If we lose, kit's God's judgment

 Yes it's Islam, yes it's Marxism, but those are really jkust God's instruments of judgment against us.  Liberalism in a way, the way it has been for a deade or so now, is God's judgmetn against us.  they are instruments of destruction, they will bring down the country, which is why conservativies are pushig hard for us to defeat them at the polls.  

But as usual it is forgotten that none of those destrutive fores would have the power they hae if God were on our side, and nobody is oing anywaythijg about the real reasons we will lose if we lose, the reasons God is judgming us.  We may win, I hope we will, but if we do it will be God's mercy an I pray for that.

But above ll we should be praying for foriveness of our violations of God's law, we shoudl conffess the sibs for which we are gbing judgmeed.  If we can't do aything about them at least we can confess them to god, acknowledge them as Daniel did in Daniel nine.  Repent verbally on behalf of the nation.  We have tons of sins for which we are gbing judged but those are not getting disuccesed, only the instruments of God's judgment are eing discussed as what we hae to deeat.

Yes abovtionrtion is still a big facator of why we are bing judgmed.  At least it's no longer in the name of the national government but it's still huge and legal and the blood of millions of inocents still ries out to God.  And how about gay marriage>  that is a horrific abomination in God's syeyes but hardly anyone weven mentions it ay more.  How many even recognize it for the enormity it is in God's eyes?   

Divorce, pronography, sexual freedom.  Ecumenical prayer meetings on ehalf of the nation.  That one is probaly huge but nobody ever mentions it.  Would God be happy with Elisha if he'd had a prayer meeting with the priests of Baal ijstead of proving to them that he was the one who followed the true GOd?  If the true God has to share the prayer meeting with the priests of the devil how an He continue to bless us?  But our prayers for the nation, our prayer breakfasts include the leaders of nojChrsitaibn realigions.  I even think including a priest of the Catholic Churh is an afront to God.  

And now they open COngress with prayers fro a whole ragnge of pagan religions and worse.  Unbelieable.  Wica?  Islam?  If God has mercy on ius i spite of all thisois  we should thank Him with our faces to the floor.  

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Palestinians, Tucker Carlson etc

 One  of Tucker Carlson's guests mentioned a book titled From Time Immemorial which goes back ome thirty years or so and which I knew about although I don't recall reading it.  He claimed to have haanswered its claim to show that there were no Ppalestinians in Palestine until quite recently which I too hae elieed for yeats.  If he succeeded in proving th book wrong he didn't say anything to provwe it to me, didn't offer even any information about exatly what he thinks he proved wrong aor any argu ement whaytsoever.    If tere is one I'd certainly like to know it bevuse for those thirty years or so I've believed that there just is no Palestinian people, that those who clai that name now acquirre it recently, maybe by Yasser Arafat's using it for them or something like that.   

I got most of my knowledge about the Israel an Palestinaisn situation from a book titled Philistine by Ramon Bennett which I'd love to read again but it isn't in an audio format.  I think it overlaps with the other book's nformation if I recall orrectly but that's something I'd like to be able to check out.   

Anyway I think the main evidence that there were no Plestinians in that region comes from somethig Mark twain wrote about his fisit to the Holy Land in the late ninetenth century, escribingg it as a desolate wasteland pretty much uninhabited, with no political identity, just a wilderness rgion of the Ottoman empire.   Aince I haven't read Twain's report I don't know how true this piscture it to what he wrote but it's good evidence for whatever was there at the time and it sounds liek there wasn't much.    Some scattered settlements, nomads passing through, some people living in the area of Jerusalem, both Arabs and Jews, just not much there at all.  WHen the Romans wiped out the land of the Jews it just naever came aback after that.  So if there were any "Palestinains" the name would have cincluded the few who wre there when Twain asaw it and that included Jews as well as Arabs.  Perhaps some of them had been there for a very long time but who knows.

Tucker interviewd a man who called himself a Palestinian Christian and I was ery ipressed with him as a Christian, vey committed to the teachings of Christ.  Buy that label Palestinian did bother me.  He claims to be descnding from a long line of Palestinains all the way back to the shephereds reported in the New Testaemtn to whom the angels announed th birth of Christ.   His home uis alittle village near Bethleheme he said.  I don't want to doub tthe truthfulness of a lovely Christian such as he csounds like but I have to think that he picked up that idea from somewere or perhaps a parent or granparent did and he simply beliees it.  For one thing the shephered s of the New Testament would certainly ahve been Jews.  Arabs are not part of the Chrsitain story.   And any family that had lived there that long would hve had thousands of deascendans mosy of who I would think would still live in the same area but I gather the amily is quite small.   I on't know.  But 

The Palestiians according to the books I mentioned, my own sources, todahy's Palestinians, are in reality the descendants of Arabs from all ove the Arab nations surrounding Israel who came to Isareal to find work when the Jews were building up the land.  There would ahve been lots of work and many arabs came.   Then when the Arabs wree about to attack Isarel I don't kow if it was right after they became a state or in sixty seven or which but the Arabs warned the Arabs living hin Israel to leae so they wouldn't be harmed in the attack.  Those who left became the refugeses who became the Palestinians.  Their own nations woujldn't take them back so they remained refugees and have been used as a weapon against Israel evr since.  

If this is not true, if there wreally are some real Palestinians I'd likie to know it..  When tucker was given this general information he said it shouldn't be ahhard to find out since DNA testas are easy to get, and that's true.    the Christan man laims he had his done and it plances him in that rearea.  Maybe he's one of tghe few shose lineage does go back some ways but still, not all the ay back to the time before Jerusalem was destroyed.  The devastation would have driven them out for one thing.    

I hae no reason to change my mind about what I've always elieved, but apparently this false idea about an indigenous Palestinian people isn't qugetting questioned by anyone who beleives that sinde of the story.  Tucker Carlson doesn't seem to harve questioned it.

Then there is this horrific acusation of Izrael as committing atrocities in their retaliation against gaa for the OCtober seveth masacre.  I have no reason to bleieve any of that either but it's all you hear on the mainsream media who lie and lie and lie and lieo and lie and yet het elieved.  One thing comes clear about the tactics of Islam ftom the books I mention above, that they consider it a righteous act to lie for Allah in order to deceive the Infidel, and it's jsucst second nature to them to make up statistics to give some false impression about how many were hurt or killed by Isael and that wort of thing.   So now there's this accusation of Izrael of having murdered babies in some great umbers so that one of Tucker's guests kept calling them "baby killers' although nobopdy said anythig to prove to me there is a shred of truth in any of it.   Oh he said ho it's "well documented" and general ities like that but no mention of any actual evidence.   I know from years  ago how Islamists would ll fake evidence too, even in silly ways like putting a pergetly healthy person on a stretcher and carrying him through the streets mournig over him, then when out of signt dropping the stregher and they all run away.  I saw a lot of that stiuff yhears ago.   And now they just make up statistics of the top of their heads as if they could know any numbers ofat all right awfter an attack occurrreed.  What's ethe evence for "baby killers"   None was given.  A could of examples were ive about IDF soldiers apparently relishing the burning to death of a young woman and osmethig lese but why am I to believe anyu of that sort of thing,  And why doesn't tucker question it/

I've yheard for years that the Israelis go yo great lenths to warn the civilian population when they ater about to attack to give them time to leaew and that they are generally very careful about civilizans, and I have no realson whatever to doubt taht, except fo these accusations on the other sinde that so far have no substance to them.  

SUpposed ly the people have been staring because of Israel too althoughj food has been trucked in quite enough to feed them all many times over, but Hamas steals it.  I've heard that ovr and over and over and yet the mainstream fake news is always about how they are starving because of Israel.

I don't have to believe the Israelis are some kind of angles but the problem is that I now they aren't demons and that's all theoother side has to say about them.  I think compared to Hamas they might as well be considred angels.

Before I end this I just want to add a word about the zionism thing.  The theology I believe gets called Treplacement Theology although it is not a relacement of anything, it is a fulfillment.  I try tnot to get into flaps about it beause I do accept a fair amount of the end times  scenario that the so caled Zionistas teach but sometimes it needs to be said.  I'dve decided the the best way to deal with it is to emphasized that the theology is different from the political leel of the end times picture.

Qwll,  it could get sticky but I could go with arguing for Abraham's having been given the literal earthly land of canann asa justifcation for the Jewish state, which is a different level from the theological again, which ghas Abraham seeing the heavenly Jerusalem behind the earthley givft as the true destination of the calling he has been given and the one he truly wants, the lnd of Canaan merely being an earthly type of the true givft.  But that coud get sticky I know.

