Saving a Nation May be IMpossible By Now, But You can Still be Personally Saved

The Marxists aren't going to get it. In fact most Americans won't get it. In fact even most Christians won't get it. I'm talking about the importance of repentance for our national sins, which I wrote about in the previous post. It has to be explained. We've lost sigh t of the fact that God rules in this world no matter what we believe or think about it. Unbelievers violate His law all the time and don't understand why things often don't work out well for them. Oh God takes care of the just and the unsust alike, but the Moral operates inexorably in this world for good or ill according to our obedience or disobedience of the Moral Law. "God's windmills grind exceeding fine" it says somewhere in scripture. "If you sow to the wind you will reap the whirlwind" it says somewhere else. As I've pointed out many times, the Hindu and Buddhist idea of Karma is a distorted recognition about the Moral Law that rules the Universe. I know from experience that if you deny it, or decide to test it, as I did as an unbeliver, it will smack you down and you won't know what hit you. I only knew what hit me when I became a believer.Not everybody is as defiant as I was, even unbelievers live within the moral law to a greater extent than makes sense given their beliefs. But we all suffer in this life, and that is the consequence of sin against the moral law, whether our own sin or the sin of ancestors which the bible tells us we inherit. "The waes of sin is death" says scripture, and death means every kind of disease, destruction, inuury, disaster, all imaginable suffering. We live in a fallen world. That means we live after the Fall and suffer its consequences. We are born into those consequences but our own personal sins accumulate on top of them.

That's why Jesus died. That's what the Good News of salvation is all about. He died to save us from the Moral Law that can only kill us because we are fallen and continue to accumulate sins against it. Soon after the RFall God promised the human race that He would send us a savior from our sins. He did. He took our sins into His own body and paid the debt to the Moral Law we woujld otherwise owe for them. Since He was sinless He could not die for HImself, He died to pay for OUR sins since He had none.

Nations incur debt to the Moral Law too, as covenanted entitiues. This is made clear in the passages in Leviticus and Deuterono my that spell out the blessings and cursings the nation of Israel could expect for obedience of the Law on the one hand or disobedience on the other. The consequences include economic disaster, famine, invasion by foreigners, rule by incompetent and corrupt leaders,, natural disasters. Think about it.

Destruction comes as a consequence of violations of the Moral Law. It comes whether we recognize the operation of such a law or not. "Why do bad things happen to good people" asks the naive and ignornant. Scripture tells us that NOBODY is good. Start there. Scripture also tells us that we inherit sinjs. We inherit it from our first parents for starters, the first sinners, but we also inherit it from our nearer ancestors. And no matter how good a person may be even the best commit sins against the Moral Law all the time. Because the Law is perfect and we are fallen.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." I've brought this up before. I think the ocntext of this statement is often overlooked. This is Hosea 4, 1 through 8. God starts out saying through Hosea that the people commit all sorts of sins, swearing falsely, lying, stealing, killing, committing adultuery. These are violations of the Ten Commandements but somehow people read this passage and don't see the connection between these violations and the destruction for lack of knowledge. But the priests have let the people down. They don't teach the Moral Law that might dissuade them from committing the sins that lead to their destruction.

Some talk about man kinds of knowledge we lack that could lead to our destruction and it's certainly true that it helps protect us to know about germs for instance and the need for sanitary conditions, about the motivations of our enemmies, about the coming tornado and do on and so forth. But we have assurances from scripture that God protects us from these things if we stay close to Him. Psqalm 91 is full of such promises. If we "dwell in the secret place of the Most High," if we regard Him as our refuge and our strength, our shield and buckler, we need not fear "the arrow that flies by day" or the "pestilence that stalks by night." Jihad. COVID. etc.
GOD'S MORAL LAW WILL HAVE THE THE LAST WORD.

That link goes to an older post I did on this subject.

The people who are out to destroy this country have no idea what they are bringing down on themselves. They may in spite of themselves be executing God's judgment on the nation but they are certainly "storing up wrath" for themselves in the process. "Offenses must come but woe to those by whom they come" Criminalsa aren't going to get away with it. Th3e Nazis are not going to get away with it. Nobody gets away with it. The Moral Law is inexorable. It judges to the finest possible degree. Nobody escapes. Nations don't escape. The only way to save America is to roll back our violations of God's Law. Repent repent repent. But the Marxists are going to continue on their treasonous path of mayhem and destruction.

