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.

Now the Cargo We Requested is Arriving

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It’s coming down the turnpike right now, and since it has been a long way off until now the densest among us have been able to at least claim they didn’t know it was it coming, but as it emerges into plain sight for everyone to see, even the most stalwart head-buried-in-the-sand proponents of the status quo can no longer deny it’s approach. What I’m describing is a big dump truck full of trouble for us all, and it’s not one of those short bobtails, no it is a big semi with a huge dump-trailer chock-full of the most dreadful and frightening threats to humanity we could have ever imagined and many we couldn’t have. Satan himself is the driver and he will soon be backing that trailer up to dump it on our very survivability. In the US, this fearsome truckload of misery left the loading dock on a journey called capitalism and is now reaching it’s inevitable end, a great human warehouse where the vast majority must suffer immensely, and soon impossibly, for the profit of the microscopic few. This journey could end no other way.

One of the most imminent of the troubles being brought to us is that there is a growing threat to our nation’s fresh water supply and if the reader happens to already be in one of the expanding areas of drought in the US – actually in the whole world – if the threat of water shortage isn’t already upon you as is the case for many, you are nevertheless coming up on a situation in which you may be about to be without water, or at least fighting desperately to keep your own. There are still places in the country that are not under immediate threat, but due to the upcoming environmental migrations that are about to send hosts of thirsty people into these refuges, they will soon be inundated. This is about as serious as it gets folks, and it’s not one of those things that will just go away, rainfall patterns of the last several decades and global climate changes have brought some of the most populated places in the country to absolute desertification – even US aquifers are being pumped dry.

Instead of a Chicken Little post of only gloom and despair, this article will also identify some levels of respite if we are brave enough to take the appropriate actions and do them quickly. One of the most obvious things that should be considered is desalination of ocean water. While acknowledging that this technology might create new problems, it’s an undeniable fact that it can be done and making drinking water available would seem to be the highest priority for the immediate future. The problems that may or may not arise from desalination are not as pressing as running out of water will be and will no doubt need to be addressed, but for now we need water – and lots of it. There just happens to be lots of it in the world’s oceans. Many pundits and “experts” claim that large-scale desalination is cost prohibitive, but we should look at the costs of desalination through the same lens the “authorities” use when they need to run a pipeline or power line through someone’s private property and consider the concept of eminent domain, where the “greater good” is served by appropriating someone’s property to serve public needs. Got it? There are several multi-billionaires with much “private property” in their bank accounts and stock portfolios that might need to be “appropriated” to finance giant water projects for the good of the whole country. Inarguably socialism, but socialism for everyone and not just the wealthy.

When we take an honest look at some of the contributing factors to the hydration loss dilemma we are increasingly experiencing, the very first thing we ought to consider are the huge volumes of water required to keep the billionaires’ pet projects, data centers, up and running. These demonic temples are the single worst advents of misery for mass populations in every respect. Data centers are the very last things our country needs to be installing as our nation faces these water shortages. Local leaders claim they provide jobs and they initially do, but so would desalination plants, especially in the numbers needed to stave off a national water crisis. The irony of the claim of jobs provided is that the very purpose of the data centers is to reduce jobs everywhere. Data centers ultimately will be used for exactly the most unwanted purpose and one that is antithetical to the concept of freedom – total surveillance. American patriots have died for our freedom over the centuries, and we should be putting up more of a fight against them before they completely enslave us and use up all of our water. Only a few ultra-wealthy Epstein class oligarchs who are in the primary business of serving Satan are building, and stand to benefit from them, and those insidious benefits for billionaires contravene everything we have fought and died for as a country. Their wealth should be appropriated and applied to the huge job creating installation of something crucial to public survival – desalination. Keep in mind that these billionaires couldn’t care less if the country runs out of water – by installing the water-wasting temples to attain to their planned immortality, they are showing it right now!

Another issue that is coming to fore which will likely be the greatest threat to American sovereignty in our history is the bill being pushed through congress by the likes of the execrable senator Tom Cotton which will eventually legally relegate total control of our military to the genocidal state of Israel, a country populated by interlopers from Europe who call themselves Jews but are not [Revelation 3:9]. Thanks to false prophets like John Hagee, many people in the US who like to think of themselves as Christians actually believe we should continue to support this evil Israeli government, and they have already essentially taken over our government, but we have heroes like Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna who are fighting a desperate battle to keep our country in American hands. We must support them – and all who denounce Israeli control of the US – for it is also predominately Zionist oligarchs who are installing the aforementioned Satanic temples innocently being called data centers. They could not care less if Americans run out of water – what they want is complete control – and enslavement of – Americans who they consider to be among the world’s animals. If you think this is preposterous nonsense, look again for the (total lack of) “benefit” of data centers to the American public. I fully expect the American (Gentile) people to be ordered to come to worship billionaires at the data centers someday soon. You can no longer water your flowers, in some places now you can’t even do your laundry, but the AI center must be kept running!

Water shortages and data centers, which go hand in hand, are some of the heaviest items of the load on that big dump truck, but the one I fear the most is the absolute Godlessness being thrust upon us. It’s everywhere. Ther are a lot of people and organizations which purport to be against the evil we are all seeing, but when they liberally season their narratives with vulgar expletives, they give themselves away as being on the side of the same enemy – just trying to gain public support and to get you to “like and subscribe” to the same Godlessness, just in a different form. I’m an old man now, but I’ve never seen a time when there are so many F bombs being dropped – even by the creature who purports to be our president! Think about it for a second – can you even imagine truly great men the likes of George Washington or James Madison (men to whom this imposter likes to compare himself) standing in front of women and children and using the despicable language this man uses? And I’ve heard people who claim to be Christians (MAGA, of course) swearing Trump was sent from God! Apparently, he even thinks he’s God! At least he wants his MAGA people to think so.

Of course there will not be a revolutionary building of water plants, though that would be a very practical way to avoid the desertification of our land. Rich men who have a pact with Satan and who own our politicians won’t allow it to happen. Right now they have all the power. There is however, a way to circumvent the arrival of the truckload of tribulation – at least for the individual – and that is to start by being perceptive enough to see that this had to happen and get right with Jesus Christ. We still may see some hard times, but we can take comfort in the absolute truth that when it’s over, when the last few drops of water sizzle away on the hot earth, we have a permanent Home to rely on where the River of Life runs eternally for our everlasting benefit and we will never thirst again! There is ample prophecy in the Scriptures to inform us that times on this old planet will get awful as Satan comes upon the end of his tenure as the god of this world, so we must expect that he will create some intolerable conditions as his time ends, but Jesus Christ offers something immensely better to those who choose to serve Him. Jesus is the only Way, and He has no tolerance for wealthy men who make life miserable for their fellow travelers and theirs will be a fearsome sentence at what (at least from this side) we might consider the end, but it will only be the beginning of a horrific eternity of torment for them. Their water-guzzling data centers will have burned to ashes and everyone who bowed to the evil one in this life – almost all for wealth – will burn in the fires of hell forever.

It’s a choice we all have to make, but as that big truckload of trouble keeps barreling toward us, we don’t have a lot of time left. Water’s running short and so is our time to decide.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

The Difference Between Surrender and Sound Reason

This might just be one of the most important posts on the condition of American affairs to appear on Folkpotpourri. I have, as have many others, been one of the staunchest critics of our current president, but I will not abandon my principles and criticize him further when he actually does something beneficial. This post is intended to get people to espouse the benefit of his recent decision to enter into a peace agreement with Iran and to explain as best I can – as a Christian and a patriotic American veteran – why we must support this effort.

