Giving Thanks vs. Thanksgiving

Post 278

In the previous two Posts I think the scientific complexity became so overwhelming in thought that the actual point may have been missed; that is the Northern kingdom abandoned God and was destroyed without hope of recovery, and the Southern kingdom was itself internally divided, shown in time by the successful repulsion of the Assyrian that conquered the North, but then fell to the Babylon whore that does not kill the less than faithful wife, she just transforms her.
It is the complexity of this last fall of the second part that needs to be explored because that unfaithful wife is still alive and can be redeemed with the remnant if she will repent. This is the topic of today’s Post.

Can you identify the significant difference between giving thanks and Thanksgiving? In our Type of the two-part kingdom we see that Israel refused to give thanks at all while Judah had Thanksgiving, but God was looking for them to give thanks… which neither of them did. This distinction, though seemingly small, is vital. Like the genesis of the species, the fundamental important details are in the differences, not in the similarities.
To help you readily grasp my proposed concept, think of Thanksgiving as the theory of Evolution and giving thanks as the Creator God theory. Remember; we have discarded the unbeliever as the Northern kingdom and we are now investigating complexities of only the Southern kingdom of God’s “faithful” people, to discover the cause of their subsequent incarceration style “discarding” as well.

Think back to the American Pilgrims, just what did they have to be thankful for? Those poor people had experienced the flight from religious persecution in their homelands, the hardships of losing loved ones while crossing the sea in less than five star accommodations, to end up on the hostile shores of a strange and unbroken land when starvation, disease, hard life and cruel winters cut their ranks by less than half. Where was God in all that? Why did they give earnest and heartfelt thanks to the Creator and Sustainer for his seeming lack of help and sustenance? We will answer that question later only by reflection, but now let’s look at today’s Thanksgiving by comparison:

The average American has so much money that we don’t need to scratch our very lives from the soil with our fingernails, we just drive to the store and pick through the heaps of world sourced foods piled onto shelves and bins just waiting for us to poke and sniff, pretending to have such scrutinizing palates as to search for the best of the lot to take home and fix into so much perfectly prepared provision that we have to take fizzy tablets to keep our stomachs from hurting. Then we waddle into the living room with our loved ones and flop into padded chairs that even recline so that our overstuffed carcasses can be supremely comfortable while we watch the religiously traditional football game or parade on a 52” High Definition TV.
“Now that is Thanksgiving at its best!”

But just what are we giving thanks for? Are we even giving thanks at all? Or is Thanksgiving just the name that we gave a specific day of ancient and unrelated memorial to yearly take off work and fill our every pleasure to the maximum capacity?
Isn’t the actual spirit of Thanksgiving today a kind of twisted excuse to over indulge as a way of expressing our gratefulness for having so much? For many years, before the arrival of our utter destruction, Conservative Christian America did not actually abandon God as the Northern kingdom of the Liberal Godless, we just traditionalized him into our own gluttony and called it faith.

But if I ask you to show me the spirit of thanksgiving in the events of the Thanksgiving day, you will be able to show it to me in everything that was done; Inviting loved ones to fellowship in the special day honoring the LORD, eating the huge volume of provision and taking time to actually bow the head and say “thank you” for the excess of abundance, taking the day off from work and its secular drive for Money to “relax in the Lord’s provision,” and an overall warm feeling of good-will and a break from frustration and anger of a normal day; “Yes, this is a great day to give thanks!”

Same event, but two different angles of perception. How do we know which is the true rendition and which is the illusion? Is it only a matter of personal perspective or is there a way to find out for sure?
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Tradition:
Don’t misunderstand me, I am not suggesting that tradition is a bad thing; in fact it is very, very good… until the tradition itself replaces the actual meaning of the tradition. Allow me to show this in another current-events way:

I just spent a significant amount of time reviewing the plethora of this year’s Christmas presentations on TV in an effort to identify the overall theme.
“Theme?” you query, “It’s Christmas of course!”
But is it?
Now while I am not going to provide the details of the shows individually, the trending through them all was very striking. Interestingly enough they all fell well within the “outline” of the Christmas pageant titled; Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas Eve. There is no doubt that this musical presentation had some of the recognizable trappings of a traditional Christmas pageant but the DNA of The Christmas pageant was utterly missing while it retained enough proteins to make it seem “Christmassy.”
Now while this seems like a simple step away from traditional, in the harmless expression of a younger generation’s creative rendition, the real trap is that the traditional Christmas pageant which it pretends to be, is itself only pretending to be true worship. So in all reality the Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas Eve is really only the worship of the image of a dead religion and not the dead religion itself.

I am not yet an old man, but in my own lifetime, though I was too young to accurately remember true worship in the faith at Christmas, I do remember the very earnest and glorious Christmas pageants that honored that faith. Now today, the pageants are honoring the pageants of the past and have completely forgotten the faith that those earlier pageants honored. Once it was the worship of the Son of God come to Earth, then it was Baby Jesus in a manger, then it was Santa Clause, and now it's "the Magic of Christmas."
Remember the old black and white movies that, although already secular, still retained the pageantry of Church and “the meaning of Christmas” in the moral that they preached? It’s a Wonderful Life was already sliding down the rails of secular but you could still find the Christmas root buried down deep if you wanted to. Though the people depicted in the movie were not seriously faithful to God they nonetheless held the traditional values of Christmas. Then we went through several years of abandoning the traditional Christmas and replaced it with Santa Clause, Miracle on 34th Street was just such an example. The already warped spirit of It’s a Wonderful Life passed on that warpage, now slightly more warped with still newer values, and so the change happened perceptively gradual and uncontested. The problem is that It’s a Wonderful Life had already morphed the spirit of Christmas and so the spirit that was transferred wasn’t even the right spirit to begin with before it morphed again. But today we look back on that old movie as the perfection of representing Christmas. Now today our Christmas pageants, devoid of any hint of Christ, are of the warped spirits of yesterdays warped Santa Clause spirits themselves warpages of the previous pageants that warped the worship of Jesus. The former actual worship of Jesus Christ the Mighty Savior, is so forgotten that to restore the old ways of Christmas is to bring back a simple, clean, and un-warlock type Santa Clause! Today the spirit of Christmas is all about Mystical "Christmas Magic.”

While most all the programs this year are personal family based stories with “real life” settings of people in need of a “Christmas Miracle,” some of this year’s programs retained renditions of Santa Clause with combined elements of the traditional manger scene Jesus, but even those were presented in the “real life” presentation of Mystical Magic helping real people in need. The entire spirit of Christmas today is expressed in the now familiar whisper; “BELIEVE!”
Believe in what? It doesn’t matter; Baby Jesus, Santa Clause, Good Fate, Hope, it’s all the same thing, it’s simply; “Y’u gotta have FAITH in faith.” Christmas has now become a special time of year when you can hope for miracles to happen more than at any other time of year; the source is really unimportant, and in fact not actually knowing the Mystical source is an important part of the miracle, as in the spirit of not telling what you wished for or it wouldn't come true (*1).
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Where am I going with this in any practical way?
The key to proper comprehension of what is observed is based on perspective. Let’s say that reality is exampled in a described event like a snap-shot in time:
A person is drowning at the bottom of a water-tower tank and another person is standing on the walkway at the top of the tank looking down into the water, their eyes meet. The perspective that really matters in this example is whether you are the one standing on the walkway, or are you lying on the bottom looking up? Every discussion about the drowning person takes on completely different meaning and application depending on your perspective. Are you in the condition to help or are you the one needing help? Until the event actually takes place the discussion of which you are is subjective in the following definition:

Subjective: b. arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by external stimuli.

Let’s take this a step further in the example and let’s assume it is just before the event in question, and by scrutinizing the details in the photo we positively identify that it is indeed you standing on the walkway looking down into the water. This is a good thing right?
All the presented parameters allow you to become confident that you are the rescuer; You got ropes and harnesses grapples and pulleys. Any warnings or further statements regarding the drowning person are perceived by you as information that you can use to help the person you see at the bottom of the tank; The tank is so deep and so filled, the walls are thus composed, the water is such a temperature, etc., etc., all easily seen as very good information to describe how they fell in and the dangers they now face and useful to aid you in the rescue attempt.
The problem is that the picture is a warning given to you, because a board is about to break as you look into the tank and it will be you that falls into the water loaded down with all your rescue equipment. It will be someone else who is seen standing on the walkway looking down at you drowning at the bottom. But now you know how you got there.

This is why you cannot clearly comprehend yourself as the Jew in the holocaust. By a wrong perception you are sure that everything the scriptures and history has to say about “them” is not speaking of “you.” When the “photo” of scripture in Type talks of a board breaking and someone falling in and then someone standing there looking down, you perceive yourself being the second individual because the Jew has already fallen in. Don’t be such a fool! If you walk on the same platform the same fate will be yours because all those boards are rotten! This is not a forth-dimensional discussion of timing; it’s a fifth-dimensional discussion of patterns.

“Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, If thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off” Romans 11:19-22.

“So how does one actually change their present perception when all of the evidence leads me to conclude that I am the rescuer and not the victim?”

The very question is the beginning of the answer.
Now let me help:
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Why did the Jews suffer the holocaust?
Being the generation after the holocaust and not being Jewish, we have a two-fold numbing of anesthesia that blinds us to really seeing. It is natural in this drugged state to imagine that their real world situation of cause-and-effect does not and cannot affect ours. In this way we again literally dehumanize them just as the Nazis did at the time by forcing the Jew into a pathetic condition that allows us to then make this dehumanized distinction of their animalistic condition in contrast to our own refined condition of life.
A month before the events the Jews were just normal happy families of working class people making a living to pay their mortgages and feed their families, and buy them delightful things as expressions of their love for one another. A month after, they were filthy animals sleeping on a flea infested blanket unfit for dogs and eating inedible scraps from the floor or a parlor pot like wild beasts at an unusually cruel zoo.

But think about it; Were the Jews irreligious just before the holocaust, were they indistinguishable from their Pagan neighbors? Didn’t they faithfully carry out their religious traditions of Holy Days handed down through Moses? Weren’t they carefully living out the regimented Jewish life? Were they so evil as to be worthy of such torment that would befall them within a month?
“NO! What they experienced was not their fault! It was Hitler and his demonic spirit of violence against the innocent!”
Who is going be so coldly brash as to argue that point?

“Oh God! Why make it me?!” (asked only rhetorically since I already know the answer).
His answer is because I have no dog in this fight. I am simply the obedient messenger of what God really wants you to grasp, for a reason that you cannot yet perceive. So allow me to continue.

I have watched many hours of original footage as well as many interviews with actual holocaust survivors in the attempt to discover why God would have delivered these people into such atrocities. Why them specifically? They really didn’t appear wicked at all, and especially not by comparison of other far more wicked but not likewise abused nations. What is God’s perspective in light of his promises to carry out exactly what happened? (Deuteronomy 27:20+31:29+32:30-31). Here is what came loudly through:

Admitting that I have not seen all the interviews done, and all the interviews were themselves only a fraction of the survivors, and the survivors were but a fraction of the incarcerated, yet I have seen enough of them to formulate an unbroken trend: In every case I heard victims. I never heard repentance. Not once.
The Horrors that those poor people suffered are beyond human comprehension. This is not debatable except for the wildly insane who claim it never happened, the volume of documentation is too profound and conclusive. The problem is that by experiencing those horrors, there is no evil more great that can be compared next to it to show the suffering as justified. Where is the darker blackness to show them that their innocent victim mentality of “light” is a flawed perception? How does God justify such things?
Today in our geographicly far-away and years-removed timeframe of reality, we too ask these questions of God because we have no greater blackness by which to compare the events. This is completely a perceptional issue that affects virtually every verse of scripture we read.

God’s simple two-dimensional answer is in effect; “I told you not to climb the water tower of sin.” And the beginning of our self-justifying reply of well-intended rebellion is; “But…”

In our self-justifying god-status of free-will we require more information than “Don’t” in order to justify God in conflict with our own rational superior-opinions on the matter. And in kindness and patience God provides that more information, but it’s not simple; It’s very complex; it’s fifth-dimensional, which is why he gave it to us in the simple and easy to understand version of “Don’t.”

What didn’t the Jews do?
Isn’t it obvious by now? They didn’t obey God.
But that is not obvious, is it? Why?
Because we are just as disobedient as they were, and like them, we feel that we are faithful. We refuse to see our sin as God sees our sin and so we accuse God of unjustified abandonment just as they did… and still do, even after their incarceration.
I have shown you in over four years and 250 posts the guilt that, by the very definition of “remnant,” you most probably cannot yet fully accept because you still see yourself as the saved rescuer of sinners standing on the platform looking down, rather than the one drowning (Luke 6:39, Romans 1:32). So providing more scripture as support of my “picture” is not going to do a bit more good.
That is not why I am still writing.

The reason I am still writing is because even after experiencing and surviving the holocaust, the Jews never got the message of their incarceration. They spent the entire time crying; “I’m innocent! I don’t deserve this!”
Where is the greater blackness that can show them that they are not victims? It is within their own heart; the greater blackness is their own perception of their virtue. So if that is the case, why did God not likewise destroy the far more wicked nations than the Jews?
The answer is found in the purpose of the first commandment:

“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might” Deuteronomy 6:5.

God was not the God of the other nations, so as wicked as they acted they were not violating this commandment to them; the Jews were violating His commandment to them because they were indeed God’s people and so had commandments by which they would be judged, namely a singular and complete love of God alone.

“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said; Thou shalt not covet” Romans 7:7.

But by generations of warping the original faith, their religious pageants of traditions eventually were themselves warped into mere shadows of those pageants until their faith was transformed into meaningless national holy-days (holidays) with names like Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter, or Hanukah, Yom-kippur and Passover, completely devoid of the DNA of those memorials but retaining the trappings that allow us to pretend that we are honoring God while we consume them upon our own lust.

“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts” James 4:3.

Going into our own incarceration fully convinced we are not guilty will allow us to have incredibly enduring “faith” that, like the Jews, will wait patiently for God to rescue us even while we witness the unspeakable horrors of God’s non-rescuing abandonment wrath. Coming out the other side of the holocaust we will have a very bizarre faith in a God that either cannot, or willnot rescue us (Isaiah 59:1-2).
To the person, every non-Christian Jew that survived the holocaust will openly declare that God abandon them. The truth of their declaration is purely a fact that cannot be denied as sure as the holocaust itself cannot be denied. God did indeed abandon them. But they still retain no guilt in the matter so what they experienced lies wholly at the feet of God himself for his meglomaniacally cruel ways.
Christian Americans are the exact image of this Type as they know they are not “really” in obedience to God but by the grace of his Son’s sacrifice they are convinced they don’t need to be. So when God delivers us into the camps the strongest of these “faithful Christians” will keep their deeply tried faith while at the same time witness that the God in whom they trust cannot or willnot save them from a horribly unspeakable fate they do not deserve.
Go ahead, turn your Christian hatred on those inhuman Muslims whose teeth are filled with the flesh of your corpses made into a stew (Micah 3:3). But I remind you that it is God himself who sends them (Micah 2:3) for your own doings (Micah 2:4).

“Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee” Deuteronomy 27:48.

But hey, this is Thanksgiving and we should really put away all unpleasant thoughts and unsavory comments and give thanks to the LORD on this day! So eat up till it hurts and go relax in front of a really exciting game, I hope it’s a close score because who wants to see a boring game? Oh, and, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
(See God’s command to Jeremiah in 16:8-9).
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(*1) Christmas Miracles:
I am not going to get into the details as to the complex morphology of this concept but will provide one example for you to ponder:
I was interested to notice the very large volume of programs that all provided an actual brighter-than-usual magical star upon which to make a “Christmas Wish”. A Christmas Wish, we are confirmed repeatedly from many various and unrelated shows, is a special wish that will come true only at Christmas.

“Ya, OK, so what? It’s a fairy tale for entertainment.”
Right.
But oddly enough this Christmas Star looks exactly like those of the old shows depicting the supernatural Bethlehem Star over Baby Jesus’ manger. In those earlier shows the corruption had already begun in a far more concealed way; the focus on the symbol rather than what it symbolized (Romans 1:25). Today’s magical Christmas Star is not just some new fanciful idea dreamed up by a screenwriter trying to create an interesting fantasy as a replacement of the Biblical account; it is a corruption of the Biblical account itself.

Corrupt: 1. Now Rare. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; tainted. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a bad state; depraved.

Something cannot become corrupted unless it was previously in a non-corrupted state.
Why not invent a unique holiday of wishing upon a supernatural glint in a diamond ring on the second Thursday after the full moon if there is new snow on the ground?
The answer is because that would have no point.
The magical Christmas wishing star must be such a star, on that day, because then and only then can it corrupt the Bethlehem Star and the declaration that it made:

Jesus Christ the Messiah and hope of the world has come!

But just to deny that declaration ever happened is not enough, the very message must be fully corrupted in order to make sure the original message cannot be recovered even to the curious historian (*1b). So, THE star is intentionally retained, and it’s supernatural presentation also remains, we just change the very nature of the star by first providing an earlier corruption long before the corruption of the corruption is made. Therefore whoever wishes to retrace the roots of the corruption will discover “the original star” but never find the truth that that star was itself a corruption of something even older (Revelation 12:1-4).

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” II Corinthians 11:14-15.

vs.

“And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison…” Acts 12:7a.
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star” Revelation 22:16.

