The Answer as Usual is No, Judgment is Picking Up Steam, Roaring Toward Us Like a Freight Train

 So it's pretty clear, isn't it, that the answer to the title question of the previous post is NO.  Oh we COULD, it's not impossible in principle, it's just impossible given the way people think these days.  Even going back to women's covering our heads in church, which is where I keep thinking it would have to start, is hardly likely, and if that is what would have to happen first none of the rest of it is going to happen.   Oh I still hope and pray for that, I'd love to be proved wrong, but the resistance to that one piece of scripture is adamant in my experience.  They got thtmselves convinced of the culture interpretation.  The author of that interpretation is a Christian of impeccable integrity.  Or they are the Pentecostals who insist on long hair but scorn the covering and do it with withering contempt for any other point of view.   And I got the accusation of "legalist" too of course.  No matter how good the credentials of those who have read it as I now do, no matter how good the reasoning in support ot it, the answer is ...   well, in my experience the answer is mockery and sarcasm.   

God could still turn the tide but it doesn't look like He wants to.   And again, if we don't return to that simple principle of male headship how can we expect to get anywhere on the subject of gay marriage, just to mention the most prominent issue.   Yes it probablly is the linch pin.  It came out of the wagon wheel and the wheel has wobbled on without it but eventually it has to fall off.   It would be SO easy to put it back in.

I like to think it's possible but I always come to the conclusion that it's not, and that means that things are just going to keep getting worse.  And it's getting so bad it's hard to see it as anything other than the looming Finale as I've described it in so many recent posts. 

What an arrogant know-it-all I am! 

Can We Roll Back God's Judgments on America, on the Churches? Head Covering, Reparations?

One of my themes on these blogs has been God's judgment and whether it's possible to stop it once it's begun.  America has been under judgment for decades now, according to many Christian leaders. Although many denied its clear import, some recognized that 9/11 was God's judgment, at least a warning shot of judmgnet to come.  

The biggest reason for judmgnet usually given is abortion, the ongoibng murder of unborn babies into the millions; but America has been proliferating many kinds of sins besides abortion.  Christians want revival, we know we need revival but prayers for revivial have not brought revival, sometimes even very intense focused prayers.  Something is blocking revival, probably some unrecognized sins.  What might they be?  I've spent some time trying to figure that out too.  

It has to start with the churches.  "Judgment begins at the house of God."  We've seen many kinds of apostasies rise up over the last 150 years or so.  These are in churches that call themselves Christian so much as we might like to disown them because we know they aren't really theologically Christian in many cases, their bearing that name implicates us with them.  The prophet Daniel gave us the example of repenting on behalf of the covenant body to which we belong, in his case the nation of Israel.  Although he personally had not committed many of the sins the nation had committed he nevertheless prayed as if he had, and repented for those sins as if they were his own.

The very denial that 9/11 was God's judgmnet is a sign of such apoastasy, the idea being that God wouldn't do such a thing.  If it isn't understood that God is a God who judges sin there is really no point to the gospel itself.  If God doesn't come in judgment there's no point in asking Him for mercy.    If we fail so drastically to understand God's heart, that must open us to judgment.

I also believe the abandonment of the head covering for women is a cause of judgment.  I came to this conclusion from my study of Paul's teaching on the subject in 2 Corinthians 11: 2-16.  The covering  was given up fairly recently partly on the basis of a very badly reasoned essay that imputed the practice Paul was advocating to culture rather than to apostolic authority which is how it had previously been understood.    If we don't honor God's ordinance on the headship of men over women we have no ground for objecting to the violation of God's ordinance of marriage by legalizing gay marriage.  I think this is a very serious point though it is usually dismissed as trivial.  I've even considered that by abandoning the head covering in the churches we are responsible for opening the door to all the violations related to sex and marriage that have been proliferating in the culture for decades now.

Oh, a big one is our use of the National Cathedral for ecumenical prayer.  There is one God and He said clearly in Isaiah that He will not give His glory to another.  Praying to all the gods of all the cultures is NOT acceptable.  We also have national prayer meetings that include other religions.  This is a serious affront to God.

Why should God give us revival if we are not repenting of sins against Him?

