Happened on a You Tube channel carrying biographies of Christian leaders and stories of revivals.   D L Moody was the first I saw, then the Weslewy borthers first John and then Charles, then the Welcsh revival of 1904, though I may have skipped something in between, not sure.  Then they did a program on the Millerites which became the SSeventh Day Adventists.  Not your orthodox denomination, especially when you see Ellen G White's strange eyes.    All interesting nevertheless.  

But then Azusa Street and the Pentcostal movement and I knew I was in a fringe part of the Christian universe.I's the usual uncritical presentation that makes much of the phenomena such as tongues speaking as evidence of the "baptism in the Holy Spirit"  whicfh  only succeeds in confusing things .   I thought John MacArthur's Strange First Conference did a great job of showing that the 
girffts of the PSirit" claimed by the charismatic movement are nothing like the gifsts described in the New Testament, and I could echo that from my own experience of having received the "tonguies" which I know are some kind of bogus experience and not at all the tongues of the Bible.  I was glad to  finally be set free from the charismtaic influence that had continued to hold me in spirte of my own recognition of its falseness.

B ut at the same time I've always felt that the reason people get involved in that movement has a valid basis, , that most Christians really do live on a level of experience much beneath what is possib le and woulde be a powerful impetus to the Churuch if God would bring it about.  

I acce[t the basic Reformed theology that says we are born again at the point that we truly believe in the salvatgion given us by Christ .   I don't think what some call the baptism in the Holy Spirit subsequent to that is in fact that baptism, but is in most cases either conversion itself which hadn'[t happened earlier in spite of the claim that it had, or was a fuller inpouring of the Holy Spirit, and it's this latter that I continue to wish for myself as well as the Church.

The episode I saw about D. >L. Moody described his first conversion as rather dramatic, so it is easy to impute tto him the regeneration experience at that time and I have no reason to doub t it.  He was powerfully changed and moved to preach the gospel, major signs that he had in fact been tborn again.

Nevertheless later on some women in his congregation prayed for him and he recieving a deeper experience of the Holy Spirit, which  brought a definite increase in power to his preaching.  While he didn't preach anything new, what he praeched converted many more people than it had done before, although he'd had a a csuccessful ministry of conversions to that p[oint.   So  whatever this "second blessing" is it's not the born again experience, it's not the oirigianl baptism in the Holy Spirit like what was experienced in Acts 2 at the beginning of the Church, it must be simply a greater empowering in the Spirit, and it must be something we could and should seek.  When it comes to a whole congregation or community it's simply revival.

Seems to me we all need this and the Church needs it.  I know that if we are in the very last days, and there seems to be every rason to think we are, that many teach that we can't expect any more rfevivals, it's all down hill from here.  That may be true, b ut why should we just accept this idea?  Surely we always need more power of the Holy Spirit as individuals and as congregations and communitiies.  Why should that need some to an end just because the eworld is sliding into the last days, and even most of the churches?   Even if we have to accept that there is a great apostasy underway that doesn't inclucdde ALL the churches, there are still strue churches, there is still "the remnant" that looks forward to the Rapture.

TGhe charismatic "revivals of the nineties are some kind of sick joke.  While I'm wiloling to consider that some of those who experienced them did have genuine experiences of the Holy Spirit, as a whiole the revivals are obviously profane and unChristian.  There is a frivolousness at least that is not fitting a work of the Holy Spirit, a giddiness or jokiness about the tone of them.  Where is the powerful praching that draws people to Chrfist?  I don';t see it any of those so called revivals.  The Laughing Revival is maybe the most obvious bogus event.  Watchman Nee identifies that laughter as "soul power" and not of the Holy Spirit.

A genuine revival produces fear of God, a hatred of sin and a condenmnation of oneself as a sinner while Jesus death on the cross is magnified and preached with greater depth than usual.This may not describ e all genuine revivals but something of that tone must be present it seems to me or it's not genuine.

Just because we have to give up on the charismatic version of revival soesn't mean we should tive up on revival as such, but unfortunatley that does seem to happen. John MacArthur has always seemed to me to be positively allergied to any idea of  that we could have and certainly should seek more power from god.  If the bible is being preached conscientiously and conversions are happening that's enough for him.   

