Dead church with name, reputation

(new article this evening)

Revelation 3 begins, [1] And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

That goes back to Revelation 1:4 and 1:16 where Christ is seen as the Son of Man and He has the seven spirits of God and He’s got these seven stars.

Verse 4: [4] John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Verse 16: [16] And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

He’s seen in Revelation 3 in that capacity because of the problem at Sardis. The problem at Sardis, Christ says, “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.”

They have a reputation and a name for living, because they’ve got all these works in their midst, but He says, “Thou art dead.”

According to a website article: History tells us that the city of Sardis was about thirty miles southeast of Thyatira and about fifty miles northeast of Smyrna. Sardis was on a major commercial trade route and also on an important military road.

The acropolis of Sardis was large and lay on a ridge of the Tmolus mountain range, forming a natural fortress which was extremely difficult for an invading army to penetrate. Today, there are very few ruins left.

One of the outstanding ruins is that of the temple of the goddess Artemis. It lay in the Hermus Valley about 800 feet below the Acropolis. The columns of the temple were so large that four men, holding each other’s hands, are needed to surround the entire columns. That helps us understand the size of the temple. The gymnasium in the ancient city was enormous.

Herodotus, the 5th century B.C. historian, tells us sarcastically that Sardis was a city of “tender-footed” people who could only play on the cithara, strike the guitar, and sell by retail. William Barclay adds that Sardis was a city of peace, where a “man whose dreams are dead and whose mind is asleep, the peace of lethargy and evasion.” In short, the people in the city were given to pleasure and leisure.

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The problem the church at Sardis has is that they’re dead and yet they look like they’re alive. How can you be alive and yet dead? It’s talking about spiritual death, not physical death.

You remember the story of the prodigal son. In Luke 15 there’s a place where he uses the word dead and death in the context just like what’s in Revelation.

The prodigal’s gone off, he’s wasted all his substance in riotous living, but he came to himself and returned to the father.

Luke 15: [21] And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
[22] But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
[23] And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
[24] For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Now tell me, was the boy dead physically? No. Was he resurrected physically? No. He was separated from the father and now he’s been reunited with the father and so the father says, “My son was dead; he was gone and it was as though he were dead; he was just completely separated from me, I had no contact with him, but he’s come back and now he’s alive again.”

It's not physical death in Revelation 3:1. This church isn’t dead in the sense they don’t have any activity involved in their midst. The problem is they don’t have any spiritual life in their midst.

They’ve got the works. They have the form of godliness but they’re spiritually dead. The problem there is formalism. Dead religion. They’ve got the activity. They’ve got the name. They’ve got all the form, but they don’t have the life. It’s not the Spirit of God working in their midst.

That’s why Christ’s referred to as "him that have the seven spirits of God.” The Holy Spirit of God is the one who gives life. The Spirit of God is the one who gives life to the church and is the one who imparts spiritual life.

This Sardis church doesn’t have the real life of God. The works they have are not being produced by God; they’re being produced by their own activity.

Revelation 3:2: [2] Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

Notice he doesn’t say, “Strengthen the people that remain.” He says strengthen the things; the works that remain. There’s some good works being done in their midst, but the works aren’t being done because God’s generating them; they’re being done out of formal activity.

'One in hope and doctrine, one in charity'

Because my grandmother had a piano in her basement and wanted me and my siblings to learn to play it, she bought an electronic Kimball organ for our house after we moved an hour-and-a-half away to the little resort/farming village of Loudonville, OH.

I loved playing the organ (even though my dad complained about loud, bad sounds I produced from it) but only learned notes from a half-dozen tunes on my own. This was before me and my brother took piano lessons after school from a retired woman who wanted to make a little extra money.

One of the songs I learned on my own was "Frankie and Johnny." Of course, I had no idea what the lyrics were really about. Another I somewhat learned was "Onward Christian Soldiers."

From this old book of my dad's on Christian hymn stories, I learned that the song's author, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote the hymn "in a very simply fashion, without thought of publication" for a school festival on Whitmonday in Yorkshire, England.

Baring-Gould wrote some 30 years later, "I wanted the children to sing when marching from one village to another, but couldn't think of anything quite suitable, so I sat up at night resolved to write something myself . . . It was written in great haste, and I am afraid that some of the rhymes are faulty. I am certain that nothing has surprised me more than its popularity."

According to the hymn stories book, "One of the interesting verses not found in most hymnals shows the author's confidence for the endurance of the Church:

"Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane But in the Church of Jesus consistent will remain; Gates of hell can never 'gainst that Church prevail; We have Christ's own promise and that cannot fail."

The book goes on, "Another omitted verse indicates something of the author's personal convictions:

"What the saints established that I hold for true What the saints believed that I believe too. Long as earth endureth men that faith will hold--Kingdoms, nations, empires, in destruction rolled."

The book says Baring-Gould was "one of the truly gifted preacher-literary men of the nineteenth century. His publications include 85 books on such varied subjects as religion, travel, folklore, mythology, history, fiction, biography, sermons and popular theology.

"All are notable works. It is said that the British Museum shows more titles by him than any other writer of his time. Yet, amazingly enough, the work for which Sabine Baring-Gould is best noted and remembered today is a simple children's hymn written in 1865."

