Food for a Fallen World

Even Chrtistians don't always remember that this is a fallen worldm meaing it's under a curse since our first parents disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit.,  We fell, we changed, that is, Adam and Eve changed and passed on their new changed and deficient nature to their progeny, us.  We inherit their weakened condition because of the Fall, proneneess to diseases of all sorts, and death of course, which didn'

t exist in the original world.  The world itself was changed, grew up thorns and thistles as ascripture put it, required heavy labor to tame it for gorowing food and  gave us all kinds of pesky creatures that can cause disease and eat all our food to deal with.    Qw were changed initially through the loss of our original ability to commuicate with God.  We lost thje faculty or sense for that, a spiritual sense akin to the physical senses.  We became "but flesh" as God puts it in Genesis Six  As a result we have no innate sense of the existence of Hodf and atheism is an easy state of mind to afall intyo.  We may believe because we are taught to believe, or see things in the world athat suggest that there must be a God, but Adam and Even had a built in sense of God, a direct sense of Him abdnd ability to ommunicate with Him that we olw lack.  

But here i want to talk more about the fallen world and our fallen bodies since we are But  Flesh.  Both our health and the world that supplies the means to keep us healthy are deteriorating due to the Fall.   The foods we eat are treated ijn ways that make them toxic in various ways, and our bodies themselves are  always acquiring new diseases, thought genetic mutation that keeps killing off what must have originally been a very rotective genome.  I don't know how much of what has been called Junk DNA is really junk and how much may have some function or other, but surely since it makes up 98 percent of the genome most of it must be junk rather than regulatory, which is the main fucntion I've heard ascrivbed to it.    That's of courtse my uneducated buess but there are lots of scientists who insist that it really is junk DNA and I uess I'mwit them.

So to my mind junk DNA is one of the results of the FAll, of the ongoing deterioration of our bodies.   We do awfully weell considering thgat.  And then there is the deterioration of the foods, which I just mentioned.   So for these resons we do need to work at dealing with our health, which is why we have these alternative diets that proliferate all the time.  We're always looking for the wmost nutritious and health giving way of deating.  that is, some of us area, some ofth etime.  I guive up easily mself and just eat whatever is easy, but then I geet all fired up to try to be more careful and eat better, which is where I am at the moment.  It's ot easy, that's why I fall away from it. it.  I'm elderly and not in the greatest health, tired all the time for instance, which makes food preparation a chorse that I'm sometimes not up to so I fall back on something easy like opienininhg a can of something.  Cleaning fresh vegeytables is a chorse.  Jucing them ins a HUGE chosre and I'd really like to be able to do that because I believe it would benefit me enormously.  But I did it the other day and it took an hour and a half to clean the begetables, juice them and clean the machine afterward and I was absoluely exhasuseted.    I'm eatierh going to try commercial juices which I know are inferior, or maybe just make a lot less juice.  Or both.  

Years abgo I got into following Chris Wark who cured , well ono, prevented the recurrence of, his colon cancer by changing his diet to  stufing himself with vegetables in many different ofrms, fruits and vegetables that is, juicineg them in huge amounts, making huge salads, and making smoothies.  I'd olike to be up to that.  He had cancer as an incentive and also he was young when he had it and still hjad the energy to do all tit takes to ursuie such a cdiet.  I can't even do my own shopping.     But I love love love carrot juice, esepciallt with beent  bet  beet and celery and green apple, and that's the hardest thinh.  Cleaning and cutting up all the cruciferous vegies for big salads takes work too but not qute as much.  I'm  looking for the right level that I can manage because I've been feeling really worotten lately , even tireder than usual, and really want to do this thing however I can amanage it.d ate the fruit of the forbidden 

Later:  I hope this is the post about the Antichrist but I always have to guess and I'm not sure since I can't see well enough to read anything I write.  Anyway, Just wanted to add to that post that even before the final days when the final Antichrist is to rule the world and be worshipped by all who are not to be saved, the Pope are worshiped.  Think of all the thousands of eope who gathered to hear the announcement of the new Pope, standing in the square praying repetitively with their roasaries and that sort of thing, talking about the Popes in tones of revenerence or awae, calling him "holy fahter" etc.  That's worship.   "If someone comes in his own name, him youi will receive" says Jesus, in the context of saying they won't receive Him.  They'll receive His subsitutte though, whic hch is what the Popes are.  Vicarivs Fiklii Dei which adds up through its Roman numberal s to the infamous uimber of the Antichrist means just that, subsitutte for the Son of God.  The Popes have usurpried His title and His role among the people.  We can alk to Jesus directly, we need no Popes of confessors and we dcertainly don't need the so called Virgin Mary who was ot a virgin after she cagave birth to Jesus but the Catholics dey that obvious fact as scripture presents it.  He is our intercessors, not Mary and not any other stand in for Him.  The Popes usurpr His title as Head of the CHurch.  I remember ewhen God showed me in scripture the two laces where that is stated, that Christ is the head of the Church, when I was disturbed by the claim I'd read in a Catholic book that the Popel is the head of the CHurch.   

Yes  he is worshiped.  So is Mary.  They use different terms for it but it's worship, that belongs to Christ and God the Father and the Holy Spirit and not to any human being.   And the usurpation of God's place among His people really ought to aleret anyone who is thinking scripturally to the fact that the Popes really are the Antichrist.  How the Pre Tribbetrs got seduced off that obvious fact is hard to understand.  

Antichrist FOur

 No real news about Leo Fourteenth lately.  He did write somethig along with others supportive of Ukraine but I forget what that was all about, and that is a reminder that he is one of the top workld leaders.  The popes are that, always at least one of the top world leaders.   Head of an actual nation too, yes the Vatican has that status.  

But at the moment I' responding to something I heard recently, about how people are calling Donald Trump the Antichrist.  The Christian who reported this said it can't be so because the Antichrist comes from the Revised Roman Empire and Trump doesn't.  Well, strictly espeaking neither does Leo fourteenth which I guess ends my own opinion.  But not really.  A popae wherever he is from is a Roman, the head of the only real Roman Empire we have on earth these days.  The European Union is geraing up for a role as part of the Roman ystem but still Rome is Rome and the head of Rome right now is the papacy, which is how it has been for about fifteen centuries.  

The Antichrist depicted in the beast from the sea of Reelation THirteen is not just FROM  the Roman Empire, the way it reads he is practically synonymous with the Roman Empire.  The beast is clearly the empire, with the symbolicmsm of the leopard, the bear and the lion from the visions ofr the book of Daniel which identify the Roman Empire as the fourth to rise after Babylong, Medo Persia and Greece, althouh in those days while the first three were known, the Roman Empire was stil an unknown for the future.  But now we know that is what Daniel was all about.  Rome rose to power before Christ was born and although it died  or at least the Caesars stopped ruling, by6 the sixth cetury the BIshop of Rome of the Christian Church was in a position to delcare himself Universal ope and become over the next few centuries a rule of the west avery much akin to a Caesar.   There is no doubt that the papacy is the Antichrist dsystme and hat the world rule r single Antichrist to come at the very end will be a Opope.  It is frustrating how the Pre Tribbers keep talkinab out some unkonw man who is yet to be revealed who comes from the Roman Empire to rue the world.   Nope.  Pope.

The whole story of the Antichrist is Rome  Rome Rome.  The beast of Revelation THirteen and the Harlot CHurch of Revelation Seventeen are Rme Rome Rme.    Not jus a person FROM Ruome, but the leader of what is the only Roman power bow in the world, the Vatican of the city of Rome.    

Yes I believe in some of the futurist end times scenario, but not the identity of the ANtichrist, who was revealed back in the seventh century.  

Message for President Trump

 Would somone please tell President Trump that working for peace between Russia and Ukraine won't get him to heaven?  He aapparently doesn't undersand that Jesus paid for our sins on the cross and that's how we get to heaven, by believing in Him, that He died for us so that we don't have to pay for our sins ourselves, and tht He rose again from the dead.  If you believe all tghat, then you are saved and going to heaven.    THGEN you should work for peace, because it is the right thing to do and because the Lord would want you to do it.  But it won't earn you heaven.  Either you are already saved by Jesus' death for you, or you need to be saved by believing Him and thank ing Him for it.  Also, while we are to do what we can as Jeus calls us to do it, we are not resposible for the outcome.  You are not responsible for what Putin and Zelensky decide to do, you are only responsble for doing what you can to further the prospects of peace between them.  It is God who is responsible for the outcome.

Sio, relax.  Give yourselve to Christ and relax.  Do what you can and relax.  It's in God's hands.    Scripture i very clear that we are not to try to work our way to heven.  If we could then we'cd get the credit for it, but since God did it for us He gets the credit and our wrole is gratitude and commitment to do His will as best we can, kowing we are fallible creatures and only God can work miracles.

Someone needs to ge this across to Catholics too beause they have been misled to believe they must work for their wsalvation.  

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Now I have a message for Glenn Loury.  I heard his latest talk with his frequent talking partner John McWhorter on the subjec tof Isareael versus Hamas, what's going on in Gaza.  My message to Mr. Loury is:  You are believing the liars, you are believing Hamas.  All those statistics are made up by Hamas.  It is Hamas who are interfering with the aid getting to their people, it is not Israel's doing.  You need to listen to sme different sources on this one.  I usually like Loury's comments betwtter than I like McWhorter.  This time McWhorter was getting it more right than Loyry.

All for now.

Zygosity and the Camellama

 On the biological side of things, a few weeks ago I hit on somethig I thought was pretty interesting although I may ot fully grasp it yet.   Back in the nineties I read a book I think was titled Creation Science, which I think was authored by Henry Morries and someone named Gary Partker although I may not have his name right.  Whoever he is, and I haven't been able to find out anything about him, or maybe a little but I'm not sure it's hjim,  he presented a model of how Adam and Ever could have carried all the genetic material for all the skin color variations known to humanity, which of course means hey carried all the genetic material offor every kind of variation that ever cooccurs to the human race.  He drew it up in one of those boxes I think is called a punnet square?  I'm not rememberung uch this morning, am I?

But tthat has stuck with me since then and leads me from time to time to think about how variations are built into the genome by simple zygosity, meaning heterosqugosity, meaning the fact that genes that are  capable of variation are made up of two alleles or versions of the trait they code for, such that the offspring in sexual recombination can receive one or the other ersion fo the trait.  If many genes for a trait combine with different versions of each, there can be a huge range of different ways a trait can vary.    This is all based on Mendeian genetics, very simple stuff, bu I've come to realize that it has enormous postential for creating variations.

Some genes no doubt don't produce variations because in the design of the creature they need to be stable, such as gthe body plan or the imune system.  But there are all sorts of characteristics that can vafry, the most common one we always think of being eye color.  Skin color is another.    Hair type and color, and in animals fur tye and so on,  all may variy freely and produce all sorts of interesting traits.  Birtds may have the most ineresting and colorful variation possibilityies with dramatic plumage possibilities and so on.   But it's through variation that you get say, the different herds of wildebeests, that vary in size, hide color and antler shape from herd to herd.  In humans we get the races but there are many more fraces than the few we usually think of.  If you put ten people on a desert isolaned, or no you can't put them there, if they happened to get there a few centuries ago and couldn't leave, by now they would have a very distinctive look to them due to the combination from generation to generation fo whatever genetic material was in the group that fisrst landed on the island.  There could be a huge poulation by now, but they would all have similar characteristics, a generalized look to them, in size for instance as well as facial features and proabably temperament and capabilities of many sorts.    It's how we get all our different kinds of cats and dogs etc etc etc.  The body plan doesn't alter much so you always know a cat is a cat and a dog a dog, but otherwise they may vary eomrously, dogs from the Great Dane to the St Bernard to the Husky to the spaniel to the chihuahua etc etc etc.

