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.

An Asset of Great Value but Still Does Not Extend the Days

Patience – it looks like an ordinary two syllable word in the English language which supposedly denotes an attribute that most folks seem to strive for, but when one takes a second, more profound look at it, when we compare the word, or at least our individual definition of it, to what wise men of the Scriptures – including Jesus Christ – intended for it to mean, we might be surprised. Sometimes it even seems to have different connotations, each of which take a form of patience to try and discern what the writer, or speaker intends to convey.

There are instances in our lives in which we often find ourselves anxious for results in the ongoing drama(s) of the world we inhabit. There are political ongoings, wars, impending climate disasters, and too many other things to mention that some of us try hard to follow, and in almost each case, we have expectations, many of which we don’t necessarily want to see, but nevertheless for the most part we are anxious to know how things will play out. It’s important to note that different people have different expectations, or hopes of their preferred outcomes, and by and large, most folks – even many unbelievers – want satisfactory outcomes, but darker minds exhibit hopes of less than optimum outcomes – especially for their adversaries. When darker outcomes are in play, the unbeliever typically exhibits less patience, primarily because the unbeliever follows Satan, which means he knows his time here is short.

The Bible lists patience (longsuffering) as one of the fruits of the Spirit [Galatians 5:22-23]: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law., so wishing for ill to come upon our fellow travelers would definitely not be a satisfactory expectation for the believer. It cannot be the type of patience of which the apostle speaks when he lists the different gifts of the Spirit because the Spirit of God would never bestow a gift to His people which would allow them to wish bad things to come upon others. The patience Paul mentions is the quiet patience in which the believer abides in his/her faith awaiting the great reward of an eternal home in Paradise. This same patience is for the believer who works incessantly with fellow travelers, especially those who are unbelievers to show them the way to Christ – we speak the Gospel to them and patiently allow the Spirit to take them where they need to go. Another example of the patience of the Spirit is that instead of whining and feeling sorry for ourselves when we are under the weather, we pray to our Father for healing and patiently await His blessed touch to heal us.

When we are faced with scorn and mocking for our faith, instead of getting our hackles up and returning wrath for wrath, we turn the other cheek; we patiently pray for those who do not know better, pray that God will show them the same path we have been shown. That is what our Gospel has taught us. That is what our patience demands.

When a crazy old man sends out a post to try and encourage his readers in their Spiritual pursuits, he must patiently await some views (and comments) that indicate at least some of his effort is being rewarded. Most often this is not the case, but patience must nevertheless prevail. Since he has been convinced of the imperative of helping with the harvest, he patiently continues, and he strives to convince that in these end times more help is needed. The Lord has spoken: [Matthew 9:37,38]: “Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Be patient, beloved friends. The wars being waged, both in this world and in the unseen realm, will end in God’s time. What our patience must consider above all else is that when we stand before the Judgement throne, we must at all costs be able to stand before our Judge with confidence that we tried our best to work according to His will. We must at all costs patiently wait to hear those words which will carry more impact, more value than any utterance that ever will have been heard by humankind, “Well done, My good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord”.

Impatience is one of the hallmarks of the human condition – and God understands that, but we still must wait for Him for all things. Even during the opening of the seals at the end times, the souls of the martyrs are anxious to see the avengement of their blood but are admonished to be patient a little longer: Revelation [6:9-11]:  “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.” It sounds fearsome from this side of the river, but the Paradise they (we) have coming will make that patience more than worth the wait, and the martyrdom as nothing to fear at all, but that will be realized once we see it from the other side.

Back here on this side, even though we are to be patient, the time is nevertheless growing short, and we have to grab our sickles and take to the fields.

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

MK

Sacrificing to the Gods of Desertification

I remember reading somewhere about the comparison between seeing something terrible coming and watching a slow-motion train wreck and it caught on and now it’s popularly applied to almost everything, because it seems like everything happening these days is indeed something terrible. There’s a lot of unnecessary worry and fretting about events over which we have little to no control. Unnecessary because while we can’t control the events, we do – or should – have control over the worrying itself. If you are a regular reader here, you already know this author writes often about what the dark clouds portend; the impending drought and AI-induced water shortages, the increasing persecutions of not only Christians, but against any and all decent human endeavors, the enemy is laser-focused on retribution for those of us who dare to recognize and obey God by publicly devoting our energy towards the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

One doesn’t need to search very hard to discern the strategies of Satan in today’s world. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again – that the data centers being installed around the country and the world are nothing more than demonic temples built in an attempt to glorify the evils of the world. These idolatrous abominations already require extreme sacrifices to be made – our precious water, this irreplaceable resource that God put here for the use of all human beings, but the demons to whom Satan has bestowed their immense wealth consider all things – water included – to be theirs simply as a foreordained consequence of their wealth, gained by their service to evil. We will reach a point – and already have in a growing number of areas of the world, where the waste of AI data centers will compete with the need for drinking water. Think about it, it’s not hard to connect the dots from a dwindling supply of clean fresh water in Southern California and Arizona to the increasing demand for more and more water-guzzling data centers, and guess which of these choices all the government institutions, local, state, and national, deem to prioritize? Plainly stated: there is a finite amount of water available for human usage, and we are at a critical inflection point where we must – each and every one of us – make our own decision as to which institutions or entities will be allowed to survive – YES SURVIVE!

By ignoring such warnings and alarms right now while there might be time to make the needed course corrections, you are making your decision. By waiting for someone to appear and magically resolve these irreconcilable issues, you are making your decision – to do (or say) nothing. If you live in the desert southwest and stand silently by and watch billionaires lay wasteful claim to whatever precious water your children need to survive, you are making your decision and it’s hard to imagine how you can go to bed tonight and sleep knowing without any doubt what lies ahead for you and your families, your pets, your very lives. Folkpotpourri has published posts here and here and here on this impending disaster of the highest magnitude, but it’s like screaming into a padded cell. No one will do or say anything of consequence until they find themselves in a desert summer heatwave with no air conditioning and their house stinking of backed-up sewage without even enough gas in their car to even try to get away from it. One thing’s for sure though, when you end up in that or some similar situation, you’ll be wishing you had joined with others and stepped up back when something could have been done – like back when right now!

