A Stump on Trump

It was clear that this would eventually transpire, that some lunatic leftist would attempt to assassinate Trump.  Yes, I am speaking from a place of partial ignorance, that is, I do not know who actually shot him and killed another and injured others, I do not know that psychopath's mental state or political affiliation... but, c'mon!  How much evidence do we need to know that this was an attempt either by a hired hitman knowingly working for a cabal of globalist, deep state conspirators or a so-called "lone" lunatic leftist unwittingly working for a cabal of globalist psychopaths?  The fact is that the left has demonised and attacked Trump so thoroughly and so persistently for years now that it was difficult to see how this year's election was not going to be preceded by attempts to permanently derail him.  My view was that the Democrats would seek a way to stop the election if they could not stop Trump's election campaign and intent to run.  They have tried everything; lawfare, constant false accusations of collusion with Russia and other state enemies, attacks on his character in the media, casting Trump as a lunatic, a psychotic dictator, as Hitler, and even as the devil.  Biden himself recently said that "it's time to put a bullseye on him," or something to that effect.  Deep hatred for Trump has been fomented by the deep state and other globalist billionaires and state leaders and the globanksters using the useful idiots of the left and it has influenced the entire world, with the dutifully partisan leftist MSM kindling the fires of hatred day after day, month after month, year after year.  TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) is a real phenomena.  And, why?  Because Trump is not one of them.  He is anti-globalism and, in spite of his checkered past, he is pro-family, pro-life, pro-freedom, in short, Trump is pro-everything which is pro-humanity and, therefore, anti-everything globalist.  The devil ain't happy with that!  His useful idiots are foaming at the mouth, chomping at the bit, wishing deep down that the bullet had found its intended mark.  Oh, they would still come out condemning it but it would be crocodile tears and would have got them what they have been chasing for years.  People who do not bat an eyelid at the industrialised mass murder of infants, even enforcing it as law, will not, even for a yocto-second, regret the assassination of their opponents.  They have absolutely no regard for other peoples' lives and no regard for truth.  As with their father, the devil, there is no truth in them, none left at all.  There is literally no way to save the souls of such people, and there is nothing left worth saving, anyway.

 

Hopefully, many, and if at all possible, most on the left who are not yet completely deranged, will start coming to their senses, recognise that this is the result of all their hatred and division, and repent of such behaviour, come to the table and negotiate.  There are also those falling for this madness on the right and this will, I hope, wake them out of their slide into oblivion.  My concern is that this will actually become like what has happened with Israel, Hamas and their terrorist supporters around the world.  The vast bulk of political violence around the world for many years now has been from the left, not that there is none from the far right, but the left lose their minds at the tiniest thing and they have stood behind Hamas, never for a moment condemning the attacks on innocent Israelis, the mass murder, torture, raping and kidnapping of Israeli people, many men, women and children.  They could have condemned Hamas while still supporting afflicted Gazans, and I am no supporter of the Israeli government in as far as they have at times done abominable things (and I never conflate a government with its people), but that is not what leftists around the world have done.  The problem with collectivism is that there is little to no individual thought, collectivists tend to think alike because they do not think for themselves, rather, they are indoctrinated in how to think and what to believe.  I fear the same will happen with this situation, with Trump, as has happened with Israel, the hard left lionising people who attempt to "take out" their figure of unimaginable and completely unmerited hatred, never condemning what has occurred.  This is exactly what the globalists want... division, submission, enslavement and death.  Do not play their game, for it is siding with Satan.

 

Of course, there will be a "thorough" investigation, sweeping under the rug all of the cursing and polemics against Trump by the radical left, whitewashing themselves of their part in this event.  It will be a worthless investigation if controlled by the current administration or any of the three-letter deep state organisations, except that there may be members within those organisations who, sooner or later, blow the whistle.  Who knows?  Maybe it will be a proper investigation, but my gut tells me... no, it probably won't.  If anything, they will likely say it was a lone, lunatic gunman, despite the long range of the shot requiring a reasonably skilled sniper (although, perhaps not a professional hitman, but one cannot be certain), and they will play down any political affiliation if it is with the left, for which there is little to no doubt in my mind.  Frankly, I am growing very weary of the radical left, they are deranged, dissentious, demonic, disconnected from reality, deluded, dangerous and destructive.  Pray for their eyes to be opened, but be careful not to be drawn into their divisive rhetoric.

As always, trust in God, not in man, for, although many have good intentions, the outcome is always dependent on the spirit motivating them and, for the most part, that spirit is evil.  The road to hell is paved with "good intentions."  Trust God, not man.

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Addendum:

 

I have just heard that the would-be assassin was a 20 year old man.  Hardly likely to be a professional hitman, more likely to be someone who, in my view, like any 20 year old, had little to no real world experience, had little or no useful understanding of political, geopolitical, philosophical, economic, cultural and spiritual matters and realities, no historical knowledge (or, at least, none that is correct and balanced) and had been completely indoctrinated with Marxist leftist, anti-USA, anti-Trump, anti-Christian, misanthropic, thoroughly pagan, evolution-believing, idolatrous, hate-filled rhetoric, driven mad by emotions resulting from climate alarmism, false religion and corrupted morals instead of reason and a firm moral foundation.  The departure from the true God leads to insanity and death... but I am just speculating here, not declaring.  We will simply have to wait, but I have little confidence in seeing an honest result.  Like 9-11, it will probably be whitewashed with the declaration that "it was an outsider" and they will excuse or memory-hole all that hatred they have been spewing against Trump and conservatives for such a long time, claiming it has nothing to do with this event.  How did he get anywhere near the stage from a rooftop vantage point and a clear line-of-sight path to the stage?  How did the secret service so glaringly fail?  The questions go on and on... but we will just have to wait and pray that nobody else comes anywhere near this close to succeeding at what the hard left have been wishing into reality for such a very long time.

Twig - Possibly 27% of USA'ians are Demented.

For future reference, a Twig is the tiniest post I write, a Stick is a small post, and a Stump or a Sapling is a relatively small post compared to a Post.

Anyway, apparently 27% of voters in the USA think that Biden is mentally competent to continue as POTUS.  So, does that mean that about 27% of voting age people in the USA are even more demented than Biden?  That would be a very serious problem but would also explain the current condition of the country.  Perhaps it's the long term consequence of the loony-leftist, magical-thinking, drug culture... it would not surprise me at all.

The World is Largely Antichrist

As you are probably aware, the threat to Russia posed by the US and NATO is real, but it is also intentional and will lead us to WWIII.   I know that many say it "might" lead to war but, unfortunately for the world, it does.  Don't try to cage an already angry bear; it cannot result in good things.  Antichrists (socialists, communists, all the 'ists and their close relatives) whose central tenet is that there is no God and Christ has not come in the flesh (John, the disciple of the Lord, gave us the definition of "antichrist" so no need to look to scholars of ancient Greek - always remember that the scripture interprets itself) believe in only one thing - power.  So, with an antichrist in the office of POTUS, surrounded by antichrist sycophants, willed on by a popoulation which has a large contingent of antichrists steeped in fictional demonic world-views, allied to other nations brimming over with similar antichrists, it is impossible to see how this will end well and impossible to see how there will be anybody left... except that our Lord and Saviour has told us that the time will be shortened for the sake of the elect or, otherwise, no flesh would survive.

