Category Archives: The Word of God

Posts that give us hope in Jesus.

It’s Getting Cold Out There

It’s a quiet and foggy early morning here in the Ozarks with temperatures low enough to cause what we call an ice fog. When these get heavy enough, they leave one of the most spectacularly beautiful wintry scenes you’ll ever see. The trees, mostly barren by now are left with a fluffy coat of rime along every branch and twig and somehow it looks and feels lighter and whiter than you’d expect. The scene feels accentuated by it’s utter silence – it causes one to reminisce – at least for me it does – imagining past times during which these old trees stood and watchfully grew, of winters of yesteryear posing for now as rest stops for red birds and jays during their endless frolics as their tiny wings slice through a brooding icy silence.

An ice storm from a few years ago

Today’s ice fog doesn’t seem to be a very heavy one, but the heaviness of my heart makes up for it because the folks that run this old world we live in have developed some awful problems and it doesn’t look like they’re going away. It just seems like every single day arrives with a whole new set of problems and they all just keep piling up. We’re in a big old ship that’s headed for some serious rocks, and no one seems to be steering it. It’s going to be a mighty cold wreck when we crash, and no one is trying to prevent it.

As of today, our leaders are determined to start a new war down in Venezuela. They keep spouting some nonsense about “narco-terrorists” – I mean just stop and give that some consideration, just for a second. What is a narco-terrorist? Remember Iraq? They had to come up with an evil-sounding name for that “enemy” and since the Iraq military had been destroyed but there were still many new foes but not in uniform so instead of admitting the US was slaughtering and/or torturing civilians, they started calling them enemy combatants, as if this new designation somehow made it more legal to massacre them. Made it acceptable to torture them in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Folks, we are living in some evil times and the spooky demons behind our government are unimaginably evil.

There will be no peace in this world until Jesus comes back or until the US and Israeli governments are totally neutralized. Personally, I like the former option – just imagine, real justice here on this earth like there has never been since mankind was put in charge. Everyone, and I mean everyone is by now trying to come to ways to cope with the things we’re facing, but hardly anyone is able to discern what is honestly happening – that Satan is in near complete control of all the world’s governments. People – human beings – are being mercilessly slaughtered right out in the open and the whole world stands by and does nothing. If you haven’t concluded yet – Jesus is our only hope!

Those leaders who have sold their souls dare not raise their voice because of their despicable moral failings have set them up for blackmail, or just as bad, they’ve sold out for wealth – wealth that will never fill the void left from their soul’s departure. People like you and me are powerless to stop the incredible evil that has permeated all of the earth. We can but protest in whatever ways the Lord provides and we must. We must speak out against what we’re seeing lest we become viewed as complicit in these great atrocities orchestrated by the demons of hell.

There was a very famous person who made her bones in the media industry who just a few days ago not only expressed support for that now infamous “double tap” strike on hapless survivors of one of the Venezuelan boats, but she said she was disappointed that they were not made to suffer enough before they died! Folks, this kind of stuff ain’t right – not at all, and if any of my readers share her sentiments, I feel sorry for your eternal future. There are so many things wrong with this situation on so many levels that we need to start praying fervently for ourselves, our families, and our nation.

The Almighty God, who created us in His image is not going to stand by a lot longer and watch this inexplicable evil – this monstrous attitude that it’s ok, even fun – to watch people suffer and die. That it’s ok if we have to support governments (including our own) who operate torture prisons and perform the most heinous, despicable, evil acts on captured and helpless individuals! People in one country actually staged protests in defense of prison operators who routinely assault prisoners by sodomizing them with brooms! These were civilian protesters who were appalled and aghast that these demons were threatened with accountability. This world is in some big trouble when God raises His hand against the servants of Satan doing things like that and I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. I’m afraid of the wrath of God that is coming upon the whole world because of this mass stampede to rampant evil.

It’s not ok to kill men on boats just because you came up with an evil-sounding name for them. It’s the epitome of evil to say – on public airways that those guys should have been made to suffer more – that lady should be immediately castigated and disowned by all God-fearing people of this country. That’s absolutely as evil as anything the Nazis did or said, and they’re supposed to be our measuring stick for atrocious behavior. Whatever you do, don’t look past things like this – these words and actions are what are going to bring the wrath of God upon this world! And it ain’t going to be pretty!

A few years ago there was a plane shot down, if my memory isn’t failing too much, I think it was over in Afghanistan. in which a high-ranking CIA guy was killed. I got a mental image of that story in the Bible of the great battle when Michael and the angels fought against, and ultimately cast Satan out of Heaven and onto the earth. In my mind’s eye, that was what happened. A demon fell to earth. Intelligence agencies around the world are Satan’s police departments, they are merchants of falsehoods and I believe if a person goes to work for any of them, he/she has to sell their soul up front, and then they are given control – of people, of governments, of the operations of the whole world, and they have taken control to the extent that Jesus is the only One who will be able to stop them, but He will! That’s why the leaders of the world are out to get Christians, they know Jesus Christ will be their downfall, so the dragon is enraged and has set out to try to destroy the woman (the Church), but take heart, he never will do it. Hence the rage – he knows his time is short.

Indeed, take heart you who follow the Truth – the only thing the enemy can take from us is a little bit of time we might have remaining on this earth, which by now has become so disgusting to live on that they don’t even realize they would actually be doing us a favor. When they take our money or property, they are only taking something that’s temporary – it wasn’t ours in the first place and they won’t be taking it with them where they’re going for sure. That causes Satan even more consternation and rage when we are no longer afraid of him and his demons, he loses the only thing he ever had over us – fear. Jesus said not to fear them [Matthew 10:28]: “
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” and [John 16:33]: “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Be of good cheer. Remember, even though things sometimes look hopeless, if it wasn’t possible to have courage, Jesus wouldn’t have advised us to do so. He didn’t – and doesn’t – waste His Words!

