The Bible is not Just Another Ancient Book for Scholarly Investigationn, It's the Onlyy True Guide to Reality

Last night's Coast-to-coast radio show hosted by George Noory (he spelled it on air for which I'm grateful) wasn't about the paranormal but about the Dead Sea Scrolls. the guest was a scholar not a believer though he seems to have a sorta kinda belief in something from the jewish point of view. The scrolls are all of the Hebrew Bible, all Old Testament and he mentioned how all the OT books are repesented in teh scrolls, the Isaiah scroll being completely intact which the others are fragments, and that the text is exactly the same text we use today. He has a few opinions about the New testament and jesus too although he is an unbeliever and none of that is represented in the scrolls.

It's always annoying to me how the "scholars" have to refer to the dates involved as BCE and CE for Before Common Era and Common Era, instead of the traditional BC for Before Chirst and AD for Ano DComini or Year of Our Lord. So prissy of them they just have to cancel out any hint of religion although you'd think they'd at ledast resepcdt the fact that the traditional dates are part of the culture of Western Civilization. Amazing how anything that points to the true God has to be expunged although the same people who like to do that are often very zealous to preserve other kids of cultural markers.

Nothing in the show shed any light on recent topics that I could see. My posts about the occult and paranormal emphasize that the BHible is the explanation for all such things, but this show wouldn't relate to that. You have to beleie the Bible for one thing for it to be authoritative about anything such as demons. If you don't believe it you're just going to go onj as mostof Noory's guests do, just wandering around in all sorts of speculations of the human mind, dreaming up extraterrestrials and other dimensions and so on when it seems pretty clear to me that the demons are responsible for all of it. We only really know about demons from the Bible. But you've got to beliee it, you can't just treat it as one of many interesting works about "the other side>'

Which reminds me thta I've heard quite a bit lately from other sources about how so much of today's political ideology is "religious" in nature. Wokeness for instance. A lot of the COVID craziness for instance. I know what they mean of course, they mean it's all held irrationally as a sort of faith without evidence or actually aainst the evidence. ]

That could apply to some political positiohs and some religions botyh, but the way it's getting used it's made to represent all religion and that of course drivesw me crazy. Christianity is not relitgious in that sense. They seem to think that faith is an irrational thing in itself, as in "blind faith," but that was never what is meant by the word in Christianity. Faith is a trust you place in a person or doctrinyou have good reaon to believe is eminently trustworthy, and in the cast of Christian faith the Bible provides the evidence. Of course you have first to beleive the bible is trustworthy and if you don't you'll never have the necessary evidence. As the Deaad Sea Scrolls scholar said, some even doubt that Moses was a real person. Forget eidence of any sort if you are willing to doubt such basic information. The doubts are what is irrational in this case, The doubts are rthe "religion" in the sense I mention above.

If you believe the Bible is the word of God, "God-breathed" as scripture says, then it becoes the door to an amazing world of information you can't get anywhere else. Real information. Knowledge of all kinds of things the fallen mind can't figure out on its own. "Faith is the subtstance of things hoped for, " says the scripture, :the evidence of things unseeen." In the most everyday sense we hve to have faith in all sortgs of things we have no other way to verify by experience and when it comes to the supernatural we hvae to depend on witnesses and that means we have to be satisfied that the witnesses are trustworthy.

Trust it and see glories unimaginable. Don't trust it and get led down all the primrose paths the devil lovs to take you down knowing your fallen mind is attracacted to them.

Discussion of Exorcism by a Catholic Priest on the Coast-to-Coast radio show

George Noori's guest on his Coast-to-Coast radio show last night was a priest, actually an archbishop, who does exorcisms. SHad to listen to that one because I did a recent post on it. Interesting that Noori asked him why it's always Catholic priests who do exorcisms and don't others such as rabbis and Protestant ministers? He did say others do it. And they do. I've read of Protestants who have a ministry of exorcism. there is a man in the Northwest, connected with a football team somehow as I reccall, who deals with demon possession, but it's been a long time since I heard about him.

