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Turned 66 in August of 2019, a little over a year into retirement. Now live on my farm in southern Missouri Ozarks. At this point I have 4 daughters and 8 grandchildren and 3 dogs.
I just heard something on the news this morning and to be honest, it is making my stomach turn. This has been in the works for a while, but this is the first time I’ve heard about it. I think it’s one of those sneaky attempts to get something done before it gets too much publicity.
I volunteered into the NAVY back in February 1972, and in boot camp they taught us the story of the black mess cook, Doris Miller who left his duties on the mess deck of the West Virginia to go topside and see what all the noise was when the Japanese were attacking in Pearl Harbor. In an act of incredible bravery, he manned an abandoned anti-aircraft gun and proceeded, with no prior training, to strafe the Zeros of the attacking Japanese. This was, and still is, one of the single greatest acts of intestinal fortitude I’ve ever heard of.
One of America’s greatest Naval heroes, Doris Miller
Dory Miller was a hero – right up there with Audie Murphy and Sergeant York as far as I’m concerned. He was killed in a torpedo attack while serving on the USS Lipscombe Bay during the same war on November 24, 1943, in the Gilbert Island Operation. In those days, the US military kept the public apprised of war casualties as soon as they could, unlike the shady Cooper and Hegseth in Trump’s Iran travesty. Not only did I find out this morning that Miller has not yet been awarded the Medal of Honor for this act, but an aircraft carrier being built that was designated to be named after this bravest of the brave sailor is now being considered for a new name – the cowardly draft-dodger Donald Trump. Can you imagine Trump doing what Miller did? Me neither.
Miller was awarded the Navy Cross, and those who merit the cross are supposed to be automatically considered for the Congressional Medal of Honor. I don’t know if he ever got this consideration, and if not, that’s a shame. On the other hand, if he was considered for the CMH and rejected, that’s yet another shame and reeks of something far worse. If Trump had an ounce of decency – which he does not – he would shut this unscrupulous effort down – and award Miller the CMH.
I’m not sure how the American public is taking this, but speaking as an old, white Ozark hillbilly Navy Veteran and plank owner of the USS Nimitz, I am appalled that the Navy is even considering this travesty. Doris Miller is one of my greatest heroes, can you imagine a black mess cook, never trained to fight, who had been discriminated against in his own Navy, courageously grabbing an unmanned gun with aircraft machine gun bullets slamming the steel around him? I did not realize he has not – of yet – been (posthumously) awarded the CMH, but I’m certainly ready to join any group working to that end, and I’ll happily bring my Nimitz plankowner’s certificate (for what it might be worth) to any protest that will organize around taking the name of a genuine war hero’s name off this new carrier to rename it for someone the whole country sees as a draft-dodging coward and grifter. This same individual has also tried to put his name up alongside another war hero, John Kennedy. It would seem he doesn’t think the public understands just what a coward he is/was. and just how desperate he is to be named among the brave, of whom he is definitely not!
We veterans and everyone else must take a firm stand against allowing the Navy to abandon the practice of naming capital ships after heroes – be they warriors or deceased leaders. Trump has single-handedly wreaked more havoc on the nation of the United States than any other president in history and is the very least deserving of an honor like a carrier name. No sitting president has ever had this honor bestowed on him and we certainly don’t need to start with this one! Especially this one – whose rich daddy kept him out of harm’s way while other guys his age went to Vietnam. What a travesty – if the wormy little bootlicker Hegseth would take a stand against this, he might earn a few badly needed points with the American public, but he won’t. We must rise up against this outrageous transgression on American honor and dignity!
If the military feels the need to name something after Trump, why not some of the noisome, dingy toilets on the Ford or the Lincoln? I’m sure the sailors on board would happily stop in once in a while and pay their sincerest respects to Trump.
A lot of folks are writing articles and doing videos these days in various attempts to try and lay out what they think is the correct interpretation of last days prophecy and in that regard, this article is no different, but why are we seeing so much stuff addressing end times? Could it be that more and more people with varying degrees of interest and knowledge of end times prophecy now believe we are seeing the very events that are described in whatever sources they happen to study all tend to agree that the end times are upon us? We find ourselves in the midst, for whatever reason(s) of how we got here, of societal tumult and geological and climactic upheavals that show no signs of either abating or allowing human survival to any longer be ensured.
Some people cop the attitude of, “Sure things are looking kinda dark, but things have gotten pretty bad before and countries and people pulled through it.” That’s true enough and for sure this economy, though hard on the common folk, isn’t as bad as it was during the depression. Neither are oil prices higher than they’ve ever been. Food shortages seem to be about to happen, but it’s not like the potato famine – yet. We’re at war, but this one isn’t nearly as catastrophic as either of the world wars of the last century, so there’s no need to panic over that either. There have been much more powerful earthquakes in the past than these we’re experiencing as of the past several months and there have been greater and more powerful volcano eruptions back when and the world is still turning, so why the anxiety about everything going south? Just kick back and let things play out and we’ll be fine.
Why then are there so many articles about survival and prepping if we have good reason to believe everything will get better? When folks talk like that and prefer to stick their heads back into the sand, that’s just where the enemy of mankind wants us to be. He is bringing a lot of bad but not impossible situations together, any one of them or even a few might not present insurmountable obstacles to our survival, but taken together, we are witnessing a bunch of seemingly unrelated threats that humanity will not be able to survive when they all come down on us at once.
Here in the land of the free, we’ve never been engaged in a war before in which we have totally psychopathic imbeciles running the show. They obviously know nothing of any concept of logistics chains, war strategy, national interests, nor any other concepts of defense interests, they just find a red handle and pull it to see what happens with absolutely no idea of how it works. In America I don’t think we’ve ever seen the level of hubris by as many ignorant people as are currently running the show. Somehow our leaders seem to think they have a right to expect the people in the country to follow all the rules and obey the laws all the while everyone is watching them, our role models, outright violating every concept of law. It doesn’t work that way, but then they’re way too ignorant to understand rational notions like that. Some very rich and very crooked people saw an opportunity to make a lot of money and destroy legal limits that served to restrain their unbridled greed by purchasing the white house and Congress and installing a criminal con artist president who was able to coax the same ignoramuses that bought into the teabag movement to vote for him, and now it’s Katy bar the door, all hands on deck to steal everything in America that’s not nailed down.
You’d think the MAGA voters would have learned they’ve been had, but no, they’re ready to double down – they swear God sent them Donald Trump but he just laughs and plays to them as he siphons down Big Macs and generally stinks up the White House – at least the parts he hasn’t torn down yet. It’s pathetic to see people so totally disconnected from reality, people who’ve lost their food stamps and can’t afford to take their sick kids to the doctor but passionately refuse to connect the dots to a grifting misfit building golden ballrooms with money that might otherwise be available to help them out – oh well. This pathetic lack of leadership is just another facet of the issues we face but is one that could serve as evidence of our own culpability in making some things worse than they have to be – because of the poor choice of a president.
