“Be of good cheer”, He said. [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.” Who is this, a man; a human being, that can command the wind to be still, and it obeys? A Son of Man, Who one day will defeat the amassed armies of the world with the tempest of His breath. He is our only Path to salvation, to peace in troubled times.
He came to the earth in the guise of a lowly Son of a carpenter, an itinerant preacher with a new message, to which only a select few would ever listen and heed. He brought a Gospel into a sinful and wicked world and open to all, but meant for a precious few – a people He knows well, to whom He referred as His called, chosen, and faithful. They would come to Him to hear His beautiful message of peace, of eternal life in unimaginable paradise, a place where we can believe angels sing with voices that transcend human senses, piercing the veil of emotion, with sounds that reverberate through a universe unknown to any but those to whom God has given furtive glimpses. They come today as they did when He spoke inspirational messages with a human voice. They are rewarded with a powerful promise that, if accepted, shall carry their human experience and guide their souls through their entire journey here.
Why is it so important to Him that those to whom He so generously and graciously endowed with an earnest curiosity of – and attraction to – His Way, as though drawn by a great celestial magnet towards an incomprehensible eternity? Why? Because He is graced by the Father, the Creator of all, with an iteration of love we scarcely imagine. Would that He in His abundant grace allow us, His chosen, to learn, to know, to feel but a tithe of His love? For after all, He IS love. Thus it is only when we know Him that we can know love. How so? [Matthew 5:8]: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
We know from His word that we must strive toward a spiritual love for Him [John 4:24]: “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.“, a love only reserved for those who might wrest away from this human condition which restrains, such love as shall come endowed to manifest in our very souls. But only when we decide to lift our eyes from the vanities that ever threaten to obstruct our promise. The table dressed for carnal satiation cannot appeal to the appetite of the chosen. His Celestial love ever eludes the hearts of those with worldly eyes. We must resolve to pursue the Nazarene, the carpenter’s Son wherever He directs our path and never doubt His Word.
When He admonishes us to be of good cheer, then it becomes our objective to strive with every fiber of our heart and soul to be of good cheer. Although He understood well the malevolent world of seemingly endless tribulation we find ourselves striving to overcome, the much beloved Son of God would not have wasted His precious breath telling us to do something beyond our ability. Even in a world full of wickedness with dark talons of despair clawing at our very hearts, we can yet be of good cheer – but only in His blessed Presence. Only with that tithe of His incomprehensible (for now) love – for Him and for our fellow travelers. Only with the assurance that He indeed overcame this same evil world that we must find the courage to overcome ourselves, possible only because He overcame it first. When we obtain this incredible victory, when we have trudged up to the crest of the seemingly impossible mountain, then rest assured – we can and will be of good cheer.
As one of His called, chosen, and faithful, you can do it. Believe.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
There’s a lot of talk out there these days about the end times, including much apprehension as to how the governments of the world are turning into police states. Especially here in the US, but most of the western nations seem to be circling the drain as far as societal norms being broken down. Even though all of the leaders in the US have solemnly sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, most of them have no idea of what that means. But then, when they have already sold their souls, what else could we expect from them? Swearing that oath to them is only one of the steps they have to go through to get into some position of power or the other.
Invariably people who attain high places, including leadership roles in states and countries become more interested in whatever morsels of authority with which they can govern than keeping their agreed obligations to the proletariat. At this writing, the streets of Los Angeles are burning as surely as the Malibu burned earlier this year. Protests are cropping up in several large cities and people are genuinely ticked off at how the country is being so disgracefully run. No one in middle America stops to consider that their own biases and hatred of the “other” has facilitated this chaos. Trump has turned the ICE monsters loose on every one with brown skin, even American citizens, precisely because of the quite popular notion that Latino people in this country somehow threaten “Americans”. He has taken the liberty to try and change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, his ignorance of the fact that Mexico is as much a part of America as the US making him totally oblivious to the obvious foolishness of doing this to try to insult Mexico. I don’t know about anyone else, but in all of my considerable years on this earth everyone has referred to this body of water as the Gulf of Mexico and I will call it the Gulf of Mexico until my journey here is over, whether or not some racist leader comes along decides to relabel the maps. I can’t get over the abject failure of the pathetic attempt at public bigotry because of a president’s imbedded ignorance of political and social geography. A PRESIDENT, no less. And that same ignorance being so prevalent in the masses of his supporters makes the irony of it go right over their heads. But Kharma works like that.
We will suffer worsening chaos in this country as long as some “leader” or another can garner the support of the masses by making asinine decisions that cater to people’s racist attitudes, and so far this administration has enjoyed overwhelming support by playing to hatred in the hearts of “Americans”. I’ve mentioned before that we are admonished in the Bible not to turn away the alien. [Malichai 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 my posts I’ve tried to inculcate, from scripture no less, the notion that this country we call ours does not belong to us. It belongs to God [Psalm 24:1] “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness,The world and those who dwell therein.” He has only allowed us to have stewardship of whatever place we live. Stewardship comes with pre-ordained requirements, those set out by the property Owner, among which in this case is a command not to turn away a stranger, in our case those who seek a better life in “our” nation. When we choose to violate the agreement to which we entered when we “claimed” God’s property, whatever fate we suffer because of our choice is of our own making.
Very few Americans in this country have been harmed in any way by Latino immigrants. The vast majority of them take work that most Americans refuse to do. Many of these same Americans sit around and whine about immigrants, possibly the most persecuted group of people here. People in this country scream to high heaven about border control, about imagined hordes of Hispanic monsters ruining our nation, yet by and large most of these people come here to find work and they have proven to be among the hardest of our workers, taking a pittance of pay, paying FICA taxes as they are deducted from their paychecks like anyone who works in America, but due to their “illegal” status, knowing they will never be allowed to collect that Social Security later in their lives. Yet we scream on, and this gives corrupt leadership all of the support they need to enact practices that will ultimately come back to bite all of us. No matter how much you might think we need draconian laws and actions for whatever reason, when we surrender our rights, we put nasty dents in the Constitution. We will never, short of the same kind of insurrection that won us those rights in the first place, get them back.
I guess what bothers me most about all of this is that the riots in California and elsewhere could have been avoided if our society had not been so brainwashed. For every crime publicized by the blaring media that was committed by an illegal alien, there have been hundreds committed by criminals who are perfectly legal American citizens, but most of those don’t get the press that wrongdoing by the alien gets. People with hatred in their hearts have to hate somebody, so they choose to hate the immigrant – for now, but the media will point out someone else for them to hate tomorrow – and they will oblige.
If we were to undertake the burden of being honest with ourselves, we might find that the real problems in our society begin with our own prejudices. Satan-led leaders know they can use the hatred within the hearts of mankind to lead the masses by the nose – anywhere they choose to take them. That is why it is so important to search our own hearts constantly and make sure our own aims in life are aligned with those taught by Jesus Christ. Yes, I am saying that ALL of our problems, in our lives, in our neighborhood, in our nation, start with our own personal spirit inside us. The problems we face can be traced to the attitudes with which we choose to carry on our journey through this short period of time we are allotted here.
So, the ICE monsters are unleashed on America. At first it seemed they would actually go after bad actors, but in perfect fascist form, they came out using their newfound authority to go after American citizens who protest genocide – who support the Palestinians. And Union Leaders! Was this what the racists who support Trump were concerned about? I don’t think so, but this is what happens when there is public support for racism and bigotry. Give an authoritarian leader the support he needs to persecute people, and that’s what he does – and soon enough he will send his goons for folks whom you did not intend, and then at some point yourself, if you have the audacity to demand your God-given liberty. Liberty which an authoritarian does not recognize – for anyone.