It seems like everyone has jumped on the Zionist-fueled bandwagon of bemoaning Trump’s “surrender” to Iran. In addition to rejecting this false claim, this is a good opportunity to recognize whether or not media outlets are Zionist controlled opposition. When we hear an outlet decry the peace effort as a surrender, we can easily see that, because Israel is so vehemently against any peace effort at all, whatever outlet from which we hear about “Trump’s surrender”, the basis for the claim stems from a Zionist seed planted in Zionist soil and is fed with the propaganda of Zionist fertilizer, which by now we should all recognize as the bovine excrement it is. Leftist and progressive institutions need to be very careful of climbing aboard the “surrender” wagon just as a way to get at Trump – this is a bigger issue than simply an opportunity to bash Trump, and it must be regarded as such.

The fact is, whatever the basis for a peace agreement, as long as it holds, innocent people are not dying. This alone should encourage those of us who claim righteous opposition to (any) war to support it. Another fact that might be slipping under the radar is that almost the entire Zionist-controlled congress (and media) has gone up in arms against the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) which is supposed to be a precursor to talks on a permanent peace arrangement. When a congress creature stands up and screams about this “surrender”, they are simply making such noise to attract the attention of their AIPAC donors, nothing more. This is a perfect opportunity to see the vast chasm that separates true American progressives from those Democrat Zionists who wear blue only as an outward sign of opposition to red, not a demonstration of actual progressive opposition to some stupid war.

Prior to February of this year, Iran had not attacked any other nation. Nevertheless, the Zionists have for decades warned Americans of Iran’s impending threat to the world, and since they own all American media, that message has gotten through to the less informed, but mass sectors of the public sufficiently to create public opposition to a nation that has not threatened belligerence to anyone. Iran does, however, possess a significant military capability which potentially stands as an impediment to Israel’s planned takeover of the middle east, and truth be told, that’s the core issue of this whole mess. Note that Netanyahu continues to attack civilians in Lebanon in order to get Iran to respond and thereby destroy the agreement between the US and Iran. In addition to – and in support of – the usual land theft by Israel, it’s American force against Iran he’s always after. What it amounts to is the fact that Iran is the only country in the Middle East that will not bow to the domination of Israeli Zionists and they are enraged about it. They aren’t sufficiently powerful to defeat Iran militarily so they must rely on their Zionist dominated government in the US to do it for them. They are gambling that Zionist power in the halls of the US congress is powerful enough to get this done. It is therefore, our duty as patriotic Americans and voters to pressure congress to ensure that another conflict with Iran does not ensue at the Zionist’s behest.

Since Iran has courageously opted to include and protect Lebanon in the agreement in effort to prohibit Israeli aggression against the Lebanese people, Israel is finally showing why they so desperately needed America to go to war with Iran – because Iran is the only Middle Eastern nation with the willingness and the wherewithal to protect also Israel’s neighbors – from Israel! It’s very important for American proles to understand what’s going on – Israel has been working for decades on their Satanic “greater Israel project” which requires them to steal and occupy land from several nations, including the cowardly Egypt and Turkey, either or both of which could be of immense support for the protection of themselves and other Arab nations in the Israeli crosshairs, especially at a time as critical as the present, but Sisi and Erdogan are apparently on the Mossad (or CIA, same difference) payroll and do nothing but bluster right now and Iran is the only one brave enough to stand up against the Zionists. These countries’ turn will come eventually, and when it does, they will be flummoxed and perplexed at why their own neighbors stand by, watch and do nothing (like they did during the Iran war). It’s what ultimately happens to anyone who chooses to be “friends” with a state that, by it’s very Satanic nature can have no friends. Ask Trump right now.

The whole purpose of this article is to get the attention of the reader to what’s going on right now, so they are not fooled by these AIPAC-controlled politicians and Zionist-controlled media who are screaming about Trump’s “surrender”. It’s not a surrender – it’s an attempt to correct a major blunder by incompetent leaders who allowed themselves to be sucked in to a conflict they were convinced would be a slam dunk. In this agreement, whatever money will be committed to Iran is money of their own that has been in the hands of Zionist bankers in the US since the Iranian revolution. Said Zionist bankers do not want to give it up even though it belongs to Iran. That’s their way – they lie and steal to gain their prominence and leverage and always insist on their God-given right to keep it. Any deal with Iran by the US threatens to circumvent, or at least to delay a Zionist takeover of the Middle East, and eventually the whole world. Such a peace deal would be a golden opportunity to prevent their planned takeover.

The agreement must be between the US and Iran with Israel having no say in it – Israel sees any peace agreement or cease fire they agree to as an agreement from an adversary to stop firing at Israel, but one that always gives Israel impunity to keep firing at them. That’s the norm for a cease fire with the evil Zionists, and anyone gullible enough to sign a peace agreement with them is always in for more bloodshed. The only thing different in that regard is that Israel has to come up with some flimsy justification for why they must keep killing. They ALWAYS do! But what invariably follows is Western global condemnation to any enemy who “violates” the cease fire and shoots back! This feature of a cease fire with Israel will come back to bite them some day when an adversary, aware of the deceptiveness of the Zionist cease fire, finally understands that instead of a peace agreement, dissolution of the whole country might be the only way to ensure the Zionist doesn’t break it.

Stop falling for the “Trump surrender” scam – it’s just the latest Zionist trick to fool Americans. Getting out of this conflict just might be the only thing Trump has done at this point in two terms that we all should fully support as America-first Americans. It’s time we throw off the yoke of Zionism in the US government, and Democrats and Republicans alike should get behind it. Iran is not, nor has it ever been any threat to the US, it only stands as a courageous impediment to Zionist control of the Middle East, and eventually even the world. We must stand against this Zionist plan, even if it does require us to support Russia and China. If any of our adversaries overcome us, I’d much rather be under the control of Putin of Xi than Netanyahu, whose country routinely uses brutality, starvation, rape and torture as common practices on unfortunate people they dominate. Zionist rabbis reinforce their execrable behavior by assuring their soldiers they are allowed to brutalize and/or rape their Gentile victims on claims of God’s permission to do so.

The same Zionists who are now opposing Donald Trump are the ones installing all the water-guzzling data centers in order to consummate their control over American citizens through the creation of a total surveillance state. The Ellison demon said as much in a discourse on total surveillance of Americans. When they get complete control using such nefarious devices as MAGA and Christian Zionism (whatever that is), the Zionist authorities will then be in control of American citizens and treat everyone here with the same mendacious contempt and brutality they treat the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. They do not plan to stop until they have complete control over the whole world, and if they can secure their domination of America, they will get there, so plan on some tough times ahead for the Gentile citizenry. (At least the Europeans, especially Spain, are catching on and rejecting Zionist influence in their nations.) With all their wealth they already control the US government and law enforcement (think ICE), and they have no plans to stop. This is Satan’s plan to get the beast system implemented and wealthy Zionists are his tools.

Give credit where it’s due, and do not allow the bad guys to paint Trump as having “surrendered”. This war needs to be over no matter what it takes short of ceding our country, but isn’t that what we’re already doing by giving up control of our government to the Zionists? We already know who the congressional traitors to America are by their congressional positions and votes. We must keep and reference all of their votes – past and present – on Zionist issues as well as the amounts of money they take from AIPAC and other Zionist institutions. They all are “advised” by AIPAC and only vote for issues that benefit Israel or wealthy Zionists in America. They are traitors to God and America, and if you are a regular Folkpotpourri reader, you’ll know this writer doesn’t reference God lightly. Many American congressmen and women are entertaining demons and supporting demonic efforts, because fighting against something that has opportunity to stop a war and killing of innocent people by disparaging it as a “surrender” is a page right out of the Zionist playbook.

