Peace is in a person

(the good news for me is that I worked today on the next installment of my hometown travelogue, something I see as crucial to finishing my book, and will post tomorrow for certain.)

When the angels announced Jesus Christ’s birth, they said, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”

“The new bibles change that because they don’t understand the message there,” says Richard Jordan. “They change it to say, ‘Glory to God on the highest, and on earth peace to men among whom there is good will.’

“They say, ‘See, the way you have peace is you have peace among men who have good will for one another,’ and that’s a good human viewpoint and religious idea, but that’s not what the verse says.

“Jesus Christ will come one day and be the ‘prince of peace’ and establish peace upon the planet and there will be worldwide, universal peace among all nations and all men. He will be the prince--the establisher, the maintainer, the governor--that produces peace on earth and good will toward men from God and from one another.

“You say, ‘Wait a minute, did His mission fail?’ You look around the world today and you don’t see peace. Look around the planet. Our world is boiling with racial and tribal and cultural and moral conflict. Disintegration, separation and secession for racial and religious reasons is the order of the day. 

“America always prided itself on the melting-pot philosophy, where you would come and meld in; leave where you were and become Americans.

“Today, our government, the leaders of academia, the leaders of our nation, they look at that melting- pot philosophy as just nativist bigotry, where you’re trying to lift up one culture above another. And what you hear constantly is ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘egalitarianism’; that is that every culture is equal and therefore every culture should be exalted. Listen, that kind of idea is not the American history. America has become a microcosm of the world on fire. 

“America has always been that kind of a microcosm. That’s why the world has always looked toward America as a beacon, because here’s what we could aspire to and become. But in our lifetime, the whole thing’s been turned on its head and there’s no peace. You bring the nations to America today and what do they do? They don’t meld into a melting pot. It’s more like a boiling stew.

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“You got one little group here and they reestablish their home community within the world and it’s, ‘Now we’re going to have our homeland here.’ Chicago’s full of it. There are over 270 different language groups spoken in the metropolitan area.

“I look at that, we got the little sign out front, ‘Reach the world by reaching Chicago,’ and it looks to me like a great fishing hole. There’s hardly anywhere you can go and reach the whole world by reaching one community. Just look at Agne and Darius and how they went back to their homeland in Lithuania. You get saved, you learn truth and you take the message back.

“The radio station were on (WYLL 1160 AM in Chicago), there’s nine and a half million people in this area who can hear it. The last time they did an Arbitron rating of that station, 43,000 people were listening to (my show) every Sunday morning at 8:30. I don’t get to preach to 43,000 people every day, but I do there and I do every Saturday night on the television.

“Our whole culture’s changed and you say, ‘There’s no peace out there!’ but Isaiah says, ‘There’s no peace for the wicked, saith God.’

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“You say, ‘Well, then, if Jesus came to be the ‘prince of peace,’ and He came to preach peace, did His mission fail?’

“Well, no, because you realize through Paul’s epistles that the key to it is being able to ‘rightly divide the word’ and understand that this is not the day of the ‘prince of peace.’

“The only way you’re going to have world peace is for Jesus Christ to come back, sit on the throne of the governments of this world and produce peace through His kingdom.

“Being a premillennial Bible-believer is as much a political and economic statement, and sociological statement and ecological statement, as it is a doctrinal statement, because you’re saying there’s no hope for the peace of this planet--politically, economically, socially, ecologically--except in the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and until then there’s going to be turmoil.

“You say, ‘Well, then, when Jesus Christ came and preached peace, what’s that all about if it isn’t bringing the Kingdom in?’

“Well, it had to do with what He’s talking about here. By the way, in this passage in Ephesians 2, when Paul says He comes to preach peace, did you notice there are three times Paul talks about peace here?

“In verse 14, he says, ‘For he is our peace.’ Verse 15, at the end, what does he do? ‘So making peace.’ And now in the text he comes and preaches peace.

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“What is peace? Keep reading verse 14-15: ‘Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man . . . ’

“You see, in Paul’s mind, peace, and he defines it for you, is being one. In our mind peace is just the cessation of hostility. If we can stop conflict, but stopping conflict and stopping hostility, agreeing not to fight, is not real peace.

“I mean, it’s only superficial. It’s only temporary. It’s only external. Soon enough the animosity will resurface and what you’ll discover is we agreed to stop fighting simply because we were weary of the warfare at the moment, and we’ll stop awhile until we can recuperate and rearm ourselves and then go at it again. Nothing’s really settled.

"In families, moms and dads, husbands and wives, fight and argue and you just finally say, ‘Enough, I’m going to stop,’ but you don’t really resolve it. One of you just gives up for the moment, but it still boils inside. Nothing internally is really resolved. That’s not peace.

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“Paul says, ‘He is our peace.’ You see, the secret of peace is in a person. It’s not in a prescription, it’s not in getting a conflict management group to come in and tell you how to manage your conflict—that’s just helping you to stop fighting.

“Christ is the essence of what peace is all about. He’s the embodiment. In order to live at peace you have to have peace internally. Before you can live in tranquility with others, you have to have an inner tranquility with yourself.

“We want to start bringing peace by cleaning up the results of the conflict. God says, ‘I’m going to start with a person because the issue is a person.’

"Peace is a person, and to live in peace you have to be at peace with that person. If you have peace, then you can begin to resolve the conflict, genuinely. But peace starts, Romans 5 says, ‘Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Chirst.’