 

A short article worth reading with a video worth watching (the article is short but the video is very long although one gets the gist of where it is going in the first ten minutes and only the audio content is of importance - you could listen while you prepare dinner or clean the house... or something like that, I guess)...

 

Establishment Insider Jeffrey Sachs charges CIA, White House with Endangering the World in Interview with Tucker Carlson

patriotandliberty.com/establishment-insider-jeffrey-sachs-charges-cia-white-house-with-endangering-the-world-in-interview-with-tucker-carlson

 

As always, trust the Lord, our Ever Living God.  Fallen man apart from God, as with fallen angels, is Satan, so trust only our Saviour, Christ.

Ridiculous Hype over the Painting of King Charles III

Frankly, I strongly dislike the new and recently revealed portrait of King Charles III, painted by Jonathan Yeo.  Sadly it appears to me as being artistically weak and gives the impression of having been done in a hurry, even though it probably wasn't.  However, there has been much foolish comment on-line regarding the portrait of the much maligned king and former Prince of Wales.  Now, don't misundertand, I am not defending anything that Charles may have said or done prior to this point in time.  He is a strong supporter of the insanity of climate alarmism, the WEF and perhaps other nefarious things of evil intent, and there is much we do not know about him, but the cries about his portrait range from the inane to the ridiculous.  They range from claims of him bathing in rivers of blood to time in hell duelling it out with the devil.  All of this is stupid and I am not going to join in with a chorus of foolishness.  I will judge the art, not the King.

First of all, the colour is not actually red, but leans rather towards hues of scarlet, some pink and in areas towards a slightly vermilion tint, with some fiery redish-yellow spots and other dark spots.  One could argue that it is meant to look hellish but that is making the claim that one knows the appearance of hell, that it is pink with butterflies in it and, if hell were to be all on fire (scripturally unsupported), that portrait looks little to nothing like a firescape.  I can tell you with quite reasonable confidence that all those people saying such things have not a clue about hell, nor about "gehenna" which is always mistranslated as hell in English bibles.

Secondly, the art is of the artist, not of Charles, that is, what is depicted came from the artist's mind, not from the subject.  It tells you much more about the artist and his concept of Charles than it does about Charles.  The art, and remember it is of the artist's mind, not that of Charles, could be perceived as depicting anything from a closeup of the colours within a flower, strongly supported by the presence of a butterfly, to something of a sensually debauched nature, but not fire or blood.  Charles is known for his support of the World Wildlife Fund which, despite being evil in its true intent as far as I can tell, conveys the concept of the preservation of life.  Many people do not pereceive the WWF as anything but charitable because they do not dig deeply enough or simply do not want to know.  On the other hand, Charles is, unlike many of his predecessors, not openly opposed to the destruction of sexual norms or, at least, that is the public perception.  Could that be a factor in Yeo's choice?  I cannot speak to the motives regarding the King's own particular tendencies, nor of his tendencies themselves, whether good or evil, nor about those of the artist, least of all because I do not know either man, let alone their secrets and, most of all because that is for God to judge.  However, I reiterate that the art describes the artist's own ideas, interpretations, perceptions and ways of being, not those of Charles.

Every designer, every person who engages in a creative pursuit (and I can assure you that electronics engineering is a creative pursuit, made much more difficult than many other creative endeavours due to being stringently disciplined by reality, the "forces" of nature, and besides that I play both a guitar and a didgeridoo and have written poetry and songs since I was in my teens) knows or, at least, eventually comes to realise that everything he or she makes is imbued with his or her own ideas.  That is an inescapable reality for every person.  I sometimes feel the need to remind people that something cannot come out of you if it is not already in you and, what does come out of you comes from and through you, making you responsible for it, whatever it may be.

My father was a painter, both kinds of painter, painting houses for a living and portraits and landscapes for a hobby.  He was very good at it.  What I noticed was that, in his earlier years, he strived to reflect reality to the best of his ability, pursuing realism, seeking to reflect what he could, as best as he could, perceive before him.  As he aged, his painting matured, with realism always playing an important role but depicted through a filter of philosophical thought, thereby creating art that was not a photograph of a face or a scene but, instead, an abstract reflection of his response to what he perceived, weaving into the visual components emotional responses and philosophical concepts and ideals.  The art grew more and more abstract with time, but it never departed from depicting reality in some way.  It never wandered into the realm of pure fiction, but always revealed the heart of the painter.

My view of Yeo's painting is that a very similar thing has occurred with Yeo as happened with my father, with respect to his artistic pursuits over time.  As one ages, and I notice this of myself, the perception of the world gradually changes from a superficial perception, such as that of a child, to a deep one, such as that of an adult who has lived through enough real world experiences to no longer see the world as merely the things on Earth.  Of course, there is never a seismic shift in perception at some particular age, since it happens gradually, and much of my undertstanding of the world has grown over decades and is a result of seeing it through a biblical lens, which I have found to be the most reliable of all lenses tried, so much so that I eventually came to realise that when it does not appear to show me reality correctly, it is not the lens that is the problem but, rather, it is me.

Yeo has had his own battles, his own struggles, and whether one likes or hates his art or even him or Charles has no bearing on the truth, for Yeo is, like Charles and you and me, made in the image of God, though warped by sin, with our perceptions of each other and ourselves distorted or discoloured by our own imperfections and those imperfections being made only worse by our pride, an ever lurking tendency to self-importance and belief in the untrue about oneself, protecting the ego with a wall made of lies.  So, I strongly suggest that you avoid joining in with the chorus of hatred and vile speak regarding the individuals involved with that portrait, lest you be the one casting a stone with your own name on it.  Let God be the judge of their hearts.  You can hate the portrait all you like and remain free of being judged for it but it is a potentially dangerous game to engage in because, often without our realising it, we end up vilifying the people for the thing and not the thing itself.  Far too easy to do.  If judging anything, judge sin, not people, except perhaps yourself, but do so truthfully and bearing in mind the love that God has for us, so much so that He gave His only begotten son as a sacrifice to save our miserable, undeserving souls, every last one willing to receive Him.

 

Time will eventually reveal the true intent of Yeo's heart regarding his depiction of Charles.  For now, although I find it garish overall, though Charles' face is quite accurate (even if not very emotionally truthful in my own eyes), I will simply accept it as a piece of art by an acclaimed artist depicting a modern day sovereign, in that regard differing little from such portraiture of the past.  Screaming about the colours being symbols of evil and hell is simply childish and ridiculous.  They are colours, not demons.

Finally, as always, trust God, not man, trust in God and only Him.

Stormy on High

This short post is a quick comment or two regarding some high level auroral activity on the Earth which is currently occuring.

 

Solar storms like we have not seen in decades have been striking the Earth over the past day.  I am expecting increased such activity in coming months and the next few years, in part because we are in the midst of a solar cycle but in part for other reasons.  You may (or may not) recall a post I wrote about a year ago:

The Fury of the Sun

rustybasalt.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-fury-of-sun.html

Don't take what I wrote in that post too seriously.  Events that occur in the heavens are things we can do nothing much about.  Whether or not the current activity or even the current sunspots (which may come back around after a couple of weeks and yet again in about a month) are what I have been expecting, it is not possible to say.  The current activity is really not particularly abnormal even though it is unusual.  We are roughly in the middle of a solar cycle, after all.  However, watch for escalation, especially when sunspot 3664 comes back around, assuming it survives (personally, I think it will), and perhaps comes around yet again.  Could there be big storms on the upcoming day of pentecost (shavuot) on the 11th/12th of June?  Note that I go by the Hebrew calendar regarding issues such as feast days.  Western Christianity's dates on such things are plain wrong.

