So here you are, and here you shall remain forever. This place, if you can call it a place, it’s more like a nightmare, is utterly dark – there’s no hint of light, not a pinprick. There is nothing here, you gave up trying to scream, even trying to breathe soon after you arrived, for there is no air. You do not have lungs anyway, no body, nothing at all but your spirit and agony, fear, and memories. Memories of former life on earth, friends, camping trips, birds singing in trees, but alas, those things, those people and events no longer exist but as ever-present after thoughts of that life, forever inscribed into your lonely consciousness. The indescribable loneliness is the worst part, you’ll never again be in the company of another soul – anybody – forever
The agony is unbearable, you never dreamed that a being could undergo this torment you suffer. You incessantly pray to God Who does not remember you, He no longer hears your piteous pleas, though there was a time when He patiently waited to hear from you. There were preachers and even old hillbilly bloggers who tried to warn you of this existence, but you were too busy pursuing worldly lusts and decadent living to listen to them. The Bible you kept on prominent display in your living room was rarely opened. You mocked those who believed in Jesus as though they were crazy; most people did. But where are all of your worldly friends now? Though you will never know, for you’ll never see or hear from them again, you suspect they – at least those who shared your unbelief – are in a similar situation as you, utterly alone in darkness and agony for all of eternity. Some of them – especially your family and friends you loved are painfully missed.
There is no sound where you are, no music, no birdsong, not even the aggravating wail of the ubiquitous sirens that pealed through the city streets – there’s nothing. If you were engulfed in an entire universe of sponge, it would not be quieter. You’ll never hear a sound again, never taste an apple nor even have a single drop of precious water on your tongue. The memory of water is one of the most agonizing, every time you think of it – beautiful, pure mountain springs of clearest blue water!
When you left your former life, you were allowed to experience another existence, one of abundant joy and serenity where angels sang in notes that the greatest composers through human history did not know. Voices of unimaginable beauty sang praises of God with melody that you could actually feel. You had an invitation that was personally sent to you by way of preachers, prophets, your unread Bible, and the Lord Jesus Himself whereby had you accepted, you could have stayed there forever in the indescribable happiness of the presence of the Almighty God and the Lamb. You threw it out with your junk mail, too absorbed in the idolatrous life that the servants of evil kept before you. You don’t remember how long you were allowed to experience that paradise, maybe an hour, a day, maybe a million years, but the whole time you were there, you knew you’d have to leave it, and when you did go you experienced the most horrific realization that a human could ever imagine – you’d never see that place again, though you will longingly remember it forever. The presence of the Lamb of God was too awesome and wonderful to imagine! How on earth could you have passed that up? Then, you were cast into the outer darkness – the privations of incredible agony and torment – a place, or state of mind, who knows? Then it hits you that it will be your prison for all eternity.
God said the former things will be forgotten. Once the harvest was completed and the new Kingdom established, there would be no more thought of those sins nor the people who lived in them. Utterly forgotten, alone in agonizing darkness, all traded away for a few short years of that sinful and immoral lifestyle that you chose. Now, with consummate regret, you realize just what an incredibly short time it was – in which you could have been preparing yourself for the grandest of homecomings in the other place. That unimaginably beautiful, peaceful home of eternal joy and most of all, the presence and the love of God, which you could also feel – it was unbelievable! And you passed up your chance to be there – forever. Now, you are merely one of the former things which has become forgotten – not a soul in all of creation remembers you ever existed, and no help will be forthcoming. But here you are, and here you will be – forever. You cannot even look forward to death to end this torment. This is death, the second death mentioned in the Bible.
If a person, or a spirit were to happen to come before you in this piteous state and offer you a way out of this predicament, you’d absolutely listen and plead for his help. The anxiety you’d experience at the possibility of relief from this everlasting torment and darkness would captivate your attention as never before. You’d be willing to do anything to get help out of this place. You’d be utterly enrapt with hope at the prospect this fellow offered.
When you ask how this can happen, the man says you must be able to travel through time, and if you can do that, you can go back and learn about Jesus Christ and He could lead you to eternal life in that wonderful place you saw. But you know that time travel is not possible – there’s nothing here, no materials to try and build a time machine even if you knew how, so you reply to the man that it would be impossible for you to travel through time. To which he says, “Then there’s no help for you, but if there was some way for you to go back in time – say to the late summer of 2024, you could call on Jesus to save you from this torment”, and suddenly you are reading this post and realize – I’ve actually traveled back in time to the late summer of 2024 and I can go to Jesus and He can make my relief happen before I get cast into that abominable torment and darkness! Thank you, Lord!
This is as real as it gets, folks – we all desperately need Jesus.
Humanity has reached a place where we who are living have never been before. There can be no going back now. It seems as though every successive empire has crossed this Rubicon at some point. Especially for the United States of America, the Babylon on steroids of the modern age. Now and for the foreseeable future, the rest of the world sees the US as probably the most deplorable haunt of evil ever to exist. Our leaders, especially the congress creatures, are corrupt beyond description, and their smiling, standing ovations for the messenger of Satan could not demonstrate their malevolence more clearly. These people are EVIL! At some point in the near future, they will attempt to force everyone to acquiesce to the beast that is arising. Watch for it.