The traditional pageant of a helpless baby sucking sustenance from the breast of his poverty stricken human mother and whose dirty diapers needed to be changed by the hand of his human father, a helpless child who needed to be protected by human parents and learn right from wrong by the education of human thought, all this is the perceptional corruption of the original message of salvation with those very details. The star simply proclaimed the Savior had come; the salvation was not for another three decades at his death and resurrection.
So while we forget that point and desire to return to the Old Traditional Pageants of the charming Christmas story of a baby, what does a magical Wishing Star have to do with that… Even on Christmas? The answer is that such a special star obviously has more power than the helpless baby.
(*1b) A Current Sample Corruption of a Corruption Type:
Remember at this year’s Olympics in London it was determined that the Palestinians could compete in the games under the quasi and unofficial national title of Palestine? What a wonderful and benevolent decision by the game officials, right? Never mind that the capitol of this quasi nation was officially entered as Jerusalem; it’s just pretend so that they could enter the games.
But now seemingly unrelated, only a few months later, on November 20, 2012:

“Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to recognise (sic) Palestine as a non-member observer state - a move strongly opposed by Israel and the US… The Palestinians can now take part in UN debates and potentially join bodies like the International Criminal Court.
The assembly voted 138-9 in favour, with 41 nations abstaining.
Hundreds of Palestinians celebrated on the streets of Ramallah, in the West Bank after the result was announced.

‘ Birth Certificate’
Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel," Mr Abbas said shortly before the vote in New York.
"The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine," he said.
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The UK abstained from the vote, as did Germany. The Czech Republic, Canada, the Marshall Islands and Panama were among the nations voting with the US and Israel. In the West Bank, crowds celebrated the vote by waving flags and chanting "God is great!"
"For the first time, there will be a state called Palestine, with the recognition of the entire world," Amir Hamdan was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"Today the world will hear our voice," he added.

Symbolic milestone
The Palestinians are seeking UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, the lands Israel captured in 1967.
While the move is seen as a symbolic milestone in Palestinian ambitions for statehood, the "Yes" vote will also have a practical diplomatic effect, says the BBC's Barbara Plett, at the UN.
The Palestinians hope that access to UN bodies will bring new rights: A successful application for membership of the ICC could be used to accuse Israel of war crimes or make other legal claims against it.
"This is a whole new ball-game now. Israel will be dealing with a member of the international community, a state called Palestine with rights," senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi told the BBC.
"We will have access to international organisations and agencies and we will take it from there."
There had been lobbying by Israel and the US to try to delay the vote or change the text to obtain guarantees that no international legal action would be taken against Israel.
Last year, Mr Abbas asked the UN Security Council to admit the Palestinians as a member state, but that was opposed by the US…” - (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20550864).

It has only been 65 years but already the world has forgotten the complicated details that has brought us to this controversial decision of recognizing Palestine as a nation or not. It’s a little matter of a stolen name.
Historically the designation of Palestine was given solely to the Jewish nation and their lands. Palestine was a name the Jews were proud of and bore it on maps, buildings, newspapers, businesses, etc., in their homeland.
As a stroke of genius, when the Jews selected the official national title of “Israel” the Arab squatters on the fringe quickly argued for and received the former designation to identify themselves. Eventually, by the use of that old historic name these squatters began to claim ownership of the land that went with the name. Now today, after only 65 years of lobbing rockets into Israel to keep the irritating attention on themselves the UN has finally recognized these squatting unruly terrorist thieves as the Nation of Palestine… whose capitol is Jerusalem.
So until Jerusalem is also handed to them as the “historically ancient capitol of Palestine” I don’t see them becoming pleasant neighbors to the Jews.
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The Super Perfect Storm

Post 276

There was a significant element in the last post that might appear as if it was sloppily handled. I know that it looks as if I got lazy and improperly merged two specifics into one in order to present my prophetic case of total and permanent destruction for a rebelious America. That two-part apparent flaw is in viewing the future Assyrian and the historical Babylon as a single GDE (Global Dominant Empire) when historically the scriptures and history show that they are very much distinctly different.

Unfortunately few Christians are even familiar enough with their scriptures to catch this “significant flaw” in my work and so if they don’t reject my prophetic interpretation outright from their simple unfounded unbelief, they simply take what I have said as true because it sounds good and reasonable to them by my presentation.
And while the simple unbelievers cannot be helped because their unbelief is based only in emotion that cannot be rationally debated, the simple believers can find help for their belief only until some critic brings up the “flaw” as proof of my error. Then their simple belief crumbles to dust in the revelation and their simple belief quickly switches to that of the new understanding, still in the same simple belief (Ephesians 4:14). These believers are the seed that fell on stony places and among thorns, where they indeed sprung up but having no root because of a lack of soil, or being choked by the logic of the wicked, they whither when hard circumstances or opposition arises as the scorching sun or weeds.

“…A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seed fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: (the emotional unbeliever)

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun (of trials) was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they whithered away.
And some fell among (example; intellectual) thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them (the simple believers)…” Matthew 13:3-7.

I do not write to the emotional unbelievers because details of logic and reason have no power in emotion.
And I do not directly write to the presently acceptable simple in faith, who cannot yet comprehend the need for details but are nonetheless presently saved in their simple faith… until hard circumstances confuse and kill their shallow faith of “Jesus will protect or rescue me from any harm.” These simple in faith are perfectly Typed in the adoring barmaids of the Disney animation; Beauty and the Beast (*1). As much as they are completely smitten with Gaston, their simplistic puppy-love has nothing of substance for us to even be drawn to. These have nothing to offer anyone else for why they love him (I Peter 3:15-16) and we see their love as cute but silly.
Having been protected from opposition and persecution for generations, American Christians have been quite successful in this multi-generational simple faith without a scorching sun. This was the great value of our Christian American form of Government that allowed millions to live out their lives and reach their deaths in simple faith and successfully access heaven with nothing more than a “Jesus Loves me” understanding (Acts 16:31, Revelation 2:24-25). As long as the sun does not rise in unobstructed skies the plant with shallow soil can survive. These are what I have called Downs Syndrome Christians. But notice what is NOT asked in the parable; Are there plants with undeveloped roots though having plenty of soil, so that when the sun comes up they might quickly grow deeper roots before their soil dries and they scorch? This is a good question theologically on a micro level of; “no pain - no gain” (James 1:2-3), but in the world of farming such a thing does not generally happen for crops in a macro way (Isaiah 1:30, Jeremiah 8:13, 17:8), Plants cannot grow roots fast enough to make up for a hot day. In this parable of the faith, the seed is the spirit of God’s Word (13:19), it has the nature to reach its root deep into the moist soil below the surface. The key element then is the depth of the soil (clay). That’s you.

“For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns” Jeremiah 4:3.

I write the following details to the hungry in spirit and the humble in heart who desperately want to find the Lord’s threads of truth in a world fabric of deceit. It is far past time to take advantage of God’s spiritual sunblock that can protect you from the full force of the unshielded sun even after the shadetree is removed (I Peter 3:10-13 + 4:17-19 + Revelation 2:19-26 = II Thessalonians 2:1-7).
Spiritually the shadetree (*2) of the world is Typed in the Mosaic Law in the hands of Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:17-20). Temporally in current events, that shadetree was Typed as that Christian Law in the hands of the American government before the tree was diseased.
So now let’s explore the concept of my apparent flaw in mixing the Assyrian with Babylon in my last times prophecy interpretation.
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Historically:
The Holy Bible, the ancient archeological evidences, and the oldest historians, all agree on the following historical events while the scriptures alone provide the cause:
The ancient nation of Israel, due to irreconcilable differences, was eventually divided into the northern kingdom called Israel and the southern kingdom called Judah. Neither nation-fragment was right before God but the northern kingdom had fully abandoned God and set up two new sites in Bethel and Dan to worship golden calves as a replacement (II Kings 10:29), while the southern kingdom maintained the traditional worship in the temple of God located in Jerusalem though their heart too was gone from Him. In one layer we can see the Type of America’s liberals and conservatives dividing their nation between those holding to a traditional Christian nation and those demanding a full separation between Church and State with the intent to remove the Church altogether.
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The Destruction of the Northern Kingdom:
Because of the Northern kingdom’s departure from God and the subsequent spiral of confusion into every abomination without restraint of clear moral guilt (II Kings 17:16-17), God began a program of early destruction for the Northern kingdom (II Kings 10:31-33). That destruction ended with the conquest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser (II Kings 17:2,18+22-24).
Notice the long period between the destruction declared by God in II Kings 10:29 and the actual fulfillment in II Kings 17:22-24. The details of why the delay and the end result are well worth studying in this short section of II Kings along with Daniel chapters 1-4 by Type in the life of Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian as collective Israel, but to avoid excessive rabbit-trailing we simply must continue with our present topic; The northern kingdom of Progressives was utterly taken away and never returned.

“For the children of (the northern kingdom called) Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day” II Kings 17:22-23.

“And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe (kingdom) of Judah” II Kings 17:17-18.

