Why We Are Never Going to Get Back to Normal. God is Against Us.

CHristians should know the US is under God's judgment, and that this is the explanation for our political disaster that has been escalating faster than usual over the last year and a half. I keep coming back to this like a broken record, sorry about that, but if this isn't understood, all the hopes and efforts to reclaim the nation are futile. Even if it is understood they are likely futile.

I'm not giving up on those effortts and not saying I want them given up. We still have to do what we can, but it is depressing to see the usual explanations that leave out this one essential fact. We can certainly point to the Left as the wrecking ball, we can identify the anti-American ideology of Marxism, we can also discern the diaboligical Jesuits at work in the fake news about America, or so I think thanks to Chris Pinto in particular. But all those are "proximate" causes. They couldn't succeed if there weren't moral and spiritual reasons for the nation's destruction propelling it all.


Mark Levin's radio show is getting heavy with patriotic music and themes these days, and I'm afraid it just makes me cringe. This isn't the America those songs celebrate, we are no longer that America. God can't bless THIS America.

I cringed in the same way twenty years ago when "God Bless America" was sung in response to -- and defiance of -- the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pengagon, twenty years ago tomorrow. The response of many Christians made me cringe: "God had nothing to do with it" Ghey said, God doesn't do such things." Whatever happened to Christians' identity as "people of the Book?"

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. [note: "evil" means disaster or destruction}

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Mark Levin's latest book, "American Marxism" is full of good analyses of what we are up against and no doubt excellent recommendations for what we are to do about it. I'm sure they are excellent although I haven't been able to get very far reading the book yet. I hope to eventually, but I'm sure he isn't taking God's judgment against the nation into account and as long as that is ignored not much we can do is going to save America. Cewrtainly in opposing Marxism we'll be at least tacitly supporting elements of God's Law but that isn't the same thing as actively opposing and dismantling what has already been put into law and THAT's the only thing that might get us somewhere.

As usual I'll modify my idea of the finality of our calamity enough to say I don't know that we are actually at the point of maximum offense against God and therefore maximum judmment is all we have to look forward to. I still hope. Of course I don't have a "Word from the Lord" on this, I'm deriving it from the scriptural portrait of the way God works in the world and from our own history, what smatterings of thta history that are all I can claim to have. Just enough to know that we've been violating God's Law with amazing alacrity over the last few decades, and even with an amazing righteous indignation. Yeah the usual case in point abortion. The righteous indignation that wants to kill babies is astonishing when you see it in its proper light. If you understand God's purpose in ordaining marriage the righteous indignation in favor of destroying it to make homosexuals feel normal is also pretty astonishing. There are hundreds of such violations of God's Law in our "justice" system by now, that I just haven't been following enough to describe. But what little of it I do grasp is enough to explain that the reason we are having the problems we're having is that as a nation we've turned against God, -- not just "away from " God but actually against God -- which means He is turning against us. Political mismanagement, economic disaster, tolerated rioting and looting and burning in our cities, extreme weather, and as usual I'm coming short of anything like an adequate list. But you can fill in the blanks.

So how do we turn back God's judgments? Attempts to restore American institutions seem like a good idea if they could succeed, but as long as we've given rights and freedoms to violations of God's Law there's no point in restoring the institutions that uphold rights and freedoms.

In Chris Pinto's latest documentary, The True Christian History of America, he gives prominence to Samuel Adams' remark on signing the Declaration of Independnece, that "Now commences the reign of political Protestantism."

There is good reason to think that is really what the Founding of America was supposed to be, even more teelingly than Franklin's famous "A Republic if you can keep it," but the Protestant vision never caught hold as it should have done, and was soon undermined by hostile forces, so two and a half centuries later here we are with a govvernment that is anything but a reign of political Protestantism. What with the malevolence of the jesuits who worked tirelessly since the Reformation to destroy Protestant nations, and the malevolence of atheists who resent everything of God, and perhaps confusion about exactly what sort of republic we were supposed to be -- Protestant? Shouild have been, not based on the Enlightenment as is usually thougyht -- so keeping it was out of the question from the beginning. Certainly it was biblical Protestantism that made the nation great and prosperous. But restoring it now? Can't do it unless we roll back our national offenses against God's Law. And oh how they scream at the idea we might decide not to kill babies any more.

Weep for America, pray for America. But any real hope of restoring America seems futile.

