What's Wrong With Everything In A Few Brief Blurts

There’s too much to talk about and I don’t know where to start. I want to talk about the lies we’re hearing every day about COVID and the “vaccines” that aren’t vaccines, I want to report on Joe Rogan’s interviews with Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone, I want to tie in their view that we are in a time of mass pscyhosis which has been orchestrated in stages, with the Holocaust survivor testimonies I’ve been listening to that also reveal how they were entrapped by orchestrated stages Maybe not so much orchestrated as being tried out one at a time to see how much resistance they may generate and since they didn’[t generate much, they were very effective, they escalated their oppressive measures for the next stage. Well, we’ve been through unnecessary lockdowns, unnecessary masking, the propaganda that vilifies a segment of the population by another segment. Step by step we are getting herded where they want us.

I want to link to Chris Pinto’s recent radio show in which he discusses ten issues from the previous year that are following us into the new year, a sad litany of betrayals by the people who are unfortunately in power in this country, and all over the world for that matter, the same people Michele Bachmann called “monsters” in the talk I linked in my last post.

Then Jan Markell’s latest show is unfortunately also an important source of sad news, as she interviews Cary Gordon who made a film titled “Enemies Within the Church” parts of which can be found at You Tube. This is all about how the enemies of the culture have also invaced the churches with their antichristian Wokeness and other abominations. The most shocking revelation to me was that Albert Mohler, who has been a hero to the true born again church for decades, has capitulated to these evil influences. Just a side note of my own: I suspect Chris Pinto could take us behind the scenes even further than this film and show us who has been plotting thes coup and how they’ve succeeded.

I thought I might put together a post starting from one small incident in the part of that film about the takeover and destruction of what had been a solid Florida church. One woman who opposed the takeover and was ousted forher efforts reports that when she came close to one of the main leaders of the takeover the hair stood up on the back of her neck. There’s no explanation for that other than that the man was demon possessed. It’s evil spirits that cause the hair to stand up like that.

And that could lead me into another sad topic which is the growth of the occult in America. Sometimes I tune into the late night Coast to Coast radio show which is usually about the paranormal, and it’s staggering how many people are apparently involved in one facet or another of the various occultic experiences from UFOs to witchcraft to oiut of body experiences and much much more. They even rationalize it in some cases as “Christian” though it is all demonic and it’s horrifying to realize that they have no clue to its essentially demonic nature. Yes I should do a post on that eventually if I can.

The Lying Media. This might be a topic unto itself or maybe its belongs with the COVID topic but I just thought of it: the reports that the hospitals are overlflowing with COVID patients, most of them unvaccinated. They interview such a patient who says she regrets refusing to be vaccinated, giving no information about her even whatever, what she’s in the hospital for – we’re supposed to assume she’s sick with COVID but I don’t assume any such thing any more. Maybe she’s there for surgery and tested positive for COVID. They call people unvaccinated who have had one or two “vaccinations” they classify people who test posibive as COVID patients no matter what their reason for being in the hospital. And then they go and interview a guy who says he can’t get a needed surgery because the beds are full of the “unvaccinated” who are “selfish” to take up beds others could use. The fact is that most of the patients aren’t COVID patiensts at all, and the truly unvaccinated make up a minuscule proportion of those who are. It’s the vaccinated who are getting sick, in fact the variants are probably manufactured by those who have been vaccinated but of course we’ll never get that information from the mainstream media who for some reason are in on this program of trying to scare us all to death and make a villain class out of the unvaccinated. That’s part of the COVID propaganda campaign, but of course there’s the Critical Race Theory propaganda campaign which is making villains of “white people.” Vaccine Passports are in force in some places, maybe they’ll make someo of us wear a white badge that says “racist” on it or something. But I dogresss.

I’ve also had in mind a post titled something like Liberals Live in LaLa Land, to express my frustration with the fact that the great political divide in this country is largely due to the fact that the information people need is being withheld from half the country. It's the liberals who don’t know what’s going on because they trust the mainstream media and the dominant authorities of the current government and never seek out any other sources of information. All other information they consider to be “misinformation” by evil conservarives because that’s what the bogus authorities of Social Media tell them. This is maybe the biggest frustration right now, the engineered impossibility of getting the truth to half the country.

I’ve also got a project in mind that’s still pretty vague, coming off Chris Pinto’s recent film about the Christian foundations of America. How it was more than a mere Reputlic, it was as he quotes Samuel Adams, intended to be “the reighn of political Protestantism.” How it could have succeeded but didn’t and now never can. ,br>
O On the theme of the intended Christian nature of America it would be all too easy to document how unbelievers, both the hsotile and the benign who just don't have a clue to what Christianity is all about, have fought for antichristian interpretations of the Constitution and the framer's original intent. Even the benign as I called them are hostile to Christian principles and the Law of God. Oh yes I need to write more about the Law of God too. Anyway I just heard a wellmeaning liberal talkking about how we're going to need to get used to the idea that it's OK to experiment with different gender expressions, as if it's just very backward of us, simply unevolved or that sort of thing, to fight this "progress" Oh yeah, the meaning of "progressive," I've wanted to do a post on that too. Anyway, this nice liberal thinks we need to explore the variations of geneder as interesting experiences or something like that. I don't know if she knows the Bible condemns the dressing as women by men and as men by women, but I'm sure the bible is just an artifact of human thinking anyway rather than the word of God, there being no God in her thinking, but the fact that that's in the Bible is the reason we cannot, we Christians cannot, play around with gender variations as she seems to think would be a good addition to our lives. I don't see the attraction to such expressions anyway myself.