As I've said, a Catholic priest can't have power over demons because he doesn't have the power of Christ whose power is the only power demons will obey. Nowhere did the priest mention Jesus Christ at all. When he finally did describe his method it turns out to be a series of repetitive prayers which he didn't quote. The Bible says repetitive prayers are uselyess but Catholics don't much care what the Bible says about a lot of things. It's just one of the sources they consider to be authoritative. for a Protestant the Bible is THE authority, it's the voice of God Himself.

The priest called his method a "ritual," and how a ritual could be expected to have influence over a liing intelligent creature I can't imagine. I wonder what is really going on here since it's hard to believe his methods accomplish anyhthing at all. He says he knows when the person has been freed from possession because color comes back into his face and there is a sort of perfume in the air, the smell of roses. That's interesatint but I wonder what it means. Are the demons pretending to leave or what? It occurs to me that since Roman Catholicism is false religion, the Antichrist religion, and they woujld be happy to support such a contradiction of the true religion and God Himslf, if they might really leave to make the priest look good. I wojder a lot of things agbout this.
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The priest is right as far as it goes that the demons are motivated to insult God. But they are also motivated to keep people from finding salvation in Christ, which is a major thrwarting of God's power. A lot of the demonic activity that I think is what most of the phenomena on this radio show are really all about, are aimed at interrupting salvation in one way or another. Keeping people from believging in it and seeking it for instance. Since the Catholic Church has a false teaching about salvation it is no threat to the demons, it is working alongside their efforts.To contradict the bible, meaning to contradict God, just as Satan did in Eden when he seduced Eve into disobedience of God, to keep people from salvation, to keep Satan in power over this world as the Prince of tHIE wORLD AND SO ON. tHAT'S THE MOTIVATION OF THE DEMONS. aND THE ROMAN cHURCH AS WELL. .

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Obsessing about numbers an expression of the current insanity or a therapy for it? maybe both

UPDATE: Added more at bottom, couldn't stop obsessing

Of all two-digist numbers ending in 1, 21 and 81 are not prime, beubg duvusubke by other nubmers than thesmevles and 1.

Of all two-digit numbers that end in 3, 33, 63 and 93 are not prime

Of all the two-digit numbers that end in 7, 27 and 77u are not prime.

Of all the two-digit numbers that end in 9, 39, 69 snf 99 are not prime..

So that's roughly a quarter to a third of numbers in this group that are not prime; all the rest are prime numbers.

If you'd like to work it out for three-digit numbers be my guest. Happy obsessing.

But I kept on obsessing myself.

There are 360 three-digit numbers that end in 1, 3, 7, or 9. If the proportions of prime to nonprime numbers in this group are comparable to the two-digit group, about 100 will be nonprime and 260 will be prime, but this will be discovered by working them out.

ALLTHREE-DIGIT NUMBERS ENDING IN 1:
101, 111, 121,131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191
202, 211, 221. 231. 241. 251. 261. …
301, 311, 321, 331, 341, …
401, 411, 421, 431, …
501, 511, 521 …
601, 611 …
701 …
801…
901 …

ALL THREE-DIGIT NUMBERS ENDING IN 3
103, 113, 123, 133, 143, 153, 163, 173, 183, 193
203, 213, 223, 233, 243, 253 …
303, 313, 323 …
403…503… 603… 703 …803 … 903 …

ALL THREE-DIGIT NUMBERS ENDING IN 7:
107, 117, 127 …
207 … 307 … 407 … 507 … 607… 707… 807 … 907

ALL THREE-DIGIT NUMBERS ENDING IN 9: 109, 119, 129 …
209 … 309 … 409 etc etc.

In the group ending in 1, those will be nonprime which are divisible by 3, 7 or 9
Here are some of the nonprimes

111 (3x37), 141 (3x47), 171 (3x57) br> 201 (3x67, 231 (3x77 and 7X33), 261 (3x87), 291 (3.97)
321 (3x107)) >br? … and we have a pattern in the diviers too. Fun, huh? ,br> Looks like the percentage is holding up, about a third are noprime

Ukraine deceptions part 2

Sitting here with my mind blown since hearing Chris Pinto's show about Deceptions over the war in Ukraine. Al that carrying on about how evil Putin is and how he's the aggressor and nobod's quite sure what his motivations are in invading but there's lots of speculation about recorering the old Soviety Union or osmething like that, all that may be hot air. What if Putin was simply telling the truth that he's going into Ukraine to Denazify it? Or to protect the Russian community there?

