Faith-based musings from a decidedly Biblical Protestant point of view, on just about everything, including Bogus Bibles, New Age Deceptions, Corrupt Politics and other signs of the Last Days before the World ends.
Well, sure, of course I WISH us all a happy 2022 but ... but.
Why aren't our prayers being heard? They aren't, you know. I don't think it's for lack of effort or passion, I continue to think that we aren't meeting God's conditions. We're under judgment. Sometimes prayer can divert judgment, but sometimes we're past the point where it can be diverted. I don't know in this case for sure. Is God saying Stop trying to escape, go to Babylon and dig in and make the best of it, or is He telling us He's about to judge the earth and e should prepare for th Second Coming? Or is He saying identify the violation of My will and rectify it and Then pray. Or what?
Maybe not enough of us recognize that we are under judgment and we could start there. Michele Bachmann did a nice job of spelling this out in a talk she gave a few months ago at a conference:
Plenty of people missed that 9/11 was God's judgment on America. I remember wincing through days of silly statements by Christian preachers about how God doesn't do such things. I remember cringing through Bush's prayher gathering in the National Cathedral which included a Muslim leader, a Cqatholic leader and a Jewish leader knowing that such ignorance of the nature of God was only going to bring more judgment on the nation.
Bachmann describes how things have been getting worse intead of b4etter since 9/11. This isn't for lack of prayer, this is because we're under God's judgment and until we RIGHTLY repent, repent of the right violations, there is no hope of turning these things back.
It may be too late anyway, but I don't know that for sure yet.
It's not going to be a very happy year if we don't get it right. Not here on this planet anyyway. If we get rapturexd out of it, hooray, but we may have to go through a lot more than we usually impute to that scenario.
This is such a good sermon by John MacArthur I had to make another Merry Christmas post for it. He imagines the feelings of Mary and Joseph when they hear that they are to be the parents of a child who will be the Son of God. He inclues a long long list of lines from various Chrfistmas carols which is very inspiribng.
It's become a Christmas traditioj for me, The Star of Bethlehem. With an astronomy program Rick Larson smakes a good case for the time of Christ's birth as marked by the brightest heavenly object ever. But more than that, his researches identify the likely date of His conception on Rosh Hashanah of 3 BC and the likely date of the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem when the "start" stood still over the house Jesus was living in. He also shows what was going on in the sky at the time of the Lord's death on the Cross.
Steen Lee's talk was about how we don't pray with enough fervor or desperation. He played clips from others who see the problem the sqame way. His talk was a call to protracted committed fervent prayer in this time of worldwide destruction of society. The puzzler is why he had a group praying daily for a year and as far as anyone can see so far there is no fruit. Things continue to degenreate.
Does qa lack of fervor explain it?
Leonard Ravenyhill exhorted us to pray for revival for years and years. I know people followed him. Nothing came of it that we could point to. No revival.
I wondered why. I speculated that maye the fact that he accepted the charismatic movement as genuine could have been an impediment. Lack of fervor? Doesn't seem likely.
Kay Arthur called for prayer by her Bible study leaders and members across the ation. There was no fruit we could point to there either. Again why not?
There was a huge prayer gathering in Washington D.C. I thik in the sujmmer of 2020 though I may be misremembering. No fruit to report from that one either. I don't know enolugh about it to speculate on the reqasobns myself, but I don't hae any problem exdplaining the lack of success of the prayer breakfasts in Washington and George Bush's prayer in the Natiobnal Cathedral after 9/11, It's simple. God isn't going to honor ecumentical prayer. Believers and unbelieers cannot pray together and expect success.
I've prayed my heart o7ut for revival from time to time. Nothing has come of it that I can see.
I do think the abandonment of women's covering our heads in prayer is likely to be a big factor, but there may be other factors.
Just as we can ask why these efforts have failed we can also ask why some succeeded. Jonathan Edwards called for extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion in his day and the Great Awakening was the fruit of that. How long did it take between his call and the fruit? I don't know.
The last real revival I can think of was the one in Saskatchewan in Canada in the 70s that was set in motion by Pastor Bill McLeod. HYe got his church members to sign up to pray for revival at particular fifteen minute intervals around the clock, and he himself prayedd fervently for his church and for revival every morning. It was't long before people came under Holy Spirit conviction for tvarious sins and the revival was underway. Over the next few years it grew to thousands. It seems to have been a genuine revial.
I do't count the charimastic "revivals" such as the "TAoronto Blessings which was the Laughting revival, or the Brownsville revival. Certainly not Lakeland.
Why did Saskatechewan succeed? Why are we not able now d3espite what seemes to me to be some sincere and fervent efforts having any success at all?
That's the puzzler. That's the question. The first things wee need to pray for is an ansswer to that question. Is it anyt of the rasons I'vve suggested abover,. Is it the lack of fervor Steen Lee talks about> Is it that we've gone too far and now have only God's judgment to face?