This old hillbilly is with the protesters on this one – ICE needs to go. I’m old enough to remember a time when we didn’t have a Nazi-sounding Department of Homeland Security. As far as I’m concerned, it needs to go too.
These institutions, unfortunately, are probably here to stay, but as fast as this country is coming unwound, it probably won’t be much longer. I’ve been a reader of prophecy for a long time, and I believe the description of the place that gets destroyed in Revelation 18 will be the United States. Says it is destroyed by fire in one hour, and I don’t think anyone could doubt what that means. If my interpretation is true and we get a surprise nuclear attack, we likely don’t have a lot longer to worry about AI or any other technology taking over America and living in computer-controlled society. All I can say is if it does happen, I hope I’m at ground zero, because that’s one event I don’t want to survive.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
Sometimes it gets a bit painful, but if one is to overcome a problem, one has to be honest about what the problem is. There’s a lot of things happening in this old world these days and it’s hard to stay on track of everything. This is by design. We are incessantly bombarded with news from the Russia/Ukraine conflict, in fact some of the heaviest missile and drone activity of the whole operation has been happening in the last few days. Everyone watching seems to be fearful of out-of-control escalation there that might lead to a much more inclusive war.
Then there’s the threat of a big war in the middle east due to the Iran/Israel situation. There was a huge explosion a few weeks back in an Irani port and the western media made it a point to mention that it was from a China-supplied shipment of rocket fuel for the manufacture of Iranian ballistic missiles. It was obvious sabotage, but like the sabotage that killed the late Iranian president Raisi, it lacks evidence to prove who did it. Iran knows who did it. Anyone with eyes and a functional brain in their head knows who did it. Retribution is undoubtedly being planned and since the shipment was of Chinese origin, it will be interesting to see if China gets involved in said retribution. Mossad and/or CIA is written all over this event.
Speaking of the explosion of Chinese rocket fuel, for some odd reason there’s a new media story being hyped of a new shipment of fuel and equipment for Iranian missiles en route to Iran, specifically for the production of the exact number of 800 missiles. Now I don’t know about anybody else, but the rocket fuel explosion that happened earlier was also from that Chinese shipment that had not been previously announced, maybe not exactly a secret, but not something that was pushed out there for the world to know about. So why is this new shipment being so publicly announced? Is Iran trying to bait someone into sabotaging this new shipment but this time watching it closely for (MOSSAD, IDF, CIA, etc.) divers to plant mines on the ship? Just a thought, because it’s a bit unusual for a public announcement of a weapons material shipment. Especially in light of the previous sabotage of essentially the same type of shipment.
All eyes should be on American assets, and public figures for some type of Israeli false-flag event designed to provoke a war between the US and Iran. I would be willing to bet that it’s coming. The US government will be involved up to their necks too, even if a large number of Americans are killed. Remember JFK! Remember 9/11! Remember the USS Liberty (in which Israel slaughtered dozens of US sailors in a false flag attempt to make it look like Egypt attacked the ship)!
Just as Israel has no qualms about killing Americans, they have no qualms about killing Israelis either. Google the Hannibal directive, a practice adopted by the IDF to deny an enemy getting hostages by killing them, and which resulted in the majority of Israelis killed on October 7, 2023. Regardless of what the Israeli-controlled mainstream media says, it’s being reported in social media that the vast majority were slaughtered by Israeli tanks and helicopters. IDF big wigs have already let the cat out that the IDF was ordered to shoot to kill everything and everyone headed back to Gaza that day, including Israeli civilians. What made it a false flag was the fact that the more Israeli civilians killed, the more public support Netanyahu would get for the planned genocide, so yes, he had great incentive to see that as many Israeli civilians were killed as possible. When they scream and cry about the atrocious mass murder of October 7, just remember who actually killed most of the people.
There is a statement floating around (the veracity of which all mainstream sources deny) attributed to Netanyahu that, if true, reveals his contempt for America: “America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control… This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly.” – reportedly made by Benjamin Netanyahu c 1990. As far as I’m concerned, he has repeatedly shown through his actions that this is how he regards America, so the likelihood is high that he did say it, but even if it could be proved that he didn’t, by his actions, he shows that’s still exactly how he feels.
On the subject of 9/11, never forget the five dancing Israelis who were arrested after being seen photographing and high-fiving each other, dancing in joy while they watched the collapse of those buildings in which thousands of Americans were being intentionally murdered. They weren’t Arabs, they were Israeli. They were later ordered released by US authorities, an order most likely coming down from the highest US authority, Benjamin Netanyahu himself. After returning to Israel, one of them is reported to have said they had been dispatched to New York before that day to “record the event”. VIOLA!!! Someone (in Israel) knew the event was coming, otherwise how could they have been sent to record the event PRIOR TO the bombings? This is but one of the multitude of details that most Americans prefer to ignore, lest our “greatest ally” become suspect in committing the atrocity of 9/11. Americans ignoring the malfeasance of this little country and the demon-possessed US congresspeople who show fealty to them is the biggest reason for America’s decline in the world. And yes, I’ll go to my grave convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Shrub and Dick Cheney – and who knows how many other traitorous Americans – were involved. Their cooperation was assured by the same leverage they still use to control the Senate and Congress today – AIPAC money – and if that fails, then the Epstein files.
9/11 and the USS Liberty are mentioned in this post to remind readers of how far our “greatest ally” and our “leaders” are willing to go to get Americans on board for a war. If and when a false flag happens, you can bet your life it will have been done by said perpetrators. Netanyahu has been trying for decades to get the US to attack Iran. Not because Iran is any particular threat to Israel, but they simply can’t acknowledge or tolerate the fact that there is a nation in their neighborhood – or the world for that matter – that won’t bend their back to the Zionists. Especially if that nation has the means to defend itself against never-ending Israeli aggression.
The more time that goes on and the more evils in the world we witness, the more convincing it becomes to understand that the interlopers who live in this little country mentioned in this post, this Synagogue of Satan, is involved. The Ukraine war? Zelensky is an ardent Zionist and has made mention more than once that he is in the process of clearing out the Ukrainians so that the Zionists from Israel will be able to move into a place where they haven’t yet made lifelong enemies with their neighbors (but you can rest assured, they will make enemies there too).
The fact is, since they murdered Jesus Christ, Satan has recruited these people to promulgate his plan for the world. He is in firm control of this world and the Zionists are his Kapos to control humans. Under Satan’s direction, they have stolen all of the world’s wealth, especially in western nations with such insidious machinations as the Federal Reserve Act, which when enacted, gave control of all of the government money and printing presses to a coven of 12 bankers, almost all Zionists, thus it allowed them to effectively steal the wealth of the United States, thereby taking complete control of the government, and yet there are still some who wonder how there are so many Zionist billionaires.
They have absolute control of all mainstream media and Hollywood, so they determine what news narratives we get to hear, and what types of movies we can watch. Using this malfeasance, they also get to select whom we can vote for, and you can bet it will be someone vetted and trained to show deference – no, to show fealty – to the Zionists. Anyone else is not allowed in campaign debates nor do they get public airtime to speak to voters.