It's not for me.Revival True and False

 \\\Bret and Heather 156th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Who Lost the Plot? - YouTube

Prime numbers again

 For some reason the silly dialogues between Bret and Heather on their Dark Horse Podcast about prime numbers inspire me to think about such things which normally I wouldn't.  Ive done a few blog posts about them already, and managed to flub up one that I've never gone back to correct.  But anyway, since this week they are going on and on about the subject on their nonprime nmber e episode 157 which is a prime number, I thought I'd try to explain what I think is the best way to figure out whether a number is prime or not according to my own stumblings around on the topic.

You look at the last ndigit in the number,  No matter who large the number that last digit is the key to whether it is prime or not.  If it's an even number you know it is not prime because it is always divisible by at least 2.   If it is a five it is not a prime number because it is always divisible by five.  If it is a zero it is always divisible by both five and two.  

Once you've eliminated all the numbers as above, the remaining possibilities are one, three, seven and n nine.   At that point you consider what two-digit number ending in each of those is prime or noneprime.  It turns out that there are very few that are nonprime.  For instance, two digit numbers ending in one are eleven, twentyone,  thirtyone, fortyone and son on.  Of all those two digit numbers only twentyone and eightyone are divisible by a number other than one or itself.  Twentyone is divisible by seven and three, eightyone is divisiable by nineand three , so if your target number can be reduced to either of those as you divide it out in your head you know it is not a prime number,  But allt he other numbers ending in one are prime.  

Same method with three:  thirty three sixty three and ninety three are all divisible by three and eleven or two etc.  

Same process with seven and nine.  Lots more prime numbers than nonprime ones with these four numbers.  

I think it works but I'm no mathematician.  If it works it reduces the toil of figuring out what's prime and what isn't as much as possible for a methmatical klutz.  That's my opinion.

Oops, no, two is not divisible into anything that ends in three.  Oops.  thirtythree, sixtythree and ninety three are divisible by eleven, nine and of course three.  Brain very tired though so even this may need to be corrected in turn.  Sigh.

Some interesting nanotgechnology but so far too many limitations for some criminal uses, or so it seems to me

Update:  ere's the link to the latest Jan Markell radio show, which is about  how Christians are being targeted by demons to an alarming frequency.

Fear No Evil – Pastor Brandon Holthaus - YouTube

Doing a little research into tech capabilities, found videos of "Autonomous Insect Drones" at You Tube.  Drones that mimic bees, flyies, ants, etc, drones that are actual living insects whos brains have been implanted with electrodes that force them to move in certain ways, something called scallop0s... robo scallops?  microscallops?  dont' rememer the name of them, but they can perform tasks at a microscopic level inside the body, in blood vessels for instance.  How they are delivered there wasn't explained, nor exactly how they work.  They are little things that look to my bad eyes something like a blood cell itself, or a tiny disclike candy, lifesave, lozenge etc.  

All these devices are very expensive with just a few exceptions, have ifferent kinds of capabilities and limitations.   The life span of those that work inside the body must be pretty short but they don't say.  

There is a pill, yes a pill, a capsule, developed for the sake of insulin users that otherwise have to take injections at the rate of hundreds a year.  The pill can be swallowed and once in the stomach a needle like appendage pricks the wall of the stomach to deliver the drug, since it must be injected, can't survive the stomach acid.  the prick is apparently shallow so will not actually perforate the stomach wall, just inject its contect into the stomach lining itself from which location it can apparently spread throughout the body.

The Technology is quite amazing and no doubt being perfected all the time, and obviously couple be used for evil purposes althoguh I haven't yet found a discussion alalong those lines.

I haven't yet seen a drone tiny enough to get in nside the body on its own, or even by control, without the person being aware of it or having to participate in its ingestion cuh as by swallowing it intentionally or something along those lines, so ideas some have that they can just get into you without your knowing it such as by entering through mouth or nose, aren't feasible.  Of course supposedly they could have been developed but not publicized but that's hard to imagine since people who develop such things like to show off their creations such as on you tube.  However, I guess if their only purpose is something that must be kept secret it would be kept secret.  Nevertheless, the capabilities so far displayed by thee  inventions so seem too limited for any such use at this time.