That's dismissed as wrongfully siding with Putin. But you don't have to think Putin is a paragon of virtue or a good guy in any general sense to recognize that he may very well be doing exactly what he said he's doing. In order to consider that, of course, you need to have more facts about the history of the situation than we've been getting on the mainstream media. Facts of the sort Chris Pinto gives on his radio show, about the coup in 2014 that ousted a pro=Russian democratically elected president and brought the government under the control of radical leftists. And Nazis. Both somehow, hard to sort this out but aparently there are real Nazis, or neo-Nazis invovled, who fly the swastika flag. Chris mentions a picture of a group of them 3with their flag together with some NATO representatives.

The big mindblowing fact is that it was actually Ukraine that started this war, not Russia. This comes from the reported Patrick Lancaster who has many videos up at YHou Tube in which he is on the ground in Ukraine going around interviewing the Russians who are being attacked. One of his videos about such an attack was made before the Russian army started to move in . Clearly Ukraine started this, and the Russians they attacked asked Putin to send help. but we are not hearing that are we?

Although Trump was lambasted by the media for sipposedly ssupporting Putin by saying he's smart, I didn't have the impression he was sayinbg he approved of what Putin was doing, far from it, I took it that he was giving an excuse for the invasion that was false and that was clever of him. I don't know if I even got that right, I don't really know what Trump was saying. Since then he seems to have made it very clear that he's no friend of Putin, though, which is what has always been true.

But in this case, without in any way holding hands withP Putin I'm now getting the impression that his story is probably true, he's defending the Russians in Ukraine and fighting the Nazis there, part of the radical govefernment of Ukraine who started by attacking those Russians. The Russians are traditionalists, Russian Orthodox Christians, according to Chris Pinto, who don't want to join the EU with its gay rights and transgender agendas, and the radical Ukrainian groups wan6t to override them.

Well, that's what I get out of this so far. Who knows where it's going to go. But now it's looking to me like we shoujldn't be sending arms to Ukraine but rather to the Russians in Ukraine. Somwethintg like that.

Well, that's not a good idea, but at least it sounds like we shouldn't be supporting Ukraine.

Chris Pinto goes on from there to the role Islam plays in the global agenda. Bringing Muslimjs ihto the west and into Ukraine, and that's another thing the Russians are opposed to. Apparently Putin is on record opposing the gay agenda, even wanting traditional Christian marriage written into their laws, and is also opposed to the Muslim agenda which of course is designed to dest5roy the cultures of the west including Russia and Ukraine. Definitely reasons we should ot be supporting the radical Ukrainian governement.

Chris says his next radio show will be about the interpretation from some prophetic minhistries that this russian action could lead to the invasion of Israel in fulfillment of Ezediel 38. I haven't spent any time on that part of end times prophecy, but it's interesting that as he's putting together that topic, Jan Markell's next radio show on Understanding the Timnes is to be about Ukraine and include how it relates to that prophecy. Her view is what Pinto will be arguing against. Should be an interestingt week.

In Ukraine the Good Guys and the Bad Guys May Not Be What You've Been Hearing

Should have learned by now that when I find myself beliecving what i hear on the news, or mostly believing it since I'm always wary to some extent, anyway then I should take it as a red flat and pray to know the truth. Which I more or less do anyway but in this case I was going along with the idea that Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine the beleaguered freedom-loving victim, and now I'm finding that may not be the truth.though I hasten to add that it would be folly at this point to think I know enough to say what the truth is. Neverhtless this is very interesting. On You Tube theres a Patrick Lancaster who is in Ukraine where the war is going on and loudly claiming that it's Ukraine that is shooting at the Russian sectors, targeting civilizians. We've been hearing that Russia is doing that, but according to Lancaster it's Ukraine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
I heard about Lancaster's videos from Chris Pinto's latest radio show at Noise of Thunder. He goes into the history of the political situatiohn there, which is not exactly what the mainstream media have been telling us it is. Radical Ukraining elements in the government, both leftwing and Nazi.

