The Blathering Blogger Blathers On Into the Void ISaving America Part 7?)

Well lessee, they're destroying the economy. Soon things will be so outrageously expensive ... well it's hard to imagine just how bad it could get but very very bad for sure. They are flooding the country with illegals, they are bringing back "refugees" who are America-haters, they are lying about the rioting going on in major cities and allowing it to happen by preventing the police from stopping it; they areare silencing those who have known how to cure COVID for a year now and promoting vaccines that may kill a bunch of us; they are silencing truth and sanity and promoting tyranny and oppression and divisive politics, they are supporting terrorists against Israel, they are arming nations that are enemies of the West, they are forcing normal children to pretend there are more than two sexes. Lessee, how much worse can it get?

Again, though, I have to remind myself that this must all be God's judgment on the nation. We pushed Him out so now He's abandoned us to the most outrageous evil stupidities the fallen human race is capable of. Well maybe not quite that bad yet. I guess it could be worse. Looks like it will get there soon enough.

Only a Christian can know that God's judgment is at work. Unbelievers think it's only human error or human malice, if they see anything wrong at all, and if if they see it they'll blame it on the wrong people too because we've finally reached that point in human history when it's about as bad as it can get. If we aren't at the very door of the Great Tribulation I hate to think how bad it will have to get before we are. Not "we" of course since I expect to escape it in the Rapture.

There was a time though when even unbelievers were immersed in the biblical worldview and understood the basics about the Fall and redemption and talked in tbose terms. Marxism. at ;east Cultural Marxism, and Postmodernism have so corrupted people now that we can hardly have a conversation between the two worldviews at all the starting assumptions are so at odds.

God promised to save Sodom if there were even a few rightoues people left in it, so we know that He would save us on the same principle. We don't depend, that is, on the great number of unbelievers to join us in saving the country and that's a great blessing. So if He isn'[t listening to us it has to be because we believers aren't meeting His conditions.

He isn't hearing our prayers for revival. Even if, say, Mark Levin came up with a solid plan to bring us back to sanity why would He bless that either? The WTC was destroyed by Islamic jihadists but contrary to what would seem to make sense, instead of our being able to defeat them they are if anything gaining ground in this country since then. This can only be because 9/11 didn't succeed at being the wake-up call it should have been, a call to national repentance. Although I don't think Jonathan Cahn's prophetic message about the correspondence between our response to 9/11 and Israel's response to the invasion of her enemies as described in Isaiah 9/11 was needed to make the point, still it DOES make that point on top of what we should already have known anyway: If God gives us a warning through our enemies, causes destruction in our cities, and we ignore Him, saying "You can't do this to us, we'll just r4ebuild bigger and better" (Anybody noticed that the slogan of the Great Reset project -- :\"Build Back Better" -- is essentially the same message? And note that an attack on the WTC isn't just a warning to America but to the world -- It's the WORLD Trade Center ya know. so the WEF Great Reset is founding itself on the same defiance of God described in Isaiah 9:11.) Anyway that being the response of the US and the world itself we can't expect God to hold back His judgments against us.

This is all too much "woo" for the fallen mind of course. But the problem is it's even too much woo for some believers, or too "exclusive" for them more precisely I suppose, they are so theologically weak in these postmodern days. Too many have, succeumbed to much of the propaganda that relegates biblcal Christianity to being merely one among many ways to God so the fact that Jesus is the only way isn't even upheld by some appalling number of us. If they even are of "us."

I know I'm rambling on and nobody is listening anyway since Google did whatever they did to keep people from finding my blogs. I don't know why they bothered, I wasn't getting more than a few hundred people anyway. But now hardly any, probably just the Google gestapo looking in from time to time. So maybe I don't try hard enough under the circumstances. Still, I believe God got me going on these blogs and He has His reasons.

Yes I think He wanted me to write about the head covering if nothihng else. And the way I kept stumbling onto information about the Antichrist even when I wasn't pursuing that topic had to come from Him. So He'll do with it whatever He wants to do. I write because I'm driven to write, so I thank Him for the opportunity. Thank You Lord. May any glory be Yours. Even if one person gets something out of it...? '.

