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Of Faith, Courage and Good Cheer

“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.

MK

Do Believers Abhor the Slaughter of Innocents?

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.

Climate Changes Drastically With Evil in the Air

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.

MK

The Sickle is Being Thrust Into the Crop

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.

MK

Fruit of the Pure at Heart

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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.

MK

Meditating on the World in a Springtime Wood

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.

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MK

Perils of Serving the Wrong Master – Here and Beyond

Jerusalem burns, flames fanned by high winds. Southern Israel experiences a huge sandstorm blown in from one of the many Mediterranean area deserts. Although the (mostly European descended) people who have moved into the Holy Land are not indigenous to the area, they have arrogated to themselves the identity of those who do have legitimate claim. They seem to be hell-bent on destroying the last of the true semitic peoples, the Palestinians, in Israel.

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The once upstanding United States has become the number one supporter in the genocide being perpetrated on the Gazans, and by doing so, has become possibly the most hated nation on earth. Trump has ordered US military forces to attack the Houthis, the only country in the world that can be seen as heroic in their efforts to help the intensely suffering Gazans, although the Hezbollah group in Lebanon put up a valiant effort for a while, before a multinational coalition put an end to Syria as the world knew it. Lebanon got a president installed who looks to be pro-western, i.e., easily bought – so Hezbollah is in a precarious situation for now. The Houthis continue unabated despite heavy bombardment from what appears to be a hopelessly incompetent Trump led military. For Netanyahu – anagram of Yemen – enemy!

All in all, it looks like a pretty dismal situation for people who prefer peace and especially for folks who hate to see the starving children of Gaza. A flotilla of intended aid for the Gazans was attacked by Israeli drones en route similar to how Israel blocked the Turkish aid boat Mavi Marmara in 2010, but that time they actually boarded a boat and killed some people. Erdogan bloviated as usual, but did not respond effectively, also as usual.

The world sees the evil of the Gaza genocide for what it is, but when decent folks call it out, the perps don’t seem to mind, in fact if I didn’t know better, I’d swear they enjoy the publicity – they LIKE being regarded as evil. When someone likens Benjamin Netanyahu to Satan, he takes it as a compliment, like his boss (Satan) will be proud of him for being seen as Satanic. Jesus said these people who call themselves Jews but art not, are a synagogue of Satan and they seem to know it. There’s a video I happened to see a few days ago about an incident some time ago after the Zionists burned a little 18-month-old boy alive and word got out about it and the civilized world were shocked by it’s repugnance, wherein the Zionists, to demonstrate their arrogance, threw a big party and were dancing joyfully with sign posters of pictures of the little boy and celebrating that evil act – and videoing it! That was something you might expect to see in some burning corner of hell with demons dancing and shouting to celebrate an unimaginably horrid evil event. And there it was for all the world to see – the kind of evil these people perpetrate on the world, and we send them bombs.

There are also places in the pits of hell reserved for Joe Biden and Donald trump which they have earned themselves by supplying support for genocide, but there are so many others – John Hagee, Mike Huckabee (at one time I thought he was a respectable Christian person – boy was I wrong!), almost the entire US Congress and Senate, the vile Supreme Court – especially the vile Roberts who was appointed by the equally vile George Bush. Bush supported Israel by launching the murderous Iraq war. Anyone who even remotely supports Israel in its headlong rush to hell killing so many innocent people will find themselves on the wrong side of things when they face judgement. The witch Madeline Albright may already be roasting, but there are other witches equally culpable – Nikky Haley, Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton come to mind.

At some point I would not be surprised if this crowd will finally just openly declare their support for Satan and I also won’t be surprised to see congregations of megachurches following along. They already do in reality, but there might still be a few well-meaning but deceived members who actually believe they are following the Christian Way who will finally see guys like Hagee, Osteen, and Copeland and so many more for who they really are, but for the life of me I don’t understand how these folks are allowing themselves to be so thoroughly deceived already. Maybe they should read their own Bibles instead of letting frauds like Hagee tell them what it says.

