lives. Claiming faith in Christ and defying the Word of God is a delusion. No one can sin with impunity.
When you begin to read the guide, you begin to see a wider application of the confusion contained in it. I am going to hone in on one thing I saw in a news story about this guide. First, the opening paragraphs -
"Why do we offer this guide?
"As Christians, we need to have the courage for conversations that can sometimes be difficult, to recognise that we sometimes exclude people, to listen with humility, to repent of any hurtful language and to take care with how we listen and what we say or write, in the Spirit of Christ. Good, open, encouraging conversations, based on careful listening, are central to all positive relationships, including those within the Church. Using careful and positive language is key to effective ministry and mission.
"What is meant by inclusive language?
"Speaking, worshipping and writing in an inclusive way is about engaging positively with as many people as possible. At times we might find that people feel excluded or harmed by something we say, not because we have any bad intentions, but simply because our turn of phrase was automatic, or unconscious. When we make an effort to use inclusive language, we are simply trying to be more aware.
"God has created all human beings as unique and diverse from one another. We can expect our congregations and communities to be made up of many, many different expressions of individuality rather than assume, or expect, anyone to be ‘just like us’. This guide signposts organisations with specific knowledge and experience of including particular groups of people who have been, or still sometimes find themselves, marginalised or left out of mainstream language. Though general guidance will be provided here, it’s a good idea to consult with people who have often been marginalised or excluded for whatever reason, to see what they say about how they would like to be addressed and included in language..."
Now, some could say, "Ray, you aren't a Methodist. Why get into this?" Simply because of the opening statement -
"As Christians." It does not begin, "As Methodists." Even then, what this document is, is prophetic in nature because of its confusion. I don't deny the sincerity its authors were motivated by. I absolutely deny their reasoning and conclusions on important matters of the faith.
The first paragraph. How many "encouraging conversations" did John the Baptist concern himself with? How many did his Cousin, Yeshua the Messiah, concern Himself with? How many did Peter and Paul, James and John and Jude concern themselves with? I wonder how encouraged the Jewish leaders felt when the Baptist and Christ tore into their apostasy and called them blind and a den of vipers and thieves? Tears may have been in Christ's voice. In no way could it be said everything these men, inspired of God, wrote or spoke only considered the importance of encouraging those they came in contact with; concerned about hurting people's feelings. Christ never needlessly hurt anyone's feelings but, He constantly hurt people's feelings by pointing out sin. He did not pet people. The disciples did not pet believers about their hurt feelings. Frankly, John Wesley certainly did not pet the feelings of those who heard him speak. Where does this emphasis on not hurting people's feelings come from? Not the teachings of Christ. Not the teachings of the Bible. Not the teachings of John and Charles Wesley and certainly not the teachings of early Methodists. What has changed? The Methodist Church. What has changed it? A corrupt culture.
Just how "unique and diverse" do the authors of the guide believe God has made people? Why do they feel "left out" of "mainstream language?"
"You may be producing a document to be circulated to a church audience and want to ensure you represent the Church as well as possible.
"As our understanding of one another evolves, so should the language we use to communicate. We are all certain to make mistakes at some point if we are brave enough to have honest conversations. This guide may be helpful as a tool of reference, or as a starting point for conversations within the Church on how language can be a part of living out Our Calling as Methodists."
So, for the leaders, and whatever number of members in the Methodist Church involved, their understanding of each other's uniqueness and diversity means their language should change. If you have any common sense and critical thinking, you know where this entire document is going: transgenderism and sexuality. They call it evolution. The Bible says, God created them male and female. That is not John Wesley. That is Jesus Christ. That is an honest statement from a biblical perspective. It may hurt feelings. Needfully so.
Ultimately the guide works its way into "inclusive" and "exclusive" language.
"Human relationships come in many varied expressions
"There is infinite variety in the way that God’s creation is expressed in human life. This is worth bearing in mind as we speak and write. Terminology such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ may sound inoffensive but it makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people.
"The words ‘parent’, ‘partner’ and ‘child’ are a good place to start. ‘Carer’ is also a neutral yet understandable way to refer to the primary carer of a child, who may or may not be their parent."
No, there is not infinite variety in the way humanity is expressed as God created them. Male. Female. Male with Female. That is God's expressed creation and divine order. Three expressed ways are not infinite.
Ageism, Anti-racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Disabled and Neurodiverse people, Gender, Mental Illness and Sexuality fall into these categories people need to be more language inclusive about.
Everybody puts their foot in their mouth at some time or other. It's the lot of being human, a fallen human. That said, no one, no group has the right to force or even suggest an entire civilization change their language for the benefit of those living well outside the standards civilization has wrought through language; let alone a church that defies the language of the Bible, God's Word, itself. An entire civilization may turn from the Word of God, as we are watching take place. It does so at its own peril. For a church to follow a culture, rather than lead it to the Word of God, in the name of God? That is a betrayal of sacred trust bringing absolute disaster upon itself.
The word "husband" appears in the King James Bible 126 times. The word "wife" appears 407 times. "Wives" appears 133 times. If that does not work for the Methodists, that is a problem for Methodists; not the Bible and not those who go by it for a worldview and daily living.
We live in a world filled with conflict. It has been that way since the beginning and shall remain that way until Christ returns and puts an end to it. Everybody should learn to chose their battles. When an entity claiming adherence to the Word of God boldly takes a stand against it, supporting sin and supporting confusion, that's a hill to die on or else the religion of Christ will be polluted with more and more apostasy and things making Him nauseous. He is going to vomit. He is going to purge what is making Him sick in this lukewarm age, Rev 3:14-22. That is going to take place in a dramatic way as we near the close of time. How Christians decide to contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints is up to each of us. Nothing could be more clear -
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
AntiChrist puts itself "in place of Christ." It is not only the Roman Catholic system of religion that has done this. Jesus looked away from Peter and said "Get thee behind me Satan." Peter's ignorance in the moment was doing the work of the Devil. And so it has been for ages. While Methodists want to be inclusive, they are excluding many things that are a plain "Thus saith the Lord." That is spiritual, prophetic Babylon. Confusion. It is fallen. It shall get worse.
God save us from it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Jovan Pulitzer -
The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
Jovan Pulitzer is an award winning, brilliant inventor, holder of all kinds of patents, and was one of the experts in research fields asked to provide information and evidence about the process of the 2020 presidential election. He showed, proved, through analysis of facts, evidence, that massive fraud took place.
In this interview, Pulitzer weighs in on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and the future of our civilization. Things happening right now; things that will come, and it's all way beyond interesting. It's vital. All humanity will be affected by this technology.
If you come here often, you know I have posted various articles and websites and thoughts on the subject in reference to Bible prophecy; specifically Rev. 13:15-18. We now live in a time when the control of buying and selling, world-wide, on an individual basis can be achieved. The technology is there. It is quite logical and obvious A.I. will be used to pull this off. Whoever the ultimate human controllers end up being, A.I. will be used to control humanity.
As Pulitzer states, A.I. is only whatever its creators, programmers, and coders put into it and, how all that is controlled. Right now, the radical Left controls the industry, controls the input, controls its use, controls everything about it so, ask the Bot something about differences between that which is considered Left and that which is considered Right, and answers, directions will come that favors the Left and issues everything from caution to outright vilification of the Right. Frightening examples are shown in the video.
It is an extremely fast-changing world. Very few are able to keep up with it, being in the fields of change themselves. For the rest of us, we are targets. Targets for marketing campaigns; buying everything from that which is called food, to that which is called necessary for living a safe, convenient, productive life.
The fascination of A.I. is shifting to realization of dangers built into the technology. It's inescapable. A.I. can now think for itself. It can enhance its own learning process IF, the learning process is kept on, switched On in their software. Unfortunately, as Pulitzer points out, the learning processes are being switched off, so all A.I. can do is assess information; information programmed in or found on the web controlled by Leftist entities like Google and Apple.
Check out the interview.
banned.video/watch?id=6595a7cebe3fe4c20c60bea7
And I must state here, full disclosure, that towards the end of the interview, as the host moves discussion into spiritual and biblical subjects, Pulitzer jumps right in and there I depart from some of his views on things like the "remnant." That said, the guy's mind is pretty incredible.
More to come on "the remnant."
In this interview, Pulitzer weighs in on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and the future of our civilization. Things happening right now; things that will come, and it's all way beyond interesting. It's vital. All humanity will be affected by this technology.
If you come here often, you know I have posted various articles and websites and thoughts on the subject in reference to Bible prophecy; specifically Rev. 13:15-18. We now live in a time when the control of buying and selling, world-wide, on an individual basis can be achieved. The technology is there. It is quite logical and obvious A.I. will be used to pull this off. Whoever the ultimate human controllers end up being, A.I. will be used to control humanity.
As Pulitzer states, A.I. is only whatever its creators, programmers, and coders put into it and, how all that is controlled. Right now, the radical Left controls the industry, controls the input, controls its use, controls everything about it so, ask the Bot something about differences between that which is considered Left and that which is considered Right, and answers, directions will come that favors the Left and issues everything from caution to outright vilification of the Right. Frightening examples are shown in the video.
It is an extremely fast-changing world. Very few are able to keep up with it, being in the fields of change themselves. For the rest of us, we are targets. Targets for marketing campaigns; buying everything from that which is called food, to that which is called necessary for living a safe, convenient, productive life.
The fascination of A.I. is shifting to realization of dangers built into the technology. It's inescapable. A.I. can now think for itself. It can enhance its own learning process IF, the learning process is kept on, switched On in their software. Unfortunately, as Pulitzer points out, the learning processes are being switched off, so all A.I. can do is assess information; information programmed in or found on the web controlled by Leftist entities like Google and Apple.
Check out the interview.
banned.video/watch?id=6595a7cebe3fe4c20c60bea7
And I must state here, full disclosure, that towards the end of the interview, as the host moves discussion into spiritual and biblical subjects, Pulitzer jumps right in and there I depart from some of his views on things like the "remnant." That said, the guy's mind is pretty incredible.