It's a tall order, turning back our violations of God's Law. Probably not going to happen. But individuals can still be saved from their own sins. That's why Jesus came.

Have a Thankful Thanksgiving. But This Year Maybe We'd Be Better Off Fasting in Sackcloth and Ashes Than Mindlessly Feasting.

This is not the post I started out to write. I was going to give the link to the old post about the true history of the original Thanksgiving, maye add some reminders of what we have to be thankful for as a nation, and leave it at that. Well, I'm giving that link but God wouldn't let me leave it at that. Yes it had to be God, yes God works through us, communicates with us, stirs up our conscience, so of course it was God who changed my mind. I'm certainly not saying I got it all right, but the change in direction came from Him. I didn't leave it until the last minute this time so He had time to rattle me up a bit, even as I was writing this.

This old post is about the original meaning of Thanksgiving and we need to be reminded of it every year because of the anti-God revisionist attacks on it. So here's my old post on that subject:

CORRECTING THE REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING

We should certainly have thanked the Indians for their help to the Plymouth Colony where it all started, but that's not what Thanksgiving is about. We don't dedicate this day to thanking the Indians, we don't thank the turkey, we don't thank MotherEarth or any other pagan deity. It's cause for regret and fear that we've reduced it to "turkey day." It's a day for thanking the Creator God for His blessings on this nation. That was its original inspiration when William Bradford called his Plymouth Colony to assemble to hear a sermon about thankfulness in the third year of their settlement. And it was the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln when he set a date for its observance.

And we should most certainly thank God this year too. Sometimes it seems all His blessings have evaporated but no, not yet. Still, this year it might be more appropriate to make it a day of fasting, prayer and repentance for our egregious violations of God's Law which are bringing the nation to ruin. In fact, the more I think about it the more I think that really is what the day should be this year. What? No Thanksgiving this year? >

Ouch. Is that what God is telling me? Well, there is always something to be thankful for, even in the worst of times, and certainly in our persoal lives. As for the nation, this year we should thank Him profusely for the honest and courageous jury that brought a just verdict in the Rittenhouse trial, because we know the way things are going we can't count on getting a just verdict from our courts any more. Thank Him too for the righteous people who won the Virgina election. Yes thank Him for every remnant of rigghteousness we can recognize, for all those people who are raising their voices against the lies and the injuustices.

But the tugging at my conscience doesn't let up. The crying need is to return tp the original intent of the nation which He blessed. If we still see His blessings here and there it's not because we deserve them now. Perhaps it's just that we haven't yet rim pit pf tje,/ The nation has fallen away from Him even thought there are still some faithful Americans.

Biden won't institute a day of r fascint and prayer on any date -- well he'd have to call for repentancew from his own policies. Isn't going to happen. . Some former Presidents did call for such a day and that's what we need. Now all we can do is call for it in isolated pockets, in individual families, maybe in particular churches.

It's foolishness to think God can't continue to bless a nation that has been abandonimg Him for decades now. We sjpi;d certaom;u repent of our insane policies under some Presidents toward Israel when we've gone along with the lying bogus "Palestinian" cause. But mostly I think of our drift to perverted interpretations of our Constitution, How can God bless a nation that took prayer and the Bible out of our schools because one malicious atheist claimed her rights wree abused by it. Or a nation that make killing unborn babies a "right," or the dispensing of poronography a "right," and Gay Marriage a "right," a nation that has taken up the absurd idea that you can decide what sex you are no matter how God made you. I think the abandonment of the practice of women's covering our heads in church lies somewhere at the root of these violations. And I also wonder about the effect of the abolition of the Sabbath when commerce shut down for one day a week. There is nothing accidtnal about the destructions we are watching daily, God is not mocked. God abandons a nation that abandons Him, especially one that started out dedicated to Him as this one was. We may not be able to trace our national sins with any exactness, but there is no doubt that we are seeing all this political insanity because of them.