“Until you have peace with God, not just in the sense of not arguing with Him, but a sense of a cessation of His being against you and you being against Him . . .

“How do you quit being against Him? How do you get Him to quit being against you? That’s what peace is, and that’s why at the end of verse 15, Paul says, ‘He’s made peace.’ How did He make peace? He made it through the blood of His cross. He made it by slaying the enmity of the law that was against us because we couldn’t keep it.

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“In Titus 3 is a fascinating word picture of a life without Christ. He’s going to describe what you know about who you were before you came to faith in Christ. Titus 3:3: ‘For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.’

“That’s life without Christ. You say, ‘Well, I don’t live like that.’ Well, that’s because you’re foolish and you’re deceived. You see, an unsaved person doesn’t really understand what life is about. They don’t really know how to live. They think they do but they’re foolish and they’re disobedient.

“They don’t do what God says and they’re deceived into thinking they know better. And they’re serving-- they’re the slaves, they’re being driven by--all kinds of lust, passions and pleasures. All kinds of thinking that says, ‘I want to be gratified, I want my jollies, I want to be happy and I’m going to do it my way.’ The result is they wind up living in malice and envy.

“If you want to know the culture around you, and you want to understand why the crudeness and vileness you see around is there, it’s because the minds of unsaved people are like a garbage can. They’re full of garbage. You know that because you used to be that way.

“Paul’s saying here, ‘Don’t get mad at lost people for being lost people; don’t you remember what it was like where you were lost?’

“Listen, the only way you can get rid of the garbage is to get rid of the garbage can that’s holding the garbage. If you just dump the can's contents out, you know what, it’s still there. There can still be a real, ripe odor to it. There’s the remnants.

“So you know what God does? Verse 4: you see, he saved us, not by our righteousness. Not by me saying, ‘I’m going to fix all those problems.’

“Titus 3: 4-5 says, 'But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
[5] Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.'

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 “You say, ‘I’m going to quit being foolish; I’m going to get educated. I’m going to start doing what God says to do and obey Him. I’m going to control my desires and just channel them in a certain way, discipline myself, and I’m not going to lie in envy and malice. I’m going to eliminate hatred and all the conflicts that come from it.’

“And God says, ‘Good luck.’ As I’ve said to you before, sin isn’t in the action; it starts in their heart. And to eliminate those things in Titus 3:3, you have to have a miracle from God that gives you a new heart and makes you a new person.

“That’s the thing he’s talking about when he says, ‘The one new man.’ That’s the church the Body of Christ, but when God puts you in the Body of Christ, what the Body of Christ is you. You’ve been put into a transforming union with Him; made one with Him.

“He put you in His Son and makes His identity your identity; makes His reality your reality, His life your life, His righteousness your righteousness, His acceptance your acceptance. What belongs to Him now belongs to you because you’re in Him; you’re an heir of God and a joint-heir of Jesus Christ.

“The verse says, ‘Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.’

“He comes in and cleanses you by making you a new person. He regenerates you and gives you new life. God the Holy Spirit makes you into a new creature.”

Human enslavement for 2030? It's being built out all around us

“What will humans do in Musk's robotic future? Certainly not working, Elon Musk wrote in an October X post,” reports Business Insider.

"AI and robots will replace all jobs," he wrote. "Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store."

In a speech the other week, Musk predicted Tesla's Optimus robot “will actually eliminate poverty.”

“Minutes earlier, the crowd cheered and broke out into chants of ‘Elon, Elon!’ as shareholders approved Musk's $1 trillion pay package. The Tesla CEO — who is the world's richest person — will unlock up to $1 trillion in shares if Tesla achieves a series of lofty targets, including selling one million Optimus robots in the next decade,” says Business Insider.

Here is analysis from a Christian YouTuber:

Elon Musk is proposing an idea that his Tesla Optimus Robots will follow criminals around to make sure they never offend again and people will be on board with ideas like this.

We’re already seeing MAGA onboard with Palantir and ICE being able to track civilians via their technology and trace their movements.

We’re seeing everybody out there who once cared about this thing called “privacy” no longer care about it. We’re seeing those once worried about a surveillance state actually on board with Donald Trump and these big tech giants building out a surveillance state.

They don’t tell you what the crime could actually be. People just automatically hear about repeat offenders because the media’s constantly let us know that all these crimes being committed are from Democrats letting these convicts out of prison, who then go and commit the crime again. Think about how many times we heard these stories over the last couple of years where we keep hearing the term “repeat offender.”

Well, here’s the idea to solve the problem. Instead of overcrowding our prisons, because your home is going to be your prison once they initiate the carbon laws, “What we’ll do is have these Tesla robots follow you around—a personal handler.”

Not only does Musk talk about people being assigned for free their own Tesla robot that will be listening to everything they say, watching where they go and what they do, and you think this if for extreme offenders like murderers or rapists, but this is just going to be for people who disagree with the government.

People who, by the time 2030 rolls around, won’t be able to criticize the state of Israel, or have differences of opinions from what the current government regime tells them they’re supposed to think, and how they’re supposed to eat, and how they’re supposed to treat other people, and every other thing that Big Brother wants to control because it’s all about behavioral control . . .