Don’t think of it as a surrender – it’s nothing close – as Christians (and moral people of other persuasions) we must think of it as an agreement that will save innocent lives. Also, we have to be thinking of ways we can rid our nation of the Satanic temples they call data centers. If those things get installed the way they want them, Americans – especially Christians – are in big trouble.

The best way for Trump to begin to gain back his flagging support in today’s America would be to break with Israel, and his support would start happening at the grass roots because we are all tired of our leaders licking the boots of the Synagogue of Satan!

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

What Becomes of the Trails We Leave?

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When we are long gone will there be folks around who remember us? What kinds of things will our families and friends reminisce and speak about us after we’re gone? Will they remember at least some of the good aspects of our time here, or will they rather ignore and forget their time with us? In my own experience, I’m quite sure there are many whose lives I’ve impacted who will remember a lot of negative things and even though I wish there was some way I could go back knowing what I know now and avoid those conflicts, those errors of judgement, and prevent behaviors that have scarred my years here, but alas, that’s not possible. I must hope in the forgiveness of those who I have wronged, or at least the forgetfulness.

We’d like to think there are also positive interactions that some folks will remember about us, for we typically believe there are some who we have helped along the way down this road we consider to be our lives, but only the Lord will be able to judge whether or not those actions merit His providential approval. I also understand enough about God’s plan of salvation to know those good deeds are not sufficient in themselves to provide for access to His kingdom, but they are nevertheless expected of any who would like to get there.

I’ve long held the notion that unless a person is of notable celebrity, the typical endurance of his/her personal legacy is somewhere around two generations. That is to say that when survivors visit the grave of a departed relative, only those who personally knew that person will be able to reflect on what kind of person they were. Maybe kids and grandkids, or if the departed was of sufficient notoriety, a cousin perhaps, or a neighbor, but in general, when a distant relative or descendant stands there reading the engraved information on the stone, the only thing they will want to know about the person underground will be some information for a genealogy project. Kids and grandkids – two generations, and the world forgets and moves on. Visitors to the resting place will have no way of knowing whether or not the long-deceased person enjoyed bluegrass music or if she was a great cook, or any other mundane characteristic of the dead person of which their close family/friends would hold cherished memories. As cruel as it may sound, we simply become a name on a granite block and an entry into a county record – both which will be eventually destroyed and forgotten somewhere down the road. After a while – typically two generations – people will stop visiting the grave – at least to pay respects – entirely.

This applies to famous people too, but in a very different way. Historians have a tendency to reflect whatever things about a president or other leader they deem to support whatever character they would like to present. If a historian who is writing on a former politician of a political party opposite to his own, they tend to emphasize the negatives about their subject, and vice versa. If a writer is doing a biography of a leader of a nation who conducted a war against his own, of course he will only write of the “atrocities” committed by that person. They will be remembered for political stances and famous (or infamous) acts they committed while in office, but the human vagaries of the person himself/herself will be forgotten in two generations. Only the most dedicated biographer would be punctual enough to research whether or not the deceased celebrity enjoyed oak trees, and even those kinds of details would eventually fade away into in the mists of time. Elvis was a famous singer, but did he know anything of wildlife or building construction? No matter their notoriety, we only know superficial things about even the most famous of persons. Nowadays, maybe some would like to send their friends a selfie standing beside the Kennedy eternal flame, but so few remember much about him, and not far down the road, no one will.

Where does that leave us as far as how we’d like to be remembered, seeing that it won’t be too many years after we’re gone that we’ll be entirely forgotten by our fellow human beings? Well, this post is being composed to inform the reader that there is a permanent record of our lives; it’s being recorded as you read. Every detail of your past behavior is indelibly etched into what might as well be eternal granite. The good, the bad and the ugly. Nothing will be forgotten, not in two generations or a thousand. We will all have to give account of every act we committed for the entirety of our short lives here, and for many it’s not going to be very comfortable, as we will be facing a glorious but vengeful Almighty God who will have complete control of the courtroom. He will have absolute authority over our eternal future, and it can be a horrible, terrifying, event, or we might have considered this confrontation during our time on earth and decided to prepare for it.

We have a counsellor Who would like to represent us at that great judgement, but we must seek Him and strive to emulate His love, for our fellow human beings and for Him. Jesus Christ has made the offer to come into and be a part – a big part – of our lives. He is willing to be our Light to show us the Way through this darkness, this valley of the shadow of death. Whatever the enemy throws at us, Jesus is willing to help us through it, but we must first seek His help. When we face the judgement at the end, Jesus will be our counsellor – and the best thing of it all is that the Judge is His Father! God has made it abundantly clear in many places of Scripture that He is willing to forgive – and forget – our past egregious behavior. [Isaiah 1:18]: “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

God is willing to forget our past if we allow Jesus Christ into our lives, so that record of malfeasance of which we are all guilty will not be presented at our judgement. It will be gone and long-forgotten as though it never happened – but only if we allow Jesus Christ to take control of our lives. It won’t matter in the least whether or not humans remember our misbehavior – Jesus has taken them on Himself at the cross, every sin we ever committed will be completely expunged from our record and our names will be in the Lamb’s book of Life which will be our permission into God’s magnificent Kingdom where Jesus, by His own words, has a place prepared for each of us.

Our trail through this maze we consider to be life won’t be completely covered up – our good deeds will still stand. They will be considered in the reward phase of our judgement. The greater the accomplishment – and great accomplishments aren’t the same according to Jesus as they are to us humans – the greater the Heavenly reward we will receive. There was a widow who put a very small amount of money into the offering and Jesus said she had given more than the offerings of the wealthy men there because it was all she had. [Mark 12:41-44]: “41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two [o]mites, which make a [p]quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”

Even though we will be long-forgotten by our fellow humans after we finish this race, there will be a permanent record kept through to the end, it’s our choice whether we’d like the record of good deeds to be remembered with the bad ones still painfully attached, or if we want to stand beside our Counsellor with a clean record going into eternity.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Arming with the Right Weapon

It is a weapon few in the flesh are able to wield. In order to wield it, to be able to conquer with it, one must possess a degree of wisdom that is given to few, and even of those rare humans who obtain to the requisite wisdom, still fewer may obtain this fearsome weapon. Wisdom alone is not the absolute constitution for a man to be entrusted with such power; one must be endowed with a rare and abiding degree of faith in the Almighty to be allowed access to – hence possession of – this mighty weapon. Through all of human history only a select few have been allowed to brandish such lethal power.

To be able to appreciate such a formidable threat, one must first understand some conditions and differing types of engagements of the battlefield. There are, as is well known, multitudes of tools in modern military arsenals with which men may be killed, deprived of mortality from the living, the breathing. Humanity has contrived an endless number of devices intended to kill, or at least harm fellow humans. If wielded properly however, the weapon of which I write is intended instead, to disarm an opponent; to take away his very desire to cause harm to his adversary. In fact, this great device when properly used, has the potential to cause a fierce enemy to become a friend and ally, and lay down his own weapon as well as his intent to harm.