Think about it – the time isn’t far off when you might just end up in a tens, or hundreds, of miles long traffic jam on interstate ten trying to get several hundreds of miles further east where there might be water – even hot water that has been lying in a discarded plastic bottle in the desert sun would be as welcome right about now as a cool drought from the shady mists of Tahquamenon Falls. In such a horrible dilemma, you might remember reading in your Bible [Isaiah 41:17]: “The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the Lord, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.” God can make water appear – remember Moses and the rock. But by that time, you will realize that you might have waited too long to call on the Lord. Remember Him now, don’t wait until it’s too late. Jesus can guide you to wherever you need to be for the end times. It’s going to get bad – really bad: [Matthew 24:21]: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.”

The prophecy is clear that in the last days some truly evil characters will arise and take control of the world. Satan has temporarily given them the financial backing to overcome most folks who will think, even in the worst of times, that somehow money will save them, but it ain’t going to happen. There’ll come a time when a man will be willing to do or give up anything imaginable for a simple drink of water. Believe it! Even in the afterlife water will be precious, but then it will be the rich man who will beg and plead for this exceedingly priceless commodity he once so smugly took from everyone else: [Luke 16:24]: “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.” The true value of their money will at last be exposed for what it’s really worth in the grand scheme – nothing!

There will be no water forevermore in that horrible place wherein the unrepentant rich man will be sentenced to inhabit the darkness among the demons with the dragon and the false prophet. Hatred will abound there and Satan will no doubt reveal just how vicious his contempt is for all – especially those who followed him in that short life for they will be the only ones present on which he can express his vitriol. Today’s leaders and mighty men of this world will finally understand how little their servitude was worth to the one who shows no gratitude – they enjoyed the evil, horrid fruits of their servitude during a temporary existence of wealth and immorality – now they are resigned to eternity of torment – neither will they will have any possessions there beyond their fear and hatred. Have you ever tried to contemplate what eternity really is? We humans can’t wrap our limited brains around such a notion, but it’s a long, long time. The word time itself doesn’t begin to fit the concept, for even time implies something with an end, but eternity has no end. They can’t even look forward to dying to end it. A whole different can of worms from what we’ve known in this life.

There’s a Kingdom we are offered in a place of joy we cannot imagine. Water will be abundant in the Kingdom, where the river of life flows through the Great City and the joy of paradise permeates the real world at long last – wherein God’s chosen will abide in eternal rapture in the hallowed presence of the Father and the Lamb. Beauty, peace, serenity, wisdom, and virtue beyond the capacity of our minds to contemplate, and it’s yours for the asking. Jesus Christ has tickets to this Paradise and He gives them to mankind freely. It’s actually spelled out on a white stone with a new name on it: [Revelation 2:17]: ““He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” – our personal invitation. All He asks is that we admit we made mistakes, repent from our faithless lifestyle and follow Him. We must trust Him completely because only He is completely capable of getting us where we need to go. There will be some rough bumps in the road, but that’s how He refines us, it’s how He teaches those of us who are willing to learn. He tests us to determine – not for Him to determine, He already knows – but for us to determine if we’re capable of total loyalty to Him. Somewhere on that long, bumpy road, through His blessed testing, we’ll find out that we can make the grade, and when that realization hits you, it’s a whole nuther life – literally! [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;” Be patient and wait for that Morning Star to rise in your heart – it’ll be worth it!

Meanwhile, do whatever you can (within Christian limitations) to inhibit, prohibit, prevent the installation of the horrid data centers which will require such grave sacrifices to the demons who rule this world. There have been no sensible or rational reasons given for why humanity needs them – except to increase some rich man’s wealth, and that doesn’t even begin to qualify for the sacrifices being imposed on us commoners. Keep the faith, folks, it won’t be much longer.

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

MK

Life Alongside the Ravenous Wolves of Wealth

When talking about material wealth, we live in a world of haves and have nots. That’s it – the middle-class myth is/was exactly that – a myth. I’ve known “upper middle class” folks who liked to be considered as being in the “haves” genre, but as a person I used to know once told me, if you think you might be one of the upper crusties then take this simple test: Take your private jet to Bermuda tomorrow, or better yet just do it this evening. What? You can’t take off work tomorrow? You don’t even have a private jet? What?!! If either or both answers is no, then like it or not you are simply a plebe, regardless of your occasional Friday night dinners with attorneys or doctors.

I’m writing about a class of people in this world who are separate, financially, socially, emotionally, but especially legally, from the rest of us. These folks do not answer to the same judicial, medical, or financial systems that plague us commoners. If any of these people were to happen to be driving their own vehicle and get a flat tire, under the right circumstances with no cell coverage, they would be totally lost and at the abhorrent mercy of unfamiliar elements where the ghastly working classes lurk! Not one of them could manage to replace a flashlight battery or unstick a clogged toilet if their life depended on it.

I’m speaking of people so susceptible to their esoteric programming that they are accustomed to making lavish financial outpourings simply based on what their peers do such as purchasing art from the same sources as other rich people precisely because other rich people do it and for no other superfluous reason such as whether or not they personally like it. In addition, the wealthy classes are purveyors of every sinful and covetous practice under the sun, always as though it were something novel – it is standard fare for the wealthy, the “elite”, with no thought of any ramifications that might be accounted – especially from a Higher Power. They engage in the most sordid, execrable behaviors imaginable, and this is primarily because their wealth came with a price tag, a ledger entry to which they paid no more attention when they entered into it than the price sticker on that new Lamborghini they bought yesterday on a whim. They – practically to the last sick social parasite – made a deal with the devil to get their apartment at the 432 Park Avenue posh skyscraper (turned-ghetto), and it’s a deal that requires total submission up to and including the most vile, horrid acts one could ever imagine. There’s absolutely no limit to the degree of evil of which they become capable, and if you think otherwise, I’ve got a couple of tall buildings in lower Manhattan to sell you – no wait – someone (rich) blew them up.

Among other abhorrent proclivities, these people routinely allow the allure of their perverse sensual natures to deprive them of any semblance of human decency, especially when it comes to their regard for children – even their own children, but isn’t that what the evil people in the Bible did in the old days – burning their own kids alive? The only thing to which any of these Cretins are loyal is their lust for more wealth, and there is no level of evil to which they will not stoop to gain it, nor is there any level of wealth that might obviate their desire for more. After a while, at some level which probably varies from one monster to another, wealth becomes power and then it turns into a whole new ball game with a whole new iteration of evil. They can buy anything, including human beings and their souls – and they do without a second thought. Those who sell their souls to them are equally as guilty – morally speaking.