American taxpayers send billions of dollars every year to Israel, a country of per capita some of the wealthiest people in the world. They have free healthcare. Americans do not, but nevertheless they send Israel enough money to afford free healthcare there.
Donald Trump has, and is now, accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from Zionists, yet we still have people in this country that actually believe he is interested in taking care of Americans. The only person in all of congress who has the intestinal fortitude to call out the Zionist lobby is Congressman Massie from Kentucky. Kudos to a brave American patriot who should be our president. Pay attention to how he’s going to be disparaged and attacked for his stand against Zionism controlling America. The clapping seals that embarrassed America before Netanyahu will be ordered to go after Massie. He needs all of our support. Kudos to Kentucky – y’all deserve a shout out as much as (Lindsey Graham’s) South Carolina and Texas deserve shame.
The Epstein files are another human travesty. We are so caught up in the gossip of who might be on the list of degenerates that we completely miss the point that the American government accepts Israeli intelligence, the MOSSAD, practice of violating young people, in some cases, toddlers, in order to blackmail prominent people. Get it? Our leaders show fealty and accept as perfectly normal, a nation that routinely encourages rape of minor children as official practice by their intelligence apparatus. Our leadership never entertains the notion that we should sanction, arrest, or imprison the leaders of a country that officially undertakes such detestable practices. We should cut off trade and diplomatic relations with a country that stoops to raping toddlers as an official practice. And no, Epstein is not dead. If you bought into that one, you haven’t realized the depth of Zionist penetration of America. Not that the Zionists would be obliged to protect their own, they love (other people’s) death. Epstein more than likely has the goods on people higher in his own food chain that could have been set up to be disclosed upon his demise, thus the elaborate scheme to break him out of prison before he started talking.
We should learn history and challenge ourselves to listen to voices from the past. America has been getting the wrong message, especially since WW2, especially about who our enemies are. We should have been listening all along to some prominent Americans who tried to warn us about Zionism, which most of them in the past just referred to as International Jewry. Ben Franklin warned us:
How much more accurate than that last part about “strangle that country (the US) to death financially”?
Henry Ford warned us – he even wrote newspaper articles and a book warning us:
There were so many others of our forebears who knew how despicable the Zionists were, read up on General Ulysses Grant and his General Order No. 11 in which Jews were expelled from three states where they were smuggling cotton. He described the Jews as an “intolerable nuisance”. Sound familiar? These people have been expelled from dozens of nations through the years – and always for their despicable behavior.
Today the Zionist propaganda machine is in overdrive trying to discredit these guys (and many. many others down through the years), but if you look at what is happening right before your eyes, you’ll see that the very things they told us the Zionists would do to this country are now happening. They weren’t lying to us. The Virtual Jewish Library smugly asserts in a headline that “Henry Ford Invents a Jewish Conspiracy”. Sure. They were all antisemitic. More like antisatanic. Almost all of our founding fathers had ill feelings towards the Jew, but we are trained and propagandized to believe they were just all a bunch of antisemitic racists! We are left with a choice – to believe our founding fathers’ descriptions and warnings or to believe today’s Zionist – those paragons of honesty and integrity – as they use their catch all accusation of “antisemitism” – and thereby disregard our forebears’ warnings.
Zionists lie as readily as they breathe. They have an argument system called Hasbara, which always has a lie cooked up to respond to any issue which they are found to be guilty of. It looks like they are all schooled in Hasbara argument from an early age. They deflect, project, play “whataboutism” or completely ignore questions as they blather away where an actual answer would usually reveal their guilt. They scream to high heaven about their eternal “victimhood” as they commit innumerable war crimes. They are taught from their Talmud that it is ok to defraud any Gentile, that it’s ok for any Jew to steal from, or even kill a Gentile. IDF soldiers make videos and laugh about shooting Palestinian children. They mock Arab peoples who are starving and laughingly make videos where they waste water, so precious to those Gazans who have none. Such is the depravity of those people that they actually find humor in this abject persecution of Gazans and their children. If by chance you’ve never heard of Hind Rajab, look her up. The only difference in her and Anne Frank is that we watched in horror as her brutal tragedy actually happened – we just have to take someone’s word for Anne Frank’s.
If you are naive enough to believe these people would treat Americans any different than they treat Palestinians, remember 9/11. Remember the USS Liberty. If they get the chance, and Trump is doing everything in his power to see to it they do, they will just as enthusiastically slaughter Americans or anyone else. Satan has put it into their evil hearts to relish bloodshed. They are so thoroughly addicted to killing that they happily even kill their own. There are exceptions, guys like Aaron Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, and many others are to be commended for taking a stand against the malfeasance of Zionism and we should pray for them and recognize them for their humanity and bravery.
As of this writing, there are Christian churches in this country that blindly support the Zionists of Israel and what they are doing. I’ve often wondered why God allows things like this genocide to happen, but what better way to allow evil people to show which side of the spiritual war they are on. There will be no excuses for them at judgement, even the most ardent churchgoers will be turned away for supporting the slaughter of innocent people – especially children. So just keep spouting off your blasphemous CUFI message, John Hagee, if not for your support and others who preach the same treachery against Jesus Christ – for money, of course – the perpetrators wouldn’t be able to get away with what they’re doing. Your members are all as guilty as you are too. No excuses come judgement – you’ll see! Again, there is no such thing as a Judeo Christian or a Christian Zionist. There’s no such religion – no such God.
So as the world burns, Putin is busy trying to figure out how to get Russia through the lunacy of another demented American administration, Xi continues to try and bring the financial world to a position of sustainability, the leader of Iran hopes to head off a devastating war with the US, and all Donald Trump knows how to do is to practice moving his boss Netanyahu’s chair in a way that exactly pleases him. He just sanctioned four International Criminal Court judges for issuing a warrant for his boss, Netanyahu. This despicable degenerate is the sitting president of the United States. Alas, this degeneracy is what America has come to. I apologize to the Higher Power for our condition and pray for His forgiveness for allowing it to happen.
In the above post, I have used the word Jew interchangeably with Zionist, this is because earlier peoples of vision collectively referred to all who are Jewish – including the Zionist – as the Jew. I am not antisemitic in that I do not disparage Semitic peoples – my favorite person in the whole world, Jesus Christ, was a Jew. One of my favorite all time leaders is King David. I follow the teachings of the disciples of Jesus, a group of Jewish apostles. I respect and admire many contemporary Jewish people, some mentioned above. If my disagreement with – and abhorrence of – Zionist behavior falls under the new and improved Zionist definition of antisemitism, then I wear this version of antisemitism as a badge of honor. My post is not antisemitic, it is antisatanic – a word which much better describes those of us who detest Zionism and what’s going on in Gaza.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
Sometimes I think whatever new post I’m doing might just be my last opportunity to encourage readers to get serious about their plans – plans for the immediate future because on days like today we must consider our priorities for the here and now – but more importantly their plans for eternity. Here on earth, there might not be a down the road to think about. As of this writing, someone – TPTB are trying hard to sell that it was Ukraine – bombed several Russian airfields and destroyed a number of strategic aircraft.
If you have been watching the NATO vs Russia developments closely, you’d probably be as convinced as anyone else that Ukraine more than likely doesn’t have the technical capability to pull off such a sophisticated operation. They undoubtedly had NATO help, in fact the whole thing reeks of MOSSAD and/or CIA. In today’s US/Israel government they’re both the same. Think Lebanon and pagers – they set up things to go boom and then just sit back and wait for an opportune time to set off the fireworks. Problem here is, Mr. Putin, God bless his patience and pragmatism, might not let this one go unrecompensed. NATO might have crossed the Rubicon, and if so, we might all live to see some tough times ahead. No, if what I think might happen, we won’t all live or more likely, won’t survive Russia’s repayment.