In other news, in case you haven’t heard, there’s a terrible drought taking the country in the desert southwest and the (formerly) big reservoirs that about 40 million people depend on for electricity and potable water are running on empty. This likely portends to be one of the worst impending catastrophes most of us will have ever seen in our lifetimes. This water crisis could – and as of now it looks to – become a climactic event that will lead to a mass environmental migration, a phrase I expect we will be hearing a lot more as this drought becomes progressively more intense. The way I see such a migration, it cannot but impose a severe strain on any resources of areas that receive millions of unexpected refugees. Just imagine a line of traffic stretching from Kansas City to Los Angeles with everyone heading to seemingly inviting towns like little Podunk, Kentucky where they read about a pretty rural haven with green pastures and plenty of running water. Well, there might be plenty of water for the few hundred folks who have comfortably lived there for generations, and the primitive little power lines that supply the residents of rustic places like that have been sufficient for them, but what kind of strain will several hundred thousand people cause moving into a place that is geared up for only a few dozen families with only a little corner grocery store? What about housing? Water treatment facilities for populations suddenly increased tenfold? This will be the case throughout the eastern half of the United States, and what’s more, places like Texas and Florida, and increasingly like Georgia, Alabama, and others are already suffering through water shortages of their own! Look out Michigan UP and other such environs where water is still abundant!
Another serious aspect of the drought is a likely food shortage that is apt to affect the whole world. The brilliant leaders of the US apparently haven’t bothered to look into the probability that the loss of fertilizer coming from the Persian Gulf will doubtlessly exacerbate crop losses everywhere. But then, said leaders could not care less if the poor – and even what’s left of the middle-class – face mass starvation due to their leaders’ stupidity- well at least until throngs of starving people show up at all the cool places like Mar a Ghetto and those gated communities of the rich.
If you’ve been watching the news – the real news – you’ve undoubtedly heard by now of the shortages of diesel fuel and jet fuel that are growing worse and worse as the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. A lot of oil processing facilities and refineries throughout the middle east are destroyed from Trump’s war too, so as long as there’s a diesel shortage, prices are going to be crazy! Every product, grocery item, and commodity depend on diesel to get to a place where you can go buy them, and even if it’s still possible to buy diesel, it’s gonna be so high the prices of the products trucks deliver will be outrageous – we’re already seeing the beginnings of that result of Trump’s war. There are too many fringe benefits of undertaking a stupid unnecessary war to count, like the total rearrangement of alliances – all to the detriment of the US/Israel cabal. The US, thanks to the person at the helm, has lost most all of our best allies – for crying out loud, even Canada, Denmark, and Mexico! Canada, because the bright bulb wants to boss them around and threaten them with tariffs so he can look tough, but that’s not exactly how he looks, is it? Denmark, because he wants to make them fear that he will steal Greenland through intrigue, threats, but most importantly, his favorite trick – grift! In short, thanks to our fearless leader, the US has no meaningful alliances anymore – with any sane country.
I don’t really think enough folks are aware of just how close we are to all out nuclear war, either. Mr. Ego is chomping at the bit to drop nukes on Iran without a hint of a thought of where that kid of unbridled ignorance can lead, but I don’t think Putin, Xi, or Kim will stand idly by and watch that idiocy play out knowing they could easily be next. When they start shooting off those fireworks, it’s anybody’s guess how any of us will fare.
I guess this post has enough gloom and doom for now, but as always, I invite the reader to consider looking into trusting Jesus Christ – the only real choice we have to come out victorious over the calamities we are facing. The enemy of mankind has worked long and hard to bring about the very events we now face, in fact, he’s had thousands of years to get the pieces all in place for just the scenario we find ourselves in. Through the centuries he’s raised up many iterations of this “leader” we now suffer under, all of whom have come and gone. It’s no accident or coincidence; these things have been brought to fruition by careful planning and Satan’s influence on some of the actors described above who eagerly do his bidding for a few fleeting years of earthly wealth. You can stake your life on the fact that Donald Trump will at some point cease to breathe – it happens to us all, and if after his evil influence expires, the world returns to some modicum of sanity and as decent men go about erasing his name and signs of his influence from the country just like the Russians did when they came to their senses after the hated Stalin’s evil reign, everyone will once more wonder how their country became so stupid as to follow someone so close to Satan. As long as time allows, there will be more. Get right with the Lord – it’s the only choice for victory over this world and it’s evil.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
It’s no big surprise to know everyone is blaming the Jews in Israel and those in America who support them for the ills of the world, and truth be known, some of them might play a big part, but there is another, more insidious entity at work which we tend to ignore. If we actually knew the entities, the actual perpetrators of the world’s biggest atrocities, it might surprise some to learn they are malevolent demons who possess people, and they don’t necessarily need to find Jewish hosts, although it would seem that, due to the rapacious evil behavior and the proclivities of the people who identify as Jew to desire wealth and power (through unscrupulous means), the purported Jew tends to be a likely enough host. Purported of course, because the majority of people in the world – especially in the Holy land – who claim to be Jews are not Jews at all.
There’s a crucial distinction to be made between the real Jew and those who claim to be, and when this is considered in the interpretation of prophecy, we might find that all of our preconceived foundational bases are flawed to the extent that, in many cases such premises have to be completely discarded and we should completely start over. Nonexistent dots cannot be connected, no matter how tempting it might be to rely on preconceived notions of ethnic characteristics to try and do so. In other words when the Bible speaks of things that are going to happen to Israel in the end days, it is not talking about Jewish descendants of Jacob, but of the people who have set up shop in Israel – the imposters Jesus referred to as the synagogue of Satan. These people are of Eastern European lineage and their relation to anything Jewish is merely based on the conversion of their ancestors long ago to the religion of Judaism. They are correctly identified these days as Ashkenazi or Khazarian and there’s scant if any evidence of Judaic or Hebrew blood in their populace. Benjamin Netanyahu is the current name of a fellow of Polish descent who lived in Philadelphia named Mielekowsky who has no proven Jewish DNA at all, but in order to capitalize on all the advantages of being Jewish, he needed a more Jewish sounding name. Look where it’s gotten him! Many more of them have also done so, in fact almost every one of the Israeli leaders for many years.
They claim the title of Jewishness due to their adopted religion and not their lineage, but in these latter times when it became profitable under the guise of holocaust survivorship (not to mention free (stolen) land in Palestine) to call oneself a Jew they jumped on the bandwagon without a second thought. All of a sudden, people over the world, especially Germans, owed them tons of reparation money and all who could even remotely pass for a Jew suddenly became bona fide – and of course, thoroughly persecuted – Hebrews. I’m not sure, but as far as I know, the German nation still pays out holocaust reparations – most likely even to non-Jewish people who never came near a German concentration camp. Perks sprung up for these swindlers to the extent that some of the “concentration camp” sites were reportedly being retrofitted with post-world war crematoriums and gas chambers for anyone who might doubt the horrors that went on and visit one to see for themselves. And of course, if someone voiced any doubt of the veracity (and ferocity) of the holocaust. there were laws passed to punish, indeed excoriate such heresy!
