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Author Archives: Mike K
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.
It’s a quiet, rainy morning outside in the Ozark woods. The kind of serenity that makes for nostalgic reflection. Unusually peaceful without even the whine of a chainsaw that drones when people like me are taking advantage of the coolness to begin the arduous work of cutting and splitting firewood for what bodes to be a long and cold winter. I say bodes because just like every year, folks are talking about things shaping up to be a really bad winter, sometimes they hit it and we get a really cold winter, but there are the other times when it doesn’t pan out to be all that bad.
The nostalgia part of my mood this morning is of course, that today is September 11, exactly 25 years since the events in Manhattan and the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania – what a tragic series of events! Since that awful day, lots of people have suspected there was more to the story than we’ve been told, and like the Kennedy assassination, we won’t find out for sure until all the suspected actors are dead and gone. Others believe the official narrative about some terrorists with utility knives having pulled off the deed. I’m on the side of the folks who think something underhanded happened involving people in the US government and likely some from an unnamed foreign country.
Last night I was speaking on the phone with one of my readers who calls me from time to time and we got into a discussion about 9/11 and he’s of the same mind I am about it being an inside job, or at least a malevolent performance by the CIA and Mossad. Without concrete proof, it’s hard to convince most folks that it was a dirty deed by spooks, but if one chooses to look at the available evidence and listen to the accidental giveaways by some prominent people, such as Larry Silverstein’s famous “we’re going to pull it” statement about a building (building 7) that could not possibly have come down (or gotten “pulled”) the way it did without having been pre detonated, and he said it before it came down, it would be hard not to believe it was pre-ordained by some powerful people.
I didn’t set out to do this post to try and convince anyone about the true events of that day 25 years ago, but simply to remember with solemn reverence and genuflect on the losses of all the lives. To experience once again the emptiness one experiences at the sudden departure of so many souls from our world. The folks who were killed in that tragedy were normal citizens going about their daily business, never for a moment aware of what they were about to experience. Well, the ones who were killed didn’t know beforehand, but there is ample evidence that some people knew. The ones who ate breakfast every morning in one of the towers – every morning that is except the morning of 9/11. There are so many stories about foreknowledge of the events of 9/11 that becomes redundant to mention all of them, but they all seem to rotate around a certain group of people – including the ones who made substantial money from the tragedy. And then there are the ones who no longer needed to account for large sums of money that had come up missing, but here I go again.
The light rain we are getting this morning is only the second few drops we’ve had in a month or more and it’s been extremely hot and dry! It’s just not supposed to be that hot here in the Ozarks. The little wild birds are singing and fluttering around in the mist, and you can tell they’re enjoying the break in the heat. Sometimes I wonder if people like Donald Trump have ever taken the opportunity to go for a walk in the woods and listen to the birds and watch squirrels and such. Something tells me he doesn’t have any idea that world even exists. He grew up as a spoiled rich brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never watched deer grazing next to the woods as daylight broke with thrushes grumbling. He missed a lot and he doesn’t even know it. He’s never knelt by a stream and thanked God for all of the beauty and solitude he beheld. He has truly missed the real world, the one we were put here to enjoy.
Rich men know nothing of decent stewardship of the earth and responsible behavior towards our fellow creatures. The buildings that were wantonly destroyed on 9/11 sent tons of airborne asbestos into the air around New York and people are dying to this day from lung diseases caused by breathing the dust. The men who perpetrated the tragedy don’t care about trivial things like thousands of innocent people being killed or the great swathes of people in Manhattan being exposed to deadly carcinogens – things that do not make for profit. None of them have ever allowed their consciences to become exposed to anything that doesn’t affect their bank accounts, especially natural things that God put here for the enjoyment of normal, decent people.
I hope readers get a chance to see this post while it’s still 9/11. Maybe reading it on the anniversary will give it more impact to initiate genuine reflection. Take a moment to thank God for His presence in the lives of those who survived and in the hearts of those who lost loved ones as they lived through their grief. It was truly a horrible day in New York, DC, and Shanksville, PA. Those who perpetrated the act will surely answer to the Highest Authority before all is said and done.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
I rationalized, as almost all of us do, that a couple of beers are harmless enough, and that might be true for most folks, but for me it was a rationalization that just didn’t work. Anyone who has been caught up in the abnormal need for booze can understand this, it’s how we deceive ourselves into opening the door for evil entities. When we take that first slug of anything with alcohol in it, if we are among those who do not have the capacity to stop at a reasonable juncture, we unlock the door – from then on, it’s just a matter of time until we totally surrender our conscious mind to the evil ones. When we become inebriated, our benign selves are no longer in control of our faculties, anyone who has even a modicum of understanding of alcoholism or other addictions knows this without having to read a post, but this particular post is meant to reveal something about the darker natures, the demons that await any crack in our sane, reasonable minds to enter into us and take control of our thoughts and actions.
It took me a long time and countless episodes of drunken misbehavior to actually realize the absurdity of continuing that lifestyle. We are admonished to confess our sins to God and to one another, and I guess this could be read as such, but it is also a warning to all who are able to fool themselves into believing they can stay in control of their faculties and emotions while physically and psychologically impaired under the influence of their substance of choice. There are many, many demons out there and they are just waiting for any opportunity to take control and with intoxicating substances, we give it to them. Once they move in and take over, we find ourselves thinking it’s ok to do things we wouldn’t have in our right mind. It happens every time! We prove that old adage about the definition of insanity being to repeat the same behavior and expect different results. This time I can handle it – unlike the last time and the time before, ad infinitum.