I’m going back outside into the cold fog to watch the bluebirds and meditate on His blessings while we still have them.

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

MK

When Evil Becomes a Way of Life

What is the enemy of mankind up to? How can he possibly benefit from exposing his malevolence to the world? It would seem that open genocide or totally obvious lying during speeches with every sentence of every breath would cause consternation in his target audiences, and at first it does, but his real goal is the devious process of normalizing the atrocious behavior we are witnessing. Horrible things like slaughter and starvation of little kids which yesterday were unimaginably evil are today not only being done out in the open for all to see, but the public is steadily becoming inured to it.

As of now, the news networks report on distractions of all sorts instead of jumping on stories of evil soldiers shooting little children, news stories of crimes and horrors which just a few years ago – maybe just a few days ago – would have burned the headlines with calls for the heads of those responsible. Now as these malevolent acts take place, we hear of poll results and prospects for some future election – we hear of some court decision or political action, and of course, the ubiquitous 3I Atlas (Comet, Meteor, UFO mother ship, etc.) but our press carefully skirts all the issues that address the real evils of the world. So what’s the plan?

By ignoring most of the vileness of certain governments and the obvious acts of terror they engage in, these monstrous acts are being allowed to fester into unthinkable malevolence served only as a news side dish if at all. The aim is to get everyone used to their dirty work, teach us to become accustomed to atrocity so the shock value is no longer present and thus isn’t a deterrent, i.e., not a newsworthy happening. People’s hearts are becoming calloused, learning to accept that which once blanched the soul.

What was not so long ago considered to be insidious, things like the most depraved of sexual immorality has become just more items on the menu of the internet, not to be considered vile and repugnant behavior to be avoided lest we offend the Creator. Consideration of the desires of the Creator no longer seem to be relevant to our life choices. This will come back to bite in the most horrific way unless we can develop the momentum to return to our Spiritual guidance.

This article is intended to speak (loudly) to all who profess to be believers in Christ – do not allow the evil of the world to become commonplace in your thoughts. Continue to regard it for the departure from decency that it is. Just because the cold-blooded murder of children has happened, and is happening, do not allow it to set some kind of twisted precedent that has somehow become “normal”, and thus no longer an indictment of those who follow such malevolent and demonic ways. Do not come to accept any facet of this behavior as normal or allowable as human behavior.

Just because sexual immorality has become a way of life in most social circles, do not think that makes it somehow acceptable in God’s eyes, because it is not, nor will it ever be! Any departure from one’s Spiritually ingrained morality, that which has been learned over the centuries from the Bible, is never to be allowed into our thoughts and behavior. If we purport to be in the service of our King, we cannot, we must not give quarter to such vileness – even if it continues for a thousand years and becomes not only tolerated but instituted as normal. It is not! Nor is it to be ignored – we must use whatever platform(s) at our disposal to ensure our fellow travelers do not become inured and tolerant of such behavior – no matter how it comes packaged.

If you’ve been watching the enemy and consider yourself onto his wiles, pay close attention to the in-your-face evil taking place – right out in the open nowadays. Such irreverence used to be kept secret, but no longer. He’s preparing the world of men to start considering this behavior to be the new normal. He’s trying to get us to the point where our whole society not only accepts his evil ways, but by seeing that there are no repercussions for the actors, some undoubtedly choose to participate in them. Don’t fall for it, no matter how “normal” it becomes! We are taught to stay on the straight path, not looking to either side. There are things going on now – and it’s going to get worse – that Christians have no part in; stay away from such depravity; never accept such as normal – they are not!

Another, less obvious trap the enemy is preparing is to capture men by creating hatred in the hearts of otherwise good people – by causing them to see and be repelled by the very behavior they detest and then allowing it to fester into hatred of those who are engaged in it. It’s okay to hate the behavior, but not the people doing it. [Revelation 2:6]: “But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate”. Jesus said the deeds, not the people themselves. If we allow our hearts to be turned to hatred of others, the same enemy wins, so avoid his snares. He’s had thousands of years to design ways to steal men’s souls. The only sure-fire way to defeat his schemes is to walk in the presence of One who is able to defeat him – Jesus Christ – if you haven’t made peace with Him – our greatest Ally – I strongly advise you to learn of Him and accept His offer of protection. There is no other way to defeat this malevolent entity that is out to destroy mankind and everything we hold sacred. There’s simply no other way – don’t wait around until it’s too late.

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

MK

You Bet Thanksgiving is Important!

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Are we obliged to thank God for His Providence towards us? Well, I guess if that’s the way one chooses to frame it, then there may be more than one answer and yes or no don’t quite make muster as an acceptable answer at all. If we see giving thanks as an obligation, then we obviously miss the point.

When our Heavenly Father bestows a blessing on us, we need first of all to recognize the blessing as such. For instance, I grew up in a poor household and for much of my life I regarded our poverty as some kind of curse which obviously didn’t merit any gratitude. As I’ve come of age (and by now have become somewhat overripe), it has occurred to me that living as one of the poor of the earth was indeed a blessing of the highest order! Look at what Jesus said: [Luke 6:20]: “Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.” How can being dirt poor and having to struggle to get by possibly be a blessing? Well, to start with, we learned compassion for our fellow travelers who were needy because we have walked that walk. Our family was very close with relationships born of mutual hardships – relationships that still bind us today as we grow into the autumn years of our lives.

We learned to appreciate neighbors who were willing to lend a hand and thus became those same neighbors to others. We learned to appreciate the genuine grace of God that was ours as we watched folks who lived better financially and how in many instances their prosperity deprived them of the will, or even the ability to appreciate Him.