If Thanksgiving was really a day of giving sincere thanks to God for His blessings by a majority of the people and particularly by our leadership it would be a good thing. But it's mostly degenerated into a mindless day of feasting for who knbows what reason.

Well, have a happy and genuinely thankful Thanssgiving, but do consider adding a day of fasting and prayer for the repenttance of our national sins to your calendar. (See Damiel 9 for inspiration)_

Building a Refuge From the Great Reset / Great Tribulation Antichrist System

Fighting this beast that is politically transforming the world may well be impossible. Think about all the resistance to it which is so hopeful, but how half the population is kept from knowing about it. How to get the information through that barricade is something I ponder quite a bit. The wall of censorship is awfully effective. Personal conversation seems like it might be the way to go but then you find how effective the propaganda has been and how closed to all new information the people you want to reach are. If they don't go out of their way to hear the other side, the conservative news sources, the conservative talk shows, and do it regularly, not just once in a while, they aren't going to change their minds. The information war is the big barrier. It's what has to be broken and so far I don't see a way to do that. What that means is that half the country (in the US, and I don't know how many throughout the world) believes the lies that are fed through the leftist media every day.

People still believe lies about Trump that have been debunked over and over again. They believe lies about COVID and how to treat it. The propaganda is thick and incessant these dAYS. AThe dissenting voices get heard from time to time but only wrapped in a blanket of lies that demonize them. Even though we had this amazing experience of a just verdict in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, there are still those who call him a murderer, vigilante, white supremancist and heap him with the same lies his acquittal should have brought to an end. TBut the evidence was there from the beginning and they didn't accept it so why shoujld they accept the acquittal?

The division is stark. Those who think we should just try harder to treat each other fairly, listen empathically and so on, are somehow not seeing this iron wall that has been so effectively errected. The only way to listen empathically to people who are believing lies is to try to disabuse them of the lies, but they've heard them so frequently the time and patience it would take to overcome them is beyond possible. God could intervene of course. We can always pray. But if He doesn't provide a way it's not going to happen and so far He seems to want to leave things as they are. That's my dreary conclusion.

So although I'm all for fighting this beast that is threatening to devour the world,I don't see much hope of prevailing except in isolated local skirmishes.

Is all this just a way of justifying the flight out of the most threatened countries? Well, yeah, that's the context I'm writing in at the moment. I won't be fleeing, I'm not up to it, but I support those who are fleeing. Can the Great Reset be avoided? Some think so. That's what the video is about. What if the Great Reseat is the Antichrist Kingdom of the Last Days, or the Great Tribulation? Well, some are going to have to be able to avoid the worst of it or nobody would come out from it alive and we know from scripture that many will.

Anyway, here are two videos about those who are fleeing to Mexico, forming communities to weather the coming storm. The second video is about one particular community, which is just now getting underway. It's a very attractive vision IMO.

Why Mexico is a good place for weathering the Great Reset:



And here's an interview with a couple who are putting together one of the communities for that purpose:



By the way, some of these people identify as Christians. If they are born again Christians and the Great Reseat is really the Great Tribulation, then according to the popular end times prophetic system they will not be here during the Tribulation. Those who need a refuge are those who are not yet saved but will be saved during the Tribulation period.

Israel, God's Clock, and Thorn in the Flesh of this Fallen World

Fascinating historical information in the latest Understanding the Times radio show by Jan Markell. Al about the establishment of the state of Israel and the role of Britain and the US. America has a spotty history regarding our attitude to the Jews and to Israel, as discussed in this show. Rejecting or ignoring when we should have helped but then coming through at crucial moments, particularly under Harry Truman and Richard Nixon, and of course most recently Donald Trump, to support and defend them.

Her guest for this hour is Steven Briggs, The maker of a film series that includes one titled "America and the Israel Effect," a filmI want to see when I can. It's not at Amazon though. the theme is that whoever blessed Israel will be blessed and whoever curses her will be cursed, which comes from God's promise to Abraham that in him all the world will be blessed. That refers to the Messiah Jesus of course, in Whom all the world truly will be blessed and already are. The state of Israel is nevertheless the central emblem of God's working in this world, and the last days will revolve around God's dealings with them.