We’ve reached a juncture where citizens the world over are sick and tired of being expected to bow in obeisance to a nation that is committing the gravest of moral offenses for everyone to see. This is no accident – it has been planned for millennia. It was planned in a place which is not familiar to the physical world. We now confront a situation where we must, each of us individually, decide where our loyalties lie – either with the unspeakable evil of murdering and starving innocent little kids or fighting it, or at the very least speaking out against it. There is no middle ground here and looking the other way bestows upon people the same guilt of culpability as those who are actively engaged in the monstrous behavior. Speaking out against the genocide – or for that matter, the gross immorality rampant in our society today – is rapidly becoming a criminal offense, such are the moral depredations of the congressional demons in charge of making our “laws”. Allegiance to Jesus Christ will soon be a criminal offense. Many have, through bribery and intimidation, made the decision to support Satanic behavior of all genres. As a result of the choices of depraved humans, there will be no going back – each congressional vote supporting weapons sales to genocidal maniacs is forever etched into their record, the one that counts. AIPAC money won’t avail them when they have to give an account of their evil votes to the Almighty.
It should go without saying that never again will citizens of the world regard the US as a benevolent, honorable nation. Among others of Satanic persuasion, our illustrious “intelligence” agencies have ensured that all nations, even our so-called “allies”, though to some extent might endure us, none shall respect America anymore. That once honorable ship has sailed, never to return. Her epitaph includes every type of malevolent behavior imaginable – torture, a government sponsored illicit drug epidemic that is destroying our once-admired cities, biological weapons and their preventive measures, both apparently designed and applied to eradicate populations, state-sponsored armed robbery by “law” enforcement in the guise of some sort of voluntary-sounding “asset forfeiture”, as well as laws being enacted against moral stances we take against the new-age immorality – we have sunk to the very bottom of the cesspit and demons dance with delight in the darkness of our demise.
At this writing, there are new efforts afoot to tie Saudi Arabia to the atrocities of 9/11/2001. Lest we get a movement going to objectively examine the events of that day, a renewed effort is being exerted to impress into the public that the Saudis, or at least “terrorists” from that country, committed the offenses. This is being done with their usual slyness of speaking of lawsuits or some other distraction that is supposed to be happening, so to make it seem to the gullible public that the involvement of Saudi terrorists is a foregone conclusion, which it is not, Saudi involvement is referenced once more. The powers that be will do ANYTHING to keep the 9/11 attacks from being properly investigated, for the public might find that it was a false flag executed by a “friendly” nation – one which exerts tremendous and inexplicable influence over our government. There can be no doubt our founding fathers would be immensely disgusted at what we have allowed our country to become.
We can’t go back, no matter how much we’d like, to the days of “Leave it to Beaver”, or the innocence of being aghast at seeing President Nixon in trouble for some petty (by today’s standards) nuisance behavior in the pursuit of partisan advantage. Neither can we go back to the days of saving up for a vacation overseas where everyone we meet in foreign lands wants to hang out with us because we’re the much-admired Americans. Foreign folks don’t really want to be seen as friendly to us anymore.
We are now realizing we have stepped into the ring with a merciless opponent. We suffered body blows as we found our president had committed immoral acts with an intern. We took devastating uppercuts of guilt and shame to find out our soldiers were involved in torturing prisoners of war. We winced in pain and shock when we found that our intelligence agencies were running drugs that wound up in our cities and using the proceeds to illegally finance a war, one in which our government was openly supporting one side and secretly supporting the other. Due to a plane crash in Nicaragua in October, 1986, a creature named Eugene Hasenfus who was in the employ of the CIA was arrested by Nicaraguan authorities and the whole scheme was exposed to the world. We were smitten to the canvas when we watched the collateral murder of Iraqi journalists and the further attacks on the ambulances that came to rescue the victims. In an unbelievable exclamation point to the obituary of press freedom, we lived through the US government persecutions of Manning and Assange when they exposed that event to the world. Now we have become acclimated to the infamy of our leaders, even to the extent that nowadays most folks seem to accept malevolent behavior as normal for them.
Americans were shocked when we found out that not only were there no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the president, an office in which we once placed our trust, knew all along there were no such weapons, and the true purpose of the Iraqi invasion was to advance the interests of our “ally” in the middle east. The late Colin Powell, once a well-respected former general, joined ranks with the professional liars as he held up his famous vial of “anthrax” in front of the whole world. The United States has truly become a nation of liars and thieves in its upper echelons. They even have the temerity to act like it angers them when some soul calls them out on some given lie, no matter how absurd and obvious to the whole world it may be. Jesus said Satan is the father of lies, so who do you suspect they are serving? [John 8:44] You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
General Powell being taught (how to lie?) by something evil
Americans watch in disbelief and embarrassment as our delegates to the United Nations sit before representatives of the world’s nations and spout lies and fabrications that offend the intelligence and/or moral sanctity of the entire assembly. Rarely a glimmer of truth passes the lips of any American or Israeli “diplomat”, yet when given the floor they rave on as if all in attendance were morons who might actually believe a word they say. No one does, but they carry on as though those listening are somehow obligated to give them the benefit of the doubt. When they are challenged as to the veracity of whatever lie they are telling, they feign incredulity and pretend to be enraged that someone wouldn’t believe their too-often ridiculous narratives.