 

There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, but we need not concern ourselves too much with such things except to note and observe them in the context of our current place in the biblical timeline.  Our hope and our trust should be fixed upon Christ and worries about the ephermeral will fade away.

 

 

A Twig

There's an old post regarding multiculturalism which you may not have read and perhaps you might wish to do so and then watch the video linked further down.  I'm no prophet but the bible is full of prophecy, of that you can be certain.

 

Daniel 2:43 and the Seed of Men

rustybasalt.blogspot.com/2017/01/daniel-243-and-seed-of-men.html

 

This is the relevant video...

 

The Islamic New World Order is Here - Europe has Fallen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0dDZcvynQ

 

I've said it many times and I will repeat myself ad-nauseum... do NOT trust in man or his ways and his world.  Trust only in God, put your faith in Christ Yeshua, for He is our only true and eternal rock, our ark through this storm, our only true hope.

Yuval Noah Harari - Windbag

Harari, seemingly a know-it-all, claims to know the future... yet utterly denies the existence of He who knows the end from the beginning.  Sadly, Harari is a clear example of the result of the strong delusion, the belief in the godless existence of a causal universe, which is itself finite and temporal but seemingly without a first cause, and the consequent belief in muck-to-man evolution contrary to all well established physics, chemistry and information science.  Such people as this not only deny the existence of the true Creator but end up having to substitute silly fairy tales for real science itself since science cannot, and does not, disagree with the revelation of God in Christ.  It only looks that way to one who is ignorant or ill-informed with biased or corrupted information or who, like a little child who plugs his ears with his fingers and tightly shuts his eyes, deceives himself that what is happening before his face really is not happening... and such is the nature of those who reject the truth, who do not receive a love of the truth because they absolutely hate it since it would mean acknowledging their sinful rebellion, wicked ways, and the need to repent.

 

Personally, thanks to the Lord, I have almost never suffered from the supposed conflict between science and Christianity because it has always seemed apparent to me that Darwinian evolution (including its various derivatives) is merely a bad hypothesis, and now it is utterly discredited, and no field of actual, real science have I ever found in disagreement with what God has revealed to us.  Such disagreements seem only to appear in untested or untestable hypotheses, not in experimentally demonstrable realities.  It is, in fact, the belief of Christians of the past, such as Newton, Galileo and others who, for belief in an orderly Creator came to believe that the creation would thus be logical and comprehensible, which is precisely what gave rise to modern science.  No pagan system of belief can come to that since they all believe in selfish, capricious "gods" who are nothing more than the anthropomorphisation of the "forces" and characteristics of nature or, more broadly, of created things and, being that people can be irrational in their ideas and impulsive in their behaviour, thus are the pagan deities, so why would any pagan expect the universe to be in any way comprehensible?   However, as it always is with humanity's new ventures into unknown territory, wherever the righteous go, the worthless and wicked sooner or later will follow, corrupting everything that has thus far been built.  The wicked are unable to build anything of true worth for themselves, since their worldview is not based in reality, and such have always depended on others to provide them with what they desire, which they then manipulate to their own selfish ends.  This is a characteristic I have noticed for most of my life, that the wicked are invariably parasites in their ways of existence, the more wicked then the more parasitic.  In reality, we are none of us perfect so that we are somewhere on a spectrum between completely righteous and completely wicked, but the worse one is, the more psychotic and parasitic one's behaviour tends to be.  It was interesting to me when, in later years, I learned that this was somewhat akin to C. S. Lewis's view that evil does not exist in or of itself but it has the character of a parasite.

 

Anyway, the link below is to a recent release from the "Stop World Control" website.  I have been unable to watch the video because of my poor (by today's standards) Internet connection and the site on which the video is hosted, Rumble, is not "friendly" when it comes to less than perfect Internet connections, even when I set the resolution to the lowest possible (which should be acceptable for my connection most of the time but still works poorly or not at all... one of the costs of not living in a large urban area but a small price to pay for being less subject to the totalitarian control and total surveillance by modern governments).  Note that although I agree with David Sorensen (of Stop World Control) on some issues, I do not agree with some of his claims, and I have been across much of the nefarious machinations of the globalists since I was in my early twenties nearly four decades ago, so I am not a newbie at this, not by any stretch.  Sorensen appears to sometimes be blinded by what he sees in the physical realm and fails to see what the scriptures clearly tell us is in our future.  I will not write here what my disagreements with Sorensen actually are because I believe that if you watch the video then you should do so without my bias regarding Sorensen's views influencing your interpretation.  However, I suspect that the film is still worth watching even if only to get a better idea of what the WEF and such globalist circuses actually believe is in humanity's future.  The title of this post was because Harari is seen early in the film and I got to hear a few seconds of his speech (before it stopped playing and the browser froze), in essence merely the same old mostly baseless nonsense he has been mindlessly spewing for years.  Why is he so acclaimed?  Well, in reality, he isn't, except by the WEF and the almost entirely globalist owned and controlled MSM.

 

2Ti 4:3 ASV  For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Simply, the leadership of the WEF uses Harari because he scratches their itching ears for them (both parties being parasitic toward each other), telling them and their acolytes what they want to hear, nothing more, and Harari's status as an academic provides them and their claims with the appearance of authority where in reality there is none.  Meanwhile, he is handsomely rewarded for his pandering to their position, one he has, entirely of his own accord, wilfully deceived himself into believing.

The End of Humanity

stopworldcontrol.com/endhumanity

Do not let the film (or anything on such sites as Stop World Control) frighten you because your future is not dependent on your ability to defeat the beasts or escape the son of perdition or anything you can do.  Your eternal future depends wholly on Christ if you are already in Him, and your ephemeral experiences between now and the start of your eternity depend to a significant degree on how much you actually do trust God.  So, as I have been repeating for many posts now, and am completely unashamed to say it again and again, with regards to your future do not trust any man, even if he appears to be walking righteously, not Sorensen nor me, not any politician nor academic, not any religious leader nor pastor nor anyone else, not even family.

 

Walk in the ways of Christ, trust only in God.

A Stump

A stump of a post regarding the coming war to end all wars...

 

Naomi Seibt, sometimes known as "the anti-Greta", is a young, intelligent and insightful woman who has the admiration the world over for her stance against climate alarm idiocy and stupidity.  In any case, I had heard nothing from her for some time now until today.  I had been contemplating the reasons that Russia will, I believe, eventually invade Europe, primarily targeting Germany, especially because there is deeply buried, seething anger at the mass murder of Russians by German forces in the great war.  It is a resentment buried in the Russian culture and one that is unlikely to simply disappear.  Nevertheless, Russians tend to know how to hold their liquor... and the anger will show only when the time is right.  It seems that Germany may be bringing that time closer more rapidly than I had imagined.  Young Naomi had something to say on this issue (and you can be quite sure that she is not the only one)...