Baring-Gould, who lived to be 90, is also the author as well as composer of another "children's hymn" with the title, "Now the Day is Over." Here are the lyrics:

1. Now the day is over,
   Night is drawing nigh,
   Shadows of the evening
   Steal across the sky.
2. Jesus, give the weary
   Calm and sweet repose;
   With Thy tend’rest blessing
   May mine eyelids close.
3. Grant to little children
   Visions bright of Thee;
   Guard the sailors tossing
   On the deep, blue sea.
4. Comfort those who suffer,
   Watching late in pain;
   Those who plan some evil
   From their sin restrain.
5. When the morning wakens,
6. Then may I arise
   Pure, and fresh, and sinless
   In Thy holy eyes.
7. Here are the lyrics to "Onward Christian Soldiers":
8. Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   Christ, the royal Master,
   leads against the foe;
   forward into battle,
   see, his banners go.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   
   At the sign of triumph
   Satan's host doth flee;
   on then, Christian soldiers,
   on to victory!
   Hell's foundations quiver
   at the shout of praise;
   Brothers, lift your voices,
   loud your anthems raise.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   
   Like a mighty army
   moves the Church of God;
   Brothers, we are treading
   where the saints have trod;
   we are not divided,
   all one body we,
   one in hope and doctrine,
   one in charity.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   
   What the saints established
   that I hold for true.
   what the saints believèd,
   that I believe too.
   Long as earth endureth,
   men the faith will hold,
   kingdoms, nations, empires,
   in destruction rolled.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   
   Crown and thrones may perish,
   kingdoms rise and wane,
   but the Church of Jesus
   constant will remain;
   gates of hell can never
   'gainst that Church prevail;
   we have Christ's own promise,
   and that cannot fail.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!
   
   Onward, then, ye people,
   join our happy throng;
   blend with ours your voices
   in the triumph song:
   glory, laud, and honor,
   unto Christ the King;
   this through countless ages
   men and angels sing.
   Refrain:
   Onward, Christian soldiers,
   marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus
   going on before!

Enduring, because you will endure

Paul ends Colossians 1 with, [29] Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

You see, it was Christ in Paul, and because He’s the issue in all this labor I’m doing, it’s HIS work. It’s still Him; He’s the source of the energy, says Richard Jordan.

Isn’t that what Paul says? “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Now, don’t take that verse wrong. That doesn’t mean you can go jump the Grand Canyon. That verse has a context in Philippians 4:

[9] Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
[10] But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
[11] Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
[12] I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

The context, Paul says, is “I can do all the things I just talked about. I can be abased, I can abound, I can have necessities, I can have plenty. Circumstances don’t control the way my life works. I can take whatever comes down the pike and serve God, and do God’s will and purpose in my life, because it’s Christ that strengthens me.”

When he says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure,” the verse before that in Philippians 2 talks about your obedience to His Word to them:

[12] Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

How does God create the will in your life? Through His Word. How does He perform it in your life? He does it as your faith rests in His Word and His Word works effectually in you that believe.

There it is in Colossians 1:11: [11] Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Now, if you’ve got "all might," that sounds like it’s plenty, doesn’t it? Paul's saying, “I’m completely adequate to cope with everything that comes along.” Now, boy, I’m glad he said that, because I don’t always feel that way. Maybe you do, but I bet you you don’t.

It’s His strength working in me “unto all patience.” Don’t you, when you get into the circumstances . . . isn’t patience the first thing that leaves? “All patience and longsuffering.” You see, that has to do with endurance. Can I tell you something? You can endure because you will endure.

Some of you are going to look at me and say, “Brother Rick, you’ve said that to me before.” Well, see, now when you need me to say that to you, I just said it and we don’t need to go sit in an office and have a private session.

“Unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.” There’s the mental attitude. One guy calls it “Mental Attitude Dynamics.” The short of that is MAD.

That’s what Paul says in Galatians 2: “[20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

You know where all that comes from? Colossians 1: [28] Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

“Whom we preach.” When you let it be His Word working effectually in you because you believe it, that’s Him doing it. Paul’s saying, “It’s all about Him.”

Star that's a somebody

(new article tomorrow. I fell at work this afternoon and really bruised up my left foot--the same one that I was in the boot with for 4-plus months last year. thankfully I think I will be fine)

Revelation 6: [12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

There’s tremendous storm activity; cosmic activity that goes around and is placed there and the people of the earth, when they see the sun during the day it’s dark and when the moon comes out at night it’s blood red.

[13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

When a fig tree drops its figs before they’re ripe they’re hard as a rock, and when a storm comes and makes them fall, it has an impact, and that’s what that’s talking about.

What would the stars be there? You say, “Well that can’t be a literal star falling because if it was, it would burn everything up; it would never get to the earth. So it’s got to be a figure of speech.” But what would it be?

Revelation 9 begins, [1] And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
[2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
[3] And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Now wait a minute. To who? To him. Well, the star must not be that gas ball we think about; it must be somebody. Well, who’s the star then? Verse 2 says, “And he opened the bottomless pit,” so the star, in this case, is somebody.

Revelation 1:20: [20] The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

We know a star represented an angel. You see, angels are associated in your Bible with stars from the very beginning of their appearance.

Job 37 and 38. It is necessary for an angel to have light in order to operate. If you put an angel in pitch black darkness he can’t function. That’s why in the Book of Jude, those angels who sinned in Noah’s day are held in chains of darkness.

