Well, he got ME praying more.

UPDATe: I listened to this post with the "read aloud" function so I know there are some horrific typos in it but my eyes are too bad right now to do anything aout it. Sorry. I hope I may be able to fix it later.

I want to add here though thtat I've been praying all day whenever I've had a free moment and and SO grateful for this inspiration that came from Stev3en Lee's talk < Thinbgs are so bad in this country it's not possible to run out of things to pray about but mostly I've been praying that God would inspire more of us to pray, that He would bring about the prayer meetings Lee calls for in his talk, or that individuals would be inspired to pray on their own. Less tgave the examples of Jacob wresting with the angel and Hannah who prayed alone although corporate prayer is the ideal.

O rend the heavens and come down to Your people, Lord, set us on fire of the Holy Spirit, guide us to praya as we should.


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Yes, I strongly believe we need to return to the head covering bu5t again, I don't want to detract from the call to prayer. I've prayed without the head covering and received answers. I even prayed years ago with a prayer partner for revival and we received wonderful experiences of the presence of the Holy Spirit. I hadn't yet given any thought to the passage about the head covering so I'm sure neither of us had anythihng on our heads. We were praying over the phone every morning for months. Then she moved out of town and I lost touch with her. we didn't really know each other, weren't friends, we'd met in the church library over the book about Revival and agreed to pray together. It was a nice time of prayer but it didn't bring revival or even inspire others to join us.

After writing my last post I've been praying more myself. Yes with tears. As Lee's talk emphasizes, we need to be praying with desperation, and the times we are living in certainly are desperate. SWe feel it so why don't we pray it?


"Why isn't there overwhelming prayer in the face of this pandemic?:" Pme pf tje c;o[s [;aued bu Stevem :ee at tje emd pf jos ta;l was am Aistra;oam wjp asled tjat qiestopj/ Ot dpes see, tp be trie tjat we jave mpt ressponjed with prayer as we should have, as the dire circumstances we are living through call for. Why indeed?

tHAT WAS OF COURSE THE THEME OF lEE'S TALK. We need to be praying, why aren't we? Why on earth would we look to political solutions when what we need is God's power? Why on earth would we be spending so much time on biblical prophecy of the coming destruction of the planet when we should be praying our hearts out for God's intervention. Perhaps we've fallen into a fatalistic state of mind?

I'm very grateful for Steven Lee's talk, I think I will be praying a lot more as a result. I've also resumed covering me head though, which I don't always do when I'm alone. I think I should so I'm doing it again.

I want revival. I want God to come upon His people inj ppower as He has done in past revivals. those revivals are enormously inspiring to read about, but I want to HAVE a revival, I don't want to read about revivals any more. I am no longer going to listen to the naysayers who are sure it's all over, no more revivals, all we have to look forward to is God's judgments. It may be so but we don't know that for sure. Not yet. Lee is right. The churches need to to be praying their hearts out now,k they need to be organizing into prayer groups.

Yes I still think women need to be covering our heads in prayer. I hope God will convict us of that and whatever else He wants us to be doing to bring Him closer to us.

GHelp, Lord. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/misc/sermons/122021225375961/ t sermonaudio.com/solo/misc/sermons/122021225375961/

Will God Ever Again Bless Us with a Revivall? I Pretty Much Gave Up on That Some Time Ago but Here I Am Hoping Yet Another Time.

Something always eventually brings me back to this theme. This time I heard a very good talk by the founder of Sermon Audio, Steven Lee, on the importance of prayer:

A CALL TO UNITED PRAYER

He's lamencing the lack of fervent desperate prayer in this time of worldwide chaos and calamity. At the end he plays some short clips of others expressing the same lament. The churches aren't pratying enough or aren't praying with enough passion.

Leonard Ravenhill had a similar take on the situation. Here we so desperately need God to act and He isn't acting and it must be because we are not praying enough or praying in the right way.