 

"COULD GERMANY START WWIII? Leaked Audio Unveils Military Bombshell" - Naomi Seibt.

www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/could-germany-start-wwiii-leaked-audio-unveils-military/

 

"IS RUSSIA BLACKMAILING GERMANY? The Official Taurus Leak Narrative is Not Adding Up!" - Naomi Seibt

www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/is-russia-blackmailing-germany-official-taurus-leak-narrative/

 

So, if (or perhaps, when) Russia invades Europe, it will not be without cause.  Would the European parliament feign surprise?  Of course!  After all, it is run mostly by a bunch of worthless, spineless, avaricious, cowardly, autocratic, misanthropic, narcissistic, sociopathological control-freaks.  Just like a child caught stealing, they will pretend they did nothing wrong.  Well, boo-hoo, crocodile tears will flow and I could not care less.  I'm troubled only by the (potentially) millions of unwitting souls caught in the disaster not of their own making.  They are the people my heart goes out to.

 

Only God is worthy of our trust, even when things appear to be going badly or, perhaps, especially then.

(Welcome to) the Machine

This is a post about the beasts of revelation but I have given it the title, "The Machine" because, in many respects, the beasts are akin to machines, unconscious automata.  However, first, a little diversion, a brief story.

Many years ago, while in my late twenties, I went on a camping trip with some friends, not all that far away but to the high plains and alpine region of Victoria.  We camped by a river and, on one particular day, we decided to visit one of the local mountains, Mt Buffalo, to walk up to its summit and watch the sun set from there.  After that, we began descending along the path we had come and, as the light faded, thousands of Bogong moths had come out of their hiding places.  I say thousands but really I think it was more like hundreds of thousands.  It was a veritable sea of moths, one could not see more than half a metre ahead and the dimming light of dusk immediately turned into pitch black.  Fortunately, I had brought a flashlight with me so that I could still just make out the path right near my feet.  It was an absolutely astonishing sight!

However, something really struck me about this event, the kind of thing a curious mind notices.  In spite of all the moths flying in all different directions and having no synchonisation of the movements of their wings, there was a loud and unvarying hum, a very distinct low frequency note, heard against a background of a much fainter sound of rushing air, what one would call "white noise".  It was as if there was one giant moth.

It is actually the result of a statistical phenomena, slightly analogous to wind in which, although individual air molecules are all rushing about at incredibly high and highly varied velocities in all directions, an underlying similar bias in the direction of a majority of air molecules combines in the sum of all their motions to create an overall gentle breeze.  A clearly distinct and quite strong note was heard from the mass of moths even though they were not flapping their wings unidirectionally in unison, much like a large number of trumpet players all blowing similar notes and doing so in every conceivable direction.  Since the sounds are pressure waves moving through gas, they each have a temporal component, but the apparent paradox arises as a result of the common note which stands out amidst all the chaos and which also must have a well defined temporal variation to be a note at all.  How can thousands of randomly phased waveforms, despite their similarity, combine to produce a temporally defined pattern?  It seems strange but that is the nature of the summation of a large number of randomly phased and randomly directed, temporally similar energy waves, the well defined note shows up in calculations as a significant statistical artefact amid the randomly combined waveforms.  We do not perceive amplitudes of waves, but we perceive their power, that is, their rate of energy transference.

Now, this phenomena may seem trivial, since it is so commonplace, everywhere we listen and observe, that we tend not to think about it in any real depth, but it gives a rather interesting insight into the phenomenon of the "beasts" of Revelation.

Consider any nation or, more specifically, a human culture, and this principle also applies to any human collective, such as large corporations, oversized governments, etc, but here we will focus on national cultures.  The nature of a culture is that it has traits which result from commonly accepted beliefs and practices and it lacks traits connected to uncommon beliefs and practices even though such beliefs and practices exist within the culture.  The culture's characteristics are essentially statistical artefacts arising from the more widespread tendencies of belief and action.

Now, consider what happens when, despite all the members of a given culture going about their daily lives relatively unsynchronised with each other and doing different things, going to different places, holding many differing views, what happens when there is a view or a practice with a common, dominant (in frequency of occurrence) characteristic, even something seemingly innocuous born of what could rightly be called idolatry?  I should point out that a person's idol is that around which his or her life mostly revolves, the dominant "centre of gravity", especially in one's thought life since action is consequential to thought, and it need not be something a person is conscious of.  We often behave in ways we are not aware of until it is brought to our attention.  If the primary concern of a culture lacking the Spirit of God is money, the earning, saving, investing and aversion to the spending of it, if most of what people in a culture do engages in monetary transactions in spite of such having an apparently low level or background role, something to which we are mostly relatively unconscious, would not the sum effect of their actions result in an overall cultural trait of lusting after wealth in spite of the fact that all the individual actions of individual people are different and seemingly unrelated?  Is it not the case that almost all that we hear about from western governments is "the economy this" and "the economy that" as if there was little or nothing else in the world that mattered?  The Lord warned us specifically on the sin of the love of money for a reason.  He knew it would become an ever greater idol, a means used by the powerful to control the masses, as it already was back in the day.

The result of much economic activity is an unconscious but strong, residual force, like wind, with an overall well-defined characteristic, in this case an unconscious force for the pursuit of monetary gain (although that is not the only evil trait we see) and woe betide anything or anyone which stands in its way as such will be utterly crushed by the sheer weight of millions of tiny actions pressuring motion in an overall dominant direction which, although all of the actions are for many apparently different purposes, all pulling in myriad different directions, their effects mostly tend to cancel in their sum except for the common residual component resulting in one powerfully dominating characteristic.  Such a notion well defines the means by which are manifested the characteristics of a "beast".  It is not a conscious entity, not an individual as many incorrectly posit, it is not "the antichrist" as so many ignorantly declare, though it could well be called a spirit of antichrist, depending on its nature.  It is simply a collective entity with a set of dominant behavioural characteristics defined by the dominant near-unconscious desires of the members of the collective.  With regards to this phenomenon, one cannot point at any one individual and make accusations of an evil nature without being a hypocrite.  The wild and destructive characteristics of the beasts of Revelation are the resultant statistical artefacts of the massive combination of the dominant inclinations of millions of individuals when their moral centre is, for the most part, not anchored in the true Ever Living God.  Naturally, this only grows worse as apostasy takes ever increasing hold on people throughout the world, as the moral centres of rapidly increasing numbers of people deviate ever further from a right focus, God, to a wrong one, money and self.  Our mass media bombards us with this pernicious influence every day, every night, relentlessly promoting every kind of something which, in its background at the very least, if not blatantly, involves monetary transactions.  Not love for your neighbour, not the pursuit of justice and righteousness in accordance with the eternal law, not caring for the downtrodden, not freeing the oppressed, and most definitely not the pursuit of a relationship with God, no, none of that.  Only the pursuit of wealth and pleasure.  Bread and circuses.

The beasts of Revelation are unconscious, collective entities, not unlike monstrous machines, whose heads are the primary governing groups in power and whose bodies are the body politic, and which gain their distinctiveness, their definition, their apparent manifestation into existence by the various statistical artefacts resulting from millions of incremental non-God-centred actions with some similar traits, even though all those actions are largely seemingly unrelated to each other, and the resultant characteristics of the beasts tend to revolve around the common evils of mankind.  It is the more-often-than-not common attributes that give a beast its collective characteristics and it is called a wild beast because it "behaves" in a manner not unlike a mindless, wild beast.  Naturally, in understanding this, we would expect these beasts to wax worse, more powerful and more destructive, as the world mostly moves further away from Christ and the Judeo-Christian basis of our western civilisations and, well, that is exactly what is happening.