Over the last few days there’s been another issue happening in that a recent solar blast has sent a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME, toward the earth and scientists are saying we have endured what is known as a G4, or severe solar storm here on the planet. They say a G4 can disrupt power grids or even take them down and mess up communications and satellites. I guess we’ll know soon – or we won’t know anything, just lose power and internet and try to figure out whether it was Russia launching an EMP our way or whether the solar activity hammering our weakening magnetic field shut down the power. We’ve been told by the scriptures that there will be some hard times in the end days. Wars and rumors of wars, and that prophecy couldn’t be more applicable than what’s going on in today’s world.
The Bible speaks of a time of tribulation that will be so severe that God has to step in to ease things up lest all flesh on earth be destroyed. I think of a bunch of people trying to make do in a dark world with no amenities like stoves to cook on, no lights in the house, and worst of all, no internet! Instead of anxiously awaiting some football game (which will be a thing of the past) we’ll be anxiously awaiting someone in the household bringing home something to eat. It’ll be a world where a candle will be more valuable than a car, which won’t run without gas or electricity to charge it if it’s an EV. Driving somewhere would be suicide anyways, because there’ll be people everywhere waiting to kill anyone who might be near them to take whatever they have.
Those of us who have made it our life’s mission to serve God through faith in Jesus Christ are watching events unfold here on earth that portend an end to life as we have known it. Even absent a nuclear holocaust, the threat of a world controlled by Satanic forces using technology like AI is upon us and in the realm of the physical, there is little we can do to affect the trajectory. There are many things we can do to affect the spiritual, and the Folkpotpourri message of late is to expound on those.
It is of utmost importance to recognize some facets of our experience here and where our responsibilities lie regarding them. For instance, we must accept that some things are happening over which we have little to no control. By accepting, I do not mean approve of them, but in the instance of atrocities like the genocide currently underway in Gaza, we see it, we know it’s happening, but for now the only thing of any substance that an individual human being can do is to speak up about it. This speaking itself is becoming more and more hazardous; there are American citizens being sent to prison camps in foreign countries for publicly taking a stand against Zionism. The much-loved president of the US has shown his full-blown support for the starvation and murder of innocents, of children and babies, and there are people in this country who still fly his campaign flags in their yards.
I’ve studied the prophesied behavior of the person, or persons, who fulfill the prophecy of the anti-Christ, and one of the most incredible facets of his program is that he will have the unwavering support of vast numbers of people. In light of the teachings of the Bible, I’ve thought it astounding that this entity will garner such a devoted following – after all, many of the people who will follow after this guy will be learned in the scriptures. So how will they be so deceived as to devote themselves to a person of such abhorrent behavior? One answer to that enigmatic question can be found by examining today’s churches in the US. Check out the “preachers” who teach their flocks to support the anti-Christian behavior of those who are murdering innocent people. The Zionist leader in Israel could pass for Satan personified. In fact his policies toward the Palestinians reveal a totally sick, depraved individual who blindly serves the evil one, yet our nation’s leaders show him unwavering fealty. Our top leader commits unconstitutional acts daily in support of him. Trump has openly declared war on university students who call out Netanyahu’s execrable behavior. Donald Trump is himself possessed by demons of hell for the whole world to see and he’s not ashamed to demonstrate his evil. He loves money and will do anything to get it. Money and power. And we have people who would like to be considered Christians flying his campaign flags in their yards – on property of which God saw fit to allow them stewardship. Some of Trump’s followers would undoubtedly commit violence, possibly even kill their countrymen for being critical of him. This is being revealed to people like myself who had the audacity to wonder how such an evil man could gain the allegiance of otherwise good people. No person of Christian conscience could ever support someone of such malignant stature, yet our country is showing itself to be full of such people.
The acceptance of deviant behavior needs further clarification. Earlier I said we must accept that evil things are happening, and we should, but there is another facet to this – we must NEVER accept the evil acts themselves! Accept that they are happening, but do not accept the acts. A big push is on, and has been for a long time, for folks to look the other way. Things like the notion that the atrocity of genocide and starvation of helpless people are justified as self-defense, or that the bad guys are hiding among civilians are being pushed out so that decent people might be more accepting of the acts. NEVER accept that persecution, starvation, and murder of innocent people can be justified, under any guise. What is happening in Gaza is not a war, it’s cold-blooded murder. And the evil ones who are doing it and those who support them become increasingly enraged at those of us who openly disagree with their evil acts.
I know personally how difficult and frustrating it is to know the level of evil that is going on in the world, but it’s critical for the believer to never allow themselves to reconcile these things as normal. They are not. To turn one’s head away from what’s going on and try to ignore it might just be the worst possible way to respond. We must all speak out. We must speak LOUDLY! The evil taking place in the Middle East is a Rubicon for humanity. It is your and my opportunity to publicly make our positions clear and leave no room in the minds of politicians to take our acceptance and/or allegiance for granted. It is more importantly our opportunity to show our God and Creator which side of this remarkably obvious fence we choose to be on. When you turn away and try to ignore this level of evil, you are showing God which side you choose, and He’s not going to be pleased with your choice.
If you’re worried that He might turn you away seeing your choice as just a way of escaping the wrath that is about to be served upon humanity, don’t – Jesus Christ told a parable of a guy who went to the place where the unemployed fellows hang out looking for work and he hired some guys in the morning to work for a certain amount of money. He realized he needed more help so he came back hours later and hired more help, and did so later in the day several times, until the last hires were done with only an hour left to work. When it came time to pay them, he gave each one the same amount of money. Some of the early hires thought it unjust to reward those who only worked an hour the same as those who worked all day, but he reasoned with them that it was his business and furthermore that he paid each of them the agreed wage. I think it’s important for folks who have never served the Lord to understand that He is willing to extend the promise of eternal life to any and all who accept His offer, regardless that you would becoming in at this late hour. We don’t have a lot of time left, but don’t let these end-time events in the world discourage you. Jesus stands knocking at the doors of the hearts of men, even now as we watch the end unfold. It’s not too late to hire on, and the wages are sure to be worth your while.
Open your eyes and see the darkness that is upon the world. Murder is murder and it has always been since Cain killed his brother Abel and left a dark blood stain on the ground. The blood-soaked ground of Gaza cries to God for justice, and we of conscience must join that cry. God will not wait forever, in fact, many of us who study the Bible believe the very end is nigh – don’t wait until it’s too late. Don’t turn away. Learn about Jesus Christ – I’m willing to stake my eternal soul that He’s the only Way to find God. Life on this earth will never go back to the how things were in the past. Get on the right side of things before the culmination of our very human existence. Please help these urgent messages find their way to folks who need them by sharing.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
Today is May 29 and it’s really cool outside, at least here in the Ozarks. I haven’t heard from any official sources, but from the news about all the volcanoes going off around the world, I wouldn’t be surprised if the cool weather is tied to them. There was a year back in 1816 when it stayed cold all summer because of a huge eruption of the volcano Mount Tambora in Indonesia. In fact, they call it the year without a summer, and there have been books written about it. If one big eruption can cause an extremely cold summer, then it seems like a bunch of smaller eruptions could cause some cooler conditions too. What’s worrisome to me is that at least one super volcano is acting up – Campi Flegrei in Italy – and if it does a catastrophic eruption like it has in the past, not only will several million people be in danger around the area, but with the climate already on the cool side, we might be in for another ice age!