Intoxication is but one of many ways demons take possession of us – we get high or drunk, the enemy comes in, wreaks whatever havoc it can while we’re impaired, and for the most part, it leaves when we’re sober. I say for the most part, because these things hang around longer and longer as we progress into the addiction, meaning that even when we’re sober, we don’t really act normal and this gets worse. I think they call it being a dry drunk, where one becomes irrational and sometimes violent if they’re away from the booze for a while. This is because the demon becomes angry with the person being sober even for a short while. I had NCOs in the Navy who became so arrogant and nasty tempered when we were at sea that no one wanted to be around them. When we got to shore and hit the bar, they could be some of the most fun guys to party with. That is, when the demon (of alcoholism) regained control.
There are other, more insidious ways demons can possess us, and normal folks can see it, but I don’t think most of us understand what’s going on. I’m just going to say it and let the chips fall, but whenever we see “successful” people, those who have hit the big time and become wealthy and/or famous, I believe that, with very few exceptions they are those who have sold their souls; invited the demon into their beings in order to be wealthy. Look at the lines of “work” they are in – entertainment, sports, art – all are different forms of idolatry, and all are variations of “successful” lifestyles that are precipitated by being willing to serve the demons in control of fame. Some celebrities even willingly admit to their possession by evil entities. I’ll leave it there.
Banking and finance people are probably the most notorious of wealthy types, because at some point in their progression, they realize that service to the one(s) who have made them wealthy includes mistreating and causing financial ruin of others – I once happened to be in a loan officer’s office once when someone called, apparently trying to get a break on loan payment in arrears. This loan company guy was a ranking member of the local First Baptist Church, supposedly a devout Christian and the things I heard him saying to the person on the other end of the line were things that I couldn’t imagine a human being saying to another -what with all of Jesus’ admonitions to help the poor. I never heard this individual speak to anyone else in that tone of voice – the demon in him came to the surface when an opportunity arose in which he could demean and castigate someone who obviously didn’t have the means to pay their bank note on time. Persecution of the poor is a big no-no in Christian theology – a horrid, evil practice Jesus Christ Himself warned us not to do, but the demon who possesses these types of people cannot resist it. That demon was in control of this paragon of the First Baptist Church.
There are throngs of other wealthy people who use their ill-gotten gains to cause problems, destruction, and destitution for their fellow human beings in any way they can, for instance, it’s only the demon-possessed wealthy who are promoting and building those demonic data centers that use up all the water of the country. AI data centers are without a doubt and in every way a travesty to free humans’ way of life, depriving us of water, peaceful neighborhoods, they store information gained by spying on people, and I’m convinced they are also homes for demons to which the wealthy proprietors are paying dues for their souls. If you really look into AI and the “unexpected” things that some people catch AI saying and doing, there’s little room for doubt that it is controlled by demons, if for no other reason than the people who build them are without doubt people who have sold their souls. Check out the wealthy men in control of “technology” (another word for sorcery). No one in their right mind could consider any of these characters to be normal humans. These are the ones who are possessed full-time by demons and being evil is their way of life. If the truth was known, these fellows know what lies ahead for them – they have devoted their lives to Satan and know they are going down with him, and their primary motive is to take as many people to hell with them as they can. They have no wisdom, only fake (artificial) knowledge. If they’d had an ounce of wisdom, they would know that, like Sheldon Adelson and Jacob Rothschild, they will expire one day and then face the wrath of the Almighty God, finally being held to account for the evil they orchestrated in the world for their scant few years of wealth and power.
There are indeed many demonic entities loose in the world, be they the ones who are members of, or control, Demonic institutions like the Bohemian Grove, the Skull and Bones or the Mentmore galas, but those are just a few of the ones who occupy the extremely wealthy and can safely operate more and more in the public eye. There are many more that normal folks cannot identify. They occupy the hearts of cruel people all over the world, especially those who mock and persecute the unfortunate poor peoples. God will settle with them one day and it’s not going to be pretty. Demons and their master are destined for the lake of fire so be wary of them and their practices. Don’t get involved in any Satanic rituals, even down to such malevolent things as ouija boards – stay away from evil. Do not lust after money – even a poor man can lose his soul for lusting after wealth even if he has none – remember it’s the LOVE of money that’s the root of all sorts of evil. Keep yourself away from worldly lusts of all kinds, that’s where the demons capture you. If you haven’t given your life over to Jesus Christ, do so today before those demons get a chance to capture you – they have many ways of doing so, they’ve had thousands of years to practice their techniques. Do not allow anyone to convince you that all this technology is harmless – it definitely is not! I’m convinced this AI business will be one of if not the most successful techniques of Satan to capture many who do not believe Jesus is the Son of God. Those types are easy prey for Satan. Don’t be among them
By the way, I’m closing in on 24 years without alcohol – all thanks to the merciful God and Jesus Christ Who took up residence in my heart years ago! No way I could have done it without His help.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
It seems like more and more people are posting and making videos or whatever these days about all of the bad things happening in the world, and yes, I’m guilty too – I believe folks should be informed about the imminent threats we face as humans on this failing planet in order not to be shocked when it all happens. There is a difference in our messaging though, and I want to make sure my readers are aware of it. The difference of which I write is that although a lot of bad things are coming upon us, we need not allow them to cause us fear and trepidation. We have been warned from time immemorial that this life, this phase of existence on the earth, would come to a screeching halt. Either at the end of our natural lives as people have experienced through the ages, or at the end of the world when God has had enough of people’s bad behavior, but if we are right with Him and stand with Jesus Christ through these times, we have absolutely nothing to fear.
