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post 112
As I watch the news I find myself inclined to doubt my own interpretation.
There are lots of signs indicating America is waking up, and getting serious regarding the now clear undesirable direction to which we are heading if we do not diligently alter our course. The conservative news is full of hope.
Only when I remain in the scriptures can I see the true report, that no matter who is driving the car, it is full of drunks, or as scripture says it;
“Let them alone: They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Don’t you find it ironic that both our own government parties use the analogy of ending up in the ditch?
The scripture has made clear to us, in our own present day vernacular, that both parties are blind. The Lord says; Let them alone. Don’t bother trying to enlighten them… they are blind.
I am not attempting to address the parties. I am not trying to fix the government, I am not endeavoring to shore up the gate of congress. Does it need shoring or fixing? You bet it does. Are there lots of people from both parties genuinely trying to drive correctly? Yes there are. Will they end up in the ditch? NO! They have already driven it into the ditch!
This is my point.
Yet they are so drunk with hope and blindness that while stuck fast in the ditch, they are still fighting over the steeringwheel like it matters, and the rest of America (Not just the Republicans as Obama would like)*1 are in the back joining the argument.
Yet blind as they are, both parties can finally see we are now in the ditch, and the argument becomes; Who will drive it over the cliff!
This is so typical of humanity.
We cannot possibly see ourselves become like those we despise. But when we get there, we just change our focus to despise someone else worse than us!
This is why 14 year olds see 30 year olds as OLD. But the 30 year old who used to be the 14 year old no longer feels 30 is all that bad. Now 50 is old. And so it goes.
God is not concerned about the cliff, because we have already fallen off the road, which was the place we were supposed to be! In otherwords, the ditch is good enough to fail the drivers test! *2
While the parties are fighting and arguing about who gets to control the steering wheel now, the Supreme Driving Tester has gotten out of the car.
Analogy after analogy of how things work in real life somehow does not get the point across. Because being told you have inoperable cancer is really impossible to wrap your mind around.
This blog is not intended for the benefit of the government or the parties who are the walking dead for just a little longer, but for the people who will soon be climbing out of the car.
There is still a long road to travel, and now it will be a tough walk.
The next car to come along will be driven by someone you would never have expected yourself to be willing to ride with. But in the circumstances you will feel you have no choice. (more on this later)
* * * * * * *
*1 Transcript 1: Obama: "We don't mind the Republicans joining us, They can come for the ride but they Gotta sit in back" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHfGV_tV-A
Video 2: Obama; "I dont wanna give em the keys back, they don't know how to drive!" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6gp5Ga5q8
Video 3:Forward is D, Backwards is R - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP1D1LPFrk&NR=1
The Economic car was drove into the ditch by the Republicans, But spending 1 Trillion Dollars to fix the bad economy is truly continuing to drive it further in by the Democrats. How again is the car BACK on the asphalt?
*2 “As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.” - George Mason: father of the Bill of Rights.
Speech on the floor of the Constitutional Convention:
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Why Now?
post 111
What makes me so sure that America has reached the time of her end?
After all Glenn Beck has shown us a very similar time of the Progressive success under the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, But we seemed to pull through that one.
My answer again lies in the prophecy regarding the fall of America.
Of course secular history will show us the intricacies of events that lead up to the fall of Babylon were based in temporal reasoning, and so it is true. But no different than the forensic cause of death on an individual may prove to be lung cancer, but that does not change or conflict with the actual reason being that the person smoked.
Cause and effect. Both answers are fully correct, but viewed from different focuses.
The temporal view is the Mode Of Injury, to use a medical term,
While the spiritual view is to understand the preventable cause.
You cannot stop the Mode of Injury until you prevent the cause.
The tree branch through the guy's chest is surely the Mode of Injury, but drunk driving was the cause.
What was the reason the Bible gives for the fall of Babylon under Belshazzar?
The story is found in Daniel Chapter 5:1-4
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein… They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.”
This passage tells us the clues to his fall, which are really only made clear to us when we can see the clues as they apply to America as well.
The leader of Babylon committed his error in the full light of the largest audience he could muster, shown by the wording of this passage; “and drank wine before the thousand.” It was in this very public attention that he committed the act which God says is what brought down the entire kingdom.
But what is the big deal about drinking from the holy vessels and praising other gods?
We need to back up into the story of Nebuchadnezzar to understand the significance.
I will spare you the much needed details to really bring this home, providing here only the bare essentials;
Daniel 2:31-35 describes Daniel telling king Nebuchadnezzar what he dreamed, which Nebuchadnezzar had not told anyone;
The dream was a giant statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Then a stone fell onto the feet and “break in pieces and consume all these others.”
Daniel 2:36-45 is Daniel’s interpretation of that dream;
The dream was God’s prophecy regarding all the world-ruling kingdoms in history from Nebuchadnezzar to the end of the world. They are as follows;
Head of Gold - Babylon
Chest and arms of silver - Persia/Media
Belly and thighs of brass - Greece
Legs of Iron- - Rome
Feet of Iron and clay - Has not appeared in history yet.
Stone - The kingdom of the Messiah which shall last forever.
What comes clear to us as we read of the gods praised by Belshazzar at his party, is that the elements are the same, with one addition;
“And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven;…And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:” Daniel 5:22-23
Then follows the interpretation of the writing on the wall, revealing his judgment and the fall of the kingdom.
It needs to be noted that he praised the gods of the elements and not the elements themselves. Now we can see that the elements represent kingdoms.
Therefore Belshazzar was prophetically praising the gods of Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, as well as whatever kingdom was yet to come, and included any unknown kingdom with an unknown god, and added the Messianic kingdom God in to boot.
In other words he made sure to cover every god of every nation and kingdom, and a few extra just in case.
But adding further insult to injury he blasphemed the Holy God of the Jews which is the only God that actually proved himself many times to his father Nebuchadnezzar.
This is what God said through Daniel’s interpretation was the cause of his fall, which brought down an entire empire.
The Mode of Injury of course was the Persians banging on the gate, as well as diverting the Euphrates River, and Belshazzar’s confidence in the strength of the city walls.
Now to translate this to America today:
Obama is our Belshazzar *1
Transcript:
“Where we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation, at least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation and a nation of none believers.”
Am I really making a stretch to see this parallel?
1. Obama is the leader of America - Belshazzar was the leader of Babylon
2. Obama is not eligible for the office - Belshazzar was actually only regent for his father *4
3. Obama gathered a large number to him for his mocking speach - Belshazzar gathered a large number to him for his mock of God.
4. Obama lumped all nation's gods with ours - Belshazzar lumped all nation's gods with the Jew's.
5. America’s God is the same God of the Jews.
6. Then Obama goes further to mock the book of the God that has proven himself to the Jews through history *2, just as Belshazzar did by violating the sacred vessels of the God that proved himself to Nebuchadnezzar.
Obama mocks the Bible *3
Transcript: “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok? And that eating shellfish is an abomination?
Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount? A passage that is so radical that its doubtful that our own defense department would survive its application.”
If I were grabbing stuff from all over to reach this conclusion there would be room for argument, but this historical event, given to us as a prophecy is playing out in a very amazing and unexpected way with great accuracy of parallel.
The bible shows that God has a great longsuffering for sin from his people. But one conduct he simply will not tolerate is to be relegated to an equal with other gods.
Scripture is full of examples showing the many falls of the Jew's because they did this.
No American president until now has been so arrogant as to publicly and officially “lift himself up against the Lord of heaven”. Nor to intentionally toss the Declaration’s recognized Creator, into the realm of all other gods… even if they did not believe in Him themselves.
It is because America did not show any signs of standing up against Obama when he made such blasphemous and public statements against our Creator, that America must fall.
Sure the Mode Of Injury is being shown to us by Glenn Beck, but the actual preventable cause should now be clear.
In spite of all the warnings America now sees, if you ask even the average Tea Party enthusiast or the average American Christian; What is the greatest danger to America right now?
The answer will always describe the Mode Of Injury and not the cause; "The economy" or "Jobs" are the two most common answers.
We want to try real hard and not get skewered by the tree branch, but nobody wants to consider abstaining from drunk driving!
THIS is “why now”.
I have previously posted the "How".
* * * * * * *
*1 Obama is our Belshazzar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik
*2 Not least is the 6 day war, or the creation and continuance of the nation Israel.
*3 Obama mocks the Bible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-P3yAaAqI&NR=1
*4 Nebuchadnezzar was not actually Belshazzar's father, but the ancient Chaldean language had no word to distinguish ancestors or predecessors, they were all just "fathers"
History shows that Nabonidus was the king of Babylon at the time of its fall, and skeptics had long used this to prove the scriptures were in error.
Clay cylinders were since found positively identifying Belshazzar as his son, who assumed the regency in place of the true king, his father, because Nabonidus had no interest in Babylon but instead preferred conquest.
Nabonidus cylinder http://chriswatsonlee.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/nabonidus-cylinder-and-nabonidus-chronicle/
I see this easily representing America's lack of interest in our Nation's well being and thereby placing an ineligible man into that office. (US Constitution Article 1 Section 1; "No person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President;") So although Obama is sitting in that seat, he is not actually the real President by Law.
"there is no sign of the civil unrest that would have been indicative of trouble, not even during his absence: Nabonidus could return to his throne without a problem." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus
This too fits America's current scenario as our congress could easily remove Obama the proxy president and place a True president of the People with virtually no problem. Congress still retains the lawful authority in this matter.
This Typological Conjecture can be chased to some very interesting detail;
Could Nabonidus' absence from Babylon for 10-15 years due to a suggested interest in conquest and adventure, represent America's similar duration of involvement overseas to the neglection of problems at home? Possible. But I do not wish to muddy the water with arguments that are unclear in history. The verifiable similarities are enough.
What makes me so sure that America has reached the time of her end?
After all Glenn Beck has shown us a very similar time of the Progressive success under the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, But we seemed to pull through that one.
My answer again lies in the prophecy regarding the fall of America.
Of course secular history will show us the intricacies of events that lead up to the fall of Babylon were based in temporal reasoning, and so it is true. But no different than the forensic cause of death on an individual may prove to be lung cancer, but that does not change or conflict with the actual reason being that the person smoked.
Cause and effect. Both answers are fully correct, but viewed from different focuses.
The temporal view is the Mode Of Injury, to use a medical term,
While the spiritual view is to understand the preventable cause.
You cannot stop the Mode of Injury until you prevent the cause.
The tree branch through the guy's chest is surely the Mode of Injury, but drunk driving was the cause.
What was the reason the Bible gives for the fall of Babylon under Belshazzar?
The story is found in Daniel Chapter 5:1-4
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein… They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.”
This passage tells us the clues to his fall, which are really only made clear to us when we can see the clues as they apply to America as well.
The leader of Babylon committed his error in the full light of the largest audience he could muster, shown by the wording of this passage; “and drank wine before the thousand.” It was in this very public attention that he committed the act which God says is what brought down the entire kingdom.
But what is the big deal about drinking from the holy vessels and praising other gods?
We need to back up into the story of Nebuchadnezzar to understand the significance.
I will spare you the much needed details to really bring this home, providing here only the bare essentials;
Daniel 2:31-35 describes Daniel telling king Nebuchadnezzar what he dreamed, which Nebuchadnezzar had not told anyone;
The dream was a giant statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Then a stone fell onto the feet and “break in pieces and consume all these others.”
Daniel 2:36-45 is Daniel’s interpretation of that dream;
The dream was God’s prophecy regarding all the world-ruling kingdoms in history from Nebuchadnezzar to the end of the world. They are as follows;
Head of Gold - Babylon
Chest and arms of silver - Persia/Media
Belly and thighs of brass - Greece
Legs of Iron- - Rome
Feet of Iron and clay - Has not appeared in history yet.
Stone - The kingdom of the Messiah which shall last forever.
What comes clear to us as we read of the gods praised by Belshazzar at his party, is that the elements are the same, with one addition;
“And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven;…And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:” Daniel 5:22-23
Then follows the interpretation of the writing on the wall, revealing his judgment and the fall of the kingdom.
It needs to be noted that he praised the gods of the elements and not the elements themselves. Now we can see that the elements represent kingdoms.
Therefore Belshazzar was prophetically praising the gods of Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, as well as whatever kingdom was yet to come, and included any unknown kingdom with an unknown god, and added the Messianic kingdom God in to boot.
In other words he made sure to cover every god of every nation and kingdom, and a few extra just in case.
But adding further insult to injury he blasphemed the Holy God of the Jews which is the only God that actually proved himself many times to his father Nebuchadnezzar.
This is what God said through Daniel’s interpretation was the cause of his fall, which brought down an entire empire.
The Mode of Injury of course was the Persians banging on the gate, as well as diverting the Euphrates River, and Belshazzar’s confidence in the strength of the city walls.
Now to translate this to America today:
Obama is our Belshazzar *1
Transcript:
“Where we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation, at least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation and a nation of none believers.”
Am I really making a stretch to see this parallel?
1. Obama is the leader of America - Belshazzar was the leader of Babylon
2. Obama is not eligible for the office - Belshazzar was actually only regent for his father *4
3. Obama gathered a large number to him for his mocking speach - Belshazzar gathered a large number to him for his mock of God.
4. Obama lumped all nation's gods with ours - Belshazzar lumped all nation's gods with the Jew's.
5. America’s God is the same God of the Jews.
6. Then Obama goes further to mock the book of the God that has proven himself to the Jews through history *2, just as Belshazzar did by violating the sacred vessels of the God that proved himself to Nebuchadnezzar.
Obama mocks the Bible *3
Transcript: “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok? And that eating shellfish is an abomination?
Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount? A passage that is so radical that its doubtful that our own defense department would survive its application.”
If I were grabbing stuff from all over to reach this conclusion there would be room for argument, but this historical event, given to us as a prophecy is playing out in a very amazing and unexpected way with great accuracy of parallel.
The bible shows that God has a great longsuffering for sin from his people. But one conduct he simply will not tolerate is to be relegated to an equal with other gods.
Scripture is full of examples showing the many falls of the Jew's because they did this.
No American president until now has been so arrogant as to publicly and officially “lift himself up against the Lord of heaven”. Nor to intentionally toss the Declaration’s recognized Creator, into the realm of all other gods… even if they did not believe in Him themselves.
It is because America did not show any signs of standing up against Obama when he made such blasphemous and public statements against our Creator, that America must fall.
