These are Not Your Leaders

Don't follow them into the pit!

It Is Done

Rev 21:6 And He said to me, “It is done!I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

Revelation is the book for the end times. It is a vision of John signified by the angels. In Rev 16 the words, "It is done," is heard coming from the throne. In Rev 21, we find out who said it--God. God said, "It is done," 2000 years ago, and John, the Disciple of Christ, was there to hear it.

How can it be done and yet we are still here? Can God say something that isn't true? If the Bible is true, how come God said that to John almost 2000 years ago, and yet life has gone on as before? Don't ever be afraid of confronting the Bible's seeming inconsistencies and contradictions head on. Boldly go to the throne and ask for wisdom, and have faith in the Truth.

Here is what I know: The Bible is the truth, God breathed, unerring; God is infallible, the supreme creator of all, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega; if He said something that wasn't true, He wouldn't be God.

Here are the choices we have about these scriptures: It isn't true; it is true.

I both know and believe the Bible is true, so that leaves me with it being true. Yet I have no experience of it "being done," as life has seemed to continue to go on. So either: it doesn't mean what it seems to say; or it means what it says and my understanding is incomplete.

I think it is pretty difficult to mince words when saying, "It is done," after all of the events described in Revelation, so I'm going with incomplete understanding. Can I imagine any way in which this might be true--that it could be done but still going on?

I can. It can be true if the space/time is bent in the manner of science fiction movies, so that the moment it is done only touches John's lifetime at that moment he had the vision. Okay, its pretty fantastic, but not implausible. Still, doesn't seem quite right. Time in Heaven is different, if it exists at all in an eternal realm. Are there any other ways it could be true? Yes, if it is done, and this is a memory--God's memory. What would God's memory be like? He's God, I mean, so His memory must be something special. Maybe it is so like real life that it is indistinguishable from what we think of as "reality." Haven't you heard recently about the holographic nature of the universe? Isn't it pretty curious how serendipitous life can be? This reality we exist in could be like a giant holo deck in God's head. How would we know?

So my mind can imagine scenarios where it can be true. Doesn't mean what I imagined is the truth, but if I can imagine it at all, I know God can do it. However He does it doesn't matter so much as the fact that He can.

So what does this mean? Why does it matter to know that it is done?

It means God's will, His complete will, has been accomplished (past tense) and there is nothing you or me or anyone is going to be able to do to screw it up. He has remembered this moment in time just to remember me and the choices I made for Him and to love the truth despite the overwhelming awfulness of the enemy, and because He LOVES me. For all I know it could all stop immediately after my life ends.

Consider this: that it is done means we are already with Him in Heaven. We are both here and there (we are made in His image, and He didn't mean our flesh because He doesn't have flesh Himself. Not until Jesus. But He does have a multimentional body that is capable of being everywhere at once), and being there means there is nothing to worry about. It is done, I am with Father, so I am going to take a deep breath and shove off the burdens the enemy lays on my back that the future is somehow in doubt.

There is no doubt. Alpha and Omega said so. It is done. Breathe. Relax if you can. Now, knowing that His perfect will is accomplished, what will you do with this fantastic and amazing life in the mind of God?

The Bible

The Bible really is a living (by living I don't mean changing), multi-dimensional, magical book. It's writer is clever, fierce, loving and awesome. This book was written to conceal and to reveal at the same time.

Take this passage:

Luke 8:16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 Fo...r nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”

I didn't pay attention much while growing up in church, but I remember the verse about hiding a light being used to encourage kids to wear their faith on their sleeves and go door to door sharing the "light" within us. That's not what this means, though. This is a warning for those people who seek to sin and keep it a secret. In this case the light is the truth, which Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the light, has, is, and will set the truth on a lamp stand for all to see and know. There are many people in the world who want to keep their sins secret, but they cannot. Seems like every day now people's dark secrets are being revealed in the news.

This verse is also encouragement to those who would be saved out of sin. Adam and Eve did not want their sins revealed to God, so they hid themselves. First they hid behind fig leaves, then they hid in the garden when God came looking for them. Every single one of us has multiple choices every day to sin or not (the choice to be loving or hateful, patient or impatient, kind or unkind, honest or dishonest, forgiving or hold grudges, etc.). We can't help it, being layered individuals, but hide some of these sins behind fig leaves, and even to (try to) hide altogether when God comes looking for us. The bravest thing we can do is to come out when He calls and stand naked before the Lord, covered in the filth of our sins, trusting that the blood sacrifice cleanses us completely.

So this passage is both a warning and an encouragement. People who aren't saved do not want their wickedness revealed and would seek to change the meaning, or hide from it, or keep others from knowing the truth of it. They will fail. People who are saved want the truth to be revealed; are weary of the secrets that keep them in bondage to sin and want the truth to come out so they can be freed. They will succeed.

This is just what the Spirit showed me about this passage. I am certain there is even more to unpack from it. More and more. And individual gifts for each who pursues it. All of the meanings will not be identical, but they will all be in agreement. That's how this awesome book works.

Becoming Saved

Understanding that all are individuals and there is no blanket, here are some signs that go along with being saved:

Immediately upon becoming saved, some of the sins you were already resisting are gone. (For instance, if you were inappropriately attracted to someone, or if you tried to not be late all the time--those struggles are gone in an instant.)

The Bible, which maybe once you thought was a mythology book, or a quaint old book you would never understand, is revealed as a magical, completely true, multidimensional, living, God-breathed document, with incredible treasures in every verse. It stops being a dust collector on the shelf.

You realize that you just don't fit in the world anymore and that, in fact, you never did. Further, you no longer want to.

You realize that the verses that talk about the evilness of man's every thought and of his heart are true, and that you aren't the exception.

For the first time in your life you want to put away sin. You may not be able to, at least not with all of them, but you want to. You realize that being able to recognize your own sin is a miracle, because before you thought you were "good," and that wanting to put sin away was impossible for the unsaved person you are.

Friction between yourself and unsaved family members who think you've gone nuts becomes the norm. Friends may start to drop out of your life.

For the first time you are actually able to love unselfishly. Because of the "then" and "now" aspect of being saved, you realize that you never loved anyone before, and you realize how amazing it is to really love, even though it hurts.

The truth starts to reveal itself to you; the truth in scripture and the truth of the world. The truth in scripture is amazing and beautiful and you want more. The truth of the world is Sodom & Gomorrah ugly and makes you want to hide in a closet.

You no longer feel attached to any worldly thing and become willing, as the Son's work is accomplished in you, to give it all away. This goes for possessions as well as worldly knowledge (evolution for creation, Newtonian astronomy for geocentricity, flat earth for round earth, etc.) because the Bible says differently. At the very least you will no longer buy into unproven theories.

Pursuit of worldly wealth becomes abhorrent to you, especially if your particular job feeds on the suffering of others. This doesn't mean you can't or won't have wealth, or at least have enough, but it means pursuing it isn't your main priority any more, if it is a priority at all, and you care how it is accomplished.

Whatever prejudices you might have had, or biases against anyone, and biases for, or rejections of people for being "different," or vanities, begin to recede into the void, bled off by the truth that all are fallen and all sin is equally repugnant to God.

Forgiveness becomes the norm for you, and over time even ills done you in distant memory, even tremendously hurtful things done you become things you desire to forgive. You also seek forgiveness for ills you do to others, much more quickly than before.

Because it has been revealed to you how fallen the world is, and because your heart is actually able to love for real, sorrow becomes your companion. More important than pleasing people becomes reminding them that they need a savior, and telling them where to find Him. The sorrow comes because of how hard hearted and blind people stubbornly remain, even despite rock-solid evidence presented to them, and because you know there really are dire consequences for rejecting God. But you still have hope and persist because you too were once so hopelessly lost in sin.

Finally, no matter what it costs you--your job, your spouse, your family, your friends, your worldly wealth, your worldly standing, your health--you would never go back, not even for a minute. No matter if it brings terrible suffering, like the torture some of our brothers and sisters are suffering in other countries right now, or if it brings martyrdom, like in other countries ruled by Islam and communism right now, you know the difference between being saved and being destined for the pit, and you will never trade off being saved again. Ever.