This greatest weapon is of course, the Providential love of God. Think of those places in scripture where it says God is love. Thus, if one has Godly love in his heart, he will have at his disposal the very nature of the Almighty Himself. That kind of love must be bestowed upon a man (or woman) by the Lord – it is available nowhere else in all creation. [2 Thessalonians 3:5]: “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.” Our hearts are directed by Him into His love, the love that God has in His own heart – a special kind of love of a very profound nature. The same love with which we are commanded by Jesus Christ to have for the Father with all our heart, soul, and strength, but still only a hint of the profound love God has for us – but we can embrace no more.

God has fearsome abilities. He is able to create volcanoes and earthquakes. When a star out in space explodes, they call it a nova and some of them can take out half a galaxy. That would make anything mankind has devised to be puny by any measure, even the hydrogen bombs of which everyone is so terrified. God is all-powerful indeed, but we are told God is love. If we have God’s love in our hearts, then we have access to the very essence of this Being of unlimited power. We’ve learned of the powers of the prophets of old, how they could do miraculous things – because of their access to God’s power.

The mighty power of God is available to those of faith who love Him. When a man finds the love of God, he will not be a fearsome warrior out to terrorize a fellow traveler. Love can disarm the mightiest of enemies. Jesus admonishes us to pray for our enemies, and when we pray the right prayer for them, they might just find they no longer have the heart to wreak destruction and death. They might instead find compassion and empathy for those whom they once abused. God’s love is quite capable of such – look at the experience of the apostle Paul who once persecuted the church to the point that he advocated for the death of believers, but once confronted by the love of Christ, he changed and went on to be a great disciple filled with a hitherto inexplicable Spiritual love for his fellow humans.

God’s love is doubtlessly the greatest force in all creation, for God is love. [1 John 4:8]: “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” We all have access to Him through Jesus Christ, thus we all have access to His mighty power. One day God will visit extreme retribution on those who have persecuted his people, and those who are creating the greatest devastation on this earth today are ultimately going to go after Christ’s followers. We are told they will prevail over the saints for a while, but this will be our opportunity to demonstrate our loyalty, our faithfulness to Him by not only enduring the hardships the enemy lays on us, but by showing Him we are willing to even pray for them, to love them – as Jesus did and as He admonished us to do. These actions will not be done out of weakness, but out of the strength of a people who understand that He whom we serve is mightier than the one who leads our enemies; a people who have come to realize the awesome power of which they may avail themselves.

It is always a mistake in warfare to underestimate the strength of the enemy. It is a far greater mistake to underestimate the power of God’s love. Embrace it – it’s the key to victory in the most critical of battles – that for the soul. In this endeavor I struggle also, it’s not an easy pursuit, but we have this task before us. Fortunately, we have His succor for this mighty endeavor. God’s love is a mighty force with which to be armed and certainly worth the effort to wield.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Why The World Should Recognize Great Men

I suppose now that everything is out in the open it’s ok to go ahead and call it like it is. We are seeing things that have long been hidden from us, I guess because our time is so short now that it doesn’t matter any longer. Words that have been forbidden to say are all out there now. Keyboards that have been silent all of a sudden are screaming forbidden words and thoughts and people are listening.

Due to the proliferation of alternative news sources, great men are being recognized now, no matter which side of the political spectrum, which country, which of the many rivers of society they choose to raft upon. Great men are being recognized, for despite whatever insane narrative is being spun, great men do great things, a fact of life that cannot be disputed. Heroes, who have been heroes all along, in Yemen, in Iran, and in Lebanon are being seen for who they actually are.

The mainstream media has lost its grip on the minds of more people than the spinmeisters had imagined. There are few left in society who believe anything the western media says anymore. They have brought this upon themselves by the decades of false narratives and outright lies propagated by those in control of said narratives. One positive result of this is that great men are now revealed as great men, no matter the extent to which the Orwellian brush tries to paint them otherwise.

Vladimir Putin is a great man. He has repeatedly shown his devotion to his people and his nation. No western leader can make that boast. It would be laughable if they even tried, now that their fealty to a foreign country is so openly revealed to the world. But more importantly, to the American public. Mr. Putin is 100 percent Russian. Unlike western leaders, he claims no allegiance to any other nation. He has made a great effort to not only keep the Russian Christian church safe and secure, but to ensure that the people of his country and of other countries know where he stands. Western leaders fall over each other in their efforts to show fealty to their foreign shekelmasters, even to the extent of passing unconstitutional legislation which, among other things, makes teaching a lot of the Bible illegal. The great leader, Mr. Putin, protects Christianity; American politicians attack Christianity at the behest of the synagogue of Satan.

I am an American Navy veteran, and I can very much appreciate Vladimir Putin for his loyalty to his country, unlike American politicians who hastened to stifle an investigation, much less retaliation when their favorite foreign nation intentionally attacks one of our (unarmed) ships and kills American servicemen. Vladimir Putin would not have allowed that to go unresolved. This is how a great man would react. He is a Russian patriot. Many of us American veterans have high regard for such a leader. If not for the dishonesty of the western media, I’ve no doubt that American civilians would feel the same. It has become a symbol of American dissent to be called a Putin stooge, or some variation thereof. If someone calls me a Putin stooge, I will wear it as a badge of honor.

Russia is steadily being seen as a nation of great men. Maybe they always were, and our illustrious media just hasn’t been able bring themselves to publicly acknowledge it. I only wish we had statesmen like Peskov and Sergei Lavrov. Or spokespersons like Maria Zakharova who, unlike the US mouthpieces like Kirby, Miller, and Sullivan, she actually can be believed when she says something. Now those guys are really smart men, very educated and have the capacity to make sense, it’s just that as they try to contort reality to defend obvious lies, they sound incredibly stupid. Everyone knows by now that nothing, I mean nothing, that comes out of the mouths of American government spokespersons can be relied on to be the truth. I.e., We see no evidence of genocide. They never tell us what evidence of genocide would look like.

Great men do great things. I would be the first to nominate Mr. Putin for a Nobel prize – well, ok, if a Nobel prize actually meant anything. The citizens of the world should nominate and select persons for such recognition by referendum instead of some committee of obviously misguided (Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize comes to mind) people. In the computer and internet age, it would be easy to do. In that way, great men could be recognized by those who matter – the people of the world. At any rate, I’d bet western leaders would be hard put to come to grips with their own people voting for someone like Vladimir Putin who they’ve taken such pains to vilify. Russians get a great man like Mr. Putin. America gets a State Department led by Zionists who have the interests of a foreign country in mind and a swamp full of demonic Satan worshippers.

If the people in Washington DC push Mr. Putin into a nuclear war, I won’t hold it against him for having to destroy this country. He has tried everything under the sun to get the insane lunatics to back off, but they are hell bent on pushing him into it. It would be nice though, if he, and the Russian people knew there are a lot of us in America who detest the behavior of those who purport to be our leaders. Men and women who actually openly serve a foreign nation and have turned against America, and will see this country destroyed at the bidding of Zionism.

Nevertheless, Vladimir Putin is a great man. We can only wish for someone like him here in the land of the free.

Two Peas in a Pod – Almost

Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. While I would never presume to be able to pronounce that mouthful of consonants and syllables, I’m grateful to whoever shortened it to Joseph Stalin. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union before and during WWII, He was reputed to be a tyrannical dictator of the first order and under his rule, some 20 million people died in the Soviet Union (USSR). Now that we’ve seen in our lives what a country looks like under the rule of a totalitarian madman, we might offer some prognostications about what is likely to happen in our country down the road.