I remember being a little barefoot ragamuffin in the early springtime and how wonderful the new clover felt on my feet – kids with shoes didn’t experience that, so how could they develop those kinds of fond memories that I’ve carried all my life? My point is that though many – ok most – aspects of growing up poor were significant trials, after everything is said and done, God has grace me with uncountable richness, in brotherly love, in precious and much beloved memories I would never have in my heart, in appreciation for God’s abundant grace and inestimable wisdom – He knew all along what He was developing and later on He gave me the wisdom to understand how it all came together and that it was indeed a blessing – now that I’m able to look back on my youth from an aspect beyond the hard times.

So do I thank Him for the tough years we went through? Absolutely! I wouldn’t trade one of my memories of my precious family living in that old house with crumbling wallpaper, eating macaroni and home-canned tomatoes made with bone broth from cracked and broken crock plates, having to draw water from an old cistern with a rope and rusty pulley. Most poor folks back in those days kept a metal bucket on the kitchen counter with an old dipper in it. When someone was thirsty, they just picked up that dipper and dipped out a drink from the bucket and drank from it. Even people who came by from a different family. That’s just how things worked back then for poor folks. We all obviously shared the same germs, but rarely got sick (another blessing?) Those recollections are a big part of who I am and who I hope to still be when this old ticker goes still. Perfect? Not at all, but He knows my heart, and in the final judgement, that’s the most important thing.

Among the blessings we received but did not recognize as such, there are those obvious ones. We have no excuse for not being appreciative for those. Jesus encountered ten guys who had leprosy and healed all of them, but afterwards only one of them, a Samaritan no less, came back to thank Him. [Luke 17:17]: “So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Even Jesus Christ Himself considers thanksgiving to be giving glory to God!

Our Lord knows all, and He obviously recognizes gratitude for His kindness and blessings. For the obvious ones in real time and for the long term ones that we don’t regard as blessings when they are happening, but come to understand later. I think those ones are the most significant to our Spiritual development and thus are the ones we should be thankful for the most.

In any case, and I’m writing this as one who sometimes forgets to acknowledge and thank Him appropriately (and in a timely manner), we need to make sure we properly thank God for His mercy and grace in our lives. We should never miss that opportunity to go back and thank Him even in those times we forgot or overlooked earlier, because of his unfathomable love for us, He will forgive our ignorance. The thing is, we have to actually appreciate Him in our hearts, because that’s the place He is interested in.

This Thanksgiving Day when we say our prayers, let’s make it a point to pray from our heart and soul, Jesus said [Matthew 5:8]: “Blessed are the pure at heart, for they shall see God” so He knows whether or not we’re being sincere or are just completing a step in the holiday checklist.

God bless all and Happy Thanksgiving!

MK

The Difference is God’s Love

Sometimes it looks as though people who do not know Jesus Christ are avoiding Him on purpose, maybe it’s because some of us who claim to be believers show such a terrible witness. The non-believer sees the high and mighty televangelists grifting the public and the pews full of hypocrites and makes a conscious decision to avoid association with them lest others think the same of them. It’s a shameful indictment of our belief system that some use it for pecuniary gain or some perceived social status as they turn up their noses to those who Jesus came to save.

We who have chosen the narrow Way are up against a lot of inherent obstacles trying to convince folks we have chosen the right path and that they should join us but having to overcome the image created by the hypocrites make it much more of an uphill climb. If non-believers were actually shown an accurate view of who Jesus was and what He taught, it would be a lot easier, but we have to battle against the false witnesses of fake Christians who distort Christianity to the extent that most non-believers don’t want anything to do with Jesus and that’s a shame. Some of them like to teach that serving Jesus is a really tough thing to do so they can feel smug about themselves as though they were doing a lot of heavy lifting, but in fact living for the Lord isn’t hard at all if you really want to do so and for the right reasons.

Jesus Christ was an extraordinary Being who came into this world on a mission that few can grasp. In His short time here in the flesh He taught humanity profound lessons, the veracity of which has endured through millennia, and these instructions are as valid today as they were in His time. They shall endure forever, for His Word is timeless. [Matthew 24:35]: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” He taught us the importance of growing out of this fleshly human condition and into the Spiritual existence, and even unbelievers are normally able to understand the existential improvement to humanity of a life spent doing good and loving others over a wasted life of greed and immorality.

Jesus’ love for human beings was nothing short of remarkable. Even as his executioners were murdering Him, His overriding concern was for their salvation as He petitioned God to forgive them because they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. [Luke 23:34]: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. We mortals cannot possibly relate to that kind of love – they were killing Him, yet He pleaded for their forgiveness from God. We can learn to love like that, but only through the Holy Spirit.

We all have our detractors and tormentors of one kind or another but how many of us can honestly say that we have the capacity, not only to forgive them, but to actually love them from our heart? When we set out to follow Jesus, we must commit to doing our utmost to do just that, and that’s a profound commitment. It may be difficult, but it’s not impossible, because if it was impossible Jesus would never have told us to do it. [Matthew 5:43-48]:“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. …”

I guess what this post is saying is that what separates the true followers of Jesus from unbelievers and hypocrites is the capacity for loving others, just as our Lord Jesus did. When the non-believer sees us showing that kind of love to one another, they cannot but understand that we are different from what they have seen in the phony congregations of the false prophets. When we demonstrate God’s love for one another and even love for our enemies, they realize there’s more to true faith than what they have been led to believe and thus are more apt to be receptive to our Spiritual beliefs.

Keep up the good work fellow travelers, and if you are reading this post and have not come yet to Jesus, by all means look into learning about Him. This world’s condition should be revealing to you by now that human beings do not have the answers. We’re sinking in this world of increasing evil and there’ll never be any going back, not even to the way our world was last year; last month; even yesterday. He’s the only answer – don’t wait until it’s too late to learn that. Everyone will learn it one way or another. Get on the right side of things today. We’ll all land safely on the other side in His keep. Count on it.