I’m 73 years old now, and as far as life expectancy for men, I’m about to go onto borrowed time. All my life, there have been images of some bent, decrepit old geezer in a hoodie cloak with a big sickle waiting in the dark for us to cash it all in. The only thing wrong with that picture is that God reveals to us who are of faith that picture is not at all what awaits us. The end of this existence, I’m convinced, will be like stepping through a door and when we see the other side, things are going to be so magnificent we cannot begin to imagine the joy we will experience. Joy at being in the presence of Jesus! His astounding glory will be the greatest sensation we could have ever dreamed to experience. I believe His love will be so real that we will actually be able to feel it emanating from His presence through our whole being – a new and improved being – a new body with which He will clothe us as we meet Him. The sickle-bearing reaper (or some equally fearsome entity) may well await nonbelievers but not Jesus’ beloved.
Those of us with our ears to the ground know of impending disasters such as the water crises out west, even in Texas there are shortages, we hear of ongoing wars and threats of more wars. Kinetic war has not made it to the US yet, but I’m pretty sure that’s in the offing. Problem is, when war gets to us here in the land of the free, it’s likely to be in the form of nuclear missiles or some other such contrivances of destruction, and for the first – and likely the last – time American citizens will finally get to experience the effects of war in our country. I believe it’s just a matter of time, but instead of allowing our determination to flag, we need to reach down and find the strength for that final burst of energy we need to win this race!
Even if the war is delayed, we have other extant issues that will be a strain on us and on our nation. The prices of everything we consume are going through the roof. We are under the growing threat of tyranny by totally insane leaders who seem bent on the absolute destruction of our way of life. The gloomy prospect of our becoming under the total control of that damnable artificial “intelligence” is upon us. I think that’s one of the main things that’s going to bring about the end of our world as more and more biological hybridization threatens to take place and as so many people become accustomed to serving demonic entities that reside in evil data centers. I think it’s quite revealing as to the limits of the power of evil – the evil ones have to store digital data in huge banks of servers (to keep a tab on our tendencies not to obey the system), but our God doesn’t need such excessive intrusion into our lives because He knows at any second of any minute exactly what has happened – to or by – each of us and He doesn’t need stupid artificial means to keep up with our behaviors – maybe that’s because He forgives us of so much of them. That’s the difference between an omniscient God and the evil Satan and his minions who need to mechanically store records of things that happen. Neither does God’s way of keeping up with things require water nor electricity.
Not long ago I was watching a video in which the (AI) narrator was explaining the geological progression of Campi Flegri and the giant magma chamber under it and I noticed that out of nowhere came a long demonic laugh when the narration was explaining the threat of catastrophe if the volcano erupted. This happened several times and I actually took out my phone and rewound the video and captured the episodes of hideous laughter that wasn’t associated in any way with the subject matter of the video. That was some months back, then yesterday I watched a video which addressed a phenomenon they’re calling AI hallucinations. I don’t know if the reader is familiar with this aspect of AI, but the video went on to explain how right out of the clear blue, AI presentations will “glitch” and these unexplained and unsolicited noises will be part of the soundtrack of the narration and this is exactly what had happened in the Campi Flegri video. She gave other examples of unexplained noises, voices, or outlandish statements from the AI “interviewee” with several iterations of them speaking of being in hell or in torment and other things you might expect to hear from demons. You are free to believe what you will, but I’m convinced that all this AI garbage is demonic and those noises are just manifestations of the evil entities residing in servers, data centers, and (especially quantum) computers. I believe data centers are being built by wealthy individuals who have already sold their souls and have been given the financial wherewithal to build them as part of their deal with Satan and that they are actually temples where demons dwell and that explains the demonic “hallucinations” which are in reality revelations coming from AI sources. I also believe that a time will come when everyone will be required at the threat of death to go to data centers and forced to worship and sacrifice their water and who knows what else to the demons – data centers are temples to demons! CERN is another, very expensive foray into the world of the darkness of Satan, and I think deep down everybody is aware of that. God particle indeed!
Mass numbers of populations in all countries are and have for a while now been enslaved to the content on their cell phones. If you have doubts of this, just walk down any street of any city and see all the faces glued to those phones! That’s slavery and addiction of the most egregious sort. People have no choice but to obey. Evil entities have huge numbers of people under their control – everyone knows they are being controlled, although I don’t think they all know by what! If you should doubt this slavery, just ask them to put their phones down! Tens of thousands of people are killed on our highways every year now because more and more drivers can’t take a break from this addiction long enough even to drive somewhere! You see people every day in supermarkets who aren’t even aware of their surroundings because they’re too busy on their phone, either talking or texting – with other shoppers all around trying to dodge them. I grew up in a world that didn’t have cell phones, and we were able to cope with life just fine. We could – and should – do it again. Or we can just stay enslaved.
Here in the Ozarks, we’re not far from autumn, a blessed time of the year when God illuminates our world here with incredibly beautiful colors and if you’re a longtime reader here, you probably know I grow clumsy fingers of prose to try and describe the beauty and praise of God in different words than what we are used to, but as pitiful as my attempts to describe it are, they just sort of come over me. I hope to get something out soon but have to wait for the weather to start changing to get in the proper mood, and no, there is no AI in my presentations. Autumn is upon this old geezer in more ways than the time of year too, and I know the mood and colors are going to be fantastic in all the changes I look forward to, and some more than others. Before I get out of here though, I need to get words of encouragement to all my friends and fellow travelers, to make it loud and clear that we have nothing but joy and peace to look forward to and don’t let all the technology doom and gloom get under your skin – this part will be over in but a moment and after this our real life is about to begin – the one we place all of our hopes in as we stand in unshakeable faith in our Lord Jesus Christ! If you lack faith or when your faith wanes, remember you can always pray for more!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
About the only things I ever watch on TV anymore are videos by various content creators and like most folks, I’m starting to get pretty good at picking out real content from what they call “AI slop”. Some of the subject matter of content the creators put out is interesting enough, but AI always makes such a big production out of the articles that you get the feeling the production itself is what the theme is about and not the actual subject. The literary devices are always the same and to be honest they lack any fundamental “penmanship” or “wordsmithery” to engage the interest of the reader. At least that’s the result if I happen to be the reader. If this is as good as AI can do, I think it won’t be around for long, because more and more people are catching on to how it operates and it is getting boring. Their stories of things to fear are too redundant these days.