The complexity of this division and the timeline of their different removals lend to long explanations for accuracy. Without my added parenthesis this passage rightly speaks of Israel as a whole nation and truly only the tribe of Judah remained with Godly seed still in tact. My added parentheses define the “half way” point specifics that we are now discussing. So as a whole nation taken captive, it was accomplished by both the Assyrian and Babylon.

I have labeled the Assyrian king “The Perfect Storm” to represent the unusually extreme, very specific and intense, utter destruction like a tornado compared to the general and less specific destruction of a hurricane like Babylon. This kind of pinpoint tornado intensity is compounded by several other very accurate conditions to create the most destruction possible as if intelligently designed against its particular landfall destination for that purpose. This is called a Perfect Storm.
But that historical Perfect Storm Assyrian was then, this is now.
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The Destruction of the Southern Kingdom:
Very shortly after the Northern Kingdom was hauled away; (the very next verse to be precise), we see that the Southern Kingdom of Judah didn’t get the message:

“Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes (2708) of Israel which they made” II Kings 17:19.

What were statutes? The same thing they are today:

statutes 2708 chuqqah; feminine of 2706, and meaning substantially the same:-- appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statue.
2706 choq; from 2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):-- appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree (-d), due, law, measure x necessary, ordinance (-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.

While v.17 tells us their statutes of law legalized their children to be burned alive (*3), and made it lawful to hire fortunetellers, use witchcraft, and turn to all manner of darkness to receive guidance, their statutes also legalized prostitution, specifically approved Ponzi Schemes such as Social Security, etc., pharmaceutical drug dealing, and a myriad of other wickedness’s for profit; “Hey, it’s not unlawful so I’m not technically doing anything wrong.” (Feel free to go back and check these details against the passage; II Kings 17:17-18).
One of those modern divinations and enchantments we will discuss in a future Post is turning to medical “sources” other than God in the desire to become pregnant. Like American Christians today; the kingdom of Judah had become completely enamored by the statutes of their Northern Progressive counterpart, and even after Israel’s utter destruction Judah could not identify the cause. Likewise it is incredulous that I would suggest “alternative fertilization” might be an offense to God, How dare I!? But wait for it, we’re still getting to that.
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Rabbit Trail:
As much as I would like to, I really can’t spend too much time on this side indictment against Israel, but have a look at II Kings 17:24-29. While the “faithful” nation of the Southern kingdom claimed be the followers of God yet followed after the iniquities of the Northern kingdom, the Pagan strangers that the Assyrian moved into the land of Northern kingdom were being so plagued that they asked the Assyrian to send them back a Northern priest to show them how to fear the LORD and thereby appease the God of the unfamiliar land they now lived in! The Pagan strangers had far more natural sensitivity to the spiritual than did God’s own people!
Talk about a confusion! The result was a very complex merging of Abraham’s original faith mixed into the mire of multi-sourced pagan religions (II Kings 17:29-32) resulting in this verse:

“They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence” II Kings 17:33.

This can be a bit confusing because of all the players; so let me add some insight;

“They (the new settlers carried away from their own various homelands and installed in Israel by the Assyrian) feared the LORD, and (also) served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they (Assyria) carried away from thence (their various homelands)” II Kings 17:33.

The new inhabitants of the Northern land of Israel was a conglomerate of many nations, themselves carried away from their own homes along with their unique gods, and in international courtesy asked for an Israelite priest of the land to be sent to help them become comfortable. They did not desire to offend the god of the land whomever he was. The fact that the Assyrian complied is archeologically not a surprise as the world at the time, like India today, believed in millions of gods that occupied everything locally.
Do you suppose their polite universalism of all religions pleased God because they included him too? Doubtful, God is not interested in being anyone’s addition to their collection of gods. This includes Chrislam.
Now this might not mean anything to you right now, but it will in a few years, as Christianity will feel obligated by the love and kindness of Christ to accommodate Islam into the faith so that we can all get along.

The continuing verses of II Kings 17:33-41 on the heels of 17:7-12 shows a very confusing condition of “the now,” “the former ways,” and “the pre-former ways,” resulting in a homogenization of many religious elements like a chimera of faith.
The southern kingdom could see this chimeric abomination by the strangers and so perhaps thought they were doing well by avoiding all the foreign religions and following the “Jewish ways” of their northern sister, forgetting that those corrupted ways were borrowed earlier from those they themselves displaced, and were what got the Northern Tribe delivered into captivity.
This confusion is Typed in the desire of Republicans to make a return from Progressivism back to their former corrupt Republican administration. Such a return by comparison looks like a great move in the right direction, but according to these historical events such a move would only return us to the offense that caused God to destroy us in the first place, which ended up in this Progressive Globalism of values we now see in Obama while the progressives looking at Republicanism today literally mock the stubborn Republicans for wanting their proven destructive “old-fashioned” ways back. This is indeed a complex storm that never finds its way back to the ways of our original founders.
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Back to the Southern Kingdom:
Not many years later the Southern kingdom had a new king named Hezekiah (II Kings 18:1) and he was remarkably Godly without compromise (II Kings 18:3-8). Verse 7 informs us that king Hezekiah even rebelled against the king of Assyria at the blessing of God, and so we need to back track a few chapters to see that while the Northern kingdom was being displaced by Assyria for rebelling against Assyria by turning to Egypt for help, Hezekiah’s father, king Ahaz, paid a heavy fee to pacify the Assyrian regarding the Southern kingdom (II Kings 16:7-9), asking the Assyrian to defend Judah against Syria whom the LORD sent to plague them (II Kings 15:37). Tiglathpileser, the sitting Assyrian king, accepted the call and killed Rezin the king of Syria (16:9).

So now we see the history of how Judah remained in their Southern land but paid an allegiance to Assyria, while the Northern kingdom attempted a failed rebellion and was removed for it.
Now in chapter 18, Hezekiah, the new king of Judah, turned fully to the LORD and was so blessed by God that God granted him a successful rebellion from the Assyrian king who was now Sennacherib (II Kings 18:7 and 19:20), but you have to wonder about probable complaints of the “faithful” people as the king seemed to imitate the failure of the sinful Northern kingdom. In the narration of the events of this rebellion we see important details that also apply by Type but we are just going to have to skip for space and clarity.
Having turned the Southern nation’s administration fully to God, Hezekiah was able to appeal to God for deliverance and God heard his cry (II Kings 19:19-20), and before we move on, note in v.24 the “strange waters” which Sennacherib drank to aid him as similar to the strong spirits of Kony in Uganda having no power over the repentant and cleansed of God.

What a wonderful turn-around for the kingdom of Judah, they really seemed to have learned how to permanently avoid the evil and choose the good (Isaiah 7:15), but we would be wrong. As is the nature of evils tactics, we tend to focus on what we are successful at and remain unguarded against what we are not attending; this is where the next attack comes from. While Hezekiah was very pleased with himself in God’s protection and miraculous “grace”(*4) he acted foolishly in ignorant confidence with the newly arrived strangers of Babylon, inviting them in, and shared all his government secrets if you will (II Kings 20:12-13). The enemy of my enemy is not as much my friend as the saying loves to promote. The enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy!

Now at the time, Babylon was just another of the Assyrian’s conquered nations, and in fact Babylonians were among those captives whom he relocated to the Northern kingdom (II Kings 17:24), which may be the motive for other Babylonians coming to visit them. Hezekiah could not know that they would soon be conquering Assyria and in so doing become not only the next GDE but the greatest GDE of all (Daniel 2:37, Revelation 17:10). But Isaiah did (II Kings 20:14-18). Verse 18 even specifically describes Daniel and his three friends. See Daniel 1:1-7 as the fulfillment of all Isaiah prophesied here.
And so we see that by Babylon’s extraordinary greatness, subversive strategies, and less specific yet earnest destruction, it is represented by the designation of “Super Storm.” But like the Assyrian; That was then and this is now.