Saving America Part 6: The Impossible Dream of Recovery: Prayer, Repentance, Reeducation, Biblical Foundations

Chris Pinto's documentary, The True Christian History of America to my mind succeeded in establishing that Christian history beyond anything I had thought. I knew the country was originally settled by Christians with a solid Christian worldview, that the Mayflower Compact was a Christian conception, that here and there we see court judgments that affirm the Christian nature of America, and that the population was predominantly Christian even into the 20th Century. The book "The Light and the Glory" written back in the seventies painted a very strong Christian portrait of the nation through the writings of the founding generation, but somehow its arguments didn't make the case for me the way Pinto's film seems to. In fact Pinto's first documentary films about America managed to undo any idea of America's Christian character by tracing the pagan influences involved in it as well as the decidedly NONChristian thinking of Washington, Adams, Jerfferson and Franklin (The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers for instance). That kind of blew The Light and the Glory out of the water for me, although I was aware nevertheless that there was a great Christian influence in the country that was getting buried by too much emphasis on the nonChristian side of it. The Light and the Glory left itself open to such treatment, however, by focusing only on the Christian elements and ignoring the other side of it.

But with this latest film Pinto has not only restored the Christian character of the country, but shown the Christian inspiration behind the governing principles in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitujtion. The film traces the principles of liberty and justice that are the bedrock of our Constitutionaql Republic back to their origins in Christian thought. Phrases you thought were invented in relation jto America turn out to go back centuries, to Christiaqn leaders in Europe, and especially in England.

It is always a mistake in a fallen world to make too much of the personalities of those who have contributed great ideas to the benefit of humanity. People have all kinds of moral failings and yet can produce valuable concepts for the formation of a great nation. Thomas Jefferson rejected the supernatural and was no Christian but nevertheless made use of the Christian-inspired concepts of freedom and justice in what became foundational to America. Although John Adams was a Unitarian he made strong statements affirming the Christian worldview as essential to the character of the new nation. Even Thomas Paine who was personlly an atheist contributed a biblical framework in his "Common Sense" pamphlet that had such a strong influence on the American Revolution. Later he revealed his personal opposition to those biblical principles. This is shown in Pinto's film.

And of course many of them held slaves, in a time when it was a common practice all over the world (and still is outside of the West). The fact that they made provision for freeing their slaves and strongly opposed the practice (it was opposed on the basis of biblical Christian principles) is unfortunately lost on today's small-minded ideologues. God help us with these vicious mental midgets in charge of the nation today.

I'll say again, however, that it is our own fault since we've failed to oppose the treasonous workings of the Marxist America-haters. We're good at verbalizing the problem, lousy at doing anything about it. However, it's also true I think that we haven't had the right knowledge to support us, and I do think that Pinto's film could set us on the right track. The Christian nature of America is in those principles spelled out down the centuries as the film shows, it is not in personaliites, character flaws or personal qualities of any kind, it is in the intellectual heritage itself based on the Bible.

There are of course many unbelievers who love America and appreciate the principles of liberty and justice that have made America great, who see the danger of losing the great American experiment in the current political zeitgeist and strive to their utmost to find a way back. Although some of them might acknowledge that Christianity played some part in its formation, some would deny it altogether, and if we have any hope at all of restorng the nation we need to educate everybody out of that misonception. So many things we need to do, somehow float a massive education project needed at a time when censorship of the truth prevails, reform the churches, succeed at convincng God to give us reival.... That's why I think we've lost America and will never be able to recover her. Still, even in the teeth of such impossibilities I keep hoping I'm wrong. God is, after all, the God of the Impossible.

Speaking of passionate patriotic unbelievers, I suspect that some of the books Mark Levin has written would be very useful for the reeducation project that is so necessary. Although I probably won't be able to read it because my eyes are getting so bad, I did order his latest, American Marxism, which will be out in July. He wants to save the nation as much as I do, I hope he has a plan we can use. His books have great subjects and great titles, like Liberty and tyranny that sound like they would do well as a platform for a reeducation project in what Amrica is all about, wish I were still able to read long volumes like that.