For some reason which I’m inclined to believe is part and parcel of this human condition that we Christians are duty-bound to evolve away from, it seems that sexual immorality is the primary condition to which those with great wealth always gravitate. It seems that lewd and lascivious behavior is Satan’s most alluring temptation and when a person acquires whatever wealth it takes for him to become disenchanted, even bored, with the attendant posh lifestyle, he invariably turns – at Satan’s behest, of course – to morally irredeemable behavior. Then the acts grow into something far darker than (mere consensual) sexual immorality, acts and behaviors that include unspeakable conduct for a decent person to contemplate. But these are not decent people and their sexual immorality does not go unnoticed by the Almighty: [Revelation 18:9]: “The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,” and [Revelation 18:3]: “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.” It seems like wealth and immorality go hand in hand, and God does not like either.

[Luke 6;24]: “But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation.” Jesus clearly condemned the wealthy here and He made no bones about His contempt for the rich – they will not fare well at the judgement, so do not waste your time coveting wealth or envying those who have great possessions – they will suffer eternal torment for their choice to be rich men during this short tenure on the earth. I fully believe they are all demon-possessed. Our forefathers of the Christian faith, indeed, our Savior Jesus Christ Himself, were materially poor men. There are examples in the Holy Scriptures of which this site has published articles about the financially destitute men of God – John the Baptist, the disciples Peter and John, and the prophets of old – no men of God were wealthy, (with the possible exception of King Solomon, but he had some issues) and they are our examples in the faith. Wealthy pastors in today’s megachurches are all hypocritical charlatans, every one of them, and if you are a member in such congregations, leave that organization and find a true church. [2 Corinthians 6:17]: “Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”

If you find yourself feeling down because of financial lack, just remember that you – we – are the salt of the earth in our Savior’s eyes, and that is worth more than all the gold in all the banks and mountains of the whole earth! He favors the poor. Till that big day, be happy with what you have – we don’t need to be like them, for crying out loud, they’re trying to mesh their consciousness into computers because they erroneously think they can live forever – but we know there’s another – a better – Way. One that actually works. It’s true they run our countries for now, but that will not always be the case. [Luke 4:18,19]:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

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

MK

Finding Abundant Water in the Driest of Places

The world is running out of fresh water. We find ourselves rapidly approaching one of – if not the most seminal of situations in which we will finally plumb the depths of the abyss, a measure that, among other things, will demonstrate just how great the influence of vast pecuniary wealth proves to be when the world’s population grows thirsty. How dedicated will the proprietors’ security apparatus engage a public faced with one of – if not the most primal needs of biological existence. Will the billionaire’s whimsical pursuit of data centers or such wasteful consumption of the last fresh water overcome the desiccated hordes who desperately need water to survive? Do we watch our children slowly succumb to the ravages drying up their very metabolism by allowing thoughtless servants of Satan to use their binary (thus imaginary) digital wealth to accumulate what’s left of our planet’s most precious resource for their pet projects?

I’ve written before about the necessity of employing the use of eminent domain to acquire, for the greater good, of course, whatever wealth might be necessary to begin construction of the necessary desalination plants to alleviate our impending water scarcity, and we need politicians with sufficient understanding of this imminent disaster (and willingness to fix it) to start making some decisions that would doubtless offend the bank accounts of wealthy people. Asset seizure of financial assets is not a new idea – the authorities do it all the time and prior to now, it has always been directed at the segment of the population whose standing with the capitalist leadership is less than that of the group this new effort would necessarily affect.

If John Q. Billionaire has assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars, why should the authorities not avail themselves of some of that wealth like, say the working farmer whose property gets confiscated by eminent domain for the construction of a new airport? We need desalination no less than some airport or highway, and we need to get started on it as soon as possible to stave off an environmental catastrophe. One cannot imagine how many new jobs such a massive undertaking would necessitate. And think about the manufacturing, transportation and logistics chains that would be created overnight. What a boon to the economy it would be to all of a sudden have hundreds of thousands of construction and maintenance workers building hundreds of desalination plants up and down the coasts and around the Gulf of Mexico! Yes, The Gulf of MEXICO!

I’m surprised what with all the rivers and aquifers around the world that other countries haven’t already begun massive desalination efforts, and there are gulf monarchies in the middle east that have in fact done so, but those nations are trying to build civilizations in places nature did not intend for people to inhabit; what the US needs is to try and sustain the country already in place. Europe could certainly benefit from desalination with rivers over there going dry for the first time in recorded history. The point is that if the effort was undertaken on the scale that would be required, not only would the thirst of the world – the US in particular – be quenched, but economies of the participating countries would literally explode! Think of the tax revenue that could be created for a nation with a huge national debt – like one in particular that comes to mind.

If the billionaire monsters would actually consider doing something beneficial for mankind instead of serving Satan for a change, the financial requirements for such an undertaking might not require arm-twisting, and they could profit immensely from it by supporting it voluntarily, but their sole raison d’ etre is their dedicated service to Satan who made them wealthy to begin with, so it would undoubtedly take some serious persuasion. When one stops to consider the dishonest means these cretins used to gain their wealth, it doesn’t require much departure from moral norms to consider financial asset seizure for the “greater good”. All of them have stolen their wealth (from the citizenry) using some form of financial chicanery or the other. While we are at it, we should stamp out any further notion of data centers – ever – and raze the ones that have been built to the ground! With proper legislative authority, of course, to make it all legal. Congress could pass environmental legislation to make them illegal, which it should have done already. If mayors, governors, city councils, etc. do any shady deals without participation from the citizenry, they should be held accountable. Pressure, people, pressure! Numbers of people trump numbers of dollars! Although it would be a futile effort due to Satan’s immense control, it’s still part of our test here, to see who will stand up and be counted.

The world’s oceans cover three-fourths of the planet’s surface. There’s enough water in the vast seas to supply the needs of everyone on the planet if humanity should decide to capitalize on their potential. This won’t happen of course, due to political corruption in every corner of the globe. The Bible tells us the earth will burn and if one were to look at current events – wildfires everywhere, volcanoes, extreme droughts, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see it coming like a runaway freight train. Although the option of desalination of ocean water is available, it will not be undertaken, because Satan’s goal while he has some time, is to destroy as much of God’s creation as he can, claim as many souls to take with him to hell in the end and disrupt the lives of people who try to remain servants of Jesus Christ. Satan controls the wealthy and the leaders of this world, and they will do as they are bidden, if only to stay in power for the short time they have left, so where does that leave us who see what’s happening and choose to remain loyal to the Lord?