The enemy of mankind is one hundred percent in charge of AI and it’s accoutrements, such as the demonic data centers that threaten to empty our aquifers and overload our electrical grids, but it’s extremely important to get it into your head that Satan – as well as the people he controls – does not care if the water disappears. The more people that are seriously threatened by water shortage, the better! They don’t care how much they tax the electrical systems, the objective is to set things up to where optimally, if there is a surveillance state evil men will be able to know when you go to the bathroom and what you are thinking in a given moment, then all is well and if their data centers use up all the water, so much the better. They don’t care. They didn’t care that 3 or 4 thousand people would die when they brought down the World Trade Center towers – instead of collateral damage, they saw all those deaths as a side benefit that would please their master even more. This war in Iran, conducted by open servants of evil, Hegseth and Trump, is strictly for the pleasure of Satan and his chief demon on earth who right now is in possession of Benjamin Netanyahu. Don’t kid yourself for a moment, that little girl’s’ school at Minab was considered to these evil creatures like a cherry on top of an ice cream treat – yes it was done on purpose – by the Satanic likes of Admiral Cooper on orders from Hegseth, Trump, and Netanyahu and if you cannot force yourself to realize that you need serious help! Once again I write that there is no level of evil to which Satan and his followers will not stoop!
But I digress – the purpose of this article is to pass on encouragement to my fellow travelers as we watch this phase of God’s creation come to a close. Do not dread it. Do not fear it. The enemy feeds off our fear and he must be denied! How do we avoid fear in this world of doom and gloom? Get out you Bible and turn to [1 John 4:18]: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” Now instead of worrying over the likelihood of WWIII or the impending water catastrophe at Lake Mead, spend some time meditating on exactly what John meant. How do you attain to the level of Godly love that causes fear to go away?
That Spiritual love of God is very mysterious to anyone who has not experienced that Morning Star rising in their heart: [2 Peter 1:19]: “And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;…” Because when the day dawns and the Morning Star rises in you heart is that incredible phase of one’s spiritual development in which you begin to understand how god’s love works. Pray unceasingly for His love, because He is the source from whence it comes. [2 Thessalonians 3:5]: “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”The Almighty God Himself directs our hearts into His love. That is how we finally become able to observe the greatest commandment: to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul and strength. No amount of AI content in the whole universe can put God’s perfect love into a person’s heart – in fact, all this high tech sorcery is being developed to do just the opposite – it’s designed to instill fear into our hearts. Because once again, the enemy feeds off our fear. So when the day dawns and that Morning Star rises in our hearts we find two things happening simultaneously. The love we have in our hearts increases to the point where we can actually begin to understand what it is, and we find that the fear in which we have walked begins to lessen. The Spirit has shown us how to disarm the enemy, and so we realize there is nothing on this side to fear. [Matthew 10:28]: “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” These are the words of Jesus Crist, our Sovereign, so it is indeed possible to avoid fear else He wouldn’t have said that.
This world is coming unraveled, that is undeniable, but if we put our trust in Jesus Christ, we have nothing to worry about. When I hear someone bemoaning the tragic events of the world and show their fear of what’s coming, I try with all my might to get my own feelings over to them that those who belong to Jesus Christ have absolutely nothing to fear. I’m not claiming I’m exactly where I should be, but I’m moving in that direction with all my strength, and I firmly believe that anything I lack will be given to me at the time it is needed. There may be threats while we are still on this side of the river, but if we keep our thoughts and our hopes focused on the other side as we should, we find our fears abating – when you have Jesus Christ, the Almighty Son of God residing in your heart, there is no room left in there for fear – He casts it out!
When you watch the AI generated news and see where Satan is doing something awful to people just remember, people who are being martyred or lost otherwise do not have to fret anymore over the worries of this world. No more concern for water shortages, wars, famine, earthquakes, floods, etc. When we breathe our last of this earth’s air, as far as we are concerned, in the very next instant of our existence we will be in the company of our Lord and Shepherd who loves us with a love we will finally be able to comprehend for then we will be Spiritual beings and like Him in many ways. We should be practicing that love now, for Him, and for our fellow travelers and praying incessantly for any lack. Love is the Way to win the long game, and I implore you to get to know Jesus Christ if you haven’t already committed your life to Him. If you already are a believer, hang on tight to the hem of His garment and take heart, we’re almost there!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
Yesterday I was interrupted from one of my numerous projects by a surprisingly determined little creature imploring me to stop my work and pick my sickle back up and stay involved in the harvest in the way He has given me to do my part. Today I’m preempting that little fellow just in case he should find me back out there neglecting my real assignments. For this paragraph to make sense, click on the link a few sentences up, and take five minutes to read the article. Today the Spirit has beckoned me to try and paint a verbal picture – I’m not an artist, so bear with me. Allow the thoughts presented to sink in and just imagine what you would think and feel when this event happens:
It’s seemingly a normal day and you are going about your usual grind, fretting over this or that, allowing your thoughts to meander through the news cycles of recent events, maybe trying to figure out what you want to do for dinner, or whatever else occupies your time. You don’t notice that the world outside has become totally quiet and still, almost as if in anticipation of something, but what? Something suddenly does happen; an unusually loud noise, then a bright light, brighter than the normal daylight blasts through the windows. The noise becomes more and more distinct until you realize it’s a trumpet blast – louder than anything you have ever heard! Something big, really big is happening out there, and the suddenness of it all is amazing.