The darkness immobilizes them and they need light and light sources to function. And so they are associated with stars and stay around the light sources and the stars and so forth.

So when he sees this star fall from heaven in chapter 6, evidently it has something to do with chapter 9.

Revelation 6: [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
[16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

What does it mean when it says the heaven is parted as a scroll?

Job 26: [5] Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
[6] Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
[7] He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Woman's influence

I've found that discussing the Antichrist religion has become commonplace enough these days that it can be considered "boring" material. The crazy part, though, is so much of the world is oblivious to what the Bible says about it even as we're seeing it take off in ever more astonishing ways.

Here's an outtake from a sermon by Richard Jordan that I found on YouTube just this evening:

Can I tell you that your ancestors knew the issues of Baal worship? They knew why it permeates our world.

In Revelation 17, this great whore that sits upon many waters is the beast that is riding the Antichrist. This is the religious system of the Antichrist; the Antichrist church.

Verse 2: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

In other words, the wine of her fornication is the intoxicating spiritual deception. When you’re drunk, you’re in a stupor. They’ve been deceived; there in this stupor being desensitized to the things of God by the overwhelming influence of this woman.

Verse 18: [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

It is a system that runs the governmental systems of the world; of the nations. Why does it run them? Because they choose it. When they choose not to run on God’s Word, this is the lie program they follow.

Verse 3: [3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

You go back in Jeremiah, for example, and God talks about Israel committing spiritual fornication by worshipping other gods. Here’s the source of all that other godlessness.

She’s not just the harlot; she’s the MOTHER of harlots. She’s a mother church that has all kind of other churches springing out of her. This is a whole religious system with all kind of different groups and denominational heads in it—different ways of denoting it but all the same source.

Her colors are purple and scarlet. Her symbol is a golden cup and that golden cup is filled with the wine of her fornication, with some doctrine that produces people going after other gods.

Behind all that is that corrupt system of Verse 18 that rules over what goes on in the earth.

Paul says in I Corinthians 10: [16] The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

You and I share a communion in the blood of Christ and the body of Christ. Verse 20: [20] But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

That cup filled with the wine of her fornication is designed so that you can’t drink of the cup filled with the communion of the body of Christ. Did that go over your head?

What Paul’s talking about in Ephesians, he’s talking to a bunch of people who are used to drinking the wine in the cup of paganism and he’s saying, “Don’t be drunk with that pagan false doctrine. You want to be filled and controlled by what God’s given.”

Deuteronomy 32: [15] But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
[16] They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
[17] They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
[18] Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

They leave their Rock (Christ) and go after another rock. [31] For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
[32] For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
[33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Hello, we don’t all worship the same God. Even our enemies themselves being judged—a blind man walking backward in a dark cave could figure it out, he says.

Their rock is the false god. [37] And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
[38] Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

You see, there’s some gods who are drinking the wine, eating their sacrifices. That’s a religious system that’s governing.

Psalm 16:4: [4] Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

So the drink offerings offered to these other gods are blood.

There’s a false religious system that was developed in Genesis 11 and goes all the way through the Bible. It contaminated the nation Israel—took Israel captive, and when it did here’s how they worshipped:

Jeremiah 44: [15] Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
[16] As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
[17] But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
[18] But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
[19] And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

“We’re going to go by the tradition of what we’ve always done. We don’t care what God’s Word says.”

“The left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven.”  Where did that come from? Well, you go back to Judges 2:13, Judges 10:6 and you’ll see that involved in Baal worship is also a female deity called Ashtaroth, Astarte, all kind of names. The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks called her Minerva, Diana. The Egyptians called her Eostre. The Roman Catholics call her Mary, but she’s been there a long time before Mary came along.

Discernment, unseen spiritual perception

II Corinthians 11: [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

They’re going to do what Satan did in Genesis 3; they’re going to deceive. They’re going to make the truth look like a lie and the lie look like the truth, explains Richard Jordan.

[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

You know who the original transformer was?

[15] 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.

They don’t come in and say, “Come join my rebellion against God and let’s follow the devil.” They go out and get ministers, preachers who act righteous, and develop steps for you to follow so you can be “godly.”

It requires discernment based upon the truth of God’s Word, tested by the standard of Scripture, to see through that.

Because it isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s not your intellect; it’s not your emotions. It’s the unseen spiritual perception that comes from the Word of God that allows you to see the truth.

That’s why Paul says in Ephesians, [18] And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

That’s the lie program. He ends the verse, “But be filled with the Spirit.” You see, it’s what God gives you through His Word.

You know, this discernment issue—think about it. If you just go by what you see, it’s impossible to know which side to be on.

Think about salvation. What do you see when you hear the gospel? “Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day.”

Somebody will say, “A dead Jew up on a cross.”

People see Christ at His weakest point. Paul says in II Corinthians 13, [3] Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
[4] For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

There’s the weakness of Him dying on the Cross and we cry, “Look THERE; that’s where victory is!”

Their response: “What are you talking about?! Victory’s in defeat?! C’mon, let’s play pool; I want to make some money.”

It’s in having that spiritual perception about what it is in your walk as a Believer.

People will say, “ ‘His strength is made perfect in my weakness’?! That can’t be right! ‘Weakness is going to be strength’?! I mean, c’mon, give me some rules to follow! Give me some steps and I’ll achieve.”