The only person in attendance who didn’t think this was absurd was the guy holding the placard, but then judging by the cognitive mediocrity of his audience…
Those “leaders”, regardless of whether they are the puppets in office, or the ones higher up the food chain who pull their strings, do not realize nor care that they have brought us to this point where we can never return to whatever normalcy we had prior to the onset of this genocide. Maybe it goes back to 9/11 or even further, and maybe that’s what they wanted all along – to alienate America from the rest of the world because it’s a fact that no nation has any obligation or reason to trust or befriend America anymore. We lost that trust when our leaders showed the world their true lack of decency by instigating color revolutions and/or stealing assets from nations who would not bend the knee to the empire. How can we blame Saudi Arabia or China or anyone else for unloading US debt when they know now that the US is capable with no compunction of sanctioning them and seizing their money and/or property at any time simply because they disagree with US policy? We can never go back, but that’s where their true master, Satan has brought the world. His game is destruction, and he doesn’t have the first hint of a conscience, even and maybe especially toward those who serve him. He dumps them for bigger and better things. It happens all the time; Sheldon Adelson is no longer in operation, I seriously doubt that anyone misses him, and I do not envy his soul! The day will come when the devil turns each and every one of his followers over to their own destruction, such is his loyalty to them, but as long as they are still breathing, they don’t seem to know it. The empire is only just beginning to crumble. For now, they hide behind their ill-gotten wealth and live high on the hog. We are told in the Bible that [1 Peter 5:8] “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” His followers are no exception, when the time is right, he’ll happily destroy them, or gleefully watch on as they destroy themselves, his whole purpose is destruction – no conscience, no loyalty. He has already given them what they wanted, riches and power in this life, and nothing else will be forthcoming because his time here is short, and he has other depredations to which he must attend before the end.
Seems like more and more of these yachts are finding Davy Jones’ locker these days
We live among people who support genocide, the merciless slaughter of the most innocent people imaginable. They are being murdered by the thousands with American weapons as the world watches on in astonishment at this heretofore unseen evil. Sane and decent people cannot fathom the depths of evil being committed – most are shocked that there are creatures on this earth who purport to be human beings yet are capable of inflicting such horror on other human beings. To support such unimaginable malevolence is to irrevocably concede one’s humanity, deny one’s conscience, and when that happens there’s no going back, for they have purchased their ticket and taken their seat on the train bound for hell and it only makes one-way trips.
To good people of moral standing and spiritual aspiration, y’all hang on – it’s going to get worse for us for a while, but then one fine day, it will get better – the Day He returns, and He will. Hang on to Jesus with all your might, He knows where your heart is. He is the ONLY Way to win this battle, and He always stands beside us, even in these dark times. Do not fear nor give in to these monsters – they have rejected Jesus and are headed for destruction, and only God knows the terror without mercy that awaits them. Don’t expect mercy from them, they do not know what it is, yet we must be merciful ourselves at every opportunity – that’s one of the preeminent things that separate us from them. We truly become what we were created to be – God’s children – when we are able to forgive and to love even our enemies, and becoming God’s people is the only way we can reclaim our humanity. [Matthew 5:44,45] But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Christians cannot support the evil that’s happening in this world, don’t even think about it, and don’t let them get to you.
A lot of folks don’t claim to be spiritual, so one might consider it a waste of time to do posts about Jesus Christ, but I’m beginning to realize that people who don’t know about Jesus are more likely to pay attention to the conversation than those who’ve heard of Him but allow the behavior of hypocrites to influence their opinions, about religion in general, but more specifically, Christianity. This is especially applicable to people who insist on following after the ways of this world.
For a lot of people, the antics of charlatans who, in the name of Christ, set about amassing personal wealth and worldly possessions, has negatively influenced their regard for the spiritual which has a bearing on the fate of their eternal souls. After seeing the sacrilegious behavior of some of the “evangelists” in business today, it’s hard to blame someone who hasn’t experienced first-hand the providence of God if they reject religion outright, but there are other ways to seek Him. In fact, this post has set out to proffer a different view altogether from that which some have become accustomed.
The Almighty God has given us a lot of choices, a lot of forks in the road on this journey we have before us, but one thing that gets overlooked regarding the choices we make is that we are allowed to believe what we want to believe. God gave us, as human beings, the freedom to believe what we will – it is an inalienable right – we believe what we WANT to believe, and disregard that which choose not to believe. That said, whatever choice we might make to believe a thing does not in any way make that thing correct, nor does it make a given belief false, that is beyond the scope of this conversation. We can truly believe the highway ahead is straight and decide to drive 100 miles per hour, but there may be a right-angle turn ahead that we can’t see, so although we are allowed to believe it’s straight, the curve we fly into proves our belief was wrong – the point is that we were allowed to believe what we did, regardless of the veracity of the belief.
In the same vein, we are allowed to believe that God doesn’t exist if that’s what we want to believe. The important thing is that it’s what we want to believe. A person cannot get away with, “Well, I wanted to believe in Jesus, but there just wasn’t enough evidence.” This person did not want to believe at all – the allure of the lusts of the world established in his heart that he did not want to believe, otherwise he’d have to change his lifestyle and become the righteous person Jesus expects His followers to be. If he had truly wanted to believe in Jesus, he could have – as mentioned earlier, God allows us, and has wired us, to be able to believe what we want to believe.
The evidence for God’s existence is at a nominal glance, a reasonable expectation for the rational mind to be able to accept that He is real, but the absence of it is too often used as a justification for not wanting to believe. If we choose to look into the covenant that Jesus has given us, however, we find that essential requirement that God demands, faith, must be exercised in order to find Him. Therefore, if there was evidence of God’s existence, we wouldn’t need faith to believe in Him. So what comes first, faith or desire to believe? I believe it is the “want to”, because when we stand before the judgement seat, we won’t be able to claim we didn’t believe because there was no evidence – if we come to that unenviable point as unbelievers, it is because we wanted to be unbelievers, and God allowed us to be so.