I follow some video channels where they speak of earthquakes and volcanoes on the increase. Some predict a huge solar event that will wreak havoc on life here on earth. We are continuing to stare down the barrel of a nuclear conflagration with no one (except maybe Vladimir Putin) trying to avoid it. Weather events of late have grown intense almost everywhere – rainstorms unlike anything the world has ever seen, tornadoes everywhere, even in places that don’t normally see them, floods all over the world are commonplace, a huge power outage in Europe completely shutting down whole countries, and we don’t seem to be able (or willing) to connect the dots to God’s displeasure at the growing evil in the world. These events are merely the beginning of sorrows – things will get much worse.

There’s a Way to deal with the impending disaster the world is facing. It’s found in the Bible and His name is Jesus Christ. He told us the road would get bumpy at the end and the evil of the world is the specific cause. The angels are already pouring out those bowls of disaster for humanity. We endured the Covid (and inoculation) scam, but that was just a sample of the plagues that loom. Our precious leaders have other depredations cooking in their biolabs and are just waiting for the orders to unleash them and I think they’re going to be much worse, much, much worse, than Covid.

All in all and according to prophecy, we haven’t seen anything yet. If I read Revelation 18 correctly, some country is about to get destroyed by a nuclear attack – I think it will be the US, although there is ample room to interpret that modern Babylon to be London or even Israel, but I think Israel has a big part to play in the very end, so it would be less apt to be the place leveled in Rev 18 – at least the way I read it. Besides, I once heard a preacher say that if God doesn’t destroy the US for its evil ways, then He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology – and I really believe the United States’ days are numbered. There has never been such a powerful and decadent place in the world, not even in ancient Rome or Athens.

Get out your Bible and read it – live by what it says, our time here is growing short. Stop chasing after wealth; when the end gets here, you’ll see the futility of it – all the riches of Elon Musk, George Soros, and the Zionist billionaires who run the world today will not avail them – in fact it will testify against them – you’ll see. Learn about Jesus Christ – store up your treasure in His Kingdom where it will be safe until we get there. Treasures such as help for the poor, loving our neighbors, a helping hand to an indigent old person – all these things can be considered to be deposits in the account that matters.

We have reached a point in history where we can no longer look to our leadership for guidance, nor can we rely on their wisdom and judgement – they are all in it for the money and power. They no longer look out for the interests of their countries, the only thing that matters to them, the only thing that guides their decision-making, is how much wealth they can gain by what they do. Remember the passage in the Bible when Satan tempted Jesus and offered Him all the wealth and power? Jesus turned Saan down, but there are a lot of rich guys in the world today who took the devil up on the same offer – now they must pay their debt to him – with the blood of innocent people and especially Christians. Hang on folks, it’s about to get crazy for believers.

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

MK

A Promise for the Poor – the Salt of the Earth

This post is to reach people with no hope to convince them that they have good reason to hope. The key to understanding this is to be able to zoom out, as it were. We have to exercise the vision that the Almighty has so generously given us and see that the life we are caught up in right now is but a small part of a reality that is difficult – but not impossible – to comprehend. At least we have the opportunity to comprehend enough of it to understand where we fit in the grand scheme.

God, our Creator, left us a road map so that we can find Him. He also left us with the promise of another life after this one. There are many religions in our world, and they teach many differing accounts of our existence and our future, and I don’t want to get too far into what their adherents believe, because the intent of this post is to share what I have been taught by the Spirit of God. What I believe is real – God has brought me through storms in this life that I don’t see many others having to endure. I understand we all have our own bumpy roads to travel, and I can only speak of my own experiences. Following the road map that God left us has worked for me, and since it has, I’m bound to share what I have learned.

We all have a need to connect, a yearning in our hearts to learn what our lives are all about, and it’s like we all walk around with this electric cord in our hand looking for a place to plug it in. Once we locate the correct receptacle, we expect to be able to power up our inquisitive minds and find the answers we all seek. Ok, maybe that’s a weak analogy, but you get the idea. Please hear me out – I’m writing to tell you that the only place you can connect to find the meaning of life is Jesus Christ. He is the only Being in all of this crowded universe that can direct our paths to the Kingdom of the Almighty God. In the Holy Bible, He tells us: [John 14:6]:”Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.“

This passage gives us a lot of information if we study it. The Christian religion, for those who faithfully follow it, recognizes Jesus as the source of all truth. The religion of Islam even recognizes Jesus, who they call Isa, to be a great prophet, so if He is indeed a prophet, and prophets don’t lie, then when He says He is the only way to God, He is giving us the greatest bit of information a human being can embrace. I do not consider Christianity to only be another religion of many in the world. Jesus Christ stands triumphantly upon the top of all of the world’s religions. The very last thing I want to do is to offend anyone of any other faith, but I’m here to tell you that if you’ll just look at how the world is shaping up in these later days, you can easily see with which faith that Satan, from whence all evil emanates, has chosen to do battle. It is Christianity – faithful Christians are being persecuted and executed in several places in the world.