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

Reject the Drive-Thru Life of the Rich

When we look at the condition of the world today and how everyone – especially the rich everyones – are behaving themselves, all of them trying so desperately to get a leg up on everyone else, we get some notion of what it must be like for a bunch of scroungy vultures gathered around the skeleton of some rotting carcass with a precious few scraps of hard-to-get-at sinew left on it.

For all of my adult life, I’ve considered the wealth and means of the country to be like a big pie with enough shares for everyone, but there are always those who believe for whatever reason that they deserve more than the next guy. They fight like cats and dogs over – not just what might rightfully be due to them – every bit of the pie they can get their greedy claws on – using whatever means at their disposal to get as much of everyone else’s as they can lay claim to. They call it Capitalism but never doubt – it’s premised on evil [1 Timothy 6:10]: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Problem with these types is that while everyone else is out earning their pieces of the available resources, the greedy refuse to do anything to earn any of the pie, they slink into dark places and plot malicious schemes to steal whatever they can. They use their wealth to purchase lawmakers to legislate any and every piece of nefarious lawfare that can give them an advantage to get ahead. I remember when big insurance set out to make automobile liability insurance mandatory. When that garbage was going on, I remember being (uselessly) irate but found myself fighting against everyone – even friends and family – trying to get them to see what a travesty this was. Folks would argue about those poor people they heard about who got their car totaled in a crash by some (you name the minority) with no insurance. These people were the early iterations of Tea Partiers or MAGA types who were – and are – so easily propagandized, and readily jump on board any wagon which allows them an avenue to express their racism and/or stinginess.

I think it was the first time the government got away with mandating that citizens do business with private companies, and I still think it was and is wrong. See I felt, and feel, that if the state should mandate we have insurance, the state should provide it so the profits could be realized by the taxpayers and not some rich corporate political donors, but we all see what happened. By the way it’s not too late to fix that. I have three vehicles of which I can only drive one at a time, so why do I have to insure all of them? Why can’t I just get a policy on myself?

Big insurance is but one of a myriad of lobbies that purchase their own lawmakers (and thus laws), and there are some worse than insurance corporations. The one thing they all have in common is their insatiable greed for what has now become a very few remaining crumbs of the pie. They all see that there’s very little left; it’ll all be gone and there is a horrible battle shaping up for what’s left, but each of them only thinks of themselves and what they individually can get for themselves alone and to heck with everyone else, hence the vulture analogy. A big part of the problem is that each of them think this way and act as though they are unaware the others are all of the same mind as they are. They are getting set up for a frightful melee over the shrinking remnants!

What a miserable existence that must be for the greedy folks of the world! Some of them have connections to government officials like the greedy hedge fund manager who’s a buddy of Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury and found himself overinvested in Argentina’s stock market which was going under – no problem, Scott got Trump to cut a check to Argentina for around 40 billion dollars so his rich associate (and undoubtedly others of the same ilk) wouldn’t lose his shorts. American tax money (debt) going to cover private investors’ gambling debts because they have buddies in the administration! How is that legal??!! I wonder how much of that cash will end up in Scott’s account? Or Trump’s for that matter.

Us Christian folks can only watch on as these crooks dig themselves a dark tunnel into a dark place where they’ll spend their afterlife, so by no means envy them for their wealth! This stage of the journey is VERY temporary and it’ll come to a close way too soon for them. Ask Sheldon Adelson; ask Dick Cheney: for crying out loud, even the richest of the greedy, Jacob Rothschild, has come to a dark close! All for a few short years of having equally corrupt people fawning over them and their opulent lifestyles. And now for them it’s time to pay the piper. What I can’t figure out for the life of me is how on earth all of the ones that are still living can’t – or won’t – see what they are headed for. Such is the allure of Satan’s promises, but alas for them when their time in the flesh is over!

Those of us who put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ take a completely different approach to our choices. Jesus promises us an unimaginably joyous and magnificent afterlife, if we but forego the temptations of what we might otherwise (erroneously) consider happiness here on earth. We trade any and all desire for wealth and its attendant immorality in this life for Jesus’ love and what awaits us on the other side. Speaking for myself, I’ve come to realize that comfort and wealth in this life ain’t what it’s built up to be anyways. There was an old song a long time ago, “A Satisfied Mind” that had a line about there not being one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind, and I’d wager there’s an even lower percentage than that, but everyone has their own battles, and I guess there’s a way for them to just carry on and not think about the cost, the tab they’ll someday be faced with.

Jesus said [Luke 6:24]: “But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation.” Whatever wealth, pomp, fancy ballrooms, or palaces they might enjoy for this short life, they have to make the most of it, because when the fat lady sings, it’s all over. And the enemy of mankind, who gave it all to them will be cast into the same lake of fire with them – for all eternity. Don’t be fooled, that evil enemy hates us for what we have waiting versus what he has in store.

I’m reminded of the story Jesus told of the souls of the rich man and the poor beggar Lazarus in the next life. [Luke 16-31] As Jesus described the situation, the rich guy was in eternal torment and Lazarus was in glorious comfort in the bosom of Father Abraham. The rich guy was begging and pleading with Abraham to send Lazarus to him with water, even just a drop that might ease his torment. Abraham basically reminded him of their situations in life and how he had lived in luxury and Lazarus had been a beggar so they each were getting what they deserved, and besides God had so arranged a great gulf between their locations no one could cross – NO ONE, NO HELP COULD EVER COME TO HIM FOR ALL ETERNITY! The guy was begging and pleading but it was too late! Never again to see or taste even a drop of water, forever! The unfortunate fellow did not avail himself of God’s offer of salvation and rid himself of his wealth and take up the cross when there was still time – now be honest – have you?