Like Stalin, Trump is predisposed to putting his name on whatever he can, as long as it’s something that will garner lots of attention. Same for his image – there are Trump statues going up around the country, typically either at his behest or as a result of machinations by someone to gain his favor. It works, and he’s so self-absorbed that he doesn’t realize it’s being done to use him for whatever purpose the machinator has in mind. FIFA Peace Prize indeed! He’s simply too taken aback in his imagination that he is a much-beloved leader, damn the polls. He’s absolutely convinced they are all fake anyway.

Unlike the prewar USSR, the US has shredded remnants of a constitution, which, when the justices of the Supreme Court have a rare moment of constitutional clarity, can, and often is, referenced to hold his more malignant excesses in check, otherwise, like Stalin, Trump would undoubtedly be executing his ever growing number of political opponents. Nevertheless, there are gold- colored statues going up in public places, Trump images appearing on US passports, renaming of institutions originally named to honor men who only Trump would have the brass to consider himself worthy to be named beside. It’s obvious from the performers refusing to do business at the Kennedy Center that no one else thinks the Kennedy name should be so desecrated.

Stalin was a genuine narcissistic freak show, even having the great Russian city which is now St. Petersburg, named Stalingrad, a city famous for what was perhaps the most significant part of the conflict with Nazi Germany. People feared Stalin, much like the fawning embarrassments to the United States that occupy the Republican controlled Congress and who grace the cabinet. Although Trump doesn’t have the authority (yet) to have his political opposition or critics executed, I don’t think there are many Americans who have a shred of doubt that he would gleefully do so if allowed. Stalin did.

There were lots of statues of Stalin in the USSR. The Russian folks learned, just like many Americans, to appeal to their narcissistic leader by presenting him with gifts and statues of himself to gain favor, or at a minimum, to avert his opprobrium. The difference is that Stalin was perfectly willing to avail himself of his secret police (now think ICE) to permanently silence his critics. As mentioned earlier, there were millions of Russians who learned the hard way.

When it came his turn to cash in, Stalin had inculcated such fear in his underlings that he had, as was normal, been alone in his living quarters and when he failed to show up for breakfast, everyone was so afraid of him, that his staff people were hesitant to go into his living area to check on him, fearing his wrath at being disturbed. This went on for three days until someone finally worked up the nerve to go in and check on him to find him on the floor where he lay after suffering a stroke days earlier. He was alive but did not survive long. Even in first aid training they teach that time is of critical essence in getting a stroke victim to treatment, but since Stalin was feared so much, he was allowed to suffer fatal damage. So much for a narcissistic maniac creating the conditions which caused his own demise.

I guess one of the points of this posts is to look back at history to get an idea of what most likely awaits Trump’s legacy. There are those who would publicly argue this, but no one in his circles really likes him, but he’s the last person to know that. His own kids are circling like buzzards waiting for him to bequeath his fortune if he still has anything left. He gets the same treatment and feigned respect that any wealthy man gets, and when it’s over, history will most likely not be kind to his memory. Like Stalin, his statues will gleefully be pulled down; like Stalin, his cohorts and consorts will rush to remove their names from any association with him. The Arch, if it ever is erected, will surely be demolished, his image will immediately be removed from passports by the next president who will without doubt be a democrat (hopefully an independent) who will set about undoing all the carelessly crafted executive orders. The few world maps that had name changes of the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed. A democratic president and congress will have his insider trading gambits and his Epstein connections made public and he will, if he’s still on this side of the abyss, be prosecuted and sentenced. If he has already passed to his ultimate fate, his legacy will be forever tarnished as his misdeeds will be revealed publicly as they should already have been. Oh, and if it is ever finished the gaudy edifice he’s so intent on constructing will be renamed the Barak Obama Memorial Ballroom – or some such, but you can bet Trump’s name will be expunged from all of Washington DC.

His Zionist friends and Israel will not lament his departure. No one will. His whole tenure has only been a grift for the wealthy. If there are any coins or medallions around with his image, I highly doubt that anyone outside the 50,053 wayward voters in district 4 in Kentucky will want them. There will indeed be a mad rush to eliminate any mention of the man other than to recall a time in American history when some the voters were madly in love with a New York City real estate shyster who conned them. And that’s where the similarity ends. Stalin didn’t try to scam people into liking him and therefore he had no illusions about his legacy. He understood well that he was a thoroughly disliked dictator and he treated his countrymen accordingly. The biggest difference in Trump and Stalin was that although he treated his countrymen with the highest contempt, Stalin never in a thousand years would have run the USSR on orders from another country.

The arch and the statues will fall and there will never be a temple or shrine to Donald J Trump. World, but especially American, historians will look upon this era with shock, embarrassment, and dismay – but mostly with regret. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

MK

A Watchman and a Deceptive Enemy Tactic

We find ourselves occupied as watchmen – turns out, it’s what we do. If we were completely honest, I’m pretty sure none of us, or at least very few of us set out to be watchmen, but as we trudge down this ever-darkening path we call life, there are those of us to whom God has given the grace to be able to see things that maybe other well-meaning folks can’t discern. Think about the old days before electronic communication, before satellites, before all the hi-tech methods of trying to stay on top of an enemy’s movements when watchmen were posted high on the ramparts of an ancient fortress. Most of the folks would be going about their business of stonework and tending the gardens and the watchmen were responsible to call everyone’s attention to whatever the enemy was about to do. By design, they were the ones who would be in a position to determine what the bad guys were doing and what the townsfolk needed to know.

The enemy of mankind is very cunning, and all of us don’t always catch on to what he’s up to, but God has always posted watchmen to help folks to avoid the pitfalls that enemy has set for us. When we find ourselves looking at the trap and see that our fellow travelers are unaware when they come near to taking the bait, we find that there are those of us who bear the responsibility to pick up our horns and get some attention to what’s going on. Since God gave us the ability to discern what the enemy is up to, He expects us to speak up, and we don’t have to be a pastor of a big church – look at guys like John the Baptist who foreknew that Jesus was coming and warned people to turn away from their sins. Now John did apparently eventually amass a following, but for most of his life he was a loner in the wilderness. There are many examples throughout the scriptures of nobodies, fishermen, carpenters, tentmakers, and others who were appointed by Jesus to be His watchmen.

In return for this ability, for this station in life, God has expectations for those to whom He has entrusted with it. There is a huge responsibility accompanying this gift, and He fully intends us to perform our duties. [Ezekiel 33:6]: “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.” What a lot of us don’t realize is that every follower of Christ has in their own way, been assigned some iteration of a watchman’s duties. When we chose to follow Christ, a few things happened to our life’s obligations as part and parcel of our covenant, and helping our fellow Christians walk by assisting them in times when the enemy is deceiving them and they are unaware, is one of our obligations. We must warn them so that if they continue and fall into the enemy’s trap, we are absolved of their blood. But even more importantly we warn them because we love the Son of God and we love those neighbors who trust us.

I can think of no better example of what happens to us as the enemy sets up a trap for everyone, believers included than the recent episode that has gone totally viral (exactly what Satan intended) in which there is a video of a guy throwing a rock at a monk seal in Hawaii. We were astounded at the cruelty of the act, and rightfully so, because there is absolutely no justification for such an act. This is one of those places in our lives where we have to remember several of Jesus’ admonitions, the first of which is that while it’s okay to hate an evil act by a person, we as Christians, can never hate the person who committed the act. Another equally important aspect of this is that if vengeance is to be meted out, God has told us that’s His job. [Romans 12:19]: “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.” Believe me, Satan is using his media to squeeze every last drop of animosity from his audience because of this event.