None of it makes any sense to human viewpoint. You know why? Because you’re going on human viewpoint. That’s why Paul finishes the verse, “Be filled with the Spirit.”

Have your mind controlled by the love and grace of God found in Christ revealed through His Word to us.

And when you have your life under the control of God’s Word, under the control of the grace and love that’s given us today in Christ, then you can control your life, your self.

10 reasons Jehovah is God

Sorry for delay. I've had a very unexpected day, especially emotionally, and will be sure to post my Bible study tomorrow. Here is post about old pope from last year:

The pope is at it again, making heretical statements that the liberal press tries to explain away when any attention is drawn.

One such article last week by America Magazine (the Jesuit Review) began, “Are all religions equal? Pope Francis created a stir with some off-the-cuff comments to an interreligious group of young people in Singapore, during his recent trip to Asia. ‘All religions are paths to God,’ he said. ‘I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.’

“As so often happens, a snippet from some impromptu remarks made it onto social media and many read it in a negative light, as though the pope were saying that all religions are equally true (which would seem absurd, since all religions, in some respects, contradict one another). But the pope’s point was that all religions are ways of communicating with God, not that they are all ‘the same.’ ”

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Just tonight, I found this 2018 message from Richard Jordan, entitled “10 Reasons Why Jehovah is God”:

You read the Koran, and the Koran says Jesus Christ is a great prophet sent by Allah, equal with Moses and all the other prophets. You know what the problem with that is? Look, if Jesus Christ is who He says He is, who is He? He’s Jehovah God, the Creator, the Almighty God.

You know what people do? They think, “We’ll say nice things about Jesus. He’s a good guy.”

I was raised in a modernist church and they said Jesus was a great teacher sent from God. They didn’t believe in His divinity. Some time you hear preachers say, “Jesus the divine.” You look at the heading in Revelation and it says “to John the divine.”

That word is used in the Bible and it just means somebody who can tell the future. It’s a lesser word. What you’re really talking about is His deity and the term "divinity of Christ" is often used as something a little less than Him being Jehovah God Himself.

When people say, “We’ll say nice things about Jesus,” the problem is He’s either a liar, a lunatic or He’s the Lord.

What kind of a man would profess to be Almighty God if He wasn’t? Well, He’s either a counterfeit liar or He’s cuckoo.

A great question you can ask people of other faiths is, “What do you think about the Lord Jesus Christ?” They’ll say, “He’s a great guy.” He CAN’T be a great guy! He claimed to be Jehovah God; He claimed to be the Creator.

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Isaiah 43:3: [3] For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

Verse 11: [11] I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

The only person who can be your Savior is Jehovah. But then who is Jesus Christ? The angels when He’s born glorified God and said, “Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” The Apostle Paul says, “Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

The angel Gabriel told Joseph, “Thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall SAVE His people from their sins.” Jehovah said, “I’m the only Savior. Beside me there is no Savior.”

Then Jesus Christ is the Savior. Then Jesus Christ and Jehovah are the same people. Different names; same person.

Why do you need a Savior? Well, that isn’t the only office He holds. Isaiah 33:22: [22] For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Uh-oh. We got bumper stickers in the bookstore that say, “Will Jesus be your Savior or Judge?” He’s the judge of all the earth.

John 5:22: [22] For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

Jesus Christ says, “God the Father isn’t going to judge people; I’m the judge. That’s the job He’s given me to do.”

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The one thing that makes the grace of God so absolutely wonderful and astounding is the fact that it makes everything about Jesus Christ. It takes away everything else and it only leaves Him.

When the apostles accompanied the Lord upon the mount of transfiguration—the Bible says that when they were there they saw Moses and Elijah and some other things, and then finally they become unconscious and when they awoke, Matthew 17 says:

 [8] And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

If you could get a theme for the Bible, that would be the theme. It takes away everything man does and it only leaves Jesus Christ there. The complete total sufficiency of God’s grace.

Christ Jesus is the living Word and the written Word and those two things are united together as one in the mind of God and for the Believer. The connection that you have with the living Word of God is through the written Word of God.

Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.” You don’t find God talking to you, or directing your life out there on the street corner; you find Him speaking to you in His Word.

You find Him leading in your life by the application of His Word to the details of your life, and that's why when you assimilate God’s Word, you take it in and study it . . . David said, “Thy word have I hid in my heart.”

As you take it and internalize it, Paul says you renew your mind with His Word. What happens is that internal life that the Word of God produces in you is what is God leading, working, directing, intelligizing you as a Believer, enlightening the eyes of your understanding so that you can know some things, and based on that knowledge, have your faith rest in the facts of what the Word says and see that truth bear fruit in your life.

That’s how you have the connection into your experience, with the identity that God has for you in Christ. That’s why those two things are so inseparably united.

That word complete is like you take something and you cram it so full there’s no more room for anything else. He made you that complete in Christ.

Colossians 2 says: [9] For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
[10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

You need to look at that verse. It’s because of who Jesus Christ is that it’s exciting and good and wonderful to be complete in Him.

If He wasn’t the sum of all things, that wouldn’t make you complete with everything; you can only be as complete as He is. Verse 9 says He’s completely complete. He’s totally sufficient.