Another thing I thought was interesting about this story was that the narrator (Jesus) never mentioned anything specific that the rich man had done to deserve eternal punishment, just that he had been rich and “fared sumptuously every day” in his former life. It almost appears that being rich itself is damnable, but then when you stop to consider all the evil things that rich people do to get rich in the first place, it’s no wonder.

If you are a believer, just hang on. We have something wonderful waiting on the other side. Jesus has personally prepared our mansions! [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. What an absolutely incredible promise!

Maybe y’all have seen some of the James Webb telescope pictures of the magnificent beauty of some of the stars, nebulas, novae and galaxies, but from the miniscule amount of celestial magnificence we are able to see, if Heaven is going to be anything like this, it’s gonna be a gorgeous place indeed. But according to the apostle Paul, we haven’t seen anything close the real thing yet. [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.” Those beautiful pictures of the universe can’t even capture it! It’s going so resplendent as to be indescribable with human words! The president can keep that pathetic ballroom.

If you haven’t put your trust in Jesus, by all means, look into what He offers – it’ll be worth your time in the end. The time is getting short. Look at the signs – devastating wars loom which threaten be more destructive than anything in history. Volcanoes which have been dormant, some considered extinct, waking up all over the world. In fact a new one, dead for ten thousand years, just erupted in Ethiopia yesterday. Campi Flegrei in Italy is awakening ominously, and it could be a world changer! So many harbingers. Lots of big churches full of hypocrites are shutting down – only a few with true followers left. We find ourselves heading down that difficult road to the narrow gate where we’ll finally get to see our Shepherd Who waits for us. Time to get right with the Lord, folks, it’s almost over down here.

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

MK

There’s a Fine Line Between Recognizing and Hating

For the regulars here on folkpotpourri, I’m sure y’all noticed my last post was somewhat different than the normal opinions and messaging that I normally post, so I’d like to clarify the intent and possibly expound on some of the things it said.

First of all, regulars will already know that the bulk of these articles are Spiritual in nature and yesterday’s post, although still Spiritual in tone, was somewhat of a departure from the norm. I believe that is because so many people seem to be adrift as to what is going on – otherwise well-intentioned people, especially believers are having problems focusing on their proper spiritual direction. Many are being told by purported teachers and pastors that they have a spiritual obligation to follow them in the wrong direction. If the post seemed a bit strongly worded, I think it’s probably because I tend to get somewhat passionate about watching folks seeming to envy the rich and/or follow the wrong leaders. I attempted to post about the fallacy of listening to false prophets and/or media sources that gloss over real and damnable issues – many of which I pointed out – that are happening in this world.

Wealthy people who own most of the traditional media sources and shyster preachers out to make a buck are pointing many otherwise decent people in the wrong direction – the Bible told us this would happen in the last days. I spend a lot of time and effort trying to get folks to use the Word of God to calibrate their Spiritual bearings using the Bible and stop listening to those who are corrupted by the wealth of the world. The apostle Paul warns us that this will happen: [2 Timothy 4:3]: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers… So from this we are warned to discern the types of people to whom we listen. A key point is that folks listen to these types because they want to. Just like taking the mark of the beast, this behavior is voluntary.

Another point the previous post attempted to get across was exactly who Satan has chosen to do his bidding in these last days. Of course, there are many servants of evil out there doing his work, but it doesn’t take a genius to see the people who control the wealth of the world. When Satan took Jesus up on the mountain and offered Him kingship of the whole world, [Matthew 4:8-10]:”Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” so the Lord turned him down, but it would seem that Satan has taken lesser men up there and they didn’t refuse his offer.

So here we are, a select group of wealthy people who support each other in their service to evil have gained control of the nations. From this group one will emerge to rule for a while. For reasons we do not yet fully understand (but reasons that are becoming more and more obvious), he chose people who call themselves God’s chosen people. The problem is, and I’ve seen this – we see it constantly – there are several false prophets who have a surprising number of “Christians” who now believe that in order to serve God, they must support these people, and that is just wrong! They have invented names like “Judeo Christian” and “Christian Zionist” to make their blasphemy a little more palatable, but for folks who read their Bibles, they understand the ruse.

Some of my posts, like yesterday’s, are written to attempt to show folks who seriously wish to serve God that they are being seriously deceived, and from whence that deception is coming. I am not a racist, God knows my heart. Nor do I discriminate against any ethnicity, I merely attempt to point out that where there’s so much smoke, there has to be a fire. It’s no big secret which ethos of society controls the majority of the world’s wealth. These folks spend a lot of time in evil machinations that are solely purposed to deceive, and the Gospels of the Bible are rapt with warnings of what liars Satan and his followers are – the more dedicated to Satan they are, the greater their deceptions: [John 8:44] “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Jesus was addressing the Jews – the ones we would call Zionists today.

Before you get angry with those people, remember what Jesus told us. He warned us against hating, we must pray for them and trust Jesus to bring justice. When He returns, folks don’t have any notion of how great the paradigm shift will become. The wealthiest billionaires will suddenly become the most piteous entities in all of humanity. They will beg and plead for mercy, but the mercy they receive will be commensurate with the mercy they showed others: [Matthew 5:7]: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”

Whatever you do, avoid envy of these people – remember, they are those who Satan took up on the mountain, and they failed the test. They have accepted a few short years of high living, adultery, lies, and murder for an eternity of joy and peace so intense we cannot even imagine what it’s going to be like. Of all the multitudes of humanity who have ever graced the earth, they are to be pitied most on that Day. Rich men don’t spend any time at all thinking about their forbears, think about guys like Sheldon Adelson, Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney – they had their party, now it’ll be time to face God’s justice. Not judging them, they may have made peace with God before their end, but as far as life on this earth goes, it was the end. No more pomp and pageantry, no more adulation from envious people, just the face of an angry God Almighty who can condemn their souls to eternal damnation.