Sure the Mode Of Injury is being shown to us by Glenn Beck, but the actual preventable cause should now be clear.
In spite of all the warnings America now sees, if you ask even the average Tea Party enthusiast or the average American Christian; What is the greatest danger to America right now?
The answer will always describe the Mode Of Injury and not the cause; "The economy" or "Jobs" are the two most common answers.
We want to try real hard and not get skewered by the tree branch, but nobody wants to consider abstaining from drunk driving!
THIS is “why now”.
I have previously posted the "How".
* * * * * * *
*1 Obama is our Belshazzar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik
*2 Not least is the 6 day war, or the creation and continuance of the nation Israel.
*3 Obama mocks the Bible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-P3yAaAqI&NR=1
*4 Nebuchadnezzar was not actually Belshazzar's father, but the ancient Chaldean language had no word to distinguish ancestors or predecessors, they were all just "fathers"
History shows that Nabonidus was the king of Babylon at the time of its fall, and skeptics had long used this to prove the scriptures were in error.
Clay cylinders were since found positively identifying Belshazzar as his son, who assumed the regency in place of the true king, his father, because Nabonidus had no interest in Babylon but instead preferred conquest.
Nabonidus cylinder http://chriswatsonlee.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/nabonidus-cylinder-and-nabonidus-chronicle/
I see this easily representing America's lack of interest in our Nation's well being and thereby placing an ineligible man into that office. (US Constitution Article 1 Section 1; "No person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President;") So although Obama is sitting in that seat, he is not actually the real President by Law.
"there is no sign of the civil unrest that would have been indicative of trouble, not even during his absence: Nabonidus could return to his throne without a problem." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus
This too fits America's current scenario as our congress could easily remove Obama the proxy president and place a True president of the People with virtually no problem. Congress still retains the lawful authority in this matter.
This Typological Conjecture can be chased to some very interesting detail;
Could Nabonidus' absence from Babylon for 10-15 years due to a suggested interest in conquest and adventure, represent America's similar duration of involvement overseas to the neglection of problems at home? Possible. But I do not wish to muddy the water with arguments that are unclear in history. The verifiable similarities are enough.
Friday, October 29, 2010
3am
post 110
It is 3 am and I am lying awake thinking.
And it comes clear to me that I am metaphorically standing around in a big empty concert hall with the lights off.
The band has gone home.
And as I reflect on the recent incredible events, I realize that God had said what he purposed to say, and I got it. Then out of the shameless “clinginess” of an enthralled fan, I kept God longer than he intended.
But there comes a point when the equipment is packed and the buss is loaded, that even a back stage pass must fall useless to the floor when the orchestra has left the hall.
I am now left to collect my interview notes and complete my writing of all that I have gleaned from this time with the LORD. And to be honest, I really needed the bathroom break!
As I leave the hall humming the beautiful melodies of the concert so recently played, the walls nearly retain the tunes so powerfully played only moments ago.
They are these echoes which I purpose to scribble down before they slip away, yet I have a strong sense of release from the intensity of the interview with GOD.
It is 3 am and I am lying awake thinking.
And it comes clear to me that I am metaphorically standing around in a big empty concert hall with the lights off.
The band has gone home.
And as I reflect on the recent incredible events, I realize that God had said what he purposed to say, and I got it. Then out of the shameless “clinginess” of an enthralled fan, I kept God longer than he intended.
But there comes a point when the equipment is packed and the buss is loaded, that even a back stage pass must fall useless to the floor when the orchestra has left the hall.
I am now left to collect my interview notes and complete my writing of all that I have gleaned from this time with the LORD. And to be honest, I really needed the bathroom break!
As I leave the hall humming the beautiful melodies of the concert so recently played, the walls nearly retain the tunes so powerfully played only moments ago.
They are these echoes which I purpose to scribble down before they slip away, yet I have a strong sense of release from the intensity of the interview with GOD.
Analysis
post 109
Using recent history such as is shown in the previous post, and the plethora of information shown to us by Glenn Beck and others, we can now see the steps and the clear goal of those whom would overtake the American nation.
But having this information, just how are we to actually go about stopping what we now see?
…um…uh…hmm….well…
I can’t even quickly come up with a generic example or idea.
Our supreme court is already Progressive,
Our congress (both parties, both houses) is already Progressive,
Our so-called President is Progressive.
The military is under the control of the President through congress and administration.*1
What in all reality could we possibly do at this time?
Are we, as good American homeowners, in our neighborhoods actually going to grab our guns and march down to… where?
And if we actually could figure out “where”, what do we think we would actually do when we arrived? Shoot somebody… but who? for what?
The slow and small steps have succeeded to advance the goals, while each small step has been too small to warrant a “gun battle” or even a gun battle. But the problem is even more complex than this.
After such a drawn out gradual subversion, a large number of Americans are actually on the progressive side of the argument, so just who is the enemy now? Our own people?
Yet there is more.
Congress has repeatedly ignored the masses.
Our courts have repeatedly ruled against us.
Even the lower courts are now ruling against us;
The 9th circuit court of AZ just ruled against their own previous ruling! for the purpose of advancing Progressivism through declaring it unlawful to demand proof of citizenship in order to vote! Now just any ol’ illegal can vote! Who will they vote for? Those who want to deem them legal of course. How convenient.
Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President have openly violated the direct obligations, concepts, and oaths of office of the Constitution, and have subverted it many times.
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary fifth edition 1948
Subvert; 1 To overturn, overthrow; ruin utterly. 2 To undermine the morals, allegiance, or faith of; corrupt.
But when all the check and balance divisions of the government are collectively doing the subverting, who is supposed to hold them in check?
HOW?
So lets think about this logically;
If you were the Progressives in control, and you knew this was your one shot you had spent years to achieve, would you just let the chips fall and see how the vote goes?
Of course not.
They have been testing the waters to see how we react;
They didn’t protect the border in direct opposition to the clear constitutional requirements, and further deny AZ their right to do the same. *2
And still refused, in the face of direct lawsuits from the State of AZ.
and what did we do? We complained.
What else could we do?
Poor Jan Brewer is outraged. But what can she do?
So the progressives in control observe our reaction and say; Curious.
They pass bill after bill with foundational changes to our nation…
Homeland Security, US Patriot Act, Healthcare, Tarp, Bailouts, etc. etc.
And we complain.
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; Good.
They are caught spending millions to finance ACORN, a proven ballot stuffing organization, and still it took many months of hammering by Glenn Beck before that organization just disappeared.
Not even a fall guy to take the blame as has been the American way, Just evaporated.
No trial, no punishment, nothing.
And we forget about it.
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; hmmmmm
They lie so boldly it is unfathomable; ‘We have fixed the economy and everything is all better’ is the general declaration, though the actual facts show otherwise.
‘spend the trillion and the unemployment rate will not go above 8%.’ Ooops
So we complain.
What else can we do?
And they observe and chuckle; Hehehehe
The acting president declares to the world; “We are not a Christian nation…”
And we barely complained.
Then he searches out friendly and submissive relations with the Enemy of our God through placating the bloody Islamic nations.
But we say nothing for fear of breaching PC
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; Hmmmmm
Test after test, we fail to respond with anything but a complaint.
Tens of Thousands of citizens arrive at the 9/12 Tea Party observation to make a peaceful display of our opposition to the direction of government, but we fall all over ourselves to insure them we are purely peaceful.
What else can we do?
They look out the window to watch, and say; That’s nice, sure glad they are not actually angry!
So now in our one and only civilized action we can actually take, do you really think they are willing to let things be and see just how it all turns out?
If they stuff the ballot boxes and win the vote,
What will we do?
What can we do?
What is the deterrent to cause them pause, even if they are again caught in the very act?
Not a single thing. Not one. Nothing.
And you think they wont “ensure” their success?
Now as an Alaskan I have the choice between a Democrat in sheep’s cloths, and a guy who is daily being exposed as likely unscrupulous.
So if Lisa Murkowski wins, or she succeeds in splitting the republican vote and the Democrat wins, it mattes not. The progressives have won…and that is if the vote is actually legitimate!
Now the Alaska supreme court waves the “no campaigning near voting booths” law, to allow Ms. Murkowski to provide write-in pamphlets at the poles.
So what do we gun packing self-governing Alaskan’s do?
Nothing.
What can we do?
And again they watch and say; hmmmmm
Fox News has already aired multiple cases of proven or curious absentee voter fraud in this election, and this even before the actual vote!
Our military absentee ballots were not mailed out in time to be returned and counted. Ooops
Two guys were caught taking possession of hundreds of absentee ballots unlawfully. Ooops again, (I wonder if these are somehow related? You mean corporal Jones might vote as a democrat even though he actually didn’t get to vote?) Why not?
At least one States’ early polling booths have a strange “glitch”, which the Progressive organization that has the responsibility of setting them up, says;
“is impossible”.
So:
The present Progressive administration,
pushing their goals as boldly as possible,
in the face of virtually no tangible opposition,
have paid their own corrupt organizations
to set up the voting booths.
I wonder now, who will count the votes, ACORN 2?
And still when the ballots are counted we really hope that our conservative views will somehow win?
Riiiiigghhhht!
This is sure sounding a lot like Iran!...
Except we will not even take the streets in riots.
* * *
I was honestly thinking I have spent too much time trying to sell my perspective, that most American’s see all this. But when I visit with otherwise intelligent neighbors and friends I always get the same reaction;
“You are waving the white flag!”
“You have already given up”
“You have to have faith!”
Here in my hometown in Alaska, winter seems to be slightly delayed.
All the signs are upon us; the weather has turned cold, the rainy season is in full force, the trees have all lost their leaves, the wood piles are stacked, people have started to put on their snow tires, The coyotes are showing their new winter coats, and even the calendar says winter is very soon.
But I have faith that it won’t come!
What kind of logic is that?
* * *
So again the question; What are we supposed to do?
Is Glenn Beck right? “Violence is not the answer.”
Why?
The answer is found in the Jefferson quote I post here for the third time:
But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Please seriously read the quote. Exercise that mind and try to figure out what it is saying.
Now notice the very last line,
…and knowing it, to defeat its views.
The entire concept is based on pre-planned foresight. To see in advance the hidden agenda. And by this knowledge, long before the agenda takes true action, we can defeat its views.
But after the agenda takes form into action, we are then battling more than a view.
Knowledge of history at this point must turn from the agenda and focus on solution.
How in history was the battle won after a view turns into action against us?
History shows at this point we have no clear defense but blood.
Jefferson knew this, and his message was for people who were prepared to battle a debilitating view while it was still in the concept stage.
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 warned his fellow countrymen stating,
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our second President.*3
This Adams quote suggest a problem with expecting the government to legislate morality. So now that the seeds of Progressive morality have taken root, we are now the people which this quote states our Constitution was inadequate to govern!
Why will America fall?
Because we have wasted our youth in entertainment and not in the study of history for the purpose of recognizing the seeds of destructive actions, long before the seeds actually sprout.
It is my personal analysis that we will loose this election to the progressives. All the news polls and campaign negotiations showing a neck and neck race, is but a shell game to cause doubt, so that when the ballots are counted we can not be sure if it was won fair or by corruption.
Just a little doubt is all we require to allow us to stay home in front of the TV instead of filling the streets in riot.
I am not the priest.
I am the nurse relaying the message from the Supreme Doctor, telling the nation she is dying of inoperable cancer.
You need the priest.
That priest is Jesus the Christ.
* * *
For those of you claiming I have surrendered and am waving the white flag, I challenge you that I have perhaps done more to advance the merits of this vote than most.
I stop by businesses ignorantly campaigning for candidates who stand against the values I know they hold, and I expose to them the evidences.
I wear my neighbors out encouraging them to register and then vote.
I am earnestly trying to promote the Tea Party candidates and ideals, lacking as they may be in places, because they are by far the better option.
Why do I do this? Because even the team which is down 120 points in the game, continues to give it their all until the last buzzer. It is our job to do our part as diligently as possible, while not forgetting the appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions. (Declaration of Independence)
But what is rectitude?
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 5th edition
Rectitude; 1 Now rare. Straightness. 2 Undeviating adherence to moral standards; uprightness. 3 Correctness of judgment or procedure.
In all and full honesty, how rectified are our intentions?
Is our appeal even to God at all? or are we relying on the process of semi honorable, amoral legislative power for our cure?
While I offer virtually no complaint against those working diligently to strengthen our gate of government,
My arm of defense is attempting to alert the loitering masses to the huge breach in the other area of the attack which has been clearly defined in the Saul Alinsky book; “Rules for Radicals”, Yet pitifully neglected but by a few;
“Rules for Radicals” First paragraph of the Prologue - “The revolutionary force today has two targets, morals as well as material…”
* * *
Is Blood the Answer?
Again I ask, Who would we fight against? Our neighbor who disagrees with our view?
America is the people.
A person who has a bit of cancer, goes under the knife to cut out the destructive part.
But once cancer has progressed all through the body, what can he cut?
This is the condition upon which they use the term; Terminal.
The number one phrase used at this point is; If only we had caught it earlier.
* * *
Once the Progressives assure their permanence through this vote, they will then turn their full energy to opening the two leaf brass Gate of our congress to the Persian king.
"...I (God) will... open before him the the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut." Isaiah 45:1,2
Now I feel I have used reason and logic and history and science to come to this evaluation.
I wish to be done with this topic and move to the next…
Because God may be done with America, but he has far more plans of hope for her people!
* * *
November 4, 2010
Clearly I should stick to interpretation and avoid speculation. The Conservatives did a pretty fair job of winning majority seats in the House but failed to obtain majority in the Senate.
Regardless, Excluding the speculation in this post, my blog remains true to the course which I have interpreted as following scriptural prophecy.
see - http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-now.html
* * * * * * *
* 1 Military’s Authority - Article 1 section 8, Article 2 section 2 U.S. Constitution
*2 Border Protection - Article 4 section 4, Article 1 section 10 US Constitution
*3 Another great collection of foundational quotes - http://www.free2pray.info/5founderquotes.html
Using recent history such as is shown in the previous post, and the plethora of information shown to us by Glenn Beck and others, we can now see the steps and the clear goal of those whom would overtake the American nation.
But having this information, just how are we to actually go about stopping what we now see?
…um…uh…hmm….well…
I can’t even quickly come up with a generic example or idea.
Our supreme court is already Progressive,
Our congress (both parties, both houses) is already Progressive,
Our so-called President is Progressive.
The military is under the control of the President through congress and administration.*1
What in all reality could we possibly do at this time?