So, if I’m a person who has just stepped into the world and have heard there is a God, what is my motivation for wanting to know more about Him? There’s a reference book that’s several thousand years old that explains what we can expect in the hereafter, after we die, a subject of great interest, which incidentally isn’t understood or explained anywhere else. We live our lives here on earth and watch people die over and over again, never hearing from them anymore, and the staunchest atheists, who practically demand that you don’t believe in God, can’t give you any hint of what happened to them, A big problem for people in this world today is that there are more and more unbelievers, and in our interminable efforts to be like everyone else, we reject the only Truth out there. That person who seeks understanding can listen to the prophets who came before, he can listen to old bloggers on the internet, he can listen to the words of Jesus Christ Himself, but the key to all of this is that he first must want to know the truth. If he wants to believe, God made him so that he can. The first step in the right direction is to decide that believing in Jesus is what you want to do, then let Him do His work. There will come a point where you understand in your heart that you made the correct choice.
The truth of the matter is this: We shall all, each and every soul who has ever lived on this earth, come before the judgement of Jesus Christ. Does our disbelief condemn our souls so that we will hear Him say, “‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”? That ensuing departure from the everlasting glory of His presence will be the most unimaginably painful, heart-wrenching event to ever be endured by a human soul. Or conversely, will He tell us, [Matthew 25:34] “‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. “? I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m opting for the latter!
We got some much-needed rain here in the holler yesterday and last night. Heavy storms around midnight and thunder kept going till the early morning hours. Maybe saying “much needed” is an exaggeration because we’ve actually had a nice, lush spring and summer and we’ve only been low on rain for a few weeks. This old farmhouse needs some work too, because the mud room is starting to flood when we get that kind of downpour, but our situation is not nearly as bad as some places in the world that are getting devastating floods.
Flooding in Africa
The weather is changing everywhere, and it seems like wherever you look, someone has a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. There is undoubtedly some kind of climate change(s) going on, but whenever someone’s theory as to why it’s happening gets into politics, the theory becomes suspect – at least to me. For instance, there’s a sizeable movement that wants to declare war on fossil fuels because they see the increase in CO2 as coming from mankind burning too much of it. Then among the most ardent opposition to that turns out to be folks from the oil and coal producing entities. I’m not going to get into that fight, because I don’t know the particulars, and from so much suspect motivation for their positions, it’s hard to believe that anybody else does either.
The most compelling argument concerning fossil fuels is that they are responsible for way too much death and destruction from peoples and nations fighting over them. Most of the wars and hatred stirred up for the last several decades have been because of the wealth that stands to be obtained over the control of oil and natural gas, so when you take into account the ginormous pollution that occurs as a result of wars, then the dots could reasonably be connected from the burning of fossil fuels to the harm done to the climate.
Is this what the Amazon will look like in a few years?
If someone from one of the excessively wise think tanks were to stand up and say, “Hey, you know what? If we shut down all the wars going on, we wouldn’t need to burn so much fuel for our tanks, jet planes, oil burning ships, and other military vehicles.” Maybe that kind of thinking could lead to, “Since we don’t need as much oil for wars, maybe humanity could stop throwing wars over oil.” Maybe then the oil used for killing each other could be reserved for agricultural equipment and nations blessed with good soil could set to trying to feed hungry people.
With those notions in mind, it might make more sense where the book of Revelation mentions as the seals are being opened where the voice in heaven says, [Revelation 6:6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” Maybe that verse is talking about crude oil, I’m not sure, and it’s hard to understand how we can harm oil; maybe sinking tankers full of it. Maybe it is warning conquering armies to try and save oil fields and wine stocks when they capture enemy possessions as they enjoy their wars. At any rate, the two items mentioned, food and oil, are among the most fought-over commodities in today’s world.
We know from the scriptures that we will endure wars right up to the end of the world, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if humanity could find it within ourselves to figure out a way to stop killing each other? Of course, we cannot, and a prescient commenter reminded me recently that it’s because we do not struggle against flesh and blood, but other entities: [Ephesians 6:12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
If we were left to our own devices and if our struggle for survival was left to us as a species, who knows? Maybe we could figure out a way to exist peacefully, but we are being controlled by monstrous spiritual entities who will not allow us to go in that direction. We have access to Jesus Christ, who is perfectly able to defeat them and lead us in the direction of peace, but for some reason, most folks seem to enjoy lives of sin and debauchery so much that they ignore the One Who is able to save us, both from ourselves and the demons who control some. So, as with many other human defects, we kill each other over the wealth that comes from oil as one of the many lame reasons for our wars.
Jesus said [Matthew 5:9] “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” I don’t know about the reader, but this old man considers being called a son of God to be the highest honor that can be bestowed on a human being, and we should strive to be regarded as such, hence this post espousing and encouraging peace. There are many organizations, people and groups who preach peace and try to make it happen. People with the opportunity to be called children of God.
If a person is a stockholder in any of the multitude of “defense” industries and contractors who are vested in death and destruction, that person is the polar opposite of a peacemaker, and will be in no position to try and justify his financial ties to weapons of death on that Day when he has to give an account of himself before the Almighty God. [Hebrews 10:31] “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God”; and the greatest blessing that could come into that person’s life would be to understand what that fear will be like, now while he has a chance to repent and rectify his pursuits. In this day when the weapons from which you make money are being used to slaughter innocent children before your very eyes, you cannot say you didn’t know of the horrific travesty from which you were getting rich. From what we know about the justice of God, ignoring your future recompense ain’t going to make it go away.
As the sun comes out and the humidity monster begins to prowl in the Ozarks, we are reminded that August is in mid stride and the colorful, brisk world of autumn is still a few weeks out, but any time is a good time to consider where we stand with God. If a person chooses to ignore the events taking place in the world that are obvious and ominous signs of the impending end of things, then it’s all the more urgent they be stirred into seeking Jesus, the only One Who is able to bring them to victory over the evils of the times and bestow upon them an everlasting existence of unimaginable joy. For to those who are willing to believe, victory awaits, climate change or no.