. Speaking of what America is all about, it was a jarring experience, though illuminating. to find out that the MAGA slogan was felt as "a poke in the eye" to some who haven't had it so great in America, particularly blacks. Hearing that, I finally understood the otherwise incomprehensible hatred of that slogan, and was appalled at the narrowness that makes such an equation. That notion alone accounts for much of the Great Political Divide that's taken over the country in the last few decades.In this age of Marxist anti-Americanism everything is now about people, oppressor and oppressed class warfare that pits groups against each other, completely undoing the work of centuries toward a genuine equality. America had just about eradicated racism, cedrtainly at least institutional or systemic racism (the statistics are there only the left never hears about them), but now it's being made into the main problem in the country, just out of the blue because it makes for good political divisiveness to bring it down, the only possible reason snce it had been so effectively done away with there is no other excuse. Now we're actually getting real racism in the targeting of the white race as peculiarly evil. TAhe most evil propaganda ever concocted, and extremely dangerous. It reminds me of the propaganda campaign against the Tutsits that eventually provoked the Hutus into slaughtering them, a Catholic bishop on the radio demeaning them with such epithetcs as "cockroaches." Like how the Nazis propagandized against the Jews. Propaganda is the weapon of the fascistic mind. And this version we have now is conjured up out of Cultural Marxism with the Marxist agenda to destroy civilization and bring in their trannical form of government. They silence the voices of truth, they try to do away with the means of protecting people and property, they put good for evil and evil for good and so far they've been getting away with it.

What makes America great IN SPITE OF FALLEN HUMAN NATURE, is the principles of our founding, concepts of liberty and justice for all hammered out over centuries, grounded in a Biblical worldview. Keeping selfish fallen human nature from turning into tyranny was the motivation for designing American institutions to minimize its influence. Checks and balances among the branches of governement for instance were one protection against tyranny. They are trying to take that away now and establish a one-party rule .So they would remove this fundamental wisdom of America's vision and create a tyranny to end all tyrannies. Utopias always either disintegrate or lead to tryanny. Ignorance of the wisdom of the American vision is at least one reason this is happening here now. The fallen nature has been made the standard and God help us all. The main political tactic on the left today is intimidation by character assassination, as far as you can get from the American vision. Rule by Law is supposed to eliminate dependence on any particular human being or party or ideology, because they are inherently untrustworthy. It takes vigilance to maintain a government based on law and principle and now that the forces of evil have gained the upper hand we aren't going to be getting any benevolent dictators, we're going to get the most destrucrtive ideology ever invented to rule over us.

To take MAGA as "a poke in the eye" to anyone is to show a terrible ignorance of what America is all about. MAGA simply recognized that we'd come a long way based on our American principles, were a power in the world for good, had finally done away with the grossest forms of inequality which are endemic to fallen human nature, practiced a capitalism that brought the greatest prosperity to the greatest number. and really did allow for liberty of its citizens. MAGA was the statement of the opposition to the anti-American Marxist wrecking ball that was already doing its damage. The wrecking ball seems to have a lot of friends so they killed MAGA and all those American gains are what they are now taking away from us as fast as they can lest another MAGA come along. And it's our own fault.

God help us. God have mercy.

How We Lost America

At the end of his film on the Christian History of America, Chris Pinto quotes American founder Samuel Adams from a speech he made just before signing the Declaration of Independence, that now would commence "the reign of Political Protestantism."

That's what it should have been, and to a large extent it was, but even from the beginning there were the seeds of its destruction planted, in the Deistic mentality of some of the founding generation, and even in the documents that should have guaranteed the reign of Political Protestantism, as over time they became subject to the misinterpretations and manipulations of the fallen mindset.