Are we, as good American homeowners, in our neighborhoods actually going to grab our guns and march down to… where?
And if we actually could figure out “where”, what do we think we would actually do when we arrived? Shoot somebody… but who? for what?
The slow and small steps have succeeded to advance the goals, while each small step has been too small to warrant a “gun battle” or even a gun battle. But the problem is even more complex than this.
After such a drawn out gradual subversion, a large number of Americans are actually on the progressive side of the argument, so just who is the enemy now? Our own people?
Yet there is more.
Congress has repeatedly ignored the masses.
Our courts have repeatedly ruled against us.
Even the lower courts are now ruling against us;
The 9th circuit court of AZ just ruled against their own previous ruling! for the purpose of advancing Progressivism through declaring it unlawful to demand proof of citizenship in order to vote! Now just any ol’ illegal can vote! Who will they vote for? Those who want to deem them legal of course. How convenient.
Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President have openly violated the direct obligations, concepts, and oaths of office of the Constitution, and have subverted it many times.
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary fifth edition 1948
Subvert; 1 To overturn, overthrow; ruin utterly. 2 To undermine the morals, allegiance, or faith of; corrupt.
But when all the check and balance divisions of the government are collectively doing the subverting, who is supposed to hold them in check?
HOW?
So lets think about this logically;
If you were the Progressives in control, and you knew this was your one shot you had spent years to achieve, would you just let the chips fall and see how the vote goes?
Of course not.
They have been testing the waters to see how we react;
They didn’t protect the border in direct opposition to the clear constitutional requirements, and further deny AZ their right to do the same. *2
And still refused, in the face of direct lawsuits from the State of AZ.
and what did we do? We complained.
What else could we do?
Poor Jan Brewer is outraged. But what can she do?
So the progressives in control observe our reaction and say; Curious.
They pass bill after bill with foundational changes to our nation…
Homeland Security, US Patriot Act, Healthcare, Tarp, Bailouts, etc. etc.
And we complain.
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; Good.
They are caught spending millions to finance ACORN, a proven ballot stuffing organization, and still it took many months of hammering by Glenn Beck before that organization just disappeared.
Not even a fall guy to take the blame as has been the American way, Just evaporated.
No trial, no punishment, nothing.
And we forget about it.
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; hmmmmm
They lie so boldly it is unfathomable; ‘We have fixed the economy and everything is all better’ is the general declaration, though the actual facts show otherwise.
‘spend the trillion and the unemployment rate will not go above 8%.’ Ooops
So we complain.
What else can we do?
And they observe and chuckle; Hehehehe
The acting president declares to the world; “We are not a Christian nation…”
And we barely complained.
Then he searches out friendly and submissive relations with the Enemy of our God through placating the bloody Islamic nations.
But we say nothing for fear of breaching PC
What else could we do?
And they observe and say; Hmmmmm
Test after test, we fail to respond with anything but a complaint.
Tens of Thousands of citizens arrive at the 9/12 Tea Party observation to make a peaceful display of our opposition to the direction of government, but we fall all over ourselves to insure them we are purely peaceful.
What else can we do?
They look out the window to watch, and say; That’s nice, sure glad they are not actually angry!
So now in our one and only civilized action we can actually take, do you really think they are willing to let things be and see just how it all turns out?
If they stuff the ballot boxes and win the vote,
What will we do?
What can we do?
What is the deterrent to cause them pause, even if they are again caught in the very act?
Not a single thing. Not one. Nothing.
And you think they wont “ensure” their success?
Now as an Alaskan I have the choice between a Democrat in sheep’s cloths, and a guy who is daily being exposed as likely unscrupulous.
So if Lisa Murkowski wins, or she succeeds in splitting the republican vote and the Democrat wins, it mattes not. The progressives have won…and that is if the vote is actually legitimate!
Now the Alaska supreme court waves the “no campaigning near voting booths” law, to allow Ms. Murkowski to provide write-in pamphlets at the poles.
So what do we gun packing self-governing Alaskan’s do?
Nothing.
What can we do?
And again they watch and say; hmmmmm
Fox News has already aired multiple cases of proven or curious absentee voter fraud in this election, and this even before the actual vote!
Our military absentee ballots were not mailed out in time to be returned and counted. Ooops
Two guys were caught taking possession of hundreds of absentee ballots unlawfully. Ooops again, (I wonder if these are somehow related? You mean corporal Jones might vote as a democrat even though he actually didn’t get to vote?) Why not?
At least one States’ early polling booths have a strange “glitch”, which the Progressive organization that has the responsibility of setting them up, says;
“is impossible”.
So:
The present Progressive administration,
pushing their goals as boldly as possible,
in the face of virtually no tangible opposition,
have paid their own corrupt organizations
to set up the voting booths.
I wonder now, who will count the votes, ACORN 2?
And still when the ballots are counted we really hope that our conservative views will somehow win?
Riiiiigghhhht!
This is sure sounding a lot like Iran!...
Except we will not even take the streets in riots.
* * *
I was honestly thinking I have spent too much time trying to sell my perspective, that most American’s see all this. But when I visit with otherwise intelligent neighbors and friends I always get the same reaction;
“You are waving the white flag!”
“You have already given up”
“You have to have faith!”
Here in my hometown in Alaska, winter seems to be slightly delayed.
All the signs are upon us; the weather has turned cold, the rainy season is in full force, the trees have all lost their leaves, the wood piles are stacked, people have started to put on their snow tires, The coyotes are showing their new winter coats, and even the calendar says winter is very soon.
But I have faith that it won’t come!
What kind of logic is that?
* * *
So again the question; What are we supposed to do?
Is Glenn Beck right? “Violence is not the answer.”
Why?
The answer is found in the Jefferson quote I post here for the third time:
But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Please seriously read the quote. Exercise that mind and try to figure out what it is saying.
Now notice the very last line,
…and knowing it, to defeat its views.
The entire concept is based on pre-planned foresight. To see in advance the hidden agenda. And by this knowledge, long before the agenda takes true action, we can defeat its views.
But after the agenda takes form into action, we are then battling more than a view.
Knowledge of history at this point must turn from the agenda and focus on solution.
How in history was the battle won after a view turns into action against us?
History shows at this point we have no clear defense but blood.
Jefferson knew this, and his message was for people who were prepared to battle a debilitating view while it was still in the concept stage.
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 warned his fellow countrymen stating,
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our second President.*3
This Adams quote suggest a problem with expecting the government to legislate morality. So now that the seeds of Progressive morality have taken root, we are now the people which this quote states our Constitution was inadequate to govern!
Why will America fall?
Because we have wasted our youth in entertainment and not in the study of history for the purpose of recognizing the seeds of destructive actions, long before the seeds actually sprout.
It is my personal analysis that we will loose this election to the progressives. All the news polls and campaign negotiations showing a neck and neck race, is but a shell game to cause doubt, so that when the ballots are counted we can not be sure if it was won fair or by corruption.
Just a little doubt is all we require to allow us to stay home in front of the TV instead of filling the streets in riot.
I am not the priest.
I am the nurse relaying the message from the Supreme Doctor, telling the nation she is dying of inoperable cancer.
You need the priest.
That priest is Jesus the Christ.
* * *
For those of you claiming I have surrendered and am waving the white flag, I challenge you that I have perhaps done more to advance the merits of this vote than most.
I stop by businesses ignorantly campaigning for candidates who stand against the values I know they hold, and I expose to them the evidences.
I wear my neighbors out encouraging them to register and then vote.
I am earnestly trying to promote the Tea Party candidates and ideals, lacking as they may be in places, because they are by far the better option.
Why do I do this? Because even the team which is down 120 points in the game, continues to give it their all until the last buzzer. It is our job to do our part as diligently as possible, while not forgetting the appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions. (Declaration of Independence)
But what is rectitude?
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 5th edition
Rectitude; 1 Now rare. Straightness. 2 Undeviating adherence to moral standards; uprightness. 3 Correctness of judgment or procedure.
In all and full honesty, how rectified are our intentions?
Is our appeal even to God at all? or are we relying on the process of semi honorable, amoral legislative power for our cure?
While I offer virtually no complaint against those working diligently to strengthen our gate of government,
My arm of defense is attempting to alert the loitering masses to the huge breach in the other area of the attack which has been clearly defined in the Saul Alinsky book; “Rules for Radicals”, Yet pitifully neglected but by a few;
“Rules for Radicals” First paragraph of the Prologue - “The revolutionary force today has two targets, morals as well as material…”
* * *
Is Blood the Answer?
Again I ask, Who would we fight against? Our neighbor who disagrees with our view?
America is the people.
A person who has a bit of cancer, goes under the knife to cut out the destructive part.
But once cancer has progressed all through the body, what can he cut?
This is the condition upon which they use the term; Terminal.
The number one phrase used at this point is; If only we had caught it earlier.
* * *
Once the Progressives assure their permanence through this vote, they will then turn their full energy to opening the two leaf brass Gate of our congress to the Persian king.
"...I (God) will... open before him the the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut." Isaiah 45:1,2
Now I feel I have used reason and logic and history and science to come to this evaluation.
I wish to be done with this topic and move to the next…
Because God may be done with America, but he has far more plans of hope for her people!
* * *
November 4, 2010
Clearly I should stick to interpretation and avoid speculation. The Conservatives did a pretty fair job of winning majority seats in the House but failed to obtain majority in the Senate.
Regardless, Excluding the speculation in this post, my blog remains true to the course which I have interpreted as following scriptural prophecy.
see - http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-now.html
* * * * * * *
* 1 Military’s Authority - Article 1 section 8, Article 2 section 2 U.S. Constitution
*2 Border Protection - Article 4 section 4, Article 1 section 10 US Constitution
*3 Another great collection of foundational quotes - http://www.free2pray.info/5founderquotes.html
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Example
Post 108
[reformatted 3/4/14]
Did you actually read the quote at the bottom of my last Post? Here it is again because it is a greatly significant key to understanding our current events:
“But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Interpretation into common English:
Regarding the intent of all the laws, there are none more important or usefully necessary than those which make it possible for the people to guard their own freedom. It is for this reason among all other instructions in reading, that History should be chief among the earliest years of education. Scrutinizing the examples of history will equip them to rightly evaluate the actions and intentions of men in the present. It will enable them to see clearly the intentions behind every deception that can arise. And by recognizing that deception they can defeat it’s very concept.
Thomas Jefferson has enlightened us to the extreme importance of observing the events of history to analyze HOW and WHY things happen.
Once we see the entire event of history after it is complete, we can examine each step from A to Z and see clearly the hidden motives, the deceptions, the misdirection, the tiny steps, and the actual goal, which eventually arrives at the end result.
After having seen and understood all this through historical examples, we can easily pre-identify the end result of the same steps as they happen to us, therefore allowing us to react differently “this time around”.
In such light I offer this narrative of one who experienced first hand those steps of history:
* * *
Truly America is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away
By: Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever be allowed to read in history books.
I am an eyewitness to history. By the grace of God, I am still alive to warn you and tell you that the National Socialist Party and Adolf Hitler did not take Austria by tanks and guns! That is a progressive's distortion of history. We in Austria willingly and gleefully elected Hitler as our saviour by a landslide with 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publication. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. Not true.
In 1938, Austria was in a deep economic downturn. We had very high unemployment, huge debts, our currency had been de-valued and as a result we had 25% inflation and bank loans were nearly impossible to get. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily and many were losing their businesses and homes. Young and old people alike were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a religious woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day she cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - nearly 30 a day.
At the time, the Communist Party and the National Socialist Party (Nazi's) were fighting each other for influence and control. Eventually violence erupted and blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became more and more desperate.
We looked to our neighbor to the north, Germany. Where a gifted and charismatic speaker named Adolf Hitler had been elected to power in 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and that the Germans had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group - Jewish or otherwise. We wanted that same way of life in Austria. We were led to believe that everyone was happy and that Hitler would bring change. We were promised everything and that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and hope for all of the people. Hitler also said that businesses and the cities would be helped by the government, and that rural farmers would get assistance from the Nazi's.
Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany, ending our long history as an independent nation and elected Adolf Hitler as our supreme ruler!
At first, we were overjoyed. For three days we celebrated in the streets and had candlelight parades. Almost overnight, German government officials were appointed and like a miracle, they quickly implemented very strict new laws and discipline bringing law and order to the streets. The new government then opened up big field kitchens, taking food from anyone who had it, and the starving began to be fed by the Nazi's.
Three or four weeks later, Hitler's central government made sure work was created through the People's Social Work Service. In a few months, hundreds of thousands were now dependent on the Nazi's for their food and their jobs. Hitler then decided that women should work as well. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. At first many thought this was good and supported these so-called "Women's Rights". Little did we know what was to come of all these changes.
Hitler Targets Education - Outlaws Religion:
Then, our excellent education system was taken over by the central government and nationalized. Prior to that, I attended a very good public school where religious instruction and prayer was part of our education. However, the day after the schools were nationalized, I walked into my schoolroom the next morning to find the crucifix on the wall missing. It had been replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi swastika and flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up with a tear in her eye and told the class we couldn't pray and that practice of religion had been outlawed. Instead, we were taught to sing "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," the Nazi anthem and were required to take physical education.
Sunday's were no longer for religious services or church, but became National Youth Day - with compulsory attendance. Many parents were not pleased about this sudden "change." however, they were told that if they did not send us they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined, and the third time they would go to prison. At school the first two hours consisted of political indoctrination and propaganda where we were taught to love National Socialism and despise our parents if they objected. Even encouraging us as children to turn violators in as traitors to the police. And many enthusiastic children did this to their very own parents! Little time was spent teaching us traditional subjects. What time we did spend on math, etc., was then followed for the rest of the day with sports.
Fortunately for me, my mother was strong in her beliefs and very traditional. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and enrolled me in a convent school. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday, I would be grateful. At the convent, there was a very good traditional curriculum, but hardly any fun. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. I was shocked by their new loyalties and lifestyle. They had very quickly begun to live without religion or morals and worshipped Adolf Hitler instead. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified by the State for having a baby for Hitler and his Socialist views. It seemed so incredibly strange to me that hundreds of years of culture and our society could be changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did by s ending me away, so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of radical humanistic philosophy.
Women's Right to Work Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a government food bank was firmly established. All food and agriculture was confiscated and rationed. The central government issued food stamps and you had to use them to eat. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed by the Nazi's which meant that if you didn't work, you didn't get food stamps. And if you didn't have stamps, you starved to death. Women who wanted to stay home to raise their families were forced to work.