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10 TINY Micro Robots and Nano Drones - YouTube

LLater:  I listened to the post and found out that last paragraph is a mess of gibberish.  Don't even know what I was trying to say there.  But what I want to add here is that I'd lieft out the fact that the microscallop nanomacjine is powered externally by an electromagnetic field or something like that.  Still no hint about how they get them into the body in the first place, if it could be done without the person'as being aware of the rpprocess.        Or how long they are able to "live" inside the body etc.

lATER, HRE'S A VIDEO OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THREE NANOTECH SCIENTISTS IN WHICH THE FIST EXAMPLE IS A ROBOT THE  SIZE OF HALF A POPPY SEED THAT IS EITHER BEING USED OR PLANNED TO BE USED IN THE BODY TO SEARCH OUT CANCERS OR SOME SUCH THING.  iT'S THE SIZE THAT'S INTERESTING, IT'S NOT MICROSCOPIC BUT IT'S CERTAINLY MUCH SMALL ER THAN ANY OF THE DRONES O OTHER ROBOS i'VE LOOKED AT RECENTLY.    i'M STILL LISTENING TO IT AND HOPE THEY'LL EVENTUALLYSAY MORE ABOUT THIS KIND OF WORK BUT THEY'VE GONE OFF INTO OTHER TOPICS FOR NOW.

Cellular Surgeons: The New Era of Nanomedicine - YouTube

Added:  Here I'm going to put a link to something completely different because I lost the source and am afraid of losing the link.  Thisx is a talk by  warren Smith about the many false teachers in the churches today, including those  I've mentioned show up in a Bible Study I attended in my apartment building:  Jesus Calling is top of his list as a New Age false Jesus.  He also mentions David Jeremiah who is usually pretty trustworthy but apparently has endorsed false teacher Leonard  Sweet ==  not sure I have that name right but Smith talks a lot about him.  Smith came out of the New Ag himsel

nizes New Age teaching whereas many Christians won't.

Warren B Smith - Be Still and Know That You are Not God! (Berean Call Bible Conference) - YouTube

Is Part of the Globalist Agenda to Target the Unvaccinated?

I haven't been following much of the current news these days, just bits here and there, enough to notice that COVID is still being kept alive for some reason, the propaganda against the unvaxxed continues though in more muted terms than earlier, the censorship of anyone who dissents from the prevailing policies against COVID continues, althoughit's certainly nice to see what Elon Musk is trying to do with Twittter and I hope he succeeds in restoring frree speech for the dissident side.   The globalist agenda is still on the minds of some on the dissident side, notably in the Christian arena where it fits so well into the end times scenario of th coming Great Tribulation.  

But what as been preoccupying me lately is some rumblings I'm hearing about the targeting of groups such as the unvaxxed, targeting in the sense of intimidation, harassment, vague threateings and evensometimes rather pointed threatenings.  This is all under the radar of the main sources of news and commentary I hear, and I'm still not hearing a lot these days so tht mayh not mean much.

Although I determined some time ago that I wouldn't listen any more to the late night sppok show as I think of it, Coast to Coast radio with George Noori, I happened to hear one of his guests talking on the subject of AI as a weapon in the hands of "aliens" to eliminate the human race, so I listened to most of it.   It's frustrating to me that anyone ebelieves at all in real phyiscal aliens as in extraterrestrials becuase their behavior is simply impossible in the phyiscal world.  Their "spacecraft" operate at physicaly impossigble speeds, change directsions at such speeds any physical ehicle would simply disintergrate and any living things perish in the maneuever.  Yet some actually seem to think this could be simple very advanced technology.  Tehy can't think outside the phyiscla context.  That's why I was so captiated by the UFOlogist Jacques Vallee who analyzed the UFO phenomena as spiritual beings.  He's not a CHristian, he isn't talking about demons, but just the fact that he sees their behavior in terms that defy phyiscal explanations and imply something spiritual he opens the dor to the Christian view that all such phenomena are really demonic, fallen angels with an agenda of their own that is malevolent , at the very least determined to deceive us and mislead us, underminje the Christian salvation offer, lead us all Hell if they can, and perhaps manipulate things on Planet Earth to some end of their own.   