Jesus referred to these people as liars who called themselves Jews and as a Synagogue of Satan [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.” This is to Christians. The only religion the synagogue observes comes from the Talmud and if you don’t know what that execrable heresy is, I suggest you learn about it. There are passages in it that speak of Jesus Christ burning in hell. A damnable religion of blasphemy of the highest – actually the lowest – possible order.
Another point that I believe is widely missed is that when Jesus was being crucified and Pilate was trying to get the crowd to tone down their hostility towards Him, Pilate washed his hands and told them he (Pilate) was innocent of the blood of Jesus, they smugly replied, [Matthew 27:25]: “His blood be on us and on our children.” Now there aren’t many preachers who teach about this and I believe it’s because the dots are difficult to connect, but I believe the real Jews who vowed that oath brough a curse upon themselves in which God would require the blood of Jesus to be avenged upon them – the ones who actually vowed the curse and their descendants. In fact, they actually cursed themselves, but here’s the part that doesn’t get connected: It would seem that if a people arrogated to themselves a national identity (today’s “Jews”), one of a totally different people, that they would inherit the curse(s) that come with being a member of that nationality even if they are genetically different. Us Gentiles adopt the new identity of sons of Abraham when we become children of God. Instead of the curse of those who killed Jesus however, we inherit the blessings of Abraham because of the Christian identity we have chosen.
There are Talmudic Jews in America and currently settled in Israel who are not Jews at all but are a very corrupt and sinful Gentile synagogue of Satan, but there are Christian Jews who are the adopted sons of Abraham through Christ, thus adopted sons of God and may be of either (real) Jewish or Gentile descent. If they are followers of Jesus Christ, it makes no difference. Then if the people calling themselves Jews simply because they occupy the geographic nation of Israel and are not Jewish at all, they fit the description of the people who trample the outer court [Revelation 11:2]: “But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.” I’ve never heard anyone teach that the fake Jews who currently occupy Israel are the Gentiles to which this verse is probably referring, and if correct this will change a whole lot of people’s interpretation of prophecy! Especially the prophetic timelines. When trying to work out prophesy, do not assume the interlopers who live in Israel to be Jews – they’re not!
As an aside, and speaking of Talmudic “Jews”, did you ever wonder what happened to those demons Jesus cast out of the Gadarene man? A whole legion of demons begged Jesus not to send them to the abyss and were allowed to go into a herd of swine after they left the man. The pigs stampeded off a cliff and were killed, but I don’t think demons can die, so where did they go? Since Jesus did not send them to the abyss as He was apparently able to do, maybe He left them there for a reason and they just bided their time until new a bunch of new hosts came to Israel. No scripture to back that up, but it is a thought that – in light of those people’s repugnant and vicious behavior – who knows? Might have some merit.
Once again, we must remember in every attempt to understand and/or interpret prophecy, that the people currently in control of Israel are not Jews! I’ve seen a lot of preachers who’ve been thrown off by believing things like the parable of the fig tree being the rebirth of Israel – thrown off because these people are not sons of Abraham at all. Then we come full circle back to the likelihood of them being “normal” people who are possessed by demons – they have to be demonic to hate Jesus like they do, and if you want to believe charlatans like John Hagee and many in our political establishment who are rich because they support these imposters in Israel – imposters who kill innocents, some of their victims actual Christians – in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon, then go ahead, but you’ll be bringing their curse down upon your head too.
From what I gather in my Bible, I’ve no doubt the Father’s wrath will be fearsome to behold for those who attack and/or belittle His Son. Yet there are still people out there who buy into that Talmudic blasphemy that so disrespects the King of Kings. They will pay dearly in the presence of an angry and wrathful Creator.
Everybody needs to avail themselves of the opportunity God is giving us right now to get right with Jesus Christ before that awesome and terrible Day. Fake Jews can be forgiven and brought into the Kingdom too – otherwise that’s an awful curse to which they’ve committed themselves!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
The Samaritans were the “illegal aliens” of the day. They were shunned by the society around the environs of Jerusalem. You would not want your friends to see you talking to one of them. If there had been the likes of Donald Trump around with the authority he has arrogated to himself, you can bet there would have been some iteration of ICE roaming the streets and arresting them for wildly exaggerated offenses. Truly they must have believed the Samaritans were lower class people – if you dared to even publicly consider them to be people.
All of the populace was no doubt convinced that if not for these subhumans in their society, the ills they underwent would disappear; that’s how propaganda works and has worked for as long as there has been “civilization”. It still works remarkably well today. These racist attitudes were precisely why Jesus Christ spoke this particular parable – of one of those dastardly Samaritans performing an unimaginable, impossible act of kindness. This was tantamount to blasphemy! How could this “teacher” dare imply that one of the hated, abhorred social misfit Palestinians – I mean Samaritans – come to be – nay, perform the lead role – in a story of human compassion?
Wasn’t this Jesus aware of all the travails of their society were caused by these Samaritan (Palestinian, Mexican, Arab, etc.) terrorists? Where was His patriotism, His concern for the public good? Why wasn’t He at the fore of some big protest carrying a sign bemoaning all the problems their nation faced because no one was “protecting their borders” and deporting these interlopers instead of speaking parables depicting them as human beings – even human beings with compassion in their hearts for the very people who persecuted them?
Coming from East Texas, I had many opportunities to interact with Latinos as I grew up, but perhaps I learned the most when as an adult, I worked on a construction project in Mississippi several years ago, and as is typical on construction sites, there were several crews of mostly Mexican workers. Some of them even rented units in the same trailer park where I and a couple of my buddies were staying. We got to know some of them, and although most of them couldn’t speak English and we couldn’t speak much of their native Spanish, we nevertheless became good friends. We shared stories of our lives where we came from and generally got to know each other. One of the things that struck me was how personable they were, never a cross word among us. They liked to party on weekends, and every Saturday night without fail, one or more of them would be banging on our door to come over to join their festivities. These guys were for real, not to mention they really knew how to throw down, complete with guitars, great cuisine, and songs we couldn’t understand, but that was never a problem. I remember one of them writing his home address on a piece of paper and telling me I was welcome if I was ever down there and needed a place to stay – even if he wasn’t home his family would welcome me. He was from Guadalajara and I knew I’d probably never go, but he was being genuine! Samaritans – every one of them!
One of the biggest draws of the Trump campaign was possibly the only thing he promised that he actually tried to do, and that has to do with stopping immigration. The reason it was such an election boon for him is quite simply the rampant racism in America. Never mind this ICE gang that’s running around illegally arresting people – even American citizens – and murdering people or locking them away without due process, the racism in this country is way more out of control than problems caused by immigrants. I’m sorry – no I’m appalled – at how my fellow white Americans act toward people of other skin hues. It’s downright sickening to see and hear otherwise good, sensible people making flimsy arguments to support outright racism. How did we get here? And it’s not just aliens, I’ve been around long enough to have seen this government embark on white vs black racial campaigns every time the public appears to be coming together and challenging TPTB, the Vietnam protests come to mind. Then came the Watts riots – whites and blacks turned on each other like flipping a light switch.
