Transition

Sunday May 22 - June 1, 2011
Post 197

Upon declaring my second book complete, I have had more than one reader respond with a bit of confusion, feeling like they either missed something or I left stuff out.

But before I begin adding clarification and the missing material such as what I wrote but forgot I did not post, I would like to encourage the confused that the apparent random skipping around is neither random nor an accident.
This is not from a lack of attention, but because it takes all those seemingly disconnected parts to add up to the concept intended by the writing.
The scripture is not God’s poor attempt to use words to explain what can’t be said in words, NO!
The scriptures are the absolute perfect explanation of the concepts we are to understand with our limited minds of limited comprehension of complex issues.

While God is explaining “concepts”, we in our natural human thought processes, simply want to know “information”.
“Concepts are “too hard”, just tell me straight; What is the answer?!”

We want to read the scripture as a storybook. Like a computer, we just want to input data and thereby gain the “book” to add to our “library” of acquired knowledge.
But God does not want to simply input data. What is the point of increasing our knowledge alone? He could have done that at birth if he wanted. Knowledge is simply a tool that needs to be properly applied to gain the intended result. The result is the goal, not the knowledge.
It is the concepts that he wants us to grasp, and those must be learned not taught.

Example:
You can read all the books in the world, with every possible nuance of driving a car, but until you get into the drivers seat and begin, you will never make a good driver.

So in my attempt to write another of the plethora of driving manuals out there, I trust you understand that the manual is only to give you the general idea, but the driving is yours to do.

Sure, I hope that my manual might put a few things in a way you can more easily understand, but the confusion usually comes when we mistake the reading with the doing:
I can re-read all day; “With your right foot on the break, push in the clutch with your left foot, and move the shifter to '1'”, but sitting at my desk with the manual, “there is no clutch BY MY LEFT FOOT and I don’t even know what a shifter is! This book makes no sense! In fact driving is stupid!”

More and better descriptions at this point will do little to make it more clear.
You have to get out of your Lazyboy and get into the car to implement what you think you now know.
Not long after you do that, many things that seemed confusing will suddenly become clear, and many other things you never thought to ask will be reason to retrieve the manual with eagerness!
But you have to leave that interesting TV program to do it. (the whole “two masters” bit in Matthew 6:24)
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Have you by now discovered the main theme that ties all my posts together? The one thought through Book One about what caused the fall of America, and continues through Book Two about the rise of Islam and what gives it success, and finally brings us to the climax in the rise of the Great Whore? It is the same concept that is also sprinkled throughout with personal and practical challenges to readjust your perspective.
That theme is; a lack of faithfulness.

If faithfulness is maintained, America would not fall.
If faithfulness is maintained, Islam could not rise.
But since these two points appear to be taking place, it is the lack of faithfulness that gives life to the Great Whore.
What is a whore? One who does not remain faithful, but instead sells herself to many others. Please pause for a moment and contemplate all that this means in these three points.

I propose to show in Book Three, that it is the faithless “Christian” world; the apostate church, that gives conception to the Whore. And I will show that unless you personally are not faithful with a single eye toward your God to the aggressive rejection of all things offensive to him in your life, that you will without knowing it, be swept along in good conscience thinking yourself to be a Champion of God while you fully support the Great Whore, just as Mr. Beck is now doing.

This is no longer a matter of intentionally choosing evil. It is the fact that at this time in history everything is now evil if it is not wholly and intentionally centered on the actual word of God, (the only un-corruptible tangible element in the universe, Matthew 24:35, Matthew 5:18).
Selecting a lesser evil to avoid a greater evil, is in itself evil. Thus my argument with Intelligent Design to combat Evolution;
A genius idea to be sure, but with the strength of evil today, that approach is no longer pure enough to be acceptably effective. Again the reason is not because of intentional evil, but that the circumstances now force a result that we will take without a very good reason to avoid it! “Three and half years of suffering before death, or sudden death now with the sword?” The third option does not present itself; you have to know it exists, and more; you have to know how to implement it! This third option is the purpose for the prophecy, and for my entire blog, and the reason that God sent his Son Jesus! Faithfulness.

Example:
Today we live in a relatively safe society where perhaps one in a thousand carries a gun. This is not a significant problem in a healthy society. But during war, any soldier not packing a weapon is quickly straightened out! This is the concept of my point. As America falls, the allied soil is being surrendered. The enemy is establishing himself in what was once familiar safe ground. Anyone not actively trained in current spiritual warfare by fully participating in the true faith, will through default be consumed by the new rulers (wickedness) of the land. Since America was the world’s protector against evil by the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, the world is now at stake by her surrender. We are at spiritual war, Whose not packing?

Because the slothful Christians have slowly surrendered the land to evil through neglect, it will be the fearful Christians who bring about the Great Whore for protection. This is exactly the scenario playing out as Israel, unable to trust God by their own neglect, turns to Global Democracy for protection. Here at this point what other choice do they have? The lesser of two evils, But the choice is more evil than the evil chosen because of how they/we got to this choice!
So now America, the champion of Peace, by similar neglect cannot trust God either, so we choose to aid Israel by encouraging Global Democracy to protect them. Brilliant!
What has Democracy given to America? The 51% telling the 49% that they cannot spread their faith for fear of offending the 1%!

Ok, having said that, I found an entire file of posts I wrote, but forgot I left out of my blog because of the needful rabbit trails, that really did leave some big holes. I trust it has not been too long for you to remember the study but I suggest a refresher of post 160 The Great Whore before moving on.
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I declared this “book” ended because we have arrived at the blurry transition from the 8th beast to the woman that rides it (all part of the left foot). But the transition is not smooth and simple as they are inseparably tied together, some of the woman is in book two and some of the beast is in book three.
I apologize for jumping ahead like I did to get to the woman sooner, but you should now be able to see the purpose by the current events that transpired right after.

So now let me go back and pick up more of what the scripture has to say regarding the beast beginning in Revelation 17.
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