The Calm is Coming to an End

I have re-published on old post, dated 2017-04-17 and entitled, "There is a Calm Before the Storm."  You can see it at the bottom of this blog.  I kept all my old posts on the blog server and simply placed them into draft status, just in case I would find a reason to bring them out in the future.  You never know when you will want to do that.

The post speaks of that dream in which the Lord visited me in 2011 but I did not indicate that fact in 2017 because, at that time, I decided not to publish any such personal things.  However, regarding this one, I have changed my mind, thus speaking about it more directly in recent posts.  Interestingly, another point I had not mentioned was the secular date of that dream, the early morning of the 22nd of April, 2011 (those numbers again?  Go figure!)

Not all details are shown in that old 2017 blog post but significant details, perhaps the primary details, are referred to.  I thought that, maybe, anybody reading my posts may wish to know a little more.  As long as it helps to strengthen and encourage the true believers, the children of God, then I will bring out some hidden treasures, both new and old, once in a while. 

Keep sage, sane, sound and saved and make your heartfelt prayers known to the Ever Living God.  Remember, He is in control no matter how crazy things appear to be.  All is being done to bring the crop of humanity to complete maturity before the harvesters come and remove the wicked from among the righteous on that great and terrible day.

Did the Spirit of God Speak?

Sometimes I write things in this blog or in my personal notes that, unknown to me at the time of writing, are prophetic.  The Spirit of God sometimes moves a person to speak or write and he does not always know the source of that information.  Maybe the prophets of old experienced that quite often.  Perhaps this was another such event.

According to certain medical sources (noted in a video I have linked below), the first known case of COVID-19 infection was believed to have occurred on the 1st of December, 2019.  That is the same date that I posted the addendum at the end of the blog post, entitled, "Monstrous Evil", the post itself dated the 21st of November, 2019.  At the bottom of the post you can see the following... 

Addendum 2019-12-01.

The world needs a war.  Yes, you read that correctly and, as much as I loathe war, the world is now at a point where the only thing that can help western civilisation to survive is war.... [etc].

Then, as mentioned in an earlier post, entitled, "The Great Storm Now Barely Begins" (dated the 10th of April, 2020), the Ever Living God spoke to me, around early to mid March, saying, "Now it begins."  As noted in that post, I did not at first understand the meaning of what He said but now I believe I have some idea.  I did not write down a record of what He said at the time He said it (which is something I do only sometimes, especially if He tells me to), but I clearly recall the event because it struck me with great anxiety at first.

Although fighting a viral outbreak is often compared to war, I have little doubt, at this point, that the "fallout" of this pandemic, this viral war, will be a war fought with more "conventional" though extremely deadly and destructive weapons, perhaps the final great war.  That is why I used the word, "Barely", in the title of that post on the 10th of April.  I believe this is the event which just gets the ball rolling for the last time.

Furthermore, I believe that 2022 will be the year to begin the time of reckoning, the beginning of the time of Jacob's trouble, the beginning of the great catastrophes, no longer the pangs but the real pain and, perhaps, the first appearances of the two witnesses in the public sphere (maybe at that time or soon thereafter), although their official final ministry may begin at a later date.

If Pastor of the "Hope of the World" ministry, Jonathan Cahn, in Lodi, New Jersey, USA, was correct about the last Jewish calendar sabbatical (i.e. "shmitah") year beginning during September of 2014 then the next such year, which is the 7th year when the land is meant to rest, begins on the 7th of September, 2021, but ends (ending the 7 year cycle) on the 26th of September, 2022, which is the end of the Jewish calendar date of Elul 29, 5782 (at sunset) and the beginning of the following Jewish calendar date of Tishrei 1, 5783, beginning the new Jewish year at sunset.  That date is, by our secular calendar, 22-09-26 (year-month-date).  Note those numbers; 22, is associated with the two witnesses (among other things) and 26 is the gematria of YHVH, the tetragrammaton.  The appearance of 11 has also been prominent and it is associated with chaos and the two witnesses but if it refers to a month then perhaps November of 2022 is a time to keep in mind.  Although these are secular dates I believe that God works all things for the benefit of those willing to see His hand in action, those who love Him.  He made it clear that the current pope Francis is an evil man through a prophecy given to St Francis centuries ago, by the fact that the current pope took the name of the very man who prophesied the coming of a false pastor of the Catholic Church.  For those willing to see and accept it, God makes things pretty obvious sometimes.  For the past (more than a) year the Lord has been bombarding me with those numbers mentioned above, but I simply never understood why.  I made lots of conjectures about it in my own notes but lacked solid evidence for many of those ideas.  Perhaps I now have the answer.  At this point, I believe that the date, the 26th of September, 2022, marks the beginning of the final seven years until the day of the Lord.  I may be wrong on that but, for now, I will go with it.