In this fallen world it takes extraordinary dedication to preserve the Christian worldview because it is not natural to fallen humanity. All revivals deteriorate, at least because we get complacent and forget to work to preserve them. Then we get dull and don't even recognize when God's principles are twisted into their opposite. When the First Amendment becomes a protection for pornography and for pagan religions including even Satanism, and Constitutional rights and freedoms are claimed for the murder of unborn babies and Gay Marriage, it ought to be apparent to anyone who has even a vague understanding of the spirit of the original that it has been twisted and turned on its head. When our rights and freedoms are extended to our enemies against us how do we get back to their true meaning?


Perhaps we can't. Perhaps it's all downhill now.

Jonathan Cahn gives a stirring message to President Biden about his support for godless policies, and says only revival will save us now. Of course he's right, and many Christians pray fervently for revival. Yet it isn't happening. I've given my opinmion about why not and what it would take to make it possible, and there are probably other reasons I'm missing. But it doesn't look promising at all. It looks like downhill it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCtoQUXnmc

Recently I've been watching The Truth Project for the second time. It's at You Tube, a series of talks by Del Tackett put out by Focus on the Family, that does a good job of spelling out the opposition between the Christian worldview and the worldview of fallen humanity. It shows how the fallen mentality has been taking over. Yes it does look like it's all downhill now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_D9Vva_Q0

COVID Politics, COVID Vaccination Politics

Laura Ingraham interviews Dr. Paul Alexander about his reasons children should not get the COVID vaccination:

https://rumble.com/vgs2gn-former-hhs-covid-advisor-dr.-paul-alexander-do-not-give-covid-shots-to-chil.html

Tucker Carlson interviews Dr. Peter McCullough about doctors' refusal to give COVID patients the potentially lifesavking drugs HCQ or ivermectin:

https://rumble.com/vgqayr-something-is-up.-therapeutic-nihlism-is-worldwide.html

Prophecies, Visions and Dreams: Empty Distractions

Our modern "prophets" who have visions and dreams don't seem to ubject them to much critical scrutiny. I suspect that most of these "prophecies" are simply irrelevant or superfluous or just plain meaningless. A dream about almost being scammed by an evil person doesn't require a dream to teach us not to trust everybody. Perhaps the individual could benefit from that kind of reminder but as a message to the body of Christ we have plenty of warning in scripture against evil seducers.

And what could possibly be the importance of the message that "God is going to save" a prominent public figure? If it were true why would it benefit us to know it in advance? If it happens Christians will certainly rejoice, but beyond that it's not a message we need to hear. And it's probably false but will we ever find out?

Many such "prophecies" are empty of meaning like this, either "messages" we don't need because we have better versions of them in the Bible, or messages we don't need because, well, we don't need them, they are utterly irrelevant to the life of the body of Christ. There are an awful lot of these "prophets" these days, prophesying empty nonsense which is at best a distraction from the Christian life we should be leading.

I just saw a video by Jonathan Cahn about a different prophecy than the one in The Harbinger. In this one he points out correspondences he's found between King Ahab and Bill Clinton. I gather there are more such correspondences than he described in this video that he'll get to in another video.

Again, even if these correspondences were true what would be the point of our knowing them? I defended Cahn's original discovery of correspondences between events in Isaiah 9 and events in New York City connected with the attack on the WTC. They were pretty uncanny corespondences and the message is clear: Israel didn't take God's warning of judgment through the destruction of their trees and bulidings and America didn't take God's warning in the attack on the WTC.

But I already knew the attack on the WTC was God's judgment, at least a warning of greater judgment to come, and it's qjuite apparent that the nation did not take it that way and did not repent, just as Israel didn't as reported in Isaiah 9. So now I'm thinking that despite the uncanniness of the correspondences they are ultimately meaningless. We know all we need to know from the scriptures and the prophetic imagery added nothing. And that earlier prophetic message was uncanny, in a way this current one probably isn't because this one has way too many variables, most of which probably show no similarities whatever. In any case, as with most of today's prophecies, this one hits me as empty, a distraction. God gave prophecies in the Bible to warn His people, or comfort them. We have the scripture which is ample warning and ample comfort in every possible situation. The prophecies, even if true, are redundant and unnecessary. That's not how God works

Cahn and other "prophets" nevertheless do often give sound biblical messages apart from their prophecies. It's a puzzle that they fall for their own visions.