Keep in mind, Musk is also talking about a “universal high income” for all that will "eliminate poverty." He put out a tweet about having Optimus replace human surgeons because, again, remember we hear about AI becoming big in the medical field . . . he said we won’t have to worry about the price of healthcare anymore.

People out there are on board will all this stuff because all it took was for Elon Musk to jump out on stage next to Donald Trump. All it took was for Musk to start saying he believes in Jesus Christ, like all these guys suddenly telling you they have found faith in Jesus Christ. Guys who for years and years talked about being atheists are all suddenly Christian and getting you on board with things like Tesla robots and autonomous vehicles and everything else they have planned for us.

Notice how they changed the wording from “universal income” to “universal HIGH income” so conservatives who always complain about their tax money going to Democrats who don’t want to work and want to sit home and watch video games, well, all they need to do is change the wording so people think, “Well, it will be universal high income, so yes, let’s build these robots out so they can follow around criminals AND so they can take all of our jobs away.”

Elon was even tweeting this out proudly because he’s fully on board with universal high income just like he’s fully on board with climate laws being in place, and if you understand what the plan is with Agenda 2030, and how these things tie together for human enslavement, you’ll start to see what’s really being built out around you.

In his speech, Musk talks about a time where we won’t need money; in fact, your wealth will be measured in how much energy you can provide. I guess that does us no good because we’re not allowed to actually generate free energy; they’re allowed to control all those things.

So, if you own Tesla, say, which provides a lot of energy, you’ll be the king of the world on top of the mountain while the rest of us, well, we’ll just be getting whipped in the rear end by Tesla bots.

(new Bible study this evening)

Normalizing mind of beast for the Beast

Assessing the psychological make-up of a former First Lady and U.S. presidential candidate, TV psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow concluded (in 2017 interview) that her “really big problem is that she seems unable to determine when her lies are registering with audiences as clearly untrue . . . 

"At the core, people who lie transparently do so because they lack empathy—the ability to intuit and vicariously experience what others are thinking and feeling.  Locked behind walls of narcissism or arrogance or imperiousness, consumed with the pursuit of power, they can’t tell convincing lies because they can’t truly resonate with how their words and mannerisms are being received . . .

“As a forensic psychiatrist I have seen this psychological paradigm before—in those with sociopathy.  Not infrequently, criminals attempt to hide their crimes with lies that are so obviously untrue that they leave investigators shaking their heads and chuckling. The criminals cannot tell that their lies are ineffective, because they are too insensitive to the feelings of others.”

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The 70^th week of Daniel during the Tribulation period is divided in the middle with three-and-a-half years on each side. In the middle of the week, a transformation occurs in the life of the Antichrist where he goes from being the “man of sin” to the "son of perdition."

“In the first half, he’s a man, and in the middle of the week he dies,” explains Richard Jordan. “When a man dies his soul goes to hell. He’s killed and goes to hell and they lay him out ‘in state.’

“My educated guess of how it will happen is he will lie in state and have a state funeral and then, all of a sudden, he’ll just come up out of the coffin and say, ‘Hi guys, I told you I was God.’

“Now, if you had some wacko terrorist come in and slash some guy real good with a machete and kill him, and then he was laid out stone-cold dead, and they’ve got the TV cameras on him and pictures going out all over the world because he’s this world ruler who's brought in peace and subdued everybody, and then all of a sudden he just stood up, what do you think people are going to do?!

“He becomes the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit and he’s no longer just a human now, he’s a demonic creature: he’s Satan incarnate, as it were. He's now the ‘son of perdition.’ Ezekiel 28 says he’s the prince (Antichrist) in the first half, and the king (Satan) in the second half.”

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In his 1990 book, Daniel the Prophet, Bible scholar Noah Hutchings makes the point, “When a man in his own wisdom and pride looks downward and inward to himself, God gives him the mind of a beast because all beasts look down.”

From the Book of Daniel, we know that one-time world-ruler King Nebuchadnezzar (a picture-type of the Antichrist) was given the mind of a beast for seven years—the same time frame of this 70^th week in which the Antichrist is called a beast.

“Although (Daniel’s) dream was prophetic of God’s judgment against Nebuchadnezzar himself, it was a representation of the subduing of all Gentile nations under the authority of God at the end of the Tribulation period,” writes Hutchings. “We notice that although Nebuchadnezzar had been given two specific warnings, he continued to claim all honor and glory unto himself and defy the God of heaven.

“God gave him the mind of a beast and he was insane for seven years. During the seven-year Tribulation period, the leaders of the nations will act as mad men: they will defy God and accept the leadership of a ruler called the Beast.”

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In another chapter, Hutchings informs, “We read in Revelation 13:5 of the little horn on the beast: ‘And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. . .’

“This ruler of the last beast empire will try to force every man, woman and child to reject Christ as Savior and deny the existence of God, and then he will pass a universal law that everyone must fall down and worship him as God.

“The end of this Antichrist, demon-possessed madman which Daniel saw is also described in Revelation 19:19-21. . . Daniel was particularly interested in the fourth beast because it was the ruler of this kingdom who would make war against Israel and prevail against them for a time.

"The fourth beast was also the strangest and most horrible of all the beasts, and it would be destroyed by the Messiah when He comes to bring in His kingdom. So, it would be natural that Daniel would want to know as much as possible about it.”