There was a follow-up video where someone filmed some fellow who had gotten wind of the act and beat the perpetrator up, and I think this is where the watchmen among us need to speak up loudly. On one level there is the temptation for a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the guy getting wailed on, but that should not be the reaction of a believer! As Christians, any such act of violence should not evoke satisfaction nor sense of justice, because the guy doing the beating is committing a gross sin, every bit as, if not more, egregious to the covenant of Christ than the original act and we have to remember that, no matter how much we might feel that he deserved it. If we allow ourselves to indulge in some sort of smug satisfaction at this violence, then the same enemy who caused the act of throwing the rock at an innocent animal, ends up getting a twofer when those who claim to be followers of Christ fall into the hatred and animosity caused by his trap.

This is a common deception by Satan – he uses varying iterations of it all the time. Creating a situation in which believers become angered and/or repulsed at an action by sinful person/people and allow hatred and bitterness into our hearts toward the perpetrators. Hating the IDF soldiers for their treatment of the Palestinians is playing right into Satan’s hands – it’s just as important to him as the persecutions of the innocent people if not moreso. Look at all the sin this hatred foments. There are Christians who are so full of rage at those IDF soldiers that they want to celebrate when they hear of a Hezbollah drone killing them. While I thoroughly agree that slaughtering and starving those poor people are among the most despicable acts I’ve known of in my lifetime, if I allow hatred (of the perpetrators) into my heart, the same enemy who initiates the evil genocide wins again, but this time over me too. Hearts carrying hatred of other human beings will not be allowed into the Kingdom we seek. While it’s ok – even expected – to hate sinful acts, we can by no means hate other human beings, no matter how much we are tempted to do so. If we stay on the ball therefore, Satan can be denied victories using this trap – maybe because of warnings by Christian watchmen!

Before I finish this post, I’ll confess, this watchman is far from immune to this same temptation. I have to stay on my toes to avoid it too, so don’t take me to be preaching down to anyone. Nevertheless, we must not allow revulsion of the evil we witness to cause us to allow hatred into our hearts – that’s a huge part of Satan’s game – God knows it; He’s repeatedly told this watchman to warn folks of it; and now you know it. This is such a huge threat to our fellow travelers who inadvertently and impulsively allow anger and hatred – even and especially anger fomented by evil acts – to overcome them. Righteous anger at sinful behavior is normal, just don’t allow it to morph into hatred nor a desire for vengeance. We can’t allow ourselves to hate other human beings who were also created in the image of God. It’s happening to a lot of people so please pass this on.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

A Time of Unimaginable Sorrow is Upon Us

This post was first published some time ago, but current events suggest it might be worth considering once again.

It was a nice cool sunny morning with some blue birds soaking up the sun, all in a row on the high wire.  It took some time to figure out what happened.  There were a few low rumbles, they seemed to be coming from north of here.  We live on a farm out in the wooded hills of southern Missouri, and north would be up towards St Louis.  Soon as the booming sounds started the power went off.  At first, I didn’t pay much attention, but with all the military stirrings going on in the world these days, you just don’t know what to expect.

I went inside the house, but with the power off there’s no internet, so no way to find out what’s going on.  At least until the power comes back on, or until I get the generator started up.  More distant thunderous booms that echo now less like thunder and more like tremendous explosions – and I’m starting to get worried.  My kids are at work and the grandkids are in school.  I swear I‘m seeing sparks and smoke coming from under the hood of my car, but it’s not running.  Now the power line where those bluebirds were singing looks like it’s getting really hot and smoke is coming from the bucket transformer on the poles.  Wow! The transformer just blew up sending a shower of sparks and molten metal flying all around the pole!  I can hear blasts all over the countryside from more pole transformers exploding.  All the fences are sparking and smoking.  The woods around the power lines and transformers are starting to go up in extremely violent flames.  And the cars are now on fire – all of them!  Even the old broken-down ones out in people’s pastures.  Our emergency generators are smoking – I’ve got to get them away from the houses before they burn up.

Now I’ve got an idea of what’s happening, because I’ve heard of what an EMP event could do to electrical circuits.  Electromagnetic Pulse.  That’s what happens when a nuclear weapon explodes.  The only other thing I can think of that would do this is a coronal mass ejection from a solar flare.  It happened back in 1859 and it was named the Carrington Event.  Fortunately, the world did not have much electrical infrastructure back then, just telegraphs, and the induced currents caused the wires to catch fire – sort of like what’s happening to the power lines out here right now.  I don’t think it’s a solar event either, because the warmongers in Washington have been beating the nuclear drums for a while, and I’ve been afraid the Russians were going to get spooked and do a first strike.  I guess this is it.

A big problem for those of us who might survive a while because we live in areas that aren’t targets is that we lose all sources of information. We don’t have any way of knowing what’s happening.  Don’t know if it’s a first strike or a retaliatory strike.  Does Washington DC even exist anymore, or is it just a huge radioactive smoking crater?  Are those beautiful, magnificient buildings of the Kremlin still standing?

How many of our big cities are destroyed?  I remember seeing pictures of the devastation that was Nagasaki and Hiroshima when that monster Truman murdered all those Japanese civilians, and thinking that those bombs were tiny compared to what the psychopaths have in their arsenals today – the Russians have bombs that could literally flatten New York City and/or Houston.  I cannot, nor can anyone else, begin to fathom the destruction of a 10 or 20 megaton thermonuclear weapon could wreak on a major city.

Lights go off and then nothing.  No TV; no internet.  No football – the treasury department that writes all the government checks is gone.  Fear-crazed citizens make runs on Wal Marts and grocery stores and take everything they can.  No one tries to stop them; the store employees are in a panic to get home.  Problem is, with no operable vehicles, the only things people can take are what they can carry by hand.  Everyone has to walk, even the police are stranded out on the highways.  All troopers, city cops, and sheriff deputies are trying desperately to get home to their loved ones.  No cops on duty anymore.  No traffic moving anymore.  Just lots of people running, screaming, hoping they can just get home, and that there still is a home.   

Fires are blazing everywhere from the powerlines and transformers exploding.  All electrical substations in the country are smoldering and blazing chaos.  Forest fires are rampant and out of control all over the nation and there are no operable fire trucks.  No firefighting planes or helicopters are available to fight the fires.  Houses hundreds of miles away from the many ground zeros are burning both from the unchecked wildfires, and from EMP induced electrical shorts in home wiring.  Almost every building in every town is on fire with no way to put them out.  And these towns are far away from the targeted places where the bombs actually hit.  This is truly a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, the like of which has never been witnessed in all of human history. There will never be electricity in this country again.  Let that sink in.  Freezers will thaw out and food will ruin.   Untold thousands of people will perish, starting with those vaporized, then those being burned up in their homes, and there are no fire departments available to help anyone.  No hospitals; doctors and nurses are gone, understandably abandoning useless smoldering medical facilities.  No industry, no UPS deliveries, no more dog food for the pups.  If your house didn’t burn to the ground, at least you may (for a while) have a (dark) shelter from the elements.   

Huge blasts of radioactive winds blow hundreds of miles from the explosions, of which there have been many.  The first wave was intended to take out the military establishment.  No way of knowing, but there’s no reason to believe that anything remains of the pentagon, DC or Langley, Norfolk, San Diego, Chicago, Houston, or any of the coastal cities where there are refineries.  All cities with military infrastructure of any kind will be destroyed.  The joke that has been for years a missile defense system has been exposed. The sick joke that a nuclear war could be “winnable” has also been exposed.  The numbers of people succumbing to radiation sickness is beyond belief.   There will be no schools, no stores, no food, and no government services; no disaster relief will be forthcoming.  All banks will have ceased to function, so even if there is any money left, it won’t be worth anything. The bankers never were.