Although this post is full of doom and gloom, we really need to stop concentrating so much on the things that are happening that threaten our lives, at least in this pathetic iteration of it. This period of our time is only a trial. God seeks those who have the dedication to Him and are willing to continue in His work until the very end. The test will conclude for each of us, be it ending with a natural demise, or a worldwide conflagration, it will end, and then the real life will begin – for those who have remained faithful. An unimaginable eternal existence in a Paradise of joy so profound that as humans we can’t even imagine it. [1 Corinthians 2:9]: “But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” And as for the water shortage, [Isaiah 65:13]: “Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My servants shall eat, But you shall be hungry; Behold, My servants shall drink, But you shall be thirsty; Behold, My servants shall rejoice, But you shall be ashamed;”

The writing is indeed on the wall; it is also in the prophecy for what must take place before the end of this time of trouble – this walk through the valley of death on which we find ourselves. There will be famine and droughts, there will be a time when the very sun will burn men with a horrible fire. [Revelation 16:8,9]: “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” The world will dry out and burn up, but Jesus Christ offers us a Way to overcome the evils of this world and become prepared for an eternal life in His presence, which will be far greater than anything we could ever even imagine. It’s high time to listen to Him and take Him up on His offer. He’s building our mansions now [John 14:2,3]: “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

I can’t speak for anyone else, but that’s where I want to end up!

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

MK

Things That Can Only Happen While the Window is Open

Undoubtedly there are issues being considered that most of us aren’t privy to, but from what we can see, we have to call to question why certain actions haven’t been taken or at least recognize that there have to be good reasons for this hesitation. I’m speaking of some of the weapons systems currently possessed by adversaries and potential adversaries of the US. If we’ve learned anything about new military hardware, we should know by now that: a) countries develop new weapons, both offensive and defensive ones, and while they are new or just now being deployed, they are always shrouded in secrecy. b) When these systems are announced to the public, you can bet they have already been deployed for use. c) Adversaries always strive to – and eventually do – develop systems to counter, or defend against these new weapons as well as to copy the “new” technology to upgrade their own weapons. It is the time prior to this c part that explains the “open window”.

Russia, China, and Iran (and likely others in their orbit) have announced that they have – and have used in conflict for a while now – hypersonic missiles. Several types of these weapons have been produced, and notably some of them have maneuverable warheads that can alter their trajectories and approach paths, making them difficult, if not impossible to intercept with any degree of likelihood. Since the US does not have reliable hypersonic technology at this point in time, nor does it have any means of defense against such weapons, it is logical to say the window is open – for a while. The US can be expected to develop both aspects, hypersonic development of their own and interceptors capable of defending against them. History has taught us that this is bound to happen – it’s just a matter of time. A point to consider when discussing military technology as it applies to us and our “adversaries” is that in the capitalist US, making money on military hardware is the top priority, secondary to whether it works or not, but in Russia and China, the utility of the system comes before profit – maybe that’s why they’re getting ahead of us.

The concern herein is that Russia or China, or both, seeing that successive American government regimes have grown more implacable and unreasonable with each new administration, might just decide to capitalize on their brief window of opportunity and go ahead and use these advanced weapons to extract whatever level of submission from the US that might assure them of eliminating existential threat to themselves. As mentioned earlier, this window will undoubtedly close as US technology catches up, but it’s open for now and from my perspective, they’d be foolish not to act while they have this advantage – they know this.

This supposition takes into consideration the current conflict with Iran, in which Russian and Chinese hypersonic technology has been adequately tested (and demonstrated) to ensure western defensive systems are unable to challenge it. Both countries, along with Iran, have been able to consistently hit targets at various theater ranges with increasing numbers of weapons getting through the available patriot systems, which are actually proving to be a worthless investment especially for our Middle Eastern “allies”.

It seems like Iran and her allies have a discernable edge in drone technology as well, and this is being demonstrated in particular by the Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Iran has found that massive swarms of cheap drones are able to overwhelm advanced warships, a fact that has found the US Navy ships operating far from Iranian shores in the Indian Ocean. This advantage creates opportunities for Chinese hypersonic “carrier killers” to approach undetected in a cloud of cheap drones which are occupying US warship’s defensive systems. US adversaries might choose to attack American assets in various corners of the world while this window is open, i.e., before the US develops appreciable defenses against adversaries’ drone technology.

The current administration in the US has shown beyond any semblance of doubt that it cannot be trusted in any “agreement”. The sole ambition of our Zionist-controlled government is total (Zionist) dominance of every corner of the globe using American blood and treasure of course, and they have well-equipped enemies who are onto their scheme. As for the 60 percent or so of American citizens who would like to avoid confrontations with nuclear-powered adversaries, unless we can come together in a big way, we lack standing in our own country to effectively avoid a future conflagration. We are faced with a choice of being controlled by Putin or XI, or Netanyahu. Or if we can get together and act, by American leaders. Considering how Israel treats those whom it dominates, I’d have to vote for either of the former, but in the off-chance that we can regain control of our nation from the Zionist oligarchs, I think most of us would rather be governed by patriotic American leaders, but as the window of which this post addresses looks to be shutting and as the US closes the gap in technology, our adversaries may have other plans, because I don’t think they want to be controlled by Netanyahu either.

Another aspect of this open window idea is that our enemies (the enemies of the American people – not Russia or China) see their own window of opportunity closing and they are going all-out to get the surveillance state under their complete control. Data Canters are being built and put online despite stealing American water and power. The demonic oligarchs who are striving for control are frantic to get these and their ICE army in control of the American public. They are in a big hurry, too. [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.”

I believe the reason those ICE guys wear masks is that probably the majority of them are IDF and they don’t want patriotic Americans to know that Israel is beginning to treat American citizens like they do the Palestinians. They are pulling out all the stops, taking complete control of America with cameras, highway monitoring, data centers, and all the other accoutrements that inherently come with Zionist domination – if they can get the US under their complete control, they can take the rest of the world – unless Russia and China decide otherwise and take advantage of the open window they have right now. The Israeli Zionists already train almost all American police departments, so it’s pretty easy to ascertain where all the American police brutality comes from. Another open window Americans should close.