Merger of man and machine

Commentary from a Christian YouTuber about 2026:

You’re going to have to make a choice at some point in time; you’re going to have to pull back from the technology. That’s all there is to it and they’re going to do whatever they can to make sure that you don’t think that way.

You say, “Well, I got to live with my tech; I can’t go back to living like, you know, Little House on the Prairie,” but the reality is we all should be living that way, because part of the problem in the world today is that everybody is dependent on technology.

You get all your information online. Whenever you have a question you ask the search engine, you ask AI now for the answers, because nobody has any knowledge on their own. Nobody has books anymore.

Everybody’s dependent on the internet for everything and they’ve made it that way. That's why they’re pushing for the digital ID now and that’s what the entire push during COVID was really for.

Yes, it was for mixing man and machine. We know about the nanotechnology, but they got inside of people’s bodies. We know they’re dumping it on us from the sky every day with things like Smart Dust.

What we need to pay attention to now is how are they going to condition us into accepting a digital ID when the government comes out and says, “Look, you can’t have a job without a digital ID.”

After COVID in 2020, suddenly every single country in the world was having an immigration crisis. Now these world leaders get together at the Economic Forum and they’re saying the same thing they were saying in 2020: “We need some kind of digital passport so we can track and monitor viruses.”

We’re moving into the next era here and this world they speak of runs on man and machine merging as one.

'Twil be the old, old story

"It was 1936 and two friends serving together at a Sunday school conference in Alabama were at lunch, sharing what God was doing in their lives," writes Aaron Earls. "One, a missionary to Brazil home on furlough, told the other, a hymn writer leading the music for the conference, that a health issue would keep him from returning to the country he had grown to love. The news, received just days before, had broken his heart.

"The hymn writer asked, 'What will you do?' And through tears, the missionary, R.S. Jones, told the hymn writer, B.B. McKinney, 'Wherever He leads, I’ll go.' McKinney was so moved that he penned the classic hymn that afternoon and sang it that night after Jones had preached," recounts Terry C. Terry, a musicologist who wrote his doctoral dissertation about McKinney. Since then, this song has been sung at invitation times and crusades, revivals and worship services."

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"Katherine Hankey (1834-1911) was 32 years old when she wrote the hymn, 'I Love to Tell the Story,' out of her heart's deep desire to tell the simple gospel story wherever she was in life," explains writer Helen Salem Rizk.

"First, it was in the Sunday school of Clapham, England, where she became a devoted, refined, consecrated woman. Then, it was in the heart of Africa, where she spent most of her life, giving the sales of all her writings to missions. Finally, it was in the hospitals of London, where she spent the last minutes of her life telling lonely patients of God's beautiful love. When Hankey wrote the song in 1866, she was doing more than expressing a feeling in her own being, she was projecting that same feeling into the minds of thousands of people through the years who would sing her song and receive the same challenge."

The song goes in part:

I love to tell the story, more wonderful it seems

Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams;

1. I love to tell the story, it did so much for me,
   And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.
2. I love to tell the story, ’tis pleasant to repeat,
   What seems each time I tell it more wonderfully sweet;
   I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
   The message of salvation from God’s own holy Word.
3. I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
   Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest;
   And when in scenes of glory I sing the new, new song,
   ’Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.
4. *****
5. Christianity is really, as Ephesians 3:20 makes clear, the outworking of the indwelling life of the risen Savior in us.
6. Paul exhorts in Ephesians 5, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
   [15] See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
   [16] Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
   [17] Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
7. “You know how you walk circumspectly?” asks Richard Jordan. “You walk carefully. You watch where you put your feet. You give attention to the details of your life to bring it all into conformity with who you are in Christ.
   “He’s saying, ‘When you wake up to all the things that are yours in Christ . . . Awake, arise, look at what Christ has given you! Wake up to who you really are in Christ!
   
   
   “You’re not looking for the place NOT to put your foot; you’re looking for the place TO put your foot. I don’t want to put it on the (garden) snake, I want to put it over here where there’s nothing but good ground. I’m walking circumspectly, looking for the opportunity to be who I am in Christ. To let that be what’s important. To buy up the time.
   
   
   “Somebody said the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is the optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist sees the hole. You’re looking for the opportunities. Paul says, ‘Awake, let who you are in Christ have an impact.’
   
   
   “That’s why he starts in verse 18 and following telling you the proscribed social order for the Believer. We walk intelligently, in love, distinctly, and we have a life that simply reflects who we are in Christ.
   
   
   “These chapters in Ephesians show us the difference between what it looks like when we do it and when He does it. What I’ve discovered through the years is that a lot of people think it looks like this, and they’re thinking religion, and when they hear it’s really this, they say, ‘Woah, wait a minute, what a difference.’ Probably one of the greatest impetuses toward getting people to trust Christ alone is that!
   
   
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   “In II Corinthians 3, Paul talks about the Corinthians being the living epistles. He explains, ‘Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.’
   
   
   “It struck me one day, ‘If they were the epistles ministered by Paul, didn’t Paul write some epistles?’ In essence, he’s saying that you and I are really ‘Romans through Philemon.’ THAT’S what He writes in your heart!
   
   
   “Now, God doesn’t automatically write it in there. It’s what He writes in your heart as you take in that truth. It’s the intake.
   
   
   “Paul said, ‘The outward man perishes but the inward man is renewed day by day.’ How’s it renewed?  You’re renewed in the SPIRIT of your mind. Paul says, ‘And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.’
   