Then recently I was listening to Larry Elder on the subject of reparations for black slavery

Why Reparations Will Actually Hurt Black America - YouTube

and he does a good job of showing that the idea is untenable for many reasons, some of them practical such as who qualifies to receive it and who should pay it, considering that most of us don't even have ancestors who were slave owners and much of today's population is descended from people who arrived after the era of slavery.  And so on.   

But then I'd been watching those "First-Time Reaction"  videos of young black people responding to hearing Pavarotti singing for the firwst time.   That led me to watch other videos of other singers doing some famous operatic arias, and especially to look for black opera singers.  I discovered for instance "Three Mo' Tenors" who sing both opera and popular songs.   I also listened to Marian Anderson, probably the first black to be a big star as an opera singer, got curious to know more about her so I looked her up on Wikipedia.

And there I found the story of how she applied for admission to a school and was told by the receptionist "We don't take colored here." or words to that effect.   It reminded me that slavery was over, God judged us for it with the Civil War, but that Jim Crow was something else.  Slavery and racism aren't the same thing.  

I hurt for the insult to Marian Anderson and all thoe who had to endure it for some hundred years after the Civil War.  I began to wonder if that era is part of why we are under God's judgment.  Reparations may not be the answer to it, I don't know, all I know is the question was raised in my mind.   

The churches need to repent of many things, the nation needs to repent, we need to be praying for God's wisdom even about what we need to repent of.   We also have personal sins that need cleansing.  I've personally been under God's chastisement for decades.  I've  fallen into the same sin more than once since then but repented (believe me,, repentance is agony, fear, remorse for undermined Christian witness, remorse for the wounded heart of God) and still the judgment is not lifted.  Most recently He reminded me "My grace is sufficient for you" so that I understand it isn't going to end and I need not only to accept it but to rejoince in it as Paul did with his own "thorn in the flesh."  He wasn't guilty of anything that deserved it, but although I have been guilty God also has other reasons for giving us afflictions.   The point being we've all got a lot to repent of on a lot of levels, and we aren't going to see the situation in America improve until we do it according to God's wisdom.  

It may be that America can't be saved unless we roll back Roe v Wade, roll back that execrable law that bestowed the right of free speech on pornography,  roll back gay marriage, perhaps make some kind of restitution for Jim Crow even;  but since it all has to start at the house of God it may be that none of that will happen until we reinstate the head covering in the churches.  I do keep coming back to that.  It may be the linch pin.  If we fix that it may be easier to fix all the rest as God opens doors.   Sin is not just the cause of judgment but is judgment itself.  The more we sin the more we sin.  Maybe the second step would be cleansing the National Cathedral of the worshippers of Dagon and Baal and their ilk.   And remember, a right understanding of Romans 1 is that homosexuality is itself judgment on idolatry.

If You Have ANY ALLERGIES You Are At Risk From the COVID Vaccines.

 Friend went to a doctor about a rash who wanted to test her for allergies, asked for her history of allergic reactions and she mentioned an incident of anaphylactic shock from insect bites, to which he responded that she should not take the COVID vaccine!  Further discussion brought out the information that it isn't just allergies to the ingredients in the vaccine that's a reason not to take it, but allergies to anything at all.  Not that you'll necessarily die or have a severe reaction but you might with that particular medical history.

Look, take Quercetin and Zinc and Vitamin C or if you can get someone to prescribe it and a pharmacy to fill the prescription get HCQ and Zinc and an antibiotic, take either protocol prophylactically and increase the dose if you get COVID symptoms.  I put up the Zelenko protocol for these things in other posts but I'll try to get back and repost it here.

Dismantling America 3: Western Civilization and Its "White" Classical Music Must GO

Stumbling around in You Tube, watching this and that, some animal rescue videos for intance, which I sometimes watch to rescue ME, from the effects of our hideous political situation.  Hope for Paws in Los Angeles always has feel-good stories about some poor miserable animal that was abandoned and living in sad circumstances that they rescue into a happy life with people who love them.   Gives me some kind of strength to go on to the next assault from the current insanity.  

Tonight, well by now this morning, I heard some of Todd Friel's Wretched Radio which is usually about the state of Christianity in America, sometimes as sad as the political mess.  I stumbled on one where he is discussing Critical Race Theory, which is a major element in the political insanity that can make me have to flee to something uplifting as an antidote, but he provided the antidote himself in this one.  