God takes all the essence of our humanity and all the essence of His deity and puts them together in the unique person that He is. Jesus Christ is God, but He’s more than God; He’s man. He’s man, but He’s more than man; He’s God.

Now, if He weren’t God, it wouldn’t do any good for Him to be your Redeemer because He would have to redeem Himself first.

Through their sorceries

Was unexpectedly invited to my brother's this evening for a holiday cookout so I will post full Bible study tomorrow. In meantime, I thought of this after posting yesterday's piece about the sun . . . 

News brief: “The UK has officially launched a geoengineering program under the acronym SATAN (Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation) and yes, it involves spraying chemicals into the stratosphere. British researchers have been quietly releasing sulfur dioxide 15 miles above people’s heads under a project literally named SATAN. You can’t make this up.

This is government-sanctioned weather manipulation, sold to the public as “climate intervention,” using the same compound — sulfur dioxide — that’s been linked to acid rain, respiratory damage, and environmental collapse.

From MIT Technology Review: "The SATAN acronym has fueled public distrust, with X posts calling it a 'blasphemous' attempt to 'dim the sun' and linking it to food shortages or technocratic control. These claims exaggerate the project’s scope, but they reflect genuine concerns about transparency. Unlike claims of secrecy, the test was documented, yet no public hearings occurred, raising questions about consent. New Hampshire’s 2024 ban on 'chemtrail' activities reflects growing legislative pushback against perceived geoengineering."

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The new jab for the bird flu being fast-tracked now is created by a company called Arcturus (Therapeutics), which the Book of Job references.

From a YouTuber: “They love to invert the Bible; that’s all they do actually. From the crucifixion to Moses and the Red Sea—everything. It’s always an inversion of Scripture and they create their own version. It’s wild how they do it. You can discern things much more easily when you bounce it off of the Word of God.”

Job 38: [28] Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
[29] Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
[30] The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
[31] Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
[32] Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
[33] Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
[34] Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
[35] Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

The beginning of the press release: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to ARCT-2304, a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine candidate developed by Arcturus Therapeutics, targeting the H5N1 avian influenza virus. This designation, announced on April 10 under the Trump administration, aims to expedite the review process for drugs intended for serious or life-threatening conditions. The vaccine, also known as LUNAR-H5N1, is currently in Phase 1 trials."

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Here’s an outtake from a recent YouTube posting that I posted last month:

We’re looking right down the barrel of this right now. The other week they were talking about the quantum chips and how they had a strange encounter.

The Bible talks all about “strange gods,” and they’re communicating in their own languages amongst themselves. These AIs are communicating with one another in a language that they don’t understand. They’re plotting; they’re planning.

They want to gobble up as much data as they can possibly receive. These guys are literally making spare human bodies grown in artificial wombs in labs as this headline says: “Bodyoids feel no pain and can serve as ‘meat’.”

(Article begins: “CUTTING-EDGE scientists have unveiled a disturbing plan to grow soulless ‘spare’ human bodies that can be used for medical experiments and even meat.

“The so-called bodyoids would be grown in artificial wombs and have the eerie ability to withstand endless pain.”)

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Where are the people who are protesting this? Where’s the outrage? I never hear this even in a conversation. Nobody talks about any of this unless you’re on the internet. Even then, you’ve got to find it.

What they’re calling “ancient hieroglyphs” is what they identify this language as. I mean, that told me right away they’re in; it’s game on.

There’s what they call “GibberLinks” that they AIs communicate with each other with. Well, the scientists don’t even know what it is. It sounds like R2D2 or something, but that’s not the only language. They have a multitude of these languages.

And with these Stargate data centers, which are already all over the world, there’s hundreds of them. The best way you can envision this is Skynet. They’re building a system of redundancies from space to underground. These things will not be able to be unplugged or blown up. You won’t escape it; you’re not going to hide from it. You’re not going to outwit it and it’s got an agenda.

Like I’ve said, it’s a soul trap. They deal in souls of men through their sorceries, which is another whole aspect of this. People just think, “Agh, it’s like the guy with the rabbit in his hat,” when, in reality, these are entities. Like AI pioneer Geordie Rose (software developer) said, “They might not be aligned with what we want.” They look at you like an ant.

Here’s an article I posted last fall:

"Bill Gates and his ilk have the God Complex going on. They all possess this thing; they really truly believe they were divinely placed to make the decisions for the rest of us."

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An official trailer released a few weeks ago, appearing on YouTube, is for a new five-episode Netflix series called "What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates."

As a promotional blurb for the show says, "The former CEO of Microsoft takes a look at various aspects of humanity’s future and how currently emerging tech will affect those aspects, both for good and bad . . . We see him meeting with the most influential people in tech, and he interviews many of the experts in each episode.

"Gates also speaks to James Cameron, who likens how we’re dealing with the warnings about AI to what happened to the Titanic. But he also co-wrote The Terminator, the uber-tale of AI out of control, way back in the early 1980s, so he is actually a good person to talk to about this. He admits to Gates that he takes the more dystopian view of the technology, which balances out Gates’ more optimistic view, which examines how it will help humanity if deployed correctly.

"The other episodes in the series talk about the preponderance of conspiracy theories, the ability of technology to help us slow climate change, the potential of combating communicable diseases with technology, and the implications of the income gap. Given the fact that Gates is heavily involved in this series, there are plenty of famous faces interviewed amongst the experts, like Lady Gaga, Bono, Senators Bernie Sanders and Mitt Romney, Dr. Anthony Fauci and more."