More to come on "the remnant."
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896. Why Don't the Facts Matter?
January 5, 2024
It is an unfortunate reality that any group; be it a class, a church, an army or a nation will never or rarely rise higher than its leaders who actually inspire them to do so.
In the case of the U.S.A. its leaders have become so corrupt the nation can only sink further into an abysmal miasma of polluted air and water that makes up the Washington, D.C. swamp.
Every sector of our nation, our Republic, has Federal, State and Local laws. The number of laws being violated by leaders in all those sectors is an astonishing thought. Rarely are these elected civil servants held to the standard of the law, especially at the State and Federal levels. In the case of elections and the rules and laws to run them, the number of people responsible for the fraud perpetuated in 2020 and 2022 that should be arrested, tried, and sent to incarceration would spin American's heads. Why won't elected civil servants or appointed arbiters of law and order address this matter?
I'll put the link below but, I'm also going to copy and paste the facts compiled about just the evidence of the election statistics and fraud perpetuated in the state of Georgia.
Federal law states if any election irregularities are brought forth, everything stops and Congress must address it. Ask yourself why Congress did not address what took place in Georgia, let alone the other states where protest of fraud was lodged.
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KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
JUST IN - President Trump Releases Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States Introduction:
It has often been repeated there is “no evidence” of fraud in the 2020 Election. In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won.
Ongoing investigations in the Swing States reveal hundreds of thousands of votes were altered and/or not lawfully cast in the Presidential Election. Joe Biden needed them. On Election Night Nov. 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump was sailing to reelection with landslide leads in numerous battlegrounds. In Georgia, President Trump was up by 12 points, and over 335,000 votes, with 56 percent of the vote in at 10:17 p.m. In Wisconsin, President Trump was leading by 121,380 votes and 5 points at 12:12 a.m., which Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted was “not a small margin.” In Pennsylvania, President Trump was leading by 659,145 votes at 12:38 a.m., a full 15 points. In Michigan, President Trump was leading by 293,052 votes and 10 points.
The election was over. However, precincts in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Milwaukee kept counting until the results reached the desired outcome, which was the opposite of the will of the voters. Georgia went from having a total of 4.7 million votes, already a record for the state, according to Brad Raffensperger’s count on Nov. 4, to certifying almost 5 million. This was 300,000 more votes than what the top elections official claimed were cast in the Election.
Getting to this result in Georgia, and other states, created an irredeemably compromised Election, filled with violations of the Constitution, unlawful ballots, widespread broken chain of custody, electronic manipulation, and missing and corrupted election files that made it uncertifiable — and impossible to recreate the results.
President Trump was right to voice his objections to what had unfolded before the country’s eyes. Republican poll watchers were denied access to the counting in multiple jurisdictions and ballots were counted in secret in the middle of the night without media or observers present. Countless irregularities emerged, including reports of ineligible voters, voting machine anomalies, “water main breaks,” improbable percentages of ballots for Biden, and more.
Since, investigations across the country have uncovered an avalanche of irregularities, unlawful activity, manipulation of election records, destruction of evidence, and fraud. The findings, which are outcome determinative, are detailed in the summaries of the Swing States.
GEORGIA
• Georgia was called by 11,779 votes.
• Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous county in the state, has no digital record of all in person votes cast in its original results.
• Not a single ballot purportedly cast during early in-person voting was witnessed to and signed off by poll managers, as required by Georgia election rules. Seals were broken and memory cards removed from tabulators for the results of these 315,000 votes, which were printed out on different machines than the ones that tabulated them. This prevented the reconciliation of how many votes were cast on each machine.
• The ballot images of these votes, along with the rest of in-person ballots cast on Election Day, were destroyed.
• The vote in Georgia was counted three times: the original machine count, a statewide hand recount, and a second machine count. Each time the state, and Fulton County, reported three different results.
• Fulton County did not count the same ballots during the original count and the machine recount. There are 19,541 distinct ballots that appear in one machine count but not the other.
• Thousands of fraudulent “presidential only” ballots were injected into the second machine count, with huge margins favoring Joe Biden. Ballots that are blank except for the presidential contest were counted in batches together, with the pattern appearing in at least eight counties, including Fulton. This means Georgia did not have the votes to justify its original Election “results.”
• The second machine count was over 17,000 votes “short.” Fulton County was instructed to “reconcile” the results by the Secretary of State, and recertified its results without divulging the extent of the vote deficiency to members of the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections.
• “Thousands of bogus votes” were ultimately added into the Election results via the second machine count. This includes 20,977 unsubstantiated votes of unknown origin. The results were missing 17,852 ballot images, and included 3,125 duplicate ballot images that were counted twice.
• At least 2,871 ballots were counted two or three times in the second machine count, totaling 6,118 questionable votes.
• Eighty-eight percent of Fulton County’s precincts reported a different total number of votes between the first and second machine count.
• The only electronic votes that survived from the first count were the mail-in ballots, since they were tabulated on the high speed scanner their ballot images were automatically uploaded to the election server.
• Ninety percent of these approximately 148,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County cannot be authenticated. Ballot images for 132,284 mail-in votes have no .SHA file, which is created automatically when a ballot is scanned and used to authenticate the digital image of the vote, lacking evidence they were scanned and tabulated properly, or even cast by a real voter.
• 104,994 ballot image files of these mail-in ballots from the original count contained identical modified time stamps, suggesting electronic manipulation.
• Fulton County does not know “how many voters cast votes” and its “lack of basic accounting controls make it impossible to determine who really won” in 2020, according to Philip Stark, a University of California, Berkeley professor who invented risk-limiting audits. Stark noted, “The electronic records of the election are not intact.”
• 376,863 ballot images are missing from the first machine count, which includes all in-person votes in Fulton County.
• None of the 315,000 votes cast during early voting in Fulton County were witnessed to and signed by the poll manager and two poll workers, as required by state election rules. The closing tapes for these votes are all unsigned, showed more tabulated votes than the tabulators had recorded as scanning in their protective counters, and recorded improbably low percentages for President Trump. For example, President Trump received only 0.9 percent, 2.4 percent, 3.7 percent from some of the tabulators, as if he was a third party candidate, or in a third world country. The anomalies indicate ballots were not scanned on the tabulators that printed the closing tapes, making the closing tapes fraudulent.
• Tabulators used in Fulton County during early voting had their seals broken, and memory cards were reprogrammed and inserted into different scanners to count absentee ballots, in violation of election rules. This made it impossible to reconcile the true number of votes tabulated on the machines from the start of the Election to the end of counting.
• 235,000 absentee ballots were requested and accepted too early, prior to the lawful date 180 days before the 2020 Election, which was May 6, 2020. These votes should have never been counted in the 2020 Election.
• 4,081 false votes for Joe Biden were included in the hand count audit results for Fulton County. The false votes were the result of 36 accounting errors, which were confirmed by Governor Brian Kemp’s office and investigators working for Secretary Brad Raffensperger, yet they have never been removed from the official hand count results. These errors alone would reduce the margin to 7,698 votes.
• The hand count audit included 3,935 unaccounted for votes due to 11 missing batch sheets in Fulton County. Differences from the original count to the hand audit total at least 15,690 votes, which is more than the entire election margin alone. This includes the 4,081 false Biden votes, plus “missing” votes discovered in Gwinett (1,642), Fayette (2,755), Floyd (2,700), Douglas (293), and Walton (284) counties that were likely due to machine counting errors.
• Thousands of “pristine,” unfolded absentee ballots were counted during the hand count audit in Fulton County, according to at least six witnesses, which is the subject of ongoing litigation. These absentee ballots had no folds, and went 98 percent to Joe Biden, had “been added in a fraudulent manner,” witnesses said.
• Fulton County certified 59,143 in-person votes on Election Day, despite the fact that only 14,152 people had voted as of 5 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2020. Evidence suggests the in-person vote total on Election Day was inflated by approximately 37,000 votes, as records show no rush to the polls during the final two hours of voting, and a screenshot of the in-person Election Day results shared by a government contractor showed only 21,843 people voted at the polls in Fulton County on Nov. 3.
• Fulton County ordered over 1 million absentee ballots days before the 2020 Election, without any envelopes and the time necessary to mail. There were only 808,680 active voters in Fulton County as of Nov. 1, 2020, meaning the county had more blank mail-in ballots than the number of registered voters, and ordered them after the vast majority of mail-in ballot requests had already been sent to voters by Runbeck Election Services.
• An estimated 30,000 to 92,670 illicit votes were trafficked in Georgia, as part of a massive ballot trafficking operation discovered by True the Vote. The group identified 242 traffickers in Georgia who engaged in 5,662 ballot drops into drop boxes, making an average of runs per trafficker. Over 40 percent of the illicit drops that were captured on camera were recorded between the non-voting hours of midnight and 5 a.m.
• There were over 364,000 ineligible voter registrations on the rolls during the 2020 Election and likely 67,284 votes were cast from voters with invalid residency.
• Massive manipulation of the Georgia voter rolls surrounding the 2020 Election has been uncovered. This includes 1,500 Voter IDs that received credit for voting in 2020, but were not on any voter rolls from 2020, some appearing for the first time on the voter rolls on Nov. 4, 2021, a year after the Election. Other findings include manipulation of inactive voters to cast ballots, “gifting” Nov. 3 votes up to 2 years after the Election, and casting votes on ballots previously rejected, cancelled, or not even turned in.
• In 2020, there were absentee ballots issued to “Bangkok Thailand, Ga.,” “Denver, Ga.,” “Detroit, Ga.,” “Los Angeles, Ga.,” and other fraudulent addresses that do not exist. Ballots were fraudulently cast in 2020 from addresses listed as “Bronx, Ga.,” “Hilton Head, Ga.,” “Louisville, Ga.,” “San Diego, Ga.,” “New Orleans, Ga.,” “French Creek, Ga.,” “Virginia Beach, Ga.,” “Vicksburg, Ga.,” “Baltimore, Ga.,” “New York, Ga.,” and “Sarasota, Ga.,” all with zip codes out of state.