Critical Race Theory is one of the academic assaults on all reason that comes out of Cultural Marxism and took over the universities particularly since the Sixties.  Critical Theory itself is Marxist but Critical Race Theory is the idea that everythinjg in American life can be reduced to systemic racism and the white race is evil.  Everything the white race has ever done is evil and that means everything, all the great thinkers of Western Civilization are evil, all the great artists, all the scientists, the works.   I think that pretty much sums it up, sorry if I'm missing anything.  But you can go hear Todd Friel's account of it anyway at the link I'm posting below this.

  His theme is how this CRT is ruining our culture as well as getting into the churches, but ruining the culture for sure.   He'd done his own stumbling around on You Tube and came across a young black man reacting to hearing opera music for the first time, specifically Luciano Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma, from Puccini's opera Turandot, and he plays an excerpt from it.   You understand of course that Puccin was one of those evil white men who wrote his operas only for the purpose of expressing his white supremacy and oppressing black people, and Pavarotti was another evil white man singing with the same purpose.  

This is ruining our country, and it will ruin your church | WRETCHED RADIO - YouTube

The young man's reacton is very touching, like hearing angels he said, heavenly he said.  Friel is angry that this idiotic racist "theory" wants to deprive him of such an experience.  I managed to find the video Friel played, so you can hear the whole thing:

FIRST TIME HEARING Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" REACTION (IM SHOOK !!!) - Bing video

Where's the racism?  The young man isn't feeling oppressed by a systemically racist culture, he's encountering the human soul of Puccini;s music and the human soul of Pavarotti's singling as it touches his own human soul.   Art transcends such soulshrinking stuff as racism and racist theory.   

So I went and found many other videos of young blacks reacting for the first time to this music, all of it touching and illuminating.  I gather this is a trend on You Tube, videos about people's first-time reactions to all sorts of music and maybe other things, I've only watched some of the reactions to this particular Pavarotti performance.  Very much an antidote for me to the idiotic instane Criticial Race Theory.  All that Marxist stuff that's overtaking the country and the world kills humanity in a million ways.  Bible prophecy has it ruling the world pretty soon I think, but it's SO nice to see how some humanity can still find its way through its wall of hatred and death.  

Here are a few more of those reaction videos, and there are many more at You Tube.

Black Reactors listening to Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma for the first time. original video by GGT - YouTube

FIRST TIME HEARING LUCIANO PAVAROTTI NESSUN DORMA REACTION - YouTube

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI CARUSO REACTION - YouTube

I also grew up in a culturally deprived family, this isn't unique to blacks.  Working class, popular music all I ever heard, but I did have an aunt who was, you might say, sort of "arty" -- I had ten aunts and five uncles betwen both sides of the family and she was the only one who marchedto  a different drummer.  When I was about ten she sent me a 45 RPM recording made for children, of Haydn's Clock Symphony with the Surprise Symphony on the other side.  I was utterly enraptured by the sound of classical music, the sound of the orchestra, and I played it over and over and over.  It was the only classical music I heard until I moved to a big city high school at fifteen and my best friend came from a culturally educated family, played the cello and took me to hear her in an orchestra rehearsal, which also enraptured me.   I loved being surrounded by such wonderful sounds, the blending of all those instruments..

So what do the Critical Race Theory people want to do, confine us to rap music and hip hop?  

Dismantling America continued

 It seems quaint even to ask the question, whatever happened to "I hate your opinion but i'll fight to the death for your right to say it" or however that goes?  It's gone gone gone.  We are in the Age of Censorship.  No more freedom of speech if you don't share the views of the ruling party

.  I was trying to find Mike Lindell's documentary about the election.  I kind of knew I wouldn't be able to and I couldn't.  There are dozens of copies of it at You Tube but all have been disabled so you can't hear them or even get them to run at all.  I came on the scene too late I suppose, some did get to see it a while back but now it's been successfully censored.  Censored with a vengeance.  Someone posts the film and it gets immediately disabled.  