He plays a clip of Dr. Alan Cairns, a very inspiring preacher, lamenting the fact that we don't have the personal experience of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Again this is laid to a lack of prayer or rigyht prayer. <>
I've wanted to see a real revival for a long time. times when the Holy Spirit comes in power and transforms our lives and transforms the culture around us. Wy is it not happening? I've talked about this many times in this blog. I don't think it's a simple lack of prayer.

I think it's like the situation at Ai when Joshua was defeated and sought the Lord for His favor. The Lord told him to get up and find out about the man who had stolen thinhgs from the city of Ai. That was the reason for Joahua's defeat. When that problem was recognized, the guilty man brought to justice, then God tgave them victory.

God isn't blessing our prayers because we aren't meeting some condition He requires for us even to pray to Him at all. I think that is our abandonment of the head covering for women. In 1 Corinthians 11: 2-16 Paul says women are to pray with our heads covered. TAhis passage has been twisted by modern interpretation to deny that a literal head covering was meant, and I've argued this at length in my blog Hidden Glory. The head covering signifies God's order of headship of Christ over man, man over womaan. It's a creation ordinance. Marriage is another creation ordinance we've violated recently with the legalization of gay marriage.

It starts with the churches. If we're ignoring god's creation ordinance it will impact the Christian life in many ways, and there's every reason to think that this is the cause of the deterioration of the culture around us too. The head covering is no trivial thinjkg though people often try to dismiss it as trivial. It represents God's created order, His ordering of the sexes, the family, everything that relates to that basic structure.

I always come back to it though usually in a state of despair because it is not taken seriously by the churchesw. The best preachers have accepted the false interpretation and don't seem to notice the spiritual weakness in their churches. Some hardly have any idea that a great move of the Holy Spirit is even possib. Topo many churches are accepting a tepid spiritual life as normal.

I do hesitate to be as empphatic about this as I am. Who am I after all to suggest such a sweeping explanation for such a broad lack in the churches? Well I'm nobody but I nevertheless strongly propose that if the churches resumed the practice of women's covering our heads we would very likely see an increase in our influence in the culture through our prayers, and an incrase in our spiritual life.

I dare to say it. I wish I had a way of making people see it.

There are other problems too. "Ecumenical" prayer meetings are an abomination in the sight of God and yet that's what occurs at the prayer breakfasts for the nation in Washington D.C. Our National Cathedral is a disgrace of an excuse for a "Christian" church. Would Elijah have had a prayer meeting with the priests of Baal? I'll even mention that Jewish Messianic believers who pray with a yarmulke on their headsw or with a prayer shawl pulled up over their heads are also violating 1 Cor. ``.
None of that is likely to be a problem with the Sermon Audio prayer group. I just mention it because it does interfere with prayer in this country in other groups. I wrote to Steven Lee about this. How nice it would be if I'd succeeded in persuading him. It would be my only success but he's got a huge website soit could have a big effect through him. It's up to God but as usual I guess I can still hope though it gets harder all the time.


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Added Later: I listened again to Steven Lee's talk and thought maybe I didn't give him enough credit. He did do a great job of making the case for prayer and it's hard to disagree with the charge that we are slow to pray when it is needed. Anything that gets us praying is a good thing. So maybe I spoke too soon about the problem beintg something that precedes prayer instead. I go there because of what does seem to me to be real effort at fervent prayer that has simply not borne fruit. That is what suggests that something else needs to happen first. I still think that is probably true but at the same time I don't want to say anything that woujld discourage people from praying. Just put a cloth over your head and see if it makes a difference. If you're a woman of course. And take off your headgear of any sort whatever if you're a man.

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Is the Mary of the Apparitions An Ancient Babyloniahn Goddess, the Original Queen of Heaven?

The more time I spend exploring the apparitiions of Mary the greater their influence appears to me. You can of course ignore these things or know just a little about them and brush them off as just another Roman Church weirdness, but even if you regard them as significant in the context of the last days into which we seeem to have entered some time ago, you can underestimate their importance. It took the recognition of the huge importance of the Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico to wake me up to the global significance of "Mary" although I've more or less kept tabs on the phenomena for decades now. "Her" influence is staggering. . The film "Messages from HeaveN" ought to be enough to get across the global reach of these phenomena but even that is too easily dismissed. You turn away and forget about it. But it's hitting me now how huge this is. The Marian apparitions alone set the stage for the last days. There couldn't be a greater spiritual deception yet to come. Is it "Mary" riding the first horse of the Apocalypse?