• 43,907 drop box ballots violated chain of custody requirements in DeKalb County.
• 59,000 of the 79,460 drop box ballots in Fulton County were not immediately transported to the election registrar, in violation of State Election Board rules. • An estimated 355,000 ballot transfer forms for drop box ballots are missing statewide.
• Over 100,000 tally sheets for Fulton County were missing from the hand count audit, and remained missing for months after the Election.
• In early January 2021, Ruby Freeman asked for an attorney because she wanted to “go live on every platform” to divulge information about how “the USB ports” were used in the 2020 Election. The expert cyber report by Professor J. Alex Halderman explained how external USB ports with election-changing malware can be inserted into Dominion machines by anyone with access, including election workers.
• The presence of a “QR code mismatch” error within the Dominion tabulators that systematically undercounts votes was found in 65 out of 67 Georgia counties where records were available. The error was present in system log files for tabulators used in elections in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• The election results in Georgia in 2020 are not only unreliable, but were electronically altered, and are unsupported by the state’s own election records. The appearance of tens of thousands of unconfirmed ballots in subsequent hand and machine counts suggest reconciliation happened after the Election, meaning after it was clear what margins were needed to win.
• Fulton County election officials admitted in early 2021 they do not engage in any reconciliation until weeks after Election Day. This means the number of voters showing up at the polls during each day of voting is not checked with the number of ballots tabulated each day, a basic process to ensure the number of ballots and voters match, and cannot be manipulated later.
• “We can’t start reconciling that until usually a couple days before certification,” said then-Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron, during a January 2021 Board meeting. “Because we have to get that report from KnowInk. I think KnowInk sends those to the state or KnowInk sends those directly to us. But those aren’t compiled then, on Election night. So we don’t have any way to balance those then. That’s like the post-election process that we do.”
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The same kind of facts for evidence is being compiled for all other states where fraud, rule and law breaking were suspected and/or seen to take place. Yet Congress has done nothing. Courts have done nothing. To the contrary, Trump and dozens of other parties have been put on trial for tampering with an election. The bold confidence these corrupt officials have in their schemes and criminal activity is mind-blowing.
We live in a nation as corrupt as any third-world nation on the planet. The only difference is not the same violence perpetuated towards dissenters. Ask yourself how long before that changes.
I am told forces exist trying to right things and when the time is right, the hammer will fall. I'll believe it when I see it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
In the case of the U.S.A. its leaders have become so corrupt the nation can only sink further into an abysmal miasma of polluted air and water that makes up the Washington, D.C. swamp.
Every sector of our nation, our Republic, has Federal, State and Local laws. The number of laws being violated by leaders in all those sectors is an astonishing thought. Rarely are these elected civil servants held to the standard of the law, especially at the State and Federal levels. In the case of elections and the rules and laws to run them, the number of people responsible for the fraud perpetuated in 2020 and 2022 that should be arrested, tried, and sent to incarceration would spin American's heads. Why won't elected civil servants or appointed arbiters of law and order address this matter?
I'll put the link below but, I'm also going to copy and paste the facts compiled about just the evidence of the election statistics and fraud perpetuated in the state of Georgia.
Federal law states if any election irregularities are brought forth, everything stops and Congress must address it. Ask yourself why Congress did not address what took place in Georgia, let alone the other states where protest of fraud was lodged.
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JUST IN - President Trump Releases Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States Introduction:
It has often been repeated there is “no evidence” of fraud in the 2020 Election. In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won.
Ongoing investigations in the Swing States reveal hundreds of thousands of votes were altered and/or not lawfully cast in the Presidential Election. Joe Biden needed them. On Election Night Nov. 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump was sailing to reelection with landslide leads in numerous battlegrounds. In Georgia, President Trump was up by 12 points, and over 335,000 votes, with 56 percent of the vote in at 10:17 p.m. In Wisconsin, President Trump was leading by 121,380 votes and 5 points at 12:12 a.m., which Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted was “not a small margin.” In Pennsylvania, President Trump was leading by 659,145 votes at 12:38 a.m., a full 15 points. In Michigan, President Trump was leading by 293,052 votes and 10 points.
The election was over. However, precincts in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Milwaukee kept counting until the results reached the desired outcome, which was the opposite of the will of the voters. Georgia went from having a total of 4.7 million votes, already a record for the state, according to Brad Raffensperger’s count on Nov. 4, to certifying almost 5 million. This was 300,000 more votes than what the top elections official claimed were cast in the Election.
Getting to this result in Georgia, and other states, created an irredeemably compromised Election, filled with violations of the Constitution, unlawful ballots, widespread broken chain of custody, electronic manipulation, and missing and corrupted election files that made it uncertifiable — and impossible to recreate the results.
President Trump was right to voice his objections to what had unfolded before the country’s eyes. Republican poll watchers were denied access to the counting in multiple jurisdictions and ballots were counted in secret in the middle of the night without media or observers present. Countless irregularities emerged, including reports of ineligible voters, voting machine anomalies, “water main breaks,” improbable percentages of ballots for Biden, and more.
Since, investigations across the country have uncovered an avalanche of irregularities, unlawful activity, manipulation of election records, destruction of evidence, and fraud. The findings, which are outcome determinative, are detailed in the summaries of the Swing States.
GEORGIA
• Georgia was called by 11,779 votes.
• Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous county in the state, has no digital record of all in person votes cast in its original results.
• Not a single ballot purportedly cast during early in-person voting was witnessed to and signed off by poll managers, as required by Georgia election rules. Seals were broken and memory cards removed from tabulators for the results of these 315,000 votes, which were printed out on different machines than the ones that tabulated them. This prevented the reconciliation of how many votes were cast on each machine.
• The ballot images of these votes, along with the rest of in-person ballots cast on Election Day, were destroyed.
• The vote in Georgia was counted three times: the original machine count, a statewide hand recount, and a second machine count. Each time the state, and Fulton County, reported three different results.
• Fulton County did not count the same ballots during the original count and the machine recount. There are 19,541 distinct ballots that appear in one machine count but not the other.
• Thousands of fraudulent “presidential only” ballots were injected into the second machine count, with huge margins favoring Joe Biden. Ballots that are blank except for the presidential contest were counted in batches together, with the pattern appearing in at least eight counties, including Fulton. This means Georgia did not have the votes to justify its original Election “results.”
• The second machine count was over 17,000 votes “short.” Fulton County was instructed to “reconcile” the results by the Secretary of State, and recertified its results without divulging the extent of the vote deficiency to members of the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections.
• “Thousands of bogus votes” were ultimately added into the Election results via the second machine count. This includes 20,977 unsubstantiated votes of unknown origin. The results were missing 17,852 ballot images, and included 3,125 duplicate ballot images that were counted twice.
• At least 2,871 ballots were counted two or three times in the second machine count, totaling 6,118 questionable votes.
• Eighty-eight percent of Fulton County’s precincts reported a different total number of votes between the first and second machine count.
• The only electronic votes that survived from the first count were the mail-in ballots, since they were tabulated on the high speed scanner their ballot images were automatically uploaded to the election server.
• Ninety percent of these approximately 148,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County cannot be authenticated. Ballot images for 132,284 mail-in votes have no .SHA file, which is created automatically when a ballot is scanned and used to authenticate the digital image of the vote, lacking evidence they were scanned and tabulated properly, or even cast by a real voter.
• 104,994 ballot image files of these mail-in ballots from the original count contained identical modified time stamps, suggesting electronic manipulation.
• Fulton County does not know “how many voters cast votes” and its “lack of basic accounting controls make it impossible to determine who really won” in 2020, according to Philip Stark, a University of California, Berkeley professor who invented risk-limiting audits. Stark noted, “The electronic records of the election are not intact.”
• 376,863 ballot images are missing from the first machine count, which includes all in-person votes in Fulton County.
• None of the 315,000 votes cast during early voting in Fulton County were witnessed to and signed by the poll manager and two poll workers, as required by state election rules. The closing tapes for these votes are all unsigned, showed more tabulated votes than the tabulators had recorded as scanning in their protective counters, and recorded improbably low percentages for President Trump. For example, President Trump received only 0.9 percent, 2.4 percent, 3.7 percent from some of the tabulators, as if he was a third party candidate, or in a third world country. The anomalies indicate ballots were not scanned on the tabulators that printed the closing tapes, making the closing tapes fraudulent.
• Tabulators used in Fulton County during early voting had their seals broken, and memory cards were reprogrammed and inserted into different scanners to count absentee ballots, in violation of election rules. This made it impossible to reconcile the true number of votes tabulated on the machines from the start of the Election to the end of counting.
• 235,000 absentee ballots were requested and accepted too early, prior to the lawful date 180 days before the 2020 Election, which was May 6, 2020. These votes should have never been counted in the 2020 Election.
• 4,081 false votes for Joe Biden were included in the hand count audit results for Fulton County. The false votes were the result of 36 accounting errors, which were confirmed by Governor Brian Kemp’s office and investigators working for Secretary Brad Raffensperger, yet they have never been removed from the official hand count results. These errors alone would reduce the margin to 7,698 votes.
• The hand count audit included 3,935 unaccounted for votes due to 11 missing batch sheets in Fulton County. Differences from the original count to the hand audit total at least 15,690 votes, which is more than the entire election margin alone. This includes the 4,081 false Biden votes, plus “missing” votes discovered in Gwinett (1,642), Fayette (2,755), Floyd (2,700), Douglas (293), and Walton (284) counties that were likely due to machine counting errors.
• Thousands of “pristine,” unfolded absentee ballots were counted during the hand count audit in Fulton County, according to at least six witnesses, which is the subject of ongoing litigation. These absentee ballots had no folds, and went 98 percent to Joe Biden, had “been added in a fraudulent manner,” witnesses said.
• Fulton County certified 59,143 in-person votes on Election Day, despite the fact that only 14,152 people had voted as of 5 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2020. Evidence suggests the in-person vote total on Election Day was inflated by approximately 37,000 votes, as records show no rush to the polls during the final two hours of voting, and a screenshot of the in-person Election Day results shared by a government contractor showed only 21,843 people voted at the polls in Fulton County on Nov. 3.