Innocent Blood Spilled

• I'm sorry folks, but America will not be pardoned. I read this verse today:
  
  2 Kings 24:4
  
  and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
  
  This passage is referring to what God caused to happen to Judah at the hands of Nebucadnezzar, and the why of it, even though Judah had a king who obeyed the Lord before these events. That king tried hard to save Judah, but because of the previous kings' evil, it wasn't possible. Because of the innocent blood, no pardon came and Judah was carted off to captivity in Babylon.
  
  Back in the day they would sacrifice children to their false gods. Even the kings of Judah and Israel did that. People think it has stopped, but it hasn't. It is still going on today. But when none who walk the earth are innocent; when "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," where is the innocent blood coming from that fills America? Who lives and yet has not sinned? Of course, it is the unborn! Abortion is the practice of child sacrifice to false gods today, and the count is up to over 55 million just for America! We're not the only country, but since this is where I live, this is where I'm most concerned with. And anyway, this might be the only country that founded itself "under God," which makes us a bit like Judah, doesn't it?
  
  The unchanging Lord will not pardon the shedding of innocent blood. He didn't then, and He won't now. Nor will he pardon the sin of causing others to sin.
  
  There are children murdered and sacrificed in this country, too, but not in the numbers of abortion. I've heard in some satanic circles they make children do it to other children. In abortion not only are the unborn babies sacrificed, filling this land with innocent blood, but often their mothers are coerced and manipulated into it. This country's love of killing the unborn has doomed us--it has caused America to be guilty of two unpardonable sins.
  
  This is why Obama was allowed to become president. He is the agent of our doom. This is why he is most probably the anti christ, and why Mitt won't be elected. What, is the anti christ just going to lay down and give up his power? I don't know how he will keep the presidency--maybe by eliminating his rival, maybe by causing war to come to our shores, by causing another terrible "terrorist" event, or whatever. If Obama really is the anti christ, then there won't be an election this year, or if there is, it will be "won" by Obama through treachery (again).
  
  If Obama is the anti christ, then it is highly likely that what Jonathan Kleck says is true--Obama is a clone of Ahkenaten, and we are the hybrid race of the fallen ones and the original humans, and there will be an "alien" invasion in there somewhere too, with the attacks and the wars coming to our shores. Red Elk, Brother Thomas and Zeph Daniel all also speak of wars and terrors coming. These men do not all say the same thing, but they are all devout men of God, and what they say agrees with each other.
  
  Now the whole world is filled with this innocent blood. The abortion count for the world is 1.2 billion. God had Judah invaded and carried off in captivity to Babylon. All of the educated, artisans, craftsman, skilled and wealthy were taken; only the poorest and unskilled were left to tend the vineyards. When the whole world is due for this chastisement, where can anyone be carted off into captivity? This is where the "aliens" come in. They will take the wealthy, skilled, educated, craftsman, probably the famous too, the young and healthy, and God will save a remnant--the meek shall inherit the earth.
  
  I know I'm losing some of you more level-headed with the anti-christ-hybrid race-aliens thing, but America and our "parent" Great Britain lead the world in spilling this innocent blood. If God wouldn't pardon His chosen people, He isn't going to pardon us. Judah had a king that loved the Lord and destroyed all of the evil done by his fathers--the sacrificial alters and idols kept in the Lord's temple he removed and destroyed. He repented and made his people do right in the eyes of the Lord, but because of the innocent blood, God did not turn from His wrath. America does not have a repentant king. We have an arrogant, pride filled king who calls himself God and snuggles up to God's enemy and America's enemies.
  
  I'm sorry. There is no saving America. I really am sorry! I love this country! It could have been so amazing--a light for God in the world. But remember, Jesus did not come to save nations, countries, cities, or states. Jesus came to save individuals. It is not time to be praying for and investing time and energy in the hope that some new political leader will save America (Romney, even if the anti christ currently in office does give up his power, is not likely to be a repentant king, either, but regardless, as with Judah, even that wouldn't cause God to turn from His wrath). It is not time to be hoping in a man or thinking this country will meet with anything other than the destruction described in Revelation 18. Let it go.
  
  It IS time to be repenting of your own sins, developing your communication and relationship with God, studying the Word while it can still be studied, and submitting yourself, your families and your life 100% to the Lord's plan. In your spare time, or if you aren't interested in this first directive, might want to prepare yourself for living in wartime. You'll need some skills like:
  
  Have two types of guns--the cheap sacrificial ones you can hand over when they come for them, and the hidden, high quality, well maintained ones that no one knows you have (but don't trust in guns, trust in the Lord!)
  Have alternative weaponry to guns--like the sling, sling-shots, bows and arrows, blow guns--things they won't be thinking to confiscate (but don't trust in your weaponry trust in the Lord!)
  Know how to use this weaponry (but don't trust in yourself, trust in the Lord!)
  Have food and water stored (but don't trust in food and water, trust in the Lord!)
  Learn how to determine what plants are edible (but don't trust in foraging, trust in the Lord!)
  Learn how to hunt and fish (but don't trust in what you can catch, trust in the Lord!)
  Develop escape and evasion plans with your family (Again, only trust in the Lord!)
  Divest yourself of every unneeded thing and make sure you are able to travel light on extremely short notice and for extended periods
  Plan how you will live without the establishment--without power, without running water, without grocery stores, without police and fire departments and without hospitals and doctors
  Plan where you will meet your family again if you all have to run from different places
  Learn emergency medical care and CPR/first aid and have medical supplies and medicines stored
  Learn herbal medical care, because medicines won't be available for long
  Plan how to keep yourself and your families hopeful and joyful and able to praise God even when things become really, really terrible
  Remember the rule of 3's: You can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food, for when you are on the run
  Make sure everyone in your family has all of these skills, for some of you will surely die, and some of you will be separated from each other
  
  Feeling overwhelmed and panicked yet? I know...scary stuff. Imagine being a pregnant or nursing mother during these times! God's wrath is frightening. Always has been. So the first thing you need to do is get on your knees and repent and pray for God to make you right with Him. Don't wait for His wrath to really start to become apparent; do whatever He says, when He says it, no matter what it is RIGHT NOW. He may not instruct you to do any of the above, or He may instruct you to do some, but another may be the beneficiary of your preparations. Your trust should be in Him and Him only, not in yourself, or someone else, or in any thing. Fear God and keep His commandments. ALL else is VANITY.

Romans 13

Romans 13 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 5 Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Have you ever really read this and asked the Lord what it means? This chapter, along tieh Tits 3:1, has been used by every church and every despot and every dictator and every bully to force people into submission even when they know submission isn't right. Let's have a look at it from the Spirit of Truth's perspective now.

This was a letter from Paul to the church in Rome. It is the same Rome Paul had his first employment in persecuting Christians to death. Christians were not safe in rome, and I presume anyone carrying a letter for Christians was also unsafe. The letter had to be carefully worded. Our Paul was clever and fierce, and he expected the people receiving his communications to be clever and fierce with the same Spirit he had. He expected them to know right from wrong. For instance, verse 3 says, "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same."

Was this true for Jesus?

That would be a resounding, no, it was definitely NOT true for Jesus. It also wasn't true for any of the 11 of Jesus' disciples who were executed. But how can something the Bible says be untrue? If you love the Lord and have received the Spirit of Truth, then you know it can't. The Bible is true in every word. So how can something that is a patent lie with regards to Jesus' life, be true?

One choice is that the "rulers" this verse speaks of are not the government of the day. It also can't be refering to the government of our day, as that would also make it a lie. What rulers then? Verse 1 says, "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." Check out that part where it says, "there is no authority except from God." There is your first clue. The next clue is way back when Jesus said in Matt 12:25, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand." Would God appoint rulers who would subsequently throw Him under the bus, cast out His Word and execute His people for their faith? Somehow a kingdom divided cannot stand, but somehow anyway God appoints rulers that are against Him? I don't think so.