It’s painfully obvious that many peoples of all walks are dying in diverse places by the sword, but as opposed to ethnicities who have been historically persecuted because of their behavior, Christians are dying because of their faith. This has happened throughout history – Christians died before the crowds in the Roman coliseum. The Catholic church, in the dark ages a bastion of evil, burned Christian believers at the stake for heresy if their beliefs were not approved by the “church”. The Bible, in Revelations 12 metaphorically speaks of a woman giving birth to a male child and a vicious dragon (Satan) was standing before her to kill the child as soon as it was born, but the child (Jesus) was taken up to Heaven and the dragon waged war on the woman (the true Church) thereafter. The dragon is indeed waging war on Jesus’ people, but we do not fear him, for our Lord is greater. We may end up leaving this life as He did, but our reward awaits us in the next. When you’ve been around in this world as long as I have, you realize this world has nothing to offer – regardless of what the decadent wealthy people would have you think. Our time here is short, but the next life will last forever.

Jesus referred to us common folk as the salt of the earth, meaning we have more value than we realize, but we must keep our “flavor”. We must accept our stations in life, no matter how humble – in fact, the poor will inherit eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven. [Luke 6:20]: “And he (Jesus) lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.” When we get caught up in the lusts and the desires of the world and choose to follow after the ways of the worldly people – the rich – we start to lose our flavor; our saltiness, and when this happens, we become worthless to Him. We are good for nothing anymore other than to be trampled underfoot by those people we want to be like. [Matthew 5:13]: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

You, no matter how poor, how hopeless, or destitute, are exactly the person that Jesus Christ is seeking to invite into His magnificent Kingdom. If you are burdened with a heavy load of sins from your past, He stands ready to forgive you and wash your sins away with His own precious blood. It is not humanly possible to understand how much He loves you. He died for you so that you would get this opportunity to accept His offer of eternal life, such is His desire to have fellowship, companionship with you. What a Friend! All authority on earth and in Heaven has been given to Him, and one day He will return to collect His people who will be given kingship with Him. The evil ones who run the world now – in service to Satan – will finally see justice. Unfortunately, a lot of people who are not in leadership positions but have lost their saltiness to desires of the flesh, will not be allowed into the Kingdom either.

Losing the chance to receive eternal life in the Paradise of God will be an unimaginable loss, and it is very easy to avoid. The only thing we have to do is to accept Jesus Christ for who He says He is, repent and be baptized into His Church. We must live for Him, and if the situation requires it, we must be prepared to die for Him as have so many martyrs before us. It might look to be a fearsome fate, but death is something we all must endure anyway, and it would be much easier to endure when the time comes, knowing that we are but moments from joining Him in Paradise.

Regardless of what Satan would have you believe, living for Jesus ain’t half bad. Choosing to live a Spiritual life gives us an opportunity to appreciate God’s creation in ways that worldly people don’t understand. We learn some meaningful things about our lives and the lives of others that we wouldn’t have explored without the Spirit to reveal them to us. Jesus said: [Revelation 2:17]: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.” That hidden manna nourishes us spiritually and gives us knowledge that is only reserved for Jesus’ people, and it can only come from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Wherever you are, whatever your station in life, Jesus stands at the door of your heart and knocks. He said if you but open the door for Him that He would come into your heart and dine with you – and you with Him. That means He is ready to walk with you – all the way to that magnificent Kingdom He promises you – and Jesus Christ keeps His promises. Will you open the door?