Then a couple more things.  Tucker Carlson seems incredibly naive about Islam.  When one of his guesets says someone in the Trup administration wants to deport all Muslims Tucker thinks that is a violation of our American way.  Admitteedly deporting all lMuslims sounds pretty extreme but if you understand what Islam really its I think they should never hav been allowed in the country at all, certainly not allowed bo to build mosques, to practice their religion which is really a murder cult, a totalitarian tyranny, and never allowed to hold office.  I guess it's mway toio late for that  and with all these people thinking there is a real PLSTINAINA CAUSE THAT ITS ok FOR     college studyesnts to protest for there's not much chance such an "outgraeous" idea could get a hearing, and they'd much prefer to throw me in ail I'm  sure.    But Islam is just whay I said, it's enitrely devoted to taking the world for Allah, subjugatin gor killing all dissenters if they can't be converted and so on.  No such "religion" should ever hav been allowed in this country, they are absolutely at odds with everything America stands for, and the West in general.   They AHSHOULSD all be deported.  If those among them who asem to be moderates, and there areq euwuite a few, the ones who really either know very little about their religion or shy away from the hard bits, so in that sense aren't really Muslims at all, then they should be allowed to stay if they give up the religoin.   All osquests should be torn down or given over toe other purposes.    It is the main rason the West is going ounder, that Islam is tolerated, apparently not reogcognizes for the evil ideology it really is.The idea that we should tolerate protests on behalf of Palestinians which are a made up group as I understand it and I really think that is the case, yjeyu are just another term ofr Islam , for totalitarian murderers, is just crazy antiAmericanism.   From the river to the Sea means annihilating all Jews, that's all it has ever meant.  Sure a lot of this revolves around Israel, but it's far from all about ISrael, first the Suasaturday people and then the Sunday peope is another slogan.  Killing for Allah is a righteous acgt for them.  IT's IN THEIR BOOKS.

Yeah I'd like to throw out a lot of grops from the country from time to time, I'd like to throw out the entire Left.  But  I'd certainly like to have a law that keeps the Jesuits aout of the country, and the Pope but it's too late for that too.  That's another totalitarian ideology masqueratding as a religion.   It's got a Christain vneer and some  many catholics are very nice patriotic Christains types of people although they are deprived for salvation by their "church."  

OK I'll stop.

But I'm very very serious about the Muslims.

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No, Not Judeo Christian, just Christian

 Of course we all hear this all the time, that tyhe WWest is founded on Judeo Christian principles, thouh every now and then someone will leave out the Judeo art, because in fact the West was ofounded on Christianity, and the Judeo is not part of the picture at all.  People ignorant of theology , unblievers, atheists, talk about the three Arahamic religions and that forsort of thing, and use the term Judeo Christian beause they have no idea what any of it means in reality.  Likewise they coplain about the history of religious wars with no understanding what4ever of what the causes were and why it matters, even matters to the whole human race who wins i the end.They may be hhonest scoars who have studied the history of the west carefully and yet because they just automicatically dismiss the theological thinking involved in it they miss the reality of it all.

Anyway, no, in a way the very idea of Judeo-Christian is a contadiction in terms.  They have the idea bthat since the Old Testment is the Hebrw sriptures and the New Testament is in Grek and is all about Jesus which the Old Testmeanment as far as they can tell is not (theough i fact it is) ythey hyphenate the two together since christains also make use of th Old Tesyament, Hebrw origins notwithstanding.  To a Christaian it's all one religious testxt the Old Testament pointing to the coming of the Messiah, and the New reporting on His having come and what he accomplished.   The Jews deny that Jesus is their Messiah so they have a religion that is in fact false for that reasaon.  They still practice it as a religion but a Christain shouldn't recognize it as legitimate because it denies the main point of it, to give the historical and theological frame of refernce for god's ffgift of the Messiah who was to come to save the whole world from our sins.

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew because that was the language of the peopl for whom it was written.  By the time of Jesus the world had experienced the sucession of four major empires and the third empire, Greecxe under Alexander the Great, stamped the Mediterranean world with its language.  That is why the New tsygament was written in Greek, it's the language that was common to all the peoples in that region in Jesus' time.  The Jews spoke Grek like everyone else and even had their own originally Hebrew scriptures read to them in their temple andsynagogues in the Greek translation called the Spetuagingt because they could no longer understand the Hebrew.   Later, when the final Bible was compliled in the Eurpropean world the original Hebrw tesxt was used for the Old Testament rather than the Greek Septuagint, but what would we know anyway, since we get the Bible in our own language, which in my case is english, both testaments.

The Jewish trligion simply had no influence on the development of the ewest at all, or whatever could be legimiantely called by that name was so much a part of Christainity that it was no longer Jewish anyway.  The ten MCommandments are given by God to the whole world, not just to the Jews.  They reflect God's univerasal Moral Law.  The Messiah was given tot eh whoel world.  The Jews were chosen to be His people or family ut HJe came for the entire world, to save the entire world, that was how the Jews were to be a blessing to the whole world, ads God promised Abraham would be the result of His faithfulnesess.

Even in Jesus' day the Jewish religion was not what God had originally given, as Jesus kept telling them.  They had substituted their own traditions for much of it.   But then after the fall of Jerusalem and the temple in seventy AD they no longer hadf the blod sacrifies of aniamlsa which had always foreshadowed the sacrifice of th Messiah for sin and had to make up a bloodless form of their own religion, wo that it grew further wayy from its orignal teacings from then on.

That last point I learned recently from listening to some of Tucker Carlson's programs.  I recently found a way to listen to him that made it easy to do so I've been listening to some of them, wanting to get some sense of what all this furor is between him and MaRK lEVIN FOR INSTANCE    .   orry, just noticed the all caps light was one.  Sigh.   I haadn't known much about that uproar except through Levin and really wanted to hear it from the othet sinde to make up my ownmind but until reently didn't have an easy way to do that.  Now I've listented to enough of his programs to have sonem sense of it at least.

The guest he had on to talk about Christain theology was very good at desribing the Zionist versus the Coverant forms of Chrsitain theology, the Zionist form being the one that most stronhgly supports America's support of Israel.

I've generally stayed out of this dispute though no w and then I do have to point out that Chrsitains are the rightful heirs of the Olds TRaraMWEN Ppromises becaus we are followes rs of the Mesisah.  But that doesn't mean I don't think there is some realsson to see the rise of the Jewish state as a prophetical fulfillment of scripture in some other sense than theological.  I don't know how to gput it all together but while I don't see them as God's chosen people as they used to be I don do think in terms of God's having some plan  to deal with them in a focused wY AT THE VERY END, which seems to be very close.  Their reinsatement to the land does seem to me to be a prophetic fulfilmment and it has also seemed to me that God is proecting them and has blessed their being there in many ways.  That doesn't really make me a Zionist if what that means is that they are theologically superior in anyway which is what the anticizionists apaprently make of it all.  Ethnically God seems to have some plan to bring history to a close by finishing some unfished business left over bfrom Old Testament times.

The Book of Revelation seems to me to be , and not just to me, to be a very Old Tesament flavored writing.  It clearly refers back to the images in the book of Daniel that foreshadowed the coming of the Roman Empire, and the coming of the Messiah in the famous presentation of the Seventy Weeks the angel told Daniel would mark the time from the ending of the Babylonian capitvity to the coming of the Messiah, but it is clearly shown that only sixty nine of those weeks, meaning weeks as seven years, that only sixty nine of those were actually fulfillmeed, coming to an end on the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalemn on the donkey to announce His coming as King.  A wek later He was crucified, but that occurred after the sixty nine weeks had come to an end and there had s been o no period since then that could fulfill those seven years, so we understand thjem to be yet future.

Many belive that last week of years is continaed in the seven wseal s of the Book of Revelayion.  After struggling with it for simeome time I'mve come to the conlusions, at least so far, that it encoupasses only the seventh seal, that egins with Revelation Eight.    In the book of Daniel it does seem to apply specifically to the people of Israel as an ethnic group.  The CHursrch doesn't seem to be rpresent as we've been encountering it throughout the rest of the New Tesaemtns although there is some question about that in some people's minds.  There is still the idea that the Church may be reaptured or taken out of th world before the vents of this last seven yar peoplexd and I can see how that makes sense, but I've been uanbel to decide for sure how I think all that is oging to play out.  All I belive to e fairly certain is that the seventieth eweek of daniel is yet to play out and it's going to be a horrific peoperiod in which the Anctichrist rules the world for a breief peierio and the wrath of God comes dowqn in veneance befotre the return of Jesus.

I also disagree with the prevailing idea that the Antichrist is an iunkhown figure who will arise at the last minute, or e revealed at the last minute.  I believe hse is the Antichrsit identified by the Protpestant Reformers, the Pope, and I've made that case many times here.

Although I think Tucker Carlso's guest who presented the theology was ery good, overall I've been dsocvering that Carlso n seems to be off the raisls in some way that makes no sens to me.  Some of his other gueses seem to e raging paranoids about Israel an Carlson doesn't contradict them.  They seem to have some idea that Israel is practically running the world all by itself, running the Uited States, running Donal d Trump, it's asurd tut that's how they are talkiong.    It astonished me but it doesn't persuade me.  They do hammer away at the supposed atrocities commityed by Israel against the Gazans for instance enogh to make me wonder if thwre is eomthing to it but I generally hold to my impressed that I've had for years that all that is a fabriacation by the Palestiniahsns, so called since there never were any Palestinians before the state of Israel was established and then they conveniently materialized out of the eher to e a thorn in Israel's side.  

There's a lot more to say about this but I'll have to come back to it.

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YIKES Revisited

 Yes I realized soon after I posted it that it's still bribery even if it's paid for privately so I repent in sackcloth and ashes.  I was trying to give Trump the enefit of the doubt that he merely wanted to motivate people who would ordinarily fvote for him to actually get out and do it, but wrong is wrong and I repent.