I have spent a great amount of effort describing the last times Perfect-Storm Assyrian in general so that you can identify him by his singular nature of conquest, but almost no time yet describing the complex Super-Storm of Babylon. That will take some doing. Because if we Type the Assyrian as the nature of the single minded easy to understand sexually driven hunter “Man,” Babylon would be Typed by complex “Woman.”
I had speculated by hope that Romney would have won the election because now that he didn’t I am concerned I will not have the time to fully explain the nature of Babylon and you can bet I will not do it here in one Post. Please do not be alarmed if you are wholly unfamiliar with the following scientific concepts in this post, just read through it and you should get the general spiritual point easily enough.
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The Super Perfect Storm:
Through the graphed and charted history of America we have seen a progressive increase in the size and magnitude of our nation’s weather storms that seasonally come from the East. In the confident modern Christian mystical-mindframe of Spiritual Alchemy one cannot see the quantum (*5) explanation of why this is the case, but by the careful chemical study of spiritual physics these collective events, though specifically unpredictable as individual particles, are not at all mystical as waves; their collective increase in magnitude, intensity, and frequency are easily predicted and we have the Biblical textbook that walks us through “the math” at the quantum level.
Like a specifically aimed particle of light in quantum Spiritual Physics the temporal result of a single storm appears random and unpredictable: What causes the increased magnitude and intensity of the storm? When will the storm come? How strong or big will it be? What course will it track? What targets will it hit? What destruction will it cause? These are all unexplained variables that will not allow us to make an accurate collective prediction, but in simply understanding the existence of the quantum dimension of God we can be assured that there are specific rules in that realm that remove the mystery as a wave pattern while the specific particle destination remains a mystery until it lands. Focus on the particle destination, and how it gets there no longer makes sense. Quantum physics explains how God is both fully in control and we are individually free agents at the same time.
The holy Scriptures of God are literally an explanation of quantum mechanics in the language of our temporal reality. We speak of more than three dimensions as a way of describing quantum mechanics by our three-dimensional minds just as a three dimensional cube is complexly described on a two dimensional paper:

Unfolded, we see that a two dimensional world will describe a three dimensional cube as six identical two-dimensional squares all in a mysteriously specific order of proximity for reasons the two-dimensional world cannot fully comprehend. Viewing the folded cube in the last sequence, from an angle, even in two dimensions we can get an idea how these squares all lay together, but to the two-dimensional mind most those squares are now warped and half of them are even missing entirely. The two dimensional mind would say there are now only three squares and two are corrupted. If we label all these six squares as individual two-dimensional realities, after it is folded we find three of those realities no longer exist, two are warped into corruption, and one is determined to be the complete two-dimensional reality that is accepted in the two-dimensional mind as the only true third dimensional square where reality is understood. In otherwords they completely miss the concept of the internal reality of a complex three dimensions while they get excited to explore the warped possibilities of two other realities other than the one they normally experience and understand.
Now turn that cube so that it is seen full on and we see that our three dimensional representation actually becomes nothing more than a two-dimensional square with no extra parts, and so, by the viewing angle, it CANNOT be distinguished for the three-dimensional cube that it is. This is what I call Spiritual Alchemy as we view our own temporal world not seeing the undiscerned complexity even as we study the scriptures to understand it. Our two-dimensional spiritual scientists of “life and death” are having a tough time understanding the three-dimensional elements of “life and death and eternity,” while we Christian “scientists” have just as much difficulty contemplating the spiritual at the quantum level even though the Book describes it plainly.

Now, Looking again at the above unfolded representation of a three-dimensional cube in two dimensions, let’s use our temporal storms as our wordpicture, and call the outside cells “normal storm components”; be they hurricanes, tornados, wind patterns, tidal activity, population density, warning technology, evacuation means, etc.
We see that on one leg there is even a combined twin celled storm component that would make it worse/more complex than “a normal storm” so let’s call that combination an “unusually complex storm.” Noticing that the comparatively rare center cell is simultaneously connected to three normal storm components and an unusual storm combination, let’s call the center cell a “Perfect Storm” of unfathomable destructive power. Now fold that together into a three-dimensional cube where every storm component side is connected to another, and we end up with an exceedingly more complex “Super Storm.” There is just no way possible that “the math” of our above Storm Chart will allow for anything having more destructive power than that!
…Or is there?

In 1954 Salvador Dali created a painting of the Crucifixion of Christ that appears to be almost blasphemous in its “artistic license”; “What was the guy thinking?!” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhyHlKHIeZY).
Although his video interview reveals a confused mind and a rudimentary understanding of Nuclear Physics at best, his related painting reveals a surprisingly deep comprehension in application of the newly discovered quantum levels as they pertain to the spiritual reality that they rightly enhabit. BUT, the application there can be very dangerous indeed! (*6).

In this strange painting we see a three-dimensional representation of what might be considered the forth or fifth dimension (*7) but I believe it more accurately would be called the quantum reality reflected in three dimensions. Each of these cubes reflects an entire reality but inseparably connected to the others in a specific pattern that has a mysterious meaning for how the fifth dimension must be folded; it is not the quantum fifth dimension without all of these three-dimensional possibilities even though we can comprehend by experience only one. In a way, I offer my presentation of prophetic “layers” as a kind of incomplete explanation of the “cycles” of prophecy that all have independent application through event, locality, and time, yet still point to a specific singular intent when its many layers and cycles are folded up.
It seems apparent that Salvador Dali had an almost unbelievable understanding of this truth as he painted Christ the Creator and Savior attached solely at our singular reality cube but clearly covering every reality that makes up the quantum dimension; i.e. the quantum world of unexplainable potential variations that manifest in reality in different ways.

Now, fold this fifth-dimensional reality of fourth-dimensional possibilities as you would the three-dimensional example and we end up with the image of a three-dimensional cube that contains seven other relatively identical unseen cubes occupying the same space at the same time, this “heavy” cube CANNOT be distinguished from a common three-dimensional cube which is easily understood in our three-dimensional world. Turn that heavy cube head on and we actually see the image of a two-dimensional square that cannot be distinguished from a three-dimensional cube! In the simplistic two-dimensional presentation we can simply say with the apostle Paul:

“And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” I Corinthians 2:1-2.

Yet Paul had plenty more to say in scripture regarding the details of that simple declaration. Even the fifth dimension of quantum mechanics with all its complexity is still a single simple reality to God. And of a truth, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ the Creator of all the dimensions covers the entire scope and every element complex or simple. There is no reality or potential reality or even imagination of reality that Christ’s blood is not necessary or sufficient to cover (II Corinthians 10:5). Are you hearing the depth of what this means in our scientific age of unlimited imagination? (I Corinthians 2:10).

Now, look at each independent six-sided excessively complex Super Storm cube all attached in the exact order necessary to fold together as eight Super Storms perfectly combine to create a “Super Perfect Storm”! This is the final storm even now approaching, preceded by an ever increasing series of stronger and more complex storms before it arrives like the growing chambers in the shell of a nautilus.
The self-professed “wise” four-dimensional minded globalist will try to confuse your simple three-dimensional mindframe that Jesus Christ the Son of God is only relevant in one three-dimensional reality while they play in the other dimension possibilities that we will soon explore in upcoming posts.
This is the very mind expanding concept of Star Trek, where our human rules are irrelevant to other life forms in other galaxies without the need of a savior, and the beginning of describing Mystery Babylon even before adding her complex concept to the single-minded violent Perfect Storm of Islam. What do you think NASA is doing spending hundreds of billions of dollars sending spacecraft into the cosmos for nothing more than an obsessed search for other life outside of the Savior, and proof of an alternate explanation of how we came to be?
NASA is as real as you get in the temporal dimension, so if they are earnestly contesting Jesus Christ using that kind of money and energy there really must be something significant about Christ!
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Scriptural concepts revealing the blend:
Just as the complex discussion to explain the so-called hypercube, the scripture’s discussion regarding the last Assyrian is not a simple short list of verses. So when I “sketch” a quick complex description of The Super Perfect Assyrian Storm by the following three-dimensional portions don’t assume that it will provide you an accurate comprehension; That is going to take a lot more work:
In the above complex discussion we saw a few “cells” of this concept through Israel’s compound captivity. In a simple timeline accounting of the events, the Assyrian came before Babylon, but then giving a general account we can rightly say that the nation of Israel was conquered and led away captive by Babylon and Assyria. The obvious question of the uninformed, who dropped in without all the previous info, would be to ask in confusion; “Which is it?” “Were the Jews led away into Assyria or Babylon? Or did they join forces and conquer Israel together?” A simple answer cannot resolve the confusion.

The scriptures have a surprising amount to say regarding this last Assyrian, but because the scriptures cover a very long history and reveal many Assyrians through time, sometimes mixing the descriptions by prophetic multiple meanings and sometimes calling him by other names in Type as well as identifying specific descriptions of certain portions of his nature, it is all very confusing. How can The Assyrian be the king of Babylon as well as being Roman, and coming from Egypt etc.? The answer is found by identifying which three-dimensional cube each detail fits, and then joining those related edges to their proper adjoining cube in a way that allows the whole thing to be folded into a “heavy” fifth-dimensional multi-layered, single three-dimension cube of reality. Allow me here at the end of this post to briefly show a single very powerful example that has long brought confusion and wrong foundational interpretation:

Daniel 9:26b is the middle section of a single verse, itself a mere portion near the end of a very pivotal prophecy that has been interpreted by the now-past fulfillment. Obviously the fulfillment of a prophecy is the best unarguable interpretation… or is it?
Let’s have a look:

“…And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…” Daniel 9:26b.

This verse fragment comes on the heels of the foundational prophecy regarding the presentation of Jesus as the Messiah on a specific day in time, and his subsequent crucifixion for the sins of mankind (Daniel 9:25). That section of prophecy itself is couched in the Big-Picture prophecy regarding the Jews and Jerusalem through time (Daniel 9:24).
So there is our background.