It is these vartiation s that evolutionists mistake for evolution and built their whole system o them.  As if the variations could keep changing the creature until it eventually becomes a differentr kind of creature.  Can't happebn.  For one thing, the body plan doesn't change, only the what to call them appearance is pary of it but there's more to it, I'm sure there's a word for it somewhere.   It's variation built into the genome, it's not evolution.  When you get a purebrfed of any kind of animal for inatance, no further variation happens, .  It took me some time to recognize that this is the piont where the genes for the slaient characgteristics are all or mostly all homozygouds for particular traits.   In fact somewhere I foudn that that is a defintiion of a pure breed according to some breeding organization.  Homozygodisity is the same as a fixed trait.    If the whole population is homozygous for particular traits, there is no opportunity for variation of that trait to be expressed in theiur offspring.  YOu have to have heterozygosity for that to be possible, but all the alleles for the trait that do not produce the varsion that belongs to the particular breed ahhave been eliminated from the population over time and unless there's a stray one here or there  thevariations of that btrait juist aren't going to show up again in that breed.  So calle "evlution" has come to an end that that point.    

So I began to appreciate that the mdel of genetic possibilities in Adam and Ever I'd found in that book back in the ineties is a model of heterozygosity in all the genetic matieral that is capable of variation in the genome.  Heterozygosity, or the simple fact that each gene has two different versions of the trait it codes for, is all it takes to produce all possible variations in any creature, including human beings.  as they reproduce generation after generation.  When a particular breed sis being develoeped by domestic breeding, or intentional breeding, or when a small population gets accidentally isolted in the wild from the parrent population and breeds only  with its own members over many generations, that's when you start to get more homoszygosity connected with particualr traits within the new breed or popualtion.  

jI  know this is oversimpliefied and there are other actors to gtake into account, such as epigenetic inflence no doubt, though I don't see how that would inlufnece this particular situation, but generally this simple Mendelian sstem should be able to account for enojrmous variatiey in living things.  A very simple design producing a lot of effects over the generations.

So when the topic came up on the Let's Talk Creation podcast of how the llama came out of the camel, if it did, and that was one of the questions, igt occurred to me that this Mendelian principle could very well explain it.  You wouldn't need both a camel and a llama on the ark if they are related woto each other as they are, and would wouldn't need a generalized "camellama" either that somehow contianed the genrteic material for both animals and didn't look eaxactly like either one of them.   It occured gto me that if the camel type has the dominant allele for most of its genes that produce its salient traits, that would mean that three our of four offspring would get the came type inheritance, which is a Mendelian statistic.  The camel thype would show up in the heterozygous genetic formula, as well as in the homozygous dominant formula, two heterozygous possibilities and one homosyfou, for all the traits that make the camel the camle.  Whih would no doubt be a huge number of traits and genes for those traits.  But if a small portion of the population of camels got separated from it that just happeneed to contain a lot of the recessive forms of those genes, then as that new poup;lation inbred over the gwnerations it could well develop into the llama type or any other varsion of the camel .    All it takes, I was thining, is the common accidnet of isolaution of a small number of animals with a new gset of gene frequencies that favor the recessive version of most of the generaes for tthe salient characteristics that in the camel type are built on the dominant alleles.    I hope I'm getting this said clearly.  

So, no Camellamas needed, just heterozygosity in the genome which is a very flexible design factor we usually don't appreciate as such.

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

After send around my previous post in an email to a frew friedns and family I started looking up some geological concepts on You Tube.  Just to be doubly sure I did't say anything too wrong but also just wanting to find out about some things I've had on hold for a whie.  Like Catastrophic Plate Tectonics.  WEell, ther's a very long You Tube video that comes up with that as the search term and it's very informative but so packsed with information and so rast moving I can't possibly get much out of it in one sitting.  It's something I'll need to hear many times before it comes together for me.

I do keep having a particualr issue with this concept however that hasn't  yet been put to rest.  The catastrophic plate tectonics theory is that the Flood of Noah was begun and continued throughtoyut along with erewextremely violent movements of the continents, up heavals thropugh rapid subduction of the sea floor undre the continents, upheavals on the sea floor sending up hot magma and so on.   What continuies to bother me about these scenario is that I don't see how the Geological Column could have been laid down and remained intact een to the extent it has been with all the violent upheaval going on throughout the period of its laying down.  

Ghere is also evidence that I have been promoting for years that the disruptions brought about by tectonic movvment occurred after all the strata were laid down.  That has been a major arugument of minde and I'm still  convinced by it, even after watching this video that gives this completely different scenario .     I've argued it many times before, on this blog and probably on the one called Fatasy of Evolution, and also at EvC forum.  It's based on a particular cross section of the Grand Canyon/ Grand Staricase area and although I can't see it any more I remember it as being very clear, there is no disruption whatever to be seen during the period of the laying down of the sedimentary layers, but lots of activity afterward.  Something   before too, but I don't and that's part of my oaargument.  

But I'm not going to go into it here.    I do hope my email about the  geological column layers gets some people interested enough to think about it and have some opinions.  Then I can go on to other arguments.

By the way the video I was watching was interrupted every few minutes or so buy on particular ad that coplainted about our Nevada rrepresentative voting for tax cuts for the rich which according to the ad are going to cost us all a lot of money are amount to his seelling us all out, and I get SO tired of this kind of liberal deceit.  Tax cuts for the rishch, which are NOT as big a thing as they claim anyway, since the tacsx cuts extend to all of us, but the tax cuts for the rich are designed to stimulate the economy, which they have always succeeded in doing whever a President has had the foresight to be willing to brave the stupidity of the Left and doin do it anyway.    Tax revenuse themselves double in some cases, jobs increase, etc etc.  That is just one of ma000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ny lying manipulative prop0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000aganda ads.

Later:  I'm discoveing that this video just moves way too fast for me to follow it, and on this new computer I don't  know how to do the usual things like back it up.  Someone will have to show me that some time, but meanwhile I'm lost to this video.  

IF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY DROPPED DEAD ON A REMOTE ISLAND OF A BLOG, WOULD ANOYONE HEAR THE CRASH AS IT HIT THE GROUND?

 Overy the years rguing Creation versus Evolution I've brought ofup various problems witht e geoligcal column, such as that there isn't any indication on the surface of any of the separate layers of its every having been on the surface of the earth as anormal landscape.  They are mostly all straight and flat as a tabletop, not uneven the way a normal landscape eis, even the flattest.  They don't have gullies or deep erosion, certainly no canyons.  You don't see plant roots growing down into them anywhere.  There's nothing about them to suggest they ever were the surface of the world during a former time period, whichis what is claimed for eah of them.   Some are supposed to have been underwater but there too you wouldn't expect perfectly straight flat surface or such a homogeneous sediment either,    These conversations never went anywehre of course.  They just get ignored somehow, ,but they raise serious questions about the whole idea that the geological column is made up uof successive periods of time mrked by identifiable types of sediment which have become rock over supposed misllions of years since they were deposited.  Some of the time periods are over a hundred million years,, some tens of millions, but huge periods of time in which very particular animal life is found in fossilized form.  Each layer of sedimentary rock has its own collection of fossilized life forms.   These are understood to be creatures that lies in these time periods, which over time evolved into more odern kinds.  They seem to be less complex near the bottom of the stack of layers, getting more complex as you look toward the uppoer layers, ending in modern mammals and so on at the very top which isd considered to be modern time.

Doesn't irt seem odd thhat the history of the earth would be marked off in clearly identifialble time segments defined by specific kinds of sedimentary rocks?  Sometimes I wonder how that idea got so easily accepted in the first place, but it certainly has been accepted and is foundational to the idea of the fossil record which underlies much of evolutionary theroy.   Nobody coments on the actual physical situatio of the rocks that I've run across, they are just taken for granted to represent these time periods in which sepefic creatures lived, each period demonstrating some evolutionary change as they see it.   

It certainly is interesting that there does seem to be such a clear separate collection of fossil life forms characteristic of a particular rock layer which is identified as a pecrticular time period.   And in a rough way they do seem to exhibit some kind of development from something more primitedve to something modern.  It's easy enough to see how the fossil record idea got going on that simple fact.  And it's a strange fact no matter how you look at it, but it is a fact.  

But again, how is it that the earth could have been divided into time periods of millions of eyears so clearly marked by a very particular kind of sedimentary rock, very straight and flat, continaing a fery specici colelction of fossil forms?  When we look at the surface of the earth we live on it certainly doesn't look straight and flat and ceratinly isn't of one kind of sedimentary rock, or..    Should we expect our own time eperiod to somehow or other get reduced down to such a situation as is found in each of the layers beneath us?   How does that make sense?

Of course nobody does, but then nobody is really thinking about any of this from this point of view Fof course nobody is thinkiung about these things from this point of view.  

Sometimes I try to think through how it could ereally have been a time period that produced a particular rock layer and how that could have come aout.  Many of the layers extend across huge geographical areas, some covering whole continents and even can be found in soe form on all the continents or a umber of them anyway.  There are ideas about how the sediments were laid down originally, mounstains eroding and windo blowing the sediment into flat layers among other things, b tu none of that is very convincing.  SOme are explains by an incursion of water over the land, which seems to me to make more sense but even then it's hard to think the result would have been such a flat horizontal layer that eventually got overlaid by other layers and hardedned into rock.   

Whenver I try to figure this out I end up with the recognition that any amount of such esediment existing on the surface of the earth would have makede it impossible for any creature to surfvive there, either in it or on it.  Creatures can't live on a pure sand deposite.  So maybe the sand came layter and the animals lived on a normal surface that was eventualy covered over by the sand or other sediment?  But when it was covered over then the animal life would die, it couldn't go on living, and if it died then it didn't pass on to the next time period where an evolved form went on living, it just died because there was no place for it to go on living.      So maybe it lived on part of the surace that wasn't yet covered over by this sediment.  But since it was eventuqally covered over, as we can see from the rock layers in the column today, then they would have died there too.  Nobothing could live wherever these sedimentary deposits were the surface they had to live on.

So maybe thy formed beneath the surace or something like that, and then the surface was somehow eroded away and left only the sedimentary layer which got covered over by a new kind of sedienyt as the next supposed time period began to develop.   But it's the same problem.  When the livable surface is gone, erotded away or whatever, leaving only the sedimentary deposite we see as rock in the scolumn today, wheaever had been living on that surface would die because it couldn't live on that bare sedimentary surface.  Or in it if we're talking water deposition and sea creatures.