Verses 2-4 of Romans 13 actually is describing what it looks like when God appoints a ruler. That these verses do not describe the world rulers of the day, or any world ruler since then, makes it pretty obvious that God did not appoint those world rulers. Verse 6 says that because God did not appoint these rulers, but we appointed them ourselves, "this is why you pay taxes." But we are instructed to pay our taxes IF we owe them. (Since when are taxes and IF?!)" Sure, pay those things, hand over the debt notes, it doesn't matter, give them more than they ask for even. Money is counted by the Lord as worth very little, so why would you hold it back from someone who wants it? Paul goes on to remind the believers that they should see to it that they don't owe anything to anyone but love, and he reminds them of the commandments and tells them to do no harm.

What he is saying is, "I know this illegitimate government is corrupt and anti-God and is repressing and persecuting you, but don't worry about it because God has it under control. Fear God and keep His commandments, no matter what is going on around you. And don't worry about trying to save or rebel against worldly governments. Do not harm your neighbor. Stay sober and do what Jesus would do." When in His life did Jesus ever try to heal or save or change the worldly governments?

But this chapter is also expressing the legitimate ruler whom God did appoint. The last one He appointed was Jesus. Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Jesus is the only legitimate government. Romans 13 points to Him a few times:

the authorities that exist are appointed by God (government on his shoulders, Isaiah 9:6)
he does not bear the sword in vain (Jesus is the sword bearer, Matt 10:34)
he who loves another has fulfilled the law & therefore love is the fulfillment of the law (Jesus fulfilled the law, Matt 5:17)
for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed (Jesus is our salvation, 1 Thess 5:9)

And finally he just says it, "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ."

Anyone capturing the courier bearing this letter might have read that and understood only that it encourages all Christians to submit to the rulers of the area. Without the Spirit of Truth, scripture cannot be discerned. Paul expected lovers of Jesus to have that Spirit and to know what He meant. He was telling them there is no authority over them but Jesus, period, but that they ought not to stage any kind of rebellion because that is not a Christian's priority.

Hey, don't take my word for it. Ask the Spirit to show you the truth. Do that, and then tell me how Titus 2:15 can tell you to take and use all authority, but Titus 3:1 can tell you to be subject to principalities and powers. What does it mean? only the Spirit can discern it for you.

The Mark

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The technology for the mark of the beast is here. It never made sense to me that it was a chip, because a subcutaneous chip can be cut out with a knife or removed via amputation and therefore is not permament. Same with a tattoo. This article says,

"Each DNA fragment also contains a digital “barcode” that records its location in the original file"

The "mark" is embedded in the DNA, like in t...he television show "Dark Angel." You can't cut your DNA out, and if it is altered, will God recognize you as His? When it comes, it will be compulsory, but the Lord will not allow it to be forced--it will be a choice. It will be sold to you the same as every other lie of the enemy--you will be told it is good, and that God doesn't know what He is talking about. They'll take your blood or stem cells or whatever, embed the unique number in it (with some other useful codes, like instructions to turn your soul off or expell it, destroy your creativity and independent thought, etc), and put it back in to replicate itself through all of your cells. Tap your wrist to scan it. No buying or selling without it. Instant permanent identity security, and instant loss of your eternal life in Heaven.

9/11

You've all heard of the 9/11 truthers, right? How they think 9/11 was an inside job, and how ridiculed they are by pretty much everyone? I am a 9/11 truther of sorts, though I don't run with those particular crowds. I don't run with any group mainly because there is no group that has God at its helm, but I do know 9/11 was an inside job.

I don't doubt the planes crashing into the buildings, but the planes didn't bring down the buildings. Check out Dr. Judy Wood's research for a straighter story than any you've received thus far.

I remember when 9/11 happened. I was a student attending CSUN, and I was so stuck to the TV that I barely got my kids to school on time. I believed all of the news stories at the time-apparently college students aren't that good at critical thinking. I was traumatized by this event for years afterwards. When we went to war, I supported it, when we went to another war, I supported it. I believed Islam was the enemy.

Now since I've been awakened by the Lord to the truth, I know Islam is just a tool of the enemy. Not that extremists don't still need to be stopped, but that they aren't the real enemy.

The towers did not collapse--they were turned to dust by some weapon that the general public isn't aware of. The airplanes didn't do it. The hijackers, if they were real, only killed themselves and their passengers and whomever died in the initial blasts. The rest of the people in those towers were killed by some amazing weapon that can dissolve millions of tons of steel and aluminum and concrete and glass into particulate matter in mere minutes. Who would have such a weapon? I doubt it is the terrorists with their old, second-hand weaponry holed up in their caves.

So if it was an inside job, perpetrated on the American people by some as-yet unnamed enemy, quite likely with the cooperation of the government, or at least the shadow government, then what does that make us after having engaged in three wars overseas as a result?

Why of course, it makes us invaders.

If an army were to invade America and occupy us for 11 years and bring down our government and replace it with their own, would we just lay down and accept it or would we never stop fighting? I think even the illegals and couch potatoes would take up arms and fight if that were to happen here. No matter what, would we ever stop fighting?

That's why the Afghans and the Iraqis have never stopped fighting us. We are there under false pretenses, and that makes us invaders of foreign lands. Whose side are we on, anyway, when after 10 years of American soldiers being there, there isn't a single Christian left in Afghanistan?

All that is happening in the middle east is Israel's enemies are gathering round about her. There was too much peace, and the old regime had to be eliminated. Islam is being deliberately stirred up against us for reasons only the shadows know (and those who study scripture). The wars were sold to the American people with one giant lie, and most of us bought it and are still buying it even though the truth is right there in front of us and has been all along. The truth is just too hard to believe for the dumbed down masses.

What could reduce the towers to dust? Who did it? Why did they do it? Who did they do it for?

They did it for the real enemy. The real enemy is not Islam, not even the people using such weaponry on American soil. There is only one enemy--the enemy of God. The devil, the serpent of old, the dragon, the father of lies is the enemy. Humans, ALL humans, are both the battleground and the prize in a war that has been raging since before the creation. It doesn't make sense to fight each other over land or disagreement or possessions or whatever. It DOES make sense to fight when the enemy comes against you in the form of a human, don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating pacifism. There is a time to fight. I'm only saying recognize who the real enemy is and keep your wits about you as to what is really going on here.

The devil could not have offered cities and countries and worldly wealth and all other such temptations to Jesus if he did not have the ability to hand them over. This world is ruled by the enemy and will be until God brings him to his end.

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Are you paying attention yet?

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The difference between "them" and "us" is not as simple as Democrats/Republicans, Islam/Christians, etc. The difference between them and us IS as simple as evil/Good.

And let me tell you something about evil. Evil is aware. Evil is organized. Evil has plans that span centuries. Evil LOVES that it can tell you straight up, right to your face what its plans are, ...and that you think it is just a Superbowl half time, or an Olympic closing celebration, or a musical performance, or a coincidence, or an accident. Evil FEEDS on the suffering it causes, like vampires at a blood bath, and the people who serve evil ARE evil. They feed on the suffering evil causes even when it destroys their own habitat, because evil is evil and simply can't help itself. If evil could have, it would have already caused nuclear war, massive natural disasters, the alien invasion and many other terrible atrocities. Do you doubt this? Do you doubt that evil has desired every moment from the day you were conceived to destroy you, your family, your friends, your world, your life, your country, your world? If it could have, evil would have torn you from the womb. There is only one reason why evil couldn't tear you from the womb or kill you in your infancy or childhood. There is only one reason why evil hasn't already brought the antichrist and the terrible destruction prophesied in Revelation and throughout the Bible.

That reason is God. God is what restrains evil from its evil plans. God's will be done. And so you know that God's will be done does not always include stopping evil from the devastation it plans. 55 million abortions in America are evidence that God doesn't always stop evil from tearing people from the womb. That could have been you. God planned for you to survive. Why? Why did He save you?

The Great Restrainer will not always hold evil back from all it truly desires. Evil has its part to play in God's plan, which will be followed by its complete eradication. Evil will be done away with, and so will all of those people who signed on with it.

So I ask you, WHY ARE YOU WASTING TIME trying to figure out which of the losers to elect this November, or watching sports, or watching any TV, or shopping, or thinking people like me are crazy, when you still haven't answered the all-important question of WHY DID HE SAVE YOU?

And another important question. Where do you want to be when evil meets its end--in the pit of eternal fire with those who defied God, or in Heaven with God?