   
   “How often should your mind be being renewed? Day by day. It’s that daily intake, that moment-by-moment application of the truth of God’s Word in the details of your life. That’s really called prayer.
   
   
   “It’s looking at everything that happens in your life and thinking before God; talking to God about what’s going on, and what His Word says about what’s going on, and how His Word can be applied to that--how what His Word says your attitude should be about that insult, that temptation, that rejection, etc.
   
   
   “You say, ‘Well, I don’t know what it says.’ But you do know! Because when you don’t know, what do you do? You go find out!
   
   
   “Now all of a sudden I need to know how to ‘rightly divide.’ You wouldn’t have to talk people into rightly dividing if they lived like THAT!
   
   
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   “You see how this thing just becomes life; becomes living? Why? Because He is our life. That’s how He IS your life. Folks, these are not mindless clichés designed for preachers to have something to talk about and you go, ‘Uh-huh, uh-huh.’
   
   
   “This is the living reality for the way God made your soul, your inner man, to function and a guy like me is trying to say them in 15 different ways so that maybe one of them will, ‘DING!,’ turn on the light for you and make it real.
   
   
   “If it isn’t real in your life, it’s just because you haven’t believed it; the verse says the ‘word WORKS in you that believe.’
   
   
   “You can say, ‘I don’t really care,’ but there will be a day when you do. You can say, ‘It’s not for me.’ There will be a day when it will be for you. Just remember some little old nut told you there was an answer and get in Romans through Philemon and find it.”

Literal Babylon now roaring back

In the coming tribulation period, when the Antichrist deceives the whole world into believing he’s God and Jesus Christ is the devil, the rebuilt city of Babylon, inside present-day Iraq, will once again be a mighty world power, i.e., a great commercial, political, banking and religious center in the world.

Satan, as the Assyrian Antichrist, will make Babylon the capital of his kingdom just as God chooses for Himself Jerusalem, meaning the whole of the “end-times” skirmish for Planet Earth will revolve around these two cities.

“The development and pumping of money being done on Babylon and the trade route (read about the Al Faw Grand Port) is exploding,” says a YouTuber who focuses on biblical issues. “We’re not getting the full picture because the news surrounding all this stuff is, first of all, hard to find and I don’t think it’s covered that well. You find so little out there.

“I will say as someone who has been actively following the Babylon situation for the past two years that, within just this past year, it has gained extreme momentum. The development and the push for investment has been going SUPER fast.

“This isn’t like the stuff we watch, you know, the destruction and dismantling of the United States, the increase in AI, the currency developments, what’s going on in Europe. If you’re just getting down to bare-bones prophecy, the locations are Israel and Babylon and it’s all going back to where everything began . . .  

“Worth noting, during an inauguration ceremony of the Vatican ambassador to Iraq in October, Pope Leo referred to the Chaldean Church as the Church of Babylon for the Chaldeans. This is restoring its original title linked to the Babylonian civilization. This is HUGE because the Vatican is now confirming they have restored the actual name, bringing in the religious connections. This is restoring the original names of the ancient churches.”

From the Vatican News Agency (Oct. 26): “The Pope stressed that a nuncio represents ‘a Church that accompanies, consoles, and builds bridges,’ not one that defends interests but serves communion. In Iraq’s mosaic of traditions — Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian, Greek, and Latin rite - the nuncio must work to promote unity in charity.

“Recalling the apostolic roots of the Church through St. Thomas and his disciples Addai and Mari, the Pope said that even the brutal violence of recent decades 'has not extinguished their faith.' Those martyrs, he added, ‘pray for you, for Iraq, and for the peace of the world.’  Finally, he told the new nuncio: ‘In Iraq, the people will recognize you not by what you say, but by how you love.’ He entrusted his mission to Mary, Queen of Peace, and the Saints of Mesopotamia.”

Press release from September:

BABIL — Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Monday declared Babil the Industrial Capital of Iraq while inaugurating a series of new factories in the governorate.

“Only a few years ago, talk of an Iraqi industrial revival was considered unrealistic. Today, however, Iraq is experiencing a genuine production breakthrough in both scale and quality,” Al-Sudani said during a ceremony at the Al-Mutahida Company for Plastic Industries.

The projects launched include the Ampoules and Plastic Caps Factory with an annual capacity of 120,000 tons, the Flexographic Printing Factory with a capacity of 35,000 tons, and the Plastic Pellets Factory Project, which is set to produce 300,000 tons per year. All three are private sector investments.

Al-Sudani said Babil has become home to “emerging private-sector industrial clusters, serving as indicators of a vibrant economic movement,” adding that 54 Iraqi factories have already begun exporting products to regional and international markets.

From Iraqi News:

“To fully capitalize on its heritage and the new economic dynamism, Babil has launched four critical tourism and infrastructure projects: the 5-star ‘Jana’en Babil’ Hotel, the Hilla Corniche development, the Babil Towers residential project, and the reconstruction of the older Babil Tourist Hotel. These simultaneous projects represent a comprehensive strategy to merge Babylon’s ancient legacy with modern economic prosperity. The goal is to secure its place as both an essential cultural destination and a center for sustainable economic prosperity.”

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“Obviously, Babylon’s going to have concourse with the kings of the world and be a mega-political power and commercial center that pumps wealth into the earth,” says Richard Jordan. “The first worldwide apostasy (Gen.10) started from there, and the last one centers up there. You name it, they got it. They’ve got everything from gold to the souls of men.”