However, I did have another bright idea, oh help us.  Thinking of the problem I write ahout in the post below about how we can get some conservative sense into liberal heads it occurred to me that maybe we could pay them to learn about it.  Maybe collect donations for it, maybe Elon Musk would like to contribute.  

There isn't eough time to do a bgood job of it before the midterm election but the idea would be to collect a body of information that we can see is most needed to be heard by liberal s who never hear any of the truth and get it into reasonable sized chunks and pay them to listen to it.  To ensure honesty I think conservatives should nominate their own liberal friends and family to be the recipiebnts of this.  They won't talk to us and they wouldn't have to this way either, but maybe they'd be willing to hear a few things if they would earn some money doint it.  I listed a few things I had in mind for the information in that post but I'm now thinking of adding segments of talk show hoests like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and so on and parts of the free courses given by Hillsdale College, and of course parts of Thomas Sowell's nook and so on and so forth.  

Well, why not.  I guess it's bripbery of a sort but it doesn't coerce anyoe's vote, it's just an attempot to solve the problem of liberal ignorance.

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The Copatibility of God and Science

 Not that there's any questio in my own mind, there isn't, but atheists offten pclaim that science and religio are incopatible so it's good when soeone comes up with an answer to that.  hich is what Steven C. Meyer has done in his book, Yhe Return of the God Hypothesis, which I've been listening to.  I'm not very far into it but it's in the first couple of chapters where he lays out the history of science and shows how science as we know it could not have existed without Christianity.  So I want to recommend the book.

I was very surprised to find out that in his own time Newton was regarded as controversial with his theory of gravity of all things.  Mayer describes all that very nicely.  They really were in a completely other mental set back in those dats.  We take a lot of r granted about what science is in our day and have little appreciation of how hard won it was.

I gather that he's oing to go on to show first hoiw we got from a Christian frame of reference for science to the atheistic claim that no God is needed to explain how the physical world works and even the biological world, and then he'll; get to what he sees as the return of scientists to the recognition that an intelligent Designer is needed, and particularly the BGod of the BBible.  But it's a big book and I'm not there yet.

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YIKES!! No, you can't brige voteres, Mr. Trump

 No, you can

t use paxpayer money to ge votwers to suport the cause of your own party, no no no no no.  I'm not sure evwen if you used your own money or money fro donors if you could jusgify bribig voters, but there is no question that you cannot use government money for that purpose.  Good grief.  We desperaely need to win this midterm but we need to do it ithithe right way.  

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winning the midterm?

 Surely there are enough sane liberalsout there somewhere who would change their minds about their libral views if they got hold ot f the struthm but the proble has always been how to get the truth to them.  They follow only the esablishment press, TV or internet, often because they don't have tine for enythihg else, and all they are going to hear there is the liberal lies, or in Thomas  Sowell's words, The Vison of the Anointed.  Qhen a sane liberal does hear the truth it can knock him off hs feet for a while.  That happened to the guy who founded the Walkaway movmeent some yhears back.  He had to realize when shown it by a firnedm that the eida had been tlying to him about Trump, specifically in ths particular case, about Trump's supposedly mocking a reported who had a wphysical disability of some sort.  The truth is that Trum0 was mocking something he said, which was evidenced to this ma by his friend by a series of videos showibg im mocking many others for their views.  The man was devastated and it took him a few days to recover but then he got up and did his own research and found out that the media were lying about Trump all the time.  Then he started the walkaaway movemetnt of people who were seeing tghrough the lies and leaving the Democratic party.   I hoe his website is still out there.  

One of those who contributed her stort to the walkaway moevement was a Georgia H who did a very articulate video about her echange of mind.  I hope she is still out there too.

It seems to me that there is enough information that could and should change the mind of a sane liberal that it is well worth whatever it takes of our time and ingenuity to get the medssage out to thej.  How has always been a problem, but a blitze of You Tube and Faceookk and Xh and Instagram and others would be good and when the message get s taken tdown put it back up ovr and over again.  And give URLs to private websites where the information can be found, websityes you can start yourself.  I ca't do any of this but surely there are some who can.

Recewntly Mark Levin pread some of an articulae by Ayaab Hirsi Alli about the true nautre of Islam hat ought to wake people up to the impossibility of every  ever chaging their minds and winning them to the western mindset.    I forget yhe title of her article unfortunately ubut he said it was on an internet magazine called Tablet, I think.    Islam is one of the ways the country is going down, and could very well be the one that defeats all the others in the end because of its energetic implacability and conviction that it is God himself who wants them to destroy us.    

It is stupidity of the sort Thomas Sowell writes about in The Vision of the Anointed that has allowed Islam to get as far as it has in America abd before us in Europe where it has been menacing them for a long tme.    The idea that nineleeven was the work of eople who were merely victims of western discrimiunation , of lack of economc opportutyies and that sort of thing Sowell identifies as lies basred on nothing but the ideology that is sconteradicted by facts and reality wherever it is put to the test.  Nopne of it explains our own domestic problems of poverty and criminality and it doesn't expplain Islam either.   

But in the same of Islam it is a murderous ideology that truly inspires its adherents to kill those who oppose it and aims to take the whole world for Allah in tghe end that we're up against and that has been idgnored and pooh poohed for decades bnow.  The evidence is right there in eheir holy books which are unholy but anyway, it's right there but still its ignored.  As Swowell makes clear, those with the Vision nof the Anointed are impervious to facts and reality.  

Alyaa  Ayaan is an ex Muslimwho kows what she is talking about so she should have ore credibility than anyone in my position could ever have.  But I got my own knowledge of these things back before nine eleven when I read by  a boo k title Philistine by Ramon Bennett who documented the acttitudes of all the Muslim contries around Israel to make it clea rr that they are not in the slightest open to ay kninkd of negotionatio and we are fools to think they ever gcould be.  Ww'vw bewen fools for many many years wbile Islam has bgrow in power in the west all the while.    

I did some posys on Bennett way back on this blog I'm sure, and maybe on one of my other boogs so if you put his name in the search box at the upper left they may come up.   

But that's ust abojtut Islam.  Marxism and COmmunism are just as big a threat ad  liberals need to get inoculated against those too.  Mark Levin is a course as are all the standard conservative talk shows, but I remember the testimony of Yuri Bezmeov that I also posted on years ago and hope is stil out there because he made it plain that the Soviets were systematicaly working to undermine the west by introducing scertain ideas into oyur public mind which have unfortunatelysucceeded  to the extent that they are a real threat now to the survivial of the nation.   I may have a post on him that can be found through the search line with Yuri Bezmenov or just by looking for ghim on You tube.  

I also remember the shocking fact that the great foundatons such as Rockefeller and Cearnegie had been prooting Ommunism in America.  There was an interview with a I htink a senator at the time I think something Todd, I wish I could remember, about all that and if I can find it I'll try bto come back aand put the information here.  Of course 

Of course Thomas Sowell's book would go a long way if anyoe would read it.    Too bad about hte  title. Anyone coming on it cold isn't going to have any idea what it's really aboutut just from that title.  

I'm sure there are lots of other sources out there too and if just a few people would make use of whatever social media or other internet outlets they have avaoialable to them as soon as possible maybe we could save this contry.

Oh, Bret and Heather, just remembered.  I happened to hear an old podcast of their from before the elecyion in 24, titled The Caste  The Case fo Trump.  They are liberals bugy sane liberals and hey do a bgood mjob on that pocast of laying out whow the left is destroying the country and trump has the better agenda.    Their podast is called Dark Horse podcast.    

If anyobody got into any of these people beoeyond just these particular recent productons that would be good too .  Ayaan for sre is full of good stuff, and although sometimes ret and Heather bore me they also have a lo of good stuff in betwen as well..  

I've been positing from time to time about how we're under God's judgment, wgich swems apparent to me from the very fact that these destructive leftist ideas have been fagaining in power over the last decades.  When it's hard to overturn something evil it's likely to be because it''s comeing from God as judgment ainst us.  On the other hand He's obviously also have mercy on us since Trump has been making a lot of headway as well and the information I post above is out there to help us.  It could all be blown away in one midtern election however, an certainy with the election of one more liberal Predsident.   I had another blog about the daeth of America but it's een a long proloned death and we're still brearthing shallowely at least so I ope we can still be revived but i's going to take a lot of commitment.

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Thomas Sowell again; the arrogant stupidity of the Left and how it's destroying Aerica and reality itselgf

I've been reading Sowell again.  The VIsion of the Annited is a book I think everybody should read,  every American anyway.  It might inoculate some against the stupidities tyhat are taking the country down.  H covers every facet of the thinking, or nonthinking, of the left in this book, mosly throygh how the left misuese statistics to buttress what is othig more than a vision or daydream, utterly without fats or vidence to suport it.  It souold make everybody with a shred of rationality mad and up in arms to save ys from this miserable assault on everything that matters.

The book is thirty years old but it's just as relevant now as it was then, unfortunately, only of corse all of it is much worse now though the same thining patterns are still the same.  It could use an updating just to get the latest insanities on record but otherwise it can be read for our time quite easily.

It ay be in audible form on You tube, I meant to check so if I find out that it's there are I write this I may come back to say so.  