It is true that we cannot know the precise day or hour of His appearing but we can know the season.  It is also clear to me that, as the time draws near, our ability to narrow the range of possibilities will improve until that day finally comes.  It would seem apropos, to me anyway, that He should return almost (if not) precisely 2000 years, which is 40 Jubilees, after His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection.  There is much disagreement about exactly when that occurred, some saying year 30, some year 29, a few claiming other dates, and perhaps that is the source of our inability to know the precise time of His return.  Maybe God set it up that way from the beginning.  Another possibility is that the final seven years has already begun and in 2022 we will be half way through it.  That seems less likely to me but it may be something to be mindful of. 

Here is a link to a 55 minute video outlining significant issues and inconsistencies and, frankly, outright lies that have been peddled by the mainstream media and politicians and other completely untrustworthy groups (as usual, connected with the UN) regarding the pandemic we know as COVID-19.  It is well worth viewing.

"The first documentary movie on CCP virus, Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus"   (NTD)

Also, here is an 11 minute video regarding this same issue on a channel I like a lot, run by a woman who keeps her identity secret (for good reasons) but is one of the best investigative citizen journalists I have ever encountered.

"Made in China"  (The Truth Factory)

Anyway, hope you got something out of my post and hope you find valuable information in the videos linked above.

Note that although I indicated that fighting a viral pandemic is akin to a type of war, the Chinese Communist Party has itself clearly stated that they consider themselves to actually be at war, in particular with the USA but also, essentially, with all western nations.

The war has, indeed, begun.

Observe the Numbers - Part 3 - Following up the follow-up

Now looking at the figures, it looks like the global pandemic death rate (daily deaths) is surging again.  I guess my initial guess was not on the money, after all, and I spoke too soon.  I wonder if it is related to a broader pattern?  Will have to wait and see.

I'll do some more digging and see if there is some way of getting a handle on this.

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Addendum 2020-04-18:

Actually, I suspect that the sudden jump in numbers of deaths is mostly (if not entirely) a result of recent revelations out of China where admission to a much higher mortality rate has been made (and is anybody surprised by that?... of course not!)  Most of those deaths would have been prior to the past week, perhaps even before March, and I suspect the numbers are yet a lot higher than has been admitted to so far, so this would severely skew the information, since all such reporting of past deaths, being that nothing is known about precisely when they occurred, are likely to be piled onto the data all at the same time, when they were finally reported and not when they occurred.

The result is that we may never know the true daily rate of deaths from this plague.  Lying governments and the criminal globalist enterprise we call "the U.N. and the W.H.O.", obstruct, skew, obfuscate and falsify data in every area into which they gain a foothold.  It is merely the way of the spirit we call, satan, the great liar and the father of lies.  After all, as pointed out in a much older blog post, the UN is the image of the beast referred to in the Book of the Revelation to John and, therefore, a type of "government" operating under the control of satan.  Remember that it is the dragon (a reference to the eternally lost, fallen one) who gives his power to the beasts and the image of the beast, that is, to their statesmen and representatives.  And what is his power?  It is the power to deceive.

I suspect that we will never see a full rollback of the rapidly growing totalitarian police state conditions now prevalent in western nations, even if the plague is completely eliminated.  That is the nature of the oppressive, controlling, evil spirit, that which we call, satan.

