Going Blind

My eyes are worse than ever today. Some times it's temporary and will clear up at least to some extent so that I can go on writing and even reading for a while longer, but overall the trend is downward. Although I often have the thought that I don't want to go on living when I'm blind I realize that shows a lack of faith and I have to remember that

All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purposes.

So that has to include blindness.

I can make out what I've written here but it's extremely faint.

Dyslexia

Heard someone talking about having trouble lerning to read as a child, because he was dyslexic. I'm not exactly szure what dyslexia is, tried to look it up but my eyes are so bad this morning I couldn't see the Google page well enough to I gave up. So I'll guess anyway. It's a condition in which a word looks like a jumble of shapes without meaning.

I'd expect that for many people taught the "SEE-SAY" OWR WHOLE WORD method that was adopted instead of phonics in the schools, which was one of the stupidest things they ever did. I was lucky to be taught phonics and when I had friends later who hadn't been I was astonished to find that although they wree very bright they couldn't spell and they struggled to pronounce new words. I don't know what they'd expect of a method that just throws a whole word at a kid instead of teaching him how to read it from left to right right by sounding it out. Language is first of all auditory, letters have sounds, words are made up of letters that have sounds. At least in English they are. You can learn to read any word by sounding it out from left to right. And you learn to spell that way too. Some children learn to read in spite of this handicap, perhaps they intuit the phonetic nature of words, I don't know, but those who don't are put in an unnecessarily difficult position.

I kind of think anyone who has dyslexia, at whatever age, could cure it by just learning the basic principles of phonics.

But what do I know. I'm just guesdsing.

Spooky Story Continued

Listened for a while to the next night's Coast to Coast AM on which the guest was described as a well known alien abductee, meaning someone who had been abucted by aliens, many times over his life he says. I gather he thinks they are doing genetic expeiments and creating hybrid babies from human with the "greys" which is what the aliens are called. A modern version of the angel-human begetting of the Nephilim, the giants of old as desribed in Genesis 6.

At least that's what the "aliens" want him to believe. Since they must be demons, or fallen angels, who are always engaged in some kind of deception of human beings, that may or may not be what they are really doing.

As I was listening from my biblical worldview of course I kept thinking that he didn't have to go through any of that. All he had to do was call on the name of Jesus, ask Jesus to help him, and the "abduction" would stop. As I kept listening I found out others had said the same to him. He said something like how if it was that easy there would be no alien abductions. Uh, yeah, if everybody called on Jesus there would be no alien abductions. Was he sayinjg people DO call on Jesus or what? I gather not. He didn't seem to be interested.

Yes if you call on Jesus he will save you from the demons. I had two experiences of demons when I was a new Christian and I did call on Jesus and the attacks stopped.

You can call off UFO visitations, ghosts, apparitions, or alien abdutions or whatever the demons are doing, by asking Jesus for help. Keep that in mind just in case.

The Great Spook Act Being Lined Up for the Grand Finale

Lately I've been listening to more of the "Coast-to-Coast" late night Spook Fest, not a lot just a little more than usual. UFOs are still the biggest topic it seems, but they've had protgrams on witchcraft, the "Good" kind of course, psychic powers, "remote viewing" etc. I'm just fascinated with how seriously they take all this stuff, study it, have theories about it and so on, because of course I judge it all by the Bible which pretty drastically simplifies the possibilities.

Many of them claim to believe in God but judging from their opinions about these paranormal and supernatural phenomena it isn't the God of the Bible they believe in. Demons or Fallen Angels account for most of the spooky stuff, UFOs, ghosts, apparitions, etc etc. They can manifest physially under some circumstances and apparently have power over physical phenomena to some extent since they produce the "craft" that make people wonder who is so technologically ahead of us.

Demons are the main actors, but the Bible also mentions the hybrid angel-human "Nephilim" in Genesis 6 which is also mentioned in the New Testament. I don't know of they have anything to do with the phenomena discussed on the radio show but demons must account for most of it. Then there is what Watchman Nee talks about in his book "Soul Power" which may account for the paranormal powers such as psychic ability and remote viewing and that sort of thing. He explained it as the remanants of powers originally possessed by Adam and Eve which were mostly lost at the Fall but remain in some people in distorted form. They are also manipulable by demons so altogether they aren't to be trusted. But those on the radio show don't know anyh of that and treat them as legitimate.

George Noory, who is the host of the show, claims to believe in Gode but also thinks UFOs are extraterrestrials who are the real creators of human beings. (Violent eyeroll).