Read the last chapter for starters, or just the last line.   Never have so ......  Never ....  Never beore have so few done so much damage to so many.  If that's not an exact quote it's very close, off by only a word or two at most.    This recognition needs to become familiar to us with all its evidences as Sowell presents them so that we can make use of them when needed, against an enemy that is so often hard to piin down because of the verbal slight of hand that is part of the problem   

Then read the whole last chapter where he summarizes the book with plenty of examples.  All the evids we've had foisted upon us as laws and public policies that have done damage to the soecity and to individuals in the millions.  Liberalism is not just a political point of view, it's a mental aberration and a threat to civicilization.

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Later:  Yes there is an audio version of The Vision of the Aointed at You tube.

I also want to mention that I did aother post on this book back in April, Thomas Sowell Nails Liberalimsms to the Wall...  where Isaid mor about the content of the book than I did in the above.

thoughts about art again

Later, Wednesday:  After listeing to the post I realized I'd had my habnds on the wrong keys for the first couple of paragraphs, but that was just about how my eyes are bad so it's hard to see art, whch youd think might prevent me from writing about it.  But the thing is I can see some things sort of, just that it's blurry and I miss details.  My biggest loss is not being able to read.   However, over the last few days trying ro find out more about Bell's Significant Form I've had to realize that I can't see pictures well enough to talk about them either.  Yes I can make out the general scene usually, but trhat's not enough for this kind of inqurty.  

But I did run across a book I wish I could get in audible form, a monography by an American Professor of Philosophy written in the seventies, titled Clive Bell's Eye, whic sounds like exactly what I've veen needing to brig this topic to a close.  It's pretty clear that Bell himself didn't want to, or couldn't, say more than he did to expplain his concepts because he regarded them as pointed to something beyond words, that all he could do is int a person to the art tiitslef and advise looking at it many times to learn for oneself what he meant.  But he also said he thinks not everyone has this ability.  He likesns it to mystical experience or an xperience that seems to give access to another world.  

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 It's odd of me of course, to write something about visual art when I'm now legally blind and         can see images in a distorted way.  It's pt o,[pssob;e tp see tje, bit tjeu are b;irru amd O cam

t a[[recoate tje, as O ised tp/  O cam ,ale ,u eues rpa, arpimd om a [ocitre amd ,pre pr ;ess et tje pvera;; semse pf ot bit ot

s mpt tje sa,e as ot issede tp be/  O dp jae tp sau. jpwever. tjat O cam see [ocitres a ;pt better tjam O cam read/  Redomg os kist abpit o,[passob;e amu ,pre. evem wjem O dp ,u best tp ,ale tje ;etters bog amd bp;d amd as meat as O cam ,amage/    Amuwau wotj a;; tjat soa dO jave beem tjomlomg abpit art agaom amd as isia; O dpm

t ;ole ,pst pf wjat O fomd [ep[;e sauomg abpit ot/  I don't like being in this possibility because it's like saying I'm oh so uch more sentsitive to art than all these people whose opinions I diaslikw and here I am a nobody who can claim any special aythijg about arty.    

Qwll maybe I can claim a little.  Some paintings could stir min me someting I think is what Clive Bell meant by the aesthetic emption, and I've always wanted to understand more BOUT IT AND     discover how to find it more often, even be able to say just what exactly it is or if not exactly then at leas a lot better than I've vever heard anyone destcribe it.  Including Clive Bell who is annoyingly speechless when it comes to making clear just exactly what he means by the terms he uses.  He says art is that which rovokes the aesthetic emotion and then he says that in ppaintings it's the  sense of signficant form which provokes the aestheitc emotion and he defines signifiant form as the way lines and colors and three dimensional spacew are arranged in a painting that provokes that emotio and so on.  I can't find even an example of a painting to which he might point to illustrate what he is taling about. Whewn shen I look up the concepts and find others talking about them I'm very sure they haven't a clue what he is taling about.  They may be artistics and teacghers of art butg they haven't a clue.  If I know one thing from reading Bell it's that he's trying to define what is a direct experience he himself has had, so that if a teacher says he got such and such an idea from Kant I know he's blowing smoke.  

The aestehtic emotion at its strongest I'm sure is a sense of leasure that just grtaps you when you lookl at something that provokes it to an intense degree, a ppleasure that makes you groan.  Something about how the lines and colors and three dimensional speace come together, okay fine but those things sodcome together in one way or another in every paintibg don't they, and very very few of them provoke that aestehtic emotion.  And in some of them that do it amay only be in one part of the picture, ot the picture as a whole.  This much I got from reading Bell.  

I've had flashes of that feeling and I would like to have found out how to have it more, and Clive Bell is one of the few who could have pinted me toward it and he did not.I thin I have a btter grasp of what he meant thab the people I've been listening to, enevertheless, yes I am that much of a n arrogant snob about it I guess.  

I have a smiliar reaction to the concept of Notan which is a concept I think originated in Asia ssomethiwhere to desdribe the relation of light and dark party s of a painting or image to each other.  I came across someone one who seemed to think he understood it and put a huge dark shadow in his painting of a street that I absolutely nknow had nothing to do with Notan.  There is a book about Notaln that I read years ago.  I may even have it somewhere in a box but I've got too many boxews I'll just never go through.  There was one little illustration in that book of a picture that provoked in me what I would call that eaestehtic emotion Clive Bell talks about, just a little drawing that held no interest for me in whatevr it was a bout, an animal of some tsort I think, but the way the light and dark were situated in the picture is what provoked the emotion, a larger amount of white with smaller areas of black but the arrangement was somewhow extremely ppleasurable and I couldn't say how.     now I'm fdining examples at you tube that purport to illustrate the concept and while they are much more truly examples of the meaning of the term, there is nothng anywhere neart that concept in any of the illustrations to what I saw in that book.  Peopele just don't seem to get it.  Even when they sort of get it they don't get it.

Theis relates to a larger subject .  All my life, not always with any particular awareness of it, I've felt myself surrounded by ugliness, or a dearth of beauty.   I have no ability to create beauty myself, it's something I have to find, and I ca't arfford to collect tyhe thihgs I finsd so my personal life ahs also always been withouit the luxurry of beauty.  I'd acceppt prettiness at time even but that isn't to be found anywhere in this modern world either.  Oh in nature yeas but that's a different kind of beauty or orettingss, not the prettiness of art or human doing which is what this is all about.    Things are ugly , buildings are ugly , the walls of my apartment are uglyg, nothing has a sens of proportion, it's all utilitarian, empty, nothijbnglessness.  i think this is vwerty hard on our human souls and not ood for us at all.

Tge iuht abiyt Bitab us tgat uts a cibceot if art as aesteutc exoeruebcem bit hyst sine jubd if firnyka fir darj abd kuggt as a cibvebtuib if sinetgubg kuje tgat,  

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Food, cancer, Junk DNA, God's Judgmetn on America

 I just don't have the energy.  When I sit alone and think about  it I have so many thoughts they could alost be a book if I could get them all written down as completely as I'd like to, but ther's the rub, getting them written down.  even remembering them all for that matter, when I sit down at the computer.   So I end up sometimes just sketching out the broad outline of what I've been thinkibg about, hoig that eventually I'll have the endergy to come back and do it all justice.  I won't say that neer happens but unortunately a lot of the time it doesn't.  

For weeks now I'vew wanted to write mostre about fallenneness in the context of things I've een readingmmeaning of course sllistening to since I can't see to read any more, but Ijust don't even make it to the computer, or if I do I use up my energy doing what little research I have the energy to do and never get to the blog.  

One of the areas I'd like to write about is nutritional treatments for various diseases which I've been reading about recently.  Of course Chris Warks's Chris beat Cancer, which I return to from time to time becauyse I forget things he said, and now two books by William Li, EWat To Beat Disease and Eat to Beat Your Diet, which ae both full of interesting facs about whgat foods dowdo in the body, some of which Chris Wark refers to in his book.  Many foods have been studied for their effect on cancers for instance, just by dripping their juidce onto cancer cells in the lab.  This way they discover things like which fruits and vegetables have the strongest cancer killing effects on the many different kinds of cancers.  It's the sort of thing I'd have made my own reference lists for if I could still see to read.   Intad I have to remember things.  As a result of what Ive been reading I've incorporated some new items into my eating, even things like powdered extracts of things like cranberry juice and pomegranate juice and amla juice.  all kjown to have powerful anti cancer and general health building effets.   

I've also been listening to a book by Steven C Meyeer, Signature in the Cell, in which he defends the scientific qualifications of Intelligent Designn to answer the question of the origin of life, compairing it to various materialistic theores of how life could have originated purely through the random actiities of chemistry.   I think he does a boogood job of making his point, that ID is definitely a scientific approach to the problem, despite the scoffing of opponents who relegate it to religion and then throw out religion as nonscientific.    

But I also appreciate his book because iyt's introduced me to a much fuller appreciation of the scientific questons about all this and especially to the actual cheical facts involved in its study, what is actually going on in the DNA molule gor instance, in the cell where proteins move around like liing things performaing tasks that stagger the imagination.  As with most such techical books I'll probably go back to this onw over and over to get it all clearer in my mind.  

