More Prayer Now, more Repentance, More Seeking of God's Will, That's what we need more of.

 Some on the Right are understandably rather full of themselves these days, carrying on about how Trump won so resoundingly  that we're now going to get to right all the rwongs we've been enduring for so long.  Trump has a mandate and now we'll get  the border security and the economic propserity and the peaceful international scene and the trade agreements that work for everybody and don't put the USA behaind the eight ball as it were, and racial relations will go back to their condition pe Woke when we could point to measurabhle progres despite knowing that there will always be some tension, and Wiokeness irtself will go away finally and America will again be the great force for good in the world we used to be.  

I want that to be true of course, but it puts my teeth on edge that God is not invoked in these optimistic effusions of hope.  If we are not gdoing it all consciously in God's power and for God's purposes in the world , but doing it all by human means and in human strength and for human purposes, even with the occasional thaknks to god and so on, how long will this wonderful merciful reprieve He's given us last?   Only Christians can be expected to understand the situation in this light of course, but I'd expect to hear more of it than I do.  Which is prettymuch none at this point, just listening ot the news I mean.   

The Woke insanity is tstill out there, the murderous self entitlement of the Left is still out there, the plots against Trump go on in Leftist circules despite some surprising soul souearching on the Left.  Yes our war is not against flesh and gblood but against the powers and principlalityies of the Satanic kingsomdome,  yes, but Satan never resests, he bides his time and he knows who to trigger to do his purposes.   

jI also hear warnings that this is not a gime to let our guard down becaue of the ongoing Leftist designs.  that part I do hear.  What I don't hear enough of or at all is that it all depends on God and staying in tune with Him.

Devolution of Culture Inevitable result of Giving Up on God

 So Christmas has devolved into a completely secular holiday, not new since it's been devolving for decades now, but it seems more extreme this year.  Probably just because of how it has been coming at me.  Grandson was part of the Christiamas chorus at the tree lighteing dceremony in his town and the teacher was told that one of the songs awas too religious and had to be dropped.  I don't know which one yet but  any religious note in anything they sing would surprise me since it's all been relentlessly secular that I've heard fso far.  except for one of the songs in the honor choir I mention in the previous post but that one is not a popular song, I'd never heard of it before and it's vegaue enough to fly under the radar.  O Love that will not let me go is the first line,  an d it's about God'xs relationship with the Christian soul.  Now that I've mentioned it someone may notice and it will hnever be sung again.  It's one of the gons I like the most, lovely chords weafving in and out between the four voices from bass to first tenor.  

Whle they were visiting last week I became aware that my grandsons don't know the Christmas Carols at all.  Some of the melodies sound familiar to them but that's about it.  Well, their parents aren't Christians so they don't have the experience of church where they might have heard the carols.  Nbobody had the patience to learn them while they were here so I'm hopihng they'll hear them somewhere else.  

It's still true that the beauty of the music in the Honor Choir gives me ope for the culture but the initial thrill of it has worn ofrf by now.  Beauty in the mouths of teenage boys I mean, which is unexpected for some reason though literally I shouldn't be surprised.  because I'm aware of the existence of such choirs.  Just hit me from a new angle this year I guess.  

There is so much craziness continuing to dominate the news it's hard to keep up my state of hopefor the culture.  If Trump hadn't won the doward sligde would be even more precipitous of course, pretty total and sudden so at least there's the relieief of a temporary mitigation of the ineitable ultimate crash as this fallen world reaches its destiny which it can't help to do since it has abandoned God.

theyu fitht viciously against anyu shred of Christian influence.  that was never the plan of the Conssituion or the framers of the nation certainly not the Declaration of Independnence which affirmed the importance of God in the conception of a nation.   Tennessee and Luisian a have recently made laws to bring back Christain influence in their schools but it's being fought in the courts already.  Give up on the ten Commandments and you get the criminal ctrends we've been seeing olately, but they deny that we need religion to protect or guarantee a moral society.  Even George Washington sayid wwe need that in one of his speeches, that you can't divorce morality from the Christian religion.  John Adams said the same.  jeffereson concurred.  They weren't true Christians, anyh of them but they aprpeciated the hristian heritage.  And now we've lost even that much.   We can't put up the commandments against stealing, lying, murder, adjultery or covetousness or disrespecting paraents because these days the whole cultrue is going in favor of those once criminal behaviors, well murder anyway since lying and adultery and coverintging aren't criminal.  Oh stealing too used to be criminal but now it's supported by the law of all things so that businesses are having to close their doors.  Truly it's all incsance but insancne but somehosw they go on in this directly anyway and never get it.  We now see rioting in favor of murder of all things.  Sorry I'm tired I shouldn't be writing this yet I suppose.  Not rioting but loud opinions in favor iof letting a man hurt people on the subway rather than praise the man who restrained him, loud opinions in favor of the murder of a man on the streets of new york.  Utter unbelievable insanity.  I could neverr have buguessed that the world cold go this far in this direction if you asked me ten years ago let alone twenty or thirty even though it was already pretty insane by then.