UPDATe: I listened to this post with the "read aloud" function so I know there are some horrific typos in it but my eyes are too bad right now to do anything aout it. Sorry. I hope I may be able to fix it later.
I want to add here though thtat I've been praying all day whenever I've had a free moment and and SO grateful for this inspiration that came from Stev3en Lee's talk
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O rend the heavens and come down to Your people, Lord, set us on fire of the Holy Spirit, guide us to praya as we should.
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Yes, I strongly believe we need to return to the head covering bu5t again, I don't want to detract from the call to prayer. I've prayed without the head covering and received answers. I even prayed years ago with a prayer partner for revival and we received wonderful experiences of the presence of the Holy Spirit. I hadn't yet given any thought to the passage about the head covering so I'm sure neither of us had anythihng on our heads. We were praying over the phone every morning for months. Then she moved out of town and I lost touch with her. we didn't really know each other, weren't friends, we'd met in the church library over the book about Revival and agreed to pray together. It was a nice time of prayer but it didn't bring revival or even inspire others to join us.
After writing my last post I've been praying more myself. Yes with tears. As Lee's talk emphasizes, we need to be praying with desperation, and the times we are living in certainly are desperate. SWe feel it so why don't we pray it?
"Why isn't there overwhelming prayer in the face of this pandemic?:" Pme pf tje c;o[s [;aued bu Stevem :ee at tje emd pf jos ta;l was am Aistra;oam wjp asled tjat qiestopj/ Ot dpes see, tp be trie tjat we jave mpt ressponjed with prayer as we should have, as the dire circumstances we are living through call for. Why indeed?
tHAT WAS OF COURSE THE THEME OF lEE'S TALK. We need to be praying, why aren't we? Why on earth would we look to political solutions when what we need is God's power? Why on earth would we be spending so much time on biblical prophecy of the coming destruction of the planet when we should be praying our hearts out for God's intervention. Perhaps we've fallen into a fatalistic state of mind?
I'm very grateful for Steven Lee's talk, I think I will be praying a lot more as a result. I've also resumed covering me head though, which I don't always do when I'm alone. I think I should so I'm doing it again.
I want revival. I want God to come upon His people inj ppower as He has done in past revivals. those revivals are enormously inspiring to read about, but I want to HAVE a revival, I don't want to read about revivals any more. I am no longer going to listen to the naysayers who are sure it's all over, no more revivals, all we have to look forward to is God's judgments. It may be so but we don't know that for sure. Not yet. Lee is right. The churches need to to be praying their hearts out now,k they need to be organizing into prayer groups.
Yes I still think women need to be covering our heads in prayer. I hope God will convict us of that and whatever else He wants us to be doing to bring Him closer to us.
GHelp, Lord.
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Something always eventually brings me back to this theme. This time I heard a very good talk by the founder of Sermon Audio, Steven Lee, on the importance of prayer:
He's lamencing the lack of fervent desperate prayer in this time of worldwide chaos and calamity. At the end he plays some short clips of others expressing the same lament. The churches aren't pratying enough or aren't praying with enough passion.
Leonard Ravenhill had a similar take on the situation. Here we so desperately need God to act and He isn't acting and it must be because we are not praying enough or praying in the right way.
He plays a clip of Dr. Alan Cairns, a very inspiring preacher, lamenting the fact that we don't have the personal experience of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Again this is laid to a lack of prayer or rigyht prayer.
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I've wanted to see a real revival for a long time. times when the Holy Spirit comes in power and transforms our lives and transforms the culture around us. Wy is it not happening? I've talked about this many times in this blog. I don't think it's a simple lack of prayer.
I think it's like the situation at Ai when Joshua was defeated and sought the Lord for His favor. The Lord told him to get up and find out about the man who had stolen thinhgs from the city of Ai. That was the reason for Joahua's defeat. When that problem was recognized, the guilty man brought to justice, then God tgave them victory.
God isn't blessing our prayers because we aren't meeting some condition He requires for us even to pray to Him at all. I think that is our abandonment of the head covering for women. In 1 Corinthians 11: 2-16 Paul says women are to pray with our heads covered. TAhis passage has been twisted by modern interpretation to deny that a literal head covering was meant, and I've argued this at length in my blog Hidden Glory. The head covering signifies God's order of headship of Christ over man, man over womaan. It's a creation ordinance. Marriage is another creation ordinance we've violated recently with the legalization of gay marriage.
It starts with the churches. If we're ignoring god's creation ordinance it will impact the Christian life in many ways, and there's every reason to think that this is the cause of the deterioration of the culture around us too. The head covering is no trivial thinjkg though people often try to dismiss it as trivial. It represents God's created order, His ordering of the sexes, the family, everything that relates to that basic structure.
I always come back to it though usually in a state of despair because it is not taken seriously by the churchesw. The best preachers have accepted the false interpretation and don't seem to notice the spiritual weakness in their churches. Some hardly have any idea that a great move of the Holy Spirit is even possib. Topo many churches are accepting a tepid spiritual life as normal.