 

Observe the Numbers - Part 2 - Follow-up

It would seem that my post, "Observe the Numbers" (2020-03-29) was pretty much "on the money".  Note the global COVID-19 fatality rate graph (daily deaths) on this page...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/

(Scroll down for the graph, "Daily Deaths", which is the death rate, a little over half way down the page.)

You will see it peak at around April 7th and roughly level off until around the 9th, then go into a rapid decline.  Although the bars on the graph are a bit "bumpy", a smooth fitted curve would indeed show the peak around the 7th to the 8th.

Although I did say I would comment on this, right now I have little time to do so and will have to defer my post on this issue for another day.

Bread and Circuses

The expression, "bread and circuses", is, according to various sources, attributed to the Roman poet, Juvenal.  It speaks of the appeasement of the populace in an attempt to satisfy their base lusts for entertainment and filling the belly in order to distract them from the real problems resulting from a collapsing empire.

It has long been apparent to me that we live in the age of "bread and circuses".  For almost my entire 54 years of life to date, westerners have been obsessed with entertainment, mostly sports (circuses, games) and later, food (bread) with a plethora of televised cooking shows over the past three decades.  This is a clear signal of a collapsing empire, just as happened with Rome, and given that we really do still live in Rome, being a latter days version of it (consider how all of our governments and public institutions are closely related to the structures of ancient Rome), then it is not a stretch to recognise that the modern obsession with bread and circuses is an indicator of how close we are to the end.

However, what has really struck me is a popular television series, called, "Master Chef", which has risen to enormous popularity since its beginning a number of years ago.  This program, in its modern incarnation, began in Australia as a remake of a similar program that originated in Britain decades earlier.  The modern incarnation, however, has reached epidemic popularity around the world with now more than sixty countries airing their own versions of the program.

What really stands out, to me, anyway, is that this is a show which combines both bread and circuses and, given its huge global popularity, I cannot help but laugh out loud at how incredibly clear such a sign of the impending end can be and yet pass so many by unnoticed in the context of history, its apparent importance being about the show itself and its contestants rather than what it really indicates.  Such great importance has been placed on this program for all the wrong reasons.

Anyway, I thought that I would mention that in passing.

The Great Storm Just Barely Begins

I have been thinking about the Lord's visitation to me in 2011, when He came to me in a dream on the day of the anniversary of His resurrection (by the Jewish religious calendar, not the secular calendar).  We stood on a beach, something like a small, hidden cove, and the ocean was to the west, the land to the east and, looking north, there appeared a great long, dark cloud low on the distant north horizon, from as far as the eye could see from east to west.  The Lord, with His right hand, grasped my left shoulder and, with His outstretched left arm, He pointed north, saying, "Look, a huge storm is coming."  Recently, about a month ago, in the Spirit He said to me, "Now it begins."  At that moment I did not know or understand what He meant but, now, I think He was referring back to that "storm" He pointed out all those years ago.

This morning, when I finished my morning prayer, the Lord said to me, absolutely clearly, "Read Isaiah 51."  So I did...

Isa 51:1-23 ASV  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.  (2)  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.  (3)  For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.  (4)  Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.  (5)  My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.  (6)  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.  (7)  Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.  (8)  For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.  (9)  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?  (10)  Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?  (11)  And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  (12)  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;  (13)  and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?  (14)  The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.  (15)  For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.  (16)  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.  (17)  Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.  (18)  There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.  (19)  These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?  (20)  Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.  (21)  Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:  (22)  Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:  (23)  and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

I would recommend you look up words in Strong's concordance, words, among others, such as Rahab (H7293) - "From H7292, bluster (blusterer): - proud, strength.", wherever you do not have an absolutely clear understanding of the meaning of a word or verse in the context of the chapter and recognise its context today, remembering that Christians are Israel, also.

If you do not have a bible with Strong's numbers, you can download e-Sword, which is free bible software and, among many other features, includes copies of the bible in many versions among which is the King James version with Strong's numbers and a Strong's Concordance is also available.

Observe the Numbers

Given what I posted last time, I thought it would be interesting to observe something, not that it makes any difference to anything but my scientific background compels me to always observe and try to understand things.  My thought is that the global pandemic death rate will peak at around (roughly) the 9th of April and then flatten and decline thereafter.  It would be very telling if it does, for reasons I may mention later... if it does.  Just thought that I would mention this in passing.