But one thing that it brought up for me that I think about from time to time anyway and now with more knowledge, is the question of what Junk DNA rally is.  One thing became clear from his book concerning junk DNA, which is that since ID is looing for an explanation for whow life opriginated, meaning how all the poarts of the living cell can be explained best by IDS, it's not going to be addressing anything like junk DNA AS junk DNA unless it csimply dismissed it as junk as the majoirity of evoloutionaists apparently to.,  It seems to be the IDers and creationists, o tthe same group by the way, who insist that junk DNA is ot jusnk but has a function, or many functions, because if it was created by an intelligence it must be of use to the organism.  You can't have that much waste in a system with that sort of origina.  Nwewtheless I've always thought that junk DNA fits in very nicely with Christian thweology since it seems to bme to be exatly what one expect of the world and all the orgnisms in it after the Fall.  The world chaged for the worse and living things became sucject to disease and death wghich had not existed in the world God oirginally created.   It made sense to me that junk DNA would simpley reflect the destruction that would ahve occurred through utations as a result of the disease processes of the fallen world, even more so perhaps on accountof the worldwide Flood of Noah.    

I understand why ID with its sceintific orientation doesn't look at it this way, but I would have expected Christians to do so.  But even they don't.  they seem to forget that this world is fallen and keep talking as if they expect DNA to function peectly or at least better than junk DNA would dususggest.  It's a major complaint aainst ID by its opponents who refuse to see that it is not the same thing as Christianity to accuse it of failing to appreciate all the gobbledygook in the DNA moleculem wgic they say proves that IDS is false since the creator they impute to it, against its own cleaims remember, could n't have created his world in such a messy way.  But the Fall exlains that the true God did not ccreate the world in a messay way at all, the messineess is a result of the Fall, of human disobediewnce jof gGod.  Again, this is not what ID is about, but I am not into ID, I think in terms of Christian biblical theology as best I can.

All yhese are toics I think deserve a lot more thought and development that I'm not up to.  Maybe, ha ha, if I keep taking these health building supplemnts I'll eventalully have the energy to  do all that.  Yeah, ha ha.

I guess I should add that if it is true that noncoding DNA really isn't junk DNA, or that a lot of it istn't, and that it actually has some of the maazing functions Meyer atrributes to it in his Epilogue to the gobook, well OK, I'll adapt.  In fact the incredible complexit of what he sees in it is beauyifully consistent with God's ailities anyway aso I like it.   But I still think that junk DNA fits well with the Fall.  Whicheever is the truth I'm for it.

SOMETHING COMPPLETELY DIFFERent:

Another topic I'd like to write about at more length is one OiI go back to from time to time here, tnadthat is the idea that America is under god's judmgnet and that His tools of judgment or puishemtn actually include our current version of liberalism with its antiAmerican and antiConstitituional bent, the strong Marxist and Commuist elemtn in our politicis gthat has been threatening to succeed beond our worst nightmares, and Islam which is maybe the biggest ightmare of all which has acquiried an amazing degre of popularity and power among Americans themselvdes in some odd ineplicable way in the lsast few decades.  Ever since nine eleven this has been apparentl.  You'd lthink Islam awould have lost favor as a result of that eent but no, oddly it's only been gaining in favor.

The only thing that exlain all this i that God is begind it.  No, it's not that God is in favor of any of these things, no, it is not that ust because Islam wany s to see us deatd that God agrees with them, nom and He doesn't like Communism or Marcism either and He decertainly doesnt like abortion and gay marriage and gay tirrights and divorce and pornograpy and the insane idea that prayer in cschools violates the first amenemetn and all that nonesnes.  No no andmmore no.  But as with Isareal in Old Testament times He brings their enemeies against them toi pushish them when they need it .  He sends Assyria to destroy the northermn kidndome and the souther kingdom goes into Babylon for seventy years.  Israel remains His chosen people, He's not particularly in favor of Babylon or assyria at all, they are tools in this case to pushish His chosen people.  So with this wacko Listeralism we see togdaty and Communism and Marxism and Islam and all that, they are tools to pushish us because we've allowed all those violateions of His law go continue.  Who is trying any more to do away with gay marriage?  Who is even raising a voice aainst the rampant divorcew in the nation, or e.  Qw o we do hear the prolife objections to abortion at least ut for the most part the churches seem to be as paralyzed as the coservtive elements of our political system.  Nobdoy seem ts to be albotto to do wnything or even have the right idea about what needs to be done.

I pray that we will not lost the midterm, sometmimes with sobbing fervency even, but I know that we might because it's up to God and wqe don't deerve to win becaue we havet't been defending His causes as we should be, particularly we Christians.  It's our job and we haven't been doing it well enough.  Some churches weeen excuse themselve sfrom that job as if they are here only to give the gosple and keeop their mouths shut about what's going on in the greater world.    Salt abnd light, ha/   Anyway my opoint is that we 

talk a lot abaoinstainst Commuism and Marxism and liberalsm as the cause of God's judgment, but we nee to understand that the reaon we have no power against them is that God is allowing them to grow in strength until we repent and realized that we deserve what they are doing to us and whaant to do to us.,

We could of course start with prayer that God would show us what to do.  

So much more that needs to be said but time to stop.  Said more than I thought I'd be up to thought, there's that.

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QeYes, there is only bone true religion

Mark Levil more or less said on his radio show tonight that of the three "abrahamic" religions opnly Islam claims to have the trueth and they want to rid the world of everyone who disagrees with them about that.  Well, that's true, that they want to rid the world of the rest of us and that is scary, as Levin says, but as for believing they are the only true religion no, they are not alone in that.  Both Judaism and Christianity make that claim asa well,.  They just don't want to kill everybody who disagrees about it.

Judaisnm deies that the Messiah has come, so they regard Christianity as a false religion since we affirm Jesus Christ as that Messiah, the one Bgod promise d in the Old Testament starting all the way back in Eden.  The first Chrisztains, those who believed that Jesus is the Messiah, were of course Jews, since that is where it was first preached, and preached from their own scriptures.  But a tradition hasd grown up among the Jews that put the biblical teachihngs of their scriptures at the mercy of their teachers in scuh a way that they did not recognize Jesus when He scame to them.     

So all three of the so called Abrahamic religions are at odds on essential points.  The New Testament itself declares that to truly worship the Father you must also recognize His Son:  One John Two Twenty two:  If you deny the son you do not have the Father, but if you acknowledge Him to have both the Son and the Father.  

That's not tradition, that's scripture.

Levin makes another common error of those who know little about thei hostory of these things.  He thinks the Protestant Reformation was a correction of the errors of "funamentalism" which to his mind is twhat Islam needs.  He doesn't recognize that what the Protestant Reformation did was REFSTORE the fundamental Christain faith, which had been taken over ty the Bishop of Rome who became Pope in the seventh centrue , about the same time as Islam was created by Mohammend, and with similiar spirit for that matter.  It aas a great usurppation of the true Chrsitaiity of the early Church, it was certainly NIOT funamdamental Christianity.  And really, all you have to do is look at them in their fancy robews that erwer worn by the Caesars as they headed up the pagan religions of Rome which in the early years opposed the new religion of Chrsitainity.  Their paganistic garb, their rosary which is also pagan, their mother and child iconography which is also from babylonian paganism, their holy water

Well, being blind I smetimes lose control of things here and somehow some opopups I couildn't read derailed what I was last writing and now I've lost track of it.    I was saying how Catholicism is not Christianity but a usurpation of it, so that the Protestant Reformation was not some correction that brought a fundamentalism like Islam into the modern wrold, which sweems to be what unbelievers often think hanppened, but the reverse, it was a return to the original fundamental faith.  I can't call it fundamentalism because in Christainity taht term has become associated with something else, but Tthose who think the Reformation corrected an errant fundamentalism think it applies to original Christainity as it does to Islam, but it does not.

CXatholiscism is the murderous twin of Islam, it is not Christianity.j  It maintains a veneer of Chrsitainity so that many are deceived by it, but they doi not teach the trueht that would get anyone saved.  They are a counterfeitthrough and through.

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The False Jesus of the book Jesus Calling

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UPDATE:  It is sad to think that a reputable Christian publisher like Thomas Nelson which first published Jesus Calling could be so influenced by ghuge sales that they don't have the integrity to sapologize for what they have foiseted on the publish and on gullile halftaught Christains.

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d to read but I got the impression that maybe the Lord wanted me to read it so that's what I'm doing, listening to it of course.  I knew from an encounter with it a few years ago that it's a deception and tried to pass that information on to some women in a Bible study who were reading it, but they weren't receptive o I sdropped out of the bible study an that ended that.  I'm not sure how it came up again recently, it just enetrered my mind for some reason and I had this impression that God was asking me to read it.  

This is the new version, updated and revised, and I don't know how difernt it mis from the earlier version.  It's arranged as a daily devotional going day by day through the year, and the first few entries hit me as so loaded with scripture that I know to be true I wondered why I was being asked to read it if I was.  I listened through the middle of February ahnd then started over and then problems started catching my attention.  I do believe I should spend some gtime in a blog pot spelling out some of these problems but as usual it's hard work for me just to sit here and try to write something and I'm going to have to do it in installments.    So I'll aim to come back to this later.Meanwhile I'd just point people to Warren B. Smith who has a book out exposing Jesus Calling as a New Age channeled work, sort of along the lines of A Course in Miracles, in which he was involved for years before he became a Christian.  He is very knowledgeable about how New Age concepts have been working their way into the church over the las few decades and I recommentd  getting his book or just finding the talks he has given on the subject that you can find on You Tube.