Adams said our form of government is adequate only for a moral and relig8ious people.  Well we've long since lost it and the crash is inevitable though hopow long it will tak to get there isn't glclear.  could be tomorrow.  could be years from now.    Fortunately there are people workjing to restrain it, but the voices on the other side are awfully loud and arrogantly certain of their righteness.  \\

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It's a fallen world.  There's only one place a fallen world can end up.  In total and utter self destruction.  God will interviene before that happens to the uttermost but it's coming and it isn'[t going to be pretty.  

A Musically Happy thanksgiving for me

Belated Happy thanksgiving.  Coldn't get to my blog for a olong time.  Nothing much to say about the holiday itself except that it was a nice time with extended family and lots of food.  four generations under one roof on my borothe's sid3e.  His great grandsdaughter is almost two, and the star of the evening.  

The highlifht for me was getting to hear a recording of one of my gransndsons' choir perforan ces.  He's a senior in highschool and had qualified for the regional hojors choir which put on this show.  I can't find him in the crowd onstage but the music was lovely.  all the kids were chosen for their ability to sinbg well, on pitche, read music, etc etc etc and they sound great.  

There is a boys choir,m a girls choir and a mixed choir but all his dad recorded was the boys choir.  Maybe they call it mens rather than boys.  tghey sound likje jmen.  There's everything from two tenors to a baritone and a basss secrtion.  My daughter set me up with a set of ear hones that enabled me to experience it in wonderful sterio with great clarity and i8t reduced me to tears it was dso beuatufiul.

I think it was more than the music itself that so affected me, but the fact that threse are teenage boys, from fourteen to eighteen or so, and who expects such beaturfy from that age roup?  My grandson said he wants to be in the chorus because of the experienc3ew of being surrounded by such lovely blended sounsds, and that's my experience listening to it with these head phones.  He also played for me his own collection of the girls choir and the mixed choir and they are great too, and I'ld like to have a copy of those as well, but I think there's something abut the fact that boys can produce such musical loveliness that affects me the most.  boys get such a bad rap in our culture these days, and this performance reduced me to tears of hope for the recorvery of some of our lost westernculture.  

Intelligence, professionalism, musical skills of all kinds from pitch to timing to modulation to tonality.    

Here's the youtube channel:  @joemitola5178

there's a woman's head in the way so you have to see around her, and there are some background noiceses from time to time but not too bad I hope.

Economic Castles in the Air

I've been listening to some interviews with a Marxist economist, Richard Wolff. 

In an interview titled the Final Caste Against Donald Trump I just heard him say that taxing the rich stimulateds the economy but leaves the government without the revenuwe to pay its obligations.  This seems to me to be a simple logical error because the fact is that when the rich are taxed less it not only stimulates the economyu it grows the tax revenue, because there are more workers paying taxes and more workers earning more money so mpaying highter taxes.  It's fa fact that the tax revenue is hight.  In the reagan era when he cut taxes on the ricdh the tax revenue collected by the IRS was double what it had been before.  Shouldn't Wolff be aware of this?  Why isn't he?

He goes from there to how we are in debt to China, which I've also heard we are, to a frightening degree.  Seems we agree on that, or he agrees with the conservatives on that, but he has the wrong idea bout why, perhaps because he's a leftist who never faces the fact that it's the left that is always spending so much money it's the cause of the debt in the first place.

Not thta the republicans don't obverspend as well, but at least they make some effort to pay it down, which is trump's plan again when he gets into office.  this second time.

I suppose I'm sounding a lot more sure of myself rthan I have any right to.  I'm just repeating what I've een hearing from my own conservative sources.  I'm aware I know very little about all of this.  But I'm pretty sure I'm able to jusdge that this Marxist is living in some kind of seconomic lalaland as far as understanding the actual facts goes.  He talks in sweeping generalitgies and it's hard to know what exactly he's tlalkingabout.  I'll keep listening for a while though.

Years ago I made some effort to read Marxsx and amarxist wrigints.  I ended up with the impression that they never come down to earth, that it's all heady theorizing way above the level of actual nitty gritty reality.  

And this guy Wolff sounds the same.