If the world is about to go into the final seven-year Judgment of God all this would easily contribute to the Great Delusion coming on humanity. As many have suggetsed, UFOs would make a handy explanation for the Rapture, since few would be disposed to accept the real explanation, which is that Jesus took His true Christians off the planet so that we would not have to suffer God's wrath with the rest of hu;manity. Cuz of course they aren't expecting wrath, they are expecting a nice humanistic solution to all the world's problemsw, would probably think UFOs hold friend ETs who just want to help us out and so on. Witchcraft of courswe isn't the evil consorting with demons, it's just a nicey nice power for the good of all. And so on and so forth.

Surely some will wake up to the truth. Try to tell them about it now, no, but maybe when things start to look like something other than they were expecting.... Well, many have tried. I've tried.

As for the Afghanistan Debacle...

UPDATE: I shouldn't short-shrift this topic as I did, but I'm not up to commenting on it except to say that what Biden did is unspeakably evil, on top of all the other evil things he's done. I smell the sulfur of the pits of Hell. All I can do is pray that God will have mercy. ================================================

I've begun to wonder if perhaps the Premill scneario is more wrong than I've been considering it might be, that we are already into the seven years of the tribulation period. This is a fallen world, yes, and Satan is the prince of this world, but I still didn't expect such blatant evil to manifest as it has been doing, I expect it to come in the tribulation and the Day of the LORD. I suppose I'm wrong, and unfortunately it really could gt worse, hard though that is to imagine. Concentration camps for conservatives and Christians and the unvaccinat4ed and and and... But God is still in charge. Pray pray pray pray...
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... what I'd like to see is a few hundred Democrat politicians thrown out of office. Or better, tarred and feathered and sent south from our southern border accompanied by the illegal aliens th4ey illegally and dangerously brought into the country.

On a more humane note perhaps, if they really care about the people of Latin America they should move there and teach them the principles that made America prosperous. Sadly I don't suppose any of them have any idea about that, they'll just join in the ideological destruction. Yeah I know I switched horses in midstream, more than once too, but oh well.

The Pandemic Part of the Marxist/Jesuit Agenda: Concentration Camps.

Chris Pinto on his Noise of Thunder radio show nails it again. He talks about the provisionion for Quarantine camps as described in a CDC document which is pretty clearly aimed at the unvaccinated. He mentions that the governor of Tennessee signed an executive order which includes the building of such quarantine facilities. He traqces the history of the "plandemic" etc. He covers the science which contradicts all the official policiesw. His recommendation is pushback and more pushback and of course lots of prayer.

http://www.noiseofthunderradio.com/show-downloads/2021/8/11/notr-cdc-document-calls-for-internment-camps-81121.html

What is the Abomination of Desolation?

Since I've been pondering some of the aspects of the Premillennial dispensational end times scenario I keep running across elemants of it I think are wrong. I don't know where I'm going to end up but it isn't as if I'm just discovering these elements, they've bothered me for some time but I haven't put my mind to answering them.

I'm thinking here of the Abomination of Desolation that Premill eschatology makes yet future and recalling that I've heard teaching that convincingly places it at the time of the Roman destruction of Jrrusalemt and the temple in 70 AD. Thos4e who had been warned by Jesus to flee when they saw that abomination did in fact flee and were saved from what was a bloody slaughter of such magnitude most of us have no idea. If I find a really good discussion of the historical facts I'll post it but for now I just want to say that I think there is good reason to consider that part of Jesus' prophecy in the Olivet discoverse to have been fulfilled in 70 AD.

In the book of Daniel this abomination of desolluation is referred to some four times and three of those times refer to the Greek period after the breakup of Anexander's army when the Seleucid leader Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the Jerusalem temple with swine's blood in 167 BC. He was driven out by the Maccabees who cleansed the temple, there was the miracale of the continuously burning candes, and that is what is celebrated at Hanukkah. The remaining Abomination of Desolation belongs to the Roman period after that, and now I'm 98 percent confinced it was fulfilled in 70 AD.

It has bothered me all along that this futurist eschatology seems to anticipat4e the rebuilding of th4e physical temp0le in Jerusalem as a good thing. It can't be, it's an abomination in itself, a blasphemy against the Lord Jesus whose one-time sacrifice fulfilled and did away with the role of the animal sacrifices that were the main function of the temple. If an Abomination of Desolation was set up in that rebuilt temple it woulde not be an abomination of d4esoluation because the temple itself is the abomination.

And of course I'[ve already d3ealt with the idea that the Antichrist is yet to present himself as God in a physical temple: it was when the Bishop0 of Rome got elevated to Pope and dominated all the other offices of the Christian churches as well as having civil power in a reconstituted version of the Roman Empire, that he, the Antichrist, sat in the temple which is the people of God, declaring himself to be God, which all the titles given the Pope declare of him.

So far so good. I'll probably pare away more from the Premill eschatology, God willing, time permitting, eyesight allowing. I'm still particularly disturbed at the idea of two separate bodies of Chirst, one taken in the Rapture, followed by another that comes through the Great Tribulation. That one I don't yet have a way of resolving.