• Fulton County ordered over 1 million absentee ballots days before the 2020 Election, without any envelopes and the time necessary to mail. There were only 808,680 active voters in Fulton County as of Nov. 1, 2020, meaning the county had more blank mail-in ballots than the number of registered voters, and ordered them after the vast majority of mail-in ballot requests had already been sent to voters by Runbeck Election Services.
• An estimated 30,000 to 92,670 illicit votes were trafficked in Georgia, as part of a massive ballot trafficking operation discovered by True the Vote. The group identified 242 traffickers in Georgia who engaged in 5,662 ballot drops into drop boxes, making an average of runs per trafficker. Over 40 percent of the illicit drops that were captured on camera were recorded between the non-voting hours of midnight and 5 a.m.
• There were over 364,000 ineligible voter registrations on the rolls during the 2020 Election and likely 67,284 votes were cast from voters with invalid residency.
• Massive manipulation of the Georgia voter rolls surrounding the 2020 Election has been uncovered. This includes 1,500 Voter IDs that received credit for voting in 2020, but were not on any voter rolls from 2020, some appearing for the first time on the voter rolls on Nov. 4, 2021, a year after the Election. Other findings include manipulation of inactive voters to cast ballots, “gifting” Nov. 3 votes up to 2 years after the Election, and casting votes on ballots previously rejected, cancelled, or not even turned in.
• In 2020, there were absentee ballots issued to “Bangkok Thailand, Ga.,” “Denver, Ga.,” “Detroit, Ga.,” “Los Angeles, Ga.,” and other fraudulent addresses that do not exist. Ballots were fraudulently cast in 2020 from addresses listed as “Bronx, Ga.,” “Hilton Head, Ga.,” “Louisville, Ga.,” “San Diego, Ga.,” “New Orleans, Ga.,” “French Creek, Ga.,” “Virginia Beach, Ga.,” “Vicksburg, Ga.,” “Baltimore, Ga.,” “New York, Ga.,” and “Sarasota, Ga.,” all with zip codes out of state.
• 43,907 drop box ballots violated chain of custody requirements in DeKalb County.
• 59,000 of the 79,460 drop box ballots in Fulton County were not immediately transported to the election registrar, in violation of State Election Board rules. • An estimated 355,000 ballot transfer forms for drop box ballots are missing statewide.
• Over 100,000 tally sheets for Fulton County were missing from the hand count audit, and remained missing for months after the Election.
• In early January 2021, Ruby Freeman asked for an attorney because she wanted to “go live on every platform” to divulge information about how “the USB ports” were used in the 2020 Election. The expert cyber report by Professor J. Alex Halderman explained how external USB ports with election-changing malware can be inserted into Dominion machines by anyone with access, including election workers.
• The presence of a “QR code mismatch” error within the Dominion tabulators that systematically undercounts votes was found in 65 out of 67 Georgia counties where records were available. The error was present in system log files for tabulators used in elections in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• The election results in Georgia in 2020 are not only unreliable, but were electronically altered, and are unsupported by the state’s own election records. The appearance of tens of thousands of unconfirmed ballots in subsequent hand and machine counts suggest reconciliation happened after the Election, meaning after it was clear what margins were needed to win.
• Fulton County election officials admitted in early 2021 they do not engage in any reconciliation until weeks after Election Day. This means the number of voters showing up at the polls during each day of voting is not checked with the number of ballots tabulated each day, a basic process to ensure the number of ballots and voters match, and cannot be manipulated later.
• “We can’t start reconciling that until usually a couple days before certification,” said then-Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron, during a January 2021 Board meeting. “Because we have to get that report from KnowInk. I think KnowInk sends those to the state or KnowInk sends those directly to us. But those aren’t compiled then, on Election night. So we don’t have any way to balance those then. That’s like the post-election process that we do.”
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The same kind of facts for evidence is being compiled for all other states where fraud, rule and law breaking were suspected and/or seen to take place. Yet Congress has done nothing. Courts have done nothing. To the contrary, Trump and dozens of other parties have been put on trial for tampering with an election. The bold confidence these corrupt officials have in their schemes and criminal activity is mind-blowing.
We live in a nation as corrupt as any third-world nation on the planet. The only difference is not the same violence perpetuated towards dissenters. Ask yourself how long before that changes.
I am told forces exist trying to right things and when the time is right, the hammer will fall. I'll believe it when I see it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Who's in Charge?
Information. It seems to swirl and move with the speed of a bullet train these days. The internet has made all the difference.
Yesterday, a gentleman who lives in this complex saw me walking by and stopped me and asked me out to lunch. We never did make it beyond his apartment but, a lively 90-minute conversation ensued, covering current events, 9/11, and, as the title of this post asks, Who's in Charge?
Lots of rabbit holes exist in that subject, and for many sound reasons, too; not just political opinion and taking sides of government sports matches for control.
I have mentioned the Act of 1871 before. It was brought up to me many years ago and was just a subject I put on a back shelf in my mind. Dusty but, pulled off that shelf in the last few years, the Act took place and created a United States Corporation, superseding the Republic and its Constitution. The elected civil servants do not follow the Constitution because they really only have to for theatrical political drama. The District of Columbia basically has its own laws and Constitution, in league with two other nations: the banking sector of London and the Vatican. The bankers bailed out a bankrupted America because of the Civil War. The Vatican, its own nation since 1929, is the bank all the financing works out of. America has been in huge debt for a very long time. Current statistic of debts, astronomical as they are, are just a long line of problems created by the Act of 1871.
Well before Trump was elected, it seems various patriots in retired and active military service began a series of moves to entrap all treasonous traitors in government. In 2016, the Corporation fully expected Hillary Clinton to win, to build on the collapse Obama and company engineered with more war, more debt, etc., just like his predecessors. Never was Trump expected to win, based on machinations Clinton put in gear, with the help of other world players. Trump won. As soon as he got into office, with the aid of military advisors behind the scenes, watching every move the traitors have made for decades, Trump began a series of Executive Orders to pre-empt any attempts to steal another election. What happened? If all this is true, Trump is the most patient man in America.
To avoid civil war, it was decided more Americans must be awakened to the situation and stand on the side of the Republic. No easy task given education, fake news, and cowardly elected civil servants only caring about reelection.
For the part Trump plays, he brought forth the corruption in the criminal activity that put Biden in the White House. All the evidence has been there, and every single person in government tasked with following the rule of law, who sidestepped it all in any way, has treason over their heads. They have entrapped themselves with their corruption. Trump patiently waits until the hammer the loyal patriots in the military drop on all participants of the coup that took place in 2020. Trump, for all his business sense and acumen, worked on two fronts for his four years in office and since. He did what he could to right the ship heading into the rocks, did away with the Act of 1871, told the bankers and globalists to buzz off, retook planeloads of gold from the Vatican Bank, went through two charges of impeachment, the largest cache of constant lies ever perpetuated on a POTUS, which continues to this day; and runs the constant risk of having Deep State actors end his life. It is probably only the protection of God that has kept him alive this long.
Because the radical Left and Corporation Communists are taking things to extremes, shortening the ropes that shall hang them, the "hammer" may drop before the 2024 election and Trump will enter the White House as the Commander in Chief he has remained since 2020, as far as the military is concerned. They are acting under the pre-1871 system change. Trump, through E.O.s, has dismantled the Corporation. The perps cannot admit any of this lest they hang themselves outright. They can only seek to stay in control, and every move they make, the J6 event, to the committee and all the rest of it, is designed to remove Trump from poking his nose into their cushy political business and create fear in Americans tired of the corruption and waste, to keep them harnessed and not speaking out. The façade is cracking, though.
Where to read all this and inform yourself? I knew you'd ask. Back to my conversation yesterday with a tenant in this apartment complex. He shared with me a website and person I was not familiar with, Derek Johnson. Johnson is a veteran and a consummate digger of information and documentation. LOTS of documentation. His website is -
thedocuments.info/
He has plenty of other social media sites and pages he keeps people informed. Needless to say, he infuriates the Left and they keep their drones and minions constantly attacking him as a "conspiracy theorist." The more they do that, the more people check him out. They more they check him out, the more people are convinced he knows what he's talking about.
Another person I have mentioned here is Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes. She has been a part of D.C. task forces, now resides in England, as I understand it, and has been commenting on this situation for a long time. Here is her Rumble page and one particular video I just watched -
rumble.com/c/Halper
rumble.com/v44he63-dr.-jan-halper-hayes-the-military-is-in-charge-trump-is-cic..html
A lot of her recent videos are from interviews and such taken place some months ago but, it's all pertinent and in line with current events.
Almost all of this falls into a category of ignorance among Americans, myself included. These are not things we were taught in school, nor are they things any multinational, corporate-controlled news outlet is going to report on, for obvious reasons. They have all played their part and so many of them run risk of treason or international criminal charges they can only work hard to keep the hammer from falling on them. The closer the day comes when all is revealed, the more we shall see rats jumping ship.
Is this all true? I really don't know. I certainly would not cast it aside out of hand. No way. In recent times the more outlandish it seems, the more true it is. It's the guy spinning plates on poles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He ultimately has plates spinning on all the poles, broken plates at his feet in every direction. When will all the political plates of the hammer fall take place? Even Dr. Halper_Hayes says do not make the mistake of thinking you know how all this plays out. It's apparently in such a fluid state, anything could happen any day or month but, all know, years, we do not have anymore.
So, expect 2024 to be filled with any and all events to keep people from investigating this subject, keeping control these swamp dwellers have, keeping lips sealed, and keeping America headed towards the rocks of collapse. All these actors get to walk away if the nation collapses and falls into other hands in any kind of event that takes the stage like 9/11. This time, figure it to be 100 times worse and far more spread out.