It’s Monday morning here in the Ozarks, and we continue to enjoy a very mild summer, in fact it feels more like fall outside, and it’s only mid-August! As we read on the news and watch the weather reports, we are constantly bombarded with news about horrible weather events around the world, droughts, heat waves, storms and floods, so we are thankful here for the nice weather God has bestowed upon us.
I opened my mail from over the weekend and one of the letters was a request for financial assistance from one of the American Indian schools, this one in Montana. It is the St. Labre Indian School in Ashland. They got a quote for a new water purification system for the reservation and are in pretty dire straits, because what they need is going to cost north of 700,000, and as we all know, Indian reservations are typically not very well off financially – they need help.
The lifestyle to which they’ve been relegated today
Now I don’t know how everyone feels about a responsibility to help these people, but we all know the stories of how our forebears forcibly took over the country from them, and in the process they committed some very atrocious misdeeds. Acts such as giving the tribes blankets that were intentionally contaminated with smallpox, and the white man’s army decimating their villages, killing everyone, even children are among those acts of genocide that have been reported, and which there are no reasonable grounds to doubt.
For much of my life as I learned of the atrocities, the broken treaties, and the terrible ways that our ancestors treated the Indians, I’ve felt that if only there was something I could do to try and make it up to them, it would be the least I could do, so I try to help out as I can. I well understand that there’s nothing substantive we can do to rewrite history in any honest way, and it would be a waste of time to attempt to, but there are some things we can do to at least help to alleviate the tragic suffering they still endure, the squalid living conditions they face daily. For the living standards we enjoy in this beautiful country our fathers took by force, I think we should consider making a nominal effort to help these folks out and helping them to be able to get clean drinking water isn’t too much to ask.
I’ve never gotten involved in fund raising of any kind – this website isn’t even monetized – so I really don’t know how to start with this, but I’m sure that there are readers out there who might be able to help, and to be honest, a person should be able to just send some financial support to the St. Labre school, either mail it or send it through one of the ways they have set up to receive support. Your help is tax-deductible. Here’s their info:
There are readers of this site from all walks of life and in lots of diverse places. Some college kids read folkpotpourri, and it would be a monumental help for this cause to get word out on some of the campuses and lets see what we can do to help St Labre.
As a bonus, I’ll link a tribute from Folkpotpourri to the Indian folks from some time ago.
Remember, Jesus said whoever gives even a cup of water to His servants in His name, there will be a reward. Mark 9:41
For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward. The St. Labre school is a Christian school. It will make you feel better in your heart when you help those in need.
Come on folks, get the checkbook, but just as importantly the word, out – there’s something we can do to help here and to amend some wrongs from the past.
All the folks who’ve stayed diligent about getting the truth out about 9/11 must be making some progress of late, because there’s evidence surfacing of fear of truth on this subject lately. Perhaps it is because of so many Americans finally learning to question narratives put forth by the government. The dots aren’t all that hard to connect after all, it’s just we have for so many years trusted nightly newscasts, we hardly dared to question what we saw on the crawlers. But now that everyone is learning none of them are to be trusted about anything they say, it’s almost like getting smacked in the head with a two by four. Of course, I remember that British reporter woman talking about building seven having come down as it stood proudly behind her in the same video! It did fall, but that was after her newscast!
That’s Building Seven behind her head on the right – as she was sadly telling everyone it had already fallen
Where Americans fall short in their skepticism abilities is that we rarely question motives and that’s important, however we’ve been carefully trained to avoid such questions. Sure, we can see that the building is still there, and sure we can see that she’s lying right there in front of the whole world, but why, and what significance to the entire event does this lie reveal? Looking back, it becomes obvious that the news report she was reading off had been pre-scripted. This screw-up gave away the extreme probability that the entire event had been pre-scripted. There can be no argument, no rationalization whatsoever for her saying that building had fallen – there are thousands of buildings in New York City, why did she choose a building that would actually fall? Of course, someone, or probably many someones, knew that building was going to come down, they just got the timing of the report wrong. Furthermore, due to the impossibility of an office fire in the lower stories causing a modern building to collapse (in its own footprint, another impossibility), they had to cook up some “scientific” reasoning that could have caused the collapse, and a US government organization, NIST, cooked up a report that would make it sound reasonable to the sheep.
Later, when the University of Alaska at Fairbanks did a two-year study of the events surrounding the collapse of building 7, the unassailable and peer-reviewed results of which challenged the official NIST version, the results of that Alaska study were essentially disregarded, with no scientifically valid reasoning. This refusal by a once highly respected organization to rebut the findings of a very sophisticated study by guys with PhDs in engineering was taken to court to try and get them to amend the official report – all the way to the Supreme Court, where the sitting justices revealed their inability or unwillingness to apply any rules of justice and in effect said that government institutions are legally allowed to concoct outright false reports for official records. If you just follow this one rabbit trail and don’t even look into any of the other numerous fallacies in the 9/11 record, you can easily see that at the very least, our government is hiding something big about 9/11. Interestingly, there’s enough new “information” coming out right now (that cunningly supports the official narrative), that it bears watching.