Jesus was crucified in 33 AD and Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans. This is not up for speculation or debate as every possible angle to reach another people falls pathetically short. Obviously the Romans that destroyed the city and the sanctuary were the unarguable people of the prince that shall come. Period.

Then the next verse; 27, positively identifies that prince is in fact the Antichrist that brings the final seven years of a long horribly tormented earth without Christ as king. Again; unarguable.

THEREFORE it cannot be disputed that the Antichrist is Roman… But I disagree with this conclusion!

Yet once that “indisputable fact” is firmly in place, there are many additional supporting scriptural confirmations as well as available interpretations of other prophecies including that the city of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church whore are the Revelation 17:18 city described as Babylon.
I used to wonder why God would design his word in such a way as to allow these deep and complex confirmations of error to those who are earnestly seeking to discover what the scriptures are saying. See Psalm 2:3 vs. Zechariah 11:14 as an example, or Daniel 7:20 vs. Zechariah 11:8, where God intentionally creates an opportunity to confuse just who is who in the narrative and God more than once justifies doing one event himself but condemns the same event done by another. While this seems just plain wrong, it is recognizably Typed in commanding an adulterer to be killed but blessing the same physical union in marriage. That’s not hard to figure out.
These intentional “wrong turn” opportunities of confusion make perfect sense to me now and are reflected in why Jesus said he spoke in parables (Matthew 13:13-15); one does not accidentally find yourself in heaven, or as the U.S. Marines like to say; “We’re looking for a few good men.” How come nobody brings suit against the Marines for unfairness, yet they are quick to blame God for being unfair?

“But,” you say, “I don’t want to be a Marine.”
Yes, but you don’t want to be a Christian either. Yet somehow you want the cool uniform and status as somebody going to heaven.

So with all the scriptural evidence backed up by historical fulfillment, how can the Antichrist prince NOT be Roman?
Well, the first hint is that the wicked City of Rome is not named Babylon, of the Chaldeans, built in the desert, on the Euphrates River, in Ur, the land of Shinar, all prophetic descriptions of the Great Whore city that rides the Empire of the Assyrian.
But more specifically, in Daniel 7:7-26 we now understand by detail, explained in several previous posts, that the Assyrian is the Iron Beast prince of an Empire that spans at least four identifiable phases; the first being the Roman empire and the last being a seven kingdom Islam with ten kings, himself being in addition. Therefore the people of the Roman empire that destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple are the people not of the prince that ruled them at the time, but of the prince that shall come; i.e. the Assyrian Antichrist who is also the prince of Hitler, and Kony, and Egypt, and Babylon, etc. That Miry prince is the Prince of Violence, and is still coming to present himself in the form of a hybrid man. (Which we still have not discussed how that can happen).

So although I have little doubt that Rome and her Church will most probably play a still future role in that empire of violence, Rome is not the identity that we should be using to recognize his coming, other than to comprehend the nature of the Assyrian’s unspeakable “justified” violence against the holy people.
This is the same concept we should be using to identify the nature of the wicked city rather than supposing it is the Rome of Italy.
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Now don’t give up because this post was so full of scientific information that was perhaps way above your head, the following posts will not be so scientifically based…. or at least I will try.
Who am I kidding? This scientific comprehension is fundamental to our entire new age!
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(*1) Beauty and the Beast Post 250: (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/06/beauty-and-beast_12.html).

(*2) Shadetree:
Post 189 Sunburn : (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunburn.html). This discusses in detail the logic of the Psalm 91:1 “Shadow of the Almighty” as protection from the burning sun.

(*3) Saline Abortion:
“After the toxic mixture is injected, the baby swallows the salt solution and is poisoned and his skin burned. After suffering for 1 to 12; hours, the baby’s heartbeat stops. The corrosive effect of the salt solution burns the lungs and strips away the outer layer of the baby’s skin. The mother goes through labor and soon delivers a burned, shriveled and dead baby. The abortion, in medical terms, is considered a success. Because the unborn child’s pain receptors in the nervous system have developed, an unborn child can feel pain at 13 to 14 weeks gestation, well before saline abortions are performed” - (http://www.mccl.org/saline-abortion-cruel-and-dangerous.html).

(*4) The Sands of Time:
Review II Kings 20:11 in the events of 20:1-11, as the technique that Satan’s Son will attempt to use himself! (Daniel 7:25).
Disney’s latest princess story, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, continues the same theme I have sugested in several previous posts. I intend to explain this in detail later but this pre-information post is important to understand it.

(*5) What is Quantum Physics?
“Quantum physics is a branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta as described by the Quantum Theory. There are five main ideas represented in Quantum Theory:
1) Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units.
2) The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves.
3) The movement of these particles is inherently random.
4) It is physically impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one is known, the less precise the measurement of the other is.
5) The atomic world is nothing like the world we live in.”
- (http://library.thinkquest.org/3487/qp.html).

(*6) The danger I speak of is our four-dimensional perception of Quantum domain where we assume Christ’s covering crucifixion covers even Satan and his angels in that realm, and therefore allows the possibility of his salvation and restoration, which would allow us to cohabit with them by the approval of God. This is a miss application of dimensions that we don’t comprehend by using the concepts of a four dimensional mind.

(*7) Forth or Fifth Dimension?
Proper science will tell us that the fourth dimension is time itself, and as independent three-dimensional cubes composing the so-called “hypercube” in this painting, each cube in the painting must needfully contain time incorporated by the collection of many cubes and not separably displayed in each three-dimensional cube and therefore collectively viewed as a representation of the fourth dimension of time. In this way the painting might suggest that each cube is a variable representation of many points in time but this is a flawed view as by rolling up the supposed hypercube, all the contents now occupy the same space at the same time which is not the declared properties of a tesseract . This is why I suggest the actual painting does not show a hypercube, but rather represents the fifth dimension or; the quantum realm as Salvador Dali suggests by the single crucifixion of Christ compassing them all.
This is of course a very complex argument as they are, for most practical purposes, one in the same thing until you enter the quantum realm itself.
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A Speculation

Post 273

I have not been granted the gift of especially correct speculation and so I work diligently to distinguish the interpretation of scriptural prophecy from speculation. Nonetheless I would like to indulge in a momentary speculation before the elections and allow the interpretation to explain my reasoning later. This speculation is not “from the Lord”; it could be wrong, and so if I am right it provides no value to my message, and if I am wrong it does not detract from it. It is a speculation:

I believe that in spite of ballot stuffing, fraudulent voters, and a lot of contention from half of the American voters, Romney will win the office as America’s next president.

And although that is a very good thing by perspective of the options, it is not a time for rejoicing but for mourning (Matthew 5:4).
Such a thing would not be a sign that the worst is passed; it is simply a pause in forward momentum as the evil gets a better footing for the main assault. If Romney does not win the vote then it means the evil is already sufficiently footed and the final attack of destruction is already well in progress.
What tomorrow’s vote will discover is whether America was represented by the Northern Tribe of Israel, or the Southern Tribe of Judah. So I suppose my speculation is really rather just a hope.
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The Violence of Peace

Post 271

“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.

Even a child can easily describe the stark difference between violence and peace; these two natures are polar opposites with opposing effects. These opposing natures are at perpetual war with one another like light and darkness, good and evil, or black and white. So why in Daniel 2:40-43 did God choose iron and clay to represent the division portion of the Daniel 7 fourth Diverse Beast? The reason is because this kingdom is a division of dark and darker; there is no real light in it to contend with the darkness (Matthew 6:23), but in their lively contention you could’t convince them of that.
God divided the light from the darkness back in Genesis 1:4, which makes us confident that Black and White cannot occupy the same space at the same time or Evil cannot exist where Good dwells… but since we saw that the separated waters mingled afterwards, can light and darkness mingle too? John 1:4-5 tells us that while life as light can actually shine in the darkness the darkness cannot comprehend it, but strangely II Corinthians 4:6 tells us that God made the light to shine out of the darkness, and Psalm 139:12 even supports this strange notion. So what are we to do in the confusion? I John 2:8 provides a new commandment regarding a sure separation within ourselves regardless of the complications around us. The sure separation from the darkness is in Jesus Christ the true light carried within us. Light shining out of the darkness.

Violence can indeed abide with peace, and peace combined with another element can produce violence, much as iron law and the people’s democracy can unite to produce either good or evil. The Republic of America and the Republic of China have historically shown the vast differences of application with essentially the same basic elements, which we now know that the mysterious difference is in the waters of different natures, somewhat like sea water and fresh are both waters but distinctly different eco systems.
Continuing our investigation of “What is peace?” allow me to provide an example of the confusion that already exists deeply in America on this topic. Please note: I am not allowing the witch to preach for me, but rather showing you that she is indeed a witch promoting a Christain message:
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The Good Witch:
Since it’s the Halloween season here in America the TV is inundated with the familiar Halloween themed programs. But unlike my childhood’s horror movies, slasher movies, and dark occult movies like The Exorcist, today’s Halloween TV has another presentation. Today we have an emotionally alluring Halloween; like Harry Potter, vampire romances, and beautifully feminine witches like Cassandra Nightingale with nothing but goodness in her heart, presented in The Good Witch, a Hallmark Channel presentation (*1).
This is a delightfully family orientated movie with virtually nothing objectionable even to the most discriminating- with the exception of perhaps a few kisses by adults and one very “feminine” gown.
In this movie, good is good and bad is bad, and Cassandra always stands on the side of good against the evil and always in a wonderfully unifying resolution to the good of everyone, even the local prude who stands against her for her “dark ways.”