I'm not knowledgeable about the New Age so the problems I'm seeing are of a different sort, and I hope to get bakc to this soonlj.

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qedneday

There is to my mind one simple fact that lone proves this bookpromotes a false Jeusus:  He  spoke to the world only in scripture, the book of revelation being His last communications for the world.  For the following two thousand years, not a word from Him, yet now somewhow, nearing the return of Jesus, people in huge bumnbers believe that He suddenly decided to speak to us all again through an unknown woman?    There are plenty of other reasons to rjeect this book but it seems to me that this on fact alone should be enough.  

Unlike many, I do think Jeusus may communicate with us individually from time to time although I must admit that it is far from easy to know for sure if the communication is coming from him or not so it's always the best policy to hold such experiences loosely .  And 

THere are reliable communications, however, when they come through scripture in answer to prayer.  I've exerienced both tkinds.  It is hard not to take them all seriously but I know scripture is to be trusted and the others should be kept in a light grip.  I sometimemes feel God is calling me to writing something on my blog for instancesuch as about Jesus Calling.  At the moment I'm not seeing much of a good reason o write about it, maybe a short post but not the more thorough study I tought I should do.

I think this now because I just found a solid discussion on You Tube of all the ways this book has been criticized and discussed by many of the best Christian teachers, which is a big releive.  It would have to be so but I hadn't run acorross such discussions myself foso for all I knoiew it was being overlooked since I'd only become aware ifof it myself through the bible study that first got me checking it out.    If you put "Jesus Calling Updated and expanded crituqe in the search line at you tube you may get the discussion I'm taling about.  I can't see well enough to copy out the URL.

Just to mention a few things that began to bother me as I began again to go through the book, I have the impresion that it focuses strangely intensely on trusting in this Jesus.  The exhortation to trust him occurrs in just about every daily reading.  Also the idea that hi s great reward his his peace, saying even at one point that this is his very costly precious ift to us which he paid for on the cross.  Well, if you understand his people to be peace with God through the forgiveness of our sincns I guess you could make a case for gthe peopeace as that important, butg it's a very strange way to put it when Jeuss great gift to us was the forgiveness of our sins themselves and the salvation from eternal punishment to eternal life when we believe and repent.

I also ghve the pipression that the messages are so abstract and general that they are purposely designed to proved a soty of rorschach for the reader to fill them in with his owr her own personal epxerience, and since it seems that many of the readers of this book are not born again Chrsitains and don't know the Bible this is likely to be quite a collection of worlsly dly and flesly preoccupations where the true Jesus would instead be tachijng us to grow in righteousness and spiritual discernment.

When Jesus was aske by His disciples to thell them when He was gonig to return, when the world was going to end. the first thing He said was Take heed that no man deceive you, for many will come in My name and will deceieve many.  Well, this Jesus Calling is certainly one of those deceievers comin in His name to deceive and succeeding at it to a very distressing degree.  I understand that A Courese in Miracles also promotes a Jesus aos I suppose that one is another coming in His name top deceive.  Surely this is all evidence of how close we are to His return

Some problems I'm havig with Mark Levin

Mark Levin, who is one of my favorite conservative talk show hosts, has been promoting his firend pastor John Hagee quite a bit lately, which makes me uneasy because it puts me in a position of having to answer him and since he's Jewish and knows nothing of Christian theology it's hard to know where to stat.    Of course he likes John Hagee, hagee is a strong defender of Israel, and has become a personal fri3end of the Levins.  Well, I'm a pretty strong defend er of Israel too, but years ago I leared that John Hagee teaches some awfully heretical stuff for a Christian pastor.  That Jesus didn't claim to be the Messiah, that the Jews weren't meant to expect Him as Messiah, and even that Jews don'thave to believe in Him to besaved.  IA little trip through Romans nine, ten and eleven might correct such a misimpression, where Paul says clearly that he yearns for his brethren the Jews to be saved, meaning they scertainly arenly saved at that time, without Jesus.   Jesus was certainly presented to the world as Messiah, as Savior and the Jews were to be the first to recieve the offer of salvation:  To the Jews first, and then the Greeks.   

Hagee has a new book out and I don't kbow if he continues with the same wrong teachings in this one as he did in his wforirst, but if he does continue along those same lines he's a heretic and gthere's no getting around it. God promised to send us a Savrio all the way aback in Eden.  He built up the Jesusish people mainly for the purpose for being the people of the Messiah, the elssing to the world they were told through Abraham they were to bring to the world.  The Messiah has come and the first believers were thousands of Jews.  TWhen the Jewish leadership began persecuting the new believers they moved out to the Gentile world and offered the Mesisah to the Greeks, which is the blibicla word for nonJews of all kinds in those days.

My understanding has been that Christians and Messianis Jews who believe in Jesus are "spiritual Israel" while ethnic or earthly Israel the physical land of today's state of Israel, was given to the Jews and is their earthly inheritance.  I understand that the last sdays of planet earth will revolve aaround that piece of land and Jesus will return there.  In orther worlds I believe that we have to separate the spiritual from the fleshly and that God deals with the different Israels in different ways.  I am Spiritual Israel or I'm prt of Spiritual Israel becausae I trust in Jesus as the Son of God for my salvation.  I am not part of earthly Israel.  that story is what is going to unforld during the Seventieth week of Daiel or as I've put it telgertherther the seventh seal, laid out in the Gook of Reveleation, and probably all about to start rolling.  

For years various pastors have talked about God's Prophetic Clock being Israel.  That can be true in the terms I've laid out without getting into the heresies of John Hageel    That is all about the last days of Earth just mentioned.  It remains true, that eternal life, the girft of God for our salvation from our sins, is made up of the bleivevers in Jes us as Messiah.  Ethnic Jews are not saved, and like everybody else must embrace Jesus for eternal life.

If Hagee is making it clear that salvation depends upon believing in Jesus as the Messiah then fine, no more heresies.

Another thing Mark Levil said just in his most recent radio show is about criticizing Catholics if one criticizes the papacy or the Vatican, likening that to bashing Ionists and Jews as both antisemitism

Here agai  Mark's Jewishness is part of the problem, although unfortunatley just about all nonChristians accept Catholicism as Christyianity and object to the kind of criticiism of it that I do here.  A century ago there were still people who knew that Catholicism is not Chrsitainity but that knowledge has been lost over the last century.  And yes you certainly can distinguish between Cathoiics who really know very little about their own history and caccept their "church" as they've grown up in it, but the Protestant Reformation exposed the papacy and all the machinery of the Roman Church as false., the Popwe A nxicxhrist.

I have to stop, may come back to finish this

Saturday June 13

I know it's futil e to suppose that Hagee might have changed his mind and given up his heresies.  If he had it would be loudly announced from many pulpits for one thing.  So I have to assume he's still a heretic andt thinks Jews don't need to believe in Jesus death on the cross to be saved.   So he's denying the Jews the means of salvation isn't he?  Just as the Pope denies salvation to Catholics, by giving them a false gospel of salvation.  According to Hagee the Jews are saved through thte original covenant with Abrahanm.  Funny then how the whole Christian revelation is known as the New Covenant, which is th covenant given through the death of Christ to believers for eternal life.  Funny how Paul expected to be saved through Jewsus and preached that as the way for all to be saved, and how Jesus said that nobody omes to the Father except through Him.    How does hHagee manage to hold onto such a blatatntly obvious falsehood?

I hate being at addos with Mark Levin.  I'm also unfortunatley at ods with Trump on a few points these days.  Well, it can't be helped I guess.  Levin also promotes a ministry of Hagee's to women with unwanted pregnancies, which is okay I guesss.  I suppoese it's a good ministry as those things go.  But Levil must be unaware that most if not all evangelical thchurches across the nation conribute to the support of local ministries that do exactly the same thing in their own areas.  Churches in five twons where I live support a Crisis Pregnancy center and a "house of refuge
" wjere pregnant women can live and get various kind os of help during their pregnancies, whether they choose to keep their child or adopt it out.  they get legal help in some cases, training in taking care of an infant, help to contiue their own schooling or gettting a job or whatefer is needed to make their situation liveable.  Medical help, legal help, praftical help of all kinds is available.  And I do suppose this pattern exists in evangelical circles aCROSS THE NATION.      I suppose Hagees's ministry is quite good, he has a big chruch and probably many volunteers but the smaller churches band dotgether and offer everything a pregnant woman could need.

And back to the Catholic Church, the message is that the papcy is utterly uncCHristian, the idea of a head of the Church that occupies the place of Christ is pure heresy.  Christ relates to all His children without a standin here on Earth.    I've laid all this out in many posts over the hyears and I'd recommmend the book by Dave Hunt, A Woman Risdes the Beast, for the most recent comprehensive portrait ot the the hjistory fot he Roman usupration of the Christain Church starting in the seventh century or so.  And the identify of the Pope as Antichrist, as testified by the Protestant Reformers along with hundreds of dissidents who remained outside the Catholic organization over the previous hundreds of years.