Forget this world – there’s nothing here for decent people anyways. Look to the light of Jesus Christ’s salvation. I can promise you’ll be eternally glad you did. Please share this post with friends, relatives, and people you don’t know – our time here is getting very short and our love for Jesus and each other is all that matters now. This site is not monetized, so I don’t need the numbers – not on this earth anyways, but I would like to help the message of salvation get spread far and wide – especially to the salt of the earth in places like Appalachia, the Ozarks, and as far as the Tondo in Manila, Khayelitsha in Cape Town, Kibera in Nairobi, Dharavi in Mumbai, Ciudad Neza in Mexico City, Orangi Town in Karachi, Kangari in Nairobi, Mathre in Nairobi, Rocinha in Rio de Janero, Makoko in Lagos, and folks in Indonesia and Malaysia. Jesus loves you all! Remember that great angel flying across the world with the Gospel! [Revelation 14:6]: “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people…”

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

MK

An Ounce of Truth Destroys an Ocean of Lies

For all of my adult life – and I’m 71 years old, I have been blessed with the vision to see and enough wisdom to understand how the world has been taken over by those who serve Satan, namely those who call themselves Jews. Through all of these years, I’ve spoken to people about how this is happening, only heretofore to be regarded as looney – at least until these modern times as they have begun to show themselves as more and more folks belatedly come to understand what they’re doing. I’ve learned much about how these people operate, and to be truthful, I’m still learning, but I think the biggest mistake of most of us outside the tribe is to underestimate the degree(s) of evil they will undertake to achieve their goals. They kill their own people as soon – and with as much enthusiasm – as they kill an enemy when it suits their purpose. Google Hannibal Doctrine.

Connecting the dots can be a trying and complicated exercise when one tries to figure out how some of the machinations of pivotal worldly events happen; there’s always a pre-planned narrative for every event, and if the Zionist has any talent at all, it is for lying and deception. Anyone watching any speech by an ardent Zionist is amazed by the lies that flow from their tongues like a river. They lie about EVERYTHING, in fact one of the key methods to determine their guilt, intent, or any other facet of their behavior is to automatically discount anything they say. Or better yet, believe the exact opposite. This method also applies to discerning the veracity of statements from the US government, which sadly is under complete Zionist control, and has been for longer than most folks know. The accusation of “antisemitism” is also a lie, – none of them are semitic – maybe their biggest lie of all. As to their habit of lying, [John 8:44]: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.“

To the casual observer, it might seem odd that the US government is – and has been for decades – burning its treasure in the middle east with no discernable benefit to America, but if one understood that the US congress and white house is under the complete domination of Zionists, then it becomes obvious. The Mideast nations with which the US goes to war are simply enemies of Israel, or nations that are sufficiently powerful to be able to refuse to bow to the Zionists. They have a completely deranged need to dominate, and when one looks at the measures taken by the US government against even college kids who protest against a genocide, it’s easy to see the degree of control of Zionists over the US. A foreign nation has overtaken the United States of America without firing a shot – if you don’t count the USS Liberty.

As a Christian, I am always thankful that God has allowed me to be able to see how this is taking place, but it’s a mixed blessing. I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how the authorities could possibly get to the point – in America of all places – where TPTB could operate openly in defiance of the Bible AND the Constitution. After all, the prophesied persecution of Christians has always seemed to be something you’d expect in some third world country, but after watching that viral film clip of those ICE goons assaulting that poor girl and taking her into custody, it should be pretty clear to practicing Christians that we are already well on our way down that slippery slope. We may or may not be next, but it’s obvious our turn is coming, closer than we might think, especially after hearing that congress actually debated making Bible passages illegal to recite in public because Jesus, that famous antisemite, had some hard things to say about the Synagogue of Satan.

We need not fear what is coming. If we fear the evil that is overtaking the world, then Those who serve the evil one gain the upper hand over us. When good people have fear in their hearts, Satan is accomplishing part of his goal – although he will never be victorious over Christians who understand what is going on. We hold onto Christ because He is our salvation over the darkness of the world which is growing ever darker, He is our light that cannot be extinguished. Remember that perfect love drives out fear [1 John 4:18]: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love., so pray especially for that perfect love that can only come from the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Jesus indeed admonishes us not to fear, and the fact that there are those who do not fear him makes Satan irate, and he goes after them. See how this behavior parallels the behavior of the Zionists towards, say Iran? They have an inexplicable desire to crush any nation which doesn’t fear them and have done so, but only with the assistance of the corrupted government of the US. That’s why they spent so much time, money, and effort bribing and blackmailing US government figures – taking over a mighty country with a mighty army is the biggest step they have accomplished, and it has taken generations – starting with the corrupt Federal Reserve Act which enabled the Zionists to steal all of the financial resources of America. It was all downhill from there to where we are today, supporting a genocide of innocent semitic people – while deporting and prosecuting citizens for “antisemitism”. Being in control of the most powerful country in the world via his proxies, the Zionists, gives Satan the wherewithal he needs to dominate the world of nonbelievers. It ain’t rocket science.