I do hesitate to be as empphatic about this as I am. Who am I after all to suggest such a sweeping explanation for such a broad lack in the churches? Well I'm nobody but I nevertheless strongly propose that if the churches resumed the practice of women's covering our heads we would very likely see an increase in our influence in the culture through our prayers, and an incrase in our spiritual life.
I dare to say it. I wish I had a way of making people see it.
There are other problems too. "Ecumenical" prayer meetings are an abomination in the sight of God and yet that's what occurs at the prayer breakfasts for the nation in Washington D.C. Our National Cathedral is a disgrace of an excuse for a "Christian" church. Would Elijah have had a prayer meeting with the priests of Baal? I'll even mention that Jewish Messianic believers who pray with a yarmulke on their headsw or with a prayer shawl pulled up over their heads are also violating 1 Cor. ``.
None of that is likely to be a problem with the Sermon Audio prayer group. I just mention it because it does interfere with prayer in this country in other groups. I wrote to Steven Lee about this. How nice it would be if I'd succeeded in persuading him. It would be my only success but he's got a huge website soit could have a big effect through him. It's up to God but as usual I guess I can still hope though it gets harder all the time.
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Added Later: I listened again to Steven Lee's talk and thought maybe I didn't give him enough credit. He did do a great job of making the case for prayer and it's hard to disagree with the charge that we are slow to pray when it is needed. Anything that gets us praying is a good thing. So maybe I spoke too soon about the problem beintg something that precedes prayer instead. I go there because of what does seem to me to be real effort at fervent prayer that has simply not borne fruit. That is what suggests that something else needs to happen first. I still think that is probably true but at the same time I don't want to say anything that woujld discourage people from praying. Just put a cloth over your head and see if it makes a difference. If you're a woman of course. And take off your headgear of any sort whatever if you're a man.
The more time I spend exploring the apparitiions of Mary the greater their influence appears to me. You can of course ignore these things or know just a little about them and brush them off as just another Roman Church weirdness, but even if you regard them as significant in the context of the last days into which we seeem to have entered some time ago, you can underestimate their importance. It took the recognition of the huge importance of the Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico to wake me up to the global significance of "Mary" although I've more or less kept tabs on the phenomena for decades now. "Her" influence is staggering. . The film "Messages from HeaveN" ought to be enough to get across the global reach of these phenomena but even that is too easily dismissed. You turn away and forget about it. But it's hitting me now how huge this is. The Marian apparitions alone set the stage for the last days. There couldn't be a greater spiritual deception yet to come. Is it "Mary" riding the first horse of the Apocalypse?
Perhaps the most interesting of the apparitions of "Mary" is the one called The Lady of All Nations. The most interesting thing about it is that it calls itself the "former" Mary, as if she is trying to shed that identity and become something she really is -- perhaps an ancient Babylonian goddess? The goddess called in the book of Jeremiah "The Queen of Heaven," a title the apparitions began to assume though I didn't catch which one used it first.
Jeremiah says God's people Israel have provoke Him to anger with their attentions to this Queen of Heaven goddess. VComkmentaries suppose her to be the ancient goddess Ishtar but she went by many different names in the nations of the ancient world.
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jer 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jer 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
This Lady of All Nations, like many of the other apparitions, warns of callamities to come, recommending of course praying the rosary and other Roman Church superstitions, as if their adoration of her were not the major reason for such calamities, as Jeremiah makes clear.
Here's an article detailing the messages of this particular apparition, The Lady of All Nations:
Interesting that among the apparition's lies is a prophecy (this was given in j945) about the establishment of the state of Israel which occurred ihn 1948, with a warning about how Israel would supposedly mistreat the Palestinian people as they attain statehood. This bit of propaganda coming from a highly revered "Mary" is wrenchingly portentous, likely to be all too influential.
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The visionary gets a vision of the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, and hear the words: “Israel will rise again.” Indeed, in 1948, the new independent state of Israel is proclaimed. This prediction, however, continues with a warning about the manner in which the Jewish people obtain possession of the land by ignoring the rights of the Palestinian people: “And Yahweh is ashamed of His People.” Today, this has become recognizable.
Shall I review the bare bones of the history here? Maybe I have to:
There was never any Palestinian people. Ever. When the first Jewish settles came from Europe the land was a wilderness, attested to by Mark Twain who had visited there in the latter part of the 19th century. He was astonished at the desolation he encountered there. Scattered farms, nomads, a few Jews who had been there forever, no national identity whatever, or even any coherent settlmenets. the arriving Jews settled a barren land. They bought land where necessary, they stole nothihng from anyone. What later because the "Paelstiniqans" who never were Palestinians at all, were Arabs from the various surrounding nations who came to work for the Jews as they developed the land. When the state of Israel was finally established, Arab nations plotted an attack and warned the Arabs living yhere to flee so as to escape harm. They became the refugees who became the Palestinians who should have been helped by the Arab nations but never were. They became a tool for the persecution of Israel.