The reality is there is both a “mystery Babylon” and a literal city of Babylon in the Bible. References to the literal city can be found, in part, in Revelation 14:8, Revelation 16:19 and Revelation 18.

In Isaiah 47:5, Babylon is called “the lady of kingdoms,” and she’s the mother of harlots who goes out and prostitutes all of the cities of the earth. But that doesn’t eliminate the literal Babylon, which will actually be the headquarters for mystery Babylon, the religious system, in the “last days.”

The ten nations through whom the Antichrist gains his ascendancy are in Palestine. They’re in the Mediterranean, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Persia, and that part of the world, not in Europe. There are no Europeans at all!

So-called prophecy scholars get the idea Babylon will never be rebuilt from Isaiah 1:9, which reads, “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”

As we know from history, though, ancient Babylon wasn’t destroyed suddenly; it just sort of wasted away and fell into oblivion and disrepair.

While the Bible says in three different places (Jeremiah 49:18 and Jeremiah 50:40 are the other two verses) that when God overthrows Babylon it will be like when He overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, this predicted overthrow hasn’t yet been fulfilled.

The final overthrow of Babylon is repeatedly synchronized in prophetic Scripture with the restoration of the nation Israel by God into her kingdom.

In Jeremiah 50, for example, the description of Babylon’s future destruction is connected with the fact God’s going to bring Jerusalem back and establish it as His city. As God destroys Babylon, He Himself comes to reside in Jerusalem.

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Insights into just what kind of dominant world power Babylon will become are found in Revelation 18. Verse 3 says, “The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Verse 9 says the kings of the earth have “lived deliciously with her.”

“And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more,” reads the chapter starting in verse 11. “The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

“And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

“And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

“The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

“And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

“For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

“And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

“And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.”

Israel to their guy: 'You talk so smooooth"

Song of Solomon is often presented as a picture of the love affair between Christ and His Church, but it’s really about how the “little flock” in the “last days” will face the seduction policy of the Adversary; the devil as the Antichrist.

“Just as the Book of Proverbs sets forth wisdom the Believing Remnant will need in the ‘last days’ as they walk in the midst of terrible wickedness, Song of Solomon sets forth the relationship of the Shulamite woman, who is a picture of the Believer in Israel, and how she is being seduced away from waiting for her Beloved by the apostate religion that’s consumed Israel,” explains Richard Jordan.

“At the end of Solomon’s ministry he becomes a type of the Seducer; the ‘666 Man.’ There's this whole course of Israel where they start well but are seduced away, and in spite of what they know to the contrary, wind up in rebellion against God. The Song of Solomon is written from that perspective and it’s a love song.

“What you have is this Shulamite woman whose Beloved has gone away, but he's told her he’s coming back. In the meantime, King Solomon comes to her and, on two occasions, seeks to seduce her and draw her away from faithfulness and chastity to her Beloved. He's inviting her to come and join him and let him lavish upon her his riches, his wealth.

“We study through II Peter and I, II, III John and Jude about this seduction policy the Adversary has against the ‘little flock,’ and sometime we think of the persecution but forget how strong it is to be seduced.

“There’s going to wealth beyond imagination that’s offered to Israel, just like Solomon offers to this woman. In chapter 1, he takes her into his palace. In the second attempt, he actually takes her into his bedroom.

"He just lavishes gifts on her to make her succumb, to appeal to her, but she does the one thing that the Believing Remnant is going to have to do in the ‘last days’ to stay faithful in the face of it all and this woman does it in spades.”

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The reason you know the Antichrist couldn’t show up tomorrow is there aren’t the prophesied 10 kings in the Middle East today.  

“That whole landscape over there in Palestine has to be reconfigured politically, and those 10 kings get control, so the Antichrist can come up and subvert them by taking over three and then taking ownership of all of them," explains Richard Jordan. "He’ll do all of that through a peace policy.

“Remember, the power of the state is in the police and military; that’s why they can be so dangerous. They are the enforcing arm of a government and that’s why you have to have a rule of law so they operate in an agreed-upon social contract.

“If you want to see the kind of guy this character the Antichrist will be, Daniel 7 tells you he’s an intellectual genius, a wizard at words and communication. It says he speaks with great swelling words. He’s a military genius, a political genius, a commercial genius.

“Daniel 8:23 says, [23] And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

“The Antichrist’s going to be a genius about understanding dark, difficult, hard, mystical sayings. He’s also that fierce, bloody, violent man.

“The passage goes on, [24] And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
[25] And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

“When it says ‘his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power,’ that’s saying he’s going to have Satan give him his power and his seat.

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“It says, ‘He shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and by peace shall destroy many.’ He’s going to come in and say, ‘Peace, peace.’

“Daniel 11:21-22 says, [21] And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
[22] And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

“That’s all that stuff in Isaiah 30 about ‘speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.’ His words will be smoother than butter. Deceit’s in his heart but he doesn’t say he’s going to obtain the authority. Israel’s going to literally surrender to him through a peace plan. 

“Daniel 11:24 says, [24] He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

“They’re going to think, ‘This guy, he’s a commercial, military, political genius and we’re getting RICH by helping him!’ As soon as they get there, though, he pulls the rug out from under them. He’s a deceiver.