No nmatter how you try to rearrange the possibilityies, you end up with an unlivable environemnty.  For every one of the rock layers we see in the stack of layers we call the geollgical socolumn.   Nothing could have lived in any environmentin which those sedimenyts were actually present as the surface of the earth which for at least some wshort period they had to have been becaue there they are now in that stack of layers.  If nothing could live in that environment then clearly those are not time periods those rocks represent, othing ever lived there, it's all a great delusion.   There is no Geological time scale in which living forms evolved.  There just isn't.   It's all a delusion.     There are plenty of dead things encased within the sedimentary rocks, but they could never have lived in an environment of csuch sediments,  they had to have been carried within the sedimentas and deposited  with them.  Or something like that.  There was never anything living whever those sedimentas lay on the surace of the earth or on the sea floor either.    Nothing could have lived there.  That seems to me to be perfectly clear even if it's hard to thingk all this through and rearrange things in your mind.

Without the fossil record, what happenes to the theory of ewvolution?  Can it keep going on biological and genetic considerations alone without the geoloigcal suport of the fossils?  I don't know.  I'm sure those who believe in evolutio woud try to keep it alive one way or another.  I'm sure if they every thought about what I'm writing here they'd be concvinced I must be wrong one way or another and try to prove me wrong and maybe even manage to convince themselves that I'm wrong.  The theory would just go limping along on the basis of what they think must hve happened rather than on any clear evidence that it did happen.  But then that's the way it has always been.  Evolution has always been  an imaginary construct, building from the real biolgoical fact of the variations we  see all the time in living things m,  each species having a large range of ways it can vary its apparenantce, that's all real enough but they imagine from thant fact that the variation can just keep going from species to species and there's really no way it could.   

That's another line of thought that undoes the etheory of evolution.  I just finished listining to a wbook by Seteven Meyer, Darwin's Doubt , in which he diescusses instance after insnace in which the evolutionary biologicals themselves question the claims of the theory and shows ythat it is never resolved.  tThe same problems remain after every attempt to find a way to solve it or get around it.   Meyer gpoint out many times that variation or change only occurs in existing entitties.  If there is no docode for it it can't happen.  the code is convinced to the genome of each species.  There is no way to get outside of that code, the genome of the species, to form any kind of new thing.  

But that's another whole direction of argument I'm not up to going into right nwo.    I think the faiure of the idea of the geological time scale is enough to kill the ehtthroy of evolution.   There are certainly many ogther ways to kill it.  I think it's really been shown to be  dead for years but  so many people are so committed to the idea they just keep beating the dead horse expectin git to get up and move again.  Oh well.

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mAYBE i SHOULD ADD A DEFINITION OF THE gEOLOGICAL cOLUMN FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T SURE WHAT IT REFERS TO.  iF YOU CAN FIND A PICTURE OF A WIDE SECION OF THE gRAND cNYON LOOKING DOWN INTO IT, THE LAYERS YOU SEE IN THE WALLS OF THE CANYON, EACH OF A DIFFERENT SEDIMENTARY ROCK, ARE THE LOCAL VERSION OF THE gEOLOGICAL cOLUMN.  tHE PICTURE PROBABLY SHOWS THE LAYERS FROM THE LOWEST HORIZONTAL LAYER WHICH IS THE cAMBRIAN TIME PERIOD, DATED TO ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AGO, AND THE LAYERS CLIMB UP FROM THERE THROUGH THE oRDOVICIAN, THE sILURIAN, THE dEVONIAN, THE cARBONIFEROUS, TO THE pERMIAN WHICH FORMS THE RUM OF THE CANYON , DATED TO ABOUT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO.  oRIGINALLY THE STACK OF LAYERS CLIMBED UP ANOTHER MILE OR SO OR ANOTHER TWO HUNDRED MILION YEARS BUT ALL THT WSHED AWAY IN THE CANYUON AREA.   tHEY CAN BE FOUND INTACT A HUNDRED OR SO MILES TO THE NORTH, HOWEVER, IN uTAH'S gRAND sTARICASE FORMATION.  iT'S IN THAT SECTION OF THE COLUMM THAT THE jURASSIC TIME PERIOD IS FOUND, WHERE ALL THE DINOSAUR FOSSILS COME FROM, THAT AND THE cRETACEOUS LAYER AOVE ITY.      

oOPS,      I see the caps lock was on.  Drat.  Sorry aout that.  

By the way I wrote out other arguments against evolution here and there on this blog, in particular some last Fall around September and Octorber.

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I also keep forgetting to put in my new email addres which is managed by my daughter.   faithswindow@mail.com

Anitichrist Three:

 The previous two posts on the Roman church should be titled Antichrist One and Two but I can't go back and change them now.  This one is a continuation of the theme.

H Grattan Guinness refers to the current most popular end times ceneario as Futurism, the one we call the Pre Tribulation Rapture scenario.  I'm going to call it Futurism from now one just because it is a shorter twerm and is clear enough.    

I've already objected to the part of Futurism that expects the final Antichrist to suddenly be revealed at the very end while up until that time we won't have  any idea of his identity.  That is exactly the scenario Guinness is rejecting as an invention of the Roman Church to obscrure its own iudentity as the system of the papal Antichrist.   

The main objection to the idea of the papacy as the Antichrist has been that he is to be an individual who rules at the ery end, but this is easy enough to answer .  The Caesars were ann individuals and yet all aesar, so is the Pope annll individuals and yet all Pope.  There can be a final individual Pope who is the final Antichrist and that is the position I'm taking.  Guineness dismisses the whole futuris scenario however, he puts eerything in the past.  The Popes are right now the Antichrist and he isn't looking for a future individual Antichrist apparently.   He scoffs at the idea of teh Seventieth week of Daniel too, and arues that the numbers that sound so clearly like three and a half years written in various ways are really to be understood as the twelve hundred and sixty years of the rule of the Roman Church in the Middle Ages.  

All that just eems strained and false to me.   The seventieth week of Dainiel is a deinitely determined time period that is yet future.  I don't see how that can be so easily dismissed.   The seenty weeks are divided y sections in the prophecy itself, and it is sixty nine weks to the Sunday on whih Jesus rode into Jerousalem on the donkey.  That leaves a week of years that so far has no fulfillment.   The tiribulation period Jesus identifies in Matthew 24 however seems to fit right in there, the seventieth week being the last week of the Daniel prophecy, arriving at the reelation of the Messiah who brings the transgressions to a close and establishes eternal righteousness, as the prophecy says.  Jesus identities the great tribulation as occurring just before the EWndj:  "And then the end will come"  so the fit is a good one.

Sixty nine weeks to the crucifixion, when the Messiah is "cut off" as the Daniel prophecy puts it, then another week of years to the finishing of whe whole history of redemption.

Certainly it is not finished yet and the Antichrist is still quite visiblee in a position of international influence but no longer the ruler of the wrold as he was in the MIddle Ages.  But that could change quite suddenly and  he step back into the role as leader of teh reconsittuted Roman Embpire which is now the Roman Church as it was when he ruled over the so called Holy Roman Empire.  

So some of the futuris scenario is probably true enough still.  They have the identity of the Antichirst all rwrong and that's a big  part of it, but Guinessnness is also wrotng to reduce most of the book of revelation to sybolism that has already occurred in the past.  Jesus has not yet come, the transgression is not yet finished, the Antichrist is not ruling the world at the momenmt and so on.  That is all yet to come.

It's sad to see thousands upon thousands of Catholics in Europe flocking to see the election of a new Pope, as they did just a couple moneths ago.  The y stand in front of the ... St. Peter's as it's called  I'm not sure about those things...  but they are standing there reciting their repectitituve prayers with their rosaries and being all excited about the revelatio nof this new leader of the Roman Church who is in realtiy the leader of the deayh of the wrold.    American Catholics  don't rep[udiate the ope either.  He's come to America even to our Congress, what a horror of anabomination that is.  This is a Protestant nation.  All our successes, propsperity, freedoms, come from our Protestant heritage, which in its true essence opposes Catholicism, and yet today few Proptestants have ny idea of any of that.  And Catholics blindly revere their "church" and nobody opposes them any more.   All those pagan things that characterize it just get ignored somewhow.  They are contrary to Christian ity  and yet nobody seems to notice.  Bill Cunninham was going to go to his Romaist church to light a candle over some political situation or other, I forget.  Lgihting cancdles is just a papgan superstittuion, contrary to Christianity.  Cunninham is a solid American patriot it seems to me, but he's in thrall to the false Church and that's sad, for him and for America because  a patriot in thrall to the system of the Anitchrist is certainly not a good thing for the country.  Samew with Dan Bongino.  Many Catholics in American politicis here and there, in office or as talk show hosts and so on.  Good patriots most of them, at least the ocnservatives are, buyt they don't see the problems  that come with their allegiance to the anticChriustian and AntiAmerican Church oif Roe.   Nor do most Protestant though.  

jMark Levil just came out with a new book, On Power, and I'm going to get through my Alexa setup free today as an audio book.  I'm sure he does a great job identifying the power threats from the Left, Maarxism, and naming everybody who is part of it, bugt of course he doesn't know a thing about the Roman Church, which there is reason to believe is the rock bottom power behind it all in the end.    Chris Pinto has a film out called American Jesuits that I haven't been able to see yet, and he has a lot of good information about the dangers of the Roman Church in American politicis and indeed the whole political situation of the whole worldk,, as really the root of the Globalist agendy despite their ability to fly under the radar so cleverly nobody sees it without making a huge effortt.  

I was very idsappointed to find out that J D Vance became a Catholikfcc.  Well, they have good PR.   And they aren't killing people out in the open these days, only in the secret places of the world, yes it is still going on just not out in the open.    They have good PR now, sad to say, we have no John Adamses to warn us against them.  Nboodhyto tell the Catholics "get out of her, My people.    I too was attracted to them through the mystics like teresa of Avila and John of the Cross who teach a true love of God if you aren't sensitized to their little Romanisms that are a fly in the ointment if you know how to recognize them.  I just loved their love of God.  Then Karl Keathing said the Pope is the head of the Church and I knew that was wrong andthe Lord took me to the scripture passages where it says He is the head of the CHurch and that was the end of that for me.  But people who have no knowledge of anything about any of this, such as DjJD Vance, can still be seduced by them.    