In the trailer, they literally show AI turning into a monster and laugh about it. You can see from the images given it's literally one of the Lovecraftian Great Old Ones.

Geordie Rose, when talking about AI: "These things that we're summoning into the world now are not demons, they're not evil, but they're more like the Lovecraftian Old Ones. There are entities that are not necessarily going to be aligned with what we want."

From Wikipedia: "An ongoing theme in H.P. Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the 'Great Old Ones': a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a death-like sleep.^[3]

"Lovecraft named several of these deities, including Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, and Yig. With a few exceptions, Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, et al., this loose pantheon apparently exists outside of normal space-time. Although worshipped by deranged human (and inhuman) cults, these beings are generally imprisoned or restricted in their ability to interact with most people (beneath the sea, inside the Earth, in other dimensions, and so on), at least until the hapless protagonist is unwittingly exposed to them. Lovecraft visited this premise in many of his stories, notably his 1928 short story, 'The Call of Cthulhu', with reference to the eponymous creature. However, it was Derleth who applied the notion to all of the Great Old Ones. The majority of these have physical forms that the human mind is incapable of processing; simply viewing them renders the viewer incurably insane."

From the trailer: "It's getting hard to write science fiction. With conspiracy theories we underestimate how creative Americans are: 'Bill Gates is a part of a reptilian race that includes Tom Hanks and Lady Gaga.' "

Commentary on this: "You got to love how they reveal themselves, hiding in plain sight and then mocking you about it, because they really do look at themselves as a different species. They're not on the same playing field, and you have to understand that. They take counsel with the powers and principalities in spiritual wickedness in high places. That's who they serve."

Lady Gaga in the trailer: "Entertainment and information are a lot closer together than they ever have been before. There's no way to stop it."

Commentary: "What they're telling you is that through the censorship and the internet identification systems and everything they're putting in, your information will essentially be the entertainment because you will be censored from being able to obtain your own information in order to discern a matter for yourself.

"Things like Antisemitism Awareness Act Bill 6090 from 2023 will essentially ban things from your access and be criminalized. Things like Scriptures in our Bible, for instance, because that's the main target of their censorship program. They will eventually literally ban the Word of God and come up with a new Bible--one that's correct, created by AI."

Commentary: "Bill claims he doesn't have a solution where, in fact, they know EXACTLY what they're solution is and they're applying it right before our eyes.

"Now, a lot of people have figured this out by now, but when Bill Gates and the like make statements such as, 'We have to eliminate all hydrocarbons,' they're essentially saying, 'We need to destroy creation,' because these are the building blocks of creation.

" 'We'll eliminate human population.' That's what all of this really boils down to. They're openly declaring, intending to destroy God's creation so they can Build Back Better. 

"They say, 'Absolutely we can usurp God and form an insurrection against Him because He was flawed in His creation. Therefore, we must destroy it and rebuild it back better in our own image, meanwhile deceiving the nations and hunting their souls.

Of course, you've got to have the emotional manipulation. You can't have a good con job without some emotion there.

Bill: "We've got a lot of work to do; the sooner the better."

Bono from U2 in trailer: "If Bill Gates didn't exist we'd have to make him up and no one would believe the character."

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At a Bible conference in North Carolina a few years back, Richard Jordan spoke of a young man around 30 who was in a federal penitentiary out West. He had been saved about four years and graduated from my church's Grace School of the Bible.

Jordan recalled, "I got a letter from him recently telling me it's the third time he's been beaten up and literally put into the prison infirmary by Muslims who want to stop him from preaching the gospel. They corner him and say, 'You need to recant, deny Jesus and confess Allah or we're going to beat you up.' He keeps saying, 'I won't do it,' and they keep beating him up.

"I asked him, 'Has the thought entered your mind, oh maybe the fourth time they're going to beat you up, that you could just say to yourself, I'm not going to lose my salvation if I say I'll deny Jesus?' He answered, 'How can I do that?' I said, 'Well, that's the right answer, but we've all got flesh, weaknesses where those thoughts come into the mind.'

"He said, 'You know, when I learned about the grace of God and how to rightly divide God's Word so it wasn't confusing . . . There was a time when it was so confusing that if those guys had approached me, then I would have given up, because it was so confusing I didn't know how to answer it for myself. Now, I have a clear understanding and when they come, I've got an answer.'

"That young man in the penitentiary doesn't really have much of an expectation of ever getting out, and yet in it, he has a ministry. It keeps him going: 'I'm doing it for the Lord Jesus Christ.' It was the same thing with Paul, who said, 'I'm an apostle of Jesus Christ.' That's who he's doing it for; he's not doing it for himself, for religious notoriety.

"How did Paul become the Apostle to the Gentiles? Romans 11:

11] I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
[12] Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
[13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
[14] If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

"Paul begins Ephesians 3 with, [1] For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. Notice it says he's a prisoner OF, not FOR Jesus Christ. He realized the reason he was a prisoner in Rome was because he was preaching the message of the gospel of the grace of God.