Stay safe, sage, sound and saved in Christ.

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Just by the way...
... watch out for a large earthquake around the 9th and up to the 13th of April.  By large, I mean one that is deadly.  Don't know whether or not this is due but watch out, anyway.

Life in Draconia

I fell asleep in Australia and awoke in Draconia.

As I sit here the prime minister of Australia is being grilled, on television, by nitpicking and foolish young "journalists" who seem intent only on tripping him up instead of offering the support a government and nation under enormous stress actually need.  I cannot express just how vile and disgusting those on the left really are, there simply are no words.

As the prime minister said, these are draconian measures that are being implemented, and he is not taking this lightly, nor is he kidding.

So, this is life under a police state, or the beginning of it, anyway.

Do not shake hands, do not stand closer than one point five metres from another person, do not congregate in public or in private, do not go out if it is not essential, do not do what you normally do, so, do nothing.  I am not angry about this, it was inevitable because of the insane policies of the left which have made the transmission of infectious diseases across the planet easier and quicker than anything in all of history.  Knowing the wickedness of the UN, however, it will be their opportunity to exert their long-sought after totalitarian global control through their bribed-by-China, morally compromised W.H.O.  I hope and pray they never get their way.

Welcome to Draconia.

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Correction:  I mistakenly wrote here that it was on the 12th of January when I first published an update to a post regarding the seeming need for war but the correct date is the 1st of December, 2019, at the bottom of the post entitled, "Monstrous Evil" (that post published first on the 21st of November, 2019).  I said that this world needs a war, not because I like war (I despise it) but because the current state of morality and truth in western civilisation is at an all time low and has, as far as I can tell, leapt off the cliff and into the bottomless abyss, and a war seems to possibly be the only thing left that can shake the nations to the core and bring some level of correction back into the national psyche.  Such events have a historical precedent.

Well, I guess we have a war of sorts, though not the way I had imagined.  If these current events do not begin to bring some correction back into the social conscience of our societies, then only a truly devastating war stands a chance, but that will really be the end.  The scriptures tell us that it is coming, so, I guess this current crisis will ultimately have no impact aside from large numbers of lives lost.  I feel deep sadness, now, but know that for those in Christ the hope of the resurrection remains... and there is no true hope but that hope which is in the Lord.

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Addendum 2020-03-26.

I want to be absolutely clear on something in case anybody reads into what I wrote something that I definitely did not write.  This so-called pandemic is not the wrath of God.  If it was then the devastation would have been very rapid and immeasurable and there would be nothing but hopelessness confronting the godless hordes.  The widespread outbreak of a viral infection causing socio-economic collapse of western nations is, if anything at all, merely a consequence and a warning; a warning because things will only grow worse the more we ignore God and consequential because it is the result of mankind turning his back on God for far too long, the eventuality being that God is withdrawing His protection from the consequences of our sins.  This type of thing is clearly described in the Book of the Revelation to John where it speaks of the one who restrains being taken out of the way.  Anybody who has read the posts I wrote a couple of years ago, regarding the false ideas about a rapture, knows precisely what I mean.  In any case, if these events are the beginning of that final withdrawal of God's protection then we are truly in the time of the end, but only time will really tell.  Whatever time it may be in prophetic history, it is wise to be prepared as if we had already entered into the final years of mankind's self-rule.  Personally I believe that they are but, again, time will tell.

However, here is something interesting... listen to this video from 31:48 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryu8QIcQrU 
(Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries).

Pastor Biltz points out that in the very first passover the Israelites were couped up in their houses while the destroying angel passed through Egypt killing all the firstborn but passed over the Israelites.  So, what do we see happening right now as passover approaches us in two weeks time?  People are couped up as a destroyer goes about the earth (perhaps as a sign that signifies more than just our moral failures), so this coming passover the Jews will be couped up indoors, just as it was during the first passover roughly 3500 years ago.  Not only will physical Israel be couped up indoors but, likewise, the extended family of spiritual Israel, which are the true Christians.