Will Leo be the final Antichrist?  I don't know.  I thought Francis was a sure thing because of so many weird signs that stuck to him, but he wasn't and I don't know if Leo will be either.  There could yet be another one to come.  Or maybe he will be.  We're close enough.    Look for a covenant with Israel for seven years.  The last half of those seven years adds up to twelve hudnred and sixty days or foty two months or three and a half years of time, times and half a time.   That's when the Great Tribulation happens if the futurist scenrio is right about that much aty leas.t  

tHE rOMANIST gLOBAL tHREAT cONTINUED

 tHE BOOK, rOMANISM AND THE rEFORMATION BY h gRATTAN gUINESS IS PACKED WITH NECESSARY FACTS ABOUT THE rtOMAN cHURCH, SO THAT  YOU GET THE PERSPECTIVE THAT CAN IMMUNIZE YOU AGAINST ANY ATTRACTIONS IT MAY HAE FOR YOU.   i WAS ATTRACTED TO IT THROUGH THE cATHOLIC MYSTICS WHEN i WAS IN THE PROECESS OF BECOMING A cHRISTIAN BACK IN THE EIGHTIES.  i THINK THE SPELL WAS BROKEN WHEN i READ A BOOK BY kARL kEATING, a cATHOLI  SPOLOGIST, WHERE HE CALLS THE pOPE THE HEAD OF THE cHURCH AND THAT JUST DIDN'T SIT RIGHT.  sOON AFTER THAT THE lORD RESCUED ME FROM THAT IDEA AND FROM THE rOMANISMT SEDUCTION ALTOGETHER i THINK BY CAUSING ME TO OPEN THE bIBLE TO BOTH THE BPASSAGES IN THE nEW tESTAMENT WHICH CALL cHRIST THE hEAD OF THE cHURCH, IN RAPID SUCCESSION, AND i WASN'T EVEN PLAYING THAT GAME OF TRYING TO GET A MAESSAGE BY OPINIONG IT MYSELF, i JUST OPENED IT AND THERE IT WAS, AND i FLIPPED SOME PAGES AND THERE IT WAS AGAIN.  cHRIST IS THE hEAD OF TEH cHURCH.  tHE pOPE IS A USURPER OF THAT ROLE AND THAT TITLE.

aND gUINESS LAYS OUT ALL THE WAYS THE pOPE USURPSA THE TITLES AND FROLES OF gOD AND TAKES POWERS OVER KINGS AND EVERYBODY ELSE THAT MADE THE PAPACY THE RULER OF THE WORLD DUREING THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, JUST BEFORE THE rEFORMATION.   tHEY ALSO WROTE LAWS THAT SEALED THE DOOM OF EVERYBODY UNDER THEIR USURPED GOVERNMENT.  sOME OF IT REMINDS OME OF THE WAYS THE lEFT IN aMERICA HAS BEEN MANIPULATING LAW TO SERVE ITSELF RECENTLY.  aND SOME OF IT REMINDS ME OF THE GLOBAL AMBITIONS OF iSLAM, THE JIHADISTS, SUCH AS THE RULAE THE pOPE CAME UP WITH THAT BLESSED ANYONE WHO MURDERED A SO CALLED HERETIC WITH THE PROMIST OF IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO HEAVEN.  lIKE JINADIS WHO EXPECT TO GO TO A CARNAL PARADISE FOR KILLING jEWS OR cHRISTIANS OR INDEED ANY NONmUSLIM.   tHERE IS NOTHING cHRISTIAN ABOUT ANYON OF THIS.  

bUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOU TIT.  tHAT'S WHY YOU HAVE TO READ BOOKS LIKE THIS ONE Y gUINNESS.  aND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS NOT JUST A THING OF THE PAST.  aLL THESE CLAIMS TO RIGHTS OVER EVERYONE ARE STILL ON THE BOOKS, THEY'VE NEVER BEEN RESCINDED, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN AN APOLOGY FOR THEIR MURDERS AND TORTURES AND PERSECUTIONS, THEY CONSIDER IT STILL TO BE THEIR RIGHT THOUGH YOU WON'T HEAR IT SAID OUT LOUD.  aND JUST AS WITH iSLAM, THEY LIE LOW AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT IN POWER BUT IF THEY EVER GET POWER AGAIN ALL THESE CLAIMS TO RIGHTFUL DOMINANCE OVER ALL HUMAN BEINGS WILL RESURFACE.  aND IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO SOINE PARTS OF THE FUURIST END TIMES CENARIO, ALL THAT COULD BE THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF THE BOOK OF rEVELATION.  a REVIVAL OF THE inQUISITION.     aND  gUINESSNNESS 

aND gUINNESS SHOWS THE iNQUISITION TO BE AS EVIL AND BLOODY AS ANYTHING iSLAM COMES UP WITH .  iSLAM IS JUST NOT SYSTEMATIC ABOUT IT AS THE rOMAN chURCH IS, SYSTEMAITIC, CALCULATIED, JUSTIFIED AS FOR THE GOOD OF THE VISICTIM EVEN.     

i THINK WHAT IS NEEDED IS A CONDENSED VESARSION OF gUINNESS' BOOK TO MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE AVERAGE READER.  iT'S TOO LONG AND TOO DETAILED AS IT IS.  iT COULD PROBABLY BE CUT DOWN EASILY TO A THIRD OF ITS SIZE OR EVEN LESS.  bUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT YHAT  ARE BGOOD TOO.   tHE TOME THE hISTORY OF rOMANISM BY dOWLING IS THE MAIN ONE.    tHE PAGAN LNATURE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS MADE VERY CLEAR IN ALL THESE SOURCES.  tHE rOMANISTS RETAIN THE OUTLINES OF THE GOSPEL SO THAT PEOPLE ARE EASILY FOOLED BY IT, AND IT'S EVEN POSSIBLE FOR SOME TO BE SAVED IN THAT SYSTEM IF THEY STICK TO JUST THOSE PARTS OF THEIR TEACHINGS, WHICH THE rEFORMERS THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.  i DON'T KNOW, i HAVE TO TRUST THE rEOFRMERS ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT.    bUT SCRIPTURE IS CLEAR.  eVEN IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE SAVED WITHIN THE SYSTEM, THE SYSTEM ITSELF IS EVIL, AND gOD SAYS "cOME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE."  iF YOU ARE HIS, YOU  DON'T BELONG THERE.

sO IT'S HORRIFYING TO KNOW ALL THIS AND SEE THE SO CALLED pROTESTANT CHURCHES EMBRACING cATHOLICISM AS JUST ANOTHER DENOMINATION.  i STILL BELIEVE IN ENOUGH OF THE FUTURIST SCHATOLOGY TO BELIVE THAT THE tRIBULTION jESUS TAKELKED OF IN mATTHEW 24 IS STILL ON THE PROPHETIC CALENDAR AND IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE EVENTS OF THE bOOK OF rEVELATION, IN WHICH i BELIVE THE sEVENTIETH wEEK OF dANEIL BEGINS WITH THE OPENING OF THE sEVWNTH sEAL IN rVELATION eIGHT.  i COULD CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT ANY OF THIS BUT gUINNESS' SYMBOLIZING WAY OF DEALING WITH rEVELATION IS NOT AT ALL CONVINCING, IN FACT IT STRIKES ME AS LUDICROUS.   hI hE'S GOOD AT REVEALING THE rOMAN cHURCH BUT HIS TAKE ON PROPHECY DOESN'T CUT IT.  

tHERE ARE  CONNECTIONS BETWEEN rOMANISM, ESESPECIALLY THE jESUITS, AND mARXISM, SOCIALISM, coMMUNISM, TOO.  cHRIS pINTO IS A GREAT SOURCE OF THAT INFORMATION.  aDULLAM fILMS, nOISE OF THUNDER rADIO.    pROTESTANTIMS HELD ON TO THE TRUTH ABOUT rOMANISM PRETTY MUCH UP UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THEN ITS OWN PROPAGANDA SEEMS TO HAVE ECLIPSED THAT KNOWDLEDGE IN NOT JUST THE SCHURCHES BUYT THE SECULAR WORLD TOO WHERE IT WAS ALSO VAGUELY RECOGNIZED UP UNTIL RECENTLY.    jOHN aDAMS HAD A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE EVILS OF THE jESUITS AND THEIUR DANGERS TO THE NATION.  nONE OF THAT IS LEFT IN TODAY'S WORLD.  tHAT MAKES US SITTING DUCKS.    tHEY ARE OH SO GOOD AT FLYING UNDER THE RADAR.  iSLAM IS LOUDER AND MAKES A GOOD DISTRACTION FOR THEM TOO.   bUT THEY ARE TWINS IN THEIR SATANIC INSPIRATION IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TOO LOOK CAREFULLY .   

i GET WHAT gUIONNESS IS ASAYING ABOUT HOW FUTURISM IS A CLOAK FOR rOMANISM, BUT i STILL HOLD TO SOME OF IT.  tHE MAIN THING HE HAS TO SAY, HOWEVER, i ALREADY ACCEPTED LONG AGO, THAT THE PAPACY IS THE aNTICHRIST AND NOT SOME FUTURRE INDIVIDUAL WHO RISES FROM OBSCURITY TO SUDDEN POWER.   tHE PAPACY HAS POWER ALREADY CARVED OUT FOR IT.  iT IS THE HEAD OF A SOVEREIGN STATE AND IT ONCE RULED THE WORLD.  rESUMING ITS OLD IDENTITY WOULDN'T TAKE TOO MUCH.  tHE pOPE ALREAYD HAS RWORLD STANDING ANYWAY.  tHE pOPES ARE IN EVERY INTERNATIONSAL MOVEMENT.  tIME MATTERS IN THE SCENARIO IF WE ARE AS CLOSE TO THE eND AS SO MANY FEEL WE ARE, AND A SINGLE ANTICHRIST RISING FROM OBSCURITY COULDN'T PUT TOGETHER HIS GOVENMENT IN SUCH A SHORT TIME, BUT THE PAPACY HAS IT ALLREADY THERE IN PLACE AND JUST NEEDS TO TWEAK THIS OR THAT AND JUST STEP INTO IT.

i WISH i COULD GET THIS ACROSS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.  i'VE GOOT BOOKS LISTEN DED ON MY BLOG ABOUT THE rOAN cHURCH TOO BY THE BWAY.  tHIS IS ALL NEEDED PERSPETIVE BUT UNORTUNATLEY THE rOMANISMST HAVE THEPROPAGANDA ON THEIR SIDE AS LONG AS WE REMAIN IGNORANT.  ON 

pROTESTANTS nEED TO bECOME pROTESTANTS IN tRUTH aGAIN, AND cALL dOWN THE rOAMAN fAKE cHURCH

 I don't feel up to this, not to the topic and not even to the physical exertio of sitting at tmy computer to type it.   But I am definiotely called to write something about this however inadeuate it muar vw.  

I listened to an old book on the subject of the papacy as the antichrist by H Grattan Guinness but it's been a few weeks since I finished it, just haven't had theenergy to come to the computer.  The reader of the book was overly dramatic and inserted his own opinions here and there, which I've neve encountered in a reader of an audio book before, which was rather distratacting and made me wonder if I  was getting an accurate sense of the book.  

The message that must be put across somehow is that the Roman Church is far more of a threat to Christianity and to the world than an;ybody has any idea in our day.  The Protestant Church had s all but abandoned her first responsibility in this regard.  What is the Church called to but to identify the enemy of CHrist and follow the Reformers in keeping him from rising to power again.  That is the whole meaning of Protestantism, but what do we see in so called Protestant churches today but a nearly complete abdication of that responsibility.  HJogn MacArthur keeps the message alive.  So does Chris Pinto.  There are others I'm not as familiar with.  Richard Bennet died a few years ago.  I think his website is probably still up[, the rean Beacon I think.   But even the ministries to the Catholics, to try to save them from their doom in that soul killing institution  are way too gentle about it, apparently fearing to drive them away if they speak as stronlgly as the subject warrants.  