Soon after this, a mandatory military draft was implemented. In addition, the Labor Corp was established and it was compulsory for all young people, male and female, to spend one year in the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. As the war drug on, after the labor corps, many women were not discharged but were used as fodder in combat on the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women who survived are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. As for myself, three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. Twice God had spared me.
Hitler Dismantles the Family:
Taking advantage of the situation, when mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child day care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, under the total care of the Socialist government. In this way, the state raised a whole generation of Nazi indoctrinated children. There were no mothers to take care of the children, just specialists highly trained in child psychology and Nazi politics. By this time, no one talked about equal rights for women. We knew we had been lied to.
Before Hitler, Austria had some of the best heath care in the world.
Many American doctors even trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, and made free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and at the same time there was no room in the hospitals as they were over-flowing. If you needed surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. Many people (especially the elderly) suffered and were left to die as a result. There was no money for research as it was poured into paying for the people's socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, and the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
To support healthcare and the many Socialist programs, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income and still the nation was in massive debt.
Under National Socialism, there were hundreds of new big government agencies and programs always designed to help us. For example, we had many big programs for babies and families. As an example, all newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household and have children. Little did we know they were intended to be used as on Hitler's battlefields. All day care and Nazi re-education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was required to take mandatory handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. It became impossible to live without total dependence on the central state welfare system.
We even had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law's family owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners and need medical care (at government expense). Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities, etc. And it was just a small restaurant with no complaints. Ultimately, he could no longer afford to meet all the regulations and demands. Soon, he went out of business. Like many others, his family run small business was taken over by a larger government controlled conglomerate. If the government owned the large businesses and small business were no longer feasible economically, the Nazi's could be in total control of the economy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished.
We also had very aggressive "consumer protection" department. We were told where to shop, what to buy, and how to eat. We even had a special planning agency specially designed for farmers. Government agents who knew nothing about farming as they were political appointees, would go to the farms and tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. Production dropped to half the output prior. And what was left, was only to be confiscated for re-distribution and the greater good.
"Mercy" Killing Defined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which in the winter were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people often intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, there were roughly 15 mentally retarded adults. But they were all welcome in the community and managed some form of useful work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor at the local school. One day, some men arrived and I saw Vincent and others being put into a van. I asked my superior where they were going? She said not to ask as it was too dangerous. By then that's the way it was for most everything. People were like sheep. However, eventually she said that they were being sent to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
As time passed, official letters started to dribble back saying these people had all died a very co-incidental natural death. The villagers were not fooled. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We later heard this kind of thing was happening all over and not just to the handicapped. We began to call this euthanasia. We knew what was happening, but nobody did anything about it.
The Final Step - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration. According to the National Socialists and their so-called expert studies, people were getting injured because of guns and they were harmful to our health. Besides, Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few left) was by matching serial numbers on guns, so they must be registered. Most citizens dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police then said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns and "we the people" were effectively disarmed! The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply. Those that did were never seen again.
With our ability of self defense stripped away, there was also no more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the central government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also Christian priests, ministers, and educators who courageously spoke up.
Gradual Take-Over
The frightening thing about my story is that totalitarianism didn't come by force. Instead we had creeping gradualism. And the loss of our freedoms was always in partnership with a loyal media and propaganda machine, who constantly told us that these big government programs were best for us. Even with these gradual changes, it only took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in now socialist Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, now our only weapons were broom handles and pitch forks. Hardly any match for the Nazi's. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable today. That the state, and a duly elected government, little by little, completely destroyed our freedoms while most sat and watched.
And the suffering, it didn't stop with the Nazi's. When World War II ended, communist Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped indiscriminately, from pre-teen to the elderly. And mine is an eye-witness account. Like with the Nazi's the compliant press never wrote about this either. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna still today, dedicated to those women who were raped or massacred by the Russians. When the Soviets finally left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down entire orchards, sacked churches, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned.
Fortunately, God smiled upon me again when I was able to legally emigrate to America in 1957! For those of us who have seen the evils of National Socialism and Godless communism first hand, it makes no sense why our government is now looking towards European socialism as the solution to this administration's hope and change. I've seen that kind of change! And NEVER AGAIN!
When I sailed past the Statue of Liberty and came to this great country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity, I could never have imagined that what happened in my native Austria could ever happen here. However, I'm now an elderly woman and what is happening here seems remarkably similar to what happened then. I had to speak out...
They say that if you're not careful, history will repeat itself! So I beseech you, please remember that America truly is the Greatest Country in the World! We are not to blame for the world's problems. America has been the solution and we should never apologize to anyone! Don't sit and watch this time in history as our Freedom Gradually Slips Away!If America falters, where shall freedom loving people go?
* * *
Wonder about Kitty Worthmann?
Here is a transcript of her appearance on Glenn Beck
(http://www.livedash.com/transcript/glenn_beck/51/FNC/Friday_September_24_2010/306678/). *
[reformatted 3/4/14]
Did you actually read the quote at the bottom of my last Post? Here it is again because it is a greatly significant key to understanding our current events:
“But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Interpretation into common English:
Regarding the intent of all the laws, there are none more important or usefully necessary than those which make it possible for the people to guard their own freedom. It is for this reason among all other instructions in reading, that History should be chief among the earliest years of education. Scrutinizing the examples of history will equip them to rightly evaluate the actions and intentions of men in the present. It will enable them to see clearly the intentions behind every deception that can arise. And by recognizing that deception they can defeat it’s very concept.
Thomas Jefferson has enlightened us to the extreme importance of observing the events of history to analyze HOW and WHY things happen.
Once we see the entire event of history after it is complete, we can examine each step from A to Z and see clearly the hidden motives, the deceptions, the misdirection, the tiny steps, and the actual goal, which eventually arrives at the end result.
After having seen and understood all this through historical examples, we can easily pre-identify the end result of the same steps as they happen to us, therefore allowing us to react differently “this time around”.
In such light I offer this narrative of one who experienced first hand those steps of history:
* * *
Truly America is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away
By: Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever be allowed to read in history books.
I am an eyewitness to history. By the grace of God, I am still alive to warn you and tell you that the National Socialist Party and Adolf Hitler did not take Austria by tanks and guns! That is a progressive's distortion of history. We in Austria willingly and gleefully elected Hitler as our saviour by a landslide with 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publication. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. Not true.
In 1938, Austria was in a deep economic downturn. We had very high unemployment, huge debts, our currency had been de-valued and as a result we had 25% inflation and bank loans were nearly impossible to get. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily and many were losing their businesses and homes. Young and old people alike were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a religious woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day she cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - nearly 30 a day.
At the time, the Communist Party and the National Socialist Party (Nazi's) were fighting each other for influence and control. Eventually violence erupted and blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became more and more desperate.
We looked to our neighbor to the north, Germany. Where a gifted and charismatic speaker named Adolf Hitler had been elected to power in 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and that the Germans had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group - Jewish or otherwise. We wanted that same way of life in Austria. We were led to believe that everyone was happy and that Hitler would bring change. We were promised everything and that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and hope for all of the people. Hitler also said that businesses and the cities would be helped by the government, and that rural farmers would get assistance from the Nazi's.
Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany, ending our long history as an independent nation and elected Adolf Hitler as our supreme ruler!
At first, we were overjoyed. For three days we celebrated in the streets and had candlelight parades. Almost overnight, German government officials were appointed and like a miracle, they quickly implemented very strict new laws and discipline bringing law and order to the streets. The new government then opened up big field kitchens, taking food from anyone who had it, and the starving began to be fed by the Nazi's.
Three or four weeks later, Hitler's central government made sure work was created through the People's Social Work Service. In a few months, hundreds of thousands were now dependent on the Nazi's for their food and their jobs. Hitler then decided that women should work as well. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. At first many thought this was good and supported these so-called "Women's Rights". Little did we know what was to come of all these changes.
Hitler Targets Education - Outlaws Religion:
Then, our excellent education system was taken over by the central government and nationalized. Prior to that, I attended a very good public school where religious instruction and prayer was part of our education. However, the day after the schools were nationalized, I walked into my schoolroom the next morning to find the crucifix on the wall missing. It had been replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi swastika and flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up with a tear in her eye and told the class we couldn't pray and that practice of religion had been outlawed. Instead, we were taught to sing "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," the Nazi anthem and were required to take physical education.
Sunday's were no longer for religious services or church, but became National Youth Day - with compulsory attendance. Many parents were not pleased about this sudden "change." however, they were told that if they did not send us they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined, and the third time they would go to prison. At school the first two hours consisted of political indoctrination and propaganda where we were taught to love National Socialism and despise our parents if they objected. Even encouraging us as children to turn violators in as traitors to the police. And many enthusiastic children did this to their very own parents! Little time was spent teaching us traditional subjects. What time we did spend on math, etc., was then followed for the rest of the day with sports.
Fortunately for me, my mother was strong in her beliefs and very traditional. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and enrolled me in a convent school. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday, I would be grateful. At the convent, there was a very good traditional curriculum, but hardly any fun. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. I was shocked by their new loyalties and lifestyle. They had very quickly begun to live without religion or morals and worshipped Adolf Hitler instead. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified by the State for having a baby for Hitler and his Socialist views. It seemed so incredibly strange to me that hundreds of years of culture and our society could be changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did by s ending me away, so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of radical humanistic philosophy.
Women's Right to Work Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a government food bank was firmly established. All food and agriculture was confiscated and rationed. The central government issued food stamps and you had to use them to eat. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed by the Nazi's which meant that if you didn't work, you didn't get food stamps. And if you didn't have stamps, you starved to death. Women who wanted to stay home to raise their families were forced to work.
Soon after this, a mandatory military draft was implemented. In addition, the Labor Corp was established and it was compulsory for all young people, male and female, to spend one year in the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. As the war drug on, after the labor corps, many women were not discharged but were used as fodder in combat on the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women who survived are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. As for myself, three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. Twice God had spared me.
Hitler Dismantles the Family:
Taking advantage of the situation, when mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child day care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, under the total care of the Socialist government. In this way, the state raised a whole generation of Nazi indoctrinated children. There were no mothers to take care of the children, just specialists highly trained in child psychology and Nazi politics. By this time, no one talked about equal rights for women. We knew we had been lied to.
Before Hitler, Austria had some of the best heath care in the world.
Many American doctors even trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, and made free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and at the same time there was no room in the hospitals as they were over-flowing. If you needed surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. Many people (especially the elderly) suffered and were left to die as a result. There was no money for research as it was poured into paying for the people's socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, and the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
To support healthcare and the many Socialist programs, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income and still the nation was in massive debt.
Under National Socialism, there were hundreds of new big government agencies and programs always designed to help us. For example, we had many big programs for babies and families. As an example, all newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household and have children. Little did we know they were intended to be used as on Hitler's battlefields. All day care and Nazi re-education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was required to take mandatory handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. It became impossible to live without total dependence on the central state welfare system.
We even had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law's family owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners and need medical care (at government expense). Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities, etc. And it was just a small restaurant with no complaints. Ultimately, he could no longer afford to meet all the regulations and demands. Soon, he went out of business. Like many others, his family run small business was taken over by a larger government controlled conglomerate. If the government owned the large businesses and small business were no longer feasible economically, the Nazi's could be in total control of the economy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished.
We also had very aggressive "consumer protection" department. We were told where to shop, what to buy, and how to eat. We even had a special planning agency specially designed for farmers. Government agents who knew nothing about farming as they were political appointees, would go to the farms and tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. Production dropped to half the output prior. And what was left, was only to be confiscated for re-distribution and the greater good.
"Mercy" Killing Defined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which in the winter were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people often intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, there were roughly 15 mentally retarded adults. But they were all welcome in the community and managed some form of useful work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor at the local school. One day, some men arrived and I saw Vincent and others being put into a van. I asked my superior where they were going? She said not to ask as it was too dangerous. By then that's the way it was for most everything. People were like sheep. However, eventually she said that they were being sent to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
As time passed, official letters started to dribble back saying these people had all died a very co-incidental natural death. The villagers were not fooled. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We later heard this kind of thing was happening all over and not just to the handicapped. We began to call this euthanasia. We knew what was happening, but nobody did anything about it.
The Final Step - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration. According to the National Socialists and their so-called expert studies, people were getting injured because of guns and they were harmful to our health. Besides, Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few left) was by matching serial numbers on guns, so they must be registered. Most citizens dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police then said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns and "we the people" were effectively disarmed! The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply. Those that did were never seen again.
With our ability of self defense stripped away, there was also no more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the central government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also Christian priests, ministers, and educators who courageously spoke up.
Gradual Take-Over
The frightening thing about my story is that totalitarianism didn't come by force. Instead we had creeping gradualism. And the loss of our freedoms was always in partnership with a loyal media and propaganda machine, who constantly told us that these big government programs were best for us. Even with these gradual changes, it only took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in now socialist Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, now our only weapons were broom handles and pitch forks. Hardly any match for the Nazi's. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable today. That the state, and a duly elected government, little by little, completely destroyed our freedoms while most sat and watched.
And the suffering, it didn't stop with the Nazi's. When World War II ended, communist Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped indiscriminately, from pre-teen to the elderly. And mine is an eye-witness account. Like with the Nazi's the compliant press never wrote about this either. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna still today, dedicated to those women who were raped or massacred by the Russians. When the Soviets finally left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down entire orchards, sacked churches, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned.
Fortunately, God smiled upon me again when I was able to legally emigrate to America in 1957! For those of us who have seen the evils of National Socialism and Godless communism first hand, it makes no sense why our government is now looking towards European socialism as the solution to this administration's hope and change. I've seen that kind of change! And NEVER AGAIN!
When I sailed past the Statue of Liberty and came to this great country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity, I could never have imagined that what happened in my native Austria could ever happen here. However, I'm now an elderly woman and what is happening here seems remarkably similar to what happened then. I had to speak out...
They say that if you're not careful, history will repeat itself! So I beseech you, please remember that America truly is the Greatest Country in the World! We are not to blame for the world's problems. America has been the solution and we should never apologize to anyone! Don't sit and watch this time in history as our Freedom Gradually Slips Away!If America falters, where shall freedom loving people go?
* * *
Wonder about Kitty Worthmann?