Before you get the wrong idea of what this post is about, remember we don’t need to waste what little time we have left hating on Zionist oligarchs or anyone else, for that matter. They work for Satan and are possessed by demons and will all burn in hell – it’s their choice. Patriotic, free Christians do, however, need to start praying fervently for God to give us courage, to take a hand in helping us to get out from under this dark threat by Satan and his synagogue. The window for Russia and China will only be open for a while, and it feels strange to me to be considering to be liberated (or destroyed) by nations who we’ve been deceived into believing were our enemies. Fresh water in the whole world is running on empty. Satan indeed knows he has a short time – such critical things as the country running out of water and Americans awakening and refusing to pay for data center power – Satan’s window of opportunity is closing too.

The final window will be closed which will essentially lock lost souls out of a chance at eternal life when Jesus returns. It’s not far away, and anyone who has read even a modicum of prophecy knows it’s about to happen. The water is running out, and when it does, so will humanity. The earth, as prophesied, will burn. The fabled data centers will burn. All the volcanoes erupting and wild fires burning in Europe and America, not to mention unprecedented heat waves killing people and evaporating the little water that’s left assures us that our time here is short and growing shorter – don’t let Satan take your chance at a future in Paradise where we will be forever in His indescribably wonderful presence – get to know Jesus Christ now while that window is still open. He’s waiting for you to open the door: [Revelation 3:16]: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Open it – it’s all you have to do – He’ll do the rest.

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

MK

A Tragedy of Unimaginable Destruction a Foggy Island Ago

Not an actual photo, but a rendition of what the crash probably looked like as the KLM 747 tore into the Pan Am jet

March 27,1977

As Jacob Louis Veldhausen van Zanten moved the thrust levers forward, the four JT9D-7W Pratt & Whitney engines slowly spooled up until they blasted around 92,000 pounds of thrust that began to move the lumbering behemoth that was the Boeing 747-206B of KLM flight 4805 down a foggy runway on the Spanish Island of Tenerife – a takeoff roll which would in only a few moments take 248 souls on a flight to eternity. Another 335 people down the takeoff runway on a different 747 from America, Pan Am flight 1736, would accompany them on their journey to the hereafter.

Earlier that day as both flight KLM 4805 and Pan Am flight 1736 were en route to the nearby Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria, a terrorist’s bomb exploded at that facility, causing the airport to close as the authorities feared further action. Both flights were diverted to the Las Rodeos airport located on the nearby island of Tenerife. The American plane was nearing the end of a long flight that had originated in Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at JFK in New York City. The Dutch flight was coming from Amsterdam.

The small airport at Tenerife did not normally process jumbo jets, nor did it usually accommodate the large number of other large passenger jets that had to divert there. It was on a Sunday and there were only two controllers on duty who suddenly found themselves attempting to manage an unheard-of crowd of airliners and passengers at their tiny facility. The terminal was not physically large enough to accommodate all of the extra passengers, so the Dutch passengers, who arrived first were allowed to disembark to the terminal facility, but the American passengers had to stay on board the flight 1736 Clipper Victor for what turned out to be a long stay on the tarmac.

The arrangement of the planes found the 1736 flight spotted behind the Dutch 4805 on the tarmac. The captain of the KLM flight was under time pressure due to a company policy that required crews not to fly beyond a certain number of hours without a rest period, and van Zanten was becoming desperate to get back to Amsterdam, but he would still need to make his Las Palmas stop prior to departure back to Holland which would greatly increase the possibility of having to lay over (and KLM would have to pay hotel fees for his passengers). With this in mind, van Zanten opted to take on fuel at Las Rodeos since they were stuck there anyway rather than take the extra time that would be required to do so when they got to Las Palmas.

As luck would have it, they got the all clear from Las Palmas while the Dutch plane was still fueling, but with the KLM plane spotted in front of the Pan Am jet, the American pilots could not maneuver around the fueling KLM, so the Pan Am had to wait for van Zanten to take 55 tons of fuel and clear the taxiway. Then both of the huge jets began their rolls with destiny at the same time. Since there was only one runway at Los Rodeos with a parallel taxiway, and since that taxiway was crowded with jetliners and could not be used for the better part of the necessary taxi to the takeoff spot, both planes were instructed to taxi down the main runway with the KLM plane taxiing all the way to the end and turning a 180 and with the Clipper instructed to go about three fourths of the way down on the main runway and cross over to the taxiway, which this far out was clear of aircraft.

There was a side story happening at the Los Rodeos airport and no narrative of this tragedy could be complete without a mention of what God did to save the life of one Dutch girl. Her name was Robina von Lanschot and she was a tourist guide travelling with two of her friends on the KLM flight. Robina had a boyfriend who lived on Tenerife, and if the KLM flight had gone as expected, it was her intent to fly from Las Palmas over to Tenerife to stay with him but since they were already (unexpectedly) at Tenerife, she saw no reason to go back to Las Palmas at Gran Canaria and come back again, so she asked one of the KLM stewardesses if she could just stay there, to which the stewardess replied no, she would have to complete the flight to Las Palmas. As mentioned earlier, the Dutch passengers were off the plane and in the concession area of the terminal, so as the passengers were instructed to reboard the KLM jet, Robina sort of melted into the crowd and stayed behind. The friends with whom she was traveling arranged to take care of her luggage at Las Palmas. This decision saved her life as every other passenger on that plane – including Robina’s friends – died in a high-speed crash and horrific explosion – immolated in a huge burst of flames.

Tenerife airport disaster
Sad ashes of KLM 4805

As the big jets were trying to get lined up for departure, there were some communication issues. Fog rolled in to the airport, reducing visibility to the extent the controllers couldn’t see either plane and the planes could not see each other. The Dutch plane reached the end of the runway and did its spin preparing for a takeoff roll that would last for eternity but never leave the airport. The American plane crew were busy trying to find the exit point (in the thick fog) they were supposed to take to get clear of the runway. Due to the lack of visibility and poor communication between the tower and the planes, van Zanten flying the KLM plane apparently thought he had takeoff clearance well before the Pan Am plane was clear so he began his takeoff roll and the Dutch plane only became visible to the American crew a matter of seconds later when they suddenly saw it break out of the fog headed at them approaching takeoff speed and far too late for Pan Am to exit the runway. Van Zanten heaved the yoke mightily trying to get the big KLM plane airborne, and without that extra 55 tons of fuel, they might have been able, but instead KLM landing gear crashed into the upper fuselage of the Pan Am at an estimated 160 knots, resulting in the total destruction of both aircraft but the Dutch plane was completely decimated, killing all 248 people on board. The Pan Am plane fared even worse with 335 fatalities but miraculously there were 61 survivors. The cabin crew and a couple of flight attendants on the Pan Am aircraft survived, as did several passengers who were all in the front section of the plane. Dorothy Kelly, one of the flight attendants who survived and went on to relate her incredible story of survival in many interviews and documentaries, had been reassigned from the rear to the front of the plane for this flight (due to the Purser, Francoise de Beaulieu being self-conscious of her own French accent) and had this reassignment not happened, attendant Kelly undoubtedly would not have survived.

