Electrifying?!

In my last post I wrote about how Jeremiah was a "P.K.", meaning preacher's kid. I was in my 20s when I learned that M.K. was the name for people like me--the daughter of missionary parents.

For the record, we were a missionary family (including our poodle, Mimi) living at the doorstep of the Amazon forest in Shell, Ecuador, in the same compound as our predecessors, Nate Saint and Jim and Elisabeth Elliot!!!

To me, that is the most mind-blowing thing! I'll never be able to comprehend it and thank goodness I did maintain my Christian faith through my life, because, in fact, my peer and only classmate in the same grade, Lisa Swanson (daughter of Wally Swanson, the doctor mentioned by name in the movie, "End of the Spear"), married a Jewish man and she "converted," as her father told me in a phone call I made to him within a year of my father's untimely death.

He told me that Lisa, who was the exact same age as me, married a Jewish man and they were living on an island in Brazil! He said to me, "Pray for Lisa that she will come back to her (New Testament) faith."

Wally was the one who knew that my father was popping pills (uppers and downers) while we were at the HCJB outlet there in Shell (named after the oil company) in 1971-'73.

My mom says it was because my dad resented Wally "prying into his business" that he shirked his responsibilities at the hospital where he was Wally's only fellow surgeon.

She always tells this story of how my father was in our apartment one day, purposefully denying his surgeon duties while my mom was using the laundry room. Wally's wife, Charlotte, came in the room and said, "Tell your husband that Wally is in surgery all by himself." Complete, utter embarrassment for my mom, not to mention the internal sorrow.

The fact is my dad would many times take a bus to another town that had a coffee shop and read a book (he packed a barrel full!) all day. My mom said he would be gone all day long and we wouldn't see him back until dinner time.

All I know is my dad packed for our missionary stint like it was going to be forever. He packed up all his LP records, for one. In addition to some really old jazz, classical, show tunes, opera (Mario Lanza specifically), patriotic (ala Kate Smith), etc., were records of famous singers (including Mahalia Jackson) singing old-fashioned hymns.

When I called Wally soon after my dad's death, he told me, "Your dad did a huge service to us all by bringing the medicine and supplies."

The fact is my dad brought down military-use AIR SHIPPING barrels full of pills, injectables, you name it. These same drugs saved people's lives!!!

There was a fellow missionary, Alonzo, who was single and sent to the camp as some sort of punishment by his rich father who was in the Coca-Cola business. Alonzo was from Brazil and very good-looking. The two single missionary ladies from the United States (one was a nurse and the other my teacher) fell for him in a big way.

Anyway, Alonzo collaborated with my dad in writing a sort of "PDR" in the native languages so people would know what the pills and injectables were all for!

Growing up in Loudonville, OH (1975-'82), we had the Physician Drug References (updated annually) stacked up to the ceiling practically, stored in the basement. They were humongous hard-bound encyclopedias for knowing everything about each pill--its color, shape, dosage, benefits, detractions, etc.

Starting around 11 years old I had to start counting pills (alongside my older sister and brother) and putting them in envelopes in our basement. I had to stamp out the envelopes (many times hundreds in one sitting) and insert the correct amount of pills using a tongue depressor and a plastic counter like you see used in pharmacies.

Some of these pills were ones that could kill you, or at the very least give you a problem, if you took them at the wrong dosage or, God forbid, they were put in the wrong envelope with some other drug's name and info!!!

I laugh as I write this because this inevitably happened and my dad would try to pry out the culprit--was it us, one of his children, or was it Mrs. Dullabahn or Viola, two related widowed women who counted pills in their house in Akron to have my dad collect from them every Wednesday on his day off.

I guess the message for now, as I struggle to write about my "life story," is nothing is as it seems. Myself, I tend to think everybody else has their act together and I'm the loser. But now I've reached the point in my life where I see I have nowhere else to go. I have to be whoever I am, with all my BIG list of sins, because THIS IS IT!

I currently don't have any assurances from anywhere about what to expect, if anything, with my potentially short future ahead.