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More Preps for the Great Tribulation

Here's the latest Understanding the Times show by Jan Markell, with pastor Billy Crone, talking about the way things are shaping up according to the plans of the Great Reset. Mention is made of how much further along this path Austrailia is, Canada too for that matter, and how the US is next. Maybe soon after the first of the year. This is the usual review of the Pre-0Tribulation Rapture point of view, which I disagree with on a few specifics, but I'd certainly like their timing of the Rapture to be true. Except of course I'm not worried about Christians anyway, I'm worried about my unsaved family who would have to go through the Tribulation, though perhaps with some protection if they're no longer in the US. I



I'm also going to include this interview by Susan with an escapee from Australia who is now in Mexico. They are both Christians and apparently not thinking in terms of the end times as I generally am and as the previous video is aboutt. It's more like the anticipation of the latest version of the Third Reich from which it makes sense for everybody to flee.

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The Great Tribulation will probably have a lot in common with the Third Reign anyway of course. The Fourth Reigh or Fourth version of the "Holy" Roman Empire. If you want to remind yourself of all that therer are plenty of videos on You Tube about the rise of Hitler and the concentration camnps, including one made in 1945 about the liberation of five or six of the campls. It's gruesome so be warned. But you know that I'm sure. This time the perps will be on the Left, however.

Veterans Day/Remembrance Day, a Day of Forboding This Year.

Veterans' Day in the US, Rememvbrance Day in Canada. The Canadian couple the Lechmans who moved to Mexico at the first of this yeare and provide welcoming videos about the country to other potential escapees, have a nice video on what this day is all about:


They've tied it into our current political scene which certainly does look like history repeating itself. It's particularly diabolical this time around because the perpetrators identify themselves with the victims of the previous world tyrants and are calling their oppoents the tyrants, the Nazis, the ascists, white supermacists and the like without one shred of justification. THEY are the tyrants, they are the fascists, the Marxists, the Inuisitors if you will.

I've seen quite a few videos at You Tube recently, about the Nazi era, and I keep thinking how something just as diabolical is shaping up today. And diabolical is certainly the word for it. the mentality is satanic, demonic, beyond anything you can think of as human despite our fallen human nature and the fallenness of this world. The coldblooded inhumanity of everything they touched comes through these stories. The taking of orphaned Polish children to be raised as Germans if they fit their idea of the Aryan race, people who are now about my age and trying to recover some shreds of information about their Polish families. The Nazis erased it all only too effectively. Then I saw another one about the death camp, the Sonderkommandos who were healthy young Jewish people who were chosen to dispose of the corpses of the Jewish people who had been exterminated in the gas chambers. They drag them out of the gas chamber and put them into the crematoria. Sometimes they recognized a family member. among the dead . The horror of it all is beyond anything we can fit into our soft lives as Americans or westerners in general. Diabolical absolutely.

"Never again" was the slogan that emerged after World War II asw the cry against the Holocaust, but here we are only a little over seventy=five years from the end of that war and the same forces are shaping up on a global scale.

It's the lies, the propaganda, that is particularly reminiscent of the earlier totalitarian movements. If you call your chosen victims by names that brand them as villains, or as something unhuman, as unworthy of living, you can influence great numbers of people against them. That's of course what happened to the Jews under Hitler but although Histler is always the emblem of such tyrannies, there were many others in the last century. The Communists branded the "bourgeoisie" or small business owners, and the aristocracy as the villains unworthy of life. In Rwanda the Hutus were propagandized into hating the Tutsis by a propaganda campaign that branded them as "cockroaches." ducing human beings to vermin seems to be the formula. Various brandings are at work today in the West: White supermacists is one of them, even just rejecting the vaccination makes you a villain class, sometimes just being a political conservative. You know, the "deplorables" and all that. Being a Trump supporter brands you for sure.

That is all coming from the Leftist Marxist ideology and its Critical Race Theory, and it promotes violence through elements in the Marxist organization Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Antifa is or course an example of how they identify themselve sas warriors against the evil fascists although all the fascistic thinking and the violence is coming from them against their chosen villains, the peaceloving freedomloving ordinary citizens, most of whom are conservatives.