https://soundcloud.com/user-54104055/deception-war-in-the-ukraine-02282022?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

A Comprehensive Presentation of the Role of the Pope in the Last Days by Understanding the Times radio

This is a very satisfying exploration of the role of the Pope and the catholic Church in these days of global ferment, ratcheting up the work toward a global religion as well as a global gpvermm,emt/ Tjeu aren't saying the Pope is the Antichrist, as I've come to elieve is the case based on the scriptural arguments of the Protestant Reformers, but they certainly acknowledge all the historical elements that go into that view, and overall this radio show points to a dominating role of the Pope in the last days, however that may play out in the Grand Finale or the Great Tribulation.

The intriguing question addressed toward the end of the show is what will be the unifying illuue that brings everybody under the Antichrist, and two are considered: blimate change and health, meaning p pandemic such as we have been experiencing. The lying manipulations we've seen to force a unity on the world through vaccinations and mask wearing makes the latter focus the one of the momkenjt, but climate change certainjly sounds like it has the potential to be another great uniter, under a totalitarian tyranny of courase.\

Guest of the show Mike Gendron makes it clear that Catholics are not the submject of this criticism, just the leadership of the Roman Churchn, that Catholics need to learn that the gospel is not preached in their church so they are not saved if they believe that ersion of it and they need to study the scripture to be set free from it.

Lots of interesting secondary information in this one too but I'll leave that for anyone to discoer who listens to it.

The Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Knowledge of God's Moral LLaw.

A few days ago it occurred to me that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which was the instrument of Adam and Eve's disobedience of God, the Fall, Original Sin, and our inherited sin nature, may represent the Moral Law of God. I've often wondered what is meant by the knowledge of good and evil. Of course in one sense it is easy enough to understand that our original parents were innocent of the knowledge of evil so that it came to them through that sin and of course we know we have tht knowledge. But i didn't really get the import of it, why that particular name for that tree and so on.

Unbelievers like to deny what the scripture tell sus, that this was a great calamity for the human rce, and like their father Satan they read the passage to mean that God lied and that we acquired powers He didn't want us to have, powers that made us AS "GODS" AND God didn't want rivals or some such nonense, nonsense tht is a terrible blasphemy against God.
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But I've been thinking a lot about the meaning of "knowledge" in scripture, such as in that passage in Hoszea I've mentioned a few timees now, where God says "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.." Often I've heard that preached as referring to practical knowledge of various dangers we encounter in the world, poisons, diseases, who our enemies are and so on, and certainly that's a kind of knowledge that helps protect us from such dangers.

But as I read that passage it became clear to me that in context God is talking about knoweldge of His Moral Law, such as the Ten Commandments. He says His people commit various sins such as sealing and lying, swearing false oaths, murdering, committing adultery and so on, right before He says they are destroyed for lack of khnowledge. Also that they don't want to have this knowledge, they rejecit. That doesn't sound like the kind of practical knowledge so many impute to it since why would we reject such useful warnings against harm?

So surely the meaning there is that God is condemning the leaders of His people for not teaching His commandments to them to protect them from the real danger, which is the death that comes from sin. "The wages of sin is death." And death includes every other kind of suffering, diseases and dangers of every sort that can become the instruments of suffering and death to us. When God gave the Law through Moses how did He put it? He was giving them the knowledge they needed for life or death or something like that, "therefore choose life." Choosing life meant obedience to the commandmeents. If we belive and obey the commandmenets we will live, if we violate them we will die, and that means we will be subject to all kindsof suffering short of physical death as well.