As evidence of the progress of groups like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, some seemingly innocent videos are going viral in which one is an apparently innocent young lady who seems to be undergoing an epiphany as to the deviousness of the government by revelations of a letter, purported to be written by Osama bin Laden several years ago which reveals why Islamic types have gone to war against our government and others who have committed so many grave wrongs towards those of the Moslem faith. In my opinion, the deviousness of these videos is atrocious. On the one hand, in the one I’m referencing it appears that she is overcoming a former misbelief that her government was innocent of mistreatment of other peoples – a misbelief which is absolutely correct – but this “letter” deviously points the finger of guilt for 9/11 back towards Islamic terrorists for taking retribution by doing the 9/11 events, which as is slowly coming to light, they did not do. Someone else was responsible for 9/11, regardless of what this little actress says in her video. So, she is in effect saying that yes, America had it coming, but the deception of the video is how she tries to convince us to connect dots that are not there. If one were to believe the emphasis of her video, one would have to unquestioningly accept the narrative that some guys that couldn’t even fly a Piper Cub actually took over some very sophisticated passenger jets and were competent to fly them at incredible speeds into buildings, but the way she accedes this is sort of as a side note to the “honesty” of bin Laden’s letter. That is done on purpose to make her “concern” so believable, as well as attempt to erase any notion of someone else being guilty of orchestrating 9/11. She’s pretty convincing so she undoubtedly earned whatever she got from her performance, but when you step back and see what they’re actually trying to do, it becomes so obvious that even New Yorkers can see it. To add credibility to this and other videos referencing bin Laden’s “Letter to America”, several platforms are – very publicly – taking them down, as if the videos were somehow supporting terrorism. They’re all working this one together. I personally believe that something new and big is about to come out and these videos are getting put out there to buttress the official narrative in anticipation of it. There are more similar videos out there, and more than one of them say in effect, that we NEED to read bin Laden’s letter.
The biggest takeaway from this video for me is why would they want, or need, to pad the 9/11 narrative now? What event, or series of events would lead the Mossad and CIA to trot out this letter in a video by some actress who would seem like some housewife who has just happened to learn of bin Laden’s letter and what it says, and so had an epiphany, even suggesting that we “NEED” to read this letter so we can appreciate the gravity of bin Laden telling us why his cadre would do something so evil which, to her astonishment, was deserved. Now we can all start reacting to the notion of whether or not America deserved to be punished instead of questioning who actually pulled it off, and once we allow them to lead us into that conversation, it will be because we accept that the terrorists did it.
If you remember, they did a similar production using a “nurse” telling everybody how brutally the Iraqi soldiers grabbed Kuwaiti babies from incubators and smashed them against the walls to soften Americans up for the Iraq war, events which were later proven to be false, and this girl was a daughter of one of the Kuwaiti puppets and had been coached to deliver her fabricated story. I’m just saying if you are wise to the deception of today’s servants of evil, but especially if you are not, do not believe this garbage video for one second. As mentioned earlier, I think something is happening, maybe due to the diligence of A&E for 9/11 Truth, that is about to upset the “official” 9/11 narrative.
I can’t believe they are still trying to trot out bin Laden and Al Qaida for their deceptive propaganda these days, but I guess as long as there are gullible people out there, they believe they can pull it off. When she compared this newfound knowledge (not that someone else besides Al Qaida was involved, but only that we deserved it) to being the same way she had to “deconstruct” Christianity, she gave away her game – that was supposed to sound like another aside to her story, almost as innocuous as the revelation of our guilt, but it was actually a very big part of it. Come on folks, think about it. The only thing new in her whole discourse was her own changing of her mind, the narrative of 9/11 is still very much intact in her presentation, in fact, her performance is intended to build on it. And if you allow yourself to buy into it, it does.
The flanking maneuver is a time-tested technique on the battlefield. It has been successfully employed in many battles and if properly executed with ample surprise, is very effective in warfare. The surprise and deception of such a maneuver contributes immensely to its effectiveness. When an enemy is focused on an aspect of the battle, especially caught up in a head-on battlefront, he can be susceptible to defeat by surprise from unexpected directions and/or from undefended areas such as the flanks, or ends, of his columns. We can get so caught up in our abhorrence of in-your-face evil, we can get distracted from unexpected tactics, and our tendency to allow our anger to become hate is one that leaves us open to an insidious defeat if we aren’t careful.
The enemy has been around for a long, long time. He is wiser than us, but not wiser than our Master. Those who do not know or care to know the Creator, are destined to be a type of pawn of the enemy, even though they may consider themselves to be good, upright people. The enemy knows well that if people reject Jesus Christ that he already has a certain amount of control over them, it’s just a matter of how much of a toll he wants to exact on them in the meanwhile and creating situations that foment hatred in decent people is just one of the many ways he does battle. As far as Christians are concerned, one of our less defended areas may be our control, or lack thereof, of our anger.
For instance, we all see what’s going on in Gaza, and most of us rightfully are disgusted by the murder of innocent people. Now the kind of people who support the genocide going on over there are already in Satan’s firm control, so that’s a whole nuther issue, but this post addresses folks who are repulsed by it. The problem comes in for us when we allow ourselves to hate these people doing the murder who are so completely under the control of the enemy. That’s his plan – to use his servants to perform evil, but equally as important, to invoke hatred from onlookers, because even though we are totally against what they are doing, we fall into his trap by hating them for it. When that happens, he wins on both sides of the battle, he controls those who commit murder, and when otherwise good people see the gross injustice and unmerciful treatment and allow hatred into their hearts, he has them where he wants them as well. That’s why Jesus admonishes us to love our enemies, to prevent us from falling victim to Satan by allowing hatred into our hearts. This may well be one of the most difficult things to avoid, even for good people.
Satan has complete control of many very wealthy people here in our country, who in turn have gained control of the leadership through bribery and extortion with the riches Satan has entrusted to them. These “elite” servants of Satan are the same ones who own all of our media organizations. They also own Hollywood and have tremendous influence over the content of entertainment, thus are able to influence many who are unaware of the power that entertainment has over their world views. When people see filth and violence, they tend to believe that because so many people are entertained by such, it must be ok. Of course, the wealthy do not see themselves as such, but in the grand scheme, they are no more than simple pawns for Satan to use as he sees fit – and destroy when the time is right. Animosity towards them is growing steadily as more and more citizens come to realize the degree to which they are manipulated and propagandized. For now, suffice it to say, the wealthy elites mentioned here generally support the genocide of the Palestinians, so their influence over our politicians tends to make them support what’s going on as well.