Actual photo of the remains of the Pan Am 747 with survivors in shock – most of them had jumped from the intact wing to safety

Captain Victor Grubbs, First Officer Robert Bragg, and Flight Engineer George Warns of the Pan Am flight survived to a life of interviews and narratives for a curious public about the greatest aviation tragedy in history. The aforementioned Pan Am flight attendant would go on to tell and retell her story of survival. Of the other survivors of the Tenerife tragedy, all would remember with great sadness an early spring day when the world exploded around them on a remote volcanic island off the coast of Africa. Robina van Lanschot chose to keep a low profile after the tragedy, avoiding interviews as much as feasible and her bio has faded into the years since, but she couldn’t possibly forget the day at Los Rodeos airport on the tiny island of Tenerife when decided to break a rule to be with her boyfriend – not knowing at the time that it would save her life.

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Tenerife air crash memorial

A few years back I worked with a young fellow who left the job where we worked to go to flight school to become a pilot. I reminded him that every time he started to move the thrust levers to power up for takeoff and his checklists are complete, he should take a second to remember Jacob Veldhausen van Zanten’s final roll and be 100% sure everything is clear. Especially if he can’t see the runway ahead…

Inference When It’s Not Spelled Out, Obedience When it is

Many of us find ourselves in situations at times in which we do not have detailed instructions on how to approach an issue we feel the need to resolve or at least address. This dilemma is particularly important to the Christian who would like to stay on the right side of his/her spiritual pursuit while facing an issue in which they are involved, but are unable to find specific scriptural guidance. This happens to us often, and when we get into a situation where we have to make the right decision, take the right action, or support the right policy we must sometimes infer from our Spiritual foundation and knowledge what we should do absent the specific situation being addressed in the Bible.

For instance, say you find a wallet on the sidewalk with some money in it. We live in a “finders keepers” world, so for most people, the wallet is fair game, but to the Christian who wants to do the right thing there’s much underlying information we have to draw on. The bible doesn’t specifically address finding a wallet, so the finder has to infer from “Love thy neighbor as thyself” and “Thou shalt not steal” in order to determine the right course of action, which of course would be to try and determine whose wallet it is and get it back to the owner with his money still in it. I knew one particularly generous man to whom this happened and in his quest to find information that would lead him to the rightful owner he saw family photos in the wallet that indicated the owner had children and there was sadly very little money in it, so in addition to taking the effort to find the owner, he slipped some bills of his own into it before giving it back to the man.

That event was a little walk into the woods, but the point is that we sometimes encounter situations in which we have to depend on whatever spiritual resources to which we have access in order to take the right action, action which demonstrates our desire to please God and thereby live up to His expectations. In our society our people have a tendency to conflate nationalism or patriotism with Godliness, so on issues like immigration, some of us equate immigration laws with a righteous need to support abominations like this ICE army which takes people from their families and incarcerates them in horrid conditions. The ICE agents have unnecessarily killed US citizens and for all practical purposes have the complete support of a large segment of American society. In situations such as these, if one were to stand back and look at the entirety of the operation, there can be nothing remotely resembling Christianity in what the ICE goons are doing. Again we can infer from our instruction to love our neighbor that this persecution of human beings is not right. Laws against aliens for simply being aliens are not of God.

This ICE travesty just happens to be the extreme end of racist laws of men, but in the case of “illegal” aliens, the Bible spells this one out, alleviating the requirement to infer how we should treat foreigners in our country:

[Malachi 3:5]:

“And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
Against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

In this passage the Scripture clearly states that we should not round up those who are strangers in our land and persecute them. If a person is sufficiently racist to go against the Holy Scriptures in order to satisfy his/her racist inclinations, they should at least be aware that is precisely what they are doing. A lot of Americans make the mistake of trying to infer from the laws of man how to deal with a policy that God explicitly addresses. Please do not “infer” from what this post is trying to say that this writer does not recognize the complicated problems of immigration, just that we are not using our God-given judgement and are allowing racist inclinations to dictate how we approach it.

We have a tendency to lay claim here on the earth to things that belong to God. [Psalm 24:1]: “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. A careful reading of this scripture reveals that everything, including the people of the earth, belong to God. The land of the nation that is America does not belong to any race or tribe of people, as the land of all nations, it belongs to God and we who (temporarily) possess land or other things here are simply serving as stewards of God’s property – nothing more. As responsible stewards we need to be careful to obey the requirements that God lays on us, such as sharing the parts of earth we possess with others of God’s people.

It is extremely important to be responsible to heed the commandments of our Lord instead of allowing our preconceived prejudices to influence how we set about following our spirituality. There is a tendency to try and infer from laws of man what God intends for us to think and do. We have no right to do so, it is reckless and irresponsible to presume that just because there are (presently and temporarily) some (usually racist) man-made rules that govern who are allowed into – or turned away from – this land, that somehow there is Godly support for persecuting them. God says in the above verse that turning away an alien is an indication that those who do so do not fear Him, and if that is so, someone is in for a rude awakening.