We have no need of global conspiracies, even though it is arguable (and I do believe) that such things exist, but it takes a lot of influence to redefine the more common tendencies of entire cultures, the near unconscious thoughts of most, if not all, of the people, thus the need for billionaires, powerful financial corporations and governments driven on by their own lusts, as facilitators of the devil's plan to turn mankind entirely away from God.  The fullness of this scheme will be realised at the appearing on the world stage of the one who, in the holy scripture, is called "that Wicked" and "the son of perdition".  It is already clear to me that the restraint God had on the growing evil in the world is almost entirely lifted, in order to bring about the end of the age.  In this age of the Internet and global social media now controlled almost entirely by a handful of corporations and increasingly constrained and censored by godless government bureaucratic busy-bodies and assorted evolution-deluded NGO's and global organisations, it is no surprise that the evil plan is manifesting at an alarming rate.  Such overwhelming influence would have been nigh on impossible only a few decades ago.

We may have advanced technologically but the world is still mostly bereft of sound morals and, with such technology at its disposal, it will only result in one thing; self annihilation.  Thus the need, according to the Lord's own words, to "cut that time short for the sake of the elect."  Nuclear war is a certainty as far as I can tell, because many in high places would rather unleash it instead of letting go of power.  After all, too many of them are where they are as a result of their pursuit of power over others.  Righteous people do not seek such, but the wicked invariably do.  The righteous seek only to correct that which is unjust.

The only true safety we have is in Christ, and in nothing and nobody else.  Trust God, not man, for goodness sake, not man.  Choose to trust God, and God alone.

Jimmy Carter at 99

Former US president, Jimmy Carter, has hit 99 years of age.  That's one tough cookie!

 

Jimmy Carter marks one year in hospice care 

www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jimmy-carter-hospice-care-year-later-advocates-awareness

 

It is fairly unusual for men to reach that age, more common for women although still infrequent.  In an old blog post years ago I wrote of a dream that a man had in the 1970's regarding presidents of the USA with respect to the end of the age.  The information is still available on-line at this page...

 

Vision of the Presidents 

www.ubm1.org/?page=presidents

 

At the time, I mentioned that (if the dream was genuine prophecy) Carter would have to pass on by the time the great tribulation begins, finding my sense of what the dream means agreeing reasonably well with what was written about it (I generally try to discern things before entertaining others' explanations, even that given by the one who had the vision or dream, since it is often, though not always, the case that the dreamer himself does not understand the parable of the dream).  All the other presidents in the same row of houses (see the page on the dream) had already passed on.  The passage of the houses turns a corner, taking a different direction, suggesting to me at the time that with the passing of all in the first row, including Carter, there would be a great change of direction in the USA or even the world as a whole.  Although that was not a strictly incorrect view, it was not accurate in that it is probably not what the dream was primarily about.

 

In retrospect, it seems more likely that the final house depicted, which would be associated with Obama, indicates the beginning of the end of the USA.  I say that because during the time of Obama's second term, the Lord showed me on three occasions that the USA was coming to an end.  Perhaps it is coming true.  With the deep political, religious and cultural divisions in the USA which we are witnessing, it is difficult to believe that the coming presidential election will not be surrounded by extreme controversy at the very least, perhaps even things much more drastic.

In any case, I still have this deep gut feeling, which generally agrees with what is said about the dream, that the eventual passing of Carter will be a marker of some kind, an event that marks the end of one era and the beginning of another, an era not about a man but about a nation or even the world.

With all that is going on in the world, with the seemingly accelerating advance of time and events, I know it is difficult to keep anxiety at bay, finding myself affected by it from time to time.  Nevertheless, we absolutely need to keep trusting in God, for He cannot fail, because failure is not a characteristic of His Spirit and is, therefore, impossible.  Looking to man guarantees a flood of fear, but continually looking to the Lord will help to ease that angst.

Tiny Stump

This is one Jonathan Cahn video I highly recommend watching...

 

The Sign of The Statue | Jonathan Cahn Prophetic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iCW5Lsd80

 

God is ever present, ever involved, never think otherwise.  Just because He is often silent on issues does not mean He is not involved but, rather, that He is patient with us.  However, it is clear to me, especially given that He directed me, this morning, to read Isaiah 13, and afterward I watched the above-linked video, well, that simply tells me that He is readying Himself for the great and terrible day, and readying us with Him.

 

Stay strong in the Lord, trust not in man, not in Egypt or in Babylon, but only in the true Holy One, the Everliving God, calling on the name of Yeshua for forgiveness of sins and for direction of your steps.

About the Pope

There's a video which may (or may not) interest you, regarding how the pope is working at drawing back into his control all the protestant world, obviously seeking total power, in my view.  Of course, this has been going on for some time but it is becoming very clear to all who look and see and who listen and hear.  This video is of some considerable length but I recommend you take the time, if you can spare it, to watch, listen and consider what was said.  Although it is presented by Doug Batchelor, and I have, at times, found some things he says regarding scripture to be incorrect, in this case, he has something worth listening to.

 

Pope's Video Fulfills Prophecy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsF2q-8ez08

Perhaps you recall my post regarding the inevitable reunion of the manmade churches because, of course, you cannot remove the root of something without destroying it, or, at least, not unless you are the Almighty Himself.  Since all the protestant denominations have their root in the Catholic Church then it is inevitable that, as the time of the return of the Lord is close at hand and all things are returning to what they were at the time of His departure, the protestant denominations will once again be under the power of the Roman pontiff, Pontifex Maximus, in essence the continuation of Caesar beyond the secular world and physical empire into a spiritual empire,.  This is being achieved by the effective renunciation of scripturally based doctrine by protestants who have, over recent decades, lost a love of the truth, now all too often despising it.  One only need observe the onslaught of "woke" ideology in virtually all, if not all, the protestant groups.  When fallen man becomes fat, he becomes complacent and soon forgets his Maker.  Wealth in the hands of corrupt humanity, and the love and pursuit of it, has led to this demise, proving yet again the words of the Lord absolutely prophetic and true; you cannot love both God and money.

 

Note, however, that there are many who will depart, and are even now departing, from the mainstream churches, and such are seen by those remaining as being apostates, but in many cases nothing could be further from the truth.  The churches are themselves the apostates with respect to Christianity but are being true to their pagan roots in ancient Rome.  As mentioned in a previous post, the true church was dispersed into the wilderness (the world) because it became corrupted with pagan ideas, thus drawing in idolators and repelling faithful worshippers of the true Everliving God.  Many true Christians have been largely "unchurched" over the centuries and this has gone on for 40 Jubilees since the Lord completed His work of opening the gates of hell to set us free, so that 40 lots of 50 years are completed upon His soon return to establish His kingdom on the Earth (the ancient parable being the 40 years of desert wandering for the ancient Israelites, starting from the time that God, working through Moses, set them free, then they corrupted themselves and ended up wandering in the desert for 40 years until the time when they entered the promised land).

So, don't fear what you see on that video, or what you see happening in the world, try not to let it worry you or cause you any anxiety.  It simply tells us that the time of the Lord's return is gobsmackingly near!  Stay true to the scripturally revealed doctrines, get your learning from the Lord (He said He would teach us Himself and I took Him up on that offer some 16 years ago and never looked back).  Never put your trust in man.  If he happens to be factually correct, it is often just dumb luck.  Heck, don't take my word for it... instead, test what you see, hear, read, and trust only God for the truth and for safety on His immovable rock.