If you are a nonbeliever but nevertheless are able to see the evil that is upon the world, just know you are wasting your time in opposing it – the only victory in this seminal battle of the ages will be in Jesus Christ. Forget the temptations and lusts of this world that hold you back from Christ – they are merely illusions Satan keeps before you. Get to know Jesus and join the mighty army of the called and chosen who will see victory in the end. It’s time to get serious about our eternity folks so stop being caught up in this world.

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

MK

In Remembrance of the Great Victory

This is the big weekend we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord after He defeated death – for us. A lot of folks have mixed feelings about how we remember the crucifixion and it’s understandable that they do so, because of some of the rituals in which people engage. As for myself, I don’t see how hunting colored eggs have anything to do with remembering the resurrection, but I also don’t have a problem with folks taking a weekend to remember the death and resurrection of the Savior. I have the same problem with people turning it into a remembrance of the Passover or any other thing in lieu of Christ’s resurrection, as I have with those who would use this weekend to celebrate a false god, be it Ishtar or any other. I’m not saying people shouldn’t remember the Passover; it was a big part of Biblical history of the Hebrews, but to try and replace the remembrance of the Resurrection with a Jewish holiday which was never about non-Jews is Gentiles missing out on a chance to glorify Jesus Christ whose sacrifice was for Gentiles as well as Jews. I’m not trying to get anyone’s dander up, but there’s a vicious enemy about who hates any mention or celebration of Jesus Christ, and you can bet he would be in favor of eliminating a Christian holiday and replacing it with something else, anything else, so there’s that.

We keep seeing troublesome things happening in our world, and for some folks it seems to be overbearing to think about trying to find our way through it all. When we look at the rampant evil that’s taking place, it’s easy get frustrated and I’m not above it myself, but we have all the help in the world that we need if we just look in the right place, and when we talk to Jesus about our frustration, He lifts us, lifts our spirit to where it needs to be, especially in times when we celebrate Him and what He did for us. We just have to keep looking to that cross.

It’s crucial to keep in mind that by His ministry culminating in His selfless act on the cross, Jesus Christ has all authority over things here on the earth and over the spiritual realm as well. Life here is still an uphill battle for believers, especially when we have to make our way in this world full of nonbelievers – folks who by and large think we Christians are looney. Well, let them think what they will; they don’t realize we are not alone down here. We have an all-powerful God who sees our plight and gives us the strength we need to endure through this insanity. Jesus Christ is by far the very best friend a human being can have, both in this world and in the next. Whether you know it or not, He’s right beside you and ready to grab you by the collar and pull you through whatever battle Satan has thrust upon you if you just trust Him. He has earned that trust by what He did for us on the cross.

Our political leaders have gone completely bonkers in their servitude to Satan and there’s not much we can do about it, but then, as frustrating as it is sometimes, we don’t have to do anything about it. It’s above our paygrade to try and direct the demons in charge of powerful men, yet we can and should pray for them – there’s always the chance that they might see the error of their ways and repent. It has happened in the past. Remember the citizens of Ninevah, and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Some important guys in the here and now see the evil in what is going on and resent it, but they are also basically helpless, remember Nicodemus and his support of Jesus, but he was surrounded by the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees and could do little to help the Lord. Anyone stepping in to avoid the crucifixion wasn’t possible; remember He could have summoned thousands of angels to rescue Him if He had chosen to, but He endured that cross for you and me.

If you are in a part of the country where you can get out and enjoy the dogwoods, by all means try to do so – we’re getting a spectacular bloom once again. There are old legends – I remember one of my elementary school teachers (back in the Pleistocene) telling us that the cross was made of dogwood tree and ever since the crucifixion, dogwoods have never grown big enough to make a cross from. I’m not sure about the veracity of that one, but the flower petals grow in sort of a cross shape – anyways the dogwood bloom always reminds me of Jesus’ crucifixion. Glorify Him at every opportunity. Enjoy this blessed weekend.

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

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MK