If you doubt what I’m saying, just take a look at each and every situation in this country where the races are turned on each other and you’ll see some issue the government is trying to distract us from; every time. George Floyd, Rodney King, etc. Watch the news – when you start to see a bunch of stories about white cops shooting black people, or one of their favorites, black “thugs” raping a white woman – there’s something going on that the legacy media is not being allowed to talk about. More than that, it’s always something that needs the public to be distracted from, so they play the old race card, and it still works like magic. Same techniques they use with Latino immigrants. They’re all Samaritans – the blacks and Asians too!
We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing our Satan-inspired government to use us this blatantly. A racist society gives Satan the tools he needs to control it. We have to stop hating on the Samaritans and take a good look at what the power brokers are doing to us. Our problems are not derived from black neighborhoods, from Islamic folks, from south of the border – our problems start right here in our homes. Our problems start when we teach our kids that we are somehow better than people with a different skin color or folks who come here from another country. They start when we teach our kids and our fellow travelers that we need to fear and/or hate other people. There’s nothing our corrupt government fears more than a backyard bar-b-que gathering with more than one color of people in the crowd! They hate stories of white cops befriending some black fellow who needs a hand. Think of Jesus speaking well of that Samaritan! These things portend a nation that is evolving beyond something that so profound a weapon as racism is becoming of less and less effect.
I’m going to relate a short version of the story of the good Samaritan as it is narrated in the Bible, but as the parable progresses, since we are in modern-day America, think of the protagonist as a Latino, or if you rather, a black man in a white neighborhood, but as you imagine a modern scenario, remember this is probably just how those folks back then regarded the Samaritan.
Jesus tells a narrative [Luke 10:30-37] of a man, most likely a native Israeli (just consider him to be a white American man) traveling through an area which was predominantly Hebrew (think white) who was attacked by robbers who beat him up and took his clothes. He didn’t get into the ethnicity of the robbers, maybe since doing so might incite the racism of the listeners. The man lay in pain and distress as a priest (think Texas evangelical preacher) passed him by, even going to the other side of the road so as not to directly encounter him. Another fellow, a Levite (the family of the priesthood) saw him and did the same thing – purposefully dodging the guy. Finally, a Samaritan (illegal alien, black man, Arab, whatever) came upon the hapless fellow and instead of going out of his way to avoid eye contact, the Samaritan had compassion and helped him. He bandaged up the guy’s wounds and allowed him to ride on his own animal and rented him a room and ensured he was attended. Needless to say, that nasty Samaritan alien turned out to be the good guy.
Jesus told this parable to warn people to avoid the very attitude that got Donald Trump elected! Our nation has strayed from what we were taught in or own Bibles and it’s shameful. The Bible says the whole world belongs to God and everything in it. [1 Corinthians 10:26] Whoever is in possession of property is only allowed stewardship of whatever he sits on in this world and its resources and the Lord expects us to share it with our fellow travelers, no matter where they are from. [Malachi 3:5]
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.
At this moment in time, it seems that Anglo Americans have overwhelming stewardship of this nation that belongs to God (as do all nations) that we call America, but that does not an any way mean that it belongs to us or that we are justified in expelling or persecuting others. I’m an old white man who grew up in a very racist South, but God has opened my eyes to a serious failure of my kind, and we have to allow the wisdom of Jesus Christ (in this very parable) to take us beyond racist inclinations. We have a lot of voters in this country who voted for a man BECAUSE of his racism, and that ain’t speaking good for us.
To all my black, Latino, Asian, Arab, etc., brothers – hang in there, pray for the Lord to open more eyes – His purpose will be done.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
I’d wager that Johann Strauss would be turning in his grave if he could see his beautiful Blue Danube right now. How about the mighty Colorado, which has spent the last several million years carving out the magnificent canyons of the Southwest, and is faring no better? As the Colorado morphs into silent steam and disappears into the arid desert sky, Lake Mead which gets its water from the Colorado, is almost down to the point where it won’t be able to supply electricity, but not far down the road will be deadpool where no more water will pass through Hoover Dam. 40 million people in the desert Southwest depend on Lake Mead for all their water needs.
The thing I don’t understand is that folks are just standing by and watching all the demonic data centers being built at an astonishing pace and they consume vast amounts of our precious dwindling resource, water. Do we just stand and watch as the last of our fresh water is being stolen? I’ve mentioned on other posts that I believe data centers are actually temples to false gods that the wealthy guys are building in repayment to Satan for their wealth. It was part of the deal they made when they sold their souls. But John Q. Public didn’t sign the deal and it’s his kids’ water that is being stolen. Does he speak up or does he just do nothing as the rich thieves use their ill-gotten wealth to forcibly take his family’s future? Paying off local politicians to apply eminent domain to steal citizens’ property for power lines and site locations?
Not one person has been able to make a cogent argument that there’s any benefit to the public at large from AI data centers. They’re not really even trying. I just turned 73 years old and I’ve had opportunity to see how diligent and even desperate public relations narratives are crafted, especially by the authorities. I’ve seen how much work they put into building a false narrative such as the events of 9/11 or the downing of TWA flight 800, both of which are blatantly false, but they nevertheless TPTB put out volumes of false information to sell their propaganda. This isn’t happening with data centers. The wealthy who ever engage in duplicity and falsehood have seen just how easy it is to sell fake stories, and they are growing sloppy in developing their narratives – like the Charlie Kirk killing and the Butler, Pennsylvania false-flag atrocity that likely got this abomination of a president elected. In the case of the data centers, in which it looks more and more like they really need to come up with a narrative that elucidates some public need for them, they’re not even trying. They just mumble incoherent things about jobs – which only last through construction – taxes – for which traitors like Greg Abbott of Texas remove the tax requirements – but never even try to make a reasonable-sounding argument for why the public needs these travesties.
Ungainly abomination on the Texas desert country
If we just take a moment to stop and consider the true costs of these horrendous temples to Satan and then compare that cost to whatever benefit might be implied for having them, I’m pretty sure that any thoughtful American would insist on having them dismantled. Having a new research and surveillance tool for fat deputies who will have more time to siphon down donuts by not having to actually solve crimes – with AI doing the heavy lifting just doesn’t seem to me to be a reasonable justification for this comprehensive threat to our Constitution – especially the fourth amendment. It is however, enough justification to bring law enforcement onto the side of the demon-possessed rich guys who are paying fealty to those demons and law enforcement’s just what they need to keep the citizenry at bay – for now. Our governments, local, state, and federal are abandoning our constitution and Godly principles at an astonishing rate! Instead of using highly trained and heavily equipped SWAT teams to address public disturbances, they’ll be sending battalions of militarized cops to chase down someone for wrecking a flock camera or posting something unfavorable to Israel on social media. That’s where we are, folks, and it’s gonna get a lot worse. A time will come – and is closer than you might think – when patriotic Americans will face the harshest of persecution for damaging or destroying a data center, but I can think of no greater act of patriotism that could be committed by a citizen concerned with an impending water crisis upon his countrymen. We need to start posting the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights on every street corner – especially this part “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable 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. Whatever the argument for data centers, it does not, nor can it, comport with the provisions in this document, and it is becoming more and more incumbent on the citizenry to comply with its remedy..