In The Sky

Something Zeph and Johnny have said has confused me, but the Lord just gave me the answer. Johnny says the Lord is coming soon to rapture us before the big disaster. Zeph says there isn't going to be a rapture because He didn't save the people who are suffering all over the world, so why would He save us? But the Lord's answer to this is, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy." The truth is ...that none of us controlled, as far as we know, where we were born, and some parts of the world are worse than others. But any of us could go over to where it is really bad and join in the suffering our brothers and sisters are experiencing there. Some people do leave the first world for the third world, and some of them are caught up in the persecutions of believers. Speaking personally, I have neither the calling nor the means to go there. I am pretty much stuck in the first world, and that is as the Lord intended for me. The truth is that we are one who love the Lord, so their suffering is my suffering, and vice-versa. It is a mistake to think there is no suffering in the first world--it is just of a different nature. We are one family, though, the lovers of Christ. We are one (read John 17). Realize also that not everyone in those terrible places is being subjected to persecution. We only hear about the worst cases, but not everyone has those troubles. Some people here in the first world suffer horrific persecution, too. God knows who is His, and He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. Not all are apportioned persecutions unto torture or death, although it is true that to love the Lord is to be persecuted in some fashion. It is not right for believers to think they should be suffering, or to feel left out because they aren't suffering, or to think they are getting off Scott free because some believers are suffering more than others. Compassion, empathy, helpfulness--these are good things to feel about others' suffering. All joy and all suffering of any individual belongs to the whole. It is right for believers to feel one with the body, and to love and obey the Lord and seek Him in all things. And if the Lord chooses to rapture some of us out seemingly without our having suffered, that is His prerogative. He will have mercy on whom He has mercy. It isn't personal. None are innocent here or worthy of escaping, but some will anyway. Some will, because He is coming, and we will meet him in the sky.

True America

So I am reading this book that is so inspiring. My vision is blurred because I spent all morning reading it, but I will try to correct the typos in this. It inspired me to write this post.

Let me tell you about the true church. The true church was founded and constructed by God and is actually doing well and just fine. It is hidden, as almost all things of God are. It is like when Elijah was alone and naked int he wilderness, and God showed him the thousands that He had near Elijah. It is rare that God reveals us even to each other. The disciples aided in the construction of God's church, but most of their efforts went publicly awry, allowing the true church to be hidden. The church is fine. It isn't in a building, it isn't in an organization, it is is the hearts of those whom Jesus has chosen, and who have chosen him. It is alive and well and awaits the Lord's command.

Now let me tell you about the true America. Perhaps it is as the conspiracy theorists believe, that the founders of this country were masons who secretly were devil worshipers. Certainly it is true that most of our leaders today are traitorous servants of evil. They, neither the leaders of the beginning nor the leaders of today, are America. America is comprised of the people. Whether or not they believed it (and I am sure at least some of them were members of the true church), the leaders founded this country UNDER GOD. Because the people who make up this country believed it, accepted it, and lived it, it is true. America, the true America, is under God, and as such, it is hidden as is the church. It lives in the hearts of patriots and the God-fearing souls who make up the body of this blessed nation: those of us who look on in horror as the righteousness it once possessed is destroyed piece-mail by its enemies. I t is my belief that we far outnumber the evil Cretans, many of whom are in power, who seek to destroy this nation.

Unlike the church, however, America is not fine. It is not doing well. Jesus never promised or intended to save countries. That was not what his sacrifice was for. If America is to be saved, God willing, it must be done by the true Americans. It must be done for the purpose of returning this country to its first love which isn't freedom. Its first love is and must always be God for freedom to be possible.

Let the next American revolution kindle in your own hearts, first by realizing the truth about yourselves with regards to the church, and with regards to America. Let it ignite there and position you where you belong in this fight. Let it put you in a state of readiness to receive and act on the Lord's command to fight for God and country, in that order, if and whenever necessary. If you seek the Lord diligently, your fight will not be in vain. It is the hope of every valiant soul that their fight for the right will cost them everything eventually. What better use of God-given life than that? Do not fear the cost.

We don't need a majority, or even a large percentage. God is the only majority we need. He is the only majority that cannot be thwarted. It is true, whether anyone can believe it or not, that the Lord will soon return. He has been delayed again due to the amazing and undeserved mercy of God. America has been given another chance. When He comes, no matter who the political leaders are or what their bent is, I would have the TRUE AMERICA already in His possession, having been given over to Him by true Americans RIGHT NOW.

Let your hearts be kindled to start the revolution in yourselves, by returning this country to its first love, Father Creator God, and His beloved Son whose sacrifice made America possible in the first place. Then wait on Him and do what He tells you. Expect to be naked in the wilderness for a while as He prepares you, but know that He has thousands there. Read John 17. We are all one in Him.

The book, if you are curious, is The Return of the Wizard, by Kevin B. Shearer, and is available on Amazon.

Abortion is Child Sacrifice

Psalm 8:2 out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of your enemies, that you may silence the enemy and the avenger.

And what is the enemy busy doing but attacking babes and nursing infants before they can even open their mouths-while still in the womb or, in late term abortions and partial birth abortions, while half in the womb, half born. All under the g...uise of "women's reproductive rights." The enemy would have women tear their own souls to rip life from the womb in order to silence those babes so he can keep on using us as an affront to God.

Do you abortion advocates ever even think about what you are supporting? Next time you see a newborn, imagine it being legal to, within a few hours after birth, kill it. Now it is legal to kill it as it is being born, even at full term. Yep just reach up there and spray some burning fluid on it, or dismember it. Pull out an arm, then a leg. That is legal! And people actually crusade for it! For murder, they advocate for murder.

And now you know that you are being used by the enemy to preserve his place in the world, and as an affront to God. God does not forgive the spilling of innocent blood. Nor does He forgive those who cause the innocent to sin. How much innocent blood is on the advocates' hands? Many of the women who have had abortions will be forgiven, both by God and the little spirits they rejected. Will the advocates be forgiven? They have blood of babe and mother on their hands. Their cry for legal abortions is as raucous and hate-filled as the cry of Islam for the death of Christians and the raping of Christian women.

Yeah, it is that bad, what you are doing. Don't take my word for it, just take a minute to think about what you are doing. Look at an infant and imagine it being torn limb from limb in the womb. Imagine it unable to cry out its pain because on the way to air, its skull was caved in. Imagine the enemy's glee as another babe is silenced, another woman's soul torn.

A "reproductive right" is the right to HAVE a baby, not the right to tear life from the womb. The enemy even has you blinded there.

From the moment of conception, abortion is murder. Abortion tears a woman's soul. This is what you want? This is what you call right and good?

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

His People

2 chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. My best friend brought this verse up to me yesterday. She knows the bible very well, so it always impresses me how she can recall verses like this. Note what it says: my people. GOD...'S people. HIS. Not the wicked. Only His own. Humble themselves, pray, seek His face, turn from their wicked ways. This is what many of us did at the last election. It is done. God heard from heaven, forgives our sin, and will heal our land. Note the possessive. OUR land. This land, America, does not belong to the hoards of invaders and wicked working to destroy it from within and without. It belongs to us, His people, called by His name, who humble theselves, pray and seek His face. He, God, makes it so. And He will heal our land. With healing comes cleansing. There is iniquity here that must be eliminated. I dont know what that will look like, or how long it will take. It will likely be painful. We have earned that pain by allowing our land to be so infected. But there is hope for America because of the incredible loving mercy of our God! I can't stress enough the importance of seeking His face. He will give you your role to play in this fight for America and freedom. And the best part is that you will have a role. Your life is not going to be a vapid existence of moderate comfort and government control. You will be able to express your heroism. You will be able to meet your real self, the fierce soul God created for freedom. So seek Him first, above all. And as for the invaders and traitors, I have this to say to you: This land is my land. This land ain't your land. I got a shot gun, and you don't got one. I'll blow your head off, if you don't get off. This land was made for only me. ur destruction of our land and our freedom is at an end. Leave now and perhaps He will permit you to destroy some other place in order to bring that people back to Him. Or die. Praise God!

God's Abundance

Genesis 1:20 Then God said, "let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."