That is a digression in this context but I couldn't let "her" get away with it. Too often the Roman Church gets away with its work in this world, fomenting wars, even inspiring Hitler's Holocaust, being the main perpetrator of the pogroms against eh Jews, even the inciter of genocides such as Stalins and Pol Pot's and Rwanda, when you study the background of these things. So here'a the Roman "Mary" promoting one of the lies about Israel that is a constant lying attack on Israe. the role of the Jesuits in the current efforts to desroy America, all too successful I'd appear, never gets noticedThere are old books galore revealing these things but who reads old books? Richard Bennett, Ronald Cooke, Christ Pinto and others talke about it but what is their reach in this world where a false "Mary" can command the attention of millions upon millions Put it this way, the Antichrist has already turned the world upside down in preparation for the Grand Finale..
UPDATE: For me it's been an eyeopener to explore this bit of Mexican history. Well, it's really not right to call it a "bit" because this apparition and its image that has been preserved for five hundred years has clearly been crucially important in shaping Mexican national identity. It brought together the native Indian tribes and the Spanish conquistadores into one religious identity of Roman Catholicism. It is such a powerful unifier one hesistates at the thought of its being disturbed in any way, so that even the fact that it functions to deprive its followers of salvation in Christ gives one pause. Somehow the message must be given in a way that doesn't disrupt the unifty. Without directly q1uestioning the event and its image I suppose. i wonder if that's possible.
To the flesh I find many attractive things about Mexico, much of it in its artistic expressions. I like spanish coloniahn architexture because it shows their interest in decorative features. the wrought iron, the arched doorways, the pretty tiles and so on. I like the image of the Guadalup0e itself for that matter, I like a lot of Medieval art for its simpliecity of design. I noticed in one video that stairs going up to the site of Juan Dietgo's encounter with "Mary"{ are decorated with patterned tiles. We dont do that here in America. We make dull boxes and blank surfaces. But of course thats another subject.
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It's really rather fascinating to encounter Romanist propaganda and there is a lot of it about the "Virgin" of Guadalupe or Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico's iconic Apparition that appaers to far transcend any lore or teachings about Jesus Christ. In fact Catholicism so reveres and exalts "Mary" all over the world it really sholuldn't be called Christianity at all, but perhaps Marianity or something like that. Pope John Paul is known for his special devfotion to Mary. Of course Jesus is always mentioned in the accounts somewhere, but always in a subordinate role, as a baby, as having delegated His power to her and that sort of thing.
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This is of course not the true Mary of the Bible who was the mother of Christ, and I guess that has to be said from time to time because she was a humble human being who knjew she needed a savior whereas the Marian apparitions claim the attributes of God and usurp the position of Christ. He's our only mediator with God, the scripture tells us, but "she" claims to be "Mediatrix" who intercedes with "her son" for us. He is our Redeemer but "she's claims the title "Co-Recemptrix." The film I've posted a couple of times now, "Messges from Heaven" details these claims.
Such claims make "her" such an Antichrist it is understandable why Alexander Hislop suggested she might in fact be the final Antichrist. She certainly fits the definition but she doesn't as far as I'vve been able to determine fit the biblical portrait of the Ancichrist. Nevertheless she MUST play an imporant role in the end times scenario considering the immense influence of these appartitions around the world, and in fact what is claimed for Our Lady of Guadalupe exalter her to deity.
The video I'm posting here is a discussion of all the supposed miraculous qualities attached to the image of Guadalupe that is displayed in her shrine inb Mexico. It goes into great detail about aspects of the portrait they've determined to prove its divine origin. It may have a supernatural origin, I wouldn't despute that myself since I knjow the origin of such apparitions is satanic, but I wouldn't know how to assess all the claims. Perhaps some are made up or fraudulent, some supernatural etc.
One thing is certain, they are not divine, not from God that is, because everything about the elevation of Mary and the apparitions themselves and esepcially the attributes claimed for the apparitions, is contrary to the Bible. The Bible is our standard. without it we have no sure guide to the treuth about these thinhgs, and the apparitions contradict it at every turn. All this is spelled out in the film "Messages from Heaven."
It woujld bew amusing except for the fact that it shows the depth of the delusion under which hundreds of millions of Catholics are held and deprived of the salvation of Christ, that inj the discussion of the Virgin of Guadalupe the narrators like to take potchots at the Protestant Reformation. In this one Luther is accused of leding people away from the true faith, while the miracles of Guadalupe worked to bring millions into the "true Church."
Luther, of course, along with Calvin and the other Refomers, discovered that the Rpoman Church, and particularly the papacy, had violated the Biblical revelation, and that the papacy was in fact the Antichrist, which they proved from scripture. . the Protestant Rreformation was the rediscovery of scriptural truth after a thousand years of the apostasy of the Roman usurper or Harlot Church. The most important recovery of the Reformation was the biblical truth that we are saved by God alone and our own deeds cannot save us, while the Roman church continues to teach salvation by deeds or works, sending hundreds of millions of their followers to Hell as a consequence.