Here is a transcript of her appearance on Glenn Beck
(http://www.livedash.com/transcript/glenn_beck/51/FNC/Friday_September_24_2010/306678/). *
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Who To Call Now
post 107
“America, you are dying. You don’t have long to live.”
This is the message I have been given.
Virtually everything else I have written, is my interpretation of scripture and history. *1
But I am confident I have the heart of God in this matter.
And there is more I have not written.
Now the first, reasonable reaction of anyone who is given such a serious diagnosis is to want a second opinion!
Of course, by all means, seek it out.
But unless you go to a psychedelic chicken waver, who says you can cure your illness by spending yourself out of debt *2, The Handwriting Is On The Wall.
Only a blind man cannot see the signs.
But denial is a first gut reaction. I understand that.
So deny it.
But then think about it, and look around, There is no doubt that America is among the walking dead already, she simply has not fallen to her knees yet by sheer willpower.
But Like the person lying in the hospital dying of cancer, America can deny the truth and all the evidence and keep fighting against it until that last breath,
Or she can understand the seriousness of her situation and get her things in order for her appearance before her maker.
In the old Black and White movies, the family would be all dressed in black hovering quietly around the bed of the dying, and just near the end, there would be a calling to bring in the priest.
Why?
Was the priest going to pray for some miracle of healing?
No, All that is past.
The purpose of the priest was to help the dying to make peace with their God… BEFORE they passed over.
Denial makes this impossible.
Is the priest accused of being insensitive?
Or judgmental?
No.
He is simply there to help the only effort which remains to the dying;
To get right with God.
Do you still wonder about the fulfillment of the “writing on the wall” in the prophecy? (Daniel 5:24-28)
Have a look around.
It is everywhere.
It is so clear it cannot be denied.
Yet I have show you the interpretation just in case you couldn’t see it for yourself.
America, You don’t need a doctor.
You need a priest.
* * *
Now for the confused, I will make God’s heart very clear in this thing;
There is a very defined difference between a nation of people, and the individuals.
God has every intention of destroying a nation, but his heart is still yeaning for the repentance of individuals to turn to Him while there is time.
It is too late for the nation, but it is not yet too late for you;
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
Whosoever means anyone.
Regardless of your sins, or how bad you have ruined your life. Regardless if you are a Muslim terrorist, or a Christ hating Jew. God loves you as an individual and wants earnestly to forgive you, and restore you to himself. This is the sacrifice of Jesus’ death, to pay the punishment for your sin. All you have to do is accept it.
Turn to God and simply submit your heart to him.
The Christian God is the God of love. The death of America is by suicide.*3
* * * * * * *
*1
But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Interpretation into common English:
Regarding the intent of all the laws, there are none more important or usefully necessary, than those which make possible the people to guard their own freedom. It is for this reason among all that they will learn, that History should be chief among the earliest years of education. Scrutinizing the examples of history will equip them to rightly evaluate the actions and intentions of men in the present. It will enable them to see clearly the intentions behind every deception that can arise. And by recognizing that deception they can defeat it’s very concept.
*2
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
*3
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Samuel Cooper, May 1, 1777
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, November 13, 1789
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin (attributed), at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Collinson, May 9, 1753
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.
Benjamin Franklin, On that Odd Letter of the Drum, April 1730
They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to George Whatley, May 23, 1785
And on and on and on.
The wise and insightful thoughts of our founders is a wonderful thing to behold.
I encourage you to peruse the quotes collected at this site:
http://www.foundingfathers.info/
“America, you are dying. You don’t have long to live.”
This is the message I have been given.
Virtually everything else I have written, is my interpretation of scripture and history. *1
But I am confident I have the heart of God in this matter.
And there is more I have not written.
Now the first, reasonable reaction of anyone who is given such a serious diagnosis is to want a second opinion!
Of course, by all means, seek it out.
But unless you go to a psychedelic chicken waver, who says you can cure your illness by spending yourself out of debt *2, The Handwriting Is On The Wall.
Only a blind man cannot see the signs.
But denial is a first gut reaction. I understand that.
So deny it.
But then think about it, and look around, There is no doubt that America is among the walking dead already, she simply has not fallen to her knees yet by sheer willpower.
But Like the person lying in the hospital dying of cancer, America can deny the truth and all the evidence and keep fighting against it until that last breath,
Or she can understand the seriousness of her situation and get her things in order for her appearance before her maker.
In the old Black and White movies, the family would be all dressed in black hovering quietly around the bed of the dying, and just near the end, there would be a calling to bring in the priest.
Why?
Was the priest going to pray for some miracle of healing?
No, All that is past.
The purpose of the priest was to help the dying to make peace with their God… BEFORE they passed over.
Denial makes this impossible.
Is the priest accused of being insensitive?
Or judgmental?
No.
He is simply there to help the only effort which remains to the dying;
To get right with God.
Do you still wonder about the fulfillment of the “writing on the wall” in the prophecy? (Daniel 5:24-28)
Have a look around.
It is everywhere.
It is so clear it cannot be denied.
Yet I have show you the interpretation just in case you couldn’t see it for yourself.
America, You don’t need a doctor.
You need a priest.
* * *
Now for the confused, I will make God’s heart very clear in this thing;
There is a very defined difference between a nation of people, and the individuals.
God has every intention of destroying a nation, but his heart is still yeaning for the repentance of individuals to turn to Him while there is time.
It is too late for the nation, but it is not yet too late for you;
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
Whosoever means anyone.
Regardless of your sins, or how bad you have ruined your life. Regardless if you are a Muslim terrorist, or a Christ hating Jew. God loves you as an individual and wants earnestly to forgive you, and restore you to himself. This is the sacrifice of Jesus’ death, to pay the punishment for your sin. All you have to do is accept it.
Turn to God and simply submit your heart to him.
The Christian God is the God of love. The death of America is by suicide.*3
* * * * * * *
*1
But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
Interpretation into common English:
Regarding the intent of all the laws, there are none more important or usefully necessary, than those which make possible the people to guard their own freedom. It is for this reason among all that they will learn, that History should be chief among the earliest years of education. Scrutinizing the examples of history will equip them to rightly evaluate the actions and intentions of men in the present. It will enable them to see clearly the intentions behind every deception that can arise. And by recognizing that deception they can defeat it’s very concept.
*2
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
*3
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Samuel Cooper, May 1, 1777
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, November 13, 1789
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin (attributed), at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Collinson, May 9, 1753
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.
Benjamin Franklin, On that Odd Letter of the Drum, April 1730
They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to George Whatley, May 23, 1785
And on and on and on.
The wise and insightful thoughts of our founders is a wonderful thing to behold.
I encourage you to peruse the quotes collected at this site:
http://www.foundingfathers.info/
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The River
Of America
post 106
For those of you who may argue that I am too preoccupied with “religion”, and that our national problems are tangible and therefore political, I suggest this is exactly what our enemy wants us to focus on.
While we are attempting to strengthen our defenses through Democrats throwing huge sums of money at their leaf of our political gate, and the Republicans trying to send more men of honor to their leaf of our gate, the enemy is diligently attacking at another place in our defenses.
Take the book “Rules For Radicals” by Saul Alinsky. *1
Go to Amazon.com and find the book. While on line you can open the book to review the dedication page. (made known to us by Glenn Beck)
I quote:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
- Saul Alinsky”
It is curious that he would honor the arch enemy of not just any religion, but the specific enemy of the Christian religion of the Bible, which names Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12-15) and identifies him as the first rebel, (Ezekiel 28:11-17) and declares him to be the source of the worlds conflicts; (Job 1:6-12, Revelation 12:12-13,17)
Further, his very first sentence of his prologue centers on foundational concepts at least in part revolving around religion;
“The revolutionary force today has two targets, morals as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, “Burn the system down!”
One target: Material.
The other: Morals.
We are battling the attack against our material, identified to the world as “Capitalism”.
But the Morals? Not just any morals, but the “idealistic morals of the early Christians” from which these radicals have patterned a portion of their attack.
that is the intent to influence and persuade.
Yet we apparently have no idea what they are talking about! *8
So while they openly are focused on destroying two areas of our defenses, we seem to be diligent to intentionally ignore one of those declared targets… Because our government claims we have to!
Right Wing America is now so brainwashed as to actually believe we can only implement whitewashed concepts of God’s ideals into our political solutions, while carefully avoiding any direct recognition of God himself.
This is the confusion so easily seen in the Tea Party Congressional hopeful Christine O’Donnell when in a recent interview on CNN, she said;
“My faith has matured over the years, but regardless of my personal faith, when I go down to Washington DC it is the Constitution that I will defend and it is by the Constitution that I will make all of my decisions…” *2
Her confusion was made more evident when asked the direct question; “Do you believe evolution is a myth?” she danced around the question until forced to declare; “Local schools should make that decision… What I believe is irrelevant.” *2
Don’t get me wrong, this woman is very well intended, and is apparently focused on bringing America back under the authority of the Constitution, a very honorable intention and purpose.
But as the host of the program showing the footage, Todd Friel pointed out so well; Our beliefs should and will inform our politics. Yet she apparently believes her faith must be set aside while considering political issue. *3
So while Saul Alinsky is openly battling religious values through morals, Miss O’Donnell is attempting to shore-up the empty riverbed assuring it will remain without water.
The Progressives have no intention of filling in our riverbed of faith, they have every intention of using that empty riverbed as their avenue of access.
We are already seeing the signs; as Nancy Pelosi preaching her confused gospel from the position as Speaker of the House *4 to our TV movies now promoting every vile religion and concept imaginable. witchcraft, communal marriages, Plural gods, drug induced teleportation, spirit possession, open Hedonism, homosexual lifestyles, etc, etc, etc. *5
Not long ago when Christianity was the religion of the nation, TV generally refused to allow anything Christian that did not show it in a bad light, which they did often.
Today all that has changed, and now the Christian religion is gone entirely,(except when butchered by the likes of Ms. Pelosi) and every strange religion is flooding our movies, represented as matter-of-fact acceptable in the light of “each to his own”.
* * *
The fall of America is shown in the prophetic history of the fall of Belshazzar’s Babylon.
Therefore by observing the details we can infer similar details for America’s demise;
The water of the river running through the city, sustained the land, the crops and the people of Babylon, as representation that America’s faith sustained our national health as it touched every facet of life in a similar way.
The Holy Ghost is often scripturally represented by “Living Water” or water that is flowing. The water of a river accurately fulfills this representation.*6
Therefore the water in the river of Belshazzar’s Babylon represents the Holy Ghost in America’s faith, the life source of America’s health through it’s people drawing from that source. America’s faith was not exclusive to one party; both Democrats and Republicans drew from the river of the Christian Faith, which gave them the sustenance to build the structure of a strong walled city (nation) and a strong gate (government).
By diverting the river the Persian general Darius and his men were able to crawl un-noticed under the wall through the dry riverbed to take the city without a fight.
The empty river represents America’s hollow faith without the Holy Ghost. Useless to us, yet quite valuable to the enemy described by Saul Alinsky’s book.
America has not noticed the significance of the declining flow because our Supreme Court has previously posted an ever increasing legal ribbon barricade to the river, stating “Do Not Cross”, significantly strengthened by their ruling in 1963-64 officially Separating the State from Accessing the River it called The Church. *7
Over time the water of the river has diminished until today our land is now dry, our crops withered, our people famished from a government sponsored drought of the Holy Spirit. And we have been without water for so long we have forgotten the days when the flow was strong and nourished the land. Now only the dry riverbed of religion remains and our children say; “It has always been dry, that's what the river is, silly."
They claim that our founders built this mighty nation in this desolate dry land, and there was no river flow then either. Therefore the abundant produce of the old days must have been acquired by steeling it from other poor nations!
Now with this concept in mind, we glean a bit more meaning behind the following passage;
“Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit” Matthew 12:31-33
America has long professed to be the fruit of a “good tree” as a Christian nation.
But now because the Holy Spirit is missing from our faith, our resulting corruption belies our words, and we are now known to the world for our corrupt fruit still pretending to be of the good tree.
God is the good tree and our putrid fruit tells the world the tree is bad.
THIS IS THE BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY GHOST! This will not be forgiven.
Is this because God is mean and vengeful?
No.
It is because our self-created circumstances have now caused us to focus on the immediate danger at the political gate, and the river has been dry for so long we don’t actually believe God could or would send a flash flood to break down the diversion and fill our river again, even if we prayed.
So frankly, we are now a nation who no longer actually believes in a living God.
Our god has now long been an empty riverbed, with just as much life saving ability.
And this is why we will fall.
So is all surely lost? Is that it? Is the handwriting on the wall?
Certainly…
But for one slim possible option:
“The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.” Zechariah 1:1-6
This offer of God was to the Jews whom God has shown an excessive amount of longsuffering, and even a promise that he would not utterly destroy them, ever.
America has no such promise.
But knowing our destruction is certain, would it hurt to at least ask?
Who knows if God would have mercy and save us from ourselves!
Or are you so eager to be destroyed?
* * * * * * *
*1 additional information Rules for Radicals quotes http://rightwingnews.com/2010/05/the-best-quotes-from-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/
*2 Source video viewed on “Wretched” 10/22/10 broadcast.
*3 O’Donnell on evolution http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/19/odonnell_questions_separation_of_church_and_state.html
Whereas I actually think Miss O’Donnell’s perspectives are more sound than she is given credit, I think she has shown that she is under qualified for the intense scrutiny of the public forum. I was heartsick at the loud public laughter at her accurate challenge; “Where is Separation of Church and State found in the constitution?”
Her choice of delivery left her open to public ridicule when she was actually correct.
*4 Pelosi on The Word http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18p2Gg8yNUY&feature=related
*5 the overwhelming paganism of religion is evidenced in an inordinate number of current TV shows such as “Caprica”. Even the forensic based show “Bones” has a regular mater of fact approach to the concept of discounting the Christian God, and promoting previously unacceptable lifestyles as above reproach.
America’s foundations are quickly being changed just as Obama promised.
*6 Living Water -
John 4:10-14 “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water….Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
Jeremiah 17:13 “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,
And they that depart from me (Jesus) shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”
See also, Revelation 7:17,Leviticus 14:5
*7 list of barricade rulings http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/decisions.html
1963 bible in schools unconstitutional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_School_District_v._Schempp
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
*8 Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you... From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
post 106
For those of you who may argue that I am too preoccupied with “religion”, and that our national problems are tangible and therefore political, I suggest this is exactly what our enemy wants us to focus on.