Catholicism is treated these days as just another denomination even by most Protestantsa.  The nonChristian wrolrld thinks of it as the main representative of Christianity in the world, ooh miserable travesty.  I mentioned in a previous post that Eric Metaxas seemed to be going out of his way tro avoid the problem of Catholicism in his recommendations ot Colson's efforts to unify all who call ghemselves CHristians for the purpose of taking on the evils in the culture.    I recently heard a good discussion of the Christian character of western civilization on the podcast Uncommon Knowledge where the Inquiition was treated as an unfortunate failur of Christianity, certainly not the sign of the nonChristian nature of the Roman Church that is the true explanation of it.  The same people always bring up the religionus wars too, as an argument against Christianity, without the slightest understanding of the cause of those wars even though theyu are historians and thinkers.  That sort of analysis is jjust not part of any secular study these days, though I was impressed that they had all come to the recognition that Christianity played the dominating role in establishing western Ciilzation.  These men were Doublas Murray and Tom Hollandj.  Also Steven Meyter but he's a real Christian and I'm not sure of his view of these thigns, I don't think he had must to say baout it on that panel.  

An;yway the book by H Grattan Guinness is a very stron gdenuniciation of the Roman Church and of the Protestant abdication of responsibility to keep it in the public eye as the great threat it is to civilization as well as to the true Church of Christ.   He madkes the point that after the Reformation the nations that became Protestant wen t on to progress and prosper in all sort of ways while the nations that remained Catholic, or really, Roman, stagnated as they always had.  America really owesa our liberties and properity to Protestantism, to the Reofrmation, no, not to theE Enlgihtenment.  And although we have many names for our enemies these days, Marxism Wokeism, Communism, and so  on, there is no doubt a strong Romanism influence influencing it all while flying under the radar.  It emerges at least in its support of open borders and flooding the nation with foreigners, manu of whome are Catholic as well as direct enemies such as terrorist Islamists.   I'm sure Chris Pinto has had a lot to say about this over the last year or so when I haven't been able to tget to his website.  Even now I'm having trouble listening to it though I've been able to get back now and then.  His is Noise of Thunder raDIO.  

tHE PAPACY ITSELF ISA VIOLATION OF SCRITPTURE.  wHEN THE rISHOP OF rOMAE SEDECLARED HIMSELF uNIVERSAL bISHOP OVER ALL THE OTHER BISHOPS HEW WAS USURPING A POWER THAT LAUNCHED HIM ON THE PATH TO THE FULL BLOWN ANTICHRIST WH PRESIDED OVER THE iNQUISISITON.   eVEN gREGORY THE gREAT, THAT IS pope gREHGORY THE gREAT , SAID THAT THIS USURPATION OF POWER WAS A FIRST STEP TOAWARD TOHTE ROLE OF ANTICHIRST OR SOMEHINGA ALONG THOSE LINES, AND HE WAS THE FIRST POSPE, IN aD 607 TO TAKE ON THAT ROLE.   

gUINNESS AMPLY PRESENTS ALL YTHE HORRIFIC ARROGANCEW OF THE PAPACY'S ASSUPTION OF POWERS OVER THE YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY ITS ARROGATION OF THE VERY POWERS AND IDENTIY OF goD.   tHE HE AMPLY DESCRIBES THE HORRORS OF THE TORTUEUES INFLIECTED ON THE VISCTIMS OF THE iNQUISITION.  oF COURSE THE rOMAN cHURCH HADA ALREADY BEEN PERSECUTING DISSIDENTS FOR YEARS ANYWAY, THE wALDENISANS AND THE OTHER GROPUS THAT RECOGNIZED THE PAPACY AS ANTICHRIST AND FORMED THEIR OWN DOMMUNITIES.  

iN A WAY YOU'D THINK JUST THE OUTER TRAPPINGS OF THE rOMAN cHURCH WOULD MAKE IT CLEAR SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH cHRISTIANITY.  tHE COLORFUL ROBES WHICH BELONG TO THE PAPGAN RELIGIONS OF rPAGAN rOEME, THE WEIRD LOOKING HGEADGREAR, THE LITTLE PAGAN PRACTICES LIKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, LIGHTING CANCDLES, DIPPING FINGERS IN "HOLY" WATER AND SO ON.  tHE ROSARY WHICH IS USED IN bUDDHISM AND OTHER PAGAN RELIGIONS.   L tHERE'S A LONG LIST OF THESE DEPARTURES FROM ANYTHING RLEATED TO BIBLICAL chRISTIANITY THAT IS ESCAPING ME RIGHT NOW.

i CAN'T DO THIS SUBJECT JUSTICES.  i HOPE i'VE SAID ENOUGH FOR A START., AND THAT i'LL BE UP TO SAYING MORE EVENTUALLY

End times Antichrist

For some time I've been aIN A STRUGGLE WITH THE pRE tRIBULATION rAPTURE END TIMES ESCHATOLOGY FOR THEIR IDEA THAT THE aNTICHRIST IS ONLY GOING TO E KNOWN JUST BEFORE HE COMES TO POWER.  i'VE BEEN PERSUADED OF HE rEFORMATION VIEW OF THE aNTICHRIST AS THE rOMAN pApacy, the final Antichrist to be the last Pope whenever he comes at the right time.  I've accepted some of the Pre Trib scenario about the very last  SSatanic playing out of the Antichrist's persecution of true Christians, along the lines of the persecutions by ghe Roman Church in the middle Ages against Christians anbd other supposed  heretics.  

Lately I've had some other problems with ehte Pres Trib cenario.  For instance I'm dcoming to think that the first five seals of Revelation Six are jot part of the Great Tribulation but evils  that have existed for the last two thousand years.  Revlation Six  is future it seems to me, all those sings in sun and moon and earthquake and so on heralding the tribulation.  I odon't yet know how to understnd the plamecement of thje rolling up of the heaven like a scroll and so on, but it's future in any case.   And the martyrs of Revelation Five are a particular problem for the Pre Trib scenario in my mind because fotr one thing they are described as "souls', meaning they are not in their glorified bodies as all those raptured would be.  Of course if this occurred after the Raputre they'd be gpart of the tribulation martyrdomes so nothat wouldn't be expected, but I just can't see a whole group of martyrs waiting for thei r fellow martyrs to show up who were madew in the very few years that would be all that could occur if the first five seals were part of the seven year Tribulstion period.   But I don't think that any more.  I think the martyrs are first the martyrs of the Caesars, and then the martyrs of the Roman papacy of the Middle Ages.  That means there are yet more martyrs to come during the seven year tribultion that is  about to be unleacshed.    

So now I thinkthe WSeventieth Week of Daniel, or the seven hyear Great Tribulation starts with the opening of the Weeventh seal, and that the ratprue has not yhet occurreds.    When it is to coccur I haven't yet understood but I'm starting to think it may be just when Jesus returns or perhaps just before the final wrath of the vials, or a bit earlier.  But I still have a problem with tyhere being two separate grops of believers and I know the pre trib system accepts that idea.  

I think it could all get starte with Pope Leo's confirming a covenant, accporeding to the book of Daniel, with Israel.  I hink that may be the next thing on the proophetic agenda.  But I'm still pondering all this and praying for God's leading.

More to say about all this.

Cultural Marxism is a Big Enemy the Chruch Needs to Face Down, but Romanism is Worse

 For some ime I'd wantend to hear the book by Eric Metaxas titled "Letter to the American Church" but couldn't find an audible version I could access.  Finally I did, through my Alexa device.  Never would have guessed she'e could be such a great help.  So I finally heard the book and I had mixed reacgtions to it.  This was  writtern a few years abgo, before trump became President and he was exhortin g the Church to stand up against the trends in the cuolture that are Marxist inspired and anti God, such as the transgender insanity, gay marriage, Critical Race Theory, Cancel culture, and so on.  Also the lockdown imposesd on the churches by the government durin gthe pandemic, which very few had opposed.  

All a good message though since Trump has taken on a lot of that since he was elected I wonder what Metaxas has to say about that and I haven't yet tracked it  down.   He did a good job of emphasizing the fact that if we are the Church we have faith in God's power and in Jesus' conquest of death, so that we should have no fewr of being cancelled or eeven killed ourselves if we are true to our calling to be salt and light in even the most threatening cultural environemtns.  Ours hasn't yet gon ethat far but it has gone far enough to be quite intimidating and to take definite courage in the face of its threats and ridicule and scorn.   Metaxas compares our situation to Germany in the thirties before the full fledged  horrors of Naxism had taken over, when it was becoming uncomfortable to speak out but wasn't yet quite the threat of the death camps and other intimidatings.   His gook was meant to warn the churches that it is our job to stand up against the attempts of a godless culture to take over and tyrannize us all into submission to their anti God agenda and that if we don't we are allowing it to grow into something like Nazi German;y.

The threat is still there although Trump has made great tstrides in his first six months toward undoing a lot of it.  Al it would take is the Left to win back power and the whole thing could be reversed in a flash.

My mixed reacton was larhgely a reaction to his holding up Chuck Colson as a good example of somehowone who faced down the evil culture, and while I won't argue with that part of the message I did notice that he never objected to Colson's willingness to join with Catholicism in these efforts, and not just as a poltiical alliance but on the ground that we share a Chricstian message, which we do not.    Metaxas also refferred to the Lutheran influence in Germany as having become eweakneed by Hitler's time while never once mentioning that Luther was combating the Roman Church, that it was the Roman Church that was the grave threat to civilization at one time.  As I listened to Metaxas it seemed one could get the impression that Luther was battling not Romanism but merely a tyrannical secular culture.  

I've noticeds this sort of thing before.  Many a good Christian exhortation may be given in a way that tacitrly incloudes the Romanan Church as if it were just another Christian denomination, which to my mind rwastes the whole message.  Id you EW Qeninf Finar qolcwa auewly you's mKW MOEW PEOFEWAAICW YID YOU SISN'R Hcw qolcwa on youe aisw.  Oe id you sis'r dIL RO EWXOFNIW RHr qomw on youe aisw rhR YOU ew XXWPRINF AO VLIRHWLY ew rhw wnwmy A MUXH OE MOEW RHn rhw rEFWR YOU ew SSEWAAINF r rhw mopmwnr.  

I suspect Metaxas dopesn't see the Catholic Roman church as the enemey.  I couldn't be wrong but there is no hint of it in many places where it should have been expressed in his book.  To my mind that wrecked the whole message.    Hew even critizized John MacArthur for failing to join with Colson in the Manhattan Declaaration, but MacArthur would have refused because of Colson's embracing of Romanism as sharing the Christian gospel, not because he opposes a political alliance.     

I  was focused for some weeks on the Cration Evolution debate and the sciebntific positions of Creationism, but suddenly I realized that God doesn't want me there, he wasnts  me here.  Romanism is a real enemy and few recognize it any more and much as I would like to just let it alone for a long time I don't think God wants me to do that.  I am certainly no great scholar of these things bnut  He has given me enoughn of an understandihg and sense of His calling to realize I've got to use whatever little I have to  talk about it and with more sgfdnvgh ghan usual.

And He's been leading me threre lately.

Loose End about the creatiiionist podcast

Listening back with Read  Aloud I'm reminded that I did hope the creationist podcast guys would  be open to my thoughts but now I'm aware that they are just too busy with their own work and I'm sorry I bothered them.  It's embarrassing that I wrote them so much bu I won't tdo it again.  Anyway it's juist aother case where I let my imagination get ahead of me, hoping for some help with things that I should know by now the Lord for whatever reason isn'g goint to give me.    He'll guide me though, I just have to bridle my manicky statemenes of mind and let Him.

Another Conglomerate of a Post

 After such a long breeak it's hard to get back to the blog.   I was hoping to get ore involved in the creationism issues but even havibn g a very inspiring poidcast to listen to isn't the  connection I think I need with the people involved in those issues.  The Lord seems to encourage this line of thought but I don't know what to do with it yet.  Just keep praying about it of course.