Psalm 65:13:The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered with grain; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Matt 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather ingobarns: yet gourmet heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Does it make sense for such an abundant world created by God, and the many promises of His to care for us, that we would be able to hunt or fish the abundance away? Would not God just created more abundance as more people were born? That was His promise.

So why do we believe the lies of scarcity? Why did we give over management of resources to government entities, who licence everyone, but put limits on what the private person can take, but not on what the commercial ventures can take? We pay for them to limit us, all based on the lie that we were depleting the earth. I realize I may have to wrest this belief from you, so ingrained is it in our thinking. Let me contend then, for the faith in the name of Jesus Christ, for the freeing of your minds from the tyranny and oppression of the liars.

What do you believe, scripture or government reports? Scripture promises abundance of the earth. Government reports promise scarcity and cry for regulation and limits, and for your money. Which do you believe?

Why this lie of scarcity? For control, of course. Now freedom loving Americans appeal to the government for permission to hunt, fish, build on their own land, drive a car, own a gun, etc. And we pay them for the limiting permits. We are paying for our own oppression. Whose idea was this? Why did, how did, a God-fearing nation fall for these lies?

The same way Adam and eve did in the garden. Satan made them doubt God's word. Somewhere along the way, some unbeliever cried that we were depleting the resources, say of buffalo. They went to the government, and the government issued a tax and a regulation. Now, buffalo are still gone, and all hunters are regulated and taxed. So are all fishermen. Don't you think God knows evil men with try to rape the world, and don't you think He can deal with them, much more effectively, while preserving the species in question? How did the world go so many thousands of years without government regulation, yet in a couple hundred years of America we managed to put God's abundance in danger so that the government needed to step in and protect it? Really?

The lie was for control, and it has us trapped in tyranny, so that now we don't pay for government services anymore, we pay the government to avoid being hassled by the government. Right here, in America, the land of the free and home of the brave, we pay the thugs not to beat us up. Think about that for a minute. Why do you pay MVD to drive your own car? So it won't be taken from you and held for ransom. Why do you pay income taxes? So you won't be thrown in jail and your property confiscated. Why do you seek building permits to build on your own land? So you won't be forced to tear it down or be fined. Why do you seek hunting/fishing permits? So you won't be fined and further punished. Why do you wait at a red light anyway, even though no one else is there and it is clearly safe? To avoid hassle and a fine because you never know when a thug is watching! This has been the way for generations, and today's Americans are so indoctrinated into it they don't see it as wrong or infringing on their freedoms.

And this emboldens today's regime to take even more. All in fact. We are ripe for total enslavement in America. In AMERICA!

It is time to fight. It is time to force the government back into service of the people, and to get rid of the thugs. It is time to open your eyes and realize how very limited and regulated you are, and how you aren't even free in your own mind anymore. It is time to believe in God and His promises, and to realize the government reports are all lies meant to enslave. God will deal with the traitors and invaders, and He will guide you to your fight.

Don't see it yet, the tyranny? Here is how you can wake up. Ask God for wisdom. Then pray every day on your knees, and read the Bible every day. If you want to go further, do these things AND cancel cable tv. Cancel your newspaper subscription. It will be hard at first, but without the noisy lies, your American mind, which was made for freedom, for creativity and innovation, will awaken. Even liberals can be brought back by praying daily and reading the Word.

The alternative is to become one who parishes in the fight. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed, and this land belongs to those who are free in Christ.

No Bitterness

Matt 27:34 they gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.

This was after the scouring, at the place where crucifixion took place. Perhaps this was a drink commonly given to those about to die. Gall, being a digestive fluid, maybe helped them? But gall added to the wine made it a bitter drink. Jesus refused the bitter drink.

The Spirit showed me... what this means. After everything that had been done to Him, and even considering what was yet to be done; the brutal, painful ending of a life He loved, unjustly killed, and every sin of all who would be forgiven, past, present and future, laid upon Him, His own people calling for it luckily, Jesus still refused to let bitterness in. Such was the nature of our savior.

What has been done to you in life? What slings and arrows? What pain and suffering, unjust, trust betrayed, even by those who should have loved and revered you? Did you let bitterness in?

Let it go. If Jesus, who suffered more than any man of any time, refused to become bitter, you ought to follow His example. A supple, loving, forgiving heart is one with no bitterness. Bitterness hardens the heart and prolongs suffering. It also hurts those around you who had nothing to do with causing your pain, but who love you. It isn't worth it.

If you harbor tremendous pain about what you have gone through and simply can't forgive or drop the bitterness, He can and will help you for the asking.

Think of it this way. People wonder why bad things happen to good people. They don't. Who is good here? All have sinned and fall short or the glory. Only Jesus was ever good. He didn't ask why, He knew. He alone was innocent. The rest of us are not. It is better to focus on how it can be possible for anything good ever happen at all to such a fallen race. Answering that mystery will help with letting bitterness go.

Voices in Your Head?

The human being is incredibly complex. God built into us a mechanism for handling the trauma we experience here, which I call splintering. Our psyches "splinter" into components, which may become in some, fully developed personalities with their own names. The severity and repetition of the trauma determines how far it goes. These are still "you," they just seem to be separate. In the cases of severe trauma, it is a mercy that we have this mechanism. God made it, He built us this way.

And the enemy likes to hijack God's creation, so he knows how to use this mechanism to create mind controlled slaves, like the ones that shot up Columbine High School all those years ago, or the one who recently shot up Newtown. What you don't see is that their "slaves" never do the job very well, so there are always backup shooters to make sure the event is as traumatizing as possible for the rest of the world. Why do they want to induce trauma in as many people as possible? Because this makes us easy to control. The enemy is ALL about control.

People who have been molested, or raped, or abandoned, or abused emotionally or physically, will splinter. This will, at its very mildest, introduce a few more voices in your head that you know are yours, but that speak of you in the third person. At its most intense, you will have complete split personalities with lost time. The latter, the most intense form, is extremely rare unless induced intentionally by evil people, and the milder forms are actually more like a form of post traumatic stress syndrome. I am expressing this so that it will be understood that if you are hearing voices in your head, some of the voices are your own, because of the splintering from trauma. Some of them. You should learn to distinguish these from the other ones. These will be benign, protective, loving, gentle, sometimes firm, helpful, and will use terms like "we" and "us," and call you by name.

But alas, there is an enemy. And the enemy has minions that literally crowd the airs. He is called the prince of the air, the ruler of principalities and powers. These minions feed on destruction, but they aren't allowed in. They desperately want into your body, but they aren't allowed. You have to do something extreme to damage yourself, like drink yourself into a stupor, or do drugs until you pass out. If they can, they will get you to kill yourself, because they aren't allowed in. If you won't do that, you may be driven to drugs to shut them up, and then they will one day get their "in." They are very clever and they have nothing but time, but they have limits imposed on them by God.

They are the ones putting the voices in your head to harm yourself and/or others. They are like a pack of laughing hyenas, and what they say doesn't make any sense sometimes, or sometimes it is so evil it is sickening. They might show you things, like gory images, and they will try to make you think it is you. Imagine shadow beings crowding around your ears and whispering, whispering, shouting sometimes, disguising their voices, feeding off your thoughts, constantly, and getting all excited when they are able to get you to do something. Then when you do whatever it is they wanted you to do, they are silent, because they are rewarding you for responding to them in a way that harms yourself or others. It is the standard punishment/reward training technique.

They don't care that you are not an equal opponent. Why do you think the enemy is so intent on destroying us in the womb? They advance on you because you don't know how to fight, because you don't want to fight, because that makes you easy prey.

So let's change that. You have all the skills you need to fight. The first thing you must do is stop being afraid. What kinds of things do they whisper to you? Address it directly. These are real entities, and they are outside of you, but they talk to you in your head. So talk back. Look them in the eye. What they are saying to you may at first be indistinguishable from your own thoughts, but you will get better at telling the difference the more you learn about them and yourself. You will really destroy their power by letting another know what they are saying to you. Discuss it. Employ logic and reason to disarm it. let someone's love for you spread light on it.

Secondly realize they can't hurt you. They can irritate you, frighten you, confuse you or make you feel hurt, but they can't actually hurt you. They might influence you to hurt yourself, but that is them getting you to use your own power against yourself. That's your power. That's you. You did that. Accept responsibility for it.