Another event that scientists say could cause global cooling is a nuclear war. For all of my years on this earth, we’ve lived in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, and the threat is growing more and more ominous as western leaders are coming to understand that this world they’ve imagined themselves to control is slipping away from them. Are they crazy enough to pull that trigger? Who knows?
New institutions of control are being developed – like some huge project down in Abilene, Texas where TPTB are building a technical intelligence center where all the data on everything and everyone will be housed. With this new headquarters, it’s my opinion the institution of global slavery is planned to be total. As of right now they are claiming it to be some sort of great scientific advancement so that AI can be used to control everything, but call me skeptical – the only part science is playing in this is to help make human enslavement possible.
What’s going on in the world today is nothing new, evil people doing the bidding of Satan have tried to enslave mankind since our age began. Every major “scientific” advancement, when not developed to kill people, has invariably turned out to be another step in the direction of totally eliminating human freedom which the devil hates. For whatever reason, he chose a place and a people from which to radiate hatred, racism, cruelty, and every other characteristic that defines his agenda and it seems to be a small country in the Middle East. The people in control of that little nation – who, incidentally, are not the people they claim to be – are right now in the process of committing one of the most repugnant atrocities the world has ever witnessed. Thanks to subservience to Satan, their allies control almost all of the banks and financial systems of the world, so world governments are reluctant – or outright refuse – to oppose them. Right now, their servants are murdering and starving a whole population of innocent people who pose no threat to them. The craziest thing about it is that they fully expect the world to be on board with what they’re doing. They become enraged with any who dare to point out the inhumanity they are practicing. The events taking place in this nation are explicitly providing the people and nations of the world to publicly show the US leadership’s choice of open fealty to Satan – a public demonstration which will convict them in the end.
There are some nations in the area who fully recognize the evil this little country is perpetrating on the whole area. The Houthis of Yemen are one of the heroic groups of people who are sacrificing greatly to help the Palestinians of Gaza. They repeatedly pay, and pay dearly for their efforts as the rest of the world watches and does nothing. Iran is another nation who has paid with lives and treasure in their attempts to stop the genocide, and for doing so, the US government has levied economic sanctions on them to the extent that the whole country suffers. And for what? For trying to end a murderous episode by servants of Satan being perpetrated on innocent women and children, our leaders have determined they must be severely punished. Way to go US government. The whole world sees what the US president and congress are doing, the evil they are stooping to, and the world won’t forget. But more importantly, God sees what they are doing and He certainly won’t forget.
One day, all of the guilty parties, Netanyahu the blasphemous one, Katz, Trump, Biden, Cruz, Graham, Cotton, and every other execrable member of the brood of vipers performing or supporting this evil will stand before the judgement throne of God trying to lie their way out of eternal damnation, but to no avail – for them it will be the pits of the darkest hell. Do not allow yourself to be counted among them! Right now they all look to be invincible, but on that day everything will be different. Mike Pence and Nikky Haley will ever so painfully remember signing their names on bombs meant for killing Palestinian children. All the sycophantic media figures who graced millions of TV screens, making their fortunes selling lies about Israel “defending” itself will face similar horror before the Lamb of God.
Those who bombed the World Trade Center and killed thousands and smugly thought they got away with it will find that their orchestrated villainy was not so clever after all. Same for the murderers of JFK and Bobby, they will all finally face justice, long overdue. But I think there’s a special place in hell for all who commit or support the starvation deaths and outright murder of innocent little children. This includes many, many, people, including Starmer, Macron, and Scholz and now Merz. They’ve all slavishly demonstrated their fealty to Zionism, or more succinctly Zionist money, even to the point of supporting the murder of children. Jesus has a special place in His heart for children [Luke 18:6]: “But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.” I’m thoroughly convinced that support for, or committing unrepentant genocide of innocents will result in removal of one’s name from the Lamb’s Book of Life. If you don’t know what that is, break out your Bible…
In my mind’s eye, I envision some cataclysmic event like, say Campi Flegri eruption creating huge impervious clouds of volcanic ash that would among other things, prevent the flight of Zionist warplanes. The people of Gaza would suffer from this as well, but right now they are all dying from Zionist terrorism and it doesn’t look to stop. Maybe the predicted tsunami would emerge from an undersea volcano like Flegrei or Santorini and wash the occupied territories on the eastern Mediterranean clean from the noisome filth of racism, murder, and hatred. In the absence of meaningful support from nations of the world, maybe God will finally get fed up and send a catastrophe to end it. But I believe for now He is allowing all the players, even common people like you and me, to demonstrate to the world and to themselves which side of this appalling nightmare they choose to be on. The ones who choose to support Satan are being allowed to aggregate all the evidence which will convict them on the Day that matters. When Pence signed his name on that bomb, it was indelibly etched into the evidence dossier that the Higher Power keeps for judgement. Imagine the shock when that one is presented before the Father and the angels! Exhibit A of fealty to blasphemous murderers for an undisclosed sum of money and/or power.
We believers should all be proud of the college kids and other protesters for their efforts. They are likewise putting themselves on a list – but this one is a list of those who oppose the travesty of genocide. They all risk much in various ways to do so, but they also make people like Trump openly declare their support for murder by taking steps against their universities and the foreign students who stick their necks out. By taking his repugnant actions, Trump removes any possible defense he might have when judgement day gets here. He has openly chosen a side for the whole world to see, and he won’t be able to intimidate the Judge before Whom he will stand. Neither will God be intimidated by the stars and stripes flying above the mighty US military.
In the midst of this chaos of murder and mayhem being committed and supported by Satan and his servants, do not allow yourself to lose focus. Don’t turn away and ignore what’s going on. Never, ever, allow yourself to become accustomed to this level of evil and somehow allow them to convince you it’s normal. It is not! The Lord Jesus Christ will judge us by our actions on this evil (as well as all other aspects of our lives). He is intently watching to see how each of us react to the abominations Satan has put before us. In fact, I believe the cumulative sins and evil of the whole human experiment might just be rolled up into how we decide to approach what’s happening before us today. Especially here in the land of the free. After all, the book of Revelation tells us that the generation upon which God levies judgment in the last days will also be answering for sins of those who killed the prophets long ago. [Revelation 18:24]: “And in her (the modern Babylon) was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” How can this be unless people’s attitudes are the same as they were back then and thus the mindset towards the atrocities of today convicts (or if we oppose, exonerates) us for the evil our forebears committed?
It’s a lot to take in, but believe that when you see evil, recognize it for what it is and avoid it. Avoid supporting it. But we all must remember the people committing the evil acts are human beings – humans who are being controlled by evil entities. Salvation is possible, even for them, so pray for them. It’s okay to hate the acts they do, but it’s not ok to hate them. [Revelation 2:6] “But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.”
Doesn’t look to warm up much today and I think it would be nice to start a fire. Maybe in more ways than one….
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
I watched a program on a popular social media platform that listed the most populous 50 cities in the world, and to be perfectly honest, I was astounded at the incredible numbers of people living in the big cities of the world. Tokyo, the most populous of all, has nearly 40 million people! Let that sink in – there are 40 million people in one city! Several other cities were listed that have over 20 million. China and India, of course, have most of the great cities, but there are many others – Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as Mexico City have unbelievable numbers of citizens, so many as for it to be unfathomable to try and wrap one’s head around them.