We ain't "in Kansas," anymore.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Yesterday, a gentleman who lives in this complex saw me walking by and stopped me and asked me out to lunch. We never did make it beyond his apartment but, a lively 90-minute conversation ensued, covering current events, 9/11, and, as the title of this post asks, Who's in Charge?
Lots of rabbit holes exist in that subject, and for many sound reasons, too; not just political opinion and taking sides of government sports matches for control.
I have mentioned the Act of 1871 before. It was brought up to me many years ago and was just a subject I put on a back shelf in my mind. Dusty but, pulled off that shelf in the last few years, the Act took place and created a United States Corporation, superseding the Republic and its Constitution. The elected civil servants do not follow the Constitution because they really only have to for theatrical political drama. The District of Columbia basically has its own laws and Constitution, in league with two other nations: the banking sector of London and the Vatican. The bankers bailed out a bankrupted America because of the Civil War. The Vatican, its own nation since 1929, is the bank all the financing works out of. America has been in huge debt for a very long time. Current statistic of debts, astronomical as they are, are just a long line of problems created by the Act of 1871.
Well before Trump was elected, it seems various patriots in retired and active military service began a series of moves to entrap all treasonous traitors in government. In 2016, the Corporation fully expected Hillary Clinton to win, to build on the collapse Obama and company engineered with more war, more debt, etc., just like his predecessors. Never was Trump expected to win, based on machinations Clinton put in gear, with the help of other world players. Trump won. As soon as he got into office, with the aid of military advisors behind the scenes, watching every move the traitors have made for decades, Trump began a series of Executive Orders to pre-empt any attempts to steal another election. What happened? If all this is true, Trump is the most patient man in America.
To avoid civil war, it was decided more Americans must be awakened to the situation and stand on the side of the Republic. No easy task given education, fake news, and cowardly elected civil servants only caring about reelection.
For the part Trump plays, he brought forth the corruption in the criminal activity that put Biden in the White House. All the evidence has been there, and every single person in government tasked with following the rule of law, who sidestepped it all in any way, has treason over their heads. They have entrapped themselves with their corruption. Trump patiently waits until the hammer the loyal patriots in the military drop on all participants of the coup that took place in 2020. Trump, for all his business sense and acumen, worked on two fronts for his four years in office and since. He did what he could to right the ship heading into the rocks, did away with the Act of 1871, told the bankers and globalists to buzz off, retook planeloads of gold from the Vatican Bank, went through two charges of impeachment, the largest cache of constant lies ever perpetuated on a POTUS, which continues to this day; and runs the constant risk of having Deep State actors end his life. It is probably only the protection of God that has kept him alive this long.
Because the radical Left and Corporation Communists are taking things to extremes, shortening the ropes that shall hang them, the "hammer" may drop before the 2024 election and Trump will enter the White House as the Commander in Chief he has remained since 2020, as far as the military is concerned. They are acting under the pre-1871 system change. Trump, through E.O.s, has dismantled the Corporation. The perps cannot admit any of this lest they hang themselves outright. They can only seek to stay in control, and every move they make, the J6 event, to the committee and all the rest of it, is designed to remove Trump from poking his nose into their cushy political business and create fear in Americans tired of the corruption and waste, to keep them harnessed and not speaking out. The façade is cracking, though.
Where to read all this and inform yourself? I knew you'd ask. Back to my conversation yesterday with a tenant in this apartment complex. He shared with me a website and person I was not familiar with, Derek Johnson. Johnson is a veteran and a consummate digger of information and documentation. LOTS of documentation. His website is -
thedocuments.info/
He has plenty of other social media sites and pages he keeps people informed. Needless to say, he infuriates the Left and they keep their drones and minions constantly attacking him as a "conspiracy theorist." The more they do that, the more people check him out. They more they check him out, the more people are convinced he knows what he's talking about.
Another person I have mentioned here is Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes. She has been a part of D.C. task forces, now resides in England, as I understand it, and has been commenting on this situation for a long time. Here is her Rumble page and one particular video I just watched -
rumble.com/c/Halper
rumble.com/v44he63-dr.-jan-halper-hayes-the-military-is-in-charge-trump-is-cic..html
A lot of her recent videos are from interviews and such taken place some months ago but, it's all pertinent and in line with current events.
Almost all of this falls into a category of ignorance among Americans, myself included. These are not things we were taught in school, nor are they things any multinational, corporate-controlled news outlet is going to report on, for obvious reasons. They have all played their part and so many of them run risk of treason or international criminal charges they can only work hard to keep the hammer from falling on them. The closer the day comes when all is revealed, the more we shall see rats jumping ship.
Is this all true? I really don't know. I certainly would not cast it aside out of hand. No way. In recent times the more outlandish it seems, the more true it is. It's the guy spinning plates on poles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He ultimately has plates spinning on all the poles, broken plates at his feet in every direction. When will all the political plates of the hammer fall take place? Even Dr. Halper_Hayes says do not make the mistake of thinking you know how all this plays out. It's apparently in such a fluid state, anything could happen any day or month but, all know, years, we do not have anymore.
So, expect 2024 to be filled with any and all events to keep people from investigating this subject, keeping control these swamp dwellers have, keeping lips sealed, and keeping America headed towards the rocks of collapse. All these actors get to walk away if the nation collapses and falls into other hands in any kind of event that takes the stage like 9/11. This time, figure it to be 100 times worse and far more spread out.
We ain't "in Kansas," anymore.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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897. ??? Victory Over Sin is Unattainable ??? - 1/5/24
I came across an article that caused me to instantly take a look at it. Here's the headline -
"Olympian Sydney McLaughlin Levrone warns against perfectionism: 'The only perfect one is God'"
www.christianpost.com/news/olympian-sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-warns-against-perfectionism.html
Before we take a deeper look at this, here are some paragraphs from the article where the Olympian addresses the subject -
"Levrone characterized perfection as “unattainable in this life,” urging readers to “always strive for excellence” and “always strive to do things … in a manner worthy of the calling of God.”
"She added, “At the end of the day, we are fallen, sinful humans who will fall short in this life.”
“In trying to attain perfection, we’re diminishing the need for Christ,” she said. “In appreciating Him as our Savior, we humble ourselves to realize that we are not perfect.”
First of all, we should get a workable definition for "perfectionism."
"Perfectionism
"Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff
"Perfectionism is a trait that makes life an endless report card on accomplishments or looks. When healthy, it can be self-motivating and drive you to overcome adversity and achieve success. When unhealthy, it can be a fast and enduring track to unhappiness.
"What makes extreme perfectionism so toxic is that while those in its grip desire success, they are most focused on avoiding failure, resulting in a negative orientation. They don’t believe in unconditional love, expecting others’ affection and approval to be dependent on a flawless performance."
That's a psychological working definition. Here's another definition -
"Perfectionism refers to the tendency to set excessively high standards for oneself and others. Some perfectionists are able to achieve high levels of success because of the lofty goals they strive to meet. Others struggle with low self-esteem and problems in daily functioning when they inevitably make mistakes.1
"Perfectionism is a personality trait, not a mental health condition. However, people who exhibit perfectionistic traits are more likely to develop certain mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.2 "
Now, here is the conflict for me, as a Bible believing Christian. Ms. Levrone warns against perfectionism because the only One perfect is God. So, is her point psychological perfectionism; a personality trait that can be both a positive or negative influence in life or, is she stating something about spiritual, Christian perfection?
I will never play the drums "perfectly" for a number of reasons. The art form has no standard of what perfection is. Humans have connections between physical, mental, and emotional performance that can be hampered by any number of variables: a headache, stressors in life within relationships, financial troubles, you name it. Almost anything can affect the way a musician performs on any given occasion.
If Levrone is dealing with physical performance involving sports; aspects of winning and losing and self-esteem or self-worth determined by winning and losing; a drive to win no matter what, determines what kind of person you are, why bring in God's perfection? She might know there is nothing in the Bible that states God will make you physically perfect at anything. There are no promises stating a believer will never physically fail at something, even in the prime of physical life.
Yet she states striving for perfection in this life is futile, unattainable, without defining what she is actually talking about. We are fallen, sinful humans who will fall short. Stop. Period. Done.
To be blunt. That is heresy.
The word 'perfect' is found 99 times in the King James Bible. It comes from Hebrew and Greek words meaning perfect, complete, finished, full and other such terms -
tâmı̂ym
taw-meem'
From H8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth: - without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright (-ly), whole.
If you look at each of the words as defined and translated, only two may not be a definitive - sincere and sound. "Entire" means everything. The entire family is here. The entire car was not dented in the accident. The entire stadium of fans erupted. So, when we see the first use of the English word found in the Bible we see this -
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Noah was entire; complete, full, without blemish or spot on his character. He was what God desired for a believer to be. He was sound and sincere, upright. He was whole. Nothing missing up to that point in his life.
This same line of reasoning is found throughout the Bible.
Gen 17:1 And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and you be perfect. [tamiym]
God told Abraham to walk before Him and be perfect. Not physically but, morally, spiritually, religiously in his walk with God.
You can go through dozens of places where perfection is attributed to God or a believer and it is the same Hebrew word. When God asks for spiritual perfection in a believer, He is asking them to draw so close to their Maker, He can make them spiritually entire, whole, complete, full, etc. It is not only attainable, it is God's desire and directive for one who lives in faith of God's ability to change a person's character to be like His. THAT is the whole point of the plan of salvation: to restore in His people His character that Adam and Eve had before they fell. The fall is not a reason to fail of that pursuit. Salvation from God is bigger and more powerful than human failure. God's grace to save is power to live a life of victory over sin; all sin.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says 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 you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
Isa 1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
'White as snow' means 'as pure as the driven snow.' Driven snow remains white. No time for dust and dirt to settle upon it.
Wool shorn from a sheep is pretty dirty. Once cleaned and processed it is white and God says He wants His people to be willing and obedient to be entirely clean, entirely whole, His system of salvation in the human mind and heart complete, finished, full and without spot or blemish.
With all due respect to Sidney Levrone, she is entirely wrong on this position she takes. God does not tell anyone to humble themselves in their sinful nature. He tells us to humble ourselves so He can clean us up!