While we are attempting to strengthen our defenses through Democrats throwing huge sums of money at their leaf of our political gate, and the Republicans trying to send more men of honor to their leaf of our gate, the enemy is diligently attacking at another place in our defenses.
Take the book “Rules For Radicals” by Saul Alinsky. *1
Go to Amazon.com and find the book. While on line you can open the book to review the dedication page. (made known to us by Glenn Beck)
I quote:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
- Saul Alinsky”
It is curious that he would honor the arch enemy of not just any religion, but the specific enemy of the Christian religion of the Bible, which names Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12-15) and identifies him as the first rebel, (Ezekiel 28:11-17) and declares him to be the source of the worlds conflicts; (Job 1:6-12, Revelation 12:12-13,17)
Further, his very first sentence of his prologue centers on foundational concepts at least in part revolving around religion;
“The revolutionary force today has two targets, morals as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, “Burn the system down!”
One target: Material.
The other: Morals.
We are battling the attack against our material, identified to the world as “Capitalism”.
But the Morals? Not just any morals, but the “idealistic morals of the early Christians” from which these radicals have patterned a portion of their attack.
that is the intent to influence and persuade.
Yet we apparently have no idea what they are talking about! *8
So while they openly are focused on destroying two areas of our defenses, we seem to be diligent to intentionally ignore one of those declared targets… Because our government claims we have to!
Right Wing America is now so brainwashed as to actually believe we can only implement whitewashed concepts of God’s ideals into our political solutions, while carefully avoiding any direct recognition of God himself.
This is the confusion so easily seen in the Tea Party Congressional hopeful Christine O’Donnell when in a recent interview on CNN, she said;
“My faith has matured over the years, but regardless of my personal faith, when I go down to Washington DC it is the Constitution that I will defend and it is by the Constitution that I will make all of my decisions…” *2
Her confusion was made more evident when asked the direct question; “Do you believe evolution is a myth?” she danced around the question until forced to declare; “Local schools should make that decision… What I believe is irrelevant.” *2
Don’t get me wrong, this woman is very well intended, and is apparently focused on bringing America back under the authority of the Constitution, a very honorable intention and purpose.
But as the host of the program showing the footage, Todd Friel pointed out so well; Our beliefs should and will inform our politics. Yet she apparently believes her faith must be set aside while considering political issue. *3
So while Saul Alinsky is openly battling religious values through morals, Miss O’Donnell is attempting to shore-up the empty riverbed assuring it will remain without water.
The Progressives have no intention of filling in our riverbed of faith, they have every intention of using that empty riverbed as their avenue of access.
We are already seeing the signs; as Nancy Pelosi preaching her confused gospel from the position as Speaker of the House *4 to our TV movies now promoting every vile religion and concept imaginable. witchcraft, communal marriages, Plural gods, drug induced teleportation, spirit possession, open Hedonism, homosexual lifestyles, etc, etc, etc. *5
Not long ago when Christianity was the religion of the nation, TV generally refused to allow anything Christian that did not show it in a bad light, which they did often.
Today all that has changed, and now the Christian religion is gone entirely,(except when butchered by the likes of Ms. Pelosi) and every strange religion is flooding our movies, represented as matter-of-fact acceptable in the light of “each to his own”.
* * *
The fall of America is shown in the prophetic history of the fall of Belshazzar’s Babylon.
Therefore by observing the details we can infer similar details for America’s demise;
The water of the river running through the city, sustained the land, the crops and the people of Babylon, as representation that America’s faith sustained our national health as it touched every facet of life in a similar way.
The Holy Ghost is often scripturally represented by “Living Water” or water that is flowing. The water of a river accurately fulfills this representation.*6
Therefore the water in the river of Belshazzar’s Babylon represents the Holy Ghost in America’s faith, the life source of America’s health through it’s people drawing from that source. America’s faith was not exclusive to one party; both Democrats and Republicans drew from the river of the Christian Faith, which gave them the sustenance to build the structure of a strong walled city (nation) and a strong gate (government).
By diverting the river the Persian general Darius and his men were able to crawl un-noticed under the wall through the dry riverbed to take the city without a fight.
The empty river represents America’s hollow faith without the Holy Ghost. Useless to us, yet quite valuable to the enemy described by Saul Alinsky’s book.
America has not noticed the significance of the declining flow because our Supreme Court has previously posted an ever increasing legal ribbon barricade to the river, stating “Do Not Cross”, significantly strengthened by their ruling in 1963-64 officially Separating the State from Accessing the River it called The Church. *7
Over time the water of the river has diminished until today our land is now dry, our crops withered, our people famished from a government sponsored drought of the Holy Spirit. And we have been without water for so long we have forgotten the days when the flow was strong and nourished the land. Now only the dry riverbed of religion remains and our children say; “It has always been dry, that's what the river is, silly."
They claim that our founders built this mighty nation in this desolate dry land, and there was no river flow then either. Therefore the abundant produce of the old days must have been acquired by steeling it from other poor nations!
Now with this concept in mind, we glean a bit more meaning behind the following passage;
“Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit” Matthew 12:31-33
America has long professed to be the fruit of a “good tree” as a Christian nation.
But now because the Holy Spirit is missing from our faith, our resulting corruption belies our words, and we are now known to the world for our corrupt fruit still pretending to be of the good tree.
God is the good tree and our putrid fruit tells the world the tree is bad.
THIS IS THE BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY GHOST! This will not be forgiven.
Is this because God is mean and vengeful?
No.
It is because our self-created circumstances have now caused us to focus on the immediate danger at the political gate, and the river has been dry for so long we don’t actually believe God could or would send a flash flood to break down the diversion and fill our river again, even if we prayed.
So frankly, we are now a nation who no longer actually believes in a living God.
Our god has now long been an empty riverbed, with just as much life saving ability.
And this is why we will fall.
So is all surely lost? Is that it? Is the handwriting on the wall?
Certainly…
But for one slim possible option:
“The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.” Zechariah 1:1-6
This offer of God was to the Jews whom God has shown an excessive amount of longsuffering, and even a promise that he would not utterly destroy them, ever.
America has no such promise.
But knowing our destruction is certain, would it hurt to at least ask?
Who knows if God would have mercy and save us from ourselves!
Or are you so eager to be destroyed?
* * * * * * *
*1 additional information Rules for Radicals quotes http://rightwingnews.com/2010/05/the-best-quotes-from-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/
*2 Source video viewed on “Wretched” 10/22/10 broadcast.
*3 O’Donnell on evolution http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/19/odonnell_questions_separation_of_church_and_state.html
Whereas I actually think Miss O’Donnell’s perspectives are more sound than she is given credit, I think she has shown that she is under qualified for the intense scrutiny of the public forum. I was heartsick at the loud public laughter at her accurate challenge; “Where is Separation of Church and State found in the constitution?”
Her choice of delivery left her open to public ridicule when she was actually correct.
*4 Pelosi on The Word http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18p2Gg8yNUY&feature=related
*5 the overwhelming paganism of religion is evidenced in an inordinate number of current TV shows such as “Caprica”. Even the forensic based show “Bones” has a regular mater of fact approach to the concept of discounting the Christian God, and promoting previously unacceptable lifestyles as above reproach.
America’s foundations are quickly being changed just as Obama promised.
*6 Living Water -
John 4:10-14 “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water….Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
Jeremiah 17:13 “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,
And they that depart from me (Jesus) shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”
See also, Revelation 7:17,Leviticus 14:5
*7 list of barricade rulings http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/decisions.html
1963 bible in schools unconstitutional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_School_District_v._Schempp
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
*8 Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you... From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
Monday, October 25, 2010
Moving Up
Into The Next Level.
post 105
My head and heart and soul are so filled with the time spent with God, I cannot write fast enough. But just as I was about to post my latest thought, I was checked ever so lightly; Something was off. Something was just not quite right.
And as I thought about it, I realized the slight feeling of some small distance from God.
I realized what I was writing was good stuff, but actually just residual from what he had said earlier which I was still trying to put down.
But where was God? I had not actually heard from him clearly for a few days.
So I stopped everything, did not post. And began to ask;
What is the cause?
Have you ever tried to explain a dream?
The words are there but you are not getting the real dream across?
Somehow you can’t explain it but don’t know why.
Upon seeking, I immediately knew what was asked of me, but like explaining a dream, I couldn’t command my understanding to accept it as the answer, like the dream it was clearly there… but not there. And for a few days I continued to ask, and for a few days the answer was the same.
Then still in unsure disbelief, which I cannot explain, I suddenly thought;
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26
This concept applies to the very basic salvation.
But not being in danger of this, I could see how it also applies to each level of standing.
How many women want a man’s attention, but he must choose one at the abandonment of all others. (salvation)
Now that she is his wife, the sacrifices don’t end. What is a happy wife worth? A motorcycle? A night out with the boys? Emptying the trash?
Viewed from a selfish standpoint, these can be very high prices to pay.
Viewed from the benefits of a loving relationship, these are but trivial tokens.
And I thought I understood the answer;
sacrifice a token of seriousness, a slight offense to God.
But was this the right answer? What if the sacrifice was for nothing?
These are the thoughts until understanding the above passage, and suddenly the risk of empty sacrifice, was not worth the risk of loss.
And so I gave what God had asked, still wondering if this was the answer...
And found I had unlocked the next level, I was again spiritually sitting in the presence of the almighty, and immediately was introduced to yet more secrets of God! In fact one I had been curious about for some time.
Most Christians never hear God speak because they are unwilling to even enter the second level. What is the price you want in exchange for your fellowship with God? a dirty movie? A periodic drink? Smoking? A TV show? Slothfulness? The list is unending because each of us has a small personal sacrifice God would ask of us. Your response to his request will tell you if you will move up into the next level. I imagine the first level upgrade will cost the price of simply to try.
For me, being left behind is not worth the trivial sacrifice he requests. The thrill of hearing the secrets of God is worth everything! To actually sit in His presence while he quietly speaks… What an honor!
I have the back stage pass for the price of a can of pop… and a brand I no longer crave anyway!
post 105
My head and heart and soul are so filled with the time spent with God, I cannot write fast enough. But just as I was about to post my latest thought, I was checked ever so lightly; Something was off. Something was just not quite right.
And as I thought about it, I realized the slight feeling of some small distance from God.
I realized what I was writing was good stuff, but actually just residual from what he had said earlier which I was still trying to put down.
But where was God? I had not actually heard from him clearly for a few days.
So I stopped everything, did not post. And began to ask;
What is the cause?
Have you ever tried to explain a dream?
The words are there but you are not getting the real dream across?
Somehow you can’t explain it but don’t know why.
Upon seeking, I immediately knew what was asked of me, but like explaining a dream, I couldn’t command my understanding to accept it as the answer, like the dream it was clearly there… but not there. And for a few days I continued to ask, and for a few days the answer was the same.
Then still in unsure disbelief, which I cannot explain, I suddenly thought;
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26
This concept applies to the very basic salvation.
But not being in danger of this, I could see how it also applies to each level of standing.
How many women want a man’s attention, but he must choose one at the abandonment of all others. (salvation)
Now that she is his wife, the sacrifices don’t end. What is a happy wife worth? A motorcycle? A night out with the boys? Emptying the trash?
Viewed from a selfish standpoint, these can be very high prices to pay.
Viewed from the benefits of a loving relationship, these are but trivial tokens.
And I thought I understood the answer;
sacrifice a token of seriousness, a slight offense to God.
But was this the right answer? What if the sacrifice was for nothing?
These are the thoughts until understanding the above passage, and suddenly the risk of empty sacrifice, was not worth the risk of loss.
And so I gave what God had asked, still wondering if this was the answer...
And found I had unlocked the next level, I was again spiritually sitting in the presence of the almighty, and immediately was introduced to yet more secrets of God! In fact one I had been curious about for some time.
Most Christians never hear God speak because they are unwilling to even enter the second level. What is the price you want in exchange for your fellowship with God? a dirty movie? A periodic drink? Smoking? A TV show? Slothfulness? The list is unending because each of us has a small personal sacrifice God would ask of us. Your response to his request will tell you if you will move up into the next level. I imagine the first level upgrade will cost the price of simply to try.
For me, being left behind is not worth the trivial sacrifice he requests. The thrill of hearing the secrets of God is worth everything! To actually sit in His presence while he quietly speaks… What an honor!
I have the back stage pass for the price of a can of pop… and a brand I no longer crave anyway!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
No Win
post 104
I have suggested both possible results of this November vote would be concluded in the destruction of America.
This is very convenient for me of course, because I can’t be proven wrong no matter how the vote turns out. But that is not the point of what I have said. *1
The vote does not specifically destroy America, God will destroy it, but exactly how, is what is not said. I will be proven wrong only if America is not destroyed.
But when?
This is an answer without a clear definition for this reason;
I have said; God declared He intends to destroy America on November 2nd.
But the historical record of the prophecy I have show related to this destruction shows that those of the city Babylon did not even know it had fallen until a short time later. Daniel Chapter 5.
The historian Josephus in the complete works book 10 page 339, does not define the time frame of the siege by Darius, the capture, and then arrival of Cyrus the king of Persia. He simply states: “Now after a little while, both himself and the city were taken by Cyrus, the king of Persia, who fought against him;…”
Also, the interpretation of the writing on the wall is non-specific as to the tense; “PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and the Persians.” Daniel 5:28
In this verse we can interpret this to mean it had already been divided, or was sure to be divided.
We do not know how many days transpired between the appearance of the writing on the wall, and Daniel’s interpretation. By both the text of the scripture and Josephus’s account we can gather that it may have been several days.
All these factor allow for us to only guess at anything more accurate than “a short time”.
Allowing further that the historic example was designed by God as a prophecy, we then can only conclude “a short time” meaning nothing more specific than that, even if the historic events were "a few days". The Scriptural precedent shows numerous examples that God rarely moves in simple, easily defined, ways.
We do know that Belshazzar lost his life on the day of the interpretation, (Daniel 5:30) and therefore can be confident that the city was already taken at that point.
Most probable the city was actually taken the day the writing appeared, and it was still not known up to the day he died.
But back to the point of this writing;
I have shown both results of the vote are able to end in our destruction.
This is a problem which has no answer.
Does God work like that? This certainly does not sound like the god America worships!
Here in America everyone gets a second chance, and a third, and…
I have shown in the post titled; “Amos” the clear and pointed example of God unwilling to turn from his intended wrath once he was determined.
He dose not often show this type of un-detourable destruction in scripture, most always there is an out, a way of escape, mercy. But not always.