I recommend you watch the entire video since Pastor Biltz always has significant insights.  I do not necessarily agree with all that he says but one does not have to be in perfect agreement to learn and discover things others may offer some, even partial, insight into.

Under the Macroscope

I was thinking about the way society has reacted to this current disease problem and it suddenly dawned on me that the reaction of society as a whole on the maco scale closely mimics that which occurs on the micro scale in those who then die as a result of the disease.

From reports that I have read regarding the progression of the disease and, in particular, the conditions which lead to death of the victim, what happens is that there is an early under-reaction of the immune system to the virus, perhaps due to slowness of response or lack of response altogether caused by pre-existing factors such as advanced age, compromised immunity, etc.

What then follows, as the virus takes hold, is an eventual over-reaction of the immune system, a veritable onslaught of antibodies being produced as a result of the already widespread infection.  The consequence is that the immune system of such a person does as much damage as the virus, potentially even more, leading eventually to death.

Isn't this precisely what we have seen occur on the macro scale in society?  There was an initial under-reaction to the reports coming out of China and, later, elsewhere, and people continued in their daily lives as if nothing had changed.  This was aided and abetted by a slack, lazy, politically driven mass media who lulled the populace into complacency and foolishly believed the played-down reports coming out of a nation whose government has a clear track record of lying and suppression of the truth, even to the point of murdering its citizens.  However, since China is politically aligned with the fools in mass media, most of whom are far left leaning moral imbeciles, the warnings coming from more conservative voices were not being heard and were even being played down as alarmist and even "racist", the usual go-to for the fools of the left.

Then, as the virus took hold in European and Middle Eastern nations, the meteoric rise of numbers of infections and the ever increasing death toll lead to an over-reaction by the lefty media fools and all the complacent "me-first" masses resulting in lock-downs and the onset of total social and economic collapse.

Does this mean that western civilisation is about to perish?  I do not think so for one simple reason; western civilisation is already dead.  Dead things cannot again die.

The takeaway for me from all of this is that my experience of the repetitiveness of patterns throughout creation across both time and space and any other way one can think of is as consistent in a matter such as this current crisis as it is in the old saying that history repeats itself.  We also see this in the prophecies outlined in scripture where each prophecy has both a literal physical fulfillment and a spiritual fulfillment, and each can happen on multiple scales.  This is a pattern of patterns and it has long fascinated me, especially because of my engineering background, since I learned from an early stage that a mathematical concept used to model a physical system seems to show up in the same form over and over for all manner of different systems, and this same pattern of patterns concept seems to underly absolutely all things, physical and spiritual, because information, no matter what form it is presented in, retains its characteristics and that is spiritual reality.

Perhaps at some time in the future I will write about my understanding of just what spirit really is and how it underlies all existence and is not actually separate from physical reality but underpins every single aspect of it.  Alternatively, the Lord has other plans for me, but the revelations He has given me over the years must have been given for a reason, though I do not yet know precisely what that reason may be.  Time will tell.

Meanwhile, consider buying yourself some tonic water since it contains quinine.  I am not certain of this but in considering the drug used to treat malaria that has had success in treating this virus, that drug was developed as a result of the success of quinine in treating malaria and, in fact, tonic water is a product of the time when malaria was a widespread problem, thus its name, "Tonic Water".  The problem is that the quinine in tonic water is possibly too dilute to have any significant effect on an already infected person if it has any effect at all.  The modern drug used to treat malaria (most cases) and which has been successful in treating this new disease is called hydroxychloroquine.  As is evidenced in its name, the tail end of the name, "quine", does indeed derive from the word, "quinine", since the drug is related to quinine, though not the same in a significant sense.  Thus it remains uncertain to me whether it is that component of the drug that has the impact, in which case it might be possible that quinine, and thus, tonic water, has an impact, perhaps not to eliminate the infection but may actually slow it down or prevent it from becoming too dangerous.  However, if that part of the drug is not the effective component then tonic water may have no effect.  Nevertheless, I have several bottles of tonic water (I always keep some as a drink, anyway) and if I should find myself affected directly by this currently virulent strain of the disease, I will probably try tonic water in case it has some effect to improve the outcome.  Who knows, it just may be that simple and nothing is lost in trying, anyway.  By the way, should you purchase any tonic water due to my comments here, I take no responsibility over your behaviour but strongly advise you to only get what you may need (perhaps 4 to 6 bottles).  Further, keep this knowledge to yourself for now because I do not want to cause a mad rush for tonic water when it may end up being of no use at all, since panicking godless people behave in the most atrocious way and can do much more damage than the illness itself, and may God watch over you in any case.