The elevation of the false Mary is such a dojinating influence in the Catholic Church today it is hard to avoid the impression that Jesus Christ means nothing to them. The supernatural signs and wonders that attend the Marian apparitions of course have a powerful effect on the naïve Catholics who revere them.
Anyway, heres a video about the supposed miracles of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe who is pparently adored by millions of Mexican Catholics::
On Sunday Decemer 12th, some American ex-pats in Mexico witnessed a Mexican tradition that was new to them, a long caraan of cars and bicicles carring statues and pictures of "Mary" as ” Our Lady of Guadalupe”, which commenmorates an appearance of “Mary” on that date in 1531`to an Aztec man who had converted to Catholicism, namd Juan Diego. Among other members of the long train of vehicles was a man on a bicicle with a huge staties of the Lady of Guadalupe strapped to his back., a statue about ten feet tall. There was a truckload of statues and pictures of this "Mary" in the line as well.
The following video is a Catholic film about the history of this evcent. The apparition performed a miracle to convince the Catholic bishop of its authenticity, and a church was built on the site o commemorate her appearance. Pilgrims go by the millions to this site every year in Mexico.
If the film’s history of this event is true, the apparition converted eight million Aztecs to Catholicism. A miracle occurred in which her image appeared on the cloak worn by Juan Dieego continingd symbols recognized by the Aztecs to represent elements of their own religion, which gave authenticity to it in thir eyes. The film claims that the number converted was ten timese that of the number lost at the same time in Europe to “the Protestant Reoltt, meaning of course the Protestant Reformation. --
So this is Catholic propaganda, some of which is probably true enough though I have no way of judging. Sad of course that the Aztecs gave up their pagan religion for what is really jujst another pagan religion.
Watching the video again I'm struck by the disgust felt by the Roman Catholic conquistadores at the Aztecprctice of human sacrifice. Does seem natural at first, they being Europeans and all,until you realize that they had no problem slaughtering mill8ions of dissidents against their beliefs. Over 600 years it is calculated that the Roman church murdered some 67 million nonCatholics, 50 million of them Christiqan protestawnts, the rest Jews, Muslims, witches and so onh. Even at the rate given in the film of fifty thousand per year sacrificed by the Aztecs to their gods it would have taken the a thousand years to equal the number of murders by thne Roman church in eUROPE.
I already posted this film below but it also elongs here. This is "messages from Heaven" which exposes the Marian apparitiobs as demonic impersonations of "the Virtgin "Mary: based on the biblical accounts.
Just heard on radio news. Although the programming is conservtive, the news comes from the "mainstream" liars. I haven't figured out how that happens but it's only a couple minutes of lies and I suppose it's good to know what half the country is believing.
What I just heard is that COVID cases among children, actually Delta variate cases I think they said, are up by 37% SINCE LAST WEEK. I don't know about you but that hit me as rather suspect. But then I'm so cynical these days you should probably have some caution about my eactions. And what was m6y reaction? Golly Gosh, didn't they just do a blitz campaign to get children vaccinated? Golly Gosh, would you be surprised to discover that this increase in cases is in children who were vaccinated? I woujldn't, but then again I'm so cynical take it with a spponful of salt....
They've been manipulating the COVID statistics from the betginning so when they say there are all these cases of UNJvaccinated people sick with COVID, I simply do not believe them. And sometimes when people have checked with the hospitals supposedly overrun with them they find out that it’s not true so there’s good reason not to believe them. I personally know of qhole groups of vaccinated people who have come down with COVID, and in one group one of them died. I mentioned this somewhere in an earlier blog post. A month or so ago by now. It's the vaccinated who are getting sic, in some cases ONLY the vaccinated..
This new variant dubbed Omicron occurred originally in vaccinated people. In fact there is reason to believe that the shots themsevles are the cause of the development of these new variants. The phenomenon of "shdding" from vaccinated people is real, that is, the vaccinated give off the virus to others around them. They are trying to blame continuing or increasing cases of COVID or its variants ON THE UNVACCINATED BUT THE REAQL SOURCE IS THE VACCINATED. There is no “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” it should be called the PANDEMIC OF THE VACCINATED.
There was no reason whatever to vaccinate children since if they get COVID they get very mild cases of it and develop antibodies. But they hit hard with a campaign to get them vaccinated, Didn’t we all hear this swet little ad about how wonderful it is that now our precious future citizens with their wonderful talents that will benevfit society can now get vaccinated? They were giving us the "good news" that children are now "eligivle" for this experience that will ensure them a bright future, or the one about how this vaccine is now "available" for them. Oh such good news. Such good news that a substance that is known to kill a certain number of its recipients and causes pain and sufferig to many others, is now “available” for your children. Oh happy day.
