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From Arizona to Gaza – There’s Much to be Done

I make no claim to the eagle on our national emblem. He’s under no obligation to represent the government of this country. I cannot in good conscience boast of forebears who conquered this land of abundance and drove away or slaughtered it’s rightful stewards. It was a most foul iteration of human behavior (was it normal?) to drive a people away from prosperous lands, to slaughter most of them and relocate the remainder into the desert, to barely habitable reaches on the very fringe of survivability – a bleak stratum of hostile existence devoid of forest and wildflowers wherein children vie with rattlesnakes and scorpions for piteous claim to those pathetic and arid habitations. Or worse yet, rather than displace, to eliminate them and their ways, as their cherished memories are inexorably erased; their songs forever silenced from a land they once called their home. As is being done today in occupied Palestine.

As I brood over news stories of today’s atrocities being levied against those equally helpless people in the forlorn Gaza Strip, I cannot but recall and regret that similar holocaust suffered by the American Indians which our own ancestors visited upon them with equal impunity, equal disregard for life, devoid of any Christian compassion. Knowing the historical truth of our ancestors’ malign behavior towards the Indians, do we then reconcile ourselves again to helplessly watch events unfolding in Gaza as the very human moral foundation of the whole world is obliterated? I for one, shall not cower in sheltered comfort as children are once again starved and murdered for sport! Though I’m aged beyond hope of military worth, at the very least I have a pen! We all have a prayer! Then let us pray fervently then for His intervention!

We have a sacred duty as human beings created by the Almighty to do whatever we can within Christian bounds to confound those demons from the pits of hell who once again rise to sacrifice children and infants on the bloody altar of Satan, and by the grace and with the succor of the Almighty we must rise to face them! We do not possess a privilege nor divine right to do otherwise. We must follow our hearts, our consciences, which plead with us to step up and do the right thing and do it expeditiously. We, at long last must cast off the shackles of fear and doubt that hold us in abeyance. These are tools of the enemy but they will be of no avail once we realize and acknowledge the power we collectively possess. The power bestowed upon us by the Almighty! And if the pen is indeed mightier than the sword, then may those of us who write emerge alongside the victors!

Streets of the world are truly become battlefields where stalwart people of conscience face mindless and soulless uniformed robots of the enemy who can and one day shall be defeated for the sake of the brotherhood of the world. These, as always, have chosen to take station with the enemy of mankind, just as it was in the day of Wounded Knee, the Warsaw Ghetto, Ludlow, Colorado in 1914, and on the streets of Chicago in 1968 and as it is today in countless protests on the streets of cities throughout the world. The true enemy is Satan and the wealthy barons who have already parlayed their souls for their stations in this temporary life. Those who choose service to them share that insidious desire to persecute and torment the indigent – the helpless. The wealthy oligarch hires the media to prevaricate; to weave his webs of deceit. He hires (and bribes) kings, presidents, and prime ministers to do his bidding, always at the expense of innocent lives, all the while flaunting the dark infamy that seals his dishonor – thus it was in the early days of America – thus it is now and has ever been.

His most effective weapon is his ability to turn simple “Christian” people, secretly his most feared adversaries, against one another. How is it possible for him to do this over and over? Why do the masses so readily take up arms against their brothers? Is the black, or brown, man truly your enemy? No, you say? Why then do you cheer so when you see the news that reports great numbers of migrant farm workers being deported from the US? These people are your brothers and in the eyes of God have exactly the same right to be here as you do so get off your high horse – you are no better than them. You have no more right to the fruit and water of God’s earth than anyone else, no matter what you hear on some Godless “news” medium or from some demented politician or perverted preacher. No more right, indeed than the Indian, whose stewardship of this land our forebears arrogated. When we get that through our heads, we might together become able to make progress against our real enemies, the wealthy of the world. Until then, we remain truly helpless – to repeatedly be taken down by those servants of Satan – as we have always been – perhaps even to the end – when the Lord returns at last and takes them down.

There will, after all, be a Judgement Day and people will have to give an account for why they supported the evil happenings of the world. Why they were all in for seeing the unfortunate aliens being persecuted, or the Indians massacred on bloody plains of yesterday, or why it was ok with them for kids in Gaza to be murdered? Racism seems to be the common denominator so if you are racist, you can either repent or plan to ride on the same train as the Custers, Trumps, and Netanyahus of the world.

Back to the great American debt. There are several charities which help out with Indian schools, and movements, one in particular, that is afoot in the US that is attempting to give a chance for those of us who would like to make amends to our Native American brethren for the longstanding grievances levied upon them by our ancestors. It is called NARF – Native American Rights Fund, which at this juncture is rightfully demanding that this government take whatever steps are necessary to comply with the legal requirement to ensure reservations have water, clean drinking water, for those barely survivable open air prisons to which they have been relegated and all but forgotten. As part of any effort we take to rise and try to correct our bearings toward the helpless of this earth, we Americans should do everything we can to support movement such as this one to help improve the Native Americans’ livelihoods. I’m pretty sure that for the price of just one F-35 fighter jet, the US government could provide water to all of the Native Americans on all reservations. Since we cannot go back and undo the wrongs they suffered, it’s the least we can do. Why should America deprive the Indians of life-sustaining water like the occupiers in Israel are doing to the legitimate stewards of Palestine? Or are we no better?

They sent me a pen and a keychain. I send them a pittance of financial help, tears, and prayers.
www.narf.org

Who knows? If we, the descendants of interlopers here in America can show conscience and start doing the right thing for once, maybe that noble eagle won’t be so ashamed of America after all. Those Indian kids need, and have a human right to clean water, just as the children of Gaza have a human right to sustenance and indeed, life. Together, men of good conscience can see it done – in Arizona and Gaza.

May the blessings of the Almighty 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.