Toward the Great War - Signs in the World

A note on the current developments progressing toward the great war... I have observed a Swedish call to arms in more than one news outlet over recent weeks but will provide only the one link here regarding the latest such concerns:

 

Sweden's call for population to prepare for war sparks panic and criticism

www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-sweden-s-call-for-population-to-prepare-for-war-sparks-panic-and-criticism

 

I do not believe that Carl-Oscar Bohlin, Sweden's minister for civil defence, is wrong on this count.  However, I think that his timing may be a little premature... but I'm no war strategist or prognosticator of politico-military moves and it is much better to prepare early and stay on alert.  My only concern in that regard is, if people prepare early with a false expectation of imminent war and it then appears too delayed, they may fall back into a false sense of security and become lax in their preparedness, the watchmen falling asleep on the tower, as it were.  In any case, I do think that Norway is also in the firing line and that, should push come to shove, Norway and Sweden will have to work together (although I am unclear on what Finland's role might be) to fend off the enemy.  I also believe that the Swedish military have some very advanced (possibly electromagnetic) high tech weaponry under wraps which they have until now successfully kept well out of the public and the espionage eye, and Russia will not be expecting this, but I cannot elaborate on it because information is very thin and my perspective may be not much better than a semi-educated guess.  In any case, I think that the Swedish military have been very tight-lipped and well understand that the best strategy in preparing for war in the current era is to look somewhat insufficiently armed.  That way, an attacking force will be completely unprepared and under-armed for the devastating onslaught of terrifying weaponry the moment they make their invasive move.  The approach of using grandiose public declarations of military might as a deterrent is an old tactic which works in situations of limited destructive power but is completely ineffective in today's high tech military sphere.  The capacity to destroy the entire world in the hands of more than one military power is no longer a deterrent to anyone.  If everybody is going to die, what manner of deterrent is that?  It can only work where a hot conflict would have strictly limited destructive effect, a condition which has not been true for many years, and only a fading memory of waning concerns about an overwhelming counterattack has kept things in check.

 

Anyway, my view, as you may have read in a post some time back, is that when Russia invades Europe, it will be in three fronts; from the southeast in the Balkan region, from the east via Ukraine and possibly into any of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, etc., and from the north towards the scandinavian region, but every one of these three prongs will ultimately converge on Germany (remember, there is bad blood, flowing deep in cultural memory, between Russia and Germany since the NAZI slaughter of many millions of Russian POW's and civilians) and perhaps towards France, also, though I do not believe they will have much success there even though I think that France will have its own growing internal chaos.  Central and western Europe will be devastated in the end of it all, and surrounding nations will also be harshly affected, and that is before it all goes nuclear at the end of the greatest and final war.  However, an eventual divergence of Russian forces towards the south, into the region of the Middle East, and ultimately converging on Israel will lead to Russia's undoing, along with many other nations when they gather against Israel... and this is when I believe it ultimately goes nuclear.  Exactly how that eventuates, I do not know; perhaps a standoff from which everybody refuses to back away is my best guess, maybe between western forces against Russia and China, perhaps Russia and China will also be at each other's throats.  There are countless scenarios to consider so I would reckon that it is best to wait and see how the relationships in the political and military arenas of all parties develops over this year and the next.

 

It seems to me that the great war will occur in the midst of the time of the two witnesses because both these things appear in the period of the sixth trumpet, the second woe, in the book of the Revelation to John.  There are, however, a number of events which must precede the second woe, so that my expectation is that the great war will not occur before something like late 2026 or some time in the following year or two, and I also believe it will be a war of comparatively short duration when considering previous global conflicts, maybe something like 18 months to 2 years.  Of course, as always, I remind you that I am making no claim to having some kind of special prophetic insight and this could all be completely wrong... but don't count on it.  I certainly won't.  The best we can hope for now, apart from going through this with Christ, is that it comes much later on and, if one is old enough, one gets to live out his or her life before this all goes down but, again, don't count on it.  There are too many indicators suggesting that we really are in that time spoken of in Revelation.

 

No nation which engages in this war will remain intact.  Thus, even though Australia is geographically remote to all these events, if it engages in this conflict, and I think it will, then it will suffer terrible consequences.  I fear for my own nation, for we have Godless fools in power, openly anti-Christian moral morons who cannot tell their left foot from their right hand, cowardly capitulators to the globalist money powers, worthless, spineless, blind and perverse, always grasping at every opportunity to extend their oppressive control over the nation's people, and it troubles me deeply that it is the people who chose such obvious idiots...  I guess that such a culture really does not deserve to live.  I feel sad.

 

When it comes to humanity's self-destructive tendencies, mankind has never been able to develop a technology which has some potential military application without first using it to create ever more devastating weaponry to destroy his fellow human beings in the pursuit of ephemeral gain, power and ever-expanding control over others, constantly driven on by relentless anxiety and the fear of death.  This is the nature of man without God, the spirit we call, Satan.

 

As I keep saying, and reminding not only you, dear reader, but also myself, respectfully fear and worship God alone, and trust God, not man.  Never put your faith in fallen man, but only in the one who is above all, Yeshua, the Christ, our Lord, our saviour, our true king, and from ancient days our creator and, thus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Stump

Farmers are shutting down Germany, billionaires are rushing to finish their mega-bunkers this year because there is apparently going to be some kind of "event", there is talk of assassinating Trump, Ukraine is in a diabolical mess, the USA is threatening war with Iran and probably everyone else who does not kowtow to their banksters, Russia is likely well into its plans to invade Europe, China is eyeing off Taiwan and probably half a dozen other nations, North and South Korea are engaging in escalating hostilities and sabre-rattling, WHO is pushing ahead hard with its plan to rule and micromanage the entire world, western nations are descending ever more rapidly into utter chaos and deep divisions, the pope is showing his true pagan colours by "blessing" unions of utter abomination and the Catholic chuch is on the rocks as is just about every denomination, US debt is beyond comprehension and there is absolutely no way in this universe it can be paid so a global crash is looming, WW3 is likely within a few years, and I could go on and on and on... but, d'you know what?  So what!!  This kind of global psychosis was completely expected and I also expect it to grow worse ever more quickly because we really are in the end times before the return of the Lord.  We just have to ensure that we are firmly established on the eternal rock of salvation and not on the quicksand of perdition... and the rest is up to Him.  Commit your ways to Him and he will establish the thoughts of your heart, the directions you will find yourself taking, but, always remember, even if it sometimes seems to go sideways on you, perhaps His plan is better than yours.  I know He uses everything to our ultimate benefit, even the bad, and that is not just something I have read but is based on personal experience.

Jonathan Cahn's message regarding the pope and the state of the Catholic Church.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES6SD6RVcuo

 

Trust God, not ridiculous, godless, fallen man.  Trust only God with all of your faculties and crush any doubt that lingers in your mind as to the perfection of His plan.  We are facing the ultimate testing of our faith.  Trust God.

 

 

Left is Never Right

Just stumbled upon this seven and a half year old article... it'll probably offend some but, well, so be it.