Getting the Word Out

 I felt God prompted me to write on this subject as I have felt from time to time with other subjects on this blog, and it does seem that if He is calling me to do it there ought to be a way to get it ougt to others, which I suppose would be the point after all.  And I hae no way to do that.  Not to mention that it would take a lot of churzpah for me to try to get my own word out oafter all.  Who am I to try to tell pastors and churches whwat to do.  Seems to me if God wassnts it to get out He should arrange for that to happen.  But He doesn't seem to be doing that.  Maybe there are many others around the nation saying similar things and gettting it out to more people than I can.  I would like to beliee that, but I have't seen any hint of it.  Voddie Baucham's sermon is the only message I found and although I think he has a pretty big church I didn't hear of his sermon until I went looking for anyne speaking on God's judgment of the nation.  

My My daydream of a praying nationwide church is pretty forlorn in this light.

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Later:  I went to find the Voddie Baucham sermon to hear it again and instead a new sermon came up, on the same topic but focused more on the failures of the Church to preach the truth.  Also very good but I couldn't find the other sermon.  So frustrating that I can't see to reproduce the URL for a video I want to recommend here.  

What Are We Here for Anyway?

Maybe this is just a fond daydream of my own but I have a vision of the Church as potentially able to be a real powerhouse in the world while as a matter of melancholy fact it's acting like anything but.  Could't we exert ourselvs to that level once in a while?  

It's our job, isn't it?  Or is it?  I mean to save America, to prevail with god for whatever is needed to roll back our national sins and get something back of the original Christian nature of America.  Yes it was once a Christian nation.  Even though the big name framers weren't Christians they were soaked in the culture of Christianity at least and their work drew heavily on it.  But the people of America were for the most part genuinely Christian in those early years, and that is what shaped the culture that brought down blessings from God.  Yes, slavery but we did away with it and things were getting better, and even those who held slaves often knew it was wrong an d were tryijg to figure out the bst way to end the practice without destroying the fabric of life, whioch yes, could have happened because the salves were not prepared for the kijind of life they d have to adjust to without a lot of preparation and that had to be thought out.  But that's another whole subjwect.

What I'm thinking of now is that the Church needs to wake up as Voddie Baucham calls the nation to do, wake up and realize the power we have available to ys if only we seek it with determination and ...  and self sacrifice.

There's the rub.  Self sacrifice.  I think that's what we are called to.  Ands down through history there have been Christians who did put their own lives on the cross in order to accomplish sometng for God and for the world.  Revivals come out of such a frame of ind.  Social movements for the benefit of the disadvantaged come out of that state of mind.  Missions across the world come out of that state of mind.   And why couldn't a great concerted effot to sae America be our objective this time and move us to the level of self sacrifice necessary to bring it about?

I mean things like fasting yes, whenever and wherever a particular individual is upp to it, and everyone has his own limits for that, but also giving up things like television shows in order to paray for an hour.  Learning how to pray for proteracted periods is something we could all try to do, it's ot easy, it does have to be learned.  I think of old time Pentecostsals in particular who seemed to be able to prayey for hours on end or until they felt the burden lift from tghem and knew theyir prayers were heard.  I've nwevr had that experience but I'v always wished I could have it and I'm in awe of those who have had it.  Tbey feel the burden, tjhey have the strength to keep praying about that burden for however long it takes until they are then able to feel it lift.  It sounds simple but impossible at the same time.  But if there is anyone who could do that for America he should do it now.  I'm using the generic masculine by the way because thomas Sowell gave a nice argument in favor of it and I've felt so awkward with all the other solutions, they just sound illiterate and they are confusing.  There was never any problem for me back int he saday when I had to read my female self into the masculine and it's a made up problem.  Anyway if you dislike it sorry it's correct English and I'm going back to it.

Fervent protracted prayer.  Maybe special prayer meetings but frequent ones, none of this once a week stuff, something every day at least needs to be done if we want to prevail with God and actually accomplish something for the saving of America.  The only weay we could win the midterm elections ifis if we pray, repent, confess sins and denounce the sins of America, and pray pray pray.  Otherwise the elections will just play out as they always do, on the basis of the worst in human endeavor as it has  been going fot the last few years.

If whole churches could stay late and pray tohether that would be one way to do it.  There are many ways to do it.  If every good church in America did something to get God to hear us and act to save the nation, that would be the best of all possible thigs.  EVERY church in the nation that has a right to be called a church, that teaches the truth rather than some compromised worldly gobbledygiiok.  If they wake up and join in great but otherwise let them die out while the solid churches ower up and cry out to God and neer let Him rest until He saves America.

I daydream about his sort of thing quite a bit even though I miyself don't have the energy for it a oit of the time.  I've had my moments but sustained dedication no, but that's why we need a lot of us doing it, to support each other in prayer along with everything else we're prayering for.    

I think that's what the Church is for.  I think that's why we're here.  To do our utmost, to a self sacrificial level, to bring God's righteousness down into this world and like salt stop the spread of corruption and likgke light bring truth into the darkness.  It takes commitment, it takes exertion, it takes sacrifice.   I wish for it, I pray for it, I wish I myself were better at it.

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Daniel ate "no pleasant food" for three weeks as he was praying for understanding of God's plan for His peopele as the Babylonian capitivity was coming to an end.  That was his fast. There are all kinds of ways to fast, cutting out specific foods, or cutting out whole meals, or going a day or more, it's all a matter of what you are able to do.  And of course giving up ordinary pastimes and recreations is anogther way to fast.  

When David's first son by Bathsheba was born the infant was sickly to the point of death and David prayed every day on his face without eating until the baby finally died.  In those days I think a daily fast meant not eating until after sundown and then he'd eat so it wasn't a complete fast for every moment of the week the baby continued to lifve.  He was under God's judgmetn for his sin wqith Bathsheba and he prayed that god might spare his son.  Sometimes God would, in this case He didn't.  David knew everteless that whe would see the child when hehimself went to be with the Lord.

Listen to Voddi Baucham's wonderful sermon on God's judgmetn of America.  

Later:  I keep wanting to get across that this is a huge task we're facing, not some everyday prayer request or even everyday political problem.  America has been accumulating sin against God for decades at least and we are up to our ears in it if not quite over our heads, thouigh maybe we are that too, metaphors like that should probably be avoided.  Anyeay,  I think of all the sins we've been accumulating since the Sixties, and I don't see that the Church has ever done much if anything about them.  We ight them when they are looming , we see them coming and we muster energy to defeat them at the polls, but that's the problem, although we may also pray our main efforts are political.  The real job of the Church which is to work with God to defeat the forces of darkness in this worklk is hardly ever exercised to the level it could be if we only recognized that that is our calling and that God would stren gthen us for it if we set ourselves to realize it.  

I aLWAYS PICTUR all THE GOOD CHURCHES INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT OF COURSE     A QW KNOQ DEOM THE STORY  of Gideon if nowehre else in God's word, God can work with small numbers to accomplish great things, and may actually prefer it.  But here we are and the wmore the better it seems to me if only the churches would get the message and see the need and work to engage each opther in the project and set ourselves wqith a new passion to be he saly and light we are called to and push out the corruption while establishing God's righteousness in the land.   It could be done, yes really it could be done, we have the power of God at our disposal you know, we just have to make the commitment and not give up.

Voddie Baucham Judmgnet on America

 For a few weeks I've written a blog post from time to time on the nation's being under God's judmgnet despite all the good things that GTrump is doing and that if we don't deal with this basic fact everything we get by way of political blessings is fragile and can't stand for long.  Trump is a great belssing but petrhaps he is also a distraction from what Christians should be doing if we want to save America.

So I wrote the previous post, another rather brief call to Christians to seek God as our only help for our pllitical mess.  Then I decided to see if anyone else was talking about the nation's being under judgment and found Voddie Baucham.  The only one I found was Voddie Baucham.  Seems to me some of our vbest voices are coming from black men these days.  

First I saw him interviewed and he talks about what a great nation iAmerica is, lbessed by God in so many ways and the one solid voice for God in the world. DESPITE the fact that we are under God's judgment.  And then I found his whole sermon on that topic.  America Wake Up, God's Warning to the Trump Era.    I can't see well enough to put up the URL but I think it can be found by seraching on Voddie Baucham and God's judgment on America and similar terms.  It's a great sermon,  a really really great sermon and everybody should listen to it through tot the end, bugt mostly of course Christains who are the only onces whoul should be expected to understand it as it should be understood.  Nevertheless as he says many of the churches are compromised and may not get it either.

Yes indeed, wake up America.  Trump is doing things we want him to do but he can't save us when God is against us.  In fact he may e mostly a distraction from what we need to be doing.  We need to be addressing the sins of the nation, repenting for our own part in them, fopr our lack of action against them, praying for htem to be reversed and for the nation to be saved.    

He names the two I keep naming though of course there are hundreds to be confessed and rependeted of.  But abortion and the destrution of marriage are the two big ones these days, through many contecxtrs, gay marriage being a huge one, but also divorce and sexual freedom that ignores marriage altogether, or cohabitation without mrraieage, lots of ways marriage has been tracshed in America in recent decades.   God will not lift His judgment on the nation until these things are dealt with.  It doesn't matter what Trump does, who we vote for or anything political.  We can't do anything God doesn't allow us to do, it's all in His hands, and ewhebter good is happening now cannot possibly last as long as the nation is so ddeeplhy ired in legal supporty of offenses against Him.  