Throughout the film, beginning with the very title, beautiful, graceful, and kind Cassandra, the new resident of a sleepy little town, is revealed with all the obvious signs of practicing the dark arts of witchcraft, but in a way that allows doubt to the truth of what you see. The things and events you observe could be just unusual coincidence, but the “oddity” is just too coincidental to ignore, and by it, we are confident that we are supposed to know she is a witch. In this way the viewer is allowed the option to “see” an honest to goodness witch, or just an innocent woman who “sees” life a little different than you or I.
And while her obvious occult practices are left to wonder under a very thin mask of un-confession, her pure and good heart and her ability to intelligently produce perfectly timed favorable results to the benefit of the community are unquestionable. This woman is a wonderful asset to this town and everyone could learn a-thing-or-two from her about kindness and understanding.

Now add to this complexity the local know-it-all busybody prude with a mean heart that takes a disliking to Cassandra and determines to drive her from town as a witch.
She gets a significant portion of the town to rise up against Cassandra and her shop of “odd trinkets,” but even in trying hard to describe it like the movie presents it, I cannot present the innocent perspective that the movie artfully provides, and because of it I cannot accurately present the dilemma, so allow me to just declare it:

In the wonderfully family movie, Cassandra is the innocent and the dumpy prude is the narrow-minded “Christian” disruption to the peace of the town. In a great extension of kindness, which is her normal nature, Cassandra befriends the obnoxious woman and eventually wins her heart of friendship and brings peace to the town. The movie succeeds in completely disarming your clear recognition that this woman is truly a full blown witch and allures you to side with her completely as the innocent, like was done for the beast in “Beauty and the Beast” and the dumpy prude is as Gaston, who sees the evil for what it is; evil.
As hard as it is for today’s American Christian to condemn the Beast, it’s that much harder to condemn a beautifully soft natured woman with a wonderful personality of kindness, who just happens to practice witchcraft.

SO, in real life; here on the streets of America, who is going to be the obnoxious prude and drive the witch from town? And if we do, what a black mark of “Hate Speech” we would get! (*2). And now tell me Christian American, how do you think we should implement the following scripture?

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18.

“Oh that’s easy” you say, “We are not under the law but under grace.”
Fair enough.
So dear Christian, what do you do if your wife regularly sleeps with the priest? Is that OK too because we are not under the law? Let’s read the context in which the above easily rejected verse is found:

“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death” Exodus 22:19.

“Woe, OK, that is bad” you reply, “but instead of Capital Punishment let’s just put them in rehabilitation.”
Fair enough.

But will you also put the witch in rehabilitation, or are we going to “massage” that away too? Read the next verse of the context:

“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed” Exodus 22:20.

Oh, now that is just barbaric! right?
But why do you suppose God put these three widely divers ordinances together in a single context under Capitol Punishment? If we look, we see that we have a very great difference of reaction between them, from; “Each to his own,” to “That’s nasty!” to “Don’t be ridiculous!” But man did not make the laws; these are God’s opinion on things.
You see God doesn’t play emotional games and his laws are not suggestions. There are REASONS why he gave us these laws, and like Cassandra using her magic to do good, your corrupted goodness of peace in disobeying God brings confusion that eventually brings the un-solvable violence of Noah’s day as the context continues:

“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless” Exodus 22:24.

“BUT!” I hear you shout, “Are you really recommending a return to the barbaric Witch Burning of early America?”
Of course not.
That event was perhaps handled by wicked men and the results were quite possibly the deaths of many innocents along with a few guilty…perhaps (*3).
But while you struggled with my actual meaning of Post 266 “It’s About To Snow,” because I seemed to tell long time Christians to quit your job in order to find God, Jesus was far more radical than I:

“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire” Matthew 18:8.

Does Jesus really want a bunch of self-mangled people in wheelchairs roaming his streets of gold? Of course not. What he was actually saying is to urgently figure out how to keep your hands and feet from being an offence!
Now here is the really had part to swallow; BECAUSE we can’t seem to figure out how to stop our own members from bringing offense, our only choice is to amputate them to end the offense. But BECAUSE we can’t bring ourselves to do that either, God himself is sending the Muslims to do that job for us!
Do you suppose because wicked men will handle this job, many innocents will again be killed along with the guilty, as supposed in the Witch-Burning?

NOW, if God is sending the limb-hacking Muslims in real life, how much of a metaphor do you think Jesus’ statement was? How much of a metaphor do think my job quitting instruction was? Don’t get out your knife first; get out your Bible! But if you just can’t find the time, then get out your knife! It’s THAT serious. Is America’s great unemployment rate God’s divine aid to cut off our jobs so that we will have the time to find him? Does that sound too radically religious to believe?

“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption…which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam…who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” II Peter 2:12-15.

Like Uzzah before the falling Ark (II Samuel 6:6-7, I Chronicles 13:9-10), America has already moved beyond a right answer; Touch it and die, or let it fall and live without the Ark. This is the quandary of November 6th 2012 (*4).
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“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy (7922) also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand…and by peace shall destroy many” Daniel 8:24-25.

Policy 7922 sekel; from 7919; intelligence; by implication success:-- discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
7919 sakal; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence intelligent:-- consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent (-ly), (give) skill (-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand (-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise (-ly), guide wittingly.

Circumspect: Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences: prudent. - Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary app.

Example: “The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies [CIA], military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community#Members).

While describing the Antichrist and by degree, the many leaders before him, this also perfectly describes Cassandra in her circumspect use of magic to make it desirable in her town and thereby raise a whole generation of socially accepted witches, which God will destroy by the third party hand of this Beast who will then make a public statement condemning the brutal act.
The power of this Beast is the power of Miry Iron; it is the Waters from above the firmament; it is the “They” of his clay. His power is the supernatural combined with the human law. It is the iron and the clay. The problem is that the democratic clay will not allow the iron to destroy the witch for some time, and so she rides on the back of the Beast for a while (Revelation 17:3).
Now although the translation “wonderfully” seems an unfortunate use to describe a thing so grand it is possibly miraculous, it is not a poor choice of words. It is a very accurate translation of his kind of destruction through peace, just as Cassandra brought witchcraft to the town by her wonder-full charming and beneficial presentation.
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Something to Compare Against:
America has already so confused her light into darkness that she cannot now see that the Yin and the Yang, which she borrowed from the Orient religions, are both darkness in the same circle:

“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23.

The mental perception of light is now a conditioned evaluation of comparison with the “obvious” darkness in the same circle, and in so doing, the confident proclamation is that; “I am obviously the white side,” while God casts the whole Yin-and-Yang circle-of-darkness into the fire as the abomination of a strange god.

Evil is easily seen as evil against the clean. So the evil needs a greater evil to be compared against and so accepted as the clean by comparison. This is the fundamental rule in all TV and movie presentations of evil. It makes you, the third party participant, determine the goodness of the two sides in a provided conflict; one is evil and therefore the other is good. How good is it? That doesn’t matter to the carefully crafted presentation and so is not evaluated in the setting; it’s just a lot better than the evil and so it is good by default.

In “The Good Witch” Cassandra plays the part of an outside Problem-Solver between contending locals. In a primary case; between a young bully and his victim, the bully is obviously the “evil” and his victim is obviously the “good.” But now the super wise Cassandra is able to devise a creative environment where evil can be won over to the good and all turns out even better than a compromise; Cassandra’s magical policy has won the day!
NOW, by comparison between the “good” victim and the “super wise” Cassandra, which is the good and which is the evil, so to speak? Obviously Cassandra’s magical ways are far “gooder” than the failures of the good victim.
What we have just seen is the demonic supernatural Miry Clay take a superior place above contending humanity of Potter’s Clay and Morter. Instead of casting out the witch as instructed, humanity now is grateful to the witch for her supernaturally wise help that brings peace to contending humanity.
The one that was “put in her place” is the only one in town who saw the witch for what she was; a witch, but in her own corrupted nature of Morter she is like “the pot calling the kettle black.” And now we have a new “evil” against which everyone in the town can be compared. The victim, the bully, and the witch can all compare themselves against the prude and see themselves as a unified global community of good against the evil Christian...whom they want to join them in peace, but she will have none of it! Suddenly the witch is the tolerant one offering peace, but only if the Christian will quit contending with her practices of witchcraft. Destruction by Peace.