Monstrous Evil

Although I generally do not post to this blog any more, this needs to be aired...

(link) The BBC - teaching British school children to celebrate "more than 100 genders"

Every time I hear of this kind of wickedness, the following verses come back to mind.​

Mat 18:6-7 KJV  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  (7)  Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comet 

​The people at the BBC are in very deep trouble, as are those in governing authority who made law of wickedness, and every teacher, principal and administrator in every school where these things are being taught and who does not oppose it.  How many God-fearing innocent children are being subjected to this monstrous evil?  The Lord never used the word (translated into English as) "woe" lightly.  He rarely said it but always used it in a manner as to indicate deeply serious trouble for those upon whom woe would come.

This tells me that remaining time has to be short.  The western world, once a haven for truth and freedom, has become a gulag for the mind and a snake pit for the careless and spiritually blind wanderer.  If the Lord said that woe would come, then you can be absolutely certain that woe will come.

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Addendum 2019-12-01.

The world needs a war.  Yes, you read that correctly and, as much as I loathe war, the world is now at a point where the only thing that can help western civilisation to survive is war.

This gender fluidity garbage and all this safe space nonsense, sexual immorality, feminism, paganism in general, persecution of the righteous, climate alarmism based on completely falsified data and erroneous ideas, and so forth, all amounting in the end to one form or another of idolatry, is what happens when a civilisation has not seen war invade for too many generations which have grown from foetus to adult while being mollycoddled in a life of luxuriant excess, ease and self-indulgence.

Just like lightning in a storm disinfects an area of its dangerous build-up of biological pathogens, war at home disinfects a country's morals and ideologies, generally peoples' world-views, reducing the concentration of parasites among the survivors because they are forced to grow up and face reality... or perish... but unfortunately it also has an adverse effect on the rest.  Perhaps that is necessary to ensure that they help keep others from falling into this infantile morass later on.

As already mentioned, I absolutely hate war but it seems the world is in need of global lightning!  Nothing wakes you up like the crack of a lightning bolt less than 50 metres away, which is something I have experienced on several occasions, and nothing will wake up a dying civilisation like deadly invaders on the coasts and in the air.  It will be either clean up or die... no more muddling in ideological manure.

Historically, under the types of circumstances in which we find ourselves now mired, war is inevitable.  Prepare yourself because it could come at any time.

To Believe in Evolution is to Believe in Perpetual Motion

"Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine." -- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann.

The above-stated principle has been the subject of countless experiments and the development of the physics of thermodynamics as well as many other areas, especially where energy, information and complexity are concerned.  It has never even once been falsified, not even on a small scale.

The natural process of the decay of any physical system of any significant complexity beyond natural atomic and very simple molecular and crystalline structures is such that it is in accord with the principle as stated above by Boltzmann.  Even simple molecular and crystalline structures are subject to this process and, ultimately, so will atomic structures and even subatomic particles eventually fall into decay, given a long enough time in this current universe without the Creator's intervention.  To be sure, Boltzmann, like a few others of recent history, was brilliant and incisive.  It may seem an obvious thing to us in this day and age but such things always do after somebody had the insight to recognise and point it out.