Ours is one of those rare occasions, as was that of Belshazzar our example, and for the same reason; “and this because he had not learnt to honor God, and not to admit things above human nature, by what punishments his progenitor had undergone for the injuries he had offered to God; and because he had quite forgotten how Nebuchadnezzar was removed to feed among wild beasts for his impieties, and did not recover his former life among men and his kingdom, but upon God’s mercy to him…” Antiquities of the Jews page 339
Let me explain how such a No-Win problem materializes:
The Ark Of The Covenant:
This was the seat of the most holy item the Jews possessed at the time. Exodus 25:10-16
Anyone who has watched Indiana Jones will know that.
But as always Hollywood just cannot get it right and missed the very important part; which was that after it was sanctified, no man could touch the Ark or they would die. Numbers 4:15
The story of the dead priest:
Hundreds of years passed, then king David wanted the Ark moved from temporary storage to his hometown. (II Samuel 6, I Chronicles 13:13) So they put the Ark on a new cart to haul it to Judah.
On the journey of very good intentions, The Oxen stumbled and shook the cart and the Ark was in grave danger of falling off. I Chronicles 13:9
So Uzzah now finds himself in a very bad situation:
The no win options:
Steady the Ark and die,
Or let the Ark fall from the cart.
Now of course, as good Americans, we immediately start brainstorming;
There must be a third option!
Perhaps he only thought it was going to fall.
Perhaps if he used a coat over his hands.
Perhaps God wanted to perform a miracle.
Perhaps.
But the events and narrative shows that God intended the breach upon Uzzah who reached up and steadied the Ark and died.
There just was no alternative option available at that moment.
Rabbit trails again!
So what had Uzzah done to deserve death!?
Even king David was sore at God for this;
“And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah:… And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?” II Samuel 6:8-9
So David canceled the plans, dropped the Ark at some friend’s house and headed home. II Samuel 6:10-11
Now think about this for a second;
Things had gone bad in Israel for some time, and after great struggle king David had cleaned up much of it, and in a great celebration of Faith, and Glory, and Praise, he had the very honorable goal of bringing home the Ark of the Covenant!
And then this?
You gotta be kidding!
The party came crashing down, the hope of restoration unto God dashed.
This was a great tragedy while they were attempting to bring glory and praise to God.
Why did God not smile with Divine Providence on their endeavor?
Had God broken his word to protect them if they were faithful? *2
This just seems so wrong!
What more could they have done to ensure God’s Divine Favor for the rectitude of their intentions?! (as our forefathers put it in the US Declaration of Independence)
Clearly king David did not know, because the party was canceled and he went home troubled.
The choices of those before, effect us today:
Every child is raised in the circumstances of those before them.
If a child’s parents are in poverty, it begins life in poverty.
If a child’s parents are wealthy, it begins a life afforded by wealth.
This is not arguable, but a fact of life.
And unless determined steps are taken, the child will be raised in just such an environment, learning all the mental understanding that will assure it maintains for itself the environment of its parents.
And so goes the mental instruction of the child.
If the child’s parents are thieves and drug addicts, the child will grow up leaning all the elements that make up such a life, whereas if the child’s parents are in show business the child learns of those values and instruction.
It is the way of all life.
Hungarian parents raise Hungarian children.
We do not cry out to God; “WHY!?” It is nature.
And so it is with all elements in life, including governments.
I live in America, and so I am blessed by what America has to offer.
Children born in Haiti, are bound by the life of Haitians.
Fair or not, this is life… and we are free to labor to change any and all of these circumstances through adoption, moving, education, benevolence etc. But the basic circumstances of where we find ourselves is most often out of our control.
And so Uzzah found himself in just such a circumstance of someone else' creation.
Cause:
Immediately afterwards, Uzzah no longer cared what caused it. For him it was too late.
But for the living, the reason mattered greatly.
Why?
First because of the fear something similar may also happen to them.
Next was the reliability and trustworthiness of God himself.
And finally because the mission was still unaccomplished until the cause could be determined and resolved.
Then also, without understanding the cause, we find ourselves inventing answers that may or may not be related, and our wrong answers only compound and complicate the original problem;
Uzzah must have done some secret sin and God was punishing him. Yah, that must be it! But in the back of the mind is the nagging knowledge that this is not a complete answer for the events. This breach though directed to Uzzah was detrimental to the public as a whole. Because the breach was public and with public consequences, the breach was for a public cause.
The American Progressive answer? "BURN THE ARK!"
Solution:
Through reading the old history of the Ark, it is found that the Ark was to be carried by the staves on the shoulders of men. Exodus 25:13-15
God knew the circumstances that would occur if the Ark was put on a cart, and he designed a system to avoid those circumstances.
If they had followed the directions, God could then bless them with the Favor of Divine Providence, but not while they were in violation of the rules.
So where in the world did they get the idea to put the thing on a cart in the first place? (From the American Progressives of course!)
No one remembered where this great idea came from, but they got it from the success of the Philistines who many years earlier had captured the Ark in war, then successfully returned it in this manner. (I Samuel 6:7-21)
Since it worked for them, it was obviously a good idea!
(And of course we now have the rabbit trail of the Mennonites who fear technology such as carts, and miss the whole point!)
This history is given as an example showing that just because the ungodly are successful at something, does not mean we have the freedom to breach God’s direction to us.
Ignorance is often tolerated,
Forgetting is unacceptable.
The punishment for forgetting is severe.
Uzzah died because of the men who forgot God's command and put the Ark on the cart.
Belshazzar too, knew the right way and forgot.
America also knew and has now forgotten.
Though America will fall because of the sins of the previous generations who got us into this state, you can personally see the cause and results, and break out of the pattern to get right with God.
It is not yet too late for you though you fight an uphill battle.
"He also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." Matthew 13:22
"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." Matthew 13:23
* * * * * * *
*1 My uncertainty as to how this vote will go is directly related to my uncertainty of how far the enemy has crawled into our city. We see the enemy everywhere in our nation but because they are not running around the streets with guns screaming; "Your all gonna die!" we stand curious watching, wondering what they have in mind.
Remember, the city Babylon was not destroyed, but captured. It was the Nation of Babylon that was destroyed. In this prophecy we can project that America will not be physically destroyed as with bombs, but our destruction as a sovereign state will be.
The army led by Darius took the city without a battle, but his purpose was to open the gates and let King Cyrus the King of Persia in.
I am leaning to believe that America has already fallen to the enemy, but we cant actually tell because we are all standing around looking at each other.
It is my supposition that the Progressives will win this upcoming election which will begin the opening of the brass gate to the foreign king, Islam.
(more on this later)
*2 “Behold I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.”… “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land…” Exodus 23:20-33 one among many such promises in scripture.
I have suggested both possible results of this November vote would be concluded in the destruction of America.
This is very convenient for me of course, because I can’t be proven wrong no matter how the vote turns out. But that is not the point of what I have said. *1
The vote does not specifically destroy America, God will destroy it, but exactly how, is what is not said. I will be proven wrong only if America is not destroyed.
But when?
This is an answer without a clear definition for this reason;
I have said; God declared He intends to destroy America on November 2nd.
But the historical record of the prophecy I have show related to this destruction shows that those of the city Babylon did not even know it had fallen until a short time later. Daniel Chapter 5.
The historian Josephus in the complete works book 10 page 339, does not define the time frame of the siege by Darius, the capture, and then arrival of Cyrus the king of Persia. He simply states: “Now after a little while, both himself and the city were taken by Cyrus, the king of Persia, who fought against him;…”
Also, the interpretation of the writing on the wall is non-specific as to the tense; “PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and the Persians.” Daniel 5:28
In this verse we can interpret this to mean it had already been divided, or was sure to be divided.
We do not know how many days transpired between the appearance of the writing on the wall, and Daniel’s interpretation. By both the text of the scripture and Josephus’s account we can gather that it may have been several days.
All these factor allow for us to only guess at anything more accurate than “a short time”.
Allowing further that the historic example was designed by God as a prophecy, we then can only conclude “a short time” meaning nothing more specific than that, even if the historic events were "a few days". The Scriptural precedent shows numerous examples that God rarely moves in simple, easily defined, ways.
We do know that Belshazzar lost his life on the day of the interpretation, (Daniel 5:30) and therefore can be confident that the city was already taken at that point.
Most probable the city was actually taken the day the writing appeared, and it was still not known up to the day he died.
But back to the point of this writing;
I have shown both results of the vote are able to end in our destruction.
This is a problem which has no answer.
Does God work like that? This certainly does not sound like the god America worships!
Here in America everyone gets a second chance, and a third, and…
I have shown in the post titled; “Amos” the clear and pointed example of God unwilling to turn from his intended wrath once he was determined.
He dose not often show this type of un-detourable destruction in scripture, most always there is an out, a way of escape, mercy. But not always.
Ours is one of those rare occasions, as was that of Belshazzar our example, and for the same reason; “and this because he had not learnt to honor God, and not to admit things above human nature, by what punishments his progenitor had undergone for the injuries he had offered to God; and because he had quite forgotten how Nebuchadnezzar was removed to feed among wild beasts for his impieties, and did not recover his former life among men and his kingdom, but upon God’s mercy to him…” Antiquities of the Jews page 339
Let me explain how such a No-Win problem materializes:
The Ark Of The Covenant:
This was the seat of the most holy item the Jews possessed at the time. Exodus 25:10-16
Anyone who has watched Indiana Jones will know that.
But as always Hollywood just cannot get it right and missed the very important part; which was that after it was sanctified, no man could touch the Ark or they would die. Numbers 4:15
The story of the dead priest:
Hundreds of years passed, then king David wanted the Ark moved from temporary storage to his hometown. (II Samuel 6, I Chronicles 13:13) So they put the Ark on a new cart to haul it to Judah.
On the journey of very good intentions, The Oxen stumbled and shook the cart and the Ark was in grave danger of falling off. I Chronicles 13:9
So Uzzah now finds himself in a very bad situation:
The no win options:
Steady the Ark and die,
Or let the Ark fall from the cart.
Now of course, as good Americans, we immediately start brainstorming;
There must be a third option!
Perhaps he only thought it was going to fall.
Perhaps if he used a coat over his hands.
Perhaps God wanted to perform a miracle.
Perhaps.
But the events and narrative shows that God intended the breach upon Uzzah who reached up and steadied the Ark and died.
There just was no alternative option available at that moment.
Rabbit trails again!
So what had Uzzah done to deserve death!?
Even king David was sore at God for this;
“And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah:… And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?” II Samuel 6:8-9
So David canceled the plans, dropped the Ark at some friend’s house and headed home. II Samuel 6:10-11
Now think about this for a second;
Things had gone bad in Israel for some time, and after great struggle king David had cleaned up much of it, and in a great celebration of Faith, and Glory, and Praise, he had the very honorable goal of bringing home the Ark of the Covenant!
And then this?
You gotta be kidding!
The party came crashing down, the hope of restoration unto God dashed.
This was a great tragedy while they were attempting to bring glory and praise to God.
Why did God not smile with Divine Providence on their endeavor?
Had God broken his word to protect them if they were faithful? *2
This just seems so wrong!
What more could they have done to ensure God’s Divine Favor for the rectitude of their intentions?! (as our forefathers put it in the US Declaration of Independence)
Clearly king David did not know, because the party was canceled and he went home troubled.
The choices of those before, effect us today:
Every child is raised in the circumstances of those before them.
If a child’s parents are in poverty, it begins life in poverty.
If a child’s parents are wealthy, it begins a life afforded by wealth.
This is not arguable, but a fact of life.
And unless determined steps are taken, the child will be raised in just such an environment, learning all the mental understanding that will assure it maintains for itself the environment of its parents.
And so goes the mental instruction of the child.
If the child’s parents are thieves and drug addicts, the child will grow up leaning all the elements that make up such a life, whereas if the child’s parents are in show business the child learns of those values and instruction.
It is the way of all life.
Hungarian parents raise Hungarian children.
We do not cry out to God; “WHY!?” It is nature.
And so it is with all elements in life, including governments.
I live in America, and so I am blessed by what America has to offer.
Children born in Haiti, are bound by the life of Haitians.
Fair or not, this is life… and we are free to labor to change any and all of these circumstances through adoption, moving, education, benevolence etc. But the basic circumstances of where we find ourselves is most often out of our control.
And so Uzzah found himself in just such a circumstance of someone else' creation.
Cause:
Immediately afterwards, Uzzah no longer cared what caused it. For him it was too late.
But for the living, the reason mattered greatly.
Why?
First because of the fear something similar may also happen to them.
Next was the reliability and trustworthiness of God himself.
And finally because the mission was still unaccomplished until the cause could be determined and resolved.
Then also, without understanding the cause, we find ourselves inventing answers that may or may not be related, and our wrong answers only compound and complicate the original problem;
Uzzah must have done some secret sin and God was punishing him. Yah, that must be it! But in the back of the mind is the nagging knowledge that this is not a complete answer for the events. This breach though directed to Uzzah was detrimental to the public as a whole. Because the breach was public and with public consequences, the breach was for a public cause.
The American Progressive answer? "BURN THE ARK!"
Solution:
Through reading the old history of the Ark, it is found that the Ark was to be carried by the staves on the shoulders of men. Exodus 25:13-15
God knew the circumstances that would occur if the Ark was put on a cart, and he designed a system to avoid those circumstances.
If they had followed the directions, God could then bless them with the Favor of Divine Providence, but not while they were in violation of the rules.
So where in the world did they get the idea to put the thing on a cart in the first place? (From the American Progressives of course!)
No one remembered where this great idea came from, but they got it from the success of the Philistines who many years earlier had captured the Ark in war, then successfully returned it in this manner. (I Samuel 6:7-21)
Since it worked for them, it was obviously a good idea!
(And of course we now have the rabbit trail of the Mennonites who fear technology such as carts, and miss the whole point!)
This history is given as an example showing that just because the ungodly are successful at something, does not mean we have the freedom to breach God’s direction to us.
Ignorance is often tolerated,
Forgetting is unacceptable.
The punishment for forgetting is severe.
Uzzah died because of the men who forgot God's command and put the Ark on the cart.
Belshazzar too, knew the right way and forgot.
America also knew and has now forgotten.
Though America will fall because of the sins of the previous generations who got us into this state, you can personally see the cause and results, and break out of the pattern to get right with God.
It is not yet too late for you though you fight an uphill battle.