Haven't had much to say about the political scene lately but now it looks like we might be getting involved in the war with Israel against Iran, judging by Trump's warning to people to get out of Tehran earlier this evening.   As he keeps saying it's too bad Iran wouldn't come to the table and work out a deal but they wouldn't.  Israel Hhas done a ot toward defanging their nuclear capabiitya which is the opbjection ive of the US as well as Isreal, but there's apparently more to do.  The whole thing is very nervous making but then Iran's having the bomb is the most nervous making of all so it's clear it had to come to this.  Iran with a nuclear bomgb capability is unthinkable.\\

Then the usual crazy stuff with the proprotests in California against Trump for doing his job of calling in the national guard to protect federal property.  Calling him a King?  That's laughable.  But their whole mindset is almost as scary as Iran's havin gthe bomb.

Back to the creationism podcast for a moment.  The latest show aired early on Monday, part two of a three part series they are doing on the aftermath of the Flood, thre first one being about the effets of the tectonic violence durin gthe Flood, which brought about the volcanoes and earthqyakes we still experience, this second one beingh about the animals on the ark and their relation to the Created Kids.  And how we got our modern species from those.  

I often find myself disagreeing with thos or that jtheory of the creationists and of course the thouyght immediately follows Who am I to have a disagreement with scientiests anyway?  Well, I'm nobody but I do and oh well.    Anyway, the mai didea about the tectonic movement that is apparently current with tin Creaitonism ingeneral is that it began at the beginning of the Flood, in fact brought it about.  As I poindered that idea it just seemed wrong tooo me.  Too much acitvitiy for the laying down of the strata to have survived as well as they did during the fllod, there being clear signs that it all survived pretty much instanct as the Geological Column, and that it was only after the Flood that the disturbances occured that broke it up, twisted it and so on.  That is clear on the cross section of the Greand Staircase area I like so much.  

jOn the subject of the Created Kinds I've had problems there too and i that case I haven't given it anywhere near the thought I've given to the strata but I did spend some time on it.  It seems to me the Creationists find too many Kinds.  Where I find all BIrds to be a Kind, though I do have some doubts there I still need to unravel, they find many.  In this episode they focused on the camel and the fact that it can hybridize with the llama, which was an interesting piece of infofmration since I haven't been up on those animals.  If animals can hyridize, that is, have offspirring together, that should mean they belong to the same Kind.  Makes sense.  But then they find that it was a camel that was taken onto the ark, not a camellama as it were, and that leads them to think there was in fact be two separate kinds here, camel and llama.  ThAT'S BECAUSE YOU COULD GET A CAMEL AND A LLAMA FROM A CAMELLAMA AFTER THE ARK LANDED, BUT IF THE TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS WERE ON THE ARK THAT CHANGES THE PICTURE OF WHAT THE ORIGINAL kIND WAS.  

i THINK i GOT THAT RIGHT BUT i MAY HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT AGAIN TO BE SURE.    mY ANSSEER WOULD BE THAT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT nOAH TOOK A NUMBER OF SPECIES OF SOE kINDS ONTO THE ARK, ALL MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL kIND BUT SO DIFFERENTIATED OVER THE PREVIOUS FIFTEEN HUNDRED YEARS THAT THEY HAD SHARPLY EOUGH CHARACTEREA  DEFINED CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR OWN TO WARRANT BEING TREATED AS KINDS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT.   tHE DOVE AND THE RAVEN i WULD SAY MUST HAVE COME FROM THE ORIGINAL bIRD kIND BUT THEY WERE BOTH REPRESENTED ON THE ARK.   iu THINK THAT'S WHAT WAS THE CASE WITH THE CAMEL AND THE ALLLAMA.  aND PROBABLY OTHERSMK, THOUGH i'M NOT UP TO GUESSING WHICH AT THE MOMENT.

Oh drat I just notice the caps lock light was on, I have no idea HOW LONG.  oH, SORRY.  Oh there ist hgoes again.  Wow I keep hittin git.  

Anyway.  In other news, I'm listening again to ndrew Muray's Divine Healing.  I never thoughts I could be persuaded of that but the more I listen the more convinced I am that the Lord would heal us as a part of our redemption if we believed.  Belif is always the requriement.  Hard to ddrum up believe of course.  

Very messy post I'm afraid.  I try tso hard to disciplune my fingers but they seem to have their own ideas about what they want to type.  

Catching up after my long break

 Thrtee months away, wow.  Computer crash followed by a couple weeks before deciding on getting a new one, which of course I was unable to navigate due to my macular degeneration.  Then, having nobody to help with that for quite a while , after some conversations back and forth with freinds and family Igot an Alexa device and she's been a great help.   She gives me the definition sof words as well as the time and date and temperatio  inside and outside, plays me aubdible books and podcasts.  I don't remember how it happened but through alexa I discovered the podcast "Let's Talk Creation" with Paul Garner and TOdd Wood, where the two of them discussion mostly the science of creationism but also theological matters that underlie Creationism.    I don't know how I failed to discover them earlier but I think it's probably a good thinkhgthat I didn't because I'm a binge listener to things I like and this way I had a great backlog of shows to listen to.  Having to wait the two weeks between shows would have driven me crazier than I am alreaydy.  

That pocast has been an enornouis blessing for me.  They discuss all the issues I've spent years off andon thinking about, as well as educating me in the general direction of Creationist science.   I never could make use of the creationist websites, too hard to find rthings I wanted to learn about, and a lot of it is way to technical for me.  Now and then Todd and Paul have a program tjat is way too much jargon but for the most part they avoid that and manage to keep thihngs to a level that is both interesting and accessible to a nonscientist.  

Just discovering people who can talk on this leel revives all my interest in my own theories and thoughts about the issues and I'm now way too eager to find a way to try to get them to read my stuff.  I've already sent them too much in a couople of emails and am feeling rather guilty about that.   I can't stop writing it out I suppose but I don't hae to send it.  I hope they havn'et been too mput off and might be interested enough to read some of it.   Of course I think I'e found the wa to topple evolution altogheter, but they call that Magic Bullet thinking and say it isn't going to happenen.  That hasn'[t tdeterred me but I'm not tgoint to try it out on them.  Not het anyway.  Maybe not ever I suppose.  But I'vew also worked out a lot of my own creationist scenarios athat I would love for professionsals to take seriously.  No guarntees there either of course but I haven't had anyone to  talk to at all about anyh of the stuff I've done in this area.  Just the evolutionists at EvC forum who are all greared to finding out any way they can to shoot me down and that gets pretty tiresssome, although oever the years of participating on that forum I have learned a lot from them.  Or been inspired to learn a lot anyway.

Finallyh a granson graduated from high school and the family came for a visit.  TotBoth my sadaughter and son in law are very helpful with the coputer problewm so I can now return to my blog and to YouTube and even, surprise of all surprises, write an email.  I need my daughter's help.  I can type the thing blind but I need her to edit it and put in the title and recipient's address and she's able to do that from her home a state away.  Working out find so far.  I am having a probl;em with the read aloud stuff.  It's too different from the old computer so I just hjaven't taken the time to try toget get used to it.  

When IU was so rudely interrupted three months ago by the computer crash I'd just prognosticated that I thought the current Pope could survive his illness and even go on tto be the End TImes Antichrist.  He kept drecovering and even went home so I thought maybe my guess wowas going to come true.  But it didn't, he died and now we have a new candidate for the End Times Antichrist.  And of course I'll be watching him too.  Looking for that signing of a covenant with Isareal.  Or confirmation of a covenant as the book of Daniel has it.  \\The usual hateful things being  

done by the Leftist over the last few months, hateful, evil, insane, antiConstitutional, built on twisted lies.  If I spentd too much time thinking about it my health seems to suffer from it somehow.  Hard to believew the craziness that's going on, destrubctive evil violent craziness.  That they blame on their opponenets.  

But the Creationist podcast lifts my spirits and gives me something more constructive to think about.  Also listening to some inspiring uaaudio books.

As usual I feel the mistakes rolling out from m fingertopips.  How depressing.  But I'll stop now.

SHould add the email my daughter is manageing for me:  faithswindow@mail.com

Hopwe I got that right.  I'm happy to be back.  I don't suppose there are many to  notice as usual but I'm happy to be back anyway.

The Upside down crowd still rage and are still dangerous

 watching protests against Trump and Musk's efforts to identify and cut down on waste,k fraud and abuse of tazpayer money.  They say it's terrifying what these men are doing.  They emphasize that Musk is not elected.  They say they are doing something unconssitutional, that they are taking away American freedoms and some say stealing our money.  They see threat to our grandchildren to destroy our democracy, they want Congress to act to curtail this misuse of power.  

THIS is what is realling terrifying.  THIS is really the threat to democracy, this craziness, this absolutely insane misunderstanding about what Trump and Musk are doing which is completely conssituional and very much needed to KEEP our democracy functioning, and without which the country will be destroyed.   They have no idea whatever thart what they are doing , Trump and Musk, is done by all Presidencts and that they all use UNelected people to do the work, tat's how the work gets done.  This is standard perfectly consissituional procedure and they are the ignorant ones who are threatening the nation.   Threatienint the future for their grandchildren.  THEY are the destroyers.  Flying our American flag upside down.    THIS is the terrifying threat, ad it is a threat against the first real sane commonsensical effor tto save the nation in decades.    

Is it a matter of not hearing the truth?  Being deceived by the media?  Or just being so incdoctrinated by leftist ideology they can't think tstright at all.     THEY are the threat.  Wow, this is the horroro.  I can only hope it's not a big movementg but I know they've got big money behind them.   

Pray pray pray for truth and reality and reasonableness and righteousness to win.  Pray pray pray.  Because ther eare way too many people who are dangerously misled.   Pray pray pray.    I'm glad we have Trump now but  the forces of darkness that have been working against him for years are still at it.

A Conference on Preserving Western Civilization

As usual I don't know if I captured theURL or not but I hope so, and if I did it's only going to be in the mdidle of one of many talks or at least I suppose that is whre it will be.  This is a convference I just heard, well I heard three speakers at it and th eonly one I'm familiar with is Douglas Murray, but all three are excellent all on the topic of the greatness of Western civilicszation and why we need to preserve it.  I don't know what the conference is called or when it was held.  It's in London though, that much I know and everybody so far has a British accent.  I love these talks and hope there are many more to listen to.    And I hope the URL bewlow goes somewhere during that ocnference.

ebuilding Civilisation: Douglas Murray’s Bold Vision for the Future [ARC 2025]

After I posted the above I heard more and found out that the conference is called ARC but I don't know what the letters stand for.  I also found out it was put together by Jordan Peterson and he eventually speaks too.    But I just heard this great talk by someone, I dn't kbow who he was, who talked about the essential role of Christianity in EWestern CivilixZation and the need to revcover it.  Yes yes yes and I hope this following URL works:

83-year-old Philosopher’s message to our generation and time | Os Guinness - YouTube

I'm not much of a fan of Jordan Peterson's Jungian approach to everything, to say the least, I mean I really don't like it at all and think he goes way off the raisls when he applies it to the bible in particular, so I'm not recommending his talk.  I like many things he says in general, I like his basic cultural mindset and political mindset and I guess I have to say I think his heart is in theright place about such important things.  But he's way off base when he tries to apply psycbhologyc to the Bible.