It’s rapidly coming down to a situation in which the rich (and thereby Satan) will have absolute control of the whole population, and this doesn’t just apply to America – it’s taking the whole world by storm. We are at an inflection point now in which we can choose to try and whistle past the cemetery and hope this ship will right itself without our having to get involved, or we can stand as men against something horrifically evil coming upon our nation(s). Peter Thiel is hoping you will continue to do the former – at least until he and his ilk gain the total control they desire. That is exactly what will end up costing you everything you ever hoped for – for your and your family’s future – assuming this world lasts long enough for anyone to make a difference.
The water shortages, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, wars, and other tribulations will only grow worse with time in a population of people who have collectively turned their backs on God. Too many of our fellow travelers have already opted to sit quietly or even support the travesties, genocides, sins, and immorality taking place. The other option could save us – putting our trust in Jesus Christ would be the most providential wisdom for our woes, but the further down this dark passage we go, the deeper entrenched the forces of evil become in our societies. Christ has become to many to be some religious notion for which they just don’t have time, don’t believe and ironically, He’s the only solution to our problems. We have to take time for Jesus Christ. When we choose to do otherwise, we seal our own fate – that of tribulation in our lives in this world but for the one who rejects Christ, life (if that’s what you call it) in the next world will be abysmal, indeed. But it’s your choice, He’s waiting – not sure for how much longer, but you have the opportunity to get to know Him if you do it now. Spoiler – it’s worth the effort to feel His blessing in your heart – even in this life!
Meanwhile the AI data centers continue to be installed apace. Just remember what an old half-educated hillbilly tried to share as best he could – that these data centers are not at all what they’re being sold as. They are some of the evilest projects on which mankind has ever embarked. We must do whatever is necessary to shut them down – God will be on our side as long as care is taken not to hurt another human. It’s time to take a stand. At the very least we must pray for God’s intervention.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father fins and keep us.
How much farther will we be able to travel on this journey? Are we able to infinitely submerse ourselves into the depths of delusion until our very biological and psychological functions become unable to cope with such threats as we are presently enduring or soon will?
Lake Mead is steadily emptying and will bring about unimaginable hardships when it gets too low.
Regardless of the hope one may be able to muster in the (un)likelihood of someone somewhere discovering a reset button that could take our earthly existence back to the heady days of the seventies, please this sink in – it ain’t gonna happen! This whole planet is on an irreversible trajectory toward destruction and it’s happening sooner rather than later. There are several impending disasters simply biding their time, Campi Flegri Volcano, Lake Mead water depletion, deadly heat waves across the whole northern hemisphere, nuclear war, Cascadia or San Andreas or New Madrid, take your pick. Any one of them alone would be a catastrophe of Biblical proportions, but there’s a better than even chance more than one of these disasters, possibly several, will come upon us simultaneously. Think Great Tribulation. God has a complete arsenal of weapons (both conventional and cosmic) at His disposal with which to address our malevolence.
Alliances, such as this new one between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye, are starting to materialize, and older ones like NATO are morphing into different shades from their original designs. No matter the stripes of new world organizations, it would seem that due to the US government’s fealty to the genocidal cruelty of Israel, we are pretty much on the outs with everyone. Who’d have thought that among our newest and most hated enemies to have emerged, former allies like Canada, Denmark, and Mexico would be not only among them, but at the fore.
It seems that each and every day some big sledgehammer whacks another MAGA voter upside the head as more and more of them begin to understand that their gas and grocery bills are indeed connected to Donald Trump’s policies, and the intoxicating euphoria of allowing their racist tendencies to dictate their political support might not have been such a good idea after all. It seems that the red states who elected this regime are now the ones who bear the brunt of losing food stamps, health care, etc., while Trump and his billionaire friends throw galas down at Mar-a-Ghetto that would make the Rothschilds blush. So far Trump has been able to keep the Epstein debacle under wraps, much thanks to the now-infamous Louisiana senator Cassidy whose vote ensured Todd Blanch’s confirmation to be AG, and thus the Epstein files will continue to be kept safely from the public as a result. Wonder what they have on Cassidy to get his vote? Wonder how many MAGA Louisiana voters will be able to connect the dots – probably not a lot, after all they are convinced that the god they worship blessed the country with Trump, or so they say.
The US is coming apart at the seams – we have the data center crises, droughts, wildfires, we look to be on the brink of revolution etc. Do you think God – the real God – might be trying to get our attention? There are more and more preachers – some few of them real preachers – crying to high Heaven to get people’s attention to awaken them to the fact that we, as a nation, have turned our backs on Him and these calamities are exactly what happens to a people who choose this approach. We are a people who have almost completely abandoned our spiritual roots, and most folks scoff at those who suggest that we’re headed down a long, dead-end road that many nations have tried many times before and ALWAYS got the same results. The ONLY path we have which might result in our betterment is to turn to God and repent of our evil ways. We must repent of the immorality that is so rampant throughout our society. We must repent of aiding a totally criminal country in its genocide of an innocent people – that country will pay dearly for persecuting the poor, innocent people of Gaza and southern Lebanon, and the USA will pay dearly for supporting them. If the reader happens to be one who hasn’t spoken out against what our government is doing in the Middle East, you might want to go on record – God’s record – as not being in support of the genocide travesty. Many souls will burn in hell for supporting the synagogue of Satan who are bowing to Baal and flying their star of Remphan and starving innocent children. May God the Father of Jesus Christ smite them where they cry at their fake wailing wall – there will be some real wailing when the Ashkenazis finally realize they haven’t fooled God with their deception. They might fool the world, and have to a great degree, but they will never fool the One who counts. The more of us who speak up against our nation supporting greedy Ashkenazi imposters, the better our chances of overthrowing their yoke on our government. By the way – am I the only one who believes this ICE debacle is an invasion by the IDF? No? After all, why do they wear masks? Why are their brutal tactics so similar?
Make your voice heard. Let your senators and congresspeople know that you will under no circumstances vote for any of them who take AIPAC money. Let them know that you will under no circumstances vote for any of them who cast their vote to merge the US military with that of Israel. Look up how they voted on that one bill (NDAA section 219), and that should tell you all you need to know about how treasonous our politicians are willing to become to appease the Ashkenazis who pose as Jews in Israel and in the US. ALL House Republicans except the venerable Massie, plus five democrats in the House. None of those yes voters should be allowed to be reelected. Ever! Those cretins in Israel are publicly laughing at the stupidity of Americans and nowadays even to publicly brag about their control of America – and Trump and the sycophants in his administration say nothing!