Perhaps the most interesting of the apparitions of "Mary" is the one called The Lady of All Nations. The most interesting thing about it is that it calls itself the "former" Mary, as if she is trying to shed that identity and become something she really is -- perhaps an ancient Babylonian goddess? The goddess called in the book of Jeremiah "The Queen of Heaven," a title the apparitions began to assume though I didn't catch which one used it first.

Jeremiah says God's people Israel have provoke Him to anger with their attentions to this Queen of Heaven goddess. VComkmentaries suppose her to be the ancient goddess Ishtar but she went by many different names in the nations of the ancient world.

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Jer 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Jer 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

This Lady of All Nations, like many of the other apparitions, warns of callamities to come, recommending of course praying the rosary and other Roman Church superstitions, as if their adoration of her were not the major reason for such calamities, as Jeremiah makes clear.

Here's an article detailing the messages of this particular apparition, The Lady of All Nations:

ARATICLE ABOUT THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS

Interesting that among the apparition's lies is a prophecy (this was given in j945) about the establishment of the state of Israel which occurred ihn 1948, with a warning about how Israel would supposedly mistreat the Palestinian people as they attain statehood. This bit of propaganda coming from a highly revered "Mary" is wrenchingly portentous, likely to be all too influential. mbr>

The visionary gets a vision of the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, and hear the words: “Israel will rise again.” Indeed, in 1948, the new independent state of Israel is proclaimed. This prediction, however, continues with a warning about the manner in which the Jewish people obtain possession of the land by ignoring the rights of the Palestinian people: “And Yahweh is ashamed of His People.” Today, this has become recognizable.

Shall I review the bare bones of the history here? Maybe I have to:

There was never any Palestinian people. Ever. When the first Jewish settles came from Europe the land was a wilderness, attested to by Mark Twain who had visited there in the latter part of the 19th century. He was astonished at the desolation he encountered there. Scattered farms, nomads, a few Jews who had been there forever, no national identity whatever, or even any coherent settlmenets. the arriving Jews settled a barren land. They bought land where necessary, they stole nothihng from anyone. What later because the "Paelstiniqans" who never were Palestinians at all, were Arabs from the various surrounding nations who came to work for the Jews as they developed the land. When the state of Israel was finally established, Arab nations plotted an attack and warned the Arabs living yhere to flee so as to escape harm. They became the refugees who became the Palestinians who should have been helped by the Arab nations but never were. They became a tool for the persecution of Israel.

That is a digression in this context but I couldn't let "her" get away with it. Too often the Roman Church gets away with its work in this world, fomenting wars, even inspiring Hitler's Holocaust, being the main perpetrator of the pogroms against eh Jews, even the inciter of genocides such as Stalins and Pol Pot's and Rwanda, when you study the background of these things. So here'a the Roman "Mary" promoting one of the lies about Israel that is a constant lying attack on Israe. the role of the Jesuits in the current efforts to desroy America, all too successful I'd appear, never gets noticedThere are old books galore revealing these things but who reads old books? Richard Bennett, Ronald Cooke, Christ Pinto and others talke about it but what is their reach in this world where a false "Mary" can command the attention of millions upon millions Put it this way, the Antichrist has already turned the world upside down in preparation for the Grand Finale..

WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ON THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS

Here's the film :Messages from Heaven" again. The apparitions' identity as the Queen of Heaven is discussed starting about 1:08:00

The Miracles Associated With the Marian Apparition at Guadalupe Add to Its Antichrist Character Since "She" Contradicts the Bible

UPDATE: For me it's been an eyeopener to explore this bit of Mexican history. Well, it's really not right to call it a "bit" because this apparition and its image that has been preserved for five hundred years has clearly been crucially important in shaping Mexican national identity. It brought together the native Indian tribes and the Spanish conquistadores into one religious identity of Roman Catholicism. It is such a powerful unifier one hesistates at the thought of its being disturbed in any way, so that even the fact that it functions to deprive its followers of salvation in Christ gives one pause. Somehow the message must be given in a way that doesn't disrupt the unifty. Without directly q1uestioning the event and its image I suppose. i wonder if that's possible.