"He prays in Ephesians 6: [19] And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, [20] For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

"He knew why he was where he was because of who he was serving. Ephesians 3 continues, [2] If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward:

[3] How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
[4] Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

"How often do people read that passage and not even see what it says? Paul says, 'I just got a revelation from the Lord Jesus Christ, from God the Father to me, and that's how I got to be an apostle. I'm an apostle by the will of God. God is doing something that's different than what He did in time past. It's part of His secret program.'

"You know, [5] Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; [6] That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.

"The thing that strikes me more often than not when I think about this passage, when the Apostle Paul went out and preached Christ, he preached to a pagan world that had never heard of the Lord Jesus Christ. At least at the synagogue in Acts they knew who the Messiah was, because they knew the Scripture, but Paul went out and preached to completely unattached pagans.

"The world that has come upon us right now, and the reason things are happening the way they're happening right now in our culture, is that we're going into a world exactly like the Apostle Paul lived in.

"Our country, you know, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

"Can you think of a verse that matches each of those? Sure. The social impact of the Protestant Reformation is the source of the underlying philosophy that produced the founding documents and the founding thinking of our country.

"That influence of the Protestant Reformation, that social impact and the social compacts produced because of that in a new world--the things that produced the foundation of all that, they're gone!"

Enticed by the sun

(new article tomorrow for certain)

NBC News last week: "Scientists say the sun has entered a busy phase of its natural 11-year cycle. The period of increased activity, known as solar maximum, is likely to continue through this year, which means more solar storms could be in store in the coming months."

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Eliza Jane Hewitt (1851-1920) was working as a young Philadelphia school teacher when a spinal malady forced her to become a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature and wrote poems turned to song, eventually becoming a well-recognized American hymn-writer. One of her simple song-poems begins,

1 There is sunshine in my soul today,
More glorious and bright
Than glows in any earthly sky,
For Jesus is my light.

Refrain:
O there’s sunshine, blessed sunshine,
When the peaceful happy moments roll:
When Jesus shows His smiling face,
There is sunshine in the soul.

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Job 31:26: [26] If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

[27] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
[28] This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

"What's Job talking about? Job, the oldest book in the Bible, and he already knows the power and the influence--how insidious, how cunning the satanic policy of evil . . .

"Where's Job from? The Land of Shinar and in his day he sees the prevailing system of sun and moon worship.

"Obviously he can see the sun shining and the moon walking in brightness, a full moon, and 'my heart hath been secretly enticed.' Enticed to do what? To worship that. You see the power of this system in that region?" says Alex Kurz.

"People say, 'Well, who today worships the sun and the moon and the star?' You better believe this worship goes on. It may not be a direct act before the sun god, but there are subtle ways of worshipping that ultimately is directed to Baal.

"We won't call it the s-u-n. We won't call it the moon. What if we just switch names? By the way, at the Tower of Babel all the languages were confounded. Just because over here they call it the sun and the moon--well, over here they call it something else but it's still the principal deity. You see the corrupted master genius of this creature, Mystery Babylon? 

II Kings 23:5: [5] And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

"By the way, when you study Baal worship there's always the issue of the high places. What did we read in Genesis 11? A tower whose top may reach unto heaven. This fascination with the high places.

"How often, over and over, does God warn Israel and you know what the sad part is? Israel falls victim to all of this.

Jeremiah 8: [1] At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
[2] And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
[3] And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 10: [1] Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
[2] Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

"If you're involved in the astrological, astronomical movements and activities, what would cause a heathen to be dismayed? In the Babylonian tradition--heathenism, paganism--why did they worship the sun, the moon and all?

"What type of season might cause a heathen to be dismayed at the sign up there in heaven? Historically, guess what happens when the days are getting shorter and shorter? The heathen says, 'Wait a minute, we can't let the sun god die!' 

"So how do you appease the sun god? Wow, you should learn some things about the Aztecs. Do you know how they would appease the sun god? They would sacrifice their enemies. They would take the heart of the victim and give it to god. Have you ever heard anybody say, 'Give your heart to Jesus.' Don't give your heart to Jesus; that's what the pagans did.

"The pagans will rip your heart out and offer it up to the sun god because 'Hey, we want the days to get long again.'

"Now, how will the heathen react to the shortening of days? Verses 3-5: [3] For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

[4] They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

[5] They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

'Rapture' making AI headlines

Below is part of an article published May 19 by the New York Post, with the headline: “OpenAI cofounder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect scientists from ‘rapture’ ”

“The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a 'rapture' triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book.

“Ilya Sutskever, the man credited with being the brains behind ChatGPT, convened a meeting with key scientists at OpenAI in the summer of 2023 during which he said: ‘Once we all get into the bunker…’

“A confused researcher interrupted him. ‘I’m sorry,’ the researcher asked, ‘the bunker?’

“ ‘We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,’ Sutskever replied, according to an attendee.

“The plan, he explained, would be to protect OpenAI’s core scientists from what he anticipated could be geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI — an artificial intelligence that exceeds human capabilities — is released.

“One OpenAI researcher went so far as to say that ‘there is a group of people — Ilya being one of them — who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture. Literally, a rapture.’

“In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman co-signed a public letter warning that AI technologies could pose an ‘extinction risk’ to humanity. But while the letter sought to shape regulatory discussions, the bunker talk suggests deeper, more personal fears among OpenAI’s leadership.”