The very concept of macro-evolution, as suggested by Darwin and many others since, Dawkins in particular, would only be possible if precisely the opposite of Boltzmann's statement were actually true.  Not only must it be possible to return to a state of equal probability but, in fact, it must be possible to go to an even less probable state without intelligent intervention.  This also includes the evolution of the universe from "nothing" and other forms of evolution of increasingly irreducibly complex systems.  For such forms of evolution to be possible, it must be true that a system can progress from a more probable (less ordered, less irreducibly complex) state to a less probable (more ordered, more irreducibly complex) state.  This would defy all known physics.  The assumption has to be that there is some form of as yet unknown physics that coexists with known physics while simultaneously directly countering it.  Such a system would be complete chaos and nothing logically predictable would or could ever occur.  Yet that is not the state in which we find ourselves, so either known physics is true and evolution is false or evolution is true and known physics is false.  It cannot be both ways.  Since my computer, cell phone, electrical systems, biological systems, and so forth, all seem to operate in accordance with known physics, I think I will stick with the first of the two aforementioned possibilities.

In short, to believe in evolution is to believe in perpetual motion machines and the possibility of over-unity power generators, as such would be the outcome given that Boltzmann's statements were the opposite of the truth.  If such systems as over-unity generators were naturally possible, producing more output energy than consuming as input, the universe would have long since destroyed itself or, if not, where has all the energy gone?  More mysterious and conveniently undetectable and ever-increasing dark matter/energy that will forever elude us?  Are we now to defy the principle of the conservation of energy?  Interesting how the idea of increasing irreducible complexity through natural means also implies the certainty of an unlimited energy buildup that would utterly destroy all that complexity in the first place.  This form of reasoning is heavily used in mathematics, where one first assumes as true what one is demonstrating to be false and after rearranging the equations one arrives at a conclusion whereby the initial assumption contradicts and, thus, falsifies itself, since it cannot be both true and false simultaneously.  "Schrödinger's cat!" did I hear you say?  The concept of multiple superimposed states of varying probability pertains to measuring a system and not to the system's actual state.  It is merely a convenient tool whereby we presume all possible states exist simultaneously until we collapse the multi-valued state into a single state by making the experimental observation.  That such a multi-valued state actually exists in any real physical way is a completely unprovable claim.  Additionally, the more probable states will occur more frequently so the trend will always be from less to more probable as a system progresses through possible states and, for systems of virtually uncountable possible states, there is an uncountable number of states of higher probability than any less-than-certain state one might care to consider in the first place.  In any case, in the same manner as the mathematical approach just mentioned, Darwinian evolution and its kin are self-negating concepts.  The universe has not incinerated itself and all natural systems continue to progressively decay, moving ineluctably toward states of increasing probability.

Psa 10:4 ASV  The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psa 14:1b ASV  The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.

Frankly, I don't believe in fairies.  Dawkins and his ilk are the biblical definition of fools.  There are many who believe in the nonsense of evolution but the most educated who do so are the greatest fools.  Their so-called "wisdom" is utterly contemptible.  Sad, really, because I am certain that Dawkins has the capacity for greatness.  He simply refuses a love of the truth.

Pride is deadly.

On Discerning the Deceiver

A relatively short post... being that I am strongly inclined to write quite long posts, perhaps a rest for these arthritic fingers -- Ross River virus induced -- would be in order now and then, especially because a very large part of my work involves CAD and coding.