We live in an age in which politicians are elected precisely because of their positions on these kinds of issues and it speaks volumes about the public who elects them as to the effort they make to obey God. People actually vote for politicians who promise to turn away the alien – a direct violation of God’s commandment, so they have no excuse. Jesus even warned the Pharisees about substituting commandments of men for God’s commandments: [Matthew 15:9]: “And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

There are instances in our lives where an issue isn’t specifically spelled out and in those we must rely on our spiritual guidance, our spiritual bearing, so to speak in order to infer from what we do know from the scripture and base our course of action on such knowledge. I feel comfortable in saying that we all know there are times when we have to consult with that law God has written on our hearts, or even with a preacher for spiritual guidance for those times. We must, however, abstain from the tendency to attempt to infer God’s will from the laws of men. As this age winds down, we find that more and more the laws of men are at odds with God’s commandments and we must trust the Spirit of God to guide us, but when the scriptures plainly state what we should or should not do as in the above Malachi verse we see a situation where man’s law and God’s law conflict – in such cases, if one chooses to follow and support man’s law, then he finds himself at odds with God’s, and this threatens to put Christians in a precarious situation as it relates to our faith. It has happened before and is certain to happen again. Someday there will be a law (of man) that will require us to take a mark and worship a man who will claim to be God – and it might not be that far away…

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

MK

One Fine Day in the Strait of Teutoburg, AKA Hormuz

The parallels are uncanny. In 9 AD, three Roman legions under the command of one Publius Quinctilius Varus were gadding about in the dark forests of the Central European back country, fully convinced of their unassailable military dominance when to their unimaginable chagrin, one Arminius, a Germanic Cherusci tribesman with a band of barbarians laid claim to what was to become the greatest defeat of the Roman empire until then.

Such was the hubris of all things Rome, Varus had been appointed as governor (thus military leader) of this area even though his was a purely political background (and being married to a relative of Augustus helped him along) – he knew almost nothing of warfare – a lack of professional military experience that brings to mind the current US DOD secretary. Varus’ only military experience had been his tenure as governor of Syria, which proved to be sadly lacking when he was faced with a determined enemy who was familiar with Roman military tactics – a situation comparable to Hegseth’s minimal tactical aptitude. Rome had been in the business of annexing places far and wide in order to avail the empire of resources and tax income from places the empire did not know very well. After all, that’s what empires did and still do to this day.

As Rome flourished, building a vast network of roads and aqueducts, similar to but much more useful than today’s data centers being built all around the current empire, the leadership, in a similar vein of arrogance, (Augustus) apparently felt that if he personally liked someone, that was all the necessary requirement for a fit into any governmental position, so there was the invariable posting of unqualified people in positions that should have required a great deal of expertise. Sound familiar? This lack of military prowess on the part of Varus came back to haunt Rome in a big way. This should be expected when an unqualified military group, depleted of experienced generals and admirals, led by a political hack who had very little military experience in leadership position starts a war against a very capable enemy who has spent years studying strategy in anticipation of such an attack.

Varus manned up his three legions went on a march across Europe, supposedly to consolidate Roman rule in Germania and remind the barbarian tribes of the taxes they were supposed to be paying to Rome, but by that time Arminius had deftly planned his strategy by having visited all the affected tribal leaders in order to bring them under the same rebellious umbrella. Arminius had also served for a time in the Roman army, so he had acquired some degree of familiarity with Roman battle tactics. None of the Iranian military leaders have served in the US or Israeli militaries, but with today’s communications and intelligence capabilities, familiarity with US and Israeli tactics has doubtless been gained as much or more than Armenius did with his service to Rome. Not everyone is aware that when those great armies marched across the countryside, they invariably amassed a following of all kinds of civilians, men and women who followed the legions to aid the armies by providing food and other logistics from which they might receive some profit, so there were probably as many civilians following along as there were legionnaires. All in all it was a big circus, designed to instill awe in any potential rebellious groups by show of arms and soldiers, and simply from their presence, the implied support of the populace.

Arminius had developed a plan of attack, but for it to work, he needed to lure Varus into taking a route through the Teutoburg Forest that he hadn’t planned on taking. Armenius planted a rumor of a Germanic uprising in the area that got to Varus, along with an urgent suggestion that Varus take his armies and go there to quell it, which he did. In their turn, Iran developed a plan in which they identified critical targets on American bases in the Middle East which were to be attacked, starting with the expensive and crucial radar systems that would prohibit Iranian missile attacks, or at least would no longer be able to give warning of their launches. The point here is that a determined enemy of an overconfident empire expended enormous effort developing unexpected strategies with which they might defeat their vastly superior foes.

Without going into a lot of detail, suffice it to say that using tactics studied over the years and superior knowledge of the terrain, Arminius’ barbarian tribes soundly defeated the armies of the Roman empire at Teutoburg, much like the Iranians with their missile and drone arsenals and superior planning did to the American military with its depleted ranks of generals. So far it seems that the US Centcom commander, this Cooper guy is at least as inept as his boss Hegseth and his boss Trump. Well, at least in everything but lying, but unfortunately lying does not win wars. Just as Arminius’ and his barbarian hordes did to an empire many centuries ago, the IRGC has thoroughly trounced a vastly outmatched today’s army of empire, the biggest difference is that as opposed to Rome, the US empire’s leadership is taking much longer to understand it has been whipped and so continues to lose assets. But with all the good flag officers gone, what can be expected? Stalin, anyone?

So a great military power prowls far away from home and an inferior foe with inexpensive but effective weaponry painstakingly develops a plan to defeat them. The battle of Teutoburg Forest proved to be a decisive defeat for Rome at the hands of an underequipped (but strategically superior) group of barbarians, and the much-hyped and ballyhooed US military got slapped by a brave and determined Iranian military. In both cases the army of empire chose battle in a place where they should not have been and went up against a lesser equipped, but far more motivated enemy. We Americans wonder now what it’s going to take for the leadership to pack up and go home.

Pray for peace.

MK

Is the Glass Half Empty – Or is it Completely Empty?

It’s raining heavily in the Ozarks today, and as I have an aversion to drowning, I’m staying in to catch up on indoor things for now. Rain nowadays reminds me of how blessed we are here compared to folks out west and in the growing number of places where there is a really severe drought and where the main reservoirs that supply drinking water and the water needed for hydroelectric power to all those people. As has been the subject of posts here and here before, water supplies around the country are dwindling, and it’s getting serious. It seems that clean drinking water is becoming more and more scarce everywhere in the world.

There’s more going on than just a drought and water shortages, though. As usual something nefarious is going down which needs as much light as possible shining on it. For instance, back during the shrub Bush years, there was some rumbling about coming water shortages, and even the Bush family bought land in the South American country of Paraguay where there was abundant water. Although a lot of other reasons were given for their purchase, such as to build an escape bunker for some upcoming apocalypse, many speculated that the powers that be knew even back then that a water shortage (that the public at large did not have the resources nor the foresight to see) was imminent and there seemed to be an interest in investment in sources of water.