 

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End Times Update After the Election

 So Is the Rapture Now on Hold? – Pastor Mark Henry and Alex Newman

I was expecting God's judgment too, just as one of Jan Markell's guest pastors says he was, but instead God had mercy on us.  Many were praying before the election and God heard.  But that doesn't mean the evil powers aren't still at work, they're just regrouping around the new circumstanstance which are a temporaty setback in their plans as they see it.  And jusnot just as they see it, but according to Bible prophecy since at some point things are not going to get better but only worse down to the very end.  

This week's Understanding the Times radio show focuses on the global agenda, the bendhind the scenes machinations to promote the global agenda, even the demonic realm is brought into the discussion.  

TheUN is the subject of discussion for a long segment.  I was folling a lot of the demonic nature of the UN years ago for some time and hand't heard much about it since then, probably because I haven't been checking out the sources as I used to.  The UN is an evil organization and what often puzzled s me is how a Christian nation ever got itself involvwd in anything global like the UN or its precursosr the League of Nations.  A christian should know that this being a fallen world and the majority of nations being government by Satan rather than Christ, there is no good to be had in any league btween us and them.  We are forever at odds with them.  This ought to be obvious but for some reasonn it hasn't been.  

There is a movement to get us out of the UN, and maybe Trump will usher it along.

Would Women's Covering Our Heads Bring Revival?

 When i think about our need for a great revival what often comes to mind is the qustion of women's covering our heads in prayer, about which I have an entire blog.  A very unpopular idea but I really think a careful ohonest assessment of One Corinthians Eleven as I've laid it out in that blog shows that it really is required of us, and yet we gave it up back in the sixties.  of course the sixties, when so much deviation from truth and reality took off.  

If it is a condition for revival how could it possibly be recognized by the churches at this late date.    

It wld tae the support of some prominent Christian leaders but the ones I think of are all committed to the idea that Paul was only referring to a cultural norml of his own daty and didn't mean it to become the practice of the Church in all times.  that idea was promited by one dr. Thomas Schriner and his work on that subject had an unfortunately large influence on the evangelical Church.  Huge.   I believe I showed in my blog how his thinking was logically so bad it's amazing the paper got any kind of acceptance at all.  It should never have been published.   But Shriner has a strong reputation and nobody wants to question him so it goes on doing its work of underminding the Church in an area that may be far more important than anyone wants to acknowledge.

John MacArthur is one who continues to promote Shriner's false thinking, quite aggressively.  I wonder if he has ever taken the time to examine the subject himself.  It's unforutnately true that it would take a John MacArthur changing his mind and promoting the head wcovering for women to have enough influence on the evangelical Hurch as a whole to further the conditions for revivial that God has given us.    It would also take his being convinced that we need and could have a really powerful revival and I'm not sure he does.   Or he thinks we've been having it although it has nothing of the power of the big revivals like the Lamphier and the Welsh revivals and the Hebrides.   I've prayed for Mad Arethur to get it but I don't pray enough.

Alister Begg is another wone whose view needs to change and could be influential.  There are certainly others but I think John MacArthur is probably THE one hwho could pull it off, influence the entire church.

Please Lord, let us have anoher Great Awakening.  Like the one before the Revolutionary War.  

Sunday:  It's been a long time since i brought up this topic here and now I'm remembering again how important I think it could be for the Church and how nobody is talkinga bout it at all.   I'f ve sometimes thought it could be at the root of many of the problems we've been suffering under for decades now, strting with Marxist feminism but including Gay rights and now this transgender craziness. anything to do with the perversion of god ordained sexuality in the culture.  the Church hpoollds onto some of god's ordinances concerning the headship of man over women such as requiring only male clergy and elders, at least in some of the churches, but the head covering is a big one that has been completely ignored and could be the cause of much of the current cultural degeneration we're seeing.  Yes I really think this is a possibility.  I believe God gave me the subject of the head covering to research and defend as a requirement, but I can't say he's led me to these conclusions about the culture, I just think they are very  likely.   Besides thinking that the Church's rejection of the covering may be the main reason we haven't had the revival so many have been praying for for decades.   i don't count the charismatic so called revivals, certainly not the Laughitng revival.  the very tone of those revivals says they are not of God.

It's up toGod to make use of this information if He is leading me to write it.  There's not much i can do with it except write it out here where few read it.  but god can do all kinds of impossible things so if He wants to make use of it I hope I'm doing what He'd like my part to be.

I'm sure a big hurdle for the acceptance of the head covering is the fear of alienating women.  it's sad when preachers and pastors fear anything along these lines bur t it does happen, fear losing their five oh one C three status if they promote a poltiical view based on teh bible, which is really something the Bible requries of them, or say anything that might alienate some people in the congregation and provoke them to leave, and certainly alienating women would have repersucssions.    but it's a matter of whether God wants it or not, and if He does then anyone who is truly a Christian should want it too and that would have to be the message.  