"He also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." Matthew 13:22
"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." Matthew 13:23
* * * * * * *
*1 My uncertainty as to how this vote will go is directly related to my uncertainty of how far the enemy has crawled into our city. We see the enemy everywhere in our nation but because they are not running around the streets with guns screaming; "Your all gonna die!" we stand curious watching, wondering what they have in mind.
Remember, the city Babylon was not destroyed, but captured. It was the Nation of Babylon that was destroyed. In this prophecy we can project that America will not be physically destroyed as with bombs, but our destruction as a sovereign state will be.
The army led by Darius took the city without a battle, but his purpose was to open the gates and let King Cyrus the King of Persia in.
I am leaning to believe that America has already fallen to the enemy, but we cant actually tell because we are all standing around looking at each other.
It is my supposition that the Progressives will win this upcoming election which will begin the opening of the brass gate to the foreign king, Islam.
*2 “Behold I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.”… “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land…” Exodus 23:20-33 one among many such promises in scripture.
Bull’s Eye
post 103
For the past few days I have been ambushed by the enemy, and now I find myself trying to retake ground I have let slip, I have turned my focus just slightly from the divine to the temporal, and like Peter have begun to sink back into the realm of the temporal. Matthew 14:29 *1
This does not appear to be sin, or evil, but it is not as good as I am able, nor is it where I want to remain at this time. *2
I picture it like this;
There are many who choose archery as a hobby, some are even quite active and very good, The competitions and the practices fine tune their abilities to some very impressive results.
But a few choose to become very serious with it and move into the arena of professional, abandoning virtually every other interest.
At this level, the field of accuracy narrows even further and what was once thought impossible becomes expected. These individuals are no longer content with a strike on the edge of the bull’s eye, they are now intently focused on the exact center of that tiny black dot.
This is what Jesus was showing us through the example of Peter walking on the water.
In the past months of locking myself away exclusively with the LORD I have seen the kind of fellowship with God which not long ago I had seen as impossible.
At this level of intensity I see things that would otherwise be beyond expectation, and I find the LORD pleased to share with me his heart in some matters.
But the effort is intense, and I turned my eyes for just a moment of rest to some of my temporal needs, and now that I am back to “work” I find I have lost some ground.
Help me O God to quickly regain the ground lost, to refocus on you alone, that I may continue to enjoy your fellowship.
I do not think God is done sharing with me his heart, and I don’t want to miss a thing!
* * * * * * *
*1 “And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.” Luke 14:28-30
*2 Sin as defined by “Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible”
OT: 2403 ,2398, 2401, 819, 7686, NT: majority 266, 264, 265, 361
Sin 2403 chattaah: from 2398; an offence.
Sin 2398 chata: a prime root; properly to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causality) to lead astray, condemn.
Sin 2401 chataah; feminine of 2399; an offence, or a sacrifice for it.
Sin 819 ashmah; feminine of 817; guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a sin-offering.
Sin 7686 shagah; a prime root to stray (causative, mislead) usually (figurative) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress…
Sin 266 hamaria; from 264; sin (properly abstract)
Sin 264 hamartano; perhaps from 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 3313; properly to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. to err, especially (morally) to sin.
Sin 265 hamartema; from 264; a sin
Sin 361 anamartetos; from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of 264; sinless.
1 A a, al-fah; of Hebrew origin; the first letter of the alphabet; figurative only (from its use as a numeral) the first;…
I have included here the many slight variations in which the Bible uses the word sin for the purpose of having complete understanding of what it means to “sin”.
Clearly the intent of the word is to represent a less than acceptable accomplishment at whatever was the intended. “To miss the mark”
As in my above narrative, sin then is an ever increasing circle of unacceptable as the expectation from the practitioner increases in skill.
Therefore what is “a good shot” for you, may be “sin” for me.
Romans 14:22-23 “Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
I now understand this verse to show that what I can and should expect from myself is for me alone. It is not a standard to apply to others, as each person is at various levels of skill and accomplishment.
This is why the archers target has many rings. Each ring defining a narrowing scope of acceptable achievement. For one stage of practice anything within the “3” circle may be a success worthy of smiling boldly! For another the same strike may be worthy of reprimand.
The topic of sin then is relative to genuine effort applied to the skill level achieved.
Therefore in my above narrative, my less than full attention and devotion to my intended target for me was indeed sin. I had missed the mark of which I am capable at my present level.
Paul uses a different analogy to describe the same concept;
"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain." I Corinthians 9:24
If we are entering the competition for any other goal than the prize, we have no intention of success, but merely practice at what? seeing how close we can get to the prize without achieving it? The very concept of competition is all about achieving.
If I go hunting for the purpose of the pleasure of hunting, and I am therefore not a practiced shot, I come home with no food, because I did not "run that I might obtain the prize."
The real point in hunting is to obtain the sustenance for survival.
If I forget that, I may have had a grand time, but end up starving to death!
In our present life of American luxury we find our sustenance in other ways, therefore leaving hunting to simply valueless entertainment. Therefore we have the luxury of deeming competition as destructive to the delicate emotional state of those who do not win, and destroy the very meaning of the representation God expected us to understand.
We have done the same thing with our faith.
We go to church, and read our bible, and act out the conduct of "good people" but are we even in this race to win the prize of salvation for our very souls?
"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." I Corinthians 9:25
As a now reasonably good archer, I watch you throw your arrow of faith at the target with one hand, covering your eyes with the other, and giggle at the shameful result.
The Great Prize Giver is not giggling, and the state of our Nation is a result of too many doing the same thing. Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
Let this post not be criticism, but urge you to put down your spiritual French-Fries, wipe the grease from your hands and take up your bow with even the slightest seriousness.
and see for real just where your arrow lands.
Not to show you how bad a shot you are, but to identify from where you need to start your improvement. You are capable of so much more!
Run your race to win!
After all, they give prizes even in the Special Olympics.
Just give it your honest best, anything less is sin.
For those few of you consistently striking in the 3s, Nice shooting!
May I encourage you to avoid comparing yourself with those in the previous group, or even with those in your own class, and actively move your faith up into the next class.
Improvement can best come by practicing with those who are better, not comparing with those who are not. You too are capable of better still. II Corinthians 10:12 "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
Your Lord needs you at the top of your game!
* * *
Expectations
Oct 24, 2010
Following the post “Bull’s Eye” a valued friend brought up the point of people in sports who are no longer fun to play with.
Golfers who throw clubs, tennis players who get violently angry, Basketball players who are forcefully determined, and the fun goes out of the activity with them.
So what went wrong?
Are they not striving to hit their mark?
I contend that the answer can be found in the very name we give to individuals in these activity pursuits, we call them Sportsmen.
But with this name is attached a caliber of conduct and character which is noticeable among those who are sufficiently practiced to achieve their lofty targets.
A very good golfer, who got his skill through great and long efforts of practice, has a demeanor reflecting that self-control of character required to achieve such skill.
But the player who got his talent naturally and has done very little to hone it, has an arrogant un-sportsman like attitude. This is the attitude of pride.
He may actually be very good, but his self glorification is an example of a character not of the type generally given to long hard efforts to achieve, at least in comparison to the talent nature has given him.
Then there is the week-ender who expects himself to make a Tiger Woods shot on every hole, but has no natural talent and done nothing to significantly suggest he should be able to expect these results.
This is the Club Thrower, and the attitude of Vanity.
* * *
The disappointment in playing with these people should not be confused with real sportsmen, who no matter how good they are, are always a pleasure to play with, because they never place upon you the expectation to achieve their skills.
They know very well that such skill comes at a very high price, and having paid such a price they have also acquired in the process a very stable nature regarding this skill.
Playing with this kind a person is a real honor because just being around them allows you to glean some great tricks and secrets and concepts valuable to your game. But even more than that, you can feel the overwhelming and appealing calm of their depth.
* * * * * * *
For the past few days I have been ambushed by the enemy, and now I find myself trying to retake ground I have let slip, I have turned my focus just slightly from the divine to the temporal, and like Peter have begun to sink back into the realm of the temporal. Matthew 14:29 *1
This does not appear to be sin, or evil, but it is not as good as I am able, nor is it where I want to remain at this time. *2
I picture it like this;
There are many who choose archery as a hobby, some are even quite active and very good, The competitions and the practices fine tune their abilities to some very impressive results.
But a few choose to become very serious with it and move into the arena of professional, abandoning virtually every other interest.
At this level, the field of accuracy narrows even further and what was once thought impossible becomes expected. These individuals are no longer content with a strike on the edge of the bull’s eye, they are now intently focused on the exact center of that tiny black dot.
This is what Jesus was showing us through the example of Peter walking on the water.
In the past months of locking myself away exclusively with the LORD I have seen the kind of fellowship with God which not long ago I had seen as impossible.
At this level of intensity I see things that would otherwise be beyond expectation, and I find the LORD pleased to share with me his heart in some matters.
But the effort is intense, and I turned my eyes for just a moment of rest to some of my temporal needs, and now that I am back to “work” I find I have lost some ground.
Help me O God to quickly regain the ground lost, to refocus on you alone, that I may continue to enjoy your fellowship.
I do not think God is done sharing with me his heart, and I don’t want to miss a thing!
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*1 “And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.” Luke 14:28-30
*2 Sin as defined by “Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible”
OT: 2403 ,2398, 2401, 819, 7686, NT: majority 266, 264, 265, 361
Sin 2403 chattaah: from 2398; an offence.
Sin 2398 chata: a prime root; properly to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causality) to lead astray, condemn.
Sin 2401 chataah; feminine of 2399; an offence, or a sacrifice for it.
Sin 819 ashmah; feminine of 817; guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a sin-offering.
Sin 7686 shagah; a prime root to stray (causative, mislead) usually (figurative) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress…
Sin 266 hamaria; from 264; sin (properly abstract)
Sin 264 hamartano; perhaps from 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 3313; properly to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. to err, especially (morally) to sin.
Sin 265 hamartema; from 264; a sin
Sin 361 anamartetos; from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of 264; sinless.
1 A a, al-fah; of Hebrew origin; the first letter of the alphabet; figurative only (from its use as a numeral) the first;…
I have included here the many slight variations in which the Bible uses the word sin for the purpose of having complete understanding of what it means to “sin”.
Clearly the intent of the word is to represent a less than acceptable accomplishment at whatever was the intended. “To miss the mark”
As in my above narrative, sin then is an ever increasing circle of unacceptable as the expectation from the practitioner increases in skill.
Therefore what is “a good shot” for you, may be “sin” for me.
Romans 14:22-23 “Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
I now understand this verse to show that what I can and should expect from myself is for me alone. It is not a standard to apply to others, as each person is at various levels of skill and accomplishment.
This is why the archers target has many rings. Each ring defining a narrowing scope of acceptable achievement. For one stage of practice anything within the “3” circle may be a success worthy of smiling boldly! For another the same strike may be worthy of reprimand.
The topic of sin then is relative to genuine effort applied to the skill level achieved.
Therefore in my above narrative, my less than full attention and devotion to my intended target for me was indeed sin. I had missed the mark of which I am capable at my present level.
Paul uses a different analogy to describe the same concept;
"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain." I Corinthians 9:24
If we are entering the competition for any other goal than the prize, we have no intention of success, but merely practice at what? seeing how close we can get to the prize without achieving it? The very concept of competition is all about achieving.
If I go hunting for the purpose of the pleasure of hunting, and I am therefore not a practiced shot, I come home with no food, because I did not "run that I might obtain the prize."
The real point in hunting is to obtain the sustenance for survival.
If I forget that, I may have had a grand time, but end up starving to death!
In our present life of American luxury we find our sustenance in other ways, therefore leaving hunting to simply valueless entertainment. Therefore we have the luxury of deeming competition as destructive to the delicate emotional state of those who do not win, and destroy the very meaning of the representation God expected us to understand.
We have done the same thing with our faith.
We go to church, and read our bible, and act out the conduct of "good people" but are we even in this race to win the prize of salvation for our very souls?
"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." I Corinthians 9:25
As a now reasonably good archer, I watch you throw your arrow of faith at the target with one hand, covering your eyes with the other, and giggle at the shameful result.
The Great Prize Giver is not giggling, and the state of our Nation is a result of too many doing the same thing. Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
Let this post not be criticism, but urge you to put down your spiritual French-Fries, wipe the grease from your hands and take up your bow with even the slightest seriousness.
and see for real just where your arrow lands.
Not to show you how bad a shot you are, but to identify from where you need to start your improvement. You are capable of so much more!
Run your race to win!
After all, they give prizes even in the Special Olympics.
Just give it your honest best, anything less is sin.
For those few of you consistently striking in the 3s, Nice shooting!
May I encourage you to avoid comparing yourself with those in the previous group, or even with those in your own class, and actively move your faith up into the next class.
Improvement can best come by practicing with those who are better, not comparing with those who are not. You too are capable of better still. II Corinthians 10:12 "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
Your Lord needs you at the top of your game!
* * *
Expectations
Oct 24, 2010
Following the post “Bull’s Eye” a valued friend brought up the point of people in sports who are no longer fun to play with.
Golfers who throw clubs, tennis players who get violently angry, Basketball players who are forcefully determined, and the fun goes out of the activity with them.
So what went wrong?
Are they not striving to hit their mark?
I contend that the answer can be found in the very name we give to individuals in these activity pursuits, we call them Sportsmen.
But with this name is attached a caliber of conduct and character which is noticeable among those who are sufficiently practiced to achieve their lofty targets.
A very good golfer, who got his skill through great and long efforts of practice, has a demeanor reflecting that self-control of character required to achieve such skill.
But the player who got his talent naturally and has done very little to hone it, has an arrogant un-sportsman like attitude. This is the attitude of pride.
He may actually be very good, but his self glorification is an example of a character not of the type generally given to long hard efforts to achieve, at least in comparison to the talent nature has given him.
Then there is the week-ender who expects himself to make a Tiger Woods shot on every hole, but has no natural talent and done nothing to significantly suggest he should be able to expect these results.
This is the Club Thrower, and the attitude of Vanity.
* * *
The disappointment in playing with these people should not be confused with real sportsmen, who no matter how good they are, are always a pleasure to play with, because they never place upon you the expectation to achieve their skills.
They know very well that such skill comes at a very high price, and having paid such a price they have also acquired in the process a very stable nature regarding this skill.
Playing with this kind a person is a real honor because just being around them allows you to glean some great tricks and secrets and concepts valuable to your game. But even more than that, you can feel the overwhelming and appealing calm of their depth.
* * * * * * *
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