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“In Daniel 8, Daniel sees another end-times vision in the third year of the reign of Babylon. It’s a subsequent vision to chapter 7. What he sees is a ram with two horns. Then, in verse 5, he sees an he goat come up and destroy the ram. Daniel then says, ‘What is this?’ By the way, after the he goat destroys the ram the he goat fills up the whole earth and then the he goat’s broken into four pieces.

“The interpretation of that starts in verse 8: [8] Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

“Come down in the chapter and look at the interpretation: [19] And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
[20] The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
[21] And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

“Again, we’re talking about the ‘last days’; end-times prophecy. The he goat is the king of Grecia. The great horn between his eyes is the first king. The ram is Media-Persia. The horn that comes up is the first king of Greece. Who was that? Alexander the Great.

“Verse 22: ‘Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.’

“So that king, the Antichrist, comes up out of one of those four divisions of the Greek Empire. The king of the north is Assyria. The king of the south is Egypt. If you keep reading, it’s the king of the north and the king of the south that battle in chapter 11.

“Out of those two nations, the Antichrist comes out of Syria. He doesn’t come out of Europe. He is the Assyrian by national origin. Daniel tells you that’s where he’s going to come from, so when you’re watching the politics of this thing, watch this guy. And when you see the guy take over the 10 kings by subduing three and rising up, you know you’ve got your man. So there’s descriptive prophetic details that will help a fellow.

“Daniel 11:30 says, [30] For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

“He’s going to break the covenant and blame Israel for doing it. He’s not going to take credit; he’s going to blame them.

“Verse 31: [31] And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

“Jesus talked about that in Matthew 23: ‘Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.’ Right in the middle of all that deceptiveness where the Antichrist’s lying to them through his teeth, the people who know their God shall be strong and it says “they that understand shall instruct many.”

“There’s a Believing Remnant who’s going to know what’s going on because they read these prophecies and say, ‘There it is, here it is; here’s what God says that is!’ So they’re the ones who trust God’s Word; they’re the ones the Antichrist is trying to persecute, eliminate and destroy.”

Antichrist-NWO stuff missed during government shutdown

Headline: "Senate Passes Bill to Reopen Government After 40 Days and 40 Nights"

With the endless media coverage of the government shutdown, not to mention the turmoil and fears created in so many peoples’ lives, nobody focused much on the treaty Trump negotiated called Peace Deal 2025.

All we really got was continued reporting on how Trump was mad over the cover portrait picked by Time magazine:

As USA Today reported on October 14: "President Donald Trump is not a fan of his Time magazine cover story photo.

"Time posted the cover for the upcoming Nov. 10 issue on X, which features a photo of Trump taken from low down with the sun creating a halo effect where his hair blurs into the light. It features three titles: 'His triumph,' 'The leader Israel needed,' and 'How Gaza heals.' The X post links to a story about how the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could be a signature achievement in Trump's second term.

"But Trump took to Truth Social in the early hours of the morning as he flew back to the U.S. from Egypt to criticize the picture."

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“It wasn’t a coincidence that Donald Trump was in Egypt for this ceasefire deal where all these world leaders got together to sign a treaty that would begin a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza,” says an online political commentator.

“Trump is now being called ‘Cyrus the Great.’ This is actually on some of the billboards being featured and seen around the earth right now. He’s being compared to King Cyrus. He’s being compared to Alexander the Great.

“So, I’m sure it was just a coincidence that while Donald Trump was in Egypt, signing his massive treaty which he’s getting all the credit for, there was a music concert that took place right in front of the Great Pyramids.

The performer, Anyma, has his 'Genesis Ending' project (I’m sure that’s not biblical at all) and his concerts are all about using massive amounts of electronic frequencies on his audience while conditioning them into transhumanism.

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From a news article posted by the Egypt Independent newspaper on October 14:  

“Acclaimed international electronic musician Anyma performed their latest concert, attended by over 15,000 people, including approximately 4,000 Egyptians and 11,000 foreign tourists.

“The concert, held at the foot of the pyramids, was performed by Italian-American artist Matteo Milleri, whose Anyma project, combines electronic music, light tricks, and dazzling visual performances, which offers a state-of-the-art experience that blends technology and art at the heart of the oldest archaeological landmark in the world.

“The first part, titled ‘Quantum,’ focused on modern electronic music. The second, ‘Genesis Ending,’ featured a state-of-the-art visual spectacle utilizing 3D lighting and giant lighting tricks across two stages and a massive screen, the largest in Egyptian concert history . . . The largest screen in the history of concerts in Egypt was used to broadcast the event live.

“Despite its remarkable success, the concert was not without controversy. Criticism spread online, with some likening the concert to a ‘strange ritual’, while others objected to its location within an archaeological site considered one of the most important symbols of Egyptian civilization.

“Critics fear these events could harm the historical character of the site, while others defended them as a form of global tourism promotion that reflects Egypt’s ability to host major events in its unique archaeological sites.”

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“Anyma’s concert was a ritual of the consecration of the old world into the new world and that’s exactly why Anyma was there performing while Donald Trump and all these leaders got together to put on this show,” says the commentator.

“If you look at clips from the concert it’s very clear you see the twin pillars. How deliberate was that? Of course, those are the pillars from Freemasonry, Jachin and Boaz. These two pillars represent the entrance of King Solomon’s temple. They’re said to be symbols of divine guidance and stability.