I’m old enough to remember when a city with a million people was considered to be way overpopulated, but now a million in a city is no longer remarkable at all. Think about how complicated the supply chains must be in order to get enough provender and other necessities into those places on a daily basis to keep everyone fed and clothed. Most all of them require electricity to survive too. I wonder what the kilowatt needs are per person and how things came to be in order for that much energy to be made available.
Most of the overpopulated cities in India like Calcutta and Delhi sit in huge clouds of smog so dense that just breathing there puts a person’s life in danger. Most vehicles do not have adequate emission controls and coal-fired power plants put out huge volumes of pollution. Garbage collection in a lot of those places is simply nonexistent and huge piles of waste are strewn everywhere. Textile industries produce toxins that are discharged untreated into what natural waterways still exist, as well as raw sewage, all of which make surface water sources unusable. On some of the websites that report on things like this, there are usually pictures of kids swimming in the slimy, black rivers lined with piles of discarded plastic and rotting fish trimmings. Rampant corruption at every level of governments ensures that things aren’t going to change for the better. A big portion of this extreme abandonment of the human condition can be attributed to the curse of unfettered capitalism. And the abandonment of the God who created us.
Daily life in Calcutta slums
Our world is in sad shape, especially in the overpopulated cities of the “developing” nations, but in all of them there exist indisputable grounds for an invisible hope. Even in the filthiest, most overcrowded and noisome places, human beings, human entities with souls are nevertheless entitled to commune with their Creator. Jesus Christ intimately knows each and every person in those crowded prisons and awaits their response to His call for them to choose faith in Him. In His keep there is a hope that cannot be bound, a promise of a better life in a place so much better than any could imagine. In the eternal home He offers, there is no strife, no hunger, no fear of tomorrow, only a joyful, peaceful fortress of serenity in the company of God the Father, Jesus Christ, and more beautiful angels singing beautiful songs than the mind could ever imagine. Such a place exists and patiently awaits our decision to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
The poor folks who endure captivity in such places as this post describes, have an opportunity to accept their own invitation to paradise, dwelling in a mansion especially prepared for them by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, as He promises. He seeks the poor, the humble, the salt of the earth to accept His offer of eternal life in a far better condition than anything anyone could ever imagine. The key is to get to know Jesus Christ – His burden is not heavy, in fact, when we accept Jesus, we have the opportunity to feel the weight of the world we have been carrying lift from our weary shoulders, even in this life, but so much more in the next one.
I write this post in the hope that words like these might get to some of those in the places that are described herein and they might read it and give thought to the offer Jesus Christ makes. There are Christian ministries in every place – find one and learn how you can get to know Jesus Christ. From what I saw on that documentary just by the sheer numbers of people it’s obvious, the fields are indeed ripe for harvest and people in such places need to hear the Gospel of Christ. They need to know that Christianity as all other religions, can and has been misrepresented, often by charlatans seeking personal gain, but Jesus Christ can never be corrupted. Neither can His true followers be corrupted. His ministry is separate and apart from other religions in that it is the only truth. He said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father but by Me.”
Please, if only in your mind and spirit, escape the crowded place and find solace in a sanctuary of peace with Jesus. He waits at the door of your heart.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us – whether in Mumbai or Lagos or anywhere else.
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. It is supposed to be a near-sacred event; a day on which we remember fallen soldiers who died in wars as they fought for our country, and rightfully we should. I had a distant cousin who died in a Japanese POW camp, and that after having survived what is called the Bataan Death March, a gruesome trek by captured American and Filipino soldiers who were forcibly marched about 65 miles in the Philippines. Those poor guys were subjected to torture and starvation and thousands of them would not complete the trip as they succumbed to the extreme conditions along the way. Cousin Willard certainly deserves a tribute on Memorial Day and several of us in the extended family have t-shirts with his portrait on them that we wear on Memorial Day in his honor.
As I contemplate what and who I need to remember along with my relative, I would like to remind readers of the earlier soldiers who fought for the beginning of this country. Those brave guys who were sure that the freedoms we have long enjoyed were worth fighting and dying for should get a special nod tomorrow, especially now that our country has reached a point where the Constitution for which they fought and for which their blood was spilled – is being methodically discarded by men who would never even dream of risking their necks – for anything, especially anything as intangible as principles. American citizens are being deported as I write this for exercising their freedom of speech which is enshrined in the First Amendment to that Constitution.
Our Constitution, a set of principles for which many have died and to which all of our “leaders” have sworn to protect, is being systematically dismantled by men who wield their cowardice as publicly and treacherously as our forebears wielded their swords and muskets. Pathetic interlopers who have arrogated to themselves undeserved positions of authority and power never intended to be held by authoritarians. That’s what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is all about. Our Constitution was designed to protect the people of this republic from any and all forms of government that might determine to rule by authoritarian edict (or possibly Executive Orders?) – legislation by executive fiat that the Constitution never provided for.
A military of brave – perhaps the bravest of all – volunteers fought and won the freedom this republic required to exist and prosper. These men must be remembered too, though their remembrance may expose some truths about ourselves that could be unsettling, especially in light of the fact that we in this generation have stood by and watched wealthy people devise methods of purchasing positions of leadership and installing servants of anti-Christian foreign governments to fill them. We look on passively as bankers, political lobbies, and unelected charlatans completely take over our government and enslave us and our children. They kill presidents who disagree with them, destroy buildings full of people, force people to put poison into their bloodstreams, and we sheepishly obey, lest our Christian beliefs outweigh our fear of lesser men and we obey our Constitutional mandate to change things.
Maybe some semblance of American love of freedom will arise among the many patriotic men still worth their salt and change will be sought, but so far there’s not been much sign of it. All my life I was taught that the Nazis in Germany were the worst monsters in the world. Indeed, a big part of this Memorial Day remembrance is for the men who died in that war, but today we watch on in horror as another army of monsters who perform atrocities as bad if not worse than anything the Nazis did, but even our preachers in this country sheepishly tell us we should support such malevolence. This Memorial Day we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing war criminals (foreign and domestic) to be exalted.
I’m pretty sure if the legal system had known of someone sharpening Ted Bundy’s knives and handing them to him to kill his victims, that person(s) would have been tried and no doubt found guilty of abetting murder. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the Congress and Senate, and their government allies have been supplying bombs and other weapons to a country which is guilty – forget semantics, they are sickening – of murder, intentional starvation of non-combatants – and a host of war crimes. The highest court in the world – the International Criminal Court, has issued arrest warrants for the current Ted Bundys of the world, and what do our esteemed leaders do? Why, of course, they attack the court and accuse it of contrived and distorted political leanings. Imagine how well that defense would have gone over with Bundy in his trial, but because the US has a powerful military and a lot of wealthy people protecting Zionist atrocities, this cadre of execrable criminals do not answer, even to the highest court in the world.
Tomorrow let’s also remember the sacrifices of those guys who ridded us of colonialism here in America. The bravest of our heroes and our founding Fathers, but they would be ill to see what the nation has become – this nation they believed in and fought and died for. To get an idea of how far we have fallen as a nation, just imagine a serious comparison of the stature and wisdom of men like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson to entities like Trump or Shrub. Get real.