To the flesh I find many attractive things about Mexico, much of it in its artistic expressions. I like spanish coloniahn architexture because it shows their interest in decorative features. the wrought iron, the arched doorways, the pretty tiles and so on. I like the image of the Guadalup0e itself for that matter, I like a lot of Medieval art for its simpliecity of design. I noticed in one video that stairs going up to the site of Juan Dietgo's encounter with "Mary"{ are decorated with patterned tiles. We dont do that here in America. We make dull boxes and blank surfaces. But of course thats another subject.

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, It's really rather fascinating to encounter Romanist propaganda and there is a lot of it about the "Virgin" of Guadalupe or Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico's iconic Apparition that appaers to far transcend any lore or teachings about Jesus Christ. In fact Catholicism so reveres and exalts "Mary" all over the world it really sholuldn't be called Christianity at all, but perhaps Marianity or something like that. Pope John Paul is known for his special devfotion to Mary. Of course Jesus is always mentioned in the accounts somewhere, but always in a subordinate role, as a baby, as having delegated His power to her and that sort of thing.
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This is of course not the true Mary of the Bible who was the mother of Christ, and I guess that has to be said from time to time because she was a humble human being who knjew she needed a savior whereas the Marian apparitions claim the attributes of God and usurp the position of Christ. He's our only mediator with God, the scripture tells us, but "she" claims to be "Mediatrix" who intercedes with "her son" for us. He is our Redeemer but "she's claims the title "Co-Recemptrix." The film I've posted a couple of times now, "Messges from Heaven" details these claims.

Such claims make "her" such an Antichrist it is understandable why Alexander Hislop suggested she might in fact be the final Antichrist. She certainly fits the definition but she doesn't as far as I'vve been able to determine fit the biblical portrait of the Ancichrist. Nevertheless she MUST play an imporant role in the end times scenario considering the immense influence of these appartitions around the world, and in fact what is claimed for Our Lady of Guadalupe exalter her to deity.

The video I'm posting here is a discussion of all the supposed miraculous qualities attached to the image of Guadalupe that is displayed in her shrine inb Mexico. It goes into great detail about aspects of the portrait they've determined to prove its divine origin. It may have a supernatural origin, I wouldn't despute that myself since I knjow the origin of such apparitions is satanic, but I wouldn't know how to assess all the claims. Perhaps some are made up or fraudulent, some supernatural etc.

One thing is certain, they are not divine, not from God that is, because everything about the elevation of Mary and the apparitions themselves and esepcially the attributes claimed for the apparitions, is contrary to the Bible. The Bible is our standard. without it we have no sure guide to the treuth about these thinhgs, and the apparitions contradict it at every turn. All this is spelled out in the film "Messages from Heaven."

It woujld bew amusing except for the fact that it shows the depth of the delusion under which hundreds of millions of Catholics are held and deprived of the salvation of Christ, that inj the discussion of the Virgin of Guadalupe the narrators like to take potchots at the Protestant Reformation. In this one Luther is accused of leding people away from the true faith, while the miracles of Guadalupe worked to bring millions into the "true Church."

Luther, of course, along with Calvin and the other Refomers, discovered that the Rpoman Church, and particularly the papacy, had violated the Biblical revelation, and that the papacy was in fact the Antichrist, which they proved from scripture. . the Protestant Rreformation was the rediscovery of scriptural truth after a thousand years of the apostasy of the Roman usurper or Harlot Church. The most important recovery of the Reformation was the biblical truth that we are saved by God alone and our own deeds cannot save us, while the Roman church continues to teach salvation by deeds or works, sending hundreds of millions of their followers to Hell as a consequence.

The elevation of the false Mary is such a dojinating influence in the Catholic Church today it is hard to avoid the impression that Jesus Christ means nothing to them. The supernatural signs and wonders that attend the Marian apparitions of course have a powerful effect on the naïve Catholics who revere them.