You go to the door, but before you open it, you are seized by an unfamiliar sensation – this is something that in the back of your mind, you knew was coming, but you always diverted your attention to other things when it arose – put your head back into the sand until the thoughts of it went away. As you open the door, you are stunned by the brilliance of the light – it’s not a glaring, threatening light, and as your eyes adjust you can make out huge clouds slowly drifting earthward and the noise of the trumpet, though loud enough to be heard throughout the whole earth, doesn’t cause any discomfort – in fact there is an indescribably soothing effect in your very heart.
Your mind races; Could this be??!! You realize in a moment that this is it! This is none other than the return of Jesus Christ! The seminal event in all history of mankind and it’s actually happening right now! You reel in disbelief, almost fainting with excitement! Your thoughts immediately go to the last time you prayed. Was it last night? Was it a few days, or a week ago? Perhaps you have been putting off saying a prayer for a really long time now, and you wonder how many sins you’ve accumulated on your record since the last time you sincerely asked for forgiveness. How many…
You begin to realize that your life in this moment is absolutely and forever changed. No more worry about the money in your bank account. No need to fret over picking the kids up from school, or to think about that all-important project you’ve stewed over for months. No more worry ever again about how much gas is in the car or how much it costs. That trip out to grandma’s you had planned for the weekend is now cancelled – forever. Thoughts flood your mind. Will I ever see anyone in my family again?
Neighbors are coming outside now, each person with the exact same thoughts racing through their minds. The fear is palpable – you can actually feel a huge knot growing in your throat. You realize you are actually trembling with fear and anticipation – Then you see Him! There on the highest bright cloud – higher and more enormous than any cloud you have ever even imagined, stands the celestial figure of the brilliantly lit Son of Man, the light is actually coming from Him, His magnificence is unimaginable and indescribable! He is surrounded by powerful angels in a celestial setting too beautiful and magnificent to put to words. You are able to see colors you’ve never seen before – colors you never knew even existed. There are no words in any human language that could even begin to relate what you are seeing! You realize instantly that no institution, no army, nor any weapon ever devised by mankind would be of any use to try against this celestial being whose presence fills the whole sky – indeed, all the Heavens are filled with His power – His glory! You feel yet another sensation as He comes closer – your thoughts, your physical presence, your whole existence actually experiences the actual, physical feeling of His sensational love – wonderful, unimaginable, indescribable love – that surrounds and encompasses His whole Being, and in that instant you begin to understand this presence of Him is something so absolutely wonderful that no mere human could have possibly imagined the glorious joy of simply being near to Him, but it’s also a joy to be lost when this is over – when one is rejected from His glorious presence – denied because during this very short life we have here on earth, His offer of eternal life with Him was denied. The horrific impact of experiencing His marvelous presence and then realizing the joy that comes with being near Him will be forever lost because we were too busy with the goings on of this world to entertain the notion of getting to know Him in that life when we had the chance.
Time itself stops as these events unfold. As His wonderous gaze lands on the eyes of each and every person, people drop their heads, few have the psychological wherewithal to withstand His piercing eyes. Tears flow like rivers on faces of shame and all present instinctively go to their knees – finally in obeisance, some belatedly begging forgiveness – before Him Whom they should have acknowledged in earlier times, many attempt to hope there is still time for forgiveness, but those hopes are instantly dashed in their minds. They know. They realize now that that night at the bar, that football game, wasn’t nearly as important as a church service; that working all that overtime was absolutely pointless – the events surrounding this return of Jesus Christ are the only things on everyone’s mind, the price of gas, picking up the groceries, even sweeping the floor – nothing left in this world in which you have spent your whole life learning to exist is of an iota of importance now – now and forevermore. Nothing that is, unless during that meaningless existence you paid attention to the Holy Scriptures and made yourself ready for this day.
Jesus told a parable about ten virgins waiting for a man to appear who would be their prospective groom. Five of them were wise and prepared by filling their lamps with oil to welcome him, some of them just kept putting off their preparations until, in the dark of night he arrived. As he approached the girls who had no oil asked the ones who did for some oil, but the girls who were prepared told them they would have to go and buy their own, which they did, but they had waited too long, and while they were away, the groom took the women who were prepared in and shut the door. Now this is important, so don’t overlook it – the groom said he did not know the girls who were not prepared.
In the magnificence of this upcoming event, when the Groom for this wedding returns, if we are to celebrate in total joy and rapture of the moment, we must have oil in our lamps. If we are prepared, this day of absolute terror for some and ecstasy for others will be the beginning of our eternal reward, but if we are of those who always put off a relationship with Him, then that day will be indescribable fear and terror. The last thing anyone wants to hear on that day is [Luke 13:27]: “But He will say, “I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.”