So to emphasize the undercurrent of this post, as of the other one yesterday, I was in no way advocating hatred, I was pointing out the error of following or supporting the wrong people, regardless of what some millionaire preacher might say to the contrary. My intent, as always, was and is to encourage folks to stay on top of their Spiritual beliefs, don’t get pointed in the wrong direction, and don’t necessarily believe anyone who claims they are God’s chosen people. By reading your own Bible, you can tell who God’s people are and those who have rejected His Son are not among them! But don’t hate on anybody – that’s exactly the wrong thing to do, as bad as supporting them. We must pray for them.

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

MK

We All Must Go Home

And then we die. No more scrambling for that next rung on the ladder, no more scraping together a down payment for some new boat. When it’s time to go, folks are going to be hard put to let go and just walk (or float) away. Some think we will be able to look at the body in which our spirit dwelt, and for many, the first time to understand that it was only a temporary hangout after all. Then we will finally come to grips with that concept we so studiously avoided for all of our lives – that we shall meet our Creator.

Whatever lifestyle we have chosen will greatly affect our future existence from that point forward into eternity. Eternity, another concept we have studiously avoided while chasing after the distractions this life kept before us. Spending one’s whole allotted time clawing up that ladder to nowhere takes a lot of time and energy, certainly leaving no time for such mundane pursuits as spiritual growth, nor for a need to consider that there just might be a Creator Who has final and ultimate authority to decide where we spend our hereafter, for such a consideration is taboo in today’s world of decadence.

The greatest Friend humanity has ever had, Jesus Christ, came to this earth to among other things, help us to understand some crucially important aspects of life. He came to provide us a way to overcome the world, and to shine a light on that path so that just in case we became able to admit to ourselves that we don’t understand everything, we could follow after Him. He paid a terrible price to give us the opportunity to come to God the father. Don’t let that sacrifice go to waste.

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

MK

Now Gather the Dark and Gloomy Clouds of Winter

Us country folks that love the Lord have gold that wealthy men can only dream about!

Today looks to be the first actual day of fall. We’ve had temps in the 60s and 70s almost every day till now, but the high today might not get out of the thirties. Summer is definitely coming to a close, but the way our world is rapidly shaping up to come to some staggering changes that aren’t related to the changing seasons. I firmly believe this is going to be a surprising and sobering change for many of us.

I just watched a video produced by one of the alarmist commentators trying to wake people up about how far down the rabbit hole the would-be controllers of society have gone in their attempts to gain control of everything. Were I not a fervent believer in the absolute power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, I might even be afraid. These guys have installed software that can monitor everything – they even have things that can monitor communications that are supposed to be encrypted by grabbing it before you hit the “send” button, which of course is in it’s raw and unencrypted form because it doesn’t get encrypted until it hits the ethosphere. There’s so much more.

This is all the work of Satan, the ancient enemy of God and those of us He has created in His image who follow in the steps of Jesus Christ. Satan has had thousands of years to concoct these plans, which only today are we seeing come to fruition, and to be honest, lots of Christians are being taken by surprise, but if you stop and consider the reality of what we are up against, you shouldn’t be.

I’m doing this post with the apprehension that Satan’s plan is about to be finished on this earth for better or worse. Worse, absolutely for all who are not under the protection of the mighty hand of God, even though some appear to believe that things are happening which reveal some of the enemy’s plots and that with that knowledge, humanity can somehow defeat him. This is an erroneous assumption and the apparent revelation of his presumed scheme is a big part of the deception. For instance, everyone sees Zionism seemingly coming apart, especially here in America, and therefore believe and it will be upended and when it is overthrown things can get better. If the yoke of Zionism and its attendant evils, such as genocide, such as its billionaire control of the American government will be taken away, then America will regain control of government decisions, foreign policy, banks, etc., and indeed this seems to be happening, but don’t get too excited. Satan is likely demonstrating that he is finished using the Zionists, and their part of the plot is finished, and he certainly has no qualms about throwing those guys who he brought to power under the bus in order to emphasize his deception.

There will be a new twist, as there always is, but Satan’s new approach this time will be to deceptively go after Christians. He will use this new universal repulsion of Zionism to fester into hatred of the woman referenced in Revelation, count on it. Jesus Christ is his enemy – not Buddha, not Mohammed, not the “Christian” Zionist churches – they are all right where he wants them and pose no threat to his plans. The dragon will come after the woman, which for those who don’t already know it, is Jesus’ church. [Revelation 12:13,17]: “Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.” [17]: “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” In all of this, the Christian must be careful that the hatred for the Zionist people that Satan is fomenting doesn’t find its way into your heart – that’s also an intentional part of the plan.

I did a post a while back about what the great war of the Angels must have been like: Epic Battles for Eternity – Folk Potpourri. I tried to explain what I imagined the great and destructive conflagration might have looked like – a great and mighty war which ended in the rebalancing of all creation. The end result was that Satan was cast out of Heaven, an event which itself must have been a cosmic earthquake, and which set the course of events for the ensuing history of the earthly and the Spiritual world. These events were and are completely guided (as far as humans are concerned) by the burning hatred for all things and entities Godly by the now earthbound dragon. He obviously did not like losing his place, high up in the elite ranks of God’s paradise, and in his rage, he set about trying to destroy God’s creation, which as of the last couple of thousand years, has been under the stewardship of Jesus Christ and His followers.