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Here is some analysis of the story:

“It seems like for whatever reason now we have these tech gurus who are afraid of the ‘rapture’ and it kind of puts into perspective what all these underground bunkers, these underground cities and so forth are being made for.

“Haven’t you noticed that more and more of these tech gurus, when they talk about AI, they never talk about AI in a positive light or refer to them in a positive way?

“They say they are summoning the devil, calling them demons or devils, ‘The Great Old Ones’ or ‘Great Old Gods.’ They talk about AI like they’re scared of it, yet when you or I talk about this, when we say that AI is progressing too quickly, or it could doom humanity, we’re just crazy, kooky conspiracy theorists and nut jobs who hate technology.

“I just feel like certain news stories, like the Diddy trial, or phase one of certain files being released on Epstein and so forth, are meant to distract us away from the expansive growth of AI.

“I’m not the only one who feels this way. Geordie Rose, the founder and CEO of D-Wave, made this statement on AI: “Massively important for our entire species to navigate, and going back to that thing Sam Harris was saying, nobody is paying attention. This thing is happening in the background while people bicker about politics and health care, and underneath it all is this rising tsunami that, if we’re not careful, is going to wipe us all out.”

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In other AI news:

“I consider this a very, very large development: ‘xAI, TWG Global and Palantir unite to redefine financial services through AI.’ Don’t forget we just had the Stargate initiated by Trump a couple of months ago. Three mega-conglomerate tech companies conspire (oh, I mean unite) to better your health.

“Oh, yeah, it’s all about developing MRNA vaccines in order to cure cancer and whatnot, right? Well, this time it’s targeting the financial services. This is a BIG deal. Oh, and don’t forget, Elon Musk sold X (Twitter) to his own company, xAI, for (surprise, surprise) 33 billion. This is absolutely a HUGE deal for all these mega-companies, tech companies, to be UNITING (“Where we go one we go all” level stuff) to take over the financial and health systems. That’s what Stargate is all about. The key players behind Stargate—remember Oracle, SoftBank and OpenAI. This is happening; game on.”

'Golden Age' tiptoeing nearer

(new article tomorrow)

Here is an outtake from a YouTuber in London, England who is a King James Bible Believer while not a dispensationalist. He just posted this yesterday:

The thesis, the antithesis, and the synthesis. The thesis is the starting point, then you have the antithesis, which is the opposite of the thesis, working through to the synthesis where they’re both merged together in a so-called higher truth. Two opposing things become merged as one.

If you can understand that you can understand their methodology, so this whole thing is a completely Hegelian battle and something that really woke me up was thinking of the "Lion King" movie and seeing exactly the method they’re using to deceive people, even the “truth movement.”

"They want people to think that the New World Order is satanic. They want you and the masses to believe that this system needs to be disbanded; this system is wicked. So, Scar in his song "Be Prepared,” is singing about this New World Order and posing as a Hitler-type figure, Nazi soldiers, and that’s what they want you to think. This is why the controlled “truth movement” are pushing and pushing, saying, “This is satanic. The elite are satanic. They are evil. This system is evil.”

"Why is that? Because they want you to accept the son, as in the "Lion King", as in the false love and the false peace. They want you to root for whatever good comes along to defeat this evil system.

So, at this stage in the game it’s the externalization of the hierarchy. They want you to know that they are satanic and this whole thing is satanic because the so-called Messiah, which is the false messiah, will come along, at whatever stage of the game it happens, and say, “Here’s the answer. Peace, unity, love.” But it’s the same thing.

There’s many in the New Age Movement who think the “Golden Age” is a good thing. Listen, New Age, think about it. This is what the New World Order is; it’s the NEW AGE. You’re just playing into the Luciferian lie—black vs. white.

It’s like the alchemy of it they want to lead into gold. It’s the defeat of the dragon by the false Jesus. They want you to think that by the onset of this New Age lot, world unity, they want you to think that that is the victory over Satan. Satan is a masquerader as light. So, it’s literally the defeat of the black by the white, but it’s the same beast.

Every religion across this world is going to accept the Antichrist as being the defeat of the dragon, but it isn’t. In fact, “love shall be the whole of the law,” said Alistair Crowley, but if you stand against their wickedness, or their plans, or their agenda, you will be seen as disrupting the only hope we have of true peace of earth. If you don’t love their plan and their Luciferian ideologies, then you will be seen as the one not loving and you will be put to death.

So, as I’ve said, this has been in our faces for ever, ever so long. There’s a clip they removed from the "Lion King" that was a pilot that didn’t make it into the final thing and Scar even sings of the Golden Age: “Prepare for the Golden Age. Be prepared for the bright dawn of age.”

So what’s he singing in "Be Prepared"?

So, prepare for the chance of a lifetime
Be prepared for sensational news
A shining, new era
Is tiptoeing nearer

And where do we feature?

Just listen to teacher
I know it sounds sordid
But you'll be rewarded
When at last, I am given my dues
And injustice deliciously squared
Be prepared!

It's great that we'll soon be connected
With a king who'll be all time adored

Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected
To take certain duties on board
The future is littered with prizes
And though I'm the main addressee
The point that I must emphasize is
You won't get a sniff without me!

So prepare for the coup of the century
Be prepared for the murkiest scam (Ooh, la, la, la!)
Meticulous planning (We'll have food!)