If you take medications to stay alive, you’d best have a good supply, because there won’t be any more.  All livestock will either be dead from radiation, burned to a crisp in the fires, or promptly slaughtered by starving survivors, and it doesn’t matter to whom they belonged.  Same with property.  People will no longer obey private property signs, they will go anywhere they think there might be resources, food, water, at the risk of their lives, which aren’t worth much right now anyway.  There will be no law!

Every military ship on and under the ocean, with the likely exception of a few submarines, will be sunk.  All of the nuclear-powered ships will go to the bottom with reactors likely damaged, spewing radioactive contamination.  Like dozens, maybe hundreds, of Fukushimas.  Even the reactors that aren’t damaged will undergo meltdowns with no controls. The bible says that something will kill all of the fishes in the oceans, maybe this is how that happens.   

The USSR detonated a bomb of around 50-megaton yield back in 1961.  It was called the Tsar Bomba.  The weapon had a 100-megaton capacity, but for safety they modified the yield.  Awe inspiring is just too mild of a description of what that looked like.  Since the bomb was so powerful, they calculated that the plane that dropped it had only a 50 percent chance of surviving – that is even after the plane released the weapon several thousand feet up in the air with a parachute to slow it down while the plane flew away from the scene at full speed.  It did almost destroy the plane – they said the blast wave overtook the plane some 45 miles from the explosion and it lost over a kilometer of altitude before the pilot, Andrey Durnovtsev, could regain control and keep it from crashing.  That thing made a mushroom cloud 37, yes 37 miles, (60 km) high!  An uninhabited village, Severny, 34 miles (55 km) from ground zero was obliterated, and buildings 100 miles away were damaged!  The blast would have caused third degree burns 62 miles (100 km) from the explosion.   I would expect if they still have these in their arsenal, they would use one on Cheyenne Mountain.  It would probably take out Denver and Amarillo, TX and certainly everything in between.  Instantly vaporized.  What are our “leaders” thinking?

It sounds crazy, but if this happens, I want to be at one of the ground zeros.  As bad as being vaporized sounds, it would be infinitely better than surviving into the nightmarish existence that would ensue.  There will be marauding gangs of survivors, undoubtedly armed, in various stages of hunger, disease, emaciation, and injury.  It will probably be a situation where anyone you encounter will be apt to kill you.  For one thing, they won’t know whether you are out to kill them too, or maybe you have something they want/need to survive.  A can of tuna or a bowl of beans might cost your life. 

The landscape will be nightmarish.  Imagine a few days or weeks after the event.  There will be burned out stumps on land that was beautiful forest, now riddled with stagnant pools of black muddy radioactive slime, full of human and animal bones, charred flesh, and entrails.  Few buildings will exist intact, and many will perish fighting over them.  There will be no light at night.  Light would attract unwanted guests.  No music.  No one will have any idea what’s going on.   There may be a few survivors in places like subway tunnels, abandoned train cars, or in remote wilderness areas, but such people will have resorted to the basest of behavior, including cannibalism, in short order.  Imagine!  Human beings who once inhabited a civilized nation and lived decent lives will have to worry about being killed and eaten by other human beings!  Zombie apocalypse, just with regular people, not zombies, although with burns and wounds, hair falling out and all out of sorts with radiation poisoning, they probably will look the part.

I have heard people talking like they plan to survive and stay healthy by hunting and foraging.  Well, if a nuclear winter follows a nuclear apocalypse, foraging is going to be slim pickings.  And the deer won’t last long if they manage to survive the bombs, radiation, and fires, there’ll probably only be a few very unhealthy specimens left, but if a gunshot rings out, I’m pretty sure it will attract whatever starving people hear it, so there might be more to deal with than just dressing a deer.

Bedraggled survivors will wander in shock around former cities in hopes of disaster relief which will never come.  Desperate people will offer anything – gold, jewelry, ammunition, their own bodies, for sustenance.  Helpless parents will watch in horror as their children starve, hoping against hope that they will awaken from this nightmare, but when this all comes down, it’ll be too late for them.

And we still won’t know what happened.  Who decided that a nuclear war would be a good idea? Who “won” the war?  Did any of our leaders survive to sign a surrender, and to whom?  Or did Russia or China surrender?  Will there be hordes of soldiers from some faraway land invading our country after the radiation dies down?

And what of the wealthy folk who built the magnificent bunkers filled with the necessities of life in which to wait out the nuclear winter?  Do they actually believe they will emerge into a second garden of Eden complete with succulent fruit trees and minstrels singing their praises?  First of all, the bible speaks of a great earthquake, such as has not occurred since people have been on earth, so I think a big part of those individuals will be entombed in those lavish bunkers.  So maybe a few do survive, and after some months, maybe a few years tucked away, they stumble blindly onto the surface, a hardly recognizable landscape littered with human skulls, burned out cars and buildings, and destroyed terrain.  When they went into the holes, they were wealthy, but after what has transpired, of the few commoners left, no one will be interested in their gold – and those old bank accounts?  Well the digital age has completely and utterly vanished, and all those millions or billions they had on their ledgers is now squat.  Even by this time, there will undoubtedly still be a few scroungy survivors, but instead of the fawning proles these rich folks were used to in the old world, those survivors will undoubtedly have a taste for some well-fed and plump upper crust brisket, so thanks for preserving some.  It won’t help their situation any when they discover that some of the survivors actually know they caused, or at least played a part in causing the disaster.  The scenario described does not take into account the likelihood that hapless survivors will undoubtedly spend their time searching for air vents to the bunkers in which to pour gasoline or whatever else they can find to upset living conditions in said refuges down below.  Any who survive this carnage will be on a mission and will not easily be placated!

Who knows what the final outcome will be.  How many millions, or hundreds of millions of people will be counted among the slain?  When this calamity happens, it will obviously involve the deaths of millions.  This destruction, I believe is prophesied as the destruction of the modern Babylon in Revelation 18, and most people I’ve heard seem to think (as I do) that the place named as Babylon is the United States, and it is utterly destroyed in the space of one hour, by fire!  Completely devastated to the point that (verse 22) “the music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again,” and “no worker of any trade will ever be found in you again,” this decadent place will cease to be! According to scripture, it’s not a bad thing that this evil place is destroyed. “Rejoice over her, you heavens! Rejoice, you people of God! Rejoice apostles and prophets! For God has judged her with the judgement she imposed on you.”

Time will tell, but I’m afraid we don’t have much.

Memorial Day – Remembering Fallen Heroes of the Greatest Battle

Today is Memorial Day and we get caught up in thinking about soldiers and warriors who sacrificed everything for our (freedom, safety, sovereignty, lifestyle, etc.) benefit. We’re all aware of the various conflicts and the human cost of them, and we’d like to think of the sacrifices of the fallen to be for some iteration of our well-being. My neighbor spent a day this past week down at one of the local cemeteries placing flags over the graves of veterans, and his work is duly noted as a reverent act of memorial dedication to our military heroes as is fitting for the occasion. There are festivities in communities all over the country in honor of our soldiers, in fact, as on every Memorial Day, I’m wearing a printed t-shirt with a picture of a distant cousin who died in Japanese captivity after enduring the savage Bataan Death March in the Philippines in WWII.