“What else do we see in the clips? There’s the capstone on top of the pyramid lit up representing the ‘all-seeing eye’ of Lucifer. That was deliberately lit up on purpose because it represents the completion—the connection to the divine, or for them their connection with their god Lucifer.

“Then there was the blatant position of the lighting behind those two pillars to make the Sigil of Lucifer. You can clearly see it right behind the two pillars in front of the Pyramids.

“Now, you may have also noticed that some of the lighting deliberately done between those two pillars clearly represents the Phoenix Rising out of the ashes. You can see how the lights depict two wings of the phoenix, something Anyma uses all the time in his transhumanist performances—the phoenix rising. Man and machine merging together as one.

“This was clearly a massive ritual that was deliberately done. You’re not going to see Donald Trump in the front row at this concert with the common person to say, ‘What is this, an Illuminati concert?!’

“You’re not going see other world leaders out in the open there but they were all in attendance. This was deliberately done as Trump is now being hailed as the Great Peacemaker, as the modern-day Cyrus the Great.

“Cyrus in the Bible was renowned for allowing the Jewish people to return from Babylonian exile and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. That’s who they’re comparing him to.

“This whole performance by Anyma is obviously symbolizing the New World Order that is coming. His concerts are nothing more than massive transhumanist rituals, conditioning the audience using frequencies on them without them even realizing what they’re going to be accepting in the future.

“I don’t know who would go to a concert like this and say, ‘Oh, this is really great. There’s this massive demonic thing with a red eye creeping out behind the stage staring at me, but it doesn’t look like it wants to party; it looks like it wants my soul! Well, better have another cigarette and beer and pretend like nothing’s happening.’

“These are signs of the end times coming, ladies and gentlemen. This is happening all around us and again, with the world we see--this massive push with technology and computer interfaces, the Neurolink, this technocracy that they want to build out--the closer we’re getting to end-times prophecy and things like the Digital ID tied directly into it.”

In vale of sorrow and tears, life is like a mountain railroad

(well, i goofed again. new article this evening)

One of the first hymns Isaac Watts ever wrote began with, "God Is The Refuge Of His Saints,

When Storms Of Sharp Distress Invade;
Ere We Can Offer Our Complaints,
Behold Him Present With His Aid!"

The hymn was inspired by Psalm 46: [1] God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Watts, recognized as one of the most prolific hymn writers of all time, suffered a stroke in 1739 that left him unable to write.  A secretary was provided to transcribe his dictated poems and books, but he became increasingly weak and eventually bedridden and died nine years later.

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I heard this the other day: "I just wish the Lord would come; I just want to get out of here." Well, that's not patiently waiting. Patience is the ability to endure; it's that steadfastness that grows under pressure, says Richard Jordan.

II Thessalonians 1:4: [4] So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

These Thessalonians were under tremendous persecution. They just didn't have the little nitnoid problems of life most of us face on a daily basis. They faced all of that too, but they had people using the government to try to get them.

They had people using the religious system around them to try and get them. They were suffering physical assaults, intimidations, persecutions, all kind of financial things, social things, economic things, governmental things.

He told them in I Thessalonians 3: [3] That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

[4] For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

Paul's saying, "You know that you were appointed to these things and I'm just worried about you that the tempter doesn't tempt you and get the best of you and cause you to fall by the wayside."

"So I'm praying that God would direct your heart into the love of Christ." You just constantly be focused on how much God loves you; that the love of Christ be what constrains you and the "patient waiting for His Son." There's your faith, hope, charity kind of thing. 

Romans 8: [18] For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

[19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
[20] For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
[21] Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

We know the reason we haven't been delivered from the bondage of corruption, and that the reason that hasn't happened, is because God has postponed that event in order to extend the dispensation of grace another day.

In order to let the Body of Christ continue to be formed and matured, He has to put off the kingdom program over there. When you understand that you can say, "Okay, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time, the things we're going through now because God is doing what He's doing, and we know where we stand in His program, they're not worthy to be compared to the glory which will be revealed in us when He comes."

Verse 22: [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Somebody says, "Well, why are we having so much trouble in life?" Somebody answers back, "Well, because you're here." The alternative is not to be here because this is a vale of sorrow and tears.

In verse 22, you see that little dispensational term stuck at the end there? There's a timeline here. We're not over there yet where the deliverance is; we're still over here in the "but now."

A song from the 1950s I recently came upon, entitled, "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad," is written by Charlie D. Tillman. Here it is:

1    Life is like a mountain railroad,

With an engineer that's brave;

We must make the run successful

From the cradle to the grave;

Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels,

Never falter, never quail;

Keep your hand upon the throttle,

And your eye upon the rail.

Refrain:

Blessed Savior, Thou wilt guide us,

Till we reach the blissful shore,

Where the angels wait to join us

In Thy praise forevermore.

2    You will roll up grades of trial,

You will cross the bridge of strife;

See that Christ is your conductor

On this lightning train of life;

Always mindful of obstruction,

Do your duty, never fail;

Keep your hand upon the throttle,

And your eye upon the rail. [Refrain]

3    You will often find obstructions,

Look for storms and wind and rain;

On a fill or curve or trestle,

They will almost ditch your train;

Put your trust alone in Jesus;

Never falter, never fail;

Keep your hand upon the throttle,

And your eye upon the rail. [Refrain]