Ye  Yes we've legally validated sins against God.  And at the same time stifled His voice on phony legal grounds as well.  

Yes indeed, wake up America.  Go hear Voddie Baucham all the way through.

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Losing Our Country

 Yes, Mark Levin, I'm afraid you are right, we definitely are losing this best of all nations, yes we don't seem to have the will to do what it would take to save it, yes the Islamists are taking over and we are passive in the facte of it, yes yes yesm, I'm afraid so.   

But why?  All you have is people power, what the Bible calls "the arm of the flesh" while God is left out in the shadows somewhere.   But why are we  so weak?  Why are the Islamists getting power over us?  Because the nation is under God's judgment.  hristians at least should know this ut often even Christians don't think along these lines.   

When God gave Israel the Law, His Law, He told them He was giving them the choice of blessing or cursing, life or death.  Therefore schoose life, he said.  Obedience brings life, proserity, safety from enemies, peace with neighbors;  disobedience brings many evils which are sketched out in both Levirtius and Deutreronomy.  TRo be ruled over by those who hate you is the one that keeps reverberating in my head, but the list of curses runs the gamut of every kind of loss, loss of sterrength, loss of prosperity, economic failures, I think even harsh weather although that isn't spelled out there atthat I remeber, all these tornados we are having, the heavy winter that just pastsed, wildfires.  Hardly eanybody even prays against these things any more that I know of, but then I may not be in the right place to know about that.

The rise of Islam over us is definitely God's judgment.  After nine eleven you'd have expected Islam to fall into disrepute but instead it's only risen in the esteem of some Americans and gained power in the country through even the election of Islamists to Congress of all things.  As I recall there was a time when they were forgbidden to hold public office but then that was rescinded and now they can and can exert their hatred of America from within our own government.  

We can decry this all we want, we can make as much effort as we are up to against it, to spread the word, to get people out to vote in the Midstrerms, but as Mark L:evin says, we  really don't have the will for it, do we?   EWven Christians don'e have the will for it and we are the ones who should know enough babout how God works to be in a position to call on Him and work through Him and not depend on our own weak flesh.  I don't know how many churches are dedicating themselves to praying for the country, I hope many, but what4ever it is, it isn't enough.   Some churches even won't support a political stance at all on the idea that their job is o preach the gospel and nothing more, not to get involved in politics.  Makes me wonder what they think it means to be asaalt and light in the world.

It could be that we are too far under judgment to be able to change cthings now anyway, but we don't know that and surely we should try.  How can you plreach the gospel in a country dominated by people who hate Christianity anyway?  Should we just sit back and let it come to that?  Sure, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church and it's a powerful scenario when it happens, but why invite it when we've gbeen given a country in which we've had the freedom to poreach it withouit bloodshed?  Of course we've been losing that for some decades now too, anyhbody noticed?  But we just go about our business as if the nation weren't falling down around us.

So what's needed?  At least  prayer by every true Christian is needed, and a lot of prayer, prayer that includes repentance for our owsn sins and confession of the sins of the nation which is the reason we are unde God's judgmetn.  We may not be able to do much about those sins right now but we need at least to express the will to do somethig about them.  How is it that we have a law that allows two men or two women to live together calling themselves husband and wife?  That's just one egregeious offense against God that needs to be pushed back.  Praying against it is the only place I know of to start.   And of course abortion.  It's no longer A NATIONAL LAW BUT EVEN AS IT'S GONE BACK TOT EH STATES THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ABORTIONS THAN EVER AND THOSE COUNT AAGAINST THE NATION TOO, MILIONS OF MURDERED HUMAN BEINGS CRYING OUT TO gOD FROM THE GROUND.       j  What's needed is lots of prayer by every true Christain.

I've often wondered if our having given up on the requriement for women to dcover our heads in church is a reason God has not given us a revival in a long long time.  I don't count thyeye charismatic "revivals" as revivals, I mean a real Holy Spirit inspired revival.  Nobody much talks about the head covering.  If it's bropught up it's dismissed as legalism.  It's awfully clear that whether Paul's arguments for it make a lot of sense to us, and some of them are pretty hard to understand, that nevertheless I see no doubty that he meant we are to cover our heads.  Some thing where he said at the end of that passage, if there is contention we hae no such rule means he took it all back after sixteen verses of srgugment for it but I find that pretty lame, and the fact taht the churches all rquired women to cover our heads in church for two thousand years ought to be enough of an argument against such reasoning.  Just the fact that we gave it up in the sixties or thereabouts ought to e reason enough to recognize that it was the wrong thing to do.  I've go to awhole blog on it if anybody wants to see some of the arguemtns.

So it might be that we should cover our heads for this prayer, for this prayer for the wountry.  Perhaps it would make a diffedrence.  And we can pray for revival at the same time.  Badly badly do we need revival in this country.  Real Revival, the kind they had in Wales at the turn of the twentieth centry or in the Hebrides in the forties.  I think the one in Saskatchewan in the seventies wewas a real revival.  I don't know if they were dovering their heads then or not, but the ccount of it given in an interview with Pastor McCled that may still be on You BTUbe makes it wound like a true Holy SPirit revival.  It wasn't in the US, but Canada and I think that was the last one on the continent.    They started out with people signing up to pray for fiteen minute periods around the clock, each member of t3h congregation signing up for a particular fifteen minute period.  They didn't think they could pray any longer than that b tut they did at least manage to et all the time slots covered.  It's a possible plan a church could follow to get things rolling.

It may be too late no matter what we do, but we have to do something.

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Thomas Sowell, Voice of Sanity

 A Thomas Sowell Reader is the book I've been listening to lately.  I wasn't sure I wanted it because I knew it would cover some of the topics in books I've alread read, but it's been a boogood thing to have.  Yes it does hae sections I'd already heard but it's good to hear them again and otehrwise it's full of things from other books I haven't read.  

What an amazingly sane voice in the midst of utter confusion and cxraziness o bthe subject of race in particular but also pollitics and econimics in general among other things.  He was once a liberal himself, in fact he was a Marxist, knew Marx inside out and backwards he said, or something along those lines, because Marx seems at first to speak to the problems of poverty he saw so much of in his early life.  Other balacks went that same direction for the same reason, such as Walter Williams and Clarence Thomsas, and like Sowell eventually came to see that Marx wasn't the answer they'd thought, and all became strong conservative boices, which they all thing is the best possible route to a prosperous educated citizenry of all kins of people.

Onbe topic Sowell spends a lot of time on, particularly in a series of three books on it, is how cultures develop in various parts of the world and how culture is the main explanation for discrepancies between people groups.   I've been fascinated with his information about how geography affects the development of peoples, the simple fact of what sort of land they live on, what advantages or disadvantages it has for growing food for instance or developing trade withoutopther peoples.  Something I for one have never given any thought and I'd have to suppose most others haven't either.

Africa is one huge geographic provblem for its people.  Things one doesn't thingk of that they lack that we have in abundance in America and Europe and Asica  make simple livelihood a struggle apart from any other factors.   Sowell points out that Africa's west coast is a smooth edge, without the indentagtions that make harbors for boats in many other parts of the world.  Yes, look tat the majp.  One long smooth scoastline.  There are some big rivers in Africa but they aren't fed by snow because there are no mountains for it to snow on, so the flow of the rivers is dependent on the season as they are fed only by rainwater.  And they are mostly unnavigable because of rapids and waterfalls, not like the big rivers of other parts of the world where ships can travel safely deeply into the country.  So the kind of trade that depends on the ability to carry large amounts of supplies can't happen in Africa.  

And agriculture suffers from the soil's being radpicly depleted by the growing of crops so that people can't settle in one place for long but have to keep moving to better land.  And because of the diseases carried by the tse tse fly they an't have the usual farm animals that are abundant in othert parts of the pworld because they die out rapidly from the diseases, so the land never gets the benetfit of all that animal manure it gets in other places that builtd up its fertility.    Not to mention that the animalsthemselves aren't available for the tasks they've been suused for in most other places, for ploughing and harvesting jobs and so on.

Kind of a a staggering picture there of why Africa has never developed a civilization of any greatness or duration.  All this is laid out in his book Migreations and Cultures, but exerpted well in the Thomas Sowell Reader.    I suppose others must have spent some time thinking about these things but I never ran across them and wow is this stuff crucial to understanding how cultures can develop or fail to develop and how bpeoples can thrive or barely make it.   Beethoven could not have existed if Genrmany hadn't had lots of agricultural land and trade possibilities.  Etcl.

So I love Thomas owell.  He is a sane voice in a miserably mentally deranged poitical environment.  He's ninety six now and as far as I know still working and fairly healthy . Some people have lived into their hundreds and I really hope he could, healthy and strong of course, and mentally all there or what would be the point?   He's one of the voices we desperately need.

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There is a You Tube video that is a big help in sorting through Thomas Sowell's books, that helped me decie which ones I qanrws ro  read first.  That is A Complete Guide To Books by Thomas Aoqwll.  I don't know the host's name but he does a great job of organizing Sowell's books into categories, and at the end he gives his own list of top ten favorites.