One bucketful with my old backhoe and I could tell right away that I was into some really good dirt. I guess a lot of folks don’t know good dirt when they see it, or maybe there’s a lot of people who’ve never had the opportunity to work with soil and so wouldn’t be able to distinguish one type of dirt from another, but I’ve been working gardens and such for decades, and this loam from the edge of the woods looks and smells like it belongs under some tomato plants.
I took the opportunity this morning to remove a big old plum tree from my back yard. The thing just hasn’t produced any plums for several years now. It sends root runners out into my garden and plum saplings are constantly shooting up from the roots and always in places where I don’t want them. That tree was a sort of landmark here and I had mixed emotions about getting rid of it. My dogs seem to feel the same because it was a good shade tree for those hot summer days of dripping doggie tongues, but it’s out of there now and we’re all just going to have to get used to it. There are plenty of shade trees out there. Filling the hole in the yard is where the fresh dirt comes in.
While I was tugging at the stump with the backhoe I was reminded of that fig tree that Jesus cursed for the same reason I got rid of my plum tree – non-productivity. He used the incident with the tree to demonstrate to us how He feels about things (or people) that do not avail themselves of opportunity to bear fruit. He wasn’t pleased to say the least. There are several ways to bear fruit for Jesus, He said that if we even give a disciple a cup of water there’s a reward for us. We have opportunities all the time to encourage our brothers and sisters to hold fast to their faith.
If we know that we are supposed to bear fruit to the glory of the Lord and yet do not do so, we might find ourselves in the same predicament as that fig tree. When I first read that passage about that fig tree, my interpretation was that Jesus was hungry and went to the tree for a fig to eat and was disappointed and angry because He was hungry and there was nothing to eat on what should have been a fruitful tree. I should have known better, Jesus just ain’t that shallow nor vindictive. He knew what it was like to be hungry. No, He was, as is typical for Him, using the incident as a teaching moment – all the way to the next day when the tree was dead and shriveled up. Did you get the message? I must admit, it took me a while, but the more I come to know Jesus and His ways, the easier things like that are to understand.
Jesus’ ministry is full of lessons for us if we but open our eyes and hearts to His remarkable truth. His time to establish His covenant and His ministry was very short, so every word He spoke had profound meaning – He didn’t waste words or opportunities to make impactful lessons for His followers. He continues to do so today, if we choose to listen with our hearts. He said in the Sermon on the Mount that blessed are the pure at heart for they shall see God. Wow! But didn’t the scriptures say that we cannot lay eyes on God or we would die? What did Jesus mean by saying the pure at heart shall see God? This one is yet another opportunity to understand Him, for we know from scriptures that one day we will all stand before – and thus see – God; even the not pure at heart will see God then, so what did He mean?
He was speaking of the here and now, we have the opportunity to see God, not with our eyes, but with our hearts. But only if that heart is pure; honest, and never trying to fool ourselves into believing things that go against Jesus’ teaching. If we are completely honest with our Lord, even about things that make us uncomfortable or ashamed, it’s only then that we can allow Jesus to teach us things – more often than not, things about ourselves – and chastise us when we’re wrong, and a window miraculously opens that blesses us with the opportunity to experience fellowship with the Almighty in ways we never imagined. We “see” God in nature, in His Word, in the heavens, in the hearts of our fellow travelers, and this simply as a result of surrendering our foolish pride to a hitherto unexperienced and unpracticed purity, or honesty with God, but just as crucially, with ourselves.
The kind of purity of heart to which Jesus refers is of a profound nature and of necessity cannot be casually inculcated. It might require a complete rethinking of our political leanings – we might find ourselves entertaining notions we would otherwise have rejected in our quest for this consummate fellowship with God. Maybe we stop and fish our wallet out to help that beggar we always held in disdain because we were so convinced he could get a job if he was worth his salt. We come to realize things like those “illegal” aliens we have always abhorred might just deserve a bit of empathy and maybe even some help to get a leg up in a callous world that has been cruel to them at every turn. When you determine to become pure at heart as Jesus means it, you begin a journey that you will be on for the rest of your life if you are sincere.
Then at some point, like being hit with a bale of hay going sixty miles an hour, you will realize that you actually can see God – it’ll be so obvious when you realize that you could have seen Him all along – if only you’d been looking with your heart instead of your eyes. When we are admonished to watch as well as pray, this is the same sense – we are to watch with our hearts as well as our eyes. When we see evil overtaking the world, we have the full opportunity to see it for what it is and not what some talking head tells us, because God has given us a conscience as our moral compass to guide us. Many people can be convinced that some evil thing is somehow good if they do not have a moral bearing from the Holy Spirit. That’s one of the many things that separates the believers from those who are not pure at heart.
Walk confidently through this journey, always remembering He is beside you at every step. When something goes awry, take courage that you are not facing it alone. Pray for the purity of heart of which this post speaks, and be prepared for some uncomfortable bumps in the road for the Lord promises that He chastises those He loves, and it’s not always pleasant while it’s happening, but if you are sincere, you’ll come out a better person for it. A better person with increasing purity of heart which will increasingly allow you to “see” God. And you’ll also find yourself becoming a fruitful tree.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
On a damp springtime morning here in the Ozarks as the soft grey humidity-laden breeze plows through a greening wood, it’s easy to lose oneself to the allure of this renewal of warmth beneath a verdant canopy. Birds are busy in their never-ending pursuit of twigs, pieces of string, and whatever other oddments they choose with which to build new homes for the hatchlings they are sure to inherit soon. They sing merrily as they pursue their tasks, adding new melodies to the gala of spring.
Birds and other creatures ever play their roles in the eternal drama of nature as warm days set in to grace the Ozark woodlands and hills. Last year’s broods already know how to go about gathering foliage and I’m sure the little hen birds are busy telling their mates exactly how to build the nest. After all, she will be the one setting in it. Of all the wild birds round here, the little wrens are among my favorites. I did a post a couple of years ago about a mama wren that halted my construction of a little cabin I built in the woods until her fledglings could fly.
I live in a pretty old farmhouse here in the Missouri Ozarks. That’s suitable – a pretty old house for a pretty old geezer with a couple of pretty old dogs. Nothing pretty in the aesthetic sense, except for my old girl Dusty; at least I think she’s still a pretty girl. Getting ornery though in her old age. That may be something contagious that can cross species, because I could swear I feel ornery once in a while myself. Maybe it’s just due to grandkids running amok with their eyeballs glued to cell phones or some such. Maybe orneryness is just something that comes with the turf of getting old. But then, there are other things happening in the wide world around us these days that add to the sour mood.
Speaking of getting old, it just stands to reason that over the years, we pick up on lots of stuff, at least if we walk through this journey with our eyes open. That’s a profound concept for a lot of people – sitting in front of a television and allowing some corporate news organization to pump your brain full of some politically motivated propaganda is not walking with open eyes. I just read some statistics on how American rates of literacy compares to other nations, especially China and Russia, and it’s pretty remarkable how our educational system has failed us over the years as everyone else’s have improved their lot. Americans are rapidly becoming among the least educated people in the world. If one indeed has his eyes open, it can easily be seen – political slogans longer than bumper stickers are too confusing for most of us anymore. Lack of education and/or critical thinking skills provides fertile ground for propaganda.