Thirdly realize that it is YOUR HEAD. You have all of the authority there, to allow or disallow any thoughts you wish. Next time they start to get feisty in your head, cut them off. Counter them with some happy thought. If you don't have any happy thoughts, cultivate them. Starting now. You happy is something these minions of hell can't stand. When they show you images of how hopeless life is, immediately show them images of you scrunching your toes in the sands of the Mediterranean Sea of the coast of Greece, or cantering on horseback across a fertile green valley, or whatever. Cultivate happy thoughts. They can be real or imagined, it doesn't matter, as long as it entices your soul to soar. The enemy can't track you there. He will be left behind where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Finally, ask the Lord for a sword. When they are gnawing on you and you have had enough, lop off their heads. Then you will see them for what they are, in your mind's eye. You have the choice then to either send them back to their own master, or to send them to my Master. If they go back to their own master, make sure to give them some message to give him, like "My Master is coming." If you send them to Jesus, they will be judged and destroyed by Him. That choice is yours, and because of the rules God set in place at creation, they MUST obey you. God gave us dominion over them. Period. The enemy doesn't want you to know this. The enemy wants to keep you trapped under his thumb, frightened, despondent, hopeless, cutting yourself in secret, but God created you for a higher destiny.

To protect yourself starting now and continuing throughout your life, please start reading the Bible right now. Every day. Even if you can't understand it, or only read one word, this is the book with the power of God in it. Also, pray on your knees every day. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to be consistent with these two simple tasks. So push yourself, overcome yourself, and read at least one word, and pray on your knees to God at least one word EVERY SINGLE DAY. There were times I could only say, "God," as my prayer. It is important to do it. Now it is my joy to do it, and to read the Word. I just read this morning in Psalm 35: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers them from every single one of them." The Bible is available on the internet. You can even sign up to have a verse sent to your e-mail every day.

Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Jesus on the inside forces them to back away from you. Look, the enemy knows of your curiosity for God. The truth is, that ONLY those who are curious about Him are able to receive Him and be received by Him. None can even approach Him but that He put the desire in them first. It is the enemy's desire to deprive the Lord of those who are His. The enemy will certainly fail, for the Lord will not lose even one of His. And on top of that, He will deliver you from EVERY affliction. So trust me when I say that this will pass. What you are going through is temporary. There will never be a time when we are in the flesh when we are without the enemy's attempt to feed on us. In time, though, as your focus becomes more and more about God and less and less about the flesh and the world, they will lose their power even as they increase the intensity of their attacks. Those who are hell-bound are not worthy of their attention, except that they feed on pain. It is only those who are attracted to the Lord who warrant the enemy's best effort to distract/destroy.

Some more information for you to ponder. The trauma you suffered through your parents' divorce or being harmed sexually, emotionally, mentally, or otherwise, especially by someone you should have been able to trust, allows the enemy to have a stronger voice with you. It just means you have to come back at them stronger, and it means when you overcome this, you will be a fierce warrior whom no one can sway from what is right. The stronger the enemy, the stronger you have to become to overcome. Forgive those people who hurt you and caused this particular form of attack to become so intense. It might be hard, so ask Jesus for help. He is a forgiveness expert. It is imperative that you take this step to forgive them.

There is a practical aspect to the happy thoughts I mentioned earlier. Every thought you think develops a neural pathway in your brain. The repeated thoughts have the strongest pathways, and the thoughts you no longer think get their pathways shut down. But the brain is not static and it can always grow and develop throughout your life. Depression develops neural pathways for hopelessness, despair, inactivity, self-harm. These can be allowed to atrophy and reabsorb if you start to recognize when you are using them and redirect your thoughts to a different path instead, like say for instance, a happy thought pathway. Maybe at the moment you can't think of any happy thoughts, but I know there are things that make you happy. There are things that cause your spirit to soar. Recall them, bludgeon the enemy with them. It's fun! The more bright and lively you are, the worse for the enemy. You don't have to stay down there on the floor curled up into a ball when God gave you all the tools you need. You have an imagination for just this purpose.

Because you are fighting a war, sometimes it will seem as though you lose a battle. Whenever you get knocked down, and if you are too low to call your friends to make you laugh, or get a hug from your mother, or grab the sword and lop of their heads, please try to remember that it is still YOUR mind. It is no one else's. You can bet that when things are so bad, the Lord has his warring angels fighting off the enemy on your behalf so that their influence over you isn't so great that you can't recover. It will help you in those times to picture that happening. Picture the Lord's mighty ones, armed to the teeth and lopping off demon head after demon head, even of the more powerful demons who have come against you who would otherwise overwhelm you to death without this intervention. That is actually what is happening, you know? Just like the enemy has minions you can't see with your eyes, so the Lord has His answer to them, fierce warring angels who will not let them have you. He never leaves you, for it is written, when we are faithless, He remains faithful. When you are so far beaten down, ask the Lord to show you how He fights for you. And know that you will not remain so low. You will be able to stand and fight again.

So in summary, if you are hearing voices in your head that don't seem to be yours, know you aren't crazy. They aren't yours. They aren't you. They are the enemy. Know that you are the one with the authority over your thoughts, so take the authority and don't be afraid. Address these foreign, enemy thoughts head on, with your mind, with a sword, with your will as the owner of your own mind. (Hint: Bring every thought under submission to God, and the enemy will never gain a foothold in your head). Be gentle with yourself and understand any splintering you may have done to cope with trauma. These "splintered" parts of yourself can help you repel the enemy, too, because they formed out of love and protectiveness of yourself. The Lord will make you "one" again in the fullness of time and His plan for you. In the mean time, be grateful for the amazing complexity of the being He made in you. When the enemy attacks in your head, redirect your thoughts to happy ones that entice your spirit to joy. Know that some days will be better than others, and on the worst days is when the Lord is fighting the hardest for you. Endure. It will pass. Read the Bible every day, and pray on your knees every day. The veil is getting thinner, the enemy is ramping up his attacks. The only protection is in God, and the Bible and bent-knee prayer are where you start.

Free Will Isn't What You Think It Is

When you are given a choice, you think you have acted freely. ~Penn (of Penn & Teller)

Think about this as it refers to America. We seem to have many choices here, and we pride ourselves on being a free country. Are we free, though? Do we have a choice to pay taxes or not? Do we have a choice of how the government spends our taxes? Some people think we can vote for what we want, but in a cou...ntry where majority rules, how free, really, is the individual to order his/her life her way?

Don't come back at me with arguments like, "Well serial killers want to be free to do what they want, too, but for the good of society, they can't be," or "the invasive pat downs and x-rays at security checkpoints are for our protection." It doesn't protect anyone (from terrorists or serial killers) for someone's grandma to be forced to remove her diaper, or for some 6-year old to have his privates groped. You are not even worth talking to if you think those things have anything to do with protection, or if you equate the average freedom-loving American with serial killers.

So let's look at some of the choices we have:

1. Pay your vehicle license tax -or- have your personal property impounded
2. Use the money of the land -or- don't buy or sell
3. Pay your property tax -or- have your house taken from you and auctioned off
4. Pay your income tax -or- go to jail
5. Obey the speed limits -or- risk a ticket (which imposes another tax)
6. Buy car insurance -or- risk a ticket and impoundment of your property again
7. Get a driver's licence -or- risk vehicle impoundment -or- don't drive
8. Eat food poisoned with high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils and/or MSG -or- grow what you can yourself and eat that -but- don't grow it in your front yard and don't try to sell it -or- face criminal penalties including jail and fines.
9. After high school graduate from college -or- face having a lower economic status for the rest of your life

I could go on with our choices here in America, the land of the "free." To be quite honest, I do feel like I have acted freely when I obey the speed limit and paid my bills on time. So I think what Penn states above is true. When we are given a choice, we feel as though we have acted freely, even when the choice is between something you might prefer and something punitive, like all of the above choices.

When the choice is made to avoid punitive damages, however, it is not a free choice. Ask yourself this: why should anyone be able to punish you with a tax or impoundment of your personal property when your actions or use of your own property have nor produced any victim, or even the hint of a victim?