Anyway, heres a video about the supposed miracles of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe who is pparently adored by millions of Mexican Catholics::

The Sfory of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico''s famous and Very Influential Apparition of "Mary" in 1531

On Sunday Decemer 12th, some American ex-pats in Mexico witnessed a Mexican tradition that was new to them, a long caraan of cars and bicicles carring statues and pictures of "Mary" as ” Our Lady of Guadalupe”, which commenmorates an appearance of “Mary” on that date in 1531`to an Aztec man who had converted to Catholicism, namd Juan Diego. Among other members of the long train of vehicles was a man on a bicicle with a huge staties of the Lady of Guadalupe strapped to his back., a statue about ten feet tall. There was a truckload of statues and pictures of this "Mary" in the line as well.

The following video is a Catholic film about the history of this evcent. The apparition performed a miracle to convince the Catholic bishop of its authenticity, and a church was built on the site o commemorate her appearance. Pilgrims go by the millions to this site every year in Mexico.

If the film’s history of this event is true, the apparition converted eight million Aztecs to Catholicism. A miracle occurred in which her image appeared on the cloak worn by Juan Dieego continingd symbols recognized by the Aztecs to represent elements of their own religion, which gave authenticity to it in thir eyes. The film claims that the number converted was ten timese that of the number lost at the same time in Europe to “the Protestant Reoltt, meaning of course the Protestant Reformation. --

So this is Catholic propaganda, some of which is probably true enough though I have no way of judging. Sad of course that the Aztecs gave up their pagan religion for what is really jujst another pagan religion.


Watching the video again I'm struck by the disgust felt by the Roman Catholic conquistadores at the Aztecprctice of human sacrifice. Does seem natural at first, they being Europeans and all,until you realize that they had no problem slaughtering mill8ions of dissidents against their beliefs. Over 600 years it is calculated that the Roman church murdered some 67 million nonCatholics, 50 million of them Christiqan protestawnts, the rest Jews, Muslims, witches and so onh. Even at the rate given in the film of fifty thousand per year sacrificed by the Aztecs to their gods it would have taken the a thousand years to equal the number of murders by thne Roman church in eUROPE.

I already posted this film below but it also elongs here. This is "messages from Heaven" which exposes the Marian apparitiobs as demonic impersonations of "the Virtgin "Mary: based on the biblical accounts.

What's the Real Cause of the Rise of Vvariants, and the Continuing and Increasing COVID Cases and Deaths?

Just heard on radio news. Although the programming is conservtive, the news comes from the "mainstream" liars. I haven't figured out how that happens but it's only a couple minutes of lies and I suppose it's good to know what half the country is believing.

What I just heard is that COVID cases among children, actually Delta variate cases I think they said, are up by 37% SINCE LAST WEEK. I don't know about you but that hit me as rather suspect. But then I'm so cynical these days you should probably have some caution about my eactions. And what was m6y reaction? Golly Gosh, didn't they just do a blitz campaign to get children vaccinated? Golly Gosh, would you be surprised to discover that this increase in cases is in children who were vaccinated? I woujldn't, but then again I'm so cynical take it with a spponful of salt....

They've been manipulating the COVID statistics from the betginning so when they say there are all these cases of UNJvaccinated people sick with COVID, I simply do not believe them. And sometimes when people have checked with the hospitals supposedly overrun with them they find out that it’s not true so there’s good reason not to believe them. I personally know of qhole groups of vaccinated people who have come down with COVID, and in one group one of them died. I mentioned this somewhere in an earlier blog post. A month or so ago by now. It's the vaccinated who are getting sic, in some cases ONLY the vaccinated..

This new variant dubbed Omicron occurred originally in vaccinated people. In fact there is reason to believe that the shots themsevles are the cause of the development of these new variants. The phenomenon of "shdding" from vaccinated people is real, that is, the vaccinated give off the virus to others around them. They are trying to blame continuing or increasing cases of COVID or its variants ON THE UNVACCINATED BUT THE REAQL SOURCE IS THE VACCINATED. There is no “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” it should be called the PANDEMIC OF THE VACCINATED.