Satan is indeed blinded by rage, he doesn’t possess Godly wisdom, but he isn’t without knowledge. He well understands the desires and lusts of men – the obvious chaos America is in right now as a result of men’s moral weakness, aka the Epstein saga, being front and center evidence of Satan’s machinations. He also understands men’s weakness for wealth and fame. Again – look at the political situation in the US. One thing I don’t believe most folks realize is the depth of Satan’s outright hatred of everyone – even his most loyal followers. He doesn’t mind throwing the synagogue under the bus, in fact, I believe he delights in it. He most likely sees them as getting what they deserve for claiming the title of God’s chosen – albeit falsely – and exacts a big part of his revenge on them.

If Satan is such a devious and evil entity that he has no problem turning on his loyal followers, just imagine what he would like to do to those of us who follow his most hated enemy! That would be faithful followers of Jesus Christ. Christians have been beheaded, thrown to hungry lions, burned at the stake, and I’m sure dealt similarly with in ways we don’t even know about down through the years. But he has never defeated one of them! Being expelled from this world of evil and sent to the great Paradise where the Lord reigns is not defeat by any stretch. Jesus’ true people understand this and are thusly unafraid of Satan. It is the people who Satan is NOT coming after that should be afraid, for after this brief stint of human existence, the real vengeance will occur, and it will last forever! And it will be God’s vengeance, a truly terrible and dreaded situation indeed.

We might be facing a nuclear holocaust, super volcanoes may erupt, 3I Atlas might be full of marauding aliens, who knows what kind of celebration Satan has in store for his great departure into the lake of fire? What we need to be concerned is that we won’t follow him there. The ONLY people on this earth right now who have no need to fear all of the possible upcoming catastrophes are those who love the Lord and who follow our great Shepherd, Jesus Christ, and to y’all I say Hang in There! [Matthew 10:28]; “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” If all you can grab is the hem of His garment, grab it – and hang on with all you’re worth, it’ll be worth it in the end.

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

Domestic Loss of Agency and Spirit

As we witness world events the like of which have never happened at the tempo of informational disbursement that has never before been possible, it is critically important that we weigh the events and their significance against what we read in our Bibles. Against what has been prophesied down through the centuries, through millennia. We are able to watch things unfold in this modern era that were foretold long ago, and if we pay attention, we can see incredible accuracy in the predictions. Some of it is hard to interpret, but if we but trust the Spirit – the same Spirit who informed the prophecies to start with – He is sure to reveal to us the things we need to know.

Interpreting the Scriptures was intended to be a lifetime project for we must continually search them for those things the Lord means to reveal to us. For instance, we are told in several places that this world will be destroyed by fire in the end. Back before science had an idea that the depths of the earth contained molten rock and that said magma occasionally rises to the surface, before the advent of nuclear weapons, it wouldn’t have been all that odd to wonder how the world-ending apocalypse of fire would come about, but nowadays it’s easy to imagine.

There are prophecies in Revelation and in Daniel that speak of contaminated waters that will destroy life, and now after Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island, it’s no longer hard to imagine how such contamination could occur. In the event of a nuclear war, not only the radioactive contamination from bombs, but that which would undoubtedly result from all the sunken nuclear-powered warships with highly radioactive contamination pouring forth from their bowels would serve to likely destroy all ocean life and any life which might have survived the “war” along the highly populated coastlands of the world.

Even though we can rationally understand how such devastation can be orchestrated by humanity, it’s not outside the realms of likelihood that the Almighty God has plans of His own creation for this world of evil populated in large part by people who have utterly turned their backs on Him. Men who defy everything He has ordered and many of whom openly serve Satan and challenge our God to destroy them. Men have become hateful, spiteful creatures, murderers with no remorse, in fact, our leaders publicly boast of murdering people! They don’t even try to hide outright cold-blooded murder of innocents, or those to whom no evidence of illicit activity has been presented. We followers of Jesus Christ have no part in this and certainly owe no allegiance to “leaders” who perpetrate such heinous activity.

Our allegiance must be to Jesus Christ, and Him only. We must turn from the ways of this evil world and seek God with all our being. This world is not our home, nor is any mortal our king. Many of the leaders of the world have shown or are showing where their interests lie, and in the case of the US, our leadership is sold out to moneyed interests and they are willing to allow Americans to be accosted in the streets or even starved while exorbitant amounts of wealth are being squandered to appease an exceptional few people, including our president, and if you happen to be a “Christian” who supports any of these people, you need to get your Spiritual life sorted out before it’s too late. Jesus said the gate that leads to life is a narrow one and there will be few who find it. If you find yourself pulling for the leaders whose interests are making the rich men richer, you need to listen closely to the message of Jesus Christ about what lies in store for rich men – He makes no distinction nor excuses for politicians – don’t let them deceive you, this is about your eternal soul! Too many folks are trying to get through that wide gate, and that includes those who claim to be men of faith, but who believe these rich men are okay to follow and support.

MAGA was a con job by a shyster New York City real estate hustler who sold America a bill of goods and now the people who voted for him are seeing what has happened to the MAGA farmers who got sold out to his ignorant tariff schemes. Got sold out to places like Argentina where American billionaire servants of Satan invested lots of money. Argentina has to have money so those billionaires don’t lose their investments, so Secretary Bessent who has close ties to one Rob Citrone, a Hedge Fund Manager with big investments in Argentina prevailed on Trump to give Argentina some 40 billion dollars so his buddy doesn’t lose on his investment. In fact, when the giveaway to Argentina became approved but before it took place, it’s been reported that some of the billionaire investors bought more into Argentina so that the American money would find it’s way back into their portfolios. Outright theft disguised as insider trading, which also at least used to be illegal in the US. These guys are criminals of the highest order and are openly stealing money from America, destroying American farmers, and allowing poor Americans to go without food, and there are still die hard MAGA voters who trust them! Go figure! It’ll no doubt come as a shock that no MAGA voters from real America will be getting invitations to any festivities in the new White House ballroom.