I hope anyone who sees this would pass it onene and pray about it.  

Jere's that new email addres my daughter is managing for me:

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new email:  faithswindow@mail.com

Helf the Country Still Believes the Lies.

Late Wednesday Nov 13

It shouldn't be a surprise that so many believe a totally false long long list of crazy ideas about Trump and the lection,what trump is supposedly going to do in office and so on, but I still have this feeling it hs to be some kind of weird illusion , that so many people couldn't be so deceived.  But they are.  The crazy ideas they have about what is going to happen to them and the country are so far from the truth,k in many cases the exact opposite of the truth as a matter of fact, that it just seems humanly impossible.  Surely the truth would have broken through here and there but no it doesn't seem to have happened.  trump said one thing, the media said he said the opposite, or Kamanla said he did or somebody that got heard by the media,  total crazy lies and they were believed by those who heard them.  I know the Left is cut off from the truth and that they won't go loking for other points of view on their own either, but still it's staggering to be faced with the stark reality of the delusion.   Stuff in many cases we know the Left would enact if they had won the election are imputed to Trump.    I'm dgoing to have to come back to this.

 One of the women on The View went on a rant against Trump supporters, carrying on about how could we possibly have voted for this man who is an insurrectinist, an election denier, a felon of various tripes and so on, who is a fascist and a bully and I can't remember the rest and probably even got some of this wrong, but we all know the general list of complaints.    You'd think by now they would at least know how we would answer it but apparently they don't even know that much.  

Start with:  he isn't guilty of any of that, and all that stuff is just lies to smear his character.   We should probably spend more time trying to get across the answers but in any case the list doesn't really affect us, it's just the usual craziness from the Left.

Unfortunately they do believe their lies and trumped up criminal indictments.  Oh and don't forget the fake impeachmenets.  Maybe a few took all that seriously but more didn't.   I won'der if we can ever get back to taking seriously what all that used to mkean, the real importaoat of  impeachment, real rather than fake criminal charges.   too bad to see it all get trivialized and meaningless.

They have a fake Trump in their heads.   The problem is they don't mind saying things that could provoke someone to try to kill him.  It's pretty clear that god is protecting him and I know a lot of us are proaying for him so even all that malevolent murderous hysteria is just going to keep fizzling out into puffs of hot air.  There's a provergb in the Bible about hos a curse can't succeed unless it is deserved, and their curses are not deserved.  I've been counting on that one.

The saddest thing remains, to my mind at least, that half the country continues to be sealed off from the truth.  There are so many layers of lies enveloping them it woulud take  enormous work to begin to undo it.  They have a hard time even understanding that there would be one real lie shaping their thinking.  The very idea is just dismissed as conspiracy weirdness.  they'll even defend the removing of people who are sccuesed of spreading "misinformation " on social media despite it's being such a blatant denial of freedom of speech that used to be taken for granted in this country.  They'll rationalize it as necessary for the protection of the prublic against believing something that culd hurt them.  good grief.  Highly credentialed doctors were kidcked off social media for daing to mention that there might be a problem with Covid vaccines, or that some of the repurposed drugs like Hyudroxychloroquine and ivermetctin actually worked.  both of which are the truth while the excuse to ban them was the real imisinformation, but do any of tem know that yet?

Well, we have Trump in office now, that shuld help although as usual he'll be targeted in a million ways by the forces of evil the other side thinks are reall good.   I've done a lot of praying recently.  Guess I'll be doning a lot more.

Need to add:  Joe Rogan's interview of Trump was censored by the powers that be on the excuse that "it waasn't trending>'  What a ridiculous excuse.  The biggest podast on the itnerenet withthe Presdient elect of the USA iand it wasn't trending?   They don't even bother to rtry to make sense.   A He mentioend that to Elon Musk during that itnerview.  I thought it might be put up after the election but so far I can't ffind it.

Just looked again.  It's there.  On You Tube.  Yahoo.  Obviously they didn't want it to affect eh election so I guess it didn't.  We didn't need it.  but now I cn watch it at least.

Trump wanders all over the map when he talks and it takes forever for him to get back to the question he was asked, though pretty much he does get back to it.  Nevertheless he knows what he is talking about and I hope he has a chance to do what he knows needs to be done.

Monday the eighteeneth  had to add this url somewhere.  leftist economist carring on in his leftist way that wcould cdrive me incsane.  We need dialogue, debate but not formal debate, discussion.  ideas being considered and answered carefully.  Instead of this flat out declaration of a point of view tithout without any response from either one side or the other.  I think this guy is living in a weird la la land but I can't answer him.

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