It doesn't matter what the current stories in the news are, they are always bheing cast in these divisive terms with the Marxists loudly vilifying the conservaives. Even the trial of Kyle Riteenhouse is really just a political mockery of a trial. The evidence was apparent before the trial that he acted in self defense, but the forces that dientify with the rioters he was opposing are doing their best to make a viollain out of him.

Since opposing voices are silenced in so many ways, on social medial, in the "mainstream" news, huge numbers of people are being propagandzed into hating their political oppoents because that's all they hear. It's a potent method. The devil knows exactly what he's doing.

Yes it's Marxistm, it's fascism calling itself antifascism, it's all manner of po.litical totalitarianisms, but there is always this one player behind them all that keeps a low profile and even manages to emerge as a peacekeeper. Talk about diaboligical. Yes I'm talking about the Roman Church, the papacy and the Jesuits. TI posted a long list of books about them at my Roman Catholicism blog, and there are many more, just about all of them going back over a century before they succeeded in revising history. There have always been bloody wars but not until the Inquisition were a particular class, or classes, of people turned into a victim class and hunted down by the totalitarians. I'd be surprised to find out I'm wrong about this. The INquisition stands in my mind as the template for the Holocaust -- because Histler himself identified it as his model for one thing -- and all the other movements that pit one class of people against another. Marxism put it into pretty stark teminology: they divide people into Oppressor and Oppressed and it's the Oppressed who kill the Oppressors. You've got to notice how they languague reverses the truth.

So it's good to remember those who gave their lives in defense of the freedoms that are periodically threatened in this world. That's what this day is all about and I've heard a number of remembrances on the radio.

But this one is likely to be the last one, if we are in the Last Days as manyh of us think we arell. This totalitarian movement will likely be the shape of the Great Tr4ibulation, that last seven years beofre Jesus returns.

It's closing in, Plan accordingly. Pray. give yourself to Jesus Christ.

Rome Again: the Plot to Destroy the Protestant West

O happy I am to see this radio show by Chris Pinto, but slow I was to find it. A few days old but that's not too bad; the topic is timeless. He's talking about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in England when the Jesuits attempted to blow up the English Parliament kill King James I and bring back the Catholic monarchy. I hadn't known about Guy Fawkes Day until Pinto talked about it, a day of celebration in England over the thrwarting of this plot by a Guy Fawkes under the authority of the Jesuits. It's a very important historical peg for hanging a ton of information about Jesuit plots against Protestant nations and Protestantism in general. As Pinto points out, they've just about succeeded in blowing up America too Can we rally and put them down through Christ as England did? It doesn't look too hopeful, but our God is the God of the impossible and He hears prayer.

AGAIN I HAVE TO ADD THAT I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CATHOLICS AS SUCH, JUST THE ROMAN CHURCH HIERARCHY AND THE JESUITS. MANY CATHOLICS OPPOSE THIS POPE AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CATHOLICS. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT THE HEIRARCHY, THE PAPACY, THE JESUITS, AND THOSE WHO ARE THEIR FOLLOWERS.

It's possible to talk about our current political woes, really treasons, without mentioning the Jesuits or Rome in general, but as I keep noticing, all that does is allow them to consolidate their power and influence without much resistance. Their weapon these days is Marxism, and it is important to know that it is THEIR weapon. There are certainly many other players on their side but as Pinto has shown time and time again the Jesuits are behind it all in one way or another. Their whole mission from their foundin by Ignatius Loyola was to bring down the Protestant Reformation, and although the US hardly identifies as a Protestant nation any more, they know it is and labor endlessly to destroy it. We inherited the Constitutional freedoms from Christian work in Europe and it all came together in a powerfully Protestant government, which Samuel Adams declared would be the "reign of political Protestantism." Years and years of revisionist hitory-writing have deprived us of that original framework , and it may be too late to recover it, but ... God is the God of the imppossible. We just need to call on Him with eerything that is in us.

We have a start in the Virginia election, and if we can keep the Democrats from rigging the next elections we stand a chance of recovering what we've lost. But only if we call on God with all our hearts.

I wish I had the energy to try to spell out more of what Chris Pinto talks about in this radio show, but I want to get it posted. It's important, listen to it.

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