Here's something that popped in my head a little bit ago when my mother clicked on a YouTube video posted by Sky Australia. They showed how many different TV news reporters and pundits and such all used the word "electric" in some form or another at the DNC in Chicago this week. It was like a fireworks show: "Electric, electrify, electrifying"--all three words over and over across a broad spectrum.

On FOX News we've been hearing for days now that the main word used over and over at the DNC in Chicago was "Joy." The theme of their convention, we're told. Oprah used it, Kamala used it, Hillary used it, Pelosi, AOC, Michelle--all the ladies used it.

Think about this: "You know what an enchantment is--you have these code words to try to release power," said my pastor in a study that I am posting below. "You have the chants and all that stuff people do. They're going to use these sorceries and stuff, casting spells to try to gain an upper hand."

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Isaiah 47: [10] For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

[11] Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
[12] Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

You know what an enchantment is--you have these code words to try to release power. You have the chants and all that stuff people do. They're going to use these sorceries and stuff, casting spells to try to gain an upper hand, explains Richard Jordan.

[13] Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

They have the word of prophecy and are going to tell the future and they're going to use what look like signs and wonders and so forth to do these things and it's going to deceive the nations.

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Nahum is a book of judgment and chapter 3 is sort of walking it out the door. This is the final judgment of God against Nineveh, which is the stronghold of the Antichrist and the book's looking to the time in the last days, especially at the time of the Second Advent.

Verse 1: [1] Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

He's describing a battle going on here. He's talking about the violence that makes the city of Nineveh the capital of bloodshed.

In verses 2-3 He literally describes the carnage of the battlefield: [2] The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

[3] The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

This is a description of a live, contemporary military engagement. It's not talking about some cemetery; this is the battle going on right then and the city's just being wiped out.

Here's what's behind the military carnage: [4] Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

That's a description of the power, the spiritual activity that lies behind that militaristic world dominion domination kind of conquest that Nineveh represents. The Antichrist has sought to be the ruler of the world.

There are two forces that propel that militaristic world dominion idea and these two forces don't just compel the Antichrist; he's harnessing what's there in life all along.

If you went around today and tried to explain what it is that causes nations to rise against nations and causes the militaristic dominion over nations, there's two reasons . . .

In verse 1, he's talking about just that lust for wealth: "You've got something I want; I'm going to come and rob you and I'm willing to shed blood to get it."

In 3:16, talking again about Nineveh as it's being destroyed, [16] Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

That's like that thing in Ezekiel 28 about Satan's merchandise and how he's out selling his ideas.

They're pillaging, robbing and it's that greed; that lust for wealth and gaining things that other people have. That's why Jesus warned His apostles, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

The second thing is down in Nahum 3:4 and it's more sinister. You understand the greed issue, the human nature kind of thing, but Satan uses that human nature to accomplish his purposes

That verse is not talking about a house of ill-repute; that's talking about that thing in Revelation 17:

[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

[6] And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

It's talking about that satanic-inspired religious dominion and you remember that city in Revelation is the city that rules over the kings of the earth and it's made the kings of the earth drunk with the wine of her fornication.

She's literally intoxicated them and put a spirit within them that causes them to fall in line with the Adversary's goal of making the Antichrist the head ruler of the nations, and no matter what kind of bloodshed it takes to do it, they'll do it.

In Nahum 2, back in verse 11, the thing about those three lions there: [11] Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

I've tried to say to you Egypt, Babylon and Assyria are associated together and the issue about the Antichrist being an Assyrian, the terminology goes all the way back to Genesis 11 and the idolatry with Nimrod. That's that spiritual power.

The Egyptian, the Pharoah in Isaiah 14, Babylon is called Assyria. In Isaiah 52, Pharoah is said to be the Assyrian running them. So, there's a spiritual power behind the political manifestation.

You'll see that city in Isaiah 47: [1] Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

[2] Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
[3] Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

You have the virgin daughter of Babylon, which would be Revelation 17. Here's the virgin. In that religion when you worship the queen of heaven she's the virgin, the Madonna. This city, in verse 5: [5] Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

So, she's 'Our Lady,' she's the queen of heaven, she's the virgin. All of those terms have to do with the religious system called Baal worship.