But anyway tthis guest of George Noori was one Cyrus Parsa or something like that, and he does believe in real aliens and things their agenda is to destroy the human race and replace us with some kind of AI hybrid or something like that, pehraps a hybride of alien and human, I'm not sure I got what he really has in mind.   He also claims to have psychic or clairvoyant powers and to have predicted the pandemic.  I'd like to see his films or read his books but I haven'[t been able to find the films yet and I can't read any more. so...

I can't usually follow discussions of sophisticaled technology so I tune them out but lately I'm hearing about the possibility of technology on an extraordinarily advanced level being used to control intimidate harass or even kill human beings.  Of course the tchology of vaccines designed to destroy us rather than protect us is a hint in that difrections but it gets a lot spookier than that and I don't know how to judge any of this, I don't know what's possible techologically and what isn't.  Are very small drones that could be lethal or even deliver vaccinations against a person's will possible?  Are even tinier drones possible, REALLYsmall techno pmarvels that could harm people, perhaps get inside their bodies and hardm their organs and bringsaobut a slow death?  It siounds impossible to me but then I really have no clear idea about what's possible in the physical tech world at all.  I'm likely to think demons whern I hear anyhthing about such possibilities because I KNOW that demons are real, that they are malevolent and that they can hurt people unless those people are protected by Jesus Christ.

\I saw a film about "targeted individuals" in the UK and that's the title of the films.  They sound psychotic and they may be but then perhaps it's possible that they'[ve been subjected to some kind of high tech manipulations that are at least designed to make them into experiments for say some global power.  We know the global powers aare in operation and working up[ to some kijd of power grab sp tjat  so tthat part of it is crebdible at least to me.  But behond that are these things physical possible or are they all the inventions of hyperactive insecure people?

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I'd like to be able to find out something about the possibilities involved.  I'd like to be able to find a source of information I coudl follow, about how sophisticated technology could possibly be used to target a vulenerable group of people who are refusing to goalong with the globalist agenda, say those who refused the COVID vaccines.  If such technologisy exists there must be some people somehweere who know about it, maybe even people who know it is already in use aginjsinst such groups.  

I've already been amazed at how much power those on the globalist side seem to have already, the power in particular to silence us dissicddents, anyhone who dissents from their agenda concerning COVID for starters.  I'm one though I don't feel threatened in such a personal way...yet.  I am persuaded that as manyh as ninety percent of those who have died of  CO ID would have survived if it hadn't been for the suppression of information about therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine with ince, or ivermectin or even such the immune boosint effects of largedodoses of vitamins D and C aong other nutritional supplements.  I see a corrupt and vidious vicious propagansda campaign against such helpful thijgs while promoting the vaccines wihich are not vaccines, which don't prevent the virus or its transmission and have known adverse effects on a very large percentage of people compared to the usual permissible percentage which is very tiny and would oridinarily cause such a so called vaccine to be pulled from public use.   This is diaboligical manipulation of the public and it's very scary.  I wouldn't have thought it possible but it's been happening for such.  Along with the amazinglyh successful censorship of all the voices who are raised in protest of this corrupt and diaboligical agenda.  How many of the public actually get to hear such voices?  They are slandered to such an extent that many just accept that they must be charlatans who are passing along misinformation instead of the highly credential edmedical people most of the them are.  It's amazine how well this censorship and propaganda campagin has succeedded in keeping  so much of the pulic in the dark and inocjulated against the truth and marginalizing those who do know the truth.  

Anyway, I hear of individuals being targeted by intimidating tacts, even threats against their health and their lives through this sophisticaled technologist and I don't know how to find out more about it.  