May bought the line. So the campaign apparently succeeded and now great numbers of children are oh so happily vaccinated against COVID by a substance that doesn't protect against COVIDE except in perhaps a very mild way, doesn't prevent transmitting it to others and may be detrimental to the health of the children as they grow up, and so on and so forth. Oh happy day.
So golly gosh, all of a sudden IN ONE WEEK cases of COVID in children have increased by 37%. No connection of course.
And that is simpl;y presented as a natural course of the virus, to be expected despite all their horrific policies to shut us up and lock us down to prevent it. Be afraid, be very afraid. That’s what they want us to feel. The more we fear the more we fall for their lies. But you won’t hear about this beause it’s just “misinformation” that gets people kicked off social media. If you want to know the truth you have to go looking for it..
All this takes me to my usual topic. That is, THERE IS NO REASON WHATEVER FOR ANYONE TO DIE OF COVID. They’ve denied us access to the treatments that would have saved at least 85% of those who died. Bad studies were promoted, even a completely fraudulent one, the propaganda is held by most medical professions these days because they are too busy to spend the time to check it out and don’t have the motivation to anyway, plus of course they are under threat of losing their jobs if they find out they’re being lied to. HCQ with zinc could have cured most, so could Ivermectin, and now we have Monoclonal antibodies but it isn’t automaticallty given to people sick with COVID. The virus could have been done away with a year ago.
I don’t think this could be motivated merely by greed though that is the most popular explanation. I could be wrong, but such a concerted effort to manipulate us suggests something much bigger and much more sinister.
I’ve been almost obsessively watching Holocaust survivor testimonies and documentaries about the Nazi era as if it might tell me what’s coming.
Yes I know my questions about the end times can be offensive to Pre-Tribbers. Can't help it. Can't help having the questions.
For istance, why are they so certain the "blessed hope" of the "appearing of the Lord Jesus" refers to the Pre-Trib Rapture? Isn't it true that Jesus won't appear to the world at that time but will appear at the Second Comintg? Doesn't the word "appearing" make it NOT refer to the Rapture? We certainly all believe that Jesus' coming back, either for the Rapture or at the very end, either one, is indeed our blessed hope, but the way that concept is so adamantly claimed for the Pre-Trib Rapture is not at all convincing.
And then there is the statement "This is the first resurrection" which occurs very late in the Book of revelation, long after the Rapture which isw supposed to have preceded all the events of the Tribulation period, and yet wouldnj't the Rapture be the first resurrection? The timing raises a question about what exactly is in cluded in the first resurrection.
And as I've mdentioned before, who the martyrs under the altar in Revelation six are is still a question. Why would the martyrs among the Raptured be a separate group from these later martyrs who are wayting for yet more martyrs to join them. Why if martyrs are singled out for a special status are those from our time, those from the Inquisition, those around the world right now, why are they separated?
I can't answer thesae questions. I want the Pre-Trib Rapture to be true. I'm ready to go, the sooner the better. But nobody answers these questions, all they do is reiterate the Pre-Trib scenario.
Sigh.
Forgot one: 1 Corinthians 15 says the Rapture will occur "at the last trump" and yet nobody seems to talk abou the trupet at all. What do they think it meansw? If it's the last odf the seven trumpets in Revelation that puts it considerably after the Pre-Trib seenario. So we need to know what it means.
We'd been driving for hours in the dark, or so it seemed, the dark broken by nothing but our own headlights. It was rare to encounter another car on that road at any time of day. It might have been dark already when we came over Montgomery Pass, but my inability to see them would only have made my terror of the f the steepcliffs worse.
I always dreaded that part of the tripP. The two-lane highway veered right and lift along the narrow ledge for miles and miles and miles with the cliff too closeon the side. . On one trip Daddy stopped the car and got out to look over the cliff because another car had run off and was crashed far beblow. It was too steep to get down to help anyone if there was anyone left alive to help so we drove on. He'd have reported it to the police when we got home.
I spent too much of my childhood terrified of rmany things. Montgomery Pass was one of them. As far as I know I was the onlyl one in the family who experienced that dread. Another terror was the water heater on the back porch that went out awfully frequently and had to be relit. I would run out to the porch as soon as I got up to see if the flame had gone out and would be enormously relieved if it hadn’t. . It burned oil and Daddy would let it get too full of oil and then light it by throwing a match into it which woujld ignore it with a roar and flames shooting out of the little opening. It took a long time for the roaring and flame-spitting to die down to a normal level. The idea was to get it to heat the water faster than usual but such a practical reason was lost on me. I woujld sit in school all morning worryinhg about the house going up in in flames.e. He’d light the stove the same way when the pilot went out, turp the gas up high and then stand back to light a match and toss it onto the burner which would burst into a ball of fire with a great whoosh. At least that would die down rapidly and didn’ t torture me in class..
By fourth grade I was terrified of the fallout from the bomv tests at Yucca Flats. I imagined it in the air around us as we sat in class. The school had bussed us out to a hill at the edge of town where we could see the mushroom cloud. We were told to cover our eyesy while they counted down to detonation and then we could look at the cloud. They only took us out to see it once that I recall. The pictures of it in the newreels we'd see in the movie theater on Sundays were better. But it was imagining thefallout i the air that caused the anxiety, not the bomb itself.