The Zelensky Trump Qar of @ords

Jmonday March 3 addition:  I hear many saying that what Zelensky said about our having a "nnice Ocean" between us and our enemies was particularly offensive because it disrespects the great sacrifices we've made to help our European allies in the past, but I dn't think that's at all what he meant.  I think over and over he ws emhasizing his aniety about security, which he shouldn't have been doing in that context, OK, but the point is that all hea menat was that he has this enemy on his border while we have a whle ocean between ourselves and our enemies wo that our situation is different psychologically, to explain his constant carrying on about security.    I thinkk he was misunderstood.  I think everything he said was about how he needs security and that's what matters to him most.  Should have been the theme behind closed doors and answered there I suppose, and he was wrong to bring it up as he did in front of the cameras, but nevertheleeess I dn't think it was ghte kind of offense , at least not the remark about the ocean, that it was taken to be by some.

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I know there are layers of history here, betrayals, historicla events that were never resolved, motivational differences and so on andsoso forther, but after all the smoke cleared today I kept having the impresseion that Zlensky was saying the same thing over and over, thta he was concerned bout having security against Russia, tht he has this strong enemy on his border that is always attcking or threateneing attack, taking land, killing people, and that's what he needs help with most.  And he seemed to treat the deal being offered as less important to him, even the idea of peace itself, because he couldn't see any guarantees that the country could be protected from russia.    

he was rude and gauche and offensive about many things he said, including the way he was dresed for such an occasion, certainly not somebody used to behaving properly in such a context, which is maybe the most usurprising things about the whole encounter.   But I ended up thinking he's just gauche and couldn't get his concern across about how security above all is what matters to him.   It seemed to me he said it in many different ways, manyh of them objectionable because dismissive of what trump was trying to do, but at the same time he kept saying God bless and I think that was his way of trying to mitigate the offense and aim for some sense of displomacy.    Appreciation, gratititude, all that was felt to be missing by Trump and Vance.    

The deal sounds like a very good one for both Ukraine an America but somehow he doesn't sound like he thinks so, maybe because he doesn't picture the seucirty inherent in having a lot of MAericans in the country mining for minerals which would be a security oto a great extent in itself.  Trump a coupole of times said he couldn't promise seucirty because negotiations aren't even really underway yet.   

Anyw, in the end I think thre was at least a top layer of frustration at not being able to get his main concenr across that fueled the weird war of words from Zelensky's side.    

The deal does sound like a good one.  I hope he can come to his senses and make up with rump so it can go through.

Miscommunication is a problem for all of us human beings, and Trump himself gets misunderstood more than most maybe because of his style.  I just listened to a talk by Victor Davis Hanson about how he was misunderstood when he said Zelensky started the war, which he later said he didn't mean the way it was heard, nand claling Zelensky a dictartor.  I tryied to capture the URL to the talk abut  I have a feeling it won't work.  I'll try to paste it anyway.

Victor Davis Hanson: Volodymyr Zelenskyy is No Winston Churchill

A Rabbi Enounters Jesus Christ in a Near Death Experience; and other motley topics

https://watchpraystand.blogspot.com/2025/02/pope-watch-update.html#:~:text=Christian%2

I hope that URL works.  I hope it IS a URL for starters.   It's supposed to be the address of a video I just watched about a rabbi who had a near death experience during a heart attack and encountered Jesus.  Most NDEs hit me as phony in some way or another, something demons could invent, and I do think most of them are, but this one hit me as authentic in every detail.  The biblical teaching is right on and that's the most important part of it but the escenes themselve s were also convincing, and Jesus Himself convincing, which is really saying somethoing b because most of the attempts to present Jesus or God in an NDE are horrifically phony.  this one is real  and tghe whole storey is very convincing.   His name is Rabbi As  Rabbi Aaeon   Aaron something, I didn't get the whole name.   And I could barely type it as you can see.   

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This post has beomce a motley collection of things.  The vido I mention aove I'm posting here on Thursday morning.  Since it is about this rabbi's calling to preach Christ to his people I wanted to say something about what I feel my own dacalling to be.  

Back when I started this blog there were a few subjects I knew I wanted to post about, starting with the head covering for women I'd studied.   I think that was a calling from God, not the deramatic direct kind of  calling the rabbi had but still a calling, something I feel I was led to by God and have an obligation to try to use for the sake of the Church.  Leaving it up to God to do that since all I can do is write about it here and that's not a very big outlet to say the least.   

Then I wanted to write about the 

creation versis evolution debate which I'd been moworking on for a long time and continued to work on even recently as different ways of saying it have occurred to me.  I now have a blog for the head covering and a blog for the evolution debate.  That too is a calling, to try to present arguments for the creation against evolution.

I've never wquite felt it was a calling to present the arguments for the  false Bible versiosn in quite the same way, because I never got into it beyond a pretty superficial level.  But in its own way I could call it a calling.  I do think it's an important subject and it's too back the phony Bible versions that come down from Westcot and Hort's  misguided work  should be rejected by the Church.

As I was putting the blogs together I kept turning up videos about the Antichrist and finally had to realize thta that too was something I ws to write about.  I'd already recognized that the Pope is the Antichrist so I got into a website that made that argument, the Berean Beacon by a former Cathoolic priest and I've already forgotten his name.  Richard Bennett?   I hope that's right.  He had his own encounter with the truth that caused him to see that the Roman Chruch was teaching false doctrine.  Over and over he emphasizes how the Pope is the Antichrist.  As did the Protestant Reformers.  So that became another calling of mine and I do think it is a calling, pto keep that identify of the Pope in view on my blog.    the end times prophetic ministries don't see him as the Antichrist so I'm pushing an unfamiliar point of view here.

When Pope Francis was elected there were signs in the date and the time and other things that made him stand out as something special in the run of Popes.  It isn't just that we've been feeling we are in the end times that makes him a candidate for the final Antichrist, all popes being antichrist under the number  six six six adas I've explained many times, but those portents.  Ever since he was elected I've thought of him as the final Antichrist in spite of the fact that his age would seem to be a strong argument against that role.  We are waiting and waiting and watiing for the Raputre and the longer we wait the older Pope Francis beomces and the less likely a candiddate for such a big role before Jesus comes back.  But those portents , the number thirteen and all that, just keep pointing to him so no matter how hard it gets to hold on to him I have to hold on to him until something edefinitively show s me that I'm wrong.   When he got sick recently, very seriously sick, that just about took away all hope, if hope is the word for the figure of the antichrist, odd idea I know, but as I said I do take this as a calling, odd though it may be, to identify this Pope as the Antichrist.  Not that I'm alone but I know I'm one of very few.  I don't know why it matters to identify the Antichrist before the end times get underway except that it is clearly the truth about the matter and that's reason enough, but for some reason I seem to have that job.   

He hsn't died or stepped down though eighter could happen any time.  All I can do is wati and see if I've been misled or been hearing God on this subject.  

Just before he got sik it seemed that God had given me a better reaon to think he is really the last Antichrist, the one who will ruel the world at the end, atnd that was the recogniziont that next year is the thirtteenth anniversay or his election.  It's just that the thirteens are so promintent in my aawareness of him that the discovery of a cluster of them coming in just a year does seem to pin things down pretty definitevely.  Although he is very sick he is recoving a bit every dy and although he is very old people are living into their nineties these days so I'm taking that anniversary next year as a prediction that something will happen on that date to elevte him to the role I've been expecting him to occupy.  

Again, wait and see.  there is nothing to do but wait and see.\\

actually, UI supposed one benefit of pointing out the identity of the Pope as the Antichrist could be to free some Catholics from their false releiciong so that they could be saved before the Tribulation comes upon them.

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wEDNESDAY EARLY MORNING UPDATE:  i JUST HAVE TO REPEAT THIS CRAZY ADD ANOTHER TIME BECAUSE IT IS SO CRAZY AND TO MY MIND STANDS FOR ALL THE CR

AZINESS ON THE LEFT THAT IS SO DANGEROUS AND DUG IN THAT FOR ALL OUR GREEAT SUCCESS AT OPPOSING IT THANKS TO tRUMP i FEEL A SORT OF DESPAIR ABOUT IT.   tHAT'S THIS GUY WHO SAYS THAT tRUMP IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN OUR DEMOCRACY S

O THAT HIS BILLIONAIRE FREIDNS CAN STEAL FROM US.  i'VE JUST NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO INANELY PARANOID AS THAT.  i DON'T KNOW NOHOW ANYONE COULD LET HIMSELF THINK SUCH A THING.

   iT FEELS STUPD JUST TO HINK OF TRYING TO ANSWER IT BECUSE IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY CRAzY IT WOULD CRAZY TO SAY HOW IT'S CRAZY.    wHAT, HE'S TRYING TO SHUT DOWN OUR DEMOCRACY BY BRINGING BACK COMMON SENSE TO THE NATION?  bY TRYING TO IDENTIFY WAYS WE CAN WASTE LESS MONEY?  wHAT?  aND SOMEHOW BY SHUTTING DOWN OUR DEMOCRACY, WEIRD IDEA THOUGH THAT IS, CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW HE THINKS THAT'S BEING ACCOMLISHED, THAT SOMEHOW GIVES BILLIONAIRSES A WAY TO STEAL FROM US?    aND OF COURSE IT IMPLIES THAT THEY HAVE ANY INTEREST IN STEALING FROM US?  mUSK HAS SOMETHING LIKE  HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS OF HIS WON, YOU'D THINK THAT ANYONE THAT RICH COULD BE TRUSTED OVER SOMEONE WHO HAS LITTLE MONEY TO BE less INTERESTED IN STEALING FROM ANYUONE FOR PETE'S SAKE.  iT'S THE POOR PEOPLE WHO WOULD WANT TO STEAL NOT THE RICH PEOPLE.  wHAT ON EARTH GOES THROUGH THE HEAD OF SUCH A PERSON AS THIS ?     hOW DID THE lEFT GET THIS CRAZY?bESIDES, IF HE LISTENED TO THEM FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME AND HE HAS ANY ABILITY AT ALL TO TELL WHENE SOMEONE IS BEING SINCERE VERYS A CON MAN, THOUGH OF COURSE MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE THAT ABILITY BUT ANYWAY, YOU COULD KNOW IMMEDIATELY THAT BOTH TRUMP AND mUSK ARE ONLY IN IT FOR WHAT THEY THINK THEY CAN DO TO HELP THE COUNTRY.  nEIGHTER IS TAKING A SALARY FOR THEIR WORK, IT IS ALL BEING DONE OUT OF PATRIOTIC LOVE.   aND i THINK THAT IS OBVIOUS.  THAT DOENS'T MEAN THEY ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING RIGH, IT JUST MEANS THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND IF THEY MAKE MISTAKES THEY WOULD BE MORE THAN EAGER TO DO WHAT THEY CAN TO CORRECT THEM.  i THINK THAT IS OVVIOUS.

i CAN SEE BLURRILY SOME OF THE PICTURES THAT COME UP ON THE NEWS REPORTS ABOUT HIM AND IT'S JUST APPALLING HOW THE WHOLE CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP LOOKS SO CLEARLY NONcHRSITIAN.  iT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND HOW EVEN OUTSIDERS WHO WOULD KNOW SOMETHING BOUT cHRISTIANITY COULD THINK OF ALL THT WEIRD TSTUFF AS HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH CHRIST.  cATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW BETTER TOO BUT THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND IT'S HARDER FOR THEM TO SEE THROUGH IT.  tHE LONG ROBES, THE JEWLERY THAT IS VERY EXPENSIVE, IN THE CROSSES WORN BY SOME OF THEM, THE SKULL CAP TO WHICH VIOLATES fIRST cORINTHIANS ELEVEN, MEN NOT TO COVER THEIR HEARDS, AND THE BISHOP'S MITRE, THAT WEIRD POINTY HAT THAT IS ACTUALLY A LEGACY OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF THE FISH GOD dAGON S REVEALED BY aNEXANDER hSLOP IN HIS BOOK tHE TWO bABYLONS.   iT'S ALL SO TOTALLY non cHRISTIAN AND YET IT'S ACCEPTED BY SO MANY AS the MAIN CHRISTIAN BODY.  gROAN.