While keeping up with who and how much these slimy politicians are working for Israel, don’t get caught up too much in their bait-and-switches – before that NDAA vote hit the floor, theIsraelis already have control of the US military but if they can keep us arguing about whether or not they voted for this Satanic bill, we lose sight of the fact that Israel already controls of our armed forces, even without this phony bill! We were apprised of Israeli control of the pentagon by General Wesley Clark back in 2003 when the Iraq invasion was brewing and the Greater Israel project was coming out of the Zionist closet. So by participating in the argument over the NDAA vote and its giving Israel control of the US military, you are tacitly (and ignorantly) admitting you believe America still has control until that bill is signed into law.
It’s a different slant on the same tactic they used about Charlie Kirk killing – when they mention something about Charlie being shot on some news article, they intend for their viewers to accept the foregone conclusion that Charlie was indeed shot without allowing the discussion to actually get into the argument over whether some other method of murder was used. People (especially those who had prior experience planting explosives in communications devices) need for us to believe Charlie was shot to try and keep us off the trail of what they really did (with explosives). Why would they pave over the whole scene where evidence might be found if not to hide what really happened? The same as when they present a fake story about whether Epstein killed himself, Trump had him killed, etc., etc., the main point is for you to sink into some meaningless argument which always presupposes that Epstein is in fact dead, which I do not believe for a minute! There are videos – presumably of him alive and well on the streets of Tel Aviv.
C’mon folks, if a bunch of people from another country can bomb and bring down three skyscrapers in Manhattan killing thousands of American citizens and use their control of every institution of US government to get clean away with it, faking the death of an important MOSSAD asset like Epstein would be child’s play for them! They have assets at every level of the American and state governments and do not hesitate to use them when they have to get their own off the hook like that creep who got busted in the child sex sting out in California – once it was discovered that he was Israeli, he was promptly given back his passport and allowed to go home to Israel. The rest of the suspects were presumably charged and prosecuted, but not the Israeli – it would seem they’re above American law, and as in the case of 9/11, they’re above investigation too.
Netanyahu changed his name to that from the Polish Mielekowsky so it would sound Jewish – because he is not Jewish at all! [Revelation 3:9]: “Indeed I (JESUS)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.” I have heard that DNA tests are not allowed in Israel, presumably because the people living there who call themselves Jews would find out that they have no Hebraic DNA at all, regardless of what the false prophet John Hagee – and others of his ilk – might say. So by supporting the current interlopers who occupy Israel, you are in no way supporting people who are Jews in reality.
America returning to God would necessitate our disassociation with everything that calls itself (today’s) Israeli or Zionist. Our country has been taken over by the synagogue of Satan, and many Americans are going along with their evil ways and it needs to stop, lest we share in their punishment. We have to start by neutralizing the power of Zionist billionaires who own our government and start electing politicians who share our concern for America first! For one thing, none of the rich Zionists came by a dime of their fortunes honestly. They sold their souls to Satan! I’m old enough to remember a very often-asked question about the relations of the Nazis and Jews during the second World War, which was some iteration of “Why did they hate the Jews so much?” Oddly, you don’t hear any version of that question anymore – from anyone.
There are more man-made and natural catastrophes queued up for our destruction than we realize, and all of them are waiting for God to unleash them on the world. Hang on to your faith in Jesus, folks, it’s all we have. But then, it’s all we need. Stay true to your servitude to Him and you’ll receive your reward in time. So for now, by all means and with every ounce of your being, trust Jesus Christ for deliverance from this wicked world. He’s waiting for each and every one of us to do just that.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
We got almost two inches of rain last night from a couple of fairly big thunderstorms that plowed across our neck of the woods and hereabouts. It’s so wonderful to get good rain this time of the year because it’s getting to be near that time when the autumn woods need rain to make all those beautiful colors as cool north winds begin to stir. If the weather is too dry in late summer, the leaves all just turn brown and fall, but when the rains hit just right, they get kind of waxy and shiny as they find the colors the Creator assigns to them. If you’re a follower of this site, you’ll already know this old hillbilly tends to wax poetic over the fall colors, and I don’t think this year will be any exception.
This autumn portends some different, ominous changes to the whole world, and frankly I don’t believe this existence in which we find ourselves is going to last much longer. Before you get your hackles up – and it’s understandable if you do – I’m painfully aware of the content getting published about needing to get prepared for hard times ahead, but the preparation this site advocates is mostly about spiritual preparation. In the end, being prepared to meet our Maker will be the ONLY preparation of any consequence and that realization must come sooner rather than later, because for it to actually work out to be of positive consequence it must be dealt with, and wholeheartedly if at all.
For the typical unbeliever who tries to continue straddling the fence between becoming a righteous follower of Jesus or simply living in the world and adapting to each and every kind of craziness the enemy throws at us, maybe you should look at this life like something you probably understand, like a football game. Yeah, think of this life as one big football game and right now we’re playing in the first half. People spend all their time chasing after money and good times and sure enough, just like touchdowns on the scoreboard, they’re racking up what they believe to be a big lead that will surely result in a win, and they tend to forget about that other half they still have to face. Most folks consider success to be about fancy homes and fast cars, boats, private jets, and whatever other items of instant gratification they can accumulate here in the first half. There’s a tendency to taunt us “losers” who appear to be falling further and further behind because of our quest to serve Jesus.
We don’t desire the same lifestyles as the unbelievers, because our “Coach” has given us some vision. We understand what’s ahead, and we trust our Coach who has assured us of victory in the next stage of the contest if we don’t get too worried about what our score looks like to the world in this half, but trust Him. Flashy cars and bank accounts only last until halftime – when your friends, relatives, and acquaintances lay you to rest and promptly start to divvy up all the things you “scored” as you erroneously presumed you were actually driving up the score. You came into this game with nothing, and you will leave it with nothing, no matter how much wealth you amassed during the first half. Google Jacob Rothschild; Sheldon Adelson; Dick Cheney. The game was over for them by halftime, and no matter what they had, they didn’t take a dime with them, and unless they took an opportunity to repent, they face a long and dismal second half indeed.
Just like the first half of this contest, which has varying lengths of time for different people, the second half isn’t really a half at all. It begins when we face our ultimate Referee, who will no doubt disqualify many from the contest entirely. He gave us the rule book and expected us to live by it, but we decided that we could rig the game in our favor – always outside the rules, so many of us gave no heed to them and proceeded to run up a score that would never serve to benefit us at all, for that second half was yet to be faced. That second “half” will last for all eternity, and it is when that unimaginable time begins that we will realize we actually gained victory. The other side will only then understand the depths of their loss. We will have won because we trusted our Coach, who taught us how to play a winning game and not get worried or excited about how dark things looked in that first half. We learned not to envy those with earthly gains that – to their eternal dismay – could never benefit them in the second half, but then they ignored the very rule book which could have taught them there would even be a second half. They did not prepare for what came after that big halftime show in which their great score seemed to assure them of victory, but alas for them victory was not meant to be.