Israel, "God's Clock," in Biblical Prophecy, From Desolation to Prosperity

Jan Markell's Understanding the Times radio show this week is given over to a presentation by Pastor David Reagan that outlines the history of the nation of Israel from God's founding through its abandonment of God and consequent punishments, to its reestablishment in the Promised Land.

He shows how it all fulfills biblical prophecy and is now the main sign that we are in the very last days of the planet. It's a dramatic story of unbelievable desolation of the land, not a tree left standing for almost two millennia, followed by the rebuilding and the greening of the land that has made it a prosperous modern state.

No Back to Normal Ever Again

This fallen world is a scary place, and getting scarier. We had some protection at least in America for a long time but that has been undermined to the point that some third world countries actually seem safer. it's all about the power of lies. I keep coming back to that. It seems to be the bottom line. I just posted on the Black Lives Matter lie and the Ivermectin lie. Both are life-or-death matters, both have murder in their heart.

I get asked why I'm so "negative," why I can't just be positive and enjoy life, smell the roses and so on. I think I may spend too much time smelling the roses if you want to know, since the world seems to me to be disintegrating before our eyes. I think of a story that was told on the Dark Horse podcast an episode or two ago now, or I think that's where I heard it, oh yes it was. Elie Wiesel wrote about a town in Poland where the Jews were denying the danger from Nazism even after they had rolled into town and been lodged in local homes. They kept smelling the roses as it were, telling themselves how nice the Germans were really, not like the rumors about their cruel intentions, how a nice German officer even bought his hostess a box of chocolates. Before they were all herded off to concentration camps.

That's how things feel to me now. Fueled by lying propaganda. Which of us will be the first to be herded off we can guess about, but it's not going to be just one category. "Quarantine" camps for some for starters perhaps. That seems to be the agenda of the CDC anyway, according to a document at their site. Forget history and it repeats itself, right? New category of victims, new cover story.

And we don't have an America to escape to, as Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector put it in the eighties or nineties. He came to the West, many Jews came to the West. There is no longer a West to escape to.

This time around it is bigger than Hitler, it has a global source. That's why the End Times prophecies are so prominent right now. Not prominent enough perhaps since even many churches are ignoring the signs, but the signs are surely there and hard to avoid if you're paying attention instead of burying your face in roses.

The prophet Jeremiah spent a lot of time weeping over the destruction of his nation. When you know your nation is't going to come back to God but keep on coming under more and more destructive judgments you spend a lot of time weeping as it is battered into oblivion. It doesn't help that although unbelievers see it all coming down they have only their physicalistic evolutionistic explanations that accomplish nothing. Golly gosh, religion is just a cultural adaptation don't you know. We just need a rational answer to wrongheaded adaptations or something like that? Whatever, the real answer is never going to occur to them and they'd scoff at it anyway.

I may never again see some people I love because they are planning to leave the country. They don't see a way to fix it. I can't blame them but I worry that they're jumping from frying pan into fire.

I have God though. I have prayer. I'm extremely blessed. Even if they kill me I'm blessed.

Highly Credentialed Doctor ITells the Truth About the Suppression of Ivermectin

Dr. Paul Marik, who has a long list of medical and scientific credentials to his name, is interviewed in this video about the suppression of Ivermectin as a prevention and treatment for COVID. He is the founder of the FLCCC, one member of which is Dr. Pierre Kory who has also spoken out about Ivermectin -- and of course been banned from social media, as very likely can happen to this video as well. Maybe it will show up on Rumble or some other alternative platform.

Anyway, Marik gives the history of the discovery of Ivermectin's efficacy for COVID over the last year, how it has been used effectively for decades for parasitic diseases in 3.7 BILLION patients, which ought to make it quite clear that it is completely safe. Even if it didn't work for COVID, its safety record makes it reasonable to try it, but instead it is getting nothing but bad press and doctors are even persuaded against it although the literature supports it.

The question is why, and Dr. Marik gives the "Follow the money" answer since ivermectin is cheap and available while other therapeutics that are recommended instead are extremely expensive. I'm never completely happy with this sort of explanation, it seems some deeper forces must be at work to account for the aggressive globally successful campaign against it, but it is probably true enough as far as it goes.

Sheriff Tells the Truth About Black Lives Matter

A "hateful ideology" based on the lie that the police are systemically racist, that is provoking the murders of police all over the country.

Not that truth matters any more of course.