In the New Testament the same line of reasoning is obvious -
Matt 5:48 Be therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
The Greek word there is 'telieos' and it means complete, completeness. There is absolutely no way around Christ's statement. Be complete as our Father in Heaven is complete. Did Christ ask for something unattainable in this life? God forbid! To the contrary. This is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2Cor 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Are believers to have an inferior strength to fail and fall in throughout life? Are we to think, to believe God's grace is only good enough to forgive us and not powerful enough to give us victory over 'the sins that so easily beset us'?
Where does this false theology and doctrine come from? Who would have the boldness to deny the entire plan of salvation to recover Eden lost to Eden restored, in God's people, before it is restored physically?
Satan.
2Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Cor 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
How many ministries, how many preachers and teachers in professed Christianity are deceivers or at least biblically ignorant of truth, and teach their flocks they cannot have Christian perfection? Levrone is only parroting what she has been taught. No one who studies the Bible can have this belief. They may seem ministers of righteousness but, they are emissaries of the father of lies. And Paul states it, it is no great thing to have this situation take place. It is entirely to be expected when men refuse to maintain a full, complete, entire 'Thus saith the Lord.'
Now, someone will ask, Ray, are you perfect?
To that I would say, If I was, I'd be the last to know it because I'd be walking so close with Christ all I could see is His righteousness and my need for it. I would not be looking at my life. I'd be saturated with His. And those who attain to character perfection shall have that experience.
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
2Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Tim 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
When a house is thoroughly furnished it is complete, finished, ended, entire, whole. How many people have renovated their homes and stood back when they finished and said, "It's perfect."
I fear for those who mess around with this standard of God, so obvious throughout all His Word. Christ ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary to clean a final generation of sins that they may represent Him thoroughly, entirely, completely to the final generation of humanity on this dying world. They shall obey perfectly, not because they try to but, because they have been recreated to. They will not obey because they have to but, because they love to. Do not miss this vital point. It is huge in regards to last-day events.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Heb 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does 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.
1John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
Boldness in the day of judgment. God's people shall not look at their failings. They shall not hang their heads in defeat. They shall stand straight and tall and be looking to Heaven where their salvation comes from, where their Champion comes from to rescue them from a world gone mad in sin.
Seriously, this false doctrine of we are sinners, therefore we shall always sin is such a great lie, such a deception, millions will be lost because of it.
Yes, we fall. We fail. We sin. Get up! Keep marching. Keep looking to Christ, the Captain of our salvation. Through Christ in us, the hope of glory, we shall purify ourselves, even as He is pure. That is the Gospel. That is the good news.
1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
1John 5:4 For whatever is born of God, overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God, sins not [does not keep sinning]; but he that is begotten of God, guards himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Salvation is a cooperative partnership between God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and the believer. The more the believer puts the mind God gave him into faith and trust in Christ, the more the mind is ennobled and strengthened and fortified to fight the good fight of faith. Victory is assured. It is not rocket science. It is the science of Christianity. It is the work of God. Believe it.
Every deception imaginable is coming. Only those who stand on the whole Word of God, sanctified through it, victorious in it, is going to stand through what is coming upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"Olympian Sydney McLaughlin Levrone warns against perfectionism: 'The only perfect one is God'"
www.christianpost.com/news/olympian-sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-warns-against-perfectionism.html
Before we take a deeper look at this, here are some paragraphs from the article where the Olympian addresses the subject -
"Levrone characterized perfection as “unattainable in this life,” urging readers to “always strive for excellence” and “always strive to do things … in a manner worthy of the calling of God.”
"She added, “At the end of the day, we are fallen, sinful humans who will fall short in this life.”
“In trying to attain perfection, we’re diminishing the need for Christ,” she said. “In appreciating Him as our Savior, we humble ourselves to realize that we are not perfect.”
First of all, we should get a workable definition for "perfectionism."
"Perfectionism
"Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff
"Perfectionism is a trait that makes life an endless report card on accomplishments or looks. When healthy, it can be self-motivating and drive you to overcome adversity and achieve success. When unhealthy, it can be a fast and enduring track to unhappiness.
"What makes extreme perfectionism so toxic is that while those in its grip desire success, they are most focused on avoiding failure, resulting in a negative orientation. They don’t believe in unconditional love, expecting others’ affection and approval to be dependent on a flawless performance."
That's a psychological working definition. Here's another definition -
"Perfectionism refers to the tendency to set excessively high standards for oneself and others. Some perfectionists are able to achieve high levels of success because of the lofty goals they strive to meet. Others struggle with low self-esteem and problems in daily functioning when they inevitably make mistakes.1
"Perfectionism is a personality trait, not a mental health condition. However, people who exhibit perfectionistic traits are more likely to develop certain mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.2 "
Now, here is the conflict for me, as a Bible believing Christian. Ms. Levrone warns against perfectionism because the only One perfect is God. So, is her point psychological perfectionism; a personality trait that can be both a positive or negative influence in life or, is she stating something about spiritual, Christian perfection?
I will never play the drums "perfectly" for a number of reasons. The art form has no standard of what perfection is. Humans have connections between physical, mental, and emotional performance that can be hampered by any number of variables: a headache, stressors in life within relationships, financial troubles, you name it. Almost anything can affect the way a musician performs on any given occasion.
If Levrone is dealing with physical performance involving sports; aspects of winning and losing and self-esteem or self-worth determined by winning and losing; a drive to win no matter what, determines what kind of person you are, why bring in God's perfection? She might know there is nothing in the Bible that states God will make you physically perfect at anything. There are no promises stating a believer will never physically fail at something, even in the prime of physical life.
Yet she states striving for perfection in this life is futile, unattainable, without defining what she is actually talking about. We are fallen, sinful humans who will fall short. Stop. Period. Done.
To be blunt. That is heresy.
The word 'perfect' is found 99 times in the King James Bible. It comes from Hebrew and Greek words meaning perfect, complete, finished, full and other such terms -
tâmı̂ym
taw-meem'
From H8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth: - without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright (-ly), whole.
If you look at each of the words as defined and translated, only two may not be a definitive - sincere and sound. "Entire" means everything. The entire family is here. The entire car was not dented in the accident. The entire stadium of fans erupted. So, when we see the first use of the English word found in the Bible we see this -
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Noah was entire; complete, full, without blemish or spot on his character. He was what God desired for a believer to be. He was sound and sincere, upright. He was whole. Nothing missing up to that point in his life.
This same line of reasoning is found throughout the Bible.
Gen 17:1 And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and you be perfect. [tamiym]
God told Abraham to walk before Him and be perfect. Not physically but, morally, spiritually, religiously in his walk with God.
You can go through dozens of places where perfection is attributed to God or a believer and it is the same Hebrew word. When God asks for spiritual perfection in a believer, He is asking them to draw so close to their Maker, He can make them spiritually entire, whole, complete, full, etc. It is not only attainable, it is God's desire and directive for one who lives in faith of God's ability to change a person's character to be like His. THAT is the whole point of the plan of salvation: to restore in His people His character that Adam and Eve had before they fell. The fall is not a reason to fail of that pursuit. Salvation from God is bigger and more powerful than human failure. God's grace to save is power to live a life of victory over sin; all sin.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says 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 you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
Isa 1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
'White as snow' means 'as pure as the driven snow.' Driven snow remains white. No time for dust and dirt to settle upon it.
Wool shorn from a sheep is pretty dirty. Once cleaned and processed it is white and God says He wants His people to be willing and obedient to be entirely clean, entirely whole, His system of salvation in the human mind and heart complete, finished, full and without spot or blemish.
With all due respect to Sidney Levrone, she is entirely wrong on this position she takes. God does not tell anyone to humble themselves in their sinful nature. He tells us to humble ourselves so He can clean us up!
In the New Testament the same line of reasoning is obvious -
Matt 5:48 Be therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
The Greek word there is 'telieos' and it means complete, completeness. There is absolutely no way around Christ's statement. Be complete as our Father in Heaven is complete. Did Christ ask for something unattainable in this life? God forbid! To the contrary. This is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2Cor 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Are believers to have an inferior strength to fail and fall in throughout life? Are we to think, to believe God's grace is only good enough to forgive us and not powerful enough to give us victory over 'the sins that so easily beset us'?
Where does this false theology and doctrine come from? Who would have the boldness to deny the entire plan of salvation to recover Eden lost to Eden restored, in God's people, before it is restored physically?
Satan.
2Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Cor 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
How many ministries, how many preachers and teachers in professed Christianity are deceivers or at least biblically ignorant of truth, and teach their flocks they cannot have Christian perfection? Levrone is only parroting what she has been taught. No one who studies the Bible can have this belief. They may seem ministers of righteousness but, they are emissaries of the father of lies. And Paul states it, it is no great thing to have this situation take place. It is entirely to be expected when men refuse to maintain a full, complete, entire 'Thus saith the Lord.'
Now, someone will ask, Ray, are you perfect?
To that I would say, If I was, I'd be the last to know it because I'd be walking so close with Christ all I could see is His righteousness and my need for it. I would not be looking at my life. I'd be saturated with His. And those who attain to character perfection shall have that experience.
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
2Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Tim 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
When a house is thoroughly furnished it is complete, finished, ended, entire, whole. How many people have renovated their homes and stood back when they finished and said, "It's perfect."
I fear for those who mess around with this standard of God, so obvious throughout all His Word. Christ ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary to clean a final generation of sins that they may represent Him thoroughly, entirely, completely to the final generation of humanity on this dying world. They shall obey perfectly, not because they try to but, because they have been recreated to. They will not obey because they have to but, because they love to. Do not miss this vital point. It is huge in regards to last-day events.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Heb 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does 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.
1John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
Boldness in the day of judgment. God's people shall not look at their failings. They shall not hang their heads in defeat. They shall stand straight and tall and be looking to Heaven where their salvation comes from, where their Champion comes from to rescue them from a world gone mad in sin.
Seriously, this false doctrine of we are sinners, therefore we shall always sin is such a great lie, such a deception, millions will be lost because of it.