When the “influencers” of the world keep harping on getting prepared, almost all of them are in one way or another talking about getting prepared for a future here on earth and how to survive some catastrophe in this first half of the game, but some of us are crying from the roof tops about preparing ourselves for the second half – listen to the Coach and trust Him, He’s saying that what’s important is on the other side and we should be preparing for that. We should have our minds focused on what we need and how we should live to get into the next life and stop worrying so much about how to survive in this one. The very first play of the greatest game is to make that decision to trust our Lord, our Coach, our Mentor, Jesus Christ. Beyond that is to try and live our lives in servitude to Him and to love our neighbors – even the foreigners among us. Play by the rules and thus avoid penalties as much as possible, and you will be playing to win – we must win – the alternative is too terrible to imagine, but the victory will be worth the effort we exerted on every down!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I lost all of my old site content. I found this one in an obscure document file and reconstituted it – albeit a little early – for this iteration of Folkpotpourri. If you remember this one, you are definitely a long-time reader of this site:
Reach with open hand and open heart; take hold, if you can, those delicious hues of autumn sunset draped in lonely north wind mingled with bedraggled cloud, soon to be brooding for times of verdant summer mist, already near lost in forgotten stories of yesterday. Indeed, yesterday, the stately woodland rang with melodies of summer, orchestras of wild birds and breezes generously blown from tame southlands where it is easy to imagine such ambience is nurtured. Yesterday, where shadowy vines of darkest green wound grandly in a tapestry of misty treetops, trains of scarlet now cling to amber and golden hickory crowns revealing they indeed claimed for their own the loftiest boughs of the wood, as indigo and silent winds increasingly and incessantly coax them into a cumulative slow dance to the autumn symphony. The autumn stage is set, hasten to allow these scenes of nature’s marvel into your memory, do not ignore the accompanying sound – aggrieved rasps of black birds, lonely and whispery whine of the grey squirrel; cold, clear water from unseen woodland fountains trickling over limestone escarpments, soon to be immobilized by icy silence in bounds of copper and yellow leaves. Every roadway becomes a wonderland.
A great oak stands sentinel, watching somberly, attentively, as the furnace of summer wanes once more among the last few cauldrons of October, now interrupted by nights of cool mist wafting about starlit glens of intruding autumn shadow and whispering threats of rime to brittle, fallow leaves. His watch unbroken through countless seasons, has once more patiently awaited the gum tree and sumac to emerge from sylvan dressing halls where the Master adorned them with exquisite gowns of profound crimson; they drink from deep, unseen vessels to another celebration of inimitable woodland hues. Hordes of squirrels secret away for winter scraps of wild provender breathlessly scavenged among leaves, rocks, and prostrate moss-covered sentinels of yesterday.
Raindrops bide, percolating in low-hanging, leaden billows, at last to wrestle free and pitch to a bleak arid earth and to darken streams of dry stones patiently awaiting; blessed raindrops, to soak desiccated trails through endless thirsty hollows. Cold, autumn raindrops, to silence the crusty blanket of new-fallen leaves in expectation of the stealthy white-tailed stag; soon he will need the silence of wet leaves as he busies himself dutifully tearing openings in the fallow carpet to provide irresistible earthen patches to be searched out by does, in obeisance to the ritual that makes them this year’s concubines. A seasonal urge will soon take him and for weeks he will pursue his regal posture of golden but waning autumn and brook no interloper into his realm. He has no choice; his role is assigned by the Master.
In the coolness of the October night, as a full moon assumes command of the celestial ocean above, coyotes gather to discuss in shrill voices those pertinent notions of interest only to themselves (and perhaps the bobcat), but in nocturnal earnest, as shadowy breezes drift over a moonlit landscape abundant with small prey lurking fearfully, silently, and most intently eavesdropping on the conversation. Ignoring the crazed chorus of coyote howls, secretive night birds take notice of the changes in weather that are upon them. Occasional hoots and rustles in cool oaken boughs hint of their disdain; indeed, some have, in fits of irremediable insult, even departed to spend winter in climes greener and more amenable.
On most afternoons now, a murder of raucous crows stationed along the edges of the wood take up hurling insults and name-calling; not at all pleased with nature’s effrontery. Through tears in the dark clouds, rays of silver sunlight reflect from black feathers, perhaps illuminating, perhaps illustrating their displeasure at the way of things. Their antics and curses go unheeded however, by the autumn wind; it has chosen to stay and it will, mirth or grief of irascible birds notwithstanding.
I’m as guilty as the next guy about posting doom and gloom, but not without good reason – things are coming to a screeching halt. At least most of the ways of life we’ve taken for granted over the last, well over the last years of our lives. Things will never go back to being “normal”. Normal for me was how I remember the seventies – graduating from high school and striking out to join the Navy. I was able to go see a good bit of the world, enough to understand that people and places might be far apart on a map, but those people and places aren’t all that different. People generally have the same needs and desires everywhere. Big cities, no matter where they sit are huge sewers for the most part as seen through the eyes of a backwoods East Texas country boy. Big cities are where rich people congregate.
Rich people the world over are typically a bunch of disgruntled, spoiled wastrels who typically inherited their wealth (although there are many who stole it themselves) and would like to make everyone else as miserable as they are, quibbling over whatever pennies might get into the hands of needy folks while at the same time trashing out businesses, buying luxury items they don’t even need trying fruitlessly to elevate their cheerless moods. There was an old Porter Wagoner song eons ago about rich people not ever having a satisfied mind, and it’s so obvious, but then I don’t think I’d be living a very happy life knowing what’s going to befall me (as do those guys) when this life’s over, but hey – it’s their choice. Meanwhile, they construct data centers, invent bionic robot people, engage in lifelong, hopeless efforts to find or invent something that can make them live forever so as to circumvent what’s gonna happen to them when they join Sheldon Adelson and Jacob Rothschild roasting with the demons of hell, all the while doing their utmost to make decent people as miserable as they are.
At the behest of their father Satan, they are compelled to attempt to take control of all the peoples of the world and it’s pre-scripted and prophesied that they will do so over the vast majority, but the part that irks them to no end is that there are still many of us commoners who are Christians and our allegiance is to the real God. There’s nothing, not squat, they can do to upend the believer, up to and including ending our lives. There they are in a catch 22, if they figure out a way to implement their Noahide law project, and they are making considerable progress, then they will be able to summarily execute believers in Christ, which has the net effect of sending us to Paradise to be with our beloved Savior earlier than would have otherwise occurred, so aside from the physical act of ending earthly lives of believers, the damage they will have done is less than minimal. Martyrdom for Christ is after all, the absolute, surest way to guarantee the victim receives an eternal reward of Heaven, so the enemy ironically by his action sends believers on to where they want to go anyway, just faster and with far greater surety. And the rich guy who developed this genius plan in service to Satan will just stand there, I guess, knee-deep in blood and gore trying to figure out whether or not he just punished or rewarded someone, and whatever new malice he can achieve, while the souls of his victims at last go into Paradise, never to worry or regret or experience pain or fear ever again. The believer will go to a place of indescribable joy and peace, so the enemy is effectively just left chasing his tail.