Too Much or Too Little?

It's hard to take, I know, and maybe I overdo it because I'm more worried that people won't see a danger coming when it is, than that we'll get overwrought when we don't need to be. And we all need a break. There are times when I can't stand another minute of this heaviness.

The Horrors Coming on the Earth

...And I'm not entirely sure any more that Christians won't go through the persecution part of it. Persecution isn't God's wrath and it's God's wrath the Church is to escape. Christians died in ancient Rome, even as torches to light Nero's gardens; Christians died throughout the Middle Ages for "heresy" according to Roman Catholicism, including all sorts of creative forms of diabolical tortures. Christians all over the world have been martyred under Islam for a long time now and it's still continuing. There is no promise that Christians are to escape any of these things. Just God's wrath, and I'm no longer sure when the Rapture is to occur in the events spelled out in Revelation.

Not too long ago I thought I would probably never be able to make much sense of the Book of Revelation, but after struggling with it off and on for a while now I can actually say it's coming together as a coherent communication, not that I fully grasp the message yet. I still don't kinow how all the parts relate to each other but I have more of a sense that if I just keep plugging away at it even that will eventually come together.

It feels SO close, the events of the end times, the events of Revelation. A scripture verse that comes to mind frequently these days is Luke 21:26:

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth...

I don't know how many at this point may be anticipating some pretty scary things "which are coming on the earth" but I know there are some and I'm one of them. A daily diet of "news" that you recognize as lies is enough to create such an apprehension, and it's hard to understand why this isn't apparent to everybody.

Here's that whole passage:

25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

That's way bigger than America but there is no doubt that America is under our own judgments from God. Laws that violate God's law have been accumulating for decades at least, and they are loudly defended as righteous and Constitutional. The sad thing is that the end time developments are actually going to look good to some great number of people, just as anti_God laws look good to them. They'll love the Antichrist, they'll love doing what he tells them to do. That's what they've been doing already anyway. Those who oppose them they consider to be the evil resisters of their utopian vision for the planet. Gives me the shudders but that's the way things are polarizing these days: some shudder but others welcome it. The ones who shudder are going to have to choose death instead of the Antichrist. .

This is the patientce and faith of the saints. Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on.

That is in Revelation 13 and again in Revelation 14 as the Antichrist's plans are spelled out to make buying and seeling a privilege of having his "mark," which has to be rejected by the followers of Christ, who will then die of starvation or other consequences of such deprivation. This starts at the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation as I read Revelation and some think it will be very clear when that has arrived. I'm not completely sure. The passage in Luke reminds me awfully of Revelation 6 which is already well into the seven years. Yes I know the similiarities are considered to be merely the Tribulation casting a shadow on our time. I'm just not so sure of any of that any more. I want them to be right, oh how I want them to be right, I would like to go in the Rapture like...tomorrow..

Concerning America's dive into evil these days, there are unbelievers who see what's going on and try their best to resist and oppose it, and don't give up hope that it's possible. Some believers too I guess. I also want to think there's a way to get things back to normal and I'll hang on every shred of hope I find, and certainly do what I can to bring it about no matter what.

But knowing the Bible means that you know why it's happening and that none of the attempts to resist it are aimed at the cause of it so there's nothing we can do to stop it. In fact everything we try fails. The elections are rigged and all the work being done to expose it and correct it doesn't work. The bad guys have all the motivation and the strength while those who would supposedly be on the right side are weak and disorganized. This is all evidence that God is judging us. The lies of the media continue unabated. Legal and other efforts to get the truth out, to counter the censorwhip of the social media, to right all the wrongs we see so clearly, aren't working. They are thrwarted at every turn.

Believers are the only ones who know why. It's frustrating but we know why. I know unbelievers who keep thinking eventually we have to succeed, this or that court case, this or that election, this or that candidate, will get things going back in the right direction. I want to believe it. I really really really want to beleive it. I support all these efforts.

But there is this lump in the pit of my stomach that just isn't going away.

We're under God's judgment. Unbeleivers have no idea what that means, and even many believers aren't thinking along these lines, but it's the only think that explains why all our efforts to get back to normal don't work.

The only thing that would work is repentance, rolling back our violations of God's Law. But listen to their outrage at Texas' attempt to roll back abortion to the sound of a fetal heartbeat.

They can shut us up, but they can't shut up God. His wrath will fall hard and they will have no idea why.