These same wealthy people completely own all but a precious and exemplary few members of our government and its institutions, especially including the military. They decide who gets to run for president, and it’s well known by now that no one can become president of the United States without showing proper fealty to them. There are required demonstrations of obeisance for a presidential candidate in the US nowadays and we’ve seen them. The same fealty demonstrated through various other rituals, is to be expected from legislators and from the benches of this country as well.
It looks as though Satan’s plan is to allow some light to shine on these individuals so that everyone sees who’s behind the evil that is apace in our country and the world. A lot of this has been practiced behind the curtain up to now, but normal citizens, including Christians who let their guard down, are starting to see who’s behind the rampant evil. That in itself is a good thing, but the enemy intends to use that knowledge to our destruction by causing us to hate these people. His wealthy servants? Sure, they don’t give it any thought, but he’ll drop them like a hot potato when it suits his purpose even though they are smug for now in the deception of their master’s loyalty. A perfect example is the French revolution and what happened to the elites of that day. The revolution itself may have been successful, but the devil won out when Louis and Marie were executed, because that resulted from the hatred he fomented and the ensuing sinful violence it caused among the French peasantry.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that as Christians we have to be careful to stay above the fray and not allow ourselves to be sucked into the maelstrom of hatred and violence that is bound to happen as the servants of evil are revealed. When we do that, we unintentionally do the bidding of the evil one and allow him to win a carefully conceived battle he planned out long ago and is once again setting up right now. We can certainly – and have a Christian duty to – disapprove of the evil that is going on, but we have to do it without falling into the trap of allowing hatred into our hearts, because when that happens, he wins both ways. Even though I firmly believe that Heaven will be an expansive place, nevertheless, there won’t be any room for hatred there.
Hate the sin but love the sinner. Pray for them – all of them, the oppressed, but just as importantly, the oppressors. It’s hard to do, but we have to give it our best shot, and with Jesus’ help we can prevail.
May God’s blessings find and keep us all in these trying times.
I used to be a fanatical NASCAR fan, and one of the most exciting things in my world back then was hearing Darrell Waltrip saying, “Reach up there and tighten those straps one more time boys and let’s go racing!” What a thrill! I don’t do racing or sports anymore because I guess I grew leery of the idolatry involved, at least for me.
I think it’s about time for us as followers of Jesus to understand that it’s time to buckle ourselves into our faith, put our eyes on the cross and hang on, because it’s time for things to start happening on a scale we’ve not been used to. For instance, even just a few years ago did anyone think our society would get to this point where mass murder of innocent people – on a horrific scale – would be unquestioningly supported by the US government and way too many of our fellow countrymen? Almost our entire congress gave adulating standing ovations to the Satanic monster who is orchestrating this travesty.
We’ve devolved to this point in our history where we understand that everything the government and it’s hired media tells us is lies, lies, and more lies. A lot of folks still believe them though, and it’s not really because they don’t know they are being fed lies, but many people listen to their fabrications simply because they are hearing what they want to hear. [2 Timothy 3,4] 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. Too many of us have become the “they” in that verse.
I suppose it would be prudent to try and understand why the leaders of the world tell so many lies in the first place. To start with, their master, Satan is the originator of the lie. [John 8:44] You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. These are the words of Jesus Christ Himself talking to people who purported to be descendants of Abraham. What a coincidence! We have a whole nation of people in the world right now who purport to be descendants of Abraham and everything that comes from them is false. Those people are not even who they claim to be: [Revelation 3:9] Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
We’re all aware, or at least we should be, that certain false prophets, the likes of Judas Hagee and his ilk, would have us buy into the lie that those people are indeed the descendants of Abraham and as such, they merit our spiritual and financial support, but these same people are vehement enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not only are they not who they claim to be but are imposters, they hate our Savior. Why are we, as Christians supposed to believe these people are the same ones who inherited the promise God made to Abraham, when Jesus Christ Himself explicitly tells us these people are not who they claim to be? Either you believe Jesus and accept the fact that they are imposters, or you ignore Him and support them – you can’t have it both ways regardless of what the eminent pastor Hagee tries to say.
Please try to understand the frustration as I write, but we don’t have much time on our hands to try and expose the charade Satan has put before the world, and some of us tend to be passionate about our belief in Jesus as well as to get a bit indignant at the rampant disregard for the truth in the world today. Satan, as Jesus told us as mentioned above, is the father of lies. Unless you insist on hearing and believing a narrative that is utterly false, you must turn away from the absolute deception in the world’s information flow. Satan has given his servants control of almost all communication people and platforms such as network news, press conferences, and most importantly, politicians – people who are in positions of power and influence.
We watched, helplessly and in complete frustration as the creature from the evil realm stood before the congress of the United States and delivered a speech that was completely devoid of any semblance of truth. Just as a side note, he is from Philadelphia and of Polish descent and his name was changed from Mileikowsky to Netanyahu – I guess to sound more Jewish, but it’s doubtful if he has any Hebraic blood, even though he claims to have some Sephardic ancestry. Everything this man has ever said is a lie, so why should we believe his claim that he has some Jewish blood? Everyone in attendance at that joint session knew that everything this man said was a lie, yet almost all of them gave him standing ovations as he vomited his bile before them. Just imagine a hall full of demons from hell listening to a message from their master in some sinister, dark setting and salivating over his diatribe, and why? For money, of course, or maybe the likelihood that their names might be in a certain little black book compiled by Jeffry Epstein that now probably belongs to a certain foreign intelligence service. On that note, unless someone involved gets a notion to repent and come clean (highly unlikely), we have no way of knowing whether the execrable Epstein is really keeping Satan and Henry Kissinger company in hell or hidden away somewhere on some remote island. More deception.