I received a ticket on my work site one time for doing 35 in a 25 zone, and when he finished writing me the ticket, the officer said, "We just want everyone to be safe." Because I don't want hassle I didn't point out to him that no one was hurt or even close to getting hurt by my 35 mph "mad dash" around work. If someone had been out in the street in the crosswalk, or going to cross, I would have slowed down and/or stopped, and everyone would still have been safe. The point was that it WAS safe, even though I was speeding. No victim, no crime. But I still got a ticket because there are rules.

Rules = not free.

Review the places in your life where you are without rules. In your relationship with your spouse? In you relationship with your kids? When you are out hunting? Fishing? How about when taking a nap or sleeping at night--aren't there even rules then for how long you can sleep and when you have to wake up and how much of the bed and blanket you can use? You've got choices all the time, but are you ever really free?

Now let's look at another "choice" we have. Accept Jesus Christ or get a one-way ticket to hell.

Of course it isn't as simple as accepting--you have to repent, ask for forgiveness, accept the sacrifice He made for you, and then BE ACCEPTED in return by HIM. The latter part does not seem to be guaranteed in scripture.

But looking at the simplified choice, it isn't much of a choice, is it? Hell is a pretty serious punitive damage. People are angry at God for this and deal with it in various ways, by pretending God doesn't exist, usually, and adhering instead to one of the many religions that isn't so hard to deal with. Let's look at this, though. Jesus or hell.

Jesus or hell.
Jesus or hell.
Jesus or hell.

Don't be afraid of it. Jesus or hell. Forget everything else for a minute and make a choice: Jesus or hell? We'll get back to that later.

Was it a free choice? Are you free if you have something as terrible as hell looming over your choice?

The answer is NO. Hell is even worse, by far, than all of the punitive damages our society imposes for making the "wrong" choice. It can be established that America is not a free country, despite its assertions to the contrary. I defy you to find one country or society that is free. You won't. None of them are free. You aren't even free, in most cases, when you sleep!

And now we see that you aren't even free according to the Creator of Everything, the Creator of the world, the Ruler of the Universe, God Himself. You aren't free. You are free to choose to live or perish, but He has the final say over which it is no matter what you "choose."

Connect the dots. This is not a free world, this is a SLAVE WORLD. The only thing certain about this planet is that you will serve a master. Some people don't care--they like the slavery even, because if you have enough money or little enough money, it "feels" free. The most remarkable thing about this condition of slavery is that it is possible to choose which master. What slave ever got to choose his master? None! Except us, the sons and daughters of Christ the King. And scriptures say if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:36)

But the freedom doesn't come here, in this earthly life, on this slave planet, in the flesh. Freedom is in the life to come if you choose the correct master and He chooses you back. That is the hope we are certain of. None of us know what it is like, being truly free in Christ, except possibly a few saints throughout history, and possibly people with memories of Heaven. It will be such a delightful surprise to finally know what freedom is!

So getting back to the choice--Jesus or hell. Put aside all of your intellectual arguments, atheistic viewpoints, etc., and choose. Chances are, if you aren't a psychopath, you chose Jesus. Who would ever choose hell?

So if you know you would choose Jesus if it came down to the two choices, and you realize that indeed this IS a slave planet, and the only thing possible for the slaves living on it is SERVITUDE, hadn't you better figure out this whole Jesus thing and make your final choice? Look, forgive God already for whatever you are angry with him about. He doesn't need forgiving, but you will figure that out as you grow in Him. For now, just stop being angry. Everything that happened to you in your life that you are mad about happened to a SLAVE on a SLAVE PLANET. You are mad because you didn't think you were a slave and you didn't think it should happen to you. Since you reached the age of accountability, though, you have most likely not been serving the King. You have served yourself or others or the flesh or the enemy directly, but the simple truth is that if you aren't serving Jesus, you are serving His enemy. There are only two choices. If you are serving the enemy or if your parents were before you became an adult, and you got hurt--well that's what happens!

But don't think serving Christ means you will be unscathed. Terrible things happen to believers, too. 11 of Jesus' 12 disciples were crucified, and they were His best friends! A slave doesn't have a choice about what happens to him/her. That's the nature of slavery. There is no place you can run to, and no rebellion you can make that will get you out of being a slave on a slave planet, so you might look at the choices like this:

1. Live a slave's life in the flesh fraught with pain and misery, with a few happy moments thrown in, then die and be raised imperishable and and live with Christ in Heaven forever.
2. Live a slave's life in the flesh fraught with pain and misery, with a few happy moments thrown in, then die and be cast into the pit of hell for all eternity because Jesus never knew you.

Choice is not freedom. ~Penn

Choose this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 (paraphrased)

You aren't free. So choose.

When He Comes For You

Christ's second coming...seems to be more like an incoming tide...and it seems to start on the inside.

Those who are "in Christ" have a rather different take on current events. For one, while they may be annoyed, irritated, or angry about the lunacy of the world, they aren't worried about it. They know God is in control of everything, and that there is nothing to worry about. They also have no ...particular interest in saving it, because they know the world is doomed simply for being the world, and God's will is what matters.

Those who are "in Christ" also have a different take on His coming. He is already here for them, so where the rapture is concerned, they don't worry about it--about when it will happen or who will be taken or how. They have complete peace and know that they would be willing to stay if He had work for them here, and they have complete peace about going with Him, and they have complete peace about dying in the destructions. There is no separation, no distance, no "away" from Him for them. Come now, come later, I love you, I'll be waiting and watching, but mostly I'll just be praising you and enjoying the blessings you literally shower upon us every day.

Those who are in Christ, assuming any remain through the destructions, will be the ones heading groups that share any and all of what they have. Being in Christ, is being in plenty, so there is no question of sharing, even with those who might wish to forcibly take it. We will look like happy fools. While everyone else might be complaining about only having prickly pear cactus to eat, the one in Christ says, "Wow, look at this feast!" AND "Oh look, there are some more people who need to eat, invite them to share this feast with us!"

Let's go a little further into the end time scenario for the in-Christ person. Lets say that hungry group of outsiders is just a bunch of thugs desiring to take the food and rape the women and children. The happy fool, if they become aware of the threat, will laugh in the face of it, and the thugs will not prevail. Either the Lord will hide His group, or the Lord will simply prevent harm from coming to His own. The thugs might not even know why they spared one group and not another. This is what Psalm 91 means. Miracles will abound in the vicinity of believers in those days. God REALLY IS in control.

Being "in Christ" means not having a fear of death, in whatever form. Truly, we can't die. Death is a transition for us, into a realm where we can hug Jesus in real time. We certainly value the gift of life in the flesh, but we aren't going to be trying to hang onto it when the Lord calls us home. So should one of the thugs get off a shot and kill the believer, we'll be saying, "Hooray, I'm home!" and dancing and singing with the Lord. This is always in the fore front of the believer's mind when they are in Christ. See why we look like happy fools?

Being "in Christ" gives loss a different flavor as well. We will all lose loved ones in the destructions. A believer will be sad and miss his/her loved ones, but they will overcome it quickly and return to functioning through the comfort provided by the savior and the assurance of His love for them AND their loved ones. And loss of loved ones is the only thing that will be mourned. Material wealth, things, stuff, possessions, don't mean enough to the believer in the first place to bring about mourning for their loss. Happy fools, remember?

The more the tide advances, the longer these spells of happiness and joy last. Presumably there will be a day when the tide is all the way in and the believer simply shifts into the Kingdom. That might be how we disappear from here, or it might be something else, with us meeting Him in the sky. Maybe for some it isn't like a tide but will be like a tsunami instead, and they will make their transition all at once. The Bible says there is some twinkling-of-an-eye step to it, but we are all individuals to Him. Perhaps our transitions into Him are as unique as a fingerprint even while following His scripture.

Use this as a test to determine how deep into Christ you are. If you are worried: not in Christ. If you are not watching for His return: not in Christ. If you are busy trying to save the world: not in Christ. If you are worried about what you will eat or wear: not in Christ. If you are dreading and fearing your death: not in Christ. If you are inconsolable about any loss: not in Christ. If you find yourself inexplicably happy and wanting to shout to the heavens that you love God: in Christ. If you are not worried about a thing and are able to look for the good in everything: in Christ. If you are assured that you will not die when you die: in Christ. If you quickly overcome challenges, losses, or sins, and indeed if overcoming is your favorite thing: in Christ. If you love everyone, regardless of what they have done or might do or want to do, enough to forgive them even should you be unable to avoid being tortured and murdered at their hands: in Christ.