The Reality of Demons

We know, he said, that there are no witches. Witches don't exist, we know they are not real. This as said by Glenn Loury, whose podcasts I enjoy. He's an intellectual, a thinker, he's good at it, I like most of what he has to say too. I suppose I might have guessed that he held this opinion, but hearing him say it provoked, oh dear, another blog post.

It's only what everybody with any claim to rationality thinks of course, so goes the conceit. I used to think it myself, before I became a Christian. What changed my mind was having actual experiences of the supernatural demonic world. This was in the couple of years leading up to my becoming a Christian, when I was dabbling in the occult and discovered its reality in some rather scary ways. The Bible mentions witches and sorcerers and describes Jesus setting people free of demons that had possessed them, so many people believe in such things on faith because they believe in the Bible. although without any personal experience. "Faith is the evidence of things unseen" says scripture, and after all, believing the gospel of salvation through Christ's death on the cross is believing in the supernatural, so believing in angels and demons naturally follows.

But sometimes I wish someone like Loury would get his arrogant certainty overtorned by the appearance of an actual demon. Would it be wrong to make that a prayer, Lord? I don't want to scare the man, I just want him to know that he's wrong. Hm, I do pray it Lord, I think the more we all know about the reality the better, especially these days when the ARapture followed by the Tribulation period seems to be about to burst upon the world any minute.

Oh yes witches exist. Witches are people who have learned something about how to manipulate supernatural power. Today's witches may be naive, think they are dealing with impersonal forces in the universe and don't know they are dealing with demons who are the source of such powers. They may think they are using such powers for good, to help humanity, and don't know that they are the tools of the demons rather than the other wayh around, and that demons are malevolent beings. There have always been witches who know what they are dealing with too, though, and some for evil rther than good, such as Alister Crowley. Also, Shamans are people who consciously work with demons.

So perhaps it comes down to the question of the reality of demons. Below is a list off the top of my head of some exmples of demonic activity that I suppose will all be denied by the self-proclaimed Rational People, but might be helpful for some others. (I'm thinking of the people who know it's all real but have nonbibiical ideas about what it's all about, such as tghe spooky late-night radio show "Coast to Coast" where all sorts of paranormal phenomena are discussed and taken seriously, including witches, but in fanciful ways the demons themselves must be teaching them.) Anyway, here's my quick list. There may be different kinds of supernatural beings but all the Bible mentions are angels and fallen angels or demons so I stick to that.

Hamlet didn't really talk to his dead father, he was talking with a demon impersonation of his father.
Ghosts are demonic impersonationsof dad people, perhaps people they had actually possessed in life.
UFO phenomena are the work of demons
The apparitions of Mary are demonic impersonations.
High ranking demons or Satah himself may impersonate jesus Christ.
"Prophets" today who have visions of Christ are being deceived by demons.
People who don't believe in demons or wtchcraft think the Harry Potter stories are harmless fiction The demons may do as much damage through people who deny their existence as through those who believe in them because such people promote such things as the Harry Potter series that can seduce children into dabbling with the occult.

Some Recent Discussions of the Problems with the Vaccines (UPDATE, removed one)

UPDATE: When I posted this I hadnt heard the whole first discussion by Dr.T and Dr. P and now that I have I find it going off into some -- odd? -- nutty? -- territory. So I've taken it down. For all I know there's something to what they are talking about but I think there are better sources so I've taken it down. It's called Critically Thinking, on April 30, if anyone wants to go find it.

Also want to mention Tucker Carlson's discussion of the problems with the vaccines.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-how-many-americans-have-died-after-taking-the-covid-vaccine

and Chris Pinto's hour-long show on the topic from a couple weeks ago:

http://www.noiseofthunderradio.com/noise-of-thunder-radio-show/2021/4/20/notr-vaccines-world-health-organization-the-un-42021.html