Below I've copied out the link to the video about the targeted people in the UK, a few years beofre COVID so it's now about the vaccines though it could be the model for something along those lines now.  Unless of course the people simply are psychotic.  If I didn't know wsoso much about the malevolent propaganda that is clearly going on I might just dismiss them too, but in today's atmosphere I don't put it past those malevolent forces to target individuals as experiments or for whatever other purpose that fits their agenda.

I alsmot hav linkedto today's Jan Markell radio show becuase it's about the Great Reset.

 Meet the Targeted Individual Community; Target Non V'd - YouTube

The End-Game: Hiding in Plain Sight – Pastor Jack Hibbs and Charlie Kirk - YouTube

And here's a link to Chris Pito's site.  I haven't been able to listen to him lately because it's been hard to find his website.  I mjjust found it so I'm putting up the link:

NOTR - THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SHOW - 12.26.2022 - Show Downloads - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

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Star of Bethlehem

 Happened on a teaching by John MacArtghur in which he covers the star that led the Magi to the child Jesus.  He speculates about carious aspects of the storiy in interesting ways but as he talked I realizeds his view of for instance the star itself was unconficing, and was reminded of the study by Rick Larsen called The Betlehem Star in which he uses an astronomy computer program to track down the star that scripture says appeared at the birth of Jesus.   I had to watch that video many times but eventually found it very convincing, and John MacArthur needs to see it.

MacArthur identifies the death of Herod, which is a key factor in olocating the time of Jesus' birth as 54 Ad.  I hope I wrote 4,  Fiyur Fiyr, AD,   Tujes U cab;t seen ti cibtrik nt fubdgers abt nire eutger,  Abtwatm ibe tgubg larsen did in his study was discover evidence that the four AD time for Herod's death was wrong although it's been preserved in all the recent publications of Josephus, which is the source of it.  Earlier references give ONE AD as the year of Herod's birth, and that makes a big difference in the attempt to discover the star.  Kepler had been hampered by the wrong date in Josephus, but with the evidence Larsen discovered he is able to come to a very convincing date for Jesus' birth and the explanation of tghe star that marked it.

Searching the sky with his astronomy software in the year Three BC, Larsen discovered a tribple conjuinction of Jupiter with the planet Regulus, King Planet conjunct King Star, occurring in the constellation Leo.  Herald of the birth of a great King?  Leo represents the Lion of Judah.  But right behind Leo rising in the sky is the constellation Virgo, which Larson recognizes as exactly fitting the description given in the Book of Revelation Chapter Twelve, the woman clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet.   He speculates that this could be the conception date of Jesus and I think he's right.  It's Rosh Hashanah of Three BC.  

Nine months later is where the brightest celestial object anyone had ever seen, according to Larson, appeared in the sky.  June of Two BC.  Surely the time of Jesus' birth.

I'm convinced but you have to see it yourself and follow out his argument.

Then he brings the Magi into the picture, who would have seen that star and started their journey when they saw it.  As Larson puts the timing together he has them arriving at Bethlehem in two BC on... December 25th.   Yes, do watch the viceo and follow the argument.  I think it's very compelling.  It wasn't the birth of Jesus, which nobody thinks anyway since shepehereds don't watch their flocks on hillsides at night in winter, but the visit of the Magi, which is a sort of type of tghe giftgivers at Christmas now?  Why not?

And vfrom there Larson oes on to put it all together as what he calls a "celestial poem" leading up to the crucifixion, which he shows on his software was crowned by a blood moon and followed by the constellation Virgo with a FULL BLOOD MOON at her feet.   Yep, you need to see this video.

His website is Bethlehem Star.com.  Bethlehem Star.com.  can't control my fingers either these days.

It used to be at You Tube but ow there are so many things that come up under that title I'm snot sure which one is his if any of them are.

Don’t Dance With the Devil – Pa

stor Mark HJohn MacArthur: Becoming a Better You? - YouTubeenry, Pastor Jason Carlson, and Jill Martin Rische - YouTube

John MacArthurr on Galatians: "The Battle Cry of the Protest Reformation"

Getting the Gospel Right - YouTube

 Freedom in Christ, Part 1 - YouTube