Are you absolutely sure those words are what you want to hear from Him on that terrible day? One of the greatest freedoms He gives all mankind is that of our choice. He does not make anyone serve Him in this life, but He does make some incredible promises of a new life. If you’d wish to be among those who are able to stand and share in the joy of His return, just go ahead and fill your lamp now. A prayer of repentance and asking His forgiveness for living a worthless life would be the first step. Jesus said He stands at the door of every heart and knocks. When we open that door, we begin the journey to the place we can stand when He comes back, and we can eagerly anticipate that life of perfect peace and joy – joy so profound we can’t even imagine it from these tents of flesh where we dwell. Find a preacher and get baptized into the faith today.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
The last day of an incredibly hot August and it’s still blazing hot out, but I thought if I could take it easy and not stay out in the heat too long at a time, I might be able to make some headway on a raised strawberry bed I’ve been working on. In order to get started I needed to mulch up some old rotting hay and compost, and I thought my old chipper might just do the trick so I went out to the barn and swam through months of cobwebs and finally got the thing out. It was, as expected, in fairly decrepit condition as it had sat in that dark corner through seasons of horse dust, bugs, and other barn accoutrements and of course it would not start. As I struggled with all my 73-year-old might to pull crank the old contraption and get the heavy flywheel to turn, I noticed something (besides my progressing weakness) – there was gasoline dripping from the little carburetor. This usually means that during storage the needle in the tiny float valve figured out a way to get stuck open and continue to allow gas to run into the float bowl and overfill it – those little carbs are always trying with all their might to be the first thing to fail to operate when a machine is needed.
While I was dutifully disassembling the tiny troublemaker and struggling to keep up with microscopic components, the strangest thing happened to me. Now I’ll tell you up front that I hope you don’t think I’m a bit insane – no, I’d much rather you just go all the way and think I’m completely crazy – certifiable and ready for the institution, but this little butterfly came along and lit on my sweaty wrist and clung on as he (she?) very delicately probed around on my skin with his little probiscis; first here, then turn his tiny head and there, and I had to stop being frustrated with my clumsy hands trying to perform microsurgery and watch this little guy and as I did, my curiosity began to get the better of me, and then astonishingly, he spoke to me. He didn’t speak with words or any sound; he didn’t need to. I could hear him from inside. He began by asking me, “What are you doing out here working on this confounded thing?” I already understood where he was going with this, and I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t have a reasonable answer in the moment.
He continued, “You of all people realize how close this old world is to wrapping things up, and the time is short.” I dropped my head and listened intently now, the profundities of his thought were piercing my inner sanctum. “You do realize your precious strawberry bed can wait for a while so that you can do something much more important, and you also know what that is, so what are you doing?” he said as he gingerly stepped around on my arm so that his tiny little eyes were in direct line with my own. “There may be a prospective reader out there who needs just the post you write today to begin his/her move toward an important goal you might inspire for them. There may be a believer who is down and needs encouragement at this very moment. By fixing this dratted machine, you are only satisfying your need to accomplish something, but it is a menial and useless thing compared to what might transpire in the heart of someone who will read an essay today that God has given you the ability and desire to create.” This little guy was cutting my conscience like he knew exactly what he was doing.
The tiny butterfly left my arm and after a moment, I determined to continue with my project, assuming of course, that the experience with the miniature lepidopteran was a temporary departure from my normal insanity into something more profound – which would be an experience I’ve heard is not uncommon with old codgers – but as I reached for a tool, he came back and landed in the exact same spot and looked at me, “Don’t you know you’ve just been visited by something more profound than you can even imagine? What are you still doing here?” I was awestruck, to say the least! Flabbergasted might even be a better word!
I knew I needed to reassemble this “dratted machine” before I did anything more, else I’d never find the parts (the cats would see to that) nor, more importantly, remember how everything went back together, so he waited patiently right there on my wrist, never flinching or fluttering away until I got it all put in place and tightened, and when I turned the last screw, he left me – I guess to ponder what had just happened. I have to admit, I’ve never had my conscience accosted to such an extreme – by a next-to-nonentity at that.
How on earth did God know to make that little critter come speak to me at just this time? Now you might (and probably do) think it was just my own conscience hammering on me to leave something unimportant and go inside and get something done for God, and any other time, I’d probably agree with you, but what I wrote is what happened – you can believe it or not as you choose. A tiny little butterfly – one with a chunk of a wing missing (so I knew it was him when he came back that second time) – rode upon a summer morning’s breeze from who knows where in God’s celestial realm and lit on the greasy, sweaty arm of an old short-timer in this world and ever so gently got his attention and in God’s own gentle and loving way, urged him to break into what he was doing and get something important done for Him. And I never even tried to crank the thing – came straight here to my keypad to make sure you – the one reading this, know that Jesus Christ loves you with an intensity none of us can even begin to comprehend – and He wants to hear from you.
Now the little insect didn’t tell me this part, and maybe I don’t even have to tell the reader, but unless whatever you’re doing is in some way connected with God’s work, just stop whatever it is and check in with the Lord – He’d love to hear from you. That, after all, is what this whole story is about. If I can stop what I was doing up to my elbows in sweat and grease, to send you this post, then you can stop what you’ve got going and talk to God. I believe that was the intended result of His sending that beautiful little creature to get my attention. All just for you. There may not be enough time left in this old world for a crop of strawberries next year anyway.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
We’re closing in on the most seminal event of all human history and too few of us are ready for it. That is the return of Jesus Christ! After all that has happened it would take a blind person – one who is blind indeed – not to be able to connect the dots by now. Things are happening now that haven’t happened before. There is a degree of evil afoot all over the world, but especially here in the US, that is of greater and more profound malevolence than there ever has been. This proves beyond any reasonable doubt the enormity of [Revelation 12:12]: “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” The time is growing shorter by the day! We now live in a time when recognized governments – once thought to be in good standing – accept, indeed perpetrate the most heinous acts imaginable or befriend those who do. And they lie – they tell damnable lies about it all! God is about to act, and His vengeance will be a dreadful event for those who have rejected Jesus!