Anyway, it is all very simple and quite scientific.  In science, as any sagacious sapient (yes, I used an adjective as a noun... please don't shoot me) would understand, all meaningful theories must be logically self-consistent and, being that they operate within a closed system, the universe, must be logically consistent with all other theories of things, within that same universe, that are themselves still standing so that the theory of everything must ultimately be ONE consistent and logically perfect theory.  (I say "closed universe" because, regardless of whether or not it has or has not infinite spatio-temporal extent, it is closed in that the laws of nature do not change and are consistent throughout, so all physical phenomena must operate within the confines of those laws.)  This is what one may term the "world view", whether it be based in science, philosophy, religious beliefs, whatever.  To disprove any theory, all that is necessary is to find a single logical inconsistency and the whole edifice collapses.  One can never prove a theory true because, even though some experiment may seem to validate a certain aspect of a theory, there are an infinite number of possible scenarios within which the theory, or aspects thereof, must be tested and must not fail in every single case.  It is easier simply to find just one thing that is wrong and discard the theory (often, theories are not actually completely discarded but are revised, but this is in essence the same thing since the revised theory is logically different from its predecessor and is, therefore, a different theory that merely bears some similarity to the previous one).  The success of an idea depends on how well it has withstood the onslaught of assaults from testing.  Tests must be such that they test a unique aspect of the theory which would result in a discernibly different outcome for other known theories of the same phenomena.  However, this does not ever rule out the possibility of a new and different, as yet unknown, theory that would produce the same results in this test as that theory currently under investigation, thus the impossibility of proving a theory true.  Nevertheless, the more such tests a theory does not fail under, the more trusted the theory becomes in spite of its imperfections (there are no perfect man-made theories of anything), though it is never to be accepted as indisputable fact.  It is ALWAYS disputable.  There is no room for consensus in science.  Scepticism, with an enthusiastic desire to test and discover, putting aside all expectations, is the only honest scientific approach.  A single fact can topple a theory that has stood up to thousands of tests over thousands of years but no amount of success can establish a man-made theory as perfect.  Note that scepticism does NOT equate to doubt or denial.  Scepticism is merely the initial acceptance of the null hypothesis until said null hypothesis is sufficiently well demonstrated to be in doubt. 

Moving on...

So, what has all this to do with discerning the deceiver?  Quite simple, really.

Truth is such that every aspect of it is an aspect of the perfect theory of everything and, therefore, must be absolutely logically consistent and all-encompassing.  It must be ONE.  Too many Christians make the mistake of trying to discern the lies of the deceiver by learning about all of his tricks in a vain attempt to spot them all.  The devil has thousands of years of experience in this matter... how foolish we are to think that we can outwit him.  The problem is that there is no end to the number of possible tricks that can be used to beguile one into believing nonsense, illogical scenarios couched ever more deeply in seeming truths.  That is, there are an infinite number of possible lies buried in an infinite variety of frameworks of apparent truth.  Obviously far too much to deal with.

So, rather than waste precious time trying to know all of the tricks of the deceiver, why not simply spend that time getting to know the truth?  That is tantamount to spending all of that valuable time getting to know Christ.  Once you are saturated with truth, with His Spirit (the assumption being made here that you have already received that first seed of truth, you are already born again of the Spirit, for without that seed the tree cannot grow), any lie that comes along will become apparent, not always in a direct sense but often as a deep sense of suspicion, even if you do not immediately understand why your "gut" feels that way.  Do not misunderstand, I do not speak here of basing a decision on an emotional response but merely that hidden information can trigger emotions.  It is a deep-seated sense of suspicion, a kind of scepticism, a knowledge that something is amiss without immediately knowing exactly what is wrong.  Essentially, it is the result of a deeply buried neural response to a complex pattern which has, possibly, never been directly consciously linked before.  It takes time to dig it out.  Emotional responses, as decision-makers, tend to mislead and cannot be trusted but must be carefully analysed so that only decisions based on the logical outcome of such an analysis, which takes into account all external factors, can be trusted.  An emotional response may alert you to your deep seated suspicion but, without careful analysis, no sensible decision can be made.  In any case, you will be on guard against every possible manner of deception even without knowing how it works.  Untruth will "smell bad" in a spiritual sense.  The words may appear all very flowery and appealing, even flattering (an oft-used snare) but the flowers will smell bad, if you are so immersed constantly in truth that it becomes, as they say, "second-nature".  You will sense something is wrong even if it takes you a month of Sundays to work it out later.  More importantly, becoming completely imbued with the Spirit of Truth will lead to developing the precious fruit of the Spirit which is treasured in the citizens of the eternal kingdom of God.  That fruit cannot grow if the tree's growth is stunted by a lack of proper nutrient and clean water... which is what would happen to those whose focus is always on the enemy and his schemes.

Don't waste time discovering the wiles of the devil... spend your life getting to know God and, as you draw nearer to God, the devil will flee further from you.  Soon enough you will see the deceiver coming while yet miles away.  The problem with science, as we know it, is that it is never certain of the truth.  The beauty of knowing God is that He is the truth.

Mat 6:33 KJV  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (everything you actually need) shall be added unto you.