The good news is that you can be in Christ, and you can be more and more in Christ as your faith grows. So, are you ready to be His happy fool?

Acts 6: 8
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 7: 55-56

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Acts 7:59-60

And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

The Ark

Noah built an ark. It took him 25+ years, and I am sure his workmanship was excellent, as by the time he started it he had already had 500 years of life to perfect his woodcraft. The ark he built was not water tight, though, as the Lord had to shut him in:

Gen 7:16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.

There will never ...be another flood like that one, purposed to rid the world of evil humanity, but the Bible is clear that there will be another purge. This time it will be fire. This time the ark must be built by each individual, but it will still be the Lord who shuts them in.

To build the ark, start with Jesus' two commandments:

Mat 22:37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

If you don't have a desire to understand and live them, ask the Lord to give it to you. These will lead you to the actions that build the ark, namely seeking first the Kingdom, desiring to know the Word, realizing the truth about your awful condition, repenting of your sins and asking for and receiving the saving grace of the blood sacrifice Jesus made on your behalf. Asking is the building; receiving is the shutting in.

It is not about life in the flesh any more. All flesh perishes. We are at the end of the age when eternity will be decided for us all once and for all. There is a brief time of terrible struggle, which the has already begun in the world, and then judgement will come. At judgement there will be no more deciding. It will be done, the time of choosing will be over. It is just around the corner.

There is still a little time left to build the ark. The hour is late, but the Lord tarries for you. Jesus said he who is first shall be last and he who is last shall be first. He was talking about getting off the ark. The first on were the last off, and the last on were the first off. Here is the end of the parable:

Matt 20:13 But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”

The day is fast approaching when the last of the chosen will board and the doors will be shut and sealed by almighty God. Whomever is not aboard will be caught in the fire of judgement and perish, while on board will be a party such as has never been before nor ever will be again.

Like the end of a long and grueling marathon, or the celebration of finishing a particularly difficult building project, and everyone who wins is family. A party to celebrate the race being run. A party that will have Jesus present. The celebrants are they who went through the Lord's refining fire and escaped Hid firey judgement. They went all in for Him, and He went all in for them.

Make your choice. Build your ark. All-in or all-out: no more sitting on fences. Pick a side; choose this day whom you will serve.

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Less Is More

Matt:24 Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

What might that mean, "For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him?"

Whoever has faith, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have faith, even what he has will be taken away from him...

Whoever has patience, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have patience, even what he has will be taken away from him...

Whoever has love, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have love, even what he has will be taken away from him...

Whoever has joyfulness, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have joyfulness, even what he has will be taken away from him...

Same with physical strength, beauty, health, ability to resist sin, psychosis, insanity, laziness, envy, addictions, etc. I am sure many of you notice how some people's flaws seem escalated, and yours too, while some good things about them also get better and some bad things are less bad. We are being polarized, it seems, from within our own selves as well as into groups. Sheep and goats.

Be patient and endure, saints. Cling to the Lord, for this is part of His refinement. This is when people fall away--when they see others with blooming health becoming even more vain and petty, while their own health fails but their hearts grow ever more compassionate. Or when they see psychopaths grow in wealth while they grow in love while floundering in growing debt. It's not fair. Will you falter and turn away? Or will you remain steadfast and persevere, trusting that the Lord knows what He is doing?

Take heart, for if God was fair we would all be roasting in Hell. Thank God He isn't fair! Praise God that I, a sinner, have a chance at eternal life with Christ the King! Hang in there. I know it is hard, but cling to the Lord through it all and never turn away from He who saves.

Time is Running Out

Matt 13: 24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your fi...eld? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Jesus is talking about the Kingdom of Heaven that is within here. Each person is the "field" where the good and bad seed was sewn. I specifically refer to the individual meaning here. Each person was sewn with God's perfect seed, and then the enemy came and sewed his evil corrupt seed. Each person has the potential to be evil and to be good. Most of us split our time between the two--we can't help it.

I've noticed, though, that it is getting extremely easy to tell the difference between the people who reject the good God seed and the people who reject the evil demon seed. Like in the parable, the difference between a mature tare and a mature wheat is obvious--tares stand straight and proud while wheat are bent low from the burden of their fruit. People who embraced the evil seed and rejected the good stand tall and proud, do not repent for their cruelty, openly reject God and pursue meaningless worldly constructs like physical beauty, worldly wealth, worldly power, etc. Their lives are consumed with self-worship. Meanwhile the wheat, people who embraced God, are heavily burdened, humbled, stooped, afflicted, bent low with the weight of the spiritual fruit, which often causes rejection from their family members, ridicule from the world, and unceasing attack from the enemy.  

Spiritual fruit is not, like churches say, leading people to God by going door to door and telling them about Christ. Spiritual fruit is the desire not to sin, something impossible for unbelievers. Spiritual fruit is the open and public, persistent rejection of the delusions the world indulges in (i.e. porn is harmless, politics can save anything, there are no conspiracies, evil isn't in charge, and even worse and stupider ones). Spiritual fruit is the dedication to the truth despite the attacks that come from it. Spiritual fruit is the persistence of telling others that time is short despite their sometimes violent reprisals. Spiritual fruit is the persistent dedication to Jesus as the only way when it has suddenly become popular to reject Him. And other things. This is not a complete picture.

Spiritual fruit is heavy and bows the believer's head low in humility, bows our heads low in complete submission and surrender to God.

And here is how you know the harvest is near. It is easy to tell the difference between the wheat and the tares. When the plants are young, they look the same. It is only in maturity that you can tell one from the other. And when the stalks are mature, the harvest is imminent.

Jesus said at the harvest the tares would be removed first and thrown into the fire. So whatever is left of sin in believers will be removed and thrown into the fire so the Kingdom can bloom within as it is meant to. Whatever is left of goodness in people who embraced evil will be harvested, and the rest will be thrown into the fire. If a person embraced evil (not to choose is choosing evil, btw) and there is no fruit in them, they will be thrown wholly into the fire and consumed for once and for all.

Meanwhile those who became fruit-bearers will be harvested, too, relieved of their heavy burden and live with the Lord forever.
 
Everyone is sewn with the potential for either choice. No one has an excuse. The crops are ready. People say, "They've been saying that all along, since the disciples, what makes now different? The end isn't here, you're crazy." The Bible said that's what people would say, so it is just fulfilling prophecy for people to believe that.

But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that people thought the harvest was ready in the disciples' times, or in the 1800's, or in the last century, or now. God is so amazing and vast and unfathomable, and I can imagine that every time people believed it was the end, it was--for that generation. It has been the end since Jesus, really, and the enemy has probably tried more times than we know to bring his false Christs into power. The harvest happened back when people thought it did, but life still went on. Do you think God couldn't do it this way?

I'm just theorizing, though, but really it doesn't matter what happened before. It doesn't matter because all that matters is now. All that matters is you. Your choice. You, by yourself, individually, are enough of a reason for God to allow life to go on despite multiple harvests in times past. What are you? Are you a wheat or a tear? God's mercy is so incredible that He has allowed you more time to choose, despite the fact that we are slated for destruction (innocent blood, remember?) Is your head bent low with the fruit you bear for the Lord, or are you tall, proud, arrogant, thinking somehow you are great or that you don't need God or that God is a nice afterthought, but doesn't really matter to your life? Are you living for yourself and vain worldly pursuits, or do you sew to the Lord anew every day, repenting of your sins and waiting for the day when you are done with sin and can cast off the chaff and filth of this world? Are you waiting eagerly for the Lord's return, no longer tied to the world by care for any perishable thing, or are you busy pursuing its wealth and pleasure and useless baubles? There is still a little time to choose and bear fruit for the Lord and avoid the fire. This late in the game it will cost you everything and quickly, but what it will cost you does not compare with what you will gain.

There is no more choosing at the harvest. The door will not always be open. Time will run out.