then I was listening to the Book of Proverbs and was struck by the repeition of the word "kowledge." It is used more or less synonymously with "wisdom" and "undderstanding" and it's all about tknowledge of the dangers that come through sin, the death that comes from sin. Long life and health are promised to those who obey the commandments of Wisdom, who is the wsisdom of God. '
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What is this knowledge or wisdom that is the main focus of so much of the Bible? Can't it becammed "the knowledge of good and evil?" That is what led me to the meaning of the Tree of the Kowledge of Good and Evil as represen6ting a new condition for Adam and Eve in which they came under the Moral Law of God which runs the universe. It's not a happy knowledge beause they are now sinners and being subject to the Law of God means they are subject to death and disease and iseries of all kinds.
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I recently heard on some radio show or other that Hindu parents teach their chidlren about Karma in a certain way that I didn't catch, but it was their teaching that moral system that caught my attention. Karm is at least a form of the Moral Law that people haeve intuited, and I was thinking how right it was that they teach it to their children. It seemed to me that although we get moral instruction from our parents in one form or other it isn't a systematic form, it's piecemeal and imperfect and shouldn't we be taught the moral law of God? Christians certainly, at least the Ten Commandments. And you'd think we would be, or think thaty we are taught it but I'm not aware that anyone teaches it to their children in any systematic way. Even the churches don't really. We may learn the commnandments but I don't recall learning that life and death hang oon them. Maybe it is taught in some places, I just haven't run across it.

And I don't think I've ever heard the Tree of the KNowledge of Good and Evil taught in terms that relate to the Moral Law. Again I may have and just didn't register it. But it hit me as a revelation. Not that I get its full import I'm sure, it raises more qustions than it answers, but at the same time it is a satisfying way of thinking about it.
If we were taught that the universe will punish us for transgressions of this law wouldn't we be a lot more careful than we are? I say the "unoiverse" because there is something inexorable about the Law. God is in some sense synonymous with His Law, He can't violate it, it is inherent in His Being, it IS him in some sense. But it is applied with fine intelligence that takes into acccount degrees of motivation and understanding and balances it with a zillion other transgressions and obediences all in the flash of a momnent's judgment. It makes no mistakes. God makes no mistakes. "The windmillis of the LORD grind exceeding fine."

The Law bites. When I was an unbeliever I scoffed at the idea that there were any spiritual forces in the universe. I'd become a miserable aheist in my teens after being sent to church as a child and learnign a few things about God though in a pretty garbled fashiohn. I was a believer but not a very well taught believer. Then I met sophisticated teenagers and became an atheist and remained in that condition for the next thirty years. Scoffing at what i'd once believed.

If you scoff at sin you get smacked down. At least if you are God's child you do. I've been smacked down quite a bit. It makes me wish I'd learned at least the karma version of the Law as it might have protected me from a lot of smackdowns. But karms is a very shallow and distorted version of the Moral Law of God and now I'm wishing we were all taught more about the biblical Law. I think a lot these days about how the nation is going to hell in a handbasket as it were, and how people have no idea that they are "storing up wrath" by their beliefs, by the evil laws that are being passed by our government and that sort of thing. The natio itself is under God's judgmednt for those laws, but the individuals who promote them have no idewa what they are doing to their own souls. In a way it's a big comfort to know that the current lawlessness and insanity will be punished by God in the end, but I wish people would wake up NOW, that the country could be saved NOW, that God would sensd revival NOW.
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I'm sorry my typing is so bad. I have to mention it from time to time. I can't see what I'm typing, it's a very faint image and if I have to stop to correct something I get copletely lost becauae my eyes are so bad. I can often feel with my fingers when I've hit a wrong key but I don't dare stop to try to fix it because I'll end up having to retype a whole paragraph just because I an't make out what I've written.

Anyway, I wanted to write a post, yet anjother post, on the subjeject of God's Moral Law, thoguth this encounter with the term "knowledge" in the Bible. There's probably more I should say but I'll leave it for another post. >

Well, one thing that needs to be said is that the New Testament teaches that the Law is a "schoolmaster to bring us to Christ," meaning that the Law can't save us, it can only condemn us because we are sinners. We can't escape it. Only Jesus Christ was sinless, no other human being can do anyhthing but sin. And the longer we are a Christian, a serious Christian, the more we become awayre of the depths of our sinfulness. It would lead to despair if it weren't for the knowledge that Christ paid for our sins so that we don't have to be condemned. "there is now no condemnation in Christi Hesus>"

Agai Again, sorry for the messy typing. I know there are lots of errors just in that last paragraph.