Sometimes they put up a warning message alleging unsavory content of some sort.  Lindell on an interview I saw showed one allegation of sexual scenes in his documentary as an excuse for banning it.  I remember seeing a similar warning on something I wanted to watch a while back that alleged "emotionally disturbting" content.  I'd already seen it once so I knew there was nothing emotionally disturbing in it.  Except maybe to liberals who are disturbed by conservative opinions ("Illegal immigration, high taxes and the minimum wage all deprive American workers of jobs."  Or "Poverty is not caused by other people being rich."  Or "There will probably always be individual racists in the world but there is no longer systemic racism in America."    Boo!"    And they all fall down clutchinjg their throats.)   

This is all going somewhere you know.  They have to control what the pulblic thinks in order to pull off their totalitarian control of all of us.  They'll put the dissenters in reeducation camps and continue to shut up opinions that contradict the party line wherever they appear to be a threat to the ruling class, until eventually they own and control it all.   The Liberal Elites, eventually the Global Elites who will dispense with the Liberal Elites as so many Useful Idiots.  

They must be happy with all the COVID deaths considering that there has always been a simple way of preventing them that has been politically suppressed for a year now.  

Somehow they got themselves convinced that it is a righteous thing to censor your opponent's political views.  Against centuries of American affirmation of freedom.  A twist of a word here, a diabolical interpretation there, a baldfaced lie when necessary.  

Dismantling America by all means necessary

 Some on the Left are actually saying out loud that they think those who supported Trump need to be "reeducated" in camps for that purpose.  We're "cultists" according ot them, who need to be deprogrammed.    That's how brainwashed THEY are, WE are the ones still capable of thinking, but they've got the power these days and that's what counts in the end, isn't it?.

We've heard such things for years of course, but it seems to be more out in the open now.  This is the theme of Chris Pinto's radio show on the 13th and he puts up audio quotes to prove it.  I hate to think how many liberals I even count as friends might think such reedeucation would be a good thing for me.   toward the end of the show Pinto talks about the threat to the second amendment.

  NOTR - RE-EDUCATION CAMP RHETORIC ON THE RISE - 2.13.21 - Show Downloads - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

Earlier I happened to hear about Johns Hopkins University's plan to remove a huge slab of rock wall on which is engraved the First Amerdment to the Constitution.  You know, free speech, free press.  They just bought this museum property and are redesigning it without that message.  One could get all suspicious about this and think they consciously want to rid the university of such an opinion as the right to free speech, but at least one does wonder if anyone stood up for keeping it at least as a local landmark.  I only looked at the article in the Washington Post and didn't see that mentioned.  Anyway, even if nobody is consciously censoring the Constitution I can't help noting that it's a sign of the times anyway, as conservatives and others are being silenced by the tyrannical left on social media, and now they want to "reedeucate" us to conform to THEIR opinions.   This idea of reeducation is such a timeworn well known Communist tactic I have to assume they know that too and it doesn't bother them that they are on the side of America's enemies.

Pope Francis and the Apparitions of "Mary" as the End Times Close In On Us.

Jan Markell's Understanding the Times Radio for last Friday is about deceptions that are coming through the Roman Church, the role of  the Pope in the end times, and deeceptions such as the apparitions of "Mary" that have been occurting frequently around the world and succeeding at seducing people from many religions, including Protestants.  

Jan's guest is ex-Catholic Mike Gendrom who has worked for years to show the deceptions of the RC Church and turn Catholics to the truth of Christ.  . He thinks the Pope could be the False Prophet of the ook of Revelation, rather than the Antichrist which is the role I think he'll play.   The Reformers' identification of the Pope as Antichrist has been dismissed in our time, but some will propose that he could play the role of the False Prophet.

Pope Francis: The Vicar of the New World Order – Mike Gendron - YouTube

I continue to think the Pope is the Anitchrist nevertheless.  The Reformers thought so and gave scriptural reasons for it.  And not only the Reformers but many Christian leaders that preceded them made the same identification, some of whom I took from a teaching by Chris Pinto and posted on this blog some time ago.  The argument against this identification today is that Paul was not talking about a system, such as the papacy, but about a single man.  Considering that there were so many down the centuries  who held that the Pope is Antichrist this argument seems rather thin and arrogant, as if so many would have ignored such a distinction.  

Nevertheless even many people can be wrong.  But the thinking does hold together scripturally.  That is,   the Roman Church itself was certainly a Great Apostasy, or falling-away from the faith with its accumulation of pagan superstitions and doctrine of salvation by faith plus works, rather than faith alone in Christ alone which precludes any of our own works as presumptuous.  