There was no reason whatever to vaccinate children since if they get COVID they get very mild cases of it and develop antibodies. But they hit hard with a campaign to get them vaccinated, Didn’t we all hear this swet little ad about how wonderful it is that now our precious future citizens with their wonderful talents that will benevfit society can now get vaccinated? They were giving us the "good news" that children are now "eligivle" for this experience that will ensure them a bright future, or the one about how this vaccine is now "available" for them. Oh such good news. Such good news that a substance that is known to kill a certain number of its recipients and causes pain and sufferig to many others, is now “available” for your children. Oh happy day.

May bought the line. So the campaign apparently succeeded and now great numbers of children are oh so happily vaccinated against COVID by a substance that doesn't protect against COVIDE except in perhaps a very mild way, doesn't prevent transmitting it to others and may be detrimental to the health of the children as they grow up, and so on and so forth. Oh happy day.

So golly gosh, all of a sudden IN ONE WEEK cases of COVID in children have increased by 37%. No connection of course.

And that is simpl;y presented as a natural course of the virus, to be expected despite all their horrific policies to shut us up and lock us down to prevent it. Be afraid, be very afraid. That’s what they want us to feel. The more we fear the more we fall for their lies. But you won’t hear about this beause it’s just “misinformation” that gets people kicked off social media. If you want to know the truth you have to go looking for it..

All this takes me to my usual topic. That is, THERE IS NO REASON WHATEVER FOR ANYONE TO DIE OF COVID. They’ve denied us access to the treatments that would have saved at least 85% of those who died. Bad studies were promoted, even a completely fraudulent one, the propaganda is held by most medical professions these days because they are too busy to spend the time to check it out and don’t have the motivation to anyway, plus of course they are under threat of losing their jobs if they find out they’re being lied to. HCQ with zinc could have cured most, so could Ivermectin, and now we have Monoclonal antibodies but it isn’t automaticallty given to people sick with COVID. The virus could have been done away with a year ago.

I don’t think this could be motivated merely by greed though that is the most popular explanation. I could be wrong, but such a concerted effort to manipulate us suggests something much bigger and much more sinister.

I’ve been almost obsessively watching Holocaust survivor testimonies and documentaries about the Nazi era as if it might tell me what’s coming.

The Pre-Trib Questions Again. Sorry, Can't Help It.

Yes I know my questions about the end times can be offensive to Pre-Tribbers. Can't help it. Can't help having the questions.

For istance, why are they so certain the "blessed hope" of the "appearing of the Lord Jesus" refers to the Pre-Trib Rapture? Isn't it true that Jesus won't appear to the world at that time but will appear at the Second Comintg? Doesn't the word "appearing" make it NOT refer to the Rapture? We certainly all believe that Jesus' coming back, either for the Rapture or at the very end, either one, is indeed our blessed hope, but the way that concept is so adamantly claimed for the Pre-Trib Rapture is not at all convincing.

And then there is the statement "This is the first resurrection" which occurs very late in the Book of revelation, long after the Rapture which isw supposed to have preceded all the events of the Tribulation period, and yet wouldnj't the Rapture be the first resurrection? The timing raises a question about what exactly is in cluded in the first resurrection.

And as I've mdentioned before, who the martyrs under the altar in Revelation six are is still a question. Why would the martyrs among the Raptured be a separate group from these later martyrs who are wayting for yet more martyrs to join them. Why if martyrs are singled out for a special status are those from our time, those from the Inquisition, those around the world right now, why are they separated?

I can't answer thesae questions. I want the Pre-Trib Rapture to be true. I'm ready to go, the sooner the better. But nobody answers these questions, all they do is reiterate the Pre-Trib scenario.

Sigh.

Forgot one: 1 Corinthians 15 says the Rapture will occur "at the last trump" and yet nobody seems to talk abou the trupet at all. What do they think it meansw? If it's the last odf the seven trumpets in Revelation that puts it considerably after the Pre-Trib seenario. So we need to know what it means.