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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

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.