Yes, we fall. We fail. We sin. Get up! Keep marching. Keep looking to Christ, the Captain of our salvation. Through Christ in us, the hope of glory, we shall purify ourselves, even as He is pure. That is the Gospel. That is the good news.
1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
1John 5:4 For whatever is born of God, overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God, sins not [does not keep sinning]; but he that is begotten of God, guards himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Salvation is a cooperative partnership between God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and the believer. The more the believer puts the mind God gave him into faith and trust in Christ, the more the mind is ennobled and strengthened and fortified to fight the good fight of faith. Victory is assured. It is not rocket science. It is the science of Christianity. It is the work of God. Believe it.
Every deception imaginable is coming. Only those who stand on the whole Word of God, sanctified through it, victorious in it, is going to stand through what is coming upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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898. The Futility of Futurism - January 6, 2024
I just read an article interviewing one of the writers of the 'Left Behind' series of books. I can only shake my head.
www.christianpost.com/books/left-behind-author-talks-pre-rapture-end-times-bible-prophecies.html
"New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins is urging Christians to be ready because, he says, the pre-rapture End Times prophecies have been fulfilled.
"With war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, Jenkins believes Christians are watching and living through the prophetic timeline.
"It's clear, we're heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now,” he told CP. “The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that's happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack.
"Dr. LaHaye, who's now been gone for seven years, he believed that the bear was Russia, and the army from the East was China. And I think there's some real evidence for that. We really need to keep an eye on that.”
I may have missed it but, below are the only places in the Bible mentioning bears.
2Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.
1Sam 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
2Sam 17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Pro 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Pro 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the basilisk.
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like a bear, and it raised itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Hos 13:7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them.
Hos 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Hos 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help.
Amo 5:18 Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amo 5:19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Daniel 7 would be the only place a bear appears in prophecy. In Revelation 13, only the feet of the creature portrayed are that of a bear.
Having been through Daniel 7 and Rev. 13 at length, I will not engage again here but, suffice to say, the bear in Daniel is the Persian empire. The composite beast in Rev. 13 has aspects of the Persian empire in it, as well as Babylon (lion), Greece (leopard), and obviously Rome, the empire in control when John had his visions (dragon). There is no Russian bear in prophecy. Where is it? Not Daniel 7. Not Revelation 13.
Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, division of the Roman empire into the nations of Europe. That is the historic march of empires and nations in Daniel. The King of the North is Babylon (the RCC) and the King of the South ends up being Egypt (who is God that I should obey Him?) secular humanism, globalism, the entire communist totalitarian cabal. The King of the North, the Papacy, shall conquer it all.
The futility of Futurism is leading millions towards disaster. Nothing is solid. Everything is a maybe, a possibility, a guess, things "seem" to be happening to fulfill prophecy. It's a massive, prophetic sink hole.
There is no prophecy for our times which state Israel shall be attacked at all, let alone on all sides. The modern state of Israel is not God's through covenant. They broke the covenant when they rejected their Messiah and killed His disciples. They still reject Him. The modern state of Israel is not the Holy land. It is a land of confusion, occupied by Jews, Muslims and many denominations of Christians, which all disagree with each other on many pivotal points of doctrine. Israel ceased to be God's people when the ten tribes fell away and left Benjamin and Judah to carry on in Gods Word. Today's Israel is not that people of Christ's time, Judah and Benjamin. It's an unbelievable confusion of prophetic scenes and history.
Everything being guessed at falls into the framework of the Spanish Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, the father of prophetic Futurism. Look it up. That Jesuit concocted his commentary on Daniel and Revelation as a weapon against Protestantism pointing the prophetic finger at the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican as the great apostasy containing the man of sin, the little horn power of Daniel 7, the first Beast of Revelation 13, the great Whore of Babylon, Mother of harlots in Revelation 17. One nation after another was leaving the ranks of Romanism. Ribera's task was to stop the hemorrhaging and he placed events taking place then, to point out the Papacy and RCC and Vatican as the system of pagan religion fallen into Babylonian confusion, into the future with a one-man antichrist and all the rest. Jenkins and so many others are proclaiming Roman Catholic prophetic interpretation of last-day events. It is a crime against Heaven. It's a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. It is a deception from the father of lies. I do not deny the sincerity of those who proclaim it. It's just a grievous and erroneous understanding of history and prophecy. May people wake up before it is too late.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
www.christianpost.com/books/left-behind-author-talks-pre-rapture-end-times-bible-prophecies.html
"New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins is urging Christians to be ready because, he says, the pre-rapture End Times prophecies have been fulfilled.
"With war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, Jenkins believes Christians are watching and living through the prophetic timeline.
"It's clear, we're heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now,” he told CP. “The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that's happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack.
"Dr. LaHaye, who's now been gone for seven years, he believed that the bear was Russia, and the army from the East was China. And I think there's some real evidence for that. We really need to keep an eye on that.”
I may have missed it but, below are the only places in the Bible mentioning bears.
2Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.
1Sam 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
2Sam 17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Pro 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Pro 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the basilisk.
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like a bear, and it raised itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Hos 13:7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them.
Hos 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Hos 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help.
Amo 5:18 Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amo 5:19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Daniel 7 would be the only place a bear appears in prophecy. In Revelation 13, only the feet of the creature portrayed are that of a bear.
Having been through Daniel 7 and Rev. 13 at length, I will not engage again here but, suffice to say, the bear in Daniel is the Persian empire. The composite beast in Rev. 13 has aspects of the Persian empire in it, as well as Babylon (lion), Greece (leopard), and obviously Rome, the empire in control when John had his visions (dragon). There is no Russian bear in prophecy. Where is it? Not Daniel 7. Not Revelation 13.
Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, division of the Roman empire into the nations of Europe. That is the historic march of empires and nations in Daniel. The King of the North is Babylon (the RCC) and the King of the South ends up being Egypt (who is God that I should obey Him?) secular humanism, globalism, the entire communist totalitarian cabal. The King of the North, the Papacy, shall conquer it all.
The futility of Futurism is leading millions towards disaster. Nothing is solid. Everything is a maybe, a possibility, a guess, things "seem" to be happening to fulfill prophecy. It's a massive, prophetic sink hole.
There is no prophecy for our times which state Israel shall be attacked at all, let alone on all sides. The modern state of Israel is not God's through covenant. They broke the covenant when they rejected their Messiah and killed His disciples. They still reject Him. The modern state of Israel is not the Holy land. It is a land of confusion, occupied by Jews, Muslims and many denominations of Christians, which all disagree with each other on many pivotal points of doctrine. Israel ceased to be God's people when the ten tribes fell away and left Benjamin and Judah to carry on in Gods Word. Today's Israel is not that people of Christ's time, Judah and Benjamin. It's an unbelievable confusion of prophetic scenes and history.
Everything being guessed at falls into the framework of the Spanish Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, the father of prophetic Futurism. Look it up. That Jesuit concocted his commentary on Daniel and Revelation as a weapon against Protestantism pointing the prophetic finger at the Roman Catholic Church, its Papacy and Vatican as the great apostasy containing the man of sin, the little horn power of Daniel 7, the first Beast of Revelation 13, the great Whore of Babylon, Mother of harlots in Revelation 17. One nation after another was leaving the ranks of Romanism. Ribera's task was to stop the hemorrhaging and he placed events taking place then, to point out the Papacy and RCC and Vatican as the system of pagan religion fallen into Babylonian confusion, into the future with a one-man antichrist and all the rest. Jenkins and so many others are proclaiming Roman Catholic prophetic interpretation of last-day events. It is a crime against Heaven. It's a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. It is a deception from the father of lies. I do not deny the sincerity of those who proclaim it. It's just a grievous and erroneous understanding of history and prophecy. May people wake up before it is too late.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*****************************
899. 5D Chess - 1/7/24
I used to play chess when I was young. Haven't played in many years now. 3D chess, popularized by the TV program, Star Trek, is playing chess on 3 boards at the same time, two stacked over the table board. From there the hyperbolic statement can be layered however you want, to create the theme or idea of incredible complexity to something.
It is said by supporters of Donald Trump, who know him, that he plays 5D chess or 10D chess, etc. He thinks way ahead of any pack he's involved with. His business acumen went into overdrive once he learned how corrupt Washington, D.C. is, during his first campaign. He aligned himself with the military early on and made many allies in the ranks of patriots. Those patriots have been watching America tank for a long time and have compiled evidence of treasonous, traitorous acts and schemes and directions in league with global partners to ruin America, so the New World Order can finally begin. Today, we now see it called The Great Reset. The compiled treasonous actions are kept in store.
Because Trump could see the corruption first hand, he signed executive orders that would protect the Republic from outside, international players taking control of America, especially via election fraud. Why did the 2020 election fraud take place? Because DJT is the biggest monkey wrench in the cogs of globalism this dark-side cabal has ever encountered.
Trump protested the fraudulent election but, also believed if all the corruption compiled by the military intelligence were made public, civil war would erupt. Civil war cannot take place because it would be an excuse to wipe out all patriots taking a stand against the corruption. The cabal has control of the weaponry. BUT, in the 5D chess game, there are two factions. The pre and post 1871 American governments. The Treaty, the Act of 1871 turned America into a corporation, dissolving the effects of being a Constitutional Republic. The London bankers bailed out American bankruptcy from the Civil War. Payback was sent to the third wheel in the mechanics of the Treaty, the Vatican. For 147 years America has been paying back loans, with interest, made in 1871. In 2018, Trump signed an Executive Order dissolving the Treaty of 1871. Allegedly, over 600 planes carried back gold from the Vatican and it was placed in American vaults. Trump told the Queen and the Pope, it's over. America is returning to a Republic. The Queen could say nothing. The British Parliament could say nothing, the London banksters could say nothing, the Pope and his Vatican could say nothing lest the Pandora's Box of what took place in 1871 all be laid out for Americans and the world to see. Once that veil is removed, the game changes forever.