We only made the trip to Southern California once a year to visit relatives and it was only on that trip that I had to endure Montgomery Pass, on the trip down and then the trip back. Oddly I oly remember the blackness of the night on the trip back, I don't remember moon or stars but they must have been there. And the silence in the car. It was late enough that we kids had stopped fighting with each other, and our parents didn't talk much as I recall. So there was the sound of the engine and the tires on the asphalt.. Some of the four of us or even all of us might have been asleep by then.
Maybe Daddy said something about almost being homebecause he knew we liked to be awake for the last stretch.. The road curved widely aroudn the big shadow of a mountain on the right and that's when we could see the little necklace of lights in the distance. Home. The dead center of Nowhere.
Well, that's how Mom thoguth of Tonopaht. Being kids to us it was home for the nine years we were there. S he missed Santa Monica, her two sisters, the grenery, the avocado tree in our back yard, civilization. I was old enough at six to remember Santa Monica but her missing it was worse than any missing it of my own could ever have been. Her unhappiness was as dark a cloud as any bomb cloud could ever have been. It might have affected Bob too, he was five, but I don't know, and since he's been dead for thirty years I'll never know, not in this life anyway. The others were too young to be consciou of it until later.
Recently I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition that might qualify me for government compensation as a “downwinder” from those bomb years. The final diagnosis isn’t in yet.
This is an old movie, twenty years old or so anyway, I couldn't read the date on it, all about the apparitions of "Mary" that had been increasing up to that point. I wonder how many have appeared since then. Anyway it's a very careful biblical exploration of the nature of these apparitions and the claims made for "Mary" by the Roman Catholic Church.
As I watched it I became impressed with how literally this "Mary" is Antichrist, that is, she literally puts herself in the place of Christ by all the titles and attributes "she" claims for herself, from "Mediatrix" to "Co-Redemptrix" to sufferer for our sins and so on. When it is then shown how the popes, and particularly Pope John Paul, give glory to her and point people to her and take seriously the messages from her apparitions, it puts the popes in the position of "False Prophet," much like that second beast in the Book of Revelation chapter 13 who gives glory to the first beast that has the number 666 which we identify as the Antichrist. the False Prophet causes a statue to be made to the first beast and commands that people worship it. All this very neatly fits those themes of the Book of Revelation.
Except that it's hard to connect "Mary" or the Marian apparitions with the first beast or the number 666, at least I don't know how to make that conjnection. As I've many times pointed out here, the number 666 fits the Latin title of the Pope, "Vicar," or "Substitute" for "the Son of God." And the Pope certainly does claim to be that ssubstitute in many ways.
That is one of the reasons I keep going with the Protestant Reformers in identifying the Pope as THE Anticrhist, and the Great Apostasy as first of all the doctrines of the Roman Church, though we can also see it spreading throughout the churches in these last days. In other words I don't think we need to be looking for some unknown figure to arise in the world as the Antichrist, I think he's been year for somje 1500 years. HOWEVER, it's hard to avoid the fact that Hitler was definitely an Antichrist figure too, and Hitler had a Pope that could be said to have played the role of False Prophet to him in some sense. So Hitler being a political leader although he was also in some sense worshipped, is another reason to think the Antichrist of the end days won't be the Pope but the Pope will be the False P{rophet.
The Antichrist Beast has to fulfill the 666 identifier and so far onlyh the Pope does that I know of. And very nicely since the Latin title iself contains the very Roman numerals that add up to that number. No other candidates for that number are so neatly derived.
And it's also otherwise hard to identify "Mary" with the first beast or Anticrhist of Revelation 13. In the film she is identified with teh Harlot of Revelation 17, but that isn't very convincing either. The Harlot is a clear antithesis to the Bride of Christ, in other worse she represents the false Church, which since she rides a bedast that represents the city of Rome is clearly the Roman Church. The Mary of the apparitions is certainly a Roman Church invention who is worshipped by Popes as well as millions of Catholics, but I find it hard to identify her with the Harlot which so neatly opposes the Bride of Christ..
However, as I've mentioned from time to time here, Alexander Hislop who wrote the book "The Two Babylons" which traces the pagan religion of Babylon to the Roman Church, speculated that the Beast could be "Mary." When you see in the film the millions of people who come to adore and worship the apparitions, and all the testimonies to supernatural signs and wonders that attend tha apparitions, the connection between them and the Antichrist Beast is nhot at all farfetched. It's just that there doesn't seem to be any cleare way to identify her with the characteristics of the beast of Rebvelation 13 or the number 666 which identifies it or "him." If Hislop showed a connection with the 666 I missed it.
Nevertheless the claims of the apparitions that usurp the role of Christ, its milllionbs of worshippers, its signs and wonders, the fact that Mary is worshipped by Popes, all put "her" in the role of Antichrist, certainly AN Anticrhist, but one that has enormous religious significance.