As for why America seems to be cursed by water shortage, I can’t help but recall those horrid videos the Israeli settlers were airing at the beginning of the Gaza genocide where they were making fun of the poor Gazans by laughingly turning on the taps and wasting water. This was just after the IOF had turned off the water to Gaza, a thirsty piece of desert land by the Mediterranean Sea crammed with people, and the Palestinians were suffering, intentionally being denied the very essence of life. Here in the US, not many folks were willing to complain about what was happening in Gaza. A few of us complained, but all in all, the United States government provided unflagging support – and still do – to the perpetrators of that man-made travesty, and now a lot of folks wonder why God has allowed our taps here in America to start running dry!

The great tribulation mentioned in prophecy won’t just come out of nowhere upon the world – the world, especially the colonial nations, for they will be guilty of all kinds of depredations upon all of their fellow men, but moreso on innocent peoples. The world of “developed” nations will have brought this devastation on themselves. Think about it. West Texas (and Oklahoma), which for years has allowed the oil companies to inject toxic chemical-laden wastewater into underground cavities in a process known as “fracking”, and now people there are all of a sudden whining about toxic wastes that have magically begun to appear in their water supplies. They don’t have all that much water out there to start with, and why the EPA would have allowed fracking in the first place is a big my$tery to me.

Another thing that might be happening is that due to the impending water disaster, millions of people who own land and properties – at least out west – will either sell out or default on their home loans and move out, so the wealthy Zionist bankers will end up holding trillions of dollars’ worth of real estate and homes for pennies on the dollar. Well, homes that will be worth trillions AFTER the rich guys get possession of the properties and then build the necessary desalination facilities and pipelines (that should be in progress right now to avert the disaster) to bring the areas back to life. As always, there is likely a nefarious plan, but if this is what’s going on, it stands to be the greatest wealth transfer in history! They get everyone’s property for pennies because there is no water, then, with their billions, make water available and reap trillions reselling. Sounds simple enough.

Another big waste of water are these damnable AI data centers that are cropping up everywhere. Most Americans don’t really care that these things are simply a big tool for the surveillance state and so just stand by ignorantly as their local water sources are being drained at a phenomenal rate for something that will eventually enslave them. To their credit, there are more and more communities starting to speak out against this travesty by the billionaires, but we ALL need to get in on the act – that is if we would like to continue to live as free Americans. I’ve said it before, and I know most folks will write me off as some kind of nutcase, but just try to connect the dots. The filthy rich Zionist billionaires are Servants of Satan who have sold their souls. If they insist on building data centers, then Data centers must, by virtue of the servants of evil who build them, be tools of evil entities, thus they are temples to false gods which Satan has ordered his chief servants to build. They steal our water – an issue the Zuckerbergs and Thiels couldn’t care less about, but which will bring about unimaginable hardships on normal people.

Maybe – just maybe – God has decided to step in and check the expansion of the surveillance state by shutting off the water needed to run these insidious institutions of Satan, but a lot of people will suffer meanwhile. Get involved in your community. We have to stop this huge waste of water and electricity. Pray that God will take these servants of Satan out of our midst!

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

MK

Decaying Old Things Made Beautiful Again

It’s a warm and very humid morning here in this part of the Ozarks and I’m finally feeling well enough to try and catch up on my garden. Due to a nagging ailment for the past couple of weeks, I’ve not really felt like getting out there and with all the rain we’ve had lately it has grown into a jungle, but I’m slowly coming back around and have decided to tackle it. Even though it takes a lot of work, I’m nevertheless grateful that God has given me a garden, but moreso because He has given me an interest in such mundane things as raising vegetables and flowers. I’m working on some projects right now in which I find old rotting stumps out in the woods and if they have hollowed-out cores, they make really neat planters.

I realize they probably won’t last very long, but instead of allowing that to dissuade me from using rotten stumps, I sort of rationalize it by recognition of everything else in this world that is so temporary – nothing lasts forever on this old earth so if you can find and enjoy something for just a little while, why not just do it? I’m an old man now and looking at those old decaying chunks of wood and moss, I’m reminded of how little time we have here, so by planting some pretty flowers in them, maybe I can serve to liven up and beautify something a little bit before it completely goes away.

Now as you’ve probably already guessed, this metaphor of something old and rotting getting a sort of makeover could be the basis for a post, and if you have, then treat yourself to a banana, because it does have a lot to do with this story.

The FFA kids at the local high school sell flowers in the spring every year before summer recess, and I usually buy some garden plants and flowers, but this year I decided to try something different with the flowers, hence the rotten tree planters. Some of the projects are actually hollowed-out chunks of what would have been split into firewood, but some of them were a bit punky in the centers, so even though these pieces are not actually rotting, I just took the chain saw and made some cavities for soil and plants. Like these:

Tricolored wax begonias found a home in this piece of red oak.
Maroon and purple petunias and orange impatiens in a chunk of hardwood
I attached a hollow limb across the top of a forked white oak piece and planted nasturtiums and pink impatiens in the hollow on the left. Those are wax begonias in the top limb in three places, pink, white, and red. In the middle of the fork is a wandering Jew, and at the bottom left is a sweet potato. The moss here and there makes it look a little more natural.

Coleus and pink impatiens in hollows of a real rotten stump with a pitchfork embedded in it. I’m kind of a neophyte with flowers and can’t remember the name of the light purple flower in the lower part – if you recognize what it is, please tell me in a comment.

I’ve raised vegetables for many years and as I mentioned earlier, I’m always thankful to God for His grace in giving me an interest in such things. I’d be dishonest if I didn’t also recognize His grace in allowing me to post articles of encouragement to Christian believers and to urge those who might be considering becoming a member of the Kingdom. This is God’s way of allowing me to work in His garden and I’m humbled to the core to be allowed to do so. I personally don’t feel like I deserve the honor, but I am nevertheless enthusiastic about it, because He didn’t make any distinctions about who He invited to help out, Jesus just said the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few [Matthew 9:37]: “Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” So this old geezer is joining in the harvest to help any way I can – so the consummation of this particular metaphor is to say that no matter how old and decrepit something – or in this case, someone – is, something beautiful can be implanted to make it nice before the end – especially something to make it pleasing to the Lord’s eye, and that implanted beauty is Jesus Christ in the heart! All you old-timers – hang in there! And it’s never too early to start for y’all young’uns too. Learn about Jesus while you still have time! It’s looking like this old world’s not going to last a lot longer.

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

MK