In the 5D chess game with Trump, the military and patriots in other corners of this ring, "the Plan" proceeds to trap every traitor in every criminal act perpetuated by them. First, it was decided rather than beat the drums of the 2020 fraud, Trump would protest but, also allow all Americans to see just how bad things would become under the heavy hands of radical Leftists in power. The National Guard was Federalized and the riots and destruction of American cities could have been put down during the "George Floyd riots" but, it was decided to let it all play out in the plan to let America see what the nation will become. As more and more Americans, from all political sides and corners, experience what the cabal has in store, the numbers supporting Trump continue to rise.
Interestingly, apparently to save his own skin, Biden has signed on to extend Trump's Executive Orders regarding all of this plan. When the hammer falls, the rats in the swamp jumping ship will startle the nation and the world. All corruption will be revealed, all players arrested, tried, and penalized accordingly.
I had no idea the number of podcasts and websites addressing all this. Dozens and dozens of them. More and more voices are speaking out. "Q Anon" is apparently military intelligence keeping Americans cryptically informed. While all seems lost, all is preparing to radically change when the plan reaches fruition so, the message is, be patient. Prepare. Be ready. Be informed. Be wise. The rule of law is going to win, eventually. When?
Trump is saying, if things are not righted by the end of this year, America is lost. War is planned, to further weaken the nation, for the tail to wag the dog and keep 'the plan' from fruition: more disasters, more illness, more inflation, everything that can be done, will be done to keep the national eyes off the cabal and keep them in charge.
Now, how much of this is reality? I do not know. I only share what the voices out there are stating. It's a very fluid, 5D chess game. The players are sharply divided. Constitutional patriots versus globalist minions. Avoid civil war. Hang them with their own nooses.
Will Donald Trump be assassinated? Here's the thing. They say it would have happened already were it not for the Deep State knowing The Plan and they are all going to hang because the military has the goods on them all; every player, every scheme, every crime. It all keeps Trump alive. So, the use of nonsensical legal avenues are being used to stop Trump from running. If he runs and wins and snaps the trap, it is over for the cabal. The stakes are enormous. Trump must be stopped. So far, their schemes have failed. Trump is a political freight train. More Americans, from all sides, are getting on board. Radical Leftists are putting their feet in their mouths on a daily basis trying to control the narrative. Biden has run a crime family for decades and it is all coming together to see him politically destroyed. Before his mental incapacities he stated, publicly, his acts of illegality and corruption; so bold and confident he has been that he can just roll along at will. Now, mentally ill and weakened, his wife keeping him going, Obama and others in the cabal running the government, all knowing the day of reckoning is coming, are desperate to save their own hides.
There is a reason the main stream news media are all claiming Trump will be a dictator, a Hitler if he runs and is elected. They know what is coming. Trump will declare martial law, enact all Federalized National Guard troops to clean up the cities of gangs, pedophile rings and traffickers, close the borders to all illegal entries, and bring the rule of law to be the hammer it was meant to be to reign in corruption in government. The swamp will be drained. The voices of reason will be let loose and the voices of deceit and corruption will wither to nothing overnight.
2024 is lining up to be the most pivotal year in American history in my lifetime. For me, the bottom line is prophecy. America has a prophetic destiny, (Rev 13:11-18). It will take place. When? Maybe now. Maybe a generation from now. It could have already happened if God had a solid remnant; keeping the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, Rev 12:17; 14:12.
Everything seems in a holding pattern. The Bible is filled with those. God's timetable is rarely man's. It is a fact that, even if the perpetrators of treason were not stopped by patriots, they will still face God some day. They cannot escape judgment. They will not escape the penalty due their crimes. No one will, who does not repent and get their self right with their Creator and Redeemer. It's a free gift. It is a gracious gift because God knows the temptations mankind faces every moment of every day, and knows mankind's adversary as thoroughly as can be known. Lucifer loses. God wins. End of story.
When the angels let go of the four winds (Rev 7:1-3), when God's servants, His people are sealed for eternity, America and the world will enter the final time of trouble. Then the building war of the supernatural shall enter the final stages. Then the end shall come. Then shall God's people from down through the ages go home.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It is said by supporters of Donald Trump, who know him, that he plays 5D chess or 10D chess, etc. He thinks way ahead of any pack he's involved with. His business acumen went into overdrive once he learned how corrupt Washington, D.C. is, during his first campaign. He aligned himself with the military early on and made many allies in the ranks of patriots. Those patriots have been watching America tank for a long time and have compiled evidence of treasonous, traitorous acts and schemes and directions in league with global partners to ruin America, so the New World Order can finally begin. Today, we now see it called The Great Reset. The compiled treasonous actions are kept in store.
Because Trump could see the corruption first hand, he signed executive orders that would protect the Republic from outside, international players taking control of America, especially via election fraud. Why did the 2020 election fraud take place? Because DJT is the biggest monkey wrench in the cogs of globalism this dark-side cabal has ever encountered.
Trump protested the fraudulent election but, also believed if all the corruption compiled by the military intelligence were made public, civil war would erupt. Civil war cannot take place because it would be an excuse to wipe out all patriots taking a stand against the corruption. The cabal has control of the weaponry. BUT, in the 5D chess game, there are two factions. The pre and post 1871 American governments. The Treaty, the Act of 1871 turned America into a corporation, dissolving the effects of being a Constitutional Republic. The London bankers bailed out American bankruptcy from the Civil War. Payback was sent to the third wheel in the mechanics of the Treaty, the Vatican. For 147 years America has been paying back loans, with interest, made in 1871. In 2018, Trump signed an Executive Order dissolving the Treaty of 1871. Allegedly, over 600 planes carried back gold from the Vatican and it was placed in American vaults. Trump told the Queen and the Pope, it's over. America is returning to a Republic. The Queen could say nothing. The British Parliament could say nothing, the London banksters could say nothing, the Pope and his Vatican could say nothing lest the Pandora's Box of what took place in 1871 all be laid out for Americans and the world to see. Once that veil is removed, the game changes forever.
In the 5D chess game with Trump, the military and patriots in other corners of this ring, "the Plan" proceeds to trap every traitor in every criminal act perpetuated by them. First, it was decided rather than beat the drums of the 2020 fraud, Trump would protest but, also allow all Americans to see just how bad things would become under the heavy hands of radical Leftists in power. The National Guard was Federalized and the riots and destruction of American cities could have been put down during the "George Floyd riots" but, it was decided to let it all play out in the plan to let America see what the nation will become. As more and more Americans, from all political sides and corners, experience what the cabal has in store, the numbers supporting Trump continue to rise.
Interestingly, apparently to save his own skin, Biden has signed on to extend Trump's Executive Orders regarding all of this plan. When the hammer falls, the rats in the swamp jumping ship will startle the nation and the world. All corruption will be revealed, all players arrested, tried, and penalized accordingly.
I had no idea the number of podcasts and websites addressing all this. Dozens and dozens of them. More and more voices are speaking out. "Q Anon" is apparently military intelligence keeping Americans cryptically informed. While all seems lost, all is preparing to radically change when the plan reaches fruition so, the message is, be patient. Prepare. Be ready. Be informed. Be wise. The rule of law is going to win, eventually. When?
Trump is saying, if things are not righted by the end of this year, America is lost. War is planned, to further weaken the nation, for the tail to wag the dog and keep 'the plan' from fruition: more disasters, more illness, more inflation, everything that can be done, will be done to keep the national eyes off the cabal and keep them in charge.
Now, how much of this is reality? I do not know. I only share what the voices out there are stating. It's a very fluid, 5D chess game. The players are sharply divided. Constitutional patriots versus globalist minions. Avoid civil war. Hang them with their own nooses.
Will Donald Trump be assassinated? Here's the thing. They say it would have happened already were it not for the Deep State knowing The Plan and they are all going to hang because the military has the goods on them all; every player, every scheme, every crime. It all keeps Trump alive. So, the use of nonsensical legal avenues are being used to stop Trump from running. If he runs and wins and snaps the trap, it is over for the cabal. The stakes are enormous. Trump must be stopped. So far, their schemes have failed. Trump is a political freight train. More Americans, from all sides, are getting on board. Radical Leftists are putting their feet in their mouths on a daily basis trying to control the narrative. Biden has run a crime family for decades and it is all coming together to see him politically destroyed. Before his mental incapacities he stated, publicly, his acts of illegality and corruption; so bold and confident he has been that he can just roll along at will. Now, mentally ill and weakened, his wife keeping him going, Obama and others in the cabal running the government, all knowing the day of reckoning is coming, are desperate to save their own hides.
There is a reason the main stream news media are all claiming Trump will be a dictator, a Hitler if he runs and is elected. They know what is coming. Trump will declare martial law, enact all Federalized National Guard troops to clean up the cities of gangs, pedophile rings and traffickers, close the borders to all illegal entries, and bring the rule of law to be the hammer it was meant to be to reign in corruption in government. The swamp will be drained. The voices of reason will be let loose and the voices of deceit and corruption will wither to nothing overnight.
2024 is lining up to be the most pivotal year in American history in my lifetime. For me, the bottom line is prophecy. America has a prophetic destiny, (Rev 13:11-18). It will take place. When? Maybe now. Maybe a generation from now. It could have already happened if God had a solid remnant; keeping the commandments of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, Rev 12:17; 14:12.
Everything seems in a holding pattern. The Bible is filled with those. God's timetable is rarely man's. It is a fact that, even if the perpetrators of treason were not stopped by patriots, they will still face God some day. They cannot escape judgment. They will not escape the penalty due their crimes. No one will, who does not repent and get their self right with their Creator and Redeemer. It's a free gift. It is a gracious gift because God knows the temptations mankind faces every moment of every day, and knows mankind's adversary as thoroughly as can be known. Lucifer loses. God wins. End of story.
When the angels let go of the four winds (Rev 7:1-3), when God's servants, His people are sealed for eternity, America and the world will enter the final time of trouble. Then the building war of the supernatural shall enter the final stages. Then the end shall come. Then shall God's people from down through the ages go home.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.