Reason and intellectual curiosity are relics of the past in MAGA America, and the liberal side is just as bad. It seems that no one is willing to consider any side of an argument that conflicts with their own – that might require some degree of empathy for our fellow human beings and we don’t do empathy anymore. At least most folks don’t. Hatred, selfishness, and racism are about as rampant as I’ve ever seen them. Wars are being waged all around the world, and I’m fairly certain the USA is getting ready to see some tough times right here in the land of the free.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and storms, the likes of which we’ve rarely seen are beating this old rock we call home. There are floods almost everywhere, landslides, sinkholes, and earthquakes in places where they’ve not occurred before – at least in our time. To be able to appreciate the significance of events that are happening I think it is imperative that we avail ourselves of the abundance of information in our society. The internet has opened up volumes of information and to ignore it and all of the other sources of knowledge is walking with your eyes closed. Fox News isn’t going to tell you everything you need to know, nor is CNN, MSNBC, nor any of the other corporate media. Thanks to the internet, though, we have ample other sources, it’s just a task to sift through the garbage out there and find real information. I’ve found that the best way for me to find truth is to bounce “news” stories against what the Bible says. Jesus said He was the Way and the TRUTH, and I believe Him, so if what we hear and see comports with what He taught, it’s certain to be the truth.
For instance, He spoke against murder and persecution of the innocent, so if there’s some propaganda story attempting to justify the murder of Palestinian children, you automatically know the story is false and coming from evil sources. This can be a problem for many who have spent years feeding at the media trough and buying into everything the mass media puts out, but you have to start somewhere. Jesus spoke of forgiveness, so when you see a program that tries to get your dander up against some or other happening in the world, they almost always play on your emotions to try and make you angry or hate, say illegal aliens, but the Bible says not to turn away an alien [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.
The lands we live on do not belong to us – the Lord has merely given us stewardship of things and places that belong to Him. Psalm 24:1: “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.” He fully expects us – His people – to share what we have with the less fortunate. The worldly folks who control the media would have us at each other’s throats fighting over something that doesn’t even belong to us, but those same wealthy people who promote such don’t realize that what they have doesn’t belong to them either. If it did, they could take it with them when they depart this life, but they can’t. One day, much to their chagrin, they will find out what the true believers already know from reading the Bible. If you stop and think about it, eternity is an unimaginably long time, and this episode of events we call life is so temporary as to be like the grass of the fields, and the only reason we are here is to have opportunity to choose where we want to spend forever – in a dark, lonely, and terrifying place, or in paradise with the Father and the Lamb. That’s what it all boils down to.
So while I sit out in the woods watching and listening to God’s creation – the birds, the squirrels, and enjoy the little slice of Heaven upon which the Lord has blessed me to live, I contemplate things like the sad condition of the world. I think about those lost souls who are currently – and so temporarily in control of – and hoarding for themselves – the great resources and wealth of the earth and wonder what it will take to get people, common people like myself, to see that the things that they are being told about the goings on in the world are falsehoods and the world is slipping, inexorably into an abyss from which it will not – cannot – escape without Divine guidance. And for us servants of Christ, that Divine guidance involves putting away hatred and anger we have all been encouraged to foment in our consciousness – by the very mouths of Satan. We have some time left to practice things like love, charity, and forgiveness which are the traits of the chosen and faithful.
Now it looks like it’s going to rain here in the hills; these are harmless clouds of springtime and not the dark and ominous clouds swirling over an evil world – no, this will be a refreshing, cool spring shower.
May the blessing of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
In the last few days I’ve been trying to get my garden growing, but this year there is something different going on. It seems as though every morning when I begin stirring, it’s a lot colder out than normal for this time of year. All of my eggplant seedlings have died, and none of the young plants are growing like they should. I think it’s the cool nights – down in the forties every night – that are causing the problem.
While pondering the reason for the cooler than normal weather, I recalled seeing several news sources reporting on an exceptional number of volcanoes currently erupting. This along with scientific evidence that the aerosols injected into the atmosphere interfere with the natural warming of the sun by reflecting heat – well that just might be an explanation. If so – and several geologists are predicting more and possibly larger eruptions currently being brought to boil – we might be seeing the beginnings of climate cooling, at least to some degree.
There is geologic evidence of some pretty catastrophic weather fluctuations caused by major eruptions in the past, in fact, probably the most devastating volcanic activity took place in Russia in what they call the Siberian Traps, which fortunately for humanity happened millions of years ago. There were volcanoes that covered a massive area that apparently erupted continually for around two million years and sulfur dioxide polluted the world’s atmosphere to the extent that it caused a great extinction they call the Permian-Triassic extinction that almost wiped out life on the whole planet. There are areas over there where entire cliffs of large basaltic columns that formed as the volcanic material cooled and have stood for millions of years in silent testimony to that near life-ending event.
Much later in the earth’s geologic history, in fact, within recorded history, there have been humongous volcano eruptions that affected the climate for varying periods of time, depending on the size and severity of the event. Tambora, Krakatoa, and Pinatubo come to mind. The “year without a summer” in 1816 was precipitated by the major 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. This event caused crop failures and food shortages across the whole Northern Hemisphere. The world suffered the coldest summer in human history in 1816.
Today Mount Etna in Sicily continues to burp out Lava and ash, The big Hawaiian shield volcano of Kilauea continues to pump out rivers of lava, Iceland’s volcano near Grindavik is alive and pouring. There are others, such as Karymsky on Kamchatka, Semeru in Indonesia, and Santiaguito in Guatemala to name a few, which are currently active and erupting. Campi Flegrei, a super volcano, Santorini, and Mount Vesuvius have recently undergone earthquake swarms, which some scientists believe to be precursors of volcanic activity. If Campi Flegri has a major eruption, there will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in imminent and immediate danger, with unforeseeable – but ever problematic – consequences to the world’s climate.
I’ve mentioned in other posts some of the volcanic calderas such as Campi Flegrei, Lake Toba, Mono Lake, and of course everyone knows about Yellowstone, but any of these dormant monsters could wreak havoc on the whole planet if they were to undergo a major eruption. There are a lot of pieces to what looks like a great geologic puzzle, and even though there are a lot of smart folks studying it, not all of the disciplines of geology, astronomy, and physics are able to connect the dots. For instance, do the guys who study the earth’s geology take into account the effects of solar radiation, especially in light of the undisputed weakening of our magnetic field? It seems like there’s just too much going on for any one discipline to understand how everything connects.
Campi Flegrei caldera at Pozzuoli, Italy
One scientist whom I watch with some degree of regularity says he has evidence, that if properly interpreted suggests that as part of the earth’s magnetic polarity reversal (which we are currently undergoing) there might be an “unlocking” of the crust from the mantle. This means that the entire crust will shift around on the semi-liquid inner parts of the world and all the surface features of the planet will relocate to other places. He says it could even result in entire oceans and continents moving somewhat rapidly and that the axis of rotation – what we now know as the north and south poles – would end up like in the Sahara and the western Pacific or some such. Of course, he thinks great tsunamis would accompany such crustal displacements such as would wash over low areas of entire continents. I’m not a geologist by a long stretch, but increases in volcanic activity around the world such as we are seeing these days would seem to be a reasonable indication of something big going on beneath our feet, whatever it might be.
I guess we can but wait and see what God has in store and how He chooses to end it, but the Bible says the world will end in fire, so volcanoes just might bring about the end, and maybe not in the form of a volcanic winter, but in a hellish nightmare of fire and lava. Volcanoes could indeed account for the darkening of the sun in prophecy, and the burned-down modern-day Babylon. But the details and timing of it all remain a mystery.
Meanwhile I’m going to keep trying to grow eggplants…