 

The Stupidity of the Left

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/the_stupidity_of_the_left.html

 

Offence, on my part, is unintentional but in today's climate of compulsory exacting mental absenteeism it would seem that offence is inexorably unavoidable.  Merely opening one's mouth these days seems to draw the ire of all manner of federal fops more concerned with the fleeting thoughts of defenseless denizens of ancient philosophical thoughtscapes than do the transgressions of megalomaniacal global destroyers of life and obfuscators of truth.  Far too many delicate egos constructed like toilet tissue origami scaffolding in the typhoon tropics.  A skinless breed of Leninbots and Marxbots fleeing the stinging rays of the light of truth, scampering like roaches into dark corners and under rugs, and all masturbating each other with their glibbery virtue signalling in congratulations of their self-superiority in all fields of endeavour... except those in the real world... and to think that I was once on the side of the left!  Admittedly, that was a long time ago, when the left still meant something, and I was very young and, as with all young people, young and dumb, though I cannot say that I was ever drawn to Marx and his mindless minions.  Such never elicited praise from me.  Once upon a time, the left cared about people, or did they really?  Those drawn into it thought so but, in truth, the heart of the left is envy and covetousness... and careful examination of the exposed character of the most renowned leftists through the eyes of others who personally knew them reveals the truth... it always has been.

Ideology, really of any kind, the belief that one can comprehend the uber-complex real world through a mere handful of childish simplisms, is for children, perhaps even only infants.  That there are people who never grow out of such a mindset only shows us how absurdly retarded human culture has become, particularly in the west.  It deserves to... no... needs to... die.

The fear of God is the true beginning of wisdom, and that respect for God by respecting His law, a perfect reflection of His character, ensures one will never be drawn into the web of deceit that is today's hyper-divisive politics.  People are people, both good or bad, righteous or wicked, no matter the culture or creed, clan or continent.  Ideas, however, have a life of their own and can destroy a human being in the blink of an eye.  Adam really did die on the day when he ate of that embittering fruit, and all of us with him but, thanks to our true and merciful God, we have life again in Christ.  God's mercy I will never deserve, but His forgiveness is there for all.  Trusting Him is up to us.

Trust God, not silly, silly man.

War and Numbers

Prepare for war!  Gird your loins, put on your armor, don your helmet, take up your shield and your sword, and off to war we go!  Got any nukes handy by any chance?  Preferably thermonukes but the purely fission variety will do in a pinch.

 

It does not bode well for western nations, not well at all, because it is primarily the western nations which comprise the beasts and those affiliated with the beasts.  Those of us who have foolishly aligned ourselves with the USA which is the second beast (two horns like a lamb but speaks like a dragon, that is, gives the appearance of a nation with great power and Christian culture but is a liar, speaking in the natural tongue of the dragon) will likely suffer the same fate as that beast.  I know that Los Angeles will be taken out in the middle of the night, that one I have already seen many years ago.  Likely also attacked will be New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Dallas, and perhaps other major urban centres.  If I was living in any of those places then I would be leaving very shortly.  My "gut" tells me that we will not see this decade out before WW3.  The current incarnation of the first beast, the mostly Vatican-controlled WEU and locally allied nations, and its eastern counterpart, the beast that comes up from the abyss, the Islamic nations of the middle east, will also suffer a similar fate, though I do not know that middle eastern nations of largely Islamic believers will necessarily suffer nuclear attacks, the reason being that the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons in wartime against another nation is the USA.  He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.  Likely both the USA and large parts of the Eurasian continent will be glowing eerily in the dark by the time this is all over.  Maybe even Australia will be hit, but I am not so certain of that one (and, from a personal perspective, I hope not, but the possibility does seem to linger).

There is a lot of hope, I would posit false hope, about reviving the USA and restoring it to its former glory, particularly before it became so corrupted with greed and a lust for power over all the world.  I do not expect it to happen.  It will retain significant power though nowhere near all of it, but the idea of a free people nation is gone, now in the dustbin of history.  It seems there has never been an honest government in the USA since the days of the ill-fated JFK, if not earlier.  In reality, since the banksters took over early in the 20th century, the USA was already lost.  All of its thriving since then appears really to have been for the advantage of the globankster criminal cabal whose current goal is total and absolute global control and micromanagement of every single human being, machine, patch of land, ounce of water, erg of energy and every single resource on this planet.  To them we are merely another resource to use and then discard when done, merely numbers.  That type of delusional thinking is the fruit of the complete rejection of the creation account given to us by God through Moses and its substitute belief in time and chance, a world with no meaning, no purpose and no pre-existing destiny, the world of the evolution of mindless matter.

Did you ever wonder why the Lord was angry with king David for numbering his fighting men?  The obvious reason is that he was failing to trust God for their needs in times of war but it is not so obvious when, in other parts of the bible, we read of one census or another, the numbering of all manner of people, including fighting age men, musicians, priests, and so forth.

So, it appears to be a sin to reduce humanity to numbers for certain kinds of purposes.  What kinds of purposes and why?  A human being is made in the image of God and, as such, every single human being, though finite, is unique, because God is unique.  Would you dare treat God as a mere digit on a computer?  It is all very fine to number people for purposes that serve those people but the sin comes when we number people for the purposes of controlling and using them, which reduces them to resources and makes them all common and alike, discarding the reality that each and every one is made in the image of God regardless of how corrupted that person has made that image, for God still sees what He made as well as what it has made of itself.  Numbering of people for the purpose of using them is a sin because it reduces people to the status of deterministic automatons whose existence is to serve the state, which is anathema before the truth, but numbering people for the purpose of serving those people is not a sin because such numbering is really intended for calculation of the required resources for the service of those people, so such numbering is not really numbering of people but numbering of resources.  We must be careful to never reduce individual human beings to statistics and mere resources.

This particular sin occurs not only in the secular world (which it does to an unimaginable extent) but also in "churchianity".  There is a big difference between counting congregants in order to know how much tea and coffee to provide and how many chairs to set out, as opposed to counting people in order to know how much money you are going to receive as offerings.  The former serves the people individually but the latter uses the people, disregarding them individually, in order to serve the coffers and those who have access.  How many "evangelists" seek to fatten their congregations with ever increasing nunbers of people for their own financial purposes or for fame and the power and money it brings?  In my view, I suspect that God sees the tiny gathering of faithful believers at somebody's home as being easily as important as the gathering of many thousands of people at a so-called "mega-church" and, in fact, perhaps more valuable in a certain sense, regarding the servitude of the individuals towards God, because such tiny congregations have not yet been corrupted by the influences of financial gain.  Those who are wed to wealth become hard as stone, unable to change, for the comforts and ease that wealth brings makes them forget God and their purposes in serving Him and become completely consumed with self-interest... with the consequent desire to fill ever larger, ever more palacial buildings with ever greater numbers of financial contributors, an undifferentiated collective bringing in the dough rather than individuals in need of help or even salvation.  Little wonder that king David asked the Lord to make him neither too poor lest he resort to theft to feed himself nor too rich lest he forget the Lord.  Many "churches", it would seem, have largely forgotten the Lord.

So, having apparently run off on a tangential topic, what has this all to do with WW3?  Simple, really.  Man thinks he can win wars based on numbers - numbers of warplanes, warships, tanks, guns, bombs, missiles, infantry, pilots, sailors, analysts working in the back rooms, industries manufacturing the weapons, support from allies, and so on and so forth.  That may actually be, to some extent, true where all sides are similarly estranged from God but such circumstances also mean utter devastation for all sides no matter the way the war goes.  Man foolishly trusts in his own power, using numbers, to not only create numerous weapons and train numerous fighters but also, to compute the resources needed under the misguided belief that numbers are what really counts, altogether forgetting that it is God who decides the direction of the war and the direction of the world; man has become a worshipper of mere mechanistic numbers - we see this in the corruption of governments, science, and all manner of "learned" institutions and the medical field.