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Itg's also interesting that one of the apparitions specifically asks people to worship statues of her. The False Prophet will have an image made of the Beast and have the power to cause it to appear alive, and will command that people worhip it, and will have people killed who refuse. As Jan Markell has pointed out there are now gigantic statues in various parts of the world that have the unusual ability of representing anyone and make that person seem to be alive. I don't know who erected them or why, but they certainly sound like something that could fit right into that prophecy of Revelation 13.
At the very least all this just shows how very close the very End must be.
Ex-Catholic Mike Gendron is the guest on the latest Understanding the Times radio show, discussing the role of Poe Francis in these last days. Apparitions of "Mary" are increasing around the world.
Mike Gendron has a ministry to Catholics to give them the message of salvation through Christ since they don't get that message in their churches. His website is Proclaiming the Gospel.
Got lost trying to find Dan Bongino's email so gave up to write my message here. He'll never see it out here in the cyberboonies but it's got a general message too that belongs in a post, and maybe eventually I'll find his email anyway.
Bongino took over the radio time that Rush Limbaught used to have. He's nothing like Rush but he's a strong radio host so I think he's a good replacement. I usually only hear part of his show which was also the case with Rush, or all the talk shows for that matter.
Anyway he recently reported two things about his personal life that raised issues. the first was his report of having had COVID last week, that it was a very bad case although he'd been vaccinated, and he mentioned that he was given certain treatments: I think he mentioned vitamin D but I'm bnot sure of that, though he did mention Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and Quercetin as well as Monoclonal Antibodies. he got all this in Florida where Governor DeSantis has made treatments available to everybody.
I wondered immediately why he had such a bad case of COVID and suspect he wasn't taking anything to boost his immune system as we all should be doing. I don't know since he didn't say but I'd really like to know. We should all be taking Vitamin D above all, but C helps and Zinc is important. At least those. But prophylactic doses of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquinea are a very good idea too and lots of people who have chosen not to be vaccinated take those things. HCQ and Quercetin are ionophores which act to open the cell to zinc. It's zinc which kills the virus. A higher dose at the beginning stage of infection is for treating the disease. But again, vitamin D is the main thing everybody should be takinprotect against the virus.
The authorities won't tell you that, all they want to do is push the vaccines, and we know by now that the vaccines do not prevent the disease. they say they protect from the worst bouts of it and from death but after what Bongino said I wonder about that too.
He was given these things as treatment, though, he reported, but he didn't mention zinc and I 'd like to know if that was merely an oversight or he wasn't given zinc. Zinc is essential with botyh HCQ and Quercetin, both of which he said he was given, so they would hve been more or less useless if no zinc was given with them. Any zin in his system from his diet would get into the cells but that is not likely to be anywhere near enough to knowck out the virus. The Ivermectin, however, should have helped, as long as it was given early enough which it sounds likme it was -- within a few days of his first symtpomns.
But from what I've been hearing it would have been the Monoclonal Antibodies (I think that's what the drug Regeneron is) are just about miraculous at curing the diseease at whatever stgage it's given, so if the other treatments didn't do much, and who knjows, that certainly would have.
Butt the question I had was whether they gave him zinc.
The other topic is about his life as a Catolic. It sounds like he's a sincere believer who prays and tries to live the Christian life, but he isn't saved and doesn't know it, as Catholics usually aren't taught the truth about salvation. At one point he said about someone else that he should realize he's going to have to give an account of his deeds when he reaches those pearly gates, as if that's what everyone will have to do. But it's only those who are not saved who will be judged by their deeds and he apparently doesn't know that. He doesn't know that Jesus died for our sins and paid the FULL price for our salvationj so that there isn't one thing for us to do except believe it and trust in it. (He might find if he ever does get saved that all that rough language he has so much trouble controlling just goes away. That's what happened to me, just about the first clue that I was saved was how my bad language just disappeared. Unfortunately it came back again later through bad company -- even though we're saive, meaing our spirit is regenerated, we will not be completely free of the flesh or sin nature until we die. In this life we have to learn to choose to “walk in the Spirit” so we won’t fall into the flesh.) but I',m motly successfully resisting it nows.)
So that's for Dan Bongino and anybody else it might apply to:
SUMMARY:
1. Was he taking anything such as Vitamin D to protect against COVID before he got sick? It’s possible hed not have had such a severe case if he had been.
2. Was he given zinc with the HCQ and Quercetin as treatment or not? If not they problably didn’t contribute anything to his recovery.
3. As a Catholic he's been deprived of the truth about salvation and he needs to recognize that we are saved ONLY by grace through faith in Christ and our good deeds have NOTHING to contribute to it. They are the result of salvation, not the means to it.
SOURCES FOR THE INFORMATION about COVID prevention and treatment: Dr. Vladimirr Zelenko, ,Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Peter McCulough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Simone Gold, Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter, among others.
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