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Pope Watch Update, and a Review of Catholic Doctrine Which Deprives catholics of Salvation

wEDNESDAY:  hE'S HNGING IN THERE.  i DON'T WANT TO GET COCKY AND i'M TRYING NOT TO BECAUSE OF COURSE i CAN'T KNOW FOR SURE, BUT i AM PRETTY SUCH NEVERTHELESS THAT THIS COMES FROM gOD AND THAT THIS POPE IS TO BE THE FINAL aNTICHRIST DESPITE ALL THE REASONS TO THINK ON NORMAL CONSIDERATIONS THAT HE COULDN'T BE, HIS AGE AND SIGNESS OF COURSE.   IF THIS COMES FROM GOD AS i'VE GFELT IT DOES THEN HE'S GOING TO RECOVER AND GO ON TO A FEW MORE HEUEARS OF BEING pOPE AND RISING TO THE TOP OF THE GLOBAL GOVERNMENT.   wHEN GOD SHOWED ME, AND YES i DO BELIEVE GOD SHOWED ME THIS, THAT NEXT YEAR IS THE THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECRTION THAT SEEMED TO MY MIND TO CONFIRM HIS IDENTITY AS THIS LAST aNTICRHIST.  iT GIVES A REASONABLE ENOUGH TIME PERIOD FOR IT TO HAPPEN IN.  hE'LL BE EITHERY NINE NEXT YEAR AND DESPITE HIS SICKNESS HE COULD WELL RECOVER IN STREENGTH AND GO ON INTO HIS NINETIES AS MANY DO THESE DAYS.  wE HAVE LL KINDS OF LONGEVITY SUPPLEMTNS AND AIDS TO HELP HIM TOUT TOO, BUT GOD hIMSELF IS ENOUGH ANYWAY.  i BELIVE IT COMES FROM gOD SO i BELIVE IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.  IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN i'M WRONG ABOUT gOD'S MESSAGE TO ME AND THAT WOULD BE A TERRTIBLE BLOW.

Late Monday Update:  Slight improvements reported.

Monday morning, two a.m.   After his worsening bout y\on Saturday he's been stabilized and resting.  but as long as he's alive I'm holding to my belief tthat he is to be the end times Antichrist.  If he dies or steps down then I'll be wrong and that's the end of that, but as long as he's alive and still Pope he's mycandidate for that role in the Grand Finale of Planet Earth before teh Lord Jesus resturns.  

Many Christians feel that we are definitely living in the end times and that the very End is very close, but the end time prophecy ministries who do believe there is to be a final Antichrist who rules the world before the return of Christ, dn't believe tght he is to be a Pope.  They believe that he is to be a political figure who is not now known but will be revealed as the world ruler at tome time after the Rapture of the Church.   I am among the very frew who believe that global ruler will be a Pope.  And for all I know I'm among even fewer who believe that that final ruler will be this particular Pope Francis.

The Protestant Reformers, Luther in particular, identified the Pope as the Antichrist after studying the Bible and experiencing rebuggs from the Pope of his day when he tried to bring about needed reforms in the catholic Church.  But the Reformers weren't the first to identify the Pope, or the papacy itself, as the Antichrist, many dissident Christians most of them outside the Catholic or Roman Church had identified him as Antichrist .  Chris Pinto has a study on this fact at his website Adullam Films.  

then more recently somebody, I don't know who, discovered that a major title of the Pope in Latin has Roman Numberals in it that add up to the number 666.  This is the number rthat idenfies the Antichrist in Revelation Thirteen.   The title in English is Vicar of Christ, which all by iself is a name for the Antichrsit, since it means substitute for Christ, or in the place of Christ and that's Antichrist.  The Latin term is Vicarivus Filii Dei, Substitute for the Son of God, and if you add up the Roman numerals you will get 666.  There simply cannot be a more perfect expresion of this number anywhere else.  Roman numerals in a Latin term thnat actually means Antichrist?  No way is there boigoing to be any mor perfect identifier than this.

That identifies all Popes, the papcy itself, and there are many who refuse to believe that the Pope is the Nantichrist nevertheless.  Or at least on the basis of the Reformer's biblical account sincew the number came much later.  A W Pink was one who wrote that the Antichrist couldn't be a Pope because the term refers to a single human being and not a system like the papcy.  He might be convinced if he saw the way the infamous number can be derived from the title of the Pope.

Then when this current Poppe, Francis, was elected in  2014 I learned from some source or other that the election occurred on the thirteenth day of the third month of that thirteenth year which seems to me to be a pretty portentous thing.  God does use symbols and signs to communicate momentous events to us so to my mind this fits right into that pattern.   Since we've been feeling that we are in the last days for some time now it wuld make sense thta this particular Pope could be the very last and the one to become the Ancirchrist scripture tells us is to be wolrld ruler at the very end.   But Francis is quite old and the older he got the less likely it seemd that he could be the one i in sp[ite of all these portents and signs.  There is also the seagull that perched on the chimney werhere the white smoke rose to announce the election of the Pope and since that bird is an unclean bird that represents ungodliness it seems to fit right in with other signs of this Pope's being the Antichrist.  

but as he's been getting older and older and then recently got very sigk this idea has seemed to become less and less likely.  hard to hold onto.   He had bronchitis tht turnsed into double pneumonia, which on saturday worsened and his condiion was called critical at tht point.  Today he is stable again but he's eighty eight and this is not a isckness such an old man could easily survive.    

Nevertheless the signs and portents to my mind are a sign from God that he must be the one scripture says will reign globallyh at the end.  I hold onto that in spite of everything.  If he dies or steps down, bwell so much for my ability to read God's mind, but I still believe it so far.  Wait and see.

If the Pre tribulation end times scenario which is the most popular one turns out to be right, although it's wrong as far as its identifiecation of the Antichrist goes in my opinion anyway, but otherwise if it's right then the Church, true Christ an beliveers will be Rapturesd before the Antichrist comes to power, that is, we'll be lifted off the earth to join the Lord in heaven, after which a seven year period of great suffering on earth is to follow, worsening dramatically at the midpoint ofthe seven years when the Antichrist is expected to break a covenant made with Israel at the start oftof the Tribulation period.   the idea is tht many who start out as nonChristians will become Christian believers during this period though through a great deal of suffering and many martyrdoms.   Christians before all this happens won't be around to witness it all.

And I have to admit that the idea of two separate groups of believers in Christ has always made me suspicious of the Pre Tribulation system, it just doens't makese sense to me.  but I don't have a better system in mind so I accept most of the system for now.    there are some good arguments for it.  

It's sad to me to see all the people praying for Pope Francis with their rosary beads chanting the Halil Mary or Lord's prayer for whatever they are doing.  that is not prayer, it's just pagan superstittion.  So many poor duped Catholics.  It is possible for a catholic to be saved if Christ and Christ alone is theirobject of worship, if they don't give any credence at all to Mary or the so called Saints, but that's a lot to ask of a Catholic.  They grow up with pagan superstitiouns agaloere which isn many cases overshadow Christ.  Mary easily overshadows Him and that's a huge blasphemy.  Just aksing her to inctgercede for them is a blasphemy.  She's a mere human being who can't hear them anyway.  Christ is God and He hears prayers.  And He is our Intercessor, not Mary.   The rosary comes from pagan religion too.  There is nothing Christian about it.  I had a Buddhist friend yuears ago who worse a rosary around her forearm and counted out some kind of Buddhist message on it.  Repetititve prayers are not prayer anyway and reciting the rosary is jut a sor of chanting of repetitive worseds.   Holy water, incense, lighting candles, sign of the crsoss, the rosary, repetitive so called prayers, relics and I don't know what all else are pagan trappings that come down from the religions of ancient Rome and have nothing whatever to do with Christ or Christianity.    Salvation is through Christ anolone, his daeth on the cross in our place, to pay our sin debt to the Moral Law that only He could pay.   that is salvation and nothing else.   The Catholics are sadly deceived.

Oh, and Purgatory.  Another Catholic tradition that is absolutely not Christian and in fact is more directly antiChristian than othres.  Becuase it implies that good works have something to do with salvation which they do not.  It is clear and stated many times by Paul in the new testament that works do not save us, that we are saved entirely by faith in Christ through grace, faith in His death on the cross which pays for our sins against God.   purpoagatory implies that His savlation isn't enough to save us completely that we still need to atone for some of our sins ourselves before we can be saved.  This is a perfect example of catholic doctrine that deprives Catholics of salvation .  Purely diabolical, made up by the devil himself.  there is no purgatory , there is only Hell if you are not saved.  Christ's death for us is perfect salvation if we put all our trust in Him.  

Anyway I remain committed to the prediction that this Pope is to be the Pope of the lst days who ascendeds to the seat of the ruler of the world known as the Antichrist at the very end.   He may be very eold and very sick but I just think the signs are clear tht he has to be the one.   if I'm wrong it will be very disappointing to me to say the least but so far he's alive and he's still Pope and I'm still committed to this prediction.

When I found out that next year March third is the thirteenth anniversay of Pope Francis' elsection to the papcy I considered it a guildance from the Lord and mused that perhaps that is to be the date of his revelation as the world ruler.  Perhaps that is the date when he will confirm the covenant with Israel that is prophesided in the booki of Daniel.  All those thirteens can't just be soincidence.   

SATURDAY UPDATE

 He's nSATURDAY UPDATEow in critical condition, not at all a hopeful sign for recovery.  I still hold to my prediction becuase it's just so full of meaningful portents it's hard to give it up, but as I kept saying in my post on the subject below, Keeping an Eye on the Sick Pope, I could be wrong.

then I'd hav to look for the next Pople to have great portents if I'm right at all about being the final world ruler Antichrist of the Book of Revelation.

Certainly hard to give up on Francis though, with all those thirteens piling up on the day he was elected to the office, and his general character being opposed to a lot of Catholic moral tradition.  So.  Wait and see.  It's up to God.

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I mistakenly wrote March 3 when it should hve been March 13 for next year's thirteenth anniversay of the election of Pope Francis.

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I think I probably mistyped the Latin title of the Pope.   I'll try again: 

VICARIVS FILII DEI

VICARIFS