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4  Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.  Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sits in the temple of God,, showing himself that he is God.

Paul was reassuring the Thessalonians that the Day of the LORD had not yet come, that before that could happen this great falling away had to come and that man of sin be reevealed.  Today this is interpreted as all related to the last of the last days, the great falling away beintg what we are seeing now in the growing apostacies of so many churches.    The Antichirst, or "man of sin" is understood to be yet furture, and to be revealed after the Church has been Raptured.

I don't know how much of my view is my own and how much I got from Chris Pinto and Richard Bennett -- I know it was inspired by them and it may be all theirs, I don't know, but it all goes back to the Reformers who understood the falling away or what is now called The Great Apostasy, to be the doctrine of the Roman Church, and the man of sin to be the Pope,  and therefore since both have now been revealed the Day of the LORD could have come any time afterward.  The falling away we are seeing today is probably best understood as the last days spreading of the original Roman apostasy.   

But the Antichrist has already been revealed according to the Reformers.   We don't need to wait for his revelation.  

The reason I think it's probably Francis despite his old age which in itself seems to eliminate him as candidate for that role, is that he's the first Jesuit Pope and that some pretty strange supernatural signs attended his election, which I posted on quite some time ago.     If he is the Antichrist then that makes the end times finale very very close.  We've felt its closeness for years but if a man in his eightties is to play that major role in the Great Tribulation it must be very close indeed.

Well, my opinion jabout this could certainly be wrong, I just think it hangs together better than the popular idea of an unknown political figure suddenly rising to world prominence, a younger man, more of a Hitler type.   As for the Pope's being the False Prophet instead, I just thiknk the arguments for his being the Antichrist overshadow that possibility, both the testimony of the Refomers and their predecessors but also the meaning of the "666" which is so satisfyingly expressed in the term "Vicarivs Filii Dei" which is a title of the Pope that in itself makes him the Antichrist, plus the Roman Numewerals that title adds up to.  It's just too perflect.  No other candidate for that number is so peculiarly apt.  

So some even more satisfying way of identifying these things would ahve to come along to dissuade me of this interpretatiohnn.  

Jan Markell's radio show with mike gendron did, however, highlight a film about the many apparitions of "Mary" that have been seducing not only huge numbers of Catholics but also members of other religions including Protestants.  I think I recall that it was Alexander Hislop, who wrote "The Two Babylons" who suggested that the "Beast" of the Book of Revelation could be the Catholic "Virgin Mary."  That's a rather startling idea but given the increasing frequency of these apparitions at a time when the Last Days Finale feels so close it would make sense to expect "her" to have a prominent role in the Great Tribulationj.   just as does the Antichrist, "she" usurps the role of Christ.  She doesn't quite yet fully displace Him but that's obviously just a fiction being maintained for the sake of those who still hold to some remnant of faith in Christ.

I don't know where to fit "her" in yet.  

UPDATE:  If it weren't for the references to the Antichrist that pretty clearly identify him as a man, and human, and some other clues that don't fit, it could even make sense to consider the apparitions of "Mary" to be the Antichrist.  "She" certainly displaces Christ in the hearts of many, does usurp many of His attributes, claims to bring salvation and so on.  As Mike Gendron points out in the radio show "she" is also venerated by Muslims who have also been attending sites of these appearances, and he thinks "she" (yes I have to keep it in quotes because these are demonic appearances, not Mary herself) anyway, "she" may be the means of bringing Catholicism and Islam together for the final World Religion.  This suggests that "she" could very well be the Beast that will be worshipped by all still living on the earth after the true Church is gone and that makes her the Antichrist.  Strange idea of course.   But these appartitions are real supernatural phenomena and that is very seductive in  itself.  This is possibly the only thing that to my mind twould put the Pope in the role of False Prophet.   

Although the idea is intriguing I can't really think it holds together in the end.  Perhaps there is some other way to include "her" in the end times scenario that fits better.  I don't think she represents the woman who rides the beast though, because that is so clearly the Harlot Church of Rome.  Oh well, it will make sense whatever it is when it finally does all come together in reality.   /update

Anyway here's the film about the recent apparitions:  Messages From Heaven - "Virgin Mary" or Deception? (Full documentary uploaded with permission) - YouTube