With all the recognition taking place today, there’s probably not a lot I could offer in the way of testimonials that isn’t already being told, so I would like to dedicate this post to another cadre of fallen warriors who should be recognized. These martyrs are after all, the very people who sacrificed their lives in furtherance of the entire future of mankind. I’m speaking, of course, of the great men of God who made it their mission in this life to impart faith and honor of God to the rest of us. Men like Saint Peter, the great apostle to whom Jesus Christ appointed the maintenance of the whole Christian Covenant. According to Christianity.com and as is believed throughout the world of faith, Peter died as a result of his crucifixion in Rome, but there is no definitive evidence. When Nero was the Roman leader, it is believed that he had Peter crucified. Some have said that Peter asked not to be crucified the same way Christ was because he didn’t think he was worthy, so they crucified him upside down, but again there’s no proof. I think it can be safely presumed that Peter died for his faith in Christ, for at one time during Jesus’ time here, Jesus had told Peter, [John 21:18]: “‘Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.’”, and following that, He said, “Follow Me”, believed to be signifying that Peter would be executed by crucifixion.

One of my favorite fallen heroes of battle is John the Baptist. Although mention of John is minimal in the Scriptures, he was nevertheless one of – if not the – greatest supporter of Jesus Christ in all Christendom. John wasn’t afraid to speak up when he saw something going on that needed attention, even to the extent of publicly calling out Herod for marrying his brother’s wife. Since Herod was the tetrarch, or king, of that part of Israel, he eventually had John taken captive and Herod’s wife, apparently stung by John’s accusations, schemed to put him to death, which Herod finally did. John was beheaded, but in his life, he had made it known to his followers (and everyone else) that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and he never backed down from his faith. John was born and raised as a poor pauper who lived on the bare minimum of sustenance and wore clothes made of camel hair. But John the Baptist was a dyed-in-the-wool true servant of God. John was the one who had the supreme honor of baptizing Jesus Christ Himself! Jesus commended John to the disciples by saying that no greater man had ever been born of woman than John the Baptist, so coming from Jesus, you gotta believe John was the real deal. A true martyr of Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul was a disciplined adherent of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A good portion of the New Testament was written, or transcribed letters of instruction in the faith by Paul, nee Saul and prior to his Christian conversion, a rabid persecutor of Christ’s followers. Paul was on the receiving end of a powerful vision of Jesus which actually left him temporarily blind, but which also got his attention so that he became one of Jesus’ most ardent supporters, and became the apostle assigned to preach to the Gentiles. Again, there’s no proof, but is widely believed to have been beheaded in Rome, probably at the behest of Nero and around the same time as Peter’s execution. Another valiant warrior for Christ worthy of remembrance.

James, the brother of Jesus was reportedly beaten to death or thrown from the pinnacle of the temple. James the brother of John was slain by the sword on orders from Herod Agrippa. In fact, all of the original disciples of Jesus are thought to have died violent deaths, primarily because of their faith in Christ, with the notable exception of Judas Iscariot, who committed suicide, and John, son of Zebedee and brother of James who apparently died of natural causes.

In addition to the disciples and prophets, there have been innumerable heroes of this great battle, guys like St. Francis of Assisi, Deidrich Bonhoeffer, the early prophets, and so many more. Early Christians were slaughtered wholesale at the hands of the Romans – many times for spectator sports. It’s important to note that most of them died at the hands of violent men for their faith in Jesus Christ.

By all means get out today and show your respect and support for our fallen soldiers; they deserve no less. But keep in mind the other warriors who gave their all to ensure you had the opportunity to be saved from this world of war and trouble. And give some thought to exactly what their cause was that was so important to them that they were willing to lay everything on the line for you and me. Your understanding (and acceptance) of what they were willing to die for was worth it to them. Think about it.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Disheartened Soldier from Another Time

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I was walking in the wood late in evening, enjoying wild birdsong and dining on a delicious landscape of somber hardwood seasoned with a dash of savory ice on branches now long bereft of rattling leaves, and as I approached a stream of hard and silent water, there boldly came an apparition upon my reverie. It was an ageless man of whom I felt no dread, yet anticipation of his purpose consumed any thought I might entertain to ignore or depart from him.

It was plain from his dress and demeanor that he was a soldier, adorned in a crisp blue long coat with the boldest of black threefold hats. His trousers were of white cotton and bore no scratch or mark of his trek in the wood, nor were any brass buttons missing from his breast. Perplexion was fixed upon his countenance as he stared at me and in his presence, strange thoughts of shame of long-endured passivity weighed heavily on my bearing. “From whence”, said he, “do ye hail, who so casually tread this wood? Is it not the same land upon which I, among thine forbears and fathers shed my blood to provide thee with a sacred and free republic?”

Fright, not at his presence, but at his seeming insistence for answer, overwhelmed my heart as I could but stammer words that might be interpreted that, indeed, this was a continuum of that hallowed land. As I stood in awe of such bewilderment as he displayed, it came to me that he wept silently as he spoke words which pierced my heart with arrows from a former time, a time when this nation was but in it’s youth. “Doth not the same God redeem thy souls, is not the Savior of man the same in this day as He of long ago? Hast thy people forgotten the valor with which we of hope and incredible vigor and relying on Providence braved deadly volleys of rank musket and cannon balls to gain thy sovereignty and prosperity? How then, has an evil enemy so stealthily crept upon, and forsooth, overtaken this nation today?”

“This is a place beyond that land which you secured,” at last spake I, “As years passed, lesser men of lesser heart appeared, gained status endowed of evil by mammon, and came tempted, as knowledge of vast tracts beyond the nation you knew, came about, by great deceit and dishonor, to wrest from rightful owners the abundant and fruitful lands beyond that which your army secured.” As my confidence waxed, I continued, “He of Providence was denied, yet might of weapons from whence malicious heat from the forges of Satan’s armouries had not yet dissipated, were put to use to diminish, to defeat and yea, to slay those by whom fair title was claimed.”

“As scores of years became centuries, all but the Creator forgot the wicked abrogation of treaties once foreordained to be honored as leaders continued in moral decline, and colonial appropriation of lands and nations increased the world over, but especially in his nation – descendants of those peoples with whom your leaders treated were slain and imprisoned and vanished into memory. Indeed, the banner under which your drums sounded amid the blue-white smoke of cannon is changed now, by many added insignias to that number of thirteen by which your blood gained liberty.

“Must thee and thy progeny, therefore, be thus accursed as to receive upon thyself such waxing theft and murder as this which ye bear witness and yet lift not thy hand to resist? In mine years, would neither citizen nor soldier deign approach the Almighty Creator for prayer belabored with such cowardice weighed upon his conscience. And now in another place ye witness again the theft of lands and slaughter of rightful owners and say nought for fear.”

“I shall now return whence I have dwelt nigh four and a half hundreds of years and once more watch, share tears with those with whom I served, for my own blood and that of my companions, forbears of yesteryear, that ye should so lightly and cowardly abandon, yea and forsake, the sovereignty of this land for which we fought and died. Farewell, yet still pray thee for thy long-ignored want of Providence.” As his last words sadly reached my ears, he began to walk away as he cried now aloud, slowly and completely evaporated into the woodland, but his wailing cries echoed, and if one listens, especially on days when those who purport to lead us slavishly perform acts of obeisance to – and among – our enemies, his piteous cries can still be heard.

Blessings,

MK