We are living in a time where we witness the absolute truth of what Jesus taught us about lies and deception and the evil they accompany. The world we know is almost a complete fabrication and a lot of folks are okay with it, especially if there’s money to be had by going along. Jesus said the gate is wide that leads to destruction, and we are seeing more and more people buying into the deception of the world and incredibly some of the “churches” are leading the way. Children are undergoing mass murder and starvation in the eyes of the whole world, and preachers like Hagee desperately clutch at straw men to justify it and tell us we should support the murderers who are doing it. Unbelievable!
For now, we have sources of alternative news (which probably won’t last) and it’s ironic that there is more truth to be found from secular people who run blogs and do internet videos than from any mainstream sources. Or from most of the churches. This is because the same servants of Satan who are promoting the slaughter in Gaza own all of the major media, and more importantly, they have bought mega church pastors. They own our educational institutions; they even control our military. They cannot control our souls though, and that’s a source of infinite consternation because it’s the main thing Satan wants.
If you hear it on the mainstream news nowadays, you can usually disregard it. If it comes from a government spokesman, unless he is Sergei Lavrov, you can also disregard it. Every event that happens and gets a lot of press, e.g. chemical weapons at Douma, the Russian massacre at Bucha, the recent Hezbollah missile on a soccer field, Hamas raping women, etc., you can completely ignore – it’s all a bunch of lies. Some of them are in incredible – “There is no evidence of genocide…”
One wonders what “evidence” would look like…
Most of all, don’t listen to the lies – Jesus is the Truth! If you are not a believer, you need to learn about Jesus Christ before it’s too late. He’s the only One able to lead us out of this mess we’re in.
If you are a believer already or choose to become one, reach up there and pull those belts tight and hang on for the ride of your life! The time is short. When Satan and his minions finally conclude they will lose, it’s going to get ugly. Keep the faith.
Today is Saturday, August 3, in the year of our Lord 2024 and things are shaping up to get really ugly in the Middle East – likely the whole world – as I write this post. The status of the world, though shocking to many, does not come as a surprise to Christians. We’ve long read about world events that are to come upon us in our Bibles. We know about most of the things that will take place because we believe the God-given prophecies of guys like Daniel, Ezekiel, and John, and if you haven’t read up on the things that are predicted, you should so you can get ready – it’s going to be quite the ride!
When you decide to start checking into the events that are happening and are yet to happen you will undoubtedly encounter the undercurrent of it all which is the ongoing battle between the forces of good and evil – between God the Creator and His enemy Satan. There are way too many aspects of this enigmatic confrontation for any human still in the flesh to be able to comprehend. We cannot begin to enumerate nor understand all of the issues and their effects even though a lot of people, especially the charlatans that try to pass themselves off as preachers, would have you to believe they are able to. Suffice it to say there is an incomprehensible spiritual battle happening and like it or not, all of us – even those on this side of the void – are involved. We have to choose a side, and unfortunately most of humanity has already done so although many do not even realize they have. That’s where studying your Bible comes in.
Ignoring the words and the person of Jesus Christ is the same as opposing Him. Jesus Christ is the only Way we have out of this mess that the servants of evil have made of the world. There are many who claim to know how to confront Satan and his minions, but Jesus said that He is the ONLY way we can succeed, [John 14:6] “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father but through me.” There are many people who try to reach God, but if we believe Jesus is truthful, we must recognize His authority as the Son of God and follow Him to get where we need to go. Once we submit our hope to Him, we begin a journey that will lead us to an unimaginably joyful and indescribable victory. It will be the ultimate victory over the evil that today plagues this world, and in the end all of those servants of evil who seem to be so invincible now will actually be the servants of Jesus’ followers. According to this doctrine, Netanyahu, Dick Cheney, Jacob Rothschild and all of the evil figures who have seemed to be so untouchable, will be bowed at the feet of those who are for now, humble and innocent travelers, those who trust Jesus to bring justice upon all who practice iniquity today, for the servants of Jesus will inherit kingship in the reign of Christ.
Imagine the shock and disappointment of those who would control the world today when they discover their whole earthly existences were no more than that of the grass of the field, and when they get to the Great Day of God’s judgement and see their master groveling before the True King. Those who wield the great swords of war, the dark and powerful weaponry that destroys nations, will be struck with fear and awe at the inimitable power of the real King when He appears in His unimaginable glory. In that moment they will realize the futility of their former allegiance to Satan, his wealth, his earthly control. If they had the mind to do so, they could look through those powerful telescopes and see great stars exploding, destroying everything in the millions of miles of space all around – that’s only a sample of the kind of power the Lord has. Their servitude to the evil one will all mean nothing, but those of us who have been faithful to our Lord Jesus will attain kingship and share His inheritance of all things.
Just in case you haven’t noticed the world powers coalescing around the middle east and the open and unabashed slaughter of all those innocent people in Palestine, the warships congregating, and all the other portents of destruction and annihilation gathering like some dark cloud, you might want to open your eyes before it’s too late. It’s going to get really ugly, but when it’s all over, those who will be left standing will be our King Jesus Christ and His followers – and ONLY them. Everything He said would happen has either already happened or is happening now – that should be all the evidence we need to understand the Truth of what He says. Get on the right side of things before it’s too late. The clouds are rapidly closing in…