So the world is going to Hell and we've been watching it helplessly for some time now. I still hope God might show us how to deserve a revival but at the moment things look awfully disposed against any such possibility.

Oh another theme. Yes the Jesus Freaks of the seventies was a revival of corts and I haven't r mentioned it as I've written about wanting a revival. It was a revival but not quite what I've had in mind and it's effect on the Church is not entirely what we should want either. There are half-baked revivals and that has to be kept in mind.

I'm sure there's more but I suppose that's enough misery for one post.

Wounded, Bleeding, Bound and Gagged, We Limp Into a New Year.

Well, sure, of course I WISH us all a happy 2022 but ... but.

Why aren't our prayers being heard? They aren't, you know. I don't think it's for lack of effort or passion, I continue to think that we aren't meeting God's conditions. We're under judgment. Sometimes prayer can divert judgment, but sometimes we're past the point where it can be diverted. I don't know in this case for sure. Is God saying Stop trying to escape, go to Babylon and dig in and make the best of it, or is He telling us He's about to judge the earth and e should prepare for th Second Coming? Or is He saying identify the violation of My will and rectify it and Then pray. Or what?

Maybe not enough of us recognize that we are under judgment and we could start there. Michele Bachmann did a nice job of spelling this out in a talk she gave a few months ago at a conference:



Plenty of people missed that 9/11 was God's judgment on America. I remember wincing through days of silly statements by Christian preachers about how God doesn't do such things. I remember cringing through Bush's prayher gathering in the National Cathedral which included a Muslim leader, a Cqatholic leader and a Jewish leader knowing that such ignorance of the nature of God was only going to bring more judgment on the nation.

Bachmann describes how things have been getting worse intead of b4etter since 9/11. This isn't for lack of prayer, this is because we're under God's judgment and until we RIGHTLY repent, repent of the right violations, there is no hope of turning these things back.

It may be too late anyway, but I don't know that for sure yet.

It's not going to be a very happy year if we don't get it right. Not here on this planet anyyway. If we get rapturexd out of it, hooray, but we may have to go through a lot more than we usually impute to that scenario.

Merry Christmas 2

This is such a good sermon by John MacArthur I had to make another Merry Christmas post for it. He imagines the feelings of Mary and Joseph when they hear that they are to be the parents of a child who will be the Son of God. He inclues a long long list of lines from various Chrfistmas carols which is very inspiribng.

Merry Christmas!

It's become a Christmas traditioj for me, The Star of Bethlehem. With an astronomy program Rick Larson smakes a good case for the time of Christ's birth as marked by the brightest heavenly object ever. But more than that, his researches identify the likely date of His conception on Rosh Hashanah of 3 BC and the likely date of the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem when the "start" stood still over the house Jesus was living in. He also shows what was going on in the sky at the time of the Lord's death on the Cross.

Here's the Puzzler About Why Our Corporate Prayers Fail

Steen Lee's talk was about how we don't pray with enough fervor or desperation. He played clips from others who see the problem the sqame way. His talk was a call to protracted committed fervent prayer in this time of worldwide destruction of society. The puzzler is why he had a group praying daily for a year and as far as anyone can see so far there is no fruit. Things continue to degenreate.

Does qa lack of fervor explain it?

Leonard Ravenyhill exhorted us to pray for revival for years and years. I know people followed him. Nothing came of it that we could point to. No revival.

I wondered why. I speculated that maye the fact that he accepted the charismatic movement as genuine could have been an impediment. Lack of fervor? Doesn't seem likely.

Kay Arthur called for prayer by her Bible study leaders and members across the ation. There was no fruit we could point to there either. Again why not?

There was a huge prayer gathering in Washington D.C. I thik in the sujmmer of 2020 though I may be misremembering. No fruit to report from that one either. I don't know enolugh about it to speculate on the reqasobns myself, but I don't hae any problem exdplaining the lack of success of the prayer breakfasts in Washington and George Bush's prayer in the Natiobnal Cathedral after 9/11, It's simple. God isn't going to honor ecumentical prayer. Believers and unbelieers cannot pray together and expect success.

I've prayed my heart o7ut for revival from time to time. Nothing has come of it that I can see.

I do think the abandonment of women's covering our heads in prayer is likely to be a big factor, but there may be other factors.

Just as we can ask why these efforts have failed we can also ask why some succeeded. Jonathan Edwards called for extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion in his day and the Great Awakening was the fruit of that. How long did it take between his call and the fruit? I don't know.

The last real revival I can think of was the one in Saskatchewan in Canada in the 70s that was set in motion by Pastor Bill McLeod. HYe got his church members to sign up to pray for revival at particular fifteen minute intervals around the clock, and he himself prayedd fervently for his church and for revival every morning. It was't long before people came under Holy Spirit conviction for tvarious sins and the revival was underway. Over the next few years it grew to thousands. It seems to have been a genuine revial.

I do't count the charimastic "revivals" such as the "TAoronto Blessings which was the Laughting revival, or the Brownsville revival. Certainly not Lakeland.

Why did Saskatechewan succeed? Why are we not able now d3espite what seemes to me to be some sincere and fervent efforts having any success at all?

That's the puzzler. That's the question. The first things wee need to pray for is an ansswer to that question. Is it anyt of the rasons I'vve suggested abover,. Is it the lack of fervor Steen Lee talks about> Is it that we've gone too far and now have only God's judgment to face?

It's a question that needs to be answered.

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?


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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.

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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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