Can you see how it is that the Lord God will be seen as glorious when He conquers all nations?  None of them actually trust in Him... but I do and I hope that you do, also.

This coming great war, a war that will truly end all wars, and like all other wars in the past century or more, will be driven by an insatiable lust for wealth and power, control of resources and the use of humanity as mere cattle and chattel, as weapons of war no more valuable than a mortar shell or a cannon, mere numbers on a spreadsheet.  That the people involved, which will be a very large part, or perhaps most, of humanity, have departed from God and are willing to be nothing more than mere numbers on their government's abacus, numbers awaiting to be marked by the beast and become the eternal possession of the fallen one, to be used as one uses a rag and throws it away when done just because they have hoped in mankind rather than God, means that most of humanity will likely be destroyed.  Perhaps that destruction will, for many, come sooner than the mark and, in doing so, there may yet be some hope for many of them, as there was for the man on the cross next to the Lord when, during the final hours of his life, the Lord said to him, "Today, you will be with Me in paradise."

Trust God, not numbers and not man, but trust God alone.

 

 

When the Righteous Depart

I received word this morning that an uncle in Spain has passed away, a good, exceedingly kind and merciful, God-fearing man.  He is the last and the youngest of my father's siblings, my father having himself passed away over 17 years ago.  They were a large family of mostly brothers and a few sisters, now all gone.  They were all righteous, God-fearing men and women, some more so than others but all good people, all walking according to the decrees of God, though imperfectly, still always discerning the right from the wrong, understanding which their parents instilled in them as children.  Now they are all together again... and I cannot help but think of this...

Isa 57:1-2 KJV  The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.  (2)  He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

I had this feeling, for some time now, that this was just around the corner, this anxiety that, upon the passing of the last of my father's clan, the horrors of the tribulation would begin in earnest.  For some reason, January 11/12 next year seems to be on my mind... perhaps it's nothing, I don't know.  One has these kinds of days once in a while, days when one awakens from many strange dreams over many nights, dreams which leave one astonied, perplexed, even anxious.  My life here has become very strange, almost alien to me.  I do not recognise this world at all, so far has it departed from the world in which I grew up, so profound is the abyss into which it has headlong plunged, drowning in an overwhelming ocean of lies, deceit, delusion, insanity, psychosis, a complete departure from truth, from reality, madness personified, to wit, we are witnessing the mind of Satan.  These are the conditions for the rise of the son of perdition, these are the days of the end of the age, of that I have little, if any, doubt.

Take heed when the righteous pass on from this mortal world, from this place of confusion, from this Babylon... ah, Babylon the Great, how short are your days now.  I will sing at your death, I will never bemoan you, I will dance on your ashes and then I will forget you forever and forever and ever.

Trust God, not man, for goodness sake not man!  The fear of God is truly the beginning of real wisdom.

A Rambling Rant - The World Has Gone NUTS!

Do I need to prove to you the widespread existence of anti-Semitic hatred that has been hiding in the hearts of so many?  Obviously not!  However, what did surprise me was the level of Jew hatred that has shown its ugly mug here in Australia.  Sure, I knew there was some, it's everywhere... but... but... the extent to which it has gripped this nation is astonishing!  Really, I should not be surprised that since Australia completely left the cover of God's law then the influx of people adhering to that demonic-minded belief system full of oppression, hatred and violence (which I shall not name but you know what it is, that beast which comes up from the bottomless pit) has hugely increased and their threatening influence is so excessive now that they get away with all manner of law-breaking with hardly a peep out of the police or the government.  Australia is surely in rapid decline.  As with other western nations which have foolishly fallen prey to the beliefs of the globalist materialists, the increasing division is accelerating the demise of modern civilisation... but then, with a heart as rotton as a one-week-old cadaver putrefying in the desert sun, there really is no surprise.

 

We know that, despite the evils of Israel, it is still a nation of God's promise, for He never breaks His oath and he made a promise to Abraham that whoever curses Abraham, and by extension his descendents, will be cursed by God and whoever blesses Abraham and thus his descendents will be blessed by God.  Which descendents, though?  I would argue it must be those who kept the faith of Abraham.  One could argue that it applies only to the spiritual descendents of Abraham but, from observations of history and in spite of the suffering over the millennia of the remnant of ancient Israel, the Jewish nation, we see that it is not Christians who are unconditionally blessed in the present world, not at all, but the Jews who, wherever they go, do so well or, at least, that is the case until the Jew-hating demonic spirit takes hold of the people around them, which it appears to do time and time again.  After all, why do demons hate those people so much more than anyone else?  Through them came the Messiah, through them came God's law and promises, through them came the hope of the world and through them will come God's government on Earth.  As the Lord said, salvation is of the Jews.  Remember that the twelve apostles, who are twelve Jews and the original Christians, are twelve chief justices, each one presiding over 12,000 regional justices scattered all over the world and they are all under the rulership of Christ... that is the structure of the government to come.  Little wonder that the devil so desperately wants to rid the world of those people for, in doing so, not only would he destroy the hope in God's promises for israel but he would also utterly destroy the hopes of all Christianity for, if the Jewish nation ceases to be then why wouldn't their spiritual counterpart, Christianity?  Clearly, as God is God and the devil is not, such a plan can never succeed.  Oooooh it must be so deeply irritating and frustrating to that old serpent, so horrible to him but so inevitable.  It would be like having your head thoroughly super-glued to a rail as a freight train was coming down the track, the outcome so utterly inevitable.

 

As noted in a previous post, this is all about bringing the crop to full maturity, the righteousness of the righteous out in full view and the wickedness of the wicked out in full view, bringing completely out into the open all that is hiding in each and every heart, so that when the harvesters come then they will make no mistakes.  First, the weeds to be gathered and bundled together to be destroyed and only then the gathering in of the wheat.

 

However, there is much to pass through before we reach that place, before the day of the Lord comes, so much must we endure and many will not reach that day, perhaps as many as one in two or three people.  The events of the past couple of years are dramatic and we see an ongoing escalation of drama, with each new catastrophe, whether war or natural disaster, outstripping previous events in suddenness, sometimes also in extent, and then followed by an apparent lull.  So acclimated to the craziness of it all do we become that the intervening periods seem almost calm, though they are anything but calm.  So, upon each new drastic event, do not consider it in the light of other recent events but instead in the light of events at least a decade or more ago.  Then you will gain a better sense of how truly dramatic each event really is and you will also get a much better sense of the words of the Lord, wherein He described the events of the last days as being like birth pangs, each stronger than the last, with each interval shorter than the previous.

 

It is always difficult to estimate what is about to come, often being not much better than a guess.  We do eventually gain twenty-twenty hindsight when we finally properly understand the fulfillment of scriptural prophecy in a historical context, but then we're still left wondering exactly where we are in that prophetic narrative of scripture.  However, what we do not need to wonder about is whether or not God can be trusted.  The creator of all and the author and finisher of our faith can be completely trusted, no matter how difficult it appears to us at times.  Not man, but God, trust God.