Harry Potter (*5) would not be acceptable unless there was a greater evil presentation against which his goodness could be compared. Any “Muggle” that stands against witchcraft is just such a usable comparison, and so we see the perfect “set up” as Harry’s Muggle parents are not even nice people. These films are not entertainment; they are indoctrination of the Devil against the scriptures themselves. Peruse the Muggle link and compare it to the scripture’s important separation between waters/spirits. It is startling!
But; do you really think I will convince any Christian Harry Potter lovers?

“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” II Timothy 3:4-5.

I constantly marvel at the detailed accuracy of scripture: this is not a simple list of generics; it is very specific:

Traitors from God are ones who are his people but have subversively changed loyalties to give aid to the enemy, example; Christians who love and defend Harry Potter so that he is allowed to infiltrate without opposition.

Highminded are those who stand on elevated ground of illusion, above the clear instruction of scripture. These people use self-rationalization to explain why their views are morally better than God’s, (see Romans 11:20-21 to make it directly personal).

Highminded 5187 tuphoo; from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit:-- high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.

Lovers of pleasures is not the problem here, it’s loving pleasures more than God. God says don’t love Harry Potter, but because you are already drawn in, how do you un-love what you love? But the more important question is; How do you want to when you don’t want to? Like a drug addict, this is a difficult problem, which is why God already said; don’t even become familiar in the first place. Just DON’T. But they do. In fact the encouragement to our kids in a positive light is to “Just Do It!” In otherwords; “To hell with the consequences!”
These “good Christian” people cannot see themselves as guilty because they are busy comparing themselves with the far more guilty and so see themselves as clean (II Corinthians 10:12). It is to these blind and guilty Christians that the law of God has been provided, but their dirty-grace faith is a solid protection against that law that brings conviction and so repentance is never found.

This is the setting in which America now approaches their Presidential vote of November 6th. And while I didn’t personally know a single person who confessed they would vote for Clinton a second time, I know a lot that are proud to declare they will vote for Obama again. The darkness is growing rapidly.
But that is not the Mystery.
The mystery is that I, along with many concerned Christians, will vote for Romney.

“So, Why is that a mystery?” you ask.
Because it’s very easy to see that Obama and his Muslim loyalty is a Type of the Antichrist destruction of God’s people, but it’s far more mysterious to see that Romney is a Type of their captivity in Babylon. The mystery is why would God’s people choose Babylon? One is destruction by violence; the other is destruction by peace. But peace rides the violence like the Harlot rides the Beast. The harlot needs the Beast as a basis of evil from which to proclaim her goodness for public acceptance. So knowing this, how can I choose the Harlot? I will expound on this in a following post.
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(*1) Not A Recommendation:
Please do not imagine I have provided these titles as recommendations for you and your family to watch, I am simply revealing the truth behind the programs you already let your family watch in ignorance and are therefore completely defenseless against their demonic indoctrinations.
The Good Witch - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Witch).

(*2) Hate Speech Legislation:
The following is excerpted from a WND report;
“The federal “Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009,” signed into law by President Obama, enhances penalties for “hate crimes” deemed to be motivated by “actual or perceived sexual orientation” of a victim…
AFLC said it has filed a petition to the high court asking for the review.
The case contends that the “hate crimes” law violates the plaintiffs’ civil rights, since it opens Christians to becoming the target of federal investigations, grand juries and even criminal charges just for opposing or publicly criticizing the homosexual lifestyle and “gay” activism.
The petition points out that all 50 states already have laws punishing violence, and that, as Attorney General Eric Holder himself has admitted, there is no evidence that “hate crimes” go unpunished at the state level. In 2008, of the 1.38 million violent crimes reported, only 243 dealt with the victim’s sexual orientation.
The Hate Crimes Act was dubbed by its critics the “Pedophile Protection Act” after an amendment to explicitly prohibit pedophiles from being protected by the act was defeated by majority Democrats. During congressional debate, supporters argued that all “philias,” or alternative sexual lifestyles, should be protected…
The pastors explained that as Christian leaders with a duty to teach God’s Word on moral issues such as homosexuality, they have “willfully” and actively engaged in expressive conduct regarding the morality of homosexuality – conduct that could subject them to investigation and prosecution under the Hate Crimes Act, which does not limit its prohibitions to physical acts of violence, AFLC said.
But judges to date have said such a threat of investigation, prosecution and jail time doesn’t mean that the pastors have grounds to pursue a challenge…
Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in October 2009 after Democrats strategically attached it to a “must-pass” $680 billion defense-appropriations bill.
The law cracks down on any actions that could be linked to criticism of homosexuality or even the “perception” of homosexuality. As Congress debated it, there were assurances it would not be used to restrict free speech.
Obama boasted about the “hate crimes” bill when he signed it into law.
“After more than a decade, we’ve passed inclusive hate-crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are,” he said.
The bill signed by Obama was opposed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which called it a “menace” to civil liberties. The commission argued the law allows federal authorities to bring charges against individuals even if they’ve already been cleared in a state court.” - (http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/potential-10-year-terms-for-bias-challenged-by-pastors/).

By peace, the Mortor son of Satan that occupies the highest office in America has enacted legislation of destruction against those that would stand on the commands of God in defense of this nation against God’s wrath.
If Sodomy and Child molestation are to be protected not only against prohibiting the act but against even the suggestion that it is reprehensible, then what abominations could possibly be seen as reproachable? Surely not witchcraft. But what do you expect a Jehovahless leader to do when so-called Christians filled with hate are accused of beating to death a sodomite? The government is simply trying to solve a complex problem of sin while mired in iniquity themselves. And so is the Church today.

(*3) Witch Burning of Salem Massachusetts:
It is quite troubling that after 320 years have passed, we seem willing to proclaim that we know the truth of the events. I am certainly not suggesting the women were all in fact witches rightly put to death, but neither can I confirm that innocent women were murdered in a religious paranoia. The fact is we just don’t know, but we nonetheless sure like to use that one-year event as a standard to proclaim “never again, at any cost.”
Is this reaction not a more sure form of anti-religious paranoia than the event of so long ago was religiously hysterical? Consider this telling brief statement in the article that obviously stands against the horrible events of a presumed hysterical religious people:

“Witchcraft was then used by peasants, who invoked particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials).

This statement is hauntingly familiar with the recent troubles of Uganda described in An Unconventional War (http://yourservantinchristministries.org/?p=360). Will their children one day, 300 years from now, describe their very real solution as hateful witch burning? Most probably.
So why am I against obeying the scriptural law to Capitally punish all witches? Because we are no longer righteous before God to do that job. First we must purify our own hearts and actions before God, and become his clean and holy people, and then we will have clear wisdom in how to deal with people dabbling in ignorance vs. those that are committed to witchcraft. This self-cleansing from sin was the secret of Uganda’s success when no previous effort could prevail.

Remember post 256 On The Olympics? I showed that this same “white magic,” today called superstition, is prevalent not only in the pagan culture but in the Christian church as well. It is indeed time for a very real and serious purging, but the knife must fall on our own limbs first! (Matthew 7:3-5, I Peter 4:17).

(*4) All Bad Options:
See also a similar “no good answer” quandary of II Samuel 24:13-15 and notice the comparable 3 months option without God’s presence, as we saw in II Samuel 6:11-12. David chose the option that was most directly handled by God alone but the price was still very high, the punishment must be paid. Uzzah had no such option in his two-party choice of either/or. And neither do we; Like whoever put the Ark on the cart, the powers that be have already set us up to fail.

(*5) Harry Potter:
“harry (v.)
O.E. hergian "make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder," the word used in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" for what the Vikings did to England, from P.Gmc. verb *harohan (cf. O.Fris. urheria "lay waste, ravage, plunder," O.N. herja "to make a raid, to plunder," O.S., O.H.G. herion, Ger. verheeren "to destroy, lay waste, devastate"), from *harjaz "an armed force" (cf. O.E. here, O.N. herr "crowd, great number; army, troop," O.S., O.Fris. heri, Du. heir, O.H.G. har, Ger. Heer "host, army," Goth. harjis), from PIE root *koro- "war" (cf. Lith. karas "war, quarrel," karias "host, army;" O.C.S. kara "strife;" M.Ir. cuire "troop;" O.Pers. kara "host, people, army;" Gk. koiranos "ruler, leader, commander"). Weakened sense of "worry, goad, harass" is from c.1400. Related: Harried; harrying. Harry
masc. proper name, a familiar form of Henry. Weekley takes the overwhelming number of Harris and Harrison surnames as evidence that "Harry," not "Henry," was the M.E. pronunciation of Henry. Also cf. Harriet, English equivalent of Fr. Henriette, fem. dim. of Henri. Nautical slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) refers to a famous murder victim whose killer allegedly chopped up her body.” - (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=harry).
Thank you Tonis Anton for the information, this was just too good to leave as as unattached link.
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