I’m old enough now to have lived through times of hope – almost innocence – where a man could get a decent job, buy a home and raise a family with all the accoutrements of living a decent life. Sure, there were shady dealings in our post WWII world, but they were kept mostly behind the scenes, giving the population at large a sort of plausible deniability so we didn’t feel wholly responsible for the evils of the world. We seldom considered the persecution our forefathers visited upon the American Indians largely because our media of the day disparaged them as bloodthirsty savages and we didn’t ever question that view. Our collective consciences were sufficiently clouded as to believe our time here was honorable. As long as we worked and paid our taxes we could build and maintain what we considered to be a respectable existence. Any dishonesty by the government was mostly kept hidden.
Along about the sixties things started to change. We were absolutely sure of a North Vietnamese torpedo attack on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and most of us therefore supported “retaliatory” measures by US armed forces. We also “knew” that Vietnam was the linchpin domino that would unleash communism on the whole world if it should fall to those commie rice farmers! Very few to none of us had any idea that the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) didn’t even have vessels that were capable of launching torpedoes at the time. Vietnam was the first conflict of my lifetime that our government lied us into, but back then when us proles had a modicum of confidence in what our media told us, it was really easy for Uncle Sammy to do. Since the heady days of our military action in Nam, we have slowly, bit by bit, learned that, thanks to institutions of deceit like the CIA, the US government writ large, is unquestionably the most dishonest operation the modern world has ever had the misfortune to tolerate. Lyndon Johnson lied to the whole country, even to the extent of having the techies of the day to take some video footage of torpedoes slicing white trails through the water but in reality, it was American ships performing target practice on ship hulks out in the water but the claim was that these were Vietnamese torpedoes being fired at American ships. Sure looked convincing back in the days when we still mostly trusted what they told us.
When the “hippie” movement started back in the sixties, the young folks – especially on college campuses – started a trend that forever changed our trust in what we later came to understand as government propaganda. Back then most of us didn’t even know what propaganda was, but thanks to the hippies – and the “Jesus Freaks” (more on them later) – an unfamiliar facet of our regard for what we were (and are) being sold by our government, a long-forbidden concept now widely known as TRUTH began to drip out into the public discourse. In the sixties, anyone with enough intestinal fortitude to dare challenge any narrative put out by the government through a compliant (oh, how compliant!) media, was asking for trouble, especially in the redneck southern communities. That part hasn’t changed much right up to today, but more and more “conservatives” are beginning to see the light. In my opinion, the events of 9/11 and the public reaction to the government narrative of it, probably revealed more than any other event up to that time about the mistrust of our government. After that seminal day in American history, many citizens were willing to actually revisit government narratives of other things, like the Kennedy assassination and events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Once people – complete with their own eyes and ears saw those big skyscrapers fall to the ground in an obvious controlled demolition, most of them (us) could no longer bear the burden of trust in our government. The slow, steady drip of truth became a deluge! Once that genie was out of the bottle, sane folks realized that if they were willing to lie to us about an event of that magnitude, they were probably lying about a lot more things and the US government has never enjoyed the benefit of public trust since.
It seems like every event which has happened since – and including – 9/11 has become another focal point of the doubt of a government narrative. Nowadays instead of buying into the “official narrative” of any major event, be it a fake assassination “attempt” in Pennsylvania for photo ops, or the obvious lies about the real murder of Charlie Kirk, everyone first examines things like, who benefits from this? Why did this happen at the time it did? Why was there a missing minute or two of the Epstein “suicide”? (This is a big one, because they’ve gone so far as to even suggest Trump had a hand in his beloved friend’s “death?” in order to sell the public on the notion that a valuable MOSSAD asset is actually dead. I do not believe for a nanosecond that with all the resources at the US government and MOSSAD’s disposal that they could not have busted him out of prison and put the cadaver of some unfortunate soul in his place, but that’s just me.) Again, there’s this truth thing that keeps threatening official narratives…
In Donald Trump the government of Satan has it’s greatest liar ever to breathe. Almost EVERY word that comes out of this man’s mouth is either a baldfaced lie or some statement that is predicated on a lie he has told earlier. I do not waste my precious time watching his speeches or any other occasion he exploits to spew his drivel. You learn absolutely nothing from his discourse except that there are actually human beings around with the capacity to tell so many despicable lies even in occasions when the truth would serve him better. Be it three-hundred-foot gashes in a pool liner (he doesn’t even have enough sense to realize the impossibility of that, what with cameras on 24/7) or reducing prescription medicine prices by 600 percent, the inanity of his completely senseless diatribe is an absolute revelation of a psychopathic liar of the first order and Senate and Congressional Republicans should rightfully bear the responsibility for the damage he has caused and the allies he has estranged. Trump, in his progressing dotage obviously cannot help himself, but the congressional Republicans can and should stop him. It’s every bit their fault and as I have written before, I’m not a Democrat – I deplore them equally as profoundly as Republicans, it’s just that the Republicans are the ones stopping any action from being taken to relieve the country of Trump. They serve Satan and he won’t allow them to act even if they were brave enough to do so. Remember their disregard for the good of America when the mid-term vote comes due. Every one of them know Trump is an insane narcissist who might well destroy the country, but they are too afraid to confront this monster they have created! Democrats are a sold-out lost cause, but the Republicans are downright evil!