This post was intended to be for encouragement to believers and for warning not to get caught up in things that are going on in the world, at least as far as supporting all the evil taking place. It wasn’t intended to get into politics, but due to the close association with political leaders with all sorts of evil, it was inevitable that the conversation would end up with a warning to anyone who considers themselves to be servants of Jesus Christ to tread carefully if you consider supporting (especially) our current leadership!

The world is scheduled to be destroyed by fire, and the money of the wealthy will surely burn along with them; the money will quickly burn up and be gone but their miserable souls will burn on for all eternity. If you choose to be with them now, you just might end up being with them then (and forever). Turn away from them while there is time. Find Jesus Christ Who is willing to secure your salvation.

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

MK

The Infinitesimal Value of a Politician’s “Truth”

We occupy a world in which there’s rampant dishonesty everywhere you look for sure, but we have unfortunately come to expect this sad situation. When a public figure opens his/her mouth, whatever is said has become to be of far less import than why it is said. Every word is scrutinized for motive(s) as to why it was uttered, for most often the words themselves are automatically discounted as false, or if the statement accidentally happens to be accurate, it is only so because it just happens to fit some ulterior narrative. The truth is never told for the truth’s sake, the truth is just not important anymore. Or is it?

Politicians have even learned to put on a show of feigned offense when the listener dares to question the veracity of something they say, as though the default position should always be for you to believe whatever they spew, even though every word some of them say is a lie. Even if some honest person or persons have repeatedly debunked their narratives, they still act as though they are cut to the quick if someone challenges them. For instance, without calling names, there’s one politician in particular who gives speeches in which almost every word he says is a lie, and he just rattles on like he actually believes what he is saying. Who knows? Maybe he does. The Bible says certain types of people are given over to a reprobate mind and I’ve always thought folks who are able to convince themselves of their own lies are just such people.

Jesus said that Satan is the father of lies. [John 8:44]:“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Jesus didn’t waste words, so if He said that, it bears much consideration. The fact of the matter is, when some politician or other public figure tells a lie in public, when he goes on record as saying something that is flagrantly untrue, he has just surrendered his credibility. When a liar gets caught in a lie, no one is obligated to believe anything that person says, anymore, full stop. These people don’t realize that henceforth their word is no good, and no matter the importance of their future statements, even if they are true, no one is required to believe them, so the result of, or compliance with, whatever they try to sell, their words fall on deaf ears. Then when they realize something they say is dismissed as untrue, they have the gall to act incredulous and usually get enraged that someone would not believe them. They obviously forget that part about losing their credibility.

I’m an old man now, and I remember a time when we could generally believe our leaders when they said something. At least we thought we could, but by and large, it was considered a major offense for a public figure to get caught in a lie. It was pretty much political suicide to do so – Richard Nixon got the boot for being dishonest, but that was ages ago. Now days we can’t believe anything from DC, especially from DC! I think it got really cranked up from within our illustrious “intelligence” services. If you stop and think about it, the CIA has gotten to the point where the ONLY thing they can do with any degree of efficaciousness is lie and make up lies. That’s what they do – they cook up lies and the politicians echo them. They perform outrageous things and sell them to the “leaders”. They are the world’s biggest drug cartel – Google a CIA pilot named Hasenfus and read about what he was doing when he got shot down.

Take a look at Operation North Woods and see what they tried to get JFK to approve. They wanted to set off bombs in American cities so they could blame Cuba to start a war with Castro. Kennedy, being a decent fellow, turned them down and may have started the ball rolling that would eventually get him assassinated, but the whole thing was an attempt to orchestrate a big false flag, and killing American civilians was no obstacle when you are working for Satan.

The rampant dishonesty may have started in earnest with the spooks, but like some hideous contagious disease, it has spread through our political apparatus and of course, has settled into our media. Telling lies and selling them as news stories has become the order of the day in mainstream media, and it’s probably been most effective there, because a (dwindling) number of average folks get their information from places like CNN and FOX. This dynamic is changing though, as us (more easily mislead) old folks die off. It’s precisely old folks who grew up believing what was on the news, and many of them still do. Young people have other ears like social media and with that the opportunity to weigh a different reality against mainstream news and decide for themselves what they believe. I hope to be around when network news organizations finally give up, because all they are able to do is deceive people nowadays, and that just doesn’t work so well anymore.

Truth is a precious commodity, and it’s really hard to find anymore. There are a very few politicians who can be trusted these days, and we need more of them. Guys like Thomas Massie and even Marjorie Taylor Greene are like diamonds in great coal heaps. I don’t necessarily agree with their politics, but they call it like they see it. There are organizations out there who are going after these few honest politicians due to their admissions of Zionist influence in Congress, and if their districts allow the ADL and AIPAC lobby to rout them out of congress, it’ll be a sad day for America. A politician who tells the truth is a rare and precious asset in today’s Washington DC.

Now take a look at what Jesus Christ said, [John 14:6]:”Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” For the purpose of this post, pay close attention to the “truth” part. He didn’t say “a truth”, He said the truth. If the whole world was one big lie, Jesus would be the only truth on which you could rely. [John 1:17]:”For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.“

There are honest people in this world, but sometimes we have a great bit of difficulty identifying the truth tellers from the con artists. Liars can sound convincing, but if you want to stay on the track of the truth, remember Jesus Christ is the only One you can rely on to tell the truth 100% of the time. In this world of corruption and stark dishonesty, it’s nice to have Someone whom you can trust; someone absolutely honest who will be a Friend for life! Learn about Jesus and get to know Him while there’s still time. We’re getting to the end of things, and we need to be prepared to meet Him. He said He would come back, and since He is the source of all truth, we should believe Him on that too. Lies are cheap. People who tell lies are cheap. The Truth is priceless.

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

MK