Maybe the wealthy servants of Satan can have some solace in the fact that there will still be great numbers of commoners who have chosen not to follow Christ, so they will still be available to torment and scare with silly things like “total surveillance” and social credit or whatever other nonsense Satan can contrive. Perhaps that will be some consolation, but without ever achieving the most desired satisfaction of robbing believers of their salvation. It cannot happen – not to true followers of Christ. [John 28.29]: “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.“
So cheer up, even in these worst of times here on this old world that is growing more hellish by the day we have something much greater to which we can look forward. The planet is simply beginning to feel the results of abandoning God. There are heat waves and fires consuming some of the worst offenders of the ways of God. These maladies are not unexpected, John was shown they were coming: [Revelation 16:9]: “And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” The very water of the earth is drying up in all the places where it is needed most, while vicious flooding is drowning people elsewhere.
While the wealthy people of the world are still jet-setting to some secretive palace where they can still find their perverse enjoyment, buying pleasure islands and what not, they are sure to still find time to bring catastrophe upon the decent people of the nations. Data centers, flock cameras, mass surveillance, any and everything they can contrive to, as mentioned earlier, but probably not enough, make regular folks as miserable as they are. Fear not, if you choose to be a believer and follow Christ, even though you probably don’t enjoy watching them selling their souls, knowing what’s in store for them, but you do not have to follow their paths. Do not envy the rich, he is in for a horrible eternity – he knows it and that’s why he can never be satisfied, no matter how much earthly gain he accrues, but nevertheless he keeps collecting wealth in the hopes that somehow the power that comes with great wealth will against all odds bring him some perverse satisfaction. They can – and regularly do – buy law enforcement, politicians, even militaries, to enact their heinous agendas which ultimately come down from Satan. We cannot defeat them with violence, our weapon is simple, but immensely more potent – the love of God. When we have the love of God, we have everything, though we have no earthly riches at all. Remember that – we have access to something of greater potency that all the riches of all the wealthy men – the mighty men – in the world, something they can never attain to – eternal life in Jesus Christ.
Times are pretty rough right now and they are going to get much worse before they get better, but trust me, trust the Word of God, they will get better for us who choose to follow Jesus Christ. If you haven’t made the decision to let Jesus guide your life, do it now, lest you find yourself on the same wayward side of things as the evil rich people of whom this post speaks. Do not wait until it’s too late, we common folks are what Jesus refers to as the salt of the earth and He loves us immensely. He is willing, no matter what kind of background we come from, to forgive us for our past mistakes and make His abode with us in our very hearts.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. [Matthew 5:8]
Are we there yet? Are we absolutely sure we’re not holding anything back, avoiding any uncomfortable issues we haven’t faced; can we say with full confidence that we have poured the last drop of guilt on the ground at His feet and asked fervently for His forgiveness? Is there anything left hidden that we choose not to lay before Him? Are there several or at least more than one degree of “pure in heart”? Pure in heart sounds like it’s absolute, either you are or you’re not, and in the context in which the Lord speaks this, He seems to be implying such. If there are degrees of purity however, then they must grow as one spiritually matures, thus whatever level of purity you have indicates the level of clarity with which you “see” God.
What does Jesus mean by being able to see God? We know from the Scriptures that it is impossible for a human in physical form to see God and continue to live. It costed Moses dearly to just catch a glimpse of the back of His form. That event was probably the extreme limit of what a faithful human could ever endure by seeing God, so how does Jesus mean the pure in heart can see God? The Savior of mankind who does not, cannot lie said we would be able to see God, so it has to be possible somehow. Being able to see God in the context Jesus mentions also must be a tremendous reward!
Jesus said the gate is wide that leads to destruction and that many will enter therein and the way to life is narrow, and few will find it, and also that purity in heart is the attribute that allows us to “see” God. Of the few who find the gate, will all of them (us) have attained the purity of heart that will give them that ability to see God? Do we understand the significance – the incredible reward – of this ability? The fifth chapter of Matthew is where the Sermon on the Mount is found in which Jesus lists the attributes of believers and their rewards. What a servant of God we would be if we were able to attain to all of them! This post explores verse 8 in which Jesus makes us this promise of the pure in heart being able to see God, but sometimes the notion is difficult – even for believers – to fully understand what He is saying.
Purity in one’s heart at the level Jesus addresses is absolute honesty with God, which, if you think about it, has pitfalls and shortcomings for most of us. There are scars on our consciences from past sins that we’d rather not revisit, pretending instead that they never occurred, but repentance requires our admission of all of our sins, even – and especially – the bad ones. We must find the courage to admit to those things done in secret that we’d prefer to skip over and pretend they never happened, and if that’s the route we decide we want to take, then we’re denying ourselves the opportunity to “see” God.
If we harbor doubts in areas of our faith as to anything the Scriptures require our steadfast belief, doubts such as to whether or not God loves us, especially with dark sins on our record, we are in doubt of our forgiveness, and that is an especially troublesome issue, but some of us believe the sins of which we’re guilty are of such a despicable nature that even the blood of Christ will not cleanse our soul, we must be reminded of this: [1 Corinthians 10:13]: “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man…” so your sin(s) are not as unique as Satan has convinced you, then what Saint John said [1 John 1:9]: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” All humans are subject to the same pitfalls, no matter how dark and repulsive they may be, but Jesus offers to forgive them so you can clear the hurdle of despair over whatever you’ve done being something no one else has ever done.
We are admonished in the Scriptures to fear God, and as we gain understanding of exactly Who He is, we cannot but tremble at His power and magnificence! He is truly awesome in every sense of the word; in fact, there are no words in any human language that could even begin to adequately describe Him! After all, He created everything – even the uncountable stars of the heavens. He is also a gentle and merciful God Who loves His human creation. From the first day He created man, He desired our company; our fellowship – that’s why He made us in the first place.
God gave us this bountiful earth on which to live and raise our children. He gave us all the animals, some to tame for pets, some to raise for food, and some to just enjoy – birds, creatures of the forest and such. There is a dark enemy who has tried from the very beginning to obstruct our fellowship with God, and unfortunately for the vast majority of mankind, he succeeds too often. We are all subject to the devises of Satan, and in order to maintain a healthy Spiritual relationship with our Father, we have to keep up our guard to avoid Satan’s pitfalls, but we still have further opportunity to get to know God and to see how we can enjoy His company in our lives. When we begin to understand and to experience the joy of His presence, we begin to “see” Him as we more profoundly experience Him and understand His desire to keep our company. We truly begin to “see” God.
God is by no means hidden from us. He sent His Son to guide us through this valley of darkness and to ultimately reach Him; to see Him. The only thing preventing us from fully getting to know – to see – God is our desire to live and thrive in this world of sin and shame. Many – way too many – people ignore the great sacrifice Jesus Christ made precisely so we could make our way to God through Him. We can experience the joy of walking with God, as did Enoch, as did King David, and we can look forward to one glorious Day when we meet Him in person. If you reject Jesus Christ in this short life we have here, you will forever be denying yourself the opportunity to “see” God. What a horrible loss!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