Back to the days when the truth started coming out. There was a time, as mentioned, when US citizens largely trusted whatever we were told by our media. We had anchors on three networks that we never thought to question. Walter Cronkite was a folk hero. Who in the world were all these freaks with long hair running around protesting against our sacred war in Vietnam? I’ll break it to you – their credo was peace, love, flowers, and in many cases, Jesus. Now I don’t care what your issue is, nor where you stand on world events, if you honestly follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, you eventually win the battle. Sometimes it doesn’t happen right away, sometimes not even in this phase of our existence, but you are guaranteed to win the long game. Peace and love are attributes of following Jesus, and they are the absolute best iterations of human behavior. We do not, nor did we ever, need war in this world. Satan has created the conditions and attitudes necessary to cause human beings to hate, to kill. The “Jesus Freaks” of the sixties and seventies have grown old now. I am one – I can’t claim that I’ve always followed His teachings as I should have – nor can anyone else, although there are many who’ve been more faithful to Him in pastimes than I have – but I wholeheartedly follow Him now!
As a true Jesus Freak, I now feel the responsibility to pass along the hope that He has given me. Things are wrapping up in this phase, think about it. If you are reading this essay, know that Jesus Christ loves you with a profound love of such magnitude that He was willing to endure one of the most horrific deaths imaginable – just so He would be able to save your soul, the part inside you that counts. The part that will be around forever. He wants to be your eternal friend, your King. He said [John 14:6]: … “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father but by Me.” For the purposes of this essay, that Truth part is worth a second consideration, especially as we practically drown in the sea of lies that Satan has put before us. You can really trust Jesus and in this world of lies and deceit, that’s a rare and amazing comfort. He gives our psyches blessed Spiritual lifts ever so often in this life, from His profound store of love, and it’s worth following Him just for those events! With the complete failure of an unbelieving mankind to effectively steward this wonderful world He gave us, it’s so passionately refreshing to know that our ultimate future will indeed be won – it already has been if we but follow our precious Savior – all the way to that wonderful mansion He has prepared for us (I can promise you that mansion is going to make Mentmore look pathetic). When that sinks in and you understand that Heaven is where you are headed, that Spiritual lift kicks in and the ills of the world are relegated as trivial indeed.
Get right with Jesus today. Ain’t much time left so don’t wait until it’s too late – my heart really hurts for those throngs of people who will have to depart from His face. Don’t be among them – become a Jesus Freak today – give Him the keys to your life and let Him drive – He can handle it!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
I’m no Democrat. In fact, the saddest part about getting rid of Trump – if that should happen – is that some Democratic politician will undoubtedly replace him. The other side of the same coin. Do not mistake the arguments being put forth in his article as coming from some leftist Democrat as this writer loathes both parties equally. There are more and more folks who are tired of both parties, which by rights we shouldn’t have anyway. The greatest president this nation ever had told us not to form political parties in our government in his famous farewell address and went to the trouble of describing the calamities which would result from partisan divisions in the country, among which: (political parties) become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. Sound familiar?
One of the most prescient warnings is this next paragraph. It must be studied in its entirety to grasp just how emphatically George Washington was trying to make us understand the dangers of institutional factions (parties): The alternate domination of one faction (party) over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
We’ve seen every possible iteration of the exact happenings come to pass, there was a case where one party wouldn’t allow a sitting president to appoint a Supreme court justice because in his opinion, it was too close to the end of the president’s term – which still had eight months to go. What???!!! There’s absolutely no Constitutional authority for that! But Mitch McConnell got away with it so the next President (Trump) could appoint a Republican approved justice. This kind of thing is exactly what President Washington was warning of.
How about this jewel? It (partisanship) opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. . Recognize anything in that one? or how about this? Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
This is too real, folks: Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I really think we should have given this document at least the same consideration as the Constitution. There’s a lot more in it than what I’ve put into this article, and I would strongly advise every American to read it and so understand what we have done wrong. If we’d obeyed his admonitions, especially about political parties and foreign entanglements (such as merging our military with another country’s). If we’d have listened to President Washington, we wouldn’t be ruled by Israel today because that was exactly what he warned us against.
If Americans are to regain control of our nation, we must resort to the admonitions of the founding fathers and use their wisdom as a guideline to return to our free form of government where citizens rule and government only facilitates the will of the people.
The most critical action we can take is to return to God for His blessings for any endeavor to reacquire our lost freedoms – you can trust that nothing good will come of any effort otherwise. Jesus Christ kept this country on its feet for a couple of hundred years, and we made a lot of mistakes, especially when it comes to Native Peoples, but when we walked away from Him and adopted this lawless, immoral society, things started going south. We are at a critical inflection point today and the actions we take (or don’t take) must be predicated on our desire to live Godly lives or we are going to sink. You think things are bad now? Just keep giving the servants of Satan more and more control – surrender more of our rights to an evil authoritarian regime that operates under the control of the evilest country ever to exist, and yes, it will get worse.
As an American, I’m ashamed to even be writing about this travesty of a human being occupying the same office as one so honorable as George Washington. Can you even begin to imagine what President Washington’s reaction would be to hearing this vulgar, trashy maggot dropping an f bomb in public in front of women – and children? How far we have fallen!
I strongly suggest a reading of George Washington’s farewell address to be able to discern what we’ve done wrong, but I even more strongly suggest a reading of the Bible, the very Word of God – to find how we can get things right. We desperately need to resuscitate the Congressional Republicans from their Trump-induced stupor and get rid of this abomination – and soon, before he completely destroys the nation like he’s already done to the White House. He’s not gonna stop on his own.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
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.
